Forum:How do I remove myself from a wiki?

Hi I have just set up a new wiki under a different name, and accidentally made a change under my old name. I don't wish to be under the wiki under 2 different names. Can I remove myself without needing to resort to admin-me?

Logging back in as admin, I tried deleting the user and talk pages, but of course the username is still there in red, and links to contributions of course are still blue. I don't think blocking me would work either would it? If I (admin!) blocked me (old name!) permanently, would that remove me from the site? If not, what, if anything, can I do??TellyFan 14:45, July 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi. Unfortunately, even if you block your other account, the account name will remain there. There's no way to get rid of it. Sorry. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 14:51, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the speedy reply. So not even wikia staff can do anything? How annoying! Is this something that simply no-one has got round to implementing, or is it for some reason seen as impossible to implement?
 * Ooops! Sorry. TellyFan 15:13, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Edits to a MediaWiki wiki need to be attributed, and allowing editors to delete accounts at will would make the history of a page confusing. Is there a certain reason why you don't want to have the 2nd name on the wiki, apart from looking neat, if not, I'd just suggest using the one account for future edits -- Random Time  16:35, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well it's partly for neatness but also cos I don't neccessarily want all and sundry to know all my internet activities. Sometimes it's nice to have different 'handles' for different purposes, for the sake of privacy.


 * Also, as I'm the only person at the wiki at present, it's annoying that it looks like someone else has joined in, when they haven't! The edit I made was an error anyway, so I just think it's a shame that there can't be some sort of rewind to revert it to how it was four hours ago! Supposing you had an army of vandals (say a large group of schoolkids at lunchtime) completelty disrupting the entire wiki, would you not be able to perform a rewind function then? It seems like something that would be useful, even if only wikia staff could do it...TellyFan 16:52, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Normally the vandilism would be reverted. But it would be techincally possible in that instance to have a database rollback. With most wikis it's not worth the hastle, a "large group of schoolkids at luchtime" is fairly easy to revert in the large amount of cases, and if you did have a database rollback, it'd not be "just before" the vandalism took place, it would be probably a week or more before (Not sure how often database backups occur, or how many of them are saved). If you really want to hide the edits, you can delete the page, and restore them without the revisions that you don't want, but that seems excessive. -- Random Time  17:33, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well since the page I accidentally edited was the "Browse" category, I certainly won't be deleting it lol. Oh well, I'll just have to live with it! Thanks for your time. TellyFan 17:52, July 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * I suggest you check out Help:Close my account for more information. The option on that page is about as close as you can get to deleting your account. If you think that having your secondary account name show in edit histories is a privacy risk you can contact Wikia and request that they use oversight to hide the revisions from the edit history. ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 17:54, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Via links from the Help:Close my account link above I spotted an option to rename a user. Presumably that would only affect it on that one wiki? I.e., it wouldn't change my username on this forum or other wikias? If I emailed wikia staff with the details, is this something they would do on my behalf? It seems a bit complicated for my understanding!TellyFan 19:25, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

We currently don't support the ability to rename accounts in anything other than imports from Wikipedia. Sorry. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 20:22, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Brandon is right. The closest you can get is to get Wikia Staff to oversight. "case closed" Ω penBSDWiki 20:30, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * II take it that means this section is only for wikipedia, too? TellyFan 20:37, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

One thing with user accounts on Wikipedia and Wikia that you need to keep in mind is that Wikipedia is one wiki. Wikia has many thousands of wikis, so it's just not possible for us to remove user accounts due to issues it would cause with the database. Sorry. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 20:39, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, now I see that makes a lot of sense - I understand now where the difficulty lies. Thanks again to everyone for their time TellyFan 22:57, July 5, 2010 (UTC)