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Has the option to disable Media Viewer for registered users been removed? Whenever I click on an image it displays in Media Viewer and there seems no way to turn it off. There used to be an option under Preferences|Appearance to disable it, but that seems to have disappeared. WP:Media Viewer and its associated talk page are no help. There’s some information at the foot of that page about adding some code to global.js but I tried that and it didn’t work. —Viennese Waltz 10:00, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing has changed for accounts that have already disabled it. I can’t speak to the possibility of disabling it, but when I click on an image, I go straight to the image description page, just as I have ever since disabling it originally. Nyttend (talk) 20:16, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Lucky you. I also disabled it years ago, but now when I click on any image it opens in Media Viewer. Please could you check your Preferences > Appearance page? Do you have a box to enable or disable it, like this one? —Viennese Waltz 07:49, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:Viennese Waltz, here’s everything I get on that page. Edit the page to see the lines properly; it would take a long time to format it so it looks right when fully rendered.

I can’t see anything relevant. Nyttend (talk) 12:02, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. So, as I suspected, the option to disable Media Viewer has been removed for registered users. —Viennese Waltz 02:10, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A workaround: add the following line to your Special:MyPage/common.js page:

::mw.config.set('wgMediaViewerOnClick', false);
::

This disables Media Viewer on click without needing the preference toggle. Alternatively, check Special:Preferences → Appearance — on some wikis the checkbox may still appear there. If you’d like the option restored for all users, filing a report at Phabricator under the MediaWiki Media Viewer project would be the right channel. Musiceditor2038 (talk) 14:55, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please consider the page Berkeley Timesharing System. The question “what links here” produces a list [1]. Is the average frequency of the links kept anywhere? How is that list sorted? Thanks in advance. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 18:15, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Yesterday, all my dreams….

What do you mean by “the average frequency of the links”? They’re just links: they don’t change (unless somebody edits an article), and they don’t have a frequency. ColinFine (talk) 19:36, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. If you look at [2] it states that the page was viewed 157 times in the last month. I was wondering how many of those 157 came from Multics vs Memory paging last month. Does that clarify my question? Thanks Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 23:35, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the wikinav tool below. Cheers. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 13:42, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Yesterday, all my dreams…: The top right of WhatLinksHere has a “Help” where Help:What links here#Overview says: “The list is sorted by page ID, i.e., by date of creation of the page.” The search linksto:”Berkeley Timesharing System” can give four sort orders under “Advanced search”. User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js can give ten sort orders. See also mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Explicit sort orders. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:19, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

OK, but do any of those give what I mentioned to Colin above? Are those numbers even saved anywhere? Thanks Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 23:37, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If I remember rightly, WhatLinksHere lists pages by the sequence in which they were created: the oldest page appears at the top. For some reason, the counter gets reset when a page is deleted and restored, so if I deleted Multics and restored it (even immediately), it would go from position #1 to position #75. Nyttend (talk) 10:08, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You are right about how that works, I think. But as is Multics does not have a number 27 next to it that says in the last month 27 clicks within Multics led to the page Berkeley Timesharing. I wonder if that number 27 is stored anywhere and gets updated every month. Thanks. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 13:07, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Such a thing is theoretically possible for a webpage — my library’s Primo discovery layer can report how many people clicked on a specific link on a specific page — but the Wikimedia developers don’t generally publish this kind of data. If you talked with one of them, you could ask I suppose, but (1) given the size of Wikipedia, I can’t imagine them systematically publishing this kind of data, and it’s hard to imagine them publishing even a subset of it routinely; (2) be aware that there’s a significance chance that a request for a single bit of data might be turned down; and (3) I have no idea who the developers are, so you’d have to go find some of them yourself. Nyttend (talk) 12:10, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and please see the tool mentioned below. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 12:50, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WikiNav may provide the answers you seek. If not then you can download the raw Clickstream data to perform custom analysis. Certes (talk) 12:28, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In one word: Fantastic. The results it gives are eye opening. I tried Leonard Kleinrock and most links to him come from Claude Shannon, not the Arpanet. The existence of this system should be publicized, it is eye opening indeed. Thanks. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 12:49, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. I’m profoundly surprised that they publish this kind of information. Special:Statistics shows that we had 65,749,430 pages a few moments ago; I wonder if it’s possible to generate a report for all of them? Now that I see the format, I’m less surprised, however; I envisioned a single file providing data for each pair of pages — I expected something such as “In TIMEPERIOD, Alnus acuminata was accessed 0 times via List of deputies general of Álava“. Nyttend (talk) 22:02, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The report for all pages is here. It excludes pairs with fewer than ten clicks for privacy reasons (and to keep the file size reasonable). It only covers mainspace (potentially 7,193,000 articles and 377,000 dabs, though rarely visited pages will not appear). An old version that I have stored contains 20 million internal pairs. Views via redirects are counted with their target rather than separately. Certes (talk) 08:54, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, who wrote that tool? You? It is very useful. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 17:05, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WikiNav is not my work. There is a list of developers at the bottom of its page. Certes (talk) 12:05, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I had already noticed that. And on Village pump ideas, someone said it is being ignored by the developers. Sigh… I have already learned a lot by using it. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 13:29, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Yesterday, all my dreams…: There’s a gadget that can be enabled in the user preferences called MoreMenu which adds a set of common analysis tools to the page menu. It does not include WikiNav by default, but perhaps its maintainer (I think that’s MusikAnimal) could be persuaded to add it?

Even if not, it is possible to add it manually just for yourself, if you’re interested. – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 22:22, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but I have bookmarked that page and remember the url as well. Yesterday, all my dreams… (talk) 17:03, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rikki Peebles sang the song for the uk 1987 entry he has written many tracks for other groups released his own music and doesn’t have a wikipedia page can anyone set one up ? Tonyhitmantaylor1969 (talk) 22:13, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Tonyhitmantaylor1969, and welcome to the Teahouse.

Thank you for your suggestion, but there is not really an effective place to make this sort of suggestion. (There is a place, called requested articles, but the truth is that most suggestions there never get picked up).

