Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names/Metsfanatic0007

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The result was allow, not in violation of policy ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)  [view]

[edit] Metsfanatic0007 (talk · contribs)

The New York Mets are a corporate franchise, if names containing yankees are blockable under the copyright policy then so are names containing the Mets--172.129.215.236 17:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• Meh - no contributions. Not to mention bad legal reasoning. --Abu-Fool Danyal ibn Amir al-Makhiri 17:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

  When that comes into policy, then you can use is as a discussion point, the point is the username is registered Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 17:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

  So I should retype my reasoning each time? No thanks. --Abu-Fool Danyal ibn Amir al-Makhiri 17:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

  You should base your reasoning on policy. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:23, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

  We should base our reasoning in reasoning. The reasoning here is to save time in cases where it doesn't matter, like when a username has no contributions, and is not an obvious insta-block. If you insist on "per" plus a silly acronym, then "per WP:BURO et al." (Unfortunately I now just seem to be wasting more time...) --Abu-Fool Danyal ibn Amir al-Makhiri 17:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• Allow It's not similar enough to "New York Mets" to be confused as a representative of the team, and the use of fanatic eliminates that possibility too. User:YankeesFan would be fine. Leebo ^T/C 17:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Also, I'm fairly certain that it's not a copyright issue. It's a matter of misleading others to believe you are a representative of the company, group, team, etc. Such names can also be blocked if they appear to be promoting said group, but that's usually in conjunction with their editing habits, not just their name. Leebo ^T/C 17:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

• Allow - First off, a yankee is a term to descrigbe a group of people. As far as I know, that cannot be disallowed. I.E., i was born in the north so i get classified as a yankee, making my family yankees. It does not say New York Mets, just mets. I am for allowing. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 17:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
• Allow - Meet the Mets/Greet the Mets/Come on out and Allow the Mets. Per Chrislk02.TortureIsWrong 17:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
• Allow - per Chrislk. If someone said "Yankeesfan", that wouldn't be a problem either (besides, Yankee is ambiguous). It's not simply User:New York Mets (which would be an issue), it's User:Metsfanatic0007, which doesn't seem to run afoul of copyright issues. Patstuart^talk·edits 17:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
• Allow No copyright issue, no promotional issue. G Donato (talk to me...) 17:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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