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Equivalent article for an opposing viewpoint

What is the Wikipedia policy around having to make an equivalent article for an opposing viewpoint to another article?

Someone said in the Mar-a-lago face talk section something about how they should make an article about “libtards” if they made an article about “mar-a-lago face” and I don’t remember which Wikipolicy is the one that refutes that. You can delete my question once you look at the thing they said and decide whether to respond. The article is in the Did You Know area. I am not trying to give you extra work; if I remembered which policy then I would have responded. Talk:Mar-a-Lago face I am a user, but this is a different device because I was looking at Wikipedia and ran across the thing. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 03:22, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, please try to be nice to them. I think they are upset rather than intentionally something. I don’t know and I am not trying to be rude to them. I made a lot of the same mistakes in my first time on Wikipedia. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 03:27, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Or, if I am at fault, please understand that I am not being malicious, but rather that I am just trying do the right thing. I may be wrong and I accept that I am not certain in this case. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 03:30, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for talking a lot. I am somewhat socially awkward and I try to clarify myself as much as possible. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 03:31, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, sorry if I am using the Help Desk wrong: I didn’t know what to use. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 03:35, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, IP editor, the most relevant policy is Wikipedia:Notability, which generally requires significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Apparently Mar-a-Lago face is notable and libtard was not, as agreed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Libtard (2nd nomination) in 2018. TSventon (talk) 03:55, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

So, how should I respond? Should I respond? I think they might have been venting rather than being serious. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 04:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, while I disagree with them, they do have a point in that the Mar-A-Lago face article is clearly meant as an insult. That is fine, I think, but I understand some part of why they are complaining, unless they are complaining for a different reason.129.64.0.33 (talk) 04:07, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Basically, where Mar-A-Lago face is compared with gender-affirming care. Because whether it is similar or not, saying that was definitely intended to upset the people who are in the MAGA camp, because one of its facets is hating transgender people. I find comparing it to gender affirming care funny; other people might not. 129.64.0.33 (talk) 04:11, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, it was from almost a month ago, so I am not sure if it is worth it.129.64.0.33 (talk) 04:13, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

...they should make an article about “libtards” if they made an article about “mar-a-lago face”: This isn't true, since Mar-a-Lago face is an apparent cultural phenomenon, while libtard is just a phrase. As for your question, I would say it's an example of an WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 04:25, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Horse racing and trainers

Hello I am very interested in trainers who have trained the first three horses (Trifecta) but I don't seem to be able to find any links to these 212.159.115.225 (talk) 10:07, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Are you referring to the three stallions used to found the breed of Thoroughbred racehorses? Each of these Foundation stallions has its own article, linked from that section, with references you can investigate. It may be that the relevant information was never recorded.

Please note that this Help desk is intended for questions on how to use or edit Wikipedia: factual questions such as this are better asked in an appropriate section of the Reference desk {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 14:07, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

A "trifecta" also refers to a bet on the first three horses to cross the finish line in a horse race. I don't know if that's what you mean, but if so, we don't know what race you are referring to. David10244 (talk) 04:33, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Exhausted trying to edit

Last attempt on my very first day signed in. I’m trying to add 3 names to arts and entertainment alumni of the University of Pennsylvania. Alan Hale Sr, Everett Sloan, Robert Sully. Please assist. Thank you. Dr. Les. Extremegastro (talk) 17:22, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Alan Hale Sr. doesn't mention his education what-so-ever, and so far as I can tell we don't have an article on either of the other two. (If the last one is intended to be Robert "Sully" Sullivan, the article blatantly contradicts Extremegastro above by stating, with sources, that he attended San Diego State University.) —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 17:34, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Only Alan Hale Sr has a Wikipedia article, but it mentions nothing about where he went to school, so possibly you're referring to a different "Alan Hale Sr" who doesn't have a Wikipedia article, in which case you shouldn't try to add it to the list without confirming that it's the same person. Everett Sloan and Robert Sully don't have Wikipedia articles, so don't try to add them to the list. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 17:39, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Robert Joseph Sully was an actor who appeared in Love Letters 1945. Alan Hale Sr. Mentioned as a graduate of the school in an obituary I easily found. Everett Sloan was an actor in Citizen Kane. 67.14.226.229 (talk) 17:49, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

We understand, but they first need to have articles before they get added to things like alumni lists. 331dot (talk) 18:03, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Everett Sloane (with an e on the end) is memorable in Citizen Kane but I think even more so in The Lady from Shanghai. Our article about him says that he studied at U Penn for two years; but the evidence it provides for this is "Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2014." Yes: "on-line", retrieved on such-and-such a day, but no URL provided. This is poor. -- Hoary (talk) 22:35, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I will add Sloane to the list. I can't find anything that says Hale Sr. went to anything other than the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy (Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine? - not associated with the University of Pennsylvania). Robert Sully didn't have a distinguished acting career. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:59, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Jéské Couriano, if one has solid evidence that an American attended one US university as an undergrad, I don't think this disproves a claim that they attended a different US university (even as an undergrad). Moving between universities seems commonplace. (Of course having been born in 1961 does disprove a claim of having had a minor role in the undistinguished Love Letters (1945 film).) -- Hoary (talk) 23:53, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

English version of Swedish article

Hello Wikipedia

I am very pleased with the Wikipedia article on myself sv:Christian Pleijel. It is, if I may say so myself, truthful and useful, although if I do not see precise statistics.

However, I now have assignments in Finnish-speaking Finland, in Brussels and in Shanghai. It would help me a lot if they could find reliable information on me in English, i.e. on English Wikipedia. Is this possible and if so, how?

Kind regards, Christian Pleijel Christian Pleijel (talk) 07:16, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, please see WP:COI. It is generally discouraged to create or edit articles about yourself or people/organizations you are closely linked with. You can see WP:My first article for help creating an article here; in your situation, I'd recommend going through the WP:AfC process, where you submit an article as a draft, and an experienced editor reviews it. This ensures that any potential biases are weeded out. In general, you must meet the English Wikipedia's general notability guidelines. Every language version has different guidelines on notability, so don't assume that an article on Swedish Wikipedia means it is also notable here. You will need reliable, secondary sources covering you. Welcome to the English Wikipedia! jolielover♥talk 08:03, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

I would also note that Wikipedia is not for "finding reliable information". We don't claim the information presented is reliable, see Wikipedia:General disclaimer. It's up to readers to examine the sources provided and evaluate them. 331dot (talk) 09:47, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Donation

L.S., I have been donating for some years now € 5,00 monthly via my PayPal account. Probably because my Wikipedia account-id is different ( bfabiet01 ), the match isn't made between the two. So, on my Wikipedia home page it mentions that I have not made any donations yet. Could this be rectified ? Kind Regards, Bruno Fabietti Bfabiet01 (talk) 07:05, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bfabiet01. Thank you for donating. I'm not sure what you mean by your Wikipedia home page, but there is no connection whatever between any donations you may make to Wikimedia and your account at Wikipedia, so there is nothing to rectify. We have no way of identifying donors. You may be interested to read up on Wikipedia finances. Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:42, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

If you are referring to an automated donation request banner, donation records are not attached to accounts, there is no way to know that you, the person sitting at your computer/holding the device, has donated. You can turn off the donation requests in your account preferences. 331dot (talk) 11:44, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Email verification mail not yet received

I have registered for a new Wikipedia account. But the email verification mail has not yet appeared on my email. What to do verify my email if it has not happened? I have even clicked confirm mail button. Still, it hasn't sent me the email verification mail to me. Acceldata (talk) 19:37, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Did you check your junk folder?

May I ask why you want to create a new account when you have this one you created today? (I don't need details, a general reason is fine) Would a rename suffice? 331dot (talk) 19:45, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I checked in the junk folder or spam or trash, it's not there. I already created the Wikipedia account successfully. But I couldn't get the verification email for creating the account. Acceldata (talk) 06:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

I have created the account already. But I am yet to receive an email verification mail. Also, I wanted to know how will I get to know that my edit is approved on a page in Wikipedia? Acceldata (talk) 07:20, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, I wanted to know if I am eligible for creating a page now. My account shows I have done 11 edits and my account is older than 4 days since I created it. Acceldata (talk) 07:22, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Acceldata. I see you have managed to create "a page", and it has been moved to Draft space.

I'm afraid that you are making many of the common mistakes that people often make when they plunge straight into trying to create an article. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia.

Specifically, your draft is telling what Acceldata wants the world to know. Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost exclusively 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. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources.

Finally, there are two things thatyou must do before you do anything more to that draft.

1. You must change your username. Usernames that appear to represent an organisation are not permitted. Something like "Fred at Acceldata" would be OK, because it clarifies that the account is personal, as all accounts must be. (You don't have to use your real name). See WP:CHU for changing.
2. Since you chose Acceldata as your username, I am assuming you are part of the company. That makes you a paid editor, and you must make a formal declaration of that fact - see the link for how and where.

It would probably be a good idea for you to read WP:BOSS as well. ColinFine (talk) 13:26, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Please add image

I want to upload images to show the rallies at the "rally" section at 2025 Alberta teachers' strike but I don't know how because of all that copyright. Can someone add the images at https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/14/714d85b2-6602-5fcf-8a83-5e2d1b07b365/68e2deb7cfa48.image.jpg and https://i.cbc.ca/1.7651796.1759697277!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_1180/teachers-rally-october-5-2025.jpg?im=Resize%3D1179 to Wikipedia (Commons if possible) if you are able? ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 14:07, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Rafaelthegreat Neither of these images provides details of who took them or whether they are appropriately licensed for Commons. A reverse image search gives no hint as to their ultimate source. Commons cannot use such pictures. How did you come across these rather obscure links? Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:54, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Oops! Forgot! See https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/alberta/classes-suspended-in-alberta-as-provincewide-teachers-strike-set-to-begin-today/article_e3255c70-3c99-57ee-a3ff-6b65231431e2.html and https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-public-education-rally-teachers-strike-1.7651669. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 15:11, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Attribution to the photographers is given at both these links and I see no statement that they are licensed in a way Commons could use. Most newspapers and websites like these will not wish to release the images: your only hope is to contact them using the links on their websites. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Please see c:COM:Third for the conditions under which we might be able to use images from third parties, such as these. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:47, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing that link does not exist. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 16:51, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry; try now. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing thank you for fixing it. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 16:59, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Question re user asking for my location

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Hello, I recently received a message on my talk page asking for my location by an account trying to mirror my username. It sure doesn’t feel welcoming. Can an admin please warn them if appropriate? Jumplike23 (talk) 02:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Forget warning - a block seems more appropriate. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 02:55, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Jumplike23 (talk) 03:00, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Do I need to report it somewhere else? Jumplike23 (talk) 03:03, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@Jumplike23 It's possible an admin will see it from here but the best way is to report it at WP:ANI. Ultraodan (talk) 03:14, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

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E-books/copyright violations

While reading the article Alcoholics Anonymous, I noticed a link to a PDF file containing a full scan of the book. I sought to remove it because I believe it breaches copyright, but my edit was reverted (User talk:Sister Lilith#October 2025).

Could you please clarify whether such links are permitted when the publisher explicitly prohibits redistribution? Sister Lilith (talk) 15:09, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Definitely a copyright violation. I've removed the URL as well. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:13, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Sister Lilith (talk) 15:26, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I need to have a lie removed

Greetings:

Source of complaint: Horace Williams Airport

The following quoted sentence in the Wiki page linked above is not true and has no basis in fact or reality.

"President Kennedy visited UNC in October, 1961 and arrived and departed via Horace Williams Airport." 

I have proof from my own experience, and a document of his itinerary to UNC on that historic date from the Kennedy Library that totally destroys that myth. Please contact me to have this error corrected. Furthermore, it would be interesting to know who put that idea there in the first place.

Sincerely,

Randy Barrow — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.47.177.124 (talk) 03:05, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I removed the whole paragraph since it was unsourced. The content was added in this edit. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 03:10, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Incorrect information on Albert Viljam Hagelin

My great great uncle Albert Viljam Hagelin’s information is totally incorrect, and if it is not taken down I will consider legal action, whoever posted this is a hostile actor, if you are going to post information as factual 2A00:23C6:E282:5801:A1C7:22F0:49E8:6FA0 (talk) 09:02, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Please do not make legal threats. If there is incorrect information in an article, please tell us what it is- it's best to use the article talk page(Talk:Albert Viljam Hagelin) but you may do so here.

Wikipedia does not claim that the information presented is factual, only that it can be verified, see WP:TRUTH. If the provided sources are not being accurately summarized, please describe how. 331dot (talk) 09:05, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

The article will not be taken down.

A considerable number of volunteers have collaboratively edited the article over the last twenty-two (22!) years. The suggestion that they are all "hostile actors" is laughable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:29, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not entirely clear on what the objection is; the article is about a person was an official in the Norwegian Nazi puppet government and he was executed afterwards. If the OP doesn't appreciate that their ancestor is described this way, there's not much we can do about it. 331dot (talk) 15:44, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

The information on my great great uncle Albert Viljam Hagelin is factually incorrect on many points, his father was not a goldsmith, he was a silversmith, and his mother’s mother was of Scottish descent, an Ogilvy and was NOT Jewish, who ever wrote this is not unbiased, but writing with a particular political agenda, there was similar rubbish written about Hitler being Jewish which was disproved. If you do not remove this post I shall serve Wikipedia with legal papers to cease and desist 2A00:23C6:E282:5801:A546:7E67:E848:6BF3 (talk) 07:57, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

It wasn’t a threat 2A00:23C6:E282:5801:A546:7E67:E848:6BF3 (talk) 07:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Sounds like a threat to me, so we can't help you until you explicitly say you won't be taking legal action. I've posted a message about this to you talk page. Ultraodan (talk) 07:59, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Blocked for doubling down on their legal threats. 331dot (talk) 08:02, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

You would need to direct your complaints about his family background to the author or publisher of the source we cite, . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:12, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Visual Editor

Hi, I just started editing on the English Wikipedia and since I am still new I wanted to use the Visual Editor instead of the Source Editor to begin editing with. But everytime Iwant to edit something I just see Edit Source but never anything else and when I go on the Preferences in my Profile the visual editor is already enabled, although it is obviously not.

Sincerely

Freak 61 Freak61 (talk) 17:48, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Freak61: What does "Editing mode" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing say? Please link an example page you want to edit. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:28, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

It said "Remember my last editor" and I changed it to "Alwys use Visual Editor". Now it works, thank you very much! Freak61 (talk) 06:40, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Account Help

I had an account called Chess2021 but I don't remember the password. My account is blocked. What should I do? 115.112.8.232 (talk) 01:37, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

You do nothing. You were blocked for long-term abuse and abusing multiple accounts. jolielover♥talk 06:10, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Do you remember the password to any of your accounts? If not, you can request an unblock from your IP, and if it's successful, you could then create a new account. PhilKnight (talk) 13:33, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Donation

I need to update my donation account please 2603:808E:1A00:6E4D:C574:A4B9:DCB:8C7C (talk) 16:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor. You need to contact the Foundation at Problems donating - Wikimedia Foundation. Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Hoax draft uncertainty

On around September 27, I created Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo (2025). It was quickly deleted because it was deemed a hoax and thus vandalism, violating WP:G3, probably because I made it too early before the storm actually formed.

That's why I want to ask this question: If, for example, I know that there will definitely be a storm named Foo based on the information at that moment. Does creating a draft titled Draft:Tropical Storm Foo, even if just minutes before the corresponding tropical system actually gets named considered a hoax? EmperorChesser 16:16, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@EmperorChesser You are more likely to run into the problem mentioned at WP:CRYSTAL rather than being criticised for creating a hoax. It all depends on whether you have decent sources. Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:17, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

User:A1Cafel did indeed tag the draft for speedy deltion as a hoax; perhaps they would like to comment? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:39, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

I guess so? EmperorChesser 11:44, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

My views basically the same as David10244. You shouldn't create a draft before the storm was assigned the name. --A1Cafel (talk) 14:55, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

@EmperorChesser How can you write anything meaningful about a storm before it forms? You won't even know where it will be. David10244 (talk) 07:19, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

I know. I asked for the consequences I will have to face, not whether I should do it. EmperorChesser 07:52, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Friendship, Maine

Friendship, Maine

Reference help requested. Hi, I got a notification about one of my edits on Friendship, Maine saying that there is a CS1 error for a missing title. I'm new to Wiki and don't really understand what that means. If you could provide some guidance, I can hop on fixing the error! Thanks, Spindella000 (talk) 13:53, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

The notice you received was from a bot that dected the reference you added was formatted incorrectly as it was missing a title. Take a look at WP:CITEHOW for info on how to properly format an inline citation. In the case of your edit it looks like another user has already corrected the error by adding a title. Amstrad00 (talk) 14:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Ok thanks! I will look again Spindella000 (talk) 22:09, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh! I understand now. I used <ref><ref/> instead of "cite web" and "title". I've been using Visual Editor, so I didn't even realize the issue at first......needless to say, another thing I need to familiarize myself with lol thank you again for sharing WP:CITEHOW with me Spindella000 (talk) 22:13, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Is there a notability noticeboard?

Because, for the past several days now, I've been wondering whether a French musician meets WP:MUSICBIO solely for his contributions to a recent animated-film soundtrack; said page of his has boasted a {{notability}} tag since last northern summer. (Connected to an AFC campaign still underway at this writing.) --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 03:08, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

No he doesn't. But for all I know being called "le nouveau prince noir de la pop française" a decade ago, or some other reference already provided in the article, might point to notability, and a search engine might point to more. (I haven't investigated, and don't intend to do so.) Category:Wikipedia noticeboards doesn't show a notability noticeboard. -- Hoary (talk) 05:00, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

To clarify, @Hoary: He is the film's official composer, and scored three episodes of its precursor web series (if that counts for anything further).

P.S. WP did have that very noticeboard in the past (from what I've recently come across), which has since long fallen on the wayside. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 21:43, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Proper formatting for linking to edit diffs

I’d like to know the proper formatting for linking to in-wiki edit diffs on a page. I’ve previously been using single brackets and copying the url directly to open a new window to display such changes but would like to know the proper formatting for doing so in the future. (For example, 1) I cannot seem to find documentation on this matter. Thank you! BootsED (talk) 19:51, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

What you're doing is fine. If you put a URL in simple brackets like this [https://example.com] you'll just get brackets around a number. If you a space and some text after the URL like this [https://example.com Example website] You'll get the word "Example website" linked to example.com like this: Example website. You would do a similar thing by pasting the URL for a diff and labeling it with some text. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 01:21, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Help:Diff#Linking to a diff has a guide if you didn't want to do the full url method :) Nil🥝 01:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Nice, I didn't know that. I always just pasted in the full link. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:10, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Same here as it's easy, but I really should commit [[Special:Diff/oldid/diff]] to memory, as [example.com] doesn't work in edit summaries. Nil🥝 02:28, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

You can also install the User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink.js script, which causes a permalink to the diff to appear on every diff page, along with a Copy button to copy the link to your clipboard. I find it easier than manually extracting part of the URL. CodeTalker (talk) 20:53, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I tried copying that to my vector.js page, but it had no effect, even after clearing caches. Do I need to make my own subpage diff-permalink.js?

Update: Nevermind, I had to update vector-2022.js, now it works. Thanks, I didn't know about this tool. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 00:31, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Add myself to Wikipedia

How do I add myself to wiki? I want to add my bio and life’s work thus far. MurphysFarm (talk) 17:06, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

That's exactly what Wikipedia is not for, please see the autobiography policy. 331dot (talk) 17:14, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

WP has userpages so that editors can express their goals, tasks, and ambitions as Wikipedians. Anything beyond that is tantamount to an official-site blurb or social profile. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 03:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

You may like to know about alternative outlets. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:09, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Fork of a draft

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A fork happened to have emerged to a draft article (original, fork). I have taken the lead to merge the two versions with all materials and changes retained, but some have insisted to recreate the fork under the another title and refused to include all materials and past changes. What can I do? 124.217.189.70 (talk) 10:55, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

They are even ignoring the wikilinks to disambiguation pages - which I have already fixed. 124.217.189.70 (talk) 11:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

There's a related discussion at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Merging problem. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:11, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Andy. In short EmperorChesser said he created another fork and somebody else did the same. In reality his fork was created with actual content (with actual content, as opposed to placeholder) eighteen hours later than the oldest page and copied the content from there - as he had indeed marked in the edit summary. (oldest one, EC's fork) In any case all three are now merged under the oldest one where much of the past changes took place. Please work together from there so that the draft may be submitted as it documents the storm's impact from an encyclopaedic standpoint. 124.217.189.70 (talk) 14:31, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

What do you mean? I indeed copied the content from the page as you said, but it was for an intent that I no longer have. Since everything is now merged as you said, this discussion should be closed and we will not discuss anything more. EmperorChesser 14:39, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

EmperorCheeser refused to agree to work on where the draft was first kick-started (actually kick-starting, as opposed to placeholder as he or she put it) and insisted to work on one of the forks. What can be done? 124.217.189.70 (talk) 16:37, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Follow the process described at WP:DR. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:18, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

As it happens it's been settled at WP:AN/I (under § Cut-and-paste move and § Ban-evading proxy IP causing disruptions across typhoon articles). 203.145.95.215 (talk) 22:02, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

my edit

Dear, English admins. This is not my edit. You've confused. СтасС (talk) 10:52, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

@СтасС This is nothing to do with admins. You need to address @User:NetSysFire on your talk page. Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:55, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I have copied the wrong diff ID, it linked to the edit immediately before the edit I meant it to point to, and have since provided the correct one. Whoops. Nonetheless, since this was an undo, the user should have also gotten a notification with a link to the correct ID. NetSysFire (talk) 08:14, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Cannot remove inaccurate category on aricle

On article To Be Hero X i tried to remove a inaccurate category but while the edit was saved the category is still there i tried removing 2025 anime television series debuts because the article is about a donghua not anime Isla🏳️‍⚧ 22:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Isla.

This is because the category is automatically added by Template:infobox animanga/Video if the first date is in the current year and before now. It looks as if the template was written assuming it would be used only for anime.

That part of the category name (and other similar categories) is hard-coded.

I suspect the answer is either to make a duplicate set of infobox templates for donghua, or to parametrise the type.

I suggest you bring this up at Template talk:infobox animanga, and (as suggested at the top of that page) leave a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga pointing to your discussion. ColinFine (talk) 22:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

You can add the undocumented |nocat=true. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:59, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Explicit content

Why Wikipedia have sexual/porno explicit content (videos, pictures, etc.)?

Please remove any videos/pictures containing porno-related content. Wikipedia should be a sterile trustable place and a safe reference for children 114.10.44.227 (talk) 19:24, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely not. That is the policy: Wikipedia is not censored. The images are relevant to the content of the articles. There is much content here that would be considered offensive to some. Me and my children aren't offended, you and yours might be, but if Wikipedia tried to submit to everyone's sensitivities, then there's nothing left. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 20:02, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

It is not. If it's relevant to the subject, there may be pics of naked people, dead people, acts of violence etc. Consider Help:Options to hide an image. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:02, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia nowhere describes itself as 'a sterile trustable place and a safe reference for children', and nobody should be permitting children unrestricted access to it on that basis. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:26, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Content disclaimer. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:53, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Template not displaying

I added {{User distributed proofreaders}} to my user page (okrick); however, it does not appear in Category:Wikipedians who contribute to Distributed Proofreaders, . In addition, the badge itself does not display on my user page, whereas the Internet Archive badge did appear correctly when I applied the same format. Could you please let me know if the template is not functioning properly, or if I may have implemented it incorrectly? Okrick (talk) 23:11, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Okrick, you have attempted to add templates to your user page, but the fact that they display in red (as does "User distributed proofreaders" above) shows that they don't exist. Little wonder that a non-existent template doesn't do anything. A look at somebody else's user page suggests to me that what you need is {{User:Scepia/Distributed Proofreaders}}. -- Hoary (talk) 00:10, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

That template was moved to User:Scepia/Distributed Proofreaders in 2007, and the redirect was deleted. I have fixed the transclusion on your user page. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:11, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

And I have tampered with the heading for this thread. Attempting to transclude a template within a heading isn't a good idea. -- Hoary (talk) 00:16, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Heading trimmed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Suggest page for a person

i want to suggest to create a page for a person who is a public figure on google . how can i do that Shalakahn (talk) 16:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure how anyone can be a public figure on a search engine, but regardless, you first need to read Wikipedia:Notability (people), and then, if you are sure that the necessary independent sourcing can be found, you could try adding their name to the relevant subcategory at Wikipedia:Requested articles. Realistically though, such requests tend to take a considerable time to have any result, if they get taken up at all. This is a volunteer project, and nobody is obliged to write on any particular topic. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:37, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I too am curious as to how one can be a public figure on a search engine; that would qualify pretty much every human being a Wikipedia article. 331dot (talk) 18:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Suddenly I feel famous! ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 19:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Shalakahn. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 20:25, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

From the evidence presented at User:Shalakahn/sandbox, your subject, Hemant Nandgaonkar, does not yet qualify for an article in Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:50, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Animal model of stroke

How do I check if my writing on this article has similar content to AI? I used a paraphrasing website and QuillBot to check for grammar mistakes and get some sentence-building ideas.

JGThinker2 (talk) 18:11, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

You shouldn't be doing those things. Pleas write with your own words. Everybody gets stuck on how to phrase things, and that's fine. I write plenty of clumsy sentences, and usually it either gets fixed by another editor or I get an idea a week later on how to better phrase it. Cremastra (talk · contribs) 19:27, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

What did you do before AI and paraphrasing sites became available? Do that. In your own words. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:57, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you JGThinker2 (talk) 06:56, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

IP Ban Appeal/Complaint

Dear Help Desk,

I had an IP ban and filed an appeal. I would like to know whom I complain to about this because I was given no reason. The ban was resolved, but I still would like to file a complaint.

Thanks,

David Davidpdx (talk) 05:30, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Davidpdx. The situation you experienced is explained at Wikipedia:IP block exemption. In brief, it seems that someone else (not you) engaged in disruption of Wikipedia on an IP range that you share with them. The same thing happened to me a number of years ago and it was resolved the same way. What reason would satisfy you? What would the substance of your complaint be? I see no reason for you to complain but perhaps there is something about your situation that I do not understand. Cullen328 (talk) 05:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Cullen328, thank you for your reply. What I would like is for those who are banning IPs to follow the procedures. To clarify, should people who are doing this provide a reason? No reason was provided for the ban. I understand this is a common problem. I don't believe I share an IP address with someone unless they are on my internet connection. Also I live in Korea and I kind of doubt anyone in my immediate neighborhood would go on Wikipedia and somehow abuse the rules. The problem that I have no idea what rules were broken or for which page?