Some of your wording, “have a Wikipedia page”, and “set one up”, makes me think that, like many people, you think of Wikipedia as a bit like social media, where people “set up a page for” themselves or their friends. But it really isn’t like that. The basic activity is not “set up a page for”, but “write a well-sourced neutral encyclopaedia article about” – which is a task that takes a good bit of work.

The article should be based not on what the person says or wants to say, or what their friends or associates say, but almost exclusively on what people who have no connection with the person have chosen to publish about them in reliable publications. So the task of creating such an article starts with finding sources about the subject, sourcs that meet all the conditions in WP:42. Unfortunately, for most people – even artists and creative people – there is simply not enough independent material published about them, and so no article is possible (the Wikipedia jargon for this is whether they are or are not notable).

So for somebody to write an article about Peebles, they would need to start by finding several places where people unconnected with him have published in some depth about him. ColinFine (talk) 22:25, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There was an article on English Wikipedia at Rikki (British singer)Rikki (British singer), however it was changed to a redirect as not notable. Other Wikipedias have different rules so there is a German article at de:Rikki (Sänger), for example. TSventon (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Just to add to what ColinFine and TSventon have said — the Eurovision connection is actually one of the stronger notability angles here, since the UK entry receives substantial press coverage. If you’re keen to see an article created, the most productive thing would be to search for independent sources first. Some good places to look:

British Newspaper Archive (newspapers.com / britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) — contemporary 1987 reviews and press coverage of the Eurovision entry would count as strong sources.

BBC archives / iPlayer — BBC coverage of the Eurovision selection process.

Music press — Smash Hits, Record Mirror, NME from that era may have features.

OGAE / Eurovision reference sites — these catalogue entries but are usually not considered reliable independent sources on their own.

If you can find three or four substantial pieces where journalists who have no connection to Rikki wrote about him in depth, that would be enough to make a case for notability and someone — possibly even yourself — could draft an article. Wikipedia has a Your first article guide if you’d like to try. The existing redirect at Rikki (British singer) could potentially be restored to an article if sourcing is found. ColinFine‘s point about WP:42 is the key test to keep in mind throughout. Musiceditor2038 (talk) 15:10, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussing whether Rikki Peebles, the singer who performed the UK’s 1987 Eurovision Song Contest entry “Only the Light”, meets Wikipedia’s notability requirements, and how to find the independent reliable sources needed to create or restore an article about him. Musiceditor2038 (talk) 15:14, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Musiceditor2038: I have added this question to the previous discussion, where you seem to have answered it. TSventon (talk) 15:45, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve uploaded a free license picture, but it has a small photographer’s mark in the bottom-right corner. Is it ok? Mirenathecat (talk) 17:24, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For reference, this seems to be about File:K (&TEAM). April 6, 2026. “The Devil Wears Prada 2” event in Tokyo.jpg. @Mirenathecat Please confirm:

1. If that is the image you are asking about.
2. If you are the photographer.
3. If you are not the photographer, can you confirm that the licensing information provided on Fliker was provided by the person who owns the copyright?

~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:32, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1. Yes, this is the image.

2. I’m not the photographer.

3. The photographer uploaded the pictures to Flickr at my request Mirenathecat (talk) 17:38, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

And the license was discussed and agreed with the owner Mirenathecat (talk) 17:44, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Mirenathecat Thank you for answering my questions. I will note that our image use policy says that “Free images should not be watermarked, distorted, have any credits or titles in the image itself or anything else that would hamper their free use,” and ” All photo credits should be in a summary on the image description page.” So we would need one without the watermark. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:48, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

So is this considered a watermark? Mirenathecat (talk) 17:51, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I would consider it one. But I’ll let others weigh in who do more image work than I do. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:00, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It’s strange that the previous time I asked the same question here the answer was “that’s ok”. But after that I encountered the rule you’re mentioning… ~2026-33863-64 (talk) 18:07, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is a crowdsourced volunteer project of considerable complexity, and anyone at all is free to give answers on this Help desk, which has no ‘quality control’ other than others pointing out mis-statements. Sometimes even long-experienced editors get things wrong, and newer editors, knowing less than they think they do, do so more frequently. Double-check everything against linked policy and other pages. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-27434-43 (talk) 03:01, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your answers and advise! Mirenathecat (talk) 16:24, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Mirenathecat What license, exactly, was discussed? Some things uploaded to Flickr are not licensed for commercial reuse. License holders who say, for example, “this can be used at Wikipedia but nowhere else” are misunderstanding Wikipedia’s licensing requirements. Your photographer might know all of this, but it’s worth verifying. David10244 (talk) 11:07, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The picture has CC BY-SA 4.0 license. So it seems to match Wikipedia rules.

The problem was the small author’s mark in the bottom-right corner. Mirenathecat (talk) 14:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Its fine that you uploaded it, but someone may just remove the watermark. That’s the freedom to edit part. —GRuban (talk) 14:20, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. Thanks! Mirenathecat (talk) 15:10, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

help ~2026-34302-52 (talk) 05:29, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this is the help desk for Wikipedia. It’s where you can ask questions about editing Wikipedia, not general questions about life. Good luck, though.

(As for becoming batter, the article Batter (cooking) might be useful to you. /j)

