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Actress Yaya DaCosta is now named as Yaya Alafia (her IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1861624/) - ought we / can we amend her Misplaced Pages page to reflect this change? How? Thanks :) JoBrodie (talk) 09:47, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

"Can we?" - Yes. "How?" - I'll tell you below. "Ought we?" More difficult. The policy on article titles says "Misplaced Pages does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources." (See WP:COMMONNAME.) A Google search for "Yaya DaCosta" -"Yaya Alafia" gave me about 1,720,000 hits, while "Yaya Alafia" -"Yaya DaCosta" gave me only about 2,800, suggesting that "Yaya DaCosta" is still overwhelmingly the commoner. However, there are all sorts of other considerations that that simple Google search doesn't address, such as how many of the hits are old, how many are in reliable sources, etc etc. My feeling is, however, that in this case the preponderance of the old name is so great (more than 600 times more common) that I would leave the article where it is, and create a redirect to it at Yaya Alafia. However, if you wish to consider renaming it, you should check the policy Misplaced Pages:Article titles first. I have added a note to the article Yaya DaCosta mentioning the change of name.

Even if you don't rename this article, it may be helpful to you to know how to do it for future reference. Somewhere in the row of links near the top of the Misplaced Pages page (article, talk, edit, etc) there is a link that says "move". If you use the default Misplaced Pages interface, it usually hides this link, and you have to point your mouse at a little downward-pointing triangle to make it show up. (This is one of the many irritating features of the current default interface which lead me to use another, older interface instead.) If you click on that link, you will see a form to move/rename a page. There is a label "To new title:" on the page, and near it you will find a box containing the text "Yaya DaCosta". Replace that with "Yaya Alafia", put a brief explanation in the box labelled "Reason:" and click on "move page". JamesBWatson (talk) 11:57, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the help and advice - the addition of the clarification to her page seems fine, I think I will leave it at that for now, thank you :) JoBrodie (talk) 22:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

I have created a redirect at Yaya Alafia, so that anyone searching for her under that name will find the article. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:52, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for fixing my spelling error in the article. Someone has removed the images for the article: Saying that they may represent copyright infringement. Maybe you can help decide. I listed them as promotional images since they came from the promotional kit given at the drug rep dinner. With over 600 editors, each has their own opinion of what is infringement. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 17:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

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Hello - I have turned on my email (I think)... Anyway, I like the pictures but the decision may be bigger than all of us as if they do infringe copyright I can imagine all sorts of woes and annoyances if a company decided to get shirty. Perhaps asking the company's (Novo Nordisk was one I think) if they wouldn't mind? Personally I can't see a problem as long as the owner of a picture is properly attributed, but presumably lawyers have a business to earn and so will create a problem where there was none in the first place ;-) JoBrodie 18:06, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: I've written a draft stub article for the film Whole Lotta Sole

Re your message: Feel free to create a new article. The version I deleted was somebody's idea of a bad joke and there is nothing worth salvaging from it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:51, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Created page for Whole Lotta Sole film

I've done a site:en.wikipedia.org "whole lotta sole" Google search to uncover any pages where the film's mentioned to check everything's linked up correctly and tweaked wherever it wasn't. JoBrodie (talk) 01:21, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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I've replied on your - I'm afraid I couldn't find (on the pages to do with the image file) the button marked "Click here to contest..." Best, JoBrodie (talk) 10:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

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List of Twitter traditions

Hello, I went ahead and added the "underconstruction" tag on the page. It was my first few experiences here that incomplete pages in mainspace are speedily deleted without much ado. Plus, the page needs layout fixing too. Merry Christmas. Csgir (talk) 11:23, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Also, the external links I see on the current draft - rethink about adding them. Adding external links in the body text is one of the signals indicating "paid" editing. If you are doing paid editing, disclose it on your user page. Csgir (talk) 11:27, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

• Hi, thanks :) Definitely not being paid to edit so I suppose I had better add them as references instead. Thanks for the tip JoBrodie (talk) 11:50, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

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Sorry to be so slap-dash. It's very important to appeal to a broader audience, I hope you can see the wisdom in that. Maybe one mind will be changed. That's how you change the world, one person at a time...thanks The Old Lady AKA Jrbwalk (talk) 14:38, 8 January 2019 (UTC)jrbwalk

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