User talk:Aloysius Farmer

Incorrect Wikipedia entry attached to google's knowledge panel
Hello, I am a newbie to Wikipedia. I hope I'm asking for help correctly.

There is a knowledge panel that appears when you search for 'School of Life Sciences UTS'. The School of Life Sciences UTS is in Australia and all details are correct in the knowledge panel except for the Wikipedia entry attached and the year founded. The Wikipedia attached is for a university in China. How do I remove this university of China wikipedia entry from the knowledge panel? The School of Life Science UTS Australia does not have a Wikipedia entry. Aloysius Farmer (talk) 00:25, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Google's knowledge panels are constructed by Google's algorithms and are entirely out of Wikipedia's control. There should be a link for you to suggest corrections to Google.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 01:29, 4 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I have contacted Google and they tell me it is out of their hands and to contact Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloysius Farmer (talk • contribs) 03:02, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Feels like a Catch-22, doesn't it?
 * From that response, I would surmise that Google has no plans to fix their algorithms to prevent false matches, so - in order to provide a better match - Wikipedia should have an article for 'School of Life Sciences UTS'. At minimum, I suppose a redirect could be created to University of Technology Sydney, but, currently, that page has no mention of a 'School of Life Sciences', so such a redirect would not follow our rules.
 * If you want this fixed, then, the path is clear: fix the UTS page (it needs a lot of fixing, since its references are far too dependent on what UTS says about itself) and create the redirect or, if there are sufficient references, create a separate page for the division.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 22:18, 4 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Will try to create a new page. When that is done though, how would this new page replace the wrong one? Aloysius Farmer (talk) 23:47, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * In theory, Google will discover the new page and index it so that it comes up in preference to the Chinese school with a similar name. Could take a few days in some cases; Google spiders look at Wikipedia pretty often.
 * If you've not created a page on Wikipedia before, there's a little advice at your first article. It's not a task to be taken on lightly.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:21, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh wow, now I'm nervous! Will give it a go. Thanks for the help! Aloysius Farmer (talk) 05:41, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I just wonder, am I able to edit the page that is currently linked to this School of Life Sciences UTS knowledge panel. That China university entry does not seem to have been touched since 2014. Am I able to change it totally to the UTS School of Life Science? Aloysius Farmer (talk) 22:19, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Simple answer: 'no'. Part of the change you would need is to move the page to a new title and it wouldn't make sense to replace an existing page - no matter how obsolete - with contents about an entirely different subject.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 07:43, 7 May 2020 (UTC)