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| {{subcat guideline|behavioral guideline|Right to vanish|WP:VANISH|WP:RTV}} | {{subcat guideline|behavioral guideline|Right to vanish|WP:VANISH|WP:RTV}} | ||
| All Misplaced Pages users have the ]; the Misplaced Pages community will typically accord the ] to users in good standing who exercise their right to leave. | |||
| Users in good standing who have stopped editing Misplaced Pages, or who no longer wish to 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> | |||
| Vanishing is the act of disassociating the identity of a user account from the identity of its owner, and typically involves: | |||
| There is no guarantee provided by the ] in the ] that a name will be changed on request. The right to vanish should not be extended to users who have been abusive or disruptive, who left when they lost the trust of the community, or who have been banned. | |||
| * ] of the account,<ref>The account must have made fewer than 200,000 edits. This is a technical limitation in ], not a policy limitation.</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | * replacing references to the former username with references to the replacement username, | ||
| * deleting the account's ], and | |||
| ⚫ | * posting a brief note indicating that the account owner has left Misplaced Pages and asking that people not refer to the account by its former username. | ||
| Vanishing is not a right in the strict sense of the word; rather, it is a courtesy extended by the Misplaced Pages community to make it easy for users to exercise their right to leave. Sometimes the community will not extend the courtesy: for example, if the user is not actually leaving, or if the user is not in good standing. Note also that the ] ] that an account's username will be changed on request. | |||
| == Right to vanish == | |||
| ==What vanishing is not== | |||
| 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: | |||
| Vanishing is not for users who are not exercising their right to leave. However, users who are not leaving are nevertheless free to ] at any time. | |||
| ⚫ | |||
| # 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; | |||
| ⚫ | |||
| ⚫ | The deletion of personally identifiable information about users (such as a phone number or a street address) is not vanishing, and users do not need to leave in order for this information to be deleted; such information can be deleted on request, provided it is not needed for administrative purposes, which are generally limited to dealing with site misuse issues. | ||
| 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 |
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| 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. | |||
| ==Exceptions== | |||
| The right to vanish does not extend to pages retained for the purposes of protecting Misplaced Pages against disruption; for example requests for arbitration, requests for check user, or sockpuppet categories. Right to vanish should not be used as a reason to delete user talk pages. | |||
| ==Notes== | |||
| {{reflist}} | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *] | *] | ||
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Revision as of 16:39, 9 February 2008
 | This page documents an English Misplaced Pages behavioral guideline. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page. | Shortcuts |
All Misplaced Pages users have the right to leave; the Misplaced Pages community will typically accord the right to vanish to users in good standing who exercise their right to leave.
Vanishing is the act of disassociating the identity of a user account from the identity of its owner, and typically involves:
- changing the username of the account,
- replacing references to the former username with references to the replacement username,
- deleting the account's user page and subpages, and
- posting a brief note indicating that the account owner has left Misplaced Pages and asking that people not refer to the account by its former username.
Vanishing is not a right in the strict sense of the word; rather, it is a courtesy extended by the Misplaced Pages community to make it easy for users to exercise their right to leave. Sometimes the community will not extend the courtesy: for example, if the user is not actually leaving, or if the user is not in good standing. Note also that the Wikimedia Foundation does not guarantee that an account's username will be changed on request.
What vanishing is not
Vanishing is not for users who are not exercising their right to leave. However, users who are not leaving are nevertheless free to request a change of username at any time.
The deletion of personally identifiable information about users (such as a phone number or a street address) is not vanishing, and users do not need to leave in order for this information to be deleted; such information can be deleted on request, provided it is not needed for administrative purposes, which are generally limited to dealing with site misuse issues.
See also
- The account must have made fewer than 200,000 edits. This is a technical limitation in the rename tool, not a policy limitation.