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Page heading spelling mistake

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Both pages have been deleted. Eagleash (talk) 21:27, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I created a page and made a spelling mistake in the search word heading. How do I edit it? The editor just lets me into the content — Preceding unsigned comment added by ERollo (talk • contribs) 23:01, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Does this refer to Holosophy? If so what is the correct spelling? Page names can only be changed by 'moving' a page to a new location (title). This facility (obtained via the 'more' tab at the top of the page) will not be available to you until your account is at least four days old with a minimum of 10 valid edits. Please sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 23:11, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes thank you. The title should read Holosopholy. I have tried to create a new article with title Holosopholy but it is now saying that that article already exists. Now I am really confused. I thought I had made a spelling mistake but I couldn't have because Holosopholy points to the incorrect Holosophy. I seem to be trapped. ERollo (talk) 23:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Googling 'Holosopholy' reveals no hits, whereas 'Holosophy' does so there may be a problem in establishing which is correct and additionally whether a Wiki article is justified. Further at 04.42 (UTC) on 28 January HapHaxion moved page Holosopholy to Holosophy. In theory that should solve the spelling problem but is in the wrong direction per your spelling. However if you enter Holosopholy in the search box it redirects you to Holosophy and says it is redirected from Holosopholy. There is a redirect here in the wrong direction if your spelling is correct and an article with 'incorrect' spelling here. It looks as if notability issues not withstanding the redirect has been wrongly created. This has confused me somewhat, so hoping an editor who can follow the histories can at least get that part sorted. Eagleash (talk) 00:12, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @ERollo: The page history [1] shows you did create it with the name Holosopholy but User:HapHaxion moved it to Holosophy, maybe because there are no Google hits on "Holosopholy". This automatically creates a redirect from the old name. Did you invent the word? There are a few Google hits on "Holosophy" but apparently no common meaning of that word. It sounds like many occurrences were made up by the authors with different intended meanings. Note WP:NOTNEO. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:14, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying that I did not make a spelling mistake. That puts my mind at rest. The word 'Holosophy' has been registered as a trade mark by an organisation who seem to be promoting 'well being' in a manner that deviates from the root words Holo and Soph points to Whole Wisdom/Knowledge. I have been asked by Change Managers to put the word Holosopholy on Wiki as it is meaningful to them and would like it described more fully so that the concept may be shared. Holosophy sounds like a branch of Philosophy but in contrast Holosopholy is concerned not only with thinking internally but also thinking with the hand. I would also add that a Holosopholist is not a Polymath ie a person who has a wide range of deep knowledge. A Holosopholist is someone who has the knowledge and know-how to connect knowledgable people. Indeed if Wiki was a person he/she would be described as a type of Holosopholist. I do hope I am allowed to continue with this project. 88.210.179.54 (talk) 09:32, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Could I enquire please: who are "Change Managers"? Personally, I would regard the words holosophy, holosophology and holosopholist as neologisms undeserving of a place in Wikipedia, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong if you can find WP:Reliable sources for some or all of the terms. Dbfirs 10:03, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Change Managers are professionals who are employed by governments, corporations or businesses to identify routes through the complexity that modern globalisation has delivered. There is a general consensus that connecting people has merit and that learning to bridge the gap between those of opposing views is advantageous to global stability. In the old paradigm, the word Diplomat was used to describe part of this function, but it has become archaic in the sense that it has become highly stereotyped and closed. There needs to be a new way to express "the whole work of those who strive to connect" because a holosopholist is not necessarily always diplomatic. I quote: "Neologisms represent the evolving nature of the English language. Holosopholy is indeed a neologism as is Google and Crowdsourcing. Holosopholy represents the embodiment of an evolving "Diplomacy", a word which is no longer able to contribute in concept to the whole needs of globalisation. I can understand why you have to protect the integrity of the encyclopedia and that Neologisms must be tried, tested and in common use. My question is- Does it make sense to you? Do you know intuitively that this word has merit and should be shared universally now, or do I share it with a small group of reliable sources who may take 10 years to release its value publicly. I leave that up to you. Sorry forgot to sign. ERollo (talk) 12:06, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

On the contrary, both Google and crowdsourcing have had entries in dictionaries for years and so are new words but no longer neologisms. I'm afraid you must ask your mysterious Change Managers to publish their original research elsewhere. Wikipedia is not the place to publish new concepts. They must have been written about in WP:Reliable sources first. Dbfirs 13:21, 29 January 2017 (UTC) Sorry to disappoint you. Dbfirs 13:21, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I am not in the slightest bit disappointed. In fact I am highly amused that Wiki considers that an attempt to connect the world is a new concept. Please ensure that you delete all reference to Holosophy as well as this is a trade mark and the organisation may sue you. Cheers ERollo (talk) 15:57, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

The attempt isn't new, but the word is. I agree that both articles should be deleted. I'm still puzzled about who these "Change Managers" are. Dbfirs 16:10, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

As I said before, change managers are professionals who are employed to advise organisations on how to implement changes when these changes are very complex. The world has become too complicated for most organisations to use the old tried and tested management techniques successfully. In many ways our language will need to evolve quickly to accommodate the changes that are going on in the world with the new capacity for communication. I expect many more new words will come your way as the world adapts to the effects that the internet has brought upon us. It is people like mysel,f who think out of the box, who are in a position to assist with this process of adaption. I hope this answers your question. 88.210.179.54 (talk) 19:37, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I still wonder which London organisation you work for, but please note that neither Wikipedia nor Wiktionary is the place to publicise newly-invented words. You need to think even further out of the box. Dbfirs 08:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Look Wiki, I got the message very early on in this conversation that Neologisms aren't allowed. I am sorry, I accept your reasoning and I apologise. I am somewhat concerned about your joint continued facetious questioning about my connections? In light of my rejection, that is absolutely none of your business and why should you care anyway? If you had really wanted to know about these "London Organisations" then you should have let the article run. But Rules are Rules. This conversation has ended and my public flogging, for being a bad person, is complete. Let it go. ERollo (talk) 10:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to upset you. No public flogging or facetiousness was intended. It was your statement the "I have been asked by Change Managers to put the word Holosopholy on Wiki" that flagged "promotional" in my mind. I'm always curious about behind-the-scenes influences anywhere in life, not just in Wikipedia. I'll drop the subject now that both entries have been deleted as you requested. Best wishes, and I look forward to the word appearing in dictionaries in the future. Dbfirs 11:23, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Vile attack on President Trump at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump (under list of children)

