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Determine if the centralauth-rename-globaleditcount-threshold should be revised or removed
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The centralauth-rename-globaleditcount-threshold message currently states This user has more than 100,000 edits. Please confirm that you are sure that you want to rename this user and that a system administrator is available to monitor this rename. when trying to rename users with a large number of global edits. Since 2019 (T169440#5336398) changes to the rename system and upgrades to Wikimedia hardware have made large-editcount renames no longer a problem that the sysadmins wish to be proactively notified about.

The message in its current form is confusing to new renamers that are unaware of the history. Should it be changed to a general statement of caution, or removed entirely?

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Probably keep the message, mention it may take a while.. And some instructions what to do if it seems stuck after some other amount of time?

When was the last time we had a rename get stuck because of a large edit count? I can't think of any recent incidents since 2019 when the new (and more reliable) system was in place.

Just removing it entirely seems reasonable to me.

It is useful, but remove the sysadmin part in the message, a warning that a user has a high edit contribution count is still a good warning - perhaps even lowering it to 50000.

Change #1253656 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Remove scary language around big renames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1253656

Change #1253656 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Remove scary language around big renames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1253656