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Question from Anonymous Ish (12:45, 13 June 2025)

How do I create an article for a song --Anonymous Ish (talk) 12:45, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

@Anonymous Ish: You can start an article at WP:Articles for Creation, but it must meet the notability guidelines (inclusion criteria) for music.

Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 23:13, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Can you help me with an Artist biography creation? 41.204.44.29 (talk) 23:58, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Can you help me with an Artist biography creation? Anonymous Ish (talk) 23:59, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

@Anonymous Ish: Sorry, but I don't have much experience with biographies. You may wish to ask at the Teahouse or consult the notability criteria for people.

Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 03:18, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Henrique960 (04:36, 14 June 2025)

How do I make the infobox work? --Henrique960 (talk) 04:36, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

@Henrique960: It looks like you have already gotten it working, but you have multiple copies of your draft. Please only use one of the duplicates. Thanks, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:32, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Can you publish my draft? Henrique960 (talk) 23:55, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

@Henrique960: At first glance, it seems you don't have references (sources) yet. Sources are required for an article, as well as meeting the notability guidelines. Thanks! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 19:42, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

ready Henrique960 (talk) 22:15, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Lirress 3 on User:Lirress 3/sandbox (17:28, 15 June 2025)

I want to remove this from sandbox --Lirress 3 (talk) 17:28, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Lirress 3 (17:31, 15 June 2025)

Hi can I create article about Astro they collectively called Astros they live in the sun who control human brain for well and bad results Lirress 3 (talk) 17:31, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

@Lirress 3: Sorry, but that sounds like it's something you made up and not supported by scientific evidence. If it is in fact a pseudoscientific belief or superstition, you can write an article. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 19:41, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Small mistake made

Hi, check the parameters for the task that made this edit, the article is already using {{episode table}}. — TAnthony^Talk 22:32, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

@TAnthony: The bot doesn't check whether the article already uses {{episode table}}; it just pulls from a list at User:Alex 21/sandbox/No episode table. Thanks, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 21:09, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Arwen2001 (06:14, 16 June 2025)

Hello, how do I create a new page? --Arwen2001 (talk) 06:14, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

@Arwen2001: Welcome to Wikipedia! You can create a new article at WP:Articles for Creation! Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 21:10, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-25

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Growth News #34

A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

Mentoring new editors

In February, Mentorship was successfully rolled out to 100% of newcomers on English Wikipedia. Following this milestone, we collaborated with Spanish Wikipedia to expand Mentorship coverage to 70% of new accounts, with plans to reach 85% soon unless concerns are raised by mentors. (T394867)

“Add a Link” Task – Iteration and Experimentation

Our efforts to improve and scale the “Add a Link” structured task continued across multiple fronts:

• Community Feedback & Model Improvements: We’ve responded to community concerns with targeted changes:
  • Restricting access to newer accounts (T393688)
  • Some links types were removed to align with recommendations written in the English Wikipedia Manual of Style (T390683)
  • Allowing communities to limit “Add a Link” to newcomers (T393771)
  • The model used to suggest the links was improved to ease its training (T388258)
• English Wikipedia rollout and A/B test: We increased the rollout to 20% of newcomers, with analysis underway. Preliminary data suggests this feature makes new account holders more likely to complete an unreverted edit. (T386029, T382603)
• Surfacing Structured Tasks: An experiment where we show “add a link” suggestions to newly registered users while they are reading an article is running on pilot wikis (French, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Egyptian Arabic). Initial results are under analysis. (T386029)

Newcomer Engagement Features

• “Get Started” notification: Engineering is in progress for a new notification (Echo/email) to encourage editing among newcomers with zero edits. Early research shows this type of nudge is effective. (T392256)
• Confirmation email: We are exploring ways to simplify and improve the initial account confirmation email newly registered users receive. (T215665)

Community Configuration Enhancements

Communities can now manage which namespaces are eligible for Event Registration via Community Configuration. (T385341)

Annual Planning

The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 Annual Plan is taking shape. The Growth and Editing teams will focus on the Contributor Experiences (WE1) objective, with a focus on increasing constructive edits by editors with fewer than 100 cumulative contributions.

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Question from ArtSpaz (18:44, 18 June 2025)

Hi Rusty.

I have a couple of issue and hope you may be able to help. 1. I drafted a page using the sample page but couldn't see how to save without hitting publish in my sandbox. Now I have a completed page but cannot see how to get an editor to review. I don't get the review options I see on the help pages. 2. I tried to post a question under talk (before seeing this option) but just realized that is LIVE and can't figure how to delete it.

Any advice? Lee --ArtSpaz (talk) 18:44, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

@ArtSpaz: If you haven't already done so, you can place {{subst:submit}} on the top of the page when it's ready for review. Note that even though the button says "Publish changes", it is used to save any changes to Wikipedia. Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:07, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from SolarKhan15 (19:23, 18 June 2025)

hi --SolarKhan15 (talk) 19:23, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

@SolarKhan15: Hello! Is there anything I can help you with regarding Wikipedia? ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:07, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from CodeEx Heoster (06:14, 19 June 2025)

Hello --CodeEx Heoster (talk) 06:14, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

@CodeEx Heoster: Welcome to Wikipedia! Is there something I can help you with? ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:08, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Wildnord (17:45, 19 June 2025)

Hi Rusty Cat!

