# Unstage staged users from the Admin's settings (UI)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unstage-staged-users-from-the-admins-settings-ui/305911>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unstage-staged-users-from-the-admins-settings-ui/305911 "2024-04-29T13:46:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![gassim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gassim/32/220910_2.png) [@gassim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gassim)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unstage-staged-users-from-the-admins-settings-ui/305911/5 "2025-03-19T20:20:02Z")

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Hi @denvergeeks  
Thanks for your input. That doesn’t work in my situation because the staged users are from a launch import where the emails aren’t real accounts. They were exported from [launchpad.net](http://launchpad.net); for example, an email can appears like this “[1655555@bugs.launchpad.net](mailto:1655555@bugs.launchpad.net)”

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/f/3/cf31dab9e4f781414d2d6d41960857a78d14b443.png)

What I want to do is

> [@gassim](#):
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> These account happen to be duplicate account that happened during the launch of he forum where a number of posts/users where imported from another platform. My idea since we have:  
> Mike1 (staged)  
> Mike2 (staged)  
> Mike3 (staged)  
> to merge them all to one “Mike” account.

This will help with cleaning up, and merging all the similar username accounts (along with their posts).

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