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I was checking some edits made by the InternetArchiveBot for the Robin Williams article. For one of them, in the Further reading section, Archive.org (WayBackMachine) had captured the correct web page from ABC-Nightline, but for some reason only the title for the article appears on the archived URL page. I am thinking that I should leave it as is, but I wanted to check with the experts to make sure that is the best thing to do. Thanks! - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) 06:10, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
What is 2,952÷36? Kubuś z Gimnazjum ( talk) 18:09, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, sir. Iam love to created an article and editing article please allow me for creating articles. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dolphin (Dolphin) ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
thanks for the warm welcome! willkimon Duet1234 ( talk) 21:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Dear WP,
I am posting this here on behalf of my friend Harold Couch. He has written in by email to enquire why our article about HPM&R was rejected. Here is the reply received.
Dear Harold Couch,
Your submission is way too too too detailed. I'm stating this with zero exaggeration.
And, that along with the scarce non-trivial mentions in reliable sources looks to have been the main contributing factor behind the decline. WP is an encyclopedia, not a company-booklet that tends to sing unchecked praises and glorify it's past. Thus, each and every contribution/construction and/or project-locations do not deserve to be mentioned.
Also, the People section is too trivial to be encyclopedic.And, the History section looks more-or-less good! So, please drastically cut-out the trivial promotional stuff. Once, you've done so, re-submit and our team will re-review.
Thank you!
Yours sincerely, Ambarish Banerjee
Of course we will be happy with a much shorter version, rather than nothing at all.
But we think what is so wrong with precise information linked to a published source offered in good faith is hard to see.
For example, to my mind the fact that HPM&R was "gave advice to the then Nuclear Electric Plc in the early 1990s to facilitate the change of use of Bankside Power Station to the Tate Modern art gallery" is really quite striking and illustrates how HPM&R has played a part in the building of the United Kingdom as it stands today.
WP's own article about itself contains 368 references and WP has only been around since 2001. The HPM&R article we submitted only 53 references and HPM&R has been around since 1896.
So WP gives itself 21 references about itself per year of operation. At that rate, you might think that HPM&R ought to be entitled to 2142 references in its article.
WP's article about itself includes arcane technical details such as whether it uses MySQL or Lucene for searching. Yet Banerjee implies that the fact that 99 Bishopsgate was managed on behalf of Hammerson is less interesting than that; but if you happened to have been involved somehow with 99 Bishopsgate or Hammerson at the time then it's quite possibly very interesting indeed.
Philjones573 ( talk) 19:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
"From 1960, HPM&R gave advice to over 100 local authorities and New Town Corporations on development schemes for town centre shopping. ::"For example, in 1974, HPM&R was appointed planning consultant, project manager and letting agent on behalf of Banbury Borough Council for the Castle Centre in Banbury Town Centre (now named Castle Quay Shopping Centre).[20] [21] Tunbridge Wells Borough Council was advised throughout the development of Royal Victoria Place, opened in 1992. [22][23] HPM&R advised the 1970 development of the town centre for Hartlepool, County Durham"
Hi,
An article I wrote has recently been accepted to Wikipedia. Today, I have noticed that there is now a rather big banner on top of the article page with a dollar sign and the following text "This article has been edited in return for disclosed payments. View disclosure."
I am a COI editor and I have disclosed this on the draft talk page before the article was written.
My question is, is this banner obligatory or necessary? I couldn't find any information on that, nor do I understand why this tag was added later and not at the time when the article was moved from Articles for creation. I understand that my COI has to be disclosed on the talk page, but I find the banner disruptive and would like to have it removed, if at all possible.
Many thanks for your replies.
NindriIndri ( talk) 15:33, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much, I'll try arguing my case there.
NindriIndri ( talk) 16:10, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
John from IdegonThank you for your comment. I did not know that I had to disclose the information regarding paid articles on my talk page, I thought it should be disclosed on the article's talk page (and no one has brought this up so far). I will do so immediately, I just have to figure out how.
Regarding the topic: to go back to your example, I presume such a tobacco company study or it's results would not have been accepted to Wikipedia. My article has been properly tagged as paid, reviewed and then accepted; thus I believe my article has met WP standards for inclusion: neutral tone, notability, references etc., the same as any other article ever accepted on WP (paid or not) and I don't see a reason why the reader should then be blasted with a huge dollar sign that makes it look like an advertisement and may make them not trust the article (the info is available on the talk page, after all, for those curious about the author or circumstances).
