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June 21

How to create new content

Hi,

I need to create a new page, about an old theatre in bangalore India....plz do guide me.....

Thnx Sripriya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sripriya401 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sripriya401: See this guide to writing your first article. You probably want to start with the article wizard. Make sure that your topic is notable (by our standards) before you begin, and remember to write the article in a neutral tone. LittlePuppers (talk) 04:04, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The following copied from the talk page. Eagleash (talk) 09:24, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How do u add pictures to the article? Sripriya401 (talk) 04:50, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sripriya401. You can find the answer to that question at WP:Uploading images. But my advice to you is not to spend time adding pictures until you have written a solid article: that would be like icing a cake before you bake it. Separately, I would advise you (as I advise all new editors) to spend a few weeks or months improving some of our millions of sub-standard articles, and learning how Wikipedia works, before you try the difficult task of writing a new encyclopaedia article. --ColinFine (talk) 14:51, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to respond to users adding links to their own publications?

I know I've seen this occasionally in the past, but I don't know what the technically correct way to respond to it is if the links aren't irrelevant or completely spam. The user in this case is Jmvdl (you should be getting a ping, what are your thoughts?) LittlePuppers (talk) 04:10, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If they aren't reliable sources, they should be removed (along with contentious material they might support if they are refs.) If they are somehow reliable sources, they should be contacted regarding COI. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:34, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks LittlePuppers (talk) 18:21, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sandbox

When I searched the term Wikipedia:Sandbox on WP, I got a personal biography dating from 2003. Should it be there at this point?--Quisqualis (talk) 07:30, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That particular page is quite literally a testing area for the community. The one I see was posted today. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:33, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Plus, if OP meant this content, it's only been there for like half an hour; a bot will clean that up shortly. —RainFall 07:37, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see "2003" in the recent history of Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you don't refer to this content then please give precise steps to reproduce, quote text from the page you see, and post the url when you see the page. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:32, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello help desk

I posted information on Doctor Ian Wilson and can not find any sign of it on Wikipedia

Could you please tell me if its still pending and what I need to do to further this request.

Thank you

Condensed

PS The information posted is as follows: World Expeditionary Association (Wexas)

The World Expeditionary Association (Wexas) was founded in London by Dr Ian Wilson in September 1970 as a non-profit membership organization called the World Universities Expeditionary Association (WUNEXAS). The name of the association was shortened to Wexas in 1972.

The aim of Wexas was to provide low cost travel for student expeditions and to allocate a share of revenue towards funding expeditions organized by UK universities and schools. The former were generally scientific while the latter were adventure training expeditions, sometimes in association with the British Schools Exploring Society and the Brathay Outdoor Centre in the Lake District.

Dr Ian Wilson founded Wexas a year after leaving Oxford University. From its early days, continuing to this day, Wexas attracted the support of many prominent explorers and travellers. The founding Honorary President was the late General Sir John Hackett, principal of King’s College London and a distinguished scholar soldier who commanded the Rhineland Army after the Second World War. Soon there followed a string of honorary presidents famous for their exploits around the globe.

Former honorary presidents of Wexas:

Richard Leakey Sir Chris Bonington Sir Chay Blyth Sir Peter Scott Lord Hunt Clare Francis John Ridgway James Michener Lowell Thomas Lord Wolfenden Major General Lascelles Baron Hugo van Lawick Sir Alec Rose Sir Wally Herbert Sir Hereward Wake Brigadier Worsley

Most of the above were members of the Honorary Board of Traveller magazine, published continuously by Wexas since 1970,

Current Honorary Presidents of Wexas:

Kate Adie Mark Beaumont Professor David Bellamy Colonel John Blashford-Snell Dr Jean-Michel Cousteau William Dalrymple Sir Ranulph Fiennes Robin Hanbury-Tenison Dr Alasdair Harris Fergal Keane Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Stewart McPherson Sir Christopher Ondaatje Sir Michael Palin Professor John Prebble Dr Christopher Roads Jonathan Scott John Simpson Colin Thubron Sir Crispin Tickell

Philanthropy

Over the course of its first twenty years, Wexas gave financial aid to over 200 British expeditions. The scientific reports acquired as a result were donated by Wexas to the Royal Geographical Society in the early Nineteen Nineties. Around the same time Wexas stopped making grants directly to expeditions and instead made an annual financial grant to the Royal Geographical Society which enabled the Society to make grants to scientific expeditions on behalf of Wexas.

In 2006 Wexas established the Wexas Travel Foundation, a registered UK charity (Number 1130335) to raise funds from staff events and from members of the association, matched by funds from the association, to help finance a number of Third World and global sustainability projects. The first three such projects to benefit were:

A school room for poor children in Kwa-Zulu Natal

A project in South America that aimed to prevent illegal destruction of the rainforest

The provision of temporary accommodation for schoolchildren in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake, and the subsequent building of permanent accommodation

.Publications

Over the years the association has published several travel books, notably The Traveller’s Handbook, which went through a dozen UK editions and three US editions (as the International Traveller’s Handbook) between 1977 and 2009. A definitive book for serious travellers, the Handbook had around 120 specialist contributors and was often known as the traveller’s ‘bible’. The development of the Internet led Wexas in 2009 to the decision not to publish further editions of this 1200-page book.

