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How do you edit a page closed to editing that is hate speech, totally biased and founded on lies?

How do you edit a page closed to editing that is hate speech, totally biased and founded on lies? ~2025-32460-19 (talk) 04:04, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Typically on the talk page of an article, you can make an edit request. However it's best to be precise in what you believe needs to be changed, and provide a reliable source supporting the change. – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 04:08, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, anonymous user. Hekatlys is right in general, but note that if the article falls within any of the areas listed as Contentious topics, then anonymous editors (and new accounts) are not permitted even to post requests on the article's talk page. ColinFine (talk) 13:46, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

That is not at all true. Even the extended-confirmed restriction (which only applies to a handful of contentious topics) says that Non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace only to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. jlwoodwa (talk) 02:15, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

It would be easier for us to help you if instead of asking a general question, you actually got to the meat and potatoes of what you are actually talking about.

Wikipedia doesn't claim to be free of bias, as all sources of information have biases. Sources are presented to readers so they csn evaluate and judge them for themselves when determining what they think about what they read. You may read an article and disagree with everything presented. If the sources in an article are not being accurately summarized, please detail the errors on the article talk page. If the sources are being accurately summarized, but are in error, you will need to take that up with the sources directly and get them to issue corrections, or provide more current sources with what you deem more accurate information.

If sources in an article are so biased that they make things up out of whole cloth with no basis, that is a matter for the reliable sources noticeboard.

Some contentious topics(not all) have restrictions on editing by users with non-temporary or new accounts, meaning you cannnot contribute to them unless you register a username and it is 30 days old with 500 edits. 331dot (talk) 13:58, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

I'd also suggest that you read WP:TRUTH. 331dot (talk) 13:59, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

My money is that the article they're complaining about is under a 500/30 restriction (specifically, that of the PIA area). —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 03:47, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

that or some indian caste stuff that people tend to get heated over mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 18:27, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

On Wikipedia, people are sometimes ignored if they try to get advice without admitting what they're really talking about. When you don't immediately give the name of the article you're thinking of, that's exactly the kind of thing that can make other editors ignore you.

In my opinion, this is a very good feature of Wikipedia, because when a person seems like they're trying to avoid getting caught by not revealing their true intentions, usually that IS exactly what they're doing.

Because of all that, I suggest that you always say exactly which article you're talking about, and always say exactly which changes you want to make. When you do that, others may disagree with you, but you will get more respect and better answers. TooManyFingers (talk) 04:53, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Using Google Earth historic satellite imagery as a reference

I am having difficulty finding any documentation for the closure of a runway. The FAA doesn't archive Chart Supplements or Airport Diagrams and no news sources exist talking about the closure. I have found that the runway was closed sometime between 2015 and 2017 based on Google Earth satellite images, but that's as much as I can narrow it down. Without those images the most it can be narrowed down is between 2014 and 2020. Is it okay to use Google Earth as a reference in this manner? I have used Google Maps as a reference before, but never Google Earth. Would I just use cite web for this if it is acceptable? ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 00:02, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

@Mccunicano Hello! Which runway on which airport are we talking about? Polygnotus (talk) 00:14, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Using_maps_as_sources Polygnotus (talk) 00:17, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

@Polygnotus: That's quite the lengthy RFC there. I am going to do a big update on the article Macon Downtown Airport. Runway 10-28 is still in use but the cross runway was closed in either late 2016 or early 2017. Since a regrading project happened on 10-28 last year, the former runway only exists as an unmarked taxiway to a hangar used by the Georgia Forestry Commission and has otherwise either been abandoned or obliterated. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 02:08, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

You could probably pave most of the runway with that RfC if you printed it. Polygnotus (talk) 17:43, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

@Mccunicano: if you do use Google Earth I would suggest attaching a note to the citation explaining your methodology. I don't know the best syntax to achieve that. I guess using Google Earth like this is a placeholder until a reliable source is eventually found. However, ultimately, if it didn't get reported anywhere, is it really up to Wikipedia to mention it? Commander Keane (talk) 12:21, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

{{efn}} Polygnotus (talk) 14:53, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice and humor, for now I am just sticking with what can be determined based on currently-accessible news coverage. Runways don't get removed on a whim and without cost, so I suspect I can track down a reliable source on it, eventually. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 00:26, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Google Drive urls in references

Do we have a policy or guideline on linking to documents hosted on Google Drive (drive.google.com) in article references? It worries me from a basic information security point of view, and there may be other issues - but I imagine this has already been discussed and resolved one way or the other. I just can't find where. NebY (talk) 18:37, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

How is it different than linking to google books, google search, a linkedin profile, an X profile etc ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:50, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Very different, IMHO. A Google Books URL is a document that Google has digitised, categorised, and is publicly searchable. A Google Drive is just some random persons' personal filestore. Could be anything.

I would suggest that most Google Drive URLs would fail the published requirement for sources, so should be removed. qcne (talk) 19:39, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Well, we don't know what sort of thing we're getting when we click such a link - it could be a plain pdf, a document or spreadsheet with embedded macros, or an image, or I think an executable, yet we're saying to readers that they can click on it to verify our content. There's no indication of who controls the Google account, which is in one sense who is publishing the file (an RS publisher, the editor, who?). Can they change it leaving the url working? I don't know Google Drive urls well enough to say. I'm guessing the document or whatever isn't archivable by archive.org or suchlike, but I might be wrong. There may well be other issues; that's why I was rather hoping to find prior discussion.

If it helps, here's a current example. NebY (talk) 19:05, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Not sure if there's previous discussions, but I would personally treat it as unreliable and completely remove it. – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 19:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

There are several previous discussions in the WP:RSPS archive. See this list. Personally, I would ban all such uses. Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:15, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

.... However, we have over 5,700 of them Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:18, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

One at a time, I suppose. I may have a deeper look at this later when I have time, but I cannot see any logical reason to keep them in-use on Wikipedia. – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 18:25, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

In the example above the Google Drive pdf is mirrored from/at lucyletbyinnocence.com and indeed available at archive.org. When removing Google Drive URLs, but please put in some work to resolve them rather than just guessing and blindly removing. Maybe someone downloaded the file to their personal Google Drive, used the resource and linked to their copy rather than the official one. Help them, and Wikipedia's readers, out by fixing it. Banning all use may be problematic if someone links to reliable source that happens to be on a Google Drive when they could have linked to a reliable version. Again, it can be fixed with effort. Commander Keane (talk) 05:28, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @Michael D. Turnbull, I'm now kicking myself I didn't find those discussions. I must read through them; I'm a little surprised they didn't result in any addition to WP:RSP. And thanks to all for youur responses, helping me see it more clearly. NebY (talk) 12:59, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@NebY They did result in being added to the script for unnreliable sources which many long-term editors use. Hence the URL link in your Expert Panel report citation is pink when I view it here. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:57, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks again! Installed and working, hope it doesn't find so many I go mad. NebY (talk) 19:28, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Was there a change to timestamps?

