Some of you may be interested in the recent enwiki Bureaucrat Noticeboard
discussion of these issues, which includes my 500 word reaction on why
renaming established accounts is bad.
Now archived at:
-Robert Rohde
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:11 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
My
recollection (and it's been a year since I was head-down in the DB
tables, so it may be wrong) is that the Database stores all the
changes by user ID not username - so, if you change an IDs associated
name (the usurped account being renamed) then the ownership / change
history changes along with it transparently.
True, but not relevant. They go from being attributed to the name you
chose to being attributed to some other name, that's not preserving
the section entitled "History".
I don't think we've ever interpreted the GFDL in the sense that the
author credits have to be invariant. Just accurate enough and
traceable enough. The GFDL doesn't require an absolute here...
I believe that you're inventing a problem where none exists...
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
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