Seems a reasonable idea. Cheers, Peter
From: Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org]
Sent: 09 November 2021 14:16
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Subject: [Marketing Mail] [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small gratitude to our fellow wikimedians
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(a)gmail.com> ha
scritto:
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.
Geert Van Pamel
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