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July 6

Fifth Harmony Edit

May I have the permission to edit Fifth Harmony because recently, one of the members named Lauren Jauregui is planning on leaving Fifth Harmony. In addition, I've made several, and probably a lot more, edits such as grammar checking and spelling on many Wikipedia website but I haven't been credited. For example, Deaf-Blindness. In fact, I made edits on there last year. Can you check that? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IceCreamx777 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please read our guideline on conflict of interest: WP:COI. Basically you should not edit the article directly. Instead, make suggestions for edits on the article's talk page together with a COI declaration. Add the magic incantation {{edit request}}, and someone will come along and perform the edit for you. Make sure you cite reliable sources (WP:RS), or your request will be declined. -Arch dude (talk) 04:33, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This question on the help desk is the only edit on the English Wikipedia by username IceCreamx777. Did you perhaps use a different username? Check this by going to a article you edited and looking back through the history to see what name was associated with an edit you made. -Arch dude (talk) 04:38, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

IceCreamx777, you don't need anybody's permission to edit an article, you're free to go ahead ad add information as long as it's backed by reliable sources, as mentioned by Arch dude. By the way, when you post on talk pages or discussion pages such as this one, please sign your contribution by ending it with four tide characters (~~~~). Thanks, Rojomoke (talk) 06:40, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Arch dude, what makes you think IceCreamx777 has a COI regarding Fifth Harmony? Also, a minor point, but the standard is to indent using colons, not asterisks. Rojomoke (talk) 06:40, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

After seeing a request for permission, I immediately went into "COI mode" and miss-read "the members" as "our members". On re-reading, I now see no reason to assume COI. Sorry, IceCreamx777. -Arch dude (talk) 15:24, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How can I find a better website for getting professional wrestling tag teams

I can't find a better way to find a new list of wwe tag teams and Stables on right now....i need the list back because it's for a game — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisWheeler444 (talk • contribs) 05:26, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you clarify what list you need back please. When you say that you "need it for a game", if you were thinking of adding it to a video game article, don't, roster list are on a list themselves; a list of stuff that should not be put in a video game article. - X201 (talk) 07:44, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I just signed up

Hi I registered or so I believe username WorldJusitce however I spelled it incorrectly and want to change it I see no way to do that. Also to add my full name? I also tried searching Wikipedia and I didn't show up nothing at all so iam wondering did I do this right? Iam a activist for world peace and for the end of violence and iam trying to get more of a platform can you help me with any information as possible. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by WorldJusitce (talk • contribs) 07:05, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Changing username. Ruslik_Zero 09:05, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi WorldJusitce, the easiest thing to do is just to stop using this account, and register User:WorldJustice instead. Accounts are cheap.

However, you should be aware that Wikipedia is not a social media site, or a place for you to use as a soapbox for your (very worthy) opinions. The only articles we accept are enyclopaedia entries about things that have already been covered by reputable sources. Opinion pieces such as the one you posted at Help talk:Introduction (since removed) will never be acceptable. Rojomoke (talk) 10:06, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tool to script changing or creating wikilinks?

Is there a tool I can use that will script the changing of wikilinks across the English Wikipedia (for example when I rename an article) or create wikilinks (for example when I write a new article)? Thanks. -Lopifalko (talk) 08:42, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you are not exactly a newbie, but given your question, I suspect you are not familiar with the fine print of our policies about redirects. Please ask further if I missed the point of your question.

When an article is renamed, it will leave a redirect from the old title to the new one, and you should not "fix" links to redirects. The reason for this is that the redirecting link may should indicate the topic it links to, not the page; for instance, if I link to Mrs. Hudson (currently a redirect to Minor Sherlock Holmes characters), if a standalone article is created in the future, the link will go there without having to change anything. If I had linked to Minor Sherlock Holmes characters#Mrs. Hudson instead, that possibility would have been lost. When there is a redirect page at exactly the topic you want, targeting a larger topic, you should point to the redirect page.

