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Bug 17878 - User names starting in WP: are unblockable
User names starting in WP: are unblockable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 17877
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User blocking (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-03-09 06:15 UTC by Robert Rohde
Modified: 2009-03-09 06:16 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Rohde 2009-03-09 06:15:13 UTC 
A vandal discovered today that if your username starts with "WP:", as in "User:WP:ANI" then attempting to block the account results in a block against User:ANI instead of User:WP:ANI.

I'm not sure what part of the WP: magic is triggering this problem, but it could become a significant nuisance if more people pick up on it.

The workaround is to rename the account first and then block it.
Comment 1 p858snake 2009-03-09 06:16:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17877 ***
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