User talk:LEvalyn/Archive 2

Women in Green - October Editathon
 Hello LEvalyn:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Editathon event in October 2021!

Running from 1 through 31 October 2021, WikiProject Women in Green is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event focused on the topic of women's rights. Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing women's rights-related GA submissions during the event period, with resources and one-on-one support provided by experienced Women in Green GA reviewers. Participants have the opportunity to receive a barnstar.

We hope to see you there! Alanna the Brave (talk) 00:14, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Turkish Delight (1973 film)
Please add add alternative title "The Sensualist" to Turks Fruit

Hello LEvalyn,

It is my understanding that Turks Fruit was released/distributed in Australia in 1973 under the title The Sensualist. It appears that the film is now distributed world wide under the original title, Turks Fruit or better translated in Australian English as Turkish Delight. It would help if this was noted and if this information was added to the keywords to enable easier searching.

Here is a Discogs listing of the sound track titled "The Sensualist" https://www.discogs.com/release/13255427-Rogier-van-Otterloo-Mmv-Trio-Louis-Van-Dyke-The-Sensualist-Turks-Fruit

I was trying to add the above comments to Talk but to be honest I don't know what I'm doing,

Hoping you can help. Regards Peter Krohn (talk) 01:59, 25 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, Peter, and welcome to Wikipedia! It can take a while to find your way around but I am happy to help. This does look like a useful edit to add, so the next step is finding a good source for it. Discogs is not considered a "reliable source" for Wikipedia because it uses crowdsourced information. Luckily, I was able to find several reviews of the film from 1970s Australian newspapers, some of which mention both titles. This review clearly shows that both titles are in use, and this review even explains that the version called "The Sensualist" is specifically an English-dubbed version! That is great information to go in the article. (If you click the "A" in the left sidebar for the "Article text" at Trove, there is a transcript that is easier to read than looking at the photo).


 * So the next step from here is to edit the article on Turkish Delight (1973 film) to mention this Australian title. It looks like it would make sense to add a new section called "variant titles," probably after "production," summarizing where the three titles have been used. You'll find the "edit source" button at the top of the page. If you use the visual editor, there will be a button that says "Cite" which you can use to put in the link to the reviews as your source. Since Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit, why don't you give it a go, and let me know afterward? Then I am happy to take a look and advise on how anything can be improved. If you have trouble, let me know where you get stuck.


 * All best,
 * ~ L 🌸 (talk) 04:00, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Question from CenterCliff (20:28, 28 November 2021)
Hello, so I want to create a custom question, by any chance do you know how to do that? Thank you! --CenterCliff (talk) 20:28, 28 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am happy to help however I can, but I don't know what you mean by a "custom question". Can you give me a link to the page you want to change and tell me what you want to be different? ~ L 🌸 (talk) 20:31, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Charles Du Bos
This probably goes a bit beyond what you had in mind with your request, on your user page, for things to read as language practice, so feel free to ignore, but I wonder if you'd be at all interested in expanding Charles Du Bos from the many French-language sources on his work? I rewrote the article last year, and am quite pleased with how it ended up, but was definitely hampered by being monolingual. Based on the other articles you've worked on it struck me as the sort of thing that might be of interest. Keep up the good work! – Arms & Hearts (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2021 (UTC)


 * The article honestly looks really good to me— you did a good job! I’d be happy to poke at a few French sources, though. Are there in in particular you’d hoped to read, or particular parts of the article where you struggled to fill in gaps? I’ll probably be pretty slow with it but it’ll be interesting to poke at! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 20:44, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm struggling to remember, to be honest, which French sources I would've liked to have read. The Gouhier book that's cited might be a place to start, but there's doubtless lots more recent scholarship as well. I remember being puzzled over the question of what Du Bos' religious beliefs were before his conversion in 1927: Woodward says he was a non-specific theist, but other sources don't specify (they tend to just say he converted to Catholicism, not what he converted from), and it struck me as possible that Woodward's somewhat odd claim comes from a typo for "atheism". That seems like the sort of thing the French sources would hopefully clarify. As I said though, no pressure of course and certainly no hurry; if you do look into it let me know if there's anything I can help with or clarify. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 20:47, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, I might indeed be able to clear up the details of the religious conversion... it looks like Gouhier has a whole chapter on it, I'll start there. I did some poking through French journal articles and books earlier and didn't see anything "encyclopediable" yet, but so far most of them are just at my reading level and they might help me get "warmed up" for a biography of Olympe de Gouges which I bought and then found was written in too challenging a style for me to read well. So I'll keep poking at it and edit the article with whatever I find! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 21:01, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Question from WaterStar1058 (15:23, 2 December 2021)
hello --C,D (talk) 15:23, 2 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your edits on the Halifax article. Let me know if you have questions or I can help as you learn your way around! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 16:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
hi!

