Talk:Community health initiative/Mechanisms to prohibit blatant attack usernames

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This is an excellent suggestion, which I have wanted for years. You can check in

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers

..for some of the user names which have been made "in my honour" over the last few years (though most of them have been oversighted.)

Try also User:Nishidani and User:Zero0000

Some notes:

1: This has to be an universal feature: the latest attack usernames agains me were made on commons, and on de.wikipedia.

2: The idea that "Implement a rule that all new usernames cannot begin with an existing username" is a huge overkill. Only very few of us are so "honoured", I would think that at least 99,9% of Wikipedia users never experience this problem. But editors who do experience it, should have a place to ask to have any new username starting with theirs forbidden, as a general rule.

3: Exceptions to this general rule: Some names might be legitimate, even if they start with, say, User:HuldraSomething. That is because the name, Huldra, is taken from this creature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulder ...and to give yourself the nick Huldra is rather common from where I come from...especially for females with long hair (which I did have, back in 2005, when I registered.)

I see there are a User:Huldra1961, a User:Huldra24, a User:Huldra6, a User:Huldrejenta (meaning Huldragirl, in the Scandinavian languages).....all these are ok usernames.

I would suggest that anyone starting a User:HuldraSomething should be checked by an admin first. This admin can the block obviously abusive username, and allow obviously non abusive names (like User:Huldra1961, a User:Huldra24, a User:Huldra6). In cases where the admin doesn't understand what the name means, (like User:Huldrejenta), they should check with me,

I.o.w.: Anyone who tries to register User:HuldraSomething, should get a message that part of that name is already in use, and that the name will be checked by an admin.

4: About "Implement a rule that all new usernames cannot contain a combination of username and a verb", yeah, you can do that...but some are experts working around that. I suspect the word "penis" is not allowed in a user name.....so therefore you get

instead. In short, it will not be enough. Also, I see some have alternate account, of the type User:HuldraTravelling....all such account names would be forbidden, then, wouldn't they?

Cheers, --Huldra (talk) 21:26, 20 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

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