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Often when a link to an article is posted on the help desk I find that the same article is nominated for deletion shortly thereafter. This happens even when the article has survived on Wikipedia for many years without challenge, for example Lynn_Walsh, an article that has been around for eight years and has suddenly been nominated for deletion shortly after an editor posted about it here.
I am not sure about the causality in this particular case, however I wonder if there is something we should do to bring this general phenomenon to the attention of those who innocently ask questions here? Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:14, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Ottawahitech ( talk)
At the end of August 2015 the number of page views on another wiki help type board dropped from a daily average of over 600 to less than 200. I don’t know what happened there, but just wondering if this is at all connected to the same issues discussed here? 14:10, 12 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ottawahitech ( talk • contribs)
Should WP:Help desk/Are you in the right place have a link to WP:VP? Tevildo ( talk) 10:06, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
My semiautomated bot and I will be traveling for the next week or so with uncertain internet access, so the rest of you will likely have to add date headers manually and, if the desk gets too large, do some manual archiving. "We apologize for the inconvenience." — Steve Summit ( talk) 11:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
This is Jahangir here. I am Fan and Frequent Reader of Wikipedia.For most of my assignment, Notes, Exam Preparation i take help from here. I would like to suggest your group to kindly take notice of Wiki on Prophets, as they are Highly Respected by all the People of The Books, to Mention before every Prophet NAME: 'PROPHET' and AFTER NAME : 'PEACE BE UPON HIM'.
I would be grateful of you, for taking notice of my suggestion. Anticipating an Answer From You.
Sincerely Yours,
Jahangir Shaikh — Preceding
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Hello, Jahangir. You can find information related to this question at: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles#Islamic honorifics. Finnusertop ( talk | guestbook | contribs) 10:00, 15 November 2015 (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 have tried to reason with editors but to no avail i have used citable material which i was told i could use and when i use it the page is reverted i have left queations on the users pages and they have not replied,if you are willing to accept my sources as citable sources i will engage in a calm and collective manner Railsparks ( talk) 18:28, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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I made a page named Alaska Renee and it met the requirements. I forgot to add one more thing on it. Can I have what I wrote emailed to me and have the page put back up. thank you. AlaskaRenee ( talk) 01:33, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Many participants here are core editors, understand the problems faced at Wikipedia, know policy well, and much more. Well, these are just some of the considerations at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:
You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and maybe even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:15, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
The Mediawiki/Wikipedia login/authentication framework is changing, and scsbot is currently unable to log in. Until I can get this worked out, the Help Desk and Reference Desks won't be archived, and we're going to have to add the date headers by hand. I expect this will be resolved in a day or two; I hope we won't have to resort to manual archiving (which is a plain nuisance). — Steve Summit ( talk) 13:03, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Question moved to " Wikipedia:Help desk#David Cobb, Green Party". Murph9000 ( talk) 08:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Question moved to " Wikipedia:Help desk#My page". -- ChamithN (talk) 17:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
I am once again traveling, with sporadic Internet connectivity, so archiving may be intermittent for the next 3-5 days. Feel free to add date headers if you see them missing. I doubt anything will get so overloaded that manual archiving will be necessary. — Steve Summit ( talk) 03:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
When I help out here, it is usually only because I'm already on the page, waiting for the answer to a question I asked. Finding where one can help is cumbersome: I have to read through many questions that have already been sufficiently answered. I wonder if there might be a way to have a filtered view for helpers that excludes at least some of these. For me, the ideal list of sections to exclude would be:
I would come here more often just to help out if I could have just a link for "HD for helpers" that provided just such a filtered view. — Sebastian 17:19, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
We have a large amount of new editor at Help talk:Getting started lately because of a recent redirect. Could we get more watchers over there pls. -- Moxy ( talk) 19:38, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
I've just posted information about an upcoming change for editors who have the visual editor enabled. The information is at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 52#Single edit tab. If you currently have two edit tabs (Edit/Edit source), then this will give you the options of having only one Edit button, if you prefer that.
This change is likely to happen in mid-to-late April, and it's likely to result in a few editors coming to this page to ask what happened to their second edit tab/how to find the other editing environment. Please read that information, and share it with other editors. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:37, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
It is not infrequent for us at the English Wikipedia Help Desk to get questions that are about non-English Wikipedias, and which often are questions that can be answered at a Help Desk. My question is: Would it be a useful project to develop a list of wikilinks to the Help Desks for as many as possible of the Wikipedias in various languages? Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
We often see questions about maintenance template removal – people not knowing they are not automatically removed and related issues. I've proposed a new process to address this. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Implementing Help:Maintenance template removal.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:28, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
How can I apply for a position with Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenyflores ( talk • contribs) 14:35, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
I started lurking around and answering a few questions. To my surprise, I see that help desk volunteers rarely ping the questioner.
I always do that (unless I have reason to suspect the user is a relatively seasoned editor) because I assume newbies do not know about watchlists etc. yet, but I wonder if there is a rule or tradition to not do so. I could not find anything in the archives here or at Wikipedia:Help_desk/How_to_answer.
Hence I ask the following question to the veteran of the HD: is it against etiquette, or are there any reasons to avoid, pinging by default any registered user asking a question (I guess "do not ping the regulars" applies though)?
I intentionally exclude IPs because while an account identifies a person or a group of persons, an IP identifies at best a computer. Pinging an IP could thus leak information to another person using the same computer (the Special/contribs page can reveal it, but many more people will notice the ping notification - I would argue most people do not even know their IP address nor how to retrieve it) so it comes with a whole other pack of problems. Tigraan Click here to contact me 16:10, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
OK, I went back on the HD page to do a rough tally of who pings and who does not and I see that the July 1st/2nd have a low proportion of pinging compared to usual. If pinging is agreed to be a good thing, maybe we could add a note at Wikipedia:Help_desk/How_to_answer#Formatting.2Fediting? Tigraan Click here to contact me 16:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Template:Creation and many other similar templates have been nominated for merging with various subtemplates of Template:HD. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the Templates for discussion page. Pppery ( talk) 15:36, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
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I tried to contribute this edit to the Robin Sherwood page but did not reference it correctly. I then tried to remove it but it still needs to be edited back in. Would you please add this as the very last paragraph and sentence? The new paragraph and sentence to be edited in is below:
Robin Sherwood made her first personal appearance at The Lincoln Center for the opening night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Film Comment Selects 2015 film festival at the Walter Reade Theater."
That would make it the very last paragraph after the present last paragraph which is:
Robin returned to acting in 2009. In 2014, she stars in the feature-length documentary, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014). The documentary is directed by Mark Hartley and was produced by Brett Ratner.
I referenced The Lincoln Center's website, https://www.filmlinc.org/films/electric-boogaloo-the-wild-untold-story-of-cannon-films/, however and I did not enter it properly.
Thank-you so much for your help. Inspiring Dreams Inspiring Dreams ( talk) 01:32, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi,
Please can we update the Fruit Shoot information on the site as a lot of this information is out of date and incorrect?
Below is the correct information:
Robinsons Fruit Shoot is a refreshing drinks brand with a fruity flavour, designed especially for kids, made with real juice and no added sugar, artificial colours or flavours. Fruit Shoot is a leading global kids brand produced by Britvit PLC since 2000 in a re-sealable colourful sports cap bottle and offers a range of product options such as Fruit Shoot No Added Sugar, Fruit Shoot Hydro and Fruit Shoot My5, to fit current kids’ balanced diet and nutrition.
Fruit Shoot No Added Sugar is made using real fruit juice and water and it is a low calorie drink with added multivitamins and minerals to help keep kids refreshed. It offers a variety of tasty flavours such as: Apple and Blackcurrant, Orange, Summer Fruits, Peach and Mango, Tropical flavour, Apple.
Fruit Shoot Hydro is sugar free refreshing flavoured water made from spring water with no artificial colours or flavours. Hydro offers a variety of flavours such as Apple and Raspberry, Blackcurrant, Orange and Pineapple.
Fruit Shoot My-5 is a school approved fruit juice drink designed to give kids 1 of their 5 a day of fruit. My-5 is packed with real fruit juice and contains no artificial colours, no flavourings, no sweeteners and no preservatives.
