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Attempted COI proposed edit

Two wiki people have tried to help me and I am still askew on my COI proposed edits of the biography of Jordan Harrison (dramatist). As you will see if you look at the Talk I have tried to submit a few times. This is the first of two sets of proposed changes based upon the recent changes in my son's career. They are straightforward. Will someone look at this and school me on what I am doing wrong?

thanks David Harrison David S Harrison (talk) 23:55, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Your mistake appears to be that you're using AI to try to format your edit request, and because AI generally has no idea how things should be formatted here, your edit request is not actually tagged as an edit request.

In order to make an edit request, you should add the text {{edit COI}} (including the curly brackets) to the top of your request.

Below that text, you propose a change to be made to the article in a "Change X to Y" format. Keep it short and simple and someone will be more likely to get to it. Don't propose a full rewrite of the article as you currently are doing. Make one small request, wait for someone to do it, then do another. Athanelar (talk) 00:26, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hi David S Harrison. You should try to use Template:Edit COI or the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard (ERW) when posting an edit request on the article's talk page due to a conflcit-of-interest. Using the template or ERW will add the talk page to a category page for talk pages where COI edit requests have been made. Those Wikipedians answering such requests use this category page as guide to find such request; otherwise, it they would essentially be searching for a needle in a haystack of more than seven million articles, hoping to eventually come across one with an edit request. There are instructions on how to use this template on its documentation page or you can just follow the instructions at each stage of the ERW. Finally, if you want some additional guidance on making the types of edit requests that are considered "good", please take a look at Wikipedia:Edit requests. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:29, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

ok I will do it thanks. Once I propose a change I can't tell what I need to click to complete the submission ~2026-12375-40 (talk) 00:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi ~2026-12375-40. You should probably try using Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard if you're unable to figure out how to use the {{COI edit}} template. I believe the ERW is pretty much an automated process and only requires you answer certain questions; it should format the request the way it needs to be formatted. In addition, if you're the same David S Harrison that posted the original question in this discussion, you probably should log in to your account and then make the edit request. While it's not expressly prohibited for users to edit while WP:LOGGEDOUT, it can be confusing to others, particularly given the fact that you've already posted several times at Talk:Jordan Harrison using the "David S Harrison" account. Finally, it would also be a really good idea for you declare your conflict-of-interest as explained in WP:DECLARECOI. You can do this by posting a brief statement on your user page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:06, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Okay this is all very helpful. I will use the wizard, propose edits one at a time, make sure I am properly logged in and make certain my conflict of interest is clear. I expect/hope that this will be my last question/problem. David S Harrison (talk) 05:14, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Dying Inside To Hold You

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Qwerfjkl flagged my edit on Dying_Inside_To_Hold_You (diff Special:Diff/1340351331) for a "generic name error."

However, this appears to be a false positive — the references already use the correct author/editor names from the sources, not placeholders.

Could you please review and confirm that the error flag can be dismissed?

Thanks, Miss Tinapay (talk) 06:25, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

There were several generic names provided as authors; but more important was the fictional nature of many of the pseudo-references. I did read on the article's talk page that "This page should not be speedy deleted as unreviewed LLM content, because this is for entertainment purposes only." Wikipedia articles are provided for encyclopedic purposes; I for one was not at all entertained to discover that one after another of the pseudo-references was mere fiction. -- Hoary (talk) 07:49, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Can TAs easily sock?

The transition to temporary accounts happened during my semi-wikibreak in late 2025, so I'm slowly getting used to them. But a question I've always had is as follows: If a TA gets blocked indefinitely, and since TAs only last 90 days, wouldn't that mean they could start vandalizing again under the new TA? Does autoblock stop them? TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 04:17, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure, but IP addresses usually have their leases change in less time than that, so I don't think there's going to be much of a difference in the amount of vandalism.  Emily * Emi-Is-Annoyed  _{(message me!)} 08:11, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Realistically, very few people have fixed IPs, so it makes not that much difference in practice. If someone really wants to come in on another IP (or a throw away account) they will regardless of the technical limitations on them. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:52, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Email in account name

If someone creates an account with their email address as user name, shall that account be blocked and oversighted? Xzkdeng (talk) 14:40, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Policy in that area does not allow email addresses as usernames that do not identify a specific person, but they don't need to be oversighted. 331dot (talk) 15:47, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

How is preview really important?

So, I was unaware of infobox parameters, which I cleaned up after a discussion about preview warning containing unnecessary infobox parameters. How is the preview really important? I was curious when I stepped into university computers. Ahri Boy (talk) 10:21, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Ahri Boy.

I don't really understand what you're asking.

"Preview" is helpful in order to check whether the edit we've made actually has the effect we intended. We don't have to use it - we could always commit our edits, and then (often, in my experience) would need to go back to correct them.

Does that answer your question, or am I missing what you're asking? ColinFine (talk) 10:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Ohh... Got it. I was exhausted after cleaning up unnecessary infobox parameters, citations and replying to the parameters issue. Ahri Boy (talk) 10:56, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

sociology book s ~2026-12474-81 (talk) 12:06, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Umm... Please read WP:NOT before answering. Your reply may be incoherent. Anyways, if you are here to edit, please read Help: Introduction. Ahri Boy (talk) 18:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Text formatting question.

Is there a way to force a full stop to stay with a sentence when the sentence ends with a symbol? The fourth paragraph of the "Quantum Mechanics" section of the "Bra-Ket Notation" entry has a full stop that is first on the next line, when it should be hard tied to the prior character, in this case a |.

Never mind. I just moved it inside the </math> tag, and it fixed it. Hooya27 (talk) 21:45, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Use {{nowrap}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:28, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Robert Allen Nelson

 Courtesy link: User:Karen Anderer/sandbox

I created a wikipedia article/page for Robert Allen Nelson (Artist) per the request of his wife. This artist is extremely renowned and it has become problematic that I can not get this published. Can anyone help? Karen Anderer (talk) 18:32, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

You have not submitted it for review. To do so, place {{subst:submit}} at the top. Nononsense101 (talk) 18:42, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your help! Karen Anderer (talk) 18:58, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

The draft is now at Draft:Robert Allen Nelson. Draft space is the preferred location for draft submission and can be accessed via the Article Wizard. Please see your user talk page for important information. 331dot (talk) 19:17, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Karen Anderer.

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.

Essentially nothing that you know about Nelson, and nothing that his wife has told you, belongs in the article unless it is verifiable from a reliable published source (and, in most cases, a source wholly independent of Nelson). - see WP:golden rule.

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. (I know you created your account more than six years ago, but you never made any edits until you created this draft) ColinFine (talk) 22:58, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

You’ll have to find a couple of more sources, and it needs to read more like an article (it can be challenging to write a user article so Wp:first article might help) The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 20:06, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

We read: I created a wikipedia article/page for Robert Allen Nelson (Artist) per the request of his wife. So, Karen Anderer, you have what we call a conflict of interest. Please read and digest Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. This artist is extremely renowned -- This surprises me. (The renown of an extremely renowned person would have reached me, no?) -- and it has become problematic that I can not get this published. Where's the problem? Wikipedia is in no rush. ¶ An actual problem here is that little effort has been put into formatting this right. So a reviewer can (a) decline it; (b) accept it and ignore the fact that it's a mess; (c) reformat it themselves. Given these three choices, I'd unhesitatingly plump for (a). A second actual problem is the uninformativeness and unhelpfulness of what I presume are intended as references. Three among these are, verbatim: (School of Art mourns passing of Dr. Robert Nelson, former instructor and artist, 2021) and "Untitled" by Robert A. Nelson, n.d.) and (Faculty News, 1997). Precisely what is each of these? How may an energetic researcher locate and consult each of these (either in a research library or on the web)? -- Hoary (talk) 22:57, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Please see WP:Referencing for beginners—your draft is mostly lacking citations, which are needed before it can be published. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:31, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Aquinas College, Edacochin

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Thanks, Tellmethetruth555 (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Tellmethetruth555, reference 8 has an error "External link in |website= " because you put |website=https://www.oneindia.com rather than |website=www.oneindia.com.

reference 10 has an error "|last= has generic name" because you put |first=D. C.|last=Correspondent. First and last should be used for human first and last names, information like D.C. Correspondent can be omitted. TSventon (talk) 16:21, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

The former should be |website=OneIndia (or whatever the website is actually called); not a partial URL. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:34, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Looking for insight on a bibliography section

Hi! I'm trying to finish a translation cleanup at Béla Rákosi, but got stuck at the Works section. The first three books are translations that I can't find the original titles or language of. I found sources that name the original authors, including scans of the title pages of the translated books in online antique book shops, but none of those sources list the original titles or language. How would I note this in the list in the article? Also, would it be worth providing an English translation of the titles (the originals are probably in German). Then there's the fourth book, which upon further research turned out to be a 22-page booklet published as an issue of a periodical which had each of its issues written by a different legal scholar. These were later collected into volumes, with the one that contains Rákosi's issue being available online at . Can I even keep calling that a "book"? Should it stay in the list or, alternatively, should the list itself even be there in the first place? Some insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Drake178 (talk) 22:34, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Drake178 as a start, I have translated the first three titles into German, done an internet search and put my suggestions onto the talk page. For a format, you could look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works#Books in languages other than English. TSventon (talk) 01:30, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon thank you. Unfortunately, I've read that before coming here. All the examples there involve situations where English is one of the languages, and they don't match my context. There is one list item in the linked Nabokov bibliography that is French to Russian, but as my luck would have it the book itself has an enwiki article and is linked instead of listing the original title. I also thought about going over the bibliographies of the German authors to find the matching works, but I thought it would be original research to do that without citing a source that makes the connections. However, if that is actually acceptable, then I'll gladly give that a shot. Drake178 (talk) 22:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@Drake178 as to the (possible) original titles, I thought that they might help you find evidence which would confirm my conjectures, but that was probably optimistic. I agree with Mathglot that the original titles are not vital.

The MOS examples are Russian titles with English translations and it should be possible to use the same format (without the Romanisation) for Hungarian titles with translations into English. TSventon (talk) 00:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon that is very helpful, thank you! Drake178 (talk) 01:02, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Drake178, the original language is not required, just a nice-to-have. If the book you are using to source facts in a Wikipedia article is a reliable source, it is irrelevant what language it was translated from. The governing policy here is Wikipedia:Verifiability: given enough time and energy and your citation, could another editor locate that exact book and see that what you wrote at Wikipedia really is supported on page 379? If yes, then just cite the book you used: author, date, title, publisher, language, and page number. If you can, add isbn or oclc, title translated into English, edition, and url if available. You don't have to mention that it is a translation, but you can if you want. If you don't know that information, then leave it out; it is not required. Mathglot (talk) 06:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@Mathglot I guess I'll take that first sentence and roll with it. The rest of your reply, unfortunately, has no relevance for my questions. I'll concede that I probably wasn't clear enough (in my defense, it's a rather nuanced issue). Thank you anyway! Drake178 (talk) 22:39, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Radio Station Logo

Station WDAE has such a logo displayed on the WDAE wikipedia page. The station simulcasts (runs identical programming 24/7) on co-owned WDAE-FM. I (and another wikipedia user) have attempted to add the WDAE logo to the WDAE-FM page. It has been removed several times by a compliance bot, with this violation: "No valid non-free use rationale for this page." Here is the logo: File:Wdae957logo.webp As you can see the logo includes both 95.7 FM and 620 FM, so it is appropriate to be used on both WDAE and WDAE-FM wikipedia pages. Can you please insert this logo in the "| logo = " place in the "Infobox Radio Station" section of the WDAE-FM wikipedia page? Amos1001 (talk) 22:06, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

File:Wdae957logo.webp is not a freely available file, Amos1001. As there is, I quote, "No valid non-free use rationale for [WDAE-FM]", the file may not be used within WDAE-FM. (And if you keep attempting to add it anyway, without a good-faith attempt to follow the necessarily strict rules for using a non-free file within an additional article, then you risk getting in trouble for disruptive editing.) If, however, you believe that you have a valid non-free use rationale for its use within WDAE-FM, then you are free to write this rationale and to append it to the content of File:Wdae957logo.webp. Once you have done this satisfactorily, you may use the file within WDAE-FM. -- Hoary (talk) 23:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I hope that i did this correctly. If not, feel free to delete my additions. Amos1001 (talk) 00:18, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

please let me know if i did it right. i'm apparently too stupid to understand how this works, but i've attempted to give the non-free use rationale for WDAE-FM, just below the use for WDAE. Is there something more I should have done? Amos1001 (talk) 00:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Looks good, but I don't understand the matter of dates. Example: "Logo of WDAE 95.7 that will be used on February 25th." Given that we're now in late February, I'd guess that this means Feb 25, 2026 (which where I happen to be typing was yesterday) ... but do you need any of this material about dates? (I don't think that the non-free use rationale for this film ad or this portrait mentions date(s)of appearance(s) on Wikipedia.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:02, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

WDAE started using the logo on Feb 23, 2026 when they changed their FM from 95.3 (which was a low power, 250 watt translator station) to 95.7 (which is a full, 100,000 watt station).

FYI: iheart (the owner of the stations in question) changed the call letters of WRUB to WDAE-FM on Feb 23. At the same time they moved the format from low power W237CW (95.3) to WDAE-FM (95.7)

and created a new logo with the image 95.7 to replace the old logo with the image 95.3.

I put the date as Feb 25th because that is today's date, and the date I'm attempting to add the logo to the WDAE-FM page. It's already on the WDAE page, started on Feb 23.

Yes, today is still Feb 23 here in USA Eastern standard time (GMT -5).

I don't guess any dates were needed. Is it ok as it stands?

Thank you for your help. Amos1001 (talk) 01:15, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

• February 25, 2006 here. typo

Amos1001 (talk) 01:20, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I don't immediately see anything wrong with it, Amos1001. Keep it on your watchlist for a time, so if anyone raises an objection, you'll know of it and can respond quickly. -- Hoary (talk) 04:56, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Return to mobile version

Hallo. I would like to go to the mobile version. Problem is that i just... Can't. Even if i'm using a phone and having the opinion to use computer layout set to no! What could be causing this and how to finally go back? ~2026-24671-3 (talk) 22:11, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Check at the bottom of the screen, where there's the links 'Privacy policy', 'About Wikipedia' etc. At the end of that is a button to swap view. If you're on desktop view, the button will say 'Mobile view.' This button overrides your browser's desktop mode setting. Athanelar (talk) 22:34, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! ~2026-24671-3 (talk) 06:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Problematic notes

Hello to everybody. I am not getting an answer to my previous question.

I will put it straight: how to add a note (number, etc.) to the text of an already existing page?

Last year I contributed to WP in another European language where everything was much more at hand (tools etc.) Settignano (talk) 09:27, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Settignano If you mean a reference/cite/source, see WP:TUTORIAL. We also have something called Help:Explanatory notes. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:56, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Settignano I understand you want to add a reference to National Air Communications. If you want to reference a book you could follow the format of an existing reference. Reference 5 uses the following code

<ref>{{harvp|Bluffield||2009|page=205}}</ref> in the Activation and dispersal section

*{{cite book |last=Bluffield |first=Robert |date=2009 |title=Imperial Airways – The Birth of the British Airline Industry 1914-1940 |publisher=Ian Allan |isbn=978-1-906537-07-4}} in the references section

If you want to cite another kind of source you could use the Wikipedia:RefToolbar and then ask here how to make the new reference match the existing ones. TSventon (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Settignano: The "Notes" section in National Air Communications uses a reference system described at Template:Harvard citation year brackets. You have to edit the section where the note is used. You can edit National Air Communications#Pre-war preparations to see examples. If the note uses a source which is not already listed at National Air Communications#References then you have to add both the note and the source. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:03, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

What do you mean by a note? ScholarlyTome (talk) 09:33, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Koteswara Rao

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Reference help requested.

what is error regarding date?

Thanks, Prathyushanindian (talk) 10:01, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

| access-date={{CURRENTDATE}}? No, Prathyushanindian, the access date is instead the latest date on which you accessed the page and verified that yes, it supports the claim(s) that its citation implies that it supports. -- Hoary (talk) 10:40, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

kind of on self-uploading of copyrighted material

should be simple, if a little on the long side, though i'm not sure if this shouldn't be on commons instead

if the owner of a visual work (like a game or series) allows the use of or skips the middle man and uploads an image of it (like a frame of gameplay or of an episode) for a pre-existing article, that still has to be under a compatible license. that much is clear. however, i'm bad at finding more specific info, so i'll take it here for safety's sake

• what would be the compatible license(s)?
• of those, assuming that that's at least one but not all of them, which would allow for the image to be unaltered (that is, uncompressed)?
• does it need to be specified that the license only applies to what it's applied to, or does that just come with the license(s)?
• would this be any different for the work's cover aside from maybe having to switch some nouns around in a license or two?
• would it even be a good idea to do that unless an editor asks?
• would it even be a good idea for an editor to ask?
• if it's unavoidable, would the compression be necessary if the resolution and/or image "quality" are respectively low or grainy enough that it wouldn't change anything?

i haven't specified that this is purely theoretical because i don't actually know if it is this time (。﹏*) consarn _{(talck) (contirbuton s)} 02:07, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Consarn.

Copyright is complicated, and Wikipedia's approach to it is also complicated.

Rather than trying to answer your questions one by one, I'll try and lay out the issues, and see if that helps.

One of the fundamental goals of the Wikipedia approach is to provide a freely reusable resource; so almost all of the text and many of the images in English Wikipedia are licensed under the license CC-BY-SA - which allows the material to be freely used, reproduced, and altered, by anybody, for any purpose (commercial or not), without requiring permission, as long as certain conditions (mostly about attribution) are met. Some of the images are actually in the public domain - which means that nobody has any copyright in them and they can be used freely without even requiring attribution.

Wikimedia's repository of resources - Wikimedia Commons - requires that anything uploaded to it is free to use in that way. When a copyright holder chooses to upload their work - and is willing for it to be licensed in that way - they can upload it (eg using the Upload wizard) and release it under CC-BY-SA as they do so. Alternatively, they can send an email releasing an image that somebody else is uploading: see donating copyright materials. And material that is already publicly licensed appropriately can be uploaded to Commons by anybody. (For example, some images on Flickr explicitly bear the CC-BY-SA licence; and the US government has decreed that all images published by the federal government and its agencies are in the Public Domain).

Notice that there is nothing about compression or resolution about this.

Ideally according to Wikimedia's principles, there would be nothing more to say; and for some Wikimedia Projects (eg German Wikipedia), there is no more to say: they allow only freely reusable materials.

But English Wikipedia (and many other Wikipedias), in order to allow more articles to be illustrated, made a decision to apply a form of the doctrine of Fair use, and permit non-free images to be used in certain circumstances. This is an entirely separate process from the normal only-freely-licensed use, and does not require permission from the copyright holder. Images to be used in this way must be uploaded to English (or whichever) Wikipedia, not to Commons; and their uploading, format, and use are strictly limited by the non-free content criteria. That is where questions of compression and resolution, and where the images are used, come in.

You can find more detail in WP:Image use policy.

Does this help? ColinFine (talk) 10:48, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

oh d*ng i just realized this didn't get sent

this means this case, which is for very much still non-free content, would be relatively chill, as what would be issues here are potentially already handled

danke consarn _{(talck) (contirbuton s)} 15:28, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

If you would like an example of a freely-licensed screenshot of a non-free video game, I contacted the developer of Tactical Breach Wizards with a request for a freely licensed image and they uploaded it at File:Tactical-breach-wizards-screenshot.jpg. The instruction page for how to do this at commons is c:COM:VRT/CONSENT.

The default license for this sort of thing would be CC-BY-SA 4.0. It only applies to whatever they specifically agree to release under that license.

As images are freely licensed, they would not need to be compressed to be low quality to comply with fair use. ScalarFactor (talk) 15:37, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

SFN when the reference refers once to a single page and once to the entire article

Hi all,

I'm editing Physella acuta and two of my references (Camargo & Alonso 2017; Bal, Kumar & Nugegoda 2017) are used once when referring to a specific page within the paper (because there's a specific information mentioned that I'm referring to) and once when referring to the paper as a whole (because I use them as examples of studies done on P. acuta, so there's no specific page to refer to). How do I format the SFNs in this case?

At the moment, the citations referring to a specific page have the SFN, and the citations referring to the whole paper have the standard citation formatting. To avoid the duplicated SFN error, I don't put the citation under the reference list. So the Notes section has both the SFN and the complete literature citation. Is this the correct procedure? Or should the "general" reference (no specific page) cite the pages that encompass the entire paper in an SFN?

Barbalalaika 🐌 12:43, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Does this not work? (here, replacing {{sfn}} with {{harvnb}} for the sake of simplicity)

In the main body of the article:

{{harvnb|Camargo|Alonso|2017|p=15668}} → Camargo & Alonso 2017, p. 15668 – when referring to a specific page within the paper

{{harvnb|Camargo|Alonso|2017}} → Camargo & Alonso 2017 – when referring to the paper as a whole

and in §References:

{{Cite journal |last=Camargo |first=J. A. |last2=Alonso |first2=A. |date=2017 |title=Ecotoxicological assessment of the impact of fluoride (F−) and turbidity on the freshwater snail ''Physella acuta'' in a polluted river receiving an industrial effluent |journal=Environmental Science and Pollution Research |language=en |volume=24 |issue=18 |pages=15667–15677 |doi=10.1007/s11356-017-9208-x}}

Camargo, J. A.; Alonso, A. (2017). "Ecotoxicological assessment of the impact of fluoride (F−) and turbidity on the freshwater snail Physella acuta in a polluted river receiving an industrial effluent". Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 24 (18): 15667–15677. doi:10.1007/s11356-017-9208-x.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:40, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Ahhh I hadn't thought of this possibility! Thank you, implemented :) Barbalalaika 🐌 15:42, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Move to mainspace help

I don't see a dropdown to move my page from the sandbox to the mainspace. Can someone help with figure out what I'm doing wrong? Clarity CBT & DBT Center (talk) 17:33, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Clarity CBT & DBT Center. Your account is too new to be autoconfirmed, and so does not yet have access to the move function.

In any case, new accounts are very very strongly advised to put drafts of new articles through the articles for creation process, rather than moving them to main space directly, as the chances of a brand new account creating something that is anywhere near an acceptable draft are very small.

Your sandbox was moved to Draft:Erica Rozmid, and then deleted as unambiguous advertising.

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) 17:46, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Website name

can i add my website name here Sure tips today (talk) 19:21, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

No, as Wikipedia is not a mere database of information. There are criteria for inclusion, written at WP:NWEB. You should also see conflict of interest. 331dot (talk) 19:24, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

JasonTheArtKid

"an art dude who scribbles around" Wafflecat5000 (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@Wafflecat5000 That isn't a question or a plea for help. Do you have one? Mike Turnbull (talk) 20:56, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

no? Wafflecat5000 (talk) 21:13, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I assume this relates to Draft:JasonTheArtKid, which is Wafflecat5000's autobiography, per the CoI declaration. If so, it stands zero chance of being accepted as an article as it stands. Go away and do something that independent reliable sources consider worthy of in-depth discussion, and maybe you'll merit an article in a few years. At which point someone without a conflict of interest might consider writing about you more objectively. This is not a platform for free publicity. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:18, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Reliable sources

I didn't realize that my mom has a Wikipedia article -- Carol_Walker. I also don't remember whether an obit hosted on the web site of a funeral home counts as a reliable source for the date of her passing. The article doesn't yet list that date for obvious reasons... she passed away early yesterday morning. We kids haven't written her obit yet, but when we do, it will almost certainly be posted on the funeral home's web site.

Will that be reliable enough to make an edit request (I have an obvious COI) for the date of her passing? Thanks. David10244 (talk) 13:07, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

David10244, for obvious reasons, obits aren't always appropriate, but for something as basic as a date, should be fine Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:28, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm sorry for your loss. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:21, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing, @Jimfbleak Thanks to you both. I'll make an edit request after we write the obit. David10244 (talk) 22:03, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Editor reverting or changing my good‑faith edits without explanation

I've been making good‑faith edits to help improve the Disappearance of Lisa Dorrian article, but another editor has been reverting or changing anything I do without providing any explanation in edit summaries or on the talk page. We previously discussed some edits to the lead on the talk page, where I explained that I was simply trying to help improve the article, but they didn't seem interested in discussing any changes. Eventually I gave up on that discussion because they were essentially insisting that I should not change anything. Since then, they have continued reverting or altering certain things I do, and from their pattern of behaviour it appears they do not want any changes made to the page because they originally created it.

It's very difficult to have any discussion or build consensus with someone who seems to want to control everything about the page. I understand that per WP:OWN, no editor "owns" an article, regardless of who started it, and all pages are collaboratively maintained. I'm trying to contribute constructively, but the lack of any explanation for the reversions makes it impossible to understand their objections or move forward collaboratively. I have actually checked their talk page and it seems another editor has these concerns also and has said it to them but they don't seem to have made a difference.

Could someone advise on the best way to handle this situation and what the appropriate next steps are in terms of dispute resolution?

Thanks for any help. ItsShandog (talk) 18:59, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I responded to a message left on my talk page from the OP. I don't think @WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker is acting in bad faith, however I would urge them to provide rationales for any reversions they make (which they failed to do here). 11WB (talk) 19:37, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Looking at that exact reversion, it would appear as though they reverted it because I initially missed a word, which I then added in a follow‑up edit — but as you can see, they reverted that as well. ItsShandog (talk) 20:04, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

ItsShandog this seems to be covered by Wikipedia:Dispute resolution#Follow the normal protocol. If I WP:AGF on both sides, you have copy edited the page and think your edit was an improvement, WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker reverted your edit and presumably doesn't agree. You could start a discussion on the article talk page and explain why your edit was an improvement, then the other editor should explain if they disagree. TSventon (talk) 20:49, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

We are having a discussion about it now, but as I've said, this isn't the first time. We already had a discussion about the lead before on the article talk page, where I explained my reasoning, and there wasn't really any proper discussion from their side other and it ended with "leave it as it is". ItsShandog (talk) 21:01, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Discussion moved from User talk:11WB

@11WB i reverted edits as they just had "ce" instead of a summary of changes and only difference was words deleted (i.e.) removed info without explanation WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 20:13, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I don't really see this as "kicking up a fuss". This isn't something that's happened once — it's been several times now where any edit I make to try and improve the article is changed or reverted. I've only ever been trying to help the page read more encyclopaedically. When I put "ce" in the summary, it was because I was copyediting the wording across the article. Yes, I could have been clearer, but it wouldn't have made much difference because the edits would still have been reverted. That's how it comes across: when you make changes, they're fine, but when anyone else tries to improve the prose, it's treated as wrong. From my perspective, it feels like it has to be your way or no way, and that makes it difficult for other editors to contribute constructively.

And if you were genuinely concerned about the lack of detail in my "ce" summary, I don't understand why you didn't mention that in your own revert summary. Your revert didn't say anything about missing reasoning — it just undid the edit. That makes it hard to believe the issue was the summary rather than simply not liking the changes.

This also isn't the first time we've had this issue. We already discussed the lead before, and I explained why the article title "Disappearance of Lisa Dorrian" means the lead should follow the standard event-based structure used across disappearance articles. That wasn't a personal preference — it was based on advice from an experienced editor who works and creates these types of pages. Your response then was that "40,000 people viewed it without issue", which isn't how article improvement works. Editors are supposed to collaborate to improve pages, not keep them frozen because they were the original creator. ItsShandog (talk) 20:47, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@ItsShandog looking at the McNally article you have essentially tweaked the grammar slightly ? is that what the "ce" changes are about ? if so you are not really improving the Lisa Dorrian article by adding more info but just want it written in the grammatical style you prefer, and as grammar style is subjective with no right or wrong i have no idea why such a fuss is being kicked up ? WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 20:30, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

The article had a template saying the wording needed to be improved because it read like a news report, so I carried out copyediting across the article to fix that. The changes were to make the prose more encyclopaedic and clearer, not to enforce a personal grammatical style. All the information was kept; the wording was simply improved in line with what the template was asking for. ItsShandog (talk) 20:40, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@ItsShandog no no thats cool, but what needs changing on Lisa Dorrian ? cant understand why random bits of text deleted ? WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 20:43, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

My involvement has personally ended. All I'll add here, as a neutral party, is that @ItsShandog was only copy-editing, which is almost always non-controversial. Unsure why those edits specifically needed reverting as only a single word was changed. I think this may have caused @ItsShandog to perceive this as a continuation of the previous OWN issues that were previously highlighted. I don't think anybody acted in bad faith, and this could be easily resolved with improved communication through the use of edit summaries and article talk pages. 11WB (talk) 21:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

I think you're looking at the edit revisions but not actually reading the article text itself. Nothing was deleted at random. All the information is still there — the dates, the age, the suspects, the searches, the lines of inquiry, and the fact she is considered missing, presumed dead. The only thing that changed was the wording, because the original sentences were long, repetitive, and written in a news‑report style. My edits were standard copyediting to make the prose clearer and more encyclopaedic. The facts are identical; the sentences are just cleaner and easier to read. That's why it's important to look at the actual article, not just the revisions, because they makes small wording changes look like big removals when the meaning hasn't changed at all. The reason I changed the wording is because the original text genuinely read like a news report. It used phrases like "in her vanishing", "interrogated", "no trace was ever found", and very long, layered sentences with multiple "being" clauses. That's the tone and structure you see in journalism, not in an encyclopaedia. My edits were simply to remove that news‑style phrasing and make the prose more neutral and concise. No information was removed — just the way it was written was improved. ItsShandog (talk) 20:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@ItsShandog, @WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker. I've moved the discussion from my talk page to here, as this is the more appropriate of the two venues to have this discussion. Thanks. 11WB (talk) 21:11, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. ItsShandog (talk) 21:14, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@ItsShandog fair enough but the page has been reviewed by others without issues being raised at all regarding the style of writing so we can agree we have a difference of opinion regarding grammatical styles and leave it at that WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 22:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

So how do we actually resolve this and get consensus on what the edit should be? ItsShandog (talk) 22:44, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@ItsShandog edit it and if i dont object we can leave as is, now i understand your reasoning i doubt we will have any issues going forwards WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 23:15, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker: Hi,

For clarification: "ce" is a common shorthand for copy-editing in edit summaries, and is almost always sufficient to explain those sorts of edits.

