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Scanned Book Cover

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I have a scan of the cover of a book by Carl Jung. I'd like to use it in the article about the book. I've seen somewhere that this is allowable, but I'm not sure where. I do NOT want to become a copyright attorney -- I just want to add an illustration to an article. Lou Sander (talk) 02:08, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just use the Upload file link at the top left of any page. Choose the option that says This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use. Then choose This is the official cover art of a work. The scan should be at a fairly low resolution so that it can't be used to pirate the book cover. Then bippity boppity boo... You're done. Dismas|(talk) 02:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
When was the book printed? Is the book cover in public domain? (I realize that some of Jung's books were printed in his later life or after his death and are still copyright.) Robert McClenon (talk) 03:02, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the info, both of you. The cover is from 1970 or so. Probably copyrighted by the publisher. I've followed the advice of Dismas. Lou Sander (talk) 16:11, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Two questions, both regarding citations

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Hey guys,

I'm working on a couple articles here, but ran into some issues in the citations. My first question is: Many of the online sources I selected have been deleted after being just over a year old, what should I do?

My second question: is there a limited amount of online citations required for an article? I have TONS of newspaper, magazine, and book references - but not a whole lot of Internet sources.

Thanks! Sash~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by SashaRearick (talk • contribs) 03:19, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @SashaRearick: Great questions. Here are my two answers:
(edit conflict) SashaRearick, it is often possible to find archived versions of content previously posted to the web at archive sites. In particular the so-called "wayback machine" at www.archive.org can be very useful here. But make sure that your source is a reliable one, or don't bother.
An article should have enough citations to allow readers to verify the stated facts. There is no point in having huge numbers of duplicitative citations that support the same facts. There is no specific number required. (There should also be enough independent sources to establish the notability of the subject.) While it is often convenient to use online sources, printed sources are perfectly acceptable, provided they are reliable sources and have been published. A perfectly good article might use no online sources at all, but many printed sources. DES (talk) 03:52, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Geolocate for IPv6?

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Is there a Geolocate option for IPv6 addresses? For regular IP addresses it's normally tucked between "Traceroute" & "Current Blocks", but that doesn't seem to be the case for IPv6. Chaheel Riens (talk) 08:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We don't have such an option. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 102#IPv6. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:59, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I'll just have to rely on the Duck test then... Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:25, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Katihar Medical College

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Hi,

This is related to Katihar Medical College Wikipedia page.

I have created a page and submitted it for approval and it got decline.

I would request you to guide me with the steps. my motive is to create a page for Katihar Medical College.

Details:-

FB page  :- https://www.facebook.com/KMCHKatihar

URL:- http://www.kmckatihar.org/

use account:=ID-KMCHkatihar PW-ashfaq@123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by KMCHkatihar (talk • contribs) 09:11, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are messages on your user talk page and on User:KMCHkatihar/sandbox/Katihar Medical College which explain what the problems are. In those messages the words in blue are wikilinks which will take you to pages with further explanation. Your user talk page also contains a welcome message with numerous other helpful links; in this case, start by reading Wikipedia:Your first article. - David Biddulph (talk) 09:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to Muslim World League

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Greetings

We Represent the Muslim World League Organization and we want to edit our own definition in Wikipedia page Muslim World League, since the Editor posted false information about our organization and we would like to correct them if possible or at least add our point of view to it.

To start with: The most important points are:

1)

According to various sources, the MWL is funded primarily by the Saudi-Arabian government

— Gryffindor, Muslim World League

The Truth is that: Muslim World League funded by group of Muslim & Arabic Countries around the world.

2)

Among the original nine members of the League's "Constituent Council" were "important representatives of the Salafi tendency": Said Ramadan, (son-in-law of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna)

— Gryffindor, Muslim World League

And that is totally false because Mr. Said Ramadan was banned from entering Saudi Arabia and he didn't participate in any Muslim World League events, and that lead to a bigger problem that when someone search in google about is the founder of Muslim World LEague it came up the result from Wikipedia that Mr. Said Ramadan is the founder so the Editor false claim lead to a bigger one.

