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March 8

How do you get a Wikipedia page

How do you get a Wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bouhamdi... (talk • contribs) 00:36, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I've just put a "welcome" message on your user talk page, which has links to help you get started.86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:42, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

If you're asking about an article about yourself, keep in mind that most people are not notable enough for their own Wikipedia articles. Benjamin (talk) 08:25, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Cannot figure out where an unused line-defined reference is

In Squanto at the end of the reference section is this error message: Cite error: A list-defined reference named "FOOTNOTEArber1910I:219" is not used in the content (see the help page).

I have spent much time trying to figure out where this is but can't find it. Thanks AnthroMimus (talk) 04:12, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Achhh! I figured it out. It never fails that after I submit help request I suddenly find the problem. (It was a "{{sfn" inside a reference which I don't think is explained in the help for this error message. Or else I was too frustrated to understand it. Thanks again. Sorry to bother you. AnthroMimus (talk) 04:40, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Password recovery without email

Hi, I would like to use an account I created years ago to start editing again. Is there a way to recover a password when I don't have access to the old e-mail address anymore? Is there some other way to manually authenticate myself? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.204.155.30 (talk) 11:38, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Passwords cannot be recovered. In rare cases like accounts with high user permissions a server administrator can add an email address to an account so a new password can be mailed. They don't try to authenticate owners of ordinary accounts who can just create a new account. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:12, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Show up on web search?

Hello,

I created an article roughly 12 hours ago, and it still does not show up in the search results on Google. I have created a few articles before, and none have taken nearly as long to show up. Does anyone know why this is happening? The page has been reviewed. This is the link. Thanks.RES2773 (talk) 13:14, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey RES2773. Looks like although it has been reviewed, it hasn't been indexed yet, which is a search-engine-side problem. Non-reviewed pages are marked with a "no index" that actively prevents indexing by search engines, but the absence of a "no index" doesn't actively encourage search engines to index, it just passively allows them to whenever they actually get around to it. TimothyJosephWood 15:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I think our noindex policy for new articles causes an extra delay. Google used to detect article creations very quickly and include them in searches. If they visit a new article with noindex now then it may take a long time before they come back and discover that noindex has been removed. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

adding a news link

hi i want to add a news link to support my content but i am unable to do that .please help. thanks Alekh99Alekh99 (talk) 14:57, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@Alekh99: As a new user you have to fill in a CAPTCHA to add an external link. This is no longer required when your account becomes four days old and has made ten edits. You already have ten edits but have three days left. If you have problems with captcha then try saving the url without the http:// part. Then it doesn't produce a clickable link but another editor may fix it or you may come back in three days and fix it. It's also possible it will be rejected if the source is considered too poor for the content. An old newspaper article as source for an unapproved medicine with no clinical trials seems poor for Wikipedia. You sound like the son of the inventer so see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:58, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey Alekh99. For help with referencing see Help:Referencing for beginners. However, although the content about the medicine might be relevant to the article about the plant, additional content about the individual almost certainly is not. Content in an article should be about the subject of the article and not about other related subjects which may or may not have their own main article. TimothyJosephWood 15:58, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

adding a page about another Navy ship in the same class

I want to avoid plagiarism as much as possible so want to make sure that I am following the rules. When creating a page about a specific ship that has a sister ship already in Wikipedia, what are the rules about copying the text from the sister ships? Do I quote the Wikipedia article, or can I just 'copy & paste'? PhoenixAF24 (talk) 15:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@PhoenixAF24: You can copy and paste, but for copyright reasons you need to acknowledge the source. Including "Copied material from Article name" or similar wording in the edit summary is sufficient. See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Deor (talk) 15:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@Deor: Thanks for letting me know. I will do that. PhoenixAF24 (talk) 15:41, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@PhoenixAF24: I suggest you also put a {{copied from}} on the article talk page. That helps to keep track of who-wrote-what. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 17:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

• Clarification. Naval ships have huge {{infobox}}en. Deor, PhoenixAF24 may be referring mainly, or solely, to copying and pasting the infobox from an earlier related article.

  I believe that attribution is not required when one copies and pastes metadata -- that it is only required when copying intellectual content. As per the SCOTUS ruling in Feith v. Rural, the contents of {{cite}} templates, {{infobox}}en, and other metadata, would be "a list of facts". Under US law the SCOTUS ruled "lists of facts" were not normally eligible for copyright, because they lack a spark of creativity, or originality.

  I believe since they are not eligible for copyright there is no intellectual property obligation for attribution.

  Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 22:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

The reason I am asking is because if one looks at one of the sister ships for the HMCS Prince Robert - for example the HMCS_Prince_David_(F89), there is a lot of material in that page that can be replicated for the Prince Robert as they shared a significant amount of history and commonality but I don't want to just copy and paste another page without giving appropriate credit (or plagiarizing another Wikipedia author's work. PhoenixAF24 (talk) 03:19, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

The whole point of the copyright licenses we use is that people should be able to copy other people's writing with few limitations other than attribution and releasing the new work under the same license. As long as you link the source page as mentioned above, you're giving proper credit and attribution, and anything you add to Wikipedia is automatically released under the same license. So as long as you properly supply the links suggested above, you're good. Nyttend (talk) 03:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Help with editing page for Lisa Fritsch

We have tried to go in and fix the flag to update this page to make it accurate and biographical; however, after editing for nearly an hour, we were given an error and unable to make the changes. Please advise.

