[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

To whom it may concern: I am writing about a policy issue in regards to nick usurping on the Commons. I am User:Bstone on the English Wikipedia, the Meta, Wikiversity and Wikiquote. I recently attempted to set up a unified log in and was told that there was another user on the Commons named Bstone. Seeing that this user was not active on the Commons since 21 November 2006 I asked the crats on the Commons if I could usurp the the nick, here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Changing_username/usurp_requests#… After a short discussion in IRC with a Commons crat, I was told that despite the inactivity of this account there exists a Commons policy disallowing Usurption as long as an account has ever had any contributions. I was urged by some fellow editors and administrators that I should bring up this issue on this email list. My apologies if this is not the appropriate place to discuss it. Sincerely, Bstone