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Merging monthly archives into yearly archives

My archivebox is taking up my entire talk page and frankly it isn't active enough to warrant it, so I've changed my archiving from Year/Month to simply Year. What's the best way to retroactively merge the monthly archives into their respective years, preferably while maintaining the revision history? DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 13:34, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

I wonder if it's possible to put a "collapse" on it? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:56, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Collapse in what sense? Place the archivebox months under collapsible years? I tried to look through {{Archive|archivelist}} but it seems to require manually adding the archives, as with Special:PageHistory/Wikipedia:Media copyright questions/Archivelist. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 21:35, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

@DatGuy: I looked at the code of User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis and there is an undocumented |collapsed=yes to collapse all the archive links. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:15, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I took up your suggestion, with a few alterations, and it's much better. But I would still prefer the merged archives, so if anyone's got ideas for that I'm open. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 14:31, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

@DatGuy: That's a lot of code to get the same result. I think you would have to do merging manually. It's a little easier if you copy the content of all the archive pages (excluding {{MonthlyArchive}}) back to the main talk page and let the bot archive everything again with different directives. You can redirect the current archives or request deletion. I don't know how much revision history you want to maintain. The original posts will still be in the main talk page history and most or all of the archives have probably only been edited by bots with no need for attribution or inspection by users. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:36, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Updating page

We have had a Pennant International Page for sometime. The content on the page is very outdated and does not reflect the business as it is today. We have tried to make updates over the years, but these are always reverted. Could someone please help us get the page updated so those visiting it can get accurate information. Thank you. SourceCorrectInfo (talk) 15:52, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

@SourceCorrectInfo: "we"? Role accounts are forbidden. You are also obligated to DISCLOSE YOUR EMPLOYMENT per the Terms of Use and (in some jurisdictions) covert-advertizing laws. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 17:00, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, understood. I work for the organisation, and have been asked to look at updating the page, or finding out the best approach to ensure the information is accurate. I will review the link that has been shared. Thank you for responding to me. SourceCorrectInfo (talk) 07:50, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@SourceCorrectInfo Please read WP:COPYVIO. Thank you! Polygnotus (talk) 17:22, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for sharing this link. I have tried a couple of the suggestions, but can see that the page has now been recommended for deletion. I would like to stop this happening if possible. Do you have any other helpful resources I could read? Thank you for responding to me. SourceCorrectInfo (talk) 07:52, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

I would suggest that you read WP:BOSS, and show it to your colleagues/superiors.

The article(not just a "page") just summarizes the routine activities of the company, which does not establish that the company meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. The vast majority of companies do not actually merit Wikipedia articles. A Wikipedia article about a company must summarize what independent reliable sources have chosen on their own to say about the topic, beyond its routine activities.

If you're concerned about the article being out of date, deletion will solve that problem. If you just want to provide accurate information about your company and its activities, you should do that on your website and social media. 331dot (talk) 08:05, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you this is very helpful. I'll move forward with your suggestion. SourceCorrectInfo (talk) 08:22, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pennant International. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:21, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Draft was rejected

Draft:T/S State of Maine V

I have resubmitted and updated this draft for the new Maine Maritime Academy training ship twice and it was rejected: "Far to short and too few sources" I don't want to pad it with unnecessary information and the page will certainly be expanded next year when the ship is operational. But I think the sources cited capture all of the current relevant information including this weeks dedication by the president of South Korea. There is a place holder for this new page on the old "State of Maine" wiki entry, a ship is no longer in service. Kronveldt (talk) 20:58, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Kronveldt. The draft was declined, not rejected. You have re-submitted for review. I'd like to see one or two more sources that aren't primary sources - do you have any? I think your current sources are totally fine, but one or two more would make it acceptable. qcne (talk) 21:13, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

@Kronveldt: - the draft can be greatly improved by the addition of an infobox ({{Infobox ship}}) and a description section giving basic dimensions, tonnage, power and propulsion details. See MV Missourian (1921) for an example. Mjroots (talk) 14:57, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

@Mjroots: infoboxes do not have any bearing on if a draft is accepted or not. qcne (talk) 18:51, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

@Qcne: they don't, but they do improve articles. Mjroots (talk) 04:50, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

victoria broom

Hello, im trying to find a wiki draft for actor and lgbt activist victoria broom. is there a draft anywhere? 2A01:4B00:8730:B200:38DB:B3DD:385E:B5CA (talk) 10:02, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be, nor a deleted draft/article. If you want to begin writing, the best place would be at Draft:Victoria Broom. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:13, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Clicking Draft:Victoria Broom actually shows there is a deleted draft. Would you like it restored so you can try to improve it? It was declined four times. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:22, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

oops, not sure why I missed that! Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:29, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IP user.

Please have a look at your first article, and at Backwards.

By far the most effective way of creating a new article is by finding the sources first - several sources, each of which meets all the criteria in WP:42.

If you are unable to find such sources, you will know that there is no point in continuing with this particular article (as you almost certainly cannot establish notability) and will not have wasted any time in writing unusable text. ColinFine (talk) 15:48, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Switching talk page archive format

I was wondering whether it'd be possible to change Cluebot 3's archive format from the year/month format to be ordered instead, since the archived pages on Talk:Office Assistant are just one section each, making browsing quite tedious. --Opecuted (talk) 13:55, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Almost done with this. Just trying to figure out how to modify or stop the indexing. --Super Goku V (talk) 04:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Everything is now at Talk:Office Assistant/Archive 1. This should resolve the issue, plus it makes sense for sizing reasons as well. (It is better to have one, single archive of about 92k rather than have four archives of about 25k, 45k, 20k, and 3k respectively.)

Opecuted, feel free to add here if there is anything else that needs adjusting at Talk:Office Assistant. --Super Goku V (talk) 08:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Personal Knowledge Base

I have developed a uniquely powerful and easy to use hyperlinking system based on LibreOffice and Emacs and have published this as open source on GitHub. I designed it specifically to serve as a personal knowledge base. Can I add its description to the Wikipedia Personal_knowledge_base topic? DavidMcCracken (talk) 21:48, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm afraid not @DavidMcCracken. Until it has been written about by somebody wholly unconnected with you, in a reliable source, it should not appear in a Wikipedia article.

