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February 6

Genius

I wanted to add a Wikipedia article about the upcoming TV series called Genius which is about Albert Einstein. I know there was a BBC show called Genius but this new show about Einstein is going to be on the National Geographic channel and premiering on April 25th.

I only really know how to edit Wikipedia articles and not really know how to make new ones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sachinbahal (talk • contribs) 04:57, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Sachinbahal, that sounds like a fascinating program. Instructions on this page show how to create a new article. You need to be logged in to your account to do it (you're not required to have any content on your User Page, or even have created a user page, but login is necessary). Before you create the article page, though, please take a little time and read about the policy and guidelines that govern articles. I see you've been editing a while, but those instructional pages can give you an even better foundation for creating articles that pass muster. DonFB (talk) 10:56, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Sachinbahal. I would echo DonFB's advice to read WP:Your first article, but I would say to ignore WP:HTCAP, and use the Article Wizard to create a draft in Draft space instead . (This is my advice to anybody at all, unless they are experienced enough at creating articles that they are confident they can write an acceptable article in one go). I would also caution that it is rare that there has been enough material independently published a series which has not yet been released to ground an article: see WP:CRYSTAL and WP:TOOSOON. --ColinFine (talk) 21:31, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Pratibha Ray

Reference help requested.

Thanks. I had a look. I have just added vowels in the titles of few books as it should be read in Odia. Vowels are dropped in Hindi, not in Odia. I did that to maintain the purity of the Odia language. I have no intention of tampering.

Thanks, JnanaKarma (talk) 05:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Resolved

Hello, your edits added a space between access and date which produced the error messages. Both accessdate (one word) or access-date will work. Please do not sign edit summaries. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 05:34, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Past Global Changes

Hello,

The Wikipedia entry for the international paleoscience organization Past Global Changes (PAGES) has been deleted. It should not have been deleted because the information on this page is written by PAGES and used by other sites. The entry explained what the organization does. It creates no copyright infringement because the information about the organization is written by PAGES.

Could someone please contact me as soon as possible to reinstate the organization's entry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAGES

Thank you,

Angela Communications and Project Officer — Preceding unsigned comment added by PagesCH (talk • contribs) 11:54, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Angela. Please read the reasons given on your talk page. Wikipedia is not a place to publicise your organisation, and you should not copy material from your website to a Wikipedia article. Thank you for disclosing your WP:Conflict of interest, but your user name does not comply with the restriction on editors' user names because it represents an organisation, not an individual. You are welcome to create a new user name for yourself as an individual, then please declare your affiliation with PAGES on your new talk page. It would then probably be best if your requested an independent and impartial article at Wikipedia:Requested articles, or create a draft at Wikipedia:Drafts where it can be reviewed. See Wikipedia:Article wizard/Company notability for further guidance. Dbfirs 13:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

• @PagesCH: in addition to what Dbfirs wrote above, your assertion that it creates no copyright infringement because the information about the organization is written by PAGES is factually false. The company may release some of its material under a free license following the steps given at WP:DCM, but until then material from (e.g.) corporate websites is by default copyrighted, hence (usually) unsuitable for Wikipedia. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 13:58, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Basic question

Very basic questions: (1) how do I insert references into the text (2) how do I put a picture into the narrative? Thank you in advance Loessperson (talk) 14:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Loessperson. Hopefully this and this will help you get to grips with theses processes. Yunshui ^雲_水 14:56, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Just pinging @Loessperson: in case their knowledge of Wikipedia isn't great enough to know to come back looking for a response. †dismas†|^(talk) 15:03, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Do Wikipedia policies allow for "community-imposed topic bans"?

We have an editor who does good work in many areas, but has some personal issues around one particular topic, regarding which his editing is significantly problematic. It's not serious enough to take to arbcom, IMHO. I'm just asking if there's any policy whereby an editor can be merely "topic-banned" by the community (as in, clear consensus), as opposed to a full "community ban" from all wikipedia editing (which would be overkill at this point - as I said, on other topics, he's fine). Can anyone direct me as to policy on this question? Eliyohub (talk) 15:17, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey Eliyohub. See guidance at WP:TBAN. The appropriate venue for requested such a saction would be WP:ANI. TimothyJosephWood 15:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Editing infobox

Please help me edit the infobox for Wuxi. For large Chinese cities are 3 applicable population figures (administrative boundary, metro area, and urban area). Please see List of cities in China by population and built-up area. I can't figure out how to add a third line for population for urban area which is 3,542,319. Muzzleflash (talk) 16:00, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey Muzzleflash. Looks like the parameters you need are:

| population_urban_footnotes     =
| population_urban               =
| population_density_urban_km2   =
| population_density_urban_sq_mi =

