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May 11[edit]

HOW DO I GET MY PERSONAL PROFILE TO BE LISTED ON WIKIPEDIA[edit]

Hi!

I am interested in uploading my personal profile on Wikipedia. Please advise me on how I can get started in achieving such objective? Thank you. Raphosystemtronix (talk) 03:18, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You don't. This is an encylopedia, not social media. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 03:19, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Raphosystemtronix Wikipedia has a policy that only topics which are wikinotable are included and autobiography is frowned on for reasons described at that link. Notable people who have articles must meet the criteria at WP:NBIO or the article about them may be nominated for deletion. We also have very strict sourcing requirements for biographies of living people. On the other hand, every Wikipedia editor with an account can use their UserPage to tell others here a bit about their intentions and interests. See WP:UPYES. Your userpage could be created if you clicked on the currently red link to your username. More important, though, is to make some contributions to existing articles. Mike Turnbull (talk) 08:25, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Contribution are deleted without history record[edit]

Hi everyone,

I want to asked if someone experent too that he \ she wrote a contribution to wiki and it was deleted without any history record?

Like a big bag with wiki contribution. I don't want to said that a manger nor someone strong use is ability but would like to know if someone has the power to delete a contribution with no record?

It had happen to me several time with contribution that have done to the Hebrew wiki. Special wikibook.

Unlike it, when I wrote something at Hebrew wikipedia, that I think at most wiki, might be delete - I do have history record...

Many thanks and apologize if I wouldn't respond,

יוני2023 (talk) 06:32, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, this is the English Wikipedia, we don't have any answers about how things work on the Hebrew Wikipedia, but if I understand you correctly it sounds like an edit may have been revision deleted or perhaps supressed. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 07:13, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming this is about hewiki, where the OP is indefinitely blocked, they appear to have two revision-deleted edits in January and an unknown number of edits to their deleted userpage he:משתמש:יוני2023 (with 5 deleted edits total). I suspect its the latter, because deleted contributions like these don't realy show up anywhere accessible to non-admins (you can get the count of these from xtools, and make a few guesses based upon the page creations reported, but thats about it) Victor Schmidt (talk) 08:00, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible to edit our published edits?[edit]

Isn't there a way to edit an edit we published, especially a new one? Augnablik (talk) 06:49, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can edit the text that you added or edited, in the same way that you made the origimal edit. You can't edit the edit summary . If you feel that the edit summary you left was inadquate, you can make a "null edit" to the article (e.g. add a space somewhefre that it'll have no effect), and leave an edit summary for that, explaining what you've done. Maproom (talk) 07:03, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, in other words, I can’t go to my User Contributions and click on the one I want to change — right, @Maproom? Augnablik (talk) 07:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Augnablik Only in the sense that your contributions list will remind you what you did and provide a link to the page/section where you made an edit that might need your attention. Any individual edit summary you see can't be altered. See WP:EDITSUMMARY. Note that one way forward can be to undo your own edit, so in effect you can start again. Mike Turnbull (talk) 08:16, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can undo an edit? That’s good news! Wish I’d known before I followed up on @Maproom‘s suggestion of a null edit, which I did — asking whichever senior editor ended up handling my null edit not to do what I’d requested and just let me undo the edit.

Now I ’m wishing for a way to nullify my null edit. Augnablik (talk) 09:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can undo an edit (up to a point), you can not undo a WP:ES. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:11, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

😱 Augnablik (talk) 14:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally I am amused at how many edits I see that do nothing but add or remove invisible spaces! —Tamfang (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ANeed help[edit]

I have noticed that one of your article has missed the name of the musician who played with Michael Wadada. Is by any chance you can add the name on that list? Glenbuckarts (talk) 07:09, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For subjects that do not have a Wikipedia article, those articles will eventually get written some day if they meet the Wikipedia notability guidelines, which are a minimum requirement for the article to exist (otherwise it may get deleted). Also just to let you know, Wikipedia is a volunteer project, and it is written by millions of different people out there ("anyone"), and not just a certain team or small group of people. It's in the name, wiki. You can edit and write articles yourself too! Though I'd read Help:Introduction first to get the hang of things here. — AP 499D25 (talk) 08:43, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We have no article on Michael Wadada (presumably yourself), which is why that 'wikilink' appears red, but we have 10 articles that mention you/him. Which one are you referring to?

