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May 23

Grand Slam (Bomb)

I don't know if it's just my computer, but if you scroll down to the first quote, its all screwed up and mixed in with the info-box. I would fix if I knew how to, which I don't. Please reply on my talk page if you can. Thanks! Tboii99 ✉ 01:27, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that problem has existed since 28 February 2008! I don't know if it's the most elegant solution, but I've reversed the change from that day that created the problem. Thanks for telling us. HiLo48 (talk) 01:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, I see no problem when viewing the previous version on Firefox 12. It may be a browser issue. AJ Cham 03:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, good point. I'm using Chrome. Perhaps the OP was too. I just tried it in IE9, and it's fine there too. HiLo48 (talk) 03:33, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

error in link

Hello, at this site -- Gene Elston -- the link to hear clips of Gene Elston takes you to a Japanese language comic book. If possible, please correct. thanks, allen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allen020855 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Removed. Thanks for the tip. Cresix (talk) 02:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DEVS

I have edited the DEVS article. Previously we had a list of tools for developing DEVS-based simulation models. We also had a list of research labs that carry out academic work in DEVS related modeling and simulation. There seems to be a problem with having these links added to the article. They are (automatically) removed. At first I thought the problem was having links such as yahoo.com. I do not understand why these entries are considered inappropriate. It is helpful to know what I can do. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hssarjoughian (talk • contribs) 03:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The comment that User:Drmies has put on your talk page says "Stop turning this Wikipedia article into a directory please". WP:ELNO says at no. 14: "Lists of links to manufacturers, suppliers or customers." --ColinFine (talk) 21:24, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Watching all subpages

Is there any button or tool that will add all subpages of a project to your watchlist? For example, I would like to watch all subpages of Wikipedia:Teahouse and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify. Ryan Vesey Review me! 03:35, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is a tool, but if you had a directory of all the subpages (for example Category:Wikipedia Teahouse), you could copy and paste them into your watchlist using the "edit raw watchlist" feature. It wouldn't update them if a new one was created though. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 03:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is a tool to watch what is added to a category though. I use it to watch a couple categories. When a new article is added to them, it appears in my watchlist just once. I can then choose to add that article permanently to my watchlist. See User:Ais523/catwatch for the script. Dismas|^(talk) 09:50, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A full list of subpages in the MediaWiki sense is at Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Teahouse but I don't know a better way than copy-pasting to "Edit raw watchlist" on your watchlist if you want to watch all of them. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References in foreign languages

There are informations I'd like to add on some English Wikipedia pages. I'd like to cite references on those informations, but they are in foreign languages. Am I allowed to cite that foreign language source or do I have to find English references? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TrainXIII (talk • contribs) 08:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

While English sources are preferred, but yes you are allowed to use foreign language sources.--kelapstick^(bainuu) 08:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, especially if English sources are not available. Be prepared to provide a translation of the relevant part of the source in the cite note if asked. - filelake shoe 08:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There's a little more detail at WP:NONENG. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:44, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stylized Names

Hey, I often see talk pages of articles with editor names appearing in a very stylized font, rather than the simple blue link colour in which my username is written. Even on this page, I saw some editors above ^ whose name appeared that way. I wanted to know how do you do that ? (because I feel this form is rather dull) >> Aditya San. (talk) 11:09, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You could start from WP:CUSTOMSIG, and look at other users' signatures for examples. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:15, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Libel and false statements in article carrying information about Uranium in children in Punjab - linked to my name.

Dear Sir/Madam

I wish to report that an article, orginially written by a Punjabi journalist in 2010.

Someone calling herself "Realwoman" has deliberately re-written this article on two occasions and deleted relevant and truthful information as well as scientific research references and have repeatedly published the article claiming that I am a fraud, that the research was non-scientific and that it was never published in peer-review journals. She calls both myself and the primary researcher, dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch, quacks and links the article to a "quackery" reference in Wikipedia.

I wish to report her for doing malicious damage to our work, names and damaging the lives of untold numbers of children in India, as anyone who will read this article will dismiss the REAL trauma urnanium contamination has caused in India!