I had either a userscript or a gadget or a preference that when I clicked a timestamp in a sig, it would open up the diff for me. Now, hovering over it I see the link for the diff in the corner of my browser, but in clicking, it gets hijacked and fills my url bar with a long anchor link, and does not open the diff link I see when hovering. For example., on todays feature article talk page, it adds #c-Galebazz-2021-08-07T18:25:00.000Z-Splitting_into_two_articles to my url, even though I see in the corner of firefox that I am hovering on the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1017469394/1037626755

Just wondering what happened during my wikibreak, and if I can go back to my old ways. I also have tons of userscripts, so if its conflicting userscripts, I'll sort it out, but I figured y'all would know if there was a MediaWiki change. Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 06:44, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

@IAmChaos: The diff feature is User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs which is loaded in User:IAmChaos/common.js. It conflicts with a newer default feature which cannot be disabled as far as I can tell. If I hold down Ctrl while clicking the time stamp then the diff opens in a new tab (this is a general Firefox feature for all links). Does that work for you and is it good enough? You can change to the new tab with the mouse or Ctrl+Page Down. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:03, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Is there a mac version of control click? Both Command and Control link to the comment, and when doing option and clicking open in new tab, it opens the link to comment in new tab. Shift click opens in new window. If not that's fine, I wanted to check. Sad that the new feature can't be disabled. Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 17:03, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Update: I'm reading now: see mw:Project:Tech News/2024#Tech News: 2024-05 and phab:T302011. Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 17:08, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

@IAmChaos: A mouse middle-click may open a new tab but if your method opens the link to comment then a middle-click may do the same. I'm on Windows 11. Ctrl-click is the general method to open a link in a new tab. It's not a way to select one potential link target over another. Both middle-click and Ctrl-click give the diff for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:46, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

I think I'll just lose the script. Diffs would be much nicer for me than super long urls, but I'll make do with what mediawiki gives us. Thanks for the help! Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 21:21, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Usually, when Windows has control-click, Mac has command-click. That used to be quite a reliable rule, but I'm not sure if it still is.

That doesn't prevent either side from overriding the usual rule in a special case, and this could be a special case. TooManyFingers (talk) 04:59, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, as I mentioned, I tried that. Neither control nor command worked, but I'm sure I'll get over my loss. Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 05:01, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

List of conspiracy theories#Sports

List of conspiracy theories#Sports

wheres "world cup 2022 is rigged" ~2025-31383-46 (talk) 07:59, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia content is based on reliable sources. Where are your reliable sources stating it was rigged?Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:20, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/world-cup-rigged-lionel-messi-louis-van-gaal-claim-argentina-netherlands-qatar/blt8be048a9dc620013 world cup being rigged is a conspricy theory and deserves to be added in list of conspricies ~2025-31383-46 (talk) 09:25, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-31383-46 That is obviously a claim by one person. I am not seeing a conspiracy theory anywhere. Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:22, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/lionel-messi-louis-van-gaal-fifa-world-cup-2022-rigged-favour-van-dijk-controversy-argentina-vs-netherlands/article67277125.ece ~2025-31383-46 (talk) 03:09, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

As Shantavira pointed out, that is just one person's opinion. Meters (talk) 04:24, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpjTrSsDaQ ~2025-31383-46 (talk) 08:41, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@Shantavira, I think you mean "Where are your reliable sources stating that there is/was a conspiracy theory claiming that it was rigged?" ColinFine (talk) 19:31, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

How to know if the biography from different Wikipedia is worth the article in En Wiki?

I found this article Wikipedia:Notability (people), but it's not clear if the person needs to be notable worldwide or can be notable on a country level. I have two articles (on Polish Wikipedia):

• pl:Andrzej Dragan
• pl:Urszula Wolska

The first person is a well known professor (there are 5 langauges) and the second is an artist, she was listed on this page Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Artists. Dragan may be more known outside the country, he is a researcher, Wolska is not that well known outside of Poland (article is only in one language).

How to decide if I can create articles for them in En Wiki. They are notable in pl Wiki, but I'm not sure about en Wiki. jcubic (talk) 10:19, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

This Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion are summarised at WP:42. More specifically, for academics we also have WP:NPROF, and for artists WP:NARTIST. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:21, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

jcubic If you want advice on the notability of a woman's biography, you can ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. Different Wikipedias have different criteria, so a pl article is not necessarily notable in en. TSventon (talk) 12:38, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon: I know that different Wikipedia have different criteria, that's why I'm asking this question. Will try to ask on project talk page. From my experience, most projects on Wikipedia (at least on Polish Wiki) are dead and no one replies. jcubic (talk) 17:28, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jcubic: there are a lot of dead en wikiprojects, I would advise looking for recent replies before posting on a project talk page, but Women in Red is active. TSventon (talk) 17:38, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Yes, I've read that. The link to that article is in the question. It don't answer my question. Those statements are very generic, similar to the one we have in Polish Wiki. It doesn't explain what citation is. Should it be English worldwide citation, or can it be citation in a different language. Is the article notable if all reference are language other than English? jcubic (talk) 17:27, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jcubic: the general guidance on notability for humans is Wikipedia:Notability (people). The main requirment (basic criteria) is have they received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. It doesn't matter if the sources are from Poland or in Polish. There are also more specialised guidelines, e.g. for academics. TSventon (talk) 17:41, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

"That"? I gave you three links. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:45, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing and Jcubic: I should have said that Wikipedia:Notability says that sources can come from anywhere in the world and be in any language. TSventon (talk) 17:52, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes! the biography from different Wikipedia is worth the article in En Wiki!

Piñanana (talk) 19:12, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Utilizing AI to translate Chinese/Japanese articles into English.

I am interested in translating some articles from Japanese Wiki into English Wiki using AI.

So, there are now AI tools capable of translating much more comprehensive Wikipedia articles from Japanese or Chinese into English without losing context, better than DeepL or Google translation due to their ability to scour the Internet for context.

One example is Google’s AI Studio, which has an option to more or less quickly analyze Japanese texts for historical accuracy, resulting in consistent naming and far less discrepancies as compared to ordinary machine translation. I was pretty amazed because it made hitherto impossible to understand machine translations legible.

So, I have a simple question.

Would it be a good practice / is it allowed to fully copy well-researched articles from foreign-language Wikipedia, translate them using such AI tools, and then paste the content into the English Wikipedia, citing only the original foreign-language article as the source?

I am somewhat well-read on certain topics, so I'd be able to spot the obvious translation errors, but the problem I have is the workload with sources.

For example, the Japanese Wikipedia article on Kiyohime is far more robust and detailed than the English version. It could be made vastly more accessible to the English-speaking audience if AI translation tools were used.

The problem, I mentioned, is the general paucity of foreign wikipedia articles. A character from a Fujiwara clan can have an entire wikipedia page on JP wikipedia, but not exist in the English one. Worse still, a JP article can have hundreds of sources, but to copy them one to one into EN wiki would just be far too work intensive, if every source, reference, and hyperlink were to be included.~2025-33734-00 (talk) 14:29, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Do not under any circumstances use AI to translate Wikipedia articles from one language to another, unless you are capable of reading both languages yourself, and are prepared to carefully check that the entire translation is supported by sources you can also read yourself. Given the well-documented, routine, and unavoidable tendency of AI to 'hallucinate' where it lacks data, such translations simply cannot be trusted. Any article translation of any reasonable complexity will contain errors and falsehoods, and you will be responsible for dealing with them. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:56, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Even if they do the things you mention, it's still leaving the AI or original article to determine structure, covered topics, points of view, and other things which should be intentionally chosen. I'd just throw the whole thing out - I wouldn't give the editor a mop to clean-up :) --Edwin Herdman (talk) 22:44, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello @~2025-33734-00. To add to what Andy said: in articles in many Wikipedias (and also in many older articles in English Wikipedia) the sources cited are nowhere near adequate for an article to be added to English Wikipedia today. Translating an article from another Wikipedia (whether manually or with machine assistance) is a waste of time unless you first verify that the sources are adequate by the current standards of English Wikipedia (see WP:42). ColinFine (talk) 19:36, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Beyond all the good and useful answers you already received, there's this: The large amount of extra work forced on you by the errors of AI is probably much worse than just writing a completely new article that's in English from the start.

