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I've been trying to upload an image to User talk:Enterprisey/reply-link to show them my error logs when using this persons script. I've also filed a abuse filter report on wp commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Abuse_filter. A person responded and I responded back, but they still haven't resonded. Apparently I triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153. I changed the png to jpg but it said that it couldn't verify the photo. At this I don't know what to do. LucasA04 ( talk) 21:05, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
I need some help. Tried creating a page for the term 'Digital companion' and thought I needed my username to be 'Digital companion' as well. Then, I got a message that the page has a potential conflict of interest. I work for a company (Intuition Robotics) that creates digital companions (my company's name was included in my user email, perhaps this was an issue as well?), but I wrote this article about an industry term, not a particular company, and in a way that was as un-biased as possible, and mentioned numerous other companies in this industry (and removed my company's name from the article altogether). I want to know what I can do to get the page published - do I need to change my username, create a new user altogether, or start over? Do I need to disclose conflict of interest, even though I am not profiting off of this article in any way? Will I still be able to get the page published if I say I have a conflict of interest? Some help would be greatly appreciated, as I put a lot of effort already into writing and creating the page, and I was unaware that I would have issues due to either my user name or the fact that I work in the industry of the term of the page I'm trying to create. Digital companion ( talk) 14:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys, thanks so much for your help here. It's my first time creating a page, and it's proving to be a bit more difficult than I initially thought.
1) I should submit the conflict of interest form (even though I am not profiting off of the page in any way), and it can still be published?
2) Am I allowed to mention my company name (Intuition Robotics) and include a link within the article, or will it be an issue? I deleted it since I thought this was why the page had issues.
3) Yes - I saw that there was an issue (
Draft: Digital companion vs.
Draft: digital compaion) - thought the draft was deleted but I guess I need an admin to merge them for me? Or can I merge it on my own?
4) Then, how do I get the page published on regular Wikipedia? I submit it to my User page, and then it can be reviewed again? I don't see an option to get
Draft: Digital companion published onto regular Wikipedia. What is the difference between a User page and Draft page?
Thanks so much!!
Digital companion (
talk) 15:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
So perhaps it wasn't a good idea to submit the COI form? I just entered this code, maybe I entered it wrong:
This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Digital companion. |
My page has now been tagged for speedy deletion...seems pretty unfair. Is this because I submitted the conflict on interest form, as users here instructed me to do? I don't see anything wrong with the page, and whoever requested to speedily delete it said "This has been done under section
G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic," which is not true...
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20:20, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Wylie39So how can I proceed? Seems like the correct one still has the speedy deletion tag on it. Is there any way for me to get it published? Or no, now that someone has put the speedy deletion tag, and I've submitted the COI form? Digital companion ( talk) 06:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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12:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Hello, I am writing a biography of Draft:Panos Zeritis. It is the second time that the article has been rejected. After the first rejection, I tried to find every source and add every reference to him that can be included. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it. Thank you. Zggala ( talk) 14:19, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
While browsing through random Wikipedia articles I stumbled upon Dorle. I immediately assumed that it didn't meet WP:Notability and WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a dictionary/ WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory. However I hesitated when I realized the User that created the article was an administrator and had created many such pages. I was unable to find any helpful information on their user page so I went looking and found WP:Deletion policy/names and surnames. I then considered deleting the article because of that, but I saw the policy was historical. I saw there was debate on the matter and don't know if there was consensus. I tried to search the village pump but it's very confusing to me and I don't know how to work it. Is there a consistent set of guidelines? What should I do?
Sidequestion: Is there a larger article that explains the village pump? I haven't been able to find one that explains exactly what it does.
Thanks for the help in advance ThatSuperNerd ( talk) 07:24, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I've written an article (Draft:Ron Britton), which was rejected first time. The editor said that I needed to source all the biographical information, but looking at lots of other Wikipedia articles, most of them don't have any sources for details like date and place of birth, schooling etc. I don't understand why I need to do this when lots of others don't (as just one example, on a similar subject: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonagy). Could you advise me on this? Thanks in advance. Fatbookreader ( talk) 15:21, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I would like to add a youtube link to my father's page of a video that I created for my father. I insert it, but the next day it disappears (someone removes it). Please advise how to add this link to stay permanently. Thank you
Anushd22 ( talk) 14:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to know how to access the Reading lists and history on the desktop Wikipedia page. I know this seems like a really basic question, but I can't find them. Thank you for your answer : D
TheFibonacciEffect ( talk) 15:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Question What happens if an sysop vandalizes pages or anything bad on Wikipedia? What happens if a bureau/sysop is blocked? Paul Ahyi ( talk) 21:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe May 22, 2022. And that is if you focus on improving articles, creating articles, raising articles to GA status, appropriately identifying articles for Speedy deletion, Prod of AfD, and so on, and so on, and so on. Your "need" and Wikipedia's process are on two different planets. David notMD ( talk) 01:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
However, the likelihood of passing without being able to show significant positive contributions to the encyclopedia is low. The community looks for a variety of factors in candidates and discussion can be intense.
You can revert vandalism now. You can nominate articles for protection now. You can submit complaints about editors because of their behavior (edit warring, attacking other editors) now. You can nominate articles for deletion (AfD) now. None of this requires being an administrator. David notMD ( talk) 09:57, 23 April 2020 (UTC) Thanks David. I will nominate the articles for protection: Kiribati & Qatar (ext.con). Paul Ahyi ( talk) 16:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC) Give me the link.
Hi! I wanted to create an article for a member of the band Pentatonix, Scott Hoying. I was trying to create a link from the article for the Pentatonix's page, but when I try to link his name, the link automatically redirects back to the Pentatonix's article. How do I remove this redirect in order to create an independent article? Mayag224 ( talk) 08:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
117.198.162.169 ( talk) 16:26, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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16:45, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Hi everyone,
I just wondered if you could possibly add a barnstar for giving lots of contributions to old articles, and paying attention to them too. This could help encourage the editing and improvement of old articles as well as new ones.
XUser132 ( talk) 11:11, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't understand why the page I've tried to create is being rejected. The rejection seems to say that it is a promotional page as opposed to a "informational page" and I disagree. I have looked at other pages that are similar to the one I'm trying to create. I've used references from the news tab of google and did not use any that came from press releases only articles written by 3rd parties for a reputable source, such as Daily News Newspaper TWAH64 ( talk) 16:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I was interested in the article about Harris Lebus which apparently was once the largest furniture manufacturer in the world. I noticed that references 2 and 4 (apparently identical but presumably referring to different parts of a source) no longer worked. To compensate I tried to provide a new source ( https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/34201802/a-history-of-harris-lebus-1840-1947-unpublished-manuscript-by-ls-) via the web template. However, the new reference 1 just leads to the yumpu.com web site. If, however, the URL is put directly into the web it goes to the source.
I would like help in correcting this problem as well as being able to update the history comment that I put in. 10:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC) BFP1 ( talk)
Hello Teahouse, thank you all for you helping hand in the past. I have drafted an article about an African-American Activist, which has been declined twice, meaning there is something I do not know of, I admit my ignorance and require clarity. Firstly, on notability the person in question @ Draft: Aaron D. Lewis he are a few things:
I can go on and on, but i do not wish to sound like a..... I am really wondering what else is required for notability having read the notability policies over and over again, I sternly opine that this article is ready for mainspace, but again I admit I may be wrong. Anyway can another editor take a look at the article again and offer explanatory comments. TheEpistle ( talk) 15:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you David notMD ( talk) but I really think that this article Draft: Aaron D. Lewis meets notability guidelines. I also agree that indeed running for mayor does not contribute to notability but other listed factors can and have. I have deleted the Humanitarian section cos this is not a campaign. And any reviewer is free to delete sections further, you may delete sections but i don't think this deserves a decline, since this user is a notability. A honest opinion. Thank you. TheEpistle ( talk) 16:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. TheEpistle ( talk) 18:02, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I want a userbox that shows that I watch Knight Rider. If such a userbox exists (if it doesn’t that’s fine), could you give me a link to it? Thanks, Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) 18:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
We have an article on Guillaume Bonnet, a 14th-century bishop. It has quite a few incoming links. A look on .fr shows there are a number of different fr:Guillaume Bonnets including a rugby league player, a cyclist and a sculptor. There are also a tennis player and a badminton player who don't even have French articles. I suspect that many of the people arriving at our article either directly or by following a link are looking for one of the others rather than the bishop. Ideally, we would have an article for any of these that are notable but, in the meantime, would it be good to have a disambiguation page with a link to the bishop and interlanguage links the various .fr pages? More generally, I don't see a lot of interlanguage links but I did notice an editor adding a number to The Last Kingdom (TV series) today. Is there a policy or guideline on where they are appropriate? Cavrdg ( talk) 16:07, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the replies. It seems many of the links are coming from Template:France 2017 Rugby League World Cup squad. Would changing the link there to Guillaume Bonnet (rugby league) be better than giving readers the option of going to the fr page? Cavrdg ( talk) 18:46, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
No, that seems good. I've done the badminton player too. Cavrdg ( talk) 19:17, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Article: St. Paul's Anglican Church, Vancouver
Can I indent a paragraph? I want to make clear that the paragraph is a quotation Elljaybee1929 ( talk) 19:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I've just created a draft named Draft:Alessio Cocchi about an Italian photographer, I clicked on the button "Publish changes" but I can't seem to find the "submit for review" button. Can you please help me? Thanks a lot! Cinnich ( talk) 20:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey there. How does one link to a specific section within an article rather than linking to the entire article. For instance, when referring to the nightclub "Studio 54" how does one link here: Studio 54 within an article; rather than just Studio 54 which is the building in general. Thanks. Maineartists ( talk) 20:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
[[Studio_54#Nightclub_era|like this]]
. Does that help?
Nick Moyes (
talk) 20:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
A Nigerian musician [1] a viddoe editor [2] and tiktok creator frrrrrf 20:48, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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John Hampdens Regiment ( talk) 21:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I create a page about myself? Genius1112002 ( talk) 13:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
How Fast Does Ink run out of pens? Wasimvorvoi ( talk) 21:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
What articles should I try to edit as a beginner to Wikipedia? How do I get started edit content on Wikipedia?
Thanks Mattchoochoo33 ( talk) 22:08, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank-you I will try that Mattchoochoo33 ( talk) 22:16, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I’ve seen a lot of people’s comments on talk pages, and most of them have signatures that look really cool. How can I make mine look cool with colors and stuff? -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) 21:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I think I figured out how to change color using an HTML command. I had to look at other people’s signature coding to figure it out, but I did... Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 21:39, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I would like to thank all who are trying to help me in creating an Article specially ( Andrzej Kamil Rybicki ) who has been mailing me and guiding me, I am totally new to Wikipedia, I am trying not to make mistakes but one way or the other I am making mistakes, if any one can please guide me after reading my Article and can point out the mistake so that I can fix them or any one who can do that. I will be great full. Shahkarshah ( talk) 22:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
When I say page notice I mean, like the "welcome to the TeaHouse editing window!" and then more stuff. How can I do this on my talk page? Thanks.
Shadowblade08 ( talk) 00:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
frrrrrf 01:14, 24 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farouk fy ( talk • contribs)
Looking to see what the preferred tools are for veteran editors. Thanks for your help! Loksmythe ( talk) 23:32, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
How can I add a subtitle (or a subname) to an article?
Hello,
Is it possible to add subtitles on Wikipedia pages? I'd like to include the standardized common names of species as subtitles on their Wikipedia pages.
Thanks in advance, Megan McAulay ( talk) 02:49, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I know someone who had served in the US Army during WWII from October of 1942 until November of 1944. He was discharged from Fort Dix in November of 1944. Now, this seems odd to me. Why would someone be discharged from the US Army with so much of the war yet to be fought. He did not have any injury. In fact, I don't think that he was even in any frontline duty. Most of his time I believe was within the United States. I thought that all WWII enlistments or draftees were extended for the duration of the war. Why would someone get out in November of 1944. 13:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC) 66.211.253.226 ( talk)
This is regarding the
Draft:Twitch. It is clearly self-promotion of promotion on behalf of someone else. Can the draft please be deleted.
Thanks, --
Landihan (
talk) 10:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there fellow Wikipedians,
I have noticed the start of an edit war on the page Kowloon, and I have informed that they may be blocked if they carry on participating, although I'm not sure if I should just revert the edits they all made, and leave it how it was, or if I should just leave it 100%, and the warning is enough.
EGL1234 ( talk) 04:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, this is Shadowblade08 again. I only get onto Wikipedia around once a week, and every time I ask a question, it gets archived before I can read the answers that people typed. Here the deal, is there a way that I can stop people from archiving my questions, or is there a way that I can find them? Thx. Shadowblade08 ( talk) 15:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Adding free access tags is required of refs from newspapers.com and newspaperarchive.com. After doing so, these refs are no longer recognized as news citations when editing them in Visual Editor. For example, try editing both refs in Visual Editor, the second having the free access tag included. [1] [2] This problem has not existed in the past and it certainly does not encourage citing or using proper style. Is Wikipedia aware of the glitch and is a real solution available? Thanks — 05:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC) βox73 (৳alk)
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, citations are assumed to be free. It says to just use via and not use {{
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A user had posted a link about WP:BLP policy on my talk page. I must say it was quite an engaging read. Very helpful indeed. I was wondering if these policies only apply to article or also on the article talk ? I am asking because there is a User:Imlipop who is rambling obnoxious things about living persons. What should I do in such case ? Can an admin talk some sense into him. And delete his comments if it is found in conflict of the Wikipedia policy. Pratap Pandit ( talk) 11:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Giving notice to people who perhaps have more experience of concise, condensed page writing. There doesn't seem to be a system for people taking responsibility (as opposed to ownership) of any page. The page mentioned above is out of control. Ironically it has reached epidemic proportions of content, and much of it unnecessary for adding to one's knowledge of the outbreak. Some major issues:
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- The pre-amble / intro is five paragraphs long, four of them long. - The shortcuts menu is two scrolling pages, and I use a taller monitor than most. - There is far too much content regarding responses from sectors that frankly can be put in its own article away from this page. - The stats page is HUGE. The length is unmanageable, and the width is becoming equally so, since the number totals are forcing column widths wider. I did suggest to one editor about a month ago to combine all the England regions in to one nation, and the table would look a lot less messy. - There IS an England page, but as per the usual mentality of some people, it is almost empty, and the UK page is getting all England's data. As such, the UK page is bigger than it needs to be because of editor laziness or because editors are trying to promote inequality. Please look into this. I would recommend a short total of the four nations' statistics, and links to each, with day by day across each page, if people want to do that. If every region of the UK is to be included, then I suggest they add the regions of Scotland, Wales, and the six counties of Northern Ireland. It gets very, very boring, having to scroll 3-4 pages to get to the stats link in the menu, then scrolling 3-4 pages in the stats to get to the totals, and having to scroll up again to get to the column headers. Then having to scroll left and right too. The simple, simple answer (said twice to highlight, is it very simple) is to have condensed columns to prevent horizontal scrolling, and have scrolling table headers. If wiki isn't capable of this, then it's not the place to have the data presented !! Either data is complete, and able to be read, or it is pointless. A link to a spreadsheet would be more useful, and those accessing the data wouldn't be forced to deal with the messy text presentation of Wikipedia. Too much data, not enough info. People get overloaded and give up. Please fix this. I would, but will end up in a turf war with one or more wiki editors, who probably have more experience of the editing systems, the network of people, and the politics of wikipedia. Life is too damn short for that. P.S. I'm not criticising any single editor or wikipedia in general. Just this page. Sort it please. It's out of control. Some examples: 2 Government response 2.1 Overview 2.1.1 Progression between phases 2.1.2 Classification of the disease 2.1.3 Communications 2.2 Regulations and legislation 2.3 Criticism of the Government's response 7 Response in other sectors 7.1 Arts and entertainment 7.1.1 Music 7.1.2 Visual arts 7.1.3 Theatre and cinema 7.1.4 Television and radio Someone thinks that 'arts response' is as note worthy as the Government here. Do we seriously need to separate arts into sectors in the main menu? There's even women's events and LGBT pride mentions further down. What has that to do with a viral outbreak? Nothing. |
I suggest a simple paragraph making mention of many responses, and a link to "Responses from various sectors".
I did complain to one editor of this page a month ago. The complaint(s) were brushed off and ignored, despite the points made. The editors opinion wins...
Well the page is full of useless data now. Your move. 84.92.120.162 ( talk) 12:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I have received this following notice. I am not sure what is this and what I am suppose to do? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Earthianyogi ( talk) 11:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
"Disambiguation link notification for April 22
An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
Earthianyogi ( talk) 13:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I am having a hard time trying to find articles that I can edit...
Is one of you out there able to post on my talk page some articles for me to see if I can edit? Thanks, cause I don't want to spend the time looking for articles, when I could be editing them. Thanks! Shadowblade08 ( talk) 00:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
can i get help on my new article (like active editing from others?
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Alexander Z. Nosler (born 1972) is an American business entrepreneur, mechanical engineer, and founder of Kitsbow [1] mountain biking apparel company. He is also known for being CEO of Coffee Equipment Company and inventing the "Clover" coffee machine. [2] [3] |
Josephi krakowski aka "lenny" ( talk) 14:12, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
St. Mary's Brass and Reed Band, Pound Lane, Maynooth is one of the oldest Bands in the Country and does not seem to be mentioned anywhere. Contact for the Band is Patrick Boyd, Chairman, 087 2537 906 2001:BB6:5B26:8158:F0E1:4F05:511E:4A88 ( talk) 15:42, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, I tried to nominate to AFD the bio Steve Cruz (actor). It is the first time I nominate a page and think I did something wrong. could you help me and tell me what I did wrong? thank you --11:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC) AlejandroLeloirRey ( talk)
NominationName
in the edit summary. At
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Cruz (actor) you didn't insert {{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat=Category | text=Why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~
from step II at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to nominate a single page for deletion. It's all fixed now.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:55, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Menon1717 ( talk) 03:18, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikiieditorr ( talk) 14:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Shabnamrana ( talk) 16:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Shabnamrana ( talk) 16:57, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I use the "use British English template?" I've been trying to use this template "{{
Use British English|date=April 2020}}
" And this "{{
Use British English}}" on a talk page but for some reason they both don't work. Could you give me insight on what I'm doing wrong? (Check source editor to see)
LucasA04 (
talk) 17:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Is it ok to delete some content from my talk page? One of my articles was rejected the first time, and a suggestion was made to merge the content with another article later. I have already merged the content. Can I now delete these notices on my talk page? Thx Earthianyogi ( talk) 19:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I. am having difficulty uploading any photo I have from old stationary to excerpts from historical newspapers and city directories. All of the items are available from the Library of Congress or from my own collection, but the format and questions asked when when uploading always results in the image being denied. I have looked at a number of forums and helpful hints and although I can upload in the (can't remember the wikipedia name for it) space and receive a URL, I can't seem to access the photo later. Very frustrating. Mofongo1234 ( talk) 20:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Everything I am trying to add are from US newspapers before 1925. I've added them to the commons but cannot find them after uploading and could only use when I created them and copied the link before exiting the commons. Especially hard adding photos directly from the edit source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mofongo1234 ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I get the following error when trying to upload from the commons: "You do not have permission to upload this file, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Autoconfirmed users, Administrators, Confirmed users." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mofongo1234 ( talk • contribs) 22:04, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Howdy, you'ens.
