<div dir="ltr">I think the question of *prudent* Theme name choices is a valid discussion, but a completely separate one. We've gone down that road before, and personally, I don't want to get into the highly subjective (and controversial) issue of trying to be gatekeepers for Theme Names, aside from the basics we've got established currently.<div>
<br></div><div>The more important (and interesting) underlying question here is: what to do with abandoned (or changed) Theme names? Do we want to have some way to release abandoned Theme names (that is: names for Themes that are in SVN, but never got approved to be listed in the directory)? Or do we want to say: once claimed, it's gone; just pick a different name?</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">"Journal", "Magazine" they have tremendous value too, top in serp's value :)<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>There are least two other themes not on WordPress.org named "Journal" as well:</div><div>
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<div><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/journal-elegant-responsive-wordpress-blog-theme/6629402" target="_blank">http://themeforest.net/item/journal-elegant-responsive-wordpress-blog-theme/6629402</a><br></div><div><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/journal-responsive-readable-wordpress-blog-theme/3921914" target="_blank">http://themeforest.net/item/journal-responsive-readable-wordpress-blog-theme/3921914</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>So, I'm not exactly saying no, but I am strongly suggesting that you might want to rethink your naming choice here. Having a unique name is a fairly important thing. Additionally, I hesitate to give a theme a name that commonplace, and would not want other people using a theme with that name to suddenly see an "update" for a theme that isn't the one they're currently running.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Names matter. Pick a good one.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div></font></span><div><div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Scott Sousa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@slocumstudio.com" target="_blank">scott@slocumstudio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Theme Reviewers,<br>
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This message is for Otto. Regarding this tweet sent by Chip, <a href="https://twitter.com/chip_bennett/status/457238636270845952" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/chip_<u></u>bennett/status/<u></u>457238636270845952</a>, we'd like to see if we can have the theme name "Journal" transferred to our Slocum Themes/Slocum Studio (@slocumstudio) account.<br>
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Here's a bit of back-story:<br>
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We have a new theme that we'd like to submit named "Journal". After submitting, the theme-bot let us know that there was already a theme with that name. After doing a bit of research, we came across this ticket, <a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15796#comment:6" target="_blank">https://themes.trac.wordpress.<u></u>org/ticket/15796#comment:6</a>, which appears to have been abandoned and the theme name has since changed. Here's a link to the theme as it currently sits on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/bestwebsoft/journalism-wordpress-theme" target="_blank">https://github.com/<u></u>bestwebsoft/journalism-<u></u>wordpress-theme</a>.<br>
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Is it possible to transfer the "Journal" theme name to our account? Our trac/WordPress.org username is "slocumstudio" (<a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org/slocumstudio/" target="_blank">http://profiles.wordpress.<u></u>org/slocumstudio/</a>). Please let us know if any other information is required.<br>
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Thank you for your time,<br>
Scott<br>
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