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→‎Accounts are available by request: reworking the content. 4-step account request (username, email, ReCAPTCHA and click on the verification email)

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 There was a problem with spammers registering accounts, so now accounts are [[Special:RequestAccount|available upon reasonable request]].
-# Only a choice of '''username''' and a '''valid email''' address and passing the ReCAPTCHA once are required to get an account. The other fields are optional.
+To get an account you need to perform the only the 4 following things
-# After you have requested an account you will receive an email from ''s e r v i c e s ''@ stop-synthetic-filth.org asking you to click the link in the email to verify your email, because to prevent spam and malicious actors, it is highly likely that '''only''' account requesters that ''' have verified''' their '''email''' will be '''accepted'''.
-# Your account request will be processed. We will never sell or hand over your email addresses to 3rd parties.
+# Select an '''username'''
+# Provide a '''valid email''' address (the other fields are optional)
+# Pass the ReCAPTCHA once
+# '''Verify your email''' After you have requested an account you will receive an email from ''s e r v i c e s ''@ stop-synthetic-filth.org asking you to click the link in the email to verify your email.
+Requesters must verify their email by clicking the link or it will not show up in the account requests queue.
+Your account request will be processed. We will never sell or hand over your email addresses to 3rd parties.
 The [[mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount]] settings are as follows: