leeja miller / lawyer perspective on curent events from a law perspective / thoughtful and well done / do not know if she has a bias thank you for creating this article / you sitel needs a simple/user friendly over... haul 174.215.24.61 (talk) 00:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Welcome. The help desk is for questions about editing Wikipedia? Did you have a question? Your wording is quite unclear RudolfRed (talk) 04:16, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Leeja Miller appears to be a Youtube personality with a substaintial following. There is not a Wikipedia article about her because there is no significant coverage of Leeja Miller in reliable, secondary sources - so there's nothing to use for a Wikipedia article. We say this doesn't meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability. If someone else were to write about Leeja Miller in, for instance, a generally reliable magazine or newspaper that was independent of her, then that would a starting point for a Wikipedia article. -- D'n'B-t -- 06:42, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I have a page on Wikipedia (Mariapaola D'Imperio, linguist) which I did not create. Can I edit that? Thanks, Mariapaola Mdimperio (talk) 11:05, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Courtesy link: Mariapaola D'Imperio

@Mdimperio please see WP:AUTO and WP:BLPSELF. Editing a biography about yourself is acceptable only if you are removing unambiguous vandalism or clear-cut and serious violations of our biography of living persons policy. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 11:12, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

We welcome input from the subject of articles, subject to certain rules explained at WP:ASFAQ. If you know of reliable sources which have discussed you, then please suggest additions to the article on its Talk Page by making an edit request which will be reviewed by non-involved editors. There is a wizard that can help you do that. Also, you could upload a selfie picture of yourself to Wikimedia Commons and ask for it to be incorporated in the article, which currently doesn't have an image of you. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:25, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Information and Communication Technology 37.111.192.151 (talk) 13:49, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Did you have a question about editing or using Wikipedia? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:20, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I tried adding a citation for a claim in Anino Games, on the release of Timothy and Titus. I found a source (press release) of the game's release and involvement of Anino Games, which I used as citation. I added the reference, as it needed a citation, using the visual editor.

My problem is: In editing the "Name of the Website", when adding 'Game Developer" (the website), it does not immediately lead you to the website's wikilink, but a disambiguation page. I tried different formats in the visual editor, but I just couldn't do it successfully. How can I do so? Also, may I know if the citation was valid?

~~~~ RFNirmala (talk) 13:52, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Since there are multiple items named Game Deceloper, you will need to put "Game Developer (website)" as the website link to lead to the right article. If you don't want the parentheses to be visible for viewers, you will need to use pipelink by typing [[Game Developer (website)|Game Developer]]. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 20:24, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

How do you edit references? I have a reference showing on the published page, but can't find it in the editing mode. Nichol40 (talk) 14:14, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Nichol40: Are you using the visual or source editor? In the case of visual you can just click on the inline number citation, and a box with an "Edit" button will appear. If you're using the source editor just look for the content sandwiched between the <ref> tags. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Nichol40. References are displayed in the Reference (or similarly-named) Section near the bottom of the Article, but their code is located where the first example of their superscript number ^[n] appears in the main text. Click the '[Edit]' next to the relevant Section title and look for it.

If it's in the Infobox, use the 'Edit' or 'View source' tab at the top of the article – the Infobox code usually appears first; if it's in first paragraph or 'Lede', do the same – the Lede's code usually follows that of the Infobox. Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 19:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Maa hingula temple talcher is famous temple in odisha also in india but team of wikipedia can not discover this thing,so please do a wikipedia page for maa hingula temple,talcher for which we shall be obliged.thank you 2409:40E2:2030:5DF4:BCAF:21FF:FEED:3D71 (talk) 17:43, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

If you would like to request an article, please see the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested articles. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:54, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello. Wikipedia is created by thousands of volunteer editors, like you and me, who work on what they choose.

What you are doing here is the equivalent of going to a public place, standing up, and saying "I'd like somebody to write an article about this temple. Please write it for me".

It is possible that one of the thousands of people who reads this page will go "Oh, yes, that's interesting", and look into it; but it's not very likely.

If you ask instead at WikiProject India, the people who read that already have an interest in India, so it's slightly more likely that somebody will be interested and pick it up; but still, not very likely.

If you want this article to exist, the most likely way to make it happen is for you to write it yourself; but that is hard, and new editors rarely manage it unless they first spend a few weeks or months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to several existing articles.

What I will say, though, is that the most important (and often the most challenging) part of writing an article is finding the sources on which the article is to be based. If there is to be an article on your temple, ever, somebody will first have to find those sources. If you begin that search, if you do the "ground work", then it is slightly more possible that somebody will be interested in the project.

So, what I suggest you do, is

• Create an account (that is not essential, you can continue to edit anonymously, but it's easier for people to communicate with you if you have an account.
• Find topics that interest you, and look at the task centre for edits that you can do to learn about Wikipedia.
• Search for sources that are reliably published, wholly unconnected with the temple, and containing significant coverage of the temple. They do not have to be online, or in English, though it is easiest if they are both.

If you can find several such sources, then it would be worth posting in WikiProject India, as I suggested, or reading your first article and trying to create it yourself. ColinFine (talk) 18:57, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

IP editor. Wikidata has an entry for Hingula Temple in Talcher, Odisha here, which shows there is an article for it in the Odia language, as might be expected. I don't know how good that article is but it might form the basis of a translation you could use to draft an English equivalent. The main hurdle will be to show that the temple is notable enough to have an article in English. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would request the zoological scholars international to add additions in details in summary, morphology, habitat, anatomy, genetic features, phenotypes, mode of reproduction, species diversification under zoological nomenclature for global pupil learning increment. 202.65.173.51 (talk) 18:51, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would be kindly grateful if provided with proper references for proper diverse curricular engagement as a biological student and international community of scholar. :D 202.65.173.51 (talk) 18:53, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure what you are asking, or how it relates to using and editing Wikipedia (which is the only topic which is appropriate on this page). We have an article Taenia solium. ColinFine (talk) 19:00, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

We can not help you with your homework. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 20:25, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please see Taenia solium. Also see the related page it links to on the Wikispecies site, which is intended to be language-independent. For information about this soecies in other languages, check the Wikipedia languages in other languages on this species. Arch dude (talk) 00:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

How do I access Wikipedia with my questions.

Stephen Sasz (talk) 23:10, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

You just have. Note that this help page is for questions about using or editing Wikipedia only. Beginners may find the Teahouse useful for such questions too. We have reference desks for more general questions. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Stephen Sasz: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Like other encyclopedias, it organized into articles. To find answers to questions about a subject, find the articles about that subject and read them. You can generally find the appropriate articles using the search function. -Arch dude (talk) 00:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

We have recently done extensive research on a page that is really outdated on wikipedia and I wanted to add a few items on there. Unfortunately it was flagged as self-promoting and asked if I was sure I wanted to submit but now I am unsure if what I did was wrong. We are adding our own site as a reference but only because it is verified information on the topic that I spent a lot of time researching. Is this against your policies? AtlasAdventured (talk) 01:13, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

AtlasAdventured, as "AtlasAdventured" you have added nothing to any article. Which article are you talking about, which username was it that added material then flagged as self-promoting, and why do you talk of "we"? -- Hoary (talk) 01:19, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello Hoary,

I say "We" because I have a few employees that helped write and edit our website article on the subject. As for the wikipedia article in question, I did not finalize the edit to the wikipedia page because a red message appeared at the top of the page saying the edit was flagged as it may be 'self-promoting' and explained that I should look at the COI page and contact the Help Desk if I need further clarity AtlasAdventured (talk) 01:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

AtlasAdventured, there are other problems. A username must not be used by more than one person. It cannot be a company name. (If you wish, it can allude to the company: if Ashish and Naomi work for AtlasAdventured, they're welcome to the usernames Ashish@AtlasAdventured and Naomi@AtlasAdventured.) If you'd like to be, say, Wolfgang@AtlasAdventured, then please register that username, use it from now on, and note on its user page that you previously edited as AtlasAdventured. ¶ So: what is "[your] website article on the subject", "the Wikipedia article in question"? If we know, perhaps we can provide that further clarity. -- Hoary (talk) 02:19, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

If you and your employees are writing a Wikipedia article about your organizaion, you should stop immediately. Writing about yourself or your associated individuals/institutions are strongly discouraged，as it will be very difficult to write in an objective and trustworthy manner demanded by the policies here. If you are convinced that your organizaion passed the general guideline for inclusion, make a request at appropriate section of Wikipedia:Requested articles and provide acceptable sources along with the request. Note that Wikipedia is not a social media platform, we do not want promotional contents here. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 05:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Tutwakhamoe, as long as they declare their COI, people are free to create drafts about the organizations they're in or that they head. Wikipedia:Requested articles strikes me as a complete waste of time. I'm willing to be persuaded that I'm wrong about this. -- Hoary (talk) 07:51, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

