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    June 30[edit]

    Archives of deleted languages[edit]

    Hey I'm wondering whether there exist archives of languages deleted from wikipedia and of deleted language request incubators. KirkiArty (talk) 03:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @KirkiArty: See meta:List of Wikipedias#Other Wikipedias for closed Wikipedias. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes I know, but I need their content. There is a list of wikipedia requests too, but again without contents. KirkiArty (talk) 09:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @KirkiArty: Some of them were picked up by Miraheze, see https://incubator.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:All_test_languages . TSventon (talk) 10:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That's a bit too little :/ Thanks anyway KirkiArty (talk) 10:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    We have the same name[edit]

    There are multiple artists along with other individuals with the same name “Matt Lambert” I have noticed that our information biography and such are getting mixed together. It happens quite often on platforms that we are mistaken for each other as we have parallel themes in some of our work. I noticed this happening particularly in the Spanish version.

    suggestions on how to remedy this? 178.16.214.236 (talk) 09:39, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi, IP editor who is presumably Matt Lambert.
    On the English wikipedia, the best way to address this is to use the {{Edit COI}} template on the Article's talk page. You might use to say something like "Please remove XYZ because that refers to the Matt Lambert who is based in Madrid, not the one who is based in LA" and provide a link to a reliable source which makes it clear.
    As all the different language run wikis are seperate, we can't advise on Spanish wiki - but I think their process would be pretty similar. -- D'n'B-t -- 10:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Wikipedia:Don't build the Frankenstein is a humorous essay about this very real problem. Cullen328 (talk) 23:25, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Link to a specific part of a list in another article[edit]

    I want to create a link which takes the reader to a specific item on a list which is in subsection of another article. What is the correct syntax for the link at the origin and destination ends? Newwhist (talk) 13:39, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Newwhist, guidance for this process is split between Template:Anchor and WP:ANCHOR. Folly Mox (talk) 14:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Commission to write a page but....[edit]

    Hello I have been commissioned to create a page for a member of a legendary southern rock band. While I have written many times, I have never worked with Wikipedia. After completing this first page, it is very possible, likely even, that others in the industry will want me to create pages for them as well. Please let me now step what do I need to do to get started. Thank you, -Otto Otto Motev (talk) 16:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Lesen WP:PAID. You are required to make certain disclosures and follow certain rules when writing for pay. While not banned outright, the practice is looked down upon, and frequently produces articles which fail to meet Wikipedia's standards of neutrality and which therefore risk being rejected. Then read WP:FIRSTARTICLE to learn about the article creation process. AntiDionysius (talk) 16:40, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Not for pay. When I say commissioned I should have specified that. Thank you very much for the insight and link! Otto Motev (talk) 17:59, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Otto Motev: Even if you're not being paid to write an article for someone you still have a conflict of interest, which you should still disclose. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:08, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Not for pay? What do you mean by commissioned then? Please do specify your connection to the subject. --Onorem (talk) 19:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh really? What would the comflict be? I dont understand? How would i disclose it? 2600:1009:B05F:1E17:81F2:3BF:51C3:1DC5 (talk) 19:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Click on the link and read through the full guidelines. It explains both how to disclose a conflict of interest, and why it's important to do so. The short version is basically that in a case where you have a personal connection to something - it's your friend's company, you personally know the members of the band you're writing about etc - it will in many cases affect your ability to be neutral when writing about that subject, even when you are unaware of it and/or trying very hard to be neutral. Declaring the connection is therefore good for transparency purposes. AntiDionysius (talk) 19:49, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh yes that makes sense for sure thank you Otto Motev (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I was asked by fans initially. They know that I write. Since then a cohost of the podcast he is on has asked me to write this. Its amazing to me that this person is not already on here? But thats why the fans approached me. Otto Motev (talk) 20:08, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Otto Motev: Note also that we use "paid" to cover any compensation. This includes working on the article with your boss's permission on company time, and several other situations, not just straight fee for service. -Arch dude (talk) 18:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There will be no pay or compensation at all. I am independent and do not have a boss at all. The subject is currently involved in charity work. Otto Motev (talk) 20:09, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Too everyone taking the time to enlighten me on the nature if Wikipedia, thank you! Otto Motev (talk) 20:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Otto Motev You may need a solid piece of writing advice. I have no idea what your usual writing style is, nor whether you are adaptable. Wikipedia requires flat, neutral, dull-but-worthy prose, with references. Obviously we may not accept copyright wviolations. Assuming your rock legend is still living we have very specific needs for referencing:
    For a living person we have a high standard of referencing. Every substantive fact you assert, especially one that is susceptible to potential challenge, requires a citation with a reference that is about them, and is independent of them, in multiple secondary sources which are WP:RS, and is significant coverage. Please also see WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources and WP:SELFPUB which has clear limitations on self published sources. Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact cited, that meet these tough criteria is likely to make this draft a clear acceptance (0.9 probability). Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the person is not suitable for inclusion, certainly today.
    I wish you success. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 20:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you!! Yes it sounds similar to writing training garb, process manuals and corporate stuff. All facts no conjecture. Sighting references is required, I believe I understand that correctly? Man, this is very good information I really appreciate you!! Thanks again!! Otto Motev (talk) 20:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, but note that the vast bulk of your sources must be wholly independent of the subject - not written, published or commissioned by them or their associates or agents, or based on interviews with them or press releases. 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 entirely 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.
    Note also that Wikipedia is not interested in what you personally know about the subject: every single piece of information you put in an article should have been published in a reliable source (and preferably, you should cite that source). ColinFine (talk) 22:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I am concerned here with the OP's description of the band involved as legendary. That's not an objective starting position. I recommend the OP have a read of WP:NPOV. HiLo48 (talk) 23:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I will read everything you guys send me. Maybe after I read this, I will understand the "concern" of using the word legendary in this informal setting. Thank you. Otto Motev (talk) 12:09, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:PUFFERY may be of help. Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing and WP:OWN may also be of interest. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Privacy[edit]

    Hi there I edited an article because of a privacy issue. I am quite surprised my comment and the edit are both visible. Is there a way to change this please? 2.219.13.249 (talk) 16:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I added a header to your question. There are instructions at WP:OVERSIGHT for how to have the edit hidden. RudolfRed (talk) 16:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've removed his date of birth, as unreferenced. I've restored the statement that he's a film director, which you removed, as attested by references in the body of the article. (Almost all contributions to Wikipedia are visible to the world. This is, supposedly, made clear by the word "Publish" which you have to use when making a contribution.) Maproom (talk) 17:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Maproom, I think the IP is more concenred about the edit to article about the street which gave the subject's exact address - the subject was only added to that article on 4th May - that seems reasonable for a RevDel I think? -- D'n'B-t -- 18:08, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I have reverted all the 4 May edits, which were unsourced, so that could be revdeled as well. TSventon (talk) 18:11, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And I've revdeled the relevant edits Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    self submission[edit]

    Is it appropriate to submit an article about myself Wickicgo (talk) 16:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Wickicgo: You should not. Read the advice at WP:AUTO RudolfRed (talk) 17:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Page deletion[edit]

    Hello, I'm trying to find out why Marisol Lopez-Tromp page was deleted but I can't find any info. Please Help, thank you Quaketornado (talk) 19:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Quaketornado I can't see any sign that Marisol Lopez-Tromp ever existed in en Wikipedia. Generally if you click on a red link you see the deletion history, but there is none in this case. TSventon (talk) 19:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, a few articles have a red link to the non-existing page Marisol Lopez-Tromp but that does not imply that a page was deleted. See Wikipedia:Red link. Two other WIkipedia languages have articles about her: nl:Marisol Lopez-Tromp and pap:Marisol Lopez-Tromp. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello Quaketornado. Based on a machine translation of the Dutch language article, it seems that she is a long time member and senior leader of of the Parliament of Aruba, which is called the Staten. Accordingly, it would be great if a Dutch speaking editor could translate that article into English. See WP:TRANSLATE to find out how to do that. Cullen328 (talk) 01:14, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Quaketornado, I have also gone in for a few of the articles and added interlanguage links to the nlwiki article (IMO, more complete than the one on papwiki) using the ill template. this will be *automatically* updated to link to an article about her on English language Wikipedia if such an article is created. At minimum her standing as a member of a country's National Parliament would pass the Notability test. Naraht (talk) 13:29, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Concern about an editor's behavior[edit]

    I have concerns about an editor acting, in my view, out of compliance with the Wikimedia Foundation Universal Code of Conduct. To whom should I address the specifics of the issue? I have been taught to praise in public and criticize in private, so my thoughts are that I should not just post this to an admin on a talk page. Please advise. Thank you for your help.  Doc54625 (talk) 19:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The UCoC is not really something we enforce locally, because we already have local policies that are, in almost all cases, stricter than the UCoC. If your concern has a priovacy component you should report it to WP:ARBCOM by email, but if it does not you should in fact post at the relvant admin noticeboard such as WP:ANI. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 19:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Release History on MATLAB page[edit]

    On May 31st, 2024, MrOllie removed the "Release history" section on MATLAB under WP:NOTCHANGELOG. However, this list seems synthesized from multiple sources and more granular than what MATLAB provides on its own website without discussing bugs being squashed or intermediate snapshots. Similarly, ZFS has a section, and Adobe Acrobat has a dedicated version history page. Would it be best to revert the deletion, to make a reduced/redacted form to make it less of a changelog, or to split the version/release/number correlation chart into a separate page similar to the various Windows 10 updates? UpbeatDiamond (talk) 23:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    While the WP:BRD process allows you to revert, doing so would almost certainly be followed by a discussion on the article's talk page. Since that is going to happen anyway, and also since you are proposing different possible answers, starting a discussion on the talk page is clearly the best approach. Make sure you notify MrOllie. ColinFine (talk) 10:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Question[edit]

    I've reverted some vandalism and warned a user for that, but i noticed there was some more vandalism before that. What do i do? DANGA14talk 23:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Which article are you talking about, DANGA14? -- Hoary (talk) 00:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    "I've reverted some vandalism" refers to Byju's.
    "there was some more vandalism" refers to Mayank Agarwal. DANGA14talk 00:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello, DANGA14. Revert vandalism whenever you see it. Warnings should be for recent vandalism. Warning someone who has not edited for months is unlikely to be of any value. Cullen328 (talk) 00:59, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    July 1[edit]

    Email Banning[edit]

    i wish to add an email address of an artist to his page but ive been flagged and banned from it. its a personal email account. what should i do to be able to add his email to the draft

    Jesus Michael Kolbe (talk) 00:43, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Jesus Michael Kolbe: Don't. It's against Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of personal information and using primary sources. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:52, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Why on earth would you want to put the artist's email address in an encyclopaedia article about them? What encyclopaedic purpose would that possibly serve? (I see that the draft has now been deleted as promotional anyway). ColinFine (talk) 10:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My admin account can see the attempted edit at Special:AbuseLog/38129745: "He is a talented gospel singer and writer who is prospected and receives ordinances from the spirit to write powerful and compacting lyrics in the praise of God. He seeks to collaborate with fellow gospel singers who being led by the spirit wishes to partner with him. Encompassing Gospel singers and individuals can reach out to him through his email at ..." None of this is remotely appropriate for a Wikipedia article. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There is a filter specifically to catch promotional language? Trade (talk) 12:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Trade:Yes, but this was an email filter. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:35, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There is one for articles as well? Trade (talk) 13:36, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Trade: I meant it was a filter for adding email addresses in edits. There are also filters for promotional language in edits. Many filters are private to prevent abusers from seeing our counter measures so I'm not going into details. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:46, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Would you be willing to port the promotional filters to Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons? We urgently need it Trade (talk) 13:49, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Trade: I'm not an edit filter manager and anyway, I'm not sure how well Wikipedia's filters would work at other wikis. They are based on what users try to add to Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Blockquotes[edit]

    I was doing a GA review, I just want to ask if blockquotes are copyvios, you can also see Giado concentration camp to see the review/the blockquotes. TheNuggeteer (talk) 02:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The start of the GA review is not there but at Talk:Giado concentration camp/GA1, where you ask the same question, TheNuggeteer, and where Zanahary has answered it well. Incidentally, I was surprised to see quotation marks contain everything in each of these blocks. They were superfluous, and I therefore removed them. -- Hoary (talk) 06:27, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    AWB edit summary help[edit]

    I originally posted this over at WT:AWB but haven't gotten an answer, and it's putting me off editing with AWB at the moment, so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone who doesn't look at WT:AWB knows the answer.

    I'd like to stop the addition of the [[WP:AWB/T|typo(s) fixed]]: text to edit summaries when using AWB's automatic typo fixes. Is there any way to do this? Using the "lock the default edit summary" option doesn't stop it from being added.

    Thanks! Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 02:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Suntooooth, hopefully WT:AWB will answer shortly. Could you explain why you dislike "typo(s) fixed" there? I found Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 33#Request regarding the default edit summary in the talkpage archive, which may be relevant. TSventon (talk) 10:11, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I dislike it because my default edit summary is already "minor fixes", which covers typos/caps fixes/etc, and because it unnecessarily clutters my edit summaries. I think it's useful for some people, but for me I'd just like an option to disable it. Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 13:52, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There may be a good reason to use a standardised wording, such as allowing AWB edits to be tracked more easily, but the AWB page watchers will know more about that than I do.

    Article not visible on internet page.[edit]

    Hello I have created an article some days ago but it is not visible on the internet page. How to sort out this problem. Thank you Aditya Bijarniya (talk) 03:33, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Aditya Bijarniya It looks like some of the pages you created may have been moved to draft space, because they aren't ready for the main encyclopedia. You may want to look at your contributions, where you can find links to the pages you've edited. —C.Fred (talk) 03:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @C.Fred
    No article is in draft. Aditya Bijarniya (talk) 03:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Aditya Bijarniya Then I'm not sure how to help you, because I don't see where there are any deleted articles in your deleted contributions. —C.Fred (talk) 03:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Aditya Bijarniya: can you clarify what you mean by "not visible on the internet page"? Are you unable to find or see the page anymore yourself? Or are you just asking why the page goes not show up in internet search engines like Google? If you're asking about why it does not show up in internet search engines like Google then even if it remains in article space it is not likely to do so until either 90 days have passed or someone has marked it as patrolled per WP:NOINDEX. There isn't really much you can do to speed up this process other than wait although if the article is clearly WP:Notable and without significant problems perhaps people in the WP:NPP team are more likely to pass it quickly. Note that any article in draft space is not likely to show up ever. Nil Einne (talk) 04:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The 2024 Corn Cuchulainn Open 750 Final[edit]

    How can i add the new winner to the list please or could you do it please. The winner was Tuono Charlie many thanks Alan. Race 6 - The 2024 Corn Cuchulainn Open 750 Final (Grade : DD0) Flat 750

    POS. TRAP GREYHOUND SIRE NAME DAM NAME PRIZE WT. WIN TIME BY GOING EST TIME SP. GRADE COMM. 1.

    TUONO CHARLIE GOOD NEWS FARRONRORY BONNY €10500.00 83 41.32

    SAND 41.32 4/5 DD0 ALD,HLDON 2.