Using AI here is like asking a three-year-old to cook dinner for four people; you already know you're going to have to redo the entire thing. TooManyFingers (talk) 05:10, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Using AI here is like asking a shopping website for the best cheapest product in a category, it will recommend the product with the highest profit, hide items for corporate reasons, and other tactics. AI services are not "altruistic".

Piñanana (talk) 19:20, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for asking instead of just doing it :) I don't have a problem with automating needlessly repetitive formatting tasks, but there's many appropriate tools, like a citation builder, and their output still needs to be checked. However, you're also giving over full interpretative and editorial control to the AI. You can't guarantee that an AI won't do more in a 'formatting pass' than you asked for. A more 'consistent' translation may look reasonable, but be wrong.

Even if I ask the best human experts hand translate the article, we don't know if it is good for English Wikipedia. We might not want the same structure, conclusions, and points of view. It might not be considered notable here (sad noises).

There's no rush to translate an entire article at once, even though there's many more articles to translate than we have the time. Good articles are still built up slowly over time. It's no big deal if you have to flag an article as incomplete, but it is a big deal if you publish an article with subtle errors that will stick around for a long time (it happens anyway, but we want to avoid it by checking each step). I don't know if you've written Wikipedia articles before, so I'd suggest practicing smaller edits before going for a full essay. You don't have to know all the Wikipedia rules and tools, or be a subject expert before you edit, but people won't tolerate pretending to do the work.

Citation builders and machine translators may be useful to you personally, but so are the groups and editors that cover various topics. If you have something interesting, try reaching out to them and see if it's useful to them. Just make sure you're paying attention to any step you're involved in, and don't assume any automated tool is correct. --Edwin Herdman (talk) 22:31, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

• Never, ever use AI to translate from Japanese to English. It does not work. Never, ever incorporate translated Japanese Wikipedia articles into the English Wikipedia without substantial review. The Japanese Wikipedia has very different standards. Most of its articles lack anything close to the kind of sourcing we require here, and are often written from a purely Japanese perspective. Japanese Wikipedia articles can be useful for gathering sources, but the articles themselves are very rarely good enough to serve as the basis for an article on the English Wikipedia. There are human translators on the English Wikipedia, such as myself, who would be happy to provide assistance as needed. Yours, &c. RGloucester — ☎ 01:54, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Google books previews greyed out on W11

Finally found the time and health to work on an article using Google books preview. I had started a few days ago but too tired from cancer pain. Feeling better today and went back to the page. I had the window I wanted open and I could see the text I wanted. Now it isn't visible, just a greyed out window without the preview. [1] Doug Weller talk 16:02, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Try the link here instead as a workaround for the time being. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Frozen_Echo.html?id=5qonlDkZW3MC – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 16:06, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

The Preview button is blue, nothing happens. Window won't accept text. Thanks though. Doug Weller talk 16:17, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm lucky in that I have this particular book - I thought it might have been buried when stuff was moved around heavily in my study and bookshelves removed with books stacked up in anticipation of having to move my bed downstàirs. Right leg swollen and serious pain , last stage of my cancer.But I'm getting a stairlift and found the book. But there are others I need to look at also, they are all the same. Doug Weller talk 16:28, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

That's a little annoying that the workaround worked for me, but isn't doing the same for you. I'm looking for alternatives as well, but the previews seem more limited than Google. Not sure if another web browser would change the results for the Google preview(s). – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 16:35, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

See [2]. Doug Weller talk 16:35, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Going back to classic Google books seems to work for me, e.g. https://books.google.com/books?id=5qonlDkZW3MC . TSventon (talk) 16:49, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Not for me sadly. Greyed out, clicking on the large X upper right hand corner doesn't work either. Doug Weller talk 16:58, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: there is a discussion on Reddit about the same problem, started 6 hours ago, so presumably Google will get onto it in due course. TSventon (talk) 21:35, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon@Hekatlys Working now. Leg pain bad enough, now I'm losing energy as food doesn't just taste horrible, it tastes and swallows like sand. Trying soup which at least I can gulp down and my wife is making me an American eggnog with full fat milk ! Doug Weller talk 11:48, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Next course of action?

This user has been warned many times regarding their edits to political pages. Some of them may not be disruptive but are pointless (like swapping the order of two similar fields in an infobox for tens of articles), others may be mistakes of questionable faith.

In spite of these many warnings, the user does not seem to change their approach. What is the right course of action here? I feel ill-equipped to approach the WP:ANI directly. Kingsacrificer (talk) 18:02, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

See WP:DR, but if warnings have already been given, ANI is likely the correct approach. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:31, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

New style IP's and reporting to WP:VIP

Hi. I just found the page about temporary accounts, which details the reasons behind the change regarding no longer displaying public IP addresses. Could I please ask if there is any advice on reporting the temporary accounts to VIP in the event of vandalism? Do we simply copy & paste the link to the account? Alternatively, does the Twinkle system support these new addresses, because that would make reporting easier, in the event of having to do so. Thank you. Dane|Geld 19:20, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@DaneGeld: yes, copy and paste the link to the account. If you look at the recent history of WP:AIV, you will see temporary accounts being reported and blocked. TSventon (talk) 23:18, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

aren't the Belize banknotes supposed to be the new and updated one?

saw the old banknotes and I was confused ~2025-33821-55 (talk) 20:03, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

The article Belize dollar does seem to have the 2003 issue as it's main image, rather than the 2025 issue. An editor may volunteer to upload a more recent image, but I can't imageine anyone is in a rush to do so. -- D'n'B-📞 -- 20:25, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-33821-55 Countries are often very careful about the copyright of their banknotes, which is one reason that even the 2003 issue marked "Specimen" are only on Wikipedia under fair use terms. You would have to be careful that any image of the 2025 series met all the criteria at WP:NONFREE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 23:12, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Essays by inbound link count

Resolved

There is a page that lists Wikipedia essays by inbound link count. What is the URL? Polygnotus (talk) 21:46, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@Polygnotus This: Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia essays/Assessment/Links? — DVRTed (Talk) 22:00, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

@DVRTed You are a genius, thank you! Polygnotus (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Publishing assistance

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Hi guys,

Sorry for a follow up question but I am unable to find a way to ask questions on threads as they get closed before i can get an answer as to my question.

I "think" i have submitted my draft for publication but its been a long time now with no feedback or updates from wikipedia / in my email so I am not sure if my article has even been submitted for publication.

Can someone please look at my draft and let me know if it has actually gone in for submission or not? Any help appreciated. Im new to wikipedia and finding it all rather confusing!! Thank you in advance. LJ12345 (talk) 00:58, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Answered on your user talk page. 331dot (talk) 01:03, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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Help

I'm stuck here. How do I get out??? ~2025-33851-90 (talk) 03:46, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

What do you mean by 'here'? This is the Help Desk for the English-language Wikipedia. A webpage, and not something you can get 'stuck' in. AndyTheGrump (talk) 03:50, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

The best way to beat your addiction is to improve the place. Polygnotus (talk) 04:02, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Anna Maria Horsford

Anna Maria Horsford

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,

I just noticed and I’m so sorry that there wasn’t either a birthday listed or better information on the parents of one of my favorite actresses, Anna Maria Horsford, on your website, but here is a listing of that information and a solid credible reference for that information for your wonderful website. And the source of that information is from thebiography.org, which specializes in such biographies. Thank you so much.

