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February 1

Laird

Ref number 16 on the above page is all wrong. Please help. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 04:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done You misspelled February Eagleash (talk) 04:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Eagleash for your help. should the link "Debretts" in the section "Traditional and current forms of address" have an apostrophe -the page itself has an apostrophe. Please alter if you see fit. ThanksSrbernadette (talk) 05:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done Yes, I believe so. Eagleash (talk) 05:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

One more queery - sorry!- should the quote ref. 17 be rephrased - as it is not correct English: "wives are often remain styled "Lady"." This is not the correct quote I'm sure, as it does not make sense.

It is ungrammatical, but without the original any changes to it are guesswork. However I have changed it to read more correctly - as we still have the title of the source which appears accurate. Eagleash (talk) 05:58, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I've found an edition online that I can access, and verified the current quote as correct (with thanks to User:Eagleash and User:Deor for having updated it). —me_and 18:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Creating a wiki page for a celebrity

the following person is a celebrity and i want to create a page for him being hi PR representative but unfortunately wiki is not allowing the strong references are his website www.saanandverma.com also you can check the star and crew for the same of the mentioned Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai!

Firstly, regardless of his "celebrity status", he should meet GNG criteria to have a Wikipedia article. Secondly, even if he does, you shouldn't create an article about him if you are his PR representative, as this will most certainly trigger a conflict of interest. -- ChamithN (talk) 05:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Please understand, Niteshkeswani, that a Wikipedia article (especially one on a living person) should be based nearly 100% on what people unconnected with the subject have published about the subject in reliable places. What he says, what his website says, and what you want to say about him (as his PR representative) are almost irrelevant; and if such independent reliable sources about him don't exist, then it is impossible for anybody to write an acceptable article on him at present (in Wikipedia jargon, we say that he is not notable). You are discouraged from writing about him; but if you decide to go ahead, you must declare if you are paid to represent him, and you are strongly encouraged to use the articles for creation process to prepare a draft and have it submitted. My personal advice would be to do a substantial amount of work on other articles first, both to get experience of editing, and to demonstrate that you are here to help us improve the encyclopaedia and not just to publicise one person; and when you do come to write about him, to forget everything you know about him, and write only from the independent sources say. --ColinFine (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Editing road infobox problem

Resolved

 – Mb66w (talk) 16:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

In Pennsylvania Route 481, in the Major Intersections section, I changed

"location=Centerville" to "location=Centerville, Washington County" to clear up the disambiguation of "Centerville".

The problem is that it would be better to not display "Washington County". In normal text, I would used "Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Centerville". But this infobox somehow appends the state automatically and apparently normal piping can't be used.Mb66w (talk) 05:38, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

 Fixed, you needed |ctdab=Washington, which is pretty much something you can only figure out by delving deep into the templates. Murph9000 (talk) 05:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Please end an "Edit War"

Resolved

 – 98.227.140.14 (talk) 06:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Uechi-ryū (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The individual “Mark Brelsford” keeps insisting on listing himself as a “Major Organization” of the style on this page.

However, he has no list of schools, no affiliation with an association—the individuals he claims he is under do not list him as a member nor consider him an associate.

Edits made suggested he link to the webpage for his organization which should include a listing of his schools under his organization, or list the officers of his organization. That would solve the issue. He refuses to do this.

Instead he tries to send abusive and threatening messages. In the abusive messages he makes lofty legal claims and claims to membership schools all over the United States, yet cannot name one. Searches finds none. Zero. He is listed on none of the actual "major organization" pages though he was removed from a few years ago, including the organization of the individuals he claimed association with as noted previously.

To avoid an “Edit War” it would be simple for a representative of Wikipedia to decide if this person has enough evidence--or any evidence--he may link to establish himself as “a major organization” or not. Or, perhaps it will be decided to allow single individuals to declare themselves as such and the list may be expanded to include any and all teachers and participants who wish to see their names on Wikipedia.

