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i am trying to make an article about veri peri but i am having issues

i am trying to make an article about veri peri the colour but i have 2 problems 1. i cant make an correct infobox with a colour box and 2.i am kind of having trouble finding ompletely reputable sources (other than pantone) and integrating them Abdullah raji (talk) 05:28, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Very Peri
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6667AB
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(102, 103, 171)
HSV (h, s, v)	(239°, 40%, 67%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(46, 56, 265°)
Source	Pantone
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 Courtesy link: Draft:VERI PERI | Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

hi @Abdullah raji and welcome to the teahouse! funny, I just added the very peri theme into my microsoft edge a few whiles ago! it's a good color anyway, perhaps check out the news articles by clicking in Find sources above to get sources? I'm just gonna note however, that as far as I know, apart from the more common colors and ones more known as minerals (Cerulean, Turquoise, Emerald, and Rose Quartz), no CotY has gotten a separate article yet, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, it'll just be hard. for the infobox, the code would be the following:

{{Infobox color
| title = Very Peri
| hex = 6667AB
| source = [[Pantone]]}}

...which would produce the infobox to the right. happy editing! 💜  melecie  talk - 05:44, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

thenk you veri much *veri peri joke inserted Abdullah raji (talk) 05:54, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

ive done those steps but how do i add the color on the top Abdullah raji (talk) 06:24, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

@Abdullah raji: your template had the hash in the web code, which didn't allow the color to be added, which I've fixed. happy editing! 💜  melecie  talk - 00:36, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

thanks Abdullah raji (talk) 07:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Please be mindful of the spelling and capitalisation. It's "Very Peri", not "veri peri". Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:06, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Page move to Article space

I would like to move my article Draft:Nier: Automata (TV series) but the name was taken as a redirect. How can i overwrite the empty redirect? WillsEdtior777 (talk) 09:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, WillsEdtior, and welcome to the Teahouse. Some people advocate a copy and paste (see copying within Wikipedia for how to handle the attribution). I think it is prefereble to ask an admin to move the draft: see WP:RM. ColinFine (talk) 10:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Isn't it possible to remove the redirect? As i renamed the redirect and it caused this issue in the first place. WillsEdtior777 (talk) 11:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

@WillsEdtior777: Please don't move it to mainspace at this point. The draft doesn't show that the TV series is notable, and at least three of the four sources are non-independent and primary. Have a look at the general notability guideline to see what is required. Moving a draft that doesn't meet that guideline will very likely result in its being nominated for deletion. --bonadea contributions talk 12:16, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

I will add to the article soon. WillsEdtior777 (talk) 05:31, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@Bonadea, @WillsEdtior777 Bonadea: The article is in article space, even though you asked the OP not to move it there. 71.228.112.175 (talk) 11:20, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

The OP didn't move it; Link20XX was the one who removed all the content and inserted a redirect to Nier: Automata Ver1.1a that was created by Unnamelessness. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:17, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I redirected the page because I noticed that another user had created a mainspace article for it. While it is bad practice to create a page when a draft already exists for it, there is no policy against it, so I figured merging and redirecting was the best course of action. Link20XX (talk) 14:20, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I did not notice the draft as I only searched the title of TV series, i.e. Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, which should be the title of the article, not Nier: Automata (TV series). I reckon the best practice here is possibly WP:HISTMERGE, though I don't think there is any copy-and-paste action. Unnamelessness (talk) 11:00, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

User Name

I was a professional musician back in the 1970's and 80's - My stage name was Catfish Roy Mann. I performed at Gerdes Folk City in NYC. I was trying to add my name to the list of performers at Gerdes. I added my name but when I tried to create a profile page here on Wikipedia, they suggested not using my real name. So instead I created a profile page as "Catfish Roy". But when I click on my name on Gerdes List no page is referenced. How can I fix this? Catfish Roy (talk) 15:00, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Catfish Roy. I'm afraid you missed the fact Wikipedia is not means of promotion in general, and specifically it's not a place for self-promotion. --CiaPan (talk) 15:10, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hmmm....look at Gerdes Folk City page - there is a list of about 100 musicians listed who played there. Catfish Roy (talk) 19:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Usernames are not tied to article names in the sence that having a username which matches an article name doesn't grant oneself any sort of extra previleges or control of that article. Also, creating a user account here does not automatically create an article with the same name. Having a username that is the same as one's real name is discouraged as that means everybody can view what you are doing. This reasoning is also futher expanded in WP:REALWORLD. Victor Schmidt (talk) 16:57, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

@Catfish Roy: If you believe you meet any of the inclusion criteria described in WP:MUSICBIO, you can try your hand at writing an article, provided you write it as a draft and submit it for review. See Wikipedia:Articles for creation for guidance. The list to which you tried to add your name is not an indiscriminate list; it is a list of links to other Wikipedia articles (and not links to user account pages). ~Anachronist (talk) 18:48, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Catfish Roy (talk) 20:14, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

@Catfish Roy WP has its own, different terminology. When you said you tried to create a "profile page", technically you were trying to create a Wikipedia account. Your "user page" is not a profile like social media; its purpose is to tell others about you as a wikipedia editor. And, as mentioned, any user (with any account name) can edit (almost) any article in Wikipedia, as long as the editing guidelines are followed. David10244 (talk) 01:02, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you David Catfish Roy (talk) 10:57, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

whimsical wikis

TO whoever this might concern, I am a Nonwikipedian and I heard the Wikipedians created pages on a whim that exist only for their own sake. These pages interest me, is there a category specifically for them? Thank you. Sincerely, a curious netizen.  71.233.148.84 (talk) 00:06, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

hi ip user and welcome to the teahouse! the closest we have to joke pages are stuff archived in Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense, the April Fools deletion discussions, and other stuff at Category:Wikipedia humor, although none of these are formal articles. there is also Unusual articles, a list of weird formal articles although ones that do exist (not just made on a whim). happy reading! 💜  melecie  talk - 00:34, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi IP user, also note that for new users creating pages there is a review process called Articles for creation. For all new articles, (created by both new users who passed the AfC process as well as more experienced users creating articles) there is another group of reviewers called the New pages patrol. Whew, that's big mouthful :) Urban Versis 32^KB ⚡ ^{(talk / contribs)} 02:22, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

You might enjoy reading about the Zhemao hoaxes. Shantavira|^{feed me} 14:27, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Or maybe you just mean user pages. DS (talk) 05:20, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

New article publishing

Hello, I prepared a new article called Bruno Samper, but it was rejected. Who can help me to update the article that it could be published for wikipedia. JaninaBZ (talk) 09:47, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, JaninaBZ, and welcome to the Teahouse. Draft:Bruno Samper was declined, not rejected, which means that you are free to work on improving it and resubmit it.

Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.

Please specify at least three of your 36 references which are each all three of 1) Reliably published (which excludes iMDB and probably FWA), 2) independent of Samper (which excludes anything based on an interview or a press release, as well as publications by insitutions or conferences he attended), and 3) containing Significant coverage of him. ColinFine (talk) 11:32, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer. Now it's clear what improvements should be made on the text. JaninaBZ (talk) 15:45, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Editing question

How to put sources into the editing, as I have to update the current events of my client. I dont want wikipedia to remove my edits for the future how I can improve my work here. Lakshaykk (talk) 10:03, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Lakshaykk Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. First, if you are editing for a client, the Terms of Use require that to be formally disclosed, please see WP:PAID for instructions. Please also read conflict of interest; you should avoid directly editing about your client, but you may make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page.331dot (talk) 11:25, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Hey Team, thanks for reaching out. Would you help me out how exactly I can disclose the who is my employer or client who is paying me, where Do i have to mention all of these things Lakshaykk (talk) 11:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Lakshaykk. It is all explained in the link WP:PAID that 331dot gave you. I have tagged Antara Nandy for several problems. Please read your first article carefully to understand what these are about. ColinFine (talk) 12:46, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@ColinFine Shouldn't Antara_Nandy be moved (back) to draft? David10244 (talk) 01:19, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

If you wish. A quick glance failed to produce any suitable sources, so I think it's probably more efficient to go straight to AFD. But I haven't taken the time to do WP:BEFORE so far.

I observe that Lakshaykk has still not made the mandatory declaration, and has edited the article again, adding more unreferenced information, with, again, a misleading edit summary and claim of minor edit. I may take this to WP:ANI later today. ColinFine (talk) 09:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Did a new Move Request Discussion but ended up in the same section

I used the code for a move discussion, but it seems to have pasted it in the same green box as the previous move discussion. It shows up as a new section in the talk page table of contents, but shows up underneath the 2017 move discussion. It appears automatically in the Current Discussions here, so I think the code worked, but I am making sure I put it in the right area, because I know these things can be auto closed if I didn't do it correctly.

