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An anonymous user at IP address 190.92.93.227 (talk) says that Mr. Tolleson wants this gone. Wikipedia policy on biography deletion suggests we comply, as Tolleson is not a public figure; there's an essay about this kind of situation. For the time being, I've left advice on the IP's talk page, and I'm going to temporarily blank the page in the hopes of de-escalating the situation, even though it contains no negative material; everybody please take deep breaths and stay calm. (Very few people look at the page anyway.) I will unblank the page tomorrow if nothing happens to suggest there's actually a problem here.

And, nota bene, I've only been here a few months and would be more than happy to defer to anyone who knows what they're doing and how to handle this situation. FourViolas (talk) 03:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy blanking of this sort is the kind of thing we do with internal project pages, e.g. an AFD when a Google search for "Joe Bloggs" persistently returns a link to WP:AFD/Joe Bloggs at the top of the search results. It's not appropriate for an actual article, especially upon request of an IP address: either the page is problematic even without the IP's request, in which case it should be blanked without "courtesy" (and I don't see why that would be the case here), or it's not problematic, and we don't hide it. Nyttend (talk) 13:41, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi All. I've unblanked the page, that's not the best way to handle things - copies of the page already exist around the internet and until we get consensus to delete we shouldn't be doing so. I've suggested that the subject contacts OTRS - I'm happy to follow it up there. Once we have confirmation that the subject is indeed in contact with us, we can look into an AfD and then deletion. In case the subject happens upon here - can I advise the individual contacts us Worm^TT(talk) 15:48, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful, thanks to you both for taking over. FourViolas (talk) 16:12, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]