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Draft:Noise militia questions

ok--got questions regarding 2nd declination of Draft:Noise militia

---is a song getting the guinness world record for longest song 'notable'? editor TheBirdShedsTears said It appears notable per its Guinness Records in the 1st declination on 7/23. then editor Sahaib3005 says This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article question notability. i'm confused.

--are not the Guinness world record page this song is included in as well as the LI Herald newspaper who did a feature on the song and artist about the record.

please help clear this up. thanks! 613codify (talk) 12:50, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

613codify (talk) 12:50, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

One problem is Guinness: the difficulty is that the Guinness Book of Records is notorious as offering a record for almost anything: you can have "most teahouse questions asked in ten minutes" if you want, Guinness will probably put it in there. As such, merely appearing in the Guinness book of records won't establish notability. You'd need to find some other source that underlines that the record really is a notable one, and not just Guinnessfodder. Ideally, you'd want a music critic in a magazine saying "this is notable as the longest ever song (according to Guinness)", because once someone independent and meaningful has picked up on it, that's evidence that the world really cares. Elemimele (talk) 13:00, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Replacing an Image

Hello, can someone please add this pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lujaina_Mohsin.jpg to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lujaina_Mohsin_Darwish Right now it's a couple pic and having a single portrait will be better. GONvsKillua (talk) 13:29, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Done. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:48, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from Bodaskolan

could i be payed as a wikiedia editor. Bodaskolan (talk) 13:35, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Bodaskolan: Welcome to the Teahouse. By the Wikimedia Foundation? No. Everyone here volunteers to edit. Someone might reach out and offer payment in exchange for some editing, but then you'd be bound and restricted by Wikipedia's paid editing policy, one of which would be you virtually wouldn't be able to edit the pages in question directly. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:00, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia itself (in other words, the Wikimedia Foundation) isn't going to pay you for editing Wikipedia. If you're getting paid to edit Wikipedia (as part of a job, for example) you should be aware of the policy surrounding paid contributions. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:04, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

list article chart

Hello again, Teahouse hosts--I've another question: How do I make the chart on THIS TABLE have columns all portioned as is the first section sub-titled 1577. The date column on the 1577 section is nicely formed so that the dates display well. However, all subsequent columns have a date column which is too narrow.

Please know this is my sandbox and I've not yet submitted the article. I'll do so shortly after I rectify this matter of column width. Most kind regardsHu Nhu (talk) 03:57, 10 August 2021 (UTC) Hu Nhu (talk) 03:57, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hu Nhu: See Help:Table#Setting_column_widths. Just specify the columns the same width. Note that using pixel width "px" is discouraged in favor of percentages or em. If you don't know what an "em" is, see em (typography).

On a separate note, I'd not use thumb for the pictures in the table to get rid of that annoying border. Something like this: [[File:Plymouth Sound and Breakwater.jpg|200px]] ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 04:06, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Ganbaruby, I will look into the table setting assistance you mention. I certainly appreciate that you took an extra moment and saw the problematic border--yes, it was annoying--and offered a most excellent suggestion. the 200px took care of the matter very neatly. Thank you for your kind attention. Most kind regards,Hu Nhu (talk) 14:47, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

How does notability for software works?

I have come across several software-related articles in Wikipedia that have pretty much only primary sources and developer/user forums related-sources. One example would be Anki, there are several others in KDE Applications, which has tons of pages and its own category - and I just realized it has recently been proposed for deletion. I don't see anything that proves WP:N for these. From the looks of it, it is users and developers using Wikipedia as a resource for sharing things they work on, which is WP:NOT what Wikipedia is for. Am I missing something? Or should I propose pages similar to those for deletion? Thanks in advance. VdSV9•♫ 15:06, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

No, VdSV9, you're probably right: there's a huge amount of dross in Wikipedia that shouldn't be there, and you would be improving Wikipedia by dealing with some of it. But notice that "does not demonstrate notability" is not enough to delete an article - you need to do the diligence and establish that the subject does not in fact meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability - see BEFORE. If an article is inadequate but salvageable, it can be draftified. --ColinFine (talk) 15:12, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, sadly, when things turn up at AfD, all it takes is a couple of determined editors to declare that the software is desperately notable, and a puzzled admin may be tempted to err on the side of caution and close the debate as 'no consensus' (which is true), in which case the article remains. If you come across a situation where a group of editors are apparently using Wikipedia as a resource to share things they work on, or promote them, then it is almost certain that those editors will oppose deletion, making 'no consensus' nearly inevitable. It is harder to change the status quo than do something new: Articles that wouldn't pass review to be created fresh, are nevertheless hard to delete. Elemimele (talk) 15:42, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Televion / Commercial Advertisments

Since television / commercial advertisements are also a part of any actor's or model's work. But are they considered and allowed to be mentioned here on Wikipedia if reliable sources are added? ManaliJain (talk) 14:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

If you're suggesting listing adverts they've appeared in like a list of shows, then no, Wikipedia doesn't do that. With reliable sources though, you can mention in prose that they've signed a multimillion pound contract, to be the face of Cooper's Creosote for the next five years. - X201 (talk) 14:52, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

And the usual measures of notability apply. Some adverts become almost works-of-art, permeating all corners of society, and infiltrating our culture (in the UK, SpecSavers, I'm looking at you, amongst others; the article on Toby Williams (comedian) quite rightly records his role as a short-sighted vet in the Specsavers adverts). If an advert becomes such a big part of our culture that the columnists of national newspapers write whole chunks about it, then the advert itself risks becoming article-worthy. Elemimele (talk) 16:02, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

How to request edit of "extended-confirmation protected" page: OneCoin

Courtesy link: OneCoin

How would I go about requesting an edit or addition to a page? It would be great if a line could be added to the OneCoin page stating "not to be confused with Harmony One", or along those lines. I can see editors who have edited it in the past, but no way to contact them directly. Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin Jeffrice47 (talk) 17:28, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Jeffrice47: You can follow this link to make an edit request on the article talkpage, Talk:OneCoin. Please be aware that edit requests are intended to ask for a specific change to be made, not to request access to the article itself. I'll leave a welcome note on your user talkpage in a few seconds. Victor Schmidt (talk) 17:41, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

How to propose a Category Rename/Redirect?

Hello, through a recent edit that showed up in my watchlist I would like to propose a category rename + redirect(?). Because a) I think it fits better, and b) is in line with other similar categories. How do I go about this? :) Do I post it on the talk page of said category or is there a more central place to do so? Thank you -- Mvbaron (talk) 06:53, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Mvbaron Hello, check out Wikipedia:Categories for discussion! You should also notify the creator and relevant projects. Twinkle automates a lot of that for you. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 08:09, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much! That's perfect. -- Mvbaron (talk) 17:43, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Review Articles

Sum565 (talk) 16:28, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Sir can you told my why my article are not approved Draft:Sheikh Jubayer Hasan But the same category player articles are alive on Wikipedia Shakhir Hossain this article and my article are related but my article are not approved. there are play same luge and also debut T 20 cricket

@Sum565: Other stuff exists is rarely a good argument. We determine notability on a case by case basis. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 18:57, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Stack templates neatly on Talk page

How do I get multiple templates to stack neatly one above the other on a Talk page, instead of floating superimposed on each other? Lee Choquette (talk) 18:31, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Lee Choquette: The two templates you're using there, {{Translated page}} and {{Connected contributor}}, aren't designed to be side by side. We usually put the translated template below the connected contributor one to make the talk page more compact. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 18:56, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ganbaruby: Thanks, that did the trick! Now I know to play with the ordering next time. Lee Choquette (talk) 19:17, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Previous Created Page about a person Rejected and blocked for Same page creation again

Hello, username - Strange editor 2 I have Created a Article page 'Mohammed Shanooj' about a musician person, but it got rejected and deleted. But still after collecting lots of source, reference & news, i cant create same page again. Please Unblock me from Creating 'Mohammed Shanooj' page Strange editor 2 (talk) 18:24, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

You can create a draft and submit it for review. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Strange confirmed as sockpuppet of Mohammed Shanooj. David notMD (talk) 19:35, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

That didn't take long. --ARose Wolf 19:47, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Getting An Article Posted.

Courtesy link: Draft:Hiram A. Murray

I wrote an article about myself and my career, article title "Hiram A. Murray". Was wondering how do I get it posted? Is it in the review process? Hirmurray (talk) 16:12, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Hirmurray and welcome to the Teahouse. It appears that Theroadislong left you some very good advice on both your submission and at your user talk page after you posted your question here. I would suggest consulting that information on how to proceed. Wikipedia strongly discourages the writing of autobiographies as articles here and many wrongly interpret Wikipedia as being a social media platform for them to create a "profile" by which they will generate more traffic their way. This is not the purpose or intent of Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia with articles about subjects that receive significant coverage in independent reliable secondary sources. To be blunt, Wikipedia does not want to know what you have to say about yourself but what verifiable independent sources have to say about you. (See WP:AUTOBIO, WP:N, WP:OR, and WP:V for starters) --ARose Wolf 16:33, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Huge amount of content, three itty-bitty references, heading toward Declined. And I am willing to bet a modest amount of money that Hirmurray, creator of the draft, did not take the three photos of Murray claimed as Own work.David notMD (talk) 19:30, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

First one looks like an executives profile picture. I'm not sure about the Marine Corps photo. The third one looks like it was taken during one of his interviews and may be copyrighted by whomever conducted the interview and the final one, now deleted, showing him and his family is cute but presented all kinds of BLP issues. In short, its possible it could be own works but it is equally possible one or more are a copyright violations. --ARose Wolf 19:54, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

ARoseWolf How can any be "Own work" if the draft is by Hiram A. Murray and he claims he took the photos? None look like selfies. David notMD (talk) 20:20, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

I guess its worth asking. Does "Own Work" literally mean it has to be a photo or picture taken by the subject or on a camera owned by the subject or just in possession of the subject? I've seen photo's added to user pages that were classified as "Own Work" yet are clearly not selfies. It's a valid question. --ARose Wolf 20:24, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Laurence Myers article contents appears in the wrong place

The contents section in the article I am writing has appeared in a different place. Not sure how that has happened...How can I move it back to the right area? Thanks for any helpVedlagt (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2021 (UTC) Vedlagt (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Vedlagt: Are you talking about the table of contents box? Don't worry about that, it is generated automatically and is only in the wrong place because of the draft banners. If your draft is approved the table of contents will be fine. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 22:37, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Draft:Laurence Myers

(edit conflict) @Vedlagt:

Fixed! GoingBatty (talk) 22:38, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Image Question

Can I upload this image? https://static.univision.com/fragments/noticias/home-locales/images/radio-stations/houston/depts-houston.png ItsJustdancefan (talk) 01:27, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@ItsJustdancefan: You could use Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard to upload it, which will prompt you for the article name and the appropriate fair use criteria. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:44, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

List of 3D films

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Teahouse § List of 3D films

– —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:26, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello I have just one question and I was very unsure if this was the right place to ask. There's a particular page on Wikipedia called (List Of 3D Films 2005-Onwards) and there is a bunch of random IP address constantly adding things beyond 2021 which have no reliable sources. Is there a way the page can only be edited by certain users to prevent vandals from doing this again. Because it's getting really annoying having to constantly go through and remove these non-reliable adds. Signed MOVIEFAN2001 — Preceding unsigned comment added by MOVIEFAN2001 (talk • contribs)

You might want to check out requests for page protection! WhoAteMyButter (📨_talk│📝^contribs) 02:59, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dr_Georgios_Mikellides

Why this is not published yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dr_Georgios_Mikellides Ieromaxos (talk) 04:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

You need to submit the draft for review. I have done so for you. Kleinpecan (talk) 05:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Dr Georgios Mikellides submitted. could be soon or up to ten days to be reviewed. David notMD (talk) 05:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

4 months draft

I have created this content and it has been 4 months but still it was not approved. This is my first article here in Wikipedia. Can somebody direct me to the right path please. I made a few tweaks and is so far already satisfied. What am I still missing so it can get published? Thanks so much! Heimoore77 (talk) 06:57, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Heimoore77. You have not submitted your draft for review, so nobody knows anything about it. Please read the instructions at Articles for Creation, and follow them. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 07:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Draft:LVIT ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 07:04, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I see that Draft:LVIT cites no sources. Also, it would be helpful if it started by saying what a LVIT measures/senses, before going into technical details about how it works. Maproom (talk) 07:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Why are some pages protected?

I've noticed that many pages, particularly ones focused on people who have marketing deals are protected. Often, the marketing campaign is not listed on the bio page, which makes me wonder if the artists are paying a fee to not have these things reflected on their pages. Most recently, I noticed there was no mention of Bad Bunny's Cheetos campaign on his main page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Bunny, even though the ads are on heavy rotation on Amazon Prime Video. Given how major of a campaign it is, and given how minor other details are in his bio, the most obvious conclusion to someone who is new to editing, but not new to Wiki, is market-driven censorship.

Hope I'm wrong. 00sweeney (talk) 06:08, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

It's usually to prevent people from adding ad copy to pages or unreferenced biographical claims. The latter is especially more common when we're talking about protected articles of living people. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 06:13, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@00sweeney: In addition to the above response, advertising campaigns are rarely included in biographies anyways because most of them aren't within the encyclopedic scope of Wikipedia. It's one of those trivial things where WP:INDISCRIMINATE or WP:PROMOTION is a concern. This isn't to say that it's impossible; if editors can come to the consensus that the campaign is something important enough in that person's career to mention, then that campaign be in there. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 06:21, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@00sweeney: If you view the article's edit history, just under the title you will see a link that is titled "View logs for this page". If you click that, you'll see the list of the technical things that have been done to that article, including protection. Near the end of each entry the admin that did the procedure should have given a reason, like "Persistent Vandalism" etc. - X201 (talk) 07:33, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hassocene and other superheavy compounds

Has there been any reports about new super heavy compounds like Hassocene? I saw on the Hassium page, "As of 2019, there have been no reports of Hassocene." This is like this for a lot of pages. I think its time to update them a little as its been a few years. UB Blacephalon (talk) 03:13, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blacephalon please try WP:RDS for questions about Hassocene, and either ask at the article talk page about whether it's time to update certain parts of an article, or just be WP:BOLD. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 07:50, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Biography Page

How do I write and publish a biography page for someone here. 2600:1702:3F10:4900:65E1:35F3:8D59:2140 (talk) 05:42, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello IP, if you're considering creating a brand new article, see WP:YFA, but know that article creation is very difficult for beginners. We usually tell newbies to edit existing articles to gain experience before trying to create a new article. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 06:22, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, unless the person meets the demands at WP:BASIC, any article about them you try to add will be removed. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:06, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

A question for Media that's in the Youtube platform

Not sure where I should ask but as far as I am concerned. Making a new article page would normally require a cite of where it's from but this gave me a thought, this being in a Youtube platform instead of the usual places. Would citting a content creator, which goes by losprimerosVIIVI, they reupload videos that pretty much sound techno and such. I am aware of the rule that entails somewhere in wikipedia but just wanna get my concern out of the plow. Sorry if I sound confusing, english is not my first language. Kaspatik (talk) 08:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Kaspatik Hello and welcome to the Teahouse! I'm not sure I understand your question, but I'll give it a go. See WP:RSPYT. Per your description, it seems losprimerosVIIVI is not something that should be used on WP. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:17, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång Ah, I see, well. At least it answered on what I needed to know. (Btw thanks for welcoming me to wikipedia from earlier haha) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaspatik (talk • contribs)

incorrect redirection of Katarina Erlandsdotter?

machine translation of sv:Lisa Erlandsdotter and sv:Katarina Erlandsdotter given me impression that both of them are sisters. however here Katarina Erlandsdotter redirects to Lisa Erlandsdotter? 28july21 (talk) 08:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

The en:Wikipedia L E article (excuse my abbreviations) actually states that she was the sister of K E. However, we do not yet have an article on en:Wikipedia about K E, so the text on the page titled K E consists solely of a redirect to L E since K E is at least mentioned there.

The solution would be for someone to write an English language article about K E and replace the redirect link on the K E page with its text. Obviously, the article would be subject to the usual en:Wikipedia requirement: these are probably more strict than on sv:Wikipedia (where neither article has a single citation), so a straight translation of the K E article there would not in itself reach the required standard. Note that the existing en:Wikipedia article on L E also lacks any citations and is flagged as such.

It seems likely that most useful sources for either sister are going to be in Swedish; this is permissable, but restricts the pool of reviewers who are going to be comfortable reviewing the new K E article and the existing L E article once improved.

I note further that their brother and colleague Sven Erlandsson, also mentioned in the L E article and presumably no less (or more) deserving of an article, is currently a red link. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.27.112 (talk) 09:06, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I'd say that the basic article at Lisa Erlandsdotter is on very thin ice because of its lack of references. There's nothing wrong with references being in Swedish, but a single source in a lexicon is a very bare minimum; it'd be more encouraging if someone else, somewhere, had written about the Erlandsdotters. (1) Yes, someone could write an article for Katarina (and also an article for Sven), but without more references/evidence of notability, it might not get accepted, so the problem wouldn't be solved; (2) I have removed the square brackets round Katarina Erlandsdotter on Lisa's article because Katarina is just a redirect to Lisa, which means that this is a circular reference, previewing the very page the reader is reading! That's confusing and unnecessary; if anyone ever writes a Katarina article, it would be time to reinsert the link; (3) But to my mind, the best solution of all would be to write a page for Lisa's art-form, bonadsmålning, which is already a red-link in Lisa's article. It is more likely that there will be referenced material to create such an article, and it would be possible to add a note in the bonadsmålning article that Lisa, Katarina and Sven were artists working in that medium. That might be more appropriate, if there is little else written about them. Any Swedish art enthusiasts up for the task? Elemimele (talk) 10:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

How do I find the page I submitted?

I created a page yesterday called Eugenio Lo Sardo. I thought that I had submitted it, but now can't find it. Then, it wanted references: While the person is perfectly well known and has held government positions I don't know what references I can use, beyond, say, book titles on Amazon which seems a bit lame. Ideas? Elifent (talk) 14:56, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Elifent: Welcome to the Teahouse! At the top right of any Wikipedia page, click the Contributions link to see your recent edits. I see that your page is at Draft:Eugenio Lo Sardo. When creating a draft, you should first gather your reliable sources, then summarize what they say and use them as references. You can use newspapers, magazines, books, journals, and other independent published sources for references - and they don't have to be online. See Help:Your first article for lots of guidance. GoingBatty (talk) 15:13, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Translate

Hello! I am new here, but i use Wikipedia for such a long time. I am romanian, and my small problem is that i don`t always find articles translated in romanian as well. I would really like to take some of the articles that i find useful and translate them in romanian as well, but i don`t know if i am allowed. if someone can help me with this information, i would be grateful. Puccation (talk) 14:05, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Puccation, I'm sure you're allowed. But as what you'll be doing is at Romanian Wikipedia, you should ask about it there, as they'll know exactly what their rules are concerning articles translated from other Wikipedias. Maproom (talk) 14:08, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Puccation, and welcome to the Teahouse. Some ideas for translating articles from English to other languages are at Translate us; but as Maproom says, you need to know the policies of your destination Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 15:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Help, my 3 hour work on some article got removed.

Work on article Penicillium maximae Some user named Diannaa had deleted my work few hours ago because of copyright issues. The article was stub that I edited on and also content required couldn't be found anywhere other than internet sources. Just say you found the same information about something in 500 pages of Internet and if some huge "ADMINISTRATOR" regardless had put that information rest assured his/her work will never be removed. I have never seen something like that. Its only with me that being a "new user" they discriminate and remove my content be it found anywhere on Earth. I am sorry if i am ranting too much but I will be pleased if you kindly look into this matter. Thank You. Sagardd234 (talk) 09:17, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Sagardd234 and welcome to the Teahouse. Please see the messages from Dianaa and others on your talk page, where relevant Wikipedia policies are clearly explained with links to further information.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:52, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

It's not Diannaa, it's you. Wikipedia has zero-tolerance for content copied of only slightly paraphrased from published sources, even if those sources are referenced. Describe in your own words. David notMD (talk) 13:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Sagardd234,

... if some huge "ADMINISTRATOR" regardless had put that information rest assured his/her work will never be removed.

Absolutely not true. It is the case that the years of experience needed to become an administrator mean it is virtually impossible to achieve that status without an understanding of our copyright rules, so it's rare to see edits by administrator removal copyright reasons but that's because administrators rarely violate copyright. It happens on occasion (usually accidentally due to a misunderstanding of the licensing), but I guarantee that violations of copyright by administrators are not accepted. Diannaa happens to be our resident expert on copyright. No one's perfect but I've reviewed hundreds of her removals and haven't seen an error yet S Philbrick (Talk) 15:32, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

How to Create Infobox

I want to create infobox for Muslim scholar in one info box all details of scholar will be cover so please help for better information of Islamic scholars thanks KhanQadriRazvi (talk) 11:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

hi and welcome to the teahouse @KhanQadriRazvi! I believe {{Infobox academic}} is the relevant infobox for this. happy editing! melecie t 12:47, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

  @User talk:Melecie  Thanks But the I wnat to creat new, which one is combination of three or four infoboxes like academic, religious, person and office holder, so please help me how to crate infobox Thanks  KhanQadriRazvi (talk) 13:51, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@KhanQadriRazvi: You already asked this question at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Name change. Please don't ask the same question in two different places on the same day. Wikipedia used to have a separate {{Infobox Muslim leader}}, which was merged into {{Infobox religious biography}} - see this discussion. Per Help:Infobox#Designing an infobox, I suggest you propose your reasons for a new infobox to the appropriate WikiProject and gain consensus before designing it. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 15:38, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

 @GoingBatty- It must have happened by mistake, I will take full care of this from next time, and Thanks for Help KhanQadriRazvi (talk) 16:11, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Resubmitting a draft and removing copyright deletion notice

Hello, the copyright has been removed, so the tag can be removed. It won't allow me, so can anyone do it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:J.T._Patten NPFictionLibrarian (talk) 14:56, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I contested the Speedy deletion, because the copyvios report did not appear to indicate a high percentage of content from the mentioned source(s). However, the Declined comment about copyvios must stay with the draft. David notMD (talk) 15:24, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @NPFictionLibrarian: Looking at the draft history, it appears that Awiniasurania324 didn't make any significant changes before resubmitting the draft for review. I suggest you click the "Duplication Detector report" link on the copyright deletion notice, and then change the first sentence of the "History" section - either rewrite in your own words or put it in quotes. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk)

That's valid. Separate from the question of copyright content in total, text taken verbatim from sources needs to be in quotation marks and referenced. 16:24, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

COKE LA ROCK

144.121.102.245 (talk) 16:34, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, a place to ask questions about using Wikipedia. Do you have a question? GoingBatty (talk) 16:36, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Help to add map

Hi, I am trying to add a proper map to the infobox but the code is unable to find the coordinates, even though it exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kamala_Beach HxH3 (talk) 15:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@HxH3: To put coordinates into Wikipedia, we use the {{coord}} template. The syntax is a bit tricky, so I've put it in for you. Is that what you want? ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 18:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Improving an article on a sportsperson

Following the Olympics, I've been trying to improve the articles on a few BMX riders, but mostly Logan Martin (BMX rider). I don't know too much about him, but I've been sourcing and adding his competition results over the past few days. Does anyone have any tips/suggestions on how I can flesh out the article and make it more like a biography? DiamondIIIXX (talk) 05:01, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@DiamondIIIXX: Most of that article is a list of his achievements. While that is important, a Wikipedia article is much better in prose form. I suggest you to look at other biographies on sportspeople that are good or featured and see how the article body is written and mimic that style in Martin's article. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 06:28, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

When I came across the article, it had an unsourced list of his achievements and a subpar infobox. I have since expanded the infobox, sourced his achievements, and added more ones. I thought it was a good idea to source everything then move on to the prose part after everything was "discovered" as there is not a concise list of his achievements. It feels like every time I search up a competition to source it, I find another few that I have to add to the list! DiamondIIIXX (talk) 07:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ganbaruby: DiamondIIIXX (talk) 07:35, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@DiamondIIIXX: Thanks for your work on sourcing. I'm not saying the list of achievements is bad (quite the opposite, actually). It's just that a good biography should have prose about the person's early life, career, etc. You do have to keep in mind WP:INDISCRIMINATE and where exactly to draw the line; I don't typically edit in this area, so I'd reach out to others that do, maybe at WP:SPORTS. Also, I'd remove the red links in the infobox, at the very least the "Pannonian Challenge" one and the "NASS Festival" one. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 18:11, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Help to review the draft, Laurence Myers

Could someone read the draft, Laurence Myers, and give some feedback in how to improve it? I have also been trying to find out how to make 'contents'.

Thanks! Vedlagt (talk) 20:59, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

You've already received extensive feedback, at the top of that draft. Which part of what you've received is unclear? However, in addition, let's consider the lead: Laurence or Lawrence Myers was born in Philadelphia on the 12th of December 1813 and passed away on the 19th of March 1884. He started his first iron foundry in 1835 at the young age of 22 years. (i) Make the dates "12 December 1813" and "19 March 1884" respectively; (ii) "passed away" is a euphemism for "died"; (iii) "the young age of" is editorializing (readers can decide for themselves that he was young). But these points are minor: no massaging of prose will make up for lack of content, which is something that you have to find, in reliable sources. If it can't be found, no article can be created. -- Hoary (talk) 21:59, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Vedlagt, It would help if there were evidence that the inventions were widely exploited. It would help even more if there was a full obit of him in a major paper. DGG ( talk ) 18:45, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia

Can you ask riddleson wikipedia ? 41.114.201.205 (talk) 18:21, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Only if they're good riddles. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 19:04, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Notable riddles supported by multiple independent reliable secondary sources (WP:N)? --ARose Wolf 19:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

It depends where you want to ask them. In the Teahouse, sure, but in an article, it depends on what @ARoseWolf said above. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 19:17, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

They could always come to my Talk Page and ask them too. I love a good riddle and it is great for community building.

--ARose Wolf 19:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

section removal

why was my section removed i did provide accurate citations and references some which ae used on many wikipedia websites thats why the info box with 5 millionsq kilometres territory should be restored Bhima Palavīṉamāṉa (talk) 19:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

The section being referred to is found at Talk:Maurya Empire. --ARose Wolf 20:17, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Query about Elhiad Cufi draft

Please Can you check this article and help me out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Elhaid_Cufi I'm new on creating articles on wiki. Adel Blue Krasniqi (talk) 19:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Created section title David notMD (talk) 19:53, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Adel Blue Krasniqi, I've done what I can to make Draft:Elhaid Cufi look like a Wikipedia article. But it needs a lot more work. Its biggest problem is the lack of citations of reliable independent published sources that discuss him. The first source cited doesn't mention him, and the second is a video of an interview with him, and so not independent. I don't understand Albanian, so I can't comment on the third source (another Youtube video). Maproom (talk) 21:12, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hu Nhu: Formatting Assistance

Hello Teahouse hosts. I've just created an article you may see Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. You may notice in the footnotes section that between numbers 70 and 71 that the format changes. I've looked it over and cannot find what the problem is. I am absolutely BLURRY EYED from writing and editing this article, and it is the first of such magnitude for me. So, I would appreciate any assistance one of you might have. Kind regards to all,Hu Nhu (talk) 21:44, 11 August 2021 (UTC) Hu Nhu (talk) 21:44, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Hu Nhu. I don't know for sure, but my thought is that something has run out of memory trying to process such a large number of {{sfn}} templates. You might like to ask at WP:VPT. Please add a header when you post a new topic here. --ColinFine (talk) 22:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello ColinFine. Sorry about the header--definitely my oversight.Hu Nhu (talk) 23:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hu Nhu: I think the template talk page might be a better place to start - I started a discussion for you. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I'll check the double pipe and then see how matters proceed from there.Hu Nhu (talk) 23:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hu Nhu: Are you refering to how some of the references show as "Turner, 2006" and some display as "Turner et al"? If so the issue is that you've added an extra pipe (this → |) to some of the references, e.g. on the 15th February section of 1579 you give the references as {{sfn|Nuttall||1967|p292}}{{sfn|Sugden||2006|pp125-126}}{{sfn|Turner||2006|pp131-133}} Note the double pipe after the author name. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

{{sfn|Drake|2005|104-105}} → {{sfn|Drake|2005|pp=104–105}} Others errors are similar; pagination requires named parameters |p= and |pp=.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Aha! The double pipe! I'll un-double pipe and see what happens.Hu Nhu (talk) 23:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Trappist the monk, the un-doubling worked on the et. al. You've a very discerning eye. Many thanks. Now I'll see about the odd inclusion of the & on others.

Hello Trappist the monk, Timtempleton, and ColinFine. I've discovered the rest of the problem--missing p=. Thank you all for your kind attention. Kind regards,Hu Nhu (talk) 23:35, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Bullying of new users

Hi, I happened to see a pretty ugly incident yesterday between an older user and a new one. Briefly, the new user was viciously bullied and left Wikipedia because of this bullying. I left a support note on their talk page and was confronted by the same bully. An irrational allegation of sock puppetry was thrown at the new user and when they asked the bully to stop making unsubstantiated allegations the bully started a tirade that lasted hours across both their talk pages. The new user tried to end the argument many times but the bully kept hounding,harassing, etc. I was trying to make a small edit to the Takeshi Kaneshiro page and found all this in the history section. The bully has since changed their username and erased the harassment they carried out on their talk page, but the original allegation of sock puppetry against the new user they ended up abusing is still up. I don’t want to get involved since it’s none of my business but the support message I left for the new user made me a target too. I just want to make sure the bully doesn’t keep behaving like this. That’s all. Applehornet (talk) 10:15, 11 August 2021 (UTC). Applehornet (talk) 10:15, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Applehornet, and welcome to the Teahouse. If you see inappropriate conduct, then WP:ANI is the best place to report it - but read what it says at the top of that page first. --ColinFine (talk) 12:35, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Applehornet, if you need an admin to assist you in any ongoing discussion, you can summon one by adding {{admin help}}. The other editor you speak of is not exactly new, but they are not exactly old either. I doubt they have much experience outside of editing articles. You had best not judge all Wikipedia by what happens between two new users in a new page that no one experienced is aware of. Kazuha1029, please file a sockpuppet investigation or report them to WP:ANI if you are sure someone is a sockpuppet. If you are not sure, you have no business repeating your suspicion after the accused has denied it. Making accusations repeatedly without providing evidence violates WP:ASPERSIONS. Please take care not to WP:BITE newcomers. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 13:54, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Please note I have already disengaged from the conversation as per [[WP:BITE]. The so-called "bullying" is completely fabricated and the user above is a sock for Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Umbrellazebra. It's worth mentioning that the user also made sexist comments and discriminatory remarks which I decided to let it go as the user is new. The user proceeded to create a sock account (as above) to further substantiate this false claim. I see that at this point, I can no longer ignore this as this user is taking my willingness to concede as a sign that she can do whatever she wants.Kazuha1029 (talk) 15:05, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Same is happening with me. Their are two people's who are continuously accusing me of Sock puppetry and copying their style even if I hadn't copied their style nor I am having another account.Kishmish Hu Main Ok (talk)

Hello Kishmish Hu Main Ok! Your userpage at User:Kishmish Hu Main Ok is almost an exact copy of User:ManaliJain. Where did you get the idea for it? Usedtobecool ☎️ 13:24, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Nobody is bullying you, @Kishmish Hu Main Ok: you really need to stop saying your partial tales here and there, everywhere. The sock puppetry case is already closed long back because the admins and the check user found no connections between the user accounts. And regarding your editing style, anyone who will have a look at your edits and contributions will make out what's true. You do get involve into plagiarism and you need to accept that. ManaliJain (talk) 14:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

It seems that most of the major players in this discussion are fairly new or their accounts are fairly new to Wikipedia. Let me first, welcome you all. For those who are experienced, I expect you know the rules. Disagreements are not new to Wikipedia and we have all encountered them. When they begin to have a negative impact on editors and editing then other measures need to be taken to halt it. So, let's do this. Let's step back, take some breaths and re-evaluate the situation. Let's stop using charged wording in our comments towards each other, period. If we have concrete evidence that guidelines and policies were broken then there are venues for such things. Teahouse is not one of those. The sockpuppet investigation against @Kishmish Hu Main Ok and @ManaliJain was, in my opinion, a touch hasty. But that has been resolved so that needs to be dropped by everyone. The other issue between @Applehornet, @Kazuha1029, and @Umbrellazebra can, likewise, be resolved as has been instructed. I would caution all involved that their conduct and interactions between each other will be scrutinized and no one is above reproach. My hope is that you will find a way to resolve this without further intervention. Nevertheless, none of this is a content issue and none of this is related to the Teahouse other than that you have been pointed to the appropriate places to resolve the issue should you not find a way among yourselves. Please remember to assume good faith and understand the purpose for why we all should be here. Happy editing! --ARose Wolf 16:32, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

User:ARoseWolf: Thank you for your comment. I want to let you know that as an experienced editor, I am not new to disputes on Wikipedia and I have since taken the necessary steps by disengaging the conversation as per WP:BITE, WP:DR. The problem is that the user proceeded to attack my identity and make baseless claims (that I'm somehow bullying her after I pointed out she cannot just revert others edits without explanation or not engaging on talk pages), I admit I bit her. But I was angered because she made a sexist comment on my talk page assuming my gender and said that I would have treated her differently if she were a man. I proceeded to cite Wikipedia:English Wikipedia non-discrimination policy and given she was new, I let it go. But as you can see, even after my disengagement, she came on Teahouse and mislead other users such as yourself that there is somehow bullying, which she provided no evidence. Further, this account she is using is most likely a sockpuppet as per investigation ([[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Umbrellazebra). I don't want to continue on this any longer and have since stopped my discussion with this user. But her persistency in sabotaging my reputation and the continued harassment is something I can not tolerate. I much rather focus on editing and making Wiki a better place (which I've done since disengaging, while she focused on continuing disruption on Wikipedia). I ask if you all could please help me educate her that Wikipedia does not allow sockpuppets and how her behaviour is not adding any value to Wikipedia. Thank you all. -- Kazuha1029 (talk) 17:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi all, thank you for responding to my concerns. Not sure why the above user is still persisting in various allegations but I have no interest in getting involved. It was clear to me that they engaged in bullying behaviour towards an inexperienced editor and that’s all. I will not be responding to the above user whose behaviour leads me to believe that baseless accusations will continue to be levelled no matter what. Thanks to everyone else for their input. The above user behaved aggressively towards the newer user and this concerned me. I don’t condone bullying or victim blaming. That’s why I raised the issue and I have nothing to gain from this. If the above user wants to accuse others of sock puppetry to shift focus away from their bullying conduct that’s not my business. I believe I have been as reasonable as possible here. I’d like to say thank you to the Tea House for providing a safe space for this discussion. Applehornet (talk) 00:19, 12 August 2021 (UTC).

ManaliJain Usedtobecool Could you please tell me how my user page is similar as that of @ManaliJain ?Most of the people shows in their user page that They are from which country and their batches, which languages they know, their gender. And their are many other user pages also whose user page is same as mine. And tell me did ManaliJain has written in her talk page like she wants to visit S. Korea , she likes BTS and all How my user page is similar as her? And lemme tell you that ManaliJain made her user page after I made so it could also mean that she has copied my editing style. So without knowing please don't say that I am copying @ManaliJain. I have cleared hundreds of time that I am not copying anyone, not stalking anyone but why old Wikipedians like to irritate some new users??? Kishmish Hu Main Ok (talk)

Removal of edit for "awkward"

Courtesy link: Walkabout Travel Gear

An editor removed my edit for being "awkward." This information was researched and documented. Is that a real reason for removing an edit? KazakDexter (talk) 19:42, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, KazakDexter. The simple answer is 'Yes', I'm afraid. This edit of yours was reverted because it neither added anything encyclopaedic to the article, nor was it properly formatted. It looks like you accidentally usurped one citation by inserting another one inside it, thus losing the first one. So, yes, awkward is correct. I notice that Magnolia677 reverted a couple of your other edits, and this was because you added too much unnecessary information, which didn't really enhance the article in any way. It's all about learning to find a balance between making a useful encyclopaedia entry and not shoving all and everything into it, thus making it a bit of a mess. I hope that explains things. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 20:47, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

The fact I didn't know how to respond is a clue -- my idea of learning by doing was not a good one.

Actually, I support learning by doing, but in many cases, doing it in a sandbox is best. I have a lot of experience, but I often find myself about to do something I'm not quite sure how to do, so I use my sandbox to test it yes out first.--S Philbrick (Talk) 01:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Sourcing Question

Hello again!

So I've been reviewing some edit requests, and doing so brought me to the article Tara Strong filmography. The editor in question (2601:241:300:B610:CD92:3111:FE4C:9D2E) requested that I update the years that Tara worked on a particular show. When I went to review the source ([82]), I noticed that it just links to 2 Wikipedia articles and asks the reader to look at the credits sequence at the end of a cited episode. I also observe this to be the case in various other references on the page (e.g [23], [37], [19], etc). However, I see other citations that lead to off-site sources entirely to verify her work on a project (e.g [20], [80], [108], etc).

My question is this: is it standard practice to, as a source for this particular genre of information, refer the reader to a particular episode and reference the credits? If so, if a WP:RS that isn't that exists, would that be an uncontroversial edit?

Thank you for your time! ––Sirdog9002 (talk) 23:17, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sirdog9002, Generally speaking, some sources such as e-commerce sources may be acceptable to verify statistics but cannot in themselves be used to establish notability for an article. Furthermore if you come across a WP:CIRCULAR source, it is not permissible in any circumstance. Celestina007 (talk) 23:50, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Celestina007: Ah, I was aware that linking directly to Wikipedia as a source was discouraged, but I didn't know offhand the shortcut to a policy written about it. Thank you for that. However, to clarify on my original question: is it ever acceptable to source a particular episode of something and then declare the credits of such an episode to be citation? (such as what source 17 does with the quotation Event occurs at Closing credits.)? ––Sirdog9002 (talk) 00:40, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sirdog9002, I took a look at the article and went to “Ref 17” and having seen it, that is not an acceptable manner of referencing and that is not a even a “source” a Wikipedia article cannot be used as a source. To answer your question, as long as it is sourced properly, certain episodes can be sourced to substantiate claims or verify statistics but doesn’t count towards notability. For example if I were to create an article on an actor and decide to create a table, include the list of all the movies and adjacent them place a source per WP:FILMOGRAPHY I’m somewhat justified but why do that when I can easily create an WP:EL section and include a link to the IMDb of the subject of the article. Assuming I do substantiate all movie entries if they do not show how WP:NACTOR is met I’m wasting my time, thus theoretically although such sources may be permissible but they do not count towards establishing notability. Celestina007 (talk) 01:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

my edit has been deleted

Hi, im new to wikipedia

I was editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bug_(video_game) which currently has information about the arcade game, console ports and a BBC Micro Computer port called bumble bee

There is a new open source port for the BBC Micro Computer that has just been completed and I was editing the page to include this information

At some point my edit disapeared and being new to this system I assumed I had made some mistake while editing so I started again but then my edit vanished and this time I received an alart message

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Lady Bug (video game), you may be blocked from editing. Bbb23 (talk) 18:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Why is this happening ? The content is not unsourced/poorly sourced, its a brand new project that has just been completed

Heres two sources

https://lovebug.ml (the home of the project)
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=21812 (the full project process from start to finish)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by LoveBug2084 (talk • contribs)

@LoveBug2084: An administrator, @Bbb23, was the one who reverted your edit. It looks like they did so because you did not include reliable sources that supported the text you added. Additionally, one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 19:11, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

A) you have to reference as you write. B) neither the company website nor a forum are considered reliable source citations. David notMD (talk) 19:48, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@LoveBug2084: Per the Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, it would be appropriate for you to discuss your suggestions for improvement on the article's talk page: Talk:Lady Bug (video game). Providing independent reliable sources would also be beneficial. Happy editing! (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) GoingBatty (talk) 01:18, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Artem Yasynskyy

Hi, can you please help me? In one article I wrote on "Artem Yasynskyy" I got a speedy deletion nomination without any arguments given. I'm quite sure that this is not justified. I could not contest the nomination - what should I do? Thanks!! Ch. Nabe (talk) 21:36, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ch. Nabe, hello and welcome to the Teahouse, I cannot view the article (if it has been deleted)but if you create an article that falls under the confines of what is contained in WP:CSD, your article may be speedy deleted whether or not you contest it especially promotional, blatant copyrights and attack pages. You can however locate the admin who deleted you article and initiate a dialogue with them. Celestina007 (talk) 22:10, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Artem Yasynskyy Another editor has removed the speedy tag. RudolfRed (talk) 22:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Ch. Nabe (talk) 22:18, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@RudolfRed, thanks for the link @Ch. Nabe, it appears the article wasn’t actually speedy deleted. Celestina007 (talk) 22:24, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ch. Nabe: Every fact and award should have a reference, or they should be removed. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:31, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Move

How to notify at Article B and C that a move discussion regarding them is open at Article A? Peter Ormond 💬 02:56, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Peter Ormond: I believe it will depend if Article B and C are being moved to Article A or from Article A. I'm looking over WP:REQMOVE, I believe the instructions are there. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 03:13, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲: The names of Articles A, B and C are to be changed and that is being disussed solely at the talk page of Article A. So, I need to inform at B and C. Peter Ormond 💬 03:16, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

~~@Peter Ormond, I believe you can use this code:~~

{{subst:requested move|NewName|reason=Place here your rationale for the proposed page name change. You don't need to add your signature at the end, as this template will do so automatically.}} ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 03:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Nevermind, that code only works in talkspace. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 03:28, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

A bot should tag the articles within an hour or so of placing Template:Requested move on the talk page of Article A. Article B and C need to be listed in Template:Requested move in order for the bot to tag them as well. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 03:36, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

How to write a page on a topic when there exist less online sources?

KamruzzamannAsif (talk) 03:23, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@KamruzzamannAsif: Welcome to the Teahouse. Sources do not need to be online, so long as they're reliable. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:40, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Tenryuu Thanks have a good day KamruzzamannAsif (talk) 03:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Draft Question

Is there any problems with the Draft:Prende TV? ItsJustdancefan (talk) 01:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for wanting to help Wikipedia with a new article, and for putting so much time and effort into your draft. Though you have found a couple of articles from the Los Angeles Times, I suspect most of your references will be considered to be press releases sent out by Prende TV. I didn't find a reference telling what anyone outside of the company has to say about it. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and it's important to tell what reliable sources, with no connection to Prende, have written about the streaming platform.

Also, your sources state Prende TV will have Spanish language content, but that isn't mentioned in your article. Many who don't watch Spanish language TV won't be familiar with Univision.

Perhaps your article is too soon, and it would be better to wait until newspapers and other sources with no connection to Prende TV have a chance to write in-depth articles about it, and state whether it is finding an audience. It may be that in a few months more reliable sources will be available. Best wishes on your Wikipedia work. Karenthewriter (talk) 04:17, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome back @ItsJustdancefan! I would remove the "a lot of" from the last sentence; otherwise the writing looks fine. Make sure the sources say what you have cited them for. That leaves the matter of notability. This, currently #2 in the article, looks like a WP:SIGCOV. If there are a few more, it should get accepted. Looks like this is supposed to be a big thing for the Spanish-speaking demographic in all of US, so it ought to be notable. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 04:23, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Recovering Deleted Page?

Hello, my Draft was deleted despite the copyright being cleared. I don't understand why. The content has been Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:J.T._Patten Can someone retrieve it back please? NPFictionLibrarian (talk) 01:20, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@NPFictionLibrarian: You can make an undeletion request at WP:REFUND, but it is unlikely to be approved without good reason. You may wish to ask @Nosebagbear for clarification as to why they deleted your draft article. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 01:30, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

We can't just take your word for it that "the copyright was cleared" (which is not a very meaningful sentence, sorry) because — and this might surprise you — sometimes, people lie. I do note that Mr Patten's website now has the phrase "[This material is for Public Use]", which I assume is intended to be — but is not actually — a statement licensing the material for use in accordance with Wikipedia's requirements. DS (talk) 02:51, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@NPFictionLibrarian and DragonflySixtyseven: - the content was duplicated from a prior version of the site that didn't, I believe, even make an attempt at licensing properly. The fact that it's now gone means that even if there was a legitimate disclaimer at the bottom that met our requirements (and it isn't, atm) it still wouldn't apply to that text. Nosebagbear (talk) 05:59, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

auto confirmed user

Please help a newcomer. Too many guides pages on wiki is getting me overwhelmed. I got a notification from wiki saying "you just made your tenth edit, thank you and please keep going". I was under the impression that to get the auto-confirmed status, I would need to edit 11 articles in 4 days? Or did i need to do 11 total edits to get the status? Please guide. Aprism (talk) 08:02, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Your account needs to be four days old. Just a matter of waiting a couple more days and you'll be autoconfirmed! Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:12, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

thanks Zudo, can you please tell if i need to do 9 more articles, since i have done 2? Or did it really mean 11 total edits? I'm confused there. Also, will i get a confirmation email from wikipedia, how would i find out? Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aprism (talk • contribs)

It's just 4 days and 10 total edits. That's all. If you're using a desktop browser, there's a link for "Contributions" at the top of any page, which shows your own contribution history.

~Anachronist (talk) 08:25, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Aprism, and welcome to the Teahouse. I'd like to give you a word of caution: many of the things that you will be newly allowed to do once you are autoconfirmed are things that I would always advise inexperienced editors not to do. Want to create a new article? you will spare yourself a lot of frustration and disappointment if you don't even attempt this until you have a few months of experience in editing existing articles; and then use the articles for creation mechanism to create a draft (which in fact you can already do). Want to edit a semiprotected article? Please take the time to understand the history, and why the article has been semiprotected, and the relevant Wikipedia policies or, again, you may have a frustrating experience. Have a look whether your proposed edit has already been discussed on the article's talk page - and even if it has, it may be more constructive to propose it on the talk page rather than just going ahead and being bold. Happy editing! --ColinFine (talk) 11:04, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Colin, I did get overwhelm in hardly a few hours over too many guidelines pages and all. I checked a few semi protected pages but knew it wasn't for me to edit, so i won't do those in the first few months atleast. I joined wiki to be autoconfirmed to create a page for my work. What happens if i create it after 4 day, would it go down or something? What are the odds that I wouldn't get it right? thanks for the message. 〜〜〜〜 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aprism (talk • contribs)

Hey, Aprism, no idea what happened with your signature there. Maybe someone else will figure it out. It's not a good idea to edit in an area where you have a conflict of interest, and since it's for your employer, this is paid editing, which is even trickier. You've disclosed here, which is good, and you'll also have to disclose on your user page at User:Aprism. There are instructions at WP:COI. A bigger issue is that your employer may not be notable enough for a Wikipedia article, and if it isn't, no amount of work you do will help. Our policies on notability for businesses can be found at WP:NORG. —valereee (talk) 12:14, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Those are apparently wave dashes, probably interchangeable with tildes in some contexts but not in Wikipedia signatures. Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:15, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi again, Aprism. Yes, there's far too much to assimilate in a short time, which is why I advise going slowly, making small edits to existing articles as you gradually assimilate how it works.

I'm afraid that I joined wiki to be autoconfirmed to create a page for my work is a recipe for frustration and disappointment. Basically, that is promotion, which is strictly forbidden on Wikipedia. If ever Wikipedia has an article about your work, the article will not belong to you, will not be for your benefit, will not be controlled by you, will not necessarily say what you want it to say, and should be based almost entirely on what people who have no connection with you have chosen to publish about you and your work, not on what you say or want to say. You are not forbidden to create such an article, but you are strongly discouraged, and if you are going to, you must declare your conflict of interest, and use the articles for creation process to create a draft (which means that autoconfirmation is irrelevant). An article about you is possible only if you meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability - roughly, that several independent people have published significant amounts of material about you - and for you to write it will require you to do the almost impossible task of forgetting everything you know about yourself and your work and writing only what is in those independent sources.

If you do go ahead and create an article directly, then the best outcome you can hope for is that somebody will draftify it (so you might as well create a draft anyway). Alternatively, they may delete it, either because they conclude that you do not meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability, or because they think that what you have written is simply advertising.

I'm sorry to be so negative, but basically you have come here, as hundreds of other people do, in order to do something which is fundamentally opposed to the principles of Wikipedia. If you drop that goal, and choose to help us create the biggest and best encyclopaedia ever, you are very welcome; but if you hang on to wanting to use it to promote yourself, then you're not going to have a good time. (When you type the four tildes to sign your post, don't put spaces between them: that stops the software recognising it and substituting your signature). --ColinFine (talk) 12:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I may have misunderstood. Aprism, yes, whether you're referring to your employer or your own body of work, you still have a conflict of interest. In the case of your own body of work, it wouldn't be paid editing, but it might be promotional. Either way, as ColinFine says, it's very difficult for a new editor with a COI to understand the process well enough to make it happen in a way that will fulfill policy for us. You can read over the current discussions on this page (which archives any discussion that hasn't been added to in two days; that's how often this comes up) and see that a large number of discussions here are just that: brand new editors whose goal is to create an article for one particular person, organization, or body of work, frustrated because they can't figure out why their draft keeps getting rejected. —valereee (talk) 12:33, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

If you post an article directly in mainspace, you accept the consequences of doing so, including deletion, being kicked back to draft, etc. It is for this reason we recommend drafting instead of creating directly in mainspace. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 22:40, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot to all the messages here. I think I should make it clear that it is not for my work as in office, my own, since I'm a content creator, I want to make a page of my website, which would definitely have links to my articles or article pages. I have seen well established content creators with wiki pages that's where I got the idea from. There are a lot of procedures, guidelines and rules here. So I think i'll take my time to first learn about them all, the possibilities, and contacting wiki through email in case it helps through that channel. I'm hoping for responses and directions as clear as a yes or no. Will drop it if it's the latter. But if its the first, every requirement and procedure to go about it. But thanks a lot to all of you for your responses. It does seem wiki is quite a strict platform to these things I never knew till now. Have a great day! Aprism (talk) 06:05, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

How to earn money from Wikipedia?

I want to ask that many people earn from Wikipedia, and I have made so much of edits and I hadn't got any money. So could anyone please tell How we can earn money from Wikipedia? Kishmish Hu Main Ok (talk) 11:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia is a hobby, not a profession. Editors are volunteers, we are not paid. --bonadea contributions talk 11:21, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, KIshmish Hu Main Ok, and welcome to the Teahous. As Bonadea says, Wikipedia is a volunteer project. Nobody at all is paid by Wikipedia to edit it (there are a few paid staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, but editing Wikipedia is not generally part of their work). There are people who offer to edit Wikipedia for pay: I advise you (and anybody else) to keep clear of such people. They are not affiliated with Wikipedia or approved by it. Many of them are scammers. --ColinFine (talk) 12:40, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Repinging Kishmish Hu Main Ok -- ColinFine (talk) 12:41, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Ohk, Thanks for telling ColinFine — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kishmish Hu Main Ok (talk • contribs) 06:43, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia exclude realism?

Does (the very idea of) Wikipedia exclude realism, the innocent way of thinking of Pythagoras and others before Aristotle that Reality determines what is true and what is not true?

The realism of Pythagoras, and others before Aristotle, is NOT a philosophical method of reasoning. It is the ongoing process of discovering the truths about Reality which constitute Science. Realism is independent of the discipline Aristotle and his followers chose to call “Philosophy”. Wikipedia represents “Philosophy” in Aristotle’s mistaken sense.

DFSmelbourne (talk) 02:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

This is such a broad question, @DFSmelbourne, and it seems like you're trying to get at something very specific. I'll answer it as best I can though.

Wikipedia does not exclude realism, and it doesn't really exclude any philosophical methods of reasoning. Anyone can make any argument on Wikipedia for any reason (at least, for the most part–obviously we have policies against hate/discrimination, threats, and other disruptive behavior). Sometimes Wikipedia runs into problems with things like Naïve realism, but nonetheless people still make these types of arguments, as Wikipedia doesn't exclude particular ways of reasoning. After all, Wikipedia is a cluocracy. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 02:40, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

Hello DFSmelbourne and welcome to the Teahouse.

You raise a very general, I would almost say, "philosophical" question, but not a question about how to edit on Wikipedia. The relationship between Wikipedia and truth is mediated by what reliable sources have to say; we are supposed to report what they say, not determine truth. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:43, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

To which I would add: If you have a suggestion for or comment on the article Law of excluded middle, please make it at Talk:Law of excluded middle. -- Hoary (talk) 02:49, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia doesn't exclude realism, but it holds it at arm's length. The definition of true within WP is reported by reliable sources. The Wikipedia editor sits in a room and reads the newspaper. S/he doesn't look out the window and see that the sky is blue. Instead s/he reads the Guardian and the Times, and if both report that the sky is green, truth for the WP editor is that the sky is green. But this definition of truth is based on the idea that reliable, secondary sources will be true according to a broad range of philosophies, including the straightforward idea that reality determines truth. We rely on the idea that no Times reporter is going to look out the window, see blue, and report green. Elemimele (talk) 07:35, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

FIFA World Rankings

On national team pages, I can't figure out how the FIFA ranking is updated. On Canada's all I saw was | FIFA Rank = 31 (December 19, 2024)^[1] but i don't know how this works MattBinYYC (talk) 08:47, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

This has been answered at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#FIFA World Rankings. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:35, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

^ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Men's World Ranking". FIFA. December 19, 2024. Retrieved December 19, 2024.

Question from User:Brentxphillips

Hi, I am a novice editor and constantly whenever I try to edit something it gets declined and I have no idea how to navigate wikipedia behind the scenes to communicate with editors or do anything. In spite of tons on documentation, I can't find anything simple that's useful to me to learn the dashboard, markdown, common tasks and etc. Why can't anyone iterate through simple tasks with screenshots for new folks, explaining the lingo and etc?????? Brentxphillips (talk) 04:35, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brentxphillips: If you're looking for a basic tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia, there's The Wikipedia Adventure, which I always suggest beginners to complete. If you having trouble with a specific problem, feel free to ask here. ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 04:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Brentxphillips, you've been having trouble with Draft:Humanitarian AI Movement for one. I quote from the draft: The efforts of a growing number of individuals and initiatives have contributing to defining and turning Humanitarian AI into a topic and channeling interest in the field into a mainstream movement focusing on increasing the use and impact of artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector, particularly supporting the provision of humanitarian aid. You provide no reference for any of that. Possibly you regard it as self-evidently true. I quote your user page: It's our responsibility to record history and the truths we know for next generations! Therein perhaps lies the root problem. When writing drafts for Wikipedia, you are welcome to record history as it is recorded by reliable, independent, published sources, and that's all. (Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth.) If you limit yourself to this, and do it scrupulously, you'll seldom be required to communicate with other editors. -- Hoary (talk) 05:02, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You successfully created Humanitarian Crowdfunding in 2016, so not quite a novice. I do agree that your recent efforts at Humanitarian AI Movement need a lot of work before resubmitting. David notMD (talk) 10:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

CarDr.com

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by HitroMilanese was: This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia. Please help how to get it published. Rkk2260 (talk) 09:43, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Rkk2260 Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. As noted, you must have independent reliable sources with significant coverage of this company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. The sources you offered are just announcements of routine business activities, which does not establish notability. There needs to be independent reliable sources that have chosen on their own to extensively write about this business and say something beyond just telling what it does. Any materials put out by the company, or that merely report what it does, are not acceptable. For example, Ford Motor Company merits an article not because there are publications that report on the latest car model it released(a routine business activity for a car manufacturer) but because sources independent of the company have extensively written about Ford and its impacts on manufacturing, the car industry as a whole, society, and other things. This is an extreme example, but the point it it isn't enough to just tell us what a company has done, it needs to be significant in some way. Please see Your First Article for more information.

If you are associated with this company, please review conflict of interest and paid editing for information on required formal disclosures. 331dot (talk) 09:51, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Agree that the refs look like derived from press releases, and you need to reply to query about paid and/or COI. David notMD (talk) 11:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Are you supposed to replace unreliable sources?

Hello,

I came across a claim in an article that is correct, but it is marked with 'unreliable source?'. I checked out the source and it does seem like it is unreliable. Knowing the claim to be correct, I found a primary source that confirms what was written in the article.

What is considered the correct way to update this article? Do I delete the source currently listed and add the reliable source to it instead? Should I just reference the source I found and leave the 'unreliable source?' as is?

Thank you. Emily Banks (talk) 11:09, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey, removing the unreliable source and adding the better one is the way to go here. CanePlayz (Jacob) (talk) 11:22, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! I will do that. Emily Banks (talk) 11:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Great :) CanePlayz (Jacob) (talk) 11:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Question about a discussion with another editor

Hey, so I've had a discussion with another editor (User:Frank6292010) on his talk page User talk:Frank6292010 about an edit I made on the List of Walt Disney Studios films (2020-2029). He gave me a warning on my talk page for it, however, I think I did nothing wrong, and instead of giving me legit reasons what I did wrong, he keeps on saying weird stuff that confuses me. Since I'm pretty new to the wiki, I have no clue where to go from here and any help on how to continues would be much appreciated. CanePlayz (Jacob) (talk) 10:18, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You're well within your rights to remove warnings from your talk page, especially so if they were the result of ClueBot NG encountering a false positive.

