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Creating a new page on 'Near numbers'

Hi, I'd like to make a page on 'Near numbers' (it's a math - specifically calculus - topic). The only mention of these numbers on Wikipedia are in one sided limits not as near numbers themselves. The problem is that there aren't much info on it and the pages that talk about it are videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjSJnJ_DLOnPbCfWXHwxNEw) and one website https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0412157.pdf so there are considerably less citations than most Wikipedia pages. So am I allowed to add videos in citations and are there any other sources that I can see.

Furthermore, if Wikipedia doesn't include this topic is it because it is a widely unused or not important topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RHaq22 (talk • contribs) 20:58, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

@RHaq22:, specially calculus topic and no mention anywhere except a YouTube video. Wow. You may try a number of mathematics books for referencing. YouTube videos ain't reliable. Aaqib Anjum Aafī (^talk) 21:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

@RHaq22: Speaking in general terms, topics must be notable - of interest to the world at large and over a period of time - to be included in Wikipedia. We consider significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources as evidence of this interest. Lack of such coverage means that the topic is not suitably notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:47, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

My expertise is well into the humanities departments, but that Frank J. Swenton paper cited by OP is the only thing I'm finding anywhere, and it does rather seem to suggest it's a new system. That doesn't mean it's wrong or bad or anything (being published in a peer-reviewed journal by Taylor & Francis is generally a good sign) but it's still too new for there to be enough material on it.

...And actually, looking at the paper, again admitting that I'm a humanities nerd and tend to recoil in terror at any math postdating the Crusades (until you get to something like Octonions, at which point my horror becomes so sublime that I enter an enchanted entrancement) -- anyway, I get the impression that it's not so much a new thing as an alternate means of teaching an existing thing. In other words, there are no near numbers themselves, they are (per the original author) "a scaffold both for building an accurateintuitive under-standing of the limit concept and for connecting that understanding to theformal definition of the limit." Ian.thomson (talk) 03:58, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi RHaq22 given that nobody well versed in mathematics has replied to your question, I think you should rather get subject specialist advice from WP:WikiProject Mathematics. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:28, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Edits on Fisher Investments

Hi,

I had made some constructive edits on the page Fisher Investments including adding sourced information and some content re-arrangement of existing content. My edit summary clearly mentions what changes I have done. Within 3 minutes an editor reverted all of the edits without a clear explanation. The immediate revert of my edits makes me think were they even checked. Upon further digging, it looks like the editor wants only his/her version of the page to stay and is not open to other edits, which violates the cause of this encyclopedia.

I tried connecting with the editor through my talk page but he/she is not responding. I also don't want to undo his/her edits to avoid getting into an edit war. I would appreciate if someone could look into this issue and help my updates get back up. Thanking in advance and hoping for a neutral review. --Talkman45 (talk) 19:52, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Talkman45 Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Horse Eye Jack reverted your edits with the edit summary "Revert to last clean dif, we aren’t going to turn it into a Fisher Investments ad". It appears to me that you did rephrase some of the article to be more friendly towards the firm(such as the text of the first line of the article). If you disagree with the other user's assessment of your edits, you should discuss them on the article talk page and make a case as to why they are needed.

If you have a connection to Fischer Investments, you will need to disclose it per the conflict of interest and paid editing policy. 331dot (talk) 20:11, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Talkman45: it's only been four hours since you replied to him. Please have patience: we're all voluneers here. (Also pinging Horse Eye Jack, as 331dot's ping was broken). --ColinFine (talk) 20:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for tagging me, I had not received the previous one. There are parts of the edit like changing a sourced 3,500 on numbers of employees to an unsourced 2,000 which need to be sourced changes but most of it on close inspection seem unobjectionable. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 20:25, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you all for you inputs. 331dot, I am a voluntary contributor with no connection with any page, this article was one of the random articles I was working on and since I had put in so much time and effort, I felt disappointed when my edits were reverted. The first line of the article was changed because rather than saying it is a 'general money management firm', I rephrased it to a 'private RIA' which was already mentioned in the body of the article. Horse Eye Jack, The 2000 employees data was found from these links - [1], [2] and [3] Apart from that everything new that I have added is referenced from online sources. I have updated the numbers from online sources as well. I was wondering that, now, if you can give a thoughtful review to my edits and at least add the valid ones rather than reverting all my efforts. Thank you.--Talkman45 (talk) 17:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The 3,500 number is sourced to a 2019 Bloomberg article, the dates on the sources you pulled from are 2015 and 2016. This is why its important to include your source(s). If you want to make sure your edits are carefully sourced you can make any changes to the page you see fit. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 17:28, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Horse Eye Jack, I get your point and agree on it. In this case, I will only make the referenced changes on the page, being careful of the dates, and you can review it. Thank you.--Talkman45 (talk) 14:03, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Regarding Virus

Disregard

 – Not a question about Wikipedia. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 22:32, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Have asked Kandos branch if they could deliver. I am single 76yo with emphysema, heart conditions (due to faulty Thyroid), Sinusitus to be operated (have home oxygen). Lived here approx. 10yrs. about 5 mins from IGA.Asked if they deliver. They want to know exactly what doctors have treated me when and for what etc etc, After answering them over and over basic questions I gave up. I rather go and catch the Virus somewhere than purchases ever again from IGA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:2005:E501:409D:F4AD:589B:E83F (talk) 04:38, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi. The Wikipedia Teahouse is for asking how to use Wikipedia, not about how to have medical help. Sorry. TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 06:12, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

i cant make articles

why i need to make a draft to make my article??????????its so annoyingggggg — Preceding unsigned comment added by MalucoWikipededista (talk • contribs) 14:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

MalucoWikipededista Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. New users cannot directly create articles for several reasons- one is to prevent vandalism. Another is that successfully creating a new article is the absolute hardest task to perform on Wikipedia. New users who dive right in without understanding the process, and without experience, usually end up disappointed and with hurt feelings as their work that they spent hours on is mercilessly edited and deleted. Taking some time to learn about the process benefits not only you, but the project as well. Please use the new user tutorial and read Your First Article before creating a draft using Articles for Creation. Wikipedia has no deadlines so there is rarely any urgent need for any article. Take your time so you do the best job that you can do. 331dot (talk) 14:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

(ec) Hello MalucoWikipededista, and welcome to the Teahouse. The reason was WP:AUTO, but that's done now. However, it's often a good idea to start an article as a draft and work on it until it's ready for mainspace. Sprindort Massacre is very likely to be deleted or moved to draftspace. Take the time to read Help:Your first article and Help:Referencing for beginners carefully. Good luck! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:39, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

MalucoWikipededista - echoing the comment above, there are no reliable sources that mention the Sprindort Massacre. The event is not in the draft's sole reference, and a city article doesn't even exist, or I'd say to try to put the info there. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:16, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

the article was translated from the portuguese version of wikipedia,if something is wrong,its not my fault.189.35.35.204 (talk) 13:15, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

The different language WP:s are autonomous and can have different "rules", assuming those rules have been followed. You are responsible for what you put on en-WP. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:33, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Changing my user name

Hello, I work for James Fortune, and just created a page for him. I would like to change the user name to just James Fortune, not with — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesfortune47 (talk • contribs) 19:29, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Jamesfortune47! User:Jamesfortune47 is your userpage, it's basically meant for telling people a little about what you like to do on WP an maybe a little about yourself. Please take the time to read WP:PAID, WP:COI, WP:BLP and WP:YFA carefully. Short version: Writing articles about people you work for is almost always a bad idea. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:40, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Wrong use of User page: Putting article-like content on your User page is not a short-cut to creating an article, and will lead to its deletion. As noted by G (above), if you want to attempt an article, you will have to comply with paid and COI. David notMD (talk) 20:36, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Deleted, and editor blocked until doing a name change. David notMD (talk) 10:13, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Lucien Thévet page

