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A person of note, currently has a redirect on their page. I wanted to create a page about this individual using the template.
I did the following
I ended up with the templet content with my stuff beneath.
How do I get a draft going which I can check before publishing?
into the place where there used to be a redirect
When I go to preview, I find the contents of the template page with my new text underneath. When I go to edit, I can only edit my pasted text, the template material does not appear in the edit window.
I think that I need to save in someway after putting in the {{subs:Biography}}
I want to be able to edit the template as a draft and only publish when I have got all the parts correct.
Where am I going wrong or where can I find slightly more complete instructions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerak99 ( talk • contribs)
{{subst:Biography}}
and save the page before you can make changes to the example text. If you use
Wikipedia:Articles for creation then there will be a "Submit" button to submit the page for review when you think it's ready.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)How to go to the source mode to add image to Wikipedia page?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aayush anuj ( talk • contribs) 11:15, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Shawn Vorda and I conducted an interview this year with Steven Pinker that was published in Rain Taxi magazine. Shawn posted it two days ago where you could click and read the Rain Taxi online interview. However, it was removed from the Wikipedia website. Why was the interview deleted? Secondly, I have about two dozen interviews with novelists and another dozen book reviews (published in various magazines) that I would like to submit to Wikipedia. How can I do this and do I need any permission? Thank you.---Allan Vorda — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psoundslike ( talk • contribs) 04:30, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
LS,
Found a lot of information about copyright on images, but I doubt the order of the steps. For a page on a professor in Arts I have to get permission from some art institutions to publish images. Do I first upload the images to Commons and add the permission later, or do I first have to have the permission? I want it to be as easy as possible for the institutions. I found a template page, but wikipedia says it prefers to use the interactive Release Generator... Will this be easy to use for the person who has to give the permission?
Sounds like a rookie question, also because a few years ago I already made a page with images and video's, but somehow the procedure seems to have changed a bit.
To summarize: what is the order of the steps to be taken?
Thanks for help! MarqyF ( talk) 14:30, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
{{OTRS pending}}
to the file page. Then you should have the copyright owner send an email following the directions at
WP:CONSENT which includes the file name of the image you uploaded, so that the person answering the email can find it. The person who answers the email will update the image to verify the license. If an email isn't received after several weeks, then the image will be deleted, and will only be restored once permission is received.
GMG
talk
14:34, 12 November 2018 (UTC)Thank you, this was exactly the form I was looking for. Order of steps is clear now too. Cheers! MarqyF ( talk) 15:10, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
When I want to edit, I find I am looking at the syntax of other articles. Is there a user manual of editing syntax? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikijames1 ( talk • contribs) 13:45, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Yes, this is it. Thank you all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikijames1 ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I have read the Fair Use Wizard, but I'm not clear on if you can upload an image, like the cover of a movie or video game, and just say under the description of the image the owner of that cover art, or if that's against fair use. Pierson D ( talk) 17:08, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I've tried to archive my talkpage following the instructions at WP:TALKARCHIVE, first using Cluebot, and then lowercase sigmabot, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be working. In both cases, I waited several days (almost two weeks with Cluebot), but the bots both seem to be ignoring my page. I have several conversations older than the minimum age parameter, so I really don't understand what's going on. Do I need to manually create the pages that will store the archive before the bots come through? signed, Rosguill talk 16:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
algo=old(90d)
and minthreadstoarchive=2
. This means only archive threads which are at least 90 days old, and only run archiving when there are at least 2 threads to archive. You only have one thread older than 90 days.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
21:53, 12 November 2018 (UTC)Im looking for help to Update my Wikipedia Info, i have my information on Google Demographics and verified Google Search, and would like to have all my artist information on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julio Janpierre ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I've clicked the 'publish changes' for my new article on Jessie Payne in my sandbox. Fingers crossed some lovely Wiki editor will now check it to see if it's suitable...but how do I know that's the case? i.e. Will i get a message to say someone is looking at it? I know that I need to add extra info to the citations, or to learn how to input them correctly, and I'll get on with trying to make sense of that and learning how to do it...if I am reassured that the article is suitable! (Any training days coming up? I did my last article 4 years ago and things have changed)
