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Bug 21503 - Please add a "reason" field when creating an account for third persons on Special:Createaccount


Summary:	Please add a "reason" field when creating an account for third persons on Spe...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Duplicates:	24610 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	28696
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Reported:	2009-11-13 15:34 UTC by MA
Modified:	2011-09-07 23:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description MA 2009-11-13 15:34:18 UTC

I think it would be helpful to add an optional "reason" field when creating an account for a third person using Special:Createaccount so that others can know the reason in Special:Log/newusers. It can be shown like:

00:00 1 jan 2009 User (talk | contribs | block) created new account for User:XXX ‎ (talk | contribs | block) (a reason here)

Thanks.

Comment 1 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2010-08-01 09:29:45 UTC

*** Bug 24610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2010-08-01 10:43:15 UTC

Done in r70272.

Comment 3 Brandon Harris 2011-09-07 22:28:04 UTC

I'm sorry, but no.  This is not something we should be doing.

I'm re-opening this bug.  r70272 should be reverted.

Comment 4 MZMcBride 2011-09-07 23:02:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm sorry, but no.  This is not something we should be doing.
> 
> I'm re-opening this bug.  r70272 should be reverted.

It would be helpful if you explained your views.

Comment 5 Brandon Harris 2011-09-07 23:07:55 UTC

You know, I totally misunderstood this as I saw it.  Plus, I had another extension running which hooked over seeing this in the situation it was running in.  

I ''do'' think that the entire "create an account for someone" flow needs reworking but I'm going to withdraw objection here; my bad; nothing to see here; carry on; these are not the droids you're looking for.

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