    BALLYHOOLY TEJAY BALLYMAC ANTON CATS BELLE €3000.00 78 41.32 NK SAND 41.34 5/1 DD0 STRFIN,CHLRI 3.

    DROOPYS COMRADE DROOPYS SYDNEY DROOPYS SWEET €1500.00 77 41.32 10.5L SAND 42.07 5/1 D0 SLAW,RNON 4.

    VELVET JENNY DROOPYS SYDNEY VELVET NANNYKATE €500.00 59 41.32 2L SAND 42.21 6/1 D1 FAW,CHL 1 5.

    HANOVER PHANTOM SLIPPERY ROBERT BE SLOW DOR €500.00 75 41.32 6L SAND 42.63 10/1 D2 EVAW,NVSHW 6.

    NEON LIGHTS BALLYMAC BEST BALLYMAC NATALIE €500.00 72 41.32 1L SAND 42.70 10/1 D3 SLAW,NVSHW 123banjo (talk) 08:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging ApricotFoot who updated Corn Cuchulainn the last three years. It's not my field and I have no idea what the SP column even means. I found mention of the 2024 winner at [1] but not [2]. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    SP means 'Starting Price': i.e. the 'average' (but it's complicated) betting odds being quoted on the runner (horse or greyhound) by bookmakers at the start of the race. {The poster formerly known as 87,.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 04:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. An unexplained "SP" was confusing for a race at Shelbourne Park. I have linked it.[3] PrimeHunter (talk) 12:02, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MR KAILASH SATYARTHI 2014 wiki no editable[edit]

    We would like to undertstand how to make the wikipeda of his name only by logging and with a password to edit the content. 49.205.178.227 (talk) 10:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Kailash Satyarthi doesn't have any editing restrictions, and protecting it would require a request at WP:RFPP. This would require evidence of persistent disruptive editing, which there doesn't seem to be at the moment.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 10:33, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This is a help desk for the English Wikipedia. If you refer to another page than the English Kailash Satyarthi then please link it. If you refer to Kailash Satyarthi then I'm not sure whether you want to edit the page or prevent others from doing it. You can edit it now and there is currently no valid reason to prevent others. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You can create a username and password for yourself at CreateAccount, but that is not a requirement for editing that particular article. -- D'n'B-t -- 11:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It sounds as if you might have the (very common) misunderstanding that the article on Kailash Satyarthi "belongs to" him or his team: it does not. Articles do not belong to anybody, and the article may be edited by almost anybody in the world except Satyarthi or people associated with him. If you are Satyarthi or somebody associated with him, then you have a conflict of interest, and you should not directly edit the article, but you may make edit requests. ColinFine (talk) 13:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Using screenshotted image from a video to insert to an article.[edit]

    Is that allowed? Everywheretheygo (talk) 12:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Everywheretheygo it depends on the copyright status of the video. See c:Commons:Screenshots and WP:SCREENSHOT for more info. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 12:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    timestamps in signatures greyed out[edit]

    On safari today I noticed that every timestamp in signatures is light grey instead of regular text color. Is this a bug, or is there something on my my end I can do to change it back? Thanks Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 14:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    It's intentional, as they now act as links to the comment, for copying to other discussions and such. They have the css class "ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink" if you wish to target them in your custom css. WelpThatWorked (talk) 14:07, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @L3X1: You can add code like this to your CSS:
    .ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink,
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink:visited,
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink:active {
  color: black !important;
}
    PrimeHunter (talk) 14:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @PrimeHunter: thanks so much!! Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 19:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Help with information contributions[edit]

    I would like to add information about the two streaming platforms I own on Roku and fire tv. I don't know how to add that information on here. I don't want to be blocked. May I have assistance or guidance Msffga18 (talk) 14:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello, Msffga18. First, if you own the platforms, then you have a financial stake, and Wikipedia regards you as a paid editor: you must make a formal declaration of this on your user page: see the link I gave for how to do this.
    Because of your conflict of interest, you should not edit directly, but you may make an edit request on the talk page of an article you want to change, and in time an uninvolved volunteer editor will see your request and decide what to do. Your case will be stronger if you can cite a source where somebody wholly unconnected with you or your platforms has chosen to write about your availability on those services (more than just a listing or mention). If it appears to the editor that your purpose is purely promotion, and there is no encyclopaedic value to adding the platforms, then they will not do so. ColinFine (talk) 14:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    hebrew[edit]

    how to learn hebrew 174.94.108.230 (talk) 17:43, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    That is not a question about using Wikipedia, you could try Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language and give a bit of detail about what you are looking for. TSventon (talk) 17:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    July 2[edit]

    Wikimedia API parse - properties property[edit]

    The parse action of the Wikimedia API contains a property called 'properties', which shows images and "expectedUnconnectedPage" and I can't really tell what that is for and whether it's useful

    KirkiArty (talk) 01:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @KirkiArty: Please always give an example when possible. 'properties' shows properties for a specified page so the result will vary for different pages. Unconnected page means there is no Wikidata item for the page. I think it's only shown for pages in namespaces where it's possible to have a Wikidata item. I'm not sure about the difference between expectedUnconnectedPage (example) and unexpectedUnconnectedPage (example). Does it matter to you? PrimeHunter (talk) 02:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Uh
    All I really care about is whether I should keep it when mirroring, aka whether it's useful KirkiArty (talk) 02:42, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @KirkiArty: This is a help desk for the English Wikipedia. What do you mean by mirroring? Is your question about another website? If so then I have no way of telling whether users of an unidentified website will find something useful. Users of the English Wikipedia certainly may want to know whether a page has a Wikidata item. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Mirroring is hosting a copy of something
    In this case ofc wikipedia KirkiArty (talk) 02:56, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @KirkiArty: I guess this is about your own website and not a website run by the Wikimedia Foundation. It wouldn't really be a copy if you omit things but I don't know how your mirror is made and whether the API gives the same results as here. If it says UnconnectedPage for all pages then it sounds useless. Anyway, do what you want on your own website as long as you respect foundation:Policy:Terms of Use. Note the parts about trademarks and licensing. If you post questions at the English Wikipedia then please always say if they aren't about something here at en.wikipedia.org. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    They are about something here.
    I'm asking about what the property tells you and whether it's useful
    'Do what you want on your own website' is obvious, but doesn't help since it isn't an answer as to whether it's useful KirkiArty (talk) 03:24, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @KirkiArty: It's useful here. I cannot speak for your unidentified website. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:39, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I was sent a "warning"[edit]

    I edited a page ("Clovis_Culture") by replacing a paragraph containing errors with a corrected paragraph.

    I received a "Warning" from "jdcomix" on my Talk page -- "This is your only warning: if you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice." 17:15, 30 June 2024.

    I do not understand what this means, and I have received no response to my replies

    Can you please explain what I was being warned about?

    Thanks --

    ~~~~ Gahaynes (talk) 01:53, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello, Gahaynes. You removed well-referenced, well-written content and replaced it with content that was not very well written, and initially very poorly referenced. Instead of making your case at Talk:Clovis culture, you made a lengthy edit summary that insulted another editor as "incompetent", which is a violation of the behavioral guideline Assume good faith and is a personal attack which is contrary to policy. This is a collaborative project and decisions here are based on consensus. When another editor disagrees, it is incumbent on you to discuss the issue on the article talk page and gain consensus for your proposed changes there. Those are among the reasons that you were warned. You are new here. You need to learn more about social norms among fellow editors before trying to push through contested changes. Cullen328 (talk) 02:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    As for getting no replies to your remarks on your talk page, that is is because you did not ping the editor who left the warning. Therefore, that editor had no way to know that you responded there. Cullen328 (talk) 02:24, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The weird thing is that the editor concerned about the Op's edits didn't revert them. Had he done so, with an explanatory Edit summary, it may have helped. HiLo48 (talk) 02:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    In addition to what others have said, if you are the G Haynes whose book is being referenced, you should not be directly editing the part of the article which references the book, as that is regarded as a conflict of interest. Rather, you should raise an edit request on the talk page, or at least discuss the matter there first. ColinFine (talk) 09:16, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Help with WP:OWN concern[edit]

    Hello, I recently raised a WP:OWN concern on a page I had been edited lately the Antioch International Movement of Churches. I noticed 50% of the authorship edits on that page have been edited by a single editor since March. This editor uses speedy deletions/reverts, supposed BRD style edits, which I experienced and discouraged me. The editor is also very particular about approving edits. I am concerned this editor is exhibiting behaviors that appear to be possessive of this page. I assume good faith on this editor's part and don't have any current disputes, however when I raised the OWN issue with the editor on the article's talk page, the editor did not reply. The editor eventually left a message on my user talk page telling me, it's not for the article's talk page, to WP:FOC, and talk to administrators about it on the appropriate boards. I reiterated WP:OWN says "An editor who appears to assume ownership of an article should be approached on the article's talk page with a descriptive header informing readers about the topic." and the concerns of overdoing possessive behaviors. Still the editor did not want to address the issue. What is the proper way to address this and what is the appropriate board to bring this concern to? Pride2bme (talk) 04:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Pride2bme, this looks like a rather lengthy content dispute, so you could look at the processes in WP:DISPUTE. On the WP:OWN issue, can you give examples of WP:OWNBEHAVIOUR at the talk page? If not, you may have to assume good faith. TSventon (talk) 12:07, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Generally, I'd say glancing at the history, there seems to be a watchfulness that starts to become possessiveness, making 50% of the authorship on the page. There is only one dominant editor. I don't have any active content disputes, and would not want engage with this article further due to the lengths it takes to get this editor's approval. Is WP:OWN about a dispute or exhibiting possessive behaviors? Even if in good faith, from what I understood, WP:OWN sounded more like an "overdoing it" concern if an editor over dominates a page. This editor often quickly deletes and reverts contributions from multiple editors. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antioch_International_Movement_of_Churches&diff=prev&oldid=1230752883 sometimes even reverting spelling corrections, like I corrected "a HGTV" to "an HGTV": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antioch_International_Movement_of_Churches&diff=prev&oldid=1231593828 or minor things I identified the church spelled their cell groups as "Lifegroups" like so but he could not accept that, instead citing sources misspelling Antioch's groups as "Life Groups" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Antioch_International_Movement_of_Churches#%22Lifegroup%22_vs_%22Life_Group%22_spelling as much talk as we went through, he would not budge. Also the editor did not want to discuss or address a WP:OWN concern. Pride2bme (talk) 12:43, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Date format in infoboxes[edit]