"No-one else is complaining about this issue" is not a very strong rationale to revert such edits. See WP:SILENCE: if you have a notion that a particular wording is fine based on the fact that nobody has objected to it yet, then that notion dissolves once an editor decides to reword it. If you wish to revert such edits, you'll want to provide a stronger justification than "nobody objected to it" for why the former version is better than the latter version in your edit summary. MEN KISSING (she/they) T - C - Email me! 22:49, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker I agree with what @MEN KISSING said. Readers don't always "raise issues" when the wording in an article is not structured well. That isnot a reason to avoid improving the prose. David10244 (talk) 22:14, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Bankruptcy of FTX

Bankruptcy of FTX says Sam Bankman-Fried took to X on February 10, 2026, to state that the now-defunct FTX exchange was never bankrupt. He claimed that it was the legal firm Sullivan & Cromwell’s lawyers who forced the bankruptcy filing—not him—in order to gain control of the assets.[18][19] and the refs [18][19] are just text. Someone should take a look at that please thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 15:06, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@Polygnotus definitely AI slop I reverted it and warned the TA. CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 17:31, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 04:13, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

How do I request for an article to be deleted?

I've reviewed the article on Monica Lionheart and believe it does not meet notability guidelines. There is no evidence that she is a notable figure in music. The content is promotional, and the editing history suggests it may have been created by someone closely associated with her. How do I request deletion? WafflesBaconAndPuppies (talk) 04:42, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Guide to deletion#Deletion process * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 05:05, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Article Creation Blacklist

Probably not the right place but there doesn't seem to be an obvious place. I went to create a new archaeological site starter article (technically a "lost city" article as it is still unlocated) in the Ancient Near East project and it wouldn't let me do it because it was on some sort of title blacklist. The article name was "Gu’abba" which was the name of a 3rd Millennium BC Sumerian city. I've done a few of these and this is the first time I have had an issue like this. I am confused. :-) In case one is curious the text is User:Ploversegg/proto. Plan B is to try and create it without the apostrophe which is not correct but one does what one must.Thanks! Ploversegg (talk) 23:50, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Ploversegg I think the problem is that "Gu’abba" has a curly apostrophe, "Gu'abba" with a straight apostrophe should work. TSventon (talk) 23:59, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Good eyes!! Thanks, that fixed it. :-) Ploversegg (talk) 00:02, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

(edit conflict) 2x

Did you really mean to use a curly quote character. If that character has special meaning like {{Ayin}}, {{Saltillo}}, {{Hamza}} (ʽ) have in some transliterations of Arabic, or {{Okina}} has in Polynesian languages, then use the character appropriate to the language/transliteration. If the character does not have special meaning, perhaps use the generic typewriter apostrophe (').

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:14, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Yeah ... that worked. In the literature you see both straight and curly quotes for the name. In fact without noticing I had some of each in the article depending on the source I was using at the time. Maybe I need a bigger monitor. :-) I made them all straight quotes and life is good. Thanks. Ploversegg (talk) 00:32, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@Ploversegg Hello fellow ancient history enjoyer 👋 The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 10:00, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

How to mark an article as orphan?

I just edited Cybersecurity in Space to de-Deadend it and found it also has 0 incoming links from other articles. Does just hang a {{Orphan}} works? It seems that this does not add it into the orphan category.

Also this article says Neil Armstrong is the ONLY man walked on moon and Germany launched the world's first rocket into orbit in 1949, which doesn't seem very true at least to me. I edited former as it is too obvious but left the latter as is for I really cannot find some sources to prove or disprove it. I guess germans never launched any V-2s after their surrender but I may be wrong. ~2026-12709-79 (talk) 03:59, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I do believe the Germans got the V2 into lower space, (correct me if I’m wrong), as for the Neil Armstrong one that is definitely wrong. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 09:57, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

The 1949 claim (which the reference used does not support) is probably a misunderstanding of the US Army's 1949–50 Bumper program, which launched several rockets with V2s (captured/taken from Germany in/after WW2) as their first stage into space (i.e. above 100km altitude), but not into orbit. The US Naval Research Laboratory also launched an ionospheric probe NRL Ionosphere 1 on a V2 in 1949.

Germany launched a V2 (then called an A4) beyond 100km altitude in 1944. The first German launch to orbit was Azur in 1969. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 12:23, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I meant the 1944 one, didn’t know the Americans used it in 1949, but that makes sense with NASA using Werner Von Braun. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 12:52, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Regarding your first paragraph: Orphan tags put articles into hidden categories, so only Wikipedia accounts that have their preferences set to "Show hidden categories" will see them. I see the categories "Orphaned articles from February 2026" and "All orphaned articles" in that article. Deor (talk) 12:38, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Advanced search help

I swear I read H:S and tried really hard to figure this out myself first but I'm stuck. Let's say I want to search for every page that cites a scientific journal called "Genetics" but NOT "Genetics and Molecular Biology" or "Genetics Research" or anything else. I'm inputting insource:"journal=genetics" and I've tried adding a space or | or ! after the word 'genetics' inside the double quotes but it's still returning results citing any journal whose title begins with "genetics". What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any assistance. elchupacabra (talk) 06:35, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@MacabreChupacabra: Non-alphanumeric characters are ignored in a normal insource search. See the regexp part at H:INSOURCE. I suggest splitting it in two searches. insource:"journal=Genetics (journal)" looks for links to Genetics (journal). insource:"journal=Genetics" insource:/journal *= *Genetics *[\|\}\n]/ looks for Genetics followed by a pipe, curly end bracket or newline, and allows spaces. It starts with a non-regexp search for efficiency. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:51, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much that's extremely helpful!! elchupacabra (talk) 10:03, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@MacabreChupacabra: You may also be interested in linksto:"Genetics (journal)" insource:"Genetics (journal)" -insource:"journal=Genetics (journal)". It includes some citation templates with periodical, publisher or work instead of journal. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:06, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Request for Assistance: Article Creation for Persecuted Scholar/Artist Andre Galestian

~2026-12547-01 (talk) 15:40, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

What assistance are you seeking? 331dot (talk) 15:48, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

We are a group of students from the University of Art,Tehran, Iran, seeking help to create a biography for our professor "Andre Galestian". He is a prominent Iranian-Armenian pianist,musicologist and strategic economist.

Unfortunately, during the January 2026 protests in Iran (month Dey of Iranian year 1404), professor Andre Galestian was severely injured in his right hand and right shoulder by pellet guns, which has forcibly ended his career as a performer and educator. We are deeply concerned that his academic and artistic legacy is being erased due to the current situation in Iran.

He meets Wikipedia's Notability criteria through several published works and research papers on the official Art Magazine of Iran. His profile is published on Iranian most famoust scolars database "ElmNet" (ElmNet means: science network) and his academic papers are listed there. His academic works are published in Iranian- Armenian bilingual "Ani" magazine as well. You can find his profile and papers by a simple search in English or Persian or Armenian on the Internet.

The Internet connection here is very limited, unlogical censored, strictly filtered and monitored by the government, we took a risk hoping to save the memories of our professor who we have no news about him anymore. We don't know if he is alive or not. We are sending this message to you via a VPN through an Armenian server because Wikipedia is not accessible here in Tehran.

Please help us.

We are a very persecuted nation.

We are a group of girl students of the University of Art here in Tehran, trying to save the name of a dominant professors name of this country who was our professor as well and did much for this country (search his name on the Internet please).

Thank you very much indeed for your time and solidarity. ~2026-12322-38 (talk) 16:50, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Would be better to WP:DRAFT an article. We can help finishing your draft in case you might be busy protecting yourselves. Ahri Boy (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

You are welcome to start drafting an article at Draft:Andre Galestian. You must cite a reliable source (which need not be in English) for each statement made there, and the subject must meet the criteria at WP:42.

But we do recommend that you gain experience by editing existing articles first. I have left some introductory links on your talk page Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:22, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-12322-38 also please read WP:COI CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 18:35, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, thank you very much for your time and solidarity.

Here you will find the biographies of the most well-known Iranian Armenian musicians (in English), including professor "Andre Galestian" and even a clip of an interview of professor Andre Galestian (and professor Vartan Sahakian) with Iranian National Television (live broadcast, some years ago, with English subtitles), and also there is another clip at the end of the article that shows the place of birth and date of birth of most famous and dominant Iranian Armenian musicians (in English) including professor Andre Galestian, the article is published by the website of Iranian Database of Conferences:

https://payameconference.ir/?p=5168

Here is another interview with professor "Andre Galestian" as a well-known university professor and scholar (and professor Rasoul Moradi) in English, by the official and government-run news agency of Iran, which is the biggest news agency of the country:

https://en.irna.ir/news/84330051

Above mentioned interview is published by MMN ("Media Monitors Network" which is located in California, USA) as well:

https://mediamonitors.net/shahnameh-maintains-backbone-of-iranian-culture

Here is an article (in English) published in Art Magazine of Iran by professor Andre Galestian (the author is professor Andre Galestian):

https://artmag.ir/en/3102/role-of-armenians-in-the-development-of-iranian-music

You can find 41 articles of professor Andre Galestian here (it is the website of Iranian Science Network):

https://elmnet.ir/author/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%87-%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86?pn=2

Also, you can find 5 articles here (it is the website of a well known database of Persian articles published in Iranian magazines):

https://www.magiran.com/author/profile/449727/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%87-%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86

Here are two of the many podcasts of professor Andre Galestian in the major of commerce, economics and international imoprt/export (first one is the website of a well-known school of business in Tehran and the second one is the website of a well-known Iranian scientific journal (the meaning of the name of the journal is: Electronic Journalism):

https://hamyartp.com/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B7-%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D8%B1-3/

and

https://rooznamenegarielectronic.ir/?p=760

At the end, if you search the name of professor "Andre Galestian" in Persian or Armenian, or even in English, you can find many more, but please hurry, it seems that the Iranian government is deleting everything regarding to the people who participated in January 2026 peaceful protests in Iran and we could find a few of many of the articles and interviews of professor Andre Galestian. The Iranian regime killed at least 32,000 people, the protesters, innocent people (as the President of the United States of America said), and we took very serious risk to save the name and the valuable works of our professor, the valuable works that he made during the years of his career (we do not know if he is alive).

Professor Andre Galestian is (or was) a music historian who did much to save the names, biographies and works of many departed Iranian musicians and now it is our duty, his students, to save his name (we wish he is alive and pray for him).

You can find his biography in English via first link (website of Iranian Database of Conferences). Please watch the clips as well, they have English subtitles. You can gather much more information about him via the other links. We tried to send only the links from most reputable websites of the country.

Please be informed that the most of the websites here in tehran are banned by the government, even Wikipedia, and we are now using a VPN which connecting us to a server located in Yerevan, Armenia and we do not know when it will be disconnected too.

Thank you very much for your time and solidarity.

Please pray for us, please pray for Iran.

A group of girl students from Art University, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12606-67 (talk) 06:58, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Internet Archive can help archive these links you've provided. So no need to worry about content being censored. In the meantime, archive.is (see WP:ATODAY for more info) is deprecated because of a malicious code that break requests from end users. Ahri Boy (talk) 07:39, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed, God bless you all.

Meantime, the links and the references which we mentioned above, contain biographies of some of the well known Iranian professors and some of the most dominant Iranian musician of the recent three centuries (19th, 20th and 21th centuries) who have the most influence on Iranian music which may be helpful for enrich or maybe complete Wkipedia's information in this regard.

Please pray for Iranians, please pray for Iran. We are livinig in one of the most critical periods of Iranian history, which is perhaps one of the most sensitive periods in the history of the whole Middle East.

God bless you.

A group of girl students of University of Art, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12322-38 (talk) 09:47, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much Ahri Boy for the draft, you are very kind, we really appreciate what you have been doing.

Thank you very much for your time and solidarity.

God bless you.

A group of girl students from Art University, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12931-04 (talk) 08:46, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much.

God bless you.

Thanks.

A group of girl students, University of Art, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12931-04 (talk) 09:47, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello and thank you very much for your time and solidarity.

We couldn't edit it, but we can provide the following information based on the previously mentioned links and references:

Draft article

Professor Andre Galestian

Born: 1976, Tehran, Iran.

He is alive (or we wish so) but nobody has no news about him (we even contacted Armenian embassy here in Tehran but nobody answered the phone, it seems the Armenian diplomats has left Iran).

Nationality: Iranian- Armenian

Photo: can be seen in previously mentioned references which contain many photos of him (We have no idea if the photos can be used for Wikipedia or not, but as we know, copyright law has not been practiced in Iran yet).

Father: Hrayr Galestian, a well known Iranian Armenian musician (departed some years ago).

Mother: Arax Galestian (Khoudadian), a well known Iranian Armenian seamstress and dressmaker and owner of a famous modern bridal shop and dress boutique in Tehran (departed some years ago).

Occupations:

1- Musician, Musicologist, Music Researcher, Author, Music and Music History Professor/Lecturer and Writer in Iran and in Armenia (who gathered and published the information (including biographies and works) about many Iranian and Armenian dominant musicians of the recent three centuries).

2- International Commerce Professional who had a key role in founding Iranian Trade Center in Armenia (non governmental business center for the Iranian business people who wished to live abroad - in Armenia). In this regard, further to previously mentioned links, please see the following refrence on the website of the National Public Radio of Armenia:

https://fa.armradio.am/2024/12/16/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B2%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF

(It is in Persian but clearly mentioned the name of Andre Galestian and his position).

A brief biography of Professor "Andre Galestian" published in the website of Iranian Database of Conferences (first link which is mentioned in previous messages) based on Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Iranian Music:

Andre Galestian is a reputable Iranian pianist and well-known musicologist who is widely renowned for his extensive research into the history of music in Iran. A significant portion of the information available today, regarding the greatest musicians of Iran, stems from his meticulous research. Some years ago, his name and biography were included in the "Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Iranian Music"; and due to his age at the time, he was the youngest musician ever to be given that great honor. In addition to music, he has conducted extensive research in the field of Persian literature. Andre Galestian began his musical training in early childhood, expanding his focus during his youth into a rigorous study of the history of Iranian and world music. Although his professional career is rooted in international trade and also economic discourse, he has pursued the study of music and literature with professional expertise and academic depth. Consequently, he has contributed highly valuable research to scholars and artists, enriching the worlds of science and art in Iran and Iranian communities around the world.

Thank you very much again for your time and solidarity.

A group of students from the University of Art, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12322-38 (talk) 12:18, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

You say "We couldn't edit it": why not?

Your other alternative is to place a request at WP:Requested articles, but beware that the chances of a response are low. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:30, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

We have no idea, maybe because we use a VPN to connect to a server in Yerevan, Armenia (because many websites are banned and censored here in Tehran by the government (including Wikipedia) and we have no direct access to many websites).

Also we are just students of Art University (Bachelor's, second and third years) and we are not experienced in editing articles.

We tried to fulfill our duty towards a prominent professor, someone who had spent his entire life trying to gather and publish the legacy of the great musicians of Iran (and spent whole his wealth for this goal). We wanted the legacy of our esteemed professor and his memory not to be forgotten (someone who severely injured during the January 2026 protests in Iran (in his right hand which means much for a pianist) and now we even have no news about him).

God bless you all, we feel we are not alone in this world. May God help us to make Iran free. All the students of different universities in Iran are protesting right now for this holy goal.

God bless you, God bless your country and God bless Iran too. ~2026-12322-38 (talk) 13:01, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

If you need to use a VPN to edit Wikipedia, you can set up an account (one per person, please - do not share accounts) and request "IP exemption" as described at Wikipedia:IPEXEMPT.

Obviosuly, you should not do this if you think it will compromise your safety. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:07, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

you are absolutely right, everyone needs a seperate account.

We are very scared these days because of the regime's militia, they killed more than 30,000 people and you know what they do to girls before execution.

Thank you for your guidance, hopefully everybody here will dare to have a separate Wkipedia's account soon.

Thanks again and God bless you. ~2026-12322-38 (talk) 15:28, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I have alerted some people who might want to write the article.

I wish you all well. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:37, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed, thank you very much, thanks, thanks, thanks. 🙏🙏🙏

You are beautiful and world is much more beautiful place with you.

God bless you. God bless you. God bless you.

I would like to thank all great people who is helping us to create this article, thank you, you are beautiful, the world is much more better place with you and God bless you all.

I am really sorry that we have no experience in editing an article on Wikipedia and for sure, what we wrote, needs much time to edit. We tried to write references for every single thing we wrote in the article, that is why the number of links are too much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

🌹🌹🌹

A group of girl students from the University of Art, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12322-38 (talk) 17:31, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much Andy Mabbett for your guidance, we wrote as much as we could on the draft page (almost what we know about Professor Andre Galestian), and tried to write references for ever paragraph and for every sentence (that is why the number of references (links) are too much).

Thank you very much indeed.

You are very kind.

God bless you.

Here the most of the universities are going to be closed (as government says: they will be shut down temporarily); they do not say the reason, but the reason is clear, that is because of continuous protests of the students of almost all universities.

Thanks again for your time and solidarity Andy Mabbett.

Thank you very much.

A group of girl students from Art University, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12931-04 (talk) 08:40, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much 331dots.

Thank you for your attention.

We appreciate it very much.

Because of you, a draft is now written.

Yo are very kind, a good human being. God bless you.

Thank you very much indeed.

God bless you, God bless your country, and God bless Iran too.

A group of girl students from Art University, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12931-04 (talk) 08:51, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, we found this as well (in this regard):

https://hamsoonews.ir/?p=18247

It's the website of a famouse club of experienced journalists, here in Iran, the website has published an article about most famous Iranian Armenian musicians of all time and there is a good biography of Professor Andre Galestian there.

Thank you very much for your attention.

God bless you.

A group of girl students from the University of Art, Tehran, Iran. ~2026-12931-04 (talk) 15:46, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

How do i make Birthday Mode Work?

i wanted to make the cute lil Globy character appear,but even enabling it,it dosent work! ~2026-12831-30 (talk) 02:00, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-12831-30: It only appears on some articles like Wikipedia. Do you see it there? https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/wikipedia-mascot has a video with more hints about where it appears. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:09, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

wait, does it means baby globe only appears on the top of the page? tbh i tought he was going to be walking trough the page like in the trailer they made for it lol ~2026-12831-30 (talk) 17:02, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on 2026 Nebraska Legislature election

Special:Diff/1340778246

Hi I am not able to find the change that Qwerfjkl is asking me to make. Every change I made should have sources cited next to them. Please advise

Thanks, Sstefanski2 (talk) 17:08, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

In reference 37, you have |last=editor |first=Rob Schlotterbeck Daily Sun

Those values do not appear to be correct. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:22, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

...and in reference 45, you have |website=panhandle.newschannelnebraska.com, a URL, where you should have a prose name, presumably "News Channel Nebraska". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:25, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Ok good to know. The exact fix it had was for a generic name but I will go back and fix those too Sstefanski2 (talk) 19:31, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Ungrading article

The current article under the title of "Ungrading" is about a book which covers information on the topic about Ungrading. I want to create a article on the general topic of Ungrading instead of just this book. I feel like the title of "Ungrading" deserves to be about the overall subject and not a specific book. How should I go about changing the title of the current article so that I can create a new article with the title of "Ungrading". Jacksonkeil (talk) 02:20, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I'd reword that, Jacksonkeil. I'd say that the article Ungrading is ostensibly about a particular book, titled Ungrading, that is itself about ungrading. It cites the book -- but to say nothing. It cites a review of the book -- but, again, to say nothing. Here's the nugget in question: Multiple books [which unfortunately go unspecified] have discussed this concept. In Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame^[2][3] writes about this concept. That's it! So the editor (and/or primary author) of Ungrading writes in it about ungrading -- well well! Is "ungrading" a synonym of a term that already gets an article that isn't as uninformative as this one? If so, tell us the synonym. If not, is there substantive, secondary material from reliable sources about what is sometimes or often called "ungrading"? If so, I warmly recommend converting the stub about the book to a decent article about the concept. -- Hoary (talk) 04:51, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

There is somewhat of a synonym called "Alternative grading" but I also believe there is plenty of secondary sources about the topic of ungrading itself. If you also believe that this topic is notabile/substantial enough based off of these sources, how should I go about converting this stub? Should I completely just remove the information about the book and replace it with the knowledge of the topic? The book the article is currently on is also one of the sources I have but below I will list a couple of the main sources I have.

Jacksonkeil (talk) 20:19, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

For some reason the sourecs I pasted in did not show up when I posted the reply so I will try again here.

Zugschwert, Laura C. Fostering Equity, Ownership, and a Community of Care: Alternative Grading in the Secondary Classroom. Diss. University of St. Thomas, 2025.

Stansberry, Susan L.; Thompson, Penny; Brown, Toby (2025). "Adventures in Ungrading: Sharing Strategies and Experiences". The Journal of Applied Instructional Design. 14 (2). doi:10.59668/2222.21279

Schinske, Jeffrey; Tanner, Kimberly (2014). "Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)". CBE life sciences education. 13 (2): 159–166. doi:10.1187/cbe.cbe-14-03-0054. ISSN 1931-7913. PMC 4041495. PMID 26086649.

Bailey, Austin; Wilkinson, Caroline (2023). "Ungrading the Composition Classroom: Affect, Metacognition, and Qualitative Learning". Journal of Basic Writing. 42 (2): 6–34. doi:10.37514/JBW-J.2023.42.2.02. ISSN 0147-1635. Jacksonkeil (talk) 20:21, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

How to deal with the Joerg Dietz problem

Joerg Dietz

Dietz appears at first to be a notable academic with an impressive background. In reality, he considers his wikipedia bio to be his personal play space, has edited it multiple times, and largely ignores his talk page.

His content and reference list are promotional Linked-in style content, and the references are all papers he has co-authored. I am seeking advice as to how to deal with this very common sort of content. To be quite frank, I would reduce his bio to

Joerg Dietz is a German professor at HEC Lausanne. He has co-authored several papers.

That is a little bit exaggerated, in the interests of wry humor. However, the question remains sincere! Thank you for your time Reechard (talk) 06:53, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Joerg Dietz is an excellent example of why people should not control their own Wikipedia articles. The impression it gives, at least to the undersigned, is "Joerg Dietz writes papers about vacuous bullshit such as 'contextual antecedents'. He's good at getting them published, but there's no evidence that anyone ever reads them." Maproom (talk) 10:55, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Well, for a start I've tagged the article for G11 (unambiguous promotion) speedy deletion. We'll see if whichever admin sees it agrees, if not I think it's an open-and-shut AfD candidate. Athanelar (talk) 12:31, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Don't know if you saw, but it was removed with a note to "take it to AFD if you think the subject not notable". diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joerg_Dietz&diff=1339429470&oldid=1339418628 Tampering Ides (talk) 20:38, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I did, I'm just too lazy to do the BEFORE on an AfD submission right now. Athanelar (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I just had to laugh. There is an old joke about behavioral psychologists having unruly dogs. Well, this fellow specializes in "organizational behavior"... And no comment on how he behaves. If there is an Afd please let me know. The page deserves deletion. Yesterday, all my dreams... (talk) 13:15, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Reechard But sentences like "In research on diversity-related issues, Dietz has the interplay of contextual and individual factors" are so informative! David10244 (talk) 06:41, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

A question

Good evening everyone. Can an account be blocked without any edits? ~2026-24671-3 (talk) 18:59, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Can it? Yes. There's loads of reasons why an account (or temporary account) might be blocked. Generally, non-edit accounts that get blocked are usually due to rangeblocks, or from sockpuppetry investigations.

You might find that on certain IPs you can be blocked without ever doing anything. VPN ranges, some schools, troublesome ips etc are blocked. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:03, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

What schools are blocked and why? ~2026-24671-3 (talk) 20:04, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I don't know if there is a specific list, but schools are often the source of extensive vandalism. I'm wondering if something in particular has prompted your questions? 331dot (talk) 20:41, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

An account without edits can be blocked if the username is overtly racist, hateful, deeply profane, threatens violence or attacks a person. We wait for edits in borderline cases. Cullen328 (talk) 21:26, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

lies on wikipedia

Hi, you write about me lies on wikipedia can someone contact me!!! Donnyh33 (talk) 22:40, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I suppose you mean that somebody has written lies about you on Wikipedia. Well, which article do they appear in, and which are the lies? -- Hoary (talk) 23:13, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

About me Donny Huijsen

The whole subject vida privada is NOT true. And I don't understand you put lies on this platform. Donnyh33 (talk) 23:33, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@Donnyh33: Is it about the article Dean Huijsen? The terms "vida" and "privada" don't appear in it and don't sound English. This is a help desk for the English Wikipedia. If it's about an article in another language then please link it so we can tell you where you might get help. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:42, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Presumably the article mentioned is on Spanish Wikipedia, es:Donny Huijsen. It has a "Vida privada" section TSventon (talk) 23:47, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

If es:Donny Huijsen contains lies, you'd best bring up the matter at Spanish-language Wikipedia. But if you're not fluent in Spanish, then you can bring up the matter in Dutch or in English. -- Hoary (talk) 00:34, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Yes correct and that Is a lie ~2026-12861-43 (talk) 05:38, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

No it’s donny huijsen

my page

snd you have vida privada what is wrong and a lie ~2026-12861-43 (talk) 05:37, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

English-language Wikipedia doesn't have an article titled Donny Huijsen. Can you give a link to the article you're complaining about? Maproom (talk) 08:45, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@Maproom Since they mentioned Vida privada it is safe to assume they mean eswiki. See also es:Especial:Contribuciones/Donnyh33 which is probably why they ended up here. And since this is the only somewhat decent source, and it says he was first convicted but then acquitted on appeal, OP is probably correct that it shouldn't be mentioned in a BLP. Even though acquitted doesn't necessarily mean innocent. But I do not know if eswiki has an equivalent of WP:BLPCRIME. Polygnotus (talk) 09:00, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

There is es:WP:BPV which has sections similar to enwiki on privacy of "non-public figures". -- Reconrabbit 21:34, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Article on John Balbach

 Courtesy link: John Balbach

I tried to leave a message using "talk" but first it was blocked because I gave my email, and then it was blocked for a reason I don't understand. I'm 79, and not used to using Wikipedia. I am a descendant of John Balbach and wanted to give the article's writer information and pictures that I have. If he or she is a relative, I'd like to be in touch. Is there a way you can contact the person who posted the article and tell them how to get in touch with me? I don't think I can give you my email address here either, but my name is Tennise Broeck Morse. TBMorse (talk) 21:51, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

TBMorse, thank you for not posting your email address. Wikipedia articles can only be based on published information. Much of the material described in Talk:John Balbach#John Balbach: info and pictures is not published and thus is unusable. Photographs -- if old enough to have fallen into the public domain, as these would be -- are a different matter; but NB Wikipedia does not attempt to be a genealogical or similar resource. Even for somebody as eminent as Einstein, Wikipedia does not provide photographs of adult descendants. (Wikipedia does provide them for descendants of Freud, but this is because Clement Freud, Lucian Freud etc are demonstrably notable in their own right.) The history of the article John Balbach shows that most of the work of assembling it was done by GreenC; you can write to GreenC either on User talk:GreenC or (probably better) on Talk:John Balbach. -- Hoary (talk) 00:01, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

John chapter 17 : 20-21 meaning

what is the meaning of John chapter 17 verse 20 to 21 ~2026-13024-14 (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Do you have a question about the use of Wikipedia? (That's what this page is for.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:12, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

This isn't what this help desk is for, but Wikipedia does have information about those verses at John 17 § Verse 20 and That they all may be one. – Scyrme (talk) 00:58, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

WP:TRADE for notability

For WP:TRADE in regards to establishing notability; Do I understand this policy right? It means feature stories from leading trade magazines can be cautiously used, esp if their independence is clear. The presumption against them is cautionary, not absolute, and can be overridden if the source is substantial, independent and reliable. If the source is being disputed by others - matter needs to be worked through at RS noticeboard to determine whether it can be used for establishing notability. JaredMcKenzie (talk) 03:17, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

JaredMcKenzie, that is guideline language, not policy language. Policies are more authoritative than guidelines. It happens to be a subsection of WP:NCORP, a guideline that enjoys widespread support. The language that you should keep in mind is there is a presumption against the use of coverage in trade magazines to establish notability. Also, that guideline says If a source's independence is in any doubt, it is better to exercise caution and exclude it from determining quality sources for the purposes of establishing notability. You are correct that the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard is the proper place to develop consensus about whether or not a contested source is appropriate to use. Sometimes a source does not help establish the notability of a topic, but is acceptable to verify a factual assertion when notabilityhas been established by better sources. Cullen328 (talk) 06:14, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Developer

This developer is not me ~2026-13191-29 (talk) 08:45, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Which developer? How is this a matter of concern? Do you have a question about using Wikipedia? -- Hoary (talk) 10:19, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

%27 and ' in link

Why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article pages are not the same for unauthorized users (like in incognito browser mode without logging)? Petsernik (talk) 17:56, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Now are equal, but it wasn't Petsernik (talk) 20:23, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Caching? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:54, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

I don't think this is a local cache issue, because the differences arose when I accessed the contents of these pages through a Python script. What exactly do you mean by cache? Incidentally, these pages are now different again in incognito mode (but I think they'll start matching again, then diverge again, and so on, with some frequency). However, for authorized users, these pages always match. Petsernik (talk) 11:51, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

WP:Cache; or the cache in your browser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Interesting fact: when I go to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article?action=purge" (according to Help:Purge) and choose Yes for action "Clear the cache of this page? (Purging a page clears the cache and forces the most current revision to appear. For pages with random components, it also forces a new random selection)", it redirects me to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article" and not updates the "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article" actually (now it is not the most current revision to appear for unauthorized users). Petsernik (talk) 13:04, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

"or the cache in your browser" it cannot be in this case, because I wrote - I use the Python script to check, not the browser. It is not local cache issue. Petsernik (talk) 13:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

I also mean that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article should be the same, because ' and %27 it is the same characters, but for some reason it is not the same. Petsernik (talk) 13:37, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

BLPCRIME vs 1RR

Does fixing WP:BLPCRIME get a 1RR exemption?

