[theme-reviewers] Are the rules same for everyone?

[Justin Tadlock]

I completely agree with everything Chip said.

On 2/25/2013 5:38 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> The reason that names like "Twenty Eleven" are protected are because 
> they are the project core team's chosen nomenclature for the annual 
> core Theme distributed with WordPress, and there is an obvious need to 
> ensure that the core-distributed Themes remain identifiable as part of 
> core.
>
> The not-especially-eloquent guideline about "generic" terms was 
> intended to avoid just this sort of scenario. By allowing a very 
> generic term like "Responsive" to be used by itself as a Theme name, 
> we have a situation where either one Theme's identity risks getting 
> diluted/confused with other Themes, or other developers get prevented 
> from using a valid term in their Theme names.
>
> "Responsive" is a valid adjective, that describes a useful design 
> feature of a Theme. To prevent its use in any other Theme, simply 
> because a Theme named "Responsive" exists would be equivalent to 
> preventing the use of the word "Black" in any other Theme Name, just 
> because a Theme named "Black" has been approved, e.g. (may or may not 
> be real Theme names):
>
> * Black
> * Piano Black
> * Black Widow
> * Midnight Black
> * Black Tie Affair
> * (etc.)
>
> To me, that doesn't make sense, and would overly restrict developers 
> in name choices.
>
> Regarding common sense: I see differences among these:
>
> * Responsive
> * WP Responsive
> * Max Responsive Magazine
>
> The second one is in no way distinct from the first, and should not be 
> accepted. Consider
>
> * Foobar
> * WP Foobar
>
> There is no meaningful difference between these names.
>
> But that's not the case with the first and third:
>
> * Responsive
> * Max Responsive Magazine
>
> And, as analogous to the above example:
>
> * Black
> * Black Tie Affair
>
> So, I think we need to let Theme names that use "responsive" stand, 
> provided that they are not overtly confusing with "Responsive" (such 
> as "WP Responsive" would be).
>
> Regards,
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Gazpo Themes <themes at gazpo.com 
> <mailto:themes at gazpo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     I'm very interested to know about the rules for naming the theme.
>
>     A few months ago I submitted my theme with name 'Max Responsive
>     Magazine'. It was rejected right away by emiluzelac with following
>     message:
>
>     ----
>     Themes are not to use related Theme names (e.g. WP Twenty Eleven,
>     Twenty Eleven WP, The Twenty Eleven, etc.) in their name.
>     ----
>
>     This was very surprising to me because 'Responsive' is a very
>     generic term, but anyway, I had to remove the word 'Responsive'
>     from it. Here's ticket: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8663
>
>     I already have a theme called 'Silver Orchid', (both are very
>     general words), does it mean you guys should not allow any theme
>     using any of these words? I see a recently approved theme with
>     name 'Silver Blue'?
>     Not only the above mentioned theme, but there are some other
>     examples where theme names have common words in theme.
>
>     Therefore I'm very interested to know if no one can ever use the
>     term 'Responsive' in the theme name?
>
>     Regards,
>     Sami.
>
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