<div dir="ltr">I agree. The entire point is that if developers take the time to come up with unique, creative names, they have less likelihood of running into Themes with similar names. It should not be the job of the Theme Review Team to cover for the mistake/lack of creativity in submitting a Theme with a commonplace term in, or as, the Theme name.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Stephen Cui <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scui2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">scui2005@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"><div>There will be themes failed this guideline. FYI Passion is my latest theme. Obviously we did not copy each other as both are under review. </div><div><br></div><a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19146" target="_blank">https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19146</a> (My Passion)<div>
<a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19233" target="_blank">https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19233</a> (Passion)</div><div><br></div><div>I believe not policing name is good decision. Otherwise, we will have all kind of subjective discussion. In the end, the goal is to provide user quality themes. I am more concerned about the quality and design. There are too many clones in the theme directory.</div>
<div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</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 class="gmail_default"><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">No similar names (as in Theme Name vs My Theme Name)</font></li>
</ul><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">That takes care of everything. No need to brainstorm too much.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">First-come, first-served basis and we're done :) </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At the same time we won't second guess anything, confuse authors or users!</font></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:45 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">not with retrospective effect ofcourse.</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</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">...which would eliminate about 99% of the Themes in the directory?</div><div><div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:39 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">no dictionary words?<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</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">Back to my previous question: what would you suggest as the objective, enforceable guideline for Theme names?</div>
<div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Catch Themes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@catchthemes.com" target="_blank">info@catchthemes.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><div>Many of theme shop use common names like Box, Responsive, Awesome and so on. So, this means we can play with theses name by adding word before or after. <br>
<br></div>Yes Otto, I agree with you that Box is common name and I am just asking this question so that we are clear about the naming rules. This will help me in further Theme Reviews as well. <br>
<br></div>Thank you all for your reply. I hope we will have clear guideline in this soon. <br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</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">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Catch Themes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@catchthemes.com" target="_blank">info@catchthemes.com</a>></span> wrote:<div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">It's the matter of choices of theme name and manipulation. I feel The Box is so much manipulating Catch Box name.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>If you can definitively show that to be true, then you have a point, however, I don't see what your evidence for this could possibly be.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you're reacting based just on the similarity of the name, then I have to point out that "Box" is a pretty normal and commonplace English word, popular even in movies: <a href="http://youtu.be/0cmqwbZa6_w" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/0cmqwbZa6_w</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>So, other than the name being similar, how is it "manipulating" anything? Is it using the same code? Is it a derivative of the other Box theme? Is there *anything else in common at all* other than the name and the fact that they're both, you know, themes?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The name may not be a good choice, but this is not really evidence of anything other than both parties lack of creativity in naming things.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra">
<br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div>
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