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October 9

Donation requests

Hi there, I already donate on on a monthly basis to Wikipedia, however I am constantly HOUNDED by your site bots to donate further. Can you rectify this so as it doesnt continue? I feel like cancelling my subscribed donations and ceasing use of the site, and I dont want that. Regards MH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:D401:3F00:F9B1:9E1E:C59B:E5DB (talk) 01:01, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The "bots" have no way to know that the person sitting at the computer using a particular IP address at any given moment donates money. If you create an account and log in, you can disable those messages. 331dot (talk) 01:02, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Zoe Saldana Signature

Hi,

Reaching out in connection with Zoe Saldana's signature on her page. We are her attorneys and she has asked us to have her signature removed. I've nominated the file for deletion and have contributed to the poll on her page's "Talk." It seems we've reached a consensus and there isn't strong opposition to deletion of the file. How do we move forward from here?

Thanks! 38.107.113.2 (talk) 01:43, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and deleted the signature from the infobox based on the consensus on the talk page. I also added a comment to the discussion on on the file in Commons. -Arch dude (talk) 02:13, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Misinformation involving Marvel Cenamatic Universe

I was reviewing some information involving the First Marvel Movie.

Your wikipedia post says iron man (2008) was the first marvel movie but there is no mention of Blade Trinity (2004). To the best of my knowledge, Blade Trinity was the first Marvel movie.

While it is not officially part of the MCU phases, it should still be listed in the encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade:_Trinity

IP editor, please read the entire sentence: Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Emphasis added. It never says it's the first Marvel movie ever. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 06:21, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on your definition of "Marvel", there's Hulk and Spiderman films from the 70:s. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:06, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My Wiki

Hello, I'm trying to make my wiki, and get it out of my sandbox. How do I go about doing this? I'm a Musician trying to distinguish myself from another John David. I will link the page here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johndavidmusic (talk • contribs) 05:23, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, ... @Johndavidmusic: I am not an admin, so I cant read deleted pages, but I get the sllight feeling that I need to Inform you about a few things. First, please be aware that the Term "Wiki" refers to certain open-editable Websites, including, but not limited to, The english Wikipedia, which is a particular Wiki. Second, please be aware that nobody "owns" a Wikipedia article. Third, since you attempted to write about yourself, please be aware that autobiographys are strongely discouraged and that there may be good reasons why one would rather not have a Wikipedia article. Victor Schmidt (talk) 06:01, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I take it that of the two living John Davids on Wikipedia the one you are trying to distinguish yourself from is the one referred to as "John David (musician)" who is from Wales. If there is something in that article that suggests he is you or vice versa (such as you wrote "Red Sky" ,) you should raise the confusion on the talk page to that article setting out the problem. If there is nothing in that article that causes any confusion (for instance if you are a classical violinist from Belfast concentrating on JS Bach) I do not think this is a Wikipedia problem.Spinney Hill (talk) 08:45, 9 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Orangemike has blocked Johndavidmusic for advertising himself and anyway having a promotional username. Whatever the editor's actual name and profession, "Johndavidmusic" seems innocuous to me (it's not a band or company name; it's not clear that he intends to edit an article about a John David other than himself, etc etc). Creating the draft of an article about oneself in one's own sandbox is usually not a good idea (and often a really bad one), but I don't think it merits a block, particularly if, as here, the draft had a lifespan of just sixty minutes and no promotional phrasing. Johndavidmusic seems to have a mistaken idea of what Wikipedia is, but it's one that's widespread and I see no reason not to assume good faith. I'd urge Orangemike to unblock him. (Normally I'd say this on Orangemike's talk page, but perhaps it's better to keep this together.) -- Hoary (talk) 09:49, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW johndavidmusic.co.uk seems to be a company name--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:55, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, it's a company name and a website name, complete with self-promotion: so, spamublock. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:43, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In the most fully developed version of the draft (in userspace) for an article on this John David, I see a soberly constructed biographical infobox, no more. By self-promotion, Orangemike, do you mean having the temerity to start to construct an article about oneself? If so, I'm surprised: I hadn't realized that this was a blockable offence. I'd have started by warning him gently to knock it off (providing or linking to the regular arguments) and also perhaps suggesting that I might delete it. And maybe I'd have suggested a change of username too -- though as the username isn't (say) Johndavidvirtuosogenius to match johndavidvirtuosogenius.biz, it still seems innocuous to me. However, now you've got me worried: as I get hoarier, am I getting soft? -- Hoary (talk) 07:42, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Applying Manual of Style to redirect pages

Hi, Guild of Copy Editors here – I've just come across a few hard redirect pages that, if they were articles, would have italics in their titles.

Should I be applying MoS guidelines even to redirects, which have such low pageviews, or am I supposed to leave them as is?

Thanks! — TARDIS builder^💬 | 09:56, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, the MoS applies to articles, and redirects are not articles. I see the pageviews as irrelevant. However, on the target pages, you should apply whatever the MoS says about styling of the text (if not already done).

