On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:
How hard is it going to be for me to change Throbbing Monster Cock's username to TMC?
User ID is 4754...
UPDATE user set user_name="TMC" where user_id=4754; UPDATE recentchanges set rc_user_text="TMC" where rc_user=4754; UPDATE cur set cur_user_text="TMC" where cur_user=4754; UPDATE old set old_user_text="TMC" where old_user=4754; UPDATE image set img_user_text="TMC" where img_user=4754;
should do it. Note that this may require TMC to re-log in (assuming we're not banning the account entirely.)
Any discussion of the wisdom of so doing should be directed to wikipedia-l.
I can easily change his name in the table of users, but this will break a lot of links in articles and elsewhere? So those would need to be changed as well?
Move the user page to [[User:TMC]] and let the redirects carry it?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)