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September 28

Help with page move, please

Hi, I need to move this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Media_Group to a new page as the company's name has changed to Tiso Blackstar Group, but I don't have the rights to do so, it seems. Who can help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riaanjhb (talk • contribs) 05:45, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Done, based on [1]. Looking at your contributions I think you tried to move the talk page instead of the actual article. TeraTIX 12:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

New Use template

Recently, I new Use template was created ({{Use Trinidadian English}}). The Trinidad and Tobago article now shows up in a maintenance category Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template. Also, there are also references to non-existant categories: Category:Use Trinidadian English from September 2018, Category:All Wikipedia articles written in Trinidadian English.

There is a lot of overhead (new categories, etc) incorporating this type of template into the Wikipedia "architecture". Is there (or should there be) a review process?

-- User-duck (talk) 07:45, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Where to report administrative improper block?

Ok, here is the story, an admin blocked me for 31 hours because of "edit-warring after previous warnings". I had been given a warning, but I did not make any edits after that. I pointed out the series of events to the administrator but he did not unblock me. Where should I complain about this kind of staff?Τζερόνυμο (talk) 08:32, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

As you were unblocked, the issue seems resolved, and I'm not sure it's wise to open it up again. However, you can visit WP:ANI if you wish. 331dot (talk) 08:42, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Creating a personal page for a respected Professor of Medicine in London

Dear Wiki Community and Team

I am a Professor of Medicine in London and someone created a Wikipedia entry on me some years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Montgomery_(physician)

I would now like to do something similar for Professor Ben O'Brien, an influential and established Professor of Perioperative Medicine whose work and influence I am familiar with.

Please advise how I may best go about it.

Best, Hugh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montgomery007 (talk • contribs) 09:29, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello Montgomery007, and welcome to Wikipedia! I suggest you start at Wikipedia:Your first article. Wikipedia:Notability (academics) may also be of interest. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:44, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Also, please note that it would not be his personal page. It would be Wikipedia's page about him

My usual advice if you're going to write an article about anyone or anything:

1) Choose a topic whose notability is attested by discussions of it in several reliable independent sources.

2) Gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find.

3) Focus on just the ones that are not dependent upon or affiliated with the subject, but still specifically about the subject and providing in-depth coverage (not passing mentions). If you do not have at least three such sources, the subject is not yet notable and trying to write an article at this point will only fail.

4) Summarize those sources left after step 3, adding citations at the end of them. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer. Make sure this summary is just bare statement of facts, phrased in a way that even someone who hates the subject can agree with.

5) Combine overlapping summaries (without arriving at new statements that no individual source supports) where possible, repeating citations as needed.

6) Paraphrase the whole thing just to be extra sure you've avoided any copyright violations or plagiarism.

7) Use the Article wizard to post this draft and wait for approval.

8) Expand the article using sources you put aside in step 2 (but make sure they don't make up more than half the sources for the article, and make sure that affiliated sources don't make up more than half of that).

Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:11, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Maritime History of Jersey, Channel Islands.

Please note that the main Channel Island is not Guernsey, it is Jersey. Jersey is tha biggest Island, Guernsey is the second biggest Island, followed by Alderney, Sark, Herm, Brechou and Jethou. Many thanks and regards Anita Rive — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.244.71.209 (talk) 11:27, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

An anonymous editor switched the order of the islands. I have removed the word 'main' (which is a bit subjective) and listed the islands by size. Thanks for the heads-up. Leschnei (talk) 11:55, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

You got Jersey & Guernsey back-to-front; I've corrected it. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:23, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Wrong interwiki link (III)

As before ...--Neufund (talk) 20:18, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

@Neufund: continuing to ping the help desk is not the right approach. As you have seen this high-volume page gets archived very frequently: it is a place to get answers about how to use or edit Wikipedia. So, to answer your implicit question about how to proceed: I think you should treat this as an content discussion. Start a conversation on the talk page at talk:Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, perhaps also refer to it from the talk page at talk:Terrorist Screening Database, and (if you know German) also at the relevant talk page over there. Make a suggestion for an approach. If nobody objects, just do it, or if you need help after agreeing on a particular approach, come back here. -Arch dude (talk) 16:54, 29 September 2018 (UTC)