On 8/14/07, Steve Sanbeg ssanbeg@ask.com wrote:
It seems fine to me to merge an account with an unconfirmed email into a matching email. If I really want that as my home wiki, I could change it later; if it's an imposter, then I should get control of the account. Just make sure that when picking a home wiki, the confirmed email always wins.
That just shifts the failure modes about. Say you, like many others, don't have a confirmed email on your primary project. You have 10 gillion edits... whatever, just no confirmed email.
An Some evil troll goes and creates an account with your name on klingon wikisource and old english wikibooks, confirms his own email, and makes a couple of edits.. Then merges his accounts.
You are now unable to merge your accounts. It's better than an account take over, but failure none the less.