For article on Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. Pathofkarma (talk) 01:56, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Pathofkarma. It looks like you did it right. The error was made in 2017 when the old discussion wasn't closed correctly. I have fixed it.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 02:56, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, looks much better now. Pathofkarma (talk) 16:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Sports people's personal lives

Is there a reason why most sports people, especially less-famous sports people, only have sports related information in their articles?

They rarely have information about things like:

• Where they were raised
• Where they were educated
• Who their families are
• What they're doing now after sport

Etc, like it does on articles about other famous non-sports people.

Famous sports people nearly always seem to have famous relatives in sport or elsewhere, as I've found out countless times over the years, yet they're rarely mentioned in their Wikipedia articles.

Recently I've been updating IMDB pages (with birth details, bios, external links, missing productions etc) for a screenwriter/producer and former actress, who is married to a playwright/screenwriter, who have a former actress/screenwriter and musician daughter (I'm not sure what she's doing now), who has 2 former Premier League footballers as half-uncles who are the half-brothers of her mum. The least famous of them (the daughter) has a Wikipedia article, with no references other than her own personal website (which went dead in 2016, just like her parents' websites, and is hard to find out what she's been doing since 2011), and 2 IMDB links to 2 films released before she were born for someone else with the same name.

And now I've just updated a short film written by and starring a small time actor whose nephew played a few games in the Premier League, but mainly played in the National League (division) and National League North.

The 3 footballers all have Wikipedia articles obviously, but as usual none of them mention their screenwriter/producer/playwright/actor relatives, not even the former child actress with a Wikipedia article (which needs references adding). Danstarr69 (talk) 03:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@Danstarr69: articles in wikipedia are based on reliable sources, and those sources are more likely to write about their sport activities and not their screenwriter/producer/playwright/actor relatives. lettherebedarklight, 晚安, おやすみ, ping me when replying 03:41, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I imagine that most articles written about modestly famous athletes were written by editors with a primary interest in that sport (cricket, football, etc.), and thus did not bother with information typical of biographies. (Conversely, we rarely see height and weight info for non-athletes.) As for mention of article-worthy parents, siblings, children or more distant relatives in a Personal life section, perhaps valid if those people excelled in the same general area (both athletes, both musicians), but I personally see little benefit for a mention that the relative of an athlete was an author, politician or actor. David notMD (talk) 08:44, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

David notMD I do. Having famous relatives named in an article about a famous sportsperson, can help you find you find out even more interesting information about them.

Like that small time actor I mentioned earlier. I randomly found out he was the uncle of a former professional footballer, and in the next article I read about him I found out that his daughter is also an small time actor, with her biggest film/TV role so far being a character that appears in Coronation Street a couple of times a year (also she has an uncredited role in one of the biggest grossing films of all time). She'll no doubt get bigger film/TV roles in future going off her stage roles so far.

If or when his daughter becomes a mainstream film/TV actress, it'll be interesting to know that her dad is also an actor, and her cousin was a footballer. Danstarr69 (talk) 09:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

• @Danstarr69: I think most people would agree that mentioning notable relative A on the page of person B is OK if (1) both A and B are notable (don’t assume someone is notable if they have an unsourced three-line stub, but don’t assume someone is not just because the article does not exist yet), and (2) the link between those persons is adequately sourced.

Now, let me preface further advice with the warning that I am very much anti-personal-info in articles, much more so than the average editor, and that advice does not reflect current interpretation of policy. I would like the guideline at WP:NOTPUBLICFIGURE to be "do not write anything about non-notable people"; that is a possible interpretation of the text of that guideline but clearly not the one that is applied.

I advise not to put in Wikipedia information about non-notable persons, even if adequately sourced, by piggybacking on the article of another person. If you find a press clipping from a local newspaper in 1987 where notable person B talks about how his brother A is an up-and-coming actor, congratulations, you are a master source-sleuth. If you reproduce that information on one of the most well-read sites on the internet without caring that A might have become a janitor after failing in his acting career, you’re kind of a jerk. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 09:26, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

First, Tsk, tsk on name-calling. When does this get non-useful to an article about a person? A notable grandparent? great-grandparent? First cousin? See Barrymore family for extreme example, including spouses who were also in the acting biz. David notMD (talk) 09:32, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Maybe "jerk" is a strong word, but I maintain the general sentiment that an editor who considers only inside-Wikipedia guidelines while disregarding outside-Wikipedia repercussions is not a pleasant person.

I see your point, but I would rather have the distinction based on available sources rather than as a measure of genealogical proximity. Sources are a (somewhat) objective standard, family proximity is highly dependent on both personal and cultural context. How do you fit in godparents for instance? In my cultural sphere they are chosen as a token of friendship from the parents and have rather light and informal obligations towards the godchild (along the lines of "take them to the movies once a year"); in other places, being a godparent is a commitment to adopting the child should something happen to the parents.

Maybe you can send Barrymore family to AfD, but if someone picks up a source discussing the family (as a family rather than individual members) I am pretty sure it will stay. (I am not a fan either, but that’s how things are.) Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 11:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Tigraan A master source-sleuth is exactly what I am.

I can find things which most people have forgotten about, or don't realise exist, through my various sources...

Mainly local newspaper archives, national film/TV archives, and The Wayback Machine/Archive Today to look at now dead websites/articles.

I've added and updated 1000s of things on IMDB which some people clearly want to forget about, but the difference between IMDB and Wikipedia, is that those things they want to forget about will never be removed from IMDB.

What type of things am I talking about? Mainly things like Short Films they made or starred in, early in their career, which they've since deleted or made private on their websites, social media profiles, CV's etc, as they're now embarrassed by those films which other people who worked on those films might be proud of.

That's why I don't announce what I'm doing to the people involved, even after I've updated them, as I always end up finding more related productions which need adding or updating.

In the last few days I've updated the cast and crew of a mainstream feature film where at least 75% of the cast and crew were missing (along with all the companies). I seriously doubt any of those people were embarrassed about working on that film, but they were missing nonetheless. I can't even remember how I got onto updating that film, other than it starred an actress/comedian who used a stage name, which was slightly different to her real name for the last few years of her life, yet was missing from her profile, along with some of her other film/TV credits which I've since added. Danstarr69 (talk) 10:13, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Just to be clear, if the article about an actor/director exists, I have zero qualms about adding parts of their filmography, even if those are embarrassing to them. My point was about information pertaining to non-notable relatives.

One might also argue that putting in stuff about notable persons but unrelated to their main activity is iffy. That is probably best handled on a case-by-case basis. On the one hand, we certainly should not have a rule that being notable for X is a protection against items about Y. On the other hand, in the era of social media, "give me six tweets from the most honest man and I will find something embarrassing".

For instance, let’s assume an unlikely hypothetical where Nadia Murad had written bad Harry Potter fanfiction and tweeted a link to it in 2008 (when she was 15). I am pretty sure a mention about it in her article would be policy-compliant (WP:SPS), but personally, I would not put it in unless covered in depth by the mainstream press. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 10:58, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

In my opinion, with few exceptions, Wikipedia is not intended to be genealogy. David notMD (talk) 14:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

And it's not intended to be Us Weekly, either. This is a big problem in celebrity articles: there is a subset of people who are apparently fixated on celebrities' children's names and dates of birth, clearly not for legitimate scholarly reasons but simply to coo obsessively over same. I view this as encyclopedically inappropriate, particularly given that there is no genuine legitimate use for dissemination of this information and many horrible uses. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:04, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Offline source

Can someone please explain me how to add offline sources in an article. I only have the pdf stored in my computer. I can't get the URL. How can I upload the pdf as a source. 202.164.130.27 (talk) 08:26, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Assuming it's a usable source per WP:PRIMARY, WP:SPS and what have you, see WP:OFFLINE. Cite it like you would an online source, but exclude the url. Fill in the cite-info you have, author, date, title, publisher, pagenumber etc etc. You can find info on how to add a reference correctly at WP:TUTORIAL. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:37, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to the Teahouse. It may be a bit hard to get your head round in this internet age, but the fact is, for most sources, a URL or link is a conveinence to the reader, and not an essential part of the citation. What matters is that there is enougn information for the reader to evaluate the probable relevance and reliability (so author, title, date, publisher) and to find the source if they want to consult it (the same information, plus ISBN, DOI, URL etc).

If they can find the source only by going to a major library and ordering (and paying for) a copy, or by registering with a publisher or newspaper, that is acceptable.