Also, adding your own projects is regarded as conflict of interest, so it is strongly preferred to raise an edit request for an uninvolved editor to look at. But, as I say, in my view it does not at present belong in an article. ColinFine (talk) 22:12, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

“a.m.” vs “am” and Use of nbsp

As a new editor working on harmonising time formatting across royal biographies, I’ve been applying “a.m.”/“p.m.” with a plain space, following MOS:TIME and British ENGVAR. However, on the Elizabeth II article, this was reverted in favour of “am” without periods and with nbsp. I’ve since been told conflicting things—some say UK English prefers “am”, others cite MOS:TIME as supporting “a.m.”. I’m now unsure which format is correct for UK-based articles, and whether {{nbsp}} is necessary. Any clarity on the preferred style and how to handle harmonisation across articles would be much appreciated. ItsShandog (talk) 11:31, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

FWIW, both The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (OUP 1984 corrected reprint), a widely followed UK publishing standard, and its companion volume Hart's Rules, specify "a.m." and "p.m.": this I suppose avoids any possible confusion with the verb form "am".

That said, is this harmonisation between articles rather than within them really necessary? I can't think of any likely confusion if it were not done. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.210.150.115 (talk) 13:47, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Its more just for consistency across articles, but a lot of people are saying British English prefers am and pm and it seems American pages prefer a.m. and p.m. So its just confusion on which is right or wrong but it seems either can be used. ItsShandog (talk) 13:52, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

As with many minor conventions of this sort, there is no absolute right or wrong, but most people agree consistency should be observed within a single piece of text, and this is often extended to maintaining a 'house style' within a journal or other periodical, and often within the output of a particular publishing house (except where there is a reason otherwise, such as an author's strong contrary preference).

There is no official national arbiter of British English (unlike in France), though the Oxford University Press publications I referenced above are followed by many British publishers. Others have their own house-style manuals which may differ on this point (as on others), but I have now also checked an influential Cambridge University Press manual (Judith Butcher's Copyediting, CUP 2nd Ed. 1986 printing) which also specifies the "a.m." form. (As you may have guessed, I used to work professionally in publishing, hence my possession of these and other publishers' manuals.)

I cannot see in MOS:TIME or WP:ENGVAR mention of a BrE preference for "a.m." over "am", or vice versa, but given the professional authorities I have referenced, I think the onus is on the "lot of people" to cite sources for their assertions that in formal writing (appropriate to this encyclopaedia) it prefers "am". Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.210.150.115 (talk) 19:57, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

MOS:TIME does say to use a non-breaking space (there are several ways of creating that character, such as   or {{nbsp}}) and I don't see anywhere in that guideline that condones not using it. DMacks (talk) 04:01, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Why would you want 12:27 on one line and "pm" (or p.m.) on another line?

The incident happened at 12:27

p.m. on Tuesday 14 May

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:33, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Change Donation

I have a monthly donation, but I am changing banks. Can I edit my donation? Or do I just set up a new one after I cancel the card being used? 2600:4040:95D9:E500:112A:CDAA:27D9:A5C3 (talk) 15:35, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

See here. Since this involves your bank rather than Wikimedia, it may be simplest to cancel the old monthly donation and set up a new one.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 15:40, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

This will depend on your bank, and possibly your location. In the UK, for example, banks transfer such recurring payments seamlessly, when you transfer accounts.

You need to ask your bank. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:29, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Emmanuel College

Emmanuel College, Warrnambool

I have destroyed reference number 8 on this page by adding in a page number - it is in "red". Please repair - sorry. 49.184.232.220 (talk) 23:51, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

I've fixed it. The problem was that it said {{cite news |last1=Ebsworth | ... |page 8}} instead of {{cite news |last1=Ebsworth | ... |page=8}}. "Cite news" tells the system which template is used, and then all of the other entries in that template need an equal sign to set the value. FactOrOpinion (talk) 00:21, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Rail color box

How to use the short name of a railway line for {{rail color box}}

Hello, I was adding a {{rail color box}} to a PRDIR station article when I realized the full name of the railway line was too long, so I added its short name to Module:Adjacent stations/PRDIR, but I've got no clue how to use its short name in a {{rail color box}} instead of its full name. Could anyone teach me how? Thank you.
%FJ% (talk | contribs) 02:40, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

That's quite niche; I suggest you ask on Template talk:Adjacent stations. If that fails, try Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:26, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Find phrase on page

Is there a command or gadget that I can use to find a phrase on a Wikipedia page? I can edit the source of the page, then Select All, and Copy, and paste into a Word document, and use the Word Find capability, but that is complicated. Is there a feature that I can use instead? I may have seen the answer to this question before and forgotten it. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:41, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Is there a reason you can't just use your browser's Find command? ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:51, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: If you don't know how then what is your browser or device? It's usually Ctrl+f. The default source editor and toolbar has a Search and replace feature where you can just omit replacing. Click "Advanced" in the toolbar and then the magnifying glass icon at the far right. PrimeHunter (talk) 07:51, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon See Help:Searching and in particular I like the power of "insource" searching which can find a phrase within the source code of articles, which might be rendered differently in the text the normal reader/browser sees. Use Special:Search to set up your search if you want to search for the phrase across all articles. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:45, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Robert wanted to find occurences of something on a specific page, e.g. the word "align" on Help:Table if you are trying to align a table. Learning how your browser or device makes such a search is the best option in most cases. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:14, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

I am using Firefox to edit Wikipedia. The reason that I asked is that I sometimes come upon a redirect that doesn't appear to make sense, and I want to check if and where the redirect phrase appears in the target article. What I know I can do is to copy the text into a Word document and Find. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:58, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: Ctrl+f works for me in Firefox on Windows 10. It makes a search box at the bottom left. I use it often for many things both in Wikipedia and elsewhere. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:53, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon Can't you edit the entire source of the target page and then use the browser's search? David10244 (talk) 05:31, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

AfD question

Hello, Wikipedians! Is an article having no reliable sources a valid reason to start an AfD? Thanks, CoroneC0rnix-64 (talk) 15:24, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

