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Websites for road lengths

Hello. I was wondering if somebody could help me find a website for road lengths. On the A508 road, I used the "measure distance" tool, however last week, it was taken to AfD (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A508 road), as it appeared to be original research in some editors' eyes. However, the only reason I used it was because the only other place I could find this kind of information was on SABRE Roads - an unreliable website made by road enthusiasts. Therefore, I was wondering if you lot could help. Is Google Maps OK for something like this if it is the last resort? Or is it OK all the time? Can you find any other free websites that presents this kind of information? Many thanks in advance! Regards, Roads4117 (talk) 19:56, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

I suspect perhaps the real message is "stop wanting to put precise lengths". Finding a source is not the point. The point is finding a trustworthy, easily-verifiable, stable source. Google gives slightly different answers each time and is not necessarily stable.

Is there a publicly accessible government document on this? TooManyFingers (talk) 22:30, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

There is probably no such source, because such information is unimportant. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:50, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

@Shantavira, actually, such information is important, as it shows how important the road is: there is a big difference between the A1 at approximately 410 miles (660 km) and the A38 at 292 miles (470 km), compared with the A79 at 7.7 miles (12.4 km), or the A3215 at 0.2 miles (0.32 km). Furthermore, the road length needs to be found somewhere in the article (especially in the infobox), so actually it is really important to have in road articles! Roads4117 (talk) 08:05, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't "need to be found". If the single road length cannot be found from a reliable source then it should be deleted/not-given. Yes that probably affects the quality of the article but no information is always better than unsourced information or original research. Verifiability trumps the truth every time. Also, there is a big difference between an overall road length, which is a single number, and what we get in some articles which is excessive detail of the distances between multiple waypoints. The former is of encyclopaedic interest if it can be properly sourced (the subject of this discussion) but the latter is really not relevant. 10mmsocket (talk) 07:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

So are you basically saying that every road length on every article infobox and/or junction table that is not sourced has to then be removed due to WP:V? If that is what you are saying, then although I do agree that policies and all that come first, I also think that then the quality of the articles deteriorates. Roads4117 (talk) 08:26, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Why do you think that removing unverified information causes article quality to deteriorate? Removing such information is a GoodThing™ 10mmsocket (talk) 08:36, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes it is a good thing, but it just removes important information from the article. Roads4117 (talk) 19:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Importance is subjective and cannot trump Wikipedia's standards. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:28, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

No, not that I can find (apart from on roads like the A1), which is the problem; other than oh major roads, your options are (1) add a unreliable source like SABRE roads, made from road enthusiasts, which is more than likely to be reverted, or (2) add Google Maps 'measure distance' tool, which gets challenged as original research or copyvio when the article goes to AfD. So either way, you cannot win (unless someone else finds another source). Roads4117 (talk) 07:57, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

The answer is really simple. If you cannot source it, don't add it. 10mmsocket (talk) 07:43, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@10mmsocket, and I just remembered, the third option is to program the route of the road into Google Maps, from A to B, via C, D, E, etc., like the example at R102 road (Ireland). Does that count as original research/being unreliable etc.? However, my only problems with this way are: (1) you have to eyeball the route from start to finish, which on a 6-mile-long suburban road in outer London is not that bad, but on the A1, that might be a slight problem, as it is 410 miles (660 km) long, but also as you can only add seven stop off points in total, and (2) if the road is shut for whatever reason, then it may say that the road length is substantially longer than it actually is. What are your thoughts on this?... Roads4117 (talk) 08:21, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes it is original research. 10mmsocket (talk) 08:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@10mmsocket, but just out of interest, how is that classified as original research? Roads4117 (talk) 19:39, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

See WP:SYNTH. You may consider WP:CALC means that you can add up distances, but if those distances are not clearly stated on the source then interpretation of individual section lengths calculation of the total road length is not a simple operation - it is synthesis. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

And also, could we just do the 'measure distance' tool thing, but only to one or two decimal place(s)? Roads4117 (talk) 19:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

It is original research. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@10mmsocket OK, then. In that case, how are we then supposed to prove the road lengths? Roads4117 (talk) 07:28, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Find a source. For motorways and A roads in the strategic roads network, it is feasible that National Highways might have documents - as they're the road owner. 10mmsocket (talk) 08:02, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@10mmsocket Good point! I will have a look now! Roads4117 (talk) 08:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Road lengths in Great Britain statistics: Methodology and quality note outlines the collection of such data, including the Major Roads Database (MRDB) and the Ordnance Survey (OS) MasterMap Highways Network dataset. As ever, the datasets may not be directly available to the general public or without payment. NebY (talk) 09:19, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I looked on the Department of Transport website on GOV.UK, and I have found the following citations (it is not what we are looking for, but it is still useful). I will check the National Highways website now. Roads4117 (talk) 09:41, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@10mmsocket, I have just checked the National Highways website, and I cannot find anything to do with road lengths. Even if there is something on that website, it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Roads4117 (talk) 19:12, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

And what is the in-house view on this? @Maproom, @Nick Moyes, @Cullen328 etc.? Roads4117 (talk) 07:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Roads4117, I rarely if ever work on articles about roads. In day to day life off-Wikipedia, I often need to calculate driving distances for my small family business. I use Google Maps and find it quite accurate. But you have to gain consensus for whatever you end up using. Cullen328 (talk) 07:57, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@Cullen328, thanks for that advice! Roads4117 (talk) 08:08, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I suggest that common sense, possibly WP:IAR, says that a road article needs a figure for its length, to distinguish a 10-mile road from a 200-mile one. Google maps seems reliable enough to offer that single figure, perhaps with "about" to give a little bit of wriggle-room. I note that Good Article A82 road cites Google Maps for its length. PamD 08:50, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@PamD, I totally agree with you on that. Even if we include a footnote, just to say that 'this figure is not 100% accurate', or that 'this is an estimate', then I think that should be fine. Roads4117 (talk) 19:08, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@NebY, @PamD, @10mmsocket, BTW there was a similar disccussion in September/October 2022 about whether Google Maps is a reliable source or not at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 388#Google Maps. Also see WP:GOOGLEMAPS, which, in a nutshell, states the following: Google Maps and Google Street View may be useful for some purposes, including finding and verifying geographic coordinates and other basic information like street names. However, especially for objects like boundaries (of neighborhoods, allotments, etc.), where other reliable sources are available they should be preferred over Google Maps and Google Street View. It can also be difficult or impossible to determine the veracity of past citations, since Google Maps data is not publicly archived, and may be removed or replaced as soon as it is not current. Inferring information solely from Street View pictures may be considered original research. Roads4117 (talk) 10:11, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-09-16/News and notes#A fork in the Roads WikiProject for one consequence of such discussions. (I provide this for your information, Roads4117, not to open a fresh discussion on the difficulties some editors have found with WP:RS w/regards to roads and maps; that has already been covered at length in high-profile discussions, statements and actions, and the Teahouse would not be the place anyway.) NebY (talk) 10:37, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@NebY, sorry, I do not understand what you are trying to stay. Roads4117 (talk) 19:04, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

I'll try again. You mentioned some earlier discussions. They had consequences. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-09-16/News and notes#A fork in the Roads WikiProject describes one. I mention it because you might like to read that and learn about it. I don't mention it in order to open a fresh discussion. NebY (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

How long is a piece of road network? CMD (talk) 11:00, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Longer than a piece of string (mostly) 10mmsocket (talk) 12:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@Chipmunkdavis, the average road length in the UK on average varies between 10 miles long and 50 miles long. However, the is the occasional anomaly, with some roads (especially in urban cities) being 5 miles or less, and some going towards the other extremity, with them being hundreds of miles long. Roads4117 (talk) 19:03, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

