<div dir="ltr">The theme name Solar would be too generic. It'd be unfair for us to police something like Solar Flare because you shouldn't get the rights to all uses of the single word "solar". On the other hand, if you had submitted Solar Flare and someone else came along and submitted Solar Flare Plus, that's when we have a problem.<div>
<br></div><div>What we really want is for theme authors to come up with unique names. Some of that just takes a little common sense when we review themes or just awareness that this is something we need to look at.<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Jose Castaneda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jomcastaneda@gmail.com" target="_blank">jomcastaneda@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">Yes and no. It would be like me submitting a theme called Solar and then somebody else submitting a theme called Solar Flare. The biggest thing really is communicating that with the author. If they really have an issue with it we can, as a team, come up with a reasonable solution, right? Granted some are more active than others but more feedback is better than none. :)<div>
<br></div><div>Let's just not turn this into a witch hunt.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">But Business is toooooo generic and fair game according to Chip.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear Reviewers, </div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
(<i>while we hate to Police the names</i>)</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Before we do an actual Theme review, can you please check the names first and if the name is not appropriate, don't approve, or even continue with the ticket at all.</div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We have been approving names similar to:</div><div>
<ul style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><li>My Business<br></li><li>Your Business<br></li><li>Our Business<br></li><li>Flat Bootstrap<br></li><li>Real Bootstrap<br></li><li>Better Bootstrap</li><li>Good News</li><li>All News</li>
<li>Real-Estate News <br></li></ul><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">That's not good and also makes admins job difficult when we need to reopen the ticket and close as not-approved because of the Theme name.</div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So if we already have a Theme called <i>Example</i>, <i>WP Example</i> won't be appropriate, therefore should not be approved either.</div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Names must not be related to another Theme and no SEO injected keywords either.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is a full-stop and instant not-approval, no questions asked. </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Why? Two reasons. </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1) Our guideline says:</div><div><ul><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Themes are required to use appropriate Theme Names.</font><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Themes are not to use related Theme names (e.g. WP Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fourteen WP, The Twenty Fourteen, etc.) in their name.</span><br></li></ul><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">2) When Theme name changes it goes into different priority and won't be associated with first submission in anyway. It becomes a totally different beast.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">This is to avoid confusion, not only for users, but also for authors as well. </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Once we mark the ticket live there's nothing more we can do about, so if you can, let's try to avoid that please!</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Emil</font></div></div></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div>
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