Fruit Shoot has made it its mission to inspire and encourage kids’ adventurous side. As kids love outdoor adventure and challenges, the brand has teamed up with the world’s greatest obstacle event, Tough Mudder to create Fruit Shoot Mini Mudder, a 10 obstacles 1 mile course, making it the ultimate kids obstacle adventure.
Today Fruit Shoot can be found in supermarkets and retail shops in more than 25 countries
195.99.180.72 (
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Can the Skip_to_bottom to changed to skip_to_toc on the helpdesk page? Thanks in advance. Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:05, 19 August 2016 (UTC)please ping me
Is the Help Desk now the "I can't make this minor edit that Wikipedia can live without for a few hours, so please make it for me Desk"? I'm referring to Srbernadette, of course. Specifically this request. I don't mind helping people who genuinely need it but I don't see why we need to perform our own edits and Srbernadette's as well. † Dismas†| (talk) 11:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
{{ vanish}} is being merged into {{ HD/vanish}} per this discussion. This notice is to start a discussion about the final product and text. Primefac ( talk) 04:29, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Now that we have the Article Wizard and the Draft space, I do not think we should be even suggesting to new users the possibility of creating an article in mainspace. I would like to edit {{ HD/new}} to remove steps 6 and 7 and bring the Article Wizard into the list rather than having it as a sort floating alternative in the rubric. (This would match the changes I made to WP:YFA a few months ago, though there I mentioned creating in mainspace as a possibility, but recommended not to use it unless you were very sure you could create a good article in one go). [I posted essentially this message on the template talk page, but Pppery suggested that it would be better discussed here]. -- ColinFine ( talk) 21:15, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
The following HD-related templates have been proposed for deletion at TfD:
There is also a proposed merger of Template:HD/GKG, Template:HD/YKG and Template:HD/Bing. – Uanfala ( talk) 16:08, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Did you notice the continuous offensive vandalism on Alicia Vikander's page? They keep editing her personal life details claiming she's been sleeping with several men, that she's bisexual (??? she's NEVER said so!) and she's not really with fassbender, only to diffamate her while they're relationship has been and keep being confirmed by the two actors.We know who hides behind these posts. They are few people running hate blogs against actors on the net, they are internet trolls pretty jealous of Vikander and so they find amusement in creating lies. Can you please do something not to make it happen again? What I read this morning was incredibly offensive. Her partner is Michael fassbender , met on the set of The Light Between Oceans and they've been dating since autumn 2014 ( http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/alicia-vikander-michael-fassbender-and-i-have-never-hidden-the-fact-we-re-a-couple-a3353831.html - http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/michael-fassbender-home-support-takes-my-breath-away-424782.html - http://www.vogue.com/13374233/alicia-vikander-january-2016-cover/ - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUetP9sHT8 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXaXBJRhqA )
and she's never admitted that "she had sex relationships with other men" during the years nor that she's bisexual (which wouldn't be a problem but it's not true). Please, protect her personal details, its awful and offensive. Also, in the main part of the bio, there are many inaccurancies, fake accusations and offensive sentences towards here, clearly written by someone who hates Vikander and changed her page to make her look an unpleasant person. I've re-edited it but vandals may change it again as they apparently did and keep doing several times.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrea Jones ( talk • contribs) 08:29, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Like Brian Lara from English wiki and the same person's article ब्रायन लारा from Nepali wiki to be interconnected. Anyone?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thapa Kazi999 ( talk • contribs) 07:27, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
i was publish 3 Article in wikipedia about 3 famous Actress in Bangladesh. they told me to publish it. and provide me all information about them. but after i done every things with in 10 days all was deleted because i didn.t donte the money for wikipedia. Guys don't write anything in wikipedia for waisting yout time. for creat one article take my 1 week time. shit and fuck off wikipedia. Badol1234 ( talk) 18:35, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Please help me get this added it's becoming very big Brian gage ( talk) 18:39, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
I have to upload pictures (official logo and poster) of an art event but they do not have copyright. Which are the practical steps to follow? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Art.contributor ( talk • contribs) 09:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
I need to upload logos (and other kind of pictures) related to an art event. How can I prove their free licence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Art.contributor ( talk • contribs) 03:32, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
[[File:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]
to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing File name.jpg
with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text
with a short description of the image. See our
picture tutorial for more information. I hope this helps.
Ppp
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03:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC)The default image size set in preferences does not seem to be working today, anyone else notice? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 20:19, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Madhu Singhal is blind by birth and she is extremely determined, confident and talented. She has won National award. I wrote this article depending on personal interview with her. I am fine to submit all documents supporting the information provided. But providing links are not possible cause people failed to notice such a great personality. Please suggest. Sudipa Biswas ( talk) 20:01, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
I just noticed
this page uses first-level = Headings =
(<h1>...</h1>
) for the date, which are also used for the name of the page. Isn’t this invalid HTML and semantically bad besides? —
67.14.236.50 (
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04:19, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Why can certain pages not be updated? Who is the person that is able to update these pages and why? Hooof ( talk) 10:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Protected pages can only be edited by admins, to prevent vandalism, etc. PS, this is the talk page for the help desk. Post questions like this to the help desk, not the talk page. Benjamin ( talk) 10:21, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Yes, this is a legitimate question and is a continuation of this thread from the last August.
My view of the help desk is a place for new editors to learn the ropes or for experienced editors to get a quick answer to a question that isn't readily apparent through normal searching. My number one expectation, however, is that both of these types learn and use that knowledge in the future. Not repeatedly asking the same questions over and over again with a type of stubborn refusal to learn that raises such issues that would be "removable" offenses in some other parts of the encyclopedia. Is this the view of others as well? If not, what do you see the help desk as? Where should the line be drawn (if it should be drawn at all)? -- Majora ( talk) 01:20, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
"So click edit and delete it yourself. You added it, you can remove it.". I think that's a very sensible guidance. I don't find any pointiness in this statement. It's just a statement of fact. If you feel this statement is bitey in nature, I think that's a simple of difference of opinion you have, which is okay. Lourdes 07:58, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
I made one of the aforementioned "disparaging" replies to the user on the "Prince Christian of Denmark" request. Now don't get me wrong, I'd rather the editor come to the help desk than leave it and hope that someone else fixes it. Nonetheless, can't we create a discussion with the user or give them a quick tutorial on how to fix the issues which they continually ask about? If this is not possible, then I guess it's best that they continue to ask here. The user has been contacted on their talk page and tagged in questions on the help desk, with no replies to my knowledge. What other methods can we try? Jjamesryan ( talk | contribs) 23:29, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
On article Foo, the first sentence lacks a capitalization, could you fix it?. You can either:
On the right of your keyboard is located a "mouse" with which you can click. Use this to (left-)click on "edit", then...
I’ve only briefly skimmed some of the discussion here, but I have to ask: How much of an obligation is a good-faith editor under? In my understanding, a WP:VOLUNTEER is under no obligation except to continue to act in good faith—even if that editor has no desire and/or ability to perform seemingly trivial edits directly, so long as the user doesn’t make a mess of things through gross negligence. The user in question here seems to have done nothing but add and correct links, asking more capable Wikipedians here to do anything else that needs doing. It sounds like some would prefer to chase away such casual editors, or make it a bannable offense to try to help improve things without getting more directly involved.. — 67.14.236.50 ( talk) 03:36, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Was the addition of a "tip of the day" to the top of the Help Desk discussed anywhere? I can't find anything on this Talk page. Rojomoke ( talk) 10:34, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey all,
I'm looking into doing some research about the things that users seek out help for. If noone has any objections I'd like to add a brief survey to this page to collect some anonymous data about what people are looking for and how we can help them better. I'd like to add this in the next week or so. Ping me if anyone has any issues with this. Seddon (WMF) ( talk) 22:58, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a big Skip to bottom link (top right) as used on reference desk pages? — 107.15.152.93 ( talk) 08:51, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Actually I have been told that the article already proves notoriety and just needs birthdate and info box orangemike. Your comment didn't answer my question and clearly you didn't look at the comments from reviewers or the history of this article. Parplaywright ( talk) 02:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Note content copied to project page. Eagleash ( talk) 02:45, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
There should be guidelines to prevent "real" pages from being randomly deleted. Too many people create fake profiles just to cause havok to others.
