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Outdated wiki link
The following I copypasted from Template:ToneWarning’s talk page. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 15:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
Due to the changes made since this template's creation in January 2025, I recommend updating the link used for "editorial guidelines". Clicking on it currently leads to the top of the Mission statement article since the original section label no longer exists. — Sojourna (talk) 01:32, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
- More specifically, it should point to Consumer_Rights_Wiki:Editorial_guidelines instead of Mission statement. NOTAROBOT (talk) 11:51, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
Place fightchatcontrol.eu in a prominent place on the homepage.
I wish to have https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ on the top of consumerrights.wiki. I understand that this is not a corporation thing. But privacy is something many of the people here strongly value and this is an important project for everyones rights. Dentist5735 (talk) 00:03, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
- Not a mod and so won’t implement it myself but there is a ‘consumer tools’ section if you scoll down very far that this would kinda fit in to. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 05:21, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
Itron article has been flagged for questionable relevance.
I believe the Itron article has been mistakenly flagged for questionable relevance. I have added several Incidents to the page to further show Itron's systemic patterns of consumer privacy violations please see the below:
Itron's Smart meters allow them to collect, process, and store data without the end users' knowledge. (1980-Present)
NYSEG requires customers to switch to Itron Smart meters or face monthly charge (November 2022-Present)
CenterPoint Energy requires customers to switch to Itron Smart meters or face one-time and monthly service charges (Unknown-Present)
Southern California Edison requires customers to switch to Itron Smart meters or face monthly charge (Unknown-Present)
Smart meter (and smart grid solutions) usage by utility companies involves a lot of layers but these are what I find to be most concerning:
Lack of data privacy, utility companies can freely share customer data with third party smart meter companies (such as Itron) without customer knowledge.
Lack of freedom to choose whether or not you have a smart meter recording your electricity usage. This data can be used to infer all sorts of things from what kind of appliances you own to when you are home.
Itron's Data Processing Agreement is un-viewable (at least for me) and not easy to find either, and end users typically do not know they will have an Itron smart meter until after it is installed by their electric company.
Itron is not the only smart meter and smart grid solutions game in town but they are big and not end user friendly,.
Thank Mods! Privacywarrior (talk) 19:11, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
Watch out for this person
I was sent an e-mail yesterday (Sept 28th) from a person by the name "PawPatroler" who has apparently been harassing other wikis with the same appeal message in an attempt to have their Wikipedia account unbanned. Hopefully this just remains a one-off. — Sojourna (talk) 02:16, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- I got the email as well. Didn't know about the Wikipedia thing though. @Keith might wanna check this out Beanie Bo (talk) 12:12, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
Appeal deletion of Medical equipment page
Medical equipment has some issues relating to manufacturer lockdown and repair which are important (right to repair is right to save lives) and which may be somewhat different from issues in other devices. This page appears to be the natural place to cover these issues.
There was a device page on medical ventilators, but it has been demoted to an incident page.
This deletion request is particularly confusing, because @Beanie Bo who proposed deletion, has what looks like some notes for an article covering right to repair of medical devices on their talk page.
Not every "new consumer" issue with medical equipment falls under right to repair. There are also right to own considerations. (Such as having access to and control of my personal information - the readouts from my Cpap/pacemaker/etc. Also privacy issues. Who controls the device. ...) There are medical supplies (e.g. continuous glucose monitor patches or insulin refills, and things like region locking, supplier lockin, etc.) So I would not favor just moving the page to be only medical right to repair.
I am confident that there is more than enough verifiable information and issues to make at least one article.
I think the page should be kept. Having some general pages that link things together is helpful. Especially when a wiki is so skeletal as this. The page can certainly use improvement. I think having the beginnings of a structure encourages growth.
There is, as always, this disincentive to do anything to improve the page when it has a deletion notice. (No sense working on something that going to be destroyed.) Drakeula (talk) 02:32, 2 October 2025 (UTC)