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Deleting an organization account

When you delete an organization, all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and Project or Organization Pages are deleted as well.

1. Back up your organization content

Before you delete your organization, make sure you have a copy of all repositories, wikis, issues, and project boards from the account.

Note: If necessary, a site administrator for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance may be able to partially restore a deleted organization. For more information, see "Restoring a deleted organization."

2. Delete the organization

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. Your organizations in the profile menu
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings. The settings button
  3. Near the bottom of the organization's settings page, click Delete this Organization. Delete this organization button