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Add “age guide” field in game infobox
While trying to find age guide for video games as a parent, I noted that the age info is not an available field in the Game infobox. The idea is to add the industry guide, e.g., ESRB ratings, in the infobox. Is it possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rynh (talk • contribs)
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Exactly what I’m looking for, thank you Tenryuu for the guidance.--72.140.8.237 (talk) 13:41, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- Looking at the talk history on that page, it looks like they had age ratings, but removed them many years ago. An issue seemed to be what countries to include (as different countries have different age ratings): Template talk:Infobox video game/Archive 12#Age Ratings. That short discussion is 8 years old though, so probably still worth asking there. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:46, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- Right… And I would think we should list all available, rather than leave blank. Thank you Joseph2302. --Rynh (talk) 13:52, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- There's also the matter that the ESRB is not the only rating board out there. It may shock you to learn this, OP, but we have readers that aren't based in North America, and they'd (more like than not) want to be looking for the equivalents for their home country, be that ]
Splitting headache
I've split
- @Clarityfiend: From what I remember from splitting COVID-19 articles almost a year ago, the original page is renamed into one of the two new articles via a move, and the other article is created under a different title, with attribution being provided to the original title. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 05:46, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Clarityfiend: See Wikipedia:Splitting#How_to_properly_split_an_article. Your edit summary for the new article will contain a link to the article the content came from. Perhaps the original could be become a dab page that lists the two new articles as choices. RudolfRed (talk) 05:50, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- I did link to the original list in the initial edit comments for the new lists, so maybe the best thing to do is just redirect to the artists and entertainers list, as they are more likely to be considered celebrities than sports figures? Clarityfiend (talk) 06:03, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
My Article
Hi guys, The Wikipedia page I created is not published. It's been more than 2 weeks since I published. May I know when will my article gets published
- You didn't publish anything. You created an article in your sandbox only - User talk:Shabarish Gudisi/sandbox. You should probably move it over to WP:Drafts and submit it for review. FYI, the wait time there is a lot longer than two weeks. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:06, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- But, notability. If you can find some, then you will probably need to throw away what you have written, forget everything you know about Akella, and start again, writing about only what you find in the independent sources. (If you can't find the sources, then you'll know not to spend any more time on a pointless exercise). --ColinFine (talk) 14:04, 11 June 2021 (UTC)]
Paintings (no header or question)
Paintings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2400:adc1:125:6a00:ddfc:251e:7802:c72e (talk • contribs) 2021-06-11T07:37:16 (UTC)
Author with many pseudonyms
How to {{cite book}} for author , has www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no, but no wikipedia article, yet with many pseudonyms for the same book, for different editions, she also wrote a book about Benito Mussolini...
- .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 07:11, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- There's no obvious right or wrong answer: I would just cite the author credited in the copy you consulted, 0mtwb9gd5wx. --ColinFine (talk) 14:10, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Table information on a page
Hi,
The information on pages for specific churches list "Administration" details in a table on the right. See example on the following page, St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead
I was curious is there is a total table with all the information included into for all parishes, deanery, diocese and provences in the church of england that this information is drawn from or is it in the code on each single page?
Cheers,
Devin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deving1334 (talk • contribs) 08:27, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- Deving1334 in St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead the parishe, deanery, diocese and province is in the code on the page. Click edit source to check. TSventon (talk) 10:09, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Problem with IABot
I've run this mny times, but when I ran it today on Storer College, I got a red box saying I was blocked from editing. Why, and what to do about it?
I saved a screen shot, you can see it here.
deisenbe (talk) 10:31, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- Deisenbe, this is something of a known issue - see phab:T274050. You are not blocked, it's a bug in IABot. firefly ( t · c ) 10:33, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Company article
Hey guys,
I've got a task to create a page for our company as many of our competitors has their own pages on Wikipedia. Would you be able to guide me through the process, please?— Preceding unsigned comment added by KaneHa (talk • contribs)
- other stuff exists. It depends on the sources. It could also be that your competitors do not merit articles, but that those have not been addressed by volunteer editors.
- If your company truly merits a Wikipedia article, independent editors will take note of it in independent sources and choose on their own to write about it. Trying to force the issue doesn't usually work. Also note that a Wikipedia article is ]
- Note also, KaneHa, that not one of your competitors "have their own pages". Wikipedia may have articles about them, but the articles do not belong to them, are not for their benefit, and do not necessarily say what they want them to say. --ColinFine (talk) 14:14, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
ARTICLE
Hi, I am new to Wikipedia, I am trying to create an article on a close person to me but for some reason it does the let me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjagokfc (talk • contribs)
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I committed (perhaps) a mistake. How to solve this?
Hi. I created
- Merge the two articles. I will put merging templates on them. Sungodtemple (talk) 16:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)]
- Sungodtemple, Hi and thank you my friend, though, I'm afraid that my article, which does not use bare URLs and is more thorough on background will get lost into the other article. How does the merge in this case work? Regards. CoryGlee (talk) 16:09, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
getting verified.
I have my cell phone listed as my contact source However when customers want to buy something I an't get the code on my phone. I went on to verify it and when i put the number in it said this phone had too many user sources. Its the only phonei have. what am i suppose to do.the want me to give them another phone number. I only have one cell phone. I am totaly confused. There seems to be nobody to call about this matter. I have lost several sales because my number cant be verified.
- This is the Wikipedia help desk. We answer questions about how to use Wikipedia. We can't help you with your cell phone; you may wish to contact your cell phone provider. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:13, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Is ref number 28 viable - it's not the Daily Mail. Thanks for help please remove if not OK.
- Please clarify your question. The link in ref 28 goes to the Daily Mail, but it also says it is from "Mail on Sunday". Is it supposed to link somewhere else? Mail on Sunday is also not reliable, per ]
- @Srbernadette: I undid your edit that added that source. You can fix it yourself next time by going to page history and clicking the "undo" link for the edit you want to remove. RudolfRed (talk) 00:01, 12 June 2021 (UTC)