Wikipedia:Contact us
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Article content
Everyone can edit articles on Wikipedia. So if you see something wrong with a page just click Edit this page and correct it.
To discuss ways to improve an article further, use the Discussion tab displayed when you are viewing that page.
If an article has been "vandalised", see dealing with vandalism.
Deleting and restoring pages
If you think that a page should be completely deleted, explain why at Votes for deletion. If you feel that a page was deleted by mistake or unfairly, argue your case at Votes for undeletion.
Wikipedia users
To learn more about a Wikipedia user, click on their name to view their user page. To talk to someone on Wikipedia, go to their user page and click Discussion. Many people provide further contact information (email, instant messaging, etc) on their user page.
General questions
As always, the Wikipedia Wikipedia:FAQ is a good place to start when looking for information. Every page (article pages, policy pages, user pages) also has its own Discussion page, and that's often the best place for questions that are specific to a single topic or user.
Other than that, there are three areas for general questions:
The Village pump is our community's central gathering point. It is a place for friendly questions, discussions, theory, planning, and much more. If in doubt, post at the Village Pump first; questions that do not belong there will be moved somewhere else, with a pointer left behind to direct you to the place where answers can be found.
Questions about the functions and structure of Wikipedia itself, especially "how to", "why to", "why do we do it that way?" and so on, can best be answered at the Wikipedia:Help Desk.
If you want to consult the collective wisdom of the Wikipedia community on any subject, there is also the Wikipedia:Reference desk. Like a library reference desk, the volunteer editors here will try to answer and point you to good sources of information on almost any topic (but remember, we're not here to do your homework for you!).
Remember to check the page periodically to find out if you have received an answer.
Press inquiries
Press Inquiries to: 310-474-3223, tell Terry Foote what it is about and Wikimedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales will get back to you. Please use that number only for press inquiries! Other inquiries by email to jwales@bomis.com.
Reporters and other interested people are encouraged to send an email to our mailing list (mailto:wikien-l@wikipedia.org). If you are not a subscriber to this mailing list, then your email has to be approved by a mailing list administrator before it is posted to the list. If you plan to post many emails to the list, then please visit Wikipedia:Mailing lists for subscription information.
If you want to contact regular Wikipedians, Wikipedians and Wikipedia:List of administrators would be good starting points.
Policy
Wikipedia policy can be discussed on the mailing lists, specifically wikien-l for the English Wikipedia and wikipedia-l for global project policy.
Copyright questions
If you are the owner of content that is being used on Wikipedia without your permission, then please go here for instructions.
If you merely suspect that content on a particular page contains a copyright infringement, then you may replace the text with the boilerplate copyright infringement notice text here. Then you should list that page at Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
If you would like permission to use Wikipedia content, you should be happy to know that our license (the GNU Free Documentation License) already grants you permission to use it - even commercially. However, you do have to follow the terms of our license. Please see Wikipedia:Copyrights for details.
Wikipedia software
MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net) is the general purpose wiki engine used by Wikipedia.
- For guidance, read the MediaWiki User's Guide.
- Discuss on wikitech-l mailing list (http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l).
- To submit bug reports and feature requests, see Wikipedia:Bug reports
