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{{Help box}}Saintapedia requires that users '''confirm their email addresses''' before they can use email features. This helps to prevent problems with bad addresses, such as bounced replies. You only need to confirm email addresses to use the email system.

See [[Help:Getting started with Saintapedia#Step 3 - Email confirmation]] for additional details.

== Confirmation ==
=== Status ===
You can check your address confirmation status in [[Special:Preferences|your preferences]].  If you change your email address, you will automatically be sent a new confirmation email.

=== How to confirm ===
# From [[Special:Preferences|your preferences]], go to the section entitled '''User profile''', and scroll down to '''Email''', if desired check the box next to '''Enable e-mail from other users'''.
# Click the button in that section; an email will be sent to your email address with a confirmation link. If you see no link, go to [[Special:ConfirmEmail]]. If that page starts with "''Your e-mail address was confirmed on <date>''", then you're already confirmed.
# When you receive the email, click the link it contains to confirm that you own the email address.

== Confirmation email ==
Below is an example email confirmation.

{{Callout| title=Example email confirmation |width=65%|align=center| text='''Sent:''' Tuesday, August 22, 2024 2:48 PM<br>
'''Subject:''' Saintapedia email address confirmation

Someone, probably you, has registered an account "Tom" with this e-mail address on Saintapedia.  

To confirm that this account really does belong to you and begin creating and editing pages on the Saintapedia wiki, YOU MUST READ AND AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

<nowiki>*</nowiki> CLOSE-HOLD information not suitable for a wide audience. 

<nowiki>*</nowiki> PRE-DECISIONAL and draft documents.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> PERSONAL or Privacy Act information.  Do not post on the wiki personal information such as Social Security numbers, home phone numbers or addresses, etc., that belong to you or others. 

<nowiki>*</nowiki> COPYRIGHTED materials.  Do not post materials that are copyrighted without explicit written permission from the copyright owner. Copyrighted materials may include, but are not limited to, journal publications received via electronic subscriptions, pictures, and newspaper articles. 

<nowiki>*</nowiki> OFFENSIVE materials.  Do not post any material that is obscene, defamatory, profane, threatening, harassing, abusive, or hateful to another person, organization, or entity. 

Users are responsible for adhering to the guidelines above when posting on Saintapedia.

<nowiki>'''</nowiki>BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT, UNDERSTAND IT, AND WILL BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS:<nowiki>'''</nowiki>

<nowiki>https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Special:ConfirmEmail/3b94d039c9efa68f0a0315081ee535bd</nowiki>

If you did NOT register the account, follow this link to cancel the e-mail address confirmation:

<nowiki>https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Special:InvalidateEmail/3b94d039c9efa68f0a0315081ee535bd</nowiki>

This confirmation code will expire at 14:47, 29 September 2024.
}}

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