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March 31

Received offer of Paid Editing

I received the following email. Any thoughts on whether something should be done with this? Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (talk) 00:03, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

email spam

From: "Amy" <amy@indexsciences.com> Subject: Get Featured in Wikipedia Date: March 28, 2019 at 11:53:26 EDT To: Reply-To: amy@indexsciences.com

Dear ,

Have you ever wondered of having a Wikipedia page for yourself or your company? We can help you get a Wikipedia page for yourself or your brand.

Why have a Wikipedia page? Google loves Wikipedia and as such ranks it high in search results. Wikipedia is also the first place people go when they Google your name. By leveraging Wikipedia, you can help control your Online Profile and present yourself to the world. Usually Wikipedia only accepts pages on celebrities and famous companies, if you are looking to get one for your self, we can help you with that. Having a page for yourself in Wikipedia, brings you more credibility and makes you more famous.

We have been editing on Wikipedia for 9+ years and We've created tons of pages for companies, people, brands, products, and of course for academic purposes as well.

We own multiple accounts on Wikipedia with page curation and new page reviewer rights, so i can create and moderate pages with almost zero risk of another mod taking it down.

There are few Wikipedia editors who are willing to create a page for money, and most of them are scared to offer this service directly, so they do it through their trusted sellers who markup the price to $1500 - $2500 per page.

Because you're buying directly from an experienced Wikipedia editor and mod, you'll get your page a lot cheaper, faster and with more reliability.

Let me know if you are interested

Regards Amy R Fife

@Mordecai: No action required. Paid editing is allowed, if the editor follows the requirements of WP:PAID. RudolfRed (talk) 00:32, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There could be sock puppet concerns, but with no diffs or editor names, it's not something that can be acted on. RudolfRed (talk) 00:38, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Mordecai: reply and ask for a portfolio of their past work. – Teratix ₵ 01:39, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Becoming an Administrator

I just want to know what I need to do to become an administrator. It appears that I've followed all the steps, but nothing is happening. All help will be gladly appreciated. Scorpions13256 (talk) 16:07, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You made your request only 15 minutes before posting here. Your next step would be to answer the questions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Scorpions13256 and follow the progress at that page. Good luck!--Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:46, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Once you've done that you need to transclude it (and if you don't understand what that means, please don't run at RFA). Don't transclude it until you've read this page thoroughly and answered all three questions in such a way as to indicate why you feel we should trust you with the sysop bit and what you intend to do with it; have a read through some recent RFAs to get an idea of what sort of thing the community is looking for. (I can tell you now that if you run at RFA with a userpage that begins I take pride in being Wikipedia's least helpful contributor. All I do is edit categories., and the article you're claiming represents your best work is completely unreferenced, your RFA is going to be nasty, brutish and short.) ‑ Iridescent 16:56, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I take it back then. I probably do need more experience. Thanks for your help.Scorpions13256 (talk) 17:45, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Where Would I Find the List of Categories?

Where would I find the list of existing Categories used in Wikipedia articles or is there a root list of categories? I don't want to create a new category if one very similar to it already exists. So I would like to check where the repository for the existing lists of categories is... In particular, if it makes a difference, I am searching for women's categories... Thanks. Stevenmitchell (talk) 03:43, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Steve, while you can visit Special:Categories and Portal:Contents/Categories to see a soft list of all existing categories, the best method would be use the search box given at the top of Portal:Contents/Categories to search for categories similar to what you wish to initiate. For example, if I want to start a Foo category, I could search for the term "Foo" and get the following result giving me a direction;. Thanks, Lourdes 05:40, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You can also use Special:CategoryTree. It has a type-ahead functionality to help you quickly find a category, its subcategories and parent categories. Another page, Special:Categories generates alphabetical list of all categories while it might be a bit harder to search there, it has a helpful table of content to help you find the possible category according to its name in alphabetical order.– Ammarpad (talk) 05:54, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You can search the category namespace by writing category: in front of a search. If you are searching for suitable categories to add to an article then you can look at the categories in similar articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:00, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikicode for linking to another article on a similar topic?

Hi,

Is there wikicode whose output looks something like this? "For more information on Main, please see Article"

I've seen it before, but I can't remember what it is.

