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October 3

Pramod Bhagat

There are lots of fake information is being edited on the recently gold medal winner of Tokyo2020 Paralympics Pramod Bhagat. Need your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sukant9993 (talk • contribs) 08:36, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Pramod Bhagat wrong information is being spread about his birth place. His real birth place is Attabira, Odisha, India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sukant9993 (talk • contribs) 08:53, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

References

I haven't taken a look at many of the sources myself, but there appears to be a debate on the article's talk page. My advice is to not engage in an edit war (see the three-revert rule). Instead, familiarize yourself with the existing discussion and share your thoughts on the talk page. – Anon423 (talk) 10:26, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Anon423 can you please revert it to the stable version of the article? The vandal justifies his revert by removing referenced material clearly you can look at the page Pramod Bhagat. zoglophie 10:58, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

zoglophie, you also have repeatedly removed referenced content from the article. And I see nothing to warrant your accusation of vandalism. Just discuss the issue on the article's talk page until you reach agreement, finding further reliable sources if necessary. Maproom (talk) 17:54, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Manual reverts and notifications

When I undo an edit normally by using the undo link, the revision is tagged as reverted and a notification is sent to the user that their revision was reverted. But sometimes, if other changes have been made adjacent to that area, I get the message "The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits; if you wish to undo the change, it must be done manually." In this case I have to do a manual revert, which does not cause the revision to be tagged as reverted. Is there any way to similarly notify the original editor that their revision was reverted? Kidburla (talk) 09:37, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

You can ping the user by wikilinking to them in the edit summary, as I am doing with this edit. Unlike pinging on the page itself, this doesn't require signing. – Rummskartoffel 09:57, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! I will do that in future. Kidburla (talk) 12:00, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

ABOUT PROGRAMME

I WANT HELP FROM ANAND 509001(POSTAL CODE MEANS ADDRESS), REASON : INDIA PSYCHO (BELOW POVERTY 1 YEAR OLD CHALLENGE) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.133.49.226 (talk) 11:38, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

ABOUT CHALLENGES

I WANT TO PLAY GOD CHALLENGE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.133.49.226 (talk) 11:40, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

As it says at the top of this page "The Wikipedia help desk is a place where you can ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia." Your requests have nothing to do with Wikipedia, so we can't help. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:43, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Internet

I have just opened by Wiki account How long does it take for the account to be located on the Internet? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by RLGworkinghistorian (talk • contribs) 16:49, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

If by 'located on the internet', you mean 'picked up by Google', it won't. Userpages are a great way to tell other Wikipedia editors a bit about yourself, but they don't get indexed by search engines like Google, so if that's what you were hoping to achieve I'm afraid it's not going to work. Girth Summit _(blether) 17:31, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello, RLGworkinghistorian. I'm afraid that, like many people, you have misunderstood what Wikipedia is, and how it works. Creating an account makes you a named editor of the encyclopaedia - nothing else. Your user page, where you have put you biography, is a place to tell other editors of the encyclopaedia about you as an editor of the encyclopaedia. Like all the pages which are not articles in the encycopaedia, your user page does not get indexed by exteranal search engines.

If you meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then somebody could write an encyclopaedia article about you - you are strongly discouraged from doing this yourself, but not forbidden. If such an article is accepted (whoever creates it) it will not belong to you, will not be controlled by you, will not necessarily say what you want it to say, and should be based almost entirely on what people unconnected with you have published about you, not on what you say or want to say. --ColinFine (talk) 17:55, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

RLGworkinghistorian, your Wikipedia user page is of course "located on the Internet". Its URL is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RLGworkinghistorian .   Maproom (talk) 17:58, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Guiding hand

Hello, I've spent the last hour or so trying to understand how to edit a Wikipedia page without much success. To put it another way, I'm completely confused and lost. I just want to improve a single page (Four Marks village, Hampshire, UK) where a lot of new information has come to light. Is there anyone out there who can do it for me (for money, if necessary) if I send in plain English what I want to do?Four Marks doctor (talk) 17:05, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Four Marks doctor, you added a section to Four Marks which confusingly had the same name as a town in Berkshire. I have renamed it as "Bibliography" and moved it to below the "References" section. You also supplied the co-ordinates of the parish, to a precision of about a yard, for which thanks; another editor has reduced the precision. If you have other edits you would like to make but don't know how, you can describe them on the article's talk page, preferably stating there the source(s) of your information, and it's likely that some other editor will make them for you. Maproom (talk) 18:12, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Mathematical treatment under the item "Loan"

