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October 26

My article

hello,

I just submitted some work to Wikipedia and it has an embarrassing flag on it. When you go to google and type in "Seeking the Splah" it has a red flag on it? Can this be removed immediately. This is a new term that needs to be introduced to scholars.

Please allow the article to be published without reservation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gdeydogon (talk • contribs) 00:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I have edited my flagged article and I would like for the embarrassing flag to be removed. who removes this and how long will it take? The article was seeking the splah.

Gdeydogon (talk) 00:54, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Gdeydogon The flag has been removed -- along with the "article". Wikipedia is not a place to promote newly coined terms. When and if multiple reliable sources not associated with you use the term and discuss it in some detail, Wikipedsia might have an article about it, but even then someone else should draft it. See WP:NOT, Notability, WP:42, WP:OWN, and WP:COI. DES ^(talk) 01:13, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

ok... then rid it all the way.. When I type it into google it still comes up. Please remove it from the search engine so that I will no longer be associated with Wikipedia now and in the future.

Gdeydogon (talk) 01:16, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

pointless rant
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
I do not want to be associated with WIKIPEDIA! Now that my article has been removed, I do not want to be associated with Wilepedia when you search my name! Please correct this so that I deactivate my account. When I type my name and the title of my article it showed that I was once apart of wikipedia and that now it has been removed. I DO NOT WANT MY SEARCHABLE NAME AND ARTICLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE IN THIS MANNER!!!!!!!!! PLEASE REMOVE THIS IMMEDIATE SO THAT I CAN DEACTIVATE THIS ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gdeydogon (talk) 01:23, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

You might as well stop yelling, Gdeydogon it isn't likely to help you. Wikipedia accounts are never deleted, but you can use the Right to vanish procedure to have your account renamed to a random username. You would have to make the request in accordance with the procedure, however. Wikipedia has no control over what Google reports or how quickly it revises its indices. DES ^(talk) 01:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

repeated rant
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
When I type my name and the title of my article it showed that I was once apart of wikipedia and that now it has been removed. I DO NOT WANT MY SEARCHABLE NAME AND ARTICLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE IN THIS MANNER!!!!!!!!! PLEASE REMOVE THIS IMMEDIATE SO THAT I CAN DEACTIVATE THIS ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gdeydogon (talk) 01:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC) LOL @YOU MIGHT AS WELL STOP YELLING Gdeydogon (talk) 01:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

UMM... this is not working. could you please administratively vanish me from here. I tried and it keeps saying that im need to log in, which i am. Please just get me out of here! Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gdeydogon (talk • contribs) 01:43, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I am sorry, Gdeydogon but I am not a renamer or a steward, and cannot do that. You will need to follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing#How to request a courtesy vanishing if you want such a rename. To protect users, it will only be done when the request comes directly from the user involved. As stated on that page, you can sens Wikipedia email via Special:EmailUser/Bureaucrats, or visit Special:GlobalRenameRequest and fill out the form there. Or send email via meta:Special:EmailUser/Wikimedia Stewards or to stewards@wikimedia.org. In any of these cases use "request for courtesy vanishing" as the subject/reason. If the form displays an error message, please either use the email method or report the exact error message here. DES ^(talk) 03:00, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Oddly enough, by you complaining over and over here on this page, you're only making things worse. As for search results in Google or any other search engine, we (Wikipedia) have no control over what they do and do not display. You can go and complain to them about it if you wish. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:09, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Internet Explorer 11 questions

I've used FF for a very long time when I edit Wikipedia. For troubleshooting reasons, I tried using IE 11 tonight. I have two questions, the first much more important than the second:

1. I have Zoom set to 115%. For most things that gives me the approximate font size I want. However, the edit window is not affected by the zoom, and font size is tiny. For me, it's almost impossible to work with. What can I do to fix this?
2. I like to open new windows rather than open tabs. When I'm in IE and I right-click on a wikilink and pick open new window, it never opens maximized. I have to maximize it, and IE doesn't remember my preferred size the way most progams do and repeats the same behavior ad nauseam. On this issue, I've searched the web, and there are a lot of complaints about this behavior across multiple versions of IE. None of them seems to work for the users. Many "solutions" appear implausible and/or complicated. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks very much.--Bbb23 (talk) 07:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Are you sure it doesn't zoom a little and you just want it to zoom more than other text? It may start out smaller than other text depending on the browser. Try this or another number in your CSS:

textarea { font-size: 125%; }

PrimeHunter (talk) 12:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

The other text is pretty big, obviously zoomed, whereas the edit window is unchanged. I remember also that one time I tried a higher zoom (not for Wikipedia), and anything above 115% was too big. Wouldn't a change to my CSS affect Firefox (the edit window font size is fine in FF) as well?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:21, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm using FF now, but I went back to IE and experimented. 100% and 115% appear to be the same in the edit window, but 125% does make the font size in the window bigger. Unfortunately, as I said above, the surrounding text and text on other Wikipedia pages is way too big. Looks like big print books at the library. My eyes aren't great, but they aren't that bad. :-) --Bbb23 (talk) 14:27, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: I guess you haven't had time to respond, so I figured it would do no harm to try changing common.css as you suggested. First, it changed the edit window text to be HUGE. I tried lowering it in increments to 110%. I couldn't see any difference between 110 and 125%. Second, other things are still tiny. For example, the form to delete a page - the area in the Delete where it has the reasons for the deletion and the drop-downs (same thing for example in the edit summary text box). It's tiny with no change to common.css and with 125%. I have a feeling you may not have a solution to this problem, or at least not one that's palatable to me, but if you do ... Either way, thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Reliable Sources

These are some reliable sources to confirm Enrico Poli is what he says he is:

http://www.euganeafilmfestival.it/festival2014/scheda.php?id=75&lang=en http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6023560/ https://indiflixx.com/videos/closure/ http://www.rickdeckard.net/redazione/enrico-poli/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Epoli.uk (talk • contribs) 10:15, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

1. This is the wrong place for this. Talk:Enrico Poli is the correct place.

2. Some of those fail our reliable sourcing standards. IMDB for example, is written by a bunch of monkeys on typewriters. and Rickdeckard.net appear to be a blog, which (from Wikipedia's perspective) amounts to a single monkey on a single typewriter.

3. Articles require multiple reliable sources completely independent of the subject to survive. The Eugenea Film Festival website is not sufficiently independent because they are showing one of his movies. Indiflixx likewise appears to be an outlet for his movies, not an independent source.

4. I'm finding it really hard to believe that the "Epoli" in your username doesn't stand for "Enrico Poli." If that's the case, you should avoid editing any articles relating to Enrico Poli due to your obvious conflict of interest.

Ian.thomson (talk) 10:53, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

And one more point, Epoli.uk: even if the references were all reliable, "confirm[ing] Enrico Poli is what he says he is" is not relevant. There are places on the Internet that confirm that I am who I say I am: they do not mean that I am notable enough for Wikipedia to have an article about me. We require substantial writing about a subject, published by people who have no connection with the subject. --ColinFine (talk) 18:46, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

ColinFineIan.thomson actually IMDB is written by chimps on computers, and many others.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:22, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, Vchimpanzee, you've got the wrong primate. I didn't mention IMDB - that was Ian.thomson. --ColinFine (talk) 23:28, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I was in a hurry and you didn't indent, so I read all that as yours.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:53, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Relisting a request for comment

Does anyone know if it is possible to relist an RfC? I tried to do so at Talk:Turks in Bulgaria, which initially seemed to work but then the bot removed the RfC template as expired. I've tried asking at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment, but there's been no reply so far. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:22, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Insert picture (jpg) in text

How do I insert a picture in text. I spent a long time formatting and getting pictures into Wikimedia Common. Now how do I insert some of these in a page of text? I've seen entries with pictures. Holyinn43 (talk) 11:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Holyinn43, [[File:filename.jpg|thumb|description]] You can also add |left if you don't want it at the right Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:57, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

See more at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. Note the file name must be an exact match in capitalization so it's .JPG for four of the five files at commons:Special:Contributions/Holyinn43. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:00, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I have fixed the markup in the article (Holy Innocents Church, Southwater) (coincidentally the image used is one I took a few years ago). This shows the changes that were needed. Holyinn43: I have also added all five of your pictures to the category "Category:Holy Innocents Church, Southwater" on Commons, and have linked this category to the Wikipedia article by means of {{commons category |Holy Innocents Church, Southwater}} so they can be found easily from the article. Thanks for uploading these, particularly the interior pictures. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:49, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Article verification

Hy Wilkepia

My Name is Nafiu Yakubu I am The Founder Of Nivo Academy an online academy for web developer, computer programmers and students offering tutorial

