[Mediawiki-l] Deleting a user account

[Andre-John Mas]

A better solution would be to work out how to disable a user.
That way at least you have a historic track of the user, even
if they no longer have the ability to log in.

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From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Elliott F. Cable
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 16:36
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting a user account

It leaves edits with no editing user. Among other things; why do you  
need to remove it, 'swoop'?

On May 31, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Sy Ali wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Swoop <docuswear at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Can someone point me to the documentation which shows how to  
>> delete user accounts?
>>
>> I am running mediawiki 1.5.7, and am logged in with sysop and  
>> bureaucrat permissions.
>
> There is some sort of deleteoldusers.php script in the maintenance
> directory, but aside from that there's no official way.
>
> I might suggest editing the users table in the database and deleting
> that row, but I've been told in the past that this can be a bad idea.