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November 7

Error Message

I keep getting this error message:

{"name":"HTTPError","message":"500","status":500,"detail":"Internal Server Error"}

I have tried different pages, different browsers, different computers. Reguarless, i get the same error message.

I appreciate your help.

THANK-YOU!!!!

Jack Mabry Jacksmabry (talk) 02:30, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

This appears to be something unrelated to Wikipedia. Have a look at List of HTTP status codes#5xx server errors to see what's your error is all about. INeedSupport ^:3 02:49, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

A 500 error is the server saying it can't handle the request. It's most likely a temporary glitch on the server (these are often caused by buggy code), but could equally be caused by a bad request. The fact that this error has been reported in JSON says to me that the request might not be a typical one. More examples of when this happens, and why it didn't happen this time, might help. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 03:01, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Correction of birthday

Shankarsha karade marathi actor birthday is mentioned wrong so how to we edit that? 2409:4042:6EBA:FC82:0:0:B288:8E11 (talk) 02:35, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

You can just edit the article and add the information along with supporting source. Could you provide the link to the article? I'm not sure which article you are referring to. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 02:39, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Could someone have a look on a draft and help me with sending it for the approval?

Hi! Made a translation for an article in Polish (pl:ESky.pl) at Draft:ESky, because couldn't publish it directly due to lack of editor status. Would somebody help me with appropriate tagging it to be approved? ThePhoenix4 (talk) 10:44, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

I've added the submission template so you can submit it, however, if you were to do so, it would likely be declined quickly, as it just summarizes the routine business activities of the company. Instead, it should primarily summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. Note that this may be different from the Polish Wikipedia, which is a separate project with its own editors and policies.

If you are associated with this company, it must be disclosed, see WP:COI and WP:PAID ("paid editing" includes employment). 331dot (talk) 10:51, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

@ThePhoenix4: you have already submitted Draft:eSky Group and been asked to show that it meets N:ORG so please don't submit both at the same time. TSventon (talk) 21:58, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The lastest recommended method of copying equations from wikipedia pages

Hi there,

I raised this question a few years back and was told to run the following script and I would be able to copy the equations on the wiki pages:

//

(function () {
    $(document).ready(function () {
        mw.loader.using(["mediawiki.util"], function () {
            try {
                var mathSVGs = $(".mwe-math-fallback-image-inline");
                mathSVGs.each(function () {
                    var mathSVG = $(this)[0];
                    mathSVG.src = mathSVG.src.replace('render/svg', 'render/png');
                });
            } catch (error) {
                console.error(error);
            }
        });
    });
})();
//

Unfortunately, recently the above method seems getting increasingly ineffective, manifested by the majority of equations are missing when pasting the copied webpage into Word.

I tried some Firefox, which is my primary browser, plugins such as MathJax but none of them worked.

I'm wondering if there is a recommended method by Wikipedia to copy the equations? My usage of the copied contents is sheerly personal study.

BTW, I'm a regular donator of Wikipedia.

Your prompt reply will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Shan Farhill (talk) 11:45, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Farhill As an editor, I thank you for donating money to the Foundation, but that money goes to the Foundation for its activties (like operating the computers Wikipedia is on). We editors don't see the money, and telling us that you donate doesn't influence day to day activities like discussions. 331dot (talk) 11:51, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The bottom of Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering has a Math setting but I don't know whether another choice will help you. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:58, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

@Farhill: For a technical matter such as this, try asking at WP:VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:24, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

What criteria does this article fall in under speedy deletion.