• Link: Draft:Lucien Thévet

I'd like to thank the various editors who have responded to my questions as I've been setting up my page about French horn player Lucien Thévet, since this was the first time I've tried to create a Wikipedia page. I've gone through the text and weeded out the subjective adjectives to make the entries more encyclopedic, as directed. The text itself was translated from the Lucien Thévet page on the French version of Wikipedia, which was created by Thévet's daughter, Françoise. Since I'm a French translator and a former horn player, she asked me to translate the French text and create an English-language version. Having also written my 1996 Master's thesis on the French school of horn playing as personified by Lucien Thévet, which was based on videotaped interviews I did with him in the early 1990s, I am very familiar with his career and have tried to provide the necessary references in the footnotes. If there are still any statements which you find to be problematic, please let me know as I'd like to make the English version available on Wikipedia as soon as is feasible. Thank you!Corniste6367 (talk) 22:52, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Corniste6367. Drafts don't automatically get upgraded to article status after a certain amount of time has passed, they need to be WP:MOVED to the article namespace by someone. There are generally two ways in which this is done: (1) the creator of the article or someone else moves the draft to the article namespace or (2) the draft is submitted to Wikipedia:Articles for creation (or AfC), where it's reviewed by an AfC reviewer who will move the draft to the article mainspace if it's approved as an article. You're not required to submit your draft for review, but generally doing so is a good idea if you're not very familiar with Wikipedia or how Wikipedia articles are written, particularly if you're not familiar with the concept of Wikipedia:Notability and how it's assessed. The fact that an article about Thévet already exists on French Wikipedia doesn't mean that one about him should also exist of English Wikipedia because each Wikipedia project has its own policies and guidelines and the ones for English Wikipedia tend to be much more restrictive when it comes to Wikipedia notability than perhaps some other Wikipedia projects. In addition, the fact that the French Wikipedia article was created by Thévet's daughter is also of some concern per WP:COISELF.

Anyway, if you truly think that Thévet meets Wikipedia:Notability (people) or Wikipedia:Notability (music)#Criteria for musicians and ensembles, then my suggestion would be for you to submit the draft to AfC for review. AfC reviewers generally don't approve drafts about subjects clearly not considered to be Wikipedia notable, but when they do decline a draft they almost always explain why and suggest things that need to be approved. Although there are no 100% guarantees, drafts approved via AfC do seem to be less likely to be nominated for deletion than those moved by their creators to the article namespace without any formal review. The choice is ultimately yours, but if you'd like to submit the draft for AfC review, you can add Template:AFC submission to the top of the draft and then follow the template's instructions.

Finally, one thing you should understand is that regardless how the draft ends up in the mainspace, once it's there it can be edited by anyone at anytime as long as their edits comply with relevant policies and guidelines; it can even be nominated or tagged for deletion if someone believes there are problems with it that are too serious to be fixed. So, neither you nor Thévet's daughter will have any final editorial control over the article content as explained in Wikipedia:Ownership of content and any disagreements you may have with others about the article will need to be resolved through Wikipedia:Dispute resolution and Wikipedia:Consensus. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Audio player

Could someone please review  Courtesy link: Draft: Sayonara Player?

October 2019 so far gone ;-)

2A02:908:1A74:4360:C85E:FBAC:1BC:E460 (talk) 23:18, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

A reviewer will review the draft when they get to it. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 00:07, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

IP editor: Stop pushing! These and these continuous requests for us to review are starting to get irksome. You have received advice and have submitted the article for review. Wait - we are all volunteers here. There's a worldwide virus epidemic going on which tends to reduce peoples free time right now. A reviewer will look at your draft in due course. Be patient. There is NORUSH. Nick Moyes (talk) 00:16, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

"There's a worldwide virus epidemic going on which tends to reduce peoples free time right now." - Thought it would be the other way round as Germany reduced to short-time work in most industries. I have a lot of time now, but I'm not allowed to review ;-) 2A02:908:1A74:4360:9910:E112:6A79:1C8 (talk) 11:01, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Some people have increased time, others reduced time. There are also areas of wikipedia that have spiked with critical tasks that draw away some reviewer time. In general the backlog has slightly reduced from its peak in the last few weeks, but is still quite substantial, with most reviewers working from the oldest first. Nosebagbear (talk)

A lot of editors have to worry about things other than Wikipedia in a crisis. Those of us that stay on here tend to focus on other things as well in the meantime, such as the work that WP:WikiProject COVID-19 is doing right now. Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 20:02, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

As the note on the draft says: Please be patient. There are 2553 drafts waiting for review, so it will take some time for the review to happen. RudolfRed (talk) 19:59, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip

The draft draft:Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip was rejected because it didn’t have enough references. I have been told if I added more and better references for the article it could be considered notable. Beatleswillneverdie (talk)

Do you have a question, or a request; and if so, what is it? -- Hoary (talk) 00:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hoary, A request. I want to see if the references I put in the draft are reliable enough to make it notable to make it an article. Beatleswillneverdie (talk)

Courtesy: B is asking here because the draft was Rejected, and the rejecting reviewer suggested taking the question to Teahouse. The song in question was a hidden track on some CD versions of Nirvana's In Utero (album). David notMD (talk) 00:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

My reading of the musical notability guidelines is that a song is considered notable if the song has charted, and that individual songs are usually not otherwise considered notable. My more general comment is that there is a common myth in Wikipedia that the key to acceptance of anything is to get enough references. My reading of Wikipedia guidelines in general is that references are a necessary but not sufficient condition, and that it isn't always enough to add more references. At the same time, if other editors think that this song satisfies general notability guidelines based on discussion of the song or hidden track in reliable sources, I am willing to remove the rejection and consider accepting the draft. So my question is whether other editors advise me to accept the draft based on general notability. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:30, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I see. But I'll leave the matter to somebody who's a lot more familiar than me with the sourcing of material about rock music. -- Hoary (talk) 00:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I hope it will go through. I put a lot of hours doing research and finding a lot references. Beatleswillneverdie (talk)

A thought - on the Talk page for In Utero (album) create a new section and in it ask if Draft:Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip is article-worthy. David notMD (talk) 10:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Bestleswillneverdie. None of the current references are both substantial and independent. The Gaar book is the closest to it, and in combination with other substantial independent sources would help; but half a paragraph on its own is not enough. (I have no access to the other Gaar book: if that has more substantial coverage of that track, that might do it (though the fact that they're both from the same author would lessen the breadth). Please have a look at WP:CSMN. --ColinFine (talk) 10:57, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Pinging Beatleswillneverdie again, because I got the name wrong. --ColinFine (talk) 10:58, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

ColinFine, The “In Utero” book tells the origin of the song very well. I also see it used on other Nirvana articles. Beatleswillneverdie ([[User

Biography

Good day fellow teahouse members, I don't know if it will be welcomed and good for me to post a written article here for corrections and improvement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ViciousProxy (talk • contribs) 00:08, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, ViciousProxy. No, please don't post draft articles directly here. Just link to them instead. (e.g. "See my draft article at User:ViciousProxy/sandbox, please). Cheers, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:21, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very very much Nick Moyes aprreciate your support and time taking to answer me promised it was note a waist thanks once more.

Editor and Editing

I wish to work harder and improve myself in editing and writing article and bio in wiki and working on a basic A-I search bot to help me deliver best in Wikipedia family When I first joined I made so many mistakes, but if I may ask from any admin how do you all improve in your editing and writing and also information search please I love to learn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ViciousProxy (talk • contribs) 00:13, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

You suggest that you're working on a biography. At the top of your user talk page, you write "Working on creating a client biography". Do you mean that you're working, or that you're intending to work, on the biography of somebody who is a client of yours? -- Hoary (talk) 00:34, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

In this edit to my talk page, you say "it's a client biography". I assume that you mean that yes, it's the biography of a client of yours.

Your interest is in promoting the person you're writing about. However, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a public relations outlet. Therefore your purpose here conflicts with that of Wikipedia. Please stop writing about this person.

