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October 4

What is going on here?

Howdy. I've been noticing a lot of the same content addition edits lately by the same editor and wonder what is going on here? [1], [2], [3], [4], etc. Are all these "unrealized project" and "collaborations" tables added really necessary? I would ask the editor[5], but I do not know how to leave a message for an unregistered user. Hope I'm not trolling or being nosy, just curious. Thanks. Maineartists (talk) 01:00, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You can leave a message on an IP's talk page, and the editor might see it; but there's no guarantee that they will, because they may have a different IP address next time they connect. ColinFine (talk) 10:58, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I need some help

Good day! Dear Wikipedians, I really need help. For the first time in my life I am writing a new article, before that I only edited it, but I feel the strength to bring an article about good people to the vastness of Wikipedia. I am a student, but due to the war in my country, education has deteriorated a bit, in terms of lack of information in my direction. We have an IT company in our city, which in my, and indeed in all universities in the city, conducts free lectures and courses for those who are interested in the technical direction. It also helped our university technically. Since universities do not give good information about development, this was a chance for me to fulfill my dream of starting to program. I haven’t become a developer yet, and I don’t think it will happen soon, but this company helps people like me from start to finish, and even in practice there is an opportunity to try to do something. I am inspired by such actions, because for the first time I see that an IT company is somehow culturally and educationally connected with the society and I am proud that there is such a thing even in my hometown. But it was quite difficult to write an article, since all and information about them is mainly in English, and this is not my native language. Due to the fact that I have not yet succeeded in writing articles, I turn to you for help and tips. My article is in the wikipedia incubator "incubator: bandapixels". Please help me, what are the next steps after the article is published in the incubator and what should I correct in the article. I would be very grateful for any help! V.rova (talk) 06:43, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently this is about something on a different website; see this discussion. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 13:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@V.rova, if you want to write an article here on English Wikipedia, then you can click Draft:Bandapixels and get started (see Help:Your first article for further instructions). However, you may prefer writing an article on a version of Wikipedia in your native language - there is a list of all of them here. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 14:10, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Yes, indeed, it so happened that I did not fully understand that the incubator belongs to the Russian-language Wikipedia, so it happened. Thanks a lot for the reply V.rova (talk) 06:16, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

V.rova, rather than creating something at the "Incubator", you created ru:Инкубатор:BandaPixels. You're welcome to copy its content and paste this to Draft:BandaPixels, if the very first edit you make to the latter (i.e. the edit that creates it) has a summary that makes it clear that it's a copy of ru:Инкубатор:BandaPixels. You'd then have to improve the draft a lot before submitting it as a candidate article. For example: BandaPixels was established in [year] as a brainchild of [number] development experts with a shared vision on how to make a difference with technological innovation. Their goal was to create IT company aimed at delivering high-performing solutions to businesses across the globe. To which my reaction is "Yes, exactly like a squillion other new IT companies." What the draft needs is information and commentary from reliable sources. To be "reliable", the source must satisfy various criteria, one of them being independence from BandaPixels. -- Hoary (talk) 22:14, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. I had problems with the incubator, because I mistakenly believed that it belonged to the English-language Wikipedia too. Because of this, at first I even tried to remove this comment, as I understood that they would most likely not understand me. Thank you very much for your help, you really helped me a lot! V.rova (talk) 06:19, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I very much suspect that the Инкубатор: is ru-wiki's equivalent of the Draft: namespace, and nothing to do with Wikimedia's incubator. So yes, V.rova, that incubator is part of ru-wiki. But most ieditors of en-wiki (including me until a few minutes ago) did not know that the draft space in ru-wiki was called Инкубатор, and presumed you must be talking about the Wikimedia incubator that Theroadislong pointed you at. --ColinFine (talk) 13:45, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Black mode/background

It would be very nice to see having an option of black mode/background at Wikipedia. Is that something you will be doing ?

Thanks,

Niko (from Greece) Gkioulbakses (talk) 08:45, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gkioulbakses: You can go to Special:Preferences#mw-input-wpgadget-dark-mode-toggle. You'll find an option to get a dark mode toggle button, checkmark that. Save the settings. Now go to any page, you'll find a "Dark mode" button at the top bar of your screen between "Beta" & "Watchlist". Click that and now you're in dark mode. If you want to come back to light mode, you'll see an option at that same place between "Beta" & "Watchlist". —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 09:01, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a true dark mode as it's technically just a color inverter. Would be nice to see a proper dark mode implemented. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 14:12, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Urvashi Rautela

Urvashi Rautela about information is incorrect, she was born in Kotdwara but wikipedia showing it his birth place Haridwar. 14.98.67.237 (talk) 09:38, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This has been discussed several times on the talk page Talk:Urvashi Rautela. The current claim has a citation (though I don't know how reliable the source is). The claim for Kotdwara was backed up by this source, but that says that Kotdwara is her "hometown" and that she spent most of her childhood there: it does not say that she was born there. In any case, this is a content dispute which needs to be discussed, and consensus reached, on the talk page. ColinFine (talk) 11:08, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

unexplained post

Wikipedia:Help desk-Wikipedia 2A02:A317:E046:2600:D06B:8973:7E64:D2E6 (talk) 09:51, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is the Help desk for Wikipedia. Have you got a question about editing Wikipedia? --ColinFine (talk) 11:09, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Help:IPA/Slovene

