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Add a help page documenting Special:CreateLocalAccount, and add a help link to it
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As a sysop,
When I go to Special:CreateLocalAccount,
I should have a help link at the top like other special pages, leading to documentation of this new feature

Follow-up to T259721: Create a front end option for administrators to create a local account from a global account

This would be helpful. Stewards will often create a global account, or the user may create their account and start editing on another project, but then is unable to edit English Wikipedia (or another project) that has their IP/IP range account-creation blocked for valid local reasons. It's particularly problematic if the user has already edited on other projects, because their accounts will then be split, leaving them open to allegations of inappropriate sockpuppetry.

It would be reasonable to limit this ability to stewards and local checkusers, because in many cases the users will also require IPBE to edit on that project.

^ example thing that might be worth documenting

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Change 651944 had a related patch set uploaded (by Majavah; owner: Majavah):
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Add help link to Special:CreateLocalAccount

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/651944

Change 651944 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Add help link to Special:CreateLocalAccount

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/651944