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March 5

If we can't write it...

I read that you're not allowed to write your own page on your own business, due to biased views. what are we supposed to do if we're a new business and want to get a page of our own so people have something to reference to it?

ex: a record label, with bands who will eventually have pages ceated, and that will link. the only reference currently IS a myspace and a personal website, which contains my own contact info on it.

clueless about this one. how do ANY sites get created if this is the case? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brkenmirrr (talk • contribs) 00:26, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a business directory or anything else. Ultimately, articles are added here based on certain notability guidelines for inclusion. One of the things that demonstrates that a topic is notable, is if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources. There are other, more specific guidelines, like Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). In this way, Wikipedia is different from other sites like MySpace or Facebook, or LinkedIn because it's here to record what has already become notable in other sources, not to help people or bands or organisations get better known. If the only reference to an organisation is it's personal website, then it is very unlikely that it will meet those notability guidelines. Also remember; Wikipedia has no deadline. If your (hypothetical?) record label has all these bands that are famous, or going to be famous, chances are it will be notable enough for an article sometime in the future. Hope this helps. --Beloved Freak 00:50, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The quick answer is that an article will be created if some people already know about the subject, and shouldn't be created if nobody knows about it. Sufficiently notable (not synonymous with famous or significant, but somewhat related) subjects will have articles created, generally because someone looks for such an article, doesn't find it, and either creates it themselves or requests that it be created and someone else does the legwork to find references and sources and such. If your business gets significant mentions in major publications, then you're welcome to put in such a request, preferably pointing people to these mentions that can be used as sources for the article. However, remember that you will have little to no control over the content of the article, and due to your conflict of interest will be recommended to avoid editing the article yourself (although you will be welcome to suggest edits on the article's discussion page which other editors may then implement). Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 01:35, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In a nutshell most "new" things are not notable and therefore do not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. Try WikiCompany. – ukexpat (talk) 03:54, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try leaving a request for your article at WP:Requested Articles, although my net search confirms your worries that the article may not be created until you have reliable newspaper sources commenting on you in an in depth manner.

Try changing your name also in the future. It might be called for being a promotional username. ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 04:56, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{!xt3}} Not Working

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Why is {{!xt3}} not working?174.3.110.108 (talk) 00:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I generally would not recommend using new and untested templates. However, I've reverted the changes you seem to have made to the template. Try it now. In case you do not know how to use templates, try reading a quick guide on how to use templates. ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 04:43, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And I would also recommend registering your user name. It has various advantages. ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 05:32, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for article on other wikis

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– ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 05:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How can I request for an article on Spanish wiki? Thanks. Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !} 05:08, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The page for requesting new articles at es.wikipedia is Artículos solicitados. Cheers. --Jayron32 05:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !} 05:25, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, if you are looking for an analogous page on another language Wikipedia, look to the left in the box that says "languages". It should bring you to the same page as on en.wikipedia, but in that language Wikipedia instead. I found the correct link by going to Wikipedia:Requested articles and clicking on the "Español" link under the "languages" toolbox. --Jayron32 05:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know

I added my email address in my comment and I understand there is a better way to receive WANTED email; can you help me with this p[lease and feel free to change what I submitted and refer interested parties to contact my YOUR way, instead. Thanks.

Dr. HUNT —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.142.30 (talk) 05:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you want people to contact you? If you are looking to a response to a question asked on a Wikipedia discussion page, such as an article talk page or a help desk like this, it will be answered immediately under this page. If you want people to be able to contact you to discuss matters in general regarding wikipedia, you should create an account so you can have access to a user page and its associated user talk page. If you want people to be able to email you from within Wikipedia, then you also need to create an account, and enable the email function. If you can explain in more detail what about Wikipedia you want to use email for, we can help you solve the problem... --Jayron32 05:25, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merging All Accounts

Hey, I want to merge all my accounts 'Wikipedia, Wikinews etc...' but the problem is I can't. Please kindly have a look.

