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A user has removed a section from my page and i believe they will do it again

Good morning a user has removed a section from my page which is 100% correct and includes references etc .

I have placed it back - it's the following section:

Williams-Thomas was the reporter and investigator for ITV's crime series The Investigator: A British Crime Story, produced by Simon Cowell's Syco. The series re-examined a 30 year old previously 'closed' murder case, the murder of Carole Packman, whose body has never been found. The series was broadcast over four consecutive weeks on ITV, from 14 July 2016. Dorset Police subsequently confirmed that the case remained open and that they would be examining new evidence presented by Williams-Thomas. A second series of The Investigator is planned for 2017.

Ho can they be stopped from removing it again ?

Thanks

References

— Preceding unsigned comment added by MWT579 (talk • contribs) 08:03, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Courtesy link: The page in question is Mark Williams-Thomas

I suspect this isn't the answer you wanted, but you need to receive it. First, terminology, it is not your page, it is Wikipedia's article on Mark Williams-Thomas. The whole point of Wikipedia is that no single editor owns or controls the content of an article. The user who edited the article had a disagreement with the content and removed it, they also left an edit summary. They could have been clearer about why they removed the content, but they haven't done anything wrong in that edit. You disagree and restored it, so the next stage is for both of you to discuss it on the article talk page (See WP:BRD).

But. More important than that is the fact that this article is about Mark Williams-Thomas, your username is MWT and you referred to the article as "my page", that sets off the Conflict of Interest alarm. If you are Mark Williams-Thomas you have a conflict of interest and are discouraged from editing the article. Please read WP:COI as soon as possible. - X201 (talk) 08:40, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

I have removed more content none of which was properly sourced. Articles on Wikipedia must be adequately supported by reliable sources so that information can be verified. We only summarise what reliable, independent published sources have to say about a subject. Theroadislong (talk) 08:56, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Jovita Efehi Obadolagbonyi's Autobiography

Hello Everyone.

This is unitingwalls. I have just contributed to the article Jovita Efehi Obadolagbonyi's Autobiography. I need some assistance to add photos and a round up editing on this subject. Your various contributions will be highly appreciated. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unitingwalls (talk • contribs) 07:07, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello @Unitingwalls: what you have is not yet an article, it is a Draft. I have moved it to Draft:Jovita Efehi Obadolagbonyi's Autobiography for your convenience. You say "autobiography"; do you mean you are writing an article about yourself? If so, that is a very bad idea, see WP:Autobio for why you don't want to do this.

Next, you need to understand how to write an article. You do not simply "write what you know" and then add a few links. Your article needs to be entirely based upon your sources. Also your sources cannot be simply listed at the bottom, they must be cited as footnotes; see WP:REFB for how to do this.

Please confirm if this is an article about your own self so we can help advise you on that. And if it is not, you still need to properly source it; you cannot include anything in the article that you cannot source, no matter how true you know it to be. MatthewVanitas (talk) 09:20, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Templates created

Respected Wikipedians in Teahouse, I created some templates for userpages (user templates). How can I bring the template to other users?--PATH SLOPU ^(Talk) 10:04, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Good afternoon, Path slopu, and welcome to our Teahouse. You've made some interesting-looking userboxes and templates. And you seem to have done the right thing by mentioning the templates at the relevant WikiProject talk pages. Like the usebox for {{User Peg Solitaire}}, you could list these by finding the relevant subpage and page section at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Galleries. I seem to remember when I made a couple of userboxes some while back that best practice is to create a sub-page for them under your own username, and then add them to the appropriate gallery (e.g. User:Nick Moyes/Userboxes/Flora) - but I would have to re-read the guidelines to be able to give confident advice now. Either way, well done on creating them, and I hope someone likes and uses them. (You can always click "what links here" to see if anyone else has transcluded (i.e. made use of them). Hope this advice is OK - I'm sure other hosts will add their comments if I'm wrong. Regards from a damp and dreary UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 11:11, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Notability distinct from Occupation Query

Hi again - apologies for pestering the teahouse 3 times in close succession

A user I'm in discussion with stated that a person's article William Mason (Director General) didn't have any notability separate from his current and former occupations. This seemed odd - I mean, surely lots of person articles gained their notability from occupying, or having occupied, a significant position and doing significant actions while there, even with Notability not being inferred. I'm not sure why, but Mark Carney came to mind as an example.

Notability is one of the areas that has so many, occasionally contradictory, policies that fully understanding seems an impossible task for me, but I'm hoping someone can give an easy explanation of the (if any) fundamental difference (beyond quality and number of references, obviously) Nosebagbear (talk) 09:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

IMO, not notable in the Wikipedia sense of the word. The first two citations are to announcements of his being appointed to the job. The third is an interview with WM. None of these qualify as significant, independent content. Basically, Mason is a well-educated, well-trained person doing a job he is qualified to do. Being competent is not the same as notable. David notMD (talk) 11:57, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

How do I get my comments "signed" and when I add a picture to an article commons delinker keeps removing it?

Hello everyone, its good to finally join the Wikipedia team. I have been reading Wikipedia articles since around 2006 but joined as an editor this year in 2018. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marked Man 808 (talk • contribs) 07:44, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

My comments on talk pages appear as "preceding unsigned comments by..."

I added a picture i took from TV, but it matched with some existing pictures and was deleted from the article. how can I stop that and get my picture to stay, some pictures even though you took them on your own will match with existing pictures, so how to get over that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marked Man 808 (talk • contribs) 07:42, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Marked Man 808, welcome to our friendly Teahouse. We love to see new editors who have used Wikipedia for years and who then decide to start contributing. Don't worry about making little mistakes at first - someone will always be keen to point them out to help you improve. To answer the first part of your question: you signature and date get automatically added by the act of you typing four 'tildes' at the end of you post. Like this: ~~~~. You do this on every post on a talk page, but never in an actual article.

To attempt to answer your second point about images, would you name or list the article concerned, please? I can't easily find the problem page (via my mobile). But if, as you say, you tried to add an image taken from the TV, yes, I would expect this to be very swiftly deleted. You may only add images to which you own the copyright, or which other people have released under an appropriate 'Creative Commons' licence. Only those images shiuld be on Wikimedia. Hope this helps. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:10, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Marked Man 808: when you say "I added a picture i took from TV" that's the problem right there. The image from TV is copyright, and you taking an image of it does not constitute a new work that you own, it's still under their copyright. So the simple answer is you can't add copyrighted material except under certain very specific exemptions outlined in WP:Fair use. MatthewVanitas (talk) 09:23, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you both Nick Moyes and MatthewVanitas. I promise to do my best to contribute to Wikipedia in a good away. cheers to both of you.Marked Man 808 (talk) 12:04, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Request copy-edit improvment of an article

Is there anywhere I can go to request a improvement of an article sentence wise? For example, I would like to see a few sections in K2-155d be improved. Anywhere I can request that an article gets improved sentence wise? Thanks! —LovelyGirl7 talk 04:38, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello again LovelyGirl7 and welcome back to the Teahouse.

I suggest that you look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors to see if that looks like an avenue to satisfy your request. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:09, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

You might also like to try asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy, where the astronomical experts hang out. Try to be clear about what you would like to see improved in the article.--Gronk Oz (talk) 13:03, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Declined draft

Hi my article got declined. Can you please help me on how to edit it so it gets a submission as an article. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by PKJ21 (talk • contribs) 11:58, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Convenience link User:PKJ21/sandbox. Theroadislong (talk) 12:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, PKJ21. there are several blue links in the notice added to your draft which will help you understand. But I'll give you a bit of feedback. From the very first words in your draft, "Arcgate.com is a 2000+ people strong business process outsourcing (BPO) leader" is mostly advertising puff. An encyclopaedic version of this might be something like "Arcgate is a company working in business process outsourcing (BPO)". Everything else is hype. No Wikipedia article should ever use an evaluative term like "leader" unless it is directly quoting a reliable published source wholly unconnected with the entity being described. "Breakthrough products" unless it is an established term of art defined and used in reliable published sources, is wholly meaningless advertising puff.

The next sentence is nearly all right: "Dun & Bradstreet, the world's leading provider of business information and insight, rated Arcgate as the Best Small & Medium Enterprise in the IT & ITES sector in India". You don't need to tell the reader who Dun & Bradstreet are, especially if you wikilink to the Wikipedia article about them; but it is fine to report the fact that they made such an evaluation - except for the fact that it is not true. The link you gave below said D&B awarded Arcgage "Best Regional SME - North", which is not what your draft claimed. In any case, the supporting reference should come inline immediately after the claim: see WP:referencing for beginners for how to do this.

What you need to do (once you have studied your first article, is:

• Find several places where people who have no connection whatever with Arcgate have chosen to write in depth about it and been published in a reliable place. I don't believe any of the sources you link to meets these criteria: they are either not independent, or not in depth.
• If you cannot find several such sources, give up. This will mean that Arcgate is not currently notable (in the special way that Wikipedia uses this word).
• When you have found several such sources, forget everything you know or think about the company, and write an article based solely on what the independent sources say.
• When you have done this, you can add in some uncontroversial factual information (places, dates etc) from sources which are not independent.

One last point: do you have some connection with Arcgate? If you do, you have what we call a conflict of interest, and you are discouraged from editing an article about it. Furthermore, if you are in any way paid to edit (either directly, or because it is part of your employment to do so) then you must declare the fact according to the policy in Paid editing. --ColinFine (talk) 15:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Why have you denied to create a wiki page for Techno Group of Institutions?

Hi, I am Siddhartha Mondal an education expert, tried to create a page for techno group of Institutions in Lucknow but today I have notified that you have turned down my effort to make techno wiki page live. Please guide me how would i create wiki page for Educational Institutions as i have found many good institutions is not having wiki page.However, it's my sole effort to bring educational institutes name in front of students therein they can get all details before taking admission.Also, i have tried to enlist techno group of institutions under management college & universities in Lucknow but still it is under progress stage. I want help from your end, here i am leaving my contact details, please you can contact if you want.