Late Night Coffee (talk) 15:24, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Late Night Coffee possibly. WP:1RR says it follows WP:3RR and There may also be a requirement to discuss each reversion on the talk page. 3RR has a BLP exemption, but What counts as exempt under BLP can be controversial. Consider reporting to the BLP noticeboard instead of relying on this exemption. TSventon (talk) 16:30, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Deleting a redirect

How do I get transitive venus deleted? I had a go with the prod template and got the message "please do not use prod on redirects". Which method is preferred, then?  Card Zero  (talk) 07:32, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 07:35, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks.  Card Zero  (talk) 07:42, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Why do you want to delete it? It's a plausible mishearing of "Transit of Venus" (technically an "eggcorn") which someone might search on. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 12:26, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for sending me down a WP:RABBITHOLE related to typographic mistakes! DMacks (talk) 19:30, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Reference Templates

Are there templates for making references? (i.e {{cite book |last=“last name” |first=“first name” |…etc.}}) DeadHeat16 (talk) 04:32, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Did you look at Template:Cite book? DonIago (talk) 04:37, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Trayvon Martin

You made no mention that George Zimmerman that shot & killed Trayvon had called the police and was explicitly told to stop pursuing Trayvon! George Zimmerman did not do what the police had instructed him to do. Instead he kept following Trayvon. Which at night a teenager alone having some adult man following you has to be unnerving! Had Zimmerman stopped as directed by the police Trayvon would probably still be alive! Why isn’t any mention of this on his Wikipedia page? Seriously a 17 yr old kid who was walking back from the convenient store with a bag of skittles VS a 28 yr old (wannabe police officer) in actuality a neighborhood watch with a gun! ~2026-13298-52 (talk) 06:10, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Raising your concerns at the article's Talk page is more likely to yield results than raising them here. DonIago (talk) 07:15, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-13298-52 Wikipedia articles are based solely on reliable sources. You will need to provide a reliable source for your assertion. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:36, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

There is already a full article on the shooting itself, which quotes what the dispatcher said, and has a full timeline of the shooting. The narrative of the shooting in the Trayvon Martin article is only a couple paragraphs, and is simply a basic retelling of the known facts. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 09:26, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

accessing my saved articles on my laptop

how do I do this? Ashtdog88 09:36, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Do you mean your Watchlisted articles (Help:Watchlist)? If you login to Wikipedia on your laptop they'll be where they usually are, as they're linked to the account not the device. Or do you mean something else? – Scyrme (talk) 11:41, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

If you mean a list that the mobile App allows you to create, then I'm afraid you can't. The mobile apps are really separate developments (see m:Wikimedia Apps and the pages linked from there): the developers decided to put a reading list in, but has never been made available in the desktop version.

One way to create your own portable reading list is to create a WP:user subpage, and populate it with Wikilinks to articles you want to go back to. But that is certainly more work. ColinFine (talk) 14:24, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Creation of an account with a similar username to an "active" account

Hello, I tried to make an account using the WP:RAC process, and it was denied for having a too similar username to a user (I don't want to give names, I'm willing to give more information upon request) that was indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet and an unauthorized bot, however it has more than 15 edits, which means that due to the guide, my request was denied. Are there any account creators/admins that would be willing to make the account for me? dot.py 03:12, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

@Dot.py According to WP:USURPNAME only Stewarts on Meta can handle such requests. But best to read the linked policies beforehand. --Maresa63 ^Talk 21:26, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Neutrality policy

Help me understand the Why about this Wikipedia approved violation policy...

I thought Wikipedia is suppose to be NEUTRAL!

Yet, I read that its absolutely OKAY to not be Neutral concerning things of the strange, or little green men, In other words, the Fringe. I am skeptical, but I also believe everyone has a right to their opinion, and a right to be Judged or assessed in a neutral way. To me, this weird policy looks like Wikipedia said, "We decided to discriminate against anything considered Fringe, and against any authors who write about it, even to the point of declaring them "Not to be an Author".

Please help me understand the WHY of this. I don't believe everything I hear, but I mean, even I consider this policy unfair. (Please do not respond with a kindergarten response "Policy: Wikipedia is not fair". )

I am MagnummSerpentinee (talk) 18:45, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Reality has little to do with 'fairness'. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:59, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not neutral. What neutral point of view means is that all significant views on an issue, published by reliable sources, are represented fairly and proportionately. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 21:05, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

"Neutral" means we (WP content) do not pass judgement ourselves, but instead follow cited sources. Being 50/50 on mainstream vs minority vs fringe vs total crackpot is WP:FALSEBALANCE. WP:UNDUE weight is actually a form of non-neutrality. DMacks (talk) 01:11, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

MagnummSerpentinee, can you give a couple of examples or authors of whom it seems that Wikipedia declared, or declares, that they are not authors? -- Hoary (talk) 23:11, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Imagine I decide, just for fun, to tell people that small doses of death cap mushrooms can cure cancer. I start a website about this, get a few hundred followers, and criticize the mainstream media for not taking my death cap theory seriously. One of my followers edits the Wikipedia article about death caps to say it cures cancer. Should Wikipedia keep that edit, so it can stay neutral for the people who I tricked into believing this? Now replace "death caps cure cancer" with any other fringe theory. The full process for situations like this can be found at the page Wikipedia:Fringe theories. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:51, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

One could actually write plausible scientific woo based on doi:10.1089/acm.2010.0035 and credulous readers could easily be fooled. DMacks (talk) 01:15, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Question about disputed birth year

Hello! I have a question about how to represent someone's birth year correctly when the sources are contradicting. In short, Marie Salmon's birth year is disputed across several sources: either 1754, 1760, or 1763. The 1754 year (based on alleged baptismal records that are cited by a journal but I have not personally verified) and the 1760 year (based on a legal brief from her lawyer, which I have personally verified & cited directly) seem like the most likely.

So far what I've done is use "circa 1760" for her birth year and then added a footnote explaining the different dates (with citations).

Is this what you all would recommend? I just want to be as accurate as possible, given the circumstances. I think it's best to trust her lawyer's date (1760) for the article, as I have seen his document & am able to cite it directly? But that 1754 date alleges to be based on baptismal records... Chao Garden 🌱 (hi) 20:37, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

@Chao Garden: I like your approach. The inline "circa" conveys the uncertainty. The details are available to an interested reader in the footnote without distracting a casual reader. Your decision to choose 1760 comes down to editorial judgement, and you are the editor. Arch dude (talk) 21:17, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

MOS:APPROXDATE is a relevant guideline, and your approach is what it recommends. DMacks (talk) 23:00, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Chao Garden, Arch dude's comment seconded. Well done. But unfortunately the article has many birth-unrelated problems, throwing up -- at least as I view the page -- numerous messages such as "Harv error: link from CITEREFHardy doesn't point to any citation" (in "Citations"); and "Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFBinetPatas1786" (in "References"). A tip for you: User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors. -- Hoary (talk) 23:04, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Wow thank you, there are a lot of harvid errors! I think I've addressed them all now... though it was confusing at first, because the "Show preview" seems to throw the "multiple targets (2x)" error. Chao Garden 🌱 (hi) 00:08, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you all for the feedback! I really appreciate it. Chao Garden 🌱 (hi) 00:09, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Chao Garden, consider a reference: {{Cite book |last=Fournel |first=Jean-François |author-link=Jean-François Fournel |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/r4VSc1f3XLoC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Consultation pour une jeune fille condamnée à être brûlée |trans-title=Consultation for a young girl condemned to be burned at the stake |date=1786 |publisher=[[André-Charles Cailleau|Cailleau]] |publication-place=Paris |language=fr |via=[[Google Books]] |ref={{harvid|Fournel|1786}}}}. Within that (at its end), what is |ref={{harvid|Fournel|1786}} doing? Or, what is lost if you simply delete it? -- Hoary (talk) 01:56, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

oh yeah, I see your point. Admitted, I got pretty scared by all the errors earlier & went overboard. I just removed the unnecessary harvids from books and journals. Chao Garden 🌱 (hi) 02:20, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

div col not working

I've just edited White_hole#See_also and noted that it was a long list - so was going to add {{div col}} to neaten it up - but I noticed it's already there. Doesn't seem to be working though? Why should that be? The only thing I can think of is that it's a list of wikilinks, as opposed to plaintext but those don't seem to be proscribed in the documentation: Template:Div_col#Limitation

I think that the list could perhaps be trimmed anyway and reduced, but I'm more interested in why {{div col}} isn't working. Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:23, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Never mind - seems to be working now. I'll assume a cache issue. Chaheel Riens (talk) 11:25, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Regarding topic bans from infoboxes

Would a user who was topic banned from infoboxes be prohibited from altering infoboxes on their own userpage?

I ask because a topic ban from infoboxes is being considered for an editor over at AnI, and I noticed they have an infobox on their own userpage. It feels like it would be rather punitive to prevent them from modifying it, given nearly zero risk of improper behaviour, so I'd like to think the answer is 'no, of course not'. MEN KISSING (she/they) T - C - Email me! 09:33, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

That's something you should raise in the ANI discussion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:13, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Tyler Tanner

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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Tyler Tanner (disambiguation)

Hello! Please, delete. СтасС (talk) 08:25, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

The page is already tagged for deletion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:14, 2 March 2026 (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.

Replacing dead URLs with Live ones that have archived URLS

Often on this site, there are news citations that are dead accompanied by archived links. Instead of simply marking them as dead, however, the story will have been reposted on the publication's website, but the newer URL for the old story will not have been archived. In circumstances such as these, can the newer URL replace the original URL whilst keeping the archived version of the original? JPHC2003 (talk) 01:52, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

I only hazily understand, JPHC2003. (I may be able to guess what you mean, but my guess could well be wrong.) Please provide an example of what you have in mind. -- Hoary (talk) 05:25, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Here's a citation: Howell, Peter (March 20, 2009). "Polytechnique: Silent witness". The Star. Toronto. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved May 22, 2010.. The URL has been deviated, and another editor has included an archived link. I found this version of the page that is still online. Should the first URL be replaced with the URL I found whilst keeping the archived link? JPHC2003 (talk) 06:15, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, JPHC2003. Howell, Peter (March 20, 2009). "Polytechnique: Silent witness". The Star. Toronto. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved May 22, 2010. Fine so far. The Wayback Machine did take its time serving me its March 2009 scrape, but the delay was only mildly annoying. The newer (but undated) page ("...com/news/...") lacks this minor annoyance but has no other advantage that's obvious to me. Updating the link so that it points to this could be held to require checking either that the texts of each page are identical or that its use (summary, quotation) reflects the newer one -- though for a page such as this, such a demand seems pedantic. Let's for a moment consider the apocalypse: the Internet Archive collapses (perhaps bought by a billionaire who reorients it in some billionaire-friendlier direction). We'd then be very grateful for the newer URL, of course. When a linked source seems of particular importance to a WP article and is available at two or three places, I do on occasion note these alternative URLs on the article's talk page. All in all I wouldn't replace the older link (via Wayback) with the newer one -- but am (sleepily) open to being told I'm missing something important here. -- Hoary (talk) 07:02, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Submit the new URL to the Wayback Machine (or other archive, if preferred). Then update the citation with both the new link and the new archive. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:17, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

suggestion for info boxes

Many info boxes have a person's age, either current or when they died. I would like to suggest that someone add some completely general code to the info box template to make the age (i.e. time duration) appear in units of days, after the age in years of course. If this seems like it would have too narrow an appeal, we could allow readers to choose in the Preferences that it appear or not appear. Can I get this suggestion through appropriate channels? Peter Jedicke (talk) 13:20, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

@Pjedicke: Aside from "how might that improve the encyclopedia?", it could be a bit tricky for some dates. And what does "day" mean in your proposal, particularly in respect of the days of birth and death? The template {{Age in days}}, for example, calculates that there are 30 days from 1 Mar 2026 to 31 Mar 2026; some people will argue this should be 31. Bazza 7 (talk) 13:58, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Nefertiti

around last year october i was reading on nefertiti and someone put in an edit that she can be compared to alix of hesse, the romanov. I need help finding when and where that edit was made and when it was extracted. When describing Nefertiti's tactics of punishing peoplr, someone added in that it can be compared to Alix of Hesse which is not factual at all seeming there are not stories of the Empress doing such things. So i need help finding when that edit was made and when it was extracted because i no longer see it. Please and thank you its vrry important ~2026-13648-92 (talk) 20:05, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

If the false information was already removed, why is it very important to find when it was removed? It sounds like someone already dealt with the problem. Or am I missing something? – Scyrme (talk) 21:13, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Also, I checked the past revisions of Nefertiti using WikiBlame and WikiWho via XTools and found no results for the terms Alix, Alexandra, or Hesse. Evidently you're mistaken about where you read this information. – Scyrme (talk) 21:30, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding recently uploaded Sailor Senshi Flags in usage

Hi there, when I was reading Sailor Moon articles, I've seen Sailor Moon templates was cluttered by newly uploaded Sailor Senshi Flags besides Sailor Moon flags, which were created to look akin to File:Flag_of_Sailor_Moon.svg with representing symbols of other Sailor Senshis with different color schemes. They are found to be used in userboxes associated with Sailor Moon as well as the main navigation template Template:Sailor Moon. How should I do with them, or any thoughts regarding this?

Link(s) for your reference:

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Corsadent56709 (talk) 02:24, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

I had created them because Sailor Moon is not the only Senshi. I had created them for other users who liked other Senshi. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 03:12, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

If they are your own creations, then per Wikipedia:No original research they don't belong anywhere in article space. AndyTheGrump (talk) 07:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

This isn't really "original research". It's fan art. Still shouldn't be used in articles/navboxes, as readers may mistakenly assume they're canonical. – Scyrme (talk) 11:45, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Even if these WERE the flags directly from the series... What is the point of them existing within {{Sailor Moon}}? Looks like pointless decoration to me. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Indeed, I've gone ahead and removed them from that template. Clutters it unecessarily and aren't needed in mainspace. CoconutOctopus talk 14:14, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

You left File:Flag of Sailor Moon.svg in, but I'm unsure whether it's any more canonical than these others. Its description makes it plausibly sound like it's derived directly from the franchise, but looking closer it mentions that it's a scalable vector replacement for a raster .png file which was originally uploaded directly to Wikipedia before being moved to Commons. Looking at the source fields of both files, none cite anything officially associated with the franchise, like an episode where it appears or an official website. It may be that this flag is also fanart. The description of the .png seems to say it was originally intended just for {{User smfan}}, and the "source" listed is identical with its author, Denelson83. – Scyrme (talk) 14:46, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

I left that one in because it was on the template for a while now, unlike the other which were added last week. I have absolutely no issues with someone else removing it, though. CoconutOctopus talk 14:48, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

I have done. There's no need for such a flag. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:05, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Im less worried about them existing in userspace. You can have whatever image you like provided it doesn't break copyright. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:44, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the discussion. I am considering reverting edits made by the flag uploader in Sailor Moon userboxes that somehow ruined them as of my POV. Might have a close eye on original fanarts by the uploader whether they are fit to Wikipedia article spaces or not. Corsadent56709 (talk) 00:55, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Structuring article on two bombings

I'm intending to overhaul 2009 Yemeni tourist attacks and get it to GA class, but I'm not sure as to how it should be structured. Typical articles on singular terror attacks (such as 2007 Temple of Awwam bombing, which I've already gotten to GA status) involve a background section followed by sections on the attack, perpetrators/responsibility, the investigation, reactions and aftermath. However, this article covers two bombings on seperate days, which has confused me a little. Should I expand on the current format by placing each bombing under a separate heading and basically writing a "mini-article" for each with subheadings within them, or should I write it with traditional headings and combine info from both attacks (mention both bombers in the "perpetrators" section for example)? Should I also use two infobox's or one? Guidance from an experienced editor would be appreciated. Hsnkn (talk) 01:42, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

DRAFT - Location / approval?

Hi! I submitted a draft - I don't know how to find out if it has been received/ accepted - how do I do this? Johnsonh21 (talk) 23:16, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Assuming you are referring to Draft:Treatment Studio, it is awaiting review. As it stands though, it has zero chance of being accepted. Promotional fluff. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:31, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

HI @AndyTheGrump - Thanks for answering my question. Hope your attitude towards newcomers isn't always against wiki guidelines. IF you have suggestions on improving the draft I would take them - however, I am now distrusting of your opinion. Thanks! Johnsonh21 (talk) 00:09, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Attempting to use Wikipedia for promotion is against Wikipedia guidelines too. Feel free to distrust my opinion, and read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view,Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources to see what Wikipedia contributors in general have to say about appropriate article content. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:59, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

As a first time user that isn't my intention and I prefer that you assume good faith and guide me on how you think this article could improve rather than degrading something I spent a lot of time on by using language like fluff. Johnsonh21 (talk) 01:13, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Like other contributors here, I am a volunteer, and am under no obligation to assist you or anyone else. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:27, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Johnsonh21 Do you want us to tell you what you want to hear, or the truth? Are you associated with this studio? 331dot (talk) 01:30, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @331dot I would most appreciate constructive criticism. Thank you for your comments on my article - I appreciate it. No, I am not associated with this studio just went to the U2 sphere show and really appreciated their work. Johnsonh21 (talk) 01:37, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Johnsonh21

A Wikipedia article should be a neutral summary of what the majority of people who are wholly unconnected with the subject have independently chosen to publish about the subject in reliable publications, (see Golden rule) and not much else. What you know (or anybody else knows) about the subject is not relevant except where it can be verified from a reliable published source.

If it is - or appears to be - what the subject wants people to know about it, that will be promotional. ColinFine (talk) 10:21, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

I would most appreciate constructive criticism. Here then is some constructive advice. Read and digest Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). Make a list of three sources each of which satisfies all the conditions (significant coverage, independence, etc) described in that page. Here, tell us your best three. -- Hoary (talk) 01:59, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Intentionally or not, it's obviously promo and tells us nothing else about the company, such as the number of employees, management structure, turnover or profits. The bare url refs are not WP:RS, and many of the claims are unsourced. It has no chance of acceptance, and little reason for anyone to help you promote this company. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:58, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Use of citation needed template

What is the threshold for applying a "citation needed" template, vs outright deleting a section of an article? In a case I'm looking at, an edit was made by someone who probably has a conflict of interest. I've restored half of the removed text with better inline source code, but a quarter was unsourced claims of controversy that I've marked with CN and "whom" templates, and the remaining unsourced quarter mentioned legal issues that might be ongoing IRL and I couldn't find anything after a quick Google so I left that out. Is that the correct approach? Anothersignalman (talk) 05:34, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Hard to say, without more context. If any of this involves named or identifiable living persons though, 'unsourced claims' regarding controversy should be deleted immediately, per WP:BLPRS. AndyTheGrump (talk) 07:09, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for that. For what it's worth, this is the page section: Puffing Billy Railway#Controversy.

These are the edits where the questionable part was deleted and restored twice: , apparently by four different people, before I got involved. I later rewrote and restored most of the text, and I think I've now removed the identifiable elements so it might pass WP:WIALPI; happy to have it reviewed by someone else. In particular, there's a paragraph I've left in the code but hidden for now; does that make it safe from, say, search engines?

Anothersignalman (talk) 11:26, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Given the total lack of sourcing, the first paragraph in the 'controversy' section doesn't belong in the article at all in my opinion (and we generally avoid separate 'controversy' sections these days anyway). Likewise, other inadequately/improperly sourced material. I'll remove it myself, and see that it isn't restored without proper sourcing. It looks to me like people are using the article to further a dispute. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:13, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'll reply to your note on the talk page, pinging the relevant people to make sure they're brought up to speed. Anothersignalman (talk) 15:44, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Tirade on Talk:Llangollen Canal

An editor who popped up for about a month has added a lengthy tirade to Talk:Llangollen Canal, arguing that much of the content I added to the article in 2020 (I actually added it in 2018, but facts don't seem to matter) was inappropriate. He uses comments like This level of ignorance is staggering, This is what amateurish editing gets you. A completely distorted and incorrect article. and I am so frustrated I have to even point this out. Wikipedia is messing up history because AI reads this. Is it alright to remove the tirade? I posted a reasoned response at the time, but if this was a biography of a living person, the content would be deleted immediately. This sort of abuse of other editors does not appear to enhance Wikipedia. Bob1960evens (talk) 17:07, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

No, Bob1960evens, don't remove it. This editor posted an intemperate and rather rude comment on 3 December '25. You replied to it, amicably and I think helpfully, on 7 December '25. You edited the article on 9 December '25. I don't notice any return by you to the article or talk page since then, or any by your indignant interlocutor in three whole months. Just ignore the comment. You come out of the exchange well. -- Hoary (talk) 07:34, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Bob1960evens (talk) 16:40, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Erreur de traduction

Bonjour,

Ma fonction traduction ne fonctionne pas. Lorsque j'essaye de choisir ma langue, la langue reste sur English. Est-ce que c'est un bug de mon compte ? Est-ce qu'il y a une solution ?

Merci et bonne journée Cecile25 (talk) 13:04, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Vous pouvez consulter la Wikipédia française à l'adresse https://fr.wikipedia.org, où les contributeurs s'expriment en français. Athanelar (talk) 15:50, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Bonjour, @Cecile25:

Je me demande si vous avez l'idée que les artiques en Wikipédia se traduisent automatiquement ? Celà n'est pas vrai . Si personne n'a traduis une artique de l'anglais en français, cet artique française n'éxiste pas . ColinFine (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

This user is asking "Hello, my translation function isn't working. When I try to select my language, it stays on English. Is this a bug with my account? Is there a solution? Thank you and have a good day." 331dot (talk) 13:05, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cecile25: Which "translation function" are you referring to? If you mean the language setting at Special:Preferences then it only affects the interface, e.g. menus. Articles in the English Wikipedia here at https://en.wikipedia.org will still be in English. The French Wikipedia is at https://fr.wikipedia.org. They make their own articles which are usually not translated from English. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:42, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Quiz questions

Good afternoon. It's golden hour! I wanted to ask if on the Reference Desk, can there be question like guess the year (this was taken)? ~2026-24671-3 (talk) 16:11, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @~2026-24671-3. Absolutely not. The WP:Reference desk is not for guessing anything, and not for games. Asking questions to which you already know the answer would be disruptive editing. ColinFine (talk) 18:17, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

There are other websites for that, Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a social media or online game. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 17:00, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

History of academic field - correct order

Hello I am working on a planned revision of the article Digital rhetoric - I am wondering if there is a convention for ordering a history of an academic field from oldest to newest (or if the reverse order) might be acceptable (e.g. beginning with more recent research/developments and then going backwards chronologically)?

Thank you,

Matthewvetter (talk) 16:43, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

In general, history/background sections are normally ordered chronologically starting from the oldest history to the newest. Athanelar (talk) 17:53, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Lists ordered chronologically from newest at the top to oldest some way below are rare in Wikipedia. (They have a few uses other than in articles, e.g. "decline" notices and comments on drafts.) Avoid them. If you encounter such a list, the "sort" function of a spreadsheet makes inverting it easy. -- Hoary (talk) 23:18, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you @Athanelar and @Hoary! Yes this is what I suspected. Matthewvetter (talk) 17:51, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Request to move sandbox draft of Maxamed Aw Aadan Wayrax Geelle

Hello editors,

I have created a draft biography in my sandbox about Maxamed Aw Aadan Wayrax Geelle. The draft includes inline citations (Hiiraan Online, Haatuf Newspaper, Laasgeelse Blog), categories, and cleanup templates to meet Wikipedia standards.

Here is the draft: User:Abdirisaq Mohomed Hasan/sandbox

Since my account is not yet autoconfirmed, I kindly request assistance to move this draft into the main article space. Thank you very much for your support.

Best regards, Abdirisaq Mohomed Hasan Abdirisaq Mohomed Hasan (talk) 00:24, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Your draft is written in Somali. As such, it cannot be accepted as an article on the English Wikipedia. Athanelar (talk) 00:49, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Welcome to English-language Wikipedia, Abdirisaq Mohomed Hasan. What is your purpose in creating an (I think) Somali-language draft? (That it should appear, in Somali, within Somali-language Wikipedia? That it should appear, in Somali, within English-language Wikipedia? Something else?) -- Hoary (talk) 00:51, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Montana

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Reference help requested.

Hello! I was hoping to add the information found on this webpage https://samformontana.com/endorsements/ to the endorsements box for Sam Forstag. I have tried to add it in but have not been able to do so successfully both formatting and citing. If someone could help get this information posted that would be great. Thank you.

Thanks, ~2026-57713-3 (talk) 02:15, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Another editor has objected to this content itself, so there's no need for now to fix any referencing that was part of it. DMacks (talk) 02:47, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Dave Shumka

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Reference help requested.

Hello,

I'm told there is a CS1 error on my page, Dave Shumka. I don't know how to fix it! Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Purplelighter (talk) 04:16, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

For "Victorian comedians celebrate...", I see "date=2018-15-04". That's an odd date format (or date). "15 April 2018", perhaps? "2018-04-15"? -- Hoary (talk) 04:34, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I couldn't find the error for the life of me Purplelighter (talk) 05:08, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Well done, Purplelighter. But when we read: To conclude the conversation, Shumka graciously called attention to the importance of mental health resources, that's gracious in whose opinion? -- Hoary (talk) 06:19, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Oop! Borrowed "graciously" from a blog post I decided wasn't a RS. I'll pull it. Thank you for noticing! Purplelighter (talk) 07:37, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Cite

In Edit mode I've been used to citing Papers Past items by clicking the Cite link at the top of the page and using Add a citation - Automatic. It now shows the error message "We couldn't make a citation for you. Try another source or create one manually." Is there a way to avoid having to create a Papers Past citation manually please? Johnragla (talk) 19:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

I tried a few different links and, curiously, the other newspapers I tried worked. It seems the problem is with specific papers (or, at least, this specific paper) not the site as a whole. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to figure out what was different. – Scyrme (talk) 19:41, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for trying. On the same Papers Past website it seems to work for Parliamentary papers, but not for Books, Letters, or Magazines. Johnragla (talk) 20:29, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

It could be a website bug or something. ScholarlyTome (talk) 12:00, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

How do I edit a page on Wikipedia

How do I edit a page on Wikipedia ~2026-13729-16 (talk) 18:24, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

That's a pretty vague question. You could start with Help:Editing. DonIago (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

@Doniago I concur. WP:Editing is very helpful. Avishai11 (talk) 22:19, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-13729-16 Also WP:Help Button is helpful. Avishai11 (talk) 22:20, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

thanks ~2026-13729-16 (talk) 04:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I have left some introductory links on your talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:28, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Article Improvement Help Request

St. Mary's Forane Church, Thankey - please someone help in improving the article, by giving necessary corrections and edits. Please Tellmethetruth555 (talk) 06:20, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

A heads up that this account is/was a sock evading a block, and the user has now undertaken to abide by the block and not edit for 6 months.

For anyone curious about the church, see Kadakkarappally. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 14:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Hacked?

You love Ramdan? You’re site is hacked. Close the doors for no edits until it’s fixed. No matter what I look up that comes up. ~2026-14108-09 (talk) 12:54, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

That's a banner. We haven't been 'hacked,' it's the same as the "Wiki Loves Folklore" banner which was up a while ago, or the donation banners. If you read what it actually says, you'll see it's encouraging people to contribute to Ramadan and Islam-related articles, which are underrepresented on Wikipedia. Athanelar (talk) 12:59, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-14108-09: See more at meta:Wiki Loves X campaigns. Maybe the "Loves" term would not have been chosen if the first campaign had been about a religious topic but now it's established for such campaigns. The first was "Wiki Loves Art". PrimeHunter (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

There is no "Ramdan". The banner is about Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak to all! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:47, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Is there a tool to automatically archive all links in a reference list?

Title. I'd love it if I could automate this process: checking if an archived page exists and adding it if it does, or archiving the page and adding it otherwise. Barbalalaika 🐌 22:11, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

@Barbalalaika have a look at InternetArchiveBot, but note that this tool sometimes struggles with heavy workloads. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 09:26, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! It did do the job, although only partly for some reason, but already saved me some time :) Barbalalaika 🐌 16:05, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Article not published

I published an article in November 2025, but it has not been published. What did I do wrong? AllaWhite (talk) 12:49, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

There is no indication of any article in your contribution history. Would you care to tell us the name of the article? Athanelar (talk) 13:04, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Viktor Sheleg is a contemporary Latvian artist AllaWhite (talk) 14:33, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Neither Viktor Sheleg nor Draft:Viktor Sheleg seems to have ever existed. User:AllaWhite/sandbox also does not seem to have any deletion history. I'm not sure what article you're referring to. Athanelar (talk) 14:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Then what should I do to get the article published? AllaWhite (talk) 15:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Which article? At the moment you have not given any indication that this is an article that exists in any form. If you haven't written it yet, then you can follow the guide at Help:Your first article. If it does exist somewhere, you need to tell us where. Athanelar (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

This article was written in November 2025 and is located in the draft section.I sent it twice for review, it is noted in my history. AllaWhite (talk) 15:49, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Are your referring to ru:Участник:AllaWhite/Черновик, which is on the Russian-language Wikipedia, albeit written in English? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:51, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, this article AllaWhite (talk) 15:57, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

We cannot help you with the Russian Wikipedia. You may use the Article Wizard to create and submit a draft here. 331dot (talk) 16:02, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

How can I transfer an article to the English version? AllaWhite (talk) 16:04, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @AllaWhite. There is no method provided for moving or copying articles or drafts from one Wikipedia to another, AFAIK. You'll need to copy the source from the ru-wiki draft and paste it into a new draft in the English Wikipedia. (If you do so, you should state in your edit summary that you have done so, to comply with Wikipedia's licensing conditions).

