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WikiProject Scouting | May 2024

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Looking for something to work on? Try looking at, Category:Scouting articles needing attention.

Some important articles that need help: The Scout Association, NAYLE, Philmont Training Center, BSA Leadership Training, COPE

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Question from Go2lisao (07:18, 8 September 2024)

Hi there I want to start by correcting a photo on a colleague's page. It was a photo of two people, and when a search is carried out the other person's face shows up. I've got a new photo to upload but not sure how to set about uploading. Can you help? --Go2lisao (talk) 07:18, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Go2lisao: You could try a few things:

You could post a request on the article's talk page to crop the other person out of the existing photo
If you took the new photo, you could use Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard and then post a request on the article's talk page to replace the existing photo with the new photo
If you did not take the new photo, you could ask the photographer to upload their photo via Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 15:58, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for those suggestions I’ve taken a better photo so will have an go at uploading. 2A01:CB08:D6B:C000:F1CA:D993:B7CD:4036 (talk) 07:30, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Muradmomi12 (11:35, 8 September 2024)

hi dear how are you? i hope you are fine i wrote another article Named Emma Alam 2 perosns colleted it one of my coutry fellow every time Requisted for deletation and added it drafed kindly guide me about that --Muradmomi12 (talk) 11:35, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Muradmomi12: I see Draft:Emma Alam has been moved to Emma Alam. Keep looking for additional reliable sources you can add to the article. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:15, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jlpsings (18:26, 10 September 2024)

Hello! I've always been curious about being an editor for Wikipedia pages. Is one person able to create a page or do you need people like mentors to help you make one? I see I can edit some pages that are already live but don't really know what the processes are around here. Thanks! --Jlpsings (talk) 18:26, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jlpsings: Hi there! It's possible for one person to create a new Wikipedia article. However, doing so can be quite challenging, especially if you do not have a lot of experience editing existing Wikipedia articles. To learn how to edit, I suggest you start at Help:Introduction, and then spend a significant amount of time editing existing articles to hone your skills. Once you're ready to create an article, you would gather multiple independent reliable sources that have provided significant coverage of the subject, and determine whether it meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability". If so, you could follow the instructions at Help:Your first article and summarize what the sources have published, and be prepared for a process that may include waiting for review, declines, and rewrites before an article is accepted. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 18:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for feedback

Hi @GoingBatty I noticed you edited my article Paul Oluikpe and I am very appreciative. Would you kindly take a look again? I overhauled the article after it was nominated for deletion (AfD) and I am looking to get feedback from editors who previously edited the work. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards. Cfaso2000 (talk) 12:48, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cfaso2000: I made a few more tweaks for you, but nothing that will impact the AfD decision. Part of the reviewer's job is to determine whether the sources in the articles meet Wikipedia's definition of independent reliable sources, and I don't do a good job of figuring out the difference between independent articles and press released dressed up to look like news articles. Good luck with the article! GoingBatty (talk) 14:29, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much and I appreciate your feedback. Cfaso2000 (talk) 14:56, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jahx1 (19:05, 12 September 2024)

Hey. I am a firm believer of believing what I believe in. I don’t believe in science. will this hinder me from being an editor? --Jahx1 (talk) 19:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jahx1: Hi there! Wikipedia articles are based on what multiple independent reliable sources have published, not on our personal beliefs. I don't understand what "I don't believe in science" means, but I suggest finding other areas of Wikipedia to contribute if you choose to be an editor. GoingBatty (talk) 20:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thank you!! Jahx1 (talk) 21:25, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on 2024 United States Senate election in Nebraska

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page 2024 United States Senate election in Nebraska, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A bare URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters cannot be paired with an associated title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 03:02, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing references

I don't think changing a publisher to a work category is correct as you have done with Synge Street CBS. You call that "fixed references". The Irish Times is a newspaper publisher and should be listed as such as a publisher, and in that paper most pages give their category of work at the top of the webpage or in the hard copy, which I usually fill in, such as the "The Irishman's Dairy" that you removed. Can you explain and justify this? ww2censor (talk) 11:33, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ww2censor: Hi there! After re-reading MOS:ITALICTITLE and Template:Cite news#Description, here's how I interpret the situation:

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. Newspaper titles should be italicized and the |work= (or |newspaper=) parameters perform the italicization.
The Irish Times is owned by The Irish Times Trust. As a company name, it does not need italicization. When we use The Irish Times in a reference, we shouldn't also use The Irish Times Trust as the publisher.
"The Irishman's Diary" is a column of The Irish Times newspaper. The column name should not be italicized. It can be put in the |department= parameter. I deleted "The Irishman's Diary" from one reference because it was also in the |title= field, and we don't need it in two places.

I'm happy to work with you to continue updating the references in Synge Street CBS if you like. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:23, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]