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December 10[edit]

2022 Nebraska cornhuskers football season[edit]

Can you fix the error i made on the article on the 2022 Nebraska Cornhuskers football season article please. 98.186.54.177 (talk) 01:17, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the syntax error in the reference. What I haven't fixed is the fact that the link is dead (and to a page that I suspect never existed). -- Hoary (talk) 02:02, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you replaced the dead link in 2022 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team with a different dead link. And that's the only "reference" there is. So the article still comes with no meaningful references. -- Hoary (talk) 05:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking the article might be WP:TOOSOON. Everything still appears TBD. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:03, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article now has a source that actually works. A total of one source, and it's not independent. I sense that this article is ripe for AfD, but I have no experience of this subject area. -- Hoary (talk) 21:54, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary: I added that source so we would have a working source. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 21:56, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, Blaze The Wolf. I'd been strenuously "assuming good faith" about the previous (pseudo-) references, or anyway attempting do do so: the thought did occur to me that they were not so much "dead" as merely fictional. -- Hoary (talk) 08:21, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary: Yep. Despite me hating football I do still cheer on the Huskers as I'm from Nebraska myself. Regardless if this article is TOOSOON then I can take it to AFD. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 14:21, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Creating an organization page[edit]

Dear colleague, We need to create a page on the World Society for organization. The page is not for marketing or promotion but information to public about the society, history, organization, linked societies and journal. To avoid deleting the page kindly guide us. Is it free of charge or needs a charge. Our founder Prof. Ahmed Abdel-Moneim who added a wikitalk about it [1]. Could we transfer this data to an official wikipage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WSV - World Society for Virology (talk • contribs) 11:46, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, WSV - World Society for Virology. I'm afraid that, like many people, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is not a place for organisations to tell the world about themselves (that is called promotion): it is an encyclopaedia, which summarises what reliable independent sources say about a subject. If your organisation meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then we could have an article about it. That article would not belong to you, would not be controlled by you, and should be based almost entirely on what people with no connection to you have chosen to publish about you, not on what you or your associates say or want to say. You are discouraged from writing it yourselves, but if you are convinced that you can find the necessary independent reliable sources that have significant coverage of your organisation, you are permitted to try: please see your first article. As for paying: Wikipedia will not in any way accept payment for an article. There are people who will offer to write an article for money: some of them may be honest (if so, they will tell you that they cannot guarantee that an article will be possible, or that it will say what you want it to say). Many of them are scams.

On a related topic, your user name is not acceptable: user accounts are personal to individuals, and may not have names that suggest that they are editing on behalf of an organisation. It is easiest simply to abandon that account and create a new one (or new ones if there are several of you) personal to you. --ColinFine (talk) 12:09, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the draft from a user's talk page (which is intended for discussions with the user) to Draft:World Society for Virology. It is currently a long way from being acceptable as an article. It cites no independent sources, and so fails to establish that its subject is notable, in the peculiar sense in which that word is used here. Maproom (talk) 12:31, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone know how to remove the non-breaking spaces...[edit]

...from a reference on 1257 Samalas eruption? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. You just go to the position in the reference warning and delete the character that's there. In this case it was a non-breaking space, so just delete it and add a normal space. - X201 (talk) 12:42, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:53, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Nicholas Clough[edit]

Hello, I want to add data to the article about pirate captain Nicholas Clough, 1682 - 1683, thank you, Neil, South Africa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.160.125.212 (talk) 13:25, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Neil, and thanks for stopping by! You can edit the article directly by using the "edit" tab at the top of the screen while you are reading the article. When you add new information, it is best practice to cite the source of information where you got the data from, but otherwise please feel free to edit the article as needed. --Jayron 32 13:42, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Donation[edit]

Hello,

It might be socially better to ask for a $5 donation on the donation banner.

Howard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:8C:4001:6B10:BDA7:D152:1930:F497 (talk) 16:26, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please offer any suggestions about the donation process to the Foundation directly; we editors have nothing to do with it. You may email donate at Wikimedia dot org. 331dot (talk) 16:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a new page[edit]

Hello, Our non-profit underwent rebranding in February 2021, which included a name change. A reference page exists with our old name and we would like to either create a new page and add a link to the page with the previous name or simply update the name on the previous page. Essentially, the information is the same, just need to update the name. Is there something that can guide me through that? I created an account under the new name, but rec'd some type of "blocked" message because the name is attached to a non-profit? I'm not sure I understand that. I am asking for some help or guidance in either updating the existing page to reflect the new name or creating a new page with the new name. Thank you. Virginia Rud, CVT — Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginia Rud, CVT (talk • contribs) 16:34, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Virginia Rud, CVT Wikipedia has articles, not mere "pages". I have posted some information about this on your user talk page, User talk:Virginia Rud, CVT, please review it and make the required disclosures. 331dot (talk) 16:39, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Virginia Rud, CVT: Basically, the previous account was blocked because it contravened Wikipedia's username policy, particularly the part about corporate names. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:48, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What are the rules regarding reintroducing material originally introduced by a sock?[edit]

The David Collier (political activist) page has just had a rather large amount of text deleted[2].

At least some of reverts made by Aquillon were wrong. One paragraph had a number of editors make changes to it, but the entire paragraph is now just gone.

Are there any issues with restoring content which I believe is well supported by references?

-- Bob drobbs (talk) 20:25, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The article has since been deleted (AfD discussion). —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:23, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately the talk page is also gone. On that talk page, @Aquillion: asserted that there is no problem with restoring text that has been deleted, so long as I stand by the text, it's relevance, and verify the sources, etc just like any other edits. I believe other content has been deleted elsewhere, so I just want to verify that there's no issue here, especially as I can no longer reference Aqullion's earlier statement. -- Bob drobbs (talk) 23:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You edit, it's your edit. You might want to think a bit why the sock put it in to begin with especially if was something controversial.Selfstudier (talk) 00:43, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I certainly didn't agree with the sock on everything. The edit log is gone, but I'd already deleted the most egregious of the text as part of my cleanup of the page. Using Alliance for Workers' Liberty as a major source? WTF? -- Bob drobbs (talk) 00:51, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

wrong edit name[edit]

Ohsehunwifey edited se hun page in 28 november.the ditor you refer toafter Sumanuil corect his edit and write my name as editor in 28 november. how can i corect it? Kiakai (talk) 23:46, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Kiakai: Hello, it seems that some unconstructive edits were made by the editor you refer to. These were corrected by Sumanuil by reverting the page to a stable (correct) version which you were the last person to edit. There is nothing needing to be corrected here, Sumanuil is saying that your edits were correct. This kind of edit summary is fairly often seen and is not in any way critical of you, the opposite in fact. Eagleash (talk) 00:00, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]