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December 24

Karoor Soman page keeps getting deleted

Hi Wiki

I have been trying to create Karoor Soman, great writer from Kerala, India wikipedia entry and it keeps getting deleted. i have got explicit permission to use the copyrighted material from the authors website and even when i try and rephrase the lines, its still put up for deletion. why is this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajeevholmes (talk • contribs) 06:41, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and it is not sufficient to claim that the subject gives permission. Often, other people can hold the copyright, and we have no way to prove that permission has been given. A subject's website is not the best source for an encyclopaedic article. You need to find independent WP:Reliable sources where the writer has been written about at length by others, and summarise what these independent sources say, but using your own words so that copyright issues do not arise. See WP:Referencing for beginners for how to cite the independent sources that you find. Dbfirs 07:56, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The page still has no independent references. A subject's website is not independent. Dbfirs 20:30, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please understand, Rajeevholmes, that Wikipedia has essentially no interest in what the subject of an article says about themselves, or what their friends or associates say about them. It is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject have chosen to publish about them (in reliable places - these do not have to be in English). Writing a new article in Wikipedia is one of the harder tasks here. Please read your first article carefully. --ColinFine (talk) 21:20, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Church_of_the_Transfiguration

some inflamatory misinfo in article

please correct

of berry transfigured of construed Gout cocaine transcendence from Satan etc

as is now History[edit] The current church, part of a Franciscan monasteryhealth of berry transfigured of construed Gout Age 8bc langage cocaine transcendence from Satan domain birth of I'll healthcomplex, was completed in 1924. The architect was Antonio Barluzzi.[2] It was built on the ruins of an ancient (4th–6th-century) Byzantine decorated birth 2018 lawless eygpt church and a 12th-century church of the Crusader Kingdom period.[3] There is a Greek Orthodox church located on Mount Tabor as well, dedicated to the same purpose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:301:77AA:8560:C8E6:BE78:C709:AF8F (talk) 07:27, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reporting this; I have undone the most recent edit and warned the vandal. If you see bad edits like this, feel free to undo them yourself: Wikipedia:Vandalism#How to respond to vandalism. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Omee Maurya

Heyy Hello, I want to Create my Wikipedia page like on the name of "Omee Maurya or Er.Sandeep M. Maurya". Please help to publish this page and create Wikipedia page. By professional i'm an Engineer and running a Advertising and Marketing Company. Do Needfull, i'm waiting for Positive Reply. Thank You... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omeemaurya (talk • contribs) 08:32, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your unreferenced sandbox draft has been reviewed, and of course declined. Please read the advice at WP:Your first article, and the definition of notability, but firstly please read the advice on not trying to create an autobiography. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:40, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Extra parameters in the infobox

Hi, there's an undefined parameter detailing the city council in the infobox in Glen Cove, New York. I am not informed enough on what branches of a US city government take precedence. Could you kindly check. Thanks, MT Train^Discuss 18:42, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think I fixed it - basically, there can only be 4 leaders and the city council was leader 5. Leschnei (talk) 19:57, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My pic

Why my wikipedia photo not found in google search — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahid Ansari(Bhai) (talk • contribs) 20:14, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If there is an article about you, please link to it. You need to be aware that Wikipedia does not host personal profiles, and anything you put on your user page pretending to be an article is against the policy for user pages, and will never be found by Google. You may put a little information about yourself on your user page, preferably phrased in the first person (I ... not he ...), especially if it relates to how you intend to improve the encyclopaedia, but the text you put there should not look like a Wikipedia article. Sorry to disappoint you. Perhaps you were looking for some social media site? Dbfirs 20:23, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you had difficulty understanding the replies you received to your questions at WP:Help desk/Archives/2017 October 23#Sahid Ansari(Bhai) and at WP:Help desk/Archives/2017 October 29#Why, and also the advice on your user talk page? --David Biddulph (talk) 20:39, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is noted that you deleted the links provided for your assistance at your talk page. To date your edits do not appear to have contributed much, if anything, to the encyclopedia. I would suggest that you study carefully, all the links you have previously been given and try to understand what Wikipedia is. It is not a form of social media where you have a 'profile' and can give your opinion on the meaning of life or anything else. You have Facebook, Twitter and various blogging websites for that. It is an encyclopedia composed of properly researched articles about notable subjects. You are most welcome to contribute constructively to the project, but if you are not intending to do so, please do not continue to edit disruptively. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 21:24, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Add language

I found an article which an article on another language Wikipedia which is not listed. Where and how can I add it? Debresser (talk) 21:46, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Help:Interlanguage links for general help. We can say more if you reveal which page and link it is about. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:41, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist not functioning correctly, or is it?

I'm puzzled. This evening, a couple of edits I made ages ago were reverted. No problem with that, and the notification system informed me, I had a look etc. etc. There have been a couple of edits since, but none of this has appeared on my watchlist. Article is Arena (swimwear) and I checked and it is on my list. Does this happen often? -Roxy, Zalophus californianus. barcus 23:13, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It works for me. If "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" is disabled at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist then you only see the most recent edit. If that edit is hidden by one of the settings like bot or minor then you see nothing. You don't see an older edit instead and you are not supposed to. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:39, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ha. The section you mentioned above is unticked, but I thought about what you said, and unticked hide bot edits, and lo and behold ... Thank you very much, this was obviously (minor) incompetence on my part. -Roxy, Zalophus californianus. barcus 00:15, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]