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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2019

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23:08, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Who is the main

Who is the main person/admin/steward/director on the bs.wiki? Бајеццобола (talk) 18:25, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I know nothing about bs-wiki. In most respects, the management of a particular language Wikipedia do not report to anybody else, but have ultimate authority in their Wikipedia. Wikimedia stewards will act in a particular Wikipedia when there is nobody there carrying out administration functions, but I don't believe they will override existing admins. --ColinFine (talk) 18:40, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

ColinFine, the user has been globally locked as a sockpuppet of Yahadzija (talk · contribs). --MrClog (talk) 20:43, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Use of unsigned2 template

I see that from time to time you use the {{unsigned2}} template. You may not have noticed that the template says: "This template should always be substituted". Not doing so means that the page history gets cluttered with extra entries when a bot turns up to deal with the transclusion. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:38, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for that, David Biddulph. I used to use 'subst', but I forgot about it when I did some recently. --ColinFine (talk) 14:34, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2019

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01:43, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Misplaced?

At Wikipedia:Teahouse#Citing/Copywrite_Question, you provided an answer that I think was meant to be for the following section (Wikipedia:Teahouse#Copyright_question_for_STS-87) —[AlanM1(talk)]— 04:35, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2019

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21:45, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Need help to revert a vandalism (by my very own self)

Hi! How are you doing? Hope everything is going nice and easy. But for me, I just made a terrible mistake... While I was editing an article with the page name Dhaka City College, right when I was finished editing it, I tapped the removal button for the infobox by mistake before tapping the Publish button, and now it's gone. I can't bring it back myself. Please, if you just could revert it back, I would be very grateful to you. Absol069 (talk) 17:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

2020-21 United States Network Television Schedule

I created the article 2 days ago can you fix the this is us ref for me please. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 19:19, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Well, my immediate reaction is to wonder why you're asking me, and why I should care. But I've had a look.

No, I can't fix it, because I have no idea what the source is. Wherever you copied the line about This is us from included a reference; but since it wasn't the first line in that article which cited that source, it doesn't contain the citation. You need to

• go to the article you copied it from
• find the first place in the article which cites the source it refers to as "This is Us Three season renewal".
• Edit/view source on that article, to find and copy the text from <ref> to </ref> on that line
• Edit the NBC section in your draft, and paste that in place of <ref name="This is Us Three season renewal"/> on that line.

Separate observation: looking at the previous lines, I think it's rather ridiculous to cite a 2011 article to support something happening in 2020. Sure, they agreed then that it should go to 2022, but things don't always go according to plan. The source is solid for the claim that it was intended to go to 2022. I don't think Wikipedia should be claiming it continued to 2019 without a source that says so, let alone to 2021. --ColinFine (talk) 20:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2019

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10:35, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Not at all

Dear Colin, I am not connected to pearlvine in any manner. i was just surfimg through the web and found about thst. and hence i have updated an article in the sandbox only. But it got deleted from there saying that i cannot promote a website for my presonal purposes. Now all i want to post an article about it coz it deserves to be on wikipedia

Dear Colin,

Many thanks for your prompt reply to my Wikipedia query, made earlier today!

Yours sincerely,

Sara Miller — Preceding unsigned comment added by Millersara (talk • contribs) 2019-10-31T17:17:01 (UTC)

Hello, Millersara. Thanks for explaining that. Since many people do have the misconception that Wikipedia is an appropriate place for promoting things (= telling the world about them), it's easy to conclude that a new editor who goes straight in trying to write an article about a business or product, or adding mentions to it to existing articles, is here to promote it. Your edit to Digital wallet was reverted mainly because it was unsourced, and probably also because it looked like promotion as I mentioned above.

Writing a new article is a much harder task than most people realise. As I am not an admin, I cannot see the deleted material from your sandbox; but from the message on your User talk page, I guess that you had not read your first article and discovered about sourcing. In short, Wikipedia is not interested, at all, in what you, or I, or any random person on the internet, knows or thinks; it is only interested in what people have chosen to publish about subjects they are unconnected with, and been published in reliable places. So an article about pearlvine, must be almost completely based on reliably published books or articles about pearlvine, written by people who have no connection with it (and not on the basis of material that comes from pearlvine, such as interviews or press releases).

When you put your message to me here, you managed to replace an existing section: please don't do that again! I've restored it and moved your message down here. Please use "New section" to create a new section in future - though if you choose to reply to me here, you should put your reply on the end of this section. Finally, on talk and discussion pages, please sign your contributions with four tildes ~~~~ --ColinFine (talk) 23:40, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2019

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14:47, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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sorry, accidentally undid you on Wikipedia:Help desk

Ignore the undo notice. Meters (talk) 22:58, 21 November 2019 (UTC)