Thanks,

DL Gunner for Lisa Fritsch — Preceding unsigned comment added by DLGunner (talk • contribs) 18:19, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@DLGunner: Hi, looks like you got a 'false positive' from the edit-filter log, probably because your edit contained the word "BITCH" in mentioning website "THATBITCHWHO.COM".

The edit is visible if you click your 'contributions' (up top) and then 'edit filter', where you'll find this.

I'm just explaining what happened; I don't have the powers to fix it; maybe others will respond and do so.

Also worth noting, you seem to have added unreferenced information, and removed referenced info. So the edit might not be allowed anyway.

Please be very careful editing an article about yourself (or 'on behalf of' someone you are with). It's OK to fix obvious errors, but for other changes, you should post suggestions on the article talk page, Talk:Lisa Fritsch. You may also post concerns on the biographies of living persons noticeboard and ask that uninvolved editors evaluate it. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:02, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Updating an image on commons

I am having trouble finding the instructions for replacing an image file on commons with a new image, keeping the name the same. The file is here[1] and my edited version has the colors changed to be more readable for those who have red/green colorblindness. I have done it before but I forgot the details.

Also, after I upload the new .svg, do I have to do anything special to cause the .png files to reflect the new .svg file? --Guy Macon (talk) 19:15, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Dear Guy Macon, on the top of the screen there is an "edit" button. On the right of this button is an arrow. Put your mouse on the arrow to reveal a drop down menu. Click "upload a new version of this file". All files are seperate and need to be updated seperately, so you will have to manually create .png versions. All the best, Taketa (talk) 19:19, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I don't have a menu there so I guess it depends on settings. I do have "Upload a new version of this file" at the end of commons:File:Wikimedia Foundation financial development multilanguage.svg#filehistory. The scaled png versions will be generated automatically. I guess Taketa was thinking of other files based on it like File:Wikimedia Foundation financial development.png. Such files must be updated manually if you want them to be similar to your new version of the svg file. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

No arrow for me either, but the link at the end of file history worked fine. Thanks!

If anyone reading this happens to be red/green colorblind, please take a look and tell us if you can tell the columns apart by color. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:49, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

The Google search color blindness simulator finds some tools which may be useful. I'm not color blind and haven't tried any of them. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color also mentions some tools. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:17, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: Don't! its made hard for you to do on purpose. It is against Commons policy (commons:Commons:Overwriting existing files) to upload a new image over an existing one, upload with a new name, something along the lines of "old file name-colour corrected".--KTo288 (talk) 11:40, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

commons:Commons:Overwriting existing files#DO overwrite includes "minor and uncontroversial color correction", but I don't know whether this would normally be considered within that. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:56, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Depends if anyone notices, and if anyone takes issue with it as to whether it would be considered uncontroversial or not, for this file it would not be one in which I personally would insist on keeping the original, however im my experience if you look over the file history the greater the number of editors there are and the greater their investment in a file the greater the possibility of precieved controversy. My advice in this case is to upload under a different name.--KTo288 (talk) 12:14, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

"jay"

I was looking for the meaning of "Jay". As an Indian, we use "Jay" as greeting with adjoining word ie. Jay Shree Krishna, Jay Ambe, Jay Mataji, etc. for conversation and/or writing an email. It is possible to add this in dictionary so it can provide clear meaning.

Thanks Mukesh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.83.102.134 (talk) 19:44, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and this is the English Wikipedia. In English, the word almost always refers to the bird, so that is the "primary topic". We do have Jay (disambiguation) for other uses of the word.86.20.193.222 (talk) 20:37, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

There is also our sister project the wiktionary at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page which is a dictionary and spans multiple languages. RJFJR (talk) 00:46, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Jay Mukesh. ;) I guess this question would fit in quite well at the language section of Wikipedia's Reference desk. See: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language. Jahoe (talk) 19:45, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Jahoe & RJFJR for those helpful positive directive responses. Much appreciated. Maineartists (talk) 14:33, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Potternewton

In the Potternewton Hall section of this page, there are some strange symbol around the word "circa" in the first line. I did not do this edit. Please fix Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.105.164.74 (talk) 22:43, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

 Done This was just an error in the template's syntax. I fixed it so it should be OK now. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:48, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

March 9

Saved Pages

I have been recently been using the mobile app version of Wikipedia. It has been very useful for quick background info on daily questions. The one feature I love the most on it is its 'save page' feature, I can always turn back to a page I haven't finished reading or would like to research more. The issue is the pages seem to be all saved locally on my mobile device. So I log onto my computer and wish to continue the same article but I cannot. Is there a saved pages tab when I log into my profile on a desktop? Do the pages store in a 'cloud server' if I log into my account on a different mobile device? If not, what exactly is the point of having a account to save pages if not accessible cross platform when logged into it? HenryG154 (talk) 02:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

National Mario Day on Mar-10 th

Could someone please upload a file for me?

