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 Courtesy link: Karolyn Smardz Frost

My edits to a page about me were rejected. I did not include citations for my changes because they are biographical, but I didn't include anything that could be construed as a conflict of interest or overly self-laudatory. Truly. How do I get this reconsidered? Or do I have to cite other people talking about me to make edits to a page about myself? It rejected all the edits, including references to additional published books I wrote or edited. Can you help? Ksmardz (talk) 18:40, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

You need to provide citations- this is vitally important for any article about a living person, please see the Biographies of Living Persons policy. We cannot accept your personal word for anything. You should also review the autobiography policy. 331dot (talk) 18:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

For help with citations, please see Referencing for beginners. Ideally, however, you should be proposing edits instead of making them yourself, please see the edit request process(or the edit request wizard). 331dot (talk) 18:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the good information. I appreciate your taking the time to write. Ksmardz (talk) 19:03, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Ksmardz If you have a personal website, or one via your university, you can place information there and use that in a citation when you request a change here via the talk page of the article. More at WP:ABOUTSELF and WP:A picture of you. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:22, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

i dont understand this

users can freely usually edit other peoples user pages. why

shouldnt there be an abuse filter for that Metro8102 (talk) 04:05, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

There is an abuse filter that blocks non-autoconfirmed users from editing other's user pages. For the rest, see WP:UPOWN. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:56, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Metro8102, a well known, long term editor made a change to my userpage a few years back. I just left it for several years, because I do not own that page and it was mildly amusing. Eventually, I removed it. If someone vandalizes my userpage, that is another matter, but that is usually reverted by other editors before I see it. Cullen328 (talk) 05:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

what do you do if someones harassing you Metro8102 (talk) 07:33, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Ask at WP:RFPP with a diff of a bad change and the user page would be protected. Johnuniq (talk) 07:46, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

right.

shouldnt have to do that from the get go but ok

certain other wikis dont let you edit other peoples userpages while wikipedia does

bit stupid imo Metro8102 (talk) 08:04, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Metro8102: Often new users put drafts/spam on their userpage, because they think it is an article. Having to ask an admin every time would be annoying. Polygnotus (talk) 08:22, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

cant they just use a sandbox for work in progress articles Metro8102 (talk) 08:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Metro8102 They can, but they don't know that. Polygnotus (talk) 08:35, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) They probably would if they knew such a thing existed; people who come to Wikipedia do not necessarily have the knowledge about the ways things are done hereabouts. I have been editing for more than 20 years now, and still find things I didn't know about. Lectonar (talk) 08:37, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

the problem with this is that good-faith userpage editing still exists. for example, someone could fix a link, beat you to reverting vandalism, add a notice that you are dead (dead, dead), or other such stuff. thus, there's no need to be indiscriminate consarn _{(grave) (obituary)} 13:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm translating an article from German, and this is at the foot of the page:

{{Normdaten|TYP=k|GND=1238539440 |LCCN=n83166341 |VIAF=139492555 |NDL= }}

What do I do with all that? What even is it?  Card Zero  (talk) 15:46, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Card Zero: I'd presume a template from the German Wikipedia that does not function on en.wp? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

"Normdaten" is the German translation of {{Authority control}}. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:53, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll drop that in, whoever it's for.  Card Zero  (talk) 15:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Just use {{Authority control}}, with no parameters; they will be populated automatically, when the article is published and linked up to Wikidata, from where the values will be sourced. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Right, got it. Not looking forward to finding English-equivalent categories, I guess that can't be automated.  Card Zero  (talk) 16:26, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

You don't need to translate all the categories. Some of the categories will be linked to en equivalents, then you can look for other members of the de categories that are likely to exist in en, then see how they are categorised. TSventon (talk) 16:43, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there any reason why I seem to consistently be logged out of Wikipedia about 24 hours after logging in nowadays? I have “keep me logged in” checked as per normal. I’m on Firefox on iOS. I notice that the auth methodology seems to have changed recently (some new auth server?); not sure if that has anything to do with it. Thanks. Brycehughes (talk) 16:07, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

This is quite specialist; you may need to ask at WP:VPT.

Is it possible you have changed a browser or ad-blocker setting, to delete cookies after a short period? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:20, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough. I actually hovered on VPT then decided on here in case it was a common problem. Seems to be Wikipedia-specific… and I mean really Wikipedia-specific… I stay logged in at WikiVoyage for example. Anyway, thanks, I’ll try VPT. Brycehughes (talk) 16:58, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

It could also be corrupt cookie/local storage so I should probably nuke my local cache first. Brycehughes (talk) 17:01, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I was wondering whether it'd be possible to change Cluebot 3's archive format from the year/month format to be ordered instead, since the archived pages on Talk:Office Assistant are just one section each, making browsing quite tedious. --Opecuted (talk) 13:55, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Almost done with this. Just trying to figure out how to modify or stop the indexing. --Super Goku V (talk) 04:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Everything is now at Talk:Office Assistant/Archive 1. This should resolve the issue, plus it makes sense for sizing reasons as well. (It is better to have one, single archive of about 92k rather than have four archives of about 25k, 45k, 20k, and 3k respectively.)

Opecuted, feel free to add here if there is anything else that needs adjusting at Talk:Office Assistant. --Super Goku V (talk) 08:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate the help. --Opecuted (talk) 13:28, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Seems like the bot messed up the index page after you patched it up.--Opecuted (talk) 13:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I think that was the last bit of cleanup that I needed to do. Had to wait for the old archive pages to be deleted or Cluebot would have reverted me. Still, thank you for the heads up as that should now be dealt with. --Super Goku V (talk) 01:14, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Middleton family

Reference number 90 is in the red, please fix if you have the time, thank you 49.184.232.220 (talk) 23:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Srbernadette, is that you, editing while not logged in again? David10244 (talk) 08:19, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Dear admin, I see there is a "<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,max-image-preview:standard"> " int he source for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Sadoff. I cant tell why its the case and how to get remove it. Gokodogo (talk) 06:59, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gokodogo: It will be removed when the article is reviewed or 90 days old. See Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing#Indexing of articles ("mainspace"). PrimeHunter (talk) 08:42, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

An editor has nominated this article for deletion. You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion, which will decide whether or not to retain it. Feel free to improve the article, but do not remove this notice before the discussion is closed. For more information, see the guide to deletion. 180.211.118.74 (talk) 05:20, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Removing the Articles for deletion tag won't do anything to stop the related debate, and is seen as vandalism. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 06:25, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

This is the only edit by your IP address. Which page is it about? In rare cases it was added by mistake without actually starting a deletion discussion. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:50, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed that the link to the French version of the article Fougère currently links to the French article for ferns fr:Fougère, when it should actually refer to the family of fragrances: fr:Parfum#Les_«_fougères_». How do I fix this?  abasteraster ✮ t c  07:12, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Abasteraster Huh. I went to Fougère (Q1439753) on Wikidata, but fr-WP isn't even included there. You need someone craftier than me. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:12, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Fixed with [1]. See WP:LOCALLINK. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:38, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm not surprised you're craftier than me, I've pinged you often enough for that very reason. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:42, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

I have also been here a long time. Before Wikidata it was the only way to make interlanguage links. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:46, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

I do remember a time before Wikidata. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:55, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

"Suggested edits is paused until Sep 12, 2025. Sorry YZiv, some of your recent contributions have been reverted"

Why have I received this warning? https://litter.catbox.moe/4da5mrazb9asl3rc.png YZiv (talk) 23:43, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I have also only received this warning on my phone - it does not appear on a desktop computer — Preceding unsigned comment added by YZiv (talk • contribs) 23:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@YZiv: Other editors have reverted some of your edits. The suggested edits feature at Special:Homepage has registered this and is putting you on pause because your edits may not currently be good enough to stay. I haven't examined whether the edits or reverts were appropriate. Neither has the feature which is automated and just counts reverts. You can see your edits at Special:Contributions/YZiv and click the "hist" links to find the reverts. You can still edit without using the suggested edits feature. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:04, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Just so I'm 100% sure, can anyone vote on discussed deletions? Cause knowing Wikipedia, anyone can, but I am not exactly sure. Wikipedia is very free in those kinda things, but deleting articles feels more like an admin thing. So, who can vote in discussed deletions? Brickguy276 (talk) 09:21, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Brickguy276 In general yes. But if, say, you are topic banned from anything to do with weather, and the deletion discussion is about an article about weather, you shouldn't take part. There is also something called WP:ECR that might apply, like if the topic is Israel-Palestine. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:40, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Brickguy276 The discussion at WP:Articles for deletion are not votes in the usual sense of that word. We call them !vote (see that link). Articles are deleted after someone, usually an administrator, assesses which arguments are the strongest and most in line with our policies and guidelines. There are also alternative outcomes to complete deletion, for example to redirect the title to another topic. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:08, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Inlogname are wrong. When i log in i see welcome keestrapper, but it must be keestramper Keestramper (talk) 10:17, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

It's not clear what you're asking. Could you rephrase your question? -- D'n'B-📞 -- 11:15, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Keestramper: It sounds unlikely that the software would address you with a wrong username. Do you have machine translation in your browser? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:32, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Give me domain expansion Daniel120713 (talk) 00:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Daniel120713 this has nothing to do with Wikipedia. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 03:46, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

... except inasmuch as we have a redirect for Domain Expansion to a manga series. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:25, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Is it possible to make my own barnstar? TheHuman630 (talk) 01:29, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@TheHuman630 sort of, you can make it like one I made at User:Rafaelthegreat/poutine which looks like this: User:Rafaelthegreat/poutine You can make it how you want. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 03:45, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi my name is Diogo Ferreira an Ex-Professional soccer player. I have a wikipedia page but for some reason it hasnt added my managerial career since I retired. How can this be added?

Thank you 120.159.123.131 (talk) 05:10, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

You can being a discussion over at Talk:Diogo Ferreira and you can post an edit request over their and be sure to include reliable, independent, third party sources which talk about this. TiggerJay (talk) 05:57, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

There is some additional useful info at Wikipedia:About you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:00, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Diogo/120.159.123.131. An apparently brand-new user ElisaRiotto89 has today added (very competently) a new section to your article detailing your managerial career. However this has been placed immediately after the Lead section, before the chronologically arranged sections on your Early, Club and International careers. This seems odd – do you, ElisaRiotto89, or anyone else have any objections to it being moved to, I suggest, between the International and Personal life sections? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 14:29, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I moved it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:31, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I have a question, is someone available? Hi2077j (talk) 08:06, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi2077j, just ask your question. You do not need to make an appointment. Cullen328 (talk) 08:26, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Aside from its other problems (and they were serious), your creation Draft:Jim S. Brendlinger was written in a strange kind of prose. Sample sentence: He moved shortly after 9/11 living and is known to of spent 12 years overseas, total aggregate time spent abroad is unknown, but is known to mostly live on the Eastern seaboard. Tip: After writing something, read it aloud, slowly, and see how it sounds to you. Consider revising. -- Hoary (talk) 11:00, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

can i put a movie that I got off an illegal website on wikipedia 98.190.156.8 (talk) 22:46, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

No. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:47, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Short answer: No. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 22:48, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Long answer - Wikipedia:Non-free content ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 22:50, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

no, but now I'm curious as to why this was a question in the first place mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 19:13, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Put what? The entire movie, or try to create an article about it? David10244 (talk) 20:10, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Can someone please adjust the description of the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi on the Charlie Kirk shooting page? It inaccurately implies he was a politician…

Shooting of Charlie Kirk 71.42.204.123 (talk) 01:52, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't see that being implied at Shooting of Charlie Kirk, but this is a rapidly changing article. If you notice other issues with the article, the dedicated talk page is the best place to raise them. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:48, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I recently happened upon Draft:The Super Mario Galaxy, but The Super Mario Galaxy Movie already exists. Please advise, as i do not know what to do. MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 14:45, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

how much is the dollar worth inn European currency 2600:4040:910C:C00:2CD7:DBF6:B07C:96E9 (talk) 20:22, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

This is not a general help desk, sorry. 331dot (talk) 20:24, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

I am trying to look at the transclusioon count of Template:Taxobox, but for some reason it won't load when I click on the 22,000 button on the main page. Furthermore, the script I use for transcluding them also isn't working. Is there something wrong with the site? The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 19:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

@The Knowledge Pirate: The link works for me and currently says 21,007. hastemplate:Taxobox says 21,002. The number 22,000 is taken from Module:Transclusion count/data/T which was last updated 7 September. I don't know which script you refer to. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:03, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Strange. It works now. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 02:03, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

template:convert

Hello,

How can I use this template to convert one unit into several others, i.e. convert square meters into square feet and square inches for example, without having to use the same template multiple times. I tried something like that {{convert|1|m2|sqft|sqin}} but the template doesn't take the second unit "sqin" (correctly abbreviated) into account.

Thank you in advance 176.191.86.153 (talk) 10:01, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Like this: {{convert|1|m2|sqft sqin}} gives 1 square metre (11 sq ft; 1,600 sq in). See Template:Convert § Into multiple units: 10 °C (50 °F; 283 K). Bazza 7 (talk) 10:12, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

OK thanks. Simple but not obvious. 176.191.86.153 (talk) 10:20, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

I recently saw this speech in the news a lot, by a boy in Nepal that might be relevant to the 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests. If you just google "nepal speech" [2] it will come up. Do you guys think it passes WP:GNG? I think it does but due to the nature of the topic I think a second opinion would be helpful. —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 21:53, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Matrix, you're expecting other people to look through a list of Google hits, click on those that look most promising, decide if they are good; if they aren't then to click on more, etc. No. It's for you to do the work of finding sources that go into depth about this speech, are reliable, and are independent of the speaker, the event, and each other. Find three and then, if you wish, ask about them here. -- Hoary (talk) 22:08, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Ok, will do —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 17:21, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I’m reaching out with a kind request. I would like to add an English version to the existing Czech Wikipedia article about the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University. Unfortunately, when I try to publish it, I receive a message saying that I’m not an "advanced user" and therefore cannot submit the article. The English translation is already completed and has been professionally proofread. I would be very grateful for your help. Thank you in advance! ECON MUNI (talk) 07:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

When you say 'professionally proofread', it sounds like you're saying that this article has been written by someone employed by the university. Please read and comply with the guidance at WP:PAID, and WP:COI, and make the necessary declarations. It would be helpful if you could also direct us towards where the draft is - your edit to this help desk is the only edit you have made under this account. You may want to consider putting it through WP:AfC, where you can submit a draft and another edit will review it (but you should only do that after complying with the COI/PAID editing declarations that I have pointed you towards). Girth Summit _(blether) 07:51, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Also your username, ECON MUNI, may not be in line with the Wikipedia:Username policy as it may imply shared use by the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University. TSventon (talk) 07:58, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. Yes, I am an employee of the faculty I am writing about, so I understand the need to follow Wikipedia’s policies regarding paid editing and conflicts of interest. I have now created a draft of the article at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation).

Please let me know if there are any other steps I should take, or any further declarations I need to make. ECON MUNI (talk) 08:26, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

ECON MUNI, as "ECON MUNI", you have made no edits (even subsequently deleted edits) outside this "Help desk" page. And as your user page is redlinked, it's clear that you haven't made a "paid contributor" declaration there. -- Hoary (talk) 08:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@ECON MUNI: your edits were stopped twice by edit filters: [3] as you tried to add email addresses or the text was considered too promotional. Is this the corresponding Czech article: cz:Ekonomicko-správní fakulta Masarykovy univerzity? MKFI (talk) 10:07, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@ECON MUNI What does "add an English version to the existing Czech Wikipedia article" mean? It sounds like you are trying to add something in English to an article that's in the Czech Wikipedia. As far as I know, the Czech Wikipedia wants articles written in Czech. Or are you trying to add an English translation of the Czech article, to the English Wikipedia? I am confused by your request. David10244 (talk) 23:18, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I am looking to translate and import to the English Wikipedia, an article from the Dutch Wikipedia (nl:Lagere technische school). I believe that the article may not be notable enough to warrant an entry here, but an abbreviation for this, LTS, is referenced in an article here about a Dutch Chef (Pierre Wind), although it's not linked.

Would this have to go through the AFC process, so that it can be reviewed, and how long do I have to create this article? Please bear in mind it's going to be a straight translation in my sandbox, and then submitted once I've checked it's got no red links anywhere in it.

Thanks for reading. Dane|Geld 15:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@DaneGeld: the Dutch article on LTS can be linked through an interlanguage link, so I have done that. If you wanted to create an article, it would have to be notable and the content would have to be referenced to reliable sources. Unfortunately the Dutch article has no sources at all, so a translation would need more work before it was suitable for English Wikipedia.

Using AFC is optional, it could be a good idea as a newish editor. There are no formal deadlines on how long you work on an article in a sandbox. Getting an article reviewed by AFC could take several weeks. TSventon (talk) 15:41, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

LTS is explained at Vocational school#Netherlands again without a source, so perhaps LTS could be covered as part of a more general article. TSventon (talk) 15:53, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

DaneGeld I have also added the ill template for the English language articles that have them so they will direct to the Dutch article until an English one is created. However the dutch article has no references at all, so you'd need references for a mainspace article on the english language article.Naraht (talk) 13:02, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Can you please help me find pages to edit, fix, or create constructively? 169.244.113.129 (talk) 12:57, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

If this is the wrong places, apologies. 169.244.113.129 (talk) 12:58, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

IP editor: take a look at the WP:Task Center. If you create an account, one of the advantages is that you will then have a Homepage with suggestions suited to beginers. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor! Have you checked out Special:Homepage? It gives you suggested edits ranging from beginner friendly ones to more advanced edits. qcne (talk) 13:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there any suggestions for IP users? Last reply wants you to enter your username and password. 169.244.113.129 (talk) 13:53, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

While creating an account is not mandatory, we always recommend it. It gives you a number of advantages, including extra tools and hiding your IP address. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:00, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

The reply by User:Mike Turnbull will help. 169.244.113.129 (talk) 13:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

If you check the talkpage of an article that interests you, you will see links to one or more Wikiprojects. Check those links, perhaps something there will catch your interest. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

The way I started was to read a wiki article about a town near to me. It did not mention in the history section an industry that was important in the town. I had a book about the industry and added some material to the article about it. I'd suggest you read an article about something you are interested in and have some knowledge of and maybe some books.on the subject. If there is something missing ,add it ,or if there is something you think is incorrect find a source and correct it. You can also find sources for this kind of thing on the internet.. .

Also, you might get interested in correcting spelling or grammar. Add some of the articles you work on to your watchlist and you can see how other editors react. If you are not reversed you are probably right. If you are reversed you learn all sorts of things about how wikipedia works. Spinney Hill (talk) 13:07, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

In the past I never had to have an account to use wikipedia. Why do I now have to create an account with all the hassle of creating a password etc. ? 92.17.127.7 (talk) 14:08, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Although we recommend it, especially if you plan on editing regularly, you do not have to create an account.

There are a few aspects of editing, and some tools and features, that are only available to logged-in users.

What were you trying to do? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:14, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Your very posting of that question shows that its premise is mistaken.126.34.33.95 (talk) 19:39, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

so i need some help with figuring out how to add references to infoboxes. need to figure it out so i can cite the RayWiki [another great wiki focused primarily on Rayman stuff] for some stuff in my Rayman 4 proto article. Thatoneraynerd (talk) 19:35, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Thatoneraynerd: you could look at Help:Referencing for beginners to get started on referencing. You probably shouldn't cite RayWiki if it is a wiki site as it would not be regarded as a Wikipedia:reliable source. TSventon (talk) 19:46, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

aight bro. thanks for the help! am still learning when it comes to Wikipedia... Thatoneraynerd (talk) 20:09, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Thatoneraynerd: most of us are still learning. You also could look at Help:Your first article. The main thing to check when writing an article is that there are sufficient sources to meet the Wikipedia:notability requirements. TSventon (talk) 20:28, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Thatoneraynerd: References are added the same way inside and outside infoboxes in the source editor, but not in VisualEditor which has its own way to add templates. This way cannot be used when a template (like a citation template) is added to a parameter of an another template (like an infobox). Instead you have to write the source editor code for the reference in an infobox parameter. If you don't want to write the code manually then you could create the reference outside the infobox with VisualEditor and then switch to the source editor and move the code to the infobox. Beware that some parameters of some infoboxes do not accept references because the parameter is processed in a way which requires it to be a "pure" value like a number. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:49, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

File:Edward Drummond Libbey Residence, exterior views, 2018 - DPLA - 4381d816a3fd94d490f7e166fc876e21 (page 7).jpg was added to Edward D. Libbey House in this 2020 edit. The current version of the Commons image was uploaded in 2025, it has no Commons deletion log, there's no local file here at Wikipedia, and there's no deleted history for it here at Wikipedia, so as far as I can tell it never existed here. How is this possible? The only explanation I can imagine is just preposterous: someone added a redlink to a nonexistent file in 2020, nobody bothered removing it for five years, and a bot happened to upload an image under this name in 2025. Nyttend (talk) 20:44, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nyttend: The added file name was File:Edward Drummond Libbey Residence, exterior views, 2018 - DPLA - aa7c307be24b855d9bbf422d04ae5238 (page 7).jpg with a different string after "DPLA". It was deleted [4] and redirected [5] at Commons in 2025. Such Commons file redirects are hidden in a way other redirects are not so it's easy to get confused. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:00, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I am the actor that founded The Tabard Theatre, Chiswick,played roles in theatre, film and TV also I am a singer/songwriter/musician and recorded ten albums,signed currently to iconic PYE Records. Also author of The Adventures of Skippity Hop. how may I create a page please? My web site is www.andreablack.com my publisher is Jack Russell Music. My acting agent is You-management.com i live in London with my Daughter Xaviera who has created the brand www.motherrugger.com Any help would be so appreciated. Thank you, Andrea. recent roles: ‘Mary’ in the film Blurred to be released shortly autumn 2025 for Nymeria films directed by Helena Antonio . Also ‘Abigail’ in Memories for Lumino films directed by Jane Sanger. 2A00:23C6:35B7:4401:E841:9D72:FBBB:942E (talk) 07:18, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

If this is a request to have an article about yourself, the answer is pretty much no. WP:ENTERTAINER applies here, and you should generally not create an article about yourself.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Andrea: You might more usefully update our article on the Tabard Theatre which states that it will be reopening in July (and September) 2022. Please note that Wikipedia may not be used for promotion and you will have no control over any article about you. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:43, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

For this to have any chance, we need WP:GNG sources about you, at the same time reliably published, independent of you and about you in some detail. Do you know any articles about you in for example The Times, The Guardian etc? I googled, but didn't easily find anything. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:24, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

quick questions re: attribution and review when (re)creating an article that was merged and turned into a redirect

A few years ago, a bit of the content of Naoki Higashida was merged into another article, the rest was deleted, and the article was turned into a redirect. The redirect page notes the possibility of creating a new article. I've decided to do that, drawing on some of the old content and adding a bunch of new content (properly sourced), as the subject is notable in his own right (draft in my sandbox, I'm still working on it). My questions:

• Re: drawing on some of the old content, this isn't quite the same as WP:CWW. Am I correct in thinking that I don't need to say anything about the edit history for that content, since the history for this material is already in the edit history for the article (from when it used to be an article rather than a redirect)?
• I haven't ever created a new article, but my understanding is that if an EC editor adds a new article to mainspace, it will be reviewed by someone within a few months. Is that also supposed to occur with this sort of (re)creation? Or is this seen as equivalent to my making significant edits to an existing article, with no new review needed?

