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June 7

Suzanne Somers vandalized

Suzanne Somers was vandalized by User:Briraidt, I can't revert the damage. thanks 2601:646:201:57F0:DC77:73BE:2839:1988 (talk) 04:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I think this is the edit you mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzanne_Somers&diff=1227649674&oldid=1227603912

It does not appear to be vandalism, just rewording parts of the article. If want to discuss their edit use the article's talk page. RudolfRed (talk) 04:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

That entire passage seems to be unnecessarily detailed. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:39, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Feature request: hover-over previews non-mainspace shortcuts

It would be helpful if when you hover over WP:UP, it tells you "Wikipedia:User pages". For WP:NOTHERE, "Clearly not being here to build an encyclopedia". Just the headings would be so helpful. Even as someone who's not new, I've encountered many new shortcuts when reading WP-space articles / seeing admins quote various policies. I have to click & open them every time, even the ones I've just forgotten. Imagine how much more helpful that could be for new users.

Is there an option to enable it that I've just missed? Maybe someone could write a gadget or add it to an existing one.   — TARDIS builder^✉     ★       13:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@TARDIS Builder: Have you tried the gadget "navigation popups"? If it's a redirect the destination page's name appears as a header. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:27, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

How do I delete pages from my userspace?

uh, question above.. — Yours Truly, ⚑ AtikaAtikawa 14:05, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi AtikaAtikawa. If you request deletion of pages in your userspace (except your user talk page), they'll be deleted in most cases. You'll want to read WP:U1 and use one of the tags listed there. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:12, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

aight, thanks! — Yours Truly, ⚑ AtikaAtikawa 14:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @AtikaAtikawa: If you mean an ordinary user page, then use the template {{Db-U1}}. That will place you into the category of users who have pages in their userspace they wish to be deleted by a patrolling admin. If, however, you are referring to your user talk page, then you do not delete them. Per WP:DETALK: User talk pages and user talk archives created by page move are generally not deleted; they are usually needed for reference by other users. For example, if a user has a talk page full of advice and warnings—albeit seemingly ignored—from several experienced Wikipedians, including administrators, deleted page notices, as well as an arbitration enforcement block against them for all to see, then it is important these are kept in the page history for future reference, in the case, for example, of recidivism. One may blank the page, but not delete it. Hope this helps! ——Serial Number 54129 14:16, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, here I was just referring to some sandbox pages of mine.

But concerning my talk page; I did wipe it out but it is still accessible through the history log. This does not go against the rules, does it? — Yours Truly, ⚑ AtikaAtikawa 14:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

It's allowed; see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines § Personal talk page cleanup. DanCherek (talk) 14:32, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

TV

What number is more4 on TV 5.172.183.114 (talk) 14:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Eighteen. Eigh-eigh-eigh-eighteen. ——Serial Number 54129 14:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Just think of the time that could have been saved here by looking at More4.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 14:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@Ianmacm: Yes, guess what I did  ;) but conversely what a missed opportunity it would have been for dredging up 80s synthi-pop counterculture! ——Serial Number 54129 14:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Quick note that whilst this isn't really what the helpdesk is for, More4 may be on different channels depending on the service you are using. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Support for the Islamic State on user page

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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I can't help but notice that User:Christophervincent01 has some, well, concerning userboxes on their user page. There are multiple uses of a flag associated with Islamic terrorism. There is a declaration that This user recognizes the US as a terrorist state. Combined with the fact that they have a self-declared "nom de guerre" of "Abu Muhsin al-Malabari" (note the obvious similarity to Abu Muhsin al-Masri), this seems like something that should probably be clarified. Ghost of Gomez Buck (talk) 16:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@Christophervincent01: For better or worse, users are allowed to express political opinions on their user page. RudolfRed (talk) 17:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Just curious, the only political opinions you're not allowed to express is something that goes against Wikipedia:Child protection, right? ChaosAkita (talk) 17:37, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

See also WP:NONAZIS. An essay, but it describes pretty accurately the way some 'political opinions' get dealt with. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:41, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

The user has now been blocked by the Arbitration Committee. 331dot (talk) 19:25, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

A fake offer for a wikipedia entry

A person purportedly representing "The WIKI editors" took a payment from me with the promise to create a wikipedia page. I was told this would help my book sales as a complement to the information already provided by Cambridge University Press and Amazon. I forwarded a CV and a list of publications--books, journal articles, and popular press commentary. After much back and forth, I was told that a wikipedia page was up. But no such page exists. The person with whom I was interacting--Leo Price, ostensibly representing the wiki editors -- has failed to respond to subsequent emails. Is there any way to report this behavior to a legitimate authority and stop further abuse? I might add that I am an annual contributor to the wikimedia foundation. Leslielipschitz (talk) 18:01, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

What you appear to be describing is quite possibly fraud. In which case, the 'legitimate authority' to report this to is your local law enforcement. Per Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Scam warning, you should probably also email paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org, though there is generally little we can do about it. Sadly, such dubious practices are far from uncommon, and the best advice we can give is to take any external claims to 'represent' Wikipedia, or indeed to have any control over article content at all, as the BS it clearly is. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:10, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I'll just add that such an article did apparently exist once, but it was created by a blocked or banned user and was deleted in May after being moved back to draft space in April (see Leslie Julian Lipschitz and Draft:Leslie Julian Lipschitz). 57.140.16.48 (talk) 18:30, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@Leslielipschitz: Several points:

• It appears that you've been scammed, and you're hardly the first. See WP:SCAM.
• While having a Wikipedia article on oneself can help one's visibility, it's not always a good thing, and promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.
• Contributions to WMF, while appreciated, have no effect on Wikipedia's content, nor should they.
• As Andy notes above, your best recourse would probably to be to your local law enforcement. It's unlikely that there would be much which can be done by anyone here.

I hope this helps, and I hope you find some relief. --Finngall ^talk 18:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I went ahead and template-ized the ombox from the scam warning page, see above. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 18:36, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. It is useful to know that there was such an entry that was submitted by a blocked user. It must have been these people as I don't know of anyone else who would have submitted it. For years colleagues who have wikipedia pages have asked why I don't have one. It never really interested me. But after writing my last book (for Cambridge University Press) I thought it may be time to have an entry--not really so much for promotional purposes but because there seemed to be a slew of readers of the book--and of my Barron's articles--keen to know more about me. After this experience with the scam, however, I am not interested in pursuing an wiki entry further. 72.85.175.57 (talk) 19:20, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

If readers of your work want to know more about you, they should get that information from a personal website or social media. Those things you can exclusively control, you can't do that with a Wikipedia article. 331dot (talk) 19:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

From a cursory websearch, it appears to me likely that you are "Wikipedia:Notable" in our specialised use of that term, and would therefore qualify for a Wikipedia article.

If someone with no personal or professional connection to you chose to write one, based mostly on material published by disinterested secondary WP:Reliable sources and in accordance with Wikipedia's WP:Citation and other policies, including those pertaining to WP:Biographies of living persons, it would likely be accepted (regardless of your wishes).

Most BLP articles are thus written by volunteer contributors. A small proportion are written by people with connections to the subject (a WP:Conflict of interest), but it is very difficult for most such people to be able to write with the necessary detatchment and WP:Neutral point of view, though it isn't forbidden.

Equally, it is not forbidden for someone paid by a subject to write an article about them, but the vast majority of would-be WP:Paid "professional" contributors lack the skills and the knowledge of Wikipedia requirements necessary, and (as you have seen) are scammers promising things that they cannot do and that are often contrary to Wikipedia's rules and operating procedures.

I hope this is enlightening. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 188.220.136.217 (talk) 23:26, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Thomas Kingston

This page appears to have been deleted. May I ask why? 122.150.79.47 (talk) 22:02, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

It looks to me like it was never deleted. It never existed until 27 February, when it was created as a redirect to Lady Gabriella Kingston. Tollens (talk) 22:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Search of Thomas Kingston in deletion log turned up empty, it doesn't seem to have existed as a stand alone article. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 22:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

The page history [1] of Thomas Kingston shows it has always redirected to Lady Gabriella Kingston. A page at Draft:Thomas Kingston has been deleted twice. It was submitted for review but declined and has never been an article in the encyclopedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:53, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

"Dean Close School alumnus and Bristol University graduate Thomas Henry Robin Kingston (22 June 1978 in Evesham – 25 February 2024 in Gloucestershire)" has a sizable chunk of his ex's article devoted to him, to his parents, etc. I don't understand why. (Prehaps because there's not much to say about the ostensible subject of the article?) I'd be inclined to delete most of it. -- Hoary (talk) 23:41, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

June 8

unable to edit the page Ship prefix

I am trying to add a prefix to the list of ship prefixes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix but whenever I try to publish the edit I get blocked with the message "As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes." but I can never try again and am not doing this repeatedly, I have tried to publish the edit a few times in the last month, any idea what's going on here? or how I might solve this issue? Teas And Cakes (talk) 00:42, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

