Hi, Please delete the Users with less than 10 edits (or so)and are absent in Wikipedia for more than a year.

Today I saw the IDs such as {!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!}and so on..... with no records or contributions

Hope you understand

Somehow upgrade the Wiki software to do the deleting part as it is impossible to cope with spammers.Wikipedia shows scores of users (~~7) ,but only ten thousand are genuine.Rest are spammers grabbing the usernames and forgeting the day after ! I myself had a friend like this in school donning wikipedia with 'against wikipedia' usr names
I make a sugesstion : Make a group (like administrators/autoconfirmed users {Who have access to DB} ) who will only patrol round the Wikipedia users DB and del them when they expire with less edits.(higher editing users can be honoured) and this should be stictly followed.

Think this helps You can also drop an opinion in my talk page Raunak' ' ( .:: Raunak Roy ::.. )

Yours sincerely, --Raunak' ' ( .:: Raunak Roy ::.. ) 07:34, 17 June 2008 (UTC) Roy Raunak

User accounts can't be deleted at all, for any reason, due to the GFDL requirements of Wikipedia (and of course users themselves shouldn't be deleted ;-)). I'm sure somebody else could explain this in more detail if you like, but the gist of it is that we have to keep the account in order to attribute their contributions to them. Anyway, if they're not using the account then they're not doing any harm, so it's better to leave it in case they come back and do something good for us. If you think an account's username is inappropriate for some reason, please see Wikipedia:Username policy#Inappropriate usernames for instructions on how to bring this to the attention of a janitor. Hope that helps! --_{tiny plastic} Grey Knight ⊖ 12:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I think he is talking about the names which appear at the front of Special:Listusers, most of which have been blocked without making any edits. "!" being a popular choice as it has the lowest lexicographical order except for white space. — CharlotteWebb 16:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

This was originally asked and answered at Wikipedia talk:Community Portal#Delete. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:59, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a "middle path' that is a possible way to deal with this. GFDL requires attribution, but there is no problem with renaming accounts. Inactive accounts, with less than X edits and no activity in Y months, could be renamed to User:Inactive1, User:Inactive2, etc... The previous names could then be usurped if they are desired, or forgotten. Many of these accounts have nothing in their logs, so they could be deleted. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 19:53, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

There's currently no rule anywhere against creating an account just to set display preferences and not making any edits, although I guess most of those would eventually be attached to a global account. -Steve Sanbeg (talk) 20:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Please comment here regarding the appropriate names for articles about plane crashes, train crashes, and similar events. Yechiel (Shalom) 21:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

As requested by User:Alex.muller, I created a new version of our favicon. The idea was simply to remove the big (ugly) white box and instead make the background transparent. See the screenshot above, which compares the new favicon (FaviconNew.png, left) to the current one (right). Welcoming any comments. Equazcion •✗/C • 15:22, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

• Great work! looks much better, this is a no-brainer for me. The sooner its up the better (Nice job on the logo too btw, hope the devs take care of it) Acer (talk) 15:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• Agreed. This looks good. Since this is based on Image:Favicon.png, it should inherit the description and license information and be moved to Commons. --— Gadget850 (Ed)talk 15:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm not that knowledgeable with licensing, but just FYI, Favicon.png is a screenshot, not the actual favicon, so I'm not sure about that. Also, I couldn't actually use any of the old images to make this, it's made from scratch, so I don't know how much of that licensing info should be transferred over. In other words it's not actually "based" on anything, if that matters.Equazcion •✗/C • 16:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

• That looks much better... at 16x16. It looks horrible at 32x32. Yes, making a favicon invloves creating several images at both 16x16 and 32x32 in both 16 and 256-color formats, and maybe even 24-bit with alpha. — Edokter • Talk • 18:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Image:FaviconNew32.png. I'll hold off on creating all the other necessary variations until consensus is reached. Equazcion •✗/C • 18:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Just to be clear, you know the ICO file format actually stores several different icons at different resolutions at the same time, right? Does anyone know if you can upload ICO files to Mediawiki directly? I can't say that I've ever tried. Dragons flight (talk) 18:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
      • I knew Windows .ico files could do that, but I didn't know favicons were stored that way. I don't have software that does that, I'll have to look into it. I doubt mediawiki can store them in image space, at least not as viewable images. Equazcion •✗/C • 19:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
        • Our favicon is http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico Dragons flight (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
          • I know -- that's not stored on the wiki in image space though. Also I downloaded that and can't see anything but the 16 pixel version, at least not using the Windows icon choosing dialog. Equazcion •✗/C • 19:12, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
            • It's possible that 16x16 is all that has ever been created (it is certainly the most widely used size). Dragons flight (talk) 19:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
              • Well since there's currently no 32x32 version, just a single 16x16 version, we can just worry about replacing that one for now. Equazcion •✗/C • 21:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
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