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February 21[edit]

Megachile Pluto - Giant Bee[edit]

Does Megachile Pluto sting and if so does it use a traditional sting or its large pincers? Does it hurt? Does it make honey? Is the honey edible? Are there any medical benefits or uses? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.40.58 (talk) 15:37, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This Help Desk is not for asking general questions, but for questions about how to use Wikipedia. You can try the Reference Desk, although we cannot give you medical advice. 331dot (talk) 15:39, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

Can someone take a look at this, I am unable to edit it -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Battle_of_Saragarhi 180.151.77.119 (talk) 17:14, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience link. --†dismas†|^(talk) 17:40, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I don't see any vandalism to that article, but rather a revert of removal of sourced content without explanation, and the article being semi-protected to try to protect it from further problems. The semi-porotection means that only people with registered accounts that are autoconfirmed (are four days old and have made ten or more edits) can edit it. You can still, however, make a request on the talk page for a specific edit to be made. See Wikipedia:Edit requests for how to make such a request. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 08:05, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested moves/Technical requests[edit]

Good afternoon, I recently created my Wikipedia account and wrote my first article. It is located at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Natalia_Rojcovscaia

Help me please, I cannot move my page (rename my article)! Now it is called "User:Natalia Rojcovscaia", but I need to call it simply "Natalia Rojcovscaia". For me, this is very strange, because from the beginning I called it "Natalia Rojcovscaia". Why did the word "User:" appear in the title?? Please help to remove this word and make the title of my article (page) only: "Natalia Rojcovscaia". I hope for your help!

-- Best, Natalia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalia Rojcovscaia (talk • contribs) 21:00, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Natalia Rojcovscaia: Each Wikipedia user has a user page: My user name is "Arch dude", so my user page is User: Arch dude. Your user name is "Natalia Rojcovscaia", so your user page is User:Natalia Rojcovscaia. A user page is not a Wikipedia article. It is a place for you as a Wikipedia editor to tell others about your activies as a Wikipedia editor. Completely separately from that, if there is a person named "Natalia Rojcovscaia", and if tat person is notable by our definition, not yours (SeeWP:N) then someone can create an article with that name. If you are that person, then you should not write tat article: see WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. If you choose to try anyway, then you should create a draft article and let other editors review it: see WP:YFA. -Arch dude (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I've felt it necessary to delete the page. Wikipedia is not social media or a pace to talk about yourself, it is an encyclopedia. As noted above if youa re truly notable somebody will eventually write such an article, but it certainly should not be the article subject doing it. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:20, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Link in Wikipedia to a page in Wikimedia Commons[edit]

I'm aware of Template:W, which allows me to insert a link to a Wikipedia article when, for example, I write text in the Description section of an image in Wikimedia Commons.

Can anyone tell me the template for a link in the other direction: in Wikipedia linking to a page in Wikimedia Commons? SCHolar44 (talk) 22:40, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey SCHolar44. See Template:Commons cat. GMG ^talk 23:05, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For which purpose in which page? See Help:Interwikimedia links. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:07, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to be able to say, in a Wikiproject Talk discussion, "An example is in this engineering drawing at Wikimedia Commons", where the words "engineering drawing" would be linked to the page at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adelaide_Type_F1_and_H_trams_end_elevation_(MTT_original).png#/media/File:Adelaide_Type_F1_and_H_trams_end_elevation_(MTT_original).png. I don't want to use the code that produces the box with the Wikimedia Commons logao and "Wikimedia Commons has media related to", nifty though it is! SCHolar44 (talk) 23:37, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know of any such template, but if you're using it in a discussion and don't hugely care what it looks like, just prefix it with "c:". [[:c:File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png]] produces c:File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png. Nyttend (talk) 00:02, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) @SCHolar44: You don't need a template. An interwiki link of form [[commons:pagename]] is fine in a discussion outside mainspace. It can be piped like other wikilinks. [[commons:File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png|engineering drawing]] produces engineering drawing. Link the file page and not the MediaViewer display of the file. c: is a shortcut for commons: but I prefer the latter because it's easier for others to see where the link goes. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:08, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

True, and if I had occasion to link Commons from mainspace, that's how I'd do it. I just suggested the unpiped link because of the context. Nyttend (talk) 00:17, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your insights, PrimeHunter (and GreenMeansGo and Nyttend). I'll go with [[commons:File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png|engineering drawing]], which gives everything I need. A few minutes ago I also discovered -- completely by accident, I have to admit -- that {{File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png|these drawings}} gives me another option if I ever want to include "File:" Cheers, SCHolar44 (talk) 00:27, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, SCHolar44, you can use the reverse at Commons ([[:w:Main Page]] produces a link to Main Page here. Also, {{w}} works as a simple link here, although it formerly redirected to {{Welcome}}. This is mostly for interwiki purposes, e.g. bots copying image description pages, because gibberish resulted when Commons images with {{w}} links were moved here. See File:Template W for welcome.png for what happened when c:File:Carnegie Free Library in Beaver Falls.jpg was uploaded here for a Main Page appearance. Nyttend (talk) 00:35, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@SCHolar44: I'm not sure what you mean by "include File:" but don't use {{File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png|these drawings}} to make a file page link. It happens to do it in this example for obscure reasons which may not apply in the future. It's code to use the English Wikipedia page "File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png" like a template, trancluding it with "these drawings" as a parameter. But the page File:Adelaide Type F1 and H trams end elevation (MTT original).png does not technically exist at the English Wikipedia (it merely displays a Commons page), and an attempt to transclude a non-existing page will instead link it. You can link a local file page by placing a colon in front. [[:File:Example.jpg]] produces File:Example.jpg. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:15, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Restore Deleted Bio[edit]

I had a Wikipedia Page about myself for the past 6 years but it has disappeared. I did not delete it. I would really appreciate any assistance in restoring it.

Thank you,,

Adele Scheele — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adelescheele (talk • contribs) 22:48, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Adelescheele: The article called Adele Scheele was deleted in September 2017 after discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adele Scheele (2nd nomination). PrimeHunter (talk) 23:04, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reducing sizes of non-free images[edit]

Hi, I just uploaded File:Double Cross game cover.png, but since I know the image currently violates the non-free guidelines, I may need some help reducing its size. Anyone up for doing that? ToThAc (talk) 23:27, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ToThAc: the easiest option is to simply wait; there is a bot that automatically detects oversized non-free images and resizes them. If you want to speed that up, slap {{Non-free reduce}} on the page yourself, the bot will take care of the actual resizing in that case as well. Finally, you could always manually resize the file using an image editor and upload the new version by clicking "Upload a new version of this file".

But the more urgent issue is that your image is not used in any article. Orphan non-free images will be deleted after some time. And it lacks a written rationale for its use. Such images also face deletion. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! And don't worry, I quickly added it to my sandbox page, so it shouldn't be F5-eligible anymore. ToThAc (talk) 23:37, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ToThAc: it's eligible, because non-free files may be only used in articles, not sandboxes or any other pages. Non-free files should only be uploaded when the article is ready. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:51, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see... ToThAc (talk) 23:58, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]