Kids at Wikimania Haifa? Options Rating

[thekohser]

Maybe Erik Moeller will babysit and take a few snapshots for Commons? He is a world scholar on childhood issues, I understand.

[Somey]

It's important to ensure that the bureaucrats have the ability to change the names of the children themselves too, in case any of them happen to be offensive in some way.

[Detective]

It's important to ensure that the bureaucrats have the ability to change the names of the children themselves too, in case any of them happen to be offensive in some way.

This is rather laboring my analogy, but the comparison is that ordinary editors can move, ie rename, articles. That does leave a redirect, so an admin is needed to get rid of that, but you don't need bureaucrat status.

And what's the antecedent of "any of them" - the children or their names?

[Somey]

This is rather laboring my analogy, but the comparison is that ordinary editors can move, ie rename, articles. That does leave a redirect, so an admin is needed to get rid of that, but you don't need bureaucrat status.

You're right - this was a fundamental misstatement of Wikipedia procedure on my part, analogy-wise. Accounts with offensive usernames are simply blocked, and the person operating the account can either try again or give up. So the proper analogy would be that children with offensive names such as "Poopyface" or "Megasuperpenis" would be barred from the child-care facility, forcing the parents to bring in a different child altogether to be looked after - prefably one with a more acceptable name, like "Chase Me Ladies" or "Clowns Wish to Eat Me," for example.

Obviously if children were treated more like Wikipedia articles, they might as well call it a "Child-Abuse Facility," unless the child was "non-notable," in which case it would be either a "Child-Neglect Facility" or a "Child-Deletion Facility." You'd think that even the most heavily-indoctrinated WP parents would think twice before exposing their kid(s) to something like that, despite their presumed belief that the child(ren) would be somehow improved by a "consensus-driven" child-care process.