I dont know whether this is what Richard and his friend were discussing, but the MonmouthMuseumWales RFC has closed
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User_names&oldid=489718366#MonmouthMuseumWales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Rewarding_Incomptence.3F I have often faced this issue during training & workshops. The most recent example can be seen here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CityLibraries_Townsville&action=history (it started in userspace) Thankfully nobody blocked the accounts during the training. Over lunch I explained the reasoning behind our username policy and they instantly understood why it was a bad idea to use institutional names. They created new accounts after lunch. ;-) However no everyone has experts to talk to at lunch. Instant blocks for such a trivial problem are stupid. We should give orgname accounts a few days to select a new username and jump through the hoops. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Richard Symonds <chasemew...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > Me and a close friend were having a rather heated debate tonight on the > topic of role accounts, and I am hoping you (as a community) can answer my > question: > > Why do we ban role accounts? > > I was of the understanding that it was something to do with copyright/legal > issues, but it's been a few years since I passed RfA, and I'm struggling to > remember the arguments that I once remembered so well. I had a trawl through > all the appropriate pages on meta and enwp, and although I could find out > that role accounts were blocked, I couldn't see the justification behind it > mentioned anywhere > > I'm not disagreeing with the policy, but I was wondering if anyone knew the > reasoning behind it - and why said reasoning isn't included in the policy > pages? > > All the best, > > Chase > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
