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Looking for a certain template

I seem to recall there being a template to put on a page that said something along the lines of "this biographical article consists almost entirely of a list of their published works", but I'm not sure how to find the template. Thanks! Qualiesin (talk) 02:56, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Qualiesin Possibly Template:BLP self-published. There is a list of related templates at the foot of that page. Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:17, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

The only one there that I can think of is Template:Resume-like, but it's not quite the same thing. Thanks anyway. Qualiesin (talk) 13:52, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I seem to have misunderstood when creating the account

Hi there, I seem to have misunderstood when creating the account, and my draft has been declined as an autobiography. I am not Rachel Pope, but I thought the username was supposed to be her name for the article. Can I change this?

Here is the article draft link: Draft:Rachel Pope (gynecologist) Dr. Rachel Pope (talk) 08:49, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Go to Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Do you have any connection to Dr. Pope? You claim that you took a picture of her in an operating room, suggesting that you have close access to her. 331dot (talk) 08:55, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Dr. Rachel Pope the article as it stands is a non-starter anyway, largely unsourced or referenced to sites that are not independent verifiable sources like her work profile and her own sites. If you are not her, you must clarify your obvious conflict of interest too Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:25, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

In fact, I'm not sure that any of your supposed references are acceptable as genuine independent third-party sources Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:29, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

I've nominated your images for deletion at Commons, since they appear to be violations of copyright claims by University Hospitals and What is Obstetric Fistula Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:40, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

I have worked with her, yes, is this unaccepteble? Dr. Rachel Pope (talk) 10:49, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Dr. Rachel Pope not unacceptable, but must be declared. If you work for her, that needs to be made clear too. Do you want me to post guidance on your talk page, since your draft is nowhere near being acceptable as it stands Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:57, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes please. Thank you! Dr. Rachel Pope (talk) 11:22, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @Dr. Rachel Pope (yes, I understand that that is not your name!)

The fact that you made this mistake (which you are far from the first to have made, by the way) suggests to me that you have an equally common but also wrong understanding of how Wikipedia works. I think you suppose that people typically write articles about themselves, or get their colleagues or friends to do it.

While that does happen, it is not the norm, and it is not often successful.

The problem is that if you are writing about somebody you know, you will be tempted to write what you know about them; and furthermore, to select the things that you (and they) would prefer people to know. But that is not what Wikipedia requires.

A Wikipedia article should be a neutral summary of what the majority of people who are wholly unconnected with the subject have independently chosen to publish about the subject in reliable publications, (see Golden rule) and not much else. What you know (or anybody else knows) about the subject is not relevant except where it can be verified from a reliable published source.

Irrespective of who writes the article, it should begin with finding independent reliable sources about the subject (see golden rule) and then if several such sources are found (and not otherwise) should proceed by summarising what those sources say. Even if they leave things out. Even if they concentrate on negative or dubious matters. Even if they get things wrong (Wikipedia works on verifiability, not truth). Do you see why, as a colleague, you are likely to find this hard to achieve? ColinFine (talk) 15:04, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

The constitution

I dont know if they just fell asleep or what but is there a full page on the constitution? MooMooMoo27 (talk) 11:50, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

The constitution of what exactly? Shantavira|^{feed me} 14:30, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

America MooMooMoo27 (talk) 16:37, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@MooMooMoo27: Your posts appear unrelated to the above section so I made a new section header. The bottom of the infobox and the box at the bottom right of Constitution of the United States has a link to wikisource:Constitution of the United States of America at our sister project Wikisource. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:45, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Full italics in an article title?

Hi, I've created an article that's about a Canadian court case, and the article title should be in italics. However, part of the title is in parentheses, and it's not showing up as italics. Is there a way to fix that? The article is Sinclair-Desgagné v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer). Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:21, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: Fixed by [1]. {{Italic title|all=yes}} includes parentheses. {{Infobox SCC}} has an undocumented parameter to omit the automatic partial italics so a conflict is avoided. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:34, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I tried to add that command but got a big red error message. I must have been doing something wrong. Appreciate it. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:15, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: The automatic italic title from the infobox must be disabled at the same time like my diff. Othwerwise there is a red warning about conflicting display titles. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:08, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the explanation. Very helpful. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:14, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Talk page archives

I remember setting up ClueBot to archive these talk page one year ago. Since it does it's job archiving 20 years of discussion in one go I leave it as is. Now though I checked the talk pages one year latter, and realize that it's archiving was too aggressive. It created 3 new archives (1, 2, 3), each only have one to two threads.

Already edited the config to at least keep some threads before archiving. But now I second guess my decision to use years-month format as it didn't receive that many discussion. I'm considering whatever to leave it as it is or merged that 3 archives.

I also considering to move the archives page to use numbered format instead of years/months format since there isn't that many page + the automatic linking in {{Talk header}} and {{Archive}} header would work for free for numbered archives. - Ivan530 (Talk) 15:39, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Ivan530 your last suggestion seems sensible. You could rename the first archive as archive 1 and move the latest three discussions back to the talk page. TSventon (talk) 16:05, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Nova Odessa

Reference help requested.

Thanks, Mateustognella (talk) 17:52, 19 May 2026 (UTC) Good afternoon.

I need help formatting the section listing the sister cities of Nova Odessa.

I've added the three sister cities of Nova Odessa, São Paulo State, Brazil.

However, I haven't been able to edit the sources. I'm asking someone from the Wikipedia community for help.