    How do I get infoboxes to follow the DMY format? MDY seems to be the default. Thanks Roundtheworld (talk) 11:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Roundtheworld you need to add the parameter df=yes e.g. {{birth date|df=yes|1999|12|31}} - best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 11:09, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. Roundtheworld (talk) 11:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    List of company articles by non-extended-confirmed users[edit]

    I am trying to get a list together of every enwiki article on a company written by a non-extended-confirmed user. (Or, by proxy, every Wikidata item that's an instance of a company with an enwiki article written by a non-extended-confirmed user). Is this technically practical to do? If so, how could I go about doing it?

    I don't have experience in these larger-scale sorts of queries, so my intuitions about what's possible and how it can be done are quite unreliable. I've dabbled a bit in Petscan but I don't think it has the capacity to query user permissions like that. My sense is this would require something like a Quarry query, but I don't know how to write those. – Teratix ₵ 11:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    First, the obligatory ad: this sort of question is the whole point of Wikipedia:Request a query.
    Finding what user rights someone had at a specific point of time is at best impractical - you'd have to trace it back through the user rights log, which doesn't follow renames and didn't used to store which rights were changed unless they happened to be mentioned in the log comment. Extended-confirmed could be closely approximated by comparing the datestamp to the user's registration time and by counting the number of prior edits a user had made, but the latter's also impractical unless you've already narrowed your search down to a specific user. About the best you can do for the edit count is look at a user's current number of edits.
    The other aspect to this is that getting a list of company pages on enwiki is nontrivial. The category system is fantastically terrible for generating such lists: not only are there companies not in Category:Companies - and in fact there are no companies there - but being in that category tree, or even a more specific one like Companies by country, doesn't mean a given page is about a company. Walking the category tree starts finding pages in individual companies' categories, like Arnold Schwarzenegger (Companies by country → Companies of the United States → People by company in the United States → Skydance Media people), long before it stops finding new company articles. Plus, as you probably know since you mention working with Petscan, most conceptually-broad categories eventually include a substantial majority of all articles in their tree, and Category:Companies by country is no exception.
    All that said, quarry:query/84568 has a list of non-redirect mainspace articles in the Category:Companies by country tree to a maximum depth of 3, not reached solely through a category starting with "People by company", where the author of the earliest currently-not-deleted revision either now has 500 or fewer edits or created that page within a month of their registration. Some bad-looking data early on because of SUL and accounts like User:Conversion script, but that mostly clears up after the first page. —Cryptic 13:54, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Cryptic: first off, thanks very much for your work – I definitely wasn't expecting someone to actually write and run the whole query just from my question! I certainly wasn't expecting it to be possible to tell whether users were extended-confirmed at the time they created the article. In fact, the extended-confirmed criterion is just meant to be an extremely crude possible-SPA check, so in some ways it's actually better if the query is based on a user's current rather than past permissions.
    The category system is fantastically terrible for generating such lists Yes, I've found this to be a problem. I'm having some success with Petscan's ability to incorporate SPARQL queries – by limiting results to pages with Wikidata items that are instances of companies, I've been able to filter out the non-company articles that end up in the tree. Although I'm not exactly sure how many genuine company articles also get filtered out.
    Thanks for letting me know about Request a query as well, definitely would have posted there had I known about it. – Teratix ₵ 08:55, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There's no easy way to mix queries against Wikidata with ones against the enwiki database. Petscan can do it because it has separate connections to both databases and stores the intermediate data itself (or so I assume; I can't imagine any other way to do it). The most practical way to do it short of writing a petscan-like tool is to make a userspace page, or a set of such pages, containing links to each article you want checked. (Which makes me consider just pulling a list of all articles linked from any page titled "List of*companies*", and wonder how many that would miss.) —Cryptic 09:53, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also, minor thing but would be really helpful: is there a way to create a PagePile out of the query results so I can feed them into Petscan? I tried to do it myself but PagePile is asking for page_title, I think because the relevant column in the Quarry query is ca_title instead. – Teratix ₵ 09:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I haven't worked with pagepile before, but I think quarry:query/84588 should be in a format it likes when it completes. —Cryptic 09:53, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Teratix, are you defining written by as created a page at a given title oder contributed at least n% of extant article byte size or some other thing? Folly Mox (talk) 16:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Folly Mox: Ideally "created a non-redirect/disambiguation page or expanded a redirect into a non-redirect page at a given title", but I wasn't expecting this definition to be practical to implement in a query. "Created a page at a given title" would be a perfectly good alternative criterion for me. – Teratix ₵ 08:55, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Tolong bantu aku[edit]

    Saya butuh bantuan tolong 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 118.136.121.65 (talk) 13:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Translation appears to be: "Please help me. I need help please." Hello IP editor - do you have a question about using or editing English Wikipedia? 57.140.16.8 (talk) 13:44, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikidata Question[edit]

    Hi Wikipedia,

    I have two concerns regarding data for Blic, daily newspaper from Serbia.

