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[Carsten Gerlach <daswaldhorn@xxxxxx>]

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Hello,

Am 10.08.2012 00:50, schrieb Patrick Dickey:
> 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

In Germany we would use "Otto Normalverbraucher" [1] for the typical
ordinary German person. He is used for statistical and marketing
research purposes...

> 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.

... but "Erika Mustermann" is used as a place holder name for example
on the German identity card [2] or on forms [3]. I think Ubuntu and
our manual is made for _all_ people and not only for the ordinary. So
for the German version of our manual "Erika Mustermann" fits better as
"Otto Normalverbraucher".

I can't say what the best choice would be for the English version,
this have to decide the native speakers. Then I would recommend to
mention this name in the style guide.


Greetings, Carsten


[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Normalverbraucher
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_identity_card
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28document%29



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