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Introduction

Article content
How to report a problem with an article, or find out more information.

Article subjects
Problems with articles about you, a company you work for, or someone you represent.

Copyright
How to copy text on Wikipedia, donate your text, or report unallowed use of your copyrighted work.

Press and partnerships
If you are a member of the press looking to contact Wikipedia, or have a business proposal.

General questions
If you have questions about topics not covered by the other sections.

Thank you for your interest in contacting Wikipedia.

Before continuing, there is some important information:

Wikipedia is made by many volunteers, including you! Changes made to pages are not the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation or its staff. If you find problems on an article and you do not have a conflict of interest, you can change the page yourself! If you do have a conflict of interest you can ask at Simple talk or email the Email Help Team for help.
If you want to learn more about Wikipedia itself, our about page may help.
If you want to ask other users for help with changing or using Wikipedia, you can email the Email Help Team, ask at Simple talk, or ask on IRC.

There are links on the left that can help you find more information about specific questions. If you cannot find help there, you can email experienced volunteers at info-simplewikipedia.org, or ask at Simple talk.

This page is for the Simple English Wikipedia. If your question is about the English Wikipedia, please see en:Wikipedia:Contact us.

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-'''Welcome'''! If you are new to Wikipedia please visit [[Wikipedia:About]] to learn about the project.
-==Contact us about:==
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+<big>Thank you for your interest in contacting Wikipedia.</big>
+Before continuing, there is some important information:
-===Article content===
+#Wikipedia is made by many volunteers, including you! Changes made to pages are not the responsibility of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] or its staff. If you find problems on an article and you do not have a [[WP:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest]], you can [[Help:How to change pages|change the page yourself]]! If you do have a conflict of interest you can ask at [[Wikipedia:Simple talk|Simple talk]] or email the [[Wikipedia:Email Help Team|Email Help Team]] for help.
-Everyone can edit an article on Wikipedia. So if you see something wrong, just click "Edit this page" (there are very few [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protected pages]], pages people can not change).
+#If you want to learn more about Wikipedia itself, our [[Wikipedia:About|about page]] may help.
+#If you want to ask other users for help with changing or using Wikipedia, you can email the [[Wikipedia:Email Help Team|Email Help Team]], ask at [[Wikipedia:Simple talk|Simple talk]], or ask on [[Wikipedia:IRC channels|IRC]].
+There are links on the left that can help you find more information about specific questions. If you cannot find help there, you can email experienced volunteers at {{no spam|info-simple|wikipedia.org}}, or ask at [[Wikipedia:Simple talk|Simple talk]].
-If your question or comment is about a specific [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|article]], then use the 'Discuss this page' link on the problem page.See [[Wikipedia:Talk page]] for details.
+<small>This page is for the ''Simple English Wikipedia''. If your question is about the ''English Wikipedia'', please see [[:en:Wikipedia:Contact us]].</small>
-To talk to a specific user about an article or any other problem, use their talk page <nowiki>(http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:</nowiki>''user_name'') or click the 'email this user' link on the person's user page. To see who wrote parts of a specific article, you can look at the [[Help:Page history|page history]].
+{{-}}
-===General questions===
-Ask questions about Wikipedia itself or make general complaints on our [[Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]], a general message board. Someone will move questions that do not belong there to a better place. Please look at the [[Wikipedia:FAQ|FAQ]] first.
+[[Category:Wikipedia]]
-===Press questions===
-Reporters and other interested people: please send an email to our [mailto:wikien-l@wikipedia.org mailing list]. If you are not on this mailing list, then the administrator (list organiser) checks your email before it goes  to the list. If you plan to post many emails to the list, then please visit [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists]] for subscription information.
-You can also [mailto:jwales@bomis.com contact Wikimedia founder Jimbo Wales directly]. If you want to contact regular Wikipedians, first try [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]] and [[Wikipedia:Administrators and Bureaucrats|administrators]].
-===Policy===
-People can discuss Wikipedia policy on the [[Wikipedia:mailing lists|mailing lists]]: use wikien-l for the English Wikipedia and wikipedia-l for global project policy.
-===Removing and restoring pages===
-If you want to delete a page, then you can list it on [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletions]]. If someone deletes a page and you think it was a mistake or unfair, then please discuss this at [[Wikipedia:Request for undeletion]].
-===Vandalism===
-Because Wikipedia is a [[wiki]] we get some vandalism. If you see vandalism to a page then please change the page to its last version (see: [[Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version]] for details). If the user is still vandalizing pages, then please tell other Wikipedians about this on our [[Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress|Vandalism in progress page]]. Then a [[Wikipedia:Administrators and Bureaucrats|administrators]] may block the [[IP address]] or user name of the vandal.
-===Blocking people from editing===
-Sometimes it is necessary to block the [[IP address]] of a vandal (see above). Sometimes, however, that vandal shares the same IP address with another person trying to edit Wikipedia.
-If you are such a person, you should follow the directions on the 'Blocked user' message when you try to edit. You can also directly contact a Wikipedia Administrator by visiting [[Wikipedia:Administrators and Bureaucrats|administrators]].
-===Copyright questions===
-If someone uses your images or text on Wikipedia without asking, then please go [[Wikipedia:ANI|here]].
-If you only ''think'' that content on a particular page is a copyright infringement (someone is using copyrighted images or text without asking), then you may replace the text with the boilerplate copyright infringement notice text [[Wikipedia:Standard messages|here]]. Then you should list that page at [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletions]].
-If you want to use Wikipedia content, it is not a problem because our licenses (the [[GNU Free Documentation License]] and [[Creative Commons licenses|CC-BY-SA]]) already allows you to use it—even commercially. However, you have to follow the terms (rules) of our license. Please see [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] for details.
-===Wikipedia software===
-[[mw:|MediaWiki]] is the general [[wiki]] engine Wikipedia uses. You can ask questions about it on the [[mail:wikitech-l|wikitech-l mailing list]]. See also the   [[meta:MediaWiki User's Guide|MediaWiki User's Guide]].
-====Software bugs and feature requests====
-Please report bugs and request new features at [//phabricator.wikimedia.org Phabricator]—a special website for such reports. You can also use [[Wikipedia:Bug reports]].
-[[category:Wikipedia]]