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September 10

Referencing errors on History of smart antennas

Reference help requested. What is the the problem with [1]? Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 06:04, 10 September 2016 (UTC) Thanks, Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 06:04, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

No ref error showing against it in refs as far as I can see. What are you seeing that indicates a problem? Eagleash (talk) 06:54, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

I believe @John of Reading: fixed it, however I received a message from ReferenceBot. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 16:14, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Toll Free/ Customer Service Number in Company Info Box

Can we add Toll Free/Customer Service Number in Company Info Box ?Kapil2111 (talk) 06:48, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

• No Kapil2111, that would be promotional. Lourdes 07:34, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

What to do about suspicious 'own work' attribution on a logo?

I am concerned that this logo may be incorrectly attributed. I believe the logo is for a school based organisation and has been around for quite some time. But it doesn't ring true that such a logo would be released into the public domain. Can it be tagged or challenged? How? And what happens then? TIA CalzGuy (talk) 08:26, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

CalzGuy As there's no evidence that it's actually their own work, then in general, the image is a copyright violation, and should be listed for deletion on both English Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons as an F11- file with no evidence of permission.

In this case however, the image is a non-copyrightable logo, as it consists only of simple shapes & letters. In this case, the copyright status should be changed to {{PD-textlogo}} . Joseph2302 08:53, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Categories

Hello everyone,

I know this is probably not the right place to ask this sort of questions but for a non-native English speaker, the procedures are a tad too complicated to sort out. Can someone please link the Category:École pratique des hautes études faculty to its French corresponding category, fr:Catégorie:Enseignant à l'École pratique des hautes études and also give me the link to where I should have gone in the first place. Thanks in advance; LouisAlain (talk) 13:31, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

@LouisAlain:  Done There were two separate items on Wikidata, so I have merged them. I can explain if you want, but it's a bit more complicated than just adding a language link (which you do by clicking the "Edit links" below the list of language links in the sidebar, and then typing in the language code of the wiki (e.g. "fr") and the page name on the other wiki). nyuszika7h (talk) 14:24, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Grazie mille, yes, it looks rather complicated but now I can add names to the English category; LouisAlain (talk) 14:35, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Please clarify rules on uploading photos

The subject of a Wiki article I worked on has sent me a photo he says was taken by himself. He would like this image to be used in the Wiki entry about him. Is this OK, if so how do I describe it in the upload data? If not, how else can I get a suitable photo with no copyright issues without doing it myself ?--Penbat (talk) 15:56, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

The simplest way would be for him to upload the image as self-made, otherwise you will have to take a picture yourself orjump though hoops. If his image has been published elsewhere, you would probably have to get a release through that route anyway. Simply asserting that you have permission to use the image, isn't sufficient. Jimfbleak (talk) 16:19, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks --Penbat (talk) 16:50, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

can we please try to attempt again to submit with approval an article on the Williamsburg Independent Film Festival?

I was told by my media consultant Greer Mcfadden that we needed to wait about a year before trying this again. www.willfilm.org

Best,

Peter Bloch — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willfilm123 (talk • contribs) 22:20, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Peter, you should first go through WP:Notability (events), Wikipedia's guidelines on which events may be included in Wikipedia. The guidelines also list the criteria that Wikipedia's editors may use to assess whether your festival event is notable enough to be included. I'll recommend that you additionally read some more guidelines that may be relevant to you: Wikipedia:Your first article#Are you closely connected to the article topic? (this describes why you should perhaps not be creating an article or editing topics on Wikipedia with which you are closely associated), WP:Requested articles (the place where you can request for an article on your festival to be created) and WP:Username policy (Wikipedia's policy on usernames, as per which your current username may get blocked any moment because usernames should not be promotional). Feel free to write back for more guidance on this issue. Thanks. Lourdes 22:33, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Peter (Willfilm123 ) I see that two drafts have been made about this festival in the past, Draft:Williamsburg Independent Film Festival (which was deleted because no one was working on it, and can be revived at any time) and Draft:Williamsburg Independent Film Festival 2 which is still around, but was declined in favour of the other one. You can choose to work on either of these. Lourdes has pointed out the problems with editing a page about your own festival, but it's okay to do so in "Draft" space as long as you submit your work to the Articles for Creation reviewers to make sure it's not promotional and that it has multiple references to news, magazine or book articles written about the festival (not press releases or upcoming event announcements) to show that it's well-known outside the local community. There is no need to wait for a specific period of time to pass before resubmitting your draft - there's even a "Resubmit" button in the pink box near the top of the draft; however, it will be declined again if it doesn't meet the notability requirements in the link which Lourdes has provided above. Of course, waiting a while can be helpful if in the meantime reporters and journalists write about your festival! I hope that you will also make a new user name which represents you as an individual, because, as noted above, usernames which represent organizations or groups aren't allowed.—Anne Delong (talk) 23:11, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Peter. It might help to realise that Wikipedia has essentially no interest in what you, or anybody else connected with the festival, have said or want to say about it. It is only interested in what people who have no connection with the Festival have published about it. This is why it is often hard for people with a conflict of interest to write a satisfactory article, and it is why we have the criteria of notability: unless there is truly independent published material about a subject, there is literally nothing which can go in an article. --ColinFine (talk) 21:03, 11 September 2016 (UTC)