What's the prefix? (Conceivably, a homograph has some meaning related to a body function or whatever.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:47, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

RNMB, Royal Navy Motor Boat. I have refences if they are wanted which I had included in the edit I was looking to make. Teas And Cakes (talk) 00:50, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@Teas And Cakes: We cannot always say what caused such a message but it will probably go away when your account becomes autoconfirmed, meaning at least four days and ten edits at Wikipedia. Your acount is nine months but only has four edits. Your two edits to this help desk also count. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:41, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I will edit elsewhere and come back and try again with ship prefixes later. Teas And Cakes (talk) 18:11, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

iOS app only shows syntax editor

Hello! I just got the iOS app. From what I can see online, there’s supposed to be a sort of visual editor for it. But all I’m getting is the source editor (with some colored text). How can I fix this? Zanahary (talk) 01:06, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@Zanahary: I'm not aware of a visual editor feature in the iOS app. Where did you see it? Maybe it was not about the iOS app but about editing the mobile version of Wikipedia using VisualEditor in the normal Safari browser in iOS. You can see it in a browser at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example#/editor/all after clicking the pencil icon at the top right and select "Visual editing" (it may already be selected). PrimeHunter (talk) 01:35, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Over here, with the caption text "The new editing Interface on the Wikipedia iOS app. Text from Brooklyn Bridge Park on the English Wikipedia." Zanahary (talk) 03:51, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@Zanahary: It looks like a misleading caption. The image is https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-new-editing-Interface-on-the-Wikipedia-iOS-app.png. It has four screenshots. The first is not from an editor as far as I can tell. It's just the rendered article. You can mark something and select "Edit" but it merely starts a source editor for the page with the same text marked in the source, assuming it's actually present in the source. And the source editor may mark another occurence of the text than you. The first screenshot shows "post-industrial waterfront" marked but it isn't even marked in the second screenshot although the text is visible. Maybe the screenshot isn't intend to show this mark feature, or maybe it's a newer feature. The story is from 2019. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:48, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh these people are monsters...
But thank you though! Zanahary (talk) 05:09, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

How to disable Expand all sections?

Hello. When I view Wikipedia pages while I am logged out I can see pages along with expand option on individual section. When I log with my account in browse on my phone, it by default expands all sections. This is pretty inconvenient. I have tried changing things in my preference settings, but nothing is working.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Krutarth (talk • contribs) 8. Jun. 2024, 09:11:00 (UTC)

@Krutarth: There is an "Expand all sections" setting when you click the three line menu at the upper left of the page while you are browsing the mobile Wikipedia site. If I am understanding your comment correctly, disabling that setting should work. LightNightLights (talk • contribs) 11:34, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@Krutarth: After clicking the hamburger button ☰, click "Settings". "Expand all sections" should be there betwen "Text" and "Advanced mode", if you have the option. I have it on my iPhone but not in a desktop browser on the mobile site. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:00, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot to mention the "Settings" button. Thanks for that. LightNightLights (talk • contribs) 12:22, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@LightNightLights@PrimeHunter

Thank you for the help. I couldn't see the settings option itself, there was just preference option. Turned out it was because I was using en.wiki rather than en.m.wiki. The settings option, and inturn the expand section option is visible only on en.m.wiki domain.

Now I just feel dumb hehe. Apologies and thank you for taking time to reply. — Krutarth (talk) 12:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@Krutarth: The bottom of desktop pages have a "Mobile view" link. If you click that then your device should remember your choice and also display the mobile version if you start at en.wikipedia.org. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:50, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

BROKEN: Template:Marriage

Template:Marriage is BROKEN 2601:646:201:57F0:CF62:E91D:767B:A1C5 (talk) 11:36, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Please be specific in questions. I guess you refer to Graham Kerr where I sometimes see an error message in the spouse field where Template:Marriage is used:

Treena Kerr
​<div style="display:inline-block;Expression error: Unexpected < operator">​
(m. 1955; died 2015)​

Other times it displays correctly:

Treena Kerr
​(m. 1955; died 2015)

If I click edit and preview a revision in the page history with the error message then the error goes away. I don't know why it happens and it's difficult to investigate when the same revision keeps displaying differently and never gives an error in preview. Maybe the issue depends on which server you happen to get. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:44, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: Possibly related to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Broken_infoboxes, which has probably been fixed. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 12:48, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, that sounds like it. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:19, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Klopt dit

Na com. ingevoerde CAPTHCA, sturarena hoort er niet bij.

