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Hi,
I wanted to amend the article as Cyberith is not telling the whole story of their kickstarter campaign. I'm one of the backers of their product. On the article they claim that:
"According to unconfirmed rumors, the company has been sued by one of its Kickstarter backers.[citation needed] These rumors suggest that the claim of the backer has been rejected by the court."
They were indeed sued. However the case was lost as a backer could not claim that the company has ever to deliver the product.
I wanted to change the text about the campain to the following statement which I think is not biased in any direction but telling the truth what happened:
The company has been sued by one of its Kickstarter backers.[citation needed]. In contrast to the original promise in the advertisement campaign on kickstarter the company never fulfilled their promises. None of the backers received the product nor did they get their funding money back (see kickstarter.com cyberith campaign comments section of backers.
However it seems that the source "kickstarter" has been banned from the links. Can you please unban this link and allow me to change to content on their wikipedia page to amend the information?
Reagards,
Wolfgang — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.124.142.201 (talk) 00:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) GoingBatty (talk) 05:09, 22 January 2021 (UTC)Dear Wikipedia,
I would like to apologize for accidently editing a page about Tottori Japan.
This happened when I accidently clicked the edit button and mistakenly took out one of the letters.
Thankfully EN-jungwon has warned me on a Wikipedia Mail and so I am writing this.
I once again apologize for the mishap.
Sincerely Yours, Anonymous ( Sorry I want to keep my name personal ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.121.57.188 (talk) 02:56, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Block evading long-term troll. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:54, 22 January 2021 (UTC) |
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Cease and Desist, I will make this very clear so you all understand this letter to you! My company which is registered is the New Zealand Space Agency Limited it is also registered as NZSA Limited which is an abbreviation for The New Zealand Space Agency, NZSA is my trade marked company name, I do hope this is clear to you all at Wikipedia my company requests that an individual or organization ie Wikipedia stop a specified action and refrain from doing it in the future, with a threat of legal action if the recipient fails to comply. Cease and Desist from using my company name and trademark and remove all articals of the New Zealand Space Agency that have been posted by the New Zealand Government Agency known as MBIE as they have not been given any permission from me what so ever to use my company name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.89.81.4 (talk) 04:23, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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Is it okay to edit anonymously most of the time and use an account to edit semiprotected articles and do other stuff that can only be done by accounts? Thanks. 122.61.73.44 (talk) 05:26, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Need some technical help, not sure where to put this. I need to update a reference to a more recent version in the article on Bells Independent School District. The reference is defined in the info box template. If I look on the page normally it reads out:
But the source code has only these two versions of that reference:
and later
Why is the reference not defined in the source code as it normally would be? How do I update it?
Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 05:57, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
((NCES District ID))
) and should generally not be changed. What do you want to change? (BTW, you can use nowiki tags: <nowiki>insert wikicode here</nowiki>
to do what you did using the spaces above.) —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 06:06, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
|teachers=67.29 (2009-10)
) are still in the article and can just be edited there (to |teachers=70.23 (2018–19)
) and you can update the |access_date=20 July 2012
parameter to the ((NCES District ID))
template with the current date. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 06:32, 22 January 2021 (UTC)Hi,
I used my real name as my user name and am facing backlash now. I would like to change it to a different name and be removed from the edit log of the pages I have edited.
Please help me. I am under a lot of stress.
I find that I am adding facts to wikipedia and then these facts are deleted. The facts are about a living person.
Can you provide me with a reason why they are deleted. Is it against the policy of wikipedia to write anything negative about anyone, regardless of the facts ?
Let's say, for example, Joe Biden enjoys a lot of whiskey, and it is a known fact with pictures of Joe drinking whiskey, am I not allowed to post it because Joe is officially a teetotaller ?
