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June 7

Help needed in editing

I was checking the recent changes log and found that one Ip user (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/115.78.115.3) was removing sock-puppetry tags from many ip addresses. The sockpuppeteer mentioned in the tags that the user removed is already blocked due to being identified as one but then I realized that the SC tags were placed on the talk pages by a blocked ip address (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/112.198.73.9). Now I am not able to tell whether the ip addresses whose tags this user was removing were innocient or not. Please help me with the matter. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Field Marshal Aryan (talk • contribs) 09:15, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

115.78.115.3 has been removing sock-puppetry tags placed by more than one unregistered user (not all by 112.198.73.9 as he has claimed). I suggest you mention it at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Continued_harassment_from_IP_user, a thread which mentions 112.198.73.9. The guys there will be better than most editors at dealing with this stuff. Maproom (talk) 09:42, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the block is not just on 112.198.73.9, but on the entire range 112.198.72.0/22. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:47, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[Ticket#2017052610011621] Wikipedia Account Error

Greetings Wikipedia Team,

We are trying to create our Wikipedia account under Fameuz. But it is showing us some error.

Can you please explain how we can create our Wikipedia page under our company name "FAMEUZ". The name "FAMEUZ" and the domain "FAMEUZ.com" are owned by Fameuz S.A and we have the Certificate of Incorporation.

Currently, the name "FAMEUZ" is not available and FAMEUZ.com is blacklisted. Can you please explain to us why it is blacklisted? Is it because Fameuz.com is a website name or because it is used by someone else. Can you please investigate and give us update on both. We checked on Wikipedia and Fameuz name is not used by anyone but it is still showing unavailable. Can you please check who is using it because we owned the rights to this name and no one else has rights to use it.

We would really appreciate if you can guide us through the registration steps. So we can create our Wikipedia account under Fameuz. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.98.4.234 (talk) 14:20, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia accounts should be created and used only by individual people, who are expected to be neutral. Creating an account that you intend to be used by more than one person is forbidden. Creating an account whose name that suggests a connection with a company or other organisation is also forbidden. Please read Wikipedia:Username policy. If your intention is to promote Fameuz, Fameuz.com, or anything else, you should not use Wikipedia at all: see WP:NOTPROMO. Maproom (talk) 15:34, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Please understand that there is no connection between a Wikipedia username and the names of articles which that user works on. Anybody may edit any article - except that if a user edits an article with a name similar to their user name, there will be a suspicion that they have a conflict of interest, and should not be editing that article. Please understand also that Wikipedia has no interest in what a subject (whether an organisation or a person) says or wants to say about themselves: none. It is only interested in what sources which have no connection with the subject have published about it. Please read Your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 16:29, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re: ticket 2017052610011621. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 19:18, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Update talk page archive box.

I'm way out of practice. I can't remember how to update the archive box in the top right corner of my talk page. I want the last link to say 2013 - present. Thanks, CTF83! 18:33, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just edit User talk:CTF83!/archivelist. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:43, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, so easy, way out of practice! Thanks! CTF83! 18:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Violeta Chamorro Bio

The bio states: "Initially, when the Sandinistas were victorious over Anastasio Somoza García, Chamorro fully supported them."

The Sandinistas did not fight Somoza Garcia. They overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.121.64.5 (talk) 20:15, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have corrected the article.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 20:59, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio question

We have an editor, Theloggedman, who created the following pages: Draft:Oricorio (Fake Article) and Template:Pokémon Infobox. Both articles are pretty much a copy-paste from Bulbapedia (see [2] and [3], respectively). It's blatant plagiarism, but does the content violate WP:COPYVIO, given that content on Bulbapedia is under a CC ShareAlike license? SkyWarrior 21:53, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SkyWarrior: The answer is a bit more complex then you might have expected. First, had the content been licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, we would need an attribution link somewhere (probably in the edit summary) as the license requires. However, the content is not under CC BY-SA 4.0 but under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic. The NonCommercial part makes it incompatible with our CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensing. That makes the article an automatic delete. For the template, I had to see if it only contained uncopyrightable facts. Given that it copied specific terms in a specific layout I deleted it as well, to be on the safe side. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 22:25, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That is a bit more complex than I expected. Thanks for the answer. SkyWarrior 23:20, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No 'related articles' on desktop version (compared to mobile version)

If you look at the article on the Space Shuttle, it contains many related articles. However, the mobile version contains three related articles (Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster, Space Shuttle external tank and Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle).

This, on the mobile version, appears to be in some kind of footer and it is not immediately apparent how these three articles are specifically chosen, or if they can be manually set or edited. --24.182.92.247 (talk) 22:28, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Both the mobile and desktop versions contain the "See also" section. The three articles, the ones that appear below the comment that mentions who last edited it and when, seem to be generated randomly, and they appear in addition to the articles in the see also section. —MRD2014 talk contribs 23:58, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is the 'See also' section relevant? I can see that one of the three 'related articles' from the mobile version (Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle) also appears in the 'see also' section.

Where is the code that generates the articles for the 'related articles' footer on the mobile version?

How can we edit that, or force parameters? --24.182.92.247 (talk) 04:45, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See mw:Help:Extension:RelatedArticles. Don't remove "See also" links merely because they are currently in "Related articles". The latter is only seen by some users and the links may change at any time unless the rarely used {{#related:}} at mw:Help:Extension:RelatedArticles#Can I manually add articles? has been added. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:45, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you PrimeHunter. I had no intention of removing anything, but I had potentially considered adding or replacing one with a more relevant link in a mobile 'related articles' section. And also trying to understand why an image showed up in two, but not in a third one. Do I assume correctly that only three 'related articles' on the mobile version show up for any given article? --24.182.92.247 (talk) 18:40, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know there will always be shown three related articles. I assume an image is chosen by mw:Extension:PageImages. Some pages have no page image. Non-free images are not allowed for this purpose. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:07, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]