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January 30

Changing the photo for Eddie Van Halen

Hi,

I would like to update the photo of Eddie Van Halen to a more recent, better looking photo of him at the smithsonian institute in 2015.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vanhalenfan123 (talk • contribs) 03:33, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@Vanhalenfan123: That needs to be discussed on article's talk page. Do you own the rights to the image you would like to use ? or is it freely licensed ? Mlpearc (open channel) 03:41, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Connect with http instead of https?

Is there a way to connect to the Wikipedia web page with http instead of https? I ask because earlier today when I tried to use https, the connection failed. I tried http instead and it connected, but redirected me to https, which then produced an error. And of course, I could not report the error, because I couldn't get to the help desk or WP:VPT or anything. It's working now, but hoping there is a fallback plan for next time there's a problem. RudolfRed (talk) 04:13, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: WMF decided to go HTTPS only, and I believe the transition was completed a while ago. It certainly looks, from a very quick check, like HTTP access is no longer available, even for anonymous (not logged in) access. HTTP Strict Transport Security is now enabled, and means that recent browsers should actually refuse to even attempt to connect via HTTP (automatically rewriting URLs into HTTPS before connecting), after the first successful connection via HTTPS. The HTTP servers on port 80 seem to do nothing other than serve redirects over to HTTPS now. Murph9000 (talk) 05:54, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

References

Thanks for the reply and the info. RudolfRed (talk) 19:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Bob Power

Reference help requested. I'm not sure how to determine which errors have been made. Could you point me towards an article to help me understand how to read the page on which I am to make the edit to?

- Chris Thanks, Chriscjamison (talk) 05:48, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

The error message on the version to which you refer said: "Text " Biography" ignored (help)", and the word help was in blue to indicate that it was a wikilink, in this case to Help:CS1 errors#Text "????" ignored which explains how to solve it. The problem was solved by another editor a few months later in this edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 06:01, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Logo upload

Hi,

I am trying to edit a page for a school project.

The page is 'Sula Vineyards' and I am currently struggling with understanding how to upload images as well as the logo in the infobox.

I also made the mistake of uploading the previous images thorugh Wiki Commons.

Could anyone guide me through this or upload the logo for me in the infobox?

Thanks in advance!

Finivino1000 (talk) 06:09, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

See WP:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_441#Inserting a logo into the Infobox. - David Biddulph (talk) 06:20, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

And see also the answers to your previous questions at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_442#Uploading logos and images to wikipedia and Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Image and logo uploading. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

I see that you have recently uploaded File:Sula vineyards sun.jpg and declared that you are the copyright holder. In view of previous copyright problems on that article, you might need to explain how the copyright belongs to you, rather than to the photographer www.kedarbhat.com. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:59, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Introduction

Header added by ColinFine (talk) 10:22, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I am new to wikipedia. I started my user page, and wished to introduce myself at the Tea House. I wrote a short message, uploaded a picture. However: I cannot find my message or name in the guest book to check if I was successful. How should I proceed? Thanks for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wagfermwp (talk • contribs) 10:12, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Wagfermwp. Your introduction is at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests/Left_column#Wagfermwp. You can always find your contributions by picking "Contributions" at the top right hand corner of any page. Please use a section header (between == and ==) when you create a new section on this or a talk page; and please sign it with ~~~~ (four tildes). --ColinFine (talk) 10:26, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Laird

Ref number 19 on this page is a youtube ref. I don't think it has been done correctly. Please fix up.101.182.136.195 (talk) 11:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC) Thanks

Have you read WP:YOUTUBE and convinced yourself that it isn't a breach of the BBC's copyright? --David Biddulph (talk) 12:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Mimsa International Airport

Mimsa International Airport (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Found this while patrolling new pages. It could just be careless editing or similar, combined with a very stubby article, but I can't convince myself that it actually exists. It is using Miami's IATA code (MIA), and I'm just not finding it convincingly when searching Google, or looking at the Airports Authority of India site. The official URL takes you to an airport with a quite different name. I'm getting a distinct whiff of hoax about it, either that or an unbuilt project that would fail WP:CRYSTAL. I can't entirely decide though, so throwing it out there for others to look at. Murph9000 (talk) 13:41, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

We already have an article for Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport at the same co-ordinates, so I suggest that we either delete the Mimsa article or redirect to the Sri Guru one. Dbfirs 13:52, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

That article has no sources. I've nominated it for Articles for Deletion. If anyone wants to propose redirection, that is a valid comment at AFD. If anyone wants to replace it with brilliant accurate well-sourced propose in seven days, that is encouraged but unlikely. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

I can't find any evidence that the airport is commonly called Mimsa, so I support the deletion. There can't be two different airports at the same co-ordinates, so there's no point in anyone researching for a better article. Also, the second airport in the small village of Dhuri (Rajomajra Airport) was deleted as a hoax last October. The village has a grain market and a train station, but two airports? Dbfirs 14:03, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

The photo is actually of Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport and seemingly a copyvio. The article seems a sufficiently clear hoax that I would suggest speedy deletion as such. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 14:38, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Resolved: Thanks. I just needed some additional eyes and opinions to confirm it for me. Murph9000 (talk) 14:07, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

General Requests Lab?

I am familiar with the Wikipedia:Graphics Lab, and I have used it on numerous occasions with much delight. Is there another such offering, but for more general requests? For example, I am slowly working on updating the Petzl page and I would like to add Petzl's logo to the company infobox, but I am not yet entirely comfortable with my knowledge of Wikipedia's policies regarding logos and other non-free content. This question is directed more towards finding a Graphics Lab alternative as opposed to determining whether or not it would be acceptable to upload Petzl's logo. Evan.oltmanns (talk) 14:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

It looks like you've figured this out, Evan.oltmanns. Dismas|^(talk) 16:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

The logo happened to be already uploaded and was being used on another language page. If it hadn't been, however, where would the best place have been to ask someone to do it for me (again, because I am unfamiliar with the policies)? Evan.oltmanns (talk) 17:07, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@Evan.oltmanns: I see. Well, to get back to your question, in general it depends on the situation. Here at the Help Desk, people answer lots of questions about copyright, uploading images, inserting tables, etc. For your Petzl issue, you could have started by looking at Wikipedia:Copyright assistance. About three quarters of the way down the page, it has a link to Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.

Just so you know, I didn't have that answer before starting to reply. Most often, I find things but just going to the search box, typing "Wikipedia:", and then following it with a keyword. This time, I typed "Wikipedia:Copyright" and it suggested about a half dozen possible things. Copyright Assistance was one of them. It's best to keep the keyword broad at first, such as Images or Tables. Check the suggested results, and then start poking around.

Nobody here has every help page and guideline memorized. We just have our ways of finding what we need most of the time. And some of us keep a list of guidelines that have come in helpful on our user pages. See, for instance, the bottom of my own user page. Dismas|^(talk) 17:38, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

WP is a namespace alias for Wikipedia so WP:or wp: makes the same search of the Wikipedia namespace as Wikipedia:. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:39, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Undoing move of Hospitaller colonization of the Americas to Territorial possessions of the Knights Hospitaller

Another user moved the article Hospitaller colonization of the Americas to Territorial possessions of the Knights Hospitaller and converted it from a Good Article to a list, without discussion. On User:Chicbyaccident's page, they and I agreed to split the current page: restore Hospitaller colonization of the Americas to its earlier state as a GA, and keep the list content at Territorial possessions of the Knights Hospitaller. But it has been a long time since I messed around with page moves and I don't know how to proceed without losing the talk page content and page history. Fishal (talk) 19:49, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

January 31

"List of Copywriter" addition

For your page "List of Copywriters" (List of copywriters), you should add Jason Byers. Articles have been written about him, such as: http://upstart.bizjournals.com/careers/job-of-the-week/2007/07/31/Movie-Tagline-Writers.html?page=all — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kahajose (talk • contribs) 01:48, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

But there hasn't been a Wikipedia article written about him, which is the usual prerequisite for addition to such a list. If you feel up to it, and the articles you mention include substantial independent coverage of him, and you have no direct connection to him, maybe you could write one? Rojomoke (talk) 05:57, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Fix

On this page (Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), can someone please fix the "Notes" at the bottom of the page? Thanks. I made a minor grammatical edit, and it resulted in all these red error messages. And I can't figure out how to fix the problem. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:06, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Fixed, the problem was the same footnote being repeated many times, which works fine until the text is no longer precisely identical across all of them. I've moved it around to have a single instance of the footnote text, with many pointers to it, which both fixes it and should make it less likely to break again. Murph9000 (talk) 04:26, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. That was bizarre and I was not able to see what the problem was. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:44, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Laird

Please fix up ref 20 on this page. Your help as usual has been fantastic. 101.182.136.195 (talk) 09:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Done - the blue link in such error messages links to additional information. In this case "MONTH DD YYYY" without comma is not supported as date format. You can find a list of allowed date formats in the linked Help:CS1_errors#bad_date table. GermanJoe (talk) 09:20, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

As an aside, as this article is about Scotland, the manual of style says that the British date format (Day Month Year) should be used, rather than the American date format (Month Day Year). Joseph2302 (talk) 10:05, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Article is not being published

Hi,

the above page provides details and biography of the IAS Officer Israel Jebasigh. And every time I save this article it is not published and even on moving it to wikipedia it gets moved back. Please point out the issue and help me resolve.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjagan2 (talk • contribs)

• The draft hasn't been published because it hasn't been reviewed yet. Publishing means moving it to the article namespace, not the Wikipedia one.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

The draft is now at Draft:R A Israel Jebasingh (IAS) where it is waiting for AFC review. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:44, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Draft has been reviewed. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

How to translate infobox?