^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 05:41, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Are we sure they’re not referring to the character from OFF? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{Object Class: Drygioni} 06:07, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

or perhaps they keep committing Battery (crime) Ilikememes128 (talk) 19:10, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The text doesn’t show in the editor. ~2026-34251-92 (talk) 16:05, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Those are called “hatnotes”. They’re added by templates placed at the top of the page. See WP:HATNOTE for more information. – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 16:09, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The specific template to use for that specific message is {{About}}. ozmoozmo@enwiki$t.c 09:45, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I am an economist with an existing Wikipedia page. I was recently approached by someone who says they are a regular Wikipedia contributor specializing in economics, offering to expand and improve my page. As a freelance writer, this person is asking for payment for their services. I wanted to know whether this falls within Wikipedia’s ethical boundaries, and how much (if any) text I can contribute to such a project. I am also wondering whether there is any history of such offers turning out to be scams. ~2026-34511-66 (talk) 18:37, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That is almost certainly a scam (see WP:SCAM). A regular contributor would never ask for payment. ^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 18:41, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to conflict of interest/paid editing in general, directly editing pages with which you have a conflict of interest is largely discouraged. But, you (or a publicist/firm) are more than welcome to use the COI edit request system to make any suggestions. ^MetalBreaks_AndBends (One for all) 21:58, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If you would like your page expanded, I, and many other editors would probably like to help you out! End (talk) 22:19, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I submitted an article to AfD, but after the discussion of other editors, I myself believe the article should be kept provided it gets filtered (the article contained a lot of promotional language which I removed before doing the AfD)
I’m personally not sure what to do though, as I don’t think closing this one myself is right, and I’m not super knowledgeable about the AfD rules. Link to AfD Discussion SuperCode111 (talk) 23:12, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@SuperCode111, You don’t need to worry about closing it; experienced editors will close it when the time is right. If you want to withdraw, you should comment that you are withdrawing it, followed by a reason. For now, just focus on other things. CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 23:23, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Don’t delete your earlier deletion rationale, but you are free to strike it out, and to follow the struck-out rationale with a retraction. As an example (cartoonishly simple, for brevity): This article sucks. Delete it. I now realize that the subject is notable, and withdraw my nomination. — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 00:30, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

What’s currently reference 10 (the one starting Hélène Roussel. “German-speaking artists) in the article Eric Isenburger brings the error message {{isbn}}: Check isbn value: invalid character (help). But the ISBN link ({{ISBN|978‑3‑11‑029058‑5}}) works as expected (or anyway does when I select WorldCat among all the options), and I (sleepily?) fail to see anything amiss. I’ll now present it again, this time with no “nowiki” cloaking: ISBN 978‑3‑11‑029058‑5 {{isbn}}: Check isbn value: invalid character (help). (Ugh! But it works.) Any ideas? — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 00:27, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

replace the U+2011: NON-BREAKING HYPHENs with U+002D: HYPHEN-MINUS.

{{ISBN|978-3-11-029058-5}} → ISBN 978-3-11-029058-5

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:46, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Facepalm Thank you, Trappist the monk. — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 01:38, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It’s 2026 already and we haven’t a 2020s portal icon. Do we need to wait until the decade is over? How were the decadal portals created since Wikipedia itself began? Is there a procedure, a test bed, what? Let us assume that half tech & half brain would stand for the 2020s from 2026 onward given the rise of AI. What would have served for the previous portion of the 2020s? Crypto‽ COVID-19‽ Or is there a signature toy? Etc. kencf0618 (talk) 00:30, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Shifting to Template talk:Portal. I’m casting a wide net. kencf0618 (talk) 00:35, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a manuel of style for non fiction books? there is one for novels, but for non fiction… Vastmajority20025 (talk) 04:24, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently not, @Vastmajority20025.

As you have no doubt seen, MOS:NOVEL is part of WP:WikiProject Novels, but there isn’t a corresponding Wikiproject for non-fiction books. (MOS:BOOKS redirects to the obsolete WP:Manual of Style/Wikipedia books, which was about something different) ColinFine (talk) 07:23, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I would say that MOS:NOVEL could probably be applied pretty well to non-fiction books, plot and principle characters would be less relevant but the rest all makes sense. — D’n’B–📞 — 07:38, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have noticed a large number of edits removing spaces from infoboxes, which makes them more difficult to edit using Wikitext editor. I have just asked an editor why they were removing these spaces and was told that they were not removing them, despite the diff showing that they were being removed. I asked if they were using the visual editor, and was told that they were. Could someone confirm whether this is a deliberate function of the visual editor, and, if so, why it was so programmed, as it makes no difference to edits using the visual editor, but makes editing Wikitext more difficult. – Arjayay (talk) 10:18, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is the way Visual Editor behaves when it edits the content of a template. It appears to read all the fields in and then write them all out again without keeping track of spaces at the end of a field. I suspect it was the simplest way to implement the function of editing the content of templates. References, so important on the English Wikipedia, seemed to be an afterthought in the design of VE. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:49, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You have a “Steven Hayes Dacus” called the first foreign CEO of “Speedway” and you have him born in America? Not ~2026-34604-42 (talk) 13:50, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-34604-42: I guess you mean Stephen Dacus. If you saw a page claiming he is the first foreign CEO of “Speedway” then please link it. There are pages saying he is the first foreign CEO of Seven & I Holdings but that’s a Japanese company which owns Speedway (store). PrimeHunter (talk) 14:33, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There appears to be no mention of a Steven Hayes Dacus in any Wikipedia article, and we have a sizeable number of different articles about entities which use the name ‘Speedway’. Which article are you talking about? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2026-27434-43 (talk) 14:34, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking at this page: Controversy over the discovery of Haumea

To me it reads like a story, has bad tone, and includes a lot of irrelevant information. The majority of the references do not support the content, or are broken. I have marked the page as such, but since it is marked as a “good article” I just want to double check that I’m doing the right thing (I haven’t added tags to an article before). I wrote in the talk page that I’ll wait 14 days before restructuring.

It would be great to have someone quickly check the article to see if my concerns are correct. BennBluee (talk) 15:46, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to have become a GA in 2009, when Wikipedia’s standards were very different.

