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January 4[edit]

Business Detail[edit]

How To Create My Business Detail On Wikipedia. Then User See. Vanshikaaenterprises (talk) 09:19, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

hi @Vanshikaaenterprises and welcome to the Help Desk! short answer is you don't. we don't allow people to use Wikipedia to advertise or bring attention to or spread awareness of their business or whatever. see Wikipedia is not a means of promotion. happy editing! 💜 melecie talk - 09:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am an author[edit]

Dear Wikipedia team please help me to get submitted my article Zahid Nazir330 (talk) 09:23, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy link: Draft:Baba Mahir

hi @Zahid Nazir330 and welcome to the Help Desk! while I don't review articles, I have taken a quick look at your draft. there are no references at all (the one present doesn't work). do you have any reliable sources like news articles or professional critic reviews of his work that are written independently from him (without his influence)? those are the kinds of sources required to establish the notability of any subject in Wikipedia, including people and authors, which in turn is needed for an article to be accepted. happy editing! 💜 melecie talk - 09:41, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Melecie, @Zahid Nazir330 A draft with the same name was deleted in July 2022. Both drafts were deleted for being promotional. David10244 (talk) 13:46, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Issues templates posted on this article[edit]

How to remove templates posted on this article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Abu_Alghaib 2.152.232.37 (talk) 09:49, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The templates have a link labelled "Learn how and when to remove these template messages" which takes you to a relevant help page. - David Biddulph (talk) 10:07, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello[edit]

Please note that I would like to know how to list our company - HelpXpat in wikipedia. Kindly do let us know of the requirements ? Regards Simi Sujith (redacted) 94.204.42.93 (talk) 10:18, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The short answer is, you don't. Wikipedia is not a directory of companies. 331dot (talk) 10:19, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can't. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not for promotion. If someone without a conflict of interest can demonstrate that the company meets the notability requirements they can start a draft. David Biddulph (talk) 10:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to upload pictures to an article?[edit]

I have a question, how to upload pictures to an article? the special girl is me (talk) 12:33, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@PutriAmalia1991 Welcome to the Help Desk. You should read WP:PIC for the full details. Good luck! Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:43, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@PutriAmalia1991 Basic rule of thumb: Any random pic you find online is probably under some sort of copyright and can't be used. If you want to upload pictures you have taken yourself with your own camera we can give you guidance on that. And there is a big collection of pics that can be used at Commons. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:11, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Finding citations that are missing urls[edit]

Is there any easy, or relatively easy, way to search for citations to newspaper articles that don't have URLs? I'd like to put my Wikipedia Library access to use if I can by adding clippings and identifiers to citations that are lacking them, but there doesn't seem to be any easy to way do that. The closest I've gotten is using Category:CS1 errors: access-date without URL but there's a lot of other stuff that goes into that category. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 17:25, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect not, unfortunately, as it's not considered an error for a citation to be lacking a URL (WP:OFFLINE and all that) unless, as you've noticed with that category, an |access-date= parameter has been filled by the editor placing the citation. It's possible somebody far more skilled than I might be able to come up with a way of finding things like {{cite news}} templates without URLs, but I can't promise it. Nevertheless, thanks very much for being willing to help out! XAM2175 ^(T) 14:29, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Editing articles with multiple templates causes massive memory issues.[edit]

The situation over the last week or so. Reading articles, no problem. Editing and creating small articles is not a problem, but editing an article with any sort of infoboxes causes significant enough memory problems that it often brings my browser to a halt. I've tried commenting out both my common.js/css and vector.js/css and it is still happening. I'm on vector legacy. This is happening on two different machines, one of which I've tried multiple browsers on. Any ideas (including whether I should just take this to VPT). Naraht (talk) 17:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Example of article that causes problems, Chi Upsilon Sigma.Naraht (talk) 18:46, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Naraht. I'm not seeing a problem editing that article, either on my Windows machine (Firefox) or on my phone (either in the Wikipedia App or on the Ecosia browser). ColinFine (talk) 19:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to edit that article easily using the desktop site on an Android smartphone and the Google Chrome browser. Cullen328 (talk) 19:37, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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If you want to test editing, please use the WP:SANDBOX, thanks. RudolfRed (talk) 00:14, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be a test edit, please use the Wikipedia Sandbox to do that. Thank you. StarryNightSky11 ^☎ 01:09, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to change article title from Chicago Artists' Coalition to Chicago Artists Coalition[edit]

While it may have once included an apostrophe in its name, the current usage is Chicago Artists Coalition. The Wikipedia article text already uses that, but the title of the article still has the apostrophe. I don't know how to change it to match the current form of name used by the organization. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 23:52, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, one does not 'rename' the article, but rather 'move' it: see Wikipedia:Moving a page. The article's textual use of the 'new' version should be referenced to a Reliable source, which would not in itself be hard, but I notice that the article does not have even a single in-line reference, just a couple of external links to relevent websites. This is a Problem, and the article risks deletion unless proper references are added in the correct manner (see Help:Referencing for beginners) and any remaining unreferenced statements are removed. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.194.245.235 (talk) 00:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]