CoroneC0rnix-64 no, you also have to show that there are no sources that meet the GNG requirements that could be added to the article. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 15:35, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

It is impossible to do that; what you are required to do is to see if you can find any. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:59, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Long term financial supporter but can't log in

Drats😁

Hi folks. I appreciate the two-factor security. It falls dead when using Edge. I'm receiving emailed codes. But when I go to submit the code, the page is reset. I'm stuck in a loop. I'm a happy paying customer. Though I can't recall if I pay by subscription and or when asked to provide top up $$. I'd love to login. Perhaps it can be resolved by providing a link, with the right URL token under the code in the email. But I'd be happy to use my mobile to authenticate me. Hope u can help, Mike C 2001:8003:E5B7:2601:6B89:417:2800:E949 (talk) 01:17, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Mike. I can't help with the logging in question (try asking at WP:VPT) but I will say donations to the Wikimedia Foundation, and use of Wikipedia, are entirely separate. Whether or not you are a financial contributor is completely unknown to the software that runs Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 09:36, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Also know that you don't have to contribute anything to participate here. 331dot (talk) 09:38, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Authority control for a document

I have published an article about a document and have a wikidata number for it and an inventory number for the museum it's in. I can't find any VIAF or other authority control number for the actual document. I can understand the reasons for that, like the museum it is held in does not have a public collection listing or registration. Anyway the question is whether I should put the VIAF number for the author of the document and the publisher of the document in the Authority control footer? I have identifiers for both author and publisher. Would that fit under the guidelines for non-exact matches in WP:VIAF? The article on the document is here The Twelve Theses (poster) LPascal (talk) 04:19, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

You shouldn’t include the VIAF identifiers for the author or publisher in the authority control section. Authority control is meant for identifiers that match the article’s subject—in this case, the poster itself. Since the poster doesn’t have a VIAF or similar ID, adding the author’s or publisher’s VIAF would be a non-exact match and could confuse readers. Instead, you can link the author and publisher in the infobox and let their VIAF IDs live in their own articles or Wikidata items. Editor1769 05:09, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

About G14

In WP:G14, there's a ref that indicates: "A boldfaced link to the primary topic at the top of a disambiguation page counts as a listed page." after the first two criteria of G14. But I don't understand this and still confused between:

• "If a disambiguation page has a title like “Article title (disambiguation)” and contains only a bold link to the main topic, it is not eligible for deletion under G14, because that link still counts as a listed page."
• "If a disambiguation page has a title like “Article title (disambiguation)” and contains only a bold link to the main topic, it is eligible for deletion under G14, because that link still counts as a listed page."

So which sentences is appropriate? Nvdtn19 (talk) 14:10, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

The second.

Two bluelinks are always enough for a disambig to escape G14. If the disambig's title doesn't end in "(disambiguation)", then it only needs one.

The "primary topic" sentence is clarification that, for example, Charles Breyer (disambiguation) isn't a G14: Charles Breyer in the first line counts, not just Charles Breyer (soldier) in the bullet list. So it has two bluelinks. If Charles Breyer (soldier) were deleted, and no other entries were added, it would become a valid G14: it's a disambig, whose title ends in "(disambiguation)", that's only disambiguating one extant page (Charles Breyer). —Cryptic 14:18, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

@Cryptic The two bullet points above are identical except for the word "not". But, I don't see the text of those two bullet points at the G14 section... and the page was last updated on August 30, which is before the question was asked. This is confusing all around! David10244 (talk) 04:41, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

WikiProject: Taxonomy

I am involved with the 60,000 Flora picture project on the Afrikaans Wikipedia. I have picked-up various taxonomy issues and was advise to discus it with WikiProject: Taxonomy. What must I do to get hold of them? Regards. Oesjaar (talk) 16:00, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

@Oesjaar: Wikipedia:WikiProject Taxonomy is a redirect to Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life which has a talk page at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:09, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

William Kitto Family photograph

I would like to publish the william Kitto family photograph as included under the entry for William Kitto. Unfortunately the jpeg file is only 238 KB and may not be big enough for publication and I would prefer .tif format. The author is acredited as Harvey Milligan . Is it possible to contact mr Mulligan to see if a better format of the picture may be available? My name is Henry Timperley 2A00:23C8:F804:CB01:875:AC25:385B:7089 (talk) 17:30, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

IP editor, you could post a message at User talk:Harvey Milligan. Commons:File:Kitto Family.jpg says that the photo details are Date 17 January 1905, Source Own work, Author User:Harvey Milligan, which is unlikely to be correct. TSventon (talk) 18:00, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

The version at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Kitto_Family.jpg is 289 KB.  ​‑‑Lambiam 12:23, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, User:Harvey Milligan appears to have email enabled, so if you set up an account with email, you should be able to click on Special:EmailUser and enter their account name to send an email. TSventon (talk) 12:35, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@TSventon Right, that means that the person who took the picture in 1905 is the same as the person who uploaded it. Hmmmmm... David10244 (talk) 04:46, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@David10244: the file details added in 2017 were obviously incorrect, but Pigsonthewing updated the information yesterday. TSventon (talk) 12:39, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Email a user from a mobile device

When visiting the user page or talk page of a registered user, the sidebar has a button labeled "Email this user". But on mobile devices there is no sidebar. Is there a way to email a user (who has enabled this) from a mobile device? Thank you. Hevesli (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@Hevesli You should be able to click on Special:EmailUser and enter the account name. You could place that link on your own user page and activate it after you had visited the other user's page to copy their account name. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:55, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Rather a non-obvious and roundabout way, I must say, but thank you. Hevesli (talk) 12:04, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@Hevesli You can also scroll to the bottom of the page and tap "desktop". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:14, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Quite a few users, myself included, place the template {{User email}} on their user page, which can be clicked directly. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:40, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

how do i add a "box shaped" note?

i want to put a "box shaped" note or whatever its called saying "you can help expand this article by translating from the correspoding article in japanese" onto a wikipedia article "Aum Shinrikyo", like the note that is seen on "Denno Senshi Porygon" 109.81.23.142 (talk) 15:24, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Your example, Denno Senshi Porygon uses an {{Expand language}} template, like this:

{{Expand language|langcode=ja|langcode2=vi|date=July 2025}}

When you see something in an article that you would like to use, you can view that article's source by clicking on its "edit" function, You can then copy the relevant source and exit without editing, before you put it into your target article.-Arch dude (talk) 15:42, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

However, the documentation at {{Expand language}} strongly reccomends that you use {{Expand Japanese}} instead. Look at the documentation there. -Arch dude (talk) 16:51, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Do I missunderstand?

