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Not an issue for Help desk/Archives. Referred elsewhere

 – OP is clearly aware of WP:BLPN Beeblebrox (talk) 03:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I would be grateful for your help with managing Biography of a Living Person issues: Lisa Gorton.

As you can see from the sequence of reversions that have taken place over fewer than twenty-four hours, 'Jusdafax' and, before that,'Jamesluiz', have wilfully reverted to their own version of the Wikipedia page about me, and rejected corrections which, as the subject of the page, I believe that I have a right to make.

For ease of reference, please find below my note to Jusdafax. This details inaccurate, not-on-topic, private and misrepresentative aspects of his version. I believe that his rejection of my corrections to the article is malicious.

To JUSDAFAX I believe that you are in breach of Wikipedia's BLP guidelines. Please immediately restore the page as I wrote it and make no further changes until we have referred these matters to Wikipedia administrators.

Lisa Gorton's secondary schooling is not on topic, and private information.

It is also incomplete information: Lisa attended Preshil for longer than she attended St Catherine's. Your Wikipedia version relies on an interview with St Catherine's school which is littered with inaccuracies.

Lisa did not study poetry under Chris Wallace-Crabbe; or, only with him among many other professors of literature at the University: she did not complete a creative writing degree.

You have also incorrectly named Lisa's undergraduate degree, which is a BA (Hons). The 'Hons' is a year-long addition to the Arts degree.

You have also incorrectly named Lisa's graduate degree. Lisa did not complete a Master of Arts at Oxford. That is a different kind of degree. She completed an MPhil in Renaissance Literature.

Lisa did not win the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies for her doctorate. She received it for an essay.

Lisa did not work for Scaffidi Hugh-Jones. She was an independent, freelance communication consultant. However, the information is private, and not on topic; and, if career information is to be included, your version is skewed and unrepresentative. Lisa has undertaken many other jobs at various times.

Lisa has never been a full-time writer.

The rest of your article is a stub, and, as such, misrepresents Lisa's writing life. It does not include anthologies that she has edited and been published in; it does not include public events in which she has participated; it does not include all her publications.

Lisa's grandparents are not on-topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jusdafax&action=edit&section=new

Livingpersonedits (talk) 01:13, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

So...you seem to already be aware of WP:BLPN, I'd suggest you take this up there, this does not seem at all like an issue for the help desk. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Replacing every instance of a word or phrase with another throughout Wikimedia Commons

Alright so on Wikimedia Commons I'd like to get around to replacing every single instance of the phrase "[[User:Abbasi786786|Abdullah Ali Abbasi]]" (how I've been uploading images for many months) with "[[User:Abbasi786786|Abbasi786786]]". This would not have any affects on anything outside the authorship attribute of the many images I have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons over the years. Is there any way I could go about doing this without resorting to doing it manually? (I have dozens of photos).

Thanks, --Abbasi786786 (talk) 03:04, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons is a sister project with its own policies. So you'll need to ask at the Commons help desk. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:33, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Abbasi786786, on Commons, commons:Help:VisualFileChange.js can be used for this task. Change of a username is one of the examples listed at commons:Help:VisualFileChange.js/samples, with instructions on how to carry this out. ~~ Alex Noble/1-2/TRB 11:08, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

@Alex Noble: This worked perfectly, thank you for the help! -- Abbasi786786 (talk) 13:41, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

ading a company Name

Greetings,

Can you please inform me how to add my company names to a list of companies in my country ibya. I have all the licenses , registrations etc.

Thank you for your help.

N. Rayes— Preceding unsigned comment added by 1hffhaa1 (talk • contribs)

1hffhaa1First, you must review conflict of interest and paid editing for information on required formal disclosures. Wikipedia is not a directory of companies; list articles are meant to collect existing Wikipedia articles, not every possible member of the list. To merit an article, your company must receive significant coverage in independent reliable sources that have chosen on their own to write about your company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. Wikipedia is not interested in what a company wants to say about itself, but in what others choose to say about it(no press releases, announcement of routine business activities, staff interviews, or other primary sources). Ideally, you or anyone associated with you should not be the one to write about your company. If it is truly notable as defined by Wikipedia, someone will take note of your company and choose to write about it. Note that a Wikipedia article is not necessarily desirable. 331dot (talk) 08:02, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

is there an equivalent in EN in providing pages of literature to the German citation style "p. 128 f." ?

In German, it is common in the WP and in any scientific literature to write "page 128 f.", if page 128 is the start page and further referenced information is distributed over the next, e.g., three pages. It is thus an alternative to "p. 128-131". I am translating a German article and have to deal with translating these f.s in the references into something meaningful. Is there an equivalent usable in the en-WP? Pittigrilli (talk) 16:56, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

@Pittigrilli: the English equivalent is et seq. but is standard in only some types of citations (mostly law). I'd use that only if you can't figure out the exact page range in the original citation. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 17:15, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Concur to some extent. wikt:f.#Adjective for a specified page and one other; wikt:ff.#Phrase for a specified page and several others.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:19, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Pittigrilli (talk) 18:09, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

@Pittigrilli: Various style manuals cover this issue, for example the respected Chicago Manual of Style. To my eyes, the use of pp. 128ff. has a somewhat antiquated feel to it; although given the German style where the ending page number is not known, there are not a lot of alternatives. There is one convention sometimes used in printed material, which is an en dash followed by white space, so for example: pp. 128–  but that has the downside of not knowing if someone forgot the ending page number or not; at least the use of ff. is unambiguous. Mathglot (talk) 07:24, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest and Promoting

I was told I had a conflict of interest and was promoting but never mentioned my organization in the article I edited. I highly sourced it as well. What do I do if I don't agree with the person rejecting my stuff?— Preceding unsigned comment added by MPELife (talk • contribs) 19:34, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy link: diff Victor Schmidt (talk) 19:43, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

MPELife, read Wikipedia:ORGNAME. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:00, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi MPELife, generally speaking when an editor disagrees with you, you can simply leave them a message on their talk page or in case they left already one on yours simply reply there. Regarding the conflict of interest (COI) and promotion issue: This edit of yours included a phone number as well as link to a website, which is clearly promotional. When I noticed your article Fertility fraud, I also noticed your sandbox page about the organization you had linked to in the disambiguation page. This rang the conflict of interest bells, so consequently I moved the article to draftspace. This does not mean it got rejected. It merely means that someone should properly review it first. This is standard practice when following our COI-guidelines. Also, a COI exists even without mentioning the organization you work for/are affiliated with/get paid by. Regarding the source situation of the draft, some of them are from reliable sources, yes. However large sections aren't sourced at all, and other are put together to support your own research. – NJD-DE (talk) 20:02, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

MPELife: you converted a disambiguation page into a poorly-written, ungrammatical, and unsourced article. And you included the advice "call 323-TALK-MPE". Any competent editor would have rejected your changes. Maproom (talk) 21:20, 6 June 2021 (UTC)