How can I add a copyright tag to a recently uploaded photo? Thanks iin advance. [[User:Nealash|Nealash]] ([[User talk:Nealash|talk]]) 04:40, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
@InfiniteSword:To revert to a previous version, go to the article's history and click on the version your wish to revert to. This will display it. you can then click the "restore this version" in the "this is an old version" box at teh top of the displayes article. Please make sure you really want to do this: all the later edits will no longer be there. Also make sure to leave a meaningful edit summary to explain why you did this. -Arch dude (talk) 05:36, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@InfiniteSword:But if you just want to undo the most recent edit, go to the article's history and click on the "undo" at the end of the most recent history entry. Again, please explain using a meaningful edit summary. -Arch dude (talk) 05:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The first example has a link which says "play", but it's irritating because it doesn't. For reasons explained at Help:Media (MIDI), it will download the midi file to your machine instead, which will then play when located and opened if the machine is set up to play midi, which Windows computers typically aren't. Android seems able to play midi files by default, but it's still annoying to leave the browser to do so. If you click on "info", that leads to a page with the file embedded a third way, using [[File:]], which works like {{listen}} without the decorations. I guess an argument could be made about server load, but other than that it seems to me really bad to present these frustrating non-functional links to the reader. I think the {{audio}} template is just out of date (by ten or twenty years). Card Zero (talk)10:49, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Card Zero:I suggest you start a discussion on the talk page of {{audio}}, and add a pointer to your discussion at the talk page of {{listen}}. The folks who are watching those pages, if any, will be your best source of informed opinions. After a week or so, If nobody comments, change a few of the pages that use {{audio}} and wait another week or so to see if anyone objects. -Arch dude (talk) 20:08, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi
We have an educational website. In a free English vocabulary training course, we have used the text sections of Wikipedia. Of course, Wikipedia's name is mentioned in the course description in the sources section. This course is free, but to use this course and its information, you must become a member of our site. (Membership is free).
Is this allowed? And there is no problem with copyright?
Thank you in advance. MHE78 (talk) 12:24, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You can reuse Wikipedia text as long as you provide attribution. Images are more complicated. It doesn't matter if you charge for the course or not, Wikipedia's license allows reuse for any purpose(including commercial). 331dot (talk) 12:31, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What are Wikipedia rules when I want to add a link to a book that resides on archieve.org? The book is not a reference but to list the literary work of a dead person. SULNOUR (talk) 17:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
SULNOUR, that template can be used without reference tags to simply present complete bibliographic information about the book, without creating a reference. Cullen328 (talk) 20:00, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
sandbox page gone
What happened to the sandbox page I was editing a few days ago? I didn't finish, so it was not published. Why can't I find it again to continue editing it? Dcdan4 (talk) 23:11, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Because you never published it. (The "Publish page" button used to be "save page", but people complained that what they saved was visible to anyone who knew where to look, hence why it was changed. Now we're getting complaints in the opposite direction. C'est la vie.) —Jéské Courianov^_^va little blue Bori23:20, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hai, I am Pandian, I am legal consultant for south tamilnadu. Your team played in AIADMK designation chart.. Impressive.. But Edapady k palanichamy elective designations not on right selection related in case filling in Indian election commission. So who are you desired designation him. Change the template please. Should proper text way of truth... Right 2409:4072:611C:2110:0:0:18F0:A8B1 (talk) 12:42, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This post seems like it was translated via an automated service like Google or BabelFish. There is a reason I do not trust automated translation for South or East Asian languages, and this post is as good an explanation as any why. —Jéské Courianov^_^va little blue Bori00:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Updating uploaded video
I just uploaded a video and after I discovered that my brother left the title card for the next segment in the video. Can I replace the video with a fixed copy, or do I have to remove the link from the Vesuvius page, delete the video, upload a new one, and replace the link? Don Wiss (talk) 13:15, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Will Hyman. That redirected article did not have any references to reliable, independent sources that devote significant coverage to this political party at the state level. The two references were to a voter registration number database, which is not significant coverage, and to the party's own web page about Will Hyman, which is not an independent source. Accordingly, you appear to have a Conflict of interest which you should disclose, and should edit very cautiously. Under these circumstances, the redirect was correct. Cullen328 (talk) 20:10, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Our issue is actually that there was a lot of historical information that has been lost that I haven't seen anywhere else. I would like to copy and paste it into our LPedia page which the Libertarian Partys own "Wiki"
