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Am I allowed to respond to edit requests at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Edit if I have sufficient permissions to edit the pages requested, or are only admins able to respond to these? Justjourney (talk | contribs) 20:34, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you are able to make the edits, and consider the requests are justified, then you should go ahead. Maproom (talk) 22:02, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you review my requests on Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects? They haven't been reviewed in a long time.Rafael Hello! 23:02, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A couple still haven't been reviewed. They're dated 29 June. If the temperature in your kitchen is 30°C, then "since yesterday" is a long time to have left your butter outside your fridge. But as they await review, redirect creation proposals don't turn into butyric acid. -- Hoary (talk) 08:44, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Whiting Jr.

I accidently removed the "succession box" at the end of the is page. I have found a reference - which is seen now ref number 1 (identical to ref number 6) at the bottom page to support that Samuel Ruggles succeeded Samuel Whiting Jr. as the next minister of Billerica. Please put the "succession box" back at the end of the page. ALSO reference number 6 is in the red - please fix. Brrowbottom (talk) 01:40, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. On a not totally unrelated note, this user talk page mentions our policy on logged out editing and use of multiple accounts. I wonder if you have anything to say about that. -- D'n'B-📞 -- 03:56, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to do some of that, but D 'n' B beat me to it. I read "access-date=3 May 20255" (a considerable distance in the future). Yes, all of this looks curiously familiar. -- Hoary (talk) 03:59, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I noticed a lot of the bios related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature are missing photos and I would like to ask people to upload photos they've taken of people to Wikimedia Commons. Is there a way to automatically identify all the articles in the WikiProject that are missing photos to motivate people to fill in the gaps? I feel like I've seen this on other WikiProjects but can't find it now. Lijil (talk) 08:30, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add |needs-photo=yes to the project template(s) on the talk page of the relevant articles (example at Talk:Thomas Bolton (microscopist)).

This will add them to categories like Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people; you can then search for articles that are in both that and the project category. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:22, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Try this link to a pre-filled Petscan query, is that what you were after? - X201 (talk) 11:35, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! In October 2024, Poppy released a double single titled "The Cost of Giving Up / Crystallized", and both songs are from her album Negative Spaces. However, in March 2025, "The Cost of Giving Up" was officially sent to radio as a single. How should this be reflected in her discography page? Should it be kept as "The Cost of Giving Up / Crystallized" (2024) or "The Cost of Giving Up" (2025), and what would happen to "Crystallized"? Gabriella Grande (talk) 19:39, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gabriella Grande, you might ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pop music. -- Hoary (talk) 08:55, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm mainly asking this because, currently, GAN has about 800 articles more or less, so I don't want to waste anyone's (or my) time for something that may autofail. I'm also asking because, even after reading some GAN criteria, I'm still lost and unfamiliar. This is in reference to fishing industry in Peru, a recent article that I made. I spent a lot of time on it as a draft, so I'd like to take it further, but I'm simply unsure if it would have any chance at a GAN, even with the depth of information I have. Would anyone do a quick review and help out? Thank you very much in advance! SonOfYoutubers (talk) 21:36, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't normally involve myself in GAN stuff, but it looks fine to me, from a quick eyeballing. No doubt those more familiar with assessment will find something or other that needs fixing, but meanwhile can I suggest that regardless of whether it is a 'good article' per the criteria, it definitely looks like a good article per normal usage of the phrase. Well done. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:50, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AndyTheGrump Thanks for the compliment! SonOfYoutubers (talk) 23:32, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You could try Wikipedia:Peer review before making a WP:GAN. TSventon (talk) 22:50, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TSventon Thank you for the suggestion, I was unaware of that feature actually. Thank you and done! SonOfYoutubers (talk) 23:32, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SonOfYoutubers: I haven't tried WP:PEER myself, but you can see that many of the requests are GAC or FAC related. TSventon (talk) 11:59, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't do an in-depth look, but I'll give a few notes. Every statement made in the article needs to be supported by a citation at GAN, either at the end of the sentence, or at the end of a few sentences if the citation supports all of them. None of the citations should be simple URLs, each one needs enough information to identify the specific page it's citing even if the link doesn't work. Statista is considered unreliable on Wikipedia and shouldn't be used as a source. The "Related organizations and projects" section mostly describes organizations cited by themselves (primary sources), but ideally anything worth including should be cited to a separate secondary source that describes it; I suggest looking for sources about fishing organizations in Peru and just including the ones they describe. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 00:32, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Thebiguglyalien Thank you for the suggestions! I have removed Statista and replaced the info with a better source and also more up-to-date information. As for the related organizations and projects, I'll see what I can do to try to improve that section. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 05:45, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How coulf I fix this? bcl:Module:Documentation? Shimin_Ufesoj (🦜) 04:04, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ShiminUfesoj You are at the English language Wikipedia, which is a different project from the Central Bikol Wikipedia. You will need to ask there. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:43, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is, no one knows how because it's just a small Wikipedia project, not that many people edit it.. I'm just hoping someone can help with this. Shimin_Ufesoj (🦜) 08:41, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @ShiminUfesoj. I'm not very familiar with Lua, but it looks to me as if the call to message() is looking its first argument up in an array called cfg[]. At 144, the call is message ('container'); which means that it is trying to look up the entry cfg['container'], and not finding it.