Thanks, FactOrOpinion (talk) 01:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Never mind. I decided to add a note in my first edit summary (after I replaced the redirect with the article) directing people to see the older history for some of the content, and it looks like the article has already been reviewed. FactOrOpinion (talk) 15:50, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

How is it that a youngster who's lived a small fraction of my life can arbitrarily remove facts which I have added to a post. I added fact that actually appear later within the same post. This youngster judged my post, these facts, as not constructive. Since when are facts not constructive on wikipedia? Since I've been watching it for a number of years I can tell you it's been several years since this has transpired. When did Wikipedia go from a source of information to another political organ representing a single Viewpoint and worldview? Kevinmc2815 (talk) 17:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

@Kevinmc2815: The same time you decided to fuck around and find out on biographical material in a contentious topic that literally turned into a powderkeg due to recent events. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 17:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm a neoliberal and I do just fine. Otherwise, Wikipedia is biased for mainstream science, mainstream medicine, mainstream history, and mainstream press. As a serious encyclopedia it could hardly be otherwise. There is no real difference between the editorial values of Wikipedia, Britannica, and Larousse. tgeorgescu (talk) 17:43, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

You didn't cite any of your sources, silly. If we didn't require users to do that this place would devolve into petty squabbles from both sides of the political spectrum mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:45, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Because Wikipedia isn't an ageist shit-fest. HTH. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:47, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

@ 74.84.120.58 (talk) 20:10, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Please be more specific. Which account? What info? 331dot (talk) 20:21, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Who is Dr Pankaj Singh psychiatrist in Varanasi 42.107.147.12 (talk) 12:54, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

No idea. Wikipedia only has two biographies of people called Pankaj Singh and neither is him. maybe ask a search engine? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:47, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Morning Folks!! On Cothenius Medal awardees, 1792–1861 The ADB template used in Ref 8 and 9 is pointing is pointing to Wikisource. For example ref 9 points here: [6] instead of here: [7]. They were working when I put the references, but something seemed to have changed? scope_creep^Talk 09:52, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Scope creep. I don't know what's changed, but the sixth argument to the template in those citations seems to be a numeric code, whereas Template:Cite ADB says it should be the name of the article in :de:s, prefixed by "ADB:" ColinFine (talk) 12:35, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't either. I've fixed them. I would have thought a script would have updated them, if there was a change. I did check them, but fixed now anyway. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 13:11, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I was editing an article about Portuguese swear words, but the Captcha won't go ahead, like, I've been doing Captcha for about 5 minutes and it's that annoying Dkyoshya12 (talk) 06:34, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Never mind, this shit unfortunately restarted and I lost my edits Dkyoshya12 (talk) 12:07, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Good evening. I have a English userpage (User:Pineapple alex ng) and a Chinese userpage (zh:User:Pineapple alex ng) of Wikipedia. How can I combine them together so that people can take a look my userpage of the another language by pressing the language button on the top-right hand corner, just like other normal Wikipedia pages? Thanks. Pineapple alex ng (talk) 10:32, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Pineapple alex ng. Please see WP:LOCALLINK. ColinFine (talk) 12:37, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Pineapple alex ng, you can do this with local Interlanguage links – see the syntax at § Local links to override Wikidata interlanguage links. In your case, you would add [[zh:User:Pineapple alex ng]] to the bottom of your English userpage and [[en:User:Pineapple alex ng]] to the bottom of your Chinese userpage. Note that this kind of linking should only be used for non-article pages like userpages. For encyclopaedia articles, we use Wikidata to manage the links. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 12:41, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't know whether that is an appropriate use of WP:LOCALLINK, but I don't see any harm in trying it out. TSventon (talk) 12:42, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

It's specifically called out as example #3: They are required for pages that are not allowed on Wikidata, such as your userpage. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 12:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

[ec] I have done that for you; please check the edit history for each page to see how. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:05, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much!!! Love you! Pineapple alex ng (talk) 14:19, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! May I know what rules govern what information is allowed on a user page and in what form? I have long been accustomed to political userboxes and try to ignore them even if I disagree. But I have noticed that some participants use outright derogatory terms or even suggest that people with different views are harmful to the project. Is this acceptable? Solaire the knight (talk) 20:37, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Can you provide links to these user pages so that we can review? Some1 (talk) 01:04, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I think that the example discussed recently is User:Dronebogus/Userboxes/NoTankies. TSventon (talk) 01:18, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. I noticed it on one user's page and tried to politely hint that while I don't care about his professed "anti-communism", I think the use of the term is excessive. But judging by this response, the user is not only hostile to authors of leftist or communist views, but also explicitly tried to connect it to my nationality. Solaire the knight (talk)

I've never heard the word 'tankie' used in this context before (or indeed any context), but is it a slur used towards left-leaning people in general? The article linked to in the userbox says it's specifically about authoritarian comnunist regimes. I read the Guardian, if you know what I mean, but I don't feel insulted by association if someone says they hate authoritarian comnunists. Girth Summit _(blether) 07:21, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Formally, it is a political term that criticizes people who "justify" totalitarian communist regimes. For example, people who defend Stalinism, etc. But in reality, especially now (especially on the internet among modern right-wingers), this term is used as a derogatory label against any people who in any way defend leftist or communist countries or movements. Just like you can be called a Nazi if you speak out in defense of some traditional values, etc. For example, I was called "tankie" just because I criticized the anti-Soviet Nazi propaganda during the Second World War. Therefore, especially in the context of "their propaganda on Wikipedia" this can be seen as an attack against left-wing users in general. Just imagine if an active left-wing user who often argues with right-wing opponents in historical articles had a template "this user is against Nazis and their propaganda in Wikipedia". Would you find any additional subtext here? Solaire the knight (talk) 07:30, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I think we could probably find lots of people with 'this user hates Nazis and their propaganda on Wikipedia' on their user pages. WP:NONAZIS was written for a reason - there are lots of actual neo-Nazis who would very much like to edit our articles to reflect their world view. Having said that, I would say that someone calling you a tankie directly would be a violation of WP:NPA, could you provide a diff of that (apologies if you already have and I've missed it). Girth Summit _(blether) 10:26, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

No, fortunately no one has ever called me that on Wikipedia. I just gave an example of a modern context for the term. On the other hand, I once got a warning for trying to link a user's German origin with sympathy for the Nazis (there was a context, but I obviously broke the rules), so I was confused by the attempt to call me a "fan of the Soviet Union" based on my Russian userbox. As a person of Russian-Ukrainian-Jewish descent, I obviously hate Nazis myself, and frankly, I've seen users or edits that I would subjectively call that. But my experience has taught me that outside of obvious vandalism or cases where it can be objectively proven (such as using the work of revanchists or Holocaust deniers), such accusations are likely to be seen as insults by rules. Solaire the knight (talk) 10:41, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

"Tankie" is a term of abuse. So saying "This user doesn’t like tankies" is vacuous. Tory was once a term of abuse. Maproom (talk) 09:21, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

In my opinion, userboxes like these generally do not serve the purpose of Wikipedia. Political labels are very easy to misunderstand in any broad context (since you can't get into other people's heads and understand their intentions), and they are also very easy to polarize authors on sensitive topics. Of course, statements about anti-communism or anti-capitalism can in theory do this too, but they are not in themselves derogatory in the same way that "this user is against SJWs" or "this user is against alt-rights" are. Solaire the knight (talk) 10:09, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

There was a discussion about political/potentially offensive userboxes two months ago at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 204 § Are political userboxes now allowed in Templatespace?. I believe the general feeling among the community is that these userboxes are allowed, but if editors believe certain ones should be deleted, they should nominate them for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion. Some1 (talk) 12:23, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. So I can just put it up for deletion at any time to get a clear consensus on either deleting or leaving it? Solaire the knight (talk) 12:30, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Yep. Instructions are at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#How to list pages for deletion. If you have Wikipedia:Twinkle enabled: in the upper right corner, click the TW box, then click XFD; that'll create the MfD page quicker than having to manually do it yourself. Some1 (talk) 13:00, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I think this is the most reasonable option! Now I just have to decide if this is so important to me. Solaire the knight (talk) 13:10, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Maproom, the relevant guideline is WP:UBDIVISIVE, specifically [e]ssentially: Express what you do like, rather than what you don't like. Express what you comprehend, rather than what you don't comprehend. Express what you do, rather than what you don't. Express who you are, rather than who you aren't.
Solaire the knight, you've tried discussing the issue with the other editor. If you feel strongly about this, WP:MFD is thataway. —  Salvio ^giuliano 12:36, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I was given similar advice above. I'm still interested in hearing other users' opinions, but overall I really need to just think about whether this is serious enough to flag the userbox for deletion, or I should just sigh and move on. Solaire the knight (talk) 12:39, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

"still interested in hearing other users' opinions"—This is the Help Desk, and you have been helped. If you want a wider discussion, I'd suggest a village pump, or the talk page of a relevant policy. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:51, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay. Then to avoid wasting others' time, you can close this thread. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:18, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Recently stumbled across an article, Port of Tianjin governance, traffic management and law enforcement. Frankly, in all my years of editing wikipedia, I have never seen such an unsaveable article(it has nearly every single possible good faith problem, lack of citations, outdated info, dead links, bad grammar, bad translations, essay format etc etc).

For context, this seems to be the most indiscriminate collection of information on wikipedia I've come across. A lot of the info is completely unnotable, while information that is notable(e.g. government agencies) are completely mistranslated or outdated.

I do think the info regarding government agencies do need their own articles. However, they shouldn't be in the same article(as they have nothing in common outside of location), and the information is mistranslated or outdated.

This obviously needs a WP:NUKE at the very least.

I can think about two ways this article can be saved:

1. make it solely about one single government agency(plus renaming), and make separate articles for the others
2. WP:AFD it, and make new articles for the notable content about the government agencies.

Either way, the original content isn't going to be useable in any way. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 13:09, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Thehistorianisaac: have you looked at the page history? The content was split from Port of Tianjin in 2013 and tagged as overly detailed even then. I would suggest discussing your suggestions at Talk:Port of Tianjin, linking from Talk:Port of Tianjin governance, traffic management and law enforcement and pinging the page creator. WP:BLAR would be a possibility. TSventon (talk) 13:53, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Will also post this on the article itself; pinging @Jax 0677 who created the article. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 14:00, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

And @Arrorro, who wrote most of the content. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 14:05, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Ykw I'm gonna have to Be bold and nominate for AFD. Normally, i would suggest a WP:NUKE, but this contains info that should be on multiple completely separate articles. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 14:05, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Thehistorianisaac: can you sign the deletion nomination? 14:22, 14 September 2025 (UTC)TSventon (talk)

Will do. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 15:03, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I am trying to edit the article Avenue of the Saints. It currently has a large main infobox. On desktop Firefox, this infobox pushes the "route description" and the rest of the article content down, creating a gap between the table of contents and the main body of the article.

How do I fix this?

Thanks! 24.2.25.89 (talk) 21:46, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @24.2.25.89, the article you're trying to edit contains the template "Clear", also known as "Clr" or "-". You can delete this to remove the gap.

The template is located directly above the Route description section. In Visual Editor, it is indicated by a puzzle piece icon labelled "Generated from: -". In Source Editor, it is wrapped in curly braces and looks like {{-}} Blepbob (talk) 03:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, that did the trick! 24.2.25.89 (talk) 03:31, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I've noticed that the wiki contains many dead links to TED talks.

The old TED video URL format was: "http://www.ted.com/talks/talk_name_here.html", and these links now return 404 errors.

The current TED video URL format is: "https://www.ted.com/talks/talk_name_here". Note the removed trailing ".html" (and HTTPS)

A quick search suggests there could be about 1,000 affected links. If possible, it might be worth it for a bot to convert them. UnlikelyEvent (talk) 06:21, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@UnlikelyEvent: Please see WP:BOTREQ. Victor Schmidt (talk) 06:42, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Ah, exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! UnlikelyEvent (talk) 06:55, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I think I spotted a troll but I don't know how to deal with them

I vaguely remember there being a page where you can report incidents/conflicts but you'd have to inform the other party. I don't know if I have the energy to do that. But here's the account:

Special:Contributions/Inês Brown Craveiro

Pomodecon (talk) 02:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Pomodecon I think it's vandalism in this case, so I've reported the user to WP:AIV. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 03:27, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Pomodecon, that user has been indefinitely blocked as a vandalism only account. Cullen328 (talk) 07:40, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way to view the source (view only, not edit) of a non-protected page? Sometimes I want to look at or copy a piece of wiki markup from an article without the risk of actually editing it. --Jameboy (talk) 12:43, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Go to the article and click the "View history" tab. From there, select the timestamp of the latest revision (or any specific revision). Then click on Wikitext to display the page’s source in a read-only format. Editor1769 13:05, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@Editor1769: Where is this "Wikitext" link to click on? I tried it just now with Hydrogen, but couldn't get past viewing the latest revision. (I'm on desktop using Chrome.) Bazza 7 (talk) 13:24, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

You can use the cur link for the specific version. Editor1769 13:32, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I also can't see the Wikitext option, whereabouts is it on the page? I also tried doing so when logged out, in case my widgets were conflicting with it, but again I couldn't see it. --Jameboy (talk) 14:34, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Ah wait, do you mean the diffs, with the green and yellow backgrounds? That is indeed one way to view it, I hadn't thought of that. --Jameboy (talk) 14:37, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

if you have the page history open, replace action=history with action=raw. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Teahouse&action=raw Victor Schmidt (talk) 14:48, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Perfect, the =raw option works well, thank you --Jameboy (talk) 16:51, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I've suddenly found that I don't seem able to perform admin actions, and pages like my watchlist don't or are slow to load. Navigation is OK. I'm seeing this message repeatedly

/w/api.php?action=query&list=watchlist&wllimit=1&wlexcludeuser=Jimfbleak&wldir=older&format=xml&wlprop=comment|ids|title|user

with a don't show check box, which doesn't work, and an OK button.

I've restarted my pc to no avail (in fact the message came up while I'm typing this) Any ideas to get me out of this? Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:10, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

seems OK now, any idea what happened? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:51, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I found it difficult to save an edit today about that time. The error message said that the wiki had become read-only. Maybe that was the underlying problem? Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:28, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I need my picture to show in google search 2603:6011:C100:1760:F1A2:3BEC:28BA:94C2 (talk) 20:36, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

If your question is related to Wikipedia, please explain; if it isn't, you're asking in the wrong place. -- Hoary (talk) 21:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Some of our "lists of earthquakes" articles have columns for the seismic intensity, which is normally expressed using roman numerals. Is there any way to make these columns sortable in a wikitable? The case in point is the pre-1900 list in list of earthquakes in Turkey. Thanks, Mikenorton (talk) 14:49, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

{{hidden sort key}} or {{sort}}

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:14, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Mikenorton: See Help:Sortable tables, in particular Help:Sortable tables § Specifying a sort key for a cell. Bazza 7 (talk) 15:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mikenorton: I made {{Sort Roman}} for this. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:29, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks all for your help and especially @PrimeHunter: for having created a solution for this particular problem a few years ago. Mikenorton (talk) 15:42, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Problem sorted! Mikenorton (talk) 15:50, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

My template is now used in five articles after three years. Woohoo! Thanks for using it Mikenorton. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:00, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

The search insource:"sortable" IX insource:/\| ?IX ?\|/i gives other potential uses I will examine later. And yeah, there are many lists of earthquakes. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:15, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Make that six articles. Working on it! Mikenorton (talk) 17:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mikenorton: Yay! We are going down in Wikipedia history for sorting this out (pun intended). By the way, you only need it for IX, XIX, XXIX, and I don't know if the planet would survive the latter two. Maybe the giant-impact hypothesis would be a XXIX. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:29, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I see Modified Mercalli intensity scale#Scale values ends at XII described as "Damage is total." Pfft. I guess they didn't think of colliding planets. Maybe it should only be a XIX and then XXIX could be spaghettification by being sucked into a black hole. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:44, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mikenorton "Problem sorted." Ha! Very clever. David10244 (talk) 00:41, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter And Prime too! David10244 (talk) 01:01, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

How do I add "Ghosts in Panama" DrJGardner (talk) 14:24, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@DrJGardner. Please carefully read WP:YFA. Shantavira|^{feed me} 17:13, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Where a statement is within brackets (parentheses) and it has a citation using a <ref> tag, should the tag be inside or outside the brackets? I can't find a definitive directive in MOS. Masato.harada (talk) 10:11, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Masato.harada: MOS:REFPUNCT says: "If a footnote applies only to material within parentheses, the tags belong just before the closing parenthesis. ". PrimeHunter (talk) 11:02, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I've noticed that on some pages, the TOC subsections in the sidebar is autocollapsed by default (ex. Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, BTS, Katseye, etc.), while on other pages, it is expanded by default (ex. Blackpink, Tate McRae, 2NE1, etc.) How would I make the TOC on the latter pages autocollapsed also? ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯ talk 22:52, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nkon21: mw:Skin:Vector/2022/Design documentation#2) Why are sub-sections collapsed by default? says: "Sub-sections are collapsed by default for articles with more than 28 sections total". I don't think this can be changed. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:32, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I submitted a Requested Article submission on September 2. I was wondering how long it would take until I heard a response from a Wikipedia editor about the status of that hypothetical new article. Thank you for your time, SteveTexas1964 (talk) 19:14, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

SteveTexas1964 I fixed your link, you need the "Draft:" portion. If you have edited the draft to address the last review's concerns, you should click the blue "Resubmit" button

Note that you are actually referring to Articles for creation, not Requested articles. 331dot (talk) 19:18, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I think that this question is about a requested article request submitted on 2 September, not on the draft article on the same subject submitted on 28 August. Unfortunately most requested articles don't get written, as explained in the preliminary note at Wikipedia:Requested articles. TSventon (talk) 19:32, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I thought he was talking about a draft because he used the title of the draft in his link. 331dot (talk) 19:37, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Apologies, I did mean the articles for creation submitted on 9/2. I did see that note that most articles do not get published, but wanted to try anyway. If they decide not to write it, will I get official confirmation it was declined? SteveTexas1964 (talk) 19:41, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

There is no "official confirmation". Your request will stay there until it is removed, either because someone creates it, or someone just removes it.

If you wrote a draft, why are you requesting an article on the same topic? 331dot (talk) 19:51, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I am requesting an article on the same topic as my draft because I work for the company and do not believe that would pass ethically. I disclosed this information in the draft. SteveTexas1964 (talk) 20:25, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I understand, though as you have been open about your association with the company, you are permitted to work on and submit a draft. It is usually tough for an employee to write about their employer as Wikipedia asks, but it isn't impossible- and that's not a barrier to just trying- if you desire. 331dot (talk) 22:35, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

@SteveTexas1964 The most common outcome for Requested Articles is that a request will stay there forever, and no one will ever create the article. You asked a week after submitting the request. Hope this helps. David10244 (talk) 20:10, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The note says that the associated Wikiproject is inactive. I doubt that people regularly read the list, still less reply to additions to the list. I think it is more likely that, very occasionally, someone searches for information about a topic on Wikipedia and finds an entry on the list. Going through AFC should be more productive, but you will need to show the subject is notable, as explained when your submission was reviewed. TSventon (talk) 20:01, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Good to know, thank you for the information. SteveTexas1964 (talk) 20:26, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

The definition is wrong since is not specific to woman and why is a woman of color is set at the example when you can be any race and be ratchet and be a man and be ratchet, this is just creating negative stereotype for African American women. 67.72.9.158 (talk) 16:19, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Are you referring to the article Ratchet (slang)? Its section Usage states "The term has since been extended to have broader meanings and connotations and is no longer strictly bound by race or gender", which agrees with what you say, and that section's subsection Reclamation also states "others point to how the term reinforces the negative portrayal of African-American women in the media."

Wikipedia summarises what reliable sources say about (in this instance) how a word is used. It is not a vehicle for trying to change or argue against anything: see Wikipedia:Right great wrongs.

If you are instead referring to a use of the word elsewhere in Wikipedia, please give a link to the article in question. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 18:06, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Putting Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brrowbottom here since there's a bit of a history with this page. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:16, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

PhilKnight, Gråbergs Gråa Sång: I don't understand this. Srbernadette's account is ten years old, Brrowbottom's is three months old, so how can she be a sockpuppet of Brrowbottom? Srbernadette is incompetent, and does not learn from advice. She frequently type five-digits years like "22025" and asks for help correcting the error, and sometimes edits while not logged in. But she is well-meaning and cooperative. Maproom (talk) 08:29, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I think the who is a sp of whom is just on-the-fly naming, but sure, it makes sense that Srbernadette is the "master" here.

Fwiw, some related comments at User_talk:Gråbergs_Gråa_Sång/Archive_11#Help_desk. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

The SPI has been moved to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Srbernadette. TSventon (talk) 20:41, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon@Maproom Turns out that was more relevant than I thought, there was archived stuff. Which, in hindsight, is not that surprising. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:45, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Maproom I'm sure you know that (almost certainly) she, under various IPs, is still posting questions at the help desks, asking for help fixing refs in the same small number of articles (saying "I can't do it"). I also believe she is well-meaning, but after all these years, do the Lupton and Middleton articles still need improvement or the excessive detail?

If she as a person is blocked, should we have pity, or should we enforce the block? I'm 50/50 but this has been going on for so long (she used to be known as "the Lupton editor"). Help desk volunteers are still fixing things for her, which I suppose is not necessarily A Bad Thing... David10244 (talk) 00:50, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

David10244, I agree with all that. The relatives of the British royal family interest me even less than baseball players. But her contributions are overall constructive. I once invited her on her talk page to make her requests on mine instead of here – but I doubt she read it. I guess that she'll continue contributing from IP addresses. It seems to me that a block, maybe followed up by blocks of IP addresses, is a rather severe response to a non-problem. Maproom (talk) 06:48, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I am in the process of making a significant edit to this article about the musician Patrick Schneeweis: Pat the Bunny (musician). My plan was to make the edit in several stages (starting with taking the discography from the biography portion of the article), before moving on to doing some radical changes to how the biography is structured overall (In line with Wikipedia:Be bold). I thought it would be most appropriate to do this through first publishing a version of the article when I have just split the discography, and then publishing a second time after I have made the changes to the biography (using {{in use}}) to make this clear. I think this would make it easier for future editors, particularly if someone wished to roll back or dispute the changes.

My concern is that after moving the discography to a new section the article would temporarily become borderline unreadable. Is it appropriate to do this?

Sam(A Horrible Person) (talk) 03:35, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

There is no hard and fast time limit, but so long as there is no more than an hour or so between the edits, that shouldn't be a problem.

This would not be the case if the article was high profile, like a very major public figure or a current news item. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:05, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

In the page on Newsweek a paragraph has recently been deleted. I have asked a question there but in case it is not seen I place it here as well.in a shortened version. The paragraph details a court case that has been brought but which has not yet been heard . It explains the fact that allegations have been made but does not say that the allegations are true. By its nature it cannot say it is true. The reason for deletion that was given was that the source was unreliable. Can somebody explain to me why it is unreliable. It is also described as primary and "COI." The source was a web page which is called "International Buisness times" Can somebody explain to me why this site is considered unreliable. I am not familar with the publication.There used to be a page which set out examples of unreliable sources (the Daily Mail ,a British newspaper, was in the list.) but I cannot now find the list.Can somebody explain to me what "COI " means ? I know what a primary source is but this does not appear to be a primary source ( unlike the court papers which were originally also cited). Spinney Hill (talk) 23:34, 8 September 2025 (UTC) Spinney Hill (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. In this case I would guess that there is a conflict of interest because International Business Times owns Newsweek, and therefore cannot be trusted to be unbiased when reporting on it.

You may previously have seen the list at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources, where International Business Times is assessed as 'generally unreliable'. Note that this list is not intended to be exhaustive, there will be many other reliable and unreliable sources that are not on it.

A Reliable source is usually one that has a reputation for good editorial control and fact-checking, but it also depends on what the source is being used for – a source might be considered reliable for some things, but not others. It may also be the case that a printed periodical may usually be reliable, but its website is less so. Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 00:13, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I have been asked to add the page number of a book in a reference. The difficulty is that I only have access to the EPUB version, where the pagination does not correspond to the printed edition. Is there a proper way to address this issue in a citation, for example by using chapter or section numbers instead of page references? RobertoBriago (talk) 12:07, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

RobertoBriago Yes, chapter or section numbers can work, see Help:References and page numbers#Other in-source locations. TSventon (talk) 12:44, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Im being messaged saying that my contributions to random ahh things are rejected when I never edited them. To summarise Im being messaged about how my contributions are being rejected when im not making any contributions or changes to the page. 114.141.107.34 (talk) 09:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

If you are referring to your user talk page, IP addresses can be used by more than one person, so if you did not do the things you are seeing messages for, you may disregard them. If you create an account, you will only get messages for yourself(among other benefits). 331dot (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

The album cover for The Black Keys' album El Camino was photographed on the corner of South Main St and West Archwood Ave in Akron, Ohio... but my only sources are a WP:UGC forum post^[8] and looking at Google Maps' street view (which also features the van!).^[9] Surely, I can't cite the street view and expect readers to use their eyes, can I? Should I sit and wait for a text-based reliable source to come about? As per a previous Help Desk answer,^[10] street view is reliable, but where is the line drawn between something obvious and something to be inferred (which falls under WP:OR)? This question extends to other, similar citations such as images where the information is visual.

Usually, I'd WP:BEBOLD and have added and cited the info already, but this is such an unusual scenario I figured I'd ask.

Thx, _♥^✿ TheMDC4 chat :3 ^✿_♥ 02:13, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, TheMDC4. I do not understand why the specific nondescript location is relevant or encyclopedic. The focal point of the album cover is the van and commentary on the album cover is about the van and the disconnect with the album title, which is that of another motor vehicle. Unless reliable sources discuss the specific location where the photo was taken, it simply does not belong in the encyclopedia. Cullen328 (talk) 16:46, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I Wanna Know How To Add Subtitles To Audio Files, Plz Teach Me How JustCory69 (talk) 22:51, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

This is about how to use wikipedia, if you are looking for general technical/computer information, we cannot help you. TiggerJay (talk) 05:58, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

For audio files on Wikipedia/ Wikimedia Commons, see Commons:Timed Text. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:02, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I read a long time ago for an article Spacecraft electric propulsion that such engines are not suitable for takeoffs from planets due to low thrust. In general, this is a fairly obvious thesis, but I cannot find authoritative sources for it. However, for Wikipedia, all theses must be substantiated with sources, in connection with which the question is -= are there sources for this thesis? Thank you in advance. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 10:21, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Vyacheslav84 Consider asking at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:42, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!--Vyacheslav84 (talk) 12:09, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have just joined and found where I could make a citation edit. Whilst I did this with no problem, there was a visual challenge in order to publish the change. Are there any known work arounds to this, so I can contribute please? I didnt see an audio challenge alternative, but some sites offer a cookie to bypass challenges I've found too. I've no useful vision, just FYI. Thanks Louisj92 (talk) 07:06, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Louisj92: New users have to make a visual challenge called a CAPTCHA when they add external links. This requirement goes away when the account becomes autoconfirmed after four days and 10 edits anywhere at en.wikipedia.org, including this page. I suggest you wait for that before adding external links. There is no audio alternative. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:47, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

That is brilliant - thank you for confirming :D I'll get a sighted friend to give me a hand and then I'll be all good to go. Appreciate you responding :D Louisj92 (talk) 09:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Do you have an authorized distributor in the UAE Dubai 31.219.102.161 (talk) 17:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

You seem to be addressing somebody who is not Wikipedia, as Wikipedia does not have "distributors". This page is for help with using Wikipedia only. --ColinFine (talk) 17:58, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Sourcing when changing the inaccurate information of an existing biography on Wikipedia

How can one reference certain changes that need to be made when updating a biography like marital status, profession, end of professional activity, etc? Nimo5693 (talk) 12:57, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nimo5693: I assume that the subject is alive and that you either are the bio subject or know them. 331dot answered a similar question recently:

You need to provide citations- this is vitally important for any article about a living person, please see the Biographies of Living Persons policy. We cannot accept your personal word for anything. You should also review the autobiography policy.