Wexas travel titles:

500 Tips for the Long Haul Traveller (later renamed Trouble-Free Travel: An Insider’s Guide) (Wexas, London, 1982, ISBN 978-0905802015) author Ian Wilson under the pseudonym Richard Harrington

500 Destinations to Avoid and 500 to Visit (Wexas, London, 2000, ISBN 978-0905802992) author Ian Wilson

Wexas is also the publisher of Traveller (1984) (formerly called Expedition News (1970) and then Expedition(1973), the association’s flagship magazine and the oldest surviving travel magazine in the UK, having been published continuously since 1970.  Wexas owns the registered magazine trademark ‘Traveller’ in the UK, the USA and Canada.

Off The Beaten Track : a Wexas Travel Handbook (1977-1980, ISBN 978-0905064307)

The Traveller’s Handbook (1982-2008, ISBN 978-0905802060)

Around the World in Eighty Ways (1993, ISBN 978-0905802060) by various celebrity contributors

The Traveller’s Healthbook (1998, ISBN 978-0905802091) editor Jonathan Lorie

The Traveller’s Internet Guide (2001, ISBN 978-0905802138) editor Jonathan Lorie

Controversy

In 2004 Wexas was involved in controversy when Chairman Dr Ian Wilson organized a diving expedition to the Chagos archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) in the Indian Ocean. Access to Chagos is severely restricted by the British government, while the principal island of Diego Garcia is rented out to the USA as a military base. Wilson obtained permission to take 15 people by boat from Seychelles to Chagos with the indirect approval of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office through the intermediary of the Chagos Conservation Society. However, departure from Seychelles aboard the Indian Ocean Explorer was almost prevented by order of the Seychelles prime minister and only the intervention of UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the last moment made it possible for the expedition to depart. The plight of the Chagossian people, resettled in Mauritius and Seychelles in the 1960s to make way for the US base in Diego Garcia, continues to this day.

Wexas today

Wexas is a leading UK travel organization with 110 staff . The association operates from its principal office on London’s South Bank and a subsidiary office in Bournemouth. Wexas was incorporated in 1982 and offers its members a variety of travel and travel insurance services. Dr Ian Wilson remains the chairman to this day.

Garthpedia (talk) 10:26, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Garthpedia: The only edit you have related to Ian Wilson is to add a word to an article about a different Ian Wilson. If you created a draft, you didn't do it while logged in to your account. 331dot (talk) 10:30, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds as if your article should be about WEXAS, rather than Dr Wilson, but we have an article on Ian Wilson (entrepreneur). Is this yours? ~~Are you PaulBommel?~~ (Probably not.) Dbfirs 10:45, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's not much point in trying to create a new article on Dr Wilson because we already have one. Why not call your draft WEXAS instead? Dbfirs 11:48, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gruppo UNA - Still a draft

Hi there! I need some assistance with a page whose I have completed the translation from Italian to English. Wiki still displays the page as a draft, and I don't know how to resolve it :( The link of the page is here --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Gruppo_UNA

Thank you in advance, Alessandro

Itseclypso (talk)

Hi @Itseclypso: Thank you for translating it. I notice that all of the sources are about the merger of the companies. Since I don't speak Italian, it's hard for me to conduct a search, but are you able to find third-party, independent sources WP:RS that discuss Gruppo UNA in more detail to get it past the WP:NCORP/WP:ORGDEPTH threshold? Adding those sources/more content will help it meet WP:GNG. Also, be sure to attribute the article to the Italian Wikipedia source by following the instructions here: WP:Translation#How_to_translate. Once all that's done, you can submit the article for review by adding the {{subst:submit}} template to the top of the article. Orville1974 (talk) 14:05, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft Deleted

Hello, I wrote an article which was carefully written with citations only from reputable public media. The draftEyeglasses.com was deleted due to promotional material. I followed your guidelines, checked all the wiki pages for similar companies. Can you please refer to the article and show me specific instances of promotion? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peacefulmark (talk • contribs) 13:14, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Peacefulmark: It was deleted by RoySmith for this reason WP:G11. It is highly unlikely it would be restored. - FlightTime (open channel) 13:19, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted draft started with, "Eyeglasses.com has been called a disrupter in the eyeglasses industry", and went downhill from there, including pricing information about the glasses they sell, and how many stars they got rated from various websites. Please see WP:COI and WP:UPE. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:34, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Peacefulmark:In addition to all of the above, there is only true requirement for an article: the subject must be notable by our definition. All other problems can be corrected, but non-notability is a show-stopper. We delete about 200 articles per day, mostly due to lack of notability. See WP:NCORP. -Arch dude (talk) 06:39, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Page Renaming

Please kindly assist with renaming the Permal Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permal_Group) page to EnTrust Global. Content has been updated, however I am unable to correct the name.

Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.88.182.219 (talk) 14:22, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Your rewrite blanked all of the content on Permal Group and included no reliable sources, so I've restored the prior version and kept the page where it is for now. Please add to the article regarding the rename without removing existing content, and be sure to cite independent, third-party sources WP:RS when doing so. Thank you! Orville1974 (talk) 14:47, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

template help

Resolved

— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:43, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

how to add logos of other Indian cities here? Template:Rail-interchange/doc/IN
Saha ( talk ) 18:38, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Screech Owl

My edit of a quote was found to be "not constructive". I don't understand why. The quote in the article is incorrect, and is actually in Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I cited all the book information I had available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Birdnerder (talk • contribs) 18:56, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Birdnerder. You should discuss this at Talk:Eastern screech owl and with the editorcwho reverted you. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 19:03, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Birdnerder: I think the problem was that you failed to cite a reference for your claim. You wrote "(Henry David Thoreau, 1854).<ref name=Thoreau/>", which does not give the name of the work, and incidentally refers to a named reference which does not exist. I think the work you were trying to cite is Walden. If you have access to a copy of the 1854 edition of Walden, it should be easy to support your claim with a validly-fortmatted reference, with a page number. Maproom (talk) 20:52, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Birdnerder: Here is the book: s:Walden (1854) Thoreau. As Maproom says, the problem is with the way you referenced it, not with what you are trying to accomplish. I think "not constructive" was overly harsh. If you don't have time to figure out how to create the references, please let me know. If you do have time, please read Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. -Arch dude (talk) 06:32, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the content added by Birdnerder, with a reference to Walden. Thank you, Arch dude. Maproom (talk) 07:00, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bulk URL check?

Dear Wikipedia folks,

Is there a bulk way to check whether a page link already exists in Wikipedia.

I am creating a database of bacterial names and want to include a link to Wikipedia if a page exists for that name, but not have a dead link if it doesn't exist.

Say I have a long list of bacterial names (which I do) and say I want to check each one if they have a page in Wikipedia, but I don't want to manually search each one.

Such as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiotrophia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus etc.etc x 14,000

Is there a tool or script to submit bulk lists of candidate Wikipedia URLs which reports back YES or NO in Wikipedia?

Thanks

Teeber — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.187.161.236 (talk) 20:13, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, there is no such tool. However, if you add each name into each wikilink then press the preview button at the bottom of the edit box, then you can view the edit you are about to make. Then you can view whether any of the wikilinks come up as a red link (indicating there is no page with that exact title) and then you can manually search for the name that has come up red. This eliminates huge amounts of time, but can still be rather tedious, especially if you get the spelling slightly off. I hope that helps, Willbb234 (talk) 20:33, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If this is your first time editing, you might want to head to this editing tutorial to get an idea on what editing Wikipedia is about. You can ask any questions at the Teahouse. Best wishes, Willbb234 (talk) 20:36, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Teeber, since there doesn't seem to be a tool that would do it, here's how I would approach it. In Excel, enter [[ in the first and second rows of the first column, then use the cell tool (bottom right corner of cell) to drag it down for as many rows as you need. In the second column, paste your list of titles. In the first and second rows of the third column, enter ]], then drag it down for as many rows as you have titles. Next, save the file in .csv format (comma separated values). Open the .csv file in Notepad. Replace every comma with nothing (use search+replace but don't put anything in the "replace with" field). You now have a list of wikilinked article titles that you can paste into your Sandbox and preview to see which ones are blue and which are red. Hope that helps! Schazjmd (Talk) 21:03, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As I read the OP's question, they are not wanting to create wikilinks, but to add links to Wikipedia articles to a database outside Wikipedia. If that is the case, IP user, I think you will need to download the Wikipedia database and extract the information from it. WP:Database download is where you want to go - probably the section "Help to parse dumps for use in scripts". --ColinFine (talk) 22:29, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Each database dump also comes with a compressed list of all the current article titles. This is just a big text file, so may be easier for you to work with. The most recent article title dump is enwiki-20190601-all-titles-in-ns0.gz -- John of Reading (talk) 04:23, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You should check out Wikispecies and Wikidata as alternatives to slogging through all of Wikipedia directly. Each Wikipedia article has a Wikidata item. Wikidata is a structured database which can take queries. Wikispecies attempt to have articles on species, including bacteria, and there may be a Wikidata item for those articles or for species names. The folks over at the Wikidata help desk may be able to help you It should be possible to structure a query that can respond with the Wikipedia article name given the species name, or even spit out a list of all bacteria species that have a Wikipedia article, together with the article name. Wikispecies is not directly involved wthi that specific query, but The wikispecies articles may be closer to what you need anyway. -Arch dude (talk) 06:16, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]