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Message: <blockquote data-quote="analect" data-source="post: 226256" data-attributes="member: 27917">I do not know where to put this post, so the Articles subforum seemed like the best place to do so. I apologize for this frankly strange and unusual request, but time is ticking fast, and given the circumstances, I believe the request should be made publicly to maximize the small chances of reversing this deletion.kaurkhalsaraj.wordpress.com was deleted sometime after Dec 29, 2024, but can be restored before Jan 27-28, 2025 if the owner is contacted before then. (Today is Jan. 19; only 9 days left before it's gone forever.)This is one of the many obscure Sikh sites/blogs from back in the day that I had dug up recently as part of my extensive search into old Sikh websites, one which was actually posted a few times here on SPN, and I was planning on reading it again this month for more additional insight into online Sikh discourse in previous decades. However, to my dismay, it was deleted sometime after December 29, 2024 (the last time I had read it). WordPress.com does allow deleted blogs or closed accounts to be reinstated within 30 days of deletion, so in this case, by January 27-28, 2025.wordpress .com/support/delete-site/#restore-a-deleted-sitewordpress .com/support/close-account/#restore-a-closed-accountI appeal to SPN and to the wider public for any information that can be used to contact the owner of this blog, who went through the effort of manually wiping out all of its 431 articles at once sometime this month, so that any efforts to recover the blog can succeed before it's too late. Most of these 431 articles (all written between 2009 and 2017) were not captured by Internet Archive, so after January 28 they will all disappear forever.The only information I have on the potential owner of this blog is that she went by the username "kaur-1" here on SPN until late 2017. Two of her posts from June 2009 confirm that the blog is hers. There doesn't appear to be any way of contacting her to restore the blog, and only 9 days remain until the blog disappears forever.In my search of old Sikh websites, I have immediately noticed that most of them are wiped off of the Internet and only survive in Internet Archive snapshots. It would be a shame to lose another website simply because the owner decided sometime in the last three weeks that it was not worth keeping online anymore. In fact, I believe that the preservation of Sikh websites, no matter how old, is a great boon for online Sikh discourse. More must be done to stop good Sikh websites from disappearing forever so that many different viewpoints remain accessible online.To'aanoon tannvaad ji, to anyone reading this. Please provide a contact detail for reaching the blog owner, or share this on more popular social media outlets so that this plea may eventually reach the former blog owner on time.Vahiguru Ji Ka Khalsa - Vahiguru Ji Ki Fateh</blockquote>

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