Vandalism reverted, and OP blocked for making legal threats. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:40, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
You have allow a vile and despicable attack on President Trump to be posted and not allow an edit from his father's page under list of his children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump I am contacting the Secret Service to complain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:2C51:D930:F8C7:68EF:C386:173A (talk) 23:25, 28 January 2017 (UTC) I doubt the Secret Service will do much, though you are of course within your rights to contact them. People are keeping an eye on the current vandalism to the article, and if the perpetrator(s) do not stop soon, they are liable to be reported to the admins which may result in them being prevented from editing. Regards, --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 23:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC) Good luck. I tend to think the focus of the Secret Service is on keeping President Trump alive, rather than on preventing people from saying mean things about him. General Ization Talk 23:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC) The page history [2] shows the recent vandalism was reverted within minutes and before your post was saved. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

January 29

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth

Reference number 1 looks wrong. I did not do this reference. Thanks 101.182.188.199 (talk) 08:44, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done Eagleash (talk) 12:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

section - "see also" on this page looks really bad. I did not do this mess. Please fix if able. Thanks and I hope I am being helpful! 101.182.188.199 (talk) 08:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done Eagleash (talk) 12:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Twinkle

Hello, I am fighting against vandalism, and I activated the Twinkle, but the undo button doesn't appear. What is happening? Thanks! --Gambler1478 (talk) 10:37, 29 January 2017 (UT

@Gambler1478: I'm not sure! I see you've managed to set your Twinkle preferences, so at least that part of it must be working for you. Do any of the issues at Wikipedia:Twinkle/doc#Troubleshooting installation apply to you? What are you looking at when the undo button doesn't appear? Could you post a full URL? -- John of Reading (talk) 12:27, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Only the undo button isn't working. I am looking the diffs, and the history, while the tab twinkle, next to view history tab is working; undo button isn't working. --Gambler1478 (talk) 15:54, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

@Gambler1478: Since you haven't posted a full URL, try this one: JoR sandbox diff. When I view that, I see four links added by Twinkle - "Restore this version" at the left, and "Rollback (AGF)", "Rollback" and "Rollback (Vandal}" at the right. Do you see those? In addition there is an "(Undo)" link at the right, which is from the core software, not from Twinkle. Feel free to experiment with my sandbox, if you like. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:30, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

No, those button doesn't appear, I am using other script, but the button just appear on the history page. --Gambler1478 (talk) 16:45, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

@Gambler1478: In the Twinkle preferences, look for "Show rollback links on these pages". I don't think you've ticked anything there. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

All of them are ticked and nothing else happens yet... --Gambler1478 (talk) 17:05, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

@Gambler1478: Yes, I see you've ticked them now. I'm stuck, sorry. I suggest you ask at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle, giving the full URL of a diff page where you are failing to see the Twinkle rollback links. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:17, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for help me! Twinkle wasn't working due to a other script which I had installed, but now it is working. Gambler1478 (talk) 21:08, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Edward Marjoribanks

Please helpme with malformations. I have been reprimanded by an editor david bidfulph whom I respect enormously. I am too embarked to state that I don't know how to formatting in the way he wants. Please see my request above. Thanks so much. 101.182.188.199 (talk) 11:31, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Please see #Duchess of Cambridge above, and User talk:101.182.188.199. This editor's misuse of the publisher parameter was pointed out by DES at User talk:Srbernadette#citation format on 23 September 2015, and on countless occasions in numerous places since then. Can someone with more patience than I have please explain it in words of one syllable that this editor will understand? If some thinks that the description at Template:Cite web#Publisher can be made clearer, please do so. Regulars here at the help desk will know this editor's propensity for expecting other users to sort out errors in referencing, instead of learning to do it for himself with the help of the endless advice which he has been given; see numerous comments at User talk:Srbernadette. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:46, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

In the short-term, I suppose, one piece of advice might be "If you don't understand what ought to go into the publisher parameter, then don't use it". We may have said so before, but there's no harm in saying so again. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:56, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello, @101.182.188.199: You are obviously willing to learn, and that is what we value here, so stick with it - references are notoriously difficult for newcomers to get to grips with. I can offer a couple of suggestions. Firstly, as David Biddulph suggests, only use the "|publisher=" field for the actual name of the publisher, or leave it blank. Nothing else goes there. Secondly, it helps to use the "Preview" tool when making edits, to ensure they are just right before you save them. Or try them out on your Sandbox until you are happy with them. Thirdly, you could try the Wikipedia Adventure to build your skills and confidence. I hope this helps. --Gronk Oz (talk) 13:02, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Mahira Khan

Hi! There's an edit war going on the article, what should be done? Also I have got a warning message, and I think there's no my mistake. Hope for kind response, Thanks! M. Billoo 13:13, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

M.Billoo2000 My advice would be to avoid any further edits to the article and instead put your case objectively on the article talk page, notifying the other editor as you do so. Hopefully the issues can be resolved there: if not, there is a dispute resolution procedure laid down (this Help Desk isn't really part of that). The other thing is to try not to seem combative in edit summaries: being extended-confirmed or an admin doesn't give you an advantage in editing disputes, which are assessed purely on the merits of the case: Noyster (talk), 14:38, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Radio Tatras International

Re https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FRadio_Tatras_International

Would someone care to comment as to WHY Radio Tatras Interenational has been deleted. It is a fully functional UK license radio station. Do I detect some sour grapes?

