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March 1

Berowra FC

As a member of the committee I have tried 2x Now to create Berowra FC on wikipedia. I am not very Tech Savvy and doing my best, wikicommons keeps deleting our logo which we have rights to and permitting Wikipedia to use and Wikipedia keep deleting our page even after referencing links etc.

Why is this such a difficult task to get a page up and can someone help guide me in the right direction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wittty (talk • contribs) 00:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@Wittty: This is the Help desk for the English Wikipedia, and you're asking a question about Commons - presumable about previous attempts to upload commons:File:Berowra FC Official Logo.png. Note that commons:Commons:Licensing states that if you upload the logo there, you're stating that republication, distribution, publication of derivative work, and commercial use of the work must be allowed. Does your club really want anyone to be able to legally be able to use the logo to sell T-shirts and other merchandise? For more info, see commons:Commons:Help desk.

Normally I'd say that you would be better off uploading the image to Wikipedia under a more limited fair use license, except the Berowra FC article was deleted because it did not meet Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability" - specifically the general notability guideline. I know this isn't the answer you're looking for, but I hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 00:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

What they said, but also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Berowra FC, where the reasons for deletion are discussed. It would've been nice if commenters there had bothered to link the relvant policies instead of just throwing aroundjargon, they refer to WP:GNG, which is a general guideline for all article, and WP:NFOOTY which is a specialized guideline for football players. Generally only fully professional football clubs are notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Files

Should free files be uploaded to Wikipedia or Commons? Most pages say Commons. Although I cannot remember the name of this page, I do remember a page that said “Free files may be uploaded to either wiki, though doing so lacks the advantage of Commons.” So, uploading to which site would be appropriate in what circumstances? 54nd60x (talk) 06:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Files should be uploaded to Commons in most cases, it is an image repository after all. The only case where you must upload a file locally to the English Wikipedia is when the file is free in the US, but not in the source country, this may be due to the threshold of originality, freedom of panorama or expiry of its copyright protection. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 10:58, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

That answers 54nd60x's question specifically, Dylsss, since it was only about free files, but I am concerned that it nevertheless leaves a partial answer here for others to read. The other case where files should be uploaded to Wikipedia rather than to Commons is when they are not free, but their use in a Wikipedia article meets all the strict criteria in NFCC. --ColinFine (talk) 12:24, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Using Medium.com as a reference

Is it safe to use Medium.com to cite article when it's written by a reputable person/group/company? Ominae (talk) 06:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

See WP:SELFPUB. Yes, if the authors are experts in the subject matter, but not if the material regards living people. Urve (talk) 06:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC) Small edit. Urve (talk) 06:47, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Just wanted to be sure. Saw an article from the site that's used as a reference here, but the writer/company in charge of the article is known. Ominae (talk) 06:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Multiple images in infoboxes

Do infoboxes (e.g. Template:Infobox military conflict) allow the use of Template:Multiple image instead of a single image? (Under what conditions?) --KnightMove (talk) 07:15, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps infobox can also display multiple images.--SilverMatsu (talk) 13:44, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Example conflict
Players are cautioned with a yellow card and sent off with a red card.
Location The help desk

@KnightMove: This should be OK. Template:Infobox military conflict uses Module:Infobox military conflict for all its decisions, which in turn passes the image parameters to Module:InfoboxImage. Line 170 of that module tests for an image beginning with {{ and assumes that the image parameter is a template call that needs no further processing. Here I've adapted one of the examples from {{Multiple image}}, increasing the width a bit and adding |align=center. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Reliable sources?

Dear editors, I want to include the full discography list of an artist to the article, however, the only sources are Spotify and YouTube. Is it possible to include them or we need other sources for that? Sincerely, Գարիկ Ավագյան (talk) 09:00, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@Գարիկ Ավագյան: We don't often see musician's articles with unsourced music, because the lack of coverage suggests the music and by extension the musician him or herself doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. But this might help you find sources Wikipedia:Notability (music)#Resources. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 23:40, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

My DYK nomination

I recently posted a DYK nomination (Template:Did you know nominations/Domus Litonii) at Template talk:Did you know. Did I do this correctly? Is there something I need to do or should I just wait now? JIP | Talk 09:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

JIP It's visible at Template talk:Did you know so I think yep, wait and see, the Good DYK:ers will turn up sooner or later. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:34, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Russian Chronos Encyclopedia

Hi Folks!! I posted a RFC up at the reliable sources noticeboard, about a week ago, but nobody has replied. Are there any Russian experts available that can perhaps take a look at it and form a view on it. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 15:20, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Chronos Encyclopeadia TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 23:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@Scope creep: Have you considered posting a request on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia? GoingBatty (talk) 00:04, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: No, but I do now. I never knew it existed. Thanks. Thanks Tim. scope_creep^Talk 11:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

dead links wikipedia generated

was working on adding a picture to a page and it gave me this:

"We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons."

with 2 links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Licensing and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:First_steps

clicking either of them takes me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Daggerfella (talk) 15:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Why do both of those have en.wikipedia.org URLs instead of commons.wikimedia.org ones? —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 15:34, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Template:Darkgreen Thats the exact problem of this question. The should occur either on WP:FUW or Special:Upload when uploading to commons. Obviviously an error message uses internal links (which go to whichever domain they are on) rather than external links. This issue likely needs to be corrected at commons by a commons admin that can edit the error messages by the edit filters. Victor Schmidt (talk) 15:57, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Those should be interwikilinks [[:Commons:Licensing]] and [[:Commons:First steps]], which display as Commons:Licensing and Commons:First steps respectively, cDaggerfella. But you are using Special:MyLanguage: Help:SpecialPages says of this "When an interwiki Page or an invalid page name is entered after the slash, this page redirects to Main page. So this is documented behaviour, even if it is not really desirable. Are you using some add-on that automatically uses MyLanguage? If so, you need to turn it off to get to those links. I've never heard of Special:MyLanguage before, so I don't know anything more than what I've just read. If you want to pursue this further, WP:VPT is probably the best place. --ColinFine (talk) 15:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

only addons I have is a DuckDuckGo privacy anti tracker, adblocker ultimate and adblocker for youtube (all for security and privacy reasons). seems the adblocker ultimate has a language filter. let me disable it and restart my browser Daggerfella (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:05, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

seems to work now, thanks dude :D Daggerfella (talk) 16:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Name Change to Page Title

Hello,

On the Wikipedia Page for Our Lady of Mercy High School (New York), the title of the page is incorrect. In 2012, the name of the school was changed to "Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women." While it's corrected in the body of the page, we'd like the page name/title to reflect the correct name of the school. What is the best way to request/make this change?

Thanks!

Ktsmith3 (talk) 15:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Request a page move on the article's talk page. Presuming it's not contentious, the move should happen within the week. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 15:33, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Ktsmith3 (edit conflict) Changing an article title requires a page move; you may request a page move at Requested Moves. Please note that Wikipedia articles are not necessarily titled with the official or legal name of a subject(Bill Clinton, not William Jefferson Clinton which is a redirect), but with what independent reliable sources primarily use, if it differs from the official name. See WP:COMMONNAME for more information. 331dot (talk) 15:35, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@Ktsmith3: I've gone ahead and moved it. Hits seem about equally divided between the old and the new, but the best official source I could find has the new title.[1] Clarityfiend (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Removal of run suggestion from runs in Search page.

