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Reference for account and profile

Find information to apply to your GitHub account and profile.

Profile reference

Reference information for your GitHub profile.

Find information on the display criteria for items on your personal dashboard.

A repository owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the repository owner and collaborators.

Find information on what is visible on your contributions graph.

Find information about your email addresses on GitHub, including verification, privacy, and commit attribution.

Find information about the side effects of deleting, converting, and merging your personal account on GitHub.

Find information about changing your GitHub username.