I have been given a barnstar, and am curious on how am I supposed to display it. Is it possible for someone to create a page that I could display them? Thanks. Shadowblade08 ( talk) 21:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I line up my user boxes in a column? You can see the problem if you look at my userpage. -- LucasA04 ( talk) 23:42, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Wiki user mmm ( talk) 01:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out what would be the preferred spelling in British English of "1 Field Engineer Squadron." Would you put "st" after "1" or no? LucasA04 ( talk) 21:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
The IP USER 95.146.118.29 has had four warnings against vandalism, although has vandalised once more on Carl Cox. As I am not an admin, I cannot block him, although can someone please do so to prevent him/her vandalising in future. EGL1234 ( talk) 03:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, I have been hired for clean-up efforts in regard to Draft:Daniel_O._Griffin. My job is to see it through that this article has been properly edited as per WP:NPOV. Could you please advise what should be done next for the tag to be removed and the draft considered for publication into the mainspace? Thank you in advance. Charmanderblue ( talk) 17:49, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
104.32.213.154 ( talk) 05:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
181.51.34.8 ( talk) 03:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there fellow Wikipedians, I have just seen an edit that 2A00:23C4:8905:100:EC41:E684:87C9:57BE made to the page John Troyer (fighter). He incorrectly changed the nationality in an attempt to vandalise, and when I was about to place a warning on 2A00:23C4:8905:100:EC41:E684:87C9:57BE's talk page, I noticed that he already had five vandalism warnings from this month ( April). I am not an admin, so I cannot block him, although can an administrator do so? Thanks, EGL1234 ( talk) 05:08, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I need help. Some people are threatening me that I will be blocked and deleting my work. First they said I did not add reference. Even though I gave all reference. Now they are removing line saying, this is duplicate. They are removing the most important information from the article abstract. The abstract needs this. I have followed the rules and not done anything wrong. Please see this and ask them to stop blocking me. Pratap Pandit ( talk) 15:28, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
CaptainEek, Ok I will do as you asked.
RudolfRed, Please read the line they are removing. The user is saying it is nor fit for LEAD, but it is THE MOST IMPORTANT LINE of the article. Please see this news article why it is important. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/no-muslim-arrested-for-palghar-lynching-incident-maharashtra-minister-anil-deshmukh/articleshow/75288363.cms
I think these users are BJP agents and that is why they are removing important facts from the article to spread rumours. They must be blocked.
Aasim as CaptianEek asked I raised the issue on Talk:2020 Palghar mob lynching but no one is replying. Instead now they have asked administrator with false case of Edit warring.
I have not violated the 3 revert rule that this user explained on my wall. So with only 2 edits, how can they file the false report ? is this allowed ? Pratap Pandit ( talk)
Hello All,
This has been a really helpful resource for me on my journey to publishing a Wikipedia page and I was wondering if I could ask for a bit more help. Last time I was here I was requesting an edit on the Voxa page, and Ian.thomson and ColinFine were incredibly helpful in telling me what I was doing wrong and steps I could take moving forward. They suggested that I write a page on Voxa's main product, the Mochii, which I have done here: /info/en/?search=Draft:Mochii. I have taken their advice on both source collection and tone (I did my best to write it as if I was one of their industry competitors sticking to facts that I found from reputable sources). I was hoping either of those two or someone else would be so kind as to look over the Draft:Mochii page and let me know if I'm headed in the right direction and what I can do to improve it to be Wikipedia level content. Thankful for all the help, Sachin Zachariah ( talk) 23:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Have looked at many forums and still confused on referencing a location in an article. Mofongo1234 ( talk) 20:48, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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AlanM1 (
talk)]— 07:38, 25 April 2020 (UTC)Hi - I would like to create an English language page for a subject that already exists in Italian: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Simoni. What is the process to do that? Thank you. 1987atomheartbrother ( talk) 01:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia tenable to use for our Wiki for this project. http://emailtomail.org 33,000+ USA (eventually world wide) records, one per Zip/Postal Code, with one printed mailing page. example: https://emailtomail.org/Downloads/Pre%20Survival%20List.txt Each page should have about 15 essential sources, mostly food. With a medical, laundry, smartphone acquisition, GOV hot lines, essentials, etc. PHONE numbers. Not Links, as 33 Million Americans (many more Worldwide) do not have internet, PC, smartphone, or even phone books! (enough to re-infect the world, many times over) In fact, many do not have 911 or 311 also.
Can it be controlled at all, assuring as much accuracy as possible, guarding against foul play, unique records(one record per zip code), crowd vetted, etc.
Can there be the same system for each country. There are many data to Postal Mail services in the world, (for one's family) and we should be able to get GOV, donors to pay for Postal organizations to deliver one to each mailbox in the world ASAP.
Most web pages have <br> and other formatting, which cause extra lines to be pasted into mailing WYSIWYG forms. The example link above is to a txt file which does work without the extra lines. Can a <pre> and or <code> be implemented to solve this?
With this pandemic, each life we save, may be our own. Soon, the recovered should serve the quarantined. Only then, do we have a chance to outlast this virus. We may not have the will to do this now, but when this comes back in the Fall, as Dr. Anthony Fauci insists it will, maybe we will.
This infrastructure will serve the world for this and future disasters, for rapid deployment of LOCAL hard copy public health information. "All Politics is Local"
Thank You.
I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. :) Emailtomailorg ( talk) 08:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I am confused how to insert an image as I have tried pdfs and goooogle search results. it is very confusing for me and I need help Firestar9990 ( talk) 05:25, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
As a simplified explanation, you can only add images if they are photographs that you yourself have taken. David notMD ( talk) 09:45, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
"Hello, I'm CLCStudent. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. CLCStudent (talk) 23:50, 21 April 2020 (UTC)"
I have an article in my sandbox. I want to publish it to wikipedia. please review it and revert me. Shabnamrana ( talk) 11:08, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to see what next steps are while waiting for a decision on a discussion. It has been suggested the article I proposed be merged with a parent page CHC. I can make edits to the current talk page; however, I'm concerned that if I submit without a decision being made I run the risk of the article being deleted.
Thank you so much for your time and insight.
-- Sunvidal ( talk) 20:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)sunvidal Sunvidal ( talk) 20:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! -- Sunvidal ( talk) 13:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
This is actually a wiki commons question. If this is an inappropriate place to ask this question, I apologize and request help finding a better place to ask the question.
I’m looking at this page [3] which contains a picture of a Greek vase.
The licensing information seems inconsistent. I see thIs statement:
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
That sounds good but in a previous section I see:
Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aims, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
Are these consistent? Can you release something under CC share alike with a caveat that the photo cannot be used for commercial purposes? If not, what should be done about the image? Can there be an image on Wiki commons that is not available for commercial use?
I should mention that I didn’t take the photo or create the page in question but I’m curious about the licensing issues. I was under the impression that photos on Commons should be available for commercial use.
MarylandGeoffrey ( talk) 02:09, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, i just wanted to know is there any difference between footnotes and references on wikipedia? Also, what is the use of short descriptions in any article? Lightbluerain ( talk) 09:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
102.68.17.73 ( talk) 09:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
How do you put references? Yeel88 ( talk) 13:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:Olwethu Trevor Cokile
Is there anyone who can help me write my article. I need assistance Olwethu Trevor Cokile ( talk) 23:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: Article has been speedily deleted per G11. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I am unsure if my article on filmmaker Suzanne Guacci has been submitted. How can I tell? and if so, what comes next? New to wikipedia. Thank you. Upintheairalways ( talk) 02:47, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the information. Yes, I am in film management but not directly to subject but rather to the work. We are attempting to inform and fill in information that other managers have started about Guacci's films that have been mentioned in Wikipedia a handful of times and are linked to other actors. Upintheairalways ( talk) 15:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi folks, I am updating the page on Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease /info/en/?search=Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease and noticed that the taxobox information is outdated. The current taxonomy can be found at https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/p/taxonomy-history?taxnode_id=19950818&src=NCBI&ictv_id=19950818 and should read Riboviria > Orthornavirae > Pisuviricota > Pisoniviricetes > Picornavirales > Caliciviridae > Lagovirus > Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this! After 90 minutes of trying to figure it out I thought I'd elicit some help! I am not a coder, and so all of the information on the taxobox pages is going over my head. Is there someone here who can fix this for me? Thanks for your help, Rabbit Vet ( talk) 06:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
i could not find info on Help:Talk_pages. at present we can change style of signature, is there anything similar way to change style or layout of user talk pages ? Leela52452 ( talk) 14:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC) any OTHER suggestion or critique is preferred here
{{u|
wylie39}} {
Talk}
14:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
~~~~
(as you did above and elsewhere). The timestamp it creates should be the last thing in your post. There's no reason to provide a link to your meta talk page on enwiki – discussions about enwiki should remain here. Thanks. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]— 16:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I published a couple of things . When I search up the title of them they do not come up . HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ARTICLES TO BE FULLY PUBLISHED ? Lovingpenguin ( talk) 16:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Lovingpenguin ( talk) 16:53, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
why was my articles deleted i just put in my own words what i thought now two of my articles are going to be deleted ? why is this website like this ? Lovingpenguin ( talk) 16:57, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
that is so annoying! i just want to articles and edit but they just get deleted! i was only experimenting ! Lovingpenguin ( talk) 17:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I have written drafts of articles for three interesting protist genera: Rhodelphis, Colponema, and Aquavolon. Rhodelphis has a short article written for it in Russian. Should I be editing this version of the article somehow or should I create a new Rhodelphis article in English? Colponema has a very short article on Wikispecies. Should I create a new Wikipedia article or add to the Wikispecies?
Thanks so much for your help. PeriplasmicCortex ( talk) 20:44, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks to members of the TeaHouse. In reference to the draft Draft: Aaron D. Lewis i think 4-5 reliable sources that are independent of the subject, have now been cited, neutral tone and notability guidelines met. In response to a request one editor, who asked to state 4 sources of the subject without 'passing mentions', the sources are:
I request another review and possibly comments on the talk page or the draft or below this comment, whichever works for you. Thank you. TheEpistle ( talk) 15:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC) TheEpistle ( talk) 15:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello Teahouse hosts. I am considering another article for Wikipedia; however, it will entail much work, so I am inquiring regarding wp:notability before writing the article and having it rejected due to to lack of notability. The article I am considering is list article about native Texas, firewise trees. There is an article already on Wikipedia, Natural landscaping from which the phrase native landscaping redirects from the search box. While there is no firewise landsccape Wikipecia article (and I am considering an article about that subject), I have found several reliable sources (at least I believe they are) regarding the subject:
Furthermore, there are Texas university websites from which native, firewise trees may be gleaned.
So, considering all of this, does the article meet the criteria for notability?
Most kind regards from Hu Nhu ( talk) 17:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
LINKING within Wiki pages
Greetings!
Pardons please, I am quite new in editing.
I just wanted to add a link to the page " /info/en/?search=Sarah_Wayne_Callies" for her new show " /info/en/?search=Council_of_Dads_(TV_series)" I did do a CHECK ERROR and it has found no errors. However, upon publishing, it said that the page does not exist. Can you please check what I did wrong and tell me, so I can do this again without a hitch ?
Thank you! Jagganath69 ( talk) 00:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey Guys, I'm not a WiKi-Pro so i am not completely sure how to properly edit information on this website. I found this strange. It would be a very hard job to factor out all the confounding factors leading to any results based on the studied population.
/info/en/?search=Swine_influenza#Structure No Copyright Infringement Intended. Delahoussayekevin ( talk) 00:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I want to create an article on a famous television series. Can someone guide me in a detailed way so i can create article without the risk of deletion. Hansi Choudhary ( talk) 19:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
The page shows a third bullet that is incomplete. The underlying text is this:
so it's obviously ignoring everything up to the comma. But I'm not sure what's wrong with it and don't know how to edit it.
```` or >> ````
or Markell West, in case that doesn't work or I misunderstood!
Markell West ( talk) 21:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
noprint
so I guess you saw the page in a printed or printable version where the class is hidden. <span class="noprint">This text has noprint</span>
produces " ". I see "This text has noprint". It's not shown in the printable version. It's admittedly confusing to hide the link in some circumstances without hiding the text after the link, so I have removed noprint
.
[4] Alternatively, noprint
could have been added to the whole line, but I think users who view the printable version should know the link is in the normal online version.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:27, 25 April 2020 (UTC)Hi, I have added a lot of new content to the 1.7.2. 'Bones' section within this article /info/en/?search=Positron_emission_tomography. I left a message on its talk page proposing that a new article can be formed using 1.7.2. 'Bones' section. However, no one has yet replied. I am asking for suggestions as I intend to write more on BONES sub-section and add a few more figures on this topic. I noticed that the page is loading quite slow. I am not sure, but any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you. Earthianyogi ( talk) 23:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
[[Positron emission tomography]]
rather than /info/en/?search=Positron_emission_tomography
). --
ColinFine (
talk) 23:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)Dear All, @ ColinFine, Keith D, Sbharris, Kablammo, Joao Sousa (UU), Le Creusot, 202.142.86.208, 190.145.38.136, Kirigiri, Wtmitchell, and LM200:. I have noticed your valuable contribution on this Positron emission tomography article/page. This Positron emission tomography page has reached 108,412 bytes and I have more to write. I propose that section 'Bones' within the article Positron Emission Tomography be split into a separate page called PET for Bone Imaging. The content of the current page seems off-topic and these sections are large enough to make their own page. . Thank you Earthianyogi ( talk) 00:06, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
The English entry for an area of Copenhagen variously known as: the Kildevækd Quarter, the Strandvej Quarter, the Svanemølle Quarter and the Composers' Quarter is here
/info/en/?search=Kildev%C3%A6ld_Quarter
It should be liked to this Danish page
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strandvejskvarteret
It is currently linked to this page which related not to the Quarter but to a street which forms part of it:
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildev%C3%A6ldsgade
I am not sure how to decouple this link and connect the two pages correctly.
Would also make more sense to title the English page 'Strandvej Quarter' for consistency with the Danish one.
If anyone would like to do this for me, or tell me how to do it, that would be great, thanks. Betongmandarin ( talk) 06:32, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, what about renaming the English page? I was worried that doing this might create some other problem. ( Betongmandarin ( talk) 08:35, 26 April 2020 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betongmandarin ( talk • contribs) 08:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC) Problem solved, I worked it out Thanks Betongmandarin ( talk) 10:49, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I think it only makes common sense to have a redirect from Articles for Deletion to the page WP:Articles for Deletion. I see that several requests to create the page Articles for Deletion were denied in the past (>10 years ago), or that the page was deleted for random reasons. Is there a reason that this is a silly question? Is there a reason the page shouldn't redirect to the right AfD page? Thank you for opinions. Ikjbagl ( talk) 06:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
it contains hyperlink above "From விக்கிப்பீடியா" and below "பிலார் உருயிசு இலாபுயெந்தே" in desktop mode [ i mean tapping desktop at bottom of page, NOT "request desktop site". is this some kind of error ? Leela52452 ( talk) 04:12, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Team, I have written a article Draft:Nisha Ravikrishnan. Thus article was rejected because of notation issue.Wanted to know what needs to be added from my end.This article is my first ever article, so would need your support and guidance on what needs to be done. Would like to improve on your guidance and support. Cinemapremi ( talk) 12:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, the AFD process for the bio I wrote just finished and resulted in a keep. The bio was declined twice and than rejected. I kept asking what was the problem and the only answer was not reliable sources. when I tried to understand what were exactly the sources to cause the problem I got no answers at all. if you are too busy to feed the writer of an article with all the information he needs to understand your decision and improve his article please just don't do anything. If you fail someone's work than it would be fair for you to be available to explain your decision and help. Honestly i don't feel that those who have rejected/declined the bio I wrote were moved by genuine intentions, otherwise they would have answered me and explained me what it was wrong in their opinion.
In the ADF talk page I was accused of going everywhere to ask for information, what was I supposed to do? if nobody answers me should I just let it be?
moreover, telling a person stuff like "fails WP:GNG", "fails WP:BASIC" or " fails WP:ANYBIO" needs to come with an explanation as those are very much interpretabile guide lines. If your point is to get something done fast please do something else. If your point is to improve wikipedia be there for giving all the necessary info.
thank you --19:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC) AlejandroLeloirRey ( talk)
I'm finishing editing my article. What is the next step to move out the sandbox? Mediapals ( talk) 14:24, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello I want to post some changes and add Traditional Herbal uses of some of th entries in Wikipedia, can someone help me to understand what you refer to as reliable sources. In my work, I have used many traditional textbooks, such as Bartrams Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine. Are these considered reliable sources for the information about the action and uses of herbs as remedies? Herbalthyme ( talk) 14:24, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I have written a article (Lee Fardon) that was initially rejected. I edited and resubmitted and it has subsequently been edited by two others. Does this mean it will automatically be resubmitted (by them) or do I have to resubmit? How do I know if my article will be accepted? Fencedown ( talk) 08:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I am writing a biography in English. The spouse of the person has a page on the Swedish Wikipedia. When I try to link it claims that the page does not exist. I saw some references to how it is done, but sadly it is unclear, and in my experience (I am new to Wikipedia editing) as unclear as many help/tutorials I saw in/on Wikipedia on other subjects. Thanx Danishom ( talk) 10:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
{{Interlanguage link|Name of spouse|sv}}
produces
Name of spouse . "Name of spouse" is intentionally a red link to the English Wikipedia as long as we don't have an article, while "sv" links to the article in the Swedish Wikipedia. You didn't name the article so my example link doesn't work.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 10:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I recently edited the article Haruhi Fujioka in which I edited what has often been a contentious opinion about the fictional character. I tried to be as factual and neutral as possible in my language. Without explanation, the editor of some of the original text (from 12/2018), reverted my edits back to their own, which (imo) reflects an unsubstantiated opinion. I left the editor a TALK message on 4/24/20 asking if there is a way we can collaborate on the language and am waiting for an answer. QUESTION: If the editor user:Maplestrip refuses to collaborate, what do I do next? This editor, in another area of the article, deleted a direct quote, removed language, re-inserted their interpretation of the quote, then used the original citation to validate their interp (see 07:32 1 August, 2016). I replaced the interp with the direct quote again. That was left in place, but the other edits were reverted without reason and without citation (in one case) to support their validity. Is simply asking for citation enough? And if we still differ, even after conversing, how do both non-cited opinions get listed within the article to comply with WP:NPOV?
