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User:Neutralhomer/TopMenu User talk:Neutralhomer/TalkHeader

Your Billboard is being moved... :-)

Hey, Homer, hope it's going good. As you may have noticed, I removed your billboard from my page. Don't worry, I'm putting it back when Phaedriel redesigns my page! I put a block of text I thought was insightful in place of the billboard (and again, this is temporary). Just thought you may have wanted to know. Cheers - Ανέκδοτο 00:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Radio site

Per Meta request (& in case you don't look there for a bit), give the radio site link a try again will you and let me know. I think it should work now (& sorry to take a while), thanks --Herby 10:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Information request

Hi,

I noticed your request for information on a contributor to Misplaced Pages. I thought I'd drop a line as well as the one by the administrator you contacted.

As a rule, Misplaced Pages is tightly bound by the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy. In general, no information is ever released outside those guidelines. To underpin that, even the administrators themselves are not allowed to know more information on identity than you yourself can see -- this is restricted to a very small group of editors who can look behind a username to an IP address, and these operate under a tight code of mutual cross-checking and would be instantly stripped of such rights for even hinting about location or other information they could tell from an IP, if it contravened that policy.

Part of the reason for this is that Misplaced Pages is accessed, and edited, by a wide range of users, often in countries where the laws are not as generous towards free speech as one might expect here. As a rule, vandalism, including defamatory or unpleasant comments, is handled by the editorial community, which deals with such cases as a matter of routine. I've listed some resources you might find helpful, and it's likely if the comments are unhelpful, or blatently damaging, that you will be able to obtain speedy rectification.

Having reviewed the edits in question though, I can suggest that whilst annoying to you, they are not of a standard that merits more than usual editorial handling - revert them or seek dispute resolution or (if constantly being added in bad faith) administrator input from the noticeboard. Details of all these are below.

Resources

• Foundation privacy policy - applies above all
• Biography of Living People policy - unlikely to apply but may be useful as reference
• Dispute resolution -- how disputes are handled between editors.
• Vandalism policy and blocking policy
• Administrator's noticeboard for Incidents - for speedy admin response to an incident. Do not overuse, but worth knowing it's there for legitimate appropriate need.
• Oversight - for genuine breaches of privacy and the like, in some cases a revision can be deleted completely.
• OTRS - contacting the Foundation ticket service via OTRS. They are less likely to be able to help, since this would usually be considered an editorial issue, but all emails are taken seriously and if you decided to take it further they would be your contact outside the editorial community.
• Misplaced Pages's policy on actual legal threats - broadly an editor who actually says "I will sue you" or "I will take legal action" in a manner that is a cogent threat to do so, should not edit until the matter is resolved or withdrawn. Worth ensuring you know about given your obvious anger towards this person.

Hopefully one or some of these will help. You've probably come across many of them already here and there. If you need to know more or want further advice on handling, please do ask.

Yours,

FT2 06:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)