For help with citations, please see Referencing for beginners. Ideally, however, you should be proposing edits instead of making them yourself, please see the edit request process(or the edit request wizard). TSventon (talk) 14:10, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

If the subject has a personal website, or a verified Twitter, etc., they can place information there and you can use that in a citation for uncontroversial information. See WP:ABOUTSELF for more detail. TSventon (talk) 14:17, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I would like to add two houses in Maitland: Toll House 1825 & Bridge House 1829. I am not very computer savvy but can send a picture of both houses and comments about each. Bruce Marich Bruce Marich (talk) 12:41, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bruce Marich Thank you for wanting to improve the List of the oldest buildings in Australia. Provided you have taken the pictures with your own camera and hence can license them as required for Wikimedia Commons, you should upload the images there. Your account will be valid at the Commons upload wizard at this link and the instructions are fairly simple. You can look at related files like File:Commissariat_Store_Hobart_20171119-025.jpg to see how to enter your comments as part of the file description (not the filename, which you should keep concise). Ask at the Commons:Help_desk if you run into problems. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:13, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I just got this in connection with this. Can I get input from other editors? 62.73.72.101 (talk) 13:49, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps this is an issue which should be discussed with @MadelynnSienna:? Lynch44 13:55, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Her stance is already known - it is that my edit was vandalism. Given that I believe that this was obviously wrong from the start, I don't have much hope that she will realise and acknowledge that she was wrong just because of my arguments. Humans have a tendency not to like to admit that they are wrong. That is why I am asking you and other editors to assess whether it was vandalism.--62.73.72.101 (talk) 14:13, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! My apologies, I thought that was an edit made on the main Kingdom of Germany page rather than the respective talk page. As you can see, they have already been reverted as good faith edits on the same. It was an honest mistake, but I will be more careful about this going forward. MadelynnSienna (talk) 14:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I see no accusation of vandalism. Maproom (talk) 15:09, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

The reversing edit was tagged AntiVandal and the standard message suggested asking for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk, so I think the IP's response was reasonable. On the other hand the reversal would probably look like a mistake to a more experienced editor. TSventon (talk) 15:24, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@MadelynnSienna: I would suggest a brief a apology on the IP's talk page so future talk page readers can see that the warning was an error. TSventon (talk) 15:38, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! I already did that in addition to my response on this page. MadelynnSienna (talk) 16:15, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Good point. Somehow I missed that. TSventon (talk) 16:23, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi I have never uploaded a picture to a wiki article, I need help and advice on how to do this and also how to search for licence, Thanks Foristslow (talk) 06:13, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

See WP:UPIMAGE. If you are sure that the image is copyright free, it should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 06:40, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

thankyou for your time, how can I search for a open source picture for a article. Foristslow (talk) 10:51, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Check settings in your browser when you search for images. If you make an image search on google, check under Tools. Youtube has a similar option. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:56, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Foristslow Rule of thumb: almost any image you find online is under copyright and can't be used on WP, but context matters enormously. If you're lucky, there's a pic you can use at Commons. So: what pic do you want to use where? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:53, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I found a photo of Fiorella La Guardia on your website and was wondering if I can use it in a book I amn writing about Italian immigration and Italian Americans. Is it ok?

Peter Chidichimo Smithtown, NY 2600:4041:5078:D00:E493:ABB1:BA9D:A166 (talk) 22:15, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Click on the photo and on the page that comes up, view the copyright information - every photo has different licensing agreements that you'll need to understand and follow. TiggerJay (talk) 05:46, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

If you mean File:La_Guardia_by_NYT_Studios_circa_1934–1945_Trim_Edit.jpg, then it is public domain, as stated on the file's page. For using other Wikipedia material, including text, please see WP:REUSE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:29, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I was working on an article on Front Street Theater as in THEATER, a historical entity in Memphis, Tennessee. It is spelled in American English, theaTER. I cannot even create/title the article. It would be great if anybody would help. I quit doing edits years ago and apparently I don’t exist anymore. Freelance-writer-editor (talk) 17:42, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

All autoconfirmed users with no sanctions (including yourself) can create an article from a red link, either with Wikipedia:Article Wizard, or by clicking the red links Front Street Theater or Draft:Front Street Theater and putting the desired article text there. As there is no redirect at the target, you shouldn't have too much trouble beyond writing the thing. Departure– (talk) 17:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

As a secondary note, you should designate the article as being written in American English by putting the string {{American English}} at the top of your article's talk page. This does not preclude using the term "theatre" in the article if it is in the official title, but I'm assuming from your initial text it isn't. US English uses "theater". Departure– (talk) 17:53, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I see nothing that would prevent you from creating a new article, (or preferably Draft of an article) as you have done before, but your User page is not the place to do it – that is mainly intended for you to say something about yourself as a Wikipedia editor (see Wikipedia:User pages, especially section 6).

I don't understand what you mean by "I don't exist anymore." You have a User page and a User talk page, as linked by your signature. What difficulty are you encountering? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 18:05, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I haven't looked up this particular theater, and merely point out that many theaters in the U.S. have been named this or that "Theatre". 110.2.106.35 (talk) 18:12, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Just one example for now: Mercury Theatre. 110.2.106.35 (talk) 20:41, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Freelance-writer-editor Just to be clear "theater" is not specifically the American English spelling, the usage is quite mixed in America. So we do not go off of the official name nor do we go off of your understanding, but rather we follow the most commonly used name in reliable sources. TiggerJay (talk) 05:49, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

FWIW, the majority of the results I have found by web searching refer to the Front Street Theatre. Example: https://ovrtur.com/venue/2968. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.1.98.196 (talk) 14:41, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I would like to post a photo of myself SELECTOR44 (talk) 21:25, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Judging by your other posts, you seem to have mistaken Wikipedia for social media. That isn't what Wikipedia is for, and your user page is liable to be deleted. Accordingly, before worrying about posting photos, I suggest you first decide whether you intend to contribute to this project for its intended purpose: as an online encyclopaedia, covering notable topics, and basing its content on published reliable sources. If all you want to do is write about yourself, I suggest you look elsewhere. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:42, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@SELECTOR44 you can here at commons:Special:UploadWizard at commons. Self portraits are acceptable as "own works". But when you apply the latest version (4.0) of a CC license to your material, you also agree to waive or not assert any publicity, privacy, or personality rights that you hold in the material you are licensing, to the limited extent necessary for others to exercise the licensed rights. For example, if you have licensed a photograph of yourself, you may not assert your right of privacy to have the photo removed from further distribution. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 03:55, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Note that Rafael's answer above is misleading. The copyright holder of a photograph is the photographer, not the subject of the photo, so typically the subject of a photo cannot release a photo under the appropriate license for Wikipedia. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:20, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

"when you apply the latest version (4.0) of a CC license to your material, you also agree to waive or not assert any publicity, privacy, or personality rights" Are you sure about that? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:36, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Proposed Additions to Ann Charters' entry submitted by Ritlarge. Ann writes to me:

"I do have an addition to suggest at the end of my Wikipedia entry. In addition to my Beat papers archive at Columbia University, I have two other Beat literature archives. One is a collection of Beat books and papers from 1969 to 1994 at the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library. The other is my Beat literature collection from 1995 to the present time in the Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Thank you for your help.' 2601:14D:4001:BBF0:7D38:1794:D84E:ACF (talk) 22:29, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Ritlarge (please remember to login). The best place to suggest this is the talk page Talk:Ann Charters.

If Charters is writing to you, that suggests that you may have a conflict of interest in editing the article about her. While this does not forbid you from editing the article yourself, it is discouraged (see the link for how to suggest edits instead - as you have done here), and it would be a good idea to disclose the COI, probably on your user page. (You haven't yet created a user page, which is why your username appears in red above. You are not required to have a user page, but that would be a good place to disclose your COI.) ColinFine (talk) 10:28, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

I was contacted by 'Nelson Hathaway Wikipedia Admin'offering to help build a page in wikipedia. Is this a legitimate offer. Please reply to (redacted) Many thanks Tom Ling 24.206.97.19 (talk) 09:10, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

No it isn't, see WP:SCAM, it is always a scam.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 09:23, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

It's unwise to post your email publicly; and we don't communicate via email. 331dot (talk) 10:29, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Here is a list of admin(istrator)s. (Incidentally, admins are not sysops. But they were often called sysops in the distant past.) None of the many admins has a username starting either "Nelson" or "Hathaway". -- Hoary (talk) 11:22, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Charlie Kirk entry is false and biased. 98.21.91.128 (talk) 10:33, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi. This is English Wikipedia's help desk, not its complaint desk. We get a lot of this type of complaint at the Donald Trump article, and we refer the complainers to WP:TRUMPRCB. You might find that useful, too, I don't know. Also, Wikipedia editors can't be shamed because we have no shame. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 10:39, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

At present the Category:Game theorists category has two sub-categories Category:American game theorists and Category:Combinatorial game theorists Can other sub-categories be added for game theorists from other countries and for other game theorists working in other application areas? (I suggest Evolutionary game theory for a sub-category Evolutionary game theorists, but not exclusively.) Worramlaup21 (talk) 14:44, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, if there are sufficient members to justify doing so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:57, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

There certainly are, thanks. Worramlaup21 (talk) 15:01, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I removed {{COI}}, because no issues had been identified on the talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:58, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I declare no COI because I didn't suggest it because I wanted to place myself on that list. Worramlaup21 (talk) 15:02, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, that was supposed to go in the previous section on this page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:19, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help. Worramlaup21 (talk) 15:22, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I recently nominated the category Maldivian Dictators for deletion and an overwhelming consensus was reached to delete it. I found that the category hasn't been deleted and I figured I'd ask here because I've never encountered this before. Unilandofma^Talk 10:31, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Unilandofma: I think the closer @GoldRomean: didn't do the close properly. There is a similar request on their talkpage from earlier today. TSventon (talk) 10:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

That would make sense yeah. Unilandofma^Talk 10:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Unilandofma and GoldRomean: actually the closure is listed at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working#Non-admin closure requests (12 September 2025), but has not yet been actioned. TSventon (talk) 11:03, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

^ what TSventon said. There's a slight backlog, so it might take a bit for an admin to get to it. That being said, I do make mistakes sometimes, so if it hasn't been actioned and isn't listed at WT:CFDW feel free to come yell at me on my talk page :D. GoldRomean (talk) 18:10, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@GoldRomean: from a conversation on your talk page, I think you wrongly removed the AfD template from Category:Maldivian dictators. TSventon (talk) 18:17, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Fixed. GoldRomean (talk) 18:22, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

What is this? I checked my filter log, and found a weird entry in the log. It said:

12:54, September 9, 2025: RaptorsFan2019 (talk · contribs) triggered an edit filter, performing the action "edit" on User talk:RaptorsFan2019/User warning sandbox. Actions taken: none; Filter description: LTA (long-term abuse) 1133

The edit that triggered the filter was actually just me experimenting with custom user warning templates in a sandbox. After I was unsuccessful with the experiment due to issues trying to set up templates and arrange the code, I gave up and requested deletion of the sandbox by tagging it with {{Db-u1}}, which removed the edit that triggered the filter. Don't worry, these edits were made in good faith. RaptorsFan2019 (talk) 14:40, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

We don't typically give out details of private filters, nor sanction people just because they hit one, but I will offer the explanation that your editing is highly unusual for an account which is 7 days old. Honestly, I'd have expected more filter hits. Anyway, false positives can happen. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 14:56, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@RaptorsFan2019: There are public filters which can be seen by everybody and private filters which are hidden from most users to prevent them from seeing the filter conditions and work around them. This one is private so we are not giving details. Let me just say that LTA means long-term abuse so the filter was designed to look for patterns by a specific user. The filter doesn't block the edit and you don't have to worry about it. Nobody has ever mentioned my filter log which is a lot longer and has many public filters if you want to see examples of that. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:49, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Could a patroller please review the article Arman Mnatsakanyan? It is a new biography with multiple reliable sources. A review would help lift the noindex status so it can be indexed. Thank you! AnnaYerits (talk) 17:01, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Do you have a particular need for the article to appear in search results quickly? New Page Patrol is an entirely volunteer run process, we cannot guarantee a speedy review. It would have been better if you had submitted it for a review as a draft instead of moving it yourself, especially as this is the first topic you've edited. 331dot (talk) 18:13, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

One of the volunteers in the Wikipedia:New pages patrol will get to it when they can, or else it will be automatically made indexable after 90 days from creation. There is currently a backlog of over 12,000 articles – is there some special reason that Arman Mnatsakanyan should be able to 'jump the queue'?

You realise that a patroller might instead judge that the article does not yet meet Wikipedia's standards and delete or Draftify it rather than lifting the noindexing? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 18:15, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Your article doesn't establish any notablity so is at risk of being sent to WP:AFD. Theroadislong (talk) 18:23, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

As you were saying: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arman Mnatsakanyan.

@AnnaYerits: It's really bad form for a new editor to move an article from draft to mainspace without proper review. A good guide is to refrain from moving any drafts into mainspace until you can get one approved via WP:AFC, so that you can learn what a mainspace article requires. ~Anachronist (talk) 22:43, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

"It's really bad form for a new editor to move an article from draft to mainspace without proper review". Nope. If that were not allowed, we would make it impossible for them to do so. As it is, once an account reaches a certain level of activity, we explicitly allow such moves, and using AfC becomes a purely optional process for such accounts. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:45, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I didn't say it wasn't allowed, I said it's really bad form. And it is. It's even worse form for a new editor to move a draft into mainspace anyway after it's been declined, and I've seen that often, but not in this case.

It's a good idea to practice writing articles by submitting them for review until you can demonstrate that you're capable of writing something acceptable. This good practice isn't required, and often isn't followed. ~Anachronist (talk) 15:32, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I know what you said; I even quoted it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:58, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! So can we use a recording of a Google audio translation? On the one hand, Google isn't CC-BY-SA, but on the other (perhaps) per WP:TRANSLATE "A translation is a derivative work", and mechanical? —Fortuna, imperatrix 12:00, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Fortuna imperatrix mundi: can you give a more specific example, i.e. what audio is being translated and how would the translated audio be used? There are two issues, firstly what is the copyright status of the original audio and secondly what are the terms of use of Google audio translation.

Thanks TSventon. My question(s) stem from this discussion. The text itself is 13th-century Latin, so there aren't any copyright concerns with it. But on the technical side, I'm not so sure! —Fortuna, imperatrix 15:24, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Fortuna imperatrix mundi: I think it is highly unlikely that audio generated by Google from a text would be freely usable for all purposes as required by Wikipedia. According to support.google.com, Translate service is governed by Google TOS; You can use the service for your own personal needs, not for commercial usage. TSventon (talk) 15:47, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I suspected as much... I wonder if there is an open-source option somewhere else. —Fortuna, imperatrix 17:08, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

You could always record yourself speaking the translation, and upload that. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:50, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Kmouth is a good option, though it is exclusive to GNU/Linux and possibly other UNIX systems mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 19:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Does Kmouth speak 13th-century Latin with an authentic pronunciation? TSventon (talk) 19:25, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Even if the original Latin is not in copyright there may be copyright in the translation. A translation by a nineteenth century translator-Robert Browning for instance will also be out of copyright but a translation written this year will be in copyright. The two translations will not be the same and the 2025 translatpr will be entitled to payment for his or her work. A machine translation will probably not be worth reading but there may be a copyright.A recording of a person reading the work whether in the in 13th century Latin or in English may well have its own copyright. I may be wrong but this is the law so far as I understand it.. Spinney Hill (talk) 22:11, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I recently made some edits to a write-up on my Wikipedia page, but most of those edits were removed. I would like to understand why this happened and how I can make improvements that comply with Wikipedia’s guidelines. In addition, I have already written an article on my user page and would like to know the correct process for publishing it into the main encyclopedia. Could you please guide me on the proper steps to follow? Thank you for your time and assistance.

Here is the article link: User:Prince Kayode Oyetunde Bayewuwon. Prince Kayode Oyetunde Bayewuwon (talk) 18:29, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

The whole url is not needed when linking, I fixed this for you.

You have edited your user page, which is not article space.(note the "User:" in the title) It is a place for the account operator to tell about themselves as a Wikipedia user, not anything and everything about themselves. New accounts cannot directly create articles and need to use Articles for creation to create and submit a draft.

Writing about yourself is highly discouraged, please see the autobiography policy. Your text cites no sources. A Wikipedia article must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the topic, not what the topic or its associates say about it. It needs to be shown how the person is a notable person. You are not a notable politician as you do not hold public office or have not won election to public office. 331dot (talk) 18:36, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Did you take the image of yourself? It appears to be professionally taken, in which case the copyright belongs to the photographer and is not yours to release. If the photographer assigned you the copyright, you need to go to Commons and work with the editors there to indicate that. 331dot (talk) 18:38, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@331dot, @Prince Kayode Oyetunde Bayewuwon The the upload comment on the file says "Uploaded a work by Kayode..." which is confusing... David10244 (talk) 01:06, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that too- it is confusing. 331dot (talk) 08:30, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

I've been an editor for about 3 years now, but I've noticed some editors reverting or downplaying what I have written based on only a single source being used to note something. This is despite the fact said source accurately quotes the individual it is reporting on.

For instance, Michael Parenti, a political scientist, denied the existence of genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s in the 2000 volume of Project Censored, as well as the number of victims at Srebrenica. Despite this, the website Balkan Witness, who accurately noted that Parenti had said these things, with URLs as proof, the statements were then attributed, rather than being kept as fact.

Similarly, Sara Flounders, who in a 1995 article denied Serbian atrocities in the Bosnian War, was instead only written to be accused of doing so in a statement attributed to Pulse Media, which linked her denial.

Craig Murray, who as shown by OSINT for Ukraine had promoted Russian propaganda regarding the alleged genocide in the Donbass and that Euromaidan was a coup, was reverted based on the biases of the website, despite presenting a screenshot of his blog.

I don't understand why things like these happen, although I will note that all three of these examples are self described left-wing personalities, which I think might be a problem of bias on this website.

What are other editors opinions on this? Is a single biased source accurately reporting on a documented fact not sufficient for articles on living people? JPHC2003 (talk) 08:14, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Contentious material requires high-quality, reliable sources WP:BLP, and WP:DUE emphasises that a single source may not establish sufficient weight for such claims, even if it accurately quotes the subject. The sources used seem verifiable but may be seen as non-independent or advocacy-based, which WP:RS cautions against for BLPs without corroboration.

I propose citing the primary source directly to confirm the quote, supplemented by any additional reliable secondary sources. This aligns with WP:PRIMARY for direct statements while meeting WP:VERIFY. If the source’s reliability is disputed, we can discuss it at WP:RSN or seek consensus on the article’s talk page. Editor1769 08:31, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

In the page Suicide methods, two references are duplicated with the DOI doi:10.101/j.aap.2015.04.012. However, one of these comes from a section transclusion from Rail suicide. How best should I resolve this? I don't want the article to break if the ref is removed from the transcluded article. Is it customary in this case to use template syntax in the transcluded article and wrap the offending reference in {{{1|reference code...}}}, and would that even work? Thanks, OutsideNormality (talk) 22:42, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Use a named reference in both articles and manage the citation centrally to avoid duplication Editor1769 09:00, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Why there is no page available for Mr Gopal Chandra Mukherjee (Gopal Patha) in Wikipedia, he is hero of Direct action day happened in Bengal in 1946, he should get a dignified page on Wikipedia

please consider my request

Regards Rajeev Agrawal Raj wip (talk) 05:00, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

There was briefly an article about Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, but it was deleted as an unauthorized resuscitation of an article deleted as the result of WP:AfD/Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay. That AfD was closed as "delete" by Joyous!. An "extended confirmed" user believing (i) that Gopal Chandra Mukherjee is notable and (ii) that they (the user) are capable of creating a draft that (a) demonstrates this and (b) is a neutral account of his life would be able to make a fresh start at Draft:Gopal Chandra Mukherjee and to submit this for promotion to article status. This would require the approval of Joyous! and is unlikely to be an easy task. -- Hoary (talk) 08:31, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

No dedicated article exists in the English Wikipedia due to its deletion in February 2023 after an Articles for Deletion discussion. Editors cited insufficient significant coverage in reliable, independent sources and reliance on partisan ones, failing WP:GNG. He is briefly noted in the Direct Action Day article for his defensive efforts. Editor1769 08:52, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Raj wip. The criterion for whether there could be an article about somebody is what Wikipedia calls notability - which isn't quite the same as what people usually mean by the word. It's not about being important, or famous, or popular, or influentia.: it's about whether there is enough published information about the person to base an article on (remembering that Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost exclusively 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. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources. )

As others have said, if there is enough independent reliably published material to base an article on, then somebody could write one. But there isn't some sort of editorial board that you can address request to, as you have tried to do above. (Well, there is a page called requested articles, but requests there hardly ever get picked up). This is a volunteer project, where people work on what they choose. ColinFine (talk) 09:17, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

The Daily Vault (www.dailyvault.com) is a music review website with over 11,000 reviews completed over the past 28 years. It is cited as a source in more than 8,000 Wikipedia articles. And yet there is no entry for it on Wikipedia, and my understanding is that when one was proposed in the past, the site was dismissed as "not noteworthy." This seems inconsistent with the facts. Burgher25 (talk) 20:06, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

hello @Burgher25.

Notability and reliability are completely separate concepts. There are certainly many sources which are notable without being reliable (for example, iMDB and the Daily Mail); and it is no surprise that there might be reliable sources which are not themselves notable.

Notability is basically about whether there is enough independent reliably published material about a subject to base an article on; Reliability is about whether the source has an editorial policy that encourages fastfact checking and responsible publishing.

The Daily Vault only seems to have been discussed once in the archives of WP:RS, in 2009, and the discussion was not conclusive, so arguably it should not be cited. But that has no bearing on whether it not it is notable. If the sources exist, then somebody could write an article about it. ColinFine (talk) 21:31, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@ColinFine I'm sure you mean "fact checking". David10244 (talk) 01:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

David10244: You're right of course. Corrected. Thanks. --ColinFine (talk) 09:02, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@Burgher25: The Daily Vault is not cited in more than 8,000 articles. I guess you did a search on Daily Vault without quotation marks. This gives 8,471 results but like most search engines, it returns pages which contain each word somewhere. The vast majority are irrelevant hits. "Daily Vault" with quotation marks searches the words together and only gives 346 results. insource:"dailyvault.com" gives 348. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:20, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

October 2022 German railway attack

Hi,

this incident (rail traffic outage due to communications outage) ultimately was found to be not deliberate sabotage but the unfortunate occurrence of two cases of attempted copper cable theft at about the same time and in just the right/wrong places, according to de:GSM-R-Ausfall bei der Deutschen Bahn am 8. Oktober 2022 and the references given there. I'd like to update the English version to reflect that, but need some guidance.

- Does this re-framing change the notability of the event, as far as the English article is concerned? Should there be a new AfD?

- Because of the months- or years-long time gap from the indicent, the later findings were barely deemed newsworthy even in Germany, so there may well be no English RSs to reference. Is that a problem?

- The page title would need to be changed, clearly. Should the new one be a direct translation of the new German one, or is that too clunky?

Thanks,

- 2A02:560:4D22:8700:F4FE:FCB:26FB:9AD (talk) 10:26, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Sources do not have to be in English, they are just preferred when available. As for the notability of the event: imho, as WP:GNG was given then, it is still given now. Lectonar (talk) 11:22, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

As for the title...something like October 2022 German railway incident or such might be ok, but that would be a question for article talk I think. Lectonar (talk) 11:31, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Can you remove this page? It indirectly impacts people with mental weakness.

Suicide methods.2603:8080:CA06:FE40:C199:37:D760:AC65 (talk) 16:10, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

You should discuss issues with an article on its associated talk page, in this case, Talk:Suicide methods. However, its outright removal is extremely unlikely, as Wikipedia is not censored for any reason. The topic is a legitimate effort to summarize with a neutral point of view what independent reliable sources choose to say about the topic. 331dot (talk) 16:14, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Maejor

Hi, I am not sure what is the right place to report this, but this article is unlikely to be OK. There is almost no reference, and it was extensively changed by one editor in the last few days: [11]. I deleted the lead image from Commons, as it is a copyright violation. Thanks for your attention. Yann (talk) 17:39, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, major WP:SPA case, we can say that much:[12]. And there is a leadimage again. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:35, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Yann, @Gråbergs Gråa Sång Doesn't that article need some sources? At least one source? David10244 (talk) 23:48, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

I deleted again all images uploaded by this user. I guess they will be blocked soon. Yann (talk) 18:57, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Yann Fine, but I was asking about the article, which has almost no inline sources in the prose. David10244 (talk) 05:49, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it does need sources. Yann (talk) 16:18, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Reference help requested.

Thanks, RupertNY245 (talk) 00:22, 11 September 2025 (UTC) Don't know what you mean

Hello @RupertNY245, could you clarify your question? GoldRomean (talk) 03:50, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @RupertNY245. "9/10/2025" is not an acceptable date format (probably because it is ambiguous - where I live, it means 9th October, not 10th September). See WP:Date#Consistency. ColinFine (talk) 09:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

You did not add a title to your reference, instead putting the title incorrectly in the "last1" parameter. However, there is a bigger problem, and that is that you have only cited a random eBay listing's image, which is not a reliable source as it is user-generated. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Someone reverted your edits for this reason; see the page history. OutsideNormality (talk) 01:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

review lasts too long - please check it

Hello. I created the Draft page: Draft:A.L. Kekin Gymnasium. First time it was rejected cause of insufficient amount of inline citations. I fixed it immediatelly. Please review it cause it lasts too long, more that 8 weeks. Sportsmentos (talk) 08:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

You submitted the draft on August 4. As the header says "Review waiting, please be patient. This may take 8 weeks or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 2,373 pending submissions waiting for review." Meters (talk) 08:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Sportsmentos. We have a limited amount of volunteer reviewers, and even less who can speak Russian.

