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September 29

To Deactivate Account

How do i deactivate my account from wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankit.dobarkar (talk • contribs) 05:28, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• Hello Ankit.dobarkar and welcome to Wikipedia. As per our policy on deactivating accounts (which you may read), "It is not possible to delete user accounts, as all contributions must be assigned to some identifier; either a username or an IP address. Editors seeking privacy per WP:Courtesy vanishing / right to vanish can usually have their accounts renamed and their user pages (and in exceptional cases user talk pages) deleted". So my suggestion would be that if you want to stop using your user name/account, just stop using it. That's would be sufficient. Thanks. Lourdes 06:13, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
• (edit conflict) @Ankit.dobarkar: Wikipedia accounts are generally a permanent thing, they exist forever. You are, however, quite free to choose to stop using it whenever you want, and without any explanation expected. Just virtually walk away from it, don't look back, and it's over. You can formally WP:VANISH, but there's really no need for that when you have no edit history. If you have a specific problem, concern, or question, please do ask about it here. Murph9000 (talk) 06:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

PMC limit update needed? (Citation/CS1/Identifiers)

I've been cleaning up CS1 citation errors lately, and I've noticed a couple of cases where apparently valid PMC values (e.g., Oncogenomics ref 29; Orphan gene ref 30) have generated an error. I'm not real knowledgeable about the PMC system, but I think it might be because the value we check against (5000000) needs to be increased. Could someone who knows more about PMC's take a look and confirm? Thanks. --Floatjon (talk) 09:28, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Not sure if you are saying that you recognize what is at Help:CS1 errors#bad_pmc or not. But this should be talked about at Help talk:CS1 errors, I've copied the comment there...Naraht (talk) 09:43, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

photos

• Draft:Justin Hansford (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I am trying to upload a photo that I took and have clicked the box acknowledging this but I am being told it may not be allowed in the Commons. Is there another way to accomplish this? Thank yoU!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cduggan4 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Cduggan4 What image do you want to upload? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I made an entry for a professor I've been reading and following -- Justin Hansford -- and I tried to upload a photo I took but it's not allowing it. Also tried to upload a photo I had permission to use (from his university), but getting the same error message. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cduggan4 (talk • contribs) 20:35, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Cduggan4. If you took the picture yourself, and you tick the box that says you took it and you release it under CC-BY-SA, it should work. What is the exact message you get when it doesn't succeed?

A picture that you have permission to use is a different matter: it won't be accepted for two reasons: first, one of the principles of Wikipedia (and particularly for Wikimedia Commons) is that material be freely reusable, so we require that images be either in the public domain, or explicitly released under a suitable licence such as CC-BY-SA (which allows anybody to reuse it for any purpose, even commercial). Secondly, the copyright owner needs to communicate that to Wikimedia themselves: they can't just tell you. Please see Donating copyright materials. --ColinFine (talk) 22:40, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@ColinFine: I don't think he is autoconfirmed, and thus cannot upload files. Pppery 22:45, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Pppery, that's true on Wikipedia, but uploading files to Commons doesn't require autoconfirmed status. commons:commons:Autoconfirmed users. --ColinFine (talk) 07:46, 30 September 2016 (UTC)