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1: Wikipedia content only: Submissions must either be from Wikipedia or another Wikimedia site (such as the Wikimedia Commons), or from another source discussing Wikipedia or issues relevant to it. Overly partisan sources and links to articles on alternative wikis will be removed.
2: Submission etiquette: Please refrain from editorializing submission titles; any overly-editorialized submissions may be removed. No TIL format posts, and please try to avoid mobile links.
3: Be respectful: Absolutely no personal attacks or hate speech will be tolerated in the comments. Obvious trolls, political brigaders, and assholes not welcome here. Discussion is encouraged, but keep it civil.
4: No vandalism: Posts advocating, bragging about, or otherwise encouraging Wikipedia vandalism or political brigading are not allowed.
5: Not your personal army: Submissions relating to personal editing conflicts on Wikipedia are not allowed. Meta discussion of large-scale or noteworthy editing conflicts is allowed. If you have questions about a particular situation, consider using our weekly Q&A thread.
6: No screenshots, memes or images: Screenshots of Wikipedia articles are not allowed. Link directly to the article or media when possible. Image posts and memes are not allowed. If you feel something is otherwise unconveyable, make a self post about it.
To link to a specific version of a Wikipedia article:
- On the page you want, click the "View History" tab at the top right.
- Find the version you'd like to link to, and click the timestamp.
- Copy the URL of that page, and voila, you can link to that exact version.
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Somebody create an LTA entry on me
Hello, I am the "infamous" vandal Bargelangs. Why has nobody noticed that I have 50 sockpuppets, and why has nobody done a CheckUser on me?
14:56 UTC
Help?
I’m looking for a style guide/guideline/something else? It’s for when there is a section of an article that doesn’t make sense anymore because of successive edits. The article that has this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_salt
Under dietary recommendations, past the table, the first paragraph is word salad-y but I don’t remember what to do to fix it lol
13:15 UTC
The Turkish page for WikiLeaks is unacceptably short. Can Turks help contribute to the translation?
13:12 UTC
How do get unblocked?
Somewhere around a year or two ago I wanted to see how long it would take for Wikipedia to find vandalization on a really hyper-obscure page so I vandalized a page about some plant that had like two lines. From that I got blocked from wikipedia, but its been a while now and I believe I've learned from my mistakes.
I keep seeing things I desperately feel need changing on the site, and Ive appealed for unblock over a month ago, but have gotten no response. what are my options?
02:46 UTC
Is it possible to redirect all usages of a wikimedia file to a different wikimedia file?
The above file is a completely imaginary flag. I have tried to remove many instances of this flag and replace it with the shield (which, while not a flag, was at the very least in use), and did that relatively successfully in a number of languages as you can see on my account. Thing is, some of the languages that are used on the remaining pages I can't read much less understand well enough to make the change and explain what I am doing. Which leads me to: can I redirect/mass edit all instances of this file being used to the best replacement?
01:55 UTC
I was blocked
I got IP blocked for no reason and appearntly I'm gonna get unbanned in around September of 2025, I don't what happened, and I'm confused
21:32 UTC
What is a protected article that when you first saw it was protected, you thought "what the hell happened"
09:56 UTC
How can I link to a subsection/headline inside an article if that article has no TOC?
Let's say I want to link to William Shatner's wiki page but more specifically the section 1970–1978: overcoming typecasting. How would I do that from a phone or even a standard computer?
Sure, as a 90s kid I'm somewhat proficient and understanding about computing and HTMLing, never having done any modern web development but written my own "I'm here" webpage in plain HTML back in the dawn of the web can mark the surrounding section, view it in plain text
<h3 id="1970–1978:_overcoming_typecasting"><span id="1970.E2.80.931978:_overcoming_typecasting"></span>1970–1978: overcoming typecasting</h3>and then take that Id 1970–1978:_overcoming_typecasting as the local anchor and voilá.
But how would lazy me or regular Joe do it?
PS: I mean create a regular web link like for Reddit. Not for linking from one Wiki article to the section of another Wiki article.
08:40 UTC
Can anyone give me a good idea for a Wikipedia speedrun?
19:37 UTC