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May 20

Doc Antle Visual Editing

The Doc Antle page will not load visual editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZooFriend (talk • contribs) 00:08, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ZooFriend: I can replicate the error on Windows 10 Chrome 81. After I click Edit, I receive a popup stating "Revision IDs returned by the server do not match (document: 957591990, metadata: 957592050)." GoingBatty (talk) 00:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ZooFriend: I successfully made an edit with the source editor, and now I can use the visual editor. (I don't know if using the source editor fixed the problem, or other magic was involved.) GoingBatty (talk) 01:15, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

EdiT

why do people keep editing my edits saying it doesn't appear constructive when it pertains to that person and things they have said if its offensive then they need to take down all the adult film mentions on here weather and actor/actress or movie names that's censorship then — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apollo2849 (talk • contribs) 00:44, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Apollo2849: Hi there! Making the same edit three times is called edit warring, and is not appropriate. Normally I would say that when you're concerned about the deletion of your addition to an article (e.g. Jon Hein), the best place to discuss it is the article's talk page (e.g. Talk:Jon Hein) with reliable sources (not opinion articles). This is the last step in the Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. However, adding alleged details of someone's sexual encounters is vandalism of this encyclopedia, whether it's true or not. GoingBatty (talk) 01:24, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here and in this edit, punctuation helps communication. Unpunctuated text risks being ignored, partly because it's hard to understand, partly because it makes the writer look feverish and unhinged (and therefore not worth bothering with). -- Hoary (talk) 06:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

soda stream

i am 70 and have no idea how to edit or even ask a question properly here. but i did get free soda stream when i placed a dispute on my credit card and the credit came from amazon. i believe this means soda stream is a shadow company for amazon. soda stream takes return cylinders, amazon does not. i could be wrong about the shadow company. can i get anyone to run this down about amazon? i frankly feel like it was a miracle that i even got a refund, much less a free product, from amazon. anyone wanna help do this? thanks. i love wikipedia. any help appreciated.

grandma alice mchale- trying to learn all i can about tech:) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:805:8500:3DF0:B04E:7155:754B:7F57 (talk) 01:33, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, this Help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. Maybe reading the article about SodaStream will help you. GoingBatty (talk) 01:54, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in mind, though, that this is an encyclopedia, like Encyclopædia Britannica or World Book. We have well-researched articles summarizing what reliable sources have written about notable subjects. It's not a place to discuss conspiracy theories unless they have been investigated and written about extensively by those reliable sources. There are plenty of other outlets for your discussion. (Click on the blue links for more information about those subjects). —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 15:57, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How to globally edit all similar citations across Wikipedia

There is a large number of Wikipedia pages that cite from the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines using the obsolete domain www.gov.ph resulting in 404 errors when clicked. That domain has since been modified to www.officialgazette.gov.ph.

E.g.: https://www.gov.ph/1975/05/05/official-week-in-review-april-7-april-13-1975/ should be modified to https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1975/05/05/official-week-in-review-april-7-april-13-1975/

(See for instance the edits I made in Order of Gabriela Silang.)

How can I effect this change globally without having to edit each and every Wikipedia article? Justinadriel (talk) 03:13, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Justinadriel, I would ask at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. It sounds like AWB should be able to, in essence, do a find and replace, for the links. ~~ Alex Noble/1-2/TRB 07:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Justinadriel: I'd suggest posting at WP:URLREQ. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 16:00, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Justinadriel (talk) 02:44, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Last article i wrote about new technology invention hypercapacitor

i thought i grab god s leg but again it was deleted even at reason it was writing about someones achiebemeny as it was even more than welcome tp write about new technology. I am barely sleeping so i will not write more as i almost sleep but please, help support. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Debrisfalling (talk • contribs) 05:05, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Debrisfalling" has never contributed anything to Wikipedia other than the message immediately above. Perhaps when you are wide awake you can say what help you hope to get. -- Hoary (talk) 06:24, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There was a Hypercapacitor article, speedily deleted yesterday per WP:CSD#A11, which was written by User:Meineliebe97, perhaps the same person as the OP here. From a look at it, the writer's ability to compose coherent English prose when presumably awake was similar to the OP's when sleepy. Deor (talk) 18:55, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Help required

I'm preparing an article about a person named Sarimin Reksodihardjo. Apparently, I can't figured out his death date. Even the death year only appeared on two pages: [1], [2]. I've attempted to click the name of the person in the page, but it seems that they only gave a snippet of it. Could someone with a free access to the website open it? It would be very helpful, thanks.--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 06:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Jeromi Mikhael. The place to ask is at the Resource exchange. --ColinFine (talk) 08:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Common Sense Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_Party_(UK)

