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February 21

Anonymous account repeatedly removing relevant cited information

Hi, this account [1] is persistently removing relevant and accurate cited information from two related articles. I'm not sure how or where to report this or how to warn the user with an official warning. Can someone help out? Thanks! GreyGoose (talk) 04:34, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi GreyGoose, I have warmed the IP. Now since they have done it four times, if they do it again, you can report them to WP:AIV NZFC^(talk) 06:31, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much, NZFC! GreyGoose (talk) 06:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No talk page for article Six Segment Analysis

The article, Six Segment Analysis does not appear to have an active talk page. The article is tagged with a "multiple issues" template, and invites editors to discuss the issues on the talk page, but the talk page is red-linked because the talk page is not active. Can this problem be resolved? Thanks. BronHiggs (talk) 05:51, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The problem can be solved very easily. Click on the red link Talk:Six Segment Analysis and start typing your suggestions for improvements to the article. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Rojomoke (talk) 06:00, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Biography

hey I am sameer and i am a usual reader of your page. I want to write a bigraphy of some one how can i do that — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameer Rajput (talk • contribs) 12:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I'll include a welcome link on your user talk page with some useful links. Writing a new article is difficult, and we recommend that you get experience in editing existing pages before you try that; there is advice at WP:Your first article. Biographies are written only for people who are deemed notable under Wikipedia's definition, see WP:BIO. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:29, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Subject Deleted

21 feb 2018 canada

Hi this is swanny, 14 days ago i put up a article on David Camelot who is a musician with a 2nd newly released CD on itunes and spotify Face To Face who opened for the band Doug and the Slugs in RD in 2000 and was a close friend of musician Billie K. Hughes 1948-1998 and whose brother won an Emmy for his video work in 2017. I was subsequently taking down, like other articles i have tried to post with no reason or justification given. It thus pains me to make donations $ to the site when my articles are disregarded on the info and facts i am most expert on above all others.

thanks David Camelot aka swanny formerly ed jonas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swanny (talk • contribs) 16:38, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Swanny: A lot of the problem is that you've made a few incorrect assumptions about Wikipedia.

1) Don't write articles about yourself or anything you're financially affiliated with. See WP:COI for more information.

2) Don't use Wikipedia for advertising or promotion. See WP:NOTPROMO. This includes using iTunes as a source, see WP:REFSPAM.

3) When you write articles, make sure you cite at least three professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources that are independent of the subject but still specifically about it.

Ian.thomson (talk) 16:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please Write A Real Information.. delete the Fake info of Rakeshprasad

Dear Wikipedia,

I tried helping you from getting your name defamed on this wrong information and write up about Ajendraprasadji, Acharya of Vadtal and Court judgement as well of not removing him , and your statement that Rakeshprasad is 9th acharya which is again very much wrong...

More than 1000000 Devotees across this earth are getting wrong information because of you...Your team has not cross verified these wrong contents before uploading...Also, as your supporter I wrote many things which are totally true then your team is blocking me..It's funny. Read my all messages in various form...You will come to know facts.

Also when I edited on Rakeshprasad page, 'Lynx' warned me...As if I am culprit.

Infact your Wikipedia team is faulty and culprit on publishing the wrong misleading write up..Information.

Best wishes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:205:C80E:51AE:0:0:18BE:30A0 (talk) 16:58, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: LynxTufts did not warn this IP but Original Acharya Guru Maharaj, who is now blocked indefinitely for abuse of editing privileges.
Edits at the page were disruptive, unsourced and POV. Eagleash (talk) 17:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Editing a map

On the Clarendon Hills, Illinois map and page, one of the parks is missing. I do not know how to edit a map. It is the whole area between Colfax Avenue and Park Avenues. Its called Park Avenue Park. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.23.244.130 (talk) 17:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Our page on Clarendon Hills, Illinois and the associated picture File:DuPage County Illinois Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Clarendon Hills Highlighted.svg do not seem to highlight parks. Maybe you mean that the grey/white alternance is incorrect? Anyways, the original uploader, DemocraticLuntz, may have an idea of what exactly the problem is. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 19:06, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Would like to see deleted material

Maybe I could learn what not to do. Maybe rhere’s another way to do it. @Diannaa: has not replied. This deals with the latest changes to Monument and memorial controversies in the United States. Thanks. deisenbe (talk) 17:32, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is exceedingly rare to have a legitimate reason to see WP:REVDEL'ed edits, but even more so here, where the only lesson to take is "do not copy-paste into Wikipedia, that is a copyright violation". Going by the edit summaries (e.g. just before this revision), text had been copied in violation of copyright from a couple of places into the article. If you are confused about why so many revisions are unavailable, that is because every revision between the introduction and the removal of the copyvio needs to be revdel'd, even if the intermediate edits were legitimate. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 19:11, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The material I removed was copy-pasted from the various sources that I listed for you on my user talk page. It's not okay to copy prose from copyright web pages. Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be written in your own words. Please have a look at Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright for a simplified guide to how copyright law applies to Wikipedia editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of school massacres

