Last modified: 2012-12-26 15:17:40 UTC
A user, now known as YOLO Swag, was previously (in 2006) using other names (the account got named from Freestyle.king to Bonafide.hustla in April 2006, and then from Bonafide.hustla to Certified.Gangsta in October 2006). Unfortunately, the user's deleted edits and his block logs from that period remain under the old names - which complicates issues when the user, for example, wants to run for ArbCom - I don't want to attract voters to these account names, since they were subsequently taken by a known troll in 2008; but voters should be able to see these records of the candidate. Please transfer these (just the 2006 records from the mentioned user names) to the YOLO Swag account.
I don't see good reasons here to do this. It's really up to the user when s/he used which names. Why were the user's edits deleted at all? Which website does this refer to - is that a global account? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YOLO_Swag does not exist... For general information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username_policy#Changing_your_username and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login
I would suggest - instead to request we mess with the database - you advertise the relevant information on the relevant pages. Would that be possible?
The problem here is that the user changed usernames before the software re-assigned these to the new account names on renaming. I think that this needs to be fixed in general; in the case of YOLO Swag, these names were subsequently taken by a known troll. I want the user's true record to be clearly visible to users without them seeing the troll's records at the same time.
You're asking to make the software code base more complicated to maintain for the next twelve to twenty years, to fix a unique social issue. The balance between cost and benefits isn't equilibrated, so I don't feel comfortable at all with this idea. If this is clearly an issue for YOLO Swag, please ask him: - to create a sub user page with the logs entries you want to show; - have him link that appropriately on relevant places Alternatively, you can work with your local bureaucrats on this situation too. [ Closing this bug as WONTFIX. ]