It can happen that after a couple of page moves, splits etc. double redirects come up, i.e. situations where page A redirects to page B which redirects to page C. In that case we can always cut out the middlepage (by redirecting A to C and keeping the redirect of B to C), but there are bots taking care of this, so you do not need to worry about them. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:32, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Lopifalko: Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:32, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Tigraan:, I have been "fixing redirects" and was not aware of WP:NOTBROKEN, so I have learned something. An example is that today I renamed Guy Watson to Guy Singh-Watson and wanted to change all uses of Guy Watson. However, my second reason I believe still stands: if I write a new article, it can be tedious changing the plain text in many tens of articles to a wikilink to the new article. Is there a tool to help with that? Thanks -Lopifalko (talk) 16:37, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lopifalko: I think that renaming the article to Guy Singh-Watson was a mistake. Wikipedia policy is not to name articles using "official names", it's to use the name that the subject is usually known by. Of the five references in that article that exist and mention the subject, four call him "Guy Watson" and only one calls him "Guy Singh-Watson". Maproom (talk) 07:25, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Maproom, I will consider this more soon when I have more time. I did do a web search on "Guy Singh-Watson" and it seemed to be used often. -Lopifalko (talk) 07:47, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Lopifalko: When it comes to redirecting previously plain-text mentions of the target article (not redlinks or links to redirects), I am not aware of any semi-automated tool (which of course is different from "it does not exist"). (I am fairly sure no fully automated tool (i.e. non-human-assisted) exists, because autolinking without understanding the context can lead to a lot of errors.) You can search for the term in existing articles, of course, but I think you will have to link manually. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 07:15, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

General Rules for Archive Settings

There is a particular page with content issues (and part of an ongoing dispute) which recently had editors implement strict archive settings of "algo = old(30d) (originally was 14 days until I said something) and minthreads=0" to the talk page. Are there particular reasons why talk pages should be wiped every 30 days if the talk page is <75,000kB? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barbarossa139 (talk • contribs) 13:11, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And by "said something", he means "edit-warred to change the setting to 90 days". --Calton | Talk 14:46, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page archive setting should match the activity level there. 90 days or more could be totally appropriate for a slow page. -Fnlayson (talk) 14:55, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Calton, a reason was never provided for archiving all content from the page after 30 days. The user tried to bring it to my talk page instead of the article page. Considering there are ongoing content disputes - it's seems like rather odd behavior. Barbarossa139 (talk) 15:07, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if there is an untractable disagreement about archival settings, I would say to resolve this by the usual processes outlined in our dispute resolution page. I would also say to add a mention on Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:38, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

removing articile

I've been trying to remove the articile off of my computer and it's not letting me delete these pages off. they are things that I read and can't find them in anywhere on my computer at the bottom of the screen where everything else opens up at and it's taking up space on computer that's needs to be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.161.31 (talk) 13:50, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. This is the help desk for using or editing Wikipedia. Please go on over to the computing help desk and ask those guys. Please mention the operating system you are using since different systems have radically different ways to do this. -Arch dude (talk) 15:33, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Robert p Workman American artist 1961-

Robert p Workman is an American artist born 1/27 1961 in Chicago Illinois. In 201 Mr.Workman became the first American artist accepted into the collection of the louvre museumin, paris ,france. Honored by the state of Illinois hr0443, and others listed online.Mr workman is a verifiable part of Illinois and united states history/art history.we hope you will consider a page/entry on this fine artist.please contact the artist . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.3.126 (talk) 16:00, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Wikipedia articles are created and developed by volunteers, using a chaotic "process" that cannot possibly work. We have over 5.6 million articles, created and developed over 17+ years by 10 million or so editors. Each editor chooses whatever tasks they want to do with no direction whatsoever, but following our policies and working toward consensus. You can request that this article be written (see Wikipedia:Requested articles) and hope that one of the 100,000 or so currently active editors is interested, or you can write it yourself and submit it. (See Wikipedia:Your first article). If you choose to write it yourself, please start by finding what we call "reliable sources" as we define the term, not as you define the term. See WP:RS. Failure to cite reliable sources will only end in frustration as your article will be declined. Because you have a conflict of interest (WP:COI), you must declare it, and you must not just create the article as a live article. Instead, submit the article for creation after you draft it. Please don't get discouraged. -Arch dude (talk) 17:13, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Something is odd about this claim as Thomas Cole's “The Cross in the Wilderness,” (1845) was acquired by the Louvre in 1975. And that museum only includes works up to 1850. Rmhermen (talk) 19:24, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I verified that his art is not in the Louvre. "The Louvre's collections don't go beyond the year 1848."[[1]] FWIW, I did a quick Google search and the artist fails WP:GNG. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 19:32, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

help

How do i find a editor named diannaa? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quione (talk • contribs) 19:28, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Quione: Are you looking for User:Diannaa? Also, please only ask a question at one place. LittlePuppers (talk) 19:51, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Free clue: if you make the section heading descriptive (like everyone else does) you get better responses. Many people simply ignore something labled "help". --Guy Macon (talk) 20:55, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]