Deleting a redundant account from a former employee
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One of the companies I consult for has an obsolete site (http://singaporewebdesign.wordpress.com/) set up by a former employee several years ago.
It has been redundant since 2007! The problem being that non one seems to know who set it up or has a record of username and PW’s.
Any advice on how we can get this deleted by WordPress? Is there an email address I can send such a request to?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The blog I need help with is http://singaporewebdesign.wordpress.com/ ( not my own as signalled in the above stock message.
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Staff will not delete any site for you. Only the username account that registered the blog can do that.
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Yes, this of course is the problem. If you have no way of finding out who the original ‘corporate author’ was then it mean the site sits there forever!
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Yes, that’s the way it is. There is no expiration date on blogs unused, reserved or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog via a contact form or commenting on the blog, then providing the owner is agreeable there is a means of a consenting blog owner to transfer the blog to another username account. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
In the case that there is no contact information Staff cannot and will not breach the privacy policy and provide you with an email address.
If you are not successful, you can register another blog with a similar name. http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/
Or you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade and it will not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
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A 7 year old blog should not search very well – you should be able to beat an old stale blog easily in the search engines
No contact form – try a comment to see if the comments are set to moderation or something – no contact form that I can see
But as @TT states above – only the owner can delete a blog – a US court order might do it – and even then I would expect WordPress.com to argue to set the blog Private – but that is a lot of work for a stale blog
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It’s a stale blog that was obviously set you to drive traffic to a single site as the links in each post all direct to that site.
http://www.enterprisesynergies.com
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Thanks Team. I have sent a comment on the site, via one of the posts, and we will see what happens.
Meanwhile one of my company contacts is chasing up a person who he thinks might have set this up – we shall see.
Thanks for everyone’s help. We’ll leave it at that :-) -
You be welcome & good luck -these types of problems are always tough –
lot people out there that want to steal things and web sites – WordPress.COM is put in a tough position
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