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June 21

Editing a page

We have recently done extensive research on a page that is really outdated on wikipedia and I wanted to add a few items on there. Unfortunately it was flagged as self-promoting and asked if I was sure I wanted to submit but now I am unsure if what I did was wrong. We are adding our own site as a reference but only because it is verified information on the topic that I spent a lot of time researching. Is this against your policies? AtlasAdventured (talk) 01:13, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AtlasAdventured, as "AtlasAdventured" you have added nothing to any article. Which article are you talking about, which username was it that added material then flagged as self-promoting, and why do you talk of "we"? -- Hoary (talk) 01:19, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hoary,

I say "We" because I have a few employees that helped write and edit our website article on the subject. As for the wikipedia article in question, I did not finalize the edit to the wikipedia page because a red message appeared at the top of the page saying the edit was flagged as it may be 'self-promoting' and explained that I should look at the COI page and contact the Help Desk if I need further clarity AtlasAdventured (talk) 01:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AtlasAdventured, there are other problems. A username must not be used by more than one person. It cannot be a company name. (If you wish, it can allude to the company: if Ashish and Naomi work for AtlasAdventured, they're welcome to the usernames Ashish@AtlasAdventured and Naomi@AtlasAdventured.) If you'd like to be, say, Wolfgang@AtlasAdventured, then please register that username, use it from now on, and note on its user page that you previously edited as AtlasAdventured. ¶ So: what is "[your] website article on the subject", "the Wikipedia article in question"? If we know, perhaps we can provide that further clarity. -- Hoary (talk) 02:19, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you and your employees are writing a Wikipedia article about your organizaion, you should stop immediately. Writing about yourself or your associated individuals/institutions are strongly discouraged，as it will be very difficult to write in an objective and trustworthy manner demanded by the policies here. If you are convinced that your organizaion passed the general guideline for inclusion, make a request at appropriate section of Wikipedia:Requested articles and provide acceptable sources along with the request. Note that Wikipedia is not a social media platform, we do not want promotional contents here. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 05:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tutwakhamoe, as long as they declare their COI, people are free to create drafts about the organizations they're in or that they head. Wikipedia:Requested articles strikes me as a complete waste of time. I'm willing to be persuaded that I'm wrong about this. -- Hoary (talk) 07:51, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We generally delete them. Secretlondon (talk) 11:04, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

noindex

I have created a wikipedia page and added the content and i have moved it to public,but when i search manualy it is not appearing as it have noindex how do i remove it 122.252.227.228 (talk) 07:17, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, let's take a look at it. What's its title? -- Hoary (talk) 07:45, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While we're waiting for the page title, you might want to read WP:NOINDEX. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:43, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

...and WP:EVADE. Blocked as a sock of Acharya7317. Cabayi (talk) 08:52, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello the ants Wikipedia page is not working

The ants Wikipedia is not loading please fix it asap

Thank you 92.25.118.64 (talk) 10:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean the article Ant? It loads for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it was... a bug. -- D'n'B-t -- 11:40, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hate not being as funny as you. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 06:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean Ant Wiki that is nothing to do with Wikipedia, but it seems to be loading just fine for me. Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:20, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Text comparison tool for copyright concerns

Is the any tool available for comparing texts to check regarding possible copyright concerns other than the https://dupdet.toolforge.org/ one? This doesn't seem to be working. AndyTheGrump (talk) 12:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is Earwig Copyvio Detector as well. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 13:26, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Border in Gallery

Hello! Is there a possibility to get a border around a picture in a gallery? When part of picture is white, I wish to make a sharper delimitation from the background. For example, the first and second flag:

Flag 1
Ceuta
Swedish flag

Thank you in advance! Pegy22 (talk) 13:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One way to do that is to use a table. See Help:Pictures#Galleries for more.

Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:43, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pegy22: Tables are best not used for layout (see MOS:LTAB). Use {{gallery}}:

Flag 1
Ceuta
Swedish flag

Thank you! Pegy22 (talk) 14:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Scam website on Southside page

this page Southside (record producer) when you click on southside's website, it takes you to a scam website which tries to make you belive that your PC is locked down, if you click anything on the site you get sent into full screen, (hold escape to get out of full screen). I was smart enough to not fall for it but i know a lot of people who arent, and i do not want anyone's confidential details getting leaked so i am reporting this in 108.67.74.89 (talk) 15:56, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the website from the infobox, thanks for the feedback. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 16:03, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fant-Karl article. Norwegian/English

Some years ago I created a Wiki-article for "Fant-Karl" no:Fant-Karl The site is in Norwegian. I would like now to present "Fant-Karl" on en.wikipedia, and have been working on translating and updating information for a site. What is the best way to go forward here? Mary JBarthelemy (talk) 15:58, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Generally you can start creating an article by clicking its red link (Fant-Karl in this case), or starte writing in your sandbox first if the article is too long to finish in one go. However, since the criteria for inclusion is different in each Wikipedia, make sure that the subject in question passes WP:GNG or WP:NBIO, as articles that did not pass notability guideline will face deletion. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 16:14, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In your edit summary for your very first edit, Mary JBarthelemy, please say that this is a translation of Norwegian (Bokmål) no:Fant-Karl. (If you've already made the first edit, then put this in the edit summary for the earliest possible edit.) -- Hoary (talk) 21:55, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mary JBarthelemy General advice at WP:TRANSLATE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'll give this a try! Mary Mary JBarthelemy (talk) 11:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect function and Creating links for currently non existing pages

Hi, I am having a problem and couldn't find a solution on Wikipedia. In Turkish Wikipedia, when you talk about a village(it can be a neighbourhood, town etc.), you usually have the name of the district in the title. For Village X located in District Y, the title is "X, Y." Most of the village pages on Wikipedia have this style. I started moving pages of Village X to the above-mentioned style. Is this okay? What I would like to do is basically turn them into the most common writing form. I know I can do that for disambiguation, but in this case, it is simply moving for aesthetic, style-based reasons. (There is a guide in Turkish Wikipedia supporting this, but English Wikipedia does not have a defined rule for Turkey.) So I do not know what to do in this context. Should I simply move pages, create redirects, or leave them as they are? Most other Wikipedias follow the same style since pages are translations from Turkish Wikipedia. Example: I moved Yenişakran to Yenişakran, Aliağa

My other question is, when there is a navbox template, can I create links for future, non-existing pages? Because in a good number of navboxes about this topic, only existing pages are linked. So when someone creates a page, the person has to open the navbox and link it each time. Is it acceptable for me to change navboxes on a great scale in this manner? Example: I added links here to Template:Aliağa District

Thank you for your help. Göycen (talk) 17:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For your first question, titles of articles need qualifier only when there are multiple articles by the same name. If the name of a village is not known for any other items on Wikipedia, it does not need to have qualifier attached. Since people have different stylistic preferences, please hold a discussion and obtain concensus from the community before moving the articles.

As for the second question, you can have articles that do not exist yet on navigation templates, in fact most of the navigation templates I've come across have red links on them. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 17:58, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TutwakhamoeThank you for your answer. I will try to adhere that. One more question, how about creating redirects with qualifier w/o moving the page.

So unique X village stays there. May I create page X, Y and redirect to X? Göycen (talk) 21:23, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, you are allowed to create such redirects. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 20:25, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

change picture

hello, I'm Nino Kalandadze,( username- Ggotua) I have a question. I uploaded a new photo and it doesn't appear on the main page. it is on untested topic. Ggotua (talk) 17:08, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your account does not seem to have uploaded any photo, you might need to try again. Maybe WP:UPIMG can help you. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 18:10, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ggotua: The Wikimedia Commons upload log [1] shows you have uploaded two images but they were deleted as possible copyright violations. I don't have access to deleted Commons pages so I don't know what they contained. You received information and links at commons:User talk:Ggotua. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]