From the Search page (not the search in the upper right), I have noticed a change in behavior. Before, if I was searching for a mispelling like "fraernity" (in just mainspace), and there were no hits it would simply return that there were no hits, now, it does a search for a suggestion, so it returns the search for "fraternity" and gives me a google like message of "Showing results for fraternity. No results found for fraernity." and allows me to click on fraerniy to do the search with runsuggestion=0. Is there any want to change my preferences so that this does not occur? I'm not interested in changing what searches do when done in the upper right of all pages.Naraht (talk) 16:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Google makes a suggested search if there are few hits. MediaWiki only does it if there are no hits so there isn't much point in clicking the searched term. See Special:Search/sprell for an example with a single hit. It suggests "spell" but shows the result for "sprell". I don't know a way to omit the suggested search if there are no hits. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

TetraVex

Why was this page deleted? Was there consensus among Microsoft employees to sabotage it? The useful content was not salvaged and entirely disappeared from this site. I wound up on German Wikipedia just to understand how the game works. Totally wrong move. DAVilla (talk) 18:44, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

See comments at [2]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Hello, DAVilla. If you can point to several independent reliable sources giving significant coverage to the game, and so establish that it now meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability (not somebody else's criteria), then you can open a discussion on Talk:TetraVex to try and persuade other editors that it should be restored. The version you restored had at most one such reference (if the Information Processing Letters paper met those criteria: I haven't read it). In my opinion the discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/TetraVex back in 2008 should have been resolved as Delete, because not one of the Keep !votes there adduced a single source to support their assertion that it was notable. As for your absurd claim about Microsoft employees, please always assume good faith. --ColinFine (talk) 20:30, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

OK thanks. There might not be much persuasion needed given the AFD discussion, just sources.

On the last point, that was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek. It is instructive tho, that being part of a Microsoft release, a history that for the most part will be rightly ignored and forgotten in coming decades, makes a topic noteworthy in some people's minds, while being a studied mathematical puzzle, which will always exist throughout the millennia, gets passing mention. DAVilla (talk) 22:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

If you have the sources, it won't take much persuasion. If you haven't, then no amount of persuasion will do. "Notable" is in some ways an unfortunate word for Wikipedia to have chosen, because people assume, reasonably, that it means something different from what it means here. It doesn't have anything directly to do with any of: famous, important, popular, significant, influential, ground-breaking, shocking, outstanding, or viral; though often some of those will cause a topic to become Wikipedia-notable. It is almost entirely a matter of, "Has there been enough independent material published to ground an article?" - remembering that unpublished material, and material published in unreliable places, cannot be cited at all, and that Wikipedia is basically not interested in what the subject or their associates say or want to say. --ColinFine (talk) 23:21, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

OK I've done my best on talk. I still contend that there's significance to this being an NP-hard problem rather than just one of several games included in a Microsoft distribution, sans mention of anything else. But I guess the fate of that depends on whether academic papers which may not have been peer reviewed carry as much weight as an official user manual no one will care about anyway when the system is obsolete. DAVilla (talk) 01:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2

figure in Wikipedia entry incorrect

Hi. I was looking at the entry on "Xanthohumol" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthohumol) and noted that there was an error in the figure. The compound annotated as L-phenylalanine is incorrectly drawn. I cannot change it because it is a jpg. If the original chemdraw file was available I could fix it but I would need to have the original file. Otherwise I have to draw the whole figure from scratch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.193.154.233 (talk) 00:10, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I suggest you post your concern on the article's talk page: Talk:Xanthohumol. Hopefully someone there would be able to assist with the image. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 00:20, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

You're clearly right – the amino group of the phenylalanine is attached to the wrong carbon. I'll have a go at editing the jpg, probably later today, unless someone else does it first. Maproom (talk) 07:53, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

 Done You may need to click "refresh" to see the result. Maproom (talk) 20:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I cannot find my article in my sandbox

Hello, I am a new user to Wikipedia, so I apologize if this is the incorrect place to post my problem.

I was working on an article in my sandbox—the URL is: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:UQadri81713/sandbox/Mohammad_Afzal_Husain_Qadri&action=edit&preload=Template%3AArticle+wizard%2Fuserpageskeleton&editintro=Wikipedia%3AArticle+wizard%2FWizard-New+edit+instructions+userdraft

I don't know what happened. I changed the initial bold name in the paragraph where you are supposed to type from "Mohammad" to "Mohammed" and now I can't seem to find the article. The URL now opens a blank article, and I can't find the article that I have been working on for the past few weeks. Please help. Thank you!

UQadri81713 (talk) 00:15, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@UQadri81713: Your account was created five days ago and this post is the only edit you have saved. No page has been saved at User:UQadri81713/sandbox/Mohammad Afzal Husain Qadri. Were you logged in to another account or not logged in when you worked on a page? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:38, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

That's what's so strange. I don't understand why it's vanished, because I was always logged in when I was working on it—even when I'd refresh the page it would load up with all of my previous edits. It's as if it was deleted entirely/there was no record of it at all.

UQadri81713 (talk) 13:37, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@UQadri81713: Maybe your browser stored it but there is no sign you ever saved anything in Wikipedia. You have to press "Publish" to save a draft, also before submitting it for review. The "Publish" name can be confusing. It only means that others can see it if they come by the page. You cannot save a private draft which is invisible to others. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:50, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh okay. So yeah I didn't press the "publish" because I thought that would submit it or something, and it would have to be complete first. Thank you for explaining.

UQadri81713 (talk) 14:24, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Anti-Sami racism by a user named @WikiDan61

FYI

 – Restoring edits made by RudolfRed per WP:TPO. If this is a conduct issue, please bring this to the WP:ANI after notifying the user in question. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:13, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, Today, I attempted to correct a massive amount of misinformation about my ethnic group, the Saami. Now, I am Sami. I talk to Sami regularly. I follow Sami history. I follow the university. I follow the books published with the single Sami university in the world. Sami traditionally have an oral history and over the past thousands of years, many people have written what they think "Sami life" is. This has lead to thousands of years of misinformation. Lapp (which I will refer to as the L-word or L*pp from here.) comes from the Swedish word Patches. Calling us the word is calling us "patch people." calling our land the word is calling our land "Patchland." That Is incredibly offensive. Calling me L*pp is calling me a Ni**er. Calling my land L*ppland is calling Africa Ni**er land. This is not a joke. This is not up for debate. I talked to some of my Sami friends and they wrote pages of anger about this. So, I removed every reference to the L-word except where it was completely necessary and fixed a considerable amount of the misinformation. I argue with people regularly about the Sami and they quote me this incredibly inaccurate wikipedia page like it is Gospel. This Wikipedia page actively hurts me and my community, the people that it is supposed to represent. It needs to change. It can not stay like this. This is an article about Africans that just calls them Ni**er 15 times. Is that OK? It is full of regularly regurgitated state sanctioned propaganda and if you did any real research you would come to this conclusion. Is this OK? " I will grant that you are free to be offended by it. " - wikidan. I will not grant that this is OK. I will not grant that it is OK when someone changes Ni**er to african to change it back. So, I spent nearly two hours editing this page and then Immediately "@wikidan61" reverted my comments saying they are a point of view. He told me that what I said is inaccurate. "These are serious accusations, and require serious sources to back them up. Please recall that Wikipedia is not a place to right great wrongs." - wikidan. When the great wrong is caused by the Wikipedia page, you bet your f*cking ass this is the place to "right it." Now, let me get some f*cking things straight. The Sami were the targets of genocide in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. We were forcibly sterilized. We were stolen from our homes. We were murdered for wearing our traditional clothing. Our languages were banned. Our singing was banned. We were told we were ethnically inferior. You want to know the extent of this genocide? In the last 100 years, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia have sterilized more of us than they currently acknowledge to exist. So, I tell him about the genocide and everything else and he says they are "a point of view." The king of Norway apologized for hundreds of years of subjugation and abuse and this person tells me it's all a "point of view"? No. Is he better than the King of Norway? Does he know more than the king of the f*cking country? That is unacceptable. He tells me the burden of proof is on me. False. He corrected me, the burden is on him. However, because these are my people and someone needs to fight for them I took the time to find and read through 14 sources to show this person how wrong they are. I don't know if your family has been hunted down and murdered for the past several thousand years, but, mine have. It hurts me to read about. I have read these all before and because of this persons selfish ignorance I have to do it again. This is his response. "See, now you're starting to produce reliable sources. I don't have sources because I'm not the one who wants to change the page. The burden of proof is on you to provide sources for the changes you'd like to make. Forgive me for not be versed in the history of the Sami people. I do think your anger over the issue might well yet cloud your neutrality, but with reliable sources to work from, we can sort that out." Did he apologize for the incredibly insensitive remarks he made? No. He asks me to forgive him for not "knowing the Sami history." Yeah, I can tell he didn't know literally anything. Why then, did he remove my comments about my history? Who is this person who thinks its OK to silence the indigenous about their genocide, then, not even apologize? I asked him several times to apologize for his remarks and attitude and he never even remotely acknowledged anything. This is absolutely unacceptable. This persons actions are unacceptable. I am going to go through all the Sami-related wiki's I can find and correct the Racism and correct the Propaganda. I need an explanation. I need to be told how my neutrality is compromised by my emotions. I need you to explain how my emotions invalidate the 14 sources I supplied and the fact that these are my people. This is my history. These are my ancestors who were murdered. Who is this person, who self admittedly knows nothing about my history going to correct me? Now, here is some writing by other Sami I talked to today. I will censor the swearing. "This really makes me furious. It's not a f*cking opinion that the Swedish state, together with the Swedish church for several hundred years conducted acts with intent to destroy or radically change Sámi culture and way of living. It's absolutely ridiculous that this bloke who's indigenous experience is probably next to none is trying to describe a situation he has no business in retelling to an indigenous person. If you'd want to I could give you some sources, one straight from the Church of Sweden detailing the religious and cultural genocide of Sámis in Sweden, but the sources are in Swedish. I don't know if that would help at all, but as a Sámi trying to become a historian I felt like this hit really close to home." "$10 says he is from the US, per his Minneapolis Mayor expertise, and so is ignorant to the plight of minorities in other countries outside of his own. A bit of a troll who likes to be right all the time and uses psychological fallacies to try and sound smart/have the upper hand in a conversation." Honestly, this person should be fired. They don't have to but something needs to happen here. This situation and the actions of this person are unacceptable. If this person is not fired, I want a written letter apologizing for his actions and how he represented Wikipedia so I can give it to my community members. I want a free hand to remove the propaganda and racism from your website. The Scandinavian governments acknowledge this, but you don't? Are you better than whole countries? Do you know more about the indigenous in a country than the indigenous do? Than the government oppressing them do? The arrogance is astounding.

