Because of the way the site works, Wikia cannot 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 wish 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 won'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. However, edits made by you in the past will still be attributed to your username.
Disabling an account
If you feel the above cannot be an option for you for various reasons, Wikia Staff can, upon your explicit request, disable the account for you. What this does:
- Blanks email stored in preferences.
- Changes password to randomly generated gibberish
- Changes "real name" in preferences to
Account disabled - 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.
Wikia Staff are also able to rename your account. Please see Rename my account for more details.
Technical reading
- FAQ at MediaWiki.org – and the potential problems about removing users from the system.