[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

Wed Jun 4 01:23:22 UTC 2008

Some of you may be interested in the recent enwiki Bureaucrat Noticeboard
discussion of these issues, which includes my 500 word reaction on why
renaming established accounts is bad.

Now archived at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard/Archive_10#Usurpation_and_SUL:_To_expand_or_not_to_expand.3F

-Robert Rohde

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:11 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> My recollection (and it's been a year since I was head-down in the DB
> >>  tables, so it may be wrong) is that the Database stores all the
> >>  changes by user ID not username - so, if you change an IDs associated
> >>  name (the usurped account being renamed) then the ownership / change
> >>  history changes along with it transparently.
> >
> > True, but not relevant. They go from being attributed to the name you
> > chose to being attributed to some other name, that's not preserving
> > the section entitled "History".
>
> I don't think we've ever interpreted the GFDL in the sense that the
> author credits have to be invariant.  Just accurate enough and
> traceable enough.  The GFDL doesn't require an absolute here...
>
> I believe that you're inventing a problem where none exists...
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>
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