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January 3

i want some information

kidnly contact me on this <redacted>

this is sravan here — Preceding unsigned comment added by MARVELLA BUILDTECH (talk • contribs) 09:52, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@MARVELLA BUILDTECH: Please do not include contact information, this is a publibly visible page. If you have a question please ask it here or add {{help me}} to your talk page and then ask there and volunteers will assist or point you in the right direction. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:25, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Diriliş: Ertuğrul

Hi, Just to let you know that the introductory part of this topic appears biased. A significant number of citations are needed but the content is protected to disallow any editing. Regards, Bob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobbharti (talk • contribs) 10:09, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Bobbharti:, if an article such as Diriliş: Ertuğrul is protected, you can suggest edits on the article's talk page. Please make them as specific as possible, and include citations to reliable sources for any information you want to add. If you tag your suggestion with the template {{edit request}} it will put it on a list that more people will see. --ColinFine (talk) 13:11, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

SwinCity League Article

• Conv. link User:TONYSWINDLE/sandbox

hello i am needing help and i am also confused lol. i want to make sure i am doing everything right can you help me please — Preceding unsigned comment added by TONYSWINDLE (talk • contribs) 10:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@TONYSWINDLE: Hello, I see the item has been declined. The references need to be placed inline at the points in the text which they are intended to support. The lead does not sufficiently preview the content; the reader is left to work out for themselves what the sport is; 'NBA' indicates that it is basketball but as a global cite this may not be obvious to the casual reader. It is not certain what league levels are presumed notable (see that page for more information) and WP:NHOOPS can be taken to imply that it is senior leagues only, although that is more about player notability. It appears you have a COI and you must read that page and also WP:PAID and make the necessary declarations. Only players 'notable' in the Wikipedia sense (I.e. there is an article about them) ought to be included in the players section. Please do not ask for assistance at multiple locations as this can cause conflicting advice or confusion and take up the time of other volunteers. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:20, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

To add to what Eagleash has said, the most pressing issue with the draft by far is that "notability" (a Wikipedia jargon term) is not shown by the references present, which are all primary sources. We need independent, in-depth coverage of the topic in multiple, reliable sources to host an article on the topic. Take a look at Wikipedia:Notability. — Bilorv (talk) 12:04, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Alien and Sedition Acts

The first sentence of alien and sedition acts is cited from a different website which is stolen from a .org website. When you try to click the reference for the citation on that sentence it says error page not found or doesn’t exist anymore. So the proper citation does not exist anymore. I have done my best. To try and edit it but it wasn’t working and the old blank citation is still there. I was trying to edit it to “In 1798, President John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson” the proper and existing citation is

Citation: The Alien Act, July 6, 1798; Fifth Congress; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:3024:1298:7000:3C6A:DE06:5FD8:F6DD (talk) 17:50, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Please raise any issues with the Alien and Sedition Acts on its talk page, Talk:Alien and Sedition Acts. 331dot (talk) 17:56, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

What's with the super-large font?

It makes the page look stupid and means I have to do more scrolling. Please change it back immediately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:30EA:F500:D0BC:4915:7B28:2438 (talk) 19:22, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

You probably zoomed by accident in your browser. In many browsers Ctrl++ zooms in, Ctrl+- zooms out, Ctrl+0 makes default size. Pressing Ctrl while scrolling the mouse wheel may also zoom. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:56, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

WHAT? I actually did not know that either and just confirmed that my browser does that, which is kinda handy because I'm getting older and fine print is becoming a bit of a challenge. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Please correct Errors and Omissions Regarding Kenneth Pancho Hagood, my uncle.

Kenneth Pancho Hagood's vital information his sister (my mother) Dorothy Hagood-Pierce, his father Euland Hagood (my grandfather) Sherill (Pierce) Ferrier (his niece). My niece Joy Villa's grandfather was not Kenneth Hagood, but Herbert Pierce. Please correct/update — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:1603:E0:80F7:842:5FD8:14F2 (talk) 23:02, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

If you have suggestions to improve an article, please start a discussion on that article's talk page, along with reliable sources to support your suggestion. RudolfRed (talk) 23:07, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Kenny Hagood.

None of the people named by the OP are mentioned in the article, and I see no reason why they should be. Hagood is notable as a singer, and it's reasonable to mention relatives who themselves are notable and have an article, or who had a significant influence on his singing career, but unnecessary (and possibly intrusive) to give details of other relatives, as his notability does not confer notability on them: see Notability is not inherited (which goes to "Notability is inherited", a list of false arguments for notability). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.209.120.67 (talk) 00:04, 4 January 2022 (UTC)