I tried to create a page and it says it is a draft NOT in review. How do you push it into review? --Wildnord (talk) 17:45, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

@Wildnord: Welcome to Wikipedia!

At the bottom right of the message box, there is a button "Submit the draft for review."

Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 17:54, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Found it! Thank you. Wildnord (talk) 20:22, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Dimitrys13 (15:32, 21 June 2025)

Hello Rusty how old are you --Dimitrys13 (talk) 15:32, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

@Dimitrys13: I'd prefer not to reveal my age online. However, do you have questions about using or editing Wikipedia? ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:36, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

am i eligible to create a page Dimitrys13 (talk) 21:50, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

@Dimitrys13: You may create a draft at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation, and submit it for review. Or once your account is four days old and has at least ten edits, you can create an article without having to have it reviewed. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:12, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-26

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• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [1]

Updates for editors

• Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [2]
• Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [3]
• A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [5]
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [6]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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Question from Inorwi (19:45, 27 June 2025)

Hallo, im quite new in editing wikipedia pages (since I literally joined today), so I had a question: While trying to get acquainted in editing modifying some of the suggested articles I tried adding some references to some articles about a random German noble family i never heard about (I put in my intrests history so I think it was because of this) and I quickly realized that I didn't even know where to start, like, there are plenty of information that do not have a reference, so are there like some priorities (like it is more important to put a reference of the birthplace of a certain historical figure instead of giving a reference to the informations about his bloodline, it is the stupidiest thing I could think about but I hope you understand my problem). So pls let me know if there are some priorities in putting references in long articles that are without them, thanks in advance!! --Inorwi (talk) 19:45, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

@Inorwi: Welcome to Wikipedia!

Ideally, everything in an article should be cited to a reference.

There is a specific rule when writing about living people, which is that any contentious material must be cited to a reference, or it will be removed without discussion.

Otherwise, I'm not aware of any priorities regarding citations.

Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 19:51, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for answering! Inorwi (talk) 20:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

@Inorwi: Happy to help! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 21:21, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Hunte789 (05:59, 28 June 2025)

Hello! I do have one question: Can you make a page about anything on Wikipedia? I'm not talking about inappropriate stuff, I mean obscure stuff. For example, some random fan fiction. I'm thinking of making pages for Undertale Yellow characters, but I wanted to check if I could do that. --Hunte789 (talk) 05:59, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

@Hunte789:

All articles on Wikipedia must meet the notability guidelines. In short, there need to be reliable sources that talk about an article for it to be presumed notable.

Usually, it's unlikely that a fan fiction is going to meet this requirement; the fact that something is notable does not necessarily mean it is well-known and vice versa.

Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 14:49, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Ok. I think I understand. Thanks for your help. But just in case, I'll make an example to make sure I really understand.

So, if a reliable news station makes a report on something, that makes the thing they covered notable? Hunte789 (talk) 23:50, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

@Hunte789: You could say that, and the media/news is an example I would give when explaining a reliable source. However, it is important to also keep in mind that Wikipedia has a specific definition of a reliable source (here).

Happy editing!

~ Rusty ^meow ~ 03:58, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Lbphysicist (13:22, 28 June 2025)

Hello! I have been working on a draft for the Idaho Falls Spud Kings hockey club. It was declined twice with the second time after significant revision. I just learned this morning that somehow somebody else was able to have a Spud Kings page approved (with much less references). How is this possible? Something about the creator “PensRule11385” seems strange. This creator’s history shows a large amount of contributions in a short period. Almost bot-like. --Lbphysicist (talk) 13:22, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

@Lbphysicist:

PensRule11385 is an experienced editor with over eighty thousand edits. They probably can differentiate which sources matter most in a Wikipedia article, since your decline message doesn't mean that there aren't enough sources, only that there aren't enough of the right type of sources.

By "the creator's history", I'm not sure what you're referring to: the article's history or the contribution record of the creator. I'll explain both.

For the article history, almost everything being pasted in at once probably indicates preparation off-wiki, such as in a text editor, before publishing the article.

If you're referring to the user's contribution history, I wouldn't take it as bot-like. There are clear patterns that indicate a human editor.

Overall, just remember that there are things that may be different, but that isn't a reason to be concerned.

Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 15:06, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. Lbphysicist (talk) 17:03, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

@Lbphysicist: Glad to have helped! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 04:05, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Rubyhenners (20:49, 28 June 2025)

Hi Rusty,

I’m currently trying to create an article for a musician. The record label he founded has a Wikipedia page and the production duo he was successful with also has a Wikipedia page. The artists he made famous have Wikipedia pages that mention him. But I’ve been told by a reviewer that he doesn’t have enough notable sources to warrant a standalone page, which I fully take onboard.