An article was too long, and I made four sections into new articles, greatly reducing the text for each of those sections so the main article ended up being of a reasonable size. Before doing so, I had invited other editors to comment but I did not wait long enough for the consensus (only one reacted, positively) and I created these articles. Now they are all nominated for deletion. In my discussion with the editor who nominated the articles, my point is that they are relevant and notable, and their point is that without consensus I should not have created these articles. Our last two exchanges are this: Me: "This is not a court of law where my conduct is to be judged. This is a discussion if these articles are worth keeping or not." Other editor: "That remains relevant. Did you not read my rationale. The creation of the articles is under dispute and is one of the matters of whether or not to keep. You clearly have shown your lack of understanding of Wikipedia:Consensus and what is being discussed here."
The link to the deletion discussion is here: WP:Articles for deletion/Iran–United States relations during the George W. Bush administration.
So, my question is, are they right? Am I missunderstanding something here? Lova Falk (talk) 16:44, 2 September 2025 (UTC)Lova Falk}},

Lova Falk, you were wrong not to wait at least a week for a consensus. So, undo what you've done, keeping copies if you wish, and have another shot at seeing where the consensus is. Maproom (talk) 17:53, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with the suggested remedy. I think @Lova Falk made a mistake in not waiting but she subsequently expanded the total content across the original and 5 satellite articles by over 10,000 words, all carefully cited. Furthermore, to revert her work now would be at cross-purposes to the community discussion underway now at the AfD. A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 15:13, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Incorrect date of death for Sal Mineo

Incorrect date of death for Sal Mineo Pcvibe (talk) 18:12, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Pcvibe. The current date of death source is a NYT article (which is reliable) and that is backed up by the gravestone. Why do you think the date of death is incorrect? Do you have a reliable published source that states a different date of death? qcne (talk) 19:26, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

The paragraph describing the date and manner of his death is referenced to three Reliable sources. If you have one or more different reliable sources with a different date, you should open a new section on the Talk page of the article, give full bibliographical details of those sources, with links if available, and then discuss how to reconcile the conflicting sources with others who will doubtless wish to do so. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 19:27, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Knole, Sevenoaks

I want to comment about some of the points in this article which relate to the early history of Knole, as they are incorrect, need to be corrected,and I can't find how to do it.

It is correct that the first documented record of the name is the 1364 which is quoted. However, although acquiring property in Sevenoaks, Robert de Knole never owned the estate itself, indeed he is most likely to have come from the Benenden/Westwell areas so has no relationship to the Sevenoaks area before or after that.

Knole has had prehistoric finds and has the remains of a permanent structure on the highest part of the park and which is likely to be early. My paper, Burgess J. 2018 'St Nicholas Church Sevenoaks and the origins of the manor at Knole' Archaeologia Cantiana 139 225-36 has information which needs to be incorporated. 92.26.166.95 (talk) 18:43, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, the best place to direct comments about an article is its associated talk page. In this case, Talk:Knole. 331dot (talk) 19:03, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Are all military engagements called "battles"?

Historically, engagements might be called skirmishes or actions. Is there a wiki standard for naming?

Humpster (talk) 21:50, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@Humphrey Tribble: I think this might be a better question for Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history than here. TSventon (talk) 21:56, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

No, there are sieges, raids, charges (e.g. Charge of the Light Brigade), etc. The standard is what sources agree (or disagree) on. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:45, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

While "battle" is a very common way to refer to an engagement and by far the most used, there are also more specific words that are used to refer to specific types of battles. Such as Siege of Leningrad, the previously mentioned Charge of the Light Brigade, the Raid of Nassau, or the Skirmish of Alness. There's also more broad terms such as the Waterloo campaign or the encirclement of the Kamenets–Podolsky pocket. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 23:56, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Police misconduct in England

Category:Police misconduct in England

This is unlikely to be comprehensive. However there needs to be a link to misconduct by the West Yorkshire Police (WYP), in connection with the wrongful conviction of Stefan Kiszko. It was asserted in a TV documentary, that when the truth came to light, the WYP circulated a message to its staff, not to use the forensic scientist who, from the outset, had proven Stefan's innocence. In other words, the police were and may still be, keen to carry on convicting people who are innocent. I don't know if that was investigated and stopped, e.g. by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary. I will submit FoI requests on the issue.

I lack the necessary computer knowledge to post any details on Wikipedia, hence this message. 92.22.148.243 (talk) 06:28, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: Murder of Lesley Molseed.   Maproom (talk) 07:12, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Search for "Stefan Kiszko", and Wikipedia takes you to "Murder of Lesley Molseed". Are you suggesting the creation of an article titled "Misconduct by the West Yorkshire Police"? That's unlikely to happen, but scrupulously referenced and written material about this could be added to the article West Yorkshire Police. Adding it would only require elementary computer skills; it would however require nontrivial skills of evaluating sources, summarizing the best ones, citing sources, neutrality, avoidance of editorializing, etc. I suggest that you first practise such skills on articles about matters that aren't contentious; once you've acquired these skills, you can be more ambitious. -- Hoary (talk) 09:18, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I think OP was suggesting that we add Category:Police misconduct in England to the article (My bad; I trimmed the subject heading and forgot to reinsert the full text, which I will do now); but that would not be appropriate without cited content on the article showing that misconduct was proven.

Whether suitable sources can be found needs to be discussed on the article talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:45, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

My recommendation is very simple. There is no need for references to be searched for and provided under the title of, 'Police misconduct in England'. Details of the Stefan Kiszko scandal are all over the internet. His name simply needs to be added with all the others, under the Wikipedia subject title of 'Police misconduct in England'. Could someone please do that, in the public interest and in the name of justice? 92.18.161.228 (talk) 16:22, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

There IS a need for sources and to suggest there isn't doesn't bode well for this request. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 16:29, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

No; see also WP:V. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:55, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

No. There are many reliable sources on the Internet. There are many (probably far more) utterly unreliable sources on the internet. This means that "All over the internet" is an unreliable source.

