[Mediawiki-l] Delete user account

Tue Oct 5 12:38:44 UTC 2004

Thank you to everyone who replied.

Thanks,
Chuck

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Chris Phoenix
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete user account

Perhaps the original intent was simply to disable, not delete the 
account?  In that case, would it be enough to put garbage in the 
password field and delete the email so they can't ask for a new
password?

Chris

Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote:
> 
>> If there is a User number referenced w/o the  aproptiate user record,
>> what happens?
> 
> 
> If a new user is created with the same name, it will no longer be 
> possible to look up the prior user's contributions in 
> Special:Contributions.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
> 
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