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Wikipedia has no central editorial board. Contributions are made by a large number of volunteers at their own discretion. Edits are neither the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that hosts the site) nor of its staff and edits will not generally be made in response to an email request.
If anyone receives an email or social media message from someone offering to make a Wikipedia page for you, then it is almost certainly a scam. My advice is to be extremely skeptical of anyone claiming that they can guarantee to make a Wikipedia article for or about you, even if they claim to be an administrator.
If tempted to write to the email help desk: Please do not send angry emails to the Wikipedia help-desk. The volunteers at the help desk did not post the messages that you are disagreeing with. Please do not ask the help desk volunteers to enter a Wikipedia discussion on your behalf.
These emails are impersonations on legitimate emails that Wikipedia's servers send out automatically when someone registers an email address with their new account. If you received such an email immediately after registering a Wikipedia account (or linking an email address with that account through your Wikipedia preferences), then it is ...
Remove administrator status from someone. This is done by bureaucrats or stewards, and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or by request of the administrator. Query the Wikipedia database. Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests, or download the database and run them yourself. Reassign edits or make name changes.
That list is managed by a small group of volunteers. If you do email, please include the address or title of the article and a description of the issue. Note that this volunteer team cannot assist you in writing entirely new articles, answering questions about things not found on Wikipedia, or resolving disputes about content.
scam warning! If you have been contacted or solicited by anyone asking for payment to get a draft into article space, improve a draft, or restore a deleted article, such offers are not legitimate and you should contact paid-en-wp wikipedia.org immediately.
A long-time Wikipedia editor and former board member of the Wikimedia Foundation, Doc James, ran into a possible case of such a company at about the same time as he read the previous article. There is currently an article about him on Wikipedia.