User talk:Hurr87.113.86.207durr

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 * You seemed to be lacking a welcome: Welcome to the project! I hope the rest of your time here is more enjoyable than it has been so far. Seraphim  &hearts;  19:33, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Well done
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Apologies
As people keep pointing out, it appears I may have been too hasty in enforcing the username policy on your IP-like username. While we apparently disagree on the interpretation and application of it (we keep referring to two apparently contradictory sections), I was acting in good faith that I was applying the policy appropriately. As you got caught up in the middle of all that, I apologize for a less-than-pleasant entrance into Wikipedia editing. I also appreciate your pointing out this seeming contradiction in the policy (at least depending on how you read it), and I appreciate your comments on the rewording effort going on at the talk page. I hope we can put this behind us and move on to more productive things. Again, apologizes for coming down on you so hard. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:08, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

No need to change the policy
Look, the problem with your username wasn't the IP address. You aren't the only user around with an IP-based username. The problem was actually the "(talk)" bit of it, mimicking the MediaWiki interface, and putting links into the interface that do something very different from what a Wiki user would expect they do. It wasn't just the usual "confusion" complaint about "duh, I don't know what this username is because it's in Arabic". Your name was actively misleading, in that people would be reasonably confident that they were following a link to an IP's page, and yet they would be wrong. That's a bad idea for a username.

(In fact, the "hurr durr" in your new name is not the classiest thing ever, but this isn't a policy issue, it's just an issue of how you choose to come across to people.)

So you would have had to change your name sooner or later. My objection to Nihonjoe was that -- because you were a reasonable, good-faith contributor -- this could have been accomplished by asking you to change your name, instead of smacking you down with a block and an accidental autoblock.

In rewriting the username policy, I made sure to emphasize that blocking is not the solution to everything. That's what would prevent this situation from happening again, not a policy creep line that bans IP-based usernames. rspεεr (talk) 03:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know what you want at this point. Nihonjoe has apologized. I have been working hard at discouraging administrators from blocking over tiny little "gotchas". It's time to move on. rspεεr (talk) 02:08, 31 July 2009 (UTC)