I guess I should just shut up and be glad to got my access back. Davidpdx (talk) Davidpdx (talk) 12:19, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

You very likely do, or did, but unless you tell us the IP address concerned (and of course you are under no obligation to do so), we cannot advise further. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:36, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Davidpdx There is a difference between a block and a ban; I'm fairly sure you're referring to a block. There are many ways an IP address can be used by multiple people, but without knowing your IP we cannot advise you further(as noted). 331dot (talk) 12:39, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

331dot, I appreciate your answer. I guess all I wanted was more information why it happened. It seems like I've hit a dead end with my question. Davidpdx (talk) Davidpdx (talk) 12:48, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

What you describe is a not-uncommon occurrence, and not reflective of you as a user; it's just a function of the fact that IPs can be shared. I'm not sure what your grievance is or what you hope to accomplish with it. 331dot (talk) 08:04, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

You could complain to your internet service provider. They will probably tell you that you have to pay extra if you wish to have your own, fixed, IP address. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:44, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Davidpdx Note that the English Wikipedia will be switching to WP:Temporary accounts, probably tomorrow, so this sort of problem should be much less common as your temporary account will be associated with your specific device, not your IP address. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:25, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Mike, thank you for that information. It is at least a bit of good news. Davidpdx (talk) Davidpdx (talk) 13:36, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

FYI @Michael D. Turnbull and @Davidpdx, the swifch to temporary accounts on this Wikipedia has been postponed by another two weeks, to 21 October, per the deployment plan. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 13:57, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Searching a gadget

Hi everyone,

I am trying to find a gadget that shows both "edit" and "edit source" buttons in the top bar. I don't want only one "edit" or "edit source" button depending on my last edit activity. Is there such a gadget? Karacehennem (talk) 15:49, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@Karacehennem: It's not a gadget but "Editing mode" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing includes "Show me both editor tabs". User:PrimeHunter 16:55, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Editing an Article

Hello, I have been working on some articles for a while now. Some of them I was paid for. Unfortunately lately I got into an online debate on the fact that I was not disclosing it properly on my user page and my editing abilities were blocked. I have tried time after time to correct my ways according to what I was told was needed but was refused. At the moment I'm struggling since I still want to make some changes to an existing article that I have been working on. I was advised to write a requests for other editors to make these changes for me and did so on the article's talk page and on personal messages as well to different editors. I get complete ignore - so at this point I'm completely stuck! you can see my article and requests here: Ran Balicer any advice or help will be extremely appreciated. MrEksh (talk) 09:47, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@MrEksh My advice is to continue this discussion at Talk:Ran Balicer so that the discussion is all in one place. You have been given plenty of sound advice there. This is a collaborative project and you are expected to work with other editors to achieve consensus. Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@MrEksh: - you could try asking for help at the talk pages of the relvant WikiProject - Biology and Medicine. Apart from that, you will need to be patient. We are all volunteers here and nobody is compelled to edit any article. Mjroots (talk) 17:10, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

As a paid editor, you should be proposing changes via edit requests on talk pages, not trying to edit articles yourself. Category:Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests has a pretty large backlog, and editors generally like to spend their time improving Wikipedia rather than doing unpaid work in behalf of someone getting paid for it.

Also, if your requests are complex rewrites rather than simple incremental changes, editors would likely go for the simpler ones. I have declined your edit request partly for that reason, but mostly because your rewrite was wholly unsourced. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 17:50, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Changing User Name

My account is Coletex, How do I change it to my name, Bradley C Meisenburg? Coletex (talk) 03:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

As Coletex, you have very little to your credit. (You have made just one, minor edit to an article: this.) So forget about the username "Coletex", and simply log in and edit as Bradley C Meisenburg (an account created just today, presumably by you). -- Hoary (talk) 07:59, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Editing

How do I edit Wikipedia on my tablet 2605:59C0:27F3:B10:1E5:C2C1:1E17:67FE (talk) 02:03, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Via a browser. (There is also an "app", but few people seem to prefer it.) Then click Help:Introduction. -- Hoary (talk) 02:50, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

In addition to the mobile app, we have both a desktop and mobile version for browsers. The bottom of pages has a link to switch between them. Both versions work in both desktop browsers and mobile devices but the mobile version is designed for smaller screeens. It has a pencil icon at each section to edit it. User:PrimeHunter 11:05, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Namespace

What is the namespace exactly, I see it mentioned often, but I don't know what it is. Oofgl (talk) 15:58, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@Oofgl: per Wikipedia:namespace it is a set of Wikipedia pages whose names begin with a particular reserved word recognized by the MediaWiki software (followed by a colon). For example, in the user namespace all titles begin with the prefix User:. TSventon (talk) 16:04, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Ah thank you, I was under the impression that the regular wikipedia articles, (the ones everyone sees) was the "namespace," do the regular wikipedia articles have a "hidden" namespace? Oofgl (talk) 16:57, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles are in mainspace (which sounds a bit like name space). You can read the page I linked, which goes well beyond my knowledge of the subject. TSventon (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Oofgl (talk) 19:07, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Ted Kaczyński

Uh there is a problem with something!

At Ted Kaczyński's page his name is pronounced wrong. It's not prounanced Khezynski I think it would be better to change it. It's prounanced kaʈ͡ʂɨj̃skʲi according to IPA 83.8.99.58 (talk) 17:47, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. I have no doubt that that is how the name would be pronounced (and spelled) in Polish. Many Americans of foreign origin pronounce their names in an anglicized way, not according to the conventions of the original languages. How do you know how Kaczynski pronounced it?

In any case, the talk page Talk: Ted Kaczynski is the best place to discuss this, and indeed searching the archives for that talk page I see the matter has been discussed four times before, though I haven't looked to see what people said about it. ColinFine (talk) 18:06, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Area codes

For 2.5 years I've been updating area codes. Is there a bot to do it? Write xx̌z once then checks every info box that has xxx as ÀÇ and updates it? DMc75771 (talk) 21:04, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@DMc75771: Please give a real example of what you want. User:PrimeHunter 21:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I go to the City of Lindale, Texas and click on ÀC 903 and discover 903 has an overĺàÿ number of 430. I then manually update. This is just an example. DMc75771 (talk) 22:13, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@DMc75771: I cannot make sense of your example. Your only relevant edit to Lindale, Texas is but it was unlinked before, it already said both 903 and 430, and you made a red link instead of linking Area codes 903 and 430. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:49, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

That was example for how I find something that needs updated. OP was a hypothetical example of what an edited version looks like. I thought that there was an easier way. DMc75771 (talk) 23:19, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I asked for a real example and still don't know which type of edit you want. I give up trying to help. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1314511044 looks typical, I think?

If what you want is a bot that looks for links to Area code 707 and make sure it's linked as [[Area codes 707 and 369|707, 369]] wherever it appears, then you'd need a new one. WP:BOTREQ is the place to ask. You'll have to describe the task a lot more clearly than you've done here. (If you just want it to translate [[Area code 707|707]] to [[Area codes 707 and 369|707]], it'll get rejected for sure; see WP:NOTBROKEN.)

Somewhat lighter-weight, there's ways to make them easier to find. Help:Link color#Styling all links just for you (and in particular, its subheading Help:Link color#Redirect) will let you recolor links to redirects, so they stand out more when you actually go to a page. And quarry:query/97651 has a list of all articles linking to one of these redirects, though there's unfortunately no way to limit it to links specifically from infoboxes, nor to see what the displayed text is. —Cryptic 00:07, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Butterflies of Afghanistan

List of butterflies of Afghanistan

Please, create this list or where can I leave a request to create a list? СтасС (talk) 12:33, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@СтасС The request would be best placed at WT:WikiProject Lepidoptera. The important part will be to find authoritative sources, so if you have any of these, please mention them. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:32, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!--СтасС (talk) 14:58, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Asking someone else to revise their article

How can I ask someone to edit an article on my behalf? 174.233.1.186 (talk) 13:49, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

If you're looking to ask someone to make a change to an existing article you can ask on that article's talk page, if the article is Protected or you have a Conflict of Interest you can use the Edit Request Wizard. If you're instead asking about having someone create a new article you can look at Requested Articles, keeping in mind that because Wikipedia is a volunteer service most article requests won't be completed. Amstrad00 (talk) 14:42, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Japan's involvement in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919

This text is about the "Greco-Turkish War 1919". The supporters section says "Japan" and there is no definitive source that Japan directly supports Greece. Of course, the change I made was a little wrong, there is no problem in correcting or reverting it. It's wrong to write Japan there. You can examine many sources that show that Japan does not support Greece. このテキスト KanneiYKY-901 (talk) 18:03, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @KanneiYKY-901. Best place to discuss this is the article Talk Page, which I see you have done. However, you have not actually provided any sources there to support your changes. Make it easy on the editors who you are trying to convince: provide sources that support your claims. qcne (talk) 21:12, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I cited the sources on the discussion page. KanneiYKY-901 (talk) 21:13, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I see no sources on the Talk Page at all. You have a reply that states

sources about this

but then nothing else. qcne (talk) 21:31, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Here are the sources (due to an error, they were not written on the discussion page) KanneiYKY-901 (talk) 21:39, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

sources KanneiYKY-901 (talk) 21:39, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't know how you are trying to add sources to this discussion, but you've again just written the word "sources" with nothing else. Are you trying to copy and paste from another word processor? It probably isn't working. Please just write in Wikipedia's editor. qcne (talk) 21:41, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

There's probably something preventing them from writing. And it always happens. KanneiYKY-901 (talk) 21:42, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

This sounds like a problem with your internet browser or however you are accessing Wikipedia. I have no idea what to suggest. qcne (talk) 21:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

My evidence on this matter

My evidence regarding the topic I opened before this KanneiYKY-901 (talk) 18:08, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

What evidence, KanneiYKY-901? And what help related to it are you asking for? -- Hoary (talk) 23:07, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Article in sand box

I have had an article in my sandbox for months. Can you look to see if I need to do anything else to submit the article for approval? KLAS66 (talk) 22:07, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

His unique take on the various styles of American Roots, Western, Country, Folk, Rock, and Blues is never forced or contrived but is naturally appealing to many sub-genres of Americana Music. Et cetera. This is a mere advertisement; it doesn't resemble an encyclopedia article. Submitting it would be a waste of your time. -- Hoary (talk) 22:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

User:KLAS66/sandbox does, however, closely resemble what's visible to non-payers such as myself of IMDb's piece ("Self-verified on IMDbPro") on Cam Pierce. -- Hoary (talk) 23:03, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I note that even for those of us who haven't paid to be "Pro", a look in the source code of the IMDb page shows stuff that is neither normally displayed nor in this draft. (Random example: Several of Cam\u0026#39;s songs allude to his faith, hope, and desire to be better tomorrow than yesterday.) KLAS66, please comment on the close resemblance between User:KLAS66/sandbox and the IMDb bio. -- Hoary (talk) 00:03, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Unable to log in to primary account

Hi, it has been over a decade since I last tried to use my primary Wikipedia account (User:Merond_e). Wikipedia has remained important to me as an end user, but I haven't had the capacity to restore my original account. I am finally trying to find some resolution to this after many years. I was able to restore access to my doppelganger account which I'm using to make this request, but for some reason even when I did the password reset by email it did not restore access to my primary account. I thought maybe it had my old email address on it, and I just yesterday restored access to that in case that was the issue but it does not seem to be connected with Wikipedia. Is there any way I could restore access to my primary account? Thanks! Merond (talk) 03:38, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Make a page

Support Team,

I wanna make a page. How do i? I am a beginner. Preeti Mahapatra (talk) 05:48, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

See Your first article. Please bear in mind the advice that you should not create an article about something that you are involved with on a personal level. It is quite hard for beginners to create a new article from scratch, so it is best to gain some experience with editing other articles first. Also, it would be best to create a draft article to get feedback from other users.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:26, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

In July, you created User:Preeti Mahapatra, which started Preeti Mahapatra is an Indian businesswoman, philanthropist, and political leader renowned for her work in international business, grassroots activism, and public welfare. Her journey blends entrepreneurial excellence with a compassionate vision for social transformation. Later in July, you re-created it, but this time as User:Preeti Mahapatra/sandbox. With the exception of your question above, all your contributions to en:Wikipedia so far have been about Preeti Mahapatra. Do you still intend to write about Preeti Mahapatra? -- Hoary (talk) 08:00, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Graphs side-by-side

Hello. Just a few minutes ago, I converted some graphs on articles such as the American Federation of Musicians article to the current ones. However, since some of these articles have two graphs, I might need some advice on putting them side by side as needed if one wants to place them on the right side or on the left side. Thanks. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 10:27, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

missing "search Wikipedia" bar

how do I get this back? Ttonyadam (talk) 13:31, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Adding a notable person to a college website

I added author Lowell Cohn to Lafayette College List of People but my addition was rejected by Wikipedia Siegermatt (talk) 15:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Please consult the edit history(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Lafayette_College_people&action=history) where the editor left an explanation; the person must first merit and have a Wikipedia article about them before they can be added. 331dot (talk) 15:18, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Tim Kane Wikipedia Page

Hi,

I was looking for the Wikipedia Page on Tim Kane and found it missing. All links and searches for Tim Kane on Wikipedia revert to the page "2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election". I could not find any recent updates in the Deletion log for Tim Kane either. What happened and how can this page be restored? 107.77.202.65 (talk) 15:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Kane. The edit history of the current redirect has versions from where you could begin again, assuming you can find additional sources to confirm his notability. The earlier article was not deleted but was turned into the redirect. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:42, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Person

John Carlo defeated Leon Spinks , first time a ex world champion was defeated by boxer who was making his pro debut , he was 14-2 record as a professional and was a promoter and gym owner in upstate ny , he puts up on google checks etc - wondering if a page can be started for him John Carlo Boxing (talk) 17:39, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

A page might be created if he meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Please note that these guidelines are very specific, what you might think counts for notability is not the same as what counts as notability for Wikipedia's purposes. Based on your username I have to also point out that if you're in some way connected to John Carlo you are subject to Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidlines and are strongly discouraged from doing any editing in regards to John Carlo. Finally, as you've posted here about potentially creating an article for the subject, be aware you may be contacted here or via email by someone offering to create that article for you, often in exchange for being paid. Be aware that this sort of thing is usually a scam and often additional violate the policies on paid editing. Amstrad00 (talk) 18:08, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

No hyperlink

Why no hyperlink under Rohan Nedd on Harry Wild Wikipedia page.

Why is there no hyperlink under Rohan Nedd name on the Harry Wild Wikipedia page. It doesn’t seem fair to hyperlink the other stars and not his name. 166.181.242.146 (talk) 21:55, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

That's simply because there is not yet an article on Redd. You could redlink him if you think it is likely he might have an article here in future. Mike Turnbull (talk) 22:05, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

hello

I live in Canada and would like to apply for economic bachelor, but i could not find how to apply online as correspondence and would the degree be passed by the WES in Canada? 2604:3D08:7A84:4600:F1E6:60C2:67F4:25F3 (talk) 02:31, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor, this a helpdesk for questions about using Wikipedia, we can't help with general queries. TSventon (talk) 02:39, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

then how can i get help 2604:3D08:7A84:4600:F1E6:60C2:67F4:25F3 (talk) 02:43, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Try asking at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous or maybe Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. DB1729^talk 02:50, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Your second post makes me wonder whether you still haven't understood it. Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia. We are not affiliated with whatever you want to apply to. Maybe we have an article about the institution but we have millions of articles about various things. It's possible somebody at the reference desk could find the information you want but you absolutely have to tell them which institution it's about. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:03, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Help Needed

Hello - I added my dear Aunt Dorothy Bond who resided with my Mother her much elder sister and her husband in the United States, Rumson NJ until becoming of Age and finishing her boarding school in Europe and then attending the Royal Academy of Music in London. My mother and her sister were born in Surrey, England. Our grandmother could not take care of her as she was ill and our grandfather had passed. Someone has put a citation on the page and I do not know why? 71.226.217.219 (talk) 01:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

To which article (or other page) did you add your aunt? -- Hoary (talk) 04:22, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

This presumably relates to Dorothy Bond being added to the "notable people" at Rumson, New Jersey. The issue, IP editor, is that you have provided no reliable published source to back up the fact that Bond resided in Rumson and her own biography here doesn't mention it. Can you provide something, for example a local newspaper story so our readers can verify this fact? Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:13, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Account uses inaccessible obsolete email address

I've got a real problem after clearing my cash and cookies in my usual browser I need to re-log in to wikipedia. but my account email is an old netscape address. If I try to change it in settings I get the same re-log in and verification via the same obsolete email address. I need assistance from a human administrator to verify my identity and change the email. Doyna Yar (talk) 12:36, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @Doyna Yar. Try emailing ca@wikimedia.org ColinFine (talk) 12:17, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Cancel my policy

Header inserted by ColinFine (talk) 15:23, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

cancel my policy 2600:4040:A12E:FC00:F430:24F5:BF08:AC4D (talk) 15:19, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure who you're intending to talk to, IP user, but this is the help desk for Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, and nothing else. We don't have "policies" that can be cancelled. --ColinFine (talk) 15:23, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Adding myself

Can I add pages about things like my youtube channel and stuff? Progamer21YT (talk) 20:40, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

No you cannot. (You may be confusing Wikipedia with Facebook or similar.) -- Hoary (talk) 21:07, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Editing

Hello,

I wanted to see what the timeline is to have a page reviewed, edited, and approved. Please see below. Do I need to be aware of any additional rules given this submission? Draft:Spreedly. Kyvyny (talk) 20:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Kyvyny. You have now not submitted your draft for review. If you did submit it for review it may be several months before it is reviewed, as we have 3,000 drafts waiting to be reviewed and only a limited number of volunteer reviewers.

It would be helpful for you to familiarise yourself with Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion (organizations and companies) and ensure that the topic of your draft meets this. qcne (talk) 21:10, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much, that is so helpful! Kyvyny (talk) 21:12, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, a typo, you have not submitted your draft for review. You need to press the big blue Submit the draft for review! button, at the top. qcne (talk) 21:32, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Kyvyny. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 12:24, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Kyvyny That draft is extremely promotional, and I predict that if it submitted in its current state, it will be declined. Colin Fine has listed some links that you need to click on (the words in blue) and digest. Funding rounds, for example, don't contribute to notability. David10244 (talk) 07:12, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Change edit summary

Recently I implemented an edit request, but, being my first one, I forgot to credit the original author in my edit summary. I had a look at WP:EDITSUMMARY, and it does say summaries can be hidden, but it wasn't clear if admins are able to change them. Is there anything that can be done to resolve my oversight, or should I just focus on remembering to attribute in the future? Thanks ! SnowyRiver28 (talk) 02:46, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

@SnowyRiver28: see Help:Edit_summary#Fixing. You can't change an edit summary, but you could do a dummy edit and add the missing information to the summary. TSventon (talk) 04:33, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I've just done this SnowyRiver28 (talk) 09:18, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

@SnowyRiver28: You can get a reminder that you've forgotten to give an edit summary by setting an option in your user preferences. See the Editor section in the Editing tab of your Special:Preferences. Bazza 7 (talk) 09:16, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

CSS/JS

help, how do i replace the black puzzle globe with the normal white puzzle globe on the dark mode toggle gadget on Vector legacy (2010)? The Pizza Hackers 🍕 10:17, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

AfC submission question

Hi. Just a very short question today: If I were to submit a draft and later realized it was a fork from a previously existing draft, can people just copy-paste to the previous draft and leave a redirect without saying anything? EmperorChesser 01:40, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

For example Draft:Foo (2025) is a fork of Draft:Foo. Can anyone take all the content in Draft:Foo (2025), copy-paste it to Draft:Foo, then leave a redirect in the former draft? EmperorChesser 01:42, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

The quick answer is no. To repeat what you've been told: Please refer to WP:Move ("Do not move or rename a page by copying/pasting its content...") to learn about why cut-and-paste moves shouldn't be done on Wikipedia. 203.145.95.215 (talk) 01:49, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

I remember having submitted Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo (2025), which you guys said was a fork, then you just casually copy-paste on Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo, which by now has been deleted. Real example here, what do you have to say? EmperorChesser 01:54, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Neither did it happen on my part from what I can recall, nor was the page deleted. The key was about whether efforts have been paid to keep things at the same place whenever possible, and attribute when it's necessary. 203.145.95.215 (talk) 05:12, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

For the record this violation of WP:Move, committed after the reminder above, has been brought to AN/I. 203.145.95.215 (talk) 11:33, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

If you cannot reply with something reasonable or don't reply at all, I will assume you (or someone else) did it, which means you guys are wrong in this case. EmperorChesser 02:13, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

EmperorChesser. you write above: "Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo, which by now has been deleted". Here's some of its history:

• At 05:29, 4 October 2025, editor MAS0802 moved Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo to Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo (Deleted)
• At 06:01, 4 October 2025, editor 203.145.95.215 (talk | block) 77 changed the redirect target of Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo from Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo (Deleted) to Draft:Deleted---
• At 06:28, 4 October 2025, editor Liz deleted Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo, because it was a redirect to a non-existent page

A strange history, but now I hope a little easier to understand. -- Hoary (talk) 08:29, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

And more. There is an article at Typhoon Matmo (2025). There is much discussion at Draft talk:Tropical Storm Matmo 2025. This is of course the talk page for Draft:Tropical Storm Matmo 2025, which "may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion" and thus is likely to disappear very soon. If it's deleted, its talk page will probably be deleted with it. Anyone who thinks that it (the talk page) should be preserved after the draft is deleted might suggest that it be moved somewhere (perhaps to Talk:Typhoon Matmo (2025)/Tropical Storm Matmo 2025). -- Hoary (talk) 09:07, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I know. That draft did not exist anymore since it is now an article. EmperorChesser 09:35, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

AfD or ?

I stumbled across this article Howard J. Buss by accident but quickly saw the glaring problems. Obviously it passes GNG but only if what is stated (awards, international recordings) is true. However, all of the references are drawn from the same primary source directly linked to the BLP's website. The only secondary is "not available". There is just too much content for absolutely no RS. Is this an AfD or a major scrub and template placing overhaul? The creating editor Suemanning1972 contributions have only been to create this page and to place entries of the BLP's works on corresponding instrumental WP pages for promotion: . I don't know why, but they removed the COI tag recently: . The editor uploaded an image of the BLP: but claimed the image as "own work" under the name Judy E Buss. Maineartists (talk) 01:40, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Possible COI: BLP publisher Brixton Publications. Creating editor submitted article on Publisher: , . ::Maineartists (talk) 02:21, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@Maineartists: GNG is about significant coverage in independent reliable sources, and the sources in the article don't show that. However a Google books search finds some potentially useful sources, e.g. an article in The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music and a review of a piece in Gramophone (magazine) in 2005, so the article could be improved. I presume that Google won't have uploaded all the relevant books and magazines, so it may be hard to find enough sources to show notability. TSventon (talk) 02:51, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that is why I said: if what is stated is true. It is obvious that there is a clear COI happening at this article, and that presently there are no reliable sources to back any of the multitude of claims within it. It will take a major overhaul to bring it up to WP standards. I am just always amazed when I stumble across articles such as this and see other registered WP editors in the history summary editing and not bringing any issues either on the page itself or the Talk Page. At least intforce attempted to place a COI. I'm not busy with other articles at the moment, I may place an UNDER CONSTRUCTION template and have at it. Thanks Maineartists (talk) 14:18, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Can't edit image in infobox

resets to default logo even when its not specified in the infobox.

im so confused. i was cleaning up some stuff on the "Liberstad" wikipedia page, and i tried to put the flag, and the coat of arms side by side like i see in many infoboxes, but instead, i got the flag and the coat of arms side by side with a large image of the coat of arms on top! i tried deleting all of the images itself, changing them. even when i change the url of the image to be just the flag, it stayed as the coat of arms. Thmxrist (talk) 08:34, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Thmxrist  Courtesy link: Draft:Liberstad. At first glance the problem may be the use of "thumb" in the extra images or your use of parameters not recognised by that infobox. I'll leave it to others to suggest a solution. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:38, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Thmxrist I think I've fixed it now for you – see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE, you only need to put name.png, not [[File:name.png]] in infoboxes. Nil🥝 13:02, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I think the issue you're running into is trying to have two seats of coat of arms in the infobox, even though the template was only designed for one. May I suggest having just the current shield in to infobox, and put the old one in the body of the article if it's important? Nil🥝 13:12, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Thmxrist You have submitted your draft for review but I predict it will be rapidly declined for lack of sources allowing verification. For example, you say Despite this, progress is slow, and necessary permits have not been applied for sufficiently. According to whom is this true? I also doubt that the current draft shows that this development is notable. It needs more independent sources. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:37, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

sorry, i was talking about the norwegian liberstad wiki, i got a bit mixed up since i barely slept today lol, sorry about that. and with that example too, i got most of this from my father John Holmesland, so theres few sources. ill add more sources, thank you. Thmxrist (talk) 17:56, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Thmxrist In view of where you say you got most of the information, you need to read this page about conflicts of interest. You have now added a citation to the Scandinavian Journal of Political Science which is supposed to back up the statement I mentioned above. I suspect that there is no such journal and that this is an example of an AI hallucination. Is that the case? Some other citations show the same issue. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:41, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

hi, im sorry for all the mistakes. ive tried to correct all my citations/references and stayed neutral on all the text written on the page. is it fine now? if theres still any mistakes, please tell me or fix it yourself on the page, im trying to make it as accurate and neutral as possible. Thmxrist (talk) 11:20, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

The problem now is not so much any mistakes but the fact that virtually all the citations are to Liberstad's own website. Hence there is no real evidence the topic is notable as required by Wikipedia, for which only reliable sources independent of the subject and with significant coverage are useful. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:26, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

okay, thanks. ill work on that later Thmxrist (talk) 12:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Help with assessment backlog

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment#Assessment requests is having a backlog. The assessment requests aren’t being processed for more than a week. Can anyone have a look on them? (I think this help desk is suitable for this question, if it’s not, please point me to a place that is suitable.) Xzkdeng (talk) 16:13, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

It would be seen by more people at WP:VPM. You could also write something for The Signpost Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:42, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion, next time I’ll post these kinds of questions to WP:VPM. But I don’t think that the problem is significant enough to write an article to The Signpost. Xzkdeng (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Hey @Xzkdeng, I've just gone through most of the stuff there. If it gets backlogged again, feel free to leave me a ping/note (though I agree that it's currently being done by maybe 3/4 regulars, which is unsustainable and more participation there would be helpful). There are also other venues you can look to, e.g. specific WikiProject assessment request pages (such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport/Assessment#Requesting an assessment). (Well, technically, Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment#Assessment requests is a WikiProject-specific page too, but it has accidentally become the "main general requests" page). Cheers :) GoldRomean (talk) 03:38, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@GoldRomean Thanks for your hard work! Xzkdeng (talk) 14:56, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Xzkdeng: if you want to assess stub, start or C class articles, you can use the WP:RATER tool, as GoldRomean did earlier today. For B class a review by an experienced reviewer could be better. TSventon (talk) 15:05, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

C/rizak yuusuf jamac

انا اريد الاستعانة 154.115.236.235 (talk) 17:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

What help do you need? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:14, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Disagreement on preferred plural enwiki vs. enwikt

The english language Wikipedia article for interregnum has interregna as the first plural and interregnums as second. enwikt (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interregnum} has them reversed. While I'd expect some of the situation to be equivalent to two WP in different languages disagreeing, I'm not sure if there is any place appropriate to bring that up. (Note, Google Trends doesn't even help, not enough usage, oed doesn't have a plural, M&W agrees with the wiktionary page. Naraht (talk) 18:22, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht (The correct wikt link is wikt:interregnum.)

• M&W states the plurals are "interregnums or interregna";
• Collins "-nums or -na" (British English) and "interregnums or interregna" (American);
• dictionary.com has plurals as "interregnums, interregna", but in American English only.
• Cambridge, like Oxford, is not letting on what it thinks (without a possible fee).
• My printed 1964 Concise Oxford Dictionary (Fifth Edition)'s entry reads "interrĕg'num, n. (pl. -na or -nums)". A 1932 edition of Odhams Press's New English Dictionary has just "interregnum ... n. (pl. -nums)".

None with an opinion qualify their entries to give a preference of one plural over the other. So it seems that there are two forms of the plural in use, neither having a recorded preference over the other. Google's AI overview, when asked interregnums or interregna, elaborates:

"Both interregnums and interregna are correct plural forms of interregnum. The choice between them depends on the style guide being followed, though both are widely accepted. ... Interregna is the traditional Latin plural form, carrying the classical weight of the word's origins (from inter- "between" and rēgnum "reign"). Interregnums is the modernized English plural, which follows the standard rule of adding "-s" for plurality. This form is generally more common in everyday, less formal writing."

