Inconsistent usernames and URLs on wordpress.org

[henrywright]

Migrated from ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25609

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I have two accounts at wordpress.org.

1. Registered on September 13, 2011

Username: henry.wright
URL: ​http://wordpress.org/support/profile/henrywright

2. Registered on September 26, 2012

Username: henrywright
URL: ​http://wordpress.org/support/profile/henrywright-1

This results in one user having the username of 'henrywright' and another user having the URL of 'henrywright'.

My question - With reference to the second account (registered on September 26, 2012), at the point of registration should I have been told me that the username 'henrywright' was already taken?

[netweb]

Restored original ticket formatting for improved readability.

[henry.wright]

Thanks @netweb! Are henrywright and henry.wright the same now thing have been moved to meta.trac?

[netweb]

Replying to henry.wright:

Thanks @netweb! Just to point out the original reporter is now henrywright (note there's no dot). Are henrywright and henry.wright the same?

I used the original usernames in the original ticket, henrywright as the reporter and comments as henry.wright

Both of the above profiles redirect to the same profile ​https://profiles.wordpress.org/henrywright

Though per the original report it is about usernames already taken should show a warning and not create a new user with a suffix of -1.

A couple more comments from the original ticket for more context:

Quoting ocean90:

Maybe it has been fixed, but when I try to register a new account with my username I get a "Name already exists" error.

Quoting henry.wright:

The way to reproduce:

1. Register a username containing a dot e.g user.name
2. Then register the same username without the dot e.g username

[netweb]

I just tried to create a new user using the same username netweb and the user is not created with a warning "Name already exists"

Suggesting close here now as cannot reproduce.

[henry.wright]

I just tried to create a new user using the same username netweb and the user is not created with a warning "Name already exists"

Thanks for testing but that test isn't quite right because you seemed to have missed out the important dot from your tests.

Try these steps:

1. Create a user with a dot in the username. For example abc.def
2. Create the same username without the dot abcdef

[SergeyBiryukov]

Removing 'needs-patch' from components that are not open sourced yet, to help focus on tickets that actually need a patch.

[ocean90]

The plan is to only support a-z and 0-9 for usernames.

[henry.wright]

Replying to ocean90:

The plan is to only support a-z and 0-9 for usernames.

+1 from me.

The challenge will be how to handle existing usernames that already make use of a non a-z 0-9 character.

[ocean90]

In 2474:

Support Forums: Enhance styling of the register form.

See #1308.

[ocean90]

Since [dotorg11555] only a-z and 0-9 are allowed for usernames.

The challenge will be how to handle existing usernames that already make use of a non a-z 0-9 character.

Those will remain and are unaffected by the change.