I don't understand. May you please explain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.95.176.195 (talk) 06:45, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
how do i start a wiki profile about an upcoming musical artist — Preceding unsigned comment added by NILOSKIItti (talk • contribs) 07:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 07:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)There used to be a prolific writers page and I feel this filled a need in terms of this page. It no longer exists is it possible that I or you could restart the page using the last edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.167.216 (talk) 08:50, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia team,
After requesting some changes in the article related to IOSCO since 2018, we request again the revision of this information. IOSCO members used the talk page to get in contact with you and received a response telling us to follow the main steps published under ARTICLES in your website. While we at IOSCO understand your conflict-of-interest policy and will adhere to it, we are very concerned by the content of your Wikipedia page regarding our organization. Here is a run-down of the most important inaccuracies and outdated information found on the page:
extended edit request
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1) Wikipedia says: Its mandate is to:
Where on earth does this come from? It is sourced to a 2017 Economist report on sustainability that only mentions the first point, which is largely correct. But the other two points are erroneous (the part on IOSCO and sustainability in the report is way out of date, too. See: https://www.iosco.org/news/pdf/IOSCONEWS589.pdf). You need only look at the first page of any IOSCO Annual Report to see that the mandate is:
2) Under purpose Wikipedia says: Forum for national securities regulators, which is correct. But more importantly, IOSCO is The global standard setter for securities markets regulation. 3) Arabic is also an official IOSCO language 4) What does the following mean and where does it come from? In 1998 IOSCO started work on a number of important policies that led to broader set of guidelines. 5) Wikipedia says: Associate members: other securities and/or futures regulators in cases where there's more than one per jurisdiction. For example, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the North American Securities Administrators Association in the United States are associate members of IOSCO given that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is the ordinary member from the United States. Associate members have no vote and are not eligible for the Executive Committee; they are, however, members of the Presidents' Committee. The CFTC –in addition to the US SEC-- has been a full-fledged ordinary IOSCO member for about seven years now; the NASAA is no longer a member. The most recent membership criteria can be found here https://www.iosco.org/annual_reports/2019/15_GeneralInformation/01.html 6) Ranjit Ajit Singh, Chair of the Securities Commission Malaysia, is no longer the chair of the Growth and Emerging Markets Committee. Nor is he Vice Chair of IOSCO. There are now three Vice Chairs, not two. 7) With the exception of the European committee chair, none of the regional chairs that you mention are still in office. https://www.iosco.org/about/?subsection=display_committee&cmtid=11 The Spanish version of the Wikipedia page also provides different names for the chairs of the regional committees, all of which are wrong as the information provided is more than ten years old. The Spanish version of the page is even more out of date than the English, which should be remedied quickly, as the headquarters of IOSCO are located in Madrid, Spain. 8) The Technical and Executive Committees were abolished in 2012. IOSCO created a Board of 34 members to replace them, which is mentioned on the Wikipedia page under leadership. The Wikipedia source here is a report from 1996! That was 25 years ago! The English version no longer refers to the Executive Committee but the Spanish version not only refers to both committees, it also names the chairs, most of whom served many years ago and are long forgotten. El Comité Ejecutivo está presidido por la Sra. Jane Diplock, presidenta de la Comisión de Valores de Nueva Zelanda. El Comité Técnico está presidido por la Sra. Kathleen L. Casey, un comisionado de la Comisión de la Bolsa de Valores [that is an incorrect reference to the SEC] de los EE. UU. El actual presidente del Comité de Mercados Emergentes es el Sr. Guillermo Larraín (Presidente de la Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros, Chile) 9) Wikipedia says: One of its most important relationships is with the Joint Forum. The Joint Forum no longer exists. As a standard setting body, IOSCO works closely with the Financial Stability Board, which the G20 created in 2009 to address the global financial crisis. You can find more information about IOSCO´s work with the FSB and other international organizations in the 2019 IOSCO Annual Report (some of the info there about the FSB relates to 2020). https://www.iosco.org/annual_reports/2019/06_InterAgencyWork/05.html 10) Wikipedia says: The IOSCO MOUs are considered the primary instruments to facilitate cross border cooperation, reduce global systemic risk, protect investors, and ensure fair and efficient securities markets. There is only one important IOSCO MMoU- the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Consultation and Cooperation