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Hello, my name is Craig Carrington, and I am attempting to reach somone regarding either dismantling an entry about myself on a portion of Wikipedia or at least relocating it.

Making a long story short, I am a professional artist who has spent a quarter century now trying to protect myself from “furries” who discovered my work back when my career was first getting started and have been trying to have me labeled a “furry” ever since. I didn’t even know about their cult group at the time, and yet they insist that I am supposedly a “furry” (they have also physically stalked me to my home as well).

A decade ago, I was horrified to discover that somebody had listed me on something called “Furry Wiki” here https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Craig_Carrington which upset me terribly and caused me even more grief from them just as I was hoping the situation had blown over.

I certainly would not mind a Wikipedia entry about myself at all; what I do mind is that someone has chosen to put it on this “Furry Wiki” branch of Wikipedia (or is it even really connected to you?) instead.

Over the past decade I have attempted to contact Wikipedia about the issue, and I have also attempted to contact the author of the entry at least twice - the first time politely asking for it to be either moved to mainstream Wikipedia or deleted (which was snubbed), and the second informing them that I would file suit if necessary to get it either changed or removed.

Nothing has changed except for the original author’s apparent stubbornness in ignoring my request, which does not surprise me as I have learned the hard way that the “furries” are an extremely stubborn and infuriating bunch who insist on labeling others a member of their “furry” cult whether or not they want to join.

I am not and never have been a “furry”, and to this day I am extremely upset about the entry and the problems it has caused me.

So I am asking via this forum if somebody in charge could at the very least move the entry into the ordinary branch of Wikipedia, or simple delete it altogether.

Your assurance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.


 * Hi Craig, first allow me to express my sympathies that you've been harassed by members of the furry fandom, and for so long. I can see how that kind of behavior would lead you to characterize the subculture labeled a "cult", even if it's not really fair to the editors here.
 * I want to point out that the article about you here, Craig Carrington, does not label you as a "furry" but as an artist and character designer. You are included on WikiFur because you contributed to a furry publication in 1995. The article is very barebones, and identical to how it was written on its creation in 2006, and so I don't think it really constitutes any harm to your career or personal safety - but it is also because it's so barebones that I think we can probably accept your request for exclusion.
 * WikiFur is not Wikipedia. Doing a search here, I haven't seen any objections to the article made - which unless you were making these objections through email or another third-party forum, leads me to believe you were possibly making them at Wikipedia all these years, which is a shame, because coming here sooner would have helped us address your concerns sooner.
 * Because we are not Wikipedia, and because someone wrote a draft about you where it was rejected by Wikipedia as recently as yesterday, I don't think we will be able to help you with getting an article about you there. And having an article on Wikipedia doesn't mean there wouldn't be an article here as well. (See: Anthrocon vs Anthrocon.) But we can remove the info from the article about you, and replace it with a message keeping an editor from writing a new one in the future without permission. I'll leave a message on the article's talk page to make sure there aren't objections from the community, and if there isn't, I will exclude the article tomorrow. --Equivamp - talk 10:27, 25 July 2018 (EDT)