Furthermore, it appears from your use of the word "client" that you're being paid. If you are indeed being paid, please read this part of the "conflict of interest" page with particular care. And follow it. -- Hoary (talk) 08:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks to Wikipedia editors

I realize now that Wikipedia is a group of friendly, willing volunteers -- I got 6 responses to my post. Answering one suggestions -- I can and would help. Right now, the learning curve of dos and donts makes this less attractive. The public is unaware of new developments such as 2D materials beyond graphene. See a top publication in the filed of Physics, Phys. Rev. Applied: https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/collections/two-dimensional-materials I *may* write on that topic if I am not asked to prove how notable I am and wait for others to write about me. My colleague got the same feedback from a federal funding agency the year he got the Nobel Prize. I expect that Wikipedia has few editors in Science or Physics -- we are all very busy. Just FYI (for whoever reads this) -- a current measure of scientific impact in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering is the h-index. It is neutral and not disputed. ... I wonder if I should invest more time with this project while putting other urgent projects aside. I am not using a pseudonym. As expected, I sign with David.Tomanek (talk) 02:24, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Your quesitons sounds like a rhetorical question. FWIW, Wikipedia has many editors interested in science and physics. The h-index, which you mention above, is frequently employed to asses notability of some articles on academics.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Me, Me, Me! I am a scientist, too. None of us have to be Wikipedia-notable to create or edit articles, and in fact are dissuaded from stating our science credentials as evidence of our edits being true. Content has to rest on reliable source references. Most sci journals qualify. There are disputes over journals that are predatory publishing. David notMD (talk) 10:26, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

David, have you discovered Wikipedia:WikiProject Science yet? - X201 (talk) 10:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

And Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics of course. - X201 (talk) 10:44, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@David.Tomanek: And Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia, and OLED scientist Jess Wade who, as User:Jesswade88, has made huge contributions here too, creating one new article a day on notable women scientists for the last two years or so. I would reinforce the point that being noteworthy to have an article about oneself (and I do feel you'll meet those criteria) and being able to contribute to Wikipedia articles is totally different. The skill set us non-notable people have as good editors is the ability to ignore what we personally know, and only to collate and communicate what can be found in properly published and verifiable sources. It's the opposite of academia where Original Research is encouraged, and the sign of a good scientist. Here we frown on it, and remove it, leaving only what independent sources have written about that research. But I am so glad you found us friendly and helpful. Communicating by what is, in effect, a text message, inevitably sounds far more curt and unwelcoming than it is. Every environment has its do's and don't - including the science laboratory, and the highway. The trick is never to set off too fast in any new place, and to take small steps, learning as one goes. Those who rush to create great things here usually fail because they've not taken the time to take one step at a time, or to watch, listen and learn from their mistakes. Many new editor get terribly upset when, what they see as a helpful edit, gets almost immediately undone. The reverting editor is usually quite happy to explain why they did so (assuming their 'edit summary' isn't self explanatory), and there's usually a good reason which isn't always obvious to the editor at first. Nick Moyes (talk) 12:25, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I am with Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, have raised medicine/health articles to Good Article status, have not yet created an article and am definitely not myself an article-notable candidate. David notMD (talk) 12:30, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

question

I read an article can be notable if it "Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble who created it. This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, online versions of print media, and television documentaries." I have included references from books, articles, and many more. Beatleswillneverdie (talk)

Beatleswillneverdie, what is your question? If this is in relation to the draft you were asking about earlier today, please post there and not make a third section. Have you read Robert McClenon's comments? --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 05:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Beatleswillneverdie didn't ask a question, but they restated an important part of general notability guidelines. I did say, in rejecting your draft, that you could discuss Rejection and notability criteria at the Teahouse. In my opinion, the draft, as currently written does not show that that hidden track satisfies that criterion. However, you should make the case that it does either on the talk page of the draft or on the talk page of the album. We can answer any questions that you have about how to interpret notability guidelines. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:46, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy link Draft:Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip

confusing charge card

I entered the secret numbers after *123# but there was no further guidance after that step. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.109.40.216 (talk) 13:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello User:124.109.40.216, and welcome! I think you're in the wrong place, though: this is a forum for help with editing Wikipedia, and so we can't help with charge card issues. YorkshireLad  ✿  ^(talk) 14:06, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Annual readership template

Template:Annual readership provides a link to Pageviews Analysis (on https://tools.wmflabs.org/) with a pageviews graph automatically generated for the article. The template is also supposed to display a smaller version of the graph on the Talk page. There is an Annual readership template on Talk:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (in a collapsed box, i.e., you need to click "Show" to see it), which is appropriate given the article is receiving 1.2 million pageviews per day. The pageviews link is working, but the graph is not displaying on the Talk page. I set width to 570 per the tip at Template:Annual readership, but that did not work. I also tried widths of 520, 500, and 420, but no luck. ¶ My request is not a high priority, so please feel free to "put it on the back burner" if needed. ;0) Thanks!   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 13:56, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

UPDATE: The graph is now showing on the Talk page. Must have been a glitch ... or the Wikitext Elf secretly fixed it. ;)   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 14:07, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm no computer pro, Markworthen, but I'm guessing what you experienced was a cache error from your browser. Generally, clearing the cache will clear it up. The cache likely had cleared itself when you looked the second time. It appears to my rather untrained eye that the change you made fixed the problem and no human or bot intervened. John from Idegon (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks John from Idegon! I bet you are right. :O)  Resolved   - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I'm a man—traditional male pronouns are fine.) 22:29, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Deaths from coronavirus subcategories

Hi,

I'm writing this to get some feedback. From what I understand, there's the parent category of Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic and then multiple subcategories based on nationality. Being as this is a worldwide pandemic are the different subcats necessary? By rationale, the countries that have been more impacted, i.e. China, Iran, Italy, etc make sense as a subcat but I'm seeing some categories for Brazil or Turkey or the Netherlands that only have one page associated so far and a Cameroon subcat was created with with no affiliated pages. Shouldn't the parent category be used more than the smaller subcategories that have one article? Snickers2686 (talk) 17:24, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Snickers2686, this is a question that's better suited for WP:WikiProject COVID-19. Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 21:51, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Henry Cheffer

I inherited a stamp collection from my grandfather and I noticed a 1925 Principality of Monaco stamp, displaying the Monte Carlo Harbor that bears the name Henry Cheffer at the bottom right of the stamp. I thought this might be a piece of information that could be considered for adding to the Henry Cheffer page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cheffer There are a few different values of the stamp that bear the name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C0:5300:10A0:84AC:8B50:958D:1CF2 (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Wikimedia commons already has a category called Stamps by Henry Cheffer. Any of these images could be added to the article, if they have not been already.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 22:56, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

IP, have a look at the page now. I have expanded it quite a bit. It is good you brought this up here, as Cheffer was quite a prolific and notable artist. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

use of court records as reliable source

Can I use information from public court records in my editing? How would these be cited? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NMCheadache (talk • contribs) 16:04, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, NMCheadache, and welcome to the Teahouse. Yes, you can cite these, but bear in mind that they are primary sources, and so can be used in limited ways. I don't believe there is a specific citation template for them: I suggest {{cite report}}. --ColinFine (talk) 16:15, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Would {{Cite court}} do the job? - X201 (talk) 16:22, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@NMCheadache: This is a question usually asked by someone who wants to add information about a civil or criminal case to an article about a person or company. More important than the source is the question of whether the information is of encyclopedic value and follows the principles of WP:BALANCE and WP:DUE. We usually know this by whether WP:SECONDARY sources have chosen to discuss it, which is one reason why those sources are preferred to the primaries. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 08:01, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF SaUp2014

Hello SaUp2014,

This is to request you to kindly introduce yourself.

