Wikipedia:Help desk#Artist "Will Brooks" page has disappeared

Hi,

There is a company page https://w.wiki/EFep which was in English earlier. Someone changed the language of this page to Hindi.

Can someone help how I can change it back to English as the page belong to a MNC and should be in English Love.eclerx (talk) 06:43, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

:Is this a request for help somewhere in en.wikipedia.org, Love.eclerx? If so, please rephrase it. (And if not, you're asking at the wrong place.) -- Hoary (talk) 06:55, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

::@Hoary The page actually belong to en.wikipedia.org but someone changed the language to Hindi and now it is showing content in Hindi language. I am trying to move it back to English.

::So I need help in en.wikipedia.org Love.eclerx (talk) 06:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

:::@Love.eclerx: The url points to hi.wikipedia.org, so the page is on the Hindi Wikipedia. The article on the Hindi Wikipedia was a translation of the article EClerx (which was deleted on 4 May 2025) from this Wikipedia (the English Wikipedia). Trim02 (talk) 07:11, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

::::Yes @Trim02 That's the concern. Someone translated the article in Hindi and deleted the English version.

::::Any wayout to restore the english versions? Love.eclerx (talk) 07:30, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::Eclerx and EClerx have been repeatedly deleted for nearly 20 years, twice by discussion 1, 2. A version was restored to userspace for improvement but no improvement has taken place. It looks nowhere near to meeting the requirements of WP:NORG and would probably be deleted again if it were to appear in mainspace. Cabayi (talk) 08:00, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

::::::Wikipedia languages are edited independently. The English Wikipedia has no control over the Hindi Wikipedia and it doesn't affect us if they once translated an English language. I don't know their article requirements and it doesn't matter to us. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:40, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi. Is there a way to report an article which I suspect has been completely rewritten using an LLM? aps (talk) 03:49, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:AaronPassion: Yes (sadly), there is a maintenance template {{tl|AI-generated}} which will categorise the article in :Category:Articles containing suspected AI-generated texts, and a series of user warning templates starting at {{tl|Uw-ai1}}. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 05:01, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

I HAVE JUST RE-POSTED THIS DISCUSSION AS IT EXPIRED BEFORE I HAD A CHANGE TO WRITE AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION.

THIS IS WHAT I WROTE PREVIOUSLY [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Copyright&diff=prev&oldid=1025623750]: I am very unsure about how to use Wiki-Commons. I am just about to do some major editing of a Wikipedia article about a board game, e.g., :en:Brass (board game) (Wikipedia 'free link'). I screen-shot the artwork of the game's title on the computer game version, available through Steam. The header is the word "Brass" on a brass plaque. The artwork is clearly not my own work, and I am not sure whether it is the game's logo, as it is the game's title. In addition, since it is a graphic of the game, I assume that the person in control of illustrating the computer version, Magdalena Mudlaff, or the illustrator of the original board game, Peter Dennis, have a copyright over such a graphic. How would I go about working out whether I can use the graphic or getting permission? I seem to see other board games with a complete picture of the game's box cover, including the board game logo, but I am just not sure how they managed to do that. Are such illustrations in the public domain, and, if not, how do they become so? Can you advise me? Thanks in advance for the time taken to lend your assistance.SMargan ^{{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}} 22:55, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

THIS WAS THE RESPONSE [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Copyright&action=edit&oldid=1025668507]:

: {{ping|SMargan}} There are two separate issues here:

:# Can you upload these materials to Commons? Without seeing the images in question I can't say anything definitive, but it is very unlikely anything related to a game created in recent decades is in the public domain, unless (for example) the logo is too simple to copyright and you want to use that, or the game simply reuses images whose copyright has expired. Otherwise, you'd need the owners of the copyright to release these materials under a free license, and very few owners of commercially valuable materials are likely to do such a thing. If you want a detailed explanation of the issues involved in uploading materials like this to Commons, see Commons:Uploading works by a third party.

:# Failing that, can you upload these as non-free materials on the English-language Wikipedia without involving Commons? :en:Wikipedia:Non-free content allows for allowing certain non-free content (such as logos) directly to en-wiki.