Ouranista ( talk) 01:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Maplestrip and I chatted honestly about the issues at hand and the article in question is now amended in a mutually agreeable way. I've also learned a bit more about Wiki-editing in the process. Thank you, Teahouse! Ouranista ( talk) 15:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
On the Wikipedia page USS ARIZONA SALVAGED ARTIFACTS, it references that an artifact has been donated to the Veterans Memorial Museum in Laurel, MS. I am the website administrator for this museum and I wanted to provide a photo of the artifact/display to the Wikipedia page. I really didn't want to have to go in and do a full blown page edit. Can you help me out here? Jweby70 ( talk) 18:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC) Jweby70 ( talk) 18:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Creating a new page for a company. Dear all, I need help creating a page for a 41-year-old company I'm working with. What could be the reason that the page was deleted. I want to mention that I did not want to publish yet, cause it's not ready, could not find a save botton, had to publish it, knowing it will not be online. Please advise me what to do as a beginner.
thank you Armen Sepetjian ( talk) 18:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Armen Sepetjian ( talk) 09:01, 22 April 2020 (UTC) Thank you for your prompt reply. Honestly, I was hired months ago to accomplish certain tasks, one of the most important one in this, being present on Wikipedia. It was my fault I tested an unfinished page. The company I'm working with is not similar to any other food product distributor. It's something related to Middle Eastern Culture, Lebanese culture. I have many reasons to believe that Al Wadi company must be present on Wikipedia. All I need is your advice, as you mentioned above, I will go to the "Articles for Creation page" and proceed from that step. Hopefully when I'm in need of help I will hear from you. thank you Armen Sepetjian ( talk) 09:01, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
This concerns this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_microorganisms_tested_in_outer_space
In the above page there is a table of organisms. Some are red and some are blue. They are clickable for more information on the specific organism, but color difference is not explained. 73.60.214.239 ( talk) 16:14, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
RoshanG2907 ( talk) 16:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was blocked by my family from accessing Wikipedia for a short while, and, as I am a wikiholic, I used the proxy User:5.153.218.57 ( [6]) to access and edit Wikipedia. I could not log in to my account from that proxy, and I subsequently got blocked for a month for making edits in my userspace. Recently, I have read WP:NOP and have realized that the edits I made on that proxy are inappropriate. As I live in Ohio, not China, what should I do now?? should User:5.153.218.57 be blocked indefinitely? Computer165 ( talk) 18:41, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses says that Open proxies may be blocked on sight
and I was using a proxy. I don't know what to do now. --
Computer165 (
talk) 15:30, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
My question is how much time any new or old content takes to get verified and publish on main server? Manoj shrivastav ( talk) 16:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
how can i improve this content so that it can get published on wikipedia.please do mention your mail.id with answer Manoj shrivastav ( talk) 17:39, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Can I add the photo of Flora Sheffield into Wikipedia from this page https://www.listal.com/flora-sheffield. Thanks Ghoraghatalpha ( talk) 16:53, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Sam,
If an individual is listed in several different books in different publication years and editions should that be listed also, or is it redundant? Mhjelm ( talk) 14:02, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Colin,
Yes, there is different relevant information in the various publications. I am wondering what a substantial source is since it seems many accepted submissions seem to include an array of websites instead of actual published books by reputable publishers.
Hello, let me emphasize I had a native speaker proofread before moving to articlespace. I posted a machine-translation of the intro of Cannabis in South Africa on a Draft page: af:Draft:Cannabis_in_South_Africa. I got a native Afrikaans speaker to proofread it, and only then moved it to articlespace. But then a couple days later an Admin deleted the page with zero explanation, and today when I posted on their Talk (which they appear to be using as just another userpage, no conversation on it, and I did double-check the page title to make sure it meant Discussion), they immediately reverted my attempt to communicate.
I don't know if they deleted it for legit technical reasons, or out of an animus towards the topic, so I'm trying to assume good faith. If this Admin simply won't provide an explanation or respond to Talk page posts, how do I find someone to look into this and tell me if I'm in the wrong, or the Admin isn't behaving appropriately? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 16:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to make info boxes? CUZ I DON'T. So I tried a couple of times. It NEVER worked. I think I did something wrong in the source editing mode but I'm not sure. Reach me out in the DOES ANYONE KNOW INFOBOXES? talk page. Flipsosmasos ( talk) 14:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. My responses to all the responses (:D): 1. I was trying to find a game oriented infobox, but there wasn't one (darn) 2. The reason that I didn't have a infobox entry in my history was cuz I never would be able to actualy make one while editing (didn't recognize the template). I had to remove all my attempts cuz u prolably know why. Thanks for the help though! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flipsosmasos ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the help! Even tho i figured out how to make an infobox. I used the article Template:Infobox video game — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flipsosmasos ( talk • contribs) 19:21, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Awnearn ( talk) 18:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: based on User talk:Jacona#Establishment of Evangelical Christian School in Memphis, TN, this is likely about Evangelical Christian School. Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 19:25, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Good Afternoon Everyone! I Benjamin I Request That This Page You May Reconsidering On It And Help To Re-Active Again It Will An Honor To Get Back In Line Thank You! O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 16:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin GASIGWA ( talk • contribs)
Thank You Sir David O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 21:32, 26 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin GASIGWA ( talk • contribs)
In the past, I used to write biographies of models and beauty queens, I lost my account. Now I am back with a new account to make biographies of young and notable activists, innovators, entrepreneurs and humanitarians. Yesterday, I completed a draft called Draft:Benjamin Bocio Richardson (Category: AfC submissions by date/26 April 2020), I think that I did an amazing job, I noticed that all the drafts posted on the same day have been checked, but nobody says anything or moves the article that I did from draft. What should do? Humanitarian2 ( talk) 21:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I Want To Ask Did I Banned To This Page?? Because Nothing As I See Allowed From Talk, Sandbox To Contribs All Pages Are Saying Deletion Deletion So What Can I Do O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 17:37, 26 April 2020 (UTC) O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 17:37, 26 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin GASIGWA ( talk • contribs)
Sorry Robert McClenon maybe you understand my question different!? It was just question I didn't mean to make you angry Robert So Sorry O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 21:29, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
How Can I change or simplify the name of a draft that I created. I created the Draft:Benjamin Bocio Richardson and I want to simplify it to Benjamin Bocio Humanitarian2 ( talk) 22:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I recently made a article namely Draft:Basic Level Examination. It is a type of examination which used to be named District Level. Previously, It used to be conducted by particular district. But now it is conducted by Municipal Education Board. So, I felt it was necessary to make a article. District Level Examination is the previous system of board examination for Grade 8 students. Please suggest me necessarily. NecessaryEdits ( talk) 01:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
NecessaryEdits ( talk) 23:16, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Gonna jump on the other side of the fence today. I've been reading up on
reference grouping because I am currently editing an article that would look best with multiple notes in a reflist at the end of each section. To separate them I have been using <ref group="" name="">
tags, but when I call them, the superscript marks read as "group 1" instead of "1" as I wanted them to do. Anyone know a way of suppressing the group name from showing up in superscript? —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 01:27, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Tenryuu: If you use {{ Efn}} and {{ Notelist}}, it will use the lower-case letters and they can be re-used in multiple sections (i.e. the {{ Notelist}} shows only the {{ Efn}} since the last {{ Notelist}} (or the top of the article if none)):
Notes:
Notes:
The {{ Efn-lr}} and {{ Notelist-lr}} (with lowercase Roman numerals) are less confusing when multiple references to the same ref might be used, which also produce lowercase letters. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 07:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
P.S.: I assume we're talking about "notes" only here, not actual references (which should remain together near the end of the article, AFAIK). —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 07:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Notes:
Notes:
@ AlanM1: That's what I'm looking for! Thanks! So I need to use div tags to make this work? — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
More specifically, I want to create a page about her on Wikipedia’s ‘List of South African women artists’. SO I wish to include some examples of her paintings in my possession. I‘m not concerned that anyone else might download these JPEG images, and use (or even ‘misuse’ them) in that unlikely event… Thanks! ```` DeSoto 383 ( talk) 00:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
There’s been a recent edit at the page of Nick Fuentes by a user stating that word not used in the sources cannot be used on the page. The user argued that the words “encounter, filmed, and criticism” do not appear in the source article and thus should not appear on the page (and then proceeded to remove the entire sentence). The source used does not use the words but very clearly shows the encounter, the filming of it, and the criticism that ensued from said encounter. Is this a valid argument to make on Wikipedia or is this an example of WP:SEALION?
Edit: I forgot to to mention that the user said to find sources using the words mentioned above or “accept this edit [removal]” Nigel Abe ( talk) 19:16, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I’m going to leave a message on his talk page, and revert him a second time. If he persists and starts edit warring am I safe to take him to the administrator noticeboard? Nigel Abe ( talk) 19:38, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Please guide me how to include reference of books by links, if the books are not available on internet. Rangan Mitra Ray ( talk) 08:25, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
The article on the novel Lord of the Flies fails twice to identify the most important and most fundamental theme of the novel: Golding's view of human nature, specifically his view that human nature is inherently violent and fearful. I've inserted edits in two sections to rectify this omission. I see there is a notice: "This page is semi-protected so that only autoconfirmed users can edit it. If you need help getting started with editing, please visit the Teahouse." So here I am. I'd like to be able to edit the article. Can you give me the necessary status? Chandlerburr ( talk) 04:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Could someone kindly check and see if a Template message citing insufficient citations is still justified for this article? I do agree that its still a stub, but can someone give their opinion on if this template still needs to be there? I happen to know the person so I do not want to remove the Template as it may violate the conflict of interest rule. Thank you Saffura9 ( talk) 23:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a newbie and I would like to know the steps to become an editor of a page that has been translated to two different languages. Your inputs are highly appreciated. Thank you. Lithuaniacitizenship ( talk) 09:22, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I am trying to translate the Enoch L. Johnson page to Hungarian language, but I don't know how can I add the pictures from the original page's infobox to the translated page. I can't just upload it like it's mine, but I don't know any other solutions. I am really new, so PLEASE if you answer, try to be very specif about the steps.
Thank you! Ergepard ( talk) 09:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer, I will try to do what you suggested! Ergepard ( talk) 11:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I republished the article uploaded on Wikipedia about a month back. Could you please let me know the status of the article? Also, if you could specify which part need to be worked on, then it would be great. This is the article: /info/en/?search=Draft:B.PAC
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aparnapthk72 ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
We are responsible for the European Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe and would like people to be able to find our documents through Wikipedia. How could we do this? Susan Moller, European Landscape Convention, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France Smoller67 ( talk) 06:19, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on a graph at User:Eddie891/GAGraph, and there are several things I wan't to do, but don't have the technological know-how to do. Anyone who can advise on what to do/or tell me it's impossible on-wiki, would be greatly appreciated. 1) I want to gray out the background for sections when backlog drives are in progress, like how this graph is done. 2) I want to highlight specific points on the graph (i.e. all time lowest numbers, highest, etc.). Again, any suggestions would appreciated! Eddie891 Talk Work 00:04, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I am a new editor and do not know much English. Could someone show me around? Rey de los Pirineos ( talk) 14:23, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
While editing an existing article requiring citation, is it sufficient to add a relevant link. Does that qualify as a citation? Factedits ( talk) 15:57, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Can you give me any advice on Editing? Wale18 ( talk) 15:46, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I know I looked ate it. I just wanted some advice from my fellow editors. Wale18 ( talk) 01:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! Very much! I appreciate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wale18 ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Factedits ( talk) 16:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Factedits ( talk) 15:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I have written an article about a company and it has been rejected for being promotional. I understand wikipedia is extremely specific about content being purely for informational purposes, so I ensured the content of the article was purely factual and that every line was annotated and cited. There are many wikipedia pages about businesses and I feel that this was written with the same objectivity. Do you have any suggestions for how I can write about a company without getting flagged for being promotional? I have a journalism degree and like to think I know how to write about something objectively. For reference the draft is Draft:Hometap Home Equity Investments I was doing research on this business and others like it, and when I discovered this company did not have a page and other companies like it did, I decided to create a page to distinguish the different business models.
Any help would be appreciated. Mateo1259 ( talk) 16:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
In June of 2019, Hometap was recognized as having one of the most impressive engineering teams in Boston tech by VentureFizz(emphasis added), even if that is in the title of the source that you used.
The process works in just a few steps(emphasis added) gives it a nuance of persuasion, which is not what Wikipedia is for. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:42, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I am working on edits to an article, Procuratie, which uses a {{ Multiple image}} template (vs. formatting with the standard "File:" format). I created this sandbox page with both formats for the same image, and the only difference is that there doesn't not seem to be a way to add a header to the File: format.
I have investigated templates and image how-to pages and cannot figure it out - and I wasn't sure where else to ask. Thanks so much! – CaroleHenson ( talk) 04:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
User:Pestick and User talk:14.231.64.162 who I believe are the same, has recently been removing large amounts of content from this article using the disguise of Recentism. Upon inspecting his/her edits they have deleted numerous historical content and sources leading to systemic bias and lack of neutral point of view.
When I undid one of their edits and clearly stated the reasons why, I was confronted with this on the China national football team: Revision history page
I looked this up at the Talk:China national football team and all I could find was David Tornheim wrote, "I hope editors can review the sourcing and fix broken links." (10:04, 21 April 2020) Further research lead me to User talk:14.231.64.162 where Materialscientist suggested this person use Sandbox. David Tornheim came in and was encouraging to the new editor, suggested a more neutral tone, replace sources that were lacking and read up carefully on any rules that editors say you have broken. Unfortunately when he wrote,
this person has selectively read that they have carte blanche to do whatever they want. This has lead to further numerous instances of vandalism deleted numerous referenced material under what they believe is condensing, poor English, only English cited sources and dead links to name a few. When I confronted this person I was met with Ownership of content and bullying language as this person now believes they have to administrators backing him/her and the perception of power. I wrote to David Tornheim about mu concerns, but he has not responded and Materialscientist has a "busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." sign on their talk page.
So I am asking for help to stop this person vandalising this page and several others, they are not improving this page at all because if they were they wouldn't be deleting the same passages and references used in the Nederlands Featured article of the same name. Kai Lau ( talk) 14:59, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear ColinFine
I have been following the content dispute and dispute resolution project pages. I have approached the the editor and anyone else involved, I have attempted to go back to improve the article but was met with ownership of content and bullying language. I've attempted to step back and wait a few days to focus on the content but when this person is maliciously removing encyclopedic content, or the changing of such content beyond all recognition, without any regard to our core content policies of neutral point of view to suit their bias opinion and seeing this person do the same to other articles is not easy. I am looking for a Third opinion because if i do go further with the content dispute how do I go about it? Kai Lau ( talk) 16:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I’ll start by introducing myself. I’m a Director of Brand Strategy in Marketing at Apple. I’m reaching out today because myself and some of my associates would like to enhance Apple’s page and change some of the content and nuances on the page to make it represent Apple more positively. Because of the large amount of users on Wikipedia, we believe this will be an effective method by which to reach potential customers. I ran the idea by some of my superiors, and they were all for me communicating with Wikipedia and working out an agreement. Obviously, this would benefit Wikipedia because we would keep the page updated and ensure it contains all relevant information. How can we arrange this? Please advise how to proceed.
Thank you for your help. 184.144.119.19 ( talk) 16:51, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your replies. What I originally had in mind was a sort of mutual agreement in which we would manage our own page. I did not fully understand the Neutral Point of View aspect of Wikipedia, I thought content merely needed to be accurate information, which of course we would have provided. I now see that my request is not compatible with Wikipedia’s policies. Thanks, 184.144.119.19 ( talk) 18:15, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
hallo, this picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruggero_Freddi.jpg was taken from here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/188146761@N05/49826675387/in/photolist-DZtLh-6Em6Ch-9T599o-9T2na6-9n5TvN-52Soij-9T59Lw-4ZBJ44-ohYp1-4ZQZic-54jQy5-5nDrvr-aPksrX-54fB3g-6nNhCo-2kFxHT-26WVeJK-gsSNM-apwb74-odwbDB-hpgHi-52N8fx-owexTj-2iV1JE8-DaKqAD can someone tell me why I can not use it? thank you AlejandroLeloirRey ( talk) 18:32, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy
Hi I would like to submit the draft of my article for review. I forgot how to do it. the article is accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy Carrieruggieri ( talk) 21:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC) Carrieruggieri ( talk) 21:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone, i'm back, as always. I have another question about my talk page. Is it possible for me to archive things? I am starting to have so many topics, its getting annoying for me. Is it possible for me to arrive things on my talk page? Thanks. Also, if I do archive all the topics on my talk page, is it possible for me to have a bot that sends a message to the people that their topics got archived, like the TeaHouse thing? Thanks. Shadowblade08 ( talk) 20:03, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
How can I prevent a stack overflow error?
How can I prevent a stack overflow error?
AdjustingFramework (
talk) 21:44, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians, I came across several stub pages while editing through the community portal and task center. I researched some of those subjects, but couldn't find much more beyond what was included in the stub already. At most, I could add some additional trivial information to some of those stubs, but they would have remained stubs even after the update.
So, here's my question. Does lack of information about a subject tantamount to lack of notability?
Thank you. NawJee ( talk) 19:49, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
HI, I need to create a wiki page on an entertainer. How can I do that? Can some one guide me so that it is not objected. Thanks Earthianyogi ( talk) 18:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Earthianyogi ( talk) 19:14, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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, which usually results in two signatures. There was a change made to the preload form that removed a space, so the two sets of tildes now run against each other. Pinging
Tenryuu. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]— 01:24, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
@ AlanM1: I've added a new comment to the reload. A possible thing we could do is add any one character before the signature, like "." and format its colour into white so that it is essentially invisible. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:Samuel Mori Voit
Please help me. I have created a page for Samuel Mori Voit and the code was checked. It is being rejected and I don't understand why. It has been going on for over a year. Please help! Fayerez303 ( talk) 17:44, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't understand what you are saying. Please explain. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Fayerez303 (
talk •
contribs) 17:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Fayerez303: Your draft hasn't been rejected, but declined, which is not as serious. I suggest deleting your other draft and improve the one you currently have before re-submitting it. Also, refrain from using promotional language, as it is not appropriate for Wikipedia articles.
Thank you. How do I delete the previous draft? Also do you have suggestions for the edits on the page? I am not sure how to improve on it. Thank you.
Update: Draft:Samuel Mori Voit is deleted. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I am writing to you to tell you about how Wikipedia has declined my article Draft:Dubuc Tomahawk. I do not understand this happened, especially as I have spent about 3 days writing it. Please help! Electrostar378 ( talk) 18:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
infobox
, cite web
, and cite news
, not only starts with {{
but also finishes with }}
. If you use "Show preview" before saving the page it will give you a clue whether your formatting is screwed up. If you get the formatting right, it will give the reviewer a chance to read it correctly to see whether the content is acceptable. --
David Biddulph (
talk) 18:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
In fact, it was such a great carare not suitable for an encyclopedia. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:12, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I just noted that the user {u|Dean197} has deleted plenty of text from this article "Mi Notebook Air" url: /info/en/?search=Mi_Notebook_Air. I had spent a lot of my time editing it and it now feels like a waste of time.... Was this article previously reviewed by a senior editor before acceptance? If so, is it ok for someone to remove most of the text from the article? Should I edit other articles or not? Can someone please review/? Thank you for your advice. Earthianyogi ( talk) 01:14, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
1. I checked this user's profile and s/he seems like an inexperienced editor on Wikipedia. Also, they have not yet replied.
2. This editor seems to have made no effort to correct it themselves. If they cannot, they should at least try to find the missing references. If they cannot, they should leave a citation needed tag on the article and leave it for others to improve it. If they cannot, they should contact the author of the article. I feel so because the article must have been passed by a senior editor and maybe worth it.