I’m submitting this information to you first, as you are the esteemed editors of Wikipedia, and please feel free to include it in your own wordage for your webpage on her as you see fit.

Again, my reference for this information is:

Wanberg, Daniel. thebiography.org. “Anna Maria Horsford Biography: Husband, Net Worth, Children.” Oct. 29, 2025. Accessed Nov. 15, 2025. <https://thebiography.org/anna-maria-horsford-biography-husband-net-worth-children/>. ClassicMac2025 (talk) 05:21, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately websites with mass-produced celebrity biographies with no original reporting or primary sources are usually AI generated. It probably used https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/anna-maria-horsford-horoscope as a source, which we would classify as unreliable. If a website claims it knows the net worth of some celebritity it is time to be suspicious.Polygnotus (talk) 05:30, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

What you could do is check her social media around March 6. Polygnotus (talk) 05:40, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

I’d like to create a Wikipedia page

I’d like to create a Wikipedia page Mark Anthony Locklear (talk) 05:57, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi! What would the topic be? I would recommend reading WP:YOURFIRSTARTICLE. Have a nice day, Polygnotus (talk) Polygnotus (talk) 06:04, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Mark Anthony Locklear. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 11:18, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@Mark Anthony Locklear And please don't try to create an autobiography as you are not notable as required if Wikipedia is to have an article about you, judging by Google hits for your name. (Neither am I). Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:03, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Justus Smith Stearns

I just created a new article on Justus Smith Stearns. How do I get "nationality" in the Infobox Person box to show as American? How do I get a Contents box to show the section titles? Thanks. California Broker (talk) 12:04, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for your contributions! You actually very rarely need nationalities of people in their infoboxes, and it's typically not recommended. For transparency anyway, the parameter is |citizenship=. Please use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT. jolielover♥talk 12:47, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Create redirect from "Peter Park"

• Peter Park (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I would like to create a redirect from "Peter Park" {it states that "CactusWriter protected Peter Park [Create=Require administrator access] (indefinite)"}. Do you know on which forum I should file such a request? --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:10, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jax 0677:, you could start by contacting the admin who protected the article name, see WP:SALT. TSventon (talk) 14:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Script warning

I recently created Justus Smith Stearns. In preview mode it displays these warnings below. What are they and how do I fix.

• This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved! → Go to editing area
• Script warning: One or more {{cite book}} templates have errors; messages may be hidden (help).
• Script warning: One or more {{cite news}} templates have maintenance messages; messages may be hidden (help).

Thanks for help. California Broker (talk) 15:47, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Did you use some sort of AI tool to create that article? AI is known to have problems with citing sources. Bingham 1924 and Caudill 1983 are obviously malformed/intermixed; they both can't have the same ISBN; Caudill 1983 title is malformed.

Stearns obituary and Long Life are not surnames, 'Vol XLIII No.92' is not a given name, 'February 14, 1933' is not a publisher (2×). Don't abuse cs1|2 template parameters.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:17, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Seems fixed? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:38, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, fixed! Now how do I get a Contents Box in the first paragraph to list the section headers of the article? California Broker (talk) 20:48, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Not really. Caudill 1983 still has a malformed title.

Did you click the 'hide' link? Did you try clicking the 'show' link? I see these section headings in the contents box:

1. Early life
2. Mid life
3. Later life
4. Businesses
5. Politics
6. References
7. Sources

—Trappist the monk (talk) 20:56, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Rock Bridge Network, Peter Tiel, Chris Buskirk, etc

I read the Rock Bridge Network article on Wikipedia. I couldn't find a way to add the following info: I'm listening to MSNBC, Stephanie Ruhl, an economic journalist and host. She had Elizabeth Dwoskin, Silicon Valley correspondent, on her show, who spoke at length of the aims of Peter Tiel and Chris Buskirk (political operative) to develop a US aristocracy (them and associates), using the MAGA movement to get into power and deregulate the tech industry. They and JD Vance started a secret donor ciricle, first helping to elect trump in 2016 and again in 2020. Musk is also a part. Also on the show was Max Chafkin, author of the book: The Contrarian: Peter Tiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (2021).I hope someone has the time to add more details to the article based on these individuals. Thank you ~2025-34238-05 (talk) 03:46, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

If you want to add material to an article (in this case, Rockbridge Network), and if this material is relevant to the subject of the article, nontrivial, clear, and reliably sourced, then you can usually add it yourself. "[Speaking] at length of the aims" of a plutocrat and an "operative" is woolly: it falls short of stating what these aims were. Likewise, for an author of a topical book about the plutocrat to be on a show falls a long way short of a lucid evaluation of the book by a political correspondent writing directly for publication and thus feeling no need to mince words because of the presence of the author. If you want to have something added to the article but don't want to add it yourself, then you might add it to the foot of Talk:Rockbridge Network. Be as precise as you can. (Which MSNBC show? If it's available on the web, what's the link? Et cetera.) Happy editing! -- Hoary (talk) 06:12, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-34238-05 I think the person being referred to is "Peter Thiel", not "Tiel". David10244 (talk) 07:42, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Take care of promo vandalism for me

I don't have the patience to deal with what I percieve as spam attempts at HEC-HMS and Storm Water Management Model by @Shubhams06 and newly created @Civilengineeringsoftware (who uses false edit summaries and dead(?) urls in citations). If deemed appropriate, can someone revert, warn and send to WP:AIV if necessary. Thanks Commander Keane (talk) 08:52, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I reverted, but ~2025-34249-71 and ~2025-33868-20 reverted back. Either it's a sockpuppeteer or a coordinated group of people. Perception312 (talk) 12:07, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I have requested protection for Storm Water Management Model. Perception312 (talk) 13:32, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Urgent Enquiry

Please i will like to know more details/source about a Chieftaincy(ODOFIN) of a kingdom called ILEOGBO when it was under OYO state in Nigeria. ~2025-34258-10 (talk) 15:42, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

This Help desk is for asking questions about using Wikipedia, not for general knowledge questions. You could try asking at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities, though I'd try to explain in a little more detail what you are asking for. And please note that labelling questions 'urgent' isn't going to get them answered any sooner. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:54, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello! This page is for people who need help editing wikipedia. You might have better luck with a search engine like google or duckduckgo. If you still want help from a wikipedian, then the reference desk could prove helpful! mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 17:12, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Company Page Creation

I tried creating company page with information about its history, founder, establishment details, services provided and links about the articles published by independent media houses. The page was immediately deleted claiming to violate the policy. all the company pages that exist in the Wikipedia has same kind of information, that i had provided, so why did the page was deleted. Rewired Mavericks (talk) 16:12, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

(user indeffed) qcne (talk) 16:16, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I need help displaying a map properly; Openstreetmap relation is created, can't get it to show up in the article

Hello, I tried to get this to work for some time but had no luck. I've asked for help elsewhere but people only seem to know wikipedia or openstreetmap, not both. Is there someone who can please help who speaks both? No matter the attempts I made I just couldn't seem to crack it.

