Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

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Putting here as a test case for Cyrillic (or other foreign alphabet) usernames on English Wikipedia. Personally I believe it falls nder the "confusing use of characters" clause. RJASE1 ^Talk 00:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong disallow - the bigger problem is that it refers to sex with your mother.Proabivouac 00:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Disallow based on policy and the type of letters used. --Kukini ^{hablame aqui} 00:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Disallow based on translation. My bad. --Kukini ^{hablame aqui} 00:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Disallow No test needed. Explicitly disallowed: WP:USERNAME#Names with non-Latin characters. (well the sex-mother issue is important too I guess...) NikoSilver 00:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  Are you sure WP:U explicitly disallows on that? I didn't read it that way, but could well be wrong - Alison^☺ 00:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Disallow - Was allow per WP:U, specifically Wikipedia:Username_policy#Names_with_non-Latin_characters. It displays okay in Safari and FireFox but can't speak for more than that. User should be "strongly urged (but not required) to provide a transliteration in [their] signature" (now disallow per Proabivouac) - Alison^☺ 00:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment- There is no "test case" crap we need to deal with. Due to SUL, forign scripts are allowed, period. The issue is what it means. If its Russian profanity, than it gets disallowed, regardless of the script. pschemp | talk 00:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • What's SUL? allowed? NikoSilver 00:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello people, you need to read our policy again. Foreign scripts are "discouraged" but not disallowed. I'm seriously disturbed so many people are ignorant of what WP:U actually says. SUL is Single User Login. Educate yourselves before you vote please. (especially you Niko, you are not reading that correctly.) pschemp | talk 00:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - ah, thanks for the link on the non-latin characters, don't know how I missed it. RJASE1 ^Talk 00:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • [Maybe after 35 edit conflicts]: Yeah, thanks, I was certain it hadn't changed coz I had a recent example with User:Kékrōps. NikoSilver 00:42, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Disallow-Based on the translation given. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(self-nomination) My username is not a trademark violation. The strident, stringent interpretation of trademark law that has been used here of late is based on an erroneous conflation of trademark and copyright. When I created this (intentionally preposterous) handle, I was searching for an expansion of the "db" that prefixes all speedy deletion templates (a quick review of my edit history will show the reason behind that). I was not aware of any significant issue at the time, because the trademark clause in WP:U seems to invite a narrow interpretation. Consider this a test case. I don't want to change my name and will only do so if I'm made to. Deranged bulbasaur 00:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]