- Jmabel ! ^talk 04:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

::: THIS IS MY LATEST AND FRESH RESPONSE Jmabel ! ^talk {{ping|Jmabel}} The logo is the word "Brass" on a brass plague background, as the logo of the 2008 board game "Brass". It is difficult to say whether this would be copyrighted as whilst the game was republished as "Brass - Lancashire" (2018) with a different logo, and the logo is pretty generic, the game was pretty popular and might be copyrighted. I have tried to upload the logo via the first method, but to no available, as I do not think this fits within the allowable criteria.

:::I am just a little unsure how to proceed with the second method. The link you gave, i.e. :en:Wikipedia:Non-free content does not seem to show how to do it, in a format I can understand. Is there a specific part of the page I was meant to be looking at. Can you advise? Is there a link to a "non-free content" uploading area? Thanks in advance for your time responding to this further query of mine.SMargan ^talk 08:02, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

::::SMargan, you should assume that any image you find or copy is conventionally copyright ("all rights reserved") unless you have, and can describe, very clear evidence to the contrary. No image that's conventionally copyright may be uploaded to Commons. Right now, as I type this response, I see within the same browser window various links provided to me by Wikipedia. One of them is "Upload file". Clicking this is how I'd start the process of uploading a file that would need, and that I'd provide, a "fair use" rationale for use within this or that article. (Though actually the process would start earlier, as I'd write and rewrite the "fair use" rationale, ready to paste it in on demand, use GIMP to reduce the size of the image, etc.) -- Hoary ^talk 12:09, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:::Wikipedia:Non-free content explains the policy. Template:Non-free use rationale is the template you will need to put on the file page for each non-free image (or, as appropriate, you can use a more specialized template like Template:Non-free use rationale logo). - Jmabel | ^Talk 16:48, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

::::@Jmabel | ^Talk - Yes, the Template:Non-free use rationale template will be useful when I have uploaded my tiff file to the "non-free image" section of Wikipedia. Apologies for not being clear enough. Please send me the link for upload a image file to the "non-free image" section of Wikipedia.SMargan (talk) 04:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:{{u|SMargan}}, I find it odd that an article on Brass includes a long list of non-notable awards, but makes no mention of its complicated and confusing "Birkenhead" rule. Maproom ^talk 13:16, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:: {{ping|Maproom}} does that somehow have bearing on the question of using these images? If so, would you spell out the connection? and if not, this belongs on the talk page of the article, not here. - Jmabel | ^Talk 16:45, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

::::@Jmabel | ^Talk & Maproom ^talk - I was only responding to the issue Maproom ^(talk) raised. I think the real issue behind this discussion thread is how to upload a file to the "non-free image" section of Wikipedia. Please send me the link for upload a image file to the "non-free image" section of Wikipedia.SMargan ^talk 04:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::I've struck my off-topic comment above. Maproom ^talk 06:32, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

::::::@Jmabel | ^Talk & Maproom ^talk - The article currently has a lot of deficiencies. I am doing a major re-write. Part of that major edit was going to be the addition of a logo for the game. However, Jmabel | ^Talk is correct, that issue is something best left to the Wikipedia article talk section. I have started a discussion thread about that issue there [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brass_(board_game)]. Now, back to the issue at hand, I have the policies on "non-free images", i.e. Template:Non-free use rationale and :en:Wikipedia:Non-free content, but now I need to know how I actually upload a file to the "non-free image" section of Wikipedia. Please send me the link for uploading an image file to the "non-free image" section of Wikipedia.SMargan (talk) 11:19, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::::@SMargan In the menu on the left side of the screen you have the button "Upload file", which takes you to Wikipedia:File upload wizard. There you can choose to "Upload a non-free file", which uploads the file locally here on enwiki instead of Commons. It if complies with Wikipedia:Non-free content of course. Trim02 (talk) 12:42, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::::: There is no "'non-free image' section of Wikipedia." You upload the image to Wikipedia (not Commons), and you use {{tl|Non-free use rationale}} (or a more specialized template) rather than {{tl|Information}}. Start at Wikipedia:File upload wizard and follow the directions. - Jmabel | Talk 16:21, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:Christopher Bullock (civil servant)

Reference numbers 49 and 50 are also newspaper reports - please can they be added to the newspaper report section at the bottom of the article. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

how to add pictures supporting activities in articles Chitra Sarwara Ambala (talk) 06:05, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:@Chitra Sarwara Ambala, I'm not sure what you mean by "pictures supporting activities", but see Help:Pictures. Images, in general, should illustrate article content, and more images is not necessarily better. It's easiest to use pics you find on [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Commons]. The rule of thumb is that any random pic you find online is under copyright and can't be used on Wikipedia or Commons. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:02, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I am trying to write about tourism to the United States and I was wondering how'd I'd cite that. It's reliable as its an official US Governmental source and you can find the Excel file [https://www.trade.gov/i-94-arrivals-program here] under the title of: "I-94 Monthly International Visitor Arrivals, 2000-Present (Excel File)" and it does work when you open it. I'm also wondering if your allowed to cite Microsoft Excel files here on Wikipedia.