Disambiguation pages where all entries are/should be italicised, like this one, would be a more tricky matter, for which I do not really have an answer. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 13:56, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

adding a line to webpages

Would the editor please add the following item to the following pages as this source is of value to your readers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley,_2nd_Baron_Delamere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cholmondeley,_1st_Baron_Delamere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley,_3rd_Baron_Delamere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_Royal_Abbey

The link should be indicated on the section “External Links”

The text should read, Geoffrey Hebdon, (2020) The Delamere Saga-The Untold Story of Vale Royal Abbey, Glass House Books, ISBN 978-1922332110

And the link behind the title is

https://www.amazon.com/Delamere-Saga-Untold-Story-Royal/dp/1922332119

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.147.202.224 (talk) 17:10, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It could be put into a "Further Reading" section, but why not just cite it as a reference and use material from it to expand the article? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:24, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not the place to promote a book or provide a link to amazon to sell it. RudolfRed (talk) 17:36, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the same link to an external site to several articles without using it legitimately as a reference is called "link spamming". Such additions will be aggressively reverted and will cause increased scrutiny of the use of the link even in references. See WP:LINKSPAM. -Arch dude (talk) 17:43, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What links here - Shew redirects only

It used to be trivially easy to shew only the redirects to a title, but in an improvement to Wikipedia we now have to jump through hoops to find them. I cannot remember which hoops to jump through. Can anyone? Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 19:27, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

~~The tool no longer exists~~, see this thread on the Village Pump :( – Thjarkur (talk) 20:00, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:Help_desk&hidetrans=1&hidelinks=1 if you want to see redirects to this page. That's "What links here", followed by clicking the "Hide transclusions" and "Hide links" in the "Filters" above the list. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 20:07, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've spent months in agony due to the lack of the "Show redirects only" button and turns out that the functionality still exists! Thank you Alan! – Thjarkur (talk) 20:12, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Have suggested a re-addition of a "Show redirects only" button to the interface here if someone wants to comment on this. – Thjarkur (talk) 20:25, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@AlanM1: Thank you, @Þjarkur:, good idea. DuncanHill (talk) 20:41, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Any ideas for formatting this map?

List of World Heritage Sites in Sweden is at FLC right now and myself and other users have expressed concern over the formatting of the list, in that the map creates a huge white space. No one, including the nominator, is sure how to resolve or at least better this issue – any ideas would be appreciated. Aza24 (talk) 20:40, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Getting rid of the huge white space is easy – just delete the {{clear}} template. But then the table is made narrower and its sixth column becomes hard to read. I've moved the {{clear}} down to immediately above the table, but I'm not convinced it's an improvement. Maproom (talk) 07:42, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggesting a keep be merged away?

Can someone tell me whether it is acceptable for an article (Four Guns) that's recent AfD discussion resulted in keep be suggested for a merge one day after the keep result? I see a keep shouldn't be renominated for six months, but what about a merge? The closing admin edited the closing note at the behest of one of the few "delete" voters who wants the article not to exist. It seems funky that the close note can be edited after a regular keep vote (when people may stop watching the article and its deletion page, thinking it is fine for now) with a note that a merge still may happen and also funky that someone attempt that merge be started without pinging those involved in the AfD (someone else pinged me or I'd have missed this). Is there any policy about these things that I could point out in the discussion to better educate myself and others on this topic? Thanks. --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 21:15, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kamala Harris

The facts are wrong she is not an African American Her mother was from India and Dad for Jamaica not Africa. Please explain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.202.88.198 (talk) 21:55, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable sources say she's African American and WP repeats what reliable sources say. Taking a wild guess, her father is probably considered to have African ancestry, and there you have it. More at Talk:Kamala_Harris/Archive_4#RfC:_Should_Kamala_Harris_be_described_as_'African_American'_in_the_lead?. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:20, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well over 90% of Jamaicans are of African ancestry. Her father, a prominent professor of economics at Stanford University, has been described as Black in reliable sources for about 50 years. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:34, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See African Americans. The term is in general use for a broad and vaguely-defined group that very clearly includes Americans of Jamaican descent. -Arch dude (talk) 15:18, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

Hi i wanted to use an image I found on your site as a logo for a sweatshirt. I am trying to buy a personalized sweater with the photo. It's a photo of the logo of my school name. Please let me know asap how I can get the rights to go forward with it because the production and mailing of my shirt now is on hold :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C6:8480:15F0:91B1:F9C2:CCF:D685 (talk) 22:01, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you click on the image, it will say what the license is. Based on your description, Wikipedia is probably using it under a claim of "fair use" and so you will need to contact the holder of the copyright for permission. On the otherhand, if it is licensed freely, then you just need to comply with the license to use it. RudolfRed (talk) 22:35, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP user. We probably can't help you, I'm afraid. Most images are licensed in such a way that you can reuse them as long as you attribute the source; but logos are not usually licensed in this way, but are used under fair use. If it is one of those, then nobody at Wikipedia has the power to give you permission, and you need to contact the copyright holder. Click on the image to look at its description page, and that will tell you the copyright status. --ColinFine (talk) 22:35, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend getting the logo from an official source, even if it does show a free license here or on Commons. Unfortunately, copyrighted (and non-freely-licensed) images are routinely uploaded by people who misunderstand copyrights (or don't care); it takes some time for them to be found and deleted. The correct solution is to get the image and proper license from the school itself (assuming they are the copyright holder – they can tell you what to do regardless). This is what I personally would do, and should not be taken as legal advice. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 17:43, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article CelebHeights needs to be created

Hello there! The article CelebHeights needs to be created as I mentioned that in the headline. It is a very well known, famous website where the creator of CelebHeights has made photos with almost all celebrities on this whole world and CelebHeights does exist for so long and it needs to be created on the English Wikipedia. Please contact me on my talk page too. Thanks very much! Mag. Wilhelm Görg (talk) 22:09, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mag. Wilhelm Görg. If the site meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then somebody could create an article about it, based almost entirely on what people who have no connection with it have chosen to publish about it. (Nothing that comes from the site itself or the people or organisations who control it will contribute to this notability). If it does not meet the criteria, then Wikipedia will not accept an article about it, and any attempt to write one will be a waste of time and effort. --ColinFine (talk) 22:57, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Quitting jobs as an admin

Not an admin but can he or she quit their job as a Wikipedia admin? SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 23:29, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes admins are free to resign, there are two resignations mentioned at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard just this week. – Thjarkur (talk) 23:36, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]