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How to remove Notability tag in this article Sumit Pathak? Anupamsuwar ( talk) 05:54, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Having worked off and on with the List of biochemists since June I now have it in a state which corresponds better with how I think it ought to be (though as recently as today I noted two distinguished Israeli scientists who needed to be added). Others may think I've created a mess: if so, please let me know.
Anyway, I've started on the List of biologists, and have reached end of the letter A. However, as I'm a biochemist and not another sort of biologist I have less confidence in my judgement as to who should be listed. They need to have a Wikipedia page, of course, but what else?
I have a more specific question on which I'd like advice from experienced editors. Many entries contain notes like "(abbr. in botany: F.Allam.)" (at least three under A, many others under other letters). I can see that botanists want to know these abbreviations, but they can easily find them in the pages on the people concerned, which are all linked. How important are they for general readers? If I delete the whole lot will I be blocked for vandalism? Athel cb ( talk) 14:00, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
I am trying to create a page for the company I represent. My account was auto-confirmed today. But I do not know and I am confused on how to upload the article or publish it in Wikipedia. Please help. Daralnoble ( talk) 13:17, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
@Nick Moyes, Thank-you a lot for that in-depth information. And i ask your pardon for the incorrect use of words (pages instead of articles) due to my infancy with Wikipedia. I understand the wait period of getting the article accepted and will sure write the article accordingly to the rules and regulations. Once again wholeheartedly thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daralnoble ( talk • contribs) 14:50, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
thanks Draft:Give toes 216.125.35.209 ( talk) 15:40, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi I created an account to update and make fuller a bio i wrote for my father Monty Meth (age 94) It was taken down although I do not understand the reasons why. There is nothing controversial in it. he is the source of most of the info and we would rather it was on WIKI whilst he is still with us.
Can you explain how I get it on line and if I can't post it can somebody else on our behalf
Thank you in anticipation
Ian Ian.meth ( talk) 16:17, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey! I'm a Wikipeida editor who has been here for a while, and I have just volunteered to create a Wikipedia page for my new company, Megaputer Intelligence. My COI disclosue is on my user page, and a draft of the article may be found in my sandbox. I think I have done a good job with my sourcing, but since this is my first time editing with a COI I thought I'd run it past you just in case. What do you guys think? Sam at Megaputer ( talk) 02:14, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I have no idea how to edit/update a wikipedia article, in particular: /info/en/?search=Hunter_Biden. Do I need to learn HTML or some such? Is there an easy way for a non-technical person? Dcnewkirk ( talk) 22:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Teahouse!
I would like to inquire about archiving talk page discussions. Is there a template for adding this feature?
I am a paid editor for Julie L. Green and am also looking for any resources containing COI guidelines for editing and maintaining the Talk:Julie L. Green page.
Thank you for your time. I appreciate how helpful this page is. KaitlynCK ( talk) 03:41, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
@
KaitlynCK: When you add a reference to a section on a talk page, it's best to also add {{
Talkref}}
at the end of the section so the references are kept together with that section, like this:
Some text. [1]
References
(normally it's a level-2 section heading; it's a level-3 heading in this example for display purposes)
For example, see
Talk:Julie L. Green, where I added {{Talkref}}
after the comments in each of the four sections that had references. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]—
04:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to make an article about a game that me and my team are publishing and releasing in couple months, and I happen to be old Wikipedia editor (not really on English wikipedia, but still)
I know this probably gets asked 10s of times a day here probably, but, what qualifies it for Wikipedia-worthy article? I will not be using my own material, even though external articles or coverages does not exist, the game has lots of official material (Steam store and other different store pages, official website with its own wiki, and is overall mentioned in social media a lot)
Can I go ahead and try submitting the article? if not, when would it qualify? if any official magazine/article posts happen from reviewers and such? Thanks! Nika1010 ( talk) 05:30, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Is this normal? I’ve been trying to keep a hoax out of the Panela article, ongoing (well before my involvement) since June 2016. I am only the latest in a long, long line of (registered) editors reverting this vandalism.
The result of my request -
was: a more restrictive – and possibly less effective - level of protection was applied, without explanation; and my editing has been characterised as ”edit-warring”, despite all my caution, talk page comment, and over-explaining eggshell-walking.
Wonderful treatment of newcomers! I feel so welcomed. Why didn't I barge in and throw my weight around as I see others do on WP, instead of going to the trouble of politely pussy-footing around? I got a slap in face just the same!
I am really surprised at how badly I feel, but I am completely gutted: No good deed goes unpunished!
What did I do wrong?
122.105.187.37 ( talk) 10:04, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I can’t change the Semi-protection article, but I think the title should be modified-change "Marie Curie" to "Marie Sklodowska-Curie." I believe this should be a respect for great people, so I want to apply for related changes. But because I don’t have this permission, and I haven’t found anyone who can be contacted on the "Contact us" of WIKI. So come here for help , Thank you again for your assistance!
Best regards, 132.178.238.28 ( talk) 05:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I know my draft article has been submitted for review. Here is the link to my article : /info/en/?search=Draft:Laborate_Pharmaceuticals_India_Limited Allin96 ( talk) 07:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
How do i reply to someone who has answered my question in the Teahouse. Im able to ask using the Ask A Question, but after someone replies i unable to figure out how to answer back/thank them. Allin96 ( talk) 08:01, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
{{ping|Marchjuly}} Thanks for the response!
Thanks {{u|Marchjuly}}, I have a followup question.
Allin96 ( talk) 08:56, 25 September 2020 (UTC) Thanks Ganbaruby
Hello there, in the Rapala article, if you hover over the "Rapala" it shows no photo, and I was wondering if there was a way to add a photo to the thing... sorry I can't really describe it, but I will try to answer any questions you ask. Cheers, User:Shadowblade08 ( talk) 03:01, 21 September 2020 (UTC) User:Shadowblade08 ( talk) 03:01, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I'm new to Wikipedia and wrote my third article, Kilma S. Lattin I had pretty good results with the first two, but this page was tagged for "speedy deletion" this morning, about 30 minutes after I posted it. I have since made a few edits, as well as pressed the blue "Contest" button. Would anyone have time to take a look, and give me some other advice about what I could edit? Possibly weigh on on whether you think it reads like a promotion? It doesn't seem overly promotional to me at all. I do like to write about people who do really exceptional things, but then there are a lot of biographies of exceptional people on Wikipedia. :-) I hope that the editors will agree. It would be great to get more positive representation of living Native Americans on Wikipedia. Thank you in advance! Even though I'm new, let me know if there's anything I can help with. Excited to be on the platform. CHelmuth HLMC98 20:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
How will i come to know if my page is confirmed, and how long will it take it. Ramkumar Singaram1808 ( talk) 10:04, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
This IP located in Japan has been - and currently is - going around changing "the UK" to "England", "Scotland", etc. and is changing the nationalities in lead sections and userboxes of British personalities' articles from "British" to "English", "Scottish", etc. These are the only edits by the IP. I feel these edits are unnecessary. I reverted a few of these edits but the IP reinstated them. I don't want to get into an edit war, and I don't think the IP's going to stop. What should I do? Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 07:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Can someone review this short article I wrote: /info/en/?search=Draft:Laborate_Pharmaceuticals_India_Limited Allin96 ( talk) 12:12, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I got constructive feedback on my entry and I want to improve it, but my entry showed up without the visual editing option in "Edit", but only "Edit source". Could someone please explain how to make Visual editing possible? It will take so long to figure out the other way of editing. Thanks a lot. Sand7043 11:53, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good day, in the infobox if I'd like to add citations on two items but with one/same source, how do I do that? Thanks. Willygeorgina ( talk) 15:55, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
On the Android 11 page, the infobox shows General availability as "September 8, 2020; 12 days ago". This is very strange since today is September 25, so the age should be at least 17 days ago. 104.35.46.117 ( talk) 15:20, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good day. I am not sure what to do to declare that I am the owner of the brand and that there is not COI yet it is implied that there is. I am also trying to change the name article name in order to prevent confusion. JohnGWE ( talk) 16:58, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear DES Thank you for your assistance.
An editor has a financial conflict of interest when they write about a topic with which they have a close financial relationship. This includes being an owner, employee, contractor, investor or other stakeholder.It refers to this as paid editing and then goes on to link to the WMF Policy at WP:PAID. Thus, if I were the owner and CEO of Nick Moyes Acme Widgets and wanted to edit the article about my product or brand, I would interpret that I not only have a 'conflict of interest' but that I am receiving financial benefit from the sales of my widgets, whose profile I have helped raise by my edits. Thus, not only should I, but I must follow WP:PAID and declare my connection and financial benefit as owner/CEO, or face being blocked for undeclared paid editing (UPE). Note that 'How to disclose' at WP:PAID links back to the WP:PE section in the WP:COI page. So, I would probably put the following userbox on my userpage, along with a note explaining that I am the owner/CEO of my widget company, thus:
This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Nick Moyes Acme Widgets. |
{{Connected contributor (paid)|User1=Nick Moyes|U1-employer=Nick Moyes Acme Widgets|U1-otherlinks=https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Nick_Moyes&type=revision&diff=980121861&oldid=975883638&diffmode=source}}
Thank you DES and Nick Moyes - maybe someone will bring out a Idiots Guide to Wikipedia with singular links with instructions for example - to create a userpage click here and copy the following and edit the relevant information. Same with the rest. I will take the weekend and go through everything slowly and figure out the userpage / coi / paid things so that I comply and update the pages and hope they dont get changed back :-) Thank you all so much for the assistance up to date - I really appreciate it. Regards— Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnGWE ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I will take the weekend and go through everything slowly and figure out the userpage / coi / paid things so that I comply and update the pages and hope they dont get changed back, I think what Nick and DES are politely suggesting is that you don't try to update the pages yourself, but instead propose the changes you want to make on the relevant articles' talk pages as explained in WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement. Having your proposed changes assessed by others who don't have a COI is more likely going to reduce the chance of them getting changed back. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:37, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Marchjuly I THINK I got it right. If I did I should get a gold star ;-) Thank you to all for your patients and assistance. Much appreciated. JohnGWE ( talk) 08:19, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
OOPS! I think I did it wrong (again)! I wanted to create a new article / page and I followed the steps on Google and this is what happened /info/en/?search=User:JohnGWE/sandbox "have head need wall" What did I do wrong? JohnGWE ( talk) 08:48, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear DESiegel Thank you very much. I will try and rewrite the article. It really took us almost 3 months to write and fact check the article before I published it back in 2012 :-O but I understand and appreciate the assistance. Regards JohnGWE ( talk) 16:11, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good day, Please i want to add pages for MODE MEN Magazine and other (an individual, the Editor of Mode men)
i request guidance.
i also want to be a contributor to wikipedia. Nnstega ( talk) 16:41, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Can you please help me create a page + put files on it? Also, I am new, so can you help me edit Wikipedia?
Holly2017 ( talk) 13:20, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
See WP:Your first article. Articles must be about something that meets Wikipedia's definition of notable. In passing, please stop uploading images that have no potential for ever being used in an article. David notMD ( talk) 17:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Bran Symondson AK47 ( talk) 16:16, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
globally renowned,
famous great portrait,
His artwork is sold globally and each piece is completely different.are not acceptable unless cited to a named person whose opinion they are. Name-dropping is also not a good idea.
I don't understand why the article, /info/en/?search=Michael_Burch, has been flagged with: "This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. (October 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message"
Can someone please point out the issue specifically so I can correct it. Thank you.
Diane SoCalArchitect ( talk) 17:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
is there a way I can play the adventure game ●●●● Bdetfehigj ( talk) 20:03, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey guys. I've had 3 draft submissions pending for several weeks at Draft:Joseph Hayat, Draft:Justin Picard and Draft:Cynthia Umezulike, and the backlog only seems to be growing with each passing week. If there's any willing reviewers who'd take the time to have a look, that would be appreciated. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 09:37, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
I am having trouble finding a source for when Crystal light was created. On the Wikipedia article, it states it was made and sold in 1982, but other than the article itself and one other source that mentioned it in passing, I can't find any other resources stating it was made in 1982. The official website, kraft foods, had a FAQ section about crystal light, saying that it was sold in 1984. Which source should be added as a citation for the article? SkippSeven ( talk) 14:47, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Did you try searching the company annual reports. They will sometimes mention the launch of a new product. 2605:E000:1301:4777:7811:4FC0:E9A3:96B8 ( talk) 18:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
2600:387:1:809:0:0:0:55 ( talk) 23:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
What is the coding to add stub to an article? 2605:E000:1301:4777:7811:4FC0:E9A3:96B8 ( talk) 17:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
stub}}
to the bottom of the article if needed. There are a million specific ones that you can use instead, but there are other people that can fix that eventually. To find more specific ones, just Google for example "wikipedia russian musician stub template", which brings you to {{
Russia-singer-stub}}
. –
Thjarkur
(talk)
18:01, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I deleted some messages in this revision as I thought they were bad faith messages as they assume I am lying and I am evading a ban.
Was I right to do so?
Eyebeller ( talk) 20:07, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Central Point, Oregon's wikipedia page has an outdated population. I do not know how to make references and would like to cite this website: https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/central-point-or-population. Firestar9990 ( talk) 19:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Should it be (Literally: "_______"), (Literal translation: "______"), (Literally "______"), or (literally:/literally "________")? JessWess99 ( talk) 21:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
Lang-zh|c=青蒿素|l=compound of green-blue wormwood}}
produces
Chinese: 青蒿素;
lit. 'compound of green-blue wormwood'. Hope that helped,
Rotideypoc41352 (
talk ·
contribs)
22:14, 25 September 2020 (UTC)it is called foo (literally "bar"). In a table or other repetitive or space-sensitive situation, I might use the abbreviation "lit." instead of "literally". —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 23:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I need help. I am editing the draft article Josie James, and one of my tables ends up under "External Links" no matter what I do. I've checked for typos a thousand times. If I change the order of the tables, no tables go under "external links." Only the one I want to put last.
Thanks in advance! Earlgrey20 ( talk) 07:46, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
|}
, not |-}
. I have corrected it in
this edit. --
David Biddulph (
talk)
08:19, 26 September 2020 (UTC)Hi to all! I recently made edits to this page (my edits can be found here), as it was listed on Cleanup listing for WikiProject Pakistan. This page is longer then it needs to be. There is a huge, unnecessary list of programmes aired/currently airing on this channel, and have no citations. I left a message on the article's talk page about the edits. No one replied and I went forward with it ( WP:BOLD). Then, an unregistered user, edited the article and basically reverted it back to its original state. That IP pops up in the Edit History every now and then. How am I to proceed with this. Can this be treated as vandalism? The user is unregistered, so I can't ping them and talk directly. Need help. SuddenlyMangoes ( talk) 20:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
In the case of documenting the “output” of an international film festival, the festival Wikipedia page currently lists all the awards and certain other major events for the festival, but very little detail or any real yearly or historical documentation.
Editors could of course already choose to also start including lists of all movies shown each year along with information about guests and judges and so on, to better document the cultural history of the event and paint a more complete picture.
But information on Wikipedia should ideally be backed up by links to sources, and one of the best sources for the extra information mentioned above would be the yearly festival catalogue, a source that also contains a lot of other information (about each film shown, portraits of the honour guests and judges, the festival themes and other cultural documentation) that from a cultural history viewpoint might be just as important as the threadbare basic facts currently published on Wikipedia – some might argue vital even.
Posing, hypothetically, that the festival would be willing to make their past catalogues available for online publishing as PDFs, then the inclusion of these PDF catalogues would help make the cultural history documentation of the film festival far more complete, engaging, and historically relevant, and allow Wikipedia editors to easily refer or link to them as sources. But should one be able to get ahold of these PDFs, the question would then be how to best store/publish them in a historically lasting way.
And when googling the subject of inclusion of PDFs on Wikipedia (through Wikisource) it seems that, unlike images, PDFs appear to be considered a fringe use case reserved mostly for special circumstances. And while some might argue that this particular use case is culturally important or vital, others might then argue that PDFs of music record covers or even things like toy packaging are just as culturally important, and then where do you draw the line to avoid filling the Wikipedia sites with just about any kind of PDFs? So I see why lines need to be drawn, for practical reasons, and that the storing the types of PDFs discussed here may not be allowed.
But if Wikipedia/Wikisource isn't the recommended storage place for preservation/documentation of PDFs such as these (and I'm not saying it isn't, just that the information I found appears to suggest it might not be), because Wikipedia is intended mainly for summaries (and commentary) on the information in things published/stored/preserved elsewhere, then the question is what the Wikipedia community would recommend as a suitable solution for the storage of the actual source PDFs mentioned here (historical preservation style – something that would be likely to outlast the film festival itself), so that Wikipedia editors may then refer/link to the PDFs as sources of information published on Wikipedia.
I'm guessing similar discussions have arisen in the past, and if Wikipedia/Wikisource isn't the right match for a use case like this, then what alternative(s) would the community recommend for preserving the sources (if we are even be able to get ahold of them for preservation purposes)?
Thank you! 2.248.99.112 ( talk) 11:52, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello sir i need to know how to put draft for submission i want to add Draft: Prit Kamani for submission. Wpedia User ( talk) 13:45, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Can the search function be improved? I looked for "Chingiz Autmatov" (spelled Aytmatov in Britannica and Aitmatov on Wikipedia) in Wikipedia. The response that there was nothing. When I entered the term in Duckduckgo (a search engine), the FIRST hit was "Chinghiz Aitmatov - Wikipedia." If an external search engine can so readily pull up the closest hit in Wikipedia, why can't Wikipedia? Kdammers ( talk) 12:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC) Kdammers ( talk) 12:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
I know I'm not a new user, but is it OK if you still reply to me?
I was nominating a user page for speedy deletion under
WP:U2 when I decided to move my CSD log to the User talk: namespace, because I don't like editing in userspace much. It actually turns out that the (now blocked) user who created the page had created five other userpages for nonexistent users. I came around and CSD'd one of them, but it added the page to
User:Chicdat/CSD log instead of
User talk:Chicdat/CSD log. So I went to my TW preferences and replaced the "CSD log" part of it with User talk:Chicdat/CSD log
. But now, when I nominated another page for CSD, it saved it to
User:Chicdat/User talk:Chicdat/CSD log! Will I ever be able to CSD again?
🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:26, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Teahouse friends, and thanks for your help to answer questions from users like myself.
Is there a way that I can change the capitalization and display of my username?
Right now, my username on Wikipedia is "Nickgray"
For purely aesthetic reasons, I'd like it to either be "nickgray" (no caps) or "NickGray" (camelcase) Nickgray ( talk) 11:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Nick<span style="text-transform:uppercase;">g</span>ray}}
–
Thjarkur
(talk)
11:17, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, dear people, I wanted to translate the article on Vincent Namatjira for the german wikipedia, but it is impossible - due to the unusual and to me very strange formatting of the reference-links. I do know <ref name= - but there are no real references at all given - only the short terms for the ref name, but nowhere the real references (or i'm too blind to see???), which leaves me completely puzzled. I up to now never have seen this. For instance there is a <ref name=ocula/> - but no explanation or link or anything. And in the reflink-section this is named (and it's the only reference given at all) {Reflist}}, {{s-start}}, {{s-ach|aw}}, {{s-bef|before=[[Tony Costa (artist)|Tony Costa]]}}, {{s-ttl|title=[[Archibald Prize]]|years=2020<br />for ''[[Adam Goodes]]''}},{{s-aft|after= }},{{s-end}} Could someone help me to get to the REAL references in this article, please? Kind regards, -- Gyanda ( talk) 18:40, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
<ref name=ocula>{{Cite web |url=https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/vincent-namatjira/ |title=Vincent Namatjira in Conversation |last=King |first=Natalie |date=24 November 2018 |website=Ocula |access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref>
. This should be the same for all of them. I hope that helps.