I wish to know what I can do to prevent her from making any further malicious changes to the article. I have deleted her changes to the article and reverted it to the original article published by the Punjabi journalist in 2010. However, every time I check, she's undone my changes and re-published her scathing attack on our work and person. I am of the mind to commence litigation against Wikipedia if this does not stop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NiraCtimS1 (talk • contribs) 12:45, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A report concerning this article has been posted at: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Uranium_poisoning_in_Punjab. Autumnalmonk (talk) 13:19, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not post legal threats, you can be blocked for doing so. Follow the link to see our policy about such threats. Roger (talk) 13:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted the article back to a decent version and removed the wall of text that violated WP:NPOV and WP:NOR. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:08, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Company page

If I create an article about my company will I be informed if somebody else edits my page? How can I protect my article against abuse? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.224.197.39 (talk) 13:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you own or work for this company, then your primary concern here is going to be our rules on conflict of interest. You can't "own" the article, and it would be "protected" by other editors who have it on their watchlist to prevent vandalism, insertion of unsourced content, etc. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:25, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you create an account, you can watchlist the page. But before creating it, make sure it is notable and you have sufficient third-party, published, reliable sources. benzband (talk) 14:59, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If your company is notable, then we want to have a neutrally written verifiable article about it, but because of your conflict of interest, you are one of the least qualified people in the world to write it (see the link Orangemike inserted). If such an article is written, you will not have control over it, and it could happen that people would insert things that you preferred were not there: if they were properly referenced to reliable sources you would not be permitted to remove them. --ColinFine (talk) 21:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change proposal

Can I change a proposal that I wrote to make the language less harsh, or is that not allowed? It seems that most participants in the desire this.--yutsi ^Talk/ Contributions 15:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it's allowed. You can actually change any page at any time (as long as it's an improvement). New "rules" pages you made that are still in the proposal stage are especially open to change. Equazcion ^(talk) 15:38, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Link

Hi there,

I need to link my article 'Jeremy Tambling' with articles that mention him. How do I do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faust1234 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All you need to do is surround the name of the article with two square brackets. This, [[Jeremy Tambling]], produces this, Jeremy Tambling. You need to work on the article more also. It currently does not have any sources at all. All articles about living people must have at least one reliable source. GB fan 15:58, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Access to article ratings

Hello, I am interested whether it is possible to download the article ratings (Article Feedback Tool) of wikipedia and from where? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.176.179.206 (talk) 16:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This might be covered by WP:VPT. If so, try asking there.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:31, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Foreign language meanings in disambiguation pages?

Gott mentions the German, Icelandic and Swedish meanings of this word. Is this good (and should be adopted in other disambiguation pages), should it be deleted, or is this an individueal decision? If so, what are the criteria? --KnightMove (talk) 16:02, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I feel they can remain. People may come across the word used in an english sentence and wonder in which language the context was used.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:19, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --ColinFine (talk) 21:37, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How can I create a new article against a deleted title

Resolved

The article Harmony Cove has been deleted twice in the past. Looking at the reasons, it would seem that the previous subject had nothing to do with the one I wish to create, which is about a geographical feature, and is red-linked to for example in Inca Point, Folger Rock, The Toe, and in particular, Harmony Point, which depends on this feature for additional information. I am unable to create this article, how this be achieved? Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 16:14, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've unprotected it, you will be able to create it now. Not sure exactly why protection was applied in the first place TBH, only two creations and the protection was added 6 months later for some reason, very odd--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:20, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 09:33, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Korematsu v. United States

Re my edit of Korematsu v. United States Section "Alleged Suppresion of Evidence by the Soliciter General."

In my original edit of the above section you ask for two citations. I have provided valid source information for the "citation needed" notes you inserted by showing the symbols <Ref> and 3 separate comprehensive footnotes. Now it won't accepte citations.

The instructions with regard to making changes and corrections arte hopelessly confusing. Please review my "citation" footnotes and straighten things out. It is a much needed edit and should not be ignored.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Retofficer (talk • contribs) 18:17, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The references were formatted incorrectly - I have fixed them, but leave it for others to judge whether they are reliable.--ukexpat (talk) 19:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting differently titled but othewise identical versions of article

I'm a newbie and have created a bit of a mess. I've successfully created/posted a desired article at John A. Quinn. Unfortunately, not understanding the "move" command, in the process I created two other, differently titled but otherwise identical versions of this same article that I would now like to delete (while retaining the article that appears at the above-cited URL).