Musicprogirl1 ( talk) 19:24, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Note Editor has made multiple posts at help desk. Eagleash ( talk) 19:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
I've been searching for help on how to upload a page and it tells me to do research but I don't know how to upload one. Can someone help me? And I'm on my mobile device (phone) so is that a problem? Dinah Kirkland ( talk) 19:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Note Copied to help desk project page. Eagleash ( talk) 19:46, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. How to insert an image is one of the frequently-asked questions on the Help Desk, but there is no canned answer to that, so I just went ahead created {{
subst:HD/image}}
. I will post this notice both at the Help Desk where people may want to discuss whether it is useful, and at copyright-savy places to make sure it is correct (I believe it to be, but better safe than sorry). Feel free to tweak the template to improve it, of course.
Tigraan
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{{
UPIMG}}
is one of the templates listed at {{
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. (It doesn't have a great name, which is maybe why you didn't notice it.) Best regards--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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{{
HD}}
?
Tigraan
Click here to contact me
15:10, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Please how do I stop a page I created from being deleted? Adewukehinloni ( talk) 23:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
In the ongoing effort to improve the discoverability of all the world's knowledge, the Discovery team is proposing an enhancement to the search results page on Wikipedia ( Special:Search). The goal of this feature is to display related content for each individual search result returned from query, so that even when the search result itself isn't maybe entirely useful, perhaps its related content would be. We would like your early feedback on this new feature—more information can be found on MediaWiki about the explore similar functionality and testing can be done in your own browser, using step by step self-guided testing instructions. Cheers, DTankersley (WMF) ( talk) 21:01, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
My article was proposed for deletion but I have fixed it up with references and links but the user who proposed deletion redirected it to someonelse and that someonelse isn't responding right now so how do I go about getting rid of whatever tags that have been placed and making my article public. Thanks Wikipagecreator10 ( talk) 12:19, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry i thought this was where I was meant to post it. Thank you though — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipagecreator10 ( talk • contribs) 12:38, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello folks,
As some of you may already know (as I spammed wrote multiple times at
WT:TH) I have coded a bot that notifies thread posters when their thread gets archived
(example diff of a notification). The bot is still in trial at the Teahouse, though I have reasonable hopes it will get approved.
It would be fairly easy to fork it and have a sibling-bot at the Help Desk, where there is also a stream of newbies that may not know what archival is. The bot can easily be modified to check whether a user has more than X edits or has advanced userrights before posting to their talk page (in the spirit of WP:DTTR).
So, what do you think of it? (If you support the idea, please also say what criterion you would use to only notify "newbies", if any - it is probably unreasonable to notify each and every poster.) Tigraan Click here to contact me 23:29, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
How do I delete a personal wiki page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.136.97.72 ( talk) 17:30, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
The template Template:HD/facebook, links to the FB page "Community pages and profile connections" on their Help Center; however, this link seems to be the main page of the help center - could someone see if they could find the right link and add it to the template? Thanks. Seagull123 Φ 18:10, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
I have created {{ Steps to Article}}, a templated version of a post I have made in several variations to users here asking how to create a new article. The template parameters allow it to be tailored to the inquiry to some extent. Please take a look at it, and let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. Please feel free to use this if in your view it is helpful.
I have also created two redircts to this:
There is some discussion of possible added/altered features at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse#New advice template available. If people comment there it will avoid fragmenting the discussion. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 17:05, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
I have modified this template slightly, so that if used on the help desk, it does not link to the help desk, and if used on the Teahouse, it does not link to the Teahouse. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 00:22, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
I was making improvements to Wikipedia:Help desk/Are you in the right place after seeing several people's answers on the Help Desk about where to go. This page had two talk pages listed for copyright problems but not Commons:Village pump/Copyright, which User:Seagull123 sent several people to in response to Help Desk questions. I added the link but it looks kind of strange right now.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:20, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
This new subpage shows the contrast-against-white ratio for all 148 CSS colors, in descending sequence, dividing the colors into "recommended" and "not recommended" groups. By reducing the learning and effort required, the subpage aims to facilitate compliance with the signature appearance policy at WP:SIGAPP. It has been linked from SIGAPP and from WP:SIGTUT. Because the information applies to all uses of text on a white background, not only signatures, it is a subpage of WP:Manual of Style/Accessibility and has also been linked from WP:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color (WP:COLOR). Thank you. ― Mandruss ☎ 16:30, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
A recent Help Desk question was a complaint about the content of an article. I don't know whether that is significant enough for its own category on Wikipedia:Help desk/Are you in the right place. I'm hoping it is found in a Frequently Asked Questions list. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:14, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Basically, Gerda Arendt appears to have given me some kind of award three years ago on my user page:
However, I want to have this award be put on the left side of my user page and I have no idea how to do this. Indeed, can someone please help me in regards to this? Futurist110 ( talk) 01:55, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I use monobook, and problems have emerged. Yesterday or so there are now gaps between items, and the two alert buttons have disappeared leaving a gap (I can still click on the space where they were and they will appear, but are not listed anymore). Just a few minutes ago the top line (user name, alert buttons, talk, sandbox, etc.) has become very small. It was normal size a few minutes ago, now is tiny. Please wave the magic tech wand and bring Monobox back to normal, thanks! Randy Kryn ( talk) 15:42, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributors' Barnstar | |
Hola Help Desk Team. Thanks so much for helping me each time in the past when I have posted queries here. This forum is perhaps the most amazing place on Wikipedia given the effort you all are taking. One reason I have continued on Wikipedia is because of the wonderful support given by you all. I am sure that must be the same case with other new editors who have been patiently guided by you all. You all are my tireless contributors. Lourdes 07:05, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
/info/en/?search=Gaurav_Kotli ThakurSaabji ( talk) 09:59, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Note Content copied to project page. Eagleash ( talk) 10:00, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks to all the editors here who answers the same stupid questions over and over: I only do so occasionally because I'm afraid I'll get too terse and snippy. I notice a bit of combat fatigue sometimes sets in even for our more patient editors.
To avoid this, I think we need a set of preformed, easy-to-use answers, possibly in the form of templates. With those, we can afford to create polite helpful, and friendly answers and use them even when the same stupid question recurs for the tenth time in a single day. Has this been done? If not, is it a good idea? What canned answers do we need? In most (all?) cases these answere are just a more polite way of directing the user to the appropriate WP policy pages.
Here as the ones I see often:
Please feel free to add to this list and/or suggest changes to the text, or comment if this whole thing is a bad idea. - Arch dude ( talk) 16:44, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
How do i get my content back from speedy deletion
Note: Copied to project page. Eagleash ( talk) 23:32, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
When I had slow internet, I had to start reading the shorter archive pages rather than the main page. I just kept doing this even after my speed got upgraded. At the top of each day's archive page, there is supposed to be a link to the next day's page. I have manually fixed the pages but this should be working automatically.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:56, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
#ifexist:
to link to the next day if the archive exists, and to the current help desk otherwise. Wikipedia pages are cached for performance reasons so an archive page may have been cached before the next day existed and continue to link the current help desk for a while. You can fix it by
purging the page when the next day exists. You can check the ifexist code works by viewing the version before
this edit. Maybe we should always link the next day to avoid the issue (it will make the link misleading red when the page was cached before the next day existed). Then we could link to the current help desk in addition if ifexist at evaluation time said the next day didn't exist.
PrimeHunter (
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Now and then I see a very specialized question coming across the Help Desk or the Teahouse (for the latest example, see Wikipedia:Teahouse#WikEd_blocks_the_keyboard_shortcuts_on_Google_Chrome_and_Firefox.). Those questions are fair game for the HD/TH, but they often go unanswered. Common offenders are technical questions (to redirect to WP:VPT) and nontrivial copyright questions (to redirect to WP:CQ).
I suspect the reason is that the regulars seeing them recognize them as fair game (and hence do not tell the asker to go somewhere else, unlike RefDesk questions or ANI-complaint-like questions) but do not know how to answer them (and hence do not answer, expecting someone with more knowledge of the topic to answer). That result is IMO worse than "go see at [more relevant place]". I mean, we try to field all intelligible and relevant questions to the best of our ability, and the current result for those is not what I would call the best of our ability.
