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December 5

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

Article in question: Kim Oler 

I think I may have unintentionally deleted material from this page, which is my profile created by someone without my knowing. It's my first time doing any substantial editing to my page and I have credits and new positions I wanted to add. While doing this I may have removed material in violation of Wikipedia rules. Please advise how I can return to editing my page with my deeper understanding of Encyclopedia principles and rules. Thank you.Kim Oler (talk) 00:02, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@Kim Oler: I undid your edit. It is strongly recommended that users not edit a page about themselves. See WP:COI. You should instead post on the article's talk page about anything you think needs to be added or changed. RudolfRed (talk) 01:39, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Repeated Citations, Mendoza, Texas, and Alderbranch, Texas

Dear Fellow Wikipedians... I had been reading Repeated Citations, but I can't understand it at all. I want to expand articles on Wikipedia that are classified as stubs with the Handbook of Texas as a reference. I can't understand how to use this source as a repeated citation. I have done this on the articles of Alderbranch, Texas and Mendoza, Texas, but I just can't figure it out. I do not want to be blocked from editing Wikipedia, and I want to try to make it as resourceful as I can. I keep asking User:Magnolia677 for help with this, but this user won't help me. Will someone please tell me how to use the source of the Handbook of Texas again so that I can cite my sources to make it credible? That would be a really big help, and a pleasure!Colman2000 (talk) 03:52, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi Colman2000, I would suggest that you give a quick read to WP:REFNAME and come back here to ask for more clarification if that doesn't resolve your query. (While at it, also go through WP:Referencing for beginners to get properly initiated into the world of references). Thanks, Lourdes 11:59, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Hi, Colman2000 When I started here I also found getting references right was one of the hardest things. (You won't get blocked from editing for maing a few honest mistakes, don't worry). What you appear to want to do looks quite easy to achieve. The principle is the same whether you're manually adding your own reference to a book, newspaper or website, or, as you seem to be doing here, using a pre-made template to make life even easier. In essence, you enter the full reference just the once (giving it a unique name - or "ref name" in the process) and then you call it up again and again each time you want to use it to support another statement. In your case, the task looks even simpler as you're using Template:Handbook of Texas into which you appear to need only to drop a short code derived url from the online database, and the area name.

So, if you go to Alderbranch, Texas and click "Edit Source" to edit that page you'll see the statement that only 5 people live there by the year 2000, followed by this code to the reference: <ref>{{Handbook of Texas|id=hna17 |name=Alderbranch, TX}}</ref>. If you were simply to use that code again and again, you'd get multiple identical entries in the References section - not ideal. So, let's give your reference a short name we can call up next time we want to use it. How about "Handbook"?

Go to the start of the code and change <ref> to <ref name="Handbook">. Your reference now has a name, and the whole thing should look like this: <ref name="Handbook">{{Handbook of Texas|id=hna17 |name=Alderbranch, TX}}</ref>.

When you next want to use that reference on that page, you don't need to copy the whole thing again - just add this, much shorter code: <ref name="Handbook"/>. Note that this line ends with a forward slash "/" which it's important to remember to include. You MUST have one full reference, but after that you only need call it up with the short version each time you want to use it. You'll only see one entry in the reference section, but the letters a,b, c etc before it, showing it has been used more than once throughout the page. On the page itself the refernce will use the identical number, of course. Does that help and make sense? Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 13:10, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

United States Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/ - not available. What is their website address? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 04:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Vyacheslav84, i can access the webpage. Seem it is out of the ability of wikipedia community member to determinate the internet connections of the website and between you and the website. (And probably you had to install the root certificate in order to verify the https only connection; or more risky option: accept census.gov as security exception. ) Matthew_hk tc 04:49, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

I need data from this site about the birthrate of the white, Latin American and African-American population of the United States by years. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 04:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Vyacheslav84, the census is not the site for birth rates. The US Census depends actually on the CDC to gather birth rate figures. You could try https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm for the said details. Thanks, Lourdes 16:30, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Available languages HINDI (India)

Please make the material available in HINDI language also (the most spoken INDIAN language). thanks. Piyush — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.1.219.168 (talk) 05:42, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Piyush, the Hindi Wikipedia is at https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki Rojomoke (talk) 06:48, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