Thanks Siddhartha Mondal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siddharthscience (talk • contribs) 12:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Siddharthscience and welcome to the Teahouse. Your article Draft:Techno Group of Institutions was not accepted because, although your references proved the existence of the subject, they did not establish WP:Notability. You need to find independent WP:Reliable sources in which the subject has been written about at length, not just mentions. The subject's own website is not independent, but may be used for some facts once you have established notability in the Wikipedia sense. Can you find some newspaper articles about the subject? Dbfirs 15:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Siddharthscience. I am afraid that, like many people, you have misunderstood what Wikipedia is, and what it is for. "Bringing educational institutes name in front of students" is an example of Promotion, which is forbidden in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not for telling people about yourself, your company, your band, your school, your charity, your town, however wonderful it may be. Wikipedia is for summarising information which has already been published about subjects. (Note in this connection that nobody and nothing "has" a Wikipedia article - not even Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia "has" articles about subjects). Please follow Dbfirs' advice. --ColinFine (talk) 15:58, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Jovita Efehi Obadolagbonyi's biography

Jovita Efehi Obadolagbonyi's biography Hello Everyone.

This is unitingwalls. I have just contributed to the article Jovita Efehi Obadolagbonyi's biography. I need some assistance to add photos and a round up editing on this subject. Your various contributions will be highly appreciated. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unitingwalls (talk • contribs) 17:06, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Unitingwalls, please stop what you are doing. Your User page is not an appropriate place to try and create an article, about you or anybody else: it is for sharing some information about you as a Wikipedia editor only. Please see WP:UP. And you have already been told that you are strongly advised against writing about yourself on Wikipedia. If you are here to help us improve the encyclopaedia, you are very welcome. If you are only here to promote yourself, then you are not. Please see your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 17:25, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Note that the draft has now been deleted as promotional. Dbfirs 17:40, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Question about notability and sourcing

Greetings, Teahouse! I am relatively new to Wikipedia editing and appreciate this forum for getting advice. Beyond making improvements to existing articles, I've been working on a stub article about a company I co-founded, Boundless. I realize I am in a conflict of interest while doing this and have declared this COI on my user page. I've had several helpful discussions with editors who have different views about the sourcing of the stub, one of whom suggested I post my questions at the Teahouse.

Here is the key question: What quantity and quality of media coverage for a company is necessary to meet the notability standard?

Here is a link to the article in draft space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Boundless_(technology_company).

You'll find the sources I have included so far to support the content of the article. (There are more sources out there, but I pared them back under the advice of an editor who warned against citation overkill.)

Many thanks in advance for this community's guidance! Messier6 (talk) 17:24, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

@Messier6: Welcome to Wikiepdia, and thanks for disclosing your conflict. Check out WP:NCORP for the notability requirements, including what sources and coverage is required. RudolfRed (talk) 17:40, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, RudolfRed! I just gave WP:NCORP another read, to make sure that I have a full understanding of the notability requirements for companies. The seven sources currently cited in Draft:Boundless (technology company) seem to unambiguously satisfy 4 out of the 5 primary criteria (independent, multiple, reliable, secondary).

I next went back and checked to see if each source also satisfies the “significant coverage” criterion (“provid[ing] an overview, description, commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization. Such coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond brief mentions and routine announcements”). Here is a summary of each source:

(1) Roose, Kevin (December 27, 2017). "Some things about tech were good in 2017". New York Times.: Three-sentence overview and description of what the company does, framed within a broader commentary on the needs of immigrants and the prior year’s technology news.

(2) Stewart, Ashley (April 28, 2017). "After Amazon, Xiao Wang strives for a clearer path to citizenship". Puget Sound Business Journal.: Article dedicated to an overview and description of the company, as well as a discussion of one founder’s relevant personal story and motivations, plus commentary about how the company’s product is relevant to current events.

(3) Nickelsburg, Monica (September 19, 2017). "Immigration startup Boundless launches tools to streamline applying for marriage-based green card". GeekWire.: Article dedicated to an overview and description of the company, as well as a discussion of one founder’s relevant personal story and motivations, evaluation of the need for the product, and commentary about how that product is relevant to current events.

(4) Lerman, Rachel (April 27, 2017). "Seattle startup Boundless helping immigrants visa complexities". Seattle Times.: Article dedicated to an overview and description of the company, as well as a discussion of two founders’ relevant personal stories and motivations, evaluation of the need for the product, commentary about how that product is relevant to current events, and analysis of the company’s relevance within the local technology community.

(5) Grant, Nico (July 24, 2017). "Immigrating to the US? These tech services say they can help". Bloomberg.: Four-paragraph overview and description of what the company does, framed within a broader commentary on the role of technology in solving a timely social problem.

(6) Nickelsburg, Monica (October 3, 2017). "Plot twist: How this startup founder went from writing plays to reshaping U.S. immigration policy". GeekWire.: Article dedicated to an overview and description of the company, as well as a discussion of a third founder’s relevant personal story and motivations, evaluation of the need for the product, and commentary about how that product is relevant to current events.

(7) Butcher, Mike (September 19, 2017). "Boundless helps you navigate the US immigration labyrinth". TechCrunch.: Article dedicated to an overview and description of the company, evaluation of the need for the product, and commentary about how that product is relevant to current events.