Eggishorn
(talk)
(contrib)
19:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Another participant named Ke an unmotivatedely persistently removes my edits at Lithuania proper as I am trying to improve the article by mentioning all countries where this historical territory existed, and he does it regardless of all the proper explanation I provide - just dismissing it. I am not sure what should I do in such a situation, as it creates a totally unfriendly environment. Thank you. Vadzim ( talk) 19:33, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
hey is there a way we can request other editors to publish about an entity ? Usasoccernumber1 ( talk) 19:55, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, how do you delete duplicate references and re-order them please? 2A01:4B00:F613:7B00:CDF2:91AB:AFD6:69BE ( talk) 21:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
How do i save my draft, all i see is to preview then publish pages. I do not want to publish as yet. LordGriot ( talk) 23:11, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Draft:
then just press 'Publish Page' and it will save your page as a draft. It won't become a mainspace article until an AfC and an NPR reviewer look at it.Would photographs from the State Magazine be considered public domain? The are some with attribution (e.g. "Photo by John Doe") and submitted personal photos which I'd assume are under copyright.
However, there are others that mention federal departments in their attribution (e.g. "State Department photo by John Doe") or are either headshots or group photos of employees without attribution. Could I consider the second group of photos to be okay to use here? Dorito Toes ( talk) 18:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
I Made A Mistake On This Article. I Wanted To Put Hurricane Otto's Disappearing Date At The Very Top But It Just Erased The Track Map For The Whole Season. Can I get Help? Hurricanestudier123 ( talk) 14:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I change the time and day on my signature? UB Blacephalon ( talk) 00:56, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Trying to link non created page words "skin electronics" to existing page "wearable technology"
May someone please explain how to link a page that's not created to an existing page?
Theirs no point creating a new page for it, as it's already covered under the existing page. Thanks again, SumeetJi ( talk) 05:15, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
It's working now thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SumeetJi ( talk • contribs) 05:27, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
How can I edit without using Wikipedia:Disruptive editing? KassMMB ( talk) 03:02, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible to change my username from "Rhinestorm" to "oruc.emre.kaya"? It's from so many years ago and kind of childish. Oruç Emre KAYA 09:52, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Is "quarcolor" (= similar to bicolor, tricolor) a correct word for a flag with four different colors? Koreanovsky ( talk) 12:20, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
From my questiom at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kaldari#Hello&question
Hello. I have a one question. Are wikimedia com. And the wikipedia encyclopedia the same or are they different. I noticed some photos there with no logo of your website which is wikimedia commons. Why theres no such logo that also links them here? If same then no question. If different then is the encylopedias governing freedom of pano principle the same or not? This question is with respect to my concerns at copyrighted philippine bldgs and sculpttures being shown in commons. Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 03:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Cullen328 for the answer. But my question actually is that if both commons and wikipedia encyclopedia enforcements of freedom of panorama rules are the same or different. Sorry for my unchanged wording, i just copied my question from your fellow moderator kaldari at wikimedia commons The wording shouldve been - some photos shown here do not have wikimedia commons logo, while others do have that logo that links them there. Why those photos do not have that logo and link to wikimedia commomd? And is the freedom of pano enforcements of both wikipedia and wikimedia commons the same? Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 03:36, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Ummm. How about the bldgs? Philippines has no freedom of pano for both bldgs and sculptures. Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 04:30, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Ok Marchjuly. I posted my concern at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#Are_philippine_bldg_and_sculpture_0hotos_acceptable_on_wikipedia? But this concern is more of the wikipedia photos of philippine bldgs and sculptures with no wikimedia commons links and marks, if their hosting here is allowed by your administration or not which means no freedom of panorama also extends here. Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 07:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I want to start a sockpuppet investigation but I'd like to know if there are tools I can use for comparing contributions of past sockpuppet accounts and a current sockpuppet account of which I am suspicious. In particular, I'd like to know if there are tools for searching contributions based on keywords instead of just a list of common Wikipedia articles, and see if there are similarities between the specific edits/contributions of the suspected account and those of the past confirmed sockpuppets. Thank you. Stricnina ( talk) 07:51, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Good morning sir, and how are you doing today?... I have read and understand the terms and conditions of your platform... But the question now is how can we add images to our biography and also make it live on search engines 102.89.2.172 ( talk) 11:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
An RfC at Indian subcontinent looked initially like WP:SNOW, but then participation dried up, from both ends of the dispute. I have tried posting all relevant Wikiprojects (9 of them), but no result. I have also requested all the admins who took a look at the RfC to comment, no result again. How can I get more particpants in the discussion? Aditya( talk • contribs) 02:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
I wanted to change the page title ZIMM (a disambiguation page) to "Zimm" because 4 of the 5 Zimm's mentioned are names and the fifth one seems to have no ZIMM article but has something in German that has no "ZIMM" that I could detect. However when I went to move "ZIMM" to "Zimm" it I learned that "ZIMM" was a redirect from an earlier "Zimm" I guess I could just wipe that page (the redirect) out, but decided to ask first. So, I'm asking, "What do I do?" Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 23:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC) Carptrash ( talk) 23:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
When I load the California mobile view article on my Android phone, the tabs only go to Demographics, it doesn't load all of them, but when I reload it in desktop mode on my smartphone it shows everything. Why is that? I'm running the latest Chrome and Android versions both? 47.150.227.254 ( talk) 03:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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17:14, 27 September 2020 (UTC)Hello, I’d like to ask what the difference is between a “declined AFC draft” and “rejected AFC draft” is? Maka ( talk · contribs) 15:31, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
What does it mean when a citation has a form like this: "[4]:253" ?? I've seen this on the page about scientific racism. Truth is King TALK 14:51, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Angus,
We recently submitted a page for Eloise Singer, would you mind detailing what references were unable to be accepted for publishing?
Thanks SF Singerfilms ( talk) 19:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
How do you create a biography page? Marchelle2725 ( talk) 17:37, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
As I did my first edit (the township of Elumathur in India), I felt very inadequate at the task. I kept wishing that I had an excellent example of a page about a township. Is there a way find an excellent example of a subject? Pamich3 ( talk) 19:31, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Please give a third and fourth and fifth opinion this edit by user https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Isfahan&oldid=prev&diff=980612082 Baratiiman ( talk) 13:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear WP:TEAHOUSE, I am one of the contributors of the European Training network Of PhD researchers on Innovative EMI analysis and power Applications. This is a wikipage dedicated to disseminate knowledge regarding Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electromagnetic Interference on the basis of European Union's Horizon 2020 research program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812753 [7]. Please, may you help me to improve it? I would like to turn it into a wikiproject such as [ [8]], how should I proceed? Thanks in advance. Douglas Aguiar do Nascimento ( talk) 19:47, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
I just added a free image (in the infobox) for A Modern Magdalen article. I also happened to notice on the article's talk page that there was a parameter in the portal box that tags it as needing an image for the article. Should I also delete that tag or is that something someone on the WikiProject Film group would do? I'm really new to all of this so don't want to overstep what should be done. Thanks! MarcusGarland ( talk) 22:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Why?
Baratiiman ( talk) 11:20, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
David notMD not reverted yet, i have read versions from the page for past years and they had pics that were removed.Also about prostitutes can i just add subheading and related articles?. Baratiiman ( talk) 14:41, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
As to prostitution, a better place to add content would be Prostitution in Iran. David notMD ( talk) 00:35, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I have created a walking map that incorporates many of the buildings in this list /info/en/?search=List_of_Art_Deco_buildings_in_Perth
I would love to add the map in its own box next to the Contents at the top
No idea how - so assistance gratefully accepted.
cheers PerthDeco ( talk) 03:20, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reply - do you mean anything that uses Google Maps? The map is entirely my work with info found in the public domain and uses my own photos - can I add it to any other wiki project? PerthDeco ( talk) 04:37, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Basic question. On a bibliography of a living person, what to do when you find extensive edits, many of which are promotional, making it hard to suggest meaningful edits for objectivity? I have this article in mind ... Alfred Mutua ... TruthHunterLe ( talk) 23:35, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Is is true that if a page title is followed in parentheses to denote that there is another page with the main title (ie. SpongeBob SquarePants (character) -> SpongeBob SquarePants), then the disambiguation reminder at the top of the page should only be on the one without parentheses in its title? If a character named after a series had their own page (like what I've provided an example of), I'm assuming it would be unethical to include the disambig reminder on the character page that links to the series page, and the latter is the page that should have it, in this case reminding the reader of the existence of the character page? Just a thought. Meetertound ( talk) 01:09, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
hi and good evening I just wanted to ask what will happen if I enable advanced mode in Wikipedia Alisha rains ( talk) 20:18, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you so much guys for replying to my question I really really appreciate and for those that asked what button I am talking about it's the button you will find when you go to settings Alisha rains ( talk) 04:34, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I don't know what to do with the wiki page interracial marriage. This page feels highly vandalized with many users pointing fingers at each other and at first I thought I knew who was in the right but now I don't know what to believe, I would personally try to read its history and fix the page but i'm currently really busy in real life and won't be free until around mid to late October, and even when I try my best to fix pages I often take the lazy way out or forget why I was trying to pursuit this edit in the first place and create a bigger mess than before, I don't know how to fix this page or help the users who fight with each other so I'm asking others to help, please -- Toby Mitches ( talk) 01:34, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. A simple question today: I noticed the page for poet/writter Tsering Woeser is entitled without her first name [9]. Not usual practice, it seems. Fyi, BBC and France24 also use her as a reliable source for current information on Tibet. What's the process for requesting the correction? Much thanks as always. Pasdecomplot ( talk) 06:30, 28 September 2020 (UTC) 
Help me to publish wiki page for online study web and android application. Sunresh ( talk) 05:39, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I hope someone can answer me. Can someone please tell me why the article on 2020-21 FA Vase has either been deleted or moved to draft. Ta.
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Hello, I am Fikry Muraza. I need help to get a page approved. I really hope for your support. Thank you very much! Fikry Muraza ( talk) 09:32, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
hey! I need help getting the artwork to a song on Wikipedia! FarisLloyd ( talk) 21:46, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I am making a page in wikipedia about a new band. Part of the infobox requires a picture of the band. As you may know by stalking my account, I have had constant operose copyright dilemmas. So i would ask today, what are the copyright requirements? I would provide the name of the band and a picture. Thanks Ice bear johny ( talk) 07:10, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ice bear johny ( talk • contribs) 09:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Ah that was only a flippant comment, colloquially referenced to today's facebook. Anyways thanks for letting me know that you can see (stalk but euphemised/in a trivial manner) my past edits. Way to go for me hehehe Ice bear johny ( talk) 15:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
How to approve my article Draft:Poojabishnoi Naresh Prajapat 11:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nareshprajapatmogra ( talk • contribs)
If I am not supposed to write from other websites, how can I write it myself with no help. NuvolaBrain123 ( talk) 14:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm trying to update the Celebrity's Date of Birth on her request. and I do have Visual Proof of her original DOB. so How I can submit that? Ufjohns ( talk) 10:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I note the reply to an earlier question of mine. Sunderland AFC have put out this statement at:- https://www.safc.com/news/club-news/2020/september/on-this-day-in-1880
I repeat, no matter what is claimed by the organisation they have no primary source material from 1879 on this. None exists. if you take a look at the link on the page that 'confirms' 1879 you will see it is to a page that goes back to 2010 and which has never been altered since and which, is to all intents and purposes, dead.
Meanwhile, there is primary source material from 1880 on this with the Sunderland Echo of 27 September carrying a report of the teachers meeting two days earlier that states 'the teachers have FORMED a football club'
A more accurate report on the club's formation date would start by saying at the meeting of 25 September 1880 the club was formed ..... some people have claimed the club was formed in 1879 and have pointed to an article in 1887 and later in 1929 as indicating this is the case.
I don't wish to labour this point but I am acknowledged as a football historian, I have written numerous football history books and Sunderland is my own team of many years. MarkMetcalf ( talk) 16:00, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I am a relatively new editor. I have been updating this page: /info/en/?search=Yell_(company) with company news that is in the public interest and published in the national media.
Another editor, from an anonymous IP address and presumably working for Yell is repeatedly undoing my updates as soon as they are published.
I find the wikipedia guidance on these disputes pretty confusing and would appreciate any advice on how to stop this page vandalism.
Richdanny ( talk) 15:50, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Richdanny ( talk) 15:50, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
How do i insert images to my story? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foodboy1 ( talk • contribs) 16:41, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
How does one add images and pictures in their writings? 105.232.25.195 ( talk) 17:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I submitted the page below but was declined for reasons: Submission declined on 28 September 2020 by Theroadislong (talk). This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
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The John Walton Secondary School was established in 1973 because of a growing need for a second coloured high school in Uitenhage at the time. The school was started by Mr.G.E. Jenniker, who was also the first principal, in a pre-fabricated building with hardboard walls, wooden floors and corrugated iron roof. The initial school was situated at the corner of Acacia and Papegaai Street. (Now part of C.W.Hendricks Primary School.) The school was named after Rev. John Walton who was a missionary of the London Missionary Society in India. He was also the founder of the Hankey Training School, the forerunner of Dower College. In 1978 the school moved to its current location at Rosedale Drive, Rosedale. From these humble beginnings the school rose from the dust and became a cradle that produced countless academic and sports achievers as well as leaders in various spheres. During the turbulent times of riots in the 80's and early 90's, John Walton played a significant role in the liberation struggle. During these times the school competed very strongly with other schools in Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth. It has been involved in numerous fierce sporting battles with its arch- rival Uitenhage High as well as other schools. Over the years the school has always been characterized for producing very competitive rugby and volleyball teams, and stood its own on the athletic track. In recent years the school has however struggled and currently finds it very hard to live up to its former glory days. This situation can however be improved by creating a bigger awareness amongst our community and especially amongst our former pupils. This fine institution has been instrumental in shaping who we are today. It is therefore only fitting that we should explore and nurture all possible ventures that will restore the pride that we carry in our hearts. SICITUR AD ASTRA! |
References I want to add : http://www.johnwaltonsecondary.co.za/about-us/47-john-walton.html https://epages.co.za/john-walton-secondary-school-jubilee-park/ https://www.africanadvice.com/1365760/Schools/Eastern_Cape/John_Walton_Secondary/
Mama Walton (talk) 06:46, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I have read your response ColinFine and appreciate your response, I now stand back with a thankfull heart— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mama Walton ( talk • contribs) 19:11, 28 September 2020 (UTC+9) (UTC)
Hey! So I really want to update the images portrayed on Cher Lloyd wiki page! The current photos are from 2012 and it is 2020 now! This must be updated!
I have some photos I'd hope you guys can add for me!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139848974@N07/26177918621/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/96853530@N05/11202591733/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/javicmorales/30406915221/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/javicmorales/29862999694/in/photostream/ FarisLloyd ( talk) 05:14, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
one of Cher's leading street teams (fan groups) to promote her and her music. I have direct connections to her manager and get exclusive info on new releases etc.doesn’t give you (or Lloyd’s team through you) any special type of editorial control over what’s written about Lloyd on Wikipedia.As for the infobox image, either you or someone else is going to need to find a freely-licensed replacement that’s a more recent photo of Lloyd for Wikipedia and Commons to accept it. If you or someone else can find such an image that’s better for Wikipedia’s purposes, then most likely no other editors are going to object. However, if someone does object, then any disagreement is going to need to be resolved per WP:DR. In other words, Lloyd’s team can help out by providing a freely-licensed image to use instead, but there might still need to be a WP:CONSENSUS established to do so. — Marchjuly ( talk) 22:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I am User:Ylevental, and I have mental issues that will make it hard to not sock. I think six months' time would be fine. My IP range is at Special:Contributions/2606:5580:30C:7F9E:F4A5:547C::/64 and the quarantine makes it hard to go outside much. I've lost interest in Wikipedia anyway; this is just in case. I lost interest particularly because of endless edit wars such as Special:Diff/945920522/945925090 (concerning autism) and Special:Diff/975358290/975359916 (concerning Bernie Sanders)
2606:5580:30C:7F9E:F4A5:547C:7C47:70C3 ( talk) 21:36, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Can you review my article if it contains an error or not and help me complete it Karrar.allamy ( talk) 23:43, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear Sir or Madam,
I didn't realise I couldn't edit my own wikipedia page and now there is a template saying that 'major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view'. Everything on the page is now up to date and factually correct. Can you help me clean it up?
Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you,
Nic Dunlop Nicdunlop ( talk) 16:39, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Turn redirects into articles. How do you turn redirects into articles? }} Cwater1 ( talk) 02:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I found a 404'd link for a magazine article referenced in Persecution of Hindus. So I searched and found a pdf of the article, not on the website of the magazine, but just posted on the website of a Columbia University professor. Is this professor violating copyright, and would Wikipedia be violating copyright if we linked to it? I haven't been able to find any link to the article on the actual Frontline website. Assuming it can't be found, would you recommend posting the pdf, or just referencing the article without any link? Thank you. Shmarrighan ( talk) 06:19, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
I have added few references to the article I created about Mahaveer Awards. Can you kindly guide me how to get my article approved. Wmydaughter ( talk) 04:42, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I moved six references into the body of the text, but you may decide that those need to be in different places in the text. David notMD ( talk) 09:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi I need help in adding/ uploading / inserting a photograph to an artist biography - the image is owned by the artist and used for publicity purposes I am her manager and she owns the image. Shaunosh1 ( talk) 10:20, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Shaunosh1
2600:1700:7AA1:7D60:5C71:C6DD:765F:C854 ( talk) 11:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
is there a way that I can make a team? AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 14:59, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
no I want to know if you can make a team of editors?-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 17:24, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
no I mean editing the content of the page`s and how stuff looks. But I will see what you say tomorrow I got stuff to do, goodbye.-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 17:49, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you DES I will make sure to contact you for help.-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 13:09, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to move a page to a page that already exists? This is my first time venturing into moving pages, and cannot seem to find a way to do this without copy-pasting which is not allowed. Anyone? Heart (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I just posted my question, but I forgot to add the Subject/headline. So sorry. My question was whether Wikipedia prefers reverse chronological or ordinary chronological in a list of Awards on a BLP. Passiflorida ( talk) 13:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I am looking to add a new listing. I have all the info that needs to be posted. Can someone do that for be or do I have to do this. I don't have a clue how to do all this. Waterhead04 ( talk) 14:42, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
can someone help me edit pls I'm miserably failed Mr.Knrz. ( talk) 10:26, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
the person Im writng about is not me I'm his mentor/manger he is known locally but not enough is that wat u mean — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.Knrz. ( talk • contribs) 11:40, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Good Day,
Could you please explain in detail what was missing from my submission? I attached links to features were they not credible enough? I would like to make the proper corrections as soon as possible. Raslambert ( talk) 14:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
"Although his upbringing is Philadelphia based, his chivalry and southern charm were developed during the summers he spent with his mother's family in a small town called Pitt County, Rocky Mount, North Carolina."?
I am new to wiki, I have never been here before, I want to know how can I publish my Biography to Wikipedia so people can know me more? MizanRahmanSinger ( talk) 04:51, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Is there a way to get a clearer answer to what I need to change on an article to get it approved? Each time I have made updates to make it neutral or to update references, it has been dismissed. I keep trying to research, but it seems no matter what I change it won't work. Any help or guidance would be so appreciated! Thank you! EIMBC ( talk) 14:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC) EIMBC ( talk) 14:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Is there a guide somewhere to when you should add page numbers in a citation source and when you should not? Presuming direct quotes have to have a page number? Thanks Maryanne Cunningham ( talk) 18:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Maryanne Cunningham ( talk) 18:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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18:52, 29 September 2020 (UTC)How do I write in HTML the symbol for "plus or minus"? It should render as a plus sign underscored. WStlw 18:17, 29 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamSell ( talk • contribs)
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I had a Wikipedia page earlier, but it seems to have disappeared into cyberspace. May I please request the 'Authors' here to kindly help me retrieve the same? Www.imamsiddique.com
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ImamSiddique/imamispresents Imam A Siddique ( talk) 18:58, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the article I created on illicit trade was converted to a redirection to the article on black market by another editor, who judged it was a duplicate topic. The discussion that followed with this editor can be found at: /info/en/?search=User_talk:MrOllie#Redirecting_illicit_trade_to_black_market
The question is whether illicit trade and black markets are two distinct topics that each deserve their article, or whether the two are sufficiently synonyms for the former to be a redirection to the latter. I would like to ask the input of other Wikipedians on whether there is detailed policy to address such matter (I could find not it). Also, what would be the best way to reach consensus: is it to start a discussion on the talk page of black market?