And @NebY, @10mmsocket, @NebY, @Chipmunkdavis, @Cullen328, @Shantavira, @TooManyFingers, I forgot to mention this earlier, but an example of this unreliability of sources can be found at the A1 road (Great Britain) article. Like I said at Wikipedia: Articles for deletion/A508 road on Tuesday 20th August, on Wikipedia, it says that the length of the road is 410 miles (660 km), on the SABRE roads website here, it says that the length of the road is 396 miles (637 km), but on this other website I found, it says that the road length is 490 miles (790 km) long. And just for the record, the length of the road as the crow flies is approximately 331 miles (533 km). This just shows that it is just not the Axxx or Axxxx roads that have this problem on Wikipedia, it is one of the most famous and notable roads in the entire country. There is quite a big difference between 331 miles and 490 miles (159 miles - the equivalent of London to Hull, or Milan to Venice), so getting the correct figure is really important. If there is a small difference of 100 metres or something, then that is standard, but a 159-mile difference is something else!! I know that the sources that I gave were unreliable, but it further emphasises @PamD's point further upthread about how we should just have Google Maps as the main source of this kind of thing, but just as an approximate figure, or alternatively have it as a footnote saying that it is not 100% accurate. Roads4117 (talk) 20:04, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Would you trust any website with "gpt" in its name and no indication of who has written it? I think we can ignore your 490 miles. I happened to have had a look for this one myself earlier in this discussion: I think we can believe it to be 410 miles, because the government says so. PamD 20:11, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

OK then, we will go with that reference then for the article. Roads4117 (talk) 07:48, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

But I am just thinking about it, technically the whole point of junction tables is to verify road lengths. Am I dorrect in saying that @10mmsocket and @PamD? Roads4117 (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

And what is our conclusion to this discussion? Roads4117 (talk) 19:30, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

• Use Google Maps, but only if we can use an 'about' or 'approximately' in the answer, so that we have some wiggle room, which is like what @PamD said, or alternatively, yet similar to this idea, we could use a footnote to say that this source is not 100% accurate, but it is the best that we have! Any thoughts? Roads4117 (talk) 19:33, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

The Teahouse isn't really the place for any sort of consensus-producing discussion, so there's no "our conclusion". There may be some advice from one or two experienced editors. PamD 22:32, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

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Feel free to do it yourself. -- Hoary (talk) 05:25, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Animation software already does this. No AI is necessary for such trivia. Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:51, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

This is not relevant to Wikipedia in any way. CharlieEdited (talk) 00:07, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

This might be some piece of automated software to post advertising anywhere it can find text editors on the web. 22FatCats (talk) 09:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not the place for self-promotion or advertising. The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a place to learn about things, entirely community-driven. MacaroniPizzaHotDog (talk) 03:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm IP blocked and I need to change my password

I've been trying to log in with my other devices, but I forgot my password. I can't change it because I'm IP blocked even though I have my email address linked. Is there a way to change it from a device that's already logged in? BadEditor92 (talk) 17:26, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Blocks have no impact on merely logging in. If you have forgotten your password, and the recovery email does not work, or you didn't have one, you may end up needing to create a replacement account. 331dot (talk) 17:33, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

I have a recovery email, I just don't know how to use it. BadEditor92 (talk) 19:20, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not entirely certain how it works as I've not forgotten my password, but it should be providing instructions. 331dot (talk) 09:26, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hi,

I wish to award someone a Barnstar for helping me out recently. Can I do it by myself.? or an admin decides it.? —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 00:54, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Perfectodefecto, Yes. You can award barnstars to other users. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 02:02, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

barnstars are awards given by the community to signify something great. Stuuf7 (talk) 02:21, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Perfectodefecto: Nearly all barnstars are given by individual editors without discussion and it doesn't have to be for something great. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:04, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

You can add barnstar to a user's page by clicking on the 'love' icon on their page (works on desktop site) if you edit with mobile, click on barnstar and add the template you want.

You will get a message like this

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I hope this helps! Tesleemah (talk) 08:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Editing

I heard I can get help editing here. My article won't get accepted. Kudzuboss123 (talk) 14:20, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@Kudzuboss123 Currently the article has no sources. This is a major issue, without any sources it will never be accepted. Additionally, upon searching for some sources for you I couldn't find any. Due to that, I'd advise that you put that article on the backburner for now until it has some sources, instead doing some tasks to build up your experience on Wikipedia. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 14:25, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Kudzuboss123, welcome to the Teahouse. Please stop resubmitting the draft; without reliable sources, it will not be accepted, and if you persist it may eventually be rejected, which is the end of the line. Also, you seem to have a conflict of interest here - please read WP:COI. 57.140.16.35 (talk) 14:27, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello Kudzuboss123. After looking over Draft: Nightshift at Barry's I thought it might be helpful for you to study Help:Referencing for beginners and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. Encyclopedia articles are not posted in order promote anything, articles inform people about what reliable references, not connected to the article subject, have to say about the article subject. Also “Officially written by Kudzuboss 123 himself” is not appropriate. If you look at other Wikipedia articles you will see that the writer never gets a byline. Articles are written anonymously, and others are free to come along later and make any edits that improve the article. Best wishes on your future Wikipedia projects. Karenthewriter (talk) 16:24, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so if I remove it will it get approved? Kudzuboss123 (talk) 22:02, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

When Kudzuboss123 himself has written the article, that proves that the article is worthless. Everyone knows he is going to lie to make himself look good.

To be a good article, we have to prove that it DOESN'T come from Kudzuboss123. We need to be able to show that all the words in the article come from people who don't know him and are not his friends or employees. TooManyFingers (talk) 17:41, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Ok thanks, I understand. Do you think that would fix it and get it approved? Kudzuboss123 (talk) 22:01, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I doubt it. I think you should give up on it, unless you can write it forward instead of backward. Read WP:BACKWARD (really, read it), you went about it all wrong. You should start over from scratch, finding reliable sources that are independent of you first before you write even a single word. See WP:Golden Rule (and memorize the three criteria) for the sources required. Every sentence you write must be verifiable in a reliable source. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:21, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

If no one has published about the game then there is no possible path to success. If you agree, put DB-author inside double curly brackets {{ }} at the top of the draft. This will be a request for an Administrator to delete the draft. David notMD (talk) 03:22, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Kudzuboss123 (talk) 14:09, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Citing for nitroglycerin

Hello! I wanted to know if The Anarchist Cookbook is a reliable source to cite for this article. It contains some info about this chemical, but I question its reliability. There is a copy of it on the Internet Archive, I believe. Kurnahusa (talk) 02:01, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Kurnahusa, clearly the Cookbook neither is an academic work nor was written by somebody with an advanced degree in chemistry. So if you want a simple answer, then it's no. But what do you want to cite it for? -- Hoary (talk) 02:15, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

@Hoary The Nitroglycerin#Manufacturing part, which needs more citations. Kurnahusa (talk) 02:21, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Kurnahusa, try a chemistry text. -- Hoary (talk) 02:29, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I've found some sources [1] [2]. Some websites aren't open access unless log in through an institution which sucks. I'm a little too tired to edit at this point and my competence is at the bare minimum so I'll give editing a rest for now. Kurnahusa (talk) 03:02, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

A bombmaking and illegal drug manufacturing manual written by a teenager is not a reliable source. Cullen328 (talk) 04:34, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Kurnahusa, thank you for confessing that your "competence is at the bare minimum". As it's been decades since I last opened a chemistry textbook (either a very elementary one or one from the 1930s (!) that even then I only partially and hazily understood), my own competence would be seriously inadequate. Perhaps ask for help at WT:WikiProject Chemicals? -- Hoary (talk) 06:10, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

@Kurnahusa In this case, it is easy to find reliable manufacturing references from the compound's PubChem entry. If you could add the two cited sources to the article, that would be great. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:35, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

@Michael D. Turnbull Excuse me for being incessantly annoying, but should I cite the website itself, or the books like Lewis, R.J., Sr (Ed.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 13th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997., p. 797? Kurnahusa (talk) 01:48, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

