Jun 12, 2019

Reasons why your page is taken down from Wikipedia?

Reasons why your page is taken down from Wikipedia?

 To the length of the online content, Wikipedia is related to as global as you can see. The data goes online all with the efforts of the users in a crowd. Hence to make a Wikipedia page, you must be a registered user. Making contributions and edits is not tricky since anyone can do it, and the thing is quite simple. With a vast majority of the users make efforts with how the smallest details for the Wikipedia works.


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Well, the most reported challenges faced by the Wikipedia contributors is that their pages tend to disappear since the website functions as crowdsourced and the majority consider it the misconception that the content is below the standards of formality. Though this is not the case, Wikipedia has the system in place to kill the pages that shouldn’t come up with the rules. Every day the page gets deleted if it doesn’t meet the criteria.

Though the deletion that is massively carried in Wikipedia can be challenging to understand, it’s often amazement when the individual comes to know the real principles of the crowdsourced platform. At first, the website that allows a community of volunteers to run is considered carefree, however, the reality Wikipedia is still making efforts in this quickly changing phenomena of promise to knowledge and execution. The content on Wikipedia should come up with the criteria of publication set by the website. There are some set process for deletion on Wikipedia and every one of them is unique and taken for the different levels of misrepresentation.

Plagiarism and non-reliable referencing 


Copyright is the most apparent cause of pages deletion. Still, it is one of the most ongoing issues for every Wikipedia editor. Though it seems like common sense, frequently it’s always easy to make a blunder either intentional or not. The copyright is the barefaced copying as well as the straightaway use of ideas without offering appreciation or adding more to it.


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If the Wikipedia page gets deleted, you can go through the content to be reevaluated. You may find that you may not be as creative with your content as you believed yourself as. The world we live in is burdened with information, and it might be easy to forget who we are.  In the essential online, you cannot afford to lose your foot; this is when you lose your superiority.

The similar concept applies for evaluating your sources, if you don’t use the essential and independent sources, there is a risk of taking into erroneous information, and that can be the valid point. Fundamentally, the content that proceeds the result is well sourced and well-searched thought. The Wikipedia users should research their page topic and have a definite, fact-based for their page.

 If copying is your opponent, then misrepresentation is also. It must go without saying, however, publishing erroneous information online can come back with greater force, and the same goes with the Wikipedia pages. The Wikipedia volunteers can make any page vanish if they find out that it doesn’t meet the basic requirements of the Wikipedia, if your page doesn’t comply with the standards there are higher chances of deletion.

The quick deletion


The quick deletion is the process of taking the pages down that are violently not suitable for the website. These pages are the ones that have no predictable future on Wikipedia. If the content is apparently out of the box, the quick deletion comes in.

The process is applicable on the pages that hold recreation of something that has already been attempted to take down the immediate elimination might be of use if your page carries myths and criticism. For understanding, if your page openly attacks an individual, then it falls under the canopy.


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Give thought to how the Wikipedia page reads, if the information is credible, notable, or if the page is full of information that is out of the box. If the page is completely misleading and is scarce in telling the truth, this process may be active then. The immediate deletion is then the last resort; it’s only for the specific cases and is also retrievable; however, the power rests in the hands of the volunteer community. 


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