Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians

This is a list of Wikipedians who no longer edit the English Wikipedia and are considered missing by the community.

Wikipedians who have been confirmed to have died should instead be added to Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians.

Purpose of this list

The purpose of this list is to provide a reminder of those who have left and their reasons for doing so.

Please do not add users with fewer than ~1,000 edits. Do not add people unless you are certain they have left. Do not add anonymous users identified by their IP address or (for UseModWiki-era accounts) domain names; they may have a roaming IP address or possibly created an account to contribute. Do not add banned users, or yourself. Leave a message on the person's talk page to let them know that you have added them to this list; they can remove themselves if they ever return. Retired Wikipedians who do not wish to be listed may also remove themselves.

• People who leave a goodbye message or a {{retired}} template on their user page or elsewhere, and then actually refrain from editing for at least 3 months are likely to have left permanently and may be added to the list.
• Wait at least 3 months before listing someone who has simply ceased editing, unless you have some other reason for being certain that they have left.
• Generally, editors who have gradually adopted a pattern of occasional editing interspersed with long breaks should not be listed merely because they are on one of their breaks.
• Editors who return are no longer "missing" and therefore should be removed from the list.
• Editors who have received a courtesy vanishing intentionally want to be missing and should not be listed.
• If you add your own username to the list, even as one of your final edits, your addition might be reverted since it is impossible for a "missing" Wikipedian to make an edit.

The entries with the mop icon beside their names are Wikipedia administrators, or have been at one time (many are procedurally desysopped due to inactivity; see also Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive.)

All dates featured on this page correspond with UTC times.

Index Numbers and other characters A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Numbers and other characters

• -- April (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An early Wikipedian, made her first surviving edit as "April" on December 14, 2001. Final edit was to post a notice advising of future intermittent editing. Has not edited since. Last edit May 6, 2006.
• ²¹² (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 24, 2003. Final edit stated that this user was "Taking a break." Has not edited since.
• !! (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 3, 2007. Left after the Durova arbitration case.
• *drew (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution on May 1, 2011. Editing slowed down heavily after October 2007, only making four edits since then which were to archive their talk page, with their last edit adding a busy status on their userpage. Has made no edits since then.
• ( (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on November 17, 2016. Made 2,839 edits, with most of these being made in 2003. Activity ended after 2004, and was indefinitely blocked in 2006 due to their username but was later unblocked in 2009, not editing until 2013, making four edits on April 30, 2013. Made two more edits afterwards, with the last and final edit in 2016. First edit was made on February 27, 2002.
• 16@r (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on May 5, 2021. Prolific contributor with over 31,000 edits and 4,788 created pages. Editing slowed down significantly after 2008, making only sporadic edits afterwards, until a stop after 2013. Made a brief return in 2021, making 16 edits until their final edit. First edit was made on January 26, 2006.
• 168... (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit April 21, 2004. Blanked user & user talk pages on March 7, 2004, returning to make a handful of edits (including the final edit) to a request for arbitration in April 2004. More details available at RfDA.
• 17Drew (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, previously User:ShadowHalo. Made almost 21,000 edits; the last two, in 2008, pointed to his new account user:PiracyFundsTerrorism, which made sporadic edits in July–August 2009 and March–May 2011. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2011.
• 2112 rush (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 15, 2007. Formerly User:Jfurr1981.
• 21655 (talk · contribs · count) – Retired on August 20, 2011.
• 52 Pickup (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator who stopped editing on May 9, 2008. Made three more edits on October 25, the last one leaving a retirement notice on his talk page. Made one edit on April 6, 2009.
• とある白い猫 (talk · contribs · count) – Hasn't edited since October 6, 2018. Prolific contributor who has made 60,671 edits and created 3,051 pages. Activity slowed after 2007, with spikes of increased activity occurring on occasion, until 2018 where activity dropped and soon ceased. First edit was made on February 4, 2005.

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• A930913 (talk · contribs · count) Last edited frequently in April 2016. Made 10,655 edits to Wikipedia. Last edit on February 15, 2021 to post they are now retired.
• A.Garnet (talk · contribs · count) – Made extensive contributions to Turkey-related topics; developed Suleiman the Magnificent to featured article status. Last edit March 11, 2009. Made 3,671 edits in total.
• A Man In Black (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Former administrator. Last edited on June 15, 2009, and was desysopped on June 27. Prolific contributor, with 38,430 edits. As of February 2020, 11 years after going dormant, they are still in the top 2200 of the most prolific editors ever.
• A Musing (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution April 4, 2008.
• AAA! (talk · contribs · count) – Placed wikibreak templates on user and talk page on October 27, 2009; edited user page on August 9, 2010. Returned to make one page move in March 2014.
• AAA765 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 22, 2008.
• Aarktica (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit November 3, 2009.
• Aaron (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 10, 2012. First edit December 7, 2002.
• Aaron-Tripel (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 7, 2014.
• AbbyKelleyite (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 10, 2010.
• Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk · contribs · count) – A prolific countervandalism and AfC editor and user script developer; he made over 48,000 edits and about 250 with his alternate account. Last edited with his main account on February 27, 2019 by adding a Wikibreak enforcer to his common.js, though he put up {{retired}} templates with his alt the next day. Last edited with his alt with an RfA vote on April 24, 2019.
• Abigail-II (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 12, 2004. First edit February 4, 2004. Final edits were unhappy farewells posted on user, user talk and the Village Pump. Excerpt from user page: "I've no interest in working on a system where people break down your work without discussing it on appropriate page."
• Abrech (talk · contribs · count) – Active Huggle user who stopped editing for a long time after June 2, 2008. Made a handful of edits on March 16, 2013. Made 3 edits on March 13, 2022.
• Abu badali (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 11, 2007. Left over concerns regarding non-free content usage, per the final edit. The final edit also indicates the user may return in "some months", depending upon progress in this area. Edited twice in 2008, making comments in discussions over the policy.
• Acetic Acid (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - A 2005 editor, they made 176 edits in 2006, only 29 edits in 2007, with a final edit on July 29, 2015.
• Acidburn24m (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 17, 2008.
• ACSE (talk · contribs · count) – Japanese Wikipedian with 42,000 edits over 5 years. Last edit October 19, 2011. Requested for his user page to be deleted on the same day.
• Active Banana (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution June 12, 2011.
• Actown (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 22, 2019.
• Adam Carr (talk · contribs · count) – Started contributing in September 2003. After many months of increasing frustration, stopped editing regularly on February 15, 2007, then posted on May 6 that he would no longer contribute to Wikipedia. Made a few sporadic edits afterwards.
• Adambro (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit October 4, 2012.
• AdamRetchless (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 14, 2009, first edit 2002.
• Adamsan (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: May 1, 2006. Replaced most user page content with "I give up. You win." on April 29, 2006, then removed that message with the final edit. May have left over concerns with external linking, per this edit to Talk:Stonehenge.
• AED (talk · contribs · count) – Was an active editor until suddenly completely stopping in November 2006. Over 14,000 edits.
• AgentPeppermint (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 23, 2008; returned on January 20, 2010 to blank the user page and post a farewell notice. Made sporadic edits in 2011–2013.
• Agnte (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor on Australian topics. Began trailing off in 2006, took most of the following year off and edits dwindled further. Last edit June 19, 2011.
• Aido2002 (talk · contribs · count) – Was quite active until 2011. Made sporadic edits in 2013 and 2014. Made over 2,100 contributions to Wikipedia and was last seen editing on April 1, 2014.
• Aitias (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last seen on January 22, 2010; 47,000+ edits. Former administrator.
• Akhilleus (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Was an admin from 2007 until they were desysopped for inactivity in 2019. Last edit made on 30 October 2018.
• Akira Kouchiyama (talk · contribs · count) – Over 2,000 edits with last edit coming in 2015.
• Akld guy (talk · contribs · count) – 21,000 edits. Editing was increasing year by year then suddenly stopped, with last edit 24 November 2019.
• Akradecki (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Admin with a keen interest in aviation; last mainspace edit March 16, 2010. Made three edits in userspace in March 2015.
• Aksi great (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Prolific Indian Wikipedian, has not edited regularly since May 2008 with the exception of a brief period in August 2010. Last edit November 26, 2011.
• Alai (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit May 20, 2009. Administrator with over 60,000 edits. Operated Alaibot.
• Alan Liefting (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 5, 2015. First edit January 3, 2004. Over 125,000 edits. Has not returned after his last block expired. Made one edit on July 28, 2019.
• Alan16 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 23, 2018, which was to blank their userpage. Previous edit was made over 5 years before final edit, with past edits becoming sporadic after 2010. First edit was made on May 25, 2008.
• Alanmaher (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 27, 2019.
• AlasdairGreen27 (talk · contribs · count) - Last contribution December 21, 2010, with no reason given on inactivity. Contributor with over 4,000 edits who began editing on August 27, 2007.
• AlbertSM (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer with 43,016 edits. Consistently active from March 2006 until unexplained full stop in March 2014. As of April 2022, 8 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of the most prolific editors ever.
• Alegoo92 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 29, 2013.
• AlexandrDmitri (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - Last edited December 24, 2021.
• Alii h (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 24, 2008, except for one edit on July 9, 2009.
• AliveFreeHappy (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – A ten year-editor, their last edit was April 27, 2017.
• Allens (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution August 11, 2012.
• Allstarecho (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor and rollbacker with 41,100 edits. Created 4,911 pages. Consistently active from September 2007 to August 2009, when frustration with a series of bans and blocks over an issue led to posting "This user is sick of the bullshit and is now officially retired." Made a few sporadic edits until full stop in June 2012. As of February 2020, 11 years after first becoming virtually dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• AlMac (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution July 8, 2007.
• ALoan (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit: July 30, 2007 – Requested de-adminship and left a goodbye message on user talk with the final edit. Returned briefly to make 4 edits on July 15, 2009. Renamed to RetiredUser2 (talk · contribs · count)
• Alpha Monarch (talk · contribs · count) – Was a pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with over 3,000 edits. Made his last edit in 2016.
• Alphax (talk · contribs · count) – Long term editor, no edits since February 2007.
• Alren (talk · contribs · count) – Only three edits since May 31, 2006, the last on December 17, 2008.
• Amarkov (talk · contribs · count) – A three-time loser at RfA, their last edit on March 15, 2009 was preceded by userpage sour grapes.
• Ambuj.Saxena (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, who started editing in 2006. Helped in bringing Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur to featured article status, made last edit on June 20, 2018.
• Amcaja (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit January 8, 2008 – Former administrator. Relinquished tools and retired.
• Amgine (talk · contribs · count) – Userpage bears retired banner, declaring in July 2015 "I will simply continue to add the odd contributions to projects I find more welcoming." Made 5 edits afterwards, most recently in October 2017.
• AnakngAraw (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 19, 2014. Many edits on Asian topics.
• And we drown (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 3, 2013.
• Anderson (talk · contribs · count) – User with over 2,000 edits. Posted on his user page that he was taking a two-week to a month-long break in August 2013, then made his last edit one week later.
• Andreasegde (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor on Beatles-related articles. Retired in April 2013 and has not edited since.
• Android79 (talk · contribs · count) – Went on wikibreak and only made four edits since, the last of which was on December 12, 2008.
• Andux (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 1, 2013.
• Andy Marchbanks (talk · contribs · count) – Began in 2006. Last edit November 3, 2010.
• AndyZ (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit February 14, 2011, but no serious activity since July 24, 2008. Made a brief return to editing on June 2020, but has made no edits since then.
• Angela (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - Elected admin in June 2003, she was one of the first one hundred admins on en-wp. In 2004 she was one of the first elected members of the WMF Board of Trustees. She was the co-founder of WikiCities (which later became Wikia). After having become an inactive editor for a decade, she handed in her mop in August 2020.
• AngelOfSadness (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit January 29, 2017.
• Anglius (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on June 3, 2007.
• AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, announced retirement on August 2, 2010.
• Anna Frodesiak (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Prolific editor and former administrator. Her last edit was timestamped: 00:01, 2021 October 24 to wikilink a term in Swarm robotics. If you had the privilege to know or interact with Anna, you are a lucky one and know why she is missed. If you did not know her, you missed a chance to observe and know one of the very best who ever helped build Wikipedia.
• ANNAfoxlover (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: August 30, 2007 – User talk page notes "computer problems" since April 25, 2007, which may be related (notice was added by User:Deskana). Returned in August 2008 for a spell but disappeared again, then briefly returned to make one edit on April 26, 2014, followed by another one on January 6, 2019.
• Anonymous101 (talk · contribs · count) – Has not edited since placing a retirement notice in 2009.
• Anonymous anonymous (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: December 23, 2006 – Announced her/his retirement on September 1, 2006, with real-life concerns cited as the reason for leaving in subsequent edits. Returned briefly in December 2006 to leave some seasons' greetings. Made one post to own talk page in March 2019.
• Anonymous Dissident (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator with over 47,000 edits between 2007 through 2021. Last edit was made on February 15, 2021. First edit was made on January 17, 2007. Was previously desysopped due to inactivity in 2014.
• Anonymous editor (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit: June 17, 2006 – Administrator.
• Antepenultimate (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 25, 2017.
• Appraiser (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific contributor, with 42,464 edits and 2,000 pages created from Aug 2006 to Sep 2008, then just 30 random edits before unexplained full stop in March 2012. As of March 2020, over 11 years after first going virtually dormant, was still in the top 1900 of most prolific editors ever.
• Apollomelos (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: August 19, 2005 – User & user talk pages were deleted May 21, 2005 by request, citing the reason "I am leaving the project because I no longer have the time to spare contributing to often controversial topics in which I must spend 75% of my time explaining the information to users who did not even bother to read up on the topics[...]". Final edit indicated this user would be returning; has not edited since.
• Apostrophe (talk · contribs · count) – Blanked his user and talk pages on August 4, 2008; last edit on February 25, 2009.
• Aranel (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit May 31, 2013; previous edit September 1, 2005.
• Aranho (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 20, 2016.
• Archola (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: December 3, 2008. Had been editing since 2005.
• Arda Xi (talk · contribs · count) – A Dutch 14-year editor, he was active primarily in 2016 and before, having made only a couple edits in succeeding years, making a possible last edit on November 5, 2021.
• Ardenn (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: August 14, 2006 – Posted an unhappy valediction on their user page July 27, 2006, but made fifteen more edits before the final edit. A more detailed explanation for the departure was subsequently posted on user talk by User:Captainktainer.
• ArielGold (talk · contribs · count) - Contributor to a few GAs, author of several articles and DYKs, and the recipient of dozens of barnstars, her main period of activity was 2007 to 2009 with brief burst of editing in 2013 and finally in 2019.
• Argolin (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 7, 2014.
• Ark30inf (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit: February 22, 2004 – Left October 24, 2003 with the posting of several farewell messages indicating concerns at a lack of cooperation. Returned briefly in February 2004 to request de-adminship and have user & user talk pages deleted.
• Arknascar44 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 21, 2009.
• Arriva436 (talk · contribs · count) – Pending changes reviewer who mainly edited UK transport articles. Last edit January 29, 2013, adding onto their user page a {{semi-retired}} banner along with a notice on why they had left; this was subsequently removed per WP:POLEMIC.
• ARTEST4ECHO (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer with 42,000 edits and 1,143 pages created, including extensive work on articles relating to the Latter Day Saint movement, before sudden unexplained full stop in September 2015. As of March 2020, over 4 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Arundhati_bakshi (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: March 15, 2007.
• Astral (talk · contribs · count) – Retired Huggle user; last edit on May 30, 2008. Made one edit almost three years later on May 1, 2011.
• AtheWeatherman (talk · contribs · count) – Edited frequently for two years before stopping in December 2009. Made one last edit on November 6, 2010.
• AtilimGunesBaydin (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor to Turkey-related topics; instrumental in improving Turkish language to featured article status. Edits began trailing off in April 2010; hasn't edited since August 23, 2012.
• Audude08 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit: April 7, 2008. User page deleted. Left retirement template and message on talk page.
• Avenged Eightfold (talk · contribs · count), formerly Red Thunder (talk · contribs) and Stormtracker94 (talk · contribs) – A five-time loser at RfA, they earned several awards for both content creation and countervandalism; their lone GA was Backbreaker (video game). After amassing almost 16,000 edits announced in August 2010 that they were on holiday and never returned.
• Azalea pomp (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 4, 2010.
• Azer Red (talk · contribs · count), Avant Guard (talk · contribs · count) (alternate acct. for vandal fighting) – Retired both accounts December 2007. Blanked talk and user pages on November 2, 2008.
• Azylber (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 18, 2014.

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• B. Wolterding (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on March 23, 2010.
• B.Wind (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on May 6, 2010.
• Badbilltucker (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on January 28, 2007 on arbitration with User:RyanFreisling.
• Bahavd Gita (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 4, 2012.
• Balcer (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on September 8, 2007.
• Bald Zebra (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Only three edits in 2020 and none since.
• Balloonman (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edited on June 12, 2012. Left a retirement notice on his userpage. Has occasionally edited as an IP after his retirement.
• Banes (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – On August 29, 2006 he left a retirement message on his userpage, saying he would be busy for the next few months, though he continued editing sporadically. Last edit on April 19, 2013.
• Baristarim (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on March 18, 2022.
• Barney the barney barney (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on September 3, 2014.
• Barkjon (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 18, 2015.
• Barneca (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, retired. Last edit July 23, 2009.
• Barrettmagic (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 19, 2021. Was indefinitely blocked after being compromised.
• Bart133 (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit on October 19, 2011.
• BartonPaul (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on March 8, 2007. Edited only architecture-related articles.
• Basara-kun (talk · contribs · count) – Left on July 20, 2007 after uploading 50+ unsourced images. "Enough. My contributions are ignored, my images are removed from the articles and in general, my editions aren't "encyclopedic"."
• Batman2005 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on July 21, 2008.
• Bcrowell (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 13, 2006. "Wikipedia was fun for a few years, but at this point I think it's entered a stage where it's just not fun anymore.... I've intentionally munged my password, so I can no longer log in." Apparently reappeared briefly as Bcrowell2 (talk · contribs · count).
• Begonia Brandbygeana (talk · contribs · count) – Made their last edit on July 8, 2013. Contributor with over 4,000 edits. First edit was made on December 18, 2011. No reason was given as to why activity stopped.
• Bejinhan (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 24, 2019.
• Ben (talk · contribs · count) – Highly experienced with templates, improving several of them. Last edit was on May 18, 2007.
• Ben-Zin~enwiki (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 7, 2004. First edit June 8, 2002.
• Ben b (talk · contribs · count) – Made over 2,400 contributions to Wikipedia. Was very active until July 2014. Last edit on December 13, 2018.
• Benc (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit December 23, 2004. Made 1 edit in June 2020, 9 edits in December 2020 and 18 edits in January 2021.
• Bencherlite (talk · contribs · count) – A ten-year editor, Bencherlite essentially stopped editing in December 2017 not counting two final edits on January 25, 2018.
• Benny the mascot (talk · contribs · count) – Instrumental in getting Benet Academy to GA status. Not edited since 2010.
• Bentley Banana (talk · contribs · count) – Has not edited since February 2011.
• Berean Hunter (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who last edited on October 1, 2020. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2021.
• Berkut (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 4, 2014. Was active during 2005, after which edits began to slow down, only increasing in early 2006 before slowing down to sporadic edits until complete stop in 2014. No reason was given on inactivity.
• Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 14, 2013. Made one edit to userpage in April 2016.
• BeteNoir (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 9, 2007 – left a reason on their user page, which was resigning over the then-deletion of Allison Stokke.
• Betsythedevine (talk · contribs · count) – Betsy Devine says to have mostly retired and her userpage says she occasionally edits from a clean-start account. Continues to do specific type of edits every now and then.
• Bever (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was made on August 24, 2021, in an article. First made was made on May 4, 2013.
• Big Adamsky (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 27, 2006, followed by one edit in November 2013, one in September 2014, and one in May 2016.
• Bikeable (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 15, 2013.
• Biker Biker (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 41,000 edits. Created 6,016 new pages, many dealing with motorcycles and automobiles. Consistently active from May 2009 until unexplained full stop in June 2013. As of February 2020, nearly 7 years after stopping, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• BigNate37 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on August 31, 2012.
• Bikeroo (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on April 4, 2015 indicated retirement.
• Bill Oaf (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing regularly after April 20, 2007. Last edit November 9, 2008.
• Bill william compton (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 8, 2019.
• Bine Mai (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor and pending changes reviewer with 41,700 edits. Created 7,305 pages, active editor of articles relating to rugby, association football and their homeland of Romania. Consistently active from June 2007 to July 2013, then sporadic until unexplained full stop in July 2019. As of February 2020, 7 years after first becoming virtually dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Biosketch (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution April 20, 2013.
• BL (talk · contribs · count) (now BL~enwiki (talk · contribs · count)) – Left notice on userpage. Last edit May 15, 2004.
• Black Falcon (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit August 9, 2020.
• Blackjacks101 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited on July 13, 2014, in which user blanked talk page and had userpage deleted. Only made sporadic edits in 2012, and does not appear to have edited actively since May 2011.
• BlankVerse (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 5, 2007. Made one edit on April 8, 2008. "There are times when editor behavior and decision making, as well as governance on the Wikipedia, seems closer to the "Lord of the Flies" than the Quaker ideal of civility and consensus that the Wikipedia professes to follow. There is no joy in Mudville tonight."
• Blargh29 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 19, 2010.
• Bleubeatle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 6, 2012. Retired "Due to bullying, gaming, lawyering and stalking from disruptive users."
• Blood Lines of Darkness (talk · contribs · count) – Editor who contributed to music articles, among other things. Last edit was on April 20, 2010.
• Blood Red Sandman (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edited on July 22, 2020.
• BloodDoll (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited in July 2019, then stopped abruptly. Came back on August 4, 2021 to make numerous automated edits.
• Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs · count) – Active on Simple English Wikipedia, Bluegoblin7 essentially retired from editing in January 2015, only making one edit on August 24, 2015 and no edits since then.
• Bluemoose (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (aka Martin) – Left a departure message on December 1, 2006. Has not edited since.
• BM (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 2, 2005; gave no reason.
• Bmicomp (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, focus on articles relating to Chicago. Made full stop on September 28, 2014, returned for a moment with a single edit on January 14, 2017, and briefly returned once again making an edit on March 27, 2022.
• Boadrummer (talk · contribs · count) – Left April 27, 2009, did not announce departure. Later made three edits in July 2011 and one to own userpage on October 25, 2013. Had a large number of edits mostly related to music.
• Bobblewik (talk · contribs · count) – More than 20,000 edits, but none since October 4, 2006, after heavy criticism was made on his talk page. Apparently came back as Editore99 (talk · contribs) and most recently Lightmouse (talk · contribs). See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking.
• Bøllefrø (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 31, 2006.
• BoogerD (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 2, 2020.
• BoojiBoy (talk · contribs · count) – Almost 9000 edits, stopped prolific editing in August 2006, then returned in May 2007 before retiring for good on June 11, 2007. Left a message on his talk page, "I gave it another chance, nothing has changed here and it's not worth my time. I won't be back this time."
• Bornintheguz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 3, 2005. A very prolific contributor to articles about soccer.
• Boson (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - A fifteen-year editor, Boson asked to be desysopped in November 2018 saying they would "not be able to devote as much time to the project" afterward unsubscribed from newsletters and never edited again.
• BostonMA (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 17, 2007; stopped editing prolifically in February, a month after a failed RfA. 6000+ edits. No reason given.
• Bpeps (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 15, 2008. Created the essay Wikipedia:Cabals.
• Brambleberry of RiverClan (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 18, 2018.
• BrandonYusufToropov (talk · contribs · count) – Often signed as "BYT". Last edit September 6, 2009.
• Brat32 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 24, 2006; blanked their userpage and replaced it with the message "I'm gone."
• BrendelSignature (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit January 27, 2013.
• Brian (talk · contribs · count) – Regular editing dried up in 2013. Most recent edit of any sort was in January 2018. Brian had contributed to Wikipedia (and other WMF projects) since 2005.
• BritishWatcher (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 24, 2013.
• Bryan Derksen (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific editor with over 99,000 edits. Last edit August 23, 2020, with first edit on August 21, 2001.
• Bullzeye (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing in early February 2010.
• Bunchofgrapes (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Former administrator. Last edit in 2019.
• Bwithh (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 2, 2007; creator of Wikipedia:Random page patrol; left goodbye notice on userpage.