I understand that there may have been many cases of abuse of WP and that long-time editors may see red when they see a paid editor, but I (or the client) had no intentions of bypassing any rules or doing anything prohibited or sketchy. I have tried to the best of my abilities to abide by the WP rules and outside of my connection to the client (painter), I am an art historian and so I know the topic I wrote about and as a scholar, I understand the need for objectivity. Wouldn't it be a huge waste of time to rewrite an article that has already been accepted and meets the standards? Just out of spite or paranoia? Contrary to your opinion, I see nothing wrong with people being paid to write articles for WP (actually, I think it would be nice if everyone was paid), as long as this is disclosed and the information is accurate and reviewed. I'm sure there are hundreds of articles on WP written by paid contributors who chose to hide their connection to the client and I don't think it's particularly helpful to use such a negatively-charged tone when communicating with the few of us that did and treat us like lepers.
Please understand that from the perspective of a new editor, Wikipedia is a huge place and not the easiest to navigate or write an article for, not to mention the numerous rules and opinions of different editors that one meets along the way. This is precisely the reason why I have not contributed more - since I've joined WP, I feel like everyone's "out to get me".
Additionally, as far as I can see, this template has not been generally accepted and I don't know why the article I wrote should be tagged when other articles are not (yet).
I have disclosed my status of paid editor on the template talk page and I do not argue the appropriateness of this template for my article only but in general. I can also remove that if you feel it's out of place. I would like to stress again that I am not trying to obfuscate anything and I don't have any hidden agendas. I just really don't see any need to differentiate in such an obvious manner articles which, in terms of general guidelines, have all been accepted as worthy of inclusion in WP - and I mean all of them, not just in my case.
Kind regards,
NindriIndri ( talk) 19:03, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
I have re-read the rules for disclosing PAID and as far as I can see, I have obliged:
Editors who are compensated for their contributions must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any paid contributions. They must do this on their main user page, or on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or in edit summaries.
NindriIndri ( talk) 19:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
I have disclosed it since I have been notified of this recommendation. I have previously not done so because I presumed from the wording that it was necessary to disclose my status on the article talk page and it was optional to add it to my own. I didn't try to hide anything, I just focused on the article and not the unnecessary "bureaucracy". I find the way Wikipedia works (with all the codes and templates etc.) quite overwhelming so I try to fiddle as little as possible with it. The way John from Idegon phrased his reply made it seem like disclosing all articles on the user page is a hard rule I had intentionally disobeyed and was therefore a "bad" paid editor, when in fact it is a recommendation ("advise" is the verb used) and the way I marked the article has not raised any concerns with previous Wiki editors.
Kindly,
NindriIndri ( talk) 23:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
A small name change has just been made to the blue "Save changes" button in everyone's editing tool. It is now labelled "Publish changes", but its function has not altered. As before, it simply saves the recent edits that have been typed in, whether they've been made in the main encyclopaedia, in a user page or to a draft article. It does not make any difference to how Draft articles, or content in user sandboxes, are actually published (i.e. made to go live) on Wikipedia proper. See Wikipedia:Your first article
New editors need to be aware that our various help pages, ( here, here and here) for example, may remain a little out of date for a while until new graphics and explanatory text are provided. This also affects users learning about editing by taking The Wikipedia Adventure. Hopefully, this won't cause too much confusion.
