[mkl]

Having to also type out the number of stars you're deleting when it's above some threshold would probably eliminate the error. I think people who use git a lot are used to having the same or similar repository names in multiple contexts and locations (it's decentralised), so typing out the repository name, even though it includes the user/organisation, is not as severe-seeming as the designers thought. Confirming the consequences seems better than confirming the command.

[prepend]

I think of the burden on the typical use case and think the current prompts should be sufficient.

What’s the star threshold? 1000? 5?

I’d hate to now have to type in the number of watchers and stars as part of the private/delete/move/etc prompt for all the times I know what I’m doing.

It’s a balance between punishing the non-stupid users vs protecting the stupid users. And people switch between these categories. I might be non-stupid today and stupid tomorrow.