I can't imagine a good rationale for a role account. Many of us have legitimate socks as open wifi accounts or demonstration accounts (such as my vanilla user:Faelig to show what a "normal" account logged in looks like) and accounts like user:Jon Davies (WMUK) seem suitable and sensible without needing the possibility of shared accounts.
For marginal examples, one need only look closely as the campus ambassador programme where there are many University students with names like user:Nnu-12-22100538 which are created (apparently) as part of standard class-room names. In essence this is a "role account", just not shared. I hope it is obvious that an account that apparently represents an organization rather than an individual will always be problematic. However unless there is spamming or similar extreme issues, I would always politely advise a rename and be open to hearing the user's rationale rather than playing whack-a-sock with the block hammer. Compliance to the naming standard is not always obvious, especially if we think that user:Nnu is probably not appropriate as they may be seen as representing Nanjing Normal University, but would allow user:Nnu1. Cheers, Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
