Difference between revisions of "ConcernsPage"

Common Concerns are addressed here.

spam

your sight is sending unauthoriesd email to my email address and thay are loaded with viruses

Are you saying that this site, AboutUs.org, is sending unauthorized spam e-mails or perhaps a web site that we have a page about? KristinaWeis 23:58, 7 August 2007 (PDT)

agent for mondoffice

I received an email asking me to be an agent for you here in the US. I am trying to find out if this was a legitimate request or not. My name is Willard (Bill) Toller, my email is thanks, Bill

When you say an agent for you do you mean us, AboutUs.org or perhaps a company/web site that we have a WikiPage about such as Mondoffice.com? I have sent you an e-mail and look forward to hearing from you. KristinaWeis 13:21, 9 August 2007 (PDT)

where did you get my e mail address?

I do not ever get spam....until you and your stupid postcard, greeting card and all that crap started smothering me...what the heck, guys! I wish I had your address so I could send you a bunch of crap and make you look at a bunch of crap...I hate you spammers, you suck to the max. If you can't find a better way of making a living, how about you go shoot yourselves.????? How about not flipping Emailing me any more you crusty butt fungus people!!!!!!! Do not ever ever ever ever E mail me again with any of your crap. I know you have been denying the spam, but by golly, this is a bunch of horse poop and I don't like it. You are the bottom of the barrel...you are the scud of the earth. Spam spammers are low lives...you suck suck suck.

Are you saying that this site, AboutUs.org, is sending unauthorized spam e-mails or perhaps a web site that we have a page about? KristinaWeis 13:14, 9 August 2007 (PDT)

50plusabroad

Hello,

Our company recently changed name from 50plusabroad.com to plusabroad.com We have already created it the page for plusabroad.com, but we would like to erase the entry of 50plusabroad.com, is this possible?

Thanks plusabroad.com

I have redirected 50PlusAbroad.com to PlusAbroad.com as a deletion would only last so long as the page was not searched for or linked to. Let me know if you have any questions. KristinaWeis 12:29, 12 August 2007 (PDT)

Community Review

This website falsely allows trolls to deface,slander,and post "defamatory and/or libelous" remarks about websites.With no moderation at all.They also refuse to remove these remarks as it is "against there policy".That being said this comment should not be moved or otherwise edited as this is a "Community review" of this website and i am openly discussing my views about this website.If this post is moved or other wise edited,it will only prove that aboutus.org are contrdicting there selves when it comes to there own website.But do not care if it is another website,which they have no true information about at all.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Darkgiant (talk • contribs) .

Removal of your email from my inbox

Please instruct me on How I can remove you email from my inbox or every place on my computer.  

My next step, without a respone from you in a reasonable time, will be to go to whatever athorities I need to contact to let them know of this kind of activities

I do not understand your question/concern. You should not be receiving any unsolicited e-mails from AboutUs.org - perhaps you are getting e-mails from a web site that AboutUs has a WikiPage about...? KristinaWeis 22:12, 13 August 2007 (PDT)

Remove My Website

I am extremely uncomfortable with my website featured in a wikipage. I would like for it to be taken down immediately. I did not authorize this at all. What gives this site the right to reproduce my website? This is a business website and now it is a joke.

Apryl Chapman Thomas www.actwriter.com

It looks like ActWriter.com has already been edited in accordance with our No Bot Policy. Please see AboutUs:Concerns for a thorough answer to your question(s). KristinaWeis 22:10, 13 August 2007 (PDT)

Reposting Websites

What right does the company have reposting websites? My site is for my business and I don't want it associated with this site at all. Stop hiding behind excuses. I DO NOT want my website affiliate with this site at all, and yes, I am yelling. It is very disturbing that a screenshot of my site is up and anyone can edit the so-called wiki pages about my site. Not only that, my site is on a web domain bidding site now. Why? Who are you and why are you doing this?

Apryl

Hello Apryl. We are AboutUs.org, an informational wiki resource about web sites and more. For answers to your specific questions about us and how we opearte see AboutUs:Concerns and ConcernsFAQ. And if you would like bot-generated information removed from WikiPages about web sites you own please see No Bot Policy for instructions. KristinaWeis 12:29, 14 August 2007 (PDT)

Keyline Pie/Diabetic

Recently I found out that I was diabetic and I can no longer have Keyline Pie.I have search recipes for something that I could eat.I keep finding that all the recipes call for sweetened condensed milk. Is there a something I can use instead of sweetened condensed milk?

