Ladies and gentlemen,

I fear we may be in danger of falling afoul of Parkinson's Law of
Triviality here....

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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>
>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]>
>> 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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