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I need someone to talk to. This is unacceptable. If this is not the place to complain and see action about completely inappropriate behavior be mods, where is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ItsSaminotLapp (talk • contribs) 00:34, 2 March 2021 (UTC) @ItsSaminotLapp: The place to discuss this is on the article's talk page. RudolfRed (talk) 00:39, 2 March 2021 (UTC) What does this have to do with the article? One of your mods is a genocide denier and didn't even apologize for it. That is what this is about. If you honestly think differently you're racist. Read this again, it's about the mods actions and attitude. Not the article. I am not here to debade genocide I am here telling you that your mod denied genocide and then when proven wrong did not even apologize. That is what this is about. Today, I attempted to correct a massive amount of misinformation about my ethnic group, the Saami. Now, I am Sami. I talk to Sami regularly. I follow Sami history. I follow the university. I follow the books published with the single Sami university in the world. Sami traditionally have an oral history and over the past thousands of years, many people have written what they think "Sami life" is. This has lead to thousands of years of misinformation. Lapp (which I will refer to as the L-word or L*pp from here.) comes from the Swedish word Patches. Calling us the word is calling us "patch people." calling our land the word is calling our land "Patchland." That Is incredibly offensive. Calling me L*pp is calling me a Ni**er. Calling my land L*ppland is calling Africa Ni**er land. This is not a joke. This is not up for debate. I talked to some of my Sami friends and they wrote pages of anger about this. So, I removed every reference to the L-word except where it was completely necessary and fixed a considerable amount of the misinformation. I argue with people regularly about the Sami and they quote me this incredibly inaccurate wikipedia page like it is Gospel. This Wikipedia page actively hurts me and my community, the people that it is supposed to represent. It needs to change. It can not stay like this. This is an article about Africans that just calls them Ni**er 15 times. Is that OK? It is full of regularly regurgitated state sanctioned propaganda and if you did any real research you would come to this conclusion. Is this OK? " I will grant that you are free to be offended by it. " - wikidan. I will not grant that this is OK. I will not grant that it is OK when someone changes Ni**er to african to change it back. So, I spent nearly two hours editing this page and then Immediately "@wikidan61" reverted my comments saying they are a point of view. He told me that what I said is inaccurate. "These are serious accusations, and require serious sources to back them up. Please recall that Wikipedia is not a place to right great wrongs." - wikidan. When the great wrong is caused by the Wikipedia page, you bet your f*cking ass this is the place to "right it." Now, let me get some f*cking things straight. The Sami were the targets of genocide in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. We were forcibly sterilized. We were stolen from our homes. We were murdered for wearing our traditional clothing. Our languages were banned. Our singing was banned. We were told we were ethnically inferior. You want to know the extent of this genocide? In the last 100 years, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia have sterilized more of us than they currently acknowledge to exist. So, I tell him about the genocide and everything else and he says they are "a point of view." The king of Norway apologized for hundreds of years of subjugation and abuse and this person tells me it's all a "point of view"? No. Is he better than the King of Norway? Does he know more than the king of the f*cking country? That is unacceptable. He tells me the burden of proof is on me. False. He corrected me, the burden is on him. However, because these are my people and someone needs to fight for them I took the time to find and read through 14 sources to show this person how wrong they are. I don't know if your family has been hunted down and murdered for the past several thousand years, but, mine have. It hurts me to read about. I have read these all before and because of this persons selfish ignorance I have to do it again. This is his response. "See, now you're starting to produce reliable sources. I don't have sources because I'm not the one who wants to change the page. The burden of proof is on you to provide sources for the changes you'd like to make. Forgive me for not be versed in the history of the Sami people. I do think your anger over the issue might well yet cloud your neutrality, but with reliable sources to work from, we can sort that out." Did he apologize for the incredibly insensitive remarks he made? No. He asks me to forgive him for not "knowing the Sami history." Yeah, I can tell he didn't know literally anything. Why then, did he remove my comments about my history? Who is this person who thinks its OK to silence the indigenous about their genocide, then, not even apologize? I asked him several times to apologize for his remarks and attitude and he never even remotely acknowledged anything. This is absolutely unacceptable. This persons actions are unacceptable. I am going to go through all the Sami-related wiki's I can find and correct the Racism and correct the Propaganda. I need an explanation. I need to be told how my neutrality is compromised by my emotions. I need you to explain how my emotions invalidate the 14 sources I supplied and the fact that these are my people. This is my history. These are my ancestors who were murdered. Who is this person, who self admittedly knows nothing about my history going to correct me? Now, here is some writing by other Sami I talked to today. I will censor the swearing. "This really makes me furious. It's not a f*cking opinion that the Swedish state, together with the Swedish church for several hundred years conducted acts with intent to destroy or radically change Sámi culture and way of living. It's absolutely ridiculous that this bloke who's indigenous experience is probably next to none is trying to describe a situation he has no business in retelling to an indigenous person. If you'd want to I could give you some sources, one straight from the Church of Sweden detailing the religious and cultural genocide of Sámis in Sweden, but the sources are in Swedish. I don't know if that would help at all, but as a Sámi trying to become a historian I felt like this hit really close to home." "$10 says he is from the US, per his Minneapolis Mayor expertise, and so is ignorant to the plight of minorities in other countries outside of his own. A bit of a troll who likes to be right all the time and uses psychological fallacies to try and sound smart/have the upper hand in a conversation." Honestly, this person should be fired. They don't have to but something needs to happen here. This situation and the actions of this person are unacceptable. If this person is not fired, I want a written letter apologizing for his actions and how he represented Wikipedia so I can give it to my community members. I want a free hand to remove the propaganda and racism from your website. The Scandinavian governments acknowledge this, but you don't? Are you better than whole countries? Do you know more about the indigenous in a country than the indigenous do? Than the government oppressing them do? The arrogance is astounding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ItsSaminotLapp (talk • contribs) 01:16, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@ItsSaminotLapp: Per the Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, you can discuss the improvements you want to make on Talk:Sámi people - in a constructive and civil manner, while providing reliable sources. We're all volunteers like you, so we can't be fired. You could post at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, but be aware that administrators will also comment on your behavior. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:18, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

ItsSaminotLapp, here are the things that are useful for changing content on Wikpedia: Calm, well-reasoned discussion on the article talk page, based on detailed discussion of reliable sources, and an understanding of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Assuming good faith of your fellow editors. Not repeating yourself over and over. Here are the things that are counterproductive: Rage. Hostility. Accusing editors of racism without rock solid proof. Advocacy writing. Saying that someone is a "mod" when they aren't and saying they are an employee who should be fired when the person is a volunteer who can't bw fired. Acting like a bull in a china shop. You need to stop those counterproductive behaviors now. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:33, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: So are you just, OK with genocide denial? You don't think that's a problem? You are OK calling black men "Ni**er" and Africa "Ni**er Land?"

