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December 3

User Name

Hi Person-in-charge,

May I check, can I change the user name of my wiki page?

Right now the user name is Heliconiacapital. I want to change it to Heliconia Capital.

Thank you for your kind help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heliconiacapital (talk • contribs) 01:44, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, Heliconiacapital, but neither your current username nor your proposed username are acceptable. Wikipedia does not allow usernames that are the name of companies or organizations, or any name that implies shared use. "Heliconia Capital" is the name of a company. I am going to soft block your account and leave instructions for changing the name on your talk page. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:52, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's contribution solicitations

I contribute when asked (which seems to be more frequently than in the past), but I believe I get hit twice with all the solicitation guilt trips because I use multiple email addresses. Even though you thank me when I give, I don't think you track who is actually giving and stop repeatedly asking for more money. I know it's tough raising money on a volunteer basis, and most organizations tend to go after the few who do donate all the more, but it makes one want to stop altogether to avoid ever-increasing requests. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.163.51.31 (talk) 02:18, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP editor. Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the group asking you for money. Wikipedia operates almost entirely independently from the foundation, and Wikipedia editors have no power over how the fundraising campaign operates. Please contact the foundation directly about any concerns you have about fundraising. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:26, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe if you have an account, you can disable the notices. IPs cannot disable the notices and there is no system to identify which users of IP addresses give money and which don't, as multiple people could use a single IP address. Also, if you don't wish to give money at any point in time, then don't. It's your money. 331dot (talk) 03:04, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

contest this speedy deletion

Hi Admin,

I am concern about contest this speedy deletion issue. Will you help me on this matter. what is happen with this content? . Or i did something wrong.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anuraj Sandhu (talk • contribs) 10:31, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anuraj Sandhu You edited your user page, which is not article space, but a place for to tell the Wikipedia community about yourself in the context of your Wikipedia editing or use. It isn't meant to be a place to draft articles. You have a sandbox for that purpose(User:Anuraj Sandhu/sandbox); you can also use Articles for Creation to create and submit a draft. However, even if you had used the sandbox, your draft still likely would have been deleted, as it was a promotional piece for the organization, cited to nothing other than routine announcements or press release-type articles, which do not establish that the organization meets Wikipedia's special definition of a notable organization. If you work for this organization, you must disclose that per the conflict of interest and paid editing policies. You might want to read Your First Article and use the new user tutorial to learn more about Wikipedia before attempting to write a draft(which is the most challenging thing to do on Wikipedia). 331dot (talk) 10:52, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Spurious blank lines

How do I stop Wikipedia from adding spurious blank lines in front of everything I post? The only way I've found is to go to preview so that the blank lines become visible, and remove them manually. However, this is both time consuming and does not always work. How do I fix the issue? Reyk _YO! 11:01, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I found an example in [1]. Are you saying your browser does not display blank lines in the edit window [2]? I see blank lines before Hiatus and Cool. What is your browser, and skin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering? Do you see the blank lines with safemode or if you log out? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:06, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I mostly use Firefox, but have run into the same problem with Edge and Chrome as well. Typically, I don't see the spurious blank lines when I'm initially editing. If I hit save without doing preview first they only get put in at that point. If I do hit preview they become visible in the edit window, and then I can remove them. However, even then they still get reintroduced maybe one time in ten when I hit save. It's very annoying. Safe mode seems to make no difference. My skin is MonoBook. Reyk _YO! 13:32, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question in Dutch

Header added by ColinFine (talk) 16:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

hoe verander je de taal

me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeannekedm (talk • contribs) 15:41, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo, Jeannekedm. Dit is de engelse Wikipedia. Misschien wilt U nl:Help:Helpdesk? --ColinFine (talk) 16:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I need help figuring out if I'm breaking the rules.

I was writing a draft on a battle royale, Thelast.io, when I realized I shouldn't have a personal attachment to the article, but I have first-hand knowledge of the game and the developers. I'm not sure if this breaks the rules, or is it that I shouldn't talk about myself in the article! Please help me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geminer (talk • contribs) 17:16, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Geminer If a subject is not covered in independent reliable sources with significant coverage, it does not merit an article on Wikipedia. First hand knowledge or other primary sources are not usually acceptable for establishing notability. If you have a conflict of interest with a subject that you are writing about, you should review the conflict of interest policy. 331dot (talk) 17:23, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I will immediately delete the changes to the article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geminer (talk • contribs) 17:24, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Geminer: Good idea for now, but keep monitoring the reliable sources, and when you see this stuff reported there, make suggestions on the talk page to get the information into the article. That approach allows an interested expert such as yourself to follow the rules for WP:RS and for WP:COI. -Arch dude (talk) 18:16, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article "Renaissance music"

Why is the section "Middle Renaissance" empty? Is someone in the process of revising this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.233.29.114 (talk) 18:29, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit, editor Jerome Kohl blanked the section with the edit summary "deleted unsupported claims, challenged since August 2016 and February 2019". So the contents of the section were unsourced, and people had gone in previously and marked them with {{uncited}}, so Jerome Kohl removed the content, as any editor has a right to do. Since Jerome Kohl made a subsequent edit to the article, it does not seem likely that he is working on the section. You are welcome to do so. If you look in the history (and at the diff I linked to) you can see what the content was: you are welcome to work on that, but you need to find published sources for whatever you put in. (I have pinged Jerome Kohl above, so if he comes on Wikipedia he will see this). --ColinFine (talk) 18:46, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Colin, for the ping. Indeed I am not working on that section, and I agree that 50.233.29.114 is welcome to bring back any of the deleted material for which reliable sources can be found. I was unable to do so, but perhaps I could have tried harder. I just got tired of seeing those aging tags.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 21:26, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

I want to edit articles but I am not sure how to. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muhawks5688 (talk • contribs) 20:56, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Muhawks5688: Welcome. You can start with WP:TUTORIAL and the learning game WP:ADVENTURE. RudolfRed (talk) 21:05, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How do I check my edits

How do I check how many edits I have? In my contributions, it does not say. New3400 (talk) 23:38, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Try Special:Preferences. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:42, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@New3400: You may also see https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/wiki.riteme.site/New3400 for some statistics of your en-wiki contributions. --CiaPan (talk) 09:10, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ref error

I need help with fixing the error with reference 28 in Team Trees. Thanks in advance! Melofors 23:42, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

We didn't need those non-text characters in the ref title. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:53, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]