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| Users who have stopped editing Misplaced Pages, or who to no longer wish use their real names or a longstanding pseudonym, may arrange to have their user names changed upon request to a ] at ].<ref>The user must have made fewer than 200,000 edits. This is a technical limitation in ], not a policy limitation.</ref> | |||
| There is no guarantee provided by the ] in the ] that a name will be changed on request. | |||
| == Right to vanish == | |||
| 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: | |||
| # If you have made fewer than 200,000 edits, change your username to some other name, one which is not directly associated with you (see ]). | |||
| # Change references to your former username to be referenced to your replacement username (you can do this yourself). | |||
| # Delete your user subpages; in some circumstances, you may be permitted to have your talk page deleted too; contact an administrator to request the deletion of your talk page — if you are an administrator, do not do it yourself; | |||
| # Add a brief note indicating that you have left Misplaced Pages and asking that people not refer to you by your name. | |||
| While these measures afford a degree of protection, they will not stand up to assault from a persistent investigator, and Wikimedia projects have no control over its sublicensees, or over archiving services such as the Internet Archive or Google. Further, these actions require a degree of co-operation from the other users of the project, so Misplaced Pages cannot make any guarantees. | |||
| See ] (meatballwiki) | |||
| == Personal information deletion == | |||
| The Wikimedia projects will delete personal information about contributors (most likely on user and user talk pages) at their request, provided it is not needed for administrative purposes, which are generally limited to dealing with site misuse issues. | |||
| Personal details typically include, but are not limited to, name, address, telephone number, instant messenger contact details, photograph, appearance, and any other clearly identifying features. | |||
| ==Notes== | |||
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| ==See also== | |||
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