Get arbitrary user entity with tokens Is there a way to retrieve an arbitrary user entity via tokens inside a node field?

For example:

Let's say I have a field name Source, which contains a reference to an external news publication.

I have a user on my site named "Jane Doe".

I want to be able to put something like this in the source field.  The example is a little fudged b/c I don't think Tokens has a "link" type token, but the question is more about getting data for an arbitrary user:


New York Times, citing [user:link:Jane Doe].


And have that rendered as 


New York Times, citing Jane Doe.


What I have tried

I've attempted this in the node body field (using the token_filter module).

I can get data for the current user with, such as with the token [current-user:url].

But I haven't figured out how to get data for an arbitrary user.

I've tried:


[user:url:1]
[user:url 1]
There isn't a token that, given a user ID, would return data about that user account. current-user returns data about the currently logged-in user, while user returns data about the user account passed to the function (in Drupal 7, or the method in Drupal 8) that replaces tokens with their values: token_replace().

It would be possible, for a module, to implement a token that returns data about every user accounts. With such a module, for example, users:1:name could return the username for the user account #1, while users:2:name would do the same for the user #2.