On Feb 12, 2008 12:13 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Well what's the point of blacklisting merges when you can do a bunch of other arbitrary things to prevent the administrator from ever logging in? :)
That's maybe an argument to not bother with a blacklist at all, but it's not much of an argument for using a (in many cases) totally ineffectual blacklist. :) I assume that these user merges are more or less irreversible, which is why the precaution is being taken. Stuff like renames and desysopping are trivially reversible with database access.