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December 10

Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

There is a sentence in a blue block further down on this page. please fix if able. Thanks

Done. MB 02:09, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Promotional image use?

I was on the article Rosemary (wrestler) and saw that on the talk a user requested an updated photo. I looked through my pictures and none are really the best option. However I have in my possession a promotional image from an event where it was distributed. I read the promotional image essay and reviewed the fair use policy, but I’m still not sure if it is possible or preferable to use the image on Wikipedia. To be clear there is a free image on the article, but it doesn’t appropriately represent the current character. Thanks for the help. Sephiroth storm (talk) 02:16, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Sephiroth storm: Normally free image/media is preferred above any non free, this is true across all Wikimedia projects. In some cases, like logos and people who are long dead (and finding free image is not really easy) a non free file can be accepted on Wikipedia, but even then non free images of people who are still alive is treated differently. Per policy you cannot use non-free image of a living person except with few exceptions which really don't apply in this case. Since the subject is still alive it's expected to one day get their free file. So I would advise to stick with the current image or remove it if you feel it does more harm than good. Ammarpad (talk) 08:54, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks. Sephiroth storm (talk) 19:57, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Cathy Haase page edits--error showing

I added some information to my own biography and now it is citing an error. I would like to know how to clear up the problem and if necessary revert it back to what it was before. It is my first time editing and I think i must have done something wrong that caused these errors to occur. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katarina Kaninchen (talk • contribs) 05:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

You should not be editing your own (claimed) article, due to conflict of interest. That being said, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the errors have been easily fixed. The bad news is that I've nominated the article for deletion. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:03, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Good faith (but low quality) edit identified as vandalism.

Hi, I noticed that this edit by User_talk:Scorpion Navil has been flagged as vandalism and a message put in the user's talk page. Looking at the edit I am certain that it is not vandalism, and am worried that this automated response might put the very new editor off wiki editing. However I am not sure that the edit adds very much useful. Despite this I think the right course would be for it to be reverted so that manual editors could decide whether it can be improved or removed. I think I have reported this to ClueBot NG but the interface is not clear. Am I doning the right things? -- Q Chris (talk) 09:37, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, that's false positive, it's bound to happen here and there. But know that ClueBot NG (talk · contribs) is great bot that does excellent work in reverting vandalism 24/7 and has very low false positive rate. Part of the reasons it removed the edit has to do with the age of the account. The edit was made two minutes after the creation of the account and that is the only edit of the user, all these helped in scoring the possibility of the edit being vandalism. Had the user restored the edit the bot wouldn't revert them. You can report false positive at: WP:CBFP –Ammarpad (talk) 14:04, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Where Are Mobile Article Subtitles Stored?

I noticed that some pages such as Handball have "title descriptions", as the Wikipedia app calls them, that aren't very helpful, for example Handball's is "Ballgame-team sport", presumably a joke by an editor. These title descriptions appear when searching for articles and under the article titles on the mobile app. I can't seem to find "Ballgame-team sport" anywhere in the articles source when I go to edit it, so I was curious if anyone knew where title descriptions are kept so I can edit them if future circumstances require. —The Editor's Apprentice (Talk•Edits) 16:09, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

That's the corresponding Wikidata entry. In the desktop interface, click on "Wikidata item" in the left-hand menu. Rojomoke (talk) 16:19, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Awesome, thank you! —The Editor's Apprentice (Talk•Edits) 22:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

To over-ride the Wikidata description, see WP:Short description. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:09, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Article created in the wrong wiki

Hey team, Opryland Hotel und Kongresszentrum was created in en wiki and should have been created in de wiki. How to correct? UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:48, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Put an import request in de:Wikipedia:Importwünsche I believe. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:16, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Name suppression? (NZ murder trial)

A man being prosecuted in New Zealand for the murder of British tourist Grace Millane has been granted name suppression by the NZ courts; however his name has been widely published by newspapers in Britain, where the NZ court order does not apply, and inevitably his name has been added to the WP article. New Zealand police have issued warnings that any NZ resident who publishes the man's name is liable to be prosecuted for breaching name suppression. What is Wikipedia's policy in such cases? --Plinuckment (talk) 22:50, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

The general policy is that this site is subject to US law, and individuals are subject to whatever laws they're subject to. Though in some previous cases names have been suppressed because of foreign court orders, this is exceedingly rare and probably wouldn't apply here. There are a number of templates listed here which can be used on talk pages. I see there isn't a NZ template, but feel free to create an appropriate message based on the existing templates. Another relevant policy of course is WP:BLPCRIME, but that's no guarantee that a name should be excluded. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:03, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

OK, I've created an NZ sub judice template and added it to the article's Talk page. --Plinuckment (talk) 23:47, 10 December 2018 (UTC)