The article I'd like to delete is found at wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:John_A._Quinn, which resulted from my moving the original draft from my userspace to "Wikipedia" as opposed to "Article". There are two versions of the improperly titled article now, following my botched attempt to move the mistitled article back into my userspace. One appears with the title "Wikipedia:John A. Quinn", while the other (a redirect) has the title "User:Wikipedia"John A. Quinn". Help, pls! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nostammai (talk • contribs) 18:21, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, Wikipedia:John A. Quinn has been deleted.--ukexpat (talk) 18:52, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think I cleaned everything up for you GB fan 18:53, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Picture on article about the Lenox Ave subway service

On this page IRT Lenox Avenue Line there is a copy of a scan from the JoeKorner, my web site. I tried to edit the photo to show the origin, but that change was removed. I'm not sure how else to just get credit for the scan. It was originally posted as a different URL, but was moved to http://www.thejoekorner.com/rollsigns/irtendno3.gif a few years ago. Sorry for the confusion.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.117.104 (talk • contribs)

The image credit should appear on the image information page not on the article page.--ukexpat (talk) 18:50, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. The article name is given incorrectly. It's at 3 (New York City Subway service). The credit link in the picture description is broken; I'll use the one above to repair it. It's only good luck that someone who happens to be familiar with the subway articles saw this. Each article has a Talk Page, for example Talk:3 (New York City Subway service) which is watched by the people who make corrections to the article. That's the place to tell them about mistakes. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:04, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Maths

How would I go about typing in maths equations in wikipedia? I remind you that I am drt2012 (talk) 19:01, 23 May 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Does WP:MATH help?--ukexpat (talk) 19:04, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Wiki_markup#Special_characters for an introduction (scroll a couple screens down). --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:08, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fibromyalgia

Dear Sir/Madam

I seek your urgeng help to at least help alleviate some of this terrible suffering I am going through Please advise soon Sincerely Yours Albert Taylor (Northern Ireland U K) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.211.62 (talk) 19:02, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry but we cannot give medical advice. Perhaps your doctor can give you the name of a support group in your area.--ukexpat (talk) 19:06, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not receiving any feedback on new article for submission

Hi there,

A colleague of mine has submitted a new article for submission at the following URL:Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS)

When it was first submitted, she received an automated email from Wikipedia thanking her for her submission followed by another email several days later saying that the article had been declined. She then did a major rewrite of the article and resubmitted on May 10, 2012 and has yet to receive any notification from Wikipedia or its editors that the article had been resubmitted or was subject to another review process (i.e., no communication whatsoever).

What needs to be done in order to alert someone from the community to re-review the article for approval? The talk page contains the article text itself so I didn't want to include any comments there and potentially interfere with the body of the article.

Many thanks, Pete ReSAKSS (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:24, 23 May 2012 (UTC).[reply]

The AFC submission template was missing from the draft - I have added it. Please confirm that you and your colleague are not sharing your Wikipedia account. For licensing reasons, sharing of accounts is not permitted. Your user name is also in breach of the user name policy.--ukexpat (talk) 19:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unwanted templates showing up on pages

Three templates showed up at the bottom of our educational institution's wikipedia page and one is really not appropriate and we want to delete it. I'm not 100% sure that these are called templates, but they obviously show up on multiple pages. It is this page: Reconstructionist_Rabbinical_College and the template we don't want is called "Organized Jewish life in the United States". It doesn't reflect the values of our institution. What are these add-ons- where do they come from and how do you delete them? Many thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janissmith (talk • contribs) 19:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The code causing the template to appear is: {{Organized Jewish Life in the United States}} removing it will remove all the template text. For more information on templates generally, see Help:Template. Monty ₈₄₅ 20:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The template Template:Organized Jewish Life in the United States appears to have been added with this edit: http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Reconstructionist_Rabbinical_College&oldid=339628761 back on January 23, 2010‎. From a cursory review of the documentation of the template, it appears to be a reasonable inclusion. As it appears that you may have a conflict of interest (see WP:COI), I'd suggest starting a discussion on the talk page for the article, or perhaps over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism. Rwessel (talk) 20:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The {{Organized Jewish Life in the United States}} template includes the RRC as one of the pages that it links to (any self link in a template is delinked and turned black) It is at the end of the "Major religious movement organizations(and associated rabbinical membership and policy body; seminary) as the seminary associated to the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. The best way to describe the situation is that this wikipedia page is *about* RRC, not RRC's page. There are really three possible changes that could be discussed:

Remove the RRC from the template. Unlikely, since that section is very parallel and RRC appears to be the appropriate organization in that "slot"
Remove the template from the page about RRC. Unlikely, sometimes templates aren't on pages they reference, but that would more likely be in a situation where an organization was created in a place, the organization related template might include the place, but it might be a very minor thing in the place
Have the Template in Collapsed form (just the title bar), like the other two do. That might get agreement(though would depend on what other editors think.)

As a comparison, it would be reasonable to have a template of the Colleges and Universities in Pennsylvania. Such a Template would include Carnegie Mellon University and no matter how negative the opinion of the University board and administration toward Carnegie Mellon, it would still be appropriate to have that template on the Wikipedia page about RRC.Naraht (talk) 02:12, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting a Page and Opening a New One

Hello, I was wondering if I delete a Wikipedia page, what is the process for starting a new page with the same name? For example, say my company, "Charlie's Porkchops" has a Wiki page that I want to delete and I go through either proposed deletion or deletion discussion process and it gets deleted. Then I want to open a new page with the same name, "Charlie's Porkchops," what is the process for that? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.124.2 (talk) 21:21, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See the text on the deleted page? "A page with this title has previously been deleted. If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator...." You need to contact the admin that deleted it if the content similar. If the content is different from the deletion criteria, then just go ahead and create the new article.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Several considerations:

Is it actually the same subject, or a different one with the same name?
Was the article merged with or redirected to another article?
Was the article deleted speedily, under Wikipedia:Proposed deletions, or Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
What justification was cited?
Was Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection applied

Does the new article meet current notability requirements?
Your example is a company, so Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)
Indepth coverage from multiple separate independent reliable sources with no financial interest?

(not its own or corporate website, blogs, directory listings, or social media.)

Dru of Id (talk) 21:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am planning on going through the deletion process for a page for a company and a person because the current pages are not factual and out of date. If I personally go through the proposed deletion or deletion discussion process and it gets deleted, can I post new articles for both the company and the person, using the same titles, but with new information. Both will be about the same company and person, but with completely new and correct information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.124.2 (talk) 22:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That seems like a round-about way of splitting a bad article. Could you make new copies of each in your sandbox, and then discuss the split on the talk page of the bad article?--Canoe1967 (talk) 22:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I'm confused with some of this info, what is "splitting a bad article"? And is a sandbox a place where I can play around with my new content and see if Wikipedia will accept the new content? What is the talk page of the bad article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.124.2 (talk) 22:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If an article is poor but the subject should have an article then the article is not deleted, it's improved by editing the page. I'm not sure you know how Wikipedia works. Most articles have many contributors and nobody owns an article. Click the "View history" tab to see the contributors. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:38, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you intend to try and have an article deleted so that it may be replace with another about the same company then I would say that you would be wasting your time. You are not going to be able to come up with a policy based reason to have the article deleted, see Wikipedia:Deletion policy. If you did find a policy that would allow for deletion then it would probably apply to the article you recreated. Just saying that the article is out of date will not work. What you need to do is update the article using solid reputable sources, see Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Citing sources, and this means, for the most part, sources other than the company itself. I may be mistaken and if so I apologise but the way you worded your original post indicates that you may work for the company you wish to write about as you used "my company". If so I would ask you to look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (COI). You may edit the article but it is best if you declare your COI on the talk page. You would be best to create an account with a name that didn't reflect the company and use that.

To answer your second post. For the moment let us pretend that the company you want to fix is Canonical Ltd. and the person is Mark Shuttleworth. To find the talk page you would go to those articles and at the top, on the left should be two tabs. The first will say article and the second, in either blue or red should say Talk. Just click on that and you will see what the editors of the page have been saying and can join in, starting at the bottom. If the Talk is red then nobody else has commented there and you will be the first. A sandbox can be either in your userspace, if you create an account, or a subpage of the talk page of the article you want to fix. Create the subpage and then copy the material from the article and start working on it. Notify the other editors on the talk page of the article and they can comment or add material. When everybody is happy with it find an administrator and they will help in moving it back to the article.

