How hard is it going to be for me to change Throbbing Monster Cock's username to TMC?
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?
--Jimbo
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)
Sweet, that doesn't sound as bad as I thought.
Brion Vibber wrote:
should do it. Note that this may require TMC to re-log in (assuming we're not banning the account entirely.)
We can talk about that over on wikipedia-l, but just to be clear, I don't see any reason to ban him unless he gets destructive about this. Perhaps surprisingly, his contributions are perfectly fine.
He contributed extensively to "Hitler only has one ball". But, strange as that article is, it's legitimate. And he didn't start it. And his primary role in that debate was to raise a legitimate concern over copyrights.
I may have overlooked some other bad behavior.
Oh, but I said we'd discuss this on wikipedia-l, not here. :-)
--Jimbo
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