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Yah, new here as well, but longtime IRL editor.
When I put up a request for assitance or input in an article's Talk section, then the fix/assistance is achieved, would I be overstepping to remove the thus-outmoded post & any responses? I worry that doing so would be some sort of gross "memory hole" infraction... but leaving it referring to something that no longer exists seems confusing.
Weeb Dingle (
talk)
02:00, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the Trump White House on January 29, 2017 suggested in an interview with Fox News the purpose of the order was to stop people who would “infiltrate” through the old system. He subsequently stated: “By our estimates, there're more than 40 refugees in recent history who’ve been subsequently implicated in terrorism, and nearly 400 foreign nationals or naturalized foreigners who became U.S. citizens subsequent to their entry, who’ve been implicated in terrorism since 9/11 so it is a very large number of people who have infiltrated the immigration program."[52][citation needed] page is executive order 13769 G1729 ( talk) 23:17, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
How can I move this group of page ( Glory 14: Zagreb - Glory 15: Istanbul - Glory 16: Denver - Glory 17: Los Angeles - Glory 18: Oklahoma) into one page 2014 in Glory? I want to group 2014 event pages into one page like this 2015 in Glory? Thanks KINGFEDORQc ( talk) 06:21, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
I have made changes and tried to make the language more neutral in these two articles: Dreaming of Denmark and Michael Graversen. Are they ok now or do they need more work? One last question: I have tried to search on google for "Dreaming of Denmark wiki" and "Michael Graversen wiki" but no english pages come up. Is this because they are not verified? KlausJensen ( talk) 08:44, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Great. Thank you so much for your help Cullen. It is really helpful. I have a lot of danish references in relations to the debate. Would they work or is it only english? KlausJensen ( talk) 09:58, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. KlausJensen ( talk) 10:12, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm drafting an article, and while the references/citations are still there, the sub-heading "References" seems to have fallen off? Is there some way I can restore it?
Thank you for your help! I am very new so apologies for the basic question.
It is for this page (not yet submitted pending further improvements): /info/en/?search=Draft:Wear_it_Purple_Day
SunnyBoi ( talk) 10:45, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi there - Is there a way to speed up the autocontribute thing so I can upload pics sort of now? Cheers Robertspcole ( talk) 18:33, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I have created my first ever draft article and I have no more content to add to it. I have responded to a few suggestions from your Help desk and added in lots of references were they had been lacking before.
But the latest comment from the Help desk said that my article needs a lot of work. I have no idea what that means.
What is the logical next step right now? Submit it for review or invite some specific comments from the Help desk? It is not good enough to say that your article is not good enough. Too vague. If anyone has a comment please be specific. CableHut ( talk) 06:56, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't know why my page got deleted for it says speedy deletion are you trying to say I am not famous or globally recognised enough because I am I provided links from big newspapers that featured me in it I need to have a wiki page in order to get across to my following but the deletion has really demotivated me a lot :( I would love to get in contact with Wikipedia like a email or number would be great so one of my legal representatives can I can provide any sort of proof you need in order to get my page up I have seen people who are not even recognised at any level and there pages are up its a real shocker! Raj vin ( talk) 12:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
fuhgettaboutit deleted my entry for Francis Celentano and I am seeking to appeal this decision. Francis Celentano was a seminal contributor to the Op Art movement and is an internationally recognized artist whose works are regularly exhibited at MOMA and other art installations around the world. Much of the information already appears on his official website at www.franciscelentano.com an I have permission to use that information from his widow Rebecaa Celentano. I am also his nephew and find it extremely frustrating and unfair that one user can summarily remove information that is clearly a warranted and valid contribution to the Wikipedia collection without giving me a chance to address the issue. Acelentano2016 ( talk) 11:29, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, so I wrote an article about an Tape Art Crew, it needed to be changed, which I did a month ago and now I have no idea, what the deal is. I dont have time to study 6 years of Wikipedia. I am a Macuser, I am used to quick, simple things, not complicated things like WIkipedia. Sorry, if I am too dumb. But I need help, because this project is killing me. :( LizA 1988 ( talk) 15:03, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
"TAPE OVER finds joy in experimenting"is what a reader would expect to find in a promotional website, not an encyclopedia. Altogether, I'm guessing that if TAPE ART meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, the article should be 2-3 paragraphs long altogether, and no longer. Please let me know if that helps. - Darouet ( talk) 15:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello there! I need some help. I joined few days ago and I want to start editing here but I don't know where to start! I was in another wiki and there, articles that needed help were tagged for users to easily find them, so does such thing exists here? I want to copyedit articles, you know, fix spelling mistakes and stuff like that. Thanks in advance! PerihanM. ( talk) 15:45, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello I am a newbie, this also my project /info/en/?search=Luca_Litrico Look at my project, tell me what am I doing wrong? J User:Meters User:J947 User:Justin15w David Biddulph Correct project please as you need to be a good article Today I added external links look Klimgeran ( talk) 16:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I started a draft 3 days ago and have been editing it daily. I like it to be an article in Wikipedia and continue to edit it as an article but I don't know how to go from draft to published article. Please help with advice. Thank you.
