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February 24[edit]

Guilford Lindsey Molesworth[edit]

I don't think that the external link at the bottom of this page is done correctly. Please fix. ThanksSrbernadette (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for pointing out the problem, @Srbernadette:. I fixed for formatting, but I am not sure that should be in the External links in the first place. If it has pertinent information then it should be used as an inline reference; if not then perhaps it should not be there.--Gronk Oz (talk) 01:57, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, in this Article's current state, the 3rd sentence in the Career section has obviously been truncated. I mention this here as being likely to be noticed, and will also add it to the Article talk page. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195) 185.74.232.130 (talk) 14:37, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The "offending" edit is here. It seems the sentence was re-written and the first words left in error. (Restored). Eagleash (talk) 15:22, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Name of one of the article needs to be changed[edit]

Dear Administrators,

Greetings!

May I request you to kindly change the name of one of the articles? This is the article which needs change in name. This is the reference where they are mentioning that the name has been changed. I have requested to change the name on the talk page of the article here

Thanks. --Abhijeet Safai (talk) 05:53, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Page moved. Ian.thomson (talk) 06:14, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hassan Tajideen WIKI[edit]

Dear,

I hope that this e-mail finds you well. Let me first thank you for all the efforts that you made to move Wikipedia into the current progress, wishing more and more of success and prosperity.

My reason of contacting you, is that i have been trying so long to post my biography on Wikipedia, but many rejections was received due to the fact that you find the topic miss notability and verification. I have lately edited my Wiki, and i have added some resources, since I have many but you didn't consider it previously, I am still waiting for verification so the text could be published.

I wish that you consider this e-mail and provide me with solutions, since I don't find any reason to decline my submission.

Looking forward hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

Hassan Tajideen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan tajideen (talk • contribs) 08:42, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's also the rather huge problems that you have a conflict of interest and have written the article like a resume.

When writing an article, start off by gathering professionally published mainstream academic or journalistic sources that are not affiliated with you in any way. Blogs are not professionally published. A conference announcing that you will speak there is affiliated. Even a website interviewing you is problematic, so find sources that are about you but not connected to you in any way. Take these unaffiliated sources and summarize them. Do not use anything beyond that. Do not put any emotion into the writing, do not elaborate on anything that a source does not say.

If you do not have at least two sources that have no connection to you, there's no point in trying. Ian.thomson (talk) 08:59, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

TRAMPOLINE[edit]

How do i jump on a trampoline? I am 43 and want to learn for exercises. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.4.72.13 (talk) 13:38, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, this is the page for asking questions in respect of how to edit Wikipedia. However, the Wikipedia article trampoline may have some information or the Wikipedia: reference desk may be able to help you. Eagleash (talk) 14:00, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Updating/Editing Client's Wikipedia Info.[edit]

Hello,

I am new to the Wikipedia pages. I am a publicist and have two clients who need to update (edit) their Wikipedia pages. Please tell me what the procedure is to do this.

Thank you,

Robert — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertprguy (talk • contribs) 14:29, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome Robert! Maybe the Conflict of interest guideline is useful to you. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 15:34, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Robertprguy. I am afraid you and your clients have a fundamental misunderstanding of Wikipedia. It is not their job, or yours, to update Wikipedia's articles about them (which are not "their pages"); indeed, of all the people in the world who may edit those articles, you and your clients are the least appropriate. After reading the guide to conflict of interest, as suggested by The Quixotic Potato, and made the declarations which are required from you as a paid editor, you are welcome to post suggested changes on the talk pages of the relevant articles. Make them as specific as possible (i.e. not "that information is incorrect" but "change XYZ to ABC" and be sure to provide citations of reliable published sources which have no connection whatever to you or your client, otherwise your suggestions might not be taken up. If there is little traffic on those Talk pages, you could usefully add {{edit request}} (with the double curly brackets) to your request, and that will put the page on a list of edits waiting. --ColinFine (talk) 18:26, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PROBLEMS WITH PAGES[edit]

Dear Wikipedia,

I’m writing about the page of Barbara Franchin you recently deleted. Barbara Franchin is the founder and director of International Talent Support, one of the most important contests for talents worldwide, and she’s a fashion personality well known and considered all over the world. This was the text about her:

Extended text

“Barbara Franchin is the Founder and Director of ITS - International Talent Support. She was born and raised in Trieste, an outside point of view due to its peripheral and eccentric position. In 2001 she launches the agency EVE personally selecting her staff and through this agency organizes the first edition of ITS in 2002. ITS is a creative platform based on a deep and widespread research of talent offering support, visibility and opportunities for young designers coming from all over the world. After a selection process they are invited in Trieste for a grand finale event which sees the presence of over 400 guests.

