Brion Vibber-3 wrote:
That's not a problem at all, I'm fine with that ;-)
And at least now you know. :)
Yes, indeed :-)
Brion Vibber-3 wrote:
Last thing : I also have an other account B on fr.wp that I've used only once for now (1 contribution on the user page).
Here is my question :
Is it possible that instead of proposing me to change my user name, the SUL system proposes me to "transfer" my A contributions to another acount (there I would specify B) and then to SUL-merge my account B ? I'm pretty sure this is technically possible, but is it something you "could plan" or "have the right" to do ? (please :-) )
Basically how this would work would be to rename all your A accounts to B, then do the global merge under the B name.
At the moment that's not all integrated, but you could get your existing A accounts renamed to B now through the existing bureaucrat-run Special:RenameUser system. In theory there should be request queue pages somewhere...
On en.wikipedia it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username there are some links there to other languages.
Thanks, that would be the obvious solution if the account B wasn't already existing (even if it's mine) on fr.wp (and with 1 contribution on User:B).
Unfortunatelly on fr.wp, the help page about renaming says that they can only rename an account to a new one that doesn't already exist... they say nothing about transferring contributions from one user to an other (though it is almost the same).
And on en.wp, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations says that there must be no contributions... (I know I made a huge mistake by doing that 1 contribution :-p )
That's why I was asking about SUL possibly doing the contribution transfer thing as a workaround to that.
But otherwise this is going out of topic for SUL and I'll just knock my head on some wall and deal with either finding some idea for an account C or starting using B without my past contributions of A...
Thanks anyway