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My feelings on this are pretty strong. It took this project to understand that. I am feeling that we are already getting overwhelmed with psudonyms. Either we have to be fairly strict about RealNames or let it be open to psudonyms. I honestly don't see myself participating heavily in a community/wiki that doesn't feel real to me. My two cents :-) [[MarkDilley]] | <small>[[User talk:MarkDilley|talk]]</small> | My feelings on this are pretty strong. It took this project to understand that. I am feeling that we are already getting overwhelmed with psudonyms. Either we have to be fairly strict about RealNames or let it be open to psudonyms. I honestly don't see myself participating heavily in a community/wiki that doesn't feel real to me. My two cents :-) [[MarkDilley]] | <small>[[User talk:MarkDilley|talk]]</small> | ||
:Is community more important than the creating a userful WikiIndex? | |||
:I came to the internet from using bulletin boards where almost nobody used their real names. Before that it was campus computer mainframes where user names often had limitations (the number of characters, etc.), so most of those were not real names either. On the internet, my real name is completely meaningless because you can not find any version of that name that refers to me. On the other hand, my user name, [[User:BlankVerse|BlankVerse]], has a track record that you can easily see by visiting my [[wikipedia:user:BlankVerse|user page]] at the English-language Wikipedia. For all of my poetry and artwork, I use a different haigo (haiku penname), which is a longstanding tradition for Japanese poets. | |||
:One problem you may experience if you do require real names from participants is that people may just lie about their real names. Without any verification process like the real names feature for reviewers at amazon.com, you will never know. Mis dos centavos [[User:BlankVerse|BlankVerse]] 03:49, 16 Mar 2006 (EST) | |||