3. How can we assess this user's credibility in deleting the text? I mean, a text that is relevant to one person may be irrelevant to another, depending on their perspective.
4. If an editor feels that some content needs to be deleted, then they should first check with the author of the article or other editors before doing so.
5. I edited a few Wikipedia articles. I noticed that references are missing in many places in various articles. That does not mean that the text is any less relevant. I just feel that sometimes authors do not have the time or the energy to add these references, or some do not even have that kind of training to do so. Therefore, we should put a collaborative effort to make and improve Wikipedia, rather than just deleting another person's effort.
6. Please note, I am not the author of this article. However, I had spent time editing it, and I feel like it has been a waste of my time when someone just comes along and deletes the text. I wonder how the author of the article would feel.
I hope I am making sense.
Thank you.
Earthianyogi (
talk) 09:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
From a quick look, the article was tagged before Dean197's deletions with too much detail and citations needed - and much of what was deleted was separately tagged with citation needed - so the actions were not entirely arbitrary. If citations can be found for the deleted content it may be appropriate to restore it, or some of it. Personally, I agree that even if citations are available, there was too much esoteric detail. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a document that helps a person decide which notebook to buy. David notMD ( talk) 13:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
hi how do you change the edit page by inserting? Ihiiiiii ( talk) 00:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Can I use non-English e.g. French/Spanish references for an English article? Thanks Ghoraghatalpha ( talk) 22:35, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
How do i get an admin to help me with someone that is stopping me doing a rfc in error? The page in question is Talk:Dark Phoenix (film). There is a user that is stopping the rfc because they wrongly think that there has already been a rfc. ToeFungii ( talk) 01:09, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Was just coming here to say that although they've made the top of the rfc very confusing because they simply won't remove those confusing sentences but oh well. At first I thought they might have been a shill of some people from the prior discussion trying to stop the rfc but that doesn't seem to be the case now. thanks. ToeFungii ( talk) 01:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I thought I could add an edit about the headphones used by 3 of my friends in the music business. I have 4 patent numbers for my headphones. Is this what I need for verification? I also have many published articles in the music world about the headphones.I was unaware that I was violating rules about an edit. Should I be able to start a story about My Extreme Isolation headphones the invention of the first hearing protection headphones in the music industry? The headphones have been used for 20 years by hundreds of famous music icons. Please accept my apology for violating the rules and I hope to clear my name from any wrong doing. Sincerely, Studiodrummer ( talk) 01:47, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Should I be able to start a story about [...](emphasis added): Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such we do not have mere pages on subjects, but articles. We do not add anecdotal blurbs to Wikipedia. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I am having trouble moving User:Wendi Warren Binford to a separate article page. I was unable to move the page and change the User format to an Article format. Due to this, I tried to move the article back to my User page, but failed to do so. KGFerrer ( talk) 03:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Looking to find students from this grad class 76.108.42.75 ( talk) 03:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I know that there is a list of blacklisted spam sites at
MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist and a noticeboard to discuss if a particular website is reliable at
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard, but I want to know if there is a page where I can report unreliable sources to get them blacklisted (I found a discussion to get one such source blacklisted but the page where it is has been declared to be inactive). The sources I wish to report still haven’t been used on Wikipedia as far as I know, but since they are known for cherrypicking information to make certain political groups look bad, spreading fake news and so on in India, I thought it would be appropriate to report them before they get used on Wikipedia.
So, could someone point me in the right direction?
Regards,
RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (
talk) 06:41, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
If you are describing a historical figure's birthpace, do you put the name of the country/region at the time say Yugoslavia or the current name. say Croatia? Is there a wiki protocol for this? Random Tyke 09:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RandomTyke ( talk • contribs)
I am trying to edit an article so that certain sections of it show up underneath the link when google searching. How do I edit which sections come up? 80.4.51.93 ( talk) 09:47, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Why are there no entries when searching for 60 GHz?. There should be an entree because of the present controversy. Information about the following is hard to find, even in wikipedia: 1. the unregulated use of 60 GHz devices and their connection with 5G networks, 2. the 60 GHz connection to Oxygen when carried by blood cells, 3. the similarity of the symptoms of oxygen deprivation and Covid-19. 4. the banning of any discussion of this on social network platforms. I have up to now always used wikipedia as a place where I can trust the information. This is because many entries have a paragraph called "Controversies" that seem to make the entree honest and neutral. 194.230.155.123 ( talk) 10:20, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
My account is often autoblocked for reasons that my IP address was used by a blocked user for 'undisclosed paid editor'.
This happens always and sometimes twice a day.
Ugbedeg ( talk) 11:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
User blocked -
John Hampdens Regiment
What is the procedure to re-instate the Wiki-page ‘Battle of Chalgrove’? The title of this Wiki-page has been stolen/changed to ‘Battle of Chalgrove Field’ and contains serious breaches copyright. John Hampdens Regiment ( talk) 11:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Ian Thompson - it is accepted that you are correct and the map was uploaded to Wiki by me. You state that the ‘image to be used by anybody and for any purpose as long as they properly attribute it to you’. Where is that accreditation on the Battle of Chalgrove Field webpage? Your comments on the statements under would be appreciated and if you prefer Robinvp11’s interpretation of the Battle of Chalgrove to give the reason why. Where is Wikipedia’s Academic Excellence?
The Battle of Chalgrove was added to English Heritage Battlefield Register because the Chalgrove Battle Group’s interpretation undermined English Heritage’s main source of information. English Heritage had relied heavily on Oxoniensia Vol 38 pub 1973 ‘The Raid on Chinnor and the Fight at Chalgrove Field’ J. Stevenson & A. Carter which the Independent Review Panel who were convinced by the Group’s argument was utterly flawed. Robinvp11 interpretation mirrors that found in English Heritage’s Provisional Register which was dismissed by the Independent Review Panel.
Oxoniensia Vol 80 pub 2015 ‘The Military and Political Importance of the Battle of Chalgrove 1643’ Lester and Lester which academically and to the satisfaction of the peer reviewers totally refuted Stevenson and Carter’s interpretation of Chalgrove.
Robinvp11 relies heavily on Oxoniensia Vol 38 pub 1973 ‘The Raid on Chinnor and the Fight at Chalgrove Field’ J. Stevenson & A. Carter for his interpretation. Robinvp11 confuses, misquotes and is dismissive of statements made by Lester and Lester see his Ref (9) and page 34. The Chalgrove Battle Map is not referenced and is unattributed, it is the writer’s copyright and is found on page 36 of Oxoniensia Vol 80. Robinvp11 should read page 28 to get an understanding that George Nugent-Grenville’s (Lord Nugent) interpretation found in his book pub 1832 ‘Some Memorial’ is pathetically inane. Quote from vol II p431 has ‘He (Hampden) instantly mounted’ his horse to go and fight 2,000 Royalists leaving his regiment safely tucked up in their beds in Watlington. How else can it be explained that Hampden was at Chalgrove without his officers and regiment!? The Independent Review Panel thought this statement was hilarious and threw out English Heritage’s claims. Are Wikipedia’s founders horrified by the absurdity that is damaging its name for academic excellence being published on its website?
Sir Edward Hyde (Clarendon from 1661) was in Oxford with King Charles I on the day of Battle of Chalgrove. The senior parliamentarian officers captured from Chalgrove hours earlier were asked why they were fighting as troopers. Would Robinvp11 care to read what was recorded by Hyde and the King on the day!? A transcription of the original document is found on Battle of Chalgrove Wiki webpage.
Oxoniensia Vol 80 pub 2015 ‘The Military and Political Importance of the Battle of Chalgrove 1643’ Lester and Lester can be viewed in Flipbooks formation on the Battle of Chalgrove Wiki webpage or at www.johnhampdensregiment.org.uk. This website is linked to webpage Battle of Chalgrove and has copies of the contemporary documents written out in full so as to assist the reader.
It is the administrators’ duty to restore the Wiki webpage ‘Battle of Chalgrove’ as the definitive interpretation. Regards, Lester & Lester, a leading authority on the Battle of Chalgrove — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
John Hampdens Regiment (
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contribs) 11:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
the post immediately above was moved by me from the top of the section, to reduce confusion about the discussion sequence. Will add a note to the user's talk page, about replying below other posts --
bonadea
contributions
talk 11:29, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
india is so diverse, and high population. how much population is enough to call it popular. As even if a single kannada newspaper cover only one major city like Bangalore in Karnataka. It will have readership of crores. But editor being from north india or english speaking may judge it not reliable.
Saamna newspaper by shiv sena and national herald by Indian national congress Saamna is popular then its own circulation, will it be considered as unbiased and reliable source citing ownership by a political party. Lokmat is only Marathi its demographics is limited to Marathi speaking population only. The hitwad i know is some of oldest newspaper but no popularity.
Some language like konkani, sindhi have very less speaking population, but a specific news paper have loyal readership in the language speaking population. Above all no single newspaper can represent entire nation in detail, hence the need for regional newspapers. So my question is how notability is really established, which news source can be considered reliable. I went through guidelines several times, but have hard time understanding then in context of my question above. Nealtylor ( talk) 13:54, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
(I copied the above message from my talk page Pratap Pandit ( talk) 13:06, 28 April 2020 (UTC))
I wrote an
edit notice, and I would like to put it all into a box. How is that possible? Thanks.
Shadowblade08 (
talk) 20:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I have two questions in general. The first: I created a page, Sebastian Deffner, it's already been reviewed and is in the article space, I was wondering why the page does not show up on google search (search engines in general) and if there was something I can do to make it happen.
The second question: does Wikipedia accept Linkedin as a source? Omar Almazruei ( talk) 14:16, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I have a personal picture of a notable person, I wanted to update the Wikipedia page with that picture how would I show the picture is mine and is not copyrighted? Csar00 ( talk) 14:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to insert an interlanguage link into the article
Blonded Radio but when I load the page, it comes up missing (see track 19, under "blonded Xmas", under "2019"). Can someone please fix this? Thanks in advance.
Thatoneweirdwikier |
Say hi 13:46, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
{{
ill|Troupeau Bleu|fr}}
it will display as
Troupeau Bleu (with a redlink, but a blue "fr" that links to the French article) as long as there isn't an English article, but if somebody writes one, it will automatically display as a normal wikilink to that and drop reference to the French one. --
ColinFine (
talk) 15:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Good morning all. I would just like to inform you that I am looking for a contributor for my future article on WinDev (which you will find on Draft: WinDev). It's an IDE, a development language (wlanguage), and I don't think I can make a good enough article without someone's help. Draft:WinDev Yesicantexas ( talk) 12:11, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
"Bottom line: sending me porn won’t make me use your ###### platform."sort of sums up everything that's wrong about this subject.) Nick Moyes ( talk) 13:27, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Kevin Stephens
Hi,
I am trying to update an exisiting wikipedia page with updated information. However as this is my first time editing/uploading something on here. I have the article saved on my sandbox, if someone could reivew this and give me a few pointers as to how to go abut updating the exisiting page without causing any conflict with previous editors?
Thanks! S5omr ( talk) 09:57, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi 331dot,
Many thanks for your help here and your prompt responce! Due to the nature of Kevin's work, majority of independant reivews come in the form of comments on social media and inteviews. The current page on Kevin is not up to date, would you be able to advise the best way to update this without causing confilt with current/past authors? S5omr ( talk) 10:09, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
This has been very helpful and has made this sitation much clearer. In regard to removing his notable career, I was unaware of the policies in places (due to my own misconceptions about Wikipedia) - is there somewhere/someone I can apologise to for making such edits? S5omr ( talk) 10:20, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks for your very helpful input Gråbergs Gråa Sång. I will go back and collate any worthy references relating to Kevin's career and propose these as mentioned above. He does have a site but will be going live in the later part of this year (2020). You may find the site at stevothemadman.co.uk S5omr ( talk) 11:34, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
The website is still under construction, which may be why the certifiate has not been renewed since the 16/03/2020. If you click through (past the security message) you should be able to see a page with various pictures of Kevin as well as a text box to sign up for the newsletter. S5omr ( talk) 16:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, As mentioned yesterday, I had added citations and refferences to my addtions on Kevin Stephens. Is someone able to review the the updates I've made and advise accordingly? S5omr ( talk) 15:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
To whom it concerns,
I am contacting you to suggest updating the misleading page name for the "Aquaculture of coral" [ page].
The field of coral gardening and reef restoration has expanded to the point that it deserves a page separate from coral aquaculture and aquarium trade. Individuals interested in the research and applications of coral reef restoration should have a clearly named and dedicated Wikipedia page. As an expert in the field, it is disappointing to see a simple Google search of "coral restoration" or "coral gardening" fail to produce a Wikipedia page. I believe this is because of the poor title: "Aquaculture of coral". This is not what experts and practitioners call the discipline, unfortunately, so the general public will be unable to find the wealth of resources provide by the currently misnamed page.
I hope this helps! Please let me know your initial thoughts as well as any questions or concerns you may have- thank you!
Can you consider renaming the poorly titled "Aquaculture of corals" Wikipedia page to something more apt like "Coral reef restoration" or "Coral gardening"? 73.1.229.120 ( talk) 14:42, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:General James Primrose
Hi everyone. Having ploughed through all the Wikipedia help stuff I still can't make out the answer to the following simple question. My article is in draft,how do I now publish it, or submit it for publication? Help please CarolineFHarvey46 ( talk) 11:37, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
is ukwhoswho reliable source ? if yes, can somebody with access to uk library check date of birth for Cynthia Pine on doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u245351. reasons : [1] DOB parameter requires reference on wikidata [2] cite button of doi provides dob in title. [3] i searched everywhere but unable to find info. Leela52452 ( talk) 15:24, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I asked a question last week about adding subtitles to Wikipedia pages and I was informed that it wasn't possible to add subtitles. However, there's a template ( template:Sous-titre/Taxon) on the French Wikipedia site that allows you to add subtitles (see Andrena accepta). I would like to add this template (or an equivalent template) to the English Wikipedia site so I can add scientific names as substitles on species pages. I'm very new to Wikipedia so I'd really appreciate some help with creating this template. I'm reviewing the Help:A quick guide to templates, Help:Templates and Help:Advanced templates pages but the process to duplicate/create templates is still confusing to me.
Thank you! Megan McAulay ( talk) 15:56, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
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Can you please greet me? I'm new and can you make Wikipedia kid-friendly? (delete bad words)
Robloxloverandminecraftlover (
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Can you make/find an article about userboxes please? I want to add them to my user page.
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Robloxloverandminecraftlover (
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Hi. I just made an account, and even though I got an email confirmation, my username is in red and says it does not exist. I am confused about that since I was able to make a contribution to a talk page. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Battykin ( talk) 19:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC) Battykin ( talk) 19:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
So, I typed in UK, and it went to United Kingdom instead, with a message that said, “redirected from UK.” How is that possible? How does it do that? Anything helps. Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 19:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Ray G, Ykee Benda Ainebyonasamuel ( talk) 20:03, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I was surprised that Umera Ahmad, a Pakistani author, is a redlink, and am thinking of writing an article on her. Would these sources suffice to prove notability?
Thanks, M Imtiaz ( talk · contribs) 18:36, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
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Courtesy link: Draft:Favzon
SGofficial ( talk) 17:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: The draft has been speedily deleted per criterion G11. —
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Just wondering, are there any tasks I can do on Wikipedia that are pretty easy to do that aren’t copyediting? I need something to do between copyediting drives;) Thanks in advance. Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 20:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you to both @ CaptainEek: and @ Rosguill: for your help! Now I have a lot of things I can do between copy editing blitzes and drives... Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 20:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I've been passively working on a page for musician/producer Draft:Daniel Aged for the past few months and would love some help ensuring that the article is informative, notable, and up to Wikipedia's standards. I have, admittedly, been rather cavalier in my past attempts to submit (and then frequently resubmit my request) and don't want my inability to operate Wikipedia effectively to sabotage Aged's much-deserved and long overdue recognition as an artist.
I believe Aged's critically acclaimed work as a solo artist as well as his extensive career as a member of inc. no world and as a producer for the likes of Beyonce, FKA twigs, Frank Ocean, and countless others more than certify his notability as a musician.
I have a reworked draft of the page with specific quotes from outlets, added external sources, and more specific anecdotes about his work as a producer that I would love to run by a Wiki member. Please let me know if something can be arranged!
Thanks so much to everyone who has already devoted time to editing this draft—I really appreciate it :) ! Audreyne ( talk) 20:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
The poster said "games we;ve made" in their comment so obviously affiliated with company. diff.
I haven't run across this enough to know how to handle so maybe someone could help out. ToeFungii ( talk) 21:05, 28 April 2020 (UTC) ToeFungii ( talk) 21:05, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
That is my question, i tried to find info on this in the notability-article, but couldn't. Kind regards, -- Gyanda ( talk) 18:33, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Allexandra Senòrita Belcalis ( talk) 22:45, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello All,
Every time I have posted here I've been greeted with friendly responses and a lot of help, so I have one more favor to ask. After making advice on the article I'm writing, /info/en/?search=Draft:Mochii, I have made edits and feel confident that this should be published to the main namespace. However, I have a pretty big issue. 13 years ago {U|John Reaves} tried to publish a page to the namespace "Mochii" which was deleted as an advertisement for a California based yogurt retailer; my article is about an electron microscope. I am writing a completely separate article on a completely separate topic, but the page is protected because they didn't want another promotional yogurt article. Could someone please give me directions on where to proceed from here. I don't know if y'all have the power to unprotect the Mochii name space so I can push my article about the electron microscope to it. If not, I'm happy to follow whatever instructions y'all have for dealing with this somewhat quirky oddity. I understand that this is a weird situation, but I'm sure y'all will be able to help.
Thank you, Sachin Zachariah ( talk) 01:06, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Someone appears to have created an acct because of being unhappy with another editor. It's "IhateCharles" and look at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Iraqi_conflict_(2003%E2%80%93present)&action=history
and i'd guess they were/are using the ip address starting with 2601 but are rather unhappy with Charles Essie. How should it be handled as this is a new one for me. ToeFungii ( talk) 03:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC) ToeFungii ( talk) 03:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Greetings,
I have started watching the show Bigger (TV series) while in quarantine, which led me to look up the creator's info. I see that the producer Will Packer is cited but the creator and writer Felischa Marye is not. She is also cited on Wikipedia in the Netflix 13 reasons why series page.