@Kurnahusa That's not annoying and is a useful point. We should always cite the underlying source of the information, so the book in this case. PubChem is a database that brings links together but can sometimes be wrong. You should, ideally, check that the book does actually support what the Wikipedia article says. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:29, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

@Kurnahusa, I'll just add to this, since you're getting stuck behind paywalls: Internet Archive allows temporary borrowing of books if you make a free account there. IA's search function isn't great, so I tend to just google "Internet Archive "name of book"". They've got at least a few different copies of Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. -- asilvering (talk) 17:13, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@Asilvering I can't borrow the copies; all of them say "Book available to patrons with print disabilities". Kurnahusa (talk) 23:50, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Bummer. Can't say I've ever been blocked from checking out a book for that reason. -- asilvering (talk) 23:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

And there we go. I cited the 15th edition since I couldn't access the 13th one. The text should be the same; only the pages are different. Kurnahusa (talk) 00:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

AFD Question

how do i add a AFD such as 2023 Halla Airlines Embraer Brasilia crash into the category Category:AfD debates (Places and transportation)) after using twinkle to automate the AFD for me? Lolzer3000 (talk) 18:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

You tagged 2023 Halla Airlines Embraer Brasilia crash for proposed deletion or PROD, a totally different deletion process. At this point, my suggestion is to follow the instructions on the PROD banner on the article: If this template is removed, do not replace it. The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days, i.e., after 18:46, 6 September 2024 (UTC) (formatting original). If someone else removes the template, then go to AfD. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 19:33, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Request for review of my Draft

I created a draft called Draft:Siege of Madrid (1197) and i would like to see some comments to improve the page or even turn it to an article! Yaqub al-Mansur (talk) 14:11, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

You have submitted it for review, which may take place days, weeks, or sadly, months from now. The backlog is not a queue. You can continue to work on the draft while awaiting a response. If Declined, the reviewer will state reasons. David notMD (talk) 15:35, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello Yaqub al-Mansur. I am not a reviewer, but I looked at your draft article and thought it was a good start, but it is only six sentences long. While you're waiting for the draft to be reviewed you are able to do additional work, and you may want to go over your references once again and see if you can add some more details to your draft about the Siege of Madrid. Best wishes on getting your draft article approved. Karenthewriter (talk) 02:23, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Yaqub al-Mansur, I find it interesting that this siege is not mentioned at Madrid. Cullen328 (talk) 03:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Cullen328 The siege indeed happened Yaqub al-Mansur (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Yaqub al-Mansur, I am not questioning that the siege happened. I was just curious about why it isn't mentioned in the history section of Madrid. Cullen328 (talk) 21:33, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment! And i will always make sure to find more details about the siege. Yaqub al-Mansur (talk) 21:13, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

References

FYI – Yaqub al-Mansur is a suspected sock puppet, and has been blocked. Karenthewriter (talk) 04:40, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

A Confusion Regarding Multiple Accounts

As someone who frequently handles sockpuppet issues across various Wikimedia projects, I've recently noticed that multiple accounts(Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Бмхүн) and VPNs have been used in discussions related to Talk:Prayagraj_Airport#Requested_move. (I state this with certainty because meta.wikipedia.org has already confirmed this through a check.)

My confusion is simple and not a complex issue: Are the discussions on Talk:Prayagraj_Airport#Requested_move still valid under these circumstances? Rastinition (talk) 03:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Multiple !votes are not valid, and vote-stacking is one of the types of deceptive practices that makes socking so disruptive. I added a note to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Бмхүн. DMacks (talk) 13:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

I have reviewed the text from the SPI. Thank you for your feedback. Rastinition (talk) 10:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Reliability of Youtube

Is it possible to site specific YouTube videos as references if you are writing an article on a youtuber? Kalbome22 (talk) 04:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

You can use YouTube if they are independent of the concerned individual and they are videos from reputable sources like news outlets, especially in cases where there are limited citations available. However, you can only add the youtuber's video as external links as citing their videos directly is not allowed. Tesleemah (talk) 06:01, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Editors are allowed to cite Youtube videos directly, see WP:VIDEOREF for more info :) -- NotCharizard ^🗨 06:56, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kalbome22 See WP:BLPSPS and WP:BLPSELFPUB. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Citing YouTube has come up repeatedly very recently at Steve Wallis, where I'd been removing questionable information about the subject's departed wife (who cannot be found in reliable sources and who was never an integral part of the subject's regular work; only casually mentioned and rarely by name). StonyBrook _babble 07:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

New cars for the car brand

Can help me in my draft article for Draft:Supercars of the World. Because I want more Bugattis more Lamb's and more brands for the cars let me know with a link if it's on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NinjaMiura (talk • contribs)

Your draft is not suitable for Wikipedia as it contains no citations whatever. Please read the instructions in the box at the top of your draft, delete everything in the draft, and start again after finding reliable independent sources and studying WP:Your first article.Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Quoting: Everybody knows how excellent Ferrari is. Just look at the prancing horse. It is a great supercar for you. And has great handling. No, NinjaMiura, I know how expensive to maintain (and how fast to depreciate) a Ferrari is, but not how excellent it is. I'm pretty sure it would not be great for me. Before continuing to work on this draft, perhaps spend a little time reading existing articles and thinking about the way they're written. -- Hoary (talk) 22:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

I removed all of the images, as those were supersized, and not relevant to getting the draft approved, but this hodgepoge of personal opinions should be Speedy deleted. David notMD (talk) 12:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Gotta be honest here; while I respect the enthusiasm, this whole article seems like something for your personal blog, not an encyclopedia. Anything that likely could be useful in an article such as this would more appropriately be at Supercar or possibly a not-yet-created List of supercars. And everything has to be reliably sourced, not just your offered opinions. If you'd like to improve supercar content here, your best path would be to find key, reliably sourced, encyclopedic material on supercars, either generally or individual supercars, and make those articles even better. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 15:43, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Revert attack against me

Complete discussion is here and action is not yet taken against the user. Here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1164#User:Shivam Thiruppathi. I do not understand why the user keeps reverting all my edits for no reason on various other articles apart from the article in conflict. They neither mention any reason in the edit summary nor responds in the talk pages or their user page. Additionally, his edit summary was in the nature of an attack in one of the instance, it doesn't provide any explanation for the revert and the other edits do not have any explanation. Here:[3] 456legendtalk 13:48, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

An admin tagged the user already to participate in the discussion. Kindly exercise patience while the matter is investigated. Tesleemah (talk) 16:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@Tesleemah: User:Liz did that on 22 August, and has been ignored, while Shivam Thiruppathi continues to revert 456legend's edits without explanation. I don't think the latter is being impatient by asking here how to proceed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:53, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

oops, I saw that the request was made today maybe I mixed up. Yes, you can follow up Tesleemah (talk) 23:37, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@456legend: Please follow the process at WP:DR - you can open another WP:ANI request if you wish. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:53, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Criação de uma página sobre mim como sendo compositor

Estou criando uma página sobre mim Guilherme de Souza Camillo Guilherme de Souza Camillo

Sabendo que as políticas do Wikipedia não permitem autobiografia

Mas te pergunto o que pode ser feito no meu caso

Inclusive já tive problemas de vandalismo e o IP bloqueado

Não sou nenhum vândalo

Guilherme de Souza Camillo.2024 (talk) 17:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Guilherme. If you know that Wikipedia's policies do not encourage Autobiography, why are you trying to do it, and in a language you apparently don't speak?

Autobiography is very strongly discouraged because it almost never works: most people are not capable of writing a neutral article about themselves.

If you meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then somebody could write an article about you - but they will not be writing it for you, they will be writing it for Wikipedia. If you do not meet those criteria, then no article about you is possible, whoever wrote it.

