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Question from KavyaOdari (16:16, 9 October 2024)

how do i create an article. --KavyaOdari (talk) 16:16, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

@KavyaOdari: What topic(s) do you want to write about? Best regards, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 19:13, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Geimers (12:45, 10 October 2024)

Hi Rae.

I am a native Spanish speaker and I am starting to translate articles that do not have a Spanish version. I am also a big fan of video games and I constantly see that in the original versions of pages (in English) there are often missing information.

I wanted to know if it is possible to edit a page in English, adding the missing information and linking the references even if they are in Spanish, in case there are no articles in English that give this information.

Greetings. --https://geimers.com/ (talk) 12:45, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Geimers! You can definitely cite sources that are not in English, though English-language sources are preferred where they exist. (for more info, see this section of the Verifiability policy) Best regards, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 19:12, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kingdomfirst81 (16:02, 12 October 2024)

I am trying to help a friend who is a actor, author, detective. Who has had a t.v. show on the history channel and had been on many TV shows and news interviews and has written several books. He has a YouTube page with 115k subs. He is asking me why he doesn't have a wiki page and I cannot figure this stuff out. He was the lead actor on the hunt for the zodiac t.v series on history channel and has a peacock series about to start very soon. Just seems odd he's solved cold case murders and been on TV was an fbi task force member undercover narcotics and now celebrity but he's not on wiki but all his co stars are. He also have a fb group called unsolved no more. His youtube group with 115k subs is called unsolved no more. I can help verify his identify etc but he's easily verified on imdb, and news articles both local, national paper news and t.v. news Nancy grace type stuff. --Kingdomfirst81 (talk) 16:02, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

@Kingdomfirst81, welcome to Misplaced Pages! I'd recommend against trying to write an article about your friend; as an encyclopedia we value neutrality, and thus strongly discourage people from editing about topics where they have a conflict of interest. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 02:54, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from GravyOnToast (16:15, 12 October 2024)

Hello Rae, it's nice to meet you. I made a Misplaced Pages account so that I could more consistently keep up-to-date the "Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election" page without any future semi-protections affecting me. I have edited there under the IPs 81.149.255.205 and 144.178.213.98. I know that my description of changes is not standard, so I will try and make it so in future :) --GravyOnToast (talk) 16:15, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @GravyOnToast! I'm happy to hear that you've made an account to keep editing, and it's definitely an interesting username lol. Let me know if you have any questions :) Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 02:56, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
No questions as of yet :), I've just been waiting for the semi-protected status of that page to end so that I can add a bunch of missed polls GravyOnToast (talk) 11:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
And yeah... I have no justification for the username
(Also I made an edit request almost a week ago that hasn't been answered to the page so that's fun) GravyOnToast (talk) 11:36, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
@GravyOnToast: I don't edit much around elections and am not familiar with how we usually incorporate and describe polling, so I'll leave that for another editor, sorry. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 21:14, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
It's okay, the page's protection has expired so I'm adding the missed polls now :) GravyOnToast (talk) 13:23, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

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Question from PatchPofStars (04:04, 29 October 2024)

Hello, Why do you allow people to add and edit to the Misplaced Pages when they clearly don't know what it's about? I've had to redo the same Wikipage because someone keeps putting in the wrong information and undoing my changes :( --PatchPofStars (talk) 04:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

You could just ask the person who keeps reverting you. It is highly irregular to edit something in like 'clearly not (x)'. I suggest you go to the talk page. Fantastic Mr. Fox (talk) 09:47, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from PatchPofStars (14:33, 29 October 2024)

Hello, How do i report someone? They're adding information that is false and it's aggravating me, They won't do the proper research for it please😭 --PatchPofStars (talk) 14:33, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @PatchPofStars! When you edit a Misplaced Pages article, you're editing an encyclopedia entry: adding commentary about past edits into the article itself isn't encyclopedic and will be removed. As you've found, justifying the changes is what edit summaries and talk pages are for. I think your most recent edit has an appropriate tone. I'll start a discussion on the talk page - it looks like there is a character named Eurylochus in Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), which the source (that your edit removes) describes. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 15:56, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Oh My bad, I thought it was Talking about Eurylochus from the Odyssey :'<
sorry
And thank you ^^ PatchPofStars (talk) 16:14, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Elmaestrobert (15:09, 1 November 2024)

Hi Rae! I work for a think tank and started exploring adding text to the page of my organization, which I learned should only be done through edit requests. Can I edit directly pages other then the ones from my organization / create new pages that are not linked to my organization? --Elmaestrobert (talk) 15:09, 1 November 2024 (UTC)