RTI is on air 24/7 which will soon be joined by RTI Gold. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.253.186.10 (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Deleted for lack of reliable sources, see WP:Articles for deletion/Radio Tatras International (2nd nomination). --David Biddulph (talk) 15:08, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

stamp cancellation date

Am looking for anyone else who has an envelop with cancellation date of Oct. 32, 1964, Kwajalien Islands. This is a very rare cancellation date authenticated by the U.S. Postal Dept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.104.50.46 (talk) 16:55, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, this is the 'help desk' for assistance in editing Wikipedia. Suggest you try any of the on-line philately forums or the Wikipedia reference desk may be able to suggest something. Eagleash (talk) 19:02, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Your search may be easier if you spell "Kwajalein" correctly. Maproom (talk) 07:40, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Article: Lahore; Education

Please add a Public institution, "Pakistan Institute Of Fashion and Design" in the "Fashion" part of the article "Lahore". This is a very renowned University of fashion and creative studies in Pakistan and has produced many Pakistan's famous Fashion Designers: Maria B., Hassan Sheheryar Yasin, Kamiar Rokni, Maheen Kardar, Mehdi, Sehr Atif, Nomi Ansari and Saman Arif. PIFD is affiliated with the world famous Art Schools: Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienn, Mod' Spe' Paris, Swedish College of Textile & Sciences in Borås, Sweden since 2007 for student exchange and curriculum development; and Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences, Thailand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FaadiFashion (talk • contribs) 17:56, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Why can't you add it yourself? —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 18:46, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

a word with "crunchyroll" in it?

yeah? so? uh, I was looking at a few articles? and a number of them had 'crunchyroll' in it, at the 'license by?' but in some pages or just call it articles? use to have that, and as the link part mostly came here [3]? to most of the same title err page(s) upon here? then a few articles was saved back to the studio place or company that licenses it? which, awhile after, the word crunchyroll doesn't have a link to it? and if some other articles that still has it?

then, is it still kept there or not? is what I'm a bit confused on? Tainted-wingsz (talk) 18:33, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

It's not clear what your question is. Is link getting added inappropraitely to some articles? RudolfRed (talk) 20:28, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

yes, like to this part [4],[5], [6] and someone correctly fixed it on this, [7] then the article is just o.k. and I would point at every part of different articles that would have this? before someone kept adding it? when it was earlier? or so? Tainted-wingsz (talk) 21:15, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

My book is mentioned but not cited

In an article "Layoff" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layoff My Book, Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizatins is mentioned in the article but is not cited. The correct citation is David M. Noer, Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 2009 (Revised Edition).

I tried to point this out in the "talk" section but was baffled by the content and inability to find a space to enter my comments.

Thanks for the help,

David Noer [redacted email] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:837D:8EF0:55FB:64D2:BD7B:AD45 (talk) 18:50, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Link to the section where the book is mentioned Layoff#Effects of Layoffs in 2nd paragraph 'Effects of layoffs in the workplace'. Eagleash (talk) 20:58, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done - Guy Macon has added the citation. --Gronk Oz (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I added the citation. David, please check it for errors and post any corrections needed here. Also, do you have a preferred URL where it can be accessed? (We prefer free but pay sites are OK).

Related question for the other help desk regulars; should I create a page for David M. Noer? Should our Center for Creative Leadership#Notable People Associated with CCL page list him? (See[8]). --Guy Macon (talk) 21:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Article only using self-hosted references

The article Goodiepal seems to be only using references hosted by the subject himself, and seems to be very comercial. I can't place a speedy deletion template on it due to the captcha, which I can't read. What can I do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.132.78.134 (talk) 21:32, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Several reference links are non-functioning, but the subject of the article appears to meet the notability standard for Wikipedia. The article does not meet criteria for speedy deletion (see the policy), but its referencing needs attention and cleanup. DonFB (talk) 22:43, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

January 30

Referencing errors on Squanto

Reference help requested.

I got a message saying that there is an "unsupported parameter error" on an edit I performed in Squanto. I do not see what the error is. Since there were several reference changes in that edit, could you explain what the bot is pointing to? AnthroMimus (talk) 00:39, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

I think I just resolved it. Sorry for jumping the gun. AnthroMimus (talk) 00:53, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, AnthroMimus (talk) 00:39, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

No such parameter called |piblisher=.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 01:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Make images larger?

At User:Bubba73#Historic_places, how can I make the three images of the state of Georgia larger, but side by side? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 00:50, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Help:Gallery tag#Attributes and values says:

• widths= Image widths in pixels (has no effect if mode is set to packed, packed-overlay, packed-hover, or slideshow)

You can combine mode=packed with heights= instead of widths=. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Bubba73: For example, you could add: heights="250px" as another "mode" parameter inside the "gallery" tags. More gory details at: WP:Picture_tutorial. DonFB (talk) 02:44, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I think I got it now. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:52, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Resolved

Referencing errors on Gurbani Judge

Reference help requested. I was told that there is a format error in a reference I had cited. I don't see the error and would like some help. This is the sixth reference on the Gurbani Judge wiki. Please help. Varunr (talk) 06:57, 30 January 2017 (UTC) Thanks, Varunr (talk) 06:57, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Varunr: I've fixed it by adding the missing "http://" at the start of the URL. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:06, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

1932

"This article and its editors are subject to Wikipedia's general sanctions: All edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, are placed under discretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning."

Why 1932?

Benjamin (talk) 09:38, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

The question is asked and answered at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2#1932. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:49, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Benjamin (talk) 10:07, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

changing logo & editing content

Hello,

I would like to edit this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Tobacco_Group by adding my company*s new logo and changing the text. I have added text in the back end and for some reason not all the changes have been applied when publish. Please advise.

Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreayoung (talk • contribs) 10:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

The first thing you need to do is to read about conflict of interest and paid editing. I notice also that many of the references which you have recently added are to the company website. Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject has to say about itself; instead, Wikipedia relies on published reliable sources independent of the subject. Where you say "not all the changes have been applied when publish", are you referring to where you have tried to use parameters which don't exist in the relevant infobox template, such as "Traded as" (which is shown as a warning in page preview when you are editing the [page)? You need to remember that in general, page names and parameters in Wikipedia are case sensitive. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:41, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! any advice on changing the logo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreayoung (talk • contribs) 12:16, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Andreayoung. If the new version you which to upload is in the same file format and essentially the same as File:Scandinavian Tobacco Group logo.jpg, except smaller in size, cropped, of straightened, etc., then you can simply upload it by going to the file's page and clicking "Upload a new version of this file". If, however, it is significantly different such as different in design, color, file format, etc., then you should upload the new version as a completely new file. You can do this by using Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard. If you're not sure how to do this, you can ask for help at WP:MCQ or WP:FFU. As long as you provide a url for the file so that it can be downloaded and it's copyright status can be verified, then someone at either of those noticeboards should be able to help you or do it for you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:30, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Updating the logo is the kind of uncontroversial action that you are probably OK doing even with your COI Andreayoung (but you need to make that declaration before you do anything else). Please see WP:LOGOS to understand the background of using non-free logos, and WP:UPI#Updating existing image for the mechanics. You won't be able to do this until your are AUTOCONFIRMED, but that should happen in about nineteen hours.

 --ColinFine (talk) 13:33, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

What is inappropriate about "pinging"?

One editor does not take kindly to being "pinged," as he/she calls it. Every time I discuss something with another editor, i make sure I include his name in full style, i.e User:such-and-such in brackets. It's a standard practice of mine aimed to simply facilitate the reader. My question is, whether this is considered bona fide "pinging" and, if so, whether this would be considered inappropriate or offensive or a type of stalking, harassment, etc. Although, I've been an editor here for a number of years, this is the first time I encounter such a complaint. Thanks in advance. -The Gnome (talk) 12:10, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Actually, when somebody is having an active conservation with someone on some talk page or so they usually watchlist it so that any changes/addition /alteration automatically pops up in front of their eyes.Now, many editors don't like being repeatedly pinged every time one post a reply or opinion in a particular discussion since it clutters the notification box without doing any real good.Also pinging other editors at random without any proper reason can be sometimes considered as disruptive. The best way out is obviouly to not ping the concerned editor any more in that particular discussion. Hope, this satisfies you. Winged Blades ^Godric 13:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

W.r.t to the chain of events that led you here, pinging an user three times or so in a single reply esp. when there are multiple active content disputes between you and the user, could be deemed as disruptive.Winged Blades ^Godric 13:43, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

• If someone says they don't want to be pinged, don't ping them, it's that simple. If they later fail to answer a question asked on a page where they have posted afterwards, see WP:SILENCE. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 13:27, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Also if you want to link names without pinging someone you can use the {{Noping}} template. - GB fan 15:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

How to go from Draft to published?

I have an entry that is in the draft stage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:John_Raymond_Snell How do I get it approved for regular viewing? Dale Dailey — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale Dailey (talk • contribs) 13:15, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Dale Dailey. You can submit your draft for review by a volunteer with our Articles for Creation project, by pasting {{AFC submission}} to the top of the page. This will add the draft to a list of submissions pending review.

However, in its current state, your draft seems unlikely to be accepted because it is almost entirely referenced to the individuals autobiography. In order to show that a subject meets Wikipedia's standards for notability, you need to demonstrate that the subject has received in-depth coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Since an autobiography is written by the subject themselves, it doesn't count as independent. It's still fine to use that as a source for information, but other sources are needed to demonstrate that the subject received sufficient outside attention to qualify for their own article. TimothyJosephWood 13:21, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

I have taken the liberty of tweaking the headings and some layout anomalies more in line with MoS. Now it just needs better referencing as noted by TJW above. Eagleash (talk) 13:31, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Problem with Yotsuya Kaidan page

Someone has gone through the page about Yutsuda Kaidan and changed character names to "lemon." I don't know the story, so I don't know which characters they are supposed to be. Sorry if I am submitting this information in the wrong way, but I can't find the right way to report it. Thanks! --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.76.14.229 (talk • contribs)

Thanks for pointing this out, IP user. It confused me and (from the history) several other editors. The character's name is "Iemon", starting with a capital "I"! So there's nothing wrong with the article. For future reference, the best place to point out problems in a particular article is on that article's talk page: in this case, Talk:Yotsuya Kaidan. --ColinFine (talk) 13:44, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I thought at first that it was vandalism by a recent couple of IP edits (and undid them). However the page was created a decade ago with the name Lemon. Google reveals this page where the name is also shown as Lemon. (I have undone my edit!). But thanks for pointing this out. Eagleash (talk) 13:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@Eagleash: If you re-read the page to which you gave the link, you'll see that the text of the page has "Iemon", it's in the comments where a number of readers of the page commented that they had misread it as "Lemon". --David Biddulph (talk) 13:58, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

See Yotsuya Kaidan#endnote iemon. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:51, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes. I spotted that just too late. Eagleash (talk) 13:56, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Reminds me of how Loituma's song "Ievan polkka" (the first word being the genitive case of a local form of Eva) is sometimes listed as "Levan's polka". —Tamfang (talk) 19:16, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Comic Relief

I submitted a correction to the Comic Relief page yesterday, more accurately reflecting the origins of Comic Relief. All the facts contained therein can be verified. The correction has today been taken down and some inaccurate changes have been made to the existing copy reflecting truer dates, but not those involved, as notified in my submission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bramwell47 (talk • contribs) 14:15, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

The article Comic Relief has not been edited since January 19th. You added a section to its talk page yesterday; what you added is still there. If you want to make an addition to the article itself, you should include references. Maproom (talk) 14:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Problem with the Armenian language code?

According to ISO 3166-1#Current codes, the code for Armenia is 'am' but when used in {{am icon}}, it comes up as 'Amharic', which Google tells me is the official language of Ethiopia. Should I be using some other list for language codes, as opposed to country codes? Thanks, Leschnei (talk) 14:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

The header in Category:Language icon templates gives a link to List of ISO 639-2 codes, and the notes on the category page confirm that the codes are not always the same as country codes. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:44, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah ha! - that it explains it. Following a few links from Category:Language icon templates led to this, {{link language|arm}}, which works. Thanks for your help, Leschnei (talk) 14:57, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

If you want the equivalent to {{am icon}}, it would be {{hy icon}}. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:05, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

More choices - thanks again Leschnei (talk) 15:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Magic link ISBNs

Hi, I'm trying to get to grips with the ISBN magic link & it just does not seem to work for me. I'm typing ISBN[space]978[hyphen]then the rest of the 13 digit code. This does not convert to magic link on saving. Please help - I'm wasting other people's time tidying my work! JasperWare (talk) 16:17, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

It works without the hyphen... ISBN 9783895610349. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:21, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Magic Links will *eventually* go away. Please use the ISBN template like {{ISBN|193151447X}} which is much superior (and checks your ISBN to make sure that the check digit is valid. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links as well. Naraht (talk) 16:23, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

@JasperWare: At Burkhard Spinnen the magic links are not working because they are enclosed in <nowiki>...</nowiki> tags. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:32, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Marking an article as not notable

Hello, how do I mark an article as "not notable"? The article in question is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickle_(Python) GBMorris (talk) 19:01, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey GBMorris. I believe what you are referring to is Template:Notability. TimothyJosephWood 19:18, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

GBMorris One way to solve the problem is to carry out the proposed merge. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:42, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Timothyjosephwood and Dodger67. In general, how can I find pages like the Template:Notability page? The navigation path is not obvious to me... GBMorris (talk) 13:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey GBMorris. The easiest way to access the most commonly used of the large number (400+) of such templates is to enable semi-automated tagging with Wikipedia:Twinkle. You can read through that linked page for additional information. Twinkle takes a little bit of getting used to, but it makes things much easier.

Other than Twinkle, there is Category:Article message templates, but it doesn't differentiate between the most commonly used templates (probably a few dozen that make up 90%+ of all usage), and ones that may be used rarely or not at all. TimothyJosephWood 13:13, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I would add though that using these templates doesn't actually solve the problem, and the main effect is to add the page to WP:BACKLOG for someone to fix later. Some of these backlogs are massive, as in tens of thousands of articles, so if the only thing that is done is to add a cleanup template and move on, it could literally be ten years or more until the problem gets fixed. TimothyJosephWood 13:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

All very true. I make use of this page when choosing a tag: WP:CLEANUPTAG. DonFB (talk) 13:28, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey! There we go. I looked and looked for this and was really surprised I couldn't find anything better than a category. TimothyJosephWood 13:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia page for Thomas B. Sheridan

Please add my latest book to my book publication list:

Models of Human-System Interaction: Philosophical and Methodological Consideratons, with Examples, Hoboken NJ, John Wiley, 2017.

Thanks you.

T. Sheridan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.235.45 (talk) 20:19, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done You are correct in not editing the article about yourself, Mr Sheridan, because of our "conflict of interest" policy. For any further changes you may wish to suggest to this article, a procedure available for your use is described at this page: Noyster (talk), 22:11, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

January 31

Judge Thomas Hardiman's religion?

What is the religion of Supreme-Court Nominee Judge Thomas Hardiman? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.185.77.119 (talk) 00:55, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.3 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 --David Biddulph (talk) 01:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Nothing about this question implies the person is astray. It's just a general knowledge question which belongs at the reference desk.Template:Z150 Pppery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Humanities reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Pppery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) or clicking the signature button above the edit box which looks like this: , but do not sign in articles. Pppery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Signing Posts

Can someone help me how I can sign my posts here? In the german Wiki four tildes works just fine, but here this happens: -- (talk) 02:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC) So my User name is not displayed directly but only two hyphens which are a link to my User page.

My guess is that you may have tried to customise your signature at Special:Preferences. Go to the Signature section on that page, remove everything in the box labelled "Signature:", and uncheck the box labelled "Treat the above as wiki markup". --David Biddulph (talk) 03:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

"sanctuary cities" in Canada

As a Police Officer in Canada for almost 30 yrs, I have never heard of the so-called, "sanctuary cities" in Canada. I regularly arrested a variety of criminals on various charges (and sometimes :suspicion of"). If it was determined that they were not, Canadian Citizens or Landed Immigrants, Immigration (now called CBSA) was notified and their investigation was started. I worked on multi-jurisdictional files and never heard of, "sanctuary cities", in Canada. I think someone is trying to paint us as something we are not. Canada vigorously persues all persons illegally in our country and all levels of Law Enforcement co-operate in this endeavour.....just look at the 6 o'clock news and see reports of people trying to by-pass the system by seeking refuge in a Church. The term,"sanctuary city" has never (to my knowledge; unless it was during the,"war of 1812" or something) been used to describe a Canadian city or a municipal ideology. Whoever reads this, please challenge the original author as to the validity of,"sanctuary city". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.179.50 (talk) 06:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Officer: I think you may be referring to the Wikipedia article Sanctuary city, which includes a very brief passage identifying Toronto and Hamilton as sanctuary cities. If you look at that portion of the article, you will notice footnotes supporting the statement. In fact, I added a reference for a separate news report about Toronto, as its status was mentioned only in passing in one of the two previously existing references. Also, just for your information, articles in Wikipedia are written by multiple people; there is no single author for a given article. DonFB (talk) 07:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I find that article questionable. Apparently I have been living in a "sanctuary city" for the last 40 years, without ever being aware of it. The truth is that some cities are, officially or unofficially, more welcoming to undocumented refugees than others. But they are not "places of sanctuary" with a power to ovrrule the laws of their nation, as the article appears to imply. Maproom (talk) 08:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

The sanctuary city phenomenon of recent years seems to have flown beneath the radar of both the Canadian officer and yourself--though it's possible the issue receives more publicity in the U.S. than in your respective countries. No doubt, many people think such a civic and social movement is questionable; perhaps, some will also take a similarly jaundiced view of an article describing the subject. DonFB (talk) 12:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't find the movement questionable, indeed I am pleased that the authorities of my home city try to be accommodating to undocumented refugees. What I question is whether there is anything substantive to this "sanctuary" status. Maproom (talk) 16:21, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

