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December 11

Deleted article

The article in Question is Liberty Street Protest and I can not find out why this article was totally deleted, can someone please help? thank you -SFJ Search&dastroy (talk) 00:24, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

It was moved to Liberty Street protest and then deleted due to an expired WP:PROD due to a lack of proven notability. --Majora (talk) 00:25, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Why is there missing information regarding a particular actress taraji t Henson ?

She played in person if Interest!! Which was one of the most watch tv series — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.120.56 (talk) 03:18, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Taraji P. Henson. Bus stop (talk) 03:24, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

There is also an article Person of Interest (TV series). Bus stop (talk) 03:26, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

What information is missing? The articles linked above seem to cover that person, or are you referring to someone different? Dbfirs 08:52, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The series is listed in her TV credits. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Note the spelling in the header: the middle initial is "T", not "P". Probably our inquirer didn't notice the mistake. Nyttend (talk) 01:46, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Publishing issue

Hello,

This is my sandbox but i can't publish the page.

Can you help me please ?

Thank you,

Mat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mubide/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mubide (talk • contribs) 08:26, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

When you are ready to submit it for review, add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the draft. When you want to link to a Wikipedia page in a question, it is cleaner to give a wikilink, such as User:Mubide/sandbox, rather than a URL. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:33, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

One thing which you can usefully do while waiting for your draft to be reviewed is to remove the misplaced external links from the body text. Where appropriate you can turn them into references. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:56, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

subheading in other languages mobile wikipedias

I've noticed it's not present in English lang. It's a sort of summary and it seems not visible in desktop version and not editable either, am I wrong? Thanks 188.29.164.213 (talk) 13:04, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The summaries in the mobile version are taken from the database at WP:Wikidata, and are meant to be brief summaries. Which article's summary are you trying to change? - Arjayay (talk) 13:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing#How do I edit mobile subtitles? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

thanks. I was just curious about those strange charcteristics I've mentioned 188.29.164.213 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:54, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The editors of the English Wikipedia disliked it and got it removed from articles but it's still displayed in mobile search results. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:39, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

INSERTING A PICTURE

HOW DO I GET TO PUT MY PHOTO WITH PERSONAL DETAILS IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE ARTICLE I AM CREATING?

THANK YOU! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SIR FRANCIS CORNWALL (talk • contribs) 14:21, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

• Refers to User:SIR FRANCIS CORNWALL/sandbox and User:SIR FRANCIS CORNWALL. Submission rejected as attempt at humour or hoax. Both pages could well be speedily deleted as U5. Eagleash (talk) 17:05, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
• Note Pages deleted. Eagleash (talk) 00:17, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Getting permission to edit Tom Segura's Page

Hello, I'm trying to appropriately update Tom Segura's page. He has a new special coming out. I also wanted to update the outdated links. I've done edits before, but only two. Should I continue editing so that I'm allowed to get the appropriate access. His fanbase loves to put in tidbits from his podcast, I realize, but I want to do update his page within the Wikipedia's guidelines.

Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hidinginahoodie (talk • contribs) 15:56, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Hidinginahoodie. Your account is old enough, and your edits numerous enough, that you should be WP:autoconfirmed, and be able to edit Tom Segura]. Are you not able to? --ColinFine (talk) 23:44, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Can you guys help my English please!

I'm bad at English, can you guys help me checking this article? Thank you! Beyoncetan (talk) 16:42, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I've corrected a few very minor grammatical details, but the translation (I assume it's a translation) is excellent English apart from a few unusual turns of phrase. I did wonder what article was the source of the translation. If I'm wrong and the text was your original creation, then please accept my apology for my error. Dbfirs 23:40, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

@Dbfirs: Wow thank you so much, Dbfirs! It's actually my translation! Thank you so much for your amazing help and for your kind words too! Beyoncetan (talk) 03:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Is it a translation of a Vietnamese Wikipedia article? If so, then perhaps a mention of this on the talk page with a link would be appropriate. The article has a long history, so is not purely translation, and the guidance at WP:Translation doesn't fit in this case. Dbfirs 07:50, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

@Dbfirs: No no, it's not a translation of the Vietnamese article. I wrote it with the sources that I've found myself. Beyoncetan (talk) 10:54, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Sorry about the misunderstanding. As you will have guessed, I can't read Vietnamese. You've certainly done a lot of research. Dbfirs 11:19, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

@Dbfirs: Aww, it's alright! Thank you again for your amazing edits Dbfirs! Beyoncetan (talk) 13:35, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Changing Languages and Sandbox Issue

