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Bug 39116 - Former account of renamed accounts can be picked up by any user
Former account of renamed accounts can be picked up by any user
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 15181
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Renameuser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-08-07 23:57 UTC by Matthias Becker
Modified: 2012-08-08 18:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Matthias Becker 2012-08-07 23:57:32 UTC 
Obviously any user can pick up a formerly used account name after the former user's account name has been renamed to a new name.
Comment 1 Matthias Becker 2012-08-08 00:01:09 UTC 
For example http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Logbuch&user=Nbruechert which has been picked up in a recent discussion so for unexperiences users it appears that the former user contributed to a discussion.
Comment 2 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-08-08 00:16:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Obviously any user can pick up a formerly used account name after the former
> user's account name has been renamed to a new name.

And?

What are you wanting doing? A creation of a "stub" account in it's place so no one else can register an account? Just in case it might be used for "bad purposes"? (though, I have seen some 'crats do that on some wikis)

What if someone validly wants to use that username? They then have to request a usurp?
Comment 3 Matthias Becker 2012-08-08 18:23:38 UTC 
Appearantly this was already reported as Bug 15181. Why should any other user want to register under the former user name of the renamed user? All signed talk enpage discussions would be contributed to the wrong user since signbatures in ddiscussions don't get modified.
Comment 4 Matthias Becker 2012-08-08 18:23:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15181 ***
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