GEMS

Good day

Will you be able to put on your page about GEMS (Government Employ Medical Scheme). This is in South Africa and there is a webpage but not fully clear about it164.151.131.114 (talk) 10:23, 31 January 2017

We do not currently have an article about the Government Employees Medical Scheme (I've corrected the name). Having searched several South African mainstream news sources the subject seems very likely to pass the Notability standard for organisations. I'd strongly recommend that you first read the Your first article guideline and then ask WP:WikiProject South Africa for assistance. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Whoops

I recently deleted a portion of an article that I didn't mean to. Is there anyway I can easily restore the article to its original state? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinreik (talk • contribs) 12:02, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Please provide a link to the article concerned. Your only edits seem to be to Draft:Fulvio Martusciello. You can resore a previous version of a page by clicking on the date in the history (link at top of the article page). This will display the page at that time. By clicking on 'edit source' and then saving, the page will be restored. Alternatively, if you are referring to one edit and it is the last edit you can click on 'undo' and then save and it will restore. Please leave an appropriate edit summary. Please sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I recently made the mistake of deleting some information from an article that I did not create. Is it possible to revert the page to its original form if I did not create the page originally?

The page that was accidentally edited was,

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulvio_Martusciello

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinreik (talk • contribs) 14:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Just click on "History" (Chronologia) then "Undo" (Annulla). Dbfirs 14:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I have undone the edit and left an edit summary pointing here. - GB fan 14:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

editing

how do you create a new page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Mou (talk • contribs) 12:34, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Mr Mou. You may want to read our written tutorial at WP:Your First Article, or check out the interactive Wikipedia tutorial at WP:The Wikipedia Adventure. TimothyJosephWood 14:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Breaks in a row of icons

Is there a way to make a break in a row of icons like User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/article work? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I think you can just start a new row by inserting |- at an appropriate spot. Like so, for example:

......Laguna Amarga that was displayed on the Main Page on the 30th of June 2016.|cat=}}

|-

|<br/>{{click|link=Taryatu-Chulutu........

DonFB (talk) 13:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Thx. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

FinDev / TransGaming Wrong Article

Hi, In December 2016 TransGaming Inc. (the Canadian public company) completed a Change Of Business to investing in and financing real estate transactions, and changed its name to FinDev Inc. See: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/findev-inc-formerly-transgaming-inc-closes-proposed-cob-trading-commence-under-fdi-tsx-venture-fdi-2180728.htm

The TransGaming brand, as well as the business of Games for Connected TV devices were sold to General Media Ventures, a UK company, and is now operating under a new UK company named TransGaming Interactive Limited. See: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/transgaming-signs-agreement-sell-gametree-200000606.html

The Wikipedia article is currently a mixture of both companies. here are the companies' websites to put things in order: FinDev - http://findev.ca TransGaming - https://www.transgaming.com Please help correct this situation. I have posted this on the Talk page but received no response.

Thanks, Tamir Goren CEO, TransGaming Interactive Limited — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamir Goren (talk • contribs) 14:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Notification

This has probably been answered somewhere before, but... I was curious, why don't I automatically get a notification when someone replies to me on a talk page? Benjamin (talk) 15:56, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

The conditions under which you get a notification are laid out at WP:Notifications. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:30, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I read the page and it didn't answer my question. Benjamin (talk) 16:54, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Except for your own talk page, the only way for you to get a notification is if someone tags you in the reply. So, when I add @Benjaminikuta: then you will be notified. (Note: this must be done in the same edit that I sign the reply with) †dismas†|^(talk) 18:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I know that's how it works, but why is it made to be that way? It would be nice if I could be able to be notified. Has there ever been attempts to fix this in the past? Benjamin (talk) 18:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

As for the why, I don't know. I would guess that people figure that's what a watchlist is for. If you're engaged in a conversation on, for example, Talk:Tulip then I would suppose that the developers thought you'd put that page on your watchlist. By saying "attempt to fix", you seem to be assuming that something is broken. You might want to ask at WP:VPT and get a technical answer as to why the software doesn't do this now. Again, another guess, the site would have to look at every talk page edit, see who is editing, look at the subject header of the section, look up all the users who had commented in that section thus far, and notify each one. With the number of talk pages, discussions, and users, that could take up quite a bit of database lookup time. †dismas†|^(talk) 18:56, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

How could the program determine who's being replied to? Indenting is often not done correctly, so it could be a significant logic problem with many "false reads". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't know, why not make it kinda like reddit? Benjamin (talk) 19:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

How does Reddit do it? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Threads and notifications happen automatically. Benjamin (talk) 19:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Is that a wiki or is it an old-style "bulletin board" type of structure? Or something else? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

It's a fairly popular social media site. Obviously Wikipedia isn't social media, but I just use it as an example. Benjamin (talk) 20:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Reddit uses a structured discussion system. Wikitext doesn't. Flow does, and does provide notifications. Pppery 20:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Forgot about Flow. And from what I see at here, it was removed from trials. †dismas†|^(talk) 22:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Bugs, you can see how Reddit does things here, for example. †dismas†|^(talk) 22:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Interesting. Looks like a hybrid of traditional bulletin board threads and wiki text threads. Presumably the reddit method is geared toward responding very specifically. The relatively free-form wikitext method doesn't allow for that. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:20, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Category overlap tool

Is there a tool somewhere that will generate a list of articles that have an overlap of two categories? For example, Abandoned drugs and Experimental drugs. Natureium (talk) 15:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Take a look at PetScan, there is an external link on that page.uhhlive (talk) 16:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Request Edit

Good Morning,

Could we change our look on the Brevard College page, under athletics we would like to use our new logo.

