Board Thread:New Features/@comment-35075526-20190824024320/@comment-1038387-20190828072634

Andrewds1021 wrote: I don't think it is really the redirects that are the problem. They could come up with some script that just goes through and points them all to a single new page. The issue, as far as I can see is abuse. In order to make sure different users aren't confused, renaming your account doesn't release your old name. Say I change my name to Andrewds1022. A new user would still be blocked from creating a new account as Andrewds1021. If they allowed infinite renames, then someone could just go through with a bot and take up all the remaining usernames. Now, I know you aren't asking for unlimited changes, but the limit has to be set to something. By limiting it to 1, Wikia is discouraging the use of names people know they will want to change later anyways. For example, "PewDiePie hit 100 mil that's amazing". What happens with PewDiePie gets 101M subscribers? 102M? 103M? 104M? 105M? 106M? 107M? ... 200M? 201M? 202M? 203M? 204M? ...

That works for all pages. Just not... for message walls. We're stuck with an unfixable double redirect for Ripto/Icier, and probably aren't the only one. Okay, it's not really a problem because noone goes to that page, but I like empty Special Pages so that just annoys me.