On 01/04/2008, Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
IMO Wikipedia could do the same as many boards do: purge accounts after a time of inactivity. I would go for 1year old accounts which have not done any edits, these shouldn't be a problem. I would also kill accounts with no edits which are blocked infinite, they are for no use anyway.
I've always found that really obnoxious myself.
There's no actual gain to Wikipedia from doing this - if someone wants such an account name, they can ask for a rename so it can be usurped.
The problem is that we announce to the world, right there on [[Special:Statistics]], a number we know is bogus, and people then take us at our word. The solution is to put a non-bogus number there.
- d.