Shouldn't we try to answer these with some variant of "you were 100% right to ask this here, and maybe you will get an answer, but you would probably get a faster/better answer at place X"? I think it would not hurt to have a carefully-worded canned reply to this effect; it would be easy enough to create a subtemplate of {{
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I believe I have found material that is not in line with terms of use policy. I’m not aware of the correct process to change or remove content that is not in scope of what is appropriate for this site.
Please look at the Federal section for the material in question
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_Canada
Thank you Cnethers ( talk) 16:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Is there some standard forum for reporting bugs with the Wikipedia software itself? Specifically, I'm looking for a place to report the bug described at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Typography#Apparent_bug_in_rendering_\operatorname* -- The Anome ( talk) 19:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
What are the differences between copyrighted and public domain images? Are public domain pictures still copyrighted? PhinbellaMedia ( talk) 14:02, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
So I have a question. Does free images from another websites can be uploaded on Wikipedia? Many images are taken using a camera and uploaded on another website by others. I know it is not copyrighted, but I'm not sure if it's acceptable here on Wikipedia or not. PhinbellaMedia ( talk) 12:52, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
This section of the help template {{
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Helo Sir / Madam
The article posted on the wikipedia is obviously wrong, the world most oldest language is tamil, before i jave used to check in wikipedia it were tamil, im not sure howlong it would have been, but now im so shocked that it turn to sanskrit, How could it be happen? Is wikipedia allows to make record whatever we narrate as our wish / editing pages just like what I have did just now..? So dissappointed, truth has to be truth, i have read a lot about tamil in the articles and it was the oldest language in the world.hope you may check with that.Thanks Jeffreyfernaz ( talk) 22:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
sorry for that because I don't edit that someone one go to my Wikipedia page and do that. Alimranft01 ( talk) 18:30, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of users try to submit new articles on the help desk. Might it be helpful to add an edit notice or similar template saying that this is not the place to do so? — pythoncoder ( talk | contribs) 21:27, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone help me I feel like im losing my mind, haha. I was editing the page of Hugo Grenier and the doubles finals he’s won appear on the preview and can be edited but then they seem to have disappeared now the page is saved. Have I done something silly? Hildreth gazzard ( talk) 20:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
I already mentioned it before, but it did not receive many replies, and the bot is now up and running.
I operate on the Wikipedia:Teahouse a bot ( User:Muninnbot) that notifies users when their thread gets archived. The idea is that newbies might not be familiar with the archival process and could think that their post was ignored / disappeared with no explanation; such a notification explains what is going on and links to the correct archive. The notification looks like this.
I believe it could be useful to run the bot on the Help Desk as well, since we have a fair share of newbies. We can set it to only notify people with less than X edits / Y days since account creation or who are not autoconfirmed, in order not to spam long-term users who know about archival.
Please share your thoughts, whether you think that is the best idea ever, or that it's a waste of resource spambot. Tigraan Click here to contact me 12:02, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Help:Help desk/New message link, a subpage of a redirect to Wikipedia:Help desk, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Help:Help desk/New message link and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Help:Help desk/New message link during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 19:12, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
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Is Jorginho a good signing aye or nah? Tombo Elbo ( talk) 16:45, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
I think nah Tombo Elbo ( talk) 16:45, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
According to a fellow editor, one non-English name is sufficient in each language. However I think the second alternative name is also worth mentioning. Is there any restriction that suggests to choose a single name? 123Steller ( talk) 12:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I’d like to request an edit for the page for Emma Swan, character from Once Upon a Time. Her daughter’s name is Hope Swan-Jones (as seen on the pages for other Once Upon a Time characters). Someone changed it to Hope Swan-Mills. I can’t edit it because the page is locked, and i’m a new reviewer. I also believe the person who vandalized the page removed a great deal of the description section that discussed her relationship with her husband, Killian Jones (aka Captain Hook). Is there a way to restore that portion of the description? Thanks! Asinoski9595 ( talk) 17:24, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Note: The above copied to the project page. Eagleash ( talk) 17:38, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
So i tried to leave a question on the page and i realized visual editor was not available. i think visual editor should be made available for those who prefer it . TereseB —Preceding undated comment added 19:49, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, dear all. I'm currently writing an article on the artist George Pusenkoff. In 1995 he had a copyright dispute with the photographer Helmut Newton, which Pusenkoff won. For my german article in which i refer to this lawsuit i found two kind wikipedians, who knew all about rightholderissues and could proofread my passage on this subject, whether i explained everything not only in "normal language", but also did use the "legal terms" correctly. I would be glad if i could find someone here, who is able to do the same for the english legal terms, once i've translated it. Kind regards, -- Gyanda ( talk) 18:19, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello anyone. A few minutes ago I was adding a response to a query about an allegedly incorrect photo in an article. At first I got an edit conflict, on my second attempt the entire Help Desk seems to have lost all content between 14 September and today, leaving only a subsequent query concerning the title "Esquire" visible, which seems to have error notices on it which I don't understand – possibly this query has somehow caused a problem. I tried reverting my own last edit but this hasn't worked – can someone with more Wiki-fu please try to sort out the problem? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.208.172.36 ( talk) 06:58, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Not that it's earth-shatteringly important, but at the bottom of the Help desk Project page is a box showing that the page is in two categories, to wit: "Categories: Wikipedia help forums | Wikipedians in Hong Kong" Is there a good reason for the latter? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.221.81.75 ( talk) 10:37, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
ANI thread currently open about Srbernadette, one of the help desk's regular question askers. See also previous context at Wikipedia_talk:Help_desk/Archive_12#What_is_the_Help_Desk?. Tigraan Click here to contact me 13:21, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
I just want to open it Awubakkar ( talk) 22:57, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
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I want to edit my user name. It is National CSR Netwoork at the moment, it should be National CSR Network. How can i edit it as i am unable to edit it? National CSR Netwoork ( talk) 09:07, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello - on the Dallas Symphony's Wikipedia page, the box on the right says "Principal Conductor (vacant)". I'm asking if someone can change the title to be "Music Director" and change "vacant" to be "Fabio Luisi". We are seeing this box populate on Google, and its info is in error. Thank you! 12.14.8.195 ( talk) 14:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
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Please add a new section, "Diacritic".
There's something wrong with the third paragraph of the Diacritic article, and it was wrong before I fixed a typo. Here's the code:
In other alphabetic systems, diacritical marks may perform other functions. Vowel pointing systems, namely the Arabic harakat ( ـِ ,ـُ ,ـَ, etc.) and the Hebrew niqqud ( ַ◌, ֶ◌, ִ◌, ֹ◌, ֻ◌, etc.) systems, indicate vowels that are not conveyed by the basic alphabet. The Indic virama ( ् etc.) and the Arabic sukūn ( ـْـ ) mark the absence of vowels. Cantillation marks indicate prosody. Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo stroke ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals. In the Hanyu Pinyin official romanization system for Chinese, diacritics are used to mark the tones of the syllables in which the marked vowels occur.
If you change the width of your screen, the word layout changes, and some of the text becomes right-to-left highlightable. On my screen at normal zoom, the second line begins with the last niqqud, a parenthesis, and "mark the absence of vowels." The third line begins with an Arabic character, a parenthesis, and ", which, respectively," The fourth line begins "letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals" and there is no left parenthesis. The fifth line consists of "vowels occur." If you click on "Other uses include..." and try to highlight text farther left, some words get highlighted and others don't. And some of the text reads like this: "mark the absence of vowels. Cantillation marks indicate prosody. systems, indicate vowels that are not conveyed by the basic alphabet...Greek diacritical marks, which showed that Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo stroke ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( letters of the alphabet I don't know how to fix it. Can someone help? 208.95.51.53 ( talk) 15:47, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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Often when a link to an article is posted on the help desk I find that the same article is nominated for deletion shortly thereafter. This happens even when the article has survived on Wikipedia for many years without challenge, for example Lynn_Walsh, an article that has been around for eight years and has suddenly been nominated for deletion shortly after an editor posted about it here.