Hi. I saw a mistake regarding United Nations Human Rights Council, but only realized after that there are many words that needs to be corrected. I have never contributed to Wikipedia before and should probably not have done anything before taking a better look at what I got myself into. I don't have the time to update everything. Can someone please help? /info/en/?search=United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nitin1969 ( talk • contribs) 23:18, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
I am trying to make a page for one of our digital talent, Amber Scholl. She is a YouTube sensation and our team is trying to have a page for her on Wikipedia. I have been submitting drafts for her page, but it keeps declining. Please advise on how to move forward.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amberscholl1 ( talk • contribs) 00:28, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I wounder why this article that I have created is declined when similar articles already exist on Wikipedia with similar activities as company that I have tried to put on Wikipedia. I belive that there are enough referencies on Ewla draft page, but maybe I am just mising the point, and that is that some articles will be published, and some will not. Its pure luck. Similar pages already exist, with very little referencies... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miroslav.uzice87 ( talk • contribs) 21:05, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I have no SAVE button in my Sandbox. Am I doing something wrong or must I complete my work in one sitting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikijames1 ( talk • contribs) 13:18, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you all Wikijames1 ( talk) 15:10, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
He was looking for a private way to save his pageis an accurate representation of
I just wanted to temporarily save my work for further editing at a later time( diff). Furthermore, even if it was true that
every new editor who has asked for a "Save" button (and has explained why) has been looking for a non-public way to save their work, that is clearly not the same as "every new editor who did not click the publish change button did so because they wanted to changes to be private" (which is the correct premise for the argument that follows, and which is false in that absolute form, per GGS's diff where it is clear that the user is OK with making the changes public as long as it is not a definitive version). I remember having seen a couple of new editors taking here at the Teahouse who displayed that thinking, though I cannot be bothered to dig the archives right now.
{{
2nd chance}}
yesterday. It is just now added to your list as a done item.
— jmcgnh
(talk)
(contribs)
06:27, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Now that I'm no longer a new user, The current set up is perfectly fine. But for a new user, there are some things that are confusing. When I started I found You Tube very helpful. For example, I wanted to reply to a message and was told to respond on 'this' page, I searched for hours on that page looking for a button to click or an edit box. I messaged an admin and he said to just respond on that page. Again searched that page. Am I on the right page, maybe it hasn't been updated?. Ok, finally I figured it out, I wrote on my page and somehow someone else got the message! But now that i've learned to swim, everything is fine and I'm happy!. Wikijames1 ( talk) 21:55, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
While editing boroughs, townships, and census-designated places in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, I have found the phrase "In the borough the population was spread out," followed by a discussion of the ages of the population. When I read it, I envisioned the inhabitants spread out in the street waiting to be handcuffed and taken away. Since I am certain that this is not what the author intended to say, I have changed many of them to say "In the borough the age of the population was spread out,". A slight improvement but not necessarily adequate. See page /info/en/?search=Manorville,_Pennsylvania as an example. Possible improvements might be "The median age of the population was 39 years, less than the median age for Armstrong County, which was 40 years. The detailed statistics are: " This is only one suggestion and I am certain that there are better ones out there.
My question is: should these be changed? If so, what other possibilities are there?
Niccolo1512 ( talk) 15:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. I have discovered that the phrase is boilerplate inserted by a script. That means that there are probably thousands of populations "spread out". I will at least get Armstrong County off the ground.
Hello, I’ve been wanting to edit an article about Gavin McInnes. I watched an NBC interview of him and the proud boys where he said himself it was fair to call him Islamophobic. But every time anyone else edits, the edit is reverted back to Anti-Islam. Why is that? If he called himself an Islamophobe why can’t we describe him that way? Second, every time I try to edit the page the page is protected. I see others making edits, but I can’t. When does page protection end and can I make this edit and attribute it to the interview? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatimaniqbal ( talk • contribs) 21:55, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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I'm new...??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.232.61 ( talk) 11:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I was going though this page: Terry v. Ohio and realized there are almost no sources for most of the article, except for court decisions and then, for only one or two sections. Last night I added in all the "citation needed" and "unreferenced" templates.
