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July 13[edit]

Mina Edison[edit]

Once again, women are given short shrift by Wikipedia. PBS is currently airing a 30 minute story on Mina Edison. There is nothing on your pages about her! How can this be. If PBS is able dig up enough info on her, I would think Wikipedia could at least have a page about her. Typically, women get ignored or given abbreviated pages on your site. Every year when you want donations, I always ask where are the women. Nothing changes with you people. Hire some more female editors so can cover the significant half of the population. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.200.106.100 (talk) 02:31, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't hire editors; we are all volunteers. If you believe we are missing an important article on a notable topic, the best way to address that is to compile some reliable sources, then create an account and use the Article Wizard to create an article. When you're done with that, you can help address the imbalance you perceive in coverage by creating more articles and expanding existing ones. Rivertorch^FIRE _WATER 03:00, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @162.200.106.100: To add on to the points made by Rivertorch, less than 10% of volunteers on the English Wikipedia are female (see Gender bias on Wikipedia for more information). This is a known problem, and the Wikimedia Foundation is looking at ways to resolve it. Have a nice day! Daylen (talk) 03:07, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

She doesn't have a biography but Mina Miller Edison redirects to Thomas Edison#Marriages and children where she is mentioned. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:10, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the redirect from Mina Miller Edison is considered a "Redirect with Possibilies" which basically means right now on Wikipedia it is redirected to Thomas Edison#Marriages and children, it would be *preferred* if we *had* an article. So I definitely agree with Rivertorch.Naraht (talk) 15:01, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Need someone who knows spoken Chinese[edit]

I am seeking someone who knows spoken Chinese and could provide the English translations for some words, ideally with source links. China Airlines Flight 676#CVR transcript is in English but includes

Don
Du
Wu
Wu Lu
D-ling
Da La

I assume those are Chinese words and believe it would be useful to add English translations. "Da La" is probably "pull up" based on the context. I checked the Chinese and Japanese versions of this article but they don't have the transcript. The source page for this part of the article just has the words as stated above. --Marc Kupper|talk 07:44, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Marc Kupper: I would recommend that you ask this question on the local embassy, as they have Chinese speaking editors there. Have a nice day! Daylen (talk) 18:54, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think these weren't translated (in any transcripts) because they weren't words, but unintelligible sounds picked up by cockpit area microphone. If you can find a recording, I'll be able to confirm it but as of now I think that's the only explanation. Alex Shih ^Talk 19:37, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Alex Shih. The recording apparently was circulating for a while but apparently is the property of the property of the Taiwanese government which requested its removal from the web sites of at least Taiwanese media organizations. I could not find any copies circulating, at least using English language searches. I've e-mailed Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council. They have on-line incident reports but those only go back to January 1, 2001 and this crash was in 1998. Also, thank you as I'd wondered what the "CAM" was in the transcript. You provided a good clue with your mention of the "cockpit area microphone" meaning the designation "CAM" may well be how they documented ambient noises. --Marc Kupper|talk 21:39, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Remove or replace picture located inside an infobox[edit]

Hi, I want to remove the logo located inside the infobox on the top right corner of this page: https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comit%C3%A9_Europeo_de_las_Regiones&action=edit The reason is that the logo currently displayed is the old one. Ideally, I would like to replace it with the new CoR logo, but if this is too complicated, I could simply remove the old logo for now. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by CristinaBruxelles (talk • contribs) 09:51, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@CristinaBruxelles: This is the help desk for the English Wikipedia. To ask a question about the Spanish Wikipedia, try es:Wikipedia:Café (ayuda). Ppp ery 13:41, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help with adding Info. from a published article[edit]