From a quick glance, your edits at List of Walt Disney Studios films (2020-2029) seem to be constructive and sourced, so I wouldn't let it bother you too much. If you continue to have issues with another user's behaviour, Wikipedia:Dispute resolution might be a helpful read. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:54, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the quick response. Just another quick thing: If the user who gave me the warning fails to deliver a reason for it, am I also allowed to delete that or does it HAVE to be archived somewhere? CanePlayz (Jacob) (talk) 11:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

you're free to remove warnings anytime, just that you should be aware that this means the warning is read and acknowledged. it may also be possible that frank has yet to see this message (their last edit was at 04:26 utc and you posted at 05:26), which is why they have yet to respond. happy editing! melecie t 11:39, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. And yeah, I'm still closely looking at what Frank says, because it's still possible I missed something that was wrong with my edit. CanePlayz (Jacob) (talk) 11:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Question about using sandbox for other wikis

Hello, I am an editor for a controversial wiki known as the CWCki. Currently our wiki is undergoing periods of downtime which makes editing pages somewhat difficult; unfortunately, something has happened (which I will not discuss here) which requires many of the articles to be rewritten or receive major edits. My question is, would I be able to use a personal sandbox here to edit pages of my wiki under the rules and conditions of Wikipedia? I understand Wikipedia has strict rules against defamation (which some may consider my wiki to be guilty of) and the creation of pages on the subject of the wiki I edit for, however being a sandbox, it would not be a part of Wikipedia at large. If the sandbox is not a good place for this kind of editing, then could you recommend a good alternative? Thank you for your time and have a good day. Anewfella (talk) 21:19, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Anewfella: Thank you for being so honest about what you'd like to do. Wikipedia's major policies and guidelines tend to apply to all pages (including what you might consider to be "practice" pages like a sandbox), so if you post anything on any page that would be considered a violation of WP:BLP, WP:NPA, WP:LEGAL, WP:COPY, etc., you're likely going to find yourself having problems (most likely fairly quickly). You'll probably receive a warning at first and perhaps a page blanking, but that will quickly escalate if you try and do the same thing again; moreover, it wouldn't be totally unheard of for an administrator to simply block your account even without warning if they deemed the issue to be a very serious violation. Pretty much the only stuff we as editors can post on our user pages is as described in WP:UPYES; anything that runs afoul of WP:UPNO is likely going to flagged for review. How long that takes might vary, and sometimes a bit a leeway is granted for borderline stuff; however, anything considered to be too WP:POLEMIC or too WP:NOTWEBHOST eventually will attract attention and will likely end up being deleted or removed either completely or partially. So, if you know going in that some of the content you might be adding to a Wikipedia page is likely going to be a problem, then you're probably best to avoid doing so. Try to understand that user are only sort of borrowing their user pages as explained in WP:UP#OWN; so, anything that is considered to be in violation can be removed at anytime. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:43, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Probably not here. See WP:NOTWEBHOST. I recommend text files on your computer. Enterprisey (talk!) 21:45, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your responses, I think it is best that I don't use the sandbox for these edits, and it's good to have conformation on that fact. Thank you for your understanding and have a good day. Anewfella (talk) 21:53, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

With a name like that, I can take a guess as to the possible subject matter and can only say, good idea not discussing it here, and good idea to ask if this was kosher first. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 05:40, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Jéské Couriano, you beat me to it. (And addressed it in a better way then I would have!) Bkissin (talk) 17:00, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I succumbed to curiosity and did a Google search on CWC. Now I know why their names keep popping up in discussions the past few days. The OP's prudence in asking first is commendable. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 11:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Should I publish a grammar revision I'm confident in, or have it reviewed first?

Hello. I'm currently working on a grammar revision to the article "Ronot society." As I'm not adding anything, just fixing some grammar, should I take it somewhere for approval first? And where would I, if I did have some new contributions to it? I'm still working on this as of now, but still would appreciate the advice on that front. Thanks. // [NomadicVoxel] [_talk\^ctbs] 04:13, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

if you are confident, be WP:BOLD. PrimalBlueWolf (talk) 04:38, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi NomadicVoxel. The only thing I would suggest before being BOLD would be to take a look at MOS:ENGVAR to make sure the things you want to fix are actually grammar errors and not just differences is grammar based on differences between national varieties of English. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:51, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Ronot society could do with attention from a native English speaker, and has been tagged for attention, so go for it, NomadicVoxel! ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 12:09, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

What to do next

My article was deleted while I was making edits suggested. What do I do now? CharityJunky (talk) 11:40, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

The criteria for the Speedy deletion was G11, meaning that in the assessment of an experienced Administrator, the content was Unambiguous advertising or promotion. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles, rather than advertisements. If a subject is notable and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a neutral point of view, this is preferable to deletion. Note: Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion. However, "promotion" does not necessarily mean commercial promotion: anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, etc."

All evidence of the draft is removed. You would ask the deleting Administrator for an emailed copy of what you had created. Or you could start over again, modeling your new draft on existing articles of a similar ilk. David notMD (talk) 12:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Your creation Draft:Garnet Care Foundation was deleted by Materialscientist as "Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Its opening sentence at that time was: Helping vulnerable females in Nigeria - this organisation does it all. Which reliable, independent, published source said that GCF does it all to help vulnerable women and girls in Nigeria? If you don't specify whose evaluation this is, it seems very likely that it's the evaluation of GCF itself, and this would be advertising.

I suggest that you simply stop and wait for volunteers unrelated to GCF to create a draft about GCF. -- Hoary (talk) 12:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You - properly - declared your paid connection to the organization. As declared paid, you are allowed to attempt to create this article, but be aware that paid editors' work can get extra scrutiny. All content needs to be referenced, and whatever GCF states about itself does not establish notability. Same for information from interviews with GCF people. David notMD (talk) 13:02, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Username styling

Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask, but can I sign up with a username that doesn't start with a capital letter? I've noticed everyone here has a username beginning with a capital letter, even spam accounts. Is it possible for a username to begin with a small letter? 49.144.207.248 (talk) 12:54, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

No it isn't. I'm "Hoary". If I happened to prefer "hoary", I could fiddle with my signature and have people call me "hoary": it would redirect to "Hoary" and work perfectly well. However, the energy that many people put into pretty signatures would be better expended on improving articles. -- Hoary (talk) 12:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

The software upon which Wikipedia runs doesn't take into account the capitalisation of the first letter of page and account names - User:Example and User:example are the same person, and Foobar and foobar are the same page. If you wanted you could edit your signature to display your username with a lowercase first letter, and add {{lowercase title}} onto your userpage to get the pages to display with a lowercase title. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 13:08, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Deletion and copyrights

I am very confused about a page (the only page) I wrote. I drew a picture of an instrument bridge and described it as it is used. Someone I know later copied the picture and put it in a book chapter in an edited volume. Then someone here said I copied it from the book (when it was the other way around) and marked it for speedy deletion. I am not a Wikipedia expert and could not figure out how to deal with the situation. The page was deleted, even though the Wikipedia page was the reference listed in the book. Somehow, a very low-resolution GIF was made (probably for the sidebar), and now it has been marked for deletion. I actually don't care if this content is on Wikipedia or not, but I am really disturbed by the stuff on my talk page.

I never violated copyright and I don't like that on my talk page it implies that I am a copyright violator. I have no intention of contributing content to Wikipedia ever again, and I am not likely to ever donate again unless I can clear my name.

Rkjulian (talk) 13:47, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Is there anyone who can help me? Rkjulian (talk) 13:46, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

I can say that we editors have nothing to do with donations, they are collected by the Wikimedia Foundation. Donating or withholding donations has no impact on Wikipedia activities. We don't know who does and does not donate.

You are free to remove content from your own user talk page. 331dot (talk) 13:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

You can remove the notices from your talk page (or simply blank it out completely) at any time - the speedy deletion nomination was meant as a message for you, and not as some sort a badge of shame.

The article you made was deleted, so if you want it restored you can put in a request at WP:RFU. I can't see the deleted page, so I don't know what the content was, but if you think it was removed in error you're well within your rights to ask for it to be reinstated.

I understand that a situation like this can be disheartening, but please understand that you're not in trouble. Feel free to ask for further clarification if you need it. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:55, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

You are not alone in having content you created somewhere (including Wikipedia) being used elsewhere without attribution, and then being accused of having copied from those sites (has happened to me more than once). Per 331dot, you are free to delete such from your Talk page. I suggest writing an Edit summary as to why, in case any editor finds reason to look at edits deleted from your Talk page. David notMD (talk) 14:29, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

As regards the image, Rkjulian: Wikipedia (and Wikimedia Commons) will accept images only if it is explicit that the image is either in the public domain, or has been released by the copyright owner under a suitable copyleft licence. If an image is in a published book without an explicit release, Wikimedia will assume that it is copyright, and cannot be uploaded or used: it is very common that people upload pictures they have found in books or on the web, and usually this is a copyright violation. If you in fact hold the copyright for that image, then you (only) have the power to release it under a suitable licence, and one way to do that would be for you to upload it to Commons and state that it is your own work and that you are releasing it under CC-BY-SA. (In the circumstances it would be a good idea to add a note explaining that it was used in the book but that you hold the copyright). On the other hand, if you are not bothered whether the image appears, then you might not want to do this. --ColinFine (talk) 15:07, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Surely the publication date of the book must be after the date the image was uploaded to WP; otherwise, the book's authors couldn't have downloaded it and used it. If the date the image was uploaded here precedes the publication date of the book, you could not possibly have taken the image from the book, and the book's authors can't claim the copyright unless they deliberately in the book attribute it to another source (which is pretty unlikely, and also verifiable; they can't just claim it's their image that they had all along, and only just published, because if it was already on WP, there must be a credible way it got there; you can be accused of many things, but not mind-reading!) Elemimele (talk) 15:48, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Rkjulian, the GIF has been nominated as it's fairly rough compared to the corresponding PNG. I don't see any copyright concerns expressed about the PNG. Unfortunately I can't see the deleted article Instrument bridge, which has already been speedily-deleted. But I do notice the Google books entry linked on your talk page says published 2012, whilst the image was uploaded 2007. Your best bet for the article is to see Victor's answer ~~request undeletion as Zudo suggested~~. ~~Or, with some luck, a passing admin who sees this might have a look.~~ ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 11:30, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Just a small note, G12 undeletion don't go to WP:RFU as per the into there, though I haven't found a definitve place to appeal G12 deletions on the grounds of them being a reverse copyvio. Maybe try WP:DRV, after trying to contact the deleting admin, Just Chilling. Victor Schmidt (talk) 12:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Victor Schmidt, I hadn't noticed those exceptions. I'll keep them in mind next time. And I agree, it would be useful if the RFU page told people the preferred venue for G12 appeals. (There are some restored copyright actions [1] et seq., but those are VTRS and so a different kettle of fish.) ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 13:31, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

signature

how can i turn on Auto-signature on the wikipedia? —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 22:18, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

You can either add four tildes (that's this: ~) to the end of your comments, or you can place {{YesAutosign}} on your user page or user talk page to opt in to auto-signing by a bot. Hope that helps! Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 23:32, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Please note, @Pyrrho the Skeptic and @Sakura emad, it's not an "or" situation. You can place the template in your userpage so that the bot signs for you when you forget but it is your responsibility to not forget most of the time. You should sign each of your posts by typing four tildes in the end (like this: ~~~~). Usedtobecool ☎️ 04:11, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad: Were you talking about this automatic signature feature?

It is part of the reply tool. You can turn it on by going to your beta preferences and checking the box for "Discussion tools". ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 04:20, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Usedtobecool:, @FormalDude:, @Pyrrho the Skeptic: Please look (at here) i work in ckb wikipedia in there when write anything you don't need to sign it, the system automatically signs for you --—— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 12:08, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲: i am sorry i couldn't find it, i've visited Preferences then Gadgets but couldn't find it--—— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 12:27, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad It is under beta features tab, here is the direct link. Scroll down and tick

discussion tools. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:05, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Dear @Paper9oll: Thank you very much i've found it but still it is not like CKB wiki auto signature does not work,. and many more feautres are missing --—— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Paper9oll wait i think it worked now thank you —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:26, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad English Wikipedia doesn't have such auto signature checkbox feature. The alternative is discussion tools, if you would like to feedback on discussion tools or request for feature, you can do so on the project discussion page. However, do note that not every request would be fulfilled or even taken into consideration, but asking is free so no harm trying. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:43, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Paper9oll no i think it worked more than enough thank you alot for all of you. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Article Creation

Hello! How do I create a new article? It is only allowing me to create a draft. Jimmiewaitesassistant (talk) 13:36, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Jimmiewaitesassistant you have already asked a Question Please wait until someone answers what've asked. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

i meant you asked the same Question twice. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:39, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Dear @Jimmiewaitesassistant what don't you look at Help:Introduction i think it is useful —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 14:03, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Confusion on title

I want to create a list of headquarters of regional councils in France which are called Hôtel de Région or just Hôtel. So what should be the title of my article? (The corresponding French article is titled Liste des hôtels de région de France (transl. List of hotels in the regions of France)) Excellenc1📞 14:19, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1: The general policy is given in WP:TITLE. Generally article titles should be whatever the subject is commonly referred to in the English languge, see WP:COMMOMNAME. Are these headquarters discussed in English language publications and if so what do they refer to them as? 192.76.8.91 (talk) 14:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@192.76.8.91: Out of all the regional parliaments, there is only one of them made till now, which is titled Hôtel de Courcy (council of Brittany). Excellenc1📞 14:36, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Manual of Style

Manual of Style On Islamic Honorifics, the manual of style may offend some who may regard it as unbecoming not to honor prophets or deities. PenguinsMadagscar (talk) 14:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@PenguinsMadagscar: Welcome to the Teahouse. Wikipedia is not censored and tries to assume a neutral point of view, as [a]ttempting to ensure that articles and images will be acceptable to all readers, or will adhere to general social or religious norms, is incompatible with the purposes of an encyclopedia. I am unsure if non-English Wikipedias that are more closely associated with Islam have the same policy and style. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:50, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Publish my Wikipedia Page

How to become a Wikipedia Page creator? What is the procedure to create a company's / Individuals Wikipedia page? MeghnaSuresh (talk) 06:30, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@MeghnaSuresh Welcome to the Teahouse. I have left a welcome message on your Talk Page with helpful links. We only allow articles about topics that are NOTABLE. There are billions of people and millions of businesses that are not deemed notable and would never be able to have an article about them. The key notability criteria for people and organisations are outlined at WP:NBIO and WP:NCORP, respectively. Nick Moyes (talk) 07:04, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, MeghnaSuresh, and welcome to the Teahouse. The question "How do I become a Wikipedia Page creator?" is a little like "How do I become a house builder?", in that the best answer is "By starting with small jobs and learning the trade. Once you have learnt enough to understand why your goal is such a large task, you may be ready to try it." Another point is that "A company's/individual's Wikipedia page" is something that does not exist. Not one person, not one company has a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia has articles about six million subjects, many of them people or companies; but an article does not belong to its subject, is not in any way for its subject's benefit, is not controlled by its subject, will not necessarily say what its subject would like it to say, and should be based almost entirely on what people who have no connection with the subject have chosen to publish about its subject, not on what the subject says or wants to say. --ColinFine (talk) 16:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Pavan Acharya

Heading=Pavan Acharya Subject =I need an Wikipedia article for my organization

Am pavan acharya professional experienced recognized Kannada sandalwood film actor and Telivesion actor I need an Wikipedia article for my organization so any one admistrater hosting Wikipedia please let me know

thank you regards Pavan acharya Pavan Acharya (Actor...., TV personality) (talk) 08:41, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Are you trying to create a page about yourself?. If so, please see WP:COI SUN EYE 1 08:45, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You misunderstand how articles are created. The role of Administrators is not to create articles, and there are no "hosters" who do that . Editors create articles. People are advised against trying to create an article about themselves. See WP:AUTO. If you are sufficiently famous in your career, sooner or later a person with no connection to you may decide to create an article about you or your organization. David notMD (talk) 11:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Please also see the second half of my reply to the previous question on this page, Pavan Acharya (Actor...., TV personality). --ColinFine (talk) 16:15, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Creating an article

Hello! How do I create a new article? It is only allowing me to create a draft. Jimmiewaitesassistant (talk) 13:28, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You need to be autoconfirmed to make a new article directly. I suggest you check out Help:Your first article and, since you had a draft deleted for copyright violations, the relevant policy. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jimmiewaitesassistant, and welcome to the Teahouse. Please also see my reply to #Publish my Wikipedia Page above. --ColinFine (talk) 16:21, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

create section "works" on Princess Eugénie of Sweden

should i create seperate section for bulleted sources in references section. i assuming they are referring to article person. or should i add them to further reading section? 28july21 (talk) 14:07, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@28july21: welcome to the Teahouse. The "references" section should list the references that are used to support information in the article, while "further reading" is for books or published articles that can help the reader learn more about the subject, but are not used to support the aricle directly. When you talk about a "works" section, do you mean a section listing the music she composed, her paintings and drawings and other works of art she produced? Such a section would need to be referenced in the same way as any other information in the article. Does this answer your question? --bonadea contributions talk 16:14, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea: it seems i misinterpreted mos/layout. i think "further reading" is appropriate here. i will go ahead make changes. thanks for clarification. --28july21 (talk) 16:28, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was making a minor edit to 1950 in baseball. All of a sudden, when I went to preview, everything in events save for the month of February was gone. However, when I clicked on edit again, the text was there, it just wasn't showing up on the page. How did this happen? I've made over 500+ edits on various pages and I've never had this happen before. Help!!!!!!! I'm only here because I'm not currently somewhere else. (talk) 19:09, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sportsfan1976: Looks like you wiped out the "comment terminator" ("-->") that preceded the April entry. Thus, everything from April on was commented out. In the event of complete disaster, you can just revert your latest edit and get it back to the way it was before you messed it up. Fabrickator (talk) 19:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I was able to go back and fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sportsfan1976 (talk • contribs)

new here 12 aug 2021

idk what to say here: alright so i'm new here so what do i do? Dualmau5 (talk) 18:59, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Dualmau5 Assuming you mean what to do on WP, you seek out articles on topics you are interested in and try to improve them. These links can get you started: WP:ADVENTURE, WP:TUTORIAL and WP:Community portal. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Greetings...

Hello, Dualmau5, and welcome to Wikipedia!

To get started, click on the green welcome.

I hope you like it here and decide to stay! Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 19:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Dualmau5: I highly recommend completing The Wikipedia Adventure! ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 20:26, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

how to contest deletion of an article that was accepted

My new article, Sara Andrews Spencer, was accepted last night. Twenty minutes ago, someone marked it for deletion as a copyright infringement. It is not. The instructions say I can contest it, but the page is already deleted. I worked hard on it and I am quite frustrated. DailySuffragist (talk) 14:00, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You can contact the deleting administrator at their talk page. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

if i am not wrong it is here Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 14:08, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

RFU isn't supposed to be used for G12 undeletions. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:09, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad: RFU is only for pages that were deleted via G13 (stale draft) G6 (maintenance) and WP:PROD, You cannot use the process to request the undeletion of a suspected copyright violation. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 14:13, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

well ok thank i was unsure in the first place. @Zudo —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 14:14, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I really hope this doesn't come across as rude, but if you're not 100% sure what to do it's probably best not to give instructions, Wikipedia is confusing enough for newcomers without being given multiple conflicting sets of instructions. The process here would First be to discuss the deletion with the deleting administrator, and following that if you still think the deletion was not in line with policy you should take the deletion to WP:Deletion review. 192.76.8.91 (talk) 14:19, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

DailySuffragist, I looked at this site and see substantial overlap between the site in the deleted article. What is your basis for asserting that there is no copyright violation? Assuming you agree there is a lot of overlap, it is not uncommon for brand-new editors to think that material written by them and subject to copyright can be used in a Wikipedia article. While this is sort of true, you must affirmatively provide a license. Is that the situation in this case? S Philbrick (Talk) 15:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

The deleting administrator has a message that basically says, don't contact me, I won't listen. But I'll give it a try. DailySuffragist (talk) 14:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Moneytrees, would you be able to check and advise? Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 14:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Usedtobecool, I'm looking into it, see above S Philbrick (Talk) 15:08, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks S. Thanks Money too, for following the ping. Best, Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:19, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

DailySuffragist, Such a message would be unacceptable but I don't see such a message can you point me to it? I do see a notation on the talk page that the admin may not respond swiftly to queries, but I don't see anything that translates to "don't contact me" S Philbrick (Talk) 14:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I understand it can be confusing but Onel5969 was not the deleting administrator in fact isn't even an administrator. That editor does a lot of work related to copyright and is very knowledgeable. Many deletions involve two different individuals — one to nominate for deletion, which was done by Onel5969, and one to actually carry out the deletion, which was done by Materialscientist. The suggestion to contact the deleting administrator was a reference to Materialscientist, not Onel5969, Although contacting Onel5969 is a sensible step to help understand why it was deleted. There is no need to contact Materialscientist. I think the deletion was warranted but as noted above, open to discussion with you for a possibility of why you disagree. S Philbrick (Talk) 15:20, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Onel5969 thanks for your help. Philbrick, I see that I borrowed too closely from my own piece, and now better understand how to permission it from my own published work or rewrite. But I think it's all more trouble than it's worth. Thanks, all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DailySuffragist (talk • contribs) 15:13, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

DailySuffragist, Good, I'm glad we cleared that up. If you do decide to pursue it, the process for arranging permission can be found here: Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries. However, it is only fair to warn you that while arranging for permission solves the copyright issue, the piece you wrote is unlikely to qualify as a reliable source (that's a guess not a certainty), so while permission would solve the copyright issue, the article would still need to cite published reliable sources. I do hope you will pursue it — based on my cursory read of the article it looks like a valuable addition. S Philbrick (Talk) 15:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

DailySuffragist I agree this article should exist, and I will be glad to help as much as I can if you restart the article. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 17:15, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks to all above for their comments. Just want to iterate that my speedy was solely due to the copyvio. If memory serves me (I've reviewed a few articles today), that was a well-written article. Although I had yet to review the sourcing (I always due to the copyvio check first - since if there is one, the sourcing is irrelevant). On the surface, the individual appeared notable, but I'd need to take another look. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:46, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

"Not notable"

Good afternoon,

I submitted an article a while ago for review. I've performed all the requested updates. It's still citing the subject as "Not Notable", even though they are a credited producer in award-winning, or award-nominated films. I keep getting vague Bot answers. Could you please advise? MVworks! (talk) 21:18, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@MVworks!: Answered at help desk - please don't duplicate the question on different pages - it adds extra work for volunteers. Please also see WP:COI and declare any conflicts you might have, on your user page. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 21:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Help making my user page

what do I add to my user page? WikiHistorianCanada (talk) 22:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiHistorianCanada Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. You may review WP:USERPAGE for information on what is acceptable (and not) user page content. In short, it is a place where you can tell about yourself as a Wikipedia editor. There is no requirement to have a user page at all, if you don't wish to. 331dot (talk) 22:35, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiHistorianCanada This might help also Wikipedia:User page design center. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

New article

Header inserted by ColinFine (talk) 12:23, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

How I can write the below topics? I feel Wikipedia is difficult to understand for me, need a guide, please.

born 29th November 1963 in Gopalgong, Bangladesh. He shifted to Tokyo, Japan. He is an abstract watercolor and Oil color painter, He has got a scholarship to study Drawing and painting in China at, China Academy of Art at Hangzhou https://caa.at0086.cn/site/. Music in color (talk) 11:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Music in color It appears you wish to create an article Draft:Liakat Ali. See WP:YFA for how to create a valid draft. That being said, unless there are people who are publishing articles about Liakat Ali, to use as references, this person will not meet Wikipedia's definition of notability, and thus not qualify for an article. David notMD (talk) 12:52, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Music in color. As previously stated, your subject needs to be notable. Regarding the correct format of writing an article, I suggest that you take a look at other Wikipedia articles using the Visual Editing or Source Editing interface. This way you would know the acceptable structure, content, and referencing requirements and format. For instance, you can check the Syed Jahangir's page. Using the editing interface, you should be able to identify the included elements and content. Good luck! Darwin Naz (talk) 22:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Best Way To Include Media Reference For Article Not Available Online

What is the best way to include a reference to (example) a newspaper article that is no longer online (the newspaper in question doesn't have an online archive, etc.) but you have a digital copy of the article? Iamthekanadian (talk) 15:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Iamthekanadian, and welcome to the Teahouse. The important part of any citation is the bibliographic information that will let a reader quickly see things like the publisher, title, author, and publication date (which can be helpful in deciding how much trust to have in it) and in principle let a reader obtain a copy, even if they need to order it through a major library or the Resource exchange. In most cases a link is a convenience, not a crucial part of the citation. I suggest using {{cite news}}, which has parameters for the common pieces of information. DO not attempt to upload or link to your digital copy, as in most cases that would be a copyright violation. --ColinFine (talk) 16:30, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks ColinFine I was thinking that the actual article would be important because (for example) in establishing notability, if the reference is just to "Newspaper X, page 2, Date" then the cite itself, to something people can't see, wouldn't be very helpful, because there's no way to evaluate the content - is it just a mention, is it significant, etc. Iamthekanadian (talk) 16:39, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Iamthekanadian Like many things, it's a "freedom" that can (and has) been abused, sure. Still, WP:OFFLINE and WP:PAYWALL is the law of the land (as is WP:General disclaimer). It mostly works. Not always. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:50, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I often cite newspapers that aren't available on line. I access back copies of certain newspapers (usually on microfilm) at either my local public library or the national library in my country. I use {{cite news}}, quoting the publication name, date, page number, article title, etc. So far, nobody has queried or complained about this so I think it's safe to assume it's OK. Of course, if you can also find an on-line reference so much the better. Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:57, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

And perhaps these will become online at some point, who knows. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:59, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Gotcha ColinFine I am recalling a case where an experienced editor on an article I was working on handled this by putting a quote from the newspaper article into the Wikipedia article, maybe that is an example of one answer to the challenge. I had some experiences where there were challenges to notability and I was really struggling because the media coverage, although notable, was not directly accessible, and it was a bit of a conundrum. Iamthekanadian (talk) 16:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

In general and policy wise, that’s absolutely fine for it to be offline; but in the event of a content dispute, where another person needs more information (happens in other contexts e.g. missing/invalid page number of a book, paywalls etc) then the onus is on the person who put up the content. In most cases though, I’m happy for some content that’s likely to be true and transparently noted that the citations aren’t ideal, in case someone wants to challenge or improve it. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

adding a source

Hi! How do I make sure a source I added does not get removed? Thanks! 73.167.238.120 (talk) 23:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Unreliable sources may get removed. Take a look at this explanation of reliable sources, and make sure your source is reliable. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 23:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi! Can you clarify that the source here is reliable? [2] Thanks! 73.167.238.120 (talk) 23:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

It depends. How do you intend to use that source? ~Anachronist (talk) 23:37, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I was intending to update timestamps. Is there something that is incorrect in the source above? Thanks! 73.167.238.120 (talk) 23:53, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I suggest you ask your question on the talk page of the article where you would like to use this source. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 03:26, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Assessing what needs to be done to bring an article up to FA status

Hi. Last month, I wrote this article on the Palais de la Cour de Justice, the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Union. How would I go about getting it formally critiqued so I know what I need to do to bring it up to at least GA and hopefully, FA status? Luxofluxo (talk) 08:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC) Luxofluxo (talk) 08:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Jenhawk777, any wisdom on this? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:03, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Luxofluxo: See Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 14:59, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Luxofluxo It's my personal opinion that people don't take full advantage of the peer review and mentoring process that's available here on wiki. I recommend them both. They are really helpful when you are first learning what's required for these reviews. GA doesn't begin to compare to the rigor they put FA through, but actually going through them - fail or succeed - are both excellent learning experiences. GA reviewers have been the most helpful to me personally, taking the time and having the patience to help me, and I always learn something new from them.

Fac reviewers tend to specialize in reviewing images or prose or references and they are tough because they have become experts in that one thing. Where you have one GA reviewer, you will generally have a half dozen or more FA reviewers, each with their own specialty. There will be one who will want all the references to look the same, so be sure your references all use the same reference style. Someone else will come along and check that all the isbn's are correct. Be sure all the info in the references themselves - the date and publisher etc. -is all accurate. Someone will check it. Check all your sources for accuracy - if what you say is on a page, isn't, they will find your mistake, and you will have to figure out what you did, and fix it to many 'mea culpas'. If you can't fix it or remove it, the Fac will fail.

Be sure all your images have their copyright permissions for the US, and script descriptions for the visually impaired using readers. If they don't, and you can't get those copyright clearances - for every image - you will have to remove those images, or the Fac will fail. They will fail it for anything involving any kind of copyright problems, so always run the copyright-vio detector on your own work before submitting anything.

Check your prose for clarity, simplicity, and accuracy. Edit out everything you think is cute or dramatic or funny. Be as concise and clear and to the point as possible. Remove all unnecessary verbiage. They don't like overly long articles and will sometimes require you to split a long article and will fail it if you don't.

They will fail it if your review takes too long. They will fail it if there aren't enough reviewers showing up in a timely fashion which indicates to them there isn't enough interest in it.

Do what they say without argument. They will fail Facs for lack of cooperation. Change whatever they require however they require it. There's no point in arguing your position generally speaking, they have a standard and you must meet it - or I guess you know what's coming by now - or the Fac will fail.

So far that's the sum total of all my experience going through GA and FA reviews. Jenhawk777 (talk) 03:55, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

YouTube interviews as a source?

Are interviews uploaded on YouTube by media channels get considered to be mentioned on Wikipedia articles as a reliable source? ManaliJain (talk) 15:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

ManaliJain It always depends on context, but in many cases, a video hosted by BBC News featuring a journalist/subject expert would be a reliable source. See WP:YOUTUBE for further details. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 15:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@ManaliJain: While an interview may be used as a reliable source, it might not help you demonstrate notability - see Wikipedia:Interviews. GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Alright! ManaliJain (talk) 06:11, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Talk

WinnipegMA (talk) 01:36, 13 August 2021 (UTC) Can I remove everything in my user talk page?

@WinnipegMA: Yes you can! It's your talk page. Archiving is preferred, but WP:BLANKING says you may remove most everything. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 01:41, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

WinnipegMA, there are certain things that you are not allowed to remove from your talk page. Those are:

*Declined unblock requests regarding a currently active block.Shortcut WP:KEEPDECLINEDUNBLOCK

*Miscellany for deletion tags (while the discussion is in progress).

*Speedy deletion tags and requests for uninvolved administrator help (an administrator will quickly determine if these are valid or not; use the link embedded in the notice to object and post a comment, do not just remove the tag). Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:37, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Help with first submission

Courtesy link: Draft:PIQNIC

I submitted an article on behalf of a client for whom I am doing some editing work. I thought I did it all correctly but then it was declined. It's not long, please could you tell me what I am doing wrong?

copy of submitted draft

PIQNIC (styled in uppercase as PIQNIC), is a Cloud-based software platform for companies to manage their documents, teams and tasks. The product was launched in 2018 in New Zealand by Founder & CEO at PIQNIC Aaron Cornelius.