In June, I have substantially expanded and also updated the article about Slovene phonology and thus the help page is not in accordance with the phonology article and has to be updated as well. I have posted my thoughts on the talk page, but so far no one has commented. If you are interested, please visit the talk page and post your comment there. Garygo golob (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Garygo golob, most help desk helpers won't know much about Slovene phonology (apologies to any who do). I would suggest posting your notice at the talk pages for WP:SLOVENIA and WP:LINGUISTICS. TSventon (talk) 15:13, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I posted that here because that is what the message when you want to post something on the talk page said. Thanks for advice, though. Garygo golob (talk) 15:30, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Garygo golob, of course you are welcome to post here. The message seems to be addressed to people who edit talk pages in the help namespace and says, "consider visiting the Help desk for a more prompt response". If you had a question about a page like Help:Your first article, I would expect help desk helpers to be able to advise you. Help:IPA/Slovene is more specialist and it is unlikely, but not impossible, that helpers here will be able to comment on Slovene phonology. TSventon (talk) 15:49, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Garygo golob: The Help Desk (and its newbie-oriented sister page at the Teahouse) is the Wikipedia equivalent of a primary care physician. We accept any question related to editing Wikipedia, and try to answer it to the best of our ability. Most of the time, that’s enough, but in tricky cases we refer to a medical specialist (= a more specialised noticeboard). A fairly regular occurrence is to refer to WP:MCQ for subtle copyright questions or WP:VPT for tricky technical questions. That does not mean it was wrong to ask at the general noticeboard in the first instance. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 13:08, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How to update a link within a page

The information for current mayor on the Belmont CA page is incorrect and it appears that it's pulling from the city's 2019 website. Is there a way to update the link so that it has the current mayor, Julia Mates? Packacards (talk) 16:43, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done The information wasn't being "pulled" from the website; the website was merely being used as a reference for the information. I've updated the article based on the name of the mayor currently listed at the site. DonIago (talk) 16:47, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Starting Seven

I am unable to sign up for "Starting Seven." How can I find out if I am enrolled in it? 72.132.244.124 (talk) 17:45, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This help desk is for questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia. If you want help with 'Starting Seven' (whatever that is) you'll have to find it somewhere else. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:52, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion

How can I retrieve a page that was deleted? Onoja1 (talk) 19:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Onoja1: You can ask the admin that deleted it, or request it at WP:REFUND. It will depend on the reasons for deletion if you will be able to get a copy of it or not. RudolfRed (talk) 19:36, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect deletion

Special:Contributions/AistisXD has created several redirects. Many of those are all possible variations of capitalization, e.g.

Some are in all caps (shouting), e.g. KIPELOV. I would like to nominate some of the user's redirects for deletion. Some are already deleted at RfD. It will be a bit of work to "manually" nominate them all with Twinkle, or manually in the source editor.

Special:PermanentLink/1113073798#Redirects_from_unusual_capitalizations lists the reasons why these redirects are not useful. My reasons for why the redirects should be deleted are that they clutter the Whatlinkshere listings without any advantages.

This is the help desk, so here is my question: If these redirects are unwanted, I would assume they all would already be RfD'ed, but they aren't. Is it a good idea for me to nominate them? And how do I, easiest and with the least efforts, nominate many of these redirects for deletion? (I know how to nominate one at a time, but I guess it is inconvenient.) Utfor (talk) 20:01, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Teahouse, Utfor. We have a saying around Wikipedia, "Redirects are cheap", meaning, I guess, that they don't waste computer resources. If you do nothing, Wikipedia won't be much worse off than it is right now.--Quisqualis (talk) 06:26, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Those useless redirects should eventually be picked up by the new pages patrol. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:20, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for both answers. Utfor (talk) 20:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Not Displaying

The Page I created 2022 BYU Cougars football team has a section titled Depth Chart that isn't displaying properly after I complete the edits. For context see the section titled Depth Chart on the 2021 BYU Cougars football team page which displays the defense line, linebackers and safety positions correctly. Yerfdog71 (talk) 20:13, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yerfdog71 Does it look correct now? It appear you setup the template as 4–3 (with a en dash), but the template requires 4-3 (with a hyphen). -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 20:54, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, Thanks! Yerfdog71 (talk) 21:23, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

user name

can I change my user name? not the name itself but to change a capitalized letter to lower case rfcichon (talk) 22:02, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rfcichon Unfortunately technical limitations prevent that; you can only do as you have done, and pipe your signature. 331dot (talk) 22:09, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You can also create the pages User:Rfcichon and User talk:Rfcichon with the text {{lowercase title}} to display your name with lowercase r on those two pages but not elsewhere. Your real username cannot start with a lowercase letter and the real name with R is displayed in many other places. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:05, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thanks rfcichon (talk) 20:05, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]