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January 8

How do I edit

how do i edit on wikipedia. and how also I want to delete the existing template on the page of wikipedia articles, and how also I want to lock the page wikipedia semi protection articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecal saputra (talk • contribs) 00:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This question is a duplicate of one asked at the The Teahouse. We have answered it there. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to know how to edit this section. Any help would be appreciated.</sarcasm> nagualdesign 01:02, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a section heading. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:05, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nickname RfC

Can someone point me to the specific RFC that made nicknames, as in, say, "William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton", obsolete? MB298 (talk) 04:00, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:NICKNAME still seems to suggest they're OK. Triptothecottage (talk) 07:22, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies/2017 archive#RfC: Clarification and/or change in how common hypocorisms (diminutives) are handled on first use of name. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New entry blocked

The Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center entry refers to Memory and Aging Project. A new entry for Memory and Aging Project is blocked for vandalism https://www.rushu.rush.edu/research/departmental-research/memory-and-aging-project — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.119.133 (talk) 04:35, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't clear who or what has been blocked for vandalism. Could you please give us a wikilink? --David Biddulph (talk) 11:21, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you included a link to Memory and Aging Project (MAP) in your edits to Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center. This link appears as a redlink, but this is not an indication of vandalism or of blocking, but merely an indication that the page Memory and Aging Project (MAP) does not (yet) exist. There is an error message shown for the reference which you included; this was for the reason explained in an answer to your question at ~~WP:Teahouse#Edit blocked~~Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 708#Edit blocked. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:29, 8 January 2018 (UTC) Archived.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:31, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Memory and Aging Project

To Biddulph Please review question: yes, red refers to unwritten entry. Try clicking on it, see "do you want to write a new entry." Click "yes." Read that no entry is possible — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.119.133 (talk) 15:00, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to try again in English. What are you clicking on where to see "do you want to write a new entry."? I can't see that string anywhere in Wikipedia. If you are trying to create a new article in mainspace, you can't do that from an IP address because of WP:ACTRIAL. As an IP you'll have to create a draft and submit it through the WP:AFC process. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RADC

Entry typo not vandalism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.119.133 (talk) 15:01, 9 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Biddulph (talk • contribs) [reply]

Wikipedia content on Igor Durlovski

A content was posted on the page of Igor Durlovski, the Macedonian opera singer under Controversies. The information posted there is gross misrepresentation of the actual situation. Igor Durlovski was jailed because his political beliefs were different than those of the current ruling party. He was part of the organization "Macedonia for all" and took part in over 60 days of peaceful protests and the protest in the Assembly mainly by signing the national anthem. He gave numerous speeches and interviews and always called for peace and equality and respect of all people living in Macedonia regardless of their ethnic origin. He never, even once called for violence of any kind. He was jailed on November 29 and has been held since in jail in Macedonia without anyone talking with him, questioning him or asking for a statement. This is a highly politically motivated process of removing political opponents and is nothing new in this world unfortunately. Wikipedia should restrain from posting materials on it until a proper judicial process at least starts (if ever). Anything else is just a defamation of someones character. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.31.219.211 (talk) 05:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The current version of the article accurately summarizes the reliable sources cited in the article. If you are aware of other reliable sources that paint a different picture. then please propose edits to the article at Talk: Igor Durlovski. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is being addressed by ongoing edits to the Igor Durlovski article; largely by me thus far (I don't have a POV position on this, I just stumbled into it). More edits can probably be expected. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:30, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Addressing" this by edit-warring in the article is not constructive. Both parties should instead discuss the issues on its talk page. Maproom (talk) 10:23, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Submission of Clarence McNair Wikipedia

Greetings,

I have been experiencing issues with publishing the Clarence McNair wikipedia page. I've sent messages to the administrator Bonadea in charge of editing the page and would like to contest the deletion of this page. I've have inserted the information that needs to be published and would like some help on successfully publishing this page. Here is the information I would like to submit.

