by Drocket on Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:03 am
Accounts are almost never deleted (I believe that its only happened 2 times in the history of WoD, and the last time was probably about 2 years ago.) The reason is pretty simple: Its a horrible, horrible pain to do in POL - you have to shut the server down, then manually go through and delete them (or try to write a program that can do it automatically, though I don't know of any such tool at the moment.) Accounts take up very little data anyway, though, so its really not too much of a problem, though if and when POL adds a way to easily delete accounts, we'll probably nuke some of them just because having to check literally thousands of accounts whenever you're searching for something definitely does slow things down somewhat...
The information stored on an account, though - characters, houses, bankboxes, etc - take up a whole lot more data, which slows down world-saves, restarts, etc, and basically clogs everything up. Because of that, they're subject to deletion after 60 days of inactivity (though usually its 90 days, but we only 'guarantee' 60.)
As for the name, if it is a common Irish name, then it sounds OK to me. Of course, you still might want to consider adding a last name: they have benefits such as tying your characters together, which can help other players get to know you and recognize you easier. But of course, that's up to you.