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August 2

Wiki Page is having false information

Hello,

the following wiki page is not true and having false information in all categories as projected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rajinikanth_Vellalacheruvu Who is approving this false content to public. Who is the leagal authority to publish such kind of false information. 49.204.201.230 (talk) 10:52, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

IP editor. that's a draft article that has not yet even been submitted for approval. If you believe it contains false information, then you are free to provide reliably sourced additions and to remove anything that is not sourced. We have a strict policy for biographies of living people which any accepted article has to meet. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

That policy explicity does include drafts. So any unsourced contentious claims can and should be removed. Which claims in particular were you concerned about IP editor? -- D'n'B-t -- 14:07, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

IP user, I would suggest that you read WP:TRUTH. 331dot (talk) 14:14, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Repeatedly occurrence of Vandalised activity while utilising undo method for wrong intentions

Hi i am recently invected a mass turbulence activity to vandalise article Sodhi, leading by two main account believe to be sock accounts @khatri20 amd @User:Rangreta20 Note•User:Rangreta20 was currently banned due its abducting behaviour and abusing the guidelines of WP:RV But soon after his banned the second master keep such miserable activity even got a warning notification 117.214.152.98 (talk) 15:00, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

There does not appear to be a Khatri20 registered on the English Wikipedia. GMG^talk 15:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

But there is a User:Khatri2903, registered today that appears to be a WP:SPA who is making many changes to that article. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:07, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

it does not matter if i am registered today,i have provided good sources with supplementary sources to dispute the false claim stated in article.

The article mentioned Gurus names and 7 gurus strictly belonged to Sodhi Khatri caste and primary source is their writings.

The direct descendant family also claims Khatri status , you are undoing edits based on a based on a single line written in a contemporary book by non native non-historian. Khatri2903 (talk) 16:57, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Documentaries

Why is the music on public documentaries so loud? It is very hard to hear the narrator speaking. It includes National Geographic, and the Smithsonian documentaries. Please, can something be done about this? Many watchers will switch off those shows. Thank you CThelma (talk) 15:49, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

@CThelma This is the Help Desk for Wikipedia only. We cannot usually help with anything else. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

@CThelma. You need to contact the show's producers. In the meantime I suggest turning on subtitles. Shantavira|^{feed me} 17:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Try asking at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment, instead. -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 19:36, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Images as background

Sup all. Is it possible, then, to use an image as background, for example, in a quote box, instead of, e.g., #A1b2c3D4? Not for article space; was thinking for barnstars, userspace malarky. TIA! SerialNumber54129 15:52, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129 See Help:Pictures#Overlaying_annotations_on_an_image. You can even load text over images in articles. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Mike Turnbull, what an age we live in  :) thanks very much for the help, it's greatly appreciated! SerialNumber54129 16:14, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

But if you are considering doing this, please make sure you're familiar with MOS:ACCESS, even outside article space. ColinFine (talk) 22:24, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

RE Creating a page

hi can i create a page for my football club i run Bury Bowl Football Club? Clarky71980 (talk) 18:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

@Clarky71980 The technical answer is "yes" provided you use the articles for creation process. However, as you are a new user I would strongly advise against trying until you have much more experience on Wikipedia. You would need to show that your club is wikinotable, which I suspect will be very difficult. Also, you have a conflict of interest, which makes things even more difficult. If you are paid to run the club, there is a mandatory declaration you must make. Please read WP:PAID and the other pages I have linked. Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:32, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Clarky71980. I absolutely concur with what Mike Turnbull says; but I will add something.

If you decided to edit primarily in order to learn enough to make an article about your club, you might be disappointed. I suggest that you bear in mind that Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost entirely interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources.

Unless you are confident that at least three sources exist about the club that each meet all three criteria in WP:42, you are not going to be able to write an acceptable article on it.

On the other hand, if you want to contribute to Wikipedia on subjects other than your club, you will be very welcome. ColinFine (talk) 22:32, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

notability of a living author

I'm thinking of writing my first article about a living author who has published several mysteries which have been reviewed in many reputable publications but there's not much published about her apart from book reviews available other than an interview in a magazine focused on the genre. My question is: do book reviews count when considering notability? They are about her books, not about her. (I swear I saw her name in red on a list somewhere on Wikipedia but now I can't find it.) Ugh, I keep forgetting the tildas! Itsagazornum (talk) 18:44, 2 August 2024 (UTC) Itsagazornum (talk) 18:42, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Itsagazornum Book reviews can contribute to notability, see WP:CREATIVE. Youy may have seen a list of red links at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, which is a good place to ask for help in writing articles about women. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TSventon (talk • contribs) 18:56, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Fixing ping to Itsagazornum Rummskartoffel 19:34, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Very helpful. Itsagazornum (talk) 19:45, 2 August 2024 (UTC)