A better solution would be to work out how to disable a user.
That way at least you have a historic track of the user, even
if they no longer have the ability to log in.
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting a user account
It leaves edits with no editing user. Among other things; why do you
need to remove it, 'swoop'?
On May 31, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Sy Ali wrote:
On 5/31/06, Swoop <docuswear(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Can someone point me to the documentation which
shows how to
delete user accounts?
I am running mediawiki 1.5.7, and am logged in with sysop and
bureaucrat permissions.
There is some sort of deleteoldusers.php script in the maintenance
directory, but aside from that there's no official way.
I might suggest editing the users table in the database and deleting
that row, but I've been told in the past that this can be a bad idea.