Strange because the West Virginia Republican, Democrat and Mountain Parties have their own wiki pages and haven't been deleted. Will Hyman (talk) 20:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Will Hyman Wikipedia is not a voter guide and does not provide equal time for all points of view. Coverage of a topic depends on the coverage in independent reliable sources. Rightly or wrongly, it is likely that reliable sources give West Virginia Democrats and Republicans more coverage than West Virginia Libertarians. 331dot (talk) 20:47, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Do you represent or work for the West Virginia Libertarian Party? You may be required to comply with certain policies depending on your level of association. 331dot (talk) 20:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I am the chairman of the party. I am just trying to recover the data that was in the original article. If it can be restored, even better. Will Hyman (talk) 20:50, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Will Hyman, the articles about those three parties all include references to reliable, independent sources that devote significant coverage to those parties. The deleted/redirected article about your party did not. If you will agree to follow the legal attribution requirements described in Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content, I will email you the wikicode for that article. Cullen328 (talk) 20:53, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. I looked up someone recently who is deceased but who I knew fairly well. Recently someone has gone in to his list and made quite unkind edits, for example commenting on the person's hygiene and calling him a charlatan amongst other insults. I'm all for critique but not for meanness! Is there an easy way to put it back to its previous version? Many thanks. Emily 107.2.26.67 (talk) 20:32, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that can easily be done. Either we can explain to you how to do it yourself (which may not be that easy for someone with no editing experience); or you can specify who the person is, either in public here, or by going to my user page and clicking "Email this user". Maproom (talk) 20:48, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Go to the page in question and click the "View History" button above the top of the article. From there, locate the offending edit. If it's gone unfixed so far, it's probably at the top of the list. If there is just a single vandalism edit, press "Undo" on the edit and publish your changes. For multiple vandalism edits in a row, find the last good version and select it by clicking the date and time of the edit. Then, review the page to ensure it is the right version and press "Restore this version" at the top of the page. See Help:Reverting for more information. WelpThatWorked (talk) 20:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
July 16
your impact
hi,
for some reason the numbers on my "your impact" page keep changing radically, and some articles will disappear completely from the list even though they were at the top and my edit wasn't reverted. can anyone explain why? InfiniteSword (talk) 02:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@RudolfRed: pretty sure they talk about the relatively new Special:Homepage feature, which is enabled for new users by default. @InfiniteSword: Unless I missread something, the list "your impact" is based on the number of views the articles got since you edited them, limited to data from the past 60 days. As a natural consequence, if you edit a frequently-viewed article, it will make itself to the top. Also, less-viewed articles are more likely to get bumped off the page, either because some other article you edited got more views and made it into the five slots, or because the 60-day timeout expired. Victor Schmidt (talk) 05:24, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
i know for a fact i have not been editing on wikipedia for 60 days. also, the numbers for the my impact page are going down like im not even sure how thats possible. the number of views for this one article has been decreasing for the past 3 adys, even though i know it is cumulative. InfiniteSword (talk) 12:27, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@InfiniteSword: I'm fairly certain the panel checks for any article views since you've edited starting from 60 days ago, whichever comes first. It's possible that once a view goes past the 60-day mark, it is removed from the impact panel. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 13:11, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
InfiniteSword, you might want to ask your question on the Village pump:technical page, since it involves recently-implemented software. If you have recorded the exact before/after figures for views of certain articles, those figures may help in understanding your case.--Quisqualis (talk) 19:57, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
yea, i'll take screenshots because this is seriously weird. some of the articles are completely disappearing from the your impact page. hopefully they can help me! InfiniteSword (talk) 00:13, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at your Talk Page archive, I can see you have had issues in the past. My advice would be to tread very carefully and make clear statements on the User Page(s) of any alternative accounts that link them to your main account and explain why you need them. You have contributed to Wikipedia over many years and I don't see why you shouldn't continue to do so productively. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:29, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, but I don't know what to do next since I had forgotten the emails and passwords of those accounts that are connected to my main account. In that case, I cannot edit directly to the talkpages of these accounts, but can appeal to the UTRS. NewManila2000 (talk) 11:56, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If you cannot access an account, then it's not an alternative account of yours. You may leave those accounts as dormant, as there is no way to remove a user account from Wikipedia. In the interest of full disclosure, you are advised to mention them on your user page.
