jayvdb added a comment.

I mentioned this on the CS, but it will be a long standing problem so worth mentioning here. Currently if there are two different usernames in for user and sysop, pywikibot drops down to the user account for non-sysop actions after a sysop action. It is bad behaviour on the wiki to split a sysop bots actions/edits between two accounts, which is why bot operators usually set both usernames to be the same username for a sysop bot which also performs normal edits. But we need to think about whether/how we support the prior behaviour, or fail in an orderly manner.

One approach is to set a flag when a user action has occurred, and error if the same bot attempts to perform a sysop action with a different username.

TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71283

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