User talk:Massivebrain

Hello :)

My real name is Clancy Hood, and I signed up as a wikipedia user because I am was concerned about the propagation of a fictitious article that carries my name.

It wasn't a brilliant bit of judgement on my part to create even a blank page, as I'm now aware :) Though I've been a prolific Wikipedia user (and should probably know better), I've never really used Wikipedia to learn about people, certainly not living ones, and found the existence of an entirely erroneous article about me (and their many many copies across the internet) very unnerving, which helped a bit toward my somewhat irrational behaviour in Jan 2009.

deleted article
All I know is you keep creating non articles in the article space. You need to stop doing that. Dloh  cierekim  05:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

moving content from deleted talk page
This page is an attempt to force sites that take their content from wikipedia to replace the data they have concerning "Clancy Hood"

Some years ago a well-meaning but overzealous man who wanted to be my band's manager created wikipedia pages for the band and its members, which were (thankfully, since they were almost entirely full of fictitious information) swiftly deleted by wikipedia - however, they remain on such sites as nationmaster.com whose interface is so poorly designed the feedback system does not work at all and there is no way of communicating witrh the webmasters.

It is more than a little embarrassing to have this rubbish out there in google results for one's name and while it is not exactly wikipedia's fault this false info is out there the only means I seem to have of getting it removed is to create this article and hope that the erroneous sites update themselves before an admin deletes this version.

I understand this is does not adhere to the wikipedia guidelines and I apologise (sincerely) but I do hope you understand. If a blank page with the above notice placed in the talk section for a short time would be acceptable to you I would be so very grateful for the assistance in dealing with this problem

Thanks so much Clancy Hood Massivebrain (talk) 15:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC) 

If you have a problem with off-wikiedia content, the place to address that problem with the people running those sites. Wikipedia has no control over what others do. If you have a problem not directly related to writing articles, this is not the place to address them The article space is for creating articles. The article talk space is for discussing articles. For matters such you describe, you need to contact the Wikimedia Foundation at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Contact_us. or email info-en-q@wikimedia.org. Once again, article talk pages and other content area edits will not help resolve your problem. The people you need to talk to will never see them. Cheers, and good luck. Dloh cierekim  05:33, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Dlohcierekim!
Thanks very much indeed Dlohcierekim. In retrospect it wasn't entirely level-headed on my part to do that (yesterday was not a clear-headed day). Thankyou for the advice Massivebrain (talk) 09:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Email to wikimedia 27/01
Email to info(at)wikimedia.org 27/01/09: Hi there

Recently, I got so frustrated at nationmaster.com, one of the many mirrors of wikipedia, for failing to even answer my many requests that they delete an entirely ficitious article about me, that I restarted the wikipedia article with no content in it in the vain hope that it would update their copy (as their "contact us" page http://www.nationmaster.com/contact_us.php advised after trying to submit a feedback form with the category "Encyclopedia correction") - though I was ill-informed this was still silly and irrational of me, and I do apologise (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Massivebrain ) - an excerpt from this talk page follows so you get the gist:

"Some years ago a well-meaning but overzealous man who wanted to be my band's manager created wikipedia pages for the band and its members, which were (thankfully, since they were almost entirely full of fictitious information) swiftly deleted by wikipedia - however, they remain on such sites as nationmaster.com whose interface is so poorly designed the feedback system does not work at all and there seems no way of communicating with the webmasters."

It's unnerving for me since generally one looks up prospective employees and as far as I'm aware I'm the only Clancy Hood there is. I'm still working hard to get nationmaster.com to acknowledge me, but was wondering if you could offer advice?

1. This can't be the first time this has happened : what can a person do to rectify it? What does the law say (briefly) if I am forced to go that way?

2. I even find the page in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Hood that says an article was there and is now not rather embarassing - since I am not notable at all (honestly, I have never wished to be noted outside of those I love), is it possible to have this removed also?

Thanks very much indeed for your time and any help you can give

Clancy Hood

I've also sent a whole bunch of emails to nationmaster.com the last couple of weeks, excerpts from which I'll start to place here. If it's OK (I'm guessing it is) this is a great place to build a history up relating to this and may be a nice place to refer those who encounter similar difficulties. Massivebrain (talk) 15:47, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

drawing a line under it all
I managed in the end to get rid of most of the propagated copies out there - through a lot of visits to different whois search engines, I managed to dig out various email addresses, from some of which I got responses, and eventually a few deletions. If only I could get shot of that horrible (just as embarrassing) "deleted page" on Wikipedia itself - anyway, maybe one day it'll disappear of its own accord, if such things have an expiry date. Until then, I'll either leave this purpose-built user (Massivebrain) and his talk page in place or copy all this over to my "real" talk page. Whichever I do, I promise I'll do it after a good read of the guidelines :)

It strikes me as probably questionable to have 2 accounts open - I tried to join as Clancy Hood today, to discover I already had an account by that name I must have created some time ago and totally forgotten about. Anyway, seeing as that violation had already happened simply by creating the user Massivebrain when I did (I seem to have created the account Clancy Hood 4 years ago, probably in response to Bruce writing all that total b****cks), and seeing as Clancy Hood is my actual name, perhaps I ought to delete "Massivebrain". I'll have a read of the guidelines and make a decision based on that - however it's late and I'm sure it's not a matter of terrible urgency. Clancy Hood (talk) 22:23, 22 December 2010 (UTC)