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# [[mw:Extension:User Merge and Delete]] — ''Pro:'' Rename changes the name of one account, whereas this can merge or combine two accounts into one, and deletes the account not needed. – ''Con:'' Very dangerous, can permanently delete user accounts'' (but this can be set for 'crat permission only) | # [[mw:Extension:User Merge and Delete]] — ''Pro:'' Rename changes the name of one account, whereas this can merge or combine two accounts into one, and deletes the account not needed. – ''Con:'' Very dangerous, can permanently delete user accounts'' (but this can be set for 'crat permission only) | ||
## ''Pro:'' I've used it on my own localhost wiki to get rid of surplus test accounts when testing out extensions, and while the danger of screwing up an actual account is real, it could be used to trim the database of obvious spam accounts. ''Con'': Cannot be done as a batch, must do one merge and delete job at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 05:34, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane - so basically you are saying we could clean up the spam accounts by deleting the one at a time? ~~ [[MarkDilley]] - Yes, unfortunately. It may be possible to code a bot or script with a selected list of spam accounts to trim and execute this script multiple times, never tried it myself, but in-wiki, it only works one at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 14:10, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane - ''sounds brilliant, with the bot thing :-) I could see one person having control over a bot and a list. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]'' | ## ''Pro:'' I've used it on my own localhost wiki to get rid of surplus test accounts when testing out extensions, and while the danger of screwing up an actual account is real, it could be used to trim the database of obvious spam accounts. ''Con'': Cannot be done as a batch, must do one merge and delete job at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 05:34, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane - so basically you are saying we could clean up the spam accounts by deleting the one at a time? ~~ [[MarkDilley]] - Yes, unfortunately. It may be possible to code a bot or script with a selected list of spam accounts to trim and execute this script multiple times, never tried it myself, but in-wiki, it only works one at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 14:10, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane - ''sounds brilliant, with the bot thing :-) I could see one person having control over a bot and a list. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]'' | ||
##I'm personally still skeptical about this one. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 3 May 2013 | ## I'm personally still skeptical about this one. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 3 May 2013 | ||
### Please say more [[Elassint]] - is it not a worry to have spam accounts sitting in the database? Best, [[MarkDilley]] | ### Please say more [[Elassint]] - is it not a worry to have spam accounts sitting in the database? Best, [[MarkDilley]] | ||
####It's bad when we look at [[Special:ListUsers]] -- full of spam accounts. But [[Wikipedia]] doesn't use it though [[wp:Special:ListUsers]] is also full of spam accounts. In addition, [[LifeWiki]] and [[WikiApiary]] use it. --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 11:34, 24 May 2013 (UTC) | #### It's bad when we look at [[Special:ListUsers]] -- full of spam accounts. But [[Wikipedia]] doesn't use it though [[wp:Special:ListUsers]] is also full of spam accounts. In addition, [[LifeWiki]] and [[WikiApiary]] use it. --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 11:34, 24 May 2013 (UTC) | ||
##### I would love to clean up this, but I wonder if there is another way to do it than one at a time... not sure, ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | |||
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