I am BRAND NEW to adding something to Wikipedia, and I am guilty of not doing my prior research with the RIGHT way to edit/add material!! Number 1: How do I get permission to add copyrighted material from a published article? 2. Is there an easy page to follow with step by step directions? I was "able" to just copy and paste directly from said article. I didn't really know what I was doing. It seemed too easy. I enclosed everything in quotation marks, then cited the source at the end. Today I got an email warning from wikipedia that they removed my entry. So, can someone give me some simple, basic info.? Sorry if I sound lazy & ignorant, I do not mean to! Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eapanus (talk • contribs) 13:57, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:COPYPASTE, that should get you started (and gives links to more specific things). Basically in order for information to be added to Wikipedia, the holder of the copyright has to give *extensive* permission to be used. For example, Wikipedia's needed level of licensing is not just that the text can be shown on Wikipedia, it has to be at the level where someone can print out all of the Wikipedia articles on a subject, put a binding on it, and *sell* it, as long as they give credit to wikipedia. And everyone starts from the beginning. My first edit was Alphabetizing notable alumni of my fraternity on the page about that fraternity. 53,000 edits later, I make comments like this. :)Naraht (talk) 15:08, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Eapanus Naraht (talk) 15:09, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Compte bloqué[edit]

Bonjour, Noter compte a été bloqué en 2011 et depuis nous en pouvons pas modifier l'article que nous avons fait. Savez-vous comment nous pouvons modifier à nouveau cet article? Merci — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8B50:8D00:44A1:1A36:B845:17AA (talk) 14:32, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Quel article? Quel compte? C'est English Wikipedia. Ecrivez en anglais, s'il vous plait. Rivertorch^FIRE _WATER 14:40, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

S'il s'agit d'un article dans la Wikipedia française, veuillez poser la question à fr:Wikipédia:Questions techniques. Ce sont des projets tout séparés. --ColinFine (talk) 21:54, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Changing entry name[edit]

Hey, hope all's well,

Wondering how to change the name of this entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamzz The rapper's name is Jammz, not Jamzz.

I can't move it as I'm not a verified user, and can't figure out how to make the request.

Many thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Lea (talk • contribs) 16:25, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The information is at WP:MOVEREQ, but I went ahead and moved it. Every reference showed two "m" and one "z". I'd like to compliment you on the changes that you made, I think you could be a *great* editor.Naraht (talk) 16:41, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Question about search features[edit]

Hi, I am trying to address a frequent problem we face in WP:Film categorization. We have often been asked why we insist on keeping a few huge all inclusive categories, like [[Category:X-country films]] or [[Category:Y-Year films]], and the most important valid answer has been: because of incategory or PetScan search usability. However, it was never decided to keep as all inclusive some other very meaningful categories, such as Category:American comedy films and they have been broken down. So if one searches for, say, incategory:Films directed by Martin Scorsese and incategory:American comedy films, there are exactly 0 results[1]. "Well, how so? I'm sure I have seen a couple of comedies by Scorsese." So one has to find at least one of the articles, in order to learn that it has been sub-categorized in Category:American black comedy films. Aha! So one goes back and searches again and ends up with 2 films[2]. (But were all his comedies black, could he not have also made, say, American comedy horror films‎ or American romantic comedy films‎?) So one has to forget about search and go to the filmography article and check one by one all his films.

And this is a simple case. There are other cases like American horror films that have been broken down to year and it is practically impossible to search for films unless one has the patience to perform separate searches for all the years!. Obviously if one could have a search syntax that would permit to locate ANY category that contains the terms American + comedy + films, we could get exactly what we want, and it would be a most useful result for the reader and for the editor. Search would then be a solution to many similar categorization problems that have popped in other projects as well, like Novels for one. But I see that it is not possible to perform an incategory search for categories that contain terms A AND B AND C. I have tried to figure out whom to contact to discuss about this issue, and I am not even sure if it is a local one or one that should be brought up with Wikimedia. Any suggestions from the Help Desk? Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 16:36, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook page linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Bowen_School_of_Law[edit]

The Facebook link for this organization has been hacked and is posting inappropriate content. Please remove the link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.167.101.65 (talk) 20:00, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see no link to facebook in the article... Hoverfish Talk 20:11, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We have no control over what appears on Facebook. RudolfRed (talk) 20:39, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

i need admin help asap[edit]

hello i need to upload information about my religion and was told i need to contact admin as i just created this account thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Houstondeadpool (talk • contribs) 20:06, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You do not need an admin if you want to add information but you should read Wikipedia:Verifiability before attempting this. Ruslik_Zero 20:27, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This post seems to be your only edit under this username, Houstondeadpool. Be careful to povide relaible sources for any information you add to articles, please. You do not need an admin to add verifiable info to articles in an effort to improve them. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 22:35, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]