Yes, a user status/right “deceased" is IMHO important. It was also the reason why I expected a SUL policy to be created soon or later. I tried two or three time to raise the issue since 2016.
Now some projects block accounts, but it's not a standard process. It has to be fixed soon or later. At the moment, a relative can reuse an old account in theory on another platform, if they wish to do so. For example I find archive of images of my deceased partner and despite the user being blocked on a local wikipedia, I start to upload them on Commons in their name. Everybody has their way to cope with grief. Do we accept this or not?
Alessandro Il martedì 9 novembre 2021, 10:17:51 CET, Geert Van Pamel geertivp@gmail.com ha scritto:
#yiv8261393693 #yiv8261393693 -- _filtered {} _filtered {}#yiv8261393693 #yiv8261393693 p.yiv8261393693MsoNormal, #yiv8261393693 li.yiv8261393693MsoNormal, #yiv8261393693 div.yiv8261393693MsoNormal {margin:0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;}#yiv8261393693 a:link, #yiv8261393693 span.yiv8261393693MsoHyperlink {color:#0563C1;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv8261393693 span.yiv8261393693E-mailStijl22 {font-family:sans-serif;color:windowtext;}#yiv8261393693 .yiv8261393693MsoChpDefault {font-family:sans-serif;}#yiv8261393693 .yiv8261393693MsoPapDefault {margin-bottom:11.0pt;} _filtered {}#yiv8261393693 div.yiv8261393693WordSection1 {}#yiv8261393693 I do find this an excellent proposal.
Wouldn’t it be good to also implement a user status/right “deceased” to identify those accounts?
This information could be shown to their user rights page e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights/Geertivp?
One could get a list of volunteers that are no longer amongst us via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers.
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