On 3/22/08, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Can we find out what happened to them? Did they write spam that was deleted and the username permanently blocked? Did they just register their name to stop others from doing so? Or did something go wrong during the registration?
Speaking anecdotally, the number of user accounts spiked after the introduction of semi-protection. Some will be accounts that have been created in case the owner wants to edit a semi-protected page one day, some will be accounts created with the intention of so editing, but forgotten before becoming autoconfirmed.
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com