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November 25

How to delete wikipedia page or article about myself

How to delete wikipedia page or article about myself if I don't want any information published about me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.132.27.243 (talk) 07:27, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Contact the Volunteer Responce Team at info-en-o(at)wikimedia.org. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 07:29, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

IP, do you mean you don't want to tell us which article it is publicly (see response above) or that you don't want any information about you in any of Wikipedia's articles (but would be able to state publicly which article you mean)? In the latter case, if you are notable enough (widely written about and well-known), you can't get it deleted, but if it's a borderline case, there's a chance. See WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE. Usedtobecool ☎️ 07:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Even if they are the subject of the article, VRT is far better positioned to verify the request than we are. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 07:38, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Editing a wiki page with Arbitration Committee alert

I have been trying to edit a page on Wikipedia with the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy , as I quite disagree with the present content. But every time I attempt it, the page comes with a warning as highlighted below:

You are subject to discretionary sanctions if you edit this article. The use of discretionary sanctions has been authorized by the Arbitration Committee for pages related to pseudoscience and fringe science, including this page. Please consult the awareness criteria and edit carefully.

Does that mean my edits on this page will not be accepted? If not, then what does it really imply? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DocHK (talk • contribs) 13:41, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Replies at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Editing_a_wiki_page_with_Arbitration_Committee_alert. Please stick to one "helpdesk" at a time. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:55, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

• DocHK (ec) You asked this at the Teahouse, please only use one method of seeking assistance at a time to avoid duplication. To link to other Wikipedia pages, the URL is unnecessary, simply place the title of the target page in double brackets like this [[Homeopathy]] which appears as Homeopathy. 331dot (talk) 13:57, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
• Certainly, if you edit Homeopathy to remove the word "pseudoscience" (as you did), you will find that your edit is reverted (as it was), because the vast majority of reliable medical sources do indeed confirm that there is nothing scientific about the practice. If you wish to discuss the issue, the place to do so is Talk:Homeopathy. Black Kite (talk) 14:08, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Col William Bradford - saving the colonies from extinction, personal property ownership

Why did Wikipedia erase and now ignore the facts regarding how Col Bradford governed the colonies?

Why is this story missing?

https://www.hoover.org/research/how-private-property-saved-pilgrims

75.137.211.63 (talk) 14:58, 25 November 2021 (UTC)John

References

1) Please specify what article you are talking about.

2) Please discuss improvements you are suggesting to those articles, on the talk pages of those articles. The Help Page is not the place for those discussions.

3) Please find a more reliable source, as opposed to the ultra-conservative Hoover Institute, whose theory is that privatization is the solution to all public problems. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:31, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Not to address at all the subject of the inquiry, or your advice to the inquirer...
It rather sounds like you're suggesting that 1) being ultra-conservative, and 2) holding a social theory that you clearly disapprove of disagree with is somehow incompatible with being reliable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AzseicsoK (talk • contribs)

The Institute is unlikely to do a very good job of evaluating a claim that privatization made things better. A more scholarly source would be more credible. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:20, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

The article here in Wikipedia gives the impression that the Hoover Institution (not Institute) is a very credible scholarly body. Are you sure you don't mean a more left-wing source would be more credible? Uporządnicki (talk) 10:52, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

PROTECTED BIOGRAPHY PAGE FOR AUTHORS

How can I create a protected Biography page for a new Author? LYRIC HAWKINS (talk) 18:00, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

By using Facebook. We don't have articles on new anything, and we will not use protection to enforce content. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 18:34, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Why?

Why you don't let most of the subjects to have a Wikipedia page? Do you want money? Is Wikipedia an encyclopedia or a charity for donors? Do they pay your salaries by this kind of money? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.162.192.214 (talk) 19:45, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

1. We don't have articles on non-notable subjects.
2. We don't accept money to write articles.
3. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charity that supports various Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia.
4. Wikipedia editors are unpaid volunteers. Meters (talk) 19:54, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Notability and WP:SCAM. 01:22, 27 November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs)

Who can write a biography

I’m a new agent looking to add a clients bio to Wikipedia. Donnie Bentley is my client he is a new upcoming celebrity he is all over Google and IMDB. Who can do this for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B099:51AF:4C14:3D2C:17D5:B0B6 (talk) 19:51, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Nobody. Neither 'Google' or IMDB can be used to establish notability. Not that Bentley's IMDB bio would do that if we could use it as a source. And read Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. Editing as an IP while acting on behalf of a client isn't permitted: that requires an account, and full disclosure. AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:56, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

You can find him on google though:[1] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:09, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

CAREFUL!!!!! This could be an entirely different person. It's a big problem for some people; they have a not-uncommon name, and anybody who goes to Google them finds a pedophile serial-killer who happens to have the same name and be about the same age--and they go to the next resume in the pile. Uporządnicki (talk) 21:44, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

That is quite likely, I was making a sort-of-joke on "he is all over Google". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:20, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

But if it turns out that linking--on an open forum--one individual who is looking to move forward in a career with another same-named individual who happens to be a scoundrel is legally actionable, I'm not sure that "making a sort-of-joke" would be much of a defense. Uporządnicki (talk) 10:31, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

A dozen, mostly uncredited, roles aren't going to satisfy WP:NACTOR, so look elsewhere. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:32, 25 November 2021 (UTC)