WIKI HELP NEEDED PLEASE

[stig mills]

Goodness this Wiki thing is driving me nuts. I need help. I have posted a MEV page and because I am MEV it keeps getting deleted as unambiguous advertising despite me attempting to just put in some MEV history. If you search Wiki for kit cars MEV is on the list of U.K manufacturers in RED as the page does not exist. If anyone could help I would be very grateful, I would just like to see MEV listed, one could argue the list is incomplete with out us. Lots of other manufacturers are on thier with a page. Mnay thanks if you can help. Beer on me at Stoneleigh to the assisters, is that a word?

[seansverige]

Are they saying the problem is that it's you that's posting, or is there an issue with the content itself? Just been looking at the Westfield and Sylva pages. If the content is fairly 'neutral' in tone then if someone else posts it would that get round it?

[TonyHetherington]

I bet you're using your MEV e-mail address to sign up to Wiki

[stig mills]

That's 2 problems identified thank you. Yes I did use the [e-mail] to sign up and yes I posted. I did try to keep it informative and historic though and clearly not an advert. They are keen at Wiki though, but I was being innocent, honest! I noticed a new addition to "kit cars" with mention of Stoneleigh too. I added MEV to the list of manufacturers who will be exhibiting, MEV comes up blue in that piece but RED when you click on iy. Very complicated.
Delighted to receive any help. Thanks chaps. Regards Stiggy

[XanderH]

For fks Sake!!

Have you looked at the page of the bloke who deleted it?
Power-crazed?

[_g_]

Unfortunately it's got in to that people's collective consciousness that Wikipedia is an altruistic, fair and accurate website.

Sadly, that's not the reality.

A popular open source software for a niche area which I used wanted to get listed along with other rival software. Despite it being pretty popular, you wouldn't see reviews in commercial publications, as they wouldn't be buying advertising space.
Despite them have a good user base and popular forums, references to their software was removed because they couldn't show they were accepted by main stream media.

Another case, a friend that works for a popular UK band attempted to change some 'facts' that were known to be wrong; an email address from the band's site and having talked to the band members in person it seemed didn't mean the changed information had more credibility than a random fan, so it was reverted by a moderator and locked or whatever.

Best bet is to get others to enter the information as third parties and see how that goes.