[Wikipedia-l] Account password restrictions changed

[The Cunctator]

Wikipedia should be more user friendly than that. No need for us to act like
BOFHs.

On 4/27/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > And how people can have their account back if they didn't give any
> > email adress?
>
> We've just been discussing this on the enwiki buro noticeboard. In the
> case we were discussing, the user had linked to their itwiki account
> which did have an email address, so we could confirm their identity
> and the plan is to rename the account so it will no longer match the
> password. However, if there isn't any way to confirm the identity of
> the user then I think the account is lost for good - there is no way
> to know if the person requesting access to their account is owner of
> the account. That's the price you pay for not having the common sense
> to use a sensible password.
>
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