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I have deleted their contributions, but they all have a message in their user_talk which was added by the extension:new_user_message when they signed up, but since that is not their contributions technically, would it caused a problem?

In other words, must I removed the talk message from their user_talk page before I proceed? But there's no easy way to do this, unlike their contributions which was easily removed with Special:Nuke.

The maintenance script: RemoveUnsedAccount.php doesn't seem to work, maybe because of the welcome talk message in them.

Please advise.

This trouble concerns MW_1_35

deleted their contributions how? Please provide clear steps.

@Malyacko: Their only contributions was in the user namespace, where they wrote nonsense and added a url, so I just Nuke their userpage, but I couldn't nuke the associated talk_page where the only message there is the one added by the extension:new_user_message.

Strange but I went ahead an risk it.

What I have discovered is, even when I deleted the user from the database the number of registered user from Special:Statistics hasn't changed yet and the talk_page message still exist even when the Unser is deleted from the database.

But when I visit the user page for example Christy57J, MediaWiki says: 'User account "Christy57J" is not registered. Please check if you want to create/edit this page.'

But when I visit it user_talk page, I see the welcome message that was added by extension:new_user_message when the account was registered.

Is there something I should worry about or proceed to delete all the account I wanted likewise?

@Bawolff: @Malyacko:

(Please don't ping random people for no reason - thanks a lot!)

you should probably not delete random records from the database due to potential referential integrity issues.

What you describe (statistics wrong and user talk page still present) is what is expected (among other things) if you try and delete users in db.

If you want tk delete users, try extension:UserMerge or the hideuser right.

@Bawolff: I'm not sure how I'm supposed to merge about 8,000 users in few clicks?

Please, what is this: https://github.com/ZerooCool/cleanmediawiki/blob/master/cleanmediawiki.sh