Extended content

Clarence "KD" McNair (November 30, 1977) is an American entertainer, brand manager, recording manager, and event coordinator in the Entertainment Industry. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, KD grew up performing in various singing platforms. He reached stardom when discovered by brand manager Brian Dickens and Jerome Lattisaw (Haqq Islam) in the mid 1990s and signed to Interscope Records [[1]] with R&B male group Prophet Jones. The group was later signed to Motown Records [[2]] with the help of [[3]] Russell Simmons, founder of [[4]]Def Jam Recordings. KD co-wrote the self-titled album Prophet Jones released in 2001, where the group performed on [[5]] Soul Train, [[6]]MTV2, and BET's 106 and Park hosted by AJ and Free. Prophet Jones was also featured in [[7]] Jet Magazine listed as 2002's Top 10 Albums of the Year and film soundtrack of "Bait".

After the break up of Prophet Jones in 2004, KD continued to work in the music and entertainment industry as a recording manager. He worked with video director [[8]] Gil Green and helped produce music with [[9]] Jazze Pha, [[10]], McKelly Jamison, and [[11]] Gordon Chambers. In 2012, KD ventured into event coordinating for celebrities such as [[12]] Ice-T and Coco from "[[13]]Ice Loves Coco," where he launched Coco's "Licious Apparel" for New York Fashion Week in 2012.

Today, KD is the Chief Executive Operator of Planet McNair, International Brand Management and Entertainment Agency, and Planet McNair Frangrances. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clarence McNair (talk • contribs) 08:46, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Clarence McNair: I am not an administrator, and have not deleted any pages (I would not be able to do that even if I wanted to). I have removed the autobiography you posted to various existing Wikipedia pages, and I have tagged a couple of different pages you created with your autobio for deletion, and they have subsequently been deleted by admins. Partly this was because the content was misplaced - you have been pasting the same text to a number of different unrelated pages and also created badly named pages - but in addition, the text was promotional, and finally, autobiographies are always discouraged. Some information about this was posted to your talk page by another editor, here. It is important that you read and understand this. Wikipedia is not a place like Linkedin where people can advertise themselves, and Wikipedia articles do not belong to the person the article is about (nor to anyone else). --bonadea contributions talk 10:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Blow Inc Ltd

dear Team, i would like to create a page for Blow Inc Ltd, this company was set up in 1992 as a magazine till 1997, then it went on to product The Off Schedule Guide and also Blow PR from 2002-2016. Blow was fundamental in helping the career of many fashion designers through out its history. How can a page be created in Wikipedia please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael1133 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Michael1133. Please start off by reading WP:NCORP, to see if the company is notable (in Wikipedia's special sense): have several people who have no connection with the company chosen to write in depth about it, and been published in reliable places? If the answer is no, then no article about it will be accepted, however it is written. If the answer is yes, then there could be an article about it (rather than a "page for it"). You could make a request at requested articles, but in truth the chance of the request being picked up is quite low. You could try writing it yourself, though this is not easy - see your first article. If you have a connection with the company, then you also need to declare this fact: see COI. --ColinFine (talk) 17:22, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Something tells me that Michael doesn't write for the magazine.

My guess would be intern/work experience. nagualdesign 17:32, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

uploading photos

For this entry https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosboom_%26_Hegener I have been trying to upload two pictures, one of P.H. Bosboom and on of F.C.M. Hegener (my father) heaven knows how many times. Each time someone or a computer deletes them. Both pictures are from the photoalbums of the families of the two men concerned, I have 100% permission to use these pictures, no one knows who took them. So, what to do to upload these pictures without them being delted?