The sister cities are:

Jelgava - Latvia Odessa - Ukraine Agugliaro - Italy

The sources are below on the Nova Odessa page (in English):

"Sister city of Nova Odessa promotes photography contest" (in Portuguese). Nova Odessa. 2013-03-25. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

"Law No. 3,881, of December 17, 2025" (in Portuguese). 2026-01-05. Retrieved 2026-03-01.

(in Portuguese). 2026-05-19 https://novaodessa.sp.gov.br/nova-odessa-e-agugliaro-na-italia-formalizam-acordo-de-cidades-irmas-em-reuniao-virtual. Retrieved 2026-05-19. {{cite web}}: Empty citation (help): Missing or empty |title= (help); Text "Nova Odessa and Agugliaro, in Italy, formalize sister city agreement in virtual meeting" ignored (help)

Mateustognella, simply, you omitted "title=". But there also were other problems with this reference. How is this edit of mine? -- Hoary (talk) 22:56, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

how can i submit my biography for consideration as a page

how can i submit my biography for consideration as a page ~2026-30106-74 (talk) 18:00, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Link to the draft? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 18:01, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Have you seen the WP:AUTOBIO guideline...? --CiaPan (talk) 19:28, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Madagascan ~2026-30184-11 (talk) 02:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Melbourne_tram_logo.svg

I am trying to put the symbol in other wikis but can't load it. Also go check the simple wikipedia page for "Trams in Melbourne" dtp wiki page for melbourne public transport also has ferry and skybus not on there... Why is Melbourne_tram_logo.svg not there? Is it not on commons or something?

Thanks in advance, I am still quite new to wikipedia. Rioooooooo9 (talk) 03:19, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Melbourne tram logo.svg is on enwiki (English Wikipedia) only. It is not on Commons. The link has text including "subject to trademark laws" which suggests that some rule that I am not aware of might restrict its usage. If the image was on Commons it could be used from other projects. I don't know what "dtp" is. You might wait to see if anyone comments here regarding why the image is not on Commons. Or you might ask at commons:Commons:Village_pump whether en:File:Melbourne tram logo.svg can be exported to Commons. Johnuniq (talk) 08:17, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Commons doesn't care about trademark restrictions and is only concerned with copyright among the types of intellectual property rights (see c:File:Microsoft logo (2012).svg for example). That being said, Commons already has this file as c:File:Melbourne Tram Logo.svg, so I marked the English Wikipedia file as {{Now Commons}}. HyperAnd [talk] 08:38, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. @Rioooooooo9: The above means that any Wikipedia or related project should be able to use the image. If you have a problem, please link to where the problem can be seen and briefly explain what goes wrong. Johnuniq (talk) 10:17, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

The file is on Commons, fortunately (thank you Johnuniq) but looks like you misspelt it as "Melbourne Tram Logo.svg" and not "Melbourne tram logo.svg". The T and L in Tram and Logo are capitalised and the file is still broken on Simple English and others.

Also I tried to get the admins on commons to move the file but it doesn't meet renaming guidelines unfortunately, Does anyone know how to move the file to the correct original name? Rioooooooo9 (talk) 06:04, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

The casing doesn't really matter and thus not a misspelling, since the file name isn't displayed on the article, only the file itself is. File:Melbourne tram logo.svg (the file on English Wikipedia) was deleted and all instances of File:Melbourne tram logo.svg on English Wikipedia are replaced with File:Melbourne Tram Logo.svg (the file on Wikimedia Commons). Wikimedia Commons has its own guidelines on renaming files, separate from English Wikipedia. I think you are conflating Wikipedia with Wikimedia Commons. Also, wasn't it always broken on Simple English Wikipedia? Files that are uploaded locally to English Wikipedia can't be used on other Wikipedias, only Wikimedia Commons files can. (Try for example add File:Wikipedia Alphabet Soup.jpg to Simple English Wikipedia, it doesn't work). HyperAnd [talk] 06:59, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Sure but thank you so much it works now, you guys can close this discussion. Rioooooooo9 (talk) 07:02, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Btw, what I did was replace instances of File:Melbourne tram logo.svg with File:Melbourne Tram Logo.svg on Simple English Wikipedia. Sometimes the file is hidden in a template, so look for it on the template page. HyperAnd [talk] 07:09, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

cần tư vấn web spangoctrinh.com

tôi cần web chuẩn seo yêu cầu bạn nào hỗ trợ giúp tôi cảm ơn spangoctrinh.com ~2026-30336-65 (talk) 05:56, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

This help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:06, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Add book to List of vegan and plant-based media

I am not technically savvy so would appreciate someone adding my book to Wikipedia's great list of vegan and plant-based media under the category of ethics. My name is Jerry H Parisella and I am the author of the book Stop Eating The Animals, published in 2014, connecting ethics with health. Details below. Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Book Title: Stop Eating The Animals Copyright 2014 Jerry H. Parisella Published by Create Space, an Amazon company ISBN: 13-978-1499246803 ISBN: 10-1499246803 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014907978 Web Site: StopEatingTheAnimals.org ~2026-30400-23 (talk) 14:54, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

To do that, there would need to first be an article about your book, if it meets the definition of a notable book. 331dot (talk) 14:57, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

It appears in Kirkus Reviews, but otherwise isn't looking like it meets the definition as a book self-published through CreateSpace. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:17, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Access to Wikipedia articles

I cannot find the place to type in the desccription of the information I am looking for (Suche in German); it has disappeared.

How do I get it back? ~2026-30293-87 (talk) 15:29, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I believe you are talking about the search bar. It is available at the top of the screen, or by going to Special:Search. Nononsense101 (talk) 15:34, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

If you can't see the search bar, there should be an image of a magnifying glass, which you can click on to search. TSventon (talk) 15:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

References from OECD

Hi all

Is there a way of seeing which articles on Wikipedia use references from OECD and which sources they use as references?

