ICANNWiki:Privacy policy/FAQ

Can I delete and/or anonymize any content I post on any ICANNWiki Website, if I don't want to be personally identified? If so, how?

ICANNWiki Websites use publicly-available revision histories to build consensus, promote transparency amongst contributors and editors, and affirm the authenticity of the content of our sites. Therefore, once you post information to the ICANNWiki Websites, it is public and you will likely not be able to remove it. Even if you remove certain content (say from a ICANNWiki article) yourself, it will still remain publicly available in the "view history" section of the article. Under certain circumstances, you may be able to request removal of a page or file or a part of the history of a page or file from public visibility (for example, if you accidentally post high-risk Personal Information like your credit card number).

You can also request suppression (oversight), in order to hide revisions, user names in edit histories and logs, or portions of individual log entries. Suppression is an on-wiki process that applies to specific uses.

If you are a registered user, we encourage you not to use your real name as your username if you do not want others to have a connection between what you post on the ICANNWiki Websites and your real name.

If you have already included personally identifying information (such as your real name) in your username and do not want to be personally identified with your contributions, we encourage you to request the anonymization of the information (instead of proceeding with the removal and suppression processes described above) by requesting a change of your username. For information on how to change your username, please contact staff@icannwiki.com.

The anonymization process cannot ensure complete or comprehensive anonymization of all of the content or information posted on ICANNWiki Websites related to your prior username. If your request is granted, the name change will only occur in automatically generated logs (such as page histories) in association with content that you posted. The name change will not delete mentions of your prior username by third parties. For example, if you changed your username from JohnDoe to ICANNwatcher2018, the content you contributed will be attributed to ICANNwatcher2018, but if another user has mentioned you by the name MichaelPaul in a discussion page, JohnDoe will continue to appear rather than ICANNwatcher2018.