If I were you, the first step would be to reassess the article against the good article criteria and strip its GA status if need be (there’s no need to have any special status or permissions to do this) Athanelar (talk) 17:24, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

“It seems to have become a GA in 2009, when Wikipedia’s standards were very different.” Unless you mean “the same words today mean something different than they did 16 years ago” or “the underlying policies and guidelines linked to the GA criteria (e.g. RS, MOS, etc.) have changed” (…I’d buy that, to an extent, so I assume this is the kind of thing you mean), the GA criteria themselves are actually virtually identical to what they were in 2009–the only change appears to be a clarification that there shouldn’t be any copyvios in the article (which feels like a given even back then). Other than that, even their wording hasn’t changed. – Purplewowies (talk) 07:35, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BennBluee Actualy, it failed 3 times and then passed at Talk:Controversy_over_the_discovery_of_Haumea/GA4 in 2010. You could check whether the passed version is substantially different from the current one. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:28, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Will do, thanks! BennBluee (talk) 17:29, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please read and digest Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, BennBluee, and proceed accordingly. — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 08:53, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

False information ~2026-34687-31 (talk) 17:12, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Unless it’s somehow sensitive false information, probably the best place to start is the Talk page for the article in question. DonIago (talk) 17:18, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

or just fit it yourself — D’n’B–📞 — 05:52, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Just say “Hey, I am unhappy with X,Y, and Z and I want this fixed.” MathMan4 (talk) 05:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No. Do not just say this. Specify what is false. Give a good reason for saying that it’s false. If the corrected version isn’t obvious, then specify it and present a reliable source for it. — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 08:50, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

“Please change X to Y because Z, as supported by source S.” DonIago (talk) 00:18, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good afternoon, I have written two wikipedia articles on wikipedia. I would like them to be deleted. I would like Maria Esta En Peligro the article that I have written will be deleted, Sandyndimyvette (talk) 23:38, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You have not written any mainspace articles on Wikipedia. You have written in your own sandbox, which you are perfectly allowed to delete on your own. GarethBaloney (talk) 23:45, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve deleted as requested Jimfbleak – talk to me? 13:54, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

🫃 .noosenecklace (talk) 18:05, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that the Density (disambiguation) article isn’t really a disambig page, but something hybrid – almost all the entries refer inherently to a measure of how much of some entity is within a fixed amount of space, and as such could be an article or stub referring to that topic. Seems that the only real disambig comments are at the bottom of the article, and that a true disambig article on “density” would realistically consist of five entries:

• Density
• a new article “List of density meanings” – or something
• Stupidity, a stupid person is sometimes referred to as being “dense”
• Dense (film), a 2004 film
• Density 21.5 – a piece of music for solo flute written by Edgard Varèse

I could have brought this up on the disambig talk page itself, but pageviews don’t warrant it.[3]

Does this seem reasonable, or to a deeper understanding of disambig – is this exactly the point of a disambig article? Chaheel Riens (talk) 18:22, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Chaheel Riens: That page is a real mess. I’m going to try cleaning it up. Also, some of your “dense” entries don’t belong. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:12, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Main Page currently has a typo on the section “From today’s featured article”. It says “William IV’s British coinage, struck between 1831 and 1837” rather than “William IV’s British coinage, struck between  1831 and 1837” which is the correct spelling. I would like this to be changed, for I am willing to ask whatever I can to help reach the Typo Team’s goal; a typo free Wikipedia. Γ+2 (talk) 18:43, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I’m just blind, but where’s the typo? ^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 19:26, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly have no clue why that happens, I might be going insane but I suggest you add a space. Here is where the error is: Wikipedia:Today’s featured article/June 13, 2026 and if you don’t see it I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe it’s just some kind of mobile rendering issue. Γ+2 (talk) 19:29, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This is at WP:ERRORS. which is the correct venue. I can’t see a problem, but I am not using a mobile. TSventon (talk) 19:35, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It got deleted from WP:ERRORS, WHAT??? Γ+2 (talk) 19:38, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No wait, it got REVIVED!!! Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors#Today’s FA Γ+2 (talk) 19:48, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WAIT IT’S FIXED NOW Γ+2 (talk) 19:57, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This isn’t so much a typo as a problem in whatever you’re viewing it with – there’s a thin space character between “between” and “1831”. (Also in both versions of what you pasted above, with a normal space after the thin space in the second version.) The choice of a thin space instead of a normal one is apparently deliberate. I take it that it’s not rendering as any space at all for you? —Cryptic 19:46, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Regardless, there is absolutely no reason for a thin space to be used instead of a normal one. Anyways, it has already been fixed by an admin. Γ+2 (talk) 19:59, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Iim not sure how to search an article for word count. Ive already tried going to page information about this article Stanley Green. (I was reviewing the WP:DYK page and it said the critieria must be at least 1500 characters). Im not sure what but I believe Im using the source editor tool. Ilikememes128 (talk) 19:07, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ilikememes128 the detailed DYK guidance is at WP:DYKCRIT, with a section on prose size at WP:DYKPROSE. That section says Wikipedia:Did you know/DYKcheck, the DYK check tool, is generally considered the authoritative counter of prose size. TSventon (talk) 19:15, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The tool also checks newness: Stanley Green has not been created or expanded 5x or promoted to Good Article within the past 10 days, so it is not currently eligible for DYK. TSventon (talk) 19:21, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know if the lead for Ruolin is written correctly? —Jax 0677 (talk) 20:23, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Jax 0677, Ruolin seems to be a Chinese female given name, so I would find a similar name, like Ailing (Chinese name) and adapt it. TSventon (talk) 20:32, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have adapted the article, other editors are welcome to improve further. TSventon (talk) 21:02, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve added some material to the article. I’m going to create a talk page for the article to discuss more there. Calisyrre (talk) 21:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I created a file in what I thought was my sandbox (User:Mihal.emberton/sandbox/Belief-Behavior Systems archetype) but when I saved my edits, I received messages that I was “vandalizing” wikipedia… please help me understand how to get my work into the sandbox if it is not really in the sandbox as the system says…. ~2026-33436-16 (talk) 20:37, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping: Malgosha

Courtesy ping: Hamimh2

^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 20:41, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It’s because you are currently logged out of your account, so to an outside observer it might look like somebody random is editing the page. Logging in again or mentioning on your user page that this temporary account (~2026-33436-16) is also you. GarethBaloney (talk) 20:42, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

They think it’s vandalism because you’re logged out currently. Malgosha (talk) 20:44, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. I did not realize this and have logged in :-). With humble gratitude… Mihal.emberton (talk) 21:31, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If you are user:Mihal.emberton, you have been editing the sandbox while signed out. Possibly this is why you were reverted, though I wouldn’t call it vandalism. I’d have to suggest however that if you are trying to create an article on the subject discussed there, you are almost certainly wasting your time. Wikipedia articles are based on what independent reliable sources have to directly say about a subject, and without such sources, covering the subject in depth, an article will not meet the required notability criteria. Wikipedia is not a platform for promoting ideas you yourself have come up with, and doing so constitutes a conflict of interest. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:52, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @AndyTheGrump for your very kind and ethical guidance. Mihal.emberton (talk) 22:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have been looking up local plants recently, and noticed a fair number that have external links to a USDA plant database in an old format that is no longer valid. The actual link gives an error, but the URL has an identifier that makes it possible for a regex to replace broken links with valid links. Here are some examples:

Wiki page: Arctostaphylos_nevadensis Old URL: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ARNE Valid URL: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/ARNE

Wiki page: Agave_utahensis Old URL: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=AGUT Valid URL: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/AGUT

Wiki page: Acmispon_glaber Old URL: https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LOSC2 Valid URL: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/LOSC2

I am asking for help for two reasons: 1) I have never done this before, so it’s a lot of overhead getting off the ground. But there surely must be someone else familiar with scripts to edit wikipedia that can adapt them to do this pretty quickly. 2) I worry that masses of edits coming in will flag some antispam measures and block them. So far, I don’t have a lot of good ideas about how to identify pages that have this specific type of fixable URL. There are certainly categories that seem more likely than others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Endemic_flora_of_the_United_States comes to mind) but Agave Utahensis wasn’t in that category, so it’s not a sure thing.

Example python for the basic regex replacement:

   import re
   def main():
       test_urls = ["https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ARNE",
                    "https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=AGUT",
                    "https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LOSC2",
                    "https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/ARNE"] # should not match this one
   
       # (?:\.sc\.egov)? is a non-capturing group to match the .sc.egov that doesnt't always appear
       pattern = re.compile(r'https://plants(?:\.sc\.egov)?\.usda\.gov/java/profile\?symbol=([A-Z1-9]+)')
       for url in test_urls:
           match = pattern.match(url)
           if match:
               print(match.group(0), "\t", "https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/" + match.group(1))
   
   main()

~2026-34986-55 (talk) 21:31, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Post your suggestion at WP:BOTREQ to see if this is a good task for a bot and if so someone may have a bot do this RudolfRed (talk) 21:48, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Or WP:URLREQ * Pppery * _{(alt) in solidarity} 01:17, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If the edits are unsuitable for a URL request or a bot, perhaps because they require manual checking, and there are hundreds rather than thousands of them, then WP:AWB/T is an alternative place to ask. Certes (talk) 12:02, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reference help requested. Hi Helpers. Could you please explain to me how I fix this error. I’m a relative newcomer, and still a bit puzzled by some of the computer code. Thanks. Thanks, Dropbear2 (talk) 03:06, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Two references had errors, Dropbear2. The two references were very similar to each other, and had the same problems. I fixed one of the two references. Take a look at what I did, and apply it to the other reference: what is now “SUIVEZ LES FRANÇAIS À TOULOUSE” (and, as (i) readers don’t like to be shouted at, and (ii) Wikipedia is under no obligation to mimic bad website practice, should instead be “Suivez les français à Toulouse”). If you encounter a problem, post a follow-up message here. — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 09:13, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help Hoary. I’ve fixed the second reference, following your example, and it has worked. One more Wiki skill gained. And go the WWU!! All the best. Dropbear2 (talk) 00:03, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reference help requested.

Thanks, Please help me fix this Anakbanwa (talk) 04:12, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Same error as below. ^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 05:44, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reference help requested.

Thanks, please help me fix it Anakbanwa (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. It looks like you put the name of the news site in the “First” and “Last” name parts; that’s actually for the reporter (e.g. first=John |last=Laurens). If you don’t know the author, like in this case, you can just leave them blank. ^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 05:38, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reference help requested. The ISBN for a magazine Special Graphix Magazine, by a Japanese publisher, gives the ISBN:T1065429731804. I’ve checked a few times to make sure this is what the published material says. How do you fix the error issue when the ISBN detection is not verifying? Thanks, SeminarianJohn (talk) 07:48, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That isn’t an ISBN, SeminarianJohn. It doesn’t even resemble one. (The publisher may specify it as something other than an ISBN.) A Japanese ISBN is normally a 13-digit code starting “9784”. (I haven’t noticed any that start “9794”, but am not certain that none exist.) An older one would be a 10-digit code starting “4”.) Only a minority of individual issues of Japanese magazines have ISBNs. You might look up this issue of this magazine (as a “book”) in CiNii: CiNii will provide the ISBN for it if there is one. — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 08:51, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Hoary for the feedback and help. If no ISBN is available, is there another “box” that is used for magazine? Could this be a type of “serial” number? I’m going to try and look up the ISBN using the resource you provided. SeminarianJohn (talk) 20:01, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @SeminarianJohn.

Modern magazines have an ISSN, and Template:infobox magazine recognises issn as a parameter-name. I’m not familiar with the format, so I don’t know if the number you have might be an ISSN. ColinFine (talk) 20:30, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I am going to try this to fix the issue. SeminarianJohn (talk) 21:28, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think using a serial number worked. SeminarianJohn (talk) 21:43, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I found the ISBN for the magazine series with CiNii. Thank you! SeminarianJohn (talk) 21:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hoary and User:SeminarianJohn, as a librarian, most of the ISBN-13s I see are 978xxxxxxxxxx, but occasionally I’ve seen 979xxxxxxxxxx. ISSNs are XXXX-XXXX; I don’t work with them enough to know if there’s a numerical sequence, comparable to 978, that often appears anywhere in ISSNs. I’m on a break at work (computer’s installing updates ☹️) and have been dealing with serials this morning, and I’ve not noticed any numerical patterns with them. However, ISBN-10s don’t typically begin with a 4. As you note, most digits in a 13 are the same as in the analogous 10, with three digits tacked on at the start, so the fourth digit of a 13 will be identical to the first digit of a 10. I just pulled up a sheet of 70,000+ ebooks on my personal laptop, and a brief Excel function showed me that they had 50,000+ associated print ISBNs, but not one of them began with 9784. Nyttend (talk) 00:00, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nyttend, my copy of [pauses while he picks a book off the shelf] the Japan-published dead-tree codex 夢の翳 塩谷定好の写真1899–1988 is ISBN 978-4-7630-1920-2. (This is confirmed at NCID BB2911521X.) Optionally with a hyphen, “9784” is the standard start for a Japan-published book. (Simply, “4” means Japan. I know nothing about Japan-published ebooks.) It occurs to me that “T1065429731804” might be some general product code (a code not specific to printed matter or electronic versions thereof). — Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 00:54, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting; I’ve not worked with Japanese publications. The fourth digit is related to the country or language of publication (ISBN#Overview), so I guess Japan or Japanese-language books indeed get assigned there. But I misread your initial post as saying that all ISBNs began with 4, or 9784; sorry about that. Nyttend (talk) 01:12, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, everyone. I found multiple answers to my questions with your input. The T1 number is a type of serial number (or product number) and there is an ISBN for the series magazine. SeminarianJohn (talk) 00:54, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know how the article Ahaan Panday was created? The creator seems to have opened their account on 30 October and created the page with their first edit. Mme Maigret (talk) 09:04, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Mmemaigret. They created it in draft space, and it was moved to mainspace by Piejuno in this edit ColinFine (talk) 09:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ColinFine. Mme Maigret (talk) 09:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

What’s best practice for changing article classes on the talk page after big changes? I’ve done a bunch of destubbing of articles over the years (expanding, adding in-line cites, adding citations needed, etc.), and I’m not quite sure what the preferred approach is. Do I just remove the class on the talk page after a big change for an impartial editor to re-class it, or am I expected to make my own interpretation? —Engineerchange (talk) 15:35, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:ASSESS, you’re allowed to assign any rating to any article (including ones you have written all or much of), up until B-class. If someone disagrees with you, they may re-rate it. For classes above B, you need to go through a formal review process (WP:GAN or WP:FAC) before the article can be rated as such.
The stub-B class criteria are pretty subjective anyway, and only really useful as a general indicator rather than a certification of quality. Just use common sense {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs|in solidarity}} 15:39, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I would (and do) use the WP:RATER tool for rating articles from stub to B class. TSventon (talk) 15:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Added the WP:RATER tool. Thank you both, —Engineerchange (talk) 16:39, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Why is my editing on the page named “List of players who have scored 2,000 or more runs in Women’s Twenty20 International cricket” being removed? Soumyabnrj02 (talk) 18:15, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Could you give a diff of a specific edit of yours that has been reverted? Asking because it’s hard to suss out anything from just looking at the article history because no human editor has provided an edit summary at that article for the past three years so it’s very difficult to figure out what any specific edit may have added or removed without looking at each and every diff one by one. – Purplewowies (talk) 18:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I’ve been inactive for a long time but would like to edit occasionally. My old email (NawlinWiki@cox.net) is from a provider that no longer provides email, so that address is dead. I can’t change it because when I try to, the system prompts me for a 2FA link sent by email to the dead address. Is there a fix for this? Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) NawlinWiki (talk) 20:04, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a question for WP:VPT. I’ll move this over there. Nyttend (talk) 23:44, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I applied a setting that allowed me to switch between light and dark mode while logged in, which I was not able to do before changing this setting. Now, the green and yellow colors that were in {{Oregon Health & Science University}} in Dark Mode no longer show up. Do you know how to switch this back? —Jax 0677 (talk) 23:43, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Dark mode automatically adjusts colours so that you don’t get flash-banged by some unusually brightly coloured element on the page. In some cases this means that colours used by some templates are suppressed, probably because there’s no suitable ‘dark’ equivalent. I’m not sure what determines which colours are kept, which are adjusted, and which are suppressed. It’s possible to use CSS classes to suppress dark mode inversion in a template, but this is usually a bad idea (particularly as other users may not want dark mode suppressed for templates). There’s no easy setting to suppress the inversion just for yourself. Maybe someone skilled with CSS could come up with a line your could add to Special:MyPage/common.css which accomplish what you, but I don’t know for certain that something like that is possible. – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 00:15, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback. I had it where the green and yellow did show up, and was hoping to get that back. —Jax 0677 (talk) 00:18, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

As an aside, the navbox you linked is in Category:Potentially illegible navboxes so its colours need to be changed anyway for accessibility issues, regardless of dark mode. – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 00:17, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! —Jax 0677 (talk) 00:19, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically, the yellow on green has a contrast ratio of 1.9 and the standard blue link on green has a contrast ratio of 3.47, both of which fail WCAG AA. V, T, E, and hide are 1.04 which is practically invisible (a ratio of 1 means the foreground and background are the same color, so 1.04 is nearly that). – Purplewowies (talk) 08:36, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I actually just went and stripped the styling entirely for now–all of the WCAG fails were bad but the 1.04 felt like it needed to be dealt with now even if a sufficiently contrasting color scheme might be possible. – Purplewowies (talk) 08:40, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

i have edited Beyond the Clouds (2017 film). if i again visit article page, is there anyway to know if i edited page in the past without visiting article revision history ? কল্কি (talk) 03:05, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If it was on a different account, then no, unless you check the contributions of that account. If it was on this one, you can check here. But according to that, you’ve only edited the article once, back in March. ^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 (They/them • Ping me!) 03:11, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

so i need to check user contributions. if there are more than 500, i am in trouble ! কল্কি (talk) 03:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@কল্কি: there are newer/est & older/est links immediately above & below the list on every contributions page, which will take you to more pages of the same length. (If there are fewer contributions than the maximum chosen, or when you’re already at the first or last page, the relevant links will be deactivated.)—Odysseus1479 05:00, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