I'm working on a project with the OECD in my role at Wikimedia Sverige to hopefully start sharing their graphics etc on Wikipedia. I'm doing some research for them to try and understand how much their content is currently used as references on Wikipedia and specifically which content.

I've managed to find an old query I did in massviews to see which articles use references from OECD.org https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/?platform=all-access&agent=user&source=search&range=latest-30&project=en.wikipedia.org&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&target=insource:oecd%20insource:/(oecd.org%7Cpublisher=OECD)/

However this doesn't tell me which content on their website it references and so which OECD resources are the most popular references.

Does anyone know if there is a way to do the same query in massviews (or another tool) but it lists the OECD URLs used in the articles? I'm not a very technical person so any help you can provide would be really appreciated :)

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 15:50, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

John Cummings, as a start you could try searching for oecd.org at Special:LinkSearch. I got 6707 links, not all in article space. Presumably most but not all links are in references. TSventon (talk) 23:02, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks so much TSventon, this is really great, I guess I can download this list and exclude any rows for User pages and Talk pages and that should be a good estimate :) John Cummings (talk) 01:49, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@John Cummings: It's awkward downloading from LinkSearch. I can get you a list from the API if wanted. Post some details on my talk of what you want (what URL? what namespaces? just articles?). Do you want a full list or a count of each unique URL? A list of articles with URLs? People at WP:QUARRY could provide another way to get a list. There has also been a bunch of work examining external links. I did some a few years ago but there are more efficient ways now that I have noticed but forgotten at the moment. There was someone or something that performed an analysis routinely. Johnuniq (talk) 02:17, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi Johnuniq thanks so much for your reply, tools like Quarry are way outside of my technical abilities. Basically I would like to find a way for partners like UN agencies, OECD etc which publish on their website to understand:

1. How many times their content is referenced on Wikipedia, the search seems to do this up to a point but includes things like talk pages and user pages which would need to be filtered, if there is a way to magically filter these out in the search that would be great.
2. A way of understanding which of their 'products' are most popular as source on Wikipedia. For example, I used to work at UNESCO, I assume that their information about World Heritage is cumulatively the most popularly referenced 'product' they publish on Wikipedia. I think the easiest way to do this is to provide a raw list of URLs in the references and they can work this out in a spreadsheet
3. The audience for the pages that reference their content, I can do this manually by getting a list of pages from Massviews, but obviously if we could have this as part of all this information together as one search that would be really great.

Do you think I should just post this request there?

Thanks again

John Cummings (talk) 05:46, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I have done this before, example: January 2015—don't try to read that as it wouldn't help; I'm just saying that what you want is a well-trodden path. What I did was very crude and hard to access, and required a lot of mucking around by me. Fortunately, it was made obsolete by a new system that was mentioned in an August 2014 email to me. The tool was LinkyPedia (linkypedia.inkdroid.org which is very dead). I don't know if there is a current system. You might see if anyone at Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library knows whether data from external links is available. It was used to inform publishers about how many links to their resources were used in English Wikipedia articles. I don't think this is the right place for an extended discussion. You could post on my talk with what information you would like extracted from LinkSearch (see my earlier comment). I believe you have seen that it outputs page name and URL. I can sort that and count it, etc. However, it needs the precise domain name to search for. Johnuniq (talk) 07:00, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Plankton the movie

Hello. Could the infobox for that movie be edited to show the Chinese theartical premiere. It's pretty significant, because China is the only country to get it in theartes. ~2026-22534-68 (talk) 15:56, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, it can be added to the Release date field. Do you have any source for that? Tutwakhamoe (talk) 16:57, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

https://www.thatsmags.com/guangzhou/post/38681/amazing-international-movies-coming-to-china-this-march which the article already uses. ~2026-22534-68 (talk) 17:05, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done. Although I’m not sure how to specify that it’s theatrical release in the infobox, so it might need to be mentioned separately in the content. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 17:40, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Can't you just write it there? ~2026-22534-68 (talk) 19:26, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

No. Infobox are for brief facts with fixed format, longer text won't fit in there. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 22:25, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Possible Article on Lea Armstrong

I noticed a redlink to Lea Armstrong on NCAT which I have since fixed, but it does look like there is some info about her online. She's covered in some detail in several websites, but I'm not entirely sure if they are detailed enough or reliable/independent enough. So, for anyone with more experience with reliable sources than I am, is it worth the effort to make a draft on this? TheDowningStreetCat (talk) 06:34, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't think New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal "counts" as WP:JUDGE, but don't take my word on that. I don't see obvious WP:GNG at [2]. What are the three GNG-best sources you know? This one should count, I think:[3] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:26, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I had seen ones like [4] and [5] but they looked borderline. There's some info at [6] but no date or name, so unlikely to be a good source. I probably won't bother, since it seems unlikely that the draft won't encounter a WP:42 issue. TheDowningStreetCat (talk) 23:04, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Comedy drama

What is supposed to be a prose article has been turned into a compilation of whatever an editor interested in the subject thinks is a notable example, where two lists (one for film and one for television) are now overwhelming the page. In November 2025, I created a thread on the Talk page about the lists needing to be cut down, but no one has commented. Since then, there have been more additions to the lists.
MOS:LIST does not address how long a list within a prose article should be. Neither do MOS:EMBED, WP:NOT, and WP:LWA. So, how long can a list within a prose article be? Should the lists in the Comedy drama article be reduced? Pyxis Solitary (yak). ⚢ – not queer. 09:26, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

