Matt Innis
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« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2009, 04:08:26 PM » |
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Yes. Hayford, Roger and I had this conversation through email and we decided that Roger was correct to leave the lower case, but remove the "dr." (as we have chosen not to include titles, etc.). I acted too quickly in changing the name to caps, essentially faltering in my responsibility of at least verifying whether the name should be changed. We decided that, next time, I won't be changing names unilaterally at least. The exact reason that the use of the "Rename" feature is restricted. I blew it!  Now if the community wants to make some guidelines, that would be okay with me. |
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« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2009, 04:30:37 PM » |
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The only guideline I can think of is that we absolutely cannot let ourselves descend into the WP-like chaos of names in colors, with sparklers, etc. etc. As long as the full and verifiable name is there, I don't care whether it's in caps or not. Personally, I think it's an affected mannerism, but if people want to do it, let 'em -- like dying their hair green and putting a red iron spike through their nose: chacun a son (mauvais) gout....
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Martin Baldwin-Edwards
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« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2009, 08:15:54 PM » |
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I think you should assume that people have normal names with upper case, unless they insist otherwise. If their names are of non-standard format, they should be used to that problem by now.
There is one guy in the UK who changed his surname to 6, and I had to reference something by him. The journal editor (without asking me) deleted the 6 as a typo and left me with a nonsense reference to someone's Christian name.
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Peter Schmitt
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« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2009, 06:47:45 PM » |
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Do changes to user names effect their login data?
Then they have to be warned!
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« Reply #19 on: October 23, 2009, 07:06:40 PM » |
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There have only been three or four name changes in the last couple of years that I'm aware of. I assume that if they couldn't log in afterwards we would eventually would have heard about it....
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Matt Innis
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« Reply #20 on: October 23, 2009, 07:17:22 PM » |
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Do changes to user names effect their login data?
Then they have to be warned!
I'm not sure, but I send them emails letting them know anyway. In the doctor's case I let him know why we took off the title as well. |
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Daniel Mietchen
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« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2009, 07:18:47 PM » |
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There have only been three or four name changes in the last couple of years that I'm aware of. I assume that if they couldn't log in afterwards we would eventually would have heard about it....
I think I noticed more than four, and all of them seemed to have login problems afterwards. |
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« Reply #22 on: October 23, 2009, 08:05:30 PM » |
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I think I noticed more than four, and all of them seemed to have login problems afterwards.
Ah, is there a list somewhere? I'd like to know where, so I can put a link to it on the Constables' private page. |
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« Reply #23 on: October 23, 2009, 08:07:51 PM » |
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I think I noticed more than four, and all of them seemed to have login problems afterwards.
Ah, is there a list somewhere? I'd like to know where, so I can put a link to it on the Constables' private page. Hayford, how about we use you as a guinea pig. Can I change your name and see if you can sign in? |
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« Reply #24 on: October 23, 2009, 08:18:11 PM » |
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I think I noticed more than four, and all of them seemed to have login problems afterwards.
Ah, is there a list somewhere? I'd like to know where, so I can put a link to it on the Constables' private page. There is no list other than the user move log. |
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« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2009, 10:04:47 PM » |
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[Hayford, how about we use you as a guinea pig. Can I change your name and see if you can sign in?
Sure, just change my name to Hayford Pierce, the way most people have spelled it for 65 years. Whadda I care? (My cousin, Michael Peirce, who took the great photo of his father at the Waldo Peirce article, finally just gave up and stopped trying to correct people. |
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« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2009, 10:07:12 PM » |
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There is no list other than the user move log.
Hmmm, we Kops are *so* dumb! Where exactly is the user move log? CZ is a labyrinth buried in a cavern lost in a maze.... |
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« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2009, 10:17:13 PM » |
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[Hayford, how about we use you as a guinea pig. Can I change your name and see if you can sign in?
Sure, just change my name to Hayford Pierce, the way most people have spelled it for 65 years. Whadda I care? (My cousin, Michael Peirce, who took the great photo of his father at the Waldo Peirce article, finally just gave up and stopped trying to correct people. Okay. Here goes. Sign out. |
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