[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

[Stone]

To whom it may concern:

I am writing about a policy issue in regards to nick usurping on the 
Commons. I am User:Bstone on the  English Wikipedia, the Meta, 
Wikiversity and Wikiquote. I recently attempted to set up a unified log 
in and was told that there was another user on the Commons named Bstone. 
Seeing that this user was not active on the Commons since 21 November 
2006 I  asked the crats on the Commons if I could usurp the the nick, 
here: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Changing_username/usurp_requests#Bstone_to_something_else

After a short discussion in IRC with a Commons crat, I was told that 
despite the inactivity of this account there exists a Commons policy 
disallowing Usurption as long as an account has ever had any 
contributions. I was urged by some fellow editors and administrators 
that I should bring up this issue on this email list. My apologies if 
this is not the appropriate place to discuss it.

Sincerely,

Bstone