FYI here is latest version of the article on illicit trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Illicit_trade&oldid=974366109
Many thanks for your input, Factfox ( talk) 13:49, 27 September 2020 (UTC) Factfox ( talk) 13:49, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
is there anything out there that lets you draw on a web page and save it to that site. Like, if u had a group of users, like facebook, and yet let people draw over the original idea, similar to wiki,,, but like, if there was a picture/meme on line, you could actually deface it, like ppl used to add moustaches to womens pic??? Richengle ( talk) 22:00, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Why has the French Open 2020 page dropped the Singles Table with points lost or gained? It has always been the best part of the yearly update. 98.150.164.140 ( talk) 21:43, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
hi can a person change the language of Wikipedia by using southafrican languages to find meanings of words. Bdetfehigj ( talk) 20:16, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I know what language to remove when a tag is placed on my page? Also, what do I do about a UDP tag on my page? 2600:8806:100:E1E:A9CB:265A:2A56:21FE ( talk) 21:23, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Another editor is continuously removing and replacing photos without a consensus on List of Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign endorsements. When asked about it, they said they will continue to edit war. How can this user's disruptive editing be handled? How can I go about bringing an administrator in? Pennsylvania2 ( talk) 18:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I recently created a page for Anderson Obiagwu which was declined due to use of promotional words which I have since corrected. I would like to have a second or third review to know if I am on the right track for approval. Thank you. LeahNJ ( talk) 22:39, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
This is a purely hypothetical question, but I was wondering if you see 2 or more Wikipedia users engaged in a edit war, should you attempt to stop them, ignore the editing and move on to something else, tell an administrator, or try to find some other solution? Once again, this is hypothetical, as I have not seen anyone engaged in edit wars myself. TheKingCartii ( talk) 23:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
My name is Maurice B Thomas, in no need of anonymity, and incredulous of the antics of one poster, widely regarded as a "troll." So, my initial question is, "Who is he?" MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 09:07, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
The existing entries, for both subjects, remain defamatory, in my humble opinion, as they contain erroneous information about African Americans,(ala 'Amos 'n' Andy') which tends to defame the subjects, both of whom, well known to myself and others, would find the entries objectionable as erroneous.
Both men are African Americans who are advanced in age (88 years and 101 years respectively for Mr. Spann and Mr. Black) who have not, to my knowledge, even seen these entries or are unlikely to ever see these entries, while they remain defamed without their knowledge. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
You should allow the corrections submitted, as even your assertion that, for example, Mr. Black's parents were sharecroppers could not possibly have been true as they lived in urban industrial settings in Bessemer, Florence, and Birmingham, Alabama, where there is no opportunity for agricultural pursuits of any kind whatsoever, and Steel Mills are prevalent. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
My Sources are my own direct knowledge and the subjects themselves, whose interviews I have either conducted over periods as long as 60 years (I attended Farragut High School, where Mr. Black taught, from 1959-1963, for example) or where I have attempted to include such first person interviews, while such inclusion has been prohibited by Wikimedia. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Your suspicions of paid employment by the subjects of myself are personally insulting
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I did not initiate either entry, I only supplied corrections to erroneous assumptions or supplied excluded facts about each subject. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Case In Point: Your original entry on Mr Black excluded both his children and all but one spouse. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Case In Point: Your original entry on Mr Spann portrayed him as if a buffoon devoid of technical or business skill. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
If there is a way I can help you with your problem tell me, I would love to help.-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 14:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. @ MARKETEX2020: I User:Nigetastic ( talk) created the initial article. I have met Timuel Black a few times, but my connection was more to the group who facilitated the publication of his memoir "Sacred Ground." The original entry was scant, I'll admit. Time was short, but I thought his life deserved an entry here. And my observation about wikipedia is that, rather than create one detailed, polished entry all in one go, sometimes it's better simply to get the basics in and let others continue to add and shape in their own words and way. I didn't need to "own" the shape of Tim's story. If I skipped over swathes of Tim's life, it was in the spirit of leaving a space for others to participate. . . . But I have 2-3 copies of the book that I'd be glad to mail to those who'd like to read about this amazing man and to help flesh out this entry.
About Tim's parents, MARKETEX2020 is correct according to Tim Black. First, framing his family's life with the Great Migration, Black writes that his father migrated *two times*, first "from tenant farms where they chopped cotton to the market town of Florence, Alabama" (a non-industrial town in N. Alabama), and (later in the same paragraph) that his father "worked for Bessemer Steel in Birmingham, Alabama" before moving north. So Tim didn't say his father was a sharecropper in Bessemer but that he had been "a tenant farmer" who worked in Birmingham at Bessemer Steel. Bessemer, AL is adjacent to B'ham near where the mills are, but the book doesn't say where the family lived.
Now, the diff between "tenant farmer" and a "sharecropper" is small but meaningful. Tenant farmers have their own tools, gear, and livestock. A sharecropper doesn't. Tim called his father "a tenant farmer." The same memoir, however, includes a tribute to Tim that Sen Richard Durbin (D-IL) introduced into the US Congressional Record in 2017 that referred to Tim as having come from "sharecroppers." The upshot is that I think--just my opinion--that a hundred years ago, most readers in a mostly rural USA could and would differentiate between tenant farmers and sharecroppers. These days, I think people just say "sharecroppers" as a poetic and generic word for poor or working-class agriculture families.
I'm happy to dip and add this, but, as I said, I have a couple of copies of his memoir--a very brisk and conversational work--that I'd be glad to mail to someone else if they'd like to participate. Nigetastic ( talk) 21:05, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, all. As a follow up, I have updated the Timuel Black entry with a paragraph that succinctly recaps the points in my note above buttressed with one citation to his memoir and a second from the Congressional Record (instead of the book's repeat of the tribute in the Congressional Record). There is still a lot that one could fill in here, of course. With hope, this will have removed a couple of points of disagreement so we can move this forward. Thanks. Nigetastic ( talk) 21:00, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Regarding the entry for the boardgame of PICHENOTTE at /info/en/?search=Pichenotte I do have a 'conflict of interest', since I own the United States trademark for PICHENOTTE and have been making the game since 1997. Although some of the content is correct, this entry for pichenotte is very narrow in scope, has several inaccuracies and many statements without citations.
It also promotes a manufacturer, named as Pinnochi, which seems to be a violation of Wiki rules (?) and the manufacturer seems to be very obscure or non-existent. I am not trying to promote my business, but would like my customers to see accurate information on Wikipedia about the game of pichenotte.
With a friend, we made some changes last year, but, being newbies, we used no citations and the whole article we created was deleted. That was somewhat understandable, but it could have been the beginning of a collaborative effort instead of just wiping it out. Can I get help from an experienced, neutral editor to make this entry more correct or do I have to try and do it all myself ? I have a lot of citations and references now, and would like to work with someone who has an interest in promoting an accurate entry for the game. Thank you. Vlaad_Quebec 07:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Vlaad_Quebec 07:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThreeVictors ( talk • contribs)
{{
Userspace draft}}
at the top of it, then drop me a line at
User talk:SMcCandlish and I'll see about integrating some of the material. Trademarks only apply within particular jurisdictions (and a US trademark on the name of French-Canadian folk game is of limited encyclopedic relevance – should not dominate coverage of the topic). Plus we have
WP:NOT#PROMO policy. So, some care will have to be taken to not make it sound like a promo for a particular company. If the article already had problems in that regard, toward the old company, it sounds like it needs revision anyway. Coverage of US adoption/availability of a Canadian game or vice versa is encyclopedically relevant, in
due amounts. Should be included, but someone with a direct financial conflict of interest should probably not be making the changes. Using a draft and an experienced third-party editor who has no stake in the matter to review the suggested changes is probably the best bet. I've worked before with explicit CoI editors, to good effect. —
SMcCandlish
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07:09, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I have a page I would like to edit, by adding information about:
Seventeen's Japanese comeback in September 2020 with mini album 24H, source: https://www.seventeen-17.jp/statics/24h
24H's achievement to top Japan Oricon chart, the first non-Japanese international male artist to achieve a fourth-consecutive win on the weekly album chart, source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200915000374 and http://www.koreatimesus.com/seventeen-earns-fourth-consecutive-oricon-album-chart-win-with-24h/
Seventeen Joshua and DK's collaboration with US based singer, PinkSweats, source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarherman/2020/09/24/pink-sweat--seventeen-discuss-coming-together-on-17-remix-in-age-of-corona/#263097005519 BarbaraUkulele ( talk) 02:31, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you help for me how can I use this picture in my article. When I download this link i resive the mail that this file uncorrect and will be deleted. thanks a lot for your answer Marija W Marinkovic ( talk) 11:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
I have translated a short article from German Wikipedia, which I created myself, into English. Apparently, only more experienced editors than I are allowed to publish translated articles on en.wikipedia, so I placed the translation into my own userspace. I created a "talk" page, whatever exactly that amounts to:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Bernhard_Ritter
Naturally, I would like to have the translated article checked and published. It is a page on Maria von Herbert, a correspondent of philosopher Immanuel Kant. It is not clear to me what I am supposed to do next. I am not in a hurry and will check back tomorrow. Bernhard Ritter ( talk) 00:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Apparently, only more experienced editors than I are allowed to publish translated articles on en.wikipedia, unless you mean you're not being allowed to create an article for some technical reason. Anyway, you can create a draft for the article and submit it to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for review if you like.Some other things for you to consider are Wikipedia:Translation, Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia projects, and Wikipedia:Notability (people). The first two pages are mainly about what you need to do to ensure that the content you've translated isn't a WP:COPYVIO. Wikipedia's licensing pretty much allows the content found in its articles to be freely re-used for any purpose, but it does require that proper attribution be given. So, even though you might've have been the main or primary contributor to the German Wikipedia article, it's still probably best for you to properly attribute the original article to avoid any problems. The last page has to do with the concept of Wikipedia notability. Each Wikipedia project has its own policies and guidelines and English Wikipedia's tend to be more rigorously applied than perhaps those for some other language Wikipedias. So, just because an article exists on German Wikipedia that doesn't automatically mean it should exist on English Wikipedia; in other words, you're going to have to establish that Herbert meets relevant English Wikipedia notability guidelines in order for such an article to survive a deletion nomination. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi
Marchjuly. Thank you for your detailed reply. I will submit the translated article as a draft to
Wikipedia:Articles for creation including "proper attribution" and a hyperlink to the original page. My phrase Apparently, only more experienced editors than I are allowed to publish translated articles on en.wikipedia
was worded after a message displayed on the page in explanation why I cannot publish the page myself. As
RudolfRed notes, it must have to do with the fact that the OP does not have enough edits
. I understand that I will have to argue that Maria von Herbert meets the relevant notability guidelines when submitting the draft.
@ David notMD: I deleted only a copy, or a version "2", of the draft. I was referring to User:Bernhard Ritter/Maria von Herbert instead. Thanks for confirming that the instructions in Wikipedia:Articles for creation apply to my case. -- Bernhard Ritter ( talk) 11:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
79.120.177.234 ( talk) 12:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi.
How do you add this as a reference?
youtu.be/rJQTqcV12ik?t=9m4s
Error:No page id specified on YouTube appears failing. Kacziey ( talk) 13:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks and sorry. Still new here. Kacziey ( talk) 13:34, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Background: Cafetran Espresso is a Computer-Aided Translation software tool. It has a sizable amount of users, in particular - but not only - under Linux (Indeed, it is totally cross-platform, and one of the few professional tools under Linux.) It is sufficiently notable to be offered as incentive with the premium membership of ProZ.com (a large community of translators). A couple of years ago, I discovered it was not even listed on the CAT tool comparison page. The reason being that it did not have its own WP page. So I created one. Several people contributed. The page grew organically, some mistakes were made. At the end, its submission was declined then rejected.
I decided to start afresh. I stripped it to the core to remain factual. Now I am trying to add references. And here, I bump into a wall. Primary sources are forbidden, which precludes all references to user-groups, technical documentations, etc. As secondary source, Youtube videos are not accepted, which remove all courses, presentations at conferences., etc. Blogs are not accepted, so that removes all software tool comparisons, description of features, case-studies, etc. It is not a tool develop in academia So there is no published research article (then, it would be easy. After 25 years in academia, I know that we can write a paper about any script, and then create a page on WP. Nobody blinks).
What would be considered a reliable source? Would a blog post coming from a blog regularly posting on CAT tools and comparing them be acceptable? Are-they not the XXI century equivalents of "magazines"?
A large amount of mentions and references is presented on Draft_talk:Cafetran_Espresso. That should definitively settle the notability issue (which still baffles all of us to be honest). Now the problem is which one to include without falling into the trap of "trying to sell the software". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lenov ( talk • contribs) 16:24, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no involvement with Cafetran Espresso development or trade. I am just a user. As are all the other people who tried to contribute to the page as far as I know. Nicolas Gambardella ( talk) 16:14, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I make that two separate statements sourced by the same source have the same number superscript? 1+1=yes ( talk) 13:32, 30 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1+1=yes ( talk • contribs)
<ref>content</ref>
, give it a name the first time you use it, like <ref name="myName">content</ref>
. For every subsequent use, you can simply put <ref name="myName"/>
. Note the extra slash! See
WP:REFNAME for more details.
◢ Ganbaruby! (
Say hi!)
13:56, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Delete my User:MirahezeGuy/sandbox/1 and a stub template I recently made, they're unnecessary now -- MirahezeGuy ( talk) 14:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
In This request for closure of an expired request for comments, I go into detail about edits from the dispute that caused the request for comments, as none of the other three users in the dispute ever commented on it (with one being inactive for most of it). In fact, all of the votes for the RFC were to keep the content on the page, but there were only 4 votes (including mine), so I felt the need to mention the other three users in the dispute. Additionally, I mention the advice from one of the opposing users that the page needed secondary sources, and then link to an image showing a private thanks from him for me adding said secondary sources. Are these details allowed or not for a request for closure? Considering how low the participation was for the RFC, I felt the need to mention the other users in the dispute due to them not commenting on the RFC, but now I’m having second thoughts that said details aren’t allowed. Unnamed anon ( talk) 05:53, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
sir why my page of K. B. pathak was deleted from the sandbox it was send for pubilcation we are new to this page so please help me out K B Pathak ( talk) 06:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
See Kader Khan for an example of an article about a person active in the India movie industry. Your draft is just a list of movies for which K B Pathak did the screenplay. David notMD ( talk) 09:57, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
K B Pathak, your topic of choice seems notable but you seem to be having problems writing a draft that will get accepted. Perhaps someone might help you if you asked nicely at WT:INDIA? Best, Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:12, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello - I'm very new to Wiki and learning slowly. I've edited a page, and added new footnotes for the page on John Pinney. One of the existing URLs (note 12) in the References list is in blue, but the ones I've added aren't, and I can't work out why. Can someone tell me? Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 12:14, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 12:14, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you @Coryphantha @Marchjuly - I'm beginning to realise that getting the citations right is about 100 times more difficult than writing the article itself.. and I can't remember how to tag you in my reply - apologies Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 14:16, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
@ Nick Moyes: and @ Þjarkur: thank you both - those are REALLY good tips and much much easier than trying to do it all manually. I've spent 10 minutes working out how to tag/ping you in my reply - hope this is right. In my original question I actually meant that the hyperlinks I'd added were fine, but didn't look blue in colour... still haven't cracked that, but I've learnt much easier ways to add references. Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 15:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
@ Nick Moyes: I would LOVE to have a mentor... I hope I'm going to stick with this, as I do feel passionately that it's the best way to get accurate information in the public realm (though since I've been looking more carefully at Wiki, I realise how many pages have been cobbled together from information on slightly dodgy websites)... I'll keep asking the Teahouse for the moment, but if I'm still 'here' in a month or so's time, I'll definitely take you up on your offer. Meanwhile I'll follow you on Twitter! Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 15:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I want to rename the Category:Indian summiters of Mount Everest as the spelling of "summiteers" is wrong, but I cant find any move option and also no help in Help:Category. How do I rename/move this category which reflects the appropriate changes in the 55 articles listed in it without manually labouring on all 55 articles. The articles using the correct spelling like Indian summiteers of Mount Everest show red links. Is in such circumstances tools like AWB appropriate for automated editing? Thanks. Roller26 ( talk) 07:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Conor. I'm doing my first article about a Youtuber named Dream who is known for his Minecraft Skill and his Minecraft Manhunt. I worked about two weeks to get this done, but the previous person who reviewed my article said "Needs more external news sources, not its own website and videos. Do not cite fandom wikia". Dream has little to no news sources who talk about him, in fact most of information came from this fandom wikia which is where most of his information I could found. I only found one news sources that talks about Dream Minecraft Manhunt, And this isn't a few thousand subscribers channel. Dream has over 10 million subscribers on his youtube channel is a well-known across youtube. If you have anything to say to me about this question, please contact me. Thanks and have a nice day. Kingconor62 ( talk) 14:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey! I am working on an article for my company's software. My COI is declared on my user page, and a draft of the article is in my sandbox. I got some good help here last time, so now I'm back for round two. Question: I am trying to upload a logo for the infobox. This is the least detailed one I could find. Can this image be uploaded with the fair use rational that it consists only of simple geometric shapes? If not, do I have a chance of getting it in under some other fair use rational? The image I really wanted to use was this one, but from what I'm seeing there may be little or no chance of getting my preferred image into the article without issuing a license. Thanks in advance for your help. Sam at Megaputer ( talk) 14:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
hi uh Ireallydontcareugh ( talk) 16:16, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Can you add translations? I am bilingual and I would like to help. BaaBaaTheSheep ( talk) 16:06, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey, though my question wont be relevant to english wikipedia it was the only place to ask, in swahili wiktionary under swahili wikipedia there is no special way to delete words that are not necessary i was wondering how to remove the words that are not relevant to swahili as there are many. Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 12:44, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 12:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
it was the only place to askis correct. Each project has it's own help and support facilities, with volunteers interested in and knowledgeable about the project. You should be able to find it from the main page. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 18:09, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
These questions aren't about an article, but the Teahouse itself (unless the Teahouse can be considered an article).
1. Who came up with the name for the Teahouse?
2. Who is the most well known Teahouse user?
3. Can too many questions cause the Teahouse to crash or temporarily shut down?
4. Can someone be banned (temporarily or permanently) from the Teahouse?
It might seem like I'm asking a lot here, but my curiosity tends to get the better of me at times. TheKingCartii ( talk) 17:42, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Im writing about a cartoon how do i upload pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foodboy1 ( talk • contribs)
¿Trabajan archivistas en Wikipedia? Pelu Digital ( talk) 17:53, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
AEMA2050 ( talk) 18:22, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
I want to make a article, but I'd like to learn more about utilizing Wikipedia's resources before I do so. How can I help edit articles without accidentally impeding on the current progress being made by other more experienced users? Ngblue ( talk) 18:47, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I wrote a page that was not accepted due to a lack of notability in the sources. I have since added more sources that I think are within Wikipedias guidelines and demonstrate the notability of the subject. I am hoping someone can take a look at these before I submit them for review. If they are not acceptable it would be very helpful to know why.
Here is the page - /info/en/?search=Draft:Fundera ClaySmithWiki ( talk) 16:38, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey @ Nick Moyes: here are the sources that were added:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by ClaySmithWiki ( talk • contribs) 20:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
References
Which user warning should I use when an editor continues to use unreliable sources after a reversal? Shadowrvn728 ( talk) 21:49, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
I am making an article on Oki Muraza, a world class professor who secured 18 million SAR in a project on chemical engineering. He wrote journals in Indonesian news and currently is teaching at KFUPM. I need help in getting this article draft approved.