What an utterly absurd and obnoxiously biased list. No secondary sources to indicate why the specific examples are included, or even that they meet the subject description. I'll delete it, and explain why on the talk page. Feel free to chip in. AndyTheGrump (talk) 09:46, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I'm glad you made the edit this article desperately needed. Because I have contributed to the article, I was concerned that if I removed the lists, it could have developed into a whac-a-mole reverse/delete situation spawned by editors who kept ignoring the issue. Pyxis Solitary (yak). ⚢ – not queer. 07:53, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Art sculpture s in raw wood

ben wilson British sculptor recentwork ~2026-30381-20 (talk) 13:13, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

This is a place to ask questions about Wikipedia. It's not a search engine. That said, were you looking for Ben Wilson (English artist)? 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 13:19, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Draft process

If I fix all the problems on an abandoned rejected draft, abandoned by somebody else, can I then accept it myself?

I want to write something on the same topic, and I'd normally be allowed to make new pages.

There's not much worth keeping from the old draft, but I thought it would be a good idea to start there, mostly so the user who was interested before can get all the notifications etc. if they ever come back. But I don't know what the procedure is? Late Night Coffee (ping me) 14:31, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@LateNightCoffee: Is it a rejected draft or a declined draft? 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 14:37, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@JohnLaurens333 "Submission declined" is there a difference? Late Night Coffee (ping me) 17:53, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@LateNightCoffee: Yes: Declined means it can be submitted again, but rejected means it cannot be resubmitted without an appeal. 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 18:01, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

It was just declined for inadequate sources and a few other "not ready yet" type issues. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:19, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@JohnLaurens333, The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of just starting from scratch. Starting on a draft that has hardly anything worth keeping seems like it overcomplicates the process for not much benefit? Acknowledging that they had the article idea before me seemed like good etiquette, but maybe it's not very useful? Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:27, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

This is a good question as there's lot of abandoned drafts on WP:WAD and a lot of them are older than a decade if not recently abandoned. I tried a submission myself for an abandoned draft which was rejected and later on discouraged as it was a lot older. I'm not sure what the abandoned drafts wikiproject insists by asking user to improve the drafts to be ready for submission. Sddarealone (talk) 16:35, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Sddarealone, It's only a few months old. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:04, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

But if it getting approved needs their input I'll do something separate. They didn't do much other editing, and they seem to have given up when it got rejected, so I don't want to wait till they come back.

They'll probably find the new version anyway if they ever come back, and there's hardly anything worth keeping, most of what they wrote was uncited or would need to be rewritten to update for recent events. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:11, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

In that case, I'd suggest you create a new draft and submit the article as AfC. What I was talking about is that usually the user of abandoned draft never comes back and when the article is re-edited for submission by the new user, the admin warns the new user for editing the userspace draft. Almost all of the abandoned drafts are userspace drafts and not mainspace drafts so I'm not sure why is it frowned then. Sddarealone (talk) 20:45, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @LateNightCoffee.

While it's customary not to interfere with a draft that somebody else is working on without asking, there's no rule against that, and an abandoned draft is certainly fair game.

If you have the user rights to create an article, then there can be no objection to you improving a draft and moving it to mainspace yourself; or if you're not sure, you could submit it for review. ColinFine (talk) 18:03, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I customarily interfere (without asking) with drafts that their creators are working on; and complaints about this are so rare that offhand I can't think of any. (Or perhaps it's just that my memory is terrible.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:08, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@Hoary, I thought drafts were intended to be collaborative and if someone didn't want that they'd work in their user space? Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:12, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

LateNightCoffee, whether a draft is in "draft space" or "user space", in principle it's open to constructive editing by all. In practice, editing of drafts in user space by people other than that "user" is unusual. And such editing may irritate the user whose space it's in. Such irritation may or may not be justified, depending on the draft, the nature of the edit, etc. If I see something in user space that's really objectionable, I may move it towards deletion; if it merely raises some minor objections, I normally leave it alone. -- Hoary (talk) 22:02, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Now had the abandoned draft been in draft space instead and edit made there later, would that be acceptable in practice? Sddarealone (talk) 22:08, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

If one person (let's call her Fiona) comes across a promising but abandoned draft in draft space, may she work on that draft and, if/when she thinks it's sound enough to be an article, may she submit it for review? Yes, Sddarealone, certainly! If the history of the draft shows that it was mostly or completely the work of one person (let's call him Nawruz), should Fiona ask Nawruz for his permission before she starts her resuscitation and improvement of the sleeping draft? She'd be under no obligation to do so, but doing so would be courteous. Normally I'd ask and wait a week for a reply; if after a week there were no reply, I'd start. -- Hoary (talk) 11:49, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

@ColinFine, This is what I was planning, then I noticed the "submission declined" header said "do not remove this line" as a comment viewable to editors but not readers. I wasn't sure who that instruction applies to? Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:16, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@LateNightCoffee: That instruction applies to everybody who works on the draft. It helps reviewers quickly see what other reviewers have said about previous verions of the draft, making it easier to see if the reasons for declining it have been resolved. —In solidarity with Wiki Workers United · ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email) 09:23, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

@ColinFine, It seemed like good etiquette to acknowledge they had the idea first, but not much of what they actually wrote is worth keeping, so maybe I should just start from scratch? Late Night Coffee (ping me) 18:30, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Late Night Coffee, you can chose whether to use the draft or start your own article. If you use the draft, you can remove the AfC template, see the recent discussion at Template talk:AfC submission#Clarify about removing template as article creator?. TSventon (talk) 19:49, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Equivalent to RP for websites?

