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Hi,

After seeing this bizarre page, insisting my PORTAIT PAINTER grandfather was a 'music teacher and had his own music school in Manhattan"... my mother and I created a proper page, which Wikipedia rejected..since there is already a page on him.

Fine, I thought...I will just add the information and clean up his page (along with adding multiple citations proving the facts, etc.). Anyway, the wiper-bot must think I am some dodgy fake news person or another bot since it wiped the whole thing and now, he's a music teacher again?! Please help. Who do I contact?

When WIkiipedia started, I had added a page on my father and it was super easy...now...hmmm.

Is this code in any sort of Content Language I can learn? Is this VRA?

many thanks,

A Von T

The article in question is Jean Theslöf.

This forum is primarily for technical help with the software on which Wikipedia runs, for informal help related to editing at Wikipedia, a better platform is the Wikipedia:Teahouse,

To see which Wikipedia user reverted your edits, you can take a look at your article in question's history, i.e. this page. The users who reverted your edits are User:Kleuske (talk) and User:Lugnuts (talk). You can ask your questions at their linked talk pages.

Your first main edit was reverted by User:Kleuske because of lack of citations as is mentioned on your talk page. Your second main edit was reverted probably due to the citations not being in the proper format.

For new editors, it might be easier to use the VisualEditor for making edits. This link will open up the VisualEditor for your article. For citation, using the "Cite" tab on the VisualEditor makes the work easy. For further help on citations through VisualEditor see, Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Citations.

If you need it, your previous "deleted" work is available here.

For further editing help, it will be more efficient to make your queries at Wikipedia:Teahouse.

Thank you - I provided citations with <ref> opening and closing each but I also got a weird response from a 'bot'

I will contact the other content editors. Out of curiosity, what is the content standard used on Wikipedia? Thank you.

Don't understand what you mean exactly by "content standard". For help in adding references see Help:Referencing for beginners.