I would recommend putting square brackets (and maybe "User:") around the
username whenever both real name and username are supplied. It's seldom
immediately obvious which name is the username and which name is the real
name if you don't speak the other person's mother language!

Deryck

2012/4/23 Delphine Ménard <notafi...@gmail.com>

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear organizing team,
> >
> > Thanks for offering 4 check-boxes for the details on the badge! May I
> ask,
> > how will the details be presented? I think it'll be a useful piece of
> > information for many of us whose username is the same as our real name.
> If
> > it looks like
> >
> > First Last
> > username
> > project
> >
> > it'll be a bit redundant for us to have our name written exactly the same
> > way twice; but if it looks like
>
> Well, my username has nothing to do with my real name :) So it won't
> be redundant for all :P
> >
> > First Last
> > [[User:Username]]@project
>
> This said, I think that having: [[Username]] (ie. the brackets around
> the user name) is a nice way to avoid complete redundancy when the
> Username is the same as the First and Last Name.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Delphine
>
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