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If you believe someone has chosen an inappropriate username under Wikipedia's username policy, you may list it here. However, before listing the user here, please consider contacting the user on his or her talk page and bring their attention to the problem and Wikipedia:Changing username.

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NEVER EVER SURRENDER!!!! (talk · contribs)

This user was blocked by Betacommand. The user name is a bit out of the ordinary, but I thought we should get some more opinions as to whether it violates policy. Gandoman 08:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Allow: Shouting was never a reason for a block. Not one (visible) edit from this user either. Is Betacommand running a bot to block these accounts? -- Longhair\talk 08:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow - inherently confrontational.Proabivouac 09:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow - Implies unwillingness to work through consensus and may foster edit warring. —Dgiest c 09:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow - An explicit statement of unwillingness to consider compromise in one's username is not conducive to civil debates. He's practically declaring his intent to violate policy right off the bat. By the way, Betacommand apparently does his username blocking off of the new user IRC feed or something like that, not with any kind of a bot.--Dycedarg ж 09:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow. I don't know exactly in what context this is, but such a username would be inflammatory in most political debates. I have Northern Ireland specifically in mind. Sam Blacketer 11:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow - Yea, that could be a bit inflamatory. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Allow without context this is not inherently bad. It not uncommon to have one of these RFC's sway one way or the other based on the topics someone edits but there is nothing to go by in this case.--BirgitteSB 14:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Allow: a slight misquote (but excellent summary) of Winston Churchill's famous last lecture to students,* but not necessarily directed at any one person or at Wikipedia as a community. (Since we're not attacking him, why should he surrender to us? We didn't even threaten him with the comfy chair!) It seems as though Betacommand's been blocking usernames with characters not in the Latin alphabet -- like, you know, punctuation. -- Ben 15:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    *     "Never give in!   NEVER give in!   Never!   Never!   Never!"

  • Allow per Ben the Moor. There's nothing violative of WP:U here, so far as I can tell. Coemgenus 15:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow. This one's definitely on the borderline but it is inherently confrontational. The decision making process here is based on concensus and a username that appears to proclaim an unwillingness to compromise is pretty inflammatory. WjBscribe 15:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • What on earth makes you think his username has anything to do with Wikipedia or its decision-making process? Mine doesn't. Other commenters' names above (Longhair, Sam Blacketer, et al.) don't. Besides, it's not a declarative statement that he will never ever surrender, it's telling you (and everyone else) to never ever surrender. Winston Churchill gave the same advice (exact quotation added as a footnote to my "vote" above). -- Ben 15:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ben, I think you get far too focused on what the user intended in these discussions. I don't see the difference as to whether the username is a quotation or not. The question is whether the username objectively is inflammatory. If a sizeable number of editors would find it such if they interacted with the user, it shouldn't be allowed. Good faith or bad faith should be irrelevant. WjBscribe 16:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • WjB, I was addressing your own "focus on what the user intended", namely "appears to proclaim an unwillingness" etc. We're not crystal-ball readers, and we're not mind-readers either. As a matter of parsing plain English grammar, the username declares or "proclaims" nothing whatsoever about the user's willingness or unwillingness to do anything -- it's not a declarative sentence at all. It's in the imperative voice, like "Sit down" or "Have a nice day", which don't say the speaker is sitting down or having a nice day, but instruct the reader or listener to do so. In plain English, this username tells its readers to "Never ever surrender". It says nothing about what the user is doing, will do, or ever has done. -- Ben 16:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not with you at all here. For example if I say, "Never talk to ginger haired people" or "Never trust a clergyman". I'm not actually saying that I don't talk to ginger haired people or that I don't trust clergymen, but the implacation flows pretty naturally from the statements. WjBscribe 16:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just so it's clear, here I've been parsing what the name actually says, while you've been "focusing on intentions" (and implications) -- but if you're going to do so, then WP:AGF does apply. If Epimenides the Cretan says "Never trust Cretans!", is it safe to assume that he himself never trusts Cretans, including himself? -- Ben 16:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse status quo - We waste entirely too much time with this stuff ... I probably wouldn't have blocked it, but it isn't worth spending any time arguing about a name with little redeeming value. If the user asks to be unblocked, ok, fine, but this isn't worth arguing about. --BigDT 16:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disallow per the reasonso of other users. Acalamari 16:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total and unapologetic apathy I just can't get up the gumption to give a rat's ass about this one. I think the all caps and excessive exclamation points are silly, but silly doesn't equal a block (but if it did, oh the fun I'd have...). EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apathy per EVula. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: gentlebeings, whether squid or non-squid, are we gathered here to express our feelings (or lack thereof) about usernames, or to say whether or not the usernames violate WP:U? I might be "apathetic" about names like "Acalamari", "EVula", and "HighInBC" (though in fact I do like calamari, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and mountain-climbing) -- but my likes, dislikes, or apathies would be irrelevant here. Your usernames don't violate WP:U, so you're free to use them, and as long as you like them, no-one else's likes, dislikes, or apathies should prevent you. Thus, keep your names! Never ever surrender! -- Ben 17:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This one moves me to *Apathy as well. I just can't get worked up about it, one way or 'tother. Philippe Beaudette 17:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Groinwarrior (talk · contribs)

Groinwarrior (talk · contribs) falls foul of WP:U on obscenity grounds, I think. Sam Blacketer 17:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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