See also OffensiveName, DressCode

== Pen Names on Emacs Wiki ==

EmacsWiki does not require users to UseRealNames.  If you look at the
list of homepages, however, you'll note that most of the names seem
non-ridiculous:

<pre>
    AlexSchroeder, JohnWiegley, FrankGerhardt, DanielLundin,
    CharlesSebold, TobyHaynes, AaronL, DeepakGoel, MarceloToledo,
    JohnPaulWallington, ...
</pre>

I doubt that the Emacs community is more business-like.  The Emacs
community is probably just more interested in Emacs than in fooling
around (without Emacs).  This is why the Emacs newsgroups
[news://comp.emacs] have a very high signal to noise ratio.  Another
interesting fact is that most regular contributors to the wiki got
there because they first heard about it on #emacs.  And PenName""s are
very common on #emacs:

<pre>
    Users on #emacs: ged @kensanata neogenen_ termos johnix @franl
    @delYsid giuppi delta_ vorpal enberg PurpleHaze jamc_ skimpIzu bpt
    Lennart mallum pflanze ... 
</pre>

Possible explanations:

# Contributors know about Meatball's UseRealNames-policy, and automatically assume it holds for other wikis as well.
# Contributors automatically use real-sounding names when contributing useful information.

Obviously EmacsWiki does not require a UseRealNames-policy at the
moment.

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It pains me to add threadmode to this clean page, but an interesting concept is raised: "non-ridiculous names". 


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