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June 15

could you please help me fix this... how could this be removed...

Right on top of the wikki page for Dr. Carla Shatz thre is a banner with the following:

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Could you please help me see how I could remove this. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hfattaey (talk • contribs) 00:49, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Has substantial information from reliable sources been added to the article? --Orange Mike | Talk 00:58, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article Carla J. Shatz (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has four references. If more are added then it could be removed. Please understand templates like this are not a negative for an article. They help alert other editors and readers that improvements to the article will be appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 01:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Query about articles for deletion

My understanding is that at Wikipedia: Articles for deletion, a deletion discussion will close after seven clear days. I have been keeping an eye on two candidates for deletion - one, planufacturing, the other Holly McCall. Planufacturing got added on Wednesday June 7, Holly McCall on Tuesday June 6. Yet, it now seems that although planufacturing has been deleted, the article on Holly McCall - in spite of being on the list of deletion article candidates a day longer - is still in Wikipedia. Can anybody clarify what is going on there, please? Vorbee (talk) 10:33, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is useful if you provide wikilinks to the pages in question. If you look at WP:Articles for deletion/Holly McCall you will see that it has been relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:42, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Planufacturing was speedy deleted - so that's gone. As David says, the Holly article was relisted to get more opinions and a clearer consensus. Thanks ツ Jenova 20 ^(email) 12:06, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How do I stop trolling on a page?

I visited a page today and found it being attacked by an anonymous troll. I am not the author of this page, and I have no official association with the entity that is the subject of the page, but I am a fan of that entity and a frequent visitor to its blog.

That blog appears to have been the victim of a DDoS attack today -- it has been unavailable for at least 12 hours -- and I assume this trolling on the wikipedia page is associated with the DDoS.

Although I have no official association with the page being attacked, I removed the trolling comments. But the troll keeps undoing my correction -- many times within the last hour.

Is there some way to freeze the page to thwart the troll? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amazondoc (talk • contribs) 19:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This must be about File 770. Maproom (talk) 19:52, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Amazondoc: I've semi-protected the page File 770 for 3 days. It looks like you've had to revert them a whole bunch of times today; a better way to handle that, after it is clear that they're going to keep reverting, is to report it at WP:AIV (for very clear vandalism), or WP:ANI (for more complicated issues). In this particular case, I'm not sure it's vandalism, it may be some kind of feud with the blog owner being imported here. But in any case, page protected. I should hasten to add that reverting, and then AIV/ANI, are for cases where it's 150% certain you're reverting vandalism or clearly inappropriate stuff like this; if it's a dispute over content, start a talk page discussion instead. If you're not sure, err on the side of caution. Otherwise you can end up getting yelled at for edit warring. But in this case it's clearly inappropriate. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:56, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 NCAA Baseball season article

Can you put the 2018 NCAA Baseball Article from draft to main article space please. 2600:8803:7A00:976A:39EA:24B8:CA23:C05 (talk) 20:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Aaron Tucker page

Is it possible to change the page name from "Aaron tucker" to "Aaron Tucker" (with a capital T); I'm not yet approved to move/rename pages and overlooked my typo until the page had been created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JuliaPolyckONeill (talk • contribs) 20:49, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Eagleash (talk) 21:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Submitting a new page

How does one start a new page or submit new content for consideration?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgarms (talk • contribs) 21:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rgarms. A good place to start is Wikipedia:Your first article. If you have specific questions after reading that, please come back to the Teahouse and ask. Rivertorch^FIRE _WATER 23:59, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect information feeding Google Knowledge Graph

Hello, our Seattle City Light wikipedia entry has been updated in the last year with our new CEO, Larry Weis, listed as the executive. However, Google continues to show Jorge Carrasco as the CEO when you do a search on Seattle City Light. I spoke with Google support and they said they could not correct the data and that it had to be handled by Wikipedia support. Can you assist us? No where on our page does it list Carrasco as CEO so it is very frustrating.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Kristin McDaniel Seattle City Light — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.74.249.245 (talk) 21:30, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure who you spoke to at Google but they were wrong. It's up to them to update the info they display. In order to alert Google of the change, you can click on the "Feedback" link at the bottom of the Knowledge Graph and that will take you to a form to submit changes. At least it did the last time I updated something with them. †dismas†|^(talk) 21:59, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Google gave you wrong information (not the first time we hear this). Google's Knowledge Graph uses a wide variety of sources. There may be a text paragraph ending with "Wikipedia" to indicate that particular text was copied from Wikipedia. An image and other text before or after the Wikipedia excerpt may be from sources completely unrelated to Wikipedia. We have no control over how Google presents our information, but Google's Knowledge Graph has a "Feedback" link where anyone can mark a field as wrong. Also note that the Google search Seattle City Light CEO displays a box at top saying "Jorge Carrasco" with no mention of Wikipedia. They didn't get this from us. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also note: this is not "our Wikipedia entry"; this is an article in Wikipedia about you. It is not yours in any way; you cannot control it, nor do we particularly care what you yourselves have to say about you. We seek impartial, disinterested third-party reliable sources.--Orange Mike | Talk 01:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]