[Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

[Chris McKenna]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Katie Chan wrote:

> On 03/08/2013 09:41, Chris McKenna wrote:
>> and should
>> be sent at 1 year, 6 months, 3 months, 1 month, 2 weeks, 10 days, 5
>> days, 2 days and 1 day in advance of the renaming, and that is at a
>> minimum.
>>
>
> Why not ten years, or maybe twenty years just to be on the same side?

A year is a reasonable amount of notice to expect - it's a long time in 
the digital world (it is extremely rare that people are temporarily banned 
from en.wp for longer than this for example). Much beyond that is 
pointless as people wont think it's ever going to happen and will ignore 
it. This will happen with some people for 1 year, but less so.

Remember that we want to get people on our side, so we need to work with 
their psychology.

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