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I have submitted the content 3-4 times, but every time my account has been blocked. Wikipedia gives the message that the content is promotional. This is to inform you that my content is not promotional. Can i please ask you to help me into this?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.173.133.19 ( talk) 07:20, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Please advise how I can delete all my posts and remove my profile permanently from here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.197.31.235 ( talk) 09:53, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Have you tried the Computing section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. PrimeHunter ( talk) 10:05, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
I work in the Office of Communications for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. On 8/15/16 I made edits to Wikipedia’s OSHA entry at /info/en/?search=Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Administration. As explained in the edit summary, the changes I made included “Updates to incomplete information. Deletion of duplicative text. Reorganization of existing paragraphs.”
It seems that all my edits were removed on 8/19/16 by user GermanJoe. This has had the effect of rendering much of the information about OSHA on this page incomplete and/or inaccurate.
I reported this in an email to info-en-q@wikimedia.org on 8/24/16 but have received no reply.
I am also posting this message on the Talk page for the OSHA entry.
Please advise as to how my edits can be restored.
Thank you.
OSHAUpdates ( talk) 14:53, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Ok, I was just messing around with my preferences, so I may have clicked something that caused this to happen, but I don't think anything I changed should have caused this. At any rate, after I got done fiddling with my preferences, all of a sudden a bunch of things on my watchlist are highlighted in orange. It seems to be all edits by IPs or new users. This edit, for example, appears orange in my watchlist and in the user's contribution list. They also have little red "r"s by them, which when I hover say, "this edit needs review", but there's no option to mark the edits as reviewed. They also appear like that in the recent changes feed.
Is this a new thing? Or did I do something in my preferences to cause it? ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 15:01, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
I asked for help because my candidate's page is mostly character assassination. I removed it, but don't know how to make the changes stick, or how to change the info in the parens at his title. I got an answer, but can't figure where on the helper's page to ask for more information, and don't know why my being a volunteer for the candidate means I can't correct the hideously slanted, damaging material that someone who wants him to lose has put in his entry. This is horrible. It's 10 days till the Primary. 2Liddy2 ( talk) 17:03, 2 September 2016 (UTC)2Liddy2
First, how do I respond to people who offer advice? I don't see any place at the bottom of their pages where I can write a return message.
Second, everyone tells me there is no campaigning on Wikipedia and that as a volunteer, I have a conflict of interest. No one asked the people who put many negative entries into my candidate's page to refrain from doing so because THEY were biased. If I were working against another candidate, I would certainly have a conflict of interest; but by trying to neutralize the slanted entries that obviously are intended to malign, I don't feel that I am the one doing the harm. Wikipedia is spreading misleading and incomplete "information," and should want to correct it.
2Liddy2 (
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17:32, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Meanwhile, the fangless conflict of interest guideline, that only "strongly discourages" COI editing, explicitly notes that "An exception to editing an article about yourself or someone you know is made if the article contains defamation or a serious error that needs to be corrected quickly." WP:BLP is an overriding policy and says nothing about restrictions on COI removals and also contains WP:BLPEDIT (I'm wondering if WP:BLPREMOVE should mention something about COI editing). I have not spent the time necessary to study the large removal of content by 2Liddy2 to see if defamatory content was involved (and certainly some of the additions in that edit were inappropriately promotional), but with the claim of character assassination, I also disagree with the untempered advice to only edit the talk page, given the tenor of the OP.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 22:28, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I saw an article ( Elliot Wuu) be recreated after deletion and flagged it again. It was later deleted because of copyright problems. It appears that the article has been created again and still have copyright problems. I put a note on the talk page but am not sure what else I should do. No particle interest in the article other than seeing it when looking at recent changes. Any advice would be great! Zchrykng ( talk) 20:40, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Is there an established RS for differences in the value of the US dollar? Specifically from the 1870s to present? TimothyJosephWood 21:48, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I am HS188EP and I think I deleted my pending review for the article entitled "Hallet Davis Pianos" - I do not know if it is still in review. How might someone let me know it is still in review? Can someone add the block noted "Pending Review with xxxx numbers still in review" that appeared in the past? I think I deleted the material at the top of the article creation and now there is no connection. Thank you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by HS188EP ( talk • contribs)
Thank you for the restore! — Preceding unsigned comment added by HS188EP ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you! HS188EP ( talk) 23:39, 2 September 2016 (UTC)