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I thank you very much for your invitation

but I have to report bullying by Italian users against my person. Currently I have an infinite block. I would request a review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by --TheSilentEnigma76 (talk) 22:36, 16 April 2018 (UTC)(talk) 22:25, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey TheSilentEnigma76. Unfortunately each project is basically an island unto itself, and those on the English Wikipedia can't really affect anything on the Italian Wikipedia. You will need to appeal your block on it.wiki using the normal channels. GMGtalk 22:49, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Protecting Pages

I don't need to protect any pages right now, but I want to know how to protect pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnbeatableFlame154 (talkcontribs) 23:38, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

@UnbeatableFlame154: To protect a page, you need to file a request at WP:RFPP, or contact an administrator through some other means (please don't do it at WP:AN or WP:ANI unless it's just a huuuge mess). Ian.thomson (talk) 23:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

How unblock?

How can I unblock a wiki account — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bibbles.yellow (talkcontribs) 19:04, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

@Bibbles.yellow: - you cannot unblock a Wikipedia account unless you have the necessary privileges, such as adminship. Though, judging by your talk page and contribution history, you may soon become acquainted on a personal level with our block policy. Just a word of warning. Stormy clouds (talk) 19:08, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
@Bibbles.yellow: If you are blocked, the block message will provide instructions on how to appeal. Better to improve your behavior before that happens, though. RudolfRed (talk) 19:11, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Now blocked as sockpuppet.David notMD (talk) 01:40, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Infobox field bleeding into child module

Hello~

I am working on a page in my sandbox for a scientist and am hoping for it to go live in about a week. I am doing well with content and most of the coding is going well, but the infobox field "website" is bleeding into the child module "Infobox Korean name" and I am unsure why. Link to the sandbox in question is here. I've done some searching and can't find a solution. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. ₪RicknAsia₪ 07:13, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

That is because |website= is to appear at last per {{Infobox person}} User:Capankajsmilyo(Talk | Infobox assistance) 07:40, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Good to know. Thank you very much for your reply. ₪RicknAsia₪ 02:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Sinking of the RMS Titanic

According to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(ships), shouldn't the title of Sinking of the RMS Titanic be "Sinking of RMS Titanic"? I asked this in a couple of places [1] and [2], but nobody seems to get what I'm asking or... ? WOPR (talk) 02:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello War Operation Plan Response and welcome to the Teahouse. According to the section Using ship names in articles:
"Generally, a definite article is not needed before a ship's name, although its use is not technically wrong:
  • Victory was Nelson's flagship ... (preferred)
  • The Victory was Nelson's flagship ... (not recommended)"
So it looks like what you are suggesting is what the guideline recommends. I see that you have already raised this on the article's Talk page, which is the correct place. I will copy the excerpt above there as well. Give it a little while to see if other authors comment on the proposal.--Gronk Oz (talk) 03:50, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Lee Harvey Oswald and the declaration of his guilt in Wikipedia articles

In the United States guilt must be determined by a court of law (provided by the Sixth Amendment, for example, not to mention the basic legal principle of audi alteram partem). In the case of Kennedy's murder the jurisdiction of prosecution would ostensibly fall on the shoulders of Texas courts. In any case, no state or federal court ever convicted him as such, and thus he should be considered innocent unless and until otherwise proven guilty by a court of law.

And yet, in Wikipedia articles he is unequivocally declared "guilty". How can we remedy this? Most editors and administrators here surely must recognize the importance of presenting the facts with neutrality. The consensus reached by several investigations lay the blame on Oswald and hence the wording in the articles should indeed reflect this assumption of guilt, while at the same time being careful not to imply that he was found to be so in the strict legal sense of the word.

Earl of Arundel (talk) 19:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

The place to discuss the article is at Talk:Lee Harvey Oswald. You should also look through the talk page archives to see what previous discussions there have been about this subject. ~ GB fan 19:41, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hey Earl of Arundel. From the looks of it, it seems this issue has been discussed already in the past, and has reached a consensus for the current wording in the article. Sometimes consensus goes your way and you agree with it, and sometimes it doesn't. If the steps in the dispute resolution process were followed correctly, and discussion that reached that consensus is recent, then we probably just have to wait for the consensus to change, and find something else productive to do in the meantime. GMGtalk 19:45, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Above and beyond that, Earl of Arundel, there's a broader principle involved, and one that especially American Wikipedia editors often miss. Simply put, Wikipedia is not the United States government. Within the terms of service and community/Foundation-mandated policies, this is a private website with no onus to provide the constitutional protections of the US Constitution. Other than where it violates libel laws, for instance, the most we are required to do (for instance) for Oswald is to state that he was not convicted of any murders. Another frequent flyer on Wikipedia is people demanding "freedom of speech," which we are not required to accord and which isn't even a guarantee in much of the English-speaking world. Ravenswing 04:07, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Need help editing a bio

