Daniel Mayer wrote:
Most of the duplicate logins will either be from the same person or from a person who is no longer active (most of whom just created the account and never made more than 10 edits). We can make the job easier by auto-exiring all user accounts that have made fewer than 10 edits after say 120 days of inactivity. That should clear many thousands of user names and thus prevent many conflicts. We could even have a 100 edit / one year auto-expiration to clear out even more user names.
I very much support the idea of being able to have one login apply across the whole, but there is a proble with any kind of auto-expiry. The user name list includes unacceptable user names. These may no longer actively used, and as long as they are on the list nobody can use them. Conflicting user names will probably need to be resolved manually.
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