ext Rob Church wrote:
The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should
never be
deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy
references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell
out of the software.
MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will.
Rob Church
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Does this not provide a fine attack against Mediawikis: make a bot that
generates and register users. After some trillions of random users added
the wiki is on its knees.