I do, and asked about it. If that rule were to be implemented, I would continue to write with the name I use until it were deleted, as they did in that other wiki.--AstroNomer
On the C2 wiki I'm a big fan of having real names because of its size, its popularity, the generic nature of its mission and the waves of transients who drift through it whenever a link gets posted somewhere popular. However Bookshelved has a much more precise mission and a much smaller number of contributors. Many of the people on Bookshelved know each other in the real world or are 1 degree of separation from someone they know in the real world. The time to worry about a lack of real names is when the number of regulars gets a lot larger or when people start abusing pseudonymity. Having said that I think people should read Clay Shirky's "A group is its own worst enemy" http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html just because it raises some valuable points about the natural lifecycle of any online group. --AdewaleOshineye
Hmm... another McGuffin! -- tarquin, who doesn't use his real name.
I'd prefer real names remained the norm, handles the exception. -- lb
I'd prefer one name per person, and one person per name. AstroNomer and tarquin both have consistent on-line personalities and have accumulated some 'cred' here and elsewhere. I tend to have bigger problems with unidentified troublemakers and flamebaiters. Of course the lowest ring of DantesInferno? should be for people to seem to delight in flouting conventions (eg: "Hmm, I see a long established policy of Wiki:RealNamesPlease, therefore I will only post as BillyBudd?"). -- SeanO'Leary
NotHerRealName could also be used to categorise author pages such as BruceSterling, MarkTwain or RobertJordan since those are all pseudonyms.--AdewaleOshineye
Yes, but shouldn't it be NotHisRealName in those cases? :) -- EarleMartin
How would we know? One example of assumed gender in a pseudonym is Andre Norton. -- JamesBullock
Feel free to quote the "real" name of BruceSterling. The 'Net knoweth not. -- WikiBorg
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