How to Close Your wikiHow Account

If you don’t want to permanently close your account, you can follow the steps below instead. If you already followed the above steps, you don’t need to complete these steps.

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   Log out and simply stop logging back in. Remember that you are a volunteer. At wikiHow, you are never obligated to contribute. If you are no longer happy at wikiHow, and you want to quit, for any reason, all you have to do is to stop signing in. You can then choose to sign in again in the future or not; it's up to you.

   • Optionally, add {{retired}} to your talk page to let people know that you are no longer on the site.
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   Remove your email or disable wikiHow emails if you want to stop getting messages from wikiHow. Go to your preferences. Click on Notifications and remove any e-mail address associated with your account. Just leave the email address area blank.

   • You can also click "disable" next to your "Receive emails from wikiHow" option in order to turn off email notifications. Do this if you do not want to disassociate your email altogether.
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   Erase your user page if you just want to take personal details off it.

   • Click on the "My Profile" dropdown from the top of any wikiHow page. Click on "My User Page"
   • Click "Remove Profile" to remove your profile box information, and confirm when the dialog box pops up.
   • Click on the Edit tab. Highlight everything there, and delete it.
   • Click "Publish". This will make your user page blank.
   • People will still be able to see the historical user page edits, by viewing the page history. If you would like to have the history erased as well, consider full account closure.
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   Erase your talk page if you want to remove old messages. Go to the "Talk" tab on your user page, and on the talk page, press "Edit" and erase all the content. You do not need to nominate the page for deletion, however. It is unlikely that you have put any identifying information on your talk page.

   • An easy way is to press Ctrl + A ( ⌘ Cmd + A on Mac) and press the delete key. Then press the "Publish" button at the bottom of the page.
   • People will still be able to see the historical talk page edits, by viewing the page history. If you would like to have the history erased as well, consider full account closure.
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   Change your display name, if you want to. Go to preferences and change your real name and nickname. If you leave these fields blank, your username (shown in the URL of your profile page) will be used to attribute your work.
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