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March 30

What should I do If someone has copied my draft and published it without my consent?

Recently @Khotanese26 copied Draft:Shivaji's Southern Campaign [1], I think I could ask for a speedy deletion at maximum. Sudsahab (talk) 03:11, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sudsahab:You gave your consent when you hit the "publish" button to save your draft. You licensed all of your input under a CC-BY-SA license. You have no recourse, assuming the copy was properly attributed to you. If it was not attributed, it should be deleted as a copyright violation. The other user would then still be free to copy it with proper attribution.-Arch dude (talk) 03:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First of all he didn't attribute it to me second If there would be an article in namespace with the exact name as my draft then why would any page reviewer review it? Should I abandon my draft? Sudsahab (talk) 04:10, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:CWW for a bit more context regarding this. Remsense诉 04:31, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sudsahab: It looks like the best approach is for you to initiate a history merge. See Wikipedia:History merging#Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging. Arch dude (talk) 04:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion, I'd definitely go for merging Sudsahab (talk) 05:24, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sudsahab: I deleted the unattributed copyright violation 1674-1678 Southern Campaign of Marathas. To avoid further problems, I moved your draft to 1674–1678 Southern Campaign of Marathas (with an en dash instead of a hyphen dash). I will soon make the former a redirect to the latter. Johnuniq (talk) 05:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Sudsahab (talk) 07:23, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone help me put English translation to singer's page?

I've been a fan of Bell Chung (Taiwanese female singer) for a long time. And I made an English version of her Wiki Page. However, since I'm not an extended confirmed editor, I'm not allowed to publish the English version.

Can someone help me with it? Kevinkevinjiang987 (talk) 06:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may submit it via the Article Wizard. 331dot (talk) 06:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kevinkevinjiang987, as "Kevinkevinjiang987", you've so far made a total of just one edit in en:Wikipedia: the plea for help above. I suggest that you get experience editing and improving existing articles before attempting a new article. -- Hoary (talk) 07:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We regularly have translated contributions from other Wikipedias, provided by novice editors. Provided the source article is in good shape, its a perfectly valid way for novices to contribute. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:11, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Mabbett, agreed. However, I find that the source articles are very often, perhaps usually, not in good shape. The examples I see of translations into English tend to be from Japanese; and the Japanese articles used tend to be feeble. Consider this thing, which informs us in all (and typically Japanese) seriousness that the subject is 157 cm tall, weighs 46 kg, has a BMI of 18.7; has the "three sizes" 88, 60 and 89 cm; and that coursing through her is type A juice (presumably influencing her personality accordingly). Height aside, none of these "facts" appears in the en:WP translation (en:WP being less inane than ja:WP); but what's left strikes me as feeble indeed. -- Hoary (talk) 23:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Central alignment using < div >

Hi. I'm having some issues using < div > on my user page. Specifically, I can't align the userboxes to the center in the "Countries I've visited" section. Could someone please look into this issue and possibly fix it? Thanks. CanonNi (talk) 13:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CanonNi: Try {{center block}}. Bazza 7 (talk) 13:39, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I used {{center block}} but it's still broken. Could you take a look please? CanonNi (talk) 13:45, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CanonNi I add a {{Clear}}. Does that help? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:48, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. {{clear}} partly fixes the issue but it generates a massive gap between the section and the next. CanonNi (talk) 13:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you found a better compromise. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not really, but it works for now. CanonNi (talk) 14:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not receiving reset password mail

I recently created a Wikipedia account and I am unable to login to the account. When I try to reset my password, I do not receive the reset password mail via the email I used to create the account. 45.8.19.111 (talk) 13:55, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please ask at only one venue, like you did at the Teahouse. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Showing Move Button

My Move Button is not showing on any page and whenever I write an article it is in Draft. Tanujaanu (talk) 15:46, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tanujaanu New accounts like yours are not allowed to move drafts into main-space because they tend not to meet Wikipedia's standards for notability in particular. Please use the articles for creation process whereby your draft is reviewed by an experienced editor. More at H:YFA. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:57, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

.... and I note that you removed the redirect at Shaun Romy to create an article for an actress. However, you have ignored the policy for biographies of living people which states that inline citations must be given for all details likely to be challenged, which includes, for example, her date of birth. Why are you in such a hurry to create articles? Quality is more important than quantity. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:02, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question. I've done plot summaries for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis season's 1,2 & 3. The code is there, but it doesn't show on the page. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis_season_1 https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis_season_2 https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis_season_3

Some Bot did something: 12:47, 30 March 2024‎ Qwerfjkl (bot) talk contribs‎ m 70,263 bytes 0‎ Qwerfjkl (bot) moved page The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (season 1) to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis season 1: Implementing RfC on TV season article titles (Task 28) undo thank Tag: paws [2.2] Entercontainment (talk) 16:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Entercontainment: I've fixed these three articles. There is some ongoing discussion at User talk:Qwerfjkl. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:02, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reliability of source

Hi, I came across this website: [2], its presentation and UI makes me question its reliability on first glance but upon further inspection it seems to have very comprehensive and detailed information which could be extremely useful for articles such as Metasequoia, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Hu Xiansu, W.C.Cheng etc if it is considered reliable. Can someone else take a look to see if it is reliable or not for sourcing? Many thanks. Zinderboff(talk) 17:46, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinderboff: You might want to ask over at the reliable sources noticeboard. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks. Zinderboff(talk) 18:31, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add person?