NOTE: the wikiproject this article exist in which is the si.wikipedia.org has the same WP:DP as en.wikipedia (just translated). But asking here to get a more experienced opinion.
The article si:අත්තරගම රාජගුරු බංඩාර a person declared as a poet of the kingdom of kandy era, was made in 2014. up until now, the only content in the article was that same sentence "this person is a poet of kandy kingdom era". even that is tagged as not confirmed. Does this article meet any criteria for deletion? VihirLak007^hmu!/_duh. 14:38, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Each wiki has its own rules, you will need to consult the deletion policies there. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 15:39, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

@VihirLak007 You say that the si:Wikipedia has the same deletion policies as en:Wikipedia. In that case, you can read the detailed criteria at WP:CSD. Such an article here could also be prodded if the deletion were uncontroversial but the criteria for speedy deletion were not met. However, your safest course of action is to consult a suitable forum on si:, since as already advised we have are not fully aware of their policies. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:16, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

@Michael D. Turnbull @Tutwakhamoe Thanks! VihirLak007^hmu!/_duh. 16:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

VihirLak007 en Wikipedia has a template {{Unreferenced}} which populates Category:All articles lacking sources, which shows that unreferenced articles are not always deleted, so you may need to look at the si versions of WP:DEL-REASON, WP:BIO and WP:AFD. TSventon (talk) 17:53, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

COI?

I joined Bluesky late in the summer of 2024, when it was an invite-only service. Do I have a conflict of interest with the platform? — 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ ^{(CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST)} 15:40, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Joined as a user or developer? If you are a user, then there's no conflict of interest. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 15:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Pronunciation help

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but could someone please add {{IPAc-en}} and {{respell}} for the Tenh Dẕetle Conservancy article? I'm not familiar with the use of these templates. BC Parks gives the pronunciation of Tenh Dẕetle as "Ten-thet-luh" here. Volcanoguy 17:24, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Done INeedSupport ^:3 18:08, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Correcting a statement consistently mistranslated by (otherwise) reliable sources

My question is what to do if all English sources contain the same mistranslation of a statement made in Hebrew and a video of the original statement and reliable Hebrew sources with the correct transcription are available.

The articles on Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip (2023–present) and Yoav Gallant (and possibly others as well) refer to the widely reported quote from Yoav Gallant on 9 October 2023 that he ordered a "complete siege on the Gaza Strip". Many (otherwise) reliable sources are cited. Unfortunately, this appears to be a mistranslation. In the cited YouTube video and the video embedded in the cited Al Jazeera articles (1, 2)), Gallant very clearly says העיר עזה, "Gaza City" or "the city of Gaza", not רצועת עזה, the Gaza Strip. This is confirmed by reliable Hebrew sources, e.g. this Haaretz article. The YouTube video says "the city of Gaza" in the subtitles; the Al Jazeera articles just say "Gaza"; but all sources quote and report the announcement as if it referred to the entire Gaza Strip. For instance, the cited article in the Times of Israel (which might have been expected to provide a correct translation of the Hebrew) says "Gaza" in the title but "the Gaza Strip" in the direct quotation in the text.

I'm wondering how this should be fixed. I worry that if I just change the quote and add Hebrew sources, people will look it up in the English sources and change it back. Removing the English sources and citing only Hebrew sources doesn't solve the problem, either – (the wrong version of) the quote is so well-known that someone is bound to add English sources if only Hebrew sources are cited. I'm wondering whether the mistranslation itself is notable enough to discuss it in the article (in which case both English and Hebrew sources could be cited to illustrate the issue). This might be appropriate in the article on the blockade, where such a public (mis)perception of the article's topic is itself an appropriate subject of the article, but it seems a bit less appropriate in the article on Gallant himself, which should simply quote him correctly. Any advice would be much appreciated.

(To avoid misunderstandings: I think Gallant is a war criminal; I'm certainly not doing this to defend him or the Israeli government; but even (and perhaps especially) in writing about war criminals we should be precise.)

Joriki (talk) 17:52, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:When sources are wrong. It has good advice. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:47, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

I think changing Gaza Strip to Gaza City could help. Adding the references you gave would help as well. However, the entire Gaza strip was affected by the blockade, not just Gaza City itself. Mentioning the entire strip was affected instead of Gaza City alone after the blockade was implemented would sort out the confusion. INeedSupport ^:3

Article rejection

Someone please article Draft:Meru Khavas was rejected many times from for creation 2409:40F4:3040:A3FD:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 18:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Have a look at the reason why it was rejected. Some of your sources barely mentions Meru Khavas, which wouldn't be a good source. Also, the writing style of the article appears to show support to him, which is not allowed in Wikipedia. For example, "freed the Kutch ships from their terror" means that the Kutch are the bad guys. However, that shows biases against them. Instead, it should be stated that the Kutch are the opposition to Khavas and Khavas successfully won the war against them. We want to have a neutral point of view for articles to prevent biases.