I very strongly advise you to give up this idea, and spend your time and your energy on something which is more likely to be successful: either editing Wikipedia on subjects unconnected with you (and probably on Portuguese Wikipedia, not English) or work on your career somewhere other than Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 18:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Alguém se prontifica

alguém teria a vontade de criar um artigo sobre mim

Meu nome é: Guilherme de Souza Camillo

Um novato compositor

De Araraquara/SP

Estou começando agora

Mais o que não entendo Mesmo se outra pessoa mesmo do Wikipedia a questão de fazer um artigo sobre mim não seria a mesma coisa a realização de uma

Guilherme de Souza Camillo.2024 (talk) 19:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

@Guilherme de Souza Camillo.2024 Welcome to the Teahouse. Because this is English Wikipedia, we expect everyone to communicate in English. According to Google Translate, you asked (in Portuguese) "Would anyone be willing to create an article about me? My name is: Guilherme de Souza Camillo. A novice composer...I'm just starting out..."

Please be advised that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia of NOTABLE THINGS. Has the world taken notice of you yet? Has mainstream media written about you in detail and in depth? Have you won major awards or had a chart success? You post here suggests that you have not.

So, if the answer is 'no', then the time is not right for there to be a page about your life or your achievements. Please use other social media platforms or websites to promote yourself. Once you become famous and are written about by mainstream media, or have musical success, then someone will surely want to create a page about you. Our criteria of notability for musicians can be found at WP:NMUSIC, and for people in general, at WP:NBIO. But even if you do become 'notable' and merit a page in this encyclopaedia, it would not be your page, and you would have no control over it. Everything in it would have to be based upon what published, independent sources have written about you. I regret to suggest that it is simply, TOOSOON. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 19:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

((edit conflict), more or less, with above comment saying mostly the same things) Well, first of all, please note that this is the English-language Wikipedia, most of us do not read or understand Brazilian Portuguese, I had to use Google translate just to determine what your question is. The short answer is that all article subjects have to be demonstrably notable as indicated by them alreadybeing the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources. So, as someone just starting out, that probably isn't you.

(machine translation)

Bem, antes de tudo, observe que esta é a Wikipédia em inglês, a maioria de nós não lê ou entende português brasileiro, tive que usar o Google tradutor apenas para determinar qual é sua pergunta. A resposta curta é que todos os assuntos de artigos devem ser demonstravelmente notáveis como indicado por eles jásendo o assunto de cobertura significativa em fontes confiáveis. Então, como alguém que está começando, provavelmente não é você. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 19:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Problemas na minha página

Fui bloqueado por ip eu já mandei para o e-mail unblock-ptwiki@wikimedia.org e nada

continuo bloqueado

Guilherme de Souza Camillo

Pra mim este wikipedia é perda de tempo Guilherme de Souza Camillo.2024 (talk) 12:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Guilherme de Souza Camillo.2024

Olá, Teahouse, bem-vindo(a) à Wikipédia! Apesar de esforços para melhorar a Wikipédia serem sempre bem recebidos, infelizmente suas contribuições não foram escritas em um nível de inglês bom o suficiente para ser útil. Você parece ser mais familiarizado com o Português; sabia que existe uma Wikipédia em português? Talvez você prefira contribuir lá em vez de aqui. De qualquer forma, bem-vindo(a) ao projeto e obrigado(a) por seus esforços! Se precisar de ajuda, por favor, sinta-se livre para me comunicar em minha página de discussão. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:05, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Guilherme de Souza Camillo.2024 Na Wikipédia em inglês, não podemos ajudá-lo mais, desculpe. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

This user appears to be blocked indef on pt.wiki, which is perhaps what they're trying in some way to resolve here? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Proofread followed by edit - resistance against the edit

This is to bring to your kind notice that the information given on the Wikipedia is not correct, maybe someone did not try to look into it. 1. Name Spelling Correction, Party Status as active not dissolved hence pertaining text like existed till 1977 to be romoved. OmGanGanpataye (talk) 07:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

You have already asked this, and been answered, at WP:Help Desk#EDIT REVERT. If you want to continue the discussion please do so either there or at the Talk page for the article. Please don't start another thread in another place. ColinFine (talk) 10:24, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Draftifying a redirect

Hello there, I was wondering whether I can draftify an article that is currently a redirect, so that I can improve it and subsequently republish it in the mainspace? Thanks in advance, Mr Sitcom (talk) 07:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Mr Sitcom, what you can do is create a draft with the same name as the redirect (except that it's a draft). If you submit it for review and it gets accepted, it'll be the reviewer's job to sort out the redirect. Maproom (talk) 08:00, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Mr Sitcom You are quite experienced and have created several articles. If you are confident your new article will survive the new pages patrol, you can simply overwrite the redirect with your new text. See WP:RTOA. I would advise you to create the bulk of your new text in your sandbox or offline, so that when you copy/paste it into the redirect it already looks fairly complete. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both for the advice! I will write up the article in my sandbox instead. Cheers! Mr Sitcom (talk) 06:33, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Article Talk Page Issue

Hey guys, I've created a new article and moved it from my sandbox to the main space, but the article talk page redirects to a different article's talk page. What have I missed and how may I go about correcting it? Article - St George's Anglican Church, Bluff Point OxygenToxicity (talk) 07:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Talk:St George's Anglican Church, Bluff Point is no longer a redirect. You may wish to add templates to it. -- Hoary (talk) 08:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Hoary OxygenToxicity (talk) 11:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Article Deletion; An Inquiry into my Part_

I am Qazi Muhammad Asad Khan, a former Minister of Higher Education in Pakistan and i served as a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly for two terms. I don’t see my Wikipedia page anymore. In fact there was a link earlier which offered it as follows; Qazi Muhammad Asad Khan. Can you tell me why this article has been deleted? I’m worried since it was relevant to my political career as well as my public service. Qmapk (talk) 07:48, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Qmapk. The placeholder left behind after the article Qazi Muhammad Asad Khan was deleted states that it was created by a banned or blocked user, in violation of their ban/block. HTH, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:24, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Click on the link and one reads "Created by a banned or blocked user (Thekhyberboypk) in violation of ban or block". "Uohabacasu" was blocked (i.e. prevented from editing, because of misbehaviour). Instead of appealing persuasively that the block was unjust or unneeded, the person using the name "Uohabacasu" thought "I'll just call myself 'Thekhyberboypk'; that will fool them!" Bad decision. It's called block evasion, and any draft or article created via block evasion is deleted. This deletion says nothing about your integrity or notability. -- Hoary (talk) 08:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

This means the article will not created again ? Qmapk (talk) 08:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

It does not mean that it will never be created, but it will need to be quite clear that it is not the blocked user or anyone associated with them. Please know that an article about yourself is not nececessarily a good thing. There are good reasons to not want one. My advice is that you go on about your life as if you had never heard of Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 08:43, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Qmapk Note that we have a Project called WP:WikiProject Pakistani politics and that page lists some of its active members (there are not many). You could enquire via the Project Talk page or via one of the member's talk pages, whether they think you would meet our notability criteria for politicians and, if so, whether they would like to work with you to draft an article about you. See also WP:YFA. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Mike i have done with this now. Qmapk (talk) 11:32, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Qmapk! As a former government member, and an elected member of a state parliament in a federal state, you do meet WP:NPOL and would be presumed notable. In other words, if someone (other than the blocked user) wrote a new article about you from reliable sources, it would certainly be kept. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 17:45, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Three students fell ill after drowning while giving relief, allegations of negligence in hospital treatment

learn more Siam7t9 (talk) 07:49, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

This page is for questions about the use of Wikipedia. If you have such a question, feel free to ask it. -- Hoary (talk) 08:19, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Content insertion

Hi, I'm going to write an article on ICC Development Awards but, all the awards are listed at ICC Awards. So, should this content be inserted at ICC Awards or have a different article.?

Moreover, the subject is looking bit promotional. However, I've gathered the required reliable sources. Should I start writing about it? If yes. Then, where it should be featured.? —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 11:01, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

From the hyperlink you provided: "Launched in 2002, the ICC Development Awards sheds light on the world-leading work being carried out in ICC Associate Member countries to grow the game globally, whether through innovative development programmes or through inspiring efforts on the field of play." I know nothing about cricket, but that sounds like something to insert into the existing ICC Awards article. David notMD (talk) 12:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Alright. Thanks.

