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Forgotten password with no email

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109.213.7.154 (talkcontribs)

Hi,

I'd like to start re-using my old Wikipedia account which I made in 2014 and haven't used since 2016ish. My password doesn't seem to work. I tried resetting the password but that doesn't seem to work either, I don't receive any email; I don't know if I ever attached the account to a specific email address, maybe I didn't.

The account is called @Liberivore and apparently still exists.

Any chance of getting it back or is it dead and gone and I should make a new account?

Thank you for any assistance.

Malyacko (talkcontribs)

If you find a way to absolutely surely prove that you are the very same person who also once created that very account, then please share more info.

109.213.7.154 (talkcontribs)

Hi,

If it has an email address associated with it, my name is in that address.

If not, I found the list of contributions from that account (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Liberivore&dir=prev&offset=20150422203729&target=Liberivore). One of the very first edits is to the page of my high school and, a few years later, that of my university and that of my senator. I'd be able to prove all of those things individually. I don't know if that's sufficient though as there could hypothetically be someone with very similar life-interests.

Thanks

L

90.14.219.38 (talkcontribs)

I'm not sure how this platform works. Should I ping @Malyacko ?

Bawolff (talkcontribs)

we generally dont give people back their accounts unless they have iron clad proof (e.g. the type of proof you would use in court). This is very hard to provide, most peolle would just have to create a new account. Sorry.

109.212.152.56 (talkcontribs)

Gotcha. Thank you for your help, I'll do that.

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