User talk:AntiVandal Patroller

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Hi there. I spotted your new account and felt the need to leave you a quick message about something regarding your username. The username policy does not outright disallow such names, however it does disallow names likely to cause disruption to Wikipedia. I applaud your willingness to fight vandals, we always need more people to do that, but we have had issues in the past with users who identify themselves as "vandal police" "vandal bashers" etc. Sometimes you get users who remove vandalism with edit summaries like "BANG BANG vandal scum you are finished" which is clearly, though well intended, an inappropriate way to fight vandalism.

Your username is nothing like that, but there are a couple of isses:
 * 1) it might encourage extra vandalism of your own account and contributions, which is further disruption we might be avoiding otherwise
 * 2) it does imply you are in a position of authority, like an admin, which is a violation of username policy
 * 3) it does imply you may be an extremely over zealous vandal fighter with possible disruption of wikipedia in the process (like the BANG BANG example I quoted above)
 * 4) there are more things to Wikipedia that vandal fighting, we are all article writers first and formost.

Obviously I doubt you have any of these intentions, I am just listing some of the issues I know experienced editors might think of when they see your name, and I don't want your wikipedia "career" to start badly because of that, I don't want to actually loose a vandal fighter! You can change your username at Changing username or enter your username for concensus-gathering at WP:RFCN (or I can do that for you if you so wish). As I said, this is more a premptive problem fixer than any major issues, but 'tis best if it is addressed.

Your thoughts? SGGH speak! 19:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)