Suggestion:20080202 Hyphens in character names

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20080202 Hyphens in character names

Sterling Bershadsky 20:33, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion type
Registration details

Suggestion scope
The list of allowable symbols in character names.

Suggestion description
I'd like to allow hyphens in character names. Currently, according to the registration page, a character name can only contain "letters, numbers, spaces and apostrophes". I'd like to add hyphens so that I can have characters with hyphenated last names such as those in the works of P.G. Wodehouse: Augustus Fink-Nottle, Cyril Glossop-Smith, etc.

Implementation is probably as simple as adding one character to the regular expression that's used to filter the names. It would require no extra storage space or any increase in server load.

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Keep Votes

  1. Author keep. As explained above, I'd like to have a hyphenated last name. --Sterling Bershadsky 20:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  2. Can't see why not. - W 20:50, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  3. Keep - Yes, please. --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 20:54, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  4. keep --~~~~ [talk] 21:01, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  5. keep - why not? Garum 21:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  6. Keep - I can't wait to see why Funt votes Spam on this one. --Heretic144 21:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  7. keep - Reads well. doc crook 21:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  8. Keep - Makes sense, some may say too trivial, but it gives more name options. Acoustic Pie 21:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  9. Keep - Gives more name options. --Themanwhocares4 23:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  10. Keep - Harmless and useful. --Hhal 23:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  11. Keep - As Heretic. And it's pretty harmless. -- Cheeseman W!RandomTalk 23:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  12. Sheep - Why not?Studoku 23:18, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  13. Keep - More interesting names can only be a good thing. (Also isn't it about time the L/I thing is sorted out?)--DI Sweeny 00:00, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  14. Keep - As Heretic. --Uncle Bill 00:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  15. Keep - Mostly harmless. --Aeon17x 00:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  16. Keep - Alright. --Private Mark 02:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  17. Keep Flexibility is fun for everyone! --Darth LumisT! A! E! SR 04:28, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  18. Keep as long as it doesn't cause problems as Karek's Kill below may suggest --Chelsea Dagger 05:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  19. Keepish What Chelsea said... ~A`Blue`JellyTME*V*I*L*? 05:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  20. Keep - Why not? --Ducis DuxSlothTalk 06:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  21. Keep - Any security issue surrounding the use of a minus sign / dash, can be secured against if one knows what one's doing. --Funt Solo QT Scotland flag.JPG 09:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  22. Keep - I'm fairly sure that if tehre is a massive security issue about it Kevan will just not implement it.--SeventythreeTalk 12:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  23. Keep - Fiddlesticks!!! -- BoboTalkClown 18:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  24. Keep If someone wants this why not? --Jon Pyre 21:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  25. Keep - Sure...why not? - Headshot Hal 21:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  26. Keep - Many legitimate names include hyphens. --Druuuuu OcTRR 22:00, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  27. Keep - As above.--Kolechovski 23:51, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  28. Keep - Because I knew a girl in college whose last name had two hyphens (and this makes sense). Sheana T / TMZ 04:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  29. Keep - Aye, if feasible. And Pgunn is funny. ~Ariedartin • Talk • A KS J abt all 12:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  30. Keep - as everyone above--CorndogheroT-S-Z 13:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  31. Keep - Allows greater choices in name creation. --Z. slay3r •  Talk  17:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  32. Keep - No reason not to. --└Frozen┘┌Flame┐ 20:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
  33. Keep - Yep. --Howard Bentley 04:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  34. Keep - Though this already looks like it's passsing... UCFSD 14:15, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  35. Keep - If there are no security concerns, then by all means--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS DORISFlag.jpg LOE ZHU | Яezzens 22:06, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  36. Keep- No reason not too...-- BKM 23:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  37. Kepp- Seriously Rakuen, learn to have a little fun. A hyphen, though seemingly pointless, is extraordinarily small for a change, and would allow more names. Someone wants their last name to be Einstein-Rosen, then let them. Although that would be rather sick if you think about it. -- Quizzical  Quiz  Speak  02:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  38. I am on a voting spree, but to make this vote valid, I'm in agreement with the above voters. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 15:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  39. Keep- Nice idea. I don't see any real security problems - do you really think that Kevan isn't already escaping user input? --Viktor Suvorov 17:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
  40. Keep- Why not?--Jamie Cantwell3 07:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  41. Keep - As above. --Toejam 10:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  42. Keep - Triviality is no excuse for a kill vote. This may be small, but it would be useful. This suggestion does have a point, and that's to allow hyphens (or more correctly, hyphen-minuses) in character names. --Anotherpongo 14:17, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
  43. Keep - I truly cant see why someone would vote no. --Alphonse Burr 23:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Kill Votes

  1. Kill - Actually I think it's not allowed for security reasons.--Karekmaps?! 02:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
    Do you mean SQL injection? I know that two hyphens in a row indicates a line comment in Oracle-SQL, but I believe it's string delimiters that are the key to SQL injection. --Sterling Bershadsky 03:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  2. Kill - No real benefit. --Pgunn 10:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Spam/Dupe Votes

  1. Spam - Utterly pointless... --/~Rakuen~\Talk Domo.gif I Still Love Grim 15:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
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