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:I've removed the mention though don't have time to edit based on the second half of your request. Therefore, I left the request open for now. <span style="font-family:monospace;">[[User:Dismas|Dismas]]</span>|[[User talk:Dismas|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 15:57, 18 November 2015 (UTC) |
:I've removed the mention though don't have time to edit based on the second half of your request. Therefore, I left the request open for now. <span style="font-family:monospace;">[[User:Dismas|Dismas]]</span>|[[User talk:Dismas|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 15:57, 18 November 2015 (UTC) |
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::And though Wikipedia does have an article [[:de:Kinder Joy]] on German WP and [[:it:Kinder_Sorpresa#Il_Kinder_Merendero.5CJoy|a subsection about "Kinder Merendero\Joy"]] on Italian Wikipedia, they are unreferenced in both cases. Better to start with the sources Rhiannon provided on the talk page, linked above. ---[[User:Sluzzelin|Sluzzelin]] [[User talk:Sluzzelin|<small>talk</small>]] 16:14, 18 November 2015 (UTC) |
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November 15
The Bismark
I want to know is it alright if I use a small photo of the Battleship "Bismark" in a manuscript I'm writing. Will check back tomorrow for your reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:3C8:4000:5C16:6520:F002:D6BB:3102 (talk) 01:07, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- If you mean a photo you saw in Wikipedia then click on the photo and then on "More details" to see its license. If you name the photo then we can say more. commons:Category:Bismarck (ship, 1939) has additional photos. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:17, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
how to correct a misspelled word in a picture embedded in a wiki article
I noticed the diagram displayed under the "Implications" section of the article (link below) has the word "received" misspelled. Since it is a diagram, I cannot find a way to correct it. Does anyone know what can be done? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llannii (talk • contribs) 02:47, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- I'd suggest notifying the user who uploaded the diagram but it looks like they haven't been active since 2010. RJFJR (talk) 05:05, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- Done, hopefully. I've uploaded a fixed version. Fortunately, it's a SVG file, which are, in many cases, much easier to fix. Grayfell (talk) 06:06, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
New Article about a living person...
I added an article on a social worker and politician of Assam (India) viz. Mr. Jagadish Bhuyan. He was a minister in the state government from 1998 to 2001. He is also an actor and acted in several Assamese movies. Adding a page on this person will be great in my opinion. But my article violated some of Wikipedia's rule and got deleted. Can get a help to re-add the article of that person? Facts about the person can be very well verifiable from his official website or news published on him in various National (Indian) dailies and Regional (Assam) dailies. Following is the article: - Jagadish Bhuyan A post graduate in Political Science from Gauhati University Jagadish Bhuyan embarked on his social life in the form of an All Assam Student Union (AASU) activist of Kakapathar Anchalik Committee in 1979. And since then he worked relentlessly in different posts to undivided All Dibrugarh and Tinsukia District Student Unions till 1987, and in the same year, he became a Central Executive Member of All Assam Student Union which later on saw him as the Finance Secretary as well as the Vice President of AASU Central Executive Committee. His diligence and dedication played instrumental in his becoming a Member Secretary of National student Co-ordination Committee comprising almost all student unions across the length and breadth of the country. This organization worked for restructuring of the Indian Constitution and mobilized public opinion in favour of a strong federal structure of union of India along with all regional student organizations of the country. His non-political journey as student union activist came to an end when he joined active politics in 1995 as a central executive member of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). In 1996, he was elected as an MLA from Sadiya Constituency, became the Minister of Tourism in 1998. For his selfless service, the people of his constituency elected him MLA once again in 2001. A nominated spokesperson and member of the steering committee of AGP, Mr. Bhuyan had also been the General Secretary of the Party for consecutive four years since 2008 till 2012. In 2011, after terrible fall of the party in the General Election of the state, he along with some of his colleagues tried to bring about a reformation and refinement of the party in order to regain its lost status with renewed vigor. But all his efforts went in vain, and out of utter frustration he resigned the primary membership of AGP in 2014 and joined BJP the following year. A man with strong aesthetic sense, Mr. Bhuyan carved a niche for himself in the field of art and theater too. He acted in several Assamese feature films that include Daag, Kanyadan, Seuji Dharani Dhuniya, Bidhata, Aami Axomiya, Bholaborar Dinlipi, etc.
Is there anything offensive about it? How should I add it again with one of his photos? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajdeep-1969 (talk • contribs) 08:59, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- Please refer to the blue links in the messages on your talk page.--Shantavira|feed me 09:14, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks#cite_note-BBCNewsLive-3 ?Source Swede killed in Paris attack $1
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.194.207.116 (talk)
- I have fixed the cite errors in the article.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 14:06, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
copying
Is it no longer permissible to print pages from Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carverdrobert (talk • contribs) 13:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Carverdrobert: It's certainly allowed by Wikipedia to print pages but some of the features may not work properly. What makes you ask?
PrimeHunter (talk) 14:09, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
I had previously printed pages but seemed unable to do so since yesterday, doing research on a writing project related to the Hohenstaufens and their contemporaries, including the Hafsids. I saw no "print" icon on any of the pages and was wondering if there had been a change in policy. Where is the "print" icon located, now that it no longer appears at the top of the page?
