Platonides wrote:
Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
23126 Locked and hidden accounts can unify new
local accounts
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23126
Tim says this is apparently a deliberate chage, and later
comments leave me confused: should this be closed or the fix
for this bug reverted?
Now creation logs are not shown for autocreated accounts, which is what
comment 11 complains about, so it may be fixed. I would open a new bug
if locked accounts can use Special:EmailUser.
I have been commenting about this with a steward. His position on this
is that users locked on any way (lock / lock+hidden / lock+oversight)
should not continue unifying on more wikis nor doing anything. Sending
emails, editing, changing preferences: nothing.