User talk:162.83.137.157

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[edit] Issue on main page

The issue you raised on the main page is of serious concern to me. Can you give us an example of where criticism is wiped? This is a very serious matter. Firstly, it is very rare for things to be wiped. Most content will remain in our datastore and can be viewed through the history function unless there is a good reason for it to be permanently deleted. Secondly, it is violation of policy to remove people's comments, including criciticsm without good reason. We have various policies and guidelines for example on Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No Personal Attacks which we expect editors to maintain. If you excessively breach these policies and guidelines, your comments may very well be removed (although this is actually fairly rare). Also, we may remove libelous comments so please make sure you have evidence for any claims especially about a person before you make them. I assume your are talking about criticisms of an article BTW. If you wish to share your opinions of a person, organisation, theory or whatever it is easily possible your comments will be removed as wikipedia is not a soapbox or a discussion board. However assuming your are talking about real criticism of an article, the only other reason I can think of it is removed is likely because it is in the wrong place. Most criticism should be in an article's talk page. This page for example, is not the place for criticism of wikipedia in general (although we often don't remove it anyway) nor of specific articles. Assuming you have seen criticism of an article appropriately raised which has been deleted, please either msg me on my talk page or discuss it here. As I have stated, this is a very serious issue and I would like to look in to it ASAP. BTW remember to sign your posts and please don't use all caps. Nil Einne 04:03, 12 October 2006 (UTC)