Sayantan Ganguly [Youth Team Manager, Odisha FC] — Preceding unsigned comment added by SayantanGanguly (talk • contribs) 16:26, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@SayantanGanguly: Wikipedia is private and you don't have the right to know any editors personal identifying information. You should be posting on the talk page for that article instead of here. Use the Reply to template in order to send them a notification.—Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 16:52, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Want to start scripting

Hi. I would like to start writing user scripts for Wikipedia. I've read through the guide but I'm more of a visual learner so I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of any videos etc or any experienced user willing to walk me though it. Thanks, — RealFakeKimT 16:50, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, RealFakeKim, and welcome to the Teahouse. There might be people here who can help with that, but this page is really for questions about editing Wikipedia. The programmer types hang out more at WP:VPT. --ColinFine (talk)

• Thank you ColinFine. Should I make a new section there for message individual users? — RealFakeKimT

I would say, make a new section there, RealFakeKim. --ColinFine (talk) 20:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

To publish an article to Wikipedia about my father

Dear Sir/Madam, I seek your permission to publish an article to Wikipedia about my father Late Poet Dr. Suryakant Ramchandra Khandekar from Kolhapur, Maharashtra. (1926-1979) He was a Marathi poet, who was awarded Ph.D. for his thesis on "Shahiri Powada". He has become famous for his popular song "Tya Phulanchya Gandakoshi" sung and Composed by Pt. Hridayanath Mangeshkar. He had also written lyrics for many Marathi movies. His songs are being sung by many popular singers such as - Asha Bhosale, Pt. Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Kavita Krishnamurthy etc.

Current information about his work on Internet is not complete. In order to know his contribution to the Marathi literature, I want to publish an article in Wikipedia.

Following are the links for your reference ---

https://www.aathavanitli-gani.com/Geetkar/Suryakant_Khandekar

https://www.marathisrushti.com/articles/marathi-poet-suryakant-khandekar/

Hoping for your approval. Thanking you,

Mrs. Swaroopa Rawoot(Khandekar) K.swaroopa (talk) 17:16, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Removed the indents David notMD (talk) 17:35, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@K.swaroopa: This is being answered at the Help Desk. Please help keep conversations in one place and not post questions in multiple places. RudolfRed (talk) 20:19, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply RudolRed. Sorry for reposting it. I was unaware of the correct place to get help K.swaroopa (talk) 04:43, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Citation tool

Any recommendations for a tool to organize and format citations, for use in content creation types of editing tasks? This gives a list, but no advice: Help:Citation_tools#Tools. Thanks.LaTeeDa (talk) 18:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I usually just place a bare url inside the ref tags, then run Wikipedia:Citation expander, which automatically expands the ref. (You do need to enable it in your preferences.) When that fails I use reFill. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:38, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Topics to edit and meeting users

Hi Wikipedia editors. I want to Join Wikipedia Canada user group. I also would like to join the India group. Where can I find them? Do I need to send friend request before talking to editors here ? I am interested in History and cities articles. --BabbarJatt (talk) 18:37, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Please see the information at Wikipedia:WikiProject India.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:41, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

ThatMontrealIP Many thanks. I would make a post there. --BabbarJatt (talk) 19:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Where is the Wikipedia app store to install apps to help in editing ? Appreciate if you can share the link. --BabbarJatt (talk) 18:40, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

BabbarJatt, there are scripts to assist in some tasks, which are found at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets, and Wikipedia:User scripts/List.

Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Customizing Wikipedia/Easier editing with JavaScript gives details of how these work, and how to enable them. ~~ Alex Noble/1-2/TRB 18:47, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Alex Noble/1-2, the links are really very helpful. The User Script list is quite long. It is not possible to try so many. Can you please recommend a few good ones to start with. Thanks for the kind reply. regards. --BabbarJatt (talk) 19:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Duplicate a page

How to duplicate a page? — CRS-20 (talk) 19:30, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

CRS-20, welcome to the Teahouse. Pages generally aren't duplicated, but moved. Why do you want to duplicate a page? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 19:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

The Kosmos 22 page does not exist, I would like to duplicate the Kosmos 20 page to make it the Kosmos 22 page. — CRS-20 (talk) 19:35, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@CRS-20: If you're comfortable about editing and adding proper sources, go to Kosmos 20, click edit, copy the source code, go to the Wikipedia search box and type Kosmos 22, and then click on the red link where it says "You may create the page Kosmos 22" to open a new article. Paste the Kosmos 20 content and then edit as appropriate. Here's a source to start with. [[4]]. If you aren't that comfortable editing yet, you might read WP:YOURFIRSTARTICLE just to be safe. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 21:14, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Timtempleton: I see edit source but not edit (only). — CRS-20 (talk) 22:25, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@CRS-20: Please read WP:CWW before doing that. Attribution must be kept. RudolfRed (talk) 21:19, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: @Timtempleton: The user WDGraham has not contributed since February 2015. So what about copyright? Cordially. — CRS-20 (talk) 22:01, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@CRS-20: I assumed you were just going to reuse the template and general layout, but rewrite the article to be about Kosmos 22. Please ensure the body of your new article is written differently, to stay within copyright guidelines. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 23:16, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Timtempleton: This is exactly what I want to do, take the Kosmos 20 page, modify it to make it the Kosmos 22 page. But how to do that? — CRS-20 (talk) 23:36, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Not just to stay within copyright guidelines, CRS-20. The content of an article should start and end with what the sources for that subject say, not with what another article happens to say. With that approach, it's very easy to accidentally include some information that isn't in any of the sources, because it seems reasonable and something similar was in the copied text. --ColinFine (talk) 00:10, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@ColinFine: I don't want to take the Kosmos 20 references, but to take my references to make Kosmos 22. — CRS-20 (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@ColinFine: Kosmos 20 is a Zenit 2 spacecraft et Kosmos 22 is a Zenit 4 spacecraft, with different launchers, etc. — CRS-20 (talk) 00:28, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

New editor asking questions about adding scientific references to articles

Hello, I just started with small edits to some pages that are within my area of work, at least I tried. The edits I was making were providing a new handbook reference for the topic the article was discussing. By way of full disclosure, I am one of the editors of the handbook, which may be a COI. However, the addition I made seemed to fit the goal of wikipedia to be a tertiary source quite well, and the description was neutral, but it was still removed. I could not find a policy on this, so I am wondering what scenario may exist where having an editor adding a scientific volume that summarizes the latest knowledge about a topic that the wikipedia article describes in allowable? Thank you in advance for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonbiter (talk • contribs) 21:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Dragonbiter: Courtesy link to article in question. Games and learning. I think the short answer is that it's discouraged for authors to add their own publications. You could put an WP:EDITREQUEST on the article talk page. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 21:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Timtempleton:OK, thank you, will do. Dragonbiter (talk) 21:26, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Dragonbiter, Taking a look at this edit, I see the problem. Instead of using the book as a citation, you instead pointed folks to go read it, which is promotionalism in our eyes. Wikipedia exists to promote nothing and no one, so we are pretty strict about that kinda thing. But if you follow Tim's advice, you should have a better chance of including the resesarch. Make sure not to add the book simply to add it, but rather that you are adding interesting new research, backed up by a reliable source. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 21:34, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

CaptainEek,I appreciate your comment, and I can certainly relate to the idea of not promoting anything. But this creates a dilemma: if I were to look up a topic I know little about, one of the things I would want to know is whether there is a comprehensive piece of secondary literature that I could use to learn more. That's what the handbook is- there are 21 chapters that discuss the full range of games for learning. The main contribution of the handbook is to (1) bring together multiple points of view, and (2) provide a unique look at games as a genre that requires cognitive, affective, motivational, and socio-cultural views, all of which are discussed in detail in the book. That's what I added, because getting any more detailed would require to discuss individual chapters. At this point my response is to just let it go? Dragonbiter (talk) 21:44, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Dragonbiter, you could suggest on the article talk page that your publication be added to a further reading section. But please do not add it to the article yourself, as that would not be a neutral thing to do as an editor.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 22:54, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Infobox netball biography

Hi, is possible to expand this Template:Infobox netball biography to cater for Ama Agbeze who has played for at 12/13 clubs. Still working on improving article maybe more clubs. Djln Djln (talk) 21:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Djln: The template only takes up to ten teams. If you want to expand it, you might have better luck asking at Template talk:Infobox netball biography. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 23:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@Timtempleton: Thanks but nobody has been active at page since 2012 Djln Djln (talk) 14:45, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@Djln: - That doesn’t mean that the page isn’t on somebody’s watchlist. You might as well try. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:44, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Timtempleton: I managed to get some help elsewhere and sort it. Cheers Djln Djln (talk) 15:18, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Reliable sources