Array cfg is populated by

mw.loadData('Module:Documentation/config')

My guess (and it's only a guess) is that somebody has copied the lua module over to bcl-wiki, without copying (or, rather, translating) its config file.

I'm afraid I can't help you beyond that. You might find Wikipedia:Lua has something useful, or else ask at WP:VPT. Make it clear in your question that though this is in a different Wikipedia, it's a question about modules. ColinFine (talk) 09:57, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ShiminUfesoj: I don't know Lua but the error message mentions cfg.container. Module:Documentation/config sets cfg['container'] and bcl:Module:Documentation/config does not. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:04, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Shantavira: Volunteers on English Wikipedia regularly—and very generously—help out with technical issues on other Wikimedia projects. Please bear that in mind in future, when answering such questions. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:17, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I see I can see a map and location Battle of Rozgony + London Could you explain how works this? How can I do the same for any location? OrionNimrod (talk) 11:05, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not clear what you're asking; please can you rephrase the question, and elaborate? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:24, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the infobox, you can see maps in many articles and red point which marks the location on the map. I do not know how can I do the same or how works this. OrionNimrod (talk) 12:37, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably I found it Template:Location map + Template:Location map/List + Module:Location map/data/Hungary OrionNimrod (talk) 13:11, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear All, Can you help me to create page for Polcasan. It's not a commercial nor advertisement . English is not my native language . So,I need your help. Polcasan is a adorable mascot.That why i want to write for him. He is very famous in Thai. Please Help. NMCapri (talk) 11:31, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You Draft:Polcasan was declined and you seem to have re-submitted it. It will, I predict, be declined again as it has insufficient reliable sources. If English is not your first language, why not try to create an equivalent article in the Wikipedia language you are fluent in? Do not use a chatbot to do so. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:43, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NMCapri Please do not remove threads from the Help Desk as you did recently Even if no longer useful to you, the information may help others. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:16, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve followed Wikipedia over the years for small snippets of information. However over the past 2 years whether by desire with your current editors, you’ve heavily distorted or allowed it to happen where Israel is mentioned at all in your articles. It’s shocking and quite frankly destroying your reputation as a quick source of information (in this case misinformation). Let’s establish the facts, there was no Palestine before 1948 (only British Mandate of Palestine). Israel is not a colonial state and it’s disgusting you’ve allowed editors to make these assertions. It makes me questio your authenticity and rewriting history to due the agendas of today. 2A00:23C7:DDB8:5F01:10BC:EE44:6047:8241 (talk) 13:05, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is an appropriate place for this discussion which is article's talk page, bringing dicussion here will be futile. Sys64wiki (talk) 13:52, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]