History

PIQNIC was founded in February 2018 by Aaron Cornelius. It was launched as a product arm of the company eCom which is an information management services company.

eCom develop technologies in the field of information management and workflow. Since 1997, eCom focuses on how information flows in a business. They developed and implemented information management solutions that are aimed at improving business performance, which resulted in the product PIQNIC. eCom worked with companies on developing solutions, including Farmers, the Earthquake Commission, the Ministry of Fisheries, Coca-Cola Amatil and the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand and Australia.

PIQNIC is a customizable work management SaaS platform for business-grade document management, task management and team collaboration. Since April 2020, the platform is supported by partners, such as Yorkshire-based Professional Document Management (PDM), the UK certified PIQNIC partners and i&A in New Zealand.

ReneGetItDone (talk) 01:59, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

This company may not quite be ready for an article (see WP:TOOSOON), unless you can get them to provide some news mentions, as I can't find any. I suggest they look into a bit more publicity and then you can resubmit. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 02:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Mere news mentions won't suffice, and neither will the material that the company itself hopes to disseminate. The draft is written in corporatese, but I think that "Cloud-based software platform" means something like "storage and software combination". If this is indeed software, then the task is to demonstrate that it meets Wikipedia:Notability (software). -- Hoary (talk) 07:07, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Can I use this image?

I want to use Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis' image from this site. Its copyright notice (here) says
The copyright for the editorial content of this website, which is owned by the EU, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. This means that you can re-use the content provided you acknowledge the source and indicate any changes you have made.
But I don't know if the image is owned by EU, and the problem that'll cause is:
The use of elements (e.g. text, photos, pictures, graphs, etc.) subject to intellectual property rights of third parties is subject to prior authorisation from the copyright owner. This applies to photos displayed in the official directory of the European Union (EU WhoisWho) and in the section "Events".
So I am not sure if the image is from the above mentioned 'official directory' or owned by the EU. Can I use this image in my draft? Excellenc1📞 08:13, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1: - yes, that image can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under the quoted licence. Mjroots (talk) 08:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Mjroots: Are you sure, because considering the second quote mentioned above, I don't think I can use the image. Excellenc1📞 08:28, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1: - I do see that there is a conflict, but the licence given means that the second part is negated (AIUI). That said, it might be better for you to copy this whole conversation over to WP:MCQ, where the real experts hang out. Mjroots (talk) 08:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Chris Moore (radio presenter)

Hi, I've recently written a Draft article on the radio presenter Chris Moore, which can be found here Draft:Chris Moore (radio presenter). However I might have created it in my sandbox as I can't find the submit for review box, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help or move it into drafts for review. Thanks very much, Mrluke485 (talk) 08:50, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

It looks like User:Theroadislong has added the submission template for you, so you should be able to submit it for review when you're ready. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:09, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hodlnaut article draft

Dear Team,

Would you be able to give me a better explanation on why my article on Hodlnaut was declined? They have many references that meet the guidelines, and it has been written from a neutral perspective. Hope you can go into detail about why and pinpoint the relevant references that do not fit into the article.

Thank you for taking the time to review the draft for the Hodlnaut page too. I have been continuously working on this and making the changes as advised, but it still gets rejected. Can you provide some guidance/help on the areas in the draft of what needs to be changed?

13 August 2021 Draft:Hodlnaut — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sixminseasypace (talk • contribs) 08:55, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. The problem with the article is that most of the references in it are either press releases, advertisements, or come from questionable sources. Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.

"How S'pore startup Hodlnaut is able to offer 10% interest rates on your cryptocurrencies"—Vulcan Post seems a questionable source to me, and I suspect the article is sponsored by the company.
"Founders Series: Juntao Zhu, Co-Founder & CEO of Hodlnaut" comes from Antler, described as "a global VC firm that backs early-stage startups" in your article, so not an independent source.
"Antler pours US$2.4M into its second batch of 17 startups" is routine coverage.
"Crowe Singapore Validates US$106 Million in Crypto Assets Held by Hodlnaut" is a press release, routine coverage, and does not come from an independent source.
"Hodlnaut Selects Fireblocks to Provide Robust Security for Digital Assets" is a press release and routine coverage.
"Blockchain Blocks: What You Need to Know About Wrapped Bitcoin"—"The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga."
"Hodlnaut Announces the Launch of Preferred Interest Payout" is a press release and routine coverage.

Phrases such as "a mission to help users make the most of their cryptocurrencies", "an enterprise-grade platform that provides a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets", and "next-generation private key security (MPC-CMP) and hardware isolation technology (SGX) that creates multi-layer security, eliminating a single point of failure and insulating digital assets from internal collusion, human error, and cyber-attacks" are not neutral and reek of promotion. Kleinpecan (talk) 10:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Per the comment on your Talk page, clarify your PAID and/or COI status before doing any more article edits. David notMD (talk) 10:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Where to make an ("internal") proposal

Please pardon for asking a question that may be basic. Even though I have edited Wikipedia for years, there are still many things that I need orientation for.

Where should proposals be made? There is a centralized Village Pump page with subpages. I understand that is the main place to go. However, should we go there for ALL proposals? Two real and recent examples of mine:

I made a proposal in the talk page of Wikipedia:Service awards about introducing a complementary way to count edits to qualify for service awards. I also included a note in the the talk page of WikiProject_Wikipedia_Awards to invite more editors to comment.
In the Wikipedia_talk:Deceased_Wikipedians/Guidelines I also made a proposal about adding the deceased year in the tophat note placed in the userpages of deceased wikipedians.

What these two proposals have in common is that it is about making tweaks to internal practices of the wikipedia community, but not changes in how we actually contribute to expanding/improving actual encyclopedic articles. It is for that reason that I thought that it was better to keep those proposals outside the Village Pump. But was that a valid approach? One challenge is that those pages appear to be less transited by Wikipedians, and fewer if any editors may share their comments. Thank you. Al83tito (talk) 00:05, 13 August 2021 (UTC) Al83tito (talk) 00:05, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Al83tito A RfC may help. ― Qwerfjkl talk 11:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

How can I add a picture

Amahle Ndlala (talk) 10:56, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Amahle Ndlala Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Please follow the instructions at WP:UPIMAGE. It is much easier if you are the one who took the picture; if you didn't, you have to figure out if the copyright/license permits you to add it. If it's just a picture you found on the internet, you may not be able to use it. 331dot (talk) 11:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

How to control displayed link in Infobox Youtube Personality - For Channel Name

I am trying to link to This channel, but when I insert that as the link, it gives the Channel name as "UCbDD0pK4reThSbG4iMG49-Q". Is there a way I can control what name is displayed? DiamondIIIXX (talk) 07:38, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@DiamondIIIXX: I think you just put the description you want to be displayed into the "channel_display_name" parameter. Neiltonks (talk) 11:10, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Neiltonks: Cheers DiamondIIIXX (talk) 11:12, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

A query about notability and references

Good afternoon! I wanted to ask for some advice regarding an article I recently submitted: Draft:Naza Alakija. I have asked MurielMary who fed back, but I'm awaiting a response, so thought I would bring it to the teahouse! The feedback I received was that the subject of the article was not notable enough, not having secondary, independent references. However I included articles from both Marie Claire and Business Day, which I'd consider to be substantial sources, amongst others. Do you think the concern is that the articles I included are also interviews with the subject? Do they need to be entirely independent? I greatly appreciate any help. Very best, Shepherdonhydra (talk) 11:26, 13 August 2021 (UTC) Shepherdonhydra (talk) 11:26, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Shepherdonhydra Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Yes, interviews with the subject do not establish notability, as they are the subject's own words about themselves. Any article about this person should summarize only what independent reliable sources say about the person, not what they say about themselves. There may be a role for sources with interviews in an article, but they do not establish notability. Just FYI I fixed your link to the draft, as the whole URL is not necessary. 331dot (talk) 11:29, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for coming back to me 331dot! In the case of this interview for example, there is an introduction by the journalist about the subject, before commencing the interview. Would that not suffice as an independent source? https://businessday.ng/life-arts/article/naza-alakija-empowering-entrepreneurs-to-build-tech-solutions-to-fight-climate-change/ Thank you! Shepherdonhydra (talk) 11:34, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

What is the image that shows up in an article preview when your arrow key is on a Wikipedia Link called?

You put your arrow key on a Wikipedia link, and depending on the article, an image sometimes shows up on the preview on that Wikipedia article. Is there any official terminology for that? BurritoQuesadilla (talk) 03:54, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

The page information tool calls it "page image". Kleinpecan (talk) 07:36, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@BurritoQuesadilla: Yes, it's selected by mw:Extension:PageImages. If Page Previews shows an image then it will be the page image. The similar feature Navigation popups may show another image. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:48, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

How to use an image from Twitter?

I know that images from Twitter exist in Wikipedia, but what is the CC license of such images? (I want to use this image) Excellenc1📞 10:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

There is no mention of any CC license. Unless you have clear evidence to the contrary, you should assume that there is no CC license, and that the copyright holder "reserves all rights". And therefore you may not use the photograph. -- Hoary (talk) 12:19, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

The update of the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia page Лі Чжаньшу and Лі Цяньсінь

Hello. I would like to plead to you for this thing. This thing is concerning and based in the Ukrainian Wikipedia:

Could you please update the two pages that I recently created in the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia, namely Лі Чжаньшу (Li Zhanshu) and Лі Цяньсінь (Li Qianxin), whom Li Qianxin is Li Zhanshu's elder daughter? I try to connect the pages with the Chinese-language Wikipedia.

Thank you. talk 09:46, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

This is English Wikipedia- we have no control over other language Wikipedias. I believe that the Ukrainian Wikipedia's help desk is here. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

If you're asking about having a Ukrainian-language article say that a Chinese-language article on the same subject is available -- as uk:Томськ advertises the existence of zh:托木斯克 -- then this is something that you arrange not in either of those articles but instead at WikiData (for that example, here). -- Hoary (talk) 12:35, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Can I use an image from this site?

One of the paragraphs of its legal notices (linked in the headline) says (translated version):
Reproduction of all or part of this site on an electronic medium is prohibited except under the following conditions: copy of the pages or files for offline consultation or for internal use and subject to the addition of a clear and legible source http://www.isula.corsica and the mention "Rights reserved".
Can I use an image from this site? Excellenc1📞 14:02, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Excellenc1, Sorry no, that doesn't conform to our requirements. The requirement for attribution is perfectly fine but limiting to off-line consultation or internal use is not. S Philbrick (Talk) 14:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Referencing foreign language information from an archive

I have some relevant information discovered in an old archive to add to Wikipedia, however the original information is not in English.

Can we link to this as a citation or reference directly, or does it need to be translated?

Also, I have the archive information only a a photo at the moment and it isn't available online, how would you normally go about publishing this sort of information to be publicly verified? Occasionalpedestrian (talk) 13:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Occasionalpedestrian It is not required that a source be in English, see WP:NOENG for more guidance in this area. It is also not required that a source be online, but it must be avaliable to the public to access if they wanted to. When citing, you need to provide the relevant information, author, date, publisher, etc., so that someone could find it. 331dot (talk) 13:41, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@331dot What does 'publicly available to public' mean exactly? Considering Paywalled articles and archives in obscure locations would both be allowed but practically inaccessible in many cases. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:44, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Most archives are not fully digitized, so this is not uncommon and is allowed policy wise. Include the official name in the non English language, and provide an English translation per WP:ANNOTATION. In the event that there is a content dispute, the fact it's not easily verifiable means onus will be on you to find better sources, but otherwise, go for it! Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Occasionalpedestrian Paywalls are not a barrier to using a source(either digital or physical). Anyone is free to purchase access if they really want to examine and verify the source information. Being in an obscure location is not a barrier either, as long as someone could access it if they wanted to. 331dot (talk) 13:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to the Teahouse, Occasionalpedestrian. As stated above a source does not have to be in English or provided for free. In fact, ease of availability is not a criteria at all. Even if a source can only found in university library, as a hard copy, it can still be used as a source as per WP:INDICATEAVAIL, provided it is considered reliable. Under our policy on verifiability, there is a section which details what is considered a reliable source, "Source material must have been published, the definition of which for our purposes is "made available to the public in some form". Unpublished materials are not considered reliable. Use sources that directly support the material presented in an article and are appropriate to the claims made. The appropriateness of any source depends on the context. The best sources have a professional structure in place for checking or analyzing facts, legal issues, evidence, and arguments.". If a source has been published, even in hard copy form, then it passes one category of the reliability factor. The other is the level of reliability based on the professional structure or editorial process. This is why peer-reviewed published journals are more favorable as opposed to a doctoral thesis project, even one that is published. I hope all of the information provided gives you some insight. Happy editing!

--ARose Wolf 14:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hoe to become a host

Hi im new and i want ro become a host so if you have Time please invite me or send me a request or instruction of how ro become a host ......It would mean a lot. Thank you. By the way my name is Asian gal or Matshidiso....😚😘😘😃😄

}} 41.114.107.63 (talk) 16:09, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Matshidiso. Welcome to the Teahouse and to Wikipedia. I love your enthusiasm, but I suggest you create an account and spend some weeks or months learning how Wikipedia works before you try to become a host and answer people's questions: see WP:Teahouse/Host start. Please start with Help:Introduction. Happy editing! --ColinFine (talk) 16:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Begs a question - can a person without an account, i.e., only IP, be a Teahouse Host? Although this question appears to have come from Asian gal, who forgot to log in. David notMD (talk) 17:16, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I think we would expect Hosts to be registered account holders, as this makes them uniquely identifiable as friendly helpers, rather than as anonymous numbers, and much easier to ping or respond to. That said, anyone can answered questions here -IP users included - providing they know what they are talking about. Nick Moyes (talk) 18:16, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Nick Moyes, I agree. Someone, somewhere is going to argue that IP accounts should be allowed to host but I don't think expecting a house to be registered is an unreasonable requirement. IP accounts are permitted to edit articles but that doesn't mean they can have all the rights of registered accounts. S Philbrick (Talk) 14:10, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Let's not forget that IP addresses can be dynamic, so the person who signs up to be a host one day might not be the same person on that IP on the following. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:02, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Help with publishing please!

Hi there, I would love some help on how to get my page on Wiki published please. I'm new to Wiki as a publisher and it seems there are soooo many hoops to jump through just to publish. Novice here! Thanks. Page concerned if you can open it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Protected_Trust_Services_(PTS) Johnattreed (talk) 12:55, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Johnattreed: Welcome to the Teahouse! The only reference you have in your draft is from PTS themselves. In order to demonstrate that this organization meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion - called "notability" - you need to provide independent reliable sources. At the top of your draft is a gray box stating "This submission's references..." which contains six links to Wikipedia's guidelines. I suggest you click on each link and read them all. Help:Your first article is also a helpful resource. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:37, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Johnattreed, and welcome to the Teahouse. Writing an encyclopaedia article (which is what we do here) is a complex and challenging task. I think that your question (which we get often here) is a bit like "I would love some help to build my house. I'm new to the building trade" - to which the most sensible answer is "Spend a significant amount of time - certainly weeks, probably months - learning the trade by taking on small jobs. When you understand enough of how the system works that you understand how the "hoops" are there to make it possible for you to build a house that does actually stays standing, then might be the right time to start trying to build your house." --ColinFine (talk) 16:14, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Merging an article

I recently did my first merge and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to check my work to make sure I did it all correctly. I merged Enhanced podcast into Podcast. Thank you in advance. TipsyElephant (talk) 17:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@TipsyElephant The talk page section was correct updated and you attempted to include a Wikipedia edit message. The target section was slightly wrong. You linked to the discussion, whereas it should have been Podcast#Enhanced podcasts not Podcast#Merge Discussion for Enhanced Podcast. I fixed it for you. Thank you for merging and seeking feedback! Shushugah (he/him • talk) 17:30, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Citations not accepted

Hello, I'm wondering why the submission has been declined, as I believe I have cited everything. Thank you so much for any insight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Daniel_Bruttig LJRBK1 (talk) 14:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

At first glance I can see the references are not formatted correctly (they're just URLs). I suggest reading through this guide for how to properly add citations. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 15:27, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Pyrrho the Skeptic, optimization of bare URLs isn’t necessarily wrong. I personally dislike it but like I said earlier it isn’t necessarily wrong it just does not conform to our conventional manner of referencing. Celestina007 (talk) 17:12, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

For Draft:Daniel Bruttig, refs fixed, but that is not the problem. Refs 8-26 establish that his work has been in shows (although I recommend limiting to only solo shows), but that in itself does not establish his notability in the Wikipedia sense of the word. Refs 2 & 5 are identical, to an interview, which also not accepted by Wikipedia for notability. And refs 1 & 6 (and 7) are mention of one 2015 show. David notMD (talk) 17:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Reference help

Hello, i'm kukusika, can you help me with references?

Thanks Kukusika (talk) 15:53, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Kukusika: Welcome to the Teahouse. Your question is very vague, so I'll point you to Easy referencing for beginners; hopefully it'll cover your question(s). —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:07, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Kukusika, Welcome to Wikipedia! If you want to learn about referencing in articles, you can read Help:Referencing for beginners. If that didn't help, please elaborate on what exactly you want help with. Again, welcome! Lightbluerain❄ (Talk | contribs) 16:08, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Draft:List of birds in Budapest was declined because it had no references. David notMD (talk) 18:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

jelli

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2400:AC40:607:EF1D:A528:40A0:60F5:70E8 (talk) 17:33, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Is there a question? Or are you just testing stuff? Place for that is your Sandbox. David notMD (talk) 18:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

What's considered a SPAM link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

I can see a lot of websites in the above link, but there are millions of websites not there. So, how does one decide when to not use a website? If the content is published only through the editor and have proof too, then can it be used unlimited times? Cashedcashew (talk) 01:48, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Cashedcashew: An editor would make a judgement call to determine whether the website is a reliable, independent, published source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. For more information, see Wikipedia:Reliable sources. GoingBatty (talk) 03:30, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Cashedcashew. Start by reading Wikipedia:Spam, then look at the pattern of edits by the person adding the source and the nature of the website. Let's say that Conglomerate X is a business that makes many types of products. If Wikipedia has an article about Conglomerate X, then it is legitimate to add an external link to the company's website to that article only. However, adding their website to the articles about all the products that they make and sell is spamming. Commercial websites, especially those that sell products and services online, should be used very sparingly. No specific web page should be used "unlimited times", and excessive use is one of the indications of spamming. It should be used only to verify content in the article, and for no other reason. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:15, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty:@Cullen328: But we can use a new link as many times as possible if new content is added to the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cashedcashew (talk • contribs)

Cashedcashew, that depends on the specific circumstances. Why would you want to use a specific source "as many times as possible" when neutral editing means that the article shpuld summarize the full range of reliable sources giving significant coverage to the topic? Some lesser known topics will have a single source such as a book that go into great depth, and perhaps newspapers and magazines will also devote significant but briefer coverage. In such a case, the book may be used far more often as a reference than the others. Please try to be more specific about your example. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 18:18, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Userpage

Is my userpage public? I want to ask a colleague to revise the file there. Mathman8574 (talk) 18:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Mathman8574, and welcome to the Teahouse. Yes, your userpage is public, as are almost all pages on Wikipedia although some will not be listed on external search engines such as Google. If you provide your colleague with the direct url for your userpage, they will be able to see it. --Jack Frost (talk) 18:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Mathman8574 (ec) Yes, your userpage is visible to the public, and can technically edited by anyone, although almost always only the named user will edit it, as it is meant as a place for the named user to tell about themselves as an editor. It isn't meant as article space or a place to post anything you wish. If you are attempting to write an article about yourself(which is not forbidden, but is discouraged), you should move it to your personal sandbox or draft space and submit it using Articles for creation. Also see WP:AUTO. 331dot (talk) 18:50, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Whether about you or not, appears you created it in your Sandbox, where it still exists, and then copied it to your User page. Delete if from your User page. Your colleague can edit your Sandbox. David notMD (talk) 19:18, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Notable actress

Please check this article Draft:Shweta Bhattacharya is he notable?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanvirnahid565 (talk • contribs)

@Tanvirnahid565: WP:NACTOR requires an actor or actress to have appeared in multiple significant roles. Can you identify sources that show she (not he) had other significant roles besides being in Jarowar Jhumko? (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 18:23, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

you can check his Filmography cast or search on google there are many sources you find about him. He acting many role check this pages cast Jamuna Dhaki she acting role is Jamuma and you search google his name and you can find many sources about him many news articles written about him and his television drama cast role everything

Hello Tanvirnahid565 and welcome to the Teahouse, as @Timtempleton said, in order for the subject to pass the notability test for inclusion, in this case WP:NACTOR, she must have had multiple significant roles. This needs to be clearly evident on or within the article. Both comments left on the draft seem to indicate this is not the case. If a search on google will reveal that there are many sources about her and her acting career then it should be no problem for those sources to be added which clearly demonstrate her notability. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Happy editing!

--ARose Wolf 18:52, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes I am already sign my posts on talk pages Tanvirnahid565 (talk) 19:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC).)

TimTempleton yes I am identify sources he acting many role please check now reference (Tanvirnahid565 (talk) 20:14, 13 August 2021 (UTC))

Mexicans of Malaysian descent

how many mexicans are from malaysian descent Chickenbrain897 (talk) 20:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Do you have a question about editing Wikipedia, Chickenbrain897? -- Hoary (talk) 21:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Chickenbrain897, Because I was curious, I did a bit of research. As of 2017, supposedly only 19 Malaysian nationals lived in Mexico (!).[3] This doesn't tell us how many people of Malaysian descent there are, but I'd expect it to be quite few given that figure. In the future, questions like these should be directed to the reference desk. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Creation of Wikipedia Pages for Twitch Streamers (move to user-space)?

Good morning all!

I am currently working to generate Wikipedia pages for Techsmith314 and MiltonTPike1 who are both streamers on Twitch. I attempted to submit these for approval, however they were moved back into drafts. I would like to request userfication while they are being worked on as well as guidance for what the requirements are for pages like this to be approved, however I am very new to this and don't know what steps are required to request userfication. I would love to start contributing more to Wikipedia, but want to ensure I am following the guidelines and procedures properly. Thank you in advance for any and all help that may be offered! SNLabat (talk) 15:01, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@SNLabat: Hello, welcome to the teahouse! To be accepted as articles your drafts will need to demonstrate that these streamers meet wikipedia's definition of a notable person: This means that you need to show that these people have been covered in depth in multiple, reliable sources that are independent of the article subject. As it stands your drafts are sourced to these streamers own social media (which is not independent and should only be used for basic fact, see WP:About self) and a stats tracking website, which is not significant coverage. You should be looking for things like news coverage, magazine articles and coverage in books, but bear in mind that stuff written by the subjects themselves (like press releases) does not count towards establishing notability. You might want to read WP:Your first article which has some good advice. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 15:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@SNLabat: Also with regards to moving the pages, you should be able to do this yourself. If you open the draft you should see a "move" tab at the top of the page. Follow the instructions at Help:Moving a page. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 15:25, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

The history of Draft:Techsmith314 and Draft:MiltonTPike1 are that you created both as articles, i.e., not submitted for approval, and a New Pages Patroller flipped them to draft status. (No idea what you mean by "userfication.") The next proper steps are to improve the drafts and submit to Articles for Creation (AfC) so that a Reviewer can decide to accept or decline (or Reject = worse). YouTube, Twitter and TwitchTracker do nothing as far as establishing Wikipedia's concept of notability, so both need all new refs. David notMD (talk) 17:59, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@David notMD I presume by 'userfication' they meant 'move to (their) userspace'. ― Qwerfjkl talk 21:51, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Deeper dig: Created as articles 11 March. Moved to draft 11 March. No editing since then. SNLabat got a note recently that it has been five months with no activity, and that both draft would be deleted at six months. All it takes to turn off the delete clock is to resume editing the drafts. As drafts. And then submit. David notMD (talk) 22:35, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Question

How long does it take for a wikipedia page to be accepted for publication? TheEdgarBox (talk) 18:25, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

TheEdgarBox Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Your draft lacked the information required to actually submit your draft for review, so I added it. However, if you were to submit it now, it would be rejected quickly, as it is largely an advertisement for the book, with only one source not including the book itself. A Wikipedia article is not for merely telling about the subject. An article about a book must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the book, showing how it meets Wikipedia's special definition of a notable book. Please see Your first article for more information. If you get the draft to a point where it summarizes what independent reliable sources say about the book, and submit it, you will be given an estimated time for review(currently it's a week, but can be much longer as it is not a queue). 331dot (talk) 18:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

TheEdgarBox Your draft has been nominated for Speedy deletion, as it appears most of it was copied from a copyright-protected source. I expect it will soon be deleted, with no record of it ever having existed. David notMD (talk) 19:16, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Happened. You can try again, but no copying content. And have references about the book. David notMD (talk) 22:37, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Climate change in 2021

104.13.58.13 (talk) 23:15, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

I know, right? Don't remind us. :-( TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 23:16, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

If you're looking for an article, here it is: 2021 in climate change. --107.15.157.44 (talk) 02:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Notability tag on high-ranking government official

Hello, pls kindly give opinion on Talk:Yin Yin Oo#Notabality. As I'm an experienced Burmese editor on Wikipedia, I strongly believed that she clearly passes WP:NPOL. Taung Tan (talk) 18:41, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@Taung Tan, there are a few things happening here. First, please assume good faith, and don't accuse Onel5969 of bullying you just because they PRODed or placed a notability tag on the article. The burden is on the page creator to demonstrate its notability, so if the sourcing isn't readily identifiable as strong enough, reviewers may add those tags. They are making their way through a gigantic mountain of new pages that need to be patrolled and using their best judgement about what is likely to be notable, and I highly doubt they have any particular animosity toward Burmese topics. However, you've made it clear at this point (through de-prodding and then removing the notability tag) that you stand behind the notability of the page, so I think it's incumbent now for Onel to either nominate the page for deletion so that it can go through the community process or let you remove the tag if they are convinced on second look/by the sources you've added that it's notable. @Onel5969, does that sound reasonable? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:50, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Sdkb Thank you for fair point. I already made it cleart at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Htein Lin (colonel). But he ignored. Taung Tan (talk) 03:21, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Taung Tan. Her notability under NPOL does not seem at all clear to me. She is a member of an advisory board to the military junta. She was formerly a deputy director general of a subdivision of the foreign ministry. Those positions are far from a clear pass of NPOL. Also, the references in the article are passing mentions of her, not significant coverage. If she meets NPOL, then it should be easy to add references to independent sources covering her in much more depth. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 19:56, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi all. The individual clearly does not meet WP:NPOL, as per the current content or sourcing. And the current sourcing does not support GNG. I tagged it to prod (not PROD) other editors to provide sourcing to substantiate any claim to notability. My usual modus operandi is to allow the tag to sit for 1-2 months to allow time for development. At which point in time, if no other editor has improved the article to meet WP notability standards, I'd send it to AfD. A PROD would not be appropriate in this instance, since it would clearly be contested. So I would disagree with Sdkb (although thanks for the ping) that it is now incumbent on me to nominate it for deletion at this time. I think a more appropriate course of action would be for interested editors to improve the article. BTW, I ignore personal attacks or uncivil posts from other editors for the most part, such as that left on the article's talk page. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:14, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Hum ? Deputy head of state level government department does not meets WP:NPOL? Oh my god, really? Do you confusing with head of township level department or district level? I agree that current sourcing does not enough and should be tagged {{refimprove}}. Also an advisor of Union Government of Myanmar is meet NPOL, clearly consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Htein Lin (colonel). onel5969 taken my article to AfD even he was a state minister. Just say it again "minister doesn't passes WP:NPOL". How amazing Wikipedia editors. You should ask to other Burmese editors about Myanmar's political office ranks. Don't judge other country's without knowledge. Ok I'll take back-door nomination. Thanks Taung Tan (talk) 03:09, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

The Irrawaddy featured her career and position with a paragraph "Daw Yin Yin Oo worked as deputy director general of the foreign ministry of President U Thein Sein’s administration. She retired in 2016 before the NLD government took office. She is the daughter of late president Dr. Maung Maung, who ruled for a month, following the 1988 nationwide uprising. " It is not only single source also can be found at [4]

No. It does not feature her at all. It merely mentions her.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:58, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

However she passes WP:NPOL clearly. IDC Taung Tan (talk) 05:43, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Taung Tan: I think some of the confusion here stems from the fact that people in the conversation are looking at two different things. You're talking about the formal criteria, looking at her position. Others are talking about how she's treated by sources for the article, rather than what she's doing, which has become the English Wikipedia measure stock in discussions like these at the expense of many other considerations. If there are more in-depth sources – maybe in Burmese? – that would help. /Julle (talk) 09:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Julle finally I understand. Thanks for pointed me out. You are good like a mentor! Taung Tan (talk) 05:21, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Need assistance

Hiii, can you nominate Neeraj Chopra GA status. And if it is still not on GA status, will you provided guidence in that articles talk page, how to do that. Newton Euro (talk) 05:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Newton Euro. Because Neeraj Chopra won an Olympic gold medal in javelin throw just a few days ago, I do not think that his biography is stable enough for a Good article review at this time. We can assume that reliable sources will be publishing in depth articles about him in weeks and months to come, which can be used to improve the article. I think it would be best to wait until media attention dies down a bit, and a stable version of the article can emerge. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:29, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

One of the requirements for a Good Article nomination to succeed is "Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute." The Chopra article is in a high state of flux, because as Cullen328 mentioned, winning the gold medal is so recent. David notMD (talk) 11:42, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Wrong Alphabetical Order in Categories

Hi, everyone. Thank you for inviting me to this space. I apologise for moving the Wikipedia page I've created around, but I kept on changing its title because I couldn't figure out why its name was in the wrong alphabetical order in the Categories sections. I've created a page choosing (Article) and the title is "Name Surname" of a living artist, but when I checked the page in Categories the artist appeared in the wrong alphabetical order (under the B of his first name rather than the R of his surname as it was supposed to be), so I thought I did something wrong with the title of my page and tried to change it. While most features can be checked in preview, I didn't know how to change the title of the page and see if this problem with the alphabetical categorisation was solved, so I've changed it and moved it around a few times to see if the problem in the categories was solved (it wasn't). Thank you for your time and, again, my apologies. Serena I. Volpi (talk) 07:45, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Serena I. Volpi looks like it's been fixed by Usedtobecool. For people, you eed to change the default sort, so that it sorts by surname rather than first name. The way to do this in future is to add {{DEFAULTSORT: Surname, first name}} to the bottom of the article. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:09, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Serena I. Volpi, I have just now deleted the redirect from "User:Serena I. Volpi" to Benji Reid: however innocently this was intended, the redirect was unhelpful and confusing. As for the article Benji Reid, I'm less concerned about its tangled history than about its present content. It tells us such things as his works are an act of “seeing anew” and offer a more nuanced view of the Black body, one which takes into account both the spiritual and the sensual dimensions of embodiment in which fragility and heterosexual masculinity are not antithetical, but seen as complementary but doesn't present any references for it. Why should the reader believe this material? (Please see Wikipedia:No original research.) -- Hoary (talk) 08:12, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi, thanks. I was looking for a way to fix that name+surname problem and understood that I was probably missing some information to insert it correctly. I have noted down how to insert names for future pages, thank you again. As for the reference requested, I will add some evidence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serena I. Volpi (talk • contribs) 12:31, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Where to ask for article deletions?