His further abusive messages will be ignored. Communication with such individuals serves no purpose.98.227.140.14 (talk) 06:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@98.227.140.14: Please take a look at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. It explains how a content dispute should be handled. The process starts out informally, by calmly raising your concerns on the article's talk page, and attempting to directly resolve the dispute between the involved editors, but without formal intervention. So, as a first step, please clearly and concisely explain your concerns about the article on its talk page, detailing precisely what you believe needs to change, and what you believe the changes should be. Ideally, please support your changes with references to reliable sources. Both you and OkinawanUechiMan (talk · contribs) need to stop reverting each others edits, and take it to the talk page. It does not matter which of you is in the right, and which of you is in the wrong, you both need to calmly talk about the content (on the article's talk page), as a first step. If the dispute can't be resolved through informal talk, the process has more formal options. Murph9000 (talk) 06:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@OkinawanUechiMan: N.B. I note that you have already had a warning for possibly making legal threats in relation to this. It is extremely important that you take that warning seriously, and show a good faith effort to have a civil discussion with 98.227.140.14, and take great care to avoid anything which could be interpreted as a threat. The Wikipedia:No legal threats policy is taken very seriously. It is generally not appropriate to resolve Wikipedia content disputes through external communication, so please do not ask people to email you in these circumstances. You must use the article talk pages, so that the discussion around the content is transparent and visible for all editors to review. Additionally, some of the things you have said made it sound like you may have a conflict of interest with the article's subject. Please read the CoI policy carefully. In general, if you have a significant CoI, you should not be directly making significant edits to the article, but posting any changes as requests on the article's talk page. The edits should be made by a neutral and independent editor. Murph9000 (talk) 06:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I have pinged WikiProject Martial arts about this content dispute, in the hope of getting an experienced editor with good subject knowledge to take a look at what has been going on. I do not personally have much detailed knowledge of martial arts, so am not the right person to assess the content and the changes. Murph9000 (talk) 07:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I hope I have tagged this as "Resolved" properly. Should the issue arise again, I will contact the person who made the current ruling. Thanks again!98.227.140.14 (talk) 06:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

You didn't, but I fixed it for you. We were all new at this once.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Submit

Please how can I submit my article for review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JiasaGH (talk • contribs) 11:53, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

In this edit you erroneously removed the feedback from your previous submission, although it said "<!-- Do not remove this line! -->". That edit removed the button for you to resubmit; I've reinstated the feedback for you, so that you can resubmit when it is ready. It is certainly not ready yet, as you have not taken notice of the feedback (particularly about referencing), so please read it. You also need to read the WP:Manual of Style about formatting. You had wrongly moved the draft to Wikipedia:JIA Sports Academy, but I have moved it back to Draft:JIA Sports Academy where it belongs. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

combine page

there have two similar article Environmental hormones、Xenohormone ,can anyone help merging two page?--36.225.98.184 (talk) 12:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Information

can u tell me, How can i place info about a person new person information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagadeesh90329 (talk • contribs) 12:40, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Hello, Jagadeesh90329. Do you mean adding new information to an existing article about a person? Or, do you mean creating a new article about a person not currently mentioned in Wikipedia? In both cases, the information must be properly supported by citations of reliable sources. If you can explain in a little more detail, exactly what it is that you would like to add, we can provide more specific advice. Murph9000 (talk) 12:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Additionally, if you could please include the name of any existing article or articles which are relevant to this question, that would help us to give you accurate advice. Murph9000 (talk) 13:18, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

HMS Victory

HMS Victory (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Although your infomration on HMS Victory was updated in Dec 2015, I am afraid your content is incorrect. The current Captain of Victory is a Lt Cdr B J Smith and has been since June 2015.

Your link to Admirals will require uppdating soon as Admiral Zambellas is being relived by Admiral Jones in April (8th).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.66.150 (talk) 13:28, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Hello, 82.109.66.150. Thanks for your information. Do you have any links to reliable sources which we can use to verify that information. While we always start out by assuming good faith (that you are providing us with accurate information), one of Wikipedia's major goals is to try to ensure that information is verifiable wherever possible. If you can provide those links, it will speed up the process of updating the article. Thanks. Murph9000 (talk) 13:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Updated, & reference included. Thanks for letting us know. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:46, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Colorblind

When you're doing colorgraphics color charts and maps why do you not consider the COLOR BLIND people ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.142.34.144 (talk) 16:48, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Hello, 50.142.34.144. Wikipedia is generally committed to trying to provide reasonable content accessibility for people. If you could please give us some specific examples that are causing you a problem, I'm sure we'd be happy to take a look at them and see if there's any possibility of improvement. With some graphical presentations, it can be extremely difficult to actually adapt them for the color blind. If, for example, they need more than 2 or 3 colors to adequately represent the data, it becomes very difficult to select colors which work well for both the color blind, and those who require high contrast for other visual impairments. So, please give us the specific cases you find problematic, as we have over 5 million articles to try to maintain through primarily volunteer efforts, and it's almost impossible to just hunt down every problem case without some pointers to follow. Murph9000 (talk) 16:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Probably because not all of our thousands or millions of editors have read WP:COLOUR. If there are specific problems, please let us know, either here or on the relevant article talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Link to English Wikipedia in Meta

If I am posting to Meta and want to wikilink to the English Wikipedia, what sort of wikilink notation do I use on meta? If this is explained in a Help document, pointing me to it would be sufficient. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Robert. meta:Help:Interwiki linking says you use (eg) [[:en:WP:Help desk]]. --ColinFine (talk) 18:23, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon and ColinFine: Actually, looking at meta:Special:Interwiki, they have en configured as an interlanguage prefix, rather than an interwiki prefix. I wouldn't use that myself, due to it being the wrong software feature. I'd use the interwiki [[w:Wikipedia:Help desk]] or [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Help desk]] from meta. You can use language links if you want, and they should work (if you remember the : prefix), just the "do it the right way" pedant in me doesn't like doing it that way. Murph9000 (talk) 18:34, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

No infographics in articles about movies allowed?

