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Reference not avialable.[edit]
Hey,
- Basically I want to write about a town of a District Layyah. I am already adding information about this district. But I do not have any referred information about that town which can be linked to page. And I really want to list that town on Wikipedia. Is there any solution available.
--Asad waqas (talk) 06:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Asad waqas: Sorry, but no. You will need to find a reliable source and cite it for any information you add to Wikipedia. This is fundamental to the way Wikipedia works: we basically crowdsource information found by anonymous editors, and that in turn requires us to insist on reliable sources. If you have personal knowledge of this information, perhaps you can get that knowledge published in a reliable source, and then cite it here. In practice, we are fairly flexible for sources about towns. -Arch dude (talk) 06:44, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Asad waqas: We do not require that a source be on the Internet. You may cite an offline source such as a newspaper or book, as long as it is "published", meaning that an interested editor could in theory go find it in public. -Arch dude (talk) 06:47, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Asad waqas For many small towns or villages the best (and sometimes only) sources are government publications such as reports about census, public health, education, welfare, regional/district/municipal structures, elections, justice or police matters. Simple facts such as population and economic statistics, whether there is a school and/or clinic, etc can be enough to create a brief article about practically any populated place. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:55, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Asad waqas: We do not require that a source be on the Internet. You may cite an offline source such as a newspaper or book, as long as it is "published", meaning that an interested editor could in theory go find it in public. -Arch dude (talk) 06:47, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Asad waqas: Sorry, but no. You will need to find a reliable source and cite it for any information you add to Wikipedia. This is fundamental to the way Wikipedia works: we basically crowdsource information found by anonymous editors, and that in turn requires us to insist on reliable sources. If you have personal knowledge of this information, perhaps you can get that knowledge published in a reliable source, and then cite it here. In practice, we are fairly flexible for sources about towns. -Arch dude (talk) 06:44, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Translate existing article from the German[edit]
I'd like to add an English version of an existing article in the German Wikipedia. Is there a translation tool like on the French Wikipedia?
The article in question is "Elitenetzwerk Bayern". Thanks for help and advice. Matthias.galler (talk) 10:15, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Matthias.galler, there is a tool, but as it lead to vast amounts of unedited machine translations being added, it is only available to users with 500 edits. The instructions for doing it manually are at WP:TRANSLATETOHERE ~~ Alex Noble - talk 10:29, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
UnwatchedPages[edit]
It's great that we have the page Special:UnwatchedPages. But that shows only the tip of the iceberg; after 5000 pages it stops, and hasn't even completed the letter A yet. I find that overwhelming and discouraging. Is there any way to find unwatched pages that may be more pertinent? Either by filtering or arranging them by general criteria, such as new pages that are not patrolled, last watched by a user in good standing or by allowing the reviwer to combine the results with personal preferences, e.g. by whitelisting or blacklisting categories? ◄ Sebastian 11:45, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- And why is it only viewable by administrators? – Teratix ₵ 11:50, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- It's thought that vandals could attack unwatched pages if there was an easy way to find them. That's also why "Page information" in the left pane says "Fewer than 30 watchers" to non-admins when there are few watchers. Admins get the specific number. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:08, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- SebastianHelm, it shows the letter A only because I have 60,000 watchlist entries, increasing by 5000 every three days, when the page is regenerated. I monitor the list with an ORES filter and hope to have reduced the special page output to a manageable amount of entries in a few years. If a system administrator one day complains about the size of my watchlist, I'll quote your request as a proposed solution. Heh. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:44, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
- Wow, that's impressive! BTW, I continued this topic at Wikipedia_talk:Special:UnwatchedPages#Why_only_admins?. ◄ Sebastian 20:43, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Racially Inflammatory and Incorrect Edits[edit]
Are Wikipedia page edits being monitored for edits that are racially inflammatory, misleading and biased?
Are accounts that make such edits being flagged and monitored for possible underlying motives (associations) outside the unbiased and factual sharing of information?
This page had a completely useless paragraph added that was racially inflammatory, espoused incorrect information (a personal view) about a subject completely unrelated to the subject of the article, and completely biased. I edited it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by WandernWondern (talk • contribs) 15:00, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Yes they are, and you yourself are a great example of that! There is nothing automatic, but that's how this website is run, by volunteer editors like you who see things that need to change and take action. More officially, we have policies like WP:BLP that draw extra attention to what the community agrees to be quality content. Overall, most occasions of offensive content is noticed and fixed pretty quickly. The passage you removed was posted only five hours before you noticed it and removed it. Thanks for your contribution! —Aᴋʀᴀʙʙıᴍ talk 15:07, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- WandernWondern, I've warned the editor who posted that crap and I'll block him if there is a recurrence Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:41, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Image sharing with third party software (PowerView Excel 2019 or O365) Office 2019 PowerView in Excel, Link image from WikiMedia.org[edit]
Trying to get the image source linked into our example database for Educational purpose.
We tried to use other image source and it is working no problem. With wikimedia.org images it still don't show up.
The database as been done by Microsoft (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/tutorial-import-data-into-excel-and-create-a-data-model-4b4e5ab4-60ee-465e-8195-09ebba060bf0) a while ago for education. They have linked images like those list here:
The Excel Software is connecting to wikimedia server to dynamicaly download the thumbnail to show it in the PowerView Report.
Do you have any ideas if Wikimedia is bloking the image download for other client except Web Browser?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pouellette2 (talk • contribs) 2020-02-19T17:03:14 (UTC)
- Hello, Pouellette2. Please see Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia/technical. If you have any further questions, please ask at Commons, since the images are held there, not in Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 17:54, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Amend the Radio Tarana Company Logo[edit]
Hi I would like to change the radio Tarana Company logo.
Would you be able to assist - i tried uploading using the Wikipedia commons but with no luck. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Izek Lal (talk • contribs) 23:54, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Commons is only for images free of copyright, and that is unlikely to apply in this case. Logos would normally be uploaded here at enwiki under a fair use justification, see WP:Logos. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:40, 20 February 2020 (UTC)