--Mathilde2009 (talk) 12:48, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to use them in that article you'll have to upload them to the Wikimedia Commons. If you've uploaded them before and they were deleted there may be an issue, which you should address to whoever deleted them. nagualdesign 13:06, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathilde2009: You have uploaded images to Commons, not to English Wikipedia, and they have been deleted from Commons, not from English Wikipedia.
So please see the feedback you have received at your talk page at Commons: c:User talk:Mathilde2009, and seek more explanation and advice at Commons, not here, in English Wikipedia. --CiaPan (talk) 13:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To add to the correct advice above, copyright normally belongs to the photographer, so if no one knows who took them you can't have "100% permission to use these pictures". --David Biddulph (talk) 13:20, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That seems a little over-prescriptive. If the images come from a family photo album, where the only certainty is that none of the people in the photograph took the photo, I wouldn't have thought the copyright would be so strict. If you were on holiday and got a stranger to take your photograph with your camera, for example, I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't become the stranger's intellectual property, even though the photograph itself is proof that you didn't take it. Family photo albums are full of photos that nobody can remember who took. nagualdesign 17:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia strives to obey copyright law as it is, not as you might like it to be. If you can't identify the copyright holder, or can but don't have their explicit permission, then you don't have the legal right to use the image. If you ask a passing stranger to use your camera to take a picture of you in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, then that stranger holds the copyright. If you then post that picture on Facebook, you are breaking the law. You and I won't be in the least bothered by this, the stranger is not going to sue us; but Wikipedia policy is to obey the law anyway. Maproom (talk) 22:53, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Digging a little deeper, there are indeed ways to use orphan works in the UK (where I live), but regarding orphan works in the United States there have been several bills introduced but "Congress has not yet passed any legislation". The situation in the European Union, where the uploader is from, is less than clear to me, but since the Dutch Wikipedia appears to store all of its media at the Wikimedia Commons EU law makes little difference anyway. That's a shame. Of course if the uploader were to come forward in a few weeks and say, "As it turns out my uncle took that photo and he's granted his permission to upload it", no one would be any the wiser. nagualdesign 00:06, 9 January 2018 (UTC) (Alternatively he could claim that it was taken by a monkey.)[reply]

Commons does have a tag for these family images that have been inherited at Commons:Template:PD-heirs. MilborneOne (talk) 18:22, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Use of Image from another Wikipedia

Hellow Fellow Wikipedians!. I cant seem to use the image located here:[14]

for this article: Vladimir Bibikhin, which is just out of WP:AFC. I can get it across. I dont know if it is the naming or what? Any ideas? Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 16:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The issue appears to be that the picture is uploaded to the Russian wikipedia, but not to the Wikipedia commons. Only those pictures on the commons can be used cross-wiki, I believe. If the picture is in the public domain or is otherwise under a commons license, it can be transferred to the commons and then used on all wikipedia projects. However, it looks like that image is non-free. Since I am uni-lingual I do not know any other details of the picture's licensing. Do you know what the fair use rationale for the picture is? Thanks --‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 16:32, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Google translate gives this This file is not free (does not correspond to the definition of a free work of culture). In accordance with the decision of the Wikimedia Foundation, it can be used in articles of the Russian section of Wikipedia only if the criteria of fair use are observed. Any other use (both in the Russian section of Wikipedia, and outside it) can be a violation of copyright. So you can't upload it to commons. Since he is dead, you might be able to download it to your computer and upload to en-wiki for an article about him under a similar fair use rationale Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:39, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks folks. I guess that is why. I bring it across, upload it and give it the same fair use copyright tag. scope_creep (talk) 17:14, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

BC, AD VS. CE, BCE

Will no longer use Wiki or donate since you took Christ's name out of it. Shame on you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.205.9 (talk) 16:28, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If it really worries you, then read CE as Christian Era, and BCE as Before the Christian Era. Wikipedia just follows what the majority of sources are using. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Era style for our policy. Dbfirs 16:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

