Talk:Moniker

No reference to ActiveX monikers?
I was hoping to find info about ActiveX interface (IMoniker) but instead found a page about clowns...

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I too was hoping to find information about ActivX interfaces - D

Try looking under Nerdipedia for the ActivX stuff chum - F

What is with all the clown stuff? We need more detail into the specifics of monikers, such as usage, and where it is derived from.

The derivation is confused - could be a romany word, apparently. Although I'm not sure if it's confusion over the Cockney Rhyming slang "Monica James" which rhymes with names - Hence "Monica" coming to mean a name, although there seems to be strong evidence that it is a dialect slang word, i've always assumend it comes from the rhyming slang.
 * Dunno if this has to do with ActiveX, but I also found lots of "Monikers" in the Registry of Windows 98 or even Windows 95. Perhaps it's a naming convention by Microsoft and should at least get mentioned here - the standard way for many hackers is to first look up a new word in the wikipedia. -- 80.136.58.249 (talk) 08:54, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Tyler Mandt
"Tyler Mandt is perhaps the best example of a "Moniker"". Google returns 68 results on "Tyler Mandt", none of which appear relevant. I am removing this claim. Stephen Kenny 21:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Moniker Online Services
Moniker Online Services is #8 domain registrar. -69.87.202.243 (talk) 22:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

This is a list of the top ten domain registrars ranked in order according to the statistics compiled by Name Intelligence, Inc.  1. Go Daddy 2. eNom 3. Network Solutions 4. Tucows 5. INWW.com (a.k.a. Melbourne IT) [1] [2] 6. Schlund.de  7. Wild West Domains (Part of Go Daddy) 8. Moniker Online Services 9. Register.com 10. DomainDiscount24 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.134.243.203 (talk) 00:15, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Early Electronics and Computers
A monikker (note spelling) can also mean a brand name, or logo, which often was required to be attached to the early computer, radio, phonograph, television, etc. system to get it to function. Monikkers to these early electronic systems were used as a key to the system, and could be removed and carried to prevent unauthorized use. Unfortunately many people collected these monikkers seperately, leading to the abandonment of the attempt to archive or maintain working copies of product lines using this technology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.134.243.203 (talk) 00:14, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Not necessarily a nickname
At least where I come from (Seattle, born 1954, in case anyone cares) a moniker is not necessarily a nickname. It can be used of any name, especially when there is something out of the ordinary about it. For example, if one is talking behind his back about an acquaintance named, say, "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", one might say "whew, what a moniker!" regardless of the fact that the name in question may well be on the authenticated copy of his birth certificate. This seems to me closer to the alleged Shelta source cited in the Etymology paragraph than to the first line of the article. But this is original research, so I can't use it to improve the article. --Haruo (talk) 17:51, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree completely, and in fact this is the reason I was looking at the article and its talk page. I am British but also born in the 1950s. During the 60s, 70s and 80s I only ever heard "moniker" used as a slang term for name. Definitely slang, not formal English, and definitely a name, not a nickname. Older people (e.g. born in the 20s or 30s) would commonly say "what's your moniker?" to which the expected answer was "John Smith" or whatever. The modern (internet-age) usage seems to have shifted from slang to mainstream use, but the meaning has also shifted from "name" to "nickname". 95.149.107.98 (talk) 21:05, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, in the 1980s in the UK ir would certainly have been regarded as too casual for wikipedia. The most formal usage of it then seemed to be biographical use within a cheesily slangy style in the music press, on a level with something like 'head honcho', as in something like 'Paul Heaton, head honcho of The Beautiful South, released an album under the moniker Biscuit Boy'. I find it very jarring to see it used on wikipedia, which it is, a lot, it seems unencyclopedic, like 'sophomore album'. contamination from the style of music journalists. However, just because I feel these things doesn't mean they're correct - as well as 'wrong'/'unencyclopedic' to consider there is 'changing language', and I think that the best thing would be that if it was given consideration by those most on top of Wikipedia's writing style. Scatterkeir (talk) 08:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)