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	In general, since Misplaced Pages is a ''']''', users should be aware that ''']''' (and are ] to go ahead and do so), or ''']''' if this is contested.

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	Users have two main ways to contact Misplaced Pages:
			{{R to project page}}

			{{R from modification}}
	:* The '''editorial community''' is responsible for almost all decisions about article content and editorial disputes. There are detailed ''']''' processes to help. In the vast majority of cases, disputes are resolved by the community, according to communally agreed ].
			{{R with history}}

			{{R from subpage}}
	:* ''']''' allows certain problems to be examined by volunteers experienced in editorial and other matters affecting contributors and readers. The volunteer response team is good for cases where maintaining '''confidentiality''' is important.
		⚫	}}

	Routine editorial decisions are made by the '''editorial community'''; the volunteer response team will advise or take action in some cases, but do '''not''' override communal decisions (in which all editors and readers can participate).

	In particular, the volunteer response team '''will not''':
	* add links
	* add data
	* override article deletions.
	It is therefore useless to contact us by email about such issues.

	::{\| style="border:black solid 1px" width="85%"
	\| style="background-color:#ffd0d0;text-align:center;font-size:120%" \| Due to their sensitivity, problems with biographies and other articles discussing living people, raised by '''the person concerned or their representative''', may always go to the volunteer response team, if desired.
⚫	\|}


	== What's the problem? ==
	<div style="font-size:130%">
	* There's a problem in an ''']''' or someone you represent
	* There's a problem in an ''']''' or one you represent
	* There's a problem in ''']'''.
	* There's ''']''' (e.g. irrelevant or obscene remarks or pictures) or it's blank
	* There's a ''']''' in an article
	* An article has used ''']''' without permission
	* You want to ''']'''
	* You want to ''']'''
	* There's ''']''' on a specific topic
	* An article is ''']'''.
	* Instead of the article, I get a ''']''' dialog.
	</div>

	== My issue isn't listed ==
	* Try looking at our ] or contact the ]. __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__
	]
	]
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