FIDE card: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...

Daniel I appreciate your past help with my Profile-

However, it has just vanished. I got the "error too long" message, same as before, but with a difference.

This time MY ENTIRE PROFILE DISAPPEARED.

Three year's worth of work.

Please tell me you can retrieve and re-install this information?

And please tell me why this happened in the first place.

It's never happened before- usually I get the error message "too long" and I just go back and delete material till it all fits again.

I sent you an email on this. I also sent you an email three days ago explaining that <Lev Aronin's> grandson is unhappy with an inaccurate post I made on <Aronin's> player page.

I understand you are busy, but you'll understand that at the moment I am not happy about any of this.

So today I'm going to rebuild it myself and put in a bunch of changes. Maybe the "computer code gods" were telling me to do a thorough housecleaning and revision.

Fellow members were able to explain everything to me except why my Profile disappeared in the first place after the "Error- too long" message.

Can you guys please look in to that?

To give you further information- two times in the past I got that Error Message and my Profile did not disappear. But this last time it did.

Thanks, and again sorry for panicking. I was afraid all the work was gone forever but it's not.

TWIC -> http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne...

PGN -> http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/assets/...

Please note that the PGN have already been cleaned by TWIC (Mark Crowther).

1. On player pages, allow all members to have unlimited "delete your own post" powers with no time limit. I don't see the downside to this.

2. Allow trusted members who are already enabled to edit Player Page bios- such as <Benzol> <Twinlark> <Phony Benoni> and such-

to be able to delete posts, if necessary, from the Player Pages.

I understand you gentlemen are underfunded and understaffed- but this is a good reason to put more administrative trust in members you already know you can trust?

I realize the context of your proposals is a simple error of fact, but I fear that giving more members the power to delete messages would lead to difficulties when the inevitable requests are received to delete inappropriate content..

Such actions could easily lead to accusations of censorship. While monitoring of abusive or inflammatory posts is necessary, I feel this action must be applied carefully and consistently. Having additional members involved means having different standards, no matter how precise the guidelines might be.

See for example these two critical wins by the eventual winner of the tourney, Gata Kamsky.

Kamsky vs Karjakin, 2010

Kasimdzhanov vs Kamsky, 2010

If you were asked to be an administrator with power to monitor a player page, and you didn't want to, I see no problem there.

But there already is more than one administrator- so there are already "different standards"- absolutely so.

For there not to be "different standards"- at present- the existing administrators would have to be the same person.

They aren't.

The bigger a website gets, the more administrators are required. Most of the chess websites take on new administrators as they need them.

Time and money constrain operations after a certain point of growth, and then the demand for administration increases- as it has at our website here, which is growing.

The folk who actually own this domain name, and pay for its operation, are free to have as many administrators as they like.

I think they should consider adding more.

Forget about deleting posts for a minute- why not add <Benzol> or <Peter> or <you> or <other proven trusted chess historians> as people with the power to review and add games submissions?

Point is- there is no reason on earth to <prevent> this website from getting more help with that kind of task.

Of course, it's their website- they'll do what they see fit.

I'm merely suggesting they ask for, and accept, more help from members- members they hand pick- for a wide variety of administrative tasks.

Jimmy Webb's Wikipedia got big, and remains *largely* accurate, because he was able and willing to delegate authority.

Aha I wasn't even thinking of that kind of thing.

Ok I understand- but what about this- is it so terrible that dirty tracks get erased?

Especially since the admins can undelete them?

Too much work for them I guess as <Switch> said.

You know it's a crying shame that "fighting" on player pages is even an issue in the first place.

The vast majority of members would like to see interesting and pertinent information on the Player Pages and games pages.

And the vast majority of members do in fact post such information there.

It's just sad. We are "holding ourselves back" with such behavior.

I wonder how much faster the games would get uploaded and errors corrected if nobody ever fought or broke the posting guidelines.

Speaking very personally, to have <Pavel Aronin> angered by misinformation I posted on his grandfather's player page- and for a week now- and not be able to delete it or get it deleted in good time-

Personally I think you've gotten your message across, but there are flipsides to the unconditional and time-limitless deleting. Regrettably I agree. But this is what the admins have to weigh <also>, while indeed being relatively understaffed to perform the "normal" tasks to everyone's satisfaction.

We did get a copy of your profile from the Google cache and to the best of our ability stripped out the HTML. Some bugs still remain no doubt but the information should be there.