On 06/01/2007 10:11:07 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
A spammer has created accounts and pages on my wiki. I have removed the pages via clicking. I cannot find any button or documentation on how to remove his accounts. Lots of documentation on blocking, but none on removing. And on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Right_to_vanish it even says "User accounts, once created, cannot be removed." Do I just remove his row from the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_table Or maybe the pros never remove accounts, but just block forever? Smarter?
Yes, much smarter.
I suppose the next user to register will inherit his user number, which means anything else in the database then is attributed to the new user, e.g., the deleted pages...
Right, or else there will be references to a non-existent user, also bad.
Jim