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href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/pdc" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Recht auf Verschwinden (0% translated)" lang="pdc" dir="ltr">Deitsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/de" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Account auflösen (100% translated)" lang="de" dir="ltr">Deutsch</a></li> <li><span class="mw-pt-languages-ui mw-pt-languages-selected mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/eo" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Rajto malaperi (12% translated)" lang="eo" dir="ltr">Esperanto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/rw" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Account vanishing/rw (12% translated)" lang="rw" dir="ltr">Ikinyarwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/vi" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Quyền biến mất (40% translated)" lang="vi" dir="ltr">Tiếng Việt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/ca" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Dret a desaparèixer (53% translated)" lang="ca" dir="ltr">català</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/da" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Account vanishing/da (2% translated)" lang="da" dir="ltr">dansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/es" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Derecho a desaparecer (86% translated)" lang="es" dir="ltr">español</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/fr" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Disparition de compte (100% translated)" lang="fr" dir="ltr">français</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/it" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Diritto all'oblio (70% translated)" lang="it" dir="ltr">italiano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/hu" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Fiókeltüntetés (95% translated)" lang="hu" dir="ltr">magyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/pl" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Wymazanie konta (44% translated)" lang="pl" dir="ltr">polski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/pt" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Direito para desaparecer (65% translated)" lang="pt" dir="ltr">português</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/pt-br" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Direito a desaparecer (49% translated)" lang="pt-BR" dir="ltr">português do Brasil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/ro" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Dreptul de a dispărea (72% translated)" lang="ro" dir="ltr">română</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/is" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Account vanishing/is (2% translated)" lang="is" dir="ltr">íslenska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/bg" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Правото да изчезнеш (19% translated)" lang="bg" dir="ltr">български</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/ru" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Исчезновение (зачистка) учётной записи (100% translated)" lang="ru" dir="ltr">русский</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/sah" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Сүтэр быраап (5% translated)" lang="sah" dir="ltr">саха тыла</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/sr" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Учтиви нестанак (5% translated)" lang="sr" dir="ltr">српски / srpski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/uk" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Право на зникнення (35% translated)" lang="uk" dir="ltr">українська</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/ar" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="محو الحسابات (100% translated)" lang="ar" dir="rtl">العربية</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/arz" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Account vanishing/arz (2% translated)" lang="arz" dir="rtl">مصرى</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/bn" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="অপসৃত হবার অধিকার (5% translated)" lang="bn" dir="ltr">বাংলা</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/si" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="නැති වී යාමෙ අයිතිය (0% translated)" lang="si" dir="ltr">සිංහල</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/th" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="สิทธิ์ในการจากไป (16% translated)" lang="th" dir="ltr">ไทย</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/my" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Account vanishing/my (0% translated)" lang="my" dir="ltr">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/zh" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="帳號隱退 (100% translated)" lang="zh" dir="ltr">中文</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/ja" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="アカウント抹消 (72% translated)" lang="ja" dir="ltr">日本語</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Account_vanishing/ko" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="계정 소멸 (100% translated)" lang="ko" dir="ltr">한국어</a></li></ul></div> <div class="noprint shortcut shortcut-ltr" dir="auto" lang=""><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r27790406">.mw-parser-output .shortcut{margin:2px;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);color:var(--color-emphasized,#101418);padding:.5em;font-size:smaller;line-height:normal;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .shortcut-ltr{float:right;margin-right:0}.mw-parser-output .shortcut-rtl{float:left;margin-left:0}</style><a href="/wiki/Meta:Shortcuts" class="mw-redirect" title="Meta:Shortcuts"><bdi lang="en">Shortcut</bdi></a>: <br/><a href="/wiki/RTV" class="mw-redirect" title="RTV">RTV</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r27362704">.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid 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.mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.ombox img{max-width:none!important}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}</style><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Walnut.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Walnut.svg/30px-Walnut.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Walnut.svg/45px-Walnut.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Walnut.svg/60px-Walnut.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192"/></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><span style="font-weight:bold;">This page in a nutshell: </span><b>Account vanishing</b> is <i>one of</i> the ways to indicate a <b>permanent</b> leave from Wikimedia project, similar to "close account" in some other websites. It may remove your (user)name from history of pages you edits, and much other personal information and discussions about user conduct. <ul><li>To preserve attribution, it is not possible to delete an account.</li> <li>Vanishing does not guarantee anonymity. Association may still be easily found in various ways.</li> <li>Even if vanish is intended to be permanent, it may still be reversed.