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• Caerwine (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 4, 2008. Over 48,000 edits. Left over "method of handling varieties of national Englishes" or lack thereof.
• CalJW (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 26, 2007. Over 29,000 edits.
• Callinus (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 5, 2019.
• Camcallister (talk · contribs · count) – Userpage deleted November 17, 2007; last edit December 10, 2007. Mostly edited music articles.
• Camptown (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 23, 2008.
• Can't sleep, clown will eat me (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific vandal fighter with over 101,000 edits. Last edit was on April 1, 2008; he made a number of questionable blocks in May and July which led to his eventual desysopping on July 19 pending communication with ArbCom. Has not been heard from since.
• CanadianCaesar (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit April 19, 2007. Made one edit on April 10, 2009.
• Canadianism (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 8, 2014. First edit August 26, 2005.
• Candlewicke (talk · contribs · count) (now CLWE (talk · contribs · count)) – Last edit March 28, 2017. 52,784 edits since August 2006.
• Canihaveacookie (talk · contribs · count) – First edit December 18, 2007; last edit May 3, 2018, which was to blank their talk page.
• Canoe1967 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 11, 2014.
• Cantthinkofagoodname (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit May 26, 2006.
• Cantus (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 23, 2006. Had over 21,000 edits until being blocked for a month on that date due to violating a previous Arbitration Committee decision.
• Captain Disdain (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 17, 2009. Avid Reference Desk contributor.
• Captain Wikify (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 10, 2007. Added statement to his user page.
• Carbonite (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator; last edit February 11, 2006, user page says they've "lost interest in editing here" due to unimportant arguments.
• Casey Abell (talk · contribs · count) – Quit Wikipedia concerning the Durova/Giano conflict, at the end of November 2007. Last edit made December 2, 2007, voting on User:Newyorkbrad's Arbitration Committee election. Made over 11,000 edits. Briefly returned to create Victoria Clamp in October 2013.
• CasualObserver'48 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 23, 2018. First edit September 14, 2007.
• Casiraghitrio (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 9, 2011.
• Caspian blue (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 23, 2012, more than a year after preceding edit. Over 35,000 edits, and many new articles mostly related to South Korea.
• Catamorphism (talk · contribs · count) – Taking an indefinite break from Wikipedia, according to user's userpage. Last edit July 27, 2006. Reverted vandalism to own userpage in April 2011.
• Catapult (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 44,700 edits, including 10,500 pages created, all in 2006, their one and only year of editing. Made a request in April 2007 to have their user page deleted, so reasons for leaving are gone. As of March 2020, 14 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1700 of most prolific editors ever.
• Catbar (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; second to last edit was made on February 20, 2010. Made one final edit on April 18, 2015.
• Catgamer (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor with 41,700 edits. Created 515 pages, was active on Project:Tennis and US College Basketball. Consistently active from February 2011 until unexplained full stop in May 2014. Made two edits on January 3, 2021.
• CatherineMunro (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; last edit on March 14, 2015.
• Catchpole (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 17, 2020.
• CattleGirl (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; last edit April 4, 2008. Was desysopped in 2011 due to inactivity. Friendly contributor with 4,998 edits who was consistently active from 2006 to 2008, where editing ceased in April 2008, with no reason given on inactivity.
• Cavila (talk · contribs · count) – Added a "semi-retired" notice to their userpage in February 2011; made a declining number of edits until placing a "retired" notice on May 6, 2012. Made a single edit in October 2020.
• Cbdorsett (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 23, 2020.
• Cberlet (talk · contribs · count) – Asked for user page to be deleted and left in July 2008.
• Cdc (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 25, 2012.
• Celithemis (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 6, 2007.
• Celtus (talk · contribs · count) – Left a "retired" message on his user and talk page on September 25, 2009.
• Cernen (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 14, 2008.
• Chacor (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – A former admin, originally User:NSLE, then User:Chacor. Originally taking a long wikibreak, left a retirement message September 20, 2007. Made well over 10,000 edits on the English Wikipedia as Chacor alone. Made two edits on January 5, 2008.
• Chairman S. (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 21, 2008. Left retirement notice on page.
• Chamal N (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Owner of 50 DYKs and two Triple Crowns, he was elected admin months after registering in 2008. Chamal N made three edits in 2014, one on 2016, and his final one in 2020.
• CharlotteWebb (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 17, 2009. Made many edits to the technical village pump.
• CharonX (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution August 20, 2011.
• Cheeser1 (talk · contribs · count) – Left Wikipedia several times, always came back, but eventually posted a definitive and frustrated goodbye on his/her user page on April 12, 2008. Last edit May 17, 2008.
• Cherry blossom tree (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 24, 2010.
• ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 2010. Prolific article creator on popular culture topics, blocked because of disruption on political articles and banned for a year, a ban lengthened due to socking. Did not return.
• Chriscf (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing Wikipedia on March 31, 2007, without explanation, though after displaying frustration for being blocked. Frequently commented at Articles for deletion, and contributed to a wide variety of articles on subjects including railway stations, U.S. interstates, politics, and the internet.
• ChrisGualtieri (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 3, 2016.
• Chrishmt0423 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 8, 2019.
• Christopher Mahan (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit October 15, 2013.
• Christopherlin (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution March 2, 2012.
• Chronographos (talk · contribs · count) – Missing since October 14, 2005. Made one edit to his user page September 6, 2006.
• ChyranandChloe (talk · contribs · count) – Had edited in the areas of epidemiology and virology before going on a "short wikibreak" in March 2010. Last edit was to create Talk:Total Nonstop Action Wrestling/FAQ four months later.
• CimanyD (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific vandal fighter who has not edited regularly since October 30, 2011. Made one edit on November 3, 2011, then placed semi-wikibreak templates on profile and talk page on November 9, 2011. He has not been heard from since.
• Citrusbowler (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 21, 2013.
• CJ (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit September 14, 2021.
• CJLL Wright (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit March 31, 2012, after a gap of more than a year. Over 40,000 edits. Indicated that they would shortly be resuming but never did. Founded WikiProject Mesoamerica and was a prolific editor there.
• Clamster5 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 20, 2010. Headed the Lemony Snicket Task Force and contributed extensively to A Series of Unfortunate Events-related articles.
• Clicketyclack (talk · contribs · count) – Self-administered {{User EX-WP}} February 6, 2008. Contributor with >11,500 edits; WikiProject memberships at time of departure: Categories, Biology.
• CliffC (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution March 22, 2013.
• Clio the Muse (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor at the Reference Desks, particularly on history questions, 2006–2008. Last edit 2010. Left due to marriage/honeymoon and "all of my other commitments, professional, political and personal".
• Clubmarx (talk · contribs · count) – 13,100 edits; last edit before long stop on November 12, 2011. Made four edits on September 13, 2020.
• CloudNine (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former Administrator. Last edit January 1, 2018. Admin rights were removed in January 2013 due to inactivity. Does not appear to have edited actively since 2009.
• CO (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on November 24, 2007.
• Coasterman1234 (talk · contribs · count) – Member of WikiProject Amusement Parks. Last edited on November 24, 2008.
• Cobaltbluetony (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit July 17, 2015. Posted Wikibreak template in August 2010, slowed down as a contributor to an eventual stop in the three years to follow. Appears to have given no reason. Returned in June 2014, then edited occasionally for year and a month.
• Coelacan (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An admin, last edit November 23, 2007.
• Colin Kimbrell (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 4, 2006. Left over concerns about the Wikipedia:Reward board, saying, "I'm going on Wikibreak, maybe forever, due to WP:RB. I no longer wish to contribute my labor to the project under these conditions, as I feel that this tremendously misguided proposal deals a critical blow to the credibility of the project...If it dies, I might come back. Otherwise, best of luck, y'all"[1].
• ColourBurst (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 27, 2007.
• COMPFUNK2 (talk · contribs · count) – Signed as THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL. Over 18,000 edits, last edit Christmas 2009 to retire his account and leave a bitter farewell message feeling that he had been unfairly treated in discussions.
• Computerjoe (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on December 10, 2011.
• ConcernedVancouverite (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 20, 2013.
• Conte Giacomo (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on February 2, 2006.
• Cooltobekind (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 29, 2011.
• Coolug (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 18, 2013. Made there later edits in May 2017.
• Corax (talk · contribs · count) – Missing since May 22, 2006, following controversy and a block surrounding his posting of another Wikipedian's personal information.
• Coredesat (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, left retirement note on userpage March 30, 2008. Made a few edits afterward, last edit December 2, 2008.
• Cortonin (talk · contribs · count) – Missing since shortly after June 26, 2005, six-month ban from certain articles by Arbitration Committee. [2]
• Corvus cornix (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, with 40,200 edits. Stopped editing April 2011, saying "Done. Goodbye." in a post stating their reaction to feeling falsely accused of vandalism. As of February 2020, 9 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• CovenantD (talk · contribs · count) – Hasn't returned since being blocked for 3RR violation on March 23, 2007. Made a couple of edits now and then, the last on January 8, 2008.
• CowboySpartan (talk · contribs · count) – Left retirement notice on userpage April 2, 2012; last edit December 5, 2012.
• Cprompt (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. First edit August 21, 2002, last edit June 1, 2016.
• CrazyTalk (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on November 5, 2005. Left a departure note on his user page. "Closed up shop. The three months I was a Wikiholic have successfully served their purpose (postponing my career change) and have now run their course. I have also arrived at this conclusion: [3]."
• Cribcage (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 2009, first edit April 19, 2003.
• Cricket02 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 17, 2014; first edit August 29, 2006.
• Cricket246 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on August 13, 2018; missing since then.
• Crossmr (talk · contribs · count) – Formally retired in April 2012 but made their last edit on February 6, 2013.
• CrowzRSA (talk · contribs · count) - He earned numerous good articles and DYKs for music-related content. His prolific editing 2009 through 2011 led to a single edit in 2012, a return to heavy editing 2013-2014, four edits in 2015 and nothing in 2016, another spurt of activity in 2017 and only 18 more edits in 2018 perhaps because he was a college student.
• CRwikiCA (talk · contribs · count) – Declared semi-retirement on December 5, 2020 and hasn't edited since.
• Cryptic C62 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 1, 2018.
• Crystal Clear x3 (talk · contribs · count) – Frequent contributor to articles on music, film, and television. Has not edited since September 21, 2013.
• Csernica (talk · contribs · count) – Placed a "long wikibreak" notice on their user page on November 27, 2007. Made one more edit on December 21, 2007.
• CSJJ104 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on April 14, 2017.
• CultureDrone (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on May 15, 2009.
• Curps (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Declared a semi-Wikivacation on May 13, 2006, and made some bot edits, blocks, and deletions up until June 26, 2006, and then declared a long-term Wikivacation on August 1, 2006 and has not edited since.
• Curtis Clark (talk · contribs · count) – First edit on June 20, 2005; last edit on August 2, 2021.
• CWY2190 (talk · contribs · count) – Rollbacker, last edit on July 28, 2013.
• CyborgTosser (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit May 3, 2007.
• Cyrus XIII (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 2, 2015; preceding edit February 6, 2013.
• Czj (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 12, 2009.

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• Daaviiid (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 29, 2017.
• Dabackgammonator (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 29, 2010.
• Dadaesque (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 26, 2010.
• Daemonic Kangaroo (talk · contribs · count) – Retired on April 18, 2014 after an apparent disagreement.
• Damuna (talk · contribs · count) – Has not edited since November 18, 2012.
• Danakil (talk · contribs · count) – This user edited for only one and a half months, from August 1 to September 14, 2004, yet during that time made 3,089 edits. Although his page moves were controversial, he was responsible for the systematic and correct categorization of hundreds of programming languages and other software-related articles.
• DanDs (talk · contribs · count) – Expanded many articles to very good B-class articles, and helped to get The Sword of Shannara to GA, but he left suddenly on July 19, returning only 3 times after that, including blanking his userpage on September 5, 2008.
• DangerousPanda (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who has not edited since December 27, 2014, the day after he was desysopped following an arbitration case. As of February 2020, over 5 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Daniel11 (talk · contribs · count) – Edited from April 29, 2004 – Last edit July 18, 2008. Contributed primarily to beer-related articles.
• Daniel Olsen (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on May 27, 2008. Made a total of 6,244 edits at the time of being marked missing.
• Danny (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, former Wikimedia Foundation employee, prolific contributor with 41,000 edits. Present from nearly the start, with first edit in February 2002. Created 8,709 pages. Very active until April 2008, then sporadic edits until unexplained full stop in June 2014. As of February 2020, nearly 12 years after first becoming virtually dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Darkfred (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 27, 2006.
• Darkspots (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 24, 2008. Announced retirement on talk page.
• Darkwind (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who last edited on April 12, 2021. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2022.
• Darthgriz98 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Announced retirement in July 2008. Returned briefly in January 2009. Last edit August 20, 2009.
• Darth Panda (talk · contribs · count) – Edited from November 2005 to February 2009. Announced retirement on February 10. Also edited NocturneNoir (talk · contribs · count) (November 30, 2008 – December 13, 2011) and DiscreteIllusion (talk · contribs · count) (June 1, 2009 – September 20, 2009, plus six more edits in April 2010). Returned as Town of Cats (talk · contribs · count), which edited only from July to September 2012.
• DARTH SIDIOUS 2 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, account creator, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 45,800 edits, including 7,700 pages created. Massively active for just 12 months, from June 2010 to June 2011, made only forty random edits thereafter until posting “{{Retired}}” and making full stop in June 2012. As of March 2020, nearly 9 years after effectively going dormant, was still in the top 1800 of most prolific editors ever.
• Da.Tomato.Dude (talk · contribs · count) – Disappeared and she never returned. Last edit was on April 29, 2007.
• Daniel Olsen (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit May 27, 2008.
• David Kernow (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific contributor, with 42,960 edits. Created 1,779 new pages. Very active from November 2005 until posting "{{Wikibreak}}" in June 2007 – , not editing until 2010, briefly returning then and making 28 edits that year on June, July, and October with the last edit being made on October 11, 2010. As of February 2020, 13 years after becoming virtually dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• David.Throop (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing actively in January 2010, then made two edits in 2011, one in March 2013, and six relating to PCSK9 in June 2015.
• David91 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 12, 2006, suggested some health issues.
• Davshul (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 7, 2011. Prolific editor who started many new pages.
• Dbroadwell (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 22, 2008. Came back to make a few edits on March 7, 2009.
• Decodet (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 7, 2019.
• Deeb (talk · contribs · count) – After a pause of more than two years in editing starting August 3, 2012, returned and edited intermittently from 2015 through 2019. Last edit April 2, 2021.
• Deepak D'Souza (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited in January 2011.
• Deflective (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor with over 28,000 edits. Was active during 2017, but slowed down after June 2017, making one last edit on May 2, 2018. First edit July 4, 2006.
• Dekisugi (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing in early 2009.
• Delicious carbuncle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 28, 2013.
• Delta G (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 11, 2007, first edit March 14, 2004.
• Dendodge (talk · contribs · count) - Recipient of the Imperial Triple Crown, his last edit December 10, 2021 although his last substantive edit to the main namespace came in September of 2019.
• DennyColt (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 13, 2007.
• Dep. Garcia (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit by founder of WikiProject Law Enforcement was May 21, 2008.
• Derek.cashman (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 7, 2010.
• Derex (talk · contribs · count) – Began editing in July 2005, retired in May 2007; seemed pretty jaded.
• Designate (talk · contribs · count) – Often contributed to articles on politicians up through 2014, and has only edited sporadically since, most recently on October 26, 2020.
• Deyyaz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 7, 2018.
• De la Marck (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 20, 2021. Contributor with over 4,000 edits.
• Diego (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 7, 2021.
• Dieter Simon (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit January 25, 2014.
• DieYuppieScum (talk · contribs · count) – Edited many articles related to money. Vanished in 2007, made a handful of edits in 2009 and one final article edit on January 22, 2011. Changed username to Kurt (talk · contribs · count) in February 2012. Last edit as Kurt in March 2012.
• Digwuren (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 21, 2009.
• Dijxtra (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Croatian editor, has made no edits since January 19, 2008, with the exception of modifying his userpage to say he is inactive on September 17, 2013.
• Dina (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 19, 2009.
• Dineshkannambadi (talk · contribs · count) – Long-term and prolific editor with several FAs; last edited in 2011.
• Dinosaur puppy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 24, 2007. States on userpage that he has gotten a little bored and is less active now.
• Dirtlawyer1 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific and popular user with 90K edits, mainly on US collegiate sports articles and related topics. Last edit in April 2016, almost exactly 7 years after his first edit.
• Dispenser (talk · contribs · count) - Prolific editor, created tools for fixing disambiguation links. Editing slowed down in 2019 and no edits since March 15, 2020.
• DLJessup (talk · contribs · count) – Became inactive on November 12, 2006 after two years of prolific editing. Last edit June 5, 2009.
• Dlloyd (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 31, 2006.
• D.M.N. (talk · contribs · count) – Indicating in 2009 that they had "lost the will to write articles here", they edited sporadically in 2010 and 2012, making a final edit on December 30, 2013.
• Doceirias (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 22, 2010.
• Doctree (talk · contribs) - Last edit September 19, 2019.
• Docu (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit April 17, 2014. Was a prolific editor on Commons and Wikidata, but stopped editing on those locations at the same time.
• DomRem (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 18, 2007. Contributor that was active in NASCAR-related articles, making over 1,000 edits from 2005 to 2007. Activity slowed in 2007, making 29 edits that year until final edit, with no reason given to inactivity. First edit made on June 12, 2005.
• Don'tKnowItAtAll (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 29, 2016; preceding edit August 7, 2012.
• DoomsDay349 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – A pro-wrestling focused editor, since desysopped for inactivity. Last edit January 11, 2010.
• Dori (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Sysop, last edit November 10, 2009. Left message on userpage, then made one revert to it on June 10, 2014.
• DoubleBlue (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 2, 2013. Participated in many discussions at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.
• Doug (talk · contribs · count) (now DeirdreAnne (talk · contribs · count)) – A few edits on March 4, 2020. Returned to make 1 edit in June 2022.
• Dozenist (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 15, 2009.
• Dr. Submillimeter (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 6, 2008.
• Draggleduck (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 13, 2010. Created over 400 articles on film, TV, cinema, albums, and the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Draicone (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 28, 2007.
• Dreamafter (talk · contribs · count) – The winner of the inaugural WikiCup, their last edit was on November 12, 2012, after a gap in editing since March 13, 2009.
• Dreambeaver (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 29, 2014.
• DreamGuy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 8, 2015. Prolific contributor.
• DrFleischman (talk · contribs · count) – Major contributor to United States political articles. First edited on July 22, 2008, but began editing regularly on September 1, 2011. Last edit July 26, 2018.
• DropDeadGorgias (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last contribution June 29, 2010. Started editing in 2003.
• Dsimic (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific contributor, with 39,600 edits, including extensive work on articles relating to computer programming, before sudden full stop in July 2016. As of February 2020, nearly 4 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Dudemanfellabra (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 4, 2017. First edit March 18, 2008. Prolific contributor with 25,648 edits.
• Dugwiki (talk · contribs · count) – Did a lot of category work. Disappeared. Last edit September 25, 2009.
• Duja (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, editor since 2004; last edit July 30, 2008.
• Duncharris (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Long time editor and admin, departed September 25, 2006 after blanking his user pages.
• Durin (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Left in December 2007 due to legal threats from another user.
• DV8 2XL (talk · contribs · count) – Message on the user page, last edit April 30, 2007.
• DVD R W (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit in September 2010.
• Dvyost (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An administrator, announced their departure on their user page on January 9, 2006, saying "Real life calls with a vengeance lately, and I'm increasingly unable to justify the time I put in here." Made a few further edits, the last on February 17, 2007. Came back and blanked their pages on September 6, 2011.
• Dysprosia (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, last edit March 3, 2007. First edit July 2, 2003.