Try to expand on the buildings Meru Khavas built and how they blocked off pirates. How did the buildings work? INeedSupport ^:3 19:41, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The first comment says This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). You need to show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. If you can't do that, then it doesn't really matter whether the article is well or badly written. TSventon (talk) 20:07, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Declaration of Interest? Translation? Narrative Reconciliation?

Hi, I'm a user who joined as an undergrad for a project. I'm now a grad student studying abroad in Italy and have some questions about how to proceed about translating this italian article, since I would like to include a geology section. However, I have an interest to declare - a recent ancestor lived there - it's what drew me to the place, and now it's an interesting case for me to study as well. I hope that isn't disqualifying? And if it's iffy, maybe I could just write a geology section?

Anyway it suffered horribly in the two recent mid-Apennine earthquakes and when I visited last year it was leveled with the ground, minus the church. If I were writing the article from scratch, I would list it as a 'ghost town' and include satellite photos, etc but the italian article is decisively optimistic about its evacuated (but still registered) population. there is no space for 71 people to live amongst the rubble, but I'm hesitant to openly contradict the italian piece, even in tone. I don't want to confuse people either.

What is your advice?

Tcort2018 (talk) 18:50, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia reports what is reported in reliable sources, not what editors find out after their own examination of the subject. If you can find a source to back up the claims that the town is abandoned, then there's no reason to not add it. However, in its current cited state, the article without the claim that it is still abandoned would be perfectly acceptable, as Wikipedia tells what is reported, not what is necessarily true. Departure– (talk) 19:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

As for a potential conflict of interest, you are not barred from editing the article of the city you live in as just a resident (unless you're working for the city itself, like this, which I'm assuming you aren't). Departure– (talk) 19:06, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

As this would be your first article, you could read Help:Your first article. There is some guidance on translating from another Wikipedia at Help:Translation. Different Wikipedia projects have different rules, and articles in en Wikipedia have to follow en Wikipedia's rules. TSventon (talk) 19:12, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Removal of the entire section on 'Works' from the WIKI entry of Seta B. Dadoyan

This is Prof. Seta B. Dadoyan, scholar and prolific author, also painter. In June 2024, I noticed that my WIKI entry (that was made over a decade ago, perhaps more, I learned much later) needed serious updating, as many publications and other developments were missing. When I tried to contact a "WIKI editor" and suggested a complete and more accurate list of 'Works - to be added by a WIKI writer - I was harshly encountered by an 'X' editor, who not only threatened but also mutilated the entry by removing ALL the works, under the pretext of "lack of references, for already published works by major publishers (???), and "conflict of interest."

All subsequent contacts and promises by a certain "editor" 1AmNobody24 were smoke in the air. People and colleagues who search me on Google, find a mutilated entry, a scholar with NO WORKS, and otherwise no reference to role and perspectives. The entry looks vandalized!

WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST I SHOULD DO to restore a decent entry?

SBD 69.121.114.43 (talk) 19:21, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Courtesy link: Seta Dadoyan

You do not own your articles (see the policy for that here).

You should read the policy on conflict of interest at Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest - you are strongly discouraged from editing the article on yourself. As for the text itself, the removal's edit summary read Formatting issues - this is a wall of text and the length is excessive in any case; should cover notable publications only.