If you have a PDF, the crucial thing to ask is, was this published by a reliable publisher? If so, you can cite it without the text being available online. If not, then you may not cite it, period. What you should not normally do is to try to upload the PDF somewhere. In many cases this would be a copyright violation anyway, and Wikipedia does not permit links to material which violates copyright. But even if there is no copyright issue, putting a PDF up on a random website is not publishing it reliably: how do we know that it is what you say it is? That it hasn't been altered? That's what the "reliable" bit in "reliable source" means: that the publisher has a reputation for fact-checking and editorial control. ColinFine (talk) 08:57, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Creating an autobiography

Hello Guys, Hope all is Good Can anyone assist me with a biography for Youssef Yassin. I have created an biography as he is a notable man and philanthropist in the Mena Region and well known and adore also. But actually this is my first time writing an article on wikipedia will really appreciate if anyone can assit,On how should i write the article and article layout. Thank you Husseinkyassin (talk) 10:03, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@Husseinkyassin: read up on help:your first article. lettherebedarklight, 晚安, おやすみ, ping me when replying 10:54, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@Husseinkyassin You appear from the Draft:Youssef Yassin to be the brother of its subject. While it is not forbidden to write a draft where you have a conflict of interest, it is discouraged for the reasons mentioned at that link. Also, you have clearly included information which you know to be "true" because you are his brother but no-one can verify because you have not provided inline citations. Wikpedia has a strict policy for biographies of living people that all facts must be sourced: and to demonstrate that the person is notable in Wikipedia's meaning of that word these sources need to be reliable and independent. You currently have no sources at all of that type and the draft cannot be accepted until they are added. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:26, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

dear,

Thank you for the assist.That true as you mentions i'm his brother,In fact Youssef is notable In the Mena Region for his Donations and philanthropist and for his business he runs.So what i believe if i add independent and reliable Inline citations.it can be approved. Husseinkyassin (talk) 11:32, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Do not resubmit until all facts are either verified by independent references (not his website(s), interviews, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) or else removed from the draft. David notMD (talk) 13:59, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Cát Bà Island is the largest of the 367 islands spanning 260 km2 (100 sq mi) that comprise the Cat Ba Archipelago, which makes up the southeastern edge of Lan Ha Bay in Northern Vietnam. Cat Ba island has a surface area of 285 km2 (110 sq mi)[clarification needed]

The only clarification needed to the second sentence that might be appropriate is to state that the areas are stated to the closest one unit of area. 110.0000... square miles turn out to be 284.8987 square kilometers. Verifying that the area of Cat Ba is actually between 109.50000... and 110.4999999... square kilometers is a different issue to which I cannot contribute. The second sentence and the first one, however are in contradiction: it is impossible for the largest island of an archipelago (at 285 km2) to be larger than the 387 islands that comprise it (said to be 260 km2). The [clarification needed] is placed in a position that is confusing. You might consider giving the sources of the areas of the archipelago and of Cat Ba and pointing out the contradiction. Emilio Venezian (talk) 10:14, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Emilio Venezian, when I look at Cát Bà Island on Google Earth, its area is less than 60 square miles. So that figure of 110 sq mi doesn't mean what it appears to mean. It is also incompatible with the statement at the start of the article, that the whole archipelago has an area of 100 sq mi. Maproom (talk) 11:39, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Cass elliot

You state that cass elliot from the mamma's and pampas died in 1974 but at the Start of your article it reads she released her solo album in 1998 this must be an error 2001:8003:6C30:C200:AD1F:5EF0:131:9C04 (talk) 11:41, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

No, what it says is Elliot released five solo albums. In 1998, she was posthumously.... If you do find any actual errors, feel free to be WP:BOLD and correct them (based on cited sources, of course.) Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:49, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft for review 'request for a decrease in protection' page

Hi, I have creating a draft page for Newgen Software which has been locked. Here is the draft. Please review it and decrease the protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Neeshu30 @Malcolmxl5 Thanks Neeshu30 (talk) 12:10, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Neeshu30, you put it in your user page. Your user page is not a place for drafts. That matter aside, it's underreferenced and written in opaque corporate-advertising speak; so wherever you place it, it's not likely to be promoted to article status any time soon. -- Hoary (talk) 12:39, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Neeshu, and welcome to the Teahouse. It looks as if you have a (very common) misunderstanding about Wikipedia: the idea that Wikipedia is a platforn for Promotion (a.k.a. telling the world about something). Wikipedia is only interested in subjects that the world has already been told about, and not by the subject or its makers. In fact, Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources. ColinFine (talk) 14:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I have moved it to Draft:Newgen Software Technologies Limited for now. Victor Schmidt (talk) 14:12, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @ColinFine, @Hoary and @Victor Schmidt Neeshu30 (talk) 07:01, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Hudson &Rex actor Daniel Maslany Sept 25 episode

Did the above actor have a role this episode. 142.189.71.223 (talk) 12:11, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Please ask this question at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment. Thank you. -- Hoary (talk) 12:37, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I want to write an article about someone I know

I recently met someone who I believe, as a public figure, is adequately noteworthy to have their own wikipedia page. I want to do it as I believe there should be more pages about powerful women on wikipedia.

Is this something I am allowed to do? Or is it breaking wiki rules? I have declared a CoI on my page.

The article would be about Dr. Zenna Hopson, the former Chairman of Ofsted, non-executive director on the board of the Royal Navy. She is also a regular contributor to Sky News and is on the board of several charities.

Thank you so much, I am so grateful for any help! AudraNoble1 (talk) 15:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@AudraNoble1: Hello Audra! Unfortunately you are wanting to do one of the hardest things to do when you first start editing Wikipedia which is creating an article. It is highly recommended you make smaller edits (such as grammar fixes, spelling fixes as long as it isn't changing between different variations of English, general copy edits) first before attempting to create an article.

If you insist on creating the article you must first determine if the person you are wanting to create an article on (in this case "Dr. Zenna Hopson") is notable according to Wikipedia's general notability guidelines and that all information in the article complies with Wikipedia's policy of biographies of living people. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 15:28, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, thank you so much for your help, this is really useful :) AudraNoble1 (talk) 18:32, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

AudraNoble1 (ec) Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Thanks for declaring a COI. If you are compensated in any way by this person, you must also make the stricter paid editing disclosure, a Terms of Use requirement.

Wikipedia has articles, not pages. These articles summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the subject, showing how they meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability-such as the definition of a notable person. If you have such sources, and they are not press releases, announcements of routine activities, or otherwise related to the person, you may create and submit a draft at Articles for creation. Please read Your First Article. 331dot (talk) 15:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I am not being paid to do this. Thank you so much for all the information, its really helpful! AudraNoble1 (talk) 18:33, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

A quick Google of the name Zenna Hopson shows very few references which are WP:INDEPENDENT of her, unfortunately. You need to find about WP:THREE such sources to have any hope of getting a draft accepted. Focus on quality of sources, not quantity! Write-ups in newspapers that were not just based on interviews may be your best bet. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:40, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Audra, and welcome to the Teahouse, and to Wikipedia. As others have said, creating a new article is one of the hardest tasks there is in editing Wikipedia, and since Wikipedia articles should be based on sources unconnected with the subject, it relies on finding such independent sources. Such sources are often harder to find for women than for men, and this systemic bias in news and publishing generally gets propagated in Wikipedia. There is a Project in Wikipedia devoted to redressing this imbalance, and you may find it useful to team up with other people from WP:WikiProject Women in Red. ColinFine (talk) 16:02, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

FYI - Podcasts, interviews, press releases, social media, her publications, etc. can in some instances be references for information, but do not contribute to etablishing notability in the Wikipedia sense of the word. David notMD (talk) 16:48, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@AudraNoble1: And you need to be aware that if you do succeed in getting such an article into Wikipedia, it won't be her own or their own or anybody else's own Wikipedia page. It will be an encyclopedia article about that person--an article that anybody at all will be able to edit. And then, if you/she/they do not like those edits, as long as they are relevant and well-supported by independent sources, there will be very little you/she/they can do about it. Uporządnicki (talk) 16:57, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I understand, thank you, sorry, was just a mistake in how i phrased it AudraNoble1 (talk) 18:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

hmm ok, good to know, thanks so much! AudraNoble1 (talk) 18:34, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing the women in red project, its really interesting! AudraNoble1 (talk) 18:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

question

can we start a bunch of different "clubs" or make wikiclubs that will basically be wikipedia chatrooms to talk about certain interests like science, star wars and tardigrades (please consider my suggestion) AkJackster (talk) 16:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

We already have Wikipedia:WikiProject Science and Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars. Theroadislong (talk) 16:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

what wut when AkJackster (talk) 16:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I meant like an actual chat room. AkJackster (talk) 16:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia is WP:NOTASOCIALNETWORK, or a place to store content not related to the encyclopedia. That's just the way the project is intended, however there are of course many other places on the web to chat about fandoms and science. Pyrrho the Skipper (talk) 16:58, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

ok, just wondering, thank you : ) AkJackster (talk) 17:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Needing to delete an entire entry

Hi there! I need to delete my own entry and I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. HELP PLEASE! This was something that we did for a class, and Dr. Lightbown has contacted our professor and asked that we remove her article. I'd like to make sure that it's done properly without leaving any links back to her name. Thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patsy_M._Lightbown&action=edit RebeccaAndre (talk) 16:40, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Courtesy link Patsy M. Lightbown. The topic appears to be notable and has been edited by assorted users, so it may not be easy to get it deleted. Theroadislong (talk) 16:44, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

The article was created in November 2020. You made substantial referenced additions in Nov and Dec 2020. The article exists, and is unlikely to be deleted. You could initiate an Articles for Deletion (WP:AFD) but in my opinon that would be declined. Subjects of articles have limited options for requestion deletion. As for your additions, you can delete those from the article, but as your references added at the time are valid, your efforts may be reverted by other editors. Your unreferenced content about her early years is already gone. David notMD (talk) 16:55, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hi @Rebecca! Wikipedia entries differ from social media profiles in that they are not owned by the subject, but rather by the encyclopedia. In other words, the entry on Lightbown isn't for her, but rather for our readers, and it'll only be deleted if that's what makes sense for our readers. We take the views of article subjects into consideration to a limited extent in some cases, but I have to agree with the above that it's not likely here. Wikipedia has a standard for when academics merit an article, and since Lightbown appears to clearly pass that standard, we seek to have an article on her (it likely would've been created by someone else sooner or later if it hadn't been by you).