The relation in question is here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/19476256

The article in question is The Stourbridge Line (note the commented code right in the infobox).

Thanks in advance to whomever can help! Kether83 (talk) 16:19, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@Kether83 If you don't quickly get help here, ask again at WP:Graphics Lab/Map workshop, where the specialists hang out and you can submit a new request. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:59, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks; much appreciated. I think this marinated here long enough and I'll reach out now. Kether83 (talk) 17:04, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

style guide on bolding piped links

Assume in a situation where something would be bolded and is piped, where are the rules/guidelines on bolding inside vs. outside the link. '''[[abc|def]]''' and [[abc|'''def''']] give the same result, is one preferred over the other? I am presuming that '''[[abc]]''' is *always* preferred to [[abc|'''abc''']] Naraht (talk) 16:44, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht See Help:Link for lots of examples and some guidance. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:45, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Michael D. Turnbull , read through it twice, it contains a lot of how to, but no guidance in determining which of the two ways which appear equal are preferred. WP:AWB will convert [[abc|'''abc''']] to '''[[abc]]''', but I'm looking for slightly broader guidelines here.Naraht (talk) 19:51, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I personally prefer '''[[abc|def]]''' over [[abc|'''def''']], and anecdotally I believe my preference is aligned with what I see more commonly done, but as far as I'm aware there's no guidance directly recommending one format over the other. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 21:33, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. It is clear that '''[[abc]]''' would preferred to [[abc|'''abc''']] since it takes fewer characters and is a bit easier to change if another editor decides that the bolding should actually only be italics. I've hunted around and can't find anything else relevant in the MOS. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:02, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

It may be too unimportant and rare for a guideline but I certainly also prefer '''[[abc|def]]''', and the more common ''[[abc|def]]'' for italics which is used in an example at MOS:DABPIPING. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

How to create an English version of a Wiki page?

What is the best way to create an English version of this page for the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekonomicko-spr%C3%A1vn%C3%AD_fakulta_Masarykovy_univerzity ? An automatic translation is not allowed but I would be happy to help edit one given the need to have an English language version ("On the English Wikipedia this tool is limited to extended confirmed editors, and the machine translation component is disabled for all users (see WP:CXT)."). Czechecon (talk) 17:27, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@Czechecon: Note that the English Wikipedia's standards for sourcing and notability tend to be stricter than other Wikipediae, and so a straight translation is unlikely to work. Approach it as if you were writing a new article, and assess the sources on the Czech Wikipedia version against WP:NCORP and WP:RS. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 17:42, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

See also the general advice at WP:TRANSLATE. The notability issue should be your main concern. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:43, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I went ahead and created a redirect to Masaryk University. There is already a brief 2 sentence description at the main university article. I would start by expanding that, then when you've got enough sourced information to spin out and demonstrate notability, spin it out at that time. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:47, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@Czechecon:, do you work for the university, if so please read and comply with the guidance at WP:PAID, and WP:COI, and make the necessary declarations. A university employee started a similar discussion at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archive 72#English Version of Article. TSventon (talk) 17:52, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Donations on Mobile site

I donate money to wikipedia on an ad hoc basis, usually from a desktop computer. Today I tried to give you some money from my phone and it appears there is NO front page link to the donation widget. Or if there is it’s not easy to find. You should think about either adding it to mobile, or making it WAY more obvious if it’s there and I’ve missed it. Overdraft611 (talk) 19:50, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

@Overdraft611 We, the volunteers at Wikipedia, have no control over the Wikimedia Foundation's donation system (and we don't want or receive any of the cash either, but that's another matter). According to Wikipedia:Contact us/Donors, the email address for donation issues/suggestions is donate@wikimedia.org. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 23:50, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Just a suggestion to help make Wikipedia sustainable. If you're not the right person then maybe you're embedded enough to have contacts on the money side. I literally tried to give Wikipedia money and couldn't figure out how. I know you need it because I keep getting nagging popups saying you need it. It's therefore odd that you wouldn't make it easier to do! Overdraft611 (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

We don't have much say over the popups and banners either! I've given you the email address where you can reach staff who do have control over the donation systems. I'm sorry to say that none of the volunteers answering questions on this page can help you with this issue. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 00:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Overdraft611 Just because the Wikimedia Foundation begs for money doesn't necessarily mean they need it... David10244 (talk) 07:47, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Overdraft611: you are not the first person to mention this issue. I will bring it up at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) in a bit. Wikipedia itself doesn't collect donations, you have been donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can just go direct to the source and hit their donate button: https://wikimediafoundation.org/. Commander Keane (talk) 01:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining the separation of functions. But the average user doesn’t know there’s a distinction so wouldn’t know to look elsewhere. We know the world is migrating to mobile AND the donation link exists on the desktop site, so there’s no philosophical reason for the link not to exist on the mobile site. Overdraft611 (talk) 02:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Demographics section: Loyalhanna Township

See Loyalhanna Township, Pennsylvania. I tried to update the Historical Population table with current US Census data. But the result is a bit of a mess. I can't figure out how to fix it. There's some arcane structure at work here that baffles me. Can someone please help? Thank you in advance... BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 20:04, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Fixed by User:Thilio. Apparently the template can't tolerate commas. —Cryptic 23:46, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much!!! BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 22:31, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

I cannot reach userpages. It is goingto (USERNAME:user:USERNAME)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T410391
Resolved

Hello,

I cannot reach to userpages. When I click username to visit userpage it is going to differnt page. For example; My user page is onmyway22. And user page is User:Onmyway22. However, when I try to click to my username from an article I created. it is going to Onmyway22:user:Onmyway22.

Somebody help Please ? Onmyway22 talk 21:57, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Seems to work for me. Screenshot, please? Not from after you click on the link, but of the page containing the link. And does it still happen with safemode enabled? —Cryptic 23:40, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

This is happening for me from the xtools header under page titles. Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 01:45, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Cryptic: screenshot at File:WP-HD screenshot username duplication.jpg. You can see the mouse is hovered over the username of the creator in the xtools toolbar at the top, and on the bottom left you see the url it is pointing to. I just picked the first article from Special:Random for a screenshot, but it's happening on multiple pages. Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 01:50, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. This is a bug in xtools, as can be seen by going to this link (which is how the xtools gadget fills in that line for this page). It's already been reported at phab:T410343 phab:T410391. —Cryptic 02:10, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

"hot american actress"

If you hover your mouse over Sadie Stanley it says "hot american actress". I'm not disputing this, but I think the text should be more meaningful and less thirsty. I tried to change it but I didn't know how. --ACCCounTTT2000 (talk) 22:14, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Looking at the article history, those words seem to have been added and removed this morning. They should disappear in due course. TSventon (talk) 22:23, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Right, now it has disappeared. But why did I see an old version before? I saw it on Kim Possible (film) and I definitely didn't open that page this morning (or ever before, I think). --ACCCounTTT2000 (talk) 22:26, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

You see a cached version of the preview from Wikimedia's servers. I pressed edit and publish changes to try and clear the cache. TSventon (talk) 22:34, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Ah okay, thank you! --ACCCounTTT2000 (talk) 23:04, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

There is an option in account preferences (Gadgets -> Appearance -> "Add a clock...") to add a UTC clock to the user bar at the top-right; this clock is clickable and will purge your cache when you do so, forcing a fresh reload of the page. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 00:23, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Adding a listing

How do you add a listing? TheTacoSpot (talk) 23:17, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

You don't. Wikipedia doesn't have 'listings'. It has articles, on subjects that meet our notability criteria, based on what reliable published sources independent of the subject have to say about them. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:16, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

And incidentally, you would do to read the Wikipedia:Username policy, given that your chosen name appears to match a business, and is thus not permitted. You will be given the opportunity to select something more appropriate. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Which business matches my username? ~2025-34620-12 (talk) 12:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

This one. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:12, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@User:TheTacoSpot Or this one. Bazza 7 (talk) 12:16, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Temporary accounts

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T366999

A new temp acct is now auto-created whenever I make an edit. Thereafter, every time I go to a different page, the Main Menu and the Tools Menu are added to my sidebars, despite these having been set to be 'hidden' when I accessed WP prior to editing under the new system.

