[Mediawiki-l] Deleting a user

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: 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)