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March 29

Template Infobox government agency parameter problems

Asked and answered at the Teahouse. Please do not ask the same question in two places

Hi using the Template:Infobox government agency I recently tried to change some names in the infobox for this article Board of Admiralty I added the option for |type = Board so that it reads Board Overview instead of agency overview which then changed the officials to Board Executives instead of agency executives which is fine however preceding this board was an office it now reads preceding board and superseding this board was another board it now reads superseding agency both of which are not the correct terms you can see another example where its a division within a department and the same problem occurs here: Anti-Submarine Division the problem I am having has been highlighted before here: Template_talk:Infobox_government_agency#Departments.2FMinistries_and_Agencies is there any way to add additional parameters? What I need is the options to chose preceded by either a Committee, Council, Branch, Department, Division, Section, Service and succeeded by the same options I have no idea how to do it and apologies if I have posted this on the wrong help page.--Navops47 (talk) 04:41, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

infobox logo upload problem

hi

which path to give while uploading a company logo? I am unable to upload logo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natashasingh6767 (talk • contribs) 06:43, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Natashasingh6767
I think it'll help us to answer your question if you provide some more details, e.g. what logo you want to upload and where you want it be displayed. --CiaPan (talk) 07:08, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Natashasingh6767 - you only have 2 edits, and your account was created today, so you cannot upload images to en.wikipedia where logos have to be added, under a claim of fair-use.
You have two (official) options - you can wait for 4 days and ensure you have done at least 10 edits, when your account will become Autoconfirmed so you will be able to upload it yourself - or you can request it be uploaded at Wikipedia:Files for upload.
The third (unofficial) option is to ask here, giving full details of exactly where the logo can be found, and what it will be used for, and hope an editor does it for you. - Arjayay (talk) 10:46, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Company Listing

Dear All

I am looking for some help. I would like my company to be listed on Wikipedia but am absolutely baffled as to how to go about this. Is there a simple way I can upload detail of the history of the company/detail etc?

I have used Wikipedia on a number of occasions but never had the need to add content so please accept my apologies for my novice question!

Thank you in advance for any information you can share.

Best Wishes

Dan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conquestconsultancy (talk • contribs) 08:03, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Conquestconsultancy. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not a directory providing listings of companies. To have an article in Wikipedia, a company must have been written about significantly in independent reliable sources such as newspapers. See WP:Notability for details. If your company satisfies these requirements, then an article may be written about it, but your company will not have any control of the content. You probably have a WP:Conflict of interest as a person connected with the company, and there is another problem that your username seems to be that of a company. Only individual accounts are permitted on Wikipedia, so you might like to create a personal account then we can provide additional guidance. If your company is Conquest Consultancy, then Google can find only one hit for me and that is only a mention, but perhaps you can find WP:Reliable sources that discuss the company. Dbfirs 08:16, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Problem with { { Listen } } template

I used the { { Listen } } template at Große_Fuge#Reception_and_musical_influence, but, for some reason it comes out screwy. It is the second instance of the template in that section, in the third paragraph. For the life of me I can't find what I have done wrong. Can someone take a look at it? Thanks. --Ravpapa (talk) 09:14, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

 Done I don't know offhand how that template works, but it was unable to handle the wikilink in the "title" field. I just moved the linked name to the "description" field. Deor (talk) 09:31, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

@Ravpapa: BTW, when you need to refer to a specific template you can use the {{Tl}} template:
use {{Tl|Listen}} or {{T|Listen}} to obtain: {{Listen}}. Regards, CiaPan (talk) 10:55, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks. --Ravpapa (talk) 16:11, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

I have totally stuffed up an addition to the "Further reading" section at the bottom of this page. The citation ( a book) has gone in the V.T.E. section!!! Crazy! Please help if able. Please leave in "quote". Sorry 101.182.96.231 (talk) 09:36, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

The <ref>...</ref> tags create a footnote. In a "Further reading" section you just want the book details, not formatted as a footnote, so I've removed the ref tags. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:52, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

I have done it again. I hope that this next book that I have added - which should be in the Further reading section - is OK. It does not have an IBSN. Please fix and so sorry. 101.182.96.231 (talk) 10:09, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

The second addition repeated the error explained in the earlier answer. It has been removed altogether by another editor. Eagleash (talk) 10:26, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

What to do regarding small edit war

Hi,

On Jonathan Brown (Australian footballer), a user (Goldstandard32) continuously adds a nickname ("Browny") to the opening sentence of the article. He is obviously not known primarily by the nickname, and it is only used affectionately. As such, it should be listed in the infobox, not in the lead, as per all other Australian rules articles, barring very few exceptions (Lance Franklin being one). I have left a message on the user's talk page, and informed them I left said message in edit summaries. I just don't know what to do — I've never encountered such a situation before. The user did not reply to the talk page message, and has continued to add the nickname after I left the message. What do I do from here? Jjamesryan (talk | contribs) 11:14, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

User warned for 3RR. -- Alexf^(talk) 11:39, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

94.69.187.65 (talk) 13:08, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

 Done TimothyJosephWood 13:16, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

If I need help from someone who speaks a specific language...

Resolved

If I need help from someone who speaks a specific language, what should I do? (Optionally) If there is no standard procedure, what would a good procedure look like? Siuenti (talk) 15:48, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

@Siuenti: Two ideas: You could try posting at the talk page of a relevant Wikiproject; eg Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portugal might be a good place to ask help from a Portuguese-speaking editor. You could also explore down from Category:Wikipedians by language to find editors who claim to speak the language well. However, those categories include many inactive editors. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:03, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you.Siuenti (talk) 21:45, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Answering my own question, I found another place to go Wikipedia:Translators available Siuenti (talk) 20:36, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Also Wikipedia:Local Embassy – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:27, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

uploading a media file (.JPG, .PDF, etc)

I am an employee of Sanford School, and I have been asked to include a picture of our school logo/crest on the Sanford school wikipedia page. our school has all necessary copyright ownership of our logo, however Wikipedia stops me from uploading it to the page. The only text on the logo is the name: Sanford School, so I assume it is of neutral/informational nature. Any help on how I can include a basic image of the school logo on our wikipedia page, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!Rooseveltt (talk) 16:35, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

You will find advice at WP:Logos. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

You also need to read about conflict of interest and about paid editing. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:42, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

@Rooseveltt: One of us can upload it. https://www.sanfordschool.org displays https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/572/logo/master-logo-horizontal-nofounded.png. Is that it? A version with lower resolution could be uploaded as fair use for use in the infobox at Sanford School. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:29, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Fair use is actually better from the school's point of view because they don't have to release the image under the CCC and GFDL licenses which allow anyone to re-use it. Siuenti (talk) 21:44, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Eh, I doubt that logo is actually protected by copyright regardless of what the school says. It is a US school and the US has a higher TOO than that. Upload it under fair use if you want (it is always a safer bet to do so anyways), but it is far more likely to be PD. --Majora (talk) 21:47, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Done - Uploaded as fair use and added to article. TimothyJosephWood 22:22, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

BTW, it's likely but not abundantly clear that the stupid tree fails to meet TOO, so fair use is the way we go a'walkin. TimothyJosephWood 22:23, 29 March 2017 (UTC)