I need to translate Template:Infobox publisher labels to my language. How I can do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vykintazo (talk • contribs)

@Vykintazo: First of all in case you don't know, you create the translation not on English Wikipedia but in the Šablonas: namespace of Lithuanian Wikipedia. You create the translation using the common lt:Šablonas:Infolentelė template which is already on Lithuanian Wikipedia. For documentation you will create a documentation subpage and reference it through the documentation template on Lithuanian Wikipedia. —teb728 t c 20:32, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

And the documentation template is lt:Šablonas:Dokumentacija —teb728 t c 20:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Teddybears (TV series)

Hello, can you please check out the above article as a prod has been removed and then put back, both actions were in larger edits. I haven't edited the page at all.Atlantic306 (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@Atlantic306: I've re-removed the PROD, as it shouldn't be reinstated. That being said, I doubt the article is notable. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:56, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

ThanksAtlantic306 (talk) 20:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

The article is now at Articles for Deletion, which will get community consensus. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:03, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Looking for a Bot to list imageless articles in a given category

Is there a bot that lists all the pages in a given WikiProject or Category that don't have an image?

I've been looking at tools.wmflabs.org and I can see that there are several bots that do more complicated tasks (such as not just finding imageless pages, but suggesting images for them either because they're on associated pages or because of GeoIP tagging) - but nothing that provides a list of imageless pages by category or project.

It seems an obvious and simple user case to me. ("I'm in a museum of X. Should I take any pics for Wikipedia?".) So I'm inclined to assume that such a bot exists somewhere, and I've missed it. Have I? Ian McDonald (talk) 20:38, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@Drianmcdonald: Ian, this does not even necessarily require WP:BOTAPPROVAL, unless it is run as a fully automated process. WP:ASSISTED would allow the use of offline software which downloaded the source of all pages in a category, analysed them to find the pages without an image, then uploaded the results of the analysis under supervision. The approval is needed for bots that make unsupervised changes (i.e. edits or uploading results without any human interaction). Just downloading and analysing pages, as long as you are not creating an unreasonable server load, is pretty much something anyone is permitted to do. If doing it for large numbers of pages on a regular basis, it might still be reasonable to seek approval, of course. The best solution, however, would probably be an approved automated bot which adds a hidden category of "Category:WikiProject xxx pages without images", or similar. Using a hidden maintenance category for it allows the status to be immediately updated by someone adding an image to the page. Although not a direct answer to your question, I'm throwing this out there to note that basically there's very little stopping someone from doing this. Murph9000 (talk) 21:00, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@Drianmcdonald: do you have some specific category in mind? I probably could help get at least partial results. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 21:12, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, but I think CPiral has my immediate question. And I think to be really useful it would need to be something that could be automated.Ian McDonald (talk) 16:09, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Drianmcdonald: an ad hoc search:

incategory:dogs -insource:/"[[file:"/i -insource:/"[[image:"/i  finds dogs without pictures. The search

file: shepard german  searches the File namespace, (where all the images are described), for your terms, and the results come up as thumbnails. Furthermore, if you then click on one of the file pages, and then click on the "description page", it will take you to Commons wiki, where most all the pictures really are, and there you can search the Categories namespace incategory:category as a way of viewing available images based on your terms. Finally, to find category names, for use in the incategory search parameter, use the page Special:CategoryTree. — CpiralCpiral 05:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I shall RTFM on ad hoc searches. Ian McDonald (talk) 13:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Should raster graphic be maintained when a vector graphic exists?

Is there a policy regarding what should be done with a raster graphic when it is no longer used on any page because a vector graphic had been made to replace it? Is the raster graphic saved for posterity and for future use even when the vector graphic is the superior option? Evan.oltmanns (talk) 23:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Evan.oltmanns since no one has answered, I would suggest WP:VPP.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Vchimpanzee Thank you. Question Evan.oltmanns (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

February 1

Laird

Ref number 16 on the above page is all wrong. Please help. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 04:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Done You misspelled February Eagleash (talk) 04:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Eagleash for your help. should the link "Debretts" in the section "Traditional and current forms of address" have an apostrophe -the page itself has an apostrophe. Please alter if you see fit. ThanksSrbernadette (talk) 05:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Done Yes, I believe so. Eagleash (talk) 05:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

One more queery - sorry!- should the quote ref. 17 be rephrased - as it is not correct English: "wives are often remain styled "Lady"." This is not the correct quote I'm sure, as it does not make sense.