Thank you.file:///C:/Users/swansojt/Desktop/Logos/Conference%20Logos/BCTornado%20copy.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.235.248.22 (talk) 16:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

That file is located on your computer, which we can't access. Do you have an external link to a website? uhhlive (talk) 16:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

@Uhhlive: Probably the request refers to Brevard College#Athletics, and logos can be found at Google with this request: https://www.google.com/search?q=brevard+college+tornados+basketball&tbm=isch (not sure, however, if they are appropriate for Wikipedia with regard to copyright). --CiaPan (talk) 19:29, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Moving article

Want to move User:USA-Fan/callus shaver to callus shaver but I haven´t the button to move this page. Can´t find any description to do this. --USA-Fan (talk) 16:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

USA-Fan, you can move pages when you're autoconfirmed, which should be the case for you on 19:47 UTC. In the meantime you can request a move by prepending {{subst:submit}} to your article, according to WP:NOTRM, which can take some though so I recommend you to wait until you get your move button. – Giftpflanze 16:45, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Fine. I think in two hours I´ll still be online. Thank you, "Poisounus plant". :) --USA-Fan (talk) 16:49, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

But, USA-Fan, I strongly recommend that you don't move the article to main space yet, because it is not ready for that, and may get deleted. Please read WP:YFA and WP:42, and add some references to reliable sources. At present it has just one reference, to a German site (which is not a problem in itself, but English sources are preferred if they exist). Most of the text is unreferenced - there is not even a source that establishes that "Callus shaver" is the English name for this implement. I will add {{userspace draft}} to the top of it, and I recommend that you use the "review" button when you have added some sources. --ColinFine (talk) 17:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for answering. I know it is the correct name and I also have a source, but I can´t put this in the article, because this kind of reference is not allowed (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Toolz-Callus-Shaver-Stainless/dp/B001TJIOAY/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1485883072&sr=1-5&keywords=callus+shaver). ;) But look, Giftpflanze told I´ve got some time until I get my "move button". It´s time enough to find some references in english and maybe I can use the references also in german (the german article was written by me). :) --USA-Fan (talk) 17:22, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

It's pretty easy to find good-quality English sources for things like this in book search. The correct title to move to will be in sentence case: Callus shaver. Dicklyon (talk) 17:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Good idea. Allready found the first. ;) --USA-Fan (talk) 18:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Laney Amplification Update Request

I run all Social Media for the Guitar and Bass Amplification company called Laney Amplification.

The Wikipedia page is severely out of date and I can not update it.

Our logo along with vital information about our owner, family, past and present amplifiers needs updating.

[redacted] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laneysocial (talk • contribs) 16:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Put your contact information at Talk:Laney Amplification. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Laneysocial. I'm not sure quite why Robert McClenon advised you to put your contact information on the talk page: I wouldn't advise you to put it anywhere in Wikipedia. What I would advise is that you read WP:PSCOI, and then put your suggestions for changes to the article on the talk page. Be as specific as you can (eg "Replace text 'XXXXXX' by 'YYYYY'"), and give reliable sources for all information - sources independent of your company where possible. For the logo, if you can give a URL where your new logo can be found, somebody can upload it and update the article. Finally, if you put {{edit request}} (with the double curly brackets) in your suggestions, it will add them to a list of waiting requests. --ColinFine (talk) 17:24, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Note: I have updated the logo per their website, but the user will need to suggest specific changes to the article, supported by sources, as outlined above. TimothyJosephWood 17:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I used sloppy language. I meant to put the corrected information on the talk page. Do not put contact information on Wikipedia. User:ColinFine is right as usual. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

adding photo

We'd like to have this photo be in the upper right corner of our WIKI page - and we uploaded it but it does not appear. What do we do?

error message attached - photo exists but we can't get it in place (Kids Castle Playground Cranberry Community Park)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cranberrytownshippa (talk • contribs)

Hey Cranberrytownshippa. I have added the commons photo to the infobox, and moved the previous one down into the body of the article.

However, you should note that your current name appears to be a violation of our username policy since names that represent an organization, or imply shared use are not allowed. You probably want to either request a change at Wikipedia:Changing username, or register a different account that complies with our policy. Your current account is liable to be blocked as a shared use violation if you do not. TimothyJosephWood 17:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hello, Cranberrytownshippa. I'm afraid there are several different problems here. Before I get to answering your specific question (which I will) I need to draw your attention to some other matters.

First, it is not your Wiki page. It is a Wikipedia article about your town. You do not own it, you do not control its contents, and indeed you are strongly discouraged from editing the article, because you are likely to find it hard to be sufficiently neutral. Please see WP:PSCOI. If you are an employee or contractor, so that you are in any sense being paid to do this work, then you must declare this, according to the policy WP:PAID.

Secondly, user names are not allowed which imply that they are being used for or by an organisation, or by several people. All Wikimedia accounts are required to be personal. That doesn't mean you have to use your own name, as I do: many accounts use a pseudonym of some sort. But it means that you should use an account personal to you, and if other colleagues want to edit, they should create their own personal accounts. Please see WP:USERNAME.

Now to get to your specific question. You successfully uploaded commons:File:Kids Castle Playground in Cranberry Community Park.jpg, but you didn't edit Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania to change the (image) file name from "Cranberry Mall parking lots and buildings.jpg" to "Kids Castle Playground in Cranberry Community Park.jpg" (I'm assuming that you meant you wanted to replace the image). You then attempted to upload it again, and got an error because that was a duplicate.

Unfortunately, there are further problems here. First, it is not up to you to decide which picture is used in the article - that is part of the "neutral" bit I mentioned. You are welcome to suggest changes, but it is the consensus of uninvolved editors which will decide. More seriously, you have uploaded the picture saying "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:". Are you, the individual who uploaded that picture, personally the holder of that copyright? If you took the picture yourself, you probably are. If the photographer held the copyright and specifically transferred it to you personally, then you are. In any other case (including the case where the copyright is held by the town authorities) you do not not have the legal power to grant that licence as yourself. (I guess it's possible that it is held by the community and you hold an appointment which gives you authority to grant that licence, but even then, the statement I quoted from you above would be false).

What needs to happen for that picture to be used - indeed, for it to remain on Wikimedia Commons - is that the actual legal holder of the copyright must specifically release it under an appropriate licence - either publicly, or in a communication to Wikimedia: see Donating copyright materials. If it is you, then you have done right, and I apologise for doubting you.

I'm sorry that this has been long-winded and presented you with difficulties. I'm afraid this is a common experience, as very many people mistake Wikipedia for a promotional site. --ColinFine (talk) 17:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

FWIW, the image did not appear to exists anywhere else on the internet. Although it's not clear from where the image was taken without using a UAV. TimothyJosephWood 18:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Please review 176.179.191.228's contribs

I'm working and don't have a lot of time to review the contribs of User:176.179.191.228 but I do see that they're up to their same old tricks. Can some editor please check their contribs and possibly have them blocked again? Thanks, †dismas†|^(talk) 23:23, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

February 1

East Meadow, New York article

The article on East Meadow, New York has gone under several disruptive edits in the past (such as the adding of unnotable persons and picture changes) Currently, instead of showing the location of the town in New York, it shows a map of the state of Washington. How does one change the map back?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winnsley (talk • contribs) 00:30, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi User:Winnsley, I've reverted the recent vandalism. Thanks for pointing that out! – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:34, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Winnsley. First thing, please try to remember to sign your talk page posts as explained in WP:TILDE. Signing your posts will making much easier for other editors to see who is posted and when they posted.

Now regarding your question, the image has already been replaced so this is really just for your future reference in case it happens again. Go to the article's page and click on "View history" and try and find the edit which changed the map. This may be a little tricky if there is no edit sum and you may have to look at a couple of edits until you find it. When you do find the edit, click on "undo" to open the edit window. Scroll down to the bottom of the window and add an edit summary explaining why the change was made. An edit summary is very important and not adding one might me your edit will be reverted as an unexplained change. Something simple such as "Changing back to correct map" should be fine. After adding an edit summary, click "Show preview" to verify that the changes made are the ones you wanted to make. If everything is OK, scroll back down to the bottom of the page and click "Save changes". If you make a mistake, don't worry about it. You can try and fix it yourself or ask for help on the article's talk page.

Finally, before you "undo" the other persons edit, try and make sure that you're only changing the map back and not undoing any other "improvements" the editor may have made to the article. Many editors often make lots of little changes as part of a single edit, and clicking "undo" will undo them all. Also, sometimes intermediate edits are made to the relevant content and the software will not let you undo the edit. In such cases, you may have to go in a simply manually replace the image yourself. You do that by clicking on "Edit", finding the file for the incorrect map, removing it, and then re-adding the file for the correct map. As before, click "Show preview" to check you edit and "Save changes" to save your edit. You can find out a little more on how to do this at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:58, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

In this particular case there was some good luck, in that the vandalistic changes occurred only a bit more than an hour before the OP reported it. A revert would have fixed it, although I'm guessing the OP couldn't do that, not being autoconfirmed yet. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Is this OK?

Is this OK?[9] (look at the before and after). before I make an issue of it I want to ask, is this allowed? I thought that formatting the page title like this [10] was weird but OK, but hiding the user name entirely? --Guy Macon (talk) 05:27, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Does that fall afoul of WP:SMI- CSS and other formatting codes that disrupt the Wikimedia interface, for example by preventing important links or controls from being easily seen or used, making text on the page hard to read or unreadable (other than by way of commenting out), or replacing the expected interface with a disruptive simulation, may be removed or remedied by any user...? Or some similar UPG. O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 06:59, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I am going to try WP:BRD[11][12] and see whether I get an R. (If I do I will try D). --Guy Macon (talk) 07:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

You could have at least alerted me to this discussion. feminist 08:11, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

You see, the problem is that sometimes you simply don't know whether something is or is not disruptive. I am on the fence about this case, and wanted some advice before confronting you. That is also why I picked the least confrontational action I could think of (a bold edit, with an expected revert then discussion should you disagree) rather than potentially angering you with something like an ANI report. I reserve the right to seek council as to whether I am on the right path before alerting you and getting into a fight where I might very well be wrong. If you disagree, revert me and I will open up a discussion on your talk page. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Ah. I see that you reverted me with the edit comment "what a joke".[13] The revert is fine with me (WP:BRD). I will attempt to discuss this with you on your talk page (it may take a day or so to get to it). --Guy Macon (talk) 11:01, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Reference check

I want to known the page number and quotation from the book for Vestigial_response#Goose_bumps. How would I request that and who to approach? --IEditEncyclopedia (talk) 07:09, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

• In such cases, you are usually out of luck. The best shot is to view the page history, find who added the reference, and contact them directly. When page history is long, you this tool is your friend but here, it is short enough to review manually. In that case, this edit by Joshua Issac added the link; let's see if they can help.

Another option is to go ask at the appropriate reference desk, if you want more general information about a specific claim. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 11:42, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

You could try asking at WP:WRE - X201 (talk) 12:06, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I copied the reference from Goose bumps, to where it was added by JSquish. I assume that the relevant part in the book is from page 101 to page 103. --Joshua Issac (talk) 13:13, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Articles created by cut and paste content from non copyright sources

I have been around for a while but am really unsure how to handle this issue. A new editor, Susan Schneegans is creating articles which are solely, or mostly, cut and paste creations from copyright free UNESCO publications such as at Challenges for innovation in Malaysia. COPYVIO doesn't seem to apply since attribution is given, but it feels totally wrong; but I can't find the policy or guidance that constrains such action. I would welcome advice and suggestions. Thanks  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   11:14, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

• If the copyright is indeed compatible with Wikipedia's licensing requirements (note that some "free" licenses, e.g. CC-BY-NC, are not compatible), there is no policy or legal reason against copy-pasting en masse. However, the copied content may not be appropriate for inclusion - for instance, the link you gave seems to me to violate WP:NOTESSAY. And of course, repeated inclusion of such content disregarding any warnings would be construed as disruptive. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 11:49, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Summaries at the top of the page when viewing on mobile

Certain pages like Mithila, India and Mithila (region) have inccorect summaries at the top when viewing from a mobile or tablet. These don't appear when viewing the desktop version of the site. Is it possible to remove these since they are incorrect and unsourced? Thanks. Damien2016 (talk) 12:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

@Damien2016: They are on Wikidata, and can be edited by clicking the "Wikidata item" link in the sidebar and changing the description. Pppery 12:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the help!Damien2016 (talk) 12:41, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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