I can hide both menus while remaining logged into my temp acct, but this setting does not appear to be saved in the cookie (or acted upon) because they are added back again whenever I go to a different page. I find this to be inefficient and irritating so I then log out of my temp acct, which makes this not a useful thing for me.

I will probably be editing less in the future.

~2025-34072-84 (talk) 00:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello. You can have both maximum anonymity and maximum control of various user features by registering for a free account. It is easy. Please read Wikipedia:Why create an account?. Cullen328 (talk) 07:30, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @~2025-34072-84, this sounds like T366999; hopefully this will get fixed soon. — DVRTed (Talk) 08:04, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

ring roads in india

in the above mentioned subject, Rajkot Ring Road is missing. please add the information along with the title. ~2025-34467-26 (talk) 05:09, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

There is a category Ring roads in India but it doesn't appear to have its own article.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:12, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-34467-26 Wikipedia does not have an article on Rajkot Ring Road. We do not yet have an article on everything. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:30, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

are talk pages place for debating content on page

i wanna start debate on if page should be added ~2025-34520-18 (talk) 09:30, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure that I understand your question; but if you're asking "Is the talk page of an article where editors can discuss what should be added to, removed from, or changed in the article?", then the answer is "Yes, with a few exceptions". -- Hoary (talk) 10:38, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Please remind me ...

... where to look for those pie charts and other graphic representations of our contributions? Augnablik (talk) 09:41, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Augnablik. Is it https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ you're thinking of? qcne (talk) 09:49, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

The edit counter there is linked on "Edit statistics" at the bottom of user contributions. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:49, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

That’s it! Augnablik (talk) 13:29, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Indirectly, yes. Until I read PrimeHunter’s reply and went there, I didn’t realize it leads to our data in Xtools. Augnablik (talk) 13:28, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

There is also Special:Impact. Polygnotus (talk) 12:33, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

This is a new find. Augnablik (talk) 13:29, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

It can also be seen for other users like Special:Impact/PrimeHunter. User:PrimeHunter/Impact.js adds a link to it in userspace. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:31, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, @Polygnotus, @PrimeHunter, and @Qcne. My replies to each of you ended up out of order, so I’m bundling threefold thanks here. Augnablik (talk) 13:32, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

News articles as secondary sources

I've been looking over the Wikipedia guidelines and policies, and I'm unsure on identify a seconary source from news articles. I know there are a lot of reliable news outlets that exist, but how can I know if they are secondary sources if they don't normally post any references of there own (like the way scholarly articles do)? My first thought was when they include and make an opinion or analysis on quotes from interviewed people, but I don't know if such news articles would count as a secondary source. What do you guys think? — Alex26337 ^(talk) 10:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

News articles are generally considered secondary sources unless the article is primarily an interview with the subject or merely a republishing of materials associated with the subject. 331dot (talk) 10:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Alex26337 Watch out in particular for newspapers publishing press releases or churnalism. Look for evidence of editorial oversight. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:09, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Alright, I'll continue to keep a careful eye out when evaluating and reading each source. — Alex26337 ^(talk) 21:00, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Pages

How can i create a page for a person ~2025-34620-12 (talk) 12:00, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-34620-12 Please read Help:Your first article and our criteria for assessing whether someone should have an article at all (we call this notability). If the "person" you have in mind is yourself, best to forget the idea as we strongly discourage WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY for the reasons explained at that link. In any case, if you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia policies and guidelines you would be better off editing existing articles for a while to gain experience. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to the helpdesk.

Making a new article is one of the most challenging things to do on Wikipedia, even for experienced editors. It requires a robust understanding of policies and guidelines like notability and neutral point of view, as well as technical skills like finding and citing sources and formatting your article in accordance with the manual of style. It's not something we recommend new editors try to do right away.

I would strongly advise that you first spend a while (at least a couple of weeks) participating in discussions here at the Teahouse and at noticeboards, asking questions, and editing already-existing articles to build the knowledge and skills I've mentioned above, and then come back to the article creation process later.

Like the rest of us, you're here because you want to contribute to an encyclopedia. Luckily, there are a lot of ways to contribute other than creating articles. You can copyedit (see gnoming), patrol the Recent Changes page to revert vandalism, get involved with a WikiProject you're interested in (like WP:AICLEANUP for me), read through discussions on boards like WP:ANI to see how disputes are handled here, etc. Athanelar (talk) 23:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Lost access to 2FA email

Hello, I need some help accessing my old account. I know my username, and I know my password. However, I am on a new computer and when I try to log in, it asks me for a 2FA code… sent to my elementary-school email address that I no longer use. Is there any way to recover access to the account and change the email address?

Edit: I have already consulted the login help page, but none of the options seem to apply. So it sent me here. ~2025-34555-01 (talk) 12:26, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

This is a real Catch-22 problem, because if you cannot access the recovery email you will not be able to access the account. Have you enabled 2FA as described here?--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 15:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

This is about mw:Help:Extension:EmailAuth, not what we normally refer to as 2FA. You're looking for Special:AccountRecovery (which you'll need to log out of your temp account to access). * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:10, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for that. I just submitted my account recovery request. Fingers crossed! ~2025-34555-01 (talk) 08:56, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

EIDR ID

I would like to provide citation to this page as a unique identifier EIDR ID for the page can you guide PROPERLY so that it will be a source citation Draft:The Story of Yuvraj and Shahajahan. Abm1994 (talk) 17:40, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Your request is not clear; please can you rephrase it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Abm1994.

I think you are asking whether you can cite a Draft outside Wikipedia, using EIDR.

I have no idea of the answer to that; but I will say that as far as Wikipedia is concerned, drafts are not part of the encyclopaedia, and should not be cited outside Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 14:48, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

No, they want to cite the EIDR ID for the draft. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:10, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Smithfield Inc.

