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March 9[edit]

How to get the Article "Carsten Momsen" from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia in translated version?[edit]

How to transfer the above mentioned article from German to English Wikipedia ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by H.Olmes (talk • contribs) 02:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You do it yourself. It's fine to retain any non-English references, provided they are of adequate quality. Depending on the article, Google Translate, plus your own good sense and subject familarity might suffice; however, this isn't encouraged.--Quisqualis (talk) 02:29, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear H.Olmes, while what Quisqualis mentions is probably a common sense approach they are suggesting, I would recommend you follow the procedure of your choice listed at Wikipedia:Translation#Requesting a translation from a foreign language to English. Thanks, Lourdes 06:52, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to upload new wiki article[edit]

Hi Am a footwear designer for brand swatimodo Please advise how can i upload my article My brand is 11 years old and with much credits to its name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.224.144.91 (talk) 08:13, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean that you want to create an article about Swati Mehrotra [1], that may be possible but not easy.

You have some reading to do: Wikipedia:Your first article, WP:Notability (people), WP:Conflict of interest and WP:Promotion. Let's add WP:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing and WP:Autobiography as well. If, after reading those, you decide to have a go at it, good luck! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:54, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All of that is important, but the absolutely essential one is notability. Any article on a notable subject (person or company), no matter how poor, can be improved and retained. Any article on a non-notable subject, no matter how brilliantly written, will be deleted. Therefore, step one is to convince your self that the subject is notable by our definition, not yours. See WP:N, and specifically WP:NCORP for a company. -Arch dude (talk) 16:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User registered vandal with puppet accounts[edit]

The user Greatwish, it's a puppet account of Enciclopiedicomutante, Nicert, Canary88 and Atlantecan. All these are puppet accounts that have been blocked in Spanish, see here Canary88, But he continues to create puppet accounts to vandalize. Is vandalizing in the article: Canary Islands.--87.223.111.202 (talk) 09:21, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You can open a sockpuppet investigation here. Mstrojny (talk) 11:46, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The user has created another account Spanishwikilp.--87.223.111.202 (talk) 13:39, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You've been told how you can proceed with this or any other alleged sockpuppets. 331dot (talk) 13:40, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Michael Greenhow[edit]

The career section in in this article has the incorrect link for Sir John Fife - it goes to the wrong person. It should go to John Fife (surgeon). Please alter if you can - I cannot on my device. Please keep the "Sir" in. Please fix if able. Sorry 175.32.70.221 (talk) 10:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks for drawing attention to this. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How To Edit Title Or Delete Draft Article[edit]

I started a draft article but want to edit the title or delete the article and create a new article with new title. How do I do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pequena Princesa (talk • contribs) 10:29, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Since this account appears to not be autoconfirmed, you can request renaming a draft here. If you would like to delete your draft you can put {{db-g13}} on top of the draft you want to delete and an administrator will delete it for you. Mstrojny (talk) 11:44, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pequena Princesa: The more usual CSD criterion for deletion of a draft you have created woul be {{Db-g7}}. G13 is used for drafts that have been 'abandoned' (not edited for more than 6 months). However, your editing history does not show an edit in draft space. Which draft are you referring to and what would be the reason for deletion? Please do not ask the same question in multiple locations. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:07, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to find articles that a specific root domain as a source[edit]

For example, I want to know how many articles use NYTimes.com as a source, or more specifically exactly articles citing anything from this Yiddish publication: ingeveb.org Shushugah (talk) 19:36, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Shushugah: See Special:LinkSearch. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:56, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Shushugah. You can also use insource:ingeveb.org. See H:INSOURCE. --ColinFine (talk) 19:59, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Geographic naming conventions[edit]

I started a discussion here regarding a proposal regarding WP:USPLACE. Nobody has commented on the discussion since Feb 1. I was wondering how we can get the discussion moving forward so that there is a consensus regarding my proposal. Any thoughts? Mstrojny (talk) 20:37, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Currently there is no consensus. You could attempt to start an RfC for more participation. Thanks, Lourdes 00:50, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Checking the Featured article candidate[edit]

Hi there,

Just a question, does connect Wikipedia pages to each other matter when checking the Featured article candidates?

Sincerely

White Timber Kimberly (talk) 21:57, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

White Timber Kimberly The Featured article criteria page doesn't explicitly mention wikilinks, but it does refer us to the style guidelines, which include a section on wikilinks. So this would be something to check: whether links are "relevant and helpful", not too numerous, and pointing to the right articles: Bhunacat10 (talk), 23:06, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bhunacat10:does red wiki links affect the quality of the candidate when considering promoting?--White Timber Kimberly (talk) 18:13, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
白目金百利, within reason, no. If there are an excessive number of red links, this will have been picked up at the Good Article assessment WP:GAN Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:36, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @Jimfbleak:: Well, I did not see any standards for Good Article Assessment that says"There should not be an excessive number of red links" nor paraphrased.--White Timber Kimberly (talk) 23:24, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

White Timber Kimberly You are right in that there is no formal standard, but there is an expectation that red links are kept to a minimum. There is at least one current FAC that's being challenged on having too many red links Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:39, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Let me get straight to the point: This user thinks an article on Chinese Wikipedia does not meet the FA criteria due to too many red links and some other reasons (like lack of sufficient sources). We know that different communities have different criteria for FA, but we still want to seek advice from your community whether too many red links like that article will make the article not fit for an FA (Regardless of other factors). You could consider it assuming this happens to the local corresponding article Cleveland Centennial half dollar (That article is translated from this article). Thanks! --94rain ^Talk 15:25, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help deleting a malicious link in a reference list[edit]

Resolved

– 174.0.99.18 (talk) 23:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Hi all. I need help deleting this reference on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modding_in_Grand_Theft_Auto http://thesqeez.com/probably-the-best-gta-5-mod-firebreathing-demon-kitty/ The link goes to a page where you're given the fake "win and iPhone" contest and the like, and you can't back out of the page. It keeps saying do you want to leave and if you say yes it just reloads. I tried to delete it myself but it only shows the template for references and not the links themselves.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Fan labor]]
[[Category:Grand Theft Auto]]
[[Category:Unofficial adaptations]]
[[Category:Video game mods]]

The link that needs to be removed isn't there.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.0.99.18 (talk) 23:08, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are indeed correct. I have now removed the link from the page. Thanks a lot for catching that and letting us know! Yes, a lot of the time, the content of references is not stored in the references section itself. The easiest way to find where the content of a ref is stored is to edit the whole page (e.g. the edit button at the very top of the page) and control+F for the URL of the designated article; then remove the whole citation template and the <ref> and </ref> tags on either side of it. I hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again for reporting!--SkyGazer 512 ^{My talk page} 23:21, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]