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February 7[edit]

ABOUT JOB SUBMISSION[edit]

Sir,I have little idea about posting job on Wiki-pedia.If submitting job on social media will not make me to be enticing customers,just tell me to avoid it now or call this number [redacted]to reply.Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamad olatunde (talk • contribs) 08:31, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Hamad olatunde: Wikipedia is not a social media site. Wikipedia is not for posting jobs on. Wikipedia is not for "enticing" customers. We are very much opposed to trying to use the site for "enticing" anyone for any purpose. Ian.thomson (talk) 08:38, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dr Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari[edit]

(redacted per WP:NOTRESUME) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.KavehOstad-Ali-Askari (talk • contribs) 10:10, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is not the place for an article draft, so I have suppressed its display. You need to read WP:Your first article, but firstly read Wikipedia's guidance regarding autobiography. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:19, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bump into this, I added the text to the sandbox of this user. Was that correct or was that mischievious? Lotje (talk) 10:31, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Lotje: To copy the text without attribution is a breach of copyright. See WP:Copying within Wikipedia. You might instead have suggested that the user should move his inappropriate user page from User:Dr.KavehOstad-Ali-Askari to his sandbox. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:39, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@David Biddulph: thanks for the explanation, I'll do that next time! Lotje (talk) 11:42, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Guys, next time just remove it and warn the user against using Wikipedia to advertise their resume on. This isn't Monster.com. Ian.thomson (talk) 13:29, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notification[edit]

Hello I want to know that I only receive notification from the pages which I have wish listed ?? From the page I have wish listed Sawongam (talk) 11:49, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SawOnGam: I'm not sure what you mean by notification and wish listed. If you refer to Wikipedia:Notifications (red or blue numbers at top of pages) and Help:Watchlist then there is no connection between the two features. Special:Preferences has the option "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed". This feature is not part of Wikipedia:Notifications. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:31, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll explain what I mean I asked a question at the wikipedia:help desk , the another user edited my post and but I did't get the notification that"User mentioned your name in the post " I hope you understood,of you don't I can make it on more detail Thanks user:PrimeHunter Sawongam (talk) 12:52, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SawOnGam. You should receive a notification for this post, because I have linked your username (using the {{u}} template) and have signed it with four tildes (~~~~). Yunshui ^雲 _水 12:55, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

However, you won't be notified about this message, despite the link: SawOnGam because I haven't signed it.

In other words, if a user links your username on Wikipedia (using one of several templates) and signs the post, you'll be notified. However, if they do not link your name (or mis-spell it), or do not sign their post in the same edit, you won't get a notification. Does that help? Yunshui ^雲 _水 12:57, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I got it Thanks very much User:yunshui Sawongam (talk) 13:01, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ranking articles in a certain category by incoming wikilinks?[edit]

Hi! Does anyone know if there is a tool that lets you rank Wikipedia articles that are in a certain category according to how many other Wikipedia articles link to them? I'm looking for a method that is easier than going into the "What links here" page for each individual article in a category and manually creating a spreadsheet. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 17:11, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dodi 8238 you might want to try Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 02:31, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have now asked the same question over there. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 10:03, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

I figured out how to get the result I was looking for by using WP:Petscan:

Enter a category in the "Categories" section
Select "Sort: by incoming links (ns0)" and "Sort order: descending" in the "Output" section
Press "Do it!"

--Dodi 8238 (talk) 19:28, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New article for subject DJ Perry (disambiguation)[edit]

Please add a new Wikipedia article for a different DJ Perry (DJ, no actor) Found At: http://www.djperryradio.com/bio/ I will edit this page if it is added. Thanks. Msdos1998 (talk) 18:11, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Msdos1998, in order for someone to have an article on Wikipedia, they must be notable enough for one. See WP:N for our general notability guidelines. And WP:BIO for notability of people. Basically, for a person to warrant an article, they should have been reported on in detail by multiple sources that they are not affiliated with. This usually doesn't happen for local DJs. If by some chance you feel that Perry is notable enough for an article, please then see Wikipedia:Your first article and also read through the information I'll be leaving on your talk page. †dismas†|^(talk) 22:27, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My first article. Can someone check it for me?[edit]

Hi There -

Have just written an article that's sitting in my sandbox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Leevasaurus/sandbox

How do I cite the conflict that I know this person? (And I like her, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this.) I've tried to write the article as neutrally as possible.

Is it generally well-formatted for a biography? This is my first post, so I'm assuming that I'm completely clueless.

Where do I look for the answer to this question?

Thank you so much!

Lee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leevasaurus (talk • contribs) 20:13, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There are multiple problems with your draft. It is not neutral, it makes unattributed statements about how good she is. It is entirely unsourced. And last but most important are copyright problems. I searched for phrases from your draft and found them word for word in places on the internet. All articles must be written in your own words, not cut and pasted from other places. - GB fan 20:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Leevasaurus.

Please understand that Wikipedia has little interest in anything which a subject (whether a company, a person, a band, a charity, or anything else) says or wants to say about itself. That includes the subject's own publications, and also anything published by an independent source but based on an interview or press release from the subject. An article should be largely based on what people who have no connection with the subject have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable places. In any case, every single fact or claim in an article should be derived from a published reliable source. Please see WP:V for more information. It would also be useful for you to read your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 22:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

need to change title on page[edit]

Hello,

I manage digital communications for Parkland Memorial Hospital. Our proper wiki page is here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland_Memorial_Hospital). However, there is a duplicate here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland_Health_%26_Hospital_System). I need to change the duplicate page's title to Dallas County Hospital District) so that users will not confuse the two pages.

Please let me know if you can help me in any way.

Dandreawillisparkland (talk) 22:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dandreawillisparkland. I'm afraid you have some misunderstandings about Wikipedia and how it works. Firs of all, if you manage digital communications for Parkland Memorial Hospital, you need to be aware that because of your conflict of interest you are strongly discouraged from editing that article directly; and if that is in any way a paid position, you are required by Wikipedia's terms of service to make a declaration according to Paid editing. Your contributions to the article should be limited to suggesting changes on the article's talk page.

Secondly, please understand that it is not your page: you do not own it, and the contents are chosen by consensus of uninvolved editors, not by you.

Thirdly, the names of articles are changed by moving them; but as far as I can see, Parkland Health & Hospital System is correctly named: that appears to be the name the organisation uses, and (more significantly) that is the name that the two independent sources cited in the article use. It would be wrong to move it to a name which is not used by anybody. The issue of confusion is handled by the hatnotes which Adam9007 has just added to both articles. --ColinFine (talk) 23:03, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]