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July 26

Meeting requirements for bio page

Hi there. I am working on the content for a bio page for one of our local entrepreneurs. Prior investing more time, who can assist me with determining if he meets a criteria? Dolgank (talk) 00:14, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Have you read, Wikipedia:Notability (people)? And if so, which are the sources you would cite to indicate this person meets the notability criteria? AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:24, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

This is at the Teahouse and has been answered there. Please do not forum-shop until you get the answer you want. (Note that OP is indef-blocked for username.) —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{a little blue Bori} 00:53, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Johnny ngalo

Love it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.116.173.97 (talk) 02:43, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Do you have a question relating to using or editing Wikipedia? Eagleash (talk) 03:02, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Validity of closure request

I submitted this before, but it got archived. Is Wikipedia:Closure_requests#Wikipedia:Proposed_article_mergers#Merge_requests a valid request for WP:CR? Someone once told me that people are probably aware that there is a backlog. Something like this could stay there indefinitely. Please {{ping}} me when you respond. --Jax 0677 (talk) 05:59, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Jax 0677 I would say your request is not strictly in scope of WP:CR as it is not a request to close a single discussion. "The Closure requests noticeboard is for posting requests to have an uninvolved editor assess, summarize, and formally close a discussion on Wikipedia." On the other hand your request was replied to rather than removed as out of scope. TSventon (talk) 06:39, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

• Reply - @TSventon:, it is NOT my request, and I was the one who wrote the reply. --Jax 0677 (talk) 11:37, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

@Jax 0677:, I think the first half of my reply is valid, apart from the pronoun. I agree with your further actions to decline the request and ask on the CR talk page, where hopefully you will get a more expert response. TSventon (talk) 11:52, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Bambot cleanup listing

How do I add a new project task force to the weekly bambot cleanup listing? I can find the bambots.brucemyers.com website, and I can test to see that the categories, etc. will work, but I can't figure out where to add it to the list! This is for the new lichen task force of WP:FUNGI. Thanks. MeegsC (talk) 07:17, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Never mind – found it! MeegsC (talk) 07:28, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Discussion Required for Undo my added content

Hi There.

I am working on the content for a wiki page for one of our Brand companies. I researched and added some useful information with reference links but added company history that I received from the brand company without references (as per the research not found any reference link) thinking that it's history data.

After a week, someone from the wiki admin, undo all the changes and now all my changes are removed from that page, however, the content those have relevant references is also removed, and now I am not able to undo my relevant changes.

Can anyone help on this making this success?

The changes I want to revert:

1- Fact Data (URL Correction, Industry Type, Owner name, Product name addition etc.)

2- CSR Data

3- Award & Winning data

Please let me know to whom I have to connect and how? If anyone can check my changes for that brand and revert would be very helpful.

Sandeepsri16d (talk) 08:03, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Courtesy link = Dharampal Satyapal Group - Arjayay (talk) 08:14, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello Sandeepsri16d. I'm afraid that (like many people) you have a misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia's article about your company does not belong to your company, is not controlled by your company, and should not be directly edited by you or anybody else associated with your company. Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.

Your changes were reverted (by an editor who is not an admin) because they were promotional. Promotion of any kind is forbidden anywhere on Wikipedia.

You must make a formal declaration of your status as a paid editor

You should not directly edit any article about a subject you are connected to.

You may submit edit requests (see that link for details) on the talk page of such articles, with sources (preferably ones totally unconnected with the subject of the article) and an uninvolved editor (who may or may not be an administrator) will decide whether to implement your suggestion in whole or in part, according to Wikipedia's principles. ColinFine (talk) 09:56, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

@Sandeepsri16d: Let me add to the excellent advice above and strongly encourage you to not include any unsourced info in your edit request. It is a established principle that if something was not written about by an independent source, it should not be included in the article. It helps us simultaneously with notability and reliability of facts. Also, you can go to the history tab to collect the info you added, if you want to add sources to it before submitting as an edit request. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:08, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

I would like to add a spouse parameter to an infobox

Hey all I am trying to be able to use a Spouse" Parameter for this infobox, please help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Canadian_Football_League_biography

I want to add it to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin_Burns Wevaflava (talk) 14:32, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

I can't think of any good reason why the infobox for a professional sportsperson would need a 'spouse' parameter. Such matters generally belong in the 'personal life' section of a biography. And incidentally, should be properly sourced - something lacking in the article on Burns. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:41, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

As far as I can see, the full template at Template:Infobox Canadian Football League biography already includes a spouse parameter. However, I agree that it should not be used unless properly sourced, as the documentation mentions. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:29, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Also, the spouse parameter should generally only be used if the person themselves is notable i.e. they have a Wikipedia article. We don't need to link to non-notable people in infoboxes. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:37, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Canadian Football League biography does not have a spouse parameter. Wevaflava added it to the documentation but it's not supported by the actual infobox so I have reverted the documentation. Template:Infobox Canadian Football League biography#Military service mentions it can embed another infobox which does have a spouse parameter. Template:Infobox military person says "Notable spouse if verifiable from a reliable source." Infoboxes for sportspeople do generally not mention spouses. See Template talk:Infobox Canadian Football League biography/Archive 2#spouse/partner for an old brief discussion. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

ConsumerReports ? OnHealth

How do I stop this magazine coming to my address 2601:8D:500:FDC0:78D8:1522:79BB:227B (talk) 17:38, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Your answer lies on Consumer Reports' website, not here. This page is for seeking help with reading/writing Wikipedia. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{a little blue Bori} 18:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

When a page is reviewed, is there more info about that somewhere?

I got alerts that a couple of the pages I've edited have been reviewed, but I'm not sure what this means. When someone reviews a page, do they document that somewhere? I couldn't find anything in the page history or talk page. Lijil (talk) 21:29, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

It refers to review by WP:New pages patrol. There is a long list of "unreviewed" articles at Special:NewPagesFeed, new page patrollers (who have a certain user right) can mark articles as reviewed after doing a number of checks. I believe the main difference between reviewed and unreviewed articles to be that the former are indexed by search engines (the latter too, if older than 90 days). 129.67.116.200 (talk) 21:37, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Consensus for identical edits across a number of articles

I believe that the "Terminology" and "Context" sections in "Abortion in [US-State]" articles (e.g., Abortion in Tennessee) should be removed as they are extraneous by not being specific to the state in question. These sections are virtually identical across all "Abortion in [US-State]" articles. I intend to remove them, but want to avoid the inevitable reverts as well as potential contraventions of mass editing-related policies. If I were to seek consensus for the entire removal, where should I go? Wikipedia:WikiProject Abortion? I'm not entirely sure what the current status of WikiProject-based consensus is. 129.67.116.200 (talk) 21:34, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

When you cannot find a specific guideline for a situation, revert to general principles to create a process for your case. You clearly started with the right principle: seek consensus. I think you should put your proposal on the talk page of the project and then put a "pointer" to it (i.e., a short new section asking that comments be made on the project talk page) on the talk page of each affected article asking for comments to see if you get a consensus. After a few days a consensus will congeal or you will get no response. If no response, start making your change on a few articles, with edit summaries pointing to the discussion, to see if it stimulates comments. If still no responses, make all the changes. -Arch dude (talk) 04:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, this is very helpful. 129.67.119.56 (talk) 16:12, 27 July 2022 (UTC)