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January 14

Chris Helmsworth

Please correct the spelling of his name. I can’t edit it and it’s not right. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.23.98.79 (talk) 00:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Where do you see that spelling? I get zero search hits in WIkipedia and it's not in Chris Hemsworth. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:03, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

...unless thought you did, that Chris Helmsworth was the spelling right, (sounds nice, but not it is)... Don't worry, it's a mistake even media houses like Forbes commit. Lourdes 03:30, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I need to delete my pages

Hello, 3 months ago i created 2 wiki pages about myself as a joke and put a photo on them as a joke. These 2 photos are now on google images and i want to take them down. Could you please take down my pages and the photos from google images.

Kind regards, Darko — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkogolub (talk • contribs) 02:10, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Darkogolub: For us to take action, you will need to tell us which pages. However, When you put those photos up, you explicitly relased them under a CC-BY-SA license, which allows anybody to use them. "Anybody" includes Google. We have no control over Google's use of these photos: You will need to contact Google. We are all volunteers, so your "joke" will force unpaid volunteers to use up valuable time that would otherwise be spent improving Wikipedia. -Arch dude (talk) 02:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Darkogolub: Your contribution history only shows your edit to this page as well as to your now-deleted sandbox. If you created other pages about yourself, you did it while logged out or using another account, so we will be unable to help you unless you state what pages you are referring to. As noted, we can't do anything about Google using your photos. You might want to take this as a lesson learned, learning not to joke around, on a global encyclopedia edited by thousands of people and viewed by millions of people, by creating pages about yourself and posting pictures of yourself. This is not social media. In general you should treat the Internet as a public street corner and conduct yourself accordingly. 331dot (talk) 02:44, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Darkogolub: c:File:Darko Golub.jpg was deleted from Commons at your request there as an unused selfie. But that doesn't necessarily get it off Google. —teb728 t c 08:02, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Google shows a personal profile on the Commons file description page. The Commons delinker log does not show any activity for the deletion. Is that profile perhaps the only "article"? —teb728 t c 08:13, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting or modifying a word or phrase of an in-box contents

I want to delete the word 'incumbent' in a in-box of the page for Lee Jin-sung, a former president of the Constitutional Court of Korea as he retired last year. I would be grateful if you let me know how to change/edit the inbox contents. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Park Chul Min (talk • contribs) 05:48, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It needed |term_end= following the date of 'term end' (as the name might imply). I've done it for you this time. — regards, Revi 07:04, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How do I get an article out of Sandbox?

How I get an article out of Sandbox? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leahernandez1 (talk • contribs) 10:37, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your starting point is to read the advice at WP:Your first article, then go away and find published reliable sources to demonstrate that the subject is notable in Wikipedia's terms. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See your talk page as well. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 11:19, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Animation speed

Hi. What I as an user can do for animations I find annoyingly quick moving? I have a gut feeling they are more common in my own language wikipedia than here but anyway, is it about my personal settings, sub-project local settings or just a random choice of the animation creator?--J. Sketter (talk) 11:19, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@J. Sketter: If the case is animated GIF images, you can see the GIF#Animated GIF section. If you seek words next frame you'll find that the time between consecutive frames (images) of the animation is hardcoded in the image file. I can imagine a possibility that web browser application could have some parameter to slow down animations by scaling that factor, but I have never found one myself. As a result, the speed of GIF animation is defined by the file's creator and not modifiable.
AFAIR in Internet Explorer pressing the Esc key used to stop all GIF animations – but there was no keypress to re-activate it, and I always needed to reload a page to see stopped animations working again. --CiaPan (talk) 12:39, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Policies and guidelines

To what extent do guidelines supersede policies? My understanding is that guidelines supplement policies but do not supersede them; am I wrong? But here there is a heated debate where the participants argue past each other: Half interpret the article title policy to say that the article title should be taken from the common name if there is one. The other half interpret the naming guideline for astronomical objects as saying that the official name should be used if there is one, and an unofficial common name should not be used. At least one participant says explicitly that the guideline supersedes the policy.

Is this the right place for this question? —teb728 t c 12:17, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

pls see Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays.--Moxy (talk) 12:38, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's very helpful. —teb728 t c 10:03, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to change image in an article when two images share the same name?

I want to replace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Keshav_Puram_metro_station.jpg with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keshav_Puram_metro_station.jpg as the first one is not image of the station but a platform of the same station(all platform on delhi metro are very similar) so the second image will be certainly more helpful. The target article is Keshav Puram metro station. If you have time please replace the image or tell me how to do it. Thanks Tuwein (talk) 12:37, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tuwein: I moved the image to File:Platform at Keshav Puram metro station.jpg which means the Commons image will now appear as File:Keshav Puram metro station.jpg here. Regards So Why 12:57, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting that the history at the platform file name doesn't mention the old name, and the history at File:Keshav Puram metro station.jpg doesn't show the earlier version. Help:Page history#Image histories implies that the old version should be visible there. Can anyone explain, please? --David Biddulph (talk) 13:10, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@David Biddulph: As far as I can see, Platform's history correctly shows the move done by SoWhy. --CiaPan (talk) 13:32, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
P.S.
The image history doesn't show a new version of the image, because no new version of the image was uploaded. It's still the same image, just moved under a new name. --CiaPan (talk) 13:34, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I may have been confusing myself at the platform file by looking at the image history rather than file history. It seems surprising that there isn't a file history at File:Keshav Puram metro station.jpg to show that a different version existed in the past. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's because it hasn't. File:Keshav Puram metro station.jpg is included from Commons while the other exists locally. It appears in the move log though. Hope that helps. Regards So Why 13:51, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dundalk Maryland