It might be helpful for you to list here what the three strongest sources are that cover the history of this building in significant detail? qcne (talk) 09:12, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I am planning to create a new Wikipedia article about Diella , an AI virtual assistant developed in Albania that in 2025 was appointed as the country’s first AI “virtual minister” in public procurements, also first AI virtualy minister in the world.

Could you please advise:

1. Is the title "Diella (virtual minister)" appropriate? or other name?
2. Is the article structure (Infobox officeholder, lead, background, ministerial role) correct for a software/AI system with governmental functions?

Thank you, i welcome your suggestions. Lanceloth345 (talk) 10:47, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

@Lanceloth345 As you know, Diella is currently a small article about a village and that has a hatnote to the main eAlbania article where the AI assistant is described. Neither articles are currently very large and I would have thought that expansion of eAlbania is the correct way to go. If you have many new sources and feel that the AI assistant is more likely to be what readers will be seeking when they search for "Diella", then you could switch the hatnote to be the other way round, giving the AI as the WP:MAINTOPIC. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:03, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

I understand, but since yesterday it has global media coverage also as first Ai Virtual Minister in the world some of sources are provided in current article alsoz this "intrigued" me to create an separate dedicated article. Lanceloth345 (talk) 11:08, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! I found this while looking around for help.. how do I get the little rectangles with info on the side of my page? Afghanka (talk) 12:18, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @User:Afghanka.

I'm guessing from the fact that the last thing you edited was your user page (and you say "my page") that you are referring to userboxes. Please see that link for more information. ColinFine (talk) 14:48, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Afghanka (talk) 14:50, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I love what you guys have done. Few have the liberty to pursue and state truth as it is discovered, drawing conclusions and subsequent narratives in whatever direction the truth takes you. Your contributors, perhaps not so. My personal worldview is in the right end of the spectrum but please dont brand. I see great value in your content despite the excessive push for bias coming from the same base of anger and hatred that has resulted in recent acts of domestic terrorism. Please keep ip the very tough work of monitoring and editing the content so that all rational persoectives are included in your content. I am retired so limited in $ support but I am a huge fan of Wikipedia. 2603:900A:2103:A3F0:357A:B5F0:805C:E5A3 (talk) 10:18, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

We don't state the truth or draw conclusions- see WP:TRUTH amd WP:OR. Thanks for donating, but that money goes to the Wikimedia Foundation, not us directly. If you cannot afford to give, don't worry about it as their finances are stable. 331dot (talk) 10:32, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I just noticed a "Mute this user" option in the toolbox when viewing someone else's userpage. What does it do? If you go to Special:Mute, it just says The username requested could not be found. Return to Main Page, and I ran a Google search and got a similar page at mediawiki.org. Nothing at WP:Mute. My Google search found Phabricator pages for this tool (phab:T359677 and phab:T339813), but they don't explain what it's for. Nyttend (talk) 20:09, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nyttend:, try WP:MUTE, I haven't read it myself yet. TSventon (talk) 20:39, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Maybe Special:Mute should have a box to enter a username. See Special:Mute/PrimeHunter for what the toolbox link does. There is a selection and confirmation step so don't worry about clicking the link. You can also use the bottom of Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo. It has a link to mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications#mute. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:44, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, PrimeHunter, I've muted you as a test. Could you mention me in a comment here, and then could you leave a note on my talk page? I still use the OBOD, so I'll definitely notice your note. Nyttend (talk) 22:42, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I use an alternate account for tests. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:56, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I didn't get any notifications except the OBOD and a bit about someone leaving a message at my talk. It does like I thought. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 02:09, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

And thank you, TSventon. I've now created WP:Mute to parallel WP:MUTE. Nyttend (talk) 22:43, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have been trying to find evidence of Grenada depot being the common name for Grenada station, and I finally might have proof of it being the common name https://grenadastar.newspapers.com/image/1191146055/, I want to know if this is enough proof of it.

IC 9612 (talk) 19:35, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Considering the arguments made against your proposal at the RM earlier this year @ Talk:Grenada station#Requested move 28 April 2025, I doubt that clipping will change other editors’ opinions. The discussion is better had on the talk page. Sam Sailor 20:42, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Alright, Thank you IC 9612 (talk) 20:51, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I have a question regarding the criteria for templates that appear on articles all related to a similar thing. They normally say 'Part of a series on...'. Examples are Template:Formula One and Template:Homicide.

What is the criteria for a collection of articles to get one of these? Are there any rules regarding them, like the number of articles needed before a series can get a template? Or can I make one for any series of related articles and put it on each of the pages? Thanks! SnowyRiver28 (talk) 05:27, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@SnowyRiver28: I only know WP:SIDEBAR and WP:SERIES. Many things are better suited for navigation templates at the bottom of articles. If you post an idea for a sidebar then we may evaluate it. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the links, this seems to be the most relevant documentation on this topic. As per WP:SIDEBAR, I'll raise this on the relevant talk page for the subject of the navbox I'm proposing, which is Talk:Red Dead Redemption 2 SnowyRiver28 (talk) 09:29, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

could someone create an Ubx for Stephen F. Austin SU DMc75771 (talk) 00:12, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Have you taken a look at the userbox maker? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userbox_Maker. GeekBurst (talk) 00:29, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Have been there yet

thank you DMc75771 (talk) 00:39, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and made one myself, not sure why the link text isn't the same colour as the rest but here you go:

User:GeekBurst/Userboxes/SFASU. GeekBurst (talk) 00:49, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Note to other editors: I'd appreciate this userbox being appropriately categorised so users who add it to their profile are automatically added to the Alma Master, and also so this Userbox will appear under the relevant Userbox templates page for others to find :) GeekBurst (talk) 01:07, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I added the template to Category:Texas college and university user templates and users who have the template on their userpage will appear in Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Stephen F. Austin State University. DMacks (talk) 04:54, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but word of mouth isn't a valid source for reference is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookergate_School. GeekBurst (talk) 23:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Defintely not. Thanks for catching and alerting to it. I removed that statement. DMacks (talk) 00:11, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Search results mention that the site was redeveloped in 2023-2024, so it is very likely that the site was on sale for redevelopment in the 2020s as well as in 2015. TSventon (talk) 01:29, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

i lost my phone and cant log in my gmail 7kazh7 (talk) 14:24, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

We cannot help you with logging in to your email. 331dot (talk) 14:29, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

IP 88.251.82.151 (Special:Contributions/88.251.82.151) created 19 blank talk pages of redirects, stopping when told that this was pointless. What is the correct procedure for requesting deletion? Speedy? Proposed deletion? --Guy Macon (talk) 04:06, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Failing a better suggestion, post on WP:AN (but not WP:ANI). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:44, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Why does't the Charlie Kirk page speak the truth about his death; he was assassinated not merely killed by a "gunshot". Fix it!!!! 2600:6C47:A100:3C26:EA35:29F7:874D:1B52 (talk) 16:52, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Demands to "fix it" by random IPs carry little weight. Please discuss any concerns you have with the article at Talk:Killing of Charlie Kirk. Please review the discussions that already exist there, and express your concerns in a civil manner there. 331dot (talk) 16:58, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

In fact, the FAQ at the top of the page addresses your very question. 331dot (talk) 16:58, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

There is an extensive discussion occurring on the talk page regarding moving the article to Assassination of Charlie Kirk rather than Killing of Charlie Kirk, where it is now. I would encourage you to read the discussion to better understand the issues. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:59, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

hello I was looking at Charlie Kirk wiki info and the beginning should be changed to Founder not “co-founder”. Also cause of death should be assassination or assassination by gunshot. Under Movement, “trumpism” should be removed as it’s not a thing and Charlie Kirk has never identified with “trumpism”. OnlyTruthShallSetYouFree (talk) 19:34, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

These are all article related issues, so they should be raised at Talk:Charlie Kirk.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 19:39, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hi OnlyTruthShallSetYouFree! The article's talk page is the location that you'd typically go to in order to discuss things like this. However, the talk page is currently semi-protected due to being the target of a high number of disruptive edits. You'll need to wait until your account becomes autoconfirmed before you can edit there. This happens once your account reaches four days in age and after you've made at least 10 edits to Wikipedia. After your account become autoconfirmed, you'll be able to add your input and thoughts to the page. Please let us know if you have any more questions, and we'll be happy to answer them and help you. :-) Best - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 19:40, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Ok thank you for the feedback. OnlyTruthShallSetYouFree (talk) 19:44, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@OnlyTruthShallSetYouFree: The debate over whether to use the term "Assassination" is more-or-less being debated at Talk:Killing of Charlie Kirk#Requested move 11 September 2025; I don't doubt the article text will be edited once that debate concludes if a consensus emerges to use "assassination". —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 19:56, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Where is the documentation for the source editor, as opposed to documentation for wikitext? In particular, documentation of the various icons, e.g., different flavors of dash. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk)

@Chatul: See Help:Edit toolbar and Help:CharInsert. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:05, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I've added a Help:Introduction to editing with Wiki Markup/1 § See also with those links. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 12:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Can somebody more knowledgeable than me please fix the table at Stefan Parsons#Xfinity Series 2? The box at the bottom containing 5 is supposed to be underneath the box containing 45, not to the right of it. Electricmemory (talk) 18:08, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Electricmemory. I think I've done what you were asking. Please check. ColinFine (talk) 19:52, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@ColinFine Thanks for trying, but that's not quite it... IDK how to better explain what I'm after. I just don't know how to fix it myself. Electricmemory (talk) 21:20, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Finn Shipley Perhaps you can fix this? Electricmemory (talk) 00:40, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I believe I've fixed it, just let me know if I'm missing something Finn Shipley (talk) 15:38, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah that looks right, thanks. Electricmemory (talk) 20:35, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Yablonovsky, Republic of Adygea

Hello, everyone. What's problem? [13] СтасС (talk) 14:39, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@СтасС The reference you added didn't have a title. MallardTV ^{Talk to me!} 14:52, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done.--СтасС (talk) 15:02, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

QR TIGER is one of the most popular QR code generator platforms. 116.91.209.113 (talk) 08:50, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

This isn't really the place to solicit co-editing or to ask others to write for you.Requested Articles is pretty much useless; if you want to see an article about this topic, you need to research and write it yourself. Please see Your First Article. 331dot (talk) 09:20, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

It's very doubtful that QR Tiger meets WP:NCORP, there is virtually no independent sourcing.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 09:30, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

The email address associated with my Wikipedia account is no longer active, and it's making me confirm my account to access even though I did not forget my password.

I visited Wikipedia:Request an account/ACC Wizard/Existing, but the link which states "If you'd like to change or remove the email address that you associated with your account, you can do so by clicking here" no longer works.

How do I got about regaining access to my account, if I can no longer confirm an active email address to get back into account? I don't want to create two accounts. 2600:4040:5013:4800:617D:90A2:9D5B:DD55 (talk) 19:26, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Try contacting the Trust & Safety team at cawikimedia.org. I cannot make any gurantees, though. Victor Schmidt (talk) 19:44, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Just sent them an email. Will see if I get a response. 2600:4040:5013:4800:2D06:F67D:B7B:C9EA (talk) 06:02, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

How does one go about placing an AfD on an image at WIKIMEDIA COMMONS? This image: [14] states that it is in the public domain, but it is not. The original song itself may be (1939, 1942, 1955), but this actual arrangement (and image) isn't. It's currently published by living arranger Keith Young [15] at https://www.jwpepper.com/ publishing. The date given is 1955 and author is Crawford (original song), but the actual image is Young's arrangment through jwpepper. Thanks. Maineartists (talk) 17:54, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Maineartists: see this commons help page. There should be a link titled "Nominate for deletion" in the toolbar. Note that the interesting thing to figure out here, if possible, would be the date of the arrangement. Victor Schmidt (talk) 18:29, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Victor Schmidt: The date of the arrangement is stated at the bottom of the sheet music: This arrangement copyright © 2000 by Carl Fischer, LLC Thanks. I was able to nominate it: [16] Maineartists (talk) 18:45, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

My account is 4 days old and has more than 10 edits but I cant edit semi-protected articles

My account meets the standards to edit semi-protected articles but I cant seem to edit them yet is this a technical glitch or a another requirement I have yet to meet? Teatimenew (talk) 12:09, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Teatimenew Your account was created at 17:51 UTC, while the current time (as of writing) is 12:22 UTC. You will need to wait a while more till it reaches the fourth day, and the autoconfirmed role will be granted. Jolly1253 (talk) 12:22, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I want to challenge the accuracy of "Political positions and activities" entries in the Charlie Kirk page, namely the sections "False Claims and Conspiracy Theories" and "COVID-19 misinformation." In recent months, documents have become available showing that several of the claims against Kirk are themselves suspect. Buddy the wild geek (talk) 20:27, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

If you can provide links to credible mainstream publications which directly support that, you could raise the matter at Talk:Charlie Kirk. Before you do though, read the following:

Wikipedia:Reliable sources

Wikipedia:No original research

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view

AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:34, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Will there be next election in nepal in march 2026 2400:1A00:BDA0:C952:D1F1:BB73:A4EE:B4F9 (talk) 04:24, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

2026 Nepalese general election says so, yes. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 04:44, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Not quite as definite as that. It says "elections are expected to be held in Nepal on 5 March 2026" (my emphasis). Bazza 7 (talk) 14:48, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

My edit on lee labradas page was taken down i said he is good at fortnite wich is true i played with him once i would like for my edit to be put back up 2600:6C60:5200:1685:106A:B8E4:583D:7F94 (talk) 00:37, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely Not as it was inappropriate per this edit summary [17] Untamed1910 (talk) 00:45, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@Untamed1910: Please read WP:NOTVANDAL. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:40, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Already know that but Thanks Untamed1910 (talk) 10:50, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Apologies; wrong editor. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:53, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Unencyclopedic, inappropriate, but not vandalism, Untamed1910. -- Hoary (talk) 03:52, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia would be happy to say that Lee labrada is cracked at fortnite if you can prove it with newspapers or textbooks. Blepbob (talk) 19:39, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

I’m a declared paid editor working on behalf of Leonisa. The current article has a notability tag and a new tag for nomination of deletion. I have prepared a sandbox draft with significant independent sources including Forbes, El Tiempo, INSEAD, and The Best of Intima. These demonstrate coverage in multiple independent, reliable outlets. I believe this addresses notability concerns. Please see here: User:Leonisa3/sandbox. I'm unsure if an editor has reviewed the sandbox with improved references before the deletion nomination and I would like the opportunity to provide further references if these are not adequate. Thank you. Leonisa3 (talk) 14:39, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

The best place to check this is at the deletion discussion. Mikenorton (talk) 15:06, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Someone else has a closed connection to our company's page

Hello,

I am the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of iMusician Digital, and I am disclosing this conflict of interest (COI) openly.

The article about our company already exists on French Wikipedia (fr:IMusician Digital).

I would like to improve and expand it with independent, neutral sources.

However, it seems that someone closely connected to the page is preventing edits or reverting changes.

As a COI editor, I understand I should not directly make promotional edits myself.

I would therefore like guidance on the proper way forward:

• Should I propose suggested changes on the article’s Talk page in French?  
• Or would it be better to prepare a draft (in English or French) and ask uninvolved editors to review it?  

My goal is simply to ensure that the French Wikipedia article is accurate, neutral, and properly sourced.

Could an uninvolved editor please advise on next steps, or assist in reviewing the draft I have prepared?

Thank you for your time and assistance. Breno iM (talk) 16:18, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

The French Wikipedia is a separate project from the English Wikipedia, with its own policies, you should discuss your issue there. 331dot (talk) 16:22, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

If you wish to edit here, you will need to formally disclose your status as an employee, please see WP:PAID. 331dot (talk) 16:23, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Breno iM. I can't speak for French Wikipedia, which is a different project, with its own policies.

But as regards the English Wikipedia, it's not enough to be "accurate, neutral, and properly sourced" (or, rather, it is enough, but most people who are not well-versed in English Wikipedia's policies usually misunderstand "properly sourced").

Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost exclusively 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. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources. So unless most of the sources are completely independent of the subject, the article will not be acceptable. See WP:42.

My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. And that is even without a conflict of interest. ColinFine (talk) 22:20, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

"Should I propose suggested changes on the article’s Talk page in French?" Yes; or, in case you don't speak French, you may do so in English at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro des non-francophones.

Either way, you need first to state in your French-Wikipedia userpage who you work for. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:13, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Need help editing a Wikipedia page. Hawaii87! (talk) 00:51, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

It's going to be hard to help you when you don't tell us which page you'd like to edit or how you'd like to edit it. :) DonIago (talk) 01:08, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

It could be easy, as the above is your sole edit and it's likely that you know little. (Though you've posted and both title and signed the post, so your learning has already started.) First stop: Help:Introduction. Take it from there. -- Hoary (talk) 03:56, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

I want to add information to an article and give the citation for the book it comes from in the footnotes. What information and what format is required? Warren Scott Seville (talk) 04:18, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Generally see WP:CITE for guidance. The specific template for citing a book is {{cite book}}. You would include that citation enclosed in <ref> ... </ref> tags. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:47, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

You may also like to read Help:Referencing for beginners. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:37, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

If a citation link has gone "bad", but there is an archived version already in place from WayBack machine, how should the citation get edited so that people don't follow the now-corrupt link? Problem link is cited here. I tried simply removing the URL, but that parameter is required. Should the archive link replace the original? Matt Deres (talk) 14:09, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Matt Deres Template:Cite web#Using "archive-url" and "archive-date" (and optionally "url-status") for webpages that have been archived should help in answering your question. Jolly1253 (talk) 14:19, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Changing url-status=live to url-status=dead or removing it fixes the problem. TSventon (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Umm, no. The problem is that the original link is 'bad' and the request was how to edit so that readers don't follow the now-corrupt link. The correct fix is to use |url-status=usurped or |status=unfit. See these examples:

{{cite web |title=Title |url=http://bad_url.com |archive-url=https://archive.org |archive-date=2025-09-19}}

"Title". Archived from the original on 2025-09-19. – archive url links title but bad_url.com still accessible through the original link

{{cite web |title=Title |url=http://bad_url.com |archive-url=https://archive.org |archive-date=2025-09-19 |url-status=unfit}}

"Title". Archived from the original on 2025-09-19. – archive url links title but bad_url.com link is suppressed

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:34, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you both. I believe there is malware on the original, so I went with "unfit" for now. Matt Deres (talk) 14:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I followed the instructions at Help:CS1 errors and added the "... .cs1-maint ..." text to my CSS page. I cleared my entire browser cache after. Since it's an older article I'm trying to edit, I also performed a null edit. According to the message box, there are two citations with maintenance messages, but they don't show up. What am I doing wrong? Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 13:52, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Throast: Are you sure they are missing? Please always link pages you refer to or want help with. I guess it's Kanye West. It has 546 references and CS1 maintenance messages are green so they can be hard to spot. CS1 errors are red so easier to spot. Try searching the page for "CS1" with a search function in your browser. It's usually Ctrl+f in Windows browsers. I see CS1 messages at reference 335 and 469 in the current version. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:23, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes sorry, it's Kanye West. I did ctrl+F and searched for "(help)" and "cs1" and nothing came up. Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 15:48, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Throast: There is no "(help)" but "cs1" (without quotation marks) works for me. It's on the rendered page or a preview, not an edit window. Is there also nothing visible at reference 335 and 469 in the references section? For me they say "{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)" and "{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)". User:Throast/common.css looks right. What is your browser? PrimeHunter (talk) 16:01, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

They have appeared! Must have not deleted cache correctly or something. Thank you very much for your help. Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 18:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Pietro Antonelli

Reference help requested. Please help with this article to editors who are more experienced then me.Menhelicks (talk) 04:12, 14 September 2025 (UTC) Thanks, Menhelicks (talk) 04:12, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I cleaned it up a bit. Looks like the {{cite DBI template}} [it] is different between it and en. They pull a lot of fields from Wikidata, which I don't understand how to use, so for now I've just set the citation manually. Blepbob (talk) 05:27, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

The renaming of the pages back to 1988-1990 La Niña event and back to 1991-1994 El Niño events, though with en dash and not with the hyphen

I'm having some serious troubles trying to prove for the fact the La Niña event that started in 1988 lasted up until the very first halves of 1990 and the fact El Niño events, three of them for exact, didn't really begin until Spring 1991 and didn't end until the late meteorological Summer in 1994-following which ENSO-Neutral periods dominated the period between Autumn 1994 until Spring 1995-at which latter time a weak La Niña event started to develop. I would rather comment on the content than the people who refuse to accept the references I was using, although they say these references are inaccurate and inappropriate (I'm talking the references I was using). These references are not only appropriate, they are very strong evidence pieces with these articles in question. Angela Kate Maureen Pears 03:27, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Tropical Storm Angela. Please be aware of the policy of Common name - articles are named from what the bulk of the reliable sources call them, not from their official name, or a more accurate name. ColinFine (talk) 12:25, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

In the "Ukrainians" article, ¶ 1 of the lead, sentence 1, the word "romanized" appears. I need to change it to romanised because this article uses British English. When I click on the word, I'm given the chance to edit a template ... but when I go through the fields of the template, the word in need of being replaced doesn't appear. I remember this happening once before, but I did some workaround to handle it. This time I want to find out what to do without a workaround.

What do you suggest? Augnablik (talk) 11:06, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

See the template page at {{langx}}. You need to include the parameter |engvar=gb. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:17, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I need one or two more steps, Mike. Thinking that you wanted me to go to the Source code for the article and find somewhere in the language template to insert |engvar= gb, I went to it and tried inserting the code somewhere that seemed to make sense, but couldn't find one because wherever I tried to insert it, a lot of red text appeared in the Visual editor indicating that whatever I did wasn't okay.

I don't think the template is {{langx}}, by the way. Augnablik (talk) 12:24, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Augnablik, fixed {{langx|uk|engvar=gb|українці|ukraintsi}} gives Ukrainian: українці, romanised: ukraintsi Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:27, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jimfbleak, thank you.

This fix was "above my pay grade." Augnablik (talk) 14:05, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I made a topic on this page here, which is one that I don't believe is very active or checked regularly. I wanted to post here to make sure that it would get a response. You can see the exact details here: Category talk:Fictional war criminals

I've never edited Wikipedia so I'm not sure about editing/adding entries myself. I can imagine the criteria for adding characters to a page like this might be somewhat subjective, so I didn't want to edit it without getting some sort of confirmation from more experienced folks about whether or not he (and other characters) would be appropriate to add.

Vdin (talk) 12:55, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I responded at that category talkpage. DMacks (talk) 16:31, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I'm trying to make articles I've made better and was wondering was could I do for these three articles below to be better/be made C class. I would be very thankful if anyone could say what mistakes I did or if how I make articles is good.

People Like You, People Like You (song), Now I Know (Jack Jones song).

HazelAlbertSheriff (talk) 11:28, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@HazelAlbertSheriff:, do you use the WP:RATER tool? I think it is a good way to do stub/start/C ratings. It rates the first and last articles as C, so I have updated them. That leaves People Like You (song).

I would start by finding a similar, but higher rated article. I found Help! (song), you can probably find a better example.

The first sentence should introduce the subject, e.g. "Help!" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that served as the title song for the 1965 film and the band's accompanying soundtrack album. You could use a similar first sentence for People Like You (song).

Also make sure that all information is cited at the end of the sentence/ paragraph. Information in the lead does not need to be cited if it is cited in the main part of the article.

I hope that is a start, I don't usually work on music articles. TSventon (talk) 16:07, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh I never knew that tool existed, thanks!

I see, I'll redo the article a bit then, thanks again. HazelAlbertSheriff (talk) 16:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I had posted a request for making a change in one of the subtopics on the Wikipedia page of the Indian actress, Janhvi Kapoor. But the request has not been answered since long. Kindly make the changes. ArmedFox07 (talk) 07:57, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

ArmedFox07 Your initial request is open and visible. Making additional requests will not speed this volunteer driven effort, please be patient. 331dot (talk) 08:08, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the clarification. ArmedFox07 (talk) 08:18, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I’ve been working on a sandbox draft at User:Katoproducer1/sandbox for a biography of record producer Kato On The Track (Chris Ju). Since my account isn’t autoconfirmed yet, I don’t have the option to move pages.

Would someone be able to please move this draft to Draft:Kato On The Track so I can formally submit it for Articles for Creation (AfC) review?

The draft is written with sources and a neutral tone, and I’ll handle the AfC submission once it’s in the Draft namespace.

Thank you for your help! Katoproducer1 (talk) 21:29, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Katoproducer1 OK, now at Draft:Kato On The Track and sandbox blanked. Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

... note that you still need to add quite a few inline citations to parts not yet sourced, as required by the policy on biographies of living people. Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:51, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Mike - audited and cited sources for everything. Katoproducer1 (talk) 21:57, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Yusuf Michael (talk) 02:39, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Yusuf Michael If you have any questions that are not answered by WP:TRUMPRCB, then bring them up on the talk page. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 02:49, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Yusuf Michael Wikipedia articles summarize what independent reliable sources state about a topic. If those sources are not being accurately summarized, please detail the errors on the talk page. If the sources are accurately summarized, but you disagree with what they say, you will need to take that up with the sources themselves. Wikipedia does not claim to be the truth, only that what is presented can be verified, see WP:TRUTH. You are free to read an article and disagree with everything presented. Wikipedia does not claim to be without bias, as all sources of information have biases. Sources are presented to readers so they can evaluate and judge them for themselves when determining what they think about what they read. 331dot (talk) 08:42, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

hatnote for: improve article from french wikipedia Tonino Benacquista fr:Tonino Benacquista

Piñanana (talk) 02:40, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Piñanana do you mean Template:Expand French? Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 04:50, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

yes ... Piñanana (talk) 09:12, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

I would like to know why Wikipedia is allowing people to be bias towards murder victims?

