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January 17[edit]

somen salad[edit]

There is an article titled somen salad in English. there is a Chinese version which I can't read. I am part Japanese and can tell you that the picture in the article is just plain somen. no such thing as somen salad exists in japan. it is basically thin ice cold noodles dipped in a sweet dashi like that for zarusoba. you do add garnish such as finely shredded egg, scallion or spring onions, nori, cucumber matchsticks (not the most common). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.167.252 (talk) 01:40, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is the Wikipedia Help desk, which is for questions about how to use and edit Wikipedia. If you are referring to the Sōmen salad article, please post your comments on that article's talk page, Talk:Sōmen salad, using the "New section" link at the top of that page. ―Mandruss ☎ 01:50, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please be aware that we have no influence on what happens on the Chinese version of Wikipedia. Dismas|^(talk) 01:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pelco UK Page[edit]

Hello

I submitted a request to start a page for Pelco UK but to date nothing has been published. Please let me know if that is in a queue or do I need to try relisting?

Thank you

Peter

37.72.116.78 (talk) 12:32, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Pelco was declined in September 2014, but since then nobody has tried to improve the submission. Prior to that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Pelco was deleted in January 2014, having been abandoned for more than 6 months. I suggest that you work on Draft:Pelco, and start by providing references to published reliable sources independent of the company to prove that it meets Wikipedia's requirement for notability. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:59, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mikael Colville-Andersen[edit]

The article Mikael Colville-Andersen was filed for discussion at AfD by a new user, who unfortunately did not use {{subst:afd2 etc etc}}, meaning the discussion has now been running since 20 December, is a fragmentated mess, and gets no attention from the community apart from people editing Mikael Colville-Andersen. I delsorted the AfD, cast a !vote, but do not know what else to do in a case like this. Sam ^Sing! 13:01, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the header to the AFD discussion page, and added the discussion to today's AFD log. That means it will get proper attention for the next seven days. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:19, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks John. Sam ^Sing! 13:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File deletion[edit]

I'm new to wikipedia and added a photo I found online and it was removed. Can you tell me why and how do I add a photo for someone? Thanks! Jane — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdbmy3 (talk • contribs) 15:17, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Jdbmy3: You uploaded it at commons:File:ComericaPark.JPG. If you visit any page at commons then you should get a notification about the post at commons:User talk:Jdbmy3#File:ComericaPark.JPG. I'm not a commons administrator so I cannot see the deleted file or which information you gave about it, but you would have to satisfy commons:Commons:Licensing. In certain cases a photo could instead be uploaded directly to the English Wikipedia if conditions at Wikipedia:Non-free content are satisfied but that would not be the case for Paul Schrieber. I have restored the article version with a photo with a free license. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:33, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Usually if you just "found a photo" - it belongs to someone else and you do not own any rights to use it. It is much easier to upload a photo you have taken yourself. Rmhermen (talk) 17:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input[edit]

I added the information that Samuel Robin Spark is the son of Oswald and Muriel Spark (the British author) to his page, but I'm having trouble adding the reference (NY Review, Aug 19 2010) to the page -- see my comment on the edit; could someone help out and add the reference to the page? I also added the link to Muriel Spark; there is already a link from Muriel Spark _to_ this page, so the remark that the page is an orphan should be deleted. Many thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clthiersch (talk • contribs) 17:11, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I did not link the article because the portion of the article a non-subscriber like me can see does not verify the information in the "Samuel Robin Spark" article; I am taking Clthiersch at his/her word that the part of the article I couldn't see verifies the information.

Although the article uses CS1 templates, those templates do not support book reviews, so I hand-coded the citation. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Miss Black Teen Tennessee 1972[edit]

Good afternoon, I am Teresa Jones of Nashville Tennessee and won the Miss Black Teen Tennessee 1972. Could you please add this to the information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.193.164.170 (talk) 18:08, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to an existing page then please link it. I didn't find a relevant page in my searches. If you are suggesting a new article then biographies should satisfy the requirements at Wikipedia:Notability (people). PrimeHunter (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but we have no article on Miss Black Teen Tennessee - I'm fairly sure that the pageant would not be considered notable enough to merit inclusion in Wikipedia (and if we did have an article, we could only add your information to it if there were published reliable sources to verify it). AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:29, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia page for Michael Reich[edit]

January 17, 2015

I have just learned that someone named Michael Saltsman has placed a considerable amount of incorrect and offensive information on my Wikipedia page. Saltsman is well-known as an employee of the National Restaurant Association's Employment Policies Institute and a virulent opponent of minimum wage increases. I am well known as a national expert on minimum wage research.

I tried to delete and to correct the page but apparently my changes were not accepted.

Please instruct me how to enter these changes. Thank you.

Signed,

Michael Reich, Professor of Economics University of California, Berkeley — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelreich (talk • contribs) 20:09, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please click this link to a set of advice for people in your situation. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If there is incorrect information in your article, you may either discuss it at the article talk page, Talk: Michael Reich, or you may go to the biographies of living persons noticeboard. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:09, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see no evidence that anyone named Michael Saltsman has edited the BLP you the original poster. (Identifying any of the previous editors of the article as Michael Saltsman would violate the policy against doxxing editors.) Blanking a large part of an article is not appropriate and could be considered to be vandalism. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Cooper (inventor)[edit]

(Header changed to article link GermanJoe (talk) 22:32, 17 January 2015 (UTC))[reply]

The first "cell phone" was a handheld FM ham radio. W8HQQ developed the circuitry to allow a phone line to be added to the repeater so that hams could call home, or elsewhere, or allow family members to call into the repeater. This was in Feb. 1972. W8HQQ gave the circuitry to any ham club across America that wished to try this innovation. W8HQQ was Thomas Talley, president of the Cincinnati Repeater Association.

Bob Draise WB8QCF — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.5.169.20 (talk) 22:26, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately that's not a cell phone, but rather a form of wireless telephone service. Bell System's Mobile Telephone Service dates back to the 1940s. A true cell phone requires the ability to connect (and reconnect when moved) to a local base station, unlike radio telephone services, which mostly connect to a single base station (and cannot switch base stations as they move). Rwessel (talk) 22:33, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]