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September 17

Special:SuffixIndex

Is there a special page that lists pages ending with a certain phrase, comparable to Special:PrefixIndex except working at the other end of the word? Or is there a way to search with wildcards? Eight years ago, someone asked for a Special:SuffixIndex page at Wikipedia talk:Special:PrefixIndex, but I don't know if anything's been done since then, while searching with asterisks as wildcards (a technique used by many search programs) is useless; for example, Special:Search/***ganj returns results for pages with the freestanding word "ganj" but doesn't find seven-letter words ending in "ganj", so I can't find Raiganj through this method. Nyttend (talk) 01:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyttend: There's no quick way to do this. In theory the Article title search should do it - enter ganj$ in the "pattern" box, or [Gg]anj$ if you want to search for uppercase "G" as well. But this tool didn't work for me; the connection timed out before any results came back. I could run searches for you using my latest database dump if you drop a note on my talk page. Each one will take about 15 minutes on my hardware. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:36, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the confirmation. There's nothing pressing; I was just trying to find Raiganj for a crossword-type puzzle. Nyttend (talk) 10:18, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Image License Purchased

I added a photo to a Wikipedia page which was taken down. We have now purchased the Getty license for this image. Please advise on the steps needed to reload this image to the page properly.

The usage rights on the purchased license reads: For use in editorial print and digital media including:

Newspapers, magazines, books, newsletters
Blogs, websites, videos
Broadcasts and documentaries
Social media sites
Mobile apps
Software applications

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cterry216 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cterry216, to be acceptable here, the licence needs to allow distribution, modification and use for any purpose, including commercial. Does you licence permit all of these? We have now purchased—who is we? If you have a conflict of interest when editing an article, you must declare it. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:53, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Azimo vs Asimo

Hi there,

Excuse the random message, i am trying to get some clarity on something.

I work at Azimo (http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/15/money-transfer-startup-azimo-raises-20m-at-a-100m-valuation) and we used to have a WikiPedia page, but it seems it was taken down a year ago. (I am new here so just trying to work out what happened)

Apparently, the rumours are that it was flagged and removed because it was similar to 'Asimo' the cool Honda robot dude. Though the words are similar, the spelling is different and contrary to rumours we don't intend to start building robots.

To be honest, i am not sure why our page was removed so any clues / indicators to that mystery would really welcome.

Thanks

Scott — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScottWilliams100 (talk • contribs) 09:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion on the deletion of the previous article on Azimo can be seen at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Azimo. - David Biddulph (talk) 09:41, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And to understand that discussion, ScottWilliams100, please read the articles linked to in the discussion. It might help to realise that no organisation (and no person) in the world 'has' a Wikipedia article: Wikipedia has articles on many organisations and people, but those organisations and people have no control whatever over the articles about them, and are strongly discouraged from editing the articles about them. Wikipedia is not interested in what somebody says or wants to say about themselves: it is only interested in what others say about them. --ColinFine (talk) 16:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Concers about wrong and biased information written on the page that referes to me

I am writting this email to express my concers about biased information and mistakes that are mentioned on the page that is refering to me Apostolos Tzitzikostas :

1st. My Biografy contains only a fraction of the information regarding myself. The full text of biografy can be foumd at the following links : ^[1] and ^[2]

2nd.

On the same page, under my photo at "Political Party" it is inaccurate that i was formerly a member of New Democracy Party because i have never left the party. I was and still am a member of the New Democracy party ^[3]

3rd.

I never personally invided Golden Dawn party representatives to the annual 28th October Ohi Day parade. It was a specific direction of the Ministry of Interior Affairs that ordered the Regional Authorities to invite every memeber of the Greek Parliament to the annual 28th October Ohi Day parade. I want to express my deep concern that this fact is omitted, giving a false and biased idea over the facts at that period. ^[4]

Thank you for interest.

At your disposal.

Apostolos Tzitzikostas — Preceding unsigned comment added by TZ2k0s (talk • contribs) 09:24, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

I appreciate your request here, thank you. I have the following comments/suggestions.