You don't even think they should apologize?

@Cullen328:

So are you just, OK with genocide denial? You don't think that's a problem? You are OK calling black men "Ni**er" and Africa "Ni**er Land?"

You don't even think they should apologize?

Are you going to ban me for getting upset at genocide denial? Are you going to silence the indigenous person for speaking up about the hundreds of years of subjugation and abuse?

ItsSaminotLapp This is not the forum to speak up about or correct centuries of racism and genocide. Please see right great wrongs. Racism will not be solved here on Wikipedia nor is this the place to seek racial justice. If you are here to do that, instead of collaborating with others to work towards a consensus as to how an article should summarize reliable sources, you are going to have a tough time here. Anything else, you will need to do elsewhere. 331dot (talk) 01:39, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

See, @Cullen328:

This is where you are wrong. I am not trying to "correct a great wrong." I am trying to bring the Wikipedia page about my people out of the 1980s. The King of Norway apologized in the 90's and I can't write that? He wrote the great wrong, I'm just trying to correct the misinformation in the article.

Should this person not apologize for denying the genocide of my people? Everyone keeps ignoring that. It is really starting to feel like you all want to spin me around with words, all I want is an apology for objectively harmful things this person said. This is public. If you deny genocide publicly, you should apologize publicly.

ItsSaminotLapp, no I am not saying any of those things in any way, shape or form. I am not commenting on the content dispute because I am acting as an administrator rather than a content editor. You may be correct about the content but your hyperbolic rhetoric is disruptive. If you take my advice, then all will be well. If you ignore my advice and continue with disruptive editing, you will be blocked. It is that simple and the choice is yours. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:45, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm sorry, @Cullen328:, are you saying that me asking for an apology is "disruptive editing"?

" no I am not saying any of those things in any way" OK, then it should be easy to get an apology, right?

ItsSaminotLapp, asking for an apology in itself is not disruptive. Ranting and raving repetitively in rage, accusing another human being of being a racist without solid evidence and calling for them to be fired is disruptive, and that behavior must stop. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You can contribute information that you have independent reliable sources for, in a collaborative, civil manner without engaging in name calling and accusations. Calling people racists and genocide deniers is not civil. We aren't here to judge genocide, but tell about what reliable sources say. Note that Wikipedia articles are not censored for any reason, and a bad word should not be removed just because it is viewed as offensive. We have articles on nigger and the c-word. I'm sorry for what you state has happened to your people. 331dot (talk) 01:56, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@Cullen328:

"We have articles on Ni**er and c*nt." The wikipedia article is about how bad the N-word is, not an article describing the history of african people using only the N-word. You have to recognize the difference between these two situations.

Even then, as you yourself stated, even if you have articles on these things, the behaviors I have identified are not OK. "In any way"

So can I get an apology? I don't see what is so hard about this. You recognize the behaviors are not ok "In any way" and yet you dance around this question every single time.

Are there articles that deny genocide even with proof of genocide? Because I think that is something that if publicly denied needs to be publicly apologized for.

You have articles on the Armenian genocide, an unrecognized genocide, if that is not an attempt to fix a "great wrong" what is?

I'm not Cullen328. Pings do not work unless you sign your post with four tildes, ~~~~. You are working against yourself with your behavior here. Are you going to proceed as you have been asked to, or not? 331dot (talk) 02:10, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

• After their last post to WikiDan, I have issued a not here block. 331dot (talk) 02:12, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

• Regardless of the OP's conduct, I gave a look at the articles. Sámi_people#Lapp seems (from a non-expert perspective) reasonably written (maybe the sources were cherry-picked, I cannot tell, but the article seems to accurately represent the content of the sources). I added "controversial" in the description of the DAB entry at Lapp, which is not a great term but "offensive" or "derogatory" would be taking sides. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 11:06, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

DYK problem

Could someone fix Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Sweeny? It says not to edit it if you don't know what you're doing, and I don't. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:08, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Mandarax. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Archive bot question

I set up archiving on Talk:Thomas Aquinas and Talk:Ibn Khaldun (the former I had just updated the current bot which had a faulty parameter), but neither seem to be working. Any help would be appreciated. Aza24 (talk) 03:17, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@Aza24: Although the archiving task was taken over by lowercase sigmabot III (talk · contribs), the instruction block that it looks for still uses the old name User:MiszaBot/config. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:02, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

That explains it, thanks! Aza24 (talk) 08:08, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Uploading audio files

The article "Singing bird box" asks for examples of bird songs to be uploaded. I have a recording of a 19th Century Bontems to contribute. However, mp3 files are not uploadable. Now what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drmlouisb (talk • contribs) 07:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Drmlouisb, Wikipedia uses the Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV format for audio (see WP:AUDIO), a quick search in Google gave me several Online Convert for converting MP3 to Ogg Vorbis. CommanderWaterford (talk) 12:38, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@Drmlouisb: It is unlikely(!) that you personally made an MP3 recording in the 19th century. What is the provenance of this recording? We can almost certainly assert that the original is in the public domain. When you convert from MP3 to Ogg Vorbis, make sure you just get the audio of the birdsong itself and not any added material that may be under copyright. -Arch dude (talk) 15:57, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks - I will convert it. The recording is of my own machine. Drmlouisb (talk) 22:42, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Dairy product companies of Australia

Hello, I'm a licensed dairy manufacturer based in Croydon North, Victoria, Australia. Would you tell me how to get listed under Dairy product companies of Australia please ?

Thank You

Jimmy Dioguardi YUCK Ice cream FOOD (redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.136.111.1 (talk) 07:25, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I've redacted your contact information; it should not be published in this public forum for your protection. To merit inclusion in that article, there must be an article about your company. Wikipedia is not a database of companies, it is an encyclopedia with article about subjects, in this case, companies, which are shown with significant coverage in independent reliable sources to meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable company. Ideally you should not be the one to write about your company due to your conflict of interest(please review). Wikipedia is interested in what others might say about your company, not what it wants to say about itself. 331dot (talk) 09:27, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

A new article

Hello, I just published a new article and i wanted to ask, how can i know if the article was published thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shani maximov 92 (talk • contribs) 08:53, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy links: User:Shani maximov 92 & User talk:Shani maximov 92.

Hi, Shani maximov 92! I'm afraid this is not a good way to publish an article in Wikipedia. Have you seen WP:Your First Article?

Apart from learning the proper way of creating articles, you need to know necessary requirements for the article to become a part of Wikipedia. The most important is a WP:Notability of the subject, which is estabilished mainly by numerous and deep enough WP:Reliable Sources writing about the subject, so that the article is WP:Verifiable. Once you make sure you fulfill these conditions, you also need to keep the article in a WP:Neutral point of view so it does not appear like advertising (Wikipedia is not a place for promotion). --CiaPan (talk) 09:17, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Shani maximov 92 (ec) You wrote on your user page, which is not article space, but a place for you to tell about yourself as a Wikipedia editor or user. What you wrote there is "published" in that it can be viewed by others, but if by "published" you mean it is formally part of the encyclopedia, no, it is not. If you were to submit it as such, it would be rejected quickly, as your text is only sourced to IMDB, which is not acceptable as a source as it is user-editable. A Wikipedia article about a person must summarize what independent reliable sources say about the person, showing how they meet the special Wikipedia definition of a notable person. Please see Your First Article; you may also create and submit a draft at Articles for Creation. As a new user you cannot yet directly create articles, but even if you could, it's a great idea to get others to see what you write before it is part of the encyclopedia. 331dot (talk) 09:21, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Did I use ref tag perfectly here?

