[Mediawiki-l] Deleting a user

[Frederich, Eric P2173]

I need to delete a user.  I searched around and I found this old e-mail
to this list.  It is about 2 years old and I'm wondering if it is still
true.
I understand that there may be undesired effects if the user being
deleted has existing edits.  I found some reassignEdits.php file in the
maintenance directory.  Is it safe to manually delete a user from the
database after I run this script first to re-assign their edits?
What all do I have to delete, just one record from the user table?  Will
deleting this record cascade any deletes?

Thanks,
~Eric


http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/001662.html

On Oct 4, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Chuck Bishop wrote:
> Is there a way to delete a user login account?

Not through the wiki interface, but you could delete the record from 
the database. Then anyone could create a new account with the same 
name, which may or may not be what you want and could cause unwanted 
and confusing effects regarding attributions if there are existing 
edits by the deleted user.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)