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What does it mean when a word is colored other than black such as Red or Blue? 2601:1C2:4100:3290:D527:7D38:5E22:DC5F (talk) 00:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Links that are in red mean that they direct you to a Wikipedia space that does not exist or does not have a page. Blue links are either external links, or internal links to a Wikipedia space that does exist. Please feel free to respond with any more questions :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

See WP:Red link and WP:Blue link.--ukexpat (talk) 01:34, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Christiane WOOPEN

I have added information about the importance of a webpage I just created by saying: "This article is required with respect to a multitude of foreign guests coming to Germany for the Global Summit of all National Ethics Councils/Committees in the world. Participation has double with respect to the previous summit in Mexico, and quite a number of foreign guests as well as observers will be interested in learning more - in English - about the President of the event. The article is by the way connected with a German, longer version, which may serve as a basis to expand the English version as soon as possible. So please do not delete it - the article may be just in time."

The copyright issues mentioned by the automated "copyright violaton mechanism" are unfounded as the CV published on the Webpage of the German Ethics Council is not their intellectual property but has been provided by the described person herself. These concerns should just be dismissed, and I would be glad to have some help on that. Kind regards Doubledoc (talk) 02:56, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

In the absence of an acceptable license we must assume that the text and image are copyright. There is a process for confirming release of copyright, see WP:DCM.--ukexpat (talk) 04:18, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia has its own purposes, Doubledoc: arguments on the basis of some other organisation's purposes have no significance in deciding whether articles should be deleted or not. --ColinFine (talk) 10:02, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I would like to revise the information of my professor.

Hello? This is Ahn from Korea. I'm an assistant of professor Teckyoung, Kwon.

My professor wants to renew her information. Whenever I tried to revise it, it automatically deleted or went back to former edition. Sometimes it says I violated copyright. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teckyoung_Kwon)

How can I fix it?

New information is followings:

This isn't the place to post proposed contents for an article, so it has been collapsed