But there are only 122 thousand articles in it, so it is quite likely that a random article in the English Wikipedia does not have a corresponding article in the Hindi. Unfortunately, Piyush, that's the way Wikipedia works: the content is created by volunteers, who work on what they choose. If you would be interested in translating any article from en.wikipedia to hi.wikipedia, please see Translate us. --ColinFine (talk) 18:19, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Editing

How to edit articles with mistakes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kentucky fried chicken (talk • contribs) 06:27, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Kentucky fried chicken, For an overview of how to edit Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Editing. For a fun introduction to editing, why not try the Wikipedia:Adventure. Rojomoke (talk) 06:48, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Tags at the beginning of Dennis Holahan bio

Hello. I have updated my bio with some minor edits. Everything in the article is true and accurate. How can I get rid of the three tags at the beginning of the article that suggest that (1) there are links that are not accurate (2) facts are not verified and (3) some facts are in dispute? Thank you. Dennisholahan (talk) 06:30, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Dennisholahan. You are working on an WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, which is a really bad idea. The article Dennis Holahan is almost entirely unreferenced and full of unverifiable promotional content. That article is at high risk of being deleted. If I was you, I would completely stop editing the article, and instead post links to reliable, independent sources on the article's talk page. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:40, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Upload individual bio

Hi, I want to submit a write-up of the CEO of the organisation I work for. Can someone help me with the same? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laddoo0684 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

You need to read about notability, conflict of interest, and paid editing. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:02, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Can't login

Hi, when I try to login on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin I get this error:

There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again.

I tried reloading the page and no good, even with clearing cache. I have NoScript but I tried enabling scripts and that didn't make any change either :( I also have self destructing cookies but that only deletes cookies on closing a tab, I double-checked in options > privacy > show cookies ([about:preferences#privacy about:preferences#privacy] on Firefox 43.0.1) and Wikipedia's cookies definitely did not get deleted, so I don't know why it's making this error at all, seems really weird... thank you for any help :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.196.244.136 (talk) 07:40, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

There are both wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org cookies. Try deleting them all. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:22, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

It doesn't make any change :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.219.49.252 (talk) 15:34, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Can you log in at https://login.wikimedia.org? Can you try another browser or device? PrimeHunter (talk) 15:49, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Same error on [1] (There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again.)

Works fine with internet explorer it seems — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.219.49.252 (talk) 01:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text

anybody home? this is really a mystery - all i want to do is put a web site link on an edit i did,,, Northwest Permaculture heading #56 suburbanpermaculture.org thanks? how do you send this? totally mysteriious — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eujan (talk • contribs) 09:53, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

The way to include references is described at Help:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:59, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Bill O'Reilly political commentator, some erroneous information needs to be changed

In Bill O'Reilly's biography , these are changes that need to be made to correct erroneous information.

It should say :

In October 2017, the New York Times reported an allegation through anonymous sources that a settlement of $32 million was paid by O'Reilly and Fox to settle a sixth sexual harassment claim, which had been filed against him by former Fox News analyst Lis Wiehl because of the "alleged sexual harassment" she says O'Reilly initiated with her.[13][14] O'Reilly denied the allegation and Lis Wiehl withdrew the allegation on January 17th 2017. The revelation this sixth settlement caused O'Reilly to lose out on contracts with various sponsors, syndicators, and advertisers for a potential new radio or television show.[15] This entire last line must be removed because the sponsor boycott happened in April 2017 whereas the allegation by Lis Wiehl happened in October 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JeromeKaiser (talk • contribs) 10:21, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

The best place to raise this issue is the article's talk page. Maproom (talk) 11:47, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

How do I claim a Contribution from my IP into my Account Contributions

I have contributed to articles without being logged in as I forgot about this Account until now. How can I move contributions from my IP to my Account? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyler.hoban (talk • contribs) 10:52, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@Tyler.hoban: It is not possible to reassign edits to an account but the IP address can be hidden for privacy reasons in some cases. See Wikipedia:Requests for oversight. On the other hand, if you do want some credit for the edits then you can mention on the IP talk page and your user page that it is your IP, assuming all edits from the IP address are you. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:14, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Günter Bechly