I have put in a request, Wikipedia:Files_for_upload#The_Nintendo_YouTube_video_of_National_Mario_Day

The article is about a holiday tomorrow, so it would be great if it was added in the next day.

Mar-10 is National Mario Day. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 07:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

A "holiday"? Really? It looks more like just a publicity gimmick for the company which distributes this game. Frankly, I can't see how that article belongs on Wikipedia at all.--Gronk Oz (talk) 08:08, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Gee, and you nominated it for deletion. That's the last time I'll ask for "help" here :-s 86.20.193.222 (talk) 08:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

My timing probably left a lot to be desired there. I do hope it won't put you off using the Help Desk. If you think there is justification for the article, then please feel free to contribute to the deletion discussion here. --Gronk Oz (talk) 12:35, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

My upload request has now been completed. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 08:25, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Resolved

problem editing my profile

hallo, i'm Fabrizio Bortolon, and i try to give you the right and complete data about me and my life, work, skill, study, sport experience, but you told me it's wrong way. why? what i make wrong? please let me know and i try to make my date clear. thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabdrbor (talk • contribs) 07:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Fabdrbor
Firstly, that page is NOT "your profile" - it is our encyclopedia article about you, and as you have a Conflict of interest you should not be editing the page at all, but suggesting edits on the talk page
Secondly, your additions are in Italian, whereas this is the English Wikipedia
Thirdly, your edits are entirely unsourced, Wikipedia is not at all interested in what you "know", it only includes information that has already been published in reliable sources with references citing those publications, so the information can be verified.
Please do not edit the article again, but make proposals at Talk:Fabrizio Bortolon citing appropriate reliable sources - Arjayay (talk) 07:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Is this not a suitable AfD candidate under A3? Also struggling to find notability amongst the thousands that compete in these events.--Aspro (talk) 11:45, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

ok! thanks for your answear, but, i like to ask you, for risolve this problem i have, first, what kind of conflict i have whith you? i don't understand, can you explain better? second. of course i write in italian, it's my, you can see, in english i'm not very good, and, if i write in italian wiki, can be easy editing? and where is the italian wiki? where i can find? thirdly. what means <<make proposals at Talk:Fabrizio Bortolon>>?? thanks in advance ;-)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabdrbor (talk • contribs) 15:52, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Read: Wikipedia:Contenuti promozionali o celebrativi. It explains (in Italian) your conflict that you have with us. If you edit italian wiki you will still have to prove notability. My Latin is better than my italain but you can probably bring it up here: Aiuto.--Aspro (talk) 22:07, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Repeated re-creation of an advertising non-notable article

The article Snatch bot (and variations with and without the space, and different capitalization) has been created and Speedy Deleted four times since yesterday. I have just tagged the fifth iteration for speedy deletion. The single-purpose editor is not attempting to engage, just re-creating the article. Is there some way to prevent this from going on forever? --Gronk Oz (talk) 07:59, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I've blocked the user and deleted the page as it's not really any different from the version that got G11'ed. I'm only seeing it being deleted twice at SnatchBot, even though it was nominated four times. Where there other other pages that I missed? If there were other pages (and so other spammers), that would mean there's a sockfarm that any admin would be happy to torch. Ian.thomson (talk) 08:18, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• @Gronk Oz: In the future, such cases are best reported at WP:ANI. Apart from blocking the offending user, an article can also be WP:SALTed. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:30, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for that - I have added ANI to my Big Book of Magic Wikipedia Spells. --Gronk Oz (talk) 12:46, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• @Gronk Oz:, in practice, if there have been three or more deletions in a short time period, it's likely that the next admin will block and/or salt anyway. If caps etc tweaks are used to hide the recreation, you could also contact one of the deleting admins. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:11, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia

There is an entry about me (Peter Bellwood) in Wikipedia, but it is 10 years out of date. I have no idea who put it in, but until about 10 years ago it is accurate. How do I bring it up to date, especially with publications? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.193.111 (talk) 09:06, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for asking about the article. You can get help in a few ways. You may ask for help by going to the Peter Bellwood article page. On that page click the "talk" tab at the top of the page, then click "new section" and write a message requesting editors to add the updated information, which you can show and must support with published references/citations (very important), either online or conventional. This indirect method of editing about oneself is preferable, because Wikipedia strongly discourages people from editing articles about themselves, as described in the conflict of interest guidance. Anything you want to add or change will need to be verifiable through published references, and not dependent on only your statement. You might also place a message on the Talk page of User:Wtmitchell, who created and expanded the article and seems to know a lot about Prof. Bellwood. You may also register an account and place {{Help Me}} (include the curly braces) on your account Talk page and describe your needs; that message will automatically attract attention from editors who can offer help. DonFB (talk) 11:54, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Ditto: As you have a conflict of interest, the safest way is to place your suggestions (with references and links to them wheresoever possible) on the article's talk page. If you make it as easy as possible to provided referenced information (not your own recollections -as we need verifiability) then other editors are more likely to check them. Thus, updating the article. Hope this helps. I have the article on my watch list now, so maybe can give you further help with what it is we need.--Aspro (talk) 12:04, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Finally, if you have a fairly good idea of what a necessary change would look like, go to the talk page (Talk:Peter Bellwood), start a new section, include the code {{request edit}} at the top of the new section and describe your change in a "change X to Y" format with supporting references. This will get you a faster reply. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:08, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Oh shucks. I should have suggested that but unless he has the support of a younger computer literate whizz kid, he may find adding the tag {{request edit}} harder than deciphering the Rosetta Stone. He shouldn't worry though. Just start by adding requests to the talk page. We will add the necessary code/tags.--Aspro (talk) 22:36, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

question

How long does brain activity continue for after blood has been drained from the arms? felt_friend 09:11, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

This page is for questions about editing Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. - X201 (talk) 10:52, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Updating and creating pages following a rebrand

Hello

On Monday (6th March), zanox rebranded to become Awin (press release here: https://www.awin.com/gb/news-and-events/awin-news/zanox-and-affiliate-window-rebrand-to-awin). We have found three zanox pages for Germany, Sweden and Poland:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanox https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanox https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanox

Please can you let me know how we can update/remove these pages and also create a new page with Awin?

Your help in this matter would be much appreciated.

Kind regards, Sarah — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.110.111.101 (talk) 09:12, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Hello and welcome to the English-speaking Wikipedia.

First, I have to point you to WP:PAID, a link about Wikipedia's policy concerning for-profit edition. If that request is part of your job, it must be disclosed per the terms of use of the Wikimedia Foundation that operates the various language Wikipedias.

The local Wikipedias are (relatively) independent projects; you will need to go separately to de, pl and sv wp to ask them and check their rules. On en-wp (here) changing the title of a page is called "moving" a page, and it is not done merely because a company decides to rebrand itself; what matters is the name independent sources use (it may or may not be the case on other wp).

The simplest way to ask for such an action is to go to the respective talk pages, located at de:Diskussion:Zanox, pl:Dyskusja:Zanox (yet to be created), and sv:Diskussion:Zanox, open a new section and state your request (if possible, in German, Polish and Swedish). If language issues arise, you can go to the respective "embassies" of those Wikipedias and state the request in English; those embassies are located at de:Wikipedia:Botschaft, pl:Wikipedia:Ambasada and sv:Wikipedia:Bybrunnen (no specific "embassy" on sv-wp).

Also, please WP:SIGN any future posts by typing four tildes ~~~~ at the end. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

The German article has actually mentioned the new name since the day of the rebranding.[2] PrimeHunter (talk) 22:18, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Thecommish

Dear sirs I am mentioned in the article on Thecommish You have incorrectly labeled the reason why I resigned I have never been subject to any formal charges and have been cleared of any wrongdoing and I retired from city service after 31 years of service. Had I did anything wrong I would not be eligible for any pension. I was never fired for "unprofessional conduct" as this article portrays me. Please correct this or I will hired an attorney and seek damages Anthony Schembri — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.1.249.234 (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Editor has been warned about legal threats, and informed that they must be withdrawn or a block will follow Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I have deleted the unreferenced negative description from The Commish article unless a reliable source for the claim can be provided. WP:BLP applies. DonFB (talk) 14:07, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Dear Anthony: the editors did not remove / warn based simply upon request; but because the content did not have a reliable source. WP cannot grant requests based on username claims of subject relationship; otherwise, any user / editor could claim to be the subject of an article. Second, you run the risk of being blocked yourself by making legal threats against WP. I kindly suggest removing the statement regarding the hiring of an attorney and seeking damages. Maineartists (talk) 14:17, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Toni & Guy

How do I go about getting a page restored? There was a page on Toni & Guy hairdressing company but has since been deleted. Before I create a new one for my employer Toni Mascolo I want to see if the deleted page can be restored. Please let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gleniboy75 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

The article was deleted by DragonflySixtyseven at 05:20, June 11, 2015. You will need to discuss restoration with that admin. You have an obvious conflict of interest, and you should not be attempting to create an article for your employer anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Capitalization of article links in hatnotes