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• Earlypsychosis (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 14, 2013.
• Eatingme (talk · contribs · count) – Fond of updating football articles, last edited in 2011.
• Echuck215 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution January 8, 2014.
• EdChem (talk · contribs · count) - A ten year editor, EdChem earned a four award and a triple-crown editing from 2008 to 2021.
• Edeans (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 30, 2007. Retired after the Essjay controversy.
• Eequor (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 16, 2006 in which she left a note at Esperanza that said "I don't expect to come back again."
• Efe (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former admin who last edited on September 13, 2020. Was desysopped in 2018 for inactivity.
• Efghij (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 18, 2003.
• Egg Centric (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 6, 2013.
• Ego White Tray (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 19, 2016.
• Ejl (talk · contribs · count) – A WikiGnome who made a couple thousand edits beginning in late 2005, mostly correcting typos, adding categories, and fleshing out citations. Has edited less frequently since 2018; last edit was April 2022.
• Elaragirl (talk · contribs · count) – Placed a retirement template on her user page on March 28, 2007, and made her last edits May 27, 2007, then blanked most of her talk page on September 2, 2008.
• Elaqueate (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 23, 2014.
• Electricburst1996 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 2, 2019. Blanked his user page with a message that he was no longer active on his account.
• ElectrodeandtheAnode (talk · contribs · count) – With multiple GAs to his credit, he stopped editing in February 2019.
• Electriccatfish2 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 12, 2012.
• Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, former arbitrator. Last edit March 20, 2013.
• ElinorD (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, last edit December 9, 2008.
• Elipongo (talk · contribs · count) - A ten-year editor and countervandal, Elipongo was mostly active 2006 to 2008, with spurts of editing in 2011 and 2014 with only nine edits in 2017.
• Eliyak (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, with 34,000 edits (of 40,700 total) from 2006 to early 2009, including extensive work on articles relating to their Israeli homeland. Sporadic for final ten years, until sudden full stop in September 2020. As of February 2020, 2 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Elockid (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Admin, CheckUser, and Oversighter abruptly vanished without a trace July 6, 2016.
• Emargie (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 1, 2010, after working to create and expand early California history articles.
• Emax (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 18, 2005. Disappeared without any notice or indication of reason.
• Emerson7 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, autopatrolled and pending changes reviewer with 41,800 edits. Created 4,742 pages. Consistently active from December 2006 until September 2013, then less than 200 sporadic edits until unexplained full stop in March 2020.
• Enaidmawr (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor on Welsh subjects, has made no edits since April 10, 2010.
• Encephalon (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former Administrator with 6,009 edits. Last edit was made October 3, 2021, with the first edit being made on August 5, 2005. Normal editing ceased after 2006, making sporadic edits afterwards until final edit in October 2021. Was desysopped in 2012 due to inactivity.
• Endrick Shellycoat (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 20, 2012.
• Enki H. (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 5, 2009. Made over 1,000 edits in the span of a few months, before a sudden stop in editing in July 2009. No reason was given on inactivity. First edit was made on April 21, 2009.
• Epbr123 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. With nearly 292,000 edits, suddenly slowed to a few (26) sporadic edits after May 2013, ending with a final edit, archiving their talk page, in May 2019. As of February 2020, seven years first going virtually dormant, was still in the top 100 of most prolific editors ever. Account was later indefinitely blocked on November 20, 2021 after being compromised.
• Epeefleche (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific content creator with more than 150,000 edits over nine years. Abruptly ceased editing in July 2015 amid an ongoing CCI. As of June 2022, remains in the top 400 by number of edits.
• Erik the Red 2 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on March 3, 2009.
• Esoltas (talk · contribs · count) (now LP6ugh2TsT (talk · contribs · count)) – A Wikignome who helped set up WikiProject Shipwrecks. Abruptly replaced all content on user and talk pages with "THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN CLOSED BY THE USER," in February 2010, after a three year gap without edits. Has not edited again.
• Essexmutant (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Surrendered his adminship and left a departure message on his userpage on September 12, 2006 and made his final four edits 12 days later.
• Essjay (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit March 4, 2007. He retired after being exposed by the New Yorker. He has since surrendered his various flags on every wikimedia project. See Essjay controversy.
• Estrose (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 30, 2006.
• Eubulides (talk · contribs · count) – Long-term editor and prolific content producer, often responsible for verifying the truthfulness of others' edits on medical articles. Vanished suddenly and without explanation on March 19, 2010.
• Eugene van der Pijll (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit September 18, 2013.
• EvocativeIntrigue (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 25, 2007. Left "due to other commitments in the world of the working".
• Everyking (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Long-time editor and administrator with well over 100,000 edits. Suddenly became inactive on September 14, 2017.
• EVula (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – A former admin and bureaucrat, he indicated he felt that there was not much left for 'crats to do on Wikipedia and having lost his bits due to inactivity he made a total of five edits across 2016 and 2017 with his last edit coming May 3, 2017.
• EWS23 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Editor and admin, most active from 2005-2007, with periods of sporadic activity from 2008-2016. Officially retired and de-sysoped due to inactivity in 2019. A message from the editor, Eric: "Wikipedia was a second home for me in an important period in my life, and despite its ups and downs, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I doubt I'll ever be a full time editor again, but rest assured that retirement is treating me well, and I'll continue to lurk here under another name, correcting typos as I read. Thank you to those of you who continue to maintain and build this encyclopedia; please be kind to each other, and I wish you all nothing but peace and blessings."
• Exir Kamalabadi (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 24, 2007, owing to the fact that his home country of China had blocked access to Wikipedia at the time. Came back once more to request permanent protection of user page on May 20, 2008. Requested unprotection in 2010, left {{Abandoned account| an anonymous user}} on his userpage on September 30, 2011, editing again briefly in June and July 2012, and then blanked his userpage, his talk page, and some essays he wrote in September 2014.
• ExpressingYourself (talk · contribs · count) – Long-term editor & article creator, active for over a decade, most commonly on pages related to UK TV shows, films, and actors/actresses. Last edit 17th January, 2017, when he blanked his page.

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• Faedra (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 1, 2005. "This contributor is currently under the impression that Wikipeia is a complete waist of time. (except for a spelling lesson)."
• Fabricationary (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 14, 2007. Was a frequent contributor to Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year.
• Falphin (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 17, 2020.
• FamicomJL (talk · contribs · count) – Made a few edits in March 2008 and then disappeared. 1,499 edits to the mainspace before his departure.
• Fan-1967 (talk · contribs · count) – Left a day after withdrawing RfA early on January 28, 2007.
• Farosdaughter (talk · contribs · count) – A Huggle user who has not edited, nor fought vandalism, since May 2009.
• Fasach Nua (talk · contribs · count) – An editor known for a strong stand against non-free content in featured article candidates, he put a wikibreak notice on his userpage on January 31, 2011, claiming it would be short, but hasn't edited since March 26, 2011.
• FastLizard4 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 4, 2019.
• Fat&Happy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on August 9, 2015.
• FateClub (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 13, 2007.
• Fattyjwoods (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on July 13, 2013.
• FayssalF (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) − Former administrator. Last edit in April 2022.
• Feco (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 17, 2008.
• FellowWikipedian (talk · contribs · count) – Unseen since a brief final spell of vandal-fighting in late 2008.
• Fenice (talk · contribs · count) – Left January 18, 2006 after an editwar.
• Fetchcomms (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific contributor, with 41,600 edits. Created 4,574 pages, was very active on then-Portal:Missouri. Consistently active from October 2009 until July 2012, then sporadic edits until unexplained full stop in May 2016. As of February 2020, 8 years after first becoming virtually dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Fetofs (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 12, 2008.
• Field Marshal (talk · contribs · count) - He indicated he would be busy with exams on July 28, 2020 and made his last edits on August 1, never to return.
• Filiocht (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – After falling ill earlier in the year, he declared himself "away indefinitely" on June 6, 2006. He made a small number of edits from 2008 to 2012. He made his last edit March 14, 2013.
• Finalnight (talk · contribs · count) – After withdrawing from an RfA, placed a retirement notice on their webpage on July 17, 2008. Sporadically edited about a few leftover administrative issues afterwards.
• Fingers-of-Pyrex (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 2, 2012.
• Firebug (talk · contribs · count) – Left on January 1, 2006, due to the Userbox controversy. There is a goodbye message on his user page that contains explicit language.
• Fixuture (talk · contribs · count) – User had amassed over 18,000 edits over a consistent period of time, but has not edited at all since July 27, 2017.
• Fl (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit June 10, 2019.
• FlagSteward (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 14, 2014.
• Flcelloguy (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Arbitration Committee member, hasn't edited since May 28, 2007, when he left a note at his talk page explaining he's been busy.
• Flockmeal (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, signed up on September 9, 2003. Has not made any edits since October 22, 2011.
• Floridasand (talk · contribs · count) – First edit May 31, 2006; last edit January 30, 2021.
• Fluri (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 31, 2016; preceding edit February 29, 2008.
• Flowerparty (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit September 11, 2009.
• Flygongengar (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited November 1, 2015.
• Flyhighplato (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution March 8, 2012.
• Folajimi (talk · contribs · count) – Last article-space edit March 3, 2008; posted retirement notice September 22, 2008.
• Folic Acid (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 10, 2012.
• Folken de Fanel (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 5, 2013.
• Fonzy (talk · contribs · count) – Retired May 2004: "I don't like change much (which some will probably know or guess why). I prefered Wikipedia more when it was smaller and I felt part of a small community, now Wikipedia has got bigger (which is great) but I dont feel as useful, or as important, I just feel like part of a mob." Made last edit on the 26th of that month. Four more edits on November 11, 2007.

  Made 3 edits on November 9, 2005 to confirm he was the anonymous editor who was instrumental in starting Wikinews. And admitting he had made some anonymous edits to Wikinews during his absence.

• Footlessmouse (talk · contribs · count) - A user who was prolific in 2020 and worked on physics-based articles. Stopped editing on January 14, 2021. Added a mention to user page on February 4, 2021 about obligations in real life preventing them from editing Wikipedia. Made their final edits in April 10 and April 11, 2021.
• Forbsey (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 5, 2007, in which he or she began blanking all of their userpages and subpages.
• Forbidden User (talk · contribs · count) – Worked on many Disney-related articles. No activity since December 3, 2016.
• Formeruser0910 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 10, 2009.
• ForteTuba (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution April 22, 2010.
• Fountainviewkid (talk · contribs · count) – Announced retirement on September 3, 2011. Made last edit on July 24, 2015.
• Fraggle81 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 13, 2014.
• Fran Rogers (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – originally edited under the name Krimpet. She received the mop in 2007 after only three months of editing. Her final edit was on December 31, 2014 and was since desysopped for inactivity.
• Francs2000 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Former bureaucrat, had over 38,000 edits, left good bye message on talk page. Last edit July 15, 2006. First edit September 16, 2003.
• Fratrep (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 46,000 edits, including extensive work on disambiguation pages and their links. Massively active from April 2008 to May 2010, a few random edits thereafter until unexplained full stop in October 2010. As of March 2020, nearly 10 years after effectively going dormant, was still in the top 1700 of most prolific editors ever.
• Freak104 (talk · contribs · count) – Left February 6, 2008 due to WP:N's effects on comic book articles.
• Freakofnurture (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, stopped editing on November 5, 2007; has made some edits in late March 2008.
• Fredrik (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - A countervandal and mathematics-focused editor, they edited heavily 2003 to 2009, making few edits 2010, 2012, and 2013, with a final edit in 2015.
• Fredil Yupigo (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 8, 2018.
• FreeRangeFrog (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit August 26, 2015. He was desysopped on October 1, 2016 for inactivity.
• FreplySpang (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit April 21, 2009.
• Freshgavin (talk · contribs · count) – Was a frequent contributor to the Reference desks. Last edit March 31, 2008.
• Frickative (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 10, 2012. Messages on her talk page indicate she moved house around that time.
• Friday (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, made first edit on June 28, 2005 and last edit on June 15, 2016.
• FrummerThanThou (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 23, 2008. Made one edit July 3, 2009, two June 21, 2010, and one on August 11, 2021.
• Finemann (talk · contribs · count) – Announced on September 7, 2011 that he was quitting for "personal" reasons and stated that he changed his password to something he can't remember and won't be able to go on Wikipedia again.
• FudgeFury (talk · contribs · count) – Last edits November 9, 2020.
• FuelWagon (talk · contribs · count) – Had over 6000 edits from April 2 to December 23, 2005 before receiving a six-month ban from the Arbitration Committee, and has not edited since, even after the expiration of his ban.
• Func (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; last edit October 10, 2005. "My apologies, I am away from Wikipedia for an extended period of time." Made two edits on April 11, 2006.
• Funeral (talk · contribs · count) – Over 8,500 edits. Only three edits from June 2008 to December 2008.
• Funnybunny (talk · contribs · count) – Left August 13, 2006. He has told an editor by email that he had officially quit. He will be missed by many. Two edits since, last on October 10, 2007.
• Futurebird (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 13, 2021.
• Fvw (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last contribution January 19, 2009.
• Fyre2387 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 21, 2021.

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• G-Man (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 12, 2009. First edit February 11, 2003.
• Gadykozma (talk · contribs · count) – Stated he was "taking wikivacation, probably permanent" on November 22, 2004. Last edit December 21, 2004.
• Galwhaa (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, previously known as "Mathwiz2020", stopped editing regularly in 2007. He returned on August 7, 2008 to be renamed and made a few substantial edits. He ceased editing for one year after a couple of edits on October 21, 2008, but returned to make one edit on November 1, 2009, then requested a resysop (which was denied due to inactivity) on April 2, 2013.
• Gandydancer (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 14, 2021; First edit September 13, 2006
• Ganymead (talk · contribs · count) – Left a retirement notice on his userpage on August 24, 2007 and on his talk page on November 19, 2007.
• GassyGuy (talk · contribs · count) – A frequent, quality contributor to popular music articles; retired in July 2007 for reasons unknown.
• Gator1 (talk · contribs · count) – Left after being harassed and outed in 2006; returned in early 2008 but then slowed down until July 7 and then stopped again. Last edit May 5, 2017.
• Gay Cdn (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 38,969 edits before posting "{{Retired}}" and making full stop in July 2007. As of February 2020, nearly 13 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Geek2003 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 7, 2012. A major contributor to the Nortel suite of articles.
• Geogre (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last contribution July 29, 2009.
• Geologyguy (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor from February 2006 to full stop in May 2008, returned for two last edits in early 2019.
• George (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 13, 2011.
• GeorgeMoney (talk · contribs · count) – Retired. Last edit June 12, 2010.
• GeneralPatton (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Formerly an administrator, last edit March 9, 2007, although did come back (albeit very briefly) in January/February 2011 and expanded a single article. Came back again in early 2015, but no edits since March 20, 2015.
• Georgewilliamherbert (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit August 10, 2021.
• GermanJoe (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit October 15, 2020.
• Getaway (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 28, 2007.
• Getcrunk (talk · contribs · count) – Notice on talkpage says "trying to take a wikibreak and might be back on Wikipedia later". Last edit October 6, 2006.
• GFHandel (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 23, 2013. Returned to one single edit on May 22, 2021.
• GHe (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 18, 2008.
• GhostofSuperslum (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 15, 2007, some seven months after indicating their departure on their user page.
• Giants27 (talk · contribs · count) – A prolific DYK editor, his last edit was on May 21, 2019.
• Giggy (talk · contribs · count) – Formerly Dihydrogen Monoxide; edits trailed off after February 2009 to last real edit on October 4. Returned to blank userpage on May 17, 2010; removed userbox from talk page 11 months later (April 17, 2011), and blanked a page in own userspace in June 2013.
• Girolamo Savonarola (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on November 1, 2015.
• GiW (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 22, 2014.
• Gixce93 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 10, 2015. First edit May 15, 2013.
• GK (talk · contribs · count) – Last edits on December 7, 2006, when he participated in Arbitration Committee elections. Had previously stated he was leaving for good. Objected to an usurpation of his username in October 2010.
• Gloss (talk · contribs · count) – Often worked on hockey and Survivor articles. No activity since March 11, 2017.
• Gocsa (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 18, 2009.
• Goldfritha (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 21, 2018.
• Goldom (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Last edit was on January 13, 2021. Made a total of 6,132 edits.
• Goldrushcavi (talk · contribs · count) – Over 1,200 edits; last edit August 21, 2019.
• Gongshow (talk · contribs · count) – Frequent participant in AFD's. Last edit was on May 9, 2021.
• Gorrister (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 5, 2005. Made two edits on March 21, 2012.
• Grafikm fr (talk · contribs · count) – Over 11,000 edits. Last edit in December 2013.
• GRAHAMUK (talk · contribs · count) – Over 7,000 edits, edited near-constantly between 2003 (first edit) and 2006, last edit February 17, 2015 after only 50 edits in the preceding five years.
• Gralo (talk · contribs · count) – Creator of the Energy Portal and excellent editor of energy-related articles. Last edit August 9, 2007.
• GravityUp (talk · contribs · count) - Spurts of activity 2006 to 2016, another burst of editing in 2018, he made three edits in 2020 and not since.
• Grayshi (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 27, 2011.
• GRBerry (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Userpage says he is "not now active on any project". Last edit was May 18, 2010.
• GreatWhiteNortherner (talk · contribs · count) – Made over 13,000 edits over the course of over 10 years before vanishing in 2015.
• Green-eyed girl (talk · contribs · count) – Author of the essay Beef up that first revision, she semi-retired in 2012 to start her own website, having previously indicated burnout and frustration with Wikipedia. Her last edit was in May 2014.
• GregAsche (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; stopped editing regularly in June 2006. Made one edit on January 4, 2007, and another single edit to his userpage on February 20. Returned making one more edit on September 25, 2008, and has not edited since then.
• GregManninLB (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 20, 2013.
• GregRobson (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last contribution December 31, 2013.
• Greyengine5 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 4, 2004.
• Greyhood (talk · contribs · count) – A frequent contributor to topics related to Russia; has not edited since August 15, 2013.
• Grimjaw (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 6, 2008.
• Groupthink (talk · contribs · count) – As of their most recent edit on May 8, 2021, they made 3,741 edits.
• Grrrlriot (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 6, 2016.
• Guillaume2303 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 2, 2013.
• GunnarRene (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 20, 2007.
• Gwernol (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, wikipedian since May 2005 with over 91,000 edits. Suddenly disappeared without notice or reasoning on July 29, 2008. Returned to add a retired message to their talk page on June 1, 2009 and requested desysopping on June 4.
• Gwynand (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 21, 2008.

