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Robert Roberts
post Mon 1st December 2008, 2:04pm
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Something that's always puzzled me - why does Wikipedia automatically ban company names as usernames?

Surely it's more transparent to the community to see that "Microsoft PR" has been editing the microsoft article that "Joe Blow" ?

What's the rationale?

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Rootology
post Mon 1st December 2008, 2:39pm
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It's supposed to be one person to one account.

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Robert Roberts   company name accounts   Mon 1st December 2008, 2:04pm
Kelly Martin   Something that's always puzzled me - why does ...   Mon 1st December 2008, 2:13pm
Rootology   It's supposed to be one person to one account.   Mon 1st December 2008, 2:39pm
Robert Roberts   It's supposed to be one person to one account...   Mon 1st December 2008, 3:12pm
Kelly Martin   I can understand that for individuals but role acc...   Mon 1st December 2008, 3:34pm
Robert Roberts   [quote name='Robert Roberts' post='144108' date='...   Mon 1st December 2008, 3:49pm
Hipocrite   Something that's always puzzled me - why does...   Mon 1st December 2008, 9:34pm
Lar   Something that's always puzzled me - why doe...   Mon 1st December 2008, 9:39pm
Kelly Martin   GFDLEntirely irrelevant.   Mon 1st December 2008, 9:48pm
Shalom   If I edit from my IP address without logging in, a...   Mon 1st December 2008, 10:08pm
Prisoner 7635317   Another component is that some administrators are ...   Fri 5th December 2008, 4:42am


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