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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush I added the word Hindu to show that that Persian word for that mountain range comes from 'Hindu' and 'Kush', in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_kush#Origin_of_name section, but someone is reverting/undoing it. How do I get someone to resolve that dispute/arbitrate?—Khabboos (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Every article has an associated talk page where editors are encouraged to discuss improvements to the article. The best thing to do initially is calmly and politely explain your position at Talk:Hindu Kush. --LukeSurl ^{t c} 16:24, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, you should click 'view history' at the top of the article on Hindu Kush ... that will let you see the edit-summary that the person who reverted left, and whether it is one person, or more than one. Sometimes people don't leave edit-summaries, which is a bit annoying, but often they will give a reason for their revert. See also, WP:BRD which explains the usual process... when you inserted the change you were being properly WP:BOLD, and then someone decided to revert you for some reason, and now you are in the discuss phase. Feel free to drop back into the teahouse, if you need help with getting the finer points of the discussion ironed out, or whatever. Thanks for improving wikipedia, Khabboos, see you around. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:27, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

One AcidSnow is still reverting it - he probably wants us to avoid using the term 'muslim'. What should we do if the problem persists?—Khabboos (talk) 16:01, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

"he probably wants", are you being serous? You have already been told that "Muslim enslavers" is non-neutral. None of the sources even say Muslims nor give a period of history when the term began to be used. Could you also please not change quotes? AcidSnow (talk) 17:33, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Page Curation Question

Is there a way to see how many pages you have curated? Or is there a userbox to display this? Science Saturdays (talk) 17:02, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

• Hello Science Saturdays and welcome to the Teahouse! I would say that is a very good question! I personally do not know the answer, but I'm guessing that Kudpung does. Hopefully he will be able to speedily respond. :) Technical 13 (talk) 17:39, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

• Hi Science Saturdays, you may find your Page Curation Log useful for this? ~ benzband (talk) 18:18, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Reference list

How do I create a reference list at the bottom of a Wiki page? Thanks! Mademoiselle Q (talk) 19:53, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Bonjour, Mademoiselle Q. Start by putting all of your references in the actual text of the article, at the points where you want the citations to appear. Next, enclose all of them between <ref> and </ref> tags (note the backslash in that second one). Finally, create a section at the bottom of your artilce called "References", and put in it the template code {{Reflist}}. Job done. See this essay and this page for more information. Bon chance! Yunshui 雲‍水 20:05, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you – have a wonderful weekend! Mademoiselle Q (talk) 20:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

How to update information without getting vandalized

Hi -- I work for a corporate and have repeated tried to update our entry to include our new (as of 2005)logo and to update some out-of-date "controversial" information about a long-resolved lawsuit. SPACKlick keeps undoing my edits.

How do I provide substantiated resources to make the changes?(I tried citing our 10-k filed with the SEC)Does an inaccurate, incomplete newspaper article override official corporate documents? AND how do I delte the entry entirely since it is so outdated and inaccurate and I am precluded from providing any updates? Someone from my company did not make the entry in the first place. Thanks for any advise you can provide.

199.96.16.11 (talk) 21:23, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi there. Before reading the rest of my reply please read Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines which detail why it isn't a good idea to edit an article with which you are affiliated.

Now to clarify a few things, first being that your information was not vandalised. Another, experienced, editor reverted your changes because you removed sourced content without much in the way of explanation. All content on wikipedia must be sourced to reliable independent sources so that the reader knows it is true. We simply can't take people's word for it that any information is false, especially so when the person claiming it to be false is affiliated with the subject of the article. It would be very easy for someone to come along and say 'I never did any of those bad things in my article' regardless of whether they happened otherwise. Second, no one owns any article. This means that your company doesn't own it, and it cannot be deleted unless under one of Wikipedia's deletion rules regarding the article itself; not simply a request for deletion.

If you want to update the article please provide - on the talk page for that article - reliable (news articles, books, etc.) independent (not press releases or things written by the company) sources which discuss the new information. Samwalton9 (talk) 23:54, 30 January 2014 (UTC)