Last modified: 2011-08-17 18:53:33 UTC
Background: Currently, my username (Patriiiiiiiiiick) is blocked on Wikipedia because it is deemed invalid. I've used this username for 15 years without anybody getting offended. Suggestion: Users should be able to login with a user of their choice but the displayed screen name should be another string which could in turn be moderated. There should be a private and a public side of a user account. This would allow me to use the login name of my choice while using a screenname which is accepted by the community.
This sounds like a block due to the TitleBlacklist. Which wiki? en.wikipedia has a rule to block a high repeation of the same character in a username.
It is on en.wikipedia indeed. The story was to give a background for my request and I suppose this is not the place to discuss the rules in place. I was suggesting to add a screen name field to allow some flexibility for the user name while respecting some rules for the screen name.
An explanation why my suggestion is deemed invalid, please!
Re-opening this bug pending an explanation of its resolution.
Resolving INVALID since this isn't an issue that should be tracked in Bugzilla. Changes to rules on enwiki should be requested from the admins for enwiki. Bugzilla is not the place to do that.
(In reply to comment #5) > Resolving INVALID since this isn't an issue that should be tracked in > Bugzilla. Changes to rules on enwiki should be requested from the > admins for enwiki. Bugzilla is not the place to do that. This was for a feature request. Namely, that the display name be different from the registered user name. There are all sorts of reasons you might want to do this (capitalization changes, attribution to your real name, etc.). This is probably a duplicate bug, but I don't see any part of the request that's invalid. The English Wikipedia's rules and policies are certainly distinct (and outside Bugzilla's scope), but neither comment 0 or the bug summary indicate that it's the English Wikipedia's practices that are trying to be adjusted via Bugzilla. Re-opening.
This sounds like an extended version of the whole "real name" feature. Personally I think it just adds confusion without much benefit to have "screen names" and login names that are distinct. Thus /me thinks this should be wontfix (or worksforme if "real name" feature that is disabled on 'pedia is close enough) but don't have that strong an opinion. I agree with comment 6 that this is not invalid.
(In reply to comment #7) > Thus /me thinks this should be wontfix (or worksforme if "real name" feature > that is disabled on 'pedia is close enough) but don't have that strong an > opinion. Resolving WONTFIX since comment 0 is specifically about Wikipedia and the functionality is similar to purposefully diabled real-name (see $wgAllowRealName in http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=CommonSettings.php)