However, I'm not sure that there is much point in doing so. That draft is nowhere near acceptable for English Wikipedia in its current state, as it does not cite any sources (it has several lists of URLs, but it's not clear what function they are intended to serve in the draft).

A Wikipedia article should be a neutral summary of what the majority of people who are wholly unconnected with the subject have independently chosen to publish about the subject in reliable publications, (see Golden rule) and not much else. What you know (or anybody else knows) about the subject is not relevant except where it can be verified from a reliable published source.

So I recommend you begin again. You should begin by assembling several sources that each meet all the criteria in golden rule; then if you have found several such sources, you should summarise what those independent sources say, and nothing else.

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) 16:24, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I studied the ‘golden rules’ and wrote an article according to the rules. Therefore, I do not understand why it was not published. AllaWhite (talk) 16:40, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Your article contains no inline references, which is a basic requirement for a biography of a living person. I presume your 'Notes' section is supposed to contain your references, but it's completely unformatted.

You should read Help:Your first article and Help:Referencing for beginners and give it another try. There is currently no chance your article can be published. Athanelar (talk) 16:45, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

To be clear: there is no chance it can be published in its current state; there is every chance it can be published if it is brought up to standard, and shown to meet our notability and other requirements. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:56, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Your draft is now at Draft:Viktor Sheleg. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:31, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

How do i delete a page on Wikipedia

how do i delete a page on Wikipedia? i want to like write a page all over again because i messed up and i dont want anyone to see how the article looked like before ~2026-14066-46 (talk) 17:47, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

There's no need to do that. Nobody's going to judge you for not getting an article perfect right away. Athanelar (talk) 17:59, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-14066-46: Please link the page if you still want it deleted. Only administrators can delete pages and there are rules about it. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

it already got deleted but thanks! ~2026-14066-46 (talk) 18:12, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Article page has not copied talk page from sandbox

Hi; I feel very foolish. I've been working on Stuart Brownlow Beatson for a couple of days, and have just moved it to mainspace, however I seem to have made an almighty error in that the talk page link points to a previous page that I created. Sincere apologies! Muchclag (talk) 01:30, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Please ignore, now fixed! Muchclag (talk) 01:37, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Dealing with possible organized trolling/gaslighting

Hello, I am beginning to increasingly suspect there is an organized trolling/gaslighting attempt at Talk:2025–2026 Iranian protests, specifically in response to my recent move request. As you can see on the talk page, I explained that the protests are ongoing, and therefore to use "2025–2026" rather than "2025–present" gives the incorrect impression that they already ended sometime this year. It's a little difficult to explain, but the users who have responded against the move request are repeating statements that are logically impossible, as if some sort of prank or joke is being played.

I looked for resources about dealing with trolls on Wikipedia but I found nothing appropriate for this particular situation. Confused right now about what I should do. Evaporation123 (talk) 02:37, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

From my perspective, their arguments may in fact be perfectly reasonable. You should try dispute resolution. Nononsense101 (talk) 03:16, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Unmerge

How do I make a request to unmerge two pages?

 Courtesy link: Draft:Arsen Ostrovsky version 1

Somebody moved my page to draft space, and fused it with an alternate version that was there.

The edit history is now a confusing mess that alternates between two very different versions. So I want it undone, and I want one version moved to my user space or moved to another page name.

I tried requested technical moves, but the instructions for that seems to be for much simpler requests.

Late Night Coffee (talk) 19:27, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

The correct place to request this would be WP:Requests for history merge. Anyway I've seen this request now and will handle the split when I get a chance later today. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:32, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. @Pppery, I put the link to the merged page at the top. I moved it to "version 1" so I could save my open edits without the history of the merged page getting even more confusing. Late Night Coffee (talk) 23:55, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

After a lot more effort than I expected this split should now be done. The version originally in draft is back at Draft:Arsen Ostrovsky; the version originally in mainspace is at Draft:Arsen Ostrovsky version 1. Admittedly you didn't do a good job keeping them separate yourself, with lots of edits in the draft that at first glance looked like they belonged in the original-mainspace version, but the rev_parent_id field doesn't lie. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:05, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Using screenshots from 1970s mockbuster free to watch on YouTube

Hi, I'm a new editor (familiar with Wikipedia process and policy due to lurking on non-article pages for a long time) but this question felt advanced enough to me to include it here, feel free to move this discussion to the Teahouse.

I'm improving the article for the movie Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek, which was produced with total disregard for any copyright Gene Roddenberry or anyone else might have had for Star Trek. I'd like to include some screenshots from it to better illustrate a few points made in it, but I'm unsure if this would be okay copyright-wise. Is there precendent for this? Thanks Wreaderick (talk) 08:15, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Wreaderick. I don't know if there's precedent, but I would draw your attention to the non-free content criteria, particularly:

"8. Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding", and

"3a. Minimal number of items. Multiple items of non-free content are not used if one item can convey equivalent significant information".

I can conceive that you might be able to argue 8 for a screenshot (depending on why you want it) but I think you'll have a hard time justifying multiple screenshots. ColinFine (talk) 11:01, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

What I was mostly asking about was whether the movie has copyright or not, especially given that Star Trek is definitely still copyrighted. I doubt that the company that produced the movie, Saner Film, has any actual copyright over it given that copyright law was all but ignored in Turkey back then (plus can someone who produces something that so blatantly infringes on another's copyright ever have a legitimate copyright claim for that work?). Wreaderick (talk) 11:55, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

International copyright law gets very messy. I think the safest bet is to assume copyright exists - regardless of who holds it - and follow policy for non-free use. Better safe than sorry. ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 14:28, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Also, generally speaking you assume the creator of a given work holds the copyright UNLESS it's been challenged in court. Personally, I'm not going to attempt to find out whether Roddenberry filed a Turkish lawsuit in the 70s. ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 14:34, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Turkish copyright is a 70-year term (after the death of a known person who owns the license or after the publication if it's corporate or anonymous). If it's a "derivative work" of the original, then the newly added parts are still protected as part of this new publication but the stolen parts are not. As I understand it, that's regardless of whether the whole thing is an infringing derivative work. And we can't say "at that time and place, ignoring the rules was common, so we will do that also." DMacks (talk) 05:35, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

It's the international aspect that throws an extra monkey wrench into things, because Star Trek is an American production. I'm sure they've addressed international rights to it in the intervening half century, but you'd have to determine what the exact status was at that time and how Turkish copyright laws (from the 70s) apply, whether the material constitutes a violation under those laws, THEN whether Roddenberry pursued a case and yeahhhh have fun with that. ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 07:06, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Account locked out

The user account "Keshavparikh" is mine and I created it a couple years ago in hopes to contribute to Wikipedia. I do not have access to the email that I used to create it and I have forgotten the password. I was wondering if the account can be transferred to my new email or deleted permanently. The account has 0 contributions to the foundation, and has been inactive for several years.

Thank you! ~2026-14052-20 (talk) 07:25, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Accounts cannot be deleted for legal reasons and can't have their emails changed without getting into the account first. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 07:58, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

There is no account by that name but it's right accounts cannot be deleted so it never existed. User:Keshav parikh with a space was created in 2010 and has no edits. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:16, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Biographies in Senate Hearings - Primary or Secondary

For someone confirmed by the US Senate, do the text Biographies that they give for things like Birth date and Birth location count as a primary source since it was given by the person being confirmed or does it count as a secondary source since it was published by someone else. It seems like it would fall into the same category as an interview, but I'm not sure. See (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nominations_of_D_Nathan_Sheets_Ramin_Tol/uL6jJam0pewC) for the record in question.Naraht (talk) 19:45, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Naraht. Unless there is strong evidence that the biography in question was written by an uninvolved party and not based on the subject's submission, assume that it is from the subject, and so a primary, non-independent source.

This applies equally to biographies of faculty in educational institutions, of fellows and other members of learned and professional societies, etc. ColinFine (talk) 19:52, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I have every reason to believe that it was a submission of the subject. As a note, I've actually reverted the addition of the birth date for this person. I'm not doubting that the date is correct, (I actually know the person in question and have access to private information which matches with it), but I wanted to make sure that none of the sources were enough to add it to the wikipedia article. Note, this hasn't stopped half a dozen other places from listing it on the internet, all of which, IMO, would be *worse* than a primary source. *Thanx*!Naraht (talk) 20:00, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naraht (talk • contribs) 20:00, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Naraht, there is nothing wrong in general with using a published source written by the subject themself for basic biographical facts such as date of birth, city of birth or college degrees earned. The exception would be a person who is known for spreading falsehoods or when the information is contradicted by other sources. Otherwise, it is acceptable. Cullen328 (talk) 08:23, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

My contribute tab is freezed

I joined Wikipedia in 2022 and made only one edit at that time. Recently, I have become more active and have edited 13 pages, but my Contribute link is still frozen.Sandeep M Ganesh (talk) 09:00, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello Sandu 2406. Your "User contributions" tab works just fine for me, and shows 16 edits going back to June 16, 2022. Cullen328 (talk) 10:10, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Sandu 2406: I guess you refer to "Contribute" in the left pane. It's a heading for the following links and not a link by itself. I admit this is unclear in the current default skin Vector 2022. It was more clear in the former default Vector legacy (example). PrimeHunter (talk) 12:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

This has come up several times so I have made phab:T419124: 'Vector 2022 should make it clear that "Contribute" in the sidebar is a heading and not a disabled link'. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:42, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Chase Pistone

For date of Deceased, all I see is March 2026..no "Day". ~2026-14028-34 (talk) 21:33, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-14028-34: Do you have a reliable source for the date of death? The sources I have found refer to which was published March 2 and doesn't give a date but leaves the impression it's very recent. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:37, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-14028-34: Chase Pistone now says he died March 2 and gives a source . PrimeHunter (talk) 12:46, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

undeleting image

Louise Richardson image was deleted from her page. How do I request it back?

Ronald Sexton (talk) 15:42, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

The image was deleted at Commons for having no permission; if you believe that was incorrect you'll need to ask over on Commons, it's not anything to do with us here. CoconutOctopus talk 15:47, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

There is already discussion of this issue at:

• c:User talk:Ronald Sexton#File tagging File:DLR December2025.jpg
• c:Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard/archive/2026#VRT ticket is ticket:2025081310007167
• c:Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard/archive/2026#image on Dame Louise Richardson's Wikipedia page
• c:Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard/archive/2026#undeleting image of Dame Louise Richardson
• Talk:Louise Richardson#updated image of Dame Louise Richardson

(all but the last on Wikimedia Commons). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:14, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

I have asked some questions at c:User talk:Ronald Sexton#File tagging File:DLR December2025.jpg. TSventon (talk) 13:52, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

User scripts are disabled, Wikipedia was in read-only mode

See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Meta-Wiki compromised. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:22, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

How to complain about a user

Hello there, I'd like to put in a complaint about the user Schetm. I feel as if they have continually bullied me since I am new to Wikipedia and have been learning how to edit. I am still in the process of completing my User page (currently writing it on Microsoft Word before I copy and paste it into Wikipedia). This user seems to think that they know best and it is damaging my confidence in becoming a prolific and well established editor on Wikipedia. Can you please give me advice about how I can complain about this user? Thank you. PoliticsObsessedGay (talk) 15:18, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Schetm: Except that none of Schetm's edits on the pages where you both interact involve you or your edits specifically; they're reverting an unregistered user's edits. If you were to take this to WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents it wouldn't go particularly well. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:26, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't understand why people seem so hostile on here. I am trying to learn how to edit pages - you'll see from my username that I love politics. PoliticsObsessedGay (talk) 15:29, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

See Talk:List of United Kingdom MPs by seniority (2024–present) for context about this user, his dispute, and the likely sockpuppetry at play. schetm (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I am just trying to update a page as there are certain MPs within the list that are no longer MPs! PoliticsObsessedGay (talk) 15:30, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

That's a discussion for the talk page of the article in question, and not for here. Read this thread for the answer to your question. schetm (talk) 17:10, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

While your immediate point has already been addressed, it's worth noting that we have no "complaint" process; we have a dispute resolution process, which you should follow if the need arises in future. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:35, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

PoliticsObsessedGay, what is your connection if any with User:RyanPLB? Please be aware that disagreeing with you in good faith is not "bullying" and it is not "hostile". Learning how to edit includes accepting feedback from more experienced editors, and learning from those discussions. This is a collaborative project. If you want to file a formal complaint about another editor at somewhere like WP:ANI, you will be expected to present rock solid evidence of misconduct, and of your previous efforts to resolve disputes. Cullen328 (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Question about translating a page

Hi I am trying to edit the BBC 100 woman list and translate it into Turkish, as the many lists are fully absent from the page. Right now I am trying to add the 2024 list. I am experiencing some problems with images of the people and also with adding links to the names. Many of the names on the list don't have a translated page in Turkish so would it be accepted if I were to link them to their English pages? Also can I use the images from the English page? Thederen (talk) 18:13, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Thederen.

For your first question, you'll need to ask on the Turkish Wikipedia whether you can link to articles in other languages or not. (In English Wikipedia this is discouraged, except by using the template {{ill}}, which automatically links to an English article if one exists, or to a different-language article if there is no English one. I have no idea whether or not an equivalent template exists in Turkish Wikipedia).

As to your second question: most images used in articles have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and may be freely used by all Wikimedia projects. You'll need to make sure you get the name of the file precisely correct, including any file extension, and the case of letters.

It is possible that some of the pictures in the article have been uploaded to English Wikipedia when they should have been uploaded to Commons. If this is the case, see WP:moving files to Commons for how to get them transferred (this won't affect English Wikipedia's use, but will make them available to other Wikipedias).

(There are some images which for copyright reasons cannot be uploaded to Commons, but there should not be any examples in the article you are working on). ColinFine (talk) 19:46, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Is user script dead?

Hello. My user scripts installed on commons.js no longer works. They include WP:WikiShield. I tried to unable uBlock Origin and don't worked. VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 20:12, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Meta-Wiki compromised. ColinFine (talk) 20:15, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Autofill not working

The Wikipedia autofill feature hasn't been working for me as of late. I put the link in, press the button, yet the rest of the information doesn't pop up. This has always worked fine for me, but lately it stopped for some reason, including for the same links that have worked before. How do I fix this? Wikieditor662 (talk) 21:49, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Aquifer remediation watch area at former Lincoln AFB Atlas

Reference help requested. Hello, I regret to say that I don't have much time to look for a solution to this problem at the moment, so I'm asking for some help here Thanks, Scarfy420 (talk) 20:54, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Fixed two mistakes. DMacks (talk) 21:31, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

tysm Scarfy420 (talk) 01:59, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Nominating an article for deletion

How do I nominate an article for deletion? Can you please just reply to me to show me how? – ~2026-78104-0 (talk) 00:56, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, you need to be registered, so if you were trying to do it and ran into issues, that may be why. Other than that, the section at the AFD page is pretty in-depth and step-by-step, so is there a particular part you're not understanding? - Purplewowies (talk) 01:08, 6 March 2026 (UTC) .......Markup fixed -- Hoary (talk) 01:13, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

This is okay, but how do I create a new AfD article? – ~2026-78104-0 (talk) 01:46, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, you need to have a non-temporary account (Why create an account?) to be able to create pages (which you need to be able to do to make a new AFD page). The part II section of nominating a single page explains exactly what process you can use to get to the deletion discussion and actually make the AFD (there should be a link or two in the template that will get you there, but you need an account to make the page). It's also possible to streamline the process by using Twinkle (a Wikipedia gadget) instead but I don't use Twinkle so I don't want to offer advice there in case it might be off-base (though brand new accounts can't use Twinkle it looks like). - Purplewowies (talk) 02:13, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

How do I nominate articles for deletion?

I need to know about something really important right now; nominating articles for deletion. Can you please help me with that? – The Batterman and NCA Summer Camp Guy ^{Discuss with specific rules from me.} Watch! 03:40, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. AndyTheGrump (talk) 03:43, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Connexion through Kindle Fire impossible

Hello, I just installed the version of the Wikipedia application from Amazon store on my Kindle Fire. The application works fine, but I am not able to login with my account on Wikipedia server because of a bug in the 2 factors authentication process. This one requires a 6 digits code sent in my email to be entered. I receved the code, but there is no field in the application connexion page to enter this one.

My device is an Amzon Fire HD 10 (7th generation) with OS Fire OS 5.7.1.0, last update today March 6th, 2026 11:02 GMT+1

Thank you in advance for your help Jacofee (talk) 10:46, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@Jacofee If you don't get an answer at this general Help Desk within a few hours, try again by posting at WP:VPT, where the real experts should reply. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:58, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

2027 NBA All Star Game Logo

Can you Please Upload The 2027 NBA All Star Game Logo Right Now Please ~2026-14517-25 (talk) 02:35, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @~2026-14517-25. What's your hurry?

In any case, the answer is No, because non-free materials may not be uploaded unless they can immediately be used in an article, and the relevant article does not yet exist. ColinFine (talk) 11:38, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

image

How can an image be inserted into my page? Rekhamoni Duari (talk) 02:55, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Uploading images and Help:Pictures. Firstly though, I'd read Help:Your first article, if by 'my page' you mean the content of your sandbox. As it stands, it is unlikely to be accepted as an article. AndyTheGrump (talk) 03:22, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Rekhamoni Duari.

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) 11:40, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Günter Bechly

Günter Bechly

Re-creation with some history, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Günter Bechly (2nd nomination) etc. Is it a good idea to merge article/talkpage histories, and if so, can someone do that please? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:53, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Add Wikipedia:PRIMER to the Welcome page Help:Getting_started

My mentor @SunloungerFrog introduced me to a summary page for new editors. I suggest that Wikipedia:A primer for newcomers be added to the Welcome page. I began to add this suggestion to the Welcome page Talk, but a note on the page suggest this talk page. RetiredCIEIO (talk) 13:11, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey RetiredCIEIO, your request isn't supposed to be requested here, but rather in the talk page of the page ,there is indeed a note on the talk page suggesting to come here with questions in relation to Wikipedia for new Wikipedia users, since new users came there with questions, requests related to the page go in the talk page, I will look into your request still. Gfroi (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

AFC Article Taking Forever

So, I Submitted a Draft to the Article Wizard Back in January and I'm just wondering cause Ik know there are thousands of articles waiting for submission like yesterday I checked and there were 7k and now it is like 2k, based on Pending AfC submissions. Most of the other drafts I submitted in the past took like a day, week max. So, it's weird that it's taking forever cause like obviously it's random and I'm complaining about nothing like are there any reasons (there might not be and I'm just talking sh*t) why it's taking so long and like maybe it's just random or maybe my tags don't have many people interested so if y'all could give me reasons / ways to fasten it thanks,

or maybe I'm just complaining about sh*t Gfroi (talk) 07:14, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Gfroi. If I was reviewing your draft, I would probably reject it. Most of your references are to various Fandom sites, which are not reliable sources because they are user contributed content without professional editorial control. See WP:FANDOM for details. Soapcentral.com does not appear to be a reliable source. I am not sure about Screen Rant. In conclusion, your sources taken as a whole are so weak that I do not think that you have made a good case that this fictional character is notable enough for a freestanding Wikipedia article. Cullen328 (talk) 08:14, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I don’t think Missy was created by Raegan Revord as the infobox states, considering Raegan wasn’t a year old when the character had their first appearance (2008 in the BBT). So that probably needs to be changed. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 10:06, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

yeah thats my flaw i will fix that tgx Gfroi (talk) 10:06, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Your welcome! Have a great day The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 10:12, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@Gfroi You need to get the Fandom/wiki etc stuff out of it. WP:SCREENRANT is IMO ok for a fictional character, and this one might be of use. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:11, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

alright thank you Gfroi (talk) 13:42, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Article created after AfC rejection, plus possible language barrier

While patrolling recent changes, I noticed that the user Rajapov Alisher 1966 (talk · contribs) has created the article Triptych of the Life of Job, despite the fact that the draft they wrote was declined at AfC three times and then rejected. The article is pretty much the same as the rejected draft. I'm having trouble figuring out what to do in this situation.

I also think there might be a language barrier here. (The only comment the user has made on their talk page is: "because it has no sources. it anonymously.") Based on the user page, they seem to be from Uzbekistan. Is there a recommended way to deal with these kinds of situations when there's a possible language barrier? Cadddr (talk) 04:19, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Nominate it for deletion? Clarityfiend (talk) 12:00, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

It needed cleanup, not deletion; and more sources, though many only exist on paper. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:18, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rajapov Alisher Abdukarimovish might be of interest to you. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 15:38, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Not able to submit changes into a article

I’m currently going through the CAPTHA security to edit “2026? FL House Elections for FL-01” and i’m putting on the security letter code. And it’s not going through at all. This is the 5th time in 2 days. And i double check to ensure it’s correct, and it is. Is anybody else having this issue? If so i need assistance on how to fix it. StashofWildfingers61 (talk) 18:16, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

My standard reply is to ensure that you are, after entering your answer to the CAPTCHA query, immediately clicking on 'Publish' further down, and not 'Refresh' right next to the box (a mistake I myself have made in the past), but you seem to be familiar enough with the process not to be doing that. My only other thought is that it was part of the Meta-Wiki problem mentioned above at User scripts are disabled, Wikipedia was in read-only mode. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 16:19, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Page history

Article: Kid Rock's oldest revision dosent display the data while it was first created, but displays a data which was deleted. Isnt there any acurate page history available on this..? --~2026-14486-21 (talk) 15:43, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-14486-21: It's from 2001 before switching to our current MediaWiki software and many early revisions are lost. See more at Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles. https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Rock has two older revisions but it's still incomplete. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:53, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

If the oldest revisions of the same article are compared (as that of in Wikipedia and Nostalgia Wikipedia) its totally different.

• Nostalgia Wikipedia: (says content was added: +1,845)
• Wikipedia: (says content was deleted: −43,438).
  --~2026-14486-21 (talk) 16:18, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-14486-21: Size changes in 2001 revisions cannot be trusted. A 2001 revision of 1,843 bytes from other software was imported by MediaWiki in 2010 when the article was 45,281 bytes. This was registered as -43,438 bytes even though the imported revision was originally 9 years older and is displayed there in the page history. +1,845 in Nostalgia Wikipedia is also unreliable. There may be older lost revisions and the oldest known revision is compared to nothing. The 1,843/1,845 and 1,518/1,519 revisions are probably the same with different software counting end of file differently or something like that. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:19, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

amazing.. Thank you @PrimeHunter:. --~2026-14486-21 (talk) 17:30, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Infobox image at Angelina Pivarnick is appearing oversized

I noticed the Jersey Shore cast member's article Angela Pivarnick 's infobox image is much larger than standard size, can anybody help me understand how to fix the infobox image size? Eruditess (talk) 18:49, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Eruditess: Fixed by . The infobox only wants the file name and then makes it's own image code with a default size. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:54, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation PrimeHunter, I appreciate it. Although it looks like the image has already been deleted due to copyright infringement, oh well lol at least I know for future reference. Eruditess (talk) 18:05, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Alteration of a word on Sarah Keyworth's wiki page.

Dear Sir/Madam, I altered a word on Sarah Keyworth's wiki page, and I was wrong to do so. I made a mistake, accidentally, due to my lack of knowledge of the subject of non-binary people. A person responded (quite rightly), and I would like to be able to apologise to that person, but can't find the link to them. Could someone please give me the link to do so? I now know that someone non-binary, is described as they. Happily, I have learnt something today. Most appreciated, Bill. SwindonBillyWill (talk) 18:44, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

I assume that this is the edit you're referring to (made by a temporary account rather than by your current account). You can talk to the editor who reverted it at User talk:AntiDionysius, or you can just go to the revision page for the article and click on "thank" at the end of the record of AntiDionysius's edit. Deor (talk) 19:11, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Bill, let me also commend you for your openmindedness. Many people do not know what you have just learned, and when they do learn it, they resist it rather than being willing to accept that the world is different than they thought. I hope you don't feel bad or guilty for making the mistake; there's nothing wrong with making that mistake so long as you learn from it, which you have. Have a great day! Athanelar (talk) 20:32, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Murder of Ermanto Usman

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Thanks, Ogidzatul Azis Sueb (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done. When adding date you should just only add the normal date not a date plus time or extra formatting like {{!}}. Please see Template:Cite web for the full docx and correct P meter usage. Cheers. CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 12:31, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello Thilio,

I don't understand how my problem could be solved by correcting the date and time I put in my message.

Please, explain.

Sincerly yours Jacofee (talk) 13:14, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@Jacofee Sorry, I think you're in the wrong Convo. Did you mean to reply here? CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 13:49, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Jacofee. I suspect you got this item confused with #Connexion through Kindle Fire impossible above, which is the item you started. ColinFine (talk) 20:34, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Editing error Markelle Fultz page

Page: Markelle Fultz

Hi, I "tried" to make a correction to this page... the very last "paragraph" under the Professional Career section.

I was changing "Toronto Raptors" to "NBA G League Raptors 905.

I put in the link for the Raptors 905 Wikipedia page and I put in the reference link from the NBA G League site. They show up properly BUT there's also an error showing. It wasn't there before, so I can only assume it's something I did wrong.

Please fix and tell me what I did wrong. It's a case of thinking you know what you're doing, but really don't. Sorry. Thanks.

-Liz Cunningham- Winwork2 (talk) 21:14, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Winwork2. Fixed, I believe. You had accidentally inserted a blank <ref></ref> pair in before a section header. I believe that that can happen when using the Visual editor, but I don't know in what circumstances (I hardly ever use the VE myself). ColinFine (talk) 22:09, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Colin. I think it happened because I "cheated." I copied the reference from the paragraph before & changed their links to mine... probably created a duplicate! Thanks again. Winwork2 (talk) 00:36, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Upper Kuttanad

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Just wanted to check if the Generic Author error is sorted...

Thanks, Davidindia (talk) 09:44, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't notice any such errors in the latest version, Davidindia. (I haven't looked at the older ones.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for taking a look... Looks like it is sorted now. I removed the News Desk from the author line. Davidindia (talk) 04:39, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

search index

I created this Wikipedia page on 29 November 2025: > Desmond Cecil

The 90-day period for the "noindex" flag to be removed expired 8 days ago, but the page still isn't appearing in Google. It was my understanding that Google will only need one day, or perhaps two, to add an indexed page to its search results. Is there anything else I need to do? Thank you. Emj999 (talk) 09:41, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Emj999: I think Google is usually only that fast if the page allows indexing from the beginning. They probably visited the page early, saw it was noindexed, and then stay away for a long time. I get the impression Google is watching our edit logs and often revisits a page shortly after it has been edited so any edit (except an unlogged null edit) after noindexing has stopped may influence them. Somebody edited the page after your post and it already appears in Google for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:25, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

This has come up many times so I have added a note about it to Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing#Indexing of articles ("mainspace"). PrimeHunter (talk) 10:36, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

editing privileges

Please do not feed

Hi, someone told me I have to pledge allegiance to Israel in order to edit pages? is this correct? thanks ~2026-14511-50 (talk) 11:25, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

You have just edited here. What do you think? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:00, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

you tell me

Referencing errors on Candace Owens

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IF you are citing to a video from X, what is the correct way to cite it?

Thanks, JerryJJJJJJ (talk) 09:33, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

{{Cite tweet}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:29, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

How do I create a page for an author

How do I creat a page for an author I like? LBG68 (talk) 02:38, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

After carefully reading, digesting, and following the advice of Help:Your first article. -- Hoary (talk) 07:09, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

U need to go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation create an article or make it in ur sandbox, read Help:Your first article and add references that meet wikipedia standards make a good article and then submit it using AFC article wizard Gfroi (talk) 08:18, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

First, be sure they meet our notability guidelines, in particular for authors. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

My edits are not appearing on pages

I just created my account a few days ago. I made an edit/contribution to a page and now I don't see it appearing. I have looked under my contributions tab and see no blocks/restrictions for my account. Any ideas why I am not seeing my edits? MusictherapistJ (talk) 11:03, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

It's still here Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:03, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@MusictherapistJ It isn't visible in the main text within the WP:LEAD because you placed it inside the <ref></ref> tags so it ended up as part of the references at the end of the article. I doubt that this is what you intended. Incidentally, you don't seem to have backed up the statement In 2005, The Grascals covered the song on their self-titled debut album but it was not released as a single with a separate source, since a 2004 book certainly can't verify this. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:13, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Redirects

How do I create a Redirect page?

Xavier Newcombe (talk) 22:07, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

All redirects can be created and edited like any other article, and all share the same opening format: #REDIRECT followed by a blue wikilink to the intended destination article.

For example: pasting #REDIRECT[[Wikipedia]] into the first line of a new article page would create a redirect to the article Wikipedia,

There is more guidance with examples at Help:Redirects.

It also helps if you categorise new redirects when you make them. The process for categorising redirects is different than the one for articles. When categorising an article you would add a category link at the bottom like [[:Category:Wikipedia articles]]. For redirects you instead insert templates, which you can find listed in Category:Redirect templates. – Scyrme (talk) 22:49, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Much Thanks for your help on creating a Redirect. Xavier Newcombe (talk) 13:29, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

According to Help:Redirect. -- Hoary (talk) 22:52, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. Xavier Newcombe (talk) 13:31, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Can someone come close this TfD already?

