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April 3

I needed help

I have written an article about vloggers on Pakistani YouTuber but it is already an article by name I am not able to understand what should I do. Draft:Mohammad Shiraz Tanujaanu (talk) 04:03, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu: If the draft is accepted, the accepting reviewer will figure out how to name the article. RudolfRed (talk) 04:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Dear Sir, Would you please send this article for review? Tanujaanu (talk) 04:32, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

I have restored the AFC decline notices that you removed, which include the button for you to resubmit the draft. Please do not remove the notices again. ColinFine (talk) 09:57, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

ok sir, I really really sorry Because I removed that line Tanujaanu (talk) 12:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Help

Can anyone tell me that we can upload photos of which site on wiki common. Is it possible to use photos from Instagram platform? Which is uploaded only on Instagram? Tanujaanu (talk) 04:07, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu: Only if the image is released under a Creative Commons or other license that allows for reuse for any purpose. It would need to specifically state that in the post. RudolfRed (talk) 04:10, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

can i upload this image: https://pin.it/1JhOudbQy

The actress had uploaded these images on her Instagram account but maybe she has deleted the image but some other person has uploaded the image on Pinterest and while I am uploading this image on “wiki common” By giving me this link to Pinterest, they are saying that it is probably a copyrighted image when it is not a copyrighted image. The actress herself would like her photo to be on every platform. Tanujaanu (talk) 04:30, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

I see nothing there to suggest that this image is anything other than standard "all rights reserved" copyright, so no, you may not upload it either here or at Wikimedia Commons. Victor Schmidt mobil (talk) 08:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu: by copyright law, all images are copyrighted by the photographer by default. Unless there is a suitable written license, we cannot use the image. If the actress wants those images to appear in commons, she must ask the photographer to license them appropriately. -Arch dude (talk) 14:33, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu: The actress or photographer can refer to Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. GoingBatty (talk) 03:34, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

If you want to know whether or not an image can be uploaded to Commons, there are plenty of knowledgable people at WP:MCQ who will be happy to help.

Manticore anti Islam

In 1900 Muslims only numbered 200 million followers or 12% of the world population. This percentage drastically increased over the last 100 years due to higher birth rate in Muslim majority countries. Pew Research have estimated the number will be around 2.2 billion in 2030 and 2.8 billion, or 30 percent of world population, in 2050.

In Muslim world article user Manticore had deleted this sentences with different reason. First he claimed it was out of topic, poor written (it could targetted non English contributors), and wikipedia not a Crystal Glass (but in Religion Growth Population had cited Pew Research estimated). Please help to improve Muslim world article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.121.18.126 (talk) 06:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

User:QalasQalas (is that you? Please remember to log in) has already raised it in Talk:Muslim world, which is the right place for it. Nothing is gained by bringing it here as well.

Please give @Manticore at least a week before you do anything else - Wikipedia editors are volunteers, who have real lives as well - and please remember to assume good faith: supposing that anybody who removes something from an article about Islam must be "anti Islam" is an atrocious accusation. ColinFine (talk) 10:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Also: please do not ask the same question in more than one place. I see that people had answered you at the Teahouse before I answered you here. ColinFine (talk) 14:43, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

References

How to change wiki password

I have been informed of a leak of my wikipedia password. Please can you guide me to the method of changing it to a new one online. Ravanax999 (talk) 09:40, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

See WP:PASSWORD.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 09:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Large list pages impossible to edit

I'm trying to edit List of 2023 albums. I've discovered when entering the source editor for this page, like other large list pages, causes the page to be frozen (from within the window, not my browser) and render it completely unable to edit the page. This is only an issue with editing Wikipedia pages with large lists, and happens across all browsers. No other non-Wikipedia pages are affected. I have no idea why this is the case - is this a tech issue on my end or have I maybe set up something wrong or got a widget awry? ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 11:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a big old page. It is number 200 on Special:LongPages. The List of 2022 albums is even longer though! Might be worth doing a WP:SPLIT Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Vrxces: List of 2023 albums works for me in all four tested browsers. Something in your settings must be choking on it, maybe one of the features at Wikipedia:Syntax highlighting#Syntax highlighting of wiki-code for editors. If you have the first feature enabled then try to disable it on another page before editing a long page which fails. If it still fails then does it also fail in safemode or when logged out? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Weird question regarding Plutarch as a source

