Help:Closing an account

Because of the way the site works, Wikia does not remove or delete accounts.

If you feel that you need to leave or quit Wikia, you can just stop using your account. You may want to consider leaving a message on your User and User_talk pages before doing this, informing others in the community that you are no longer available. If you want to stop receiving emails from Wikia, you can remove or change the email address in your preferences.

If you want to be sure your account can not be used by you again, you can also scramble your password so that you don't know it. Removing your email and scrambling your password can both be done by visiting your preferences. Together, they have the same effect as closing your account. Edits made by you in the past will still be attributed to your username. If you feel this is not an option for any reasons, Wikia Staff can, upon your explicit request, "disable" the account for you.

Disabling an account
What this does:
 * Blanks email stored in preferences.
 * Changes password to randomly generated gibberish
 * Changes "real name" in preferences to
 * Marks the account as disabled internally (this shows on Special:Contributions, and other places)

What this does NOT do:
 * Remove your username from any edit histories
 * Remove your username from any logs (such as moves)
 * Remove any pages you have created
 * Remove any edits you have made to any page
 * Release the name for another user to use later

If you feel this is absolutely needed, contact Wikia Community Support team by using the Contact Wikia link at the bottom of any page.

This change is permanent. No backup of this private information is kept after an account is disabled, and the account will not be "undone" for any reason.

Technical reading

 * FAQ at MediaWiki.org – and the potential problems about removing users from the system.