Hello,

after introducing my infographic

c:File:Una noche sin luna English.jpg

into an article about the movie

A Moonless Night

I found it deleted by another user, telling me that only official posters were allowed. But my infographic was not meant as a substitute for the official poster, it is a structural analysis of the movie!

Unfortunately the user didn't fulfill my request to tell me where this rule was written down

User talk:Reisen8

- so I am trying to get help here to find out whether my graphic is allowed in this article or not (and why exactly). Thank you.--Reisen8 (talk) 18:12, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Reisen8. It seems to me that your infographic constitutes original research, and so is not allowed in a Wikipedia article. --ColinFine (talk) 18:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

... and in any case it isn't in English, so not useful to readers of the English Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:27, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

....It is in English, David Biddulph, despite the title. --ColinFine (talk) 21:23, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I'd been looking at the image which Reisen8 had added twice to the article, which was File:Una noche sin luna.jpg, and I now see that he referred to a different file in his text above. - David Biddulph (talk) 21:37, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, David Biddulph and ColinFine. Sorry, the language was my fault. So, can I bring the English version in? The graphic is not really research, it's the content made visible, such as main characters, time, place.--Reisen8 (talk) 15:28, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

How to edit title of my listing

Hi There! I would like to change the title of my listing from "The Renegade Craft Fair" to "Renegade Craft Fair" as we do not use "The" as part of the brand name. I can't figure out how to do this in Edit mode, any help? Mat 18:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Renegadecraft (talk • contribs) 18:41, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

The process is described at WP:Moving a page. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:44, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I have moved it. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 19:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Just for documentation, a user name change has been approved for Renegadecraft.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Weird capitalization of article title

citizen Effect is not capitalized properly and I can't figure out how to fix it. Legacypac (talk) 20:01, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Fixed by removing {{lowercase}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank-you - learned something new. Legacypac (talk) 20:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I want to create a page about the artist Dolya Goutman

I am Andrew Goutman, the son of Dolya Goutman, who died in 2001. Dolya Goutman was a respected and prominent regional (Philadelphia) artist who deserves his own Wikipedia page.

A child prodigy, Dolya Goutman was born in Russia and emigrated to America in 1930. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and ended up in California in the 1940s, where he painted the artwork for the movie Moon and Sixpence. He eventually landed in Philadelphia, where he taught for a lifetime at Moore College of Art. His bold and colorful paintings were exhibited throughout the region. Numerous press clips attest to his popularity among both art critics and art lovers.

I want to create a page about Dolya Goutman. Please explain the criteria for someone getting his own page on Wikipedia. I've been told there is a protocol.

Thank you.

--Andy Goutman <email address redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewgoutman (talk • contribs) 20:01, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Thank you for asking. I've put a few useful links on your user talk page. If you had thought of writing about a relative, you also need to read the advice regarding conflict of interest. - David Biddulph (talk) 20:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

User Name

How do I get rid of the "User" in front of my name? Should I have done something differently when I created the page?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bishop Ronald Wilson (talk • contribs)

That page is unsuitable as either a user page or a Wikipedia article as it is far too promotional in tone. Please read WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WP:BIO and WP:SPAM.--ukexpat (talk) 21:33, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

While Ukexpat is right, Bishop Ronald Wilson, I think he has answered you somewhat brusquely. You have attempted to create an article on your user page: your user pages are for sharing some information about yourself, if you choose as a Wikipedia editor, not for creating articles. Secondly, autobiography is strongly discouraged in Wikipedia - see the link that Ukexpat provided to understand why.

Thirdly, promotion of any kind (which does not just mean commercial promotion) is forbidden on Wikipedia. If people come here to help us improve Wikipedia, we hope they are made welcome. People who come here just to promote something are much less welcome. --ColinFine (talk) 22:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Donald Trump

I have been trying to add an article to the press template on this page but it keeps displaying an error w/respect to time, and I would appreciate help as I'm not sure what the problem is. Everymorning (talk) 21:42, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@Everymorning:  Fixed, the problem was the |date3 parameter. Murph9000 (talk) 21:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

And, for what it's worth, I recommend reading the new NY Times article added to the press box there. It's an interesting read, and feels like they have been reasonably fair in their characterisation and reporting of WP. (The article is primarily about WP, not about Trump. Trump is relevant in terms of how we deal with the challenges presented by articles of that nature.) Murph9000 (talk) 22:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Carol Rosin Account

My wikipedia account has been taken down and I would like it reinstated.

Can you kindly replace the Carol Rosin Wikipedia account.