It is ungrammatical, but without the original any changes to it are guesswork. However I have changed it to read more correctly - as we still have the title of the source which appears accurate. Eagleash (talk) 05:58, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I've found an edition online that I can access, and verified the current quote as correct (with thanks to User:Eagleash and User:Deor for having updated it). —me_and 18:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Creating a wiki page for a celebrity

the following person is a celebrity and i want to create a page for him being hi PR representative but unfortunately wiki is not allowing the strong references are his website www.saanandverma.com also you can check the star and crew for the same of the mentioned Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai!

Firstly, regardless of his "celebrity status", he should meet GNG criteria to have a Wikipedia article. Secondly, even if he does, you shouldn't create an article about him if you are his PR representative, as this will most certainly trigger a conflict of interest. -- ChamithN (talk) 05:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Please understand, Niteshkeswani, that a Wikipedia article (especially one on a living person) should be based nearly 100% on what people unconnected with the subject have published about the subject in reliable places. What he says, what his website says, and what you want to say about him (as his PR representative) are almost irrelevant; and if such independent reliable sources about him don't exist, then it is impossible for anybody to write an acceptable article on him at present (in Wikipedia jargon, we say that he is not notable). You are discouraged from writing about him; but if you decide to go ahead, you must declare if you are paid to represent him, and you are strongly encouraged to use the articles for creation process to prepare a draft and have it submitted. My personal advice would be to do a substantial amount of work on other articles first, both to get experience of editing, and to demonstrate that you are here to help us improve the encyclopaedia and not just to publicise one person; and when you do come to write about him, to forget everything you know about him, and write only from the independent sources say. --ColinFine (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Editing road infobox problem

Resolved: Mb66w (talk) 16:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

In Pennsylvania Route 481, in the Major Intersections section, I changed

"location=Centerville" to "location=Centerville, Washington County" to clear up the disambiguation of "Centerville".

The problem is that it would be better to not display "Washington County". In normal text, I would used "Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Centerville". But this infobox somehow appends the state automatically and apparently normal piping can't be used.Mb66w (talk) 05:38, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Fixed, you needed |ctdab=Washington, which is pretty much something you can only figure out by delving deep into the templates. Murph9000 (talk) 05:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Please end an "Edit War"

Uechi-ryū (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The individual “Mark Brelsford” keeps insisting on listing himself as a “Major Organization” of the style on this page.

However, he has no list of schools, no affiliation with an association—the individuals he claims he is under do not list him as a member nor consider him an associate.

Edits made suggested he link to the webpage for his organization which should include a listing of his schools under his organization, or list the officers of his organization. That would solve the issue. He refuses to do this.

Instead he tries to send abusive and threatening messages. In the abusive messages he makes lofty legal claims and claims to membership schools all over the United States, yet cannot name one. Searches finds none. Zero. He is listed on none of the actual "major organization" pages though he was removed from a few years ago, including the organization of the individuals he claimed association with as noted previously.

To avoid an “Edit War” it would be simple for a representative of Wikipedia to decide if this person has enough evidence--or any evidence--he may link to establish himself as “a major organization” or not. Or, perhaps it will be decided to allow single individuals to declare themselves as such and the list may be expanded to include any and all teachers and participants who wish to see their names on Wikipedia.

His further abusive messages will be ignored. Communication with such individuals serves no purpose.98.227.140.14 (talk) 06:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@98.227.140.14: Please take a look at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. It explains how a content dispute should be handled. The process starts out informally, by calmly raising your concerns on the article's talk page, and attempting to directly resolve the dispute between the involved editors, but without formal intervention. So, as a first step, please clearly and concisely explain your concerns about the article on its talk page, detailing precisely what you believe needs to change, and what you believe the changes should be. Ideally, please support your changes with references to reliable sources. Both you and OkinawanUechiMan (talk · contribs) need to stop reverting each others edits, and take it to the talk page. It does not matter which of you is in the right, and which of you is in the wrong, you both need to calmly talk about the content (on the article's talk page), as a first step. If the dispute can't be resolved through informal talk, the process has more formal options. Murph9000 (talk) 06:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@OkinawanUechiMan: N.B. I note that you have already had a warning for possibly making legal threats in relation to this. It is extremely important that you take that warning seriously, and show a good faith effort to have a civil discussion with 98.227.140.14, and take great care to avoid anything which could be interpreted as a threat. The Wikipedia:No legal threats policy is taken very seriously. It is generally not appropriate to resolve Wikipedia content disputes through external communication, so please do not ask people to email you in these circumstances. You must use the article talk pages, so that the discussion around the content is transparent and visible for all editors to review. Additionally, some of the things you have said made it sound like you may have a conflict of interest with the article's subject. Please read the CoI policy carefully. In general, if you have a significant CoI, you should not be directly making significant edits to the article, but posting any changes as requests on the article's talk page. The edits should be made by a neutral and independent editor. Murph9000 (talk) 06:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I have pinged WikiProject Martial arts about this content dispute, in the hope of getting an experienced editor with good subject knowledge to take a look at what has been going on. I do not personally have much detailed knowledge of martial arts, so am not the right person to assess the content and the changes. Murph9000 (talk) 07:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Submit