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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The discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2026 February 17 § Template:Rulers of medieval England has been open for 18 days. A newer discussion about similar templates about ancient rulers was closed in just 7 days in favor of deletion, and I would like to see the February 17 discussion closed in favor of the same outcome for the medieval rulers templates because they are of similar nature; large, colored tables within navboxes. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 11:20, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Please ask at Wikipedia:Closure requests, if you think it meets the criteria there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:24, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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How do add a new subcategory under a larger category in edit source?

I want add a new subcategory under a larger category but there doesn't not seem to be a way to add it. V0mitri (talk) 20:19, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Do you want to create a new category that does not exist? Ruslik_Zero 20:22, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, but it would technically be a subcategory. The category exists in real life because it's racial and ethnic group, but it appears nowhere on Wikipedia. V0mitri (talk) 20:26, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

As a note, we don't create a category on Wikipedia because it "exists in real life". We create categories if there are a reasonable number of articles that would fall within that category that already exist on Wikipedia. – Scyrme (talk) 20:48, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@V0mitri: You would add the parent category (the larger category) to the child category (subcategory), just as you would categorise an article. – Scyrme (talk) 20:41, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

If you're not sure how to add categories to an article either, you would include a link to the category including the Category: prefix to the bottom of the page. So if I wanted to add an article or child category to a larger category called "Wikipedia articles", I would add [[:Category:Wikipedia articles]] at the bottom of the page. – Scyrme (talk) 20:44, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@V0mitri:, I believe that you are talking about adding Category:Scottish people of Seychellois descent. You need to create the category page before adding the category, which I believe requires a 4-day old account and at least ten edits. I would create the page by clicking on the redlink, copying the code from Category:English people of Seychellois descent, replacing English with Scottish as needed, clicking "Show preview" to check for errors and then clicking "Publish page". I wouldn't create the page for just one person. TSventon (talk) 21:08, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Okay thanks. V0mitri (talk) 00:15, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Edit my own Wikipedia page

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My wikipedia page needs updating and some edits. How do I go about that?

Is there someone who I work with or can do it for me?

Thank you Aliceattie (talk) 22:09, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Aliceattie, you have had some good advice at the Teahouse, please can you ask followup questions there. TSventon (talk) 22:28, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you I will ask Teahouse Aliceattie (talk) 22:52, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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Lost preference tag

Help, I've lost my preference tag and am trapped in the weird place (not Monobook)

I've been locked out of Monobook and kicked into Vector mode, which is way too weird to edit within. How do editors use this, and why is it the default??? In any case, I don't see a way to access my preferences, and when I looked earlier it said I was still in Monobook. There was something to click (AOC mode or something) when I used hotcat and then this all went to hell (Vector). Thanks for any help. (for some reason my signature was just added to the top) Randy Kryn (talk) 12:39, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

And now, being trapped in Vector, I looked at my navbox creation page (User:Randy Kryn/Templates) and found that in Vector they are all open. In Monobook they are all closed. What hell do people in Vector live within, and what can be done to get back to Monobook? Randy Kryn (talk) 12:51, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Almost all of my navboxes were set to 'autocollapse', which collapses them when they are paired with another navbox. But on my navbox page they are all open. Does everyone viewing that page in Vector see them all open, as I do now, and if so of what use is the autocollapse function? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:54, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

• Update, I'm back in monobook after clicking something at the bottom of a page, but does this mean I can't use Hotcat without falling back into the ridiculousness that is Vector? Randy Kryn (talk) 13:26, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: The bottom of pages have a "Mobile view" or "Desktop view" link to change between them. The skin setting at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering only applies when you are in desktop view. The mobile version is like a skin by itself. I prefer Vector legacy which is more like MonoBook than Vector 2022 is. All navboxes in User:Randy Kryn/Templates are collapsed for me in both Vector skins. Try to bypass your cache while you are in the wanted skin. Use Ctrl+F5 in Windows browsers, not F5 or the reload button alone. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:05, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

HotCat requires clicking near the bottom of the page. I guess you accidentally hit "Mobile view" while using HotCat. I don't know what "AOC mode or something" could be. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:14, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks PrimeHunter, hopefully it was just a wrong click or two. The mobile and vector skins are like bad dreams, full of unfamiliar landscapes. I don't use any of the control or F-etc buttons on my computer, just the regular keys (learned to type before the fancy Dan coders took control of the keyboards). Randy Kryn (talk) 02:36, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

NFCC question — can two non‑free images be used if they serve different purposes?

I’m looking for clarification on how NFCC applies in the Disappearance of Gerard Conway article. Another editor has added a non‑free content tag and is comparing the situation to a normal BLP where the person simply has no free image available. However, the BLP examples being used for comparison involve people who are not missing, so I’m unsure whether that comparison fits this type of article.

The page currently has two non‑free images: a portrait and a CCTV still of Conway’s last confirmed sighting. I’m happy to remove the CCTV image if it’s not appropriate, but my understanding was that NFCC allows more than one non‑free image when each one serves a different, non‑substitutive purpose.

In this case, the portrait provides clear identification, while the CCTV frame illustrates the final sighting, which the portrait cannot show. Because they fulfil different contextual roles, I thought this met NFCC#8.

Could someone clarify whether two non‑free images are acceptable under NFCC when each one illustrates a different aspect of the subject, or whether this should be treated the same as a standard BLP where only one non‑free image is permitted? ItsShandog (talk) 08:42, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Two non-free images are allowed in an article if they each meet all of the NFCC rules and are also each a unique purpose as each other. That last detail is NFCC #3a, but I'm emphasizing it here because it's the specific detail that is relevant to your question.

I don't think the portrait adds significantly beyond the CCTV. It has his face clearly visible, which is what we expect for a photo used for the primary identity of a person. It's not super high quality, but that's ok because it's still recognizeable enough (and especially because NFCC does not place importance on high quality...almost the opposite in some ways). Given the article is about his disappearance, an image specifically placing him in the context of a relevant event is at least as good a primary identifying image as a generic portrait. Alternately, seeing him in a picture doing something completely commonplace in a completely ordinary way does not greatly enhance understanding over just saying it in words. Therefore, I do not support both in this case (policy analysis, per 3a) and somewhat would lean towards the CCTV over the portrait (editorial/content opinion). DMacks (talk) 03:43, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Interestingly, in the US, CCTV footage is considered intrinsically public domain for purposes of WP licensing and commons upload. That doesn't generalize to the world and some countries seem to explicitly reject that position, so that doesn't help the situation of the Conway image from Northern Ireland. DMacks (talk) 04:03, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@DMacks and ItsShandog: Just for reference, this is also being discussed at File talk:Gerard Conway.jpg. I wasn't aware it was also being asked about here. Also, for reference, I don't think anything I posted about this so far implied that only one non-free image could be used in a BLP; if I did post something that gave that impression, then my apologies. FWIW, if I would've posted anything about non-free images and BLP, it most likely would've been that a non-free image can't, in principle, be used in a BLP for primary identification purposes per item 1 of WP:NFC#UUI. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:30, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Cape Beale Lighthouse and Bamfield, British Columbia Wikipedia articles.

Would like to communicate with authors or editors of these articles Brian Mills, LCDR, USCG (ret) (talk) 17:35, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Cape Beale Light and Talk:Bamfield, British Columbia would be where you go to do that. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 17:37, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your direction!!! Brian Mills, LCDR, USCG (ret) (talk) 17:38, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

@Brian Mills, LCDR, USCG (ret) I see that you posted some information to the Cape Beale "talk" page and then you asked "Would you be interested in being the author of an Wiki article about the rescue?".

That "talk" page is the correct place to discuss possible updates to the article. But please note that the article has been edited by dozens of editors over the years.

Maybe someone will see your question on the talk page and respond to you, but I wanted to let you know that the article wasn't created by a singular "you".

If someone does take up your suggestion, they will need the exact publications that you say provide verification of all the info that you summarized. Hope this helps. David10244 (talk) 07:34, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Reusing the same source with different quotes

Template:rp allows us to reuse the same source with different page numbers each time (or timestamps, etc). Is there a way to reuse the same source with different quotes each time? The only way I know of to add quotes is through the quote parameter in the citation itself. Thanks! Helpful Cat {talk} 16:01, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Helpful Cat you could try adding the quote in the rp template, see Template:Reference page#With a quote. TSventon (talk) 16:06, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, I missed that! I should have read the documentation more thoroughly. Helpful Cat {talk} 16:11, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:SUBREF is coming very soon. DMacks (talk) 01:59, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Helpful Cat Yes, as DMacks says, SUBREF is intended to be easier to use, and give better results, than "rp". David10244 (talk) 07:59, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, that looks excellent. I hope it's implemented soon! Helpful Cat {talk} 08:51, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Finding better sources

Basically if I add something in a Wikipedia article and add a source to it, and then after I made the edit I find a better source for it can I replace the first source with the new one? And if I can how? ~2026-14815-26 (talk) 10:16, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, you can, just edit the article to remove the original source and put in the new one, in the same way the first source was added originally. 331dot (talk) 10:22, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Navigation template doesn't show up in mobile view

Hello, I just observed that e.g. in American Airlines Flight 1572, the expected {{Aviation accidents and incidents in 1995}} is not showing while reading the article in Mobile view in Chrome on my Android tablet. These navigation templates show up just fine when I'm browsing aircraft accident articles in Desktop view. It's the same with e.g. AIM-9 Sidewinder and {{USN missiles}} & {{USAF missiles}} & {{US missiles}}, so apparently most if not all navigation templates are affected. Why? And can that be fixed to have them available no matter what display mode, be that mobile or desktop, is selected? Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 07:34, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

This is by design. You can suggest changing it, or ask about enabling their display via your own user-CSS settings, at Template talk:Navbox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:13, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

The George Ranch

We have not copied The George Foundation's information. Our Ranch is owed by the George Foundation, and we administer the Ranch under a contractual agreement with The George Foundation as the history and education arm of the Ranch. Their information and ours go hand in hand and we simply want to have a Wikipedia page for the promotion and education of The George Ranch. Our primary function is the education of the children in Fort Bend County and all of Southeast Texas and beyond Texas history in a living experience. Please advise what is needed to complete "The George Ranch" page with the already provided script.

Thank you,

Les Nettles, Director of Visitor Services

The George Ranch-

~2026-14684-20 (talk) 17:51, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Can you link to the article or draft at issue? I think you may have edited without logging in. 331dot (talk) 18:37, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

You should first read WP:PAID. Yes, that does apply to you.

Then please read WP:Donating copyrighted materials to understand what you must do if you wish to reuse material you have written and published elsewhere.

WP:V will explain what verification (references, citing reliable sources) we require.

Finally, WP:PROMO explains that Wikipedia is not here for promotional use. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:22, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Les.

It sounds as if you have an unfortunately very common misconception about Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is not a place for anybody, or any organisation, to tell the world about itself. It makes no difference how laudable the aims of the organisation may be.

If at some point there is a Wikipedia article about the George Ranch, the article will not belong to you, will not be controlled by you, and may contain text that you don't want. 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.

So, even leaving aside the issue of copyright, any material from your website is almost certainly inappropriate, as it will be promotional - appropriately for your website, but not for Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 14:26, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Map keeps on getting accidentally removed for some reason

More than 3 users told me the map (but not the index) was accidentally removed when they made unrelated edits to the article. Here is an example of an unrelated edit that probably accidentally removed the map . (Another editor re-added it after this, then it got removed again accidentally, then another added it, then the same happened again). Why is this, and how can I fix this?

Wikieditor662 (talk) 00:43, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Here is the index: (this part was NOT accidentally removed, but I removed it on purpose temporarily because it ended up being a stand-alone in the article)

  Israel and the United States.

  Countries that supported the Israeli-American attacks.

  Countries that condemned the Iranian attacks.

  Countries that expressed mixed reactions or made calls for peace.

  Countries that condemned the Israeli-American attacks.

  Iran.

Wikieditor662 (talk) 00:45, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I think that is a good map and should be included, I’m not technical at all so I’m not sure how to fix it, seems like a weird glitch or people keep taking out the “International” section either on purpose or by mistake. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 10:13, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Also @Wikieditor662 would it be worth adding a dotted line and showing Somaliland, which also have made statements about the war (sources indicate they would likely be in the orange, as they have condemned the Iranian attacks on the gulf states), and the map already shows the disputed SADR (Sahara). That’s just my suggestion though. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 10:21, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Update: I've changed the map per the suggestions here, yet the same thing still keeps happening, and the map keeps on getting removed (I believe still accidentally, since the legend hasn't been deleted alongside it). Wikieditor662 (talk) 15:19, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662 I kept seeing that too, is there too much information/data on the page (that might sound really stupid but I’m not sure the technicalities), or is the map being like cleared when someone reverts an edit? The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 15:35, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

From what I’ve noticed, it got removed (but not the index) when people removed content, even when that content was completely unrelated to the map. Wikieditor662 (talk) 16:42, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

I noticed that too, I’ll bring this issue up at the Teahouse and see if anyone there might know. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 17:23, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Also one last thing, I’m going to be honest and say that your map is better than the current map, the colours are better for the eyes and easier to understand, as well as a higher quality. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 10:28, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@KeyolTranslater: Unless, of course, colours mean nothing to you. Bazza 7 (talk) 12:52, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I’m pretty bad with colours 😅 but on comparing the two maps this one seems clearer, the one currently on the article has too similar colours, a red and a darker red, which to someone who has worse eyesight than me might nit be able to understand or see the difference, whilst this on has pretty bland standard colours, easier to see in my honest opinion. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 13:05, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@KeyolTranslater: I get all that, but converting the image to greyscale shows that green and red are very similar (eg Finland is part of Russia); yellow is close to light grey (Chile is Peru); black is close enough to red/green to need a good look. ColorBrewer might be useful. For starters, try replacing the colours with this palette:

• fill > #f5f5f5
• blue > #8c510a
• orange > #d8b365
• yellow > #f6e8c3
• red > #c7eae5
• green > #5ab4ac
• black > #01665e

Bazza 7 (talk) 13:45, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662: I've been rude and forgotten to ping you in my replies. Sorry, and thanks for introducing me to {{map}}. Bazza 7 (talk) 14:45, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks @Bazza 7 and everyone else for helping out! I updated the map in the article. However, the colors on the map shown below seems kind of dull, is there any way to make the colors better while still remaining accessible per the guidelines? Wikieditor662 (talk) 18:22, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662: The key to making colouring WP:ACCESSIBLE is contrast, and this inevitably leads to some colours looking "duller" than others; so there's a mix which helps the greatest number of readers distinguish the individual map components and thus access the information being presented. I mentioned ColorBrewer above, and that article includes a link to the ColorBrewer web site where you can see sets of colour combinations proven to be most accessible; they all include a modicum of "dullness" to pay for maximum usability. It's an interesting site, if your nerdy enough like me to be into that sort of thing. Bazza 7 (talk) 19:07, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

But are there not better options even among these "duller" colors? Wikieditor662 (talk) 21:36, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662: What do you mean by "better"? The scheme I picked (BrBG) is the best in terms of accessibility and reproduction using six colours. There are three others to consider which are not as reproduction-friendly as the first:

• BrBG     #8c510a       #d8b365       #f6e8c3       #c7eae5       #5ab4ac       #01665e  
• PRGn     #762a83       #af8dc3       #e7d4e8       #d9f0d3       #7fbf7b       #1b7837  
• RdBu     #b2182b       #ef8a62       #fddbc7       #d1e5f0       #67a9cf       #2166ac  
• RdYlBu     #d73027       #fc8d59       #fee090       #e0f3f8       #91bfdb       #4575b4  

Bazza 7 (talk) 17:09, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Personally I think it’s a pretty good map, the cooours age bright enough to not blend in with each other. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 17:22, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, perhaps it's the fact that they don't seem contrasted or opposed to one enough based on the side the countries are on. Wikieditor662 (talk) 18:47, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

They're actually much higher contrast when it comes to relative color value, which makes it easier to tell the colors apart with colorblindness. The only potential sticking point I'm noticing with the colorblind-friendly colors (on the suggested message above or the other map in this section) is that it's possible on some displays, especially with certain types of colorblindness, the palest colors (especially the pale blue/teal, like the one represented as "Countries that condemned the Iranian attacks" on the color swapped map below) might be nearly indistinguishable from uncolored countries. - Purplewowies (talk) 17:59, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, the map so far isn't going in the article so far either way, as the glitch where it accidentally gets deleted seems to still be happening. Wikieditor662 (talk) 18:02, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@Bazza 7 I see, I’m no map colours guy but it’s interesting to learn about the different colours and how thy are similar. I like your new map down below, that also works better than the current map. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 14:54, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662 All of those "supported", "opposed", etc. legends are properly sourced and cited, right? David10244 (talk) 07:44, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, look at 2026 Iran war#International. Wikieditor662 (talk) 17:42, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

I could've done that in the {{map}}, so here it is, some colours swapped from my suggestion above. According to ColorBrewer this map is "colour-blind, printer and LCD-friendly".

•   Israel and the United States
•   Countries that supported the Israeli-American attacks
•   Countries that condemned the Iranian attacks
•   Countries that expressed mixed reactions or made calls for peace
•   Countries that condemned the Israeli-American attacks
•   Iran

How to fix talk page archive that uses two naming schemes?

Talk:Herbert von Karajan has both Talk:Herbert von Karajan/Archive 1 and Talk:Herbert von Karajan/Archives/2020/April style archives. And it's got both a talk header for the numbered archives and a search box for the dated ones. What's the right fix here? I suspect I want to move "Archive 1" over to the dated scheme? GA-RT-22 (talk) 13:24, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

No, monthly archives should only be used when there is significant activity. All the small monthly archives should be merged into Talk:Herbert von Karajan/Archive 2 and the archiving instructions changed. I will do it. Don't edit any of the pages until I'm done. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:28, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@GA-RT-22: Done. Somebody chose poor archiving parameters in 2020. I have changed it. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:47, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Lowercase title display

I put Template:Lowercase title on my userpage to display my username as lowercase, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Coolgurl5555 🩷 (talk)(sign) 19:13, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@Coolgurl5555: Strangely, when I checked your user page the first time it wasn't working. I went to try it on another user page, where it worked, came back to yours and its was already working. Might be something to do with the page cache. If it's still not working on your end, try purging the page cache. – Scyrme (talk) 19:21, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Purging didn’t work on my end but if it works for others then I suppose it doesn’t truly matter. - coolgurl5555 🩷 (talk)(sign) 19:23, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

It appears as "User:coolgurl5555" for me, where coolgurl5555 is lowercase but "User:" is still uppercase. If you want that part to be lowercase as well, you will need to do that manually ({{DISPLAYTITLE:user:coolgurl5555}} should work). OutsideNormality (talk) 21:42, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

I see. Thank you! - coolgurl5555 🩷 (talk)(sign) 23:05, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Coolgurl5555, if you are interested, the DISPLAYTITLE template allows you to do almost anything, such as different colours, fonts, superscript or italics Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:02, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Organizing a history section using time frames?

I have a question pertaining to the layout of subsections under a "History" article section, or any area of an article discussing events in chronological order. Many articles use sections with titles referring to particularly important points or periods. For example, Brazil's history section is divided into "Pre-Cabraline era", "Portuguese colonization", "Elevation to kingdom", etc.

My question is: could chronological subsections just be organized in such a way as "1950s-1960s", "1970s", "1980-85"...? This especially concerns article topics for which there isn't an obvious convention for periodization, either because it doesn't belong to a defined academic field, or because it could be periodicized in a number of different ways. The main reason I ask is because the MoS here states that section headings should not be "numbered or lettered as an outline".

This question concerns several articles which I think have a history section which could be organized better (e.g. Confraternities in Nigeria), or which should have one but lack it altogether (Outdoor recreation).

Thank you!

Procyon14 (talk) 03:40, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

When it says "section headings should not be numbered or lettered as an outline" it means that yout sections should be called things like "History" and not "Section 1"

Arranging a history section into subsections based on dates is totally fine, to my knowledge. I've seen it done before and never heard anyone complain, anyway. Athanelar (talk) 13:02, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Understood, thank you! Procyon14 (talk) 15:26, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Advice on contacting article subject for a picture

WP:A picture of you

Long story short: I started an RfC on Zara Larsson's talk page about which image should be used in the infobox.

The subject recently published a social media video where she expressed dislike for the photo used at the time, and expressed preference for a different photo (the one currently in use). The photo has no licensing problems, but is of slightly worse quality, leading to a large debate on the Talk page over which one should be used, with multiple alternatives being proposed. I'm thinking about reaching out anonymously to Larsson's team and attempting to get a better picture of her that she would want, which would allow us to end the debate with everyone happy. I'd appreciate if editors helped me make this decision (or not) by sharing helpful or relevant information. (E.g., should I use my real name when reaching out to them? Is this sort of thing even allowed? How would I implement it within the RfC: would it bypass debate or need to be added to the RfC?) Thanks, all! I like octopuses^{talk to me, talk to me} 22:00, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Explaining to Larsson that we would all like a good presentable picture of her, and how should might help to provide one, seems a good idea. If I were to go about it myself, I'd probably use my real name and email her from my personal email address; but using your WP account name seems fine too. (My personal view is that in image A, the one currently in use, her complexion is the shade of orange made famous by Trump - she looks far more human in the other four.) Maproom (talk) 22:26, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply! My only concern is that I probably won’t be able to get in touch with Larsson herself; I’ll probably be emailing her PR team and I don’t know if they will care as much as she does. I like octopuses^{talk to me, talk to me} 22:44, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

There's nothing you can really do about her PR team not caring. If her team is aware that she doesn't like the current image and decides to do nothing about it despite her wishes, then she will have to deal with her team. FWIW, Wikipedia will be happy to use a high-quality acceptably licensed photo of her if either she or her team wants to make one available (assuming of course sje's the copyright holder). One of her representatives could either make the photo available online under such a license (c:COM:VRT#When contacting VRT is unnecessary) on one of her official websites or upload the file directly to Wikimedia Commons (this would be better than uploading it to Wikipedia) and use c:COM:RELGEN for verification. It's important to remember that even photos supplied by the subjects of articles are still subject to local consensus as to whether they should be used, but there should be no issues with using such a photo as long as it's not overtly promotional or otherwise deemed unencyclopedic for some reason. As for using your real name, that's entirely up to you since it's your own personal information. As for the RfC, you probably shouldn't try to circumvent that. Just let others know what you've done and give them a chance to discuss the image. As I already posted, as long as there's nothing really "wrong" with image, most people shouldn't have a problem using it. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:11, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. This is helpful information and I'll probably move forward with emailing her team. I like octopuses^{talk to me, talk to me} 17:14, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Non-free image help

Hello! I am editing the page on Stewie (cat) and, after perusing the non-free use policies, (Wikipedia:Non-free content) believe that this page would deserve( and be helped by) a picture of Stewie. There are many pictures online, but no free ones. I want to use a picture from Guiness World Records, but in the image uploader, it says that images should "The discussion is about the photograph or painting as such, as a creative work, not just about the thing or person it shows."

If this is true, I suppose it is fine to have the article go picture-less, but the policies page doesn't seem to have this provision.

(And, I think the article about the world's longest cat should have a picture to help the reader understand how long he was :) )

Thank you! PolarClimates (talk) 14:25, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @PolarClimates

I don't know where that text you quote is (I don't see it at Special:Upload), but it doesn't seem relevant to me. NFCC #8 says Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding, and this use seems to fit that well. ColinFine (talk) 15:02, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Okay, thank you! It was in the file upload wizard. PolarClimates (talk) 16:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I have uploaded the image. I think I did it right, there was a lot of information on different articles telling me what to do.

Here it is for reference

File:Stewie-2-558424.jpg PolarClimates (talk) 17:20, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

How do I name my draft?

It won't let me submit without it being named in the system... Stephen (talk) 22:30, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

If it's about, say, the history of conkers in Moldova, you might title it Draft:History of conkers in Moldova. A draft reviewer who later accepts the draft can then retitle it to (Wikipedia's) taste. If OTOH you are getting an error message when you attempt to title your draft, then what precisely does the error message say? -- Hoary (talk) 22:48, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@SSilha: I guess you refer to the "Draft title" box after clicking Submit at User:SSilha/sandbox. I'm not sure how the submit script works but I think the box is only supposed to say where the draft is now, so try to just leave the box unchanged. If the draft is accepted then the reviewer will choose an article title. If you want your draft to be named then move it before submitting. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:14, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

SSilha, draft reviewers routinely make corrections here and there to draft creators' markup. But it's a rare draft reviewer who will mark up an entire draft. ("Life's too short.") Please learn for yourself how to add headers, lists, list items, italicizing, etc, and then mark up accordingly. Additionally, here's your description of one of your sources: Otto A. Silha personal résumé (family records). No. With perhaps a few tiny exceptions, cited sources must be published (and meet other conditions as well). You cannot expect the Silha family to accommodate the requests (by email? by phone?) of Wikipedia readers to verify what an article attributes to "family records" or similar. -- Hoary (talk) 23:46, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Clearly I underestimated PrimeHunter's magnanimity. -- Hoary (talk) 02:09, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for undermining you. I had not seen your post when I made the edit. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:20, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

That's me down some way below you in the sinkhole, PrimeHunter, waving desperately in the hope of being noticed by rescue frogpersons. (If I somehow survive this ordeal, I'll be sure to edit only when wearing fluorescent orange.) -- Hoary (talk) 04:10, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Also, @SSilha I presume from your username that you are related to the draft subject. If I am correct, then this constitutes a conflict of interest which you must declare; please read through the relevant guidance at WP:COI before you make any further edits to the draft. Athanelar (talk) 01:15, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

How far back does a COI go, I’ve edited articles on people who were my 6th Great Grandfather for example but surely that isn’t a COI. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 11:34, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Unlikely to be a CoI (though not impossible if you were using the article to support your claim to be the 17th Duke of Obscureberg, on the basis that your ancestor was the 8th). As to whether there's a CoI regarding a closer relative, I'd say it needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis. What is more or less certain though is that it may be difficult to write objectively in such circumstances, and that the article is likely to get close scrutiny if the relationship becomes known. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:54, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I see, well for the record I don’t claim to be the Due of Obscureberg 😅 I see your point for it being a case-by-case basis. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 12:01, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

OK thanks for your help! I'm just learning or relearning all these systems... so I assume I don't have a working draft, or do I in the sandbox... it wouldn't let me upload it because it said there was no title...???

Is there an editor who can submit this for me? I understand I can't use a resume and appreciate the requirement that something be published (not that publication means truth) Stephen (talk) 18:47, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I have moved your draft to Draft:Otto Silha and provided a template at the top of the page which you can use to submit the draft for review.

At this stage, though, I would advise against that until you act on the feedback given above. Namely, Otto A. Silha personal résumé (family records) is still not a suitable reference, and you need to connect the information in your draft to your references using inline citations. Please review Help:Referencing for beginners. Athanelar (talk) 19:48, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Company Identification Image Upload

Hello,

I am utilizing the 'Files for Upload Wizard' to upload a company logo that will replace an old logo on the company's Wikipedia page (I work at this company). I have gone through the non free files upload, and am stuck at the 'Which option describes the image's license best?' section. What license would a company logo sit under, please? MeanderValleyCouncil (talk) 04:29, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@MeanderValleyCouncil: By default, all-rights-reserved. The only exception is if the logo is merely text or simple geometric shapes, in which case it is public domain. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 04:32, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@MeanderValleyCouncil Just to say that your username is against policy since it is the same as Meander Valley Council and suggests a role account (i.e. one that isn't personal to an individual). Please stop using it: "John at MVC" etc is acceptable, as explained at WP:ORGNAME. You will need to declare your paid status, as explained at that link. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:07, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for your comment. I have applied to change my username so that it is within Wikipedia's username policy. MeanderValleyCouncil (talk) 21:33, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Removing an image from an infobox

I am trying to remove the image from the infobox of this article: Aleksandr Tkachyov (gymnast). It is a photo of a completely different gymnast. However when I try to edit the infobox, the image field is already blank. Thanks.--Lairor (talk) 01:52, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Lairor, the image is in Wikidata at Aleksandr Tkachyov (Q655313). TSventon (talk) 02:02, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

I moved it to the the Wikidata item for Sergei Naidin since it was there by mistake. – Scyrme (talk) 02:16, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

old email and password

I had to change my email address as the old comcast.net doesn't work. I want to log in to change this on my account, however, I don't remember my password. I can't receive emails at the old account anymore so sending a reset to that page won't work. ~2026-14978-30 (talk) 18:05, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia has no way to access your account and if you are unable to receive emails that is attached to the registered account.... I suggest Wikipedia:Clean start. You may indicate on your page you're old account. Moxy🍁 02:53, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Need changes I made deleted.

Please delete and remove from version history changed I made. ~2026-15078-86 (talk) 05:45, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @~2026-15078-86.

You can undo an edit yourself. If there is a need to suppress it from the history, please mail the oversight team at {mailto:oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org}: see WP:oversight for details. ColinFine (talk) 11:43, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Lua module edit

I added the UK Physical Singles Chart to Module:Music chart/sandbox/single.json. Could someone please check my work? 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 21:22, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Update: I used all of the sandboxes for testing (I added it to the Json sandbox, then linked the chart sandbox to the module sandbox, and the module sandbox to the json sandbox), and it worked. Since I was using the sandboxes, it did not harm the functionality of the regular but I was still able to test it in a draft I was working on (unpublished edit). Anyway, I added it. It was briefly non functional (just the chart I added, not the whole thing), so I fixed it, but it is functional and I have confirmed I didn't break the template at any point. Still, feel free to double-check behind me, I want it to actually work. Thank you! 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 15:34, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Extra spacing?

