Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.174.84.233-20131209193619/@comment-188432-20131209200821

Here's what you do. Let's say that the email account you're trying to register under is me@me.com Perform the following steps, in order:


 * Send yourself an email from me@me.com to me@me.com.  If you successfully receive the mail, you'll know your account is properly set up.
 * Make sure that your email account is not filtering mail from wikia.com as "junk"


 * Try one more time to start an account at Wikia. Check the email line three times to make sure it says me@me.com.  Press submit only after you're certain your email adreess is perfectly entered.
 * If after doing all that, you still can't set up the account, create a free email at Gmail or Yahoo or wherever, and try that account.
 * If that works, you can always manually switch your email in Special:Preferences back to me@me.com by going to Special:Preferences

If you're not able to set up a Wikia account with a brand-new email address that you've just set up at one of the major free email providers, something is seriously wrong, and you'll need to contact Wikia Staff. Do this by going to Special:Contact.