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r24667446">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}html.client-js body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .mbox-text-span{margin-left:23px!important}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}</style><table class="box-Notice plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">Are you in the right place? <ul><li>If you want to leave Wikimedia projects but do not care in your past associations or intend to rejoin Wikipedia in the future, simply stop editing. You may optionally add {{<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Retired" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Retired">Retired</a>}} to your userpage.</li> <li>If you want to edit using another username, you should use <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/changing_username" title="Special:MyLanguage/changing username">changing username</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/clean_start" title="Special:MyLanguage/clean start">clean start</a> instead.</li> <li>If you want to hide personal information, consider <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/oversight" title="Special:MyLanguage/oversight">oversight</a>.</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>account vanishing</b> process was first proposed on <span class="extiw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeatballWiki" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:MeatballWiki">MeatballWiki</a></span>; see <a href="http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToVanish" class="extiw" title="meatball:RightToVanish">MeatBall:RightToVanish</a>. The principle it embodies is that contributors leaving a project permanently may have any personal contributions unrelated to the core mission of the project removed.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is similar to the <a href="http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WikiMindWipe" class="extiw" title="meatball:WikiMindWipe">WikiMindWipe</a>, but far less reaching. In the context of the Wikimedia Foundation, the term was first used on the English Wikipedia, where it became a customary courtesy before the formation of the Foundation. (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing">Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing</a>). </p><p>Like the English Wikipedia, most other Wikimedia projects tolerate the "vanishing" of users who wish to leave permanently. Vanishing is not a right or guarantee but rather a courtesy extended to valued contributors who wish to leave. Since contributions are made under the GFDL or CC-BY-SA, which provide an irrevocable license, there is no basis in law or contract for contributors to remove either content they have contributed or attribution for the same. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"></span>How a request to vanish may be fulfilled<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Account_vanishing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: How a request to vanish may be fulfilled"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled","replies":["h-Personal_information_and_its_removal-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled","h-Alternative_measures-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"]}}--></div> <ul><li><i>Usernames</i> – Usernames cannot normally be deleted, but can sometimes be changed. Even if this is done, it may still be possible to link your new and old names with a minimal degree of work.</li> <li><i>Work on the project</i> – Your work, including "signatures" (text indicating your authorship of comments) on all but your own user and talk pages, will usually <b>not</b> be changed or removed. To change these would be a major source of disruption. Individual revisions of individual pages that contain personally identifying information may be <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/oversight" title="Special:MyLanguage/oversight">oversighted</a> instead.</li> <li>User pages, and their subpages, and other non-article pages that no others have substantively contributed to and whose existence does not impact the project, may be courtesy blanked or deleted. User talk pages are rarely deleted.</li> <li><i>Logs</i> – Administrative and editorial logs showing matters you have been involved with, during your career as an editor, such as your edit history on other pages, will usually remain accessible under your old name.</li> <li><i>Related matters</i> discussed in more detail below include: making a clean start, removal of personal information from public viewing, and other actions you can take.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_information_and_its_removal" data-mw-thread-id="h-Personal_information_and_its_removal-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Personal_information_and_its_removal-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"></span>Personal information and its removal<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Personal_information_and_its_removal-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Account_vanishing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal information and its removal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" lang="" dir="auto"> <dl><dd><i>Main article: </i><bdi lang=""><a href="/wiki/Privacy_policy" title="Privacy policy">Privacy policy</a></bdi></dd></dl> </div> <div style="box-sizing:border-box; margin:0 auto 0 1.6em; width:90%; padding:0.2em; border:1px solid black; background-color:#e4ffe4;"> <p><b>Definition of personal information:</b> Information you provide us or information we collect from you that could be used to personally identify you. To be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be “personal information” if it is otherwise nonpublic and can be used to identify you: </p> <ul><li>(a) your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, credit card number;</li> <li>(b) when associated with one of the items in subsection (a), any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion; and</li> <li>(c) any of the items in subsections (a) or (b) when associated with your user account.</li></ul> </div> <p>Two policies govern personal information. Individuals in their role as editors, contributors and readers of Wikimedia projects, should refer to the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/privacy_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/privacy policy">privacy policy</a>. Information on individuals forming part of an encyclopedia article, are subject to the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people" class="extiw" title="wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Resolution:Biographies of living people">resolution on biographies of living people</a>. "Account vanishing" relates specifically to the former. </p> <ul><li>The Wikimedia projects will delete personal information about <b>editors and contributors</b> (most likely on user and user talk pages) at their request, provided it is not needed for administrative reasons (which are generally limited to dealing with site misuse issues).</li> <li>Personal information related to <b>encyclopedia articles and persons mentioned therein</b> are not part of this process. Instead, please see the relevant editorial policy on biographical articles, which contains full details of editorial directives, and actions to take if dissatisfied.