What would be considered reliable sources for a music article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatleswillneverdie (talk • contribs)

Hi Beatleswillneverdie, and thanks for coming to the Teahouse! you can read up on WP:NMG for the notability guidelines on music articles, and more on reliable sources is at WP:RS. Thanks again! _{please remember to sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~)} --Puddleglum^2.0_{(How's my driving?)} 02:16, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

List of Pakdam Pakdai episodes

Disregard

 – User was blocked as a sock. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 05:01, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

I want you to create a article about a list of episodes for Pakdam Pakdai — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaymarturner748 (talk • contribs) 03:04, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Why does Wikipedia use use a coordinates conversion service that is inaccessible more often than it is available

I've been trying to collect GPS coordinates for locations of events in my family tree as I read about the locations. To get decimal coordinates where they are not displayed I click on the D.M.S. coords to get them converted but that link produces this failure message 80% of the time:

This site can’t be reached tools.wmflabs.org’s server IP address could not be found. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Can you not display both coord systems on the pages instead of a seemingly random choice please! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MainlineMick (talk • contribs)

Hi MainlineMick, welcome to the Teahouse. I assume you refer to links like https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Australian_Capital_Territory&params=35_27_00_S_148_58_50_E_type:adm1st_region:AU-ACT on Australian Capital Territory. It works for me although it's sometimes very slow. The script at User:Evad37/GeoHack replacement script can replace the coordinates link when you are logged in. For example, add this to your common JavaScript:

importScript('User:Evad37/GeoHack_replacement_script.js'); // [[User:Evad37/GeoHack_replacement_script.js]]
ghrs_mapprovider = "http://maps.google.com/maps?ll={latdegdec},{londegdec}&spn={span},{span}&q={latdegdec},{londegdec}";

This changes the link to http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-35.45,148.98055555555555&spn=0.3,0.3&q=-35.45,148.98055555555555. If you click the link then Google Maps shows the conversion but it's also in the url itself. Template:Coord#Per-user display customization shows code you can use to display both coord systems or a chosen one. You can also show both on the currently viewed page by manually adding ?safemode=1 to the url like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory?safemode=1. It changes the layout by removing various styling. It's meant for testing but it works for your purpose. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:03, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@MainlineMick: To answer the last question, yes, you can display both co-ordinate systems, though it can be ugly at times. In your User:MainlineMick/common.css, add the following:

.geo-default,
.geo-nondefault,
.geo-dec,
.geo-dms,
.geo-multi-punct {
	display: inline;
}

—[AlanM1 (talk)]— 13:08, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Please can someone help me check what is wrong with this article:Draft:Kabir_Tukur_Ibrahim

I have gone over reading on citations and footnotes. I did reference (using a news channel, newspaper and also his personal website for his history) most of what I had on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kabir_Tukur_Ibrahim , but it had been declined twice. Although, its under review, I really want to understand where I got it wrong. Because I compared the referencing to another of his mate (in the nigerian house of representative), and they look alike. So, please what really looks wrong with the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by KemitSen (talk • contribs) 04:48, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

• Pinging Sulfurboy, the declining reviewer. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 13:14, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Most of the references are weak - minimal mentions of his name. Possible the same applies to the articles about other government representatives? David notMD (talk) 13:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@David notMD: I pinged the reviewer because the reason given was the method and format of the citations, with which I don't see a problem. WP:NPOLITICIAN presumes notability for the National Assembly representative. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 13:55, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

I took the Declined reason given to also mean that swathes of text have no citations. David notMD (talk) 14:28, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Ladnun

please mention name of current MLA — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mukesh Bhakar 0013 (talk • contribs) 07:38, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

At the article Ladnu (Ladnum), Mukesh Bhakar wants there to be a mention that he is the Member of the Legislative Assembly. He has also created Mukesh Bhakar, about himself. David notMD (talk) 10:36, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Mukesh Bhakar 0013 has added an image of Mukesh Bhakar and claimed it as own work. If MB0013 is MB, cannot be true (it's not a selfie). David notMD (talk) 13:35, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Help improve and publish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mission_Control_Texas

Hi! I prepared a draft for an article and now I need help to improve and publish it. As I am active mostly on the german Wikipedia, I sure made mistakes. Thank you for improving and publishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mission_Control_Texas ! KAMfakten (talk) 11:36, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Draft: Scientist Suresh Sharma

i have created a article draft : Scientist Suresh Sharma ,it is about my father.now how to submit the article please tell me i not finding a way to do it .gone through your wiki manuals article for creation which says that i will find a button "submit for review" but i could not find it secondly it says i can add a code to the top of my draft {{AFC submission|||ts=20200328114547|u=Alekh99|ns=4}} so iadded on top of article but did not find any yellow box .so please guide me how to submit my draft.thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alekh99 (talk • contribs)

Hey Alekh99! I have properly submitted the article for you. However, considering the subject is your father, you may find it useful to read the guideline on editing with a conflict of interest and make sure the article is neutral, so it has a better chance of being published. --MrClog (talk) 12:00, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy: Draft:Suresh Sharma and it has been declined for lack of sufficient referencing with reliable source references. Refs #1 and #2 link to the current website for The Hindu, and the other two mention him only briefly. David notMD (talk) 13:38, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Generel Request

I would like to know why my article has been declined — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deoz.wilson (talk • contribs) 14:23, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Reply on your Talk page. David notMD (talk) 14:36, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Newspaper article to verify addition already made to Wikipedia -Hillcrest sub-section " Famous residents"

Hi, I have added a name on the above section of Wikipedia which appears in red with the No.[10] icon which I gather indicates it requires verification. I can submit a copy of the 1947 Sunday Times newspaper article which should verify the detail together with an address document in the 1960s verifying residence in Hillcrest. To whom [email add.] should this material be addressed to? Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melsmeth (talk • contribs) 14:34, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia guidelines for Famous residents are that there should be an existing Wikipedia article about those persons before their names are added to the list. If such articles do not exist, then the names show up as red Wikilinks rather than blue. Horace should be deleted from the list, and also the other three red names. David notMD (talk) 14:42, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy: Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal is the article in question. An alternative would be to create articles about those people. David notMD (talk) 14:44, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Help with translating English Wiki-articles to another language.

Hi, Im new here and would like to translate an existing English Wiki-article to another language - Swedish. There is already one started in Swedish but with less information compared to the English version. I want to use the "autotranslation tool" to start with, so that all the sources are copied for example. Where do I find "autotranslation tool"? How do I change the language in the "autotranslation tool" to the one I want? I have stumbled upon a "autotranslation tool" that supposed to translate from Swedish to English but Im not allowed to use it!?! I cant find it again and I could not change the language anyway. Then I guess there already are a connection between the two articles, so I don't need to do anything about that? Zzophia (talk) 14:39, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Zzophia, and welcome to the Teahouse. If you are wanting to create an article in svwiki, then you need to ask your questions there: each language Wikipedia is different, and has different rules, customs, and procedures. There is a little help for you here, at Translate us. As for the Content translation tool: the consensus has decided not to allow that to be used by new editors on enwiki; but it is available for translating from English. --ColinFine (talk) 15:03, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

posts I added that were removed

 Courtesy link: The Fiber Optic Association I do not understand why my information additions about the Fiber Optic Sensing Association were removed. It is a non-profit with a mission of educating about the benefits of fiber optic sensing. I notice that you allow The Fiber Optic Association to have its own page and this seems quite the double standard. Why is the Fiber Optic Association allowed and not the Fiber Optic Sensing Association? Why is it not allowed on the page that lists international professional associations? It is an international professional association. Seems like someone wants to limit information about it. I look froward to hearing back on this and specific reasons why some are allowed and others not - once again this appears to be a double standard. My family even donated to wiki in 2019 because of the great resource of information provided. Seems that certain people are controlling the information. I had listed it under See Also on: Fiber-optic sensor, Distributed acoustic sensor, Distributed temperature sensor and Optical fiber, and list of international professional associations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DCGlobal (talk • contribs) 14:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@DCGlobal: Welcome to the Teahouse. The user who reverted it marked it as spam, and given how I don't see how the two are related (other than a similarity of name) I have to agree, especially with all the other pages that you've contributed to and gotten subsequently reverted for (for further reading, please read WP:NOTABILITY). Donations go to the Wikimedia Foundation, not Wikipedia proper. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 16:25, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@DCGlobal: Monetary contributions to the WMF have absolutely no bearing on content at individual projects like Wikipedia (other than keeping the servers running that manage that content). There is no double standard. There are, however, articles (especially older ones) that do not comply with current standards. We're all volunteers here, and those non-standard articles are slowly fixed or deleted. That has nothing to do with whether new articles that are not up to standards should be allowed to exist.

