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Template for taxonomic classification of multiple species of fauna / flora at a site

I'm writing an article which describes multiple species of animal and plant life which can be observed at a location. Rather than just list the species as a normal list, I want to create a heirachial table which highlights the members present at each taxonomic level. Can anyone suggest a template to assist with this? Vitreology (talk) 02:12, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Vitreology. Would something like this work? It is called Template:Clade and allows for branches which show the taxonomic relationship between species. There are a number of examples on the documentation page and an example of its use in article I created can be seen here. There is also {{cladogram}}, which is similar but shows the branches in a box. The clade templates may seem complicated to use at first but they really aren't too bad once you get the hang of them. I could help you out with it if you'd like, if you could tell me the article you'd like to use them for. I hope this answers your question. Best, --SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 15:25, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

My company Wiki page is semi-protected

Hi there,

My company's Wikipedia page is semi-protected and nobody working here currently has administrative rights to make changes.

We've not been able to access the page for a couple of years and the information currently listed is out of date and in some cases, erroneous.

How can we gain administrative rights to the page?

Thanks.

Regards, Joanne — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joannetopia (talk • contribs) 01:09, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Joannetopia: You can't get administrative rights. Please read WP:COI. If you work for the company, you have a conflict of interest with regard to editing articles on the company and its personnel. so you are strongly discouraged from editing them directly, but feel free to make suggestions and requests on the article talk pages. —teb728 t c 01:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Joannetopia: Also please read WP:COI and WP:PAID and make the necessary declarations. —teb728 t c 01:32, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Joannetopia: the good news is that we want the article to be correct, so if you have corrections or other suggestions for improvement, and you can provide a reference to a reliable source (seeWP:RS), then the changes can and should be made. As others noted above, since you are associated with the subject you should not edit the article directly, but should make suggestions on its talk page. You do have some misconceptions about how we operate, however. 1) the term "administrator" has a narrow technical meaning, and it's not what you really meant or what you need here. 2) There are no "administrators" for specific articles. 3) Any editor can edit any unprotected article and most articles are unprotected. 4) Any editor whose account is at least four days old and who has made ten edits to other articles can edit a semi-protected article, unless constrained by COI policy. 5) That page does not belong to anyone at your company, and as you can see from the above, anyone at your company is more constrained than other editors with respect to this article. 6) In general, an article should not remain semi-protected for extended periods. Which article is this? -Arch dude (talk) 01:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

The OP's editing history show an interest in subjects connected with Channel NewsAsia, which has been semi-protected four times for periods of up to a year. —teb728 t c 09:01, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Herbert Marshall Bio

Your bio states Herbert Marshall lost his right leg in WWl however, an extensive article posted on immortalephemera.com states it was his right leg. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:8730:8690:FCD6:B41E:3119:8538 (talk) 01:43, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't understand: Does it say right leg both places, or does one of them say left leg. —teb728 t c 01:47, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Actually teb728, our article says left leg. See Herbert Marshall and Herbert Marshall Rojomoke (talk) 05:34, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done} All accessible sources quote right knee, so I've gone with the sources. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 08:00, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Complaint about (redacted)

This is to inform you that (redacted) is one of your members please check him out, we paid him twice the sum of $500.00 USD to manufacture some Shakers and twice he took our money and let us down, He asked me to send the money, to his bank, and other payment method but not by paypal, this man is sick and gives your company a pretty bad reputation,you must take him off your sight and not allow him to advertise with you

Ismay White — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.216.139 (talk) 03:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.7 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Ismay. As far as I can tell, we have no Wikipedia editor with the name that you mentioned. Wikipedia does not accept advertising, so you must have contacted the fraudulent company via Google or some other website. We are sorry for your loss, but we have no connection with the company, not even an article about it, so there is nothing we can do to help. Dbfirs 08:19, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Script.js

I need a script that show the user talk page after performing a rollback. If available then ping me with link. Siddiqsazzad001 <Talk/> 05:29, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Siddiqsazzad001 Twinkle should do this - you can control this behaviour by selecting the options you want in Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences under "Revert and rollback": Bhunacat10 (talk), 11:14, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Pageviews

in re: Pageviews chart -- Out of curiosity, is it possible to see if there's been a spike in views for Wikipedia pages? As in, is there a way to see if a page is seeing an unexpected increase in viewership? (Without typing in a given page first). This may help identify "hotspots" that would need more attention from editors. --K.e.coffman (talk) 06:08, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

K.e.coffman There is the weekly Top 25 Report. Alternatively, if interest lies in a particular topic area, many WikiProjects publish a monthly "popular pages" report like this one. On a shorter timescale WikiTrends has a list of "trending topics" over the past hour! See Wikipedia:Statistics#Page views for more: Bhunacat10 (talk), 11:36, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Issue uploading picture

I am trying to upload a picture onto a wikipedia biography and keep receiving the message: "A file identical to this file (...) has previously been deleted. You should check that file's deletion history before proceeding to re-upload it." I looked at the editing history of the page and am unsure how to bypass this issue. Can you help?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.174.67.20 (talk) 08:22, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

If you are referring to the file deleted at Wikimedia Commons (not here at the English Wikipedia), the explanation to the uploader of the deleted file is at commons:User talk:Detti Z. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:14, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of amendments in the article on Brandy

Hello friends. Please help me understand how I can welcome to the biased actions of the administrator? The fact is that the participant Oknazevad and Mindmatrix cancel my amendments(on the brandy page). For each amendment, I provided authoritative sources. I suspect that these participants are engaged in advertising and my amendments are not profitable for them. Василий Петрович ом (talk) 09:29, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Василий Петрович ом: The place to discuss the changes you want to make is on the article talk page Talk:Brandy. And you will get a better response if you read WP:AGF first and take it to heart. —teb728 t c 10:57, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

INFO BOX EDIT

Hi,

How do I edit the info box information on a political party site?

I want to add the President and Deputy president. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlojohan (talk • contribs) 12:08, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Carlojohan. You can edit it by picking "Edit" at the top of the page, and you will find the code for {{infobox political party}} near the top. I observe that this has fields for "president" and "deputy_leader", but not for "deputy_president"; but I suspect you can use the pair of fields "leader1_title" and "leader1_name" to get the effect.

I observe that you have made extensive edits to the one article Cape Party, and to no other. This is not a problem, but it does lead me to wonder if you are affiliated with the party? If you are, please study the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Further, if you are in any kind of paid position for the Party, you must comply with our Paid editing policy. --ColinFine (talk) 12:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Searching with words from source code

In this wikiepdia, I would like to know how I can search to get a list of pages that contains the word 'latd' in it's source code.Adithyak1997 (talk) 15:13, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello Adithyak1997, is this what you want? H:INSOURCE explains more details on how to search for something in the source code. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 15:20, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you.Adithyak1997 (talk) 15:21, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Adithyak1997: No problem. Let me know if there's anything else you need help with.--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 16:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I will mention it later in your talk page.Adithyak1997 (talk) 16:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Using an original encyclopedia article to create a new Wikipedia article

My father some years ago wrote an original article for Scholarpedia, an online encyclopedia featuring original peer reviewed articles on scientific subjects. He presently would like to see the same content be available on Wikipedia. It's my understanding that simply transferring the content directly to Wikipedia would not comply with standard practices, even though the formatting and referencing in the article would seem to comply. My father also retains ownership of the content, if I understand Scholarpedia's licensing correctly.

What would be an acceptable way to make this same information available for the specific subject on Wikipedia? Would the article have to be completely rewritten? That seems somewhat onerous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.7.55.131 (talk) 19:42, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not accept original research such as this. See WP:OR. The article would need rewritten to match Wikipedia's encyclopedic requirements. You can read WP:YFA for the guidelines. RudolfRed (talk) 19:56, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

RudolfRed I don't think Scholarpedia's articles quite fit Wikipedia's definition of original research. That said, we wouldn't be able to acceptit for other reasons. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 20:00, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Scholarpedia's content is licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. The incompatibility with Wikipedia lies in the NC (non-commerical) part of that. Wikipedia's content is CC BY-SA, which specifically allows commercial use. Scholarpedia's Terms of Use 4.b says, "You may Distribute or Publicly Perform an Adaptation only under: (i) the terms of this License; (ii) a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License; (iii) a Creative Commons jurisdiction license (either this or a later license version) that contains the same License Elements as this License (e.g., Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 US) ("Applicable License"). " (emphasis added). In other words, I don't think there is a way to make the same content available on Wikipedia. On the other hand, if your father wanted to write a new article on the same topic for Wikipedia, that would be welcome. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