If a person is of Irish descent from both his parents side and of Scottish descent from his paternal grandmother's side then should his article say, "He is of Irish and Scottish origins" or should it say "He was born in an Irish family. He is also of Scottish ancestry from his paternal grandmother's side. " ? The former seems misguiding since it implies that one of the parents was Scottish, which would be inaccurate. What would be the best way to edit this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaistha (talkcontribs) 06:44, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse, Kaistha. Accurately summarize what the reliable sources say about this person's ancestry, and avoid any type of original research, which is contrary to policy. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:58, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

How to get consensus?

Hi there. I was hoping someone could assist me with a content dispute going on at Talk:Invasion of Privacy (album). There are 3 editors and 1 IP editor who have reverted a user regarding Drip (song) being a single. We need to achieve consensus because at the moment it is going nowhere. Thanks Bardigang (talk) 08:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Bardigang. Without even looking at the discussion, I can say that if (as you say) there are four editors arguing against you, that sounds like a consensus, even if you don't like it! But seriously, the steps to follow if you cannot reach consensus are at dispute resolution. --ColinFine (talk) 08:33, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi User:ColinFine. It's actually me and 2 other editors (another IP also who didnt take part on the talk page discussion) who have argued against another user, but the user says it's not consensus despite everyone disagreeing with him and reverted all of us. Bardigang (talk) 08:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Updating wrong information about our company

A customer of ours made us aware that the Wiki page comes up pretty high during searches for our company name "Trenton Systems". Upon our review, the information listed was wrong. I tried to fix it but now I am made aware that my affiliation with the company does not allow me to do so. I am asking for help to correct these errors:

The History of our company can be found here: https://www.trentonsystems.com/about-us It has been corrected by me momentarily, if anyone else would like to insert what they see fit based on the information listed, please do so.

The location has also been updated to: 1725 Macleod Drive Lawrenceville, GA 30043

Our products are: Rugged Military Computers, Industrial Computers, Modular Blade Computers, Single Board Computers, Backplanes, Chassis, Expansion Chassis. We will be adding Motherboards soon.

The name is NOT "Trenton Technology" it is "Trenton Systems". Trenton Technology is our PCB manufacturer in Utica, New York.

How do we make these corrections fast? Our customers are confused by the conflicting information.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TrentonSystems (talkcontribs) 18:45, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

@TrentonSystems: Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. As you are likely aware, your username has been blocked because usernames cannot be that of a company, and must indicate an individual user. As you have what Wikipedia calls a conflict of interest and likely a paid editor relationship with the company, you should not edit the article about your company directly. However, we still want the information in it to be correct, so please make an edit request on the article talk page explaining the information that is incorrect, and another editor will eventually review it.
Please understand, though, that Wikipedia is only interested in what independent reliable sources state about a subject like your company. Unless the history of your company is described in an independent source, it can't be in the Wikipedia article about your company. It is acceptable to source something like your company's address or other purely factual information to a primary source, but for everything else we need a secondary, independent source. Wikipedia has no interest in what a company wishes to say about itself, or how it wants to be portrayed; those are both things that should be done on a website owned or used by the company. 331dot (talk) 09:21, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Do I need a mentor to edit?

It's good to have a cup of tea or coffee, I like mine with two sugars!..:)

May I say that it's a great pleasure to have some spare time so that I can attempt to contribute to the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For the past few weeks, I have been writing a few words attempting to improve the content of a Wikipedia article. I have been told that I should consider editing the original Wikipedia article. After forty years of research, and writing I am concerned as it appears that I am in danger of oversights or errors during the process of contributing to the Wikipedia system. I am happy to edit, and I have read many of the guidelines, however, I think that I need guidance as I do not want to waste time on oversights during the editing process. Before I start work on editing the original article may I request from you as an experienced editor in Wikipedia that you read my draft then tell me if I should remove any inappropriate information. Thanking you in advance. The draft is in my sandbox, it was rejected yesterday because the topic was covered in Wikipedia. Perhaps I can improve the original Wikipedia article, what do you think? MikeWilkins (talk) 06:41, 17 April 2018 (UTC) I have put the link here, hope that it works! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MikeWilkins/sandbox&redirect=no

