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October 17

Editing the page for people born in a specific year

Due to urgent privacy concerns, I need to remove my birth date from Wikipedia. I did that on my own entry (obviously this is not my real name, but I'm not particularly famous), but my name still appears on the "People Born in ___" page for my birth year, and I can't see how to remove it. How can I get my name off that page? Is there anywhere else I should be looking for my birth date on your site? I am a regular donor, please help me protect myself from persistent fraudsters, hackers, and loons! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Almondina Armada (talk • contribs) 04:25, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Near the bottom of the article about you, you may find a line looking like

[[Category:1908 births]]

Delete this line to remove yourself from the category. Maproom (talk) 07:10, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@Almondina Armada: You may find the recommendations at Wikipedia:Contact us/Article subjects helpful (regardless of your kind donor history). GoingBatty (talk) 01:25, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, @Maproom: that worked!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Almondina Armada (talk • contribs) 01:53, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Sir Thomas Picton

I have added some well researched information about Rosetta Smith who was Sir Thomas Picton's mistress. This is well sourced material from the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies.

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[12] Candlin, Kit (2012). The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 138–156. ISBN 9780230354081.

My material is systematically removed with no reasonable explanation by a number of users.

This is clearly being done for political reasons by people who want to re-write the narratives of history to fit their agenda.

Why is this politicisation happening? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrbsaunders (talk • contribs) 04:40, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

This question has received answers over at the Teahouse. Please limit your questions to either here or there. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 06:10, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Settled at Teahouse and Talk page of article in question. David notMD (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Sohu and Sina

Hi, are sohu.com and sina.com.cn considered reliable sources? Thanks in advance. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 05:41, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: A better venue to ask this is the reliable sources noticeboard, but to the best of my knowledge, they're search engines, which aren't reliable in themselves. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 06:09, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Etymology

I want to propose a small change to an article (it contains an inaccuracy) but I'm reluctant to carry out the change myself as I may mess up the formatting and overall appearance of that part of the article. Can someone help...? Lemma trefoil states that it originates from the Latin trifolium which is incorrect (or perhaps partly incorrect) as the actual origin is from the Greek τριφύλλι which means tri (τρι) - leaf (φύλλι). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lekkomanolis (talk • contribs) 06:59, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

If you don't want to edit the article yourself you can make an edit request on the article's talk page, but in either case you would need to provide reliable sources to justify your view that the current statement is inaccurate. A variety of dictionaries support the etymology as being from the Latin. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/trefoil is one example. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:48, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

The Latin and Greek words are cognates, but the direct descent of the English word is from Latin via French. Deor (talk) 17:31, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

a link actually does exist on wiki, how can i implement this

dear Sirs, ladies,

i was reading about the natlab in eindhoven on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Natuurkundig_Laboratorium

and i saw that mr. Else Kooi was mentioned in red, meaning he does not have a wiki page. but i know that he has! https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Kooi

although it is only in dutch. so may i be so bold as to ask, is it an idea to link the page to the dutch wiki page, or maybe an idea to translate the dutch page into english (this i would very much be willing to do) and then link the pages together?

thank you very much for your help

and for being wikipedia!

gabbi werner — Preceding unsigned comment added by La hermitesse (talk • contribs) 10:36, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

To link to the Dutch article until an English one appears, you can use the template {{ill}}. For advice on translation, see Help:Translation. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

How can you create new page for a company

We have a 3 year old Company and would like a wiki page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:401:4380:3DE0:1C88:B897:F0B0:2EE8 (talk) 11:33, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

You will see answers to similar questions earlier on this page. Firstly you need to read about conflict of interest and paid editing, then you need to understand that Wikipedia is not for promotion. After all that you can read Wikipedia's definition of notability for companies. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:37, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

This question was archived so part of the above answer no longer applies; see this for more information.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:49, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia, to be frank, has no interest in whether or not your company would like an article (we have articles, not pages"). There are, in fact, good reasons your company might not want one. Our only interest is in summarizing what independent reliable sources with significant coverage say about companies that meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable company. 331dot (talk) 13:06, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Page Confirmation

I found this draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Carlton_Hotels_and_Suites about Hotel chain in Dubai which have more than a 1000 rooms and 11 properties. But unfortunately I cannot find appropriate links to push it out of Sandbox. I believe that this is very noticeable, but require help with links attachment. Please help — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.98.42.171 (talk) 14:28, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

You're going to want to see WP:REFBEGIN and make sure that the sources you use are reliable enough to establish its notability as Wikipedia defines it. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Please read WP:CSMN. It must be notable by our definition, and that definition is that there are several reliable sources of the correct type. Therefore, we don't say "it's notable, so find sources". Instead, we say "I found the right sources, so it's notable". So far, this draft does not seem to have such sources. Here at the help desk, we try to help you use or edit Wikipedia. We are not generally equipped to help you find additional sources. -Arch dude (talk) 15:42, 17 October 2021 (UTC)