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<p dir="auto">Somewhat at a tangent from this issue, but useful to address some of the issues that woodpeck mentions above - it'd be great if userids were more visible throughout the site.  This is something that's touched on by other issues such as <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="19543850" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/482" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/482/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/482">#482</a> .</p>
<p dir="auto">I suspect that any change (including a list of previous usernames, however obtained) would need some extra admin effort to deal with questions about, e.g. admins being asked to delete historical references to a user's real name, if that was changed by accident.  This does happen - within the last year I can think of at least one user who deleted their account immediately after a name change from a pseudonym to a regular human "first name, second name", I suspect by accident.</p>
<p dir="auto">Users have also been known to rename and then delete their accounts so that their previous block and changeset comment history is no longer associated with their chosen account name.</p>

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