Platonides wrote:
Charlotte Webb wrote:
Does this work for blocking too? Apparently the colon ":" also causes problems, see logs: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WP:ANI http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WPANI
That's how this unblockable user was able to do page-move vandalism continuously for over 30 minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=WPANI&lim...
I'd argue that usernames containing deprecated characters should be automatically renamed or locked out pending a rename.
—C.W.
I don't think it was the colon, but that it contained a namespace name ("WP:"). Probably intruduced by Bug 5280.
It was analysed and fixed in bug 17877. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17877