I think this is a very important Fourth Amendment decision and I would like to rewrite it over the next month. My question is should I just delete the unreferenced sections and start over? I have no idea where the original editor got sources from.
Thanks! Seahawk01 ( talk) 03:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I’ve seen on the article about Kabongo Tshimanga you have his date of birth wrong click into his the number 2 at the side his actually born on the 22/07/97 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:9F2F:5E00:9CDF:DC27:3585:F323 ( talk) 01:32, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to get away from the Tea House and non-participatory conversations in the "Discussion" sections, based on the advice of at least two Editors here. To that end I have set out two small projects to learn how to do things and immediately have run into a wall.
One Article has a "spam" citation, that I thought I'd simply delete, but when I went to "Edit" that Section (at the bottom of an Article), all that displayed was a blank page, with just this:
"= = References = = { { reflist } }"
(I broke it up to prevent it from rendering.)
Assume that means the "references" are somewhere else. Where? How do I get there?
Second project is to include a cite in an Article. The Article uses the source but doesn't include it. Is this the same place & process? Tym Whittier ( talk) 01:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Article content<ref>citation</ref>
. There are various ways to find the location of a specific reference in an article, but the easiest is problably to go to the "References" section and then click on the ^ symbol (it works like a back-link to the footnote marker for the reference) and it should take you to location of the reference. Once you know the location, you can open the edit window for the relevant seciton of the article, find the reference and edit it as needed. --
Marchjuly (
talk)
02:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
<ref
(I've intentionally left off the closing chevron of <ref>
because some references are given shortcut names so they can be used again and again within one article, and these begin <ref name="shortcut">
. But whatever you do, don't make the mistake I made when I started out editing: I'd not realised one could insert reference details using a nice easy popup template by clicking the 'Cite' button. Instead, I nearly went mad, trying to manually edit the code for each reference by cutting, pasting and then modifying an existing reference to create a new one. Life's actually a lot easier than that, whichever editor you prefer to use, as both have 'Cite' buttons in their toolbars. And to answer your latest reply, don't worry if you do mess up a page by 'being bold'. Just make sure you a) Preview the page before publishing changes, and b) checking how the saved/published page appears by looking for nasty red error messages. Even if you do that,you can go into 'View History' find your last entry on the top row and click 'Undo' to revert to the previous version. But, if you use the 'Cite' button to select the relevant template, you shouldn't be making errors with the markup anyway. I'm sure you'll be fine. Go for it.
Nick Moyes (
talk)
02:40, 13 November 2018 (UTC)I don't want engage in an edit war so I'm requesting to go through this page history. The article was not according to WP:NPV so I fixed that but a person is inserting unsourced material again and again and writing "Will provide citation shortly". So the article is becoming a fan page. Hamim000000 ( talk) 05:16, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi everyone!
I have been asked to contribute a new Wikipedia page as an assignment for my Master's Degree, and I decided to create the Spanish version of a page about Catalan chef Fina Puigdevall (the page is currently only available in Catalan).
Yesterday I published my translation and was working on it, adding references, linking it through to other Wikipedia content... this morning, it's all gone. I have looked at my contributions page and it doesn't even show there! There's no record of my work anywhere - yet I was publishing changes and amends incrementally, clicking on 'publish' and explaining the changes every so often... I just don't understand where I could have gone wrong? I even checked that my page was correctly published by accessing it through the Catalan version?
If you have any idea what I can do to recover my work, or at least not to do the same mistakes again, I would be really grateful!
