On 30/07/12 07:22, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
I suppose the change is ok, but some old users with shared usernames which are not unified will be forced to use a second username when they currently are not and they're not disturbing each other, because each of them is active only in a single language. Old users are mostly inactive nowadays and new users must be preferred over them, so we can live with it. Will bureaucrats be allowed to rename users to globally "taken" usernames, as a last resort? If you need an example consider the username I had on some it projects: https://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/stalktoy/?target=Nemo, mosly registered before 2006. en, es, pl are still active and pl registered his last pl account only two months ago.
Nemo
Yes, it only affects account creation, not renaming.
I didn't consider this usecase, but I guess that only allowing to register new ones to the one which could claim the SUL account (after he does) makes sense.
I this case you mention, I think the SUL account would belong to eswiki (which seems the same as commons), with ~7500 edits. The it user could have claimed it, but was renamed around the time of SUL implementation.
PS: plwiki account has no edits, there's a recent plwikt one, though.