C,D (talk) 15:24, 2 December 2021 (UTC) 

Question from KRud2021 (13:15, 13 December 2021)
Hi, I am looking at creating a company profile/article on Wikipedia. Is there a template you could suggest and any best practice? Thanks. K --KRud2021 (talk) 13:15, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to wikipedia! Writing a new article is a hard place to start, especially one about a company. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and thus has no interest in company profiles. A company should only have its own article if it has been widely discussed as being of cultural importance by a lot of people wholly unconnected to the company. (e.g., Amazon gets a lot of independent press!) Then, the goal of the article is to summarize what other people think is relevant about the company. I suggest you look at the notability guidelines at WP:CORP and do some research to see if you can find 3-5 separate sources demonstrating wiki "notability." I also suggest you look at WP:COI to make sure you do not have a conflict of interest in editing. (You may also find WP:PLAINSIMPLECOI useful.) Best of luck!  ~ L 🌸  (talk) 20:16, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a survey about medical topics on Wikipedia
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Question from Sloth23432 (22:22, 17 December 2021)
Hi!, I’m new and I was wondering how do I edit exactly? Like where’s the button to edit.. --Sloth23432 (talk) 22:22, 17 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! On desktop, the edit button is in the upper right— if you can find the search bar, the “Edit source” link is a bit to the left of it. Each section of a wiki article also has an “edit source” link right next to the section header. On mobile, you can edit by tapping the “pencil” icon. You may also find Help:Editing useful as you learn your way around. Feel free to ask if you have more questions!  ~ L 🌸  (talk) 22:42, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022 Women in Red
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Question from ATGBBURNLANCS (01:47, 9 January 2022)
how do I change the colour? --ATGBBURNLANCS (talk) 01:47, 9 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you're talking about, can you be more specific? For most things on wikipedia, you can't change their colour. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 05:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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Question from Alreaddy Media (13:13, 27 January 2022)
how can i create a profile for my company --Alreaddy Media (talk) 13:13, 27 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I have posted a message at User talk:Alreaddy Media about Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline and related matters. JBW (talk) 13:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
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WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
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Question from Ron Nater (15:30, 14 February 2022)
Hello. I edited The Witcher (TV series) by linking one of the cast members (Jeremy Crawford - my son-in-law) to his website. This was changed by your staff to link to a different unrelated Jeremy Crawford which is not a cast member of The Witcher TV series. Please rectify your error and confirm with me. --Ron Nater (talk) 15:30, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, Wikipedia does not allow external links except a very few highly-relevant ones in the special "external links" section at the bottom, so removing the link was the correct thing to do. It was not changed by "staff" -- all editors on wikipedia are volunteers from the public, not "staff" (I am also a volunteer). Since your son-in-law does not have his own wikipedia article, he has been unlinked for now. Please do not make an article about him, as you have a conflict of interest. If you think there is enough substantial news coverage to meet wikipedia's notability guidelines, you could try making a draft article for other's approval, but making an article is a very difficult task and not the best way to get started on wikipedia. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 19:48, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Question from Saddam330 on Talk:Sbi register mobile banking (17:00, 19 February 2022)
Hi --Saddam330 (talk) 17:00, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Question from Hamshire (07:16, 12 February 2022)
Hello,