Resume Name: Teckyoung Kwon Sex: Female Education and Research Aug 1980: PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A. 1986: Visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (critical theory) 2001: Visiting scholar at the Kent State University (Psychoanalysis and Dao) 1980-present: Professor at English Department, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea 2001-2003: Dean of the School of English Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Ecology, American and British Fiction, Narrative Theory, Neuro-Humanities, Korean Literature, Dao. Books 1990: Post-Structuralism and Literary Theory (Seoul: Minum-Sa Publishing Co.) 1990: What is Post-Modernism ? (Seoul: Minum-Sa): a steady seller in Korea: the 10th printing in 2012. 1994: Lacan and Desire (editing and translating Lacan’s major writings) (Seoul: Munyae): a steady seller in Korea 1995: How to Read a Fiction ? (Fiction and Narrative Theories)(Seoul: Munyae) The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture and Education: the 11th printing in 2012. 1995: Desire in the Film and Fiction (Seoul: Minum-Sa) 1997: Writing in the Multicultural Age (Seoul: Munyae) Winner of Kim-Hwantae Critic Award 1998: Freud: Sexuality and Power (Seoul: Munyae) 2001: In the Realm of the Senses: Lacan and Film Interpretations (Seoul: Minum-Sa) 2002: Lacan, Zhuangzi, and Korean Flag (Seoul: Minum-Sa) 2003: Age of Surplus Enjoyment: ?i?ek and Post-industrial Society (Seoul: Munyae) 2005: Body and Aesthetics (Seoul: Kyung Hee University Press) 2010: Jacques Lacan: Nature and Man (Seoul: HanKook Munhwa-sa) The Best Book of the Year by Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism 2014: Bio-Humanity: Beyond the Boundary between Man and Nature (Seoul: Jip Moon Dang Publisher) supported by A-San Research Foundation 2015: Selected Literary Essays on Korean Literature of Teckyoung Kwon (one of 50 Korean Literary Critics of the 20th Century) (Seoul: Giman-G. Publisher). Translations into Korean 1988: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov (Seoul: Chung Ha) 1988: Deconstructive Criticism by Vincent B. Leith (Seoul: Munyae) 1989: Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice by Elizabeth Wright (Seoul: Munyae) 1992: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette (Seoul: KyoboMungo) 1997: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (with Critical Introduction, Seoul: Minumsa) 2004: The Way of Zhuangzi by Thomas Merton (Seoul: Yuenhang Namoo) 2007: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (Seoul: Minumsa) 2010: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Seoul: Minumsa) Selected Articles since 2000 (published in Seoul) 2000: “Lacan’s Courtly Love and Lolita ” (The Journal of Criticism and Theory) 2001: “Death Drive Makes a Plot: Don DeLillo’s White Noise” (The Journal of English Language and Literature) 2002: “The Transformations of Jouissance in a Mythic Knowledge” (Journal of Lacan & Contemporary Psychoanalysis) 2002: “Butler’s Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis” (Feminist Studies in English Literature ) 2002: “A Gesture Life as Gaze: the Multicultural Ethics of Lacan and Chang-Rae Lee” (The Journal of English Language and Literature) 2003: “Toni Morrison’s Sula: The Real and the Politics of Body” (Studies in Modern Fiction) 2003: “The Return of Aesthetics: The Real in Slavoj ?i?ek’s Psychoanalysis” (The Journal of Criticism and Theory) 2004: “The Eternal Return: Beyond the Opposition of New Historicism to Psychoanalysis (Modern Studies in English Language & Literature) 2004: “Return to Freud: Does Lacanian Signifier Mean Love or Hate?” (Journal of Lacan & Contemporary Psychoanalysis) 2004: “The Politics of Negativity: Adorno and Chuang-Tzu” (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism) 2005: “Mode of Remembering in Keller’s Comfort Woman” (Studies in Hawthorne & American Novel) 2005: “Enlightenment and Negativity: The Korean Images Portrayed in Mao ll and Native Speaker” (Journal of American Studies) 2005: “JongSaeng-Gi”: The Works of Sang Lee from a Perspective of Symptoms” (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism) 2006: “Lacan and Joyce: Writing as Symptom” (Korean Journal of James Joyce) 2006: “Korean Trauma in American Fiction: Repeating Images in “Chosun Episode” and Dictee” (American Fiction Studies) 2007: “Empedocles’s ‘Rhizomata’ and Lacan’s Nature” (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism) 2007: “The Number 4 Revisited in Joyce and Lacan” (Journal of James Joyce) 2007: “Emersonian Pragmatism in Light of Taoism: The Revision toward Ecology” (The Journal of English Language and Literature) 2008: “The Phenomenology of War in Mailer’s The Armies of the Night” (The Journal of English Language and Literature) 2008: “Sublime Beauty and Productive Circulation: The Role of a Third Space” (Transformative Challenges: Modern Civilization and Beyond) 2008: “A Transition towards the Post-Classical Narratologies: Space and Time as the Other (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism) 2008: “The Position of the Implied Author in Nabokov’s Lolita (American Fiction Studies) 2009: “Reading Chung-jun Lee’s Fiction as Symptom” (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism) 2009: “Narrative Theories of America and Europe: The Implied Author and Narrator” (Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies) 2009: The Paradigm Shift in Narratology: From Structure to Reading Experience (Oughtopia: The Journal of Social Paradigm Studies) 2009: Theory and Form in Narrative: Genette and Metafiction (Journal of American Studies) 2010: Disputes on Freudian Legacy and a Paradigm Shift (The Journal of English Language and Literature) 2010: Phenomenological Body: Chunsoo Kim’s “Flower” and ChungJoon Lee’s Return to the Native Place (Korean Literary Theory and Criticism) 2010: The Materiality of Body and the Paradigm Shift (Kyung Hee Studies of Humanities) 2011: Theoretical Background of Eco-humanism: Towards Bio-humanity (Korean Literary theory and Criticism ) 2011: Merleau-Ponty’s Intertwining as a Theory of Communion (The Journal of English Language and Literature) 2013: Neuro-Humanities: The Recent Discourses on Memory and Cognition (Psychoanalysis) (Publications in U.S.A): A & HCI Journals 2010: “Materiality of Remembering: Freud’s Wolf Man and the Biological Dimensions of Memory.” New Literary History 41. 1(2010 Winter): 213-232. 2011: “Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud” American Imago. 68.1 (2011 Spring): 67-91. 2015: “Love as an Act of Dissimulation in “The Beast in the Jungle.” Henry James Review 36 (2015): 148-162. Paper Presentations for the International Conferences 2000. 11: “Lacan’s Courtly Love and Lolita” at the 6th Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (University of Santa Barbara) 2001. 11: “Changrae Lee’s A Gesture Life and Lacan’s Multicultural Ethics” at the 7th Annual Conference of APCS (Rutgus University) 2004. 10: “Democracy for the Real” at the Annual Conference of APCS(Columbia University) 2004. 09: “Rethinking Emersonian Pragmatism in Light of Dao” at the International Conference held by ASAK( American Studies Association of Korea) (Seoul) 2007. 05: “From Aesthetics to Green Aesthetics: Lacan, Joyce, Chuang-tzu” at the International Conference for the Society of Psychoanalysis and Socio-Humanities (Seoul) 2007. 10: “The Sublime Beauty and the Productive Circulation: the Role of the Third Space.” at the International Conference entitled ‘the World Peace and New Political Paradigm in a Global Age’ sponsored by Kyung Hee Neo-Renaissance Movement for Humanities. 2008. 03-05: A Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College, FL, for finishing the book, Four Discourses, Four Seasons to publish in U.S.A. 2009. 06-04: “Fictional Author and Unreliability in Lolita.” The 2009 International Conference of Narrative Theory, at the Birmingham, U.K. 2009. 06-08: “Lolita in Light of Paradigm Shift.” The Special Lecture at The JASS (Japanese Association of American Studies) Pro-Seminar at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. 2010. 10. 08. “Materiality in Lacan’s Play of the Signifier: Freud after Derrida.” Mosaic Conference 2010: “ Freud After Derrida,” at University of Manitoba in Canada. 2013. 05. 10. “Memory and the Play of the Signifiers in ‘The Beast in the Jungle.’” International Henry James Conference at Baskent University in Turkey. 2014. 07. 21-26. “Experience of Tragedy: Affect and Cognition.” IGEL Conference for the Empirical Studies of Literature at Turin, Italy. 2015. 06-23-27. “Art as Nature: Ecological Consciousness in Nabokov’s Despair.” 2015 ASLE Conference, at Moscow, University of Idaho. U.S.A. Experiences 1989-1995: Editor of several Korean Literary Magazines including Literature of East and West (1989-1994), La Plume,(1995-2002), The Other Criticism (2002-2004) 1998-2000 , 2001-2003: Editorial Board of Journal of English Language and Literature 2002-2004: President of Korean Society of Lacan and Contemporary Psychoanalysis 2005- 2007: President of the American Fiction Association of Korea 2007: Organizer of the International Conference for KAPS on “Psychoanalysis and the New Political Paradigm in the Global Age.” 2008: President-elect of American Studies Association of Korea. 2006-2008: A Founding Member, and the President of KAPS (Korean Association of Psychoanalysis and Society) 2009: President of American Studies Association of Korea.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 안외정 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 4 February 2016‎ (UTC)