I'll add that content at ICC Award#ICC Development Programme Awards. —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 12:48, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Dummy edits to user talk page

I just noticed that an editor has been making WP:Dummy edits (but without any edit summaries) to a user talk page where he previously posted a warning message. He's been doing this on an irregular basis for eight months (sometimes over a month goes by without him doing it, sometimes he does a half dozen in a single day), but he's accumulated well over 50 such edits to this user talk page. I can't recall seeing anything like this in my more than 15 years editing Wikipedia. Anyone have any idea what he's doing? Martin IIIa (talk) 13:37, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

If it's a new user, could be inflating their edit count, to game some sort of extended confirmed or other status?

Annoying the page owner by notification-bombing them?

Some sort of bot or similar automated tool malfunctioning?

I'm out. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Martin IIIa Welcome to the Teahouse. Would you care to link to either a diff or the talk page in question. One other potential explanation is that I occasionally give my permission for another editor to leave me test warning messages or make other edits to my talk page as part of my attempt to help them learn or test out what they're doing. Maybe they're doing the same? You might like to look at how the recipient reacts to these minor edits as that could be key. Or you could ask one of them directly what's going on. Without knowing who or what page you've been looking at, we can't comment further, or take any action. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:59, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I prefer not to say anything that might identify specific editors when making an inquiry; I've done that before and it tends to blow up in my face, often with admins threatening to block me under the premise that asking about an editor's behavior is the same as accusing them. The recipient is largely inactive, having made less than 20 edits since this started, none with any apparent relevance to his talk page activity. If I'm feeling brave I might ask the posting editor about it. Thanks for the replies. Martin IIIa (talk) 18:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Martin IIIa sometimes these are signs of a WP:Sleeper account or WP:Gaming the system. Worth keeping an eye on it longer term. Such edits would remain visible if they do disruptive edits. At the same time, if it's not doing anything harmful or disrupting anything outside their own user pages, leave them alone? ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 18:37, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

It sounds like they're making edits to someone else's user talk page, though? Which sounds annoying at the least, harassing at the worst. -- asilvering (talk) 01:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, it's to someone else's user talk page. Sorry, I didn't realize until now that I hadn't made that perfectly clear in my initial post. Martin IIIa (talk) 22:20, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

AfC comment

Hi, The article Irish Cricket Awards has been created. But, the AfC comment is still there. Should I remove it or not.? —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 14:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Perfectodefecto Yes, feel free to remove it as it’s not in draft space. Kurnahusa (talk) 14:27, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 14:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Micah Abbey and Shamon Brown Jr. have no sources.

Why does Micah Abbey and Shamon Brown Jr. have no sources and need more sources to establish notability? Julian Louis (talk) 14:55, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Julian Louis: Welcome to the Teahouse. Could you check your spellings and supply us with links to the pages you're enquiring about, please? I can't find any articles with those exact titles, so it's hard to know how to answer you, except to say that article content should always be based upon proper sources to establish Notability.

If it's a newly-created article you're looking at, it might not yet have been scrutinised for notability. You can check if an article is very new by clicking the 'View History' tab, and looking at the dates of all its edits. Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: Draft:Micah Abbey;  Courtesy link: Draft:Shamon Brown Jr. These BLPs, both about voice actors from the U.S. Midwest, were sent to AFC for lack of references when they were reviewed early last month. Now it's your job to {{Find sources}} that discuss their careers in depth; for starters, beware fansites and Amazon-owned platforms. If you can't find any, then they both likely fail WP:NACTOR. Come back and tell us if you have any further problems. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 17:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Help!

Are you allowed to use ChatGPT for Wikipedia? Please let me know if i should use ChatGPT for editing or not! DANiHeARTz. .MEE (talk) 15:17, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, DANiHeARTz. .MEE, and welcome to the Teahouse.

The answer is that is is discouraged. Please see WP:LLM for the reasons. ColinFine (talk) 15:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@DANiHeARTz. .MEE Welcome to the Teahouse. In essence 'NO' (but see below).

You should carefully read these two essays Wikipedia:Large language models and Wikipedia:Large language models and copyright (including the 'See Also' links at the bottom of each page) to understand the serious pitfalls and traps in using any AI tool to create content to place ni Wikipedia. Basically, don't let it regurgitate nonsense which you then paste into Wikipedia believing it to be neutral and true, and as if you had written it when you hadn't.

As you know, AI tools have sucked up tons and tons of proper, high-quality, human-written content (including Wikipedia articles) and is now regurgitating it to others as if it were written and analysed by a human when it has not. It's a rapidly developing field, and I don't believe we've yet got any formal policies on its use or application here on Wikipedia. But please avoid it. I fear for a bland and error-filled future if AI content is repeatedly used and reused to generate content that other AI tools then use and reuse to generate more 'new' content.

That said, if used indirectly, and with caution, it can have its uses - and I've been using it extremely carefully myself recently whilst drafting an article on a very obscure European glacier. Basically, I used ChatGPT to "write an article on XX glacier in the style of a Wikipedia article and supply a list of relevant sources". I then pasted that response into an offline word processor and am working my way through the references it found to assess their accuracy, content and usefulness to me. I'm simply looking at the response ChatGPT gave me as a quick layout and content prompt. But I'm still writing the content myself based upon me actually reading and checking those references!!! You must do that to should you ever be tempted - and do the actual writing yourself.

We have a saying here in the UK that You can't polish a turd. So, if you think that without any critical or analytical skills we should let editors use AI tools as a lazy way to avoid doing any proper editing work ourselves, I'd have to ask you why you'd bother coming here to contribute in the first place? Once you've let AI generated content into this encyclopaedia, why not simply encourage everyone else to use AI tools directly and simply blow up Wikipedia with all its human input, oversight and analysis? So please tread extremely carefully, and avoid it if you don't have confidence in your own ability to judge accuracy of Reliable Sources for yourself. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:49, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Adding to what Nick Moyes said, I would not recommend using ChatGPT in WP-discussions either (not that you did). See for example Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_206#Madame_Tussauds_COI Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:27, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Ok thanks for this amazing info. DANiHeARTz. .MEE (talk) 06:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Ive clicked on both links and read them on my mind, also watched some of the video that's "06 Lighting Talk" in WP:LLM. DANiHeARTz. .MEE (talk) 06:42, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Here is an article that suggests some ways AI could be used to actually improve Wikipedia. [4] Thellosnellow (talk) 02:47, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Google index

Hi, The recently created article Irish Cricket Awards's talk page Talk:Irish Cricket Awards is getting indexed on the search page rather than its actual article page, whenever I try to reach the article by searching Irish Cricket Awards on Google. Is there anything to fix it manually.? or it will get fixed automatically? —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 16:58, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Perfectodefecto "recently created" is the main thing to look at here, for more you can see WP:INDEXING but I'll break it down quickly. Articles that are older than 90 days are automatically indexed, as are those that are reviewed by new page patrollers. Seemingly, article talk pages are automatically indexed regardless. Articles can take a while to be reviewed by NPP, as there is a hefty backlog at approximately 14k articles needing review, so don't be alarmed that it's not indexed yet, it will be in good time. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 17:03, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks. —𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨(𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔) 17:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Replacing redirect with article

Hi, I'm working on an article for the bumblebee subgenus Alpinobombus (User:Dicynodont/drafts/Alpinobombus). Alpinobombus currently exists as a redirect to List of bumblebee species § Alpinobombus. I've read most of the help pages about redirects, how to create/delete a redirect, etc., but I'm still confused about how to handle this redirect and replace it with the actual Alpinobombus article. Am I supposed to do any moving of pages, e.g. move the userspace draft into the article namespace (which it says isn't possible because the article name is taken) and deal with the section redirect separately? Or do I just blank the redirect on the current Alpinobombus page and paste the draft content into it? Thanks for any help. Dicynodont (talk) 17:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Dicynodont. Please read WP:RTOA, which should give you the information that you need. Cullen328 (talk) 17:18, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

By chance, we had a similar question earlier today, now at WP:Teahouse#Draftifying a redirect which gives some more advice. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Great, thank you. Dicynodont (talk) 17:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Cullen328 Thank you! Not sure how I missed that. Dicynodont (talk) 17:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Is there a max for ordered lists in source?