I noticed that Melissa Hortmans Wikipedia page says she was assassinated and Charlie Kirks Wikipedia just says that he died. To me this sounds very bias. I think this is misinforming the community because certain editors don't like the Republican party. Greenbean35 (talk) 17:46, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

What to title the article about Kirk's death is under discussion. You are welcome to contribute to it at Talk:Killing of Charlie Kirk. Please don't assign motives to editors, focus on the content. 331dot (talk) 17:51, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Greenbean35. Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do try to assume good faith when talking about other editors. We have editors from around the world who manage to edit Wikipedia without bias. WP:AGF.

The Charlie Kirk article and Assassination of Charlie Kirk both state assassination. Keep in mind, the article about Kirks death was created shortly after the shooting, when the motivation was unknown. Per the article talk page, it has been changed from killing to assassination. Hope this helps Knitsey (talk) 17:54, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Greenbean35: The article currently says Kirk was assassinated. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. QuicoleJR (talk) 20:27, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Melissa Hortman was assassinated three months ago. Charlie Kirk was assassinated just over a week ago. It is not surprising that Wikipedia's coverage of the June killing is more developed than our coverage of the September killing. It takes time to write quality content about such horrific events. Cullen328 (talk) 07:19, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I have installed Prosesize, but I can't use it yet because I don't see Tools at the left of the screen —what can I do? Augnablik (talk) 12:14, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: What is your skin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering? "Tools" is at the top right in Vector 2022. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:51, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

My what? Augnablik (talk) 15:39, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik Did you click on the link? That will tell you your skin. Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:40, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh. It says Vector (2022). Augnablik (talk) 17:28, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: Then "Tools" should be at the top right for you and clicking it should show a menu with "Page size". Do you see it? PrimeHunter (talk) 22:16, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

To see Page size under a Tools option, am I supposed to be on the article for which I want the word count? I thought that's where I'd see the Tools option, but I don't.

However ... at the page where I'm taken when I click the link you gave me, I do see it but with different options

Tools

General

Upload file

Printable version

Get shortened URL

Download QR code

I'm beginning to wonder if I may have missed a step in setting up Prosesize. So let me go back to what I've done so far. When I was trying to install Prosesize, I got to the correct page and clicked on a box that said "Prosesize: add a toolbox link to show the size of and number of words in a page." That's all I did because I didn't see anything else to do. I thought that was all that was needed to later display a toolbox icon I could use when I next needed a word count on an article.

Looking forward to finally getting this mystery solved! Augnablik (talk) 05:33, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: You have to click the "Save" button after enabling "Prosesize: add a toolbox link to show the size of and number of words in a page" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets. The "Tools" menu with a "Page size" option should be on all wiki pages. Click it on the page where you want the prose size. It doesn't have to be an article but it does have to be a wiki page so the "Page size" option is not at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. The "Tools" menu is not made by Prosesize and should be there whether or not Prosesize is installed. It just adds a new option to an existing menu. The options in the "Tools" menu may also be displayed permanently under a "Tools" heading. I have noticed a few of your edits are on the mobile version. When you are using the mobile version there is an icon with three vertical dots instead of the text "Tools". PrimeHunter (talk) 09:50, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I did save after enabling, PrimeHunter. When I just went back on my computer to the page where you do that, the Prosesize box was checked and the Save button was greyed out, showing that the page had been saved earlier ... but just to see what would happen, I unchecked Prosesize, saved again, then re-checked Prosesize and saved again. Again nothing happened; that is, I still couldn't see a Tools menu on an article I went to.

I also went to my mobile, where I don't do much editing, to see if there were a three-dot icon and no, there isn't.

What could be going on? Do you think I should take this to tekkies at the Village Pump? Augnablik (talk) 13:02, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: I'm one of the tekkies at the Village Pump so let's try again. Forget about Prosesize for now. The problem is the missing Tools menu which should always have various options like "What links here" on wiki pages. Do you know a way to get "What links here" from a page? Do you see "Tools" if you log out? Do you see "Tools" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example?safemode=1? It's to the right of "View history" and the Watchlist star icon for me. Do you see "View history"? Do you se "Tools" at https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/example?useskin=vector-2022? Are you using a normal browser and not some special app to view Wikipedia? Which browser? Is your language setting "en - English" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal? PrimeHunter (talk) 20:59, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

If you’re also a tekkie at the Village Pump, then, PrimeHunter … as we say in US slang, I hit a home run to have you pick up on my query here at the Help Desk!

I’ll follow through in a few hours with answers to the list of questions you asked me. But I can answer one of them now: I use Vivaldi as the browser on my computer when I work on Wikipedia, and on my phone I use the Wiki app. Augnablik (talk) 00:22, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Wiki apps make their own interface. Don't expect anything about the interface to work the same there and many features aren't implemented at all. I haven't tried Vivaldi before but installed it now and Tools is in the normal place for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:59, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I think I've covered all the bases you wanted me to.

— I remember seeing “What links here?”before, but can’t remember where.

— I see "Tools" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example?safemode=1 and https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/example?useskin=vector-2022 … I do see Tools at those links when I log out … and as FYI, I found Tools at the top of my Contributions and Watchlist pages but not at the top of the article I’ve been editing, which of course is where I’m supposed to be able to get a word count with the gadget I hope will someday work for me.

— My language setting is "en - English" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal . Augnablik (talk) 04:16, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: This is odd. Try to bypass your cache on Example with Ctrl+F5. If you see Tools when you are logged in at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example?safemode=1 but not at Example then it indicates that JavaScript or CSS is messing with it. Your account has no personal scripts or CSS. I have tried enabling every script at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets in an alternative account and still saw Tools with Vivaldi. Is "Tools" to the right of the watchlist star at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example?safemode=1? What changes at that location at Example? Do you have empty space where "Tools" was, or does the watchlist star move right to occupy the space, or is something else there? Tools can be either a drop-down menu with a down arrow to activate it or a bold heading in the right sidebar with the menu options always displayed. Which is it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example?safemode=1? If you change it with either "move to sidebar" if it's drop-down or "hide" if it's already a sidebar then does Tools become visible at Example? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:04, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

But PrimeHunter, I DO see Tools at both example pages ... Augnablik (talk) 11:47, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: You se Tools at Example? Then where don't you see it? Please give a link. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:22, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

🤔 Good news: now I see Tools everywhere I'm supposed to, PrimeHunter! I really don't understand what's been going on. I'd like to think I have a good eye for "catching" things, but I'm beginning to wonder if it was playing tricks on me earlier. Or if Vivaldi or something else in my computer was the culprit. There are times, after all, that I really do wonder if my computer is haunted, as I've had an ongoing technical issue only when I type Wikipedia messages that the Help Desk and the Village Pump seem to have given up on. So if temporary blindness isn't why I didn't see Tools earlier, perhaps it's because the little guys were scampering around again inside my Mac wreaking havoc.

I've also figured out how to get the word count from Tools on articles, which was my main goal today. Thanks for all your help.

By the way, if you've never used Vivaldi before, may I encourage you to try it out while you still have it downloaded. The Stacked Tabs feature is an amazing way to organize your online activities. My Wikipedia work has been so much faster and easier with it. The speed I lose due to the technical issue that comes up when I type Wiki messages is more than made up by that Vivaldi feature. Augnablik (talk) 13:49, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Middleton family

I have just added two references and both are in red - numbers 16 and 17, please fix up if you can. Thank you 49.185.27.111 (talk) 23:10, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I've fixed them, it looks like there were typos in the year and month Sock-the-guy (talk) 00:57, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

User is now blocked. 331dot (talk) 00:59, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I have reverted these edits, made while the "puppet-master" was (and remains) blocked. (I've necessarily reverted the correction as well. I regret the waste of your time, Sock-the-guy.) -- Hoary (talk) 09:06, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Could you help one more time? A user thanked me immediately after those edits and I'm assuming is related to this, but I don't have the bandwidth to understand the SPI process. It was the "Oliver" account which has edits on that page, @Oliver34098304 Sock-the-guy (talk) 00:31, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I added it on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Srbernadette. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:30, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Before you do anything else on WP, you need to log in and deal with User talk:Srbernadette#Blocked as a sockpuppet. Otherwise, this will keep happening. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:12, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Do we really think someone who need repeated assistance with our basic referencing tools will understand what we mean "sockpuppet", "puppet-master", or anything else in that notice? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:33, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps understanding is not the issue, but the technical/mechanical side of things. But that's just me guessing. I don't know if trying to communicate via WP:VRT would be any help at all.Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:24, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Andy Mabbett, you are free to post a further explanation, or advice, to the talk page of Brrowbottom, Srbernadette, or both. -- Hoary (talk) 22:54, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Before beginning I would like to confirm that I am permitted to create this page, as I know this person professionally as an advisor for my artistic work. Maria Mantia Papathanasiou (talk) 15:48, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Maria Mantia Papathanasiou You should formally disclose a conflict of interest on your user page; you are permitted to create and submit a draft via Articles for Creation. Writing a new article is the most difficult task to perform on Wikipedia, and it is even harder with a conflict of interest. It is highly recommended that you not dive right in to creating articles, and instead first gain experience and knowledge by editing existing articles as well as using the new user tutorial.

To succeed, you need to set aside everything you know about this person, everything their associates say about them, all materials from the person, and limit yourself to summarizing what independent reliable sources choose on their own to say about them. You need to show that they meet the definition of a notable person broadly, or a notable artist narrowly. 331dot (talk) 15:52, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer. May I use the subject's website? Maria Mantia Papathanasiou (talk) 16:00, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, if I create an initial page that is not too elaborate, might the subject be then allowed to edit and add to it? Or is this also "not reliable"? Maria Mantia Papathanasiou (talk) 16:07, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

The subject's own website is not an independent source. Please see WP:42 for a metric you may use to evaluate sources.

The person themselves should review the autobiography policy. They should avoid directly editing any article about themselves in most cases, but they may propose edits in the form of an edit request to (this so far hypothetical) article about them. 331dot (talk) 16:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

It depends on what it's used for. If it's used to back up basic things such as name or date of birth, It's allowed as per WP:ABOUTSELF mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 19:22, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

The subject may not be a reliable source for date of birth; there's over a century of history of cinema performers, in particular, falsifying DOB in order to fake an age. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:14, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

The infobox photo that I uploaded to Robert I. Misbim page is a selfie by Dr. Misbin, but the page keeps disappearing. I think I (the page editor) have 3 problems: 1. Something has to be sent to Dr. Misbin to verify that he took the photo as a selfie, but I don't know the procedure for that. 2. Something must be put somewhere to tell editors that we are in the process of authentifying the photo -- but I don't what this process is. 3. I erroneously listed the date of the photo as in August 2025. How do I change to the correct date, Nov. 29, 2022? Thanks in advance for answering. Wikiedit888y (talk) 12:06, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Wikiedit888y. This needs to happen on Commons, not on Wikipedia. Try C:COM:VP.

Broadly, what needs to happen is that Misbim himself must send the proper communication (or upload the image) - you can't do it for him. See donating copyright materials. ColinFine (talk) 12:40, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

See Commons:Help_desk#infobox_image_self-transformed_to_image-name.jpg_text and Commons:Help_desk#how_to_change_date_on_a_registered_photo. You can also point the article subject to WP:A picture of you. For the interested, the article is Robert I. Misbin. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I noticed on the Wikipedia page for Futurama that the planet express logo is not correct, and I am trying to change it. I found the correct image on fandom, but I do not know if I am allowed to change it, as it is on the fandom page and copyrighted by Fox, and the only option when uploading is "This is my image", i just would like to know if i am allowed to upload their image. TinyNny (talk) 01:09, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm assuming the logo you want to replace is the picture used on this page. Whether it is or not, you should consider this:

• There is a concept in copyright law called threshold of originality (Wikimedia Commons: c:Threshold of originality) which says that some logos are too simple to be eligible for copyright, but this threshold varies country by country. If it's below the threshold you can use a copyright tag like {{PD-ineligible}} or {{PD-textlogo}} when uploading. However, I'm not sure if the logo is below the threshold of originality, so you might be better asking at c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright since the people there are more experienced with copyright.
• If it turns out to be above the threshold of originality, it has to be uploaded locally on Wikipedia under fair use, see Wikipedia:Non-free content for that, but keep in mind that requirements to upload non-free content is quite strict, and may be rejected if requirements are not met.

HyperAnd (talk) 08:41, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi my personal page for Lazaros Kalemis is being redirected to my companies page Simpay US. I tried to find the original page to request someone to droete the redirect command. I cannot get yo the talk page to list the request. Can someone delete the redirect 100.11.17.87 (talk) 12:18, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

The page was redirected by User:Curb Safe Charmer, because they felt that as a topic, you did not meet the requirements described at WP:NBUSINESSPERSON. I am inclined to agree.

If you disagree, on what basis?

Did you pay someone to write that about you? And about your company? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:00, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

can you make articles about yourself/people you know (friends and family)/personal projects?

just asking Direct Determine FM (talk) 03:45, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

No. Wikipedia isn't for autobigraphies. DonIago (talk) 04:27, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

ok, thanks Direct Determine FM (talk) 04:43, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Direct Determine FM You might find a more suitable site at Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:35, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, but only under very limited circumstances. Firstly, they need to meet our notability requirements. Then you need to declare your conflict of interest, and work through the process described at WP:AFC to make a draft article and have it reviewed by somebody independent. Be aware that the criteria are very strict, and most people who try this fail; but—contrary to the answer already given—it is neither forbidden nor impossible. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:07, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Greetings, I made a donation of £10.40 to Wikipedia on September 1st, but my Amex account shows that I was charged twice. I don't understand how this happened, but could you refund the second £10.40 debit, please? Thank you 2A0A:EF40:1029:8301:95F3:7B5D:4E2E:984C (talk) 19:43, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor. Please email [email protected]; they handle all donations. qcne (talk) 19:57, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Here is an update for Citation #11 on the "Self-Image" page: Self-image#cite note-11

This is the correct citation: Walker, Jeffrey M. (2004) "Squid-heads and Coppertops: Discursive Power in the Postmodern Filmic Dystopia"; Literature and Psychology, 49(4), 43-81 97.120.99.91 (talk) 20:30, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. You're welcome to go in and correct it yourself, if you feel able (note that the section you'll need to edit is the section where the reference is cited (Residual) not the section where it actually appears (References).

If you don't feel confident in doing that, then the article's talk page Talk:self-image is the best place to suggest it. ColinFine (talk) 21:48, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I could not find a place on your webpage where I could express concerns. Please forward to the appropriate persons.

I am really assuming it is fake news from the unreliable right wingers, but when I heard that Wikipedia was considering removing Erika Kirk's biography was Wikipedia, I thought that it was in extremely poor taste and utterly poor timing. If she warranted a biography before his assassination, then why remove it now? It is inflamatory, sexist, and politically motivated. I thought Wikipedia was above such things. I definitely did not agree with everything Charlie Kirk said or believed, but he was courageous to go onto college campuses to provide an alternative opinion. Colleges must be a place where diverse opinions can be discussed and considered. Erika Kirk is planning to carry on his legacy, and it is way too early for a decision to delete her. I faithfully supported Wikipedia financially. If Wikipedia stoops this low, I will have to reconsider my support and my encouragement of my friends to continue their support. If this is fake news, get in front of this distasteful attempt by right winger antagonists to discredit your important website.

Nelson Huseby San Diego, California Nelson Huseby (talk) 19:16, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Nelson Huseby. You can view the deletion discussion for the Erika Kirk article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erika Kirk. From the current consensus, it looks like the article will not be deleted. Please note deletion discussions on Wikipedia are not a majority vote, but instead a nuanced discussion among Wikipedia contributors. qcne (talk) 19:29, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I really hope the right person closes that. Quite a lot of votes in there shouldn't be counted because they are mere opinions with no justification. Electricmemory (talk) 20:01, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

The discussion has obviously been canvassed off-Wiki. qcne (talk) 20:08, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

That's what I'm saying. Whoever goes and closes it eventually better be someone who knows what they're doing or a deletion review will come up, and the whole discussion will drag on for even longer. Electricmemory (talk) 21:17, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I's very likely an experienced admin will take it on. There may be challenges etc anyway, but that day, that sorrow. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:02, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Nelson Huseby: Erika Kirk's biography was started after the shooting of Charlie Kirk.[18] Special:Statistics says Wikipedia has more than 100,000 active registered users. Anyone can nominate an article for deletion and create a discussion about it. Her biography is unlikely to actually be deleted. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:53, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Why do you not offer vanishing or renaming for blocked accounts

What if the blocked account has real life name as username, before you say "they must appeal first" what if their appeals got rejected 49.237.38.203 (talk) 11:45, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Because blocking is for the person, not the account. I don't understand your second question. ColinFine (talk) 14:34, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@ColinFine: Wild guess: The IP presumes that we are one of those websites (pretty common tbh) were you get a limited number of appeals (common are 1 or 1.5) after wich you are - short of being friends with the site owner or similar back door stuff - simply screwed. @IP You can always make another appeal, at least after a while and a good read of WP:GAB, wether via talkpage or WP:UTRS. And in the (AFAIK exedingly rare, if that ever happened) case that you'll get a your talkpage revoked and banned from UTRS for no good reason there is always arbcom, still. Victor Schmidt (talk) 15:29, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I think that for the second question, it doesn't matter whether the username contains the editors' real name or not, they get the same response regarding where to appeal. That is unless the username match those of notable/famous people in which case, they have to follow the instructions at {{Uw-ublock-wellknown}}. Or if the username violates the username policy. JuniperChill (talk) 17:17, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

what if someone with real name got blocked for being sockpuppet of a person who vandalized Wikipedia yet that same someone got famous 223.24.191.47 (talk) 00:57, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Are you asking "What if somebody using their real name as their username [let's call this person 'SURNU'] got blocked for being a sockpuppet of a username blocked for vandalizing Wikipedia, yet SURNU then became notable?"? If so, nothing in particular. If they break Wikipedia's rules, people who get articles can be or remain blocked. If people who are blocked become famous while they're blocked, they remain blocked. But why do you ask? -- Hoary (talk) 01:31, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Im worried itd ruin their digital footprint 223.24.191.47 (talk) 01:48, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

What if somebody using their real name as their username [let's call this person 'SURNU'] got blocked for being a sockpuppet of a username blocked for vandalizing Wikipedia, yet SURNU then worked for job that made them a celebirty like musician or athlete? 223.24.191.47 (talk) 01:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

That would generally not impact their notability a whit. And as a general rule, userspace and user logs are noindexed, so reputable search engines wouldn't find them in the first place. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 02:07, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

jobs could type wikipedia.org/user:SURNU to see if they vnadalized wikipedia 223.24.191.47 (talk) 02:44, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Will you offer exceptions for not allowing blocked usernames to rename or vanish like digital footprint 223.24.191.47 (talk) 03:38, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

No. If someone doesn't want to be seen as acting a certain way, then they shouldn't act that way. There is an explicit notice about presumed permanence of all edits and giving up certain rights when publishing any text on this website. We are not in the business of helping create non-authentic reputations. DMacks (talk) 05:59, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

what if they were immature when they vnadalized, regretted vandalism, and their appeals got rejected anyways 49.237.20.174 (talk) 08:38, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

They they should live with that and move on to something else. Actions have consequences. 331dot (talk) 08:41, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

if jobs found out about the wikipedia account with irl name that vandalized wikipedia they should aplogize but not appeal if their appeals got rejected? 49.237.20.174 (talk) 08:59, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I get the sense that you are talking about yourself? If so, you are evading your block by posting here and making it harder to be unblocked later. We're willing to forgive and move past immature activities, but if you have no intentions of editing again, there's no need to do anything with your account as blocks only prevent editing. Again, actions have consequences. Feel free to tell your employer/potential employers that your past immaturity does not reflect who you are now. 331dot (talk) 09:14, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

im not talking about myself but will you also unblock sockpuppets

if john davis is sockpuppet of mack davis and mack davis got unblocked will you unblock john davis 49.237.20.174 (talk) 09:52, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

We don't unblock sock accounts, we unblock the original account. 331dot (talk) 09:58, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I saw the article Military rations citing this conference proceeding, right at the end. The conference proceeding is part of a series, the Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, but each has its own topic, in this case Portable Food. I wasn't sure where to include the topic. Currently, the source has journal=Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, but the topic isn't included, which makes it hard to distinguish from the others in the series. I'm also not sure how to include the year- this is the 2022 proceeding, but was published in 2023. The cover says Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2022, so should 2022 be included in the journal parameter? Truthnope (talk) 03:53, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

You can use {{Cite_conference}} template and the topic will be book title. Ruslik_Zero 15:39, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Truthnope (talk) 00:43, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

I am having visual problems which make it difficult for me to edit. I can still provide text and even insert it at the correct spot. However, I would welcome a wiki-buddy to sort out problems with references and other more technical aspects of editing. I'm sure I am not the first to be in this position. Is there a mechanism for such help?

Humpster (talk) 21:13, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

You could try Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area. 331dot (talk) 00:18, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

You might also find the m:WikiBlind User Group helpful. It's not very active, but has some useful info. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:58, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

You might be interested to read What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?. MKFI (talk) 14:21, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! Is someone able to help me remove the top messages on this page: Dimitri Krainc - I have looked into it and am having trouble doing so. Thanks in advance! Clagrone123 (talk) 13:45, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@Clagrone123 Well, in order for those messages to be removed, the issues must be addressed. MallardTV ^{Talk to me!} 14:08, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I removed {{COI}}, because no issues had been identified on the talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:20, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Social Repose

Reference help requested.

None of the references are in red, indicating a missing title, and I scanned them manually, so I'm not sure where there is a title missing

Thanks, Shanthophile (talk) 20:49, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Shanthophile, your title is Referencing errors on [[Special:Diff/1295625433|Social Repose]]. It seems that you're asking not about the article as a whole but instead about a slingle diff. This adds {{cite web |url=https://www.nataliezworld.com/2014/09/blood-on-dance-floor-announces.html |website=https://www.nataliezworld.com}} which, contrary to what you seem to be saying, lacks the title attribute. (You've specified the title of the website but not that of the particular page.) As for the article as a whole, this has a vast number (currently 490) of what are presented as references, but many of which merely point to where (on Youtube, etc) one may find this or that song. It's not obvious where among these are the substantive sources on Giese ("Social Repose") himself that are reliable and also independent of him. -- Hoary (talk) 22:18, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm looking at that citation and it has a title in it, so I'm not sure what to do here?

"BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR ANNOUNCES THE RECKONING TOUR". Natalie's World. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

So just to check, when I do the listing of singles, covers, etc., I can just list them and don't need anything to support that? I can pull the links if they aren't necessary to prove that it is what it is.

I appreciate the help, btw. Shanthophile (talk) 02:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Natalie (4 May 2015). "Blood on the Dance Floor announces The Reckoning Tour". Natalie's World. Retrieved 14 June 2025. But as for these lists, Shanthophile, I've raised a larger question about them on your talk page. -- Hoary (talk) 00:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, Shanthophile, please see "Let me check with Richie". -- Hoary (talk) 01:42, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

if i make a wikipedia acount do I get to edit, delete, create, or change any page? 36.255.112.138 (talk) 03:07, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Not necessarily. Among other things, pages might be protected from editing, or there might be other considerations. Your question is rather broad in scope though. DonIago (talk) 03:44, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Having a wikipedia account enables you to eventually be authorized to edit certain pages that you wouldn't otherwise be authorized to edit. But with or without an account, pages may only be edited in accordance with the rules. Creating a Wikipedia article, in particular, has a special set of rules, in that the subject must meet specific criteria, such as WP:Notability. Article authors also need to be aware of the conflict of interest rules. In general, I would say that if you are on some sort of mission that you are trying to accomplish on Wikipedia, I would be wary. If you're here to fix typos, improve articles, such as by verifying claims using appropriate citations, add appropriate content along with supporting citations, these are good things, but if you jump in without exercising caution, you may get burned. Fabrickator (talk) 03:51, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Only adminstrators can actually delete articles and other pages. Other editors can ask for pages to be deleted in various ways. For example, an editor blanking a page in their own userspace is interpreted as a request to delete that page. Cullen328 (talk) 06:11, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:User groups for details about what different users can do. You can already use Wikipedia:Articles for creation to submit an article for review but it's difficult for new users to make an acceptable article. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:18, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I’m pretty sure I have read policy/guidance on the naming of non-notable children in articles about notable people. As is often the case, I can’t now remember where I read it, and I can’t find it when looking through BLP guidance etc. Assuming I’ve not imagined it, could someone be kind enough to point me to it. Thanks and regards. KJP1 (talk) 16:26, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi KJP1 - I think you are looking for WP:BLPNAME ? - best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 16:29, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Arjayay - Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much. KJP1 (talk) 16:32, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

It's at WP:BLPNAME. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:31, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Oops - Arjayay beat me to it while I was finding it. Pesky 'reply' feature - in the old days I'd just have got an edit conflict. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:32, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

No worries! You both pointed me to what I need, and I much appreciate it. KJP1 (talk) 16:33, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Lately when i have been responding too people on the various talk pages, my handle is a stranger in a strange land not jp33442, how can i change it back too that? i am a stranger in a strange land (talk) 15:17, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

In your settings page there should be an option for a custom signature. Erasing what's in there should return your signature to the default. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:24, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks jeske will look for ir i am a stranger in a strange land (talk) 15:26, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Robert F. KENNEDY Jr.'S photo is clearly doctored. Are you allowing AI photos, or photo shopped pictures allowed? Pjtawney (talk) 23:27, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

It's flattering, but isn't necessarily photoshopped or AI. You'd be amazed by what old-school photographic lens choice, lighting and darkroom development techniques can do.

That said, I think the fact that it's (allegedly) an 'official photograph' and therefore in the public domain probably counts for a great deal in favour of its use in Wikipedia.

