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March 13

How to change wiki url

Hi,

Today, I have created User:Radcliffecardiology and watch list page as showning "User:Radcliffecardiology", but by mistake, posted in user section. Please give suggestion for removing "user:/" in url structure and watch list area.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radcliffecardiology (talk • contribs) 13:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is certainly not fit to be moved into mainspace as an article. Among other things, you need to read about inline citations and external links. I see that you have given no published reliable sources independent of your company, so there is no evidence that your organisation meets Wikipedia's notability requirements. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:25, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is also very spammy in tone. In any event, the content is inappropriate for a user page, so I have moved it to User:Radcliffecardiology/Sandbox, per policy. Also note the username concerns expressed on the talk page.--ukexpat (talk) 14:03, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Marie van Zandt

There have been some recent changes (reverts) in the article Marie van Zandt, including one edit of mine, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed. Could someone have a look on it. thx. --Goesseln (talk) 14:23, 13 March 2015 (UTC) (from german WP)[reply]

The recent edits all look fine to me. The biggest change was some material that might have worked as a quote from a reliable source but didn't look appropriate as it was.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:02, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As for your edit, it appears you corrected a spelling error and the person making the reverts got confused. Your edit was restored.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:03, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help with article title

Hello, I've created an article PSeven The product name is actually pSeven (the first -p- is small not capital), but it automatically becomes PSeven with a capital P. Is there a way to keep the small -p-? Thanks in advance! Nata Kozlova (talk) 14:28, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See Template:lowercase title. --CiaPan (talk) 14:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See mw:Help:Magic_words#Displaytitle, if CiaPan's tip doesn't work for your pSeven. –Be..anyone (talk) 17:21, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But Template:lowercase title does work fine here. It only makes the first letter lower case, and no method can change other letters in article names. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:56, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question about an Article which mistakenly has gone live

I created a page about 'Experteer' and wanted to get it reviewed, edited and then post it live but i saved the page. Now i can see the article even when i am logged out ,so i would like to know how to stop the page from going live or to move it to my sandbox till i am ready with the entire article.

Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nagarjun.V.S (talk • contribs) 15:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved it in to your user space as a sub page User:Nagarjun.V.S/Experteer - X201 (talk) 15:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Email Notifications

I have some pages on my watch list and I have email notifications checked off. I used to get emails, but now I don't. I don't know why.

Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikejc101185 (talk • contribs) 20:56, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1) are there still articles on your watchlist? (for example did you start a new account or did you leave youreself logged in on a computer where someone else could have gotten in and removed from your watchlist?)

2) do you still have the right notification switches turned on?

3) do you have the correct e-mail account hooked up to your account?

4) have you checked your spam folder?

-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:58, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

5) Is there a checkmark at "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" at Special:Preferences?

6) Are there pages on your watchlist which should have produced a mail considering the rules at Help:Preferences#Watchlist?

7) Did you receive the test mail I sent to your account a minute ago?

PrimeHunter (talk) 23:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1) Yes. I checked this before I posted.

2) Yes. I have the box checked as indicated in number 5.

3) Yes

4) Yes I checked on my desktop mail application and on the web were the email is accessible.

-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:58, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

5) Yes

6) Under the "View History" tab there are many changes that about which I have not been notified.

7) I received two email from Wikipedia since I posted my question. On from the "TheRedPenOfDoom" who sent me an email that contained basic information about wikipedia. I plan on looking at that in the future. Another email from "PrimeHunter" is the email to which you are eluding.

Mikejc101185 (talk) 02:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The system works for me. Did you check the rules at Help:Preferences#Watchlist about when you don't get emails? Can you temporarily switch to an email address at another mail service to see whether notification mails get through there? Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents get a lot of edits if you want it tested quickly. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:11, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Sun (United Kingdom).............ERROR SPOTTED.....FYI

In the Wikipedia article The Sun (United Kingdom) sub section "Trial of staff for misconduct in a public office", the section starts "In October 2014, the trial of six senior staff and journalists at The Sun newspaper began" The section later states "On 21 January 2015, the jury..................or 10 to 1”.[144] On 22 January 2015, the jury was discharged after failing to reach verdicts on the outstanding charges. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced that it would seek a retrial.[145]"

Note the dates The next Paragraph starts..........."On 6 February 2014, it was announced........"

I believe this should read............On 6 February 2015,............

--81.97.155.131 (talk) 21:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC) Paul Smith --81.97.155.131 (talk) 21:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're a very good error-spotter, and I have made the correction. You are welcome to make such changes yourself. Given that the source given is dated 6 Feb 2015, that was a completely uncontroversial change. (Things that are less cut-and-dried should be discussed on the article's talk page, not brought to the Help Desk.) ―Mandruss ☎ 22:04, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Should I submit an article in english to wikipedia if all of my sources are in Spanish?

Dear Wikipedia Help Desk, I am a first time wikipedia article writer. I have created a new topic which I believe deserves inclusion in the Wikipedia about an international artist named Cekis (Nelson Andres Rivas Cekis). Anyway, English is my first language and so I have written the article in English. However, all of my footnotes reference Spanish language articles. I know that to be included/accepted in the wikipedia an important criteria is the reliability of the sources for the article. With this in mind should I translate the article into Spanish and submit it in that fashion or is it acceptable for me to submit my article to the English speaking Wikipedia editors for approval? Thank you for your consideration as I would not like the article to have problems because of language complications. Sincerely, Christian Jutt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drmicrochp (talk • contribs) 22:42, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When no English alternatives are available, WP:NOENG allows the use of foreign language sources. PhantomTech (talk) 22:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(even if there are English sources, if the Spanish are of better quality, those are preferred) -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:35, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]