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    May 3[edit]

    Cabinet card[edit]

    Ref number 2 is all in red, please fix if you can. Also, the new photo file is way too large. I cannot alter it. Please add the caption: "Hyde Terrace, Leeds, c.1897 - Cabinet card from the studio of Warner Gothard of Leeds" Thanks and sorry 115.70.23.77 (talk) 00:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Both fixed in this edit. Deor (talk) 02:01, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


    In the caption underneath the photo of the 5 young women, the letter "c" is used to mean "circa" - please make sure the link on the letter "c." goes to the correct page. Thank you again 115.70.23.77 (talk) 04:19, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The text is made with {{circa|1897}} which produces "c. 1897". There is no link but a tooltip. My browser displays a dotted line where hovering says "circa". It's working as intended. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    retaining account info[edit]

    i have lost the credentials and recovery email to retain those credentials. Is there a way to retain the wikipedia account if this is the scenario? 122.165.79.124 (talk) 06:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    If you have lost your password and didn't get a recovery email or it doesn't work, you will not be able to regain access to your account. You should create a new account and identify it on its user page as a successor to your old account("I am User5678, I was previously User1234 but lost access"). 331dot (talk) 07:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    editing not working[edit]

    my editing not working Bhartiya Yuva Sansad (talk) 12:57, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Bhartiya Yuva Sansad, since posting the above, you have created Talk:Indian Youth Parliament. That seems to be a talk page for an article that does not exist. No-one is likely to find it except via your list of contributions. Maybe we could help if we knew what you're trying to do. Maproom (talk) 13:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Copyright violation? The text has ©NationYouthParliament2024 at the end. 57.140.16.48 (talk) 13:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    We were working from 1999. 2409:40D4:2F:555C:B1BB:E5E3:6DF6:DA3 (talk) 04:45, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    We have such papers too, we were working as Indian Youth Parliament from last two and half decades, one who complained its I’d showing that it’s fake type, wiki first clear that, this person right or not. 2409:40D4:2F:555C:B1BB:E5E3:6DF6:DA3 (talk) 04:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Equivalent policy docs on other language versions of WP[edit]

    Hi there. Just wondered if there exists a list - a "cheat sheet", if you will - of links to equivalent policy/guideline pages on other language versions of Wikipedia?

    For example, I know a few on fr-wiki because I occasionally edit there, e.g.:

    etc. If one exists, great! If not, I would be interested in helping create one. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:43, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Drm310, where there is a direct match, that is handled through Wikidata, so you can access a list of other language versions at the bottom left or top right of the page depending on the skin you use. For example "Notability policy for a Wikimedia content project" is d:Q4657574. TSventon (talk) 17:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    May 4[edit]

    Feedback on articles I've added photos to?[edit]

    Hi folks, I've been gradually adding photos from my Flickr backlog, using flickypedia. You can see the full list from my Contributions page beginning June 2023, but here are some articles I added photos to:

    I'm just wondering, how am I doing? Are there ways I could improve how I add photos to articles, any best practices? I haven't seen many edits to the pages after I've added photos, I'd just like some confirmation that my approach is good and improving Wikipedia before I add more photos. -- Skyfaller (talk) 04:51, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Article about Ira Hayes, marine Medal of honor winner, Iwo Jima[edit]

    There seems to be a conflict. Ira Hayes was one of the marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. For that, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The online article fails to mention that. Can someone research this and add the missing information? I believe it is important to the Marines, the Native Americans, and the readers. Israel (talk) 04:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Although some online sites claim that Ira Hayes was awarded the Medal of Honor, I can find no Reliable source that says so, amongst several that list the medals that he was awarded. One example (found by independent search, not using the article's references) is https://www.militarymedals.com/warhero/corporal-ira-hayes/: of his seven medals listed in that source, the one specific to his actions at Iwo Jima is the Navy Presidential Unit Citation with silver star. Our Article corresponds with that source.
    Checking our articles on the other participants in the First and Second raisings (see Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), none of them were awarded the Medal of Honor either, and none are listed in our article List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 188.220.144.58 (talk) 08:03, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    No one was awarded the MOH for simply raising the flag at Iwo Jima. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 14:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Crima în lume[edit]

