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 [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[File:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Emissary 18:31, May 10, 2021 (EDT)
 :I think those qualifications are fine for the second part. [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''the Rurouni'''</span>]] 19:39, May 10, 2021 (EDT)
+:I find it unsavory that the second point is only being proposed now after an admin/bcrat wanted to change their name and found that their desired name was already taken in its raw form by a long gone rando, but that said I don't see anything wrong with "reclaiming" the name of old inactive accounts that never edited. I would suggest the following addendums though:
+:*Reduce the time of no edits to past 2 years; I think 3 years is a bit much, as any account that went inactive for a year without reaching autoconfirmed status is almost certainly not going to come back, and so waiting 3 years after their last edit feels excessive.
+:*Remove the requirement of no talk page edits; not sure why that would be an automatic disqualifier, especially so when plenty of accounts that would fall under this have made a random talk page post before disappearing (especially vandal accounts).
+:*If an account was permabanned for being a vandal/spam/sock account, the name is free to reclaim immediately regardless of the account's last time edited and the amount of edits they made (it's not unheard of for vandal/spam accounts to make 10+ edits and thus reach autoconfirmed status, such as from a particular sock abuser recently that was intentionally reaching autoconfirmed status with their accounts before going on vandal sprees).
+:*If a noteworthy figure, whether Smash-based or not, were to make an account here and found that their name/tag was taken, the time requirement can be waived upon verification. We have had instances of people here using the names of big Smash people, such as "[[User:Leffen|Leffen]]", and non-Smash based people, such as "[[User:Scott the Woz|Scott the Woz]]". Ignoring cases where the account was permabanned, such as for the latter, if these people were to legitimately join the wiki they shouldn't have to wait around for potentially 2/3 years just to get the name they're known by. We could also possibly put in that such names aren't allowed to begin with in the username policy without verification of being the real deal, which I was thinking so anyway after seeing names like the latter pop up from the aforementioned sock abuser.
+:*Bureaucrats have the discretion to allow a name reclaim not covered by these requirements, and deny any request that technically fulfills these requirements. Simply gives an out to any corner cases that may pop up where a name reclaim is reasonable (such as where the taken name was clearly a vandal/sock that flew under the radar enough to not get banned prior), as well as an out to cases where a user requesting a reclaim is just fucking around or otherwise clearly doesn't have good intentions with the request.
+:If these addendums can be made or otherwise addressed, I can support this. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 20:40, May 10, 2021 (EDT)