I'm not sure what you're wanting done. Bazza 7 (talk) 19:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Bazza_7Thank you for the help on the proper way to link to wiktionary. I was basically wondering less as to which was correct and more whether disagreement on order of plurals represented something that should be "fixed" to make them consistent with each other and whether there was a wikiproject (either here or on wikt that focused on that. (I was wondering which plural to use and since the Wiki projects have the knowledge of the Universe :) , it was a "hunh".)

I'm not sure if a list of plurals could be counted as Wikidata and generated somehow in both articles and wikt entries.Naraht (talk) 19:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht: Who would decide the order of alternative plurals? For some words, reliable sources would tell us what plural version to put first by stating which is the commonest.

But, as we've discovered with "interregnum", such clear information is not always available. We could do it alphabetically, or toss a coin, but I suspect that would be less than ideal for some words. Or editors could have a !vote about it, but that would go against the requirement to only include verifiable facts.

See Octopus § Etymology and pluralisation for a case study. And Plural form of words ending in -us! Bazza 7 (talk) 21:26, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Or see Google Books Ngram Viewer on this very minor matter. -- Hoary (talk) 22:52, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

The OED (behind a paywall) gives both versions. 219.89.24.171 (talk) 05:03, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

The issue is in which order. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:54, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I consider it possible (at the very least), based on what's been presented so far, to conclude that the correct answer is "very solidly either/or, and no broadly valid reason exists for imposing a preference". That's not the only possibility, but I think it has to be acknowledged to exist. TooManyFingers (talk) 17:07, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you to Hoary for the ngram check. I tried to figure out how to do that, but failed. While interregnums seems to be somewhat more common, there are are years where it is slightly the reverse. Apparently (sarcasm and bad idea), the only solution is to use Template:Random item to determine the order.Naraht (talk) 17:19, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

A new description feature in posts?

I frequent the Help Desk and Teahouse regularly. Recently, I've noticed a number of posts that seem to have a subheading, like a description, at the top of a post. I looked at the source of a few of these and I see that they are preceded with a colon (explaining the indenting) but the content is always similar to a subtitle suggesting that it isn't a case of a user accidentally adding a colon in the first line.

For example, see #No_hyperlink or #Ted_Kaczyński above.

Is this a new feature that I missed? Madam Fatal (talk) 19:32, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Madam Fatal:, based on checking one example, it is the way Pigsonthewing reformats sections to give them a meaningful title, e.g. here. TSventon (talk) 22:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

On Area code 707 and 369 map

Most Area code pages contain colorful maps. The text under the map needs updating. A space between a . and a new sentence. As well as adding 369 to text. Could not find a place or way to do edit. DMc75771 (talk) 20:04, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @DMc75771. The text is in Template:California area codes image map. You can edit it there. ColinFine (talk) 20:25, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I went to the link given. Changed the 707 entry to 707/369. But did not see where to add 369 to the the text below the map. Maybe I should forget making the edit. DMc75771 (talk) 21:20, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I have added a space. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:40, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Notonecta undulata

I'd like to add a picture of Notonecta undulata to an existing article, but a filter won't allow it. What shall I do? Buprestis (talk) 21:15, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Is the photo at Wikimedia Commons? -- Hoary (talk) 22:54, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

It appears that, after posting here, you succeeded. Do you need further help? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:55, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

adding a photo

Hi I've been trying to add a correct photo to an existing entry that I have also updated. I've read the procedure but it has left me confused and the photo is not showing. Can anyone set me on the correct path? Thanks. Lisaolisa (talk) 20:47, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Uploading images. Theroadislong (talk) 20:53, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Lisaolisa you spelt the filename wrong - the file you uploaded is this one File:Paris 2024 Boccia commentator Peter McGuire.jpg you accidentally inserted an extra g and put McgGuire. Nthep (talk) 20:57, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Magazine circulation

Is there a website that has circulation figures for magazines and other print publications? Iggy pop goes the weasel (talk) 14:32, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

If there is, Iggy, perhaps you can find it via Audit Bureau of Circulations. -- Hoary (talk) 05:36, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I will give that a try, thanks! Iggy pop goes the weasel (talk) 13:51, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Upcoming WP 25th birthday

I am trying to find the proper venue to discuss main page plans for the 25th birthday of WP.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:12, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger The page you linked seems to be getting some ideas. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:53, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Constitution

To locate 1857 Oregon Constitution 2600:6C55:4B00:17FE:3548:3FC0:2674:ACD7 (talk) 17:35, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Please see Constitution of Oregon, which has links to Wikisource with a copy. 331dot (talk) 17:44, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Shinganapur

Is the idol of lor shani in blue anjana stone? 2409:40F3:100A:CDF:CCBF:5EFF:FE33:D6EC (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

If this is a question about Wikipedia, please reword it so that it becomes understandable. If it's a question about "the idol of lor shani", then it doesn't belong on this page; instead, go to Wikipedia:Reference desk, choose the reference desk that seems most appropriate, and (after rewording it so that it is easier to understand) ask it there. -- Hoary (talk) 22:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor: the article Shani Shingnapur says the shrine is in black rock but gives no further detail. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:51, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

contentious topic

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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I recently began to update pages that have been flagged as contentious topics. I am a scientist and have been trying to reference current research. The document unfortinately is gang edited by ableist denyers of autistic people's needs, which is leading to an editing war. I would like to study how I can make an impact in primary source literature for the betterment of society. Please refer me to academic reading material on case studies where the scientists accomplished this in spite of the naysayers. Spotoninuity (talk) 05:00, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I deny that facilitated communication serves autistic people's needs.

I am a scientist ... Please refer me to academic reading material—do you sense the contradiction? Scientists usually know how to find their sources. And WP:PRIMARY medical studies get rejected out of hand, see WP:MEDRS. tgeorgescu (talk) 05:12, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Blanket reverts under the label “not constructive” in contentious topics undermine both scientific ethics and Wikipedia’s collaborative standards. Citing a reverted page does not reliably substitute for primary source evidence or meaningful engagement with the content itself. Spotoninuity (talk) 05:15, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Well, here at Wikipedia, we do not like primary source evidence. We seek WP:SECONDARY sources. tgeorgescu (talk) 05:17, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia policy, a peer-reviewed scientific study that gathers direct observations (eye tracking of spellers) and presents analysis, synthesis, or conclusions about those observations functions as an authoritative secondary source in that context. Such sources are foundational to Wikipedia articles because they provide interpretation and evaluation of primary data, and their analytic claims may be included in Wikipedia per core sourcing policies. Spotoninuity (talk) 05:26, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

You do not make the WP:RULES. Our house, our rules. If you're pleading for primary research: you've already lost this dispute. tgeorgescu (talk) 05:27, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

FC is a contentious topic because it involves a genuine controversy where reliable sources differ in their views. This designation is meant to encourage careful, constructive editing and ensure that multiple perspectives are fairly represented for the benefit of readers. Spotoninuity (talk) 05:49, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

See WP:FRINGE. tgeorgescu (talk) 05:50, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The designation of a topic as “fringe” on Wikipedia requires that the subject be recognized as such by reliable secondary sources, not just through unilateral editor decisions or revert wars. Wikipedia’s core policies emphasize neutrality and fair representation of significant viewpoints. If both sides of a controversy are not allowed discussion and presentation with due weight, it contradicts Wikipedia’s principles of neutrality and open collaboration. Constructive debate and properly sourced information from all notable perspectives must be allowed for readers to get a balanced understanding, especially in contentious topics. Restricting discussion without community consensus undermines these foundational policies and goes against the spirit of Wikipedia. Spotoninuity (talk) 05:54, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Are you using a WP:LLM? tgeorgescu (talk) 05:57, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I am using an AI editor only to refine my grammar, not to generate ideas or content. Wikipedia encourages this for non-native English speakers as long as I review the language and ensure all edits meet policy.

Are you relying on page reverts and labeling dissenting views as “pseudoscience,”? You are disregarding the foundational role of science-based sources on Wikipedia. Suppressing scientific evidence through revert actions instead of substantive discussion goes against Wikipedia’s core content policies, which require verifiable, reliable sources and fair representation of all significant positions. Spotoninuity (talk) 06:09, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't believe that. The reason is that LLMs do not understand the rules of Wikipedia, so they cannot help you write good arguments. Wikipedically speaking, all your arguments are bad. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:22, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Using talk page discussions, seeking consensus, and adhering strictly to neutrality and reliable sourcing ensures that all significant viewpoints are considered and that disputes are resolved transparently and fairly, in line with community guidelines. This process is central to managing contentious topics collaboratively and maintaining trust in Wikipedia’s editorial standards. Spotoninuity (talk) 06:22, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

As I said: all your arguments miss the point. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:24, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia exemplifies the social construction of knowledge, emphasizing that editors are expected to add content supported by the consensus of mainstream reliable sources—such as peer-reviewed research or reporting from reputable news organizations. This approach underscores that Wikipedia’s editorial process is collective, relying on verifiability and public consensus, not individual authority or unsourced expertise. (Yes, I have a published sandbox). Spotoninuity (talk) 06:28, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Stop it! LLMs don't understand what they write. They don't understand the rules of Wikipedia, and cannot produce good Wikipedic arguments. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:30, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Calling FC "scientifically discredited" must be supported by reliable secondary sources per Wikipedia policy on verifiability and reliable sourcing. If editors reject scientific sources yet keep that wording without acknowledging the controversy, they violate neutrality and verifiability policies requiring fair representation of all significant viewpoints. Spotoninuity (talk) 06:31, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

You are still missing the point. You have produced 0 (zero) credible arguments.

You have to answer to the point, not using vacuous generalities. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:38, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

It is contradictory to dismiss something as "scientifically invalidated" while simultaneously rejecting scientific sources as not credible. Here, the contention is generated when Wikipedia’s policies on transparently sourced arguments are violated, especially by dismissing credible scientific sources without justification. This undermines the legitimacy of the editorial process and fuels conflict instead of consensus. Spotoninuity (talk) 06:39, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Again: don't reply using vacuous generalities. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:40, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

You have produced 0 (zero) credible arguments. Spotoninuity (talk) 06:41, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh, no? I told you about WP:PRIMARY, WP:SECONDARY, WP:MEDRS, and WP:FRINGE. It would take you at least an hour to read those with comprehension.

What you argued (except for the first message above, which isn't convincing, either) are abstractions which could be said about any article, regardless of its WP:RS. However, your message is very clear: you are POV-pushing for a fringe view. tgeorgescu (talk) 07:22, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your use of AI to rewrite your comments is not "encouraged" by WP:LLM, it only says you may use a chatbot to review your grammar or translate words you are unfamiliar with. When you use paragraphs of 5 dollar words to say "you are violating NPOV" over and over again, it makes you seem like you don't understand what tgeorgescu is saying. HansVonStuttgart (talk) 08:29, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

There are some things to unpack: WP:NPOV does not mean pure, unadulterated neutrality (a la Larry Sanger). It means WP:GEVAL, it means WP:PSCI, it means WP:DUE and so on.

Even if it meant that, Wikipedia follows a British Constitution model, so other policies and guidelines tweak what NPOV means. tgeorgescu (talk) 11:00, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

No comment on the content of this dispute, but when it's 21x indents deep, it becomes ridiculous for anyone scrolling past on mobile. We shouldn't reach the point where messages start with ::::::::::::::::::::: at the front. Please either {{outdent}}, or step back, take a breather, and see if there's a more productive way to settle this dispute. Nil🥝 12:08, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

removal of National Library of Medicine link

Please refer to 07:54, 26 September 2025 edit of Radial head fracture. This removes a direct and freely-accessible link to National Library of Medicine, leaving a DOI which requires a subscription. Is there a compliance policy issue that mandates the removal of the NLM link? Fabrickator (talk) 01:19, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

It looks like a bot removed the link because it duplicated the DOI. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 01:47, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@Jéské Couriano: Is there some reason to consider this to be acceptable behavior? Or should we just automatically include a "cbignore" template on any citation with a DOI? Fabrickator (talk) 02:13, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome to bring this up on the Bot Operators' noticeboard or at the talk page of Citation Bot; I'm literally just the messenger here and am just going off of the bot's edit summary. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 02:47, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The bot's edit is correct. The deleted url is not a duplicate of the doi but is a duplicate of the PMC. In the absence of a url, {{cite journal}} creates a title link from the value assigned to |pmc=. The original url is:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7285971/

the url created from |pmc=7285971 is:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7285971

both link to the same target.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 02:52, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: I'm glad I only went about half-crazy on this. Thanks for the explanation. Fabrickator (talk) 03:49, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Page

I’m asking about the page getting information purposes 173.185.61.209 (talk) 06:53, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't understand your question, can you be more clear? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:47, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

How many taxa are needed for a list page?

For articles on Wikipedia that are just lists of organisms, such as List of Aedes species or others, how many taxa should I need before I can create a page for the list? E.g., 10 extinct species in a genus isn't probably enough for an entire page. Sevenstxrsquid (talk) 08:07, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't know if it's written in a policy. Generally "8 items" is the minimum for a list, but 10 is better. Compare list of calomyscids, which was merged with the main article for the rodent family because it was so small and had maybe 8 entries depending on taxonomic consensus at the time, to list of capromyids, which has 10 living species. Extinct species are trickier to define... I recall there was another list of taxa that was controversial for being too short and ended up being merged as well. -- Reconrabbit 13:40, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I'll probably see if more peoples' opinions on the related WikiProject Sevenstxrsquid (talk) 00:05, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Dominion of Newfoundland: getting a script warning

Hi,when I open Dominion of Newfoundland for editing, I get this warning: "Script warning: NEWFOUNDLAND ("Newfoundland") is not a recognized country in ISO 3166-1 (Module:ISO 3166)." No idea what it means or why it's there. (Note: an IP editor recently edited the article to say that Newfoundland was a sovereign country; I've reverted the first line to say it was a British Dominion; see edit note. I don't know if that reference to "sovereign country" somehow triggered this warning?) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:52, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: I believe that was actually caused by one your earlier edits where you changed the article to use Template:Infobox former country and added common_name-parameter. However there is no former country template - it simply redirects back to {{Infobox country}}, which then automatically tries to use common_name to look up iso 3166 if no specific iso 3166 parameter is given. I don't think it is a problem however, that error is only visible in edit preview and not in final article. MKFI (talk) 13:36, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Would it help if I changed it to the infobox: country template? Why is there a template that just refers to another template? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:40, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Mr Serjeant Buzfuz. It's simply a redirect. Templates (including infoboxes) often have alternative names: it makes no difference which name you use.

The documentation for that infobox says

|iso3166code = omit <! -- For a country or geopolitical version of a country that ceased to exist prior to the introduction of iso3166-- > (I've altered the HTML comment sequence so that the comment shows up above).

So if you add that line to the infobox call it should get rid of the warning. ColinFine (talk) 23:06, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:38, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

nowiki tags

Been adding data to writer lists. Found a <nowiki> tag between the author element and the dates element. Wondering reason there and if needed. Thought unnecessary. DMc75771 (talk) 02:05, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Can you link an example? Nil🥝 02:38, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

• Ahmed Ali (1910–1994, India/Pakistan]]

This is from the list of authors by... DMc75771 (talk) 03:24, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Which list? It's hard to give an answer without being able to see the context. Nil🥝 05:48, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Probably a Visual Editor glitch; it seems to be fairly common. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:52, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

It was here List of authors by name: A I have removed it. Theroadislong (talk) 08:16, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Round robin move

I just did my first round robin move per AFD and TP consensus from High-capacity magazine to High-capacity magazine ban and looking at postmove cleanup. I am not sure if there is anything to do. Both had talk pages, so its important to preserve the old TP. The only links in are from user talk page archives and similar, which I dont think really needs to be corrected. And there would be no double redirects. Thanks Metallurgist (talk) 21:21, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Infobox fields

I do hope that somebody can kindly help me. Ineed to add an extra field of Children to a Wikipedia site. Children is not I’m my list of available options from the template it was generated from. How can I add this field, please or do I need to start again?

Baillon (talk) 11:03, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Baillon: and welcome to Teahouse. You can use the | children = parameter in {{Infobox person}}. Note, however, that if the children themselves aren't notable—e.g. having their own Wikipedia article—these entries may be summarily removed. —Fortuna, imperatrix 14:09, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me. So do I delete the current infobox and start again using Infobox person? Baillon (talk) 16:04, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

@Baillon: Please always be specific in questions. There will often be important circumstances you don't know. about. If this is about Gordon Giltrap then it uses {{Infobox musical artist}} which does not have a parameter for children. It has been rejected several times. See Template talk:Infobox musical artist/Archive 18#Children field. User:PrimeHunter 21:15, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me. So do I delete the current infobox and start again using Infobox person? Baillon (talk) 16:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

No; embed infobox person within the existing infobox, using |module=. I have done that for you; please just enter the relevant value(s). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:17, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your help, Andy. I'm still stuck because I don't really understand modules etc. Sorry. I've tried to edit the Infobox but I still can't see Children listed as an option. If you can kindly make that an option for me I'd be really grateful because I was thinking I'd have to delete the old Infobox and choose a different one , something which would be difficult for me. i really appreciate that you've taken time to help me. Thank you! Baillon (talk) 10:10, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

I begin to see what you've done :

fobox person

| embed = yes | | spouse =

Hilary Giltrap

​

​

(m. 1986; died 2022)​

| children = | website =

but how do I simply add the field Children and Jamie and Sadie to the list along with theoir year of birth?

Baillon (talk) 10:17, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Are you using Visual Editor or Source Editor? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:06, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Visual. I don't understand Source Baillon (talk) 10:35, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I think this might only be doable in Source Editor, but perhaps someone more familiar with VE can comment?

That said, we wouldn't normally include names and dates for non-notable offspring, just a number. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:47, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Trouble with "What links here"

Having just moved 2025 Madagascar coup d'état, I'm trying to update links to what is now a redirect. However, at Special:WhatLinksHere/2025 Madagascar coup d'état there are ~250 items, most of which do not, in fact, link to 2025 Madagascar coup d'état anywhere that I can see. I've moved a page like this before, but I don't remember this being an issue.

The WhatLinksHere page seems to be showing me a bunch of things that have "coup d'état" in them instead of links to the page that I'm looking for links to Placeholderer (talk) 14:35, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

nav boxen?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:42, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Perfect! Thanks! Placeholderer (talk) 14:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Clarification on ChatGPT-Linked URLs in Content

Hi everyone, Need Clarification , I noticed that some URLs include the parameter utm_source=chatgpt.com. That means those links or articles were likely generated or added using an AI LLM or . Should we remove that tracking parameter from the URLs, or would you prefer those articles to be rewritten to avoid any AI-sourced tag being visible? Just wanted to confirm the right approach.

please try searching for utm_source=chatgpt.com , you will see it appears in many sources and articles, and in the past.. I had already removed references that included this parameter, but now I’m noticing it has been used in several articles again. Bech07 (talk) 11:42, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=utm_source%3Dchatgpt.com&title=Special:Search&ns0=1 Bech07 (talk) 11:46, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Could be worth jumping over to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AI Cleanup to ask, but my sense is that the parameter shouldn't be removed until after the edit/content has been verified by a human editor; unfortunately, AI has a tendency to hallucinate information not backed up in it's supposed sources. Nil🥝 11:58, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I’ve come across cases where the links seem randomly generated using names of big news outlets. That’s another reason I thought it needed attention. Bech07 (talk) 12:01, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Bech07 There's ongoing discussions about the same issue at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#utm source=chatgpt.com. Thilio^{R O B O T🤖 talk} 12:00, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the update! I’ll check out the Village Pump (miscellaneous) discussion as well. Bech07 (talk) 12:02, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Listing of articles created by a user

Hello,

where are the articles created by a user listed?

Kind regards Sarcelles (talk) 18:41, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sarcelles: if you go to their contributions page, you can click on "Articles created" at the bottom of the page to get a list. TSventon (talk) 19:03, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Sarcelles (talk) 19:07, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

James Thomas (presenter)

Hello, admins. Please, move in my draft. СтасС (talk) 10:38, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Unsourced BLP now moved to Draft:James Thomas (presenter). You need to support the text with reliable sources. Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:50, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Trump wall archives

Talk:Trump wall#What happened to the archives?

Someone who is good at archiving + merging, please take a look. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:03, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:20, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

No math (and some other things too) at all, if not

removing

.mwe-math-mathml-a11y {
	clip:rect(1px,1px,1px,1px);
	overflow:hidden;
	position:absolute;
	width:1px;
	height:1px;
	opacity:0
}

from some load.php.

Sometimes I still can copy and paste all suspicous sections for to find all these “secrets”.

Makes, for example, the difference between

It is clear from the definitions that
   with equality if and only …

and

It is clear from the definitions that
 ⌊ x ⌋ ≤ ⌈ x ⌉ , with equality if and only …

Another missing: Adrien-Marie Legendre isn’t visible in an other way as “Portrait based on an anonymous and undated sketch, allegedly given by Legendre to François Arago in 1829, according to”. — Sorry, I’ve lost my braille equipment? At least I couldn’t find a distinct class. But I guess: there is one “playing Fantômas“: every game a new name … — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.166.39.233 (talk) 04:03, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. I haven't the slightest idea what you are asking. That may be why nobody has yet replied. ColinFine (talk) 11:33, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

If your browser doesn't display math formulas then try making an account and change the "Math" setting at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:12, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Donate

I can’t use the overflow in order to make donation Regatds Kate Simpson 2001:8003:4260:7200:CC49:1F7F:61D9:6B0C (talk) 20:51, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Inquiries about the donation process should be directed to the Wikimedia Foundation, email donate@wikimedia.org . 331dot (talk) 22:17, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Donations

I am on autopay to donate to Wikimedia on a monthly basis but I keep getting these pop ups asking me to donate. It's pretty annoying. Can you create an option on the pop up button that readers can click indicating that they are regular donors? 2603:8000:6F0:8750:843:A867:8A47:DF19 (talk) 01:02, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

There is a way to disable them in your preferences but you need an account to do it. Ultraodan (talk) 01:08, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

IPs can theoretically be used by more than one person, so there is no way to know that the person on your IP at any given moment has seen a donation message or donated. Donation records are not connected to accounts or IPs, either. The only way to avoid seeing the messages is to create an account and turn them off in your account preferences, as noted by Ultraodan. 331dot (talk) 01:21, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia follow GDPR?

just curious thats all Metro8102 (talk) 16:35, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Metro8102 See Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy - Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki which mentions GDPR. What Wikimedia will do depends on the law in each of the countries in which it operates. . Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Unix Operating System Attribution

Dennis Ritchie

Hello,

I came across the sentence in your article/page stating: "He created the Unix operating system." I believe this may be inaccurate, as he was actually the co-creator of the Unix operating system.

If I am mistaken, please feel free to correct me.

Thank you. Gdebw (talk) 04:49, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Did you, Gdebw, perhaps come across the sentence in the article Dennis Ritchie that says (with emphases added) He created the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson? -- Hoary (talk) 05:29, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@Gdebw and Hoary: Maybe listing both guys at the beginning of the sentence would be more clear..? Something like "Together with K.T. he was created blah, blah" or "He created, together with K.T., blah, blah". Having K.Thompson mentioned at the end may suggest K.T. co-authored the B language only. --CiaPan (talk) 11:00, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

CiaPan, I'd have no objection if Gdebw (or you) were to make such a change. -- Hoary (talk) 22:40, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Changing the language of an article

How do I change the language of Amarni Banks' wikipedia article - it needs to be in English? NickoXavierBarber (talk) 10:50, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

You may be on a different-language Wikipedia. We do not have an article on Amarni Banks on the English Wikipedia. PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 11:41, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

There's a draft at Draft:Amarni Banks, but it's in English. There's an article on German Wikipedia at de:Amarni Banks Ultraodan (talk) 11:52, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

My bad for not checking draftspace, thank you. PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 11:55, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I am very new to Wikipedia editing, how would I go about ensuring there is one on the English Wikipedia? NickoXavierBarber (talk) 08:32, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Each Wikipedia is a separate project, with their own editors and policies. What is acceptable on one is not necessarily acceptable on another. The English Wikipedia tends to be stricter than others. It is up to the translator to make sure that the article they are translating meets the requirements of the target Wikipedia. The draft was already submitted and declined, please see the message left by the reviewer. 331dot (talk) 08:35, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

See WP:Your first article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:08, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Links from one article to a subheading in another

I just edited a subheading in an article. How can I locate any links to that section of the article so I can make them match and circumvent breaking the connection? olef641 (talk) 04:02, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Search using "insource:" (see Help:Search). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Template for sections missing their purpose

The plot section of Strictly Confidential (2024 film) is a teaser, not a plot summary. What is the correct maintenance template for such cases? --KnightMove (talk) 15:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi KnightMove - I'd use {{Cleanup|reason=Complete plot is needed. See [[WP:TEASER]]|date=October 2025}} - Arjayay (talk) 15:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the hint... this was my first choice, however Template:Cleanup specifies to be for "non-content-focused changes"?! Is this handled more flexibly in practice? --KnightMove (talk) 16:02, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

I think {{hook}} fits best, or more generally {{more plot}}. jlwoodwa (talk) 16:08, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

{{Expand section}} is also available. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:43, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you all, I have chosen the hook in this case. But I still wonder if there is a general template saying like "This content is somewhat illegitimate; it needs to be reworked to be compliant with the rules.", without implying more specific problems like bad language, POV etc. ?! --KnightMove (talk) 08:10, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

{{Cleanup}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:57, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Draft about Robert II Mortimer

I'm asking for advice on what and how to do, I'm new here Smart Andrew (talk) 22:53, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Smart_Andrew/sandbox&direction=next&oldid=1315016914 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smart Andrew (talk • contribs) 22:57, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

It's at User:Smart Andrew/sandbox. Well, uh, . . . you have to learn how to edit. This page, that page, every page has a link saying "Learn to edit". Click it! Learn to edit. If/when you get into difficulties, feel free to ask here about those specific difficulties. -- Hoary (talk) 23:00, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

The link doesn't open on "Learn.to edit". Сan you show where she is. Smart Andrew (talk) 23:07, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

It's under Main menu (top-left if you're on a desktop), which will lead you to this page: Help:Introduction. Once you've mastered the basics and got a few edits under your belt, you'll hopefully know which steps are next to take for your draft. Nil🥝 23:25, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for being persistent, but where is it in the mobile version? I don't have a computer/laptop at the moment. Smart Andrew (talk) 21:15, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Clicking on the Help:Introduction link will land you on the same page, but for future you can access the Main menu on mobile web by clicking the hamburger icon () at the top of the page :) Nil🥝 23:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Also, in your draft you might explain how the "II" is to be read/interpreted -- "the second"? "Ivor Isidore"? -- and whether "Robert II Mortimer" is the same person as "Robert de Mortimer". -- Hoary (talk) 23:50, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

the second one because it is stated in the article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nobles_and_magnates_of_England_in_the_13th_century#

Barons Point, Herefordshire, Barons Richards Castle Smart Andrew (talk) 21:19, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Smart Andrew, and welcome to Wikipedia. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 09:45, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Lost Content on the User:Trolefson/Choose an Article

I had previously made edits and filled out the entire assignment for User:Trolefson/Choose an Article, which it didn't allow me to publish anything and now everything that was written on that page is erased so is there any possible way for me to recover that? Trolefson (talk) 23:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Trolefson, the page User:Trolefson/Choose an Article is still showing content for me, unless you mean you made an additional edit to the page which didn't get published? Nil🥝 00:38, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Move a category

Can someone move Category:Sport in San Marino by castello to "[...] by municipality". Thanks! --Like the windows (talk) 20:53, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Like the windows: There are special rules for categories but it seems OK here so I have moved it to Category:Sport in San Marino by municipality. Please clean up by changing the members to the new category. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:45, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done. No problem. Thank your for the help. --Like the windows (talk) 21:48, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Showing my Username instead of Signature

I just made a minor correction in an article, but it shows my private username rather than my signature! I have checked Preferences/User profile/Signature, and I have unchecked the option "Treat the above as wiki markup." Even as I type out this question, I can see my signature showing correctly. So why is my *private* username showing on edit histories, and how can I fix this? ASwiki (talk) 02:33, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 02:36, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @ASwiki, there's no such thing as a "private username". Custom signatures are only used on talk pages and similar, where you sign off with a ~~~~. On page histories, an editors username (not signature) is used.

