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July 22

Redirect into a category?

Hello. I wanted to put the entry -gate into Category:English suffixes. However, -gate redirects to List of scandals with "-gate" suffix, and putting the full title of the article into that category wouldn't make sense. Is there a way to just have -gate show up in the category listing? Thank you.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 03:50, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

@Michael J: Yes, see Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects. I think this example fits the section WP:INCOMPATIBLE, and the section WP:REDCAT shows how to make the edit. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:01, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Basically, you go to -gate and put the category *there* on the redirect page, not where it redirects to.Naraht (talk) 11:46, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

I did it. Thank you.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 03:23, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Article removed because of copyright after donating it to Wikipedia

I have send the requested email, where I confirm that I´m the holder of the copyright and donate it to Wikipedia on 07/14/2015 and also got a automated replay that confirms the receiving. But for reasons I don´t understand the article was labeled with a peedy deletion nomination and got removed. What have I missed? Can the article be restored if things sort out as a failture?— Preceding unsigned comment added by DFDWIS (talk • contribs)

pretend that instead of "deleted because of unambiguous copyright violation" the notice said "deleted as unambiguous advertising" because the end results will be the same. That is inappropriate material for an encyclopedia article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 06:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the learning here is that even if the copyright issue is dealt with, material copied from the subject's website is almost never appropriate in tone for an encyclopedia. --ukexpat (talk) 15:04, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Videos

I want to. Seach for wideos and download i dont know how — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adriano gabriel (talk • contribs) 11:12, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

you can watch on Youtube why download? Supdiop (Talk🔹Contribs) 13:28, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Adriano gabriel ask at the Entertainment Reference Desk if you can be more specific.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:47, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Placeholding or vandalism?

Idly looking up the article McGibbon (an ancestral form of my mother's surname), I find that all but one of the entries are followed by the word "nonce" in the place where in the article MacGibbon, for example, disambiguating descriptions appear.

I presume that this is being used in the 3rd sense given in the article nonce until someone gets round to adding further information, but given the offensive (in the UK) 2nd meaning in that article, could not something else be used? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 13:00, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Looking at the article history, that aspect is obviously the result of this vandalism by an IP in May; I've reverted it. Thanks for pointing it out. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:09, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism to articles that are not watch-listed can go unnoticed for a long time. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:57, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Service is my only joy :-) . {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 13:56, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Talk template for expert

What is the talk page template for linking to a wikipedia user who is an expert on the subject?MACassist (talk) 14:16, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

That's {{Expert-subject}}.--ukexpat (talk) 15:02, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

The question asks for a talk page template. Until recently there was {{Maintained}}, but it was deleted after this discussion. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:04, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

{{Expert-talk}}.--ukexpat (talk) 15:55, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

The maintained template wasn't used to identify an expert on the subject. It was used to identify an editor who had ownership of an article. At least, that was the opinion of some in the deletion discussion. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:34, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Such a template would effectively allow a single editor to "hijack" the role of one or more WikiProjects. Subject experts are found at relevant WikiProjects. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:28, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Need help for disambiguation

I created a page Deepak Sharma a few minutes back. When I clicked on "What links here". I find many links. What I understand is, there was a page with this name which was deleted after AFDs. This is a different Deepak Sharma. I dont know how to sort thos out. Plz help Sulabhvarshney (talk) 17:43, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

It doesn't appear that the Deepak Sharma you are writing about is notable either. I would suggest taking this draft back to your sandbox and working on it. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 17:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Spamming alert for online government documents archive site

I work at the State Library of Kansas as state government documents librarian. We have an online digital library of Kansas state agency publications at: http://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org

I've been adding the above link to the KGI Online Library for various agency articles on Wikipedia as an External Link within Kansas state agency pages this morning offering people a chance to see publications issued by the agencies in these Wikipedia articles.

Two examples:

Kansas Department of Administration Kansas Department of Administration External links

Kansas Department of Administration official website

Kansas Department of Administration publications online at the KGI Online Library (scroll down to agency)

Kansas Department of Agriculture Kansas Department of Agriculture External links

Kansas Department of Agriculture official website

Kansas Department of Agriculture publications online at the KGI Online Library (scroll down to agency)

I got an automatic message just now from Wikipedia asking me if I was spamming and, new to Wikipedia editing, wanted to make sure that I wouldn't be banned and/or have our online collection of digitized Kansas government publications banned from Wikipedia.

Is this sort of linking a good resource for Kansas government agency articles in Wikipedia?

Thanks

Bill Sowers Kansas Government Documents Librarian State Library of Kansas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kansasgovdocs (talk • contribs)

Hello, @Kansasgovdocs: The external links may or may not be appropriate depending upon the article and the contents at the external link. The guidelines for external links are found at: WP:EL. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:42, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

And there is a related noticeboard at: WP:ELN.--ukexpat (talk) 19:59, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

The way all the links you have inserted say "(scroll down to agency)" increases the impression of spam. If you are going to add links, you could at least add links that go directly to the relevant place. Maproom (talk) 10:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)