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February 26

Film role

Teura Maria French Polynésia (Redacted) Hi so my english it's not perfect i write to you, for the disney film VAIANA and i soon on face book the éditor for the film need a litlle baby girl 2 or 3 years for the film . We live in Tahaa and i want my baby play to the film she's very beautiful the brown skin black eyes black hair she similaire of Vaiana thank you for call to me Maururu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.90.92.139 (talk) 04:26, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.3 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:03, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Locking content from editing for my company page

Hi,

I've been trying to lock the content of my page from editing by other users. How can i ensure this is done. I understand that everyone can edit the content of pages, however i'm ok to monitor added content but the content i post shouldnt be editable.

Please let me know if this would be possible.

Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mazensraj (talk • contribs) 10:07, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please sign your posts with four tildes (4x ~). Having said that, when you say "I understand that everyone can edit the content of pages" you have answered your own question. Britmax (talk) 10:13, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Anything you write in Wikipedia articles can and will be edited by others; that's how Wikipedia works.

Each time you edit, you'll see a message which says Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone.

Articles are only "locked" (protected) to prevent disruption (e.g. persistent vandalism). 86.20.193.222 (talk) 14:21, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mazensraj. I'm afraid that it appears that you have a (very common) misconception about Wikipedia. Please understand that if Wikipedia has an article about your company, you and your company have almost no role in that article. It does not belong to you, you do not control the contents, and Wikipedia has almost no interest in anything that you have said, or want to say, about the company. The article should be neutrally written, and based almost entirely on what people who have no connection with the company have published about it. Your role should be limited to making suggestions on the article's talk page - and the more specific you make the suggestions, and the better you provide them with citations to reliable published material, the more likely it is that somebody will pick them up and apply them. Please read WP:COI. --ColinFine (talk) 17:03, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

BUSINESS SUPPORT

Good day,I am a business manager, writer,editor,marketer and advertiser.Searching for new opening job online,if I can be able to get good job,I will be happy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamad olatunde (talk • contribs) 12:28, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an employment agency. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:32, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding an article entitled, D C Chambial, I have created.

I have recently created an article entitled D. C. Chambial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Chambial) all the time I need to use the url to search the very article. I need to search it on Google by typing only the name of article "D C Chambial". what to do, kindly help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaksadi (talk • contribs) 13:58, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wait a few days.

Google has "bots" which crawl the internet and index pages about subjects. They take time. We have no control over what they choose to integrate in their search engine, although they do usually give a high rating for Wikipedia pages.86.20.193.222 (talk) 14:15, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What you forgot to mention is that the article was created only yesterday, and newly created articles are now NOINDEXed until they have been patrolled through the New page patrol system. If you look at Special:NewPagesFeed you will see that there are over 14000 pages awaiting attention by a relatively small number of people with the new page patrol user right, so the backlog is about 4 months. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:09, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Chaksadi: Note however that Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing#Indexing of articles ("mainspace") says: "All articles older than 30 days are indexed." This means they dont have noindex after 30 days. It can still take time after that until Google and others actually index them. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:41, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm quie shocked to learn that they're noindexed for a month. When did that change? With the new page-patrol thing? Wow, it seems such a backward step - and really, an abuse of the robots.txt conventions; just because this website doesn't have the resources to check on something for over a month shouldn't prevent it being indexed. 30 days is a very long time on the internet.86.20.193.222 (talk) 11:39, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed: how is noindexing a particular page an abuse of the robots.txt conventions? Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:14, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) In my view, a month is not long enough. By removing the "no robots" flag, we're assuring Google's and other spiders that the article meets Wikipedia's standards. Unfortunately, many new articles don't. Ideally, we would have more patrollers, so they would all get visited within a month anyway. But while there's a shortage of patrollers, we ought to be cautious about presenting sub-standard articles to Google. Maproom (talk) 12:19, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Draft-like article on user page

I found User:MollyMagoo, the entire contents of which is an article (unreferenced) that has been dormant for eight years. New York Hilton Midtown already exists in mainspace. The user has not done anything since, and only did four other edits to one other article. Should I just blank the page, tag it for deletion, etc. I'm not sure if there is anything that might be worth merging first, but I suppose it would be up to me to check that before taking action. MB 16:15, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As you state the editor has made few if any edits outside userspace then CSD WP:U5 ({{Db-U5}}) may be appropriate. If that is declined then it would probably have to go to MfD. If you blank it and request via CSD G7 it would likely be declined as it can only be requested by the original author. Eagleash (talk) 16:27, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Page has been deleted. Eagleash (talk) 22:27, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"All" Categories VS. By month Maintenance Category article count difference

I'm not sure why, but it seems that some maintenance categories have different article counts for their "All" categories and their By month ones. For example, Category:All NPOV disputes has several hundred more articles than Category:NPOV disputes, while Category:All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases has several thousand fewer articles than Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases. Is there a reason for this, and which of the two types of categories has the actual number? CoolieCoolster (talk) 20:05, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Which numbers are you comparing? If you are adding all the monthly numbers in subcategories of Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases then an article can be in more than one subcategory but is only counted once in Category:All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases. If you add months in Category:NPOV disputes and compare to Category:All NPOV disputes then it appears some templates add only one of the all category and a monthly category. {{POV title|date=February 2017}} adds Category:NPOV disputes from February 2017 and Category:Wikipedia title cleanup but not Category:All NPOV disputes. {{USgovtPOV|date=February 2017}} adds Category:Articles needing POV-check from February 2017 and Category:All NPOV disputes but not Category:NPOV disputes from February 2017. Some things are maybe not as systematic as they could have been but does it matter here? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:37, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How do I see which templates add to a category, as sometimes they aren't listed? CoolieCoolster (talk) 03:38, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It sometimes requires some searching and testing. If "Show hidden categories" is enabled at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering then you can see maintenance categories on articles. I saw the templates listed at "put articles in this category" on Category:NPOV disputes. I previewed each on a blank mainspace page with parameter |date=February 2017 to see which categories were added. Template-added categories are often namespace dependent so it's important to use mainspace in such tests. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:34, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing a photo of a political leader with a better one

Would someone please advise me on how I should proceed to replace the photo of Rached Ghannouchi (a political leader) on his Wikipedia page. Current image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rached_Ghannouchi#/media/File:Ghannouchi.png Replacement image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rached_Ghannouchi_1.jpg I uploaded the replacement onto Wikimedia Commons and it is my own work.

Would it be posible to just go ahead and make the edit directly or should I ask in his talk page first? Mouad888 (talk) 22:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mouad888 Anyone can edit WP. Your photo is just as acceptable (as long as it meets all requirements) as the one that is there now. If anyone objects, or seeks to revert, you can certainly take it to the talk page for consensus. However, I certainly feel your photo displays the subject in a more presentable light that what is there now. I would say: go for it. IMHO Maineartists (talk) 23:06, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mouad888: The mechanics of making the change are simple. Open the article (Rached Ghannouchi) and click on the button to edit the source. A few lines down you will see "| image = Ghannouchi.png". Replace that name with the name of the image you wish to use (Rached_Ghannouchi_1.jpg). Preview the changes to be sure they work the way you want, then press Save.

One word of caution: the new image you propose might need to be cropped in order to display properly in an Infobox, otherwise the subject himself may be too small to see properly. --Gronk Oz (talk) 02:47, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]