Please review your lists of US school massacres. Some list the names of attackers which only makes them famous which is not appropriate. Other lists indicate the "fate of the perpetr ator" which is much more appropriate. Sharron Lee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:9C80:56E3:4D32:9D93:BD97:CEFE (talk) 18:57, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussions about article content should occur on an article talk page. In this case, I think you want Talk:List of school massacres by death toll. --Jayron 32 19:01, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Wikipedia reports on information found in reliable sources. It reports all relevant facts in a neutral manner (or should do) and names of perpetrators would not be included without a good source. I.e. the information is readily available/easily found in multiple other sources. Readers seeking information in respect of the incidents are quite likey to want to know the names of those responsible. It is unlikely that inclusion in an online encyclopedia is going to add to anyone's standing (good or bad). Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Eagleash (talk) 19:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to take a guess that you are the same person who posted previously that "Drug Lords and Serial Killers are NOT Celebrities" (and hence should not be named on Wikipedia). Whether that guess is correct or not, you can still see the answers in the archive: Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018_February_16#Drug_Lords_and_Serial_Killers_are_NOT_Celebrities. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 19:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I too thought that might be a possibility. Eagleash (talk) 19:36, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Geolocate puts the IPv4 of the first and the IPv6 of the second on different coasts (Washington State vs. North Carolina)Naraht (talk) 21:24, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rendering problem

Would someone who knows who to notify, please notify him or her that this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse

does not render properly on Safari in iOS (the operating system for iPhones and iPads), both up to date. The "Ask a question" is unusable. I know how to add a new section at the bottom, but less experienced editors might not. The present page works fine. deisenbe (talk) 20:27, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Deisenbe: What device are you running it on? The "Ask a question" button works fine for me. Sure, the header isn't the prettiest due to formatting, but on my iPhone 6S, it is not unusable. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:21, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment I am on an iPad Pro of the original iPad dimensions, purchased 2017, and the OS is 11.2.5. If you tell me how to send it I’ll send you a screenshot so you can see the problem. The problem is identical on the Dolphin browser. Thanks. deisenbe (talk) 23:10, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me (iPod 4), which is actually somewhat surprising and probably completely irrelevant. LittlePuppers (talk) 01:14, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading pdf files

Hello: I'm editing a Wikipedia page (American Capital) which is currently posted. There are some documents that need to be attached as reference/citations. Since this company is a financial services company, many of the documents that need to be attached are pdfs of SEC filings (publicly available; no confidential information contained). I'm having trouble uploading so that it matches with the references/footnotes to yet be inserted on the pages. I've tried using the manual citation and uploading media file, but since the pdfs are not "pictures or photographs", I've received rejection notices. Can anyone provide steps on how to attach pdf files which are public information documents? Thanks.Psenda2018 (talk) 20:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Those really aren't appropriate sources. The article needs professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources that are independent of the subject but still specifically about it. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've nominated the article for deletion. @Psenda2018: Are you an employee of American Capital or Ares Management? Ian.thomson (talk) 20:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is almost never appropriate to upload documents as references, Psenda2018. They are often unacceptable for copyright reasons, but even in that can be got round, their provenance is unknown (even if they purport to be official documents from some agency, there's no way of knowing whether they have been altered on the way). We require all references to be reliably published. --ColinFine (talk) 21:02, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Without prejudice of what will happen to the article... Notice that if those PDF are available from the SEC, they will probably have a reference of some sort (at best, a link to the SEC website, at worse, something such as "Filing XYZ/ABC from FooCorp, received at date D"). It is very rarely appropriate to actually upload the contents of a reference to Wikipedia; you should cite it instead. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 17:26, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Possible to change username / identity shown on Wikipedia?

If possible, i was wondering if it is possible to change my user name to something that is not personal; my current username is my actual name which for obvious reasons would prefer not to disclose. I made this account just under 5 years ago so with a history i have built up using this account prevents me from wanting to make another one.

I hope this is possible

Many thanks

Dean— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dean_Frankling (talk • contribs)

See WP:UNC and WP:RENAME. Also, please sign your posts (outside of articles) with four tildes (~~~~). Ian.thomson (talk) 20:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

help

How do you create a post? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nate the gamer 24 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You just did.S Philbrick (Talk) 23:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). nagualdesign 00:03, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It may be that the OP was asking about article creation. I have left usual welcome links at their TP. Eagleash (talk) 11:33, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

table help

In the table at Mass shootings in the United States#Deadliest shootings, if you sort the table you get a phantom blank line appearing. This is caused because they used rowspan=5 for a 4 item list at those tied for 14th deadliest. But changing that to 4 doesn't seem to allow you to add color to only one line. At least I couldn't find a way that worked. Rmhermen (talk) 22:50, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it by colouring each cell separately, though I expect there's a better solution. nagualdesign 23:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

..Actually, my 'fix' causes other minor problems. nagualdesign 23:19, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for trying. Rmhermen (talk) 02:59, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]