Whenever I try to add the Template:sidebar person (such as Template:David which I recently added) to an article; a little bit of space is added to the top. However, for some reason this doesn't happen with Moses, although I can't find the template anywhere in the source, even though I see it in the article. Could someone please explain how this can be fixed? Thanks. Wikieditor662 (talk) 05:45, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662: I removed two newlines. Everything before <noinclude> is transcluded including newlines so it should usually be right at the end of the code. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:15, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Looks better now. Wikieditor662 (talk) 16:43, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Irish Internet Hotline

Special:Diff/1342737283

date formatting in citation

Thanks, Cunnnii (talk) 14:55, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done. Note that the date for a reference should be typed like "2026-03-10". Maproom (talk) 17:11, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Trouble adding external link

Hi, I'm trying to add an External Link to the English-language entry for the German poet Stefan George, and it flags me for potential spamming. I've successfully added similar links to other Wikipedia sites in recent years and days, I don't see what the issue is here. The link is to a literature blog of mine where I publish translations of George's poems. There are already similar links on the same page. Also, I'm a scholar of German literature and university professor. Thanks, -Alex Sager Twerg11 (talk) 17:38, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the link issue, but you should not link to your personal website without discussion due to the severe conflict of interest that presents.(please click the link for more information). Many professors would undoubtedly love to have links to their personal websites on Wikipedia, but we can't accommodate everyone just because.

Please also read guidance for expert editors. 331dot (talk) 17:46, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Harbor Fog

Special:Diff/1342803302

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Harbor Fog, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows: A URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters contains an invalid URL. Please edit the article to add the valid URL. (Fix

— Ask for help)

Please help fix this.

Thanks, Linkupdate (talk) 20:11, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Linkupdate  Done restored working archived. RV you as AGF. Please see WP:DEADLINK and WP:REFBEGIN. The most important thing to do is read A primer for newcomers. CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 20:37, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Request for help creating a second infobox settlement

Articles about provinces in Thailand contain two infoboxes settlement: one for the provincial government and one for the local government.
However, the second infobox settlement automatically moves an image, which appears to the left of the first infobox settlement in the text, to the beginning of the second infobox settlement. This image then appears in a completely different section of the article.
It is possible to create an infobox settlement called Infobox settlement/two which is 100% identical in text to the first Infobox settlement, but does not shift the image downwards as described above. SietsL (talk) 09:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@SietsL: Please always post an example. I found one and used {{Stack}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:10, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello,

I used Samut Songkhram province as an exemple. I added "stack" to the image of Mae Klong River in the Geography section.

However, the image still appears to the left of the second infobox, but not in the Geographic section.

Is my suggestion to create an "infobox settlement/two" a really tricky solution? SietsL (talk) 14:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@SietsL: {{Stack}} belongs around the infoboxes as my diff shows. Click the numbered link in my first or this post to see it. Your suggestion would create serious complications for no reason when there already is a simple and more general solution PrimeHunter (talk) 15:02, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello,

I thank you very much for your help. SietsL (talk) 01:53, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Cite error in The Godfather

I don't know how to fix references. But I noticed that ref 8 in The Godfather has an error (:0 was defined multiple times). I read the article because the movie was on TV again... David10244 (talk) 05:21, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads-up, David10244. I hope that this new edit of mine has fixed that problem. (I realize that the resulting page isn't problem free.) -- Hoary (talk) 08:13, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

@Hoary Yes, that error is now gone. Thank you! David10244 (talk) 02:56, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on List of African-American inventors and scientists

Reference help requested. From the page List of African-American inventors and scientists | For this reference, how do I fix the error?

132. / "John W. Jackson Electrical Engineer". NASA. Retrieved February 23, 2026. {{cite journal}}:Check |url= value (help)

Thanks, Newnetdove (talk) 03:22, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

References

Done, Newnetdove, I think and hope. NB: (i) The first ("Reverted edit by Newnetdove....") of my two consecutive edits resulted from an odd slip of the fingers; don't worry about it. (ii) This page still has plenty of other Template:Cite syntax errors. -- Hoary (talk) 04:42, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Possible convert function malfunction?

I noticed incorrect mass conversions in this section:

2025 Formula One World Championship

• Regulation changes
• Technical regulations
• Driver well-being

The minimum driver weight allowance was increased from 80 kilograms (180 lb) to 82 kilograms (181 lb). Consequently, the overall minimum weight limit of the car, excluding fuel, rose from 798 kilograms (1,759 lb) to 800 kilograms (1,800 lb).

I tried to edit the numbers manually, but the coding uses a "convert" function, which I know nothing about. Perhaps a more knowledgeable person could investigate and repair. Thank you! Bron6669 (talk) 04:04, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

The numbers only appear to be off for certain values. Template talk:Convert is probably a good place to ask about this with people more knowledgeable about the template. - Purplewowies (talk) 05:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

@Bron6669: Fixed with Special:Diff/1342914691 - see the Convert documentation for examples to follow. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:52, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Clive Burr

Clive Burr did not pass on 12h March but 13th March. How do I go about getting that information changed/updated on behalf of his Partner? Please advise ~2026-15479-21 (talk) 11:31, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

First of all, you'd need to cite that information to a reliable source. Word-of-mouth from a relative cannot be referenced as a source. Athanelar (talk) 12:00, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I have created a page today How to delete a page if i want ?

I have created a page here today if i want to delete then how to do so? Abbas Khan Choudhury (talk) 12:51, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

You're asking for your sandbox to be deleted? 331dot (talk) 12:59, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

You have created User:Abbas Khan Choudhury/sandbox. This isn't an article, but it should be deleted because it contains material that is not suitable for an article or a user page. You can delete it by clicking on "Edit", deleting the text and clicking "Publish changes".--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 13:01, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Help

What should I do if I create a new article on Wikipedia and it doesn't get edited (except for very first edit) or noticed for a very long time? Wordsonwordsonpagesonwordshello (talk) 13:39, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

You should do nothing, an article not being edited is not a problem as long as it follows our policies. Other editors eventually will edit or improve it. Also if you want more attention on the article or topic you can continue improving it yourself but basically nothing needs to be done. CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 13:51, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

thanks Wordsonwordsonpagesonwordshello (talk) 14:00, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Request for apology and rectification.

Doctor Michael Salla was previously banned from editing his own information page and he wanted to only update it so the content suited him. If he is an educated member of society, why can he not correct information about him? ~2026-15647-76 (talk) 00:27, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I can find no article by that title, can you link to it? He is not forbidden from proposing edits via the edit request process. He should read the autobiography policy first. In general, we don't want to know what a person says about themselves, we want to know what independent reliable sources say about a topic. primary sources are only accepted in certain circumstances. 331dot (talk) 00:53, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Michael Salla was salted 12+ years ago, assuming that's the article the OP is referring to. Currently exists on svwiki and zhwiki. wikidata:Q6089630 • Quinn (talk) 00:58, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-15647-76: Michael Salla was deleted six times. The last time was in 2013 after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Salla (2nd nomination). I haven't examined what happened before 2013 but it seems moot now. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for a general guideline. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:05, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Who are we supposed to be apologising to? Are you Salla? If so, why are you referring to him in the third person? And if you aren't, why do you think it appropriate to ask for an apology on his behalf? Regardless, you aren't going to get an apology, since the Salla biography appears to have been dealt with appropriately according to Wikipedia policies. Wikipedia isn't a platform for hosting 'information pages' written to suit the subject, in is (or at least does its best to be) an online encyclopaedia, written about notable topics, and based almost entirely on what independent published reliable sources have to say. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:39, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Lipno, Lipno County

The title Lipno, Lipno County is ambiguous because Lipno, Gmina Lipno is also located in the same county. Could someone move the article to a more specific and appropriate title? ~2026-14595-15 (talk) 14:14, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Lipno, Lipno County is probably the WP:PRIMARY topic of the two as it is a town of 14,000 and Lipno, Gmina Lipno is a village of 400. The current name is probably fine, but a hatnote linking to the village could be useful. TSventon (talk) 14:41, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon Ok, but Lipno, Gmina Lipno is ambiguous, since Lipno, Lipno County serves as the seat of the rural Gmina Lipno. ~2026-14718-92 (talk) 15:10, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

What titles would you suggest? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:13, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Lipno, Gmina Lipno (in Gmina Lipno, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship) is ambiguous as there is also Lipno, Greater Poland Voivodeship in Gmina Lipno, Greater Poland Voivodeship, so perhaps the name should be Lipno, Gmina Lipno, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. TSventon (talk) 20:19, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon Could you please move the entry and add hatnotes where necessary? ~2026-15620-63 (talk) 00:26, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I have moved the village and added a hatnote to the town. TSventon (talk) 02:09, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Somali section

I have been going through many sections of Wikipedia. You are doing great work. Of utmost importance is seeing The Somali Wikipedia page, I don't know if this is what Wikipedia is aware about, has been turned into unreliable articles, inserted links meant for Christinization of Somalis....it is astonishing publishing articles, links that seems reliable but are not. Please reply as this matter have to go to the highest authorities at Wikipedia and the Somalia Governments as well as all land inhabited by Somalis. Dalahow (talk) 07:43, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Dalahow Wikipedia has no "authority" to go to, this is a community driven project. Please know that making legal threats is not permitted on Wikipedia. We cannot stop you from legal action, but you cannot make legal threats on Wikipedia, nor can you edit if you have a legal action underway.

Please discuss any grievances you have with any particular article on its talk page. 331dot (talk) 07:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I have been a user since 2006 and have helped contribute to Wikipedia. However, you cannot reply, as an authority....to verify statements written here and still claim no other "authority" to follow up....It is not about some few corrections, it is about an agenda set on a partciular page for a particular reason.....I think you should investigate. Wikipedia must understand the cultural, religious standards of different people, communities instead of allowing 'agendas' to be driven in your pages and still claim no 'authority'....That won't work... Dalahow (talk) 11:45, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Which article are you talking about in particular, and which information in that article do you take issue with? You're speaking in very vague terms currently that give us no information to be able to help you. Athanelar (talk) 12:05, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

What links have been inserted to Christianise Somalis? I can assure you Wikipedia as a whole does not have an agenda, and if an article does have an agenda it’s usually an individual’s POV and not Wikipedia as a group collective. The Grenadian Historian (Aka. Mwen Sé Kéyòl Translator-a) (talk) 14:49, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

If you have evidence of a hidden, untoward, anti-Somali agenda, it's up to you to provide it, not for us to do the work for you. 331dot (talk) 14:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Grünow

The municipality of Grünow is the really the primary topic? There are other entries in Grunow (disambiguation), such as Grünow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ~2026-15773-20 (talk) 15:04, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

So what would you think should be the primary topic? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:07, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Quetion about chanching my username

I here cause I have a question: If I change globally my username, is also rename my username of OpenStreetMaps? VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 21:16, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

@Vitorperrut555: No, your account here is for Wikimedia projects. OpenStreetMap is not a Wikimedia project. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:26, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Personal Page for Rod Turner

Dear Wikipedia Editorial Team,

I am writing to inquire whether the Rod Turner article, currently flagged under CSD A7 and CSD G11, can be retained and published following the substantive revisions that have been made to address both criteria.

I would like to make the case that the article is eligible for publication, and I respectfully ask for your assessment.

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ON CSD A7 — NOTABILITY

Rod Turner's notability is grounded in independently verifiable, historically documented events in the personal computing industry:

- He served as General Manager of the Norton product group at Symantec Corporation and directly oversaw the 1991 launch of Norton AntiVirus — one of the most widely used software products in computing history, with its own Wikipedia article. - He held senior executive roles at two companies that completed NASDAQ IPOs: Ashton-Tate (1983) and Symantec (1989). - Symantec received venture capital from Kleiner Perkins, with John Doerr as lead investor — one of the most significant VC firms in Silicon Valley history. - His company Mobile Automation was acquired by iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS) in 2004. - He has been cited as a subject matter expert in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Global Finance, VentureBeat, and U.S. News & World Report.

These are not self-reported achievements. They are documented events that can be independently verified through public records, SEC filings, and major media archives. We believe this firmly meets the threshold required to satisfy CSD A7.

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ON CSD G11 — PROMOTIONAL TONE

The article has been fully rewritten to remove all language that could be considered promotional. Specifically:

- All revenue figures, growth percentages, CAGR metrics, and traffic statistics have been removed. - The article now contains only roles, dates, company names, and independently verifiable events. - The personal interests section has been removed. - Section headings have been revised to reflect neutral, encyclopedic framing. - Every remaining citation references a third-party publication.

The article now reads as a neutral biographical encyclopedia entry consistent with Wikipedia's standards for living persons.

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OUR QUESTION

Given these revisions, we would sincerely appreciate your guidance on the following:

1. In your assessment, does the revised article now satisfy the notability threshold under CSD A7? 2. Is there any remaining promotional language under CSD G11 that you would like us to address? 3. If further changes are needed, would you be willing to indicate specifically what those changes should be before a deletion decision is made?

We are fully committed to making whatever additional adjustments are necessary to bring the article into full compliance with Wikipedia's editorial standards. We believe there is a strong, legitimate case for this article's inclusion, and we hope you will give it fair consideration.

Thank you sincerely for your time and for the work you do maintaining the quality of Wikipedia.

Sincerely, Rod Turner Iamrodt (talk) 17:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Who is "we"? Wikipedia accounts are strictly single person use only. Theroadislong (talk) 18:00, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Draft:Rod Turner. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 19:00, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Almost certainly AI generated due to the nebulous handwaving at media coverage of the subject. Athanelar (talk) 19:13, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a place to post your resume. The draft says that he's cited by various media outlets, but does not go into detail as to what is viewed by independent sources as significant about that. Why does the NYT call you up for comment and not somebody else? 331dot (talk) 19:03, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Notability cannot be inherited. This means you're not automatically notable because you've worked for large, notable companies. See para 2 of WP:INHERITORG.

None of the sources you've provided in your article satisfy the WP:GNG or the WP:NPERSON. All your other reasoning is irrelevant if notability cannot be proven. SnowyRiver28 (talk) 21:53, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

There is no such thing as a 'personal page'. Wikipedia is (or at least does its best to be) an online encyclopaedia, written about notable topics, and based almost entirely on what in-depth coverage in independent published reliable sources has to say. AndyTheGrump (talk)

Conflict of interest is also a factor here. If you are Rod Turner, or are affiliated to him in some way, then you shouldn't really be doing this in the first place. See Your first article for more advice.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 19:22, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

A reading companion

I opened the article for Hermann Hesse and noticed this guy embedded in the top right corner of the page above the Tools menu. I've never seen it before. Any idea what it is and why it's there? I don't want to close the tab in case I've won a prize. Brycehughes (talk) 22:19, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

@Brycehughes: It's "Birthday mode (Baby Globe)" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. There is no prize. Baby GLobe just occurs on some articles. He is reading here because it's about an author. See more at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/wikipedia-mascot/. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Tarco Huaman

Hello. I've noticed that the pages about the Incan rulers, as well as their infobox in the article, goes from Mayta Capac, whose article labels as the fourth Sapa Inca, to the page-lacking Tarco Huaman, followed by Cápac Yupanqui, whose page labels as the fifth Sapa Inca. However, if Tarco Huaman is a Sapa Inca as this would suggest, then Cápac Yupanqui should be the sixth sapa Inca, and all other Sapa Incas following him should have their numbers offset by one. So, I am coming her to ask if this should be the case, or if perhaps Tarco Huaman is not a Sapa Inca or if there is some other reason why the numbers are not in their seemingly-proper order. --ISometimesEatBananas (talk) 20:31, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @ISometimesEatBananas.

I don't see anywhere that mentions Tarco Huaman, except as a younger son of Mayta Capac. He's not mentioned in Sapa Inca. Where else are you seeing him?

In any case, if there is an inconsistency, there is no reason to suppose that anybody who frequents the Help desk will have any particular knowledge about this. It would be better to ask on the talk page of the article in question, or a relevant WikiProject. (I would suggest WT:WikiProject Inca Empire, but that seems to be inactive, so WT:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas might be a better place. ColinFine (talk) 21:32, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I will check there. However, he is on the infoboxes for both above rulers as well as on the Kingdom of Cusco page. I will follow your advice and ask around on that WikiProject. --ISometimesEatBananas (talk) 23:05, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Cite Template

The Citation template does not seem to be appearing when I select it. Is there something different now? Ravin9976 (talk) 19:50, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I have the same problem, I get the normal dropdown list of citation templates, but when I select a template nothing happens. TSventon (talk) 19:59, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

It's also broken for me. I have reported it at Wikipedia talk:RefToolbar#RefToolbar is broken. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:36, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

It's fixed now. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:50, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Great. thank you! Ravin9976 (talk) 00:16, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Music album same name as county

There is a new article, Boundary County (album), which I want to disambiguate from its namesake the best way. I have ruled out a hatnote at the namesake's Boundary County, Idaho article, since that is the primary topic no question. The current title [[Boundary County]] is a redirect. Should I just edit that redirect and change it to a disambiguation page with two entries? Sorry I couldn't quite figure this out from help pages. Sswonk (talk) 19:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Sswonk, looking at Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Redirecting to a primary topic, you could add a hat note

For the album, see Boundary County (album).

with code {{for|the album|Boundary County (album){{!}}''Boundary County'' (album)}} TSventon (talk) 21:19, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

TSventon, thank you. I added the hatnote to Boundary County, Idaho without the reversal of italics, following the style of the hatnote at Revolver. Sswonk (talk) 01:01, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Zard Patton Ka Bunn

Hello! I am a new editor trying to create a draft for the Pakistani drama series Zard Patton Ka Bunn via the Article Wizard. However, I am receiving an error that the title is blacklisted. This is a notable television series produced by Momina Duraid and the Kashf Foundation starring Sajal Aly. Could an administrator please create the draft page for me or tell me how to proceed? Thank you! ~2026-15842-47 (talk) 04:27, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes: You are free to create Draft:Zard Patton Ka Bunn and to submit the result for review. If it passes the criteria for an article, the reviewer will rename it Zard Patton Ka Bunn (currently a redirect). -- Hoary (talk) 04:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hoary the draft title is salted, but you are free to create Draft:Zard Patton Ka Bunn because you are an admin. I don't know what a TA account user should do. TSventon (talk) 04:58, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

As the title blacklist page suggests: read (and possibly post) to WP:AN or WP:RFED. Though that seems unlikely to be accepted from a TA. • Quinn (talk) 05:10, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Strange, TSventon, I hadn't noticed that. But you're right. Perhaps the TA could register, log in to that new account, create a draft in their sandbox, and then appeal to have the draft moved to "draftspace" and submitted as a candidate article. -- Hoary (talk) 05:18, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Queston

how to make a good artical Landoncussans (talk) 17:54, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

To create a good Wikipedia article, make sure the topic meets Wikipedia’s notability guidelines and is supported by reliable, independent sources such as reputable news outlets, books, or academic publications. Write in a neutral, encyclopedic tone and avoid promotional language. It’s also important to include proper citations for information and follow a clear structure with sections like an introduction and references. If you’re new, it’s usually best to draft the article in your sandbox or through the Articles for Creation (AfC) process first. Lucasdmitchell (talk) 06:30, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Landoncussans: First, pick a notable subject. If your subject is not notable, it cannot have an article here. Do not skip this step. If your subject it not notable, you are wasting your time and ours. See WP:N. Next, carefull read Help:Your first article and follow the instructions there. -Arch dude (talk) 18:02, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

sorry Landoncussans (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

No need to apologise for asking a reasonable question. I have left some introductory links on your talk page. I am sorry that nobody did so sooner.

You may also find WP:Referencing for beginners useful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:25, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

thank you for the help I realy appreciate it! Landoncussans (talk) 19:32, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

aand that corgi guy remember him he reverted my edits be especially he thinks thers no sourse even though I pit a sourse Landoncussans (talk) 19:38, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

it's corgroyalty who sied that I had quotation 'no sourse' Landoncussans (talk) 19:40, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

They were correct to tell you that "from google.com" is not an appropriate source. You can read through Help:Referencing for beginners if you want to see how referencing should be done here; and as others have advised, you should check out Help:Introduction to Wikipedia for some general beginner advice. You might like to try out WP:The Wikipedia Adventure, which is a gamified experience for newcomers to learn the basics. Athanelar (talk) 19:45, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Can't edit in Safari

Is this a known problem? Mevsherd (talk) 21:25, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

That also happens to me in eswiki. Web-julio (talk) 21:35, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

What's eswiki? Mevsherd (talk) 05:24, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Spanish Wikipedia. The language wouldn't matter because they all use the same underlying software.

The answer is don't use Safari.

Or try the solutions here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255071677?sortBy=rank ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 05:38, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

I suppose it is. It is even worse on a mobile phone Laurunia2002 (talk) 06:27, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, It's best not to use an iPad or a mobile phone.Try changing the network environment or switching laptops. Syouziiye (talk) 06:37, 13 March 2026 (UTC)(~~~~)

Are there guidelines for editing?

Are there guidelines for editing? I.e can I write something random on an article and not have consequences? ~2026-14722-55 (talk) 15:54, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

No, you cannot write something random on an article. The best place to start would be reading pages linked from WP:HI. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 16:00, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

What do you think? How long would an online encyclopaedia last if anyone could just add random nonsense to articles? Wikipedia has many policies and guidelines regarding article content. Read Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia for some initial guidance as to what we expect contributors to be doing. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:59, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

People often write random nonsense, and it is almost always quickly undone. —Antonissimo (talk) 22:29, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Of course not. It is necessary to remain neutral. After citing reliable sources that are not from social media or individuals, a careful editing process should be carried out. EchoL-777 (talk) 06:30, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, Wikipedia does have guidelines for editing. You can’t just write random things in an article. All information should follow policies like verifiability and use reliable sources.

If someone adds content that is unsourced, incorrect, or disruptive, other editors may remove or revert it. In serious cases, editors who repeatedly add inappropriate content can be warned or even blocked.

If you are new, you might want to read the basic editing guidelines or try editing in small ways first, such as fixing typos or adding sources.

Lyujinshuo (talk) 06:42, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

There are guidelines for editing on Wikipedia. If someone adds random or unsupported information, other editors will usually remove it. Repeated disruptive edits may lead to warnings or blocks. Hnlyyyy (talk) 06:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Request for help creating a new article

Hello Wikipedia editors,

I am new to Wikipedia and I would like help creating an article about [NACE EXCHANGES CRYPTO]. I want to make sure the article follows Wikipedia guidelines and uses reliable sources.

Could someone guide me on how to create the article properly?

Thank you very much. Uonpanha (talk) 04:42, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, Uonpanha, Help:Your first article. First (and as explained there), is this company notable (as described in WP:NORG)? Most companies are not. Secondly (and I quote): "If you are connected to the topic, don't write about it." And there's more. -- Hoary (talk) 06:10, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Uonpanha.

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.

If you are connected with the subject, then I would echo Hoary's advice not to think about writing this article ever. ColinFine (talk) 11:29, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

@Uonpanha You might like to read some of the pages linked at WP:WikiProject Cryptocurrency. Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:29, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I think you might be able to find what you need on this website. Please follow the detailed instructions in the section "Help:VisualEditor#First_step:_enabling_VE" which explains the process and details of editing an article. EchoL-777 (talk) 06:39, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Help:VisualEditor#First step: enabling VE EchoL-777 (talk) 06:44, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Updated Biography of Ada Aharoni 2026

To the editors : Please add my following updated biography : If you need citations for the addional books and materials please see my page on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00DDNTAUW/about?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=aufs_ap_ahdr_dsk_aa&pd_rd_w=9RZ3y&content-id=amzn1.sym.7e190e19-9f6f-4df8-807a-5a7608594741&pf_rd_p=7e190e19-9f6f-4df8-807a-5a7608594741&pf_rd_r=145-4565544-5815221&pd_rd_wg=n2ON7&pd_rd_r=e31f6a88-a819-4ba9-8bfc-c3e71a149932&ccs_id=15d144a6-7c2b-4d4c-8ba8-a3cac9e831e3 , and also my social media cited below.

Ada Aharoni – Short Bio 2026 Dr. Ada Aharoni received her degrees at London University, and the Hebrew University. She is a poet, writer and sociologist, who has been called "The Poet and Researcher of Love and Peace." She has published 35 books up to date, (several are on amazon.com). The last 2 IFLAC anthologies are : ANTI-WAR AND PEACE, and ANTI TERROR AND PEACE (Amazon). that have been translated into many languages, and she is recipient of many prizes and awards. Her books and especially her collection of poems titled: “Rare Flower”(Dignity Press, US), and her bestseller historical novel : FROM THE NILE TO THE JORDAN, are taught in universities and colleges. She is the Founding President of "IFLAC : International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace,” that celebrates this year 26 years of fruitful Peace Culture Building. IFLAC’s new Project and Campaign is the creation of anti-war LAW, like in Japan and PEACE MINISTRIES "in all the Governments of the world" . See details on Ada Aharoni’s Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram and on her websites : https://iflac.wordpress.com/ , https://adaheb.wordpress.com/ Please update with my following biography 2026. For any needed clarifications or materials please contact me here or through my social media accounts below. Thank you in advance, Dr. Ada Aharoni.

Social Media Accounts :

Tiktok - 15,500 followers (https://www.tiktok.com/@ada.aharoni)

Note : In the last year 2025 I received 1,300,000 views on videos on my Tiktok account.
In additon I received also 431,000 likes up to day on my Tiktok account.
Facebook – 6,400 followers (https://www.facebook.com/ada.aharoni1) ~2026-79580-6 (talk) 12:04, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Make recommendations on the article talk page, not here, but note that nothing above has a reliable source as defined on Wikipedia Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:11, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @~2026-79580-6

Please read WP:ABOUTYOU carefully.

Please also note that 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.

Essentially nothing that you ColinFine (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Image captions

Hello, I use the Android app on my Samsung S24 Ultra and starting a few days ago, every time I view an article's image full page, the caption/description no longer automatically shows on the bottom. I now have to tap the image multiple times to see the caption. I hesitated even asking about this as it seems a trivial issue but I'm a daily user and it's become frustrating.

Thank you Shana3980 (talk) 04:14, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Shana3980.

The best place generally for questions about the software and the interface (as opposed to the content) of Wikipedia is WP:VPT.

The Apps are separate developments from the desktop interface - you might find some useful information at mw:Wikimedia Apps/Android FAQ. ColinFine (talk) 11:28, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Tone Revision

I am attempting to revise the tone of the article "Shopping in Kuala Lumpur", and would like to know if the sentence "Kuala Lumpur is well-known for its shopping scene" is neutral. If not, what should I do to fix it? Thank you. Bkovvggjk (talk) 02:53, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

What do you want to say? Well known for the what of its shopping scene? Does "its shopping scene" mean "its shops", "shopping", or something else? Shopping for anything (from gold ingots to car tyres to frocks to butterfly specimens), for antiques and curios, for so-called "luxury goods", or for what? And a bigger problem: What now follows the lead hardly looks encyclopedic. -- Hoary (talk) 05:00, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

I doubt that "Shopping in Kuala Lumpur" is even a suitable Wikipedia article topic, we are not a travel guide after all, and I don't see how that article could be written as anything except a travel guide. Same goes for the other 'Shopping in...' articles I can now see. Athanelar (talk) 11:46, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Interlanguage linking

I am writing an article about an Austrian subject, in which I would like to link to the German WP article Verein (meaning "association"), and specifically to the section within it about Verein in Austria. The English article Verein is a disambiguation page, and there is no English WP article about the Austrian Verein. I can do this linking using ''[[:de:Verein#Österreich|Verein]]'' (Verein), but this does not indicate to the reader that they are leaving English WP and going to German WP. If I use ''{{ill|Verein|de|Verein#Österreich}}'' (Verein), it takes me to the English WP disambiguation page. Is there some option within Template:Ill or elsewhere that will force a link to the German PW article, showing it is German, even though an English article exists? Masato.harada (talk) 09:53, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Masato.harada: The simplest way to indicate you're linking to another wiki is by adding the language prefix in the wikilink: ''[[:de:Verein#Österreich|de:Verein]]'' (de:Verein). However, non-Wikipedian readers may not understand the notation, so you may rather use an explicit language name: ''[[:de:Verein#Österreich|Verein (in German)]]'' (Verein (in German)). But the best solution I can think of at the moment is making a footnote with an explicit description of what you mean, something like 'See Verein in the German Wikipedia'.
CiaPan (talk) 10:11, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Masato.harada: Another advantage of the solution is that its meaning would not get lost if the contents is copied somewhere else in the Web or even printed on paper. CiaPan (talk) 11:33, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Masato.harada Since Verein is a disambiguation page in English, to use {{ill}} you need to supply a different title for what the missing article would/should be in English. For example something like {{ill|Registered association (Austria)|de|Verein#Österreich}} which renders as Registered association (Austria) Note that this is really only useful if it is likely that there will be a separate article created for that topic. If not, the suggestions by CiaPan also works without showing the red link. older ≠ wiser 12:01, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Confused

Hello, so i have to rectify my boss's page, it says " This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. (March 2024) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (March 2024)" Lubylouve (talk) 14:33, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Lubylouve First, you are required by the Terms of Use to make a paid editing disclosure on your user page, see WP:PAID. I'd also suggest that you read WP:BOSS, and show it to your boss as wel.

You don't mention the article at issue, but what is it that you are confused by? 331dot (talk) 14:39, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

For the citation issue, which is probably the easiest one for you to assist with, please see WP:Referencing for beginners and Wikipedia:Reliable sources. We need a reliable source for each statement in the article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:18, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

The article is not your boss's page. It's not owned by him or controlled by him. You probably used the expression "my boss's page" for the sake of brevity, but it's an important distinction. Matt Deres (talk) 13:05, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

"Error check" is broken

Hello, my "error check" in the toolbar stopped working a few minutes ago. I did not change any settings, and I'm using the same browser. My "named references" tool isn't working either - neither button responds. I restarted my machine but no luck.