This all sounds a lot more complicated than it really is so don't be afraid to jump in. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 05:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be possible to talk about this on AIM or another chat messenger? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.124.2 (talk) 16:28, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No. Quite frankly there is nothing further to say. You have repeatedly been told the correct way of changing an article's content. Roger (talk) 16:37, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User contributions

Why is one of the recent entries on my contribution page struck (line through the date)? It looks like a WP:REVDEL that isn't a revdel. I saw it on another user's page too for an innocuous edit he made.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:17, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That looks like Wikipedia:Oversight. I assume that since it was on the BLP noticeboard, there was some sensitive material on the page that needed to be deleted, and your edit was made to the content that was later deleted. It happened to a lot of edits made to that noticeboard around that time.--Slon02 (talk) 22:21, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've now looked at the edit history for BLPN, and I see the long list of strikes, but it looks like someone went overboard. For example, the material I responded to was not and has not been deleted. Any way to find out who did it and get them to fix, not just mine, but any other edits that should not have been suppressed?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:27, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oversight can require to hide all revisions where the offending material is on the page. Your hidden edit added 22 bytes to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#stuart c. lord so I guess it was addition of {{La|Stuart C. Lord}} and a newline. The only removed material is probably in the ‎Botsa Satyanarayana section whose creation was the first oversighted edit. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand. Why would oversight require hiding all revisions, and where would it stop? My minor edit was the last one suppressed. The latest two entries are not suppressed. I don't get it.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:43, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The first oversighted edit in the page history [1] is "→‎Botsa Satyanarayana: new section". The first non-oversighted edit is "→‎Botsa Satyanarayana: redact and comment". The edit was by an oversighter and presumably the offending material was redacted there but it would still have been visible in the page history in all intervening edits. Therefore they were all oversighted. It's unfortunate that the diffs of good editors are no longer visible but that's the way the oversight software works. If you can view a diff then you can also view the full page at the time. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, now it makes sense, thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 00:02, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How come ?

Hi I'm a surgeon in general surgery department and I trusted your site like nothing else , but one of my colleagues told me that it's editable " articles " ... As so I tried to edit an article " didn't change any information " just to be sure ... And found that what I was told by my friend was "real" .... How can I trust all the information givin by your site while it's editable by any user Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.19.139.85 (talk) 22:18, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can't, but some feedback: You can check the references; if it's a Good or Featured Article, it's had a lot of work and scrutiny; if the article is protected or semi-protected, it may previously have been vandalized, and there may be remnants; use the 'View history' tab in the upper right row to see if the article is stable, or has a history of vandalism; how up-to-date are the references, for this subject? Wikipedia is not trying to be cutting edge, but is no longer advocating bloodletting, either; last, does the information make you question it? Dru of Id (talk) 23:14, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) See Reliability of Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia. You mention being a surgeon so see also Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:16, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you have any concerns about medical-related articles, you might discuss them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. Cresix (talk) 03:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can edit Wikipedia to vandalize it, or you can edit it to make it better. Most people choose to make it better, but some vandals or unintentional mistakes do happen. If you see an error, please be bold and fix it. RudolfRed (talk) 04:34, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All New Content

Hello, I want to go through the proccess of deleting a page that another user has made for my company, because all of the information is outdated. What is the easiest way to go about removing the old page and creating a new page for my company with all new content, but the same title? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.124.2 (talk) 22:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, so you can update anything you feel is inaccurate yourself. However, I strongly recommend that your read our conflict of interest page before editing the article of an organization with which you are affiliated. Robert Skyhawk ^{(T C)} 23:02, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The easiest way is to start an account that doesn't conflict with Wikipedia's Username policy, state your conflict of interest, and post suggested changes on the article talk pages or your user talk page. Requesting deletion would likely be approved if they're not notable, but that impedes recreation. Dru of Id (talk) 23:04, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than opening multiple sections on a page it is probably best that you stick with the section above, Wikipedia:Help desk#Deleting a Page and Opening a New One. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 06:02, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Technically , there is nothing to stop you from editing any page by deleting the entire content and substituting new content. However, for most articles such an edit would get reverted straight away unless it had already been discussed on the article's talk page; and from what you have said above WP:COI applies, so you should not be directly editing that page anyway. --ColinFine (talk) 21:54, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]