AW: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Never delete users !

Karl-Otto Kirst post at karl-kirst.de
Tue Oct 11 15:37:19 UTC 2005


> The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be
> deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy
> references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell
> out of the software.
>
> MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will.

But, how should we react, when there is a user, who _only_ uses his account
to put Spam into the wiki? - Is it reasonable not to delete such a user?

Karl Kirst





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