কল্কি, you can have more than 500. Go to the page history and select the 500 option, and you’re at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beyond_the_Clouds_(2017_film)&action=history&offset=&limit=500. Just tweak the URL and you can have more, e.g. adding a zero gives you 5000 revisions, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beyond_the_Clouds_(2017_film)&action=history&offset=&limit=5000. That doesn’t have any effect here, since it has just 313 revisions, but if you visit a page with many more revisions, this could simplify searching. But be aware that it can take much longer for the servers to render a list of 5000 revisions. You can change the “500” to any other number, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beyond_the_Clouds_(2017_film)&action=history&limit=174 offers you 174 revisions, has a link for “older 174”, etc. Nyttend (talk) 11:04, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@কল্কি: You can use the Sigma tool to find all edits to a page by one account. Certes (talk) 13:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

created a simple greasemonkey script and uploaded at https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/582917-universal-mediawiki-edit-checker –কল্কি (talk) 02:03, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:List of mountains of Alberta where a TA has pointed out that the mountains sort by height in two separate groups, those with commas after the thousands place in their height figures and those without. I gather this can be fixed by inserting data-sort-type="number" in the relevant column headers, but when I did so (trying various places in the line containing the column heading, because the syntax of the header definitions doesn’t look the same as the example I was trying to follow) it just made a mess. A possible complicating factor is that each row is generated by a template, not in plain wikitext. Can someone point me to a similar table that would make a good model to emulate?—Odysseus1479 04:49, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Answered at Talk:List of mountains of Alberta#List of mountains formatting. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:47, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Tillie ~2026-34905-01 (talk) 10:18, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Brian, it’s not clear what you are asking. Are you asking how to create a free Wikipedia account? If so, see Wikipedia:Create account qcne (talk) 10:23, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @~2026-34905-01.

I’m guessing that you mean that you want there to be an article about you in Wikipedia.

First, please notice that Wikipedia only hosts articles about subject which are notable in the special sense that Wikipedia uses that word: mostly it means that there is enough wholly independent material published about the subject in reliable sources to base an article on. Most people in the world do not meet those criteria, and no article about them is possible. (I don’t, even though I am mentioned in a Wikipedia article).

If you do meet those criteria, then it is possible for there to be an article about you. Unfortunately, as this is a volunteer project, there is no reliable way to cause this to happen. You could put a request at requested articles – but in all honesty, requests there are rarely taken up.

You are permitted to try and write an article about yourself, but again being honest, your chances of success are small, even if you had experience in the challenging task of creating a Wikipedia article – and you are strongly discouraged from trying it: see autobiography.

Overall, my advice is to forget about appearing in Wikipedia. If you are notable (in Wikipedia’s sense) then at some point somebody will write an article about you.

One more point: now you have expressed an interest in there being an article about you (assuming my guess is correct) you may be approached by somebody wanting to write an article for money. If this happens, it is almost certainly a scam: see WP:SCAM. ColinFine (talk) 15:14, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

All of my edits keep disappearing ~2026-35241-63 (talk) 20:17, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like one of your edits was reverted because you removed the references without adequately explaining why. ^{In solidarity,} 🏳️‍🌈JohnLaurens333 ^{(They/them • Talk • Contribs)} 20:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-35241-63: If your edits were saved then click the “View history” tab on the page to see what happened. Your current temporary account only has three edits at Special:Contributions/~2026-35241-63. The first [4] was reverted here, probably because you removed all references, external links and categories. Wikipedia articles must have references. Your second edit wasn’t reverted although it may be because it has no reference, and the third was the above question which wasn’t reverted either. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:56, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the article, I’m doubtful as to whether it actually meets our notability criteria, and the use of primary-source court documents in the manner found there is almost certainly contrary to policy – see WP:BLPPRIMARY. Looking at the article history, it appears that the NICA article was created from the start to highlight the court case, rather than as a general article on the organisation, and though standards back in 2006 were much more lax, such coatracking is contrary to policy now. It needs substantial rewriting if it is ever to meet current standards, providing better evidence of the organisation’s notability, and the coverage of the court case, if included, needs proper Wikipedia-policy-compliant sourcing. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:15, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello: I edit voluntarily, but also am a COI editor (the disclosure which you can find on my user page). I have recently been approached by someone who lives in the US but has media coverage in Dutch dating back to the 1990s. I suggested they inquire about a page on the Netherlands Wikipedia site. Similarly, I just spoke to someone in China in the same situation. Is there a way to connect these people with the Netherlands/Dutch, and Chinese wikipedia community, respectively? I appreciate any feedback and advice for them. Thank you, LeepKendall (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@LeepKendall: In the left sidebar on this page (might be skin dependent?) you can find links to the Help Desk for other langauge Wikipedias. For example for the Netherlands https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Helpdesk and for China https://zh.wikipedia.org/ (main page) RudolfRed (talk) 22:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) hi, for a start I would say that if a random person wanted an article about themself in English Wikipedia, there is a list they could add their name to, but it is hardly used. They could come here and ask for help and they would be given some basic information and advised that they could write an article themself, but that is difficult for a new editor and not necessarily a good idea. (You may well be able to give that advice yourself.)

People on this Helpdesk generally don’t advise about other Wikipedias as they have different rules and we are generally not familiar with them. However many Wikipedias will have a Help desk linked to this one via Wikidata item Project:Help desk (Q4026300). Also they are likely to have a notability policy linked to notability policy for a Wikimedia content project (Q4657574). Your contact could post at the Dutch or Chinese Help desk, but I don’t have experience of using them (that I can remember). They might get similar advice to what I wrote above.

It might be easier to write the article on English Wikipedia, subject to notability rules, as en Wikipedia accepts foreign language sources. TSventon (talk) 22:43, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

THERE IS AN ERROR IN Template:Chembox! Currently, EVERY auto-generated 3-dimensional JSmol model link fails (EXAMPLES: METHANE, WATER, ETC.). I have no clue if this is a Wikipedia error or a JSmol error, but it must be fixed! If it is on Wikipedia’s side, we must find a way to fix the link. If it’s JSmol’s fault, we should either scrap the link and wait for a fix (if there ends up being one) OR replace it with a different model generator (if JSmol takes too long). Γ+2 (talk) 02:02, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@GammaPlus2: both methane and water links worked fine for me. There have been no changes to Chembox template this year. Maybe a temporary error in JSmol? MKFI (talk) 09:41, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For me, methane gives “ERROR opening https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/chemical/structure/C/file?format=sdf&get3d=True — C could not be loaded.” Γ+2 (talk) 11:31, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It works for me too. If it now works for you too then any error has already been fixed; if not then the problem may be at your end. In general, topics are more likely to attract a response from a subject expert if the title indicates what they are about, e.g. “Chembox no longer displays JSmol model”. Certes (talk) 10:19, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Both links failed for me around 10:30 but work now. The Water link is https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jmol.php?model=O and gave me a page only saying:

ERROR opening https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/chemical/structure/O/file?format=sdf&get3d=True -- O could not be loaded.