I am not sure about the causality in this particular case, however I wonder if there is something we should do to bring this general phenomenon to the attention of those who innocently ask questions here? Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:14, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
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At the end of August 2015 the number of page views on another wiki help type board dropped from a daily average of over 600 to less than 200. I don’t know what happened there, but just wondering if this is at all connected to the same issues discussed here? 14:10, 12 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ottawahitech ( talk • contribs)
Should WP:Help desk/Are you in the right place have a link to WP:VP? Tevildo ( talk) 10:06, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
My semiautomated bot and I will be traveling for the next week or so with uncertain internet access, so the rest of you will likely have to add date headers manually and, if the desk gets too large, do some manual archiving. "We apologize for the inconvenience." — Steve Summit ( talk) 11:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
This is Jahangir here. I am Fan and Frequent Reader of Wikipedia.For most of my assignment, Notes, Exam Preparation i take help from here. I would like to suggest your group to kindly take notice of Wiki on Prophets, as they are Highly Respected by all the People of The Books, to Mention before every Prophet NAME: 'PROPHET' and AFTER NAME : 'PEACE BE UPON HIM'.
I would be grateful of you, for taking notice of my suggestion. Anticipating an Answer From You.
Sincerely Yours,
Jahangir Shaikh — Preceding
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Hello, Jahangir. You can find information related to this question at: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles#Islamic honorifics. Finnusertop ( talk | guestbook | contribs) 10:00, 15 November 2015 (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 have tried to reason with editors but to no avail i have used citable material which i was told i could use and when i use it the page is reverted i have left queations on the users pages and they have not replied,if you are willing to accept my sources as citable sources i will engage in a calm and collective manner Railsparks ( talk) 18:28, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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I made a page named Alaska Renee and it met the requirements. I forgot to add one more thing on it. Can I have what I wrote emailed to me and have the page put back up. thank you. AlaskaRenee ( talk) 01:33, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Many participants here are core editors, understand the problems faced at Wikipedia, know policy well, and much more. Well, these are just some of the considerations at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:
You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and maybe even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:15, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
The Mediawiki/Wikipedia login/authentication framework is changing, and scsbot is currently unable to log in. Until I can get this worked out, the Help Desk and Reference Desks won't be archived, and we're going to have to add the date headers by hand. I expect this will be resolved in a day or two; I hope we won't have to resort to manual archiving (which is a plain nuisance). — Steve Summit ( talk) 13:03, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Question moved to " Wikipedia:Help desk#David Cobb, Green Party". Murph9000 ( talk) 08:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Question moved to " Wikipedia:Help desk#My page". -- ChamithN (talk) 17:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
I am once again traveling, with sporadic Internet connectivity, so archiving may be intermittent for the next 3-5 days. Feel free to add date headers if you see them missing. I doubt anything will get so overloaded that manual archiving will be necessary. — Steve Summit ( talk) 03:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
When I help out here, it is usually only because I'm already on the page, waiting for the answer to a question I asked. Finding where one can help is cumbersome: I have to read through many questions that have already been sufficiently answered. I wonder if there might be a way to have a filtered view for helpers that excludes at least some of these. For me, the ideal list of sections to exclude would be:
I would come here more often just to help out if I could have just a link for "HD for helpers" that provided just such a filtered view. — Sebastian 17:19, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
We have a large amount of new editor at Help talk:Getting started lately because of a recent redirect. Could we get more watchers over there pls. -- Moxy ( talk) 19:38, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
I've just posted information about an upcoming change for editors who have the visual editor enabled. The information is at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 52#Single edit tab. If you currently have two edit tabs (Edit/Edit source), then this will give you the options of having only one Edit button, if you prefer that.
This change is likely to happen in mid-to-late April, and it's likely to result in a few editors coming to this page to ask what happened to their second edit tab/how to find the other editing environment. Please read that information, and share it with other editors. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:37, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
It is not infrequent for us at the English Wikipedia Help Desk to get questions that are about non-English Wikipedias, and which often are questions that can be answered at a Help Desk. My question is: Would it be a useful project to develop a list of wikilinks to the Help Desks for as many as possible of the Wikipedias in various languages? Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
We often see questions about maintenance template removal – people not knowing they are not automatically removed and related issues. I've proposed a new process to address this. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Implementing Help:Maintenance template removal.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:28, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
How can I apply for a position with Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenyflores ( talk • contribs) 14:35, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
I started lurking around and answering a few questions. To my surprise, I see that help desk volunteers rarely ping the questioner.
I always do that (unless I have reason to suspect the user is a relatively seasoned editor) because I assume newbies do not know about watchlists etc. yet, but I wonder if there is a rule or tradition to not do so. I could not find anything in the archives here or at Wikipedia:Help_desk/How_to_answer.
Hence I ask the following question to the veteran of the HD: is it against etiquette, or are there any reasons to avoid, pinging by default any registered user asking a question (I guess "do not ping the regulars" applies though)?
I intentionally exclude IPs because while an account identifies a person or a group of persons, an IP identifies at best a computer. Pinging an IP could thus leak information to another person using the same computer (the Special/contribs page can reveal it, but many more people will notice the ping notification - I would argue most people do not even know their IP address nor how to retrieve it) so it comes with a whole other pack of problems. Tigraan Click here to contact me 16:10, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
OK, I went back on the HD page to do a rough tally of who pings and who does not and I see that the July 1st/2nd have a low proportion of pinging compared to usual. If pinging is agreed to be a good thing, maybe we could add a note at Wikipedia:Help_desk/How_to_answer#Formatting.2Fediting? Tigraan Click here to contact me 16:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Template:Creation and many other similar templates have been nominated for merging with various subtemplates of Template:HD. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the Templates for discussion page. Pppery ( talk) 15:36, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
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I tried to contribute this edit to the Robin Sherwood page but did not reference it correctly. I then tried to remove it but it still needs to be edited back in. Would you please add this as the very last paragraph and sentence? The new paragraph and sentence to be edited in is below:
Robin Sherwood made her first personal appearance at The Lincoln Center for the opening night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Film Comment Selects 2015 film festival at the Walter Reade Theater."
That would make it the very last paragraph after the present last paragraph which is:
Robin returned to acting in 2009. In 2014, she stars in the feature-length documentary, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014). The documentary is directed by Mark Hartley and was produced by Brett Ratner.
I referenced The Lincoln Center's website, https://www.filmlinc.org/films/electric-boogaloo-the-wild-untold-story-of-cannon-films/, however and I did not enter it properly.
Thank-you so much for your help. Inspiring Dreams Inspiring Dreams ( talk) 01:32, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi,
Please can we update the Fruit Shoot information on the site as a lot of this information is out of date and incorrect?
Below is the correct information:
Robinsons Fruit Shoot is a refreshing drinks brand with a fruity flavour, designed especially for kids, made with real juice and no added sugar, artificial colours or flavours. Fruit Shoot is a leading global kids brand produced by Britvit PLC since 2000 in a re-sealable colourful sports cap bottle and offers a range of product options such as Fruit Shoot No Added Sugar, Fruit Shoot Hydro and Fruit Shoot My5, to fit current kids’ balanced diet and nutrition.
Fruit Shoot No Added Sugar is made using real fruit juice and water and it is a low calorie drink with added multivitamins and minerals to help keep kids refreshed. It offers a variety of tasty flavours such as: Apple and Blackcurrant, Orange, Summer Fruits, Peach and Mango, Tropical flavour, Apple.
Fruit Shoot Hydro is sugar free refreshing flavoured water made from spring water with no artificial colours or flavours. Hydro offers a variety of flavours such as Apple and Raspberry, Blackcurrant, Orange and Pineapple.
Fruit Shoot My-5 is a school approved fruit juice drink designed to give kids 1 of their 5 a day of fruit. My-5 is packed with real fruit juice and contains no artificial colours, no flavourings, no sweeteners and no preservatives.
Fruit Shoot has made it its mission to inspire and encourage kids’ adventurous side. As kids love outdoor adventure and challenges, the brand has teamed up with the world’s greatest obstacle event, Tough Mudder to create Fruit Shoot Mini Mudder, a 10 obstacles 1 mile course, making it the ultimate kids obstacle adventure.