So please we want to correct or add the following to the article Muslim World League

<1-copyright violation redacted-1>
[1]

Iuthemwlorg (talk) 09:57, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "History & About MWL". Muslim World League. iuthemwlorg.

  Not done This should be requested at the article talkpage, Talk:Muslim World League not here. Also, you don't own the article about your organisation, per WP:OWN, so unless it's supported by reliable sources, and is neutral tone it's unlikely to be accepted-this is not neutral in tone. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Finding all Talk pages where I wrote a certain phrase

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Is there a way for me to locate all the instances where I wrote a particular phrase on Talk pages? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:55, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What time period? An AWB user with a full database dump could scan for it. - X201 (talk) 11:40, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That seems a bit like the classic "use a sledgehammer to swat a mosquito" solution. I wonder if an advanced search could look for pages containing both the phrase and my signature. I know how to do such a search on Google but I'm not sufficiently familiar with WP's internal search engine. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:55, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Its guaranteed to work though, Which is more than I can say for Wikipedia's search, it allegedy does AND searches, but I've never been able to get it to work. Try WP:PUMPTECH, they love this sort of question over there. - X201 (talk) 13:04, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe this is a dumb suggestion but if you know how to do a search on Google already, could you not just add "site:wikipedia.org" to the search? — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 13:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Bilorv - AIUI external search engines such as Google are blocked from Talk pages. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:42, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Dodger67: Something like this search ought to find talk pages containing a target phrase and, probably, your signature. The "tilde zero" is there to insist that there are zero additional words between those you are searching for. This doesn't guarantee that the target phrase is in a post by you, and I don't know any way round this. The search results start with five or six irrelevant results with unusual page names; I hope this has been reported to the developers somewhere. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:13, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks John of Reading, the "tilde zero trick" works perfectly! I found the discussion, it's quite a lot older than I thought, it dates back to August 2014. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:47, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading Images

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Hi,

I need to upload an image to the wikipedia page "Nadia Buhannad" that I created. Can you help?

Nadia Buhannad

Ryclal (talk) 11:51, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • If you want to upload an image from your computer for use in an article, you must determine the proper license of the image (or whether it is in the public domain). If you know the image is public domain or copyrighted but under a suitable free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons instead of here, so that all projects have access to the image (sign up). If you are unsure of the licensing status, see the file upload wizard for more information. Please also read Wikipedia's image use policy.
  • If you want to add an image that has already been uploaded to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, add [[File:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text]] to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text with a short description of the image. See our picture tutorial for more information. I hope this helps.--ukexpat (talk) 12:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
NB, the article has now been speedily deleted for being too promotional in tone, see WP:SPAM.--ukexpat (talk) 14:47, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Barbara Sumner-Burstyn

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Hi

I have to add block (image bellow) on the page Barbara Sumner-Burstyn

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1EVQc8zcbthU8AwXcGV8FamtG1l0B8lvO42NSRb0SMiU/edit?usp=sharing

as I know about the barbara Sumner burstyn , I want to add all the details in her profile can you please guide me how i can do this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manojrana192000 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I replied on your talkpage about adding reliable sources. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
And I added an infobox, which I guess that is what the link to [1] meant. Only add information to it with reliable sources though. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:43, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Upload image - unconfirmed user account

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I want to change the logo image associated with the page WH Ireland as the brand mark is not correct. As my account is unconfirmed, and as I'm the Marketing Manager for the organisation, I want to ensure that the correct branding is being used. How can this be achieved please? Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Symon Walmsley at WHIreland (talk • contribs) 14:09, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can request that it be uploaded at WP:FFU. Please also declare your conflict of interest on your user page as required by our terms of service. Thank you.--ukexpat (talk) 14:42, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

'Launching' a Wikipedia page?