Now I see an image of a water molecule. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:51, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The same error message keeps coming and going away for me. The site certainly seems unstable today but it’s too soon to think about a replacement. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:32, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

So, will the template be edited or not? Γ+2 (talk) 11:34, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Currently, it gives an error. At first I thought this might be some kind of Wikipedia error where the SMILES text was inputted wrongly, but I believe this must be some sort of JSmol error. Whatever it is, I believe everybody should have access to 3-dimensional molecular models, and not just those with the luck of not having the glitch happen. Γ+2 (talk) 11:39, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’ll just mention you guys so you see this message because I don’t want to have to copy-paste this whoever knows how many times. @PrimeHunter @Certes @MKFI Γ+2 (talk) 11:44, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@GammaPlus2 This is a Jmol problem, not a Wikipedia one. Sometimes the link from our articles works and sometimes it doesn’t. It can be reported on their Wiki at this link. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:51, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It seems JSmol is STILL updating. Their Wikipedia article says the most recent stable release was no more than a few weeks ago. I mean, we could try reporting it, but in the meantime we should figure out if the template should be edited or not. If JSmol doesn’t read it quickly, we should probably remove the link altogether until it’s fixed. Γ+2 (talk) 11:57, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

At Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics by country#Albania there is a display of several userboxes. Below the images for User:Firefly/Userbox Archive/User Pro-Albania and User:Kevjassintkevin/Userboxes/AlbaniaEU the word “no” appears, which looks like someone making a comment to disapprove of those infoboxes. However, I didn’t see the word “no” in the wiki markup for Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics by country at that point, nor was it transcluded from the infoboxes themselves as the word “no” doesn’t appear in their wiki markup either. Does anyone know what this is about? — Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:46, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Metropolitan90: This is an unintended side-effect of Special:Diff/1314518306 by Redrose64 (talk · contribs). It looks as if some userboxes interpret the category parameter differently from others. I’m not sure of the best fix. — John of Reading (talk) 07:16, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have added support for |category=no to those two user boxes.[5][6] There may be others. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:40, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:32, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Team, We are unable to contribute the topic for our institute but i am putting the information all are real, but i know i am doing some mistakes, thats why continue its replaced. and removed the content. request you kindly help us to make complete this. Biswajit Kol (talk) 11:31, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The article at Praxis Business School, Kolkata is severely sub-standard by modern Wikipedia policy as it does not show how the business school is notabe in the way that would now be required. What you have added to your Talk Page is even less acceptable, as it has no sources that are independent of the school (see this guidance). Additionally, if you are an employee or otherwise related to the school, it is a part of Wikimedia’s terms of use that you formally declare that: see WP:PAID and WP:COI. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:00, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

i had tried to pur the refference link and i have the refference link also which are in news epaper

https://www.highereducationdigest.com/praxis-business-school-building-digital-leaders-of-the-future/

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/praxis-business-school-is-shaping-students-for-the-ai-driven-world-through-its-management-education/cid/2159642

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/career/from-struggle-to-success-farheen-masoods-inspiring-journey-empowered-by-education/cid/2013948

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/praxis-business-school-to-host-its-inter-college-fest-spardha-2026-from-february-6-to-7/cid/2145771

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/spardha-2026-at-praxis-business-school-celebrates-talent-competition-and-creativity-photogallery/cid/2151603

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/praxis-business-school-kolkata-gears-up-for-edge-2026-and-startup-clinic-and-pitch-event/cid/2156060

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/praxis-business-school-hosts-edge-2026-and-startup-clinic-and-pitch-event-in-kolkata/cid/2157385

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/news/praxis-business-school-organises-samvaad-2024-to-discuss-future-of-employment-education-and-skills-in-artificial-intelligence-driven-world/cid/2071130

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/convocation-ceremony-hosted-by-praxis-business-school-bids-farewell-to-pgdm-class-of-2025/cid/2094411?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/campus/praxis-business-school-conducted-its-15th-convocation-for-pgdm-class-of-2023-photogallery/cid/1929361?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/rethinking-management-education-for-a-data-and-ai-led-economy/articleshow/126271908.cms?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://praxis.ac.in/praxis-launches-the-first-issue-of-its-academic-journal-digitalics/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Biswajit Kol (talk) 12:10, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

So I’ve been having an issue the last few days on the 2026 Michigan House of Representatives election article, pretty much ever since Friday (June 12th) when I tried to edit it originally, and that would be whenever I try to edit it, the loading bar for the visualeditor just gets completely stuck while loading. I’ve cleared the cache of my browser, logged into Wikipedia on a separate browser and tried to edit it, let the article load for a while, and it would just never finished loading. When I tried to edit the article through the source editor, I was allowed to just fine, but I just keep having issues with the visualeditor.

That would also be the only article I have this issue, all the other articles that I’m a frequent editor of let me edit them just fine. I thought it was an issue that would just go away after a few days, but at this point, I’m just completely lost on whether it’s an issue on my end or the article. When I was trying to look up help, the only thing I got was this Reddit post, but their solution didn’t work for me and, for whatever reason, my problem is only with one article and not multiple. ABlitzz (talk) 12:44, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’m trying to add a citation to the uncited claim that Charles-François Dumouriez is buried in Henley in the Henley-on-Thames notable people. On Commons there is an image of his monument in St. Mary church in Henley. The first line of the monument is “HIC JACET”, which google translate tells me means “here he lies”.

Is the image an appropriate source and if so, how should I cite it? TomJB1 (talk) 13:50, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]