(I learnt of this scheduled wikipedia-wide change as a result of a post from David Biddulph and others, pointing us to this and this announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation.) Nick Moyes ( talk) 01:03, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
To prepare for the inevitable Disney-Fox deal, should we start putting parentheses for the deal impending, should we put a fate tab abouve the founding tab for the fox properties, should we put a defunct tab? what should we do? Vinnylospo ( talk) 04:33, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Qarabağ FK Azərbaycanı [1]n ən yaxşı komandasıdır.Ən güclu komandadır.Qarabağ 2017-ci ildə UEFA-ya çıxır. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.219.190.127 ( talk) 13:23, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi - when W started asking for funds some years ago in order to maintain its independence I set up a DD for the sum requested. Almost every time I open a wikipedia page I get asked for a contribution. I appreciate this is necessary but is there anyway to link my ip address, or something like that, to the fact I contribute every month? 2A00:23C5:5505:C00:BDC8:635F:7C4D:EE27 ( talk) 14:28, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
We post pertinent material on your "Rapture" article page BUT someone keeps erasing our submissions (2). Do you have any counsel as to how we can retain our appropriate posts? 99.197.186.77 ( talk) 17:14, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
I recently submitted a new page for review: /info/en/?search=Draft:Gilson_(company)
Who edits these drafts? Is there a select group of editors with permission to accept new page submissions, or can anyone do it?
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cglife.bmarcus ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Can I be more than one type of WikiFauna? (e.g. WikiCat/WikiEagle/WikiKnight)? German Gamer 77 18:46, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
If I post on a user talk page a warning template at the same time as a bot (for example, Cluebot NG) posts one, is it considered good practice to remove or undo the one I added? Radioactivated ( talk) 19:20, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
I added the parenthetical referencing editnotice template to Allele age but it is appearing when I read the article. I was expecting it only to appear when editing the article. Where did I go wrong? Curb Safe Charmer ( talk) 20:34, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
The article Minimalist_program confusingly uses two similar abbreviations, vP and VP, for apparently different things, verb phrase and verb phase. And what does the unexplained abbreviation CP in the article Minimalist_program refer to? It says "see X-bar theory", but that doesn't even mention CP. According to CP and complementizer, CP means complementizer phrase, but the section Minimalist_program#Phases confusingly talks only about phases.
And how do i turn off the visual editor? I thought i'd done that in the preferences, but it doesn't seem to affect the "Ask a question" button here. I thought i'd asked that somewhere, but i can't find my question. Clicking on words at the beginning of lines in this textbox makes the textbox disappear on Firefox on my laptop and on Chrome on my Galaxy Tab S2! -- Espoo ( talk) 18:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
This concerns the Alumni section.My father attended King's College. As a commander of a RAF bomber squadron in the last war,he was awarded a DSO and 2 DFC's and I wager deserves an inclusion in this Alumni section of King's. An obituary was written in The Daily Telegraph,so most of the relevant information on his career is cited in this obituary.His full name is Wing Commander Douglas Rivers Bagnall. Can you guide me please how to incorporate this information into the King's Alumni. 217.43.201.162 ( talk) 12:56, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I recently added an edit to the page for the film My Neighbor Totoro and this was my first contribution to Wikipedia. I did this for a class project but i really tried to add something that I thought might stay up so I'm just wondering why it was taken down? I would really like to know what about it was unsuitable- if it was simply not the right page to add the info to or if there was something within the edit itself that made it unsuitable. I would love to discuss what I can do in future to contribute meaningful information to Wikipedia. Thank you, H.Frances H.F.M. ( talk) 00:48, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I want to write an article about a fashion designer. The name of the article is Lili Miro.
I followed the below mentioned page as reference /info/en/?search=Manish_Malhotra
I started writing as... Lili Miro, Founder & CEO of the premium luxury personal shopping and luxury request management brand Lili Miro, is one of the most respected fashion advisors in the Middle East and a celebrated personal buyer for rich and famous.
It is similar to Manish Malhotra is an Indian fashion designer[2][3] who often works with Hindi cinema actresses. He launched his label in 2005.
However, my article is tagged for speedy deletion...
Please advice Lilimiro ( talk) 15:09, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
is a national newspaper a good reference? section Sophiekkk ( talk) 09:46, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Italic text — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sophiekkk ( talk • contribs) 09:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I'm back to the Teahouse because I have not yet found a good answer to this question on either Wikimedia or Wikipedia. Maybe it's too soon.
'Knowledge as a service' is an explicit strategy in the Wikimedia Stragegic Direction 2017-2030. Implicitly, this strategy covers how content from Wikiprojects is accessed by - and is presented to - readers. I understand that any long-term improvement program is complex and takes time. I would expect some kind of 'Road Map' but this may well be something for 2018.
