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January 9

How to save a wiki article link as a reading record in wiki account, as on Wiki APP version.

Hope to know how to save a wiki article link as a reading record in wiki account, just like the function of Wiki APP on phone. So that the record can be synchronized with cellphone.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexsunder (talk • contribs) 02:23, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are referring to your watchlist; there should be a white star at the top of the article(when viewed in the desktop version of Wikipedia), if you click it, it will turn blue; this means it is now on your watchlist. 331dot (talk) 08:38, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Alexsunder. I think you are referring to synchronised reading lists: these are natively provided in the the mobile apps only. However, you can download a browser extension which will let you add articles to your reading list from the web version: I think that is what you are asking for. (I have never used this, and I don't know how well it works). --ColinFine (talk) 12:36, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a new page of our company

To whom it may concern,

Hello. My name is Stacy Kim and I'm the international/Global PR manager of a company based in Seoul, South Korea. Our company is called Class101.

I am contacting to ask a quick question!

If I want to create a Wikipedia page for our company, what do I have to do?

I have all the references and articles.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Sincerely, Stacy Kim — Preceding unsigned comment added by Class101-user (talk • contribs) 09:25, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Before doing anything, familiarise yourself with our policies on conflicts of interest, paid editing and neutral point of view, which together should help you to understand why it's very difficult for a company to write a wikipedia article about itself. Mikenorton (talk) 09:30, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, before they do that, they're gonna need to register a new account with a proper user name. Ian.thomson (talk) 09:54, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Class101-user: After completing steps indicated by Mikenorton above, please see if your company satisfies general requirements defined at WP:N and specific ones at WP:NCORP. Then see if you can find appropriate Wikipedia:Reliable sources to confirm notability of the subject and to provide WP:Verifiability of the article. --CiaPan (talk) 10:37, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks from Rebecca

@David Biddulph and ColinFine:

This is a reply to an old thread, now in archive: Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2019 December 4#Wondering when artist Paul Robinson's entry will be up.

The entry below has been incorrectly edited into a month-old version of the page (diff 4 December 2019 – 9 January 2020). I have reverted the change and restored the current version, so now I'm adding this entry on behalf of its author. --CiaPan (talk) 11:44, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello David and Colin. Thank you for your responses. I will find out from Richard Seaglove what pseudonym he used. His entry was certainly in good faith. It is not for promotion I was requesting this it was because there is no aural history of the last 19 years of Nina Simone's life and I know that Paul Robinson was her right hand man in this time. Perhaps I worded my initial request to you incorrectly. My apologies for that. I was simply concerned that he was not cited in her wiki and was very happy to find out that Richard Seaglove was doing a wiki entry on him and then equally disappointed when it was not up...particularly knowing that his biography on their working life together was coming up in the next 12 months. Blessings. Thank you for wiki — Preceding unsigned comment added by PoeticPlenties (talk • contribs) 11:04, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi PoeticPlenties. Wikipedia is not intended for promotional purposes. If a biography of Mr. Robinson is about to be released, it may serve as a source for a biography article on Wikipedia in the future. Unsourced Wikipedia articles are not put up in anticipation of upcoming sources, however. That would be putting the cart before the horse.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reinstating this post. It is not a biography of Paul per se...it is a record of this 19 years working with Nina as her drummer but that is kind of not really the point in fact. I wish I hadn't mentioned it. Could somebody tell me how I can contact the editors of Nina Simone's page because it is an enormous oversight that he is not mentioned on either Nina's page nor Van Morrison's page. To have played with Nina as her only drummer (often billed outside Ronnie Scott's and such concerts with his hame as a duo and Olympia regularly in Paris over 19 years) warrants him as a valuable artist. I don't know how wiki works but I would truly appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. Richard believes he had done an entry but since he was new to this I guess, and perhaps did not do the Robinson page correctly. In any case he needs to be mentioned on Nina's page at the very least. Many thanks for wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PoeticPlenties (talk • contribs) 11:41, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you wish to suggest a change to a Wikipedia article, the place to do so is on the article's talk page. You need to support your suggestion with a reference to a published reliable source. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:58, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How can I add an information on wikipedia

I want to add trishak jaiswal's information he is a famous personality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Archit8899 (talk • contribs) 14:00, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Archit8899, your biggest problem will be to establish that trishak jaiswal is notable, in the peculiar way in which that word is used here – click on that blue link for details. As a Google search for "trishak jaiswal" gives no hits at all, it seems unlikely that you will succeed. Maproom (talk) 15:27, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Given thet Jaiswal is apparently a student, your best option to publicise him would be to go on social media. Wikipedia is not social media.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

edit counter

is there any way to check how much or what percentage I contributed to a particular article? :) S A H A 14:28, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Arnabsaha2212 - Go to the relevant page and click "View history", then click "Page statistics" in the top line - that will show you the leading editors, how many bites they have added and what percentage that is - 14:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) S A H A 17:34, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ooh, that's interesting! Didn't know those statistics were there! Hogyn Lleol (talk) 17:50, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

While that's one measure of contribution, it's not a very good one. Ironically, I think the best contributors to the quality of an article are often those with smaller net byte counts. I.e., there can be a lot of "fluff" in some articles that, when removed, make it much easier to read and understand. I may be biased, though, as more of an editor than a writer.

