[Mediawiki-l] Delete User?

[KAndreou at rccl.com]

Agreed.
The best approach would be to rename the user to some kind of 
"username-removed" and block it indefinitely.

This discussion around deleting/renaming got me thinking. Is a history 
kept of user renames?



mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 09-07-2007 16:13:13:

> The main problem with deleting users is that it breaks all of their
> contributions. Every contribution is made by a user - I don't know if
> the code could handle that user not existing.
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