The Manual of Style dictates how articles on Wikipedia should typically be written for consistency and other reasons. Your edit was a copy-and-paste of every work you have created, regardless of notability. Each entry should be notable enough for entry in a scholar's article in the same way that every city in a country should be notable enough for a place in that country's article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, nor is it a scientific journal or textbook, nor a directory. If you choose to update the article again, make a request on the article's talk page (Talk:Seta Dadoyan) and explain what needs to change and why. Not everything belongs on Wikipedia, but there may be sources to indicate the verifiability of certain works you've created - feel free to request those works to be added. Departure– (talk) 19:56, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

You may find WP:About you and our FAQ for article subjects useful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Note also that maintaining an up-to-date list of works is fairly tedious and labor-intensive, and our editors are volunteers with better things to do with their time. It's also unnecessary, because there are multiple professionally-maintained databases that list all of your works. We link to these databases in the "Authority control" section at the bottom of the article. -Arch dude (talk) 03:14, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

how to create my name and details in Wikipedia?

how to create my name and details in Wikipedia? Do I need to pay for it. If yes how to do that? Avrjaya (talk) 22:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The short answer is you don't. Wikipedia is explicitly not social media and not a place to write about yourself

And anyone who says they will do it for you for money is a scammer. It doesn't work that way either. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 22:55, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The short answer is....you don't. Please see the autobiography policy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a database of people that exist. Wikipedia is interested in what independent reliable sources say about a topic, not what it says about itself. Please.use social media to tell the world about yourself. 331dot (talk) 22:56, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

great minds... Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 22:57, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Step 1: Become famous (or infamous). Step 2: Wait til some editor gets around to writing an article about you. Step 3: Celebrate! Clarityfiend (talk) 04:25, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

What to do with apparent unsourced material

Not an issue for Help desk/Archives. Referred elsewhere.

An another user removes (my) additions of the "citations needed" template; Also continuously reverts the removal of uncited material, which I removed on the basis that the removed material was completely unsourced, as per Wikipedia:Content removal. The article of topic is the Origin of Hangul article, where this whole part of a section is completely unsourced. (this is the article's part where the user is arguing for being sourced)

Text about the origin of hangul

"" Although the Hunmin jeong-eum haerye (hereafter Haerye) explains the design of the consonantal letters in terms of articulatory phonetics, it also states that Sejong adapted them from the enigmatic 古篆字 "Gǔ Seal Script". The identity of this script has long been puzzling. The primary meaning of the character 古 gǔ is "old", so 古篆字 gǔ zhuànzì has traditionally been interpreted as "Old Seal Script", frustrating philologists, because the Korean alphabet bears no functional similarity to Chinese 篆字 zhuànzì seal scripts.

However the character 古 gǔ also functions as a phonetic component of 蒙古 Měnggǔ "Mongol". Indeed, records from Sejong's day played with this ambiguity, joking that "no one is older (more 古 gǔ) than the 蒙古 Měng-gǔ". From palace records that 古篆字 gǔ zhuànzì was a veiled reference to the 蒙古篆字 měnggǔ zhuànzì "Mongol Seal Script", that is, a formal variant of the Mongol ʼPhags-pa alphabet of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) that had been modified to look like the Chinese seal script, and which had been an official script of the empire.^{[citation needed]}

There were ʼPhags-pa manuscripts in the Korean palace library from the Yuan Dynasty government, including some in the seal-script form, and several of Sejong's ministers knew the script well. If this was the case, Sejong's evasion on the Mongol connection can be understood in light of the political situation in the Ming Dynasty. The topic of the recent Mongol domination of China, which had ended just 75 years earlier, was politically sensitive, and both the Chinese and Korean literati regarded the Mongols as barbarians with nothing to contribute to a civilized society.^{[citation needed]}

It is postulated that the Koreans adopted five core consonant letters from ʼPhags-pa, namely ㄱ g [k], ㄷ d [t], ㅂ b [p], ㅈ j [ts], and ㄹ l [l]. These were the consonants basic to Chinese phonology, rather than the graphically simplest letters (ㄱ g [k], ㄴ n [n], ㅁ m [m], and ㅅ s [s]) taken as the starting point by the Haerye. A sixth letter, the null initial ㅇ, was invented by Sejong. The rest of the consonants were developed through featural derivation from these six, essentially as described in the Haerye; a resemblance to speech organs was an additional motivating factor in selecting the shapes of both the basic letters and their derivatives.^{[citation needed]}