—[AlanM1(talk)]— 21:51, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AlanM1, I'll agree it doesn't necessarily correlate with the hypothetical "quality" metric, I'm going to push back a bit on the broad assumption that it's not a good measure. I have found it useful in many cases. For example, I often get inquiries at OTRS about issues where I'd like to point them to an appropriate editor to discuss further. It is fairly easy to look at that list and point them to a couple of possible candidates. I won't disagree for a second, that it might be better to spend an hour reviewing the article and identifying who contributed the most quality, but I don't have the hour to spend, so it's a quick and dirty measure that works. S Philbrick (Talk) 22:00, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

made big good

Hello there. My name is Daniel. i am 14 year old and made a moronic edit to Keira Knightly's wiki page. Im going to be completely honest here. The edit was funny. I did however initially believe that i would be able to change everything back. I am now aware that i am way out of my depth here. I would like to formally apologize for my actions on this great website. Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.54.12.211 (talk) 18:03, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@70.54.12.211:, another editor has already reverted that content, so no further action needed. Nosebagbear (talk) 18:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for owning up to it, Daniel: that shows maturity. Perhaps you would like to become a contributor who helps us improve the encyclopaedia. I suggest you have a look at advice for younger editors. --ColinFine (talk) 18:24, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'll echo ColineFine's answer.S Philbrick (Talk) 21:56, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@70.54.12.211:, you can quickly undo any moronic edit yourself with the undo function.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:37, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kesse

Should Kesse be made a disambiguation page? Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:04, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph A. Spadaro: I think it would be useful. If you do a search for Kesse, you will see that there are several viable entries that could go on a Kesse (disambiguation) page. You could then replace the long dab hatnote on the Kesse article with a single link. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 18:32, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph A. Spadaro: Done. -Arch dude (talk) 19:45, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I did not know how to create a disambiguation page. That's why I came here. Thanks, both! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 05:47, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph A. Spadaro: It's easy except for the tidy-up. Here's what I did:

Move "Kesse" to "Kesse (musician)", because he is no more notable than the other Kesse articles. Remove its hatnote.
The move leaves a redirect article named "Kesse". Edit that article to completely remove it contents (i.e., the redirect syntax) and replace it with the contents of the disambiguation, derived from the old hatnote. This is just normal editing.
Add the {{dab}} template at the bottom.
Create a "Kesse (disambiguation)" page and edit it to be a redirect to "Kesse" by adding #REDIRECT [[Kesse]] as its contents. This is step allows other editors to use this link as an explicit indication that they did not make a mistake and they do want to link to the dab page.
Tidy up the incoming links. Go to the "Kesse" article's "what links here" page, visit all the incoming links" pages (starting with templates) and edit them to replace the "Kesse" links with "Kesse (musician)|Kesse" instead. BUT NOTE: some of the old links are incorrect and should go to other Kesse articles! Fix them.

That's as far as I got, but another editor then did the next step:

Search for and find additional "Kesse" articles and added them.

Try it! -Arch dude (talk) 18:45, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Clicking in tabs

I recently made a small edit to the BZN airport page and right after I submitted it, I was no longer able to click down arrows in pages anymore. Why is this happening? It has never happened before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.75.8.65 (talk) 20:14, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, IP userAre you User:Green-u2? You must have made the edit while signed in to your account on Wikipedia. The post above was not made while you were signed in, either. Try signing in to your account, and see if the problem persists. If that doesn't fix the problem, try undoing your edit to see if that helps, and get back to us here if you still have the problem.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:34, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Could I get banned for editing a source?

If i change a source from youtube.com, and change it to invidio.us ( it is YouTube, with no ads.), Could I get banned New3400 (talk) 23:14, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are referring to a block, not a ban(they are different). Instead of worrying about being blocked, you should discuss what you want to do with other editors on the relevant article talk page. What is the reason you want to change it? 331dot (talk) 23:20, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@New3400: the only way you can get blocked for that would be to make the change after it has already been discusse on the article's talk page and the consensus was against the edit. It's best to discuss first as 331dot suggested, but even if you just go ahead and make a simple good-faith edit in an effort to improve Wikipedia, the worst that is supposed to happen is that someone reverts your change, and then you are supposed to discuss it. See WP:BRD. -Arch dude (talk) 00:30, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@New3400: Oh! I thought of another way! If you are changing the link and others think you are attempting to drive web traffic to the new site, then you might be spamming, and the anti-spam editors will generally react forcefully. See WP:SPAM. -Arch dude (talk) 00:34, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend against it. This website might be counted as a copyright violation (and we can't link to copyright violation in sources) but it's a gray area, but most importantly, this website won't be alive in 6 months and then all the URLs in your sources will be broken. – Thjarkur (talk) 01:13, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thjarkur, what do you mean dead in 6 months? New3400 (talk) 23:27, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

These kinds of services usually only stay up for a short while. They either get a cease and desist and are required to shut down, or the owners just stop spending the money needed to support it. Linking to YouTube itself or a respectable archiving website (one with a reputation for staying up for years) prevents link rot. – Thjarkur (talk) 00:33, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]