Special:PasswordReset should ask only for e-mail address
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	• bzimport
	Mar 12 2013, 12:41 AM

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Author: jgonera

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The message on Special:PasswordReset says:

"If you are certain of your e-mail, but not your username, only enter your e-mail."

Why would anyone enter their username then?

Version: 1.21.x
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40040

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:37 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz46009.

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

In MediaWiki, user's email address is private info.
We should not make it possible for someone to check whether an email is registered.

(In reply to comment #1)

In MediaWiki, user's email address is private info.
We should not make it possible for someone to check whether an email is
registered.

and plus, some people can't remind there signup email addess :p

Note that I wrote the text only on English Wikipedia (it's not in core):

As I said at bug 40040, it takes a little more work to get a good message in core, since there is more variability in the form fields.

JuneHyeon is correct on both counts:

Not revealing whether an email is registered, though that is more relevant to bug 46010
It sometimes being easier to just enter your username if you are certain of it.