Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 915

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I want to report user Me2karen cause edit

@Michaelelijahtanuwijaya: I suggest discussing the edits on the article's talk page rather than reporting the user. Mstrojny (talk) 00:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Michaelelijahtanuwijaya and welcome to the Teahouse. I completely agree with Mstrojny; that is not how we do things.

We do not censor or block editors without good cause. First, we ascertain the issue, reverting any unsourced content that has been added which adversely affects an article, and we (and by that I mean YOU!) should explain by means of an edit summary why you are making that reversion. You can either attempt to discuss your concerns with an editor who is acting in good faith, or you may warn a bad faith editor using one of our many types of warning template about adding or removing content in an inappropriate manner. But these should be used carefully and in incremental steps of severity - four in all before anyone considers blocking anyone.

Then, and only then might it be appropriate for you to report them to

WP:AIV where one of our administrators would consider the matter and possibly issue a warning block. It depends on how bad those actions were. At a cursory glance, the edits you complain about

seem to have been made in good faith, though without any edit summary, which is extremely frustrating for everyone. I find the table modifications they made somewhat complex, so sorry if I've missed something at first sight.

Talking of edit summaries, your own failure to use edit summaries is appalling, and it is unfair to other users when you revert their edits without any explanation of your own, and then complain about their actions. Of the 1,413 edits you have made here, you failed to give any edit summary in 97.4% of cases. I would like you to address this from here on in, please. Rather than calling for other editors to be blocked, I invite you to work to improving your own communication, not only when you make edit, but also to talk to other editors if you have concerns about theirs. Thank for all your contributions so far, and may you continue to work productively and cooperatively in the future. Please remeber to sign all yourt talk page posts, too, please (like this: ~~~~). Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:02, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Please Reply soon! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohammmadahmad649 (talk • contribs) 04:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed for more information about this. I hope this answers your question and if you have any further queries please let us know!--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?}

04:54, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi guys, I created my first article and submitted for review and I got alerted that it already exists. I'm not sure how this happened, but I seem to have created the already existing article and it has a unique wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkadaBooks Will the submitted one be rejected? and is this already existing article approved already? I can't find it on google, but the link looks like it's an approved article. I am so confused right now. Can anyone help me understand all of this please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarthaKings (talk • contribs) 01:36, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Resolved this way: There is now a

Draft:OkadaBooks and a Draft:OkadaBooks (2). The latter (a bit shorter) is up for Speedy Deletion, which would end the confusion, allowing you to continue on the former. David notMD (talk

) 07:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)

Quote:

"Alien is an accurate retelling of a government conspiracy to murder individuals of the USSR, making it look like an accident. The extraterrestrial organism is now held in area 57 in the underground bunker with an entrance at area 51. Once Donald Trump is successful in his war on information the news of an alien running around North Korea will not be taken seriously. Please write to your congress represetitive to let them know that you have woken up to the truth." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sivabhaskar (talk • contribs) 03:17, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi

IP editors actually make positive contributors to Wikipedia; so, as I mentioned above, there needs to be some really serious disruptive editing going on for an adminstrator to step-in and restrict others ability to edit the page. -- Marchjuly (talk

) 05:37, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Paragraph in question deleted within minutes after it was posted. The editor who posted it blocked for other reasons. David notMD (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I posted earlier on the Egyptian Mau cat and made a comment that her facial expressions and eye colour change from pale green to turquoise, according to her mood. This is remarkable and I wished to share it. This was published, but with the comment 'citation required'. So I provided evidence - what better citation than two small photographs evidencing this extraordinary change of eye colour. But the photos were deleted. As was my further contribution regarding individual hairs graduating in colour from root to tip which aids the process of camouflage. This is first hand knowledge and more authentic proof of statement than any citation gleaned from any source and it's a shame that somebody chose to delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madame Diana (talk • contribs) 08:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, Madame Diana. It seems you've fallen foul of our policy prohibiting original research. Wikipedia's policy on this, which you can read about at Wikipedia:No original research, rules out using "first hand knowledge" and instead requires reliable, published sources. If you have any questions about the types of sources that would be acceptable in this instance, please do ask here. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Can we present the numbers of users registered or active in graphical way, is there any template which shows the graph beside the template {{Template:User numberofusers}}--Rocky 734 (talk) 02:31, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I am not clear what you are trying to achieve or why. There are some pie charts here. Is that the sort of thing you are looking for? I can't think how a template would be useful.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:05, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Shantavira: Thanks for your reply, that was also helpful, i finally found more better way to get most out of wikipedia by Wikipedia:statistics.

