https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66101

--- Comment #15 from Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Chris Steipp from comment #14)
> If we prevent the local account from being created at this point, then any
> users who can't currently globalize their account (someone else with more
> edits has their name on another wiki, and hasn't globalized the name for
> some reason), then the user is prevented from doing any cross-wiki work.

You're right.  I didn't think of that.  They could still create an account, of
course, but they'd have to have different usernames across the cluster, which
is definitely not ideal.

> Once we do finalize, merging one more ~wiki account isn't much extra work on
> our end.

True.

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