As far as I can tell, none of these sources fall under the “examples of trivial coverage” I reviewed in WP:NCORP, and they appear to meet the standard for significant coverage.

I appreciate this community’s continued feedback and look forward to your advice! Messier6 (talk) 18:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

One new note on this topic for RudolfRed and the rest of the the Teahouse community: Boundless has recently appeared in at least three additional sources that I believe meet the primary criteria for notability:

Muccio, Josh (April 25, 2018). "Boundless: Is Immigration the Next Venture-Scale Business? (#32)". The Pitch.

Cohen, Howard (April 12, 2018). "Need to move your immigration status along? Where you live could speed or slow the process". Miami Herald.

Wogan, JB (March 12, 2018). "To Track Opioid Use, More Cities May Soon Screen Wastewater". Governing.

I appreciate any and all feedback on this notability question! Messier6 (talk) 17:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

create new page

how i add a new wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.240.237.166 (talk) 18:04, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Creating a new Wikipedia article(which is different than "wiki page") is actually very difficult to do. It takes much time and practice to learn what is being looked for. As an IP user, you would need to submit a draft through Articles for Creation. Before you do that, I would strongly advise you to take the Wikipedia Adventure, which is a tutorial structured as a game of sorts, and maybe take some time to edit existing articles so you get a feel for what is being looked for. You should also read Your First Article and learn about notability before attempting to create an article. If you take some time to work your way up to article creation, you will have a much better experience. 331dot (talk) 18:13, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hello anonymous IP user. Welcome to our Teahouse, and thank you for your question about how you create a new wikipedia page. Just to add to what was said above, I have just left you a welcome message, which includes a range of useful links for you. In essence, you will only be successful in creating a new page which is acceptable here if all the following criteria are met:

• the topic does not already have a page here
• the topic meets our criteria for notability (i.e. that other people have noticed and written about the topic in depth) See this page for more details on what that means in reality
• the new page includes references to prove whatever factual statements you make in the article. (see this page for more on what that actually means.)
• the sources used for refeences are independent of the topic, and that the topic has been covered in depth
• the page you create is neutral in tone (like any encyclopaedia should be) and is not intended to promote the topic in any way
• the page you create follows the basic style we require all articles to follow. (I could link to lots more guidance, but just looking at other pages here to see how they appear should be enough to start with)

There are other important things I haven't mentioned, but these are the key ones. It's great you want to contribute here - thank you. But as a brand new user, I advise you to learn about how Wikipedia works by first making small edits to existing pages, because creating a new page is THE hardest task you can perform here. (it was a year before I dared to try creating my first page!) You will be quickly disappointed if you wade in and try to write something that does not look like a page from an encyclopaedia. After all - that's what we're all here for. This is said not to put you off, but to make you aware of the challenges of adding new articles to an encyclopaedia which already contains over 5.5 million articles.

Do please take the interactive The Wikipedia Adventure, which is actually quite fun to do. After learning about the basics of editing, you might wish to read Wikipedia:Your first article, and follow the links to start creating a draft page that you can work on until it's ready to be submitted to the main part of Wikipedia for all to see. If you struggle with writing in English, do remember that there are over 200 other language Wikipedias that you can also contribute to. Hoping some of this helps, and do sign all posts to talk pages with four tildes, like this: ~~~~. This will then automatically add your IP adderss or username and a timestamp. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 18:33, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Create new page for Mark Cross?

Hello! There is currently at least one link pointing to Mark Cross (retail chain) from the Georgetown Park entry. I wanted to submit an article for the overarching Mark Cross brand - should I create it under that retail chain entry, or create a new entry? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danieljflowers (talk • contribs) 15:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Danieljflowers. Welcome to our Teahouse. You ask an eminently sensible question. I will try to match it with an answer that at least makes a little sense! Firstly, the link from Georgetown Park to Mark Cross (retail chain) is a red link, meaning that the page does not yet exist on Wikipedia. So you have two options for page creation. My suggestion is that to hep you decide which, if anything is the best option, you spend some time to investigate online or in books to see what sources you can find that show either the retail chain or the Mark Cross brand (whatever that actually means) has been covered most effectively by independent, reliable sources, and in depth, too. Go with that one. It will be your use of these references that will allow other editors here to judge whether or not either of these two related topics meets our criteria for organisations. Ignore whatever the company says about itself, or which has the swankiest-looking website (I can almost smell the leather!) - just look for unrelated sources that talk about one or the other in detail, and in a non-promotional manner. Once you've got past the hurdle of creating a new article on either topic, you can go back to the Georgetown Park page and modify the redlink accordingly. Does this make sense? Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 18:51, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

An eminently helpful response, Nick Moyes! I'll look into the overall brand, then - much more ink has been spilled on that topic than on the actual physical storefront, I imagine. Thank you so much for being so helpful! Danieljflowers (talk) 21:02, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