If you think something should be added to an article, it is up to you to find (and cite) a reliable source for it. ColinFine (talk) 08:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Publishing a paper

I cannot move an article from my sandbox to wikipedia. The tool bar does not contain the "More" section VelsoMucci (talk) 09:15, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I have moved your draft to Draft:Receptron.

Please submit it for review, via the process described at WP:AFC, using the button I have added at the top of the page. If the reviewer deems it ready, they will publish it as an article. If not, they will give you further advice. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:39, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I am not a reviewer, but I believe that your draft will not be accepted in its present form, because it appears to me that all your sources are primary sources, and a Wikipedia article should be based almost entirely on secondary sources.

My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 08:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Question about my sandbox draft review

Hello, I have contacted you before with this question/issue and haven't received any reply. I noticed it is not yet live on Wikipedia, and I wanted to understand the reason. I recently created a draft article in my sandbox titled “Solitaire Moissanite Ring” and submitted it for review. Could you please let me know if the topic does not meet Wikipedia’s notability guidelines, or if there are issues with formatting, references, or neutrality? I would really appreciate any feedback on how I can improve the draft to meet Wikipedia’s standards. Thank you for your time and guidance. Best regards, Loosemoissanite (talk) 11:00, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@Loosemoissanite I looked at the first 5 refs in your draft User:Loosemoissanite/sandbox. One is just a startpage of something. One is Wikipedia, see WP:RSPWP. None of them even mentions the subject, "Solitaire Moissanite Ring", see WP:N. WP:LLM may be of interest to you. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:06, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Loosemoissanite. In what way did you submit the draft for review? To do so requires that the page contains a template with a big blue "Submit for review" button that has to be clicked – I can see no evidence that your sandbox draft has ever contained the template and, therefore, has been submitted.

I suggest that you instead create a new WP:Draft through the standard Wikipedia:Articles for creation procedure, which will automatically include the submission template. You can paste your sandbox content into it, and then blank your sandbox to avoid possible confusion between the two (something that does happen).

I notice also that you previously asked a similar question on the Talk page of the sandbox. Unless you drew attention to it in some way, there is no reason for any other Wikipedia editor to have been aware of it, unless they were already engaged in dialogue with you on that talk page (no-one actively monitors all of the millions of User, Draft, Sandbox, Article or other Talk page on Wikipedia, although many may be on interested persons' Watch lists). Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 12:12, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I think submitting the draft by putting {{subst:submit}} at the top of it is better than making a new draft. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:17, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@Loosemoissanite You did not submit this sandbox page for review, so no editor has seen it.

I have submitted it for review and moved it to the proper location at Draft:Solitaire moissanite but please take the advice of @Gråbergs Gråa Sång qcne (talk) 13:24, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Loosemoissanite.

This is probably not what you wanted to hear, but: My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 08:57, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikepedia

Who are the people behind Wikepedia information 136.168.35.145 (talk) 15:37, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Every article has a history tab which lists the editors to an article. Barring extreme problems every edit should be listed there in chronological order, with the account name or IP of the user who made the edit. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:42, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

There is some information about the people who edit Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Wikipedians. TSventon (talk) 15:45, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

See also Wikimedia Foundation. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, there's me, Doug, Gerda, Jane, the other Jane, Abdul, Vera, John... Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:14, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedians. And of course, whoever writes the sources we use. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:19, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Related military veterans

I have two uncles, one MIA in Alaska, July 5th,1942 & one POW North Korea, 72 missions over North Vietnam, Military advisor to George Bush SR. Interned in Arlington Military Cemetery. I would like to submit articles concerning them, and give them credit on in their home towns in Nebraska. Because I'm a person of conflict (being their nephew) I don't believe I can do it though I have a lot of research material and other information that was presented by the military itself. Would there be someone to do this for me and give a more sterile point of view? C.pfeiffer4 C.pfeiffer4 (talk) 16:19, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

You might have better response at WT:WikiProject Military history. The response might be someone asking you to collate your sources somewhere convenient (a userspace page, maybe) so that another person can evaluate the task of creating a biography from the sources. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:34, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the guidance! 2600:1700:8AF0:4E00:4034:18E6:FDA4:1C99 (talk) 17:57, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Bogus additions to the Ask Jeeves page

Hello all,

I have noticed something odd in the Ask.com page. In July, a IP added unreferenced information about Ask.com “pivoting into Artificial Intelligence and shutting down their web engine”. However, on their website, there is no mention of “AI” and the web engine functions perfectly fine. I also could not find any other information online about them pivoting into AI. Is this a bogus addition? K.O.518 (talk) 16:49, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

An addition that has no cited sources can be removed, as it is the responsibility of an editor adding information to find sources that support it. -- Reconrabbit 17:47, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

How to handle sponsor's name in an event

It seems odd to find "Hidden Treasures Dabur Vatika Shampoo Miss Nepal 2022" in boldface in the lede of Miss Nepal 2022. Similar for Miss Nepal 2023, Miss Nepal 2024, and Miss Nepal 2025. Is there guidance on what to use for an event name, specifically, whether to include the full name of a corporate sponsor in the lede? ☆ Bri (talk) 17:32, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bri I agree that looks absurd. I think WP:COMMONNAME covers this. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:37, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

The first sentence of Serie A includes officially known as ... for sponsorship reasons, which could work for Miss Nepal contests. TSventon (talk) 07:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I don't even see the shampoo company at the sponsor's website, so I will adjust the "officially known as" accordingly. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:55, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Page for Ayrton Houk

Hello,

I am trying to create a Wikipedia page for Ayrton Houk. I have a user page set up. I have added all the factual notable information about him. I clicked "Publish" and I am not sure what happens next. Can someone confirm that I did this correctly and that the page is being reviewed before it is approved for publishing? Or, if I did not do this correctly can you instruct me on how to do it? Thank you. Ayrton Houk (talk) 20:01, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Ayrton Houk. I have moved the content to Draft:Ayrton Houk for you. It will be reviewed in due course. qcne (talk) 20:25, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