As far as the Tagalog Wikipedia is concerned, NewManila2000 (you were community-banned), you will want to go to that Wikipedia in order to deal with any issues with your Tagalog Wikipedia accounts.--Quisqualis (talk) 19:47, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thanks, but I just want to add that I can edit in other wikis like in Tagalog because of being community banned in English Wikipedia before. NewManila2000 (talk) 01:06, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Go to the table of contents, Wakelamp. Click on the link to the desired section. Copy the URL (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Copying_section_links for this section) from wherever your browser displays it. Paste where wanted. -- Hoary (talk) 12:13, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
A quick look at Category:All Wikipedia level-3 vital articles shows that the listed 'articles' are all in the talk-namespace. On the 'Page properties' tab, check Namespace → Talk and try the query again (the blank checkbox is for mainspace).
Lately (using Chrome, Win 10 on a PC), I've encountered a browser warning about http URLs lacking the https security designation. I've been finding it on a lot of citation urls, as well as on WikiBlame. WRT the source citations, is this situation viewed as a problem? Quisqualis (talk) 19:29, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
HTTPS makes the connection between you and the web site safer, but the web site could be full of malware. Some large Open source and CHinese web sites don't seem to have https (list https://whynohttps.com/ avoiding].
I uploaded a photo from the upload button on the left of my page. It doesn't show up on my page. What do I need to do. William benton Lafcadio4 (talk) 22:54, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Lafcadio4: Which page? To make it show up, you have to actually place it on the page. [[File:William benton.jpg|thumb|Example photo uploaded by Lafcadio4]] produces the photo at right. Hope this helps.
I should also say that the photo was taken, not in 2014, but more like 2001. E Fattakova was my girlfriend at the time. She has since disappeared, perhaps living in Russia. I don't know how to contact her, but the image has been used by publishers. It's going to be on my New & Selected Poems, which is scheduled to come out this fall. If it can't be used, I'll find a selfie. 65.65.159.176 (talk) 01:27, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) Hi Lafcadio4. The "problem" with that photo is that it's being currently used on lots of other websites and all of these uses (as far as I can tell) predate its upload to Wikimedia Commons. You state that the photo is a personal snapshot taken 2014 in the description on the file's page. Does this mean that you took the photo yourself? In your post above, you seem to also be signing it as "William benton". Are you William Benton (writer) who is the same person shown in the photo? The author of the photo is given as someone named "E. Fattakova". Are you E. "Fattakova"? When it comes to photos, it's almost always the case the person taking the photo, not the subject of the photo, who is considered to be the copyright holder of the photo. For Wikimedia Commons purposes, only the copyright holder of a photo can upload it and give their c:COM:CONSENT to release it under an acceptable Creative Commons license. If you didn't take the photo and its copyright ownership wasn't subsequently wasn't transferred to you, you can't really upload it to Wikimedia Commons because it's not considered to be your own work. If you did take the photo or its copyright was subsequently transferred to you, then you should follow the instructions given in the notification I left regarding the file at c:User talk:Lafcadio4 and have your copyright ownership formally verified as explained in c:COM:VRT#Licensing images: when do I contact VRT?; otherwise, the file will end up being deleted in a few days if copyright holder consent remains unverified. -- Marchjuly (talk)
Courtesy link: Edappadi K. Palaniswami - I think this is the person referred to; I can't parse what the rest of this post means. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 14:04, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