and the Exchange of Information (MMoU) which you refer to higher up on the page. The links you provide for the so-called MoUs also point to the MMoU. The other MoUs, are bilateral arrangements between national securities commissions. You say correctly: In 2002 IOSCO adopted a multilateral memorandum of understanding (IOSCO MMoU) designed to facilitate cross-border enforcement and exchange of information among the international community of securities regulators. To get a feel for how important this MMoU is see Also interesting to note is that the IOSCO Enhanced MMoU was introduced in 2017 to expand the range of enforcement powers that signatories may use to safeguard the integrity and stability of markets, protect investors, and deter misconduct. It addresses many of the developments that have risen in recent years as a result of new technologies or the growing role of market-based finance in international markets. No mention is made of the EMMoU in Wikipedia (I understand that that is your call). Also interesting is that footnote number 3 on the Wikipedia page is repeatedly cited as a reference. Although the note says that the information was retrieved in January 2019, the link provided takes you to the latest edition of the section “who we are” on the IOSCO webpage. Comparing the two versions highlights just how out of date much of the information on your page is. |
We are sending you our comments in this format because we made all the appropriate changes to our Wikipedia page two years ago through the official channels and they were almost all rejected. We ask that you pass these suggestions for factual changes to the relevant editor for consideration. We have provided links to our official documents so that Wikipedia can contrast its information with what we have sent you above. We also suggest that you only include the names of the Chair and Secretary General in your description of IOSCO, otherwise your page risks becoming obsolete very quickly, as other leadership changes occur quite frequently.
Thank you very much for your kind consideration. IOSCO Secretariat — Preceding unsigned comment added by A.cabo-iosco (talk * contribs) 09:03, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
It was a surprise for me to see that someone has created a Wikipedia entry about me and it includes incorrect information about my birth place, university, career...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noem%C3%AD_de_Miguel https://g.co/kgs/5eoVRa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.36.209.155 (talk) 11:00, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I am one of the editors of Campbell X, which was created as part of the Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/SHE_MUST_BE_WIKI:_Feminist_Film_Wiki-a-thon that my collective, Club des Femmes, hosted. The subject of the page has reached out to me to request that it be deleted; I have made the pro-tem edits that he requested in the interim: changing his pronouns and deleting works associated with his deadname.
I cannot use a deletion request as it makes the filmmaker's concerns unnecessarily public, adding further distress. Please could you delete the page. I have sent the help desk link to Campbell as well so he can request deletion.
While the Wikipedia policy on gender identity and against deadnaming is welcome, further consideration is needed concerning living subjects who no longer associate with or consider themselves authors of work made under their deadname and associated with their assigned gender. A speedy deletion policy should be available based on a request by the living subject or on their behalf. Transition can be a very difficult and painful time, and public reminders of a past and painful identity/work intensifies that.
Please can you delete the page.
So Mayer (my Wikipedia name is *also* a deadname, do not use in any correspondence) Sophiemayer (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 12:05, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
This policy on non-deletion needs to be reviewed in light of the particular situation of transitioning: as is clear from your policy on gender identity, Wikipedia is aware that "publicly available" can be harmful and incorrect for trans people. I have passed the deletion request on to the subject, but restate my case as above, and as one of the contributing editors to the page Sophiemayer (talk) 12:17, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Random addition of Template:Articledeleted by a different user, unrelated to this discussion (diff)
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Urgent: Someone tried redirecting my article to hide so can't edit or view. #TakuyaMurata has no rights to redirect with no permission. Please make my article and Draft protected from editing or writing by other users. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kkmal.Hamouda (talk • contribs) 13:02, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
There is a lock icon on the edit button, blocking people from editing some of your false articles. According to your own rules people are supposedly able to edit these in order to prevent misinformation. Obviously that was a lie. Explanation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.226.203 (talk) 14:05, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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Please change "John is married to Linda" to "John was married to Linda from 1990 to 2021." Source: Daily Planet, "John and Linda Divorce", Kent, Clark, 1/22/2021."
