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editHow long will Wikipedia Keep Me logged in for if I check this? If I clear my cookies and cache, will it then log me out? --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 01:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Thegooduser: It is for 365 days, according to the log in screen. It depends on cookies, so if you delete your cookies, you will need to log in again. RudolfRed (talk) 01:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
United Kingdom lockdown
editHow long will the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom continue? Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 03:22, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Google "when will british quarantine end" and you'll see some guesses. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:12, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Per Raab in a 12-hour-old Telegraph report, we can probably discount any guesses shorter than a week. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:04, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Related question: how does the lockdown affect online orders in the UK? That includes both people ordering within the UK and also people in other countries ordering things from the UK. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 04:13, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- Your question is rather broad, but an internet search led me to this.--Shantavira|feed me 08:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- Related question: how does the lockdown affect online orders in the UK? That includes both people ordering within the UK and also people in other countries ordering things from the UK. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 04:13, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- Per Raab in a 12-hour-old Telegraph report, we can probably discount any guesses shorter than a week. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:04, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "lockdown"? We are allowed to do certain activities now, and any changes are likely to be incremental and gradual. There is a review due later today, but no significant immediate changes are expected. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:09, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- It was not me who invented the term "lockdown". See 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom. What I'm actually wondering is whether I, as someone living in New Zealand, can still order stuff from the United Kingdom, something I have done from time to time in the past, although I have not done it lately, as I'm uncertain it is still possible. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 10:15, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- It depends if the company that you want to order from is running or have decided to / were told to close. The Royal Mail is still running, so if your provider has employees that will post it, it should be shipped. International Air freight is considered essential service, so it should be operating, although slower since they can't use leftover space on passenger flights (which are often cancelled). --Lgriot (talk) 13:09, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- OK. Here's an even more specific query: can someone in New Zealand still order stuff from Book Depository? There is no indication on their website that cannot still do orders to New Zealand, but under the terms of the UK lockdown, I would not have thought that they would be able to operate at all, so the situation is confusing. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 08:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- It depends if the company that you want to order from is running or have decided to / were told to close. The Royal Mail is still running, so if your provider has employees that will post it, it should be shipped. International Air freight is considered essential service, so it should be operating, although slower since they can't use leftover space on passenger flights (which are often cancelled). --Lgriot (talk) 13:09, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- It was not me who invented the term "lockdown". See 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom. What I'm actually wondering is whether I, as someone living in New Zealand, can still order stuff from the United Kingdom, something I have done from time to time in the past, although I have not done it lately, as I'm uncertain it is still possible. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 10:15, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
inquiry about volunteering to answer questions
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ResolvedMy question is whether or not anybody can volunteer to answer a question, or if you have to have some minimum level of trustworthiness. Tommy has a great username (talk) 15:48, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- (ec) Hi, Tommy has a great username! IMVHO that would be an unsolvable cycle of dependency, as one earns trustworthiness by giving good answers.... --CiaPan (talk) 16:01, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- The answer is yes, anybody can answer questions, as long as you play by the rules. That is the glory of the great Wikipedia project. Alansplodge (talk) 18:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info! Tommy has a great username (talk) 18:29, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- The answer is yes, anybody can answer questions, as long as you play by the rules. That is the glory of the great Wikipedia project. Alansplodge (talk) 18:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
how do i find email address of the owner for netflix , i need too send an personnal email
editDear sir/madam,
i need too find an email for the owner for this site which i am very angery and annoyed on a such matter , please provide me what i am asking for its a urgent matter and i need too reslove this as soon as possible.
Bharat Patel 2A02:C7F:C467:1300:487F:9AB2:384D:6D80 (talk) 15:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- I doubt it is possible to write directly to the owner. Would this help? Click here for Netflix Complaint Service. Richard Avery (talk) 17:31, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Netflix has thousands and thousands of owners. It is a publicly-traded company with millions of individual shares sold on the open market. There is no one owner. --Jayron32 18:07, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- I doubt it is possible to write directly to the owner. Would this help? Click here for Netflix Complaint Service. Richard Avery (talk) 17:31, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- It's usually not easy to find a CEO's email address. Some people deal with this kind of thing by posting a scathing tweet. If you make bad publicity for a big corporation, you will probably be made whole quickly. Temerarius (talk) 22:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- The CEO is not the owner. They are an employee. They may also be a owner, perhaps even a major owner, but that is separate from their role as CEO. The CEO is a paid employee of the company hired to do a specific job. An important job, but they are still an employee.--Jayron32 03:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- While that is true, public perception generally views the CEO as the "head" of any corporation, insomuch as there can be a head for a publicly-traded company (contrasting with limited partnerships and sole proprietorships).--WaltCip (talk) 12:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Specifically because CEOs are identified so strongly with the firms they run, they have large staffs to handle unsolicited Emails and other correspondence. The likelihood of pulling a Rahm Emmanuel on Netflix's CEO and sending them a harsh message (such as the dead fish Emmanuel once mailed a political acquaintance) that they actually receive is very small. A slightly more effective method for expressing anger or dissatisfaction with a company the size of Netflix is the boycott, in which you (the original poster) convince large numbers of their customers to stop buying their product as an expression of your and their anger. It's been years since I've seen Netflix, and I don't think I ever will view their content again. But they're not going to notice that - millions of other people buy their service. --loupgarous (talk) 00:59, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- However, I have had excellent success Tweeting my former Internet service provider (at their Twitter site) with a public description of how poor their service was to me and my neighbors. From first Tweet to complete resolution of my complaint took about 10 days. Try that, first. --loupgarous (talk) 01:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- Specifically because CEOs are identified so strongly with the firms they run, they have large staffs to handle unsolicited Emails and other correspondence. The likelihood of pulling a Rahm Emmanuel on Netflix's CEO and sending them a harsh message (such as the dead fish Emmanuel once mailed a political acquaintance) that they actually receive is very small. A slightly more effective method for expressing anger or dissatisfaction with a company the size of Netflix is the boycott, in which you (the original poster) convince large numbers of their customers to stop buying their product as an expression of your and their anger. It's been years since I've seen Netflix, and I don't think I ever will view their content again. But they're not going to notice that - millions of other people buy their service. --loupgarous (talk) 00:59, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- While that is true, public perception generally views the CEO as the "head" of any corporation, insomuch as there can be a head for a publicly-traded company (contrasting with limited partnerships and sole proprietorships).--WaltCip (talk) 12:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- The CEO is not the owner. They are an employee. They may also be a owner, perhaps even a major owner, but that is separate from their role as CEO. The CEO is a paid employee of the company hired to do a specific job. An important job, but they are still an employee.--Jayron32 03:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- It's usually not easy to find a CEO's email address. Some people deal with this kind of thing by posting a scathing tweet. If you make bad publicity for a big corporation, you will probably be made whole quickly. Temerarius (talk) 22:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)