    How I can edit this topic in Romanian? Alexandru Berca (talk) 11:01, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    If your issue is with the Romanian Wikipedia, you need to address that there, each Wikipedia is separate. 331dot (talk) 11:10, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Alexandru Berca: You may also be interested in translating articles form Romanian into English, or English into Romanian. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:14, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Rejection of my first article[edit]

    could you please tell the reasons for rejection of my first article Arunasreearu (talk) 13:14, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    If this is about Draft:A day in the life of a salesman/woman, I'd have to say it's out of scope for this website. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Arunasreearu try getting a Blog - what you wrote is not suitable for Wikipedia. Qcne (talk) 14:03, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I noticed that very similar feedback was given for Draft:A day in the life of salesman, Draft:A day in life of salesman and Draft:A day in the life of a salesman. Based on the feedback from those submissions - you ought to read What Wikipedia Is Not, I would also suggest reading a few existing Wikipedia articles on any topic of interest to you, to get an idea of what Wikipedia articles usually consist of. -- D'n'B-t -- 03:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    What happened to page on Joe Dispenza, the new age chiropractor?[edit]

    It seems to have been taken down. Why? 179.42.210.0 (talk) 21:53, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    You can see the deletion log at Joe Dispenza. This will tell you that the article was deleted on 2 August 2010 following this discussion. It was deleted again on 6 January 2020 under our speedy deletion criteria as "Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. DuncanHill (talk) 21:57, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This seems entirely likely to be another inappropriate G4 deletion, as it's hard to believe that someone would have maintained a substantially identical copy of the page and re-created it ten years later. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    May 5[edit]

    Categories[edit]

    Could someone please look at Steven Ward (TV personality), and let me know (or simply fix) whatever glitch is preventing the categories from appearing? I'm not seeing whatever is causing that. Thanks. Keystone18 (talk) 02:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Better? Joyous! Noise! 03:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There was a stray "<!-- " in the text, that marks the beginning of "hidden text," or text that is only visible in the edit window. There was no ending symbol, so everything after that was hidden from view. You can see where it was here

    How does one add stub tags below the categories using the VisualEditor?[edit]

    When creating new pages. If they're added as templates, they're placed above the categories, which is incorrect. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:10, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Girls' Friendly Society[edit]

    Reference numbers 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 16 are all in RED - they are all from the same book (written by Money) as is reference number 20 (which is correctly done by me just now) so all of these other references should be the same - except without the quote that is evident in reference number 20. Also Reference number 25 is also in RED. Please fix these all - unfortunately I cannot. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 08:46, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

     Done. The {{harvnb}} tags were looking for a book defined as Money 1911, which was already done in the bibliography - but defining it again in reference "20" meant they didn't know where to point. Every one of those references is now pointing towards the bibliography. 25 was just missing a title. -- D'n'B-t -- 09:36, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    John Gott (bishop)[edit]

    Ref number 12 should have a publisher and I got it all wrong. please fix. thank you. Srbernadette (talk) 09:35, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Blue question mark? which citation are you struggling with specifically? I've added a publisher to "Our Schools and Colleges" which was #12 at the time of editing. But I noticed that #11 "Robert Woodward Papers" has an empty publihser field, but more importantly it's a broken link. If you could provide a working link to that source then I or another editor could probably fill out the rest of the citation for you. -- D'n'B-t -- 10:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Citation style[edit]

    Hello! I was recently trying to fix an article (Turkish calligraphy) with an "unclear citation style" tag, and I found that the article had a tie between APA's citation style and Wikipedia's Citation Style 1. I was wondering which style I should use (the first article version used APA, but APA doesn't have a method for adding archive URLs to prevent link rot). DaZyzzogetonsGotDaLastWord (talk) 14:33, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Is Fandom considered a reliable source for citations?[edit]

    I was just wondering about this. Shoron100 (talk) 17:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Shoron100: As Fandom wikis are user-generated, they are not. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also see WP:FANDOM. CodeTalker (talk) 17:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Mobile version[edit]

    Hello,

    On the page Hôtel de la Marine, the first paragraph of the introductory part does not appear above the infobox but under it on the mobile version (mobile phone). I was wondering why this was.