Should article links in hatnotes be capitalized, per WP:NCCAPS? (I ask because I just noticed that the article links in the hatnotes in the current version of Personal knowledge management are not capitalized, contra WP:NCCAPS; if this is incorrect then I will correct it, and I will correct other such errors that I may notice in the future.) Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 13:52, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey Biogeographist. Convention on Wikipedia is that pretty much everything follows sentence case. The only major exception to this that I'm aware of is MOS:LCITEMS, which doesn't apply here. TimothyJosephWood 14:54, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Timothyjosephwood: Thanks. That was my understanding, but lately I have been noticing hatnotes that have article links in all lower case, like the example I mentioned above. I will edit WP:Hatnote to say that article links in hatnotes should be sentence case. Biogeographist (talk) 15:34, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Biogeographist, for what it's worth, looking through the examples on HATNOTE, it looks like all of the examples in which they use lowercase article titles are examples of what not to do. For good measure, today's FA also follows the standard title capitalization (i.e., cap first word and proper nouns). TimothyJosephWood 15:47, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Timothyjosephwood: Right, article titles that are composition titles use title case, as mentioned in WP:NCCAPS. I edited WP:Hatnote. Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 15:59, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Shouldn't hatnotes simply display whatever the article displays at top, like Dog and other normal words with capital first letter, but iPhone (disambiguation) since that page uses {{lowercase}}? H2O redirects to Properties of water which says H2O (disambiguation) but maybe that should be H₂O (disambiguation). I guess that's a discussion for Wikipedia talk:Hatnote. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:39, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: That is my understanding: capitalization per WP:NCCAPS, and not all lowercase as the hatnotes in Personal knowledge management were before I fixed them. Biogeographist (talk) 21:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

2017 Conference USA football season

Can You Fix the dead link on the article. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 17:03, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I assume you mean for someone to create the article so you can expand it. I have done so with some short placeholder text. See 2017 Conference USA football season. Please edit it and expand it with referenced text, or it is likely to get deleted shortly. You can use other similar articles as models, such as the 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference football season. --Jayron32 17:08, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

PUBLIC SERVICE NOTIFICATION

How can someone that you want to hire,will know when to start working online? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamad olatunde (talk • contribs)

Huh? TimothyJosephWood 18:36, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Hamad olatunde: If you mean Wikipedia editors then they are not hired. They are volunteers and just edit when they want to, unless their account is blocked to protect Wikipedia from disruption. There is no application procedure to become an editor. See also Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia? PrimeHunter (talk) 18:46, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Sarah Oppenheimer copy-paste question

Request for experienced eyes--I found this copy-paste situation between the Sarah Oppenheimer page (diff) and this site. What sent me checking for a copy vio in the first place was that the language sounded less encyclopedic and more like art world text, so when I found the exact language elsewhere I removed it from the WP entry--but now looking more closely at the edit history (in which that paragraph seems to have evolved organically over a period of years rather than copied in all at once), I'm thinking the site copied Wikipedia text rather than the other way around. I'd just revert myself, but to be sure I'm not adding back copy vio material, would someone mind having a look through to confirm it's all above board (and if yes please feel free to go ahead and revert me.) Thanks so much. Innisfree987 (talk) 21:11, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@Innisfree987: The site definitely copied our article, specifically this revision. Their text is identical to the lead except they removed the references and all whitespace at new paragraphs. They don't even have a space before starting a sentence which starts a new paragraph at us. Many of their other pages acknowledge they were copied from Wikipedia, e.g. https://theartstack.com/artist/irene-kopelman/about where they even copied a working section edit link to our article. I guess they have lots of user generated content and some users copy from Wikipedia with or without attribution and using different copying techniques. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:03, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for having a look PrimeHunter. I definitely noticed the text was identical but I wanted to be sure I was understanding the edit history correctly that it was developed over time at Wikipedia, and then copied out, rather than copied into Wikipedia. If that seems correct, I'll put it back in the entry. Thanks! Innisfree987 (talk) 04:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

@Innisfree987: You may want to add {{backwardscopy}} to the article's talk page to prevent other folks from having to spend time doing this sort of investigatiion in the future. Deor (talk) 19:38, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

March 10

How to know when your article is published

I thought I had published article on the Franklin Electric (band), but it has not shown up on Wikipedia, but it still lets me edit and includes it in my contributions. how do I know if it worked? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Layre035 (talk • contribs) 01:37, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

I suspect by "published" you mean that it shows up in a basic search. Pages in the main namespace ("mainspace") are what you're talking about; you can tell that a page is in mainspace because the whole page title is the name of the name, while pages in other namespaces (which don't show up in a basic search) have the name of the namespace before the pagename. For example, this Help Desk is not in mainspace; it's in the "Wikipedia" namespace, so the whole page title is "Wikipedia:Help desk" even though the page name is just "Help desk". Applying that answer to your question: since "The Franklin Electric (band)" is the page name, the title "Draft:The Franklin Electric (band)" shows that it's still in the "Draft" namespace, not in mainspace. This is resolved by a pagemove, which you have the ability to do. At the top of the draft page (and at the top of virtually every other page on Wikipedia), you'll see a little tab inscribed move. Click it, go to the dropdown, change the selection from "Draft" to "(Article)", supply a reason (something like "Draft complete" or "Publishing article"), and finally click the "Move page" button at the bottom. Nyttend (talk) 02:57, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