If you're unhappy with you current username, you can consider changing it by visiting WP:RENAME. Nil🥝 02:37, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your very quick response! And thank you for that information. ASwiki (talk) 02:51, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Medical history template categories

Hi, I've created this template "Template:Pioneers of surfactant research" and I'm trying to add a category that is something like "Medical history templates" but can't locate anything similar. I had a look in here: but couldn't see anything. Does such a category exist and if not, can I create it? I've not done but it looks pretty straighforward. scope_creep^Talk 18:00, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Scope creep: Category:History of science templates only has 15 templates and no field-specific subcategories. I suggest you just use that and Category:Medicine navigational boxes. I think {{Pioneers of surfactant research}} has too much description for a navbox. It's more like a list. Navboxes are just meant for navigation between articles. I have never seen a navbox like this. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:32, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @PrimeHunter: How goes it? I was just thinking that during the late afternoon as well and was the reason I stopped working on it earlier. I've not seen anything like that either and it was getting bigger and bigger and its only a 30% of its final size. I think this is the impetus I need to convert it into a list article and just have a small template with a list of names-dates on it, to go with it. That has solved that. Nice one. scope_creep^Talk 20:44, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

And I have the template category I was looking for which is ideal. scope_creep^Talk 20:59, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Year articles

Why don't years have a list of people who were born or who died in that year anymore?

I notice those have been removed. Borges123xyz (talk) 17:55, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Borges123xyz: On what exactly? Always post the context so folk know what your talking about. scope_creep^Talk 18:05, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

If you to the article for a given year. You would typically a list of people who were born and died in that year. Not anymore. Borges123xyz (talk) 19:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

I should point out that it seems to start with 1900. Borges123xyz (talk) 20:57, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Borges123xyz: Always name a specific page when you seek help with something you have seen. I tried 1995. It has a long Births section with 12 subsections and a Deaths section with a link to Deaths in 1995 which links 12 articles by month, too much for a single article. I examined the page history. A shorter list was removed in March 2023 with reference to an RfC (request for comment) which must be Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 199#RFC: split births & deaths from year articles. Maybe that's what you are after but it's hard to tell when you have still only narrowed it down to 126 articles after three posts. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Interstellarity has made some mass changes to year articles recently that removed the contents of the Births and deaths section and replaced it with an attempt to link to a category I think, although the text is corrupted with formatting code visible. For example see any year between 1944 and 1962, as well as many others. There is a discussion on the editor's talk page and I hope and believe that they are in the process of correcting this. CodeTalker (talk) 21:45, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

I notice it begins with 1900. I hope they correct it soon as it was a very useful feature that is not usable. Borges123xyz (talk) 02:06, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Chemetco

Chemetco

Reference help requested. Message: Hi, I need some help with reference errors on the Chemetco article. After editing the lead section offline and pasting it back in, a group of named references are now showing as missing. The bottom of the article lists errors like: Cite error: The named reference EPAHistory was invoked but never defined Cite error: The named reference IllinoisEPA was invoked but never defined Cite error: The named reference Business1999 was invoked but never defined, etc. Before this edit, all references were working perfectly. The citations still appear in the References list, but the <ref name="…"/> calls in the text can’t find them. I tried again on my own initiative, but I simply don’t know enough about the back end of these pages to make sense of it. I do appreciate the help I had earlier today, but it didn’t resolve the issue, and it’s important that the references are fixed soon given the significance of the material. I’d really appreciate help from someone experienced with citations to restore or relink the missing named references without losing the edits to the lead. Thanks so much! — Al Thanks, Astral highway (talk) 13:51, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

It seems that you've dealt with these errors – or someone has. Maproom (talk) 16:15, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Image rotation

c:File:Sankhadhar statue.jpg is used at Sankhadhar Sakhwa and Nepal Sambat#Reinstated as national calendar. The image needs to be rotated 90°. I'm hoping someone can fix that. I see some stuff at {{rotate}} but I'm wondernig if the image at Commons should be fixed. Johnuniq (talk) 00:41, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I visited c:File:Sankhadhar statue.jpg, I clicked on the link to the 1,050×1,500 pixel version in order to download it, rotate it, and upload the result. But the 1,050×1,500 pixel version was the right way around. An edit clash, perhaps? I refreshed c:File:Sankhadhar statue.jpg. No: still the wrong way up. This puzzles me. -- Hoary (talk) 03:08, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I just encountered the same thing. It also appears the right way up for me in the table under "File history"... Nil🥝 03:13, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

The image has two orientation flags with conflicting values. fixing. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:59, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Amazing, thanks. Johnuniq (talk) 00:33, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

But, some kind of caching problem means that viewing the local File:Sankhadhar statue.jpg still shows the sideways version, and that still appears in the two articles linked above. Is there a way of purging the thumbnail? Johnuniq (talk) 00:41, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Rcat for ICD code?

What Rcat would I use for a redirect from an ICD code? Shocksingularity (talk) 00:55, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@Shocksingularity the template {{R from alternative name}} looks applicable. Have you found any existing examples for such redirects? Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Monarchs column on list

Hi, I've been trying to get the monarch column on List of Landvogts of Liechtenstein to be spread relative to their reign to the term of office of the Landvogts. I tried separating the other rows, which seemed fine at first, but now it seems to have merged again. May someone please help me do this correctly? I would also ask the same of List of heads of government of Liechtenstein. TheBritinator (talk) 17:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@TheBritinator: Have you already solved this?

If not, could it be an issue of different browsers not all treating it the same? The Landvogts list looks mostly right, to me. However, I've noticed in the past that on my browser there seems to be a final step in formatting these wiki tables, in which all the pictures are resized according to ... whatever they get resized according to. Could the picture resizing be playing against your row heights? I don't know. TooManyFingers (talk) 18:07, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

No, I haven't fixed it. That's an interesting theory that I haven't thought of before. I am using Opera, if that means anything. TheBritinator (talk) 18:27, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Biography

I would like to publish my biography in Wikipedia. Please advise on the procedure. Thank you. MLSantaella (talk) 17:18, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The best advice in most cases is to not do it. Publishing your biography somewhere, such as on your personal website, is fine, but people writing their own biography usually find Wikipedia's requirements extremely difficult to manage. One of the main problems is that all of the key points in a Wikipedia biography must be things that were already published about you by someone who had no business or social connections with you. For most people it is extremely frustrating that they are not permitted to tell the truth for themselves.

It's also important to keep in mind that everything on Wikipedia, including biographies of living persons, is free to be edited by anyone. You would not be the owner of the biography, and would not have the right to protect it from other editors. TooManyFingers (talk) 17:52, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The only absolute requirement for an article to remain on Wikipedia is that the subject must be notable, by our definition: See WP:N. If you are not notable, then do not proceed or you will just be frustrated. There are more than 6 Billion living humans. Most of us are not notable. -Arch dude (talk) 18:10, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

The procedure: You will need to create an article using the official Articles for Creation (AfC) process, which will require you to start the draft article in draftspace. You will also need to declare your conflict of interest per the guidelines. Read the WP:COI guidelines carefully. MmeMaigret (talk) 19:03, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Trying to Install a Rater

I'm trying to install a rater using mw.loader.load( '/w/index.php?title=User:Evad37/rater.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' ); // Backlink: User:Evad37/rater.js onto my page with Twinkle (through the following code) mw.loader.load('//vi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Plantaest/TwinkleMobile.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');. Do I need to create a new page just for this code and every other code I install? Cheers, CREditzWiki (Talk to me!!) 21:53, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@CREditzWiki, scripts like this go into your common.js – yours is at user:CREditzWiki/common.js and I see you already have Mobile Twinkle there. You just need to add this line below the line for Mobile Twinkle:

mw.loader.load( '/w/index.php?title=User:Evad37/rater.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' ); // [[Backlink: User:Evad37/rater]]

Likewise, other scripts can be added to the same file, one on each line. The Backlink after the // is a comment and not essential, but helps script developers know how to many people are using the script. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:28, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

User talk template

Is there a user talk page template for if the user adds a question intended for the subject of the article into the article itself? I suppose this would fall under disruptive editing or something but is there a more specific template? Thanks, Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:15, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

It would never occur to me, Chorchapu, that there might be such a template. (Even if there were, then looking for it, copying it, pasting it, and adding a short explanatory sentence would probably take me longer than writing a curt but polite message from scratch.) -- Hoary (talk) 22:31, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Alright, thank you for your help. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:32, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

If that happens, especially repeatedly, it's usually a good idea to also add {{Not a forum}} to the article's talk page and/ or its edit notice. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:24, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@Chorchapu: I don't understand - is the user you or someone else? ie is someone else doing this (which is why you've talked about disruptive editing) or is this something that you want to do. Is the question really for the subject of the article or just a clarification that's needed that you think only the subject can answer? Is the subject also on wikipedia? MmeMaigret (talk) 05:44, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Another user edited an article asking a question to its subject. I can't actually remember what article it was specifically but it was a question directed at the subject of the article. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 15:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Incorrect information

The original language is Kannada , it is not correct Mahavatar Narsimha that you mentioned it’s Hindi 98.234.188.184 (talk) 02:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

If you wish to dispute the way in which the article Mahavatar Narsimha describes the relative uses of languages in the film Mahavatar Narsimha, then please start by reading the extensive discussions -- from July to August -- about this matter in Talk:Mahavatar Narsimha. -- Hoary (talk) 04:41, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

unconfirmed information

Iam concerned about potentially incorrect information. In particular the fact that a death has been added to an entry which has not yet been officially confirmed by the home office , they have only said A man was attacked and pronounced dead in jail but no name given (Ian Watkins, Lost Phophets) . He is not dead until they officially confirm identity. 82.8.31.109 (talk) 22:34, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

There's quite a few reliable sources confirming that Ian Watkins has died, for example this and this. I don't think the UK Home Office necessarily confirms all deaths in prison or announces details? Either way, article content is usually based on reliable sourcing rather than just government ones. -- Euryalus (talk) 22:43, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Template Substitution

{{harv|Hilliard|Keith|1999|p=43}}
This is a template syntax. Since the template uses #invoke:, I couldn’t intuitively see what the output would look like, so I used subst:. However, instead of showing the rendered result, it only displayed the template syntax itself. Could you help me see the actual output? (My original goal is to implement the template as-is without using the #invoke: syntax.)

Whatback11 (talk) 12:36, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Hilliard; Keith (1999). Spoof citation to avoid error messages.

{{harv|Hilliard|Keith|1999|p=43}} →

([[#CITEREFHilliardKeith1999|Hilliard & Keith 1999]], p. 43) →

(Hilliard & Keith 1999, p. 43)

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:52, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

How did you get the output result? Whatback11 (talk) 16:04, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Umm, look at the source of this discussion?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:09, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

That source is interesting! Whatback11 (talk) 05:04, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Request sir check help

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ramkripalyadavgeo/Archive Hello Sir, all the accounts are mine. Please unblock all my accounts. I promise I won't interfere anymore. I sincerely apologize for this. I will be careful. Delete all history 🙏 Wighggg (talk) 15:05, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Wighggg. If you are blocked, then you may not post anything anywhere on Wikipedia, except as explained at Appealing a block. I strongly suggest that you read guide to appealing blocks very carefully first. You will need to persuade an admin that you understand exactly why you were blocked, and that you will not repeat the behaviour. ColinFine (talk) 15:22, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Hidden page

I have written my autobiography on my user page but when I go to Google to search for, it doesn't generate my information as others I have read. Rocker J.(RJ) (talk) 16:11, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Rocker J.(RJ): Userspace is intentionally noindexed to prevent precisely what you are doing. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 16:13, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Page has been deleted as U5 "Misuse of Wikipedia as a web host". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:21, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Succession box rendering at Šuppiluliuma (Kummuh)

Hello, while doing NPP I noticed that Template:Succession box is garbled at the bottom of new article Šuppiluliuma (Kummuh). I don't see a problem with that template at other articles, and I don't see any recent changes to the template or to nested templates that Succession box uses. I tried removing individual lines from the template at the article, but nothing seems to work. Is the problem with something other than the template? Thanks for any help with this. Wikishovel (talk) 05:59, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

The {{Succession box}} template needs to be wrapped in {{S-start}} and {{S-end}} templates, as described in the template documentation. I've done this, which has improved the output, but there is a lot of complexity in these templates and I may not have fixed the usage completely. On that page there is also an invocation of an apparently nonexistent template {{Persondata}}; I don't know what the intention was there. CodeTalker (talk) 06:38, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Persondata says "Persondata was a special set of metadata that could be added to biographical articles only. It has now been removed. From now on, such data should be added, with a citation, to Wikidata instead." Maproom (talk) 06:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix, and apologies for not RTFM carefully before asking. Šuppiluliuma (Kummuh) was a translation of de:Suppiluliuma (Kummuh), which contains that Persondata template (as de:Vorlage:Personendaten), deprecated at German WP. Wikishovel (talk) 07:33, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

donations

I just received an alert asking for donations. In the past, I'd receive these perhaps 2/3 times per years and I'd donate $50. Several years ago, a request came through that had me donating $2.75 per month, which comes nowhere near what I was donating, even out of a small income, because I do appreciate Wikipedia and I use it quite often. However, since I accidentally ended up on this ongoing donation thing (until now) I've not received another request. Because of this most recent request, I've logged in and wandered through all the help pages and I'm hoping that you can help, by seeing to it that perhaps I might receive more messages asking for greater support that $2.75 pm, because if I can help at the time, I will. Cheers guys and thank you for your service 👍🏻🇦🇺 ChocolateTeddyBears (talk) 10:41, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@ChocolateTeddyBears You can control whether to see donation banners when logged in via Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-centralnotice-banners. There is a "Donate" link as part of the Main Menu, where you can change your actual donations. I prefer to contribute by editing rather than donating and the WMF is not short of cash currently. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:55, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Donation records are not attached to accounts and vice versa. Inquiries about donations(like accidentally doing an ongoing donation) should go to donate@wikimedia.org. 331dot (talk) 10:59, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Voting for WMF Trustees

I recently received two emails inviting me to vote for WMF Trustees. My question is not about why I received two emails; one of them was addressed to a legitimate alternate account, and so I will ignore it, because I know that the voting is one human, one vote. However, I seem to have mislaid the email, and I would appreciate a link to the Meta page that describes the voting. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:58, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Here you go, @Robert McClenon! PhoenixCaelestis (Talk · Contributions) 23:25, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, [[[User:PhoenixCaelestis]]. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:43, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Strange selection of sources

In the Zionism Wikipedia page, all sources are from very recent articals (from the 00's and often even later). Why is that for every other ideology you take sources fromm the pioneers of that ideology (usually around the 1920's, 1880's if not even further back in time) which presents that same ideology as in a neutral light before exposing is for the bad things that it had done (and every ideology had done very bad things when you look at extremeists). Why not show sources from the origin of Zionism in the 1900's and 1910's (and even before) from people like Benyamin Zeev Herzel and show the origin of the ideology before going into the modern day and showing the bad side of Zionism just like how you represent Communism or Facism and even Liberalism. I understand that most of the board is probably antizionist but please remember what you work for and what this website's all about, and not show just a single agenda since if you read just the beginning of the article I was able to spot multiple claims that are straight up lies. I'm not asking to hide all the awful things some Zionists did but the action of extrimists does not represent an entire people. Nate9934 (talk) 16:26, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@Nate9934 There is an article at History of Zionism that covers the topic in the way you mention, although its neutrality is disputed. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:05, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't know whether the two articles are separate just due to size or other considerations too, but regardless, "avoiding additional controversy" is now a good reason against merging them. TooManyFingers (talk) 17:34, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Why is that for every other ideology you take sources fromm the pioneers of that ideology – Liberalism, Communism and Fascism all cite many contemporary sources.

most of the board is probably antizionist – Wikipedia has no board. WP:Neutral point of view is a fundamental Wikipedia policy, but, of course, there are numerous articles that fall short of abiding to that policy. Janhrach (talk) 14:01, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:-namespace links as external links

I remember I have read somewhere that in mainspace, links to the Wikipedia: namespace should be treated as external links, but I couldn't find any policy or guideline that actually says that. So, is this true, or just a false memory? Janhrach (talk) 13:47, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Janhrach: It's false for hatnotes and disambiguation pages. Do you mean in article text and references?`PrimeHunter (talk) 13:52, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, for article text. Janhrach (talk) 13:55, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Janhrach: WP:WAWI says: "if you link from an article to a specific Wikipedia page, use external link style". PrimeHunter (talk) 13:59, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Unfortunately, it is still unclear to me if, under MOS, Special:Diff/1315737624 is OK. What do you think? Janhrach (talk) 14:08, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

remove a suggestion for a reference

Someone added [full citation needed] and this was done. How do I get rid of the [full citation needed] note.

Also Lentz's algorithm is not JUST the category of Special Hypergeometric Functions. That category restricts the new continued fraction method to a single application of Hypergeometric functions such as Bessel functions. AI says: Continued fractions fall primarily under the branch of Number Theory, though they also have significant applications in areas like complex analysis, numerical analysis, and dynamical systems. While commonly encountered in number theory, the concept of continued fractions is a general mathematical tool used for representing numbers and functions, with applications ranging from providing the best rational approximations to solving complex problems in various mathematical fields. Wj lentz (talk) 20:46, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

In common with the vast majority of the population, Wj lentz, I do not understand the concepts discussed in Lentz's algorithm. (This of course is a criticism of myself or my miseducation, not of the algorithm or the article.) However, I can say that provision of a sound citation permits removal of a "citation needed" flag. But as you are (I presume) the author of the algorithm and several cited works, it shouldn't be you who does this. Instead, you should make suggestions and requests at Talk:Lentz's algorithm. If there's no response for a week or more, then post a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics inviting people to look at, and respond at, Talk:Lentz's algorithm. As for categorization -- sorry, I'm going to have to provide a non-mathematical example -- if we have an article about somebody who is both Somali and (US) American, and both a painter and a ceramicist, then it's entirely proper to categorize her as "American painter". Doing so doesn't imply either that she's nothing aside from American or that she's notable for nothing other than her paintings. She can additionally be categorized as a Somali painter, a Somali ceramicist, and an American ceramicist. -- Hoary (talk) 22:26, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

old accounts

i hav a old account and i know username but not password or email 203.116.182.182 (talk) 08:45, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately this means you will be unable to access your account, and you will need to create a new account. You may identify it as a successor to your old account("I am User5678", I was previously User1234 but lost access"). 331dot (talk) 08:53, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Ensuring accurate translations from English articles

Hello community,

I’ve noticed that the English article Surfshark VPN is translated into several other languages, but some of the translations appear inaccurate, and a few facts do not match the English version. I would like to ensure that translations in other languages remain consistent with the English article and reflect accurate factual information. Since I am affiliated with the subject of the article, I cannot edit the articles myself due to conflict of interest. I would greatly appreciate advice on how to: - Propose corrections or improvements in other languages. - Ensure that volunteer editors can safely implement these updates. - Keep everything fully compliant with Wikipedia’s COI and neutral point of view guidelines.

Any guidance or recommended process would be very helpful. TeaAndPages (talk) 08:59, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

TeaAndPages First, please formally disclose your COI on your userpage(click your username, currently in red, to access it). If your COI is that you are employed by the company, you are required by the Terms of Use to instead make the stricter paid editing disclosure.

Each language Wikipedia is a separate project, with their own editors, policies, and practices. You will need to go to each language version to ask what their specific policies are with regards to contributing about this topic. 331dot (talk) 09:04, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

I stated COI on my page, but I wanted to clarify that this is not a company's initiative but rather my personal initiative to ensure the facts are true. I am not seeking to pay for editing, but I want to ensure that any changes are made in accordance with Wikipedia's rules. Just to make sure, will I need to visit each language talk page and request revisions there, or contact editors directly? TeaAndPages (talk) 09:22, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

TeaAndPages, 331dot was asking not whether you were suggesting that you would pay other editors to do the work, but whether you were being paid for your efforts to nudge Wikipedia. If "yes" to the latter, you must declare it. (But if the former -- just don't.) If for example you want changes to be made to lt:Surfshark, then you have to go to Lithuanian-language Wikipedia and find out how such requests are made (whether on lt:Aptarimas:Surfshark or elsewhere). Incidentally, there appear to be 11 articles on Surfshark, but you shouldn't assume that any of them started off (let alone has continued to develop) as a translation of another. -- Hoary (talk) 10:41, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

I would like to ensure translations consistent with the original! Believe it or not: your language even isn’t the most spoken of this world!
<joking>Maybe there are more klingons than us at all together? If so: who wrote Macbeth — with what words?</joking> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.166.39.233 (talk) 04:10, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

TeaAndPages, there is absolutely no requirement or even any expectation that translations of Wikipedia articles into other language versions of Wikipedia be consistent from version to version or with the original article. Each language version is an independent project with its own policies, guidelines and administrative processes, as 331dot has already pointed out. Editors at version A may decide that an abridged brief translation is best for their project and editors at version B may decide to include lots of added detail that the original version did not include. Editors at language version C may decide to include a wholly new article on the topic, with a different structure and a different set of references. All language versions should strive for factual accuracy but how that is achieved in other languages is not the business of English Wikipedia editors. Mandarin Chinese has more native speakers than English but that does not matter in this context. The English Wikipedia is not the "Boss Wikipedia" or the "Master Wikipedia". It just happens to be the oldest and the largest (currently). So, an expectation of consistency is not realistic. Cullen328 (talk) 04:30, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Request to Move Draft to Draft Namespace

Hi,

I would like to request assistance in moving my draft to the Draft namespace. The current title of the draft is `Draft:Confait`, and I would like to move it to `Draft:Confait (rapper)`.

I am unable to perform the move myself due to permission restrictions. Could you please help me with this?

Thank you for your assistance.

Best regards, Everythingconfait Everythingconfait (talk) 09:51, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Done. And also commented on. (Please see Draft:Confait (rapper) and Draft talk:Confait (rapper).) When the draft is ready for resubmission, tap on "Resubmit". -- Hoary (talk) 10:59, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Images

Regarding adding images and avoiding copyright violations, if an image is from Google Maps, can I include it and credit Google Maps as the source? I tried doing something similar with Cookie Jar Entertainment, but they said it was a copyright violation. How can I use a Google Maps image without violating copyright, while still giving proper credit? WVWG9652 (talk) 13:46, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

You cannot. See c:COM:THIRD and WP:NFCC for the limited conditions under which you can use third-party images on Wikimedia projects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:45, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@WVWG9652 You may find it helpful to read WP:MAPS, which describes the multiple ways we usually put maps in Wikipedia. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:30, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Chaz Smith Calgary

Wikipedia volunteer page about:

[Moved to Draft:Chaz Smith ]

ConnorTuck (talk) 06:34, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

This isn't the place to request new articles. It could be created as a draft article, but a person needs to meet the general notability guideline. Also, articles are written in a neutral tone and are not intended to read like CVs or social media profiles.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:01, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

I have moved your text to Draft:Chaz Smith, where you can continue to work on it. When you are ready, submit it for review as described at WP:AFC.

You may find WP:Your first article helpful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:05, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@ConnorTuck Wikipedia policy on biographies of living people is essential reading relevant to this draft. Citations must include full details so that readers can verify all the information. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:13, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

"Who wrote that" tool

There used to be a tool in one of the sidebars which could help you find out who added specified text to the article.

As a particular example, I'm looking at Dallas County, Missouri.

There is a particular sentence, followed by a reference. The sentence is:

3.57% percent reported speaking Pennsylvania German or German at home

The reference presumably reporting the percentages, returns a message "sorry! The page you requested could not be found".

I'd like to reach out to the editor who added that sentence to see if they know how to find the original page. I do know how to do a binary search of the edit history but that takes a lot longer than the tool which allowed you to highlight the text and do the search for you. Does that tool still exist? S Philbrick(Talk) 10:49, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: See mw:Who Wrote That? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:06, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks (do you ever sleep?) S Philbrick(Talk) 11:08, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: https://www.mla.org/map_data_results seems to have been moved to https://apps.mla.org/map_data now. You'll find the data you're looking for there. — DVRTed (Talk) 11:24, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Wow, that's wonderful, thanks. I was able to find that exact number using that tool. In the meantime, I used the "who wrote that" tool to track down the editor who added the original citation and just finished composing a note to the talk page to ask them if they could help find the right reference so I can follow it up with a "nevermind". Thanks again. S Philbrick(Talk) 11:39, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Forgotten and don't remember the password

I have my old account A chris80. I have my email address, but I don't remember the forgotten password. This is terrible. What shall I do to find out? 108.21.67.83 (talk) 23:48, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Try resetting your password. Victor Schmidt (talk) 06:03, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

I try to reset the password. I have not received my email response back to retrieve my old account. 108.21.67.83 (talk) 21:43, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

How do I get my profile on Wikipedia?

How do I get my profile on Wikipedia? 104.184.108.89 (talk) 00:36, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

You don't, because we don't do "profiles". We are an encyclopaedia, and we deal in well-sourced articles. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 00:40, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

If you mean you want an account, see Wikipedia:Why create an account?. jolielover♥talk 04:38, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

One person, two articles

I discovered from the discussion at User talk:EricPerry that the new-ish Sabah Zita Benson article is about the same person as the much older Zita Okaikoi one. I tagged these as duplicates, but in hindsight that tag probably isn't appropriate here (and in any case doesn't solve the issue!). I suppose the articles should be merged somehow, but I don't think I've ever come across a situation like this, so thought I'd ask for advice before putting my foot in it. For one thing, I'm not even sure which article title should be used going forward. Any thoughts on how to handle this? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

There are merge to and merge from templates, but those aren't really necessary in this clear-cut situation. A simple redirect from Zita Okaikoi to Sabah Zita Benson is all that's required (plus merged-from and merged-to notices in their respective talk pages). There's nothing in the former that isn't already in the latter and in more detail. Not only that, but ghanahighcommissionuk.com refers to her as Benson, so that's presumably the more WP:COMMONNAME. Also mentioning her ex-husband Andrew Okaikoi would explain why she is referred to by two names. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:33, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it obvious that her current name is the COMMONNAME one, and therefore where the article should be at? I've no idea when she changed her name, but from the age of the older article it's clear that she has been a public figure under her earlier name for a significant length of time. I mean, Cat Stevens is known to most people by that name, not as Yusuf Islam, even if he prefers to use the latter these days. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:18, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

She changed her name because she got remarried. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:56, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

I made the redirect. Further discussion about content should be conducted on the article talk page; or just be bold! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Request to post comment on fully protected WP:NPOVN discussion

Hello,

I am not extended-confirmed and cannot post on fully protected pages. I would like to request that the following **full post** be added to the WP:NPOVN discussion about Gaza genocide on my behalf:

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I would like to raise a policy concern about the use of the term Gaza genocide on Wikipedia.