Once this is done, I will furnish all documents and files necessary to update the Carol Rosin Wikipedia listing.

Kind REgards, Debbie West, Publicist for Carol Rosin

<phone redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎Westdeb7 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Debbie is apparently referring to this page, deleted in November 2013 as a result of this discussion (having previously survived this 2005 nomination). General Ization ^Talk 23:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Also, Wikipedia does not have Wikipedia listings, instead it has neutral articles written about notable things. As her publicist, you have a clear conflict of interest, and so are strongly discouraged to not write about her.

In addition, you cannot demand undeletion of an article deleted my community consensus as this one was here. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Wikipedia is not a free webspace for publicists to use, and the page was never yours, even if you created it. It was perhaps a borderline decision to delete it because the Italian Wikipedia has an article here. To establish that Carol Rosin is notable in the Wikipedia sense, you will need to provide references for each statement you make, and the citations must be from WP:reliable sources. Facebook, Youtube and blogs are not suitable. You need to disclose your WP:conflict of interest on your user page, then create a draft of the article in your own user space or in draft space, where it will be closely scrutinised before it can be published. Wikipedia is especially strict about WP:biographies of living persons, so you will have to be very careful to avoid any promotional sentences, and write only what is published elsewhere. Google doesn't find enough reliable sources in my search to establish notability according to Wikipedia's strict rules for biographies. Dbfirs 23:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2

The Much Honoured

Ref number 3 is wrong - please fix Srbernadette (talk) 00:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Be bold and fix it.. If you need help, please explain what you think is wrong. RudolfRed (talk) 03:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Srbernadette:  Fixed. It really only needed a quite minor fix. If you review the change I made, you should hopefully be able to see what I did, and what the correct format is. If you need help understanding it, please ask. In terms of the old proverb, we would love to teach you to fish, so that you are able to feed yourself, instead of relying on us handing you individual fish to eat. I, for one, don't mind fixing up your refs for you, as it seems quite clear that you are editing in good faith. I'd equally be glad to help you understand how to do it, as would many others. Murph9000 (talk) 03:43, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

article is "Harry Chapin" I am trying to add citation needed and adding quote from article...here is my source...DEEB,GARY. "'WOLD' Tells Disk Jockey's Station in Life." Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file): 1. Feb 22 1974. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune. Web. 31 Jan. 2016

struggling on how to do this— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjs85710 (talk • contribs)

Tjs85710 it looks like you figured it out. There are more improvements that could be made, but I'm not entirely certain how to do them since I'm not familiar with this type of cite. Maybe someone else can help. As it stands, your edit is now acceptable.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:18, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

WRONG message displayed

List of unaccredited institutions of higher education

In this list, American College of Commerce and Technology has been identified as unaccredited. However, this college had been accredited in April 2015. The wrong message had brought bad influence to the college. Please delete American College of Commerce and Technology from the list. The following is the prove of its accreditation. file:///C:/Users/ESS%20Public%20PC/Downloads/April%20%202015%20Council%20Actions%20(1).pdf (on page 2)

Thank you!— Preceding unsigned comment added by AriaEss (talk • contribs)

You do realize that file is on your hard drive, which we cannot access, right?

Also, I take it from the fact that it's on your hard drive that you're an employee of the school? Please see WP:COI and WP:NOSHARE. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:35, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

It's not quite clear what standard of "accreditation" is required here. This college is accredited by a private organization called ACICS - to verify, search for "American College of Commerce and Technology" at http://personify.acics.org/Default.aspx?TabId=204. However, that accreditation does not seem to be recognized by the US Department of Education, since it is not included on their most recent spreadsheet of accredited institutions at http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/GetDownLoadFile.aspx. There is lengthy discussion of this on the article's Talk page, which I don't feel like delving into, but the overall approach seems to be that government recognition is the preferred hurdle. --Gronk Oz (talk) 15:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Unattributed book directly copied from article

There's been an interesting case where someone directly copy and pasted from articles to create a book that's sold on Amazon, etc. without attribution to Wikipedia. More at: Talk:Monsanto#Someone_used_.22Create_Book.22_feature_for_Monsanto_and_related_entries.2C_and_is_selling_it_as_their_own_work_on_Amazon_and_elsewhere. I know the way Creative Commons works for Wikipedia is that anything from it is fair game for commercial products, but I don't recall seeing a further guidance written on this as far as attribution needed, etc. Could someone point me to relevant guidance on what commercial reproductions are allowed or if there's some place to report/discuss things like this? I haven't quite run into something like this before. Kingofaces43 (talk) 04:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Kingofaces43: There are many "books" like that. See Books LLC. The best guidance I could find was WP:IAF. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 04:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Kingofaces43: Please see Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content and various pages linked from it. CC BY-SA does permit commercial use with attribution. As far as I am aware, it is pretty much a known thing that people infringe on the copyrights of the Wikimedia Foundation and its contributors in this way. If you are confident that it is unlicensed use (which means any use which does not comply with the license terms), you may have grounds for a consumer rights type of complaint to the retailer (Amazon, etc), but I can't be certain of that without carefully reviewing the physical book itself (no thanks, I don't actually want to do that). Giving legal advice is prohibited, so I can't really say more than that or post the extended comments that I'd quite like to post. Murph9000 (talk) 04:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Potato and Murph. I'm not super worried about it. I halfway guessed that these things are just left alone by Wikipedia, but just wanted to be sure. I have seen quite a few books that are direct copy and pastes, but they do attribute and include long lists of editor names at least. Thanks. Kingofaces43 (talk) 04:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Random article landed on non-article