We generally delete them. Secretlondon (talk) 11:04, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have created a wikipedia page and added the content and i have moved it to public,but when i search manualy it is not appearing as it have noindex how do i remove it 122.252.227.228 (talk) 07:17, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Well, let's take a look at it. What's its title? -- Hoary (talk) 07:45, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

While we're waiting for the page title, you might want to read WP:NOINDEX. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:43, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

...and WP:EVADE. Blocked as a sock of Acharya7317. Cabayi (talk) 08:52, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

The ants Wikipedia is not loading please fix it asap

Thank you 92.25.118.64 (talk) 10:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Do you mean the article Ant? It loads for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Maybe it was... a bug. -- D'n'B-t -- 11:40, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I hate not being as funny as you. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 06:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

If you mean Ant Wiki that is nothing to do with Wikipedia, but it seems to be loading just fine for me. Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:20, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Is the any tool available for comparing texts to check regarding possible copyright concerns other than the https://dupdet.toolforge.org/ one? This doesn't seem to be working. AndyTheGrump (talk) 12:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

There is Earwig Copyvio Detector as well. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 13:26, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Many thanks. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Is there a possibility to get a border around a picture in a gallery? When part of picture is white, I wish to make a sharper delimitation from the background. For example, the first and second flag:

•  
  Flag 1
•  
  Ceuta
•  
  Swedish flag

Thank you in advance! Pegy22 (talk) 13:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

One way to do that is to use a table. See Help:Pictures#Galleries for more.

Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:43, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Pegy22: Tables are best not used for layout (see MOS:LTAB). Use {{gallery}}:

Thank you! Pegy22 (talk) 14:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

this page Southside (record producer) when you click on southside's website, it takes you to a scam website which tries to make you belive that your PC is locked down, if you click anything on the site you get sent into full screen, (hold escape to get out of full screen). I was smart enough to not fall for it but i know a lot of people who arent, and i do not want anyone's confidential details getting leaked so i am reporting this in 108.67.74.89 (talk) 15:56, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have removed the website from the infobox, thanks for the feedback. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 16:03, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Some years ago I created a Wiki-article for "Fant-Karl" no:Fant-Karl The site is in Norwegian. I would like now to present "Fant-Karl" on en.wikipedia, and have been working on translating and updating information for a site. What is the best way to go forward here? Mary JBarthelemy (talk) 15:58, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Generally you can start creating an article by clicking its red link (Fant-Karl in this case), or starte writing in your sandbox first if the article is too long to finish in one go. However, since the criteria for inclusion is different in each Wikipedia, make sure that the subject in question passes WP:GNG or WP:NBIO, as articles that did not pass notability guideline will face deletion. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 16:14, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

In your edit summary for your very first edit, Mary JBarthelemy, please say that this is a translation of Norwegian (Bokmål) no:Fant-Karl. (If you've already made the first edit, then put this in the edit summary for the earliest possible edit.) -- Hoary (talk) 21:55, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Mary JBarthelemy General advice at WP:TRANSLATE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! I'll give this a try! Mary Mary JBarthelemy (talk) 11:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I am having a problem and couldn't find a solution on Wikipedia. In Turkish Wikipedia, when you talk about a village(it can be a neighbourhood, town etc.), you usually have the name of the district in the title. For Village X located in District Y, the title is "X, Y." Most of the village pages on Wikipedia have this style. I started moving pages of Village X to the above-mentioned style. Is this okay? What I would like to do is basically turn them into the most common writing form. I know I can do that for disambiguation, but in this case, it is simply moving for aesthetic, style-based reasons. (There is a guide in Turkish Wikipedia supporting this, but English Wikipedia does not have a defined rule for Turkey.) So I do not know what to do in this context. Should I simply move pages, create redirects, or leave them as they are? Most other Wikipedias follow the same style since pages are translations from Turkish Wikipedia. Example: I moved Yenişakran to Yenişakran, Aliağa

My other question is, when there is a navbox template, can I create links for future, non-existing pages? Because in a good number of navboxes about this topic, only existing pages are linked. So when someone creates a page, the person has to open the navbox and link it each time. Is it acceptable for me to change navboxes on a great scale in this manner? Example: I added links here to Template:Aliağa District

Thank you for your help. Göycen (talk) 17:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

For your first question, titles of articles need qualifier only when there are multiple articles by the same name. If the name of a village is not known for any other items on Wikipedia, it does not need to have qualifier attached. Since people have different stylistic preferences, please hold a discussion and obtain concensus from the community before moving the articles.