Thank you very much... Fikry Muraza ( talk) 14:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
[edit] He secured a total of $4.8 million USD in research.
References I used are from the University, Indonesian News, and Google scholar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fikry Muraza ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, please how do I put or nominate this article Independence Day or just inform the administrators that today is Nigeria's Independence day and it should be featured on the column 'On this day' on Wikipedia's homepage? Thanks Josedimaria237 ( talk) 01:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to edit the Wikipedia article on Acoustic droplet ejection (ADE). The references listed are not very complete. I know that there was a special issue of the journal, Journal of Laboratory Automation, that focused on acoustic droplet ejection that explained in much greater depth how ADE works, providing equations, graphs, etc. that would be too much for Wikipedia. I wanted to add a single sentence mentioning the issue and link it to a reference.
Jerm felt that it was too much of a soapbox for the journal. Here is where you can see what Jerm said: /info/en/?search=User_talk:GiuseppeAlexander. I really just want to make the article better. I do not want to stand on a soapbox for the journal. And the issue covers instruments from both companies that made ADE systems.
Am I completely out of line or do I just need to reformulate my text to add this useful citation?
Here is the citation I wanted to add: Special issue: Advancing Scientific Innovation with Acoustic Droplet Ejection. Journal of Laboratory Automation 21.1 (2016):1-216. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jlac/21/1 .
Thanks GiuseppeAlexander ( talk) 00:45, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
== External links ==
* {{Cite journal |...}}
Maddie Ziegler’s article doesn’t have an infobox. I’m a new user, and I don’t really know how Wikipedia works. Can someone please add it for me, or teach me how to create an infobox? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazychickennthang ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
User:Albertheditor is claiming that two other users are my sockpuppets. What should be done in this situation, should it be taken to WP:ANI? SevenSpheresCelestia ( talk) 02:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How do I properly reference a recently deceased person on their article page? Please provide exact format and what counts as a "reliable source". The one I added was removed, so I'm not sure if I correctly understand. MokshaVRao ( talk) 03:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How do you add a line break in your personal links tab at the very top right? I have a lot of links and want to make them even, is this possible? Heart (talk) 04:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC) Heart (talk) 04:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can some volunteer to edit reference section for my draft article. I want add the particular page number in my reference document. In the reference section of my draft article: /info/en/?search=Draft:Laborate_Pharmaceuticals_India_Limited Reference number 2. I want to add the particular page number for this document. The page numbers are 65 and 66. Please add these page numbers to Reference number 2. Good day Allin96 ( talk) 04:41, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks a lot Victor Schmidt mobil Allin96 ( talk) 06:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Mt. Lyell has 5 subpeaks, 3 of which have their own articles L5, L4 and L3. I tried to create another article (for L2) and was told I should write it up as a part of the Mt. Lyell article. I suggest making the Mt. Lyell text only for L2 as part of Mt. Lyell would be silly, without rewriting/'dearticalizing' L5, L4 and L3 as well. My issue is that it's a lot more work to re-do all 4 articles and I'd hate to do that, only to have some other WP authority who likes the fact that each subpeak has its own article and asks that I change it back from one article to 5 (or technically, 4, since L1 doesn't yet have a presence in WP).
So, can I get a second (or more) opinion on this proposed direction of 1 article each for the Peak and all 5 subpeaks to just 1 article, please? BrettA343 ( talk) 22:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC) BrettA343 ( talk) 22:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi:
I developed from home a C# ASP.NET Xamarin.Android application and mobile-app proposed for use by Religious educational institutions. In its present form, the application solution can be used to present/search the holy Quran in multiple languages (49) in addition to calculation of numerical values for the Arabic alphabets for Quran's verses, using 19-digit system, to extract the hidden meanings of Quran's verses. The application concept it can be developed for the holy Bible and Torah in the future.
I believe this program gave a lot of answers which can be seen by Millions of Muslims and later Christian and Jewish when I developed the Holy Bible and Torah solution.
1) I want to publish the documentation 2) A website that can be used like Google or Wikipedia 3) What is the charges Alimusa893 ( talk) 06:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I'm an English teacher at a cram school in a non-English speaking country and I'm considering having my students, who are returnee junior high schoolers and high schoolers, work on improving articles on Wikipedia. I've taken a look at Articles for improvement to come up with a list of articles students can contribute to, but I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what would be suitable for them to write about. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. ~★ nmaia d 06:56, 1 October 2020 (UTC) ~★ nmaia d 06:56, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I have been editing an article about a school district that is currently experiencing a scandal alleging long-standing sex abuse of students by teachers. I added a section about the scandal. Someone was just arrested tonight, and he was identified in multiple news outlets. I added his name to the article because it is public information, but I would like to consult policies that discuss the guidelines about how to keep Wikipedia encyclopedic, since it is not a newspaper. Could someone please direct me to guidelines that discuss what to include and what not to include in an article? Also, are there policies that discuss editor liability for defamation? Thank you. – Kekki1978 talk 04:50, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I requested that Nigeria's Independence Day be featured on Wikipedia's homepage here, but when I checked the main page, it was ineligible, the reason being "refimprove section". What does that mean? Josedimaria237 ( talk) 09:19, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
HELLO FRIENDS! As I am new at being a Wikipedia contributor, I need your kind assistance. I am updating some information and all I desire to do is the exact correct manner in making additions to Wikipedia content!
I want to add the name of the second son of Raymond Arnold Disney to the Family Tree section. His name should be included alongside of his brother who is Charles Elias Disney, as he is the second son of Raymond Arnold Disney and Meredith A. Disney. Can you update this Family Tree chart page showing the second son? His name should correctly show as Daniel H. Disney (1956-) There are references to his name on both of his parents actual Find A Grave pages: Raymond Arnold Disney Memorial # 6782179 and Meredith A. Boyington Disney Memorial # 7319432. Also, personal information for Daniel H. Disney is shown on www.danieldisney.com
Please reply when possible when you have made this update!
Thank you so much for your help! I send you my best regards!
( Mary Hunt 2020 ( talk) 11:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)).
Sincerely, Mary Hunt.2020 Mary Hunt 2020 ( talk) 11:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I just had someone edit a reference that I added. He said he "fixed bare ref". He added a bunch of details - website, language, title, stuff like that. Is that required? So far I just put the "ref" tag on either side of a URL because I thought that was fine, but I guess someone "fixed" my "bare ref" so I wanted to know if I should be doing it that way. Wes sideman ( talk) 18:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you David! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wes sideman ( talk • contribs) 18:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Why isn't Transfermarkt a reliable source?
I put it in an article and an admin deleted the source saying "Transfermarkt isn't reliable" Can someone please explain? Neverbuffed ( talk) 13:12, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I am writing an article https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Phil_Coy&oldid=976360918 and in order to help the process I want to "add tags to a draft" This process reveals the error: Please check the draft page title. It doesn't seem to be in draft namespace
I would be grateful if someone could explain how to edit the draft so that it is 'in draft namespace'
many thanks
D Silly soul ( talk) 09:49, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
@ ColinFine: thanks for looking at this, that's good to know that the article is already in the draft space (i thought it was!). I was following one of the suggestions "Improving your odds of a speedy review" which suggests 'add tags to your draft' Silly soul ( talk) 10:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
@ ColinFine: thanks for your advice, I changed to "Draft:Phil Coy" and it allowed me to add the tags! Silly soul ( talk) 13:34, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello !
I would like to create a Wikipedia page about an artist (Sarah Coponat) I follow on social/streaming platforms such as Twitch, Spotify... She is a Twitch Partner (Top 1% of all active streamers on the platform), her live streams on Reddit often gather 150k+ views and she has about 160k monthly listeners on Spotify at the moment, 7K instagram.
Her work hasn't been featured in movies nor as she gotten any large awards to my knowledge although she did perform live twice on minor french Tv shows, but her live stream stats are definitely consequential and she has built a fairly big fan base.
Upon reading the notability guidelines, I am not sure whether those stats would be enough to make an article about her. Could a more experience writer give advice here? 2A01:CB1C:8032:4300:C496:7CE1:A4D1:3F15 ( talk) 13:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello or Bonjour! I would like to make a page about my previous Middle school (Northern Middle School, I am confused on how to create a page for that my town (Hagerstown MD) Already has a page and I feel as if it’s my duty to work on my towns presence on Wikipedia. AviaWilliamEdits ( talk) 12:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
What is AIV? Acidic Carbon ( Corrode) ( Organic compounds)-  —Preceding undated comment added 13:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
WP:
(in this case, WP:AIV
) using the search box at the top of every page. You'll see it's a valid link in the list of suggestions and, if you go to it, you'll find out what it means. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]—
14:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)I just want to publish my track listing for my mixtapes and albums on wikipedia. I don't write anything about my works that is biased, I only state information that anyone can find. Can you guys help me make my articles about my music. I only want to write out the track listing that's it. Blakestyle ( talk) 14:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How to edit a page with proper manner 2409:4043:2099:1AC9:0:0:2AAA:28AC ( talk) 10:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How I edit a page with proper manner that it doesn't get remove and it didn't create any problems for the editors. 2409:4043:2099:1AC9:0:0:2AAA:28AC ( talk) 14:09, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
About 3 years ago I started expanding the article Charles Stuart (painter)] classed as a Stub (on Pageviews) . If it seems reasonable, I would like to remove the stub template. Unfortunately, I cannot find it. Can anyone help? BFP1 BFP1 ( talk) 13:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC) BFP1 ( talk) 13:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone! We are the European Theatre Convention, a network for public theatres in Europe. This is a non-profit organisation. We prepared a description of our network and its activities but it apparently sounds too much like an advertisement. We are all ears to see how we can avoid this, unfortunately we don't really see how? We have read and tried to include all advice from your community, and are now a bit stuck. Would anyone have experience and would give us a few hints on how to improve our entry? Thanks a lot!
The draft in question: Draft:European Theatre Convention Joséphine ETC ( talk) 15:44, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
So I was just looking at some items in the Wikipedia namespace and from there I ended up at Maryland. I went to the edit history and saw what looks like a weird bug. The third oldest (go to the very first edits to the page) edit removed 84,860 (or was it 86,840?) BYTES of code according to the edit history.
Is there any explanation for this discrepancy? 45.251.33.149 ( talk) 14:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Is editing grammar and spelling a minor or major change? I would think major if you're reformatting an entire section of text from list to prose, for example, but what about things like your -> you're or a misplaced comma? AlexMozzarella ( talk) 16:09, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey everyone, I have currently created a wikipedia page and published it. However it got declined, and I was wondering if there is anyone here who could help me or giving me an advice of how to get my wiki page published?
Thank you in advance.
Marcel 2A00:23C7:A882:3600:C844:A724:F55C:31EE ( talk) 16:44, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Question moved from another section to its own. Giraffer munch 16:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
What pages should be recommended for new users to edit? InsulinRS ( talk) 16:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC) InsulinRS ( talk) 16:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello nice to meet you! I want ask how to do new topic I created some information about ROBLOX Corp. But when i am searching it i can find it here is a link (Hello from Azerbaijan) Animelover0001 ( talk) 16:10, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
hey, i have a problem uploading my audio it keeps saying error cannot upload audio Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 14:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
thanks for the link Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 18:13, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey, I created this article Pakundia Adarsha Mohila College 10 days ago. I've noticed that the page has not been patrolled yet and hence does not appear in Google Search. Is there any way to request someone to get this page patrolled? Cheers. Userths ( talk) 18:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, while I was browsing the recent changes list today I came upon this to which I reverted. The IP user stated on my Talk page that the edit was referenced via this Wikipedia article, as it is a direct copy-paste from it. However, this statement in the Boeing 737 article is also missing a reference, and would like to request guidance on what the proper course of action is here. Thanks! Transcendental36 ( talk) 18:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey, does anyone now the website to wikimedia statistics Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 10:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 14:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 20:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I have created a few articles recently. One of this is Jahan Geneve which I created two weeks back. Suddenly I found that to be deleted today for speedy deletion as promotional. I tried to address the issue and recreate the article after removing all the promotional parts. But it was again nominated for speedy deletion in same category. I have been going through the notibility policy and other policies thoughly before creating all my articles. I think the brand is notable as have some historic value while based in switzerland, so decided to write about it. I found some editor said I am an UPE. I have felt devastated and decided to nominate my own article for deletion. I truly believe there are lot of editors there who can judge and decide if the article is worthy of being retained in wikipedia. I am fine with any outcome out of it. But it was very shocking the way I was alleged of being paid editor persistently. I would request any help and I think this will help me with my future activities in wikipedia better. The deletion discussion is here: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jahan_Geneve -- Chiro725 ( talk) 20:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Chiro725 ( talk) 20:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Chiro725 ( talk) 20:43, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm currently in a minor dispute on List of South Park episodes over whether the film should be mentioned somewhere on the page. I brought up List of The Simpsons episodes as having had a consensus to include its film on its list, along with List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes as, while not including the films on the table, does mention them on the bottom of the page, but I was redirected to WP:OSE by one user while another removed any mention of the film on List of South Park characters. Is there some sort of policy on whether or not to mention films on episode list pages? Unnamed anon ( talk) 17:52, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I have noticed that many articles are often written by a single person, and are quite comprehensive and include many references and are published as a single edit. What does it take to write an article like this? How much time does it take? Does it require reading all of the references completely? How to choose which details to discuss and where to find all that knowledge? I have seen many articles that seem to be published by students, for an assignment in university, i would guess, they make an account, publish an article with one edit, and never come back again. But then, there are also people who create so many articles that they have to make several user subpages to list them all. Is the process followed by a student the same as the one followed by experienced Wikipedia editor who publishes massive amounts of articles? Is there some trick, or some strategy, that can explain how to write good articles quickly? 37.225.46.209 ( talk) 19:02, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I would love to add on my user page some of the items WormTT uses in the right column of his page, e.g. education level, etc.
Also, I'd like to display on my user page my edit stats, similar to how Beeblebrox displays his admin stats.
Are there templates for this stuff? Ad Meliora ( talk) 19:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Berrely! — Ad Meliora Talk∕ Contribs 19:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
This user is Nick Moyes. |
Thank you Nick — Ad Meliora Talk∕ Contribs 20:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How does one know if an image is "free" to use to illustrate a Wikipedia article? Is there HTML that is embedded in the IMG SRC code that states that? Thanks Untipoflaco ( talk) 22:07, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How do I make an edit? Jackiezee ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for your attention. I've been flagged two times right now for possible vandalism - 1 and 2. I know those are not vandalism - just because they aren't, anyone can see it and check. So they are false positives. I did everything the bot tells you to do, so I'm not here to report the bot's actions. I want to know what to do in these situations. Should I stop editing, as the bot seems to be easily triggered by my edits, or should I continue reporting and reverting false positives? Does the bot target people it warns multiple times? ThatStoopidGuy ( talk) 21:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Gojiej ( talk) 04:09, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Rachel Vanderthorne ( talk) 04:31, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
I am a new editor and am working on making positive grammar improvements to pages. I am an aspiring editor professionally. In searching for pages related to my interests in artificial intelligence I found a page of a biography of Joanne Pransky. The page's notability had been challenged multiple times by another editor. I attempted to strengthen the page's notability, The page was obscure and had an average of 5 visitors a day. After my edits were erased, I placed a discussion on the talk page if the page should be questioned for factual information. Immediately, I was attacked and now threatened with being blocked and informed my grammar contributions to pages are a waste of time.
Perhaps, I am not a cultural fit for Wiki? I thought asking questions and posting on talk pages was the correct way to conduct myself. Will veteran editors look at my contribution page and talk page and let me know what I am doing wrong or if I am being unfairly attacked by two other editors? I appreciate the help and feedback.
I put down the stick on the Joanne Pransky page because I was threatened to be blocked. I read the best action is to back away and I have run away from the page.
RobotDaneellives ( talk) 00:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC) RobotDaneellives ( talk) 00:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
-- RobotDaneellives ( talk) 07:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I have been told l need to pay a status tax to get on wikipedia. Is this so? I am a film maker since 1976, and was a Director of DW Thorpe book publishers. Both my Mother, Joyce Thorpe Nicholson, and brother, Peter Nicholson cartoonist are in it. www.mikenicholson.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael John Nicholson ( talk • contribs) 04:13, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Mike, Getting into Wikipedia wasn’t easy, had to send $1000 “status tax” to Canberra authorities. But think of the status connected with belonging to the Thorpe / Nicholson publishing empire. Nigel. 03:39, 30 September 2020 (UTC)~ 2001:8003:58D6:AC00:212F:805E:1C38:8649 ( talk) 03:39, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
So how do l get started? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael John Nicholson ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, why can you say l did nothing of 'notibility'? I set up 'Rubbery Figures' [political puppets like Spitting Image] with my brother and they were run for 6 years on Aust national tv? I did scripts, filming, animation, editing and sound. And then there are all my other films l made that were shown on Aust tv, and my books and art exhibitions. And was director of D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd, publishers. You can see all my work on my website, www.mikenicholson.com so why would you not have me on it? I dont understand this, I seem to be getting mixed messages from a lot of different people at Wikipedia. - Mike. Michael John Nicholson ( talk) 08:36, 30 September 2020 (UTC) Michael John Nicholson ( talk) 08:36, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
The best point you raised appears to be your involvement in Rubbery figures. However, that article has no references (putting it at risk for deletion), and also, the sentence "The Rubbery Figures programs were made in the Melbourne film studio of Peter Nicholson, who also made the puppets themselves." gives all the credit to your brother, Peter Nicholson (cartoonist). If you were truly equally involved, you may consider adding references to that article, including references that mention you, and then add a description of your contributions to the text of the article. As a general note, millions of people are successful in doing creative things (film, books, art exhibitions, publishing), but unless those people are written about by others who have no personal connection to the subject, do not meet Wikipedia's encyclopaedic definition of notability. David notMD ( talk) 11:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
What WikiProject tags should I add for an article about a programming language and how should these tags be spelled/capitalized? 84.238.45.164 ( talk) 08:10, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
( Say hi!) 08:31, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Are accepted photos from Instagram, Twitter, Flicker or facebook to be added in Wikipedia pages?
Forever Jose () ( talk) 09:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I am working on a draft that by mistake I placed the title wrong It should say Ignacio Pena Del Rio but it says Ignacio Peña Del Rio This is the draft: Draft:Ignacio Peña Del Rio Anyone knows how to accomplish this? Angie Lynn Anderson ( talk) 09:45, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angie Lynn Anderson ( talk • contribs) 09:55, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Submission of Jair Burgos is declined with comments - Sources are not reliable. Before submission of this draft for review, I had searched on wiki. To make sure each and every source which I am mentioning in Jair Burgos must be used in other already published bio on wikipedia. I am considering since these sites are one of reliable sources thats why these pages are listed on wiki. These sites are used in various published pages. Many of them has their own wiki page as well.
Adding search links for your reference.
1. backstage.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=backstage.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
2. patch.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=patch.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
3. digitaljournal.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=digitaljournal.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
4. issuu.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=issuu.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
Please guide to fix the mistake and include this page for listing.
I am accepting my mistake to use image. Thank you so much for correcting my mistake and removing from draft. Vsp.manu ( talk) 04:51, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Tamilreporter123 ( talk) 05:35, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
but yes, it would be very hard, especially since there is is a discrepancy here, where"The English Wikipedia has no official requirements to become an administrator. Any registered user can request adminship ("RFA") from the community, regardless of their Wikipedia experience."
The result is that according to one article, the user can in fact register and just is unlikely to be accepted, but the other article states that they are unable to register. So you are half-correct in saying that they currently don't qualify for it, though I'd trust the information on WP:RFA over WP:MOP."The...prerequisites for adminship are having an account and being extended confirmed (having both 30 days' tenure and 500 edits) so that you can file your own nomination."
