<div dir="ltr">If we see evidence of "squatting", such action would very likely result in the squatter getting blackballed. But, to me, "squatting" means submitting a Theme to take ownership of a slug, without any intention of ever getting a Theme by that name approved. For example: someone submitting a bunch of junk Themes with high-SEO-value slugs as names, just to control those slugs.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Scott Sousa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@slocumstudio.com" target="_blank">scott@slocumstudio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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    Chip,<br>
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    Thanks for steering the topic back on track. A potential issue with
    keeping abandoned theme names with the original author would be:
    does that open the table up for squatting? That is to say if the
    original author always gets to keep the theme name, what's to stop
    someone from submitting a theme with that name to reserve it? In
    this case, Journal was not approved, yet the name still remains with
    the original author. Just a thought.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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    Scott</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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    <div>On 4/18/2014 4:45 PM, Chip Bennett
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      <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.
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        <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>
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        <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>
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            <div dir="ltr">"Journal", "Magazine" they have tremendous
              value too, top in serp's value :)<br>
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                  <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>
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                        <div>There are least two other themes not on
                          WordPress.org named "Journal" as well:</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>

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                        <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>

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                        <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>
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                        <div>Names matter. Pick a good one.</div>
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                              <div>-Otto</div>
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                              <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>
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                                  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_bennett/status/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.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/bestwebsoft/journalism-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.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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