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December 29

Is the article "Andrew Stephen Wilson" good enough to get verified

Hello, I made this article in 26 of November this year and I haven't got a response to it. And I was wondering if someone could review it this article. Thank you. Pupusareawesome (talk) 00:47, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Do you mean this article Andrew Stephen Wilson @Pupusareawesome? Knitsey (talk) 00:56, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that one. Pupusareawesome (talk) 00:59, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

It's been published and is now in the main space. It might not show up in searches for now, it can take a little while. Congratulations! Knitsey (talk) 01:03, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

oh ok, Thank you @Knitsey Pupusareawesome (talk) 01:05, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

If you're asking about a peer review, you requested one here Wikipedia:Peer review/Andrew Stephen Wilson/archive1, see he answer below your request. Knitsey (talk) 01:08, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Pupusareawesome, your request for peer review says that he had discovered many things by use multi-wavelength and X-ray radio, but the article does not say that. It should describe the most important things that he discovered as an astronomer. Cullen328 (talk) 19:16, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Please help explaining a statistics presentation issue

I feel I am doing a bad job here and do not know how to do better, so I'm asking for help. At Mexico and White Mexicans, I have noticed @Pob3qu3 in recent additions is averaging (very different) demographic estimates together into one number. I think this is seriously misleading and information-destroying for readers, but I haven't been able to get across why. They're not doing anything wrong, and I don't want to harass or confuse them any further. I appreciate if anyone could take a look. Thanks. Remsense ‥ 论 00:57, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

You should have brought this up before reverting then yet again, as such you're both violating WP:3R and effectively in an edit war. I'm glad that after they readded the information you did not revert yet a fourth time. I have placed the appropriate warning, and if they readd that "average" again I'd suggest raising it over at ANI for edit warring. TiggerJay (talk) 01:40, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Why do you think I'm posting this? I'm not in an edit war because I'm done here. Good grief. Remsense ‥ 论 01:43, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, I think you are correct in your assessment that his calculations are incorrect and have stated as much on his talk page. TiggerJay (talk) 02:41, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Appreciate the elaboration—I'm just a bit stressed on here and want to extract myself here in the most productive way possible. Remsense ‥ 论 02:43, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Just closing the loop, it seems like progress is being made towrads consensus. Thanks for bringing it up, and sorry if it felt like I snipped at you. TiggerJay (talk) 01:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Can’t edit articles with extended confirmed protection

I have over 500 edits and I can’t edit articles with extended confirmed protection. Zabezt (talk) 04:42, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

@Zabezt: Looking at your user rights log, it appears that your extended confirmed rights were revoked by an admin for gaming the system. This may have to do with your rapid edits to your sandbox. I'd suggest asking the admin in question, JJMC89, for more details. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 04:55, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

General sanctions and page protection

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 is semi-protected. Yet per the general sanctions put on the page only extended-confirmed users can edit. Is there a reason the article isn't extended confirmed protected instead? Squeezdakat (talk) 05:51, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

@Squeezdakat: The article has been classified as falling into a contentious topic area (see WP:CT/A-A). It was decided that all articles that could be broadly construed as coming under this topic area would be restricted so that only extended-confirmed users could edit them, detailed at WP:GS/AA#Remedies. It is stated there that articles with the extended confirmed restriction are not required to be extended confirmed protected, but the restriction can be enforced through other means instead. If there is an edit you wish to make to the article, may I suggest you propose it on the talk page (which I see you have already edited) and an EC editor will review your request and make the edit if appropriate. Thank you, Redtree21 (talk) 07:14, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Squeezdakat (talk) 07:59, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Squeezdakat, the restriction limits such editors from editing topics related to conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan. If a non extended confirmed editor added good content, for example, about the Embraer jet, I would not interpret that as a violation. Cullen328 (talk) 20:32, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh that makes sense. Thank you! Squeezdakat (talk) 02:45, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

@Cullen328 Is there anyway I can contact arbitration and tell them to allow anyone to edit wikipedia pages involving Armenia and Azerbaijan for non political ones or ones where armenia and azerbaijan have supported each other (it is rare but it happens) SimpleSubCubicGraph (talk) 05:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

SimpleSubCubicGraph, you can contact ArbCom either as a group or individual members both on Wikipedia or by email. I suggest that you do your homework about restrictions related to contentious topics first. See Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee for more information about how they operate. Cullen328 (talk) 07:24, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Unsure about Maplink

On this page, I’ve included a Maplink, and an appropriate caption, but for some reason the caption appears to say ‘Map’. ‘Map’ isn’t the caption I intended, so can someone fix this? Diegg24 (talk) 19:53, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Diegg24.

If you look at Template:maplink, I think the parameter you want is text rather than descpription

Under "text", the documentation says Text to display for the link (or caption if using mapframe); default is "Map".

"Description" says Description of the feature (for features from OSM), displayed when the feature is clicked on; optional. ColinFine (talk) 20:12, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, this works. Thank you! Diegg24 (talk) 20:35, 29 December 2024 (UTC)