Staff discussion sprung up in #staff-discussion earlier today regarding what to do with regards to a formerly-banned user whose username had been changed into one in violation of the username requirements on the Join Page.
No names saying you're official website staff (like 'admin', 'administrator', or 'moderator').
and had used up their 2 account name changes. Initial consensus was to require them to make a new account, before an administrator offered to contact Wikidot to ask the user's name changes be reset. Initial confusion as to why this user was being given preferred treatment was quickly clarified by the admin: requesting Wikidot to reset name changes for users who had used their two was relatively common practice several years ago on the site, as changing accounts was very difficult due to the lack of infrastructure for authorship credit and reattribution and things. This only stopped when Wikidot stopped responding to such requests, but recently they responded in similar cases.
The admin has contacted Wikidot inquiring as to how users wishing to request username resets can submit such a request. As such, going forward, any user with a username changed in violation of site rules who has run out of name changes will be given this information. If their changes are reset, they will be asked to change their username into something acceptable to remain on the site. If they are not reset, they decline to seek it out, or if Wikidot simply never gives us the information, their account's membership will be revoked and they will be asked to create a new account, as was previous policy.