I think that the way in which WP content is currently presented to readers could be improved. But I've been unable to find any WP or WM projects that address this in 2017-2018. The WP projects page seems to be exclusively focused on content and languages. UI is not a priority in the WM plans. It seems that there is no 'talk page' (either on WM or WP) where I can add suggestions on 'Presentation of content to readers'.
Any ideas? Thanks for any help,
Mike [Categorie: finding my way around] Mikemorrell49 ( talk) 23:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks to ColinFine's tip, I've found what I was looking for at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. The page has a list of projects by category and a special search box to find projects using keywords. Mikemorrell49 ( talk) 11:02, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
How is everyone Darragh99 ( talk) 13:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I am considering updating an article with a citation to the World Health Organization's beta draft of ICD-11, which is online.
The difficulty is that if I simply give a normal citation, many relevant details will be missing, and I can pre-anticipate the howling.
Alternatively, I can give a citation that provides more details, but to see anything (e.g. to follow the online link that is part of the citation), one must register with the ICD-11 and then log in. Anyone can register, but I can pre-anticipate the howling.
Arriving belatedly at my question, is there someway in the reference template to give people a heads up that if they want more information and details, they should register?
Or perhaps such a citation is ill-considered and fraught with unresolvable peril?
Hotornotquestionmarknot ( talk) 15:57, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
|url-access=registration
. --
David Biddulph (
talk)
16:25, 14 December 2017 (UTC)I joined random page patrol and typo patrol. After that, I edited many random articles and typos, but in my edit counter page, it is showing that I have zero patrols. How will the stat of patrol be changed. Help me regarding this as I am not much experienced-- Souravdas1998 ( talk) 13:35, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I want to edit my user page so other Wikipedians can know what my goals are on the site. But I have a small problem. I cannot figure out how to indent the infobox templates on my user page and I would apreciate some help. By indenting I mean anchoring the boxes to the right of the screen and not having them being scattered around the page. Duck1738 ( talk) 17:48, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
hello there. Indian dental association is an article that is already there in wiki. but when i try to add it to another list of associations it says its not possible due to various reasons. its a stanad alone article Nammu4725 ( talk) 19:56, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
When I try to link to another page, like Page the link will be red. Can anyone help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CoolSkittle ( talk • contribs) 08:13, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification. CoolSkittle ( talk) 20:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I would like to add a picture of a postcard of Union College in Lincoln Nebraska to Wikipedia. It would reside on the following page.
/info/en/?search=Union_College_(Nebraska)
2605:6000:3E1A:4900:78FA:CAE9:3A6F:2AF5 ( talk) 17:52, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
2605:6000:3E1A:4900:78FA:CAE9:3A6F:2AF5 ( talk) 18:03, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
2605:6000:3E1A:4900:78FA:CAE9:3A6F:2AF5 ( talk) 18:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Back in 2014 submitted some information on West Virginia Railroad which I found on Wlkipedia after doing a search on for List of West Virginia Railroads. It was cool and neat, I tried to add a few things, but they mostly got rejected because I didn't have enough information usually only a line or two. So three years later after doing some research capture some information here and there, I try to submit two more entries with a little more information for Alexander and Rich Mountain Railroad and it's successor Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway. The comments I got back said I didn't specify a category (I'm editing your page/your category) and another reviewer said he didn't understand the article. So I give up and just need to delete my account as this is too complicated for my simple mind. Thank You Denzilriley ( talk) 17:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
sorry I don't know what draft Denzil Riley is I edited two pages Alexander And Rich Mountain Railroad and its successor Alexander And Rich Mountain Railway both are form the 1892-1905 timeframe. Thanks for the information Denzilriley ( talk) 23:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I want to know for the future how to make a page branched off of my user page. Such as User:Duck1738/ExampleName. I see other Wikipedians doing this and I am wondering how I can do this myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duck1738 ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
{{db-user}}
at top of the page, and save it; one of our over-worked and equally unpaid
administrators will jolly along shortly and delete the page for you. Of course, if you've worked on just one topic in a sandbox and want to submit it to
Articles for Creation you can add a submit template to the page instead. If accepted, this has the advantage of retaining all that page's past edit history. Regards,
Nick Moyes (
talk)
01:11, 15 December 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 695 | ← | Archive 698 | Archive 699 | Archive 700 | Archive 701 | Archive 702 | → | Archive 705 |
I was checking some edits made by the InternetArchiveBot for the Robin Williams article. For one of them, in the Further reading section, Archive.org (WayBackMachine) had captured the correct web page from ABC-Nightline, but for some reason only the title for the article appears on the archived URL page. I am thinking that I should leave it as is, but I wanted to check with the experts to make sure that is the best thing to do. Thanks! - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) 06:10, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
What is 2,952÷36? Kubuś z Gimnazjum ( talk) 18:09, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, sir. Iam love to created an article and editing article please allow me for creating articles. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dolphin (Dolphin) ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
thanks for the warm welcome! willkimon Duet1234 ( talk) 21:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Dear WP,
I am posting this here on behalf of my friend Harold Couch. He has written in by email to enquire why our article about HPM&R was rejected. Here is the reply received.