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How to remove Notability tag in this article Sumit Pathak? Anupamsuwar ( talk) 05:54, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Having worked off and on with the List of biochemists since June I now have it in a state which corresponds better with how I think it ought to be (though as recently as today I noted two distinguished Israeli scientists who needed to be added). Others may think I've created a mess: if so, please let me know.
Anyway, I've started on the List of biologists, and have reached end of the letter A. However, as I'm a biochemist and not another sort of biologist I have less confidence in my judgement as to who should be listed. They need to have a Wikipedia page, of course, but what else?
I have a more specific question on which I'd like advice from experienced editors. Many entries contain notes like "(abbr. in botany: F.Allam.)" (at least three under A, many others under other letters). I can see that botanists want to know these abbreviations, but they can easily find them in the pages on the people concerned, which are all linked. How important are they for general readers? If I delete the whole lot will I be blocked for vandalism? Athel cb ( talk) 14:00, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
I am trying to create a page for the company I represent. My account was auto-confirmed today. But I do not know and I am confused on how to upload the article or publish it in Wikipedia. Please help. Daralnoble ( talk) 13:17, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
@Nick Moyes, Thank-you a lot for that in-depth information. And i ask your pardon for the incorrect use of words (pages instead of articles) due to my infancy with Wikipedia. I understand the wait period of getting the article accepted and will sure write the article accordingly to the rules and regulations. Once again wholeheartedly thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daralnoble ( talk • contribs) 14:50, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
thanks Draft:Give toes 216.125.35.209 ( talk) 15:40, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi I created an account to update and make fuller a bio i wrote for my father Monty Meth (age 94) It was taken down although I do not understand the reasons why. There is nothing controversial in it. he is the source of most of the info and we would rather it was on WIKI whilst he is still with us.
Can you explain how I get it on line and if I can't post it can somebody else on our behalf
Thank you in anticipation
Ian Ian.meth ( talk) 16:17, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey! I'm a Wikipeida editor who has been here for a while, and I have just volunteered to create a Wikipedia page for my new company, Megaputer Intelligence. My COI disclosue is on my user page, and a draft of the article may be found in my sandbox. I think I have done a good job with my sourcing, but since this is my first time editing with a COI I thought I'd run it past you just in case. What do you guys think? Sam at Megaputer ( talk) 02:14, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I have no idea how to edit/update a wikipedia article, in particular: /info/en/?search=Hunter_Biden. Do I need to learn HTML or some such? Is there an easy way for a non-technical person? Dcnewkirk ( talk) 22:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Teahouse!
I would like to inquire about archiving talk page discussions. Is there a template for adding this feature?
I am a paid editor for Julie L. Green and am also looking for any resources containing COI guidelines for editing and maintaining the Talk:Julie L. Green page.
Thank you for your time. I appreciate how helpful this page is. KaitlynCK ( talk) 03:41, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
@
KaitlynCK: When you add a reference to a section on a talk page, it's best to also add {{
Talkref}}
at the end of the section so the references are kept together with that section, like this:
Some text. [1]
References
(normally it's a level-2 section heading; it's a level-3 heading in this example for display purposes)
For example, see
Talk:Julie L. Green, where I added {{Talkref}}
after the comments in each of the four sections that had references. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]—
04:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to make an article about a game that me and my team are publishing and releasing in couple months, and I happen to be old Wikipedia editor (not really on English wikipedia, but still)
I know this probably gets asked 10s of times a day here probably, but, what qualifies it for Wikipedia-worthy article? I will not be using my own material, even though external articles or coverages does not exist, the game has lots of official material (Steam store and other different store pages, official website with its own wiki, and is overall mentioned in social media a lot)
Can I go ahead and try submitting the article? if not, when would it qualify? if any official magazine/article posts happen from reviewers and such? Thanks! Nika1010 ( talk) 05:30, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Is this normal? I’ve been trying to keep a hoax out of the Panela article, ongoing (well before my involvement) since June 2016. I am only the latest in a long, long line of (registered) editors reverting this vandalism.
The result of my request -
was: a more restrictive – and possibly less effective - level of protection was applied, without explanation; and my editing has been characterised as ”edit-warring”, despite all my caution, talk page comment, and over-explaining eggshell-walking.
Wonderful treatment of newcomers! I feel so welcomed. Why didn't I barge in and throw my weight around as I see others do on WP, instead of going to the trouble of politely pussy-footing around? I got a slap in face just the same!
I am really surprised at how badly I feel, but I am completely gutted: No good deed goes unpunished!
What did I do wrong?
122.105.187.37 ( talk) 10:04, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I can’t change the Semi-protection article, but I think the title should be modified-change "Marie Curie" to "Marie Sklodowska-Curie." I believe this should be a respect for great people, so I want to apply for related changes. But because I don’t have this permission, and I haven’t found anyone who can be contacted on the "Contact us" of WIKI. So come here for help , Thank you again for your assistance!
Best regards, 132.178.238.28 ( talk) 05:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I know my draft article has been submitted for review. Here is the link to my article : /info/en/?search=Draft:Laborate_Pharmaceuticals_India_Limited Allin96 ( talk) 07:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
How do i reply to someone who has answered my question in the Teahouse. Im able to ask using the Ask A Question, but after someone replies i unable to figure out how to answer back/thank them. Allin96 ( talk) 08:01, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
{{ping|Marchjuly}} Thanks for the response!
Thanks {{u|Marchjuly}}, I have a followup question.
Allin96 ( talk) 08:56, 25 September 2020 (UTC) Thanks Ganbaruby
Hello there, in the Rapala article, if you hover over the "Rapala" it shows no photo, and I was wondering if there was a way to add a photo to the thing... sorry I can't really describe it, but I will try to answer any questions you ask. Cheers, User:Shadowblade08 ( talk) 03:01, 21 September 2020 (UTC) User:Shadowblade08 ( talk) 03:01, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I'm new to Wikipedia and wrote my third article, Kilma S. Lattin I had pretty good results with the first two, but this page was tagged for "speedy deletion" this morning, about 30 minutes after I posted it. I have since made a few edits, as well as pressed the blue "Contest" button. Would anyone have time to take a look, and give me some other advice about what I could edit? Possibly weigh on on whether you think it reads like a promotion? It doesn't seem overly promotional to me at all. I do like to write about people who do really exceptional things, but then there are a lot of biographies of exceptional people on Wikipedia. :-) I hope that the editors will agree. It would be great to get more positive representation of living Native Americans on Wikipedia. Thank you in advance! Even though I'm new, let me know if there's anything I can help with. Excited to be on the platform. CHelmuth HLMC98 20:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
How will i come to know if my page is confirmed, and how long will it take it. Ramkumar Singaram1808 ( talk) 10:04, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
This IP located in Japan has been - and currently is - going around changing "the UK" to "England", "Scotland", etc. and is changing the nationalities in lead sections and userboxes of British personalities' articles from "British" to "English", "Scottish", etc. These are the only edits by the IP. I feel these edits are unnecessary. I reverted a few of these edits but the IP reinstated them. I don't want to get into an edit war, and I don't think the IP's going to stop. What should I do? Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 07:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Can someone review this short article I wrote: /info/en/?search=Draft:Laborate_Pharmaceuticals_India_Limited Allin96 ( talk) 12:12, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I got constructive feedback on my entry and I want to improve it, but my entry showed up without the visual editing option in "Edit", but only "Edit source". Could someone please explain how to make Visual editing possible? It will take so long to figure out the other way of editing. Thanks a lot. Sand7043 11:53, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good day, in the infobox if I'd like to add citations on two items but with one/same source, how do I do that? Thanks. Willygeorgina ( talk) 15:55, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
On the Android 11 page, the infobox shows General availability as "September 8, 2020; 12 days ago". This is very strange since today is September 25, so the age should be at least 17 days ago. 104.35.46.117 ( talk) 15:20, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good day. I am not sure what to do to declare that I am the owner of the brand and that there is not COI yet it is implied that there is. I am also trying to change the name article name in order to prevent confusion. JohnGWE ( talk) 16:58, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear DES Thank you for your assistance.
An editor has a financial conflict of interest when they write about a topic with which they have a close financial relationship. This includes being an owner, employee, contractor, investor or other stakeholder.It refers to this as paid editing and then goes on to link to the WMF Policy at WP:PAID. Thus, if I were the owner and CEO of Nick Moyes Acme Widgets and wanted to edit the article about my product or brand, I would interpret that I not only have a 'conflict of interest' but that I am receiving financial benefit from the sales of my widgets, whose profile I have helped raise by my edits. Thus, not only should I, but I must follow WP:PAID and declare my connection and financial benefit as owner/CEO, or face being blocked for undeclared paid editing (UPE). Note that 'How to disclose' at WP:PAID links back to the WP:PE section in the WP:COI page. So, I would probably put the following userbox on my userpage, along with a note explaining that I am the owner/CEO of my widget company, thus:
This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Nick Moyes Acme Widgets. |
{{Connected contributor (paid)|User1=Nick Moyes|U1-employer=Nick Moyes Acme Widgets|U1-otherlinks=https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Nick_Moyes&type=revision&diff=980121861&oldid=975883638&diffmode=source}}
Thank you DES and Nick Moyes - maybe someone will bring out a Idiots Guide to Wikipedia with singular links with instructions for example - to create a userpage click here and copy the following and edit the relevant information. Same with the rest. I will take the weekend and go through everything slowly and figure out the userpage / coi / paid things so that I comply and update the pages and hope they dont get changed back :-) Thank you all so much for the assistance up to date - I really appreciate it. Regards— Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnGWE ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I will take the weekend and go through everything slowly and figure out the userpage / coi / paid things so that I comply and update the pages and hope they dont get changed back, I think what Nick and DES are politely suggesting is that you don't try to update the pages yourself, but instead propose the changes you want to make on the relevant articles' talk pages as explained in WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement. Having your proposed changes assessed by others who don't have a COI is more likely going to reduce the chance of them getting changed back. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:37, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Marchjuly I THINK I got it right. If I did I should get a gold star ;-) Thank you to all for your patients and assistance. Much appreciated. JohnGWE ( talk) 08:19, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
OOPS! I think I did it wrong (again)! I wanted to create a new article / page and I followed the steps on Google and this is what happened /info/en/?search=User:JohnGWE/sandbox "have head need wall" What did I do wrong? JohnGWE ( talk) 08:48, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear DESiegel Thank you very much. I will try and rewrite the article. It really took us almost 3 months to write and fact check the article before I published it back in 2012 :-O but I understand and appreciate the assistance. Regards JohnGWE ( talk) 16:11, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good day, Please i want to add pages for MODE MEN Magazine and other (an individual, the Editor of Mode men)
i request guidance.
i also want to be a contributor to wikipedia. Nnstega ( talk) 16:41, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Can you please help me create a page + put files on it? Also, I am new, so can you help me edit Wikipedia?
Holly2017 ( talk) 13:20, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
See WP:Your first article. Articles must be about something that meets Wikipedia's definition of notable. In passing, please stop uploading images that have no potential for ever being used in an article. David notMD ( talk) 17:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Bran Symondson AK47 ( talk) 16:16, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
globally renowned,
famous great portrait,
His artwork is sold globally and each piece is completely different.are not acceptable unless cited to a named person whose opinion they are. Name-dropping is also not a good idea.
I don't understand why the article, /info/en/?search=Michael_Burch, has been flagged with: "This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. (October 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message"
Can someone please point out the issue specifically so I can correct it. Thank you.
Diane SoCalArchitect ( talk) 17:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
is there a way I can play the adventure game ●●●● Bdetfehigj ( talk) 20:03, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey guys. I've had 3 draft submissions pending for several weeks at Draft:Joseph Hayat, Draft:Justin Picard and Draft:Cynthia Umezulike, and the backlog only seems to be growing with each passing week. If there's any willing reviewers who'd take the time to have a look, that would be appreciated. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 09:37, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
I am having trouble finding a source for when Crystal light was created. On the Wikipedia article, it states it was made and sold in 1982, but other than the article itself and one other source that mentioned it in passing, I can't find any other resources stating it was made in 1982. The official website, kraft foods, had a FAQ section about crystal light, saying that it was sold in 1984. Which source should be added as a citation for the article? SkippSeven ( talk) 14:47, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Did you try searching the company annual reports. They will sometimes mention the launch of a new product. 2605:E000:1301:4777:7811:4FC0:E9A3:96B8 ( talk) 18:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
2600:387:1:809:0:0:0:55 ( talk) 23:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
What is the coding to add stub to an article? 2605:E000:1301:4777:7811:4FC0:E9A3:96B8 ( talk) 17:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
stub}}
to the bottom of the article if needed. There are a million specific ones that you can use instead, but there are other people that can fix that eventually. To find more specific ones, just Google for example "wikipedia russian musician stub template", which brings you to {{
Russia-singer-stub}}
. –
Thjarkur
(talk)
18:01, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
I deleted some messages in this revision as I thought they were bad faith messages as they assume I am lying and I am evading a ban.
Was I right to do so?
Eyebeller ( talk) 20:07, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Central Point, Oregon's wikipedia page has an outdated population. I do not know how to make references and would like to cite this website: https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/central-point-or-population. Firestar9990 ( talk) 19:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Should it be (Literally: "_______"), (Literal translation: "______"), (Literally "______"), or (literally:/literally "________")? JessWess99 ( talk) 21:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
Lang-zh|c=青蒿素|l=compound of green-blue wormwood}}
produces
Chinese: 青蒿素;
lit. 'compound of green-blue wormwood'. Hope that helped,
Rotideypoc41352 (
talk ·
contribs)
22:14, 25 September 2020 (UTC)it is called foo (literally "bar"). In a table or other repetitive or space-sensitive situation, I might use the abbreviation "lit." instead of "literally". —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 23:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I need help. I am editing the draft article Josie James, and one of my tables ends up under "External Links" no matter what I do. I've checked for typos a thousand times. If I change the order of the tables, no tables go under "external links." Only the one I want to put last.
Thanks in advance! Earlgrey20 ( talk) 07:46, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
|}
, not |-}
. I have corrected it in
this edit. --
David Biddulph (
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08:19, 26 September 2020 (UTC)Hi to all! I recently made edits to this page (my edits can be found here), as it was listed on Cleanup listing for WikiProject Pakistan. This page is longer then it needs to be. There is a huge, unnecessary list of programmes aired/currently airing on this channel, and have no citations. I left a message on the article's talk page about the edits. No one replied and I went forward with it ( WP:BOLD). Then, an unregistered user, edited the article and basically reverted it back to its original state. That IP pops up in the Edit History every now and then. How am I to proceed with this. Can this be treated as vandalism? The user is unregistered, so I can't ping them and talk directly. Need help. SuddenlyMangoes ( talk) 20:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
In the case of documenting the “output” of an international film festival, the festival Wikipedia page currently lists all the awards and certain other major events for the festival, but very little detail or any real yearly or historical documentation.
Editors could of course already choose to also start including lists of all movies shown each year along with information about guests and judges and so on, to better document the cultural history of the event and paint a more complete picture.
But information on Wikipedia should ideally be backed up by links to sources, and one of the best sources for the extra information mentioned above would be the yearly festival catalogue, a source that also contains a lot of other information (about each film shown, portraits of the honour guests and judges, the festival themes and other cultural documentation) that from a cultural history viewpoint might be just as important as the threadbare basic facts currently published on Wikipedia – some might argue vital even.
Posing, hypothetically, that the festival would be willing to make their past catalogues available for online publishing as PDFs, then the inclusion of these PDF catalogues would help make the cultural history documentation of the film festival far more complete, engaging, and historically relevant, and allow Wikipedia editors to easily refer or link to them as sources. But should one be able to get ahold of these PDFs, the question would then be how to best store/publish them in a historically lasting way.
And when googling the subject of inclusion of PDFs on Wikipedia (through Wikisource) it seems that, unlike images, PDFs appear to be considered a fringe use case reserved mostly for special circumstances. And while some might argue that this particular use case is culturally important or vital, others might then argue that PDFs of music record covers or even things like toy packaging are just as culturally important, and then where do you draw the line to avoid filling the Wikipedia sites with just about any kind of PDFs? So I see why lines need to be drawn, for practical reasons, and that the storing the types of PDFs discussed here may not be allowed.
But if Wikipedia/Wikisource isn't the recommended storage place for preservation/documentation of PDFs such as these (and I'm not saying it isn't, just that the information I found appears to suggest it might not be), because Wikipedia is intended mainly for summaries (and commentary) on the information in things published/stored/preserved elsewhere, then the question is what the Wikipedia community would recommend as a suitable solution for the storage of the actual source PDFs mentioned here (historical preservation style – something that would be likely to outlast the film festival itself), so that Wikipedia editors may then refer/link to the PDFs as sources of information published on Wikipedia.
I'm guessing similar discussions have arisen in the past, and if Wikipedia/Wikisource isn't the right match for a use case like this, then what alternative(s) would the community recommend for preserving the sources (if we are even be able to get ahold of them for preservation purposes)?
Thank you! 2.248.99.112 ( talk) 11:52, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello sir i need to know how to put draft for submission i want to add Draft: Prit Kamani for submission. Wpedia User ( talk) 13:45, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Can the search function be improved? I looked for "Chingiz Autmatov" (spelled Aytmatov in Britannica and Aitmatov on Wikipedia) in Wikipedia. The response that there was nothing. When I entered the term in Duckduckgo (a search engine), the FIRST hit was "Chinghiz Aitmatov - Wikipedia." If an external search engine can so readily pull up the closest hit in Wikipedia, why can't Wikipedia? Kdammers ( talk) 12:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC) Kdammers ( talk) 12:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
I know I'm not a new user, but is it OK if you still reply to me?
I was nominating a user page for speedy deletion under
WP:U2 when I decided to move my CSD log to the User talk: namespace, because I don't like editing in userspace much. It actually turns out that the (now blocked) user who created the page had created five other userpages for nonexistent users. I came around and CSD'd one of them, but it added the page to
User:Chicdat/CSD log instead of
User talk:Chicdat/CSD log. So I went to my TW preferences and replaced the "CSD log" part of it with User talk:Chicdat/CSD log
. But now, when I nominated another page for CSD, it saved it to
User:Chicdat/User talk:Chicdat/CSD log! Will I ever be able to CSD again?
🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:26, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Teahouse friends, and thanks for your help to answer questions from users like myself.
Is there a way that I can change the capitalization and display of my username?
Right now, my username on Wikipedia is "Nickgray"
For purely aesthetic reasons, I'd like it to either be "nickgray" (no caps) or "NickGray" (camelcase) Nickgray ( talk) 11:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Nick<span style="text-transform:uppercase;">g</span>ray}}
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Hi, dear people, I wanted to translate the article on Vincent Namatjira for the german wikipedia, but it is impossible - due to the unusual and to me very strange formatting of the reference-links. I do know <ref name= - but there are no real references at all given - only the short terms for the ref name, but nowhere the real references (or i'm too blind to see???), which leaves me completely puzzled. I up to now never have seen this. For instance there is a <ref name=ocula/> - but no explanation or link or anything. And in the reflink-section this is named (and it's the only reference given at all) {Reflist}}, {{s-start}}, {{s-ach|aw}}, {{s-bef|before=[[Tony Costa (artist)|Tony Costa]]}}, {{s-ttl|title=[[Archibald Prize]]|years=2020<br />for ''[[Adam Goodes]]''}},{{s-aft|after= }},{{s-end}} Could someone help me to get to the REAL references in this article, please? Kind regards, -- Gyanda ( talk) 18:40, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
<ref name=ocula>{{Cite web |url=https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/vincent-namatjira/ |title=Vincent Namatjira in Conversation |last=King |first=Natalie |date=24 November 2018 |website=Ocula |access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref>
. This should be the same for all of them. I hope that helps.