If we knew, we could look at that article's references, and determine whether one of them justifies adding the 'missing' name, which you have not told us either. Collectively, we volunteer editors are quite good at what we do, but we are not mind readers. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 188.220.175.176 (talk) 09:02, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

188.220.175.176 changed the displayed name in the signature to Michael Wadada.[1] Never do that. I'm changing it back to Glenbuckarts. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:22, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Script that mass-retargets redirects?[edit]

I am looking for a script or gadget or whatever tool that can change the target of a whole bunch of redirects en-masse. Does there exist such a thing?

Today I just finally completed the merging of six major list articles, into one list article. Doing so has garnered hundreds upon hundreds of double-redirects that need to be fixed. And honestly, man, it is going to be so tiresome going through and retargeting each and every one manually. I already spent heaps of effort doing the merging as well as the re-adapting of the table layouts to increase the efficiency of data presentation, keep the page size reasonable, etc.

I know I can just wait and let a bot fix all the double-redirects. But the issue is, if the page were to be split up into differently titled new separate pages (which I've got a discussion open on at the moment), I would now have to go and retarget all those hundreds of different redirects manually, the bot wouldn't automatically edit them as the target page is still valid and not a redirect. So I'm looking for some viable solution here, e.g. some semi-automated mass editing tool similar to Cat-a-lot. — AP 499D25 (talk) 07:35, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AP 499D25, you could try WP:AWBREQ. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:56, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Qwerfjkl Cool, I may try that!

I have also come up with another method, which is that when the bots do eventually fix all the double redirects automatically, if I split the page the pages like I said above, and change the target of the "parent" of the double redirects, then I go to the bot's contributions, and use my mass-rollback script to revert all those redirect fixes, thus making them double redirects again. After that, when the bot re-runs the double redirect automatic fixes again, all those redirects will be pointing to the desired, split-up page.

Would this work? Is it a good idea? I'll make sure to use a carefully worded edit summary in my reverts of course. — AP 499D25 (talk) 12:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AP 499D25, that would probably work, it just might get a bit messy. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle COI-warning?[edit]

I don't use twinkle to warn people a lot. I can't find a "Hello, it seems you may have a COI..." warning, is there none? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:40, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is. It's {{uw-coi}}. It's down in the list of single warnings below the Level 4 stuff. Joyous! Noise! 13:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. Thanks! How did I miss that? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:58, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Export (Wikimedia Foundation 500, Internal Server Error)[edit]

For the past 48 hours, whenever I've attempted to use the Export tool, I've got this error.

I've cleared my cache, tried a different device etc. but I'm unable to access it. I've tried searching about but I can't find anyone else having this issue.

Any ideas?

~~~~ Josh (talk) 14:44, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jcshy: Did you try to include templates? See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#special:export and phab:T364554. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:42, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You’re a lifesaver, I have so that answers my question. I’ve been trying to find answers all weekend, I think I’ll save the technical village pump for the future! Josh (talk) 02:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like vandalism or a hoax.[edit]

On the article Atlantis Squarepantis, on the plot, the description that I claim vandalism or a hoax is “when he discovers that some Canadians have pushed Encino during the 10 Second Tidy” and Betamax is a “CD player” instead. Can you revert the edit? Who is the user behind this? Can you block the user? —2.100.180.63 (talk) 19:07, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IP editor,thank you for reporting, this was fixed at 21:14 on 11 May 2024. The problem edit is here, however the IP editor has not edited since January, so there is no point in blocking them. TSventon (talk) 12:04, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading a privately taken photo[edit]

I am trying to upload into an article a privately taken photograph of the subject but have been unable to do satisfy Wikipedia of its ownership. How can I accomplish this or is it even possible?

Ausmithimpa (talk) 22:34, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you personally took the image, you can upload it to Commons(commons.wikimedia.org). New accounts cannot upload images to this Wikipedia directly. If you didn't personally take it, it would be easier if the photographer uploaded it; otherwise it's a bit harder as you would need to show that the image was released for anyone to use for any purpose with attribution. 331dot (talk) 22:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ausmithimpa: what you saw was an automated filter that blocks new users from uploading low-resolution images. You can upload the image directly here: c:Special:UploadWizard. MKFI (talk) 14:19, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much. I’ll give that a shot. 73.19.118.252 (talk) 18:44, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]