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July 19

Article to be deleted - Manoj Srivastava

please delete the page MANOJ SRIVASTAVA. This page was created by his son Kunal Srivastava for creating a fake image for Manoj Srivastava. Mostly all statements published in this article are wrong with the intense to push his father. Please check all the given links (references) given in the article. They only proof that Manoj Srivastava worked as an employee for different companies, not more and not less. He is neither an actor (where is the proof?), nor a film director (where is the proof apart from mentioning his amateur 9-minute film with his own son in the lead, which was never publicly screened at any festival - if so...where is the proof?), nor a film festival director (he was alway only an employee in different positions for different festivals - so where is the proof?), nor a producer (where is a proof?), nor an author of any book (where is the proof?). So please again check the article and it's relevance for the public. I don't support fake pages, especially not from persons who are pretenders. Please check with diverse people from any of the festivals, what was the position of Manoj Srivastava. Wikipedia is a platform for giving information on public interest. And this is here defenitely NOT the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiObserver12345 (talk • contribs) 11:14, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

This is not the right venue. Take it to the Manoj Srivastava article's talk page and consult Wikipedia:Deletion process. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

While the article is overly promotional, it was announced by reliable sources that his short was to be screened at the Brisbane International Film Festival in 2008.[1][2] Also, the Times of India reported on "alleged scams carried out during the tenure of Manoj Srivastava as chief executive officer (CEO) of the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG)."[3] So at least some of your allegations are false. As far as I can see, he is may be marginally notable. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:40, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

OP has been blocked idefinitely for repeatedly blanking the article.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:49, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi, please can you remove any info regarding Botley brewery.... I have given up trying to change the page name... although I am confused that I am not allowed Botley Brewery but you do allow another local business ...botley cleaners... I have there for to admit defeat and give up with Wikipedia.

This site may be great if you are computer mind ....... but a nightmare for a non techy!

many thanks

Meg

How do I change my user name?

Hi,

I would like to put an article about my business on Wikipedia and so set up an account. I set up my account using the business name and then received an email about account not using the business name! Am confused as I cannot seem to find where to change my user name to something else that Wikipedia is happy for me to use!

please help

many thanks

Meg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Botley Brewery (talk • contribs) 17:46, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

In the message on your talk page, the words "username change" is a link to the instructions on how to request a username change. If something is linked in a message, check the link, because it's probably relevant.

Also, Wikipedia is not for advertising or promoting a business, see WP:NOTPROMO. Advertising will be deleted. If your brewery does not meet our general notability guidelines (which you can read by clicking this link), we do not want an article about it and will delete it. In other words, you need at least two published references discussing your brewery in detail, that are not affiliated with your brewery, that are not user-generated, and are not pay-to-publish. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:58, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

As you've only made two edits with your account, and non to mainspace article, it might be better just to abandon your account, and create another. However, editors are strongly discouraged from editing articles they have a close connection to, see Wikipedia:SELFPROMOTE for details. CS Miller (talk) 18:05, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

I wonder why Wikipedia doesn't allow accounts named after businesses.

Policies like WP:NOTPROMO and WP:COI would be easier to follow if, for example, brewery employees editing beer-related articles had to use a name indicating the possible CoI. Sure, a malicious editor could choose not to, but other editors and their contributions to relevant articles could be checked and reviewed more easily. Once a more malicious editing pattern is found, an offending account can be blocked either way, but the user name looks like a good way to declare COI, and hard to miss, too.

OTOH, the naming policy stands as it is, so an account name change is in order even if I don't see a major problem. WP runs on consensus, not on what is okay with one user or two. - ¡Ouch! (^{hurt me} / _{more pain}) 06:46, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

User's named after a business are bad on two fronts: 1.) It may not be someone affiliated with the business (which rules out the whole "easier to catch COI" stuff, but opens up the door to malicious things) and 2.) The name itself is still an advertisement/promotion, it is getting the name out there and, depending on volume of edits, giving it a slight bit more web presence. Finally, people should be editing Wikipedia, not companies - I would feel much more uneasy about edits from an account named BeerCompanyX editing articles about calories than I would JimSmith, calories are not directly related to alcohol, but skewing sources in just the right way can be favorable to certain demographics; since this kind of editing could involve very disparate subjects from the company's obvious sphere of interest, I think it would make for a far less trustworthy Wikipedia. --Obviously, there are bigger direct and blatant threats, vandalism/people with an axe to grind/etc., and this seems a relatively minor point, but I think the less open projects like this are linked up to people with a profit motive, the better.Phoenixia1177 (talk) 09:23, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Trouble with bicycle pump

Evening all. Not sure if this belongs here but I'm having a problem I'm frankly embarrassed about, and you guys are smart and on the interwebs. So: I bought a new pump for my bike tyres. It's got two valve heads, one of which doesn't fit onto my tyres. The other one does, and I can hear air be released as it breaks the seal so I'm sure it works. But when I seal it (by clipping the clip from 'unlocked' to 'locked') I can't pump air in. I push the pump handle down but the air compresses very hard with it less than halfway down, and the PSI gauge shows no improvement even if I pump for 10 minutes. For some reason air just won't go in. I feel like I must be missing something really basic, but what? This used to happen with my old pump, but moving the cable a bit always sorted it. Repeated attempts have led to no help. The pump definitely expels air when I test it not attached to the bike. Help, please. 86.150.241.20 (talk) 19:55, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

At the risk of stating the obvious: does the bike have Presta valves? If so you need to unscrew the little nut so that the air can get in. Demo here. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 20:47, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry about stating the obvious, I'm definitely making a rookie error. But I don't think I have a Presta Valve, mine looks different. In any case, I never had to unscrew something like that with the old pump which screwed onto the valve - so I don't think that's it. 86.150.241.20 (talk) 21:03, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

If they're not Prestas then they're probably Schrader valves (like those used on cars), in which case you need to make sure that the pump nozzle is pushed far enough on to the valve for the pin to be depressed; it could be that the pump is faulty so that this isn't possible. The other option is the Dunlop valve, but not much can go wrong with those. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 21:23, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Does the pump have a lever on top of the valve assembly? If so, that'll have to be moved to the different position than it's it (usually from horizontal to vertical), to lock on the valve properly and open it up, as mentioned by the above post. 82.21.7.184 (talk) 22:07, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Why not go to the shop where you bought it and ask? There you can show them what you're doing. --50.100.189.160 (talk) 04:28, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

I'll probably end up doing that, have tried the lever suggestion to no avail. Many thanks for the suggestions nonetheless. Prokhorovka (talk) 01:13, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

It would be very helpful to know the make and model of the pump. Looie496 (talk) 14:11, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

One more thing to try: if the tire is completely deflated, it can be difficult to get the pump to seat properly on a Schrader valve, because there's nothing to push down against. Try pushing up on the valve stem from the bottom of the tire, and pushing the pump head down on the tire valve rather firmly. Also, to be more specific about the switch: there are two positions on the pump switch, call them A and B. Try seating the pump head on the valve while it is in A position, then moving it to B to inflate. If that doesn't work, seat the pump head while in B position, then move it to A to inflate. Order is important, and simply toggling the switch while seated often doesn't work in my experience. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:05, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Yep, you're probably doing what I first did on my new pump, switching the clip the wrong way. Try the other way. On mine, the locking position is away from the valve, as SM describes in more detail above. El duderino ^(abides) 09:57, 22 July 2014 (UTC)