FYI

– Heading added by Tenryuu.

Can a person be added to Wikipedia: Dr. Stanley Pearle of Pearle Vision? 2600:1700:8990:2B60:F919:3043:3821:B074 (talk) 18:23, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP editor. Stanley Pearle is probably notable in my opinion but the challenge will be finding reliable sources that devote significant coverage of him that are indepent of him. There is a book about his life called "Dr. Stanley Pearle: A Man of Vision", but I suspect that it was sponsored by the company he founded. But several other books also discuss him and his career, according to my Google Books search. News coverage that I found easily is largely based on statements issued by the company. A deeper search may produce truly independent coverage. Please read Your first article. Cullen328 (talk) 19:30, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An easier alternative is to expand Pearle Vision where he is already briefly mentioned to include a paragraph or two of well-referenced content about the founder. Cullen328 (talk) 19:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Missing episode details

Good evening When I opened up my browser and went to the Knight Rider Episode 1 episode listing page that I was in last night I found that the episode synopsis (brief explanation) of each episode is missing. Is there a way to get it to display again? I checked a few other TV shows like The Flash and found the same problem. PhilipGray123 (talk) 20:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PhilipGray123: Please clarify which articles you are having trouble with. Knight_Rider_(2008_TV_series) is showing episode descriptions. As far as I can tell, Knight_Rider_season_1 never had episode summaries. RudolfRed (talk) 20:36, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RudolfRed thank you for responding. The episode summaries of all episodes of all the TV show listings I have Looked at are not showing. All I see is:

The episode number

The episode title

The Director's name

The Writer/s name/s

I have a screenshot but I am unable to attach it here. PhilipGray123 (talk) 21:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PhilipGray123:

Fixed. The problem was that the sublist template was calling for the page title Knight Rider (season 1) when the actual page title was Knight Rider season 1, without the parentheses. As the documentation for {{Episode list/sublist}} reads:

ShortSummary: [...] Leaving this parameter empty will result in the summary row not appearing for the episode. If {{Episode list/sublist}} is used then the page name must be specified to display the summary there, e.g. {{Episode list/sublist|List of Carnivàle episodes|...}}. The summary will not appear if the code is transcluded in another page.

Formatting in original, edited for proseline.
I moved the page so that the parentheses are present in the title, which caused the summaries to reappear. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Tenryuu. Knight Rider Season 1 is now showing the summaries. Seasons 2 to 4, The Flash Seasons and Supergirl seasons are displaying with the summaries missing. From my perspective this is a global issue affecting all TV shows listings. PhilipGray123 (talk) 22:30, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be because there was a recent request for comment over how TV series seasons should be titled, and the consensus appears to have been renaming them, which has caused templates to break. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:35, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Tenryuu for you prompt responses. I hope there is a way to fix them all at once because fixing each one separately will take a long time. Hopefully you will be able to role back the changes that were made. PhilipGray123 (talk) 22:45, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PhilipGray123: I've reverted my move as there was consensus found in renaming the article titles. Dealing with the template appears to be an action item over at the RfC's post-action section, so I suggest keeping an eye out on that discussion as they haven't reached that point yet. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:46, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will they be fixing this for ALL episodic TV shows? Beccib23 (talk) 04:04, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From what I can tell, eventually. It seems there are some users who are doing it manually, though I'm hoping that they can be changed very quickly via a bot. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 04:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But why did they remove them to begin with? I see something above about 'broken templates', can't they just 'unbreak' them? I depended on the episode descriptions for many shows that I watch. Like I said in my original query, I suppose I will have to use tmdb & IMDb instead. Beccib23 (talk) 19:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Everything seems to be fixed as of 1:25 pm (PDT) today. Here's hoping it sticks? Beccib23 (talk) 20:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's what they've been doing manually. It was an unintended consequence of how the template works when moving pages. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thank you to whoever fixed it! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Beccib23 (talk) 19:18, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 01

Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 01

Could someone with AWB skills move the checkmarks and x's from the end of the lines to the beginning of the lines, after the bullet points? It's quicker to check that way (like at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Naval biographies). Could you do it at the other 62 epitome pages in the category as well? Thanks, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 22:19, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9: Please ask at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]