~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 14:17, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 14:20, 22 January 2021 (UTC)Regarding the data given by that gadget (as rendered e. g. for this lemma), I have three two questions:
#At the bottom of the first section "General statistics", you see three circle charts. The third chart shows the proportions of edits made by the "top 10 %" and the "bottom 90 %" of editors, respectively (whatever the sense of this visualization may be, since you always have the same ratio: 10 % and 90 % …). Now, if you look at the corresponding chart over here, for instance, and compare it very carefully with the one at the page linked above, you will find that the 10 %-sector shown in the latter is slightly larger than that of the former – albeit the size of both circles as well as the visualized relation (10 % vs. 90 %) are the same! How can that be?--Hildeoc (talk) 14:49, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Is it possible to review my search history. For instance, I can look up the reference again if I remember it, but what if I don't remember where I looked, as the reference I need is buried in the record, and isn't directly relevant to the search (i.c., biographical entries where something is referenced in the record that has nothing to do w/ the subject). Also, is it possible to do a string search within a record for a specific word? Sorry! One question rolls after another like stones :) Specific example is that I wanted to reference Gödel's discovery of a flaw in the US Constitution. See below. Reference within https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del is pasted:
"On December 5, 1947, Einstein and Morgenstern accompanied Gödel to his U.S. citizenship exam, where they acted as witnesses. Gödel had confided in them that he had discovered an inconsistency in the U.S. Constitution that could allow the U.S. to become a dictatorship. Einstein and Morgenstern were concerned that their friend's unpredictable behavior might jeopardize his application. The judge turned out to be Phillip Forman, who knew Einstein and had administered the oath at Einstein's own citizenship hearing. Everything went smoothly until Forman happened to ask Gödel if he thought a dictatorship like the Nazi regime could happen in the U.S. Gödel then started to explain his discovery to Forman. Forman understood what was going on, cut Gödel off, and moved the hearing on to other questions and a routine conclusion.[23][24] " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jlodgec (talk • contribs) 15:37, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
User Hxcg has been using links the wrong way on multiple pages. Please look into it before it gets out of hand. I've already fixed most pages. He also did this on Independent Music Companies Association. Aquatic Ambiance (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Can you fix the error i made please. 68.102.42.216 (talk) 17:40, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Irrelevant comment that doesn't ask a question about using Wikipedia
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WE ARE GOING TO NEW VALE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.223.50 (talk) 17:55, 22 January 2021 (UTC) |
Good evening,
I’m a Wikipedia user and I wanted to create a Wikipedia page for me could you help me in creating a webpage visible for anyone when they search in the internet the name of the user (subject of the webpage).
Thank you, Best regards, Nicolò Maccatrozzo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicomaccatrozzo (talk • contribs) 19:12, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I am a very active wikiHow user, but I am confused on how to use Wikipedia. How do I patrol recent changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artsy Koala (talk • contribs) 20:22, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
I have now successfully managed to set up a new userpage. I have tried to put myself in the category "Exopedian Wikipedians", but just got red letters. Does any one know what I am doing wrong? I shall be very grateful if Wikipedia has a tutorial on adding to categories. Rollo August (talk) 20:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
If a film/album/TV show called "(stylized as)" were to be released, would its lede on Wikipedia start with "Stylized As (stylized as (stylized as))"? Findanegg (talk) 20:39, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello I am in the process of to open an account for my profile wikipedia I have an important question for you, so if I want to add a new project to my profile page, I know how to do it, then you check it and publish it, Problem: If you try to prove the new projects which I have added, you will have a lot of difficulty, because they are not in English language, but I can prove it to you (with Google) both in the original language and in English. Question to you: I wonder if there is a section-Link or a place on the wikipedia profile page to prove these projects? Thank you Majak — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.20.210.103 (talk) 21:14, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.192.146.43 (talk) 00:31, 23 January 2021 (UTC)