Default user path should not be plural and it should not be "user/"

That's the path used by drupal core (user/x, user/x/edit, user/x/contact), so I don't think it warrants changing the default.

No, not that I'm aware of.

I'm still not clear on if or what problem there is and why exactly this would need to be changed.

Aha, now that I understand, I see your point.

It should also not be "user".

'people/[user:name]' ?

Anyone have any better ideas than 'people/[user:name]'?

People is the plural of person, it just doesn't end in an "S". Doesn't really fix your issue just dislocates it by one :). "Person" is a pretty crappy substitute but it makes more semantic sense, especially with the new d7 UI referring the the user menus as "People". I say we steal the namespace before core lays claim to it ;).

@gregless, #9. I have read the linked document -I believe you are referring to the 'Transliteration Problems' paragraph (?) Greg-, but it didn't make sense to me, sorry. Care to provide an example of this possible issue if using 'user'? Thanx in advance.

If your pattern is user/[user:name], and I change my uid 100 account's user name to '1', then my alias is 'user/1', and now the admin can't load his account view page.

How do such a thing?
link: www.my-super-mega-site.org/profile
And this link will redirect the user to his personal profile, but in the address bar will still the same link(/profile)
i did not tested, but maybe redirection module with tokens can help? drupal/user/[user]

@cainrus: this is a completely other issue. This one here is a feature request while yours is a support request. Please open a new issue for yours and avoid posting such.

@Dave, #14: perhaps then this is a security issue and we should forbid the use of numbers *alone* used for user names (in core I mean). In the module level, we can simply have a routine to check for such cases. Then we could:

- either forbid creation of such paths (throwing an error message saying that usernames should not start with numbers or if they do they should contain at least one letter or symbol).
- append a (customizable) character/string to such paths' user:name part (instead of ../user/1 it could be ../user/#1 or ../user/user1)

No consensus by this point, so closing.