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Another suggestion would be to make registration under real names (without [[CamelCase]]) compulsory. I accept that may deter folks, but as it stands at the moment, I have great difficulty in trying to determine the difference between an 'acceptable alias' username, and that of a pure spambot. If forcing real names is not an option, then just ban CamelCase name registration, ban underscore, special characters and numbers in username registration - if someone desparately wants to be known by fancy characters and the likes, they can overcome that by creating a [[signature]] in their profile, or even creating a new [[user page]] with an incoming [[redirect]]. Maybe if we had [[mw:Extension:Renameuser]], then any accounts created could be then subsequently changed to something more preferable to the individual. | Another suggestion would be to make registration under real names (without [[CamelCase]]) compulsory. I accept that may deter folks, but as it stands at the moment, I have great difficulty in trying to determine the difference between an 'acceptable alias' username, and that of a pure spambot. If forcing real names is not an option, then just ban CamelCase name registration, ban underscore, special characters and numbers in username registration - if someone desparately wants to be known by fancy characters and the likes, they can overcome that by creating a [[signature]] in their profile, or even creating a new [[user page]] with an incoming [[redirect]]. Maybe if we had [[mw:Extension:Renameuser]], then any accounts created could be then subsequently changed to something more preferable to the individual. | ||
: I like for people to use [[Real | : I like for people to use [[WikiIndex:Real names|real names]], however I don't like to force people to do that. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | ||
A final suggestion is to enable [[:Category:ConfirmEmail|confirm e-mail]] for account creation. Ha-ha . . . I hear my ears burning with Mark's ethos of [[:Category:OpenEdit|open editing]]! Well, we will still have open editing from [[IP editors]] (and those have to go through Captcha on every edit they make) - the whole reason spambots create accounts is so that they bypass the edit Captcha. Having to confirm e-mail will virtually eliminate spambot account creation. One big problem with this - something is wrong with the whole WikiIndex e-mail system . . . I've never been able to get e-mail working, and others have also reported this . . . | A final suggestion is to enable [[:Category:ConfirmEmail|confirm e-mail]] for account creation. Ha-ha . . . I hear my ears burning with Mark's ethos of [[:Category:OpenEdit|open editing]]! Well, we will still have open editing from [[IP editors]] (and those have to go through Captcha on every edit they make) - the whole reason spambots create accounts is so that they bypass the edit Captcha. Having to confirm e-mail will virtually eliminate spambot account creation. One big problem with this - something is wrong with the whole WikiIndex e-mail system . . . I've never been able to get e-mail working, and others have also reported this . . . | ||