User talk:Market troll

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: Use of "troll" may imply intent to disrupt and not lead to harmonious relations with other editors. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Daniel Case (talk) 14:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Uhm, hi. New user, as you may know, so excuse the wait. The nick Market Troll has been my most oft used one since around 1997, long before the term troll was actually in internet-pop culture. Or at least, it wasn't circulated greatly back then. While I do admit to a history of "being a troll" during my teen years, that was a long time ago. I could understand if I had used a racial or sexual slur, but I did not know that this was in any way offensive or inappropriate as I have never had any issue using it before, apart from peoples confusion as to it's meaning. If it is still a major issue and cannot be otherwise rectified, I will change it, but I hope I do not have to because it would diminish my opinion of wikipedia, if only a little bit.

Thank you for your time and understanding,

Tom

Addendum, I reviewed the page you directed me to read, and I did not specifically read anything concerning the word "troll", but instead to the practice of using a specific nick to "troll". I believe it would ultimately be self defeating and pointless to name oneself "market troll" if one wished to troll, as that would be an instant red flag. From what I understood reading some posts in your talk section, there are temporary bans and permanent ones. I would be perfectly okay with you (or anyone else) banning my account for life for even being arguementative towards another user, as that is not something I foresee myself doing. Again, I have used this nick for a very long time.

Thank you.