Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-2205823-20160729163645/@comment-24473195-20160729182855

TK-999 wrote:

Dessamator wrote: Hmm, it is possible, the issue is that wikia might not currently have the technology or interest to doing so:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMerge Which is designed for use on a single wiki. Porting that for Wikia's setup would be unnecessary effort for a few niche cases. There is a global one, although I suspect wikia doesn't use the same setup as Wikimedia. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login#merge ).

Although I agree with you, and see this whole thing of renaming / merging accounts to be a pointless waste of processing time. I've seen a couple of users in my home wiki changing an account just because "they are tired of it", and sometimes creating double redirects because of it.

A better solution would be simply to separate "display" name from user name, but even that is a not a good use of anyone's time.