NavouWiki wrote: In short, no, and please ignore everything on that page. "Right to vanish" is a term that predates the Wikimedia projects. That Meta page originates from http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?RightToVanish -- read that, first, if you have not already done so. It's not a "right" in the sense that you appear to think it is. Asking if has been "given by the Wikimedia Foundation" is to me a meaningless question. If someone decides to leave a project the issue of what, if anything, happens is entirely an internal matter for that project. There should be no need nor desire for the Foundation to get involved, and for it to do so would seem to me to be exactly the sort of interference with individual projects that they aren't meant to do. All that official-sounding garbage on the Meta page has just been added over time; most of it is complete nonsense, and should be ignored. The sentence "the Right to Vanish is made available by goodwill of the Foundation" is utter rubbish, and whoever added it had no idea what they were talking about. The rest of the information on that page is dubious at best. For example, point 2 under "Alternative measures" has led to blocks on the English Wikipedia on the rare occasions that someone has been foolish enough to actually try it. -Gurch