User page help

Goodday everyone can you or anyone assist me I finally fix my user page the way I want to be permanently But I want fix the over lap of user boxes that goes to bottom page border in the middle and can you create a table to keep the user boxes fixed in, thats all DashDog01 (talk) 20:10, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Goodness, DashDog01, I don't know if there's a prize for the worst-looking userpage on Wikipedia, but to my eye all that flashing colour and huge text means you'd deserve it! Sorry, it's not to my taste at all. For guidance on userbox grouping, try this page. You know, I really am looking forward to seeing you do some actual editing on this encyclopaedia sometime soon. 131 edits to date, and not one to a mainspace article yet! In one sense it is an ironic and somewhat refreshing change from those editors who come to Wikipedia in order to create a new article with their first few edits. Regards Nick Moyes (talk) 20:43, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Just for the record, I visited, and it gave me a headache.--Quisqualis (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Well actually I am using my android smart phone to edit so I would be so judgey I have a love for using my phone and tablet to editDashDog01 (talk) 20:53, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Uh ----- how about actually getting to work reversing damage done by vandalism rather than all this effort on your User page? Also, a bad idea to provide a link on your User page to your Sandbox. The main point of Sandbox is to have a private place to create drafts of work you intend to insert into articles. Or as articles. Lastly, you have duplicate Userboxes. And because the Signator box is slightly taller than the others, the gap between rows. If you move Signator to last, the gap should disappear. David notMD (talk) 21:17, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Is it possible to "watch" a user's contributions page?

There's a user whose intent I am trying to decipher. I'm watching their Talk page, but I'd like to have an update when they make an edit. Is it possible to be updated via email?--Quisqualis (talk) 21:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Quisqualis. Off the top of my head, there is no way to receive an email notification when another user makes an edit. I took a quick look in the notification and gadgets tabs in Special:Preferences but didn't see anything that does what you want. Maybe your best bet would be to save a bookmark to the user's contributions page, e.g. Special:Contributions/Quisqualis, and to check it periodically. --kewlgrapes (talk) 21:23, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:31, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Impossible

Most people find it impossible to edit by smart phone but I am have experience with it DashDog01 (talk) 21:00, 10 April 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DashDog01 (talk • contribs) 20:59, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

See User:Cullen328/Smartphone editing Thegooduser Let's Chat 21:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Well actually I saw it already I use wikipedia more that watch TV and play video games etc I read a lot of article mostly on video and movies , anime etc so I am not entirely new than you might think so intimatating is nearly impossible DashDog01 (talk) 21:57, 10 April 2018 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by DashDog01 (talk • contribs) 21:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, DashDog01. Yes, I am a very active editor and an administrator, and I do over 95% of my editing using my Android smartphone, Chrome and Wikipedia's desktop site. It works just fine. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:00, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Just to add, DashDog01, that I have no problem editing with a small iPhone5, and a larger Android tablet, preferring always to use desktop mode. So what problems are you actually having editing, apart from the obvious? (oh, and thanks for getting rid of those flashy whatnots, mate. I'm a happy chap now!) Nick Moyes (talk) 22:57, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere

To my shock I have found through you that someone has used my material and claimed copyright. We are the owners of the Park Hotel and wrote a detailed history that they have stolen for their page. Advice please.

Anthony — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Straeger (talk • contribs) 22:05, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

This appears to be about Park Hotel @Anthony Straeger: Follow the instructions at [1] RudolfRed (talk) 22:12, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@Anthony Straeger: Please clarify the situation. Today your account created Draft:The Park Hotel, Morecambe. It was deleted for having the same text as http://gb.placedigger.com/the-park-hotel-experience1287644979.html. Are you saying that you are the original author of the text and published it somewhere outside Wikipedia, then gb.placedigger.com copied it from you, and today you published your own version again in Wikipedia? If so then where did you first publish it, and did you specify a license for it? PrimeHunter (talk) 22:36, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

That is correct. I have sent an email to wiki permission and also sent them a take down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Straeger (talk • contribs) 22:42, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Anthony Straeger, we don't need a take down. We will happily take it down and very quickly. We just need to know the exact article and the website it was copied from. GMG^talk 23:03, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not affiliated with gb.placedigger.com and cannot take down content there. Is there content at wikipedia.org which should be taken down? PrimeHunter (talk) 23:08, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

http://gb.placedigger.com/the-park-hotel-experience1287644979.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Straeger (talk • contribs) 23:06, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

The article was put on facebook for anyone to use. They just didn't expect someone to put it up and copyright it. The article has been used in part by several ghost hunting and paranormal investigation companies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Straeger (talk • contribs) 23:11, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

This article is nothing to do with wiki, but wiki have rejected the page The Park Hotel because the article is the same as the copy and they have claimed copyright - the dirty sods! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Straeger (talk • contribs) 19:13, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Anthony Straeger, if the content is previously posted elsewhere online, then we have to presume it is copyrighted, unless we have evidence that it is appropriately licensed for public use. GMG^talk 23:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Please link the Facebook page and confirm it was the first place it was published. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:39, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

How do I find unpublished articles I made?

