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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:07:01PM -0600, Daniel Cannon wrote:
One point worth considering: Active users will, in the vast majority of cases, specify an e-mail address for their account. If these are two different, yet equivocally active users, even with the same username,
Did you mean "uneqivocally" active? Or did you mean that they were equally vocal, a charmingly uncommon usage of that word? :-)
Hrm .. a nice Archie Bunkerism that :) I meant "equivalently."
they will most likely specify unique e-mail addresses. As such, and correct me if this has changed, the accounts will not be merged and treated as the same account, at least not without contacting both users first to find a resolution. If they have not specified an e-mail address, then either the accounts will not be merged or, if the accounts are eventually merged, the users will be more than capable of contacting Brion or another member of Wikimedia's technical staff to work out a resolution.
"Brion doesn't scale."
Isn't that the First Law of Wikipedia?
How many such collisions are there going to be?
Who knows? Maybe Brion? My guess would be a lot.
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