Given that, it won't be possible to have the article deleted. However, I'm guessing there might be other reasons Lightbown contacted your professor about the article. If there are elements of it that Lightbown wishes to be changed, we'd be interested to know her perspective, although per above, we will only make changes if they comport with our policies, and she shouldn't edit the article directly herself. Best, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 17:02, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your thorough answers. She had actually attempted to edit the article herself, but found that she could not, and was advised that only the creators could delete it (which I am one of them) and then reached out to my professor. There are some things that do need correction, and there are editing issues that Dr. Lightbown would prefer to see. We are not professional writers by any means, and maybe we could have benefited with some more strenuous editing, but yes. It is not meeting specific standards.

I am not sure how to go about this at this point. She clearly wants it removed, some information is incorrect, and the information that IS provided is not provided in a way that she feels comfortable with. Any advice from here would be great! RebeccaAndre (talk) 17:20, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@RebeccaAndre, very few Wikipedians are professional writers, so no worries there — the beauty of the project is that collectively we're able to make improvements we could not have on our own. Lightbown is welcome to come to the Teahouse here and ask for changes. She can also go to the talk page of the article about her and make an edit request there. If she does that, she should be sure to identify herself and to add {{Request edit}} above her comments to make sure another editor will review them (it might take a bit). I hope that's helpful, and feel free to ask any other questions that come up! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 17:33, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@RebeccaAndre If you feel more comfortable, deletion is a possibility, under this section here. You can nominate for deletion with the reason being the subject is relatively unknown and is requesting deletion. If there is no consensus to keep after the discussion, it can be closed and the article can be deleted. Pyrrho the Skipper (talk) 17:36, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for all of the options! RebeccaAndre (talk) 17:51, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Lightbown can create an account and propose changes on the Talk page, or not bother and her proposed changes will show up as coming from an IP number. Or make her case for deletion or editing here. Be aware that either way, Wikipedia will not know if the proposal is from her, so references to support the proposed changes are required. David notMD (talk) 22:55, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

"was advised that only the creators could delete it" - this is a serious misapprehension. Regardless of who creates a page, only admins have page-deletion privileges. DS (talk) 05:29, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

I think you'll find -- if you do a quick, unscientific survey, e.g. of applied linguists at other universities -- that Lightbown is pretty well known. Being well known (as shown by quick, unscientific surveys, let alone as asserted by nobodies such as myself) is not a reason to keep an article, but it is a reason for linguistics-conversant Wikipedia editors to think "Hmm, yes, surely she should have an article", and for them to look for materials that, if found, would be good reason to keep the article. So I doubt that an effort to have the article deleted would succeed. If I'm right, then it would be better to work on improving the article. -- Hoary (talk) 23:16, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Official Telegram Chat Citing

How does one quote official telegram chats, specifically for political spokesperson of a foreign government. Can one cite with a share link to the telegram link, or should this be archived somewhere. What about if this is in a foreign language, how should it be cited? This is for Maria Zakharova, Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Pathofkarma (talk) 18:40, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Pathofkarma, and welcome to the Teahouse. If Telegram works as I think it does, I don't see how you can possibly quote from it: all information in a Wikipedia article must derive from a reliably published source. Twitter and Facebook posts can be used in certain circumstances, as self-published sources - but they are still published. There is no way for an arbitrary reader to obtain a cited Telegram post, as far as I know, so it cannot be cited or used. ColinFine (talk) 18:47, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Verifiability is the key policy here. Any cited source must be publicly accessible, so that anyone can verify it. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:18, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

So if it is a public announcement channel, then it would be considered publicly accessible and fulfill WP:V ? Pathofkarma (talk) 20:38, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

It is a bit different actually. In eastern europer, telegram is used the same way twitter is used - with official & public statements being made by officials with verified accounts.

So for this person Maria Zakharova this is her telegram https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova with verified badge.

You can link to specific posts in this, like you would a specific tweet. Pathofkarma (talk) 20:37, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@Pathofkarma: If a post is accessible via a permalink, then we can cite it, although we should prefer alternatives if we can help it. The kind of social media post that we would normally discuss in a Wikipedia article are often also the kind a reliable source would publish something about.

I fiddled with the Telegram channel linked, but wasn't able to reliably archive anything there on Wayback Machine. Thus, the links are rather flimsy (e.g. they would break if Telegram, Zakharova, or the Russian Federation decided to delete them). To prevent link rot, you can quote or excerpt the post in the citation, and for non-English sources, there are parameters for language and translation.

Here's my best shot at the formatting of such a citation:

Extended content

{{Cite web|date=Sep 27, 2022 |last=Zakharova |first=Maria Vladimirovna |language=ru |title=Направив свои запросы на переговоры с Сергеем Лавровым «на полях» сессии ГА ООН и получив от российской стороны предложения по времени встреч, делегации ЕС пропали с радаров. Видимо, получили от Вашингтона ЦУ залечь на дно. |trans-title=After sending their requests for talks with Sergey Lavrov on the margins of the UNGA session and receiving proposals from the Russian side on the timing of the meetings, the EU delegations disappeared from the radar. Apparently, they received instructions from Washington to lay low.| url=https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3778 |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=[[Telegram]]}} Zakharova, Maria Vladimirovna (Sep 27, 2022). "Направив свои запросы на переговоры с Сергеем Лавровым «на полях» сессии ГА ООН и получив от российской стороны предложения по времени встреч, делегации ЕС пропали с радаров. Видимо, получили от Вашингтона ЦУ залечь на дно" [After sending their requests for talks with Sergey Lavrov on the margins of the UNGA session and receiving proposals from the Russian side on the timing of the meetings, the EU delegations disappeared from the radar. Apparently, they received instructions from Washington to lay low.]. Telegram (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-09-27.

–RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (💬 • 📝) 01:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your example, very helpful. I was able to use wayback machine to archive, so in that case could include an archive url in the citation to prevent link rot. Pathofkarma (talk) 02:51, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Princess Alice of Battenberg: error

In the 4th paragraph from the top of page state’s “..in 1967, Princess Andrew was invited by her son and daughter-in-law..” Mistake obviously being “Princess Andrew”..it’s Alice. 😉KM 208.103.248.179 (talk) 21:13, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse. Just above, it is explained: "After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she adopted the style of her husband, becoming Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark." Rocknrollmancer (talk) 21:28, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Adding WikiProjects

Hi Teahouse,

I’m Afternoon Daydream. Please how do I add Wikiprojects in an article talk page? Thank you so much. Afternoon Daydream (talk) 21:54, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

The particular WikiProject will tell you how to add a link to it. Alternatively, look at the talk page for an article on a similar subject, copy the relevant code, post it into the talk page where you want it, edit "class" and "importance", and publish. (I'm assuming that you are editing the source code, and not using the "visual editor".) -- Hoary (talk) 23:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much Afternoon Daydream (talk) 03:34, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

The number of words

There are currently 4,208,477,552 words on wikipedia. The maximum size of an unsigned integer is 4,294,967,296. Is this going to cause a problem with the stats page if it goes over? 2600:6C4E:1200:1E85:38FA:3057:8479:E283 (talk) 22:13, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

You refer to Special:Statistics. Our sister site wikidata:Special:Statistics says "Words in all content pages 12,020,972,401". They use the same software so I guess there will be no problem. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:06, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Without having read the MediaWiki source code, I am pretty sure that variable is a 8-byte long (integer), if not larger. Victor Schmidt (talk) 07:53, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I would like to become an administrator can I become one right here and now please.