Hoe kan ik dit wijzigen, of hoort het zo, of wijzigt Wikipedia dit liefst voor mij?

E-mail: ..... @outlook.comstunarena WvdWielen (talk) 12:31, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@WvdWielen. This is the English language Wikipedia. Google translates your question into English as After com. imported CAPTHCA, sturarena is not included. How can I change this, or is this how it should be, or does Wikipedia prefer to change this for me?. This leaves me no wiser as to your question. What is sturarena? Shantavira|^{feed me} 14:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Notability of peers

I am sure I have read guidance somewhere on the notability of members of the peerage. I have a vague memory it was an issue Jimmy Wales offered an opinion on. There are a couple of peers I’m interested in, one living one dead, but I don’t think they have done/did much in their lives that would ordinarily indicate notability. Nor do they have much coverage. But their peerages have articles, and I think they may therefore have notability merely by virtue of being, e.g. the 8th Marquess of Compton Bassett. Can anyone remember the relevant guidance? Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 17:01, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Peerage_and_Baronetage#Notability is the closest I found. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:10, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Yep, that was all I came up with as well, I don't think there is a subject-specific WP:N standard for this. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 17:11, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, that is very helpful. I think I am just going to have to try them and see whether there is a move to delete. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 17:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

As a practical matter, articles of this type usually have an infobox that includes links to their predecessor and successor in their title. This allows easy navigation forwards and backwards through the title holders, but if one of them has no article, the method fails (though others exist), while even a stub article preserves it. Given the responsibilities that come with most titles, it should be possible to find some material facts about most titleholders in the last few hundred years, even if they aren't spectacular. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 188.220.136.217 (talk) 18:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

It seems to me that notability is not inherited is relevant here. If you can find sources that meet GNG, that's fine, but if not (eg, the only sources you can find give routine information about a peer, "X, the seventh earl of W, was the nephew of the sixth earl, married Y, and had two children, one of whom became the eighth earl"), then your suggestion above, they may therefore have notability merely by virtue of being, e.g. the 8th Marquess of Compton Bassett would in my view by refuted by that page. ColinFine (talk) 22:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Huge whitespace at top of US state articles

Hello. At New Mexico and New York (state) (and probably others) there is a huge whitespace at the top of the article, caused by "state symbols" template on the right, below the infobox. I tried using a "clear|left" template, but no luck. Not sure how to fix this. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 17:06, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

This is likely due to changes to {{if both}} by @Nick and @Paine Ellsworth. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Indeed. I removed a newline from that template and it fixed the issue. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

You folks are awesome. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 18:03, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Related discussion: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Broken infoboxes. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:30, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

June 9

Arthur's Seat and other locations in Edinburgh

Author Jude Stringfellow has mentioned Arthur's Seat and other locations in Edinburgh and Scotland in her novels. They are available on Amazon. One is even called "Edinburgh". She wrote "Of Kilted Pleasure" as well, and "Murder Book" as well as "Pinball" take place in Scotland. Perhaps you could write up a page about her or at least mention her writings on the pages where she mentions Edinburgh and Arthur's seat. 2600:8803:D900:E500:8592:119A:3C36:8BA (talk) 00:23, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

The proper place to make a request for your suggested subject is Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/By profession#Authors. Please make sure to provide multiple significant coverage of the subject from reliable and independent sources along with your request. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 03:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

All her books appear to be self-published. Since anyone can self-publish a book and sell it on Amazon she is unlikely to merit a Wikipedia aticle, unless she has multiple significant coverage in reliable and independent sources. Any "mention" in Wikipedia could then reflect what those sources say. Please note that Wikipedia cannot be used to promote her books. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:57, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

List of minor planets

I am trying to find the list of minor planets named after animals and plants. I have used it before in the past but I cannot find it anymore, it apparently no longer exists. 1) What happened to it? 2) Why was it taken down? 3) When will it be restored? Lassoharp (talk) 05:47, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't know about Wikipedia. There's such a list here on DBpedia.   Maproom (talk) 07:33, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

It was recently deleted since editors determined it was a non-encyclopedic cross-categorization. It is unlikely to be restored, since the consensus was to delete. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 07:48, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Merge draft article and redirect

Hi. So I just prepared the draft, Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie for the main space and I feel it is more then ready. However I can't move it because of this redirect that shares the same name as the draft. Can I have help here? Zingo156 (talk) 11:29, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