As for the second question, you can have articles that do not exist yet on navigation templates, in fact most of the navigation templates I've come across have red links on them. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 17:58, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@TutwakhamoeThank you for your answer. I will try to adhere that. One more question, how about creating redirects with qualifier w/o moving the page.

So unique X village stays there. May I create page X, Y and redirect to X? Göycen (talk) 21:23, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sure, you are allowed to create such redirects. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 20:25, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

hello, I'm Nino Kalandadze,( username- Ggotua) I have a question. I uploaded a new photo and it doesn't appear on the main page. it is on untested topic. Ggotua (talk) 17:08, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your account does not seem to have uploaded any photo, you might need to try again. Maybe WP:UPIMG can help you. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 18:10, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Ggotua: The Wikimedia Commons upload log [1] shows you have uploaded two images but they were deleted as possible copyright violations. I don't have access to deleted Commons pages so I don't know what they contained. You received information and links at commons:User talk:Ggotua. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I want to Create 1 page with name lets just say - God Is Great. I Cant see that option to create that page. How to do this? I can only see option to create a page same as my username. Chaturvedi divya (talk) 03:24, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Chaturvedi divya: Users can't create pages in mainspace until they're autoconfirmed. Please be aware that pages you create in mainspace or draftspace should be of encyclopedic value. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:55, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I just noticed this (encountered in Chrome).

• Go to any random article: Special:Random
• Press ctrl-F to find text on the page
• Try to find the word "jump"

Chrome shows occurrences, but none appear on the page.

I first noticed this with Larry Bird: 23 occurrences of the word "jump" but not a single one visible. This surprised me, because Bird had a reputation of never jumping more than a few inches.

It seems to be searching CSS class names and "Jump to content" strings in popup text. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:32, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm getting the same in Pale Moon, so it's not limited to Chromium-based browsers. —Cryptic 03:46, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Larry Bird has 22 <span class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up to: </span> at references which are used multiple times. It's for screen readers. cite-accessibility-label has properties which position the text outside the visible window so it doesn't distract seeing viewers (except if they search for the text and wonder what's happening). If there are visible occurrences of "Jump" then they do show up, e.g. on Jump. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:14, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

You can see "Jump up to:" if you add this CSS:

span .cite-accessibility-label {position: static !important;}

It doesn't say to display the text, because it wasn't technically hidden. It just says to position it normally. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:23, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Each day I download my watchlist page, filter it for the "mw-changeslist-watchedunseen" tag, open the histories for the unseen pages; I have a script for these steps. But then, on each of these history pages, I have to click by hand to get the diffs from the last "seen" version to the current version. Is there a more automatic way to get those diffs? —Tamfang (talk) 04:46, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

You might struggle to get a technical response here. You might want to try WP:VPT. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 06:28, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

My account was banned for no reason My teammates was using and l report his id after some time my account got banned for no reason please fix this problem and unban my account as soon as possible My character id 55502880173 Nitin kamdi (talk) 07:02, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Nitin kamdi: You asked this a few days ago; please read the answers further up this page. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:13, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've payed apparently about $750 throughout the years but now I'm unemployed and if Wikimedia Foundation doesn't require any carpenters unfortunately I have to pause the payments. But I'll try to start contributing again soon. Thank you for all your guys hard work and voluntary labor, it's mind boggling. Andash1337 (talk) 12:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Andash1337 Of course, you should not donate if you are unable to. Note that we editors have nothing to do with collecting donations, that's all handled by the Foundation. If you need to contact them to suspend your recurring donation, email donate@wikimedia.org 331dot (talk) 12:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I see, I'm a very lazy person and clicked the first Contact Us I saw. I think it's all cancelled through PayPal, really just wanted to say I'm sorry for not being able to support for a while.

