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March 19

Wikipedia mirror sites

Hi, I have seen but now could not find the page on the list of Wikipedia mirror sites (content of sites which copied from Wikipedia). Could anyone point me to the page please? Thanks in advance. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 05:05, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

CASSIOPEIA do you mean this? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 05:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

HickoryOughtShirt?4 Thanks. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 05:17, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

How to report/nominted article to be no longer good/featured article?

Where it very excatly? Dawid2009 (talk) 10:39, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Dawid2009 You go to Wikipedia:Good article reassessment or Wikipedia:Featured article review, as the case may be, and closely follow the guidance on those pages: Bhunacat10 (talk), 12:45, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

How do i cite or do referencing about a persaon i want to write about? a person i am interviewing?

How do i cite or do referencing about a persaon i want to write about? a person i am interviewing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.189.65.253 (talk) 14:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi! If you're asking whether you can use the information you get from interviewing someone, I'm afraid you can't use that here on Wikipedia. That's WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH, and we never use it, not in any article. --valereee (talk) 14:40, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

That said, if you publish the interview, then the published contents can be used to cite facts in the article. You can't just go talk to someone and then use what they said in the Wikipedia article. Basically, some reader of the Wikipedia article must be able to go out and find where the facts of the article are published to read/view them themselves. †dismas†|^(talk) 17:25, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

If you have WP:Reliable sources about this person, see Help:Referencing for beginners. Also WP:Your first article. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:22, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

2019 MAC football standings

What No 2019 Kent State 2019 Miami And 2019 Ohio Articles. Because the creator was on Vacation. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 18:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

You may use the wizard at WP:YFA to create any articles you think are missing. RudolfRed (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia; All That

Hi there,

My name is Nolan M. I was reading through your information about the Nickelodeon television show named All That. I saw that the start date of the television show is started on December 24, 1994. The date that the Nickelodeon show All That started was on Saturday January 21, 1995. I was wondering how to edit this information on your page? I do not have a source to site this information. I have autism and was reading through your page, and noticed this mistake. My sister is helping me to type this. Thank you and have a nice day.

Sincerely,

Nolan M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.207.4.228 (talk) 19:51, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello. You may wish to comment on the talk page of the article (Talk:All That) so that other editors who follow that page can assist you. Keep in mind that the show may have aired on different dates in different countries. 331dot (talk) 19:53, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Nolan M. - according to IMDB (which is not a completely reliable source) an episode of All That was released on 24 Dec. 1994, but it does not say when it was first aired - it may not have aired until January 21, 1995 - there was an initial episode released on 16 Apr. 1994, then the one released on 24 Dec. 1994, and others released on 7 Jan. 1995, 14 Jan. 1995, 21 Jan. 1995, 28 Jan. 1995, etc., but IMBD gives only the release dates, not the dates they were first shown - hope this helps with your research - cheers - Epinoia (talk) 01:26, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Citation Count

www.billboard.com is the eighth-most cited domain with about 110 000 citations.

Hi there - I've been asked to raise this question from an OTRS contact (and given permission to do so)

I've seen people give citation counts for how many times a source is cited in Wikipedia (e.g. Daily Telegraph 10,000 times etc)

The individual was wondering how this was done, and if it could be done for Billboard.

I considered a couple of other potential forums, but since it wasn't about assessing the viability of a particular source, here seemed a good first stop. If people think elsewhere is good, happy to repost there.

Cheers! Nosebagbear (talk) 21:41, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

@Nosebagbear: coincidentally, as part of this WMF research project, a graph has been produced that lists the most-cited domains on enwiki. Looking at the graph, www.billboard.com has roughly 110,000 citations. – Teratix ₵ 01:40, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

@Teratix: - thanks, I'll pass it on and see if was what they were looking for! Nosebagbear (talk) 10:14, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Special:LinkSearch is sometimes used to count online sources. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:07, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Trying to upload a photo

Hood evening.

My name is Marta Sedes von Dehn, great grand-daughter of Lili Dehn who is a subject of content in Wikipedia. Neither me or any other member of the family wrote the content about Lili Dehn.

I have finally been able to remove a picture in that contact that was completely wrong for it was not her. I have been trying to upload another picture, this time a correct one, but it will not allow me to do so. Apparently, to any picture about my grandmother that I have saved in my computer, Wikipedia will not grant me permission to upload. Of course, they are not "taken with my camera" for Lili Dehn passed away in 1963, and all pictures that we have have been scanned and shared amongst family members.

So I would like to know how can I upload a picture of Lili Dehn from a file in my computer.

Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martasedes (talk • contribs) 22:49, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

@Martasedes: Thank you for your question! If you would like to provide a picture to Wikipedia, I advise you to upload it on Wikimedia Commons, so it can be used on all Wikimedia projects, via this link. You can also send an email, if uploading doesn't work or if you simply prefer to do so, to photosubmission@wikimedia.org containing the image and the copyright tag you would prefer. --MrClog (talk) 23:34, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

@Martasedes: Establishing the copyright ownership of a photo taken by a family member is a mess. It's a truly silly piece of copyright law. Wikipedia's rules are cumbersome because we try hard to follow the law, and the law does not accomodate this very well at all. I feel that if you have possession of the physical photograph, you can justify a claim that you inherited the copyright when you inherited the photograph. So, don't say you are the photographer: say instead that you own the copyright. I'm not a lawyer and Wikipedia volunteer are prohibited from giving legal advice, so take this as a personal opinion. Clearly, if there is any doubt in your mind that the photographer's heirs (if other than yourself) would object, then don't do this. If the photograph was taken professionally, this approach does not apply: the copyright belongs to the professional photograper. -Arch dude (talk) 02:32, 20 March 2019 (UTC)