If a wikipedia has 60 references from 60 different pages of a book, template:RP is suggested. Is there an equivalent for websites? Assume this is a relatively stable site with cite web rather than 60 different news articles.Naraht (talk) 21:14, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

No, because either (1) you're citing different URLs on the same domain and would need to cite each individually anyway or (2) you're re-using the same URL, in which case Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once is relevant. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 21:21, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Fair, and I'm not sure I haven't asked this in the past (though I did search through the archives for my handle and template:RP).Naraht (talk) 23:17, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Batang Lupar 1 Bridge

Hello! I recently created a new mainspace article for the Batang Lupar 1 Bridge .

The article covers the construction, history and upcoming mid-May 2026 opening of the longest river-crossing bridge in Malaysia. I have formatted the page with an infobox, categories, and verified all details using reliable local news sources (including DayakDaily, TVS, and The Borneo Post).

Since it is a newly published page, it currently may has a "noindex" status according to Google search. Could an experienced editor or reviewer please patrol/review the article so it can be successfully indexed by search engines? Any feedback or formatting adjustments to improve the page are also highly appreciated. Thank you for your time! angys (Talk Talk) 04:33, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes, *angys*, the HTML says: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,max-image-preview:standard">. A "new page reviewer" will review it as part of "new page patrol", eventually. Meanwhile, (i) What are "JKR R5 Standards"? (ii) In what sense are the 87 river piers "featured"? (iii) It aims, or is aimed, "to stimulate sustainable socioeconomic growth and commercial activities in the coastal region". But do all political parties and news sources agree? (iv) Does "The project, which costs approximately RM848.7 million, reached a major milestone on 26 January 2026 when the main structure connection work was successfully completed" mean anything other than "The project costs approximately RM848.7 million; its main structure connection work was completed on 26 January 2026"? -- Hoary (talk) 06:57, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

What's your hurry to get the page indexed? Athanelar (talk) 10:10, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

UI

Every time I come to wikipedia, I have to hide the Main Menu. Why does it not save my selection? Why change the interface at all? It's just straight up worse now. ~2026-28427-95 (talk) 04:37, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

The Vector skin has been in use since 2022. If you don't like it, with a logged in user account, you can select Vector legacy (2010) in the Preferences.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:02, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Or MonoBook, which I've been using since I registered. (I detest Vector and its iterations.) —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 23:52, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Help with "IndianPremierLeagueProgression" Template

Could someone familiar with the "IndianPremierLeagueProgression" Template help me in editing the "2025 Delhi Capitals season" page. It has the wrong team name, but I have not been able to find a way to correct it that does not give a format error. Adry9509 (talk) 13:45, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

maintenance problems

Hello Help Desk editors. While making a minor edit (which I failed to flag as such) to New Albion the edit preview indicated maintenance problems with citations. I am utterly unable to determine how to correct the problems and would deeply appreciate assistance. Kind regards, Ah Ngo (talk) 15:09, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah Ngo Maintenance message can be frustrating. The error message is twice Script warning: {{cite book}}: this reference has errors; messages may be hidden (help).

If you hover over "reference" you see

Heizer, Robert (1947). Francis Drake And The California Indians, 1579. California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-1-5005-93599.

Wagner, Henry R. (1926). Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements. Berkeley: J.J. Cillice and Co., Inc. ISBN 978-0548113684.

I have opted to see maintenance messages and can see {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) after both references in the books section

I clicked on "help" and the error is explained at Help:CS1 errors#ISBN / Date incompatibility, which says If the cited edition or reissue of the book was published after 1965, ensure that |date= or |year= has the correct publication year. The reissue date is typically available by querying WorldCat with the reissue's ISBN. Adding |orig-date= may be appropriate in such cases; e.g., |orig-date=1st Pub. 1929. TSventon (talk) 15:47, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I appreciate your response and I will see what I can do. Kind regards. Ah Ngo (talk) 15:19, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Some mistakes on Wikipedia

The file features with small dimensions on any article on the site, are big images, which confuses me. Also, this "common mistake" has no total numbers of files, a "nerfed" illustration description, and now arrows on the image. an individual needs to fix this issue. UltraAtom (talk) 22:30, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

I"m not clear what you're asking, sorry. Could you point to a page where you're seeing this issue? SomeoneDreaming (talk) 01:35, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

All of them sadly. When I cleared my user preferences with the "Restore all default preferences" option, I had one alert and 25 notices. In my mind, i thought i was delusional for doing this, but I fully regret everything. UltraAtom (talk) 15:41, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Template that auto-converts time zones

Is there a template that lets you enter a time and date in a set time zone, and then displays it in other time zones, like Template:Convert but for time? Helpful Cat🐈(talk) 07:48, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

No, such a template would be impossible to maintain as Daylight saving time varies so much from one locality to another (and frm one year to the next), even within the same time zone. Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:04, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

True, but I imagine it could be possible if time zones were expressed only numerically as UTC offsets, not based on location. Helpful Cat🐈(talk) 11:07, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

@Helpful Cat: It's a parser function and not a template but if you compute the difference between the time zones on your own then you can use mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time. For example, {{#time:H:i, j F Y|21:00, 31 May 2026 +5 hours}} produces 02:00, 1 June 2026. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:06, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks!! That's really useful, I'll check that out. Helpful Cat🐈(talk) 12:24, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