I am trying to add myself onto the list of participants for the Roots Music WikiProject and followed the formatting in source for ordered lists. The list as is has 39. points and when I add anything below marks it back down as 1. I'm not sure what's happening. Any help/advice/suggestions are greatly appreciated! Seanbhean-chríonna-caite (talk) 18:32, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1243663772 seemed to work perfectly fine. Perhaps you added an extra line, creating an entirely new list instead of adding to the existing one? Please see WP:LISTGAP for details. Thank you, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 19:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I'll keep an eye out for that in the future, and thank you for the link to the page too! Seanbhean-chríonna-caite (talk) 19:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

User:Ignatius_Keeling vandalizing user pages

User:Ignatius_Keeling seems to be doing the same thing that User:Simeon_Mortensen did.

Special:Contributions/Ignatius_Keeling

"User Simeon Mortensen was vandalizing user pages and has been blocked."

98.248.161.240 (talk) 20:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

That user has since been blocked, another sockpuppet in a long line of others. Please see their talk page. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:35, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Citations

How do I put a citation in an infobox? CallieCrewmanAuthor (talk) 22:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@CallieCrewmanAuthor I dunno about anyone else, but I tend to make the citation in the visual editor, swap to source editing, find the citation I just made and then copy and paste it into the infobox either by finding where I want to place it in the source editor or by again swapping to visual editing and placing it into the infobox that way. It's a bit convoluted, but it works. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 22:46, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Haha. I do exactly the same. Does the job, but would like to know a better way (if any) from experience wikipedians. Waonderer (talk) 22:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Waonderer: That sounds like a decent way to handle it. If you want a similar experience to the Visual Editor's method of filling out a citation form, the source editor has something similar in the toolbar under "Cite > Templates", but it only supports the 4 most widely used citation templates. There is an optional gadget called ProveIt that can support more citation templates in the source editor, but still not all of them. @CallieCrewmanAuthor: the reason that the solution is wonky/complicated is that the Visual Editor can't edit references or templates done within a template, and infoboxes are all made with templates. Almost all infoboxes are somehow calling Template:Infobox. If you look at the reference count in the Visual Editor and the actual article you'll notice that the articles usually have a few more references than what the editor shows; that's because the Visual Editor isn't rendering any of the references inside infoboxes or other templates. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 01:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@CallieCrewmanAuthor: Please don't. Citations belong in the body of the article which the infobox should very briefly summarise. There should be nothing in the infobox (save an image) which is not in the body of the article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

There are some specialist infoboxes which do have citations. For example, the featured article hydrogen has ten of them and many articles on chemicals and drugs at least one. Aspirin has nine. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

When in doubt, I refer to articles marked as Good articles or Featured articles for standards. How come there are good articles such as Narendra Modi and even featured article like Aston Martin Rapide have citations in their infobox? Waonderer (talk) 16:54, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

JSTOR Access

Hi, I might be wrong, but I remember Wikipedia gave me access to some libraries and websites like JSTOR where wikipedians can access research papers. I don't remember what accesses were given, and can't seem to find the message in my inbox or Talk Page archives. Can someone please help me with this? Do we get access to JSTOR? I need to read a paper. Waonderer (talk) 22:35, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Waonderer I'm fairly certain that The Wikipedia Library is what you're looking for. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 22:44, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes, Thanks a lot. Waonderer (talk) 22:51, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Waonderer, you can create a JSTOR account that will let you read 100 articles per month online. Just go to their homepage and click on "register." FactOrOpinion (talk) 00:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh yeah. Thanks a tonne. Waonderer (talk) 08:58, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

how do I handle an offensive comment from a Barnstar Editor?

how do I handle an offensive comment from a Barnstar Editor? Walter Tau (talk) 00:27, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Walter Tau, can you clarify what you mean? I don't see any recent barnstars on your Talk page, or any barnstar templates in your recent contributions. Do you mean "how do I handle an offensive comment from an editor who has barnstars"? If so, the short answer is "the same way you handle an offensive comment from anyone else". What's the trouble? -- asilvering (talk) 00:30, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

>thank you for your reply. Here is the offensive comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slavic_languages&action=history

curprev 2024-09-02T20:54:09‎ StephenMacky1 talk contribs‎ 70,620 bytes −227‎ Reverted 1 edit by Walter Tau (talk): Do cite sources instead of inserting your ignorant opinions here. undothank Tags: Twinkle Undo

curprev 2024-09-02T20:35:47‎ Walter Tau talk contribs‎ 70,847 bytes +227‎ →‎Branches: the previous text has some factually incorred statements. Particularly, South Slavic Croatian usee Latin alphabet, while mutually intelligible Serbian uses Cyrillic. Macedonian is nothing , but a dialect of Bulgarian. Also, the paragraph about mutual intelligibility between Slavic languages was factually wrong infor and no references. I fixes the infor and I will add references later. undo Tags: Reverted Disambiguation links added

>The trouble is that, based on my experience with wikipedia "some pigs are more equal than other pigs". I think, it is pretty clear , that StephenMacky1 violated Wikipedia's Code of Conduct (whatever it is), and I feel like taking it to the next appropriate stage. BTW, my editing is FACTUALLY CORRECT , and the previous text on wikipedia had NO citations. Walter Tau (talk) 00:37, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Well, I do think it's rude to revert someone's edit and say they have "ignorant opinions", but if you're willing to accept some advice, I'd suggest taking positive actions rather than retributive ones. That is, I think you can probably solve this problem fairly easily simply by reinstating your edit with the appropriate sources, or going to the talk page to discuss (again, with sources). I should warn you that "Macedonian is nothing but a dialect of Bulgarian" is unlikely to be a winning argument, since our article Macedonian language appears to disagree. -- asilvering (talk) 00:48, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

thank you for your advice. I understand, that this is a contentious topic, and my Bulgarian friends disagree with their Macedonian cousins. The truth is, that Macedonian and Bulgarian are more mutually intelligible in the spoken forms, than American and British Englishes (I deliberately typed "Englishes"- do not correct me). I will add supporting references from American linguists later. "ignorant opinion" is an offensive comment, especially if the writer did not provide any support for their argument.

Note, that the original text did not have any references. Walter Tau (talk) 01:04, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Walter Tau, if you haven't read them, you might find the articles South Slavic languages and Eastern South Slavic of interest.

I'm English (and a book collector), and agree about 'Englishes': when books are translated into French, for example, they are often described on the Copyright page as being 'from the English' or 'from the American'. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.209.45 (talk) 07:17, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

What was wikipedia's first article?

What was wikipedia's first article? 2601:483:400:1CD0:1541:589A:8F1E:588F (talk) 00:56, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Please see History of Wikipedia. -- Hoary (talk) 01:17, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Or better yet, WP:Oldest articles, which mentions Nupedia, William Alston, and List of female tennis players as candidates. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 09:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Editing correcting a page.

Regarding Category:Songs written by Sunny Skylar

There is an important omission.

The most important song he wrote was "Don't Wait Too Long", which he wrote in 1965.

The song was recoreded by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and others. Can you tell me how to make the update? Thank you.

Regards, Scraigm55 Craig (talk) 05:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

The article need to be present on Wikipedia main space first before adding it as a category of songs by the artiste, but the Don't Wait Too Long song I can see here is by Madeleine Peyroux in 2004.

