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September 19

2020 US Presidential Election

The Libertarian Candidate Joe Jorgensen should be included in the info box. In 2016 Ron Paul received an electoral vote and he is a member of the Libertarian party and as of now Jorgensen is polling at 5%. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden_vs_jorgensen_vs_hawkins-7225.html

That would be discussed at Talk:2020 United States presidential election, not here. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:05, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Add content

I can not add content even with show source.Convert to old situation after my update.I want change Farang topic.I live in Thailand and know Thai Language and i have enough information for prove my changes.Persian and old time meaning maybe can be different but today using for scorn and i swear to this is a slang word.We have disturb to some racist words,insults,slang,scorn show like innocent.If you not believe me you can search about Farang word and France-French=only Farangset(ฝรั่งเศส) so only Farang word can not be Nationality,Country and Language.Please help us protect to people from racism in real life.This world is using for psychologic violence in the Thailand,not my content.Thank you so much for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MuhammedGozudok (talk • contribs) 01:56, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@MuhammedGozudok: Please familiarize yourself with our rules about re-instating your edits when another editor reverts them. See WP:3RR. Because you did not follow these rules an administrator blocked you from editing Farang temporarily. This is not a punishment, but rather it is to make sure you read up on our rules before you try again. The blocking administrator is not taking sides and has not attempted to assess the "correctness" of your edits. What you should do now is what you should have done after the first reversion: discuss your edits with the other editor at Talk:Farang and reach a consensus. See WP:BOLD. -Arch dude (talk) 05:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

What words are banned here?

I please want to know. AceLuan54 (talk) 03:29, 19 September 2020 (UTC)AceLuan54

Have a read of WP:NOTCENSORED. HiLo48 (talk) 03:50, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@AceLuan54: The above link applies to article content. On discussion pages, including this one, article, and user "talk pages", WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA come into play as well. Extreme language may be considered uncivil or attacking. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 05:32, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The wikipedia summary that comes up with a google search is still in the present tense, though she passed away today. How is this edited?

Halcyon grun Sproutz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Halcyon grun Sproutz (talk • contribs) 06:20, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Depends on Google. Likely some algorithm will pick it up sooner or later, but you can try the "feedback" link on the bottom right of the knowledge panel. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:37, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

References

I've always added references using the Tag then Hyperlinking the text but it seems this isn't working for me any more see my new effort HMS Puckeridge (L108) where my refs are appearing at the bottom of the page rather than in the "References" section

What on earth am I doing wrong ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TenthEagle (talk • contribs) 10:22, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@TenthEagle: you must tell the software behind Wikipedia where the references should appear by using {{reflist}}. I have added this now for you. Victor Schmidt (talk) 10:27, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Uploading an image I have permission to use.

Hello,

I would like to upload images from a site about Turkish railways for their respective pages on Wikipedia. I have emailed the author and webmaster of that site and he granted me permission to use all images on his site in anyway I wish, as long as I credit him. What is the proper way to upload them? I don't think he uploaded them to his site with any specific creative-commons license. Here is the email he wrote to me. (in Turkish)

"Sayın Dorsam, Fotoğraflar herkesin kullanımına açık. Siz de kaynak belirterek kullanabilirsiniz. Saygılarımla,

Dr. Ergin TÖNÜK"

Which translates to:

"Mr. Dorsam

The pictures are available for everyone to use. You may use these photos as long as you credit the authors.

Dr. Ergin TÖNÜK"

Thanks for the help!