Hi. Please may I have some help here! First I am new to any Wikipedia editing so apologies as I'm not sure about all the terms/channels etc., but I have already put an explanation and DRAFT in my SANDBOX for GreyTrust. Hope that is right? The current Common Sense Party wwwtrustjo.org was founded in 2015 and, as I have set out fully in my sandbox entry, it has NO association whatsoever with an earlier "Common Sense" Party (set up in 2003 and disbanded in 2014) . The current entry does NOT reflect this; it clearly links our party with the earlier one, and WORSE only cites policies of the old party so giving an inaccurate and unfair description of what the Common Sense Party stands for. Please may I have some help/guidance as to how to put the record straight. Thank you. GreyTrust — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreyTrust (talk • contribs) 08:16, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, GreyTrust. If the current Common Sense Party meets Wikipedia's criteria for WP:notability, then there can be an article about it, which should probably be separate from the existing article about the former party. This depends on whether there has been significant coverage of it in independent reliable sources, such as major newspapers. Such an article will be based almost entirely on what these independent commentators have said about the party - Wikipedia has basically no interest in what a subject says or wishes to say about themselves. (This means that your draft User:GreyTrust/sandbox is completely inappropriate for Wikipedia). If it has not had the coverage necessary to establish notability (in Wikipedia's sense) then an article on the current party will not be accepted, however it is written.

What could be done is to remove or reword the mention of the reregistration in Common Sense Party (which is only cited to a primary source) - you could suggest changes on the article's talk page. But the whole article is woefully undersourced, and I suspect that the original party doesn't meet the criteria for notability either, and the article may get deleted. --ColinFine (talk) 08:37, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Inquiry

I am a new member in Wikipedia, which document should I edit and where should I get it from? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bridge kloud (talk • contribs) 09:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bridge kloud: welcome to Wikipedia! On your talk page, there is a message about the Wikipedia Adventure, you can try that out and it will show you how to edit on Wikipedia, and ways you can help. If you want a tutorial of how to use Wikipedia, go to this page, and once you've done that, if you want to see ways you can help improve Wikipedia, go to the Task Center, which shows where on Wikipedia help is needed. I hope this helps you, and if you want to ask more questions, either ask here, or at the Teahouse, which is specifically designed to help new editors. Seagull123 Φ 16:08, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Q&A regarding requesting to edit certain articles

Hello, I have a question to ask; I happen that I want to edit certain articles (there are 15 of them for the record) but I was currently hit with time constraints due to personal matters, so I want to find a place to post a request for editors to help on their behalf. If there is, where can I find the request page, and how do I do so? TVSGuy (talk) 10:16, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

TVSGuy - you can request an edit over at the articles talk page, or you can draft your edit then save the Wikitext to a text file on your computer so you can continue work later on? Ed6767 (talk) 12:16, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Subject Mount Everest:

Dear wiki

Its an humble request to re-look into your Wikipedia about Mt Everest. The peak never falls in China.It has been pride of Nepal and will always be..

Request to re-look into the matter and make necessary correction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.100.148.4 (talk) 10:24, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources state. Those reliable sources state that the Chinese-Nepalese border runs through the summit. If you have published independent reliable sources that describe a different position of the border(and not just one's opinion of what it should be) and why the other sources are incorrect, or sources that describe any border dispute between the two countries, please offer them on the article talk page(Talk:Mount Everest)- but note that any border dispute will not be settled here on Wikipedia, which is why we go with what reliable sources state. 331dot (talk) 10:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We are having the same trouble with Kangchenjunga where Nepali editors keep trying to claim the entire mountain - Arjayay (talk) 18:59, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Today's mess courtesy of me

I moved Astronaut Wives Club over a redirect and somehow managed to mess up the talk page. I'm looking at the mess I've made and thinking I'm definitely going to make it worse if I try to fix it. Can someone please help? —valereee (talk) 17:09, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: As far as I can see, there was no content on the talk page of your new article Astronaut Wives Club, so I see no problem with just going to the redirect page Talk:Astronaut Wives Club and blanking it (there are no incoming links to that page to deal with). Am I missing something? Deor (talk) 18:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deor, oh DUH. Lol, I'm an idiot. :D Thanks! —valereee (talk) 18:32, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding A edit and claim a Page

I am a worker in Global College International . Please help me claim this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_College_International Wikipedia page. Recently i found someone has edited the wrong content in this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DiprajRK (talk • contribs) 17:30, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You don't understand how Wikipedia works. Nobody "owns", "claims" or controls an article in Wikipedia, least of all people who work for the subject of the article. The article (not "page", please note) Global College International was created and is being maintained and improved by editors who want to make an encyclopedia article about the subject. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:41, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DiprajRK, Please visit Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest which will simultaneously explain why you cannot control the article, as well as outlining how you can contribute in a way to help make it better.--S Philbrick (Talk) 20:52, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to retrieve an edit made by me?

Some time ago I made two-three edits on pages containing original texts with Imperial units and I used {{convert}} template with |spell=in|disp=sqbr parameters. However, I'm not able to retrieve them. Could you please indicate me some tips to find again those pages? I tried with Advanced search but I was not able to find anything. Thanks in advance.--Carnby (talk) 20:06, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Try going to the contributions page in the upper right Slapblackjack (talk) 20:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the parameters were in that order and are still there then hastemplate:convert insource:"spell=in disp=sqbr" only gives 44 hits. I haven't examined page histories but maybe the titles ring a bell. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:23, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Uploaded Link/PDF missing title

How do I correct title missing. I added citation for change I made on Ninety One plc but there's an error. The missing title error. Link is working fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Layloww jay (talk • contribs) 21:28, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Layloww jay:

Fixed in this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 22:06, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]