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November 12

Messed up on the edit history.

Hello!

I've been using Wikipedia for years, but I have never edited anything until today. I went to the article on the dollar sign (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign) and noticed that the Brazilian real wasn't listed in the list of countries that also use the dollar sign. The sign for a Brazilian real is R$ so I attempted to add it to the list. After I did this I noticed that the other currencies in the list didn't capitalize the name of the currency so I made a new edit. After this I noticed it was no longer in alphabetical order, and made another. I then tried to delete my previous edits and accidentally made more edits. The edit history is now completely cluttered with small minor edits. Is there anyway that these edits can be deleted from the edit history from 00:09, 12 November 2020‎ to 00:23, 12 November 2020 in order to clean up the history, to erase my IP before I created an account, and to save me the embarrassment? Afterwards I will make the correction in one edit so that it is more proper. Thanks Yukari IV (talk) 00:35, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

While the edits will likely stay (for attribution purposes) I would contact an administrator privately to discuss redacting your IP address from the history. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 00:39, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

How would I go about doing this? Yukari IV (talk) 00:47, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

If you have an email address associated with your account, you can navigate to a administrator's user talk page, where there should be an "email this user" function on the left hand side. Be sure to provide the diffs of the edits whose attribution you'd want redacted. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 00:57, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

I will do that, thank you very much Yukari IV (talk) 00:59, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@Yukari IV: Alternatively, follow the steps at the top of WP:OVERSIGHT which is constantly monitored, rather than trying to reach a specific admin. RudolfRed (talk) 01:29, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Yukari IV: I recommend always to click "Show Preview" before publishing your edits.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:18, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Uploading bug.

Every time I upload a new version of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:French_West_Africa_map.png , it doesn't work. Gamerknowitall (talk) 01:52, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

I suspect it did work, but the new version didn't immediately appear on the articles that use it. Did you try looking at one of those articles and selecting "Purge" from the "More" menu? Maproom (talk) 08:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@Gamerknowitall: This may be related to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#New commons images and phab:T267668. The issue is not yet marked as fully resolved. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:24, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Article on Zvi Migdal

The reference to the novel “The Thirteenth Man” and the film from it “Last Embrace” needs a correction. “ The 1979 movie Last Embrace by Jonathan Demme (based on the novel The Thirteenth Man by Murray Teigh Bloom and a screenplay by David Shaber[21]) features a woman who, taking the role of the biblical avenger Goel Hadam, serially kills the members of the New York Lower East Side Zwi Migdal who enslaved her grandmother.”

The serial killer, played by the late Janet Margolin, kills the GRANDSONS of the Zvi(or Zwi) Migdal members. 69.115.147.32 (talk) 02:37, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Please either make the change yourself or post your request to the talk page of whichever article this is about, where people familiar with and interested in the subject can assist you. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 02:43, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Accuracy inauguration trump

Why does your article say “only” term of President Trump instead of First term? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:1016:C1FE:F1EB:DB:5E9F:9716 (talk) 03:22, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

We do this because it will be the only term according to WP:RS.Gsquaredxc (talk) 03:24, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Also, in general it doesn't make sense to add "first" when there no subsequent ones. 107.15.157.44 (talk) 07:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

It takes a strong man to deny what's right in front of him, and if the truth is undeniable - you create your own. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 18:26, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

He could end up with a second term elsewhere (cross fingers), just not in the White House, but that happy event hasn't occurred yet. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:50, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Publish

I edited my wiki page and then clicked on publish...then I was directed to the page which said " what changes have you made" ....I gave my reason and clicked publish.....after then I dont know what happened and is request for publish in process or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shubham Dipta (talk • contribs) 05:12, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@Shubham Dipta: Which page (or article) were you trying to edit? This thread is the only contribution from the account used to post here. Eagleash (talk) 06:59, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

article about the bloxberg blockchain is always declined - why?

