[Mediawiki-l] Delete User

[Wolfe, Jeff]

Does is screw up your recent changes or article histories if the user isn't
in the user table? 

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Baechle
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete User

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Wolfe, Jeff wrote:

> I've got a couple user accounts that I want to eliminate, or at least 
> disable and hide from display in lists.  Any suggestions?  I could 
> just remove the row from user, but that seems risky.  What do you 
> normally do if someone creates a user and uses profanity or the like for
the name?
> 
> I have been unable to find anything on this on meta.

I'm removing malicious users quite from the users table regularly.
Something else I'd eventually like to do is cleanup the user table from
users that have never even done even a single edit - a rough estimate is
that 80 - 90% of users fall into this class.

  Ralf
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