I want to edit Prettycurefan75 (talk) 22:23, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Support has clue, not jerk, no big deal.  Tewdar  22:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

No. Really no. Editors apply to be Admins after years and thousands of edits. You can (and have been) editing without being an Admin. David notMD (talk) 22:58, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Administrators are editors on here who have access to a few extra tools where it would be irresponsible for everyone to have them, including the delete/undelete and block/unblock buttons, which must be handled with great responsibility. Please see Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship and related pages, without maybe 18 months of active editing and a few thousand edits the chances to pass RfA are close to nonexistant. What the folks over at RfA also expect is a great udnerstanding of the project and no recentish (the timeframe generally depends on who turns up) disruptive editing. Looking through your edit history, there is for eample this, which you would almost certainly be asked to explain at RfA. Victor Schmidt (talk) 07:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Help on Draft:Welcome Homes

I earlier asked for help today at AfC Help Desk; this is the request I made:

When Onel5969 reviewed Welcome Homes and moved it to Draft:Welcome Homes, citing WP:DRAFTIFY in the edit summary, with WP:UPE and WP:COI on my talk page, a disclosure was already done and declared in edit summary and talk page of the article, with WP:PAID also complied with on my user page, and since I could not find any other reasons for the move to draft, I simply submitted it for review. Greenman declined my submission also citing WP:COI, but with WP:ADV in the edit summary and WP:ARTSPAM on my talk page, so I have tried to address these concerns and resubmitted for review about a month ago. Please, I am here to seek help on what else needs to be done.

Upon this request, the draft was declined by Theroadislong also citing WP:ADV and stating "you have not correctly disclosed your paid editing status as required". The draft was also tagged with {{Undisclosed paid}}, but when I pointed out the error, it was changed to {{Paid contributions}}, with a comment "Not sure how being one of 28 "Hottest PropTech Startups" confers any notability?".

Please I need suggestions, with examples from the contents of the draft, on how to make the draft not to read like an advert. Thank you. Rotidiap (talk) 22:34, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your candour (on your user page) about paid editing. That said.... The lead tells us that this company "offers online cutomization tool that allows users to cutomize and buy home online". I'm using Firefox right now, and this automatically puts wiggly red lines under two words in that, because it doesn't have those words in its dictionary, because they're misspelt. If your browser doesn't do this, try Firefox. (Because, really, you, who are charging money for your work, are asking us to help you, for free, when you're not even bothering to attend to automated spell-checking? Seriously?) So: I guess you meant to write "offers an online customization tool that allows users to customize and buy homes online". But what does it mean, to offer an online customization tool? (I think that your fellow-editors are likely to think "Bah! Marketing BS!" and stop reading right there.) Guess: "has a website"? Lots of websites charge, but we don't say that the NYT (as one example) offers an online news tool, we say that it has a website. And continuing beyond the lead, it's not necessary to say for example "It is reported that [blah blah]"; instead, just present the [blah blah] and append the source to it. -- Hoary (talk) 23:58, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Hoary, but another administrator, 331dot at the AfC Help Desk has written off my references, so if you can also take a closer look at the references, it would help me know how to proceed. Thank you. Rotidiap (talk) 10:25, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

331dot has pointed out the inadequacy of the references; it's your job to find better references (if these exist). But let's close this discussion, Rotidiap, because the matter is, as you point out, already being discussed at the AfC help desk. -- Hoary (talk) 11:25, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

map of pakistan on wikipedia page

ive noticed something odd about the map of pakistan on the countrys wikipedia page. it shows they claim a coastal region of india. im very confused by that as ive not seen any other sources or maps show this region as claimed. Omsk346 (talk) 23:17, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@Omsk346: This looks like the source. [[2]]. You could start a discussion and ping Wikipedia talk:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 00:19, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Omsk346: It's news to me but File:PAK orthographic.svg gives the source [3] which does show such a claim on an area called Junagadh and Manavadar. Those articles also mention the claim. Junagadh#Annexation by India ends with:

Pakistan's government has maintained its territorial claim on Junagadh, along with Manavadar and Sir Creek in Gujarat, on its official political map.

PrimeHunter (talk) 01:55, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

References

Question about purpose of user account

Hi. Could I understand the main idea of creating an account? I know how to create an account, but could tell me the main idea of this? Thanks! 100.11.109.128 (talk) 23:28, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello and welcome. You may find reading WP:ACCOUNT helpful. 331dot (talk) 23:32, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Now registered. Tailsultimatefan3891 (talk) 23:59, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Help editing article declined for notability

Hi Teahouse editors! Please help! I would really like to get some advice with an article that just got declined. It is a biography and I am not affiliated with the person I'm writing about but have followed his work over the past years and his books have helped me in my life. In my first contribution to Wikipedia as an editor, I was inspired to write about this person and his work after doing more research over the past few days to gather all the content I would need. Today as I submitted for review, it was declined. I have looked at many other biography of living persons on Wikipedia to learn how to word them and what to say, and don't understand what makes this not qualify as I have also done my best to reference everything and use a neutral tone. Appreciate all your wisdom, super excited to be here on this community, and thanks in advance for all your help and advice as I improve this article to get it ready for resubmission. Here is the link to the draft. Kalokagathiana (talk) 00:40, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Kalokagathiana: Welcome to the Teahouse. The reviewer left a comment on your draft:

Sources appear to be either by the subject, professional bios (which are also usually by the subject, or their employer), or only have passing mention of the subject, none of which contribute to notability.

In other words, you're better off finding sources that are independent of the subject (indirectly or directly) to establish notability as Wikipedia defines it. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:21, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you @Tenryuu for your response. Which sources in particular do you recommend revising? The reference links are from published books and citations by other journal papers, TED talk and interview links, and sources that show current role as a faculty member. Kalokagathiana (talk) 01:35, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Kalokagathiana, TED talks and interviews are primary sources. Sources that show current role as a faculty member are not independent. Citations by other journal papers merely prove that the subject has published a paper and is not significant coverage. Published books are likely also not significant coverage. Therefore, none of these sources meet the requirements of WP:GNG, which requires secondary, independent, and significant coverage by reliable sources. Sungodtemple (talk) 02:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I have been looking at these biographies (Jesper Hoffmeyer, Claus Emmeche, Kalevi Kull) which are of similar people in similar categories as the person I am writing about, who are experts in their fields and well known in academics and practices but not celebrities to have that much secondary coverage. These have all been successfully published and I would like to learn what I need to change in this article to get published in a similar manner. Thank you for your help. Kalokagathiana (talk) 02:38, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Kalokagathiana, all three of those articles are poor. In their current state, they shouldn't be here. None of the people whose attention you've drawn here to the three is likely either to have done anything to/about any of the three articles, or to do anything to/about any of the three in the future. That's because there are only so many people available, these people have only so many hours available, and English-language Wikipedia has a vast number of feeble articles (as well as a significant number that, unlike these three, are obviously mere junk). I for one am happy that you're interested in writing about people who aren't mere celebs, and I know that it's hard to find material about them. Well, you just have to keep trying. Incidentally, if the three articles you point to are indeed about "similar people in similar categories as the person [you are] writing about", presumably you're interested in them, too. I recommend that you choose one of the three and work on improving it: this will give you good practice for improving Draft:Farzad Goli, which can wait. -- Hoary (talk) 06:50, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Kalokagathiana, I've slapped a notability-related template on the articles about Emmeche and Kull. You'd be most welcome to improve either article, or both, to the point where the template should be removed. -- Hoary (talk) 22:18, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Kalogathiana, and welcome to the Teahouse and to Wikipedia. In addition to what others have said, I would advise you to put aside the idea of creating a new article until you have learnt a lot more about how Wikipedia works and what it requires. Would you give a public violin recital after a just couple of lessons on the violin? That is roughly what you are trying to do.

I remember when I started editing Wikipedia, I desperately wanted to "make my mark" by creating new articles. Now I know that that is not the only - or necessarily the best - way of making a mark on Wikipedia. If you start by making small inprovements to some of our six million existing articles, I predict that you will have much less hassle, and add much much much more value to Wikipedia than if you work on creating new articles before your are ready. ColinFine (talk) 13:20, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I appreciate all the feedback and comments. I was hoping however that with the help and expertise of this community, that there could be tips on improving the article similar to how one of the suggestions here was for me to improve the other articles that I brought up as examples. It's inspiring to see that Wikipedia is protective of not allowing content that is promotional or uses language that is derogatory and I too am in support of that. However, wouldn't blocking neutral content that only lacks the celebrity aspect create an unequal balance of representation? I am in no way pushing to publish this article by myself, and I realize I have much to learn, all I am asking is for someone's help to either guide me through it or make changes to it to have it Wikipedia ready. This is an article about an expert in the field who has publications and TED talks which is not easy to get in this field of work. I have been and will continue to edit other pages and sincerely ask for the support of this community to help me. Kalokagathiana (talk) 14:42, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Kalokagathiana, nobody is blocking content because it "lacks the celebrity aspect". Rather, this draft won't be promoted to article status because it fails to show that Goli is notable (as defined by English-language Wikipedia). Yes, "notability" perhaps can be achieved merely by being photographed at the right places while wearing the right sunglasses. But although it may suffice, this variety of notability isn't required. His books were published years ago; where are the reviews (in respected journals)? What comments have been made on his work in later papers written by other scholars (in respected journals)? Meanwhile, talk of application of his work at "Energy Medicine University" fails to impress. -- Hoary (talk) 22:18, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Donations

Do not reply to inflammatory posts. They're talking at us and not to us. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v a little blue Bori 03:51, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Why no one donates to keep your left-wing spew going? It's simple. You don't report truth and facts. If it's not left-wing it's not news or history. Case example: Giorgia Meloni's election as Prime Minister of Italy. Giorgia Meloni was victorious in Italy’s elections and promised to govern for all citizens, after exit polls gave her coalition a clear majority, putting her on course to create the country’s most rightwing government since the end of the second world war. 2601:4C1:C880:AD10:697D:C411:4099:A6A6 (talk) 02:40, 27 September 2022 (UTC) You are correct, we don't do any reporting. Instead, Wikipedia's goal is to write encyclopedic articles based upon what reliable sources say about the topic. That said, the Teahouse is designed to help editors with editing problems. We do not speak for the Wikimedia Foundation. Per the large banner at the top of the page when you edit here, how can we help you with your editing experience, within Wikipedia policy? 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 02:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Is there an inactivity userbox?