@Nyttend: The draft had been submitted for review through the AFC process, but in this edit the OP had accidentally left a comment unterminated, thus stopping the submission notice from being displayed. I have corrected this, so it is now clearly back in the AFC queue, so the OP shouldn't need to move the draft himself (with the consequential need to tidy up the submission process). --David Biddulph (talk) 08:47, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. Those unclosed comments can cause issues; see the "Egads!!" section of Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 107, where I discovered that an accidental unclosed comment on MediaWiki:Sitenotice will cause chaos literally on every page of the encyclopedia. Nyttend (talk) 15:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

R from pronunciation to odd spelling

Wythe County, Virginia is pronounced like the preposition "with", and Smyth County, Virginia is pronounced like the noun "smith", so I've just now created With County, Virginia and Smith County, Virginia to accommodate anyone who remembers the pronunciations but not the precise spellings. Do we have a good redirect template for these? It's not {{R from incorrect name}}, because the documentation shows that it's for situations like redirecting UK Cycling to British Cycling, and it's more of a pronunciation respelling than a spelling error, so I'm not sure that {{R from misspelling}} is appropriate either. Nyttend (talk) 03:07, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

How about {{R from modification}} ? - X201 (talk) 10:38, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

That's more for McDonalds ==> McDonald's or Abatement of a nuisance ==> Nuisance abatement, judging by the documentation and WhatLinksHere. Nyttend (talk) 13:06, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Let's ping Paine Ellsworth (talk · contribs), the RCAT specialist. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:13, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

To editors Nyttend, X201 and John of Reading: thank you for the ping, John! IMHO, these would be R from misspellings to populate Category:Redirects from misspellings, a subcategory of Redirects from incorrect names. As described in the rcat, these are great search terms and precisely why the rcat was created. The alternative would be to create a new rcat, {{R from phonetic spelling}}, and a new maintenance Category:Redirects from phonetic spellings, which would be a subcategory of Category:Redirects from misspellings; however, that would be a tracking category and would need editors who are willing to track the entries. Seems simpler to use R from misspelling, since they are indeed just that and are very useful search terms.  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  13:39, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Just a quick little story about the word "ping" that always comes to mind when I see the term. You may remember that in BMT (basic military training), one thing they do is cut all your hair off. After BMT and being sent to our various bases and posts, some of us walked around the place to get familiar. Whenever we would pass troops that had been there awhile, we would hear them go "ping PING PING! (the final ping was loud, long and an ear ringer). We wondered WTF that was all about, so we asked a seasoned member of our squadron. We were told that "ping" is the sound your hair makes as it grows out. Thanks for listenin' and have a great day!  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  14:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the input; I've tagged both redirects and added HTML comments explaining that it's for the sake of pronunciation. Nyttend (talk) 15:18, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Created a page named Webkul Software Pvt. Ltd. (Under review). But the heading is appearing: "User:Myname/sandbox". Why?

I have created a page name 'Webkul Software Pvt. Ltd.' and the page is in under review process. But when I try to show preview, the heading is appearing like User:my name/sandbox. I want to know why is it appearing like this? Also, the process, by which I can correct it. Thanks PriyaV (talk) 03:56, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

PriyaV, look at my response two sections above this one; the situation's basically the same, although you've made few enough edits that you don't have the ability to move the page yet. Just make nine more edits to any page, and you'll be able to move pages. Nyttend (talk) 04:15, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps not wise to advise the editor to move the sandbox draft himself, under the circumstances. The draft has been deleted for the third time as "(G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: company spam)" PriyaV needs to read the advice on his user talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:54, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Diane larsen-Freeman176.232.4.71 (talk) 05:48, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

10 March, 2017. I have submitted an article about Diane Larsen-Freeman, who, as anyone who is familiar with ELT will know, is a well-known figure in the field. The article was also revised and re-submitted (last December), but since then I have heard nothing. How can I find out when it is likely to go "live"? Since we have a big conference coming up next month, it would be nice to be able to see it. Many thanks, Carol 176.232.4.71 (talk) 05:48, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

The article was deleted by an administrator on Dec. 13, 2016, seemingly at the request of the author. I have notified the administrator of your question and suggested they respond here. DonFB (talk) 08:19, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

The article I deleted, Diane Larsen-Freeman, was created by Editor 357. In the initial version of the article it contained "this is a test". Within the same minute Editor 357 blanked the page. It was tagged for deletion as G7 about 10 minutes later and I deleted it a half hour after that. There is a draft article about her that was also created in December, Draft:Diane Larsen-Freeman by Carolgriffiths5. That may be what this is talking about. ~ GB fan 17:57, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Alternative account with no notification, but not necessarily sock puppetry?