In last edit of mine, I didn't use ref tag properly, but what about now? Rizosome (talk) 10:31, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@Rizosome: Yes, it looks right to me. A full stop seemed to have crept in after the preceding reference and one was missing at the end of the sentence you added. Films and TV series should be in italics. Eagleash (talk) 10:45, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

False Account Opened in My Name

I have received a message from Wikipedia stating that an account joshuajmarklover was opened on Wikipedia on 1 March 7:38 pm. I did not open this account. I received another message at the same time stating the new account had been changed to this email: [redacted] I do not know this person. I do have a Wikipedia account and I contribute to Wikipedia but my account has nothing to do with these. Wikipedia obviously has my email because I received these messages. Any help in removing this false account is appreciated. joshuajmarklover is a false account and this [redacted] person should be contacted regarding the situation. - Joshua Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.43.74 (talk) 15:12, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Joshua Mark is not a rare name and we have 41 million accounts. It sounds like the user created an account stating your email address and later changed the address at Special:Preferences. Maybe they accidentally gave a wrong address and fixed their error. If your secret email address is something like joshuamark at a big email provider then it could certainly happen. But maybe they are trying to guess your email address by setting an address in their own account and wait to see whether you react to mysterious emails, so I'm not contacting them for now. I have hidden their private information from your post. If it was an innocent mistake then the info should not be published. Other users can only see your email address if you mail them. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:01, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Restoring a deleted image?

I am touching up the article on Strategic Conquest and saw that there is a deleted screenshot. The screenshot was uploaded around the time of the debate on free use, and the user died shortly thereafter. Unable to respond to various bots, the image was summarily deleted without, as far as I can tell, any attempt to save it.

Is there any way to get this back? It's a perfectly reasonable Free Use example of a game screenshot. I tried to restore it, but either I'm doing something wrong or its not working. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:59, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

What was the name of the image? Ruslik_Zero 19:21, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Strategic Conquest (screenshot).jpg Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:13, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Rotate a table?

Are there any tools to handle table creation and editing? There is a table in Strategic Conquest that should be rotated, that is, switched in terms of columns and rows. Doing it manually would be a chore. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:04, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz: I have never done this, so this is a theoretical answer. You can get your table in HTML simply by displaying the page in your browser. You can convert an HTML table to a CSV file using any of several (non wiki) tools: google for them. You can load a CSV file into any spreadsheet program. You can rotate and do just about anything else in the spreadsheet program. You export from the spreadsheet to CSV. Finally, you can import a CSV file into wikitext using Wikipedia:CSVLoader.

LL Cool J's page edits

Hi, my name is Robert Raymond Lee III. I was signed to LL Cool J'a Rock the Bells record label under the name "Pragmatic". I would like to be included in his "other ventures" category with the other artists from that label. I have emailed this information to your editor's address. Included in the email is the actual contract, signed by myself and LL Cool J aka James Todd Smith. I would like for history to be told accurately.

Thank You, Robert Raymond Lee III — Preceding unsigned comment added by RLee84 (talk • contribs) 19:03, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, but we can't list everyone who signs with his label. The names listed in his article either have an article or are at least credited in Deep Blue Sea (soundtrack). Clarityfiend (talk) 19:42, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

RLee84 I'm not sure who you emailed, as articles do not usually have a single editor. This is a collaborative, group project. What Clarityfriend states is correct. Wikipedia is not meant as a comprehensive database of all possible information; this is an encyclopedia that summarizes what independent reliable sources state about notable topics as defined by Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 19:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Creating an account

Why is it so difficult to create an account on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.112.105.100 (talk) 20:11, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

[moved from the top of the page]

What difficulty have you experienced? -- Hoary (talk) 02:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Creating Template Default

I'm trying to modify an existing template (namely Template:Maplink-road) to expand from just being a prefilled version of another template (namely Template:Maplink) to being one that operates almost exactly as the original, just with default parameters that can be overriden. The idea for the Maplink-road template is wonderful, but it would be useful to be able to add parameters to its call of the Maplink template to avoid having redundancies from calling Maplink directly. For example, on the article Pennsylvania Route 5, much of the code in the Maplink template is redundant to the Maplink-road template, so it would be much simpler to be able to call {{maplink-road|type2=line|from2=Pennsylvania Route 5 Alternate.map}}. Could someone link to some documentation that I could read so I can make this happen? Thanks much! BMACS1002 (talk) 21:04, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@BMACS1002: See Help:Template#Handling parameters. You can change | frame-width = 290 in {{Maplink-road}} to | frame-width = {{{frame-width|290}}}, and so on. This will pass on frame-width if it's set in the call and otherwise use 290 as default. Note that a call with a blank value like {{Maplink-road|frame-width=}} will pass on the blank value and not use the default 290. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:09, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! That's a good start, but to get to the crux of my question, what about other parameters other than the ones that won't be set with a default? Say if I want to have all the parameters of Maplink-road, but I want to add in another parameter like "stroke-color", "title", "description", "type2" (and all other associated parameters). How would I do that without adding a line like x={{{x}}} for literally every possible parameter? Thanks! BMACS1002 (talk) 23:29, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

@BMACS1002: With template code (as opposed to a module) you do have to pass on every parameter separately. It should be done with x={{{x|}}}. This will give a blank value if x is not set in the call. x={{{x}}} would give the literal 7-character string {{{x}}} as the value of x. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:57, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Well, I guess now's the time I dive into Lua to figure stuff out to make this work. Thanks for the help though! BMACS1002 (talk) 00:03, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@BMACS1002: I found Module:Template wrapper. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

You've got me cackling like a mad scientist over this find! Thanks so much for finding it! BMACS1002 (talk) 14:57, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Please help me identify predatory open access journals in a recently created page Cultural agility

Hello, I just noticed a warning to the "use of predatory open access" in a page I recently created: Cultural agility. Could someone help me identify precisely which citations are involved in order to make the necessary changes to remove such links. Thank you.

Hi User:Neuralia (please sign your posts using --~~~~), in order to deal with this sort of thing, User:Headbomb has a good set of tools, such as his Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD). You can also check your sources at User:JzG/Predatory, or WP:CITEWATCH, or online at list. (Most of this reply is paraphrased from Headbomb.)

I have the UPSD script installed, and it flags Global Issues and Innovative Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment and "Culturally Agile Leadership: A Relational Leadership Development Approach" being from predatory journals or publishers.

In addition it also highlighted "The Development of Cultural Agility (A Literature Review)", since medium.com is considered generally unreliable, being self-published, and usually considered a primary source. It can be used if the authors are experts in the subject matter, but not if the material regards living people. It's preferred to source the same information from somewhere that isn't self-published. It also flagged "In Search of Leadership: Practical Perspectives on Leading Distance Education Organisations" as marginally reliable since it's in a repository that may contain unpublished/predatory materials, though it's probably ok since I didn't see the Asian Journal of Distance Education in Beall's list.

I hope this helps. --Anon423 (talk) 01:35, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Not quite what it highlights. It highlights Zenodo as a general repository, which can host predatory sources and preprints. So for that one, double check what the journal is and if it's reliable. In this case, it's the Asian Journal of Distance Education, which AFAICT, looks like your average academic journal. Medium is highlighted as general unreliable per WP:RSP#Medium, since it's a blog service, and reliable depends very much on how is the writer. The two predatory (doi:10.4018/...) ones are from IGI Global, a well-known vanity press with no meaningful review process. Those aren't fit to be cited. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

On the subject of the edit filter, how is it defined/implemented? I must admit I am not well-versed in the internals of Wikipedia, but is it here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/891 If so, I assume since User:Headbomb helps maintain it, the UPSD should be flagging the same set of sources, and it might be a good idea to mention the UPSD in the tag/filter documentation as a user-side version so that editors can see what exactly tripped the filter. The description of filters didn't link there, so I'm not sure. (Sorry to bother you again, Headbomb. Or maybe User:Suffusion of Yellow is the one to ask.) --Anon423 (talk) 16:47, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks to all!!