Hello I was wondering if you can help me..... I was looking under Dundalk Maryland and see all different types of information about the community. I wanted to reach out to Wikipedia concerning our business. Our family has been in business in the Dundalk community for over 100 years and would like to know if we can be added to the community information. Before I explain all of our history I wanted to reach out to you and see what is the process. Should I list everything about our family. We do have a website www.dundalkflorist.com with our history listed there. Please let me know what we would need to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmcwilliams3260 (talk • contribs) 14:04, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but Wikipedia is not for promotion. If you have a website, that is the place to do your advertising. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:16, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

HDI world map Taken down, want to keep it up

I made a map of country subdivisions by HDI and it got kind of popular (File:World Map of Subnational HDI.jpg). I want to put it on the HDI wiki page (HDI wiki). I have tried and it got accepted, but then somebody took it down. I want to know if it might work as a permanent addition to the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FluffyChicken611 (talk • contribs) 15:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused; your map seems to be present in the page. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:02, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ONUnicorn: FluffyChicken611's edit is pending review, it's not visible unless you have the reviewer userright.

I could have sworn I was looking at the edit before FluffyChicken611's edit and that the map was in that one. But now I look at that edit and see you're right, it's not in that edit. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:20, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ivanvector, Any logged in user sees the version of the article pending review (only logged-out editors see the accepted version). Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:22, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the magical world of pending changes. I still obviously don't get it, I thought that was also the case for non-confirmed accounts. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:31, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@FluffyChicken611: I can't tell exactly why your map was removed but it looks like another user thinks that it should not be there. You will have to ask User:Somedifferentstuff why they removed it, maybe they will respond here, or you can ask your question on the article's talk page. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:15, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@FluffyChicken611: The user who removed the map left an edit summary which explained their reason for doing so. You need to discuss it with them, directly or on the article talk page, not just revert their edit (as you have done). Neiltonks (talk) 17:03, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

move and redirect

Hello there !! I renamed my article "european project on ocean acidification to get it published (from my sandbox to article) Unfortunately i wrote the title with a "the" and i then renamed it from "the european project on ocean acidification" to "european project on ocean acidification"...creating a redirection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Project_on_Ocean_Acidification_(EPOCA) What i would like is that when users search for my page they get automatically the page with the title "european ...." without having a page with redirection : how to suppress the page with the title "the european..." and have automatically the page "European ...." ? Please help me I hope i made myself clear enough to you. Thanks a lot Nuluru (talk) 16:05, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nuluru, welcome to Wikipedia. If the title where you first created the article (the one with "the") is an obvious mistake, you can mark it for speedy deletion by adding the code {{db-r3}} to the very top of the page. An administrator will be along to delete the redirect shortly. For more information please see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. However, first, the current title of your article needs to be changed, because we do not include acronyms and initialisms in our article titles (see MOS:TITLE or MOS:ACRONYM). The proper title of your page should be European Project on Ocean Acidification, and you can create a redirect at the title EPOCA which redirects to your article. If you need help with any of this please ask! Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:11, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. If I understood correctly i should place the code {{db-r3}} on the first page "The european project on ocean acidification" and still, not forget to rename it into "european...", which i have already done. My problem is that i only want the page "european project..." to appear. So if i followed what you said it should be ok ? Thanks a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuluru (talk • contribs) 16:28, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think you've got it now. The first title you moved to, The European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) (with "the"), is a redirect to the second one, European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) (no "the"). If a reader clicks on the first one the website automatically redirects them to where the article is now, so maybe you just want to leave it that way. Or you can ask for it to be deleted, I see you've tagged it correctly now.

Any time you move a page on Wikipedia, a redirect is left behind at the old title so that if anyone tries to look for the page in the old place they will be sent to the new title. We usually leave those old redirects in place, unless they're obviously mistakes. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:36, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes indeed i'd like this old redirect be deleted because it was a "simple" or "obvious" (lol) mistake of "the" and i find it kind of not "smooth" not to be directly on the proper article which was just not well entitled.. i hope it will be done or should i ask on a particular thread ? Thanks a lot anyway Nuluru (talk) 16:46, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New log in and password needed for existing biography page. Creator and editor is no longer working with us and the page needs changes. Please help. Thank you!

Please help me with a new log in and password for an existing biography page. The Creator and editor of the page is no longer working with us and I have no idea how to proceed.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.43.20.50 (talk) 18:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You may create an account at WP:ACCOUNT. Then you must read and comply with WP:COI and WP:PAID. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not an avenue for promotion. RudolfRed (talk) 18:51, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help transferring file to Commoms

I need help transferring File:PhiladelphiaSketchClub.jpg to WikiMedia Commons, which is currently in en.Wikipedia, Philadelphia Sketch Club article, and was being requested for deletion. Even a Master Editor IV can forget how to do something and need help! Cheers!!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 19:46, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]