@Qcne: The user page included {{UserboxCOI|Ayrton Houk}}, which you left in the draft. You then left the user page as a redirect, without the declaration. I have fixed both, but please be more careful in future. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Ayrton Houk (talk) 12:54, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Ayrton Houk (talk) 12:54, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

English Version of Article

Hello, I’m reaching out with a kind request. I would like to add an English version to the existing Czech Wikipedia article about the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University. Unfortunately, when I try to publish it, I receive a message saying that I’m not an "advanced user" and therefore cannot submit the article. The English translation is already completed and has been professionally proofread. I would be very grateful for your help. Thank you in advance! ECON MUNI (talk) 07:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

When you say 'professionally proofread', it sounds like you're saying that this article has been written by someone employed by the university. Please read and comply with the guidance at WP:PAID, and WP:COI, and make the necessary declarations. It would be helpful if you could also direct us towards where the draft is - your edit to this help desk is the only edit you have made under this account. You may want to consider putting it through WP:AfC, where you can submit a draft and another edit will review it (but you should only do that after complying with the COI/PAID editing declarations that I have pointed you towards). Girth Summit _(blether) 07:51, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Also your username, ECON MUNI, may not be in line with the Wikipedia:Username policy as it may imply shared use by the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University. TSventon (talk) 07:58, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. Yes, I am an employee of the faculty I am writing about, so I understand the need to follow Wikipedia’s policies regarding paid editing and conflicts of interest. I have now created a draft of the article at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation).

Please let me know if there are any other steps I should take, or any further declarations I need to make. ECON MUNI (talk) 08:26, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

ECON MUNI, as "ECON MUNI", you have made no edits (even subsequently deleted edits) outside this "Help desk" page. And as your user page is redlinked, it's clear that you haven't made a "paid contributor" declaration there. -- Hoary (talk) 08:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@ECON MUNI: your edits were stopped twice by edit filters: [1] as you tried to add email addresses or the text was considered too promotional. Is this the corresponding Czech article: cz:Ekonomicko-správní fakulta Masarykovy univerzity? MKFI (talk) 10:07, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

How much does a candidate or party Need to Have to appear on the infobox?

I want to help by creating some election Pages but i Don't Know what candidates to include in the infobox Tino il nabbo oopo (talk) 14:09, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

There is the Wikipedia:Five percent rule for many elections, although it doesn't apply to parliamentary elections, which are handled on a case by case basis. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 16:23, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

publishing a profile on Wikipedia

how to publish a profile on Wikipedia James Ginono (talk) 14:16, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@James Ginono What do you mean by a profile? Your use page or a page about someone or yourself? MallardTV ^{Talk to me!} 14:30, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

i wanted Creat draft biography for James Ginono Burure James Ginono (talk) 16:34, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

If you want a Wikipedia article about yourself, organization, company etc the answer is you don't. See Your first article for advice on this. User pages should not be used for this either.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 14:42, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

i wanted Creat draft biography for James Ginono Burure James Ginono (talk) 16:35, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

James Ginono, please read WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY which advises that Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is an example of conflict-of-interest editing and is strongly discouraged. The purpose of your user page is to tell other editors about you as a Wikipedia editor . Cullen328 (talk) 16:40, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

User:James Ginono should be a draft article, but it would have little chance of being accepted in its current form.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 18:35, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

what should i do so that it is accepted James Ginono (talk) 18:55, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Are you writing about yourself?

You need to not post a resume, you need to summarize what independent reliable sources choose on their own to say about Mr. Burure. 331dot (talk) 18:58, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

could you kindly assist James Ginono (talk) 19:04, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Again, are you writing about yourself? 331dot (talk) 09:15, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @James Ginono. It is extremely unlikely that anybody here will be willing to put in their voluntary time to help you write an article about yourself - not impossible, but very unlikely.

Part of this is because a major part of the work of writing an article is finding the substantial independent reliable sources (see WP:42) that are a non-negotiable requirement in order to establish that the subject is notable in the special sense that Wikipedia uses the word. Most of us are not notable in this sense, even if we may be important, or influential, or popular, or famous.

If you do meet those criteria, then it is likely that at some point somebody will choose off their own bat to write an article about you. (It will not be your article, you will not control it, and it may at some point contain material that you do not like. See WP:PROUD) If you do not, then there is no point in anybody investing any time in trying to do so.

My personal view is that anybody who tries to create a Wikipedia article about themselves (or their company, or their band) is here for no purpose other than promotion, which is forbidden anywhere in Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 09:17, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Translating and importing an article from the Dutch Wikipedia, help needed on policy.

Hi. I am looking to translate and import to the English Wikipedia, an article from the Dutch Wikipedia (nl:Lagere technische school). I believe that the article may not be notable enough to warrant an entry here, but an abbreviation for this, LTS, is referenced in an article here about a Dutch Chef (Pierre Wind), although it's not linked.

Would this have to go through the AFC process, so that it can be reviewed, and how long do I have to create this article? Please bear in mind it's going to be a straight translation in my sandbox, and then submitted once I've checked it's got no red links anywhere in it.

Thanks for reading. Dane|Geld 15:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@DaneGeld: the Dutch article on LTS can be linked through an interlanguage link, so I have done that. If you wanted to create an article, it would have to be notable and the content would have to be referenced to reliable sources. Unfortunately the Dutch article has no sources at all, so a translation would need more work before it was suitable for English Wikipedia.

Using AFC is optional, it could be a good idea as a newish editor. There are no formal deadlines on how long you work on an article in a sandbox. Getting an article reviewed by AFC could take several weeks. TSventon (talk) 15:41, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

LTS is explained at Vocational school#Netherlands again without a source, so perhaps LTS could be covered as part of a more general article. TSventon (talk) 15:53, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Conflict of interest – Jonathan Sorrell

I am a very junior employee at Rathbones' PR firm and I edited the wikipedia page not knowing that I needed to declare a conflict of interest. Jonathan Sorrell is no longer the president of capstone and is now the CEO of Rathbones – is there any way of changing the page please? I am reporting myself for a conflict of interest.