I want to add certain pictures to a page. However certain bots remove it due to copyright violations. I do not think they violate anything. Is there any way to resolve this? --Hamshire (talk) 07:16, 12 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, copyright can be complicated and you might be surprised how many images are unacceptable for Wikipedia. In most cases, for example, it is a copyright violation to add a logo or book cover to an article, unless the image is ~200 years old. Very few images created after the 1920s are currently not copyrighted. Can you give me an example of one image you want to add (describe or link it) and why you think it is not a copyright violation to include? ~ L 🌸  (talk) 14:39, 12 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, i am currently editing List of communist parties in India, and I would like to add party flags and symbols for the parties. I am able to add some party flags and symbols but i am not able to add others. :( Hamshire (talk) 14:47, 12 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, hm, that strikes me as more unusual, though it is possible for a flag to be copyrighted. If it is copyrighted, it can’t be used on a list article, though it could probably be used via Fair Use on an article solely about the party. Can you point me to one party you’ve had removed, and I will do some research in the next few days to see what’s going on? Unfortunately this weekend is quite busy for me but I can look into it Mon or Tues. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 15:06, 12 February 2022 (UTC)


 * My current guess, by the way, is that there is a problem with how the copyright rationale has been added to the image, so the bots are not getting the right info about the copyright. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 15:08, 12 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, here are few images i am not able to use-


 * Image:Aifbflag.PNG Image:Aifbflag.PNG
 * File:RCPI_flag_(cropped_from_photo).jpg File:RCPI_flag_(cropped_from_photo)
 * File:Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation logo.png File:Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation logo.png
 * File:Bolshevik Party of India symbol.jpg File:Bolshevik Party of India symbol.jpg
 * Hamshire (talk) 06:15, 13 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks to providing the images, that was helpful. Sorry it took me so long to reply, I was hoping that if I kept thinking about it I'd have a better answer. I agree that it feels weird for these particular images to be copyrighted, but I also am not sure what to do from here. In order to prevent the bots from removing the images from your articles, you would need to upload the images to Wikimedia Commons with proof that they are not under copyright because they meet one of these criteria. So that's a bit of a research project. It's possible that you could find more specific help at WikiProject Socialism. I can help with the technical side of things if you can find a new source for the images that you think proves they should not be copyrighted-- just let me know, and good luck! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 06:45, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

March editathons
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Your GA nomination of The Cuckoo (novel)
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Your GA nomination of The Cuckoo (novel)
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Question from Lance36000 (21:48, 6 March 2022)
Hello, How do I add an image --Lance36000 (talk) 21:48, 6 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, happy to help! It depends on whether the image has already been uploaded. If you can find the image you want on Wikimedia Commons, you can add it to an article using its filename-- there's a tutorial here. If the image isn't already on Wikimedia Commons, things are more complicated, because you have to consider copyright. If you tell me more about the image you want to add and where, I can offer more specific tips. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 22:09, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Eighteenth-century Gothic novel, Gothic fiction
Both articles lost the ref "Cussack, Barry". I would advise to use a standard way of making references to the same book only different pages. I don't know the syntax, but you may find it after some effort :-). In this way you will always notice lost refs, and moreover, there is a bot which can retrieve tghem from history. Loew Galitz (talk) 05:44, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Robber novel
Räuberroman - the article exists in 4 wikis. As I see you have expertise in literary research. Why don't you write this article? So far we gave a doubtful article Outlaw (stock character), which is basically a list of fictional bandits plus some original research. I was going to write the article myself ans started reading around (in this way I found "Gothic fiction" in wikipedia, but quickly came to an understanding that this is not my topic.

Also, there is another subject I came across earlier: a peculiar concept in German literary criticism: Stoffgeschichte (Curiously, de:Stoffgeschichte is something totally different.) Would you be interested in dealing with this subject? Loew Galitz (talk) 18:05, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