Dear Harold Couch,
Your submission is way too too too detailed. I'm stating this with zero exaggeration.
And, that along with the scarce non-trivial mentions in reliable sources looks to have been the main contributing factor behind the decline. WP is an encyclopedia, not a company-booklet that tends to sing unchecked praises and glorify it's past. Thus, each and every contribution/construction and/or project-locations do not deserve to be mentioned.
Also, the People section is too trivial to be encyclopedic.And, the History section looks more-or-less good! So, please drastically cut-out the trivial promotional stuff. Once, you've done so, re-submit and our team will re-review.
Thank you!
Yours sincerely, Ambarish Banerjee
Of course we will be happy with a much shorter version, rather than nothing at all.
But we think what is so wrong with precise information linked to a published source offered in good faith is hard to see.
For example, to my mind the fact that HPM&R was "gave advice to the then Nuclear Electric Plc in the early 1990s to facilitate the change of use of Bankside Power Station to the Tate Modern art gallery" is really quite striking and illustrates how HPM&R has played a part in the building of the United Kingdom as it stands today.
WP's own article about itself contains 368 references and WP has only been around since 2001. The HPM&R article we submitted only 53 references and HPM&R has been around since 1896.
So WP gives itself 21 references about itself per year of operation. At that rate, you might think that HPM&R ought to be entitled to 2142 references in its article.
WP's article about itself includes arcane technical details such as whether it uses MySQL or Lucene for searching. Yet Banerjee implies that the fact that 99 Bishopsgate was managed on behalf of Hammerson is less interesting than that; but if you happened to have been involved somehow with 99 Bishopsgate or Hammerson at the time then it's quite possibly very interesting indeed.
Philjones573 ( talk) 19:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
"From 1960, HPM&R gave advice to over 100 local authorities and New Town Corporations on development schemes for town centre shopping. ::"For example, in 1974, HPM&R was appointed planning consultant, project manager and letting agent on behalf of Banbury Borough Council for the Castle Centre in Banbury Town Centre (now named Castle Quay Shopping Centre).[20] [21] Tunbridge Wells Borough Council was advised throughout the development of Royal Victoria Place, opened in 1992. [22][23] HPM&R advised the 1970 development of the town centre for Hartlepool, County Durham"
Hi,
An article I wrote has recently been accepted to Wikipedia. Today, I have noticed that there is now a rather big banner on top of the article page with a dollar sign and the following text "This article has been edited in return for disclosed payments. View disclosure."
I am a COI editor and I have disclosed this on the draft talk page before the article was written.
My question is, is this banner obligatory or necessary? I couldn't find any information on that, nor do I understand why this tag was added later and not at the time when the article was moved from Articles for creation. I understand that my COI has to be disclosed on the talk page, but I find the banner disruptive and would like to have it removed, if at all possible.
Many thanks for your replies.
NindriIndri ( talk) 15:33, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much, I'll try arguing my case there.
NindriIndri ( talk) 16:10, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
John from IdegonThank you for your comment. I did not know that I had to disclose the information regarding paid articles on my talk page, I thought it should be disclosed on the article's talk page (and no one has brought this up so far). I will do so immediately, I just have to figure out how.