Please how can I submit my article for review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JiasaGH (talk • contribs) 11:53, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

In this edit you erroneously removed the feedback from your previous submission, although it said "<!-- Do not remove this line! -->". That edit removed the button for you to resubmit; I've reinstated the feedback for you, so that you can resubmit when it is ready. It is certainly not ready yet, as you have not taken notice of the feedback (particularly about referencing), so please read it. You also need to read the WP:Manual of Style about formatting. You had wrongly moved the draft to Wikipedia:JIA Sports Academy, but I have moved it back to Draft:JIA Sports Academy where it belongs. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

combine page

there have two similar article Environmental hormones、Xenohormone ,can anyone help merging two page?--36.225.98.184 (talk) 12:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Information

can u tell me, How can i place info about a person new person information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagadeesh90329 (talk • contribs) 12:40, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Hello, Jagadeesh90329. Do you mean adding new information to an existing article about a person? Or, do you mean creating a new article about a person not currently mentioned in Wikipedia? In both cases, the information must be properly supported by citations of reliable sources. If you can explain in a little more detail, exactly what it is that you would like to add, we can provide more specific advice. Murph9000 (talk) 12:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Additionally, if you could please include the name of any existing article or articles which are relevant to this question, that would help us to give you accurate advice. Murph9000 (talk) 13:18, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

HMS Victory

HMS Victory (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Although your infomration on HMS Victory was updated in Dec 2015, I am afraid your content is incorrect. The current Captain of Victory is a Lt Cdr B J Smith and has been since June 2015.

Your link to Admirals will require uppdating soon as Admiral Zambellas is being relived by Admiral Jones in April (8th).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.66.150 (talk) 13:28, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Hello, 82.109.66.150. Thanks for your information. Do you have any links to reliable sources which we can use to verify that information. While we always start out by assuming good faith (that you are providing us with accurate information), one of Wikipedia's major goals is to try to ensure that information is verifiable wherever possible. If you can provide those links, it will speed up the process of updating the article. Thanks. Murph9000 (talk) 13:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Updated, & reference included. Thanks for letting us know. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:46, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Colorblind

When you're doing colorgraphics color charts and maps why do you not consider the COLOR BLIND people ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.142.34.144 (talk) 16:48, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Hello, 50.142.34.144. Wikipedia is generally committed to trying to provide reasonable content accessibility for people. If you could please give us some specific examples that are causing you a problem, I'm sure we'd be happy to take a look at them and see if there's any possibility of improvement. With some graphical presentations, it can be extremely difficult to actually adapt them for the color blind. If, for example, they need more than 2 or 3 colors to adequately represent the data, it becomes very difficult to select colors which work well for both the color blind, and those who require high contrast for other visual impairments. So, please give us the specific cases you find problematic, as we have over 5 million articles to try to maintain through primarily volunteer efforts, and it's almost impossible to just hunt down every problem case without some pointers to follow. Murph9000 (talk) 16:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Probably because not all of our thousands or millions of editors have read WP:COLOUR. If there are specific problems, please let us know, either here or on the relevant article talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Link to English Wikipedia in Meta

If I am posting to Meta and want to wikilink to the English Wikipedia, what sort of wikilink notation do I use on meta? If this is explained in a Help document, pointing me to it would be sufficient. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Robert. meta:Help:Interwiki linking says you use (eg) [[:en:WP:Help desk]]. --ColinFine (talk) 18:23, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon and ColinFine: Actually, looking at meta:Special:Interwiki, they have en configured as an interlanguage prefix, rather than an interwiki prefix. I wouldn't use that myself, due to it being the wrong software feature. I'd use the interwiki [[w:Wikipedia:Help desk]] or [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Help desk]] from meta. You can use language links if you want, and they should work (if you remember the : prefix), just the "do it the right way" pedant in me doesn't like doing it that way. Murph9000 (talk) 18:34, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

No infographics in articles about movies allowed?

Hello,

after introducing my infographic

c:File:Una noche sin luna English.jpg

into an article about the movie

A Moonless Night

I found it deleted by another user, telling me that only official posters were allowed. But my infographic was not meant as a substitute for the official poster, it is a structural analysis of the movie!

