{"id":9449,"date":"2024-03-11T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/?post_type=delete-your-account&#038;p=9449"},"modified":"2024-09-09T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T18:45:22","slug":"how-to-delete-your-wikipedia-account","status":"publish","type":"delete-your-account","link":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/delete-your-account\/how-to-delete-your-wikipedia-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Your Wikipedia Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#walkthrough-to-deleting-unlinking-your-wikipedia-account\">Walkthrough to Deleting\/Unlinking Your Wikipedia Account<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#1-access-the-wikipedia-website\">1. Access the Wikipedia website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#2-log-in-to-your-wikipedia-account\">2. Log in to your Wikipedia account <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#3-click-the-profile-icon-and-preferences\">3. Click the profile icon and &#8220;Preferences&#8221; <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#4-click-user-profile\">4. Click \u201cUser profile\u201d<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#5-change-or-remove-your-email-address-under-email-options\">5. Change or remove your email address under &#8216;Email options&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#6-click-change-email\">6. Click &#8220;Change email&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a collaborative project, Wikipedia maintains a transparent history of user contributions. To maintain this transparency, Wikipedia users can\u2019t delete their accounts directly. However, users can unlink their account from personal information and cease contributing if they wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <table style=\"width:100%; text-align:center;\">\r\n      <tr style=\"background-color:#d9edf7;\">\r\n        <th style=\"padding: 10px 0; font-size: 1.375rem; font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif; color: #000;\">Speed: 3<\/th>\r\n        <th style=\"padding: 10px 0; font-size: 1.375rem; font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif; color: #000;\">Difficulty: 3<\/th>\r\n      <\/tr>\r\n      <tr>\r\n        <td style=\"padding-top: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/level3difficulty.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/td>\r\n        <td style=\"padding-top: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/level3difficulty.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/td>\r\n      <\/tr>\r\n    <\/table>\r\n    \n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"walkthrough-to-deleting-unlinking-your-wikipedia-account\">Walkthrough to Deleting\/Unlinking Your Wikipedia Account<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlink your Wikipedia account from your personal information in six steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1-access-the-wikipedia-website\">1. Access the Wikipedia website<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the Wikipedia website by clicking the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-log-in-to-your-wikipedia-account\">2. Log in to your Wikipedia account <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Click &#8220;Log In&#8221; in the top right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Log in to your Wikipedia account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131136-1024x376.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia log in \" class=\"wp-image-9450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131136-1024x376.png 1024w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131136-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131136-768x282.png 768w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131136.png 1506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-click-the-profile-icon-and-preferences\">3. Click the profile icon and &#8220;Preferences&#8221; <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the profile icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, select \u201cPreferences\u201d from the dropdown menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131643.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia preferences under profile icon\" class=\"wp-image-9451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131643.png 436w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131643-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131643-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"4-click-user-profile\">4. Click \u201cUser profile\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Select &#8220;User Profile&#8221; to access the personal information contained in your Wikipedia profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"997\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131824.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia preferences - User profile button \" class=\"wp-image-9452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131824.png 997w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131824-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131824-768x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"5-change-or-remove-your-email-address-under-email-options\">5. Change or remove your email address under &#8216;Email options&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Scroll to the &#8216;Email Options&#8217; section.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"918\" height=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131857.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia email options \" class=\"wp-image-9453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131857.png 918w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131857-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131857-768x676.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, you can replace or delete the email with which you created your account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"6-click-change-email\">6. Click &#8220;Change email&#8221; <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the &#8220;Change email&#8221; button to complete the unlinking process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"955\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131928.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia - change or remove email address page \" class=\"wp-image-9454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131928.png 955w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131928-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-01-22-131928-768x487.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You have unlinked your email from wikipedia.org.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a collaborative project, Wikipedia maintains a transparent history of user contributions. To maintain this transparency, Wikipedia users can\u2019t delete their accounts directly. However, users can unlink their account from personal information and cease contributing if they wish. Walkthrough to Deleting\/Unlinking Your Wikipedia Account Unlink your Wikipedia account from your personal information in six steps. 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