Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

Choice of username

If you believe someone has chosen an inappropriate username under Wikipedia's username policy, you may create a subpage here to discuss whether the user should be forced to change usernames. However, before listing the user here, please first contact the user on his or her talk page and give them an opportunity to change usernames voluntarily.

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• Trollderella (talk · contribs)
  • Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names/Trollderella

• Fenian Swine (talk · contribs)
  • Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Fenian Swine

• 음낭 (talk · contribs)

This user keeps adding a redirect of 음낭 to Kim Jong-il, who is currently the leader of North Korea. I cannot read Korean, so I can't confirm whether this is a good-faith edit or not, but assuming that it is, we shouldn't allow 음낭 as a username as it is the name of a well-known international statesman, jguk 22:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

That says something other than Kim Jong-il ("Um-nang", roughly), so the username itself isn't offensive, AFAIK. – ugen64 06:59, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

• "Eum-nang" is Korean for "scrotum". [1] Kappa 07:02, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Oh, heh, guess my Korean's not quite up to speed... – ugen64 07:08, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

This would be the equivalent of redirecting chimpanzee to George W. Bush. As such, I'd suggest something be done about this guy; he seems to be a vandal. - 206.114.20.121 19:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Vandaltroll (talk · contribs)

• No argument needed.

  V. Molotov 15:40, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Yes, argument needed. There is too much paranoid hysteria about the words Vandal and Troll in usernames. The user has only three edits, let's give them some time and assume good faith before stamping feet and demanding or enforcing a change of name. --81.77.192.56 08:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

۞ (talk · contribs) and ░ (talk · contribs). A single Unicode character for a username is simply not a good idea. Some users' browsers may not display them correctly, and not being able to navigate to a user's page or talk page without using copy/paste is annoying. android79 14:46, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I can vouch for that. The first one appears as a rather nice little (very little) image, but the second one is just a square on my screen. I suggest the users incorporate these caracters into a name containing mostly letters and numbers. Exploding Boy 15:32, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I would suggest they not use the characters at all. Any character not typable from a standard English keyboard (with exceptions for special characters from other languages – é, ü, ß, etc.) should be off-limits. android79 15:38, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, after I posted that I started realising that searching for a user name like that would be very difficult indeed. If, for example, someone wanted to search for my user page or talk page, they could simply type User:Exploding Boy or User talk:Exploding Boy into the search box. With names like those above this is impossible. Exploding Boy 15:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I've started a more general discussion on this problem over at Wikipedia talk:Username. android79 16:04, 16 September 2005 (UTC)