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Another participant named Ke an unmotivatedely persistently removes my edits at Lithuania proper as I am trying to improve the article by mentioning all countries where this historical territory existed, and he does it regardless of all the proper explanation I provide - just dismissing it. I am not sure what should I do in such a situation, as it creates a totally unfriendly environment. Thank you. Vadzim ( talk) 19:33, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
hey is there a way we can request other editors to publish about an entity ? Usasoccernumber1 ( talk) 19:55, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, how do you delete duplicate references and re-order them please? 2A01:4B00:F613:7B00:CDF2:91AB:AFD6:69BE ( talk) 21:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
How do i save my draft, all i see is to preview then publish pages. I do not want to publish as yet. LordGriot ( talk) 23:11, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Draft:
then just press 'Publish Page' and it will save your page as a draft. It won't become a mainspace article until an AfC and an NPR reviewer look at it.Would photographs from the State Magazine be considered public domain? The are some with attribution (e.g. "Photo by John Doe") and submitted personal photos which I'd assume are under copyright.
However, there are others that mention federal departments in their attribution (e.g. "State Department photo by John Doe") or are either headshots or group photos of employees without attribution. Could I consider the second group of photos to be okay to use here? Dorito Toes ( talk) 18:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
I Made A Mistake On This Article. I Wanted To Put Hurricane Otto's Disappearing Date At The Very Top But It Just Erased The Track Map For The Whole Season. Can I get Help? Hurricanestudier123 ( talk) 14:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I change the time and day on my signature? UB Blacephalon ( talk) 00:56, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Trying to link non created page words "skin electronics" to existing page "wearable technology"
May someone please explain how to link a page that's not created to an existing page?
Theirs no point creating a new page for it, as it's already covered under the existing page. Thanks again, SumeetJi ( talk) 05:15, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
It's working now thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SumeetJi ( talk • contribs) 05:27, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
How can I edit without using Wikipedia:Disruptive editing? KassMMB ( talk) 03:02, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible to change my username from "Rhinestorm" to "oruc.emre.kaya"? It's from so many years ago and kind of childish. Oruç Emre KAYA 09:52, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Is "quarcolor" (= similar to bicolor, tricolor) a correct word for a flag with four different colors? Koreanovsky ( talk) 12:20, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
From my questiom at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kaldari#Hello&question
Hello. I have a one question. Are wikimedia com. And the wikipedia encyclopedia the same or are they different. I noticed some photos there with no logo of your website which is wikimedia commons. Why theres no such logo that also links them here? If same then no question. If different then is the encylopedias governing freedom of pano principle the same or not? This question is with respect to my concerns at copyrighted philippine bldgs and sculpttures being shown in commons. Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 03:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Cullen328 for the answer. But my question actually is that if both commons and wikipedia encyclopedia enforcements of freedom of panorama rules are the same or different. Sorry for my unchanged wording, i just copied my question from your fellow moderator kaldari at wikimedia commons The wording shouldve been - some photos shown here do not have wikimedia commons logo, while others do have that logo that links them there. Why those photos do not have that logo and link to wikimedia commomd? And is the freedom of pano enforcements of both wikipedia and wikimedia commons the same? Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 03:36, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Ummm. How about the bldgs? Philippines has no freedom of pano for both bldgs and sculptures. Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 04:30, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Ok Marchjuly. I posted my concern at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#Are_philippine_bldg_and_sculpture_0hotos_acceptable_on_wikipedia? But this concern is more of the wikipedia photos of philippine bldgs and sculptures with no wikimedia commons links and marks, if their hosting here is allowed by your administration or not which means no freedom of panorama also extends here. Mrcl lxmna ( talk) 07:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I want to start a sockpuppet investigation but I'd like to know if there are tools I can use for comparing contributions of past sockpuppet accounts and a current sockpuppet account of which I am suspicious. In particular, I'd like to know if there are tools for searching contributions based on keywords instead of just a list of common Wikipedia articles, and see if there are similarities between the specific edits/contributions of the suspected account and those of the past confirmed sockpuppets. Thank you. Stricnina ( talk) 07:51, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Good morning sir, and how are you doing today?... I have read and understand the terms and conditions of your platform... But the question now is how can we add images to our biography and also make it live on search engines 102.89.2.172 ( talk) 11:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
An RfC at Indian subcontinent looked initially like WP:SNOW, but then participation dried up, from both ends of the dispute. I have tried posting all relevant Wikiprojects (9 of them), but no result. I have also requested all the admins who took a look at the RfC to comment, no result again. How can I get more particpants in the discussion? Aditya( talk • contribs) 02:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
I wanted to change the page title ZIMM (a disambiguation page) to "Zimm" because 4 of the 5 Zimm's mentioned are names and the fifth one seems to have no ZIMM article but has something in German that has no "ZIMM" that I could detect. However when I went to move "ZIMM" to "Zimm" it I learned that "ZIMM" was a redirect from an earlier "Zimm" I guess I could just wipe that page (the redirect) out, but decided to ask first. So, I'm asking, "What do I do?" Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 23:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC) Carptrash ( talk) 23:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
When I load the California mobile view article on my Android phone, the tabs only go to Demographics, it doesn't load all of them, but when I reload it in desktop mode on my smartphone it shows everything. Why is that? I'm running the latest Chrome and Android versions both? 47.150.227.254 ( talk) 03:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
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at
Special:Diff/980640261. The mobile view now correctly breaks the rest of the content after Demographics into sections. (Thanks due to
User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint) —[
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17:14, 27 September 2020 (UTC)Hello, I’d like to ask what the difference is between a “declined AFC draft” and “rejected AFC draft” is? Maka ( talk · contribs) 15:31, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
What does it mean when a citation has a form like this: "[4]:253" ?? I've seen this on the page about scientific racism. Truth is King TALK 14:51, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Angus,
We recently submitted a page for Eloise Singer, would you mind detailing what references were unable to be accepted for publishing?
Thanks SF Singerfilms ( talk) 19:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
How do you create a biography page? Marchelle2725 ( talk) 17:37, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
As I did my first edit (the township of Elumathur in India), I felt very inadequate at the task. I kept wishing that I had an excellent example of a page about a township. Is there a way find an excellent example of a subject? Pamich3 ( talk) 19:31, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Please give a third and fourth and fifth opinion this edit by user https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Isfahan&oldid=prev&diff=980612082 Baratiiman ( talk) 13:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear WP:TEAHOUSE, I am one of the contributors of the European Training network Of PhD researchers on Innovative EMI analysis and power Applications. This is a wikipage dedicated to disseminate knowledge regarding Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electromagnetic Interference on the basis of European Union's Horizon 2020 research program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812753 [7]. Please, may you help me to improve it? I would like to turn it into a wikiproject such as [ [8]], how should I proceed? Thanks in advance. Douglas Aguiar do Nascimento ( talk) 19:47, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
I just added a free image (in the infobox) for A Modern Magdalen article. I also happened to notice on the article's talk page that there was a parameter in the portal box that tags it as needing an image for the article. Should I also delete that tag or is that something someone on the WikiProject Film group would do? I'm really new to all of this so don't want to overstep what should be done. Thanks! MarcusGarland ( talk) 22:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Why?
Baratiiman ( talk) 11:20, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
David notMD not reverted yet, i have read versions from the page for past years and they had pics that were removed.Also about prostitutes can i just add subheading and related articles?. Baratiiman ( talk) 14:41, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
As to prostitution, a better place to add content would be Prostitution in Iran. David notMD ( talk) 00:35, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I have created a walking map that incorporates many of the buildings in this list /info/en/?search=List_of_Art_Deco_buildings_in_Perth
I would love to add the map in its own box next to the Contents at the top
No idea how - so assistance gratefully accepted.
cheers PerthDeco ( talk) 03:20, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reply - do you mean anything that uses Google Maps? The map is entirely my work with info found in the public domain and uses my own photos - can I add it to any other wiki project? PerthDeco ( talk) 04:37, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Basic question. On a bibliography of a living person, what to do when you find extensive edits, many of which are promotional, making it hard to suggest meaningful edits for objectivity? I have this article in mind ... Alfred Mutua ... TruthHunterLe ( talk) 23:35, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Is is true that if a page title is followed in parentheses to denote that there is another page with the main title (ie. SpongeBob SquarePants (character) -> SpongeBob SquarePants), then the disambiguation reminder at the top of the page should only be on the one without parentheses in its title? If a character named after a series had their own page (like what I've provided an example of), I'm assuming it would be unethical to include the disambig reminder on the character page that links to the series page, and the latter is the page that should have it, in this case reminding the reader of the existence of the character page? Just a thought. Meetertound ( talk) 01:09, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
hi and good evening I just wanted to ask what will happen if I enable advanced mode in Wikipedia Alisha rains ( talk) 20:18, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you so much guys for replying to my question I really really appreciate and for those that asked what button I am talking about it's the button you will find when you go to settings Alisha rains ( talk) 04:34, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I don't know what to do with the wiki page interracial marriage. This page feels highly vandalized with many users pointing fingers at each other and at first I thought I knew who was in the right but now I don't know what to believe, I would personally try to read its history and fix the page but i'm currently really busy in real life and won't be free until around mid to late October, and even when I try my best to fix pages I often take the lazy way out or forget why I was trying to pursuit this edit in the first place and create a bigger mess than before, I don't know how to fix this page or help the users who fight with each other so I'm asking others to help, please -- Toby Mitches ( talk) 01:34, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. A simple question today: I noticed the page for poet/writter Tsering Woeser is entitled without her first name [9]. Not usual practice, it seems. Fyi, BBC and France24 also use her as a reliable source for current information on Tibet. What's the process for requesting the correction? Much thanks as always. Pasdecomplot ( talk) 06:30, 28 September 2020 (UTC) 
Help me to publish wiki page for online study web and android application. Sunresh ( talk) 05:39, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I hope someone can answer me. Can someone please tell me why the article on 2020-21 FA Vase has either been deleted or moved to draft. Ta.
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Hello, I am Fikry Muraza. I need help to get a page approved. I really hope for your support. Thank you very much! Fikry Muraza ( talk) 09:32, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
hey! I need help getting the artwork to a song on Wikipedia! FarisLloyd ( talk) 21:46, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I am making a page in wikipedia about a new band. Part of the infobox requires a picture of the band. As you may know by stalking my account, I have had constant operose copyright dilemmas. So i would ask today, what are the copyright requirements? I would provide the name of the band and a picture. Thanks Ice bear johny ( talk) 07:10, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Oh ok thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ice bear johny ( talk • contribs) 09:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Ah that was only a flippant comment, colloquially referenced to today's facebook. Anyways thanks for letting me know that you can see (stalk but euphemised/in a trivial manner) my past edits. Way to go for me hehehe Ice bear johny ( talk) 15:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
How to approve my article Draft:Poojabishnoi Naresh Prajapat 11:18, 28 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nareshprajapatmogra ( talk • contribs)
If I am not supposed to write from other websites, how can I write it myself with no help. NuvolaBrain123 ( talk) 14:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm trying to update the Celebrity's Date of Birth on her request. and I do have Visual Proof of her original DOB. so How I can submit that? Ufjohns ( talk) 10:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I note the reply to an earlier question of mine. Sunderland AFC have put out this statement at:- https://www.safc.com/news/club-news/2020/september/on-this-day-in-1880
I repeat, no matter what is claimed by the organisation they have no primary source material from 1879 on this. None exists. if you take a look at the link on the page that 'confirms' 1879 you will see it is to a page that goes back to 2010 and which has never been altered since and which, is to all intents and purposes, dead.
Meanwhile, there is primary source material from 1880 on this with the Sunderland Echo of 27 September carrying a report of the teachers meeting two days earlier that states 'the teachers have FORMED a football club'
A more accurate report on the club's formation date would start by saying at the meeting of 25 September 1880 the club was formed ..... some people have claimed the club was formed in 1879 and have pointed to an article in 1887 and later in 1929 as indicating this is the case.
I don't wish to labour this point but I am acknowledged as a football historian, I have written numerous football history books and Sunderland is my own team of many years. MarkMetcalf ( talk) 16:00, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I am a relatively new editor. I have been updating this page: /info/en/?search=Yell_(company) with company news that is in the public interest and published in the national media.
Another editor, from an anonymous IP address and presumably working for Yell is repeatedly undoing my updates as soon as they are published.
I find the wikipedia guidance on these disputes pretty confusing and would appreciate any advice on how to stop this page vandalism.
Richdanny ( talk) 15:50, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Richdanny ( talk) 15:50, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
How do i insert images to my story? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foodboy1 ( talk • contribs) 16:41, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
How does one add images and pictures in their writings? 105.232.25.195 ( talk) 17:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I submitted the page below but was declined for reasons: Submission declined on 28 September 2020 by Theroadislong (talk). This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
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The John Walton Secondary School was established in 1973 because of a growing need for a second coloured high school in Uitenhage at the time. The school was started by Mr.G.E. Jenniker, who was also the first principal, in a pre-fabricated building with hardboard walls, wooden floors and corrugated iron roof. The initial school was situated at the corner of Acacia and Papegaai Street. (Now part of C.W.Hendricks Primary School.) The school was named after Rev. John Walton who was a missionary of the London Missionary Society in India. He was also the founder of the Hankey Training School, the forerunner of Dower College. In 1978 the school moved to its current location at Rosedale Drive, Rosedale. From these humble beginnings the school rose from the dust and became a cradle that produced countless academic and sports achievers as well as leaders in various spheres. During the turbulent times of riots in the 80's and early 90's, John Walton played a significant role in the liberation struggle. During these times the school competed very strongly with other schools in Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth. It has been involved in numerous fierce sporting battles with its arch- rival Uitenhage High as well as other schools. Over the years the school has always been characterized for producing very competitive rugby and volleyball teams, and stood its own on the athletic track. In recent years the school has however struggled and currently finds it very hard to live up to its former glory days. This situation can however be improved by creating a bigger awareness amongst our community and especially amongst our former pupils. This fine institution has been instrumental in shaping who we are today. It is therefore only fitting that we should explore and nurture all possible ventures that will restore the pride that we carry in our hearts. SICITUR AD ASTRA! |
References I want to add : http://www.johnwaltonsecondary.co.za/about-us/47-john-walton.html https://epages.co.za/john-walton-secondary-school-jubilee-park/ https://www.africanadvice.com/1365760/Schools/Eastern_Cape/John_Walton_Secondary/
Mama Walton (talk) 06:46, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I have read your response ColinFine and appreciate your response, I now stand back with a thankfull heart— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mama Walton ( talk • contribs) 19:11, 28 September 2020 (UTC+9) (UTC)
Hey! So I really want to update the images portrayed on Cher Lloyd wiki page! The current photos are from 2012 and it is 2020 now! This must be updated!
I have some photos I'd hope you guys can add for me!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139848974@N07/26177918621/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/96853530@N05/11202591733/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/javicmorales/30406915221/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/javicmorales/29862999694/in/photostream/ FarisLloyd ( talk) 05:14, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
one of Cher's leading street teams (fan groups) to promote her and her music. I have direct connections to her manager and get exclusive info on new releases etc.doesn’t give you (or Lloyd’s team through you) any special type of editorial control over what’s written about Lloyd on Wikipedia.As for the infobox image, either you or someone else is going to need to find a freely-licensed replacement that’s a more recent photo of Lloyd for Wikipedia and Commons to accept it. If you or someone else can find such an image that’s better for Wikipedia’s purposes, then most likely no other editors are going to object. However, if someone does object, then any disagreement is going to need to be resolved per WP:DR. In other words, Lloyd’s team can help out by providing a freely-licensed image to use instead, but there might still need to be a WP:CONSENSUS established to do so. — Marchjuly ( talk) 22:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I am User:Ylevental, and I have mental issues that will make it hard to not sock. I think six months' time would be fine. My IP range is at Special:Contributions/2606:5580:30C:7F9E:F4A5:547C::/64 and the quarantine makes it hard to go outside much. I've lost interest in Wikipedia anyway; this is just in case. I lost interest particularly because of endless edit wars such as Special:Diff/945920522/945925090 (concerning autism) and Special:Diff/975358290/975359916 (concerning Bernie Sanders)
2606:5580:30C:7F9E:F4A5:547C:7C47:70C3 ( talk) 21:36, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Can you review my article if it contains an error or not and help me complete it Karrar.allamy ( talk) 23:43, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear Sir or Madam,
I didn't realise I couldn't edit my own wikipedia page and now there is a template saying that 'major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view'. Everything on the page is now up to date and factually correct. Can you help me clean it up?
Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you,
Nic Dunlop Nicdunlop ( talk) 16:39, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Turn redirects into articles. How do you turn redirects into articles? }} Cwater1 ( talk) 02:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I found a 404'd link for a magazine article referenced in Persecution of Hindus. So I searched and found a pdf of the article, not on the website of the magazine, but just posted on the website of a Columbia University professor. Is this professor violating copyright, and would Wikipedia be violating copyright if we linked to it? I haven't been able to find any link to the article on the actual Frontline website. Assuming it can't be found, would you recommend posting the pdf, or just referencing the article without any link? Thank you. Shmarrighan ( talk) 06:19, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
I have added few references to the article I created about Mahaveer Awards. Can you kindly guide me how to get my article approved. Wmydaughter ( talk) 04:42, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I moved six references into the body of the text, but you may decide that those need to be in different places in the text. David notMD ( talk) 09:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi I need help in adding/ uploading / inserting a photograph to an artist biography - the image is owned by the artist and used for publicity purposes I am her manager and she owns the image. Shaunosh1 ( talk) 10:20, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Shaunosh1
2600:1700:7AA1:7D60:5C71:C6DD:765F:C854 ( talk) 11:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
is there a way that I can make a team? AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 14:59, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
no I want to know if you can make a team of editors?-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 17:24, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
no I mean editing the content of the page`s and how stuff looks. But I will see what you say tomorrow I got stuff to do, goodbye.-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 17:49, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you DES I will make sure to contact you for help.-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 13:09, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to move a page to a page that already exists? This is my first time venturing into moving pages, and cannot seem to find a way to do this without copy-pasting which is not allowed. Anyone? Heart (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I just posted my question, but I forgot to add the Subject/headline. So sorry. My question was whether Wikipedia prefers reverse chronological or ordinary chronological in a list of Awards on a BLP. Passiflorida ( talk) 13:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I am looking to add a new listing. I have all the info that needs to be posted. Can someone do that for be or do I have to do this. I don't have a clue how to do all this. Waterhead04 ( talk) 14:42, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
can someone help me edit pls I'm miserably failed Mr.Knrz. ( talk) 10:26, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
the person Im writng about is not me I'm his mentor/manger he is known locally but not enough is that wat u mean — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.Knrz. ( talk • contribs) 11:40, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Good Day,
Could you please explain in detail what was missing from my submission? I attached links to features were they not credible enough? I would like to make the proper corrections as soon as possible. Raslambert ( talk) 14:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
"Although his upbringing is Philadelphia based, his chivalry and southern charm were developed during the summers he spent with his mother's family in a small town called Pitt County, Rocky Mount, North Carolina."?
I am new to wiki, I have never been here before, I want to know how can I publish my Biography to Wikipedia so people can know me more? MizanRahmanSinger ( talk) 04:51, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Is there a way to get a clearer answer to what I need to change on an article to get it approved? Each time I have made updates to make it neutral or to update references, it has been dismissed. I keep trying to research, but it seems no matter what I change it won't work. Any help or guidance would be so appreciated! Thank you! EIMBC ( talk) 14:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC) EIMBC ( talk) 14:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Is there a guide somewhere to when you should add page numbers in a citation source and when you should not? Presuming direct quotes have to have a page number? Thanks Maryanne Cunningham ( talk) 18:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Maryanne Cunningham ( talk) 18:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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I had a Wikipedia page earlier, but it seems to have disappeared into cyberspace. May I please request the 'Authors' here to kindly help me retrieve the same? Www.imamsiddique.com
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ImamSiddique/imamispresents Imam A Siddique ( talk) 18:58, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the article I created on illicit trade was converted to a redirection to the article on black market by another editor, who judged it was a duplicate topic. The discussion that followed with this editor can be found at: /info/en/?search=User_talk:MrOllie#Redirecting_illicit_trade_to_black_market
The question is whether illicit trade and black markets are two distinct topics that each deserve their article, or whether the two are sufficiently synonyms for the former to be a redirection to the latter. I would like to ask the input of other Wikipedians on whether there is detailed policy to address such matter (I could find not it). Also, what would be the best way to reach consensus: is it to start a discussion on the talk page of black market?