/info/en/?search=Draft:Riverwood,_Port_Charlotte_Florida maureenwins Maureenwins ( talk) 16:55, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
How to improve the article, who knows make, material, links have to be discussed. Article: Luca_Litrico Klimgeran ( talk) 16:03, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much. For me, your answer is very important Klimgeran ( talk) 18:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello help me to make my project. Its going to remove, I worked on it a long time /info/en/?search=Luca_Litrico Article Why is nominated for deletion /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Luca_Litrico Klimgeran ( talk) 17:39, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Robert McClenon Hello the person in questin Mr Luca Litrico, have autorized me to create a wikipedia page. I want create a persnal page for Luca Litrico. he ask me to create an articole including her personal life. He is a stilist italian.... What i must do for create a profile? Thanks Klimgeran ( talk) 18:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! This question is not really about editing Wikipedia, but I hope it's ok anyway. I'm trying to use the one-line table row format on another wiki (not Wikipedia), but I can't get it to work properly. As an example, I've tried to use this code:
{|
|fmtspec|AA||fmtspec|CC||fmtspec|EE<tr>
|fmtspec|BB||fmtspec|DD||fmtspec|FF<tr>
|}
On Wikipedia, it gives the following result...
AA | CC | EE |
BB | DD | FF |
...but on my wiki, it looks like this:
AACCEE<tr>BBDDFF<tr>
As you can see, there is no space between the table cells, and the <tr> tag doesn't work. I've tried changing it to </tr>, but it makes no difference. I'm using MediaWiki 1.28 and raw HTML is enabled. Does the one-line format require any extensions (or something else) in order to work properly? Any help would be highly appreciated! 155.4.134.68 ( talk) 13:13, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi - Having had useful adice earlier from JzG can anyone give me an idea about whether my draft page at user:Robertspcole/sandbox meets the Wiki criteria - and if it doesn't, what I might do to upgrade it? Also - can I change the name of the page to what it should have been all along? That is, 'London Poems'? Robertspcole ( talk) 22:06, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Can someone come and give a hand on Draft:List of highest-grossing animated films in Canada and the United States 82.38.157.176 ( talk) 22:41, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again. With email, I have found bcc (blind carbon copy) useful. (I guess I'm a sneaky son-of-a-gun...
) Is there some sort of blind ping available on wp, to alert an editor without actually broadcasting it to everyone? Thanks,
DennisPietras (
talk)
22:35, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again. Since there is a recent question about notabilty, I'll ask my own now, instead of letting stress build. How on earth did so many stub quality articles get onto wikipedia? I've been looking at wikiproject genetics articles. There are about 1,500 stub articles that simply, IMHO, aren't worth the price of the paper they are written on, or the memory they are stored on. How did they get approved in the first place? Has there been some huge change in notability policy recently? If wp wants to not have articles that are not notable (a goal I would support), why is it so darn difficult to get a stub deleted? I PRODed
syntelic, and it seems that every possible step is being taken to prevent it from being deleted. It's a one sentence definition, without a verifiable source, IMHO! Why not let auto-confirmed editors simply delete these stubs? If there really is somebody "out there" who is watching the page, that person could undelete. sigh. I feel less frustrated now....
DennisPietras (
talk)
04:42, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
it seems that every possible step is being taken to prevent it from being deletedat all. Only one edit has been made to the article by another editor since you prodded it for deletion, and that was by David Biddulph to add an archived link. There's nothing wrong with such an edit as explained in WP:DEADREF, and it would actually be considered an improvement by most experienced editors. The fact that you see this kind of edit as a problem actually is a good example of why the community has decided to leave the deletion of content up to administrators. David's edit might be only a minor improvement that is not enough to save the article so to speak, but he didn't remove the prod tag even though he could've if he really felt the article should not be deleted. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 10:49, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
There is only one reference, which is to a page that no longer existswhich seemed to imply that was partly why you thought the article should be deleted. Wikipedia articles are almost never deleted because the links to sources cited no longer exist and editors shouldn't remove a citation from an article just because it can no longer be found online. Sources only have to be published: they are not required to be online.