Thanks so much for your help.

darlene stepp 1421 columbus drive elkhart, in

Hello Darlene. I have sent you an e-mail, but I think you may be confusing AboutUs.org (an informational wiki resource about web sites) with another web site...? Let me know if you have any questions, and for a tour of wiki and AboutUs see WikiAnatomy. KristinaWeis 20:59, 14 August 2007 (PDT)

darjac.com

My website have mouved

OLD LINK www.darjac.com http://www.aboutus.org/Darjac.com

NEW LINK www.darjac.fr

Thanks for doing the correction -- User:78.20.183.135 | User_talk:78.20.183.135 10:43, 16 August 2007

I created an entry for Darjac.fr and updated Darjac.com to indicate that it is now a ParkingLot. --Eohippus 13:04, 16 August 2007 (PDT)

Bot uses Alexa instead of whois for contact info?

Hi, I have a concern reguarding the AboutUsBot.

Recently on the DomainPage of a site I host Pnc-inc.com I found (much to my annoyance) that I had failed to notice that the bot had for some reason included bad address and contact information for the domain. I made two section edits to correct it, but if you compare the most recent version to the original version created by the bot, you can see the bad address. I have noticed the same behavior after looking at the the bot created version of JoeyTeel.com.

The bad addresses apparently came from from the Alexa data. I have submitted corrections to them since I do have access to modify the sites (obviously on the one, less obviously on the other), but I am concerned that the bot appears to favor the information from Alexa over the official whois data from the registar of record.

Is there some reason the bot favors Alexa's version of the information over that of the registar? Joey

Inclusion of my site - personal information- please remove

Hi,

I was most surprised to find my site listed with yourselves and an edit page. It was listed under the same name except that there are capitals on the 1st letters.

Please remove my site at your earliest convenience.

I am not even slightly technically "au fait" (quite old) and the thought that my site could be altered by an unknown - gave me a nasty shock.

I am being plagued by spam - real filth etc.

I do not know whether there is a connection, as I do not understand the logistics of these things.

The only way that i will find out is by removing it from your site.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doogie432 (talk • contribs) .

Thanking you in anticipation.

This is an open-content wiki, which means you are free to click the Edit button and remove the information yourself. Nathan ^(talk) / 14:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Which web site DomainPage are you referencing? If you want the entire contents of the page removed you will need to send us an e-mail to from an e-mail address showing your ownership of the site to and we can edit the page in accordance with our No Bot Policy. KristinaWeis 14:56, 21 August 2007 (PDT)

aboutus.org/marshalltxchamber.com

The listing is out of date 10 years

please tell us how we can update the information

http://marshalltxchamber.com http://marshall-chamber.com http://marshallchambermembers.com

Official address info: the shown FS3 and Empire central Dallas TX was the original web designer 1997. The new site vendor, AWS Creative has worked on the site and manages their four domain names since 1999 How can I change the information shown on the page?

Thank you

Ken Freeman AWS Creative P.O. Box 462192 Garland TX 75046

Telephone: 903 926 2607 email:

You can either: a) click "edit" and change the page yourself. This is an open wiki and anyone can edit it. Do you see the edit button on every page? or b) an administrator can delete the page and force it to be recreated. Nathan ^(talk) / 16:39, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello Ken, I have sent you an e-mail. Let me know if you have any questions, and I would recommend taking the first two tours at WikiAnatomy. KristinaWeis 11:41, 23 August 2007 (PDT)

scraper stole our content

Hello AboutUs,

A scraper has stolen our site design and copyrighted content. Please remove the page/site great degrees online.com from your wiki at http://www.aboutus.org/GreatDegreesOnline.com. Our site www.onlinedegrees.com is the legitimate site which wrote the articles and created the site. You can see this using domaintools/archive.org that this is the case. We are being penalized in Google because of this site and have contacted the site to remove the offending content, they have yet to do so.

Please let me know if there is anything else we need to do to have this search engine spammer removed.

Thank you for your help, Webmaster - OnlineDegrees.com

LoveStriken.com

Hi, my site LoveStriken.com, has a new `possible adult content` red flag. There is absolutely no adult content, as in nudity, in it. Could the red flag be removed please. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by O (talk • contribs) .

I don't see any adult content flag on the page. Nathan ^(talk) / 03:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

O, LoveStricken.com isn't flagged as adult, but I know where the confusion is. "Flag" is shown on all DomainPages, and "Possible Adult Content" is shown on DomainPages that are possibly adult. The normal "Flag" should probably be green not red in color. We're going to adjust that for clarity shortly. - Ray | talk

legal threats

Dave Mawby Owner www.captaincomputerparts-ebay.com

Dave, we cannot continue this discourse due to your legal threats. Please have your lawyer contact us at our office of record, which may be found here: AboutUs.org

You can make up all the garbage you want to, like I am threatening you etc. etc. I am not threatening you at all. I am telling you that if you do not delete the slanderous material I am going to take every legal action necessary to stop you from continuing to publish this slanderous material that states that we rip people off and that we deal in stolen property. Your continued complicity with this perp and your continued refusal to simply delete this slanderous material will, I am sure, be seen by any judge as complicit with the perp and I am sure that under the law that makes you no different than the perp. Also, I am sure that any judge will read your postings suggesting that I not threaten you (when I haven't) as a less than veiled threat to me that if I don't act just the way you want me to you will do nothing. Of course I am upset! You would be to. A review, even a bad scathing review is one thing, but slander is quite different. If you can't figure that out, and remove the slander, then maybe we can arrange to have your local judiciary give you a little lesson on what slander is.

