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I was blocked in the past for adding goals to Football players wiki pages. Am I allowed to add goals for league matches without fear of some admin blocking me? EdmondCA (talk) 17:23, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

This page is for discussing the Teahouse, please direct questions about Wikipedia to the Teahouse Q&A forum. Thank you. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 17:26, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

and, as it clearly says on your talk page, you weren't blocked for adding goals, you were blocked for sockpuppetry. Maproom (talk) 10:40, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the Teahouse have a Frequently Asked Question list? If so, should a link to it be available on the Questions page? If not, should there be one? Maybe half of all of the questions that we get have to do with deleted or rejected articles, most often because they are promotional, but also for other reasons, such as being inadequately sourced. While some of the editors who come to the Teahouse won't bother to read an FAQ, some will, and we might not have to repeat the same answers so often. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

In particular, there is a general FAQ, Wikipedia:FAQ. The Help Desk has a link to it. The Teahouse also should. (I think that it needs expansion of question 3, why was my article deleted, to add the most frequent reasons for deletion, but we should link to it anyway.) Robert McClenon (talk) 18:00, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

The WP:Teahouse page does have a link to the FAQ and other help pages. RudolfRed (talk) 20:05, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

The FAQ link isn't obvious, as I assume that you're referring to the one linked through {{Help navigation}} at the foot of the page; unfortunately that template defaults to |state=collapsed. In this case it may be worth altering the call to include |state=expanded. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:31, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Robert. When the Teahouse was established, it was intended to purposefully *not* have an FAQ. Every visitor to the Teahouse, usually brand new editors, were meant to receive full answers. There are many many information pages on Wikipedia, we didn't want to add more. Does that make sense? Thanks! heather walls (talk) 05:58, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

It makes a lot of sense to me, Heatherawalls. I oppose "canned" Teahouse answers, and try to personalize every answer I offer. Nice to hear from you. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:38, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor update

As announced at the Village Pump, VisualEditor is gradually being offered to newly registered accounts. This week, it affects only 5% of new accounts, so you probably won't notice anything. A few weeks from now, the percentage will probably (if all goes well) be noticeably higher. So this is your occasional reminder that if you get VisualEditor questions and that you don't know how to answer, you can always leave a note on my talk page. Also, please let me know if you run across any problems. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks For your Feedback — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techzaada (talk • contribs) 08:33, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Article links

I've noticed when answering questions here during the last couple of weeks that many (perhaps most) of the new editors who post at the Teahouse don't seem aware of how to link to articles. Sometimes they post a URL link, but more often than not, they don't link to or even mention the name of the article being discussed. Is there a way that we could remind editors of how to do this when they post their questions at the Teahouse? It would be a useful learning experience for them, and would also make it easier for those answering questions. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:56, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps an improvement could be made to Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions? --David Biddulph (talk) 16:22, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that would be a good option. Would it also be possible to add something to the box that appears when a user clicks "ask a question". Cordless Larry (talk) 11:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Anyone else? My guess would be that the majority of posts either don't contain a link, or contain an incorrectly formatted one. It might save time spent asking which article posters are referring to or making this kind of edit. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:20, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

It is helpful to us if posters specify which article they are asking about, and even more helpful if they do so by using a correctly formatted link. But using Wikipedia competently involves learning a lot of stuff, and is quite stressful. People ask questions because they are having difficulties with all the stuff they need to learn; and telling them "before you can ask a question, you must go and learn a load more stuff, irrelevant to your actual question" is seriously off-putting. Often, we can figure out what article they mean from their edit history; and there's certainly no need to make them worry about the format of their link. Maproom (talk) 22:36, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Sure, we definitely don't want to put new editors off from posting here. I reckon that something worded along the lines of "If you have a query about a specific article, you can link to it by..." wouldn't put people off, but maybe it's not a runner. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:42, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Is there any page about Fraud NGO in Wiki ?

Found NGO in India are doing Fraud , even seen some sources from Court judgments as well as government authority .

High Court says 99% NGO farud & money making machine

Women and Child ministry found 90% NGo seeking fund are fraud

Ruproy1972 (talk) 11:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)