 * It’s nice to have more eyes on these Gothic articles. Answering both your messages here: I made some fixes to the Cusack reference— it wasn’t actually lost on Gothic fiction, there was a typo on the author’s name. Good catch. The citations on both would certainly benefit from somebody going through and making them consistent, though since there are 100 of them (!) at Gothic fiction, I didn’t take the time to do so when I was just making a simple content fork. It’s a chance to impose a personal favourite style for whoever gets there first, I guess!
 * These German literary articles are interesting, I will look into them a bit— though there’s no shortage of interesting content work so I might not get to them for a while. A good starting place might be to find entries in other encyclopedias, to see how they have been summarized— often much easier to get an article started that way rather than trying to read very specific academic articles or very long books… ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:30, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * to find entries in other encyclopedias - that's what I did, didn't I? :-) Unfortunately these de-wiki pages do not have footnotes, just "Literatur" section, i.e., one will have to read them books anyway to put proper footnotes as it works in en-wiki. I agree there is a huge number of interesting subjects not covered in Wikipedia; sometimes I was quite surprised to have to write about [such a common topic. I can quickly throw in a decent stub for [[Robber novel]], because the concept is well-defined, but Stoff (literature) is beyond my vocabulary; it is neither "plot" nor "Theme", nor "Motif", but a kind of generalized "background material" for a set of stories. A telling example is the title de:Fauststoff for enwiki Faust. I did read de:Stoff (Literatur), but the text is rather vague for a layman. The term seems to be rarely used in English literary criticism, therefore one must be an expert in thematology (What?? Yet another redlink? I must be reading too much German :-)) comparative literature. Gianna Zocco  (arhrhrh, red, not again...) writes in :


 * “Theme” is usually defined as the broadest and most abstract of the three terms, and means the fundamental idea or basic problem a literary text is about. (“Love,” as studied by many of the articles in section 1, is certainly one of the most central literary themes.) Motifs, on the other hand, are seen as smaller and more concrete, often only local, thematic units (examples drawn from this volume might be the scene of the ball studied by Zlatka Timenova-Valtcheva, or the glaciers and icebergs analysed by Walter Wagner). The term Stoff is only used in the German-speaking countries and means the basic narrative outline or plot that can receive different literary and non-literary actualizations (the term “paradigm,” which Nina Beguš introduces in her analysis of Pygmalion, is maybe a good translation). For a more detailed discussion of the different terms and their varying definitions, see Dahms (2013) and Zocco (2014, 47–49).


 * An additional reason for the widespread tendency of avoiding explicitly thematological terms could be the confusion and uncertainty resulting from the notorious incongruity of the field’s international terminology. As Hölter (2019, 140) points out, the German Stoff most likely corresponds to the English terms theme and legend, and to the French mythe, whereas the French thème is closer to the English and German motif/Motiv.


 * Loew Galitz (talk) 18:24, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Haha, by "other encyclopedias" I meant encyclopedias other than Wikipedia -- since these are RS they can do a lot to get an article going. I usually check the Literary Encyclopedia and Oxford Reference. I don't see any of "Stoff" so I wonder if it is actually more of a translation than a distinct subject for an article? E.g., naturally the German wiki will have an article on it, but here the same material would be covered at theme (narrative)? It also sounds a little bit like the fabula in fabula and syuzhet but without being attached to a bigger theoretical framework / not being used in other languages.
 * The only encyclopedia entry I can find for Rauberroman is in the Oxford Companion to German Literature, which is extremely brief:
 * "term denoting contrived, extravagant, mostly long-winded stories, corresponding roughly to the ‘Gothick’ novel of late 18th-c. England. They exploit the historical interest fostered by J. G. Herder and the violent and sentimental strains of Sturm und Drang. See Cramer, K. G., Naubert, Benedikte, Schlenkert, F. C., Spiess, C. H., and Vulpius, C. A. Plays of similar character were also popular, largely in imitation of Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller's Die Räuber."
 * That makes it also sound a bit more like something that should be covered at eighteenth-century Gothic novel rather than a fully separate topic -- since it's defined as a "term" rather than a genre. Certainly in England, these novels were understood as German gothic novels, and translations from the German circulated as gothic novels. Just on a practical level, it might make sense to start with a section there, which could be split off later if it ever got too large. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 19:32, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I have something to answer, but I dont think I have to litter your user talk page. Let me see if I can concoct some stubs, and there the (separate) discussions may be continued. I dont know about "Stoff" (in the quote above I highlighted the opinion that the term is used mainly in German literary lore; these Germans are known for their meticulousness and nitpicking, and the English are borrowed/calqued quite a few terms from them, like, Bildungsroman, Weltanschaung, Leitmotif, Literaturoper, not to say about Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut :-), but gallant/noble robbers/brigands/outlaws/rogues/thugs for "Robber novel" are abound. Loew Galitz (talk) 20:53, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

