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August 9

Alex Mapelli-Mozzi

Please repair ref. numbers 12 and 13 on this page - I thank you in advance114.76.112.84 (talk) 00:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Which page are you referring to? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:49, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

The titles are missing because the content is based on Google Books snippets that do not display the titles. An editor with access to the actual publications will need to provide the titles (and verify the content). Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:57, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

pop up box

when i created an account, i got a pop up box that said 'edit a suggested article'. i didn't know what it was so i refused it. later the research told me its important for the autoconfirmed status. I request you to please display that box for me again. Awaiting response. regards Isa.

The box has nothing to do with autoconfirmed status. The only thing that matters is your activity: how much time you've had a Wikipedia account and how many edits you have. You need an account at least 4 days old with at least 10 edits before you can be autoconfirmed. ~Anachronist (talk) 06:33, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding a Wikipedia Page

How can I add a page to Wikipedia to talk about "Bartel-Thomsen Productions", a San Francisco film documentary company who specialized in documenting the local railroad & trolly companies. They also documented the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. Starting in 1988 they offered their documentaries on VHS & DVD. There is almost nothing about them on the web, the film archive I work for has their productions in its archive.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Essanay Paul (talk • contribs)

Essanay Paul For a company to merit a Wikipedia article(not just a mere "page"), it must receive significant coverage in independent reliable sources that have chosen on their own to write about it, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. Sources do not need to be online, but they do need to be publicly available. That your archive has the company's works in its possession is insufficient for an article; independent sources need to have written about the company in a significant way(not just telling about the company or what it did). Please see Your First Article for more information. 331dot (talk) 08:27, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Name change in Wikipedia

 Courtesy link: Texas Baptist College

Hello,

Our college (L.R. Scarborough College) recently changed it's name to Texas Baptist College. I can not figure out how to change the Wikipedia page name from L.R. Scarborough College to Texas Baptist College. Any direction you can provide would be greatly appreciated.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.226.171.2 (talk) 9 August 2021 12:52 (UTC)

Hi 173.226.171.2. It seems like another editor has already moved the page to its new location. Isabelle ^🔔 13:57, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello 173, and welcome to Wikipedia! You can't do that atm (see WP:AUTOCONFIRM if you want to know why), but the school website supports you, so I did it for you. What Texas Baptist College really needs though, is some good independent sources, see WP:NORG. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:00, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Blank line above TOC (done)

Hi there, how exactly can I get rid of the extra blank line above the TOC at Template:Sfn/doc?--Hildeoc (talk) 13:13, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hildeoc: It seems to be coming from how {{Harvard citation documentation}} is rendered, though where exactly is beyond me. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Fixed by [1]. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:20, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tenryuu and PrimeHunter: Thank you both for your interest – especially PrimeHunter for fixing that! Best wishes--Hildeoc (talk) 10:56, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Is there a Manual of style for naming people?

I was looking at Abkhazians. Shouldn't it be Abkhaz people? Is there a general rule or sorts for that manner? Ebbedlila (talk) 14:29, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ebbedlila: I'm not an expert in ethnic naming, but I suspect it's based on common usage, as determined by the sources that make up the different articles. You could also ask at Talk:Abkhazians if you want to talk to others with knowledge and expertise on that particular group. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 00:55, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

How to group/mass edit bare links to proper citations(if possible)

Hi Helpdesk Team, I have an User making bare links to dozens of olympics 2020 pages. I am new to wikipedia and was just told this is not appropriate(I assumed it was another citation style until I clarified at the Teahouse. My question is: Is there a way to make mass/group edits of bare links to re-create them as proper citations(i.e. <ref>test</ref>) or must I manually goto each edit to delete the external link and input the required citation template? Thanks! Atom105 ^Talk 14:43, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Personally, I think for users who are unsure, adding bare links is preferable. We have tools like WP:REFILL that will attempt to do as much of the work as possible for you. Forget that, they're not even in ref tags. In short, not that I know of. Just wrap them in ref tags and then use WP:REFILL to fill in the basics and sort the formatting. - X201 (talk) 14:52, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, don't ask the same question at multiple locations. It's not a good thing to do. - X201 (talk) 14:54, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry i didn't know this place exist. I asked at the Teahouse cuz its the helpdesk given to us new Editors and at the WikiProject Olympic Talk page cuz I am new and not sure what to do. A user at that WikiProject referred me here to ask you all instead. My apologies again. Atom105 ^Talk 14:58, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