Today Fruit Shoot can be found in supermarkets and retail shops in more than 25 countries
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Can the Skip_to_bottom to changed to skip_to_toc on the helpdesk page? Thanks in advance. Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:05, 19 August 2016 (UTC)please ping me
Is the Help Desk now the "I can't make this minor edit that Wikipedia can live without for a few hours, so please make it for me Desk"? I'm referring to Srbernadette, of course. Specifically this request. I don't mind helping people who genuinely need it but I don't see why we need to perform our own edits and Srbernadette's as well. † Dismas†| (talk) 11:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
{{ vanish}} is being merged into {{ HD/vanish}} per this discussion. This notice is to start a discussion about the final product and text. Primefac ( talk) 04:29, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Now that we have the Article Wizard and the Draft space, I do not think we should be even suggesting to new users the possibility of creating an article in mainspace. I would like to edit {{ HD/new}} to remove steps 6 and 7 and bring the Article Wizard into the list rather than having it as a sort floating alternative in the rubric. (This would match the changes I made to WP:YFA a few months ago, though there I mentioned creating in mainspace as a possibility, but recommended not to use it unless you were very sure you could create a good article in one go). [I posted essentially this message on the template talk page, but Pppery suggested that it would be better discussed here]. -- ColinFine ( talk) 21:15, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
The following HD-related templates have been proposed for deletion at TfD:
There is also a proposed merger of Template:HD/GKG, Template:HD/YKG and Template:HD/Bing. – Uanfala ( talk) 16:08, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Did you notice the continuous offensive vandalism on Alicia Vikander's page? They keep editing her personal life details claiming she's been sleeping with several men, that she's bisexual (??? she's NEVER said so!) and she's not really with fassbender, only to diffamate her while they're relationship has been and keep being confirmed by the two actors.We know who hides behind these posts. They are few people running hate blogs against actors on the net, they are internet trolls pretty jealous of Vikander and so they find amusement in creating lies. Can you please do something not to make it happen again? What I read this morning was incredibly offensive. Her partner is Michael fassbender , met on the set of The Light Between Oceans and they've been dating since autumn 2014 ( http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/alicia-vikander-michael-fassbender-and-i-have-never-hidden-the-fact-we-re-a-couple-a3353831.html - http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/michael-fassbender-home-support-takes-my-breath-away-424782.html - http://www.vogue.com/13374233/alicia-vikander-january-2016-cover/ - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUetP9sHT8 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXaXBJRhqA )
and she's never admitted that "she had sex relationships with other men" during the years nor that she's bisexual (which wouldn't be a problem but it's not true). Please, protect her personal details, its awful and offensive. Also, in the main part of the bio, there are many inaccurancies, fake accusations and offensive sentences towards here, clearly written by someone who hates Vikander and changed her page to make her look an unpleasant person. I've re-edited it but vandals may change it again as they apparently did and keep doing several times.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrea Jones ( talk • contribs) 08:29, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Like Brian Lara from English wiki and the same person's article ब्रायन लारा from Nepali wiki to be interconnected. Anyone?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thapa Kazi999 ( talk • contribs) 07:27, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
i was publish 3 Article in wikipedia about 3 famous Actress in Bangladesh. they told me to publish it. and provide me all information about them. but after i done every things with in 10 days all was deleted because i didn.t donte the money for wikipedia. Guys don't write anything in wikipedia for waisting yout time. for creat one article take my 1 week time. shit and fuck off wikipedia. Badol1234 ( talk) 18:35, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Please help me get this added it's becoming very big Brian gage ( talk) 18:39, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
I have to upload pictures (official logo and poster) of an art event but they do not have copyright. Which are the practical steps to follow? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Art.contributor ( talk • contribs) 09:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
I need to upload logos (and other kind of pictures) related to an art event. How can I prove their free licence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Art.contributor ( talk • contribs) 03:32, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
[[File:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]
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with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text
with a short description of the image. See our
picture tutorial for more information. I hope this helps.
Ppp
ery
03:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC)The default image size set in preferences does not seem to be working today, anyone else notice? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 20:19, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Madhu Singhal is blind by birth and she is extremely determined, confident and talented. She has won National award. I wrote this article depending on personal interview with her. I am fine to submit all documents supporting the information provided. But providing links are not possible cause people failed to notice such a great personality. Please suggest. Sudipa Biswas ( talk) 20:01, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
I just noticed
this page uses first-level = Headings =
(<h1>...</h1>
) for the date, which are also used for the name of the page. Isn’t this invalid HTML and semantically bad besides? —
67.14.236.50 (
talk)
04:19, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Why can certain pages not be updated? Who is the person that is able to update these pages and why? Hooof ( talk) 10:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Protected pages can only be edited by admins, to prevent vandalism, etc. PS, this is the talk page for the help desk. Post questions like this to the help desk, not the talk page. Benjamin ( talk) 10:21, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Yes, this is a legitimate question and is a continuation of this thread from the last August.
My view of the help desk is a place for new editors to learn the ropes or for experienced editors to get a quick answer to a question that isn't readily apparent through normal searching. My number one expectation, however, is that both of these types learn and use that knowledge in the future. Not repeatedly asking the same questions over and over again with a type of stubborn refusal to learn that raises such issues that would be "removable" offenses in some other parts of the encyclopedia. Is this the view of others as well? If not, what do you see the help desk as? Where should the line be drawn (if it should be drawn at all)? -- Majora ( talk) 01:20, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
"So click edit and delete it yourself. You added it, you can remove it.". I think that's a very sensible guidance. I don't find any pointiness in this statement. It's just a statement of fact. If you feel this statement is bitey in nature, I think that's a simple of difference of opinion you have, which is okay. Lourdes 07:58, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
I made one of the aforementioned "disparaging" replies to the user on the "Prince Christian of Denmark" request. Now don't get me wrong, I'd rather the editor come to the help desk than leave it and hope that someone else fixes it. Nonetheless, can't we create a discussion with the user or give them a quick tutorial on how to fix the issues which they continually ask about? If this is not possible, then I guess it's best that they continue to ask here. The user has been contacted on their talk page and tagged in questions on the help desk, with no replies to my knowledge. What other methods can we try? Jjamesryan ( talk | contribs) 23:29, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
On article Foo, the first sentence lacks a capitalization, could you fix it?. You can either:
On the right of your keyboard is located a "mouse" with which you can click. Use this to (left-)click on "edit", then...
I’ve only briefly skimmed some of the discussion here, but I have to ask: How much of an obligation is a good-faith editor under? In my understanding, a WP:VOLUNTEER is under no obligation except to continue to act in good faith—even if that editor has no desire and/or ability to perform seemingly trivial edits directly, so long as the user doesn’t make a mess of things through gross negligence. The user in question here seems to have done nothing but add and correct links, asking more capable Wikipedians here to do anything else that needs doing. It sounds like some would prefer to chase away such casual editors, or make it a bannable offense to try to help improve things without getting more directly involved.. — 67.14.236.50 ( talk) 03:36, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Was the addition of a "tip of the day" to the top of the Help Desk discussed anywhere? I can't find anything on this Talk page. Rojomoke ( talk) 10:34, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey all,
I'm looking into doing some research about the things that users seek out help for. If noone has any objections I'd like to add a brief survey to this page to collect some anonymous data about what people are looking for and how we can help them better. I'd like to add this in the next week or so. Ping me if anyone has any issues with this. Seddon (WMF) ( talk) 22:58, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a big Skip to bottom link (top right) as used on reference desk pages? — 107.15.152.93 ( talk) 08:51, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Actually I have been told that the article already proves notoriety and just needs birthdate and info box orangemike. Your comment didn't answer my question and clearly you didn't look at the comments from reviewers or the history of this article. Parplaywright ( talk) 02:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Note content copied to project page. Eagleash ( talk) 02:45, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
There should be guidelines to prevent "real" pages from being randomly deleted. Too many people create fake profiles just to cause havok to others.
