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Qanon[edit]

Nope. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:25, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I am writing today to request the qanon page be unlocked. The entire submission is false, misleading, full of errors, and includes no facts whatsoever. It is not a "far right conspiracy theory". I'm a lifelong Democrat that follows qanon,as do many other dems&independents. And of course the author is able to make wild unsubstantiated claims while refusing to allow people to add actual facts. It's time to unlock it so BOTH sides of the story and actual facts can be told. It's disgusting that the author is allowed to mock,belittle&shame millions of Americans of all political persuasions that actively follow Q and who have done actual research into the claims. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.211.137.1 (talk) 00:10, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Nope. See WP:FRINGE. This not open to discussion here. If you wish to defend this wingnuttery you may open a discussion at WP:FTN. But be warned that if you just show up and start spouting fringe nonsense backed by fringe sources the discussion will be quickly shut down. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Night skin[edit]

Hello. Does Wikipedia have a night skin? White background is way too bright sometimes. I have tried the black and green skin but its still too impractical to use for a few reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ikayla965 (talk • contribs) 08:35, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ikayla965 The good news is that a proposal to provide a "Night mode" view came second in this year's Community Wishlist process, and is therefore among the priority improvements we've identified for the Wikimedia Foundation in the coming months: Bhunacat10 (talk), 17:45, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The downside is that the WMF take forever to actually do anything, so if you're lucky it'll be available on 2021. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bhunacat10 Joseph2302 So I'm guessing from that there are no custom skins around? Well, there goes most of my incentive to edit Wikipedia. :( Ikayla965 (talk) 20:55, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone fix the layout of Phenix Building (Chicago)?[edit]

It looks like after the multiple horizontal images, it gets really messed up and everything ends up in a column 1 character wide. I couldn't quickly spot how to fix it. Thanks in advance. - Jmabel | Talk 21:36, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it's now been fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmabel (talk • contribs)

Please delete my account[edit]

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olegkozinets (talk • contribs) 22:28, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Accounts can't be deleted due to attribution and technical reasons. Sorry. --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 22:30, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not only that but the only edit this account has made to date is requesting that it be deleted. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:46, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If the issue is that the editors user name reflects their IRL name, and they do not want that to be the case (privacy issues, etc.), maybe a rename of the account might be appropriate? Cheers, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 22:54, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First Step Act of 2018 is not the same as HR 5682 First Step Act for inmates.[edit]

President Trump did not sign HR5682 into law, he signed S.756 which has nothing to do with inmates. It has to do with Marine

This is what was signed into Law December 21, 2018 at the First Step Act of 2018. Your site has it mixed up with the HR5682, First Step Act from Federal inmates.

Passed Senate amended (08/03/2017) Save Our Seas Act of 2017 or the SOS Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Marine Debris Act to revise the Marine Debris Program to require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to work with: (1) other agencies to address both land- and sea-based sources of marine debris, and (2) the Department of State and other agencies to promote international action to reduce the incidence of marine debris.

(Sec. 3) The bill also revises the program by allowing NOAA to make sums available for assisting in the cleanup and response required by severe marine debris events.

(Sec. 4) The bill urges the President to:

support funding for research and development of bio-based and other alternatives or environmentally feasible improvements to materials that reduce municipal solid waste; work with foreign countries that contribute the most to the global marine debris problem in order to find a solution to the problem; study issues related to marine debris, including the economic impacts of marine debris; and encourage the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to consider the impact of marine debris in relevant future trade agreements. (Sec. 5) The Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee must expand to include a senior official from the State Department and from the Department of the Interior.

(Sec. 6) This bill reauthorizes for FY2018-FY2022: (1) the Marine Debris Program, (2) an information clearinghouse on marine debris, and (3) enforcement of laws about discarded marine debris from ships. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:4EC7:5338:DF2:E8DC:38D6:EFF7 (talk) 22:59, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for posting this, but our site contains millions of articles. If you could tell us which article you mean and what part of it you think is inaccurate, we'll be able to look into it: Bhunacat10 (talk), 09:58, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Editing articles[edit]

I was editing and adding information to an article. I know it is correct and accurate information. But shortly afterward, some person kept changing it back to what it was before I edited it. Who has the authority over certain pages and why can’t my improvements to the page stay? Militaryhistorian9 (talk) 23:19, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Militaryhistorian9, I've moved your question from the Help Desk talk page to the actual Help Desk. I don't have an answer for your question now though. †dismas†|^(talk) 23:21, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. After reviewing your contributions, it seems you have the last five edits here. I'm not sure what you think has been removed or changed back. Were you logged in when you made the changes that were removed? If not, then we'd need to know what edits you're talking about. †dismas†|^(talk) 23:24, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Without being able to assess the edits you are concerned about, Militaryhistorian9 (because you haven't identified them), I am concerned about your wording "I know it is correct and accurate information."

It is not sufficient for you (whoever you actually are) to know (or think you know) something; it has to be referred to a Reliable sources by means of citations, so that everybody else can if they choose refer to those sources and confirm that what they say corresponds to what you have added.

Who has authority over page content? Everyone! It is a positive duty for all Wikipedia editors to challenge and if necessary remove uncited material, which can be restored if and when, but not before, citation(s) to one or more reliable sources have been added to verify it.

So, did you cite Reliable sources to verify your added information? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.217.251.247 (talk) 01:55, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Militaryhistorian9 (talk) 03:44, 28 December 2018 (UTC)Militaryhistorian9 ... Dismas, I am talking about the Battle of Mogadishu edits I made a few weeks back. I was logged in for most of the edits I made then on some of the other ones I got logged out somehow. I’m not sure who the other person that replied on this post is, but yes I did put a source for most of the info I edited. On some of the other edits, I forgot to put a source or didn’t have a way to put the source. But there are plenty of things on that page that I didn’t write that have no citations either.[reply]

Is this is about the edit you made to Battle of Mogadishu (1993) on December 7th? The material you added cited no sources, and was reverted by Le Petit Chat with the edit summary "unsourced changes". Maproom (talk) 08:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Militaryhistorian9 (talk) 16:38, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Militaryhistorian9 there was some material I wrote that did have sources Militaryhistorian9 (talk) 16:38, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Maproom . @Maproom On the others, either I forgot about it, didn’t have a way to put it in, or didn’t feel like it was necessary since there were already sources that somebody else put in that cites the sentences I wrote in the same section or paragraph. There is still also plenty of other info on the page that isn’t cited that I did not put in[reply]