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Hello,

Some months ago I made changes to the PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) page, and the changes were all removed because I created an account for PBS on Wikipedia, and apparently you can't change an article about "yourself". I then requested the changes through my personal account and explained the situation and that I didn't know it shouldn't have been from a PBS account, but that I am a PBS employee. However, none of the changes were made.

I still work for PBS, and I am again requesting the same changes because the current page has numerous inaccuracies. Please let me know how I can go about getting it fixed. Below is the info we would like updated. You can contact me at nnbenson@pbs.org. Thank you, Natalie

CURRENT COPY:

PBS was founded by Hartford N. Gunn Jr. of WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on October 5, 1970, at which time it took over many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET), which later merged with Newark, New Jersey station WNDT to form WNET. In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations.

PROPOSED REVISION:

On Nov. 3, 1969, four public broadcasters, including the presidents of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and National Educational Television (NET), incorporated a new nonprofit organization to interconnect the public television stations, taking on those functions of NET.

Citation: Public Broadcasting PolicyBase (January 14, 2000). "Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service". Current Newspaper. Retrieved 2013-01-03 (SEE http://www.current.org/wp-content/themes/current/archive-site/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html)

[Note: The Public Broadcasting Policy Base is listed currently as a citation on the PBS Wikipedia page. ]

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the first Public Broadcasting Act in November 1967, paving the way for the formation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). As the steward of federal funds to support public television and radio stations and program production, CPB recommended the formation of a national program distribution service. The Public Broadcasting Service was born, and its headquarters was established in Washington, DC. Hartford Gunn, president and general manager of public television station WGBH in Boston, was named the first president of PBS in March 1970. The service was composed of 128 local member stations.

Citation: Public Broadcasting Service. (1999). PBS Celebrates 30 years of television at its best [Press release].

CURRENT COPY:

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American broadcast television network. The non-profit public broadcaster has 354 member television stations which hold collective ownership. The network's headquarters are located in Arlington, Virginia.

PROPOSED REVISION (in bold):

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American broadcast television network. The non-profit public broadcaster has more than 350 member television stations that that are independently owned and operated. The network's headquarters are located in Arlington, Virginia.

Note: The current entry notes: “Unlike public broadcasters in most other countries, PBS does not own any of the stations that broadcast its programming (in context, there are no PBS owned-and-operated stations anywhere in the country). This is partly due to the origins of the PBS stations themselves, and partly due to historical broadcast license issues.” Given this, I think asking for the above change is reasonable.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by NatNBen (talk • contribs) 20:07, 2 October 2014‎ (UTC)

windsurfing

Dear Sir/Madam

You´ve made a popular assumption - windsurfer (sailboard correctly) was the 1st sailboard production company so it is a misnomer to use their name You´ll find Olympic board sailors use sailboards not windsurfers. Infact Mistral * Lechner * Windglider * Neil Pryde RS:X are only some of the sailboards chosen for the olympics

Would be excellent if you were to inform the world correctly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.99.230.230 (talk) 01:56, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

I think this is a general complaint that the Windsurfing article is not the Sailboarding article, relating in part to the longstanding disputes over the term as a trademark. The right place to discuss this would be at Talk:Windsurfing or maybe Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Water sports... though frankly in both cases I get the feeling that both pages are of low enough activity that there would be little response. My general "feeling" for this issue is that Wikipedia generally doesn't give trademarks or brands prominence over what's in everyday parlance. So unless there's a clear indication that the dominant term for the sport is "sailboarding", the article is going to remain where it is. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 02:01, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Collard Greens article shows no text to anon users on mobile site

I am using Chrome on iOS. I visit the wikipedia page for "Collard Greens". There is no article text although the page appears to load correctly. Visiting the desktop site shows the correct article text. This is not a case of page-blanking which is then reverted. Here is an imgur link screenshot. http://m.imgur.com/MresNRv This is likely to affect a wide range of pages. I have not tried to fix it myself. Gustavail (talk) 15:32, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

I have mentioned the problem at WP:VPT, as people who can solve the problem will be more likely to see it there. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pages not displaying. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:50, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

thank you for doing thatGustavail (talk) 18:12, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Error in source

Is there a policy that defines when it's ok to ignore/contradict a reliable source ? For example, this source talks about an incident during a game between Beitar Jerusalem F.C. and Bnei Herzliya, a basketball club. Obviously there was no hybrid soccer/basketball game, there is a mistake in the article and the game was actually with Maccabi Herzliya F.C., which can be proved by another source.

Sometimes the mistake is less obvious to spot, for example a secondary source quoting parts of the primary source but paraphrasing other parts in a way that would be considered misrepresentation if it was done in a WP article. In this case the primary source can be used to prove that the paraphrasing is not factually correct.

When there are two contradicting sources NPOV requires us to represent both, but writing that an incident occurred during a ball game that was either soccer or basketball is silly. It's not a matter of interpretation, it's simple factual correctness. In the same way, writing that X said either Y or Z (on a specific occasion) when we have X saying Y in a primary source seems wrong to me.

My question is - is there a policy/guidelines on when it's ok to discard/override a source that can be proved wrong, and what is required for such a proof ? “WarKosign” 12:53, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

There is, to my knowledge, no policy or guideline which bears directly on this issue. It's been an issue of long controversy here, mainly surrounding the lede of the verifiability policy which until July 30, 2012, read, "Verifiability, and not truth, is one of the fundamental requirements for inclusion in Wikipedia; truth, of itself, is not a substitute for meeting the verifiability requirement. No matter how convinced you are that something is true, do not add it to an article unless it is verifiable." The "verifiability and not truth" concept was demoted to a footnote to a new sentence in the lede, but still exists: "Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it."

References

If something is so completely and obviously wrong that there can be no reasonable disagreement about it, it ought to be fairly easy to correct it without the help of policy. If there is disagreement over it, an request for comments ought to sort out the problem fairly easily since it ought to be easy to demonstrate that those opposing the change are clearly pushing a point of view or being otherwise disruptive. On the other hand, if those opposing the change have any weight at all to their position, then we ought to deal with the matter as a normal conflicting-sources situation. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:10, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Discharge certificate

In 1983 a Naval Board of Corrections changed my discharge to Honorable. I was promised a new certificate of discharge and never received it. I'm 83 years old and would like to have the certificate to show my grandchildren before I die. Could someone help me?

Not here. This is Wikipedia. You need to talk to someone in the Defense Department. Ask your local Congress person if you need assistance. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 00:52, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

arlene francis

peter gabel who was arlene francis son said she didnt have cancer,she died from complications from alzheimers disease and sepsis