I don't understand the meaning of 'pipe' (used to separate hyperlinks) please can you help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indiandept.Of history&politics (talk • contribs) 08:19, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Does

WP:PIPE answer your question?--Shantavira|^{feed me}

09:08, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks and regards Santosh Kumar Pokharel Poett and Lyricist Nepal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Santosh1961 (talk • contribs) 08:28, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello,

Notable

' should be included in these lists. They are not there for everyone to come and add their own names to whenever they feel like it. There needs to be a page on Wikipedia about them before they are added to these 'Lists'. Your edit summary also seemed highly promotional, too. So the two attempts - one by an IP - to add your name were removed.

We advise anyone thinking of writing about themselves on Wikipedia to stop, and to leave it to others who are not liable to be biased in what they write. You would have a clear

WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY). I do not wish to disrespect you as a Nepali poet, but not everyone (including me) has been noticed sufficiently by the world to merit a page here about them. Other people are the best judges of whether you or I meet those criteria, and they will surely write about us if we do. I hope this answers your concerns, and may I suggest your interest in editing Wikipedia is directed towards improving the articles already on the List of Nepali language poets? Your knowledge of reliable, published sources who have written about them could be invaluable. Good luck in your editing journey here - there will be tea available soon, should you decide to stay on the editing road. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk

) 09:20, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I'd like to update several "software comparisons" pages with up-to-date information about the programs mentioned. This includes updating version numbers. Some of these applications have a Template:LSR (Latest software release) which can easily be embedded. This reduces the maintenance required in the future and should ensure that all version information is always updated. My problem is the following: In comparison pages such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors, the latest version and the date of the release of the latest version are in separate fields. Is there an easy way to include only the latest_release_version or latest_release_date from the template into the respective cells? I found the articles regarding section labels, but that seems quite complicated for such a task. Thanks & have a nice day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by XYQuadrat (talk • contribs) 21:21, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello,

WP:VPT. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk

) 09:43, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Dotsonti Let's Talk! 15:07, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Dotsonti, and welcome to the Teahouse. There is an essay called Write the article first, which I wholly endorse. Links, disambiguation pages (and also images and infoboxes) are superficial ornamentation compared to the challenging but much more valuable task of creating a well-sourced and well-written article.

I advise looking at

Your first article, and using the Article wizard to create a draft. Once you submit your draft for review and it is accepted, then is the time to look at DAB pages. Please don't aim to create a stub: they were valuable at an earlier stage of Wikipedia's development, but now they are really not helpful: instead, create a draft, and work on making it into an article. --ColinFine (talk

) 15:55, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

@

The Wikipedia Adventure to get an interactive tour of the basics of editing and contributing. I feel there's a joke to be teased out here about editors running around like headless chickens, but I'm sure it would have been deemed to have been in very poor taste had I tried! So I won't. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk

) 17:15, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: Thanks for pointing out the article called Broiler industry, there is already a paragraph called "Broiler breeder farms" that contains a lot of similar information to what I had intended to use for the Poultry processing page. Therefore, I will see if I can make any improvements on that existing paragraph. Then maybe we can decide later to make it a section and deep link poultry processing to it. Or is that technically not possible? And, thanks for the tip to try the interactive tour, I'll look into it! Dotsonti Let's Talk! 14:47, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@

WP:SPLITTING. The key thing is to think about how a user who is seeking information on a subject would feel. Keeping everything in one place is the best approach. Forcing them to go off at different directions into other pages is not helping them until such time as the article becomes so unwieldy that a discrete chunk is best placed on another page for them to refer to. I don't think we're anywhere near that stage yet. Hope this makes sense. Nick Moyes (talk