If I've posted this in the wrong place, or have been unclear, my apologies - I barely know what to call these things. Will be happy to provide further info. Thanks, Jessicapierce (talk) 04:38, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

WP:Village pump (technical) is usually better for these kinds of questions. Athanelar (talk) 11:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Reported at Wikipedia talk:RefToolbar#RefToolbar is broken and apparently now fixed.

Posting here is fine, if you are ever unsure of where else to ask; then we can signpost you to a more topic-specific venue. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:22, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Another part of RefToolbar was fixed. "Error check" still needs a similar fix. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:51, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you all for the pointers (and it's fixed)! Jessicapierce (talk) 15:58, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Talk Page Archives

Hello! I've noticed that some people have archive things on their talk pages. I was wondering how to set that up on mine.

Thanks, AirmanKitten203 (talk) 13:12, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@AirmanKitten203: See Help:Archiving a talk page or just Help:Archiving (plain and simple). PrimeHunter (talk) 14:05, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Okay, thank you! AirmanKitten203 (talk) 16:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

I'd be happy to set up automated archiving for you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:36, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

If you can, I would really appreciate it! AirmanKitten203 (talk) 16:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Actually, I figured it out. Thank you though AirmanKitten203 (talk) 16:50, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Edward A Braithwaite

Special:Diff/1342801106

The URL I used is correct, I am not sure why it is giving this error.

Thanks, AuroraTiara (talk) 20:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

You appear to have fixed that problem, AuroraTiara. Intrigued by "Westard Ho", I clicked on the link to "RCMP to Honor Pioneer at Funeral Service Saturday". But I arrived at a different newspaper clipping, one with no mention of westardity or westwardity. And something seems odd about "He also was a respected Freemason": Wikipedia doesn't normally say that people were or are respected whatevers. -- Hoary (talk) 00:50, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

If someone was a disrespected Freemason, would we know? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 02:05, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

The referencing problems are more serious. Of the 10 references, 6 are wrongly linked to the same newspaper clipping, which says very little about Edward A Braithwaite. One reference is a map, another also says little about him, leaving only #2. This article was created on Monday, yet it's in mainspace. Should it be draftified until these problems are fixed? Blackballnz (talk) 08:36, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

@AuroraTiara @Hoary Blackballnz (talk) 08:36, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Blackballnz, yes it indeed should. I should have noticed those problems. I have now belatedly moved the article to Draft:Edward A. Braithwaite, where AuroraTiara, or indeed anyone, is welcome to work on it. -- Hoary (talk) 10:46, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

The newspaper articles used as citations actually exist, but the URLs used were duplicated and wound up pointing to the same place. I've fixed the links to point to the proper clipping. Andrew Jameson (talk) 13:29, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you Andrew. I made an error when uploading to the Wayback Machine archive. I thought I could upload the documents at once, and add specific metadata to each file, but it saved them all under one link. I used the same link (to avoid paywall sites) until I had time to figure out how to fix the Wayback archive. I appreciate your assistance. AuroraTiara (talk) 18:15, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

It isn't a "referencing error" - if you open the link you will see I simply made an error in uploading to the Wayback machine. I uploaded all of the articles at once thinking I could add specific metadata to each article, but it was loaded as a single entry instead. Unsure of how to correct it, I used the same link to the Wayback machine and I made a note in the talk page that I was working on citations. All of the articles cited are in the Wayback machine (and on newspapers.com etc), they are just not in the preferred "single article archive" method yet. I think it is unfair that this was moved to a draft without contacting me for clarification. AuroraTiara (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

AuroraTiara, I regret the trouble this has caused you, but the draft still seems odd to me. He had a long and distinguished career in Freemasonry and [was] well thought of by his Freemason Brothers in particular reads less like an encyclopedia entry, more like obituaryspeak. Or is the prose style specific to freemasonry? As it is, I'd be amazed to read in the article Eric Hosking (as a hypothetical example outside freemasonry) that He had a long and distinguished career in bird photography and was well thought of by his fellow photographers/ornithologists. -- Hoary (talk) 23:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

@Hoary If you only have issues with one cited line, I think it would be easier to have removed said line, rather than have the entire article remain in "draft" status. Freemasonry is not considered a job, instead it is a fraternity that is committed to truth, justice and philanthropy (etc.) - so being well thought of by your "Brothers" in the lodge, speaks to how he was well though of as an upstanding citizen in the community which is why I felt it was relevant to include it. Feel free to delete it if you feel that would make the article worthy of being republished. Considering the quality of many of the articles and stubs I have edited, I don't understand why this article is unacceptable. AuroraTiara (talk) 17:09, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

AuroraTiara, fair enough. I articlified (dedraftified) it a few moments ago. -- Hoary (talk) 22:22, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Puzzling CS1 error

At Coat of arms of Ukraine, ref 14 – "Svoboda party – the new phenomenon on the Ukrainian right-wing scene" – has a CS1 error "{{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value". I don't understand why. According to the help page, the error is caused by the URL having non-Latin characters, spaces, or an unacceptable URL scheme, but it doesn't: it's https and all ASCII with no spaces. Hairy Dude (talk) 12:02, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Hairy Dude: The help page also says:

There is an additional test for |archive-url=. The cs1|2 templates expect that |archive-url= will hold a unique URL for an archived snapshot of the source identified by |url= or |chapter-url= (or any of its aliases). This error message is emitted when the value assigned to |archive-url= is the same as the matching title or chapter URL.

PrimeHunter (talk) 12:22, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Well now don't I feel dumb :-) Thanks, it's now fixed. Hairy Dude (talk) 23:23, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Standard for significant coverage

I could swear I read somewhere discussing what the standard for SIGCOV is and concluding it was 3 meaty paragraphs, but I can't find where it is. It feels like it might've been a userspace essay, but I have no idea. If someone knows what I'm thinking of, I'd very much appreciate a link. JustARandomSquid (talk) 22:44, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

The standard varies by topic. For companies, one can have 3 meaty paragraphs about routine activities, which doesn't really count as significant coverage. For academics, no significant coverage of the person is required at all if any of the WP:NACADEMIC criteria are met.

You may be thinking of various discussions you've seen in which the term "meaty paragraphs" gets mentioned a number of times in people's personal views.

In my case, I like to see more than 1 paragraph and more than half of the cited source giving coverage. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 00:24, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

The only thing WP:SIGCOV has to say on the matter is that significant coverage addresses the topic directly and in detail and is more than a trivial mention. The details are, I suspect, left intentionally vague, because as Anachronist has said, significant coverage must be evaluated in context. Athanelar (talk) 01:36, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Gena Branscombe

Gena Branscombe Tenney's fourth daughter Beatrice Branscombe (born Tenney 1919) married Edgar Lloyd Brokaw in New York City,in 1949; They moved together to Los Angeles, divorced in 1953, without children, She returned to New York, and died in 1954, at St. Lukes's Hospital. She visited her sister Gena and family: Phil, Roger, and Morgan Scott, at their homein New Jersey, shortly before her death. I am Gena Branscombe's oldest grandson, I knew Beatrice in person, and corresponded with her directly. ~2026-16095-49 (talk) 02:27, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

You didn't suggest what needed to change. Go to WP:Edit Request Wizard and follow the steps for an editor with a conflict of interest, to propose a correction on the Gena Branscombe article's talk page. It is best to arrange your request in the form "change X to Y", specifying the current wording (X) and the new wording (Y). You also need to cite a reliable published source, because we cannot rely on the word of some random editor. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:56, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Need help reporting a problem

Hello, I want to report a problem on a Wikipedia page. Can someone guide me how to report it correctly? Thank you. Shin Htet Nwe (talk) 05:53, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

What is the problem with the page? You may report it at WP:ANI or add a maintenance tag for one part like {{Citation needed}} or a tag for the whole page like {{More citations needed}} SomnambulantFish _talk ∫ ^contribs 06:09, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

@SomnambulantFish: no, WP:ANI is almost never the appropriate place to report 'a problem on a Wikipedia page'. WP:ANI is for "urgent incidents and chronic, intractable behavioral problems".

@Shin Htet Nwe: Please tell us which page, and what the problem is, so we can offer meaningful advice. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:13, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Italic text in quotations

For some reason, whenever I put italic text in quotations, the text before and outside the quotations becomes italic & bold (the bold part comes from the first word in the page, which loses its bold properties.)

is this happening to you guys? SomnambulantFish _talk ∫ ^contribs 05:24, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

No. What you observe indicates that you have some stray single quote marks somewhere. Are you using apostrophes for quotation marks? Those get used for italics (double apostrophe) and boldface (triple apostrophe) in wiki markup. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 06:17, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

ohhh.... SomnambulantFish _talk ∫ ^contribs 06:25, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

@SomnambulantFish: You use VisualEditor where it may be hard to keep track of stray markup for bold and italics. You can switch to the source editor on a pencil icon at the top right. Two consecutive apostrophes both mark the start and end of italics. Three apostrophes instead both mark the start and end of bold text. This often has unintended consequences. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:11, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Per MOS:ITALQUOTE, "Do not put quotations in italics." Problem solved! Clarityfiend (talk) 08:41, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Concerns about a user's contributions

I have had a growing suspicion that a portion of a Wikipedia user's contributions are original content (bluntly, fictitious) rather than content based on those from verifiable secondary sources. A chunk of their edits are genuine, but there are also contributions that are eyebrow-raising. I'm not sure what would be the first steps to address this, who/where to bring this to light, or whether it would be ideal to discuss with the user first and go from there, as well as next steps after that. Any advice would be helpful, thank you for your time! Ornithoptera (talk) 02:09, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

A portion of this question concerns Commons uploads, a portion of work has been published without any apparent secondary sources verifying its legitimacy. When I try to search for any independent usage of those purported images, I come up empty handed. Some of those images have now been used on a variety of Wikipedia articles. A secondary question would be whether that is allowed? Can originally fabricated content be put up on Commons without a marker that identifies it as the original creation of the Wikipedia user and not something that has been established? I'm sure that Commons would like to promote original work, but passing original designs off as something that it is not is a bit eyebrow-raising to me. Ornithoptera (talk) 04:25, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Commons has an 'own work' tag which is supposed to be used specifically to flag anything which is the creation of the uploading user. Athanelar (talk) 11:47, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Athanelar:, thank you for your insight. My concern lies within the factuality of the upload. As an (not this but, for the purposes of keeping the user anonymous) example, someone uploaded a drawing of a fish but had labelled, categorized, and referred to it as a car. This drawing is clearly a fish, and somehow or another, this drawing had wound up in a foreign-language wiki article for cars without evidence other than the fact that the drawing is referred to as that. Would that be allowed? Ornithoptera (talk) 03:47, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Assuming that your hypothetical somewhat reflects the real situation; if the image is being used on a foreign-language wiki, then the question of whether its use is allowed is one that can only be answered on the wiki in question; the different language Wikipedias are entirely independent projects with their own standards and rules, what is allowed here may not be allowed there and vice versa.

I'm not sure what PAG to point to, but I can guarantee that that would not be allowed on the English-language wiki (i.e., an unrelated image of a fish being on an article about a car merely because the fish image is labelled as car.jpg), but I can't confidently tell you that the same goes on whatever foreign-language wiki you're referring to; you'd have to ask there. Athanelar (talk) 03:50, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

At the end of the day, it is solely a concern and those concerns can be confirmed/denied when I have a conversation with the user in question as suggested earlier. There are some usages of the images in question on the English Wikipedia as well, those articles are just not paid attention to enough to rectify, and there are so many of them I'm not sure where to start if it actually turns out to be the case. Ornithoptera (talk) 04:49, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Ornithoptera.

In almost all circumstances, the first step is to engage with the editor involved. Assume good faith, and ask why they think their edits are appropriate, and try to explain to them why you think they are not. ColinFine (talk) 11:25, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your insight @ColinFine: I'll see what I can do. I wanted to follow up and inquire about potential next steps in the situation that the user is uncooperative or if there is no resolution reached through discussion. Ornithoptera (talk) 03:49, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Then you would proceed to WP:dispute resolution. We make a distinction between a disagreement about content and one that involves the conduct of the editors who are involved (e.g. failure to WP:communicate). Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:49, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Orit Farkash-Hacohen

I attempted to edit the article on Orit Farkash-Hacohen, but my additions were dismissed outright and without due consideration. I properly disclosed that this was a paid contribution, and I limited my edits to straightforward, objective information. עומר תשבי (talk) 07:31, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

עומר תשבי, you and Number 57 should start by discussing the matter on Talk:Orit Farkash-Hacohen (currently devoid of any discussion). -- Hoary (talk) 08:00, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you עומר תשבי (talk) 08:23, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

The proper way for a paid editor to carry out edits to a page is via the Edit request wizard, which will allow you to post an edit request which a neutral editor will review and implement. Athanelar (talk) 14:02, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Pixelated images

Today I see any image in the infobox appears too blurry or pixelated, but when I view it in image only mode, then it is clear. What happened? Kailash29792 (talk) 04:11, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

This may happen because Wikipedia cached a low-resolution thumbnail. You can try opening the image page and purging or refreshing it to regenerate the thumbnail.Hxqq (talk) 06:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Kailash29792: Please always give an example when you report an issue. I guess you encountered the recent bug phab:T419927. If that's the case then I don't think editors can do anything to fix it. Don't replace images because of this. The bug will probably be fixed soon. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:13, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

I have not replaced any image. I just didn't have time to upload a screenshot as proof, and was editing via mobile. If this problem persists I'll share a screenshot but it may be available only for 24 hours. Kailash29792 (talk) 12:20, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

I just meant to link a page as our edit notice asks for. The issue only affects some infoboxes. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:23, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Manick22, are you experiencing this as well? Kailash29792 (talk) 15:43, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

@Kailash29792 Yes, I noticed it yesterday itself. I thought it might be my old android phone causing the issue, but when I saw the images on my laptop, that's when I noticed this issue. I asked about the issue at the village pump; they said this issue will be fixed after the weekend. Manick22 (talk) 16:14, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Script warning: {{cite book}} errors

"Script warning: {{cite book}}: this reference has errors; messages may be hidden" Does anyone know how to find what these errors are and which citations they are on ?. There are multiple cite book lines in the article - none have apparent errors. The warnings only appear in 'edit preview' - and you are not allowed to navigate away from the page without losing new edits ! Charles.bowyer (talk) 10:19, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Charles.bowyer, you provide ISBNs for editions of books that, as you describe them, predate the invention of SBNs, let alone the wide use of ISBNs. The ISBN, if provided, must match the edition described. (If no ISBN exists for the edition cited, you might instead provide an informative OCLC number for the edition. You can find this at WorldCat.) -- Hoary (talk) 11:09, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed - that has dealt with the issue.

Has something changed in the checking process - these things didn't used to raise errors ? Charles.bowyer (talk) 18:32, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Question

Hello! I have opened a discussion about a move at Talk:Grünow. Could someone please let me know if this is sufficient, or whether I should also notify any relevant WikiProjects, and if so which ones? ~2026-16168-93 (talk) 16:53, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, there is an automatic notice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany#Article alerts and I think that is sufficient. TSventon (talk) 19:09, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

VPN editing

I get confused by the permissions I need that allow me to edit Wikipedia via VPN (I believe there is a global permission and a WP-specific permission). I have had these in the past, and I may currently have them. As I am traveling to a country where I will definitely need to edit via VPN, how can I check that I have the required permission? And how can I check the expiry date? Thank you. Brycehughes (talk) 20:25, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

The relevant permission, globally, if m:Global IP block exempt. Locally it it is WP:IP block exempt. You currently have the local perm, expiring at the end of August 2026 (per Special:UserRights/Brycehughes). You also have the global perm, with no expiration date, per Special:CentralAuth/Brycehughes. The global perm does not usually allow you to edit enwiki through a VPN without also having the local permission. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:28, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Pageviews potentially broken

The first few days of the article 2026 Iran war seem to show almost no views , even though this seems to clearly be a mistake.

Compare this with the page Ali Khamenei which got nearly 10 million views during this same period , or Assassination of Ali Khamenei (which is itself a part of the 2026 Iran war) and got nearly a million views in this time .

This article was also in the front page of Wikipedia the first few days of the war, for example, so I'm confident it had more than 0 views the first day, 123 the second, 3,500 the third, and ~6,000 the fourth. This seems to be a bug; can it be fixed? Thank you.

Wikieditor662 (talk) 04:43, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662: The page has been moved muliple times. The views are registered under former titles. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:48, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wikieditor662: you can tick "Include redirects"; which will usually include the former titles. Then you can click on "Redirects" to see how many views each redirect got. TSventon (talk) 21:13, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Duplicate edit notices

2025 Potomac River mid-air collision presently has the exact same "Before you edit this page" edit notice duplicated three times. Why is this and how can it be fixed? – Scyrme (talk) 18:36, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Those are not the exact same, as they cover different CTOPs and specify as such. However, I do agree there should be some way to combine them or shorten the redundant text included in each. • Quinn (talk) 18:45, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

@Scyrme: Template:Editnotices/Page/2025 Potomac River mid-air collision has the three seperate uses of {{Contentious topics/editnotice}} for different topics. Talk:2025 Potomac River mid-air collision combines the three with a different template {{Contentious topics/talk notice}}. In September 2025 HouseBlaster wrote at Template talk:Contentious topics/Archive 2#Option to have multiple topics for one template?: "It is on my list to extend this functionality from {{contentious topics/talk notice}}". PrimeHunter (talk) 18:56, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Looks like the talk page notice accomplishes this using a Lua module, whereas the edit notice doesn't have a module yet. (Probably because doing it without a module would require a lot of conditional expressions.) I suppose the only thing to do is wait until HouseBlaster (or someone else who can code in Lua) gets around to it.

Thanks for tracking down the details! – Scyrme (talk) 19:40, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm still planning to get to this, but real life and other wiki-responsibilities have kept me away from that. As a band-aid solution, in this case, you can probably just display the AMPOL notice. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:51, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Broken Source

I found a source that doesn't work nor it doesn't exist anymore. Should I keep it in the article or remove it entirely? TyronesEditsPages (talk) 01:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

First, TyronesEditsPages, you might use a search engine (Google or similar) to see if the source still exists but has moved elsewhere. If that doesn't work, see if the Wayback Machine has it. -- Hoary (talk) 01:55, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah so if that doesn't work, then it's not a source since it's gone completely? TyronesEditsPages (talk) 01:56, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

It depends on the nature of it. If it was a digitised version of something that was originally or also printed, then the print version (which likely exists in library or other archive) can still be a source even though it can't be linked to: links to a source are useful when available, but not a requirement. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 11:30, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@TyronesEditsPages More advice at WP:LINKROT, which includes the statement do not delete cited information solely because the URL to the source does not work any longer. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:52, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. TyronesEditsPages (talk) 23:41, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

badges

i want to see if I can get badges ~2026-15148-53 (talk) 23:53, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

What kind of badges? Police? Girl Scout? —Antonissimo (talk) 04:14, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Not with the kind of edit you made as your first edit under this account. David10244 (talk) 05:49, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Need help uploading page to Wikipedia

Hi, I am really struggling to upload a page to Wikipedia. ~2026-16430-75 (talk) 13:14, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-16430-75: What kind of page? If you want to make an article then you can use Wikipedia:Articles for creation to submit a draft for review. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:23, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Users without a username(and new usernames) must use the article wizard to submit a draft. Make sure you have reviewed the relevant notability criteria and that you have summarized what independent reliable sources have said about the topic. 331dot (talk) 13:29, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Arhciving Problem

I have been archiving my supporting URLs in my online citations. I have been using the WayBack Machine primarily, and if that does not work, the Archive.md archiving system. Recently, each of the Archive URLs using the Archive.md archiving system has produced a hidden error editor message.

Considering that the Wayback Machine only works 1 in 5 times, this means I have now used Archive.md archiving URLs a lot in my edits. The error messages produced in the old Wikipedia articles have started to prevent those articles from displaying their reference lists, especially in the Wikipedia list articles, where this problem affects thousands of entries. Can you assist me? What could I do to resolve this issue?SMargan (talk) 03:34, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@SMargan Archive.today and its related websites (which includes archive.md) are deprecated on English Wikipedia following this RFC. Per WP:ATODAY, As of February 28, 2026, the citation templates in popular use on Wikipedia (WP:CS1 and WP:CS2) will not render Archive.today and affiliated archive URLs. You should replace these links with other archive services (see Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia). Jolly1253 (talk) 09:59, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@Jolly1253 (talk) - I am shocked by this ruling. I have never had a problem with Archive.md's performance or accuracy. Indeed, 1 in 5 of my archies have been through Archie.md, involving sites that do not seem to be Archivable through the Wayback Machine, so this makes it a real problem for me. Is there any way of getting this ruling reviewed? Or, alternatively, will it be reviewed in the future if Archie.md resolves some of the problems raised by Wikipedia? The Wayback Machine is not always able to archive website pages.SMargan (talk) 10:41, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@Jolly1253 (talk) - I am making many changes as we speak, converting Archie.md URLs to Ghost Archie URLs. This will take me most of this year, for all of the articles I have edited. But, how will I know that this replacement archive system will not also suffer the same fate, and be deprecated as well?SMargan (talk) 11:27, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

how will I know that this replacement archive system will not also suffer the same fate As long as Ghost Archive does not use malicious JavaScript to DDoS a website, tamper with archives or other shenanigans (all of those are obviously highly unlikely), you should be good. Remember that this decision (which was made by the community) was NOT made lightly, and people did consider the utility of archive.today w/r/t archiving webpages. OutsideNormality (talk) 18:02, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@SMargan, you should read the request for comments (which Jolly helpfully linked for you) to understand the extraordinary circumstances that led to this decision. It was even covered in mainstream technology news, for example this Ars Technica article. We know that the Wayback Machine isn't perfect, but the community decided that archive.md posed a credible that outweighed its usefulness. There's an ongoing community effort to replace the links, so nobody has to do this alone. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 13:31, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Editing my page

Hi There

As an artist is it possible to edit my own wikipedia page ?

Julian Siegel

I have rewritten some biographical information and added many more links and much more info , it need updating and I would like to upload my changes but wanted to check first as I don't want to have editing access denied !. Some of the new text may be possibly replicated in part on other websites as its biographical info i have sent out in the past. Ive done my best to create a unique text for wiki and the original text and biographical infor has been generated by me anyway so I would only be using writing that i have self generated before,  

Just a double check on wiki etiquette before posting !

Best wishes

Julian Mbadgers1 (talk) 22:21, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

You may use the edit request process to propose changes to the article about you on its user talk page. 331dot (talk) 22:22, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you Mbadgers1 (talk) 01:36, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

I advise you to propose incremental changes, one or two at a time, instead of a wholesale rewrite. This will increase the chances a volunteer will be able to invest their limited time in reviewing the request. 331dot (talk) 22:25, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank very much for the reply Mbadgers1 (talk) 01:36, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Another important thing to remember, @Mbadgers1, is that 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.

So if you request a change which is cited to a published source wholly unconnected with you, it is much more likely to be actioned than one cited to a source which in some way is based on your words or those of a person or organisation associated with you. And if it's not cited to a published reliable source at all, it is unlikely to be actioned. ColinFine (talk) 16:55, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the reply Mbadgers1 (talk) 20:52, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Advice and a cry for help with our article on Lucky Bisht

I am fairly sure every single claim in this article is pulled directly from a dramatized book written about him. There is a clear history of sock puppets involved with this, with the sock master being @Powerfultample. Could use some eyes with more experience.

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 20:03, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Article is now ECP. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 23:32, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Opinion pieces with prove facts

If an attributed opinion piece is making its argument utilizing verifiable facts, does the factual evidence need to be attributed? JPHC2003 (talk) 23:08, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

It depends on the context and how the facts are being used. It is easy to selectively misuse verifiable facts to form a subjective opinion, and in that case attribution would be required, rather than restating the opinion in Wikipedia's voice. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 23:34, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Pochopeni

Dobry den, jsem uplny novacek, ani netusim, jakou formou mne wiki zavedla sem. Chci se zeptat, jaky ma byt presny vyznam wiki a encyklooedie? Chapu spravne, ze k jednomu tematu mohou poskytnout informace ruzni lide i behem chvilky a tedy informace pro bezneho uzivatele se tak budou menit v obsahu i vyznamu? k cemu nebo jaky je idealni jednotny, konkretni cil wiki? ma sjednocovat informace na pric cele spolecnosti nebo je pouhym mistem, kde se da na zaklade citaci menit cokoliv, co bezny uzivatel ma za realnou, spravnou pravdu? co kdyz v zaveru ruznymi editacemi dochazi k neumyslnemu desinformovani uzivatele a nasledne, nevi cemu verit? Ma wiki byt mistem propojeni reality s virtualni realitou? Co kdyz virtualni realita je zakladnim ekvivalentem reality? Nemela by tedy v dusledku cela encyklopedie sjednotnit principy a zasady chovani cele spolecnoati? jak casto je vhodne dochazet na wiki do komentaru a jak moc je dulezite editovat clanky? dekuji za odpoved Nikisek365 (talk) 00:36, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

This is the Help Desk for the English-language Wikipedia. If you wish to participate here, as it appears from what Google translate makes of your post, you will need to be able to communicate in English. Alternately, you might prefer to contribute to a Wikipedia version in your own language. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:53, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

You may want to ask your question at cs:Wikipedie:Potřebuji pomoc. nil ^nz 01:08, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Nikisek365: Možná byste se měli zeptat na české Wikipedii (Wikipedie:Potřebuji pomoc). – Scyrme (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Appalling "globe with camera" logo

How do I permanently get rid of the annoying "Picture in Picture" "Wikipedia logo with a camera" that takes up a quarter of my screen on certain pages? ~2026-16559-48 (talk) 23:20, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Can you give an example of where this is occurring? 331dot (talk) 23:23, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Most recently on the "Palmyra" page. ~2026-16559-48 (talk) 00:28, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-16559-48: Disable "Birthday mode (Baby Globe)" in the sidebar on the right. You may have to click a glasses icon at top of the page to see the sidebar. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:47, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi

OK - have done that - and it seems to have worked. Is this a permanent solution - will it stop it from recurring?

Cheers ~2026-16559-48 (talk) 00:35, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-16559-48: It may recur in another browser or device, or if the browser forgets the setting. Registered users can disable it for their account at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. It's a limited-time feature for Wikipedias 25th anniversary. I don't know whether an end date has been decided but the feature doesn't appear popular. Many others have asked how to remove it. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:56, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Per the RFC, the end date is march 16th. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 01:02, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Not surprised!!

Thanks for the help - much apreciated.

Cheers ~2026-16559-48 (talk) 01:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

To be fair, the readers and editors who do like the feature don't have much reason to come to the help desk or village pump to ask how they can disable it enable it given it's enabled by default and they have nothing to complain about, so there's a bias in the feedback that we've seen here. Personally, I like the mascot and my display is large enough that it's not intrusive. – Scyrme (talk) 01:08, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Personally, I loved the one time I saw it on someone else's computer, but I don't ever see it logged in because I'm an old fart (32 years old! gasp!) who uses Monobook. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:12, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Twice as old here, using Vector 2010. —Antonissimo (talk) 03:52, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Pictures are vague

Hi there, I found that there're some problems about wiki pictures. Some pictures / logo in wikipedia are suddenly vague, for example, 96th Academy Awards. I don't understand the reason and anyone can explain it? It seems that there're so many pictures / logo have the same thing. But some pictures / logo are still clear. What happen for now? Thanks. Stevencocoboy (talk) 06:57, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Stevencocoboy: It's a bug that apparently will be fixed soon. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Transparent PNGs appear broken on wikipedia. Johnuniq (talk) 07:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: Thanks for reply and I hope the problems will be resolved it at soon. Stevencocoboy (talk) 07:31, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Finding articles for deletion

I feel like proposing some old articles for deletion. What's the best way of finding old articles that may not meet the notability criteria?

I know about new pages patrol and that's not what I'm looking for. I'm specifically looking for articles that were created years ago and may never have met the notability criteria, but have somehow escaped being deleted up until now. --Viennese Waltz 15:10, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Viennese Waltz are you asking about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, Wikipedia:Proposed deletion or both? The header suggests the first and the first sentence the second. TSventon (talk) 16:14, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't think you understand. I want to find, and propose for deletion, some old articles which have not currently been proposed for deletion. I don't have any particular articles in mind, I just want to find some articles and propose them for deletion. There must be a tool I can use for this purpose. I trust this clarifies. --Viennese Waltz 16:18, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

If you are specifically looking for older articles that may not meet the notability criteria and have slipped through the cracks for years; a good place to look is the various maintenance categories such as Category:Articles lacking sources or Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability. Remember that it is your obligation prior to nominating for AFD or PROD to do a check for sources before nominating. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:20, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Perfect, those categories are exactly what I'm looking for. Many thanks, --Viennese Waltz 16:24, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Notable people of Kasur

Notable people of Kasur R. Tabassam (talk) 17:24, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

First you need to establish whether they are notable, do they have a Wikipedia article? Theroadislong (talk) 18:05, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@R. Tabassam: Yes, many lists of people are only for those who already have a biography in Wikipedia and then the biography is linked on their name like everybody at Kasur#Notable people. You have tried to add Zafar Mansoor but there is no biography so the link is red instead of blue. See also Wikipedia:Notability (people). PrimeHunter (talk) 18:35, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello! This page is for people who need help editing wikipedia. You might have better luck with a search engine like Google or DuckDuckGo. If you still want help from a Wikipedian, then the reference desk could prove helpful! mghackerlady (talk) (contribs) 20:38, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

What is the mind relief solution in human being

do flexible answer ~2026-16077-63 (talk) 05:22, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello there @~2026-16077-63. The Wikipedia help desk is a forum for Wikipedia-related questions, not for general advice. SomnambulantFish _talk ∫ ^contribs 05:26, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Please do your own homework.
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help desk. Your question appears to be a homework question. I apologize if this is a misevaluation, but it is our policy here not to do others' homework, but merely to aid them in doing it themselves. Letting someone else do your homework does not help you learn how to solve such problems.
Please attempt to solve the problem yourself first. You can search Wikipedia or search the Web.
If you need help with a specific part of your homework, the Reference desk can help you grasp the concept. Do not ask knowledge questions here, just those about using Wikipedia. Athanelar (talk) 14:05, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello! This page is for people who need help editing wikipedia. You might have better luck with a search engine like Google or DuckDuckGo. If you still want help from a Wikipedian, then the reference desk could prove helpful! mghackerlady (talk) (contribs) 20:38, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Budwig Diet

Budwig diet who created the Budwig diet ~2026-16267-73 (talk) 23:50, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Simply entering Budwig diet into the search box and searching would have redirected you to Johanna Budwig, but if you had to ask, it should have been on the Science Reference desk – this Help desk is for "ask[ing] questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia", as stated in large letters at the top of the page. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-76101-8 (talk) 00:21, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello! This page is for people who need help editing wikipedia. You might have better luck with a search engine like Google or DuckDuckGo. If you still want help from a Wikipedian, then the reference desk could prove helpful! mghackerlady (talk) (contribs) 20:39, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Email address

can I use Wikipedia email address for mailing through Gmail or any other browser? Please explain me in detail. Thanks Imranafzalchauhan87 (talk) 19:46, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Imranafzalchauhan87 What do you mean by "Wikipedia email address"? ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 20:13, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Imranafzalchauhan87. It's a little hard to understand what you are asking.