    Thanks!

    2A02:A420:6C:AFE:8932:CAD8:7485:EB73 (talk) 17:27, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    It can happen when {{coord}} is placed early outside the infobox. I have moved it to the end.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 18:22, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Image upload[edit]

    So this keeps happening to me but no editor that places a template will actually assist me. They only add a "See:[WP]" to WP pages that are so extensive, it is impossible to weed through it all. What is so frustrating is that there are thousands of similar images uploaded that seems to comply with (or get around) WP policy yet I can't seem to find a way. So - could someone please (without simply linking me to a page to read about WP policy) actually tell me how to upload this correctly? I've just never understood why an editor who knows who, wouldn't just upload it correctly then take all the steps to have it deleted. But that's beside the point, and probably will generate a thread conversation that is separate from my original question. I really just need help to learn so I can do it correctly in the future. I've tried to upload sheet music covers from the 1920s and 1930s (which WP has dozens), and yet mine are deleted because it wasn't uploaded correctly. I'm at a loss here. If anyone could take the time to really help me, I'd appreciate it greatly. Here is what I am facing right now: Talk Page Image, Copyvio. Maineartists (talk) 17:35, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    When you uploaded the image, you said it was in the public domain. How do you know? Where did the image come from? These things matter a lot for images uploaded to Wikipedia. Mokadoshi (talk) 18:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) Does the image comply with WP:NFCCP? I don't think this page is extensive at all. (Also, pages like WP:FAIRUSE are long but it's policy. It's long and linked for a reason.) I've just never understood why an editor who knows who, wouldn't just upload it correctly then take all the steps to have it deleted. See burden of proof, it's your responsibility to upload it correctly if you want it to stay. Having an understanding of policy would help immensely with that.
    As for how: for the resolution, see WP:IMAGERES. There's a tool linked that can help you find the decreased dimensions to comply with policy if you don't want to do the math yourself. If you want to, the formula is there. Adjust the image as necessary with the plethora of online tools available for that purpose. (Or, you can also just tag the image with {{non-free reduce}} after uploading.) Go to WP:UPLOAD. Click "Upload a non-free file". Fill the form out. ayakanaa ( t · c ) 18:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you very much, Ayakanaa. You are the first editor who has actually shown me "how". Rather than explained WP policy, copyright law, burden of proof, etc. One quick question: the link on Image resolution here: this tool is actually in a foreign language? Am I missing something? My image is only W 7.33 H 4.81 with a Res of 96 pix/in / 244KB. I can't imagine that is too large. I am currently going back in and listing this Postcard image (that's where it came from, Mokadoshi - from my own collection 1958) under Non-Free File. Hopefully I'm clicking all the right boxes to satisfy. Fingers crossed. Maineartists (talk) 20:20, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Ayakanaa OK. I tried again by using your directions and links: [2] Would you mind looking at the upload and see if I did everything correctly? It would seem that I am missing a few things on the page even though I filled everything out upon initial process. Thank you. I really appreciate your taking the time to help me. Maineartists (talk) 20:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Maineartists Looks pretty good, I've tagged it with {{non-free reduce}} so a bot can make it smaller for you (non-free images have to be quite small: if you read WP:IMAGERES, it mentions that no more than 100k pixels should suffice – your image exceeds that). You should put it on Union Church (Wiscasset, Maine) now. ayakanaa ( t · c ) 21:28, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Wow, Ayakanaa. How can I ever thank you? After all this time. With just a few explanations and exact links to properly upload, I finally was able to upload a non-free image. All because of you. Thank you. Maineartists (talk) 22:02, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Maineartists, unfortunately, copyright is an extremely complex matter and there are many lawyers who spend their entire careers dealing with the complications. Here is a very basic overview from the point of view of someone trying to upload an image. Think of any given image as either "free" or "non-free". It is your obligation to determine which. Free images are either in the public domain so copyright laws do not apply, or they have been freely licensed by the copyright holder, most commonly under an acceptable Creative Commons license. Such free images can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, but you must furnish convincing evidence that the image is actually free. The vast majority of contemporary images that you find in books, magazines, newspapers and on websites are protected by copyright and therefore "non-free" . They can be used on English Wikipedia only if they meet the stringent and limited conditions described at Non free images. Interestingly, the example you chose of sheet music covers from the 1920s and 1930s is an edge case. The general rule (there are exceptions) is that copyright of such a cover lasts for 95 years, and that copyright expires on January 1 of the following year. So, any such cover published in 1928 or before is in the public domain, and works published in 1929 enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. And so on as the years pass. The bottom line is that you can upload public domain or correctly freely licensed images to Wikimedia Commons. Non-free images that fully comply with strict standards must be uploaded to the English Wikipedia instead. Cullen328 (talk) 19:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Requesting a template change[edit]