If I have an indicator (WP:PREC) that a certain account is an alternative account for another user (who I do not know), and no information that this is an alternative account was provided (WP:SOCK#NOTIFY), should I take any action if no other indications of sock puppetry is present? In this case, besides WP:PREC the account seem to edit BLPs almost exclusively (not exactly WP:SPASOCK, but odd), thus the preoccupation. From what I understand from WP:SPI it would not be the case for an investigation here, but should anything else be done? Perhaps notify the user himself of WP:SOCK#NOTIFY? Saturnalia0 (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Help with Android app

First of all, I'm aware that this is not the right place for this kind of query, but I appear to have exhausted the normal avenues. I have a user query relating to the official Wikipedia Android app. The Wikimedia page about this app is here. At the bottom of the page there is an email address, which I wrote to three weeks ago and have not received a reply. So a couple of days ago I tried posting a note on the associated talk page, which no-one has replied to either. So I'm just about ready to give up, unless someone here can either answer my query (is it possible to edit a reading list) or, better still, get someone from that project to contact me, either on that page or via email. Many thanks, --Viennese Waltz 08:26, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay! When browsing your reading list in the app, you can "swipe" away items from the reading list to delete them. DBrant (WMF) (talk) 17:18, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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

Dear Sir or Madam,

The final paragraph of sub-section 'Decline and Loss to the Sea' states that "the sea defences there continue to be maintained by Trinity House".

This is inaccurate. Trinity House only maintain sea defences where or it has property interest or, in some cases, where they relate to an active aid to navigation . Neither is the case at Reculver.

I would therefore be grateful if you would amend the article to omit this sentence.

With thanks,

Peter Hill, Estate & Property Manager, Trinity House

62.6.152.98 (talk) 11:20, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

I've fixed this; the person who added that was using a 19th-century source which said that Trinity House was maintaining the sea defences in 1867, and left the crucial date out. In future, if you see anything problematic on Wikipedia you can just amend it yourself via the "edit this page" button at the top of (almost) every page. ‑ Iridescent 11:32, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

But be careful if it's something you have a conflict of interest with. - X201 (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

@Iridescent: Another editor has reverted your change, claiming the 2012 book as justification. I don't have access to the book in question, so I don't know to what extent that book contradicts the assertion of the OP here. May need discussion on the article talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:54, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

EDITING JOB GROUP

Hello,I am doubting about the pages that are showing up on wikipedia online.If I can see someone to tell me the one to edit or not,I will be happy.I am trying to avoid a mistake,that will not make me to receive payment again,online.Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamad olatunde (talk • contribs) 12:32, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Hamad olatunde. You seem to have a misunderstanding about Wikipedia. As you have been told before, we are all volunteers here. No-one should be paid for editing here. Sorry to disappoint you. Dbfirs 12:42, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

incorrect page

Hello, I would like to point out that the naive Max Fourny art collection is no longer visible at Halle Saint Pierre, which has since 1995 become a museum of art Brut and Art Singulier, with exclusively temporary exhibitions. Thanks to deleted this page which mistaked potential visitors. The Halle Saint Pierre got an official site : http://www.hallesaintpierre.org/ and official wikipedia page too : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Saint-Pierre. Best regards

Olga Caldas Communication of Halle Saint Pierre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.204.222.86 (talk) 13:47, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Comment This seems to be about Musée d'Art Naïf – Max Fourny, which seems defunct; it should probably be an article called "Halle Saint-Pierre" saying it used to be called "Musée d'Art Naïf – Max Fourny", and maybe expanded with what it is now. Unfortunately, Fr:Halle Saint-Pierre has no references, and looks more like a brochure, not so encyclopaedic. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

List of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episodes

there is now a series 3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.30.133.61 (talk) 15:43, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

• Thank you for your suggestion regarding List of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episodes. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:37, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Ugh. Templates. You may want to bring this to the attention of the editors interested in the article itself on the subject's talk page here: List of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episodes Talk Page. It has been questioned whether there will be a Season 3. It's easy enough to format -- if someone has the time and knowledge. Good luck. Maineartists (talk) 19:37, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Large number of citations

I believe I read at some point that having too many citations (like over 10) to support a sentence may actually be nonneutral. I've looked at various policies and guidelines but cannot find any guidance on the number of citations. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Bahooka (talk) 16:11, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

The content guideline WP:BUNDLING leads to the essay Wikipedia:Citation overkill.86.20.193.222 (talk) 16:50, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Bahooka (talk) 16:53, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Getting review of new article

I've created draft of my first article. Will editors find it on their own or do I have to put it somewhere? It's here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Michele_Ragusa

I appreciate your help. Parplaywright (talk) 21:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

If you want to submit it for review, add {{subst:submit}} to the top of your draft. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:43, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

March 11

Administrator needed to create a redirect

Someone requested the creation of an article on National Academy of Education HERE. The article actually exists, but with a slightly different title: National Academy of Education (NAEd). I tried to create a redirect for National Academy of Education, but found that such creation could only be done by an administrator, due to an unfortunate history of articles with that name. This seems easy to fix, but an admin needs to do it. The best solution might be to rename the "NAEd" version, instead of redirecting to it. Who can help? Lou Sander (talk) 01:51, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

• Created it for you. Monty₈₄₅ 01:57, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Lou Sander: Actually, would it make more sense to delete the redirect and move the article there? Seems like the redirect is at the better location... Monty₈₄₅ 02:01, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Dear all, I have moved the page. All the best, Taketa (talk) 04:37, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Lupton family

