# Set all anonymized user names to common "deleted user"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-all-anonymized-user-names-to-common-deleted-user/216631>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-all-anonymized-user-names-to-common-deleted-user/216631 "2022-01-31T20:57:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![thea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thea/32/197174_2.png) [@thea](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thea)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-all-anonymized-user-names-to-common-deleted-user/216631/4 "2022-01-31T22:17:13Z")

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> [@Simon\_Manning](#):
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> When you want to do this in future, anonymize the user first and then merge into deleted\_user. It’s important to anonymize the user first because the account being merged into will take on the email address as its secondary email address.

I see - think that could be managed via API?

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