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WP:CI has been sitting as a proposal for over a decade now. There is clear consensus in favor of it. Is there any way to get developers to stop dragging their feet and accept it or turn it down? Am I missing something? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 01:18, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm setting up another language wiki (Arabic) and copied over the citation module in an attempt to recreate the book and web citations. The citations are showing up correctly but they're also throwing an error that CitationClass was ignored due to an unknown parameter. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Would appreciate any pointers.
https://ar.wikiislam.net/wiki/Test
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templates at that place show the same error message?I am improving the article of Degrassi Junior High, and even before I began editing the article, it has an unsourced end date of March 6, 1989. However, a search of CBC's archive sales page of "degrassi junior high bye bye junior high" (Bye Bye, Junior High) being the name of the final episode has a date of February 27, 1989 (it is the second entry). Likewise, on Newspapers.com, this article from the Montreal Gazette (Newspapers.com) from March 11, 1989 cites the series finale as airing "a couple of weeks ago". However, I cannot seem to find a concrete source that states that the show ended on February 27, 1989, let alone March 6, 1989, and TV listings on other newspaper archive sites are not helping me because there are too many re-runs and listings that don't have synopses. It is the same with the article It's Late (Degrassi Junior High), which I repeated the airdate of March 29, 1987 on the page, but the archive sales site lists it as airing on April 19, 1987. Where are some reliable places to look for TV air dates such as this? ToQ100gou (talk) 06:56, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
there is an issue i'm trying to resolve with a wiki article about a person with the same name as my husband but just recently my husband's photos started appearing next to that person's wiki excerpt when doing a google search for that name this other person is a famous footballer and has died and is clearly not related to my husband. but i can't work out how to remove that image from the google excerpt. it's also noted that this pic does not show up on the wiki article itself just on the google search excerpt. I can't add a pic of the footballer to the wiki page as i don't have any original non-copywrited pics of the footballer and there's nowhere to remove my husband's pic from being associated with the the wiki article. i don't know what to do to solve this problem, can someone help me?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Talazein (talk • contribs)
Hi, sorry but by mistake I kept the "Draft" in the tilte of a new page. Who would be able to help) Draft:European Compliance and Ethics Conference Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amrohs (talk • contribs) 10:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I wanted to tag Contact shot for having no citations in the text while having some in the references section, but I can't find the template for that. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I created an entire section which is still there in edit mode but is not showing up when published. Any idea why? It was there earlier and I must have done something inadvertently which caused it to disappear. I am trying to correct the formatting, no error messages, the content didn't disappear, it's just not visible. It is a draft of article about Eleanor Young Love. Career section. Any help would be appareciated. Thank you.
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I am working on a biography of a living person (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DaffodilOcean/Clarice_Yentsch). I am still gathering up the pieces, and I have a question about YouTube videos. Clarice Yentsch co-founded Bigelow Laboratory, a research institution in Maine. In 2014, Bigelow had a symposium celebrating their 40 years of research which they recorded and posted on YouTube. In that video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBiHRz8ilA) Clarice Yentsch speaks about founding Bigelow. Can I use this as a source, how would I cite this, and/or can I provide an external link to the YouTube video? I am uncertain if this is a copyright question. I also am not certain how to handle citing video of a person speaking about herself. And, to be perfectly clear, I have read the COI policy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest) and I do not have a conflict of interest (I am not Yentsch, I do not know her, I do not work for her or Bigelow, I am not being paid)--DaffodilOcean (talk) 15:57, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
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Dear Wikipedia, I would like to draw your attention to the falseness of this article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pharma_conspiracy_theory Like several subject matters currently showing around this theme, the information seems to be biased towards the vested interests of pharmaceutical companies. The article seems to give the impression, that those who are critical of the pharmaceutical industry are citing information based on lack of Reason. It is important to point out, that it is indeed, Reason itself, which affords and allows for criticism of the pharmaceutical industry.##Is it, or is it not the case that doctors and hospitals are offered financial incentive for 'stocking' the products of any particular pharmaceutical company? Is it not the case that the pharmaceutical lobby in the USA alone was 250 in the first quarter of 2020 alone? (Daily Mail source). The pharma industry is problematic because it pushes relatively low-intelligence solutions for human health. It is problematic because it is not based on metaphysics but rather, is based on 'Naive science', that is, empirical-reductionist science ... Newtonian physics ... science which is now outdated by understandings such as those of Quantum Physics. We know, for example, that when a particle is viewed it becomes wave energy ... this is the marvel of revelation given to us not only by quantum physics but also by metaphysics ... As Kant stated ... we are not able to know reality directly via the senses ... Contra ... we must 'go beyond' to know reality directly ... in doing this we come to the knowledge that we are not separate from reality but part of it ... We are not separate from nature but part of it ... The pharmaceutical industry, however, as an emblem of the last flowering of naive science, states, essentially, that the arbiter of truth is 'material', 'matter', ... 'form'. This is its great error - for real medicine has nothing to do with form, rather, it has to do with our connection to the cosmos, to universal law, to ethics and to developing truly as human beings ... The pharmaceutical industry is problematic as it seems to be intrinsically linked to wealth creation ... it certainly seems that, as a force, in the world, its influence is potential ignorant, potential pernicious ... It aims to tell us that taking material from nature and putting it in pill form is the great way to cure all things ... It aims to tell us that health lies in the offerings of itself and hospitals and doctors who often buy its products ... Though there may be scope for such treatment to a limited degree ... it seems to be now be far too large ... What is more important, however, is that health is not related to this foolishness ... health is, as stated a metaphysical matter ... it is, to do with our relationship with higher consciousness, with an understanding of self as part of the cosmos, with will, with the unfoldment of our paths as beings. The idea of 'taking a tablet' to make ourselves better is an outgrowth of childhood and the parental relationship. Activities such as mindfulness are far more effective in removing tumors than Western medicine ... I'm not saying tumors can't be removed by Western medicine practitioners but ... if you live your life properly, in tune with nature ... you are far less likely to develop such illnesses in the first place. |
— Preceding unsigned comment added by ADNamin (talk • contribs) 17:52, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Well if you have something wrong with it, fix it. Also make sure to add reliable sources. TigerScientist Chat 18:57, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I was surprised to see the text "Do not copy this image illegally by ignoring the terms of the license below, as it is not in the public domain. If you would like special permission to use, license, or purchase the image please contact me to negotiate terms." attached to images displayed in the gallery of Modzurów. This strikes me as clearly advertising of services: contact me to buy this, more or less. I thought we did not allow advertising?--- Possibly (talk) 19:48, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I am a new editor and have updated an article that has been redirected and marked for deletion. The editor that redirected the article noted that this person did not meet notability standards. After reviewing and updating the citations, I believe that this person does meet the WP:BIO criteria and it makes sense to reinstate it.
I am not sure how to proceed.. Currently the updated article is sitting in my sandbox. I have asked for help in the talk section for the article in question but maybe it takes longer than I think it should for someone to respond. Sorry about that if that is the case. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. ScottishAccent (talk) 19:57, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
I recently stumbled across this list article, List of companies in Burnaby, and am wondering whether it falls under the criteria for deletion since it doesn't give any more information than the associated category, Category:Companies based in Burnaby does. Thank you. Daylen (talk) 20:34, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
When you do a Wiki search on "transgender", you see this. It is absurb. Fix it please.
Between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, the primary terms used under the transgender umbrella were "female to male" (FtM) for men who transitioned from female to male, and "male to female" (MtF) for women who transitioned from male to female. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.15.112.214 (talk)
Hello:
I want to create an article. Where can I start on wikipedia.com ?
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