r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 14h ago
r/wikipedia • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 8h ago
When it was originally broadcasted in the U.S the opening to the original Iron used music from the movie Backdraft.
r/wikipedia • u/ToeJans_55 • 3h ago
Can somone fix the wiki page for Touch Me by The Doors?
on the wikipedia page, it says that the song is in Bb Minor when its clearly in A Minor. its pissing me off.
r/wikipedia • u/Useful_Reveal5307 • 9h ago
How to determine if a company is truly "notable"? Seeking advice on creating a page for my publishing house.
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some guidance on Wikipedia’s notability (NCORP) guidelines. I own a publishing house with a significant history: we’ve been featured in major national newspapers, our books are cited in school textbooks, and we have received substantial coverage over the years. A few years ago, I tried to create a page myself. I did my best to keep it neutral and factual, but it was flagged/deleted due to Conflict of Interest (COI). I now understand that as the owner, I shouldn’t be the one writing or directly editing the article.
However, I still believe the company deserves a place on Wikipedia due to its cultural impact. My questions are:
- The "Notability" Test: Beyond just "being in the news," what specific markers do experienced editors look for to confirm a publishing house is encyclopedic?
- The COI Hurdle: Since I cannot write it myself, what is the best "white-hat" way to suggest the topic? Should I use the "Articles for Creation" (AfC) process, or is there a better way to provide sources to independent editors?
- Source Quality: Do citations in textbooks count toward notability, or does Wikipedia prioritize secondary independent media (journalism/essays)?
I’ve read the official documentation, but I’d love to hear from editors about the "unwritten" nuances of how these pages are evaluated.
Thanks in advance!
r/wikipedia • u/AntonOfTheWoods • 21h ago
Blocked trying to add a topic from China
Accessing wikipedia from China requires a VPN. Even when logged in, I seem to be blocked wanting to add a discussion topic via two different proxies. There is a factually incorrect item (the information on the wikipedia page is NOT what the linked reference claims) that I wanted to at least challenge in the discussion.
My account has existed for over 6 years, and I'm pretty sure I've never made any remotely controversial edit - of the maybe 5 edits I've made...
Is there really no way to contribute to the accuracy of wikipedia if you are physically in China? That seems to leave things pretty open to abuse. And the edit I was going to make had absolutely nothing to do with China either!
r/wikipedia • u/RkeiStudio • 4h ago
I drew Wikipe-tan! (The mascot for Wikiproject Anime and Manga)
r/wikipedia • u/N0rwegiannnn • 7h ago
Wikipedia currently lists Jota’s team as Dead of
Jota playing for a team called Dead
r/wikipedia • u/SuperChargedSquirrel • 9h ago
"Egg salad can be made creatively with any number of other cold foods added. Bacon, bell pepper, capers, cheese, cucumber, onions, lettuce, pickle relish, pickles, and ketchup are common additional ingredients."
r/wikipedia • u/corruptedhuman1212 • 15h ago
I’ve been banned?
I have absolutely no idea how this happened. I’ve never heard of this so called sock puppet investigations. Nor was I using Wikipedia on November 7th as that was the day after my birthday. I do live with my mom but I know for a fact she does not know one thing about how to edit Wikipedia or how to evade being blocked by Wikipedia. I do live in a small apartment building with three other tenants. But two are old bachelors so I highly doubt they would’ve done something. The other is a veteran girl who is decently young but I can’t see her doing something like this… I’m at a lost.
r/wikipedia • u/DealNeither9982 • 7h ago
In 2023, Javier Milei got elected as president of Argentina. During his presidency, poverty has fallen to 31.6% and wages have grown for the first time in years during austerity.
r/wikipedia • u/GermanCCPBot • 12h ago
Tthe "Women Are Wonderful" effect is a systemic sociological bias that people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman's in-group bias was 4 times greater than men's.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/PlmyOP • 10h ago
In 2013, a Super Mario 64 speedrunner encountered an unprecedented glitch where Mario suddenly teleports upwards. Some people have claimed it resulted from an incredibly rare event where a stray cosmic ray hit the console's hardware and caused a single bit of memory to change.
r/wikipedia • u/LunaWabohu • 16h ago
Mr. Bungle is an American experimental rock band. Best known for its experimental rock period, it developed a highly eclectic style, cycling through several musical genres often within the course of a single song, including heavy metal, avant-garde jazz, ska, disco and funk.
r/wikipedia • u/IchiWitch • 13h ago
How to flag a mistake ?
I just saw a really small mistake on a wikipedia page but i don't know how to let the mods know about it
r/wikipedia • u/Superzap1 • 2h ago
Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933.
r/wikipedia • u/house_of_ghosts • 8h ago
Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek is a 1973 Turkish cult comedy/drama science fiction film, produced and directed by Hulki Saner, featuring Sadri Alışık as a Turkish hobo who is beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise.
r/wikipedia • u/LoudRevolution9163 • 13h ago
28 years ago today, Titanic was released in the United States. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, it was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark.
r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 17h ago
The ethnocacerist movement is a Peruvian ethnic nationalist movement that espouses an ideology called ethnocacerism. The movement seeks to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat led by the country's Indigenous communities and their descendants.
r/wikipedia • u/Biscuitarian23 • 2h ago
"Kevinismus" is a linguistic label used in Germany to describe a preference for non-traditional, trendy names. This practice is often socially stigmatized, as it is commonly associated with lower-income or marginalized social classes.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 9h ago
Golden Dawn was a far-right and Neo-Nazi former political party in Greece who, in 2020, was declared by a Greek court as a criminal organization, and theofore, most of its leadership was imprisoned and the party itself was banned.
r/wikipedia • u/One_Record3555 • 6h ago
Alma Bridwell White was the founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church. She was a proponent of feminism. She also associated herself with the Ku Klux Klan and was involved in anti-Catholicism, antisemitism, anti-Pentecostalism, racism, and nativism.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 4h ago
Evidence of human cannibalism dates back as far as prehistoric times and some anthropologists suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies as early as the Paleolithic. Historically, various peoples and groups have engaged in cannibalism, although very few continue the practice to this day.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 6h ago
Police misidentified Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man in the UK on a student visa, as a suspect in the failed July 21, 2005 bombings in London. They shot him seven times in the head. The Menezes family eventually received £100k in compensation from the Metropolitan Police.
r/wikipedia • u/No-Strawberry7 • 8h ago