Hey guys, regarding this entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Bloxberg&oldid=988332355 Today it even got reverted when I tried to follow the critics...I'm kind of confused here - what am I doing wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by C.A.Glöckner (talk • contribs) 14:55, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@C.A.Glöckner: To have a Wikipedia article, a subject must be notable by our definition. See WP:N. Notability is established by references to independent reliable sources (WP:RS) with substantial coverage of the subject. Your sources do not appear to be independent of the subject. See WP:CSMN. If there are qualifying sources, they are buried in a mass of non-independent sources and you will need to identify them for your reviewers.-Arch dude (talk) 15:08, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Joe Biden bio

discuss at Talk:Joe Biden

You erroneously state that Joseph Robinette Biden, "successfully challenged incumbent President Donald J. Trump to become the 46th President of the United States." This is an inaccurate statement. Please immediately remove this patently false statement. It would be more prudent to await the official results of this highly contested election. You are clearly misrepresenting the facts of the situation as it currently stands. Given the tension filled state of the country this misinformation is viewed as inflammatory and may very well add to an increase in anxiety among a large majority of the country. Should you choose to deliberately, and with malice of forethought, continue to knowingly publish inaccurate information, you may do so at your own legal peril. I look forward to seeing your retraction, correction and apology. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C3:877F:B710:D4B:851B:3BBE:4388 (talk) 16:38, 12 November 2020 (UTC) See Talk:Joe Biden/FAQ. Seagull123 Φ 16:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC) (edit conflict) Wikipedia reports what reliable sources say. If you think that one of our six million articles is incomplete or inaccurate, please raise the issue on that article's talk page, citing a reliable published source for the change you wish to see made. Also notice that legal threats are not acceptable at Wikipedia. If you wish to pursue a legal remedy, you may not at the same edit Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 17:00, 12 November 2020 (UTC) Also, if the people feeling "an increase in anxiety" really were a "large majority of the country", Trump wouldn't have lost. --Khajidha (talk) 17:32, 12 November 2020 (UTC) Khajidha, are you sure about that? It does assume that 1) the election was fair and honest, 2) that honest glitches found and corrected won't make significant changes, and 3) votes not yet counted won't make a significant difference (admittedly unlikely without a contribution from 1 and/or 2). But in the end, it's of marginal importance here; at the very least, a large minority almost as large as the majority if feeling a lot of anxiety now over a job well-begun now to be systematically destroyed. The point is that while most all of the press have concluded that Biden is the winner, it has NOT been officially certified.Uporządnicki (talk) 19:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC) Re: I look forward to seeing your retraction, correction and apology. I look forward to seeing a retraction, correction and apology for four years of systematic undermining of constitutional norms. Something tells me the both of us will be waiting equally long for those. I wouldn't counsel holding your breath while you wait. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 17:45, 12 November 2020 (UTC) Eggishorn FIRST, irrelevant to the question at hand, which is what Wikipedia should be saying about it all; SECOND, you seem to be rather behind the times--that guy had 8 years, and he's been gone for almost four. Uporządnicki (talk) 19:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC) The help desk is for help using and editing Wikipedia, not for political arguments. -Arch dude (talk) 19:55, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Can someone edit Nikema Williams photo for me?

Hi community-

I am one of Nikema Williams' campaign staffers. I need to have her profile picture changed on her page. Can someone help me? Nikema Williams

--Ivyreynoldss (talk) 18:06, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Ivyreynoldss, answered at WP:Teahouse#Need_help_making_an_edit_to_a_page —valereee (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

And again at WP:BLPN#nikema williams. Zaereth (talk) 18:48, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Why do you "need" to change the picture? What is wrong with the existing one?Spinney Hill (talk) 09:36, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Please help me in solving this problem about updating this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Banks)

I sent many times edit requests (as the page is semi protected) to add this missing parts to the article (In the first part of the page that mentions the summary & the highlights of her career , it ends with In February 2019, she won the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with her former tag team partner, Bayley (then known as The Boss 'n' Hug Connection), at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view , an update is needed & that's to add after her inaugral Tag Team Championship win in 2019 that she won the Smackdown Women's Championship at Hell in a Cell 2020 & that made her a triple crown & grand slam champion & also it doesn't mention her total number of Women's Championship reigns (in both singles (7) & tag (2)), also this part of the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Banks#External_links includes the following part Links to related articles that includes many lists (WWE personnel , WWE Raw Women's Champions , WWE Women's Tag Team Champions , NXT Women's Champions , Grand Slam and Triple Crown champions) but missing this list (WWE SmackDown Women's Champions) that is added in all of the former champions pages & not added to the aforementioned lists in this part of her page despite her being the current champion & here is the link of this missed list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_SmackDown_Women%27s_Champions#External_links) instead of adding this missing parts they answer me with the same reply each time it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate , as you see that what I mentioned above is so obvious & it doesn't always have to be to correct something wrong in the article (x) to(y), in some cases what is needed is to add important missing information to the appropriate parts of the article for the article to be complete & I provided them with a reliable source but they ignore it https://www.wwe.com/superstars/sasha-banks 197.46.25.114 (talk) 19:33, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Three different editors have responded to your requests in the very same way:

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. This is the exact same request as previous. Please try rephrasing in accordance with the instructions of the template.

