[Mediawiki-l] How to delete a user?

[a. cremer]

Hi,
is there an overview on how the content of the different tables in mediawiki 
are interlinked (e.g. Users to groups)?

Regards
Albert Cremer

"Rob Church" <robchur at gmail.com> schrieb im 
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> On 08/02/07, Laszlo Gal 
> <laszlo.gal at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Can anybody let me know how to delete a registered user?
>
> MediaWiki will create various references to the user's identifier all
> over the database, so doing this isn't a good idea if the user has
> created or edited pages, or caused log entries to be created, etc.
>
> If you need to prevent access to a user account, block it
> indefinitely. If the account has *none* of the above entries (and
> would show up in maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php's report mode),
> then it's safe to delete them from the user table.
>
> Always make a backup of your database before manipulating it in this
> fashion, especially when the consequences are not clearly defined, as
> in this case.
>
>
> Rob Church