    I have tried entering publication interval and for some reason it does not let me publish it. Also, I have tried editing their social media information and it did not let me. For both of them, it does not let me publish changes.

    Can you tell me why ?

    Боки ☎ ✎ 14:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    At a glance, no, I can't tell. Blic has never been subject to page protection, and I don't see anything in the filter log blocking your edits. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 16:25, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Just Step Sideways If I give you information that I would like to enter, would you mind entering them for me, please ? Боки ☎ ✎ 16:54, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh, wait, I missed that you were asking about Wikidata, not Wikipedia. You'd need to ask over there.I believe this would be the right palce. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 17:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you @Just Step Sideways !
    Just sent the request there!
    Боки ☎ ✎ 18:24, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Edits by page[edit]

    I may have asked this before, but I can't recall the answer. How can I see a list of my edits to a specific page.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:48, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    One way is to open the page and select "view history" and then "Find edits by user", enter your username and click submit. TSventon (talk) 14:53, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thx.
    Resolved
    -TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Adding image for Sibley Commission[edit]

    I recently published a new article on the Sibley Commission, a 1960 government committee that was headed by John A. Sibley. Sibley has been deceased since 1986, and all of the other members of the 19-person committee are also deceased. During my time writing the article, I stumbled across a photograph of the committee here, showing 16 of the 19 members. Would I be able to upload this using the File upload wizard as a non-free file under the category "This is a historical portrait of a person no longer alive" if all of the members of the group are deceased, or is this category solely for individuals? JJonahJackalope (talk) 16:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    That seems reasonable to me. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 17:47, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Cut-and-paste move[edit]

    This user copy-pasted all the contents of 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Invitational Conference to create 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference then I tagged a history merge and notified the user then one hour later they boldly moved it to draft and moved it again as main article. Can someone take a look? 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 17:53, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I've done the history merge. The move to and from mainspace is untidy but needs no action. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:26, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Elon Musk Page Typo[edit]

    There is a typo on the page for Elon Musk, it states " In 2024, NASA awarded SpaceX the $843 million contract to deorbit the Internation Space Station at the end of its lifespan" There seems to be a typo for International. I wonder if you could fix it. ADookie (talk) 22:58, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

     Fixed. Thank you for pointing that out! 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 23:21, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    July 3[edit]

    How can I get proper URL for my page?[edit]

    I created biography page in Wiki pedia , But i have no idea about how to get url like my name

    currently it showing : User talk:BharattHari

    i wan to change Bharatt Hari

    BharattHari (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @BharattHari: You should not write about yourself. See WP:AUTO. If you choose to persist, then follow the guidance from WP:YFA to create an article you can submit for review. RudolfRed (talk) 02:20, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    User indef'ed as spam/advertising-only account. DMacks (talk) 04:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Addition to a disambiguation page[edit]

    A few days ago I added a line to a disambiguation page. This is the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headband_(disambiguation) I added "Headband, a New Zealand music band started in 1971 by Tommy Adderley". However, it seems my addition has been reverted. I had no link to any article about "Headband" as I am not skilled enough to create one (yet). Was my addition reverted because I did not cite any source? Otari (talk) 03:08, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Otari no, it was because generally, disambiguation pages should only contain articles that exist. See WP:DAB for more info. If you think the band is notable and you have reliable sources, follow the directions at H:YFA and submit a draft for review. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 03:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the info. I have so much to learn! Otari (talk) 03:14, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I just had a ping from an IP[edit]

    [4] Can IP:s ping people now? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:46, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    It hadn't occurred to me that they couldn't. What I don't think is possible is pinging [to] an IP. ¶ I quote a subsequent message (one that's refreshingly concise): "[gptzero.me] said 'We are highly confident this text was ai generated.'" I was entirely confident of that even before seeing gptzero's opinion on the matter. I understand why people wanting such drivel would want a LLM to churn it out, because it must be even more boring to produce than it is to skimread; what puzzles me is how any reasonably intelligent human would suppose that another reasonably intelligent human would take it seriously and be persuaded by it. -- Hoary (talk) 07:32, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Hoary I think I got confused, like you said, it's IP:s that can't be pinged. It just doesn't happen very often that IP:s know how to ping. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:39, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Some of us have obtained deeper knowledge of this site's arcane ways. Footnote: once masking comes into effect, apparently it will be possible to ping whatever-we-will-then-call-un-logged-in-editors. 57.140.16.8 (talk) 13:45, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Edit a Page[edit]

    Dear All, I need your support to edit and correct content about a biography of a living person. The individual is exposed to an outdated content and his reputation is harmed. What is the best way to address such matters and how to officially edit the page with the collaboration of the previous editors. I would like to thank you in advance for your support and i look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Dimitrios Bourpoulas Conval14 (talk) 09:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Conval14, there's editing, which can of course be careful or careless, competent or incompetent; but Wikipedia doesn't recognize the notion of "officially editing". (However, if by "officially edit" an article you mean "edit the article on behalf of its subject", you may not do this. Please read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.) Every article has a talk page. You can post a message there to get agreement from other editors. -- Hoary (talk) 09:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Questions about formatting my 1st Wikipedia article[edit]