I made a Baan Gaan article that wasn't fit to be published and now I can't find it.--Jtarvin (talk) 18:27, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello Jtarvin, and welcome to the Teahouse. You can see all your contributions to Wikipedia that have not been deleted at Special:Contributions/Jtarvin. The particular one you refer to seems to be at Draft:Saint of Braves Baan Gaan. It has not been edited since 23 December 2017. after 6 months with no edits, a draft can be deleted. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 23:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hello, Jtarvin. Welcome to our Teahouse. Might I ask you in future to ask a proper question underneath the header, and also sign your name with four tildes, like this~~~~. It took me an age to work out we'd overlooked a question and to find who it was from. In the meantime you did add the question and DESiegel has succinctly answered it. But here's my longer explanation which you might wish to refer to if you ever need to find stuff again: There are two ways to find an article you have worked on or created (providing it hasn't already been deleted). Assuming you can't remember its exact title, just check your own User Contributions when at your User or Talk page - the link is on the far left side of those pages. That will take you here. You can either browse through it chronologically, or go to the bottom of the page where there are a set of other links in the centre of the page footer. For a user who has made innumerable edits and can't remember when they worked on any given article, here they have another quite elegant way of finding new pages and drafts. In that line of links in the footer, click "Edit count" which takes you to this scary-looking summary of all your contributions But don't panic - on the left side right towards the top there's an entry entitled "Pages created". You've created three. Click that hyperlinked number, which takes you here, and lower down the page you'll see a list of everything you've created. There it's quite easy to see Draft:Saint of Braves Baan Gaan - at the time an unreferenced and possibly non-notable subject which was turned down for mainspace three times back around last Christmastime. If there were other pages that have subsequently been deleted, I'm afraid as a non-admin I have no way of seeing what they might be. Another shortcut to find links to pages you submitted to Articles for Creation is to check any rejection messages on your own Talk Page in case they're linked to there. In your case it is! I hope some of this helps. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:39, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Special Question

Is there any special place or activites to upload or share for eg : Wikipedia remixes , cool picture that kind of stuff other than Wikipedia commonsDashDog01 (talk) 23:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of, DashDog01. Only freely released images, pdfs and videos, released under an appropriate Creative Commons licence are normally available. I was rooting around recently for any pre-existing talks on the subject of Wikipedia, and found some Powerpoint lectures on Slideshare. But these are all off-wiki, uncontrolled by the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm sure there's tons of sites out there which host such content, but none could be used here unless they had been released under a proper CC licence. Maybe other editors can contribute ideas on this. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:50, 10 April 2018 (UTC) 

(edit conflict)Hello, DashDog01, welcome to the Teahouse and to Wikipedia. I am afraid the prime purpose of all activity here should be to build and improve the encyclopedia. remixes , cool picture that kind of stuff if not intended for use in an article eventually are mostly not appropriate. As one becomes a more experienced contributor, there is a bit more leeway on this -- some people do have a few pictures or texts on their user page, see the guideline for an indication of what would be appropriate. But since you currently have no contributions to any article, such slack for you is rather minimal. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 23:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

The guideline says: Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a Wikipedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the project. Please follow it. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 23:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

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Hi this is sridhar from tamil wikipedia my user id is Dsesringp .I am writing 2018 IPL in tamil. but i cannot copy the League match match summary report. how can i copy that. please help me anyone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsesringp (talk • contribs) 11:44, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Dsesringp, welcome to the Teahouse. I am sorry you've had to wait a long time for a reply. For myself, I was not sure what exactly you were asking. I now see that you want to use the article on 2018 Indian Premier League, and copy over this table into the Tamil Wikipedia page on that topic. Is that correct? If you do, you may copy what we call the 'wikimarkup' for that table and pasting it into the Tamil version, providing you use an edit summary on the Tamil page which attributes (explains where it came from). That would be enough to give credit to those on en.wiki who created it. If there are references that support the data in that table, you should link to that too, of course, in the ta.wiki itself. My advice would be to experiment in your sandbox whilst converting from one language to another, rather than trying to do it on the live Tamil wikipedia page. You should not be using the Visual Editor tool whilst you copy the table - you need to click "Edit source" to view what we call the markup (it looks a bit like html code). Hold on! I see now why you say you cannot copy it. It's because the table is inserted into the 2018IPL page by means of a template. You will need to visit this template page where you can copy the markup code. Do please remember to attribute (give credit) by linking to the url of the page you have copied from. Does this give you the answer you seek, or have I completely misunderstood what you are asking? If so, please accept my apologies, and come back and explain your needs again. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 17:53, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Thankyou so much sir. Now i understood . Thanks for your help. Would you don't mind please explain , how to use the semi protected images to the tamil article. Some images are in english article but i can't use it for the tamil articles. So please help me--Dsesringp (talk) 01:49, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Lee everette

Dear telltale, Hello my name is <redacted>. When TWD season one came put I immediately fell in love with lee. He was like my father when my parents weren't around to watch me like i would play this game and think "wow when i grow up i want my personality to be just like Lee's" or "I love Lee he thinks about everyone except himself". I was like 9 or 8 when this game came out when me and my father (who looks exactly like Lee) were browsing gamestop and decided to get the game! Yes i know the question im about to ask you is very late because you guys are working on other projects now like "The Wolf Among Us" (i love that game too) or Minecraft. But i would like to know know if you can make a season of Lee's background and find out how he became the man he was. I know this is a big question for a fan to be asking but im curious i love lee like blood nobody else has a connection to him like me and i would like to know more about his childhood if its not to much to ask thanks!74.70.88.186 (talk) 03:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, 74.70.88.186, and welcome to the Teahouse. This is Wikipedia, not a television network, production studio, or game design company. We only write about things that exist, we don't create new things. We can't help you with this here. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 04:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

