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March 25

Request to remove maintenance templates

Hi, I would greatly appreciate if someone could please review, and if satisfied, remove the maintenance templates on the following two articles: Vertiv and Redlands, Cremorne. I believe I have since improved both articles to meet the required standards. Armenshirazd (talk) 00:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Armenshirazd: Hi there! If you've resolved the issues, you may be bold and remove the maintenance templates yourself. If someone else disagrees, they can revert your edit(s), and then you can discuss on the article's talk page. Thanks, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 03:23, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks GoingBatty, will do. Armenshirazd (talk) 03:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Armenshirazd Keep up the good work. You may be interested to read WP:SOLUTION: about a word that still appears ten times in Vertiv. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:45, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Mike Turnbull. Armenshirazd (talk) 23:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reverts to bad versions

Perhaps someone could take a look at the editing history of Mark Geragos. A factual error has been restored no less than 25 times, for reasons that have nothing to do with actual content. The page has been repeatedly protected to keep the error in place. Anyone who knows about U.S. politics knows that a pardon would not have been requested on January 20, 2001. Rather, that seems to be the date it was granted, as it was Clinton's last day in office.

Next, take a look at the editing histories of Wikipedia:Guide to addressing bias and Wikipedia:Everything you need to know. Read the explanations given for these changes: [1] [2] Again, all of those reverts have nothing to do with actual content.

Now look at the editing history of Opioid epidemic in the United States. published its rebuttal to the 1980 letter suggests that there was something wrong with the letter itself. That was not the case; the problem was the way it was later misrepresented. The article about that letter makes that fairly clear, though a similar pattern of nonsensical reverts has occurred there also. See this explanation as to why the other version is better. 195.226.122.82 (talk) 03:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Football (Soccer) Personal Profile

Hi, Im writing my first Wikipedia article and i practiced in sandbox first, i created the artcile and using the template function added a personal fotball profile, it had such fields in it as Name, Age, Current club, Height, Weight, Clubs, Apperances and Goals...now im wrtiing the article ready for publishing and i want to add the same template, but its not there when i search for it, any suggestions, thanks ScouseMouse213 (talk) 03:28, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ScouseMouse213: Feel free to post here at the Help desk OR at the Teahouse, but please don't ask the same question in both locations at the same time. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:32, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Jonah Duchowny is well short of meeting WP:NSPORTS. There needs to be significant coverage in reliable secondary sources.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 08:39, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editing an item about the next General Election in the UK

I would like to add the Party name "Liberal Democrats" and the name of the candidate, "Mark Argent" to the item on the next General Election on the Huntingdon Constituency Page but I'm not sure how to do this.

The link is:-

Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

MalcolmHilton (talk) 12:42, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MalcolmHilton If you navigate to Huntingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections and use the source editor you will see how his name is included in the table for the 2019 general election. You can copy the relevant bits to the table above provided you can also add a source that verifies he will be a candidate. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:33, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please be aware that until the calling of the election and the submission of the papers they are prospective parliamentary candidates. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:08, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much.

Will do. MalcolmHilton (talk) 16:33, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The problem I now have is that I can't see a way of adding a line to the table in order to include the details I want to add.

Although I can see all the other candidates' details there doesn't seem to be an option to add another one. It looks as though I can overwrite their details but I don't want to risk that - though it may be that the fields that are shown are just intended as examples and are actually editable. Would welcome advice on this point. MalcolmHilton (talk) 18:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MalcolmHilton: See Help:Table. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:11, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MalcolmHilton: I assume you're referring to the "Elections in the 2020s" table in the article. The easiest way to add a row, using the source editor, is to (1) click the "edit" link for the table, (2) copy the whole {{Election box candidate with party link}} template for one of the existing candidates and paste that where you want the new row to appear, either between the templates for two existing candidates or after the candidates but before {{Election box majority}}, (3) replace each field in the template, including the |url= field for a reference, with corresponding information about the new candidate, and (4) preview your edit to make sure you haven't messed anything up. Then click "Publish changes". Deor (talk) 00:37, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

need help, trying to get font typeface tag to work

i am trying to use this font tag to change type face, and nothing is changing., can anyone please help?

<span style="font-family: Consolas;">

please ping me if you reply. thanks! Sm8900 (talk) 15:16, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sm8900: Have you tried adding the closing tag </span> after your text to be formatted? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

hi. yes, but the opening tag is at the top of the page, and the closing tag is all at the way at the bottom, after all of the section headings. could that be the problem? Sm8900 (talk) 15:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It might be. There is a hierarchy of elements in HTML: <span>s are within <p> elements, for example; so your span will get closed as soon as the parser meets the end of a higher-level element. HTML allows you to add a style= to almost any element, not just a span. ColinFine (talk) 15:56, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok.. err, lol it's working fine now. maybe I just needed to hit "purge cache"? oopsie. lol thanks! Sm8900 (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Victor Schmidt fixed it by using div instead [3] 3 minutes before your post. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:13, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok thats great. thanks!! Sm8900 (talk) 18:56, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sm8900: What happens if that font is not available on the device a reader is using? It might be better to use the {{mono}} or {{code}} templates. For example, {{mono|This is in a monospaced font.}} produces This is in a monospaced font. There is alsi a corresponding {{monodiv}} template. Bazza 7 (talk) 20:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

