Error "user already exists" when renaming user to nonexistent user
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	Jan 1 2007, 12:12 AM

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Author: stanley

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I got error "user already exists" when trying to rename user. (from "Pengguna"
to "Matthew Brian" on id.wikipedia). I assume the user "Matthew Brian" is not
exist from the newuser creation log and from its user and user talk page (pages
not exists).

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:30 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-rename.

• bzimport set Reference to bz8448.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Jan 1 2007, 12:12 AM

fyrenmoo wrote:

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istimewa:Listusers?username=Matthew%20Brian shows
that user (currently) exists. The new user log doesn't show account creations
before the log itself was added. Look up names in Special:Listusers in the future.

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