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.