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To delete your GitHub account, follow the link provided > Click on ‘Delete account’ near the bottom of the page and follow the instructions. Some user content will continue to exist anonymously on the website.
Alternative way to close your personal GitHub account:
1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
2. In the left sidebar, click Account.
3. At the bottom of the Account Settings page, under “Delete account”, click Delete your account.
Before you can delete your personal account:
If you’re the only owner in the organization, you must transfer ownership to another person or delete your organization.
If there are other organization owners in the organization, you must remove yourself from the organization.
4. In the “Make sure you want to do this” dialog box, complete the steps to confirm you understand what happens when your account is deleted:
1) Recall that all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests and GitHub Pages sites owned by your account will be deleted. Your billing will end immediately. Your username will be available for anyone to use after 90 days.
2) In the first field, type your username or email.
3) In the second field, type the phrase from the prompt.
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