Hope this helps. TimothyJosephWood 20:58, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, changed. Muzzleflash (talk) 20:19, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Long, drawn out and as yet incomplete construction projects

Dear editors: Draft:Belfast Rapid Transport is about a series of connected transit lines that are being built a little at a time as funds are allocated. Some construction has started, but none of it is in operation yet. Is there a guideline or even an essay discussing at what point this kind of subject should have an article?—Anne Delong (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

• WP:CRYSTAL is the appropriate guideline. The gist of it is that future events should have an article only if they are almost guaranteed to happen (e.g. if those train lines have been budgeted for) or if reliable sources have covered them with a reasonable degree of non-speculative information. I have not looked at the refs in the draft, but they seem to be more than enough for the article to pass notability muster; this being said, maybe not all of the article is due for now. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

How do relevant images get added to this page

My name is Faith Singer-Villalobos and I work for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin.

We would like some of our scientific visualization images to be added to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_visualization We are a key player in the national advanced computing/scientific visualization space.

How would I go about providing you with the images and captions/credits?

Thank you, Faith Singer-Villalobos — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faith Singer (talk • contribs) 23:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

You can upload images to Wikimedia Commons, so long as you provide the necessary copyright release (which can be quite a hassle, if the person doing the upload is not the "creator" of the image). Once available there, they can be used in any article where they are relevant, in any language-version of Wikipedia. Which images to use in any particular article, and what caption to use, will be decided by a consensus of those editing the article. Do not expect TACC to be credited in each caption; the crediting will be done at Wimkimedia Commons, and will be seen by readers who click on the image. Maproom (talk) 23:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

As always Maproom gives good advice. Yet, I would like to add this: Doing it the right way is actually very simple and hassle free. Plesae read : Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS) There is a template on that page framed with a black border. Just get the originator (or legal owner) of the image to fill it in and email it to Wikimedia Commons and of course upload the image there. Note: there is a big backlog on approving images because we are all voluntary. That will save you the hassle of uploading an image only to find it gets deleted because you have done something wrong.--Aspro (talk) 00:16, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Is the copy below allowed to be placed in Wikipedia? Thank You.

Author Gloria Dunn-Violin, an expert in retirement, aging, and personal development, has reinvented the word revivement as a replacement for the word retirement. Her book: Revivement: Having a Life After Making a Living, is about revivement: reinventing, reinvigorating and renewing oneself and one's life path after decades of work, and inspires individuals to find purpose, fulfillment and happiness in their second half of life. VivaG (talk) 23:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

No, because it seems to have a inappropriate tone. Pppery 23:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Expanding a bit on Pppery's reply, VivaG: Wikipedia may not be used for promoting anything at all: a person, a club, a charity, a company, an idea, a word, a concept, a religion, anything. If we have an article on a topic, that article should be almost entirely based on what people who have no connection with the subject have published about it in reliable sources. Once there have been substantial articles about revivement in major newspapers (not based on press releases or interviews, but where independent writers have chosen to write about the subject) or books from reputable publishers (not vanity presses or self-publication), then Wikipedia could have an article on it, based on those independent sources. (This should include any sources critical of it, if there were some). Furthermore, no Wikipedia article should ever describe anybody as "an expert" on anything, (or any other evaluative language) unless it is directly quoting a credited source which is reliably published and unconnected with the person so described. Finally, judging from your user name, you are probably Dunn-Violin: if so, you are strongly discouraged from writing or editing an article about yourself or your work, because of your conflict of interest. I suggest you find another medium to publicise your ideas. --ColinFine (talk) 12:42, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Infobox image not displaying

Hi team, I can't get any image to display in the "generic" Infobox that is contained within the page Tasman Bridge disaster. I have tried lots of different images, and only the filename (text) displays, never the image itself. The image I would like to show is this one ... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/View_of_the_Tasman_Bridge_from_Kalatie_Road_Montague_Bay_looking_toward_the_Powder_Jetty_over_Cuthbertson%27s_Boat_shed_%281975%29_%2816200189861%29.jpg

Thanks! ❮❮ GEEKSTREET ^{Talk Lane ❯❯} 23:59, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

I have corrected it in this edit. The syntax required is explained in Template:Infobox#Illustration images . --David Biddulph (talk) 00:12, 7 February 2017 (UTC)