User talk:Bluerasberry/user account

Early sources
Oxford English Dictionary identifies these three sources using the term, "user account":


 * "Sales tax administrator Norman Clay... pointed out ... [the taxes] would be increased following audits of seller and user accounts."
 * "The particular data we have been studying are, for each user account, the terminal time and CPU time used."
 * "The Welcome screen appears and you may be prompted to log on to your user account."

I agree that all of these indicate the use of the term which I am attempting to describe in this Wikipedia article. I still am looking for a source which pulls the term out of context and defines it.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:07, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Comparison with user profile
Oxford English Dictionary distinguishes "user account" and "user profile" with a definition and usage examples which I interpret as the "account" being all the data and settings associated with a user, and the "profile" being the presentation or interpretation of the data and settings. In talking with others some people have suggested to me that these might be the same, but I think the terms are different enough to justify distinguishing them.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:20, 26 March 2018 (UTC)