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
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