They could be just reserved do that it wouldn't be possible to create them Same should apply for accounts which are indefinitely blocked, the fact that someone block user "Bob" on some wikipedia, doesn't mean that Bob can't participate on another project. There are many active users who are indefinitely blocked on another project, so why not to process them as well
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/04/12 01:49, K. Peachey wrote: >> Indef user on one project != (always) a project wide issue. >> >> Not doing so, would potentially cause issues the same as we already do >> where the accounts can't unify because they exist elsewhere. > > I'm talking about the account only existint in the indefinetly blocked > project. > Also note the case of accounts oversighted so they don't appear at > Special:Listusers, would be a real failure to begin showing them at > Special:Globalusers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