Please read the Article Subject FAQ article, that is a place to start.
I suggest adding your comments to the talk page for the article Talk:Apostolos Tzitzikostas , that is the best place to start.
I'd also comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Greece, they would have people who would know more than I, and while not guaranteed to know Greek, they (or just about anyone) would know more than I.
I appreciate that you've tried fixing some of it yourself, but each of the edits is problematic, as a CV is not a good source and the link on the victory percentage needs some work (certain characters need to be handled specially.
I'll add this to your talk page as well.

Naraht (talk) 14:29, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

'[' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.209.252.96 (talk) 10:40, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The error message on 9×19mm Parabellum said "Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)." If that wasn't clear enough, the words help page are in blue, indicating that they are a wikilink, in this case to Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref. Another editor has corrected it for you. - David Biddulph (talk) 12:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Petra Cetkovská

Reference help requested. I cited Petra Cetkovska's page correctly. Thanks, Bryson483 (talk) 11:46, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The errors which are flagged up on Petra Cetkovská are because of your edit which removed the use of 3 references which the page is now correctly reporting as defined but not used. The error messages include the words "help page" in blue, indicating that they are wikilinks, in this case to Help:Cite errors/Cite error references missing key. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:58, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Performer link disguised as a song title

Is it OK to use such links, like

"[[STRFKR|Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]"
"[[High Highs|Open Season]]"
"[[Air Traffic Controller|Ready or Not]]"

in an infobox in Pilot (Faking It)...? --CiaPan (talk) 13:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would think that would violate WP:EGG, though possibly not if there aren't more clear links...and also, that's a guideline, not a policy. That being said, that last link in particular doesn't seem to make any sense, though I'm unfamiliar with the subject matter. DonIago (talk) 13:59, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A link to the artist of a song could be reasonable, in my opinion, if there is no specific article on the song, especially if the article on the artist discusses that song. What you really want to determine is solely: "is this link useful if someone clicks it?" If it's not useful then unlink it, if it's useful then leave it. RJFJR (talk) 14:34, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed [1]. --CiaPan (talk) 18:32, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mission imppsible

^[1]110.172.146.2 (talk) 14:52, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

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1. REDIRECT Target page name

Do you want Mission imppsible to be redirected to Mission Impossible? What do you want? how can we know? Supdiop (Talk ©) 15:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You've fixed it yourself [2], next time, clearly say what you want or add links to the pages. Thanks Supdiop (Talk ©) 15:16, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.31.88.107 (talk) 15:56, 17 September 2015‎ (UTC)[reply]

The error message in Alberto Santos-Dumont says "Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)." and includes a wikilink to Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref. What is unclear about that? - David Biddulph (talk) 15:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

edits in red

Hi I made an edit and it appears in red. Please explain. Thanks. Palisades1 15:40, 17 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Palisades1 (talk • contribs)

Your edit to Loudoun County Commuter Bus appears in red because you put the new text between double square brackets ([[...]]), which is wiki code for a wikilink, but there isn't a Wikipedia page of that name. I see also that you had marked the edit as minor, but it doesn't meet the requirements of WP:minor. - David Biddulph (talk) 15:55, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spartansburg, Pennsylvania article

I am trying to add a link to a non-commercial, non for profit historical information website to the information provided for Spartansburg, Pennsylvania. I am the owner and author of the website (http://spartansburghistory.org) and would like to provide that link as information for those reading the article. How can I get the link to be accepted?

ThanksSpartansburghistory (talk) 17:57, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You shouldn't try, as you have an obvious confliuct of interest. You could post it on the article talk page and see if others feel it meets the criteria at WP:ELYES. And you should change your user name promptly. It violates the username policy, and would be grounds for a block as things stood. A Username must not be the name of a business, group, or organization. DES ^(talk) 18:50, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Turn off beta

How do I turn off the new beta features? Every time I open a mobile wiki page now it crashes chrome on iOS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.173.0.21 (talk) 18:06, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, IP accounts can't do that. If you create an account, then you can turn beta features on or off in your preferences. RudolfRed (talk) 00:21, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of a new add at the page of FNDC5

I edit the paragraph "function" at FNDC5 page. I also added the reference to this new add. Why my sentences have been removed few minutes ago? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.133.31.143 (talk) 18:06, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The edit summary left by Smartse says, "rm WP:PRIMARY research which also likely has WP:SELFCITE problems based on the location of the IP".

