"Anonymous" is hardcoded as the username to merge to userid 0
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	Jackmcbarn
	Sep 9 2014, 12:34 AM

Description

To merge a user to userid 0, you must specify "Anonymous" as the merge target. However, this is a valid username for users to register, so if a wiki really does have a user named Anonymous, it's impossible to merge any other user into that user. The dummy merge target for userid 0 should be changed to something that's not a valid username.

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Reference: bz70591

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Use checkbox to merge to anonymous instead of writing "Anonymous" as target	mediawiki/extensions/UserMerge	master	+22 -7

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Mentioned In: T204456: Target user field can not be empty (as stated in the documentation)

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:44 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-UserMerge.

• bzimport set Reference to bz70591.

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Florian mentioned this in T204456: Target user field can not be empty (as stated in the documentation).Sep 16 2018, 6:49 PM

Change 460768 had a related patch set uploaded (by Florianschmidtwelzow; owner: Florianschmidtwelzow):
[mediawiki/extensions/UserMerge@master] Use checkbox to merge to anonymous instead of writing "Anonymous" as target

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460768

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 16 2018, 7:12 PM

Change 460768 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matěj Suchánek; owner: Florianschmidtwelzow):
[mediawiki/extensions/UserMerge@master] Use checkbox to merge to anonymous instead of writing "Anonymous" as target