Consensus among editors, as cited in previous RfCs, has been used to justify treating this term as established fact. However, consensus cannot override Wikipedia’s core content policies:

• WP:NPOV – Articles must present all significant viewpoints fairly and proportionally.
• WP:RS – Claims must be based on reliable, independent sources. Allegations of genocide are heavily disputed, and no authoritative international body (ICJ, ICC, UN, or any government) has issued a ruling confirming genocide in Gaza.
• WP:UNDUE – Presenting contested claims as established fact gives disproportionate weight to one side of a debate.

Therefore, the current phrasing risks violating these core policies. Editorial consensus does not determine factual truth; it only resolves disputes among editors. Reliable sources should dictate how neutrality is applied.

I recommend that the discussion or any related articles reflect the contested nature of this term, for example by using phrasing such as allegations of genocide in Gaza or some sources describe the events in Gaza as genocide, while others dispute this characterization.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance. Omer7135 (talk) 11:46, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

There's a reason it's a contentious topic. Also this is blatantly AI generated. Aydoh8^{[what have I done now?]} 11:48, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the reliable sources do describe the conflict as a genocide, so your LLM has contradicted itself. Aydoh8^{[what have I done now?]} 11:51, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

there aren't any reliable sources. genocide is not something that can be declared through words, only actions. there isn't a single country on earth recognizing this as a genocide. there isn't a single international organization recognizing this as a genocide. how can the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD contradict what all others say? Omer7135 (talk) 11:52, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

There are currently no authoritative international bodies or governments that have recognized the events in Gaza as genocide. Genocide is a legal term that can only be established through specific criteria and formal determinations, not through statements or opinions. Presenting the term as an established fact gives undue weight to disputed claims and risks violating WP:NPOV and WP:UNDUE. Omer7135 (talk) 11:56, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Per WP:PIA, editors who are not extended confirmed are not permitted to edit about the Arab-Israeli conflict; this includes on the helpdesk. The only exception is to post edit requests on an articles talk page. Please stop. CoconutOctopus talk 11:59, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, right: "Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say"; "Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"; "Israel/OPT: Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in another milestone for accountability efforts". We even have an article, Gaza genocide recognition, which lists the many countries that have recognised the genocide. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Disappearing page

Jeff Brady (journalist) existed a few weeks ago. I know because I moved it from Jeff Brady (reporter). Now it doesn't exist. How can I find out what happened to it? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 13:41, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

It was deleted following this discussion. There wasn't much participation so it was "soft" deleted and you may request to have it restored at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion if you would like. —Rutebega (talk) 13:58, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Not critical. Just curious. Thanks. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 14:00, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Mandruss: if you click on the red links, there should be a record of when the page was deleted and why, including a link to the discussion, if any. TSventon (talk) 14:20, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Ah yes. I see that now. I was blind before. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 14:24, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it normal to redlink incoming page links (in this case, a CS1 |author-link= and an {{About}} hatnote)? Cuz that's what happened. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 14:24, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

There is some guidance at Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators#On deleting pages, which says that If a given title should never have an article, such as an article on someone very obscure, then remove all links to it, so it appears that the deleting admin has discretion. I think that it was right to remove the hatnote. TSventon (talk) 14:55, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Gregg7543

I sent in a submission titled Gregg Balin - Victus Sports and nothing was rejected or accepted. It was never posed online. How do i proceed?

Gregg Balin Gregg7543 (talk) 11:37, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Your talk page shows that an article about Gregg Balin has been rejected several times. Please see Your first article, particularly where it talks about creating an article related to yourself. This is very unlikely to be accepted as it is a common mistake for new editors, particularly if it is written in a promotional and non-neutral tone.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 12:03, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Gregg7543. Your unreferenced, self-promotional drafts are unacceptable. Please read WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY and refrain from any further efforts to promote yourself on Wikipedia. Cullen328 (talk) 04:50, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Dangerous link

How do you report a dangerous link? The link seen on User_talk:Yleventa2 (when clicked on) activated my anti virus program so it shouldn't be there. I don't dare remove it myself certainly without permission, but it might be better to blacklist it as well if you can do that. 2001:8003:5130:2601:6826:33BA:C2AF:7D66 (talk) 10:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor. Assuming you mean the link to a website called corticalchauvinism.com, then it is only used a couple of times in articles and I've checked that the archived version of the first hit is valid. Link rot does happen and can lead to "dangerous links" but in this case I don't think that it is a serious problem. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:20, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

I've removed the link from the user talk page (besides being dangerous, an IP added it to discussion that was marked as closed); and marked the other two uses as usurped. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:21, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Sent to AFC

I just tried to create a redirect (from Axiom Ince to Ince & Co, which I doubt would be controversial since the legal press usually refers to the matter by the former of these, and the name is prominently mentioned at the target article). But the system tried to send me through AFC as if I were a newbie (which I'm not). Is that supposed to happen? AndyJones (talk) 14:34, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@AndyJones: Try again and check that you are logged in on the page view where it happens. Does it happen when you click the red link or when you try to save the redirect? Does it actually prevent you from creating the redirect or does it just show AFC as another option`PrimeHunter (talk) 14:44, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Good questions. I just tried again, from the red link in this section and it worked normally. So I'm not sure what went wrong, but let's consider this resolved. AndyJones (talk) 09:46, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Heading

Hello - I've just created a new article Diary of a Provincial Lady, which should be in italics as it's the name of a book. I don't know how to correct it - does the page need to be moved? Many thanks Blackballnz (talk) 03:06, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

@Blackballnz: I have added {{italic title}}. An infobox like {{Infobox book}} would also italicise the title. TSventon (talk) 03:17, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon Many thanks. Much appreciated! Blackballnz (talk) 03:45, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

English version of Hebrew page

I can’t upload or create the English version of my Hebrew Wikipedia page

Hi, I have an existing Hebrew Wikipedia page (Dr. Yaniv Zaid aka he:יניב זייד) and have done some small edits on other pages. However, I don’t have access to upload or create the English version of my page — it says I don’t have permission. Could someone please help me understand why, and what I need to do to get editing or page creation rights? Thank you, Carinaharon1 (talk) 09:56, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

You should use the Article Wizard to create and submit a draft for review. Each Wikipedia is a separate project with their own policies- what is acceptable on the Hebrew Wikipedia is not necessarily acceptable here.

You say you've edited other pages, but that's not indicated by your edit history(this is the only edit attached to your account); perhaps you did so while logged out. Your account needs to be four days old with 10 edits or more(on this Wikipedia) to be able to directly create articles- but its highly recommended that unless you have experience having articles accepted here, that you use the submission process even if you are technically able to create articles. 331dot (talk) 10:00, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Carinaharon1.

I will go further than 331dot. The Hebrew article is useless as a base for an English article, because it does not have a single source which English Wikipedia would find acceptable. (See WP:42).

Therefore this task would be writing an English article from scratch, which is extremely hard for new editors of English Wikipedia. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 15:21, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Carinaharon1 When you say you have an existing Hebrew Wikipedia page, do you mean you created it or it's about you (WP:COI)? Nevertheless, I don't know why you can't create an English version. If you have permission to write on the Help Desk, I don't see why you shouldn't be able to. Others have told you how. But since you haven't explained what you tried to do (and I wouldn't understand anyway), we wouldn't be able to tell you where you may have gone wrong. On English Wikipedia, if you want to create a page in another language, there's an "Add languages" button in the top right corner (so maybe on the top left corner on Hebrew Wikipedia). I just discovered the other day that we have a Wikipedia Embassy, so my advice would be to seek the help of the Hebrew attaché. MmeMaigret (talk) 05:31, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Britannia Pub ?

Britannia Pub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2603:8001:71F0:11D0:DBD:F783:46DF:E50D

User:Another Believer

Piñanana (talk) 21:37, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

This is the help desk. Not the 'post random links' desk. If you have a question within the remit of this page, ask it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:40, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on King Mustafa Obafemi

Special:Diff/1317311794

Reference help requested.

Summertime Someone please fix this for me, I have no idea how to fix it because the code is too complicated.

Thanks, 2601:5CC:4181:E100:28EC:CE21:308A:872E (talk) 14:20, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Frankly, I give a damn.

In Fred Buckley's external link, it displays his name as Frank, but the website explicitly says that's wrong. I don't see any Frank in the article, so where is it getting it? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:54, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@Clarityfiend: The Wikidata item Frank Buckley (Q43378441). PrimeHunter (talk) 22:18, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, then how does one go about fixing the Wikidata entry? Clarityfiend (talk) 22:21, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@Clarityfiend: Wikidata already says also known as Fred Buckley. One of their sources says Frank so it may be controversial to change Wikidata. You can say {{sports links|title=Fred Buckley}} in the article to override the Wikidata name. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

WIKIPEDIA

HOW DO I CREATE A PAGE FOR MYSELF AND MY INFORMATION 69.181.129.143 (talk) 04:22, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

You don't. There is no such thing as 'a page for myself' on Wikipedia. We have articles on notable subjects, based around what independent reliable sources have to say about them, editable by contributors in general. In the case of biographies, the subject him/herself is actively discouraged from editing: See also Wikipedia:Autobiography. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:30, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

doc title Italic

I noticed that the title of this document is in italics. Why is it like that? Domoso55 (talk) 04:24, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Answering myself: I noticed that the title in the next sentence of a Template:Infobox COA case is italicized.

italic title = {{{italic title|<noinclude>no</noinclude>}}} Domoso55 (talk) 04:38, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

@Domoso55: Yes, many infoboxes automatically add italics to the title unless they get a parameter like |italic title=no, documented in a box near the top of Template:Infobox COA case. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:03, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I see. Domoso55 (talk) 10:12, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

PDF page not rendering

• Documentary editing (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Diff with broken image

My Wikitext

Markup

Renders as

[[File:Frus1977-80v09.pdf|thumb|page=235|An annotated document, as published in [[Foreign Relations of the United States (book series)|FRUS]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Adam M. |title=Foreign relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Arab-Israeli Dispute, August 1978-December 1980| year=2014 |publisher=U. S. Government printing office |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v09| page =202 |isbn=978-0-16-092101-8 |location=Washington (D.C.)}}</ref>|upright=1.3]] <!-- Added for readability here--> {{reflist-talk}}

An annotated document, as published in FRUS. References

Why is this image not rendering?(I don't want to revert the SVG change while C:GL/I#Readability of extracted page is open)

Tangentially, is there a linter to help with wiki text syntax errors? — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 20:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

@BillHPike: I purged the PDF file and it shows up now for me. MKFI (talk) 11:33, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Password Reset

Hello, I've been trying for weeks to reset my password but NEVER receive the email that lets me do it. I've tried with both possible usernames (one has first letter capitalized) but still get no response. I know I'm not supposed to specify personal information, so I'm not sure how you're going to help. 2603:8000:3E00:2990:35BD:2C6F:CAC0:245E (talk) 04:38, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

You are allowed to state your username but this is a public page where anyone can see your IP address so some users don't want to. The name may help us give advice. Don't give your email address or any other personal information. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Make sure to check your junk mail folder(a very common thing people forget). 331dot (talk) 12:31, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Username is either ddotyjr1 of Ddotyjr1. 2603:8000:3E00:2990:C402:62EE:577C:A010 (talk) 17:43, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

The list of users doesn't give anyone with these usernames as being currently active. You would need to know the exact username, although you could use the list users tool to look through some approximations of it.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:50, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

there is currently no account by that username, here or at another Wikimedia foundation wiki. The first letter of the username is case-insensitive, so its spelling doesn't matter. Try inserting just the email adress at Special:PasswordReset. Alternatively, you can try to look through the page histories of pages you remember editing to try and find out the username. (Depending on how long you retain your E-Mails, it might also be worth to seach your inbox for E-Mails from @wikimedia.org or @wikipedia.org, since most (all?) E-Mails from Wikimedia specify the user they were sent to) Victor Schmidt (talk) 18:10, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

As others say, there is no account by that name here. Are you at the right wiki? This is the encyclopedia Wikipedia. We have a shared account system with a few other wikis but there are also thousands of unrelated wikis which use the same MediaWiki software as us and may look similar depending on their configuration. I did find an account called Ddotyjr without 1 at the end. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:33, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. The username you found worked and I was able to reset my password. Thanks again. Ddotyjr (talk) 21:36, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Largest photovoltaic company in Europe - BISOL Group not on the list

Hi,

I would like to know, why there is no company BISOL Group (solar company) on the list, since it is the largest PV module manufacturer in Europe. Who can edit this page?

Please check link: List of photovoltaics companies - Wikipedia

I would appreciate your feedback.

Kind regards. 193.77.12.142 (talk) 10:44, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

List articles like that only include members of the list with Wikipedia articles. 331dot (talk) 10:52, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor. A quick Google search shows no decent sources about BISOL Group in English, possibly because they are a Slovenian company. If you can put together an article based on reliable, secondary sources with significant coverage, in any language, that would be the first step. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:58, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Technical query from an otherwise disinterested person: if the statement above ("largest PV module manufacturer in Europe") could be reliably sourced, would it merit a redlinked entry on the list page, with that source cited, pending an actual article? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 13:29, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Depends on who is making the claim(not the company itself). Ideally it would be better to have the article, as that's the main purpose of List articles. I would also probably want to see someone actively working on creating an article in order to do what you're asking about. 331dot (talk) 13:32, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Request to move page to Draft:Mohammed Goje (Yobe SEMA)

Hello, I recently created a biography draft at User:Wadzani_Apagu about Dr. Mohammed Goje, Executive Secretary of Yobe State Emergency Management Agency.

I would like to request that it be moved to Draft:Mohammed Goje (Yobe SEMA) so that it can be reviewed under the Articles for Creation process.

Thank you! Wadzani Apagu (talk) 16:21, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Your username implies a WP:COI. If that's the case you absolutely should not write an article I have misread your username as being the article you're drafting. Carry on :) mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:03, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Wadzani Apagu, you need to be aware that Wikipedia does not permit the use of user pages for self-promotion in the manner that the content at the top of your user page does. I suggest you remove it, and read WP:UPNOT before writing anything more about yourself. Failing that, it will be subject to deletion. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:18, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

AndyTheGrump, you seem to have forgotten to ping @Wadzani Apagu:. --CiaPan (talk) 17:42, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

trying to get help with starting page posting

Last night I found a mentor. Can't find any help from his mentor name. Am trying to get help getting up and running posting a page and despite reading all kinds of help pages, I have no idea how to get to Sandbox or other places to start process. Any advice would be helpful, including where to find the advice. I'm 80 years old and need some handholding (despite being a retired copy editor who created his own website). I'm just lost in your maze of instru ctions, including primer for newcomers. in short: HELP! Many thanks. Maloneyjohnp (talk) 05:42, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Maloneyjohnp. You have written a draft article about John Patrick Maloney who died in 2001. Since your username is similar to that name but you are clearly not dead, you need to disclose your relationship with that person and whatever your conflict of interest is in this matter. You can do so by clicking the red link that is your current signature and disclosing your conflict of interest on your now blank user page. The best help pages for you at this time are Your first article and Referencing for beginners. References to reliable, independent sources that devote significant coverage to the topic (Maloney in this case) are literally the backbone of an acceptable Wikipedia article, not an afterthought casually tossed in at the end. The role of the Wikipedia editor when writing an article is to accurately and neutrally summarize what those referenced sources say, no more and no less. Content that is not properly referenced is not acceptable. For example, "L.A. Times obit, July 2001" is nowhere near acceptable. The publication is the Los Angeles Times. We need the precise title of the obituary and we need to determine if it was staff written, or family submitted (in which case it is not a reliable source). We need the precise date and page number and author (if stated). Ideally, we want a URL which should be available for 2001. "Conversations with John P. Maloney Conversation with (his brother) Cornelius Maloney" are not acceptable. Published sources with professional quality editorial control are required and No original research is a core content policy. Wikipedia editors do not write down what they think to be true based on their personal experiences and recollections. Instead, our core content policy of Verifiability limits us to summarizing cited published sources. Once you understand these fundamental principles, you will have an easier time of things. I may not be quite as old as you but I am 73 now, and once I understood Wikipedia's core content policies which are mandatory, things became relatively easy for me. Cullen328 (talk) 07:59, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

@Maloneyjohnp You have already posted an unsourced autobiography in your sandbox and been given useful information about why this is unacceptable on your talk page. You should at the very least read those two pages of advice I have linked. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:46, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Shantavira, how can it be an autobiography? The subject of the draft died 24 years ago. Cullen328 (talk) 08:02, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

or faked his death … —Tamfang (talk) 19:21, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

I was editing on AutoWikiBrowser to remove the births and deaths from the pages, but it seems like I have messed up with the syntax. I really want to fix this using AWB, since I don't want to do this manually. Any suggestions on what I should do? See User_talk:Interstellarity#Deletion_of_births_and_deaths and Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Removing_and_replacing_the_births_and_deaths_section_of_some_years. Interstellarity (talk) 13:22, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure about AWB as I don't use it; I think the best fix would be to go to each page and revert it to the version before you started your edits. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 20:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Which infobox is appropriate?

About a year ago this article was tagged as needing an updated infobox. Looking at it, Template:Infobox sports rivalry just doesn't seem right because it's about a recurring sports event and the subject of this article is wider than that. Which one would preserve the greatest amount of the information in the table at the top of that page? Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 01:58, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Having a quick look through Category:College sports rivalries in the United States, most articles use the Sports Rivalry Infobox. As a non-American, the most notably rivalry I personally know of would be the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry, but the article for that doesn't use an infobox at all, so that's not much help... Nil🥝 21:38, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Reference Stefan Hofmann article

Stefan Hofmann

Dear Wikipedia Support Team, I was contacted by Morris Turner claiming to be a Wikipedia moderator. I made a mistake of sending him my CV. He has offered to "clean up" my Wikipedia page and has requested a payment of $1,200 USD for this service. I am concerned about the legitimacy of this offer, as I understand Wikipedia does not charge for editing or moderation services. Could you please verify whether Morris Turner is an official Wikipedia moderator or if this contact is legitimate? I want to ensure that I am not being scammed or involved in any fraudulent activity. Thank you for your assistance. Stefan Hofmann 2A02:908:1D4:F4C0:E480:FEA5:C486:6FC5 (talk) 18:07, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello Stefan Hoffmann. I recommend extreme caution. First of all, "moderator" is not an official term used on the English Wikipedia, although some people may apply that term to administrators. There is no account called "Morris Turner". Although paid editing is not forbidden, it is strictly regulated and such editors must comply formally with the Paid-contribution disclosure. So, ask this person what their Wikipedia user name is, and ask them for a link to their mandatory disclosure. In all honesty, a very large percentage of paid editing services are scams. Please read Wikipedia:The truth about paid Wikipedia editing for additional information. Cullen328 (talk) 18:35, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Stefan, please read Wikipedia:Scam warning and follow the instructions on that page to report "Morris Turner" to the Wikimedia Foundation. qcne (talk) 20:18, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

You might also have a look at (history of the article) to see whether anything was ever done that could plausibly be attributed to "Morris Turner". —Tamfang (talk) 01:36, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Honda Sparta?

I could not find any evidence that the Honda Sparta was an actual scooter produced. I could not find a single book online mentioning it, barring what appeared to be uses of the two words in other contexts. It should be noted that there is a moped company named Sparta B.V., which some of the results referred to. There wasn't too much discussion about this, so I thought I would bring it up here. Does this mean the scooter was not real? (Sometimes articles that were thought to be fake turned out to just be very obscure) RanDom 404 (talk) 15:41, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @RanDom 404. I'm not sure what you're asking here. You took the article to AFD.

If your question is, did the scooter actually exist, this is not the right place to ask: try either one of the sections of the WP:Reference Desk, or perhaps at WP:WikiProject Motorcycles ColinFine (talk) 16:41, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

This is only a speculative suggestion, but there is or was a practice by individuals and dealerships of making hybrid motorcycles by transplanting one manufacturer's (superior) engine into the (superior) frame of another's, an example being the Triton motorcycle (other combinations are mentioned in that article). Could a 'Honda Sparta' have been a Sparta frame given a Honda engine? Note that in the 1990s (per the article) Sparta were using Yamaha-developed electrical systems. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.153.108 (talk) 07:47, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Chemetco

Chemetco

Reference help requested. Request for assistance: broken named references after lead edit While updating the lead section of the Chemetco article, I cut and re-inserted the paragraphs after editing them offline. That seems to have detached or deleted the definitions for a set of named references. The article now shows multiple “Cite error: named reference was invoked but never defined” messages at the bottom. These point to reference names like EPAHistory, IllinoisEPA, Business1999, FEC1992, NYT1992, StLouis1992, EPAInspection, and DOJ1992. The citations themselves still exist in the References section, but they were not stored as named references, so the <ref name="…"/> calls in the lead can’t find them. I’d appreciate help from an experienced editor or admin in either: rebuilding the missing named references from the existing citation list, or checking if an earlier version of the page still holds the original reference definitions that can be restored. Thanks — I want to make sure I don’t damage the reference structure further. Thanks, Astral highway (talk) 08:13, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Are you sure they're all in the references section? When searching for FEC1992, it doesn't appear to be there, although it is invoked 3 times in the article body. jolielover♥talk 08:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm trying to look in the article history to figure this one out, but there are so many edits it's quite hard. Although there isn't a rule against it, I'd really recommend doing one edit rather than multiple. Anyway, to me it appears as though there aren't defined references for all those with the error, e.g FEC1992. If they used to be defined, then you might have accidentally cut them out. Check the page history; this edit is the one before your page rehaul in September, where all references are defined. I don't think there's another way of going about this without finding them in the page history and adding them back manually. jolielover♥talk 08:36, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

As I replied on the articles talk page, none of these references appear to have ever been in the article before your edit. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 12:13, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Need help with my Talk page

Hi, the formatting of my Talk page is all wonky. All of the entries are on the page horizontally, instead of vertically, when I look at it on my laptop. When I look on my phone, all of the content is only available if I click on the box that says "Learn more about this page", instead of just being available normally. I can't figure out why. Can someone take a look for me, please? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 20:57, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: <div ...> in your edit notice is missing a closing </div>. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:02, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, that fixed it. I have no idea how that happened, but looks good now. Appreciate your help. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:55, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

redirects

I don't understand the guidelines yet about redirects, so can anyone knowledgeable tell me about the contributions here? User is redirecting non notable players to the badminton team articles which are unlikely to attain any notability in future. They are making redirects for all of them. The common practice is to wait until the player becomes notable per the guidelines WP:GNG, WP:SIGCOV and WP:NBAD to name a few. What kind of urgency is the user feeling that they have to create redirects like that? Not only this, many such junior players haven't even made it to the national squad yet.zoglophie^•talk• 18:55, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

The sports player may not be notable but the reader still searches for these kinds of junior folk and are expecting some kind of response, in essence, they are looking for some kind of information associated with the subject name that they are searching on, so a redirect fufills that requirement. scope_creep^Talk 20:22, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Broken anchors on articles

I'm working on updated broken anchors on articles, and ran into something I'm not sure of. I have found a few articles that don't have the broken anchors template in the talk page of the article, so I don't know what's a broken anchor. Is there a way I can find out what the broken anchor is without the template telling me? Thank you! Amethystloucks (talk) 17:02, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Can you give an example? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

What to do about once-valid external links that have been hijacked?

I came across a group of users on Commons spamming links to a website selling steroids (ecbproject.org). I have reverted the spam on Commons, but this external link is currenty used in several places here on Wikipedia (search result). It appears that this website was once used by ECB Project and editors here added it as a valid external link or reference, but now that it has now been hijacked to sell steroids what should be done? Should these links just be removed, or is there a better way to handle it? Marbletan (talk) 14:20, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

If the site has been usurped, change any citations to it to use an online archive, like the Wayback Machine, and add |url-status=usurped to the citation template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:48, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

@Marbletan: (edit conflict) If it's used in a reference or used as an external link in a way that seems helpful, you can go to the Wayback Machine and find a version of the Web page from before the URL was usurped, then add that to the reference (using |archive-url= and |archive-date= if a CS1 template is being used) or replace the external link with the archive URL. (In many cases, you may decide that just deleting the external link is preferable.) Deor (talk) 14:53, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Pigsonthewing and Deor. I have converted one of the links that was used as a reference to a Wayback link, and simply removed the others. Marbletan (talk) 15:01, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Content response: DYK link on main page

Hi, I want to query the use of "committed suicide" in the DYK link about the 29BC Yellow River flood today (21 October).

Link text: "China's imperial chancellor committed suicide after he was blamed for the devastation of the 29 BC Yellow River flood?"

Suicide is not a crime and most WP articles reflect this, using "died by suicide". Can this be updated to match?

I don't have editing skills so not sure where to direct this, thanks. Greenhenry1 (talk) 09:42, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

@Greenhenry1: I have posted to Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors#Current DYK. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

This has now been changed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:18, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Viktor Troicki

Viktor Troicki

I'm not sure how to fix this. Could you revise it while keeping everything else the same?

Thanks, StadionBgd (talk) 08:04, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @StadionBgd. The error message says that you have not specified the title of the source: {{cite web}} requires a title. I should think the title would be "профессор Сергей Викторович Троицкий", so you should add trans-title= with an Anglicised version, and language=ru. You should also name the publisher in the citation, and the publication date if you can find one (I don't think it has one). These are the important parts of a citation, much more than the URL.

It looks to me as if this is a primary source, so make sure that it is being used only to verify the kinds of information that primary sources can verify. ColinFine (talk) 11:29, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much. StadionBgd (talk) 16:05, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

America’s Junior Miss 1982, Maxine Shelton

Hello,

I would like to request the addition of verified information regarding my participation in the 1982 America’s Junior Miss national competition.

I, Maxine D. Shelton, was the official Miss District of Columbia for America’s Junior Miss 1982. Although this information is not currently listed, it can be verified through:

The official 1982 national program, which includes the show order and portrait pages of all 52 contestants (including myself).

Records maintained by Distinguished Young Women headquarters in Mobile, Alabama (formerly America’s Junior Miss). For accuracy and documentation purposes, I respectfully request that the following statement be added:

Maxine D. Shelton represented the District of Columbia in the 1982 America’s Junior Miss national competition (now known as Distinguished Young Women).

