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October 3

tax receipt

hello! my dad gave a donation (Canada) and it's been 3 days and hasn't received a tax receipt. 64.228.211.197 (talk) 00:38, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Wikipedia editors have nothing to do with processing donations or giving receipts. That is all handled by the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find out more at Ways to Give and there is an email address. Cullen328 (talk) 01:07, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

If the donation was to Wikimedia Canada with Paypal then https://paypal.wikimedia.ca/donate.html says: "If you wish to receive a tax receipt for your donation, make sure to include your full name, mailing address, and email address in PayPal. Please note that we will only issue receipts for the current year at the beginning of the following year for the total of your yearly donations. Receipts will be sent by email." PrimeHunter (talk) 01:59, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Help Edit an article

Is there anyone who can help me edit this article I have created? I am still learning and I need help from the community. This is the link to the article. Especially, I think the article has citation problems that I do not know how to resolve. Celestin Kanyama Sarah Biryomumaisho (talk) 09:06, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

WP:Teahouse is always there for new editors, but let me just jump in for a second.

Well, I'm sure the problem is that there are SEVEN footnotes after the first paragraph of "Sanctions" section. This is quite an citation overkill. You would want to cut the footnotes down to the minimum. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 09:29, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

@Sarah Biryomumaisho Although you have an excessive number of citations attached to one sentence, the sources themselves seem reliable (except current #14) so why not look at each and expand the content of the article if they have further details about Kanyama? Alternatively, if they only briefly mention him, then why not just drop that source? For example, the Guardian citation mentions his name once but is mainly about other people, so I think you can remove it. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:36, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much. This is very helpful. Sarah Biryomumaisho (talk) 17:58, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Template for pop-science oriented page

The page Whirlwind contains two sources to pop-science articles and nothing else. It ends up covering very surface-level information that is also (from my understanding) bordering incorrect, and goes over much of the same information from Tornado and Tornadogenesis under a different name. A simple comparison can be made between Whirlwind and Tornadogenesis; see the quality and types of sources specifically. I was wondering, as I cannot expand the article right now, is there a template for pop-science articles in need of major changes to become wiki quality? If not, is there one I can use in the place of one? GeorgeMemulous (talk) 17:28, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

GeorgeMemulous Maybe try Template:Unreliable sources or Template:More science citations needed. All of the maintenance templates can be found in Category:Cleanup templates. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 18:50, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Eric Stoltz Page

Personal information about my family has been included in this page that is a security and safety risk. I've tried to delete this content several times today and other people continue to put it back up and send me messages that I'm not a reliable source.

I want my personal family names and information deleted from this account and not put back up.

Eric Stoltz 2600:8800:611F:1100:445A:E2DF:A7CD:BE79 (talk) 23:54, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

If the information is not public, you can email the oversight team WP:OVERSIGHT. However, the edit summaries say the information is "not authorized", Wikipedia does not need permission or authorization to include public information in an article. RudolfRed (talk) 00:19, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi IP 2600:8800:611F:1100:445A:E2DF:A7CD:BE79. Perhaps you'll find the information in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Relationship between the subject, the article, and Wikipedia. Wikipedia article content is supposed to only reflect what can be verified through citations to reliable sources, and any content that doesn't can, in principle, be removed.

After looking at the article, I've decided to hide content in the main infobox about your wife and children per WP:BLPSOURCES and WP:BLPNAME so that it's inclusion can be further discussed at Talk:Eric Stoltz#Wife and children. You're welcome to participate in that discussion if you want, but before you do you might want to take a close look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest because it contains information you might find helpful.

In addition, I'm assuming in good faith that you're the Eric Stoltz the article is written about and not someone pretending to be him; however, please understand that there's no way for anyone editing Wikipedia to verify this to be case simply based on an IP address or your word. So, if you plan on participating in the discussion on the article's talk page, you might consider registering for an account. You can use your real name as your username if you want; if you do, you should look at WP:REALNAME and WP:REALWORLD to make sure that's something you want to do. Given who you are, you might even consider having your identity verified by the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team (VRT) to make it clear to others that you're indeed the same Eric Stoltz. Regardless of which username you choose or whether you continue to edit as an IP address, you should take a look at WP:DECLARECOI for reference and consider having your identity verified to avoid others thinking you're just someone screwing around. If you have any general questions about the above or anything else about Wikipedia, feel free to ask them here at the Help Desk or at the Wikipedia Teahouse. You can also seek assistance at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard if you want.

Lastly, please try to understand that Wikipedia is collaborative editing project whose participants are all volunteers, and there's no central editorial board per se overseeing and assessing edits made to articles. This means that sometimes edits (like the ones you made) are reverted because they don't appear to have been made in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Nobody (even the subjects of articles) in particular owns an article or has any claim of final editorial control over it, and disagreements over article content are typical expected to be resolved through discussion in accordance with Wikipedia:Dispute resolution instead of Wikipedia:Edit warring; so, if you have further concerns any content written about you on Wikipedia, you probably be better off following the advice given in WP:COIADVICE instead of trying to take care of things yourself. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:07, 4 October 2024 (UTC)