If your father really does own the article, and has retained it in the form he wrote it, without any editing that may have occurred by others after he submitted it to Scholarpedia, he can submit the same content (modified as necessary for Wikipedia's formatting, etc.) with a new license. The new license would be granted by your father to Wikipedia readers; the additional license granted to Scholarpedia back in the day is irrelevant. Jc3s5h (talk) 20:05, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

That could meet the licensing requirements. But if the article is anything other than a summary of published sources - if it contains any kind of argumentation, critique, or conclusion, that is not already fully contained in a single one of its sources - that will be WP:original research, and not acceptable. --ColinFine (talk) 23:16, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season article

What No Article Today The 2018 Season ended last night and we need to start the 2019 season article now. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 19:44, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

You can use the wizard at WP:YFA to create the draft article yourself, no need to keep asking others to do the work. RudolfRed (talk) 19:57, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Two anon questions

I have two questions. One. What if someone spoke a different language and used wiki? Would that affect the language that you use? And two. Does all of the information go back to God? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:681:5000:3516:9DC1:E740:A562:CD33 (talk) 20:13, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

(added a header to separate from other questions) I'd suggest reading the Wikipedia for the language you know, if you don't understand English. https://www.wikipedia.org/. Whether or not God reads Wikipedia is a question for your priest or other religious advisor. RudolfRed (talk) 20:17, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Most gods are some level of omni-knowledgeable, so if anything maybe he edits wikipedia? WelpThatWorked (talk) 20:19, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

(edit conflict)One. Wikipedia exists in many languages. Someone who spoke a different language would be well advised to contribute to a Wikipedia in their language.

Two. I have no idea what you're asking. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 20:20, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

We represent comedian Brendon Burns

For some reason all of our recent updates to Brendon Burns' wikipaedia page were deleted by another wikipaedia user in the Philipines based on the updates not being constructive enough. We assure you that Brendon is something of an open book regrading his past (having mined most of the more unfortunate aspects of his career and life for comedic purposes)

What we find equally odd is that wikipaedia is refusing our updates on these grounds(and far better sourced information) yet maintaining the very first thing their readers read about Mr Burns is that he is known for being aggressive and offensive. And if we're to be honest the image wikipaedia use of him is less than flattering too. Please advise how we may replace the image with a professional headshot and not semi-naked random one taken by an amateur at a live performance nearly seven years ago.

For a thirty year veteran who's produced nearly 28 hours of solo stand up BB's wiki page is really very incomplete. How do we go about updating it without it being deleted by someone in the Philipines who's far less familiar with Mr Burns and his reputation in the industry please?

Many thanks

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by TGA CLIENTS (talk • contribs) 20:29, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Please read WP:COI and WP:PAID The best approach is to post suggested edits on the article's talk page along with {{edit request}} for a non-conflicted editors to consider. Any photos of living people must be under a free license that allows reuse for any purpose. If you have a photo that you can release this way, please upload it commons via WP:UPLOAD and then someone can add it to the article. RudolfRed (talk) 20:32, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@TGA CLIENTS: Also, accounts may not be shared. Please read WP:USERNAME and create a username for yourself only and not the company. RudolfRed (talk) 20:35, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

TGA CLIENTS, I have blocked your account because the username violates policy. You are welcome to open another account, but an account must represent only one person. So do not use "we" when referring to your account or yourself. Study the links I left on your talk page. As for the photo, you can upload a more recent freely licensed photo to Wikimedia Commons and it can be used in the article. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:43, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Also, Wikipedia is a worldwide project that anyone can contribute to from anywhere, which includes the Philippines. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:46, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Articles for deletion

I just put A deletion Because the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season is in draft space Because the 2018 season ended last night and I need some help. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 21:56, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

what do you need help with? It isn't very clear. WelpThatWorked (talk) 00:43, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Sofie dossi

Hello, there is a page I would like to be added to Wikipedia. It is about contortionist and aerialist, Sofie Dossi. She is very skilled at what she does, and competed in season 11 of Americas got talent, making it though to the finals. She is now currently in Americas got talent : The champions. I would attempt to create a page( Is that possible? Can I do that?), but I don't know enough about her. Please consider creating this page, it would make me and her 3 million YouTube subscribers very happy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libbykent (talk • contribs) 22:01, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello Libbykent, and welcome to Wikipedia. Based on sources like these [1] [2] I'd say this person probably merits an article. Start by reading Wikipedia:Your first article and WP:ENTERTAINER. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:16, 8 January 2019 (UTC)