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December 21

Citing a Translator

I am citing an author of a book which was written in Croatian language. The book was translated by another person into English and his name appears in the title page with the Author. My question is, where do I insert the translator's name when I fill out the citing form?Valjean1969 (talk) 03:18, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@Valjean1969: Some of the many possible parameters are omitted from the form but can be seen on the documentation page for the template and inserted manually afterwards. See the translator parameters at Template:Cite book#Authors. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:37, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you (talk) for the quick response.Valjean1969 (talk) 04:08, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@Valjean1969: I watch this page but if you want to ping a user then you must link their user page like PrimeHunter and not their talk page. I see it was for Draft:Diminići where you also work on coordinates. Your parameter names are meant for {{Infobox settlement}} (which has loads of other possible parameters). This would work:

{{Infobox settlement
|coordinates_display=inline,title
|latd = 44 | latm = 59| lats = 7| latNS = N
|longd = 14 | longm = 10| longs = 24| longEW = E
}}

I replaced latm = 99 by latm = 59 because minutes must be below 60 to avoid an error message. I haven't examined where the place actually is. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:15, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Editing organisation page

HI, I've made some edit's to York College (York) page. I do work at York College and because this gives a potential conflict the page has been marked as requiring cleanup.

My only edits have been to correct incorrect information, the information has no bias and I have removed sections which no longer are valid. Could this be marked as OK please?

Many thanks

Michael Carter (I did the edits as a new account I created with username: yorkcollege) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yorkcollege (talk • contribs) 16:07, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the user name that you created contravenes Wikipedia rules about names of organisations. York College Marketing Department are not allowed to edit Wikipedia. You are welcome to create an individual account, then declare any Wikipedia:conflict of interest on your user page. Dbfirs 16:47, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Your account was blocked for violating the username policy. If you happen to find this help message, please do go an create a new account using an acceptable username. Then, as Dbfirs mentioned, see the WP:COI policy to learn how best to contribute to this article. In general, making edit requests on the article's talk page, instead of to the page itself is best. Tiggerjay (talk) 01:11, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Uploading files to Wikipedia

I have decided that I no longer wish to contribute media to Wikimedia Commons, as that website seems to casually accept illegal content. I still have images useful for illustrating Wikipedia articles, but would like to know how I can prevent people from copying them to commons at all. Obviously, I know that I cannot legally forbid anyone from doing so, but is there any way that I can ask people to not move my images there a a courtesy? {{Do not move to Commons}} seemed to be what I wanted, but it produced "Expression error: Unrecognized word "i".Expression error: Unexpected < operatorCategory:Out of copyright in Expression error: Unrecognized word "i"." on the description page. And {{Keep local}} does not even ask people not to move it to Commons. Any suggestions, aside from not uploading any images at all? --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 16:07, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@Jakec: {{Do not move to Commons}} works correctly. I see you tried to use it with a reason as an unnamed parameter in File:Gordon, Pennsylvania.JPG. The documentation shows you must write {{Do not move to Commons|reason=...}} An unnamed parameter is interpreted as an expiry which must be a year. I don't know how others will react to a request of this form. Commons has 30 million files and does delete a huge number of files for wrong or insufficient copyright information. commons:Special:Log/delete has around 1500 entries (total for all reasons and namespaces) in the last day alone. But many files with wrong claims do slip through. Are you thinking of files that haven't been nominated for deletion or files where you disagree with a decision to keep them? PrimeHunter (talk) 16:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: Thanks for the tip! Commons is actually pretty good at dealing with copyright violations (I think), but terrible at dealing with files that don't belong for other reasons, such as classified government documents, which shouldn't even be public at all. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 17:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Reason for deletion

Hello, I would like to understand why the wiki page I created was deleted? I spent many hours developing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seratis 14:22, 21 December 2015 Sphilbrick (talk | contribs) deleted page Seratis (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace) What is most frustrating is, that a clear reason was not provided. Or may be I don't know how to look at the above sentence and interpret what that means.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by TakeMeTo (talk • contribs) 16:26, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

In the deletion log for Seratis, the R2 is in blue, indicating that it is a wikilink, in this case to Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#R2. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:35, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

There was an article earlier. At the time of deletion it was a redirect to Draft:Seratis which currently has nearly the same content as the former article. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:47, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