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• Haemo (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Posted "{{Retired}}" with last edit on March 3, 2011.
• Hafspajen (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor to art-related topics and featured picture candidates; numerous editors proudly proclaimed their user pages to be "decorated by Hafspajen". Deleted user page on April 27, 2015, announcing retirement. Last edit August 26, 2016.
• Hairhorn (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor and rollbacker, with 40,600 edits. First posted "busy in real life" in September 2012, inertia carried through months' long pauses and brief returns until full stop in November 2016. Last edit was on May 15, 2020. As of February 2020, nearly 4 years after going (basically) dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Hajor (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An admin, he stated "It stopped being fun... but it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for the ride" in his last edit on November 22, 2005.
• Hall Monitor (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Active admin in anti-vandal work, stopped editing regularly near end of July 2009. Returned briefly to do more such work in February 2011 and February 2012. As of February 2020, fully eight years after going dormant, was still in the top 5000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Hallows AG (talk · contribs · count) – Mostly active in 2011, they made a hundred edits in each of the following years before taking a wikibreak on August 5, 2014, later changing the wikibreak on October 31, 2015, which is currently their last edit.
• HamatoKameko (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 16, 2014. Edited hard rock topics, particularly relating to Lordi, until contributions dried up.
• Hampton11235 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on February 2, 2021.
• Hapsiainen (talk · contribs · count) – Has been absent from Wikipedia since December 12, 2005. No further explanation. Made some edits on the Finnish Wikipedia during 2006.
• HardBoiledEggs (talk · contribs · count) – Operator of RM bot, last edit February 18, 2012.
• Harro5 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Harro5's active editing ended in March 2013. Only making a handful of edits in each following year, Harro5 was de-sysopped for inactivity and made their last edit on October 25, 2021.
• Harry Potter (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 7, 2004. Contributor with 1,057 edits that was active in mid-2003 until September 2003, where activity dropped, making only 13 edits in 2004 until their final edit. First edit was made on May 5, 2003.
• Harry the Dirty Dog (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 2, 2017.
• Harry491 (talk · contribs · count) – Nearly full stop September 2006, inactive since two sporadic edits – one in 2009 and final one in August 2010.
• Hazardous Matt (talk · contribs · count) – Put up retired banner in August 2012; inertia carried through four final edits ending November 2012.
• Hcheney (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Blanked his user archives with final edits in April 2008. He was subsequently desysopped in 2011 for inactivity.
• HDS (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 29, 2016.
• Hdt83 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who was desysopped for inactivity. Last edit May 31, 2016, with first edit on September 10, 2006.
• Heaven's Wrath (talk · contribs · count) – Having created calendars for both Wikiproject Esparanza and the Birthday Committee, their last edit occurred September 14, 2008.
• HeirToPendragon (talk · contribs · count) – Made his last edit as a semi-active participant on November 27, 2007. Returned for a single edit on July 14, 2008. Replaced his user space with "I don't really edit Wikipedia anymore, but thanks for stopping by" on September 1, 2011. Major contributor to articles related to Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Hello, I'm a Wikipedian! (talk · contribs · count) – Slowed to fewer than 10 edits total over three years, last on June 12, 2020.
• Hello32020 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was made on June 2, 2019, with the previous edit being made almost four months before. Previously had a gap in editing that was two years in length. No reason was given on inactivity.
• Hemanshu (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Member of WikiProject India whose final edits came on November 16, 2021.
• Henriettapussycat (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution made on September 6, 2011. Was consistently active before final edit, contributing to articles relating to women. First edit was made on July 19, 2011. Made over 2,000 edits in the span of nearly two months.
• Henrik (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Stopped editing in October 2013, then returned in March 2014. Last edit August 13, 2014.
• Hephaestos (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Stopped editing regularly in December 2004, followed by very sporadic editing. Left an unhappy goodbye on his user page on April 2, 2005. Last edit was on February 27, 2007, until one edit on July 25, 2013.
• Hermione1980 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Previously took a long break on May 7, 2006 but returned to active editing in December 2008. Left on April 3, 2009 by leaving a message on their talk page, further explaining her refusal to be contacted by Wikipedia or by e-mail.
• Hersfold (talk · contribs · count) – An ex-Crat, CU and OS'r. Last edited January 9, 2014.
• Hghyux (talk · contribs · count) – Retired after making over 5000 edits between January and May 2012.
• Hi878 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 24, 2012.
• HighwayCello (talk · contribs · count) – Stated that he felt WikiBonked on November 6, 2006. Ceased editing the next day. Returned in 2020 to edit sporadically as PeridotThot, see Special:Diff/964277181.
• Hillman (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor to articles on mathematics and physics, especially general relativity. Left in October 2006, ground down by degradation of material he had written. Briefly reappeared in July 2008. Made two later edits (July 2009, July 2010) to blank own user space and restate they were long retired and ask "Request locking of my talk page by some kindly admin. I'm retired! TIA", which an editor did for them a few months later.
• Hippi ippi (talk · contribs · count) – Last articlespace edit November 26, 2007. Made several edits to her own userspace pages in 2008, posting an "I quit" notice on March 20, 2008. Blanked userspace pages in September 2012 and December 2014.
• HisSpaceResearch (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, rollbacker with 15,000 edits, including 1,300 page created, during a brief period from June 2006 until unexplained full stop in August 2008.
• HistoricMN44 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 2, 2015. Made a few edits in January 2017 to archive talk page.
• Hit bull, win steak (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit March 8, 2013. Does not appear to have given reason or advance notice of departure.
• Hitsuji Kinno (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 6, 2016.
• Hm2k (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on September 8, 2020.
• HoboJones (talk · contribs · count) – Posted "{{Retired}}" with last edit January 2, 2009.
• Homestarmy (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 13, 2010.
• Hrafn (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, with 40,200 edits, before sudden stop in May 2012. Returned for two-last-edits, including a mention that they had retired, to contribute to a discussion at Template talk:Primary sources. As of February 2020, 8 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• HResearcher (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was made on September 11, 2006. Formerly active editor who cleaned up various pages and articles and participated in AfDs. First edit was made on April 15, 2006.
• Hubschrauber729 (talk · contribs · count) – Racked up over 11,000 edits before vanishing in 2010.
• Humansdorpie (talk · contribs · count) – Mature, good-humoured editor with special interest in Africa articles. Left an unhappy goodbye on his user page on June 8, 2006, in response to legal threats from User:Lightoftheworld. Returned to edit replace the goodbye on user page with a quote from Caged in April 2018, and made several edits from October–December 2020, and later on October 30, 2021.
• Humus sapiens (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Admin and prolific contributor on Jewish-history topics. Last edit May 5, 2008, with no indication of why he stopped. User page later marked "{{Retired}}" by an IP-address user.
• HuskyHuskie (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on July 2, 2015.
• Hurricane111 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 5, 2021, after a slowing of edits beginning on December 2019. First edit August 31, 2004.
• Hydrogen Iodide (talk · contribs · count) – Just 31 short of 128,000 edits, was a major contributor to articles on cities and buildings. Stopped editing in December 2008, but inertia meant four last edits on March 24, 2009. As of February 2020, 11 years after going dormant, was still at #405 on list of most prolific editors ever.
• Hyperbole (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit made on February 11, 2008, which was to ask where they could request their user or talk pages be deleted. Stated they were "off the project" on Administrator's Noticeboard following a block for edit warring.

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• IAMTHEEGGMAN (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 3, 2012.
• Iceberg3k (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on March 5, 2008; first edit was on March 9, 2004. Made 9,885 edits total.
• IdreamofJeanie (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited October 1, 2021.
• I do not exist (talk · contribs · count) – Announced "long wikibreak" on January 26, 2008.
• Idontknow610 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit made on July 16, 2013 after no edits since June 2011. First edit on November 15, 2007.
• Ice Explorer (talk · contribs · count) – Abrupt stop in January 2010, left goodbye note about "small minded, abusive and bullying" editors later opining "Sometime the people here are too much, that's all. They give the Wiki police badge to just about anyone who has a need for control and a liking for tyrannical behavior." Tried six edits in April 2016, then never came back.
• I love entei (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was made on June 11, 2012 after a slowdown in edits after 2008. First edit was made on October 8, 2006.
• Imladjov (talk · contribs · count) – Historian and Scholar. Last edit August 13, 2006. Influential and distinguished editor with great contributions to Byzantine History and similar topics. He will be missed on many levels.
• Immunize (talk · contribs · count) – Has not edited since January 2012.
• Improv (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit December 26, 2006. Left a note on his user page on January 2, 2007 stating: "I have left Wikipedia. I do not see it as acceptable to have advertisements, whether they be for brand identity or for a product, on Wikipedia." – with a link to a foundation-l reference [4]. Edited his userspace March 2, 2007 and March 23, 2010, then made one edit August 23, 2011.
• Imran (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit February 13, 2005. Left a note on November 3, 2004 to say "Note: I am (as of Sept 04) currently inactive on Wikipedia".
• Indon (talk · contribs · count) – A regular editor on topics relating to Indonesia. Last edit was in early 2008.
• Inferno, Lord of Penguins (talk · contribs · count) – Edited regularly from November 2008 to May 2010. Made a comeback in April 2011 but has not edited since.
• Infogapp1 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 15, 2020.
• Infrangible (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing immediately following an unsuccessful RfA. Last edit August 17, 2007.
• Instinct (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on July 8, 2010. Known as Milk's Favorite Cookie until May 2009. Was well known for being an exceptionally productive editor in content creation, particularly in sports articles around American football, baseball, and basketball.
• Interiot (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Says he needed to spend less time online. Since December 25, 2007 has only made two signed-in edit, on December 22, 2012 and February 28, 2017. Still edits anonymously.
• Into The Fray (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing actively in July 2015, but made one edit on March 26, 2020.
• IP Address (talk · contribs · count) – Blanked his user page on July 23, 2006 and made his last contribution on August 5 of that year. Was later indefinitely blocked on February 16, 2021 due to being compromised.
• IPadPerson (talk · contribs · count) – Worked on various music-related articles. Placed a {{Retired}} template on userpage on January 13, 2018.
• Irishguy (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Announced retirement on April 4, 2008, due to off-wiki harassment; made a few more edits, the last one being on July 6, 2008.
• IronChris (talk · contribs · count) – Userpage displays a semi-retired notice. Just four edits from since June 2017, last was April 2019.
• Ironholds (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Administrator from 2011–2013 and former WMF staff member; last edited May 22, 2016.
• Isotope23 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Announced he was on "indefinite hiatus" in January 2008; returned to make one comment on June 13, 2008 and two edits on February 6, 2018.
• Itaqallah (talk · contribs · count) – Focused almost exclusively on Islam-related articles. Last contribution June 18, 2010. Made a couple edits in 2014 including a talk page comment suggesting they might come back but has not edited since.
• ItsZippy (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Prolific (>27,000 edits) editor, admin, rollbacker who started as a 14-year-old in August 2009, with focus on philosophy and theology. Went dormant in June 2015, returned four years later with two edits in October 2019 to get restarted as new user WJ94, now a 25 year-old PhD student, noting that user ItsZippy was their younger self.
• Ivecos (talk · contribs · count) – A sometime editor of Patna-related content 2012 to 2018 (originally called Shivamsetu), they marked themselves busy with exams in 2018 and, after no edits in 2019, made only a handful of edits in 2020 and nothing since.
• Izehar (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit January 16, 2006. Made a single edit one year later on January 30, 2007.

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• J3Mrs (talk · contribs · count) – Edited from May 2009 to June 2018, mainly regarding Greater Manchester and Yorkshire. Created 140 articles and pushed 12 articles to GA/FA status. As of February 2020, nearly two years after going dormant, (a single edit in each of 2019 and 2020) is still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• J.delanoy (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Registered 310,263 edits. Basically stopped in December 2013, sixth edit for all of 2014 was farewell letter (but no {{retired}} box) in October 2014, but inertia kept him running through 100 edits in 2015 when he voluntarily resigned his adminship, until full stop after sixth edit of 2016 (September). Often worked at addressing vandalism, on thousands of articles. As of February 2020, over six years since basically stopping, is still the 80th most prolific editor ever.
• Jack Greenmaven (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 16, 2019, which was to remove their name from Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Mailing List. Prolific contributor with 26,830 edits and 4,271 created pages. Editing became sporadic after 2014, making only 90 edits in the years after until final edit in 2019. First edit was made on November 5, 2010.
• Jack O'Lantern (talk · contribs · count) – Has not edited regularly since 2007. Blanked user page and talk on August 19, 2013 in final two edits.
• Jackmcbarn (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - The recipient of fifteen barnstars, he was elected to adminship in November 2014 but his editing became more sporadic until he stopped editing in 2017 after which he lost his bit for inactivity. He returned in Summer 2020, was elected to adminship a second time but his editing again dwindled to nothing by January 2021. He was procedurally de-sysopped a second time.
• Jacob Haller (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing November 12, 2007.
• Jacoplane (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator with over 32,000 edits who made their last edit on September 4, 2016 after a period of sporadic edits. First edit was made on January 17, 2004. Was procedurally desysopped in 2016 due to inactivity.
• Jade Knight (talk · contribs · count) – Joined in 2005, making 3,937 edits. Last edit on November 29, 2021.
• Jamcib (talk · contribs · count) (now Jamcib~enwiki (talk · contribs · count)) – Last contribution August 15, 2009.
• James086 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An admin, abruptly stopped editing on March 30, 2014. Returned in June 2016 to make more than 4,000 edits, mostly to remove cats from user talk pages. Last edit July 23, 2019.
• Jappalang (talk · contribs · count) – Left a farewell message before he ceased editing on January 5, 2012.
• Jaraalbe (talk · contribs · count) – Joined in May 2005 and accumulated 105,816 edits, including 116 pages created and extensive early work on WP:CATEGORY effort. As of February 2020 has been in top 1000 editors since 2006, despite being dormant since last edit on March 14, 2010.
• Jask99 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 28, 2009.
• Jaxl (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An admin, has not edited since December 20, 2006, when he blanked his user pages after a period of inactivity. Made one edit on October 25, 2016.
• JayHenry (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 29, 2011.
• Jayzel68 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific creator of articles on or related to U.S. political scandals, some featured. Now retired. Last edit May 1, 2008.
• Jaysweet (talk · contribs · count) – Retired. Last edit April 14, 2009.
• Jazz77 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific creator of pages regarding musicians and "YYYY in literature/music/film/television" during first years (2002 and 2003) of Wikipedia. Active editor until August 2003, brief return (23 edits) in August 2004, then very last edit was their userpage in March 2006, with unfulfilled announcement that they were coming back.
• JCarriker (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An admin, retired in September 2006, last edit was April 12, 2008. Felt that his work was not appreciated.
• JDG (talk · contribs · count) – A Wikipedian since 2002; last edit December 15, 2007.
• JDoorjam (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who last edited on September 6, 2020. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2021.
• Jeanenawhitney (talk · contribs · count) – Left retirement notice on user page February 2, 2008; made several more edits that year and a couple in 2009, the last on June 19, 2009.
• Jedi6 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who last edited on September 10, 2013. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2011.
• Jeff3000 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 45,000 edits, including 1,300 pages created. Consistently active from 2005 to 2014, then random edits until unexplained full stop in December 2017. As of March 2020, 6 years after first going virtually dormant, was still in the top 1700 of most prolific editors ever.
• Jeni (talk · contribs · count) – Editor with 16,133 edits. Last edit March 4, 2020. First edit August 23, 2008.
• Jenks24 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit August 6, 2021.
• JennKR (talk · contribs · count) – Often worked on Beyoncé-related articles. Last edit was on November 28, 2020.
• Jenolen (talk · contribs · count) – Onetime prolific contributor and critic of current image-use policy. Began editing sporadically after October 2007; last edited on October 11, 2010.
• Jeronimo (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit August 19, 2006. First edit January 8, 2002.
• Jersyko (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – User page says he retired as of May 2008; made one more edit that November.
• Jesster79 (talk · contribs · count) – Left a message on his userpage on July 2, 2006 saying he was leaving Wikipedia for the time being.
• JetLover (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 1, 2008. An IP-address user added {{retired}} in February 2010.
• Jewbacca (talk · contribs · count) – Left "I'm no longer posting at Wikipedia", via IP-address edit, on the user and talk pages on April 8, 2006. Made five later edits with own username, the last in July 2008.
• Jezhotwells (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 17, 2014; first edit December 17, 2008.
• JForget (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Template {{semi-retired}} was last edit, September 30, 2010. Another user changed it to {{retired}} seven years later. Over 110,000 edits.
• Jfurr1981 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 8, 2006.
• Jguk (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 9, 2007. First edit September 12, 2004 under an account now known as Jguk 2 (talk · contribs · count).
• JGXenite (talk · contribs · count) – {{Semi-retired}} in December 2009, sporadic 50 edits since, only three (a 2013, a 2015, last in October 2018) after 2012.
• JHCC (talk · contribs · count) – {{Retired}} in May 2006. Left a farewell message on their userpage.
• Jhinman (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 19, 2011.
• Jiy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 21, 2006.
• Jj137 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Administrator. Stopped editing July 2015, returned for one "archive talk page" edit December 2019.
• Jllm06 (talk · contribs · count) – More than 400,000 edits. First edit August 2, 2006; last edit January 17, 2018.
• Jmh123 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 6, 2008.
• Jnothman (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit in 2019.
• JoannaSerah (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 23, 2013. Added retired template to userpage May 4, 2014 citing "Just don't have time to edit with work and family life".
• Joao10Siamun (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, autopatrolled and pending changes reviewer with 41,100 edits. Created 1,177 pages, helped create 3 FLs and 12 GAs. Consistently active from August 2007 until posting "{{Personalissues}}" in November 2012. As of February 2020, 8 years after stopping, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Joe Decker (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit December 5, 2021.
• Johan Magnus (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 5, 2005.
• Johanthon (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 4, 2008.
• John Cardinal (talk · contribs · count) – Only four edits since March 8, 2010. Known for his work on Beatles-related articles.
• John Fader (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit in May 2006, but those were his first two edits since May 2005 after nearly 5000 edits including regular responses at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). His user page and his talk page give no indication that he was intending to leave the project and email contact is not enabled.
• John Reid (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 30, 2006, posted the lyrics to Crazy Rhythm, a sad song about lovers parting (about which he'd written of the mainspace article) presumably as an allusion to his leaving Wikipedia, the day after coming off a disputed block for alleged edit-warring on a policy page; his last edit under this username had a sardonic "null edit summary" in reference to the block log reason.
• JohnnyMrNinja (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited June 13, 2019.
• Joie de Vivre (talk · contribs · count) – {{Retired}} as of July 2007. Stated they left after being accused of lying.
• Joke137 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator who made their last edit on June 13, 2012. Contributor with 3,852 edits who was active in cosmology and astrophysics-related articles. Active in 2006, until a sharp decline in editing in 2007 with editing becoming sporadic afterwards until their final edit in 2012. Desysopped in 2012 due to inactivity. First edit was made on February 4, 2005.
• JordanKyser22 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 24, 2017.
• Jorgenev (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 13, 2011. Stated leaving for a while at WP:SIGNPOST.
• Joseph Dwayne (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor until May 2006, then started a new account. Reactivated with two final edits in December 2013, just days before adding {{former account}} notice from new account name. Known for his humorous vandalism.
• Joseph Laferriere (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, autopatrolled, with 42,700 edits, including 25,100 pages created. A PhD Ethnobotanist, focused on – or created – many thousands of articles related to this expertise. Consistently active from December 2013 until unexplained full stop in September 2015 (snuck in a single edit that December). As of March 2020, over 4 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1900 of most prolific editors ever.
• Josh Grosse (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, disappeared on December 21, 2006 and has rarely edited since. First edit around January 22, 2001; see the Nostalgia Wikipedia's contributions page for JoshuaGrosse. Was especially helpful with the Taxobox template and with articles on microscopic animals. Returned to make four edits from October 18 to November 28, 2009.
• JRM (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Requested de-sysopping in May 2007 and stopped editing. A short 13-edit dalliance in December 2012, but has not edited since.
• Julia Rossi (talk · contribs · count) – Reference Desk regular. Last edit April 3, 2009.
• Julien Tuerlinckx (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 1, 2007.
• Junipers Liege (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 30, 2010. Talk page states "busy in real life".
• JustAGal (talk · contribs · count) – More than 175,000 edits. Rollbacker, pending changes reviewer. First edit May 24, 2006, 20,000 to 30,000 edits per year until mid 2015, then sporadic 20 edits over next three years, silent since July 26, 2018.
• Just Chilling (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit July 25, 2019.
• J'raxis (talk · contribs · count) – Retired, left goodbye essay on userpage citing issues with neutral point of view policy. Last edit January 11, 2010.
• JYolkowski (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Over 16,000 edits. Former admin, prolific editor in 2005 & 2006, sporadic 125 edits over next 9 years, silent since May 2015.

