Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

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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• Blueballs (talk · contribs) - Offensive username. Demi^T/_C 23:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • ???? - What's offensive about this name - ??? --84.64.21.66 04:51, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Blueballs is a sexual term. Zach (Sound Off) 00:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
• Ombudsman (talk · contribs)
  • Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names/Ombudsman
• Еdit (talk · contribs)
  • I think this user name is quite misleading. I noticed it a few days after this user joined, and requested he change usernames, but he has declined. To add to the confusion, his signature is "[edit]" which he has also declined to change. — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:23, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Update: all right; it appears that he is not Edit (talk · contribs) but instead Еdit (talk · contribs), where the first letter is not a normal E although I don't understand what it is. That further adds to the confusion, in my opinion. — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:29, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
    • It's a Ye (Cyrillic), and yes, they should change their name. Given the concensus here and the fact they're unwilling to discuss the matter I've usernameblocked. --fvw* 13:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: I think his/her username should be changed or he should at least stop putting brackets around it because it looks almost exactly like an edit link. I was confused when I saw it on AfD and thought there was an error in the nomination. I mentioned this on his user page, but he removed my comment without a response. He removed Marskell's comment as well. I changed the username at the top to the correct one so it would be more visible. -- Kjkolb 10:08, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: He removed my comment and then re-removed it after I said it had not been addressed. "I have had the handle for a long time" is not addressing it. Nothing wrong with being clever but this appears to be a definite effort to confuse people. Instead of this [edit] he is using this {edit}—hardly better. Marskell 10:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Agreed that this appears to be a deliberate effort to confuse and disrupt. — ciphergoth 11:26, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Username is pretty clear on cases like this: Do not choose names such as recent changes, Administrator, or any other part of the interface or commonly used terms on Wikipedia. Use of the "special" E makes it look like this was deliberately chosen to confuse. A new username should be chosen. android79 12:20, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User name games for discussion on misleading signatures.

• 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)
• I've done a usernameblock. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 16:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Pathetic. Now, what are you going to do about User:GrumpyTroll with your trigger happy finger? --81.79.136.62 16:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Unfortunate. I have no problem with the name. What part of the username policy has been violated? Petershank 22:23, 21 October 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)

You will note that both of these user names only created a normal wiki page with their username which were immediately listed for AfD, I have no doubt these are troll accts.  ALKIVAR™ 22:57, 10 October 2005 (UTC)