(26 Mar 2015, 11:33 am)Jimmi wrote I am not bothering replying to his requests to change my name anymore as from what I am aware I am under no obligation do to so.
The simple fact is other people have the same name as you, I have just gone onto the find friends section and there is hundreds of people with the name Jimmi including another Jimmi who also creates nets (although his last upload was two years ago - although this could be him to as this one also lists the hometown as Portsmouth) if this isn't him is he also going to ask him and all these other Jimmi's to change their names for fear it may cause confusion. I like to think it is like Twitter with the @names, correct me if I'm wrong but you can't have the same @name as someone else.
I don't see how exactly people would get content mixed up as he lives in Portsmouth whilst most of my content comes from the North East and his Photostream is mostly nets whilst mine is actual bus photos in a different part of the country, the worry is coming from the fact the nets requires that they place there name on there and he is just placing Jimmi as his name which is where the fear is coming from as there has been complaints regarding the copyright of the content on his Photostream so there is the slight worry that people could think I am involved.
I have just edited my profile information to say "I only post my own content on Flickr on this Photostream, so if you see any content elsewhere on Flickr with the name Jimmi it is unlikely to be my content"
If he got really wound up about me not changing my profile name I would change it... to Jimmi's Bus Photographs (in fairness he didn't say what aspect of my profile name he wanted me to change).
I find it odd that (other) Jimmi has photos dated January 2006 of a bus that has a 57-reg.
I also note the colossal copyright infringement on his photostream, it probably won't be long until my "Northern Greyhound" nets appear on there under a new guise.
I would just leave your name as it is and let him cry about it - also does it work like WordPress? If you change your name, someone can't gain the old name?