User:Xiong Chiamiov/help

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You have come here because you need help, probably because I left you a comment that you find puzzling. Please note that this is not the place for messages to me, for that you need my talk page.

First: Don't panic! Wikipedia is not on a deadline. There are few things that can't be fixed by a dose of calmness and reasoned debate. If something looks wrong to you, instead of demanding it be fixed, try asking nicely why it was done. You'd be amazed how much more effective that is.

Here are some useful places to go:

  • I'm confused! →
    Wikipedia:Help
    , the ever helpful help page.
  • I'm being attacked! → Drop me a note and I'll see if I can help, but bear in mind that if I find a school-yard fight I will drag the warring parties apart and actively not care who started it.
  • My article got deleted! →
    overdramatise the importance of the issue
    )
  • I've been blocked! → edit your user talk page and add {{unblock|reason}} (that's a double curly-brace, the template name unblock, in lowercase, then a pipe character and the text of your request)
  • My article is being vandalised! →
    not actually your article
    .
  • No, it's the article about me! → That's a
    Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject)
    and send email.
  • ZOMG!
    dispute resolution
    .
  • I need an admin! → There's not much an admin can do that a regular user can't (I'm not even an admin, just a normal user like you!). They can
    block users
    . They block for:
  • breaking the
    WP:AN/3RR
    )
  • credible threats of harm (report this at
    the incident noticeboard
    )
  • making substantive
    the incident board
    as well)
  • dispute resolution
    first).
  • Yebbut, I need actual help! → Well why didn't you say! :-) You can ask
    help desk
    , it's only a click away...

An admin done me wrong!

If you feel an admin has done you wrong, try talking to them. Nicely. They are only human, they are janitors not policemen, and they are not paid for what we do. Almost all admins are reachable by email. Visit their user page and click the "email this user" link. Leave a message on their user Talk page. And above all,

never assume malice when it could be a simply misunderstanding. It's almost certainly not personal - we tend not to give adminship to people who are likely to make random personal attacks and harbour grudges, some of us are really quite nice people and good to our mothers. Remember, too, that admins often have many, many articles
on their watchlist, while you may have rather fewer, so it's easy for them to miss an edit in a watched article or Talk page, and they might see patterns of editing which you do not - or indeed you might be right, and pointing it out politely could be very welcome. Above all if an admin says there is a policy or guideline reason for including or excluding something, they are quite likely right, or at least offering a valid interpretation of policy. They are supposed to know that stuff -they are not omniscient, but they have been around a bit.

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