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June 21

New article

Hello,

I have created a new article - Salman Zarka. I provided a number of reliable sources, included official pages of the organizations Dr. Zarka worked in, interviews to different media around the world. Can you please help me with the publication of this article, as it's still not approved by Wikipedia.

Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Safed2017 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Safed2017: It is a page that is up and running. Salman Zarka. The banner at the top is somewhat common on articles. Keep in mind, if you feel the issues are addressed, you can remove the banner. CTF83! 19:50, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Making an artist wikipedia page

Hello I was just wondering how to get my dj diamstat page I made to be shown on Wikipedia did I not do it right or how do I make a very well known dj whom there is plenty of information about available out there I have her permission as well. When I look it up on goggle the page I made doesn't even show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hardsylelovers (talk • contribs) 07:21, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hardsylelovers. Draft pages, such as Draft:DJ Diamstat should not be indexed by Google: only once the article has been moved to mainspace or (preferably) submitted for review and accepted into mainspace will Google index it. (I keep wondering why people are so fixated on whether or not Google sees articles. Who cares! This is an encyclopaedia, and may not be used for publicity!). As the draft stands it has no chance of being accepted, because it contains no references. Please see your first article, and understand that Wikipedia has no interest at all in what you (or I!) know or think, and little interest in what the subject of any article says or wants to say. An article should be based close to 100% on what people who have no connection to the subject have published about them, and - especially for an article about a living person - everything in the article should be cited to a reliable published reference. Unreferenced information in an article is in a sense completely worthless, because the reader has no way of checking whether it is accurate. --ColinFine (talk) 08:42, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

problem with link

i have problem with this link: https://www.outletpandora.net

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vadbe2l (talk • contribs) 12:48, 21 June 2017 (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. Yunshui ^雲 _水 12:54, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User WannaUnix renaming many pages

User WannaUnix is renaming many pages without consent. i have moved one back which I know to be wrong but most look dubious and confusing -- Q Chris (talk) 13:50, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved some back but had to use a slight difference in case -- Q Chris (talk) 14:27, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Q Chris: Actually, you moved the articles to titles with an initial uppercase letter in the disambiguators. I have fixed all of them now, and Unity is not really a desktop environment, so I have moved the corresponding article back to Unity (user interface), the title since the move on 16 May 2011 by Joe routt. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 16:48, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bob Richardson (animator)

You have on this page very little actual facts concerning Bob Richardson (Animator) and a number of errors regarding films or television productions that he worked on. I have tried to correct this material based on well documented material (IMDb) and with the absolute permission of Bob Richardson and you have refused it. You say you're trying to make this material accurate and yet you have allowed mistakes on the page, while rejecting material that is factual and accurate.

This type of editing is terrible and suggests that none of your supposed facts can be trusted! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cartoonimator (talk • contribs) 13:59, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of the two sources that you describe are ideally used by Wikipedia. IMDb can be edited by anyone for most things (see Wikipedia:Citing IMDb, and Wikipedia works off of what other people publish about a person, not what they say about themselves. For example, we couldn't accept what Prime Minister May says about herself, but rather what is published about her.Naraht (talk) 14:28, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has almost no interest in what people say about themselves. IMDb is for people to write about themselves, but Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, so it summarises what independent reliable sources say about the subject. If you find errors, please point them out on the talk page of the article, and find a reliable source independent of the subject that confirms the correction you wish to make. Wikipedia is not the place for resumés. Do you have a WP:Conflict of interest in editing this article? Are you editing on behalf of some organisation or agency? Dbfirs 17:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Marking disputed text

Isn't there a template for marking off a disputed portion of text by placing a border around it with a description of the problem? I want to mark off a certain paragraph as being questionably sourced within an otherwise well-referenced section of an article, without using multiple inline tags. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 14:32, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

{{citation needed span}}?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:51, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks – that's more or less what I was looking for. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 15:34, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding editing wikipedia

Hello I want to know if anyone can edit the information on Wikipedia than how we can trust that the information is correct and aunthetic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skant722 (talk • contribs) 16:12, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Essentially, you don't. You look at the references that the article has and go from there. See Cultural_impact_of_The_Colbert_Report#Wikipedia_references for an example of what has been changed (and then reverted, and then temporarily protected). Naraht (talk) 16:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... but for important articles, especially those classed as good or featured, so many editors (some of them expert in a subject, and others who are good at reading different references) have checked each sentence that the result can be surprisingly accurate and comprehensive, and can be better than a printed encyclopaedia article written by one person. It is always wise to check the history for recent vandalism, of course. Dbfirs 17:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may find something interesting in Reliability of Wikipedia, but then, you know, it´s on Wikipedia... Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:09, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re article on Deerfield, Lake Co, IL

I happened to be searching in various census records for a man born about 1895 in Indiana. He showed up in the 1920 census as a patient in Deerfield, Lake, IL. There were dozens of census pages devoted to patients, mostly men in their 20's and 30's, at that location. Was there a military hospital there, where they might have treated injured military personnel? Or possibly a tuberculosis sanatorium? The census doesn't specify the nature of the hospital, and the current history of the town doesn't mention such a facility. Looks like it was important enough to mention in a history of the town.

Here is the heading for the first of the census pages:United States Census, 1920 Illinois Lake Deerfield ED 247 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.32.155.102 (talk) 18:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried the Miscellaneous section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 18:33, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 NCAA Baseball season

Can you move the 2018 NCAA baseball season from draft to article space please. 2600:8803:7A00:976A:61DF:5833:5874:D8D3 (talk) 21:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the draft located? CTF83! 22:48, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On top of the article 2600:8803:7A00:976A:61DF:5833:5874:D8D3 (talk) 00:50, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dead links

In an article, one of the links in the references section is dead. I know the new link, but when I try to edit it, all of the references get highlighted. Not sure how to edit just the one link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David1775 (talk • contribs) 23:53, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @David1775: What is the name of the article you are trying to edit? Depending on how the page creator created the references, you may need to edit the citation inline with the article. I would recommend using VisualEditor to do this. Hope that helps! If you have any other questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Daylen (talk) 04:01, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]