If this is a reasonable suggestion, and I think it is, please add the page Yorkshire to the category section at the very end of this page. Much of this page deals with Yorkshire. 144.139.53.175 (talk) 08:25, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Dear Madam/Sir, the article Lupton family is already part of the category Leeds. The category Leeds is part of "Cities in Yorkshire". As such, I don't think a seperate category Yorkshire is needed. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 09:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

I meant to suggest West Riding of Yorkshire. Please add to categories if you see fit - I sincerely believe it is most relevant144.139.53.175 (talk) 09:18, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Category:Leeds is part of Category:Local government districts in West Yorkshire, which is part of Category:Local government in West Yorkshire, which is part of Category:West Yorkshire. We do not put each member of a sub-category separately into all of its parent categories. Please read WP:Categorization#Subcategorization. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:30, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

However, David Biddulph, as far as I can see Category:Leeds is not directly or indirectly included in Category:West Riding of Yorkshire. West Yorkshire is a very different thing from the former West Riding of Yorkshire. Possibly categories corresponding to cities that were in the West Riding, such as Category:Leeds, Category:Sheffield, and Category:Bradford, should be included in the category. I'm not sure where this should be discussed. --ColinFine (talk) 17:04, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire? --David Biddulph (talk) 20:06, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

how much time Article take to get into search result of wikipedia and google search engine

I had wrote an article approx 25 days before but still it is not in a search result of Wikipedia. where is an actual problem.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icewardha (talk • contribs) 10:37, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Icewardha: You made User:Icewardha/sandbox. This is not an article but a userspace darft. I have added {{Userspace draft}} which makes a button "Submit your draft for review!", but I suggest you first check out Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Userspace drafts are not included in searches by default. It appears in Wikipedia's search if you check the "User" box on the search result page. If a draft submission is accepted then it's moved to the encyclopedia and will quickly appear in Wikipedia searches. It varies how long it takes before external search engines like Google index it. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:07, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

AFD percentage

Could someone kindly tell me how to look up what percentage of my AFDs are accepted? Want to make sure I'm at the community standard. Ies (talk) 11:12, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Nevermind, figured it out. Ies (talk) 11:15, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:File Upload

I am unable to upload the Logo of my institution. Upload button is disabled, though I provide all necessary information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suparnarai (talk • contribs) 15:47, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Suparnarai: Your account is old enough to upload files so it sounds like you are missing something. The fields with a red asterisk in the upload form are mandatory but one of us can do it. Is it http://www.stagnescollege.org/images/agneslogo.png? PrimeHunter (talk) 16:13, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Army Aviation Heritage Foundation & Flying Museum page

I was building a page for a Foundation that I volunteer for...the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation & Flying Museum. Last December (for some unknown reason!) I changed my first name used to sign-in from William to Bill. The page was still under construction at that time. Now I am unable to access that page! I have tried to recover it on my own by browsing the Wikipedia FAQ, but haven't had any luck. Could someone please help me recover that page so that I am able to complete the construction & release it for public consumption? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill MacIntire (talk • contribs) 21:39, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Bill MacIntire: I assume you are User:William Macintire. You didn't change username but created a new account where you also capitalized a letter differently. Special:Contributions/William Macintire shows User:William Macintire/Army Aviation Heritage Foundation. The old account still works if you know the password. If you use both accounts then note Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. I recommend you stick to one of them. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:07, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

P.S. You can still edit it, even with a new name. Anyone can edit almost any page. User:William Macintire/Army Aviation Heritage Foundation 86.20.193.222 (talk) 23:58, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Please help - I have tried to upload this file - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olive_Middleton%27s_cousin,_Baroness_Airedale_at_1911_King_George_V%27s_coronation_1911.jpg

I accidently removed another file - New College, Oxford - in the process. I am really sorry. Please return: 1)New College, Oxford pic/file 2)and also the one I am trying to add - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olive_Middleton%27s_cousin,_Baroness_Airedale_at_1911_King_George_V%27s_coronation_1911.jpg

Please note that this pic does not need to have 1911 in it twice. Sorry again for my incompetance 101.182.96.231 (talk) 23:56, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@101.182.96.231: Fixed with this edit, you just got the syntax slightly wrong. You had [[ instead of | before the description, so it didn't close off the code properly.

The normal way is, [[File:FILENAME.JPG|thumb|right|Put a description here.]] 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Citing magazines

Dear editors: Sometimes Google Books results include magazines; for example, one such source that I use a lot is Billboard. The Wikipedia Citation tool works really well on books, but not so well on magazines. Is there an equivalent tool for magazines which I should be using instead?—Anne Delong (talk) 00:36, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Why was National Apprentice Day article deleted?

Hello,

I am wondering why the article was deleted. It is not an advertisement. The article describes the history of the organization's inception, as countless other organizations have done on wikipedia

Thank you

Langeralx