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July 24

Please include my name as a candidate in the 2026 CA gubernatorial election

Dear Wikipedia helpdesk, My name is Raji Rab I have the honor to be an official candidate in the 2026 California gubernatorial election. I most respectfully request that my name please be included in the list on your good website as an officially declared candidate in the CA 2026 gubernatorial election. Thanks Rajirabforussenate (talk) 00:01, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to provide independent reliable sources that discuss your candidacy, or wait for the election results when the number of votes you receive can be displayed. We do not necessarily list any and all candidates just because. 331dot (talk) 00:11, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request to add my name in the list of candidates in the California 2026 gubernatorial election

Former 2024 U.S. Senate candidate Raji Rab officially announced his candidacy to run for the office of Governor in the state of California and started his campaign attended by a large gathering of over 2000 supporters in Culver City CA.

Raji Rab is an accomplished seasoned aviator, owned and operated an Airline and an advanced computer infrastructure facility. Rab has served a lifetime finding happiness in helping people without any compensation, earning the respect of all. Raji Rab is well known throughout California for voicing public interest, human rights, and civil rights for over the past 23 years.

https://www.facebook.com/SFNewsfeedus/posts/pfbid02e7vhWXV6dADS1x3UP3GM8vHANQNU5aYBuGZkYYjbiA8P5jffWf6doWGeuVCbSduMl Rabraji (talk) 01:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Already answered above. Please do not ask the same question twice. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:55, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kamala Harris is NOT the 49th VP

She IS 46th currently. 172.223.122.78 (talk) 00:11, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. The best place for this discussion is on the article's talk page. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 00:17, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There have been 46 presidents, and I suspect that the OP may be working on the assumption that one president = one vice president. Some presidents have had more than one VP. FDR comes to mind, he had three. Net result 46 presidents, 49 vice presidents.Bdempsey1 (talk) 03:23, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abraham Lincoln had two vice presidents, Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson. I hate to second guess such a great man, but he should have stuck with Hamlin in 1864. Cullen328 (talk) 08:33, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of vice presidents of the United States agrees with you. I'm a little surprised there haven't been more. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:13, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some presidents have also had no VP(Chester Arthur) as there was no mechanism to replace the VP until (relatively) recently. 331dot (talk) 07:20, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Johnson also had no vice president. Cullen328 (talk) 21:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When will published Article be found in Wikipedia search?

I have moved and article from my User sandbox to the main encyclopedia Matthew Baker (Entertainer, born 1981). Are there ways to expedite the process to make the article searchable in Wikipedia search engine? Mlondon101 (talk) 00:22, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It needs to be reviewed by a new page patroller, all of whom are volunteers. Do you have a particular need for this to be done quickly? 331dot (talk) 00:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mlondon101: The above reply only applies to indexing by external search engines like Google. It's already in Wikipedia's own search engine. If you mean Matthew Baker then it's not a search feature but a manually edited disambiguation page. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:49, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter I did mean Wikipedia search engine. When I initially clicked to edit the disambiguation page the pop-up notice made me think it had to be added by a page patroller. I have now added Matt Baker (entertainer) to the diambiguation page. I'm a bit new to the article creation process, but getting the hang of it. @331dot There's no rush for it to appear in external search engines. Thanks for the help. Mlondon101 (talk) 01:03, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How do you edit a page name?

Churchill Retirement Living rebranded to Churchill Living on 1st July 2024, however I can not work out out to change the page name. Any ideas? Churchill Retirement Living

https://www.churchill-living.co.uk/news/churchill-retirement-living-news/churchill-retirement-rebrands-to-churchill-living/ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06260373 WhiteHaidee (talk) 10:27, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WhiteHaidee pages are 'renamed' by moving them. You can make requests for page moves at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 10:29, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - I will give it go! WhiteHaidee (talk) 10:35, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed tag on article, but the information requested is already provided. How to fix?

Hello. I have just been reading through the article concerning Mike Smith, the late BBC Radio DJ and TV presenter. Under the section of the article concerning "Personal life", one sentence is terminated by a {{fact}} tag. The statement made which has been flagged, however, already has the information requested, provided by another reference on the same page.

Is it safe to remove the fact tag, because the info is already present? If not, how should I correct the article to point the fact tag, to the correct reference in the page please?