Honestly, I only edit this site if I want to. Is there any template relating to user activity? WannurSyafiqah74 (talk) 07:31, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps this talk page template code? {{Retired|reason=Optional reason for user inactivity}} --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 08:12, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I wouldn't use {{retired}} as it is supposed to only be used for accounts that are intended to never be used again. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:29, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@WannurSyafiqah74: You may simply announce at your user page your are a WikiGnome. CiaPan (talk) 08:55, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@WannurSyafiqah74: We all do. You can use a {{busy}} banner or any of the other relevant banners you can find at Template:Wikibreak templates. Regards SoWhy 10:11, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

WP:BLP and describing a person notable for their controversial views

Hello. May I ask for some insight regarding WP:BLP?

I have been involved in a dispute with other editors and I have been repeatedly warned, (in fact twice, by 2 admins) to not describe a far-right official/politician/author as "extremist" for the fact that they (per WP:RS) have expressed controversial statements in public, both in their service as a government official, their career as politician of the far right spectrum, and more recently as an author on history matters, and whose reliability is heavily disputed by the international scholarship, with the 2 admins warning that this constitutes a violation of WP:BLP. I am not here to question the Admins's views that the BLP is indeed violated. In fact, I am worried that 2 warnings cannot be a misunderstanding and that I indeed have violated BLP but the problem is: still I do not understand how exactly I did violate that policy. Therefore, I would appreciate some help in understanding what part of the policy is being violated when reflecting on international third party sources about the far-right politician and author in describing them as "extremist", actually do constitute a violation of WP:BLP.

In simple words: if can someone more familiar about WP:BLP can help me understand exactly me which part of the BLP policy about describing a politician as extremist per third party reliable sources, constitutes a violation of this policy, that will be really appreciated, as understanding it better will definitely help avoiding its violation in the future. In the WP:BLP policy's page, it states: Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. Users who persistently or egregiously violate this policy may be blocked from editing.. Is it a matter of the international academic community not being reliable in its criticism against the politician/author the reason I shouldn't be using these terms for the person? Also, one more question: If using the term "extremist" to describe the person does indeed constitute a violation of WP:BLP, is the same also true for using the term "far-right" and the principle here is that no descriptions may be used ever about living persons, even if this is verified by third-party independent WP:RS? - ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 08:07, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

SilentResident, what article is this about? Do the cited sources explicitly use the word "extremist"? Maproom (talk) 09:30, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Maproom It is a number of historical/people articles in the WP:BALKANS topic area citing him as a "reliable" source (which is disputed. There is an ongoing RfC on RSN about that person's reliability, here: [4]). "Extremism" is just the wording I am borrowing from WP:UNRELIABLE policy section dedicated to such sources. WP:UNRELIABLE states: "Questionable sources are those with a poor reputation for checking the facts or with no editorial oversight. Such sources include websites and publications expressing views that are widely acknowledged as extremist, that are promotional in nature, or that rely heavily on rumors and personal opinions. and since Xhufi is widely acknowledged as such, I assumed it is safe to use the wording described in this Wikipedia policy regarding such unreliable sources. But evidently, judging from the 2 Admin warnings I received, which are telling me to not describe that scholar as extremist unless RSN has concluded that they are indeed extremist, then I must be wrong in borrowing the wording from WP:UNRELIABLE and I am violating WP:BLP, which is what I am trying to understand here. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 10:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

SilentResident, you've used a lot of words here, but you haven't told us "the far-right politician and author" is, who "that person" is, or who "that scholar" is. Maybe they're all the same person, I've no idea. You'll be more likely to get useful advice if you reveal, concisely, what it is you're arguing about. Maproom (talk) 13:05, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

 Note: This is already the subject of an ongoing ANI discussion. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:31, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

My apologies Maproom for not being more helpful. The person in question is Pellumb Xhufi. He has served as a government official, a politician, and an author. To re-word my question for clarity:

"How is the use of wording "extremist" from WP:UNRELIABLE policy in identifying/describing the exact nature of the said author's unreliability, (i.e unreliable due to their extremist views) constituting a violation of Wikipedia's WP:BLP guideline?" I do not intend to use the wording "extremist" again for the particular person, but even if this use of wording in the future is avoided nevertheless, it is always helpful to understand a guideline in principle, in this case, the WP:BLP. Understanding a policy in principle, helps a lot in avoiding similar mistakes in the future than just heeling to warnings/advises. It helps an editor not just improve their conduct, but also future interactions which is my goal here. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 14:40, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

How do you see hidden categories?

An article I am editing is in two contradictory categories, but both are hidden, and I would like to remove the one that is incorrect. How do I get to see the mark-up for it? Thanks.

This is the article: Artie Ripp The categories say that its short description does and does not match the short description on the analogous Wikidata page. I have confirmed that it matches. Here is the Wikidata page: Wikidata about Artie Ripp. (And, as an aside, how do I properly link to the Wikidata page here without its being an external link?)

Thanks. – Kekki1978 talk 08:30, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Don't worry about the Short Description. The infobox is automatically creating one that is too long, the Short description template at the top of the article is overriding it so that it appears correctly on Wikipedia.

As for linking to Wikidata do the following [[wikidata:Q23020132|Artie Ripp]] to get Artie Ripp - the Q number is the Wikidata item id. You can also just do [[d:Q23020132]] (d:Q23020132) as a quicker way. - X201 (talk) 08:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@X201 Thanks for the helpful response! I appreciate your insight and the info. – Kekki1978 ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 21:34, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Kekki1978 Those categories are added automatically by templates to track various properties of the page, you cannot add or remove them by hand. 163.1.15.238 (talk) 10:53, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Kekki1978: Don't worry about Wikidata. The one saying it does not match Wikidata is simply a tracking category and nothing needs to be done to it. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 12:44, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, all. – Kekki1978 ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 21:34, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft submission rejected

I dont know why my draft submission got rejected multiple times??? Kumarr Deven (talk) 11:16, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Let's just consider the latest time, Kumarr Deven. Curb Safe Charmer has, on your user talk page, provided two reasons for declining it. And I quote from your draft: Late Gopal Babu Goswami has immortalized his name in golden letters by giving his incomparable contribution to Uttarakhand Geet Music. Even though Gopal Babu is no more today, but the songs derived from his melodious voice are still in people's hearts. Even today, the melodious folk songs sung by gopal babu Goswami give the fragrance of soil in the country and abroad. If you don't know what's wrong with that, Wikipedia is not for you. -- Hoary (talk) 11:33, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Gopal Babu Goswami has been deleted four times. Your effort Draft:GOPAL BABU GOSWAMI has been declined (not rejected) once. Much/most of your own draft is your own desciptions rather than from referenced sources. David notMD (talk) 15:36, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I get what your intentions are - you are clearly fascinated by Late Gopal Babu Goswami's work and it always feels bad when your article you worked on gets declined. BUT... You have to keep something in mind Wikipedia relies on citations to referenced materials and not personal beliefs and thoughts. I would highly recommend you to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners#Inserting_a_reference and then start your new draft. Komchi^✉_☆ 07:01, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Andrew Carnegie page pronunciation specific to US English

The IPAc-en phonetic pronunciation of Carnegie is listed in Scottish first and then also in US English but this is stated as the English pronunciation, however this is incorrect as it is pronounced the same in English as Scottish, with the US English specific pronunciation the one which is spelt out phonetically. I looked at the IPAc-en template but I couldn't see how best to set the diaphonemic to all or a specific variety, but I would not be able to edit for the Andrew Carnegie wiki page anyway as it is semi-proteced. I realise that the article is written in US English with that spelling convention, but I believe that the pronunciation should be the correct one used by the individual first and foremost, especially as the individual is also prominent in UK history - see Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Shouldn't this be amended to include the variation between US English and British English, be amended to the UK version, or be made clearer that this is specific to US language speakers? Paul C LCB (talk) 11:23, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

If the matter is worth bringing up, Paul C LCB, then the foot of the article's talk page is where you should bring it up. -- Hoary (talk) 11:26, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

How do people add wikilists?

