Question from Minoso144 on Takayama (genus) (19:39, 26 March 2025)

Hello --Minoso144 (talk) 19:39, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Minoso144. Do you have a question about Wikipedia? -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:28, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from ChristianRDYoung (12:45, 31 March 2025)

Hi I was wondering how to make a page for a person because my dad asked me to make a Wikipedia page for him covering his legal career --ChristianRDYoung (talk) 12:45, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ChristianRDYoung. It sounds like your and your dad might be misunderstanding some important things about Wikipedia. Please take a look at the following pages (you can click on them) because they contain information that you might find helpful. You should also ask your dad to take a look at them or try to explain them to him.

Whether a Wikipedia:Article can be written about your dad is ultimately going to depend on whether he meets Wikipedia:Notability. If, by chance, an article can be written about him, he will have no real editorial control over its content as explained in Wikipedia:Ownership of content. All article content will be assessed in terms of relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines (particularly Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view) regardless of whether it's positive or negative, or whether it's what your dad wants. I will add some more general information to your Wikipedia:User talk page for reference, but you can also ask questions at Wikipedia:Help desk or Wikipedia:Teahouse. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:06, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from AtTheTownHouse (01:19, 2 April 2025)

hello, how do I add another language to a page? can I do it to my user page? --AtTheTownHouse (talk) 01:19, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AtTheTownHouse. I don't quite understand your question. Do you want to add a link to non-English Wikipedia page to an English Wikipedia page? If that's what you want to do, there's some information on how to do so in Help:Interlanguage links. If that's not what you want to do, then perhaps you can rephrase your question or provide an example of some other page that helps explain what you want to do. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
you know how in the top-right corner of a wikipedia article, there's a little thing that says ___ languages, like 213 languages, for example, and you can click on it to change the language you're reading in? how would you do that for an article? can you do that for a user page? AtTheTownHouse (talk) 23:25, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What you're describing seems to be covered in WP:ILL#Links in the "Languages" list, but it only works when there is an existing article in the other language you want to link to for which WP:WIKIDATA exits. This feature only links existing articles or informational Wikipedias to each other and will indicate a WP:REDLINK when the target page doesn't exist because the software can't find a page to link to; in other words, this feature doesn't create a new article or page in some other language.
I don't believe the feature works for user pages per se; however, some people do edit on different language Wikipedias using either same account or an account created specifically for a particular Wikipedia. These users might've created a user page for each of these Wikipedias, and they can manually add links to one of their user pages to their other user pages using the syntax described in WP:LOCALLINK.
It's important to remember though that each of the different language Wikipedias are separate projects with their own policies and guideline as well as their own user communities; there's lots of overlapping since they're all part of the same family so to speak, but there can also be some important differences just like there can be difference among the members of any family. So, the fact that a page exists on one of the Wikipedias doesn't automatically mean it should exist on them all, particularly when it comes to articles. You can, if you want, create a user page on another language Wikipedia, but users only generally do so when they intended to edit on that Wikipedia and whatever user page you create will be subject to that Wikipedia's user page guidelines. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:19, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
thanks AtTheTownHouse (talk) 00:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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