Talk:International FOP Association

Comment
This is the opening version of this article and will be edited over time as new material comes available. Malcolm C Munro (talk) 23:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

How does X work?
I have just uploaded an image file to my article but it looks rather large. Is it OK as is or should it be reduced in size, and if do, how do I do this?

Also, my talk page still shows the page announcing I was subject to speedy deletion. However I am assuming this is no longer the case. Can you remove the speedy deletion warning from the talk page? Thanks. Malcolm C Munro (talk) 20:52, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You can specify the number of pixels, like  or use the code   to create a thumbnail.  ℳ ono    21:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

How does X work?
When a search is performed using the most likely term (IFOPA) to locate my article, my article title appears at the beginning of a list of articles along with a link to my IFOPA article. How can I have the search go directly to my article? Thanks. Malcolm C Munro (talk) 21:42, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You need a WP:REDIRECT at IFOPA - I've made one for you. JohnCD (talk) 21:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Links to IFOPA website
The IFOPA website has a problem, and I have removed all links to it from Wikipedia until the issue is resolved. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Jan 1 for details. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:13, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I would encourage anyone with IFOPA to follow this link - thanks to Guy Macon's detective work (using WebBug) it appears that a spam-compromised version is being served up to some browsers looking at a version 0.9 or 1.0 HTTP, but not others with HTTP 1.1. I wonder if this is a site hack and that the operators happen to be viewing with 1.1, as does Google and myself and doubtless many others. Wnt (talk) 18:59, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * My answer is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Jan 1 (to keep discussion in one place) --Guy Macon (talk) 19:15, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Here we are, months later, and the website still has the malicious redirect, but when I wasn't paying attention someone put links to it back into this article. And of course IFOPA never responded to my attempts to report it. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:04, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

NO LINKS TO IFOPA.ORG!
''' ifopa.org redirects to a malicious website. Do not link to ifopa.org.''' See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Jan 1 for details. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:33, 19 May 2013 (UTC)


 * As of 10 October 2013 the webpage still redirects to a malicious website, and there have been attempts to restore the link without discussing it here. I cannot tell whether the editor making the change is simply not competent enough to understand the issue or is himself associated with whoever hacked the website, but either way I am going to start treating any such restore without talk page discussion as as vandalism. Do it again and you are likely to be blocked from editing Wikipedia. There will be no further warnings. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2013 (UTC)


 * As of 08 November 2015 the webpage still redirects to a malicious website, but the malicious website is down (forever, I hope). If anybody who has any connection to anyone involved in the International FOP Association reads this, please try to get someone in authority over there to contact me so we can fix this and resume linking to their website. --Guy Macon (talk) 08:05, 8 November 2015 (UTC)


 * As of 01 May 2016, the malicious HTTP 1.0 redirect is gone, and http://www.ifopa.org/ works like any other website. We can now link to the page. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:45, 1 May 2016 (UTC)