User:I Enjoy Commenting/A001

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I Enjoy Commenting (talk) 16:35, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

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Actually, the bit about celebrity names is in there if you look at WP:U. As for the rest, admittedly, the policy is not very explicit but that's on purpose. The policy used to be a lot more explicit but the result was a lot of rules-lawyering over whether such and such a name is or isn't "profanity" or "referring to a real-world violent action", "too random", et cetera. After a lot of difficulty, we've reached the point where we don't have to be so explicit anymore. This is good when it comes to punishing infractions -- better that every violation we stop actually causes a problem in an explainable way, than to have clarifications that become ill-conceived rules we are then burdened with.

That said, it would be good if we had more clear advice on picking a username. The section now could use some improvement. I actually wouldn't object to including the text you included after I updated it to be in line with the current text of the policy... as long as the other text can be incorporated with it so it's not redundant. Mango juice talk 19:52, 12 December 2007 (UTC)