Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2021 June 29

Help desk
< June 28	<< May | June | Jul >>	June 30 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current Help Desk pages.

June 29

Please help me!

I have edited some information about Hirai Momo's private life. I want to delete the change history of those 2 posts on the history, Because many people can see it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:EE0:4BCB:F7B0:BD4A:DCA6:9B13:5B47 (talk) 07:13, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

This is the only edit made from this IP address, and the last time Momo Hirai was edited was on the 26th, so it's hard to tell which revisions you're talking about. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:02, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Adding information

Hello, Just tried to add a link to a Wiki page on Sir Tim Birkin - racing driver for Bentley in 1929. My addition is a link to YouTube film of mine of archive footage that has a few shots of the subject. But, according to Wikipedia YouTube is banned and on the Blacklist. Odd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndyG.Humphreys (talk • contribs) 08:06, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Not particularly odd. A simple reading of your contribution history, and of your talk page, should make it clear why Wikipedia doesn't consider spamming articles with links to a YouTube channel to be 'adding information'. There are circumstances where a YouTube link can be useful, but at the absolute minimum, it needs to be first established that the video uploader holds the copyright to the material concerned. See Wikipedia:External links for more. AndyTheGrump (talk) 08:25, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Dharma Mittra

Hi - I edited the page for Dharma Mittra to remove what seemed to me excessive bold face in the lead paragraphs. My change was then reverted by another user, with the explanation "Thanks, but this is quite standard, these are major redirect targets to here." The pages Swami Kailashananda and Master Yoga Chart, and Dharma Yoga do indeed all redirect to the page, though on the page the latter two are written out as "Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures" and "Dharma Yoga Center" respectively. It seems a bit unwieldy, however, to have four long boldface phrases at the start - something that goes with the generally promotional tone of the article - and while it is standard to use bold to indicate that an article redirects somewhere, three such redirects seem a little overcooked. I'm not interested in getting into an unproductive argument or edit war with a respectful and knowledgeable editor, so would appreciate input from an experienced admin on whether my concerns (or the boldface) are a bit over the top. Vizjim (talk) 08:54, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Vizjim I am not an admin, but this use of bold is normal. Wikipedia has a manual of style to help resolve similar arguments and the section on boldface is MOS:BOLD. TSventon (talk) 13:15, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

lost content in sandbox

I had a fair amount of information in the sandbox on a page I was working on to get it ready to publish. When I logged on this morning, the sandbox appears to have reverted to a much earlier version and the new content is not there. What happened, is the content in the history logs or somewhere where I can recover it, and can I prevent this from happening again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtrchc (talk • contribs) 10:00, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Your contributions are at Special:Contributions/Rtrchc. If there are further edits which don't appear there, you presumably forgot to save them; you may have been confused by the fact that WMF decided to call the button "Publish changes" rather than "Save changes". --David Biddulph (talk) 10:05, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

ugh, that's it. maybe @wikipedia could go back in time and re-name that button and I could get hours of my life back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtrchc (talk • contribs) 10:31, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@Rtrchc: My sympathy. For the future, you should see a "sandbox" link at the top-right of each page. It links to User:Rtrchc/sandbox which you can edit with little interference. In fact you edited that in April. Johnuniq (talk) 10:41, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Duplicate info should be merged.

The table in All-time table of the FIFA World Cup is already in National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup#Overall team records. I think they need to be merged? Cheers. Aquatic Ambiance (talk) 12:20, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok I was bold enough to already go ahead and merged them. Aquatic Ambiance (talk) 16:05, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

What is the template which adds the first few sentences of an article into another article?

Hi

I remember seeing a template maybe a year ago which transcluded the first sentence or few sentences of another article, I think it might have been called 'summary' or something similar but can't find it anywhere, any ideas? I think it worked something like the hatnote templates eg {{NAMEOFTEMPLATE|NAMEOFARTICLE}}.

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 13:06, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@John Cummings: Could you be thinking of {{Excerpt}}? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 13:58, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Tenryuu, yes, perfect, thanks very much John Cummings (talk) 14:39, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Page: Himarsha Venkatsamy

Hello,

I'm Giselle Figueiredo, a representative of Himarsha's team. I have been tasked with editing the current page on wikipedia as information on the page about Himarsha was inaccurate. The information I have added is accurate, non-promotional content, featuring only facts. I have also followed the guidelines completely set by wikipedia and hence disclosed that I was an editor from Himarsha's team (following the WP:PAID guideline).