Thank you in advance,
Laura (laurahueto93) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurahueto93 ( talk • contribs) 10:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Oh thank you so much for your help, I didn't realise the distinction between the different versions of the wikipedia depending on the language. Thank you so much, I have asked him why he deleted it. Laurahueto93 ( talk) 11:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I have been trying to understand exactly what Wikipedia policies define as the correct handling of sourcing content from and citing academic Computer Science publications. To preface with the exact questions I wish to have clarified:
I have come to understand from WP:RS that citing a paper from a respected, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings would be viewed as a reliable source. In the vast majority of cases, the publications are written by the same people that did the research, and so the source counts as primary, per WP:PRIMARY. By the same reasoning though, this close relationship and vested interest in the work would make the source not independent, according to WP:IS.
Wikipedia, seems to view secondary, independent, reliable sources as the ideal. WP:SCHOLARSHIP highlights a strong preference for secondary sources. The guidelines on Non-independent sources suggests using non-independent sources for content is okay, but suggests qualifying all information pulled from a non-independent source as potentially suspect. Is the preference for secondary sources only a preference? Does the requirement of marking suspect all information pulled from non-independent sources apply to academic publications?
In scanning through existing articles and their citations, I'm assuming the answer for (1) is "Yes". However, these articles seem to frequently have citations that are primary, not reliable, and not independent. Should I be trying to remove/replace these citations?
WP:LISTCOMPANY views a source being both independent and reliable as a requirement for inclusion on a list. Within the realm of CS academia, I understand a survey paper can likely be considered an independent and reliable publication. However, it's not clear to me the extent of a reference or examination that would be required to satisfy WP:LISTCOMPANY in this context. If a system, proprietary or open source, is cited as a reference, mentioned in related works, or benchmarked against in a reliable, primary publication, would any of those count as a sufficient reference? Or is it required for the secondary publication to be a detailed analysis of the primary source? If it's a reference to a system not developed by the authors of the primary publication, does it count as an independent reference, even though the overall paper is not independent?
tl;dr: I could use some pointers on what is "idealistically Wikipedian" as to what should be used for sources, or to very well sourced technical topics.
Thanks! Linearizable ( talk) 11:15, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how the whole free-use thing for images of people who are no longer living works, and I keep going around in circles on various policy pages. I started two articles today, Roz Young and Marj Heyduck, and of course I'd like to include photos. Both women were photographed quite often. I've actually been trying to work my network as they both were active in the town I grew up in, but so far no luck finding someone who knows someone who actually photographed either of them themselves. How do I go about finding a free-use photo? Thanks for any help! valereee ( talk) 00:03, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello.
User Phoenix7777 is adding fake news to the BTS article and I'm afraid it will be happen a lot these days so I ask some cooperation and advice.
The nazi hat issue the user added was an edit made by antis years ago from a magazine photoshoot Ceci magazine Korea here. You can literally search the magazine scans and see it's fake and the extremist right wing group leaded by Makoto Sakurai knows it's fake yet are still spreading the edit.
This user is also citing a biased articles without doing the proper research about the liberation day shirt that is released in korea, in no way the shirt is mocking the A-Bomb as media like The Guardian are reporting, the own creator of the shirt already gave interviews and apologized for using the sensitive image. South Korea and Japan are going through a tense diplomatic situation and Japanese media are using the group to spread fake news, you can read the Billboard reference about it. Also the accusation about the flag at the concert is fake and the company from the artist Seo Taiji that organized the event is already consulting to their lawyers to sue for defamation the people accusing the flag being Nazi.
We need help to protect the page from biased points of view from jnetz and fans until the situation is cleared because this situation is beyond fandoms, there are politics and extremist groups included. ↳ GiovannaG . . . (My talk) 16:04, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your friendly welcome User:WillKomen. I can't wait to start editing! Ozedam ( talk) 02:05, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I want to get the article Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Statistics , which contains a good deal of important Tottenham Hotspur F.C. records and statistics protected so that vandals don't do anything or make uncited edits . How do I do it ? I WOS A CHOC ( talk) 10:22, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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Archive 855 | ← | Archive 858 | Archive 859 | Archive 860 | Archive 861 | Archive 862 | → | Archive 865 |
A person of note, currently has a redirect on their page. I wanted to create a page about this individual using the template.