Regarding the topic: to go back to your example, I presume such a tobacco company study or it's results would not have been accepted to Wikipedia. My article has been properly tagged as paid, reviewed and then accepted; thus I believe my article has met WP standards for inclusion: neutral tone, notability, references etc., the same as any other article ever accepted on WP (paid or not) and I don't see a reason why the reader should then be blasted with a huge dollar sign that makes it look like an advertisement and may make them not trust the article (the info is available on the talk page, after all, for those curious about the author or circumstances).
I understand that there may have been many cases of abuse of WP and that long-time editors may see red when they see a paid editor, but I (or the client) had no intentions of bypassing any rules or doing anything prohibited or sketchy. I have tried to the best of my abilities to abide by the WP rules and outside of my connection to the client (painter), I am an art historian and so I know the topic I wrote about and as a scholar, I understand the need for objectivity. Wouldn't it be a huge waste of time to rewrite an article that has already been accepted and meets the standards? Just out of spite or paranoia? Contrary to your opinion, I see nothing wrong with people being paid to write articles for WP (actually, I think it would be nice if everyone was paid), as long as this is disclosed and the information is accurate and reviewed. I'm sure there are hundreds of articles on WP written by paid contributors who chose to hide their connection to the client and I don't think it's particularly helpful to use such a negatively-charged tone when communicating with the few of us that did and treat us like lepers.
Please understand that from the perspective of a new editor, Wikipedia is a huge place and not the easiest to navigate or write an article for, not to mention the numerous rules and opinions of different editors that one meets along the way. This is precisely the reason why I have not contributed more - since I've joined WP, I feel like everyone's "out to get me".
Additionally, as far as I can see, this template has not been generally accepted and I don't know why the article I wrote should be tagged when other articles are not (yet).
I have disclosed my status of paid editor on the template talk page and I do not argue the appropriateness of this template for my article only but in general. I can also remove that if you feel it's out of place. I would like to stress again that I am not trying to obfuscate anything and I don't have any hidden agendas. I just really don't see any need to differentiate in such an obvious manner articles which, in terms of general guidelines, have all been accepted as worthy of inclusion in WP - and I mean all of them, not just in my case.
Kind regards,
NindriIndri ( talk) 19:03, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
I have re-read the rules for disclosing PAID and as far as I can see, I have obliged:
Editors who are compensated for their contributions must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any paid contributions. They must do this on their main user page, or on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or in edit summaries.
NindriIndri ( talk) 19:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
I have disclosed it since I have been notified of this recommendation. I have previously not done so because I presumed from the wording that it was necessary to disclose my status on the article talk page and it was optional to add it to my own. I didn't try to hide anything, I just focused on the article and not the unnecessary "bureaucracy". I find the way Wikipedia works (with all the codes and templates etc.) quite overwhelming so I try to fiddle as little as possible with it. The way John from Idegon phrased his reply made it seem like disclosing all articles on the user page is a hard rule I had intentionally disobeyed and was therefore a "bad" paid editor, when in fact it is a recommendation ("advise" is the verb used) and the way I marked the article has not raised any concerns with previous Wiki editors.
Kindly,
NindriIndri ( talk) 23:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
A small name change has just been made to the blue "Save changes" button in everyone's editing tool. It is now labelled "Publish changes", but its function has not altered. As before, it simply saves the recent edits that have been typed in, whether they've been made in the main encyclopaedia, in a user page or to a draft article. It does not make any difference to how Draft articles, or content in user sandboxes, are actually published (i.e. made to go live) on Wikipedia proper. See Wikipedia:Your first article
New editors need to be aware that our various help pages, ( here, here and here) for example, may remain a little out of date for a while until new graphics and explanatory text are provided. This also affects users learning about editing by taking The Wikipedia Adventure. Hopefully, this won't cause too much confusion.
