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August 26

Changing Article Title

I just finished creating/editing the article for "Energy Efficiency Financial Group." However, I made a mistake because the title is supposed to be "Energy Efficiency Funding Group"! I've been looking for ways to fix it with no luck. Any help would really appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmjwiki (talk • contribs)

The page would have to be moved. I have done that for you. Dismas|^(talk) 00:13, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong looking article

Some of the information, such as who wrote the lyrics and the song lenghts are not correct, and i am unable to fix it, any ideas? Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellermensch_(album_re-release)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rakathor (talk • contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2014‎

While you are correct in identifying that something is wrong Kellermensch_(album_re-release) it goes to a much more basic issue than "are the credits correct". The issue is that like almost every re-release, the re-release is not notable on its own terms and so I have redirected the page to the main album article. However, it is pretty clear that the issues do not stop at the re-release album page, because there is nothing at the main album page that indicates the album itself meets the basic criteria for a stand alone article and per our procedures, the album page should probably be redirected to the article about the band. Which then gets to a really core issue - there is no indication that the band itself meets the criteria for a stand alone article and so the whole set of articles is probably destined for deletion unless you or someone can address the problem. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:54, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But what is THE problem? it is a little-to-unknown band in the music business as a whole? Yes. But in their own right, information on the band is scarce, so is the information on the albums, but in given time, more will come. But I don't think there is to little information for the deletion of the albums pages and the band page, though the re-release I get now.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rakathor (talk • contribs) 09:42, 26 August 2014‎

Wikipedia only has articles on subjects that are notable. The fact that there is little to no information about the band is the very definition of non-notable. Dismas|^(talk) 10:53, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can I have an external link to a YouTube video ?

Can I make an external link to a YouTube video ? This one in particular - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlB1pFwGhA4 --Penbat (talk) 12:01, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which article would you add the link to and why? Green Giant (talk) 12:06, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is a policy covering this specifically at WP:YOUTUBE. As the instructions there say, you will need to make your case for a specific inclusion. CaptRik (talk) 12:55, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Psychopathy in the workplace. It is very relevant. Helps explain bullying/corporate psychopathy correlation very well and it is by an acknowledged academic in the field whose other work is cited in article. I cant see any possible copyright issue. --Penbat (talk) 12:58, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No one can judge whether the link is suitable unless you say what article it is be placed in. You were asked, but didn't respond: I assume from your editing history that the article is Workplace bullying. If that's the case, it seems a reasonable addition, but things like this are a matter of editorial judgement of the editors of the page. If it needs discussing, then the article talk page is the place to do it. SpinningSpark 14:21, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused, SpinningSpark. Didn't the OP's reply refer to Psychopathy in the workplace? --David Biddulph (talk) 14:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, I misread the meaning of the OP's link. In retrospect, it couldn't mean anything else. SpinningSpark 15:07, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway thanks guys. I really cant see that this particular case is controversial but if need be i'll discuss it at Talk:Psychopathy in the workplace.--Penbat (talk) 15:12, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editor username

How can I remove the editors username from a page I have edited? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lybster (talk • contribs)

We permanently keep record of every edit for copyright attribution reasons. Some edits may be suppressed from public view for a very limited number of reasons. see WP:OTRS for more detail. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:26, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Lybster: We do also offer the the right to "vanish" -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:28, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict fight edits

Please come to help the user Galatz is deleted an information. --84.108.204.8 (talk) 17:16, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article talk page is thataway. And you both also need to read about WP:edit-warring. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:25, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And bear in mind that the article in question is under WP:1RR, not WP:3RR. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:28, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict):::@84.108.204.8: The Help Desk is not the place to ask for help on content disputes. You should attempt to resolve them on the Talk page of the relevant article and avoid edit warring. Philg88 ^♦talk 17:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Sharjah (emirate)