FYI here is latest version of the article on illicit trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Illicit_trade&oldid=974366109
Many thanks for your input, Factfox ( talk) 13:49, 27 September 2020 (UTC) Factfox ( talk) 13:49, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
is there anything out there that lets you draw on a web page and save it to that site. Like, if u had a group of users, like facebook, and yet let people draw over the original idea, similar to wiki,,, but like, if there was a picture/meme on line, you could actually deface it, like ppl used to add moustaches to womens pic??? Richengle ( talk) 22:00, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Why has the French Open 2020 page dropped the Singles Table with points lost or gained? It has always been the best part of the yearly update. 98.150.164.140 ( talk) 21:43, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
hi can a person change the language of Wikipedia by using southafrican languages to find meanings of words. Bdetfehigj ( talk) 20:16, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I know what language to remove when a tag is placed on my page? Also, what do I do about a UDP tag on my page? 2600:8806:100:E1E:A9CB:265A:2A56:21FE ( talk) 21:23, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Another editor is continuously removing and replacing photos without a consensus on List of Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign endorsements. When asked about it, they said they will continue to edit war. How can this user's disruptive editing be handled? How can I go about bringing an administrator in? Pennsylvania2 ( talk) 18:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I recently created a page for Anderson Obiagwu which was declined due to use of promotional words which I have since corrected. I would like to have a second or third review to know if I am on the right track for approval. Thank you. LeahNJ ( talk) 22:39, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
This is a purely hypothetical question, but I was wondering if you see 2 or more Wikipedia users engaged in a edit war, should you attempt to stop them, ignore the editing and move on to something else, tell an administrator, or try to find some other solution? Once again, this is hypothetical, as I have not seen anyone engaged in edit wars myself. TheKingCartii ( talk) 23:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
My name is Maurice B Thomas, in no need of anonymity, and incredulous of the antics of one poster, widely regarded as a "troll." So, my initial question is, "Who is he?" MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 09:07, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
The existing entries, for both subjects, remain defamatory, in my humble opinion, as they contain erroneous information about African Americans,(ala 'Amos 'n' Andy') which tends to defame the subjects, both of whom, well known to myself and others, would find the entries objectionable as erroneous.
Both men are African Americans who are advanced in age (88 years and 101 years respectively for Mr. Spann and Mr. Black) who have not, to my knowledge, even seen these entries or are unlikely to ever see these entries, while they remain defamed without their knowledge. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
You should allow the corrections submitted, as even your assertion that, for example, Mr. Black's parents were sharecroppers could not possibly have been true as they lived in urban industrial settings in Bessemer, Florence, and Birmingham, Alabama, where there is no opportunity for agricultural pursuits of any kind whatsoever, and Steel Mills are prevalent. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
My Sources are my own direct knowledge and the subjects themselves, whose interviews I have either conducted over periods as long as 60 years (I attended Farragut High School, where Mr. Black taught, from 1959-1963, for example) or where I have attempted to include such first person interviews, while such inclusion has been prohibited by Wikimedia. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Your suspicions of paid employment by the subjects of myself are personally insulting
MARKETEX2020 (
talk)
13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I did not initiate either entry, I only supplied corrections to erroneous assumptions or supplied excluded facts about each subject. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Case In Point: Your original entry on Mr Black excluded both his children and all but one spouse. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Case In Point: Your original entry on Mr Spann portrayed him as if a buffoon devoid of technical or business skill. MARKETEX2020 ( talk) 13:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
If there is a way I can help you with your problem tell me, I would love to help.-- AbinadiDanvers ( talk) 14:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. @ MARKETEX2020: I User:Nigetastic ( talk) created the initial article. I have met Timuel Black a few times, but my connection was more to the group who facilitated the publication of his memoir "Sacred Ground." The original entry was scant, I'll admit. Time was short, but I thought his life deserved an entry here. And my observation about wikipedia is that, rather than create one detailed, polished entry all in one go, sometimes it's better simply to get the basics in and let others continue to add and shape in their own words and way. I didn't need to "own" the shape of Tim's story. If I skipped over swathes of Tim's life, it was in the spirit of leaving a space for others to participate. . . . But I have 2-3 copies of the book that I'd be glad to mail to those who'd like to read about this amazing man and to help flesh out this entry.
About Tim's parents, MARKETEX2020 is correct according to Tim Black. First, framing his family's life with the Great Migration, Black writes that his father migrated *two times*, first "from tenant farms where they chopped cotton to the market town of Florence, Alabama" (a non-industrial town in N. Alabama), and (later in the same paragraph) that his father "worked for Bessemer Steel in Birmingham, Alabama" before moving north. So Tim didn't say his father was a sharecropper in Bessemer but that he had been "a tenant farmer" who worked in Birmingham at Bessemer Steel. Bessemer, AL is adjacent to B'ham near where the mills are, but the book doesn't say where the family lived.
Now, the diff between "tenant farmer" and a "sharecropper" is small but meaningful. Tenant farmers have their own tools, gear, and livestock. A sharecropper doesn't. Tim called his father "a tenant farmer." The same memoir, however, includes a tribute to Tim that Sen Richard Durbin (D-IL) introduced into the US Congressional Record in 2017 that referred to Tim as having come from "sharecroppers." The upshot is that I think--just my opinion--that a hundred years ago, most readers in a mostly rural USA could and would differentiate between tenant farmers and sharecroppers. These days, I think people just say "sharecroppers" as a poetic and generic word for poor or working-class agriculture families.
I'm happy to dip and add this, but, as I said, I have a couple of copies of his memoir--a very brisk and conversational work--that I'd be glad to mail to someone else if they'd like to participate. Nigetastic ( talk) 21:05, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, all. As a follow up, I have updated the Timuel Black entry with a paragraph that succinctly recaps the points in my note above buttressed with one citation to his memoir and a second from the Congressional Record (instead of the book's repeat of the tribute in the Congressional Record). There is still a lot that one could fill in here, of course. With hope, this will have removed a couple of points of disagreement so we can move this forward. Thanks. Nigetastic ( talk) 21:00, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Regarding the entry for the boardgame of PICHENOTTE at /info/en/?search=Pichenotte I do have a 'conflict of interest', since I own the United States trademark for PICHENOTTE and have been making the game since 1997. Although some of the content is correct, this entry for pichenotte is very narrow in scope, has several inaccuracies and many statements without citations.
It also promotes a manufacturer, named as Pinnochi, which seems to be a violation of Wiki rules (?) and the manufacturer seems to be very obscure or non-existent. I am not trying to promote my business, but would like my customers to see accurate information on Wikipedia about the game of pichenotte.
With a friend, we made some changes last year, but, being newbies, we used no citations and the whole article we created was deleted. That was somewhat understandable, but it could have been the beginning of a collaborative effort instead of just wiping it out. Can I get help from an experienced, neutral editor to make this entry more correct or do I have to try and do it all myself ? I have a lot of citations and references now, and would like to work with someone who has an interest in promoting an accurate entry for the game. Thank you. Vlaad_Quebec 07:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Vlaad_Quebec 07:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThreeVictors ( talk • contribs)
{{
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at the top of it, then drop me a line at
User talk:SMcCandlish and I'll see about integrating some of the material. Trademarks only apply within particular jurisdictions (and a US trademark on the name of French-Canadian folk game is of limited encyclopedic relevance – should not dominate coverage of the topic). Plus we have
WP:NOT#PROMO policy. So, some care will have to be taken to not make it sound like a promo for a particular company. If the article already had problems in that regard, toward the old company, it sounds like it needs revision anyway. Coverage of US adoption/availability of a Canadian game or vice versa is encyclopedically relevant, in
due amounts. Should be included, but someone with a direct financial conflict of interest should probably not be making the changes. Using a draft and an experienced third-party editor who has no stake in the matter to review the suggested changes is probably the best bet. I've worked before with explicit CoI editors, to good effect. —
SMcCandlish
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I have a page I would like to edit, by adding information about:
Seventeen's Japanese comeback in September 2020 with mini album 24H, source: https://www.seventeen-17.jp/statics/24h
24H's achievement to top Japan Oricon chart, the first non-Japanese international male artist to achieve a fourth-consecutive win on the weekly album chart, source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200915000374 and http://www.koreatimesus.com/seventeen-earns-fourth-consecutive-oricon-album-chart-win-with-24h/
Seventeen Joshua and DK's collaboration with US based singer, PinkSweats, source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarherman/2020/09/24/pink-sweat--seventeen-discuss-coming-together-on-17-remix-in-age-of-corona/#263097005519 BarbaraUkulele ( talk) 02:31, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you help for me how can I use this picture in my article. When I download this link i resive the mail that this file uncorrect and will be deleted. thanks a lot for your answer Marija W Marinkovic ( talk) 11:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
I have translated a short article from German Wikipedia, which I created myself, into English. Apparently, only more experienced editors than I are allowed to publish translated articles on en.wikipedia, so I placed the translation into my own userspace. I created a "talk" page, whatever exactly that amounts to:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Bernhard_Ritter
Naturally, I would like to have the translated article checked and published. It is a page on Maria von Herbert, a correspondent of philosopher Immanuel Kant. It is not clear to me what I am supposed to do next. I am not in a hurry and will check back tomorrow. Bernhard Ritter ( talk) 00:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Apparently, only more experienced editors than I are allowed to publish translated articles on en.wikipedia, unless you mean you're not being allowed to create an article for some technical reason. Anyway, you can create a draft for the article and submit it to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for review if you like.Some other things for you to consider are Wikipedia:Translation, Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia projects, and Wikipedia:Notability (people). The first two pages are mainly about what you need to do to ensure that the content you've translated isn't a WP:COPYVIO. Wikipedia's licensing pretty much allows the content found in its articles to be freely re-used for any purpose, but it does require that proper attribution be given. So, even though you might've have been the main or primary contributor to the German Wikipedia article, it's still probably best for you to properly attribute the original article to avoid any problems. The last page has to do with the concept of Wikipedia notability. Each Wikipedia project has its own policies and guidelines and English Wikipedia's tend to be more rigorously applied than perhaps those for some other language Wikipedias. So, just because an article exists on German Wikipedia that doesn't automatically mean it should exist on English Wikipedia; in other words, you're going to have to establish that Herbert meets relevant English Wikipedia notability guidelines in order for such an article to survive a deletion nomination. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi
Marchjuly. Thank you for your detailed reply. I will submit the translated article as a draft to
Wikipedia:Articles for creation including "proper attribution" and a hyperlink to the original page. My phrase Apparently, only more experienced editors than I are allowed to publish translated articles on en.wikipedia
was worded after a message displayed on the page in explanation why I cannot publish the page myself. As
RudolfRed notes, it must have to do with the fact that the OP does not have enough edits
. I understand that I will have to argue that Maria von Herbert meets the relevant notability guidelines when submitting the draft.
@ David notMD: I deleted only a copy, or a version "2", of the draft. I was referring to User:Bernhard Ritter/Maria von Herbert instead. Thanks for confirming that the instructions in Wikipedia:Articles for creation apply to my case. -- Bernhard Ritter ( talk) 11:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
79.120.177.234 ( talk) 12:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi.
How do you add this as a reference?
youtu.be/rJQTqcV12ik?t=9m4s
Error:No page id specified on YouTube appears failing. Kacziey ( talk) 13:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks and sorry. Still new here. Kacziey ( talk) 13:34, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Background: Cafetran Espresso is a Computer-Aided Translation software tool. It has a sizable amount of users, in particular - but not only - under Linux (Indeed, it is totally cross-platform, and one of the few professional tools under Linux.) It is sufficiently notable to be offered as incentive with the premium membership of ProZ.com (a large community of translators). A couple of years ago, I discovered it was not even listed on the CAT tool comparison page. The reason being that it did not have its own WP page. So I created one. Several people contributed. The page grew organically, some mistakes were made. At the end, its submission was declined then rejected.
I decided to start afresh. I stripped it to the core to remain factual. Now I am trying to add references. And here, I bump into a wall. Primary sources are forbidden, which precludes all references to user-groups, technical documentations, etc. As secondary source, Youtube videos are not accepted, which remove all courses, presentations at conferences., etc. Blogs are not accepted, so that removes all software tool comparisons, description of features, case-studies, etc. It is not a tool develop in academia So there is no published research article (then, it would be easy. After 25 years in academia, I know that we can write a paper about any script, and then create a page on WP. Nobody blinks).
What would be considered a reliable source? Would a blog post coming from a blog regularly posting on CAT tools and comparing them be acceptable? Are-they not the XXI century equivalents of "magazines"?
A large amount of mentions and references is presented on Draft_talk:Cafetran_Espresso. That should definitively settle the notability issue (which still baffles all of us to be honest). Now the problem is which one to include without falling into the trap of "trying to sell the software". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lenov ( talk • contribs) 16:24, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no involvement with Cafetran Espresso development or trade. I am just a user. As are all the other people who tried to contribute to the page as far as I know. Nicolas Gambardella ( talk) 16:14, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
How do I make that two separate statements sourced by the same source have the same number superscript? 1+1=yes ( talk) 13:32, 30 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1+1=yes ( talk • contribs)
<ref>content</ref>
, give it a name the first time you use it, like <ref name="myName">content</ref>
. For every subsequent use, you can simply put <ref name="myName"/>
. Note the extra slash! See
WP:REFNAME for more details.
◢ Ganbaruby! (
Say hi!)
13:56, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Delete my User:MirahezeGuy/sandbox/1 and a stub template I recently made, they're unnecessary now -- MirahezeGuy ( talk) 14:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
In This request for closure of an expired request for comments, I go into detail about edits from the dispute that caused the request for comments, as none of the other three users in the dispute ever commented on it (with one being inactive for most of it). In fact, all of the votes for the RFC were to keep the content on the page, but there were only 4 votes (including mine), so I felt the need to mention the other three users in the dispute. Additionally, I mention the advice from one of the opposing users that the page needed secondary sources, and then link to an image showing a private thanks from him for me adding said secondary sources. Are these details allowed or not for a request for closure? Considering how low the participation was for the RFC, I felt the need to mention the other users in the dispute due to them not commenting on the RFC, but now I’m having second thoughts that said details aren’t allowed. Unnamed anon ( talk) 05:53, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
sir why my page of K. B. pathak was deleted from the sandbox it was send for pubilcation we are new to this page so please help me out K B Pathak ( talk) 06:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
See Kader Khan for an example of an article about a person active in the India movie industry. Your draft is just a list of movies for which K B Pathak did the screenplay. David notMD ( talk) 09:57, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
K B Pathak, your topic of choice seems notable but you seem to be having problems writing a draft that will get accepted. Perhaps someone might help you if you asked nicely at WT:INDIA? Best, Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:12, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello - I'm very new to Wiki and learning slowly. I've edited a page, and added new footnotes for the page on John Pinney. One of the existing URLs (note 12) in the References list is in blue, but the ones I've added aren't, and I can't work out why. Can someone tell me? Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 12:14, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 12:14, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you @Coryphantha @Marchjuly - I'm beginning to realise that getting the citations right is about 100 times more difficult than writing the article itself.. and I can't remember how to tag you in my reply - apologies Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 14:16, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
@ Nick Moyes: and @ Þjarkur: thank you both - those are REALLY good tips and much much easier than trying to do it all manually. I've spent 10 minutes working out how to tag/ping you in my reply - hope this is right. In my original question I actually meant that the hyperlinks I'd added were fine, but didn't look blue in colour... still haven't cracked that, but I've learnt much easier ways to add references. Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 15:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
@ Nick Moyes: I would LOVE to have a mentor... I hope I'm going to stick with this, as I do feel passionately that it's the best way to get accurate information in the public realm (though since I've been looking more carefully at Wiki, I realise how many pages have been cobbled together from information on slightly dodgy websites)... I'll keep asking the Teahouse for the moment, but if I'm still 'here' in a month or so's time, I'll definitely take you up on your offer. Meanwhile I'll follow you on Twitter! Ruthhenrietta ( talk) 15:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I want to rename the Category:Indian summiters of Mount Everest as the spelling of "summiteers" is wrong, but I cant find any move option and also no help in Help:Category. How do I rename/move this category which reflects the appropriate changes in the 55 articles listed in it without manually labouring on all 55 articles. The articles using the correct spelling like Indian summiteers of Mount Everest show red links. Is in such circumstances tools like AWB appropriate for automated editing? Thanks. Roller26 ( talk) 07:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Conor. I'm doing my first article about a Youtuber named Dream who is known for his Minecraft Skill and his Minecraft Manhunt. I worked about two weeks to get this done, but the previous person who reviewed my article said "Needs more external news sources, not its own website and videos. Do not cite fandom wikia". Dream has little to no news sources who talk about him, in fact most of information came from this fandom wikia which is where most of his information I could found. I only found one news sources that talks about Dream Minecraft Manhunt, And this isn't a few thousand subscribers channel. Dream has over 10 million subscribers on his youtube channel is a well-known across youtube. If you have anything to say to me about this question, please contact me. Thanks and have a nice day. Kingconor62 ( talk) 14:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey! I am working on an article for my company's software. My COI is declared on my user page, and a draft of the article is in my sandbox. I got some good help here last time, so now I'm back for round two. Question: I am trying to upload a logo for the infobox. This is the least detailed one I could find. Can this image be uploaded with the fair use rational that it consists only of simple geometric shapes? If not, do I have a chance of getting it in under some other fair use rational? The image I really wanted to use was this one, but from what I'm seeing there may be little or no chance of getting my preferred image into the article without issuing a license. Thanks in advance for your help. Sam at Megaputer ( talk) 14:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
hi uh Ireallydontcareugh ( talk) 16:16, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Can you add translations? I am bilingual and I would like to help. BaaBaaTheSheep ( talk) 16:06, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey, though my question wont be relevant to english wikipedia it was the only place to ask, in swahili wiktionary under swahili wikipedia there is no special way to delete words that are not necessary i was wondering how to remove the words that are not relevant to swahili as there are many. Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 12:44, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 12:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
it was the only place to askis correct. Each project has it's own help and support facilities, with volunteers interested in and knowledgeable about the project. You should be able to find it from the main page. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 18:09, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
These questions aren't about an article, but the Teahouse itself (unless the Teahouse can be considered an article).
1. Who came up with the name for the Teahouse?
2. Who is the most well known Teahouse user?
3. Can too many questions cause the Teahouse to crash or temporarily shut down?
4. Can someone be banned (temporarily or permanently) from the Teahouse?
It might seem like I'm asking a lot here, but my curiosity tends to get the better of me at times. TheKingCartii ( talk) 17:42, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Im writing about a cartoon how do i upload pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foodboy1 ( talk • contribs)
¿Trabajan archivistas en Wikipedia? Pelu Digital ( talk) 17:53, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
AEMA2050 ( talk) 18:22, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
I want to make a article, but I'd like to learn more about utilizing Wikipedia's resources before I do so. How can I help edit articles without accidentally impeding on the current progress being made by other more experienced users? Ngblue ( talk) 18:47, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I wrote a page that was not accepted due to a lack of notability in the sources. I have since added more sources that I think are within Wikipedias guidelines and demonstrate the notability of the subject. I am hoping someone can take a look at these before I submit them for review. If they are not acceptable it would be very helpful to know why.
Here is the page - /info/en/?search=Draft:Fundera ClaySmithWiki ( talk) 16:38, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey @ Nick Moyes: here are the sources that were added:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by ClaySmithWiki ( talk • contribs) 20:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
References
Which user warning should I use when an editor continues to use unreliable sources after a reversal? Shadowrvn728 ( talk) 21:49, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
I am making an article on Oki Muraza, a world class professor who secured 18 million SAR in a project on chemical engineering. He wrote journals in Indonesian news and currently is teaching at KFUPM. I need help in getting this article draft approved.
