G+ official tagline is "Google+ makes connecting on the web more like connecting in the real world."
Google has not required Real (legal) Names for quite a while now. Google requires your "Common Name", which is the name you use with your friends, family, or coworkers. And there is an undocumented policy that the name has to look "middle-class", have 1-3 spaces in it, and not look too artsy.
If your friends call you Mini Kites, Google+ won't shut you down. And if Google+ challenges you on a name violation, you can "clear your name" with purely online-evidence, if you like.
> And if Google+ challenges you on a name violation, you can "clear your name" with purely online-evidence, if you like.
Their help page states that you may appeal with "Proof of an established identity online with a significant following"
That's more of a celebrity clause than an actual solution for real users. Yes, if you're Lady Gaga or 50 Cent, or if you're just an internet personality with enough followers to raise a stink about being blocked, then you'll get your pseudonymous account. The rest of us will be named what Google tells us to be named, or stay out.
Without testing, I'm not sure, but I think Mini Kites is actually likely to be a flagged name. The last vestiges of the "real names" policy are really just to keep businesses from getting Google+ profiles (Google wants businesses to keep Google+ pages instead). So there's an ML algorithm that determines how name-y or business-y a given name is, and flags names that it thinks belong to companies rather than people. I suspect Mini Kites (and almost certainly MiniKites or Mini-Kites) would trigger the review process.
Google has not required Real (legal) Names for quite a while now. Google requires your "Common Name", which is the name you use with your friends, family, or coworkers. And there is an undocumented policy that the name has to look "middle-class", have 1-3 spaces in it, and not look too artsy.
http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
If your friends call you Mini Kites, Google+ won't shut you down. And if Google+ challenges you on a name violation, you can "clear your name" with purely online-evidence, if you like.