I was searching for some Linux Standard Base documentation earlier and came across the wikipedia user by the same name. I love the talk on that page. Let me quote a few items for you.
Turns out (as you may know) that the name LaShawn Barber is a little well known. So, some helpful wikipedia person decides:
We don’t allow the usage of celebrities’ names as User names
To which the reply comes:
Ahem, this is my real life name. Just because a celebrity has the same name doesn’t mean they can copyright it
Then a lot of activating and deactivating of the account follows, ending in a discussion of how this person can change their wikipedia name so as to not possibly cause offensive to some “celebrity”, for example:
La Shawn, it would definitely save you hassle to choose another name
Great. Just in case you ever thought wikipedia wasn’t filled with far too many annoying people, go take a read of that link. Maybe we should just perfect some test and name everyone unlikely to ever make it big with a random alphanumeric string to avoid bothering wikipedians? Would work until a dude called 15GQRHE89 became famous.
Jon.