Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

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 first contact the user on his or her talk page and give them an opportunity to change usernames voluntarily.

Names that are offensive, inflammatory, impersonating an existing user, or asserting inappropriate authority will generally be permanently blocked by visiting admins. If a matter turns out to be controversial, a subpage may be created here to discuss it.

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Suggests insult against user when used in discussion; hard to scan threads where user participates thereby. LotLE×talk

Disallow, but allow user to change name. Confusing, but not bad enough for a usernameblock. --Gray Porpoise 19:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disallow, but allow user to change name. The name is disruptive and confusing, and attracts more attention than the user's edits. Captainktainer * Talk 00:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with all above. Fredil Yupigo ^{What has Wikipedia become?} 02:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I smell yet another usernameblock here - his nonsensical and offensive user page says it all. Scobell302 21:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm no administrator, so perhaps my opinion is not so relevant here (only a veteran of this page!). It seems like you have a problem with the obscenities and silliness on his/her talk:user page and not the name. Unless I'm wrong the name is practically meaningless, as most permitted names here are. If the user can keep their egocentricities out of their edits, then perhaps just a "your user page might offend many, please tame down" would do. MotherFunctor 21:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The username isn't problematic. It's the content of his userspace that's a problem. Recommend closing this one and creating an RfC on the content of his userspace. Captainktainer * Talk 00:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Allow username, but as Captainktainer said, create another RfC on the userspace. --Gray Porpoise 19:19, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A comment on the meaning or lack of the name: I read it as The Pwner, and a reference to "you have been pwned!" and similar comments found on defaced webpages. (pwned was said to be originally a typo for owned which was subsequently adopted as a deliberate typo). Our pwn article suggests that the meaning has moved on a bit, but it's still in the same general area. So I think the RFC may be in the right place here. Telsa (talk) 18:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is a bit suggestive of dominating edit wars. --Gray Porpoise 17:32, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Username could be considered offensive to some. What do others think? -- Longhair 05:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disallow Others think it's a done block.  Daniel_123  ►  11:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Definite disallow. --Gray Porpoise 14:40, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like the name either, but I see nobody has asked the user if they would consider changing it. --Guinnog 14:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is so offensive about the name? It is simply a reference to either a state of intoxication or annoyence. As it stands there exists a page in wikipedia for piss, pissed as well as any other objectionable word you might think about. The name isn't hurting anyone, I would vote to allow. Pissedpat 20:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The username policy prohibits "Names that contain profanity, obscenities, or other potentially offensive language". --Gray Porpoise

^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 00:09, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The link for actress Sheila Johnson on this page is not correct. The Sheila Johnson in the film is another person, she was formerly a model, she looks nothing like the person you have linked her too, however she IS black. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.125.30.206 (talk • contribs) .

Self-avowed[1] vandal[2] sock puppets. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 09:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]