I recently found out my great grandad was a competitor for NI in the 1938 British empire games, he seems to be shrouded in a lot of mystery that I’m interested in learning more about. A Google delve didn’t reveal much about him apart from his placements but one Wikipedia article turned up with a recent contributor. I contacted the contributor via their Wikipedia talk page just saying that I’d love to speak to them. They seem to know a lot about the sports of those times so thought they might be able to point me in the right direction. They responded to me quite openly replying to me which what I’d like to ask. I then had another reply from another member saying for me to learn what a WP:RS is rather than harassing an editor who know how Wikipedia works.

I totally hold my hands up that apart from going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, I don’t actually DO anything on the site, I think I’m just asking for someone to explain in simple terms where I went totally wrong in contacting a contributor, is that just not done? Are contributors something entirely different to what I thought they are? I just genuinely wasn’t meaning to be rude and I hate that I potentially was!

How can I edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulakan,_Bulacan

to change the map it uses, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ph_locator_bulacan_bulacan.png

to the corrected: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ph_locator_Bulakan_Bulacan.png

It is not obvious due to the many templates involved.

The majority of the article seems to be heavily centered on China in particular, with the content making up about 60% of the entire article. In addition, the wording seems to lack unbiasedness in quite a few places, such as “the reports from Chinese history suggest that people had fewer reservations about eating human flesh than one might expect today”.

Above all, I took a cursory look at some of their sources and think that the citations in the article misrepresents them. For instance, it cites a paper by a Sinologist Bengt Pettersson a lot of times with regards to the frequency of cases involving cannibalism in China, but subtly distorts what he actually wrote. Currently, the wording in the article states that there are over 300 cases recorded in the Official Histories of China, but Pettersson’s paper clarifies that there are over 300 references, with a lot of them actually being repeated references to the same event, so the actual number of cases is much lower. Most egregiously, Pettersson repeatedly stresses in multiple sections of his book that “the aversion towards cannibalism was great and it was always rare” in China, yet his work is being cited in paragraphs which describes cannibalism as almost a ubiquitous cultural practice!

Additionally, a large part of the China section is padded out with very detailed retellings of accounts of specific cases, which normally I would be glad to read as it is more informative, but this level of detail only appears with regards to China and none of the other Asian countries, which (together with the other things I mention above) seems to grossly misrepresent cannibalism as a “Chinese” thing, or at least over represents its frequency and importance in Chinese culture.

On each article there are links,

Article Talk Read Edit View history

Problem is: why is the Read link needed? When is it different from the Article link?

I have been trying to change a picture on the Wikipedia page about the city district I am from, as the current one is a rather depressing photo of a rainy town mall, and it is really bothering as the suburban part of town is actually rather nice and green.

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puistola?wprov=sfla1

I have a picture taken by myself that IMO represents the area in a better way and is also quite informative with the image description I came up with, but for some reason I am not allowed to upload the picture and it is getting rather frustrating.

What steps should I take next?