How reliable is the ancient historian Plutarch considered by wikipedia? Because he's considered okay but not perfectly reliable by historians/classicists, because he was writing with a different purpose than say, a wikipedia article. For articles that rely heavily on him as a source, is there a way to mark that he's not considered to be a 100% reliable source? The general wikipedia tone is pretty authoritative, and I don't want people to be mislead into thinking that Plutarch was completely accurate. Periferal (talk) 14:32, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Periferal: this is my personal opinion, not Wikipedia policy. There are very few completely reliable sources in the world. Unless there are competing sources, or commentary in reliable sources discussing the reliability of a specific assertion, reliability should probably not be raised in the article text, as it would make Wikipedia almost unreadable. In specific case, if you feel it is useful, add a footnote like "Plutarch is not considered to be perfectly reliable", and then put the footnote on each of the plutarch citations. -Arch dude (talk) 14:57, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) If I were citing Plutarch, I would write something like "Plutarch wrote that ...", and let readers judge for themselves, possibly after reading the article on him. Maproom (talk) 14:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

You may find something helpful here: Wikipedia_talk:Reliable_sources/Archive_61#pre-modern_historians_as_sources. My general view is that if Plutarch matters regarding a certain event, you should be able to find a modern historian that says so. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:19, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Periferal: it might be worth asking this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. As an ancient historian Plutarch is considered to be a primary source, see Wikipedia talk:Identifying and using primary sources#Are ancient historians primary or secondary source? so he should be used with caution and you could add tags like Template:Primary sources, Template:Primary sources section or Template:Primary source inline. TSventon (talk) 15:38, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you to all of you! I'll keep this in mind; in the same vein, how what is the policy on people using an ancient poet's poetry as a source for their life? because it's frowned upon in classics circles nowadays, but there's a lot of it on here that i've noticed. Periferal (talk) 21:07, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Periferal: I would suggest asking this kind of question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, with a concrete example. Obviously an ancient poet's poetry is also a primary source. Some early Wikipedia articles were copied from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, which obviously is not modern scholarship. TSventon (talk) 12:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Lots of our articles on ancient poets are frankly pretty bad. My own opinion (which I expect is shared by most of the regular editors of classsics/ancient history related articles) is that we should cite more secondary scholarship than we currently do and that we should never uncritically cite a poet's work as a source about their own life. Except for the most famous ancient historical figures, there just aren't that many editors working on these articles (even e.g. Catullus has only 199 page watchers, and the last fifty edits go back to October 2022!) so in general if there is a figure whose article you are interested in improving then I would encourage you to just get stuck in. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 13:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wiki commons

Can I upload this Image to wiki commons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/199969742@N07/53628579457/in/dateposted-public/

Can I upload sexual content to wiki commons Tanujaanu (talk) 17:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu: It looks like the image is CC-0 (public domain) so from a license perspective that should be fine. I don't think there are any restrictions on the content of photos, but you should ask at Commons: c:Commons:Help_desk RudolfRed (talk) 19:43, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

You should ask this question on Commons. Ruslik_Zero 19:44, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes, Tanujaanu, you should ask this question in Commons. But in the meantime: There are indeed restrictions on the content of photos. -- Hoary (talk) 22:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu I have no idea why you would wish to upload that particular photo to Commons, as it is of very poor quality. I doubt that it is the original work of its uploader, judging by their other posts which are obvious copies. Hence their claim to be in the public domain is worthless. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

No sir, it is not like that, he is a photographer who takes photos of models and uploads them. Tanujaanu (talk) 18:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

It's a very poor photo, why would this be within the scope of Commons? Commons is not Flickr, as the images should be "realistically useful for an educational purpose".--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 19:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

April 4

Problems with signature

Not sure if this would have been better suited to the Technical Village Pump instead, but here I go. I finally linked both my user and talk pages in my signature, but I can't seem to change the color of the text in there, which is a problem because now my signature is in violation of MOS:CONTRAST. I changed the span style tags to include "color:white" or a CSS color, but nothing changes. Any advice? Thanks ‍Relativity 03:56, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Relativity: I scrolled up the page to a section with a signature that uses a different color for a wikilink and viewed the source, and found that there was a <span>...</span> tag within the wikilink. You could try something like this: <span style="border-radius:3em;padding:5px;background:#9932CC;">‍'''[[User:Relativity|<span style="color:white">Rela</span>]]'''[[User talk:Relativity|<span style="color:white">tivity</span>]]</span> to generate ‍Relativity. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 04:10, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@GoingBatty Yes! Thank you! That worked. Cheers ‍Relativity 23:44, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Is there a List of Wikitext variables anywhere?