(I learnt of this scheduled wikipedia-wide change as a result of a post from David Biddulph and others, pointing us to this and this announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation.) Nick Moyes ( talk) 01:03, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
To prepare for the inevitable Disney-Fox deal, should we start putting parentheses for the deal impending, should we put a fate tab abouve the founding tab for the fox properties, should we put a defunct tab? what should we do? Vinnylospo ( talk) 04:33, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Qarabağ FK Azərbaycanı [1]n ən yaxşı komandasıdır.Ən güclu komandadır.Qarabağ 2017-ci ildə UEFA-ya çıxır. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.219.190.127 ( talk) 13:23, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi - when W started asking for funds some years ago in order to maintain its independence I set up a DD for the sum requested. Almost every time I open a wikipedia page I get asked for a contribution. I appreciate this is necessary but is there anyway to link my ip address, or something like that, to the fact I contribute every month? 2A00:23C5:5505:C00:BDC8:635F:7C4D:EE27 ( talk) 14:28, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
We post pertinent material on your "Rapture" article page BUT someone keeps erasing our submissions (2). Do you have any counsel as to how we can retain our appropriate posts? 99.197.186.77 ( talk) 17:14, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
I recently submitted a new page for review: /info/en/?search=Draft:Gilson_(company)
Who edits these drafts? Is there a select group of editors with permission to accept new page submissions, or can anyone do it?
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cglife.bmarcus ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Can I be more than one type of WikiFauna? (e.g. WikiCat/WikiEagle/WikiKnight)? German Gamer 77 18:46, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
If I post on a user talk page a warning template at the same time as a bot (for example, Cluebot NG) posts one, is it considered good practice to remove or undo the one I added? Radioactivated ( talk) 19:20, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
I added the parenthetical referencing editnotice template to Allele age but it is appearing when I read the article. I was expecting it only to appear when editing the article. Where did I go wrong? Curb Safe Charmer ( talk) 20:34, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
The article Minimalist_program confusingly uses two similar abbreviations, vP and VP, for apparently different things, verb phrase and verb phase. And what does the unexplained abbreviation CP in the article Minimalist_program refer to? It says "see X-bar theory", but that doesn't even mention CP. According to CP and complementizer, CP means complementizer phrase, but the section Minimalist_program#Phases confusingly talks only about phases.
And how do i turn off the visual editor? I thought i'd done that in the preferences, but it doesn't seem to affect the "Ask a question" button here. I thought i'd asked that somewhere, but i can't find my question. Clicking on words at the beginning of lines in this textbox makes the textbox disappear on Firefox on my laptop and on Chrome on my Galaxy Tab S2! -- Espoo ( talk) 18:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
This concerns the Alumni section.My father attended King's College. As a commander of a RAF bomber squadron in the last war,he was awarded a DSO and 2 DFC's and I wager deserves an inclusion in this Alumni section of King's. An obituary was written in The Daily Telegraph,so most of the relevant information on his career is cited in this obituary.His full name is Wing Commander Douglas Rivers Bagnall. Can you guide me please how to incorporate this information into the King's Alumni. 217.43.201.162 ( talk) 12:56, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I recently added an edit to the page for the film My Neighbor Totoro and this was my first contribution to Wikipedia. I did this for a class project but i really tried to add something that I thought might stay up so I'm just wondering why it was taken down? I would really like to know what about it was unsuitable- if it was simply not the right page to add the info to or if there was something within the edit itself that made it unsuitable. I would love to discuss what I can do in future to contribute meaningful information to Wikipedia. Thank you, H.Frances H.F.M. ( talk) 00:48, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I want to write an article about a fashion designer. The name of the article is Lili Miro.
I followed the below mentioned page as reference /info/en/?search=Manish_Malhotra
I started writing as... Lili Miro, Founder & CEO of the premium luxury personal shopping and luxury request management brand Lili Miro, is one of the most respected fashion advisors in the Middle East and a celebrated personal buyer for rich and famous.
It is similar to Manish Malhotra is an Indian fashion designer[2][3] who often works with Hindi cinema actresses. He launched his label in 2005.
However, my article is tagged for speedy deletion...
Please advice Lilimiro ( talk) 15:09, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
is a national newspaper a good reference? section Sophiekkk ( talk) 09:46, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Italic text — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sophiekkk ( talk • contribs) 09:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I'm back to the Teahouse because I have not yet found a good answer to this question on either Wikimedia or Wikipedia. Maybe it's too soon.
'Knowledge as a service' is an explicit strategy in the Wikimedia Stragegic Direction 2017-2030. Implicitly, this strategy covers how content from Wikiprojects is accessed by - and is presented to - readers. I understand that any long-term improvement program is complex and takes time. I would expect some kind of 'Road Map' but this may well be something for 2018.