I did the following
I ended up with the templet content with my stuff beneath.
How do I get a draft going which I can check before publishing?
into the place where there used to be a redirect
When I go to preview, I find the contents of the template page with my new text underneath. When I go to edit, I can only edit my pasted text, the template material does not appear in the edit window.
I think that I need to save in someway after putting in the {{subs:Biography}}
I want to be able to edit the template as a draft and only publish when I have got all the parts correct.
Where am I going wrong or where can I find slightly more complete instructions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerak99 ( talk • contribs)
{{subst:Biography}}
and save the page before you can make changes to the example text. If you use
Wikipedia:Articles for creation then there will be a "Submit" button to submit the page for review when you think it's ready.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)How to go to the source mode to add image to Wikipedia page?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aayush anuj ( talk • contribs) 11:15, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Shawn Vorda and I conducted an interview this year with Steven Pinker that was published in Rain Taxi magazine. Shawn posted it two days ago where you could click and read the Rain Taxi online interview. However, it was removed from the Wikipedia website. Why was the interview deleted? Secondly, I have about two dozen interviews with novelists and another dozen book reviews (published in various magazines) that I would like to submit to Wikipedia. How can I do this and do I need any permission? Thank you.---Allan Vorda — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psoundslike ( talk • contribs) 04:30, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
LS,
Found a lot of information about copyright on images, but I doubt the order of the steps. For a page on a professor in Arts I have to get permission from some art institutions to publish images. Do I first upload the images to Commons and add the permission later, or do I first have to have the permission? I want it to be as easy as possible for the institutions. I found a template page, but wikipedia says it prefers to use the interactive Release Generator... Will this be easy to use for the person who has to give the permission?
Sounds like a rookie question, also because a few years ago I already made a page with images and video's, but somehow the procedure seems to have changed a bit.
To summarize: what is the order of the steps to be taken?
Thanks for help! MarqyF ( talk) 14:30, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
{{OTRS pending}}
to the file page. Then you should have the copyright owner send an email following the directions at
WP:CONSENT which includes the file name of the image you uploaded, so that the person answering the email can find it. The person who answers the email will update the image to verify the license. If an email isn't received after several weeks, then the image will be deleted, and will only be restored once permission is received.
GMG
talk
14:34, 12 November 2018 (UTC)Thank you, this was exactly the form I was looking for. Order of steps is clear now too. Cheers! MarqyF ( talk) 15:10, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
When I want to edit, I find I am looking at the syntax of other articles. Is there a user manual of editing syntax? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikijames1 ( talk • contribs) 13:45, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Yes, this is it. Thank you all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikijames1 ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I have read the Fair Use Wizard, but I'm not clear on if you can upload an image, like the cover of a movie or video game, and just say under the description of the image the owner of that cover art, or if that's against fair use. Pierson D ( talk) 17:08, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I've tried to archive my talkpage following the instructions at WP:TALKARCHIVE, first using Cluebot, and then lowercase sigmabot, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be working. In both cases, I waited several days (almost two weeks with Cluebot), but the bots both seem to be ignoring my page. I have several conversations older than the minimum age parameter, so I really don't understand what's going on. Do I need to manually create the pages that will store the archive before the bots come through? signed, Rosguill talk 16:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
algo=old(90d)
and minthreadstoarchive=2
. This means only archive threads which are at least 90 days old, and only run archiving when there are at least 2 threads to archive. You only have one thread older than 90 days.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