Smithfield ,Inc page need up dates

Very old information ~2025-34638-26 (talk) 20:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

We have no page of that title Do you mean Smithfield Foods, or something else? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:05, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Customizing new pages feed

When sorting Special:NewPagesFeed by date, it often shows an article as very old, when in fact it's an old redirect which was recently made into a page. Does anyone know of a way to avoid this? I was thinking it could be configured to date articles from the last edit tagged as "redirect removed", or from creation if none are found. Thanks. lp0 on fire () 20:26, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Lp0 on fire: you could ask at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers as people there use the feed all the time. TSventon (talk) 21:15, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Somehow didn't think of that .͡. lp0 on fire () 22:20, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

The Clearing (film)

English Wiki: The Clearing (film) is a 2004 crime film. simple:The Clearing is a 2020 zombie film whose English cross-language reference is to the unrelated 2004 film (and vice versa). Could someone please copy the 2024 film Simple English article to the main English wiki and fix the cross-language reference? Thanks! ~2025-34645-06 (talk) 20:34, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

The Simple English article had the wrong Wikidata item. I have moved it from The Clearing (Q488345) to The Clearing (Q113598104). PrimeHunter (talk) 20:42, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Different Wikipedias have different rules. Where a subject exists on the Simple English Wikipedia but not on the English version, it is often because the subject is not Wikipedia:Notable enough for this Wikipedia. TSventon (talk) 21:27, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Page view

so does edìt previews count as daily page views? Is there a daily chart for edits made in 24 ĥrs? DMc75771 (talk) 23:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@DMc75771 Is there a daily chart for edits made in 24 ĥrs? on enwiki? These may be of interest:

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org

https://wikistats.wmcloud.org/

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Polygnotus (talk) 00:47, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Uncertainty in year category

If someone is said to have been born c. year BY, should the category be BY births or Year of birth uncertain? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:30, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Clarityfiend To make life more difficult or easier: why not both? So let's say Category:2025 births and Category:Year of birth uncertain? Polygnotus (talk) 04:11, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't like having two mutually exclusive categories, so I'm going to go with the latter. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:21, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Well, you are (a) Clarityfiend. Polygnotus (talk) 10:26, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Often a Category:Births by decade subcategory will be applicable. jlwoodwa (talk) 18:18, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jlwoodwa: Excellent suggestion. Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

No place to enter code in app

I’m using an older version of the app on my iPad mini 4 and it’s sending a verification code to my email and I’m supposed to enter it in the app. However, there’s no place to enter it. KaposiaDarcy (talk) 17:27, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@KaposiaDarcy: I haven't heard of verification codes specially for the app. Maybe you can enter it in a browser. If the mail has a link and tapping it opens the app then try the same address in a browser. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:11, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

If this is about Apples 2FA, you can enter the code on old devices by typing your password and then the code. something like this (password123456) with the numbers being the 2FA code mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 20:12, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Not being ablet to edit in my outline page

Hi, so Im in a class and we were supposed to choose an article that we can edit. I could edit the actual article but for the assigemnt that was assigened I couldnt make the outline and it would show me this .

Creation of this page (User:Memefafa/United States Refugee Admissions Program?utm source=chatgpt.com/Outline) is currently restricted to administrators, page movers, and template editors because the page title matches an entry .*[?&]+[^=]+=[^&]+.* on the local or global blacklists.

If you receive this message when trying to edit, create or move an existing page, follow these instructions:

• Any administrator can create this page for you. Please post a request at the Administrators' noticeboard or open a new edit request.
• Be sure to specify the exact title (especially by linking it) of the page you are trying to create, and if it might be misunderstood (for example, an article with an unusual name), consider explaining briefly what you want to do.
• If you wrote any text, save it temporarily to your device until you can create the page.

let me know how I coud fix it. Memefafa (talk) 19:29, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Memefafa Hello! The error message mentions User:Memefafa/United States Refugee Admissions Program?utm source=chatgpt.com/Outline (emphasis mine)

Please do not use ChatGPT on Wikipedia.

The correct link looks like this:

User:Memefafa/United States Refugee Admissions Program/Outline

And you should be able to edit it.

Again, please no ChatGPT.

We have an article that explains what ?utm_source=chatgpt.com means: UTM parameters.

Polygnotus (talk) 19:34, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, yes now I get it. But even after I made the edit and I pasted the exact link not using Chatgpt it still wouldn't let me do the outline and it still says that my source is Chatgpt. How can I fix it? Memefafa (talk) 19:41, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Memefafa: You should be able to create the page if you click on this link: User:Memefafa/United States Refugee Admissions Program/Outline If not, please copypaste the error message here. Making sure that whatever you are pasting does not contain "chatgpt" is probably also a good idea. Polygnotus (talk) 19:45, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Want to create a page for my supervisor

Could you please help me or direct me for making a bography page for my professor Azs0242 (talk) 19:43, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Azs0242 Hello! Who is your supervisor/professor? Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 19:46, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Azs0242 (ec) My advice to you is- in short- don't, at least not now. The longer version you should read WP:BOSS for, you should also read conflict of interest. It takes much effort and skill to create a new article, and diving right in to the process is not recommended, not without first spending time editing existing articles in areas that interest you, and using the new user tutorial. Diving right in often leads to frustration and anger, which we do not want for you. 331dot (talk) 19:49, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion, I really appriciate it Azs0242 (talk) 07:16, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Taxable

Are certificates of deposits taxable and when?  ~2025-34956-59 (talk) 21:28, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

This is not a general help desk, and we cannot give you tax or financial advice; please consult a qualified professional. 331dot (talk) 21:32, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello! This page is for people who need help editing wikipedia. You might have better luck with a search engine like google or duckduckgo. If you still want help from a wikipedian, then the reference desk could prove helpful! mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 20:13, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Quantum computers

quantum computors ~2025-34982-53 (talk) 22:38, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

If you're asking for help editing the article Quantum computing, then please specify the kind of help that you want. -- Hoary (talk) 23:01, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello! This page is for people who need help editing wikipedia. You might have better luck with a search engine like google or duckduckgo. If you still want help from a wikipedian, then the reference desk could prove helpful! mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 20:13, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

Reference help requested.

What do you mean about a page title needing to be fixed?

Thanks, Lshivers (talk) 23:09, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Lshivers: if you look at the references for the article you should see a red message by reference 7, saying "Missing or empty |title=". The message means that the code for reference 7 is missing "|title=", followed by the title of the web page used as a reference. For example reference 6 has "| title = Membership".

I had a look at the article, and notice that most of the references are to the association's website. Wikipedia aims to summarise what independent reliable sources say about a subject, so most of the references for the article should be independent. I can see that the sourcing for the previous version was similar.

If you have a conflict of interest concerning the organisation you are expected to declare it, also it is recommended that you suggest edits on the article talk page, rather than editing the article. I have put a standard message about this on your talk page. Also paid editing must be disclosed. TSventon (talk) 01:30, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Squib

I am an experienced editor. I found a another editor's very short article on a worthwhile topic. I was looking for a template to classify the article as a squib—or, better, a specific topic-category squib (I remember the squib-sorting project). I could not find anything helpful. Can you point me to something? —Finell 03:36, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

@Finell: Do you mean a stub? That page shows you how to tag and sort stubs. User:SD0001/StubSorter presumably automates that for you. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 03:41, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I am very sorry for wasting your time!! —Finell 04:09, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

You asked a reasonable question, and "squib" IS a traditional term for this general kind of thing, so nobody can blame you. TooManyFingers (talk) 05:18, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

@TooManyFingers, @Finell, I have now created a redirect WP:Squib. ColinFine (talk) 10:59, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Why does "Monkey" appear in the dropdown search results for "Obama"?

