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AccountVanishRequests should be a system user
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  • User:AccountVanishRequests should be a system user.

Actions by User:AccountVanishRequests should be marked as bot actions to hide them from RecentChanges (and similar).

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Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript

We're assuming for now that our help is not needed on task relating to Account Vanishing. Feel free to move to Inbox if/when that changes.

any objections to at least initially flagging this account as bot on metawiki while this is being worked on?

Note: initial comments suggest not to use 'bot' assertation, feedback welcome on the link above.

Regardless of that outcome, not having this account be an interactive user should be reviewed here.

Xaosflux renamed this task from AccountVanishRequests should be treated as a system bot to AccountVanishRequests should be a system user.Sep 18 2024, 1:17 PM
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Initial community discussion (not very well attended, but well advertised) does not have support for flagging actions/edits as 'bot'.

This should still not be an interactive user, no one should ever log on to it directly.

Becoming a system user does not mean anything in recent changes - recent changes do not provide ways to filter out edits/logs by system user.