I searched Wikipedia like it says to do on the community portal contributor videos and article links and I have found sources and article links. I am thinking about creating my first page but I am a little scared of my first work being rejected (as silly as that may sound). I was just wondering if you had any feedback for me.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
/info/en/?search=Bigger_(TV_series)
/info/en/?search=13_Reasons_Why
ArborChamp ( talk) 00:35, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
@Tenryuu Yes, there are a lot of articles and links to Ms. Marye's work online. ArborChamp ( talk) 01:43, 29 April 2020 (UTC) @Tenryuu If I create the draft in my userspace will I be able to forward it to an editor before publishing it to ensure that it meets all of the criteria? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArborChamp ( talk • contribs) 01:50, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
@GoingBatty: Thank you @Tenryuu: and thank you as well
How does the traditional tea house looks like! 20chseld416 ( talk) 01:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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I've been trying to upload an image to User talk:Enterprisey/reply-link to show them my error logs when using this persons script. I've also filed a abuse filter report on wp commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Abuse_filter. A person responded and I responded back, but they still haven't resonded. Apparently I triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153. I changed the png to jpg but it said that it couldn't verify the photo. At this I don't know what to do. LucasA04 ( talk) 21:05, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hello,
I need some help. Tried creating a page for the term 'Digital companion' and thought I needed my username to be 'Digital companion' as well. Then, I got a message that the page has a potential conflict of interest. I work for a company (Intuition Robotics) that creates digital companions (my company's name was included in my user email, perhaps this was an issue as well?), but I wrote this article about an industry term, not a particular company, and in a way that was as un-biased as possible, and mentioned numerous other companies in this industry (and removed my company's name from the article altogether). I want to know what I can do to get the page published - do I need to change my username, create a new user altogether, or start over? Do I need to disclose conflict of interest, even though I am not profiting off of this article in any way? Will I still be able to get the page published if I say I have a conflict of interest? Some help would be greatly appreciated, as I put a lot of effort already into writing and creating the page, and I was unaware that I would have issues due to either my user name or the fact that I work in the industry of the term of the page I'm trying to create. Digital companion ( talk) 14:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys, thanks so much for your help here. It's my first time creating a page, and it's proving to be a bit more difficult than I initially thought.
1) I should submit the conflict of interest form (even though I am not profiting off of the page in any way), and it can still be published?
2) Am I allowed to mention my company name (Intuition Robotics) and include a link within the article, or will it be an issue? I deleted it since I thought this was why the page had issues.
3) Yes - I saw that there was an issue (
Draft: Digital companion vs.
Draft: digital compaion) - thought the draft was deleted but I guess I need an admin to merge them for me? Or can I merge it on my own?
4) Then, how do I get the page published on regular Wikipedia? I submit it to my User page, and then it can be reviewed again? I don't see an option to get
Draft: Digital companion published onto regular Wikipedia. What is the difference between a User page and Draft page?
Thanks so much!!
Digital companion (
talk) 15:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
So perhaps it wasn't a good idea to submit the COI form? I just entered this code, maybe I entered it wrong:
This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Digital companion. |
My page has now been tagged for speedy deletion...seems pretty unfair. Is this because I submitted the conflict on interest form, as users here instructed me to do? I don't see anything wrong with the page, and whoever requested to speedily delete it said "This has been done under section
G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic," which is not true...
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20:20, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Wylie39So how can I proceed? Seems like the correct one still has the speedy deletion tag on it. Is there any way for me to get it published? Or no, now that someone has put the speedy deletion tag, and I've submitted the COI form? Digital companion ( talk) 06:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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12:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Hello, I am writing a biography of Draft:Panos Zeritis. It is the second time that the article has been rejected. After the first rejection, I tried to find every source and add every reference to him that can be included. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it. Thank you. Zggala ( talk) 14:19, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
While browsing through random Wikipedia articles I stumbled upon Dorle. I immediately assumed that it didn't meet WP:Notability and WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a dictionary/ WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory. However I hesitated when I realized the User that created the article was an administrator and had created many such pages. I was unable to find any helpful information on their user page so I went looking and found WP:Deletion policy/names and surnames. I then considered deleting the article because of that, but I saw the policy was historical. I saw there was debate on the matter and don't know if there was consensus. I tried to search the village pump but it's very confusing to me and I don't know how to work it. Is there a consistent set of guidelines? What should I do?
Sidequestion: Is there a larger article that explains the village pump? I haven't been able to find one that explains exactly what it does.
Thanks for the help in advance ThatSuperNerd ( talk) 07:24, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I've written an article (Draft:Ron Britton), which was rejected first time. The editor said that I needed to source all the biographical information, but looking at lots of other Wikipedia articles, most of them don't have any sources for details like date and place of birth, schooling etc. I don't understand why I need to do this when lots of others don't (as just one example, on a similar subject: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonagy). Could you advise me on this? Thanks in advance. Fatbookreader ( talk) 15:21, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I would like to add a youtube link to my father's page of a video that I created for my father. I insert it, but the next day it disappears (someone removes it). Please advise how to add this link to stay permanently. Thank you
Anushd22 ( talk) 14:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to know how to access the Reading lists and history on the desktop Wikipedia page. I know this seems like a really basic question, but I can't find them. Thank you for your answer : D
TheFibonacciEffect ( talk) 15:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Question What happens if an sysop vandalizes pages or anything bad on Wikipedia? What happens if a bureau/sysop is blocked? Paul Ahyi ( talk) 21:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe May 22, 2022. And that is if you focus on improving articles, creating articles, raising articles to GA status, appropriately identifying articles for Speedy deletion, Prod of AfD, and so on, and so on, and so on. Your "need" and Wikipedia's process are on two different planets. David notMD ( talk) 01:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
However, the likelihood of passing without being able to show significant positive contributions to the encyclopedia is low. The community looks for a variety of factors in candidates and discussion can be intense.
You can revert vandalism now. You can nominate articles for protection now. You can submit complaints about editors because of their behavior (edit warring, attacking other editors) now. You can nominate articles for deletion (AfD) now. None of this requires being an administrator. David notMD ( talk) 09:57, 23 April 2020 (UTC) Thanks David. I will nominate the articles for protection: Kiribati & Qatar (ext.con). Paul Ahyi ( talk) 16:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC) Give me the link.
Hi! I wanted to create an article for a member of the band Pentatonix, Scott Hoying. I was trying to create a link from the article for the Pentatonix's page, but when I try to link his name, the link automatically redirects back to the Pentatonix's article. How do I remove this redirect in order to create an independent article? Mayag224 ( talk) 08:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
117.198.162.169 ( talk) 16:26, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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16:45, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Hi everyone,
I just wondered if you could possibly add a barnstar for giving lots of contributions to old articles, and paying attention to them too. This could help encourage the editing and improvement of old articles as well as new ones.
XUser132 ( talk) 11:11, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't understand why the page I've tried to create is being rejected. The rejection seems to say that it is a promotional page as opposed to a "informational page" and I disagree. I have looked at other pages that are similar to the one I'm trying to create. I've used references from the news tab of google and did not use any that came from press releases only articles written by 3rd parties for a reputable source, such as Daily News Newspaper TWAH64 ( talk) 16:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I was interested in the article about Harris Lebus which apparently was once the largest furniture manufacturer in the world. I noticed that references 2 and 4 (apparently identical but presumably referring to different parts of a source) no longer worked. To compensate I tried to provide a new source ( https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/34201802/a-history-of-harris-lebus-1840-1947-unpublished-manuscript-by-ls-) via the web template. However, the new reference 1 just leads to the yumpu.com web site. If, however, the URL is put directly into the web it goes to the source.
I would like help in correcting this problem as well as being able to update the history comment that I put in. 10:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC) BFP1 ( talk)
Hello Teahouse, thank you all for you helping hand in the past. I have drafted an article about an African-American Activist, which has been declined twice, meaning there is something I do not know of, I admit my ignorance and require clarity. Firstly, on notability the person in question @ Draft: Aaron D. Lewis he are a few things:
I can go on and on, but i do not wish to sound like a..... I am really wondering what else is required for notability having read the notability policies over and over again, I sternly opine that this article is ready for mainspace, but again I admit I may be wrong. Anyway can another editor take a look at the article again and offer explanatory comments. TheEpistle ( talk) 15:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you David notMD ( talk) but I really think that this article Draft: Aaron D. Lewis meets notability guidelines. I also agree that indeed running for mayor does not contribute to notability but other listed factors can and have. I have deleted the Humanitarian section cos this is not a campaign. And any reviewer is free to delete sections further, you may delete sections but i don't think this deserves a decline, since this user is a notability. A honest opinion. Thank you. TheEpistle ( talk) 16:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. TheEpistle ( talk) 18:02, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I want a userbox that shows that I watch Knight Rider. If such a userbox exists (if it doesn’t that’s fine), could you give me a link to it? Thanks, Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) 18:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
We have an article on Guillaume Bonnet, a 14th-century bishop. It has quite a few incoming links. A look on .fr shows there are a number of different fr:Guillaume Bonnets including a rugby league player, a cyclist and a sculptor. There are also a tennis player and a badminton player who don't even have French articles. I suspect that many of the people arriving at our article either directly or by following a link are looking for one of the others rather than the bishop. Ideally, we would have an article for any of these that are notable but, in the meantime, would it be good to have a disambiguation page with a link to the bishop and interlanguage links the various .fr pages? More generally, I don't see a lot of interlanguage links but I did notice an editor adding a number to The Last Kingdom (TV series) today. Is there a policy or guideline on where they are appropriate? Cavrdg ( talk) 16:07, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the replies. It seems many of the links are coming from Template:France 2017 Rugby League World Cup squad. Would changing the link there to Guillaume Bonnet (rugby league) be better than giving readers the option of going to the fr page? Cavrdg ( talk) 18:46, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
No, that seems good. I've done the badminton player too. Cavrdg ( talk) 19:17, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Article: St. Paul's Anglican Church, Vancouver
Can I indent a paragraph? I want to make clear that the paragraph is a quotation Elljaybee1929 ( talk) 19:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I've just created a draft named Draft:Alessio Cocchi about an Italian photographer, I clicked on the button "Publish changes" but I can't seem to find the "submit for review" button. Can you please help me? Thanks a lot! Cinnich ( talk) 20:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey there. How does one link to a specific section within an article rather than linking to the entire article. For instance, when referring to the nightclub "Studio 54" how does one link here: Studio 54 within an article; rather than just Studio 54 which is the building in general. Thanks. Maineartists ( talk) 20:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
[[Studio_54#Nightclub_era|like this]]
. Does that help?
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A Nigerian musician [1] a viddoe editor [2] and tiktok creator frrrrrf 20:48, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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John Hampdens Regiment ( talk) 21:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I create a page about myself? Genius1112002 ( talk) 13:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
How Fast Does Ink run out of pens? Wasimvorvoi ( talk) 21:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
What articles should I try to edit as a beginner to Wikipedia? How do I get started edit content on Wikipedia?
Thanks Mattchoochoo33 ( talk) 22:08, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank-you I will try that Mattchoochoo33 ( talk) 22:16, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I’ve seen a lot of people’s comments on talk pages, and most of them have signatures that look really cool. How can I make mine look cool with colors and stuff? -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) 21:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I think I figured out how to change color using an HTML command. I had to look at other people’s signature coding to figure it out, but I did... Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 21:39, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I would like to thank all who are trying to help me in creating an Article specially ( Andrzej Kamil Rybicki ) who has been mailing me and guiding me, I am totally new to Wikipedia, I am trying not to make mistakes but one way or the other I am making mistakes, if any one can please guide me after reading my Article and can point out the mistake so that I can fix them or any one who can do that. I will be great full. Shahkarshah ( talk) 22:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
When I say page notice I mean, like the "welcome to the TeaHouse editing window!" and then more stuff. How can I do this on my talk page? Thanks.
Shadowblade08 ( talk) 00:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
frrrrrf 01:14, 24 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farouk fy ( talk • contribs)
Looking to see what the preferred tools are for veteran editors. Thanks for your help! Loksmythe ( talk) 23:32, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
How can I add a subtitle (or a subname) to an article?
Hello,
Is it possible to add subtitles on Wikipedia pages? I'd like to include the standardized common names of species as subtitles on their Wikipedia pages.
Thanks in advance, Megan McAulay ( talk) 02:49, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I know someone who had served in the US Army during WWII from October of 1942 until November of 1944. He was discharged from Fort Dix in November of 1944. Now, this seems odd to me. Why would someone be discharged from the US Army with so much of the war yet to be fought. He did not have any injury. In fact, I don't think that he was even in any frontline duty. Most of his time I believe was within the United States. I thought that all WWII enlistments or draftees were extended for the duration of the war. Why would someone get out in November of 1944. 13:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC) 66.211.253.226 ( talk)
This is regarding the
Draft:Twitch. It is clearly self-promotion of promotion on behalf of someone else. Can the draft please be deleted.
Thanks, --
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Hi there fellow Wikipedians,
I have noticed the start of an edit war on the page Kowloon, and I have informed that they may be blocked if they carry on participating, although I'm not sure if I should just revert the edits they all made, and leave it how it was, or if I should just leave it 100%, and the warning is enough.
EGL1234 ( talk) 04:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, this is Shadowblade08 again. I only get onto Wikipedia around once a week, and every time I ask a question, it gets archived before I can read the answers that people typed. Here the deal, is there a way that I can stop people from archiving my questions, or is there a way that I can find them? Thx. Shadowblade08 ( talk) 15:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Adding free access tags is required of refs from newspapers.com and newspaperarchive.com. After doing so, these refs are no longer recognized as news citations when editing them in Visual Editor. For example, try editing both refs in Visual Editor, the second having the free access tag included. [1] [2] This problem has not existed in the past and it certainly does not encourage citing or using proper style. Is Wikipedia aware of the glitch and is a real solution available? Thanks — 05:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC) βox73 (৳alk)
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A user had posted a link about WP:BLP policy on my talk page. I must say it was quite an engaging read. Very helpful indeed. I was wondering if these policies only apply to article or also on the article talk ? I am asking because there is a User:Imlipop who is rambling obnoxious things about living persons. What should I do in such case ? Can an admin talk some sense into him. And delete his comments if it is found in conflict of the Wikipedia policy. Pratap Pandit ( talk) 11:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Giving notice to people who perhaps have more experience of concise, condensed page writing. There doesn't seem to be a system for people taking responsibility (as opposed to ownership) of any page. The page mentioned above is out of control. Ironically it has reached epidemic proportions of content, and much of it unnecessary for adding to one's knowledge of the outbreak. Some major issues:
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- The pre-amble / intro is five paragraphs long, four of them long. - The shortcuts menu is two scrolling pages, and I use a taller monitor than most. - There is far too much content regarding responses from sectors that frankly can be put in its own article away from this page. - The stats page is HUGE. The length is unmanageable, and the width is becoming equally so, since the number totals are forcing column widths wider. I did suggest to one editor about a month ago to combine all the England regions in to one nation, and the table would look a lot less messy. - There IS an England page, but as per the usual mentality of some people, it is almost empty, and the UK page is getting all England's data. As such, the UK page is bigger than it needs to be because of editor laziness or because editors are trying to promote inequality. Please look into this. I would recommend a short total of the four nations' statistics, and links to each, with day by day across each page, if people want to do that. If every region of the UK is to be included, then I suggest they add the regions of Scotland, Wales, and the six counties of Northern Ireland. It gets very, very boring, having to scroll 3-4 pages to get to the stats link in the menu, then scrolling 3-4 pages in the stats to get to the totals, and having to scroll up again to get to the column headers. Then having to scroll left and right too. The simple, simple answer (said twice to highlight, is it very simple) is to have condensed columns to prevent horizontal scrolling, and have scrolling table headers. If wiki isn't capable of this, then it's not the place to have the data presented !! Either data is complete, and able to be read, or it is pointless. A link to a spreadsheet would be more useful, and those accessing the data wouldn't be forced to deal with the messy text presentation of Wikipedia. Too much data, not enough info. People get overloaded and give up. Please fix this. I would, but will end up in a turf war with one or more wiki editors, who probably have more experience of the editing systems, the network of people, and the politics of wikipedia. Life is too damn short for that. P.S. I'm not criticising any single editor or wikipedia in general. Just this page. Sort it please. It's out of control. Some examples: 2 Government response 2.1 Overview 2.1.1 Progression between phases 2.1.2 Classification of the disease 2.1.3 Communications 2.2 Regulations and legislation 2.3 Criticism of the Government's response 7 Response in other sectors 7.1 Arts and entertainment 7.1.1 Music 7.1.2 Visual arts 7.1.3 Theatre and cinema 7.1.4 Television and radio Someone thinks that 'arts response' is as note worthy as the Government here. Do we seriously need to separate arts into sectors in the main menu? There's even women's events and LGBT pride mentions further down. What has that to do with a viral outbreak? Nothing. |
I suggest a simple paragraph making mention of many responses, and a link to "Responses from various sectors".
I did complain to one editor of this page a month ago. The complaint(s) were brushed off and ignored, despite the points made. The editors opinion wins...
Well the page is full of useless data now. Your move. 84.92.120.162 ( talk) 12:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I have received this following notice. I am not sure what is this and what I am suppose to do? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Earthianyogi ( talk) 11:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
"Disambiguation link notification for April 22
An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
Earthianyogi ( talk) 13:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I am having a hard time trying to find articles that I can edit...
Is one of you out there able to post on my talk page some articles for me to see if I can edit? Thanks, cause I don't want to spend the time looking for articles, when I could be editing them. Thanks! Shadowblade08 ( talk) 00:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
can i get help on my new article (like active editing from others?
Draft complete excerpt: Draft:Zander Nosler |
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Alexander Z. Nosler (born 1972) is an American business entrepreneur, mechanical engineer, and founder of Kitsbow [1] mountain biking apparel company. He is also known for being CEO of Coffee Equipment Company and inventing the "Clover" coffee machine. [2] [3] |
Josephi krakowski aka "lenny" ( talk) 14:12, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
St. Mary's Brass and Reed Band, Pound Lane, Maynooth is one of the oldest Bands in the Country and does not seem to be mentioned anywhere. Contact for the Band is Patrick Boyd, Chairman, 087 2537 906 2001:BB6:5B26:8158:F0E1:4F05:511E:4A88 ( talk) 15:42, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, I tried to nominate to AFD the bio Steve Cruz (actor). It is the first time I nominate a page and think I did something wrong. could you help me and tell me what I did wrong? thank you --11:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC) AlejandroLeloirRey ( talk)
NominationName
in the edit summary. At
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Cruz (actor) you didn't insert {{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat=Category | text=Why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~
from step II at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to nominate a single page for deletion. It's all fixed now.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:55, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Menon1717 ( talk) 03:18, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikiieditorr ( talk) 14:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Shabnamrana ( talk) 16:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Shabnamrana ( talk) 16:57, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I use the "use British English template?" I've been trying to use this template "{{
Use British English|date=April 2020}}
" And this "{{
Use British English}}" on a talk page but for some reason they both don't work. Could you give me insight on what I'm doing wrong? (Check source editor to see)
LucasA04 (
talk) 17:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Is it ok to delete some content from my talk page? One of my articles was rejected the first time, and a suggestion was made to merge the content with another article later. I have already merged the content. Can I now delete these notices on my talk page? Thx Earthianyogi ( talk) 19:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I. am having difficulty uploading any photo I have from old stationary to excerpts from historical newspapers and city directories. All of the items are available from the Library of Congress or from my own collection, but the format and questions asked when when uploading always results in the image being denied. I have looked at a number of forums and helpful hints and although I can upload in the (can't remember the wikipedia name for it) space and receive a URL, I can't seem to access the photo later. Very frustrating. Mofongo1234 ( talk) 20:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Everything I am trying to add are from US newspapers before 1925. I've added them to the commons but cannot find them after uploading and could only use when I created them and copied the link before exiting the commons. Especially hard adding photos directly from the edit source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mofongo1234 ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I get the following error when trying to upload from the commons: "You do not have permission to upload this file, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Autoconfirmed users, Administrators, Confirmed users." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mofongo1234 ( talk • contribs) 22:04, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Howdy, you'ens.