21:53, 12 November 2018 (UTC)Im looking for help to Update my Wikipedia Info, i have my information on Google Demographics and verified Google Search, and would like to have all my artist information on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julio Janpierre ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I've clicked the 'publish changes' for my new article on Jessie Payne in my sandbox. Fingers crossed some lovely Wiki editor will now check it to see if it's suitable...but how do I know that's the case? i.e. Will i get a message to say someone is looking at it? I know that I need to add extra info to the citations, or to learn how to input them correctly, and I'll get on with trying to make sense of that and learning how to do it...if I am reassured that the article is suitable! (Any training days coming up? I did my last article 4 years ago and things have changed)
Hi. I saw a mistake regarding United Nations Human Rights Council, but only realized after that there are many words that needs to be corrected. I have never contributed to Wikipedia before and should probably not have done anything before taking a better look at what I got myself into. I don't have the time to update everything. Can someone please help? /info/en/?search=United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nitin1969 ( talk • contribs) 23:18, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
I am trying to make a page for one of our digital talent, Amber Scholl. She is a YouTube sensation and our team is trying to have a page for her on Wikipedia. I have been submitting drafts for her page, but it keeps declining. Please advise on how to move forward.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amberscholl1 ( talk • contribs) 00:28, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I wounder why this article that I have created is declined when similar articles already exist on Wikipedia with similar activities as company that I have tried to put on Wikipedia. I belive that there are enough referencies on Ewla draft page, but maybe I am just mising the point, and that is that some articles will be published, and some will not. Its pure luck. Similar pages already exist, with very little referencies... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miroslav.uzice87 ( talk • contribs) 21:05, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I have no SAVE button in my Sandbox. Am I doing something wrong or must I complete my work in one sitting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikijames1 ( talk • contribs) 13:18, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you all Wikijames1 ( talk) 15:10, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
He was looking for a private way to save his pageis an accurate representation of
I just wanted to temporarily save my work for further editing at a later time( diff). Furthermore, even if it was true that
every new editor who has asked for a "Save" button (and has explained why) has been looking for a non-public way to save their work, that is clearly not the same as "every new editor who did not click the publish change button did so because they wanted to changes to be private" (which is the correct premise for the argument that follows, and which is false in that absolute form, per GGS's diff where it is clear that the user is OK with making the changes public as long as it is not a definitive version). I remember having seen a couple of new editors taking here at the Teahouse who displayed that thinking, though I cannot be bothered to dig the archives right now.
{{
2nd chance}}
yesterday. It is just now added to your list as a done item.
— jmcgnh
(talk)
(contribs)
06:27, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Now that I'm no longer a new user, The current set up is perfectly fine. But for a new user, there are some things that are confusing. When I started I found You Tube very helpful. For example, I wanted to reply to a message and was told to respond on 'this' page, I searched for hours on that page looking for a button to click or an edit box. I messaged an admin and he said to just respond on that page. Again searched that page. Am I on the right page, maybe it hasn't been updated?. Ok, finally I figured it out, I wrote on my page and somehow someone else got the message! But now that i've learned to swim, everything is fine and I'm happy!. Wikijames1 ( talk) 21:55, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
While editing boroughs, townships, and census-designated places in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, I have found the phrase "In the borough the population was spread out," followed by a discussion of the ages of the population. When I read it, I envisioned the inhabitants spread out in the street waiting to be handcuffed and taken away. Since I am certain that this is not what the author intended to say, I have changed many of them to say "In the borough the age of the population was spread out,". A slight improvement but not necessarily adequate. See page /info/en/?search=Manorville,_Pennsylvania as an example. Possible improvements might be "The median age of the population was 39 years, less than the median age for Armstrong County, which was 40 years. The detailed statistics are: " This is only one suggestion and I am certain that there are better ones out there.
My question is: should these be changed? If so, what other possibilities are there?
Niccolo1512 ( talk) 15:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. I have discovered that the phrase is boilerplate inserted by a script. That means that there are probably thousands of populations "spread out". I will at least get Armstrong County off the ground.