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• K (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on February 16, 2021. Formerly edited as User:Kenosis. Made over 22,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
• Kafziel (talk · contribs · count) – Onetime prolific contributor to various U.S. regional and military history articles. Has not actively edited since January 2014. Made four edits on April 17, 2020.
• Kainaw (talk · contribs · count) (now User9669 (talk · contribs · count)) – Last contribution February 21, 2012; account is no longer a registered user.
• Kakofonous (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator with over 7,000 contributions who made their last edit on December 9, 2011. First edit made on November 23, 2007.
• Kappa (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 5, 2008. First edit September 15, 2004.
• Karen Johnson (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit October 9, 2004. First edit April 3, 2002.
• Karenjc (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 9, 2014. Contributor who made 13,022 edits and created 1,335 pages. Activity dropped after 2010, with a small increase in editing in 2012 that stopped afterwards, declining until last edit in 2014. First edit was made on April 11, 2006.
• Katefan0 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – A prolific administrator, she left after Daniel Brandt threatened to inform her employer regarding her work on Wikipedia. See Muddying Sandifer for more details. Last edit April 25, 2020.
• Katieh5584 (talk · contribs · count) – Active Huggle user and new page patroller who last edited on October 5, 2015.
• Kayau (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 9, 2018.
• Keefer4 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 1, 2008.
• Keeper76 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator with over 19,000 edits. Last edit was made on October 4, 2019. First edit was made on August 9, 2007. Was desysopped due to inactivity on February 2017.
• KeithD (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 26, 2010.
• Kelly Martin (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last contribution December 7, 2008. A different user (<200 edits, then disappeared) added {{retired}} in August 2015.
• Kennethaw88 (talk · contribs · count) – First edit May 25, 2013. More than 50,000 edits; last edit January 9, 2021.
• Kennvido (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 13, 2013. Started editing in 2010 and became very active two years later. A major contributor to United States in-the-news type articles.
• Khalidkhoso (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution August 19, 2010. Listed as a member of WikiProject Pakistani districts.
• Khazar2 (talk · contribs · count) – Retired November 2015, no edits since a few cleanup edits in December. Frequent editor of articles on human rights activists and prolific reviewer of WP:Good article nominations.
• Khendon (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator with 1,741 contributions. Last edit was made on November 27, 2021. First edit was made on September 3, 2002.
• KillerChihuahua (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit in February 2022.
• Kilo-Lima (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last spotted actively editing in November 2011. Last edit to request de-sysopping on November 26, 2012, also saying they will return someday.
• Kingboyk (talk · contribs · count) – Joined in 2005, making 57,419 edits. Last edit was April 28, 2020.
• Kingfisherswift (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 5, 2008.
• Kinneyboy90 (talk · contribs · count) – Left a farewell letter on user page. Last edit June 8, 2015.
• Kirjtc2 (talk · contribs · count) – Left a goodbye note on his/her userpage on November 21, 2006 – left another final message July 21, 2008. Returned briefly in 2010 as Fiveohsixer (talk · contribs · count), but retired again in August 2010 after <100 edits on that account; made two edits in January 2015.
• KirtZJ (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on September 29, 2016.
• KittySaturn (talk · contribs · count) – Left a goodbye message on her user page on July 31, 2006 and changed it to Japanese the next day. Roughly translated, her message said: You grew tired already. How it is good already. Bygone days, this Wikipedia which I have regularly used. Today, it was broken.
• Klonimus (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 2, 2006.
• Knurftendans (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 30, 2007.
• Kogsquinge (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 12, 2016, save for one edit on March 14, 2019, and one on October 7, 2021.
• Kolindigo (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor and pending changes reviewer with 45,800 edits, including 8,300 page created. Performed thousands of repairs of vandalism. Consistently active from August 2006 until unexplained full stop in August 2010. As of March 2020, nearly 10 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1700 of most prolific editors ever. Made six more edits on March 23, 2021 with no further edits afterwards.
• Konstable (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Resigned his admin access following an arbitration, fully {{retired}} in April 2008.
• Koman90 (talk · contribs · count) – Made ~13,000 edits, many regarding mass transit in San Diego and computer-related topics, between September 2008 and September 2013. Posted "{{Retired}}" in July 2013, followed by last two edits over the next few weeks, then nothing.
• Kotepho (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 19, 2007. Requested for user and talk pages to be deleted.
• Kotniski (talk · contribs · count) – A prolific contributor, with 40,300 edits, before full stop in January 2012. Left a message explaining major frustration with process in a policy discussion of wording to use for WP:Article titles - Deciding on an article title. As of February 2020, 8 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Koven.rm (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 19, 2009.
• Koyaanis Qatsi (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit September 9, 2008, first edit July 20, 2001.
• KP Botany (talk · contribs · count) – Contributor to articles about botany and biology, and also to BLPs, especially minor ones. Last edit December 8, 2016.
• Krash (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 9, 2008.
• KrebMarkt (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 28, 2018.
• Kukini (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former admin who had well over 50,000 edits since first editing in December 2005; ceased regular editing four years later, added one final edit in 2010. Last edit was to user talk page attributing lack of activity to boredom with Wikipedia. Was desysopped owing to their absence and a change in policy.
• Kukkurovaca (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 23, 2005. Came back briefly on July 3 and 9, 2006.
• Kurando (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 28, 2016.
• Kylu (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 13, 2011.
• Kyoko (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 2, 2008.
• Kyriakos (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific Australian editor & article creator with an interest in ancient Greek history, military history, and cricket. They made edits from early 2005 until an abrupt and unexplained end to editing in mid 2018. Last edit July 7, 2018.

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• L'Aquatique (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Noting in 2012 that changes in her life reduced her edits on wiki after having been desysopped for inactivity, her last edit was on October 15, 2013.
• L33th4x0rguy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 31, 2009. First edit November 19, 2004.
• LaidOff (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution January 20, 2013.
• Lapaz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 20, 2009.
• Lampman (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, autopatrolled, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker. Highly active from late 2006 to late 2011, slowing over subsequent years to final edit in July 2018. Made 12,000 edits including 1,280 pages created.
• Larry laptop (talk · contribs · count) – Left on March 2, 2007. See essay for details.
• Lawrence Cohen (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was May 15, 2008.
• LeaHazel (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 22, 2012.
• LeaveSleaves (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, rollbacker with 42,900 edits including 5,255 pages created. Super active from January 2008 until unexplained full stop in July 2009. As of March 2020, over 10 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1900 of most prolific editors ever.
• Lee Daniel Crocker (talk · contribs · count) – Contributed thousands of edits including to the article on himself. Vanished in 2016.
• Lendorien (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 10, 2013.
• Lesion (talk · contribs · count) – Frequent contributor to WikiProject Medicine, announced their intent to leave Wikipedia on April 20, 2014. Last edit May 25, 2014.
• Lethaniol (talk · contribs · count) – Made over 4,500 contributions to Wikipedia. Left on September 26, 2012.
• Lexi Marie (talk · contribs · count) – Former administrator, last contribution March 14, 2011. Previously also Phroziac (talk · contribs · count) and Stephanie (talk · contribs · count).
• Libertarian12111971 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 21, 2015. Contributor who made 5,641 edits who was active on articles relating to attacks before inactivity. First edit made on June 1, 2014.
• Lifefeed (talk · contribs · count) – Made only a handful of edits after August 2005; blanked his user and talk pages and replaced them with the word "done" on October 10 of that year; has not edited since.
• Life of Riley (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 1, 2019.
• Lightdarkness (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit October 19, 2018.
• Lights (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 11, 2008.
• Lillygirl (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 10, 2009, made one edit to user space on September 15, 2015.
• LinguistAtLarge (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Plentiful editing through 2016 lessened in following years, with two final edits in April 2021.
• Linuxbeak (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit March 6, 2012. Has made only 39 edits since 2006.
• Lips Are Movin (talk · contribs · count) – Made their last mainspace edit in April 2016 but continued editing their sandbox till February 2017. Primarily a contributor to Meghan Trainor-related articles.
• Littlecarmen (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 14, 2017.
• LittleOldMe (talk · contribs · count) – With the exception of an edit on March 2, 2014, their editing ended in October 2012.
• L Kensington (talk · contribs · count) – First edit July 2, 2010; last edit March 20, 2021. Prolific in anti-vandalism; 37 awards in 17 months.
• Lommer (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator – userpage says (as of February 5, 2006) that "they will be taking an indefinite wikibreak, and cannot to a project that actively destroys people's work for the sole reason that corporations can't use it." Made two edits on August 8, 2007; edited sporadically between June 2009 and May 2020.
• Lonewolf BC (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 24, 2009.
• Longhair (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit December 6, 2021.
• LordAtlas (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 4, 2019.
• Lord Emsworth (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit December 13, 2006.
• Lordkinbote (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 28, 2006, after problems with vandals. Left a retirement notice on his userpage quoting RickK on what he saw as Wikipedia's internal problem in dealing with "vandals, trolls, and malefactors." Came back to make a brief appearance January 29, 2007.
• LordViD (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 28, 2006.
• LouI (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit January 26, 2010. Stopped without explanation. Admin privileges suspended in 2011 due to inactivity. Worked on and created mostly historical articles (e.g. Daniel Morgan, the Battle of Bunker Hill, List of Continental Congress Delegates, Saratoga Campaign, the Battle of Saratoga, the Pequot War, and Elias Boudinot [from LouI's user page]).
• LouriePieterse (talk · contribs · count) – Rollbacker with over 7000 edits. Last edit April 7, 2013.
• Lradrama (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit October 6, 2008. Administrator and prolific vandal fighter. After a long break from August 2008, Lradrama returned only to make some brief edits and then declare his retirement. Has not returned since.
• Lucid (talk · contribs · count) – Declared retirement on September 7, 2007, made one edit on September 13, 2007. Returned to comment on an article he created on November 5, 2009; has not edited since.
• Ludwigs2 (talk · contribs · count) – After about 18,000 edits, ceased abruptly in 2012 and returned for one edit over a year later. Does not appear to have given any notice or reason for departure, although it may have had to do with being banned for a year by the ArbCom; when the ban expired he did not return, except for one edit on March 9, 2013.
• Luigizanasi (talk · contribs · count) – Founded WikiProject Woodworking. Last edit February 8, 2012.
• LukeTH (talk · contribs · count) – A prolific contributor (as in 100 edits or more in a session!) to Hillary Rodham Clinton and American liberalism; got married in February 2006, has only a few edits since then, no article space ones since December 2006.
• Luna Santin (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, made first edit in 2006. Has not edited since June 8, 2012.
• Lupin (talk · contribs · count) – Creator of the Navigation popups, Lupin's Anti-vandal tool. Created some of the first Categories on Wikipedia. Last edit was September 11, 2009.
• Luwilt (talk · contribs · count) – Marked their user page "ACCOUNT CLOSED" on July 5, 2011 and never edited again.

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• M C Y 1008 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 7, 2007.
• M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 7, 2010.
• Mac Davis (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 19, 2021.
• Macgreco (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific Brazilian editor blanked user page in October 2007. Last edit July 15, 2012.
• MacGyverMagic (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Prolific editor stopped regular editing without explanation December 18, 2009. Returns occasionally. Last edit March 27, 2012.
• Madeleined2 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 24, 2013.
• Madhero88 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 27, 2020.
• MadMax (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on May 26, 2007 declaring they would be temporarily inactive.
• Majorly (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – A strong content and cross-wiki editor: Majorly was particularly proficient in Greater Manchester-related articles, bringing Cheadle Hulme and Bramall Hall up to featured status; and did a lot of work on Meta and the Simple English Wikipedia, being an admin at both those places. A former administrator here. Activity ended in 2010, short return one day to cleanup their user space and post goodbye note on May 2013, then made one edit in March 2018. Later made one last edit on February 5, 2021 on an article talk page. As of February 2020, 10 years after going (virtually) dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Makeemlighter (talk · contribs · count) – A frequent participant at featured picture candidates. Last edit December 11, 2012.
• Makemi (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator mainly active in the field of music. Over 15,000 edits since December 13, 2005. Became significantly less active from 2008 on; last edit January 26, 2021.
• MakeRocketGoNow (talk · contribs · count) – Last real edit April 27, 2007. The account was compromised on February 13, 2021 and made about 90 edits, requesting several user rights. Three days later he was found and blocked.
• Malcolm (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Formerly Llama man, Malcolm was elected admin on his second try in 2007. In January 2012, he was caught socking and therefore desysopped for cause. His editing dropped off after that, with only eight more edits in 2012, three edits in 2013, and so forth until his last edit came in January 2020.
• Malcolm Farmer (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 10, 2013. First edit March 6, 2001.
• Malkinann (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 6, 2012.
• Mamawrites (talk · contribs · count) – Remarked on user page that she would be contributing perhaps only once or twice a week; however, her last edit was made August 28, 2006.
• MangoWong (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 14, 2011.
• Manxruler (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, autopatrolled, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 54,600 edits, including 1,800 page created and providing extensive work on articles regarding their native Norway. Helped achieve 1 A-Class, 5 GAs and 85 DYKs. Consistently active from September 2006, posted "{{User health inactive}}" (health issues... may not be able to respond... in a timely manner) in October 2016, posted "{{Holiday}}" in June 2017 and disappeared. As of May 2020, 3 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1500 of most prolific editors ever.
• Marcbela (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 23, 2017.
• Marianna251 (talk · contribs · count) – A countervandal, she indicated in March 2019 that real life got in the way. She made her last edit in September 2020.
• Mark Arsten (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - He was an active editor from 2011-2014 with a short burst of editing in 2015 leading to few edits 2017-2020. The owner of three DYKs as well as the recipient of The PumpkinSky Prize and eight other barnstars, Mark was eventually desysopped for inactivity.
• Mark Richards (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 10, 2005.
• MarkS (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 5, 2014.
• MarkSweep (talk · contribs · count) – Administrator – vanished on November 14, 2007 and made a small return in 2009 before again ceasing to edit.
• Marshman (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Administrator – Left Wikipedia for a year on June 21, 2006. Returned one year later on June 27, 2007 explaining on his talk page that he "just got TOO busy at work to contribute much," and was desysopped. Made one edit to his user page ("Hope to get back into editing some day.") on January 25, 2017.
• Martial Law (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 3, 2007.
• MartinHarper  (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit July 9, 2015, first edit November 29, 2002.
• Martijn Hoekstra (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit February 5, 2019. Was previously desysopped due to inactivity.
• Martinp23 (talk · contribs · count) (now MDP23 (talk · contribs · count)) – Amassed over 11,000 edits fighting vandalism, contributing to discussions, and expanding articles. Last edited in April 2020.
• Master of Puppets (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit February 4, 2022.
• Master Thief Garrett (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Desysopped for inactivity, he had started in 2005 with thousands of edits that year, but only hundreds of edits in following years, only dozens of edits 2010 to 2015, and his final seven edits in 2016.
• Matej1234 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 41,900 edits, including extensive work on articles relating to their homeland through WikiProject Slovenia, before posting "{{Semi-retired}}" in September 2014, full stop after making just-one-more-edit in February 2015. As of February 2020, 5 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Matt Crypto (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; last edit July 9, 2011.
• MattFisher (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 19, 2013.
• MattWade (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, desysopped due to inactivity. Last edit April 8, 2020.
• Mav (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Left messages on his user page and talk page on July 22, 2014, indicating that he was busy in real life and intended to return someday; last edit April 28, 2015, before returning for four edits in early 2017.
• Maximus Rex (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 31, 2004, deleted his user page right before he left. First edit July 4, 2003. Nearly 22,000 edits, as of February 2020, 16 years after going dormant, was still in the top 4300 of most prolific editors ever.
• MaxPont (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 14, 2017.
• Mbecker (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. First edit September 5, 2002; last edit February 10, 2010.
• Mboverload (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Joined in 2004, was super prolific in 2006, making over 25,200 edits (of nearly 40,000 lifetime) in that early year of Wikipedia. Virtually dormant since September 2012, last active with 4 edits in May 2019. As of February 2020, nearly 8 years after going virtually dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• MBK004 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit November 11, 2010.
• Meaghan (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was March 7, 2011, to replace {{busy}} with {{semi-retired}}. Her WikiLove still litters the Project.
• Megan1967 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 27, 2006. Left a message on her talk page on June 20, 2005 saying she resigned to go live with her girlfriend; [5] made an edit on August 1, 2006, and another on August 27, reiterating her retirement. Was blocked on July 7, 2005 due to a suspected "hijacking" of her account.
• Mel Etitis (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An editor since 2004 and an administrator since 2005. Was heavily active until June 2007, where he edited occasionally. Last edit was on July 1, 2007.
• Melancholie (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 8, 2009.
• Melcombe (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 21, 2013.
• MeltBanana (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 6, 2013.
• Mereda (talk · contribs · count) – Just before reaching 6,000 edits, user stated that his/her username will be mainly dormant from April 2007. Last edit March 28, 2007.
• Merlinus (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 8, 2007.
• MetroFan2009 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 8, 2020.
• MetsFan76 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 2008.
• MezzoMezzo (talk · contribs · count) - Stopped editing in 2021 for no apparent reason.
• Mic (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit September 27, 2004.
• Michael Mad (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 13, 2009, had only been sporadically active since December 2007.
• Michaelbusch (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 3, 2016. Left retirement notice on user page.
• MichaelTinkler (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 3, 2002.
• Midas02 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 3, 2016. Made more than 33,000 edits and a member of the Disambiguator Hall of Fame; stopped editing without notice in the middle of an unsuccessful RfA.
• MidgleyDJ (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 21, 2017.
• Mike 7 (talk · contribs · count) – Made a total of 11,185 edits. Last edit on January 29, 2021.
• Mike Halterman (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Administrator, last edit on March 27, 2014, then made several edits in December 2016.
• Mike V (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – An admin with over 29,000 edits since 2007, he blanked his User and User Talk pages and deleted his User Talk Archives in December 2016 following criticism and reversal of one of his blocking decisions, and has not edited since.
• MindstormsKid (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on January 16, 2010.
• Mintguy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 13, 2004. "It has stopped being fun. The lunatics are taking over the asylum." See his userpage for more information.
• Minun (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 28, 2006, has not returned after Arbitration Committee ban ended on August 13, 2007.
• Miranda (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 20, 2012.
• Mirror Vax (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 25, 2012.
• Mirv (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Formerly No-One Jones (talk · contribs · count). Last edit on September 2, 2014. Left a message on user page on January 15, 2008 saying: "I do not log in much any more: the site is too high-profile and the fun is mostly gone. I still edit anonymously on occasion, and I'll use this account if I want to create, move, or use sysop powers on a page."
• Missmarple (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit 4 November, 2010.
• Miss Mondegreen (talk · contribs · count) – Became inactive after November 2007 and made her last edit on September 13, 2008. Played a key part in drafting the unsuccessful Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools) guideline proposal and contributed to a number of biography and school articles.
• Mister Jinxy (talk · contribs · count) – Edited from December 2005 to May 2007. Left after stating, "Too many editors out there drinking the politically correct Kool-Aid and trying to make everybody worship at the altar of the Almighty Wikipedia Rule Book.". Made several edits, primarily to own userpage, since, most recently in June 2010.
• Misterdiscreet (talk · contribs · count) – Strongly deletionist editor made last edit (to an AfD, no less), on April 14, 2010. "Increasingly I feel that I'm out of step with the way things are run here, and at best grudgingly tolerated by the children who run this site" says a banner on his userpage.
• Mistress Selina Kyle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 2, 2012.
• Misza13 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – creator of the MiszaBots; desysopped for inactivity. Last edit August 6, 2020.
• Miszatomic (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 23, 2019.
• Mitico (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor to lacrosse-related articles. Last edit July 12, 2010.
• Mkativerata (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Made last four edits in 2020.
• Mmoyer (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on June 3, 2014.
• Mo ainm (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on January 25, 2017.
• Mock wurzel soup (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on November 11, 2019.
• Modemac (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit November 11, 2021.
• Modster (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 15, 2008, first edit October 31, 2002.
• Mom2jandk (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 9, 2017. Wrote and operated Watchlistbot.
• Mono (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 16, 2016. Placed retired notice on user page.
• Monobi (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on June 21, 2008. Privately requested his userpage to be deleted and both userpage and talk pages to be fully protected.
• MorbidEntree (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 2, 2018. First edit May 31, 2014.
• Morton devonshire (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 18, 2007. Stated that he'll be on indefinite wikibreak, as there is "not much Wiki-violatin' vanity-conspiracy-spamology left to delete" for him.
• Movingboxes (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 6, 2008.
• MPLX (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 28, 2005; left apparently after a conflict at Teach the Controversy.
• Mr Accountable (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor and pending changes reviewer with 40,700 edits; formerly edited as McTrixie (talk · contribs · count). Created 17,445 pages, member of WikiProjects Vietnam, Indonesia and Baseball. Consistently active from October 2007 until unexplained full stop in April 2011. As of February 2020, 9 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• MrDarwin (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific plant editor, left in January 2008 in the first Homeopathy Arbitration Committee case. Briefly edited in January 2009 to blank his user talk page.
• Mrfish33 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 24, 2014.
• Mr. Lefty (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Left and last used tools on July 7, 2008. Returned to make a single edit on November 6, 2008, and a few more in July 2009. A year later, he edited his user page to indicate that he is no longer active.
• Mr Stephen (talk · contribs · count) – pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with over 46,000 edits. Stopped consistently editing on July 23, 2017 before making one edit on November 8, 2017.
• Mr. Unknown (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on September 27, 2017.
• Mtmelendez (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former admin. Last edit July 6, 2015.
• Muffin Wizard (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution on November 30, 2015. First contribution on December 21, 2011. Contributed heavily on Malaysian topics and nominated many articles for good article status before suddenly disappearing. A note left on his talkpage stated he was sick before his last days in Wikipedia.
• MuffledThud (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 10, 2010.
• MurderByDeadcopy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 16, 2016.
• Muriel Gottrop (talk · contribs · count) (now Muriel Gottrop~enwiki (talk · contribs · count)) – Last edit November 5, 2007. Terrific editor of European history topics, including the since deleted, but very interesting List of young people in history. Now lurks in wiki-pt?
• Musical Linguist (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, last edit June 23, 2007.
• Murph9000 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 29, 2017.
• Musicpvm (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 26, 2012.
• Mustafaa (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 18, 2006. His user page cites a lack of free time.
• Mydogategodshat (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 18, 2006. First edit May 26, 2003.
• MyNameIsNotBob (talk · contribs · count) – earned a barnstar for his work on 2006 FIFA World Cup controversies to present a more neutral point of view; first edited in 2004 but activity slowly came to a stop by April 2019. Has not edited since.