______________________________||||||||________________________________________________________

The accounts named "Doson" on each of the following sites have been automatically attached to the unified account:

commons.wikimedia.org en.wikipedia.org en.wikibooks.org en.wikinews.org en.wikiquote.org en.wiktionary.org www.mediawiki.org meta.wikimedia.org ru.wikipedia.org

The account "Doson" could not be automatically confirmed as belonging to you on the following sites; most likely they have a different password from your primary account:

zh.wikipedia.org

Finish merge

If these accounts do belong to you, you can finish the login unification process simply by typing the passwords for the other accounts here:..

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And when I enter my password I get this

No accounts could be confirmed using this password. What should i do --- Doson 05:39, 5 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doson (talk • contribs)

Dear Doson, Three points

Your current status here[2] confirms your existing status on the various projects.
When you try to log on, click on the link Finish Merge and follow the instructions there.
Try having a look at this page. In case you're still not able to unify the accounts, leave a message here. ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 05:57, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help with table

I'm creating a table. On pre made pages it appears with a short summary but on a new page it doesn't. Why is this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Information Star (talk • contribs) 09:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your question is not clear. What information do you want in a table? What do you mean by "short summary", and what do you mean by "pre made pages"? No page on Wikipedia is pre made. Help:Table might have the information you need. --Mysdaao ^talk 13:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) It depends which type of table and summary it is. You can edit a page with a table to see which code it uses. Can you link to the table you are trying to create and clarify what type of summary you want in it, for example by linking to an existing article which already has it? You can work on a draft of your table at User:Information Star/Sandbox. If you refer to summaries of television episodes then there is general documentation at Template:Episode list and we can help with problems. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The league

Sir/Madam, I just want to use this time to express my feelings about the indonesia league.The indonesia league is droping from year to year. I also want to let indonesia know that,foot ball is not played by writting nor by google.all over the world,as far as you can play the game well,the club will take you;but in the case off indonesia ,is not like that.Well,as a fan and a soccer lover,indonesia have to improve on their standards of playing real soccer.The soccer here in indonesia is all corupt and all about money.But in reality,soccer is not all about money ,it's knowing how to play the game and to be real,in what you do and say.it dosen't matter your papper work but if you know the game that is the most important thing in life. Thank You Hope that this country will try and change there way of thinking and more more real about what the players want. Hope you can put this across to the higher people in soccer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.56.243.53 (talk) 11:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our roughly three million articles, and thought that we were directly 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 a help desk for asking questions related to using the encyclopedia. Thus, we have no inside track on the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the left hand 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. Gonzonoir (talk) 11:58, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now that you may have realised we're not the higher authorities for Indonesian football, let me guide you to an article about the Football Association of Indonesia. Once you're done reading that article, here are 1982 articles on football in Indonesia that could interest you further in continuing on the project. While you're at it, you may wish to create an account if you do not already have one. Creating an account providesa number of benefits; in particular, your contributions are attributed to your username. SeeHelp:Logging in for help with logging in to an existing account. Feel free to write back here for help. ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 18:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to change the info in a block on a page

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– ▒ ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ▒ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 09:53, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do I change the information shown in the block on the right side of this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Trucks

I don't know where the "Key People" name of Gareth Crewe is coming from; that person has never been a Mack executive. Ut06265 (talk) 20:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for catching that. TN X Man 20:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do I...

...make a barnstar? Do I have to upload a file as well? Are there directions? 2J Bäkkvire Maestro ^{what are you} _{looking at?} 23:07, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A number of barnstar templates, into which you can enter your own message, are listed at WP:BARN. If you want to create a custom one, I suppose you can go to one of the template pages, click on "Edit this page", copy the template code, paste it somewhere, and alter it as you see fit. If you want it to include an image that hasn't already been uploaded here or on Commons, you'll need to upload that image. Deor (talk) 00:45, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]