mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Is this still relevant? I haven't heard complaints about too-aggressive matching, only not-aggressive-enough matching (c.f. imposter series on checkuser-l etc).

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Also, the URL is dead.

ayg wrote:

Of course you haven't heard complaints about too-aggressive matching, because the affected users are unregistered. They either picked a different name and forgot about it, or gave up. Not-aggressive-enough matching will only hurt registered users, and in particular established users who trolls want to impersonate, so they'll be much more likely to make a fuss.

URL fixed.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

URL fixed.

Thank you.

I tested this, with the same result as initially reported. I'm not sure the must-contain-letters rule makes a lot of sense. What was the original motivation?

ayg wrote:

I don't know. I assume someone was just throwing together some rules and picked whatever seemed to make sense at the time. There are a heck of a lot of Unicode code blocks. For a couple of years it was blocking all [[hangul]] names by mistake, IIRC.