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• Naerii (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 19, 2008.
• Nahallac Silverwinds (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 29, 2018.
• NancyHeise (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 7, 2016.
• Navy Blue (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 23, 2008.
• Ncboy2010 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 9, 2015.
• NCurse (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - A Hungarian editor mostly active in 2006, their edits dropped off rapidly 2007 onward, with their final edit on November 13, 2018 acknowledging their pending de-sysop for inactivity.
• Ndunruh (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 13, 2014. Editor with 13,809 contributions who was active in military articles.
• Neier (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 38,738 edits before sudden full stop in March 2009. Returned for a single edit in March 2015, to cleanup user page. As of February 2020, 11 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• NeilN (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former sysop who stopped editing in August 2018, but returned to make one edit in October 2018 stating he was back from his hiatus, and would be more active, then never edited again. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2019.
• Nerdseeksblonde (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 25, 2019.
• NerdyScienceDude (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 4, 2012.
• Nestwiki (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 1, 2015.
• Neurodivergent (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 12, 2007.
• Neurolysis (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 14, 2009; left a {{retired}} template on his talk page, leaving a farewell message in the edit summary.
• Newbyguesses (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 23, 2021.
• NewEnglandYankee (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 40,700 edits. Created 2,238 pages and performed thousands of repairs of vandalism. Consistently active from November 2006 until unexplained full stop in August 2018. As of February 2020, two years after stopping, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Nhl4hamilton (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution July 31, 2020.
• Nichalp (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit under that account on January 31, 2009. A former administrator, bureaucrat, and oversighter, he had made over 30,000 edits. His userrights were removed by the Arbitration Committee in June 2009 after it was discovered that he had been using another account for paid editing.
• NickelShoe (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 23, 2014.
• Night w (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 19, 2013.
• Nigos (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 1, 2022.
• Nihlus (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit September 12, 2021.
• Niteowlneils (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 27, 2006.
• Nixeagle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 20, 2011.
• NJGW (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 19, 2010. An editor of energy articles, main contributor to the Peak oil article.
• Nobleeagle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on May 26, 2007.
• Noetica (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 17, 2015. Posted a retirement banner after receiving a discretionary sanctions notice. Has offered to participate in any Arbitration Committee case on the matter.
• Nohansen (talk · contribs · count) – Made two edits on April 6, 2009 after almost two months without editing, has not edited since.
• Noirish (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 14, 2009.
• Noitall (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 4, 2011.
• Notheruser (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Left on August 17, 2003 giving no reason, but stating "I'm taking an indefinite break from Wikipedia." Returned for one day on June 4, 2005, but has not edited since.
• Notinasnaid (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 18, 2007.
• Nouniquenames (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 6, 2013.
• Noypi380 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 11, 2009.
• Noyster (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 18, 2019.
• Nvvchar (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, autopatrolled, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 41,100 edits. Created 1,644 pages, helped 94 pages reach GA and one of the most prolific contributors to DYK articles, including 10 entries in the DYK HOF. Consistently active from November 2007 until he "{{Retired}}" in August 2011 – but returned a year later and remained active until September 2016. He later made three edits on 2018, with these currently being his last. As of February 2020, nearly four years after stopping, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• NWill (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 38,763 edits – many in film, television and tennis – before sudden full stop in February 2016. As of February 2020, four years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Nwwaew (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 16, 2009; left a "retired" notice on userpage.
• NYMFan69-86 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 20, 2012. Last edit was an interview with the Signpost about WikiProject Turtles.

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• O^O (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 11, 2007. He/she wrote on August 26, 2006 that he/she had been a frequent contributor since August 2002, had held several personas over the years, and had used "admin accounts, hundreds of 'anonymous' IP addresses, and more user accounts than I could ever tally". Specialized in zen-like answers.
• Oddbodz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 31, 2019. Was mostly active 2011-2013, with edits sharply dropping afterwards. Edits increased in 2016, but dropped again and continued to do so until their final edit in 2019.
• Oden (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was January 2007, placing a retirement tag on his userpage. Left due to his involvement in the heated WP:NFCC debates, resulting AN complaints about wikistalking, incivility on the part of others, etc.
• Ojo del tigre (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 17, 2021, with the last global edit being on Spanish Wikipedia on April 8, 2021.
• Oldtaxguy (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 24, 2020. Activity dropped after 2012, with edits slowly declining until 2016, where edits stopped for four years until final edit in 2020. Formerly active in articles related to taxes.
• Oldwindybear (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Amid allegations of sockpuppetry, Oldwindybear asked for his userpage to be deleted and blanked his talkpage. Last edit July 25, 2007.
• Olessi (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 27, 2013.
• Ollie (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 26, 2009.
• OmegaWikipedia (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 7, 2005.
• Omicronpersei8 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 9, 2006, made a few on the 9th, placing a "Former Wikipedians" template on his user page with "Goodbye" as the edit summary. A dedicated vandalfighter with over 50,000 edits.
• Omniplex (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 10, 2006, blanked user page; was also very active on Meta from March – July 2006.
• On Wheezier Plot (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 27, 2012.
• OneGuy (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor until March 2013, sporadic edits since. Last edit September 8, 2021.
• Optim (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator and bureaucrat. Left notice on userpage. Last edit March 6, 2004.
• OrangesRyellow (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 2, 2015.
• Orca1 9904 (talk · contribs · count) – Contributor with 5,039 edits who was active in military-related articles. Last edit made on October 13, 2021. First edit made on March 30, 2006.
• Orioane (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit February 29, 2012. Procedurally de-sysopped due to inactivity on March 1, 2013.
• OsamaK (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 18, 2020.
• Osario~enwiki (talk · contribs · count) – Contributor with over 4,000 edits. Last edit March 26, 2021. Was active in 2019 before slowing down in 2020, and later made only four edits in 2021 before completely stopping. First edit was made on November 16, 2010.
• Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk · contribs · count) – Left "retired" note on user page. Last edit December 25, 2008.
• Ottawa4ever (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 3, 2019.
• OttawaAC (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 5, 2019.
• Ottre (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 2, 2016.
• Oxymoron83 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last contribution December 9, 2010. Over 70,000 edits since May 17, 2007.

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• PaddyBriggs (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor of and contributor of photos to cricket-related articles from mid 2005 to mid 2007, when he requested his user and talk pages be deleted.
• Padenton (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 29, 2015.
• Pádraic MacUidhir (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on December 25, 2006. Requested his user and talk pages be deleted on April 25, 2007.
• Pahari Sahib (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 4, 2011. Listed as a member of WikiProject Pakistani districts.
• Pahpaha (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 7, 2010. Contributor from France.
• Pairadox (talk · contribs · count) – Fairly active vandal fighter whose last edit was April 18, 2008 although he stopped editing at his usual pace on March 18 of that same year.
• Palmiro (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 9, 2009.
• Pan Dan (talk · contribs · count) – Became inactive without explanation in July 2007, but returned briefly in March 2008 to request his userpage be deleted. Frequently commented at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, helped fight vandalism, and contributed to articles related to U.S. politics.
• Pantheonzeus (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 20, 2017.
• Panyd (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit June 14, 2022.
• Paralympiakos (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited March 4, 2014.
• Pastordavid (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 21, 2014.
• Path slopu (talk · contribs · count) - A native Malayalam-speaker from Kerala, Path slopu made almost 16000 edits in 2019, a third as many in 2020, and less than 50 in 2021 with his final edit coming on April 9, 2021.
• PaulHanson (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 27, 2017. First edit October 17, 2004.
• P.B. Pilhet (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 14, 2017.
• Pcpcpc (talk · contribs · count) – Left a message on his talk page on April 1, 2005, saying he was leaving due to "stress caused by the unreliability of the system and harrassment from certain users." [6] Reiterated this on April 17, and has not edited since.
• PDH (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit June 19, 2011. Over 55,000 edits.
• PeaceNT (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Desysopped for inactivity, they ceased editing in December 2020.
• Peanut4 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on February 12, 2010.
• Pekinensis (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 31, 2006, except for 2 edits on September 15, 2006 and one on his user talk on June 7, 2007.
• Penbat (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 27, 2019.
• Pentawing (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 13, 2018.
• Per Honor et Gloria (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on March 13, 2011. Left a message on his talk page in 2009 about reducing his editing rate because of disillusionment due to an arbitration case.
• Peridon (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Desysopped for inactivity. Abruptly stopped editing on March 11, 2017.
• Peripitus (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific contributor, with 38,440 edits, including extensive work on articles relating to their Australian homeland, before sudden full stop in April 2018. As of February 2020, 2 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Perl (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 7, 2008. First edit February 14, 2004.
• Persian Poet Gal (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Prolific vandal fighter and administrator. Last edit was January 24, 2010. In July 2011, another user posted a message on her talk page saying that she is "extremely busy in real life" and does not think it likely she will return anytime soon.
• PeterSymonds (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator who first edited in December 2005. Last edit on April 4, 2013.
• Peter Shearan (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 14, 2013.
• PetraSchelm (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited in June 2008.
• PetSounds (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 25, 2005.
• Pfortuny (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; six edits since December 13, 2004, with the last one being on April 20, 2009.
• Pgk (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 16, 2007. A sysop who was very good at what he did. Ran a bot called Pgkbot.
• Phaedriel (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit September 28, 2007. One of the most respected administrators on Wikipedia.
• Phaedrus86 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 15, 2007.
• Phatcat68 (talk · contribs · count) – An evangelical Christian, his userpage suggests he may have left due to conflicts with other users about Wikipedia's treatment of Christianity. Stopped regularly editing on May 7, 2006; has made a few edits since then, but none since September 25, 2007.
• Philg88 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator and prolific contributor, with 41,800 edits. Created 7,548 pages, helped achieve 2 FAs, 11 GAs and 23 DYKs. Very active in 2011, and again from 2014 to 2016, decreasing to an unexplained full stop in July 2019. As of February 2020, appears in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Phlegm Rooster (talk · contribs · count) – Made over 6,000 edits between March 2008 and March 2009. Prominent creator of AfDs.
• Phoe (talk · contribs · count) – autopatrolled and rollbacker with over 26,000 edits. Retired in January 2010 due to being frustrated with an arbitration case. Made a few edits after that, but made their final edit on October 13, 2012.
• Phoenix-forgotten (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on August 29, 2008.
• Phyesalis (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution on February 9, 2012.
• Picaroon (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator and Arbitration clerk, last edit on March 1, 2008 to userpage noting disappointment at how things were going.
• Pickle UK (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 27, 2007.
• Pilotguy (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edited in August 2008. Returned on January 10, 2009 to delete his user and talk pages.
• Pine (talk · contribs · count) - Nine-year editor, promoted a good article and DYK for Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014, and frequent contributor to The Signpost's "On the Bright Side" column; Nearing the end of June 2020 they indicated an interview for Signpost would be delayed, resigned volunteering for The Signpost, archived their talk page less than an hour later and never returned.
• Pinethicket (talk · contribs · count) – More than 126,000 edits. First edit May 13, 2009. Last edit July 21, 2016.
• Ping (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 13, 2013. First edit March 2, 2003.
• Pixelface (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution August 3, 2009.
• Plange (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Stopped editing August 29, 2009; returned briefly in October 2013; returned again in May 2016 through July 18, 2016, made a few more on March 21, 2018 and on January 9, 2020.
• PMDrive1061 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Retired June 2011 in frustration, then made four edits on March 10, 2014.
• PocklingtonDan (talk · contribs · count) – Left in frustration in December 2013.
• Pocopocopocopoco (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 27, 2009.
• Poetic Decay (talk · contribs · count) – Left goodbye message on userpage. Last edit August 5, 2008.
• Poison Whiskey (talk · contribs · count) – Editor with an interest in MMA. Vanished in 2015, reappearing for three edits in January 2017 before going missing once more.
• Polaron (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, autopatrolled, with 44,800 edits, including 4,200 page created. Consistently active from October 2005 to October 2015, then just a few random edits until unexplained full stop in August 2018. As of March 2020, over 4 years after first going virtually dormant, was still in the top 1800 of most prolific editors ever.
• Polarscribe (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 10, 2013.
• Polonium (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing regularly in summer 2007. Made two edits on December 10, 2007.
• Popsracer (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 1, 2005.
• Poroubalous (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 10, 2020. First edit August 10, 2004. Many contributions regarding the state of Missouri.
• PPEMES (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 28, 2020. Prolific Christianity editor.
• Praddy06 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 30, 2021.
• Pretzels (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 23, 2015.
• ProfessorPaul (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 29, 2018. Worked extensively on topics related to the state of Oklahoma; does not appear to have given notice or a reason for departure.
• PS2pcGAMER (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit was made on May 1, 2011. Was active throughout 2008, until slowdown on late 2008 and a stop in editing until 2010, where they made only two edits and later made one edit on May 1, 2011, with this being their final edit. Was desysopped on 2012 due to inactivity.
• Pseudo-Richard (talk · contribs · count) – First edit in March 2006. Made more than 27,000 edits, primarily to Christianity and Judaism topics. Activity began decreasing in 2012 and had effectively ceased by October 2013. Last four edits were July 7, 2015.
• Puddleglum2.0 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 31, 2020. Was a terrific CVUA trainer, as well as a copy editor.
• PullUpYourSocks (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 17, 2020.
• Punctured Bicycle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 18, 2009. Does not appear to have given advance notice of or a reason for departure.
• Pupster21 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 31, 2011.
• PurplePlatypus (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 14, 2012.
• PYLrulz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 31, 2012.
• Pyrospirit (talk · contribs · count) – Joined in 2006, and left in June 2012. Made over 9,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
• Pyrrhus16 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 12, 2012.
• PZFUN (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – A former admin, the editor made two final edits on July 30, 2008, and finally uploaded two pictures of a Zimbabwean passport on August 26, 2008. The account has performed no other actions since then, save two administrator actions in 2010: deleting own userpage on January 8, with the final logged action, deleting one of the Zimbabwean passports, on May 5. If any reason for departure was given, it was lost when the user page was deleted.

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• QazPlm (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor and creator of articles on cricket and Australian geography from late 2005 to mid 2008.
• Qirex (talk · contribs · count) – She effectively quit on January 28, 2006, coming back only once on May 7 that year to blank her user page.
• QPT (talk · contribs · count) – This user (originally called Origamite) had about 4000 edits between March 2013 and January 30, 2016, but has no edits since (as of November 2017). S/he left a message on his/her user page.
• Qwyrxian (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator (from July 2011) with over 57,000 edits beginning in May 2006. Has not edited since announcing an “extended break” in January 2014, which some colleagues attributed to off-wiki harassment.

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• R (talk · contribs · count) (now R~enwiki (talk · contribs · count)) – Announced his retirement in April 2008; has made a few edits since.
• R45 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 23, 2015.
• Racerx11 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker, with 40,200 edits before an abrupt stop in May 2015. Made two isolated edits in 2016, and one final edit in March 2017. As of February 2020, 5 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Radagast83 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 8, 2013.
• Radiant! (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former admin. Last contribution September 28, 2014.
• RadicalBender (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, consistent editing ended after 2005, making their last edit on July 3, 2007. Left a displeased notice on userpage, stating that they have quit Wikipedia due to various issues on Wikipedia. First edit was made on September 24, 2003. Made 20,710 edits through 2003 through 2007, with a majority of edits being made in 2004.
• RadioBroadcast (talk · contribs · count) – Very active from 2008–2013. Significantly reduced 2014–2015. Last contribution September 30, 2021.
• RadioKirk (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former admin, announced he was inactive on Wikipedia on April 3, 2007. Last edit was on May 16, 2007, announcing on his user page that "administrative access had been removed by request."
• Radman1 (talk · contribs · count) – Blanked his user and talk pages in December 2005. He returned to make a few edits on February 10, 2006, but again blanked his talk page and ceased editing. Account renamed to R.123 (talk · contribs) due to final edit on March 31, 2007.
• RahadyanS (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 30, 2008.
• RainbowOfLight (talk · contribs · count) – Made over 25,000 edits. Last edit on November 1, 2021. Posted a semi-retired template on her Talk Page in 2009.
• Ral315 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit January 10, 2021. Editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost from August 2005 through December 2008.
• Rama's Arrow (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator credited with nominating 12 featured articles, last edit August 26, 2007.
• Random Passer-by (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 11, 2007.
• Randomran (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 15, 2009.
• Random Replicator (talk · contribs · count) – Actively stopped contributing on January 29, 2008. Successfully got article to featured status and then left over the wiki-drama. Made one edit on January 25, 2009 and one on September 11.
• RandomXYZb (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Formerly User:Gb, deleted all pages in userspace, disappeared. Last edit February 15, 2009.
• Rangerdude (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on December 19, 2005. Had 3155, over a little under a year. Left after an arbitration case.
• RattBoy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 16, 2006. Worked mostly on U.S. politicians. Editor simply vanished.
• Raven4x4x (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) − Former administrator. Last edit in 2009.
• Rd232 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 12, 2013.
• Realist2 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 30, 2021, after a long break since March 20, 2016. Over 40,000 edits, many of which were on Michael Jackson-related articles.
• Reaper X (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit to article space on August 18, 2008; blanked userpage September 25, 2008.
• R.e.b. (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, autopatrolled and pending changes reviewer with 42,900 edits, including 7,247 pages created, many in WikiProject Mathematics. Consistently active from March 2003 until unexplained full stop in February 2017. As of March 2020, 3 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1800 of most prolific editors ever.
• Rebecca1990 (talk · contribs · count)  – Over 7,400 edits; last edit September 21, 2016.
• Redfarmer (talk · contribs · count) - Although he registered in 2004, his most prolific year was 2008 when he earned a Featured Article but was not promoted at RfA. After that, his editing dropped off to almost nothing. In 2011 he marked himself "retired" finally adding his valediction in March 2017.
• Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs · count) – Effectively stopped contributing in January 2014 save for a last edit on October 22, 2016.
• Redrocket (talk · contribs · count) – Has not been active since May 10, 2008. Added a retired tag on his talk page on June 16.
• Redvers (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit June 22, 2010. Over 30,000 edits.
• Redwolf24 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last contribution November 3, 2011. Former administrator with 12,207 edits who was highly active during 2005, with activity sharply falling in 2006, making sporadic edits afterwards until a small increase in activity in 2009, with edits falling afterwards until final edit, which was a reply to a pending suspension of administrative permissions notice stating "Hello, I am here." First edit was made on April 20, 2005.
• Regan123 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 2, 2008. A prolific contributor with 23,580 edits and 2,317 created pages who was active in articles on roads in the UK. Was highly active through 2006-2007, until 2008 where activity suddenly ended on February 2. First edit was made on January 15, 2006.
• Remuel (talk · contribs · count) – Has made only 2 edits since August 29, 2005. The second was to add himself to the List of non-admins with high edit counts on February 17, 2006.
• Renata (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution January 19, 2012. Started 2002.
• ResidentAnthropologist (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Admin retired in November 2011.
• Resoru (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 16, 2015.
• Retired username (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 23, 2008.
• Reubenbarton (talk · contribs · count) – Has edited very sporadically since July 2005. He made a handful of edits on July 20, 2006 and March 16, 2007. He was a major contributor to articles about manned space flight.
• Revent (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit 2017-06-06, last global edit on Commons on 2017-10-15.
• Revolutionaryluddite (talk · contribs · count) – Requested user page deletion; stopped edits 2007/11/13. Has made some smaller edits since then.
• Revolver (talk · contribs · count) – A Wikipedian since June 3, 2003, announced retirement on May 30, 2006. Made a few more edits, the last on April 7, 2007.
• RexNL (talk · contribs · count) – A highly active vandal fighter (administrator) who started off on April 18, 2005. Hasn't edited since August 29, 2009.
• RexxS (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Prolific editor, particularly in the fields of accessibility and templates, and a skilled trainer for new editors. Left in February 2021 in the approach to an arbitration case.
• ReyBrujo (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 40,700 edits. Very active late 2005 to early 2008, slowed to a few sporadic edits until full stop in October 2016. As of February 2020, 12 years after first going virtually dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever. Made one edit on April 7, 2020.
• Rhion (talk · contribs · count) – An active editor especially on Welsh topics, he left a farewell message on his talk page on January 9, 2007. Left one further message at the WP:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board on January 28 requesting his userpage be blanked and offering a further explanation for his departure. Made one edit on November 28, 2008.
• Riana (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit January 28, 2015.
• Richard Barlow (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 3, 2015.
• Rilak (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 17, 2011.
• Rintrah (talk · contribs · count) – Declared account "permanently inactive" on Februrary 22, 2007, and edited one time after that.
• Rivertorch (talk · contribs · count) - A countervandal with active editing 2006-2014 and 2016-2018 with a focus on sexuality.
• Rizzleboffin (talk · contribs · count) – Quit Wikipedia on July 12, 2007. Returned April 2011 as "semi-retired", stated "I got burned out due to the Wikipedia community's hypocritical and contradictory stances on notability/bias/"sum of human knowledge"/censorship/inclusion/deletion/edit-warring, etc., etc., etc.". Final edit made on July 29, 2011.
• Rje (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit September 24, 2010.
• RJHall (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing August 27, 2012. Returned February 12, 2013 only to blank his talk page and place a Retired template on his user page. One edit to own talk page in 2014.
• Robbiegiles (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing without explanation. Last edit December 9, 2008.
• Robchurch (talk · contribs · count) – Left a message on his user page on July 3, 2006, saying he'd be "getting out of the way". Only a handful of edits since then, the last on May 24, 2007, supporting a RfA.
• RobJ1981 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited on October 19, 2010; used to frequent WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• RobNS (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 15, 2018.
• RogDel (talk · contribs · count) – Edited from January 14, 2008 to January 27, 2015 with over 80,000 edits.
• Rogper (talk · contribs · count) (now Rogper~enwiki (talk · contribs · count) – Prominent on the Swedish Wikipedia, he stopped editing here July 2005. Returned briefly on March 16 and 17, 2006, February 25, 2007, and August 28, 2011.
• Roleplayer (talk · contribs · count) – Contributor with over 35,000 edits since July 2006. Created 73 pages. Last edit December 28, 2019.
• Rolinator (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on July 19, 2009.
• Rorschach567 (talk · contribs · count) – Primarily focused on comic books, they last edited on May 20, 2007.
• Rotem Dan (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution on March 15, 2006, which was to blank his talkpage and a subpage. Hasn't appeared since.
• Roux (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution July 8, 2012. Participated in many discussions at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.
• Rparle (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 8, 2013.
• Rudjek (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 23, 2007.
• Rune.welsh (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Frequent promoter/failer of lists on WP:FLC. Last edit January 6, 2007.
• Russian F (talk · contribs) – Last edit 27 April 2008.
• Rwwww (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 24, 2018.
• Ryan (talk · contribs · count) – An on-and-off contributor, Ryan labeled himself offline in 2014 making only one edit in 2016 and two edits in 2017.
• RyanCross (talk · contribs · count) – Formerly User:RyRy5. Over 20,000 edits, more than 40 contributions to DYK. Bureaucrat on Wikiquote and Simple Wikiquote. Announced semi-retirement February 2009, last edit February 7, 2015.
• RyanGerbil10 (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit was on August 16, 2013.
• Rybec (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 27, 2014.