Incidentally, you say "Are you allowing . . .", but as an Account-registered editor of Wikipedia, you have exactly as much say in this matter as any other (and arguably more that myself, who remains accountless after 20+ years of activity) so you are free to bring this up and argue the case for disallowing it. You may want to peruse Wikipedia:Image use policy (including its Talk page) and Wikipedia:Photoshopped images.

(Personally, I'd be happy not to have to look at this . . . person . . . ever again in my life.) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 00:24, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there some guideline that states that pages in a navigation box should display as bold when selected? --Jax 0677 (talk) 06:14, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jax 0677: I guess you refer to selflinks where a link to the page itself is automatically bolded but not if it links via a redirect. See the first bullet at WP:BRINT. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:03, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I want to research and document the life of my father Timothy(Timmy) Woulfe who made a huge contribution to the lives of people in Athea, Co. Limerick, Ireland and beyond in educational, sporting cultural and many other areas. How should I go about this and how could Wikipedia perhaps help with this? Michael Woulfe. 51.37.124.94 (talk) 06:52, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

You should first review conflict of interest and understand that writing a new article is the most difficult task to attempt on Wikipedia(especially without prior experience in editing); but, you are permitted to create a draft using the Article Wizard in which you summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about your father and what makes him a notable person as Wikipedia uses the word. 331dot (talk) 08:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Michael. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia.

Note that a lot depends on what you mean by "research and document". If your work is primarily finding information in reliable published sources, then you may well be able to do this in Wikipedia, as long as enough of the sources are also independent of him (see WP:42) to establish notability. But if your research is finding and documenting unpublished sources (eg letters) or non-reliably published sources (eg newsletters, privately published books), then your work would be original research and not accepted in Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 09:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

If you simply want to research your father's life and work, you might do better to ask for help at your local library. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:29, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I wanted to update a common student reference to the North Campus of Brown University as "norc" on the Brown Wikipedia page. This feels like constructive material and important to include. 128.148.206.63 (talk) 20:54, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Google doesn't show any obvious sourcing for this, nor does the Brown Daily Herald, so it shouldn't be included. See also WP:ONEDAY. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:59, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

The navboxes at the bottom of articles: Is there a way to determine how much each navbox is being used by readers? Donald Trump is approaching the WP:PEIS limit, and the easiest solution would be to remove the least-used navboxes. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 10:01, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss we do not have such analytics unless the link is an unique on on the page. I would suggest condensing the content on the page further as an easier way out. – robertsky (talk) 10:54, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I agree, but your suggestion has been a point of contention for years, like eight of them. I said "easiest", not "best". You're welcome to join the article on our side. Thanks for the reply. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 11:02, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss: you have inspired me to propose an edit to the article. Has anyone suggested splitting the article into Donald Trump, Part 1 and Donald Trump, Part 2? TSventon (talk) 22:10, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Actually, I suggested that years ago. I was joking. I don't think Wikipedia does that. Anyway, not even Donald Trump merits that much coverage in his BLP. The problem is too much detail for post-2015, and the refusal of editors to accept that fact. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 02:12, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

WP:LDRHOW says that LDRs are disruptive to VisualEditor users, but does that apply only to LDR via {{reflist}} or does that also apply to LDR via <references>? Hopelessrailfan (talk) 07:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I would like to ask how we can change that Aleksandr Vlasenko is a hungarian figure skater not russian! He has hungarian citizenship and he compete for Hungary! Please correct it! 223.118.50.74 (talk) 09:49, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Please go to Talk:Aleksandr Vlasenko and there explain that he has Hungarian citizenship. Link to some reliable evidence for this. (Such evidence is preferably in English, but Hungarian, Russian or another language would also be acceptable.) Alternatively, edit the article Aleksandr Vlasenko directly, but if you do this then be sure to provide a reference to a reliable source. -- Hoary (talk) 10:34, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Chaunactis olsoni, a new demosponge fossil found in 1998 by Tom Olson, Geology For Kids owner, is a new marine invertebrate discovered in the Naco Formation,Pennsylvanian time period , central Arizona within the red chert horizon! About 46 complete specimens known so far! Published in the Brigham Young University science bulletin in 1999 by Kieth Rigby and Kelley Dillard! 107.127.25.43 (talk) 00:38, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Welcome to the Wikipedia help desk. What help are you looking for? -- Hoary (talk) 10:36, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I have created The Dead Girls. On Wikidata (Q135639411), I added the Spanish language version to the preexisting SV (Swedish?) version language in the alternate wiki. How do I make those show up in the language links at the top of the article.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:16, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: Add the English article to The Dead Girls (Q135639411). PrimeHunter (talk) 18:35, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

User:PrimeHunter, I assumed since the wikidata had the English name, I didn't have to. I see everything is connected now.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:30, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: you had an English label (near the top), I added a link to en Wikipedia, near the bottom. TSventon (talk) 21:48, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

AutoSuggestSitelink gadget might be helpful too, it will scan Wikidata for matching labels and then ask you if you want to connect the article to the Item (if a link doesn't exist). It will make the connection for you if prompted. - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 10:50, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Where is the link to celebs who are Wikipedia editors? Saw it in passing.. DMc75771 (talk) 22:22, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@DMc75771: Wikipedia:Notable people who have edited Wikipedia? User:PrimeHunter 22:28, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

yes DMc75771 (talk) 23:26, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

I found pages of what I want to edit, they are short and I want to expand them. I don't want to mess up since I'm not experienced at this. I need help, what should I do and what shouldn't I do. I have links for the page I want to expand 169.244.113.129 (talk) 15:22, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

If this is the wrong section, please redirect me to the right place to ask this. 169.244.113.129 (talk) 15:24, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user.

There is no particular way you should or shouldn't do this.

But some things that are worth keeping in mind are:

• Verifiability. Every single thing in an article should be verifiable from a reliable published source, and in most cases from a source wholly independent of the subject. There is not formally a requirement that everything be cited, but reviewers of new articles, for example, generally require this; and if you're adding some information and so (necessarily) have a source for it, why wouldn't you help the reader by citing the source? - see WP:REFB for how to do this.
• Neutral point of view. An article should be a neutral summary of what the sources say, and very little else. It's not required that all sources be neutral - partisan sources are perfectly acceptable, if they are regarded as reliable - but the article should summarise what they say in a neutral way. In particular, no article should express a judgment - or even use judgmental words (see PEACOCK in Wikipedia's voice, though it is sometimes acceptable to directly quote an independent source expressing a judgment. Never put your own opinions, about anything, into an article.
• No original research: only what is in the sources, not anything you know or think apart from the sources; and you should not advance any arguments or conclusions except what is in a source.

Don't worry if you don't get it right, and somebody reverts your edit: this is a normal part of learning, and indeed of editing. See WP:BRD.

I advise you to make small edits rather than great big ones, because if somebody does disagree with one, they can revert just that one, leaving your other work intact. ColinFine (talk) 15:45, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Ok, got it.

Thanks! 169.244.113.129 (talk) 16:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I just don't want to get any warnings or/and bans. 169.244.113.129 (talk) 16:01, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

You won't get banned (or blocked) for behaving in good faith, only for repeated or egregious abuse. Likewise, any "warnings" should be expressed as friendly advice, under the same circumstances. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:26, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Presumed Wikipedia Page Creation & Editing Opportunity that might be a scam

Hi, I have received an email (twice) from a certain Steve Thompsan, Wikipedia Moderator, (from a Gmail address with a user id = thompsan.wikipediaeditor). His messages start with "... My name is Steve Thompsan, and I have been part of the Wikipedia editing community for the past seven years. During this time, I have worked to support the accurate presentation of academic careers, especially those of individuals who have achieved Emeritus status". The he claims that he can help me create a "carefully maintained Wikipedia entry". His messages are suspicious; I suppose that it is a scam or a money making venture, maybe from a previous employee. Can you please confirm if he is really an employee of yours and if I can trust answering back to his messages? Thank you very much for your help, Jose 87.235.62.220 (talk) 17:10, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

IP Yes, this is a WP:SCAM and you should report it as described at the linked page. We don't have moderators but Administrators. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:20, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I am computer stupid. I am heavily into history. I have read a book which presents information regarding the death of Nap II, which I believe to be accurate. The book is Assassination at St Helena Revisited, Ben Weider and Sten Forshufvud, Pub. by John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-12677-2 Chapter 49 pp 430-439 The authors and first book were cited under your work on Napoleon I in a somewhat speculative manner. The book is very strongly presented with descriptions and data to propose murder by poison for Nap I, and the repetition of symptoms of Nap II is equally strong for the same conclusion. I wonder if someone would refer this information to an appropriate individual for a more appropriate summation of one or both individuals. Wikipedia is frequently the first source for information on historical subjects, if not the only source. From a forensic point of view this book presents an overwhelming preponderance of evidence of blatatant murder. I believe in truth in the presentation of history. jude smith 1946judekendo (talk) 19:29, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @1946judekendo. The best way to find somebody interested in this subject is to post either on the talk page of an article about it (eg Talk:Napoleon II), or a related WikiProject, such as WT:WikiProject France.

Even if you post there, there's no guarantee that an editor will respond, but it's more likely than here. Wikipedia is entirely edited by volunteer editors like you and me, who work on what they choose: nobody assigns work to anybody.

One possibility is that you make the change yourself, or suggest it. It sounds as if you have a fairly clear idea what you would like the article(s) to say: if you post that on the relevant talk page, with a citation to where the information comes to (preferably with page numbers), then it's more likely that somebody will pick up your suggestion and add it to the article - or discuss it with you if they don't think it's exactly appropriate, so you can reach consensus as to what should be added. ColinFine (talk) 21:48, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Note that this book and theory regarding Napoleon I is also discussed in the article Sten Forshufvud, and its extension to Napoleon II has already been raised in Talk:Napoleon II#Cause of death. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 01:19, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

is it wrong for wikipedia usernames to ask for social media accounts on talk pages

User talk:45dogs/Archive 2#Do you have a social media account

check this for more info 49.237.23.152 (talk) 08:37, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

You seem to be asking if what you did is okay- it's not unusual for editors to ask other editors about means to communicate off wiki. An editor is under no obligation to answer such inquiries, but I know of no policy categorically prohibiting them. 331dot (talk) 08:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

so its allowed but discoraged 49.237.23.152 (talk) 08:37, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't know that it's discouraged, in the sense that there is any policy discouraging it. My experience is that most Wikipedia editors prefer communication with other editors to take place openly, on Wikipedia talk and discussion pages, unless there is a compelling reason for private communication. ColinFine (talk) 09:34, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Further, I, and I think other editors, tend to be suspicious of discussion of Wikipedia issues on media outside Wikipedia. Obviously anybody has a right to do so, but it often seems to be either inappropriate canvassing, or discussion by and for people who don't understand what Wikipedia is and how it works; or both. ColinFine (talk) 09:42, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

A lot will depend on context. If you're getting along with an editor, collaborating on articles, no-one is likely to object. If you're asking repeatedly, or as a form of harassment or hounding, or in an attempt at outing, it could lead to a block. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:38, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I created an article recently and ensured that the article meets the Wikipedia standards. Some editors have also improved the article but it hasn't been approved till now.

What could be the cause please? Greatben001 (talk) 09:23, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

It would help to know which article you are referring to and to what approval you are seeking; I think you mean a New Pages Patroller's approval; that's an entirely volunteer run process. Please be patient. 331dot (talk) 09:30, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I am referring to a New Page Patroller's approval. Here is the article: Derrick Lui. Thank you! Greatben001 (talk) 09:38, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I see that you took a picture of him, are you associated with him in some way(in order to get access to him to take his picture)? You've also only edited about him or his work.

Yes, a Patroller will eventually review the draft, but this may not be done quickly. 331dot (talk) 09:55, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

No, I am not associated with him. A colleague with whom I discussed my recent article is familiar with his short films and was the one who sent me a picture, from which I only cropped his image. My knowledge of him and his work is limited to information available from secondary sources. I would appreciate it if anyone with additional information about his life and work could improve the article. Greatben001 (talk) 10:12, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Greatben001 If you personally did not take the picture, nor your colleague(it sounds like), you must immediately without delay request deletion of the image from Commons, unless you can clearly show that the image was released with a license compatible with Wikipedia's(allowing for reuse by anyone for any purpose with attribution). You cropping it makes no difference in this regard. 331dot (talk) 13:30, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Somebody has already marked the image for possible copyright violation, which I believe is not fair. I confirmed with my colleague about the issue, and he explained that he personally took the picture on the red carpet at an event. I was cautious before uploading it because I had a similar experience recently. Greatben001 (talk) 13:54, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Greatben001 We take copyright really seriously on Wikipedia: your colleague must release the photo to Commons under a compatible license. You can't just upload a photograph your colleague took just because you say he said you can. qcne (talk) 14:15, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Please, guide me on how he can do that. Should I ask him to send me a To Whom It May Concern as evidence or what? Greatben001 (talk) 14:21, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Greatben001 The easiest thing would be for him to create an account on Wikimedia Commons himself, then upload the photo. Note that by uploading the photo he is releasing it under a license that permits anyone to reuse and remix the photo for any reason, including for commercial purposes. Please see Commons:First_steps/Contributing qcne (talk) 14:27, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Greatben001 See WP:A picture of you. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:46, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Greatben001 (talk) 16:16, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Greatben001 Is your colleague associated with the subject? I assume he wasn't at the "red carpet event" at random; he also seemed to have pretty good access to the event. 331dot (talk) 15:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

He is not associated with the subject but has good access to the event. Greatben001 (talk) 16:16, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Indeed, it seems to be beyond what most ordinary people would have. Thank you 331dot (talk) 16:26, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I have reviewed the article in question. @Greatben001:, thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia. QuicoleJR (talk) 22:38, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Greatben001 (talk) 11:51, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

American late-night talk show monologues are de-facto news digests

All of Strike Force Five seem to be targets.

One could make a chronological list of news stories, on a daily basis, that they all ridiculed.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon

John Oliver is one topic weekly

Seth Meyers is next

Would a chronological list of news stories, on a daily basis, that Strike Force Five ridiculed be a Wikipedia:Encyclopedic article? (Reliability of Wikipedia)

Piñanana (talk) 01:45, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Though I've heard of the hosts, I hadn't heard of Strike Force Five till I read your question and, immediately afterwards, the article Strike Force Five. When you say "All of Strike Force Five seem to be targets", do you mean "Each of the episodes of Strike Force Five seem to have had targets"? If so, how many targets per episode? If no more than three, then the table in the current article could be augmented to show this. If five or more, then it couldn't -- but it might be called "indiscriminate information". The article shows that there were 12 episodes, no two of which appeared on consecutive days; why "on a daily basis" (above)? (And what do you mean by saying that Meyers "is next"?) NB when I say that the table could be augmented, I don't mean that this would necessarily be a good thing; rather, it would be something you could reasonably ask about in Talk:Strike Force Five. -- Hoary (talk) 07:54, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Their statement appears to be a reference to Colbert's cancellation and Kimmel's suspension, meaning they likely meant a list of stories ridiculed on the five comedians' shows. @Piñanana: As for your original question, I doubt that a list like that could be an encyclopedic article, per our policy on indiscriminate information, but it isn't impossible. If you want to try making one, feel free to start a draft. While drafting it, please keep in mind our verifiability policy and our guideline on the notability of lists. Hope this helps. QuicoleJR (talk) 11:58, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

From an IP address it should be possible to determine the country of origin, unless a VPN is in use. Do we have statistics for users by country or edits by country? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 13:25, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

While I'm unsure if a specific count exists somewhere, such data could not include registered users without either them directly revealing this country (i.e. through a "This user is a proud resident of X" userbox) or having their non-public IP information used for... what to me, appears to be a neat but superficial statistic. Here on Wikipedia, I and numerous others take the security of our non-public information, including geolocation as vague as "country", awful seriously. Departure– (talk) 23:38, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss This link gives statistics about the global use of Wikipedia and includes page views by country. I have no idea how that is generated or how accurate it is. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:59, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

But I'm seeking editor data, not reader data. Thanks anyway. To the previous comment, I don't see how aggregate information has anything to do with security of our non-public information. Maybe they can explain how anybody might be harmed if I knew how many editors in India edited en-wiki during the past year. (An arbitrary example, for the over-literal among us.) ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 12:11, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

There is some survey-based information at Wikipedia:Wikipedians. TSventon (talk) 12:18, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I think I can do something with that. Thank you. <irony>I'll have to finish before user Departure has the page MFD'd because it compromises the security of our non-public information</irony> ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 12:22, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

One of your 600 admin staff who monitor 7 million articles chose to block me with my alternative login details, after I made an innocent comment and question to them I would like to know is there a way to contest this or do your admin staff do whatever they like? EttaJamess (talk) 07:15, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

You need to return to your other account and request unblock as the instructions in the block notice provide(or see WP:GAB). Admins are not staff, they are volunteers like most everyone else here. 331dot (talk) 07:44, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi is it possible to indelete a draft of my page? I only just got a warning email and the page has already been deleted Antwoodley (talk) 11:55, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

You may ask at WP:REFUND. 331dot (talk) 11:56, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi I can't tell if the draft for Einollah Safouri is going to be reveiwed. Another draft I made has a notification in a yellow box stating that it may take seven weeks but this draft doesn't show anything and im not sure where it stands. could you please point me in the right direction? Mahsheedalofteh (talk) 04:51, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Back in August, Mahsheedalofteh, the submission of Draft:Einollah Omid Safouri was declined. The template saying this also said that it (the template) should not be removed. Somebody later ignored that and removed it (and also a COI template). I didn't investigate this disappearance, but anyway a few minutes ago I restored both templates. The "decline" template has a "Resubmit" quasi-button. Click on this to resubmit. You may then have to wait several weeks. -- Hoary (talk) 08:46, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

User:Underbelly02 seems to be Bill Jones (artist) - see User talk:Underbelly02

see: File:Zoe Lister-Jones.jpg and Zoe Lister-Jones edits

see edits by User:Imposetwo and Ardele Lister edits

Piñanana (talk) 01:27, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Piñanana. What is your purpose in WP:OUTING another editor? ColinFine (talk) 08:51, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

While copyediting an article Norwegian School of Economics I came across something I've never seen before, the #property template. This template, for example "{{#property:P571}}" apparently gets data from somewhere and replaces it in the article. In this example in the article, the template gets replaced by a year.

I'd like to understand how this works. Would you please direct me to a description of #property.

I've tried searching for it on Wikipedia, which only gives me a series of articles about "property. A similar search on Google does mostly the same, plus some scripting language sites that aren't very helpful.

Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 23:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Truthanado. That pulls information from the Wikidata entry associated with the WP article, d:Q520458. (You can find that by picking "Wikidata item" from the sidebar menu.

P571 is a Wikidata property (d:P:P571) called "inception": in this case it has the value "1936".

See WP:Wikidata#Infoboxes for more information. ColinFine (talk) 23:12, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

That is a parser function, not a template; this one is documented in a variety of places, including m:Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion syntax v0.4, d:Wikidata:How to use data on Wikimedia projects § Raw value, and mw:Wikibase/Installation/Advanced configuration § Data transclusion. jlwoodwa (talk) 23:30, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

For background, see Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:53, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. That's good to know. Truthanado (talk) 13:42, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

How can I delete the redirect that comes with Kobi Yaakobi which takes you to Israeli Prison Service ? Padres Hana (talk) 17:07, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@Padres Hana:, generally, check Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion#When to delete a redirect and then use Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. If you want to write an article about them, you can write a draft and then use Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. TSventon (talk) 17:17, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@Padres Hana, hello, could I ask why you are trying to delete it? Right now, that article does contain information about "Kobi Yaakobi". Are you trying to get the redirect deleted outright, or to replace it with an article? Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 02:11, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, he needs an article Padres Hana (talk) 22:55, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm working on a wiki page about the Pokémon Gallade. How do I get it published and change the title of its name? The Neofighter (talk) 12:44, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

The Neofighter I've moved your draft to Draft:Gallade (Pokémon). Creating a new article is one of the hardest things you can work on in Wikipedia, so I wouldn't recommend beginning your career with such a challenging task, but you can look at the instructions at the Your First Article page if you really want to write an article about Gallade. In particular, you'll have to prove that it is notable enough to warrant a separate Wikipedia article. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 14:35, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@The Neofighter: Gallade once had an article at [19] but it was redirected. Gallade (Pokémon) is now a redirect to List of generation IV Pokémon#Gallade. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#History. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, but I want to create a whole page about it. Like how Gardevoir has a whole page about it already. The Neofighter (talk) 22:22, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @The Neofighter.

My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia.

If you insist on giving yourself that frustrating experience, then follow Sungodtemple's advice and before you do anything else understand notability and find the necessary sources which all meet all the criteria in WP:42. ColinFine (talk) 20:12, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Dear Sir,

Is this the online venue to request editorial assistance in updating a profile. Thank you.

Husky84 Dccovey1 (talk) 17:49, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Dccovey1: Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are Dana Curtis Covey, then I recommend reading Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects. You can suggest edits on the article's talk page using an edit request. jlwoodwa (talk) 17:54, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not contain any profiles; such things are found on social media. What we have are articles about notable topics, constructed from verifiable reliable sources not related to the subject. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:36, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Wiktionary defines profile as: "Noun: A summary or collection of information, especially about a person". It is not unreasonable for a lay person to refer to a Wikipedia biography as such. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:25, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

I personally do not think so but I was just wondering. I think it was covered at WP:RSP but i typed in WP:MYHERITAGE and manually check RSP and I couldn't find any results. It is used a bunch of Wikipedia pages (usually for minor things) so it might be important to reach consensus on its reliability 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 Easternsahara 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 04:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Easternsahara There was an earlier discussion you missed at WP:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_231#myheritage.com pointing out that it is user-generated but sometimes mentions underlying sources that could be OK. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:50, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I've redirected WP:MYHERITAGE to that discussion, for now.We could perhaps do with a FAQ page about such sites in general. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:32, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I think it depends what you want to source:

"Abraham Lincoln was the first president to walk on the moon." If this is what you find on a family tree, which is user-generated, then it's not RS.

"David Lloyd George was at 10 Downing Street in June 1921, as per the 1921 census". In some cases, primary sources like the 1921 England & Wales census can be accessed via providers such as the sleeping giant myheritage, ancestry etc. The policy of The National Archives UK is to enter partnerships with these businesses, so they are the medium that provides this information digitally, from behind their paywall.

If there is acknowledgement that myheritage is the medium and not the original source, all well and good in my opinion.Keith H99 (talk) 12:33, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

In your second scenario, it is the census that is being cited, not MyHeriatge, or whichever site hosts it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:35, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I have started drafting a guideline at Wikipedia:Genealogy sources. Please feel free to chip in. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:53, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Just recently made the page for the Manzanita-class tenders. For some reason, any edits I make to the page won't save. I hit submit and it acts like it's done, but it neither appears on the page nor in the history. Could I get some help? PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 12:51, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

The edit history indicates you made one edit today and four yesterday. Are you clicking publish changes? Does an error message appear? 331dot (talk) 12:58, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

No error message appears. I am repeatedly making an edit at the beginning of "ships", changing seven to eight and removing the sentence about it being in alphabetical order. That will not save and I have no idea why. Everything seems normal save for the fact that it doesn't actually appear. PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 13:03, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind, I think I solved it. I have to go through source editor to make the edit. silly me. PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 14:14, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@PhoenixCaelestis I added a wikilink without problems. If your issue persists, you need to ask at WP:VPT. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:59, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

article tagged as "Tag: use of deprecated (unreliable) source", but there are none

Dear Admin,

the article Mayank Bawa has been tagged as "Tag: use of deprecated (unreliable) source", but I cant tell which unreliable source it is referring to. Can you please help.

Thanks Gokodogo (talk) 00:01, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gokodogo:, we are mostly not admins here. The tag is automatic and has a link labelled "deprecated (unreliable) source". If you click on it you should be able to look for the sources you used. I found Crunchbase listed as deprecated and Linkedin and PR Newswire as generally unreliable, with explanations why. I would suggest looking for better sources. TSventon (talk) 01:10, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gokodogo:, the script at User:Headbomb/unreliable will colour-code sources on a scale from green (great) through shades of yellow and red to black (eek) Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:55, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

About newspaper quotes. Does the title of the article have to remain in the original language?

Draft:Yukiko Nakahori is tlanslated me with Deepl tlanslate.

So I got lost when I translated a newspaper quote.

Please tell me if the quoted title must remain in the original language. H2-T2 (talk) 07:53, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

The {{Cite news}} template has a |trans-title= parameter that might be what you are looking for (if you intend to use the original title and a translation). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 08:14, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

That template also has the parameter |trans-quote= if you need to show exactly what the newspaper said and translate it. There is some advice at MOS:QUOTE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:07, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I would like to know how can I get the information about someone who was working there and passed away and He assigned me as his beneficiary but never get any feedback Mpelisi (talk) 21:14, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

This is a help page for questions relating to using Wikipedia only. We could not answer your question even if you told us where 'there' was. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:42, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Why do I still get borders with style="text-align: left; border: NONE NONE NONE NONE;"

I've added some tables to Segment descriptor and want bit numbers on top without borders. I have border: NONE NONE NONE NONE; in the style, but I'm still getting all four borders.

I'm concern with four tables, but most likely I made the same error in all four, some I'm only presenting one example:

z/Architecture Segment-Table Entry (TT=00, FC=1)

0																															31
Segment-Frame Absolute Address
32											43	44		46	47	48			51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63
Segment-Frame Absolute Address (continued)															A V	ACC				F	F C	P	I E P			I	C S	TT

Ideally I want the bit numbers to display without left, right or top borders and the blank line with no left or right border. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 20:00, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Instead of

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Example
! style="border: NONE NONE NONE NONE;" | 0
! style="border: NONE NONE NONE NONE;" | 1
! style="border: NONE NONE NONE NONE;" | 2
! style="border: NONE NONE NONE NONE;" | 3
! style="border: NONE NONE NONE NONE;" | 4
|-

try

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Example
! style="border: none;" | 0
! style="border: none;" | 1
! style="border: none;" | 2
! style="border: none;" | 3
! style="border: none;" | 4
|-

Example

0	1	2	3	4
A	B	C	D	E

This removes the internal borders. The surrounding wikitable also has a border. To remove the left and right borders of the blank row you would have to remove the borders of both the row and the wikitable.