Unfortunately the user didn't fulfill my request to tell me where this rule was written down

User talk:Reisen8

- so I am trying to get help here to find out whether my graphic is allowed in this article or not (and why exactly). Thank you.--Reisen8 (talk) 18:12, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Reisen8. It seems to me that your infographic constitutes original research, and so is not allowed in a Wikipedia article. --ColinFine (talk) 18:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

... and in any case it isn't in English, so not useful to readers of the English Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:27, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

....It is in English, David Biddulph, despite the title. --ColinFine (talk) 21:23, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I'd been looking at the image which Reisen8 had added twice to the article, which was File:Una noche sin luna.jpg, and I now see that he referred to a different file in his text above. - David Biddulph (talk) 21:37, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

How to edit title of my listing

Hi There! I would like to change the title of my listing from "The Renegade Craft Fair" to "Renegade Craft Fair" as we do not use "The" as part of the brand name. I can't figure out how to do this in Edit mode, any help? Mat 18:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Renegadecraft (talk • contribs) 18:41, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

The process is described at WP:Moving a page. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:44, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I have moved it. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 19:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Weird capitalization of article title

citizen Effect is not capitalized properly and I can't figure out how to fix it. Legacypac (talk) 20:01, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Fixed by removing {{lowercase}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank-you - learned something new. Legacypac (talk) 20:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I want to create a page about the artist Dolya Goutman

I am Andrew Goutman, the son of Dolya Goutman, who died in 2001. Dolya Goutman was a respected and prominent regional (Philadelphia) artist who deserves his own Wikipedia page.

A child prodigy, Dolya Goutman was born in Russia and emigrated to America in 1930. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and ended up in California in the 1940s, where he painted the artwork for the movie Moon and Sixpence. He eventually landed in Philadelphia, where he taught for a lifetime at Moore College of Art. His bold and colorful paintings were exhibited throughout the region. Numerous press clips attest to his popularity among both art critics and art lovers.

I want to create a page about Dolya Goutman. Please explain the criteria for someone getting his own page on Wikipedia. I've been told there is a protocol.

Thank you.

--Andy Goutman <email address redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewgoutman (talk • contribs) 20:01, 1 February 2016‎ (UTC)

Thank you for asking. I've put a few useful links on your user talk page. If you had thought of writing about a relative, you also need to read the advice regarding conflict of interest. - David Biddulph (talk) 20:22, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

User Name

How do I get rid of the "User" in front of my name? Should I have done something differently when I created the page?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bishop Ronald Wilson (talk • contribs)

That page is unsuitable as either a user page or a Wikipedia article as it is far too promotional in tone. Please read WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WP:BIO and WP:SPAM.--ukexpat (talk) 21:33, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

While Ukexpat is right, Bishop Ronald Wilson, I think he has answered you somewhat brusquely. You have attempted to create an article on your user page: your user pages are for sharing some information about yourself, if you choose as a Wikipedia editor, not for creating articles. Secondly, autobiography is strongly discouraged in Wikipedia - see the link that Ukexpat provided to understand why.

Thirdly, promotion of any kind (which does not just mean commercial promotion) is forbidden on Wikipedia. If people come here to help us improve Wikipedia, we hope they are made welcome. People who come here just to promote something are much less welcome. --ColinFine (talk) 22:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Donald Trump

I have been trying to add an article to the press template on this page but it keeps displaying an error w/respect to time, and I would appreciate help as I'm not sure what the problem is. Everymorning (talk) 21:42, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

@Everymorning: Fixed, the problem was the |date3 parameter. Murph9000 (talk) 21:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

And, for what it's worth, I recommend reading the new NY Times article added to the press box there. It's an interesting read, and feels like they have been reasonably fair in their characterisation and reporting of WP. (The article is primarily about WP, not about Trump. Trump is relevant in terms of how we deal with the challenges presented by articles of that nature.) Murph9000 (talk) 22:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Carol Rosin Account

My wikipedia account has been taken down and I would like it reinstated.

Can you kindly replace the Carol Rosin Wikipedia account.

Once this is done, I will furnish all documents and files necessary to update the Carol Rosin Wikipedia listing.

Kind REgards, Debbie West, Publicist for Carol Rosin

<phone redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎Westdeb7 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Debbie is apparently referring to this page, deleted in November 2013 as a result of this discussion (having previously survived this 2005 nomination). General Ization ^Talk 23:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Also, Wikipedia does not have Wikipedia listings, instead it has neutral articles written about notable things. As her publicist, you have a clear conflict of interest, and so are strongly discouraged to not write about her.