Therefore: I suggest you break your requests into short, specific chunks, in the following format and without additional commentary:

{{request edit}}

Change: <something>

to: <new something>

reference: <your reference for the change>

OR, in the following format:

{{request edit}}

add: < your text>

to section: <location where the added text should appear>

reference: <your reference for the addition>

-Arch dude (talk) 20:07, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Post Article

Hello, one of my submissions was declined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rico_Torres and not really sure why. Can you please help with this issue so that it can get posted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elenacheesee (talk • contribs) 20:42, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello Elenacheesee. Social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest are not reliable sources and should be removed as references. Most YouTube videos are not reliable unless they are from the official channel of a reliable source. You should remove all unreliable sources and any statements cited to them. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:53, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Question about redirect the article from sandbox to Wikipedia content

Hello. Please help me with consideration of an article for posting on Wikipedia from drafts. This article is by the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%94%D1%8C%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD/sandbox/Dykhne_Yevhenii.

I have tried to do it but have got the explanation that there was not text in article. This is not true, please look by the link. I really need your help in this case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Дмитро Дьошин (talk • contribs) 21:30, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@Дмитро Дьошин: Your user draft User:Дмитро Дьошин/sandbox/Dykhne Yevhenii has not submitted for review. You submitted User:Дмитро Дьошин/sandbox, which is empty. —teb728 t c 22:53, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Hello, Дмитро Дьошин. The problem is that your draft is in User:Дмитро Дьошин/sandbox/Dykhne_Yevhenii, but the page that you submitted for review was User:Дмитро Дьошин/sandbox, which is a different page, and is indeed empty. You need to submit the actual draft, by pasting {{subst:submit}} at the top (as it appears in this reply, not as I have entered in the source for this reply). However, there is no point in submitting it at present, because it has zero chance of being accepted, because it has no references at all. It seems plausible that Yevhenii is notable, but without any reliable indepedent sources the draft does nothing to establish that he is, and it will not be accepted. You need to find at least three places where people who have no connection to Yevhenii, and have not been prompted or fed information by or on behalf of him, have chosen to write about him at some length, and been published in reliable places. Then you need to make sure that the draft does not contain a single piece of information which is not in a reliable published source, and that almost everything in it is based on these independent sources: Wikipedia is basically not interested in what the subject of an article says about themselves, or what their associates say about them. See CITE, and NPOV. As it is, the draft contains far too much promotional language.

Next, the article is clearly a translation of uk:Дихне Євгеній Григорович, which you also created, and have worked on. This is permitted, but it is a legal requirement of the licence under which you released it into uk-wiki that any reuse be attributed: see WP:Translation. There is quite a bit of linguistic cleanup needed in the text.

Finally, there are several separate reasons to think you might be associated with Yevhenii. First, when a new editor creates an account, and immediately starts creating an article about a person or company, it is often the case that they are connected with the subject. Secondly, you have uploaded a picture of him, and claimed it as your "own work", which strongly implies that you have a connection. Thirdly, there is a tag on the uk-wiki article suggesting that its neutrality is in doubt. If you have any connection with Yevhenii or Ukraine International Airlines, you must read about editing with a conflict of interest; if you are in any way paid or employed to write this, you must comply with paid editing. (Note that each edition of Wikipedia is a separate project, with its own rules and policies: something that is permitted on uk-wiki might not be on en-wiki, and vice versa). --ColinFine (talk) 23:12, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@ColinFine: I disagree on a slight point: if the OP was the sole contributor to the Ukrainian version, or the sole significant contributor (in a copyright-law, threshold of originality sense), they do not need to attribute the translation. Wikipedia editors agree to license their contributions under CC-BY-SA, but they do not limit their ability to relicense content they produced (unlike, say, an edition contract, where an author grants exclusive rights to the publishing house); in particular, they can "authorize themselves" to make a translation. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:44, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

They aren't the sole contributor, Tigraan. --ColinFine (talk) 18:01, 13 November 2020 (UTC)