Among the most enthusiastic supporters of ITS is Diesel founder Renzo Rosso and the juries of the competition have included performance artist Marina Abramović, photographers Nick Knight, Ari Marcopoulosand Sarah Moon, Vogue Italia Editor in Chief Franca Sozzani, Founder of Business of Fashion Imran Amed, Curator-in-Charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum - New York Harold Koda, Diesel's Artistic Director Nicola Formichetti, Singer & Songwriter Mika and designers such as Raf Simons, Viktor & Rolf,[1] Consuelo Castiglioni, Manish Arora as well as journalists such as Hilary Alexander, Angelo Flaccavento and Cathy Horyn.

Her love and will to preserve, catalogue and bring completion to this research journey led to the creation of the ITS Creative Archive, a unique collection which traces the history of contemporary fashion evolution, endlessly and fluidly evolving. The ITS Creative Archive holds 15,000 projects from over 80 countries, 200 outfits, 110 accessory and 70 jewelry pieces and over 700 digital photography projects.

She is recognized as one of the most important talent scouts of young fashion designers, accessories designers and in October 2010 she was included by Italian Elle (magazine) among the 100 most powerful women in fashion [2] and has been invited to lecture [3] in conferences, schools and companies to talk about the world of creativity.”

I followed all the instructions and brief Wikipedia provides and we certainly don’t break the rules, because we don’t add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material. Furthermore we have a lot of references to prove all this, and we already put them into the previous old page. Please, don’t delete this page anymore otherwise tell me exactly which part of the text I have to delete by my self. Thanks for your attention. Best regards.

M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikelone77 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please read our General notability guideline. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 15:32, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that text seems indisputably promotional in tone and under cited to me. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:22, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at what you have posted above in more detail, Mikelone77: "one of the most important contests for talents worldwide" and "well known and considered all over the world" are claims which may or may not be true, but they are not neutral. No Wikipedia article on any subject should ever make such a claim in Wikipedia's voice. Only if the article cites a (truly) independent published source which says that, may the article say it (making it clear that the claim comes directly from the source). "An outside point of view due to its peripheral and eccentric position" is an opinion, and similary not neutral. "based on a deep and widespread research of talent" is an evaluative claim.

This is only the first two paragraphs. I agree with the deleting admin that the copy is irretrievably promotions.

What you need to do is to read WP:42 and your first article, start again using the Article wizard to create a draft in draft space (where it will not get deleted unless there is something serious like a copyright infringement), and write it from scratch, basing your draft only on things said by sources unconnected with Franchin. --ColinFine (talk) 18:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrights: Using a Wikipedia Image in a Commercial Book[edit]

Hello! I'm an independent author who has written a book about the American Civil War. I would like to know what restrictions, if any, are entailed by using an image that I found on Wikipedia as part of my book's cover. The image is called "The Battle of Franklin" by Kurz and Allison (File:Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864.jpg), and I've found the image on my google accounts filtered by "Labeled for reuse" and that the image is considered in the general domain. However Wikipedia says the source of the print is the Library of Congress. I don't want any copyright embroilments; willing to do what's necessary. Do I have to contact them? Thanks, Ed Rayner — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tremlettancestor (talk • contribs) 19:32, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The image page says it is in the public domain. No permission necessary to use it. RudolfRed (talk) 20:04, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quick note, Tremlettancestor — please be careful to use the full resolution of the image! Go to the image description page and click on the picture itself. The full-resolution image is 7,393×5,149 pixels, but if you use the resolution displayed on the description page, you'll have an image that's just 800×557 pixels; I don't expect that your publisher would appreciate a version of the image that's little more than 1% of the size of the largest possible version. Nyttend (talk) 03:37, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]