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merchant marine officers from india in 1970

I am searching for merchant marine officer Anil Vidar Prakash

Vetkid50 (talk) 01:35, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. Unfortunately, the article about the person you are searching for does not exist on Wikipedia.

If the person meets WP:N standards, you can write an article about the person. Regards. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 02:17, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you are searching for this person more generally, we can't really be of much help. This is not a general help desk, but a place to ask about Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 15:17, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fix the pronunciation in Greek

I would like to ask to make a pronunciation in Greek to fix of Anna Benaki-Psarouda. 108.21.67.83 (talk) 14:20, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy link: Anna Benaki-Psarouda - 57.140.16.45 (talk) 15:06, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are you offering to provide a recorded audio pronunciation? That is complicated. However if you are comfortable with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or you are willing to learn it, you can create an IPA pronunciation. The current article has a completely broken IPA pronunciation and we should either remove it or replace it. IPA is fairly easy to learn and you can check your work by using any of several "IPA readers" in the web, such as this IPA reader. Since I don't know Greek and I don't know the pronounciation, I cannot do it. If you do create the IPA and cannot figure out how to correct the article, then please come back here.-Arch dude (talk) 15:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please see MOS:PRON, which recommends an IPA transcription, but does mention the possibility of an audio file, as Arch dude said, but it doesn't give much information about producing or using one. (See WP:Audio for more).

I am not very skilled in Greek, but I think something like

{{IPA|el|ana bɛnaki psaruða}}

which displays as

Greek pronunciation: [ana bɛnaki psaruða].

But I'm not sure of the precise vowels or the stress. ColinFine (talk) 16:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Citing art exhibition posters

Hi. I'd like to know if there is a way to cite a poster from an art exhibition. Specifically, for the YuYu Hakusho article. There is this poster from the "Togashi Yoshihiro -Puzzle-" exhibition (more photos are available here) detailing the actual serialization period of the series. The article currently just includes the cover dates of the issues where the series was published. I would appreciate any help or suggestions in this regard. Xexerss (talk) 15:59, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can perhaps use {{cite sign}}. But the question may arise whether the poster has been reliably published: if after the exhibition is over, it is found only where individuals or organisation have chosen to keep a copy, I'm not sure if it can be said to be published. ColinFine (talk) 19:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion. At the moment, I can only argue that the photos of the exhibition presented in the link I posted before can at least serve to verify the content of the poster itself. I understand that this is not ideal, but I think it is better than just citing the poster without showing what it looked like and the content it possessed. Xexerss (talk) 20:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Posters are clearly published documents which are widely collected, archived and studied by academics in several fields. The reliability of any given poster needs to be assessed individually. Cullen328 (talk) 04:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Page Deletion

Hello,

I represent Fairbanks Morse Defense. I tried to make a new page that was speedy deleted for our company.

There is already a Fairbanks Morse page for us that is live. When we try to update the information on this page the edits are removed.

What is the best way to move forward for us, should we complete a new page? If so, how should we make sure it is not deleted?

Should we make the edits to the already existing page? How do we make sure they are not removed?

Thank you

Will.Monroe FMDefense (talk) 20:22, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please link to the article you are attempting to edit. Your user account has not made any article edits and I cannot find an article for Fairbanks Morse Defense. so I cannot tell why the edits were removed.
Do not create a new article for an existing subject.
Since you represent the company, you have conflict of interest. Please read and follow WP:COI. Declare your conflict of interest, and request edits to the article on the article's talk page rather than making them yourself. Meters (talk) 20:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
See Fairbanks-Morse. There's some obvious COI editing in the page history. 57.140.16.45 (talk) 21:18, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fairbanks-Morse - Wikipedia

This is the page we have tried editing in the past with all of them being removed shortly after.

Thank you

143.170.170.194 (talk) 13:18, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please log in to your account and follow the instructions there. 331dot (talk) 13:20, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kim Zmeskal and the children

I just want to ask to put of personal life of Olympian Kim Zmeskal, and she have 3 children that she married Chris Burdette. 108.21.67.83 (talk) 20:41, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you're asking - you yourself just added a paragraph on that subject to the article, two minutes ago. Though I'm not sure whether including the birthdates of minor, non-notable children is really appropriate. 57.140.16.45 (talk) 21:10, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Detailed personal information about non-notable minor children should be kept to a minimum, unless widely publicized by highly reliable sources based on the obvious consent of the parents. Otherwise, "notable person A married person B, and they have two children, a girl born in 2014 and a boy born in 2017" is adequate if properly referenced. Nothing more than that needs to be said. The children of notable people face enough challenges as it is, without making them easily searchable on a top ten website. Cullen328 (talk) 05:54, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to change Wikipedia Display to darkmode?

Hello there! I would like to know how to change the display to darkmode through the Wikipedia application for Windows.

Any constructive answer would be kindly appreciated! :) 2A00:6020:451A:8F00:6C45:B0A4:E579:4C1F (talk) 21:26, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you create an account, there is a dark mode gadget you can enable in your preferences. RudolfRed (talk) 01:17, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Options for users that are not logged in can be found at Wikipedia:Dark mode. GoingBatty (talk) 13:53, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]