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Bug 19370 - Usernames title-cased
Summary: Usernames title-cased
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: webplatform.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: QA Forums (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 trivial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: team-webplatform-admin list
QA Contact: public-webplatform-bugs list
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Reported: 2012-10-08 21:35 UTC by Andrew R
Modified: 2012-10-10 18:11 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew R 2012-10-08 21:35:33 UTC 
Wherever a username is displayed, it is Title Cased, instead of being output as it was typed (and, hopefully, stored).  As a user, I expect my identity to be portrayed as I intended to portray it -- for example, I much prefer my username to be displayed in all-lowercase "eternicode" rather than the current "Eternicode".

Reference:
http://talk.webplatform.org/forums/index.php/53/please-dont-capitalize-the-first-letter-of-the-username
Comment 1 Chris Cheney 2012-10-10 17:58:54 UTC 
This is a mediawiki "feature".
Comment 2 Chris Cheney 2012-10-10 18:04:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is a mediawiki "feature".

To add more, usernames are required to follow the page naming restrictions. Wikipedia has an article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)