On 10/15/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The thing is, the discussion *was* had several years ago. See the thread entitled "Single login - decision 2004" on foundation-l. And it seems that most people discussing it there, including Erik, Jimbo, Jamesday, Kate, and Daniel Mayer, said that they'd prefer not to rename any accounts.
Angela and Ant commented that they'd like for there to be a poll. AFAIK there never was such a poll.
You can't do it without renaming accounts.
Depends on what it is you're doing.
It would be pointless. Why have a single account per person if they all have different names?
Presumably at some point (maybe decades from now at the current rate) there are going to be shared preferences, shared watchlists, maybe even single sign on. In fact, until Single User Login was redefined to mean renaming of accounts, the whole point of it was supposed to be to prepare for these sorts of things.
You can only have a poll if there are multiple options. Edit counts is the only option I've seen anyone propose that stands a chance of working.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Single_login_poll
All three options would work.