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April 6

How does one change the title of a listing?

The Wiki for Grace University Lutheran Church in Minneapolis is essential correct, except that the overall title of the page reflects the OLD name of the congregation, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church. The name was changed in the 1990's. I am a member of that congregation and am trying to get the name of the article changed in order to accurately direct people seeking information on our congregation. Thank you.

Gordon Folke — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gordon.folke (talk • contribs) 00:43, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gordon.folke, I can see from the official page that the church has been renamed, so moved the page for you to the correct name. NZFC^(talk) 00:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

I'm attempting to make constructive edits to this page. Various warnings appear when I attempt to publish my changes. I am told that my edits will not be saved. Forgetting that I am communicating with a machine, I keep trying to "trick" the system into saving my edits. My last warning referred to me as a possible SPAMMER, which I am not. I give up.72.129.236.61 (talk) 09:01, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have saved your edit.[1] It contained a url which happened to match a pattern used to prevent edits by an abusive user. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:37, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I made an edit to a page on Wikipedia and was reverted.

I made an edit to a page on Wikipedia and my edit was reverted. In my opinion, there are editors at your organization that have a political, rather than a factual, viewpoint. This matters to me, a lot. I will no longer regard your organization as anything other than the ROTW, you are politically motivated and false. I will no longer support you with donations or regard your columns as truthful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.117.77.85 (talk • contribs)

Sadly it is the encyclopedia anyone can edit - including you. Legacypac (talk) 09:39, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is the encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, but accusations of bias are not helpful. Editors here hold a variety of opinions. The way to avoid having edits reverted is to provide WP:Reliable sources for any changes. Dbfirs 06:41, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a help desk. We can't help you if you don't tell us what the article was, so that we can see whether you have a legitimate concern, or if there was a misunderstanding. What was the article? ==Orange Mike | Talk 16:29, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

regarding page publishing

Dear Sir Greetings !!! Today i have create a page for our online portal name as collegedakhila.com., for publishing but it is declined. I want to know that what is reason of behind declined. and also I want to know how i make my company page on Wikipedia.

Thanks

with Best Regards

Mahesh Gautam collegedakhila.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gautammahe (talk • contribs) 10:50, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Gautammahe: as written in the "decline" template on User:Gautammahe/sandbox, the draft you submitted is almost empty (only a title and section headers). However, if you intended to submit what you have written on your user page (at User:Gautammahe), I strongly suggest you reconsider. Wikipedia is not for promoting you, your company or your interests, and there is no appearance that this portal is "notable" (which is the criterion we use to decide to have an article on Wikipedia). Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 11:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

copyright photos

Hi!

I am extremely lost on how to a) prove that an image you are posting has no copyright and b)if it did, then how do you release it to the public domain and then subsequently prove that you did that.

I keep getting images deleted after I upload them even though they don't have copyrights.

Thank you!! Theaann (talk) 14:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theaann: The rule of thumb is that you should only post images that you took/created yourself, or images that were explicitly released under a free license (not necessarily "public domain" though). If you posted an image you created to a website, you will need to post a compatible license on that website (so that we can be sure that you actually control the contents there and you are not just lying and stealing pictures). See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, in particular the "Granting us permission to copy material already online" section.

I suspect that you are making quite an incorrect assumption when you talk about images that don't have copyrights. By default, pretty much everything falls under copyright (there are a few exceptions such as the threshold of originality but let's ignore them), even if it does not have a copyright notice. That is the case is pretty much every country on Earth. If you think that's stupid, lobby your politicians to have that rule changed, but don't ignore it on Wikipedia. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Great Depression > Causes > Heterodox Theories

According to Rothbard, government support for failed enterprises and keeping wages above their market values actually prolonged the Depression.[49] Hayek, unlike Rothbard, believed since the '1970s', along with the monetarists, that the Federal Reserve further contributed to the problems of the Depression.

I believe this was intended to say 1870's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.179.165.129 (talk) 14:10, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Since the Great Depression started in 1929 and Friedrich Hayek was born in 1899, your belief is certainly incorrect. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:45, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The sentence in question is ambiguous and needs to be re-worded. I speculate that the OP is correct. "believed since the '70's" could mean either that the believer (Hayek) started believing it in the '70's, or that the believer thinks the effect started in the '70's. I do not know enough about deprssion historiography to have an informed opinion, but I cannot think of any reason an editor would put "believed since the 1970's" in the body of a sentence that is has a ref that has a publication date. I'll go look again. -Arch dude (talk) 19:14, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

IP editing on userpages

I'm a bit curious about this page history, where there is an IP edit. I tried to edit my user page with my IP, but I couldn't. Is there some sort of edit filter that was recently added? L293D (☎ • ✎) 18:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@L293D: What error message do you get when trying to edit your user page while logged out? RudolfRed (talk) 18:56, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@RudolfRed: This: This edit has been prevented either because you attempted to add or remove {{unlocked userpage}} from a userpage other than the one associated with your account, or because unregistered and new editors can not modify other editors' userpages. If you would like to contact this editor, you may do so at the editor's talk page. If this is your userpage, please log in to edit your userpage.. L293D (☎ • ✎) 19:02, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@L293D: See Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Protect_user_pages_by_default. Looks like editing restrictions went into effect in late 2016. The edit you found must have happened just prior to the change. RudolfRed (talk) 19:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]