How can we hold you to your stated ideals by encouraging you to re-instate the Günter Bechly section. He's a significant scientist and you are leaving him out through spite — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.78.36.73 (talk) 12:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Here is the deletion discussion. I see no evidence of spite. Maproom (talk) 13:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Related discussions here Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_58#This_noticeboard_mentioned_in_media and here Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Why_was_the_page_associated_with_Günter_Bechly_removed_from_Wiki?_(previously_"Evolution"). If you want, you can read Wikipedia:Your first article, and if you think you can find better sources than there were in the deleted article, you can try to create the article again. However, if we, as you say, removed the article out of spite, that will of course not work. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:36, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Proofreading the article

Draft:Webkul (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello,

I have two questions:

1. I have written an article on organization Webkul. I have written the article keeping Wikipedia clauses in mind, still, I want someone to proofread it and if anything is missing or wrong, do let me know.
2. Previously page has been created by someone on the same organization Webkul, maybe by the employees but the page was deleted due to promotional content, kindly let me know if deletion of previous articles will affect approval of my current article, If yes then what I need to do on my behalf right now to avoid non-approval of the article.

Thank You

Saurav.webkul (talk) 13:32, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Note This teahouse thread also refers. Eagleash (talk) 13:38, 5 December 2017 (UTC)Archived.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:06, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Uploading a picture

Hello, I am attempting to create a Wikipedia page for my boss per his request. He sent me photos of HIM from his cell phone to use for the page... Every time I try and upload one of them it tells me the photo is copyright. HELP! Please? This is frustrating >:{ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julian Rouas (talk • contribs) 22:49, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

First of all, wikipedia is not a freehost of CV. Also if it was created by the subject (or paying someone to do so), is forbidden as WP:COI and WP:Paid. Matthew_hk tc 22:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

If you are not Julian Rouas, your username violates WP:REALNAME. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Julian Rouas, I'm afraid your boss has a (very common) misconception that Wikipedia has anything whatever to do with self-promotion. If Wikipedia ever has an article about him, it should be based nearly 100% on what people who have no connection whatever with him have chosen to publish about him: Wikipedia is not interested in what he says or wants to say, and neither you nor he will have any control over the content of the article. Please read the links that Matthew_hk has given you, and also your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 00:34, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

ColinFine First, I would like to thank you for your time, so what about the portion of that same page on Wikipedia, which states, "Wikipedia has many policies or what many consider "rules". Instead of following every rule, it is acceptable to use common sense as you go about editing. Being too wrapped up in rules can cause loss of perspective, so there are times when it is better to ignore a rule. Even if a contribution "violates" the precise wording of a rule, it might still be a good contribution." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charleen Callahan (talk • contribs) 01:20 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Charleen Callahan. I don't know what kind of answer you are looking for. Wikipedia runs on consensus, and the rules (including the one that says ignore all rules) are a way of implementing that consensus. As I understand it, the current consensus is that promotion of any kind is unwelcome here, and that includes people presenting themselves or their associates in many of the ways that would be appropriate in some other contexts, such as social media or business directories. It is not forbidden to write about yourself or your associates, but discouraged because you are likely to find it hard to write in a sufficiently neutral way: that is the consensus as I understand it, as expressed in various essays and policies including the ones that I and others have pointed to. what Wikipedia is not would be another. I did indeed intend to discourage the OP from proceeding, because they are likely to have a frustrating time if them continue; but they are welcome to continue if they understand how Wikipedia works and what is and isn't acceptable. --ColinFine (talk) 15:59, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

@Charleen Callahan: That is a common misconception about WP:IAR and similar "we are not a bureaucracy" tropes here. If you have a very good reason to disregard a particular guideline, do it. But you need a good reason, i.e. one where other editors would go "well, that is indeed against the guidelines, but surely we should see past that". (Hint: if the same reason would apply to every possible application of the rule, it is probably not considered a good reason, otherwise the rule would not be here.) Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 10:36, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Donations

I’m writing because I do give, if only $3-5 every time I can. I’m a senior citizen, who doesn’t get much income, but I give periodically. When I use the Wikipedia, I sometimes cannot even get onto the page...stalled because you’re waiting for a donation. Just letting you know, I GIVE... And would like to move on to the info. What can I do to make sure that MY NAME shows that I give? Thanx, Cheryl Huff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C1:C001:44BD:AC83:51FC:3DDF:C433 (talk) 23:47, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi Cheryl. Wikipedia is free for anyone to read whether they donate or not. You might like to create an account to avoid requests for donation. Thank you for those you have made. By the way, it is not a good idea to publish private e-mail addresses in public places. Dbfirs 00:10, 6 December 2017 (UTC)