Hello, a user has created more than 2 dozen pages arguably through unreliable/unverified sources. Where can i ask them for the pages and the sources to be reviewed and scrutinized? Thanks Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 13:39, 14 August 2021 (UTC) Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 13:39, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

If you think the articles are simply impossible to verify because no sources exist, then they shouldn't be here, and you can nominate them for deletion, see here [5]. If you think the articles are about subjects that might be notable and are potentially sensible material for an encyclopaedia, but the creating editor has made statements without supporting references, you can add {{cn}} (citation-needed) tags to the worst offenders. Or better still, you can find some references and add them. It hurts, doing someone else's work, but it does make a better encyclopaedia. Elemimele (talk) 14:35, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and you can talk to the editor who did the deed by posting on their talk-page, but it's not guaranteed they'll notice, or reply. You can also use the talk-pages associated with the articles to discuss any weaknesses you feel the articles might have; this is a good place to discuss changes that you think might be controversial. Elemimele (talk) 14:39, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

wikisource as reference, correct way to specify it on Sofia Sukhovo-Kobylina

Sofia Sukhovo-Kobylina contains wikisource as reference if it is not correct, what is the right way to specify? 28july21 (talk) 05:03, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@28july21: Can you be a little more specific about what is incorrect? TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 05:21, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

28july21 I don't think that anything is necessarily wrong. As per WP:Wikisource, this is a repository of books etc. that can be used for sourcing within Wikipedia articles. In this case, the only two cited sources are in the Russian part of Wikisource (so I can't personally say whether they back up the English-language article: is that a problem you have noted? ). It certainly would be a problem if the article were based on other Wikipedia articles, since Wikipedia itself cannot be used as a source (see WP:NOTSOURCE). Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:06, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Publishing a page in my sandbox

How do I convert (i.e. publish) a page in my sandbox titled "Proliferative fasciitis and proliferative myositis" to a new Wikipedia page? I am a long-term editor with many published Wikipedia pages but just can't remember how to do this. ThanksJoflaher (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2021 (UTC) Joflaher (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

You look for the option to "move" the page to where you want it to go. (This option should appear under "edit".) -- Hoary (talk) 21:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hoary: may be using a different editor, but for me the "Move" option appears under "More", not "Edit". - David Biddulph (talk) 05:21, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

David Biddulph -- or a different "skin"? I've checked again, and yes, for me, "Move" is under "Edit" (and there is no "More"). -- Hoary (talk) 06:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm using the new Vector skin, and "Move" appears in a dropdown menu under "More". —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:07, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion made in Section below, where question was repeated. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:08, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Jesurun Rak-Sakyi

This draft (Draft:Jesurun Rak-Sakyi) will most likely be created today, but I don’t know how to notify people that there is already a draft. 73.162.91.15 (talk) 15:47, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

I forgot to add a section name, and also this page will be created today because the player made his professional debut for Crystal Palace. 73.162.91.15 (talk) 15:49, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse! You added WikiProjects on the draft's talk page and submitted the draft for review, so there is no notification additional process necessary. If the draft is accepted, you can add wikilinks from other articles/templates to the new article and add categories. If the draft is rejected and you want assistance, you could post at one of the WikiProject talk pages. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:13, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

As I was writing this, your draft was accepted. Congratulations, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:17, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Removed log

If an anonymous IP posted something on a user talk but it was strike down (log removed) by an admin, can the the user request to remove the strike? If not, can he request to send the text to his email for private viewing on the condition that he won't reveal it publicly? 2409:4073:496:1AFF:5D44:2F25:635C:A831 (talk) 15:20, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

This generally depends on the context under which it was revision deleted, but as far as I am informed most admin's won't send copies to email adresses by IP adresses (Note: You should never provide your email adress on a highely visible place such as this: This place is visible to everyone, including people you might not want to know your email adress) Victor Schmidt (talk) 16:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

referencing academic works

How do book publications get referenced 128.249.96.246 (talk) 16:49, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse! You can use {{cite book}} - see Help:Referencing for beginners. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:58, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Further help for "Publishing a page in my sandbox"

Yesterday, in "Publishing a page in my sandbox" I requested help to do so. Here is my request and the answers to it:

How do I convert (i.e. publish) a page in my sandbox titled "Proliferative fasciitis and proliferative myositis" to a new Wikipedia page? I am a long-term editor with many published Wikipedia pages but just can't remember how to do this. ThanksJoflaher (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2021 (UTC) Joflaher (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

You look for the option to "move" the page to where you want it to go. (This option should appear under "edit".) -- Hoary (talk) 21:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC) @Hoary: may be using a different editor, but for me the "Move" option appears under "More", not "Edit". - David Biddulph (talk) 05:21, 14 August 2021 (UTC) David Biddulph -- or a different "skin"? I've checked again, and yes, for me, "Move" is under "Edit" (and there is no "More"). -- Hoary (talk) 06:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

"These answers are of no help. When I hit the More option in my sandbox, the only option that comes up is Move. When I hit move a page titled "Move User:Joflaher/sandbox" comes up. It states: Using the form below will rename a page, moving all of its history to the new name. The old title will become a redirect page to the new title. Links to the old page title will not be changed. Be sure to check for double or broken redirects. You are responsible for making sure that links continue to point where they are supposed to go.

Note: This can be a drastic and unexpected change for a popular page; please be sure you understand the consequences of this before proceeding. Please read Wikipedia:Moving a page for more detailed instructions"

The page contains three blanks. The first, titled "new page" gives dozens of options of which I assume that (Article) is the correct one. The second black, which us untitled, has my I.D. and location of the articles current location, "Joflaher/sandbox" and can be over written. The third blank, titled "Reason" is to be filled in. Some two weeks ago, I tried to publish my sandbox page titled "Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors", using this Move function, got fouled up, asked for help here but got fouled up following all the posted instructions. Finally, somebody here move this article to Wikipedia page. I did not learn how this was done. Please, someone, teach me how to do this.Joflaher (talk) 14:36, 14 August 2021 (UTC) Joflaher (talk) 14:36, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Joflaher: One simple way to do this is to add the template {{User sandbox}} to the top of the page, save the change and click the "Submit your draft for review" button. That uses AfC but the current backlog there is very small so your article should get approved within a day. If you moved the article yourself, it would still be subject to the New Pages patrol. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm still baffled. I have added {{User sandbox}} to the top of the page and then saved the page. However, there is no "Submit your draft for review" button available, just the same old Move page. What next? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joflaher (talk • contribs) 15:11, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Joflaher: When adding {{User sandbox}} to your page, you should not have used the <nowiki>...</nowiki> tags. The tags are used on discussion pages like this to prevent the entire template from being displayed. Looks like Qwerfjkl moved the page for you to Proliferative fasciitis and proliferative myositis. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:08, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

I, joflaher, really, really thank everyone for their speed in tending to my problem. You were all just great. I still do not know how Qwerfikl got my sandbox page published. I have several more new pages that I hope to publish. If someone can tell me how to do so without disturbing you all, I would be grateful. In any event, sincere thanks.

@Joflaher: It's great that you have lots of further ideas. I would recommend using the AfC process. Although not mandatory particularly for experienced editors, it allows others to review your drafts and make helpful comments and additions. To get started on a new draft, just go to the WP:AfC page and then "Click here to start a new draft". That creates a page Draft:your chosen new article name and off you go.... Further instructions for submission get added in a box as the Draft is made. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:55, 14 August 2021 (UTC

Turnbull, many thanks for the info. I will try it the next time I need to. (talk) 18:19, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Copyright

Any Commons Copyright expert here? Peter Ormond 💬 18:31, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Peter Ormond: maybe; but there's plenty of them at the Commons Help Desk. Maproom (talk) 19:01, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Maproom: I'm blocked there. So, I want to discuss the issue here. Peter Ormond 💬 19:04, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Peter Ormond: You can try WP:MCQ, but it is mostly focused on en Wikipedia copyright. RudolfRed (talk) 19:19, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: Thank you! 😊 Peter Ormond 💬 19:32, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Vietnam War

Dates of the Vietnam "War" 72.197.150.207 (talk) 11:45, 14 August 2021 (UTC) I am a Vietnam Veteran. Your Vietnam article states that the "war" ran from 1954 to 1975. I truly think those dates should be re-evaluated. While it is true that the US had personell in Vietnam as early as 1954, the US at that time was not "at war" in Vietnam, Buit had merely taken a finacial responsibility to aid South Vietnam, and so sent in advisors to help their troops.

The Vietnam Campaign Medal has a device on its' ribbon with the date "1960" and this is the year that America became involved to the popint that we were actually in a WAR in Vietnam.

On January 27, 1973, In Paris, France, the US and North Vietnam and South Vietnam signed a peace treaty that officially ended the Vietnam war. I remember the date because it I had arrived home from Vietnam (via Japan) on January 15th 1973, Less than two weeks before the treaty was signed. From that point, the US began to withdraw troops. Then, in 1975 - when our troop levels were nearly non-existant, North Vietnam broke the treaty and invaded South Vietnam once more. However this was a Vietnam war in which the US was not directly involved. All the US did at that point was remove any remaining military, mostly troops left at the embassy attachment in the Capitol City of Saigon. The famous photos and footage of the Embassy evacuation in April of 1975 was not the end of the US War in Vietnam, as most histories now try to indicate. That had occured two years earlier with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. The fact that we had troops at the Embassy in South Vietnam in April of 1975 does not mean that we were at war at that time, as we have military troops, mostly Marines, stationed at ALL US Embassies.

I am not certain how to properly correct this ongoing error in our nation's history, but having served this nation as a Marine in Vietnam, I feel the record should accurately show when the US war in Vietnam war truly ended, in January of 1973, as opposed to our forced withdrawal from our embassy compound two years and three months later.

Robert Shuttleworth

The article Vietnam War currently starts by saying that the war started not in 1954 but on 1 November 1955, so I wonder if this is the article you're talking about. If it is, then the way to bring up these matters is by starting a new thread at the foot of Talk:Vietnam War; if it's some other article, then as you read the article, look for a link to "Talk", click on that, and start a new thread at the foot of that "talk page". -- Hoary (talk) 12:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure which article you refer to but I guess it doesn't claim that the US participation in the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia and I think the war in Vietnam in 1974 and 1975 is generally considered part of the Vietnam War. That is Wikipedia's view. We even have articles called 1974 in the Vietnam War and 1975 in the Vietnam War. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:57, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

How about Tommy Jonathan Sinaga page, is it eligible?

Hello Man, How about the eligibility of Tommy Jonathan Sinaga page, does it meet the WP:NACTOR and WP:GNG eligibility criteria?. Regards Clasher7 (talk) 18:47, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, Clasher7. The answer to that question is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tommy Jonathan Sinaga. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Cordless Larry: thank you. It seemed like no one was there. Regards Clasher7 (talk) 20:30, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

someone replaced my image with a link from a youtube video

I am a state senator in Colorado. Someone replaced my image with a link from a youtube video. I was able to remove the wrong photo through editing, but was unable to re-add the photo that was supposed to be in the template box on the right side. Now, the site will not let me re-upload the photo that was originally used . Bocopat (talk) 18:16, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy: Sonya Jaquez Lewis. You appear to have succeeded in installing a photo taken from your website. However, this is likely to be removed within days, as likely copyright protected. David notMD (talk) 21:09, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Phobia titles

Why do some Wikipedia articles use a clinical title and others just say "Fear of" and then give an easy description? Acidsetback (talk) 20:28, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Claustrophobia is a widely used term; there is, as far as I know, no single word to denote Fear of trains. -- Hoary (talk) 21:53, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, @Acidsetback! This is a good question, and it typically comes down to what is considered the more WP:COMMONNAME. However, a redirect or series of redirects is used for other common variations of the name. For example:

Fear of heights redirects to the article Acrophobia
Fear of spiders redirects to Arachnophobia
Siderodromophobia redirects to Fear of trains
Sociophobia redirects to Social anxiety disorder

And so on. At List of phobias they all use the clinical title, but some of the ones that are not common vernacular are redirects to an article with a more common name. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 22:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

On siderodromophobia, I sit corrected. I understand from its entry in Lexico that the word has been used in medical contexts; however, I suspect that several "phobias" were jocular creations and have little currency outside the writings of "word lovers". -- Hoary (talk) 00:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

While that may be true, it is interesting to look at the history of one such article - Trypophobia. Made up as you say by sesquipedalian writers online... but today there is ongoing research into it and it is considered a "specific phobia" in the context of the DSM. Just because the word may have less than serious origins, does not preclude its use in medical science. PrimalBlueWolf (talk) 01:22, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Words are fun

––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 01:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

But sometimes it invokes hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia 🥺 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 01:07, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

What's the right thing to do with a terribly puffed-up CV article?

I just came across Louis Capozzi; this article is a perfect type-specimen of what a WP should not be. It is basically a CV, and a very congratulatory one at that. It was written by someone who has only edited on Capozzi and the PR association of which he was president (which makes me think conflict of interest?). I was half-minded to rush off to AfD, but I am wondering whether in fact the subject is notable, it's just the article is dreadful? I don't know enough about business sources to know if his sources are good, and frankly, the idea of going to a lot of effort to save this chap's gloat-piece rather goes against the grain. What is the correct thing to do about an article like this? Elemimele (talk) 22:14, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Ugh. Well found. Terminate it, please. -- Hoary (talk) 23:29, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

You didn't, so I did. (Whether or not it was the right thing to do is of course yet to be decided.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:30, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Jeffrey Clark

When searching "Jeffrey Clark Wiki" the word "traitor" comes up after his middle name. Clearly partisan rudeness. Makes Wiki look bad. Please fix. 68.129.115.246 (talk) 22:22, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse. Please link to the exact article, as there are multiple articles about people who share the name Jeffrey Clark. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hi IP 68.129.115.246. The word "traitor" doesn't seem to currently being used in Jeffrey Clark, but perhaps it was a some point and was subsequently removed. There do seem to be some experienced editors currently working on the article; so, if you start a discussion about this at Talk:Jeffrey Clark, then one of them will probably respond. I don't think Wikipedia has much control over how online search engine results are displayed. I tried Googling "Jeffrey Clark Wiki" and didn't see what you saw; so, I can't determine why you might have seen it. An article like this one is likely going to attract lots of attention because the subject is someone currently in the news; that could lead to good-faith attempts at improvements, but it could also lead to vandalism. If you see something that you feel is a clear violation of WP:BLP, then you can be WP:BOLD and remove it; just make sure you leave an edit summary clearly explaining why and also possibly follow up with a post on the article's talk page if necessary. If the content is re-added, then try and avoid edit warring over it (unless it's clearly a BLP policy violation) and instead seek assistance from others via the article talk page or at WP:BLPN. -- Marchjuly (talk)

You failed to say where you searched it. I tried some common search engines and found it at https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Jeffrey+Clark+Wiki. "traitor" is in the excerpt displayed by Yahoo but not in their cached version the excerpt is supposedly taken from. Their cache only says 8/14/2021 with no time (Google has the common sense to display cache time). It's not in the page history of Jeffrey Clark so I don't know what is going on. Maybe it was oversighted in Wikipedia, and Yahoo's excerpt isn't actually from the version they show in their cache. In any case, it isn't currently in our article. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:26, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

It was in the page history—see Special:Diff/1037800072 and Special:Diff/1037832673. Kleinpecan (talk) 02:23, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

The report is about the article alledgedly saying "Jeffrey Bossert (traitor) Clark" like in the opening line in the Yahoo search. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:39, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

inappropriate removal of unsourced claims

I am looking for a resolution to this conundrum.

Over time, as I have observed certain edits, I have become concerned about the negative impact of inappropriate removal of unsourced claims. The essay Removal of Uncited Material (still a work in progress) attempts to elaborate on Wikipedia:Verifiability. Although the essay is not policy, it suggests that summarily removing unsourced content is only appropriate under certain circumstances.

Another essay suggesting a more cautious approach to removing unsourced content is Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes § Deleting..., which suggests moving the unsourced content to the article's talk page for further action (though in many cases, I suspect that would eventually get moved to an archived talk page, arguably as good as deleting it).

A particular bizarreness of the existing policy is that if one editor removes unsourced content, even though it is contrary to this guidance, it appears that it is not permissible to revert the inappropriate removal. The reality is that an editor who aggressively removes unsourced content (meaning they made no effort to evaluate the availability of sources) gets a "free pass" to ignore any guidance suggesting that the unsourced content ought not to have been summarily removed.

Placing the burden on the editor who observed inappropriate removal of unsourced claims by another editor is not really reasonable. The best that WP policy seems to offer is to seek sanctions against the editor making such inappropriate removals, rather than the more obvious approach of permitting a revert of the content removal which shouldn't have been done in the first place. Fabrickator (talk) 03:50, 15 August 2021 (UTC) Fabrickator (talk) 03:50, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Fabrickator:, Can you provide some examples of "inappropriate" removal of unsourced claims. Otherwise, the policy is that if unsourced content is removed, the onus is on the editor trying to re-insert it to provide a source supporting the claim. It also not reasonable to allow someone to add unsourced information and expect someone else to have to search to find a source that supports the claim. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 04:22, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/2 (i.e it is policy) says that "Unsourced material may be removed at any time, and it is the obligation of the editor adding material to provide a reliable source."--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:05, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Even assuming that Wikipedia:Verifiability/Removal of Uncited Material reflected consensus when it was written in 2007, a lot has changed since then. In particular, we've become a lot more insistent on reliable sources. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:10, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Should I add this list of articles I made in my user page?

In my user page I have added a table of articles I have made. But should it be there becuase I don't own my articles (Wikipedia does). I know that I can add any thing in my user page (till I abide by Wikipedia's copyright rules), but I am not sure if it is wrong to add this table. Also, should the title of the section be 'Articles I've created' (current name) or 'Articles I've started'?
(P.S.: I had added this list two to three months ago, when I had only 10 articles.) Excellenc1📞 06:33, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

You're not breaking any rules. However, according to the list itself, most are stubs. In my (possibly atypical) opinion, a stub says to the world "The creator thought this merited an article, but couldn't be bothered to create one. This is pretty disappointing, isn't it? Can you make it any better? (Please!)" I'd be a lot more impressed by a list of a dozen full-blown articles than by the same list weakened by the addition of fifty stubs. So I suggest that you remove all the stubs, and, one by one, try converting these stubs into articles, and when you've done that, readding them. Others are welcome to disagree with me, and probably will. -- Hoary (talk) 07:27, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1 I'm going to slightly disagree with @Hoary, because a list of what you've started on your userpage serves to show others, but especially you, what you've worked on here, and your area of editing interest. That list can itself be a quick-to-access prompt to you to improve them, and I would urge you to follow Hoary's advice and at least get each one up to 'Start' class. I could have made many thousands of stub articles by now, had I wanted to; it takes very little time. My own list of articles is shorter than yours, but I like having it there so that I can regularly check and update the quality assessments if necessary. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:31, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: and @Hoary: Most of the stubs cannot be expanded anymore according to me, like articles on departmental councils (Departmental Council of Ain, Departmental Council of Lot, Departmental Council of Calvados are some examples) Excellenc1📞 09:40, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1 I'm sure the Council members listed in each stub would be most upset to think that what they do in their role on behalf of those Departments can only ever merit a stub article on Wikipedia. But we shall simply have to wait for independent sources to write about that work before they can be added to expand a page. With regard to one example, Departmental Council of Lot - please never use the word 'currently' in an article. This is especially true of roles that change every few years after elections. Instead, you must say "As at 2021, the President is...", and cite an inline source. As you suggest, these stubs are going to be overlooked and unattended for years to come, once you've stopped monitoring them, at which point the word 'currently' simply becomes misleading. It would help tremendously if you could work through your list of stubs and update how they present information to readers. Thank you very much. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:51, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Nick Moyes I have removed 'currently' and added 'as of 2021' in the departmental council articles. (Also I removed the article list from my user page) Excellenc1📞 10:24, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Update of my recently-created English-language Wikipedia page Ai Tingting

Hello today. I would like to ask and plead you for this thing that I recently done in the English-language Wikipedia:

Could you please update the page that I recently created in the English-language Wikipedia, namely Ai Tingting, whom she is a Chinese reporter currently working at the China Central Television? In the page, there are three pages of references of her, including one Chinese-language page.

Thank you. talk 04:08, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Ai Tingting

@Adamdaniel864, what do you mean by "update"? The page has several significant issues currently—please see the tags, and Help:Your first article for more general advice. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

In fact, I mean that the page titled Ai Tingting should be connected with other pages for it's information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamdaniel864 (talk • contribs) 04:23, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Adamdaniel864: I added wikilinks from Ai Tingting to other articles. However, I don't see Tingting mentioned in any other articles, so I didn't create any links to Ai Tingting. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) GoingBatty (talk) 04:55, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Adamdaniel864, if this is all you can say about her, why bother creating an article about her? -- Hoary (talk) 05:02, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Adamdaniel864, the article Ai Tingting completely fails to make any claim of notability for this person. All we know is that she is a reporter but there are hundreds of thousands of reporters worldwide. Is every reporter notable and eligible for a Wikipedia biography? No. Only those who have received significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. The current references are passing mentions, not significant coverage, in a source that shows no indications of reliability. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:19, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Ai Tingting at AfD, and a report on Adamdaniel864's editing practices has been filed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard David notMD (talk) 12:26, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

accused of vandalism for correcting my own page!

I have been trying to put my own photo on my wiki page but bot accused me of vandalism.. whats worse is someone else has put his photo on my page Pankuj parashar (talk) 09:58, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Pankuj parashar. Since you're new to Wikipedia, there are probably lots of things about Wikipedia that you're not aware of. Please take the time to take a look at the following.

Wikipedia articles aren't owned by the subjects they're written about; so, even though you have an article written about you, it's not "your page" per se as explained in Wikipedia:Ownership of content.
Subjects of articles are highly discourage from trying to edit articles about themselves as explained in Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. If you have any concerns about what's written about you on Wikipedia, it's usually better to try and seek assistance from others than try and fix things yourself. For more information on this, please see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Relationship between the subject, the article, and Wikipedia.
The word vandalism is often misused on Wikipedia by lots of editors, and it's unfortunate that seems to have been what happened in your case. The warnings that were added to your user talk page are worded in a way that tries to cover as many cases as possible and the wording tends to become a bit harsher the higher the level of the warning. In your case, you were issued a level-1 warning the first time you added the photo, but a bit more strongly worded level-2 warning the second time you tried to add the photo. You didn't leave an edit summary when you tried to add the photo each time, so the other editor who reverted you didn't have much to work with and just most likely assumed the worst (i.e. that someone else was pretending to be you). You'd be surprised about how many times a new account shows up with a username that's the same as the subject of a Wikipedia article and then starts to edit said article. Wikipedia has no way of knowing who an editor really is and in such cases some editors automatically assume that account is just going to cause problems.
If you're unhappy with the photo currently being used in Pankuj Parashar, then that's something you should start a discussion about at Talk:Pankuj Parashar. Wikipedia is less concerned about who takes a photo than it is about the copyright status of the photo. So, if you're able to upload a photo in which you own the copyright on as explained in c:Commons:Licensing, then there should be no problem in changing the photo. Please understand though that it's always the person who takes a photo that is considered to be the copyright holder of the photo; so, if you didn't take the photo yourself, you may need the c:Commons:Consent of the person who did. In addition, even if you took the photo yourself, you still may need to email your consent to the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team as explained here.

I've added some more information about #2 above to your Wikipedia user talk page and about #4 above to your Commons user talk page; so, please look at those posts for more details. If you've got any other questions, feel free to ask them below. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:34, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Pankuj parashar The image in Pankuj Parashar (now removed) was of Pankaj Parashar Journalist.jpg. Note different spelling of name. David notMD (talk) 12:41, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

SysopDectector script

Hello Previously i've installed a script, that helped me to detected Admins easily, like it helped me distinguish between admins and other users using colors, i don't know where to find it again can anyone help me to find it thanks. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Sakura emad:! Might it have been one of the scripts listed here: Wikipedia:User scripts/List#User information? --bonadea contributions talk 13:24, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea, 😊 wow thank you very much —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:26, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Connect

Can you connect and review my article Eni Çobani to Wikidata and make it public in Google please with a knowledge graph Contributionwikki (talk) 07:29, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Contributionwikki That will happen when the article is formally marked as reviewed or after a period of time(I think 30 days but not certain). Is there a particular reason you are concerned with Google knowledge graphs, that's not something Wikipedia is concerned with. 331dot (talk) 07:40, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome back to the Teahouse, Contributionwikki. You've marked the photos File:Enicobani.jpg and File:Shiheminegjyq.jpg as your own work. Can I ask how you were able to take those photos? It suggests to me that you at least know Çobani or possibly work for her, in which case you need to comply with Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:55, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Eni Çobani Maproom (talk) 08:41, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Contributionwikki: Today a bot added a link to the English Eni Çobani Wikipedia article to the Wikidata item that has existed for years. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 14:06, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Yesterday I made a page and it came out, that a librarian the vat do again, can you help me please, this was translated by Google

IsraelMegaCube (talk) 14:33, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello IsraelMegaCube, I cannot see any page creations in your log. If you are talking about something you created on eswiki (the Spanish Wikipedia), unfortunately we cannot help you because this is the English Wikipedia - try talking to an administrator there. Pahunkat (talk) 15:02, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, IsraelMegaCube, and welcome to the Teahouse on the English Wikipedia. This is your first edit on English Wikipedia. I see you uploaded a file to Wikimedia Commons yesterday (a separate project from Wikipedia): that is at C: File:Georgina Mazzeo.jpg: if you have a question about it, I suggest you ask at c:Help:Contents/es. --ColinFine (talk) 15:03, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

New Wikepedia page of Mine

Hello , This is Peer Tehleel Manzoor i am a social activist & Cyber Security Researcher , i am not able to see my Wikipedia page despite of being featured into various news media websites or portals , kindly help me to get my page viewed on google Tehleelmanzoor (talk) 15:02, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Draft:Peer Tehleel Manzoor Deleted under G11 by Deb. Victor Schmidt (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Tehleelmanzoor, and welcome to the Teahouse. I'm afraid that, like many people, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is: it is an encyclopaedia, not social media or a platform for promoting anything. If there is sufficient independently-published material about you (not by you) that meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then somebody could write an article about you. If such an article is written, it will not belong to you, it will not be in any way for your benefit (and Wikipedia has no interest in enhancing anybody's SEO or online presence), it will not be under your control, and it will not necessarily say what you want it to say. You are strongly discouraged from writing it yourself, though not forbidden: see Autobiography for more.