In addition, you cannot demand undeletion of an article deleted my community consensus as this one was here. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Wikipedia is not a free webspace for publicists to use, and the page was never yours, even if you created it. It was perhaps a borderline decision to delete it because the Italian Wikipedia has an article here. To establish that Carol Rosin is notable in the Wikipedia sense, you will need to provide references for each statement you make, and the citations must be from WP:reliable sources. Facebook, Youtube and blogs are not suitable. You need to disclose your WP:conflict of interest on your user page, then create a draft of the article in your own user space or in draft space, where it will be closely scrutinised before it can be published. Wikipedia is especially strict about WP:biographies of living persons, so you will have to be very careful to avoid any promotional sentences, and write only what is published elsewhere. Google doesn't find enough reliable sources in my search to establish notability according to Wikipedia's strict rules for biographies. Dbfirs 23:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2

The Much Honoured

Ref number 3 is wrong - please fix Srbernadette (talk) 00:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Be bold and fix it.. If you need help, please explain what you think is wrong. RudolfRed (talk) 03:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Srbernadette: Fixed. It really only needed a quite minor fix. If you review the change I made, you should hopefully be able to see what I did, and what the correct format is. If you need help understanding it, please ask. In terms of the old proverb, we would love to teach you to fish, so that you are able to feed yourself, instead of relying on us handing you individual fish to eat. I, for one, don't mind fixing up your refs for you, as it seems quite clear that you are editing in good faith. I'd equally be glad to help you understand how to do it, as would many others. Murph9000 (talk) 03:43, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

article is "Harry Chapin" I am trying to add citation needed and adding quote from article...here is my source...DEEB,GARY. "'WOLD' Tells Disk Jockey's Station in Life." Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file): 1. Feb 22 1974. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune. Web. 31 Jan. 2016

struggling on how to do this— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjs85710 (talk • contribs)

WRONG message displayed

List of unaccredited institutions of higher education

In this list, American College of Commerce and Technology has been identified as unaccredited. However, this college had been accredited in April 2015. The wrong message had brought bad influence to the college. Please delete American College of Commerce and Technology from the list. The following is the prove of its accreditation. file:///C:/Users/ESS%20Public%20PC/Downloads/April%20%202015%20Council%20Actions%20(1).pdf (on page 2)

Thank you!— Preceding unsigned comment added by AriaEss (talk • contribs)

You do realize that file is on your hard drive, which we cannot access, right?

Also, I take it from the fact that it's on your hard drive that you're an employee of the school? Please see WP:COI and WP:NOSHARE. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:35, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

It's not quite clear what standard of "accreditation" is required here. This college is accredited by a private organization called ACICS - to verify, search for "American College of Commerce and Technology" at http://personify.acics.org/Default.aspx?TabId=204. However, that accreditation does not seem to be recognized by the US Department of Education, since it is not included on their most recent spreadsheet of accredited institutions at http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/GetDownLoadFile.aspx. There is lengthy discussion of this on the article's Talk page, which I don't feel like delving into, but the overall approach seems to be that government recognition is the preferred hurdle. --Gronk Oz (talk) 15:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Unattributed book directly copied from article

There's been an interesting case where someone directly copy and pasted from articles to create a book that's sold on Amazon, etc. without attribution to Wikipedia. More at: Talk:Monsanto#Someone_used_.22Create_Book.22_feature_for_Monsanto_and_related_entries.2C_and_is_selling_it_as_their_own_work_on_Amazon_and_elsewhere. I know the way Creative Commons works for Wikipedia is that anything from it is fair game for commercial products, but I don't recall seeing a further guidance written on this as far as attribution needed, etc. Could someone point me to relevant guidance on what commercial reproductions are allowed or if there's some place to report/discuss things like this? I haven't quite run into something like this before. Kingofaces43 (talk) 04:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Kingofaces43: There are many "books" like that. See Books LLC. The best guidance I could find was WP:IAF. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 04:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Kingofaces43: Please see Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content and various pages linked from it. CC BY-SA does permit commercial use with attribution. As far as I am aware, it is pretty much a known thing that people infringe on the copyrights of the Wikimedia Foundation and its contributors in this way. If you are confident that it is unlicensed use (which means any use which does not comply with the license terms), you may have grounds for a consumer rights type of complaint to the retailer (Amazon, etc), but I can't be certain of that without carefully reviewing the physical book itself (no thanks, I don't actually want to do that). Giving legal advice is prohibited, so I can't really say more than that or post the extended comments that I'd quite like to post. Murph9000 (talk) 04:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Potato and Murph. I'm not super worried about it. I halfway guessed that these things are just left alone by Wikipedia, but just wanted to be sure. I have seen quite a few books that are direct copy and pastes, but they do attribute and include long lists of editor names at least. Thanks. Kingofaces43 (talk) 04:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Random article landed on non-article

I clicked 'Random article' and landed here. Is this supposed to happen? If not, what needs to change? Thanks, Brycehughes (talk) 06:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

It technically is an article, though the contents consist of a template that provides a soft redirect to Wiktionary. That's not the only such soft redirect we have. A lot of words are given pages like that, to indirectly discourage anyone from developing articles that really belong on Wiktionary. It would be useful, though, if the random article page excluded pages that had a given tag in them. Then it'd be a matter of inserting that tag into the template used on soft-redirects. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Sounds like a VPT thing then. Brycehughes (talk) 07:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Jay Cutler