List of tallest buildings in Connecticut

I am not experienced in editing images, can someone who is please fix the ridiculously large images on this page? Electricmemory (talk) 11:43, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

The images don't seem particularly large to me, so we might be seeing something different. What kind of device are you using? SomeoneDreaming (talk) 16:35, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Windows desktop running Firefox, before MKFI's fix the images were displaying at almost half the width of my monitor. Electricmemory (talk) 19:15, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Fixed. The page was downloading full-size, multiple megapixel images in the table but forcing them to display at small size because the table column width had been set. I changed it show actual thumbnails and not full images squeezed into small column. MKFI (talk) 16:47, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Electricmemory (talk) 19:14, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Two questions

Hi. I have two questions: 1. Is it correct for Andrej Rublëv to redirect to the painter? There is also the very well-known tennis player Andrey Rublev. 2. Shouldn’t Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1987) be moved to “LiSA”? It is stylized as an acronym. Thanks in advance. ~2026-30794-03 (talk) 12:52, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

(1) This doesn't seem to be problematic. Or rather, I for one see no problem. (2) I notice no evidence that her name is pronounced like "ell eye ess ey" in English or eru ai esu ei in Japanese. Rather, it seems like leaser (for speakers of non-rhotic lects of English), and risa in Japanese. The odd choice of case seems likely to be a visual gimmick, and/or conceivably an attempt to make the result eligible for trademark registration. In its current state, the article on Lisa accords with MOS:TMCAPS. -- Hoary (talk) 05:26, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Removal of tag on my Wikipedia page Paul Struik

I recently noticed that my Wikipedia has been tagged. I have asked someone else to edit the paper in line with the comments in the tag. That has been completed and in my view all issues have been resolved. But the tag has not been removed. Could you indicate how this can be achieved? Thanking you in advance. Paul ~2026-30685-06 (talk) 12:56, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi there, Paul. You say you've asked someone else to edit the [article] [on your behalf]. If that's the case, I'm afraid you've inadvertently broken our guidelines on the proper way to handle conflict of interest editing. Not only that, but the edits which I presume were made on your behalf (~2026-30702-66) did not substantially rewrite the article in any way, and merely changed a few particular keywords which are suggestive of AI generated text, therefore the problem of the text being AI generated is still not solved and the tag cannot at this time be removed. Athanelar (talk) 13:01, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Paul, please read the scam warning. 331dot (talk) 14:47, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Page move problem

We have an article, created back in 2012 and then entitled 'Legitimacy of Chinese philosophy', which was moved to Historiography of Chinese philosophy last year. [7]. While doing so, Talk:Legitimacy of Chinese philosophy should presumably have been moved at the same time, but wasn't. Instead, a new talk page under the 'Historiography' title was created in January this year, [8], and since this has been edited subsequently, I don't think I can simply replace it with the old talk page and it may need admin tools to sort out? AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:32, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Their histories should be merged I think. Ruslik_Zero 15:23, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

I actually would just replace it with the old talk page since the new one contains only WikiProject banners which I generally regard as insignificant. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:26, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

That makes sense. It'll need admin tools to delete the existing talk page though, won't it? I don't have them, you do, I believe? AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:43, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Done. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:45, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:49, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Possible bad edit.

Hey! I was looking at flagged edit and saw this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Arnt_Obsidian_Gronbech&curid=83203804&diff=1355719279&oldid=1355718855, a new edit by DocArchitect26. It looks like they removed a lot of content and replace some with summaries. But they also just deleted a lot of content and did not add a new version. Like a lot of content. Is this means enough to reverse this edit? Pluralmath (talk) 14:32, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Restore Draft: Geza Hosszu-Legocky

Please restore this page, so that I can add the verifiable, independent sources that I was attempting to do prior to it being deleted less than 24 hours after I had created it. I am disabled and needed the rest prior to completing the verifiable sources and I feel that I have been disadvantaged because I was not speedy enough for the persons taking down the page. Please help to restore the draft so I can work on it. Thenfactor (talk) 18:32, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Neither Geza Hosszu-Legocky nor Draft:Geza Hosszu-Legocky has ever existed. Assuming you're asking for Geza Hosszu- Legocky to be restored, then no we don't restore copyright violations. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 18:41, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

OP came onto IRC two-and-a-half hours before this thread and was told exactly the same thing as above. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 20:53, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Now recreated at Draft:Geza Hosszu-Legocky but I have no way of seeing if it's substantially similar to the copyvio version; it is nevertheless inappropriate for mainspace and I'm about to decline it Athanelar (talk) 08:46, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Page deleted - Want to know more

Hello, I recently noticed that the article “Netta Schreiber” was deleted following the AfD discussion. I wanted to respectfully ask whether the primary concern was insufficient independent sourcing/notability, and whether recreation would be possible in the future if stronger secondary sources are available. For context, the subject competed internationally for Israel and has ongoing professional work in coaching/choreography, so I’d appreciate guidance on whether a future draft in userspace would be appropriate. Thank you for your time. ~2026-30856-43 (talk) 20:36, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

The issue, reading the (poorly-attended) deletion debate, was a mix of lack of secondary sources and WP:YOUNGATH (we err towards not having articles on athletes only known for U## play for their privacy). —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 20:51, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, I didn't make the page but I was confused as it has been up for years. Is there a way to get it back up with more proper sources even if it's smaller? Thank you for the quick response and just wanted to know if there were any alternatives. ~2026-30856-43 (talk) 22:25, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

The only way to restore the article for long is if the subject of the article passes notability guideline, WP:NSKATE in this case. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 23:34, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Historical transclusions of an image

Is there a way to check where a particular image file was previously transcluded (even though it is no longer transcluded anywhere)? Also let me know if there is a different forum to ask this question that works better. Katzrockso (talk) 02:13, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Dothistroma septosporum: transmitted illness inside the article or as a new one?