What you have created is your user page, which is for you to share information with other Wikipedia editors about your interests and activities as a Wikipedia editor. User pages are not indexed by search engines, and may not contain something that looks like an article, so your user page ~~will probably be deleted soon~~has been deleted. Please use other platforms to promote yourself, not Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Cluebot talk page archiving at Talk:British & Irish Lions

Hi, I copied the sample at Help:Archiving (plain and simple) to set up ClueBot III archival at Talk:British & Irish Lions. The archives navbox there is expecting a page at Talk:British & Irish Lions/Archive 1, but ClueBot archived to Talk:British & Irish Lions/Archives/ 1 instead. What did I do wrong in setting this up, and how can it be fixed? Thanks, -M.nelson (talk) 13:00, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello M.nelson, I think it is something to do with the symbol '&' being present in the title of the talk page - see User:ClueBot III#Required parameters (archiveprefix section). I've had a go at fixing it and have moved the archive the bot created. If this doesn't work, it would be worth asking at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Best, Pahunkat (talk) 14:56, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Pahunkat, I'll keep an eye on it. -M.nelson (talk) 15:22, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Asking questions with the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia not to delete my recently created pages

Hello. Could you please help me to ask the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia so that the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia would not delete all my recently-created pages, especially of Ай Тінгтінг (Ai Tingting), whom she is a China Central Television journalist? All of the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia pages that I made is the greatest for me, and the pages should also be connected with the Chinese-language and Chinese-related webs about them. Thank you. talk 14:57, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

No, Adamdaniel864, English Wikipedia has no influence or standing at Ukranian Wikipedia. But if your attempt at creating an article about Ai there is anything like Ai Tingting here, I'm not surprised that the people at uk-wiki are deleting it. --ColinFine (talk) 15:11, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

How can the people at uk-wiki are deleting it? I'm also an editor of the Ukrainian Wikipedia. My knowledges stretches from China to Slavic or English. I'm even editing new Ukrainian-language pages on oversea things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamdaniel864 (talk • contribs) 15:14, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Adamdaniel864: For questions about what is happening on uk-wiki with uk:Ай Тінгтінг, please read the notice on that article and ask on uk-wiki. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) GoingBatty (talk) 15:33, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Correcting wrong, objectionable and/or missing information

My bio page contained incomplete and incorrect information. My edits were rejected. Parts of the page that were there before my edit were also removed. The resulting article contains errors of fact, objectionable material, and is missing most periods in my life. Can you help me correct this?Jay Aargh (talk) 16:21, 15 August 2021 (UTC) Jay Aargh (talk) 16:21, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jay Aargh, and welcome to the Teahouse. This is presumably about Joel Rosenman? Please note that it is not "your bio page": it is Wikipedia's article about you, and must conform to Wikipedia's criteria, not necessarily yours. At the same time, we would like it to be an accurate summary of what has been published about you. Please see WP:AUTOPROB for recommendations on how to proceed. --ColinFine (talk) 16:39, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Discussion with Bonadea on recently-created Wikipedia pages on Chinese figures

Hello. I have to discuss with Bonadea to discuss all about the pages I recently created that is about some Chinese figures which are derived from other webs.

Some pages I recently created does include Li Qianxin, Wang Li (singer) and Ai Tingting. I indeed like those people much. Li Qianxin is the eldest daughter of Li Zhanshu, while Wang Li, with 1980 birth, is a singer, and Ai Tingting, is a China Central Television journalist. I derived all of this from Chinese-language and Chinese-related webs actually. It then become my greatest work in Wikipedia. I don't want all of my works here to be deleted. Please?

Thank you talk 12:27, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

See "Update of my recently-created English-language Wikipedia page Ai Tingting", a few discussions earlier. Ai Tingting is at AfD, and a report about Adamdaniel864 has been filed at ANI. Adamdaniel864 has been notified. David notMD (talk) 12:44, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Adamdaniel864: I moved the articles about Li Qianxin and Wang Li to Draft space (Draft:Li Qianxin and Draft:Wang Li (singer)) to give you a chance to develop them. Li Qianxin might perhaps be notable, but there was nothing in the article to show that she is, and the article about Wang Li contradicted itself (I did explain that on your user talk page). Another editor nominated Ai Tingting for deletion. It is not fun when your articles are deleted, but Wikipedia can't have articles that are poorly sourced or hard for our readers to understand. Articles also have to be about notable topics, and that an editor likes a person does not mean that there can be an article about that person, unless multiple sources have written about him or her. I suggest that you create articles as drafts, see WP:DRAFT, and submit them for review. But before creating more new drafts, you should have a look at the articles you have created that have been moved to draftspace (by a number of different people), such as Draft:Veronika Matyunina and Draft:Islam in Mumbai. All the drafts created by you should be linked from your user talk page, or you can find them by looking at new page creations in your contributions list. Drafts can be deleted after 6 months if they have not been edited. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 13:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea: I indeed take references from Chinese-language webs, I put the webs in the Wikipedia, so that it become more easy for someone to know it. It's originally from Chinese-language webs. Do you believe how age is Ai Tingting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamdaniel864 (talk • contribs) 13:35, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Adamdaniel864: No, I have no idea when Ai Tingting was born (if that is what you were asking). Do you understand that you can't add information about a living person unless there is a reliable source to support that information? In fact, that is a general rule in Wikipedia, but it is especially important in articles about living people. There are many notices on your user talk page, asking you to make sure to include reliable sources for all information you add to Wikipedia articles. --bonadea contributions talk 16:50, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

My edit was reversed

I made an edit to the page "Theta Phi Alpha."

I am a member of Theta Phi Alpha, and was the National Historian for six years. I wrote the history book we published for our 75th anniversary.

The Siena Medal is presented to a notable woman. In 1945 the recipient was Alleta (Mrs. Thomas) Sullivan, mother of five brothers killed in action on the same day in World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers

The Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_Phi_Alpha says that the 1945 Siena Medalist was Thomas Sullivan, FATHER of the five Sullivan brothers.

Last night, I corrected it. Today I received a message from an editor that it had been changed back because my correction was "not helpful."

I will be happy to provide a copy of the page of the 75th anniversary book concerning Mrs. Sullivan’s award and, if necessary, the original 1945 citation.

I have notified our National President of this matter and she expects that it will be corrected. 71.72.33.91 (talk) 18:23, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

The name on that list comes from this website: [6], although confusingly that site also says that the award went to the mother. Since you are connected to the organization, perhaps you can get that source corrected and then update the Wikipedia article. RudolfRed (talk) 18:32, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

To be specific, the ambiguity arises because the source says mother, but uses the father's name "Thomas F. Sullivan". Your edit seems constructive and I would support it, however asserting that your president expects it to be corrected, reeks of entitlement. Please note Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service. None of us are paid to do this. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 18:37, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Neither the article nor the source says anything about the medal being awarded only to female recipients. The source ([7]) is a bit contradictory – it says that the 1945 recipient was "Thomas F. Sullivan – Mother of five sons lost off Guadalcanal on the U.S.S. Juneau in World World War II". It is more than reasonable to assume that there is an error in the source, and the obvious conclusion is that "Mother" should be "Father"; it would not be acceptable to change the name to "Alleta Sullivan" unless a new source is produced, since that would be original research which is against Wikipedia policies.

That being said, of course errors should be avoided if possible. It sounds like the book you mention would be a source that could be used to fix this issue. There is no need to provide a copy of the page, but the bibliographical information including the page number where the info can be found would be sufficient. You can post it here, or at Talk:Theta Phi Alpha. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 18:38, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

It wasn’t my intention to sound entitled. It was the source material that she expects to be corrected. In those days, most married women used their husband’s name in print unless they were notable for their own achievements; IMO Mrs. Sullivan is the only awardee who was chosen for something that happened to her. Her first name was virtually unknown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.72.33.91 (talk) 20:17, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Is it a COI?

I drafted an article on the Solarian NFT and declared a COI at the top of the page because I own one of the tokens, but have no connection to the company whatsoever. Not sure what level of COI that is or if it is worth mentioning.Should it be deleted? Looking for some guidance thx CaliBuds (talk) 10:24, 14 August 2021 (UTC) CaliBuds (talk) 10:24, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@CaliBuds, I don't think that's a COI. Buying something doesn't make you connected. If you're asking whether you could remove that notification, I think you could.

If you're asking about the article itself, as it's in draft, it doesn't need to be deleted if you want to continue to work on it. The crucial element is proving that this is a notable subject. In order to prove that, you need to find wp:significant coverage of it in unaffiliated wp:reliable sources. That is, more than a bare mention, and in sources that have editorial oversight. Discussions of funding or rankings won't work to prove notability; someone needs to actually be discussing the topic at some length. —valereee (talk) 12:53, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Unfortunately Valereee, I would disagree. I think part of the reason we put Wikipedia:General sanctions/Blockchain and cryptocurrencies in place is because it is the sort of thing where added exposure (like the creation of a Wikipedia article) could lead to an increase in value for the subject. If a user has the chance to financially gain from promotion of the topic at hand, I would consider that a COI. Bkissin (talk) 19:15, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hm. Fair enough, @Bkissin, I stand corrected. —valereee (talk) 19:26, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Apologies if that came off too aggressive. Not my aim at all! It's more a difference of opinion than anything else. Bkissin (talk) 21:43, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Favourites list

I was wondering if there is a feature or script where we can add articles to "favourite". I'm not looking for watchlist because that only shows recent changes etc., but something where we can click a button and add an article to a favourites list, kind of like a read later thing. Thanks! Nikolaih^☎️📖 02:50, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Nikolaih. The Wikipedia app for Android and iOS has such a feature: mw:Wikimedia Apps/Reading list browser extension. There is no feature for browsers, except an extension for some browsers to add pages to the app feature but not see the pages in the browser: mw:Wikimedia Apps/Synced Reading Lists#Web browser extension. Special:EditWatchlist shows an alphabetical list of all watched pages so it could be used, possibly in an alternative account if you want the watchlist for its intended purpose in your main account. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:12, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Nikolaih. Any editor can create a subpage in their userspace called "Favorites" or anything like that. You can copy and paste article titles into that page, creating a list of articles that interest you. I have some big long lists of articles I have created or worked on, which you can see on my userpage. Maybe some day I will move those lists to a subpage, but I like my userpage the way it is, even though it is quite long. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 03:32, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nikolaih You can also try User:BrandonXLF/TodoList. ― Qwerfjkl talk 09:38, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl Thank you! This is the closest to what I was looking for! Nikolaih^☎️📖 22:14, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Why notified about conflict of interest?

I had created a mainspace article[[8]] few days back, then one of the editors moved that article to draftspace, and also notified me about the conflict of interest. I asked the editor why he notified me about the COI when I have nothing to do with it, but he didn't reply. First of all, I want to know, what is the criteria to add COI or any other tag on someone's talk page? Can any editor on the basis of his/her assumptions add tags on other editor's talk pages? My second question is, is it necessary to write the article, in brief, to get acceptance for mainspace unlike two, three lines?

Lastly, I want any editor to propose the draftspace article [[9]]for deletion, as I don't want to edit that article fruther when the review procedure is assumption-based. Mehmood.Husain (talk) 12:06, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Mehmood.Husain, three points. First, the message you got says "if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Jane Frankland, you may have a conflict of interest (COI)" (emphasis added). You say above that you "have nothing to do with it", which I suppose means that you do not have such a relationship. Then you're welcome to say so; perhaps "No, I have no such relationship and therefore have no conflict of interest." Secondly, I often don't want to do any more editing of an article (or draft). A recent example: Shinichiro Kobayashi (which I didn't start, but rescued from likely deletion). This is still very poor, and I'm tired of it; but I don't ask for it to be deleted, because other editors are free to improve it. (You're one of them! Feel free to improve on my work.) So if you don't want to edit Draft:Jane Frankland any more, no need to ask for its deletion: maybe other editors will take over. (Additionally, when you wrote, you said you'd "irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL": emphasis added.) Thirdly, this then-article, now-draft consists of just two not-so-long sentences; it really did/does need incubation as a draft. -- Hoary (talk) 13:00, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Mehmood.Husain, that notification doesn't mean the person necessarily thinks you have a conflict of interest. Often when newer editors write about living people, current products, or currently-operating organizations, we notify them so they'll know there are policies, just in case. You're free to simply respond that you have no connection and remove it.

I think the draft is worth saving. She may not be over the hump yet, but she's young still. —valereee (talk) 13:26, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hoary I couldn't get this, (Additionally, when you wrote, you said you'd "irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL": emphasis added.) If you are asking about my connection with the draftartileDraft:Jane Frankland, I already said, I have "No" connection with this article, as I had seen this name on a website, so created a page assuming that she deserves it.

Valereee Thanks for your feedback. I'll try to improve the article in my free time.

I see that when Mehmood.Husain created the draft, he got the title of Frankland's book wrong (it's still wrong). This convinces me that he's unlikely to have a CoI. Maproom (talk) 14:51, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

No, Mehmood.Husain, in mentioning the irrevocable agreement, I wasn't asking about your connection (if any) with Frankland. Simply, I was saying this: When you write something for Wikipedia, it's shown (via the history of the draft, article, or whatever) to be your creation. In this sense, it's yours. But it's not yours to remove. If you write a draft about Frankland, but later are infuriated by some aspect(s) of Wikipedia and for this reason want to remove the draft, you normally cannot do so. The "irrevocable agreement" business aside, yes, I did suggest that you should respond directly to the notice you got about the possibility of a "COI". However, when I look at the pattern of contributions by the user who posted it there -- a vast number of edits in a single day (so many that little thought can have gone into them), and thereafter no return to look at questions, such as yours, about these edits -- I now think that it's not worth bothering with. Well, I hope that you are not infuriated by Wikipedia. (Though most experienced contributors to Wikipedia have at some time probably been infuriated by some aspect of it. Certainly I have.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:25, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hoary I got your point, thanks for your guidance. I already checked the edit history of the reviewer's account. The reviewer has done many edits in a single day using different software, that's how he overlooked the facts. Mehmood.Husain (talk) 19:16, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

OK, Mehmood.Husain. I hope that any remaining annoyance soon evaporates, and wish you the best with your editing. -- Hoary (talk) 22:37, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Template:Setup auto archiving/sandbox

Can someone help me with this template? I'm trying to enable the archiving notice in {{talk header}} when the {{auto archiving notice}} is disabled. - Qwerfjkl talk 17:42, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Nevermind, I made a few mistakes but (I hope) it's working now. ― Qwerfjkl talk 22:51, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism

How do I report vandalism on Wikipedia? WinnipegMA (talk) 22:53, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@WinnipegMA: WP:AIV Bkissin (talk) 22:55, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@WinnipegMA, and also read WP:VAND For More information. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 23:11, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Please help me in editing the title of a Biography

I want to change the title of a page that goes by the name Anukulchandra Chakravarty to Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra. I have inserted the proper sources to the page but still not finding the Move option to change the name. I can edit the body, but the title is untouchable. What should I do? Souvikghoshias (talk) 23:13, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Souvikghoshias. Your edits to Anukulchandra Chakravarty violated a core content policy, the Neutral point of view, so I reverted them. As for the title, "Sree" is an honorific which should not be part of the article title. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:24, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

How do I change my Wikipedia Username?

Where do I go, and is it even possible for me to do it? Sparklestern (talk) 00:11, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sparklestern:, WP:RENAME. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 00:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Do I now need to add 10 more citations?

I recently made this very small article titled Lucien Finel, and a notability tag was added to it. It now has 5 citations which sufficiently cite the entire content. So do I need to add more citations just for the notability? Excellenc1📞 13:01, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey, @Excellenc1, it's not the number of citations, it's the quality. All of those look like obits? That might be the problem, go to the talk page and open a section and ask the editor who placed the tag about it.

Citing obituaries in respectable newspapers and magazines should not be a problem. Indeed, they're likely to be well-researched, and therefore excellent sources. Maproom (talk) 17:22, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

I've linked in the references to the articles for the media. That can sometimes help, as it lets editors quickly see whether some media they may be familiar with is notable itself. All of these were. —valereee (talk) 13:22, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

I notice that there's another citation on the French Wikipedia page for Lucien Finel which is from a 1997 story in Liberation. Fabrickator (talk) 00:22, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Why do Academics' insist on drawing conclusions and being disagreeable about it?

As an amateur, I've studied Ancient History and Religions for more than 30 years and have adopted a wait and see stance on so much of this. I am open to the idea that humans had visitors but we can not prove it. 2601:1C0:5A00:3510:6864:D411:97F8:9699 (talk) 00:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Do you have a question? ~Anachronist (talk) 02:43, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Table/rowspan formatting problem

I'm trying to add the 2021 comic-book nominees to List of Dragon Award nominees, but the shaded header for 2021 ends up one column too far to the right. Here's what the result looks like: User:Akuchling/DragonTableError; scroll down to the 2021 nominees to see the problem. I think there's something wrong with the rowspans for the header tables for 2018 or earlier, but I haven't managed to fix it using trial and error. Do you have suggestions for debugging this? Thanks! Andrew Kuchling (talk) 01:42, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Akuchling:

Fixed by adjusting the rowspan for the 2018 entries. I trust that you'll provide a reference for 2021, and explain why the table doesn't include entries for 2019-2020. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:53, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Image not adding in Wikipedia page.

hello wikipedia i want to add image on page but Wikipedia not allowing me to add img on ho his page. he is asking that this image is not capture with your mobile , what can i do here? Junaidbackspace (talk) 01:11, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Junaidbackspace, first, this image that you want to add: is it already at Wikimedia Commons (or English-language Wikipedia)? Secondly, if it's for the article Jeune Wali, Saroke, then I suggest that you forget images for now and instead add reliable sources to the article. If you don't do so, then it may well be deleted, with or without images. -- Hoary (talk) 05:03, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

How to change the title of a page?

How do I get this page title (and link) revised?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elma_(hamlet),_New_York&action=submit

It's incorrect. It should be "Elma Village (hamlet), New York" not merely "Elma (hamlet), New York." It's confusing because it implies the hamlet and township have the same name. NY State cites it incorrectly as well (in a 1995 listing), so that's probably why the page was written that way.

I didn't see this issue covered in the help page(s), but then that area is kinda tedious.

Thank you in advance for any help.

/Brian Szafranski webmaster Elma NY (USA) Historical Society www.ElmaNYHistory.com [[User:Brian Szafranski|Brian Szafranski]] ([[User talk:Brian Szafranski|talk]]) (talk) 18:52, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brian Szafranski, hello and welcome to the Teahouse, to change the name of an article you only need to use the “move” function and move into a new title(name). If the name of the article has been a cause of controversy, rather than unilaterally moving the page yourself you can go to WP:RM and request the article title be changed. Furthermore am I wrong to presume you have little trouble in signing your comments? If yes, it’s no problem and very easy to fix, I used to have those problems too in 2016, but it’s extremely simple to learn, you see, all you need do is add four {{tildes}} at the end of any entry you make and you would have successfully signed your entry. Celestina007 (talk) 19:44, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brian Szafranski: Is there a reliable source that supports your renaming? Even your own website doesn't make reference to "Elma Village". Perhaps the article should be renamed to "Elma (New York village)". ~Anachronist (talk) 19:37, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Brian Szafranski (talk) 20:39, 15 August 2021 (UTC) When I tried to edit a section with errors earlier today I clicked on "edit source" and a field came up which was empty (missing all the existing content). Great! I repeat the process, and get the same thing each time. If it's not working correctly I haven't the time to fix it (nor even know how).

Wikipedia is all too foo-foo-OCD for me, and I've been programming for nearly 50 years. If it's not obvious and intuitive much less working correctly then I haven't the time and patience to learn it at my age. I only needed to fix some obvious errors (which never should've been there in the first place), but I don't need to waste my time learning something I'm never going to use again. Sad. Brian Szafranski (talk) 20:39, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Brian Szafranski (talk) 00:20, 16 August 2021 (UTC) BTW, when is Wikipedia going to no longer requiring users to work with code? I gave up coding when Windows replaced MS-DOS. Why is this website stuck in 1985? I have better things to do with my time than learn coding just to make a few simple and overdue revisions here. The nonintuitive coding here should've been obsoleted here long ago. More than sad. Brian Szafranski (talk) 00:20, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

The WYSIWYG editor only works on articles and drafts by design. We have a cheatsheet for source editing. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 00:34, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Brian Szafranski, it takes no knowledge of coding to notice that a comment here is conventionally signed (with four consecutive "~") at its end, and not at its beginning as well. (Like a letter, come to think of it.) And really, Mediawiki markup is extraordinarily easy: you yourself have demonstrated above that you know how to get boldface. Still, if you have better things to do with your time than to edit Wikipedia (as I can easily believe), then please don't waste that time here. -- Hoary (talk) 07:09, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Brian Szafranski, fwiw, there's a newfangled gadget that allows visual editor to be used on talkpages to some extent, check Preferences > Beta features. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:28, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

How to get my page approved by making references better?

Courtesy link: Draft:David Seekola

Hi,

My recent page got declined due to insufficient references. My question is, how do I make my references more reliable or what can be done specifically to get my page approved? CharissaGovender (talk) 08:35, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

CharissaGovender Your draft was declined because it has no independent reliable sources with significant coverage to support its content. Wikipedia is not for merely telling about someone. A Wikipedia article should summarize only what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about a subject, showing how (in this case) it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable person. Please also note that we don't use external links in the body of an article. Theroadislong (talk) 08:50, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@CharissaGovender Based on this google search [10] I don't think you can create an acceptable WP-article atm per WP:BASIC. Of course google doesn't know all, but it's up to you to find the usable sources if they exist. Consider WP:TOOSOON. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:05, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Help with visual editor

Hi, I've recently being working on expanding the history section of the Wolfenstein article and today when I went to publish my edit I've been working on for a couple days I got this error message that said 'Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)' and I have no idea what it means, if someone could explain why this might have happened and what the error message means, it would be a big help. Thanks. Huey117 (talk) 07:51, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Huey117, I have no idea, but if you don't get a good reply here, you can try Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:31, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång, I ended up fixing it by copying my edit, opening the article on a new tab and posting it in that tab; I'm not sure what happened but it could be because I left the visual editor open for so long?Huey117 (talk) 09:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Huey117 For all I know, it could be. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:42, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism (Tracking Places)

hello 👋 i am wokring on Special:AbuseLog as well as other places, my quesstion is how can i find specific Abuse Codes that detects Pure Vandalism?

and also i will really appreciate if you can add some places for me, that helps me to track vandalism to revert them.

Thanks —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 23:39, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter lists all the filters. You can also try using Special:RecentChanges with the bad faith filter turned on. Kleinpecan (talk) 11:06, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Kleinpecan Yes Dear i know it lists all of them but not all of them is necessary for me. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 12:53, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Sakura emad I use these filters (if it helps). ― Qwerfjkl talk 11:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl Dear thank you alot

and they're mine (Normal, Pre-advanced, Advanced) —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 13:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

rowspan TBA/NA

How do you put TBA or N/A in a rowspan of 3? when I try to do it the TBA doesn't show up (see my second to last edit on Ella Anderson)

TrevortniDesserpedx (talk) 09:23, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Trevortnidesserped: Like this, which is similar to the rowspan for "2021". Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:37, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Reference for the page

Hello, Can anyone please explain what all can be added as a reference for my page. My page was rejected saying no reference. Reference or citations means what all can I add? 83.110.210.173 (talk) 13:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse! At the top of your draft is a box explaining why your draft was rejected, with lots of links to helpful information for you to click and read. I suggest reading Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Help:Your first article if you haven't done so already. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Could

2A00:23C5:3082:AE01:D1D:8BED:ED51:15AA (talk) 13:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, do you have a question? Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:45, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Is it possible to block editors with conflict of interest?

Can I have editors who are harassing me blocked from editing my page? A well known former wikipedia programmer and now editor has, and has enlisted other editors to monitor and vandalize my page. This person was an employee of mine before he began at Wikipedia and I personally fired him for abuse as my system admin. He later slandered me on his website. He was forced to take his remarks down but under the protection of Wikipedia, he has been able to impact my reputation with the help of a few other editors. Looking at the history of my page identified them and their unfounded reversions and claims sock puppeting. What channel at Wikipedia would be the best to get a block on their ability to monitor, edit and at times vandalize my page? Toddmeagher (talk) 19:42, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Toddmeagher: I don't see anyone vandalizing User:Toddmeagher. If you are referring to the article Todd Meagher, that is not "your" page and you have no business editing it because you have a conflict of interest. Any substantive changes should be proposed by you on the article talk page. I see unsourced additions that have been correctly reverted, no vandalism. The page is now protected anyway. If you have behavioral concerns about other editors, post to WP:ANI for administrator attention. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:48, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Anachronist, the problem is they make some serious allegations here that may indeed need to be looked into. @331dot, Nick Moyes, Cullen328, and ColinFine. I’ve looked at this question for a while and whilst Anachronist has been gracious enough to reply I still feel worried about this question. Honestly I’m not too sure what to make of this. is this an OTRS related business? There seems to be potential outing here. What are your thoughts? should this be discussed and verified off wiki?(to avoid potential outing) or can this be handled here on-wiki?. Celestina007 (talk) 19:54, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Celestina007: As an OTRS volunteer myself, I can tell you that contacting OTRS usually serves no purpose that cannot be served in public discussion. There are vague references to a former employee without identifying the person, which doesn't quite cross the line into outing. The Todd Meagher page doesn't have any recent vandalism in it as far as I can tell. And it is now semi-protected indefinitely. There's no recent activity that is block-worthy. So there isn't really anything more to discuss. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:08, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

@Anachronist, you are correct, i think for now I’d add them to my watchlist and see how that goes. Celestina007 (talk) 20:56, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

I think that BDD or another Arbitration Committee member should look at this. Toddmeagher was blocked for 4-1/2 years for legal threats and unblocked by BDD on August 9 as a result of off-Wiki communication with ArbCom. The hint at outing is troubling as is the resumption of conflict and the ownership attitude regarding Todd Meagher. I see no obvious vandalism of that page. What I see in the history is IP editors adding unreferenced or poorly referenced content and experienced editors removing it. If any editor has a grudge against Meagher, they should not edit the article. Talk: Todd Meagher is the place to discuss the content, and that page has been silent since 2017. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:14, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Toddmeagher, please do not remove comments that other people have already responded to. Please see Template:Strikethrough for acceptable methods to revoke a comment. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 21:46, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Please feel free to leave a message on my talk page or ping me at Talk:Todd Meagher if needed. Semi-protection should head off potential trouble here. Todd, we can deal with misconduct as it arises, but probably no admin is going to be willing to ban someone proactively based on previous conflict. --BDD (talk) 15:02, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Need Assistance

My company has an article page, but we are having issues, as every single change that we do on the article to meet the changes that the company passed and make the article very updated for the readers, the guy that created the page just not accept the changes. However, he doesn't have any copyright rights to our brand, so how we can solve it?

Because some of the information posted there is pretty old, and we are not informing the readers right. Another question is if we can request the deletion of the article, in this case, due to copyrights issues, if yes how we can do it?

Please, help us understand it, because this is bringing issues for our company as some leads, customers, and etc sometimes get confused about it when checking on Google and finding this article not updated. Acpmadeira (talk) 14:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Telecom North America

@Acpmadeira: Welcome to the Teahouse! Wikipedia has an encyclopedia article about your company, which your company does not own. Since you have a conflict of interest (COI), you and other employees may not edit the article directly. Instead, you can declare your COI on your user page and suggest improvements on the article's talk page with the {{request edit}} template, while providing independent and reliable sources. If there are copyright issues with the article, please provide the details on the talk page as well so they can be fixed. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:53, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

To reinforce that guidance, you have been editing the article directly since February 2020. Stop. Instead, declare your paid connection on your User page and limit your efforts to proposing changes on the Talk page of the article. I see that the article was created in 2009 by Handrieu, who is currently reverting your changes to the article, so I suggest you either engage Handrieu on that editor's Talk page or invite that person to the Talk page of the article, in an attempt to reach consensus. Per your copyright question, any content copied from copyright protected sources must be deleted. However, the company cannot demand that an article about it be deleted. David notMD (talk) 15:27, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Help getting re-review

Re-submitted an article for re-review, but has been 9 days now. Have I done something wrong? Here's the draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Institute_for_Human_Rights_and_Business#References Haley St. Dennis (talk) 16:10, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Haley St. Dennis: Welcome to the Teahouse! You resubmitted it properly. As stated in the yellow template, the issue is that "This may take a week or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 536 pending submissions waiting for review." GoingBatty (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

changing a Page name of a draft

I created a draft page and submitted it, immediately told me that there was another page with same name, how do I edit/change the name of the page while in draft? Btrahey1979 (talk) 16:13, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Btrahey1979: Is it Draft:Back Home Again? It is possible that you accidentally double clicked the submit button (I have done that) and the second click failed because it already got submitted from the first click.

If you get this conflict because someone else actually created a draft of the same name while you were creating yours, then what I would do is copy my text into my clipboard or local text editor, and look at the other draft. If it's the same subject, I'd work on improving that one, and if it's a different subject, I'd create one under a new name, and paste my text into it. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:20, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Btrahey1979: Welcome to the Teahouse! On Wikipedia, renaming is called "moving" - see Wikipedia:Moving a page In your case, I suggest you move Draft:Back Home Again to Draft:Back Home Again (film). Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:21, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

refusal

MeynyLux (talk) 15:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, you have just refused the publication of a new article on Kleos Space, but I work for Kleos and all the content actually belongs to us. We wrote the press releases and website content. How can we fix this?

Thanks!

MeynyLux, you should start by reading WP:COIDECLARE. Drmies (talk) 15:49, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy: Draft:Kleos Space declined 16 August and apparently on its way to Speedy Deletion for copyright infringement. If SD'd all history of the draft will vanish. MeynyLux is welcome to try again, but first must declare PAID, and second must understand that press releases, websites, interviews and other company or employee generated content should not be used as references except for simple facts such as location of the company, and that such primary sources do nothing to establish notability in the Wikipedia meaning of the word. David notMD (talk) 15:58, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@MeynyLux: The Wikipedia meaning of "notability" can be found at Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). See also Help:Your first article. GoingBatty (talk) 16:11, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@MeynyLux It is possible the image you uploaded to Commons might also be put up for deletion. It appears to be based on a mirrored artwork of the earth with your company's satellites added to it. Unless that image was public domain, it seems likely you have at least not conformed with attribution licencing. You also appear to have given away the Kloeos company logo for anyone to use or abuse as they see fit, even commercially. Did you really mean to do that, too, and was your CEO Andrew Bowyer aware you had done this? You might wish to request its deletion from Commons if you were overcome by keenness to promote your employer, and not feel that was not intended. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Supplement citation of offline source with unofficial URL

In the citation for what would otherwise be an offline source, should I include an unofficial URL?