I clicked 'Random article' and landed here. Is this supposed to happen? If not, what needs to change? Thanks, Brycehughes (talk) 06:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

It technically is an article, though the contents consist of a template that provides a soft redirect to Wiktionary. That's not the only such soft redirect we have. A lot of words are given pages like that, to indirectly discourage anyone from developing articles that really belong on Wiktionary. It would be useful, though, if the random article page excluded pages that had a given tag in them. Then it'd be a matter of inserting that tag into the template used on soft-redirects. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Sounds like a VPT thing then. Brycehughes (talk) 07:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Jay Cutler

In your article about Jay Cutler, you have written a warning that says, "This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (October 2009)"

I must inform you, that there is no reason to remove the section, because the fact there, is well known about Jay Cutler, and he even says the same thing, in his YouTube videos. It is a shame that people haven't stated any source(s) from where they got the information from, but that can easily be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.175.198.169 (talk) 15:18, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I removed the unsourced section tag because the section in question does, in fact, cite a source. I added a ref improve tag to the top of the article, as it really is not well referenced overall. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 15:41, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Linked in

How do you remove your name/account with LinkedIn? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.5.22 (talk) 15:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.9 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. -- ColinFine (talk) 16:19, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63/~/closing-your-account The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:51, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

New article

The following transferred from the talk page. Eagleash (talk) 16:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

"If I want write a story what wi be the procedure Ushardul (talk) 15:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)"

OP notified of t/f at their talk page and also suggested that WP:WIZARD might be a place to start. Eagleash (talk) 16:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I wonder if the IP really means "story", i.e. a work of fiction, rather than an encyclopedia article? If so, they need to be advised that this is not the right place. - Arjayay (talk) 16:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Have done so on their talk page - Arjayay (talk) 16:42, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Creating Company Profile

Hi -

I received an Email from an online ad agency offering to create Wikipedia pages for companies. Does Wikipedia publish company profiles submitted to it? If so, what link on your site is the way to access this opportunity?

Thank you 98.149.250.14 (talk) 16:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• Greetings. Generally, we only "publish profiles" (that is, make articles) on companies that meet WP:N or more specifically WP:NCORP. Also, the "profile" (article, in our language) needs to satisfy the policies WP:V, WP:NPOV and a bunch more - WP:NOTADVERTISING especially. Also, if someone is offering you to write an article against money, you ought to be careful about scamming; c.f Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Please, let's not give the "profile" word any credibility. They are articles.--ukexpat (talk) 02:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

• The online ad agency sounds like a scam, I'm afraid. If you were to pay someone to write an article about your company, they'd very likely run up against Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules – it's not forbidden for someone to be paid to edit Wikipedia, but it is strongly discouraged, and there are potentially legal consequences for breaching those rules. If you want an article about your company, your best bet is to establish whether it meets the notability rules that Jo-Jo Eumerus linked to above, and if it does, make a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles. —me_and 19:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key

why was Martin Luther King Jr killed?

Why did James Earl Ray killed.209.129.224.234 (talk) 17:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

This doesn't appear to be stated as a question about citation errors. Please restate this as a question about citation errors. (The question, as stated, is a request for opinion that isn't a proper use of Wikipedia pages. However, this may be a good-faith poorly stated question about citation errors.) Robert McClenon (talk) 18:20, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

I thought I was making the change indicated by the error message. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdlankin (talk • contribs) 18:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I don't see a question or an error message. If you are having a citation error at a particular article, it would help to say what article. We can't figure it out from your edit histories. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

AfD closed as redirect caused confusing/incorrect redirect, what to do?