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• Sade (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution February 9, 2009.
• Salsa Shark (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, last edit January 29, 2004.
• Sam Spade (talk · contribs · count) – Became only an infrequent contributor after a May 2006 arbitration case. Left a retired notice on user page. Last edit April 19, 2007.
• Samaritan (talk · contribs · count) – Made a total of 7,988 edits at the time marked missing. Last edited on September 15, 2020.
• Samuel Blanning (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Retired administrator, last edit August 1, 2018.
• Samuelsen (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 23, 2006.
• Sango123 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Retired administrator, last edit October 1, 2006, e-mail messages sent to her have not been replied to.
• Sannse (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator; last edit August 18, 2021. Currently active on Wikia.
• Sanskari (talk · contribs · count) – from Delhi and an editor who started in 2014 as Cutest Penguin, he retired in October 2020 after being hit by a boomerang following a topic ban enforcement.
• Sardanaphalus (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 23, 2015.
• Sarvagnya (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 30, 2009.
• Sasata (talk · contribs · count) – Retired; last edit October 21, 2016.
• Savidan (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - Completed five FAs and two FLs; they marked themselves "semi-retired" in September 2012 but contributed sporadically for the following years, making their final edit on December 25, 2019.
• Sb101 (talk · contribs · count) – Worked relentlessly between April and October 2013 to successfully bring Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to Good article status. Last edit October 30, 2013.
• Scarce (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 11, 2011.
• Scarian (talk · contribs · count) – Amassed over 28,000 edits. Currently displays a semi-retired banner; last edited in March 2019.
• Schaefer (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution May 1, 2010.
• Scharks (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 24, 2010.
• SchrutedIt08 (talk · contribs · count) – Primarily contributed to articles about popular American TV shows. Last edited on January 12, 2015; left goodbye message to another user five days later saying "[e]very single day on this site is nothing but frustration and I have much better things to do."
• SchuminWeb (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – His last edit December 20, 2012, where he announced his retirement. He still regularly updates his webpage.
• Schzmo (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 20, 2017.
• Scraggy4 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 24, 2012.
• ScudLee (talk · contribs · count) – A prolific editor during 2004, ScudLee first disappeared in December 2004. Made almost 1500 edits in December 2005, then blanked talk page on December 27, 2005 and has not been heard from since.
• SD6-Agent (talk · contribs · count) – Last seen at the end of January 2006, after over 9600 edits; left without explanation. A major contributor to Canadian topics, he started the page on the TV show, Lost and also the current version of The Nature of Things.
• Seabuckthorn (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor of good article nominations. Has not edited since March 7, 2014.
• SeanMooney (talk · contribs · count) - Edited mainly videogames articles. Vanished in 2008. Came back with a single edit on March 31, 2021 to vote on a deletion discussion.
• Sean William (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Became an admin on April 3, 2007, under the username Pulltoopen. Hasn't edited since November 20, 2009.
• Securiger (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 25, 2010.
• Segv11 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 29, 2021 after a one year gap in editing. Editing began to slow down and become infrequent after 2006. First edit made on September 1, 2005.
• Sengkang (talk · contribs · count) — Prolific contributor, with 38,820 edits posting "{{Retired}}" with last edit, in November 2007. As of February 2020, over 12 years since retirement, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Seonookim (talk · contribs · count) – Went into semi-retirement on July 4, 2014 and retired over a year later.
• Sephiroth BCR (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit February 22, 2010. He contributed significantly to anime and manga articles and was also an admin coach.
• SergeantBolt (talk · contribs · count) – A contributor of the television series Lost. Last edit June 16, 2009.
• Sergeant Snopake (talk · contribs · count) – Left a message on her talk page on September 15, 2006, saying her "time here has passed." She made a few more edits, the last on December 29, but reiterated that she was not coming back. Made a few edits to user talk pages in August 2010.
• Sesshomaru (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor and rollbacker, with 40,900 edits. Created 3,288 new pages. Active from November 2007 until sudden full stop in November 2010. As of February 2020, nearly 10 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2000 of most prolific editors ever.
• Sethmahoney (talk · contribs · count) – Left for a short wikibreak in 2006 and didn't return. Last edit November 18, 2006.
• SeventyThree (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 19, 2008.
• Sfarney (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 23, 2016.
• SGGH (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit January 19, 2015. Former coordinator of Wikiproject:Law Enforcement, worked in a wide variety of areas, including articles about military history, law enforcement, and cricket.
• ShakingSpirit (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit 19:46, November 9, 2012, first edit 06:07, February 11, 2006. Primarily active during: October 2006 - April 2007; February 2008 - June 2008; December 2008; April 2009; and September 2009. Stopped editing abruptly on September 18, 2009 (last edit before break), returning to make one edit on November 9, 2012, which was his last edit. Notable for operating two bots, ShakingBot (talk · contribs · count) and DarknessBot (talk · contribs · count), both of which have been inactive since 2007 (February 20 and October 27, respectively).
• Shaliya waya (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 1, 2013.
• ShaneKing (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 19, 2005.
• Sharktopus (talk · contribs · count) – Primarily worked on articles about biology. Last edited June 2013, previous edit November 2011.
• Shauri (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit December 29, 2005.
• Sherurcij (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 29, 2011.
• Shirulashem (talk · contribs · count) – Blanked their user and talk pages on November 18, 2014 and made only two edits in August 2015.
• Shorne (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 6, 2004.
• Shrewpelt (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on November 30, 2008. Worked tirelessly on improving Warriors (novel series) to GA, and on creating a Warriors portal.
• Shyamsunder (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit 5 March 2022. Over 150,000 edits, many on India-related topics.
• Silly rabbit (talk · contribs · count) – A tireless contributor to science and mathematics articles, posted a retirement banner on their talk page on February 22, 2009. Made several edits afterwards until full stop after September 26, 2009‎.
• SilvaStorm (talk · contribs · count) – Regularly worked on articles on TV shows, especially Lost. Last edit March 18, 2009.
• SimonMayer (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 16, 2012.
• SiobhanHansa (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 10, 2009.
• Sjc (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 4, 2010. First edit May 28, 2001.
• Skier Dude (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edited on September 17, 2012.
• Skeezix1000 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edits in July 2016; retired. An administrator; added much good material on Canadian history and architecture; also to Commons.
• Skinnyweed (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 18, 2006.
• Skittleys (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 31, 2019.
• Skomorokh (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution December 1, 2013 (one minor edit in 2016). He was the nominator of 4 featured articles and for a time was co-managing editor of The Signpost.
• SkyMachine (talk · contribs · count) – Vanished without trace in 2013.
• SkyWalker (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit, a retirement notice, January 31, 2010.
• Slowking Man (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, over 10,000 edits. Last edit December 8, 2008.
• Smallman12q (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 1, 2013.
• Smrgeog (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit March 26, 2020.
• Smsarmad (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 38,408 edits, including extensive work on articles relating to their Pakastani homeland, before sudden stop in December 2016. Made five sporadic edits thereafter, last in March 2019. As of February 2020, 3 years after going virtually dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Snocrates (talk · contribs · count) – Announced they were moving to an area without internet access on their user page on January 31, 2008; announced they would in fact have internet access in February 2008, but have apparently been offline since February 16, 2008. Four edits in November 2009.
• SOAD KoRn (talk · contribs · count) – Made 2,885 edits. Last edit was on August 8, 2020.
• Socal gal at heart (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on October 20, 2008. Quit after being blocked by Aphaia on English Wikiquote.
• SoLando (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 29, 2021.
• Solarra (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 13, 2021.
• Solar-Wind (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 3, 2015. Over 90,000 edits.
• SoM (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 15, 2006. Left explanation on his user page on March 23, 2007, saying he's "had enough" and "it wasn't fun anymore". Came back on January 9, 2008 to clear out bot messages on his talk page.
• Someone else (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 22, 2003. First edit September 3, 2002.
• Sonia (talk · contribs · count) – Was a good contributor. Made more than 9,000+ edits. Hasn't edited since 2013.
• Sortior (talk · contribs · count) – Made an admin January 8, 2005. Last edit January 18, 2005. One edit to userspace October 15, 2012.
• SoSaysChappy (talk · contribs · count) – Frequent contributor to South Park-related articles. Last edits were on April 15, 2015. Does not seem to have edited regularly since 2010.
• Soulpatch (talk · contribs · count) – Last contributed August 27, 2010.
• SouthernComfort (talk · contribs · count) – Blanked his user page and made his last edit May 14, 2006. Left a retirement message on September 7, 2006 and has not edited since. Account was since blocked to prevent hijack.
• Soxrock (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 7, 2007. A member of numerous sports projects with over 52K edits. On an indefinite wikibreak, 'is at a crossroads.' Confirmed via IP on June 4, 2008 he had retired.
• SpeedReader (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 10, 2013.
• Spelemann (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 30, 2009.
• Spinboy (talk · contribs · count) – First edit August 28, 2004. Very few edits since December 27, 2005, the last on January 1, 2007. Left a message on his user page.
• Splash (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit June 16, 2018.
• SpLoT (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 26, 2008.
• Sportsguy17 (talk · contribs · count) - Retired in June 2022.
• SPUI (talk · contribs · count) – Onetime heavy and prolific contributor to U.S. Roads and other transportation-related projects; subject of many block-unblock wars and a few RFCs and arbitration cases. Stopped editing regularly on December 26, 2006; made a few sporadic edits through 2007 and has not edited since October 21 of that year. Last edit claimed he was still active on IRC.
• Squash (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped editing actively on April 13, 2006, then made sporadic edits in 2009, 2017, and 2018. Last edit May 2, 2020.
• Squiggleslash (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 23, 2015. Active in telecommunications articles. Left a note on user page saying goodbye.
• SriMesh (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 19, 2021.
• Srose (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 5, 2007.
• StaceyEOB (talk · contribs · count) - More known for organizing Wikipedia meet-ups than editing, from 2013–2019, she organized Unforgetting L.A.. She was a co-founder of Wikimedians of Los Angeles as well as a regional ambassador for Art+Feminism. Her final edit was January 16, 2021.
• Staffelde (talk · contribs · count) – Left a farewell message on his user page on June 13, 2006.
• Stalwart111 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 3, 2021.
• Starstriker7 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor to country pages for Olympic Games. Last edit was November 23, 2015.
• Static Universe (talk · contribs · count) – Active from 2006–2008 in editing St. Louis-area and film articles; last edit July 30, 2009.
• STATicVapor (talk · contribs · count) – No activity since September 26, 2021.
• Stavros1 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 10, 2016.
• Stbalbach (talk · contribs · count) – Stopped actively contributing on September 14, 2007, after slowing down his edits significantly since May. Made one edit on August 16, 2008 and two on July 23, 2013.
• Stephen Gilbert (talk · contribs · count) – Has edits dating back to the dawn of Wikipedia, but has not edited since July 2018. Made one edit on English Wikiquote in July 2020; has not edited any Wikimedia projects since.
• Stev0 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution August 5, 2012.
• Steve Dufour (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 23, 2015.
• SteveW (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 21, 2005 – the only edit since May 28, 2005.
• StillWaitingForConnection (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on the 9th July 2017, left following disagreement at WP:ITN/C.
• Storm05 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 14, 2008.
• Storyliner (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 26, 2009. Left departing note on User Page.
• Striver (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator and prolific contributor, with 39,300 edits. Last edited in September 2008; left message on their User page saying "I'm sick of the censorship posing NPOV and also about people meddling in articles they don't know anything about." As of February 2020, 12 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• StuartDD (talk · contribs · count) – Fell out with Wikipedia. Last edit March 10, 2008.
• Subzerosmokerain (talk · contribs · count) – Was a regular contributor to many Mortal Kombat-related articles; put semi-retired template on his userpage explaining he was headed to college in August 2011, and has not edited since November 2016.
• Sue Anne (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit was made on May 14, 2015. Former administrator that was active through 2005 to 2008, where activity slowed down after 2006, and consistent editing ceased in 2008, making only two edits in 2010 and two more in 2015, with the first edit in 2015 being made to blank their userpage. Was desysopped in 2011 due to inactivity.
• Sugaar (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 27, 2012.
• SummerPhDv2.0 (talk · contribs · count) - Helped weed out bad edits to kids' TV show articles, created the essay WP:KIDSTVDATES. Abruptly stopped editing November 3, 2020.
• Sumone10154 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 21, 2019.
• Suriel1981 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 13, 2018.
• Susvolans (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 31, 2005.
• Sunborn (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 14, 2019.
• Sunderland06 (talk · contribs · count) – Heavy interest in football. Userpage claims contributions towards 8 featured items, 9 GAs, and 8 DYKs, many about Sunderland FC. Editing slowed heavily after 2012 and stopped completely in 2014 after over 11,000 edits.
• Suntag (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit made on December 29, 2010.
• Superchunk22 (talk · contribs · count) – Final edit June 6, 2018.
• Superslum (talk · contribs · count) – Retired citing "exhaustion and stress" on his userpage. Last edit February 6, 2008.
• Suyogaerospace (talk · contribs · count) – An infrequent ten-year editor, he essentially stopped editing in 2015, making only three edits in 2016 and then nothing until his final four edits in 2019.
• Sven Manguard (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 16, 2020.
• SWAdair (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – A former admin, desysopped for inactivity. With the exception of one edit in 2013, they effectively quit in March of 2010.
• Sweet xx (talk · contribs · count) – On September 30, 2010 left a retirement message [7] and requested deletion of user pages. Last edited December 29, 2010.
• Syncategoremata (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 12, 2010.
• Syrthiss (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last major edits July 19, 2017. Has edited sporadically since then.