April Editathons from Women in Red
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Cottton Comes to Harlem problem
In preparing for the new A Rage in Harlem article, I noticed a problem with the Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel) article. There is no info box, but the code for an info box appears in the article itself, above the lead. I don't know how to correct this. -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 07:02, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Good find-- it took me a minute but I figured it out! If you look at this diff, the problem was that curly brackets }} were used when square brackets ]] were needed. The template for the infobox needs to be fully enclosed in curly brackets-- with this mistake, the end of the infobox came "too soon", and the content inside them didn't count as a valid infobox template, so the whole thing failed. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 19:38, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Problem with template
At the top of the talk page for Devil in a Blue Dress there's a WikiProject Novels template that states "If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles below...", but there are no articles listed. `` Pete Best Beatles (talk) 08:03, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Huh, according to Template:WikiProject Novels it looks like that is the default text for this talk page infobox, but I have no idea why since there would never be "articles listed below" on a talk page...? I will ask at the WikiProject and see if we want to amend the template. I can't believe I never noticed! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 19:41, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I had a similar problem using the Uncited Category template. It states "This article contains uncited categories..." and I was referring to just one category. I contacted the template people, but they never got back to me. --  Pete Best Beatles (talk) 23:04, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * This one got changed! With uncited categories, they may have decided not to mess with it because the same template need to be used regardless of how many categories it's referring to... I'm actually not even sure how you could implement a template that had the plural sometimes and the singular other times. Since it's a semi-automated message I can understand saying "eh, people will know what it means" and calling it "close enough" for the cases that refer to only one category. I suppose if you can think of a wording that would work better in both cases, you could try proposing it at the template talk page. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 16:03, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know what "semi-automated message" means. I just slapped them on myself. Why can't you have two templates, one for singular and one for plural? --  Pete Best Beatles (talk) 23:55, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * These kinds of maintenance tags can also be applied with a lot of tools (like Twinkle) that some editors use to quickly evaluate and tag articles -- in those use cases, they are semi-automated. As for having two tags, I'd flip the question: why should there be two tags, more than doubling the complexity of tagging articles in this way, when the slightly-mismatched tag is still close enough to make it clear what kind of problem the article has? Actually, on reflection, the best solution is probably a more flexible wording: if the template said "one or more categories," that would always be true. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 02:14, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

References with paywalls
Is there a problem with using references with paywalls, like the ones you showed me,a if I can get to them and actually read them myself? Is there a problem with taking advantage of their free trial month (or in the case of The New York Times, subscribing for a month) in order to get to them? -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 15:31, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem with using paywalled references, and no problem using a free trial to get to them. If you want to save the money at the NYT, my library lets me access the NYT so I can read that source for the article. Philosophically, people prefer free/open access sources, but any reliable source is fine -- you can also use things that are only in print and not online, and things that are not in English. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 15:54, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Danzy Senna
Hi User:LEvalyn:

I don't know if you have the article about Danzy on your watch list, but wanted to 'ping' you that I've posted a couple more requests on the article talk page. If your time allows for a review, I'd be most grateful. Best, LeepKendall (talk) 17:16, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Categories and lists
While brainstorming for my new draft article, I investigated some categories and lists. Here are some of my observations (obviously I think there are problems). I apologize in advance if my lack of knowledge about the rules of inclusion for lists and categories, and the way hierarchies of categories and subcategories work wastes your time. I'm concerned here only with the biggest names in hardboiled/detective/noir/pulp fiction.

1) Wikipedia categories named after American writers

Dashiell Hammett is in this category; James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Walter Mosely, James Ellroy, David Goodis, Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson are not.

Wondering where the bar to entry is set here, I looked at a couple of pop culture figures who are on the list: Bob Dylan -- he appears to be legit; he has a book of poetry and an autobiography. (There's also a page in Category Bob Dylan for his Nobel Prize in Literature, but I think that was for lifetime achievement.) Bill Nye (The Science Guy) -- two books Carol King -- Couldn't find anything written by her, and her Wikipedia article has no bibliography section. James Taylor -- ditto Madonna -- the only book listed for her is the coffee table book Sex. (Spoiler alert: she hasn't won a Nobel.) 2) Pages in Category: American Writers

None of the above writers are listed here, including Dashiell Hammett.