Once it's available in the main space, all you need to do is add the category template, Category:Songs written by Sunny Skylar inside a double bracket [[]] and the list will be updated automatically Tesleemah (talk) 05:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Massive issues with BLP

The page on C. S. Yogananda is as far as I can tell completely unsourced and from what the page tells me he’s still alive. How do you nominate a page for deletion? Because based on what I know of Wikipedia policy this page needs to be deleted. 22FatCats (talk) 09:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

C. S. Yogananda, just follow the recipe at Template:AfD in 3 steps. -- Hoary (talk) 11:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@22FatCats There has been some possible vandalism on that page. This revision from 23 April had many more sources. It will take a fair bit of work to sort out what should be done but WP:AfD is probably not the correct approach. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:48, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I've restored the article to the state it was in before User:BekhruzTursunboev took out a large chunk. I'll now work to tidy it up a bit. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:57, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Reliable source

Hello there! Quick question, is last.fm considered to be a reliable source? Thanks in advance - feni (tellmehi) 09:30, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Greetings from an occasional fellow scrobblite. LFM is primarily a music-tracking service, and also contains user-generated bios. That said, it doesn't meet the WP:RS requirements. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 09:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@FENFEN pretty much agreed with @Slgrandson but if there's a subject-expert who has a recording, for example a Professor/journalist of the relevant topic, you could use it per the exceptions outlined in WP:SPS (self published sources). Other sourcing is preferable ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:21, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Reg: Maharaja Ranjit Singh's information

Dear Moderator, The page containing information on Maharaja Ranjit Singh need some serious edits as the present one is devoid of its merits as per the history. I need to contact the editor of this page. Warm Regards Sandeep Singh Sukherchakia Kanwar sandeep (talk) 10:42, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Kanwar sandeep, I'm not quite sure which article you're asking about. If the article is titled XYZ, then write your message at the foot of Talk:XYZ; so if it's Ranjit Singh, then write it at the foot of Talk:Ranjit Singh. -- Hoary (talk) 11:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kanwar sandeep I see that you have now posted your concerns at the Talk Page of the article. However, you have not provided reliable sources for the details which you say are wrong. All Wikipedia articles are based on citing information already published elsewhere, so readers can verify what is said. Please provide your sources on the Talk Page or you are likely to be ignored there. Note that Wikipedia does not have content Moderators. All content is based on consensus. That particular article has had contributions from many editors and currently has over 200 people who watch it. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

The reliable sources for Sikh history particularly on my family is umdut-ut-Twarikh which is know as durbar book by Lala Sohan Lal suri which are based on Roznamcha. According to Umdat-ut-Twarikh at page No.56 the date of birth of Maharaja Khadak Singh should be 24th Feb, 1800 (as per english calander). Secondly, in the info under "Issue" section the names should be in the following sequence Maharaja Khadak Singh, Kanwar Rattan Singh, Kanwar Fateh Singh, Maharaja Sher Singh, Maharaja Duleep Singh in precise, but 2 names are missing. These two names along with the other names reflects in the family section below. My contention is that I am the direct living descendant of 8th generation of Maharaja Ranjit Singh I myself is an source of information and can provide you with the correct information.

In the "Early years" section It says Ranjit singh was born in a sandhawalia Jat Sikh family in Gujranwala Which is completely wrong and baseless because Maharaja was born in Badrukha in Sangrur district of Punjab and he was a SURYAVANSHI RAJPOOTRA of Kashyap Gotra which can be proved from the symbol of SUN decorated on his SAMADH which can be verified from many pictures in the internet and also can be witnessed by visiting that place. Maharaja Ranjit singh married one Laxmi Sandhawalia in his lifetime which means his wife Laxmi Sandhawalia was born in a Sandhawalia Jat Sikh family and not vice-a-versa.

Thanks & Regards,

"corrections sought for WIKIPEDIA page on Maharaja Ranjit Singh Kanwar sandeep (talk) 10:50, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

on rcats, again

r from title with diacritics is normally used for redirects with the same title (think pokemon for pokémon), which is cool and good, but does the presence or absence of the word "the" count as a big enough difference to warrant not including it (like the pokemon center, which i was just about to retarget to pokémon center)? cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 12:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

It would be incorrect regardless, since the link you're about to retarget doesn't have a diacritic in it. -- asilvering (talk) 13:02, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to Teahouse! @Cogsan you can use {{Redirect category shell}} to include multiple RCAT templates namely {{r from title with diacritics}} and {{r from alternative name}} in this case. In some cases, like The New York Times it is warranted, but in case of the pokemon center I'd remove the from linked examples ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Help me fix the coordinate

On this article, I am finding it difficult to perfectly fix the coordinate I got from Google maps using the minutes and seconds method. I would like an editor to fix the situation and then explain to me how the minutes and seconds method is used (which I don't understand) when the coordinates exceeds 60 seconds. Jõsé ^hola 14:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

The coordinates I got from Google maps is 6.8650426°N, 3.7036977°E, Thanks.

Jõsé ^hola 14:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Josedimaria237 It looks as though you have found the decimal degrees values. These need to be converted into degrees, minutes and seconds to work with the template {{coord}}. The article explains how to convert one to the other. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

.... or as the template page explains, you can make it format correctly using decimal degrees. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:33, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I made the change with this edit. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:42, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Article heading assessment

Hey I really need a kind of quick acknowledgment to suggest me a perfect heading attributing the genuine name I can real determine framed in the article conventing the meaning to refine the historical approach towards the topic of Rathi Jats Clan but the plot twist it also contain the objective to cover the subtopic of Khap system “a prejudice body exist in HelpJat dynamic in the conservative society “ So which can be the most appropriate tittle suit in this complex case please help me to sort this out भारतसरकार-विभाग (talk) 15:17, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

In my personal remarking I found conjunction such as Rathi Khap of Jats (lineage) and Rathi-lineage of Jat community but i don't get any accumulated outcomes so far भारतसरकार-विभाग (talk) 15:21, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Bharatasrakar-Vibhag, and welcome to the Teahouse. I can only vaguely understand what you are asking, and I'm not sure which article you are talking about. But whichever article it is, the best place to discuss its name is on its talk page, and try and get consensus. If the editors involved in the discussion are unable to reach consensus, then dispute resolution gives ways to proceed.

You may also want to put a note at WT:WikiProject India inviting people to join the discussion you start on the talk page. ColinFine (talk) 18:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Remove citations

How can I remove citations from my page? Bethg1996 (talk) 16:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bethg1996 What page would that be? Citations are important around here, but context matters? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:15, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Presumably Draft:Adam Bierman, where the OP made their only other edit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Then WP:TUTORIAL may be of help. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:19, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Dead link

When editing an article with a reference that has a dead link, is it best to remove it? LeónGonsalvesofGoa (talk) 16:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@LeónGonsalvesofGoa No, please don't. There is good advice on options at WP:LINKROT. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Michael D. Turnbull:While I realize that you have provided the (general) canonical answer, IMO, it's really not going to be much help. The first part the reader comes across is "preventing link rot". In the given use case, this is completely irrelevant. So if somebody figures that much out, they then move on to usurpations. This goes on to an explanation of usurped domains, which in the situation that is explained, is a comparatively infrequent occurrence. Additionally, it's really extraneous to the issue of repairing a dead link. By this time, we'll have likely lost all but the most persistent of those editors who went to "LINKROT".

