Last modified: 2011-12-09 08:32:34 UTC
It's fairly common that a user will request a rename usually based on a privacy concern (they used their real name, etc.). The rename will be performed but because of (I assume) cookies and SUL and such, the account gets recreated automatically - this is usually undesirable. Rename should perhaps force a userlogout - if possible - to avoid this happening. Or perhaps someone has a more elegant solution.
Raised severity enhancement -> normal
Further prevention of automatic re-creation would be helpful. I wrote the following in bug 17313#C22: "I suggest creating a way to salt the account names that request successful renames, implementing it on English Wikipedia, and getting consensus of the Bureaucrats there to use it."
This is already done, but the user_touched change isn't committed till all the job rows are inserted, which could be a quite a few seconds.