"The Tapper Twins" as proposed article

Hello! I am just wondering if I can write an article about published books that aren't very well known or popular. The one I have in mind is a book called The Tapper Twins but it barely any sources covering it. Can I still write about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThunderHenry (talk • contribs) 01:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

I gave this its own section title, as it had nothing do to with DD's Q&A. David notMD (talk) 02:25, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, ThunderHenry and welcome to the Teahouse. I'm afraid the answer is "probably not". Unless the subject is notable, there can't be an article about it on Wikipedia. Please read the general notability guideline and our guideline on the notability of books. A book mthat has barely any sources covering it is probably not notable. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 04:11, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek series)...misrepresentation of Garak's BIO-photo identification

Photo incorrectly reveals picture of Gul Damar, Garak's 'Cardassian enemy'. Garak, once part of the Obsidian Order (and, not so simple tailor, on DS-9), would never "sport" (i.e. wear) a military "Gul"-uniform; as clearly depicted in that representative photo [BIO sidebar box]. Please make appropriate change for those of us, whom are...diehard "Trekkies". Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AA7C:E1E9:C580:5F35:B816:AFB6 (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, anonymous IP user. Not being a major Star Trek fan, all you just said made no sense whatsoever to me! That said, I'm afraid this Teahouse is here to assist people with problems and in the mechanism of how to edit Wikipedia in general, not to make changes to articles for them. I reckon you should go to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - or whichever page is most relevant to this issue - and click its Talk Page and put your concerns there. Those who understand this topic will no doubt assist you in making those changes. Sorry we can't do this for you ourselves...unless, of course, we have seem keen Trekkies amongst the Teahouse Hosts here? Live long and edit. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 20:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

The article in question is Elim Garak. As far as I can tell, the photo is of the correct character, contrary to what the OP says. Admittedly it's not the best photo. Several images marked as "fair use" exist on the Memory Alpha wiki, but I'm not sure they would pass our image use policy. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:47, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Not sure, I asked at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Star_Trek#Elim_Garak. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:49, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Online video content

Hi, I just came across an article that has a direct link through to a Youtube video. The article is Veerey Ki Wedding which is a Bollywood film that came out in March of this year. In the cast list there is a link through to an online streaming of the full film which rang alarm bells with me. Is this against Wikipedia policy? Rodney Baggins (talk) 07:36, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Unless the film is posted on the production company's official YouTube channel, then it falls under WP:COPYVIO and you should definitely remove the link. Good eye! MatthewVanitas (talk) 09:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

OK, thank you. I thought it was worth checking before I did anything about it. Rodney Baggins (talk) 14:54, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
→ I've now removed the video link from the Veerey Ki Wedding article. If anyone objects or tries to add it back in again I might ask for you to intervene at some point. Thanks. Rodney Baggins (talk) 07:36, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Help me to create a biography

I Just created a Wikipedia account.

I have content ready for creating a page for the philosopher.

I have no idea of where to add content as per Wikipedia guidances — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gccampus (talk • contribs) 07:38, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello Gccampus, and welcome to the Teahouse. Start by taking the time to read Wikipedia:Your first article carefully. If you then conclude that your article is likely to "stick" on WP, go ahead and create it, or even better, create it as a Help:Userspace draft and work on it there until it's ready. Otherwise it will likely be deleted. Creating an acceptable WP-article without any experience in what WP expects is hard, but it can be done. Be aware though, we already have an article about The Philosopher ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:53, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

What happened to my userpage?

I have another question. Hopefully this will be my last one. I was editing my userpage and something weird happened. I was trying to put a section onto my userpage, but it doesn't display properly. How do i fix this? PorkchopGMX 13:38, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@PorkchopGMX: Is it like you want now? The headings on that page were "level 1 headings" (i.e. one equal sign on each end), which is not allowed. Effectively, the article title is the level 1 title - any headings on that page should be level 2 or below. I fixed them and it looks okay to me, but I'm not sure what result you were after.--Gronk Oz (talk) 15:05, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@Gronk Oz: If you revert my edit (clear template) you'll see the problem. The bottom heading doesn't show and there is a small amount of text on the far right of the page. Looks like it's the coding of one of the badge templates causing it. - X201 (talk) 15:45, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

I haven't found documentation for it but I think you are always supposed to make a {{clear}} or something similar if you want to display user page code after Wikipedia Adventure badges. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:07, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello PorkchopGMX and welcome to the Teahouse.

