On 9 May 2014 13:30, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Affiliations change, and user names are quite
difficult to change, this
sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not
for
a user name.
Indeed, or in the user preferences so that it could be accessed natively.
Whatever solution is proposed must accommodate the fact that the
affiliation at the time of the edit or other action must remain linked to
the edit or action, even if the affiliation changes at a subsequent time
(kind of like subst'ing templates). Not sure this is possible through
preferences.
Risker/Anne