User:DennisPietras - I will try to offer a few comments on your frustration about stub articles in genetics, that may or may not address your frustration. First, many of our reviewers, and we don't have enough reviewers, are primarily concerned with making sure that promotional, self-serving, or truly useless crud doesn't stay in Wikipedia. Anything technical is less problematic than some of the spam that we have to delete. Second, many of the stub articles that get entered into Wikipedia daily in biology are species. It is my understanding that we think that any species is inherently notable; all that is required to accept a stub about it is a reliable source. Maybe more information will be entered about it later. I think that obscure species are at least as notable as obscure celebrities. (That, of course, means that we could get a million stubs on species. We have more than five million articles.) Third, the specific case that you mentioned had to do with an obscure technical concept. I think that a similar case can be made that obscure technical concepts should be accepted, and may be expanded later. Maybe this doesn't address your concerns or frustrations. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:34, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
How do I write a biography?
I don't seem to be able to alter anything on the 'biography template' — Preceding unsigned comment added by FRAS ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I knew Mr. 'Dajikaka Gadgil for over 10 years. he was truly inspiring one. What should I do now to avoid being looked at it as promotional material? Kindly help me.. Thank you. Gaikwadyr ( talk) 06:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
So, I've noticed how some people have clocks that tell the time of their time zone and the wikipedia time. I was wondering if Wikipedia allows for users to keep these kinds of clocks on their talk page so that other users would know if they would get a quick reply from the user. NewByzantine ( talk) 23:59, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Your question. Anirban Pancham Vaidic ( talk) 08:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm new on WikiPedia and I don't know the way to share my problem.
I'm only collecting pages into a book to have joint the information I need. I started this action two days ago; and yesterday when I finished and saved my work the book has 72 pages and 7 chapters.
Today I've connected again to WikiPedia and I've found only 32 pages without any chapter.
Could you help me or tell me where to go to find help. Thank you very much.
Sincerelly yours,
Henry
Lhsebas ( talk) 10:58, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I've clean my browser cache, cookies and everything, I've change my browser; but the result is the same: only 32 pages.
When you tell me that there is no problem with my book, can you see 72 pages?
Thank you again,
Henry
Lhsebas ( talk) 13:32, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't know where to hide my head. What a shame!!!
I wouldn't know I had started two different books. What a rookie ;o)
Thank you.
One question please:
When I log in to Wikipedia, I don't know how to find my book. Is there an easy link to access them?
Thank you, Henry
Lhsebas ( talk) 21:05, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
All in order. Now I can access easily to my books.
Thank you very much.
Lhsebas (
talk)
11:11, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
my entry, Four Primary Days, was deleted. this happened two times previously. i want to be able to post it again and it to not be removed. the reason for removing my entry was totally bogus. What can I do about this? 50.161.46.26 ( talk) 10:34, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I would like to edit the page for International Alert, the charity I work at. This was recently deleted and written from scratch but there are a number of significant details missing. The page has also been flagged and one concern is 'conflict of interest' (the author has declared having a very loose connection to International Alert). As an employee I obviously have a much closer connection to the organisation, so I'm concerned the changes I make won't be accepted and may result in the page getting deleted again (especially as it will involve some heavy editing/re-writing). I plan to keep the style very factual with plenty of external links but please can someone advise me on the best way to amend the page and get the flags removed? Many thanks. 82.108.6.210 ( talk) 12:35, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I am trying to delete the article for URL_(rapper) because it is simply copied from his facebook page and is otherwise unverified because every other link is broken or useless. I have tried adding tags to the beginning of the page to make it an article for deletion and the proposed deletion but they don't seem to change as desired, or am I doing something wrong. Thanks. Higthomas ( talk) 15:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
New Editor: I want to copy-edit a page but I need to do more than one thing. First I need to do the copy-edit, then I need to put in some Wikilinks that would explain the subject a little better. How do I save a half edited page? Then, how do I find the page again to complete the edit?