Example: a magazine that is no longer published but has back issues on an ad-heavy website that’s not the magazine’s official site:

Karpinskaya, Tatiana (2013-09-18). 100 лет со дня рождения знаменитой финской балерины Люси Нифонтовой [100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Finnish ballerina Lucia Nifontova]. Spektr [ru; fi] (in Russian). Helsinki. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-08-09.

Example: an archived document not available online, but which the archive transcribed for me several years ago, and I uploaded a scan of the transcription to FamilySearch:

"О рождении Андрея Ивановича Нифантова [Birth record of Andrei Ivanovich Nifantov]". Метрические книги Пияльского прихода [Parish register of Piyala Parish], Fonds: 29, Series: 22, File: 55, pp. 756-757. Arkhangelsk: Государственный архив Архангельской области [State Archives of the Arkhangelsk Oblast].

Or is it best to leave out URLs that don't lead to the official publisher of the cited source? Lee Choquette (talk) 23:34, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

I am not seeing specific guidance on this at Wikipedia:Link rot. It seems it is not explicitly forbidden, and I personally would say you can/should link to the unofficial sources as long as you do cite properly. One additional concern is that those links will go offline very quickly too, so I'd preemptively make an archive of those links already too. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:58, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I will! Lee Choquette (talk) 04:24, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

My opinion is you cannot use the unofficial website. There are additional problems with using an unofficial source:

Barring definitive proof to the contrary, the original source is presumably still copyrighted. The unofficial source is therefore guilty of copyright violation. Wikipedia does not allow links to such violations.
Even if it turns out there is no copyright issue, the next problem is that Wikipedia must only link to reliable sources. In this case, the source is actually the unofficial website. Unless the website is deemed to have (among other things) an editorial staff known for fact checking, you can't link to that website. After all, the copy on the unofficial website might be altered, or be of a magazine article since repudiated by the original magazine. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 16:50, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding to a Wiki page/COI?

I am the President of the non for profit organization the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA). While I was VP I put together a list of all the past members of this organization based on exhibition catalogues from 1916 to present. I would like to add those names to the SAGA Wiki Page along with adding a line to each of the member's pages stating that he or she was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. Since we are a volunteer organization I have yet to find anyone else to do this task, therefore I, as president, have been doing it. Is there a conflict of interest in doing this? I am not related nor knew any of these past printmakers. Thank you. SAGAdeann (talk) 16:18, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@SAGAdeann: This is a case of "ask for forgiveness instead of permission." It's OK though.

You're basically doing minor maintenance edits, which is fine. With a conflict of interest, you are free to make corrections to spelling, grammar, numbers, and lists. You can revert obvious vandalism. And you can add citations to reliable sources that are independent of your organization, if those sources give significant coverage of the organization. For anything more substantive, you should propose your change on the article's talk page. You can preface your proposal with the tag {{request edit}} to cause your request to be listed on a category page that is monitored by some editors. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:24, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@SAGAdeann: Welcome to the Teahouse! I am worried that a list of all members of a 100-year-old nationwide organization may overwhelm the article with too much detail. You can also disclose your affiliation with SAGA on your user page using {{UserboxCOI}}. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:28, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: It seems that notable members (who have a Wikipedia article already) are being added. I found only two redlinks, which I have removed. The affiliation is already disclosed with the username (Deann at SAGA apparently) but a user box would be helpful. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:49, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Anachronist: A short list of notable members is fine. I was responding to SAGAdeann's desire to publish "a list of all the past members of this organization" in the Wikipedia article. GoingBatty (talk) 17:10, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

AfD Before

Before you nominate an article for deletion, where do you find out if it has been through an AfD before? Thank you for your help! FiddleheadLady (talk) 15:34, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@FiddleheadLady, if it was at all recent, it will be mentioned with a link in a talk page banner. —valereee (talk) 16:16, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

And even if it's not, the discussion should be listed if you hit "What links here?" (at left). Johnbod (talk) 16:27, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@FiddleheadLady: There is a search box on the AfD page where you can search past discussions. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#Search_current_and_archived_AfD_discussions_by_topic RudolfRed (talk) 16:26, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you everyone, this is really helpful! I will bookmark that as well. FiddleheadLady (talk) 17:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding a song/artist link

Recently, I had an edit entry removed for lack of reference. Specifically there is a song named Suzanne by Leonard Cohen, in the section under cover versions I wanted to add a link to the wiki entry for Francoise Hardy who sang a french translation on her “Comment te dire adieu” album.

Mrs Hardy Is an incredibly famous singer that began her career in the early 60s and up until 2018 and so her cover of the song, being also in French, is well worth mentioning and relevant.

Since there is already a wiki entry for this album where the song is clearly listed, why are other citations needed for my entry to just create a link from Suzanne to the cover version on the FH album?

And if a citation is needed, what kind of citation should I get? Where do I get it from? The album was mass produced in 1968 And had a major hit on the album and I am literally holding a copy of my hands. Do you have to have a citation for linking every major album release just because you want to link an existing wiki entry to another?? This makes no sense. It’s not like I’m talking about some minor piece of work by my neighbor. I’m talking about an incredibly well-known album famous throughout France with a cover version of a well-known song I just wanted to make a link from one existing wiki page to another.

And by the way, all my edit said was “Francoise Hardy <link to her wiki> released a french translation cover on her Comment Te Dire Adieu <link to this album on wiki> album in 1968”

Thats all I added. Nothing interpretive. Not a new wiki page. Just linking her cover version to the discussion already existing on the Suzanne page Tarheel1994 (talk) 17:07, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tarheel1994: Welcome to the Teahouse! The Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song) article has a section for "Notable recordings". Such sections are not meant to be an exhaustive list of all covers of a song. The criteria for whether a recording should be included is at WP:COVERSONG. You don't have to show the version exists, but that it is noteworthy. Maybe you could provide a reliable source showing that Hardy's recording was on the French charts, or a review that provides significant coverage of her recording? Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 17:34, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tarheel1994: The Comment te dire adieu (album) article has a link to the Allmusic review, where the review describes her recordings as "fine, haunting French interpretations". GoingBatty (talk) 17:38, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Goingbatty:-brilliant! Thank you!

Nthakar.04 (talk) 18:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Need advice/suggestions to improve my article

Hello,

I need some help regarding my first Wikipedia article. It initially got accepted and was live on Wikipedia for more than a year but last year it got deleted due to violating Wikipedia policy for articles. Since then I have tried my best and made all the necessary changes and resubmitted it for review but it got rejected multiple times. Any advice or suggestions would be really helpful for me as I am new to Wikipedia and it is my first article. Link of the draft when I submitted it for review last time. Niraj Gera Link of the current state of the draft. Niraj Gera Jain chakshu (talk) 11:08, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Before we go further, Jain chakshu, let's consider the photograph. It seems to have been made as the result of close cooperation between the biographee and the photographer. And we read that it's your work -- that you are the photographer. Would you care to comment on your acquaintance with Niraj Gera? (Robert McClenon brought this matter up three months ago, but you don't seem to have responded anywhere.) -- Hoary (talk) 12:04, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Jain chakshu - The article was accepted in 2018, and then deleted in 2020 as advertising or spam, and the deleting administrator salted it because of too much attention from multiple promotional accounts. I do not know whether the 2018 article was spam, and should not have been accepted, or whether the promotional language was added between 2018 and 2020. I then declined your draft three months ago because it was written to praise the subject rather than to describe him neutrally. So it was not improved much in the past year. It was non-neutral then, and it is non-neutral now. You have not made all the necessary changes. Questions have been asked about whether you and other editors are being paid by the subject or by the subject's promoters, and those questions are not being answered. The advice that you are being given is not just advice because it reflects Wikipedia policy, but it is to declare any conflict of interest.

Robert McClenon (talk) 18:35, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Cloud Computing and SuperComputing should not be using Same Ferrous Lines for automobiles or GOpros,or streetlights or corridors for DOT, these instruments are too powerful injuring people and infants and children..are you a drunk bartender or what??

2600:8801:10:E00:CC9D:4C2A:D8EB:4AE1 (talk) 18:41, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse! The purpose of this page is to request help with Wikipedia. Did you have a question about Wikipedia? GoingBatty (talk) 18:44, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Heads Up - Terry Pratchett's page is just a swastika right now.

Terry Pratchett's Page Issue

I guess someone doesn't like the guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett

I wasn't sure where to report it, so I came here. 216.154.21.239 (talk) 13:51, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

The page looks fine to me and hasn't been edited this month. Am I missing something? S Philbrick (Talk) 13:52, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

I should have thought about template vandalism, looks like others are on top of it. S Philbrick (Talk) 18:54, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Happened to Terry Wogan's page too for me, but it seems to have passed now. It covered the whole screen so I couldn't click anything. (Hope I've reported this right, I'm not too well-versed with this part of the site.)

SomnoticAgama (talk)

Same thing happened to me on a page I just edited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_W._Dressel - What the heck?! Niftysquirrel (talk) 13:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Also happened to Terry Gilliam. It didn't seem to happen to any other pages I clicked on.

SomnoticAgama (talk)

According to this discussion, someone had been vandalising templates to convert them to swastikas. Admins have reverted it. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:59, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

And the vandalizing editor indef blocked. Account appears to have been created with edits and time to achieve auto-confirmed status, solely to then vandalize templates. David notMD (talk) 15:21, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata why not appearing?

Why is the wikidata article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107640445 not appearing on google ? Ajobs19 (talk) 19:27, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Ajobs19, I have just nominated d:Q107640445, and the duplicate d:Q107966188 that you also created, for deletion. Neither Wikipedia nor Wikidata may be used for promotion. If you are in any way connected with Lovepawz you have a conflict of interest; and if you are in any way paid to write this, then you must make a formal declaration of that fact, or you will be breaking Wikipedia's terms of use. Once you have made that declaration, you should focus on finding the independent sources that are a non-negotiable requirement for Wikipedia to have an article on a subject. You might also like to remember that if Wikipedia does end up with an article on Lovepawz, that article will not belong to the company, will not be controlled by the company, will not necessarily say what the company would like it to say, and should be based almost 100% on what people unconnected with the company have published about it, not on what the company says or wants to say. --ColinFine (talk) 20:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Removing link to non-existent article

Hi: some articles contain names or subjects that are red in color, because in the editing section they are surrounded by double brackets but in fact "link" to non-existent articles. When I find these, I remove the brackets but leave the rest of the sentence untouched. On occasion, the removal of these double brackets is reverted by others, despite there being no article to which to link. Is there a policy that these "ghost links" should remain in place even though they do not take the reader anywhere? Or, is it proper to remove the brackets when there is no article to which to link? Thanks. Ballinacurra Weston (talk) 21:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

These are called "red links", and are covered in Wikipedia:Red link. Generally, if there is any plausible possibility of an article being developed, a red link should be retained.

For example, in John Marshall Harlan II, there is a redlink to Ella Wendel. Wendel and her family were prominent real estate investors, akin to Donald Trump and his family. She merited an obituary in the New York Times, and her intestate death is covered in books, including textbooks. She likely is sufficiently notable to merit an article (the possibility is certainly plausible, to use the words of the guideline). A redlink like that should be maintained. TJRC (talk) 21:36, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

As a practical matter, should an article names Ella Wendel be created, it would be very easy to search/find all matches of a person with that name even without a red link. For more ambiguously named topics, it's harder to say. Before removing a red link, I try to see if alternate topics/names can be found instead, for example the Spanish Federación Regional Española de la Internacional is a red link, whereas its translated name Spanish Regional Federation of the IWA is a blue link. ~ Shushugah (he/him • talk) 21:47, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ballinacurra Weston, redlinks are helpful to Wikipedia because they tell other editors, "This might be an article worth writing." Don't remove them unless you're convinced the subject isn't notable. —valereee (talk) 01:16, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

thanks all, I've learned my lesson Ballinacurra Weston (talk) 01:25, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

How to change page name and the associated redirect page

Trevor Kirczenow MacDonald (health researcher) redirects to Trevor MacDonald (health researcher) but really the title of the main article should change. Trevor Kirczenow wrote a book with his married name, MacDonald, but since then has gone by his legal name Kirczenow. I was going to update the page with information about the upcoming Canadian general election in which Trevor is a candidate under his legal name Trevor Kirczenow and don't know how to properly update the article title. Thanks! Dharmabum (talk) 05:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Dharmabum Hello! However, there is one other thing to consider: WP:COMMONNAME. If you think that supports a change of article title, you should probably use Wikipedia:Requested moves because of the existing redirects. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:23, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Creating a discography from artist's page

Hello, Would you please provide some guidance on how to set up a link to a new discography page from an existing artist's page? I sought permission to do this on 6 August in the Talk:Roger Woodward page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Roger_Woodward - in response to issues raised by editors regarding the long lists in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Woodward article. Thank you. I appreciate your advice. SueMmc (talk) 08:21, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@SueMmc: Welcome to the Teahouse! You could create Draft:Roger Woodward discography per Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies/style, and then submit it for review per Help:Your first article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:33, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks so much GoingBatty. We really appreciate your help. SueMmc (talk) 07:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Want to know about semi protected articles

Ziraar Ali (talk) 07:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Have you read WP:SEMI? --David Biddulph (talk) 07:28, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you mate@David Biddulph Ziraar Ali (talk) 07:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Repeating a previous question about hôtels

Sometime in the past I had asked this question in the Teahouse: What will be the heading for the translation of Liste des hôtels de région de France (list of regional 'hôtels' in France)? When I had previously asked, I was asked by an user what were the names of the individual buildings (regional parliaments) in enwiki on their articles, to which I replied that only one article on these regional 'hôtels' are made (Hôtel de Courcy) which leads to no conclusion. I don't remember if someone had given an answer to that query, not sure, but can I get an answer now (becuase I don't think regional hôtels is an apt title)? Excellenc1📞 07:02, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Based on the French article, I would suggest "List of regional-council headquarters in France". Avoid "hotel", which is misleading. 71.175.88.163 (talk) 07:43, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Excellenc1, you asked at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1120#Confusion_on_title. (This was easy to find via the search box above.) Liste des hôtels de région de France has minimal text, which is easy to understand for those whose French is at lower-intermediate level. I have trouble believing that anyone would (A) want to see such a list, but nevertheless (B) be unable to handle that amount of French. Also, the blue links for the actual hôtels in an English version would be even fewer than they are in that French-language list. So englishing the article seems a pretty pointless exercise to me. Now, if you want to get stuck in to hôtels (of a different kind), then may I recommend improving Hôtels particuliers of Montpellier, which currently tells us for example "Hôtel de Solas Early 17th century, with a noteworthy porch ceiling"; which to me raises questions: (i) Is nothing about it of note other than its age and "porch ceiling"? (ii) Where is it? (iii) What's it used for? (iv) Can the interested connoisseur of architecture enter it, or at least examine its "porch ceiling"? (v) How is this "porch ceiling" noteworthy? Somewhat surprisingly, there's no corresponding article in fr:WP; however, Hôtel particulier does provide a little list of articles there of city-specific hôtels particuliers (not Montpellier, but Nancy, Caen, etc); you might try englishing and improving one of those articles. -- Hoary (talk) 08:02, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hoary: This list will be similar to List of state and territorial capitols in the United States, with a difference that the French article will have more red links. (I don't think this will explain the notability of my topic, but just to say that this topic isn't 'useless' (I feel I shouldn't use this word)). And I am not making those regional hôtels with red links, I'll keep them black (just text)> Excellenc1📞 11:38, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Excellenc1, the US list is indeed of some interest: it has years of construction, historical notes, etc. If you can find such information, or comparable bonuses, for your French list, then yes, go for it. -- Hoary (talk) 11:45, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Sat Shri Akal

to authority Wiki Myself Js bhathuan.M very disappoint to know that my very important new article for wiki has been declined.My article was related great Punjabi scholar Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha (1861-1938 )’s new publish book “Gitanjali Harivrijrsh” ; . 'Gitanjali Harivrijesh' is an invaluable collection of Kahan Singh Nabha's ancient Punjabi poems. What is wrong in it. M sending a link English Tribune about “Gitanjali Harivrijaesh” https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/patiala/punjabi- Js bhathuan (talk) 12:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Did you read the messages on your talk page? Your draft was rejected for failing to cite sources, and subsequently removed for apparent copyright violations. You need to read and ensure you understand the information linked there before attempting to create an article (which, by the way, is a notoriously difficult process) Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:19, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Discord

Hello does english wikipedia has its own Discord server? if so how can i join?

thanks —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 12:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, take a look at WP:DISCORD. Zudo ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

thank you dear. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 12:51, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

New to Wiki, publishing a page, help!

Courtesy link: Draft:Ganignunt Aiemsakul

My friend is disappeared in 2002, the case is now open. I'm working on spreading awareness, linking data, and sharing information. I've created a draft in wiki, and would like to publish it or submit it for the approval process. I can't figure out how to do this. Findganignunt (talk) 01:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I have gone ahead, submitted and rejected the draft as it is counterintuitive to the purpose of Wikipedia WP:NOTADVOCACY. I appreciate your situation however this is not the place for this kind of activity. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 02:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Except that wiki is full of information related information like the page created, how exactly does this information get published? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jennifer_Dulos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Hae_Min_Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Steward_Davis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Findganignunt (talk • contribs) 02:38, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Findganignunt: One difference is the tone of the writing. It's important to write Wikipedia articles in the style of an encyclopedia article instead of as a request for help. GoingBatty (talk) 03:03, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

And please read WP:RS. You cannot use user-generated sites as reliable sources. The Charley Project fund raising page (used three times) is not a reliable source. A reddit page is not a reliable source. The fan page for America's Most Wanted is not a reliable source. The MoCo show (used three times) appears to be personal blog and is not a reliable source. Meters (talk) 03:20, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Since you are the person's friend you should also read WP:COI. Meters (talk) 03:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

We have articles for cases such as this where there are sufficient independent reliable sources to show that the particular case is notable. I am not seeing that here. We have an almost 20-year old disappearance case. It's tragic, and unsolved, but there is little independent coverage. Meters (talk) 03:27, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

It has been cleaned up now and the sourcing and tone are much better. The fact the police have recently reported a new tip and now believe her to be dead helps somewhat with notability. Meters (talk) 03:51, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Let me see what I can do. I hope a wiki will be created in the near future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Findganignunt (talk • contribs) 14:02, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Shree Janata Secondary school Betaha Bhawanipur,sirah

Ram Bilas Yadav (talk) 14:48, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Did you intend to ask a question about editing Wikipedia? --David Biddulph (talk) 14:51, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Tom_Stourton

I am Tom Stourton, but I am not allowed to provide my correct date/place of birth (28th September 1987, Washington DC USA) for some reason Tom Stourton (talk) 14:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

First things first, Tom Stourton: your username. Please see WP:REALNAME. The next thing is WP:COIDECLARE. Both your name and your conflict of interest need addressing. As for "not allowed"--we're an encyclopedia, and we work by way of reliable sources--you didn't provide any. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:43, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tom Stourton: Hello! Something you should probably take a look at is WP:COI and probably a few other guidelines I'm forgetting. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 14:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tom Stourton: Your best approach to changing the article would be to propose any changes on the talk page, citing reliable and verifiable published sources that support your proposed changes. If you try to make substantive changes to the article yourself, it will get tagged as having been edited by someone with a conflict of interest. ~Anachronist (talk) 14:53, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Priest Infobox

I am translating a polish article about Frank Bayard into English, but it has the Priest Infobox thing at the top. Is it an API thing or something? Can I just translate it by hand and it will work? Osarjusz (talk) 16:23, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Osarjusz: Hello! I have separated your question to make it easier to answer. As far as I know there is no API that will allow you to translate articles. You can translate it by hand, however you cannot use a machine translation as they tend to be inaccurate. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 16:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Dzjien Dobry, Osarjusz, and welcome to the Teahouse. Blaze The Wolf didn 't address the specific question in your post: Infoboxes are local to each edition of Wikipedia. There is no guarantee that a particular infobox in an article will even exist in another edition, or that it will have the same parameters if it does exist (and obviously, the parameter names are likely to be changed). So I don't think there is any alternative to looking for a suitable infobox and at its documentation, and translating/converting manually. --ColinFine (talk) 16:53, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, ColinFine Osarjusz (talk) 17:12, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Change page title

My page is in draft status ... I think? I would like to change the title to the person's full name. Do I need to start over with the draft?

Draft:Marq Hayes

What is the difference between wikitia & wikipedia? My draft is on wikitia ... Thunderwunder (talk) 18:06, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thunderwunder Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. I would suggest that you leave a note for the reviewer on the article talk page regarding the title; if the draft is accepted, they will move it to the proper title. Please note that the full name should only be used if that's what most independent reliable sources refer to this person as. See WP:COMMONNAME.

Wikitia is a website that is not a part of Wikipedia, which is similar to Wikipedia but it can only be edited by editors who are vetted and approved as editors(in other words, not everyone can edit it). It is not uncommon for those editors to use Wikipedia drafts as a basis to write articles there. This is permitted as long as they give attribution. 331dot (talk) 18:13, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Newton le Willows and other towns

There has been an anon constantly changing and changing for months now the lead of Newton le Willows from "Newton le Willows is a market town in the metropolitan borough of St Helens" to "a market town in North West England".

Me Koncorde and others have reverted these so many times the anon keeps redoing the same old edits.

So my question is simple. Is it important to note the borough and county a town or village comes under? If i said "Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire." Without a mention of Kirklees or "Nelson is a town in Lancashire" without mentioning Pendle. Then it wouldn't work as Huddersfield is Kirklees administrative centre and Nelson is Pendles administrative centre. DragonofBatley (talk) 13:08, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Newton-le-Willows TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@DragonofBatley: I'm looking at the page and it currently looks like what you said it is. Also, it doesn't appear to be the same person changing the page, rather multiple different IPs. However, if it continues you happen, I would suggest starting a discussion on the talk page of the article so you can discuss it with other editors, instead of just having an edit war (which can and probably will get you blocked). Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply and to be honest while i agree its not only me who reverts the edits made other admin do so if they continued it they'd be at risk of a block to and not just me. And there was a brief discussion on it but the false editor who made the discussion never replied to it and anons have kept doing it non stop so with all due respect me and @Koncorde: have had to keep reverting the edits. So would we both be at risk of a block for stopping an unhelpful anon?

@DragonofBatley: Not really. If they continue something you can do to stop them is request page protection. What it does is require them to register an account to be able to edit the page. There's an easy way to do it, however I'm not familiar with it as I just use Twinkle. Also, please remember to sign your replies with ~~~~ Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 14:34, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@DragonofBatley: Here's the link to request semi-protection: [11]. Instructions are on the page, it's quite simple. This will prevent IP editors from making changes, and even if the handling admin only semi-protects for a short time, that may be enough to discourage a casual but problematic anonymous editor. Elemimele (talk) 14:36, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for providing the link! As I said, I use Twinkle which does it automatically when I click the button to request page protection. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 14:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@DragonofBatley: If I saw a protection request for that article, I would decline it. There is not enough recent disruptive activity (it's only just today), there is only one IP address you are contending with, and that IP address seems to be making good-faith additions and citing sources. You need to resolve your dispute some other way. Engage on the talk page. ~Anachronist (talk) 14:44, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Anachronist:, may i suggest you look back at the past few months on the intro and the anon ip addresses. User, @Koncorde: will vouch for me that these ips have constantly kept changing the lead and that is an ongoing issue maybe minor but still ongoing. It needs to stop, the ip is wrong to remove the important content of Borough of St Helens to North East England which is not a county or district. It is a region of England and could be anywhere. It needs to be narrowed down to the borough/district/unitary authority and the county. The anon your looking at must pass different ip addresses as the last one today did the exact same thing as the ones in June, July and August have done. It is always ongoing. Needs to be resolved and me making the case on discussion pages does not mean the anons will comment. Just saying DragonofBatley (talk) 16:40, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

The page has now been protected. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:15, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Moving Articles from Sandbox

How do I move an article from sandbox to wikipedia? Do i just copy and paste it's contents? Osarjusz (talk) 18:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC) Osarjusz (talk) 18:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Osarjusz: Actually, there should be a little button at the top of your sandbox that will allow you to send your article to the draftspace for review. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:13, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf: I can't find it, may you tell me more exactly where it is? Osarjusz (talk) 18:24, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Blaze assumed that you would have included the {{user sandbox}} template in your draft. You hadn't, but I've added it for you. In doing so, I noticed that in the infobox you have tried to use a number of parameters which don't exist for that infobox. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:33, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I didn't actually know that was something that wasn't on the page by default. My bad! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 19:07, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

BRUH it appeared out of nowhere after i reloaded the page XD

Well I'm glad you found it! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:33, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

References

Hi, I attempted to submit a page that was declined on July 28th for the sunglasses company Ombraz. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ombraz) I would love for someone to glance at the new references and let me know their thoughts, as well as show me how to upload photos without then being taken down. Thanks, Kaspervdk25 (talk) 19:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Kaspervdk25: The article is too much like an advertisement, and the sources don't demonstrate notability. Please see WP:YOURFIRSTARTICLE and WP:COI. And WP:RS for more info specifically about sourcing. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 19:25, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for helping contribute to Wikipedia! One thing I can see is that many of the sources are press releases, reviews, and product pages, which may not meet the requirements for "significant coverage" . You might try adding this and this to your sources, where applicable. Try to look through the article and rewrite anything that looks to an outsider like promotional copy. Complete neutrality of the subject is the goal. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 19:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Difference between start and stub class

Hello! So, I've been browsing random articles and I've always been confused about the difference between a stub class article and a start class article. Now, I know that every Wikiproject has different specifications for start and stub class articles, but I just want to know what the general difference is as with the naming, it makes me think that any stub class article can be start class and any start class article can be stub class. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 19:33, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf: Like most things, it's more of a judgement call - see WP:STUBDEF and WP:ASSESS. GoingBatty (talk) 19:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

THank you! WP:ASSESS was very helpful in allowing me to see the difference between them. Honestly it seems like stub and start are very similar with very small differences between them. In fact, start could probably just be skipped in most cases. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 19:52, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, the answer is "it depends." For an important article -- say the United States an article of 1,000 words might be considered a "stub." But a 300 word article about some small village or river might be given a higher rating.

Your question gives me the opportunity to express a minor irritation. I've written a few short, i.e. 300 words or so, articles. I believe that a 300 word article can be complete with all relevant encyclopedic material included in that length. Thus, it is irritating when a rater automatically (and superficially in my opinion) calls a 300 word article a "stub" or a "start." To my mind, a 300 word article can be a C, B, Good, or even Fine article -- depending of course on the importance of the subject matter. Length does not necessarily equal quality.Smallchief (talk) 19:58, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor oftentimes a new article of just a few sentences gets expanded to a much longer article, but no one changes the size category, and it remains listed as a stub, even though many people would now consider it a start or a C article. That may confuse readers trying to figure out the difference between a stub or start. When I expand an article I check to see if it would be wise to change the size category. Karenthewriter (talk) 20:24, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

To me there's a big difference, Blaze The Wolf. A long article has to be exceptionally bad to be a stub, whereas only the strongest short articles are "start" or higher. 1,500 characters is the "long"/"short" cutoff between stub and start used by many. To advance past the "stub" descriptor, an article can feature several different things: placeholder sections with a sentence of content; reliable sources that aren't yet fully used; a large amount of low-quality (but not irrelevant) content. If an article doesn't do all of these things, then it's not ready for C-class, so that's what Start-class is needed for. (In particular, you need "more than one reliable source" for C-class.)

I think experienced editors rarely write Start-class articles because they have either read just a few sources and written a Stub, or they've read a good deal and written a C-class or higher article. In neither case are they going to write irrelevant content or extremely badly-structured information. — Bilorv (talk) 20:27, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Help with Draft:Proctorio

I am here to get some suggestions as to how I can improve my draft article. This is my second draft ever, and it is linked here: Draft:Proctorio. I started this article in June 2021. I wanted to get it done in 2020, but I decided that it was WP:TOOSOON at that point and waited for a year. After that, I found plenty of articles published by reliable sources that talk about the subject. Unfortunately, my article was declined. Initially, I was a bit surprised upon looking at the reviewer’s comments because I never intended to make an WP:ATTACK page. I thought that by having enough reliable sources, as I will prove below, I would be able to prove the subject’s notability and have my article accepted. I was looking through WP: NCORP again and I felt that I met the requirements:

All the references are to secondary sources, as they are all news articles.
Even before my first submission, I had several WP:RS: The New Yorker (x1), The Guardian (x1), The Verge (x3), and the Washington Post (x1). The article also contains campus newspapers and several borderline sources such as Business Insider and Vice. Since the first submission, I have removed a particularly unreliable source (TechCrunch) and added an article by one that is reliable (Times Higher Education).
Most of the articles have clear information about Proctorio, and it plays a key role in the articles' subject.
There are virtually no press releases or potentially promotional material cited in the article. When doing research, I encountered lots of press releases and the like but made sure not to cite them. Unfortunately, because I did not use press releases, there is very little information that shows the subject in a positive light.
In short, every statement has a source, there is no uncited material, and I am not trying to promote the subject.