    I've forgotten how to summon a template editor to request a template change on its talk page. Simply posting a new thread there has proven ineffective. ―Mandruss ☎ 18:41, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Mandruss: You can use the template {{Edit template-protected}} for this. RudolfRed (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That's it! Thanks much. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:11, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    May 6[edit]

    St Chad's Church, Far Headingley[edit]

    Ref number 6 is in red, please fix if you can! Thank you as always. And Sorry115.70.23.77 (talk) 01:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The red error message include a link to the help page: [3] which explains what the error is. You just need to remove the special character from the title. RudolfRed (talk) 01:39, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I tried and failed - please fix if you can, sorry! 115.70.23.77 (talk) 01:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Readd the "title", this time without rogue characters. 126.254.160.46 (talk) 02:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Why is it that the only people we're told are buried in the churchyard have the surname Middleton (and don't seem notable)? 126.53.182.173 (talk) 02:17, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Members of the Middleton family are notable - should we remove this? and can reference 6 be fixed up pelase. I cannot do this and I am sorry 115.70.23.77 (talk) 03:17, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Fixed the ref issue with this edit. ayakanaa ( t · c ) 03:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    How is it that they're notable 126.205.243.176 (talk) 05:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm sorry, reference 5 is in red and, sadly, I cannot fix it up. Please repair it. I will stop attempting to edit. I am not good at it. Thank you 115.70.23.77 (talk) 04:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Fixed with this edit. There was a typo, with 20244 as the year instead of 2024. ayakanaa ( t · c ) 05:15, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Need help for some content correction and linking of a wiki page to a correct person.[edit]

    Hi, I need help for some content correction and linking of a wiki page to a correct person. I tried to do it earlier 2-3 times but by giving some reasons saying this is not correct way or some verifiable reason the page and edits were discarded. I tried to add a page Draft:Satish Kumar (scientist) and made a correction of a Padma awards list as it was linked to wrong person. But it was discarded. Kindly help me on this. Govne (talk) 06:02, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Govne, you are the creator and the most recent adder of material to Draft:Satish Kumar (scientist). This still has very little content; what part of it needs correction that you can't do? What do you mean here by "linking a wiki page to a correct person"? Where did you "[give] some reasons"? (You have provided no edit summaries. Back in February, you did write something on Draft talk:Satish Kumar (scientist), but I don't understand it.) And currently the draft says that this fellow is an "Indian scientist" but fails even to say whether he's a physicist, a chemist, or whatever. -- Hoary (talk) 06:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Article[edit]