) 09:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

sapna chaudhary is a famous haryanvi dancer. She have a log reach in rural india and they always wanted to know more and authentic about thier Icon so there should be page about her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaurang kapoor (talk • contribs) 09:35, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

• If she is famous, then there should be
  sources. Find them, and use the information to create an article at Draft:Sapna Chaudhary. Also when you are not in an article, add four tildes (~) to the end of your posts to sign them. ^{[Username Needed}
  ] 10:19, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I edited McCausland surname page to include Roberto McCausland Dieppa. As a notable person on Wikipedia for the purpose of linking to the bio stub article on Roberto McCausland Dieppa. Initial result was a red link I then added a pipe. which removed red link. I have made an error I believe and would truly appreciate assistance to complete a proper link edit. Thank you in advance for any guidance . --Deanna Coakley 01:21, 1 March 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deanna Coakley (talk • contribs)

Hi, Deanna Coakley and welcome to the Teahouse. To make it easy, I have rollbacked your edits to the McCausland disambiguation page. I was all set to insert it correctly when I spotted an issue. To be honest, I don't think it's necessary or appropriate to link to his middle name from that page. It's for surnames and, unless I've misread the article, that's not his surname - it's Dieppa. There's no hyphen linking the two as far as I could tell, which would have justified an entry in that DAB page. Had his 'nickname in life been McCausland, then a link from there would have been acceptable. Does this sound reasonable to you, or have I missed something. (Forgive me - I won't be able to reply as I'm heading off to bed now) Nick Moyes (talk) 01:46, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: Per Naming customs of Hispanic America#Colombia, both McCausland and Dieppa could be surnames. Deanna Coakley, can you clarify whether this is the case? Then it should of course be included at McCausland. Regards SoWhy 10:35, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@SoWhy: It's nice to learn something new every day here! If that is indeed the case, then the text Deanna might wish to insert into the DAB page as a link is: * [[Roberto McCausland Dieppa]], Colombian pianist and composer It's a shame there is no known birth date in the article that can be used to aid clarity. Nick Moyes (talk) 10:46, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

hello i'm trying to give my article a title on wikipedia. how best can i do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.184.177.201 (talk) 14:41, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Guidance on article titles can be found at

WP:TITLE. 331dot (talk

) 14:48, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I recently translated the St.Joseph`s College, Bangalore page to Hindi. How do i view the translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shawarma98 (talk • contribs) 10:09, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@

St Joseph's College, Bangalore and hi:सेंट जोसेफ कॉलेज, बैंगलोर...? --CiaPan (talk

) 10:21, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@Shawarma98: And if you ever forget some other page you edited in Wikipedia, the listings of your local contributions in specific language (e.g., Special:Contributions/Shawarma98 or hi:Special:Contributions/Shawarma98,...) and global contributions at https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=Shawarma98 may help. :) CiaPan (talk) 10:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@Shawarma98: To answer your question, you can access other language versions in the box on the left lower side of the article. Articles created using the Content Translation tool will automatically be linked in Wikidata and appear in that box. Regards SoWhy 10:30, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! CiaPan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shawarma98 (talk • contribs) 15:35, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi

I’ve been trying to add a logo to our NGO page (IGLYO). When I tried to upload it directly, it was refused, so I uploaded in to Wiki Commons, but when I add the link it still doesn’t appear.

Any help appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plentyoriginal990 (talk • contribs) 14:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello @

WP:COI, including a transparent disclosure. Regarding your question: you'll find detailed advice about logo uploading and usage at Wikipedia:Logos. Note that only freely licensed or non-copyrightable (simple) logos may be uploaded to our sister project Commons. Non-free copyrighted logos used under a "fair use" claim should be uploaded to English Wikipedia instead (more details in the link). Please feel free to ask here again anytime if you have any further specific questions. GermanJoe (talk

) 15:10, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

• The criteria your image was placed under was incorrect so I had to tag it for
  Wikipedia:Speedy Deletion. ^{[Username Needed}
  ] 15:39, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Please fix it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayscott478 (talk • contribs) 15:51, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Jayscott478. Would you like to give us a hint what you were looking for? I don't see how anybody can possibly "fix it" without (at least) that information. --ColinFine (talk) 16:40, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I'm a lawyer in the US with an expertise in specialized commercial/business courts. I wanted to create new pages/entries for some of these specific courts. Could someone give me a brief explanation on how to create a new page on a new subject. Thanks very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeapp (talk • contribs) 16:07, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello,

Your first article. --ColinFine (talk

) 16:43, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I work for a magazine called "Business Insurance". Currently, when you search Wikipedia for Business Insurance (magazine), you are directed to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crain_Communications

This is the page for Crain Communications, which were the previous owners of Business Insurance. They sold the title to the new ownership in 2016. There is no reference to Business Insurance magazine currently on that page.