a) this is not the proper forum; and b) per MOS:BCE both BC/AD and BCE/CE are valid and are used on WP. The only requirement is consistency throughout an article, though it can not be changed from one format to another without reason. Bottom line is it's up to individual editors to determine which to use. I'm sure your donations are what kept WP afloat all these years, in any case, and they will be missed. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 16:40, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We apologize. A belated happy holidays and a good new year! (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 19:49, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We have 67000 articles containing the word "Christ". PrimeHunter (talk) 20:39, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think, like Xmas, they're upset because of the name change from "Wikichristipedia" to just "Wikipedia". Maineartists (talk) 20:41, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, which in English is "Christ". (((The QuiChristotic Potato))) (talk) 22:00, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Christ" was not the surname of Jesus of Nazareth, and he was never called that while alive. It is a messianic title that comes from the Greek language and he did not speak Greek. Aramaic was his everyday language, plus Hebrew for religious purposes. That title was applied to him after his death. Please see Christ (title). Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Cullen328: A couple of years ago I spent roughly 15 minutes explaining to a group of people that Jesus of Nazareth was not a Christian. At first they refused to believe me. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 22:30, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget his middle initial "H".Naraht (talk) 22:35, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Next lecture, The Quixotic Potato: "Was Siddhārtha Gautama a Buddhist?" Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:38, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. And that fat guy is a different Buddha, who isn't the Buddha. In related news, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was not a scientologist. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 23:00, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The fat guy is Budai, who was a Buddhist, and was indeed a, but not the Buddha, and will be another Buddha in the future, supposedly. As it happens, L. Ron Hubbard claimed to be him too. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.41.3 (talk) 23:37, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

SVG resizing error

I have attempted to resize by code editing in Windows notepad File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-inh.svg but no change is applied. Can someone help me? Thanks!!! --Marcello Gianola (talk) 16:53, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Post a request at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop. nagualdesign 17:07, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

...I've just tried resizing the image myself using nothing but Notepad++ and it worked. Bear in mind that the width and height appear twice and the top of the file and again at the very bottom. You missed the ones at the bottom and, I'm guessing, the result was to crop only the top left corner, which is empty, rather than resize the whole image. Changing all 3 worked out fine, though I have to wonder why you would wish to do so. nagualdesign 17:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for repair but I mean: as you can see in Wikipedia:Slogans, the logo is bigger than the others. It is should be 135 × 155, not 2500 × 2870 --Marcello Gianola (talk) 17:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, I guess. nagualdesign 17:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not able to upload information

Hello,

I actually have made a few edits to a clients Wikipedia and now need to upload information to Wikipedia for another client, professional violinist, Drew Tretick.

I am a Publicist and now have several clients that I may need to update the information about them on Wikipedia.

How do I get approved to allow me to do those updates?

Thank you.

Robert Walker - Publicist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertprguy (talk • contribs) 18:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Before you even asked, you should have complied with Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. You are required to do so by Wikipedia's Terms of Service. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please understand, Robert Walker, that Wikipedia is essentially uninterested in your or your clients' needs. If Wikipedia has articles about your clients, they belong to Wikipedia, not to the client, and their and your role in connection with them should be limited to making suggestions on the articles' talk pages. Uninvolved editors will then decide whether, and how, to apply those suggested changes. --22:59, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Account GoldenHotdog is vandalizing one of our Schools Wikipedia page

I have created an account to undo the changes GoldenHotdog made. He is using profanity and basically vandalized the wikipedia page. After I pressed undo, it is now waiting for review/approval.

Could you please block GoldenHotdog for doing these?

GoldenHotdog changed grades from 9-12 to 9-102. Student count to 6969 and other bad comments about the principal of the school.

The webpage I am referring to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Catholic_Secondary_School

I am the CIO for Durham Catholic District School Board. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RonaldRodriguezCIO (talk • contribs) 18:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, this vandalism was reverted and the user is warned. Please check and make sure that the current version is accurate and we can try and fix any issues. Thank you for disclosing your affiliation. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 19:01, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

~~I find it odd that GoldenHotdog's edit was automatically accepted, but RonaldRodriguezCIO's needed approval. The article doesn't appear to be protected anyway.~~ I see that the article has "autoconfirmed permission" status. Maproom (talk) 19:07, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:GoldenHotdog has been blocked indefinitely from any further editing. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:40, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]