[OSM-talk] An empty changeset with an unknow OSM contributor

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> you are right, verifying the API changeset link, I did not realized this was
> not the download instruction
> http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/19860227/download
>
> But it is reported that the user do not exist.  Will he appear later?
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/1871553
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_1871553

I'm not sure.  That name will show up as "no such user" unless the
user is later deleted or the screen name edited to be $null.

Why worry?  What caused the user to wonder about this other account?