I am not contacting you to be your friend. I don't even like people who publish slanderous, and false things about other and then try to sidestep any responsibility by saying oh but we are wiki slicky. That doesn't mean a darn thing!! This is the real world and you can't continue to publish lies, and slander about someone after you have been warned about it, without suffering real world consequences!!!!

Dave Mawby

Owner

www.captaincomputerparts-ebay.com

RE: Worst Customer Service in the World !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only will i be contacting your local prosecutor but i will be contacting the press and let everyone i can know that you support obvious and blatant slanderous material on your site, and that you refuse to delete it even when notified of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave Mawby Owner www.captaincomputerparts-ebay.com

Dave, I am concerned that you're still threatening us, but perhaps a phone call would do us good? What number can I reach you at? Ted Ernst | talk 16:09, 29 August 2007 (PDT)

Family Website

I have a concern and it seems you already cover it by saying you will do nothing about it. I have a family website, with photos of my child, which is not indexed by robots, and which I do not submit to search engines. Only about 20-30 people know about it. I do not want any others seeing it. But in your ConcernsFAQ page, you say that you refuse to remove pages. I think it only got added because I looked it up to see if it was there in the first place! No-one else would add it back in again. I am livid about its inclusion because if you don't remove it I am going to have to take down five years worth of precious content. PLEASE can someone contact me and remove it for me -

A simple solution to the problem that you don't want the public to see your site would be to password protect the site so that just the folks who you want to see the site can. The reason this makes the most sense to me is that "Security by obscurity" is not really any security at all. Once you register a domain name and publish a site publicly, it is going to be available to the public. For example, there are multiple whois lookup sites who will also have a page showing your site. That said, I will send you a separate e-mail to discuss the actual site name to see what can be done. - Ray | talk

Being harrassed

Someone using your service is harrassing me. Their address is aburke @websitelogic.com. I am getting a lawyer. I have been getting harrassed through other avenues by someone I know and I think they set up this e-mail address just to harrass me. Any info would be helpful.

This is AboutUs.org and I assume that you are not saying that someone here is harassing you but rather a web site that we have a DomainPage about, but if so please send us a detailed e-mail to , and otherwise please contact the web site or person directly. Let me know if you have any questions, KristinaWeis 17:37, 31 August 2007 (PDT)

Change of address

I have been receiving books at my fiance's house, Address: 158 Lawton Drive

                                                           Milpitas, CA  95025

I have recently moved, my new address is: 429 N. Main Street

                                          Slater, MO  65349

Please direct all further books and or communications to my MO address.

Thank you.

Frank Dozezal

I believe you may be looking to leave a message for a web site other than this one (this is AboutUs.org) but if you would like to update your address or anything here at AboutUs simply hit the "edit" tab and do so because this is wiki. Let me know if you have any questions. KristinaWeis 17:49, 2 September 2007 (PDT)

Sox not Ox

For the site silversox.co.uk, you have listed it as SilversOx instead of SilverSox. Could you change the title please.

Certainly, although this is something that you can fix yourself if you like as well - see Help:How do I fix the capitalization of an article? to learn how. It looks like this page has yet to be edited, perhaps you would care to fix it up nice? Let me know if you have any questions. KristinaWeis 17:44, 2 September 2007 (PDT)

unwanted texts from an adult service

hi. please can you help. i have been given your website by orange because i have been recieving unwanted texts from an adult service. i have not subscribed to this service. i do not want to hookup with a blonde model for the night and i dont want to chat with the blonde bimbo from down the road. i have replied several times asking them to stop and i recieved a text back asking me if i have upset them and dont i want to talk to them. no i dont. i want it to stop. all i have is a mobile no 89888. are you able to trace them through that no and get them to stop. please help please reply to awaiting your reply. thankyou clair brayley

I will also reply by email. We don't run any adult services. If you knew their website, you could use the page on this wiki to complain about them. You might want to contact your mobile phone provider. TedErnst 12:11, 5 September 2007 (PDT)

Email to bounced. I also tried TedErnst 12:23, 5 September 2007 (PDT)

Does nothing about repeated vandalism

Regardless of the repeated vandalism by a few individuals who were responsible for criminal activity against the site in question, Aboutus.org has allowed them to post derogatory, insulting comments on aforementioned site's article on here under the guise of a review. Clearly, it was never meant to be a review until a moderator suggested it be made into one. The "reviews" themselves were put into the description and mingled with it, CHANGING content that was already there into negative terms. Those responsible for vandalizing the article have made no contributions to AboutUs and have only made their accounts within the last week, it is clear that they have some sort of vendetta against the site they are making the "reviews" on. The reviews themselves are slanderous and libel but as I can read by the other concerns, AboutUs doesn't care about willingly publishing such material.

