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This page is for bringing attention to usernames which may be in violation of Wikipedia's username policy. Before listing a username here, consider if it should be more appropriately reported elsewhere, or if it needs to be reported at all:

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Ebola (talk · contribs) (at WT:CHU/U)

Note. On past precedent, this discussion is taking place at WT:CHU/U. A user has requested to usurp this username but there is a concern that it violates username policy because it is a username "mentioning or referring to illnesses, disabilities, or conditions". Please comment there. WjBscribe 09:48, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

further comment moved to WT:CHU/U WjBscribe 00:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]



Macedonia (talk · contribs)

Last April, several admins agreed that country names ought not to be used as user names (here). Mac. was asked to change his username right after by admin Pschemp (here - as he also asked all other existing country usernames that agreed or were forced to rename), and later in December'06 by me (here), after especially having noticed the extreme nationalistic content of his userpage (even transwikied - now mostly deleted). The user's contributions are limited to nationalistic issues, plus numerous uploads of nationalistic pictures with false licenses. Also see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Macedonia for more information on user conduct related to the username.

  • Is the fact that the userpage has been repeatedly and persistently used as a transwikied article for "Macedonia" a significant reason?
  • Is the precedent of April applicable, especially since all others were renamed, and since most other non-existent country/usernames were opened and their passwords scrambled?[1]

User:Japan [6], User:Mexico [7], User:Canada [8], User:Armenia [9], User:Egypt [10]... Should this (of all!) be an exception?

As a Greek, I am too biased to answer those questions, so I look forward for your input. NikoSilver 16:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually his former user page pretty much said "Macedonia is Slavic", as well as his POV pushing was generally in that direction.   /FunkyFly.talk_  17:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
POV-pushing is a separate issue. This forum only discusses usernames. Coemgenus 17:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
IMO, (and in that of most Greek/Bulgarian and other users) the name is "inflammatory". Still, if you don't think so, if we narrow our vision to policy says/doesn't-say arguments, I think we're missing the points. The points are that the particular user uses it in the most inflammatory ways possible, that the user has made his userpage look like an article repeatedly, that "a bunch of admins" agreed that use of country/usernames is inflammatory and asked/renamed/blocked/scrambled all others, and that's the only one around, so "it would be worthless to change WP:U just for one guy".[11] That's why I brought it here, because that one user has to be forced to rename by us, rather than the explicit content of the policy itself. NikoSilver 17:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My point is that if User:Macedonia is doing something inflammatory in his edits, that is a subject for another forum. One of the ones listed at WP:ANI, perhaps. I don't really know. The only topic for discussion here is whether the username violates WP:U. Coemgenus 18:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I understand. It is "inflammatory", and so were User:Iran, User:France and all others that were blocked, plus User:Switzerland (of all!) and all others that were renamed. A "bunch of admins" says so.[12] NikoSilver 18:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
 07:55, April 13, 2006 Pschemp (Talk | contribs) blocked "Iran (contribs)" with an expiry time of indefinite (username)
You are mistaken. They are "part" of names of countries, and there exist greater regions under those names.   /FunkyFly.talk_  19:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You fail to see that this username is a springboard for propaganda, and IS definitely part of a larger problem.   /FunkyFly.talk_  18:47, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Then the user will be blocked for the propaganda/bad edits or whatnot. This page is solely for discussing the propriety of a username as relates to WP:U. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 18:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The question here is does it violate username policies? Where do you draw the line at what are acceptable and unacceptable, countries, regions etc etc. I see NO POV pushing in the name, just the name of a place. my name could POV pushing that chris is a good name. You can argue that any name is POV pushing, the question is it inflamatory. To me, and several editors it is apparently not.-- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is not appropriate, as it can and definitely is, used for malicious purposes. Whether or not the policy does not explicitly prohibit a name of a region is irrelevant. Remember - the spirit of the law.   /FunkyFly.talk_  18:54, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If it is used for malicious purposes, that is not the purpose of this venue. This venus purpose is to comment on the appropriatness of a username, based on username policy, especially in situations where the policy is unclear or open to interpretation. We dont username block based on malicious intent here. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'll say the same: you fail to see that this username is a springboard for propaganda, and IS definitely part of a larger problem.   /FunkyFly.talk_  19:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am not convinced it is. And, if we want to be technical, i dont see anything about that in the username policy. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:05, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Then you also fail to see the spirit of this policy - to prevent usage of names which are likely to be used in a malicious way.   /FunkyFly.talk_  19:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I see the spirit of the policy as preventing use of names that are themselves malicious. But that's the trouble you have when you follow the spirit of the laws instead of the words. Coemgenus 19:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have not seen that interpretation of the policy before, "to prevent usage of names which are likely to be used in a malicious way." The username policy has to do with the username in itself, now how it is used, how they are using it, what it is being used for. While sometimes it is brought up to indicate WP:COI, but this does not seem to apply. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:15, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Again, you are mistaken. Names of companies and trademarks are not malicious themselves, but have a potential to be used in a malicious way.   /FunkyFly.talk_  19:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm pretty sure the company name issue has nothing to do with malice, but rather with misrepresentation and spam. Coemgenus 19:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We all, in ourselves have the capaibility to be malicious. My name has the capability of being a WP:COI to any articles with Chris in the name and there malicious? I am not buying it. Let them be malicious and get them blocked through another venue. This is not a place for preventitive blocks based on flimsy arguments that the name might be used malciiously. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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