Cynewulfsfadr ( talk) 10:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Cynewulfsfadr ( talk) 10:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 570 | ← | Archive 573 | Archive 574 | Archive 575 | Archive 576 | Archive 577 | → | Archive 580 |
Yah, new here as well, but longtime IRL editor.
When I put up a request for assitance or input in an article's Talk section, then the fix/assistance is achieved, would I be overstepping to remove the thus-outmoded post & any responses? I worry that doing so would be some sort of gross "memory hole" infraction... but leaving it referring to something that no longer exists seems confusing.
Weeb Dingle (
talk)
02:00, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the Trump White House on January 29, 2017 suggested in an interview with Fox News the purpose of the order was to stop people who would “infiltrate” through the old system. He subsequently stated: “By our estimates, there're more than 40 refugees in recent history who’ve been subsequently implicated in terrorism, and nearly 400 foreign nationals or naturalized foreigners who became U.S. citizens subsequent to their entry, who’ve been implicated in terrorism since 9/11 so it is a very large number of people who have infiltrated the immigration program."[52][citation needed] page is executive order 13769 G1729 ( talk) 23:17, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
How can I move this group of page ( Glory 14: Zagreb - Glory 15: Istanbul - Glory 16: Denver - Glory 17: Los Angeles - Glory 18: Oklahoma) into one page 2014 in Glory? I want to group 2014 event pages into one page like this 2015 in Glory? Thanks KINGFEDORQc ( talk) 06:21, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
I have made changes and tried to make the language more neutral in these two articles: Dreaming of Denmark and Michael Graversen. Are they ok now or do they need more work? One last question: I have tried to search on google for "Dreaming of Denmark wiki" and "Michael Graversen wiki" but no english pages come up. Is this because they are not verified? KlausJensen ( talk) 08:44, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Great. Thank you so much for your help Cullen. It is really helpful. I have a lot of danish references in relations to the debate. Would they work or is it only english? KlausJensen ( talk) 09:58, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. KlausJensen ( talk) 10:12, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm drafting an article, and while the references/citations are still there, the sub-heading "References" seems to have fallen off? Is there some way I can restore it?
Thank you for your help! I am very new so apologies for the basic question.
It is for this page (not yet submitted pending further improvements): /info/en/?search=Draft:Wear_it_Purple_Day
SunnyBoi ( talk) 10:45, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi there - Is there a way to speed up the autocontribute thing so I can upload pics sort of now? Cheers Robertspcole ( talk) 18:33, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I have created my first ever draft article and I have no more content to add to it. I have responded to a few suggestions from your Help desk and added in lots of references were they had been lacking before.
But the latest comment from the Help desk said that my article needs a lot of work. I have no idea what that means.
What is the logical next step right now? Submit it for review or invite some specific comments from the Help desk? It is not good enough to say that your article is not good enough. Too vague. If anyone has a comment please be specific. CableHut ( talk) 06:56, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't know why my page got deleted for it says speedy deletion are you trying to say I am not famous or globally recognised enough because I am I provided links from big newspapers that featured me in it I need to have a wiki page in order to get across to my following but the deletion has really demotivated me a lot :( I would love to get in contact with Wikipedia like a email or number would be great so one of my legal representatives can I can provide any sort of proof you need in order to get my page up I have seen people who are not even recognised at any level and there pages are up its a real shocker! Raj vin ( talk) 12:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
fuhgettaboutit deleted my entry for Francis Celentano and I am seeking to appeal this decision. Francis Celentano was a seminal contributor to the Op Art movement and is an internationally recognized artist whose works are regularly exhibited at MOMA and other art installations around the world. Much of the information already appears on his official website at www.franciscelentano.com an I have permission to use that information from his widow Rebecaa Celentano. I am also his nephew and find it extremely frustrating and unfair that one user can summarily remove information that is clearly a warranted and valid contribution to the Wikipedia collection without giving me a chance to address the issue. Acelentano2016 ( talk) 11:29, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, so I wrote an article about an Tape Art Crew, it needed to be changed, which I did a month ago and now I have no idea, what the deal is. I dont have time to study 6 years of Wikipedia. I am a Macuser, I am used to quick, simple things, not complicated things like WIkipedia. Sorry, if I am too dumb. But I need help, because this project is killing me. :( LizA 1988 ( talk) 15:03, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
"TAPE OVER finds joy in experimenting"is what a reader would expect to find in a promotional website, not an encyclopedia. Altogether, I'm guessing that if TAPE ART meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, the article should be 2-3 paragraphs long altogether, and no longer. Please let me know if that helps. - Darouet ( talk) 15:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello there! I need some help. I joined few days ago and I want to start editing here but I don't know where to start! I was in another wiki and there, articles that needed help were tagged for users to easily find them, so does such thing exists here? I want to copyedit articles, you know, fix spelling mistakes and stuff like that. Thanks in advance! PerihanM. ( talk) 15:45, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello I am a newbie, this also my project /info/en/?search=Luca_Litrico Look at my project, tell me what am I doing wrong? J User:Meters User:J947 User:Justin15w David Biddulph Correct project please as you need to be a good article Today I added external links look Klimgeran ( talk) 16:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I started a draft 3 days ago and have been editing it daily. I like it to be an article in Wikipedia and continue to edit it as an article but I don't know how to go from draft to published article. Please help with advice. Thank you.