So Sorry!!!!!! Terrible mistake I have been greatly chastised by my employer please could someone help me?

Best wishes, Poppy

Jonathan Sorrell Poppyhawkins (talk) 15:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Poppyhawkins I made an update to Jonathan Sorrell. I also edited your userpage a little: [2]

For future use, WP:EDITREQUEST might be helpful, but you are welcome to come here again. WP:COIADVICE mentions some stuff you can do yourself, but in general, doing what you just did is what you should do. Thanks for the update! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:40, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh and btw, if you see him you can mention WP:A picture of you. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:10, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Mar a lago

Your locked article mentions the 1997 suit against palm beach but does not state the settlement. Restrictions were largely lifted after the suit settled. Thanks for providing the world standard for reference material. 99.131.53.41 (talk) 16:12, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

You can suggest changes to that article at Talk:Mar-a-Lago. It will be helpful if you can provide a source (WP:RS) for any added content. It's possible the source is already in the article, but not certain. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:33, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Draft and its redirect

I made "Draft:A", and "A" is a redirect page. To move from "Draft:A" to "A" in the future, I saw some people remove "A" (which is redirect) for this reason. Thus, how can I request administrator to delete kind of these redirects? Or should I open discussion for it? I have searched about this but I failed. Camilasdandelions (talk!) 17:11, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions: you can use Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests to request publication of "Draft:A", where "A" already exists a redirect page. TSventon (talk) 17:19, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions: It is a *little* more complicated, If the redirect page "A" has only been created with any other edits, then in some cases, it can be moved over top of without a problem. If it has some activity (like the addition of categories, and some templates) then Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests will be easy. If "A" has a complicated history (particularly if A used to be an article and was turned into a redirect as an alternative to deletion) then the next step can be in WP:RFD, but there are not many that are *that* ugly.Naraht (talk) 19:20, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

How to submit sandbox article for review?

I watched a video that said I should use the "Submit your draft for review" button OR the "more" button but neither of those buttons appear for me? Thanks in advance for your advice.

Thanks!

Jen HCBLaw (talk) 17:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

I have moved the draft to draft space(the preferred location for drafts) at Draft:Savala Nolan and added the appropriate information for you to submit it. However, your draft is completely unsourced. We need to know where your information is coming from, please see Referencing for beginners. The draft also reads like a resume, it should not merely list her accomplishments, it should summarize what independent reliable sources have chosen on their own to say about her, showing how she is a notable person. 331dot (talk) 17:37, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I did copy the format and tone of a few others, which were also very "resume" ish. I will dig around for some other wiki pages for inspiration. Will work on my referencing too. I appreciate your quick response. HCBLaw (talk) 18:05, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Jen Jones - Henderson Center. Unfortunately, we have thousands and thousands and thousands of articles which, if they were submitted for review today, would not be accepted; but few volunteer editors want to spend their time trawling through these to improve or delete them. Do not assume an existing article is satisfactor unless it is a good article or a featured article. (See other stuff exists)

Please note that if you are in any way employed by the Henderson Center and working on an article related to it, then you are regarded as a paid editor, and you must make a formal declaration of that status.

My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 09:27, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

If you use the Article Wizard, the submission information is provided. Though a sandbox can be submitted, an actual draft is better. 331dot (talk) 17:40, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

User information

I have taken over a job, where I am responsible for updating info on our Wiki page. I was given no details about a log in of any kind. DO i need this to make basic changes? 70.74.180.251 (talk) 18:16, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

It's not required that you have an account, but it would be better if you did as it is much easier for you to make the required disclosures. You must disclose your status as an employee tasked with editing Wikipedia, see the paid editing policy. You should also review conflict of interest and how to make edit requests. In most cases, you should make requests on the talk page and not edit the article about your company directly. I would also suggest that you read WP:BOSS, and have the superior that assigned you this task read it, too.

I would suggest that you think of it less as "our Wiki page" and more as a Wikipedia article about your company. This may change your mindset a bit. 331dot (talk) 18:22, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello. It sounds as if people your company have a common misconception that a Wikipedia article about them is in any way theirs or controlled by them.

It is not, and it may be edited by almost anybody in the world except somebody associated with the company - who are welcome to make edit requests, but should not normally edit the article directly. ColinFine (talk) 09:30, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language HEBREW WAS USED IN THE BIBLE BY PAUL, ACTS 222

.Hebrew language - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language

HEBREW WAS USED IN THE BIBLE BY PAUL, ACTS 222 76.72.27.20 (talk) 18:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Wasn't NT written in Greek? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:11, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

See Language of the New Testament which does into greater depth than I'm familiar with.Naraht (talk) 19:36, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Acts c22 v2 (and the preceding c21 v42) state that Paul addressed a crowd in Jerusalem "in the Hebrew tongue" (Authorized Version 1954). Most modern scholars think that Hebrew had ceased to be commonly spoken a couple of centuries previously (as the Hebrew language article says), though it was still read and written by 'Old Testament' Jewish Scriptural scholars of Paul's time (of whom Paul was supposedly one). It therefore seems unlikely that Paul would have spontaneously addressed a public crowd in spoken Hebrew.

In Jerusalem at that time he common local language spoken was Aramaic, a language related to Hebrew, which it (alongside Koine ['common'] Greek) had replaced it – this is what the writer of Acts likely meant. Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 02:27, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Now we just need to know if the OP intended to suggest any change to a WP-article. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:41, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

And thanks, that was quite interesting. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:42, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

My own edits to a bio page about me were rejected. Help?