In the various Help pages for editing, there are a couple of pages that illustrate the use of variables, but I cannot find anywhere a list of all the variables that can be used. Having stumbled across some that are apparently not listed (such as United States), I am certain that there are more; but where? STLbells (talk) 04:34, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@STLbells:. That is called a "Template". There very very many, and a list of all would be quite long. There is this list of some templates that are more commonly used Wikipedia:Template_index, and it also has a search box. RudolfRed (talk) 04:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Actor claiming a credit for another actor of the same name!

[Redacted] on IMDb is claiming to have acted in ‘Macbeth on the estate’ when it was another actor of the same name! How can the credit be removed from his page as the original [redacted] name has been removed from the credits from the film due to this actor’s identity theft?! 86.26.162.22 (talk) 07:55, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

We can't help you with issues on IMDB- which isn't usually an acceptable source here anyway. Is there a Wikipedia article your question pertains to? 331dot (talk) 07:58, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Most IMDb content is added by ordinary users and most subjects probably never edit the page about them if they even see it. It's very unlikely an actor would personally add a false credit like that and very likely that somebody else accidentally linked another actor by the same name. Don't throw around baseless accusations of identity theft. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

You can report an error to IMDb; I've done it myself a couple of times, though it is a bit cumbersome. If I recall correctly, you start by pressing the edit page button on one of the Lee Williams articles, but be prepared to prove what you claim. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Administration

How do I become a Wikipedia administrator? If I can, how do I become a Wikipedia administrator? Tanujaanu (talk) 18:19, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

You can read about the process at WP:CANDIDATE, but with fewer than 100 edits at this time there's no chance that you'd pass the vetting process. If you're still interested I'd encourage you to stick around, read up on things, and above all make constructive contributions that are entirely unrelated to anything admin-ish until you've gained some more experience. DonIago (talk) 18:33, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Once you know Wikipedia well enough to understand what being an admin involves, you'll probably have realised that you don't want to be one. Maproom (talk) 21:01, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Tanujaanu Given that you have been creating poor drafts for living people (at least five in six days by my count, all declined so far) which prompted me to point out that quality is more important than quantity, you will need months, maybe years, more experience here before many would trust you with the admin tools. Mike Turnbull (talk) 09:20, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

How to approach a flawed yet popular article

I was looking over Rorschach test and I feel that the quality of this entire article is extremely poor. Notably: it is overly technical, written with obvious bias, and provides weak citations (the main citation refuting validity concerns is a circular link to another Wikipedia page). I'd like to try to repair the quality of this article but I don't know where to start, partly because I feel that this article is maintained by passionate editors and partly because as I was working to inspect the citations I felt that I was wading through gibberish. Simsarmy (talk) 19:36, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Simsarmy: Hi there! You might want to start by posting on the article's talk page, Talk:Rorschach test. Maybe pick a couple of the biggest issues you see and suggest some improvements. Or look for some better sources and suggest them there. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:09, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

List of What on Earth? episodes

I am writing an episode list of this series, and I found sources to estabilish the topic's notability, I found a source from the Hollywood Reporter but also three from The Futon Critic. However I did my best. Ange2444 (talk) 19:46, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Ange2444. You don't ask a question - but your Draft hasn't actually been submitted for a review.

The relevant guidelines for list articles are at WP:NLIST. Qcne (talk) 20:02, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Article getting deleted

I have tried adding the article twice. At first, it showed a problem with one of the images and got removed. On the second try, I had not added the image, yet the article still got removed.

I need help adding this article. It's about a hotelier, and I'm trying to add it from a new account. Arctic solution (talk) 20:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Arctic solution read WP:NOTPROMOTION. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 20:55, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Sample: Santosh Krishna Puthran [... is] renowned for his innovative contributions to the hospitality industry. / His journey from a young assistant in his family's hotel to a respected industry leader exemplifies his dedication to hospitality and service excellence. Through his leadership, Santosh has not only expanded his family's legacy but has also significantly impacted the hospitality landscape in Mumbai and surrounding areas. No, do not readd this kind of stuff from any account. -- Hoary (talk) 04:02, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I saw a naked woman vagina help please we need remove this off now