3) Category:Hardboiled crime novels

It appears to me that the definitions from the Wikipedia aricles of many of the novels in this category do not qualify them for inclusion. First, several do: The Big Sleep - "hardboiled crime novel" Fadeout (novel) - "hardboiled mystery novel" Grimhaven - "Manuscript for an unpublished book by hard-boiled crime writer Charles Willeford" The Long Goodbye (novel) - "The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism..."

Twelve entries are described as merely "a novel" or as "a novel" with date of publication. Two are described as a "crime novel". One is described as a "detective novel". One is described as a "1930 detective novel".

There are further problems with two: Margot Dovaihy - links to the article for Margot Dovaihy, not a novel. Nobody More (novel) - links to the article for Denis Johnson, and that title is not in his bibliography (although there's a template that says "The list is not complete). 4) Category: African-American writers

Chester Himes and Walter Mosely do not have pages here. However, they are both on the List of African-American writers.

5) Spelling "hardboiled"

Both hardboiled and hard-boiled are used on these pages. When hard-boiled is used, it still links to the Hardboiled article (no hyphen).

Pete Best Beatles (talk) 03:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Question about your DYK nomination of Bungay Castle (novel)
Hey, I just wanted to tell you that I reviewed your DYK nomination for Bungay Castle (novel) and had one question about it (specifically the QPQ) before I give the green light. Do respond on the nomination page as soon as you can. Thanks! Helen (💬📖) 19:44, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Seleeennaa195 on Jack Harlow (20:23, 2 April 2022)
Hi! How do I update his picture? He looks a lot different now. --Seleeennaa195 (talk) 20:23, 2 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, the first step to replacing the image is finding a photo that is not copyrighted. This is tricky, because any photo you’d see online is already copyrighted to the photographer. The two most common ways to get a photo for Wikipedia are: 1, somebody might go to an event, take a picture of the person, and then donate the picture to Wikipedia; or, 2, somebody might ask the person to take a selfie and donate that selfie to Wikipedia. The actual process of donating the photo happens at Wikimedia Commons. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 17:51, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Vperfumes (08:56, 8 April 2022)
Hello,

I want to create an infobox for my organization to appear on Google. Can you please suggest where I have to go to do that? --Vperfumes (talk) 08:56, 8 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, my short answer is that you should read the guide to conflict of interest editing, and then not make an article for your organization. Google may have some way of submitting info for an infobox but Wikipedia is not affiliated with Google so I have no idea. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:22, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Question from Chamuvai77 (03:35, 13 April 2022)
Hey I want to write some paid biographies. I may need your favour. How can I start? --Chamuvai77 (talk) 03:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, my short answer is that you should read the guide to conflict of interest editing. And don't get sucked into trying to make articles for people who are not notable. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:25, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Question from Bli231957 (10:09, 24 April 2022)
Hello, LEvalyn. For Neodymium nickelate, there are more than one formulas, like NdNiO3, NdNiO2, Nd2NiO4 and Nd4Ni3O8, and I want a separate article for each. What shall I name the articles for each of them (the current Neodymium nickelate is NdNiO3)? --Bli231957 (talk) 10:09, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, it's nice to have your evident expertise in chemistry here on wikipedia. Unfortunately my specialty is eighteenth-century British literature so I really have no idea. I'd suggest asking over at WP:CHEMISTRY -- they can probably also help you determine whether all of these formulae really merit separate articles. It may be the case that they are not individually notable enough (especially if they don't already have their own separate names) so it might be better for them to all get sub-sections on the main Neodymium nickelate article. Good luck with editing and feel free to ask me if you have any technical problems with editing or other issues I can help with. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:28, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your feedback, and I will ask at WP:CHEMISTRY later. Bli231957 (talk) 09:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Question from Idifixis (15:20, 26 April 2022)
Hi, I tried making a page /edit a few years ago but gave up because it didn’t work. I wanted to give it another try. Any suggestions for getting approved for an edit? Thank you! --Idifixis (talk) 15:20, 26 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @Idifixis, I'm not sure what exactly you are asking about. If you are new to wikipedia, you can make new articles through Articles for Creation (often called AfC for short). That process will help you make a draft article that can be approved by an experienced editor when it is ready to be moved to Wikipedia. If you write a draft in AfC, feel free to let me know and I can take a look at it. But if you are new to Wikipedia, it is rarely a good idea to start out by making an article from scratch -- that's a really time-consuming process. A better way to get accustomed to Wiki editing is to find an article that has been classified as a "stub" and see if you can add a paragraph to it. There are a LOT of stubs out there, which you can find by looking at the stats of a WikiProject that interests you, or by clicking through the stub sorting lists. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