Thanks for your time. Andash1337 (talk) 13:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Andash1337: See also donate:Cancel or change recurring giving. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Courtesy link: Template:Estimation

What's a template like Estimation intended to do? Clarityfiend (talk) 13:26, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Clarityfiend: it inserts "est." inside an HTML5 <abbr> tag, indicating that it's an abbreviation, with a title attribute, which browsers may use to show a tooltip. Other templates, such as {{circa}}, {{born in}}, {{died in}} and {{floruit}} do similar things, usually for helping minimise content-length when space is at a premium. See category:Abbreviation_templates. Bazza 7 (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi everyone,

I've been passionate about idle tycoon games for a while. I'm interested in contributing detailed and informative content about idle tycoon games to Wikipedia, including their mechanics, history, and popular titles.

Does anyone have experience with creating or editing Wikipedia articles? What are the best practices for ensuring that the content is comprehensive, well-cited, and meets Wikipedia's guidelines? Any tips on the process would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help! Saad Ullah 611 (talk) 15:28, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Saad Ullah 611, and welcome to Wikipedia. Anybody may create a draft and submit it for review, using the articles for creation process. But, people who try this before they have spent several weeks (at least) making edits to existing articles and becoming familiar with Wikipedia's policies, usually have a frustrating and disappointing time.

My advice to any new editor is to work on improving existing articles and become familiar with fundamental principles such as verifiability, reliable sources, independent sources, neutral point of view, and notability before even trying to create an article. If you're not sure where to start, you could look at the task center; or you might consider joining WikiProject Videogames and getting suggestions for articles to work on there.

When you have understood those principles, then I suggest reading your first article, and going from there.

When you get to that point, the first thing you will need to do is to find the independent reliable sources required to establish that Idle Tycoon Games meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability; because if it does not, you will be wasting your time trying to create an article on it. ColinFine (talk) 16:54, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Why can't I click on all of the article's references' popups hyperlinks when I was in the editor? I'm on Chromebook 125.0 and am on Vector 2022 skin. I have tried turning on Enable reference previews, Navigation popups, and the default Reference Tooltips alone in the Preferences, but it just won't work? I have logged out just to test it again, but it still isn't working. I have extensions, but I've tried turning all of them off too. WhyIsNameSoHardOmg- - (talk) 15:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would like to cite a foreword written by Edwidge Danticat for the novel Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre. The citation would be used to source a statement about Danticat's opinion of the novel. Can forewords be cited, and if so, what is the proper formatting? (The novel is in ebook form.)Thanks, Jaguarnik (talk) 15:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Jaguarnik A foreword is there to promote a book, so it is not WP:neutral, a key requirement of all Wikipedia references. Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Jaguarnik. I disagree with Shantavira. Sources are not required to be neutral; but unless they are independent, they can only be used in a limited way. Citing a foreword by Danticat for Danticat's opinion is in my view a normal use of a self-published source. You can cite it using the contribution= parameter of {{cite book}} - see that link for details. ColinFine (talk) 17:01, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you both very much.Jaguarnik (talk) 17:42, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

A short back and forth over (not) including an individual in an embedded list needs a fresh eye. There's a board for that, but I don't recall what it's called. Do you know what it's called? To be clear, I'm not asking you to weigh in, I'm simply looking for the people whose !job is to weigh in. Yappy2bhere (talk) 17:17, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Yappy2bhere: You might be looking for WP:3O if only two editors are involved or WP:DR RudolfRed (talk) 18:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Looking for a binding opinion that ideally doesn't result in a wall of text. Considered WP:3O before I came here, but right now we're reading the same WP policy, we're not reading the same thing, and we're both right of course. Looking at WP:DR now; thank you. Yappy2bhere (talk) 19:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Yappy2bhere: Generally, the best place to try to resolve disputes like this is on the article's talk page per "WP:DR" before moving on the other steps in the DR process. Unlike user talk pages. article talk pages make it easier for others to know about and join the discussion since more people interested in the subject matter are likely watching the article (and by default its corresponding talk page) than are watching a particular user's user talk page. Article talk page discussion also helps discussion relevant to the article in one place and makes it easier to archive things for future reference. Finally, the WP:ONUS in a content dispute typically falls on the person wanting to add content to establish a consensus through article talk page discussion when there are disagreements about it; in other words, if you're bold in adding content, but you're reverted based on some policy or guideline, you should, in principle, then seek consensus on the article talk page. However, since Meters has now started a discussion at Talk:South Kitsap High School#Notable Alumni, that's where you should continue to try to sort this out. A consensus established through article talk page discussion is probably as close to a "binding opinion" as you're going to get when it comes to a disagreement such as this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:35, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the Talk page link. Was gonna want that section whichever path we followed. Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I clearly remember the time WP used to have magic syntax for ISBN links--i.e., whenever you put in something like ISBN 0-19-861186-2, the MW software automatically converted it into ISBN 0-19-861186-2. (Example given is for the Oxford English Dictionary.) Nowadays, editors must resort to using {{ISBN|0-19-861186-2}} to get the same result; that much I realised after giving my AFC commentary at User talk:JParanoid. Can anyone provide me with a backstory as to the changes/circumstances? --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 00:11, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Slgrandson: Looks like the MediaWiki software change to disable magic links by default was in late 2016 and English Wikipedia switched in 2017. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_138#Future_of_magic_links. The magic links existing at that time were converted to templates by a bot. RudolfRed (talk) 00:24, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm uploading a picture on the French Wikipedia for the same topic I wrote on the English Wikipedia website. It is saying that this picture is already used and is a copy of a different file. What can I do to upload this picture? Nono19192 (talk) 08:50, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Nono19192. You uploaded the images to Commons (c:File:Lachaume Iconic Door Handles.jpg is one of them) so they can be used directly in any Wikimedia project: you don't need to uploadthem again. If you insert [[File:Lachaume Iconic Door Handles.jpg]] into a page in fr-wiki or any other version of Wikipedia, it will display the picture. ColinFine (talk) 09:00, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks so much! That makes sense Nono19192 (talk) 10:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Nono19192,

As ColinFine said, once an image is in Commons - it can be used by Wikipedia project, or anywhere else really (it's common like common land, anyone can use it). Although I belive the code on French wiki would be [[Image:Lachaume Iconic Door Handles.jpg]].

I am a bit curious as to how to you took the pictures, are they flat-bed scans of prints of photos?

Also while you're here, the language in Draft:Lachaume really needs to be toned down towards a neutral point of view if that draft is going to be accepted - have a read of MOS:PUFFERY for some idea on how to do that. -- D'n'B-t -- 09:19, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, yes they're scans, is that an issue? Does it need a reference? Let me know what you thin! Regarding the draft, noted. Is there anything else you think might need to be edited? Nono19192 (talk) 10:22, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Scans isnt an issue per se, its just that you tagged them as Own Work - but its not clear if actually took the photo or not. -- D'n'B-t -- 11:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

If they're scans, what are they scans of? Are the prints you scanned protected by copyright? If not, how not? Maproom (talk) 17:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Users can manually add URL parameters &offset= together with &limit= to Special:Contributions URLs to link to a more precise set of edits. Examples: Special:Diff/981725212 and Special:Diff/1230476091. Page Help:User contributions has information about &offset=, but not about &limit=. My question is: are there any semi-automatic ways of producing such URLs? I couldn't find anything relevant in Wikipedia:User scripts/List. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:34, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Andrybak: If you click "older 50" at the top or bottom of page histories or user contributions then you get a url with &offset= and a time stamp you can change manually. Ending digits can be omitted, or be ignored if the exact time is unimportant. It doesn't matter if there are more digits than you started with. If you click a number in "(20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)" then you get a url with &limit= and a number you can change. That's what I do. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I do not want to edit anything.  I'd just like to read an article.  What do I do? LJStarry (talk) 17:44, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@LJStarry: Just go ahead and read articles? You're not obligated to edit if you have an account. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:55, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Go for it. There is a search you can use if you have a topic in mind, or Special:Random to pick a random article RudolfRed (talk) 17:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I’m wondering if there’s any method to search the entire project, including history, for a phrase (a name). ꧁Zanahary꧂ 18:16, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply