Topic: Unauthorised listing
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Michelle, I'm sorry to hear your e-mail has not been answered. E-mail requests for removal are always responded to. Can I ask which e-mail address you used, and when you sent the e-mail?
The information gathered on WiserEarth is from publicly available data. We do not remove organizations unless they are not a part of the nonprofit world or do not take part in social justice/environmental work. Once you’ve created a personal account you can edit anything on WiserEarth, including your organization’s profile page. Once you’re signed in, search for the organization page you'd like to edit and click the “edit” tab on the section you’d like to change. You can also add any job listings, resources, events etc. once you're signed in. |
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You should also know that data for the 107,000+ organizations on WiserEarth have been gathered by staff, interns, volunteers, and WiserEarth members from around the world, or submitted to the site directly from the organizations themselves. WiserEarth.org is a community-editable website, much like Wikipedia, that lists organizations, people, events, and jobs for the benefit of its community members.
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Who gives you the right though to list us? When did you contact us to get our permission to post our details on here?
You have posted our organisations details on here without permission. We have not asked you to post it here and it would have been polite of you to ask us before you did, instead of sending us an email telling us we were on here. |
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Michelle, I'm sorry to hear this has upset you. WiserEarth is a site which is similar in philosophy to Wikipedia, where the majority of the content is updated by individuals who may have no personal ties to the subject which they are writing about. If someone was interested in contacting your organization, I expect that the information listed on our site would serve more to benefit you than harm you in any way.
Yes it would have been polite to ask beforehand instead of just afterwards, but I don't believe that it's something that should have been expected. If the phone # listed was inappropriate (wrong office?) then it was bad form on their part. We're providing the right for anyone to share with the WiserEarth community, any of the thousands of organizations, resources, events, jobs etc. around the world that they find on the Internet. In the same sense, the Internet as a whole has become a platform where anyone, anywhere can share almost anything with each other on websites, blogs and other sites within seconds...the nature of the Internet is that the Internet allows us to publish and write freely. Of course this comes with limitations, such as listing personal/invasive or secret information which someone never intended to share with millions of people. The WiserEarth site is a project of a non-profit that exists to serve the nonprofit and social justice/environmental world by strengthening the connections of those within it, and providing access to those who wish to take part in it. It also serves to correct some of the inequalities of the Internet, which by its nature...allows organizations and ideas which are most popular or marketed rise to the top, while the many smaller organizations (some of which may not have contact information or a website), groups and projects are passed over. I hope this helps to explain why there are so many organization profiles on our site, and why we cannot be expected to contact each of these organizations for permission. |
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If someone was interested in contacting our organisation they could go straight to our website instead of coming on here. That would be logical.
You say you want this to grow like wiki has done, well we defintely won't be promoting it. |
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Emails go unanswered, requests ignored.
How do I get someone to do their job and remove the listing that they put up?