Also according to the guidelines negative non-constructive reviews are best deleted, staff here have said its "against policy" to delete such reviews. They have also failed to understand a site review is supposed to review the site in question, NOT the article on AboutUs. The staff here do not know what they are doing and are very amateur in dealing with problems, tending to take the side of those who kiss the most ass.

What page are you referring to? TedErnst | User talk:TedErnst 19:03, 5 September 2007 (PDT)

Not sure if you care anymore, but in case you want to refute this (which is easy enough concerning who it is), that was Xander756. I arrived here from his history. LegnaKrad on Sept 9th, 2007, 2:55 AM

Thank you, LegnaKrad. If Zander756 would like us to do anything, I'm happy to follow up. Just need some more communication. TedErnst | talk 22:45, 9 September 2007 (PDT)

Headlinefilters.co.uk

You have a company classicfilters.com that are passing off as Headlinefilters.co.uk We own the trade name Headlinefilters its in their meta tags as well ,as i understand, this is illegal , Classic filters are liable for legal action and About Us as secondary,Please remove the link Headlinefilters.co.uk,if you need more info or would like to contact me please feel free to do so

Kind Regards

Gary King Headline Filter Sales and Marketing Manager

I have sent you an e-mail. I don't believe that I fully understand your request/question (yet). When I go to Headlinefilters.co.uk and click the external link it takes me to ClassicFilters.com. I have sent you an e-mail and look forward to a little more info so we can look into this for you. KristinaWeis 01:45, 6 September 2007 (PDT)

Refund on cancellation of flight

Dear Sir / Madam,

Pls help me to get the refund (which has been credited to your account)immediately.

Booking details are given below :-

Chennai - Mumbai - August 16, 07 - Go Air # 376

PNR no.TPY8BT,

      KDP286  

Regards

Idris Maimoon 98676 40552

We are not an airline, nor do we sell airline tickets. This is AboutUs.org. From whom did you buy this ticket? TedErnst | talk 12:11, 10 September 2007 (PDT)

Trademark Misspellings of Domain Names & Cybersquatters

A competitor has registered a misspelling of my domain name and it is appearing on your site as them, I have customers who are confused by this. How can I get the offending page removed? I really don't want to get my attorney involved.

What is the page you are referring to? AboutUs removes pages computer-generated information from its website only if the domain owner sends an email to from their registered email address for the domain they wish to be removed. AboutUs describes domains with a view to provide information about businesses and organizations. So if you think your competitor is trying to mislead people, you can go to his page on AboutUs and write a community review to this effect. Best, Asad - please see No Bot Policy TedErnst | talk 09:03, 11 September 2007 (PDT)

expiration notice dated 8-9-2007

Payment of my subscription was made and mailed on 6-4-2007. Check #7771 was honored by my bank on 6-13-2007. Ann Winterrowd 300 Walnut AVe. Azle,Texas 76020

I'm sorry, but I think you have the wrong website. We do not sell subscriptions. We are AboutUs.org. What publication are you looking for? TedErnst | talk 08:55, 11 September 2007 (PDT)

I am getting malicious E-Mails from the following Web Site: http://bancorpsouthonline.inview.02990816-login.corporate.inview100.com It is a fake site wanting you to enter in your account information for Bancorp.com

You might want to try posting to siteadvisor.com's website - another option would be to use 'nslookup' or samspade.org tools to determine the location of their Internet service provider and complain to "abuse@" that provider. --205.150.76.42 10:56, 11 September 2007 (PDT)

IronCross.com

I am a dealer of fine Original Iron Cross medals...yes the real ones!I have been tring to own IRONCROSS.Com for my business......I see your using it for a ????? i am not sure what your using it for!!!!....why not call this site eggheads unite . com or anythingbutironcross.com?......how can i get you to use another .com for your pet project and let a guy earn a living with a website name that fits what he does? My name is Robert Lee my email is scubadiver77586@yahoo.com

We don't own it. Someone at the University of Colorado owns it. Please see http://whois.domaintools.com/ironcross.com for more information. That domain is not currently being used at all, it seems. TedErnst | talk 16:17, 19 September 2007 (PDT)

Thank you Ted for your quick informative response. I will get in contact with them regarding this matter. Best Regards Robert

You have an entry on your website for the site fidelity-masonic.co.uk, however this domain is not currently active. Please either remove this listing completely or change the entry to show fidelity-masonic.com

RGds

Alan D Rudland