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May 23[edit]

Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom[edit]

Please help - reference number 4 is wrong and I tried to get it right. I am getting rusty (and old). Sorry Srbernadette (talk) 01:02, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, the url field had the publisher details, and the publisher field had the url details. I have corrected them. Thanks. Lourdes 01:13, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

James Matthews (racing driver)[edit]

Ref number 13 is actually from the Daily Mail (UK) - but it was published in the New Zealand Herald - which is what I have recorded. Please check that I have formatted it all correctly. ThanksSrbernadette (talk) 02:27, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You probably meant reference #14 and not #13. No issues in the formatting. Incidentally, the Daily Mail is not considered a reliable source, least so for BLPs, in which the usage of such a source is prohibited (Daily Mail Rfc). You should consider changing the reference, if the contents were originally sourced from the Daily Mail. Thanks. Lourdes 14:42, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How do you create a page on an author?[edit]

How do you create a new page on an author? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.172.53.80 (talk) 04:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP user. Creating a new article is one of the more difficult tasks in editing Wikipedia, but for how to go about it, please read your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 08:13, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Spencer Matthews[edit]

Opening lines of this page are AGAIN subject to vandalism. I cannot change it. Please monitor this page. Thankyou203.39.128.90 (talk) 06:20, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Although some vandalism had already been corrected I have restored an earlier version. Eagleash (talk) 06:34, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, I've added temporary pending changes protection to the page. Edits by new and unregistered users will be reviewed before going live. clpo13_(talk) 06:38, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How to get a version hidden of a certain article[edit]

I've reverted <link removed> because it contains cyberbullying. Where do I ask for hiding it? I'm from the Netherlands and on the Dutch Wikipedia I do this all the time but here I don't have any idea where to go to... Oxygene7-13 (talk) 15:57, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Any Admin. can do that for you (assuming they agree it's necessary). Try Oshwah or Mz7; both usually 'about' and helpful. Eagleash (talk) 16:11, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Hello Oxygene7-13. See Wikipedia:Revision_deletion#How_to_request_Revision_Deletion. I removed your diff, to avoid attracting unwanted attention (the Help Desk is a high-traffic page), but I have not acted on it (only admins can). Also, I am not entirely sure this deserves a revdel - it would be WP:CRD #2 but it does not cover "ordinary" incivility. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:13, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On the dutch Wikipedia every name that is not relevant for the encyclopedia will be removed, that's why I asked. And yes, Wikipedia:Revision_deletion#How_to_request_Revision_Deletion is the page I was looking for. THNX! Oxygene7-13 (talk) 16:20, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked Mz7 to take a look at it so it should get solved. Oxygene7-13 (talk) 16:32, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deleted. Speaking personally and not for other administrators, I tend to apply revision deletion fairly liberally for WP:BLP issues when full names are used by accounts with few or no other edits, as was the case here. The English Wikipedia policy is not to revision-delete "ordinary" incivility because these may have to be reviewed by the community later for possible community/administrative sanctions. However, in this case, I see little need to retain the information for administrative purposes; it is more beneficial, in my view, to help protect whomever this may have been targeted towards. Mz7 (talk) 00:59, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a Wiki Page for a Organization[edit]

Hello! I am wanting to get information neccessary on getting a wiki page up for our organization, simply because its a global startup.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.127.44.160 (talk) 16:25, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If it is a global 'start-up' then it is not notable just yet. Should it later become notable, then you need not worry, as an editor will create a page. Aspro (talk) 20:25, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you read the article on "Up-and-coming next big things". --Orange Mike | Talk 01:26, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Wikipedia does not keep pages for any organizations, societies or people. Instead it keeps articles about them. That means we're not interested in what organizations and others want to publish about themselves, but rather we base on what others, (i.e. independent, reliable sources) say about them. Additionally, if you say 'our organizations' I really doubt if you should write about it. Please read the Wikipedia policy at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. --CiaPan (talk) 20:56, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

1971 INDIA PAKISTAN WAR[edit]

It is a wrong information there was any 1971 INDIA-PAKISTAN war. Actual war name was Bangladesh liberation war. please correct the article.

Page website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Araquib84260 (talk • contribs) 22:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The opening sentence of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 links to Bangladesh Liberation War. Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 is a common name for the 13-day war between India and Pakistan during the 8-month Bangladesh Liberation War. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:18, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

questions regarding $wgAllowExternalImages[edit]

Hello. I'm a frustrated newbie. There are a huge number of great open source cell biology images that have NC licenses and thus cannot be uploaded to the commons. But, from what I can see from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Linked_images#External_image_syntax#External_image_syntax it is possible to display (I think the exact term is "render") external images in a sister project's pages if $wgAllowExternalImages is "enabled". Is that enabled on wp? If not, why the heck not? If yes, how do I then use it? Can it be enabled for individual wp articles? I also read on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages about an "external image whitelist". Does wp have such a list? It would seem appropriate at the least to whitelist images fom author manuscripts at the NIH website. I hope I've written coherently enough for my questions to be understood and that this isn't a dead end. @Boghog: Thank you. JeanOhm (talk) 22:39, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, to both questions, I'm afraid. MediaWiki software is used by a number of other companies, and includes elements which aren't appropriate for Wikipedia itself, and the ability to display externally hosted images is one of them. (To be more accurate, we have the ability, in that theoretically we can add things to MediaWiki:External image whitelist, but for legal reasons there are no circumstances in which we would ever do so.) Because Wikipedia content is re-usable by anyone for any purpose including commercial re-use, Wikipedia pages can't include images with any kind of restriction on use. (There are some very limited circumstances in which Wikipedia will host fair-use images, but in those circumstances the file should be uploaded to Wikipedia itself at low resolution.) ‑ Iridescent 22:49, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Iridescent: Thanks for the reply. Would it be acceptable to put a degraded, low resolution, version of an open NC licensed image onto wp and into the "Gallery" section of an aticle, with a caption indicating that the high resolution image is available at httpWhatEver? JeanOhm (talk) 01:20, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@JeanOhm: No for a few reasons. One, all NC licensed images would have to be here under fair use. Fair use here is highly restricted per our policy on the matter. Two, fair use images in galleries is generally unacceptable per WP:NFG. And finally, our policy on external links would place the link to the other site on shaky ground at best.

The best option would be to try to contact the copyright holder of that image and ask them to release it under a non-NC license. Other than that I don't see how you can use it. Sorry. --Majora (talk) 01:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]