Hello, I’ve been wanting to edit an article about Gavin McInnes. I watched an NBC interview of him and the proud boys where he said himself it was fair to call him Islamophobic. But every time anyone else edits, the edit is reverted back to Anti-Islam. Why is that? If he called himself an Islamophobe why can’t we describe him that way? Second, every time I try to edit the page the page is protected. I see others making edits, but I can’t. When does page protection end and can I make this edit and attribute it to the interview? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatimaniqbal ( talk • contribs) 21:55, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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I'm new...??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.232.61 ( talk) 11:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I was going though this page: Terry v. Ohio and realized there are almost no sources for most of the article, except for court decisions and then, for only one or two sections. Last night I added in all the "citation needed" and "unreferenced" templates.
I think this is a very important Fourth Amendment decision and I would like to rewrite it over the next month. My question is should I just delete the unreferenced sections and start over? I have no idea where the original editor got sources from.
Thanks! Seahawk01 ( talk) 03:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I’ve seen on the article about Kabongo Tshimanga you have his date of birth wrong click into his the number 2 at the side his actually born on the 22/07/97 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:9F2F:5E00:9CDF:DC27:3585:F323 ( talk) 01:32, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to get away from the Tea House and non-participatory conversations in the "Discussion" sections, based on the advice of at least two Editors here. To that end I have set out two small projects to learn how to do things and immediately have run into a wall.
One Article has a "spam" citation, that I thought I'd simply delete, but when I went to "Edit" that Section (at the bottom of an Article), all that displayed was a blank page, with just this:
"= = References = = { { reflist } }"
(I broke it up to prevent it from rendering.)
Assume that means the "references" are somewhere else. Where? How do I get there?
Second project is to include a cite in an Article. The Article uses the source but doesn't include it. Is this the same place & process? Tym Whittier ( talk) 01:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Article content<ref>citation</ref>
. There are various ways to find the location of a specific reference in an article, but the easiest is problably to go to the "References" section and then click on the ^ symbol (it works like a back-link to the footnote marker for the reference) and it should take you to location of the reference. Once you know the location, you can open the edit window for the relevant seciton of the article, find the reference and edit it as needed. --
Marchjuly (
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02:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
<ref
(I've intentionally left off the closing chevron of <ref>
because some references are given shortcut names so they can be used again and again within one article, and these begin <ref name="shortcut">
. But whatever you do, don't make the mistake I made when I started out editing: I'd not realised one could insert reference details using a nice easy popup template by clicking the 'Cite' button. Instead, I nearly went mad, trying to manually edit the code for each reference by cutting, pasting and then modifying an existing reference to create a new one. Life's actually a lot easier than that, whichever editor you prefer to use, as both have 'Cite' buttons in their toolbars. And to answer your latest reply, don't worry if you do mess up a page by 'being bold'. Just make sure you a) Preview the page before publishing changes, and b) checking how the saved/published page appears by looking for nasty red error messages. Even if you do that,you can go into 'View History' find your last entry on the top row and click 'Undo' to revert to the previous version. But, if you use the 'Cite' button to select the relevant template, you shouldn't be making errors with the markup anyway. I'm sure you'll be fine. Go for it.
Nick Moyes (
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02:40, 13 November 2018 (UTC)I don't want engage in an edit war so I'm requesting to go through this page history. The article was not according to WP:NPV so I fixed that but a person is inserting unsourced material again and again and writing "Will provide citation shortly". So the article is becoming a fan page. Hamim000000 ( talk) 05:16, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi everyone!
I have been asked to contribute a new Wikipedia page as an assignment for my Master's Degree, and I decided to create the Spanish version of a page about Catalan chef Fina Puigdevall (the page is currently only available in Catalan).
Yesterday I published my translation and was working on it, adding references, linking it through to other Wikipedia content... this morning, it's all gone. I have looked at my contributions page and it doesn't even show there! There's no record of my work anywhere - yet I was publishing changes and amends incrementally, clicking on 'publish' and explaining the changes every so often... I just don't understand where I could have gone wrong? I even checked that my page was correctly published by accessing it through the Catalan version?
If you have any idea what I can do to recover my work, or at least not to do the same mistakes again, I would be really grateful!
