Wikipedia talk:Help desk

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Adding a cause to a medical page

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Inappropriate material...

I believe I have found material that is not in line with terms of use policy. I'm not aware of the correct process to change or remove content that is not in scope of what is appropriate for this site.

Please look at the Federal section for the material in question

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_Canada

Thank you Cnethers (talk) 16:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

 Reverted vandalism and warned disruptive IP. Thank you for alerting us to this issue. In the future you can revert any obvious vandalism yourself. Persistent and obvious vandalism can be reported to WP:AIV. Thanks again for raising the alarm. -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:05, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Actually, erring on the side of caution, I've reported the edit to WP:911 and revdelled it. The IP has been blocked for 1 week. -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:14, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Ya, that sounds like something concerning. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:59, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Wow. Not sure what the IP added, but I think that's about as drastic response for a single edit by an IP that I've ever seen.Naraht (talk) 15:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Redirecting highly specialized questions

Now and then I see a very specialized question coming across the Help Desk or the Teahouse (for the latest example, see Wikipedia:Teahouse#WikEd_blocks_the_keyboard_shortcuts_on_Google_Chrome_and_Firefox.). Those questions are fair game for the HD/TH, but they often go unanswered. Common offenders are technical questions (to redirect to WP:VPT) and nontrivial copyright questions (to redirect to WP:CQ).

I suspect the reason is that the regulars seeing them recognize them as fair game (and hence do not tell the asker to go somewhere else, unlike RefDesk questions or ANI-complaint-like questions) but do not know how to answer them (and hence do not answer, expecting someone with more knowledge of the topic to answer). That result is IMO worse than "go see at [more relevant place]". I mean, we try to field all intelligible and relevant questions to the best of our ability, and the current result for those is not what I would call the best of our ability.

Shouldn't we try to answer these with some variant of "you were 100% right to ask this here, and maybe you will get an answer, but you would probably get a faster/better answer at place X"? I think it would not hurt to have a carefully-worded canned reply to this effect; it would be easy enough to create a subtemplate of {{HD}}. I am asking because I wonder whether I was reinventing the wheel and a template already exists, or violating a traditional rule that partial answers are frowned upon. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 14:42, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Differences between copryrighted and public domain images?

What are the differences between copyrighted and public domain images? Are public domain pictures still copyrighted? PhinbellaMedia (talk) 14:02, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

In short, no. They're released to the public for use by whomever/whenever. See public domain and copyright. +dismas+|^(talk) 15:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

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Question about uploading free images that came from another websites.

So I have a question. Does free images from another websites can be uploaded on Wikipedia? Many images are taken using a camera and uploaded on another website by others. I know it is not copyrighted, but I'm not sure if it's acceptable here on Wikipedia or not. PhinbellaMedia (talk) 12:52, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

• Note Question moved to project page. Eagleash (talk) 12:58, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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