I was looking at naked women on google images and saw a link to wikipedia and there was a woman with her vagina out and I am very not okay with this my son uses this website for school and I am extremely offended 24.253.234.6 (talk) 21:24, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and is WP:NOTCENSORED. We will not be removing relevant encyclopedic content from relevant articles . - Arjayay (talk) 21:33, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

If you saw such an image on an article where it wasn't relevant, please let us know so we can revert any possible vandalism. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

For information on how to avoid seeing images that might offend you, see HELP:NOIMAGE.
Although, if seeing a vagina offends you, I wonder why you were "looking at naked women on google images". CodeTalker (talk) 00:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

How to understand the Verdict on WP:Village Pump and WP:RFC

How to understand the Verdict on WP:Village Pump , WP:ANI, WP:RFC and other policy pages? Many policy pages contain massive walls of discussion-- 75% of which are noise and time-consuming to read. Are there tools, scripts, tags or conventions to easily summarize and/or highlight the verdict and/or ruling? Tonymetz 💬 21:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

When it appears no further comments will be productive, the discussion in question will usually be closed. Most of the time the consensus (or lack thereof) is summarised by the closer directly above everything (as seen at WP:CLOSEDISCUSSION § Additional summary format), or relegated to a sidebox (as seen below WP:CLOSEDISCUSSION § Writing a summary). —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

April 5

Ella Morris incorrect photo

Hi all, I'm the media officer for the England women's under-23s. The lead image on Ella Morris' page isn't of her. Could someone advise how we get it changed? Ella Morris (footballer). FAcomms1 (talk) 10:24, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@FAcomms1: That was tricky but you're right. Ella Morris (footballer) displays File:Ella Morris 2023.jpg which was cropped from File:Ella Morris Lewes FC Women 1 Southampton Women 4 27 08 2023-687 (53146863975).jpg. It looks like her number is 2 (Ella Morris) but https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesboyes/53146634054/in/photostream/ shows it's actually 21 (Jemma Purfield). The gap between 2 and 1 is just large enough for 1 to be completely hidden behind her arm. A one-digit number would have been centered above the logo. It also looks like https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/teams/profile/jemma-purfield and not https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/teams/profile/ella-morris. Pinging Victuallers who uploaded the original photo with a very understandable mistake. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:31, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I have removed the wrong photo from the article but hope Victuallers will do image cleanup at Commons and possibly look for a suitable photo. We respect copyright so it's sometimes difficult. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

After renaming we may have a better image for Jemma Purfield. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:50, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Have requested both original and cropped images for renaming now. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 12:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

This has now been done re Jemma Purfield image CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 13:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Now that somebody's cleaned up the issue with the photo, there are some other important matters to turn to.

First, you need to change your username. Names that suggest that they are role accounts, or imply that they are editing on behalf of an organisation, are not permitted. All accounts should be individual. You don't have to use your real name (I do, but many editors do not), and if you wish a name like "Jane at FA Comms" would be acceptable. Since you have only made two edits, it is easiest just to abandon that account and create a new one, but if you want to hang onto it, see WP:CHU.

Secondly, if you are the media officer and you intend to edit anything remotely connected with the team, you are regarded as a paid editor, and you must make a formal declaration as explained in that link. ColinFine (talk) 13:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@FAcomms1 The better news is that we welcome anyone who wishes to improve Wikipedia and (as this example shows) editors here will try to help, provided that paid editors (and article subjects) are open about their conflict of interest. For general advice on what you can do and how to do it when you spot errors or want to add information, see this guidance. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:20, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@FAcomms1: Further to the good advice you have already been given, one of the best ways for you to help improve this and other articles would be to make images whose copyright you own available under an open licence, so that we (and others) may use them. the process is explained at Wikipedia:A picture of you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:58, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I couldn't agree more. I've made substantial updates on U23 player articles in recent months, and just like the senior team, it's notable that there is only one photographer who is reliabily providing quality CC images, James Boyes, and this is generally when these players play against Lewes domestically, which isn't very often (at least not for WSL players). Ideally FA comms department would arrange for CC images to be supplied for such players. @FAcomms1 on another matter (while you're here), it would be useful to have stats pages for U23 players on englandfootball.com. At present there is only flashscore documenting these and it's often incomplete. The U17/19 stats from soccerway are more reliable than the U23 stats for example. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 14:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Appreciate all the insight and you updating U23 player articles, it is really helpful. On images, we have a contract with Getty who we use for all of our images across all our England teams. A lot of what you're asking for comes down to time and resource. You'll find our WU23s mirror the set up of the MU21s teams on England Football. Thanks. FAcomms1 (talk) 14:28, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