I would like to know if there are any additional steps I need to take so as to ensure the content placed on wikipedia page: Himarsha Venkatsamy is not deleted.

If you/any editors have any questions, please reach out to me, I would be happy to answer all queries.

Kind regards, Giselle Figueiredo — Preceding unsigned comment added by HimarshaV (talk • contribs)

@HimarshaV: A few things:

1. Abandon this account; seeing as you are not Venkatsamy yourself, it contravenes Wikipedia's username policy.
2. On your new account's user page, declare your paid relationship with Venkatsamy, you may use {{paid}} to do so.
3. Refrain from editing the article directly, and leave edit requests on the article's talk page, with exactly what you want to add (and where in the article), which are supported by reliable sources.

—Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:17, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Do I have a conflict of interest with my school after I have graduated from it?

I just graduated from North Toronto Christian School. Do I still have a COI? Am I free to edit the article normally? (Even during the time I was at the school, I was not paid, given academic bonuses, or other rewards for editing it, and I kept my editing secret. I removed promotional language from the article.) Félix An (talk) 14:17, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Félix An, reasonably not, if other editors think your edits are problematic per for example WP:PEACOCK or WP:ADVOCACY, you should edit carefully. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:50, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Don't worry, I won't violate either one of those rules. Félix An (talk) 17:04, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Myself

Can I create my own page?

If you mean a WP-article about you, probably no, see WP:Autobiography. If you mean a WP-article about something else, perhaps, but it takes some reading to learn how. WP:YFA is a start. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:45, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

The Times article on Rembrandt painting

Hello, I am in the process of improving the article for the recently discovered Rembrandt painting Adoration of the Magi. There is an article in The Times about it which I would like to use as a source: [1] Unfortunately, I don't have access to articles in The Times. I would appreciate any help in getting the full text of the article. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 18:23, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@Thriley: Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for working to make it better. Check out the page WP:RX, where you can ask someone with access to look up that article for you. RudolfRed (talk) 18:31, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@RudolfRed:, Thank you! Thriley (talk) 18:34, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Polk County, Texas

I think in the notable people from Livingston and Polk County, Texas you should include Thomas A. Johnson President of Lamar State College Orange as a notable college educator and administrator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.66.232.235 (talk) 20:56, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

If this person has a Wikipedia article about them, they may be included in that list. 331dot (talk) 21:54, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

How do I start a new bio for a notable person?

I really looked and I didn't see anything that said "Start A New Biography" etc. Help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.210.252.8 (talk) 22:06, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Please see Your first article. Be advised that successfully creating a new article is one of the hardest things to do on Wikipedia. I would advise you to gain experience editing existing articles first, to learn more about Wikipedia and what is expected of article content. IP and new users cannot directly create articles, and need to submit drafts using Articles for creation. 331dot (talk) 22:14, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Changing logos and prefered editer

Hey Wikipedia. I am a national member and the chief creative officer for the Unity Party of America. I am attempting to update the site but it tells me it cannot confirm the image uploads I attempt and doesn't see me as a confirmed or preferred editor. How can I resolve this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Party_of_America — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elijahherson (talk • contribs) 23:20, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Can you please let registers users protect their Wikipedia pages please

It isn't "their" Wikipedia page to begin with, and we discourage their editing the article directly. We also don't allow freshly-registered users to upload images, etc. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 23:46, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

As an officer of the party, you are not a "preferred editor" of that article, but the reverse. You have a conflict of interest, and should not edit it at all. If you want to recommend changes to the article, you should give details of your proposed changes on the article's talk page, preferably with supporting references. Maproom (talk) 08:58, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

You seem to be under the misconception that Wikipedia articles somehow "belong" to their subjects. This is not at all true. A Wikipedia article is open to be edited by anyone. JIP | Talk 11:25, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

This makes sense, thank you! I know that the article is open and a public source... not under ownership of the party. I will add suggestions for editing the page but will not edit it myself. I appreciate the information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elijahherson (talk • contribs) 14:11, 30 June 2021 (UTC)