I want to make a page on This but i cant figure out how people make the lists CosmiiWasTaken (talk) 12:11, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@CosmiiWasTaken Welcome to the Teahouse. You probably need to read WP:SAL and then H:LIST. I assume you intention is to make some sort of list of Wikipedia articles about ships, so you could use an existing one as a template. For example List of ships of the Polish Navy Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:32, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Home page appearing near userpage

I didn't edit Wikipedia for months. Today after creating my userpage, I saw homepage, near userpage. Previously If I clicked my userpage, I could see userpage and talkpage only. But when I click other user's userpage, I don't see homepage near their userpage. Marvel Lords (talk) 12:36, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

See WP:GTF. New feature. Sungodtemple (talk) 12:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Note - User blocked as a sock. dudhhr ^talk _contribs (he/they) 19:40, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Help with company page

I have tried to get a page up for the company SteelEye for several years now but I always get rejected. I have now simplified the page a lot but worry that it is too short. Do you think the below is ok? And if not, what should I do to improve it?

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SteelEye is a UK-headquartered FinTech and RegTech company specialising in regulatory compliance solutions for Financial regulation in the financial services industry. The company works with banks, hedge funds, brokers, and asset managers to help them comply with strict regulatory procedures and requirements in their respective industries. In September 2021, SteelEye completed a Series A funding round of $21M with Ten Coves Capital, taking its total funds raised to $43M. EmmaThorne123 (talk) 12:55, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Emma. Those two sources are based on press releases (probably the same press release). They are therefore not independent of the company, and do nothing at all all to establish that it meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability. Don't worry about the words, or the length: at this stage you should be putting 100% of your effort on this into finding several sources, each of which is all three of reliable, independent, and containing significant coverage of the company. (In my opinion, those two articles would fail the last, even if they did not fail independence). If you are unable to find such sources, then every bit of your effort spent on anything else will have been wasted. ColinFine (talk) 14:45, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

References

About Submission: Dominican School of Psychologists

Hi everyone!

I got this article rejected due to the references not having a lot of information on the subject, and some of them were directly connected to the organization. My current issue is that information regarding this organization is not that much unless you tie it together and/or get it from their website, at least that's my experience. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to improve the article or get it published?

I believe that the information regarding this organization should be available, just not sure how to do it. here is the current version of it: Draft:Dominican School of Psychologists

Thanks for any help and/or advice :) Kaitary (talk) 14:00, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Kaitary Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. If what you say is the case, unfortunately the school would not merit a Wikipedia article at this time. The main purpose of a Wikipedia article is to summarize what independent reliable sources choose on their own to say about the topic, not what it says about itself. 331dot (talk) 14:06, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

This might sound like a weird question, but is it quantifiable?

Like how much information in each source is enough? some of the articles and research I have dedicate around 1 paragraph to it (although some of them are repetitions, so I have around 2 different works saying basically the same thing), and also, would adding information about how they relate to other organizations work? since that information would be in news papers.

Thank you for helping :) Kaitary (talk) 14:14, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Probably a single paragraph would be insufficient. What are your three best sources? 331dot (talk) 14:17, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Kaitary, and welcome to the Teahouse. See WP:Significant coverage for an answer to that question. ColinFine (talk) 14:46, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Actually, another way of looking at it is: bearing in mind that Wikipedia is basically not interested in anything that the subject says about themselves, or their associates say about them, is there enough information in the sources provided to write a meaningful article? ColinFine (talk) 14:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Archiving Talk Page

Just wanted some help archiving my talk page. Thanks. Meteorologist200 (talk) 14:47, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

• Meteorologist200, does Help:Archiving (plain and simple) do the trick? If not, you will have to be more precise about what you want. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 15:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Username change

This may not be the correct place to ask about this, but I have been waiting to hear back on a username change over here [5] for some time now. Anyway that I can poke or prod the people responsible for granting such a change in order to just get an update on the status of that request? If it can't be done, fine, or if it can, great! I just would love to start going by Moops and only Moops already. :) — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 15:12, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Moops. Since that is a request totally outside English Wikipedia, I don't think anybody at English Wikipedia can help you. I think it's just a matter of patience. Sorry. ColinFine (talk) 15:39, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Adding Userboxes to a user page

I am a new Wikipedian, and I am looking to decorate my user page. I want to add some userboxes to my page but I am not sure how. I have read the instructions on Wikipedia: Userboxes, but I am still confused. Could someone please provide a step by step tutorial video on how to add a userbox to a userpage Limbobob (talk) 16:13, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Limbobob: Hello Limbobob! While I can't provide you with a step by step video tutorial I can tell you that all you need to do is find a userbox (so for example, one I made which is User:Blaze Wolf/Userboxes/Opera GX), copy the location and just replace the square brackets with curly brackets {{User:Blaze Wolf/Userboxes/Opera GX}} <- like that. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:18, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I was wondering if part of my history can be deleted on a certain page.

It has to do with edits I tried to make about a Satyr. If the history of what I said can't be removed, then perhaps hide the comments with the made edits instead. I wanted ask about this in order to prevent potential harassment and I seek all the revisions I sought to make with my name on it removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satyr&action=history Netero10 (talk) 19:33, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I am not sure that what you are asking for is permissible under the WP:CRD policy. Ruslik_Zero 20:18, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

You can say it can be given there was kind of an edit war there. Im also asking this for privacy reasons ontop of what I already mentioned. Netero10 (talk) 20:53, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Netero10, see the criteria for hiding edits and the process for making such requests. I don't know if your request will get any traction, though. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 21:00, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Netero10: Requests like this are usually granted if there's personally revealing information, in which case the Oversight team can be contacted, but this looks like a run-of-the-mill content dispute. This is the first time you've made edits to Wikipedia since February, so I suggest letting sleeping dogs lie. If you're concerned that your username is linked to your comments for some reason, you could ask for a courtesy vanishing, though such an avenue assumes that you are leaving Wikipedia forever. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:05, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Its less about the username about more about the information. If I were to leave the wikipedia forever thrugh the courtesy vanishing, would it remove the history? Because people look into that stuff for other things. Netero10 (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Netero10, it would reassign those edits to the new user name of your vanished account - vanished accounts get names such as "Vanished user [string of random letters and numbers]". 199.208.172.35 (talk) 21:57, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

It would not, but again, if it's not personally identifiable information, there is very little chance that it will be redacted. With how things are going you're going to invoke the Streisand effect. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:58, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Move and merge discussions

Hi! I'm not sure if this is the most specific or fitting forum, but I was wondering if merge discussions have an automated and centralized discussion like moves do.

I know Template:Requested move exists, but I don't remember if there is an equivalent for merges. Likewise, I know that current move discussions are listed in WP:RM#C and that there is Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers, but from what I gather discussions that use the requested move template are listed automatically in WP:RM#C, while I'm not aware of a similar case with mergers. NoonIcarus (talk) 21:25, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@NoonIcarus: from wikipedia:proposed article mergers#How to propose a merger:

Step 1: Create a place for discussion. Go to the Talk Page (also known as the discussion page) of the target article (the one you want to merge to) and create a section (eg: "Merger proposal") to discuss the merger. If there's already a discussion on the talk page regarding the merger, you can omit this step. Whether the discussion is new or old, make sure the discussion section names all articles involved and links to them. The section name can be anything that includes the word merge (for example ==Merger discussion==).
Step 2: Put one of the merger tags at the top of the articles you wish to be merged. The templates {{Merge from}} and {{Merge to}}, or {{merge}} are the most common ones. Remember to make sure that the Discuss link in each tag points to the section you've created in step 1 (this is to prevent having two separate discussions on different talk pages).

is this what you were looking for? lettherebedarklight, 晚安, おやすみ, ping me when replying 03:08, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Question

Where I can request to protect an article that violates arbitration restrictions? 2A10:8001:E494:0:1DC:E089:AF0B:4C27 (talk) 21:43, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

IP editor, page protection can be requested at WP:RFPP. I'm not sure what you mean by "violates arbitration restrictions". Prolonged or high volume edit warring and vandalism are the usual reasons a page is protected. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 21:48, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I mean that the article is part of arbitration restrictions like with Arab-Israeli Conflict Arbitration, like Wikipedia:PIA 2A10:8001:E494:0:1DC:E089:AF0B:4C27 (talk) 21:54, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I think you're asking for the related edit notice to be placed on the article - is that correct? See here for how to do it. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 22:02, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Nope, look at the article Amin al-Husseini, it's semi-protected while the notice shows that you need 500 edits and 30 days to edit it 2A10:8001:E494:0:1DC:E089:AF0B:4C27 (talk) 22:08, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Request it at WP:Requests for page protection/Increase and mention the PIA General Restrictions. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{a little blue Bori} 22:10, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

IP editor, the edit notice and the protection level are separate things - not every article that warrants the notice will get the protection level. It's only for extreme cases, when disruption has taken place and other protection levels have not been sufficient. But you're free to make the request if you feel it's warranted. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 22:15, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

sourcing

I was looking for some clarification regarding an edit on Timmy Shaw. I do not see that any of the sources have March 30, 1984 as a date of death, but do see that one of the sources has March 29, 1984 as a date Timmy died. March 29, 1984 is the only date in the last sentence of the article and in the infobox. Thanks! 73.167.238.120 (talk) 23:51, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Is my committed identity valid?