Although several of the basic concepts of the Korean alphabet may have been inherited from Indic phonology through the ʼPhags-pa script, such as the relationships among the homorganic consonants, Chinese phonology played a major role. Besides the grouping of letters into syllables, in functional imitation of Chinese characters, Ledyard argues that^{[citation needed]} it was Chinese phonology, not Indic, that determined which five consonants were basic, and were therefore to be retained from ʼPhags-pa. These included the plain stop letters, ꡂ g [k] for ㄱ g [k], ꡊ d [t] for ㄷ d [t], and ꡎ b [p] for ㅂ b [p], which were basic to Chinese theory, but which represented voiced consonants in the Indic languages and were not basic in the Indic tradition. The other two letters were the plain sibilant ꡛ s [s] for ㅈ j [ts] (ㅈ was pronounced [ts] in the fifteenth century, as it still is in North Korea) and the liquid ꡙ l [l] for ㄹ l [l].

In order to maintain the Chinese convention of initial and rime, Sejong and his ministers needed a null symbol to refer to the lack of a consonant with an initial vowel. He chose the circle ㅇ with the subsequent derivation of the glottal stop ㆆ ʼ [ʔ], by adding a vertical top stroke by analogy with the other stops, and the aspirate ㅎ h [h], parallel the account in the Haerye. (Perhaps the reason he created a new letter rather than adopting one from ʼPhags-pa was that it was awkward to write these Chinese initials in ʼPhags-pa, where ㅇ and ㆆ were both written as digraphs beginning with y, ꡭꡝ and ꡗꡖ.)

However, Ledyard's explanation^{[citation needed]} of the letter ㆁ ng [ŋ] differs from the Haerye account; he sees it as a fusion of velar ㄱ g and null ㅇ, reflecting its variable pronunciation. The Korean alphabet was designed not just to write Korean, but to accurately represent Chinese. Many Chinese words historically began with [ŋ], but by Sejong's day this had been lost in many regions of China, and was silent when these words were borrowed into Korean, so that [ŋ] only remained at the middle and end of Korean words. The expected shape of a velar nasal, the short vertical stroke (⃓) that would be left by removing the top stroke of ㄱ g, had the additional problem that it would have looked almost identical to the vowel ㅣ i [i]. Sejong's solution solved both problems: The vertical stroke left from ㄱ g was added to the null symbol ㅇ to create ㆁ ng, iconically capturing both regional pronunciations as well as being easily legible. Eventually the graphic distinction between the two silent initials ㅇ and ㆁ was lost, as they never contrasted in Korean words.

Another letter composed of two elements to represent two regional pronunciations, now obsolete, was ㅱ, which transcribed the Chinese initial 微. This represented either m or w in various Chinese dialects, and was composed of ㅁ [m] plus ㅇ. In ʼPhags-pa, a loop under a letter, ꡧ, represented [w] after vowels, and Ledyard proposes^{[citation needed]} this rather than the null symbol was the source of the loop at the bottom, so that the two components of ㅱ reflected its two pronunciations just as the two components of ㆁ ng did. The reason for suspecting that this derives from ʼPhags-pa ꡧ w is that the entire labio-dental series of both ʼPhags-pa and the hangul, used to transcribe the Chinese initials 微非敷 w, v, f, have such composite forms, though in the case of ʼPhags-pa these are all based on the letter ꡜ h (ꡤ etc.), while in hangul, which does not have an h among its basic consonants, they are based on the labial series ㅁ m, ㅂ b, ㅍ p.

An additional letter, the 'semi-sibilant' ㅿ z, now obsolete, has no explanation in either Ledyard or the Haerye. It also had two pronunciations in Chinese, as a sibilant and as a nasal (approximately [ʑ] and [ɲ]) and so, like ㅱ for [w] ~ [m] and ㆁ for ∅ ~ [ŋ], may have been a composite of existing letters.