There is not an existing page for Business Insurance magazine.

What I would like to do is:

1. Create a new page for Business Insurance magazine 2. Direct users who search for "Business Insurance (magazine)" to this new page.

How would I do this?

Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:130D:4198:71C1:3B2:B26F:ACF1 (talk) 16:29, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

First, creating an account would be useful. Make sure your username represents only yourself, and

verifiable sources! If it has, great. If it hasn't, you might be out of luck. Finally, if you have followed all of this perfectly and everything is sourced, add {{subst:submit}} at the top. It;s now waiting to be approved! Unfortunately, there's a high backlog, and it might take a while, but it's better to do it this way because you can get feedback from experienced editors. As well, since you are affiliated with the company, you probably will not be given the same leeway as new editors are typically given. -A lad insane (Channel 2)

17:08, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

What are some good ways that new, inexperienced editors can be helpful to the site? SovietxRefill (talk) 17:32, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hey

The Wikipedia Adventure, which will help you get acquainted with the way a lot of things on Wikipedia work. GMG^talk

17:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Ok, I'll check it out! SovietxRefill (talk) 17:46, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

How do I know if the change is a minor edit or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lighthouse Storage (talk • contribs) 17:46, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a help page titled Help:Minor edit which may be useful to you. Is there something from that page we can clarify for you? --Jayron32 17:49, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I am participating in Ukrainian Wiki gap action. Can you help me please to publish the following article in English Wiki: "Ukrainian Language and Culture School" Thank you for your help.--LearnUkrainian (talk) 17:59, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@

WP:GNG. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)}

18:17, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I got confused - this is just one account - LearnUkranian. Moving Jay's comments to new section. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:24, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I would like to leave a "welcome, but" talk page message for User:Pham quynh mo. Basically, none of his/her (4) edits is comprehensible in English, and the edit summaries are in Vietnamese, according to Google Translate. Could a Vietnamese-speaking "ambassador" work with me on this? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 11:18, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, Arthur Rubin. As this is English Wikipedia, we expect all contributions and edit summaries to be written in some form of comprehensible English. As their edits were either minor refname changes or removal of references, but their edit summaries were in a non-English language, it still seems reasonable to conclude that they understand English well enough to make those changes to articles. So feel free to leave one of our standard welcome messages - or a more personal one of your own - directly on their user talk page. I have already posted a polite message asking them to communicate in English, as this is the accepted practice here. I could have 'welcomed' them too, but maybe you would prefer to do that yourself. (Surprisingly, they do not appear to have contributed to any other language wikis) Regards, Nick Moyes (talk)

@Nick Moyes: I suggest replacing the words ‘directly on their user page’ with ‘directly on their user talk page’ in the advice above. --CiaPan (talk) 11:37, 1 March 2019 (UTC)  Done Nick Moyes (talk)

@Arthur Rubin: You could also take a look at Category:Non-English welcome messages, which have text both in English and in the user's language. –FlyingAce^✈hello 20:20, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I'm a big supporter of comic sans, and I was wondering if its use would be acceptable on non-encyclopedic pages such as forums or my own user page. I learned basic html just so I could use it. Thanks

SovietxRefill (talk) 18:26, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@SovietxRefill: I think people expect a uniform look and feel on non-user pages, and variation can be distracting, but you can get creative on your own user page. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

ok thanksSovietxRefill (talk) 20:55, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