It was not appropriate to create that page until you have addressed the notability issues in your draft of the article. Once you get the draft right, it will be moved to article space for you. Are you sure that the subject is Wikipedia:notable and that you do not have a Wikipedia:conflict of interest? Dbfirs 16:42, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

According to the article, it's about a "team transparency platform" (whatever that means) that is now undergoing pilot testing. It's therefore most unlikely that there's enough coverage in reliable independent sources to establish its notability. This isn't your fault, and there's nothing you can do about it. In a few years, if the product finds widespread acceptance, maybe an article will be justifiable. Maproom (talk) 17:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@TakeMeTo: It also might help if you look at WP:CORP to see what makes a company notable in the Wikipedia sense of notability. Seratis doesn't seem to right now. Dismas|^(talk) 18:06, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

multiple issue lable

Please be kind as to advice me how to change the content my this article of a living person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Baldwin_(director) in order not to have the announed at the beginning problems: "This article has multiple issues" and "This article or section may have been copied and pasted from http://chrisbaldwin.eu (DupDet · CopyVios), possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy" - I tried to remedy these putting link in Wiki but I need an advise of efficiency. Thank you in advance.Ginakafedjian (talk) 18:32, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Ginakafedjian See the article's talk page. I'll be leaving a detailed comment in a minute. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:27, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Changes to ChannelAdviosr company description and senior leadership

This note is in regards to the ChannelAdvisor Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChannelAdvisor

In the ChannelAdvisor company description, Walmart.com is listed as a site that ChannelAdvisor connects its retail customers with to reach new and existing sources of demand. This is inaccurate and we could not find this information in the source provided.

Also, the article references John Baule as ChannelAdvisor's CFO, which is no longer the case. Mark Cook was named the company's CFO: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article29976204.html

Additionally, the article references that Suzanne Miglucci is the company's CMO, but she is no longer with the company: http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/techflash/2015/11/charles-colvard-miglucci-ceo-channeladvisor-cmo.html 12.216.74.218 (talk) 19:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done as requested. Tiggerjay (talk) 01:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Non-free images

Hello, dear wikieditors. how many non-free images can a article contain? and are there exceptions.?--El-ßäbrega (talk) 19:54, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@El-ßäbrega: Usually 0, sometimes 1, rarely more. It depends on the content of the article. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and come back if you have a question about a specific article and image. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:48, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

PrimeHunter, and what is these? (Aang, Tom and Jerry, Lucario, Kitty Foiled, Mucho Mouse, Down Beat Bear, Heavenly Puss, List of Winx Club characters, Jynx, Cars 2, and more...]]--El-ßäbrega (talk) 11:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

There is no maximum number, but each must significantly increase reader understanding (not just illustrate a mention of something). I visited Tom and Jerry, and it looks like someone got carried away with illustration. The first figure is acceptable because it identifies the subject; most of the others will probably be deleted; so PrimeHunter is right about sometimes 1. I nominated one photo for deletion, but it's time now to quit for the night. —teb728 t c 12:23, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

We have five million articles. Animated characters are only a small part of them. There will usually be no possibility of a free image. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:20, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Trouble getting my image to display in my User:Bartonellison Draft article Frederick William Lock

I am unable to get my image to post into my User:Bartonellison/Frederick William Lock page using the 'Edit source' text:

File:The Artist's Possessions, by F. W. Lock, 1848, Montreal, Canada.jpg

The Artist's Possessions, by F. W. Lock, 1848, Montreal, Canada

(or alternatively:

File:The Artist's Possessions, by F. W. Lock, 1848, Montreal, Canada.jpg

The Artist's Possessions, by F. W. Lock, 1848, Montreal, Canada

.

I have had no problem getting two other images to post onto my User page using that same 'Edit source' code format. Is there an unresolved issue with my source image or file name that I need to correct to achieve the desired result; and if so, what must I do to allow that image to appear in my article (still in Draft, not yet Submitted to Wilipedia). Barton Ellison 20:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartonellison (talk • contribs)

@Bartonellison: commons:Special:Contributions/Bartonellison shows the file name is File:The Artist's Possessions, F.W. Lock, Montreal, 1848.jpg. You made several changes when you tried to display it. If you want to get a file or page name right then use the copy-paste feature of your browser. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:41, 21 December 2015 (UTC)