/info/en/?search=Draft:Riverwood,_Port_Charlotte_Florida maureenwins Maureenwins ( talk) 16:55, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
How to improve the article, who knows make, material, links have to be discussed. Article: Luca_Litrico Klimgeran ( talk) 16:03, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much. For me, your answer is very important Klimgeran ( talk) 18:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello help me to make my project. Its going to remove, I worked on it a long time /info/en/?search=Luca_Litrico Article Why is nominated for deletion /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Luca_Litrico Klimgeran ( talk) 17:39, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Robert McClenon Hello the person in questin Mr Luca Litrico, have autorized me to create a wikipedia page. I want create a persnal page for Luca Litrico. he ask me to create an articole including her personal life. He is a stilist italian.... What i must do for create a profile? Thanks Klimgeran ( talk) 18:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! This question is not really about editing Wikipedia, but I hope it's ok anyway. I'm trying to use the one-line table row format on another wiki (not Wikipedia), but I can't get it to work properly. As an example, I've tried to use this code:
{|
|fmtspec|AA||fmtspec|CC||fmtspec|EE<tr>
|fmtspec|BB||fmtspec|DD||fmtspec|FF<tr>
|}
On Wikipedia, it gives the following result...
AA | CC | EE |
BB | DD | FF |
...but on my wiki, it looks like this:
AACCEE<tr>BBDDFF<tr>
As you can see, there is no space between the table cells, and the <tr> tag doesn't work. I've tried changing it to </tr>, but it makes no difference. I'm using MediaWiki 1.28 and raw HTML is enabled. Does the one-line format require any extensions (or something else) in order to work properly? Any help would be highly appreciated! 155.4.134.68 ( talk) 13:13, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi - Having had useful adice earlier from JzG can anyone give me an idea about whether my draft page at user:Robertspcole/sandbox meets the Wiki criteria - and if it doesn't, what I might do to upgrade it? Also - can I change the name of the page to what it should have been all along? That is, 'London Poems'? Robertspcole ( talk) 22:06, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Can someone come and give a hand on Draft:List of highest-grossing animated films in Canada and the United States 82.38.157.176 ( talk) 22:41, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again. With email, I have found bcc (blind carbon copy) useful. (I guess I'm a sneaky son-of-a-gun...
) Is there some sort of blind ping available on wp, to alert an editor without actually broadcasting it to everyone? Thanks,
DennisPietras (
talk)
22:35, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again. Since there is a recent question about notabilty, I'll ask my own now, instead of letting stress build. How on earth did so many stub quality articles get onto wikipedia? I've been looking at wikiproject genetics articles. There are about 1,500 stub articles that simply, IMHO, aren't worth the price of the paper they are written on, or the memory they are stored on. How did they get approved in the first place? Has there been some huge change in notability policy recently? If wp wants to not have articles that are not notable (a goal I would support), why is it so darn difficult to get a stub deleted? I PRODed
syntelic, and it seems that every possible step is being taken to prevent it from being deleted. It's a one sentence definition, without a verifiable source, IMHO! Why not let auto-confirmed editors simply delete these stubs? If there really is somebody "out there" who is watching the page, that person could undelete. sigh. I feel less frustrated now....