I have been given a barnstar, and am curious on how am I supposed to display it. Is it possible for someone to create a page that I could display them? Thanks. Shadowblade08 ( talk) 21:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
How do I line up my user boxes in a column? You can see the problem if you look at my userpage. -- LucasA04 ( talk) 23:42, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Wiki user mmm ( talk) 01:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out what would be the preferred spelling in British English of "1 Field Engineer Squadron." Would you put "st" after "1" or no? LucasA04 ( talk) 21:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
The IP USER 95.146.118.29 has had four warnings against vandalism, although has vandalised once more on Carl Cox. As I am not an admin, I cannot block him, although can someone please do so to prevent him/her vandalising in future. EGL1234 ( talk) 03:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, I have been hired for clean-up efforts in regard to Draft:Daniel_O._Griffin. My job is to see it through that this article has been properly edited as per WP:NPOV. Could you please advise what should be done next for the tag to be removed and the draft considered for publication into the mainspace? Thank you in advance. Charmanderblue ( talk) 17:49, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
104.32.213.154 ( talk) 05:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
181.51.34.8 ( talk) 03:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there fellow Wikipedians, I have just seen an edit that 2A00:23C4:8905:100:EC41:E684:87C9:57BE made to the page John Troyer (fighter). He incorrectly changed the nationality in an attempt to vandalise, and when I was about to place a warning on 2A00:23C4:8905:100:EC41:E684:87C9:57BE's talk page, I noticed that he already had five vandalism warnings from this month ( April). I am not an admin, so I cannot block him, although can an administrator do so? Thanks, EGL1234 ( talk) 05:08, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I need help. Some people are threatening me that I will be blocked and deleting my work. First they said I did not add reference. Even though I gave all reference. Now they are removing line saying, this is duplicate. They are removing the most important information from the article abstract. The abstract needs this. I have followed the rules and not done anything wrong. Please see this and ask them to stop blocking me. Pratap Pandit ( talk) 15:28, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
CaptainEek, Ok I will do as you asked.
RudolfRed, Please read the line they are removing. The user is saying it is nor fit for LEAD, but it is THE MOST IMPORTANT LINE of the article. Please see this news article why it is important. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/no-muslim-arrested-for-palghar-lynching-incident-maharashtra-minister-anil-deshmukh/articleshow/75288363.cms
I think these users are BJP agents and that is why they are removing important facts from the article to spread rumours. They must be blocked.
Aasim as CaptianEek asked I raised the issue on Talk:2020 Palghar mob lynching but no one is replying. Instead now they have asked administrator with false case of Edit warring.
I have not violated the 3 revert rule that this user explained on my wall. So with only 2 edits, how can they file the false report ? is this allowed ? Pratap Pandit ( talk)
Hello All,
This has been a really helpful resource for me on my journey to publishing a Wikipedia page and I was wondering if I could ask for a bit more help. Last time I was here I was requesting an edit on the Voxa page, and Ian.thomson and ColinFine were incredibly helpful in telling me what I was doing wrong and steps I could take moving forward. They suggested that I write a page on Voxa's main product, the Mochii, which I have done here: /info/en/?search=Draft:Mochii. I have taken their advice on both source collection and tone (I did my best to write it as if I was one of their industry competitors sticking to facts that I found from reputable sources). I was hoping either of those two or someone else would be so kind as to look over the Draft:Mochii page and let me know if I'm headed in the right direction and what I can do to improve it to be Wikipedia level content. Thankful for all the help, Sachin Zachariah ( talk) 23:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Have looked at many forums and still confused on referencing a location in an article. Mofongo1234 ( talk) 20:48, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
|display=inline,title
(the others should just use |display=inline
). —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]— 07:38, 25 April 2020 (UTC)Hi - I would like to create an English language page for a subject that already exists in Italian: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Simoni. What is the process to do that? Thank you. 1987atomheartbrother ( talk) 01:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia tenable to use for our Wiki for this project. http://emailtomail.org 33,000+ USA (eventually world wide) records, one per Zip/Postal Code, with one printed mailing page. example: https://emailtomail.org/Downloads/Pre%20Survival%20List.txt Each page should have about 15 essential sources, mostly food. With a medical, laundry, smartphone acquisition, GOV hot lines, essentials, etc. PHONE numbers. Not Links, as 33 Million Americans (many more Worldwide) do not have internet, PC, smartphone, or even phone books! (enough to re-infect the world, many times over) In fact, many do not have 911 or 311 also.
Can it be controlled at all, assuring as much accuracy as possible, guarding against foul play, unique records(one record per zip code), crowd vetted, etc.
Can there be the same system for each country. There are many data to Postal Mail services in the world, (for one's family) and we should be able to get GOV, donors to pay for Postal organizations to deliver one to each mailbox in the world ASAP.
Most web pages have <br> and other formatting, which cause extra lines to be pasted into mailing WYSIWYG forms. The example link above is to a txt file which does work without the extra lines. Can a <pre> and or <code> be implemented to solve this?
With this pandemic, each life we save, may be our own. Soon, the recovered should serve the quarantined. Only then, do we have a chance to outlast this virus. We may not have the will to do this now, but when this comes back in the Fall, as Dr. Anthony Fauci insists it will, maybe we will.
This infrastructure will serve the world for this and future disasters, for rapid deployment of LOCAL hard copy public health information. "All Politics is Local"
Thank You.
I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. :) Emailtomailorg ( talk) 08:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I am confused how to insert an image as I have tried pdfs and goooogle search results. it is very confusing for me and I need help Firestar9990 ( talk) 05:25, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
As a simplified explanation, you can only add images if they are photographs that you yourself have taken. David notMD ( talk) 09:45, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
"Hello, I'm CLCStudent. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. CLCStudent (talk) 23:50, 21 April 2020 (UTC)"
I have an article in my sandbox. I want to publish it to wikipedia. please review it and revert me. Shabnamrana ( talk) 11:08, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
I wanted to see what next steps are while waiting for a decision on a discussion. It has been suggested the article I proposed be merged with a parent page CHC. I can make edits to the current talk page; however, I'm concerned that if I submit without a decision being made I run the risk of the article being deleted.
Thank you so much for your time and insight.
-- Sunvidal ( talk) 20:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)sunvidal Sunvidal ( talk) 20:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! -- Sunvidal ( talk) 13:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
This is actually a wiki commons question. If this is an inappropriate place to ask this question, I apologize and request help finding a better place to ask the question.
I’m looking at this page [3] which contains a picture of a Greek vase.
The licensing information seems inconsistent. I see thIs statement:
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
That sounds good but in a previous section I see:
Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aims, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
Are these consistent? Can you release something under CC share alike with a caveat that the photo cannot be used for commercial purposes? If not, what should be done about the image? Can there be an image on Wiki commons that is not available for commercial use?
I should mention that I didn’t take the photo or create the page in question but I’m curious about the licensing issues. I was under the impression that photos on Commons should be available for commercial use.
MarylandGeoffrey ( talk) 02:09, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, i just wanted to know is there any difference between footnotes and references on wikipedia? Also, what is the use of short descriptions in any article? Lightbluerain ( talk) 09:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
102.68.17.73 ( talk) 09:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
How do you put references? Yeel88 ( talk) 13:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:Olwethu Trevor Cokile
Is there anyone who can help me write my article. I need assistance Olwethu Trevor Cokile ( talk) 23:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: Article has been speedily deleted per G11. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I am unsure if my article on filmmaker Suzanne Guacci has been submitted. How can I tell? and if so, what comes next? New to wikipedia. Thank you. Upintheairalways ( talk) 02:47, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the information. Yes, I am in film management but not directly to subject but rather to the work. We are attempting to inform and fill in information that other managers have started about Guacci's films that have been mentioned in Wikipedia a handful of times and are linked to other actors. Upintheairalways ( talk) 15:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi folks, I am updating the page on Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease /info/en/?search=Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease and noticed that the taxobox information is outdated. The current taxonomy can be found at https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/p/taxonomy-history?taxnode_id=19950818&src=NCBI&ictv_id=19950818 and should read Riboviria > Orthornavirae > Pisuviricota > Pisoniviricetes > Picornavirales > Caliciviridae > Lagovirus > Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this! After 90 minutes of trying to figure it out I thought I'd elicit some help! I am not a coder, and so all of the information on the taxobox pages is going over my head. Is there someone here who can fix this for me? Thanks for your help, Rabbit Vet ( talk) 06:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
i could not find info on Help:Talk_pages. at present we can change style of signature, is there anything similar way to change style or layout of user talk pages ? Leela52452 ( talk) 14:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC) any OTHER suggestion or critique is preferred here
{{u|
wylie39}} {
Talk}
14:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
~~~~
(as you did above and elsewhere). The timestamp it creates should be the last thing in your post. There's no reason to provide a link to your meta talk page on enwiki – discussions about enwiki should remain here. Thanks. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]— 16:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
I published a couple of things . When I search up the title of them they do not come up . HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ARTICLES TO BE FULLY PUBLISHED ? Lovingpenguin ( talk) 16:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Lovingpenguin ( talk) 16:53, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
why was my articles deleted i just put in my own words what i thought now two of my articles are going to be deleted ? why is this website like this ? Lovingpenguin ( talk) 16:57, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
that is so annoying! i just want to articles and edit but they just get deleted! i was only experimenting ! Lovingpenguin ( talk) 17:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I have written drafts of articles for three interesting protist genera: Rhodelphis, Colponema, and Aquavolon. Rhodelphis has a short article written for it in Russian. Should I be editing this version of the article somehow or should I create a new Rhodelphis article in English? Colponema has a very short article on Wikispecies. Should I create a new Wikipedia article or add to the Wikispecies?
Thanks so much for your help. PeriplasmicCortex ( talk) 20:44, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks to members of the TeaHouse. In reference to the draft Draft: Aaron D. Lewis i think 4-5 reliable sources that are independent of the subject, have now been cited, neutral tone and notability guidelines met. In response to a request one editor, who asked to state 4 sources of the subject without 'passing mentions', the sources are:
I request another review and possibly comments on the talk page or the draft or below this comment, whichever works for you. Thank you. TheEpistle ( talk) 15:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC) TheEpistle ( talk) 15:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello Teahouse hosts. I am considering another article for Wikipedia; however, it will entail much work, so I am inquiring regarding wp:notability before writing the article and having it rejected due to to lack of notability. The article I am considering is list article about native Texas, firewise trees. There is an article already on Wikipedia, Natural landscaping from which the phrase native landscaping redirects from the search box. While there is no firewise landsccape Wikipecia article (and I am considering an article about that subject), I have found several reliable sources (at least I believe they are) regarding the subject:
Furthermore, there are Texas university websites from which native, firewise trees may be gleaned.
So, considering all of this, does the article meet the criteria for notability?
Most kind regards from Hu Nhu ( talk) 17:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
LINKING within Wiki pages
Greetings!
Pardons please, I am quite new in editing.
I just wanted to add a link to the page " /info/en/?search=Sarah_Wayne_Callies" for her new show " /info/en/?search=Council_of_Dads_(TV_series)" I did do a CHECK ERROR and it has found no errors. However, upon publishing, it said that the page does not exist. Can you please check what I did wrong and tell me, so I can do this again without a hitch ?
Thank you! Jagganath69 ( talk) 00:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey Guys, I'm not a WiKi-Pro so i am not completely sure how to properly edit information on this website. I found this strange. It would be a very hard job to factor out all the confounding factors leading to any results based on the studied population.
/info/en/?search=Swine_influenza#Structure No Copyright Infringement Intended. Delahoussayekevin ( talk) 00:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I want to create an article on a famous television series. Can someone guide me in a detailed way so i can create article without the risk of deletion. Hansi Choudhary ( talk) 19:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
The page shows a third bullet that is incomplete. The underlying text is this:
so it's obviously ignoring everything up to the comma. But I'm not sure what's wrong with it and don't know how to edit it.
```` or >> ````
or Markell West, in case that doesn't work or I misunderstood!
Markell West ( talk) 21:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
noprint
so I guess you saw the page in a printed or printable version where the class is hidden. <span class="noprint">This text has noprint</span>
produces " ". I see "This text has noprint". It's not shown in the printable version. It's admittedly confusing to hide the link in some circumstances without hiding the text after the link, so I have removed noprint
.
[4] Alternatively, noprint
could have been added to the whole line, but I think users who view the printable version should know the link is in the normal online version.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:27, 25 April 2020 (UTC)Hi, I have added a lot of new content to the 1.7.2. 'Bones' section within this article /info/en/?search=Positron_emission_tomography. I left a message on its talk page proposing that a new article can be formed using 1.7.2. 'Bones' section. However, no one has yet replied. I am asking for suggestions as I intend to write more on BONES sub-section and add a few more figures on this topic. I noticed that the page is loading quite slow. I am not sure, but any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you. Earthianyogi ( talk) 23:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
[[Positron emission tomography]]
rather than /info/en/?search=Positron_emission_tomography
). --
ColinFine (
talk) 23:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)Dear All, @ ColinFine, Keith D, Sbharris, Kablammo, Joao Sousa (UU), Le Creusot, 202.142.86.208, 190.145.38.136, Kirigiri, Wtmitchell, and LM200:. I have noticed your valuable contribution on this Positron emission tomography article/page. This Positron emission tomography page has reached 108,412 bytes and I have more to write. I propose that section 'Bones' within the article Positron Emission Tomography be split into a separate page called PET for Bone Imaging. The content of the current page seems off-topic and these sections are large enough to make their own page. . Thank you Earthianyogi ( talk) 00:06, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
The English entry for an area of Copenhagen variously known as: the Kildevækd Quarter, the Strandvej Quarter, the Svanemølle Quarter and the Composers' Quarter is here
/info/en/?search=Kildev%C3%A6ld_Quarter
It should be liked to this Danish page
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strandvejskvarteret
It is currently linked to this page which related not to the Quarter but to a street which forms part of it:
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildev%C3%A6ldsgade
I am not sure how to decouple this link and connect the two pages correctly.
Would also make more sense to title the English page 'Strandvej Quarter' for consistency with the Danish one.
If anyone would like to do this for me, or tell me how to do it, that would be great, thanks. Betongmandarin ( talk) 06:32, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, what about renaming the English page? I was worried that doing this might create some other problem. ( Betongmandarin ( talk) 08:35, 26 April 2020 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betongmandarin ( talk • contribs) 08:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC) Problem solved, I worked it out Thanks Betongmandarin ( talk) 10:49, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I think it only makes common sense to have a redirect from Articles for Deletion to the page WP:Articles for Deletion. I see that several requests to create the page Articles for Deletion were denied in the past (>10 years ago), or that the page was deleted for random reasons. Is there a reason that this is a silly question? Is there a reason the page shouldn't redirect to the right AfD page? Thank you for opinions. Ikjbagl ( talk) 06:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
it contains hyperlink above "From விக்கிப்பீடியா" and below "பிலார் உருயிசு இலாபுயெந்தே" in desktop mode [ i mean tapping desktop at bottom of page, NOT "request desktop site". is this some kind of error ? Leela52452 ( talk) 04:12, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Team, I have written a article Draft:Nisha Ravikrishnan. Thus article was rejected because of notation issue.Wanted to know what needs to be added from my end.This article is my first ever article, so would need your support and guidance on what needs to be done. Would like to improve on your guidance and support. Cinemapremi ( talk) 12:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, the AFD process for the bio I wrote just finished and resulted in a keep. The bio was declined twice and than rejected. I kept asking what was the problem and the only answer was not reliable sources. when I tried to understand what were exactly the sources to cause the problem I got no answers at all. if you are too busy to feed the writer of an article with all the information he needs to understand your decision and improve his article please just don't do anything. If you fail someone's work than it would be fair for you to be available to explain your decision and help. Honestly i don't feel that those who have rejected/declined the bio I wrote were moved by genuine intentions, otherwise they would have answered me and explained me what it was wrong in their opinion.
In the ADF talk page I was accused of going everywhere to ask for information, what was I supposed to do? if nobody answers me should I just let it be?
moreover, telling a person stuff like "fails WP:GNG", "fails WP:BASIC" or " fails WP:ANYBIO" needs to come with an explanation as those are very much interpretabile guide lines. If your point is to get something done fast please do something else. If your point is to improve wikipedia be there for giving all the necessary info.
thank you --19:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC) AlejandroLeloirRey ( talk)
I'm finishing editing my article. What is the next step to move out the sandbox? Mediapals ( talk) 14:24, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello I want to post some changes and add Traditional Herbal uses of some of th entries in Wikipedia, can someone help me to understand what you refer to as reliable sources. In my work, I have used many traditional textbooks, such as Bartrams Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine. Are these considered reliable sources for the information about the action and uses of herbs as remedies? Herbalthyme ( talk) 14:24, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I have written a article (Lee Fardon) that was initially rejected. I edited and resubmitted and it has subsequently been edited by two others. Does this mean it will automatically be resubmitted (by them) or do I have to resubmit? How do I know if my article will be accepted? Fencedown ( talk) 08:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I am writing a biography in English. The spouse of the person has a page on the Swedish Wikipedia. When I try to link it claims that the page does not exist. I saw some references to how it is done, but sadly it is unclear, and in my experience (I am new to Wikipedia editing) as unclear as many help/tutorials I saw in/on Wikipedia on other subjects. Thanx Danishom ( talk) 10:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
{{Interlanguage link|Name of spouse|sv}}
produces
Name of spouse . "Name of spouse" is intentionally a red link to the English Wikipedia as long as we don't have an article, while "sv" links to the article in the Swedish Wikipedia. You didn't name the article so my example link doesn't work.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 10:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I recently edited the article Haruhi Fujioka in which I edited what has often been a contentious opinion about the fictional character. I tried to be as factual and neutral as possible in my language. Without explanation, the editor of some of the original text (from 12/2018), reverted my edits back to their own, which (imo) reflects an unsubstantiated opinion. I left the editor a TALK message on 4/24/20 asking if there is a way we can collaborate on the language and am waiting for an answer. QUESTION: If the editor user:Maplestrip refuses to collaborate, what do I do next? This editor, in another area of the article, deleted a direct quote, removed language, re-inserted their interpretation of the quote, then used the original citation to validate their interp (see 07:32 1 August, 2016). I replaced the interp with the direct quote again. That was left in place, but the other edits were reverted without reason and without citation (in one case) to support their validity. Is simply asking for citation enough? And if we still differ, even after conversing, how do both non-cited opinions get listed within the article to comply with WP:NPOV?