Thank you very much... Fikry Muraza ( talk) 14:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
[edit] He secured a total of $4.8 million USD in research.
References I used are from the University, Indonesian News, and Google scholar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fikry Muraza ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, please how do I put or nominate this article Independence Day or just inform the administrators that today is Nigeria's Independence day and it should be featured on the column 'On this day' on Wikipedia's homepage? Thanks Josedimaria237 ( talk) 01:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to edit the Wikipedia article on Acoustic droplet ejection (ADE). The references listed are not very complete. I know that there was a special issue of the journal, Journal of Laboratory Automation, that focused on acoustic droplet ejection that explained in much greater depth how ADE works, providing equations, graphs, etc. that would be too much for Wikipedia. I wanted to add a single sentence mentioning the issue and link it to a reference.
Jerm felt that it was too much of a soapbox for the journal. Here is where you can see what Jerm said: /info/en/?search=User_talk:GiuseppeAlexander. I really just want to make the article better. I do not want to stand on a soapbox for the journal. And the issue covers instruments from both companies that made ADE systems.
Am I completely out of line or do I just need to reformulate my text to add this useful citation?
Here is the citation I wanted to add: Special issue: Advancing Scientific Innovation with Acoustic Droplet Ejection. Journal of Laboratory Automation 21.1 (2016):1-216. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jlac/21/1 .
Thanks GiuseppeAlexander ( talk) 00:45, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
== External links ==
* {{Cite journal |...}}
Maddie Ziegler’s article doesn’t have an infobox. I’m a new user, and I don’t really know how Wikipedia works. Can someone please add it for me, or teach me how to create an infobox? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazychickennthang ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
User:Albertheditor is claiming that two other users are my sockpuppets. What should be done in this situation, should it be taken to WP:ANI? SevenSpheresCelestia ( talk) 02:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How do I properly reference a recently deceased person on their article page? Please provide exact format and what counts as a "reliable source". The one I added was removed, so I'm not sure if I correctly understand. MokshaVRao ( talk) 03:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How do you add a line break in your personal links tab at the very top right? I have a lot of links and want to make them even, is this possible? Heart (talk) 04:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC) Heart (talk) 04:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can some volunteer to edit reference section for my draft article. I want add the particular page number in my reference document. In the reference section of my draft article: /info/en/?search=Draft:Laborate_Pharmaceuticals_India_Limited Reference number 2. I want to add the particular page number for this document. The page numbers are 65 and 66. Please add these page numbers to Reference number 2. Good day Allin96 ( talk) 04:41, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks a lot Victor Schmidt mobil Allin96 ( talk) 06:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Mt. Lyell has 5 subpeaks, 3 of which have their own articles L5, L4 and L3. I tried to create another article (for L2) and was told I should write it up as a part of the Mt. Lyell article. I suggest making the Mt. Lyell text only for L2 as part of Mt. Lyell would be silly, without rewriting/'dearticalizing' L5, L4 and L3 as well. My issue is that it's a lot more work to re-do all 4 articles and I'd hate to do that, only to have some other WP authority who likes the fact that each subpeak has its own article and asks that I change it back from one article to 5 (or technically, 4, since L1 doesn't yet have a presence in WP).
So, can I get a second (or more) opinion on this proposed direction of 1 article each for the Peak and all 5 subpeaks to just 1 article, please? BrettA343 ( talk) 22:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC) BrettA343 ( talk) 22:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi:
I developed from home a C# ASP.NET Xamarin.Android application and mobile-app proposed for use by Religious educational institutions. In its present form, the application solution can be used to present/search the holy Quran in multiple languages (49) in addition to calculation of numerical values for the Arabic alphabets for Quran's verses, using 19-digit system, to extract the hidden meanings of Quran's verses. The application concept it can be developed for the holy Bible and Torah in the future.
I believe this program gave a lot of answers which can be seen by Millions of Muslims and later Christian and Jewish when I developed the Holy Bible and Torah solution.
1) I want to publish the documentation 2) A website that can be used like Google or Wikipedia 3) What is the charges Alimusa893 ( talk) 06:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I'm an English teacher at a cram school in a non-English speaking country and I'm considering having my students, who are returnee junior high schoolers and high schoolers, work on improving articles on Wikipedia. I've taken a look at Articles for improvement to come up with a list of articles students can contribute to, but I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what would be suitable for them to write about. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. ~★ nmaia d 06:56, 1 October 2020 (UTC) ~★ nmaia d 06:56, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I have been editing an article about a school district that is currently experiencing a scandal alleging long-standing sex abuse of students by teachers. I added a section about the scandal. Someone was just arrested tonight, and he was identified in multiple news outlets. I added his name to the article because it is public information, but I would like to consult policies that discuss the guidelines about how to keep Wikipedia encyclopedic, since it is not a newspaper. Could someone please direct me to guidelines that discuss what to include and what not to include in an article? Also, are there policies that discuss editor liability for defamation? Thank you. – Kekki1978 talk 04:50, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I requested that Nigeria's Independence Day be featured on Wikipedia's homepage here, but when I checked the main page, it was ineligible, the reason being "refimprove section". What does that mean? Josedimaria237 ( talk) 09:19, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
HELLO FRIENDS! As I am new at being a Wikipedia contributor, I need your kind assistance. I am updating some information and all I desire to do is the exact correct manner in making additions to Wikipedia content!
I want to add the name of the second son of Raymond Arnold Disney to the Family Tree section. His name should be included alongside of his brother who is Charles Elias Disney, as he is the second son of Raymond Arnold Disney and Meredith A. Disney. Can you update this Family Tree chart page showing the second son? His name should correctly show as Daniel H. Disney (1956-) There are references to his name on both of his parents actual Find A Grave pages: Raymond Arnold Disney Memorial # 6782179 and Meredith A. Boyington Disney Memorial # 7319432. Also, personal information for Daniel H. Disney is shown on www.danieldisney.com
Please reply when possible when you have made this update!
Thank you so much for your help! I send you my best regards!
( Mary Hunt 2020 ( talk) 11:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)).
Sincerely, Mary Hunt.2020 Mary Hunt 2020 ( talk) 11:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I just had someone edit a reference that I added. He said he "fixed bare ref". He added a bunch of details - website, language, title, stuff like that. Is that required? So far I just put the "ref" tag on either side of a URL because I thought that was fine, but I guess someone "fixed" my "bare ref" so I wanted to know if I should be doing it that way. Wes sideman ( talk) 18:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you David! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wes sideman ( talk • contribs) 18:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Why isn't Transfermarkt a reliable source?
I put it in an article and an admin deleted the source saying "Transfermarkt isn't reliable" Can someone please explain? Neverbuffed ( talk) 13:12, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I am writing an article https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Phil_Coy&oldid=976360918 and in order to help the process I want to "add tags to a draft" This process reveals the error: Please check the draft page title. It doesn't seem to be in draft namespace
I would be grateful if someone could explain how to edit the draft so that it is 'in draft namespace'
many thanks
D Silly soul ( talk) 09:49, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
@ ColinFine: thanks for looking at this, that's good to know that the article is already in the draft space (i thought it was!). I was following one of the suggestions "Improving your odds of a speedy review" which suggests 'add tags to your draft' Silly soul ( talk) 10:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
@ ColinFine: thanks for your advice, I changed to "Draft:Phil Coy" and it allowed me to add the tags! Silly soul ( talk) 13:34, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello !
I would like to create a Wikipedia page about an artist (Sarah Coponat) I follow on social/streaming platforms such as Twitch, Spotify... She is a Twitch Partner (Top 1% of all active streamers on the platform), her live streams on Reddit often gather 150k+ views and she has about 160k monthly listeners on Spotify at the moment, 7K instagram.
Her work hasn't been featured in movies nor as she gotten any large awards to my knowledge although she did perform live twice on minor french Tv shows, but her live stream stats are definitely consequential and she has built a fairly big fan base.
Upon reading the notability guidelines, I am not sure whether those stats would be enough to make an article about her. Could a more experience writer give advice here? 2A01:CB1C:8032:4300:C496:7CE1:A4D1:3F15 ( talk) 13:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello or Bonjour! I would like to make a page about my previous Middle school (Northern Middle School, I am confused on how to create a page for that my town (Hagerstown MD) Already has a page and I feel as if it’s my duty to work on my towns presence on Wikipedia. AviaWilliamEdits ( talk) 12:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
What is AIV? Acidic Carbon ( Corrode) ( Organic compounds)-  —Preceding undated comment added 13:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
WP:
(in this case, WP:AIV
) using the search box at the top of every page. You'll see it's a valid link in the list of suggestions and, if you go to it, you'll find out what it means. —[
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14:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)I just want to publish my track listing for my mixtapes and albums on wikipedia. I don't write anything about my works that is biased, I only state information that anyone can find. Can you guys help me make my articles about my music. I only want to write out the track listing that's it. Blakestyle ( talk) 14:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How to edit a page with proper manner 2409:4043:2099:1AC9:0:0:2AAA:28AC ( talk) 10:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How I edit a page with proper manner that it doesn't get remove and it didn't create any problems for the editors. 2409:4043:2099:1AC9:0:0:2AAA:28AC ( talk) 14:09, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
About 3 years ago I started expanding the article Charles Stuart (painter)] classed as a Stub (on Pageviews) . If it seems reasonable, I would like to remove the stub template. Unfortunately, I cannot find it. Can anyone help? BFP1 BFP1 ( talk) 13:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC) BFP1 ( talk) 13:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone! We are the European Theatre Convention, a network for public theatres in Europe. This is a non-profit organisation. We prepared a description of our network and its activities but it apparently sounds too much like an advertisement. We are all ears to see how we can avoid this, unfortunately we don't really see how? We have read and tried to include all advice from your community, and are now a bit stuck. Would anyone have experience and would give us a few hints on how to improve our entry? Thanks a lot!
The draft in question: Draft:European Theatre Convention Joséphine ETC ( talk) 15:44, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
So I was just looking at some items in the Wikipedia namespace and from there I ended up at Maryland. I went to the edit history and saw what looks like a weird bug. The third oldest (go to the very first edits to the page) edit removed 84,860 (or was it 86,840?) BYTES of code according to the edit history.
Is there any explanation for this discrepancy? 45.251.33.149 ( talk) 14:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Is editing grammar and spelling a minor or major change? I would think major if you're reformatting an entire section of text from list to prose, for example, but what about things like your -> you're or a misplaced comma? AlexMozzarella ( talk) 16:09, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey everyone, I have currently created a wikipedia page and published it. However it got declined, and I was wondering if there is anyone here who could help me or giving me an advice of how to get my wiki page published?
Thank you in advance.
Marcel 2A00:23C7:A882:3600:C844:A724:F55C:31EE ( talk) 16:44, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Question moved from another section to its own. Giraffer munch 16:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
What pages should be recommended for new users to edit? InsulinRS ( talk) 16:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC) InsulinRS ( talk) 16:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello nice to meet you! I want ask how to do new topic I created some information about ROBLOX Corp. But when i am searching it i can find it here is a link (Hello from Azerbaijan) Animelover0001 ( talk) 16:10, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
hey, i have a problem uploading my audio it keeps saying error cannot upload audio Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 14:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
thanks for the link Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 18:13, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey, I created this article Pakundia Adarsha Mohila College 10 days ago. I've noticed that the page has not been patrolled yet and hence does not appear in Google Search. Is there any way to request someone to get this page patrolled? Cheers. Userths ( talk) 18:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, while I was browsing the recent changes list today I came upon this to which I reverted. The IP user stated on my Talk page that the edit was referenced via this Wikipedia article, as it is a direct copy-paste from it. However, this statement in the Boeing 737 article is also missing a reference, and would like to request guidance on what the proper course of action is here. Thanks! Transcendental36 ( talk) 18:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey, does anyone now the website to wikimedia statistics Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 10:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 14:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Alvin kipchumba ( talk) 20:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I have created a few articles recently. One of this is Jahan Geneve which I created two weeks back. Suddenly I found that to be deleted today for speedy deletion as promotional. I tried to address the issue and recreate the article after removing all the promotional parts. But it was again nominated for speedy deletion in same category. I have been going through the notibility policy and other policies thoughly before creating all my articles. I think the brand is notable as have some historic value while based in switzerland, so decided to write about it. I found some editor said I am an UPE. I have felt devastated and decided to nominate my own article for deletion. I truly believe there are lot of editors there who can judge and decide if the article is worthy of being retained in wikipedia. I am fine with any outcome out of it. But it was very shocking the way I was alleged of being paid editor persistently. I would request any help and I think this will help me with my future activities in wikipedia better. The deletion discussion is here: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jahan_Geneve -- Chiro725 ( talk) 20:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Chiro725 ( talk) 20:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Chiro725 ( talk) 20:43, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm currently in a minor dispute on List of South Park episodes over whether the film should be mentioned somewhere on the page. I brought up List of The Simpsons episodes as having had a consensus to include its film on its list, along with List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes as, while not including the films on the table, does mention them on the bottom of the page, but I was redirected to WP:OSE by one user while another removed any mention of the film on List of South Park characters. Is there some sort of policy on whether or not to mention films on episode list pages? Unnamed anon ( talk) 17:52, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I have noticed that many articles are often written by a single person, and are quite comprehensive and include many references and are published as a single edit. What does it take to write an article like this? How much time does it take? Does it require reading all of the references completely? How to choose which details to discuss and where to find all that knowledge? I have seen many articles that seem to be published by students, for an assignment in university, i would guess, they make an account, publish an article with one edit, and never come back again. But then, there are also people who create so many articles that they have to make several user subpages to list them all. Is the process followed by a student the same as the one followed by experienced Wikipedia editor who publishes massive amounts of articles? Is there some trick, or some strategy, that can explain how to write good articles quickly? 37.225.46.209 ( talk) 19:02, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
I would love to add on my user page some of the items WormTT uses in the right column of his page, e.g. education level, etc.
Also, I'd like to display on my user page my edit stats, similar to how Beeblebrox displays his admin stats.
Are there templates for this stuff? Ad Meliora ( talk) 19:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Berrely! — Ad Meliora Talk∕ Contribs 19:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
This user is Nick Moyes. |
Thank you Nick — Ad Meliora Talk∕ Contribs 20:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How does one know if an image is "free" to use to illustrate a Wikipedia article? Is there HTML that is embedded in the IMG SRC code that states that? Thanks Untipoflaco ( talk) 22:07, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
How do I make an edit? Jackiezee ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for your attention. I've been flagged two times right now for possible vandalism - 1 and 2. I know those are not vandalism - just because they aren't, anyone can see it and check. So they are false positives. I did everything the bot tells you to do, so I'm not here to report the bot's actions. I want to know what to do in these situations. Should I stop editing, as the bot seems to be easily triggered by my edits, or should I continue reporting and reverting false positives? Does the bot target people it warns multiple times? ThatStoopidGuy ( talk) 21:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Gojiej ( talk) 04:09, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Rachel Vanderthorne ( talk) 04:31, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
I am a new editor and am working on making positive grammar improvements to pages. I am an aspiring editor professionally. In searching for pages related to my interests in artificial intelligence I found a page of a biography of Joanne Pransky. The page's notability had been challenged multiple times by another editor. I attempted to strengthen the page's notability, The page was obscure and had an average of 5 visitors a day. After my edits were erased, I placed a discussion on the talk page if the page should be questioned for factual information. Immediately, I was attacked and now threatened with being blocked and informed my grammar contributions to pages are a waste of time.
Perhaps, I am not a cultural fit for Wiki? I thought asking questions and posting on talk pages was the correct way to conduct myself. Will veteran editors look at my contribution page and talk page and let me know what I am doing wrong or if I am being unfairly attacked by two other editors? I appreciate the help and feedback.
I put down the stick on the Joanne Pransky page because I was threatened to be blocked. I read the best action is to back away and I have run away from the page.
RobotDaneellives ( talk) 00:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC) RobotDaneellives ( talk) 00:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
-- RobotDaneellives ( talk) 07:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I have been told l need to pay a status tax to get on wikipedia. Is this so? I am a film maker since 1976, and was a Director of DW Thorpe book publishers. Both my Mother, Joyce Thorpe Nicholson, and brother, Peter Nicholson cartoonist are in it. www.mikenicholson.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael John Nicholson ( talk • contribs) 04:13, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Mike, Getting into Wikipedia wasn’t easy, had to send $1000 “status tax” to Canberra authorities. But think of the status connected with belonging to the Thorpe / Nicholson publishing empire. Nigel. 03:39, 30 September 2020 (UTC)~ 2001:8003:58D6:AC00:212F:805E:1C38:8649 ( talk) 03:39, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
So how do l get started? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael John Nicholson ( talk • contribs) 07:01, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, why can you say l did nothing of 'notibility'? I set up 'Rubbery Figures' [political puppets like Spitting Image] with my brother and they were run for 6 years on Aust national tv? I did scripts, filming, animation, editing and sound. And then there are all my other films l made that were shown on Aust tv, and my books and art exhibitions. And was director of D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd, publishers. You can see all my work on my website, www.mikenicholson.com so why would you not have me on it? I dont understand this, I seem to be getting mixed messages from a lot of different people at Wikipedia. - Mike. Michael John Nicholson ( talk) 08:36, 30 September 2020 (UTC) Michael John Nicholson ( talk) 08:36, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
The best point you raised appears to be your involvement in Rubbery figures. However, that article has no references (putting it at risk for deletion), and also, the sentence "The Rubbery Figures programs were made in the Melbourne film studio of Peter Nicholson, who also made the puppets themselves." gives all the credit to your brother, Peter Nicholson (cartoonist). If you were truly equally involved, you may consider adding references to that article, including references that mention you, and then add a description of your contributions to the text of the article. As a general note, millions of people are successful in doing creative things (film, books, art exhibitions, publishing), but unless those people are written about by others who have no personal connection to the subject, do not meet Wikipedia's encyclopaedic definition of notability. David notMD ( talk) 11:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
What WikiProject tags should I add for an article about a programming language and how should these tags be spelled/capitalized? 84.238.45.164 ( talk) 08:10, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
( Say hi!) 08:31, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Are accepted photos from Instagram, Twitter, Flicker or facebook to be added in Wikipedia pages?
Forever Jose () ( talk) 09:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I am working on a draft that by mistake I placed the title wrong It should say Ignacio Pena Del Rio but it says Ignacio Peña Del Rio This is the draft: Draft:Ignacio Peña Del Rio Anyone knows how to accomplish this? Angie Lynn Anderson ( talk) 09:45, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angie Lynn Anderson ( talk • contribs) 09:55, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Submission of Jair Burgos is declined with comments - Sources are not reliable. Before submission of this draft for review, I had searched on wiki. To make sure each and every source which I am mentioning in Jair Burgos must be used in other already published bio on wikipedia. I am considering since these sites are one of reliable sources thats why these pages are listed on wiki. These sites are used in various published pages. Many of them has their own wiki page as well.
Adding search links for your reference.
1. backstage.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=backstage.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
2. patch.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=patch.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
3. digitaljournal.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=digitaljournal.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
4. issuu.com -
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=issuu.com&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1
Please guide to fix the mistake and include this page for listing.
I am accepting my mistake to use image. Thank you so much for correcting my mistake and removing from draft. Vsp.manu ( talk) 04:51, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Tamilreporter123 ( talk) 05:35, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
but yes, it would be very hard, especially since there is is a discrepancy here, where"The English Wikipedia has no official requirements to become an administrator. Any registered user can request adminship ("RFA") from the community, regardless of their Wikipedia experience."
The result is that according to one article, the user can in fact register and just is unlikely to be accepted, but the other article states that they are unable to register. So you are half-correct in saying that they currently don't qualify for it, though I'd trust the information on WP:RFA over WP:MOP."The...prerequisites for adminship are having an account and being extended confirmed (having both 30 days' tenure and 500 edits) so that you can file your own nomination."