Thank you for helping ensure the historical record accurately reflects verified participation. Distinguished Young Women National Headquarters. Mobile, Alabama. Official archives confirming Maxine D. Shelton’s participation as Miss District of Columbia, America’s Junior Miss 1982. Available upon request at https://www.distinguishedyw.org

Best Regards,

Maxine D. Shelton Templescarellc (talk) 23:43, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

The article Distinguished Young Women, which is a redirect from 'America's Junior Miss', and covers the period in question, doesn't provide an exhaustive list of participants. Accordingly, without evidence from independent published sources (rather than the event's own website) that one particular participant was of any particular significance, we have no reason to include such details for them alone. Wikipedia is a tertiary source, summarising what secondary sources think significant about a subject. It is not an exhaustive listing of every verifiable fact on a subject whatsoever. I see someone has crowbarred in Shelton's name into the article, without the slightest explanation, and that you have attempted to add a reference (incorrectly formatted) for this. - I shall remove it again, as contrary to Wikipedia policy on neutrality, which would require a complete list of participants (if coverage in independent sources justified it, which is probably questionable, since over the decade being discussed, it would presumably run well into the hundreds), rather than just those being plugged by the participants or their friends. Please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and don't engage in such self-serving behaviour again. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:11, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Ancient West Eurasians

You have articles on Ancient East Eurasians, why didn't you have one on Ancient West Eurasians? Or how can I create it? Can I request someone more knowledgeable than I to create an article about Ancient West Eurasians? 2600:1011:B35C:7165:4E1C:EA2F:AC0:1D44 (talk) 00:16, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

From a quick look, the topic is covered to some extent in the Basal Eurasian and Genetic history of Europe articles, and no doubt others too (I've not done an exhaustive search). And there's no particular requirement that articles on such topics display east-west symmetry in their titles, so unless it can be shown that such an article is needed through sufficient sourcing discussing in depth that specific topic itself, we may not need one. We cover the broader topic already, and how we do so isn't dictated by particular terminology. And since this is a volunteer project, nobody is under any obligation to respond to a specific request. We have a Wikipedia:Requested articles process, but frankly I'd be surprised if using that had any result on a sensible timescale: the backlog is huge, and the subject matter involved is likely too technical for most who involve themselves there. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:30, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Stepchildren in Infobox

Hi! Just want to know what is the MoS around including notable stepchildren (with their own WP pages) in infoboxes? Baberoothless (talk) 06:39, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

@Baberoothless I don't think it is a MOS topic but instead has to do with WP:BLPRIVACY. The documentation for {{infobox person}} says only list names of independently notable or particularly relevant children. so I'd expect to see a stepchild listed in the infobox only if the biography mentioned them in the main text to explain why they were an important part of their parent's story. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:33, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Here's an example: The close relationship between Kamala Harris and her stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has been discussed by many reliable sources. And yet Ella Emhoff is not mentioned in the infobox at Kamala Harris. Instead, there is a piped link to Family of Kamala Harris where Ella Emhoff is described. Cullen328 (talk) 08:04, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Creating a new article

How can i confirm my connection on the theme. Luiz Alla (talk) 09:05, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Luiz Alla. I am not quite sure I understand your question. If you want to create a new Wikipedia article, I caution you that this is the hardest task a new editor can do and I would really recommend you spend a few weeks improving existing articles first so you gain experience and knowledge of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Then, create a new draft article via the Wikipedia:Article wizard which will allow you to submit the draft for review by experienced editors.

If you're asking how to confirm you have a conflict of interest with an existing topic or a topic you want to write about, please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You would usually write on your User Page at User:Luiz Alla the nature of your conflict of interest with the topic.

Let us know if you have any more questions. qcne (talk) 09:33, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Library archiv

Dear Sirs,

A couple of tears ago, after editing and creating many articles on the English Wikipedia, I received access to a Wikipedia digital Library archiv, very useful to search saurces. Niow I just can't find how I reach this library. Can you help me?

Regards, EEJB (talk) 12:41, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@EEJB I think what you're looking for is The Wikipedia Library Thilio^{R O B O T🤖 talk} 12:50, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

User page

Hello. I’m involved in a dispute about this topic on the Spanish Wikipedia, and I’d like to confirm whether the policies are the same here or not. I know that they are not necesary the same.

• Is it possible to mention your academic level on your user page?
• Is it possible to include links to other Wikipedia-like projects you collaborate on?
• Can you include links to your blog or personal website?

I’ve seen many examples of these cases among other users, even administrators. Thank you very much. Pmisson (talk) 15:35, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@Pmisson The details of what is OK here is given at WP:UPYES. What you are suggesting seems to me to be fine on en:Wikipedia, provided not stated in a way that is overly promotional. The equivalent Spanish page is this one Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:21, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. You can see my user page here: User:Pmisson. I'm happy to change it if it is considered promotional. The discussion on the Spanish Wikipedia heated up because of edits to my profile made without warning by users who don’t have those rights. No longer constructive. Probably I will forward my user to this Wikipedia if is currently correct. Pmisson (talk) 16:37, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Your user page on this wiki looks fine. You might also want to add {{User ORCID}} Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:38, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@Pmisson: hi, I have added a link in your en:User page leading to your es:User page. Feel free to revert, or ...make a similar link in the opposite direction (i.e., es → en). --CiaPan (talk) 18:12, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Mark Titus

In the most recent two episodes of Mostly Sports he classifies himself as a “goofy”. I am simply trying to add that to his Wikipedia. Can I please add that either to the beginning of his page or under the barstool section? Shanrahan2 (talk) 02:21, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Shanrahan2, in this edit, you have attributed this tidbit to a web page of Grantland accessed in 2019, to a dead page of theringer.com, or to both. If it's worth adding, it needed/needs links to what you describe here as "the most recent two episodes of Mostly Sports". -- Hoary (talk) 04:31, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Pope Francis Charity Money Given to Me on my Email

Where is the charity money? Who received it? This is Marian Ronet Bello,what is the reason of that charity money and the relation to me. Thanks. About my Accounts,do Wikipedia using it? Where do you pay of being a user of it??? 175.176.41.98 (talk) 12:25, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

We cannot help you with issues that are not related to Wikipedia, sorry. 331dot (talk) 12:29, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

If somebody claimed there is charity money you don't know about then be extremely careful. It sounds like a scammer trying to get money out of you, maybe after asking for bank data or some sort of fee before an alleged transfer of a larger amount. This is the encyclopedia Wikipedia and we are free to use. Maybe you found one of our millions of articles and thought we were associated with the subject. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:40, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Photograph pushed to bottom of article

Hi,

In this part of this article - Victorian Railways E type carriage#Melbourne to Adelaide (SA) - I've got a photo with caption "Melbourne Express in 1918, ..." that has been pushed all the way down to the end, with the references. I'm guessing it's because of the massive text boxes along the right side, but not sure how to lock it to the relevant section?

Also, is there a tool I can use to auto-consolidate references that are identical except for page numbers, and automatically add the page number code after them as I've manually done for references to the two-part articles by Banger & Medlin? The reference with ISBN 978-0-9806806-4-5 appears eight times, and others are also repeated. Or does that also have to be done manually?

Thanks, Anothersignalman (talk) Anothersignalman (talk) 11:07, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

@Anothersignalman: It's the issue at Template:Stack but there is so much right-floating content that you may have to move some of it together inside a large {{stack begin}} ... {{stack end}} if you want a left-floating image in a specific section. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:32, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Tried a few things, I think stack begin/end might be part of the solution but it's not quite working how I expected. Maybe I need to look at merging a few of the infoboxes, a lot of the content can be shifted to the top box which might help. Anothersignalman (talk) 13:21, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

For the page numbers, just reuse the same reference (and exclude the page numbers parameter in the {{cite book}} template), but add the {{rp}} template with page numbers after each </ref> tag. Nil🥝 12:33, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

So there's no way to do it automatically, I need to go through them manually? Anothersignalman (talk) 13:15, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Deleting My Account

I want to delete my account on Wikipedia, however, no option for deleting the account is available in my account's settings... Can you help me deleting the account completely???

Appreciate the help!!! FeRrJar (talk) 12:13, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

There's not a way to delete an account, since Wikipedia's liscence requires that all edits are attributable to someone. However, you can log out and not log back in again. -- D'n'B-📞 -- 12:23, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Vanishing may be an option, see WP:VANISH. 331dot (talk) 12:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

@FeRrJar The only edits now visible in your global contribution history are three about deleting your account. Since your account's name gives no hint of your true identity, there is no need to waste anyone's time deleting it. Who knows, at some time in the future you may feel like making a real contribution... Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:05, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

but I don't need an account to contribute to Wikipedia; I can edit pages without an account... If Wikipedia has an option to delete accounts in the account settings, like most websites do, I won't be "wasting anyone's time"...

Anyway, I contacted the right person for this issue and the deletion request is processing...

So thanks!!! FeRrJar (talk) 13:20, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

There is no means of deleting accounts, so I'd be very curious to know who you contacted that told you they could do that. Most people to prefer to edit with an account to conceal their IP address, though perhaps that is less problematic with temporary accounts for IPs being rolled out next week. 331dot (talk) 13:26, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Vanish was what they requested and was processed as such. – robertsky (talk) 13:29, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Email address

The email address associated with my Wikipedia account is no longer active. I can no longer log in. How do i change my email address on Wikipedia if I can't log in?

Rickcremer (talk) 15:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

This is a well known Catch-22 situation. If you do not have the password and the email address associated with it no longer works, you will have to abandon the account and create a new one. However, since you are logged in as Rickcremer, you must have access to this account.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 15:20, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

I have a related question. The email address associated with my Wikipedia account is also no longer active. I CAN still log in (for the time being, I guess). But when I try to change my email address on Wikipedia, it wants me to verify my (old) email first. Wikipedia has already alerted me that emails it sends to the account are bouncing, so one would think they would automatically disable the re-verify, but they don't.... JamesCurran (talk) 15:54, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

You could raise this at WP:VPT.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:18, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Disambiguation page with potential

I would like to add {{disambiguation with potential}} to Broken Glass. Is this OK even if the eventual article page will be located at Broken glass (lowercase g)? Utfor (talk) 00:26, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

A similar case is Classmate and Classmates. The disambiguation page is located at Classmates, but an article page would be called Classmate. Utfor (talk) 00:30, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I would make Broken glass a redirect and put the template on that (below the redirect code). Same with you second example. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:55, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Why do you think that broken glass or classmate would be worthy of articles? Clarityfiend (talk) 09:41, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Anti-Literary Laws

Wiki,

Under the ANTI-LITERACY LAWS page, on reference #15-it states that Arkansas, Kentucky & Tennessee didn't oppose educating slaves.

I thought it was MARYLAND, KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. IsabelMike (talk) 23:24, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Best would be to look up the matter in some authoritative source, and if the Wikipedia article has indeed got it wrong, then point out the mistake on the article's "talk" page, specifying your source as helpfully as you can. 126.156.241.20 (talk) 01:54, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@IsabelMike: The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says in the article Slave Literacy "Although Arkansas law never specifically prohibited it, slaveholders generally prevented enslaved people from learning to read or write." On the other hand, the Smithsonian American Art Museum article Literacy as Freedom "After the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831, all slave states except Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee passed laws against teaching slaves to read and write." Page 340 of Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy by E. Jennifer Monaghan says "In fact, there was no anti-literacy law in Maryland." The Maryland State Archives Q&A about the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland agrees that "There was no legislation which specifically prohibited enslaved people to read and write". I've added some of these sources (and Maryland) to the article Anti-literacy laws in the United States, with a contradictory tag for Arkansas (two sources say yes, one says no). Clarityfiend (talk) 10:31, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

TOM ALLEN

Entry on Wikipedia says Tom Allen (Comedian) was born in Bromley in 1983. It also says he DIED in 1988!!! I am sure this is not a fact. 2.103.72.122 (talk) 20:09, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Tom Allen (comedian) says nothing of that sort. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 20:18, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

What entity

What entity, if not an editorial board, makes the final decision to have a “certain group” day/theme such as queering wikipedia? I have donated to Wikipedia for years (not the minimum $2 or $3 either) and I think I deserve an answer to this. There are hundreds of subgroups of humanity. Mine is never celebrated, which is fine with me. But the stated goal of Wikipedia being a “safe space for everyone” for the sharing of ideas is not exactly represented by the banner atop Wikipedia today. Kms325 (talk) 18:00, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

@Kms325: Banners usually have a purpose to help wikis and not just celebrate something. Many banners depend on geolocation of the user. Based on your post and meta:CentralNotice/Calendar I guess you saw Queers und Frauen Tübingen. meta:CentralNotice/Request/Tübingen Queers und Frauen 2025 says "We want to find more people for our regular group meetings to strengthen and grow the Wiki-community and especially support margenalized groups (queer people and women)". See meta:Meta:Central notice administrators for who can approve such CentralNotices which are displayed at many wikis. Individual wikis like the English Wikipedia can also make their own notices. Template:MW notices mentions ways to do it. Some are only displayed at Special:Watchlist for logged in users. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:20, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

In what way does "Queering Wikipedia" make you unsafe?

Also, if you'd like to tell us your "subgroup of humanity" which "is never celebrated", I'm sure we'll be able to tell you where it is celebrated, or advise you in how to go about ensuring it is.

Finally, however, please note that your kind donations to the WMF buy you zero entitlement to anything here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:05, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Kms325 You are also free to establish an event where you try to gather the "subgroup of humanity" you are a part of and work to increase its presence on Wikipedia(whether or not it actually has one already). Inclusion-contrary to the views of the current US federal regime- is not a zero sum game where including others who are marginalized takes something away from you. 331dot (talk) 11:00, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Long Lake, Illinois

I some how caused the page to save wrong it needs reverting DMc75771 (talk) 16:55, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Fixed DonIago (talk) 17:02, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Catfish: The TV Show

I am editing at "Catfish: The TV Show" and I am not sure what happened but "Season 4" suddenly looks different; the info is not bordered by a colored table. I can't figure out what I did, but I'm sorry. Can anybody fix it, please. Thank you.--Now, "Season 5" has gone borderless. Sorry! Baeleigh (talk) 02:29, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

@Baeleigh: I have restored some code you accidentally removed. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:53, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Baeleigh (talk) 02:54, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Species

Is there a rule that if it's a "species" it gets a page? There are a lot of insects that really don't seem to warrant their own page. My only hypothesis is "it's technically a species"? 2405:6E00:620:9438:F388:12F:FE6C:578B (talk) 13:01, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor. There is indeed a rule! See Wikipedia:Notability (species). qcne (talk) 13:10, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. 2405:6E00:623:738:E043:E24B:58F5:659C (talk) 04:25, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Part of my User Revision History has vanished!

🆘  Nothing I've done since July 14 is showing up. Augnablik (talk) 05:03, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Nothing you (or anyone else) has done to your user page shows, I'd guess because there's been nothing. Note that this isn't your list of contributions. 126.156.186.43 (talk) 06:18, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Augnablik shows everything you've done on Wikipedia. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 07:59, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Have you, perhaps, accidentally edited while logged out? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:20, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh, of course, @126.156.186.43 and @Anachronist ... so sorry ... false alarm. I guess I'm so acclimated to going to the page history at the top of the screen as we do for article history that I temporarily lost my bearings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Augnablik (talk • contribs) 11:50, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Is it possible to run a list of pages from PetScan with Cat-a-lot?

For example, I have this query and I want to copy all of the output into Category:Beetles of Brazil using Cat-a-lot. Is this possible? Thanks, EatingCarBatteries _{(contributions, talk)} 22:25, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Probably not, but you could use AWB to add the category to every article listed in the results. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:17, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Note formatting weirdness

Can anyone figure out what is going wrong with the NOTE in compressed instruction set? Look for "One notable" and you will find a bunch of bolded text. I can't find what is wrong with it. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:23, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

According to Template:note, that template requires an ID as its first parameter. The only parameter you have given is the whole long text. ColinFine (talk) 14:28, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

My username is block from editing under a range block.

How do I fix this problem Djsnews (talk) 18:14, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

The mere fact that you edited this page means that you are not currently affected by a range block on your IP address. (I'm not saying you weren't before, just that you aren't now.) If this happens to you again, you should follow any instructions that appear. 331dot (talk) 18:39, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

This article is a big mess

Justice Brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justice_Brothers&action=history&offset=&limit=500

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Turbo80&target=Turbo80&offset=&limit=500

Wynn's International was began by a 70-year-old retired attorney, Chestein Wynn, in a garage in San Gabriel, California, making a product to reduce friction in engines.

"Wynn's International, Inc". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 18 October 2025.

this refutes Justice Brothers

I would like to move this article to Draft:Justice Brothers since this is the work of mostly one username User:Turbo80 User talk:Turbo80 with falsehoods and only two references

User:Turbo80 has frequently removed Multiple issues hatnotes

Piñanana (talk) 20:27, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

"The brothers invested in oil production and met Chestein Wynn and, with older brother, Gus, moved to Florida to become regional distributors for Wynn’s Friction Proofing oil additive."

https://web.archive.org/web/20210117035948/https://journal.classiccars.com/2020/08/20/justice-brothers-an-indy-500-tradition-that-predates-back-home-again-song/

"It was during their time at Kurtis-Kraft that Zeke met Chestein Wynn, a retired attorney who had received a formula from his son Clarence for an oil additive." - Justice Brothers

Piñanana (talk) 20:52, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Piñanana. We have many old articles that do not meet current standards. Thank you for wanting to improve one of them.

By all means, add references and clean up the article. I don't recommend moving it to draft space because that is not normally done for articles more than 90 days old (see WP:DRAFTREASON). You could put the {{under construction}} template at the top to mark that you're working on it.

Please bear in mind the policies of assume good faith and no personal attacks; but I see that @Turbo80 hasn't edited since 2020, so I doubt they are around to see your aspersions. ColinFine (talk) 21:24, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

tone of voice seems like puffery

if the article was currently a draft it would not succeed and currently it is not factual, thus not an aspersion but an assertion

Piñanana (talk) 21:53, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

"You can ask questions [here] about how to use and edit Wikipedia."

What is your question? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:31, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

edits being deleted

I am adding current information to Byron Scott but users, LuniZunie, ConnerTT and babysharkboss2 keep deleting it. LuniZunie sent me a message saying it is not constructive. It is just an update on what he is currently doing with this life/career. I am not sure why this would be considered "not constructive". Hk1984 (talk) 17:51, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Hk1984! I wanted to let you know why I deleted your edits, I have three reasons for doing so:

1. They lacked sources.
2. An IP making the exact same edits was already told to stop by numerous edits prior to your edit.
3. This isn't typically something you would add—at least in that manner.

I deemed your edits "not constructive" because we had already deemed this an uneccessary addition.

@ConnerTT @Babysharkboss2 – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 18:01, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Can you tell me what type of source would be required for information on a person's current podcast? I searched for an article but there is none to be found. I linked the YouTube site but apparently that is not a good source either.

Also, how is this "constructive" determination reached? As a fan of Byron Scott and his life and career, I find the information of his podcast HIGHLY constructive. It's why I added it. Hk1984 (talk) 18:05, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

See wp:constructive, constructive is not a comment on the content being discussed, but is a comment on the actual edit itself. The main issue with the content you added is that it made claims that were not supported by independent sources, linking the YouTube channel is typically not how you would go about citing this. – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 18:11, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

I think I understand, but just to expand on "maid claims that were not supported by independent sources." The confusing part, for me, is that the Youtube Channel literally confirms my claims. Having to source that information from an "independent source" which could very well be an obscure website pumping out AI generated content, seems really odd when the YouTube channel literally confirms without a shadow of a doubt the claims that I've made. Thank you for your time. Hk1984 (talk) 18:18, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

That's why we have WP:RS and WP:RSP. – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 18:19, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

(ec) Your update is unsourced. They are absolutely correct to remove it. See WP:BLP; all information in articles about living people must be sourced. If you have an independent source that discusses his podcast, please provide it; otherwise, it can't be in the article. 331dot (talk) 18:03, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

I literally posted a link to his Youtube site which shows the actual podcast and the subscriber count. Hk1984 (talk) 18:07, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

We need independent sourcing, to indicate that anyone other than Scott considers this significant. As for YouTube subscriber count, it isn't something Wikipedia takes into consideration. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:10, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@Hk1984 Just to make it perfectly clear, an "independent" source means "a source not generated by or controlled by the subject of the article". David10244 (talk) 05:40, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Britannia Pub ?

Britannia Pub made by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2603:8001:71F0:11D0:DBD:F783:46DF:E50D

User:Another Believer

is this a suspicious page ?

Piñanana (talk) 22:18, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

If you think there's something odd about it, you'll need to tell us what, @Piñanana. "Suspicious" is vague. ColinFine (talk) 22:23, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

That article went through the articles for creation process and is well referenced, so it is unlikely there is much to "suspect". Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:50, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

For me, Piñanana, yes it is. If you can summon the energy to describe your suspicions (and to ping me as you do so), then perhaps I'll summon the energy to describe mine. -- Hoary (talk) 22:34, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Reference section doing weird things

... in Vladimir Pavlecka. If I remove the Better sources needed templates, it's still doing something odd, but a different sort of odd. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:21, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I see that the quote box template is causing the second kind of weirdness, showing the quote in the reference section for some reason, but I don't know why. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:27, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I added {{clear}}. Does that work for you? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:13, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:11, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Pesticide pricing information?

Hi, I write/edit a lot of pesticide articles e.g. trifluralin. One metric that almost never comes up is the cost, but it seems very important. Pesticides can differ in price by an order of magnitude or more, and it's further complicated by the application rate (how much a farmer needs per hectare), although that info is easily citable. Prices can also vary greatly by year.

Is there a way I can include even a vague pricing info?

I don't think I can say a pesticide is "expensive" or "cheap" because that would a judgement call from me. It's also vague.

I don't think I can say "X compan sells it at $Y per kg" because that feels biased. I don't think I should add a host of companies' prices because it might quickly become too verbose and non-neutral to any company I didn't include. And next year, the price might change. And it might be different internationally.

Nevertheless, it feels like an important bit of context that readers might want to know, that some pesticide is usually expensive or that another is generally cheap. I just don't know how to include that without bias or opinion. 2001:8003:9034:9101:518:9655:3400:ED (talk) 07:39, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

It's me, sorry, not sure why that question wasn't sent from my account. I logged in just before writing it. Please respond here so I get notified. RustyOldShip (talk) 07:41, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

See WP:NOTPRICE: An article should not include product pricing or availability information (which can vary widely with time and location) unless there is an independent source and encyclopedic significance for the mention, which may be indicated by mainstream media sources or books (not just product reviews) providing commentary on these details instead of just passing mention. Wikipedia is not a price comparison service to compare prices and availability of competing products or a single product from different vendors. Anything an article says about pricing needs to be justified by secondary commentary on the subject. AndyTheGrump (talk) 08:01, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

@RustyOldShip Another complication with pesticides is that it is not so much the price that matters to a farmer but the cost-benefit ratio. There is anecdotal evidence that farmers will pay for a given treatment if the benefit is about four times the total cost to them but this varies so much that it is not encyclopedic to include such information without a specific source that discusses the issue. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:46, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Collapse breaks list format

Is there a way to prevent {{cot}}/{{cob}} from breaking list format per MOS:LISTGAP?

• Bullet 1
• Bullet 2

Off topic.

• Off topic reply to bullet 2

  Off topic reply to off topic reply to bullet 2

• Reply to Bullet 2

There should not be a bullet for the above comment. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 16:32, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't understand what you're saying, @Mandruss. You have placed the bullet there in the code. (or is this something about the Visual editor? I've hardly ever used that, so I don't know). --ColinFine (talk) 22:12, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I have an asterisk in the first position, but that doesn't always create a bullet. Here's the exact same code without the collapse:

• Bullet 1
• Bullet 2

  Off topic reply to bullet 2

  Off topic reply to off topic reply to bullet 2

  Reply to Bullet 2 ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 23:40, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

  No, you can't do that. If you look at the HTML source, you will see that {{cot}} creates an HTML table; and tables cannot be used inside HTML lists. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:23, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

CAPTCHA concerns

Hello. I am a new user on Wikipedia, and I've got to say, why am I asked to fill in a CAPTCHA to edit a Wikipedia page? This happened to me when I was working on my user page. Smorgasborder (talk) 18:51, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Editors are generally asked to fill a CAPTCHA when adding external links, until their account is autoconfirmed - this reduces the likelyhood of spam links being added. What's the issue here? -- D'n'B-📞 -- 19:25, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

@Smorgasborder Specifically, you addded a link to YouTube. Incidentally, that link doesn't work. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:17, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

The link to my YouTube channel somehow works because I added my channel's handle while editing the userbox because if you use this method, the link will take you to where you wanted it to go to. Smorgasborder (talk) 13:42, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Seems to have been the general glitches on the Internet today. It is working now. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:53, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Image removal

Is it possible to ask for a misleading image to be removed ? Sli23121953 (talk) 04:09, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Certainly. The article talk page is the appropriate place to do so. Make sure to explain why you think the image is misleading. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:28, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Sli23121953 (talk) 05:59, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Filmfare awards 2025

When it will be updated as aamir khan won 10th filmfare award and 4th as producer and it still shows only 9 in his wikipedia profile 119.156.157.73 (talk) 14:15, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Courtesy links:

70th Filmfare Awards;

Aamir Khan;

List of awards and nominations received by Aamir Khan.

The answer to the question is – when someone who wants to does so with correct links and citations.

{The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 15:18, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Please either edit the article yourself, or leave a request on its talk page. Either way, be sure to cite your source. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:21, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Tim Tate

Sorry, I've just created Tim Tate (author) and got in a bit of a mess with disambigs. I need an admin to do the following page moves / usurping. Please can (1) Tim Tate be moved to Tim Tate (artist) which is currently a redirect, (2) Tim Tate (disambig) be moved to Tim Tate, and (3) Tim Tate (disambiguation) be deleted. Thanks, and apologies for the foul-up. SmilingFace (talk) 18:51, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I've just moved Tim Tate (disambig) to Tim Tate (disambiguation), before seeing this post. What do you propose? Wikishovel (talk) 19:17, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

After noticing that Tim Tate was previously moved from Tim Tate (artist), I moved Tim Tate back there, since WP:PRIMARYTOPIC is unclear. Tim Tate is now a disambiguation page for the two articles. Wikishovel (talk) 20:42, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Translating a page from Farsi

translating and publishing a wiki-page from Farsi (Persian) in English language (original page creator request) ==

Hello there,

This is Iman Shamim. I am contacting you regarding the issue of publishing an available Wikipedia-in-Farsi page in English language. The original wiki-page (in Farsi) has been initiated by myself, and, at this moment, I am receiving some requests for translating the page in another languages of English and French for it to be better known and more widely spread. However, I was informed that only experienced editors are permitted to issue pages translated from other languages to English directly.

May you help me to go through this process? also, the following is the link to the original wiki-page:

fa:علی‌اصغر شمیم

Thanks in advance, @Imanshamim Imanshamim (talk) 05:27, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

You may use the Article Wizard to create and submit a draft for review.

Please know that each language Wikipedia is a separate project, with their own editors and policies. What is considered acceptable on one version is not necessarily acceptable on another. The English Wikipedia tends to be stricter than others. It is up to the translator to make sure that the subject meets the requirements of the Wikipedia for which they are translating. In our case, you would need to show that you meet the special Wikipedia definition of a notable person that we have.

Be advised that on the English Wikipedia, writing about one's self is highly discouraged, please see the autobiography policy. 331dot (talk) 07:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

331dot, it appears that the subject of the proposed article died decades ago. Wikipedia editors don't have to be notable. (Or anyway I hope they don't. I for one am a nobody.) -- Hoary (talk) 11:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. 331dot (talk) 13:01, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Please see WP:Translate for additional guidance. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:18, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Help with adding a fair use image to new article

Hi, I’ve recently created a new article titled Death of Noah Donohoe, and I’d like to add a photo of him. I’ve seen other articles use fair use rationales for non-free images, but I’m not familiar with how to do this correctly.

Could someone please advise:

• Whether it’s appropriate to use a photo of Noah under fair use?
• What steps I need to follow to upload it properly?
• How to write a fair use rationale that meets Wikipedia’s standards?

Thank you. ItsShandog (talk) 17:04, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @ItsShandog. The criteria are at WP:NFCC, and it's up to the uploader to determine if they are all met, and to write a justification showing so. Does that answer your question, or are there some more specific questions you have?