I'll also note that your last several edits were marked "minor" incorrectly per WP:MINOR.

Please sign your messages on talk pages by adding a space and four tildes to the end of the last line of your message, like this:

This is the last line of the message. ~~~~

The four tildes will be automatically converted to a signature that contains your linked username and a timestamp, which helps keep conversations organized. Thanks. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 18:12, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Your page on Haplogroup J2

Hi, Could you please sort that page out. It seems to be a total mess. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ergtit432 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Do you mean all those red " harv error: no target: CITEREF..." messages? This is a known problem affecting a large number of Wikipedia pages in the last day or so. There is very active discussion about it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Feline Hymnic (talk) 15:43, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

new help with ip address adding inappropriate stuff

Kinda of new to this and have read a ton but not sure how to get help with an ip address that is adding inappropriate stuff to several pages. It's 186.214.187.154 and if you look at Robin Lord Taylor's last edit you'll see what they're adding. Thanks.FootToeFungus (talk) 15:47, 28 March 2020 (UTC) Now I'm not sure if I'm wrong. I found where someone undid one of they're additions that was to the informationbox that I can't find now and I see that they're adding it to the bottom of the page which I've never looked at. So I might be wrong. Another pair of eyes would be helpful and I apologize if I'm wrong.FootToeFungus (talk) 15:52, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

FootToeFungus, 186.214.187.154 added a category to the article while another IP user made that change; it has since been reverted. Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 16:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

List of Top Island Countries

How to create a new page article or a new title? step by step. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aldrin Orlanes Politico (talk • contribs) 16:25, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Aldrin Orlanes Politico Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Please be advised that successfully creating a new article is the absolute hardest task to perform on Wikipedia. It takes much time and practice. New users are much more likely to succeed if they first spend time editing existing articles in areas that interest them, to get a feel for how Wikipedia operates and what is expected of articles. I would strongly suggest that you do that and also use the new user tutorial.

However, if you still want to attempt to create an article, you should read Your first article and the go to Articles for Creation to create a draft and submit it for review. Be advised that Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage state about subjects that meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability. Note that "top island countries" is both very broad and very subjective. Wikipedia does not have "top" anything. 331dot (talk) 16:37, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Name of page: when is a change appropriate?

Is it the case that a person page's title/name cannot be changed? I believe there's an error with one: not a typo, but part of the name is missing. I posted the issue on that talk page ("Catharine MacKinnon") a few days ago. Shall I wait for a response there or detail the issue here? Thank you for any assistance and guidance. --PaulThePony (talk) 19:00, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, PaulThePony. The talk page was the right place to propose this, but evidently there's not much traffic there: the last non-administrative edit to it was in 2016. In this case, you suggestion is clearly a good one (see TITLE), and I suggest you simply move the article. --ColinFine (talk) 19:29, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi ColinFine. Thank you so much for that recommendation. It saves waiting another 4 years for someone to respond there. Haha --PaulThePony (talk) 22:13, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for inviting me to the Teahouse!

I just wanted to thank you guys for inviting me to this group! I just wanted to ask a question about this page: Combined statistical area How do I change the Population Tables section of the page? I need to change how many Combined Statistical Areas there are from 175 to 176 underneath the Metropolitan Areas section.

Sincerely, Omnificent879!--Omnificent879 (talk) 7:37, PM, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

How do I know if I am a auto-confirmed user or not?

I keep getting these pop-ups saying that autoconfirmed users wont see the msgs but at the same time I can move pages which (im pretty sure) is only a function available to auto-confirmed users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faboof (talk • contribs) 23:03, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

You are indeed autoconfirmed, as you can verify at Special:UserRights/Faboof. --MrClog (talk) 23:47, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Struggling to collaborate with another user. What should I do?

Hello, I have been advised to post a report to AN/I [5] but I'm hoping to resolve a dispute in a friendly way. I'm trying really hard to avoid an edit war with User:ජපස, but he constantly reverts many of my edits and seems to just irrationally try to block my contributions (His recent contributions are almost exclusively "against" me [6]). He usually reverts multiple edits blindly with edit comments referencing guidelines vaguely with no explanation, so I am not able to resolve or discuss his issues with my edits appropriately. I asked him many times to explain his reasons in a calm manner so that I may improve upon his criticisms with less discussion but to no avail. Examples:

• third revert in 24h by the user just saying: WP:TOOSOON There is nothing to discuss. [7] (I asked him to explain/discuss twice already)
• third revert in 24h by the user just saying: Poorly worded WP:POVPUSH [8] (I asked him to explain/discuss twice already)

I've started half a dozen discussions asking him for explanations but he just keeps following this approach and often resorts to uncivility and personal attacks. (some examples [9][10][11][12]). It's mostly just me and him on those pages so we can't start and RfC or post on noticeboards for every edit obviously. We need to figure out a way to work together but some external help would be appreciated. It's really hard to collaborate with this user and simply being more verbose in edit messages or applying WP:ROWN would resolve all issues as I've tried to explain to him many times. This has been going on for a month and is very time consuming. What should I do? Any help would be appreciated. I understand this is a complicated matter and requires a lot of (useless) reading so thank you for taking the time to read through this. --Gtoffoletto (talk) 00:13, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Gtoffoletto: Hello and welcome. If you mean something like the recent back and forth at Ufology, you should post your edit or concerns to the talk page of the article, after the first revert. I did not see any posts there by you, so that is the place to start, per WP:BRD. Arguing back and forth in the edit summaries is not recognized as an effective method for gaining consensus. The talk page makes the discussion more visible, and allows each editor to state their views on the article edits. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 08:57, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

PS I looked into this a bit more and it seems like you have already taken this issue to the edit warrign noticeboard here, and then taken the same issue to ANI back in February, and been blocked as a result of the ANI discussion. I think the block message by Bishonen in the most recent ANI thread had some sage advice that you would be prudent to follow. Also, there are six million other articles to edit. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 09:18, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hey @ThatMontrealIP: thanks for taking the time to review this. Yes we had a previous argument around a month ago over similar issues. The full AN/I discussion is here and for context there are some important replies after the block by another admin User:El C [13] Not to make excuses but I was very ill at the time (I come from Milan, Italy...I'll let you guess) and lost my temper resulting in reports that weren't as coherent and understandable as I would have liked (admins described them as "sub-par"). I was in contact with two admins and one of them decided to block me for 31h for reasons not directly related to the report (I was unintentionally forumshopping). I have accepted that block (the first in over 10 years and almost 2000 edits on en and it wiki) and tried to collaborate with the user more productively. But here we are. I am afraid that block is preventing anyone from addressing the actual underlying issue. As you can see the user was warned by User:El C against WP:HOUNDING during that conversation. Even if I move on to other articles (as I've done) he will follow.--Gtoffoletto (talk) 11:08, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

P.s. this is a long story. Unfortunately User:El C is unavailable at the moment but the problems are getting worse despite my best attempts. Unless someone spends some time researching this fully I'm afraid the problems will persists. The recent profanity can attest the situation is out of hand: [14] I've never seen anything similar be tolerated on Wikipedia and don't know what to do anymore. I think we need some sort of independent "outside" help --Gtoffoletto (talk) 11:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

no time to read this, simple answer: avoid the other user (whoever, for whatever) - we really have more urgent problems. Perhaps look at my little visions, such as voluntary one revert, and only two comments in a discussion, - as a guideline? ... note to self: "and don't get too upset over this". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:17, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks User:Gerda Arendt I subscribe your visions fully. I believe the user's contributions prove he is mostly WP:HOUNDING me so I can't just "avoid him" or "move on". I normally subscribe to voluntary 1RR and just discuss the issue. Actually I prefer NO reverts as per WP:ROWN as I've suggested to the user multiple times. I will gladly accept any voluntary restriction on myself (as I have tried to do so far) as long the other user accepts them too (or they would be useless as they have been so far). He just won't engage in proper discussion with me. @ජපස: any thoughts? This squabble is ridiculous, especially right now. It's just me and you on those pages and nobody has the time to help us figure this out. Do you accept WP:ROWN and no reverts, just edits and discussion? --Gtoffoletto (talk) 11:33, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

You still write about the other? - Turn away, ignore them, don't think of them. It's not easy, but saves you precious time ;) - Look: on the Main page are three articles I took part in writing about people who recently died, and there were two others before, earlier today, - a sad record. Next Krzysztof Penderecki, an enormous task. Find references for his awards, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I see what you mean. But I work per topics (Wikipedia:WikiOgre). I research sources thoroughly and then insert them into the articles over a period of many months. I can focus for a while on my other current interest which is certainly more important at the moment (I'm part of Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 and work on therapies and transmission studies) but I want to continue my work on USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents (which I created) and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program at least in the future. There is no rush but the problem has been lasting since early February and no amount of time seems to make it better. Few edit those pages at the moment (I just created one of them) so he will inevitably be back. I absolutely welcome criticism, but it needs to be constructive. The incident reported above has taught me not to take the WP:BAIT but it's constant baiting and incivility at the moment with no compromise or discussion. We cannot let the project be damaged by one user (e.g. [15]). --Gtoffoletto (talk) 12:23, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Gtoffoletto: if you look at the top of the page, you will see this page is for answering questions from new editors. Your dispute with another editor is not an appropriate topic here. You are an experienced editor, figure it out-- and not by forumshopping. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

What sources are considered independent

I’m confused on what sources could be independent and good for an article. Can books be included in that criteria? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatleswillneverdie (talk • contribs) 21:37, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Clovermoss, books are allowed as long as they fulfill the criteria for a reliable source, including being published by a publishing house with a reputation for accuracy, having a neutral point of view, not being outdated, etc.

Hi again, Beatleswillneverdie. Reliability and independence are completely separate. A book published by a reputable publisher is a reliable source; but if it is written or edited by somebody close to the subject of an article, it is not independent of that subject: it can be cited only as a primary source. Conversely, a review of an album on a web forum may well be independent, but it will almost certainly not be reliable in Wikipedia's terms, and cannot be cited at all. --ColinFine (talk) 08:46, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Corporate Info

Wikipedia has comparatively sparse coverage for basic corporate data. E.g. Exxon Mobile's net income is from 2018. Why don't we automatically reference Wikidata corporate company profiles? (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156238)

Wikidata contains structured data with citations. Why don't we reference this automatically from "Template:Infobox company"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Q746371 (talk • contribs) 02:28, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

adding image

How to add an image to wikipedia from Pinterest — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samarasuma (talk • contribs) 02:44, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Samarasuma, thank you for asking your question! For legal reasons, you cannot use images that you found on the Internet. You can only use images that (1) you made yourself, and that you are willing to license under a free, commercial license, (2) others licensed under a free, commercial license, or (3) images that do not fall under either of the two categories, but that satisfy the non-free content criteria. So, unless if that image on Pinterest is available under a free, commerical license, you cannot upload it here. Aasim 05:06, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed

I need my account to be confirmed today please— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tahmin1 (talk • contribs)

Tahmin1 It will be autoconfirmed within 24 hours. I assume you want this to be able to move your draft to the encyclopedia; I would strongly advise you against moving it yourself even when you are able to, until you have a great deal of experience in article creation. You may submit your draft even now using Articles for creation, this way others can give you help before your draft is formally part of the encyclopedia. I assume you want to maximize your chances of success; submitting it for a review will do that.

If you are associated with the subject of your draft in any way, please read about conflict of interest and paid editing- which would mean you should submit a draft no matter what. 331dot (talk) 10:55, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

This visual editing needs to stop!

Hi, and I have a problem here. I do NOT want to visually edit and I want the thingy to the right of the section (e.g. ===Description===) to say "Edit SOURCE" and not simply "Edit". Can someone help me??? 🐔Chicdat (talk) 10:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Chicdat I don't entirely understand your question; if you do not have the visual editor enabled, it does not matter what the edit link says. If you are trying to disable the visual editor, you can do so in your Preferences. 331dot (talk) 10:58, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks anyway. 🐔Chicdat (talk) 11:42, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Chicdat: I think you disable the visual editor by checking "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing. Any editing you do should then use the original source editor. Is that what you need? —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 11:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I did, and it worked. 😃 Thanks for your help! 🐔Chicdat (talk) 11:53, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Follow-up to Follow-up to True story, please help -notability+have the company listed on wikipedia

Hi guys you still did not answer my questions on notability as I should read it more about it but I postpone due to diversification of my activities, looking for more work as even though I do not work I moved to new room from the money from the previous employer.

Beside saying that there may be different requirments on german notability I know the best way it would be to make my own reading, retyping and implementing it on Wikipedia but it is time-consuming.

Please help here if you do not mind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketmanplus (talk • contribs) 10:28, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

So what was your question? Maproom (talk) 11:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

According to this, I think he wants us to host articles about him and his company?

@Rocketmanplus: We are not the German Wikipedia: any mistakes they make there do not justify mistakes here.

Wikipedia is not the place to promote yourself or your business.

A subject is considered notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. If there are no sources about you, then you are not notable.

Here are the guaranteed and simple instructions for writing an article. If you follow them exactly, it won't matter if you're writing about yourself or your company. If you can't follow them exactly, then give up. Don't bother asking us to do your work for you. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Publishing sandbox article

When can i publish my sandbox article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tahmin1 (talk • contribs) 11:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

You can move it to mainspace when you have been autoconfirmed – which, as you were told above, will be within 24 hours. If you do so, it will be at risk of deletion, as not establishing that its subject is notable.   Maproom (talk) 11:41, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Tahmin1: Note that many of your sources are not considered reliable and should not be used (e.g., Wikipedia, IMDb, social media, blogs, etc.). —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 11:55, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

If you publish your draft directly, it may become nominated for deletion, as many of the references are not considered reliable sources. The deletion process is on a fast clock (a week or two). Alternatively, if you submit it to Articles for Creation it will be a submitted draft. A reviewer would then accept or decline. The negative to AfC is that weeks to months could go by before a reviewer decides to start a review. The positive is that you could continue to work on improving the draft while waiting. One specific thing to fix: you have many hyperlinks in the text of the article. These are not allowed. David notMD (talk) 12:52, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Would this topic be considered notable?

I recently joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, I’ve been wanting to write about a notable Turkish women for some time now. I was thinking of writing about Nurcan Yurdakul, a Turkish historian who appears on television quite frequently. I was wondering if she’s notable enought to write about. Thanks, Rodrigo Valequez^(🗣) 11:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Rodrigo Valequez: The standard for notability is in-depth coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Are there at least three professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources that are specifically and primarily about Nurcan Yurdakul, but not affiliated with, nor dependent upon, nor connected to her nor anyone related or associated with her? If so, she's notable. If not, she's not notable at the moment. Ian.thomson (talk) 11:55, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply @Ian.thomson:. I’ve been on Wikipedia for nearly 3 years now but that’s the thing, I’ve never created an article. I’ve been cleaning up vandalism, correcting typos, and rephrasing. I don’t really know what a reliable source is. It would be great if you could take a moment to search Nurcan Yurdakul or Nurcan Özkaplan Yurdakul to let me now. Thanks! Rodrigo Valequez^(🗣) 12:15, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Rodrigo Valequez: I have written a guide on how to create articles that should cover everything you need to know. It's part of a larger guide, which does have a section on identifying and finding sources. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

All right, thanks. Rodrigo Valequez^(🗣) 12:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Victor Smushkevich

Dear authors How are you all yesterday I was looking for a topic to edit so I found a file victorsmushkevich.png and there was suggestion for create article for after that I searched a lot regarding this and create an article on it. It is not any spam, I am here to answer your all question and if you have any ambiguity regarding this you can take any decision. I will agree with this thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZZ Digital Solution (talk • contribs) 12:25, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Note: I've blocked OP for being a PR firm's account. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:34, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Joe Mesmar

I had created a page named Joe Mesmar who is a ery eminent canadian dj. But my article got deleted. Will someone guide me how to create a full biography? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Surelyshubham (talk • contribs) 12:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Surelyshubham: You can find instructions on how to write an article that won't be deleted in this link. It's part of a large guide that I wrote that covers a variety of issues new users face. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Need all the help I can get here.