Ouranista ( talk) 01:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Maplestrip and I chatted honestly about the issues at hand and the article in question is now amended in a mutually agreeable way. I've also learned a bit more about Wiki-editing in the process. Thank you, Teahouse! Ouranista ( talk) 15:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
On the Wikipedia page USS ARIZONA SALVAGED ARTIFACTS, it references that an artifact has been donated to the Veterans Memorial Museum in Laurel, MS. I am the website administrator for this museum and I wanted to provide a photo of the artifact/display to the Wikipedia page. I really didn't want to have to go in and do a full blown page edit. Can you help me out here? Jweby70 ( talk) 18:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC) Jweby70 ( talk) 18:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Creating a new page for a company. Dear all, I need help creating a page for a 41-year-old company I'm working with. What could be the reason that the page was deleted. I want to mention that I did not want to publish yet, cause it's not ready, could not find a save botton, had to publish it, knowing it will not be online. Please advise me what to do as a beginner.
thank you Armen Sepetjian ( talk) 18:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Armen Sepetjian ( talk) 09:01, 22 April 2020 (UTC) Thank you for your prompt reply. Honestly, I was hired months ago to accomplish certain tasks, one of the most important one in this, being present on Wikipedia. It was my fault I tested an unfinished page. The company I'm working with is not similar to any other food product distributor. It's something related to Middle Eastern Culture, Lebanese culture. I have many reasons to believe that Al Wadi company must be present on Wikipedia. All I need is your advice, as you mentioned above, I will go to the "Articles for Creation page" and proceed from that step. Hopefully when I'm in need of help I will hear from you. thank you Armen Sepetjian ( talk) 09:01, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
This concerns this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_microorganisms_tested_in_outer_space
In the above page there is a table of organisms. Some are red and some are blue. They are clickable for more information on the specific organism, but color difference is not explained. 73.60.214.239 ( talk) 16:14, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
RoshanG2907 ( talk) 16:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was blocked by my family from accessing Wikipedia for a short while, and, as I am a wikiholic, I used the proxy User:5.153.218.57 ( [6]) to access and edit Wikipedia. I could not log in to my account from that proxy, and I subsequently got blocked for a month for making edits in my userspace. Recently, I have read WP:NOP and have realized that the edits I made on that proxy are inappropriate. As I live in Ohio, not China, what should I do now?? should User:5.153.218.57 be blocked indefinitely? Computer165 ( talk) 18:41, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses says that Open proxies may be blocked on sight
and I was using a proxy. I don't know what to do now. --
Computer165 (
talk) 15:30, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
My question is how much time any new or old content takes to get verified and publish on main server? Manoj shrivastav ( talk) 16:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
how can i improve this content so that it can get published on wikipedia.please do mention your mail.id with answer Manoj shrivastav ( talk) 17:39, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Can I add the photo of Flora Sheffield into Wikipedia from this page https://www.listal.com/flora-sheffield. Thanks Ghoraghatalpha ( talk) 16:53, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Sam,
If an individual is listed in several different books in different publication years and editions should that be listed also, or is it redundant? Mhjelm ( talk) 14:02, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Colin,
Yes, there is different relevant information in the various publications. I am wondering what a substantial source is since it seems many accepted submissions seem to include an array of websites instead of actual published books by reputable publishers.
Hello, let me emphasize I had a native speaker proofread before moving to articlespace. I posted a machine-translation of the intro of Cannabis in South Africa on a Draft page: af:Draft:Cannabis_in_South_Africa. I got a native Afrikaans speaker to proofread it, and only then moved it to articlespace. But then a couple days later an Admin deleted the page with zero explanation, and today when I posted on their Talk (which they appear to be using as just another userpage, no conversation on it, and I did double-check the page title to make sure it meant Discussion), they immediately reverted my attempt to communicate.
I don't know if they deleted it for legit technical reasons, or out of an animus towards the topic, so I'm trying to assume good faith. If this Admin simply won't provide an explanation or respond to Talk page posts, how do I find someone to look into this and tell me if I'm in the wrong, or the Admin isn't behaving appropriately? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 16:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to make info boxes? CUZ I DON'T. So I tried a couple of times. It NEVER worked. I think I did something wrong in the source editing mode but I'm not sure. Reach me out in the DOES ANYONE KNOW INFOBOXES? talk page. Flipsosmasos ( talk) 14:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. My responses to all the responses (:D): 1. I was trying to find a game oriented infobox, but there wasn't one (darn) 2. The reason that I didn't have a infobox entry in my history was cuz I never would be able to actualy make one while editing (didn't recognize the template). I had to remove all my attempts cuz u prolably know why. Thanks for the help though! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flipsosmasos ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the help! Even tho i figured out how to make an infobox. I used the article Template:Infobox video game — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flipsosmasos ( talk • contribs) 19:21, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Awnearn ( talk) 18:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: based on User talk:Jacona#Establishment of Evangelical Christian School in Memphis, TN, this is likely about Evangelical Christian School. Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 19:25, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Good Afternoon Everyone! I Benjamin I Request That This Page You May Reconsidering On It And Help To Re-Active Again It Will An Honor To Get Back In Line Thank You! O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 16:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin GASIGWA ( talk • contribs)
Thank You Sir David O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 21:32, 26 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin GASIGWA ( talk • contribs)
In the past, I used to write biographies of models and beauty queens, I lost my account. Now I am back with a new account to make biographies of young and notable activists, innovators, entrepreneurs and humanitarians. Yesterday, I completed a draft called Draft:Benjamin Bocio Richardson (Category: AfC submissions by date/26 April 2020), I think that I did an amazing job, I noticed that all the drafts posted on the same day have been checked, but nobody says anything or moves the article that I did from draft. What should do? Humanitarian2 ( talk) 21:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I Want To Ask Did I Banned To This Page?? Because Nothing As I See Allowed From Talk, Sandbox To Contribs All Pages Are Saying Deletion Deletion So What Can I Do O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 17:37, 26 April 2020 (UTC) O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 17:37, 26 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin GASIGWA ( talk • contribs)
Sorry Robert McClenon maybe you understand my question different!? It was just question I didn't mean to make you angry Robert So Sorry O.G.n.T.B.D.ME 21:29, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
How Can I change or simplify the name of a draft that I created. I created the Draft:Benjamin Bocio Richardson and I want to simplify it to Benjamin Bocio Humanitarian2 ( talk) 22:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I recently made a article namely Draft:Basic Level Examination. It is a type of examination which used to be named District Level. Previously, It used to be conducted by particular district. But now it is conducted by Municipal Education Board. So, I felt it was necessary to make a article. District Level Examination is the previous system of board examination for Grade 8 students. Please suggest me necessarily. NecessaryEdits ( talk) 01:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
NecessaryEdits ( talk) 23:16, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Gonna jump on the other side of the fence today. I've been reading up on
reference grouping because I am currently editing an article that would look best with multiple notes in a reflist at the end of each section. To separate them I have been using <ref group="" name="">
tags, but when I call them, the superscript marks read as "group 1" instead of "1" as I wanted them to do. Anyone know a way of suppressing the group name from showing up in superscript? —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 01:27, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Tenryuu: If you use {{ Efn}} and {{ Notelist}}, it will use the lower-case letters and they can be re-used in multiple sections (i.e. the {{ Notelist}} shows only the {{ Efn}} since the last {{ Notelist}} (or the top of the article if none)):
Notes:
Notes:
The {{ Efn-lr}} and {{ Notelist-lr}} (with lowercase Roman numerals) are less confusing when multiple references to the same ref might be used, which also produce lowercase letters. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 07:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
P.S.: I assume we're talking about "notes" only here, not actual references (which should remain together near the end of the article, AFAIK). —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 07:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Notes:
Notes:
@ AlanM1: That's what I'm looking for! Thanks! So I need to use div tags to make this work? — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
More specifically, I want to create a page about her on Wikipedia’s ‘List of South African women artists’. SO I wish to include some examples of her paintings in my possession. I‘m not concerned that anyone else might download these JPEG images, and use (or even ‘misuse’ them) in that unlikely event… Thanks! ```` DeSoto 383 ( talk) 00:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
There’s been a recent edit at the page of Nick Fuentes by a user stating that word not used in the sources cannot be used on the page. The user argued that the words “encounter, filmed, and criticism” do not appear in the source article and thus should not appear on the page (and then proceeded to remove the entire sentence). The source used does not use the words but very clearly shows the encounter, the filming of it, and the criticism that ensued from said encounter. Is this a valid argument to make on Wikipedia or is this an example of WP:SEALION?
Edit: I forgot to to mention that the user said to find sources using the words mentioned above or “accept this edit [removal]” Nigel Abe ( talk) 19:16, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I’m going to leave a message on his talk page, and revert him a second time. If he persists and starts edit warring am I safe to take him to the administrator noticeboard? Nigel Abe ( talk) 19:38, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Please guide me how to include reference of books by links, if the books are not available on internet. Rangan Mitra Ray ( talk) 08:25, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
The article on the novel Lord of the Flies fails twice to identify the most important and most fundamental theme of the novel: Golding's view of human nature, specifically his view that human nature is inherently violent and fearful. I've inserted edits in two sections to rectify this omission. I see there is a notice: "This page is semi-protected so that only autoconfirmed users can edit it. If you need help getting started with editing, please visit the Teahouse." So here I am. I'd like to be able to edit the article. Can you give me the necessary status? Chandlerburr ( talk) 04:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Could someone kindly check and see if a Template message citing insufficient citations is still justified for this article? I do agree that its still a stub, but can someone give their opinion on if this template still needs to be there? I happen to know the person so I do not want to remove the Template as it may violate the conflict of interest rule. Thank you Saffura9 ( talk) 23:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a newbie and I would like to know the steps to become an editor of a page that has been translated to two different languages. Your inputs are highly appreciated. Thank you. Lithuaniacitizenship ( talk) 09:22, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I am trying to translate the Enoch L. Johnson page to Hungarian language, but I don't know how can I add the pictures from the original page's infobox to the translated page. I can't just upload it like it's mine, but I don't know any other solutions. I am really new, so PLEASE if you answer, try to be very specif about the steps.
Thank you! Ergepard ( talk) 09:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer, I will try to do what you suggested! Ergepard ( talk) 11:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I republished the article uploaded on Wikipedia about a month back. Could you please let me know the status of the article? Also, if you could specify which part need to be worked on, then it would be great. This is the article: /info/en/?search=Draft:B.PAC
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aparnapthk72 ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
We are responsible for the European Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe and would like people to be able to find our documents through Wikipedia. How could we do this? Susan Moller, European Landscape Convention, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France Smoller67 ( talk) 06:19, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on a graph at User:Eddie891/GAGraph, and there are several things I wan't to do, but don't have the technological know-how to do. Anyone who can advise on what to do/or tell me it's impossible on-wiki, would be greatly appreciated. 1) I want to gray out the background for sections when backlog drives are in progress, like how this graph is done. 2) I want to highlight specific points on the graph (i.e. all time lowest numbers, highest, etc.). Again, any suggestions would appreciated! Eddie891 Talk Work 00:04, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I am a new editor and do not know much English. Could someone show me around? Rey de los Pirineos ( talk) 14:23, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
While editing an existing article requiring citation, is it sufficient to add a relevant link. Does that qualify as a citation? Factedits ( talk) 15:57, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Can you give me any advice on Editing? Wale18 ( talk) 15:46, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
I know I looked ate it. I just wanted some advice from my fellow editors. Wale18 ( talk) 01:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! Very much! I appreciate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wale18 ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Factedits ( talk) 16:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Factedits ( talk) 15:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I have written an article about a company and it has been rejected for being promotional. I understand wikipedia is extremely specific about content being purely for informational purposes, so I ensured the content of the article was purely factual and that every line was annotated and cited. There are many wikipedia pages about businesses and I feel that this was written with the same objectivity. Do you have any suggestions for how I can write about a company without getting flagged for being promotional? I have a journalism degree and like to think I know how to write about something objectively. For reference the draft is Draft:Hometap Home Equity Investments I was doing research on this business and others like it, and when I discovered this company did not have a page and other companies like it did, I decided to create a page to distinguish the different business models.
Any help would be appreciated. Mateo1259 ( talk) 16:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
In June of 2019, Hometap was recognized as having one of the most impressive engineering teams in Boston tech by VentureFizz(emphasis added), even if that is in the title of the source that you used.
The process works in just a few steps(emphasis added) gives it a nuance of persuasion, which is not what Wikipedia is for. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:42, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
I am working on edits to an article, Procuratie, which uses a {{ Multiple image}} template (vs. formatting with the standard "File:" format). I created this sandbox page with both formats for the same image, and the only difference is that there doesn't not seem to be a way to add a header to the File: format.
I have investigated templates and image how-to pages and cannot figure it out - and I wasn't sure where else to ask. Thanks so much! – CaroleHenson ( talk) 04:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
User:Pestick and User talk:14.231.64.162 who I believe are the same, has recently been removing large amounts of content from this article using the disguise of Recentism. Upon inspecting his/her edits they have deleted numerous historical content and sources leading to systemic bias and lack of neutral point of view.
When I undid one of their edits and clearly stated the reasons why, I was confronted with this on the China national football team: Revision history page
I looked this up at the Talk:China national football team and all I could find was David Tornheim wrote, "I hope editors can review the sourcing and fix broken links." (10:04, 21 April 2020) Further research lead me to User talk:14.231.64.162 where Materialscientist suggested this person use Sandbox. David Tornheim came in and was encouraging to the new editor, suggested a more neutral tone, replace sources that were lacking and read up carefully on any rules that editors say you have broken. Unfortunately when he wrote,
this person has selectively read that they have carte blanche to do whatever they want. This has lead to further numerous instances of vandalism deleted numerous referenced material under what they believe is condensing, poor English, only English cited sources and dead links to name a few. When I confronted this person I was met with Ownership of content and bullying language as this person now believes they have to administrators backing him/her and the perception of power. I wrote to David Tornheim about mu concerns, but he has not responded and Materialscientist has a "busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." sign on their talk page.
So I am asking for help to stop this person vandalising this page and several others, they are not improving this page at all because if they were they wouldn't be deleting the same passages and references used in the Nederlands Featured article of the same name. Kai Lau ( talk) 14:59, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear ColinFine
I have been following the content dispute and dispute resolution project pages. I have approached the the editor and anyone else involved, I have attempted to go back to improve the article but was met with ownership of content and bullying language. I've attempted to step back and wait a few days to focus on the content but when this person is maliciously removing encyclopedic content, or the changing of such content beyond all recognition, without any regard to our core content policies of neutral point of view to suit their bias opinion and seeing this person do the same to other articles is not easy. I am looking for a Third opinion because if i do go further with the content dispute how do I go about it? Kai Lau ( talk) 16:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I’ll start by introducing myself. I’m a Director of Brand Strategy in Marketing at Apple. I’m reaching out today because myself and some of my associates would like to enhance Apple’s page and change some of the content and nuances on the page to make it represent Apple more positively. Because of the large amount of users on Wikipedia, we believe this will be an effective method by which to reach potential customers. I ran the idea by some of my superiors, and they were all for me communicating with Wikipedia and working out an agreement. Obviously, this would benefit Wikipedia because we would keep the page updated and ensure it contains all relevant information. How can we arrange this? Please advise how to proceed.
Thank you for your help. 184.144.119.19 ( talk) 16:51, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your replies. What I originally had in mind was a sort of mutual agreement in which we would manage our own page. I did not fully understand the Neutral Point of View aspect of Wikipedia, I thought content merely needed to be accurate information, which of course we would have provided. I now see that my request is not compatible with Wikipedia’s policies. Thanks, 184.144.119.19 ( talk) 18:15, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
hallo, this picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruggero_Freddi.jpg was taken from here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/188146761@N05/49826675387/in/photolist-DZtLh-6Em6Ch-9T599o-9T2na6-9n5TvN-52Soij-9T59Lw-4ZBJ44-ohYp1-4ZQZic-54jQy5-5nDrvr-aPksrX-54fB3g-6nNhCo-2kFxHT-26WVeJK-gsSNM-apwb74-odwbDB-hpgHi-52N8fx-owexTj-2iV1JE8-DaKqAD can someone tell me why I can not use it? thank you AlejandroLeloirRey ( talk) 18:32, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy
Hi I would like to submit the draft of my article for review. I forgot how to do it. the article is accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy Carrieruggieri ( talk) 21:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC) Carrieruggieri ( talk) 21:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone, i'm back, as always. I have another question about my talk page. Is it possible for me to archive things? I am starting to have so many topics, its getting annoying for me. Is it possible for me to arrive things on my talk page? Thanks. Also, if I do archive all the topics on my talk page, is it possible for me to have a bot that sends a message to the people that their topics got archived, like the TeaHouse thing? Thanks. Shadowblade08 ( talk) 20:03, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
How can I prevent a stack overflow error?
How can I prevent a stack overflow error?
AdjustingFramework (
talk) 21:44, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians, I came across several stub pages while editing through the community portal and task center. I researched some of those subjects, but couldn't find much more beyond what was included in the stub already. At most, I could add some additional trivial information to some of those stubs, but they would have remained stubs even after the update.
So, here's my question. Does lack of information about a subject tantamount to lack of notability?
Thank you. NawJee ( talk) 19:49, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
HI, I need to create a wiki page on an entertainer. How can I do that? Can some one guide me so that it is not objected. Thanks Earthianyogi ( talk) 18:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Earthianyogi ( talk) 19:14, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
~~~~
, which usually results in two signatures. There was a change made to the preload form that removed a space, so the two sets of tildes now run against each other. Pinging
Tenryuu. —[
AlanM1 (
talk)]— 01:24, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
@ AlanM1: I've added a new comment to the reload. A possible thing we could do is add any one character before the signature, like "." and format its colour into white so that it is essentially invisible. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:Samuel Mori Voit
Please help me. I have created a page for Samuel Mori Voit and the code was checked. It is being rejected and I don't understand why. It has been going on for over a year. Please help! Fayerez303 ( talk) 17:44, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't understand what you are saying. Please explain. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Fayerez303 (
talk •
contribs) 17:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Fayerez303: Your draft hasn't been rejected, but declined, which is not as serious. I suggest deleting your other draft and improve the one you currently have before re-submitting it. Also, refrain from using promotional language, as it is not appropriate for Wikipedia articles.
Thank you. How do I delete the previous draft? Also do you have suggestions for the edits on the page? I am not sure how to improve on it. Thank you.
Update: Draft:Samuel Mori Voit is deleted. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I am writing to you to tell you about how Wikipedia has declined my article Draft:Dubuc Tomahawk. I do not understand this happened, especially as I have spent about 3 days writing it. Please help! Electrostar378 ( talk) 18:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
infobox
, cite web
, and cite news
, not only starts with {{
but also finishes with }}
. If you use "Show preview" before saving the page it will give you a clue whether your formatting is screwed up. If you get the formatting right, it will give the reviewer a chance to read it correctly to see whether the content is acceptable. --
David Biddulph (
talk) 18:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
In fact, it was such a great carare not suitable for an encyclopedia. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:12, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I just noted that the user {u|Dean197} has deleted plenty of text from this article "Mi Notebook Air" url: /info/en/?search=Mi_Notebook_Air. I had spent a lot of my time editing it and it now feels like a waste of time.... Was this article previously reviewed by a senior editor before acceptance? If so, is it ok for someone to remove most of the text from the article? Should I edit other articles or not? Can someone please review/? Thank you for your advice. Earthianyogi ( talk) 01:14, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
1. I checked this user's profile and s/he seems like an inexperienced editor on Wikipedia. Also, they have not yet replied.
2. This editor seems to have made no effort to correct it themselves. If they cannot, they should at least try to find the missing references. If they cannot, they should leave a citation needed tag on the article and leave it for others to improve it. If they cannot, they should contact the author of the article. I feel so because the article must have been passed by a senior editor and maybe worth it.