Thanks for your help! David O. Johnson (talk) 04:37, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I found it! It's (for example).David O. Johnson (talk) 04:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

David O. Johnson You could also be thinking of the {{For}} template, which goes at the very top of an article to guide someone searching for a topic:

yielding

: Bhunacat10 (talk), 09:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but it was the wikicode. David O. Johnson (talk) 19:53, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Incorporating Image from Google Books uncopyrighted works

I'm trying to refernce images taked from google books scans of old magazines. I found a citation generator and entered the citation to the source section but I still get an error stating "Warning sign This file is a derivative work incorporating another work or works. While the source of this file has been identified, the source(s) of the incorporated work(s) is/are missing essential source information." Can someone give me an example where someone cited a image fro ma scanned google books work?

Here's an example image where I get the error.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Chapin,_Trull_Fire_Copper_Rum_Label.jpg&wteswitched=1#Summary — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlowing (talk • contribs) 17:18, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tlowing: When you added that image, you asserted that you were the copyright holder, but you are not in fact the copyright holder. You should have asserted that the work was in the public domain because is was published before 1923. If you really did create a derivative work (e.g., by making a collage) your best bet is probably to first upload the individual PD works, and then create and release your derivative work under the CC BY-SA, referencing the uploaded works. If this does not appease the nazi robot copyright enforcer, we will need to figure out how to get its attention. -Arch dude (talk) 17:44, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AirPower cancellation

AirPower cancellation announcement could be april fool, in the Apple Newsroom is NO news about this... --151.49.92.11 (talk) 17:53, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It would be an unusual April Fool given that the announcement was on March 29. ‑ Iridescent 17:59, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Iridescent: this is the Wikipedia help desk. Do you have a question about using or editing Wikipedia? -Arch dude (talk) 18:02, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Arch dude I'm the 73rd most active editor in Wikipedia's history and have at one point or another been an admin, checkuser, oversighter and arbitrator; I think I've probably worked it out by now.😼 ‑ Iridescent 19:05, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Iridescent: :-) Sorry, I grabbed the wrong username for the reply. This is still not the proper forum for the OP's question/assertion/whatever-it-was. -Arch dude (talk) 19:39, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Iridescent: I report here an analisys from Italian forum: remember that the AirPower brand is registered, image of AirPower is appeared on new AirPods box and tomorrow (April 1) is the day of Apple foundation, and could be a very good day to launch AirPower... --151.49.92.11 (talk) 18:07, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing discussion. @151.49.92.11: and other interested editors - the AirPower is toast - confirmed here. [[1]] Please discuss further related issues on the AirPower talk page. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 21:00, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When a city changes names...

In this edit I changed a subject's birth place from Chennai to Madras, because at the time the subject was born, the city was called Madras. Even though this seems intuitive to me, I'm not 100% sure this is correct, so I'm preemptively fielding arrows from the community. Fire away! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:54, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In general, go with what the place was called when they lived there. There are some limited exceptions where the 'new' name is actually the name that was always in common use even when it wasn't the official name, but they're few and far between. (There are also special rules regarding Derry/Londonderry, where we always use Derry for the city and Londonderry for the county except in direct quotations.) ‑ Iridescent 21:16, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(adding) If she was 15 in 1979, she would have been born in Madras State not Tamil Nadu; Tamil Nadu didn't come into being until 1969. ‑ Iridescent 21:19, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Iridescent: Thanks for the info and thanks for the clarification on the state! I'll go change that. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:02, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cyphoidbomb, I had a similar question here Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_212#The_birthplace_that_changed. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:45, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Make the page Bridle to a Disambiguation page

I would like to make the page Bridle into a Disambiguation page to make space for a technical page about a suspension methode used in theatrical rigging called a bridle. How do I achieve that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkr drp (talk • contribs) 21:38, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jkr drp, there is already a disambiguation page for bridle: Bridle (disambiguation). I'm guessing the rigging method you refer too is something like definition #3 on Wiktionary. Eman 235/talk 21:45, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And Bridle is the primary topic so it should not be a disambiguation page. Bridle (disambiguation) is already linked at top of the article. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:09, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]