User talk:Cremastra

Hi, I'm preparing an edit in my sandbox. I'm writing in Spanish for Spanish wikipedia and have problems with the dates in the references which I write in Spanish. The error message in the reference is "Check date values in | access-date=(help)CS1 main| unrecognised language (link). That is the problem. My question is: is it possible to change my language when editing to Spanish for some Spanish Wikipedia pages and English for English Wikipedia pages? --ChristoRobin (talk) 19:02, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I submitted this draft about two months ago and it is still waiting for review. Could you please take a look or advise if it is ready to be moved to the mainspace?

Draft: Matija Jurišić

Thank you! --LjubičastiIzvor (talk) 09:08, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

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Good morning, I’m a judge with the King County Superior Court. I sit on the Court’s History Committee. We decided we would like to update our Wikipedia page, and I have been tasked with the job. There is a partial block in place on the page, preventing me from editing it. Any advice on how to get the block lifted? --KingCountyCourt (talk) 18:25, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

@KingCountyCourt: Good evening. The short answer is, unfortunately, that we'd really prefer you don't do this kind of editing.

As a judge, you'll understand all about conflict of interest, and I can assume you can see why it would be poor practice for us to allow every person to edit pages they have a COI with. At best, all our articles would end up full of—not to put too fine a point on it—promotional crap. At worst, we'd lose the public trust.

Now, we can't ban editing pages you have a conflict of interest with, but we really strongly discourage it. Wikipedia editors usually recuse themselves from editing topics they have a COI with. I linked our guideline on COI editing above, and you can find it at WP:COI.

There also might a second problem with the editing you're proposing. If you're being paid (or otherwise incentivized) for your edits, that's another kind of editing we really want to avoid dealing with. You can find our guidelines on that at WP:PAID, but the bottom line there is that you must disclose any compensation you receive for your edits on your userpage. We take transparency very seriously.

There's also the more minor problem that your username is "KingCountyCourt", and our guidelines on usernames ask that you represent yourself as a person: don't use the name of your organization or any other formulation that implies shared use. See WP:ORGNAME for examples and details on this. I'll post some links to your talk page explaining what you can do to fix this.

Wikipedia loves guidelines and rules, and I'm sorry you've ran into so many of them on your first day here! Don't panic about falling afoul of them—we're not going to ban you from editing because you're new and aren't sure about the huge number of rules. But the long story short is that we'd really, really prefer you don't edit like you're suggesting. I recommend you read this essay, which gives guidance for people in your position. (The general guideline there is: tell your boss it can't be done. Really.)

In response to the question you actually asked—sorry it took so long to get here—I presume you're asking about the article King County Superior Court. That page currently has no protection on it, and according to the logs never has, so you may be tripping an edit filter or something else more complicated. If possible, can you link to a screenshot of what it looks like when you try and edit the page and I can help troubleshoot? Thanks! Cremastra (talk · contribs) 22:40, 16 April 2026 (UTC)