Tim Starling a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
While we were discussing setting YurikBot bot flag on irc for YurikBot accounts all over wikipedia , someone created a YurikBot account on jawikipedia (according to Yurik, I can not read japanese)
It could OF COURSE just be a unexpected creation, but I fear it was rather done on purpose.
I'd like that a check is run on who did this, and that this person is politely ask to hand out the password to Yurik. Can someone help ?
Thanks
PS : I tried to use the check user, but it seems not to be working.
Just ask a bureaucrat to rename the account using Special:Renameuser, then you can recreate it with a different password. I don't think there's any need to find out who did it. It's just one of those silly little things that bored kids do sometimes.
-- Tim Starling
Interesting... You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly take any existing account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ? Or any one take it without any more thought ? Are not you a bit worried that this feature could not be a bit abused, in particular in the perspective of the still wished for (but less and less expected) single login feature ?
Was each project informed on this ? Do you know if some projects developped rules about such a feature use ? Imho, there is a big difference between renaming an account, and renaming and freeing the old account. For example, it is not possible for someone to take a yahoo email account, or to be assigned a phone number before at least a certain time span.
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