DennisPietras (
talk)
04:42, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
it seems that every possible step is being taken to prevent it from being deletedat all. Only one edit has been made to the article by another editor since you prodded it for deletion, and that was by David Biddulph to add an archived link. There's nothing wrong with such an edit as explained in WP:DEADREF, and it would actually be considered an improvement by most experienced editors. The fact that you see this kind of edit as a problem actually is a good example of why the community has decided to leave the deletion of content up to administrators. David's edit might be only a minor improvement that is not enough to save the article so to speak, but he didn't remove the prod tag even though he could've if he really felt the article should not be deleted. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 10:49, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
There is only one reference, which is to a page that no longer existswhich seemed to imply that was partly why you thought the article should be deleted. Wikipedia articles are almost never deleted because the links to sources cited no longer exist and editors shouldn't remove a citation from an article just because it can no longer be found online. Sources only have to be published: they are not required to be online.
User:DennisPietras - I will try to offer a few comments on your frustration about stub articles in genetics, that may or may not address your frustration. First, many of our reviewers, and we don't have enough reviewers, are primarily concerned with making sure that promotional, self-serving, or truly useless crud doesn't stay in Wikipedia. Anything technical is less problematic than some of the spam that we have to delete. Second, many of the stub articles that get entered into Wikipedia daily in biology are species. It is my understanding that we think that any species is inherently notable; all that is required to accept a stub about it is a reliable source. Maybe more information will be entered about it later. I think that obscure species are at least as notable as obscure celebrities. (That, of course, means that we could get a million stubs on species. We have more than five million articles.) Third, the specific case that you mentioned had to do with an obscure technical concept. I think that a similar case can be made that obscure technical concepts should be accepted, and may be expanded later. Maybe this doesn't address your concerns or frustrations. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:34, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
How do I write a biography?
I don't seem to be able to alter anything on the 'biography template' — Preceding unsigned comment added by FRAS ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I knew Mr. 'Dajikaka Gadgil for over 10 years. he was truly inspiring one. What should I do now to avoid being looked at it as promotional material? Kindly help me.. Thank you. Gaikwadyr ( talk) 06:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
So, I've noticed how some people have clocks that tell the time of their time zone and the wikipedia time. I was wondering if Wikipedia allows for users to keep these kinds of clocks on their talk page so that other users would know if they would get a quick reply from the user. NewByzantine ( talk) 23:59, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Your question. Anirban Pancham Vaidic ( talk) 08:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm new on WikiPedia and I don't know the way to share my problem.
I'm only collecting pages into a book to have joint the information I need. I started this action two days ago; and yesterday when I finished and saved my work the book has 72 pages and 7 chapters.
Today I've connected again to WikiPedia and I've found only 32 pages without any chapter.
Could you help me or tell me where to go to find help. Thank you very much.
Sincerelly yours,
Henry
Lhsebas ( talk) 10:58, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I've clean my browser cache, cookies and everything, I've change my browser; but the result is the same: only 32 pages.
When you tell me that there is no problem with my book, can you see 72 pages?
Thank you again,
Henry
Lhsebas ( talk) 13:32, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't know where to hide my head. What a shame!!!
I wouldn't know I had started two different books. What a rookie ;o)
Thank you.
One question please:
When I log in to Wikipedia, I don't know how to find my book. Is there an easy link to access them?
Thank you, Henry
Lhsebas ( talk) 21:05, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
All in order. Now I can access easily to my books.
Thank you very much.
Lhsebas (
talk)
11:11, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
my entry, Four Primary Days, was deleted. this happened two times previously. i want to be able to post it again and it to not be removed. the reason for removing my entry was totally bogus. What can I do about this? 50.161.46.26 ( talk) 10:34, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I would like to edit the page for International Alert, the charity I work at. This was recently deleted and written from scratch but there are a number of significant details missing. The page has also been flagged and one concern is 'conflict of interest' (the author has declared having a very loose connection to International Alert). As an employee I obviously have a much closer connection to the organisation, so I'm concerned the changes I make won't be accepted and may result in the page getting deleted again (especially as it will involve some heavy editing/re-writing). I plan to keep the style very factual with plenty of external links but please can someone advise me on the best way to amend the page and get the flags removed? Many thanks. 82.108.6.210 ( talk) 12:35, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I am trying to delete the article for URL_(rapper) because it is simply copied from his facebook page and is otherwise unverified because every other link is broken or useless. I have tried adding tags to the beginning of the page to make it an article for deletion and the proposed deletion but they don't seem to change as desired, or am I doing something wrong. Thanks. Higthomas ( talk) 15:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
New Editor: I want to copy-edit a page but I need to do more than one thing. First I need to do the copy-edit, then I need to put in some Wikilinks that would explain the subject a little better. How do I save a half edited page? Then, how do I find the page again to complete the edit?
Cynewulfsfadr ( talk) 10:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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