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Retroscripting was closed as "redirect to Home Movies (TV series)". This has caused confusing/incorrect redirects as both retroscript and retroscripting now redirect to that specific TV show. For example, Poochie (The Simpsons) contains a mention that the episode where Homer gives Poochie's farewell speech was retroscripted to reveal that Poochie was an outerspace alien and was killed when trying to return home. The reader expects the link "retroscripted" to go to an article about retroactively changing scripts in general, but is instead taken to an article about an entirely unrelated TV series. What should be done about this? Should the original article retroscripting be restored? JIP | Talk 19:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

If the redirect has caused unexpected undesirable effects, then it would appear that the closer acted in good faith but may have made a mistake that they were not aware of. I suggest deletion review. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Or, you could just change/remove the redirect- only 4 pages link to retroscript. 1 of them is this page, one is a userpage, and the other 2 seem to have the issue mentioned above.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Joseph2302 (talk • contribs)

I have already initiated a Deletion review discussion and informed the closing admin about this. JIP | Talk 19:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Miss Cayman Islands 2016 Monyque Brooks

hello,

just some facts for her page, she is 5'9" and her eyes are dark brown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.157.148.10 (talk) 19:46, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source as to her height and eye color, which you state are different than the article states? If so, discuss at Talk:Monyque Brooks. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Require to modify an EXPIRED passage

In the list below, American College of Commerce and Technology is identified as an unaccredited school. However, the school had been accredited in April, 2015. The expired list had brought bad influence to the school So could you please delete American College of Commerce and Technology from the list?

Here is the link of the list. List of unaccredited institutions of higher education Here is the prove that the school had been accredited. http://www.acics.org/councilactions.aspx (See April, 2015 on page 2)

Thank you!

American College of Commerce and TechnologyAriaEss (talk) 20:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)02/02/2016

You already asked about this. See the replies to your previous message above. There is apparently already discussion on this topic at the article's talk page, so you should continue the discussion there. RudolfRed (talk) 20:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Where did my sandbox content go?

Please help me with viewing content I have inserted in my sandbox. Only part of it is there and I was very deliberate in saving my page after each addition and edit. R.K. Elliott (talk) 22:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)R.K. Elliott — Preceding unsigned comment added by R.K. Elliott (talk • contribs) 21:31, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Nothing has ever been deleted from your sandbox, as shown by its edit history. Maproom (talk) 22:09, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Mike Nichols: American Masters

− I created the page Mike Nichols: American Masters, but I made a mistake and the actual title of this film is "Mike Nichols: An American Master" I was hoping someone could help with redirecting this article to its proper title.--Deoliveirafan (talk) 21:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

All three of the references you cite in the article, and both the external links, use the name "American Masters'". Wikipedia names its articles according to what their subject is usually called, rather than their "official name". See, for example, United Kingdom or Tony Blair. So the article title should be left as it is. Maproom (talk) 22:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

A redirect, however, is appropriate from the alternative title. I have created it. —teb728 t c 23:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I guess its a bit confusing. In the beginning credits of the actual film the title is "Mike Nichols: An American Master". It can be found from the American Masters link in the External Links section. Whatever you guys think is appropriate but it seems a bit iffy either way.--Deoliveirafan (talk) 23:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

My Standard Online IQ Test.

I took the test, it showed my score and when done, I pressed share to my facebook page. My friends who have taken this test have their score in the form of a certificate posted do their page. Why has mine not shown up.............I took it, paid for it days ago. I wanted it to show up to encourage other friends to take it as well. Please let me know what is wrong if you would. Here is the information. <REDACTED> Thank you kindly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vickie A White (talk • contribs) 23:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.9 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. Rwessel (talk) 23:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

February 3

Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag— Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.190.168.34 (talk • contribs)

Do you see this error in an article? Which one? RudolfRed (talk) 03:37, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Help Saving Page

I am in the process of editing the Fixed Allele page. I added some citations and external links to the page. I also changed the formatting of one of the references and now it won't let me save the page because they say I deleted a reference, although I didn't it is still there just in a different format. PLEASE HELP Klcater (talk) 03:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I don't know why it wouldn't let you save the page, but it wasn't because it thought you deleted a reference. Deleting a reference may be a bit naughty, but the software doesn't check for that. Maproom (talk) 14:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Glen Affric

Have I done refs. number 9 and particularly number 4 correctly on this article. Thanks 101.182.136.195 (talk) 08:50, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

publisher= should usually just contain the name of the publishing organisation, not additional copyright info or similar details. If you are unsure about the publisher's correct name, you can simply skip that parameter (its usage is not required), and add the website's title or other identifying information. GermanJoe (talk) 09:29, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your help German Joe - I find that stuff hard to do. Please help if u can. 101.182.136.195 (talk) 09:48, 3 February 2016 (UTC)Thanks from an old teacher.

