As I understand it, Mediawiki does not really permit one to eliminate a user account entirely. Rather, it depends on blocking the user from further use of the system. This preserves the account and associated data, but locks it and keeps it from being accessed again.

Deleting a user from the database is NOT advised. Others on this list are surely better informed than I, but I think that's the short of it.

Dave Pace

On 9/5/06, David Zhang david_q_zhang@yahoo.com wrote:

Hello,

Does MW have out-of-box feature for WikiSysop to remove a user account?

If not, what happen if I manually remove a user account? Many dead links? non-functioning system?

I am not sure whether other people have noticed that there are NO reference constraints to the user table from other MW tables. User accounts are stored in the user table. Anybody knows why MW development team did NOT create references to user table? Obviously, many other tables have user information such as user_id, but why no database reference constraints to enforce data integrity?

Any info is really appreciated.

Thanks, David

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