# Verbatim names shouldn't be titleized
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4월 21, 2019, 1:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569 "2019-04-21T01:57:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@tmcw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tmcw)
#### Post date: [4월 21, 2019, 1:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/1 "2019-04-21T01:57:36Z")
Hi!
My name is Tom MacWright. Every time I sign into a Discourse instance, it suggests that I should set my name as “Tom Mac Wright”. Like many folks from Scotland and Ireland, my name has a medial capital, or, in programming terms, is PascalCase.
Anyway, here’s my pitch: Discourse runs this [User.suggest\_name](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/user.rb#L347-L350) method that uses titleize to turn MacWright into Mac Wright. Instead, that should only run when [you have only a username or an email here](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/f645cb9c1463bc130f428fd4c59de3f8259a140b/lib/auth/result.rb#L74). Otherwise, someone put their name on GitHub (Git Hub?), and they likely meant it.
Thanks!
-Tom
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 21, 2019, 2:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/2 "2019-04-21T02:27:35Z")
Well, thatmakessense 😉
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [4월 24, 2019, 2:25오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/3 "2019-04-24T02:25:06Z")
Hmm, so it looks like you are signing in via twitter? Maybe our managed authenticator is not getting name from twitter?
First I would like to confirm which flow needs improving.
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### Author:  [@tmcw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tmcw)
#### Post date: [4월 24, 2019, 3:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/4 "2019-04-24T15:47:04Z")
Yes, I signed up here via Twitter. I think I’ve encountered the same bug via GitHub, though.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [4월 24, 2019, 3:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/5 "2019-04-24T15:57:52Z")
Yes, it looks like this applies to all authentication methods
>
I think we can safely change that to
```plaintext
if SiteSetting.enable_names?
result[:name] = name || User.suggest_name(username || email)
end
```
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [4월 29, 2019, 1:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/6 "2019-04-29T01:44:00Z")
> [@david](#):
>
> result[:name] = name || User.suggest\_name
Sure this change looks safe to me. Make it so!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 13, 2019, 6:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/7 "2019-05-13T06:46:46Z")
OK let’s see if this cuts it @tmcw, may take a bit for it to find it’s way everywhere, but should be live on meta shortly.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3fbab595d9266dab5b139ef375387bc290cda0df](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3fbab595d9266dab5b139ef375387bc290cda0df)
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### Author:  [@TheBestPessimist](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TheBestPessimist)
#### Post date: [5월 13, 2019, 7:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/8 "2019-05-13T07:19:23Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> Make it so!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM5F7NC7LSs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM5F7NC7LSs) !
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 20, 2019, 8:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/verbatim-names-shouldnt-be-titleized/115569/9 "2019-05-20T08:00:17Z")
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