Hi guys! thanks i — Preceding unsigned comment added by BobbySofthands (talk • contribs) 13:13, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Need all the help I can get here!

Hi guys! Thanks for reading. New writer and new to wikipedia. Recently took it upon myself to investigate a street artist in Puerto Rico whose work I've followed closely and has become a national treasure for Puerto Rico. Given the artists anonymity finding sources was a hassle but in my opinion more than enough for a wikipedia article. My article was recently reviewed and declined for its sources. How does wikipedia manage these specific circumstances and how else can I improve my article and ultimately get it published? —Preceding undated comment added 13:32, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi - it is what it says on the tin; your Wikipedia article needs sourcing talking about this street artist, not just evidence they exist. The interview you used as one of your sources is a good example of what would be really good quality evidence of this artist's WP:NOTABILITY, and is what you'll need to find more of if you want to write an article about them. Unfortunately, just evidence of where their works have been found, and photographs of their work on Flickr aren't notable enough. They have to have been seen, noticed and talked about by others.

I will say, your writing style is quite encyclopedic, though. It's good quality and with better sources of notability, I don't see a reason why this article couldn't be submitted again. However, you must find more sources from other people talking about their notability, their work, and their art style first. --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 13:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, BobbySofthands, and welcome to the Teahouse. I'm afraid I must disagree with Ineffablebookkeeper: an interview with the subject is not independent of them, and so cannot contribute to notability. The thing to remember is that Wikipedia is basically not interested in what the subject of an article says about themselves: it is only interested in what people wholly unconnecteed with them have chosen to publish about them. If there has been little reliably published, independent material about Shitty Robots, then I'm afraid it will not be possible for Wikipedia to have an article about him at the moment. See WP:CSMN. --ColinFine (talk) 13:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Indian National Army

Who is the first commanding Officer of Indian National Army?

Who is the actual founder of Indian National Army? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dheerajkumar Pittala (talk • contribs) 14:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Please see Indian National Army.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 14:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Francesco D´Agosta alias Belair Music Producer

Hello can zou help me to create a Biography for an Artist & Music Producer Belair alias Francesco D´Agosta? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DieBiografie (talk • contribs) 15:02, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Your draft User:DieBiografie/sandbox/Francesco D'Agosta alias Belair was rejected because it has no references. Given that he has not yet released his first album, WP:TOOSOON applies. Wikipedia is not social media. Try again when there are published articles about him. David notMD (talk) 15:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

question concerning formatting

Hi, you all. I format my reference-links and use "website" as part of it - in German the equivalent would be "werk" - we (in the German wikipedia) normally enter the main website of the reference-link there, but if do this in the English wikipedia the software is not content with me because it detects "external link" - how do i format this correctly? Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 15:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Gyanda, I don't understand the problem. References should be external links. Are you encountering problems in putting the external link inside <ref></ref> tags? Could you give us an example? --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 15:55, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Gyanda: try |website=Der Spiegel, |website=spiegel.de or even |website=www.spiegel.de, instead of |website=https://www.spiegel.de. Some citation parameters take |work= too; depends on the source (journal, book, web, etc.). Stay well, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Rotideypoc - that's what i did... i didn't use the external link of for instance the George Eastman Museum =https://collections.eastman.org, but wrote instead "George Eastman Museum" - but i just don't understand: if there is a term "website", why you cannot enter the website then.. it doesn't make sense to me...--Gyanda (talk) 16:30, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

The place that the url goes is in the |url= parameter. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Gyanda: in case you missed David Biddulph's reply. Stay well, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:24, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

It may be my fault that i don't understand you people? I know, where the url goes. I just don't understand why there is a tag for "website" when you cannot enter the main website there - thus: not the url but the main website as i mentioned in my example... the url is long and goes at the "url="-tag - but what to enter in the tag "website" then, if you cannot enter the simple website (not the url, just the main websiteaddress) there... that's what i don't unterstand. Why the tag "website" then at all? (I hope, it is understandable now?) - and thanks for your kind answers, David and Rotideypoc! Stay well! --Gyanda (talk) 20:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Certificate

I am still learning and have thus far made some contributions to Wikipedia articles. I wish to know if I can get a letter of recommendation or a certificate of participation that I can include in my resume. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clint Atahualpa (talk • contribs) 15:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Clint Atahualpa, Wikipedia is an informal volunteer organization and you are not an employee. Therefore, other than referring your potential employers to your user page and your User contributions (which could be fake for all anyone knows, as they are user-generated), the answer is no with regard to the encyclopedia.--Quisqualis (talk) 16:17, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

If we're speaking strictly about editing Wikipedia and not working with the Foundation or doing community organizing: this would be something in the hobbies section only if you had space to spare. Even if you racked up a decent number of community-vetted quality articles (like good articles and featured articles), it'd still be on the hobbies section, though arguably, you could include it on your cover letter if demonstrating a skill relevant to the position you're applying to. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 17:25, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Need start editing - Deaths in 2020

I don't know if I have a semi-protected Authorization or an autoconfirmed user yet, but I added a post here Deaths in 2020 and I need help to start editing and post this event:

• Patrick Devedjian, 75, a French politician of the (Union for a Popular Movement) A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy , Dead at 75 by COVID-19.

AbDaryaee (talk) 15:33, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

AbDaryaee, if you are unable to edit the information by yourself, please go to the article's talk page and leave an edit request with {{edit semi-protected}} with what exactly you want to change and to what you want it to say verbatim provided with the source listed below. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 15:58, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

(edit conflict) he's already there. If you need further help, please feel free to discuss on the talk page. Stay well, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Rotideypoc41352 (talk) and Tenryuu (talk) Thanks both of you, I thought the correct date of death should entered on the 28th, but source does not confirm actual date of death. AbDaryaee (talk) 16:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

References

Sabotage

Dear Managers: Please note that edits should not be canceled without prior notice. Like this Kashtariti ! Don't be arbitrarily neutralized. Goodarz Irani (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

If you want to discuss the reversion you can do that either at Talk:Kashtariti or on the user talk page of the editor who did the reversion, but one point is that you had marked your edit as minor when it clearly didn't meet the criteria at Help:Minor edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Greetings!!!!

I am new here......Waleed Shafqat here....Had a cup of tea with you ....Thanks.....Remember me!!!....in your prayers....See you next time..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.50.91.212 (talk) 18:06, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Templates

How does one create his own template using visual editing since im one and publish it for use on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itssslime kidd (talk • contribs) 18:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Itsslime kidd. The information is on Help:Template. --ColinFine (talk) 19:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Repinging Itssslime kidd as I got the username wrong. --ColinFine (talk) 19:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Question about Requests for user rights

Not a big question, but was wondering how the process works. At least on the rollback page, users do not seem to be reviewed in numeral order, it appears they are reviewed at random. Is it more on a base of admins picking off the easy ones first? or is it more complicated, perhaps a protocol?

I have one more question. when the month is over, will the page be cleared? for over a week the page has been growing, when is the refresh time, and what does that mean for the ppeople applying? will they need to resubmit?

thanks! Scaledish (Chances are I am wrong, sorry :blush:) (talk) 19:40, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Crepidula convexa, wont let me post into my sandboz

please help, i am trying to upload information in to the sand box and i verify the changes