You can upload Getty images with a creative commons license without much extra effort, and they can be used on Wikipedia [1]. Maybe you could check if this would be within the contract? CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 14:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@FAcomms1: (written b4 some of above) This is an amazing opportunity FAcomms1 for you, if you can explain this to your bosses. The advantage here is for the game and not the bottom line. Wikipedia would gladly use any photos that, you/the FA, supply of footballers. (Best not to use a paid photographer unless they know how to get rid of their rights to photos). A very very high proportion of all the photos of women footballers are taken by just own enthusiastic photographer who takes photos of Lewes Women FC footballers. See this collection!!. Several similar teams to Lewes have no photos at all that Wikipedia can use.... eg Southampton. The photo of Ella Morris was taken when she was playing Lewes and loaded into Wikimedia by me. Some might say that James Boyes is the best media officer that women's football has in this country. I think/know that. He has been given an award by Wikipedians and thanked by Helen Pankhurst as an amazing role model. I'm guessing you havent heard of him.... we have and hundreds of people see his photos every minute - the FA should give him an award for his real contribution to the game. We could probably get an accurate figure (Andy?) but 100s or 1000s of ppl a minute is my guess of how many ppl see those photos. I'd love to find out what your bosses say. If they looked interested then we could find 100s of ppl who would help. Victuallers (talk) 14:31, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Johannes Weigelt

Hi Folks!! I can't get ref 5 fixed on Johannes Weigelt. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 11:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I added the year and that solved the issue. The Banner talk 12:02, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I note that the "online" link returns "Page not found" - the working link [2] contains "sfz" not the "ppn" returned by the template. Mikenorton (talk) 12:40, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia email

I received an email from "wiki@wikimedia.org" regarding an unsolicited request to change my password. How can I check if this was sent from Wikipedia and is legit? Pondini (talk) 12:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pondini That email address is the correct one from which WP:Notifications about various things are sent: see the linked page for details. However, it would be fairly easy for a bad actor to spoof such an email so if you are super-cautious you wouldn't click on any of the links within the message. If you want to, you could change your password at Special:ChangePassword, just as a precaution. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

As Mike says, that appears to be a valid address. You don't make clear what the message is. What occurs to me is that somebody else has tried to change the password, and the system has sent you a mail asking if this is you. Is that what the mail is?

If so, you don't need to worry: somebody has tried to steal your account (people are doing this all the time) and the security system has foiled them. ColinFine (talk) 13:15, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pondini: It's probably legit, meaning somebody entered your username at Special:PasswordReset. Anyone can do that. Just ignore it. The mails are indeed sent from wiki@wikimedia.org but it's possible for others to fake a sender address. The only way to be certain it's real is to test whether the temporary password in the mail works, but I see no reason to do that. If you want to do it anyway then avoid any links in the mail and go to our website https://en.wikipedia.org by other means. If you are worried about the security of your account then pick a strong password which isn't used anywhere else. When you know your existing password, you can change it at Special:Preferences with no need for mails. Your account looks uninteresting to try to hack. Maybe somebody thought they might once have created an account by that name. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:20, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Like everyone above already said, that is the email that sends password reset emails, but email addresses can be spoofed. The text of the message should read similar to the following:

Someone (probably you, from IP address <an IP address>) requested a reset of your password for Wikipedia (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>). The following user account is associated with this email address:

Username: <your username>

Temporary password: <a random string of characters>

This temporary password will expire in 7 days.

You should log in and choose a new password now. If someone else made this request, or if you have remembered your original password, and you no longer wish to change it, you may ignore this message and continue using your old password.

However, if you did not generate this request and want to prevent unsolicited emails, you may want to update your email options at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal-email>. You can require both username and email address to generate password reset emails. This may reduce the number of such incidents.

The first paragraph can change depending on how the reset was requested. If you did not make the request you can safely ignore it, your old password will continue to work. You can find more info at Help:Reset password. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:22, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

How do I get more involved?

Hi there, I'm trying to get more involved in WIkipedia (asides from just editing articles) and am looking for a role in AFC, CSD, XFD, NPP, or a similar kind of thing. However, everywhere I apply I'm told that I don't have enough experience elsewhere. So where do I start?