New A Rage in Harlem article
I'm flattered that you suggest I should create such a page, but I don't think I'm up to it. I understand one's first article is kind of monumental. Except for writing some full film plots and creating a new section for an article (my crowning glory), all I've done is some tinkering (see my contributions page). I still seem to have trouble with formatting references, and I only know how to link single words within Wikipedia, no outside links or links to talk pages and such. -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 02:14, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, I understand why you hesitate. A first article can be a challenging prospect. But, a lot of the warnings about staying away from new articles are due to the fact that the average newbie has chosen a terrible subject for a first article, e.g., themselves, or their company, or a personal friend. In this case, the article would be safe from deletion as long as you included references to at least two of the reviews, and it's a very good topic for an article. If you'd like to give it a go, you could work on it at Draft:A Rage in Harlem (novel) and I'd be happy to help with technical details as they came up. My own first article was far from perfect. Even a stub is better than nothing, so you can start quite small. But there's no need to do any editing that doesn't interest you-- we're all volunteers here!
 * To answer some of the difficulties you mention, I personally find the ProveIt gadget helpful for formatting references, though it only works in source editing mode. To add more complex kinds of links, Help:Link has all the information you could ever need. Again, for more complicated/fiddly kinds of edits, it can be useful to switch to source editing mode, since the visual editor is only really prepared for the simplest/most common use cases -- I personally go back and forth all the time.
 * If to happen to have other questions or difficulties as you edit I am always happy to help if I can. Happy editing! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 02:55, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm in! One question, though. You list a red-linked Draft: A Rage in Harlem (novel). Does this mean I need to do something other than just start typing in my Sandbox? --  Pete Best Beatles (talk) 02:06, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Yay, exciting! And, a good first question! It is totally your choice whether you make the page in your sandbox or at the redlinked draft, both will let you edit gradually before the article goes “live”. I like to use drafts because that way, if another editor starts making an article on the same topic while I’m working on mine, they will see my draft and we can work together. (That happened when I made Willie Wiredhand, actually!) The one downside is that draft pages will get automatically deleted if nobody edits them for six months. In this case I’d suggest clicking the redlink and starting to type things into the new draft article it will make. Get it started and I’ll come help! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:20, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I've been pokey (but not lackadaisical) about the draft article, but now I'm ready to take you up on your offer of help. I have a lot of questions stockpiled, and I'm afraid I'm going to be sort of chatty - would it be possible to communicate with you directly? -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 06:41, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Bungay Castle (novel)
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Missing cite in Beachy Head (poem)
You have added a short cite to "Rowlett 1999" but no such source is listed in the bibliography. Can you please add? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: User:Svick/HarvErrors.js to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata•3 03:07, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Cuckoo (novel)
The article The Cuckoo (novel) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Cuckoo (novel) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Rublov -- Rublov (talk) 13:21, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

June events from Women in Red
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Question from JeffCoates (14:23, 4 June 2022)
Thanks. I am trying to work out the process and learn the ropes. I won't be doing anything substantive until I'm a lot further along. --JeffCoates (talk) 14:23, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from JessyAbiKhattar (11:35, 17 June 2022)
Hello Evalyn,

Hope you're well; I am new to this and I work in communications. I am trying to find out how I can create pages for 2 of my clients on Wikipedia. I am trying to find a contact to reach out to but this has been unsuccessful. Would you have any idea about this and could you help me out?