Done - see diff and Template:cite web for more info. I have merged both threads about this topic, no need to start a new help thread for a follow-up question about the same topic :). GermanJoe (talk) 10:00, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Please don't get annoyed! Is ref 4 - from an important magazine- on this page OK? 101.182.136.195 (talk) 10:40, 3 February 2016 (UTC) Thanks again for fixing. Cheers

We won't get annoyed if you read what you have been told countless times and take notice. In ref 4 you have |publisher=© 2007 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved|. Less than two hours ago GermanJoe told you "publisher= should usually just contain the name of the publishing organisation, not additional copyright info or similar details. If you are unsure about the publisher's correct name, you can simply skip that parameter (its usage is not required), and add the website's title or other identifying information.", and less than an hour ago he showed you a diff to explain what he'd done, and a link to the cite web template to explain to you yet again what the parameters are. (You have had the same explanations numerous times when you have asked similar questions under your previous IP addresses and from your registered account Srbernadette). He also told you "I have merged both threads about this topic, no need to start a new help thread for a follow-up question about the same topic." and yet you started a new thread here, which I have again merged with the original. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:18, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Japanese Spitz page

Hi I have noted that a picture of one of my pups is being used on Wikipedia and borrowed by everyone....this is fine but would you mind stating that the pup is Aust Ch Havenden Finding Oreo Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.147.123 (talk) 09:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Convenience link to the Commons version of the image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japspitzpup.jpg Maproom (talk) 10:31, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

The image was uploaded to English Wikipedia by Kimyata, and moved to Wikimedia Commons by Jack_Bauer00. It is now in use 13 times, in 10 different Wiki projects. My understanding is that copyright in the image was released by Kimyata, and it can now be used without acknowledgment. And if any acknowledgment is due, it is due to the photographer, not to the dog or its owner. However, it would be courteous, easy, and maybe even helpful to add the dog's name to the image's talk page. Is its name really "Aust Ch Havenden Finding Oreo"? Maproom (talk) 14:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Draft:The Buffelsdraai Landfill Site Community Reforestation Project

I am in distress. Last year July I created an article which was declined due to copyrighted material. Since then, I have been submitting multiple articles with the same title, as I was not aware that amendments had to be done on the very first article (in edit space). Yesterday I tried to delete the articles but the deletions were declined. I am not sure what direction to take moving forward, should I keep submitting the multiple articles or is there a better option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phumelele123 (talk • contribs) 14:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

You have also asked this at the tea-house - please do not ask the same question, multiple times in multiple places - suggest answers added to this thread at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Draft:The Buffelsdraai Landfill Site Community Reforestation Project - Arjayay (talk) 14:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Strange [edit] links in section headings

Greetings, keepers of the eternal flame! The [edit] links for the sections in William Young (Wisconsin politician) seem to have taken on a life of their own. The links appear as LifeEdit, Civil WarEdit etc., rather than Life [edit]. I'm not getting this weird effect on any other page. I'm using Firefox v14, but it also happens in IE v8. I edited the page some time ago, when this problem was not evident. Any ideas? >MinorProphet (talk) 16:09, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Also, if you click the link, nothing happens, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Young_%28Wisconsin_politician%29#/editor/1 appears in the url window. >MinorProphet (talk) 16:14, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@MinorProphet: See also similar discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Incorrect_page_rendition_of_section_titles_and_edit_links_at_Cricket_pitch. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Ahh, I think this used to be called a 'computer error' (ie a lack of Jolt cola & pizza during a 36-hour marathon coding session); how about 'app fail'? Thanks for your help. >MinorProphet (talk) 16:52, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

School Based Selective Mutism Treatment

I have been notified that the article I submitted, "School Based Selective Mutism Treatment" is being deleted due to copyright infringement. However, the article you refer to, "There's A Boy in My Class Who Doesn't Speak" IS written by me and is posted on the SMG website of which I was a past Board member: www.selectivemutism.org. The article I submitted to you, I feel, fills the gap in the information you have posted about "selective mutism". It is edited and very much shorter than my other article of which you speak. You do already have me listed in your references under the topic selective mutism and I did add my name to the article that I recently submitted. Therefore, I'm wondering how we can remedy this. I would really like the "school" information included with your topic of selective mutism. Should I have SMG remove my article, although I don't see how they compare except that there are only so many ways you can state information. Please advise. Thank you. Gail Kervatt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kervatt (talk • contribs) 17:54, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey there, even if it was written by you, it is still currently copyrighted (by you in this case). If you are interested in releasing your text to the public domain, you can read about this and how to do so at WP:DCM. --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 18:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I have been directed to go to "Contest submission deletion", but cannot find that button. Perhaps my article was already deleted? The website mentioned for copyright infringement is my own website. Please advise as I cannot find where to "contest". Do I need to resubmit the article as I feel it is important? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kervatt (talk • contribs) 18:21, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, the article has already been deleted. For details of how to address the copyright problem, read the links on your user talk page, including WP:Donating copyrighted material. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Samuel Bischoff

The photograph displayed on your page for producer Samuel Bischoff is actually a photo of actor George Brent. You might want to correct that.  :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3145:EA70:223:12FF:FE54:CC (talk) 19:38, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Why do you think so? Ruslik_Zero 20:11, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Solidarity (Polish trade union)

There is a guy Special:Contributions/Zezen (probably from Poland) who keeps vandalizing the article deleting referenced information https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solidarity_%28Polish_trade_union%29&action=history. Can you please have a look at the matter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.43.50.185 (talk) 19:45, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Mountain View at Edinboro

Hello,

My business was formally Mountain View at Edinboro, but it has changed names to Mount Pleasant of Edinboro. Please reference our website [1]. to see the updated information. This wrong information misleads our customers.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.211.234.28 (talk) 19:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I renamed the page. Ruslik_Zero 20:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Ashlynn Yennie

Hello!

