Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names

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SlaveOFchrist (talk · contribs)

Usernames of religious figures such as "God", "Jehovah", "Buddha", or "Allah", which may offend other people's beliefs. Usernames partly comprised of these terms are not always necessarily prohibited but may be subject to review. Christ is not mentioned but I thought this would be a good discussion. Purgatory Fubar ^Converse or Snafu 20:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

disallow Slave is a negative term and implies that christ forced people to follow him Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 20:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Disallow per WP:U. I don't care whether he's claiming to be him or whether is saying to be a helper of him, it's still a religious figure in the username. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 20:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak disallow - "Slave of Christ"? I can certainly see where they're getting at, and while being a "slave of Christ" isn't necssarily a bad thing, it can still be seen as offensive to other users. I'd say that we disallow this user name out of good faith and give him/her the chance to change it. // DecaimientoPoético 20:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
weak allow On the other hand in some languages and cultures the difference between slave and servant is a matter of nuance. It could just imply blind obediance to. However, this may be a single purpose/link spam account. All contributions to date have been to add links to www.kingdomready.org or one of its sub-pages to articles. --DSRH |talk 20:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Disallow could easily be taken negatively as slave is a negative word. Per WP:U#Religious. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Allow Why should this be disallowed when ASERVANTOFCHRIST was allowed? Acalamari 20:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Because slave is a bit more negative than servant, it implies forced servitude. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - In that case, you may want to go through the list of users and block everyone with slave in their name; assuming this name is disallowed. Acalamari 20:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - User:Wikislave wouldn't be disallowed, I'm saying disallow with this one because of the negative term being used with christ, not because of the word slave Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 20:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Indeed, per WP:U#Religious, we hold names with religious figures to a higher standard. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - - Change to Disallow. Acalamari 20:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Disallow per HighInBC's comment GDon4t0 (talk to me...) 20:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak disallow. While he obviously isn't intending to offend people, it will reasonably be offensive to those who don't understand the background behind the name. It's also not going to help him any since it seems to imply POV-based editing. --tjstrf talk 20:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]