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** singular, e.g. "marathon" | ** singular, e.g. "marathon" | ||
** plural, e.g. "festivals" | ** plural, e.g. "festivals" | ||
==Rationale for eight letter rule== | |||
*users that sign up later shall not have the disadvantage of longer names, vs users that sign up early and get shorter. | |||
* presenting all username in a list gives a more harmonious picture if they are of equal length | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 2010-09-14T11:20:37
A tango.info username has exactly 8 letters of the latin alphabet. Preferred are names that are related to your real name.
It should not:
- contain any of the words: tango, milonga, event, festival
- be a name of
- a geographic entity, e.g. a city "mannheim".
- a person
- common first name, e.g. "benjamin"
- common last name, e.g. "pfeiffer"
- name of person in tango history, e.g. Pugliese, Francini, Castillo
- be a word (esp. not in English or Spanish)
- singular, e.g. "marathon"
- plural, e.g. "festivals"
Rationale for eight letter rule
- users that sign up later shall not have the disadvantage of longer names, vs users that sign up early and get shorter.
- presenting all username in a list gives a more harmonious picture if they are of equal length