File:Turkish tea with sugar and spoon.jpg
Turkish tea with two sugars - just for you
Hello, MikeWilkins, welcome to our Teahouse. I hope this drink will be to your taste. I see you posted the identical question on your own Talk page, but you did right to post it here if you genuinely need a reply. As you'll have gathered, there is already an article on this topic, so we cannot accept an alternative version. But you may indeed work to improve the original. You could either be bold and add content directly (one bit at a time, rather than en massse, would be best), or you could move it back into your sandbox and link to it from the talk page of Robert Matthews (religious figure), seeking consensus on revisions from other interested parties. You don't need a mentor to make those changes - you may maje them yourself. But, it's fair to say that we do have lots of guidelines and policies on what is, or is not, the right way of doing things. So please don't get downhearted or frustrated if anything you do gets undone by another editor -this is why it's best to make smaller changes over a longer time at first,  so giving others a  chance to give feedback and to steer you if you accidentally mess up. (we always try to assume good faith). We do actually have a mentoring scheme here on Wikipedia called Adopt-a-User, but it's not working effectively at the moment, and is very much in the doldrums nowadays, though I'm planning to try to overhaul it if I can. Right now, for users like you, apparently here with a single interest in editing an article, I'd simply advise continued use of our Teahouse for quick answers to straightforward questions. Once you've shown a commitment to editing across a spectrum of articles and definitely intend to stay here to contribute, then AAU might well suit you. (In that scenario, I would advise not bothering with placing an 'adopt me' template on you page, but simply looking through the list of current adopters available and willing to take on and guide new editors, and approach one directly who appears to have common interests with you. That person could well be me, but I will only adopt a new user if our interests overlap and they have demonstrated through their past editing a broad suite if contributions across a topic.)
It does look like you've done a lot of original research on this person, and may have built a blog in which to show scanned documents from libraries. For some reason my tablet is not letting me view these. My worry is that you might be straying into an area explained at WP:No original research, in which we discourage editors from posting a synthesis of their own studies if it has not been properly published and covered in depth elsewhere. Does this offer a helpful idea as to the way forward, or do you need further specific assistance in editing. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 07:56, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hellow Nick Moyes, Many thanks for your response remarks, and the cup of tea. :) I am not sure which is the best way of moving forward, however, I will consider all that you have said, as your remarks have been helpful. By way of information correlation, all the points made in my original article is fully verifiable from a variety of historical original information. I am able and willing to share this information with any and all interested persons, so perhaps your idea of seeking consensus on revisions from other interested parties is a good way of moving forward. Between ourselves, I am not sure what to do that is why I am seeking help and guidance, I have no ax to grind, however, I know that I have firm historical information which can greatly improve the original Wikipedia article. Additionally, I have read many other articles which I know can be improved with hard work, and re-editing!