Thanks, Jessy --JessyAbiKhattar (talk) 11:35, 17 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, the first step is to determine whether your clients actually ought to have wikipedia articles at all. If they don't meet Wikipedia's pretty high standards of encyclopedia notability, any articles about them will likely be deleted. In my experience, if someone has to hire someone else to make an article about them, they are probably not encyclopedia-level noteworthy yet. They don't have to be Steve Jobs level but you're looking for at least William F. Wells level. You can demonstrate that someone is a suitable encyclopedia subject by showing that there has been in-depth news coverage about them, from multiple sources, discussing multiple different things they've done. (E.g., William F. Wells got a lot of articles about the clams, and then a LOT of articles about his disease research, and then several articles about his relevance to covid research.) It's a research project. If you'd like to make a list for me here of the sources you've found, I'd be happy to give you my opinion as to whether they're enough to pass, e.g., WP:NORG or WP:NAUTHOR. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 17:45, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Women in Green - July GA Editathon
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WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Editathon event in July 2022!

Running from July 1 to 31, 2022, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event focused on the topic of women and the environment. Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works during the event period (with an emphasis on environmental links and topics). GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to receive a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

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Question from Savfoco (05:30, 24 August 2022)
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WikiProject Women in Green October 2022 Good Article Editathon
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Question from Taybah Alam (09:55, 25 September 2022)
can i translate the wikipedia to hindi language --Taybah Alam (talk) 09:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, welcome to wikipedia! Yes, there is a Hindi-language wikipedia here, which I'm sure would be happy to have your contributions. I also suggest checking out this guide. Happy editing! ~ L 🌸  (talk) 06:00, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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Question from El corndog mustardo on White Fang (22:13, 7 October 2022)
I want to make an addition to include an album themed on the Novel White Fang. How do I add? --El corndog mustardo (talk) 22:13, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, it looks like you figured out how to add this, but not whether you should. Since Wikipedia is not for promotion, to add a mention of the album, you'll need to include a reference to a reliable source which states that the album is inspired by the book. A link to bandcamp, which hosts user-generated content, is almost never suitable for wikipedia. If you can find a suitable secondary source about the impact of the book on the album I can help with the technical formatting of using it as a reference, but for now, I've removed the mention from the article. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:31, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Skoo1223 (18:12, 17 October 2022)
Hello, I would like to enter my biographical sketch. How do I do that? Thanks.... --Skoo1223 (talk) 18:12, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, and welcome to wikipedia. The answer here is short: don't. Wikipedia is not about you, and it is never appropriate to write or edit an article about yourself. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 04:32, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red November 2022
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Question from NaileZ (13:30, 31 October 2022)
Hello, how can I edit the description of the photos uploaded on a wikipedia page? --NaileZ (talk) 13:30, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, happy to help! It depends on what part you want to change.
 * If you want to change the caption of the image that's visible on the article, that is similar to regular editing. You may find it easiest to use the visual editor, since you can just click the caption text and type your changes. In the source editor, look for the text that begins with [[File: for the image you want, and the last element in there is the visible caption.
 * If you want to change something about how the image is stored in wikipedia/wikimedia commons, click on the image itself to bring up the "focused image" view, and then in the lower right corner you should see "More Details". Clicking that will bring you to the image's file page where you can make changes like in normal editing.
 * What image are you working on / what changes do you want to make? I'm happy to give more specific assistance if you tell me more about what you're trying to do. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 19:31, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I added the last three pictures here: https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeu_Arkeologjik_i_Durr%C3%ABsit and I just wanted to change the description to "Archeological Museum of Durres after renovation" to all of them. Thank you :) NaileZ (talk) 08:28, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, I manage to change the caption of the image. :) NaileZ (talk) 10:46, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Question from Zleglizzy (18:58, 31 October 2022)
Hey my name is Ryan leverett I go by “ZLE GLIZZY “ I’m a musical artist looking to start on my wiki, I want my Wikipedia do go on my google panel ,  you can search “ZLE GLIZZY” on google and I’ll come up and my birthday , I’d like a brief description of my wiki to come with it , any tips or any help I’d appreciate helping me get to the next level --Zleglizzy (talk) 18:58, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, and welcome to wikipedia. My advice is to abandon this idea. Wikipedia is not about you, and it is not acceptable to write or edit articles about yourself. If you have a google panel, I believe you can click the "feedback" button to try to change the information google displays, but that is not what wikipedia is for. If you are ever interested in editing wikipedia as a hobby to learn and share information I am happy to help with that. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 19:35, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

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