Tango.info user name: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 2007-02-05T17:28:50

Please

provide an email address during account creation. Currently we can not stop you from editing without a confirmed email address, but in future for security reasons we may do so. Maybe tango.info must be able to identify you.
for your username
- use exactly 8 (ocho) letters of the latin alphabet (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz). No spaces, dots, hyphens, äöüéíóú, etc. The first letter may be upper case (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)
- avoid using the word tango. Here we are all Tangofrank, Tangotobias, Tanguero2000, tangoholic etc.
after registration it would be nice if you write something about yourself on your user page. E.g. User:Tobiasco or at least, it would be nice if you say in which country you live.

because

ocho is a magic number in tango
users that sign in later shall not have the disadvantage of longer names, vs users that sign in early and get shorter.
gives the wiki a stronger identity.
presenting all username in a list gives a more harmonious picture if they are equal length, e.g. in tables.

A list of users that have at least some content in their user page: http://wiki.tango.info/mul/Special:Allpages?namespace=2

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 ==Why ocho letters==
-Yes, it may sound a little bit crazy, but here are some reasons.
+because
-*otherwise the first users get short names and later ones long names. this could be considered not fair.
+*ocho is a magic number in tango
+*users that sign in later shall not have the disadvantage of longer names, vs users that sign in early and get shorter.
 * gives the wiki a stronger identity.
 * presenting all username in a list gives a more harmonious picture if they are equal length, e.g. in tables.