I think that the way in which WP content is currently presented to readers could be improved. But I've been unable to find any WP or WM projects that address this in 2017-2018. The WP projects page seems to be exclusively focused on content and languages. UI is not a priority in the WM plans. It seems that there is no 'talk page' (either on WM or WP) where I can add suggestions on 'Presentation of content to readers'.
Any ideas? Thanks for any help,
Mike [Categorie: finding my way around] Mikemorrell49 ( talk) 23:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks to ColinFine's tip, I've found what I was looking for at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. The page has a list of projects by category and a special search box to find projects using keywords. Mikemorrell49 ( talk) 11:02, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
How is everyone Darragh99 ( talk) 13:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I am considering updating an article with a citation to the World Health Organization's beta draft of ICD-11, which is online.
The difficulty is that if I simply give a normal citation, many relevant details will be missing, and I can pre-anticipate the howling.
Alternatively, I can give a citation that provides more details, but to see anything (e.g. to follow the online link that is part of the citation), one must register with the ICD-11 and then log in. Anyone can register, but I can pre-anticipate the howling.
Arriving belatedly at my question, is there someway in the reference template to give people a heads up that if they want more information and details, they should register?
Or perhaps such a citation is ill-considered and fraught with unresolvable peril?
Hotornotquestionmarknot ( talk) 15:57, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
|url-access=registration
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David Biddulph (
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16:25, 14 December 2017 (UTC)I joined random page patrol and typo patrol. After that, I edited many random articles and typos, but in my edit counter page, it is showing that I have zero patrols. How will the stat of patrol be changed. Help me regarding this as I am not much experienced-- Souravdas1998 ( talk) 13:35, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I want to edit my user page so other Wikipedians can know what my goals are on the site. But I have a small problem. I cannot figure out how to indent the infobox templates on my user page and I would apreciate some help. By indenting I mean anchoring the boxes to the right of the screen and not having them being scattered around the page. Duck1738 ( talk) 17:48, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
hello there. Indian dental association is an article that is already there in wiki. but when i try to add it to another list of associations it says its not possible due to various reasons. its a stanad alone article Nammu4725 ( talk) 19:56, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
When I try to link to another page, like Page the link will be red. Can anyone help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CoolSkittle ( talk • contribs) 08:13, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification. CoolSkittle ( talk) 20:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I would like to add a picture of a postcard of Union College in Lincoln Nebraska to Wikipedia. It would reside on the following page.
/info/en/?search=Union_College_(Nebraska)
2605:6000:3E1A:4900:78FA:CAE9:3A6F:2AF5 ( talk) 17:52, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
2605:6000:3E1A:4900:78FA:CAE9:3A6F:2AF5 ( talk) 18:03, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
2605:6000:3E1A:4900:78FA:CAE9:3A6F:2AF5 ( talk) 18:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Back in 2014 submitted some information on West Virginia Railroad which I found on Wlkipedia after doing a search on for List of West Virginia Railroads. It was cool and neat, I tried to add a few things, but they mostly got rejected because I didn't have enough information usually only a line or two. So three years later after doing some research capture some information here and there, I try to submit two more entries with a little more information for Alexander and Rich Mountain Railroad and it's successor Alexander and Rich Mountain Railway. The comments I got back said I didn't specify a category (I'm editing your page/your category) and another reviewer said he didn't understand the article. So I give up and just need to delete my account as this is too complicated for my simple mind. Thank You Denzilriley ( talk) 17:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
sorry I don't know what draft Denzil Riley is I edited two pages Alexander And Rich Mountain Railroad and its successor Alexander And Rich Mountain Railway both are form the 1892-1905 timeframe. Thanks for the information Denzilriley ( talk) 23:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
I want to know for the future how to make a page branched off of my user page. Such as User:Duck1738/ExampleName. I see other Wikipedians doing this and I am wondering how I can do this myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duck1738 ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
{{db-user}}
at top of the page, and save it; one of our over-worked and equally unpaid
administrators will jolly along shortly and delete the page for you. Of course, if you've worked on just one topic in a sandbox and want to submit it to
Articles for Creation you can add a submit template to the page instead. If accepted, this has the advantage of retaining all that page's past edit history. Regards,
Nick Moyes (
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01:11, 15 December 2017 (UTC)