In your article about Jay Cutler, you have written a warning that says, "This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (October 2009)"

I must inform you, that there is no reason to remove the section, because the fact there, is well known about Jay Cutler, and he even says the same thing, in his YouTube videos. It is a shame that people haven't stated any source(s) from where they got the information from, but that can easily be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.175.198.169 (talk) 15:18, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I removed the unsourced section tag because the section in question does, in fact, cite a source. I added a ref improve tag to the top of the article, as it really is not well referenced overall. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 15:41, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Linked in

How do you remove your name/account with LinkedIn? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.5.22 (talk) 15:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. -- ColinFine (talk) 16:19, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

New article

The following transferred from the talk page. Eagleash (talk) 16:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

"If I want write a story what wi be the procedure Ushardul (talk) 15:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)"

OP notified of t/f at their talk page and also suggested that WP:WIZARD might be a place to start. Eagleash (talk) 16:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I wonder if the IP really means "story", i.e. a work of fiction, rather than an encyclopedia article? If so, they need to be advised that this is not the right place. - Arjayay (talk) 16:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Have done so on their talk page - Arjayay (talk) 16:42, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Creating Company Profile

Hi -

I received an Email from an online ad agency offering to create Wikipedia pages for companies. Does Wikipedia publish company profiles submitted to it? If so, what link on your site is the way to access this opportunity?

Thank you 98.149.250.14 (talk) 16:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• Greetings. Generally, we only "publish profiles" (that is, make articles) on companies that meet WP:N or more specifically WP:NCORP. Also, the "profile" (article, in our language) needs to satisfy the policies WP:V, WP:NPOV and a bunch more - WP:NOTADVERTISING especially. Also, if someone is offering you to write an article against money, you ought to be careful about scamming; c.f Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
• The online ad agency sounds like a scam, I'm afraid. If you were to pay someone to write an article about your company, they'd very likely run up against Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules – it's not forbidden for someone to be paid to edit Wikipedia, but it is strongly discouraged, and there are potentially legal consequences for breaching those rules. If you want an article about your company, your best bet is to establish whether it meets the notability rules that Jo-Jo Eumerus linked to above, and if it does, make a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles. —me_and 19:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key

why was Martin Luther King Jr killed?
Why did James Earl Ray killed.209.129.224.234 (talk) 17:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

This doesn't appear to be stated as a question about citation errors. Please restate this as a question about citation errors. (The question, as stated, is a request for opinion that isn't a proper use of Wikipedia pages. However, this may be a good-faith poorly stated question about citation errors.) Robert McClenon (talk) 18:20, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

I thought I was making the change indicated by the error message. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdlankin (talk • contribs) 18:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I don't see a question or an error message. If you are having a citation error at a particular article, it would help to say what article. We can't figure it out from your edit histories. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

AfD closed as redirect caused confusing/incorrect redirect, what to do?

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Retroscripting was closed as "redirect to Home Movies (TV series)". This has caused confusing/incorrect redirects as both retroscript and retroscripting now redirect to that specific TV show. For example, Poochie (The Simpsons) contains a mention that the episode where Homer gives Poochie's farewell speech was retroscripted to reveal that Poochie was an outerspace alien and was killed when trying to return home. The reader expects the link "retroscripted" to go to an article about retroactively changing scripts in general, but is instead taken to an article about an entirely unrelated TV series. What should be done about this? Should the original article retroscripting be restored? JIP | Talk 19:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

If the redirect has caused unexpected undesirable effects, then it would appear that the closer acted in good faith but may have made a mistake that they were not aware of. I suggest deletion review. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Or, you could just change/remove the redirect- only 4 pages Special:WhatLinksHere/Retroscript link to retroscript. 1 of them is this page, one is a userpage, and the other 2 seem to have the issue mentioned above.

I have already initiated a Deletion review discussion and informed the closing admin about this. JIP | Talk 19:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Miss Cayman Islands 2016 Monyque Brooks

hello,

just some facts for her page, she is 5'9" and her eyes are dark brown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.157.148.10 (talk) 19:46, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Require to modify an EXPIRED passage

In the list below, American College of Commerce and Technology is identified as an unaccredited school. However, the school had been accredited in April, 2015. The expired list had brought bad influence to the school So could you please delete American College of Commerce and Technology from the list?

Here is the link of the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unaccredited_institutions_of_higher_education Here is the prove that the school had been accredited. http://www.acics.org/councilactions.aspx (See April, 2015 on page 2)

Thank you!

American College of Commerce and TechnologyAriaEss (talk) 20:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)02/02/2016