Since my submission attempt, I have made improvements to the draft, and I am wondering whether these improvements are good enough for me to try again with the submission process. I believe this because if I try again, I might get a different reviewer and they might have different opinions on the article. If not, I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to improve the draft.N0nuun (talk) 19:26, 17 August 2021 (UTC) N0nuun (talk) 19:26, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@N0nuun: at AFC we have huge backlogs and very few volunteers, so reviewers can't investigate topics in as much detail as they would like. Here, I think the reviewer is expecting that, like with 9 out of 10 drafts that look like this, the article is being created in revenge by an angry student or maliciously by a rival company. Here at the Teahouse, I'm interested in seeing whether it's the 1 in 10. I do see neutrality issues in statements like "Students have expressed high levels of stress due to the abundance of false positives associated with Proctorio" and "Proctorio has falsely placed the logos of Amazon, Duke University, and Louisiana State University on its website". These statements need attribution. Which students expressed stress, according to what newspaper? And the logos are only "falsely placed" according to some critic (would Proctorio describe itself as "falsely placing" the logos?). I see the sources, but you need to give answers in the prose.

I take a slightly more radical position on "Controversy" sections than other editors, but I think most would agree with me that negative content shouldn't be segregated. It cuts both ways—for someone like me who would criticize Proctorio for its racial bias, it's not an ephemeral "controversy" separate from the history of the company or design of the product, but part of that history and design.

I would recommend rewriting to subsume all of the content into "History", "Design" and "Overview" sections (or similar) that are not organized by positive/negative tone but by topic. For instance, the "Response" part of the "Controversies" should be presented in the same paragraph as what the company are responding to.

Feel free to ping me when you've made improvements because I'm an AFC reviewer and I do think this draft is promising. If sources that give positive coverage of Proctorio are being omitted then they'll also need inclusion, because I'll search for them and won't approve a draft that isn't representative of reliable sources. — Bilorv (talk) 20:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Bilingual profile description

Is it possible to make 2 separate descriptions for 2 versions of wikipedia, for example the polish one and the english one? Osarjusz (talk) 20:03, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Osarjusz: Welcome to Wikipedia. Each Wikipedia is a seperate project. If you want to create an article in English, you would add that here. If you want to create an article in Polish, you would go to the Polish Wikipedia, the help desk for that is at pl:Pomoc:Pytania nowicjuszy RudolfRed (talk) 20:11, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: Ah, I forgot about that XD Thanks a lot! Osarjusz (talk) 20:15, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Osarjusz, also please take note of WP:Translation and WP:Translate us. And RudolfRed, I have replaced your obfuscated (and black-listed) URL with an interwikilink: [[:pl:Pomoc:Pytania nowicjuszy]].--ColinFine (talk) 21:37, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Google Street View Links

It is ok to put Google Street View links in the articles, unfortunately many of the museum articles I have written do not have images, but I can put in the "External Links" section, a link to Google Street View, Google for years has partnered with multiple museums around the world, it may help readers.-Seb { 💬 Talk + 📝 Edits } 20:19, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jseb05, and welcome to the Teahouse. I can't find anything that discusses this possibility. If you are satisfied that it meets WP:ELMAYBE, then I'd say, go ahead. The worst that can happen is that somebody disagrees and removes it, and then you can have a discussion. --ColinFine (talk) 21:43, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Protecting the Dark Souls 2 article

People keep editing the Dark Souls 2 only to make it look like a bad game, which it really isn't. The page also needs images such as gameplay screenshots. Please lock the page to prevent vandalism. Michael Santana9 (talk) 21:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Michael Santana9, hello and welcome to the Teahouse, without much investigating into the context what you are looking for can be found here see WP:RFPP and you can ask (with cogent reason) that the article be protected. Celestina007 (talk) 21:40, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Michael Santana9: Welcome to the Teahouse! To request screenshots, you can go to add Talk:Dark Souls 2 to add |screenshot=yes to {{WikiProject Video games}}. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 21:47, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Syntax Error

WinnipegMA (talk) 21:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC) When I put this syntax

Venus Temperature
Type	Temperature
High surface temperature	900°F (482°C)
Normal surface temperature	847°F (453°C)
low surface temperature	820°F (438°C)

The box goes on the bottom of the page even if I put this syntax on the top of the page. I tested it on my sandbox and it did not go on the bottom of the page but if I put it on an actual Wikipedia article it goes on the bottom of the page. I have seen this, the same syntax on other articles and it worked fine.

EEng, Buidhe which of you technical computer brains wants to handle this? Celestina007 (talk) 21:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@WinnipegMA: Welcome to the Teahouse! When you start a table with {|, you need to end it with |}. I added it to the table you posted here. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 21:57, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@WinnipegMA:, I'm not an expert however when I removed the float:left style it seems to have fixed the issue. I made the change in this edit to demonstrate the difference McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 22:24, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Population of Afghanistan

I see the following in the article about Afghanistan's population: "Afghanistan's population is roughly 34 million.[16] Of these, 15 million are male and 14.2 million are female.[17]"

Something's wrong with the math here. 2600:1702:4760:12E0:59FB:12D1:FC0F:91E2 (talk) 22:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the great question and for being a part of Wikipedia. It looks like it says this: "the total number of Afghans living inside Afghanistan was about 26 million[7] and by 2017 it reached 29.2 million. Of this, 15 million are males and 14.2 million are females." This figure appears to exclude Afghan nationals, which are included in the total population count, but not for the population within the border, as is stated. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 22:47, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

John Mitchum -Actor

I was just watching "Tales of Wells Fargo" (S5:E23 A Show from Silver Lode) and thought I knew the actor playing Charlie the Wells Fargo Agent. The actor is John Mitchum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mitchum). There is no credit for him on his wikipedia page or on the wikipedia page for "Tales of wells Fargo". If I was more PC savvy, I would help with editing. 135.129.115.7 (talk) 22:58, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

If the role was minor there'd be little point to adding it. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 23:14, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse! If you like, you can post to Talk:John Mitchum and ask then what criteria is being used for the "Select filmography" in the article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:41, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Checking Previous Deletions

Hi, I'm looking to nominate an article for deletion that I believe would be uncontroversial, seeing the lack of sources and notability. However, WP:PROD specifies that I should only nominate an article for PROD if the article has never been nominated for AfD or PROD before. Is there any way I can check if this is the case? I checked the View History and Talk Page of the article, and couldn't find much. I use Twinkle, if that helps. Courtesy Link: Doom Shall Rise

Thanks, Gageills (talk) 01:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Gageills: Generally an AFD discussion will be listed on the article's talk page, at the top. Or better, you can go to the WP:AFD page, scroll down a bit, and type the article name in the search box (it's case-sensitive).

In this case it qualified for speedy deletion per WP:A7, so I have deleted it. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:39, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Great! Thanks for the help :-) Gageills (talk) 03:52, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Gageills hi there, and welcome to the Teahouse! To check for previous AfD discussions, you can use a search query. I made a little page at User:EpicPupper/AfD Search. For example, if you want to search the page you linked, you can put in "intitle:Doom Shall Rise". Do note the "intitle:", this is very important. You can see there on that search that there were no AfDs. In terms of previous PRODs, Twinkle will automatically check for AfD and PROD tags on the talk page (although this is not 100 percent accurate), so you can usually just check the AfDs. Hope this helped! 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk, FAQ, contribs)} 03:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the assistance! I'll keep that in mind. :-) Gageills (talk) 00:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Should this be renamed?

Should Draft:List of capitals in France be renamed to Draft:List of regional prefectures in France or Draft:List of chef-lieux du région in France (because that's what they are called in France)? [PS: The draft is not yet ready, please do not comment on lack of citations or important information.] Excellenc1📞 16:45, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello? Excellenc1📞

@Excellenc1: I would suggest "List of regional prefectures in France" as the draft title, and "List of chef-lieux du région in France" as a redirect once the article is live. It looks like this is the WP:COMMONNAME, and it conforms to existing article titles. It's not necessary to move a draft to another draft title before it is accepted, but there is no reason not to do so, and I think it could be helpful for the AfC reviewer in case they are not familiar with the administrative structure of France. --bonadea contributions talk 08:52, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Done (Draft:List of regional prefectures in France) Thank you. Excellenc1📞 10:08, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Finding someone to help me build a Wikipedia page we will provide all research and write the articles for a Doctor Who is deceased.

Dr. George M. Austin (talk) 01:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

First, see WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Wikipedia is not a memorial site.

Second, do it yourself. Go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation and follow the instructions about how to create a draft article and submit it for review and approval.

Third (and this is important) if you are being compensated in any way, or if you have any conflict of interest with the topic you want to write about, you must disclose this, as you entered into a legally-binding agreement to such disclosure when you created an account here. See WP:PAID. ~Anachronist (talk) 02:09, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

"We" suggests a group effort. Accounts are to individuals. Not to say people cannot work with you, but only one person makes actual entry to the draft. David notMD (talk) 02:29, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Separately, if you mean an actor who was in the role as the Doctor on the TV show, then The Doctor (Doctor Who) shows that articles exist for all of the actors who have held this role. David notMD (talk) 02:29, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Dr. George M. Austin. I'm guessing that the Dr Austin is the doctor you wish to write about: if that is so, you must not use the name of a real person for your account unless you are that person. You should stop using that account immediately, and create a new one which is personal to you (you do not have to use your real name for it: I do, but many editors use pseudonyms; but it must not be somebody else's name. You could change the name on that account, but since you have made no other edits, it's easier just to abandon it). Note that Wikipedia will accept an article only if the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability - roughly, that enough has been published about him by people unconnected with him to form the basis of an article. --ColinFine (talk) 09:36, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Bemused apologies, the errant capitalization of "Who" led me in a very wrong direction. I am now guessing you mean George M. Austin (1916-2002). If true, as advised above, abandon the account you are using. I did find https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/016164103101201517 which may prove useful as a reference. David notMD (talk) 12:31, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Cars 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

I would like to edit Cars 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) information on wikipedia, I can add the writers information and producer information to the tracklist, thank you HimuEdits (talk) 12:27, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@HimuEdits: Hello Himu! You can request an edit to the page at the talk page of the page you are wanting to edit! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:19, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! I've added all the writers information of cars 3 soundtrack page correctly. :) HimuEdits (talk) 13:26, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

No problem! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:29, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@HimuEdits I have merged your reply onto the actual discussion itself. In the future, when you want to reply to an discussion instead of creating/adding a new one, simply click the [Edit] or [Edit source] beside the discussion heading. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Paper9oll Okay thank you, i don't know much as I'm new here but I'm learning now and I have edited a lot of stuff here like music albums details and animated movies details and it makes me feel so good:))

Stopping archival

Hello! So I've tried stopping my talk page archival, however despite adding the part to the code that tells it to stop, the archival bot that's running on my talk page still archived my talk page. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:18, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf You need to add {{subst:DNAU}} onto the discussion thread itself as suppose to outside of the discussion thread. Currently, your talk page have 4 discussion thread, if you want to delay all of them then add it to each discussion. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:26, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh ok. THank you! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:28, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf No problem. Happy editing! — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:31, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

AUDT Coin in Australian ERC-20 History Fund

Hello, Wiki people. I need some help with my coin page. Found a email day before about approving my page, and now it's sppedy deleted. Also I found the same pages with not so cool sources like Category:Ethereum_tokens Aventus Protocol Basic Attention Token Kik Messenger Kodak Coin. Am I right that there is a mistke or I made smth wrong, sir? Vsehmogushiy2 (talk) 10:03, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Speedy-deletes are difficult. The two reasons given are (1) advertising, and (2) not notable. Forget the animal/person bit, the notability criteria apply to everything, including organisations and digital coins. I think you should click the 'contest' button, and also discuss this with David Gerard, who applied the speedy-delete tag. You will need good references indicating that the AUDT coin is notable, which ideally means mainstream news sources discussing it in some depth. Press releases from the company itself won't do. This means also that the sorts of news sources that merely regurgitate press-releases won't prove notability either, and nor will business-lists that merely report turnover or who the latest CEO is. Interviews and YouTube clips are usually unhelpful, unless they are from a reputable, independent news channel, and/or involve acknowledged independent professionals. The perfect source would be an Australian national newspaper, or similar. You must then discuss what aspect of the wording made David Gerard feel that it was promotional. To some extent, if you solve the references problem, the promotion problem will solve itself. If you stick to saying what you can reference with genuinely independent sources, it probably won't sound promotional. Don't be discouraged if the decision remains to delete. This is not a reflection on you, nor is it an eternal decision. This is a fairly new currency, and it may be too soon (i.e. it may be that not enough independent sources have written about it yet, but they will do, over the next few years).
A final explanation: the fact that the article was accepted into main-space doesn't unfortunately defend it from being deleted straight away! The acceptance into main-space is a rough screen to remove articles that will definitely get deleted. You wrote the article well enough that it passed the screen. Elemimele (talk) 11:11, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Vsehmogushiy2: The article Aventus Protocol has far better sourcing than the one you are referring to, and Kik Messenger so much better as to put it in a different world. There is really no comparison with the article you have asked about. Basic Attention Token is not an article, but just a redirect link to another article on a different topic, and there is not, and never has been, an article Kodak Coin. Did you make some kind of mistake when you mentioned those? JBW (talk) 12:41, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

- Nope KodakCoin. If I undestand trully all other work for Wikipedia Australia or other coins or working in draft page doesn't matter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vsehmogushiy2 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Translation credits

I have found that when I translate an article I should leave a message like this:

'Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Exact name of French article; see its history for attribution'

But where should it be? I can't see anything I post into my draft's submissions history. Osarjusz (talk) 22:17, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I believe you are supposed to place that in the edit summary when you make your edit. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 22:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

For help about translation, please read Help:Translation. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Or, briefly: Yes, you must provide a summary like that for the first of your edits; additionally, you should provide more specific information on the talk page of the article that you've created/edited. Yes, this is all explained in Help:Translation (which would be more accurately titled "Both help and requirements for translation"). -- Hoary (talk) 23:44, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

To add to what Hoary said, use Template:Translated page (ex. {{translated|fr|exact name of French article}} on the talk page and you should be good. Bkissin (talk) 15:59, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Odd citation

Hello Teahouse hosts. I've come across two citations I merged from one article to another. They are odd, not well done, and I do not know how to mark them. There is a citation to a reliable source, but the citation takes one to the Amazon buy-this-reliable-source page and the other to a publisher. You may view them HERE, numbers 35 and 36.

So, what are your ideas of how I should note these? Most kind regards, Hu Nhu (talk) 03:16, 18 August 2021 (UTC) Hu Nhu (talk) 03:16, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

What now cites reference 35 is "The latitude of the landing was indicated at 38° North in the official State-sanctioned account published as a chapter in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations in 1589." The reference is to a page on Cambridge UP's website advertising a recent reprint of something that I'd guess (but don't know) would be "the official State-sanctioned account". Unsurprisingly, the web page doesn't say that the latitude of the landing was indicated at 38° North. Therefore this "reference" is near-useless. What now cites reference 36 is "The manuscript draft of this chapter recently identified in the British Library as an abstract from the chaplain’s journal indicated the landing at 44° North." Reference 36 is to a retailer. I confess that I haven't read the entire page, but neither of the strings "British Library" or "44" appears anywhere in it. Therefore this "reference" is a fraud. (And even if it did back it up, Wikipedia shouldn't depend on a retailer's say-so.) I'd comment on the talk page, wait a couple of weeks, and then, if there's no reasoned, persuasive disagreement, remove these and any other worthless or fraudulent references. That's because worthless "references" are worse than no references: the former lull the moderately attentive reader into assuming that all of this is backed up somewhere; the latter warn the reader who's at least moderately attentive not to be credulous. -- Hoary (talk) 04:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks Hoary. You well articulate my concerns. I've linked this conversation to Talk:Fringe theories on the location of New Albion and alerted the original editor. I do believe the editor can correct them if the editor actually locates the particular books. Kind regards,Hu Nhu (talk) 15:59, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

How to write a proper Biography article of an Author?

How to write a proper Biography article of an Author? Techprecious (talk) 12:35, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Techprecious:

Find acceptable sources. These are going to be sources that (1) have professional editorial oversight that fact-checks, retracts, and discloses, (2) discuss the subject at length, and (3) haven't been directly influenced by the subject, their goons, or their money.
Tell anyone screaming from on high to shut up and stay out of the way, and make sure to publicly disclose any such employee/client or contractor/client relationships publicly on your userpage.
Forget everything you know about the subject and write the article using only information the sources explicitly provide. Do not promote, editorialise, or include random details about whether they prefer football or cricket. Make sure to source everything that could potentially be challenged for any reason. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 13:47, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
And don't WP:COPYPASTE from sources. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:23, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy: Draft:Tarun Bhatnagar. In the future, do not ask here and at Help, as that wastes volunteers' time. David notMD (talk) 18:09, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Request another editor to look at an article

Hello! So I'm wanting to know where I would go to request another editor to take a look at a specific article. I'm having some issues with an article currently with some IPs adding information that I have no clue whether or not it's true or constructive due to my lack of knowledge on the subject of the article. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 17:53, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf WP:PEERREVIEW. ― Qwerfjkl talk 17:57, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:17, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Can I make someone else's draft?

Can I extend this draft and publish it? Excellenc1📞 07:09, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Excellenc1, there's no rule against your extending it. Its creator (who does not "own" it) hasn't edited it for two months, and may have lost interest in it. However. I'm not confident it can ever qualify as a published list. Maybe another Teahouse host can advise? Maproom (talk) 07:28, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't understand what encyclopedic value an expanded version would have. -- Hoary (talk) 07:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1 The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names publishes a list of Country's formal and informal names in various languages including French, which you can find here. I am unsure if this would comply with Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists or not though. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 12:47, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1I also found this existing list List of country names in various languages, which I found by searching Category:Lists of country names in various languages ~ Shushugah (he/him • talk) 12:53, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1, @Maproom, @Hoary, @Shushugah: As French is an official language of the Olympic Games, the list may have value if it was linked to that aspect. You could include the Olympic country code in an extra column, and maybe the ISO code for comparison. List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games#Alphabetical list has English but not French names, and I'd be reluctant to add another column to that massive table to hold the French name. I don't really want to see 3000 "List of country names in XX language", but could French be a special case? Should such a list include the full official name, e.g. Commonwealth of Australia, Australia, Australie? ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 18:44, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

How to contact another contributor?

I found some reliably-sourced information to enhance a person's page, which has been heavily updated by another contributor. I would like to discuss this with them out of courtesy for the work they've been doing. What is the proper way to contact them? Post on their talk page? Thanks.

--Joeythegimp (talk) 17:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC) Joeythegimp (talk) 17:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

You are correct. Leave a message on their talk page. Happy editing! Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 18:34, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, Pyrrho! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeythegimp (talk • contribs) 18:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Replying changed?

Hello! So I was about to reply to a comment when I noticed that the replying thing I'm using changed a little and looks a bit different. Is this a new thing or have I just been oblivious to it this entire time? Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 12:53, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, just so everyone knows what I mean, I'm talking about the button that say reply on it. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:02, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Actually, now that I'm looking at it, some other things on Wikipedia have been restyled. Was there a restyling of Wikipedia I didn't know about? Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 13:05, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf: No idea which button you mean because there are so many different skins and customisations, and some people use the Visual Editor and others don't, and some people use editing apps on a mobile device and others use a browser, and so on... in any case, the Wikimedia people do tweak and change things around from time to time. For instance, there was some kind of update last week that suddenly caused a "responsive mode" to be the default for browsers on a mobile phone across all Wikimedia projects, which was an awful and tedious experience, until I managed to find a way to turn it off for myself as a global preference. The technical Village Pump board is a good place to ask about sudden and unexpected changes in the editing interface, especially if the changes make it harder to edit! --bonadea contributions talk 15:31, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Ah ok! And I'm fairly sure the reply button is just something you opt in to under preferences or something. But thank you for pointing me in the right direction! Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 16:27, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I presume you mean the Beta tool. ― Qwerfjkl talk 16:58, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes I do. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 17:33, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Blaze! Could it be that you switched between the Source and Visual modes of the Reply Tool? Also, they added the toolbar to the source mode a little while ago. I haven't noticed other restyling, but I mostly use Timeless skin. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 18:53, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

No, I remain in source mode when using the reply tool. I think the toolbar is what I'm seeing that's new. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:57, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

A question and a comment - there is no legal situation - do not be alarmed

A question and a comment - there is no legal situation - do not be alarmed. One mod seems to be either used to a different legal system or is simply mistaken in his understanding of the law. He thinks that we have escalated a certain situation to be a legal one AND that we are making legal threats. All I was saying there was that there is a way something would be viewed in the Indian Legal System.

This is in reference to edits made to the following page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#:~:text=The%20Fermi%20paradox%2C%20named%20after,estimates%20for%20the%20Drake%20equation).

This could easily to be handled with a great deal of civility and without undue worry for your side in terms of legal action. I ask that your mod stop offering conclusions and opinions as though they were facts. If you are open to discussion, we can chat. But we don't like to be told that we are spamming any one or any forum. If that is your position, then let it be known that we have our position on this matter also, and this is our legal position on this matter also.

Please feel free to send us email. You will find us quite reasonable.

Qwykrtechsupport (talk) 16:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

This is now at ANI, and that was a legal threat. See WP:NLT -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 16:57, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

We are not "unduly worried" about legal action; indeed I doubt anyone here is worried at all. But your claim "we are quite confident that we would win in an Indian court" was a legal threat, and has been treated accordingly. Maproom (talk) 18:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE: Indef blocked. Watch for IP:122.172.54.6 as Q posted at least once not signed in. David notMD (talk) 22:07, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, that was one of the more bizarre incidents I've seen on w:en. Maybe I need to get around more (or not). ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 19:59, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

How to contribute to Disney article

Kayle123 (talk) 20:00, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Kayle123, and welcome to Wikipedia!

To get started on Wikipedia in general, click on the green welcome.

After familiarizing yourself with Wikipedia and how to contribute, you're welcome to begin making or suggesting edits to most articles, including Disney articles. Feel free to return to here if you have more specific questions along your journey. See you around! Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 21:18, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

New-York Central College article

For some reason there is a hyphen between New and York in the title and other places in this article- I removed the hyphens where I could but can not get the hyphen out of the title

How is this done? Is an account required?

The incorrect hyphen is also on the following pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New-York_Central_College

New-York Central College alumni‎ (8 P) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New-York_Central_College_alumni

New-York Central College faculty‎ (5 P) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New-York_Central_College_faculty

Thank you for your help 67.249.88.229 (talk) 20:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@67.249.88.229: The hyphen appears to be correct in the name of the short-lived college. See [[12]]. You're better off discussing on the college's talk page. Perhaps add a hidden note to future editors who want to remove the hyphens, as you did. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 21:21, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Want Guides on How to Publish a Post on Wikipedia

Hello..I'm new to this Site. I am a good article writer, and I need Help on how to publish a post on Wikipedia. I wrote a post and published it earlier but it seemed as if it was not Published by Wiki. I need help on the right ways to publish an acceptable post. Emmy Rey (talk) 18:53, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Emmy Rey, hello and welcome to the Teahouse! I assume you mean what we call a Wikipedia article. This is difficult for a beginner but here is some guidance: Pick a topic that meets the demands at WP:GNG. If you don't have the sources demanded there, what you write will be removed. Next, learns how to add inline citations correctly, this is essential. WP:TUTORIAL and WP:REFBEGIN can help with that. Guidance on how to start an article is at WP:YFA, and if you intend to wrtite about a living person, read WP:BLP as well. Good luck! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

To be specific, it appears that you want to create an article about either William Kumuyi or Deeper Christian Life Ministry. Both of these already exist. You have done some editing on the latter. David notMD (talk) 21:52, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Syntax

Is there any way I can see all syntaxes usable in Wikipedia? WinnipegMA (talk) 21:34, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

WinnipegMA, we have a convention whereby we sign at the end of a comment (and optionally put the name of the addressee at the start. As an editor of Wikipedia, you use Mediawiki markdown syntax, and a limited range of HTML and CSS. Please see Help:Cheatsheet. -- Hoary (talk) 21:42, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Hi WinnipegMA. You can try looking at Help:Wikitext. It may not cover everything, but it seems to cover quite a lot of what's commonly used. Finally, I've re-organized your question a bit. For future references, it's better to add your signature to the end of your posts and not the beginning like you did when you posted the above. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

How do I add my signature below?— Preceding unsigned comment added by WinnipegMA (talk • contribs) 21:53, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

You write your comment or question or whatever. Then you hit the spacebar once, and then you hit "~" four times in a row. -- Hoary (talk) 22:28, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Contributions

WinnipegMA (talk) 21:16, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

How do I see my user contributions without clicking the Contributions button on the top right corner?

You can use this URL, with your username at the end, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/WinnipegMA Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 21:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi WinnipegMA. See Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts for a way to use the keyboard for this and other things. The access key for your contributions is y. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:00, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Sandbox

Is there a limit in how much you can edit your sandbox. If there is what is the number and can you get blocked from editing too much in your sandbox? WinnipegMA (talk) 21:44, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi WinnipegMA. There's no firm limit on "how much" you can edit your sandbox, but your sandbox will need to comply with Wikipedia:User pages like any other page in your username space. For the most part, editors are given a bit of leeway when it comes to their sandboxes, but anything clearly inappropriate can be removed per Wikipedia:User pages#Ownership and editing of user pages. Moreover, if you spend too much time in your sandbox in what appears to be unrelated to helping improve Wikipedia, then other editors might begin to think you're editing for the wrong reasons. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

900 centigrade is definitely not 482 Fahrenheit. But if you want to say it is in your sandbox, there's no rule against it. Maproom (talk) 23:20, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Dayton, Texas needs more help than I know how to give

Hello Again. I am starting to feel like an old timer who still hasn't learned enough to advance passed beginner. I did look through a lot of help articles before I ended up back here, because they made me more confused than when I started. Here's the situation:

One of my friends sent me a link to Dayton, Texas with the message, "Help! Can you fix this?" I went and checked it out, and someone had completely broken the code tags such that the "info box" was just a bunch of code at the top of the page. I hunted through and cleaned up the code so it would show up right, and sent my friend an "All done" message. They fired back 5 minutes later with, "Did you notice that the "History" section is a direct cut-and-paste from "Handbook of Texas"? I sighed, and went to check. Sure enough, word for word, but the edit that did it was from 12 Oct 2006. A handful of edits since have slightly altered the wording but it is essentially a direct quote from a copyrighted website. Short of rewriting the article myself (which if I carve out enough time I might do), how does this get handled/fixed? And before you ask, the talk page (I think) does not contain any human (not bot/admin) contributions so clearly no humans are looking at the talk page. (PS They did not even cite the copied source Dayton, TX on Texas State Historical Association "Handbook of Texas") Katrazyna (talk) 21:43, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

C4, TNT, gunpowder.... copyright infringement is copyright infringement. Sometimes content is in Wikipedia first, copied elsewhere without attribution, but the source you identified predates Wikipedia. Interestingly, a copyright check turned up a website with a lot of duplicate content, but that one is likely a copy of Wikipedia. David notMD (talk) 22:17, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@David notMD Ok... I think I have the idea. I deleted the direct quote, and replaced it with an extremely brief summary with citation. It probably needs a lot more help that I don't currently have time for but the copyrighted material is gone... I think. Is that more or less what should have happened? Katrazyna (talk) 23:25, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

You cut the content and ref'd the Handbook. Excellent. David notMD (talk) 23:31, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Can I use this signature?

Excellenc1 (talk) 11:50, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Fine for me. It corresponds with your textual Username and is accessible to Screen readers. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 11:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Shushugah, is it so that only experienced editors/teahouse hosts are supposed to have fancy signatures (ones with background colour, font colour and/or emojis)? Excellenc1 (talk) 15:10, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1 There are no rules about that whatsoever! Do as you please! Ultimately collectively our goal here is to Wikipedia:Build an encyclopedia, but if people have some fun/self expression along the way, that cannot hurt :) Shushugah (he/him • talk) 15:57, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Excellenc1: While anyone may choose to create a custom signature, make sure that it abides by custom signature guidelines and policies. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:51, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Association Football National Team's Results section

I wanted to know what is the standard template used for a national football team page's results section? The template on Indian national football team has been edited saying that it's the new template, but according to Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/National teams it's still the old one. Footy2000 (talk) 04:22, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Footy2000: Welcome to the Teahouse! If you don't receive an answer here, you might want to ask on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:15, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Unintelligible content

I'm a newly enrolled Wikipedia editor, although I've been a professional editor in 'realspace' for many years. Over time, I've picked up the skill of figuring out what people are trying to get at, even when their text is so riddled with errors that the average person would not be able to make sense of it. However, I recently read a section in one of the published articles that defeated me. The grammar and syntax in the whole section was so dislocated that it left no workable clue to the author's intended meaning. Any attempt at deduction would have been sheer guesswork! What does one do in a case like that? Editingfrank (talk) 00:17, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

@Editingfrank: Thanks for trying to help. You can fix it (best solution), or flag (template) it for needing copy editing. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup#Copy editing for templates. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 00:21, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

WP:TNT, perhaps. Please specify the article. -- Hoary (talk) 00:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

[FIFA_World_Rankings-1] "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Men's World Ranking". FIFA. December 19, 2024. Retrieved December 19, 2024.

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