A recent Reddit thread has informed me that if you type "Obama" into the search box, the Monkey article is listed among the dropdown results, even though the word Obama appears nowhere in it. Looking for a quick explanation, I asked on the Wikipedia Discord server, but to no avail. Apparently, the exact algorithm by which these dropdown results are selected is shrouded in mystery. It seems to me that vandals have found a way to artificially game this algorithm, akin to Google bombing. I am concerned that we apparently have no way to detect, understand, and revert this kind of vandalism, so I'm posting here to seek further insight. Please let me know if there is a better suited venue for this discussion. –CopperyMarrow15 (talk ⋅ edits) 06:24, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Try WP:Village pump (technical). —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 06:30, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Why does "Monkey" appear in the dropdown search results for "Obama"? –CopperyMarrow15 (talk ⋅ edits) 06:37, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

The vandalizing account User:Bananas1208 has been indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet of a globally locked account. Cullen328 (talk) 07:24, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Reference error

There is a reference error in the List of Victory ships (D) which I can't fathom out. The error appears as "Cite error: Unknown parameter "victory" in <ref> tag;" It appears that the error was introduced with this edit. The error is in the ref name "Permanente1". The entry for Durango Victory is the only one in that edit which uses that reference name, but it appears to me to be correctly formed. If I remove that reference from Durango Victory, on preview the error moves to the "VicD" ref. Again, that reference seems to be OK. Mjroots (talk) 07:09, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done Thilio^{R O B O T🤖 talk} 07:27, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Mjroots (talk) 07:38, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Rex linn

Filmography credit for 1997 TV movie Last Stand at Saber River seems to be missing. ~2025-35038-42 (talk) 07:14, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

This could be added at Rex Linn, but as a general rule, Wikipedia is not competing with IMDb, so it does not list everything that an actor ever did, particularly if it was a minor role. There is a separate article for Last Stand at Saber River and he is mentioned there.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 08:01, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

I edited one article and by mistake I changed many thing I want to recorrect the text but I don’t remember how

I edited one article and by mistake I changed many thing I want to recorrect the text but I don’t remember how And I edited text without creation of account and now it published so can ypu please help me to redo that text the Golden Age of Science Fiction ~2025-35044-28 (talk) 08:19, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-35044-28  Done Here's the correct revision Thilio^{R O B O T🤖 talk} 08:38, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

What you wanted to do was to revert your own edit. The linked page explains how to do that. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Neighbours andrew robinson

there is some wrong information on Andrew robinson neighbours wikepedia page Darren pearn (talk) 11:40, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

in which case, you should go to Talk:Andrew Robinson (Neighbours), and explain what it is that you think is false, providing the necessary source to back this up. AndyTheGrump (talk) 11:46, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

ok Darren pearn (talk) 11:47, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

...like this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:22, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes Darren pearn (talk) 14:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

The comments and requests now at Talk:Andrew Robinson (Neighbours)#Andrew robinson are of no value, Darren pearn, as none of them points to a reliable source for what the writer asserts.-- Hoary (talk) 23:49, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Uploading images

I try to upload an image into the 'Infobox person' image section, but it says an image with the same filename has already been uploaded Cldcommunications (talk) 12:31, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

@Cldcommunications: that isn't really ambiguous; choose an other filename. You have successfully uploaded File:FehintiBalogun.jpg, but I have marked it as a copyright violation. Remember that if you upload an image as "own work", it means that you personally held the camera in your hands when the picture was taken. Draft articles also are not allowed to use Wikipedia:Non-free content. MKFI (talk) 12:56, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

There is no need to write it as a copyright violation as I own the image. Please can you change this thanks. Cldcommunications (talk) 13:04, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

User blocked for promotional editing and their username. 331dot (talk) 13:15, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

@Cldcommunications: if you are the copyright owner please send commons:COM:VRT message to confirm it. You can use commons:Commons:Wikimedia VRT release generator. MKFI (talk) 13:18, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

How to delete my account

How do i delete my wikipedia account Wikwritergal (talk) 17:21, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Wikiwritergal. For legal reasons related to attribution of your contributions, it is not possible to delete an account. You can simply abandon the account and stop editing. If you want to conceal your past contributions, please read Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing. Cullen328 (talk) 17:28, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

You have made only three edits, of which only the question above is still live. Just abandon the account and stop using it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:38, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

retrieve draft?

Hi - I was still working on the draft page for Robert Caughlan and it was removed for copyright but I hadn't intended for it to live, just to save the changes. Is there a way to retrieve the work?

Christinanevada67 (talk) 19:33, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Copyright violations cannot be restored. Note that clicking "publish changes" makes your edit visible to the public. (Even a draft) 331dot (talk) 19:44, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

If there is a significant amount of original material, and only some copyvio, a kind admin might be willing to email the content to you, so long as you give a clear undertaking not to repost the copyvio. Ask at WP:REFUND. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:40, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

eBay Seller is offering Wikipedia backlinks for money

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326314545854 Create a backlink on Wikipedia for your website ~2025-35278-02 (talk) 21:02, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

also this one sold 31 @ $29.99 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325755879922 ~2025-35278-02 (talk) 21:06, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

We can't do much about this unless you can prove that whomever is offering that has edited here, see WP:REPORTPAID. 331dot (talk) 21:17, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Our software automatically adds nofollow (see meta:nofollow) to external links so this service is nearly worthless if the advertiser even adds the links. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:26, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

They're using the Wikipedia logo, so WMF may be able to get the ads taken down on that basis (though that won't stop them returning with new branding). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:32, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Urgent help

Some one is using my account I don't get reset password on my email ~2025-35254-43 (talk) 21:57, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

If you don't have access to the account and the email has been changed, your options may be limited. It depends on the situation, though. For more information, see Wikipedia:Compromised accounts#After being compromised —Rutebega (talk) 22:36, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Roland Barthes

Evidence from multiple reputable sources suggests that Roland Barthes died on March 26, 1980, rather than on March 25. Could someone verify this information and make the necessary correction? ~2025-35212-81 (talk) 00:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Please suggest this on Talk:Roland Barthes, providing the necessary sources. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:07, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

to add to the above, I note that one source cited in the article body, Le Monde states March 26. As does the Washington Post, if I've got the days of the week right. [3] I can't access the source cited in the lede though (I think it is supposed to be Roland Barthes: Or the Profession of Cultural Studies by Martin McQuillan, though it isn't entirely clear), and it should still be discussed on the talk page. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:25, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

archives chronically overloaded

"The server at archive.is is taking too long to respond."

web.archive.org/save/ "The capture will start in ~10 minutes because our service is currently overloaded. You may close your browser window and the page will still be saved."

GPT LLM

Piñanana (talk) 19:08, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Do you have a question? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:57, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Publisher Changes Over Time

If I cite an old article from a website like The A.V. Club and I want to specify who the publisher/parent company is. Do I use the company that owned it at the time that the article was published (i.e. depending on the year it could be Onion Inc., G/O Media, Paste Media Group) or the company that owns it now? TipsyElephant (talk) 02:43, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, TipsyElephant. Use the publisher at the time of publication. That was the correct moment in time. "Now" is ever changing. Cullen328 (talk) 03:56, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Template:Cite web#Publisher says the publisher at the time of publication, but that "publisher" is rarely used for websites or periodicals. TSventon (talk) 04:05, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Analyn Anzano Cabras error

I'm trying to fix lint errors, and when I came across Draft:Analyn Anzano Cabras I saw that the entire page is bold, and the text that should be bold is just bolder than the irregularly bold text. Looking at the source of the article, there doesn't seem to be any reason for this. It doesn't even seem to be through a template, as it says on the lint error search page for it (except for the manually bolded {{Draft}} template). dot.py 02:50, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Somebody bolded the actual "draft" template. Unbolding that fixed the problem. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:25, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I never knew that bolding the template did that! Will keep that in mind if I encounter that again. Cheers! dot.py 04:37, 22 November 2025 (UTC)