Hi, I made a mathematical treatment that you can read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lovepeacejoy404/sandbox . I tried to publish it under "Loan" but it was deleted because a source is missing. In my opinion, mathematical calculations do not need a source. Either they are right or they are wrong. Why can't I publish it? Thanks --Lovepeacejoy404 (talk) 18:01, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not publish original research. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:06, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

The mathematical calculations that allow you to obtain the installment of a loan do not constitute an original research but are found in any book of financial mathematics.--Lovepeacejoy404 (talk) 18:11, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Then you should cite such a book. But your contribution seemed unnecessary – did you read the section Loan#Loan_payment, and follow the link in it? Maproom (talk) 18:19, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: Routine calculations are actually exempt from WP:NOR, per WP:CALC, because the examples given in textbooks are copyrighted by the author so we need to come up with our own. 192.76.8.74 (talk) 20:17, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Well but I mean these are rather involved calculations. I think at CALC they're talking more about simple calculations that most readers who would be reading that article could check fairly easily, such as figuring the age at death of a person, and most of the examples are of that nature. It does say it's OK of some "mathemaetical literacy" is required, but what do they mean by that? Those calculations look pretty involved... readers need to be able to check if your facts are correct. This stuff is going into the article Loan? Most readers interested in reading that article won't be able to check that, no. Vanna–Volga pricing is different -- we can assume that people who want to understand that subject in detail will have the chops to determine if the math is correct. For the concept of "loan", no. Herostratus (talk) 07:45, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Harv error detection tool

I was told that a 'Harv error detection tool' could be obtained here at the help desk, but I haven't been able to locate it. Is it still available? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

What in the hell is a "Harv error detection tool"? I presume a tool intended to find errors in Harvard-style citations...? —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 20:13, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Gwillhickers: and @Jéské Couriano: it is a tool to detect the sort of referencing errors in article which cause them to appear in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. I know of two such tools, User:Svick/HarvErrors.js or User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js. I use the latter and jolly good it is too. Harvard-style citations are evil, but if we must have them at least we should try to avoid the oh-so-common errors to which they are prone. DuncanHill (talk) 20:20, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Jan Jacobus Botes Born 26 Aug 1800 in Koup, Cape Colony.

How can I add him to the Wikipedia, he has been mentioned in many records and had a very interesting life and was well loved by his community. He was a pioneer and part of the Voortrekkers pre-1836 (before the Great trek.) owned most land today known as Brandfort, free state. also known as "Ryk" Jan Jacobus Botes Born 26 Aug 1800 in Koup, Cape Colony. He died in conflict with the Basoeto's at Salpeterspan - Brandfort with his two sons and son in law. Books have been written about his work and life. and so many other facts exists.

My Question, how is it enough to earn him a place in wiki and how do I make it possible. Helpfindit (talk) 20:47, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Helpfindit: You'd have to prove that Botes is notable by Wikipedia's standards through the use of reliable, independent sources; secondary ones make up the bulk of what is considered reliable. Please see Help:Your first article for more information. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:50, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Helpfindit: If books (plural) have been written and are not the equivalent of today's vanity press books, then all you need to do to establish notability is to cite those books, and notability is the only absolute requirement for Wikipedia article. Therefore, you can confidently go to Help:Your first article as suggested. I find that is is helpful to look at a few Wikipedia articles on similar subjects (in this case, notable Voortrekkers might work) to see how other Wikipedians have structured these articles. Pick one whose structure you like and use that as a starting point for your article. -Arch dude (talk) 21:51, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

how do i go about create a new page

how do I go about to create a new page 21:31, 3 October 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.3.242.18 (talk)

Wikipedia has articles, not mere "pages". Successfully creating a new article is probably the absolute hardest task to perform on Wikipedia. Diving in without experience and knowledge can lead to frustration and hurt feelings as things you don't understand happen to work you spent hours on. It is suggested that you first spend time editing existing articles in areas that interest you, to get a feel for how Wikipedia operates and what is expected of article content. Using the new user tutorial helps(though you must have an account to do that).

Users without accounts(and new accounts) must use Articles for creation to create and submit a draft. 331dot (talk) 21:37, 3 October 2021 (UTC)