As a fan, I think readers would benefit from learning more about him and his solo projects on Wikipedia. Is it advisable to create a section within one of the other Wikipedia pages (his record label or his production duo page) instead? Or do you have any suggestions for edits I can make to the current article in my sandbox? I’m just genuinely trying to understand how this process works for future articles on other subjects. Thank you so much for your help.

Ruby --Rubyhenners (talk) 20:49, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

@Rubyhenners: I would probably create a section within the production duo page.

The thing is that notability, which can't be inherited, is the inclusion criteria for whether a subject merits a standalone page.

In the future, you could check the page on the notability guideline - Wikipedia:Notability, especially the general notability guideline. If the subject doesn't seem to meet this, it probably wouldn't be notable.

Happy editing! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 04:05, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Very helpful, thank you! Rubyhenners (talk) 07:14, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

WikiCup 2025 July newsletter

The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,314 round points, mostly from articles about athletes and politicians, including 20 good articles and 48 did you know articles
• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,197 round points, mostly from military history articles, including 9 featured topic articles, two featured articles, and four good articles
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 1,055 round points, mostly from television station articles, including 27 good articles and 9 good topic articles

Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Question from Henrique960 (02:07, 30 June 2025)

Hi Rusty Cat How are you? Can you publish my Petra-X page? --Henrique960 (talk) 02:07, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

@Henrique960: I would prefer for another editor to take a look at it. Hope you understand. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 04:05, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Women in Red July 2025

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Tech News: 2025-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.

Updates for editors

• AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [7]
• Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. [8][9]
• A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Question from Thetechpublisher (21:24, 3 July 2025)

Hi, i use a visual css tool from website https://visualcss.com/ i found it from https://www.producthunt.com/products/visual-css

i want to add this to wikipedia but there isn't any page for this officially can i create a page? --Thetechpublisher (talk) 21:24, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

@Thetechpublisher: You can start a draft at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation, but keep in mind that it might not meet our notability guidelines, meaning it will not be accepted.

Happy editing, ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 21:25, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Lirress 3 on User:Lirress 3/sandbox (18:36, 4 July 2025)

Can you write about astros aliens on Wikipedia they talk on ears --Lirress 3 (talk) 18:36, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

@Lirress 3: I'd recommend not to. Wikipedia is not for things made up one day, nor is it for fringe theories etc. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 21:26, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Question from Lirress 3 on User:Lirress 3/sandbox (18:37, 4 July 2025)

Reply me. --Lirress 3 (talk) 18:37, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2025-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

Updates for editors

• Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
• Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [11]
• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use Special:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [12]
• A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
• It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [13]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".

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New Entry

Hi Rusty.

I had my first entry reviewed and it was put on the talk pages while I added in more references. I added more but am not sure if I need to do anything else.

In the meantime, I created another entry and tried to request a peer review. I'm not convinced I put it in the right place and am a little worried that I've parked the first completed iteration in the wrong place.Are you able to confirm I've followed the right process? ArtSpaz (talk) 17:45, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@ArtSpaz: Why did you move the article to the talk pages? The correct place to place it would've been Draft.

You might be confusing two processes on Wikipedia: The peer review and Articles for Creation process. Articles for Creation is a process in which drafts are reviewed to see whether they can be moved to Mainspace. Peer review is a process in which an already-existing article is reviewed for improvements. Both are optional. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 18:31, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I started in Drafts but I’ve had over a 100 small edits and I no longer see an option to submit for review. I got confused and thought that meant I had to do a peer review.

Thanks for the explanation on peer review. I’ve definitely done something weird here. What do I need to do now to get it back to drafts? Once there, how do I submit for review if i don’t have the button? ArtSpaz (talk) 19:40, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@ArtSpaz: Place the code {{subst:submit}} at the top of the page to submit it. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:19, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Question from Wijaya rasya (18:32, 9 July 2025)

saya mau membuat biodata saya --Wijaya rasya (talk) 18:32, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Question from Wijaya rasya (18:33, 9 July 2025)

saya ingin membuat biodata saya --Wijaya rasya (talk) 18:33, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@Wijaya rasya: Sorry, but I don't understand. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:20, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Researching or Citing Orphan Newspaper Reference

I received an excerpt from a Mexican paper (photo cut out of the paper with the caption) that gives me the source I needed. It's a photo of the person who I wrote about with a caption that references the act of protest in her youth. This is the one area where I don't have a detailed source because she was a minor. Unfortunately, the source does not cite her by name (though the picture is clearly her compared to compaign photos at the same time and she is wearing a shirt for her father's presidential campaign). The caption lists her as "young juvenile...".

I've tried searching by the caption in spanish but did not get anywhere. This is complicated by the fact that it's from the 1980's and from another country in another language. Do you have any recommendations on how to get to the source? I have 5 potential papers to start researching from but none of their archives sort by caption. I'm assuing it can't be referenced if I can't locate the source but want to make sure. ArtSpaz (talk) 15:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Question from Leeavemealone (12:15, 12 July 2025)

When you do copyedit, how do you KNOW what needs to be changed --Leeavemealone (talk) 12:15, 12 July 2025 (UTC)