You're not supposed to put resumes on wikipedia. We've been posting this shit to your talk page. Check your messages. Dingsuntil (talk) 05:46, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Reference problems

Could somebody fix the errors at the end of the first paragraph and in the second reference (related?) in Ebola virus. The first has been there for a disturbingly long time. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Done (I think), but the used referencing style is really obscure. The error was transcluded from an entirely different article West African Ebola virus epidemic - no wonder, that nobody had fixed it yet. GermanJoe (talk) 07:17, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Need help on proper capitalization/correcting article name

Hi There,

Need help on proper capitalization of a page name for this article Bharti axa general insurance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsyousuf (talk • contribs) 06:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

The name should appear like this 'Bharti AXA General Insurance' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsyousuf (talk • contribs) 06:26, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Article moved to Bharti AXA General Insurance.--ukexpat (talk) 06:45, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

article deleted

There was in the past an article about me (Francis Moriarty, Hong Kong journalist) on Wiki but it was deleted, apparently because there was some sort of problem with the editor who posted it. The article was in fact entirely accurate. I had a subsequent exchange with a Wiki editor and it was indicated that the entry would be reinstated, but it never had been. Obviously I have a conflict of interest and cannot propose one about myself. But it was extremely useful to have that inclusion and I would like to be reinstated, and updated. Please tell me what can be done. Francis Moriarty — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.160.165.186 (talk) 10:06, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Mr Moriarty: Thank you for asking here. It needs to be explained that accuracy alone is not sufficient for an article to be retained on Wikipedia: we also have "notability" requirements, which for a journalist are set out here. Although many of your reports from Hong Kong are easily accessible, and your comments have often been quoted, an article about you would need to include references to "reliable published sources", independent of yourself, to demonstrate "notability" in this sense. If you could point us to several such references, then I or another impartial editor reading this could start an article: Noyster (talk), 11:46, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Translating an article

How can I translate an existing article in other languages? The article am interested in translating is on catalan wikipedia: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miquel_Milà_i_Sagnier

I would like to translate this article to english wikipedia and add information and images.

please help (am a first time user)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claudiaoliva (talk • contribs) 10:52, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

You'll find advice at WP:Translation. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:04, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Tables

Hi, Is there a tool to generate a table, something like Wikidata list but with only WP info ? --YB ^✍ 14:10, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

YanikB the people who might know can be found at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:41, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

New Article in Draft

Hi there,

It appears as though the article I submitted has not been looked at in a little while, and is still labelled as a "DRAFT".

I've gone in and revised the feedback from the initial review, but how do I ask that the page be reviewed in order to get it live?

Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rix00 (talk • contribs) 14:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

You ask for another review using the "Resubmit" button, but you deleted that in this edit when you deleted the previous feedback & comments. You shouldn't have done that (which is why it said <!-- Do not remove this line! -->), so I've reinserted what you deleted. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:45, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Help with the username

Appreciated community:

I wanna change my username in the english Wikipedia in order to "unify" my account with the account I have in commons and the spanish Wikipedia. My username there is Universalis, and that's the username that I want for the english Wikipedia.