As a final piece of evidence, Ledyard notes^{[citation needed]} that, with two exceptions, hangul letters have the simple geometric shapes expected of invention: ㄱ g [k] was the corner of a square, ㅁ m [m] a full square, ㅅ s [s] a chevron, ㅇ a circle. In the Hunmin Jeong-eum, before the influence of the writing brush made them asymmetrical, these were purely geometric. The exceptions were ㄷ d [t] and ㅂ b [p], which had more complex geometries and were two of the forms adopted from ʼPhags-pa. For example, ㄷ d [t] wasn't a simple half square, but even in the Hunmin Jeong-eum had a lip protruding from the upper left corner, just as ʼPhags-pa ꡊ d did, and as Tibetan ད d did before that.

If the ʼPhags-pa theory is valid, then the graphic base of Hangul consonants is part of the great family of alphabets that spread from the Phoenician alphabet, through Aramaic, Brāhmī, and Tibetan (though the derivation of Brahmi from Aramaic/Phoenician is also tenuous; see the Semitic-model hypothesis for Brahmi). However, this is only one component of its derivation.""

This section of the article has had the "More citations needed section" template up since June 2019, alongside it being plastered with the ^{[citation needed]} template way before I first got there, and by the looks of it the user reverting my removals & and my previous "citations needed" edits has been asserting for this "theory" of the section since 2008, while reverting any previous attempts of the removal of non-sourced material by other users. I have tried talking to this user with no results; The user claims that the article is cited and that I have no grounds for content removal/flagging. I believe that this would be unsourced and also very speculative material - and would like to either remove the material on the basis that it is unsourced, or at least put citations needed tags on dubious claims, but as I am new to Wikipedia, I would very much like to request for an admin to shed some light on this. Thanks. Daldidandal (talk) 22:55, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The help desk is not really the place to go when looking for admin intervention in a dispute. This looks more suited to WP:ANI if you want that, but the short answer is that you and @Kwamikagami: should probably be discussing this on the talk page, which I note has not been used in exactly two years. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 23:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Aight. Good to know. Daldidandal (talk) 23:04, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Daldidandal, when you ask some administrator to "shed some light" on the matter, I infer that you're hoping that some level-headed person knowing their way around the labyrinth of Wikipedia guidelines will give you advice on the rights and wrongs and the best course of action. A sensible request, except that administrators certainly don't have a monopoly of the combination of level-headedness and expertise; and thus there's no need to ask for an administrator. As for "admin intervention in a dispute", plenty of editors are willing to intervene in disputes and administrators are among them; but administrators put on their "administrator" hats only for particular kinds of action, not in order to pull rank. (Administrators are not moderators. Wikipedia does not have moderators.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:16, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Pages with Dropper.YA Trojans

20202_Unted States_presidential_election_in_penssylvania.pdf has a Dropper.YA trojan

A month ago the SQL page had the same trojan

What is being done to fix it? 85.237.194.225 (talk) 23:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Where are you seeing this virus issue? As far as I'm aware Wikipedia does not host pdf files directly. TiggerJay (talk) 03:18, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

I suspect OP means 2020 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania. Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:12, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

If it is one of the external links or cites, there is not much that Wikipedia can do about it because it is hosted on someone else's website. However, could you be more specific about which link is causing the problem?--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 10:25, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

If it is an external link, then this link can be removed. The OP might care to provide us with the entire URL of this rogue PDF. -- Hoary (talk) 10:28, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

I did take a look at all of the external links and none have "20202" nor "pennsylvania.pdf" in their link name -- so I'm not sure its an EL. Additional page history shows no changes since they reported this. Perhaps they typed the file name manually, and mean the pdf they create when they click the Download as PDF link, but that appears to work fine, so last ditch effort might be that they have an infected computer that is impacting files they're downloading. But without a specific reference to where they saw it (possibly on another page or even another website, because we've seen that before), there probably isn't anymore that can be done. TiggerJay (talk) 15:49, 8 November 2024 (UTC)