In other words, the information you added to the article was added from primary sources, whereas Wikipedia (oddly for people in some academic positions, and for people with COIs) requires that articles be written using mostly secondary sources. Also, the content you added was sourced to a study conducted by researchers at the university you are editing from, which means you are likely citing your own research, which is a problem.

That said, perhaps @Smartse: would like to come and expand further on why you were reverted.~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:18, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Though I have not seen the study itself, only the abstract, the fact that one of the sentences is a word-for-word copy of the press release about it found here ("According to the study authors, identifying..."), inevitably makes me suspicious there is more copying (copyright infringement) in the added text. Understand that any content added here must be written in your own words, with the exception of limited quotations from copyrighted material (allowed as fair use if done properly). To meet our standards, any such quotations must be identified as such using quote marks, and must be cited using an inline citation to the source, usually accompanied by in-text attribution. This observation is separate and apart from any others reasons for the reversion of the edit.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:24, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Warning Messages at Top of Wiki Page

Hi there,

I am seeing two 'warning' messages on a French Wikipedia page I recently created: fr:Exportation et développement Canada

All the sources used are the same as the English page (Export Development Canada), and the formatting looks OK to me.

Is there any way to get ride of these messages at the top of the page?

Thank you. -Leslie — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElleJay613 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@ElleJay613: Much like the English Wikipedia, those notices are placed (and removed) by hand. My French is a little rusty but it looks like the tags are for references and text formatting. If you believe you have fixed the problems you can remove the tags by deleting {{À sourcer|date=septembre 2015}} and {{À wikifier|date=septembre 2015}} from the code. In addition, you can ask questions at the French version of the the help desk if you are unsure. --Stabila711 (talk) 19:57, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You should be aware that different language-versions of Wikipedia have different rules about notability, original research, and probably other things. en:WP is tougher than most, but in at least some things, fr:WP is tougher still. Maproom (talk) 21:49, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki data via an API

Hello,

Can I somehow integrate and use Wikipedia data via an API?

Thanks

Jasonrick (talk) 21:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Does this help?--S Philbrick (Talk) 01:39, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merging an article

I have been working on the forensic anthropology article for about a month now hopefully getting it up to a GA level. During my rewrite of the article I looked at the forensic archaeology page and decided that it would be better served if the two were merged together since forensic archaeology is a subfield of forensic anthropology and I felt like the overlap between the two qualified it for a merge. Anyways, I wrote the subsection of the anthropology article myself. I did not copy any information that was already written on the archaeology article. Looking through the forensic archaeology article the entire thing is basically unsourced and a lot of it is already reproduced in my own words in the anthropology subsection.

So my question is, if I don't actually copy any information from an article during a merge do I still leave the merge redirect message (#REDIRECT {{R from merge}}) or do I just leave a redirect? In addition, do I still have to leave an edit summary regarding the merge? The merge itself has been uncontested so I was going to perform it boldly but I wanted to make sure I was doing it correctly. Thanks! --Stabila711 (talk) 21:36, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great job in updating that page. Trying not to be too tautological, a merge is an actual merge – if you didn't merge content from forensic archaeology into it, then no "merge" took place whatever. Rather, you've created an entirely separately section in one article that also is the subject of a stand-alone article. Referring to that as a merge would be actively confusing. So, if you redirect the other to the one you've been working on, it would not take R from merge and there would be no copyright attribution edit summary since no merge occurred. If someone ever revives the article at the redirect and writes a more expansive sourced version of that topic, then you might include at the section in forensic anthropology on it, {{main}}. For clarity's sake, before you redirect the other, I would remove the merge tag there and say something in the edit summary like, "I rewrote the [[forensic anthropology]] and included a section on this topic, but merged no content from here in doing so". Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:40, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Thanks! --Stabila711 (talk) 00:30, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.tzitzikostas.gr/Default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=14

[2] ttp://www.pkm.gov.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=400

[3] ttp://www.voria.gr/article/tzitzikostas-i-tautotita-mou-leei-neodimokratis-i-dieuthunsi-rigillis

[4] ttp://www.tzitzikostas.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=22&newsid=2351

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