Thank you in advance,
Laura (laurahueto93) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurahueto93 ( talk • contribs) 10:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Oh thank you so much for your help, I didn't realise the distinction between the different versions of the wikipedia depending on the language. Thank you so much, I have asked him why he deleted it. Laurahueto93 ( talk) 11:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I have been trying to understand exactly what Wikipedia policies define as the correct handling of sourcing content from and citing academic Computer Science publications. To preface with the exact questions I wish to have clarified:
I have come to understand from WP:RS that citing a paper from a respected, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings would be viewed as a reliable source. In the vast majority of cases, the publications are written by the same people that did the research, and so the source counts as primary, per WP:PRIMARY. By the same reasoning though, this close relationship and vested interest in the work would make the source not independent, according to WP:IS.
Wikipedia, seems to view secondary, independent, reliable sources as the ideal. WP:SCHOLARSHIP highlights a strong preference for secondary sources. The guidelines on Non-independent sources suggests using non-independent sources for content is okay, but suggests qualifying all information pulled from a non-independent source as potentially suspect. Is the preference for secondary sources only a preference? Does the requirement of marking suspect all information pulled from non-independent sources apply to academic publications?
In scanning through existing articles and their citations, I'm assuming the answer for (1) is "Yes". However, these articles seem to frequently have citations that are primary, not reliable, and not independent. Should I be trying to remove/replace these citations?
WP:LISTCOMPANY views a source being both independent and reliable as a requirement for inclusion on a list. Within the realm of CS academia, I understand a survey paper can likely be considered an independent and reliable publication. However, it's not clear to me the extent of a reference or examination that would be required to satisfy WP:LISTCOMPANY in this context. If a system, proprietary or open source, is cited as a reference, mentioned in related works, or benchmarked against in a reliable, primary publication, would any of those count as a sufficient reference? Or is it required for the secondary publication to be a detailed analysis of the primary source? If it's a reference to a system not developed by the authors of the primary publication, does it count as an independent reference, even though the overall paper is not independent?
tl;dr: I could use some pointers on what is "idealistically Wikipedian" as to what should be used for sources, or to very well sourced technical topics.
Thanks! Linearizable ( talk) 11:15, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how the whole free-use thing for images of people who are no longer living works, and I keep going around in circles on various policy pages. I started two articles today, Roz Young and Marj Heyduck, and of course I'd like to include photos. Both women were photographed quite often. I've actually been trying to work my network as they both were active in the town I grew up in, but so far no luck finding someone who knows someone who actually photographed either of them themselves. How do I go about finding a free-use photo? Thanks for any help! valereee ( talk) 00:03, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello.
User Phoenix7777 is adding fake news to the BTS article and I'm afraid it will be happen a lot these days so I ask some cooperation and advice.
The nazi hat issue the user added was an edit made by antis years ago from a magazine photoshoot Ceci magazine Korea here. You can literally search the magazine scans and see it's fake and the extremist right wing group leaded by Makoto Sakurai knows it's fake yet are still spreading the edit.
This user is also citing a biased articles without doing the proper research about the liberation day shirt that is released in korea, in no way the shirt is mocking the A-Bomb as media like The Guardian are reporting, the own creator of the shirt already gave interviews and apologized for using the sensitive image. South Korea and Japan are going through a tense diplomatic situation and Japanese media are using the group to spread fake news, you can read the Billboard reference about it. Also the accusation about the flag at the concert is fake and the company from the artist Seo Taiji that organized the event is already consulting to their lawyers to sue for defamation the people accusing the flag being Nazi.
We need help to protect the page from biased points of view from jnetz and fans until the situation is cleared because this situation is beyond fandoms, there are politics and extremist groups included. ↳ GiovannaG . . . (My talk) 16:04, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your friendly welcome User:WillKomen. I can't wait to start editing! Ozedam ( talk) 02:05, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I want to get the article Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Statistics , which contains a good deal of important Tottenham Hotspur F.C. records and statistics protected so that vandals don't do anything or make uncited edits . How do I do it ? I WOS A CHOC ( talk) 10:22, 13 November 2018 (UTC)