Help:Delete account

It is not possible to delete a Wikimedia account because all contributions must be licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and GFDL. However, the closest equivalent is to request courtesy vanishing. When your account is vanished:

• Your username is changed to a randomly generated string of characters.
• Your edits and contributions will be re-attributed to the randomly generated username, but will not be removed.
• Your user page and user talk page are moved to the new name.
• Signatures on discussion pages will not be changed.
• The account is locked to prevent logging in.

Courtesy vanishing is discretionary and may be refused. It is not intended to avoid scrutiny or sanctions, and it is not intended to be a temporary measure—editors who are vanishing are expected to be leaving Wikipedia permanently. Courtesy vanishing is generally refused for users who are blocked or have active sanctions.

Requesting courtesy vanishing

1. Request deletion of your user pages by adding {{Db-u1}} at the top of each page to be deleted. Your user talk page will not be deleted.
2. If you have edited other Wikimedia wikis, you may request deletion of your user pages on other Wikimedia wikis by requesting it be deleted by Synchbot.
3. Navigate to Special:GlobalVanishRequest, then submit a request for vanishing.
   Your request will be automatically granted if your account has not made any edits on any wiki. Otherwise, it will be submitted into a queue for review. Requests cannot be cancelled once submitted.