Musicprogirl1 ( talk) 19:24, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Note Editor has made multiple posts at help desk. Eagleash ( talk) 19:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
I've been searching for help on how to upload a page and it tells me to do research but I don't know how to upload one. Can someone help me? And I'm on my mobile device (phone) so is that a problem? Dinah Kirkland ( talk) 19:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Note Copied to help desk project page. Eagleash ( talk) 19:46, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. How to insert an image is one of the frequently-asked questions on the Help Desk, but there is no canned answer to that, so I just went ahead created {{
subst:HD/image}}
. I will post this notice both at the Help Desk where people may want to discuss whether it is useful, and at copyright-savy places to make sure it is correct (I believe it to be, but better safe than sorry). Feel free to tweak the template to improve it, of course.
Tigraan
Click here to contact me
15:58, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
{{
UPIMG}}
is one of the templates listed at {{
Help desk templates}}
. (It doesn't have a great name, which is maybe why you didn't notice it.) Best regards--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
12:59, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
{{
HD}}
?
Tigraan
Click here to contact me
15:10, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Please how do I stop a page I created from being deleted? Adewukehinloni ( talk) 23:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
In the ongoing effort to improve the discoverability of all the world's knowledge, the Discovery team is proposing an enhancement to the search results page on Wikipedia ( Special:Search). The goal of this feature is to display related content for each individual search result returned from query, so that even when the search result itself isn't maybe entirely useful, perhaps its related content would be. We would like your early feedback on this new feature—more information can be found on MediaWiki about the explore similar functionality and testing can be done in your own browser, using step by step self-guided testing instructions. Cheers, DTankersley (WMF) ( talk) 21:01, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
My article was proposed for deletion but I have fixed it up with references and links but the user who proposed deletion redirected it to someonelse and that someonelse isn't responding right now so how do I go about getting rid of whatever tags that have been placed and making my article public. Thanks Wikipagecreator10 ( talk) 12:19, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry i thought this was where I was meant to post it. Thank you though — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipagecreator10 ( talk • contribs) 12:38, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello folks,
As some of you may already know (as I spammed wrote multiple times at
WT:TH) I have coded a bot that notifies thread posters when their thread gets archived
(example diff of a notification). The bot is still in trial at the Teahouse, though I have reasonable hopes it will get approved.
It would be fairly easy to fork it and have a sibling-bot at the Help Desk, where there is also a stream of newbies that may not know what archival is. The bot can easily be modified to check whether a user has more than X edits or has advanced userrights before posting to their talk page (in the spirit of WP:DTTR).
So, what do you think of it? (If you support the idea, please also say what criterion you would use to only notify "newbies", if any - it is probably unreasonable to notify each and every poster.) Tigraan Click here to contact me 23:29, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
How do I delete a personal wiki page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.136.97.72 ( talk) 17:30, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
The template Template:HD/facebook, links to the FB page "Community pages and profile connections" on their Help Center; however, this link seems to be the main page of the help center - could someone see if they could find the right link and add it to the template? Thanks. Seagull123 Φ 18:10, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
I have created {{ Steps to Article}}, a templated version of a post I have made in several variations to users here asking how to create a new article. The template parameters allow it to be tailored to the inquiry to some extent. Please take a look at it, and let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. Please feel free to use this if in your view it is helpful.
I have also created two redircts to this:
There is some discussion of possible added/altered features at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse#New advice template available. If people comment there it will avoid fragmenting the discussion. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 17:05, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
I have modified this template slightly, so that if used on the help desk, it does not link to the help desk, and if used on the Teahouse, it does not link to the Teahouse. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 00:22, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
I was making improvements to Wikipedia:Help desk/Are you in the right place after seeing several people's answers on the Help Desk about where to go. This page had two talk pages listed for copyright problems but not Commons:Village pump/Copyright, which User:Seagull123 sent several people to in response to Help Desk questions. I added the link but it looks kind of strange right now.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:20, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
This new subpage shows the contrast-against-white ratio for all 148 CSS colors, in descending sequence, dividing the colors into "recommended" and "not recommended" groups. By reducing the learning and effort required, the subpage aims to facilitate compliance with the signature appearance policy at WP:SIGAPP. It has been linked from SIGAPP and from WP:SIGTUT. Because the information applies to all uses of text on a white background, not only signatures, it is a subpage of WP:Manual of Style/Accessibility and has also been linked from WP:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color (WP:COLOR). Thank you. ― Mandruss ☎ 16:30, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
A recent Help Desk question was a complaint about the content of an article. I don't know whether that is significant enough for its own category on Wikipedia:Help desk/Are you in the right place. I'm hoping it is found in a Frequently Asked Questions list. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:14, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Basically, Gerda Arendt appears to have given me some kind of award three years ago on my user page:
However, I want to have this award be put on the left side of my user page and I have no idea how to do this. Indeed, can someone please help me in regards to this? Futurist110 ( talk) 01:55, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I use monobook, and problems have emerged. Yesterday or so there are now gaps between items, and the two alert buttons have disappeared leaving a gap (I can still click on the space where they were and they will appear, but are not listed anymore). Just a few minutes ago the top line (user name, alert buttons, talk, sandbox, etc.) has become very small. It was normal size a few minutes ago, now is tiny. Please wave the magic tech wand and bring Monobox back to normal, thanks! Randy Kryn ( talk) 15:42, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributors' Barnstar | |
Hola Help Desk Team. Thanks so much for helping me each time in the past when I have posted queries here. This forum is perhaps the most amazing place on Wikipedia given the effort you all are taking. One reason I have continued on Wikipedia is because of the wonderful support given by you all. I am sure that must be the same case with other new editors who have been patiently guided by you all. You all are my tireless contributors. Lourdes 07:05, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
/info/en/?search=Gaurav_Kotli ThakurSaabji ( talk) 09:59, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Note Content copied to project page. Eagleash ( talk) 10:00, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks to all the editors here who answers the same stupid questions over and over: I only do so occasionally because I'm afraid I'll get too terse and snippy. I notice a bit of combat fatigue sometimes sets in even for our more patient editors.
To avoid this, I think we need a set of preformed, easy-to-use answers, possibly in the form of templates. With those, we can afford to create polite helpful, and friendly answers and use them even when the same stupid question recurs for the tenth time in a single day. Has this been done? If not, is it a good idea? What canned answers do we need? In most (all?) cases these answere are just a more polite way of directing the user to the appropriate WP policy pages.
Here as the ones I see often:
Please feel free to add to this list and/or suggest changes to the text, or comment if this whole thing is a bad idea. - Arch dude ( talk) 16:44, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
How do i get my content back from speedy deletion
Note: Copied to project page. Eagleash ( talk) 23:32, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
When I had slow internet, I had to start reading the shorter archive pages rather than the main page. I just kept doing this even after my speed got upgraded. At the top of each day's archive page, there is supposed to be a link to the next day's page. I have manually fixed the pages but this should be working automatically.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:56, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
#ifexist:
to link to the next day if the archive exists, and to the current help desk otherwise. Wikipedia pages are cached for performance reasons so an archive page may have been cached before the next day existed and continue to link the current help desk for a while. You can fix it by
purging the page when the next day exists. You can check the ifexist code works by viewing the version before
this edit. Maybe we should always link the next day to avoid the issue (it will make the link misleading red when the page was cached before the next day existed). Then we could link to the current help desk in addition if ifexist at evaluation time said the next day didn't exist.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
17:13, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Now and then I see a very specialized question coming across the Help Desk or the Teahouse (for the latest example, see Wikipedia:Teahouse#WikEd_blocks_the_keyboard_shortcuts_on_Google_Chrome_and_Firefox.). Those questions are fair game for the HD/TH, but they often go unanswered. Common offenders are technical questions (to redirect to WP:VPT) and nontrivial copyright questions (to redirect to WP:CQ).
I suspect the reason is that the regulars seeing them recognize them as fair game (and hence do not tell the asker to go somewhere else, unlike RefDesk questions or ANI-complaint-like questions) but do not know how to answer them (and hence do not answer, expecting someone with more knowledge of the topic to answer). That result is IMO worse than "go see at [more relevant place]". I mean, we try to field all intelligible and relevant questions to the best of our ability, and the current result for those is not what I would call the best of our ability.
Shouldn't we try to answer these with some variant of "you were 100% right to ask this here, and maybe you will get an answer, but you would probably get a faster/better answer at place X"? I think it would not hurt to have a carefully-worded canned reply to this effect; it would be easy enough to create a subtemplate of {{
HD}}
. I am asking because I wonder whether I was reinventing the wheel and a template already exists, or violating a traditional rule that partial answers are frowned upon.