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Haleema Z Khan (talk)Hello, I've created my first Wikipedia page on Catherine George Ward, a nineteenth century author, but I'm unsure about how to 'launch' it (is that the correct term?). It's currently on my Sandbox but I would like to make it available to everyone- how would I do that? Thanks in advance, Haleema Haleema Z Khan (talk) 15:30, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't checked the page in question yet, but you should be able to use the move function which can be accessed at the top of the page... I'll leave more in-depth answers to others, as I have to leave for a brief moment... Dustin (talk) 15:41, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The page looks as if it is ready to be moved into article space except for the hatnote at the top, which should be fixed to Mason or Ward. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:46, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I would personally remove the hatnote altogether. The article also has some minor issues, mostly in formatting: the "Bibliography" and "See also" sections appear to have been copied from some generic template and should be removed. The sentence "List official websites, organizations named after the subject, and other interesting yet relevant websites. No spam." should also be removed from the External links section.
To move the page, there should be a link on the top-right of the page when you hover over the "More" button (next to "Read", "Edit" etc.) that reads "Move". Click on it and it will lead you to a new page, where you should change the namespace parameter from "User" to "(Article)" and "Haleema Z Khan/sandbox" to "Catherine Mason" or "Catherine George Ward" (whatever you want the title to be).
If you want me to send you a more detailed message about some of the small formatting problems I found in your page, I can. If you don't understand how to move the page yourself and want me to do it for you, reply here and I will. If you have any other problems or queries you can ask here or ask me personally on my talk page. — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 16:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've done some courtesy clean up of the formatting and layout.--ukexpat (talk) 16:52, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moving sections from one article to another

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After proposing major re-structuring to the article on aesthetics, it has been proposed that a fair amount of its content (several sections) might well be integrated into History of aesthetics before the 20th century and thus almost completely deleted from aesthetics. Now I wondered whether there is an established procedure for such a case?

My idea about how to proceed at the moment would be to comment on the talk page of both pages which version of which section has been moved to which version of the other article. However, I wanted to ask for other solutions before making such re-arrangements. Thanks, AeAnBr (talk) 19:25, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AeAnBr, See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and {{Copied}} DES (talk) 22:13, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, DESiegel! The help page is the one I have been searching; even though it's not a case for the suggested template. AeAnBr (talk) 05:46, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

article delete

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Hello there. I posted an article named "Parametric chassis". You deleted on 8 of April. The reason: Unambiguous advertising or promotion ...

Can you check this article again, There wasn't any advertising inside the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gkalogiantsidis (talk • contribs) 21:05, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gkalogiantsidis, I had a look. Reads like a PR release. "this innovation has been considered by leading manufacturers and research organizations", "implements the leading edge in systems integration and novel design", "while offering upgradeability (in design/development/manufacturing terms) at an unprecedented scale" --NeilN talk to me 21:15, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
(checking out those spiffy new admin tools? - congrats! )-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Heh. Thank you. --NeilN talk to me 00:32, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bokujō Monogatari Naming

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The game franchise Bokujō Monogatari has been localized in the west as Harvest Moon by the company Natsume. However recently the localization has been handled by a different company, but the "Harvest Moon" name still belongs to Natsume. Because of this, there are new games called "Harvest Moon" that aren't Bokujō Monogatari games. However, the Wikipedia article for "Harvest Moon" is dealing with the Bokujō Monogatari series which, until recently, was essentially synonymous with it. More information about this is mentioned series' talk page and in this section from the article itself:

Due to Natsume keeping the rights to the Harvest Moon name when Marvelous decided to abruptly refuse to work with them any longer in favour of having their own American division, XSEED Games, taking over North American distribution, the latest title in the series had to change its name to Story of Seasons while Natsume took the opportunity to start making their own "Harvest Moon" games with Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley. This has caused some degree of confusion.

I can't find any other examples of something like this happening, so I am uncertain of the best way to handle renaming/splitting the related articles. Is there any suggested way of handling this, or is the suggestion provided on the talk page (rename the "Harvest Moon (series)" article to "Story of Seasons (series)" and make a new article "Harvest Moon (Natsume series)") the best way of handling this? Thank you. Fench (talk) 22:26, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There has been some discussion on the article talk page but it was suggested Fench ask here. The only advice I can give is follow the procedures in WP:SPLIT and especially Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:05, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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