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• T (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 29, 2021. Made 4,397 edits on Wikipedia.
• Τασουλα (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 11, 2012. Had previously said she was considering "permanently retiring for good", later changed this to something different and left only a semi-retired template on her talk page (along with a {{busy}} notice).
• T@nn (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with 38,738 edits, including extensive work on uncategorized articles, before sudden full stop in April 2010. As of February 2020, 10 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Taelus (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit November 27, 2011.
• Talrias (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 14, 2006, a good bye note on user page.
• TangentCube (talk · contribs · count) – Left on an "indefinite break from editing" on April 13, 2009; he has since only made four page moves and one edit, with the last set on May 7, 2010.
• Tango (talk · contribs · count) – Editing since December 2002. Last edit April 12, 2013.
• Tangotango (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit April 2, 2009.
• Tannin (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit April 12, 2014, then a few edits in July 2015 and August-September 2017, first edit December 11, 2002.
• TantalumTelluride (talk · contribs · count) – Has not edited since 2009, save for 2 edits on November 22, 2017.
• Tanthalas39 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit May 4, 2010. An active admin who left after being desysopped for an incident in which he unblocked himself and proceeded to block an administrator who blocked him.
• Tarnas (talk · contribs · count) – On indefinite wikibreak since December 10, 2005. Created some excellent sketches whilst he was here. Announced an indefinite break. Last edit August 18, 2019.
• Tarquin (talk · contribs · count) – An editor since January 15, 2002, has not edited with much frequency since 2006. Last edit April 18, 2009.
• Tatasport (talk · contribs · count) – From East Java, she effectively stopped editing in 2013, having made only two edits in 2014, one edit in 2016, and a final edit in 2019.
• Tatterfly (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution March 10, 2014.
• Tearlach (talk · contribs · count) – Announced a long Wikibreak on May 24, 2007; made only two more edits, the last one on September 13, 2007.
• Technobadger (talk · contribs · count) – Left at the end of February 2008. May have been frustrated by "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux" discussions.
• TedE (talk · contribs · count) – A prolific contributor to medical and science articles, took Down Syndrome to featured status in 2006, but appears to have got frustrated at the terminology of disease/disorder/illness in articles and last edits were shortly afterwards.
• Ted Wilkes (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on September 24, 2008 to blank user and user talk page.
• Teman13 (talk · contribs · count) – Frequent contributor to Katy Perry-related articles, and original founder of WikiProject Katy Perry. Last edit was November 8, 2017, and does not seem to have edited regularly since June 2012.
• Tempodivalse (talk · contribs · count) – User retired in September 2017.
• TerraCodes (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 13, 2021. First edit July 27, 2015.
• TestPilot (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 12, 2009.
• Texture (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit July 25, 2013, first edit November 21, 2003.
• TFOWR (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Prolific editor for nearly three years. Put a notice on their talk page in mid 2010 saying "currently overwhelmed with real-life issues." but continued editing for a few months, until last edit November 2010.
• Thanatosimii (talk · contribs · count) – Edited his user page in January 2008 saying they were no longer actively editing. Only a few edits since then, the last on November 5, 2016.
• ThatPeskyCommoner (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 23, 2013.
• The-G-Unit-Boss (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit March 20, 2015, one before that on December 8, 2011. Blanked user talk page in April 2019.
• Themadonnamusiccn (talk · contribs · count) – Worked largely on tour-related articles. No edits since May 1, 2016.
• The Hybrid (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was to blank their Talk page, with edit summary "long since retired", in May 2014.
• The Kinslayer (talk · contribs · count) – Posted a wikibreak message in April 2007. Made two edits in July 2007, hasn't edited since.
• The Librarian (talk · contribs · count) – Made 2,289 edits since joining in 2005. Last edit on June 1, 2009.
• Themeparkgc (talk · contribs · count) - Message on user page saying they're busy in real life before making their last edit on December 30, 2015.
• The Minister of War (talk · contribs · count) – First left a long wikibreak tag on their userpage on April 30, 2006, then later performed their last edit by blanking their Talk page in November 2013.
• The Mirror Cracked (talk · contribs · count) (previously Railfan23 (talk · contribs · count)) – joined on 2016-12-29 as an occasional editor. Became very prolific during 2019 (peaked in August that year with 2905 edits / month), until a sudden stop on 2020-03-09. Made 7 further edits in April, the last of which was on 2020-04-21. This was his final edit.
• The Moving Finger Writes (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 10, 2010. Was a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Hip Hop.
• The Old Pueblo (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 14, 2018.
• The prophet wizard of the crayon cake (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 14, 2009; had not edited regularly since July 2008 before that.
• The Random Editor (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution April 5, 2010.
• The Raven's Apprentice (talk · contribs · count) – Added retirement notice on September 2, 2007, last edit on June 9, 2008.
• TheRedPenOfDoom (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor with over 135,000 edits since November 2007. Last edit December 3, 2015.
• The Rogue Penguin (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution January 16, 2012.
• The Thing That Should Not Be (talk · contribs · count) – Last few edits, in March 2011, included "Retired" template on their Talk page, after more than 167,000 edits. Still lurks on IRC sometimes.
• Thedjatclubrock (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 20, 2009, with an edit summary of "no moar".
• TheFarix (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited Wikipedia on February 25, 2021. Has made a total of 134,686 edits at the time of being added as missing.
• Theilert (talk · contribs · count) – Editing suddenly came to a halt on June 6, 2011; has only made edit ever since, on September 17, 2021.
• Thejadefalcon (talk · contribs · count) – A highly active editor who primarily focused on video game-related articles, Thejadefalcon amassed over 10,000 edits in their year of editing. Although a userbox on their page humorously suggested that they would leave Wikipedia once Mass Effect 2 was released, their activity level did drop sharply after the release of that game, and they made their last edit on June 29, 2012.
• THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (talk · contribs · count) – Prominent vandal-fighter who suddenly ceased editing on April 29, 2009.
• Theoldanarchist (talk · contribs · count) – Placed a retirement notice on his user page on August 22, 2007, made a few more edits, the last on September 4, 2007.
• TheOldJacobite (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor with over 95,000 edits. Last edit was on October 22, 2018, which was to blank his talk page.
• Theopolisme (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on November 26, 2019.
• Thereen (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 3, 2013. Busy wikifier and member of the biography WikiProject. Wrote "semi-retired" on userpage but has not edited since.
• Theresa knott (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit May 29, 2015.
• Thernlund (talk · contribs · count) – Thousands of (mainly) firearm subject edits over the course of 12 months; methodically closed out his editor involvement September 14, 2007 then made one edit on March 4, 2008.
• TheQ Editor (talk · contribs · count) – Made over 6,000 edits since February 28, 2014. Last edit July 6, 2020.
• THF (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 28, 2021.
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 4, 2017, first edit December 1, 2006.
• Thirdright (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 45,500 edits, including 4,800 page created. Performed thousands of repairs of vandalism. Consistently active from May 2011 to February 2016, then random edits until unexplained full stop in October 2017. As of March 2020, 4 years after first going virtually dormant, was still in the top 1700 of most prolific editors ever.
• Thunderboltz (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) - A prolific editor in 2006, Thunderboltz made a bit more than 1330 edits in 2007, about three hundred in 2008, with activity dropping off after that. They received more than a dozen barnstars for India-related contributions but showed little interest in returning.
• Thunderbrand (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Creator and host of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games GCOTW, occasional irregular edits since May 31, 2007. Last edit on November 18, 2020.
• Tijfo098 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 29, 2012.
• Till (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 15, 2013. Mainly active in music articles for groups such as Sugababes. Does not appear to have given a reason or advance notice for departure; appears to have vanished abruptly while still busy on Wikipedia.
• Tim! (talk · contribs · count) – One of the 15 most productive editors of all time, with nearly 1 million edits. Thousands of edits per day until they suddenly stopped at 16:59, 14 May 2019.
• Tim1357 (talk · contribs · count) – This editor retired in January 2018, but came back in 2020 to make a few edits. Last edit was on August 27, 2020. They made a total of 69,627 edits at the time marked missing.
• Timeshift9 (talk · contribs · count) – Over 67,000 edits since April 4, 2006, then just ... stopped. Last edit March 29, 2019.
• Timneu22 (talk · contribs · count) (now CvyvvZkmSUDowVf (talk · contribs · count)) – Active newpage patroller made his last edit on August 18, 2014 after a three-year pause in editing, amid allegations of biting newbies. Later made another edit on December 25, 2017, with this currently being his last edit.
• Tiptoety (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – An active vandal-fighter and sock-blocker, he made over 47,300 edits to Wikipedia. Tiptoey turned in his mop on November 3, 2015 and said goodbye the next day.
• Tjmoel (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution September 26, 2015.
• TMC1982 (talk · contribs · count) – Joined Wikipedia on August 24, 2004 and made over 104,000 edits. Last edited March 23, 2011.
• tnxman307 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last contribution was marking self as Retired in October 2012. Major contributor at the Help Desk.
• Tonywalton (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit December 12, 2020. At the time of being marked missing, they made 14,910 edits.
• TOO (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 21, 2008.
• Tobias Hoevekamp (talk · contribs · count) – The user with internal ID 3. Last edit on March 29, 2004 and have made over 2,000 edits. Later compromised in September 2022, now blocked indefinitely and locked globally.
• Toon05 (talk · contribs · count) – This user last edited Wikipedia on May 5, 2021. At that time, they made 11,896 edits.
• Topbanana (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator. Last edit in 2018.
• Tornado chaser (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on March 30, 2021.
• Toussaint (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution November 22, 2011.
• Traditional unionist (talk · contribs · count) – Keen contributor on Northern Irish politics. Last edit June 1, 2021, having made 5,110 edits at this time.
• Trainfan01 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 28, 2021. First edit May 3, 2010.
• Tree Biting Conspiracy (talk · contribs · count) – Retired on User page in July 2010.
• Tregoweth (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former administrator, retired October 3, 2008, then edited in August 2012.
• Trematetremate (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was on June 12, 2018.
• Trey Stone (talk · contribs · count) – Requested his user and talk page to be deleted on June 17, 2007; no reason given. Blanked own talk page on July 30, 2009.
• Triddle (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit September 23, 2011.
• Trilliumz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited on December 11, 2013.
• Trilobite (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit December 1, 2016.
• Triplestop (talk · contribs · count) – Joined May 31, 2009; held enhanced privileges; although not an administrator, did various administrative tasks, such as making edit filters and making reports at usernames for administrator attention; resumed editing in August 2013 after a long absence; on September 23, 2013, quietly stopped editing after failed appeal of first block; had made over 9,600 edits. Last edit March 31, 2014.
• Triwbe (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 3, 2011.
• Troy 07 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 12, 2016.
• Trusilver (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Desysopped for "making decisions that are in the spirit of Wikipedia but against its rules" instead of "follow[ing] the rules when they fly directly in the face of the spirit of Wikipedia". Stopped editing abruptly in mid-2013, came back for two edits in February 2014, then several starting in June 2015, and one on October 10. Made one edit January 20, 2019. Later made four more edits on June 30, 2021, with these currently being the last.
• Truthspreader (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 17, 2008; user page cites real-life obligations as the reason for departure.
• Tryde (talk · contribs · count) – autopatrolled and pending changes reviewer who left Wikipedia a couple of times between 2010–2013, but retired for good on January 17, 2013. Made over 36,000 edits.
• Tryptofeng (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 21, 2015.
• TUF-KAT (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) (Other usernames include Tokerboy (talk · contribs · count) and John Price (talk · contribs · count).) – Administrator, first chairman of the Mediation Committee, active contributor. First edit was on September 15, 2002, & his last September 4, 2009.
• Tsumiki (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 25, 2019.
• Turian (talk · contribs · count) – Retired following a dustup and the resulting block. Last edit August 20, 2010.
• Tuspm (talk · contribs · count) – On August 6, 2006 he left a goodbye note on his userpage stating his time was being taken up by real life. He made a few edits on August 25 and 27 and suggested he would still contribute anonymously. Occasional edits since; last January 13, 2013.
• TwinsMetsFan (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Longtime contributor to upstate New York and road articles who hasn't edited since November 26, 2014.
• TwoOneTwo (talk · contribs · count) – First contribution was on September 9, 2001; last edit was on February 5, 2011.
• Tyrenius (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Longtime contributor, went on an indefinite wikibreak on October 6, 2010. Returned briefly to archive his talk page and make a minor edit during 2011/2012, 2014/2015, and 2016.
• Tyson2k (talk · contribs · count) – Over 1100 edits since January 2005. Last edit February 1, 2006.

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• Uannis (talk · contribs · count) (now Uannis~enwiki (talk · contribs · count)) – Edited for a year on Turkey-related topics; last edit was April 18, 2008.
• UberScienceNerd (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Last edit December 8, 2011.
• UniReb (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution April 4, 2011.
• UnqstnableTruth (talk · contribs · count) – Former prolific contributor and pending changes reviewer, with 40,700 edits. Posted "{{Semi-retired}}", eventually slowed to nearly dormant in June 2011, until full stop in July 2017. Came back once in 2019 to clear their talk page. Later made 11 edits on May 21, 2021, with these currently being their last edits. As of February 2020, 9 years after going virtually dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Uppland (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 31, 2009.
• Uriyan (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 1, 2003.
• Ursasapien (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 2, 2008.
• U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 2, 2008.
• User A1 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 27, 2010. Left due to the implementation of pending changes.
• Utopes (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 12, 2021.

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• Vala M (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited on March 6, 2016 after nearly two years of no editing. Previous edit was to blank their talk page.
• Vancouverguy (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – "I think I've officially "disappeared" now. You can call me a "missing Wikipedian" although I might edit anonymously." Vancouverguy was previously absent from Wikipedia in February 2004. He edited a bit in October 2005 and has not posted since. His account was de-sysopped and blocked after it was compromised in June 2007; see Wikipedia:Former administrators/reason/compromised.
• Van der Hoorn (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 6, 2020, with the previous edit being over a year ago. Editing began to slow down after April 2013, with only a few edits being made in later years until full stop on December 6, 2020.
• Vegaswikian (talk · contribs · count) – Last edited on September 15, 2015.
• Veledan (talk · contribs · count) – On December 10, 2007, he explained on his userpage on that he is not currently active. Last edit on June 5, 2008.
• Vera, Chuck & Dave (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 11, 2008. Contributed to articles related to the Beatles and other British bands.
• VeryVerily (talk · contribs · count) – Banned at one point in 2004 for edit warring, he returned for a few months in 2005. On December 27, 2005 he started an appeal at requests for arbitration to "clear his name" from his previous block. He has not edited since February 28, 2006.
• Vespristiano (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 26, 2006 to his sandbox after a four-month Wikibreak.
• Victoriagirl (talk · contribs · count) – Active contributor whose last edit was February 25, 2010, which was not in keeping with usual rate of contributions.
• Videmus Omnia (talk · contribs · count) – IIRC, left due to complications w/his real-world identity; save for requesting his userpage be deleted, has not edited since 2009-04-21.
• Vikingstad (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 7, 2016. First edited on December 14, 2003.
• Vikreykja (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 29, 2007. Left no word as to why.
• VirtualSteve (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit was made on September 8, 2010, which was to post that they were retired, and requested desysopping in edit summary. Administrator. Former president of Wikimedia Australia.
• VivaEmilyDavies (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 30, 2005.
• Vorbee (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 1, 2021 with no warning. Made 3,877 contributions to Wikipedia at the time of missing.
• Vwanweb (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 12, 2019. Contributor with over 6,000 edits. Was active in 2018 and early 2019 until full stop on February 2019. First edit was made on January 1, 2013.
• VX (talk · contribs · count) – Formerly RockManQ, stopped editing in July 2009, making a handful more edits in December 2009 and in April 2011. Particularly active at Editor for deletion.

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• Waacstats (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 5 February 2021. One of Wikipedia's most prolific editors of all time, over 1.3 million edits.
• Wackywace (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 6, 2013.
• WaitingForConnection (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was in December 2014. Re-emerged as User:StillWaitingForConnection, which is also now defunct. Over 14,000 edits made.
• Walter Humala (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 2, 2007. Consistently active contributor that made over 4,000 edits through 2006 to 2007. Possibly left after being blocked for 48 hours for violating WP:POINT on April 2, 2007. First edit was made on April 24, 2006.
• Wandalstouring (talk · contribs · count) – Early Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons editor, who made over 14,000 edits between May 2006 and June 2011.
• Walton One (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit September 1, 2012.
• WAS 4.250 (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution April 13, 2011.
• Water Bottle (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator, inactive since May 2006. Left Wikipedia and protected his userpage on January 26, 2008.
• Waterden (talk · contribs · count) – Edited mostly motorcycle racing articles from 2008 to January 2011. Made one edit on August 23, 2020, where they blanked their talk page.
• Wavelength (talk · contribs · count) - Prolifiic editor with more than 179,000+ contributions, suddenly stopped editing on May 11, 2017.
• WDGraham (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker with 45,200 edits, with a focus on spaceflight, rocketry, space science and aviation. Created 4,700 pages and helped achieve 4 GAs and 5 DYKs. Consistently active from November 2005 until posting “{{Retired}}” and hitting full stop in February 2015. As of March 2020, 5 years after going dormant, was still in the top 1700 of most prolific editors ever.
• Werdan7 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 21, 2010.
• Wernher (talk · contribs · count) – Only two edits since May 9, 2008.
• Wesley (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Desysopped for inactivity, Wesley joined in October 2001. He became inactive in March of 2012 making only four edits since then with the last on March 14, 2015.
• Wesley Wolf (talk · contribs · count) – Formerly editing in all things Eurovision, he stopped actively contributing 2018, made a pair of edits in 2019, and announced that his real life demands made editing unfeasible. Made a handful of edits in May 2020, mainly to his user talk page.
• Wgolf (talk · contribs · count) – Suddenly stopped editing on July 6, 2019 after 8 years and more than 100,000 edits.
• White Arabian Filly (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit April 5, 2018.
• Who (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Prolific editor in 2005. Last edit May 18, 2020 on his talk page.
• Whyaduck (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor who stopped editing May 8, 2007. Last edit suggested he felt another user was threatening him.
• Wiki alf (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 31, 2009, over 60,000 edits, last edit was blanking their user page, adding they were retired with an edit summary of “Disgusted with various editors using Wikipedia for their hit-piece playground, no longer have faith in Wikipedia's pillars (now corrupted by various editors on various crusades)”.
• WikHead (talk · contribs · count) – Joined February 2008, racked up over 106,000 edits and is rumored to be taking a Wikibreak. Their last contribution was on November 3, 2012.
• WikiCopter (talk · contribs · count) – Three edits in 2015, two in 2016, and a final edit in January 2017.
• Wikignome0530 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 29, 2010, left a retired message on user page.
• WikiOriginal-9 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 18, 2018.
• Wikipediatrix (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 14, 2007. Prolific editor and stickler for standards, to the point of often antagonizing others. Userpage suggests she gave up, but not on entirely hostile terms.
• Wildhartlivie (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 19, 2010. Last edit was changing their status from semi-retired to retired.
• Wile E. Heresiarch (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Left a note on userpage announcing that he was "taking a break for a while" on December 15, 2005, has made a few edits since (last one on November 18, 2018).
• WilliamH (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Checkuser, bureaucrat and administrator. Joined in May 2006. Resigned and retired September 1, 2013, leaving roughly 12,500 live edits.
• WIN (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 5, 2008.
• Winged Blades of Godric (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific Indian editor. Abruptly stopped editing 20 July 2020.
• Witkacy (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 14, 2005. Disappeared without any notice or indication of reason.
• Wizard191 (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific contributor, with over 39,300 edits, before sudden full stop in June 2011. As of February 2020, 9 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2200 of most prolific editors ever.
• Wnt (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 23, 2019. An indefinite block was lifted a day later, but Wnt has not returned.
• WODUP (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – A former administrator who has not edited since 2009.
• WojPob (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit June 9, 2003. Joined in 2001.
• Wolfer68 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 31, 2009. A prolific editor with over 40,000 edits. Disappeared without any notice or indication of reason. As of February 2020, 11 years after going dormant, was still in the top 2100 of most prolific editors ever.
• Worldtraveller (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor with 24 featured article successful nominations, last edit on March 3, 2007.
• Wronkiew (talk · contribs · count) – Operator of DustyBot. Last edit July 4, 2009.
• Wuhwuzdat‎ (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor with over 56,000 edits. Last edited on February 19, 2016.

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• Xanchester (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 14, 2013.
• Xiner (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Administrator. Last edit on September 23, 2007.
• Xoloz (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Prolific editor and former administrator with over 18,600 edits and 1,681 created pages. A sharp decline in editing began after 2007, with a steady decline in edits continuing until 2014, where a spike in activity occurred and continued until their final edit on July 12, 2014, with no reason given to sudden inactivity. Was procedurally desysopped in 2015 due to inactivity. First edit was made on May 26, 2005.

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• Yashovardhan Dhanania (talk · contribs · count) – An Indian countervandal, he abruptly stopped editing in December 2017.
• Yath (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 5, 2007.
• YellowMonkey (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Former admin who last edited November 23, 2010 following an RFC/U. Prolific Featured Article creator and reviewer. Desysopped in January 2012 for inactivity.
• Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs · count) – Left a retirement message on April 10, 2014; no previous edits since August 2013.
• Yngvarr (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit October 8, 2009. Worked mostly on cartoon-related articles.
• Yom (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit June 25, 2012. Worked on articles related to Ethiopia, Yemen and other underserved areas, making over 11,500 edits; fluent in Amharic.
• Yuckfoo (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 8, 2009. Worked as a vandalism fighter.
• Yunshui (talk · contribs · former admin: blocks · protections · deletions · rights · meta · local rights) – Yunshui last edited Wikipedia June 16, 2020. With 69,412 edits, he had many roles in keeping Wikipedia accurate. Eight-year enwiki admin (from July 30, 2012 to October 5, 2020), was also checkuser and oversight.

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• Zachary crimsonwolf (talk · contribs · count) – Became inactive in May of 2011 and has only edited thrice since.
• Zad68 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 13, 2016, making a few edits in early 2018, with one being made to their talk page, replacing a not around template with long wikibreak.
• Zakksez (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 1, 2021.
• Zazpot (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit January 17, 2021 with no warning. Very friendly and open editor who made 10,935 contributions to Wikipedia at the time of missing.
• Zeldamaster3 (talk · contribs · count) – Five edits in 2007, one edit on June 29, 2007, but hadn't edited regularly since September 24, 2006.
• Zenwhat (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit February 5, 2011.
• Zero Gravity (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 18, 2014.
• Zestauferov (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 16, 2005.
• Zhaofeng Li (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit on April 1, 2021. Famous for developing ReFill.
• Zleitzen (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit September 29, 2007. Left in May over disgust with featured article candidate process; returned briefly in July when Jimbo Wales put a {{NPOV}} tag on Che Guevara, then a featured article. Made one edit in September.
• Zoe (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Last edit February 1, 2007. Left due to a conflict with Jimbo Wales over a professor who asked his students to vandalise Wikipedia. Account was later compromised, desysopped, and indefinitely blocked.
• Zoz (talk · contribs · count) – Left on September 26, 2006. However, returned on April 18, 2007 to add {{Db-userreq}} to user and user talk pages. They have not made any edits since.
• Zzz345zzz (talk · contribs · count) – Founder of WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding began editing less in mid-2007, with a sharp decline in edits occurring in 2008. Last edit was made on April 11, 2013 in T206 Honus Wagner, over four years after their previous edit.

See also

• Wikipedia:Discovered reasons for leaving Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:Former administrators
• Wikipedia:Retiring
• Wikipedia:Leaving gracefully
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/missed users
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention
• Category:Banned Wikipedia users

• Template:Not around (Pages that link to this template)
• Template:Retired (Pages that link to this template)
• Template:User EX-WP (Pages that link to this template)

External links

• meta:Wikipedia drop-outs
• strategy:Former Contributors Survey Results
• Meatball:GoodBye
• Meatball:RightToVanish