[Wikipedia-l] Fucking Asshole

Mon Nov 11 17:36:44 UTC 2002

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>What would happen if a signed-in user started writing the following all over Wikipedia? How would we deal with it? (Purely a hypothetical case, I assure you ;-)
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>"I hate everybody and everything. I will destroy Wikipedia, and you can't stop me. Your own stupid rules forbid it, BWAH HA HA HA!"
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Well it's not hypothetical any more:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AFucking_Asshole

Could we have a vague policy that profanity is not okay for user names? 
(vague because people's idea of profanity doesn't always match -- we'd 
have to decide on a case by case basis)

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