Hi all,

EnIRtpf09b responded to my reward board request for improving the D. septosporum article, but we're both unsure on how to proceed regarding the illness it causes. The fungus causes Dothistroma/red band needle blight (DNB) and that's its most relevant aspect (what one finds when searching for the fungus). As such, most of the D. septosporum article would be DNB. However, it's not the only agent of DNB - there's also the less reported/researched Dothistroma pini. That could be grounds for DNB to get an article of its own, but then D. septosporum (and D. pini, when it's created) would be very barebones. So should DNB get its own article or is it fine to discuss it under its most notorious agent?

We asked this at Wikiproject Fungi but haven't got an answer yet.

Cheers! Barbalalaika 🐌 08:15, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

How to create a new userbox for a language

In case this userbox does not exist yet. Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 11:52, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

In case you were talking about natural languages, this is the babel list for the userboxes. For a general language list which includes programming, written, artificial languages etc. check here.

If you want to create your own userbox, read here. Sddarealone (talk) 14:54, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Which type of userbox would you think is most appropriate for the natural language Solomon Islands Pijin English? https://www.solomonencyclopaedia.net/biogs/E000299b.htm @Sddarealone Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 18:19, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen {{User pis}} exists for Pijin (Solomonese Pidgin), I have added it to the babel list. TSventon (talk) 19:39, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Why can't you click through pictures like before?

Why can't you click through pictures like before? Wmkillian (talk) 13:51, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@Wmkillian: It's a recent bug reported at phab:T426960. You can use the arrow keys. If you resize the window then clickable arrows may appear. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:35, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Deleting userspace draft redirects

Hello, I was wondering if deleting userspace draft redirects (specifically: after you've published an article and moved it to mainspace) is recommended or not? I deleted a couple old userspace pages (which were now redirects), but now I'm wondering if there's any risk of messing up the article history. It doesn't seem to be the case? For example, when I look at my first revision for this article, which was saved as userspace draft (before moving to mainspace several edits later), nothing seems to be missing. But am I missing anything? Also, is it not recommended to have an ever-growing list of userspace pages just hanging out as redirects? Thank you for your help! Chao Garden (talk) 14:30, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@Chao Garden: There is no recommendation. The bottom of your contributions has a "Subpages" link to Special:PrefixIndex/User:Chao Garden/ where redirects are in italics and deleted pages are not shown. That may be the most visible difference but other users are unlikely to care. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:17, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Pageviews tool not working

Just to make sure that this is not an isolated problem, I wanted to ask if the pageviews tool has stopped updating stats on Wiki pages since 22 May 2026 (UTC). If yes, when is the issue going to be resolved? Sddarealone (talk) 15:04, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@Sddarealone: The bottom has a "Report an issue" link to meta:Talk:Pageviews Analysis where it was reported today with no reply yet. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:08, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. It seems other Wikipedians already took note of it. Sddarealone (talk) 15:16, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Supplemental Media Evidence: Paradox 2wx (Spike La Rock) Archive Update

Hello, I am updating my ongoing submission file with a critical piece of primary-source media evidence verifying my historical timeline and industry network.

• Video Title: paradox 2wx interviews Chuck D
• Channel Name: Paradox2wx
• Platform: YouTube (Searchable Archive)
• Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkNtB4CepG4

Historical Verification Points for Reviewers: 1. Verifies historical recording sessions at Axiom Studios with Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D. 2. Documents the artist's regional transition from the Bronx hip-hop scene to the emerging Tampa, Florida community. 3. Provides primary-source documentation of industry longevity, including presence at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Please add this to the active draft file for Paradox 2wx / Spike La Rock. Thank you. RickD.Rosa (talk) 15:21, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

We don't generally use primary source documentation on Wikipedia. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 23:40, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Supplemental Media Evidence: Paradox 2wx (Spike La Rock) KRS-One Archive Update

[SOURCE ARCHIVE UPDATE]

• Video Title: K.R.S. One live in St. Petersburg
• Channel Name: Slick Worthington
• Platform: YouTube (Searchable Archive)
• Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxb7oNamAS8
• Historical Data Proven: Verifies direct on-stage collaboration and peer validation with hip-hop pioneer KRS-One during a live performance in St. Petersburg, Florida. Documents the subject (Spike La Rock / Paradox 2wx) presenting custom, hand-airbrushed apparel utilized directly by KRS-One as part of the live stage production, substantiating the subject's active role within the culture's visual arts and performance history.

RickD.Rosa (talk) 15:29, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

If you gave us a clue what this was about, you might get a meaningful response. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:21, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the guidance. I am currently gathering and organizing my primary-source media links here first to ensure the timeline is fully verified before creating the official biography article draft page. I will be compiling these into a formal draft shortly under my username sandbox. RickD.Rosa (talk) 17:11, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@RickD.Rosa You've indicated above that this has something to do with the active draft file for Paradox 2wx / Spike La Rock but neither Draft:Paradox 2wx nor Draft:Spike La Rock exist. Athanelar (talk) 16:32, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the guidance. I am currently gathering and organizing my primary-source media links here first to ensure the timeline is fully verified before creating the official biography article draft page. I will be compiling these into a formal draft shortly under my username sandbox. RickD.Rosa (talk) 17:09, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the guidance. I am currently gathering and organizing my primary-source media links here first to ensure the timeline is fully verified before creating the official biography article draft page. I will be compiling these into a formal draft shortly under my username sandbox. RickD.Rosa (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @RickD.Rosa.