Sincerely, @Skim127 21:35, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:Hello, @Skim127. The format of a source is relatively unimportant. What's important is that it is published (so a random user can in principle get hold of a copy from some sort of public resource, eg a library) and that it be reliably published (from somebody with a reputation for editorial control and fact checking).

:I don't know if there is a citation template that will suit this, but the use of those is optional anyway. The important bits, beside the url (https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2024-06/Monthly%20Arrivals%202000%20to%20Present%20%E2%80%93%20Country%20of%20Residence%20%28COR%29_1.xlsx) are the author (though there presumably isn't one here), publisher, and date.

:However, there is a problem with this source, because it is "-Present", which means that it will presumably be changing regularly. A source which will change is problematic, because a reader in the future may look at it and find it no longer supports the information which it is being used to verify. So if you are going to use this resource, I would suggest using the most recent arhive of it on archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20250320162049/https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2024-06/Monthly%20Arrivals%202000%20to%20Present%20%E2%80%93%20Country%20of%20Residence%20(COR)_1.xlsx, which happens to be from 20 March this year.

:So unless there is a suitable template, I would write the reference) as something like

::'I-94 Monthly International Visitor Arrivals, 2000-Present' (Excel File), US Government International Trade Administration, [https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2024-06/Monthly%20Arrivals%202000%20to%20Present%20%E2%80%93%20Country%20of%20Residence%20%28COR%29_1.xlsx current link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20250320162049/https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2024-06/Monthly%20Arrivals%202000%20to%20Present%20%E2%80%93%20Country%20of%20Residence%20(COR)_1.xlsx archived on 2025-03-25]

:which displays in the reflist as 'I-94 Monthly International Visitor Arrivals, 2000-Present' (Excel File), US Government International Trade Administration, [https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2024-06/Monthly%20Arrivals%202000%20to%20Present%20%E2%80%93%20Country%20of%20Residence%20%28COR%29_1.xlsx current link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20250320162049/https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2024-06/Monthly%20Arrivals%202000%20to%20Present%20%E2%80%93%20Country%20of%20Residence%20(COR)_1.xlsx archived on 2025-03-25]

:{{reflist-talk}} ColinFine (talk) 10:00, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

: Pai Forest

Reference help requested.

kindly fix this ref error. Thank you

Thanks, JogiAsad (talk) 02:38, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

:Hello, @JogiAsad. It's saying that you haven't given a title for the source. The title appears to be "STATE OF FORESTS IN SINDH AS WELL AS THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS FLOWING OUT OF IT", so you can easily insert that in the template after |title= - though I recommend typing it in title case rather than all capitals. ColinFine (talk) 10:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

:Hello, @JogiAsad, I see you have added the nonexistent catergories :Category:Wildlife sanctuaries in Sindh and :Category:Forests of Sindh. According to WP:CATREDLINK these should be created or removed from the article. If the provincial categories would only have one or two members it is probably better to use national categories. TSventon (talk) 12:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Do you know where I can find suggestions for proper "split titles" for the "Musical style and influences of Linkin Park" as well as "Legacy of Linkin Park"? --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:31, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

:You could ask here or at a relevant wikiproject.

:"Cultural impact of" is a possibility for the second one. TSventon (talk) 15:23, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi - I created this account ages ago and just found out it is associated with an email address which has not existed for over a decade. How can I change my email address to my current one? Webster Forrest, London UK (talk) 16:26, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

:Preferences -> User profile -> Email options. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 16:36, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

On the Glomeridae article, the species list includes genera that are no longer accepted as distinct, independent genera, and have been relabeled as synonyms of other genera. For example, Corsikomeris has been redefined as a synonym of the genus Doderia. Should Corsikomeris thus be removed from the species list and Doderia added in its place? Nephila121 (talk) 02:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)