Neuralia (talk) 22:35, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

transitioning IP user to registered user

Hi Wiki Team, I have made several small contributions as an IP user, but I had totally forgotten about an account I created in 2010, which I'm now writing under. Is it possible to appropriate my activity as IP user to my account retroactively? Thanks in advance! Ariescode (talk) 21:50, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I am not positive, but quite sure, that you cannot. However, if you like, you can put a notice on your talk page that you formerly edited under that IP address. ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia ^talk 21:52, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I feel like I have seen a template for such a notification, maybe as a userbox? Beeblebrox (talk) 22:27, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Found something at {{User IP editor}} but it doesn't appear to have a field to identify what IP you used. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:32, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you all Ariescode (talk) 00:43, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Amazon copyright issue

This movie advertisement link is from Amazon/IMDb.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWZjNzJiZjQtODE3OC00MmVlLTk1ZjUtOGU1ZTA5ZWIzYjdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjA5MTAzODY@._V1_.jpg

The movie is Doctor Neighbor completed in 1916. Even though it is an Amazon image, can I upload a copy of the poster to Wikipedia commons claiming the copyright has expired since it was created before 1926?

This is not original art, but a copy of a page from a movie fan magazine. I understand if I find the magazine where the original ad was placed - problem solved, but I having problems locating the Ad.

Thanks

Michael Jannetta (talk) 22:55, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Michael Jannetta, that's a question not for Wikipedia but for Commons; please ask at commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright. -- Hoary (talk) 02:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Mtjannetta: Try asking at WP:MCQ, where copyright experts hang out and give advice on things like this. RudolfRed (talk) 02:54, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

March 3

Vandalism help request from 2600:1702:7D0:54E0:A823:C57:9C2D:5FBE

I have noticed some vandalism at Quinton Flynn. Namely, an ex girlfriend of this actor keeps attempting to add a tabloid article she wrote accusing him of sexual harassment. Through some research, these allegations were false and have no merit whatsoever, so they definitely don't belong on his Wikipedia page. I understand he's actually in contacts with the platform for a cease and desist to remove their libelous article. In the meantime I'd like help in removing her addition from his pages edit history. Would it also be possible to block this IP address from editing any further on this page?

14:04, 1 March 2021‎ 86.26.102.51 talk‎ 17,331 bytes +112‎ id say this is important to bring up undo Tag: Reverted

Would an editor please assist me with fixing it? Thank you, 2600:1702:7D0:54E0:A823:C57:9C2D:5FBE (talk) 00:47, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

You say "keeps attempting", but it's not clear how you are referring to more than one (very incompetent) edit. That edit has already been reverted. It's also odd that you say "an ex girlfriend of this actor keeps attempting to add a tabloid article she wrote", despite (i) not showing how the editor is that person (tip: Don't attempt to do this), and (ii) referring to an article that announces "By Jared Carvalho" (I believe that Jared is a man's name).

Flynn is a living person; if there really are concerns about the article about him, then the place to ask for help is WP:BLP/N. -- Hoary (talk) 02:48, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Housing Association

I am working on a business plan at the moment. I am interested in researching housing associations. I was mugged three times in six months 3yrs ago. Each time i was found unconcious. Twice I had a bleed on the brain. This led to severe disabilities as is proberbly noticible from my poor spelling and typing. I also have difficulty reading on line. downloading and printing is more practical and user for me. It helps me to highlight and add notes etc. I would appreciate your advise/assistance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by N-joyyourFuture123 (talk • contribs) 01:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, N-joyyourFuture123. I'm sorry for your suffering, but I'm afraid that this page is solely for help on using and editing Wikipedia, nothing else. I don't think anybody here can help you. We have an article Housing association: if you are in the UK or Ireland (you don't say), this might give you some information you want, and it has links to a number of other resources at the end. --ColinFine (talk) 12:43, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@N-joyyourFuture123: in the left-hand column on each wikipedia article page, there is a link that will allow you to download the page in a printable format. You can the print and read offline. -Arch dude (talk) 16:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Back to the toplink

Hi it would be useful to have a back to th top of page arrow on thepage you arre browsing Kind rregards Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.70.232.78 (talk) 02:28, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Some pages do have icons created by {{skip to top and bottom}}, such as at the WP:TEAHOUSE. But it's not used on article pages. RudolfRed (talk) 02:53, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Most browsers go to the top of the page when you press the "home" key. -Arch dude (talk) 04:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Change these player’s NFL Teams

Hi Wikipedia, I just wanted to say that there isn’t any anonymous websites or articles that say that Matthew Stafford, Jared Goff, and Carson Wentz joined a new team. So can you please change the teams for each one. Matthew Stafford: Los Angeles Rams, Jared Goff: Detroit Lions, Carson Wentz: Indianapolis Colts. It’s been made official by the NFL, so can you please change the teams for these players, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vrayar (talk • contribs) 03:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Vrayar: Please be bold and update the articles yourself, or post your suggestion on the appropriate article talk pages. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:18, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Vrayar: There are hidden comments on all three articles stating that the trades/new teams don't become official until March 17, the start of the new season, and that any edits to the contrary will be reverted. Seems a little odd to me, but there it is. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

According to comments on Talk:Matthew Stafford#Jared Goff himself has confirmed trade, these transactions can't be completed until March 17, as that's when the season starts. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Sandbox misinformation

Sandbox misinformation It is a sandbox where you put sand in a box and play with sand. They dig burrows out of sand and make mountains out of sand. Currently, sandboxes are called sandboxes if they are creative and have a high degree of freedom, but if they cannot transform the terrain, they are not sandboxes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.98.39.46 (talk) 05:18, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Do you have a question about how to use English Wikipedia? Meters (talk) 05:23, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Sandbox has many meanings. -Arch dude (talk) 07:01, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

List of Bank in Pakistan where SME Bank show in Malaysia

Dear Wikipedia,

Please do some correction SME Bank Ltd Bank Place in Pakistan but Show in Malaysia. correct this Mistak.

Regards, Imran IT Officer SME Bank Ltd Islamabad — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.163.66.162 (talk) 07:08, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

There are 2 banks of the same name- we have an article about the one in Malaysia only. If it's causing an issue with the Google knowledge graph, you need to contact Google directly. No mistake, just 2 banks with the same name. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:30, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Help with money

I finished my matric in 2012 but no luck in finding a job l real need help life is to hard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.13.124.90 (talk) 07:24, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, we only handle problems about using or editing Wikipedia here. Victor Schmidt (talk) 07:55, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Actress Amedee Chabot

There is no English article about the above actress, but upon a Google search, there is one in a foreign language, and no button to flip to English.

Wanted to make you aware of it.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.77.201.94 (talk) 07:35, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

You can request the article at Wikipedia:Requested articles, where interested users may create it, if the actress is notable. Regards Kichu🐘 ^Discuss 11:06, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Project Veritas page contained libelous statement

While I am not a member of Project Veritas, I happen to find their undercover videos to be very compelling and truthful.

On the page, it states that "The group produces deceptively edited video." It supports this lie with no real evidence just biased reports. Further, the writer of the page is extremely biased.