Please i would like to know how to get my article verified for Nivo academy which i just wrote a little about it using my account Nafson84 and also why is my article placed under deletion contest for more information contact me at <email address redacted>

Regards Nafiu Yakubu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nafson84 (talk • contribs) 12:33, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

The reasons are explained clearly on your user talk page. You also need to read about conflict of interest. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:42, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Nafson84, in all probability, you can't. Certainly not the article you posted. It has now been deleted twice as advertising. As per WP:SOAP and WP:SPAM, Wikipedia should not be used to promote any cause, business, product, or person. The only way an article about Nivo Academy can be created and stay around is if independent reliable sources cover it in some detail, and someone uses those sources to write a well-cited, neutral article about it. And, as per our conflict of interest guideline that someone should not be you. DES ^(talk) 12:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

One way of looking at the problem, Nafson84, is that Wikipedia has almost no interest in what a person wants to say about themselves, or their company, school, relatives, band etc. It is only interested in what other people, people unconnected with the subject, have published about it in reliable places. So, an article about your academy must be based almost 100% on what people unconnected with the academy have published about it, and not at all on what you have said, or want to say, about it. --ColinFine (talk) 18:52, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Help with creating maps of China

I have received an email from a collegue of mine, a professor who occasionally edits Wikipedia. He would like to contribute some maps, but has a problem that I am not sure how to help him with - but I am sure someone here will be able to provide proper help. Here's his email:

[code] I have access to a highly-skilled research assistant this semester. We would like to create a whole bunch of maps showing administrative divisions of China by GDP, foreign investment, population, etc. I'll be using these in my own work but we're very happy to contribute these to Wikimedia Commons. He'll be making dozens of maps but I'll only be using a few in my published work. The problem is that we can't figure out how to "color in" the map templates that are available on Wikipedia. We've found these pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_geographic_image_maps

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_map_resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:China_administrative.gif

But we can't figure out how to get an image map of China in the first place that we can then color in. I think we just need a little kick-start, after which Ki Fong can generate A LOT of content for you. We're doing a lot of interesting data work with official Chinese data ... I think it could make a great addition to Wikipedia.

Help?[/code]

If there are any replies here, please echo me. Thank you! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:47, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Can you use something in commons:Category:Blank maps of China? PrimeHunter (talk) 14:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

@Piotrus: You might find some help at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop. I know there are some editors on Wikipedia who just work on creating maps that are requested. They probably have information on how to obtain a general map that you can then adapt for your purposes (with references to source material, of course). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:18, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

@Piotrus: There are many helpful editors who hang out at Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop I think they would be willing to help out both directly in coloring maps but also to provide instructions on how to add the coloring. (looks like a xpost)--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:19, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

@Piotrus: You might also drop a note to @Munion:. That editor is a cartographer, and recently organized a map creation event, which resulted in a number of fine maps being uploaded to Commons. Finished products may require a permission statement, and that editor has real life experience with what needs to be done. (In short, if the creator of the map uploads it themselves they may not need to provide a permission statement, but if one individual uploads the map created by another individual, a permission statement will definitely be needed. I can help with the necessary permission statements.)--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Gothyan bari

Gothyan bari needs attention, if anyone has the time/inclination. 223.205.245.163 (talk) 13:59, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

It was deleted as G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement. RJFJR (talk) 15:35, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Finding identical (or close refs?)

I'm trying to find any sort of category (or tool?) that will give me either or both of the following for improvement using refnames and the rp template.

• Articles where the content of more than one ref is completely identical
• Articles where the ref contains a cite (presumably cite book) which is identical other than the page/pages value.

Naraht (talk) 16:15, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Naraht you could try WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:40, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Hmm, I thought that VPT was more for bugs that had been found (or at least the last step before formally reporting them). I'll try over there then...Naraht (talk) 13:11, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Connecting Apps

How to connect apps like facebook on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janak Saran Adhikari (talk • contribs) 16:32, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Could you be more specific about what it is that you're trying to do? Perhaps something like User:TheDJ/Sharebox is what you're after. Dismas|^(talk) 16:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

The tool at User:TheDJ/Sharebox is no longer available. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of that, thanks. Though, we're still left wondering what the OP wants. Dismas|^(talk) 02:04, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Two asterisks for tabbed bullet point results in one empty bullet point

If statement like this is found in a page's markup:

**this is a test

it will appear like this:

• • this is a test

This really bugs me when I am dealing with the article Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!!. Is there any way to put a tabbed bullet point without causing an untabbed, empty bullet point? Junkcops, aka FMecha (mail box|what I did) 17:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

You mean

• Like this?

If so just place one (or more) colon(s) before the asterisk - Arjayay (talk) 17:07, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Junkcops, Two adjacent asterisks are intended for a sub bullet under a higher-level bullet, and should not be used without a previous single asterisk line.

Consider the following example:

• Point 1
  • Point 1a
  • Point 1b
  • Point 1c
• Point 2
  • Point 2a
• Point 3
• Point 4

• Point Alpha, a separate indented item
• Point Beta

I hope that helps clarify things a bit. DES ^(talk) 00:07, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Page titles ending in "Fraternity"

Resolved

Is there any way to search for pages in mainspace where the last word is "Fraternity"?Naraht (talk) 21:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

I tried putting an asterisk in front of the term (*fraternity), which seems to work. Then I found Help:Searching, which explains everything about searching and shows what I did was a "wilcard search". Czoal (talk) 21:59, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

That brings up both things with Fraternity and Fraternities in it and also many where the word Fraternity or Fraternities is in the middle of the title or in the text. I want only those pages where the last 10 characters of the Title are *exactly* Fraternity. Naraht (talk) 00:57, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

intitle:Fraternity will only give pages where it's in the title, but it can be anywhere in the title. Stemming means it also picks up some cases of "Fraternities". Help:Searching#Other search tools lists a more advanced but very slow tool at [1] which accepts regular expressions. It often times out or takes several minutes when I try to use it. I started it five minutes ago on Fraternity$, where $ matches the ending position. I'm still waiting to see if it ever returns someting. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

It just timed out without returning anything. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:12, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

@Naraht: I've created User:Naraht/Fraternity from a scan of the October 2 database dump. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC). Forgot the ping! -- John of Reading (talk) 08:12, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you to all, especially @John of Reading: and @PrimeHunter:. I ended up finding m:Research:Quarry and doing direct database access. It doesn't have pure regexp, but I minimum I can apparently use SQL wildcards (% for any number of characters, and _ for single characters). So I ended up doing use enwiki_p; select * from page where page_title like "%Fraternity"Naraht (talk) 16:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

"especially John of Reading and PrimeHunter". (Insert sad emoji face here.) Sorry, I tried. (Insert winking emoji face here.) Czoal (talk) 19:22, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

@Czoal:, sorry I didn't realize that showing two meant that only one wasn't included.Naraht (talk) 19:33, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Just a little friendly humor. Thanks for the kitten! Czoal (talk) 19:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Deleted archives

So recently i have created a wiki page on the band Mili, I believe they have sufficient importance to be on a wikipedia page, but the page was deleted without any responses from the admin. is this normal or do admins give a nudge once your page is deleted/your talk page has been read? 23:18, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Christine Connolly (A7: Article about a band, singer, musician, or musical ensemble, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject)

23:17, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Pye Bridge railway station (A11: Article about a subject obviously invented by article creator or associate, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) 
23:17, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Psalm Baby Cloth Diapers (A7: Article about a company, corporation or organization, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) 

23:17, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:Project Mili (G8: Talk page of a deleted page)

23:17, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Project Mili (A7: Article about a band, singer, musician, or musical ensemble, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) 

23:16, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:Olayiwola Rasaq (G8: Talk page of a deleted page)

23:16, 26 October 2015 The JPS (talk | contribs) deleted page Olayiwola Rasaq (A7: Article about a band, singer, musician, or musical ensemble, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) 

the times in deletion log hardly tells me that he has glaced through the talk page, as what i had typed in there would have taken more than two minutes to read
Edit: also if it was of any merit, I was editing said page at the time to prove my point, but alas, I must have not saved in time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abyssify (talk • contribs) 00:19, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

It appears that you have created these pages without understanding the process to go through. The deleting admin did use some short-hand regarding why the page was removed, but essentially the articles you attempted to create did not assert that they meet the criteria to be included in wikipedia -- see WP:BAND for more information about some of these criteria. I would suggest you take a look at WP:AFC for information about proposing an article to be created. Tiggerjay (talk) 01:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Admins rarely delete articles that are not already previewed and flagged as needing deletion by other editors. It doesnt take more than a few seconds to say "yep, that deletion flag is justified." -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)