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Some advice on Talk:Coverage of Google Street View for someone who doesn't know how to navigate Wikipedia?

Hey, sorry but didn't know who else to ask. We'd like to make sure that the article in question is correct and up to date but none of us understand the minutiae of how to navigate the bureaucracy of this website. I thought I'd reach out to you to ask if you could look at the situation on the talk page and tell us if there's anything we can do about it.

We seem to be in an argument with some guy who says that posting factual information is "going to the dogs" because he doesn't like how good our reference is, when the reference is someone who scrapes the Google API for change on a regular basis and reports the information when there are large scale updates. From our point of view these things are pretty objectively correct because the article itself is on the topic of what you can see on a website, and our sources are just compiling the data that anyone can check themselves. He keeps going on about how it's "self-published" and therefore it is bad, but again, the actual content is so easily verifiable to literally anyone with a computer, since the article itself is about the content of a public website that anyone can look at, why even have the article in the first place if it won't be updated?

Do you think it would stay up if we just made a lot of Google Maps links and used those as references, since they directly refer to Google?

If you could give me/Seb some guidance on how we would be able to get the factually correct information up to stay up, I'd appreciate it. Thanks for reading. --30 (talk) 23:00, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

@30: Hi there! In general, Wikipedia doesn't base articles on what a subject says about itself, but what other independent reliable sources say about it. At the top of Talk:Coverage of Google Street View (and most article talk pages) are links to WikiProjects. You could post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Google to ask (in a neutral way) other editors to join the discussion at Talk:Coverage of Google Street View#Gone to the dogs again. You could also provide independent reliable sources that are not from Virtual Streets. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 03:59, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Regex

Hello sir, Can you help us at Ks wikipedia. Actually we wanted to change "." to "۔" . Can you create regex code for it. I added this

 <Typo word="۔" find="\b.\b" replace="۔" />

but this is not working as it added ۔ after every word. We want to change fullstop with underscore like dash. Thankyou. _signed, Iflaq ^(talk) 04:22, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

@Iflaq: Hi there! The full stop is a wildcard that matches any character - see Regular expression#Basic concepts. Instead, per Regular expression#Syntax try using \. like this:

 <Typo word="۔" find="\b\.\b" replace="۔" />

Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 04:35, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty Thankyou for helping me. Can we modify it so that it doesn't touch url's if they are replaced the urls will broke. Thankyou once again. _signed, Iflaq ^(talk) 04:44, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

@Iflaq: Could you please give me an example of a URL broken by my suggestion above? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:29, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Besides this i want to know how can we add two finds in a single expression eg.

  <Typo word="مَنٛز" find="\b.مَنز\b" find="\b.منٛز\b replace="مَنٛز" />

as in Kashmiri language we have to make sure these Diacritics are correct. _signed, Iflaq ^(talk) 04:51, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

@Iflaq: To combine the two finds togehter, try this:

 <Typo word="۔" find="\b\.(?:مَنز|مَنٛز)\b" replace="۔" />

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 22:29, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Strasberg quote

 Courtesy link: Draft:Art Aia - Creatives In Residence

Done--Saraino (talk) 15:52, 20 September 2021 (UTC) Hi, I have also added the reference to Sabbagh. Thanks for your help--Saraino (talk) 16:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

McKay Car Draft

Hi GoingBatty, I hope I am doing this right, I am new here so forgive me if this does not work. On my draft I understand why it was declined as I don't have enough references yet, I am still working on it. Thanks for your input and help. You suggested I remove indents and bold lettering but I don't see any there, is this because you edited it already? Or am I missing something? Thanks, I appreciate your help. Escooter21 (talk) 12:05, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@Escooter21: Hi there! When you go to Draft:McKay Automobile and click on "View history", you'll see that Quisqualis removed the bolding and indents in this edit. Good luck with your draft! GoingBatty (talk) 13:05, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

