Platonides wrote: > Charlotte Webb wrote: >> Does this work for blocking too? Apparently the colon ":" also causes >> problems, see logs: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WP:ANI >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:WPANI >> >> That's how this unblockable user was able to do page-move vandalism >> continuously for over 30 minutes. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=WPANI&limit=500 >> >> I'd argue that usernames containing deprecated characters should be >> automatically renamed or locked out pending a rename. >> >> —C.W. > > I don't think it was the colon, but that it contained a namespace name > ("WP:"). Probably intruduced by Bug 5280.
It was analysed and fixed in bug 17877. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17877 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