Thank you. Dane|Geld 12:24, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If one of the page's references supports the sentence, then you can cite that source again at the end of the sentence. The Visual Editor has an easy way to re-use references. I have less experience with the Source Editor, but WP:REFNAME might help – you basically give the reference a shorthand name and use that name for citations (aka footnotes) after the first one. Perception312 (talk) 12:37, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll try and see how I fair. I work better in the source editor, so i'll have a read of the info first. I think the reference I need to use already has a shorthand name given to it. If I get stuck, I'll come back. Dane|Geld 13:11, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mtl-371

Is it possible to contact a contributor to Wiki? He has some great credentials related to stainless steel chemistry, and I would like to discuss with him. Lenmac36 (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lenmac36: To contact a user, you may leave a note on their user talk page, such as User_talk:Mtl-371. In this case, that editor has not edited for quite some time, so you may not get a reply. RudolfRed (talk) 18:22, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Gaelic Blessing

(I apologize if this is not the correct place for this. I do not edit Wikipedia a lot.) I have found that this article has some misinformation:

The poem is not called "The Amada". In the original source, "The Amadan" (with an "n") is the title of the chapter, and the poem actually starts from the previous page.
The explanation about the meaning of the supposed "Amada" in Latin and Sanskrit are also pure nonsense. It is explained in the beginning of the chapter that "The Amadan" means "the fool", as can be seen in wikt:amadan#Scottish Gaelic.

Should I just edit the page directly? The section containing the poem allegedly entitled "The Amada" would probably need to change to something like "the poem in the book" (in lowercase letters because the poem has no title), and would need to include the contents from the previous page. --Kc kennylau (talk) 19:34, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Kc kennylau. Yes, in general, you can just correct things in articles that you think are wrong.

But, you should be aware of a few things:

You need to look at whether the information you are changing is cited to a reliable source: if it is you should not necessarily change it. Here, the source it is cited to says (as you say) "The Amadan", so you can change it. The Latin and Sanskrit claims are not cited at all, so you are entitled to remove them.
Information you add should normally be cited to a reliable source: your own knowledge is not enough. Note that Wiktionary (like Wikipedia) is not a reliable source, as it is user-generated. You could cite a reliable dictionary that "amadán" is Irish for "fool" - but note that that would not of itself establish that that was the meaning of the title. However, it looks as if the text of the "Fiona McLeod" book does support the interpretation.
(More generally) as long as you are editing in good faith, the worst that can happen, if somebody disagrees that your edit is an improvement, is that they will revert it. If that happens, you are encouraged to open a discussion with them on the article's talk page. If you think that your edit is likely to be contentious (probably not the case here!) then it is worth opening that discussion first, before making the edit. See BRD for how this works.

ColinFine (talk) 20:08, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ColinFine: Thank you for the guidance. I have edited the page. --Kc kennylau (talk) 22:41, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Successfully nominating a list of files at WP:FFD

I am seeking to nominate File:Neal Gladstone Radio Show 02.mp3 and others at FFD, and have created a nomination just now at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 July 24#File:Neal Gladstone Radio Show 02.mp3.

Having apparently successfully nominated the file plus others (I used Twinkle) I looked at the file page. It has grabbed the nomination details of a file two files above on the FFD page.

How should I proceed, please? And how do I place the nomination on each of the listed files 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Timtrent Welcome to the Help desk! Instead of using Twinkle, I would add the following wikicode to each of the remaining files listed for discussion with a common section link {{ffd|log=2024 July 24|File:Neal_Gladstone_Radio_Show_02.mp3}} ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:26, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shushugah Thank you. That has increased my understanding, and it adds a parameter I was unaware of. The difficulty is that it still pulls in the deletion notice from File:Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard at Queen City Motors, April 9, 2015.jpeg, not the one for File:Neal Gladstone Radio Show 02.mp3. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 05:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I checked a few of the files nominated, and they all correctly point to the discussion about File:Neal_Gladstone_Radio_Show_02.mp3. Perhaps it is now fixed or an issue of mobile phone or incorrect viewport, but people will be able to find the discussion. Can you give a specific link where it is broken still? ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 08:41, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it may be a problem wth the XFD Voting Tool! You led me there without knowing. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 18:50, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where to request a page be unmerged?

Hi! I'm looking to have two pages that were merged together with no discussion to be unmerged following discussion in the talk page, as the two pages are somewhat similar in subject but are standalone entities. Additionally the merge was not done in a way that preserves all the information and does not accurately reflect the new page that was merged over the old one. Any help is appreciated ! ~~~~

HighlandFacts (talk) 23:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

HighlandFacts can you say which pages this is about? It would make it easier to advise you. TSventon (talk) 23:15, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@HighlandFacts Welcome to help desk! Why are you not able to revert it yourself? If want to request assistance, Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers is one possibility, but doing it yourself would be quicker. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:17, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TSventon oops apologies! Forgot to link them, it would be University of Ottawa Students' Union which was merged into the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa article. :@Shushugah i would revert it, but multiple edits to the article have been made since, and I'm not 100% well versed in many of the technical sides of Wikipedia and didn't want to accidently mess something up. Also as they merged SFUO into the UOSU one it took the page history from the SFUO, and removed any previous edit history from the newer UOSU page before it got merged in. HighlandFacts (talk) 23:41, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The history seems to be that University of Ottawa Students' Union was published in 2023, but moved to Draft:University of Ottawa Students' Union as it did not have enough independent sources, so the history is there. Then the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa article was moved to University of Ottawa Students' Union and text was added from the draft. Hopefully someone else can advise. TSventon (talk) 01:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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