As for the uploading itself: see Help:files and upload wizard ColinFine (talk) 17:40, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

@ItsShandog

• Yes, I think so.
• Go to WP:FUW, pick Upload a non-free file > This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use. > This is a historical portrait of a person no longer alive.
• Some fields will be filled automatically, but here is a couple of examples: File:Debra Hill, 1950-2005.jpg File:Goldie E. Watson 1948.jpg

Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:37, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

I have tried but once I clicked upload it brought up some type of error message and just showed a jpg page but no picture on it. Its asking date of publication for the picture also but is that when it was first published or the picture that I'm uploading? It doesn't seem to be working when i try upload it. ItsShandog (talk) 13:17, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Question with a personal script

I want to add every vital article in certain categories to my watchlist using an unreleased script I made. I won't release the script to anyone else and it will only work for me. Is is okay to run on my common.js page by previewing instead of publishing? ZergTwo (talk) 21:30, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

@ZergTwo: That's OK unless the category is so huge that it stresses our servers. Your browser probably also has a console feature to run given JavaScript on the current page. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:26, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

How much is too much? ZergTwo (talk) 22:31, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

@ZergTwo: I wouldn't recommend it with tens of thousands of pages if you have to look up data for each page. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:02, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

What if I do it a category at a time instead of all at once? Would that be better? ZergTwo (talk) 00:01, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

You don't need to do this. You can manually edit your watchlist to add articles. There are various tools that will give you a text list of articles in a category, or meeting some other set of criteria. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:03, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Adding each article to my watchlist is very time-consuming. I also could not find any scripts that add articles to my watchlist en mass. That's why I created my own script. ZergTwo (talk) 01:17, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

My point was that you don't need to add them one at a time. You use a tool to compile the list, then make a single edit to your raw watchlist. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:42, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I did just that. Thank you PrimeHunter and Andy for your help. ZergTwo (talk) 14:45, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Klang

References 10 and 13 are the same - they are doubled up - please combine them in the usual wikipedia fashion. Thanks 115.70.23.77 (talk) 22:22, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Done! Mant08 (talk) 22:33, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Password Reset Without Email

Howdy,

I never set an email to the account that I created 19 years ago, and none of my passwords are working. Is there any way to reclaim that account? I only used it once as a test, right after creating it. I just want to be able to use the account name that I've been using for decades.

Thank you, -Stephen 24.16.161.190 (talk) 20:02, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

You may be able to usurp it, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes 331dot (talk) 20:18, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I will give that a try. Thank you for the link! 24.16.161.190 (talk) 04:45, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedian Deleting Articles

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Hello

I need help improving these articles so Wikipedian does not delete those under their personal option about "Not Notable".

These are two valid Def Leppard band singles, even with physical media released, that Wikipedian wants to delete:

• C'mon C'mon (Def Leppard song)
• Nine Lives (Def Leppard song)

Instead of allowing people to improve the articles they just quote some "mombo jumbo" and delete the articles. I don't need bureaucracy reading rules, I need these articles improved.

Regards Martiniturbide (talk) 16:32, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a collection of information about things that exist, there has to be useful information published independently of Def Leppard for a single to be considered notable by Wikipedia standards. There were discussions about if these articles should be deleted (redirected) at the top of the page for a full week, and the editors who created the pages were notified. -- Reconrabbit 17:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Again, I think it is personal bias. Tell me if it is useful to have on the Wikipedia all kind of Rabbits that are on earth. You like that, your research it, you think it is important, but for a lot of people it is not. Yes, you follow the rules to make a nice article with references, but if it is notable or not, it is just personal bias. Martiniturbide (talk) 17:16, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

It is the bias of Wikipedia to have articles that have references because some people got together and decided that was how this website will be run. Little Child and a whole lot of other Beatles songs have references because there are enough people out there who decided to publish books that discuss every Beatles song in depth. If the same existed for Def Leppard or Lynyrd Skynyrd or Xiddigaha Geeska then we could probably have articles about every song from all of those bands without complaints. -- Reconrabbit 19:29, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

You belief that this was based on a "personal option about 'Not Notable'" is mistaken; our criteria are clearly set out at WP:NSONG.

Furthermore, that page was referenced in the deletion discussions, of which you were notified and where you have participated. Given those discussions, you should be aware of WP:CANVASS.

Finally, you have wrongly reported another editor for "vandalism". Please see WP:NOTVANDAL, and WP:AGF. If you make false accusations of vandalism again, your own account may be blocked from editing. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:25, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I believe that the set of rules in WP:NSONG are taken in a personal bias according the Wikipedian of turn. Look for example Little_Child, this is an unknown song in popular terms, but it has a wikipedia article just because are The Beatles. Wikipedians are using their personal opinion to delete pages instead of making research on improving it. Martiniturbide (talk) 17:10, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

The editor that I reported did not produced detailed report of what is failing in the article. Just says "I didn't any significant coverage of the song" and it does not conform to WP:NSONG and that's all. No research, no looking around, just needs some other Wikipedians to tell him/her that's fine, and it's done, page deleted. Martiniturbide (talk) 17:29, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Your erroneous beliefs are of little importance here.

You are entirely unable to divine what "research, looking around" another editor did or did not do. There is no requirement for a reviewer to have "produced detailed report of what is failing". The onus is on you to substantiate your point by showing evidence that supports it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:08, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

My belief has are of little importance here, just like everybody else that is not a Wikipedian. What you don't talk about is that your Notability Rules are applied according to a personal opinion. And nobody is watching the facts of that page, or the number of references. The Wikipedian personal opinion is that a Def Leppard single has less notability that a race of rabbits or a Beatles song. Martiniturbide (talk) 22:42, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

As has already been explained to you, that is not merely their personal opinion, but fully accords with Wikipedia's usual practices and policies.

Since you are not asking a question about how to contribute to Wikipedia, and since this page is not a court of appeal, I am going to close this subsection. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:30, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

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Bureaucracy

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I found this little paragraph that describe better the problem that I was trying to explain.

This "Bureaucracy" and "Hierarchy of privileged users" are deleting articles according to the personal bias, and then they (editors) defend each other like a little mob.

Question: What is Wikipedia doing about this? Martiniturbide (talk) 16:20, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Considering the second note on that page points out that much of the essay regards concerns from roughly 20 years ago, I'd like to see you provide some evidence substantiating your concerns, especially since this is not the first time you've come to this page to raise similar concerns. It feels like you're being a bit tendentious. DonIago (talk) 16:41, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

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on single sources carrying articles

this is more for the sake of a quick chuckle at the moment, but it could actually be potentially useful as a point of reference, so i'm taking it here~

can y'all name any articles that, while undeniably being presentable, are partially or almost entirely carried by a single source... but also where that's not exactly a bad thing, because the source in question has enough to carry the entire article? think tattoo assassins, where citation 2 provides most info on its gameplay and a good bit of its reception consarn _{(talck) (contirbuton s)} 16:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

consarn, I do not think that most editors would consider it acceptable in the long run if an article depended entirely on a reference to a single source, especially if a competent search failed to produce any other acceptable sources. But sometimes a single source will dominate the referencing because one particular source goes into the topic is great depth and detail. Two examples of articles that I have worked on come to mind. Harry Yount is a good article that includes references to 12 sources. But one of them (William Supernaugh) is used 26 times because he wrote an in depth study of Yount's entire life that was published in the journal of a historical society. Similarly, Robert Clunie relies heavily on the book length biography of the painter by Richard Coons, although there are five other sources. Cullen328 (talk) 17:50, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Question about access-date parameter when updating existing citation

Recently clicked on an old news article linked in a reference footnote and found that link had long since died (like almost 20 years ago). I go to edit the page and see that the citation as written already includes an archive URL but with the "url-status" parameter set to "live". Super easy fix, just change it to "dead" and the archive link becomes the one that comes up first in the footnote - I'm very familiar with all of that! My question is: in this type of situation, should I at this point (having now confirmed that the news article is still accessible via wayback machine and that it does indeed say what the wiki article said it does) also update the "access-date" to today's date, or am I supposed to leave it as the original editor dated it? I feel like the answer is update it, but I couldn't find this spelled out anywhere in the how-to articles, so I thought I should ask! Hopefully this question makes sense, and thank you in advance! Gravelove (talk) 23:19, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I would say: no; do not update |access-date=. While we can, for the most part, assume that the archive will be with us into the future, that ain't guaranteed. If it becomes necessary in future to seek a snapshot of the source in another archive, knowing the original access date will be important; especially in the case where source content might have changed – online news stories and the like.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:40, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I would remove |access-date= and replace it with |archive-date= (or leave only the latter, if both are already present). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:31, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

@Gravelove The advice above is spelled out in more detail at WP:DEADLINK. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:00, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Pet collars

why dont pet collars have built in gps system 46.10.242.106 (talk) 15:01, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor, this is not the appropriate venue for asking general knowledge questions. Please use your local library or internet search engine. qcne (talk) 15:02, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Or ask at WP:REFDESK. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

To save the IP and Ref desks' time: they already do; they are mentioned in GPS animal tracking, and many brands of such collars for pets are advertised – just put 'pet collar with gps tracking' into any search engine. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 18:23, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Page

How to upload page Eugene Brignola (talk) 12:56, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

It's not clear what you want to do, but I wll leave some introductory links on your talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:03, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Mass open

Just on the off chance, is there a script to open all the items in a given category with one click? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:16, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't know of such a tool, but users should be very very very careful when using such. I can imagine someone inadvertently one-clicking and opening every article in a category of thousands...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:57, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Sky Sting

Sky Sting

Reference help requested.

Thanks, Adityakkhullar (talk) 05:05, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

The user ChildrenWillListen has fixed it. Xzkdeng (talk) 13:16, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Facebook account disable

Why my facebook account disable Manatan hansda (talk) 13:36, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Tale me why ? Manatan hansda (talk) 13:37, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia. You'll have to contact Facebook. --Onorem (talk) 13:43, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Page Ownership and editing rights- Group AMANA

There is a Wikipedia page, and I am unable to make any edits. I am the representative of the company and would know if we can get the ownership of the page below.

Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings - Wikipedia

The information that is posted is incorrect and outdated, would appreciate a response so I can have the rights to edit the information as per our company profile and it is affecting our company profile.

All the changes I made were reverted; hence I can’t make any changes to the page or edit/update any information. Amna Zahid Khan (talk) 07:53, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Amna Zahid Khan First, as a company representative, the Terms of Use require you to make a formal paid editing disclosure, see WP:PAID.

Individuals do not "own" articles here, they belong to the community. Donald Trump does not own or have exclusive control of articles about him. You are blocked from editing a couple articles directly, but you are permitted to make formal edit requests (click for instructions, or see the edit request wizard) detailing changes you feel are needed.

I suggest you propose changes one at a time, to increase the chances of review, don't propose a wholesale rewrite. 331dot (talk) 08:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Cullen328: Please undo your block of User:Amna Zahid Khan (or at least reduce it to a block for the single article about their company); they should be able to post here and on the article's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:20, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Andy Mabbett. My block was not sitewide. It was a page block on Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings only. They can post here and on the article talk page and everywhere else except that one article. Cullen328 (talk) 16:59, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Apologies; the script I use made it look otherwise. Lesson learned. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:04, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Andy Mabbett, apology accepted. I appreciate your explanation. Cullen328 (talk) 07:33, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Amna Zahid Khan.

I'm afraid that, like many people, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is.

Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings is Wikipedia's article about your company. It does not belong to you or your company, it is not controlled by your or your company, it will not necessarily say what you would like it to say, and it can be edited by nearly anybody in the world except you and your associates. You are, however, welcome to suggest changes, using the edit request mechanism, once you have made the mandatory WP:PAID disclosure.

Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost exclusively 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. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources. ColinFine (talk) 11:31, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Gavin Roskamp

I just discovered the account GavinRoskamp and noticed that it made only 1 edits here: , requesting to update a picture for MacTracker.

And I'm here cause I want to know if this account belong to Gavin Roskamp, a technology enthusiast from Illinois who sadly passed away in 2011.

I understand that Wikimedia Foundation protects user privacy, but I would like guidance on whether it is possible to confirm this account. VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 23:18, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

At this point, no. The only technical data the account generated would have been deleted in March 2010 (3mo from date of last edit). —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 00:15, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

@Vitorperrut555: There is no way to tell. The account hasn't specified an email address. Any non-public IP address information would be long deleted per Wikipedia:CheckUser#IP information retention. The user uploaded a new version of a file in 2009 or at least tried to. As an administrator I should be able to see the file but it gives an error message. Somebody reverted to the previous file version two minutes later with the edit sumamry "we have a problem". PrimeHunter (talk) 00:16, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Could someone help me move this draft to article space?

Hi so the redirect Agender was previously an article, but was turned into a redirect and turned into a draft. However I think the draft is ready to be moved to article space now and would wish to skip articles for creation this time. But ive run into a wall due to the redirect existing, and I cant delete the redirect because it has some of the article history on it! Could someone help? Pencilceaser123 (talk) 00:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Pencilceaser123. Please ask at WP:Requested moves. ColinFine (talk) 11:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Requested moves says you shouldn’t ask for help moving articles from draft to article space Pencilceaser123 (talk) 21:21, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Pencilceaser123 generally, you can use WP:Requested moves/Technical requests to publish a draft, but this may well be controversial and need a full Requested move discussion. TSventon (talk) 21:48, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Ah well, I was hoping to avoid all that Pencilceaser123 (talk) 21:50, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Advice on possible attack-page article

Bonjour, I am working on creating an article and when complete the article, I want to make an article on an incident about teachers giving students sleep-aid stickers. But I fear that this will be deleted as an attack-page. Would this topic be an attack page? If not, how can I make this article to not be an attack page and what would be a good name for it? Sources are here: and other ones I am too lazy to link. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 04:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Rafaelthegreat, I clicked on the first of your links. Nothing there (which isn't necessarily your fault). I clicked on the second, and learned that according to a page last updated just eight days ago, The school district says there is an "active criminal investigation". I suggest that you wait till the criminal investigation is over; you'll then know what name(s) reliable sources have settled on for the matter (or if it's been dismissed as a nothingburger). If you stick to summarizing what reliable sources have said (which of course is anyway something you should be doing for any draft or article), and doing so fairly (not cherry-picking), then it's unlikely that you'd be constructing what could be called an attack page. -- Hoary (talk) 04:51, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

@Hoary thank you for your reply, but it was published over a year ago, on October 12, 2024, not October 12, 2025. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 15:15, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh dear, Rafaelthegreat. Sorry for the brainfart! Anyway, I think that the sentence above "If you stick to summarizing [...] called an attack page" remains valid. As for the title, try to think of one that is informative and doesn't blatantly condemn/blame/incriminate anyone, but don't worry over whether it's the optimum choice. Later, when your article has matured (or when your draft has become an article), you or another editor will have a clearer idea of what would be best, and would be able to retitle the article accordingly. -- Hoary (talk) 22:04, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Removal of a source due to controversial stances

Hello hello, I use the script User:Headbomb/unreliable.js to detect unreliable sources. On one case, in an article nominated for GA, it identified a thesis from Liberty University as unreliable/predatory. Some googling didn't show problems with the reliability of the information, but it did show a lot of controversy involving e.g., anti-LGBTQ+ measures within the university. Maybe the conservative nature of the source could also lead to bias, but that wasn't clear from my searches. When reviewing this GA article, is it still appropriate to ask the editor to remove the source based only on the controversy, and not because I identified problems with the quality of the publications? Barbalalaika (talk) 04:59, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Barbalalaika Headbomb's script highlights potential problems, you then need to use your own judgement. Look at WP:THESIS, which says doctoral theses can sometimes be used and search "Liberty University" at the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. The thesis at Cálice appears to be an undergraduate thesis, so it is unlikely to be suitable. When in doubt, Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations is probably a better place to get detailed guidance about GA policy. TSventon (talk) 12:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Great input, thanks! :) Barbalalaika (talk) 20:57, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

someone has hacked my page and blocked me from editing it

someone has hacked my page and blocked me from editing it 2A02:C7C:2C67:3800:DCC7:C01F:DCD8:4883 (talk) 11:50, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

You're going to have to give us more information in order for us to help you. 331dot (talk) 11:53, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, if you're talking about an article here, they cannot be 'hacked'. If you're blocked from editing, it's likely because your IP/account is blocked for another reason, or the page is protected; see WP:Protection. If you're talking about your user account, see WP:Compromised accounts. jolielover♥talk 13:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

If you're talking about an article about you, then you shouldn't be trying to edit it yourself because of your conflict of interest, but should instead be making edit requests. ColinFine (talk) 14:55, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

MetaZoo - Page Updates

 Courtesy link: MetaZoo

The current article presents MetaZoo Games LLC as the active publisher and does not reflect the verified transition of ownership and publication. As of 2025, MetaTwo fully owns the MetaZoo intellectual property, including all prior assets, branding, and game materials. The MetaZoo TCG continues under this same IP, but is now published by GameQBator Labs, featuring updated mechanics, branding, and organizational oversight. Because the IP remains the same and is now being actively managed under a new publisher, the article should reflect this continuity rather than treating the current game as a separate or unrelated entity. The original history (2020–2024) under MetaZoo Games LLC remains important, but it should be properly contextualized as the first era of the ongoing MetaZoo TCG, not a disconnected product line.

To ensure accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability, I propose that: The MetaZoo article remain a single, unified page. The article be restructured into clear historical sections, such as: Early Development and Launch (2020–2024) – covering MetaZoo Games LLC. Ownership Transition and Relaunch (2025–Present) – covering MetaTwo’s acquisition and GameQBator Labs’ publishing role. The lead section be updated to accurately identify: MetaTwo as the current IP holder. GameQBator Labs as the current publisher. All claims be supported with verifiable third-party sources, such as official statements, news coverage, and business records. Antitroll2025 (talk) 14:10, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

This is the Help Desk. Do you have a question about editing Wikipedia, or need assistance?

Otherwise, your comment would be better placed on the talk page of the article concerned.

Also, if you work for the company, see WP:PAID. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

I've just filed an SPI with regards to this; I'm thinking Antitroll2025 is AnonymousBobTCG since their only article edits have been to reinstate his (flatly promotional) edits to the MetaZoo article. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 02:58, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Stopping bots from replacing archive links

How do I stop bots from automatically replacing archive links on particular citations? In some cases I would like to use particular archive websites above archive.org but bots can replace them without people noticing. As an example, when I added a citation with an archive of GhostArchive to a video to prove the pronunciation of the video game VVVVVV, a bot later came and changed the archive link to archive.org. The problem is that archive.org can't even archive YouTube videos so the archive becomes worthless for this purpose. How would I stop bots from tampering with this citation (and similar citations) in the future? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 08:46, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

try adding {{cbignore}} to the citation? – robertsky (talk) 09:06, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Seems acceptable. thank you ―Howard • 🌽³³ 09:10, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

It would be better if the bot(s) were programmed not to do this (either where another archive is already in use; or for YouTube links; or both). @Cyberpower678 and Harej: FYI. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:22, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Modifying old comment to add @s doesn't ping them. See WP:MENTION. — DVRTed (Talk) 15:09, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

That's contrary to my understanding, but just in case @Cyberpower678 and Harej: FYI. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:23, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

IABot has a little trouble with GhostArchive specifically at times. It will normally not replace an archive if it sees on there. This is a known issue, and will be getting fixed in a future release of IABot. Right now, cbignore on ghost archive references will be the best workaround to keep the bot off. —CYBERPOWER (Trick or Treat) 16:57, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

is it possible to also keep IAbot off of preservetube archives? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 17:02, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Definition of n word

I read the word n word started in 1990’s. That’s a very untrue statement. 2600:6C42:4F00:2DFA:2521:FF76:1B5F:968 (talk) 22:00, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Please discuss any concerns about the Nigger article at Talk:Nigger. You will need an account that is four days old with 10 edits or more to do so; I would suggest that those 10 edits be constructive to avoid accusations of gaming the system. 331dot (talk) 22:18, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Your concern with the article may have been prompted by its state before the latest edit to it (made by Moxy) -- although even then it didn't say that use of the word started in the 1990s but instead that in the 1990s references to the word increasingly did so via the circumlocution "the N-word". In addition to what 331dot has written, I'd urge you to be very careful in commenting on that talk page: in the talk page of an article such as this, however well-meant comments are, they risk being misinterpreted by editors who are accustomed to, and have already been rendered impatient by, the comments of people with fringe beliefs, of trolls, of more or less overt racists, etc. Always reread the passage about which you intend to comment, and "Show preview" of your comment and read it carefully before you opt to "Publish changes". -- Hoary (talk) 04:40, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Article form sandbox is gone? Can I get it back?

Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact title. Before creating this page, please see Help:Subpages. To start a page called User:Euphat/sandbox, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then publish it. Euphat (talk) 10:37, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Euphat. I am afraid you have no other contributions to Wikipedia other than this post. Did you press Publish page on your sandbox? That is akin to Saving on a Word Processor. If you did not press Publish page, then the content you wrote is lost and cannot be recovered. qcne (talk) 10:39, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

I had the article ready, when I was pressing publish page it said I can't because the page doens't exist Euphat (talk) 10:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps your web browser timed out or lost cache in-between writing the content and pressing publish. In any case, as you have no other contributions you can't recover what you wrote. We would recommend either periodically publishing changes (Save) or writing up the content in an offline editor. qcne (talk) 10:42, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Ok I will start all over and check if publishing works. Euphat (talk) 10:47, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Where should I insert this content?

I came across information that 'the brain responses of progressives and conservatives are different', but I'm not sure where it should be included. Domoso55 (talk) 12:21, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

That depends on the source. Is it reliable, by our standards? Does it meet the higher standards for medical articles, outlined at WP:MEDRES? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:29, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Domoso55 That statement seems to me hopelessly vague. First of all what does your source mean by brain response? Is this a neurological response or an emotional reponse or what? And response to what kind of input? We are all different so I would expect everyone to have their own responses to whatever stimuli it's talking about. Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:36, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Is the Bavarian Wikipedia OK?

I'm Bavarian by birth myself from deep Oberpfalz (so I would be able to speak a very developed dialect, but I don’t do it because nobody understands that except my grandparents). Considering what problems the scots Wikipedia had, I wanted to ask if the Bavarian Wikipedia is OK or not. There are a lot more speakers, but there are only recently efforts to seriously preserve it, and there is academic debate over wether it's a language or a dialect (most speakers, including me, just consider it as a dialect based on standard German. However, it's a language insofar as we didn't know it was "nicht" and not "niad/ned" or "Gesangsverein" instead of "Xangsverein" when starting school. We even got exercices like "think of a phrase in high German this week"). Ludwig Zehetner thinks it's halfway to a language, while Anthony R. Rowley is more open to it being a language. There are calls to include it as a school subject. While it's slowly declining, a majority of Bavarians still have some sort of dialect/regiolect/accent. This is brings me to my point: Bavarian Wikipedia doesn't seem to have any officially rules as Bavarian is a family of dialects. This means if high German words are used, nobody realises/cares, even though there is a Bavarian alternative. Theoretically, I could totally volunteer to help with translation, but I only know Oberpfalz dialect which is very different from the rest of old bavaria (we use a lot of ou {like ow} and äi {ey} sounds). So, is the Bavarian Wikipedia fine currently or not? 2003:EE:6F0D:D339:D818:4051:25C0:BF12 (talk) 13:22, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

That's probably beyond the skillset of editors frequenting this help desk. You could ask at WT:WikiProject Bavaria.

You may also be interested in our Celtic Knot Conference for smaller languages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) In principle, each language version of Wikipedia is a project of its own, with no authority over any others. But when it was found that the largest contributor to Scots Wikipedia was not a speaker of Scots (also know as Lallans), the issue was discussed here. This seems appropriate, as Scots is a dialect of English. But Bavarian is a dialect of German, not English. Wouldn't it be better to ask about this on de:Wikipedia? Maproom (talk) 13:37, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

You'll upset a lot of people by calling Scots a dialect of English. Say, rather, a close relative. ColinFine (talk) 14:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Seconded. When most British-English speakers think they're hearing Scots, they're actually hearing English with an admixture of Scots, which is what most Scottish people actually speak; moreover, they skew their language towards British English in circumstances that are more formal and/or when English (etc.) people are part of the conversation – this is largely unconscious.

If Scots speakers speak unmodified Scots, they are all-but incomprehensible to a native British-English speaker such as myself (who lived in Scotland for seven years in my teens and twenties). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 16:19, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Bot fucking with me

Bot keeps restoring content that should be deleted from Toni Breidinger. The ref in question is a paid/sponsored fluff article that should not be on Wikipedia, yet this bot keeps sticking it back in there. How does one fix this? Electricmemory (talk) 23:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Please see User:AnomieBOT/OrphanReferenceFixer revert help. The bot is supposed to point you there when it finds itself edit warring. It's not entirely clear why it didn't here. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

At this edit you removed the definition for <ref name="Glamour Magazine–2022">; you did not delete the matching <ref name="Glamour Magazine–2022" /> tags (see this reference listing (permalink). It is not surprising then that AnomieBOT restored the reference definition. If you want to delete the Glamour Magazine reference, you must delete all uses of it.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:06, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Style rule for Japanese article names?

I have a question regarding what appears to be an inconsistency across articles with Japanese titles, particularly those including the modifier particle "no" (の). For some articles, such as Ame-no-Uzume, the disparate words are joined with dashes, however in articles such as Yamata no Orochi, no such dashes are used. The article Kusanagi no Tsurugi does not use dashes in the article title, however the lead section of that very same article uses dashes despite Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi being a redirect page. Is there a section of the Manual of Style that delineates the ruling for this? Ichika.jss (talk) 01:35, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Ichika.jss, I'd look in WP:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles. If there's no guidance there, then ask at WT:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles. [Incidentally, hyphens (which are what you're asking about) are not dashes.] -- Hoary (talk) 04:58, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Headington Rye Oxford Prep School

I would like to request some updates to the Rye St Antony School page. As the school has merged with Headington School, and the school now operate under and we now operate under a new structure with two separate sites:

• Prep School (for girls and boys aged 3–11)
• Senior School

Each site has its own distinct branding. While we now have a new page titled Headington Rye Oxford, the current page for the Prep School still contains outdated information and does not reflect the recent changes.

To avoid confusion and ensure accuracy, we would appreciate your help with the following:

• Updating the existing content on the page to reflect the current status of the Prep School.
• Renaming or rebranding the page (if possible) to align it with the updated structure and branding.
• Providing guidance on the process or requirements for making these changes, if needed.

-- Hrophandle (talk) 11:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Firstly if you are connected to the school, please see and follow WP:COI, and if you work there, also WP:PAID. You may then make requests for changes or additions, on the talk pages of the articles. Be sure to cite sources, when you do. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:17, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Hrophandle, I recommend that you use the formal Edit request process, which is most likely to draw the attention of an uninvolved editor. Cullen328 (talk) 07:37, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Was cut off from signing into Wikipedia

Yes one of the categories in Wikipedia,I was trying to sign up but was cut off 2603:8000:EA00:8C48:830:FABA:F667:10DA (talk) 19:55, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor. That's not really a question- have you tried signing in again? What issue did you encounter? qcne (talk) 19:58, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Internet Archive hard to reach

I've noticed the internet archive is hard to reach these last few weeks. I thought initially my ISP was blocking it for some reason but they aren't. Sometimes its available to connect, sometimes its not. Its seems quite flaky. Anybody else in the uk having problems. scope_creep^Talk 06:49, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

I saw someone asking this at the Teahouse too - Wikipedia:Teahouse#Problems with using IABot to archive citations - I've been having the same problem as well for around 3 weeks now. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 07:42, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sarsenet: That is good and bad I think. Shared problem but lack of access. I thought it was me somehow but I'm glad its not. I thought it was AWS bug but it happened before that. I suppose its a wait and see. Hopefully they'll fix the underlying problem soon. scope_creep^Talk 08:12, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

URGENT CASE

Hi everyone. I have an URGENT CASE. Can someone help me? Rezaei az (talk) 15:52, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Write to emergency@wikimedia.org tgeorgescu (talk) 16:00, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

It's not emergency, It's urgent. Rezaei az (talk) 16:22, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

You haven't given us any reason to believe it is because you refuse to give us any details at any venue you've been to. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 16:23, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

@Rezaei az What is the issue? qcne (talk) 16:23, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I am leader of an unknown political movement. We want to make a Wikipedia for introducing our movement so a neutral man must help us to make a approved and realistic and neutral page. 2A02:4540:E0CC:ED56:2D27:D767:873:506 (talk) 16:40, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Unknown political movements do not meet our criteria for inclusion, so a Wikipedia article is not possible. Sorry. qcne (talk) 16:40, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

If the movement is "unknown" then by that logic there are no sources to summarise for us to write an article. Wikipedia articles are little more than summaries of what reliable third-party sources say, and are emphatically not for advertising or promotion. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 16:43, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

"a neutral man must help us"

1. Women edit here also.
2. There is no "Must"; everyone volunteers their time to work on things that interest them.

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:54, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

In other words, IP user, you want to use Wikipedia for promotion. That is forbidden.