Tysm, JacobTheRox (talk) 14:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@JacobTheRox: Hi there! According to these edit count statistics, you've made 436 edits to articles. There are many places where you can look for suggestions to improve articles, including Wikipedia:Task center, Wikipedia:Maintenance, and the WikiProject Cleanup Listings, where you can find look for articles related to your interests. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 19:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, JacobTheRox. If you have familiarized yourself with the various notability guidelines, then your input would be welcomed at current Articles for deletion debates. Read WP:AFD#Contributing to AfD discussions and Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions. Cullen328 (talk) 06:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Aero Vodochody aircraft names

Hi there, I'm not sure if this is exactly the right place for this as I'm a new editor so apologies if this should be somewhere else.

I was going through the suggested edits and ended up on a niche page for an older Czech airplane, and was attempting to find some sources to add. In the process, I noticed that, from this particular manufacturer, from my perspective a number of the Aircraft names are slightly wrong. Many of them on the English Wiki are titled with a dot instead of a dash, when it appears that on the Czech Wiki and the manufacturers naming, the dash is more correct.

Example:

English Wiki: Aero A.29

Czech Wiki: Aero A-29

Note the difference: A.29 vs A-29

In checking this category, I noticed numerous articles with the same issue:

Category:Aero Vodochody aircraft

I would like to fix this, in addition to fixing the issue that a lot of them seem to have with having no citations. My main concern is that if I start changing the titles of a dozen pages that people might think I am vandalizing or something similar, and I wanted to just see if there was a particular way I should go about this, or if it's fine to just start making my way down the list. Thanks! LiterallyDavidBowie (talk) 18:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@LiterallyDavidBowie: Hi there! You could create a post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft similar to the post you made here, and provide a source that the manufacturer used a dash instead of a dot. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 19:08, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Published scholarly works and original research

If a scholarly work such as a thesis uses original research (which is obviously forbidden here) and that such work has been published, does that make it eligible for being used as a source in an article? e (talk) 18:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

The prohibition on original research is only in a Wikipedia article, not in a source. From that respect, it is fine. But you should still consider whether it is reliably published - I don't think a doctoral thesis would count unless it was subsequently published in book form by a reputable publisher. It might count as a self-published source, usable in that respect.

The other question is independence: if the article is about a scientific or scholarly matter, an article by one of those who developed or worked on the subject would be a primary source: an independent study would be better. ColinFine (talk) 19:38, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Note that some vanity publishers of theses and the like have the trappings of reputable publishers. But they remain mere vanity publishers. 126.158.136.165 (talk) 22:49, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Reliable person to create a wikipage

Please help me to find out a reliable authenticate person who would be able to help me to create a wikipedia page for me. Thanks. Daichoo (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Daichoo.

I'm afraid it really doesn't work like that.

I know you have been a victim of scammers who falsely told you they would "create a page for you", and I'm sorry.

But Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a professional directory or social media.

If there has been enough independent material published about you that you satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then there could be an article. If there hasn't, then, like most of us, you are not notable in Wikipedia's sense, and there cannot be an article about you.

If you meet the criteria for notability, then there can be an article about you, as I said; but it is not very likely that you will find somebody willing to create it. You're welcome to put a request at requested articles, but in honesty, such requests are rarely taken up.

You are discouraged from writing the article yourself, but not forbidden; however, creating an article is a challenging task, and I always advise new editors to spend a few months editing existing articles and learning about how Wikipedia works before they try it.

Please be aware, as well, that if we have an article about you, (whoever writes it) it will not belong to you, you will not control its content, it will not be for your benefit except incidentally, and it may contain material that you would prefer it did not. It should be based almost entirely on what people unconnected with you have published about you, not on what you or your associates say or want to say. See an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing.

If after all this you want to try it, please study your first article. ColinFine (talk) 19:49, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

April 6

Images do not display (on Wikipedia/Wikimedia only)

This may be something I just have to struggle with myself, given the obscurity of my software, but...does Wikipedia use javascript somehow in displaying images? They do not display on this device on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. (Haven't tested on any other WP projects).

Works fine everywhere else, so it isn't as simple as what do I expect given the obscure software. Don't see anything in settings that would cause this. Any suggestions, anyone? Oh, and I do say on *this* device. The Android devices do not have the problem. Elinruby (talk) 02:39, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Elinruby: Hi there! What is "this device" that you refer to? GoingBatty (talk) 02:46, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

VAIO laptop running an extremely obscure Linux distro. But again. the device is not the problem since images display just fine on all other sites, ie Google News, Jstor, CNN, NYT...

I suspect javascript even though it is enabled in the browser, simply because of the antiquity of the whole thing, and as I was scrolling through WP preferences some of the gadgets had labels appended saying that javascript is required to use them. But they are not selected (?) Tried so far: switched off limited width mode since this screen is actually extremely wide (usually on a phone), changed skin from Monobook to Timeless. I guess I could see if this still happens in (WP) safe mode. But where I am boggling is, why would image display have anything to do with javascript?

Btw, is there a way to establish device-specific preferences? The settings I am turning off are needed on the Androids.Elinruby (talk) 03:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

So... Enabling WP safe mode doesn't seem to matter. Neither does changing the skin; I have now tried Minerva also. Also doesn't seem to matter whether Media Viewer is on or off, or what the maximum image or thumbnail size is. And yes. I am rebooting between these changes, in case. Annoying, since my image editing software is on this laptop but I guess I will just have to work around this, unless someone has a bright idea. There is always View Source, which might confirm the hypothesis, but I am hoping someone knows off the top of their head as I dislike navigating javascript code and even if I find out that that's the issue, confirming the issue is all it will do. I am going to be the edge case for which the developers decline to stand on their heads to make a fix, probably. Honestly, the mobile platform needs their attention more anyway.

TL;DR the actual question is whether WP uses javascript somehow to display images. Elinruby (talk)

How to organize an article

Previous discussion : WP:TEA#Making tabs

Hello, I'm trying to organize the List of Zelda characters page, because it's really confusing to me and probably other people too. Almost all the characters are in the support character category, and it makes it really hard and awkward to navigate. Is there a way to easily put all the characters in different categories? Such as characters from Tears of the Kingdom or characters from Breath of the Wild? Thank you to whoever replies. 2601:48:C601:5550:74C7:D0FE:DEBA:13AF (talk) 03:31, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Signature font

Hi. I recently changed my signature from the default to the one I'm using right now. Is there any way I can change its font to the monospaced font used by the source editor? I read WP:SIGFONT but couldn't figure out how to do it. Thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 05:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@CanonNi: Hi there! Have you tried adding <code>...</code> tags to make something like this? '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' GoingBatty (talk) 06:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Works great, thanks! If possible, is there a way to make the [[ and ' ' ' also in the code format? Thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 06:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Got it working. Thanks! '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 07:36, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@CanonNi: Looks like you have a redundant code tag leaving vertical bars in the middle – removing the inner opening/closing code tag, like '''[[User:CanonNi]]''', would do what you want, I believe (unless you wanted the inner part in its own tag for some reason). Tollens (talk) 08:49, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

That fixed it, thanks! '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 08:51, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

i m unable to login wiki pedia account which i have made

unable to login wikipedia page im putting right username then to its showing wrong Authoraanshi7 (talk) 07:55, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Authoraanshi7: You appear to have already logged in successfully as Authoraanshi7 – are you trying to log in to a different account? Tollens (talk) 08:50, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

This is your only edit, so just abandon this account and create a new one with the correct name. You will need to log out of this account first. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Twinkle vandalism rollback - automatically opening user page to give warning

Many years ago I disabled the Twinkle feature that automatically opened the user page when reverting vandalism so that a warning could be given. I want to restore that feature but I don't seem to be able to do that. In the Revert and Rollback section of Twinkle Preferences, I've:

• ticked "Automatically open the Twinkle warn menu"
• ticked "vandalism rollback" under "Open user talk page after these types of reversions"
• ticked "Open user talk page when invoking rollback"

It still doesn't seem to do it. What am I not doing right? DeCausa (talk) 08:17, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@DeCausa: There's a "Save changes" button at the very bottom of the config page – have you clicked it? Tollens (talk) 08:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Never mind, yes you have. I'll keep looking and see what I can find. Tollens (talk) 08:53, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Your config page seems to be set up the same as mine for everything that looks like it should matter for this, and I do get a user talk page when I use the Twinkle rollback, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work for you. Is your browser perhaps set up to block popups? Tollens (talk) 08:58, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

NDB Citation again

Hi Folks!! Is there a template to cite this on NDB: [3] It is the new continuation of the biography's for the digital age according to the spiel but the NDB template doesn't seem to work with it. Is it a straight cite web. scope_creep^Talk 09:12, 6 April 2024 (UTC)