My edits to a page about me were rejected. I did not include citations for my changes because they are biographical, but I didn't include anything that could be construed as a conflict of interest or overly self-laudatory. Truly. How do I get this reconsidered? Or do I have to cite other people talking about me to make edits to a page about myself? It rejected all the edits, including references to additional published books I wrote or edited. Can you help? Ksmardz (talk) 18:40, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

You need to provide citations- this is vitally important for any article about a living person, please see the Biographies of Living Persons policy. We cannot accept your personal word for anything. You should also review the autobiography policy. 331dot (talk) 18:44, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

For help with citations, please see Referencing for beginners. Ideally, however, you should be proposing edits instead of making them yourself, please see the edit request process(or the edit request wizard). 331dot (talk) 18:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the good information. I appreciate your taking the time to write. Ksmardz (talk) 19:03, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Platforms

Just for my personal edification, what are the basic platforms used to access Wikipedia? Here's my current best guess, which I know would bear much improvement:

• Windows desktop/laptop ← I use this exclusively
• Apple desktop/laptop
• Apple/iPhone mobile
• Android mobile

I'm looking for distinctions only when they make technical differences to us. For example, can "Apple/iPhone mobile" and "Android mobile" be combined into "Mobile"? ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 20:30, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

1. Google :)

2. ChatGPT / Gemini / Alexa / Siri etc

Those never arrive as traffic 'at' wikipedia, but they are probably the vast majority of all 'uses of wikipedia'. When looking at what actually arrives:

3. Mobile Web (70% of all pageviews)

4. Desktop (30%)

5. Mobile App (tiny)

6. Kiwix (might actually be bigger than our own Mobile App), but also Kindle and other e-readers

7. game consoles etc etc

You can find some details here: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers and https://stats.wikimedia.org —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:14, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Mandruss, I use the desktop site on my current Android smartphone, which messes with the statistics. Last time I checked, traffic analysts assume that I am sitting at a desk. Which is only true about 1% to 2% of the time. Cullen328 (talk) 05:21, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Help ):

i want to make a sginture but i don't know how can anyone help me ArchieMan45 (talk) 21:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Have you read WP:CUSTOMSIG? If so, I'm sure someone here would be happy to provide further assistance; that's how they are earning some of their unpay. ―Mandruss ☎ IMO. 21:37, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks i'll try that ArchieMan45 (talk) 21:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Uploading a Photo to a Wiki page

Hello,

I would like to upload a photo to my husband's wikipedia page. When I select upload, it tells me I'm not allowed to do the upload...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Morin

Help!

Thank you,

Celeste Di Iorio Ccdiiorio (talk) 22:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Ccdiiorio, was it you who took the photograph? If not, then you are probably not the copyright holder; please don't attempt to upload it. But if you are, then please go to "Commons", log in there (same username and password as here), and upload the photograph. NB you will thereby permit its use anywhere, for any purpose, including commercial purposes. Once the photograph is at Commons, it can easily be added to the article Cary Morin. -- Hoary (talk) 23:15, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Ccdiiorio: your upload attempt was blocked by an automated filter: commons:Special:AbuseLog/12141620. Since you had marked the image as "own work" but the description provided says "This photo was purchased from and courtesy of Backstage Flash" the filter was clearly working correctly. If you upload an image as own work it means that you personally held the camera in your hands and pressed the shutter. MKFI (talk) 08:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

LGBTQ history article

I'm working on editing the LGBTQ History article, and while in the "edit source" feature, I'm getting a note saying " Template:See also — no output: none of the target pages exist." Is there something I can do to make sure everything's ok with that? Amethystloucks (talk) 00:12, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Amethystloucks I am no expert, but it looks like the Egypt section contains {{See also|LGBTQ history in Egypt}}. The problem with that is that there is no page called LGBTQ history in Egypt. We do have Homosexuality in ancient Egypt and LGBTQ rights in Egypt (which deals with modern Egypt).

I have removed this template: {{See also|LGBTQ history in Egypt}}. Hope that helps. Polygnotus (talk) 08:18, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hyphenated ethnic/nationality identity

Hello, I’m wondering what determines the use of a hyphenated ethnic and national identity when editing. For example, if a person was born in Canada but their parents were both born in Germany, would they be considered Canadian-German? Does this depend on their ties to the country, for example if the person was born in Canada but currently resides in Germany? Your input is much appreciated! 20m00 🗩 02:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Dunno about Canada, but in Australia, a person born in Canada with parents born in Germany would just be considered Canadian. For a person born in Canada but residing in Germany would just be Canadian, unless they formally become a German citizen. HiLo48 (talk) 03:14, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

The place you're from comes first, then the place you're to. So a German-Canadian is a German person who then became Canadian, or a Canadian person with German heritage. -- asilvering (talk) 03:24, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

20m00, in the lead sentence of the article, only citizenship should be mentioned, and only as verified by reliable sources. So, if reliable sources refer to a person as a dual citizen of Canada and Germany, then that descriptor may be appropriate. But simply having German ancestry, a German name, speaking German and being interested in German culture is not enough for the lead sentence if the person is not a German citizen. If well referenced, such ethnic aspects can be mentioned later in the article. Cullen328 (talk) 07:30, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

why is there not an abuse filter for editing other people's userpages

i dont understand this

users can freely usually edit other peoples user pages. why

shouldnt there be an abuse filter for that Metro8102 (talk) 04:05, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

There is an abuse filter that blocks non-autoconfirmed users from editing other's user pages. For the rest, see WP:UPOWN. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:56, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Metro8102, a well known, long term editor made a change to my userpage a few years back. I just left it for several years, because I do not own that page and it was mildly amusing. Eventually, I removed it. If someone vandalizes my userpage, that is another matter, but that is usually reverted by other editors before I see it. Cullen328 (talk) 05:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

what do you do if someones harassing you Metro8102 (talk) 07:33, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Ask at WP:RFPP with a diff of a bad change and the user page would be protected. Johnuniq (talk) 07:46, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

right.

shouldnt have to do that from the get go but ok

certain other wikis dont let you edit other peoples userpages while wikipedia does

bit stupid imo Metro8102 (talk) 08:04, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Metro8102: Often new users put drafts/spam on their userpage, because they think it is an article. Having to ask an admin every time would be annoying. Polygnotus (talk) 08:22, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

cant they just use a sandbox for work in progress articles Metro8102 (talk) 08:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Metro8102 They can, but they don't know that. Polygnotus (talk) 08:35, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) They probably would if they knew such a thing existed; people who come to Wikipedia do not necessarily have the knowledge about the ways things are done hereabouts. I have been editing for more than 20 years now, and still find things I didn't know about. Lectonar (talk) 08:37, 5 September 2025 (UTC)