Note also that an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing. ColinFine (talk) 18:38, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Unless this has something to do with Wikipedia's internal processes, no. If it is a legal matter, CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR AREA. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 16:00, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

María Dolores de Pablos

I translated and improved this article María Dolores de Pablos from eswiki. I'm having second thoughts on this article about of her notability. The astrology side is pseudoscience of course, but she has some legit poetry published. Can you review it if it is worth of a proposal for deletion? I'm currently banned of prod use and afraid of doing the nomination for myself just in case, even though I'm not banned on nominating AfD and opening the discussion. Could someone else do it if you find it suitable, please? Aldorwyn of Rivendell (talk) 20:25, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

As you seem to be the principal author, it would qualify for a speedy deletion if you are requesting it. 331dot (talk) 20:36, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

But I'm banned of using that, check out my user page. That's the issue here. Aldorwyn of Rivendell (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

WP:PROD is proposed deletion, not WP:CSD, speedy deletion. As the author, you can ask that an admin delete it. 331dot (talk) 20:39, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Ahh I see. But I was wrong, that's not the only issue. I mean, there's the two sides of her personality: her pseudoscience side and her poetry side. Plus being cofounder of a literary salon where *other* poets gained more fame, it seems. So I doubt on her notability and balancing that two public sides of her life in the article or if the pseudoscience side "wins" and merits the article a deletion? Aldorwyn of Rivendell (talk) 20:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

It's more than a stub, and appears to be well referenced. I can't easily assess the references since I have almost no Spanish, but if they are Wikipedia:Reliable sources, comply with WP:42 and support all of what is in the article, then by definition the subject is WP:Notable.

Astrology may be a pseudoscience (which I as an astronomer would agree with) but the fact that many people believe it means that it and its practitioners are significant factors in society and as deserving of inclusion as any other. A person could say much the same of any religion other than their own. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 02:19, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to review the article I translated/improved from eswiki. Thanks for the comparative, you are right. It's hard to assess to me on where to “put the limit” on what someone believes: I mean in terms of astrology, traditional religion, UFO science, flat earthers, nibiru'ers and stuff like that. For instance, there are still some hollow earth'ers, fake moon (artificial moon) believers etc., but I guess that could go in the conspiracy theories article. And worth of an article if the conspiracy is so elaborated and sustained in time to produce stuff like notable meetings etc. Oh, when adding links I found that all of that articles and concepts I mentioned are already in the wiki, great! Aldorwyn of Rivendell (talk) 14:51, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Outdated profile information of our company profile

Hello, we are the communications team of the company and would like to update the company profile (both EN and TC language). However, we have difficulty doing batch update. Please let me know if there's any protocol we need to follow for editing / updating? Thx. Hongkongpolyu (talk) 02:15, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: Hong Kong Polytechnic University

@Hongkongpolyu You must follow the paid editing policy. To ensure edits are not biased I recommend making edit requests for the page. Ultraodan (talk) 02:29, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Why can't you purge pages while blocked?

I recently was browsing Wikipedia on a school-issued computer whose IP is blocked, and when I tried to purge a page it gave me the notice that I was blocked from editing, despite the fact I was not editing the page. Is there a reason? I should note that this question was previously asked by an IP but this was over a year ago on an unmonitored talk page. interstatefive  03:09, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't know, but there would be some technical background best explained at WP:VPT. My guess is that purging is the same as an edit as far as the servers are concerned (similar overhead on regenerating the page) and there is no reason for a blocked editor to be permitted to slow down the system with purges. Johnuniq (talk) 03:25, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Copyright attributions

I am part of a facebook group, Free Reference Photos For Artists. Some embers wish to include quotes from Wikipedia articles, often about particular birds or animals. We do not allow links to outside the group, so they cannot provide that. Is it acceptable to print the quote, in quotation marks, followed by: Based on the Wikipedia article [name of article] available under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike License. Or please provide other appropriate wording that would enable our members to includes quotes from Wikipedia articles. Thank you. ArtyAli (talk) 08:26, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @ArtyAli. All text on Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, so you are more than welcome to re-use text with a short attribution like you suggested. qcne (talk) 09:22, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. ArtyAli (talk) 12:11, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

There is more at Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. I think without hyperlinks you're going to have a hard time though unless local copyright laws allow you to quote us wihtout providing a link. Victor Schmidt (talk) 11:34, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. ArtyAli (talk) 12:12, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

That page on reuse says To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, so https://w.wiki/Fr8m will do for the European robin if you don't want to give a hyperlink. Note that I've used the "Get shortened URL" tool available on the article. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:07, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. ArtyAli (talk) 12:12, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Templates for deletion broke a bunch of pages

A lot of actor's sidebars have been nominated for deletion yesterday, see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 October 28. As a result, all the pages with this sidebar have been 'broken' as the lead is moved to below this sidebar, leaving the entire beginning blank. See Leonardo DiCaprio for an example. The same thing happened a few weeks ago but I forgot how somebody fixed it. Help! jolielover♥talk 04:20, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Here you go. —Cryptic 04:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! jolielover♥talk 07:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Wrong information

It says that Erin Pizzey UK Activist is dead. This is a lie and causing distress to her family and friends 217.65.134.33 (talk) 17:41, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Already been addressed. I'm considering taking this to RFPP/I. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 18:04, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Leading infobox image size

A user recently put a new image in the infobox for the page Rohini Kumari Wijerathna. I think most editors can agree that the image is way too big. I attempted editing the infobox to resize the image to a reasonable scale but nothing seems to be working. Any help? Not Wlwtn (talk) 19:24, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, there's an infobox parameter called "image size". I changed it to 200px - if you still want to adjust it, feel free to play with the px value. Barbalalaika (talk) 21:29, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Not Wlwtn (talk) 23:07, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

one website is blocked, but i need to unblock it show me the way

one website is blocked, but i need to unblock it show me the way David Jones 2011 (talk) 15:03, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

@David Jones 2011 Is WT:WHITELIST what you're after? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:43, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Which website (you can post it here with spaces where there should be dots)? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:08, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Style for translating isolated phrase

Translation discusses translating an entire article, but it does not address the question of translating a single phrase within an English article. For example, a recent edit to Geometry changed Theorema Egregium (remarkable theorem) to Theorema Egregium ("remarkable theorem"). I have no idea which, if either, is correct, or whether there is a template that generates the approved rendering. Also, if there is an article that discusses this then there should be a hatnote template linking to it, e.g., {{about}}.

Is {{langx|la|Theorema Egregium|translation=remarkable theorem}}, rendered as Latin: Theorema Egregium, lit. 'remarkable theorem', the correct style? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 09:49, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Chatul.I think the relevant section is MOS:NONENGITALIC. ColinFine (talk) 13:02, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

FA Status question

Are some articles destined to never be able to become FA or GA? For example:

• They lie in the grey area where there are enough reliable sources to justify notability, but don't have enough coverage to offer a fully comprehensive article, without resorting to synthesis and/or original research of primary sources.
• They require synthesis to bridge unreported but still important context.

Thanks in advance. monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 00:44, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

• Anything that 'requires synthesis' has no business being in Wikipedia article space at all. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:49, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

  That's my point - what if an article can't reach FA because the context required needs synthesis/original? monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 02:08, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

• An article without context is clearly incomplete, and lacking content essential to justify its existence. If you need synthesis to establish context for an article, it isn't acceptable. FA status has no bearing on this whatsoever. AndyTheGrump (talk) 12:32, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

@Monkeysmashingkeyboards: Don't synthesise any content into any Wikipedia article at all, ever. That will put you a very very short route to the out door. The WP:OR policy covers this "Articles may make an analytic, evaluative, interpretive, or synthetic claim only if that has been published by a reliable secondary". So, in this instance, the article will remain unwritten or specific section remain unwritten until sufficient secondary sources are available. Many, as in most articles never make it to even GA but they may be very well written. It is an unfortunate fact that the GA/FA is a victorian boutique process in the age of industrial manufacturing. scope_creep^Talk 07:04, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Monkeysmashingkeyboards The best place to ask for all things FA is at WT:FAC. —Fortuna, imperatrix 12:36, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Account creation

How can I create another account? JUNGAL9992 (talk) 11:17, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Just log out of your current account and then create a new one. For what reason do you want to create another account? If you just want to rename your account, go to Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS. See WP:VALIDALT for valid uses of additional accounts. 331dot (talk) 11:26, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

@JUNGAL9992: You can create an account at Special:CreateAccount while you are already logged in. Then your old account will be logged as creator of the new account and this will be publicly visible. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:32, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

But my IP address is blocked, but not my account. It will expire on November 7, 2025, 7:19 p.m. JUNGAL9992 (talk) 15:40, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

@JUNGAL9992: If you have a specific problem then always reveal it when you seek help instead of wasting time. See Wikipedia:Request an account. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:49, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I suggest checking out Request an account. Rockfang (talk) 15:50, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

References in lists

I am writing an article requiring a lengthy chronological list. Each item in the list should be referenced. In some cases, there are several chronological items all requiring reference A, followed by an item with reference B, then several more items all requiring reference A. For the items in a sequence requiring reference A, is there guidance on whether to 1) show reference A repeatedly after each and every relevant item (looks cluttered); or 2) show reference A only after the final item in the sequence (the preceding items appear to have no reference); or 3) some other option I've not thought of? Thanks. Masato.harada (talk) 16:45, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Masato.harada. The named reference function allows you to reference properly while reducing the clutter. For the technical details, see WP:REFNAME. For an example in a Good article, see the reference list at Harry Yount, where one reference is used 26 times but it only appears once in the list of references. Cullen328 (talk) 17:57, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, perhaps I haven't explained clearly. I know how to use WP:REFNAME. I'm asking whether I should be doing this:

• Item 1[refA]
• Item 2[refA]
• Item 3[refA]
• Item 4[refA]
• Item 5[refA]
• Item 6[refB]

or this:

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3
• Item 4
• Item 5[refA]
• Item 6[refB]

Masato.harada (talk) 18:30, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I would recommend the former: the latter is ambiguous (does refA refer to items 1–5 or 5 only?), and in many lists, one or more further items with different references might potentially be inserted between those already present, which would entail more complications in the second format.

In practice, the blue superscript reference numbers are not perceived as 'clutter' unless there are several against one item/in the same place. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 21:21, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I decided to stop trying to fix it it and ask for help

The page where I thought I saw a problem:

• Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects

My redirect requests, and possibly a few others, look like they have been done. But they suddenly disappeared, when older requests that also looked finished were still on the page. I already put my requests back on the page, because it looked like something had gone wrong, but I'm not sure if that was the correct thing to do, so I decided to ask for help, because I don't know what happened, or if it should have happened, or what should happen next. 2405:6E00:651:F5FC:D904:ED5:248C:FE9F (talk) 11:06, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry if my attempt to fix it made it worse. 2405:6E00:651:F5FC:D904:ED5:248C:FE9F (talk) 11:06, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Hiya, IP! Have not checked to closely, but perhaps they were archived (by a bot) at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects/2025-10? GoldRomean (talk) 17:17, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Your requests were removed by 89.19.79.25 here. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 23:20, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I started a page that I have not published and would like to delete it

Hierax Music Group is the page that I started and would like to delete it. Hierax Music Group (talk) 14:03, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Hierax Music Group It may be gone already as I don't see it in your contribution history but if not, place the template {{db-author}} at the very top of its source code. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:17, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

HELP

My Main (This Account) And my Alt @AustralianUnion aren't in the list of Wikipedia Users

Both Created May 12 2023 and September 28 2024 Respectively. They arent visible in the list. Even Vewing with an alt. Idk what happened so that both of these arent indexed. This account has 73 Edits as of October 30 2025 and the alt has 0 (inactive). What happened? And if any admins are reading this can you please fix this IdkWiki700 (talk) 08:52, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure what list you are referring to or why it's particularly important to be in it. If you have edits, you are a contributor. 331dot (talk) 08:53, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

The list of Registered Users IdkWiki700 (talk) 08:54, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

IdkWiki700 shows up here, and AustralianUnion shows up here Problem solved.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 09:11, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! IdkWiki700 (talk) 09:25, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

national historic places and monuments photo contest 2025

There was information on your website how to submit photos and other information about this photo contest of historic places but I don't see the info now, is it too late to submit photos? Thanks, dane 2600:1700:7B94:2090:5163:BBC4:D26F:8487 (talk) 14:18, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor. See Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2025. qcne (talk) 14:22, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Bugs in mobile view?

Hi all.

While there is an option in desktop version about recovering the last revised code, in case the page crashes, I feel it should also be available for mobile versions. Weak internet connectivity or multitasking in a device crashes the page (or sometimes edit preview) and it makes me rewrite the code multiple times (if I have not saved it in the clipboard or backed up somewhere else).

Also, for the past few days, all the titles on the talk pages are now not opening on mobile version (maybe I have installed some wrong gadget), and instead I need to click "Latest comment: xx minutes ago" to open the title and view the prose.

Can someone lead me to its solution, without switching to desktop version in mobile device? Thank you! M. Billoo 17:35, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

These are the kinds of issues better raised at WP:VPT. Please state what device and browser you are using, and what Wikipedia skin (if not the default). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:10, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

I've a new mailadress and connot access my Wikipedia Useraccount anymore

Since twostep verification I cannot login to my account anymore because of an old deleted email adress. I have a lot of saved Wikipedia lemmas in my account and I am a regular donator of Wikipedia. 1. Can somebody please help me to change the emailadress from my ald deleted to my present preferred email adress? 2. Can somebody please help me to keep my old account with samed lemmas and regular financial donation? Baljuw (talk) 09:52, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Baljuw: Donations have no influence on other matters. If you still know the password then you can mail (without revealing the password) meta:Trust and Safety at cawikimedia.org. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:18, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

By the way, what is a ‘lemma’ in this context? —Tamfang (talk) 21:49, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Historic Archives of Wiki

I abhor ignorant acquiescing to anything that could lead us as a society to full-scale setting aside of thorny questions and eliminating subtleties in thought and writing via AI. Can I download a correct "snap-shot/copy" of ALL of WIKI's content pre-any introduction of AI? 2600:1007:B03E:BE18:0:36:3E90:8601 (talk) 12:44, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor: see WP:DUMPS. I'm not sure how you could be sure that AI had not been involved in some way, given even simple uses such as automatic typo correction and Wikipedia's extensive use of bots for minor edits. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:48, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

The OP is likely referring to large-language models, in which case, anything before 2022 wouldn't have been written by them. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 08:02, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Should be on wikapedia

Nicholas jones melbourne australia nu metal pioneer/metal/Hardcore og daughter sierra parents john and stella net worth as of 2025 2.5million @ 106.71.11.123 (talk) 17:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi IP editor. The usual answer to "Why isn't x on Wikipedia?" is: because no volunteer editor has taken the time and effort to create an article yet. Hopefully, someday, a volunteer editor will create an article for this person if they meet our criteria for inclusion. That person could be you? qcne (talk) 17:07, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Before undertaking this, however, check carefully whether this musician meets the relevant criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (music). If he does not, no attempt at an article will succeed (yet) and your time and effort would be wasted. See also Wikipedia:Too soon. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 21:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Addendum: I now see that this musician's career began several decades ago, so 'Too soon' will not be applicable. However, I have found surprisingly few references to him by websearching, and no sources suitable for basing a Wikipedia article. I would have thought he would be well-enough documented in relevant music journals, etc. of the relevant period and locality, but finding such sources might entail searching physical (or microfilmed, or scanned) archives in libraries (if not someone's cuttings collection) – sources do not have to be online, so long as their full bibliographical details are given. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 17:32, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

AT&T STOCK owned by workers that have been retired? how do we find our stocks and bonds from this company?

Looking to locte the stock my Grandfater worked hard for where have they gone to and how do we locste the company HR department to see who or where to locate stocks from AT&T...??? 2601:4B:C000:37A0:163:B524:8F85:E544 (talk) 20:09, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Contact AT&T, this is the Help Desk for the website Wikipedia. qcne (talk) 20:16, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Centre align for userbox

Hello! How do you go about putting a userbox in the centre of your page? I tried {{Align|center|{{Time userbox|-4}}}} but that doesn't work. Thanks! Chorchapu (talk | edits) 00:57, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

{{Center block}} works for me (Desktop, Windows 11, Firefox) -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

This did work. Thank you. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 12:11, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Google-based Wikipedia search

Is there a way to search a group of Wikipedia pages using Google as the search engine? I know I can do this "manually", which is what gave me the idea. It would be ten times easier if the UI were specific to Wikipedia—and it would require no "technical" knowledge related to the syntax for search arguments. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢ IMO. 00:42, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

A userscript could probably do this prettily easily, and I think you can set a custom search engine on Google Chrome that will have set search filters. I'll let you know if I get something working. Cheers! monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 01:34, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm astounded. Speechless, except for these twelve words. Bloody awesome, I say. ―Mandruss ☎ 2¢ IMO. 01:37, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Account recovery without email or password

Hello guys! I recently became a mentor and someone told me via my talk page that he/she lost his/her account, forgot everything and somehow lost his/her email. Does anyone know how this problem can be resolved?
Thanks in advance! --Dimitrie569 (Talk) 16:05, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

As far as I know; just by creating an new account. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:06, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much! ;) --Dimitrie569 (Talk) 16:10, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Can i read a Wikipedia page and post it on Youtube.

I would like to read Wikipedia pages for my own personnel joy, and to get other people interested in certain topics, and post it on Youtube but i just don't wanna get copyrighted. And also what if i include the original authors name and quote the sources? Lightness616 (talk) 01:30, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

The liscencing for articles is at WP:CCBYSA. Basically, yes, as long as you link to the article and make it clear that it was written by "Wikipedia contributors" or individual author names. Ultraodan (talk) 01:56, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

That's correct, but Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content is probably a more useful read. jlwoodwa (talk) 02:19, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

@Lightness616: You are absolutely free to use Wikikpedia content in just about any way you want, but you must adhere to our CC-BY-SA license. For this, there is an easy part and and a hard part. The easy part: just provide a link to the Wikikpedia articles(s) you use, and a very short attribution. HOWEVER, there is also a hard part: you must license your work (your post on Youtube) under that same CC-BY-SA license. When you do, you are allowing anyone to use your Youtube stuff however they want to, as long as they attribute your work. Think long and hard about this. I (and the huge Opensource community) would encourage you to do this, but none of us want to deceive you into giving away your material if you do not want to do it. If you disagree, then do not use our material, but I hope you decide to join us. You are of course still free the use the same sources that our articles use without agreeing to our license. -Arch dude (talk) 02:35, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Is there anything I would have to do in order to get the CC-BY-SA license, or is it just given to me? Also say perchance someone uses my work but does not credit me, that’s not allowed right? Lightness616 (talk) 14:27, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

You 'get' the licence by documenting under the video that you are releasing the content under that licence (note that there are several variations of it, so be specific). And if someone re-uses your material but fails to credit you, it would be up to you to pursue them if you chose – no one would enforce the matter on your behalf (unless you paid a copyright lawyer to do so). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 17:39, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

You might like to contribute to WP:Spoken Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:22, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Plz Change photo in bhism article

plz change photo of bhism article this nude type photo 2409:40C1:3030:FCDC:8CDD:EDFF:FEF0:BF12 (talk) 06:14, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

We don't have an article bhism. What are you talking about? --Orange Mike | Talk 06:43, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Wherever it is, a "nude-type" photo (whatever that is supposed to mean) is unlikely to be changed merely because you say "plz" as Wikipedia is not censored. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:35, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

It could be Bhisma, which has an inoffensive image with a nude baby in it. I can't imagine how that would be a problem. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 07:57, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

IP editor: You may like to follow the advice at Help:NOIMAGE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:36, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

There is also a photo of a carving in the Buddhism article that includes several bare-breasted women – again, not remotely objectionable in context. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.208.246 (talk) 17:43, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

I might have some trouble with preview of my edits.

I need some kind of hint, advice, or help on how to get into the Edit preview, since I know how to get to Edit summary, but I can't get to the first one (preview). Any help would be helpful! (as I'm a little lost). SI Moon Grubisz440 (talk) 17:51, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

How are you editing? On a mobile device, or laptop/desktop? In Visual Editor or Source editor? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:14, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

@Grubisz440: Your article edits are tagged "Visual edit" so you must be using VisualEditor. It doesn't have a preview feature because it's WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) so the preview would look almost like when you were editing. If you still want a real preview during a visual edit then you can switch to the source editor on a pencil icon at the top right and click the "Show preview" button below the text box. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!! For the clarity on what I edit and which device, I use "Visual edit" and using Laptop. SI Moon Grubisz440 (talk) 21:21, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

URL coding

this is a copy of my entry at Talk:Brook_Emery#URL_coding
In the process of constructing this article, I have added an additional reference "UoN.1: "Writers' Sucesses Celebrated, Uninews, University of Newcastle Australia, (October 2003), p. 12.".
In order to complete the reference's entry I have attempted to insert the URL for that specific issue of the University of Newcastle's Uninews. I have been unable to do so.
The issue at hand is that the specific URL
https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/pdf/uninews_[i]_october_2003.pdf
contains a set of square brackets and, if I introduce the URL into the head of the reference, in the manner that I have always done so, the wiki-system converts the correct original to an incoherent something (as shown above) that immediately generates "404 - File or directory not found" at the target site, rather than the pdf in question. Is there some way in which this for-me-never-before-encountered issue can be resolved? Lindsay658 (talk) 18:32, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/pdf/uninews_%5Bi%5D_october_2003.pdf

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:52, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much.Lindsay658 (talk) 20:24, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Looking to find most necessary categories

Is there a tool that allows to identify categories on Wikipedia with the largest number of interwikis for which there is no corresponding category in a specific language section, for example Ukrainian? Perohanych (talk) 16:13, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

You could do that through the Wikidata Query Service; Ask at d:WD:RAQ and somebody will write you a query. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:51, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Where is view edit history link or button?

I am using an iPad I cannot figure out howto view the editing history of an article. 2603:3014:C06:3C00:3C88:6560:F3A0:FFD4 (talk) 19:46, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

If you are using the mobile view (the default, on an iPad) it is the tab with an icon showing a pair of clock hands, inside an anti-clockwise arrow. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:10, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

How to unlock Wikipedia

How to unlock Wikipedia Alex 6846374 (talk) 16:40, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Can you be more specific as to what you are referring to? 331dot (talk) 16:41, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

@Alex 6846374 You wrote inappropriate content on Talk:Selim I which has been removed. Please do not re-add your content to that page. qcne (talk) 16:46, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Email adress

If I want to add the email adress of a school that the designer I am creating a page for , what should I do ? Duboys Patrick (talk) 11:24, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Duboys Patrick. Don't - because email addresses shouldn't be on Wikipedia articles. qcne (talk) 11:28, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

If a person has an associated website, then it is acceptable to put a link to it in the infobox or as an external link. Many websites have a "contact us" email address but we don't include them directly. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:43, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Duboys Patrick.

The phrase you used "creating a page for" suggests to me that, like many people, you may a misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is.

I urge you to replace "creating a page for" in your mind with "writing an encyclopaedia article about". This might seem picky (after all, you are wanting to create a page), but it might help you to remember that when you write a Wikipedia article about somebody, that article should be a summary of what people wholly unconnected with the person have chosen to publish about the person in reliably publications, not what the person themself want people to know about them. Sometimes it will be things that the person would much rather people didn't know about them - but if they've been published in reliable independent sources, then they should probably go in the article.

My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 18:33, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Auto archiving range

While the recommended range for an auto archive setup is at least 90 days, some articles such as Back to the Future, the range is 30 days and on the Anita Sarkeesian article is at 10 days. Meanwhile, the auto archive range for Robin Williams is set at 1 year.

Which auto archive range should be best for any article in general? Thanks. sjones23 (talk - contributions) 12:56, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sjones23: It depends on the activity. Talk:Anita Sarkeesian was very active around 2014 and could grow above 100 kB even with fast archiving. Maybe it should be slower now. Most talk pages have never had a single discussion post. If a page actually needs archiving then 90 days is usually OK. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:19, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I reduced the delay for RW. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:39, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: Thanks. Also, given the potential bot issues in archiving older discussions especially the ones that are very old, have unsigned comments, have missing section headers and/or formatting errors on any page(s), I sometimes move them to the correct archive pages manually, as I did when I moved a very old discussion (which had a general formatting issue) on the Talk:Charles M. Schulz talk page (which has a 60 day auto archive range) to its correct archive page.

Sometimes, I also use {{unsigned}} and {{undated}} templates for certain comments in sections so the archive bot(s) can put them into the proper archive page location(s). sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:14, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

My "Other not logged in" Account is being framed.

I am from a school in ipswich (not telling you) that has been framed by Brisbane Grammar school saying

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Brisbane Grammar School, you may be blocked from editing. InvadingInvader (talk) 02:14, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

AND I have gotten 14 complaints From November 2019 to August 2025. Ijdiwjdw (talk) 04:42, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

You have a shared IP address. No one is framing you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 06:27, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

@Ijdiwjdw: The message is from 2022 and somebody who had that IP address at the time did indeed vandalize Brisbane Grammar School by changing its name to Goofy Ahh School. The IP address has vandalized many other articles before and since but that's typical for IP addresses belonging to schools. If you use your own device but connect to the Internet via a school Wi-Fi then you get the IP address of the school. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:31, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Incorrect photo?

This photo:

File:Annabel Elliot at State Banquet 2025-09-17 (0.75 crop).jpg

is not of the sister - Sonia Annabel Elliot - of Queen Camilla.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/202101414@N05/54805317564/

The source itself (above) does not even label her in its photo.

She looks nothing like Sonia Annabel Elliot who was very prominent and photographed at the Coronation of Charles III as the Queen's "assistant".

Please look into this

Thank you 49.185.106.252 (talk) 08:42, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Certainly looks like it could be her to me. Pinging the file uploader user:Robin S. Taylor. Meters (talk) 08:51, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello. The IP user is correct.

The woman in the image is Carlyn Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen, who is one of Queen Consort Camilla's 'Queen's Companions' (ladies of the court) and a member of the House of Lords. I am removing the image from Annabel Elliot's page. Aesurias (talk) 23:50, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Getty Images of Baroness Chisholm: https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/carlyn-chisholm-baroness-chisholm-of-owlpen-attends-king-news-photo/2227263940 Aesurias (talk) 23:51, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Help my article is being deleted

I didn’t mean to publish it it is fictional I mean to keep it as a draft but I accidentally published it Catlover1519 (talk) 00:01, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

The draft space facility on Wikipedia is provided as a means to assist in article creation only. Wikipedia is not a web-hosting service, and accordingly, works of fiction are as liable to be deleted from draft space as anywhere else. I suggest you make a backup off-Wikipedia quickly, and confine your editing of Wikipedia to its intended purpose only. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:31, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

@Catlover1519 You can request speedy deletion of anything that only you have authored by placing the template {{db-author}} at the top of its source code. I recommend you do so if it is still there. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:08, 28 October 2025 (UTC)