So back to the question, i am not familiar with this reFill software. In this case, the only way is to tag a Wikipedian that already has reFill installed or manually edit the bare links into proper citation correct? Atom105 ^Talk 14:58, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

In the article take the bare link e.g http://bbc.co.uk and put ref tags either side so it looks like this <ref>http://bbc.co.uk</ref>, save the page and then follow the Refill link above, put the article name in and let Refill try and fix it. Preview the results and then save if OK. - X201 (talk) 15:03, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

@Atom105: Have a look in the history at the two edits I made to Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the most recent was Reflinks doing its thing. And don't panic, there's no time limit, everything will get fixed eventually. - X201 (talk) 15:08, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok thanks! I saw it. I'll slowly start adding the ref tags. Appreciate the instructions. Atom105 ^Talk 15:12, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

@X201: Preview the results and then save if OK Please follow your own instructions. Of the three citations that WP:REFILL created, one is so badly broken that the citation template has emitted a red error message – refill trashed a good url and created a malformed title. The other two have titles that are wrong – reFill ignored the titles that were present in the original extlink-styled references. Refill is not to be trusted; it produces junk. Operators of the tool are responsible for cleaning up after the tool. Please do so so that others don't have to cleanup the mess that you leave behind.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:48, 9 August 2021 (UTC) 15:50, 9 August 2021 (UTC) added diff

Web citations use {{cite web}}. A basic minimum of {{cite web |url= |title= |publisher= |access-date= }} is required. Other parameters may be used as appropriate. Mjroots (talk) 02:07, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Non-Copyrighted image

I have uploaded this image to Wikipedia, but it has been pegged for deletion by a bot. It is in public domain, as all Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland from before 1922 are in public domain, and this is from 1899. However, that wasn't a category in the marking of the licensing section when uploading the image, and I'm now at a loss for what to do. Any and all help would be gretaly appreciated. Xx78900 (talk) 15:20, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

I believe the bot looks for specific templates, and so it didn't recognise your text summary as a valid criteria. I have tagged the image as public domain in country of origin (Ireland) and US (as all Wikipedia images need to be copyright-free in US as well). Joseph2302 (talk) 15:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Excess love😍❤

Your life is kind with so much piece and joy.

Enjoy it while you can. -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 17:08, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

All contributions from IPs with a given prefix

Is there a way for me to see all contributions from IPs under a given prefix? Instead of looking at the contributions of a.b.c.d, can I see all contributions from a.b.c.*? My use case is: university computers being used to add self-citations and other blatant COI content. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:45, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

You can use CIDR notation. For example, Special:Contributions/11.22.33.0/24 will show all contributions from IP addresses 11.22.33.0 through 11.22.33.255. CodeTalker (talk) 19:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 16:57, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Changing email address for editing account

Whom do I contact to change the email address on my account? I no longer have access to the email address my account is registered under. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6080:5840:6c5:5861:615d:2235:4fd0 (talk)

It would be a security flaw to grant people access to accounts with emails they cannot prove they owned/controlled previously. Instead make a new account and note your old username to avoid WP:SOCK allegations. And please sign your comments by typing ~~~~ Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:06, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Assuming you still know the username and password for the account, simply log in and go to Special:Preferences. Click on the link that sets/resets email addresses. This will ask you to re-enter your account name and password but does not require that you are able to access the old email. Wikipedia does not insist that account have linked email addresses so adding and changing them is optional. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:48, 10 August 2021 (UTC)