User talk:Pope Abdul I

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. 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.

Mayalld 09:51, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Username and suspected sock
Your account has been blocked for two reasons; Mayalld 13:03, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Juxtaposition of a Christian title with a Moslem forename will be offensive to both Muslims and Christians
 * 2) The fact that immediately on registering you started needling User:81.149.250.228 about his name, just as others have done before suggests that you are editing Wikipedia under multiple guises. Nobody can chance upon that little storm in a teacup so quickly.
 * Well I don't really see how others have been "needling" Boris about his name before. (Boris is the guy's name btw - I know him irl but he won't admit this as he doesn't want to be associated with me, as despite essentially being a vandal he wishes to remain unblocked himself). Anyway- I don't see how he's been needled before. I was just letting him know that some hilariously persistent vandalism had occurred on a particular editor's talk page. To address your first point, my name was chosen precisely to encourage tolerance and understanding between the muslim and christian communities - NOT to cause offence. Pope Abdul I 14:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Others have put other names to him, but if he chooses not to reveal his name, that is up to him. The fact that you created an account, then immediately went to this talk page is indicative not of a new user, but of somebody who has played before, and is an alter-ego of somebody else. So far as the name goes, it simply will not encourage tolerance. It is deeply offensive to Christians to suggest that a Pope might take Abdul as a name, and equally offensive to Muslims to suggest that a Muslim might convert and become Pope. Upon the subject of User:81.149.250.228, whilst his edits have been too forceful, and have gone beyond Wikipedia guidelines on a number of occasions, I don't see any out and out vandalism. He has served his block for incivility, and hopefully will be a useful editor in future. Mayalld 15:07, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't see any instances of other users "putting names" to Boris - except one user who commented something about "Nicholas White", although there is no evidence I can see that this was intended to be naming said user, it was an assumption on Boris' part that that was the case. Yes I have "played before" but this is the first account I ahve ever used and to be perfectly honest I consider your remarks about muslims and christians being likely to take offence, offensive in its own right. Pope Abdul I 15:14, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It is legitimate speculation as to whether others might take offence. However, I find it offensive. Mayalld 15:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC)