Talk:Wikipedia

I'm confused

Please can someone explain to me how and why it isn't a COI violation for Wikipedians to be editing the Wikipedia article on Wikipedia website? I'm confused! Can we really have NPOV? Darreg (talk) 00:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

I benefit in no way whatsoever from how the Wikipedia article presents Wikipedia. From WP:EXTERNALREL: "While editing Wikipedia, an editor's primary role is to further the interests of the encyclopedia. When an external role or relationship could reasonably be said to undermine that primary role, the editor has a conflict of interest." How would this apply to me if I were to edit the article about Wikipedia? Largoplazo (talk) 00:34, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

A Catch 22? There is no solution to this problem. --Bod (talk) 00:35, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

The solution is that anonymous editors should be preferred over wikipedia members. This was actually how wikipedia was originally supposed to work. The concept of having official moderators who control pages is a recent policy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100A:B127:6565:F437:BF87:6C4F:B164 (talk) 08:26, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I don't see that registering yourself gives you more of a conflict of interest than a person who merrily edits Wikipedia without ever registering. Also, your comment about "official moderators" seems a tangent since the original question was about "Wikipedians", by which I understood "editors", not "official moderators" (whatever you meant by that). Largoplazo (talk) 10:28, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Please refer to COI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100A:B127:6565:5949:D9D8:6865:1FC (talk) 16:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Are you guessing that that page will, somewhere on it, have the answer to my comment, and you'd rather have me spend time looking through it, trying to guess what part of it is supposed to be that answer, than simply answering my comment yourself? Largoplazo (talk) 17:11, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

To avoid all COI, maybe only permanently blocked editors should be allowed to edit this article? Or maybe go even further? Perhaps the ideal solution would be to have only Russavia edit this article. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 20:50, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 April 2017

Percent is spelled as Per cent Edit Dev (talk) 22:06, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

See MOS:PERCENT. Largoplazo (talk) 22:09, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Unexplained {{coi}} tag

@Siuenti: What's the reason for this cleanup tag that you added to this talk page? Jarble (talk) 22:56, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

It was only an April Fools joke, and it appeared Siuenti forgot to remove it. I've removed it. Linguist^talk|contribs 17:52, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

what's the point of a Wikipedia article ABOUT WIKIPEDIA?

how could you be on Wikipedia but not even know what it is? its ironic lol. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.136.67.34 (talk) 16:23, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Does a dictionary have a definition of the word dictionary? Or an encyclopedia have an article on encyclopedias? Yes they do.PUNKMINKIS (CHAT) 16:27, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

New Good Article (Re-)Nomination?

A lot of progress has been done on this page since 2014. A lot of the concerns voiced in the delisting are no longer valid, and the page has been massively expanded since then. Perhaps it is time to put forth a nomination? Cbrittain10 (talk|contribs) 01:27, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Who will check to ensure every sentence is sourced? QuackGuru (talk) 01:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

First we'll need to update this section, which is several years out of date. Jarble (talk) 02:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

I'll pass. Too much work for this page. QuackGuru (talk) 02:39, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Language editions

@Bbb23: per WP:EGG, it is better to make it obvious to the reader that a list exists, rather than the current situation of having a link on the words "language editions of Wikipedia". Most readers wouldn't suspect that a link to another article is there. I removed the current link while adding the {{main}} hatnote to prevent WP:REPEATLINKing; if you feel that the current link should stay, that's fine. feminist 14:30, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

@Feminist: I didn't see the addition of the hatnote. My fault and my apologies. I restored your edit.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:35, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

James Chitalu

born on 20/06/1979 from a family of 6,two gilrs and four boys.he went to muntamba primary school in 1985 up to 1988 and migrated to another part of town as his parents lost a lucrative job.