One of the regular campaigners on Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) abuse has mailed me saying:
If you try and enter any updates on Wikipedia to LVCR section someone keeps removing them… I just added in five companies , all removed. Put them back, removed again.
Any idea as to how you get Wikipedia to stop someone doing that ?
My answer to the question is “no”.
My answers to the question about who might be doing this are bets not published.
But who’s got something to hide?
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There are ways of stopping this. To quote Wikipedia’s own Wikipedia entry:
Wikipedia has many methods of settling disputes. A “bold, revert, discuss” cycle sometimes occurs, in which a user makes an edit, another user reverts it, and the matter is discussed on the appropriate talk page. In order to gain a broader community consensus, issues can be raised at the Village Pump, or a Request for Comment can be made soliciting other users’ input. “Wikiquette Alerts” is a non-binding noticeboard where users can report impolite, uncivil, or other difficult communications with other editors.
Specialized forums exist for centralizing discussion on specific decisions, such as whether or not an article should be deleted. Mediation is sometimes used, although it has been deemed by some Wikipedians to be unhelpful for resolving particularly contentious disputes. The Wikipedia Arbitration Committee settles disputes when other methods fail. The ArbCom generally does not rule on the factual correctness of article content, although it sometimes enforces the “Neutral Point of View” policy.
I also know that in the appropriate circumstances it is possible to have a page locked such that it cannot be edited by anyone other than the person who owns the lock.
Hope this is some help. James Mac in Jersey
Thanks. The person editing it claims that he edits Wikipedia as a hobby and says he came across the LVCR entry in passing and decided that a list of companies exploiting LVCR could not be justified on the basis that there are so many companies in Jersey and Guernsey exporting to all parts of the world it makes no sense to list them. He also said that there is no evidence these companies are exploiting LVCR so listing them couldn’t be justified and that the listing of thehut.com attracted spam. The first argument is nonsense as the list is only comprised of companies using LVCR to trade in the UK on the internet and the second point is also twaddle as anyone in Jersey selling mail order automatically benefits from LVCR so there is nothing to verify. As for the spam theory I have no idea. He then claimed the list was of no use as it added nothing to the article. Of course the removal of this list would just be far too convenient for some people, particularly if they don’t want people to know what they are up to.
If you look at the discussion section on the LVCR entry in Wikipedia you will see my argument with ‘the editor’.
Whoever edited it has now made changes so that you can’t even reinstate the list that was there by clicking undo. Any ideas how to do this ?
Richard, fancy making space on your site for an up to date list of LVCR users ?
@Richard Allen
Sure
just list the names and provide the links that prove it…