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_measures" data-mw-thread-id="h-Alternative_measures-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Alternative_measures-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"></span>Alternative measures<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Alternative_measures-How_a_request_to_vanish_may_be_fulfilled"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Account_vanishing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Alternative measures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In general, involuntary disclosure of personal information is dealt with via <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Oversight_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Oversight policy">oversight</a>; there is no need to vanish unless the publicly known information is sufficiently notorious and accessible that oversight is no protection. </p><p>Also <a href="/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes" title="Steward requests/Username changes">usernames can often be changed</a>, subject to broad conditions and processes. </p><p>If you have used your real name, or a longstanding pen name, on Wikimedia projects then in principle everything you write can be traced to that name, and thus to you, as discussed above. However, if you decide to leave Wikimedia projects, there are a few steps that you can take to weaken that connection. They are: </p> <ol><li>Change your username to some other name, one which is not directly associated with you (see <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Changing_username" title="Special:MyLanguage/Changing username">Changing username</a>).</li> <li>Change references to your former username to be referenced to your replacement username (you can do this yourself).</li> <li>Delete your existing user and user subpages (contact an administrator). User talk pages are only deleted in some cases.</li> <li>While logged in under your old username, create new user and user talk pages for your old account, containing a brief note indicating that you have left Wikimedia projects and asking that people not refer to you by your name.</li></ol> <p>Be aware that any edits or posts you make, will appear in page history under the account you used at the time. Therefore take care with your login name usage, and be very careful not to edit your old pages or pages you habitually visit, when you are logged in with a name you do not want associated with that account. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_request_a_vanishing" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_request_a_vanishing"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_request_a_vanishing"></span>How to request a vanishing<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_request_a_vanishing"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Account_vanishing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: How to request a vanishing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-How_to_request_a_vanishing","replies":[]}}--></div> <p>If you wish to vanish, you can use one of the following methods to make your request: </p> <ul><li>The <b>best and fastest</b> way is to visit <a href="/wiki/Special:GlobalVanishRequest" title="Special:GlobalVanishRequest">Special:GlobalVanishRequest</a> to access the vanish request interface. Requests made this way will be processed by <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_renamers" title="Special:MyLanguage/Global renamers">global renamers</a> or <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Stewards" title="Special:MyLanguage/Stewards">stewards</a>.</li> <li>You may contact the global renamers via e-mail and ask that your account be renamed, giving "request for courtesy vanishing" as the subject. Please log in then use the contact interface at <a href="/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Wikimedia_Global-renamers" title="Special:EmailUser/Wikimedia Global-renamers">Special:EmailUser/Wikimedia Global-renamers</a> or email <strong><span class="mailto" style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:renamers(_AT_)wikimedia%28_DOT_%29org?subject=%28Meta-Wiki%29"><span title="Send a mail to: renamers(_AT_)wikimedia(_DOT_)org To limit the automated collection of email addresses listed from this wiki by illegal spammers' bots, the email address is obfuscated: you must manually replace '(_AT_)' by a '@' and any '(_DOT_)' by a '.' before sending your message."><kbd style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.25">renamers<span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="(_AT_)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/16px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/24px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/32px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145"/></span></span>wikimedia<span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="(_DOT_)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dot.svg/5px-Dot.svg.png" decoding="async" width="5" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dot.svg/7px-Dot.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dot.svg/9px-Dot.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="4" data-file-height="13"/></span></span>org</kbd></span></a></span></strong>. If you send the mail directly, you must provide proof that the account is indeed yours.</li></ul> <p>Notes: </p> <ul><li>Please be aware that all global renames are publicly logged, only the request details are private. A record of requests are kept and can be seen by current renamers, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.</li> <li>Courtesy vanishing is generally not available for users that are currently locked or blocked.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Note" data-mw-thread-id="h-Note"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Note"></span>Note<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Note"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Account_vanishing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Note"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Note","replies":[]}}--></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">What is deemed to be related to the vision of various projects is left to local discretion, but typically involves a project's informational content rather than its maintenance/administrative side.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Account_vanishing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-See_also","replies":[]}}--></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing">Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing</a></li> <li><a href="https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiSuicide" class="extiw" title="c2:WikiSuicide">c2:WikiSuicide</a>, <a href="https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiMindWipe" class="extiw" title="c2:WikiMindWipe">c2:WikiMindWipe</a></li></ul> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐api‐int.codfw.main‐55b5456bcb‐st6vr Cached time: 20241120202316 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [show‐toc] DiscussionTools time usage: 0.012 seconds CPU time usage: 0.408 seconds Real time usage: 0.574 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 881/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 9583/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 2046/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 13/100 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 10326/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.051/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 1273024/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 150.613 1 -total 35.88% 54.040 1 Template:Shortcut 23.00% 34.640 1 Template:Nutshell 21.76% 32.775 1 Template:Ombox 18.16% 27.354 1 Template:Notice 16.60% 25.000 1 Template:Mbox 14.04% 21.153 1 Template:Shortcut_caption 13.57% 20.439 1 Template:Strong 13.37% 20.144 2 Template:Dir 12.31% 18.540 1 Template:NonSpamEmail --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key metawiki:pcache:idhash:103226-0!canonical and timestamp 20241120202316 and revision id 27728746. 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