wow, ok thats very useful. @Bazza 7, @PrimeHunter, @ColinFine, @Tenryuu, could you please point me to the help pages or manual of style, etc, where all of these items would appear?? I'll try to learn all of these methods. thanks! Sm8900 (talk) 20:35, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sm8900: For various markup templates, see Category:Semantic markup templates and Category:Templates using TemplateStyles. As is often the case, these lists can be quite difficult to follow to find what you are looking for. Asking questions here, as you have discovered, can be productive when solutions prove elusive.

On the manual of style, see MOS:MARKUP, and its excellent advice about KISSing. Bazza 7 (talk) 20:57, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

excellent advice! and also KISS is a new acronym for me! all i knew of was fubar and snafu! lol well done!

Sm8900 (talk) 20:59, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are free to choose fonts in your own userspace like User:Sm8900/items tasks. If a reader doesn't have the font then their browser will select another font they do have. Articles shouldn't set fonts per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Font family. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:12, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Flame (student publication)

Hello can you help me with trying to remove the Notability of this article page, I have already gather many sources but it remains challenging. Jeanneshi (talk) 17:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you mean "remove the notability tag". There are currently no independent reliable sources in the article that provide significant coverage of this publication.

Are you associated with this publication? 331dot (talk) 17:13, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The only way is to establish that the Flame meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability (most student newspapers don't) by showing where several people, wholly unconnected with it, have written at some length about it in reliable sources.

Evaluate every one of your sources against the golden rule: if a soue doesn't meet all the criteria in that, then it does not contribute to establishing notability. ColinFine (talk) 17:41, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is anyone allowed to comment on someone else's post on ANI?

I don't think everyone who has responded to my post on the ANI is an administrator. Am I allowed to give my two cents worth there in a thread someone else started? Polar Apposite (talk) 17:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there's no requirement to be an admin to respond to ANI posts. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 17:46, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is, however, a requirement to be brief and concise, especially in a venue like ANI where tensions are high and tempers inflamed. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 01:37, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Google summary

How do I edit the little summary box that a Google search produces at the top right-hand side of the page of Google answers? Historiamanto (talk) 17:51, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You'll have to ask Google; we don't have diddly-squat to do with that or any other of their features, even when they lean heavily upon us for answers. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:57, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you by any chance referring to a photo or text shown to the right of a Google search? Google's Knowledge Graph uses a wide variety of sources. There may be a text paragraph ending with "Wikipedia" to indicate that particular text was copied from Wikipedia. An image and other text before or after the Wikipedia excerpt may be from sources completely unrelated to Wikipedia. We have no control over how Google presents our information, but Google's Knowledge Graph has a "Feedback" link where anyone can mark a field as wrong. The same feedback facility is also provided on Bing and some other search engines. See also: [4] Victor Schmidt (talk) 19:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change Page Title

Our organization changed names, but we don't have anyone who can change the title of the wikipedia page that represents our organization. Is there an admin who can help us? 24.214.127.10 (talk) 19:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What typically matters is if the title of an article is the most common name for a topic, not necessarily the official or legal name(example, Bill Clinton, not William Jefferson Blythe, his birth name which is a redirect). If you think the new name will be more prominent, you may make a request at Requested Moves. 331dot (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not directly an answer, but please note that a Wikipedia article absolutely does not "represent" your organization. It is an encyclopaedia article about your organization, based on what independent sources say about you, not on what you want to say about you. If something happened that caused a lot of negative media attention about your organization, that would and should be covered in the article. ColinFine (talk) 22:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Given all this, you you should try to show that the new name has become more common than the old name in multiple reliable sources (i.e., newspapers, etc.. If you can, then add a comment on the article's talk page and point to those sources, and then request a "move", which is what we call the title change. -Arch dude (talk) 22:11, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! For more information about making a request, see WP:Edit requests, or try the WP:Edit Request Wizard. Be sure to disclose your involvement with the organization, as it is a conflict of interest. Thanks for your interest in improving Wikipedia! GoingBatty (talk) 04:51, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Problem regarding archiving a talk page

I set ClueBot III to archive Talk:Las Vegas Strip using the template found on Help:Archiving a talk page. Even though the earliest thread was from 2005 and there's been about 50 since then,it's put most of them on one page. I assume that it's meant to spread them out to more than one, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong. Could someone have a look? KaraLG84 (talk) 23:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@KaraLG84: A new archive will start when it reaches the max size. You specified maxarchsize=75000 and the archive is now at 70199, so not quite big enough to start archive page 2. RudolfRed (talk) 01:06, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RudolfRed: Ah that'll explain it. Is it fine as it is or does it need to be smaller? I'm not sure what the best practises are. I already tried once before so don't want to mess it up any further if necessary.KaraLG84 (talk) 13:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]