I'm considering a new committed identity for Wikimedia projects.

My new committed identity is a PDF file, approximately 75 KB of size, containing the following information:

• Introduction (about the committed identity itself)
• My Wikimedia username
• Biographical information (real name, day and month of birth and country of residence)
• Legal name and first three and last two digits of my Brazilian CPF number (A CPF number looks like 000.000.000-00 where the last two digits are check digits)
• Identity verification instructions

The person verifying my committed identity will verify the hash of my committed identity PDF file, then ask me to send them my CPF registration proof card ("Comprovante de Inscrição CPF"), which contains my legal name, CPF number, date of birth, as well as a QR code which can be used to verify the authenticity of the document and check the registration status (regular, suspended, canceled, etc.). The registration status must be regular, as specified in the "Identity verification instructions" on the committed identity. The legal name, birthday and CPF number on the CPF card must match my committed identity. WPEditor42 (talk • contribs) 00:32, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Also, the person verifying the committed identity must scan the QR code in the CPF card, check if it's a HTTPS URL whose domain is servicos.receita.fazenda.gov.br, then if it is, open the URL and check if my legal name appears in the page located at the URL. If my legal name appears the CPF card is valid. Then the person must check whether the registration status ("Situação cadastral") is regular. WPEditor42 (talk • contribs) 00:44, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@WPEditor42: why do you want this? lettherebedarklight, 晚安, おやすみ, ping me when replying 02:59, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Username violation

I hate feeling like a "rat" or "snitch" doing this... but there is an editor that I just came across on the recent changes page whose username is "Sukmebals"... that seems like it must be a violation of sorts... but I do not know the correct protocol for what to do there. :)

User talk:Sukmebals — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 01:38, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Report it at WP:Usernames for administrator attention, assuming a bot hasn't noticed it and done so already. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{a little blue Bori} 01:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Oopsemoops, I have blocked this editor for an offensive username. Cullen328 (talk) 03:53, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay. I hope I wasn't too harsh. Might have given them an opportunity to change it? Or to create a new account? :) — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 03:55, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Oopsemoops, indefinite blocks are not necessarily permanent. If the editor files an unblock request agreeing to change their username and makes a convincing case that they intend to improve the encyclopedia, then they can be unblocked. Cullen328 (talk) 04:02, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Where can they do that though? Just their talk page? Anyway, seemed harsh to me, but if that is the SOP then I suppose that is what it is. TY. — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 04:04, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@Oopsemoops: Yes, on their user talk page, following the instructions in the block notice. RudolfRed (talk) 04:07, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Cool. TY. — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 04:08, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Oopsemoops, the purpose of blocks like this is to prevent disruption of the encyclopedia. Two plus decades of experience shows that the vast majority of people who register usernames like this are here to troll and vandalize and harass people. The small minority of those who really want to improve the encyclopedia are free to file an unblock request on their user talk page. They cannot edit any other page, after all. Here are two statistics for you. I have blocked 6863 accounts in my five years as an administrator, and only 30 of them have been unblocked. Cullen328 (talk) 04:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

What is that funky thing you did just there? That

thing? — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 04:48, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

And by the way, what made those 30 "deserving".. out of curiosity? — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 04:50, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Oopsemoops, see Template:Outdent. As for those that got unblocked, those were decisions by other administrators, although I am sometimes asked to comment on unblock appeals. With the exception of reversing obvious errors, administrators do not normally unblock accounts that they have blocked. In general, unblocked accounts filed appeals that made "a convincing case that they intend to improve the encyclopedia", as I wrote above. Cullen328 (talk) 05:06, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Made editing mistakes - what is the correct way to fix them?

Hi. I am new to Wikipedia editing. I realized that I made edits that should have not been marked "minor" and that were made prior to logging. I read about fixing these types of mistakes with "dummy text" but could not figure out how to do this. So, for each of the two pages where I made the mistake, I logged in, went to my history page, found the edit, clicked Undo, clicked Publish, and then re-entered the text and clicked the Major Edit (think that is what it was called) button, and clicked Publish. Whew! Heart was pounding. I hope I did this correctly. Can you advise? Thanks! Letudo (talk) 01:54, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

To make a dummy edit, simply add or remove a space and leave the comment in the edit summary. You don't have to revert your changes and redo them. Sungodtemple (talk) 01:55, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Sungodtemple. So, just to be clear, I would enter edit mode again, and in the text I originally added to the page, I would add or remove a space at the end of the last line of text? Then when I clicked Publish I would explain that I meant to add the text when I was logged in and that I meant to click the "Major Edit" checkbox? Letudo (talk) 02:00, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@Letudo: I don't know an edit feature with a "major edit" box. It's the default and you just omit selecting "minor edit". You did right in [6] but you don't have to write so much. I might have said "dummy edit: my previous edits were accidentally marked as minor". "dummy edit:" helps others to not waste time looking for changes in the diff. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:46, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much, PrimeHunter! Letudo (talk) 02:49, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Article reviewer

Please review Draft:Krishand RK? 117.230.150.16 (talk) 03:33, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Teahouse hosts advise about Wikipedia guidelines, etc., but are not necessarily Reviewers. Per the text in the yellow panel, draft reviews can take place in days, weeks, months. David notMD (talk) 03:44, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

I made a template and I want to share it

I recently made a template here Template:Hanyu and I want to share it and get it used on pages. How do I get other editors to know about it and use it? Immanuelle 💗 (please tag me) 03:50, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@Immanuelle, you could share news of it at relevant wikiproject pages, but beyond that I don't think there's any particular channel. Make sure it's included in relevant navboxes and categories, and as a see also on any closely related templates. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:14, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Flagrant Citation Error - Climate Change (semi-protected)

Regarding the article title "Climate Change" and its definition, I was able to tag the article for a citation error, however the tag was immediately removed. I was able to begin a discussion, but the conversation quickly became controlled by few editors in an antagonistic fashion, with problematic misinterpretations and misrepresentations. I did visit past history and a comfortable number of editors had voted for the correct representation. The controlling editors are claiming the NASA sources assert entirely the opposite of what they do state, plain as day. This is clearly a bias, right at the beginning of the article, beginning with the title. It is even possible the bias could be politically motivated. I created an example draft which I recognize is not clearly cited, but I wanted to present an example of the format that would meet Wikipedia:Five pillars (primarily, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia). The draft can be seen here: Draft:Climate Change (scientific). (Due to comments I received this approach is "scientific"; the term "definitions" would be fine also, or just "Climate Change" with Global Warming to be a major part of the article.) The NASA sources and references in dispute are here: [NASA Global Warming vs Climate Change]https://climate.nasa.gov/global-warming-vs-climate-change/ and here (currently reference 20): [NASA Climate by any Other Name]https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html Clearly these sources state that while the terms (Climate Change / Global Warming) are commonly used interchangeably, they do not mean the same thins; the terms have distinct meanings. Global Warming is a subset of Climate Change. It may make sense to use the term Climate Change when speaking about Global Warming, such as when an exterminator talks about rodents to mean rats, but this terminology does not suffice for encyclopedic purposes since it leaves out other types of climate change - it fails to classify beavers and marmots within the class of rodents. Other definitions become muddled by the terminology split that conveys Climate Change to mean only and entirely Global Warming (versus Climate Variability); discussion of the types of change being natural or anthropogenic, for instance, do not flow into place in the chosen splits. The NASA citation is not adequate to arrive at the chosen split since it does not support this assignment of terms, but rather states the very opposite than has been (mis)interpreted. I am open to changes to the draft example I presented, as long as an encyclopedic approach is favored that makes proper sense of the referenced source documents. I did not enter the Climate Change discussion purposely, I had only sought to link to Climate Change and found an article that did not meet my needs for accuracy. FinancialCents (talk) 04:29, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

FinancialCents, I have warned you to refrain from disruptive editing, and here you are, ignoring the warning. The Teahouse is for getting advice on editing Wikipedia, not for solving content disputes. Select an established form of Dispute resolution, and pursue it without an "I am right and all those other people who disagree are wrong" attitude. That attitude is incompatible with a collaborative project built on consensus. Cullen328 (talk) 05:26, 28 September 2022 (UTC)