https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28085
--- Comment #7 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> 2011-11-14 22:20:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > What if there's a username with that email address as name? > For example: [email protected], [email protected] > And note that those accounts are not necessarily benign (although the need to > have them created in the past highly mitiates it). > > What to do if there are several accounts with that email associated? > (eg. the user main account, a bot account and a doppelgänger account) Suggestion, not requirement. As in say there's a user creation form with just the e-mail and maybe password (though http://accountchooser.com/ has an interesting idea on that) and after submitting that the user gets a form asking them what username they want. For [email protected] when User:1amjoyturner is available it might say: Please choose a username: (*) 1amjoyturner ( ) 1amjoyturner-hotmail ( ) ... ( ) ... ( ) Other: [text input] <Continue> While for [email protected] we may say something like: The username 1337matthew is not available, please choose a username: (*) matthew ( ) 1337matthew-gmail ( ) ... ( ) ... ( ) Other: [text input] <Continue> I would never suggest that given a e-mail we implicitly create a matching username without asking the user if that's even ok. Only make a suggestion on what username may be available. Just take a look at the e-mails I'm using... if MW tried to use the e-mail I use on a wiki I would be User:Wiki practically everywhere it's not already taken. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