Reference help requested. Hi, I clicked on the link for the history of Sharjah, and there was a page error. I therefore changed the reference to "reference needed" Thanks, 50.9.175.222 (talk) 19:04, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the reference. In general you should not delete references just because the page has become a deadlink. Even though you cannot access the page, it remains the source of the information. It is often possible to find archived copies of dead pages or retrieve it by some other means. In this case several archive copies were available at the Wayback Machine. SpinningSpark 01:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

biography for Ed Ayres

I am Ed Ayres, and the bio for me that appears on Wikipedia is woefully inadequate and out of date. I don't know who wrote it (I think it was entered around 10 years ago.) It is also justifiably flagged as needing citations. I sat down to draft a more accurate bio (trying to be fully objective), but then found Wikipedia's policies discouraging autobiographies. So I wonder if it would be possible for a volunteer to take this on. Since I've been discouraged from using e-mail, I'm not sure how to proceed. I would at least like to see the following information included in a rewrite: - Editorial Director at the Worldwatch Institute (publisher of the annual State of the World), 1993-2005 - As an environmental and science editor, worked with Gaylord Nelson (co-founder of Earth Day), Lester R. Brown (founder of the Worldwatch Institute and Earth Policy Institute), Theodore B. (Ted) Taylor (designer of the largest fission atomic bomb ever exploded and subsequent disarmament advocate), Herman Daly (former senior environmental economist at the World Bank), and Mikhail Gorbachev (head of Green Cross International and the Earth Dialogues). - As a writer, focused on the neglected connections between the physical/mental fitness of individual humans and the long-run sustainability of global civilization. - Author of "The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and The Case for Human Endurance" (The Experiment, 2012) - Co-Author of "Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil Fuels to a Clean Energy Future" (Wharton School and Prentice Hall, 2010) - Author of "God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future" (Four Walls Eight Windows and Basic Books,2000) - Speaker and author on the human future with the Foundation for the Future "Humanity 3000" seminars, the U.S. National Defense University (seminars on Environmental Security), the Earth Dialogues in Lyons, France, and the Time magazine turn-of-the-millennium series "Beyond 2000: Your Health, Our Planet" (November, 1999) - Founding editor and publisher of Running Times magazine, now published by Rodale Press. - Long-distance runner (and student of the connections between individual endurance and societal vitality)who ran competitively for 56 consecutive years--including a 3rd-place finish in the inaugural New York Marathon (1970), winner of the JFK 50-Mile (largest U.S. ultramarathon) in 1977, and winner of four U.S. age-group championships. - Married and living in the mountains of Southern California.

I hugely appreciate any help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.33.162.104 (talk • contribs)

The best method would be to round up reliably published sources and provide them on the article talk page while remembering that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not an online resume or personal profile. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Ayres has been edited fifty times since 2005 but most of those edits did not add significant content. In fact, someone wanted to see the article deleted, so any information you can provide would be helpful. The article is tagged as needing more sources, which have to be independent of you.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:03, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

write an article

I have a cousin with the same name...But I would like to put my information on my own page....I have tried and tried to read your references but I got nowhere... Please help me put my own page up, I tried to chat but there is no box to check as the person asked....it is very hard to get a chat session going...Please help— Preceding unsigned comment added by Joezstuff (talk • contribs)

Almost all the people in the world, including myself, are not notable enough for a tertiary source encyclopedia article – that is, reliable sources such as newspapers, magazines, books etc., have not published information on them to warrant an entry here, containing verifiable information. Have reliable sources (not YouTube, blogs, Facebook, random websites) published detailed information about you? If so, tell us a bit about it, including some specifics on what those reliable source are, and we might be able to instruct you further.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:21, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Joezstuff: But if both you and your cousin are notable so that you would both merit articles and you both have the same name by which you are widely known, then we would apply our "dis-ambiguation" process. If you are both equally notable, we would have for example Joe Trippi (political consultant) and Joe Trippi (musician), if one is much more widely known, then they would be at just plain [Joe Trippi] and the other would have the identifying tag after their name. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:59, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]