One thing to keep in mind is that there are a couple of million Wikimedia
accounts. Just by the law of averages, it's likely that someone who has a
Wikimedia account dies every day. Most of the time, we will never know
about it. I'd guess that a good percentage of the accounts that have been
That would enter the domain of naming guidelines and we don't have those in
general. Again, I have been pointing out since the first years of SUL.
For example a string can look terrible in one language but not another, you
have a normal user experience in one Wikipedia, and than you realize
Maybe a good approach would be also to have a global rename of the user
account to add something like _(.) so it is systematic and 'obvious' across
all Wikimedia projects - no?
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Yes, a user status/right “deceased" is IMHO important. It was also the reason
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Seems a reasonable idea. Cheers, Peter
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