    HELLO. I'm writing my first Wikipedia article and I'm kind of stumped on two things. I was hoping someone might be able to answer my questions in simple terminology. 1. Clickable references within the article. Okay, I have several names of people and other references that are formatted to be clickable, thus taking the reader to a new page relating to what they clicked on. However, at this time, there are no associated pages for these people. Do I remove the formatting that makes the reference clickable and come back later once those ancillary pages have been written? Or what? 2. I'll use my own name as an example for this one: I do not have a Wikipedia page yet. I will later, but not right now. If I format my name to be clickable, I get a completely different Scott Young that the link leads to. Once my own page is written, how do I format it to go to me and not other people with the same name? Those are my questions. I've done a good job of finding answers to all my other questions, but these two have me a bit mystified. Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. SCOTT YOUNG RadioStoryTeller (talk) 09:54, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @RadioStoryTeller: Author names in references are usually only linked if we already have an article about them. Names in other places can be linked if the person appears to satisfy Wikipedia:Notability (people). See more at Wikipedia:Red link. The link Scott Young does not go to a person but a disambiguation page with a list of people. In articles, Scott Young (English footballer) should be linked with [[Scott Young (English footballer)|Scott Young]] which produces Scott Young. See more at Wikipedia:Piped link. Some templates have their own way of making piped links. Look at the template documentation, e.g. Template:Cite web#Authors. For a notable Scott Young with no article, you can try to guess what a future article might be called and for example write [[Scott Young (actor)|Scott Young]] to produce Scott Young. If you discover the person is already mentioned in Wikipedia with a red link then use the same title. If you want to mention yourself or your work then see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:54, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello, Scott. If you meet Wikipedia's criteria for NACTOR then there may at some time be an article about you: but you are very strongly discouraged from writing it yourself (see WP:AUTO). Unless there is that possibility of an article about you, then your name should not be wikilinked anywhere in Wikipedia - and even if it is, you should not be adding or linking your own name anywhere, as that is a COI: rather you should raise an edit request, and an uninvolved editor will decide whether the addition is appropriate.
    Separately, adding yet more unsourced information to an already unsourced article is likely a waste of time: it is like building more balconies and turrets on a house without any foundations, which is likely to fall down at any time. In my view, the only work worth doing on an article like Meet the Hollowheads is to look for more independent, reliable sources that discuss the movie at some length and add them as citations for the information found in them; or to nominate it for deletion if more such sources cannot be found. (The Unknown Movies review is probably one such, but more are needed, and it is only linked as an external link, not cited as a source for any information; and more than one is needed inm any case). ColinFine (talk) 11:51, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Edit count at a certain time[edit]

    Would it be possible to get the amount of edits a user had at a certain time? Thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 10:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    This should be pretty easy by using Special:Contributions and putting in the start and end dates you are interested in. The start date could be when the account was registered, if you want the total up to the end date. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:59, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @CanonNi: To compute a possible approximation, "Edit count" at the bottom of Special:Contributions/CanonNi links to https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/CanonNi. Near the top are links "Year counts" and "Month counts". PrimeHunter (talk) 11:03, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I found a better solution and am therefore marking this as
    Resolved
    . Thanks, both. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 12:22, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I want to have a page written about my website, who can i talk to about getting it built?[edit]

    I want to have a page written about my website, who can i talk to about getting it built? 93.175.59.10 (talk) 10:57, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    IP editor. This is a very bad idea. You are likely to be scammed as soon as you reveal who you are or the name of your website. If it is wikinotable, a volunteer will get round to writing an article. You could even draft such an article yourself but first read WP:PAID, WP:COI and especially this one. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:04, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Websites are rarely notable in their own right. It would have to be a well known website with plenty of coverage in reliable secondary sources.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 11:21, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Create page[edit]

    How to create wikipedia page Harshad0 (talk) 12:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Creating a new article is the most difficult task to attempt on Wikipedia. It is highly recommended that you first spend time editing existing articles first, to learn how Wikipedia operates and what is expected of article content. Using the new user tutorial is a good idea too. I've placed some basic information on your user talk page that may help you. 331dot (talk) 13:06, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Verification of identity[edit]

    The user Maximilian Janisch also claims to be the subject of the BLP article Maximilian Janisch (recently at AfD, but retained per no consensus). He's provided a link to German Wikipedia where his identity was verified: [5]. He wants to know if he should still separately submit verification of his identity for en-wiki, or is the one from de-wiki sufficient? --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:18, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    delete a page not created by me[edit]

    How do I remove a page created about me, but not by me? Swimmingbutterflies (talk) 14:28, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Swimmingbutterflies: What is the name of the article? Can you please provide a link? --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    See also WP:BLPSELF. Shantavira|feed me 15:16, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    poor quality articles by same author[edit]

    a user created many bad articles, and when draftified, they moved it back to mainspace, so they cannot be draftified. is there a good way to deal with this without afd'ing each article? ltbdl (talk) 14:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    AfD seems doable this lists 16 articles, but 3 have been deleted and one has been nominated at AfD, leaving 12 to deal with. TSventon (talk) 15:19, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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