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December 12[edit]

i have already donated i do not want to be asked again to donate[edit]

i have already donated i do not want to be asked again to donate — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.168.161.204 (talk) 01:34, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The donation ad is not a private message to you, it's a billboard for everyone to see. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:36, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The system has no way of knowing who has donated, especially with anonymous IP addresses that might be used by many editors, but if you create an account then you can switch off the message. Dbfirs 07:27, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Shanghai People's Congress[edit]

The Chinese link in the Shanghai People's Congress is not the Chinese article of the Shanghai People's Congress, but another article. I don't know how change it, so I need help. --Komitsuki (talk) 07:28, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done Lourdes 11:10, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Account issue[edit]

Yes Please my account not usage and not responded wiki My Account — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lyaamalya (talk • contribs) 07:49, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you are not able to login, please read Help:Logging in#Login issues and problems and follow the relevant procedure to login. Thanks, Lourdes 11:10, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to correct wrong information[edit]

When I tried to edit the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa page on the incorrect statement that Catapla was known as "Catawba" I received an email from Babymissfortune stating that my edit was not constructive. I believe my edit was indeed constructive in that the misidentification of the Catalpa tree only leads to confusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SnuffyG (talk • contribs) 07:50, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The message was generated automatically, so please don't take it too seriously. Your edit would have been constructive if you had provided a reference saying that the association was an error. If you can find a WP:Reliable source saying that Catawba is an error, then please repeat your edit. If not, then perhaps you need to accept common usage if others use that term in error. Dbfirs 08:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Header at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats[edit]

I've amended the header (Wikipedia:Bureaucrats/Header) to be more informative for visitors, but it's having the effect of making the body text start below all the header material. Someone less ham-fisted than me is very welcome to fix the error I've introduced! With grateful thanks, --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:16, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dweller: Better now? -- John of Reading (talk) 12:25, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

John of Reading, wow, that was fast. Yes, thank you. As ever, I apologise for my appalling lack of wikimarkup skills. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:27, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What if i can't use "feet"[edit]

If I write an article in English on Wikipedia and there is a place to write for example length and i mean with that in USA and maybe in the UK they're using feet as length unit and i have learned to use meters so do i have to learn use feet or do i just use meter as length unit? --AkselHelp (talk) 14:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@AkselHelp: See if {{Convert}} will help you to convert units. For example {{convert|123|ft|m|1}} displays 123 feet (37.5 m) – the last parameter '1' causes rounding the result to one decimal digit. Similar conversion in opposite direction: {{convert|7.5|m|ft|1}} → 7.5 metres (24.6 ft). --CiaPan (talk) 15:09, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

spelling "Ageing"[edit]

There are 18 items in [[Category:Ageing]], and even if I had the right tool to make it match the rest of the "Aging" spellings, I think that this level of correction, involving Category and Article items, should come from an Admin or someone experienced with "the right tool ." Pi314m (talk) 15:39, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi314m: "Ageing" is the standard British spelling for this word, not a mistake. Please do not make changes from one variety of English to another without good reason. See MOS:ENGVAR. RGloucester — ☎ 15:43, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Pi314m (talk) 07:34, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New article[edit]

Hello!

I wrote a page on my sandbox about someone who is of public interest, when will that article be visible to the public and can be sourced through browsers like google etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by DennisWilliams09 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DennisWilliams09: Sandboxes are not indexed by search engines; for it to be, your article needs to be formally placed in the encyclopedia. However, your draft is completely unsourced and would not be accepted. Successfully creating an article is one of the hardest things to do on Wikipedia. I would suggest that you first use the new user tutorial and read Your First Article. Then you can use Articles for Creation to submit a draft for review. You should also read WP:BAND, the notability guidelines for musicians. 331dot (talk) 19:09, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Question[edit]

I made some edits to the Nazareth Academy (Elementary) page [1], and the formatting for the Infobox got messed up. Can you tell me how to fix it? Thank you.

Thank you, Laurie Plyem Nazareth Elementary Lplyem (talk) 20:16, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Lplyem: I fixed it. It was caused by unclosed pair of square brackets . –Ammarpad (talk) 20:51, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Donation[edit]

I donated $16 to Wikipedia about 3 weeks ago when prompted to donate. Why does the donation request keep coming up on my phone when I use wiki pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.128.107.115 (talk) 22:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has no way of knowing if you donated to the Wikimedia Foundation or not, because anyone could be using your IP address. Furthermore, as you do not use an account to edit, you cannot prevent those notices from coming up. If you register an account, you can turn off those notices. 331dot (talk) 22:11, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Blanca Aljibes page request[edit]

Hello,

My name is Carlos Ramirez, I'm Blanca Aljibes' Manager. She is a Venezuelan model with a HUGE professional background. She participated on Miss Venezuela beauty pageant in 2011, she's currently based in Miami and she's growing his professional career with big fashion shows including the New York Fashion Week.

We wanted to create her page on Wikipedia but it was deleted a couple of times! Is there any way you can help us out? All the models that were in Miss Venezuela beauty pageant have their own page, Blanca shouldn't be an exception.

Thank you in advance!

Carlos Ramirez Manager UMT Model Agency — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlosdaru (talk • contribs) 23:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Carlosdaru: I've left some instructions on your user talk page. Something you need to understand is that Wikipedia is not a directory where people are entitled to pages. If we had an article about her, neither you, her, nor anyone else connected to her would own the page -- it is Wikipedia's page. As her manager, you have a conflict of interest which you must disclose on your user page. That said, it is possible to create an article if you follow the instructions I left on your user talk page. If you make a draft that is accepted as an article, you should not edit it further but must make edit requests on the article's talk page. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:05, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]