Should a personal organization's name follow the name of the person who owns it #86

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2026-09-21T07:18:26Z

cgalo5758 commented

2026-09-21 07:18:26 +00:00

The question

A personal organization is named from its owner's display name at the moment it is created, and nothing rewrites it afterwards. If the display name was poor at that moment, the organization keeps a name nobody chose: an import that passes a login handle where the identity provider holds a real name produces organizations named after handles, and the owner's own name is corrected the first time they sign in while their organization's is not. Should a personal organization's name be stored at all, or derived from its owner's display name until the owner chooses another?

What depends on the answer

Every surface that names an organization, the import path for people who arrive from another system, and whether a personal organization needs a rename control at all.

Options known so far

Keep the stored name and give a personal organization a rename control.
Derive the name from the owner's display name, storing one only when the owner overrides it.
Keep the stored name but rewrite it whenever the owner's display name changes, which is the derived behaviour with a copy of the answer in the table.

Decided when

The identity model states where a personal organization's name comes from, what happens to it when its owner's display name changes, and who may change it.

Migrated from status/issues.md at b7a0e15

## The question A personal organization is named from its owner's display name at the moment it is created, and nothing rewrites it afterwards. If the display name was poor at that moment, the organization keeps a name nobody chose: an import that passes a login handle where the identity provider holds a real name produces organizations named after handles, and the owner's own name is corrected the first time they sign in while their organization's is not. Should a personal organization's name be stored at all, or derived from its owner's display name until the owner chooses another? ## What depends on the answer Every surface that names an organization, the import path for people who arrive from another system, and whether a personal organization needs a rename control at all. ## Options known so far - Keep the stored name and give a personal organization a rename control. - Derive the name from the owner's display name, storing one only when the owner overrides it. - Keep the stored name but rewrite it whenever the owner's display name changes, which is the derived behaviour with a copy of the answer in the table. ## Decided when The identity model states where a personal organization's name comes from, what happens to it when its owner's display name changes, and who may change it. Migrated from status/issues.md at b7a0e15

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