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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carsten,

This isn't related to the username issue, per se (except maybe in a
general way). Do you have a name for "John Q. Public" in German? In
English, John Q. or John Q. Public is generally meant for "the common
man" or the public in general. Wikipedia suggests a few names, but which
one is generally used? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Q._Public  

How it's generally related to this, is since Ubuntu (and the manual) are
geared for the ordinary user, maybe that would be a better username
instead of the "John Doe", "Erika Mustermann" options.

Have a great day:)
Patrick.

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 21:49 +0200, Carsten Gerlach wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> thanks for your comments to this topic. I would summarize for me, that
> "John Doe" and his sisters and brothers are welcome in the manual. A
> deeper development of "John's" personality with own emails, social
> network account and so on would be "nice to have" but is not
> necessary. If someone wants to create such a personality, feel free to
> do so. :-)
> 
> I will use a "Erika Mustermann" account for the German translation.
> 
> Greetings, Carsten
> 
> 
> PS: Should we fix "John Doe" in the style guide?
> 
> 
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