Tigraan
Click here to contact me
14:42, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
I believe I have found material that is not in line with terms of use policy. I’m not aware of the correct process to change or remove content that is not in scope of what is appropriate for this site.
Please look at the Federal section for the material in question
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_Canada
Thank you Cnethers ( talk) 16:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Is there some standard forum for reporting bugs with the Wikipedia software itself? Specifically, I'm looking for a place to report the bug described at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Typography#Apparent_bug_in_rendering_\operatorname* -- The Anome ( talk) 19:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
What are the differences between copyrighted and public domain images? Are public domain pictures still copyrighted? PhinbellaMedia ( talk) 14:02, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
So I have a question. Does free images from another websites can be uploaded on Wikipedia? Many images are taken using a camera and uploaded on another website by others. I know it is not copyrighted, but I'm not sure if it's acceptable here on Wikipedia or not. PhinbellaMedia ( talk) 12:52, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
This section of the help template {{
HD/ip}}
is out of date and needs amending in the light of the wiki-wide namechange from "Save changes" to "Publish changes". I've not altered this myself as I was unsure about the script that is being recommended. Could someone check and confirm when when it's good to go in an up-to-date form. Regards,
Nick Moyes (
talk)
13:44, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Helo Sir / Madam
The article posted on the wikipedia is obviously wrong, the world most oldest language is tamil, before i jave used to check in wikipedia it were tamil, im not sure howlong it would have been, but now im so shocked that it turn to sanskrit, How could it be happen? Is wikipedia allows to make record whatever we narrate as our wish / editing pages just like what I have did just now..? So dissappointed, truth has to be truth, i have read a lot about tamil in the articles and it was the oldest language in the world.hope you may check with that.Thanks Jeffreyfernaz ( talk) 22:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
sorry for that because I don't edit that someone one go to my Wikipedia page and do that. Alimranft01 ( talk) 18:30, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of users try to submit new articles on the help desk. Might it be helpful to add an edit notice or similar template saying that this is not the place to do so? — pythoncoder ( talk | contribs) 21:27, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone help me I feel like im losing my mind, haha. I was editing the page of Hugo Grenier and the doubles finals he’s won appear on the preview and can be edited but then they seem to have disappeared now the page is saved. Have I done something silly? Hildreth gazzard ( talk) 20:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
I already mentioned it before, but it did not receive many replies, and the bot is now up and running.
I operate on the Wikipedia:Teahouse a bot ( User:Muninnbot) that notifies users when their thread gets archived. The idea is that newbies might not be familiar with the archival process and could think that their post was ignored / disappeared with no explanation; such a notification explains what is going on and links to the correct archive. The notification looks like this.
I believe it could be useful to run the bot on the Help Desk as well, since we have a fair share of newbies. We can set it to only notify people with less than X edits / Y days since account creation or who are not autoconfirmed, in order not to spam long-term users who know about archival.
Please share your thoughts, whether you think that is the best idea ever, or that it's a waste of resource spambot. Tigraan Click here to contact me 12:02, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Help:Help desk/New message link, a subpage of a redirect to Wikipedia:Help desk, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Help:Help desk/New message link and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Help:Help desk/New message link during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 19:12, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
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Is Jorginho a good signing aye or nah? Tombo Elbo ( talk) 16:45, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
I think nah Tombo Elbo ( talk) 16:45, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
According to a fellow editor, one non-English name is sufficient in each language. However I think the second alternative name is also worth mentioning. Is there any restriction that suggests to choose a single name? 123Steller ( talk) 12:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I’d like to request an edit for the page for Emma Swan, character from Once Upon a Time. Her daughter’s name is Hope Swan-Jones (as seen on the pages for other Once Upon a Time characters). Someone changed it to Hope Swan-Mills. I can’t edit it because the page is locked, and i’m a new reviewer. I also believe the person who vandalized the page removed a great deal of the description section that discussed her relationship with her husband, Killian Jones (aka Captain Hook). Is there a way to restore that portion of the description? Thanks! Asinoski9595 ( talk) 17:24, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Note: The above copied to the project page. Eagleash ( talk) 17:38, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
So i tried to leave a question on the page and i realized visual editor was not available. i think visual editor should be made available for those who prefer it . TereseB —Preceding undated comment added 19:49, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://addisfortune.net/articles/city-expands-renovates-oldest-zoo/. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. ColinFine ( talk) 17:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC). -- ColinFine ( talk) 17:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, dear all. I'm currently writing an article on the artist George Pusenkoff. In 1995 he had a copyright dispute with the photographer Helmut Newton, which Pusenkoff won. For my german article in which i refer to this lawsuit i found two kind wikipedians, who knew all about rightholderissues and could proofread my passage on this subject, whether i explained everything not only in "normal language", but also did use the "legal terms" correctly. I would be glad if i could find someone here, who is able to do the same for the english legal terms, once i've translated it. Kind regards, -- Gyanda ( talk) 18:19, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello anyone. A few minutes ago I was adding a response to a query about an allegedly incorrect photo in an article. At first I got an edit conflict, on my second attempt the entire Help Desk seems to have lost all content between 14 September and today, leaving only a subsequent query concerning the title "Esquire" visible, which seems to have error notices on it which I don't understand – possibly this query has somehow caused a problem. I tried reverting my own last edit but this hasn't worked – can someone with more Wiki-fu please try to sort out the problem? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.208.172.36 ( talk) 06:58, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Not that it's earth-shatteringly important, but at the bottom of the Help desk Project page is a box showing that the page is in two categories, to wit: "Categories: Wikipedia help forums | Wikipedians in Hong Kong" Is there a good reason for the latter? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.221.81.75 ( talk) 10:37, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
ANI thread currently open about Srbernadette, one of the help desk's regular question askers. See also previous context at Wikipedia_talk:Help_desk/Archive_12#What_is_the_Help_Desk?. Tigraan Click here to contact me 13:21, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
I just want to open it Awubakkar ( talk) 22:57, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Wikipedia:Help desk has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
I want to edit my user name. It is National CSR Netwoork at the moment, it should be National CSR Network. How can i edit it as i am unable to edit it? National CSR Netwoork ( talk) 09:07, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Wikipedia:Help desk has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello - on the Dallas Symphony's Wikipedia page, the box on the right says "Principal Conductor (vacant)". I'm asking if someone can change the title to be "Music Director" and change "vacant" to be "Fabio Luisi". We are seeing this box populate on Google, and its info is in error. Thank you! 12.14.8.195 ( talk) 14:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
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Please add a new section, "Diacritic".
There's something wrong with the third paragraph of the Diacritic article, and it was wrong before I fixed a typo. Here's the code:
In other alphabetic systems, diacritical marks may perform other functions. Vowel pointing systems, namely the Arabic harakat ( ـِ ,ـُ ,ـَ, etc.) and the Hebrew niqqud ( ַ◌, ֶ◌, ִ◌, ֹ◌, ֻ◌, etc.) systems, indicate vowels that are not conveyed by the basic alphabet. The Indic virama ( ् etc.) and the Arabic sukūn ( ـْـ ) mark the absence of vowels. Cantillation marks indicate prosody. Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo stroke ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals. In the Hanyu Pinyin official romanization system for Chinese, diacritics are used to mark the tones of the syllables in which the marked vowels occur.
If you change the width of your screen, the word layout changes, and some of the text becomes right-to-left highlightable. On my screen at normal zoom, the second line begins with the last niqqud, a parenthesis, and "mark the absence of vowels." The third line begins with an Arabic character, a parenthesis, and ", which, respectively," The fourth line begins "letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals" and there is no left parenthesis. The fifth line consists of "vowels occur." If you click on "Other uses include..." and try to highlight text farther left, some words get highlighted and others don't. And some of the text reads like this: "mark the absence of vowels. Cantillation marks indicate prosody. systems, indicate vowels that are not conveyed by the basic alphabet...Greek diacritical marks, which showed that Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo stroke ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( letters of the alphabet I don't know how to fix it. Can someone help? 208.95.51.53 ( talk) 15:47, 23 October 2018 (UTC)