On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Angela
<beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry,
are you saying it's not possible to desysop User:@pple@enwiki
using the stewards' tool?
That's not the case. User rights can changed by user ID as well as by
user name. So, you'd just enter #3685614@enwiki instead. You can find
a user ID by exporting a page they've written -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/User:@pple
Gee, is that the only work-around? I'm not sure many stewards would
remember how to do that in an emergency. Is this written in the
interface of the stewards' tool as something to try if they get an
error?
The only one I know of. Using the ID instead of the name is explained
at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook#Encoding_problems
but emergency desysopping of admins with @ in their name is
sufficiently rare that I don't think there's reason to be concerned
about it.
Angela