Comment 2 for bug 2773

A script now exists that purges what we can of an account, including all personal information (except what they left in their bug comments etc.). This can be run by special request by the DBA or a sysadmin.

Having seen the number of people who choose 'permanently remove this account' on the wikis and then want them to be recovered, it would be unwise for us to enable this easily from the web ui.

We still need to document that removal is possible somewhere users can find, and spell out the process (support request on Launchpad probably). I don't think it should be too easy to find though, as account removal adversely affects other users. eg. Bug comments left by now-removed accounts is confusing and allows no way of contacting the author if necessary, branches disappearing causes annoyance and possibly data loss, bugs owned by a now uncontactable and invalid account, etc. I don't think 'going home and taking your ball with you' should be encouraged when most users would be quite happy with just setting their email address to hidden, toggling the (as yet not implemented) "don't email me anything" flag and forgetting about it.