Help desk
< February 26	<< Jan \| February \| Mar >>	February 28 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current Help Desk pages.

February 27

Personally disabling Wikipedia's custom media player

Is there a way of blocking the TimedTextHandler script from loading? I don't like its custom media player at all. It's been five years since its introduction, and I'm fed up with looking at its terrible interface. —suzukaze (t・c) 08:14, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately not. Please keep complaining to WMF, to make sure that A/V gets some resources dedicated to it. I've done as much as I can do to get a new player] in place, but with my limited availability as a volunteer, I'm not able to make much more progress there. P.S. It's the Kaltura player, of the TimedMediaHandler extension. TimedTextHandler is the nothing more but the subtitles support plugin for those. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:48, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trichology

I have just used your domain and have noticed that the 'history' of Trichology refers to two companies of which the Institute of Trichologists is one and wondered if you realised that this is actually a private company and not linked to any other university or educational body and as such you are advertising it? There are many differing courses available in Trichology ranging from the basic level to the more scientific versions of pure Trichology whereas those qualified may be used as expert witnesses within the legal field. Kind regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:C5AB:8400:3C83:22DD:37FE:8B16 (talk) 10:10, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your suggestion. It is much better to bring up comments about specific pages on their respective talk pages than on a general page such as this. Indeed, if you think an article can be improved, you are welcome to edit it. Please read WP:bold, revert, discuss for how it works if somebody disagrees with your edit. --ColinFine (talk) 13:03, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why can i not create an entry for Lenovo Research?

I found that i coud not create the entry for Lenovo Research, which is automatically redirected to the entry of Lenovo.

Both Microsoft Research and Microsoft Research Asia have separate entries. I wonder why Lenovo Research was treated differently. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcticview (talk • contribs) 14:06, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I just deleted what you had contributed to the article because you copied the content from somewhere else on the internet. You need to write an article in your own words. The entry could also have been deleted because it was written like an advertisement. Originally the article you wrote was tagged for speedy deletion because it didn't expand on the content withing Lenovo so that is why it was redirected there. If the research arm of Lenovo is independently notable then it would be possible to have an article like other companies have but just because other companies are split apart doesn't mean this one should be also. - GB fan 14:28, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just pinging Arcticview since they are new enough that they might not understand the need to come back here for a reply. †dismas†|^(talk) 15:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Arcticview. We have articles on subjects only if there is enough indepedent material published in reliable places to make it possible to write an acceptable article (the Wikipedia jargon for this is "if it is notable"). Usually, individual sections or subsidiaries are not notable in their own right, and are treated in the article on the parent company. If there is substantial material about the Lenovo research division written and published by people who have no connection with Lenovo then there can be a separate article on it. Whether or not we have articles on divisions of other companies is irrelevant: either there is enough material on those divisions specifically, or the articles ought to be deleted. Please also see your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 16:19, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Because Microsoft is a much more massive company than Lenovo.74.70.146.1 (talk) 19:42, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's not the reason, or not directly. It might be indirectly, in that people are more likely to have written about Microsoft divisions than Lenovo ones. --ColinFine (talk) 20:36, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

the page of Michael Alan Welker

Hi, Stuart, the page of Michael Alan Welker was created few years ago when I was a student. Please do what is necessary to the page if it doesn't have the copyright. Thank you!

Zoey

Note: this seems to relate to Michael Alan Welker, which Stuartyeates has proposed for deletion. --ColinFine (talk) 16:22, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zoey, please study WP:notability and WP:NACADEMICS. If you then believe that Welker meets Wikipedia's standards for notability, you may remove the proposed deletion, and work to add the required references to the article. --ColinFine (talk) 16:25, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seen image licenced under CC being used by a paid service - how do I report this?

Using subscription website for education, wanted to find more information and image used on paid website identical to wikipedia article. Image licensed under CC. How do I bring this to someone's attention? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.162.178 (talk • contribs)

As far as I understand it, CC is fine with that as long as credit is given to the photographer, artist, etc. Images are allowed to be used for commercial works. †dismas†|^(talk) 18:20, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It depends which particular CC licence. See Creative Commons license#Types of licenses and Wikipedia:Creative Commons licenses. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:33, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is no credit given. This is the image in question https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bullseye_Lyme_Disease_Rash.jpg

What is this subscription website that is using it?--Aspro (talk) 18:53, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is a medical education website which I don't want to name publicly

A Medical Web site! Well, a hell of a lot of us must be psychotic to want to edit here, but we – non of us- are psychic. How can you expect us to fully answer if you insist on erecting a pseudo chines-wall between us and this website? The Caldicott Principles don’t apply to websites. Are you a med student or an employee of the org and thus wish for total anonymity? You can't bring anything to anybodies attention if you keep it hidden from their view.--Aspro (talk) 20:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jeez, User:Aspro, is this how you talk to people? Not here you don't. The person might be reticent to name the site for fear of making trouble for some innocent person, or whatever reason. In that case a simple "If you want us to help, you'll need to name the website; if you don't want to, fine, but then we can't really help much" might be in order. See the difference? Herostratus (talk) 01:30, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you are bothered by this, bring it to the attention of the person who created and licensed the photo. It's their copyright that is being infringed upon, and not ours. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 01:43, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. It is even possible that the copyright holder has provided this image to the site under a different license. The copyright holder is under no obligation to use only one license, and is under no obligation to tell CC-BY-SA licensees (that's us) if the image has been licensed to others under a different license. In a typical case, a copyright holder may also be the creator of a website and choose to use the image. -Arch dude (talk) 02:42, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Assessment

I've been trying to revive WikiProject Addictions and recovery for a little while, but I'm struggling to get the assessment system setup properly. I have adapted a number of pages from other projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Addictions and recovery/Assessment and Category:Addictions and recovery articles by quality, but I can't get it to automatically populate. There's plenty of assessed articles, see Category:Mid-importance addiction and recovery articles. Can someone help me out? Sondra.kinsey (talk) 20:11, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sondra.kinsey Well I've obtained content in your project subpage's "Current status" and "Assessment log" sections simply by changing "addictions" to "addiction" in two template calls. Hope this is what you wanted: Noyster (talk), 20:50, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) In {{WikiProject Addictions and recovery}} you set ASSESSMENT_CAT = addiction and recovery articles with no "s" in "addiction". This populates the category system at Category:Addiction and recovery articles by quality. I'm unclear whether you want the "s" like in Category:Addictions and recovery articles by quality. You can change ASSESSMENT_CAT but the existing assessment categories will then have to be moved. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:54, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Noyster: @PrimeHunter: Thanks for your help. It was just a simple matter of clarifying when to use Addictions and when to use addiction. It's working great now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Addictions and recovery/Assessment#Current status. I'm inclined to leave well enough alone now that it's working, but am I going to run into problems in the future since our WikiProject name and the category names are slightly different? Is it important that these be synchronized? Sondra.kinsey (talk) 14:41, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Sondra.kinsey: It's not important. A search [1] finds lots of WikiProjects which change the name in ASSESSMENT_CAT. Removing a plural "s" is a common change. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:11, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks everyone! I really appreciate your willingness to help. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]