    I wrote an article on Concordium and clicked publish and it's been 3 days nothing happens, when will there be a reply ? MrViktorgr (talk) 06:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    In that context, "Publish" means "publish this as part of Wikipedia for people who know where to find it". If you want User:MrViktorgr/sandbox published as an article, first you have to make clear your relationship to this, and I quote, privacy-centric, public and permissionless blockchain based on proof_of_stake mechanism to ensure resource-efficient operation of the network along with enhanced security among participants. (Carefully read Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.) And once you've made your disclosure, you have to make considerable improvements to User:MrViktorgr/sandbox, which currently reads like corporate advertising, and has no doubt amiably intended but unfortunately incompetent referencing. Eventually, if/when it's a decent draft, you submit it for consideration for promotion to article status. But that's a long way off. -- Hoary (talk) 06:31, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    MrViktorgr, the current version of your draft bears little resemblance to an actual, neutrally written, well referenced encyclopedia article. It cannot possibly be accepted without a total rewrite. Cullen328 (talk) 06:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    About Aranamanai 4 Article[edit]

    Hi, In the Article Aranmanai 4 there are some wrong informations updated. mr.sb.ramdoss is not a co-writer. He is just a seco d unit director. Also The Film Aranmani 4 is a Blockbuster hit film world wide, which is not mentioned. And, negative reviews are highlighted and positive reviews are ignored. I request yoi to consider these changes in the article Aranamanai 4.

    Thank You. 27.4.7.70 (talk) 06:47, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The place to make suggestions and requests for the article Aranmanai 4 is Talk:Aranmanai 4. Be sure to cite reliable sources. -- Hoary (talk) 06:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Why can't the Visual Editor be used in the Wikipedia namespace?[edit]

    I find it easier to use compared to the source editor, and I use it almost everywhere, but why can't it be used in the Wikipedia namespace? Félix An (talk) 07:02, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Félix An: Many pages in the Wikipedia namespace are used for discussions and VisualEditor is not well suited for that. You can still use it. It's only the normal interface links which have been removed. You can start a source edit and manually change action=edit to veaction=edit in the url, or install User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/VisualEditorEverywhere. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    St George's Church, Leeds[edit]

    In the "Key dates" section - in 2021 - please put italics on the newspaper "Rothwelll Times". I cannot work out how to do this on my old device. Thank you. Srbernadette (talk) 07:37, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Srbernadette. To put text in italics, you can put two apostrophes either side of the text, i.e. ''Rothwell Times''. I'll leave that for you to do. -- D'n'B-t -- 07:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    What D'n'B says. Note that although a pair of apostrophes '' looks like a single double quotation mark ", the latter will not work for this purpose. Also, do not use a word processor for editing, as "curly" (also called "typographic") apostrophes won't work either. Incidentally, Srbernadette, this "old device" of yours fascinates me. What is it? -- Hoary (talk) 07:54, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My device is a "Macbook Air". I have fixed up the italics issue - thank you again. Srbernadette (talk) 08:23, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Preferred method to link to foreign language WP[edit]

    I am expanding an English article about a French actress, including a list of appearances in French films with French directors, for most of which there are articles in French WP but not in English. I'd like to include links to the French articles. Which option is preferred for linking a list to French WP:

    (1) {{ill|Article title|fr}} template. This gives a list with a lot of red links, e.g. Les Moyens du bord [fr]

    (2) [[:fr:Article title]], which shows blue links, e.g. fr:Les Moyens du bord

    The second is more aesthetically pleasing, giving more blue and less red, but H:FOREIGNLINK says the first is best practice. Masato.harada (talk) 08:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Your aesthetic judgment is your own, but the reason the first is the best practice is that it is less of a surprise to the user what they are clicking on. It is poor practice to link easter egg terms where it is not clear what they are going to link to. So, to answer your question of "what is the preferred method": it is in fact what the help page has stated to be the preferred method. Remsense诉 09:04, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    {{ill|Article title|fr}} is also preferred because it automatically omits the fr link if an English article is created. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:29, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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