:@GoingBatty: Thanks,I found that after I asked you the question, trying to find out now how to change the draft name, I can't find it in help so far. Escooter21 (talk) 13:09, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@Escooter21: See Wikipedia:Moving a page (and also Wikipedia:Indentation for talk page conversations). GoingBatty (talk) 13:14, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty:Another user suggested letting the reviewer know of my wanting to change the name and they would do it, I did, however make a request after reading what you suggested. I hope this is all typed properly, it is hard to get used to all the rules, although it does make it easier to read comments. Thanks for all you do and for all your help. Escooter21 (talk) 18:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

sources

FYI

 – Combining sections. GoingBatty (talk) 18:30, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi GoingBatty, one of my sources is listed as, "The Nova Scotia Carriage and Motor Car Company, Limited: A Case Study in Industrial Entrepreneurship" by Barbara Robertson. In this Case Study, Barbara has compiled many references to newspaper articles, magazines, books, town council meeting minutes,Registry of Deeds and more. The Case Study in itself should be enough of a reference should it not? It is available to see by appointment by anyone interested. Escooter21 (talk) 17:33, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@Escooter21: Note that WP:ORGCRIT emphasizes that a company "is notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject", so one source is not enough. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 17:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty:I did manage to find a few more sources and I am working hard to learn everything here, it is hard, but I really appreciate all of your help, Thanks. Escooter21 (talk) 18:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Ford

ford is now a dab and probably no longer needed in User:GoingBatty/Backlinks. I'll take on the replacement example of slough. Certes (talk) 20:36, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

@Certes: Thanks for letting me know! I've removed it from my Backlinks and added it to my User:GoingBatty/WPCleaner instead. GoingBatty (talk) 00:57, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

js13kgames

Thanks for taking a look at our js13kgames article. I removed the external links as you recommended! Let me know if there is anything else we can do to speed up the process. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slackluster (talk • contribs) 15:09, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: Draft:Js13kGames GoingBatty (talk) 15:33, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Talk page "fix"

Hello, can you explain this? Is this something that would still happen with the current bot code? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:12, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: Hi there! It appears that {{WikiProject Boxing}} was missing a right parenthesis. BattyBot 21 would now skip the article because the page already {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. GoingBatty (talk) 19:20, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:22, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

LokiOttawa

Hi there...I am looking for advice on moving forward with one of the experts for simple easily verifiable changes. The Stan Shaffer book I referred to was JUST pictures and that is in the credits. Not even his book publisher, world renown TeNeues was allowed to see what he had written. Certainly not me. There are so many other easily sourced and second partied items that I have mentioned and many are in public domain on the internet. I need an IT specialist perhaps. I suspect I am not in your age group and did not grow up with computers. Tatler magazine has asked me for a second interview. They have done one a decade ago which is referenced in my page. Incidentally I did not start my page and have no idea who did. I appreciate it but there is much left out. For e.g. I was nominated for best actress by the Saturns in the 90's. Easily found. My show actually won emmys. Again that can be sourced. Does wiki have anyone available to work on this? Regards LokiOttawa (talk) 11:43, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@LokiOttawa: Hi there! When you start a new post on the Help desk or a user's talk page, please mention the Wikipedia article you're referring to. It took me some research to determine that you're referring to the Louise Robey article. You can look at my user page to get an idea of my age group if you want, but it is not relevant to my editing here. Composing information for a Wikipedia article has more in common with a school term paper than computers: gathering published reliable sources and summarizing/paraphrasing what they say. Since you have a conflict of interest (COI) with the Wikipedia article about you, you should not be editing it directly. Instead, you can declare your COI on your user page and submit suggestions for improving the article on the article's talk page: Talk:Louise Robey with the {{request edit}} template, which will get the attention of interested volunteer editors. Or, you may use the simpler Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard, which is more user friendly for those who are not IT specialists. If you have independent reliable published sources to provide, please do so. The Television Academy website indicates that Friday the 13th: The Series was nominated for Emmys for graphic design and visual effects, which is relevant for the article about the series, but not the article about you. The Saturn Award nomination would be a great addition (with a source), and something you may request. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:18, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi GoingBatty I have put in a word with LouiseRobey talk as suggested asking for editors to help. As for those directors I understand won emmys for my show, it was always a group effort so it affects me and my show. I won an award in Spain in the 90's but forget what it is. I was flown to Madrid 1st class from LA and it was televised. I was on stage and that's all I know. So many other stories. I shall do 2 more interviews with accredited journalists shortly. I hope that helps. Thanks Louise Robey LokiOttawa (talk) 12:39, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

@LokiOttawa: Hi again! For things that are "so easily verifiable", I suggest you provide the reliable sources that will be needed to add the information to the article. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 12:43, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi GoingBatty I await with baited breath any editors who might help to accredit any sources. That I hope is the way to proceed and also two interviews with magazines and online should be a start. As for being engaged to Stan Shaffer I don't have any sources for that. Best Louise Robey.LokiOttawa (talk) 08:30, 30 September 2021 (UTC)