However, I read WP:CHU and I don't understand what to do in this case. I need your help for this process.

Greetings from Colombia and God bless you. --Babelia (talk) 15:55, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Please, apply at SRUC. Ruslik_Zero 20:40, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Betty Clemo

Hello,

Your article about Betty Clemo is wrong, She was my grandmother and I have articles about her. She had a shop at The Penninsula Hotel and I have proof of that with pictures.She was not Chinese she was British. Please let me know how to proceed,,,,

Kind regards,

Fiona Clemo Malca — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.144.83.219 (talk) 16:15, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

As her grandaughter, you have a conflict of interest and should not directly edit the article. However, we obviously don't want it to contain incorrect information. The best thing for you to do is to visit the article's talk page and make a new section. Copy and paste {{request edit}} at the start of the section; that will alert other editors that someone with a COI wants changes made to the article. Then, list in detail the changes that should be made, and the published reliable sources that support those changes. You said you had articles about her, that's good. You need to provide information for the articles such as what newspaper/magazine they were published in, the title of the article, the date it was published, etc. The more information you can give us (page numbers, authors names, etc.) the better. At minimum; title of article, title of magazine/newspaper, and date of publication. Someone will then (eventually - it can take some time) come along and either implement your changes or reject them and explain why, and what other information is needed. As for the pictures, whether or not we can accept them depends on who took them, what year they were taken in, and what their copyright status is. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:52, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

FWIW, everything the OP states above appears to be already included in the article, last edited in 2015, so it's unclear what is wrong. {The poster formerly known as 87.71.230.195) 185.74.232.130 (talk) 18:50, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

cite box not appearing

I had a box that appeared when I first tried to use the cite button. I decided I wanted to use it first further up so I got out of that box and deleted the reference number. When I went to the place I did want to put the first citation, the button no longer produced a box for entering the citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LibethT (talk • contribs) 19:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

LibethT try WP:VPT. I'm not familiar with this problem but they might know what is happening.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:52, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

HELP...please.

There's so much info that I am overwhelmed. I am trying to get familiar with wiki so that I can submit my first piece. I have several questions. But if someone can help with these first few, I would appreciate it. Please be kind because I'm sure these questions might seems stupid but I really want to figure this out.

1) Do I have to create the hyperlinks within an article that link it to other wiki pages, or are those key words recognized automatically?

2) Can newspaper articles and general public records be used as valid reference?

Thanks for any help Ibstylin (talk) 23:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

To answer your question: you have to create the hyperlinks, by putting double square brackets around the words, so you would type [[dog]] to get dog. And you can cite newspaper articles and public records, as long as the public records really are public. But your intention to "submit your first piece" is probably a mistake, particularly if you are feeling overwhelmed. Creating a new article is really difficult, compared to the routine work of improving Wikipedia by correcting typos, improving grammar, adding references, and suchlike. I had been editing Wikipedia for five years before I first created a new article. Maproom (talk) 23:10, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

This is why Article wizard was created. Mlpearc (open channel) 23:13, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Hmm. The article wizard gives the impression that, after a few hours' work, you will be able to create a new article. Unless you're a genius, it's probably not so. I wonder if the article wizard is partly responsible for Wikipedia's falling retention rate for new editors. Maproom (talk) 23:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I suspect it's a lot of factors, including that the public is very familiar with setting up pages on all sorts of social media, and understandably they expect Wikipedia to be similar. And unfortunately, the wizard allows people to gloss over the first step (collecting your references), which should be the bulk of the work. Ibstylin - sorry to hijack your question to talk about that, but it should reinforce that writing a new article from scratch is hard, and I support the idea of starting out by improving existing articles first. I found it really helped me to understand how Wikipedia works.--Gronk Oz (talk) 00:40, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

I agree with the above posts. For some reason, many new editors think that creating new articles is the only or best way to contribute to Wikipedia. For new editors whose native language is English, I would suggest that copy-editing is a good way to contribute. Also, as a reviewer, I find that most declines are due either to referencing issues or notability issues (which overlap), and the Article Wizard doesn't help with those. References are just hard work. I would like to see tools to simplify referencing. Also, if a topic isn't notable, then no amount of work makes it notable. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:07, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks everyone. The wizard really isn't as helpful as other's may think and I have been trying to edit other's pages to figure this out but it's a LOT to take in. I'm wondering if maybe it wouldn't just be easier to find someone that really knows wiki better and may be interested in researching more and writing the article I had considered. lol I really appreciate the information. I just feel so out of my league and thought it would be much easier to figure out than it has been this far. Ibstylin (talk) 19:15, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Greetings Ibstylin, For a while now I've been updating at Tip of the Day, Tips library and thought that Tips for contributors on getting started section may be helpful. Regards,  JoeHebda (talk)  20:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)