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October 29

Getting a page for The Bedrocks.

We are currently an active musical band that have released music on Apple Music and iTunes this month. We are wondering how we can have a band profile or information on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheBedrocks (talk • contribs) 01:05, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

You are confused as to the purpose of Wikipedia. It is not an PR website for you to use to advertise your group. We do not have profiles, but instead we have articles on subjects which meet Wikipedia's notability criteria. Such articles should be written by editors who do not have a conflict of interest, in order to maintain a WP:neutral point of view. Note also that your user name is not acceptable, as it appears to represent a group rather than an individual, see WP:CORPNAME. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:14, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Colored-map generator for per-country data

Are there any tools that can convert a two-column table of data, with a numeric value for each country, into a colorized version of one of our SVG blank world maps and an HTML legend for the English description? Something like that would be a big help in vectorizing, for example, File:National IQ per country - estimates by Lynn and Vanhanen 2006.png. Any that can be configured for different sources of national borders (e.g. how the UN counts Taiwan as part of China)? NeonMerlin 01:28, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

You might try asking here: Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:22, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

an australian citizen

is a baby born in australia an australian citizen? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.232.248 (talk) 01:35, 29 October 2017‎ (UTC)

Generally, people born in Australia are Australian citizens if at least one parent is an Australian citizen or a permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth in Australia. If neither parent is an Australian citizen, but the baby remains resident in Australia through their 10th birthday, they automatically become a citizen on that birthday. There are other considerations; see [1]. General Ization ^Talk 01:43, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

This is, however, not the right place to ask such questions. The Help Desk is for questions about using Wikipedia. More general questions can be asked at the Reference desk. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:03, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford

I am so sorry - 2 problems: ref number 14 is wrong. I have put the publisher in the correct place. But it is in "red". Also - the file of the portrait of Hussey should be in the info. box. I got that wrong too. Please fix both problems. Please accept my apologies. 101.182.88.116 (talk) 06:40, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I've fixed both issues. The ref title was wrong, you can't use the # to link to certain page points like in Wikipedia, and the image just needed to be moved to the image field in the infobox. No big problems. Kosack (talk) 07:40, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

In ref 14 there are two error messages, each of which has a wikilink to specific help. "Check |url= value (help)" links to Help:CS1 errors#bad url, & "Check date values in: |access-date= (help)" leads to Help:CS1 errors#bad date. In the former case you had a url of "http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HUSSEY.htm#Christopher HUSSEY (Deacon & Captain)1", but URLs do not have spaces, as the help page makes clear. In the latter case you have the access date as "29 Octoner 2015"; perhaps you did access it 2 years ago, so the software doesn't object to that, but it doesn't recognise "Octoner" as a month. Why do you want someone else to correct that rather than correcting it yourself? --David Biddulph (talk) 07:45, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Company Page Editing Issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajlan_%26_Brothers

please note that there's a wrong date in the company page (Arabic language) start date for one of Mr Fahad AlAjlan is added as 1993 while it should be 1990 same as the date on the English version i've submitted a request to change it numerous times and nothing has been done.

Please advise.

The Arabic Wikipedia is a separate project, so you will need to ask there. If any editors of the Arabic Wikipedia read this, then they might edit it for you. Can you find a reference to support the date? Dbfirs 12:06, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Aeroknox XM556

The article Aeroknox XM556 has been redirected to Minigun but is still being edited (and it's a mess). Should the page be blanked other than the redirect? Leschnei (talk) 14:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

It seems the 'redirect' was added here back in August. However the editor that did so did not either blank the page or merge to the target page. I have removed the misplaced redir. plus some other bits of tidying, but please feel free to turn the article into a redirect and merge appropriate content as necessary. Eagleash (talk) 15:00, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Sudden new stuff

I was trying to change my skin this morning, and in my preferences there was new gadgets that weren't there before, like one called "twinkle", which I could swear was not previously there. Please explain this and also why the user profile tab called me "autoconfirmed" in user groups! Bardic Wizard (talk) 15:25, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, after a user account has been registered for a certain period of time, usually four days and has made ten edits, it becomes autoconfirmed which allows the user to perform certain actions that newly registered users are unable to do. Another result of being autoconfirmed is that several editing tools also become available to the user, including WP:TWINKLE which allows the user to perform certain tasks (vandal reverting, article tagging, etc.) in a quicker, semi-automated way when enabled. Kosack (talk) 15:46, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Daily Mail as an unreliable source

I have noticed an editor removing all references in Wikipedia that are attributed to the Daily Mail, can someone point me to the ruling so it can be linked to from the article like we do at Find a Grave. It is best if everyone is aware of the policy, and that it be linked to from the article. --RAN (talk) 16:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Would it be WP:DAILYMAIL by any chance? ‑ Iridescent 16:19, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

That looks like it, thanks! --RAN (talk) 20:57, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Why

Why my biography and photo not shown in google search. Though my photo nd biography is already updated a week before.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahid Ansari(Bhai) (talk • contribs) 29 October 2017 17:22 (UTC)

Hello, your only edits from the account used to ask this question are to this page today and at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2017 October 23#Sahid Ansari(Bhai) plus some in your userspace. If you have created an article about yourself, despite the advice previously given not to do so, or a page about another subject, please provide a link. In any event new pages are not typically indexed by Google until they have been reviewed or for 90 days whichever is the shorter period. Please sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 17:45, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Lord and Savior last comment...

I am writing to say that the Wikipedia on Inman the new Chicago Bears player the last sentence in your description of him is Lord and savior of the Chicago Bears. Seriously?...that's blasphemous.

Hi, the entry you mentioned on Dontrelle Inman was simply vandalism that had not been noticed yet and has now been removed. Thanks for pointing it out. Kosack (talk) 18:07, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism

Good night.

My name is MrSquid and I am writing to you because it is happening something terrible in the Catalan Wikipedia.

The thing is that because of the political problems that are happening right now in Spain (about the Independence of Catalonia), a lot of catalan administrators are independentist, so they just edit as their convenience.

The Spanish Government has ceased the President of Catalonia and the rest of his Government because of the breach of the law, so he does not still the President. But it doesn't matther for the Catalan Wikipedia, they are still saying that he is the President. And for example, saying that Catalonia is an European country instead of a state in Spain and so on. So many people (included me) are trying to edit the information, but the administrators reverse my editions and then, they block the articles for "vandalism problems" (the supposed vandalism is that so many people try to write the correct information, and later others put the incorrect one again, and it is a loop).

So please, for that reason, I am writing to you. The Spanish Wikipedia can not do anything there. I suppose that the English one (which I think that there is the central of Wikipedia) yes. Please help the Catalan Wikipedia and do not let some people do what they are doing.

Thanks for reading me.

Greetings, --MrSquid (talk) 23:00, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

@MrSquid:, your understanding that the English Wikipedia is a "central" one is mistaken. The English Wikipedia has no control over what the other projects do. An issue on the Spanish or Catalan Wikipedias that the administrators there cannot or will not handle needs to go to the Wikimedia Foundation. I will warn you, however, not to over this issue. This is a content dispute and the Wikimedia Foundation almost never steps in to enforce a particular editor's views on content disputes. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 00:02, 30 October 2017 (UTC)