You can edit the redirect page to remove its target, and post the content of your draft there. You should also place Template:Main under the subsection heading of the redirect target, in this case SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)#Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024), to link to the new article. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 12:28, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

So what happens to the draft after I do this? Zingo156 (talk) 14:12, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

If left unedited for six months, it will be deleted by admin. You can also make the draft redirect to the new article. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 15:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

OneClickArchiver not working

Is it just me or is User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver not working? I'm not getting the "archive" button on any talk page. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:29, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

May be related to WP:VPT#Heading markup changes. Haven't attempted to reproduce, but I remember that script being mentioned as potentially breaking under the new markup due to maintainer inactivity. Folly Mox (talk) 13:55, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Upload photos

I'm trying to upload some new photos for wikipedia pages but for some reason I cant find a way to do so and dont understand why. I want to load photos I have taken. SnarkyDragon (talk) 14:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

SnarkyDragon, please check out WP:UPI, and know that uploading photos will likely take you through Wikimedia Commons, and that the licensing requirements are strict and taken seriously. If you have further problems after having read through the linked information page and followed the guidance therein, please do specify them for us. Kindly, Folly Mox (talk) 14:27, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you sorted now :) SnarkyDragon (talk) 14:32, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, SnarkyDragon. While the two pictures c: File:Skipness Bay, Argyll, 9th June 2024.jpg and c:File:Skipness Watchtower, 9th June 2024, taken on iPhone SE.jpg look fine, the third picture you uploaded, c:File:Aerial view of Skipness House and Shell Bay (note WW2 arrow marker bottom Right Hand Side).png appears to be a screenshot of Google Maps: if so, it is an infringement of their copyright, and will soon be deleted. (You have a notification on your Commons talk page, C:User talk:SnarkyDragon, but I don't know whether you will be aware of that.) ColinFine (talk) 18:07, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Just delete it then. I’m not too happy that Wiki have just jumped on someone trying to add information using their own time and good will. 2A00:23C6:3E13:2001:3019:F862:3334:2C6D (talk) 18:08, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately we are vulnerable to litigious intellectual property holders, and are therefore extremely shy and cautious about potential copyright violations. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:43, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Mike - it’s somewhat frustrating when people are just trying to provide high quality information with good intentions but I also understand how careful you have to be these days. SnarkyDragon (talk) 18:51, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Adding to a Wikipedia page

Hello

I wanted to add my book 'Happy as Larry: A New York Story fo CUlts, Crushes and Quaaludes' ISBN 978-1726658393 to the Saul Newton page since my book touches on my personal experience with the Sullivanian cult. Why was it removed and what can I do to rectify this?

Many thanks for your guidance.

Best wishes

Kaethe Cherney Kaethe Cherney (talk) 16:07, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

You can start by reading Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If your book merits discussion in the Saul Newton page, it will be because independent published reliable sources have discussed it in relation to Newton. A Quick Google search doesn't come up with anything obvious (note that 'reviews' written by book retailers etc aren't independent, since they sell the book, and thus have a stake in promoting it). If you can find some in-depth coverage of your book from an acceptable source, start a discussion on the article talk page, where we can assess it and decide whether it merits inclusion. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:16, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

To add to the above, I now see that your book is apparently a work of fiction, though possibly based on Newton's 'cult'. This would almost certainly make it ineligible for inclusion in the article, and it certainly doesn't belong in 'further reading', as you appear to have attempted to add it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:24, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

The First World Flight

Why cant I find my Grandfather Lt. Robert J. Brown Jr. Trainer of pilots WW1 in Texas U.S. Air Service -Chairman of First World Flight -In Lowell Thomas Book - Builder of Logan Airport- Commander in charge of base in Hawaii 1926 t0 1930.I Found his brother (My Uncle Bump) Gen. Wilburt Scott Brown. Thanks 24.198.64.174 (talk) 22:44, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello. The answer to "Why does Wikipedia not have an article about X" is usually one or both of:

1. Because nobody has written one, or
2. Because X does not meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability.

If 2. holds then an article is not possible. If it does not, then an article is possible, but will only exist if some volunteer has chosen to write it.

I am dubious that the article Wilburt S. Brown is adequately sourced to demonstrate that he meets those criteria, because I'm not sure that any of the sources cited is truly independent. There may be other, independent sources, which do establish his notability (in Wikipedia's sense). ColinFine (talk) 23:05, 9 June 2024 (UTC)