Consider this a take down request with respect to any legal rights that I as a donor have as to standing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheRealOrpheus (talk • contribs) 12:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Regardless of the article content, you might want to rephrase the above as it could be construed as a legal threat. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:17, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I've just had a look at the article. The claim is not only sourced in the lede itself (not normally required) but multiple sources and references throughout the entire article support this claim. No reason to change or challenge. If anything this is a content issue, and should be taken up on the talk page of the article: Talk:Project Veritas Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:20, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

This appears to be the only edit by OP, with the account being made eight minutes before. Are there any sockpuppeteers we know of that focus on Project Veritas or the AP2 area in general? —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 15:59, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I have actually signed up for on line forums just to voice an objection to something. That's entirely possible here, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It does strike me that the question should be, is the objection valid--not who is making it. I'm a long time Wikipedian with thousands of edits-99.999..% as uncontroversial as can be. But I've been troubled by the direction, and the sort of "circular" nature of the consideration of what's reliable here; A considers B reliable, so it probably is--after all, A is reliable since B considers it so. NPR is considered reliable--yet over and over again, I heard them repeat the same bald-face lie about President Trump (a lie that could convey the impression that President Trump was somehow anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican--a baseless assertion that has more or less been "proved by repetition"). I have yet to hear that lie corrected. But NPR is reliable. Uporządnicki (talk) 16:17, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@AzseicsoK: The issue is that Project Veritas has, over the years, been the target of a concerted campaign to whitewash it. Knowing this I would be very suspicious about any freshly-registered user coming in and demanding edits to the article (which is presently semiprotected as Arbitration enforcement). —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 17:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

• TheRealOrpheus If you mean as a Wikipedia donor; donations or withholding donations has no impact on Wikipedia content. 331dot (talk) 16:23, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure you understand the definition of libel. Is the claim untrue or otherwise false? CUPIDICAE💕 16:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Notability of news sources

Hello. Could someone please direct me to guidelines regarding the notability of news sources? I was reviewing a draft and just needed some reference. (Please ping me if you don't mind) Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 13:14, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

See WP:NMEDIA. Ruslik_Zero 14:08, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@EDG 543: --‡ Єl Cid of Valencia ^talk 14:12, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

How i can put my company information n Wikipedia ?

Hi , Hope you are doing great. I want to put some information related my work and company on Wikipedia. But its showing this harmful and spam Can you guide me how i can put all information successfully on website. Thanks & Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Futurestarrtalent (talk • contribs) 14:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Futurestarrtalent You seem to misunderstand what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is not a place to merely provide information or merely document the existence of companies. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia where an article on a company must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about a company(so no press releases or announcements of routine business activity), showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable business. Wikipedia is not interested in what a business wants to say about itself, or in just hearing what the business is and what it does. Please review conflict of interest and paid editing for information on required formal disclosures you must make.

If your username is that of your business, you must change it immediately; please visit Special:GlobalRenameRequest to change your username to something more individualistic. 331dot (talk) 14:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Futurestarrtalent, you can view WP:CORP for specific notability guidelines related to companies. If you are trying to insert information and others remove it for being spam, make sure that none what you add is for advertising, as this is prohibited on Wikipedia, and that it is all supported by reliable sources. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:48, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

And note, Futurestarrtalent, that telling the world about your business is regarded as promotion in Wikipedia. What you say or want to say about your business is of no interest to Wikipedia: it is only interested in what people who have no connection with you and your business have chosen to publish about it. --ColinFine (talk) 16:27, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Get More Edit Permissions

How do I get more edit permissions to edit semi-protected pages and up? Is it based on edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BreadTheProtogen (talk • contribs) 15:40, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

BreadTheProtogen, yes. After four days and ten edits, you will automatically be able to edit semi-protected pages, as you will become autoconfirmed. After 30 days and 500 edits, you will become extended confirmed and edit extended-confirmed-protected pages. JJP...MASTER!_{[talk to] JJP... master?} 15:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

BreadTheProtogen (ec) To edit most semi-protected pages, your account must be four days old with 10 edits or more. In the interim, you may make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page of a protected article you wish to contribute to. 331dot (talk) 15:45, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Article assessment

Hey. How do you get an article to be assessed by a WikiProject? Specifically this one. versacespacetalk to me 15:48, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Having the WikiProject template on the talk page with the parameter set to unassessed adds it in a category of unassessed articles in the scope of that WikiProject. Generally speaking, someone eventually comes around on a mission to clear the category by assessing all the articles. They often work in alphabetical order, so articles that are later in the alphabet are less likely to get assessed timely than articles that come earlier in the alphabet. If you want it assessed sooner, you may ask on the Wikiproject talk page. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

How can I archive all references used in an article without having to do them all by hand

What the header says, is there a method I can instantly archive all references used in an article without doing up to a hundred of them by-hand? CaliIndie (talk) 16:40, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Try the Internet Archive Bot. (can also be accessed from page edit history, External tools: Fix dead links) If I'm not mistaken the checkbox (Add archives to all non-dead references) forces archiving of all links. --Anon423 (talk) 19:12, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Watchlist grouping

Is there any way to group edits by page on my Watchlist when viewed on a mobile browser in the same way that they're grouped on a desktop browser? nagualdesign 16:45, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Nagualdesign: The desktop version only groups them if you enable both "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist, and "Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc. Both are disabled by default. I don't know a way to group them in the mobile version but you can click "Desktop" at the bottom of mobile pages to get the desktop version on a mobile device. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:50, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, PrimeHunter. I thought I'd fiddled with the settings at some point, though I can't honestly remember. It's a shame this can't be done on mobile, since that's where it would be most useful. Maybe there's somewhere I can request this feature, and if enough people ask for it the gods will provide? It's quite annoying. ...Actually, the most annoying thing about working on a mobile browser is not being able to type a vertical bar; I have to copy/paste it instead! nagualdesign 20:26, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Nagualdesign: Mobile grouping was deliberately removed in phab:T228280. Which device and browser are you using? Maybe it has a pipe somewhere. My iPhone has it. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Ah, I see. That's a shame. I'm using Chrome for Android on an HTC One. I've tried fiddling with my keyboard options before. There's no proper multiplication symbol either. nagualdesign 22:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Policy on use of Dagger to indicate those who have died?

I thought there was a Wikipedia policy against using the template:dagger to indicate that a person was deceased. I'm specifically looking at the usage in Snatch game.Naraht (talk) 18:51, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Naraht: The link is Snatch Game. I don't know such a policy. We don't use it at the death date in a biography like some languages but we have many other uses. {{KIA}} (killed in action) uses it in around 6000 articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:10, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Ober gatlinburg

I was researching the resort and came across the section labelled safety. Please look at it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B107:22AD:E95A:4867:28F0:CCBD (talk) 19:10, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I removed the vandalism. Thanks for pointing it out. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 19:22, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Writing you

Hi I am writing you on behalf of one of our artist page: Chris Jedi (appear Jeday). I've tried to edited myself but it seems like the template is blocked. Is there anything you can do to help me?

Page link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Jeday — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThisIsUMLE (talk • contribs) 19:11, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

ThisIsUMLE We cannot help you with issues on the Spanish Wikipedia, as that is a separate project with its own editors and policies. Please use whatever process they have to seek help. 331dot (talk) 19:13, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@ThisIsUMLE: try es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Ayuda/Actual, which seems to be their dependant of the help desk. Victor Schmidt (talk) 19:55, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@ThisIsUMLE: Many sources and his YouTube channel [3] say Jeday. It's possible he is trying to rebrand as Jedi but I have reverted [4] edits to Chris Jeday which changed every "Jeday" to "Jedi", including in correct source titles and links which broke. I don't know the Spanish Wikipedia policies but the English Wikipedia uses common names which may be different from the current official name of a subject. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:55, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

List of dates

How do I format lists of dates? Where would I put BC/AD or BCE/CE? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JWCfive (talk • contribs) 19:51, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

See MOS:ERA. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 20:12, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Personal Life for Tilman Fertitta

Hi, Tilman Fertitta is not longer married to Paige Farwell. I have tried to change this in the personal section and the top right bio box through "edit" but it switched back after a couple of days.

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

Would like to Update the first sentence under Personal Life:

Fertitta married Paige Farwell from Houston and they have four children, Michael, Patrick, Blayne, and Blake. Today he is married to Houston attorney, Lauren Ware, and they live in Houston and New York.

Thank you, Jen Jenpearson (talk) 20:26, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Source? —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 20:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi, there is not a news source associated. Press has not reported on this out of respect of the family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenpearson (talk • contribs) 20:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC) Jenpearson (talk) 20:35, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Then we cannot have it. Our biographical policy (linked above) prevents us from including unsourced potentially-controversial biographical claims anywhere in Wikipedia. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 20:45, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for referencing the link, I work for the agency that manages his publicity, DPWPR in Houston. Is there a way that we can send a letter of proof? The marriage has not been publicized for the general public. 2603:300C:CF9:8000:447:304E:D076:9AE3 (talk) 01:48, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

That's not how this works. This is a volunteer project with editors from all over the world; there is no central location to mail "proof" to nor a place to store it. To be included in Wikipedia, information needs to be in a publicly available reliable source(preferably an independent source) that can be verified. Documents in private hands inaccessible to the public are not acceptable as a source. If the marriage is not publicized, it doesn't exist as far as Wikipedia is concerned. Is there any sort of publicly accessible record of it, such as a marriage notice in a newspaper? That would suffice.