Hello, I have created a draft of an article that I would like to have approved. My current account that I am using was originally made in German. Why does my sandbox only appear when I change wikipedia settings to English even though it's originally in German? Also, the draft has been rejected due to the fact that it is not in English. I am unable to transfer the draft to be submitted to the German Wikipedia website. Please help me figure out what I am doing wrong, and how to fix this issue. I have researched why the Sandbox keeps on disappearing and nothing has come up. Is it an issue others have as well? Also, I have tried multiple times to change the accounts language to German but it does not stay in German. Best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fanula berdanopulou (talk • contribs) 16:42, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Fanula berdanopulou: There are separate Wikipedia version for each language, including https://en.wikipedia.org and https://de.wikipedia.org. I assume that the sandbox you refer to is https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Fanula_berdanopulou/sandbox , at German Wikipedia, but written in English. What you need to do is not "change the accounts language", but log into the right Wikipedia. Maproom (talk) 17:36, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I have tried that already, but I am not able to access the sandbox when I log into the correct German Wikipedia. Fanula berdanopulou (talk) 11:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fanula berdanopulou (talk • contribs) 11:13, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

@Fanula berdanopulou: As far as I can see, you have very similar (possibly identical, but I can't read German, so it's hard to me to verify) sandboxes in both Wikipedias:

en-wiki: en:User:Fanula berdanopulou/sandbox

de-wiki: de:Benutzer:Fanula berdanopulou/sandbox

There is also corresponding article in de-wiki:

de:Realistic Trash Polka

but not here, in en-wiki.

So, you don't need to submit your sandbox to the article space in German Wikipedia, as the article exists there already. Possibly you can apply some changes to it, based on your sandbox, but you rather don't submit a new version. Articles are generally expanded and improved incrementally, not replaced in the whole.

What concerns en-wiki, you can't submit an article in German language. You need to translate it to (or rewrite it in) English first.

HTH. --CiaPan (talk) 11:33, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Unable to add language links to newly-created article

I recently created the Machir Bay article, which I roughly translated from the German version. The article also exists in a couple of other languages. I figured out that you have this new (to me) process to tie articles in different languages together via Wikidata, where Machir Bay has ID Q1882686 -- and I was able to add the English article to that. The EN link now appears in the DE, CEB and SV articles that were already tied together. However the Languages section of the EN article remains empty.

I was reading Help:Interlanguage_links to try and figure this out. If I click on "Add links" under "Languages" in the EN article, and then fill in e.g. "dewiki" and "Machir Bay" to tie it to the DE article, I get this error: "The page you wanted to link with is already attached to an item on the central data repository which links to Machir Bay on this site. Items can only have one page per site attached. Please choose a different page to link with." That makes sense to me, as I understand the German article is already tied to a Wikidata ID. I would have thought adding the EN article to Wikidata would take care of the linking and the non-English links would automagically appear under Languages on the EN article, but that has unfortunately not happened.

This led me to read d:Help:Merge, thinking that the EN article I created was perhaps given a new/different ID on Wikidata when I created the EN article, and I could then merge the two, but I cannot find a "Machir Bay" entry on Wikidata with a different ID.

Having said all that... I just looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machir_Bay&action=info and found that it is tied to the correct ID on Wikidata, apparently.

So then... why do the language links not appear? Thanks! F. Delpierre (talk) 17:41, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The languages appear now. Sometimes you have to purge or edit a page to update the languages. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I think they appeared immediately after I made an edit, minutes after posting my question above, but I wasn't sure if maybe someone had done it and was going to post here, or if it had happened as a result of my edit. I'll keep this in mind for next time. Thanks! F. Delpierre (talk) 18:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The inter-language links are there now. Perhaps it took a while for the cache to be cleared to implement the update? --David Biddulph (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I think they appeared immediately after I made an edit, minutes after posting my question above, but I wasn't sure if maybe someone had done it and was going to post here, or if it had happened as a result of my edit. Thanks! F. Delpierre (talk) 18:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

IABot

Hi, just a quick question about ISBot. An edit I recently performed was reverted with the argument that it wasn't needed since the links aren't dead yet. That seems very strange to me. Surely we don't have to wait till the links are dead to use it, do we? This is Paul (talk) 21:19, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi This is Paul, hope you're well. As per WP:LINKROT, we shouldn't wait. I see you've already discussed the issue with the reverting editor Iggy the Swan who has confirmed that he won't revert again. I think it's just a small good faith revert by Iggy, nothing else. Thanks, Lourdes 00:46, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for getting back to me. Always good to check these things just in case. This is Paul (talk) 00:49, 12 December 2017 (UTC)