I've run into this issue before, but never quite figured it out until now. Here's what I think is happening. Templates for the badges specify a style parameter of float:left and a width of 33%. These parameters have the effect of causing the browser to render the badges as 3 columns. Note that 3 times 33% is only 99%, so there is still space for a 1%-width column for the next unsuspecting div that comes along without specifying a width parameter. That's the reason one needs to do a {{clear}} after the badges. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 16:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

That explains it. Good work Sherlock. - X201 (talk) 09:16, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

New user. Review needed

Hi. Please can you review the article created in my sandbox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jehanlatief/sandbox Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jehanlatief (talk • contribs) 10:45, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

hello, Jehanlatief, and welcome to the Teahouse. You haven't formally submitted User:Jehanlatief/sandbox for review as a draft article, but if you had I would decline it. It is way too promotional -- practically every line is marketing speak. Phrases such as specialises in marketing and project management, centres on developing entrepreneurial marketing and business solutions, Striving to harness maximum socioeconomic impact, to grow the economy and facilitate the integration of these particular sectors, and partnering with major brands across sectors are all classic promotional marketing-speak. Wikipedia articles must be neutral and factual. I havent even checked out your sources cited -- at this stage there is no point, although i hope that they are independent. Franky the best way forward is to start over using your sources, and discarding this text.

Are you by any chance affiliated with this firm, or under contract to them? I ask because this is so classic a piece of marketing. Do read our conflict of interest guideline and our policy on paid editing, please DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 11:08, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Oh I see on your user page that you have properly declared a Conflict of interest. Thank you for doing so, Jehanlatief. But that means that adhering to [[WP:NPOV is even more important for you than for other editors. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 11:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Some steps to follow:

• First, review our guideline on notability, our policy on Verifiability, and our specific guideline on the notability of businesses. Consider whether your subject clearly meets the standards listed there.
• Second, read how to create Your First Article and referencing for beginners and again consider if you want to go ahead.
• Third, disclose your connection with the subject in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure. This is absolutely required; omitting it can result in you being blocked from further editing.
• Fourth, gather sources. You want independent, professionally published, reliable sources with each discussing the subject in some detail. If you can't find several such sources, stop; an article will not be created! Sources do NOT need to be online, or in English, although it is helpful if at least some are. The "independent" part is vital. Wikipedia does not consider as independent sources such as press releases, or news stories based on press releases, or anything published by the subject itself or an affiliate of the subject. Strictly local coverage is also not preferred. Regional or national newspapers or magazines, books published by mainstream publishers (not self-published), or scholarly journals are usually good. So are online equivalents of these. (Additional sources may verify particular statements but not discuss the subject in detail. But those significant detailed sources are needed first.)
• Fifth, use the article wizard to create a draft under the articles for creation project. This is always a good idea for an inexperienced editor, but in the case of an editor with a conflict of interest it is essential.
• Sixth, use the sources gathered before (and other sources you may find along the way) to write the article. Cite all significant statements to sources. Do not express opinions or judgements, unless they are explicitly attributed to named people or entities, preferably in a direct quotation, and cited to a source. Do not use puffery or marketing-speak. Provide page numbers, dates, authors and titles for sources to the extent these are available. A title is always needed.
• Seventh, when (well perhaps if) your draft is declined, pay attention to the comments of the reviewer, and correct the draft and resubmit it. During this whole process, if you face any unresolvable editing hurdles, or cannot comprehend any editing issue, feel free to post a request at the Teahouse or the help desk and ask the regulars. Repeat this until the draft passes review.

Congratulations, you have now created a valid Wikipedia article. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 11:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the comprehensive feedback. Will give it another go now. --Jehanlatief (talk) 12:45, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Just a heads up that I have updated the article. Hope it's okay for publishing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jehanlatief/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jehanlatief (talk • contribs) 13:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Lindsay Clare/Arch for Arch

Hi there, I have written this article and am new to editing on Wikipedia. Please can you review and let me know if it is ready to be moved to the main space. Feel free to do so if you deem it ready. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lindsay_Clare/Arch_for_Arch

Thanks! Lindsay Clare (talk) 12:00, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Unintentionally, you created it in main space. As such, the name User:Lindsay Clare/Arch for Arch will need to be changed. David notMD (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

No, User:Lindsay Clare/Arch for Arch is a valid subpage of the user page User:Lindsay Clare. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I am more used to seeing draft articles as Draft: or in a user's Sandbox. I leave to others whether it is ready for main space, either directly or AfC (Articles for Creation). David notMD (talk) 14:24, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.214.17.86 (talk) 14:48, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

How to reform my "essay" ways

Hello Teahouse! I wonder if you might be able to help me with my Draft:BlackEnergy Malware page. I thought I did a fair job summarizing and presenting objective, informative information. Unfortunately I've gotten the dreaded "read too much like an essay" declination. Please help me change my ways so I can present a useful article. Direction and insight is much appreciated. J n johan (talk) 15:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

I made a very minor edit to your posting here, J n johan, only wikilinking the title of your draft. I did a bit of gnome work on your draft too, without changing any content. I cannot really assess your draft as I'm currently using a device that won't open PDF files (I know...lame). I'd suggest you look to other articles listed in Category:Malware for some style hints. And keep in mind, the target audience for your potential article is normal everyday educated people, not computer professionals. Remember, in an encyclopedia, we do not write about the subject, we write about what has been written about the subject. At a glance, it appears you need more and better sources. You should also emphasize the history more and the technical stuff less. John from Idegon (talk) 16:38, 11 April 2018 (UTC)