Insofar as I understand what you are saying, it doesn't sound as if what you are doing has much to do with a Wikipedia article.

A Wikipedia article should be a neutral summary of what the majority of people who are wholly unconnected with the subject have independently chosen to publish about the subject in reliable publications, (see Golden rule) and not much else. What you know (or anybody else knows) about the subject is not relevant except where it can be verified from a reliable published source.

Some Wikipedia articles have timelines, bibliographies, discographies, that sort of thing. But these are optional extras, like photos. The essential part of any article is the summarised content of what independent reliable sources has published about the subject, and until you have that, I recommend not spending time on anything else. ColinFine (talk) 17:17, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

To add to the above, there is no point whatsoever in posting such links here. This help page is not an 'archive'. It cannot be cited in articles. Articles need citations to published reliable sources, not 'evidence' you have compiled yourself. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:27, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Original year of publication versus year of edition cited

In the article on Roy Campbell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Campbell_(poet) I want to add a citation to page 187 in the book The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, in which Orwell accuses Campbell of fascist tendencies. I am adding the citation to an already-present statement: "His [Campbell's] subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism in Spain and vocal support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War caused him to be labelled a fascist by influential left-wing literati, further damaging his reputation as a poet." The book was originally published in 1937 but the edition I am referring to was published in 1983. What year of publication should I use? If I put 1937, the pagination may be different in that edition. If I put 1983, it suggests Orwell was making the comment in 1983. I tried putting both years, with the second in square brackets but I get an error message. I took a look in the Help page but I can't find this issue addressed. ----BillingsRoad (talk) 16:44, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Delete page

I would like to delete my profile. I don’t like my details public ~2026-30861-61 (talk) 17:37, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

You aren't logged in, and your identifying details are hidden. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 17:45, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, @~2026-30861-61.

If what you mean is that there is a Wikipedia article about you, then it may be deleted only if one of Wikipedia's deletion policies applies.

Since all Wikipedia articles (and especially biographies of living persons should be cited to reliable published sources, there should not be any information in the article which is not already available in a published source.

If you are talking about an article about you, please see WP:ASFAQ ColinFine (talk) 19:21, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Vandalism help request from ~2026-31072-63

I have noticed some vandalism at Rugal Bernstein. Namely, people are deleting official and sourced information, a filter has even been put in place to prevent the page from being corrected. Would an editor please assist me with fixing it? Thank you, ~2026-31072-63 (talk) 19:20, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

I see an unsourced claim that the character is German, a sourced claim that he is American (I have no idea whether it is a reliable source or not), and a load of edit warring.

Given that the first and some later attempts to change it to American actually cited a source, I find it difficult to see how that can be vandalism as Wikipedia uses the term.

What I mostly observe that not one of the seven accounts that have been fighting this edit war has attempted to discuss the matter on the talk page.

I do see that the accounts that have been making the change have all been blocked for sock-puppeting. But given that there is no source cited for the claim that the character is German, I find the vehement denial-by-edit-war hard to understand.

(I have absolutely no knowledge of the subject - I'm just going by what I see in the edit history). ColinFine (talk) 19:58, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes, indeed, it's hard to argue otherwise; it's a video game character, and the source is the official website for the game in question, so why are they removing it? Some of those who keep the character as German have received messages on their talk page from people asking them to stop vandalizing other pages. It seems to be a habit of theirs to modify pages without knowing what they're doing.

Fans often assume he is German because Bernstein sounds like a German name, as did Kung Fu Man, the page's main contributor. If we go back far in the history, the infobox stops working, but it may have been him who added it first. ~2026-31072-63 (talk) 21:40, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Userboxes

How do I add userboxes to my user page? Maxikbsbk (talk) 20:46, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Go to WP:Userboxes/Galleries and find the userbox you want. Then copy the code next to it. It'll start with curly brackets like these {{

Then just paste it to your user page. 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 20:57, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Wiki coding

I don't recall how I nested the coding of my user page and am unable to update by adding Category:Members of the Twenty Year Society of Wikipedia editors to my user page. Can anyone figure out what I did way back when.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:10, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: Change {{15 Year topicon}} to {{20 Year topicon}} in User:TonyTheTiger/Header template. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:50, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Blocked from editing

Dear Sir/Madam, I have inadvertently discovered that I have been blocked from making any edits to pages.

I don’t think I have ever made any edits to anything on Wikipedia - at least not for maybe 10 years.

I’m a huge believer in Wikipedia and what it represents and when possible I make donations to it.

I would like to know why this has happened and to make sure that my identity isn’t being used by others - which is entirely possible.

It’s a matter of personal principle as I don’t want to have done anything that would cause harm or spread disinformation so would really appreciate finding out what’s happened.

Yours faithfully Tim Casey Learntofly52 (talk) 22:10, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, are you currently on a VPN and are you sure you've never used another account? – LuniZunie_(talk) 22:11, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

If you can edit this page then you are not blocked from editing. Sometimes we block IP address ranges for unregistered users - these ranges can be shared by many thousands of people - and you experienced one of those blocks. Using an account is the correct solution. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:14, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

OK - thanks for getting back to me so quickly - much appreciated - so basically I was included in a general cleanup of unregistered users - I can cope with that - I just need to get back into the habit of opening the app before I search for something - I think I can manage that! Thanks again - Tim Learntofly52 (talk) 22:28, 24 May 2026 (UTC)