Central Data Bank (talk) 15:14, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@Central Data Bank:The form of this permission is insufficient. We have no way to know that Dr. Ergin TÖNÜK is the copyright holder in the first place: it appears that he is not the photographer. The photographer is the copyright holder. Your simplest approach would be to request that Dr. TÖNÜK modify the web site to explicitly license these photos under CC-BY-SA. -Arch dude (talk) 16:03, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@Central Data Bank: as a separate issue, you will need to change your username. A name must refer to an individual and must be used by only one person. Your name is a "corporate name". See WP:USERNAME. It's probably easier to just abandon the old name and create a new account, but you may choose to go through the formal user name change process instead. -Arch dude (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Alright thanks for the info. As for the username issue, I have discussed this matter with a wikipedia admin who said my username does not infringe on any policies. (Central Data Bank (talk) 16:32, 19 September 2020 (UTC))

Access to Facebook

I am attempting to access on Wikipedia’s Facebook account but when access there is need to input user name and password. I need to register a Facebook account in order to read? --151.49.118.234 (talk) 15:56, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

The Wikipedia help desk volunteers cannot help answer questions about using Facebook. Try asking the paid professionals on their help desk at https://www.facebook.com/help. -Arch dude (talk) 16:13, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

I never heard that there is a Facebook account for Wikipedia as a whole. Victor Schmidt (talk) 16:14, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia does have a Facebook page. However I don't know if it's administered by the official WikiMedia foundation or some private user. JIP | Talk 19:30, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

how can i add the information to the wikipedia.

i am a blogger and researcher i want to add my blogs to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonhamilton123 (talk • contribs)

Please don't add your blog to Wikipedia, it amounts to spamming. Please consider working on articles that interest you to improve their referencing to reliable sources instead. Acroterion (talk) 16:30, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

See WP:BLOGS. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:07, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Also Wikipedia:No original research. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.218.14.16 (talk) 14:30, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Moving userspace draft to current redirect

Hi :) I currently have a Userspace draft which I wish to move to National Covenant, which is currently a redirect. As this page already exists I cannot simply use the move option as I have in the past. Would you be able to advise on the best way to proceed? Given I am the only editor to the draft, would it be acceptable for me to simply copy and past the content from the draft to the redirect? --CSJJ104 (talk) 16:27, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@CSJJ104: No, please don't copy and paste; it messes up the history etc. You can use WP:G6 to request deletion of the redirect. Eagleash (talk) 16:58, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Since Covenanters already exists, why not simply work on improving that article? --Orange Mike | Talk 17:00, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Chauharmal

Chauharmal I created it long ago....but still not reviewed.Plz helpHeba Aisha (talk) 18:03, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps you are thinking of a different page? Chauharmal was created less than a month ago. You will see from Special:NewPagesFeed that there are 8021 pages awaiting review. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts is incorrect and is very important to fix link to Kevin O'Connor is a link to Ed Markey. This needs to be fixed immediately so people know who else is running for that office - it appears to be a site leaning to a democrat instead of being for freedom of information. Site has information for person who lost but known for Kevin ref https://www.kocforsenate.com/ this is a bunch of crap = FIX IT! PLEASE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.156.121 (talk • contribs) 2020-09-19T20:19:04 (UTC)

The most effective way to reach editors interested in and familiar with a topic is to discuss your suggested changes on the article's "talk page", in this case Talk:2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 21:06, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong in that article. Markey is an elected politician, and therefore satisfies NPOLITICIAN, and we can have (and do in fact have) an article about him. O'Connor is a candidate for office, and does not automatically satisfy that criterion. If you can show that he meets the general standard for notability, then somebody could write an article about him, and that could then be linked. But Wikipedia has no deadline, since it is an encyclopaedia, not a news source. --ColinFine (talk) 21:05, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Hackathon

We have a group of people interested in updating an article on Wikipedia. We plan to host a session to update and add information to this section as it is related to a field of work we are involved in. We would love to invite a current editor to help guide and participate so we are doing this well. MassCollaboration (talk) 20:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Central description

How can I add "Central description" in new article?— Preceding unsigned comment added by মঈনুল হাসান (talk • contribs)

What do you mean by "central description"???? --Orange Mike | Talk 22:15, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@মঈনুল হাসান: If you mean "short description", you can use the Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper. TSventon (talk) 22:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

There's also a possibility that this means description on Wikidata... Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:53, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski: Shortdesc helper says it adds a description to Wikidata if Wikidata doesn't have one, but you probably knew that. TSventon (talk) 23:04, 19 September 2020 (UTC)