MikeWilkins (talk) 08:33, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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Original Poster.
@MikeWilkins: I am certain the best way forward is making edits 'cautiously', and by consensus. That's why we have talk pages on articles so we can discuss content with other edits, if needs be. I completely understand where you are coming from, as I've been in the same situation. Because we are an encyclopaedia, we need all content to be cited in a way that anyone can substantiate what is said about a subject. Offering to make private research documents available to anyone who wants to see it is not, I'm afraid, a solution. Because anyone can produce a blog and put up photos that purport to be reliable evidence and then use that to promote falsehoods, we have to take an approach across the board on not having personal websites as reliable sources. Now, if you can persuade a competent local historical research group to publish an article based on that research, you might well stand a better chance of having edits you want to make actually accepted, based on that article. None of this is to impune you as an individual or your competency as an historian. But there are charlatans out there, and we have to have policies across the board to ensure  Reliability and Verifiability which must apply to everyone I'm afraid, not just the bad guys. I'm almost trying to get you to rein in your enthusiasm and knowledge for the subject and would rather ensure we have a good but short article based on available, accessible evidence, than a long one which nobody quite trusts enough because they can't verify all that has been stated. Because of your keenness to contribute, but naievity of our processes, I really don't want you to get hurt or disillusioned here. We need sound historians and sound editors - it's bringing the two together that can be a bumpy journey to start with. And trying to give advice in written form always sounds terribly bossy and rather insulting - when it's rarely meant that way. (I'm currently mentoring a retired professional academic geologist, and I'm having to work to change his habitats of a lifetime to match Wikipedia's style and approach - and it's a very rewarding journey for us both to be on, I think).
Oh, one other bit of advice worth mentioning: Do please go back to Wikicommons and upload new versions of the posters and other images you supplied. Those modern day edges and titles you've added are wholly inappropriate to 1830s documents and render them unusable. Fine for a blog, but not acceptable here. In some cases, like the one shown you've actually blurred out the original edges in favour of pretty borders, which, if you consider it, is pointless. (If you'd done that in my museum I'd have called it a crime!) Normally, I'd urge you only to 'upload a new version of this file' which is a link you see lower down in the file history section of each image. But in this instance I might upload it again but ensuring you use a filename that actually identifies it in a useful manner. Calling it 'original poster.' is not only pointless (amongst hundreds of thousands of other images), but totally wrong because of the pretty border you've added. And more advice: try not to add unsubstantiated commentary to any image you upload. Leave interpretations to articles, based on what others have said on the subject. Once you've uploaded a new version, no borders, informative filename, you can request a deletion of your original image. (There is a way to request a name change, but I think my proposed route may be simpler). Hoping this all helps a bit. Come back anytime. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 10:22, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Courtesy ping to MikeWilkins as I used incorrect name above. Nick Moyes (talk) 10:24, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia as a "valid source"

I am in the process of getting a book published. My publisher Balboa Press, division of Hayhouse, has stated that I can't use Wikipedia is a "valid source." Stating the following:

→→Copyrighted Text from Wikipedia →→Wikipedia will not be acknowledged as a valid source by Balboa Press because anyone can make an account and modify the information found in the site →→without authenticated sources. To resolve this issue, you can paraphrase the texts you got from Wikipedia.

Question #1: What is a "Valid Source?" Question #2: Why isn't Wikipedia one of those? Question #3: Will I get into any copyright problem if I do quote from Wikipedia? Question #4: How is the Integrity of the information in Wikipedia maintained? Question #5: Does my publisher have a point, is the information in Wikipedia Untrustworthy therefore unquotable and unusable?

Mike Faff Mmfaff (talk) 11:04, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Question was also asked at WP:Help desk#Wikipedia is a "valid source" and has been answered there. Please do not ask the same question in multiple locations. ~ GB fan 11:10, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

changing the title page

Hi I am relatively new to wikipedia and am doing my best to edit and create pages where I have some expertise. The page on my grandfather Frank Richards correctly identifies him as "best known as the author of one of the most widely acclaimed memoirs of the Great War to be written by a ranker, Old Soldiers Never Die." However, it is misleading to have the title page in his birth name Woodruff as he is not known by that name at all. As the opening paragraph on his wiki page states, this was his birth name but he changed his name by deed poll as a boy when adopted and was known throughout his life, and more importantly his military career, as Frank Richards, not Francis Philip Woodruff. When searching for Frank, it is more difficult to locate him on wiki because of this. In the list of people named Frank Richards that comes up when you type his name, it should appear there as 'Frank Richards, soldier and author'. I think the problem has arisen because the original (rather merge and not very accurate) stub was created under his birth name and historians and academics have added to that but never changed the title. I do not know how to make such a big edit. Could someone either do this on my behalf or advise me how to do it. my username is Secretpsychologist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Secretpsychologist (talkcontribs) 10:29, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

File:Yes check.svg Done Maproom (talk) 11:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Accidently edited while logged out

I didn't notice that I had cleared all cache/passwords/cookies on my browser and made some edits while logged out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaistha (talkcontribs) 06:27, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Not a problem, providing that you were not attempting to deceive, see WP:LOGOUT. --David Biddulph (talk) 06:35, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
However, Kaistha, if leaking out your IP is a problem, you can request that it be deleted from the public logs, per WP:OVERSIGHT criterion #1. (That page also gives the procedure to request it.) TigraanClick here to contact me 12:01, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Linking EN Wikipedia to FR Wikipedia

Hi, is it possible to add a link from an English language Wikipedia entry to a French language Wikipedia entry? (The French site has an entry on a writer not included on the English site). Double square brackets doesn't work in these instances, as far as I can tell! — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmilyIze (talkcontribs) 12:02, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello EmilyIze If this is about Izé, that's a good one. I would usually recommend using the template {{Interlanguage link}}, but there is an interesting complication: The English article Frédéric Lefèvre article is about a different person than the French article fr:Frédéric Lefèvre. I came up with [[Frédéric Lefèvre (author)|Frédéric Lefèvre|]] ([[:fr:Frédéric Lefèvre (author)|fr]]) which renders as Frédéric Lefèvre (fr). You may find this helpful: Help:Interlanguage_links#Inline_links. Vexations (talk) 12:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Why revert?