3. How can we assess this user's credibility in deleting the text? I mean, a text that is relevant to one person may be irrelevant to another, depending on their perspective.
4. If an editor feels that some content needs to be deleted, then they should first check with the author of the article or other editors before doing so.
5. I edited a few Wikipedia articles. I noticed that references are missing in many places in various articles. That does not mean that the text is any less relevant. I just feel that sometimes authors do not have the time or the energy to add these references, or some do not even have that kind of training to do so. Therefore, we should put a collaborative effort to make and improve Wikipedia, rather than just deleting another person's effort.
6. Please note, I am not the author of this article. However, I had spent time editing it, and I feel like it has been a waste of my time when someone just comes along and deletes the text. I wonder how the author of the article would feel.
I hope I am making sense.
Thank you.
Earthianyogi (
talk) 09:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
From a quick look, the article was tagged before Dean197's deletions with too much detail and citations needed - and much of what was deleted was separately tagged with citation needed - so the actions were not entirely arbitrary. If citations can be found for the deleted content it may be appropriate to restore it, or some of it. Personally, I agree that even if citations are available, there was too much esoteric detail. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a document that helps a person decide which notebook to buy. David notMD ( talk) 13:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
hi how do you change the edit page by inserting? Ihiiiiii ( talk) 00:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Can I use non-English e.g. French/Spanish references for an English article? Thanks Ghoraghatalpha ( talk) 22:35, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
How do i get an admin to help me with someone that is stopping me doing a rfc in error? The page in question is Talk:Dark Phoenix (film). There is a user that is stopping the rfc because they wrongly think that there has already been a rfc. ToeFungii ( talk) 01:09, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Was just coming here to say that although they've made the top of the rfc very confusing because they simply won't remove those confusing sentences but oh well. At first I thought they might have been a shill of some people from the prior discussion trying to stop the rfc but that doesn't seem to be the case now. thanks. ToeFungii ( talk) 01:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I thought I could add an edit about the headphones used by 3 of my friends in the music business. I have 4 patent numbers for my headphones. Is this what I need for verification? I also have many published articles in the music world about the headphones.I was unaware that I was violating rules about an edit. Should I be able to start a story about My Extreme Isolation headphones the invention of the first hearing protection headphones in the music industry? The headphones have been used for 20 years by hundreds of famous music icons. Please accept my apology for violating the rules and I hope to clear my name from any wrong doing. Sincerely, Studiodrummer ( talk) 01:47, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Should I be able to start a story about [...](emphasis added): Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such we do not have mere pages on subjects, but articles. We do not add anecdotal blurbs to Wikipedia. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I am having trouble moving User:Wendi Warren Binford to a separate article page. I was unable to move the page and change the User format to an Article format. Due to this, I tried to move the article back to my User page, but failed to do so. KGFerrer ( talk) 03:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Looking to find students from this grad class 76.108.42.75 ( talk) 03:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I know that there is a list of blacklisted spam sites at
MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist and a noticeboard to discuss if a particular website is reliable at
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard, but I want to know if there is a page where I can report unreliable sources to get them blacklisted (I found a discussion to get one such source blacklisted but the page where it is has been declared to be inactive). The sources I wish to report still haven’t been used on Wikipedia as far as I know, but since they are known for cherrypicking information to make certain political groups look bad, spreading fake news and so on in India, I thought it would be appropriate to report them before they get used on Wikipedia.
So, could someone point me in the right direction?
Regards,
RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (
talk) 06:41, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
If you are describing a historical figure's birthpace, do you put the name of the country/region at the time say Yugoslavia or the current name. say Croatia? Is there a wiki protocol for this? Random Tyke 09:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RandomTyke ( talk • contribs)
I am trying to edit an article so that certain sections of it show up underneath the link when google searching. How do I edit which sections come up? 80.4.51.93 ( talk) 09:47, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Why are there no entries when searching for 60 GHz?. There should be an entree because of the present controversy. Information about the following is hard to find, even in wikipedia: 1. the unregulated use of 60 GHz devices and their connection with 5G networks, 2. the 60 GHz connection to Oxygen when carried by blood cells, 3. the similarity of the symptoms of oxygen deprivation and Covid-19. 4. the banning of any discussion of this on social network platforms. I have up to now always used wikipedia as a place where I can trust the information. This is because many entries have a paragraph called "Controversies" that seem to make the entree honest and neutral. 194.230.155.123 ( talk) 10:20, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
My account is often autoblocked for reasons that my IP address was used by a blocked user for 'undisclosed paid editor'.
This happens always and sometimes twice a day.
Ugbedeg ( talk) 11:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
User blocked -
John Hampdens Regiment
What is the procedure to re-instate the Wiki-page ‘Battle of Chalgrove’? The title of this Wiki-page has been stolen/changed to ‘Battle of Chalgrove Field’ and contains serious breaches copyright. John Hampdens Regiment ( talk) 11:46, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Ian Thompson - it is accepted that you are correct and the map was uploaded to Wiki by me. You state that the ‘image to be used by anybody and for any purpose as long as they properly attribute it to you’. Where is that accreditation on the Battle of Chalgrove Field webpage? Your comments on the statements under would be appreciated and if you prefer Robinvp11’s interpretation of the Battle of Chalgrove to give the reason why. Where is Wikipedia’s Academic Excellence?
The Battle of Chalgrove was added to English Heritage Battlefield Register because the Chalgrove Battle Group’s interpretation undermined English Heritage’s main source of information. English Heritage had relied heavily on Oxoniensia Vol 38 pub 1973 ‘The Raid on Chinnor and the Fight at Chalgrove Field’ J. Stevenson & A. Carter which the Independent Review Panel who were convinced by the Group’s argument was utterly flawed. Robinvp11 interpretation mirrors that found in English Heritage’s Provisional Register which was dismissed by the Independent Review Panel.
Oxoniensia Vol 80 pub 2015 ‘The Military and Political Importance of the Battle of Chalgrove 1643’ Lester and Lester which academically and to the satisfaction of the peer reviewers totally refuted Stevenson and Carter’s interpretation of Chalgrove.
Robinvp11 relies heavily on Oxoniensia Vol 38 pub 1973 ‘The Raid on Chinnor and the Fight at Chalgrove Field’ J. Stevenson & A. Carter for his interpretation. Robinvp11 confuses, misquotes and is dismissive of statements made by Lester and Lester see his Ref (9) and page 34. The Chalgrove Battle Map is not referenced and is unattributed, it is the writer’s copyright and is found on page 36 of Oxoniensia Vol 80. Robinvp11 should read page 28 to get an understanding that George Nugent-Grenville’s (Lord Nugent) interpretation found in his book pub 1832 ‘Some Memorial’ is pathetically inane. Quote from vol II p431 has ‘He (Hampden) instantly mounted’ his horse to go and fight 2,000 Royalists leaving his regiment safely tucked up in their beds in Watlington. How else can it be explained that Hampden was at Chalgrove without his officers and regiment!? The Independent Review Panel thought this statement was hilarious and threw out English Heritage’s claims. Are Wikipedia’s founders horrified by the absurdity that is damaging its name for academic excellence being published on its website?
Sir Edward Hyde (Clarendon from 1661) was in Oxford with King Charles I on the day of Battle of Chalgrove. The senior parliamentarian officers captured from Chalgrove hours earlier were asked why they were fighting as troopers. Would Robinvp11 care to read what was recorded by Hyde and the King on the day!? A transcription of the original document is found on Battle of Chalgrove Wiki webpage.
Oxoniensia Vol 80 pub 2015 ‘The Military and Political Importance of the Battle of Chalgrove 1643’ Lester and Lester can be viewed in Flipbooks formation on the Battle of Chalgrove Wiki webpage or at www.johnhampdensregiment.org.uk. This website is linked to webpage Battle of Chalgrove and has copies of the contemporary documents written out in full so as to assist the reader.
It is the administrators’ duty to restore the Wiki webpage ‘Battle of Chalgrove’ as the definitive interpretation. Regards, Lester & Lester, a leading authority on the Battle of Chalgrove — Preceding
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the post immediately above was moved by me from the top of the section, to reduce confusion about the discussion sequence. Will add a note to the user's talk page, about replying below other posts --
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india is so diverse, and high population. how much population is enough to call it popular. As even if a single kannada newspaper cover only one major city like Bangalore in Karnataka. It will have readership of crores. But editor being from north india or english speaking may judge it not reliable.
Saamna newspaper by shiv sena and national herald by Indian national congress Saamna is popular then its own circulation, will it be considered as unbiased and reliable source citing ownership by a political party. Lokmat is only Marathi its demographics is limited to Marathi speaking population only. The hitwad i know is some of oldest newspaper but no popularity.
Some language like konkani, sindhi have very less speaking population, but a specific news paper have loyal readership in the language speaking population. Above all no single newspaper can represent entire nation in detail, hence the need for regional newspapers. So my question is how notability is really established, which news source can be considered reliable. I went through guidelines several times, but have hard time understanding then in context of my question above. Nealtylor ( talk) 13:54, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
(I copied the above message from my talk page Pratap Pandit ( talk) 13:06, 28 April 2020 (UTC))
I wrote an
edit notice, and I would like to put it all into a box. How is that possible? Thanks.
Shadowblade08 (
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I have two questions in general. The first: I created a page, Sebastian Deffner, it's already been reviewed and is in the article space, I was wondering why the page does not show up on google search (search engines in general) and if there was something I can do to make it happen.
The second question: does Wikipedia accept Linkedin as a source? Omar Almazruei ( talk) 14:16, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I have a personal picture of a notable person, I wanted to update the Wikipedia page with that picture how would I show the picture is mine and is not copyrighted? Csar00 ( talk) 14:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to insert an interlanguage link into the article
Blonded Radio but when I load the page, it comes up missing (see track 19, under "blonded Xmas", under "2019"). Can someone please fix this? Thanks in advance.
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it will display as
Troupeau Bleu (with a redlink, but a blue "fr" that links to the French article) as long as there isn't an English article, but if somebody writes one, it will automatically display as a normal wikilink to that and drop reference to the French one. --
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Good morning all. I would just like to inform you that I am looking for a contributor for my future article on WinDev (which you will find on Draft: WinDev). It's an IDE, a development language (wlanguage), and I don't think I can make a good enough article without someone's help. Draft:WinDev Yesicantexas ( talk) 12:11, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
"Bottom line: sending me porn won’t make me use your ###### platform."sort of sums up everything that's wrong about this subject.) Nick Moyes ( talk) 13:27, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Kevin Stephens
Hi,
I am trying to update an exisiting wikipedia page with updated information. However as this is my first time editing/uploading something on here. I have the article saved on my sandbox, if someone could reivew this and give me a few pointers as to how to go abut updating the exisiting page without causing any conflict with previous editors?
Thanks! S5omr ( talk) 09:57, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi 331dot,
Many thanks for your help here and your prompt responce! Due to the nature of Kevin's work, majority of independant reivews come in the form of comments on social media and inteviews. The current page on Kevin is not up to date, would you be able to advise the best way to update this without causing confilt with current/past authors? S5omr ( talk) 10:09, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
This has been very helpful and has made this sitation much clearer. In regard to removing his notable career, I was unaware of the policies in places (due to my own misconceptions about Wikipedia) - is there somewhere/someone I can apologise to for making such edits? S5omr ( talk) 10:20, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks for your very helpful input Gråbergs Gråa Sång. I will go back and collate any worthy references relating to Kevin's career and propose these as mentioned above. He does have a site but will be going live in the later part of this year (2020). You may find the site at stevothemadman.co.uk S5omr ( talk) 11:34, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
The website is still under construction, which may be why the certifiate has not been renewed since the 16/03/2020. If you click through (past the security message) you should be able to see a page with various pictures of Kevin as well as a text box to sign up for the newsletter. S5omr ( talk) 16:01, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, As mentioned yesterday, I had added citations and refferences to my addtions on Kevin Stephens. Is someone able to review the the updates I've made and advise accordingly? S5omr ( talk) 15:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
To whom it concerns,
I am contacting you to suggest updating the misleading page name for the "Aquaculture of coral" [ page].
The field of coral gardening and reef restoration has expanded to the point that it deserves a page separate from coral aquaculture and aquarium trade. Individuals interested in the research and applications of coral reef restoration should have a clearly named and dedicated Wikipedia page. As an expert in the field, it is disappointing to see a simple Google search of "coral restoration" or "coral gardening" fail to produce a Wikipedia page. I believe this is because of the poor title: "Aquaculture of coral". This is not what experts and practitioners call the discipline, unfortunately, so the general public will be unable to find the wealth of resources provide by the currently misnamed page.
I hope this helps! Please let me know your initial thoughts as well as any questions or concerns you may have- thank you!
Can you consider renaming the poorly titled "Aquaculture of corals" Wikipedia page to something more apt like "Coral reef restoration" or "Coral gardening"? 73.1.229.120 ( talk) 14:42, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy link: Draft:General James Primrose
Hi everyone. Having ploughed through all the Wikipedia help stuff I still can't make out the answer to the following simple question. My article is in draft,how do I now publish it, or submit it for publication? Help please CarolineFHarvey46 ( talk) 11:37, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
is ukwhoswho reliable source ? if yes, can somebody with access to uk library check date of birth for Cynthia Pine on doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u245351. reasons : [1] DOB parameter requires reference on wikidata [2] cite button of doi provides dob in title. [3] i searched everywhere but unable to find info. Leela52452 ( talk) 15:24, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
I asked a question last week about adding subtitles to Wikipedia pages and I was informed that it wasn't possible to add subtitles. However, there's a template ( template:Sous-titre/Taxon) on the French Wikipedia site that allows you to add subtitles (see Andrena accepta). I would like to add this template (or an equivalent template) to the English Wikipedia site so I can add scientific names as substitles on species pages. I'm very new to Wikipedia so I'd really appreciate some help with creating this template. I'm reviewing the Help:A quick guide to templates, Help:Templates and Help:Advanced templates pages but the process to duplicate/create templates is still confusing to me.
Thank you! Megan McAulay ( talk) 15:56, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
User blocked
Can you please greet me? I'm new and can you make Wikipedia kid-friendly? (delete bad words)
Robloxloverandminecraftlover (
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Can you make/find an article about userboxes please? I want to add them to my user page.
Robloxloverandminecraftlover (
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Robloxloverandminecraftlover (
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Hi. I just made an account, and even though I got an email confirmation, my username is in red and says it does not exist. I am confused about that since I was able to make a contribution to a talk page. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Battykin ( talk) 19:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC) Battykin ( talk) 19:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
So, I typed in UK, and it went to United Kingdom instead, with a message that said, “redirected from UK.” How is that possible? How does it do that? Anything helps. Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 19:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Ray G, Ykee Benda Ainebyonasamuel ( talk) 20:03, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I was surprised that Umera Ahmad, a Pakistani author, is a redlink, and am thinking of writing an article on her. Would these sources suffice to prove notability?
Thanks, M Imtiaz ( talk · contribs) 18:36, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
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Courtesy link: Draft:Favzon
SGofficial ( talk) 17:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: The draft has been speedily deleted per criterion G11. —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
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Just wondering, are there any tasks I can do on Wikipedia that are pretty easy to do that aren’t copyediting? I need something to do between copyediting drives;) Thanks in advance. Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 20:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you to both @ CaptainEek: and @ Rosguill: for your help! Now I have a lot of things I can do between copy editing blitzes and drives... Stay safe and well, -- Total Eclipse 2017 ( talk) ( Origin of the username) 20:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I've been passively working on a page for musician/producer Draft:Daniel Aged for the past few months and would love some help ensuring that the article is informative, notable, and up to Wikipedia's standards. I have, admittedly, been rather cavalier in my past attempts to submit (and then frequently resubmit my request) and don't want my inability to operate Wikipedia effectively to sabotage Aged's much-deserved and long overdue recognition as an artist.
I believe Aged's critically acclaimed work as a solo artist as well as his extensive career as a member of inc. no world and as a producer for the likes of Beyonce, FKA twigs, Frank Ocean, and countless others more than certify his notability as a musician.
I have a reworked draft of the page with specific quotes from outlets, added external sources, and more specific anecdotes about his work as a producer that I would love to run by a Wiki member. Please let me know if something can be arranged!
Thanks so much to everyone who has already devoted time to editing this draft—I really appreciate it :) ! Audreyne ( talk) 20:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
The poster said "games we;ve made" in their comment so obviously affiliated with company. diff.
I haven't run across this enough to know how to handle so maybe someone could help out. ToeFungii ( talk) 21:05, 28 April 2020 (UTC) ToeFungii ( talk) 21:05, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
That is my question, i tried to find info on this in the notability-article, but couldn't. Kind regards, -- Gyanda ( talk) 18:33, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Allexandra Senòrita Belcalis ( talk) 22:45, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello All,
Every time I have posted here I've been greeted with friendly responses and a lot of help, so I have one more favor to ask. After making advice on the article I'm writing, /info/en/?search=Draft:Mochii, I have made edits and feel confident that this should be published to the main namespace. However, I have a pretty big issue. 13 years ago {U|John Reaves} tried to publish a page to the namespace "Mochii" which was deleted as an advertisement for a California based yogurt retailer; my article is about an electron microscope. I am writing a completely separate article on a completely separate topic, but the page is protected because they didn't want another promotional yogurt article. Could someone please give me directions on where to proceed from here. I don't know if y'all have the power to unprotect the Mochii name space so I can push my article about the electron microscope to it. If not, I'm happy to follow whatever instructions y'all have for dealing with this somewhat quirky oddity. I understand that this is a weird situation, but I'm sure y'all will be able to help.
Thank you, Sachin Zachariah ( talk) 01:06, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Someone appears to have created an acct because of being unhappy with another editor. It's "IhateCharles" and look at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Iraqi_conflict_(2003%E2%80%93present)&action=history
and i'd guess they were/are using the ip address starting with 2601 but are rather unhappy with Charles Essie. How should it be handled as this is a new one for me. ToeFungii ( talk) 03:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC) ToeFungii ( talk) 03:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Greetings,
I have started watching the show Bigger (TV series) while in quarantine, which led me to look up the creator's info. I see that the producer Will Packer is cited but the creator and writer Felischa Marye is not. She is also cited on Wikipedia in the Netflix 13 reasons why series page.
I searched Wikipedia like it says to do on the community portal contributor videos and article links and I have found sources and article links. I am thinking about creating my first page but I am a little scared of my first work being rejected (as silly as that may sound). I was just wondering if you had any feedback for me.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
/info/en/?search=Bigger_(TV_series)
/info/en/?search=13_Reasons_Why
ArborChamp ( talk) 00:35, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
@Tenryuu Yes, there are a lot of articles and links to Ms. Marye's work online. ArborChamp ( talk) 01:43, 29 April 2020 (UTC) @Tenryuu If I create the draft in my userspace will I be able to forward it to an editor before publishing it to ensure that it meets all of the criteria? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArborChamp ( talk • contribs) 01:50, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
@GoingBatty: Thank you @Tenryuu: and thank you as well
How does the traditional tea house looks like! 20chseld416 ( talk) 01:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)