IMO, better to just state that some automated process may come along and fix it or perhaps some other editor will fix it. Good directions for recovering a link using archive are just plain complicated, and while many times these links can be fixed without too much difficulty, the general solution is beyond the scope of what (to the best of my knowledge) we explain anywhere in "LINKROT". Fabrickator (talk) 17:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Fabrickator All that is true. I give that sort of quick answer because my just saying "No, please don't" to the question asked would be terse to the point of incivility. That is, however, what the "Nutshell" part of the Linkrot how-to guide advises. If the OP had asked a more specific question (e.g. by giving the article name), then I would have tried to give a more customised answer. Mike Turnbull (talk) 08:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

WP:DEADREF may be of help. LizardJr8 (talk) 22:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Article

I am not great with my English. Also, this is my first time trying to create an article and I don't know how or where to start. DiarrhoeaDemon (talk) 16:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

OP is blocked. Anyone who shares OP's question should read WP:FIRST. -- asilvering (talk) 16:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Blocked for need to change name or abandon this account and start another. Has created Draft:Lusei, Declined. David notMD (talk) 18:01, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Proposing changes to an article

What is the best way to go about this? Rather than editing the page directly, is there any way to propose changes before an edit is made? Preferably to have them vetted by some higher-ranking user Pruning0252 (talk) 17:40, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Pruning0252, you can use Template:Edit request. But if you use this on a page that you can edit, you'll probably just be declined and told to make the edit yourself. If you think your edit is particularly contentious and might need some prior discussion, the first place to try is the article's Talk page. If you're just nervous about doing something wrong in general and not for some specific reason - be WP:BOLD! You can always come back here and ask a Teahouse host to have a look at your edit, if you're really unsure. -- asilvering (talk) 18:20, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

How to add an image to a userbox in the UBX creator?

I'm currently hoping to make some new userboxes and I want to include images in the ones I hope to create. Some userboxes will contain only one image while others contain two on both sides. However, I'm struggling to figure out how to add images to the given code in the creator. Any advice on how to do so would be greatly appreciated! Surayeproject3 (talk) 20:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

@Surayeproject3: What do you mean by "the UBX creator"? If you refer to something specific you saw somewhere then please link it. Or do you just want to create userboxes? With a template like {{userbox}} you can choose to add image code in the id parameter. For example, User:UserBox/User Earthling says id = [[Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|43px]]. {{Userbox-2}} has two parameters id1 and id2 which can both be used for images. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I just want to create userboxes, and I meant the Userbox creator provided. How can I see the specific code for a userbox so I know how to base my own template for userboxes I wanna create, especially for two images? The process is kind of confusing me as it is my first time making userboxes. Surayeproject3 (talk) 00:16, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Surayeproject3 You don't need to use User:UBX. You can have a userbox anywhere in your userspace (which is what you should do) such as User:Surayeproject3/Userbox BlahBlah. You can see the code for {{userbox}} (that's the userbox creator) at it's documentation. Paste the code in Template:Userbox/doc#Usage on your userbox page, and edit the values you want, and you can look at examples here Template:Userbox/doc#Examples. Once you're done, preview the page and if it looks good, publish it! win8x (talking | spying) 02:51, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Surayeproject3: I don't know what you mean by "the Userbox creator provided". I asked for a link. {{Userbox-2}} has documentation of its parameters. You can click the edit tab at User:UserBox/User Earth to see an example use with two images. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:58, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Surayeproject3: Please make sure you carefully read through WP:UBX#Caution about image use before adding any images to an userbox. Not all images you see used on Wikipedia are licensed the same way, those licensed as non-free content can't be used in userboxes. If you try to do so, they will almost certainly be removed (perhaps rather quickly) by either a WP:BOT or a Wikipedian that reviews how files are being used. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:03, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Draft Declined

I completed significant edits to Draft:Microsoft Azure Quantum with feedback from the live chat and reviewers. Is there anything else that should be fixed before submitting the draft for review? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by CBathka (talk • contribs) 20:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

The best way to get feedback is to resubmit it. 331dot (talk) 20:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Category:Pages using WikiProject [insert project] with unknown parameters

In Special:WantedPages, a lot of the most wanted pages are empty categories for pages that use a WikiProject with unknown parameters. In fact, the most wanted page, with nearly 120,000 pages (most appear to be talk pages) linking to it, is the empty category "Category:Pages using WikiProject Lepidoptera with unknown parameters". Why is that? BombCraft8 ^{(talk) (contributions)} 00:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, BombCraft8. The banner template is causing that. You'd get the most informed answer by posting to this talk page: Module talk:WikiProject banner. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 05:33, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Why can I not view the revision history of some articles?

The article Michael Middleton, for example in the revision history, if you go to protection log, and click on revisions history, it shows the date (10 March 2024), crosed out, and I cannot click on Prev (which means previous) but in other articles like Caillou I can. Why is this? Why is it crossed out like that? 142.114.181.79 (talk) 04:36, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

They're deleted revisions. Administrators have the ability to delete revisions from the page history. They usually contain vandalism and so on. The deletion log for the page often has a record of the deletion. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 04:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Just going to add that revisions tend to only be revdeleted due to serious policy violations such a WP:COPYVIO and WP:BLPREMOVE. There's still a record of such edits kept for Wikipedia licensing purposes, but leaving them publicly viewable is potentially more of a problem than it's worth and could bring the project into disrepute. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:56, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

In this case, a vandal had added a false death date to Michael Middleton, the father of Catherine, the Princess of Wales. Middleton is still alive. Cullen328 (talk) 08:16, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Fix article I cant

Please I am trying to fix an article but instead it look even more worse someone help and fix Umaru Musa Yar'Adua article infobox problemOneLastTruth (talk) 07:54, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@OneLastTruth: done. There was only a single closing square bracket in one of the wikilinks. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:11, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Simple tips

I am fairly new to the whole editing system for wikipedia and was wondering if i could get some tips and knowledge about editing a page Watersprinkler (talk) 08:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Watersprinkler: Please see the links that were left on your talk page, yesterday. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:49, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

New editors are strongly advised to put in time working to improve existing articles before essaying to create a new article (as you have started). Submitting a draft without reliable source references (WP:42]]) properly formated (Help:Referencing for beginners) would just waste a Reviewer's time. David notMD (talk) 11:10, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Editing help and advice

Hello Wikipedians. I gather this is where I can get help and advice on text and logistics. My first Wikipedia contribution was to update the page for David Cappo AO at David Cappo. The previous version had no information about his activities since 2012 so I provided them. However the entry has been flagged as having text written in a "promotional tone" and an Wikipedia editor also told me it was "problematic" that I had referenced an organistion's website. I think I know what the offending words are, and have developed a second draft, but clearly I can't just make the changes myself, and certainly can't delete the flag, without input from others. So I'm hoping someone can tell me what would make the entry acceptable to Wikipedia standards and how I would then be able to get the flag removed. And by whom. The new information is pretty straight forward and I would have thought non controversial, so I'm assuming its just the odd word or sentence. Thanks in advance. Nick2103 Nick2103 (talk) 08:35, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Nick2103: I can see no obvious issues with the article, so I have removed the {{Promo}} tag. Another editor left a generic message on your talk page which talks about things that may be wrong with your edit, but has not replied to your follow-up there. They may not have seen it, so I have just "pinged" them (as I pinged you here) to draw their attention. It would be useful if you could confirm whether or not you have any connection to David Cappo, so we know whether our COI policy applies, and can advise you accordingly. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:48, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Andy. I'm new to all of this. I know of David's past work as I live in Adelaide and a friend of his told me what he is doing now. He wondered how that could be added to his Wikipedia page so I said I would give it a go. Is that a conflict? The only new information is that he co-founded a new organisation in 2016, now lives jointly in Kampala and Adelaide, and no longer has an affiliation with one university but does with another. Nick2103 (talk) 09:12, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

It might be a conflict, but perhaps more relevantly that information isn't from a WP:Reliable source. Speaking of sources, what is the reason you removed the source from the sentence "Cappo was born in Adelaide and educated at St Joseph's Primary School at Kingswood and at Rostrevor College"? It's not clear from the edit summary. CMD (talk) 09:21, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

I will wait to see what is decided re conflict. Andy did not seem to have a problem with the source but maybe others will. As I said, this is my first time. The source you mention is at the end of the next sentence. It seemed more relevant to that early work that to his actual schooling. Thanks for the feedback. Nick2103 (talk) 09:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Challenging

Talks about Gene's interested Jweighed1 (talk) 11:24, 4 September 2024 (UTC)