2009/3/26 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Changing the rev_user_text but not rev_user would work for most uses (but merging of anonymous users).
Those columns are supposed to be *consistent*. Deliberately making them inconsistent would be a really bad idea. (Although Special:Import often already does . . .)
I agree. If you were going to do that you would need to go through every line of code to find anywhere where someone had assumed they were consistent (which could be a lot of places - it's a safe assumption, so why not make it?) and thus written code that would now be broken.