What should I do if there's no start date to put into Template:Marriage? I tried putting in a question mark, but it came out as invalid (at Velvalee Dickinson). The Verified Cactus 100% 22:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@VerifiedCactus: An alternative is to just put the info in the spouse field. Visit Template:Infobox person#TemplateData for more info and scroll down to read the spouse entry where it specifically addresses marriage dates. You can put in a question mark there. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 22:13, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I see, thanks! The Verified Cactus 100% 23:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Mayank123456 srivastava is a indian or google blogger.sir Mayank is a student .he no free to notable in the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guruvandanaraju (talk • contribs) 03:04, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello,

Your first article. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it

03:16, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi I have noticed that most other editors are blue and I was hoping I could make my name blue also. Do I have to file a request for this somewhere or does it only turn blue after I do a certain number of edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericspant (talk • contribs) 02:57, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

The red link is to your user page, and shows red because you haven't created one yet. A user page is entirely optional, but guidance is available at WP:user pages. --David Biddulph (talk) 03:01, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I see. How do I create one? I want to have a prestigious presence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericspant (talk • contribs) 03:02, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Ericspant, simply go to User:Ericspant, click edit (if you don't already end up on the edit screen), and type a little bit about yourself. Gaelan 💬✏️ 03:06, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Ericspant. The way to create a "prestigious presence" here on Wikipedia is by expanding and improving encyclopedia articles in full compliance with the applicable policies and guidelines. If you do that, then you can mention that good work on your user page. A fancy user page is no substitute for the hard work of building the encyclopedia. Substance is far more important than style. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 03:10, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I added content to your User page, so now blue. Delete what I wrote and create your own User page. See

so by clicking show publishing changes or save, thise that mean my article has been published to the public? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khaxanie (talk • contribs) 03:59, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi

what Wikipedia is and isn't. -- Marchjuly (talk

) 07:26, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

hello, I was wondering if I may edit "list of Afghans" and have my input of some popular and famous past and present afghans with relevant resources as my referencing? Thanks, Solomon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmankhan6 (talk • contribs) 12:20, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi

reverted by an editor named IronGargoyle for the reason given in this edit summary. Being reverted is something that happens to all editors and one time or another, so please don't take it personally. If you still feel the changes you made still should be made, please follow Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle and propose them again at Talk:List of Afghans. -- Marchjuly (talk

) 12:29, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

(editconflict) Hello

WP:BOLD and have at it. Note though, that the Afghans in this list should only be those that already have their own WP-articles. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk

) 12:31, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I just corrected some terminology which is more appropriate in the langauge of describing ethnic groups and way of describing certain things with afghan people. I will edit with references more afghans and people with afghan ancestry tomorrow. thank you for you response! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmankhan6 (talk • contribs) 13:14, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@

good talk page practice -- Marchjuly (talk

) 14:14, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Some links about loops are red. How to fix it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayscott478 (talk • contribs) 16:48, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

this page for help with that. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk

) 17:49, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

It really ought to be taken down in view of it being nothing more than a platform from which to attack me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bishop Seán Manchester (talk • contribs) 17:44, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Actually not every single revision, I let at least one stand. Ohh and it was me who removed "extremely unhinged.", so lets not portray this as if I am protecting Ms Simpsons version of the page (or having some vendetta against you). The issue was a series of edits that violated COI, as well as being OR and unsourced. You continued this after being told you had a COI (and being asked to "take it to the talk page" and being pointed to

wp:rightgreatwrongs. Please listen, this is not some gatepost to get at you. I was brought there by a post ant the Fringe noticeboard, trust me if you fall foul of some them you will look at how I have treated you as a model of fairness.Slatersteven (talk

) 18:18, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

When i tried to add location infobox using source code the infobox doesn’t appear.Why did that happen? Not debil (talk) 07:32, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi

infobox Swiss town}} (note the uppercase ess) does. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk

) 08:29, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

not to sandbox but to article because it doesn’t appear in preview page I just discard it. I want to know why Not debil (talk) 12:30, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@Not debil: Anything you typed into an edit screen but only previewed and didn't save can never be seen by anyone else but you. Therefore, unless you show us what the edit contained, it is literally impossible for us to know what the problem was.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:37, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Is there a way to preview an article just by moving your mouse over its wikilink? I mean like to show only the lead paragraph and maybe the photo without having to enter the article--SharabSalam (talk) 14:28, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi SharabSalam. You can try Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:47, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Don't forget about Page Previews :) StaringAtTheStars (talk) 14:52, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you both. That was very helpful--SharabSalam (talk) 19:14, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I have a reference that I use several times in an article I'm writing. I want to use the standard <ref name="BookName"> rather than repeat the whole reference multiple times. However, I want to reference different specific pages in the book for some of the references. I.e., the first reference would be for pp. 110-115 and the second reference for pp. 23-30. (Note this is a different problem than my previous question, this is just one book by a single author rather than an edited book with articles by several authors). Is there an easy way to do this? --MadScientistX11 (talk) 22:47, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Hey MadScientistX11. Always good to see you. If you don't want to use parenthetical referencing, or shortened footnotes, then you can use {{rp}}, which was created by another user after I was looking for a solution to just this problem, back in the mists of time here. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:17, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Same here, thanks, that looks great! --MadScientistX11 (talk) 22:41, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

@MadScientistX11: The problem seems replied now, but ...have you seen Help:References and page numbers? --CiaPan (talk) 21:16, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello. I re-submitted an article - "Trevor Clark (writer)" - in January that I believe meets Wikipedia's standards after initially being rejected for improper citations, and was just wondering what the normal waiting period for a final review might be?

Thanks - Whitefinch — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitefinch (talk • contribs) 23:48, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@Whitefinch: The Draft:Trevor_Clark_(writer) is not currently in the review queue. If you think it is ready for another review, then click the "resubmit" button at the top of the draft. RudolfRed (talk) 23:52, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

This is kind of driving me crazy: Why is there an awkward space at the top of this article: "Zero Point (photometry)" [[1]]? I can't seem to delete it. Could someone show me how? Thanks!

Sam-2727 (talk) 00:05, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

@Sam-2727:, I removed the br, is that better? Schazjmd (talk) 00:09, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

@Schazjmd:. Yes! Thank you!

Sam-2727 (talk) 00:11, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

There is currently vandalism under the ‘Personal life’ section of Linda Henry, related to her age. I saw it via Twitter and went to remove it but the page is protected. can someone help out — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.27.82.88 (talk) 23:54, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

You can submit an edit request via the talk page of the article and request your changes. If you would like to edit semi-protected pages, create an account. Mstrojny (talk) 00:12, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi , I recently made contribution to the "moon" information, X found on the moon . The real evidence is submitted with photos. The people who captured the images includes my son, myself and Yvonne from Malaysia. Whereas the information was undone by an admin or editor saying they are not constructive. I would like Wikipedia to have common sense. While they are building Nuclear powers in space potentially bringing harm to mankind , I believe the real space and moon activity should be revealed to the public. These are constructive evidence coming to light little by little^[1].

I Would like Zefr to undo the removal (of my contribution) . The moon contribution made by myself was accurate with photographic evidence. Its time people know about the facts on the moon and its surfaces. Zefr has not made any research on the topic nor viewed the moon in detail as what we have done. Its wrong for Zefr to remove facts out of mere self opinion.

Annamalai1973 (talk) 02:03, 3 March 2019 (UTC)Annamalai1973

Wikipedia does not accept original research. That includes photos you and associates have taken. Any changes to articles, ESPECIALLY Featured Articles (the star on top bar, right) require references to sources of good reputation. Extraordinary claims for evidence of non-human engineering on the Moon will require extraordinary references. YouTube and an obscure book are not appropriate. Your mention of consideration of nuclear weapons in space has nothing to do with the Moon article. David notMD (talk) 02:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

I am having issues with an editor that is insulting other editors and is not here to contribute. The matter is not urgent but does need to be addressed relatively quickly. My post was removed from AIV and I was told that that was not the right spot for it. However, it is not severe enough for long-term abuse. Where should I go with it?

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03:51, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia is being turned into a mess due to excessive use of Indian media sources, which needs to be tackled as soon as possible. Indian media is ranked 138 on world press freedom index[1], tops list of countries where fake news is passed off in mainstream^[2] and should be partially banned from being used as reliable source on Wiki environment.

Any page where issues like these can be discussed with Wikipedia?-