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) on the edit toolbar.Finding original upload date of image.
Hi - I need to find the original upload date on enwiki for this image on Wikipedia to check if disclaimers of the image apply. Any help would be appreciated! Please ping me via {{ping|Matr1x-101}} if you have an answer. Thanks! {userpage! | talk!} 19:48, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @problem solving 20:22, 30 November 2022 (UTC)]
- @ONUnicoin: can you please tell me where you got this information? Or is it only accessible to sysops? Thanks, {userpage! | talk!} 22:10, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @problem solving 22:25, 30 November 2022 (UTC)]
- @ONUnicorn for filenames which exist on Commons non-admins don't see any of that on the description page itself (however, some skins have a link to the page logs in the tools navbar). File description pages for locally deleted files which don't exist on Commons either behave like any other deleted page. Victor Schmidt mobil (talk) 05:48, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
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- @ONUnicoin: can you please tell me where you got this information? Or is it only accessible to sysops? Thanks, {userpage! | talk!} 22:10, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Question on paid editing.
What if I want to pay someone to edit Wikipedia articles but not in a way related to me or a company or something like that but rather in a philantropic way ? (For example, paying someone to edit a random place like Moleneiland just to help others.) Am I allowed to do that ? Maxime12346 (talk) 20:58, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @WP:PAID. It does not matter the reason you are paying them. RudolfRed (talk) 21:29, 30 November 2022 (UTC)]
December 1
Article page name editing
Could you edit article’s name? 2601:244:4081:500:172:43E7:CA34:B014 (talk) 01:25, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
- Article name changes are done by moving the article. See ]
- The process for changing an article's name is at WP:Moving a page. - David Biddulph (talk) 01:54, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
- You need to be logged in and autoconfirmed to move a page. RPI2026F1 (talk) 03:26, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
- Good point. Requests can be posted to ]
User Talk Page Editing
My user talk page has become cluttered with outdated comments. I'm embarrassed to say so, but I've forgotten how to get rid of them. Help! Lou Sander (talk) 02:37, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Lou Sander: You may delete the comments on your user talk page if you want to, or you can archive the page using one of the methods at Help:Archiving_a_talk_page RudolfRed (talk) 02:52, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
- Help:Archiving (plain and simple) is a shorter version. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:10, 1 December 2022 (UTC)