User talk:Great Darkwolf/signature

Signature

Your current sig breaks the GWW:SIGN policy. Unless you create a user account named "User:Wolf" and make both that user's page and talk page redirect to your page and talk, you aren't allowed to use a shorter name in your sig than your actual user name. —ZerphaThe Improver 16:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

It's been made by someone else. Has there been any activity on that account? Plenty of times on plenty of sides I have not been able to get my desired user name mainly bc someone had made an account under that name and then done nothing with it. Often something as generic as Fox, Wolf or Raven and the like will be made by default be servers and such and will be unavailable for use of actual users. --Wolf 16:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't know anything about any "locked" usernames. Well, but this account was seemingly never active. Possibly you could ask someone then whether you could get permission to continue using your current sig. —ZerphaThe Improver 16:38, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Who would I have to ask? --Wolf 17:07, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

That's the question :P One of the sysops or bcrats i suppose. —ZerphaThe Improver 17:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll ask Gaile, Infact, I should probably point this whole discussion her way, and see what kinda light she can shed on it. --Wolf 17:26, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

• The Discussion above this one too* --Wolf 17:34, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Zerpha, I have to disagree with you. Unless the user in question is intentionally trying to impersonate another user, there is nothing in GWW:SIGN that disallows the shortening of the name. His signature links properly to his user page. Before you ask, I DO have Wyn as a registered user name that is all redirected to User:Wynthyst.-- Wyn 17:35, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) It's a wiki issue and not a Guild Wars issue, so it doesn't need to go to Gaile. We can sort this stuff out ourselves. My personal stance on your signature is that if User:Wolf uses his account, you should change it. As for the copyright issues, we get this sort of thing often so it can be resolved by the wiki users. Also, as Wyn says, registering the alternate account is not necessary anymore. -- Brains12 \ talk 17:37, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok, sorry all for the disturbance then. (Btw Win, i noticed you created User:Wyn; that was the reason why this came to my mind :P) —ZerphaThe Improver 17:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I did it because everyone just calls me Wyn, and I wanted to make sure no one else took the name.-- Wyn 17:46, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

My tag is also Wolf b/c thats what everyone calls me. (same deal) even on forums with over 100,000 users, it has never caused any problems for me to go by Wolf even if my account name says differently. --Wolf 18:14, 17 July 2008 (UTC)