My name is Ashlynn Yennie and I have a wiki page that was created for me several years ago. I am an actress who starred in the cult film "The Human Centipede 1 & 2" I would love to have an updated picture on my wiki page but I am unsure how to change that picture. Is this something you can help me with. I have a link to the wiki page on my website and would love if the outdated picture could be updated with something from my IMDB page or I can send a photo I have the right to to you all for uploading.

thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashyennie (talk • contribs) 22:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey there Ashyennie - Welcome to Wikipedia! Due to the way our website works, we cannot use just any picture! The picture has to be released to us from copy-right, into the public domain. This means pictures like the one on your IMDB page is off-limits for us :(. The good news is, if you are the photographer, you have the ability to release the picture! See where I am going with this? If you want to take a picture of yourself, you can then upload it to our system and it can be used! As for uploading the picture, you can learn how to do that here! --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 23:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

If you have an image to which you own the copyright (because it's a selfie, or you used a camera with a delay, or you paid the person who took the picture to transfer the copyright to you), you can upload it to Wikipedia Commons, starting here. Uploading it to Commons rather than to English Wikipedia has the advantage that it allows the image to be used in French, Russian, Chinese etc. Wikipedias as well. It will then be up to editors on the various language Wikipedias to judge whether the image is better than the one already on the page. This shouldn't be a problem, as long as the picture shows you full face or near enough, and preferably looking at the camera. (In my irrelevant opinion, the one now in the article looks even better than the one at IMDB.)

Incidentally, I see that you have been editing the article about you. This is allowed, but not encouraged. Adding simple statements of fact is generally ok, but for anything that might be controversial, it is better to describe the changes that you want made on the article's talk page, and hope that an impartial editor will make them for you. And, for anything you want added, it's best if you can give a reference to a published source (like a newspaper article) that supports the statement. Maproom (talk) 23:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

editing wikipedia

hi,

i made several edits to couple of pages to include references to journal articles to support claims made in the article.

i saved these changes and saw them on the screen. however, when i went back to those pages, the changes were not there. in my contributions section, i see the updates to the pages that i made.

are all wikipedia updates verified by someone before they are placed on the website? is that why i'm not seeing the changes that i've made?

thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlow11 (talk • contribs) 23:07, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Rlow11! Every page on wikipedia is editable by everyone, so it was very likely that your edits were quickly reverted. For example, here, your edits were reverted by another editor. They didn't leave a message for you, which is a bit rude, but you can absolutely leave them a message on their talk page to ask them why they reverted your edit! --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 23:14, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Looking quickly through your contributions it seems that a number of your edits were silently (I.e. without explanatory edit summary) reverted by just one or two editors. As Allthefoxes suggests that's not really the best way to do things as your edits contained referenced material and you would have the right to raise the matter at their talk pages. Eagleash (talk) 23:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Actually, at least one of the editors did leave a message for User:Rlow11 at his talk page (some spam warnings). He may not have known to check it though. Dingsuntil (talk) 00:35, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

February 4

help with navigation of wikipedia

What does it mean when a word is colored other than black such as Red or Blue? 2601:1C2:4100:3290:D527:7D38:5E22:DC5F (talk) 00:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Links that are in red mean that they direct you to a Wikipedia space that does not exist or does not have a page. Blue links are either external links, or internal links to a Wikipedia space that does exist. Please feel free to respond with any more questions :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

See WP:Red link and WP:Blue link.--ukexpat (talk) 01:34, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I have added information about the importance of a webpage I just created by saying: "This article is required with respect to a multitude of foreign guests coming to Germany for the Global Summit of all National Ethics Councils/Committees in the world. Participation has double with respect to the previous summit in Mexico, and quite a number of foreign guests as well as observers will be interested in learning more - in English - about the President of the event. The article is by the way connected with a German, longer version, which may serve as a basis to expand the English version as soon as possible. So please do not delete it - the article may be just in time."

The copyright issues mentioned by the automated "copyright violaton mechanism" are unfounded as the CV published on the Webpage of the German Ethics Council is not their intellectual property but has been provided by the described person herself. These concerns should just be dismissed, and I would be glad to have some help on that. Kind regards Doubledoc (talk) 02:56, 4 February 2016 (UTC)