I want to ask why someone revert my edits on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peanut_(video_gamer). After i add "peanut" to wiki, i get an message about "Articles for deletion/Peanut (video gamer)". It saying that: 1. Non-notable video gamer, Apparently best known for involved in non-notable (and so redlinked) competitions. With no references, does not satisfy general notability or any other notability guideline.

  -so i add that he is considered to be the best jugnler in the world and add notable events such as Worlds or keSPA Cup.

2. Could be tagged for BLPPROD, but that could probably be addressed, so let's go with AFD.

3. Google search does not turn up this person, but many video games based on Peanuts, the comic.

  -so i add that you can find him by name "peanut lol" cause "peanut" can be considered as normal peanut.

And all of this changes was reverted. I want to ask WHY they was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuks27 (talkcontribs)

Hello, Fuks27, welcome to our Teahouse. I know it's really upsetting when edits you have added get immediately reverted, or when an article you've created gets nominated for deletion, as has just happened with Peanut_(video_gamer). But this is an encyclopaedia, not a place to insert opinions. We require the topic to be notable according to our standards, not anyone else's. See this guideline and this one for what that actually means. We also require every statement made to be based on what others have written in reliable sources that are not connected in any way with the subject. This excludes comments on YouTube, blogs, gaming forums and so on. So when you added Has been known by many as, "The best jungler in the world". Is the most aggressive jungler in Korea. He's a master of controlled mayhem who routinely takes over games single-handedly. More likely to found by name "Peanut lol". without citing and references, such unsupported statements will get quickly removed. You are very welcome to continue editing the article whilst a deletion discussion is going on. I suggest you only focus on demonstrating that this person actually meets our notability criteria. Somehow I doubt they will, but if you can prove it, feel free to add the references. If you're unsure how, feel free to ask, or leave a link on the deletion discussion page for others to see. I should also say that anyone can add a 'Deletion' notice to any page they think fails our notability criteria, and that, as the page creator, that's why you got a notice informing you on your talk page. Does that explain things? Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 14:24, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Can't fix it

What happens if you mess up on a page and can't fix the it.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sundevilemily (talkcontribs) 16:12, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@Sundevilemily: Hello and welcome to the Teahouse. Any edit you make can simply be reverted. You can do this yourself by going to the page's edit history and click "Undo" next to your edit, or if you would rather not mess around with it anymore, please tell us what page you are referencing. 331dot (talk) 16:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC) Thank You for telling me, now I know for next time.

Notability

Hello everyone,

Could I get some feedback on a draft I am working on? I have been told it's been declined because it does not prove the notability of the subject; however it includes substantial coverage by the Toronto Star, Playback magazine, and many other sources, and one of its shows has been reviewed by The New York Times. Other articles about production companies that I've read just include Playback magazine and the company's own website, so I'm just not sure how best to proceed and would really appreciate your help.

here's the link to my draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sinking_Ship_Entertainment

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahyn (talkcontribs) 15:40, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello Mahyn In order for a company to be notable, we need sources that are about the company, not its products. I thinks that's the biggest issue with the sources you've provided. They're about the shows the company produces, not the company. There is one source is just right; The Toronto Star. The article is about the company itself, it's history, how they work etc. If can provide one more like that, those sources could possible sustain an article. The other sources can be used to verify some facts. See WP:NCORP for our notability criteria for companies. It's pretty strict, since we get a lot submissions from companies that would like to have an article about themselves, and we're not a company directory or the yellow pages. Vexations (talk) 16:52, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
(edit conflict) To establish that a subject is notable, you need citations of reliable independent published sources with in-depth discussion of the subject. The Toronto Star and Playback articles are both based on statements made by the company's executive producer, and so are not independent sources. The New York Times article doesn't even mention Sinking Ship. I haven't checked the other references, but those three do nothing to establish notability. Maproom (talk) 16:55, 17 April 2018 (UTC)