You will need to review the paid editing policy and make a formal declaration. It's easier to do that with an account, but is not required. 331dot (talk) 02:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Donation

How do I stop my monthly donations? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clinejohn (talk • contribs) 20:48, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Clinejohn See this link. 331dot (talk) 20:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Wakipedia

How would i use it so easay — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.112.117.59 (talk) 22:36, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey, not 100% sure what you're trying to ask, but if you want to learn the basics of Wikipedia,this is a good place to start. You can also ask questions at the Teahouse. Hope that helps. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 23:50, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

cite sources

i am subscribed to "Newspapers.com". many of my sources are from there - is there a way to do quick links for the cite? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steverns68 (talk • contribs) 22:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Steverns68, try looking at Wikipedia:Newspapers.com, the answer may be there. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 01:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Steverns68, I'm not sure what you mean by "quick links". I cite Newspapers.com often by using the "cite news" template in the Source Editor. It's just a matter of filling in relevant fields: title (headline), work (name of newspaper), URL, date of publication, date of access, page number, the newspaper's location, and (if applicable) author's name and the agency (AP, UPI, and the like).

Please use Newspapers.com's "clipping" feature as the source for the URL. It provides a freely available view of the article so that anyone can have access to it, whether or not he or she has a Newspapers.com account. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:25, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

How to talk to administrators

Hi wikipedia,

May i know how can i able to speak to admins or bots where questions is generally disabled to public to ask? Because i do have a question I need to ask about, pertaining reporting a good standing user but alleged claiming actions on doing wrong which is also wrong under the book, and i hoping the user would be warned and not doing the actions in the future. To put it short, how do i ask questions to the administrator or bots where it is not possible to ask by the general public? Thanks 183.90.36.113 (talk) 23:13, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, for a serious offense, you can report it on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Depending on the incident, I believe you can just address them directly. You also can't talk to bots as they are just computer programs. You could, depending on what it was, just say it here and one of us could probably just take care of it. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 23:48, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, IP editor. There is a very strong preference for discussing everything in the open, on the discussion pages of Wikipedia; and when raising an issue about another editor's behaviour you are required to notify that editor. If there is a matter which really cannot be handled in the open (for example, if it relates to outing an editor), it is possible to email the volunteer response team, (see that page); but they are volunteers like the rest of us, and won't necessarily reply quickly; and if they think that the matter should have been handled in Wikipedia discussion pages, they will simply tell you to handle it that way. --ColinFine (talk) 09:15, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

March 4

Relevance of Wikipedia's Manual of Style

How much attention should an editor pay to the contents of Wikipedia's Manual of Style? I ask that question because of a disagreement that has arisen with another editor. I removed "nationality = American" from the infobox in Louise Brooks based on Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#Nationality and citizenship, which says, "Most biography infoboxes have nationality and citizenship. Generally, use of either should be avoided when the country to which the subject belongs can be inferred from the country of birth, as specified with |birthplace=." The infobox contains "birth_place = Cherryvale, Kansas, U.S.", which seems to me to justify omitting her nationality.

I asked the editor about the basis for restoring nationality. The reply was: "Because the assumption that her nationality is American simply because she was born in the U.S. is just that, an assumption, and Wikipedia doesn't publish assumptions, it published facts. The MoS -- which is not mandatory, and is simply a guideline -- should never have suggested that and should be changed." (emphasis in the original)

I am perplexed. How does an editor know when the Manual of Style should be applied and when it should be ignored? Eddie Blick (talk) 02:04, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Teblick If this other editor wants to change the Manual of Style, then they should work to do so, but not prevent you or others from following guidelines. 331dot (talk) 02:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, 331dot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teblick (talk • contribs)

Teblick it seems like they have it backwards. There's no assumption being published by excluding the information - excluding the information allows readers to infer that, sure, but we don't need to assume our readers can't infer simple things like that. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 06:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Michael coleman

Prince — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:6:902:0:0:0:26 (talk) 02:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

You are going to have to be a tad more specific, friend. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 02:15, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

see prince. -Arch dude (talk) 07:10, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Personal Memories

I am hoping to help the residents of our suburb to recollect, share and record their memories of events that make up the history of our suburb. Can I create a subheading under our suburb listing and encourage residents to come on to Wikipedia to share their memories and images? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tasyak (talk • contribs) 02:56, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Tasyak That is unfortunately not in keeping with the mission of Wikipedia, which is to summarize what independent reliable sources that can be verified state, in the form of an encyclopedia article. It is not a place like social media where people can gather and share memories and recollections. Social media, or perhaps another alternative outlet would be better suited for that. 331dot (talk) 03:19, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

If you want to publish what you learn in a book, as a recorded history, other editors could use that as a source, but we can't have the histories directly. 331dot (talk) 03:20, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

@Tasyak: The ideal location for this would be a wiki or other forum run by a local newspaper in your community. -Arch dude (talk) 07:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Tasyak. Arcadia Publishing is a company that is very intersted in working with local authors and researchers to develop books about various comunities. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 09:24, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

process of providing the copyrights for my company page

I have made my company page and I have used some of the information which was on my company's website (www.OpinionExpress.in) About us and now Wikipedia has deleted that page after I have given the reference. so please guide me on how I can create my company's page and what documents have to submit for copyright and how I can submit it. My company name is Opinion Express. It is a monthly magazine. Sauravgupta7297 (talk) 08:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Sauravgupta7297. I'm afraid the answer is that you probably cannot. It sounds as if you have a (very common) misunderstanding about what Wikipedia is. It does not contain "company pages" - not one. It contains articles about notable companies: articles which are based not on what the company says or wants to say, but on what people who are unconnected with the company have published about the company. If your company meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then we could have an article about it; if it doesn't then no article about it will be accepted. If we do accept an article, it will ideally not be written by you, as it is likely to be hard for you to write in a sufficiently neutral way about it. In any case, the article will not belong to you, you will not control its contents, you will be strongly discouraged from editing it (you can suggest edits), it will not be based on what your company says or wants to say, and it could end up containing material about your company that you don't like, if that material has been published in a reliable source. All this is because Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a directory or social media. --ColinFine (talk) 09:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and you can't usefully "submit documents". every single piece of information in a Wikipedia article must be findable in a reliably published source. Unpublished documents are completely irrelevant, and non-independent published documents (such as your company's website) can be used in only very limited ways. --ColinFine (talk) 09:10, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Moving my Sandbox article to the main site

Hi there,

I'm just looking for help to move my sandbox article to the main Wikipedia website.

Thanks so much, Ollie — Preceding unsigned comment added by OliverGeorgeC1 (talk • contribs) 09:39, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

OliverGeorgeC1 I have added the appropriate information to allow you to submit your draft for review, but you should not do so yet, as you do not have independent reliable sources with significant coverage of the person. You have two sources, one being the website of her organization, the other being a press release. These do not establish that this person meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable person. Reviewers look for at least three sources with significant coverage- not just a brief mention or press release. 331dot (talk) 10:02, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Inappropriate phrase

We see inappropriate phrase ‘slaves of min aung hlaing’ in the article myanmar army,,,,, please correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.231.94.179 (talk) 09:45, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Page I created has disppeared

In January I created a page (titled Ran Namerode) with this account (Wikinamerode) and now I cannot find it anywhere - can anyone help me find it please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikinamerode (talk • contribs) 10:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Please check myanmar army page

We have seen hate groups targeting Wikipedia articles taking full advantage of free edition some of the words written there such as Ma A Loe means motherf**ker in Burmese language and also the word ma Thar gyi is very rude and low grade to appear on the famed Wikipedia page,,,,, please take action soon...... thanks you