Does WP:Emailing users answer your questions? ColinFine (talk) 20:53, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I am Laura Tanna

I am Laura Tanna and in reading the Wikipedia account about me I found five errors which I would like to correct but do not understand about editing. I am 78 now. Can I just make the corrections in the description below so that you can correct the page?

1. 1965-1970 title
2. 2nd line student demonstrations in 1968 NOT 1963
3. 3rd line State Dept. Foreign Area Fellowship to study Ki-Swahili.
4. Major prof. Harold Scheub
5. 1973- third line African NOT Ugandan

-- ~2026-16636-54 (talk) 20:21, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Laura. No, you should not edit the article about you directly, but instead should make edit requests for uninvolved editors to look at.

Please see WP:AUTOPROB for more information. ColinFine (talk) 20:58, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

""Can I just make the corrections in the description below so that you can correct the page?" means that Laura wants us to edit the page, not her. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:40, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

We want the article about you to be correct, but we need to cite sources to verify the information. Can you provide any? You can do so here, or on the talk page of the article.

That said, changes 2 & 5 have been made.

You may also find WP:About you helpful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:42, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia will be affected by ECA Digital (Lei Felca)?

Hey. I has some question about editor's privacy living on country with laws to require age verification (A form of KYC on social media)
Is Wikipedia will be affected in this country listed in: Social media age verification laws by country? If I live in Brazil, Wikipedia will require age verification?

Thanks. :) VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 16:55, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia editors will oppose all attempts to enforce age verification on the site. For example, . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:56, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Maps

Hello, When we click on a map that specified a specific location, the map is then displayed bigger and the specific location disappears. This bug should be corrected. Ppayot (talk) 19:54, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Ppayot. Why do you think that is a bug? ColinFine (talk) 20:54, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Ppayot: It's more of a limitation than a bug. For example, the article Dallas displays File:Red pog.svg on top of File:Relief map of Texas.png. If you click on the map then you are taken to a general page for the map which is used in around 1,700 articles. The connection to the red dot from the Dallas article is lost. With our current software it doesn't seem practical to avoid this. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:21, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Ppayot: If one wants to see "a map that specified a specific location", one should click on the coordinates in the article rather than the map. That takes one to a page offering a variety of maps to choose from. Deor (talk) 11:12, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Wrap links

Is there a way to wrap all the links in a template instead of using Template:Normalwraplink multiple times? Vector2019 (talk) 12:56, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Vector2019: Add the class wraplinks somewhere if possible. {{Normalwraplink}} simply says <span class="wraplinks">...</span> around the link. Some templates have a class parameter. Which template is it about? PrimeHunter (talk) 14:14, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Matei

Hello. In Talk:Matei I've requested to move the entry to Matei (given name). I don't know if the correct name would be "Matei (given name)" or "Matei (name)". So, I'd appreciate a clarification in the discussion if possible. ~2026-17049-55 (talk) 17:10, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

"Given name" is usually used to mean someone's first/non-family name. Since Matei has both links to people with the given name Matei and to people with the surname Matei, I would suggest moving it to Matei (name) to include given names and surnames. 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (need something? Ping me!) 18:22, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Best practice?

The disambiguation page Museum of Modern Art (disambiguation) should, in my view, be classified as a "List of..." page (e.g., List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City, List of largest art museums, List of most-visited museums in the United States), or an ordinary mainspace article with a prominent "List of museums of modern art" section (such as Design museum). Is this something that requires discussion (and if so, where), or is it something one can simply go ahead and implement? It doesn't seem like contentious change, but I thought it best to ask first. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 12:15, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0: We already have Museums of modern art. Museum of Modern Art (disambiguation) is for museums where it's in the name. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:22, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 12:35, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0: I see you removed the hatnote to the disambiguation page from Museum of Modern Art. Never do that when it has the exact same title with "(disambiguation)" added, and very rarely when it has a similar title. I have restored it. The purpose of a hatnote is to help readers who were looking for another subject with the same or similar name as the article (or a redirect to it). PrimeHunter (talk) 12:38, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

It seemed like one too many hatnotes and rather unnecessary (also rather a mess viewed on a mobile device). Your call. Also, shall we add Museums of modern art back to the MoMA "See also" section then (where you've removed the Museum of Modern Art (disambiguation) link? Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 12:48, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

PS: In fact, one might say that at the top of MoMA article, the first and third of the hatnotes (i.e., {{About|the New York museum}} and {{Distinguish|Metropolitan Museum of Art}} serve little purpose and bloat the article's top section with things that are not necessarily useful to most readers. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 13:15, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0: Hatnotes are for readers who were looking for another article and for example entered "museum of modern art" in our search box with no interest in the New York museum, so a hatnote to Museum of Modern Art (disambiguation) is certainly necessary. See also sections are for readers who were interested in this article and may also be interested in other related articles based on subject, not name. Disambiguation pages should not be linked per MOS:NOTSEEALSO. Museums of modern art might be linked but it has no more reason to be linked in Museum of Modern Art than in any other article about a museum of modern art. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:31, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Not really my primary focus here, all of this, but good info to have! Thanks. What about {{Distinguish}}? Are we actually concerned that readers will mix up the Metropolitan Museum and the MoMA? -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 15:23, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0: Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art are famous art museums in the same city so readers may confuse them even if their names are not so similar. The MoMA hatnote is for readers who entered MoMA or maybe some other capitalizations in the search box and were redirected to Museum of Modern Art but wanted something else at Moma. I think all hatnotes are OK but they could be grouped like they were before your edits. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:50, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

New York has quite a few famous art museums beyond the Metropolitan and MoMA (e.g. Guggenheim, Whitney, etc.). There are many cities with many famous art museums (indeed, almost all major cities have many famous art museums). Picking these two for NY is no more rational (to my mind) than distinguishing between the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, or the Tate and the V&A in London. To my eye, it looks superfluous. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:06, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cl3phact0: Guggenheim and Whitney are distinctive names. Museum of Modern Art is very generic and Metropolitan Museum of Art is rather generic in a metropolis, but I'm not interfering if you remove the Metropolitan hatnote. I don't know about editors of the article. It was added in 2023. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:32, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't wish to waste your time or go further down a rabbit hole. If the preferred style is more hatnotes, then so be it. It looks a bit bloated (and is therefore distracting to me), but I've just got the one pair of eyes. "Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety" (Proverbs 11:14 KJV). Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 18:47, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

There is no real confusion with two very different titles, so I am boldly going to remove the distinguish hatnotes in both Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Human name disambiguation template sortkey

The documentation is rather scanty. Should the sortkey for George I (disambiguation) be "George I" or "George 01". I'm seeing examples of both. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:54, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Every piece of documentation I could quickly find (WP:PEERS, Roman numeral guidance in WP:SORTKEY) suggests it should be George 01. Is there somewhere else that suggests the other way? - Purplewowies (talk) 09:04, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:37, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

WP:ARBECR, temp accounts, and talk pages

Is it permissible for a temp editor to seek consensus for an edit or make an edit request on an article talk page where the article is subject to the extended confirmed restriction but the talk page isn't? Is it permissible for a temp editor to discuss such a request with an experienced editor on the experienced editor's user talk page?

My understanding is that a temp editor is free to comment on both article and user talk pages regarding articles subject to ARBECR unless the talk page in question is itself protected. Please correct me if I'm wrong or if there is some nuance to this. Uhoj (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

That's generally true, unless the topic area is under restrictions, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict(WP:PIA). Only extended confirmed accounts can edit any page or article on Wikipedia related to it(unless it is an edit request that does not require establishing a consensus). 331dot (talk) 23:22, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy and thorough reply 331dot! I wasn't aware of the special rules around Arab-Israeli conflict. Thanks for clearing up my confusion! Uhoj (talk) 23:55, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion G13 Page Move Six Month Clock Reset

Does moving a page reset the six month clock for Speedy Deletion G13 or not? Stunts1990 (talk) 22:12, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

If such a move indicates that there is or was someone actively working on the page at the time of the move, then it should reset the clock. What page are you talking about? Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 22:31, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

The page that I am talking about is Draft:Hongqi Ousado - Stunts1990 (talk) 22:50, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Since you have put essentially nothing in the draft, @Stunts1990, I don't know why you are concerned about the possibility of it getting deleted.

Writing an article, any article begins with finding the multiple independent reliable sources with significant coverage of the subject (see WP:42) which are the absolutely essential foundation for an article. Doing anything else on a draft before finding those sources is likely to be time and effort wasted; because 1) if you can't find those sources there cannot be an article; and 2) if you can find those sources, anything you've written before finding them is likely to need rewriting. ColinFine (talk) 00:09, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

"View Source" on any article

Sometimes I want to view the source for a page (typically to grab some template or markup for another page), and I'd prefer to not be in an actual editing mode for this. I see that pages I don't have edit permissions for have a "View Source" button. Is there a way to make this button appear on all pages? DuskTheUmbreon (talk) 06:11, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

You can just use the source editing window; the 'view source' button on pages you don't have perms for is just the source editor with the editing disabled because you don't have the perms. Athanelar (talk) 06:52, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I see. I suppose I just have to be careful to not make changes then. Thanks! DuskTheUmbreon (bark) 07:06, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Even if you accidentally change some text, it won't get published unless you hit the "Publish" button, so if you're just trying to copy something from the source you don't need to worry. Athanelar (talk) 07:12, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@DuskTheUmbreon To be even safer, you can go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and tick the box "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary") which won't allow you to publish any edit unless you also add an edit summary. This is a good thing to do for all your edtiting. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:50, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

I have that enabled, but honestly just hadn't put together that it'd stop me from accidentally making edits. Thanks! DuskTheUmbreon (bark) 01:52, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Bagel

"Hi, I'm a new editor. I noticed the bagel article doesn't mention cream cheese as a common pairing in the text. I'd like to add a sentence about this in the 'Serving' section with a reliable source. Does anyone have objections or suggestions for a source?" Ttekhopi257 (talk) 10:56, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Your talk page suggests that you're just a time-waster. -- Hoary (talk) 11:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Ttekhopi257, and you will be blocked if you don't stop immediately, you've had enough warnings Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:05, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm just trying to help Wikipedia Ttekhopi257 (talk) 17:44, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Whom are you quoting? —Antonissimo (talk) 03:18, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

I've noticed a pattern of quoted help desk posts as of late. I can't be sure but I strongly suspect LLMs are behind it mghackerlady (talk) (contribs) 20:28, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Mghackerlady I'm almost certain the quotation marks are left in after copy+pasting from LLM output. I've seen this outside Wikipedia as well. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 06:27, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Are partial independence, partial reliability and partially significant coverage even a thing?

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Source assessment § Meaning of "partial". – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 02:03, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

template - added with fields out of order (how serious a sin)

Just wondering where on the list of Wikipedia sins is the following. Template:foo123 has 2 required fields: params A1 and A2, and 6 optional fields, params B1 through B6. A user is adding uses of the template in appropriate places, but adding them with the parameter=value in the order B6=val, B3=val, A2=val, B1=val, A1=val. Is this

• A) Ignore, the template is being used appropriately.
• B) Comment to user, but order is their choice
• C) Comment to user, but appropriate to put into correct order even though the edit doesn't change what a wikipedia user does
• D) Comment to user, and if the don't change the chaotic order, ask for 3O.
• E) Warn the user, and if they continue bring to WP:ANI.
• F) (perhaps along with one of A-E) get someone to write a bot which will do edits to reorder the parameters)

(Note, this is something that both I've seen and I've done, so I'm more curious as to how it occurs to others).Naraht (talk) 15:31, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Naraht.

I would say it's A. ColinFine (talk) 15:51, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

If the user is still doing it then post a diff. Maybe it causes enough annoyance for later editors to be worth politely suggesting a change but it depends on the template and parameters. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:24, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

This is sort of for self reflection. I'm currently transforming about 400 references out of either cite web, cite book or just in the general look of cite book. It is sometimes easier to do the date param first because of the way that the existing reference is displayed (and I know everything before the date is provided by the new template. However it is not a required field, so I'm worried as much about myself as for others. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phi_Delta_Psi&diff=prev&oldid=1344151487 for an example.Naraht (talk) 17:31, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

If the template is working as intended, then ignore it. {{cite newspaper}} works whichever order you list the parameters in. I suspect that the vast majority of templates are like this. Mjroots (talk) 17:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

@Naraht You'll drive yourself nuts if you do anything other than (A) on templates like {{chembox}}. Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:30, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Named parameters can be written in any order. Your diff is for {{Cite Almanac FS}} which has no good reason to enforce a specific order. For some templates a poor order can be annoying. Your "B6=val, B3=val, A2=val, B1=val, A1=val" with numbers in the parameter names sounded like a potentially annoying case but maybe it was misleading example names. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

I was just making up parameter names to separate required from non-required, and I guess it is worse if the templates have a clear ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC4, etc. order (like listing cite book editors 1-6 in a screwy order and having cite journal editor1-first half the template away from editor1-last). And the {{Cite Almanac FS}} example is an edit that I did. Naraht (talk) 18:44, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

So not too bad a sin, though on some templates, certain "misorder" can be more annoying. (And D, E, &F are completely off the table)Naraht (talk) 18:44, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Explanatory footnote/reference previews

Wikipedia has a feature I like where you hover over an explanatory footnote or reference and get a preview box. However, I clicked the gear icon next to one of them, and disabled them entirely in the name of "testing". Since I had so much trust in Wikipedia's UI, I thought you could just reenable them from your settings or anything like that. But no, I've tried all my settings, and it hasn't done anything. The only things that have transpired from turning this default setting on and turning this default setting off (both can't work together) are preview formats that look awful (one's ancient, the other's complicated and makes the text too small). I only remember the words "reenable them with a footnote at the bottom of the page" or something like that, which I also recall being extremely vague, so that doesn't help either. When I open Wikipedia in incognito, they show up perfectly fine, so it's an account issue; not a browser issue. I've tried resetting my Wikipedia and Mediawiki settings to defaults, but the "defaults" just disable them again. This is genuinely so frustrating because I can't afford to lose this feature. It helps me massively while editing and I won't "cope" with any half-done botched workarounds. I want this setting exactly as it was back, but I think there's a problem with the way my account itself is coded. I don't even know if someone else was dumb enough to do this and if they ever got that feature back. Please help me; I've been trying to figure it out for 9 days. I haven't edited anything since and want to go back to doing that. It's too late to abandon this account and try to make another one (and I can't even do that, since my IP is blocked). If anyone knows what the cause is and how I can fix this, I will remember you for as long as I remain on this website. Thank you for reading, and I know that was a lot of text. UltraCobson (talk) 01:37, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

@UltraCobson, at the bottom of a page there should be a button called Enable Reference Tooltip which may solve the issue. On vector 2010 and 2022, it will be next to a button called Mobile view. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 02:08, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

It doesn't show up for me, though. This is what the bottom of Wikipedia looks like for me:

File:Screenshot of Wikipedia Bottom 19 March 2026.png UltraCobson (talk) 02:18, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

It sounds like a cookie issue if it works in incognito. Go to your browser settings and clear the Wikipedia/Wikimedia cookies. You will have to log in again, though. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:30, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

It actually worked... Thank you so much! UltraCobson (talk) 02:42, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

It's gratifying to be occasionally successful in diagnosing a technical problem. That doesn't happen often! ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 02:46, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Infobox academic, thesis_url and ProQuest IDs

In Template:Infobox academic there is a thesis_url setting, and the documentation says it "should be where the thesis is available freely; not for commercial advertising usage". How about ProQuest Dissertations and Theses? Can theses in that database be linked, and if so, can it be done with Template:ProQuest? WilliamDenton (talk) 23:54, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

@WilliamDenton, ProQuest is a serious academic resource of long standing (going back to University Microfilms) and using it it not considered a commercial advertising usage. Using the ProQuest template is fine. StarryGrandma (talk) 20:25, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

@StarryGrandma: thanks! But how to make the linking work nicely? Look at Roald Nasgaard, for example. If you uncomment the ProQuest template in thesis_url then the link is there but has square brackets around it, and I can't see how to get rid of them. WilliamDenton (talk) 00:40, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Oops, I guess the ProQuest template produces a linked ID number for use in references. Just use the url at Proquest directly without benefit of a template: https://www.proquest.com/docview/302739379. Then the infobox will use it to link the thesis title. StarryGrandma (talk) 02:38, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! WilliamDenton (talk) 02:55, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Use of soccer vs football

Is there a policy or guideline on when to use soccer vs football? I'm specifically wondering whether Category:Soccer podcasts should be renamed or not but I'm not seeing a policy or guideline about it. TipsyElephant (talk) 02:37, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

TipsyElephant, I can't remember a general guideline but I would suggest Category:Association football podcasts, based on other members of Category:Association football mass media. Category:Football podcasts would be ambiguous with Category:American football podcasts. TSventon (talk) 03:01, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm not aware of a project-wide discussion either, but the compromise hammered out for Association football is documented in the faq at the top of Talk:Association football and more granularly at Talk:Association football/Article name. I'd assume those to be controlling (or, at least, least controversial) for related pages in general.

For people specifically, there is a project-wide guideline: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#Association football (soccer). There's nothing specific to this sport at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sports teams), though. —Cryptic 03:29, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Carlos Otero

I would like to flag that we need a disambiguation page for Carlos Otero, as we have Carlos Otero, Carlos Otero (rowing) and Carlos Bello Otero. Carlos Otero should be renamed Carlos Otero (actor). Could someone do this? ~2026-17170-12 (talk) 16:51, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

I wonder if the article about the rower could be deleted. Merely appearing in the Olympics is no longer inherently notable. Even if not, I don't really see the need for a disambiguation page. People are more likely to look for the actor than a Mexican politician or Argentine rower. 331dot (talk) 16:59, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Carlos Otero (the actor) may for all I know be notable. (Certainly his filmography as provided in es:Carlos Otero lists a great number of items.) But if he is notable, this is hardly evident from the article about him -- which currently can't even decide if he was a "Portuguese film and television actor" (article body) or "TV host" (infobox). Lord Cornwallis, are there no good sources ripe for you to mine? -- Hoary (talk) 10:44, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Removing notability and primary tags

Hello Wikipedians,

I recently made a new article named Gully Marine Protected Area which is currently tagged for Notability (geo) and primary sources.

Can I remove them, as I improved it? Versions111 (talk • contribs) 07:29, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

I have removed the tags; the issues seem resolved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:51, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

People contacting me on LinkedIn about a Wikipedia Page

To whom it may concern, I have received a private message on LinkedIn by Jawed Amjad claiming that he's a Wikipedia Moderator and that he's willing to help with the review of a page I'm working on. Is it a reliable source or is it impossible that Wikipedia contacted me directly? Thank you for your time and consideration. Kind regards ~2026-17276-11 (talk) 14:47, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

This is a scam. See WP:SCAM and read it.

There is no such thing as a "Wikipedia Moderator".

Wikipedia will not contact you directly. Anyone who does is a scammer. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:54, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Everyone on Wikipedia is a volunteer. If you want help, it's free. Anyone who contacts you off-wiki to "help" is going to want money. If you decide to accept the offer, demand to know the identity of the account they use with the required paid-editing declaration on it, and a track record of successful edits. The scammer will never give you this information. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:56, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Regarding the early life and education

How's it possible that being a jew, believer or not, for a subject's life, is pinpointed so much in your articles? Much more than other religions. Cheers ~2026-17224-30 (talk) 04:49, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

What's the data to support that sweeping claim? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:16, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Judaism is an ethnoreligion, meaning it's often much more integrated into an individual's fabric of identity than other religions. To my knowledge, Jewish communities consider a person who is born Jewish to still be Jewish whether or not they are actually believing/practicing.

Therefore, for someone born into a Christian family but who is no longer openly Christian, people are not likely to continue describing them as "Christian" in secondary sources, so that label is less likely to end up in their Wikipedia article; whereas someone born into the Jewish community is more likely to still be described as Jewish by secondary sources (and even by themselves) regardless of their personal religious position. I have personally never known an atheist to describe themselves as "Christian" rather than saying "I come from a Christian family" or somesuch, whereas I have seen plenty of non-practicing Jews (and indeed members of other ethnoreligions like Sikhism and to some extent Islam) describe themselves as "Jewish" and incorporate that into their identity even though they, personally, are atheist. Athanelar (talk) 09:47, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

@Athanelar:, that may be so, but perhaps you are giving more credence to a data-free random comment than it merits? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:43, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

I think it is a valid anecdotal observation even if it's not strictly statistically true on Wikipedia. Someone might hear a comedian describe themselves as "Jewish" and wonder why; and this sort of thing has been the subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories since forever (the idea that Jews identify more with their Jewishness than with their country and are therefore a 'people without a nation' who will not hesitate to undermine their country was a central talking point of Nazi antisemitism, for example). It's worth responding to with fact, even if only for the benefit of a third party reader who stumbles upon this.

Also, I consider myself something of a scholar on religion so I'll never pass up the opportunity to educate somebody. Athanelar (talk) 14:49, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Just an anecdotal point: I met someone who described herself as an "atheist jew". I asked her how that is possible, and she explained that being jewish includes cultural background, family ties, as well as a religion, and identifying with all of them isn't required to consider yourself jewish. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 15:02, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Why no Email.

I have a lot of emails from my website. And I want to help make stories for people and help them. I don't care about spam because I have an app to help me sort them by book, asking and other stuff. 32hrosales-martinez (talk) 15:05, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

@32hrosales-martinez: This is a help desk for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We make encyclopedic articles, not stories. Is your post meant for us? Your account has email enabled so you can email other users if they have email enabled but we rarely use it. We prefer public talk pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:31, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Merging content of drafts

Specifically, this is about the draft Draft:Post Sex Nachos. I had a much better version of what is there now, with more sources, before it was deleted under WP:G13. Since there is a draft there now, I was wondering if it would be possible to port the old draft over to the new one, while keeping some of the content in the current draft there. wizzito | say hello! 16:56, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

@Wizzito As it was deleted under G13, which is for abandoned drafts, it can be undeleted at any time upon request. I have undeleted it. You can click on the history tab at the top to see prior versions, and then move the content that you want from the older versions into the new version. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 20:32, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

history highlighting

Formerly, when I looked at the history of a page on my watchlist, all versions newer than any I had already seen were highlighted. That changed a few days ago: now, looking at any version resets the whole. This breaks my habitual way of reviewing my watchlist. Can I toggle something to get the old behavior back? (I doubt it, as the new way means less for the database to remember.) —Antonissimo (talk) 04:57, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T419918

@Antonissimo: This has been discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Watchlist. The code has been fixed, and the fix will be deployed here this week, probably Thursday. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:16, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

thanks —Antonissimo (talk) 16:18, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

And we're back to normal. —Antonissimo (talk) 00:21, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

disambiguation redirected per AfD in need of disambiguation

I've noticed that the target of a redirect created as an AtD, in controversial subject matter, lacks useful information or navigation for alternative common meanings of the term, and I don't see any other obvious targets. In addition, the AfD nomination was made by a now-banned sock, and was non-admin closed as redirect after one week with 2 keeps and 3 redirects. Is this a matter for deletion review, for RfD, or for boldly creating a new disambiguation (which addresses surmountable problems raised at AfD)? —BrechtBro (talk) 01:47, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

BrechtBro, can you link the redirect and AfD discussion? That would probably make it easier to answer your question. TSventon (talk) 02:01, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, yeah: Occupation of Palestine (AfD discussion) —BrechtBro (talk) 02:04, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Criteria for WikiProject links in see also sections

Is there any clear criteria set out for what Wikiproject links should and should not be linked on Wikipedia articles? Note, I'm talking about article's themselves, like in see also sections, not talk pages. I've looked myself but not been able to find clear guidance on the matter. It would help to clear up some grey areas and for disputes. Helper201 (talk) 22:33, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Helper201, Wikipedia articles shouldn't link to pages in "project space" (those pages with the prefix "Wikipedia"). Thus although Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France- and French-related articles may in some way inform or otherwise help the reader of the article French orthography, the latter article should not link to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France- and French-related articles. A WikiProject, e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject France, is no exception. Thus the "see also" section of an article (no matter how France-related) should not link to Wikipedia:WikiProject France. -- Hoary (talk) 01:06, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Hoary, sorry, my mistake. I didn't mean WikiProject's, I meant portals. Apologies for the mix-up. Thank you for your response though. Would you be able to help with where things stand with portals in this regard please? Helper201 (talk) 01:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Unfortunately not, Helper201. The very existence of portals is something of which I'm only dimly aware. (English Wikipedia turns out to contain all sorts of odd material. Just an hour ago I made a trivial slip of the finger when intending to type WP:TH and thereby arrived at WP:YH.) Somebody else should answer this one; but meanwhile, see Template:Portal/doc and Template:Portal bar/doc on the matter of "See also". -- Hoary (talk) 03:42, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Continuous user

I'm a continuous, monthly, yearly supporting donor to this site. I don't remember my password and I didn't think I'd need one. I'm trying to read further information on something, but I'm blocked because I don't recall my password. I shouldn't be experiencing this at all!

Please read my comment above. ~2026-17492-46 (talk) 09:24, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

I've shortened the header and placed your comment in the main body of text. You don't need to log in to your account to merely read Wikipedia. If you used the password reset function and it didn't work, or you didn't have an email address attached to your account to enable the reset function, access to your account is lost. You would need to create a new one and identify it as a successor to your old account. 09:40, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for donating, but donation records are not attached to accounts, and we editors have nothing to do with the donation process; donating or not donating is not relevant to the day to day matters like this. 331dot (talk) 09:41, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-17492-46: Which further information are you referring to? If it's an external link to a site with access restriction then a Wikipedia account wouldn't help except some websites if you qualify for Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:13, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Continuing a content translation

I am translating the article on Mieczyslaw Kolinski from German into English. Did first section, had to move it to my user draft space because I'm too new. Can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to continue. Sent in circles for an hour. Ready to eat my phone. No luck with FAQ, Archives, etc. Can somebody please tell me the secret Simon Says? Herbanoid (talk) 21:37, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Herbanoid.

I observe that de:Mieczyslaw Kolinski has no inline citations, and only one source, which is a biographical dictionary.

That sourcing is quite inadequate for an article in English Wikipedia, and so attempting to create the English article by translating the German article will be pretty much a waste of time.

The only way to create an acceptable English article would be to find several independent reliable sources with significant coverage of Kolinski (they do not have to be in English, or online, but they must meet all the criteria in golden rule) and write a summary of what those sources say.

(This problem is precisely why the content translation tool is not available to inexperienced editors). ColinFine (talk) 21:54, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

There are four different language versions of the article with different sources. Some of those are online, e.g. Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit and The Canadian Encyclopedia. TSventon (talk) 22:24, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

This will definitely be helpful and very valuable... A bit later. My first problem is how to get it to continue to the next section, ie restart an existing content translation, even if it's totally inadequate. Translate the German first, then research the necessary enhancements. It's still only private, and a learning experience. I'm a rank newbie, with maybe 10 grammar corrections to my name. Herbanoid (talk) 22:56, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

oh, and I don't yet care about translation: I can do that by hand. I just don't have the wherewithal to learn about templates and formats just yet. Herbanoid (talk) 22:58, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello again, @Herbanoid. I'm not sure what you mean about getting it to continue to the next section.

If you're talking about using the content translation tool, I have no idea.

If you're talking about editing User:Herbanoid/sandbox to insert a header for a new section, in the source editor you just put the header between two pairs of equals signs, like ==Early life==, but on a line by itself (or three or four pairs for lower-level headers). (I think it's easier with the visual editor, but I'm not familiar with that).

Perhaps Help:cheatsheet will help? Or, more generally, your first article.

But, to repeat myself, writing anything at all before you have found the necessary sources is likely to be mostly time wasted, since what you write should be based on those reliable sources, not on anything else. ColinFine (talk) 11:00, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

I'll throw in a Help:Translation for good measure, and point to WP:PNT where you can look at articles in different stages of translation. Lectonar (talk) 11:23, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

@Herbanoid I'm guessing you don't know how to find the draft you started in your sandbox? If that's the issue, here's a link. If you don't know how to add to it, you cand do that by pushing edit and then adding to it. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 14:41, 20 March 2026 (UTC)