On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/23/2014 03:56 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 December 2014, PatrickD Garvey > > <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> In > >> http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c > >> > >> > ca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as > >> FirstnameLastname. > >> > >> In http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg, created and edited by > >> BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as > >> bstinson > > > > If I understand your question correctly, your name as a wiki > > *author* is FirstnameLastname. > > > > When giving examples of commands, output, etc., you can use > > whatever you want. Sometimes you have to use the user "root" in an > > example. > > In other words, one can choose whatever username is preferred for > community systems such as git.centos.org and cbs.centos.org -- for > example, my commmunity username is always 'quaid' (when I can obtain > it.) But the wiki stands alone in requesting that document authors use > a "real name", i.e., FirstnameLastname of the autheor. E.g., my > username on wiki.centos.org is KarstenWade. The same is true for all > other project members that I have seen. > > FWIW, I don't follow this practice in other locations. For example, on > the Fedora Wiki I am 'Quaid' and on Wikipedia I am 'iquaid', the > latter being my preference when straight 'quaid' is not available to me. > > The FirstnameLastname preference for the CentOS wiki is a bit of > legacy, and makes sense to follow simply for that reason unless there > is a better reason to change it. > > Regards, > > - Karsten I'm not referring to the username used by a particular person while using a CentOS community resource. I'm trying to understand if the document example should use an actual person's username (a security risk increase. That's half that person's credentials.) or a pattern that refers to no one, such as "username". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20141223/25f20e90/attachment-0006.html>