On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Rotem Liss <rotemliss(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On the other hand, this causes problems when a user
merges his accounts when
some of them have different names, and thus are not merged. For example:
User:Alpha@awiki and User:A@bwiki are the same user. User:A@bwiki merges his
accounts. The next time he visits awiki, User:A@awiki is created. He cannot use
User:Alpha@awiki any longer if he wants to use his global account, and accounts
keep created in every wiki, e.g. Meta (to which he comes to request deleting the
global account). This may cause problems if he wants to rename his old account
or so. This problem is not theoretical: users complained of it short after SUL
was enabled.
Well, that will go away once all the accounts are merged. In the
meantime we can put up a warning on MergeAccount saying not to merge
your accounts if you want some to be renamed first.