{| class="wikitable" style="border: none;"
|+ Example
! style="border: none;" | 0
! style="border: none;" | 1
! style="border: none;" | 2
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Blepbob (talk) 00:38, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

You'd probably do better to ask at WP:VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:59, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I was using border: when I should have been using border-style:. Now if I can figure out the difference between height: and line-height:, ... -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:21, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there a notability guideline or essay for plays, musicals, etc? I've been looking and I can't find one but it seems like something that would exist. If not, what are some basic rules to follow for determining notability of a theatrical show? Chorchapu (talk | edits) 20:56, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

WP:GNG is always the basic. Possibly WP:NFILM is the closest SNG written. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:17, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Alright, thank you. Chorchapu (talk | edits) Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:05, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

About Croatia joined the Confederation of European Baseball in 1992 during the war for independence. Croatian first national team ever played on Europe tournament in Germany. There are was Pioneers of baseball like Sasso, Grgur Marušić, Robert Lorenz, Danijel Frketić, Andrej Radovanič etc. They deserve to be mentioned. EditZg (talk) 20:04, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @EditZg. If there are changes you want to suggest to an article, the best place to do that is on the talk page of that article. Remember that unless there are reliable published sources where the information can be verified, then it will not be added. ColinFine (talk) 22:15, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I’m wondering if it is possible to fix suggested languages in the language sidebar. I speak English, Tok Pisin and Ukrainian but I accidentally clicked Basque, Ladin, Malagasy and Japanese once and I don’t know how to remove from suggested languages. DanaroEnEuskara (talk) 12:15, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@DanaroEnEuskara: this has been asked before. The best answer I can find is from ColinFine - This is controlled by mw:Universal Language Selector/Compact Language Links, and that seems to have some instructions for managing suggested languages. I haven't tried it myself. I would be interested to know if it works. TSventon (talk) 13:23, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

For example, {{Inflation|UK|6|1390|r=-5|fmt=eq|cursign=£|orig=yes}} (i.e., £6 in 1390) seems to produce £6 (equivalent to £0 in 2023)?! —Fortuna, imperatrix 13:58, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Fortuna imperatrix mundi Better just to use default rounding, I think. {{Inflation|UK|6|1390|fmt=eq|cursign=£|orig=yes}} gives £6 (equivalent to £5,665 in 2025). The template defaults to r=0 in this case. So {{Inflation|UK|6|1390|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=£|orig=yes}} also gives £6 (equivalent to £5,665 in 2025) Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Right, thanks very much, Mike Turnbull! That does the trick neatly. Have a good weekend! —Fortuna, imperatrix 17:07, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Morning folks!! I have this image on page 22 of [20] which is an aerial image. It for the Ardeer nitroglycerine factory article. The annotated photograph was taken by a Luftwaffe reconnaissance flight in March 1941 which is 84 years ago and 6 months ago. It was later bombed. What would be the copyright be on this? Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 10:00, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Scope creep. The experts hang out on WP:MCQ. ColinFine (talk) 15:53, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @ColinFine: Good reference for the future. It looks like we are not using it anyway as its too rough. scope_creep^Talk 19:17, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

I need help modifying some parameters about some references in a translated article. ==

I need help parameterizing these references in this article: Companion parrot This page was originally written in English and needed to be translated into Spanish. Please, if anyone who knows anything would like to contribute, I'd be happy to hear from you. 2800:484:9661:7D00:7163:A0DC:95B6:A744 (talk) 00:56, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. I suggest asking at es:Wikipedia:Café, where people are more likely to understand the templates available on es Wikipedia. It may not be simply a matter of translating parameter names (though it might be). ColinFine (talk) 20:16, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

where do i find my saved pages Gerhardr1 (talk) 19:06, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Gerhardr1: If you refer to pages you have stored in a Wikipedia app then they cannot be seen with a browser. You have to use the app. If you refer to a page you think you have created then Special:Contributions/Gerhardr1 shows this post is the only saved edit by your account. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:35, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the info...seems a bit of an oversight, but there you go. Gerhardr1 (talk) 19:59, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

It might be worth raising this over at mw:Talk:Wikimedia Apps (I don't use the mobile apps much so I don't know if this is a regular request or if the iOS and Android versions behave differently). ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 22:39, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, recently I tried to convert Chu Kheng Lim v Minister to use the WP:SHORTCITE citation method as I've heard it's better for repeated citations where specific pinpoints are different for different claims. I'd just like an experienced editor to check over the article and make sure I've done it correctly as it doesn't seem to look the same as other articles I've seen using this method. Any tips or help with using this method would be much appreciated :) SnowyRiver28 (talk) 03:08, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

(1) What source does "Chu Kheng Lim" refer to? It could mean either of the first two references in the reference section.

(2) What are things like "[40]" in the references? They're not page numbers. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:16, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

The Chu Kheng Lim refers to the actual high court judgement document, and the numbers are paragraph numbers from the judgement document. This is done closely to how Australian legal citations are usually written, which probably isn’t aligned with Wikipedia’s syntax for citations. SnowyRiver28 (talk) 07:42, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@SnowyRiver28, you say that "it doesn't seem to look the same" as other articles with short citations. Those articles most likely use {{sfn}} or {{harvnb}} which is why they have a similar appearance. According to WP:CITEVAR, the citations are fine as long as they are consistent within an article. There are some Featured Articles that use plain text short citations (like "The Raven") which you could use as an example if the templates seem too complicated. The only specific feedback I would give for the article you recently updated would be to use the short citations to get more specific inline citations. For example, one source is over 60 pages long but the short citations don't include page numbers or other in-source locations, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 02:32, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

I regret signing up as this is way out of my league. Booloobub (talk) 00:39, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Please use Special:GlobalVanishRequest. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:40, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@Booloobub Since this is your only edit, you can just forget about the account and walk away. Or perhaps you have changed your mind in a year. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:58, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Can anyone tell me what additional info should i put in this Yevheniia redirect? Its a derivative of Cyrillic first name Evgenia. zoglophie^•talk• 10:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@Zoglophie:, redirects don't have extra information, but they can have special redirect categories and sometimes ordinary categories. For example the wikicode for Erzsebet is:

-- TSventon (talk) 10:24, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Let me introduce myself, I am Michael Sigler-Packwood, I am eighty-two years old retired Construction Manager, I now write novels. I use Wikipedia when I do my research. I now have apologise for not asking this question first, which is, am I allowed in the first instance to write about myself to tell all those that read this I am a newcomer. with the aim of finding someone who might live in Putnam County Indiana in the USA, I am English by the way. My reasons are: In 2018 I discovered my bloodline family are the Sigler Family, My grandfather was a George Sigler born on the family horse breeding farm, a carpenter constructing timber covered Bridges like those in Madison County, in an effort to put together of life in that county between 1829 to 1929 when the business collapsed. I am sorry it is such along question. Michael Sigler-Packwood (talk) 06:54, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

If you are talking about an article about yourself, please see WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. If you think about making a user page for yourself, see WP:USERPAGE. Just click on the blue links. Lectonar (talk) 07:12, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

You can write a brief introduction of yourself, as a new Wikipedian, on your user page, which is User:Michael Sigler-Packwood—but please, not a full autobiography! You can meet other local contributors by joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Your question was rather confusing. I get the impression you are looking for someone in Putanm County to help you do research on relatives from the area, but you are yourself in England. Am I understanding you correctly? ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:57, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

I am trying to transclude the list section Mulberry paper#List of mulberry papers into a subbullet hlist on List of types of paper#Papers by cellulose source, under the Bark bulletpoint, using {.{#section-h:PAGENAME|SECTIONNAME}}.

I am running into an issue where the transcluded Mulberry papers list does format into an hlist, but only outside of the Papers by cellulose source list. If I put it on the same line, it goes back to a regular list. I have tried nowrap to no avail. chickenpox4dinner (talk) 20:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@Chickenpox4dinner: It's unclear which code you are trying. Please save it somewhere so we can see what is wrong with it. User:PrimeHunter 00:13, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1311526259

Reference help requested. Please Help fixing this error. Thanks, Vivek Sarje (talk) 11:35, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Vivek Sarje, you need to specify the title of the web page, not merely its URL. But there's a bigger problem. If I understand the "about us" page of Temples of India correctly (and I confess that I'm sleepy now), the website amasses user-generated/donated content. Where's the editorial oversight? -- Hoary (talk) 12:09, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

This article (draft):

Draft:Claudia Joseph

is now complete except the correct format needs to be done - the "books published" and references etc

Thank you for your assistance in this matter 110.145.226.170 (talk) 01:11, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Answered in the duplicate section below. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 06:53, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

As it stands, this article will almost certainly be declined. At a quick glance the sources are either primary or passing mentions of the author. Some of her books may be notable, however I'd advise against trying to create another article until you have more experience editing Wikipedia mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:32, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there an established way how to mark sources which are available only in certain regions of the world (especially US sources not available in Europe)? This example is flagged with a "dead link" template, but I doubt that this is appropriate?! --KnightMove (talk) 10:23, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@KnightMove: Well, I'm in the U.S., and the URL in that ref is certainly dead for me. I've added a Wayback archive link to the ref. Deor (talk) 15:25, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Ok thank you. Than I got the "not available" message with priority although the page did not exist at all anymore.

But still, is there a template for such situations in general? --KnightMove (talk) 15:37, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @KnightMove. If there were one, I would expect to find it in category:External link maintenance templates, so I don't think there is. I wondered if there might be a relevant value for the url-status parameter of Template:cite web, but there doesn't seem to be. I could see a value in extending {{cite web}} and related templates to specify that a URL is region-restricted, and switch to the archived URL in regions where it is inaccessible; but it would need some coding, and I'm not sure whether archived URLs inherit the restrictions. Perhaps bring it up at WP:VPI? ColinFine (talk) 16:06, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@ColinFine: I will do that soonish, thank you. --KnightMove (talk) 04:52, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the info and the hint. --KnightMove (talk) 09:26, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Ella May Wiggins timestamp 25:24 of the gravestone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wOYz_OmBuc 2600:382:1140:8769:7E4C:B730:B6F4:253C (talk) 09:51, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

That's an issue to discuss on the user talk page, Talk:Ella May Wiggins; what matters is what the most commonly used name is for her in reliable sources, not necessarily her legal name. See WP:COMMONNAME. 331dot (talk) 09:54, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Note that the article's Death section already states (though without citation) "Her maiden name is misspelled on the marker at her gravesite." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 16:08, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Somebody notify www.ellamaywiggins.com they've made a boo boo! Also the North Carolina State AFL-CIO, etc. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:02, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello. I created a Wikipedia page for Edward M. Goldfarb, who is the international composer for Pokémon the Series, the Pokémon movies and a longtime collaborator of Francis Ford Coppola's. I posted it at least as recently as January 2025. Now it's gone and I can't find any reason why this happened. I'm trying to find out if it was taken down on purpose, and if so, why. Please advise. Much appreciated. Kareng777 (talk) 00:06, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Kareng777, Onel5969 turned it into a redirect on the grounds that there's "not enough in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to show they pass WP:GNG". -- Hoary (talk) 00:11, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@Kareng777 Prior to being redirected, the article did not cite any sources for the "Early life and education" and "Early career" sections, so it's not clear where the information in those sections came from. Also, looking through the references, you cite Wikipedia as a source at least twice, which is not an allowable source, and a lot of the other sources are not independant. The article text is still available using the history tab. If you are able to fix those sourcing issues, feel free to restore the article with appropriate edits to fix it. If you need help accessing the history, let us know. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 15:14, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Bournemouth,_Christchurch_and_Poole_Council so for my first proper edit I wanted to fix the broken formatting in the main infobox and I can't figure it out - I think the nowiki is the issue but I can't seem to get it right.

Also process help - should I have tagged someone on the talk page for the article or added it to a list somewhere?

LGBTbrickworks (talk) 22:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC) Rose (she/her)

Hello, LGBTBrickworks. I believe I've fixed it. It is extremely rare to want a <nowiki> anywhere in an article - I removed them. You were also missing the closing ]] of the wikilink to BCP Independent group, which broke the syntax when I removed the nowiki's. But since there is no such article, I have delinked that name.

I also replaced the URL in your question above with a Wikilink, so when I open it in my browser, it doesn't format the article as though it was on my mobile. --ColinFine (talk) 23:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much - I'm quickly learning a lot about what goes on around here and I like it! I'm not very good at writing stuff so I've gotta find my niche thing - perhaps it's finding nowikis across the main namespace!

LGBTbrickworks (talk) 06:29, 23 September 2025 (UTC) LGBTbrickworks (talk) 22:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC) Rose (she/her)

@Rose There seem to be over 80,000 of them, so that's your WikiGnoming sorted for life.... Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:28, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Not if Rose graduates to using WP:AWB (though some of them are valid!) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:55, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

on Northeast Ohio Medical University - The Bitonte College of Dentistry

Reference help requested.

How does one fix a (1) Titling Error and (2) An error in coordinates?

Thanks, FischerTony (talk) 18:26, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@FischerTony:, Northeast Ohio Medical University - The Bitonte College of Dentistry appaers to be opening this year, are you sure it is WP:NOTABLE, i.e. are there enough sources for a Wikipedia article? TSventon (talk) 18:32, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

It has already opened, it has an active website and other official accreditations and websites which refer to the accreditations.

i don’t know how to link it to the main NEOMED page, or fix the two errors WK says are on the page. 2600:2B00:72AC:C000:A16D:2F17:C9A7:5176 (talk) 20:44, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

The article now redirects to Northeast Ohio Medical University. Articles about organisations need to satisfy the criteria in WP:NORG and I doubt that the new dental school qualifies.. You could look at Help:Referencing for beginners for information about coding references. The reference looked like an incomplete {{cite web}}, I am not sure what the problem was with the coordinates. TSventon (talk) 20:58, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Article has been redirected as not independently notable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:55, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Currently in Wikipedia, if a sortable table is make with an entry that has rowspan, it is "broken" into identical cells. However, when *all* column sorts are sorted back to null state (first click is forward, second is backwards, third is back to original order), the rowspanned cells are still broken. Where is the proper place to discuss this behavior and the code can be made so that when all sorts are undone the original state of the table is restored?Naraht (talk) 17:40, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Probably WP:VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:56, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht: It's requested in phab:T253907. Apparently the original table format is currently forgotten when the table is sorted so it cannot be restored. User:PrimeHunter 00:40, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Would Allen Carr Israel (allencarr.co.il) qualify for a Wikipedia article?

Hello,

I am seeking guidance from the community here about whether a website I manage—Allen Carr Israel (https://www.allencarr.co.il/) —would qualify for a standalone Wikipedia article. I want to ensure we comply with Wikipedia’s notability guidelines and avoid any issues of promotional content.

Here are key details about the site:

Purpose: The site offers quit-smoking workshops, online courses, and resources aimed at helping people stop smoking using the Allen Carr method.

Reach & Impact: It serves clients in Israel and internationally, with testimonials of people who have quit successfully following its programs.

Independent sources: We currently have a few media mentions, local news coverage, and blog reviews. (If needed, I can provide citations.)

Content & Structure: The site includes detailed explanation of the method, a blog section, resources, and contact / workshop listings.

I would like your advice on:

Whether this satisfies Wikipedia’s notability criteria (third-party independent reliable sources)

What kind of sources and citations would strengthen the case

How to draft a neutral, verifiable article without promotional language

If creating a draft in my user space first is recommended

Thank you in advance for any pointers or links to existing guidance on this topic. Shay268 (talk) 10:12, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Shay268.

First, if you manage that website and you intend to do anything related to the website in Wikipedia, you must declare your status as a paid editor (see that link for where and how). This is part of the terms of service.

Secondly, whether or not an article about the site is possible depends on whether or not it meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability - which is not about what it is, does, or says, or what people associated with it are, do, or say, or its importance, fame, popularity etc, but almost entirely about whether it has been written about, in depth, by people wholly unconnected with it, in reliable publications. "Mentions" will not cut it, nor will almost all blogs, nor will testimonials.

If you can find at least three published sources about it that meet all of the crteria in WP:42, then an article may be possible.

Having said all that, My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 10:29, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello staff. We need more help from this office to support gov. Newsome proposal for yes, on proposition 50 on the ballot.. we need more commercials from your office to the people to vote yes on 50. Early voting is in October so we need you to promote yes on 50 now. from PRECIOUS TRIGG voter in California. 99.165.112.180 (talk) 00:03, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I think you are in the wrong place. We are not an office that produces commercials. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I'm trying to upload this image as a new version of File:Lotus Cars logo.svg, but when I try to upload the new version, it changes the size of the image, but not the actual image data?? It's able to read the new image's size as being 16x16, but rather than upload the image, it in effect resizes the current one to be 16x16 without actually changing to the new image, which is what I want. I have never seen this happen before, and have no clue how it's even technically possible for Wikipedia's file upload system to behave like this. Any ideas on what's going on here? UniProbe62 (talk) 01:18, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@UniProbe62: I'm not sure what you think is wrong. I don't see a problem. Clicking the date or image of your first upload at File:Lotus Cars logo.svg#filehistory leads to a 64×64 image at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/2/2f/20250921010144%21Lotus_Cars_logo.svg. It's an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image so it stores information about how to generate an image which can be scaled to a larger size without losing quality. The file history displays a scaling to the same size for all versions. The current version of a Wikipedia file called "Lotus Cars logo.svg" will always be at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Lotus_Cars_logo.svg. "2/2f/" is computed from the file name and is not something related to the version of the image. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:14, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay this is really bizarre. When I first tried to upload it, I opened the newly-replaced current version, and it was a 64x64 version of the autotraced image, which didn't make sense as what I had uploaded was a 64x64 version of the official image. Fast-forward to today, and clicking on that same exact file in the version history results in the thing I uploaded, the 64x64 official one! Meaning, a single revision somehow itself changed? Which is something that should be completely and utterly impossible from a technical level. UniProbe62 (talk) 23:21, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

It did it again! This time I just reverted to the version I had uploaded (which should in theory mean that the "current" version is identical to 17:57, September 20, 2025, which displays the correct official one), and yet now, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Lotus_Cars_logo.svg (the current version) displays as THE OLD AUTOTRACED ONE! Either something is going horribly wrong on my end, or there's something wonky with how this file is stored. I have no idea. UniProbe62 (talk) 23:27, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay nevermind then??? Now, somehow, they do match. I can only assume that whatever process updates the file is being reeeaalllly slow for some reason. Right now, for me at least, Lotus Cars#/media/File:Lotus Cars logo.svg still displays as the old autotraced one (even after purging the article), even though now the current version is the official one. Are Wikipedia's images just like this? It takes a weirdly long time for everything to update when a new version is uploaded? UniProbe62 (talk) 23:34, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Is it possible to disable the ctrl+v shortcut that uploads an image from clipboard to Commons? In all the cases I've tried to use it, the popup is incapable of uploading images with the licenses I usually upload images from, and thus is just looking to me like a long-winded "go to Commons directly to upload" popup. Departure– (talk) 23:32, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Hey @Departure–. I think this question would be answered well at the Commons help desk. PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 00:26, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Claudia Cardinal (international movie star) died on September 23rd and no mention from Wikipedia? But you mentioned other unknown people deaths? Unbelievable 67.207.119.31 (talk) 01:29, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

If you mean on Main Page then Claudia Cardinale was listed at "Recent deaths" 24 September.[21] She was unlisted 15 hours later when six new names had been added to the list.[22] Wikipedia:Main Page history/2025 September 24 is a snapshot showing her on the list. User:PrimeHunter 01:56, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I hope that this is the correct place to state this, but a previous account of mine “Wikihelper59” has (I do not know when) lost its password. I created this account here, after looking over WP:SOCK as it stated that one could create a new account if the old was lost. The reason I cannot regain the password is due to the fact that I did not sign up an email. Was this the right thing to do? Glasswatercup59 (talk) 01:54, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it was, @Glasswatercup59. You have also (as recommended) given your old account name on the current user page: I suggest you also edit User:Wikihelper59 to explain what has happened. ColinFine (talk) 10:00, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I am a university proffesor in Mexico at the state of SAN LUIS POTOSI the city of the same name as the state, my university is TECNOLOGICO NACIONAL DE MEXICO AND THE CAMPUS IS TECNOLOGICO DE SAN LUIS POTOSI The question is that we can get acces to "Wikipedia", we used to have acces but now just simply appears a timed out response, we have checked all on our network and our conclusion is that maybe our request is considered as a cyberattack because of the number of requests. we have acces to any other webpage but not "wikipedia" I will appreciate your help in order to know how to solve the problem your guidanec and addressing wil be really valuable poncho (talk) 06:44, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

It is hard to say what is causing this problem as there could be various reasons. The people at Village pump (technical) may be able to help.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 06:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Please don't SHOUT. It makes your message harder to read. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:07, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@Ponchobonjo You clearly have access via this account, since you have posted your question. It may be that the IP range your University uses has been blocked because, for example, some users have spammed Wikipedia. It is very unlikely that the quantity of traffic is the problem since Wikipedia is in the top 10 of sites globally and can cope with a huge number of simultaneous requests. As suggested, WP:VPT would put you in touch with experts (still volunteers) who may need more information. For example, is it only the English-language version of Wikipedia where you have problems, or is it on many languages? Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:52, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

have there been any extensive (or at least noteworthy) discussions about how many things are listed in the news, on this day, and dyk sections of the main page, or was it just kind of silently agreed and moved on from?

this isn't really asking for examples of those discussions, just about whether or not there were any~ consarn _{(grave) (obituary)} 11:25, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

The number of DYK items per set on the main page was discussed at length at WT:DYK before being increased from 8 to 9 recently, so I would expect there would be similar discussions on other main page project talk pages. TSventon (talk) 11:59, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I will never donate to Wikipedia .. it is a total joke .. not facts and authored by mostly liberals .. not to be used for information ever 96.19.11.54 (talk) 23:01, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

That's just fine. Most of us never donate to Wikipedia, which has plenty of money. Your coment is a wild generalization. Could you be more specific about these "not facts" and your authorization attribution? Information in Wikipedia is almost entirely based on what reliable sources report on a topic; there are no authors, only editors. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:58, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps you would prefer Conservapedia, which is almost certainly not edited by liberals, and has plenty of "facts"—like its statement that Donald Trump has a PhD. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:45, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

How is center tag used? I'm trying to center the BABEL BOX and /sandbox DMc75771 (talk) 19:49, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

If you mean the obsolete HTML tag, DMc75771, it isn't used. Please see Help:HTML in wikitext#center. -- Hoary (talk) 04:26, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

See {{Center}} and {{Center block}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:43, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, just wondering if there's anything I should do for a citation to a website that is likely to change? The claim in the article is supported by the website's content, but it's hosted on a /updates page which leads me to think it's not a permanent fixture and may change with further updates.

I noticed the IABot sometimes archives websites which would be perfect for this scenario, but how do I make it trigger on that specific link? Or does it archive every link on the page it runs on? Thanks! SnowyRiver28 (talk) 09:43, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

You can manually add a page to the IA, and/or other archive sites. There are various browser add-ons that will do this for you, with one click. I use this one, for example. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:42, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much! So I use an addon to make the Internet Archive archive the page, then run the bot which will automatically add the archived link? SnowyRiver28 (talk) 01:18, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

You could do; I just do the first of those. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:40, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

How is it possible that a brand-new user, never edited before, didn't even trip the filters, finds an RD1 I made three years ago, to thank me for it? See the Thanks log, 07:50, 25 September 2025. Weird--and that's before I ponder why they would have done that. Drmies (talk) 12:57, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies maybe you should ask User:ChaisakIn directly. I would guess it was a fat-finger. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:03, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Can such a new user even see the revdelete log? How would they find it? How would they know to find it? For an edit made three years ago? Drmies (talk) 13:06, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies It is fairly easy to find the revdelete log. An internet search finds Wikipedia:Revision deletion and that has a link to the log. You don't need to be logged in to see it. I suppose that searching for "Wikipedia Revision deletion" suggests a fairly high level of knowledge. Why is another question. Another new editor has made 200 thanks this morning, which is much spammier than just 1 thank. TSventon (talk) 13:31, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

TSventon, thanks--I did not know that. And I'm not really interested in the "spammy" part--I'm more interested in "thanks" for purposes of trolling or intimidation. Drmies (talk) 13:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Drmies, I think it could make sense to limit the thank function to editors with at least one edit, or perhaps autoconfirmed, as thanks from editors with no edits can feel like stalking. Also 200 thanks in one morning from an editor with no en Wikipedia edits looks like trolling. TSventon (talk) 14:35, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello to all.

