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The disclaimer contains 2 links to article-space. One is "personality rights", which seems quite reasonable. The other is "United States of America". What is the purpose of linking such a broad topic here? I don't know if something like "WP:OVERLINK applies outside of article-space, but in any case, I fail to see how linking this redirect to "United States" does anything to help clarify the subject for the reader. Joefromrandb (talk) 09:09, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- I can see no good reason at all for the link to United States of America, and in nearly seven months nobody has suggested that there is a good reason, so I have removed the link. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:23, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Protected edit request on 26 March 2015
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Just a minor grammatical fix (add necessary comma):
If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial or risk management), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area. Esquivalience 00:48, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Ok Mohd.Meraj Ahmad (talk) 17:43, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Protected edit request on 1 April 2015
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wikipidia is not trusted
110.174.40.102 (talk) 05:46, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:36, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Protected edit request on 17 December 2015
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Add {{pp-protected}} or something similar. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 08:29, 17 December 2015 (UTC) Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 08:29, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Done although it's curious that the prot log is completely empty. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:49, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- That's interesting. It's possible the page was fully protected before the protection log became a part of the MediaWiki software. Mz7 (talk) 04:56, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
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Misplaced Pages Self Defeating
Wikimedia:General disclaimer
"Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information".
Yet Misplaced Pages, "Misplaced Pages:Identifying reliable sources", disallows those of us with the Formal Schooling, Formal Training and Firsthand Experience from actually providing that complete, accurate or reliable information. While Misplaced Pages allows those with opinionated blogs (no Firsthand Experience easily detected by those with actual Firsthand Experience, Formal Training, Formal Schooling, etc.) being able to use their Opinionated Blogs as a Reference according to the Rules of Misplaced Pages.
The Results, Misplaced Pages is not a Reliable Source of Information, according to Misplaced Pages's own Disclaimers.
Irony other internet sites that used Misplaced Pages are only propagating the misinformation that was originally from Misplaced Pages, then others use those very same sites as sources to edit Misplaced Pages after those with the actual facts edited Misplaced Pages to provide "complete, accurate or reliable information."
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." George Santayana and those of us that actually read George Santayana's entire The Life of Reason, with the Misplaced Pages Article George Santayana then misquoting George Santayana's critism of Progressives as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" and completely deleting the previous in context full quote.
References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer
- https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources
- http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27301.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/George_Santayana
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nakamuradavid (talk • contribs) 20:02, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Edit request
To change 'much of the time' to 'most of the time' ("That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Misplaced Pages; much of the time you will"). 'Much of the time' reads as if Misplaced Pages's information is less than 50% accurate, while of course the percentage is very much higher. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:16, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
- I don't see "much of the time" as necessarily implying "less than half of the time". The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 22:08, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
"The Misplaced Pages database is stored on servers in the United States of America..."
Not entirely true. It should say "The Misplaced Pages database is stored on servers in the United States of America, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Republic of Singapore, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under the laws of these countries. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution..." lo prenu .katmakrofan. (talk) 21:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- @KATMAKROFAN: while the non-USA centers have caching clusters for HTML and for file/thumbnails, the databases are only located in the US. The codfw and eqiad (aka the application clusters) are the only clusters that can run the entire website, and the clusters that almost all requests for all logged in users will end up at. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:12, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
New Wiki Page
How long does it take for my Wiki page to appear when people search for my company? Bossproperty (talk) 14:28, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Bossproperty: Please see the box at the top, the one that says "This is not the page to ask for help." in big letters. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)