The account name I have when I join Wiki back 20 years ago is @Ominae. However, my password somehow didn't work anymore (and I didn't attach an e-mail to use for PW recovery) and I have to start over. I'm posting this here so that I can speak to an admin. I'd like to get my former account and the edits made back (with the name too). Ominae11 (talk) 02:26, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunally I have to tell you that merging accounts is not possible. Victor Schmidt (talk) 04:20, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Damn it. Guess I better try to remember the password Ominae11 (talk) 04:22, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Ominae11 One thing you can do is noting on your new userpage "I edited as User:Ominae, but I lost the password. " Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:03, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Ominae11: You can set up an email address in your user preferences. After you confirm the email, you can use the "forgot my password" feature at login to recover access if you forget your password. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 17:12, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I came across the disambiguation page John Smith which includes 300-odd people with that name that have Wikipedia articles. Are there any names with more? 2A02:6B6F:E199:9200:BDA3:7C5E:C90B:FBB (talk) 13:14, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Given that "Smith" is the most common surname in North American countries by a significant margin, it isn't surprising that "John Smith" would appear many times, although these days names like "Liam" and "Noah" are most popular in the United States. The English Wikipedia has a systemic bias toward English and western topics and sources, so it's likely you'll see a common English name appearing more often than others. It is possible that there are names more common than "John Smith" in more populous countries like China and India. In Africa and the middle east, "Muhammad" would be the most popular, for example. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:26, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I think Muhammad has a shot of being one of the most popular, if not the most, purely because it's a common first name for first born Muslim sons (even if they go by their middle name; I've seen people who do, and multiple siblings named Muhammad who all go by middle names). Though Western bias is a significant negator of this. I do wonder if my hypothesis is at least close to being correct! jolielover♥talk 17:15, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

The frequency of 'Muhammad (+ Family name)' is likely to be obscured by the problem that there is no universally recognised way of transiterating Arabic script into Latin script. Consequently this name is spelled in many different ways in the latter, as mentioned in that linked article which lists 14 different ones as a given name) and 7 as a surname (and does not include, for example, 'Mahomet', which I have seen). Counting instances of its use is therefore not straightforward.

If we count all forms of Muhammad, which are used in multiple languages, should we also be counting Smiths whose forename is one of the many variations of John, such as Jon, Jhon, Jonny, Johnny, etc.? What about Jan, Juan and all the others listed in John (given name)#In other languages? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 01:29, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

José Luís has more total links from its disambiguation page than John Smith, though the latter has the highest number of de-disambiguated article titles. The difference looks mostly because José Luís links to many articles like José Luis Díaz (footballer, born 1974), which the second query sees as "José Luis Díaz" and thus different from "José Luis" (which in turn is different from "José Luís"). Sara has even more outgoing links, though it's not directly comparable. —Cryptic 16:54, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

This doesn't really go towards answer your question, but I think it's interesting so what the hell. I've taught in primary schools in England for about ten years; that time has included two spells of supply teaching, when I would be in a different classroom everyday, and by my reckoning, I have sampled the names of over a 1000 children in my career. I have found it interesting how many of the male first names that were very common amongst my classmates while I was growing up (in the 80s and 90s) have almost completely disappeared. I have taught precisely one child called John - I remember him well, nice chap, very keen on football, less keen on maths homework but pretty good at it when he applied himself. Zero of the following: Steven/Stephen, Paul, James, Mark, Andrew, Alan, David, Joseph, Philip (regardless of number of ls), Robert. Vast swathes of Olivers (I had one class with three of them in it). Lots of Charleses, Williams and Harrys (Harries?) (bloody royals), and a goodly number of Oscars, Michaels, Lukes/Lucases, Zachs, Alberts. There have also been lots of kids called (various spellings of) Mohammed, but the majority of them have gone by a middle name, as someone has mentioned above. Anyway, I guess my point is that the landscape is changing - John Smith will, I suspect, be a very rare name in England in about fifty years. Girth Summit _(blether) 03:19, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, "Smith" won't be rare, as the other trades that became surnames (Cook, Farmer, Cooper, and so on). More likely these days you'd find many occurrences of "Liam Smith". We may end up with "Muhammad Smith" being common someday, or "Muhammad Wang" (the most common Chinese surname), signaling an overlap of east and west. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 03:36, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello to all

I want to change my current Wiki user name to a more proper name ZYKJ2025, can anyway help with it? Thanks Tribesigns (talk) 04:00, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I believe you want Wikipedia:Changing username. DonIago (talk) 04:03, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

By the way, what do you mean by proper ? —Tamfang (talk) 19:40, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Ever since I started using Wikipedia almost 20 years ago, I have observed that "creature" articles are titled either as a common English name, or a Latin taxonomic name, with no consistency as far as I can tell.

For example, the bony-eared assfish and sarcastic fringehead are titled according to their common English name, but the diabolical ironclad beetle and pigbutt worm are titled according to their taxonomic names.

WP:COMMONNAME doesn't really help, just saying to use the "commonly recognized" name as the title; I'd say "pigbutt worm" is way more recognizable! The guideline says nothing about taxonomic names except for guidance about italic formatting.

I can see a reason to use taxonomic names if there are multiple common names (e.g. satanic leaf-tailed gecko), but there are exceptions, such as agile wallaby, which is titled according to one of its common English names.

19 years on Wikipedia, and this still never made sense to me. Can anyone shed any light? ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 17:04, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

The real answer is whatever the article creator decides to name it lol. I'm sure for pigbutt worm, if you start a RM, it'll go through (if it's as common of a name as you say).

I choose the name by how often the English name appears in sources. Samsum ant was very commonly used, and news articles on the species almost always use that name. Also, the taxonomic name has changed with different groupings, so there are 3 different names for it. Since Samsum ant is a more consistent name, I chose that. However, for Uwari keihitoi, I could only find one source saying it was also known as the grass ant (although it's possible there are more, I couldn't access a lot of the Japanese sources), and most of the sources did not mention this common name. Also, grass ant is very vague, I'm sure a dozen other species are also called that. jolielover♥talk 17:20, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I suspect this is heavily influenced by the Wikispecies project. Fabrickator (talk) 17:40, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I am confident that it is not. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:02, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

And then there are things that have a common name in a non-English language, in which case it sort of makes sense to title it in Latin. Such is the case for Gynostemma pentaphyllum, commonly known as "Jiaogulan" in Chinese (although there are several western-company tea products that use the Chinese name). But this causes the question to arise, if a life form native to a certain country has a common name there, do we title it according to the common name where it lives and where there are likely more sources referring to it, or the taxonomic name because there's no English name for it? ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 17:42, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Anachronist: If there was no Wikispecies entry at the time the article was created, then there would have been no particular problem. After an applicable wikispecies entry was created, just use a redirect. Not to say there was necessarily any strict adherence to a particular methodology. Fabrickator (talk) 18:01, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

How do I find patterns for warm hats? 2603:3023:747:8300:8100:CC61:9ADD:E679 (talk) 23:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

While I believe Wikipedia is not the place to best answer you, there are multiple sites which have free patterns and your local yarn stores or library would probably also have suggestions. Sock-the-guy (talk) 00:10, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Note also that knitted hats are generally much warmer than crocheted hats. Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:25, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! It seems you might be a bit lost. The help desk isn't a place to ask things like this, it's for Wikipedia editors to get help with their work. For something like this, a search engine like DuckDuckGo or a forum like Reddit would be a better place to look. If you insist on getting help from Wikipedians (the people who contribute to Wikipedia) then you're free to ask someone at WP:Reference Desk mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:03, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

History of the Guggenheim mining family and how they were able to acquire such control? 174.194.133.120 (talk) 15:20, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Please see Guggenheim family. To find Wikipedia other entries, type your search term in the search box. Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:24, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! You appear to be a bit lost. As stated by User:Shantavira, we have an article on the Guggenheim family. If this doesn't answer your question then a search engine like DuckDuckGo would better suit your needs. Wikipedia also has a reference desk if you'd prefer to ask a real person mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:08, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

In the article Niqqud, the table on the right shows OK for me. But when I try to print it (in print preview), I see it floating on top of the article and hiding parts of it. I tried looking at the article in a narrower window, and it still looks fine. I can't seem to see any relevant print-specific CSS. I was told (but did not check) that the same issue exists with the PDF export of the page.

Any idea what else I can check? Tzafrir (talk) 21:10, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@Tzafrir that table is a bit non-standard. Seems like these articles haven't had a lot of attention over the last couple of years. I made a minor change that might have improved the situation. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:23, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Seems to work. Tzafrir (talk) 14:39, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I came across the article for Rgangkum, Chipw, claiming that it is a village in northern Myanmar and pretty much nothing else. The coordinates given are not very precise (no seconds) so point to the middle of the jungle. Geonames is no help as they appear to have copied the coordinates from this wikipedia page, I've not been able to find a village in the area with a name that looks like match even considering likely variations from different ways of translating the name and searching for the name turned up nothing in reliable sources, so I PRODded the article. I wanted to see what was linking to the page to see if there were more hints, but that took me to Chipwi Township.

This page has a huge list of seemingly over 100 named towns and villages, doing a quick spot check of a few of them, all of the ones I've seen have a near identical format, with coordinates not recording the seconds, the only reference being to Maplandia which doesn't seem to be particularly reliable given this result and while some of them I am able to make a decent guess for the place they are referring to (for example Sawnkyawn could be an alternate translation of Shankyaw (25.760588682378096, 97.9916423226629)), for most of them I've struggled to find anything at all.

At the bottom of the Chipwi Township page there is a template for other townships and of those listed in the template Hsawlaw Township, Shwegu Township, Bhamo Township have a similar problem (thankfully the others, while having problems of their own such as lack of sources, don't have a huge list of villages attached), this means there are some 400-500 geographical stubs here that need to be sorted through.

I am aware there have been similar situations in the past with e.g. Iranian villages but I wasn't around at the time so don't know how it was dealt with and I would appreciate some advice on how to deal with all these pages. Giuliotf (talk) 23:21, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@Giuliotf: did you find Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive332#Large batch deletion probably needed? Hog Farm could you advise how to approach this? TSventon (talk) 02:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Rgangkum, Chipw is a Carlossuarez46 creation. They were found to have mass-created using basically just lists of placenames from gazetteers and such, often where the source indicated that the location was clearly not an inhabited community - wells in Iran, aqueduct intakes and unihabited railroad sidings in California, unverifiable stuff in Azerbaijan, etc. That one is sourced solely to the GEOnet Names Server, which is a database which used inputs of rather varying reliability. If I remember correctly, that source was populated with a lot of WWII-era military maps, so for all we know this could have been some ephemeral thing related to the Burma Road or related operations. Anything of theirs that doesn't clearly point back to a verifiable village can be PRODded in my view given the massive systemic issues with their prior creations. Sawnkyawn and a number of the others in question were created by Dr. Blofeld, who is still an active editor. I don't have prior experience with their creations, so they can speak better about what sources might be usable to flesh these out or verify them. Hog Farm _Talk 02:19, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Agreed that one line xx is a village stubs with one Geonames or falling rain source are horrible. With a country like Burma, priority should be getting the townships up to decent status and listing the village tracts. I think it was just youthful enthuasiasm 15-20 years back to want Wikipedia to have an article on every place on the planet, and trying to tackle systematic bias. I would still like to see this eventually, but the articles need some content and sources beyond those. I do think a lot can be expanded, but there won't be an abundance of sources. With Burma I would focus on expanding the townships, and redirect the small settlements which currently only have a database ref until more is available.♦ Dr. Blofeld 05:09, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer, I'll put something together for AN after work today. I had a look around the other regions of Myanmar and found others that have had similar articles batch created so the number is likely to rise significantly. Giuliotf (talk) 09:13, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Please, change 'WICK-ee' to 'WI-k_e_i' ('WI-ki'). An article's Wiki. --5.43.76.5 (talk); 00.45, 2025-09-29 (UTC)

Why? Your question is unclear. If you wish to suggest an improvement to any article, the place to do so is that Talk page of that article. You must include supporting evidence for your proposal in the form of a reliable source.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:47, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I think the IP is complaining about the pronunciation given in the article Wiki. But I don't hear anything wrong with it, and I don't understand what they want it change to. ColinFine (talk) 21:01, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

This article (draft):

Draft:Claudia Joseph

is now almost complete except the correct format needs to be done - the "books published" and references etc

Please give advice as to what to do next

Thank you 49.185.27.111 (talk) 06:43, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

You need to submit it for review. I have added a template to the draft so you can do that. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 06:52, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. I am not a reviewer; but on a quick look, it seems to me that you have not one single source which is both independent of Joseph and offers significant coverage of her. (The ANWilson piece is probably independent of her, but it sounds as if it is about the book, not about Joseph).

Without several sources which meet all the criteria of the golden rule, there cannot be an article, as it cannot establish that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability.

Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost exclusively 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. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources.

My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 20:24, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

ColinFine, the IP you're addressing doesn't seem to be a new editor. -- Hoary (talk) 22:09, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

And that draft isn't bad, either, although I haven't scrutinized the sources. It would certainly survive WP:A7 speedy deletion. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 22:20, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

It seems you declined it just as I was trying to. For the same reason: just one decent source. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 22:30, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi:

If I search for Super Heroines, the name of an L.A. band, i get the Superhero page. I would like to get the band page.

Would it be appropriate to move the Super Heroines page the Super Heroines (band) or something like that? Or what should I do? Or should I do nothing?

Thank you! Rhockens (talk) 21:35, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@Rhockens: A search for "Super Heroines" gives Super Heroines. If there is an exact page name match for a search then you always get it. Maybe you actually searched for "Super heroines" or "super heroines" with other capitalization. This matches a redirect from Super heroines to Superhero where the top of the page says "For other uses, see Superhero (disambiguation)". This page has a link to Super Heroines near the top. I dont think anything should be done. The band article has 511 page views in the past 30 days. Superhero has 19,388. User:PrimeHunter 22:18, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

You're right (I am searching for "super heroines"). Thanks for the advice! Leaving well enough along. The @PrimeHunter Rhockens (talk) 01:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I just had an edit quickly removed as “unhelpful.” Apparently, what was deemed unhelpful was my attempt to contextualise Hartwig’s membership in the Nazi Party — and my suggestion that it’s not reasonable for this to be the first thing someone reads about the artist on his page.

When someone like Josef Hartwig — a sculptor who created a formalist chess set in 1923 — is reduced to “Nazi Party member” in the opening line of his Wikipedia entry, it’s not history; it’s moral branding. Why is Wikipedia so heavily policed, especially on anything even remotely connected to 20th-century politics, identity, or morality? Its self-appointed guardians appear to uphold a kind of presentist puritanism, particularly on the biographies of artists or thinkers with even the faintest whiff of political taint.

It’s all very ironic. They insist on a “neutral point of view,” but in practice, nuance is flattened and context becomes guilt by association. 125.168.135.116 (talk) 02:27, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Don't be so quick to cast aspersions. Your edit wasn't labeled "unhelpful", it was simply reverted. And it was reverted likely because that's what many editors do when they see an anonymous IP address blank content without any explanation whatsoever, as you did. Next time use an edit summary. I have partially restored your edit. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:55, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

The edit was described as "unconstructive", which it is not unreasonable to interpret as a synonym for "unhelpful". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I was referring to the edit summary, which said nothing about being unconstructive or unhelpful. I see now that the reverter left a talk page comment that it "did not appear constructive". I didn't think to look on the talk page because I rarely see IP addresses look at their talk pages. Do they even get a notification? ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:11, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Having one's edits reviewed, modified or undone is a regular part of Wikipedia, and accepting that that happens is a requirement for participation.

If you disagree with particular change to one of your edits, follow the process described at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:30, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

The description says it was a far-right group that wanted to get rid of Republican groups. This contradicts itself. “Far-right” should be removed. 2601:280:5E00:2370:D81C:E6EF:9EA8:D559 (talk) 22:54, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. If you want to suggest a change to an article, the place to do so is on the talk page, here Talk:Ku Klux Klan.

But, as it says at the top of that talk page, please search its archives first, because you'll find previous discussions of this question. (My understanding, as a non-US person with limited knowledge of US history, is that at that time the Republicans were the party of black emancipation). ColinFine (talk) 23:03, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

The statement about overthrowing Republicans is about the 1860's in the South where the parties were different from today. There is no contradiction in the given context. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:06, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Even beyond slavery, the Republicans held views on many topics in the 1860s which are entirely incompatible with those expressed today. For example: That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our naturalization laws or any state legislation by which the rights of citizens hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign lands shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad. [23] AndyTheGrump (talk)

If the KKK are no longer regarded as far right then the United States' Overton window has shifted even further than we thought. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:33, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

There's a huge rapid revert war ongoing on the Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia - see https://pcm.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francisco_Lizardi&action=history - and I have a VRT complaint from the subject about legally actionable libelous information. I'm an admin here, but I have no rights on pcm.wikipedia.org. How do I find an administrator who does, who can protect that article?

Stewards, maybe? ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 18:02, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

@Anachronist: there is a list at meta:Global sysops TSventon (talk) 18:16, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I contacted one of them. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 18:37, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm wondering because I have trouble with 24 hour time, my relatives use Military time, and I have friends that translate AM/PM to 24 hour time. Is there a Wikipedia standard for how times should be shown? Is there a format option/tag that allows times to adjust to the preferred option? 1.159.100.130 (talk) 01:28, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

If you create an account, you have user preferences that determine how you want dates and times to look, although the standard format here is UTC, which is 24 hour format. I prefer 24 hour time because it's concise, unambiguous, and understood worldwide except by my fellow Americans who weren't in the military. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 03:40, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Anachronist Some of us Americans can subtract 12 when necessary... /s David10244 (talk) 07:13, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

MOS:TIME does not say that 24 hour time is the standard format, it says "Context determines whether the 12- or 24-hour clock is used." Although I wish it were more specific about what kind of "context" is meant. I guess, like for the choice of MDY or DMY dates, articles about a US subject should use 12 hour times, and articles about non-US subjects should use 24 hour times. CodeTalker (talk) 23:49, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

When I wrote "the standard format here is UTC" I was thinking of the ubiquitous timestamps you see on talk page signatures and contribution histories. I don't recall ever seeing a time written out in an article. I suppose it would follow a similar rule to WP:ERA or WP:ENGVAR. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 01:55, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Vanessa Redgrave as Annalise Hansen in The Pledge is not listed on her Wikipedia page. 76.157.124.95 (talk) 00:57, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

That's because her article lists selected films, not films with minor roles. For a complete list, see List of Vanessa Redgrave performances, which does include The Pledge (film). ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 01:59, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

My birth year is totally wrong in the Wikipedia page - Anuparna Roy - it shows its 1994- it’s actually 1999 42.108.30.58 (talk) 07:14, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Please help me with the changes 42.108.30.58 (talk) 07:15, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

The source here [24] supports 1994. Theroadislong (talk) 07:35, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello. Please see WP:ASFAQ. ColinFine (talk) 09:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

For this issue here, ASFAQ is a poor reference, as it encourages the subject to make changes that contradict cited sources. As a VRT agent I dealt with this in the past; the solution was for the subject to communicate with the editor of the source and get the error corrected or removed. That was done, the factoid was removed from the article, although I had to warn someone against restoring it by citing archive.org instead. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:21, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Please see WP:About you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Édouard Muller (businessman) is a bit of a mess of an article, with barely referenced original research dating back to 2013 taking up a majority of the page, though I think it can be salvaged with more citations and copyediting. One issue I noticed that I haven't really seen on most pages is the overuse of honorifics like "Mr. Example" and "Mrs. Blank" instead of a full name. But due to the lack of easily verifiable citations all I could do was remove the majority of these (see page history) and not provide any given name. Is there anything in the manual of style about what to do when a first name is not given? I'm not yet prepared to spend days learning about the early history of Nestle to get these names and source the article properly. This is also an invitation for any experts on the subject to look over the page since I haven't done much. Thanks! MynameisnotDwight (talk) 02:09, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

All I know is we shouldn't use honorifics.

As for names, some of them aren't important and can be removed completely. For example, there's this passage:

At that time, Nestlé had several head offices including one in London with L. Auget as president, one in Paris with Liotard and another in Cham with Page, and one in Vevey, Switzerland with Roussy, whose family held a large block of Nestlé stock. Dapples reorganized Nestlé and those four aforementioned managers were forced to quit. Dapples looked for someone who had overall knowledge and sales experience to run the business with him. Muller was selected and was sent all over Europe to report on the actual situation facing various branches of the Nestlé group.

I'd rewrite it as:

At that time, Nestlé had several head offices including London, Paris, Cham, and Vevey, Switzerland. After a reorganization forced managers in four of those locations to quit, Muller was sent all over Europe to report on the actual situation facing various branches of the Nestlé group.

There seemed to be a lot of stuff there with meaningless names that nobody cares about, which can be removed. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:58, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Note that, from its article, that's Cham, Switzerland, not Cham, Germany. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 16:15, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

If it matters, I made the change described above. You can proceed in a similar manner. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:31, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Please, change 'WICK-ee' to 'WI-k_e_i' ('WI-ki'). An article's Wiki. --5.43.76.5 (talk); 00.45, 2025-09-29 (UTC)

I followed the advice in WP:SIGTUT and put this html into my signature box: GothicGolem29. I enabled wiki markup as well but my signature still won't change colour.I am not really sure what I did wrong hope someone can help <span style="color: darkgreen">[[User:GothicGolem29|GothicGolem29]]</span> (talk) 18:49, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@GothicGolem29: Try [[User:GothicGolem29|<span style="color: darkgreen">GothicGolem29</span>]] giving GothicGolem29. Bazza 7 (talk) 19:06, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

It worked thanks! GothicGolem29 19:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, my account is still registered to the email address I had as a kid 14 years ago. However, as it was a Yahoo! email address, Yahoo! deactivated it. I cannot access that email anymore or re-register that address on Yahoo!. I can't change my email address on here without having to get an email code to my old, defunct address.

Update: I emailed [email protected] per advice given to another user above. Contrabaroness (talk) 01:03, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Do I use Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations for something else Thegoofhere (talk) 23:52, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes. jolielover♥talk 02:32, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Thx Thegoofhere (talk) 02:34, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

my telegram AAP account is frozen please free to my telegram AAP account 2409:4081:402:D542:98C7:1EFF:FE1A:C0F1 (talk) 21:47, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

This is the help desk for Wikipedia. You need to contact Telegram. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:05, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

For some reason, (and I don't know if this is a site issue or something wrong on my end) the image thumbnail for the article 8/25/00 – Jones Beach, New York is displaying a wildly incorrect thumbnail when viewed from other pages. Is this a common issue, and is there any way I or someone else can fix it? Cottagechez (talk) 01:59, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm seeing the same thing, from both browsers I have. It's the mouse-over hover preview. It's showing the article Marshall Plan. In fact, if you click on the preview bubble, it takes you directly to Marshall Plan. But clicking on the text link takes you to the Pearl Jam album as expected. Weird, and I have no idea what's causing it. DB1729^talk 03:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

It works normally for me. Maybe it was temporary. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:07, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, it's normal for me now. DB1729^talk 10:27, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Works for me now. I'll keep an eye out for similar problems and put it back here in the future if I find any. Cottagechez (talk) 16:50, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

When computing a definite integral, there is a symbol that appears meaning "evaluated at." It looks like a large vertical line with numbers at its top and bottom. One can see this symbol at the page Leibniz integral rule under the Applications section. However, there is some inconsistency in how this symbol is listed.

At "Example 3", in the equation after "Hence," and before "Therefore," the "evaluated at" symbol is represented by a \right|. If you are not familiar with LaTeX, this means that the | symbol is scaled to be as high as the equation appearing before it. The same is true for Example 4.

At "Example 5", in the equation two lines above "Therefore," the symbol is instead represented by a \bigg|. This will always have the same height. This is the solution that the TeX stack exchange said was correct.

I am wondering which one that Wikipedia would use. I apologize if this question is not answerable, or if it is only answerable by a small community. Starwave&3s (talk) 01:03, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Starwave&3s. I suggest you ask at WP:WikiProject Mathematics. ColinFine (talk) 12:38, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I will do so. Starwave&3s (talk) 13:12, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Ferko v. National Ass'n for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. was moved to Ferko v. NASCAR per a requested move procedure, but this causes the talk pages to have different contents - ideally, the old talk page (Talk:Ferko v. National Ass'n for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. should be in the new one (Talk:Ferko v. NASCAR). How this can be solved?

(Asked here because I have no idea where to ask.) FMecha (to talk|to see log) 15:32, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@CommunityNotesContributor: I see you moved page Ferko v. National Ass'n for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. to Ferko v. NASCAR over redirect. Was there history at "Ferko v. NASCAR"? Talk:Ferko v. NASCAR mentions the article being accepted through AFC on 13 May 2017. If so a round robin move might have been better. TSventon (talk) 02:01, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

The only prior history there was the creation of a redirect. I have restored that single edit so there is no deleted history for the article. There is some deleted history on the talk page, but it isn't of any consequence; see reply below. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:13, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon my bad, I see rmcloser only did half the job for me now. It wasn't able to move the talk page, so just moved the article over redirect and left it at that. Tbh I wasn't aware that was a possibility until seeing it here, usually either works or fails (the latter if it requires a page swap for example), so will pay more attention next time. I would mention this on the script tp, but given it's limited capacity overall I think it'd be asking to much to patch this. Ie, not to perform the move and default to fail if all associated pages can't be moved without elevated permissions - which is what I thought it already did, but evidently not. CNC (talk) 10:50, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

I moved the old talk page over the new talk page. There wasn't anything of any consequence on the new talk page, just an announcement of the move discussion. The old talk page title now redirects to the new title. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:08, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@Anachronist: The old Talk:Ferko v. NASCAR page had a project tag for AFC, saying the article was accepted through AFC on 13 May 2017. That suggests that the old Ferko v. NASCAR page had history. TSventon (talk) 02:15, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

The two talk page headers looked the same to me, but I did not study the differences. I see now there are two tags that are different. I have restored them. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 05:58, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for cleanup, lesson learnt I think. CNC (talk) 10:50, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

You have the page-mover user right. Were you prevented from moving a page due to a redirect at the destination? I thought the page-mover right lets you do that. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 13:36, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

rmcloser doesn't integrate page mover rights such as suppressredirect or delete-redirect, even though it's aware that you have it, so these moves have to be done manually. Ie (closed by non-admin page mover) is applied, but it doesn't mean rmcloser used that right. If I was aware that rmcloser had partially failed I would of moved it no problem, but I didn't notice basically. CNC (talk) 14:05, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi i wanna make a page. How do i? Dathus2013 (talk) 03:06, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Dathus2013, check out WP:Your first article to get started. Happy editing! Nil🥝 03:12, 29 September 2025 (UTC)