Robert D. Carver— Preceding unsigned comment added by Carverdrobert (talk • contribs)
- I don't recall ever seeing a print icon on WP, perhaps this was the print button on your browser (which can typically be moved or removed)? All I've ever seen is the "print page" selection under the "print/export" heading on the bar on the left. If this is a browser issue, try seeing if you can right-click on the page and see if there's a print option there. Rwessel (talk) 22:39, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Carverdrobert: Wikipedia does not have print icons. What is your browser and operating system? Maybe you have a "Files" menu at the top left with a print option (might only be visible if you press Alt). Or maybe you have some icon at the top right to open a menu with print. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:49, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- As others have said, this isn't Wikipedia functionality but would be part of your web browser. If you let us know which browser you use, we may be able to advise further, but here's the help pages for 3 common options: Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 22:57, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Onlyinclude
When onlyinclude tags are within nowiki tags, the nowiki tag is ignored in transclusion and the text within the onlyinclude tags gets transcluded. Does this also apply if <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> is within <pre> </pre> or <!-- -->? GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I have tested in previews that it also applies there. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:00, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
title incorrect
Hello, I can't work out how to change the title of article Tonight's the Night (1934 film), it should be (1932 film) as that is the year of its release ref Imdb and bfi81.148.173.148 (talk) 15:51, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- Use the page move tool. You are not logged in, so you cannot move pages. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:55, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
- (e/c) Thanks for bringing this up. I have taken care of moving the page to a new title, since you cannot. To fix this yourself (everything on Wikipedia get's done by people like you interested in something and stepping up and doing it themselves; we are all volunteers here) you would have to sign up for an account which has many benefits over editing by your IP address, including being more anonymous. Just note that there are certain things you cannot do even after signing up until you've made ten edits and your account is four days old – and moving a page is one of them. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:03, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Ro'mello (Moreno) De'quaes Lee
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hhalumgo (talk • contribs) [article draft redacted]
- This page is for asking questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia. If you wish to submit an article see the WP:AFC page. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:15, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
November 16
How to avoid an edit war?
I made edits on two pages, in one case to remove lots and lots of OR and in another case because information on the page did not match what was in the references. Both of these edits were reverted by IP editors as vandalism, with no edit summary and no comment on either my or the article's talk page.
Because they were IPs, I can't engage in discussion about their reasoning. Should I just re-revert, or is there a good way to find another editor to do that?
The specific examples were Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand; my edit had the comment "Removed three sections that seemed to be entirely OR; one had been tagged as such for six years. Another section is also tagged, but seems close to being redeemable." The other was List of largest peaceful gatherings in history with the comment "Changed numbers on December, 2014 and January, 2013 Arba'een to match references. Removed future event per WP:CRYSTAL." Matchups 00:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Start a discussion on the article talk page, as I have now done. Make the points you have made above in that thread. Optionally, try to find some sourced criticism of the novel which can replace (or perhaps support) the OR sections. I will be re-reverting if no relevant discussion occurs in a day or two. I have posted on the IP's talk page, the editor may or may not see it, but it is what we can do. A post on the SF project's talk page would not be amiss, either. DES (talk) 01:06, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Help with Edit Warring
Hi, a week ago I filed an edit warring report [2], but nothing has happened with the report, and it has been archived. I fear it has slipped through the cracks, do you know how I can ask an administrator to check out my report or comment on it? The report is still valid, as the editor I reported continues to illegitimately delete my edits. Thanks. Capuchinpilates (talk) 04:13, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Your archived report was too long, didn't read. However, to avoid edit-warring, read the dispute resolution policy, and discuss on the article talk page. If the other editor persists in reverting rather than discussing, your options are to follow one of the content dispute resolution procedures listed in the dispute resolution policy, but they don't work with an editor who won't discuss, or to request page protection, or to report the other editor at the edit-warring noticeboard without filibustering, or to report the other editor at WP:ANI. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
@Robert McClenon: I apologize for the length, I can redo it in a shorter length if that is necessary. I have tried the article talk page many times, tried 3rd party, tried dispute resolution, nothing has worked. This editor has edit warred with me over many months on multiple pages, can you please either read the edit warring report I filed or let me know I should redo it or something. I can't stop this editor from deleting my legitimate edits over and over again. Capuchinpilates (talk) 19:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- I am not an administrator. Perhaps one of the administrators here can take a look at the edit-warring report. My first advice would be to request page protection, citing edit-warring. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:30, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Robert McClenon: Yes, please, how can we ask an administrator on the edit warring notice board to consider my report? I think I did it right, if not, can someone on the edit warring notice board please tell me what I did wrong? Capuchinpilates (talk) 22:49, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- I am not an administrator. Perhaps one of the administrators here can take a look at the edit-warring report. My first advice would be to request page protection, citing edit-warring. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:30, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- You haven't filed a new edit-warring report. Your previous one has been archived. Either file a new edit-warring report or request page protection. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- I redid the report and got a response, thanks. Capuchinpilates (talk) 14:53, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- You haven't filed a new edit-warring report. Your previous one has been archived. Either file a new edit-warring report or request page protection. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
stahler88
There is a very embarassing article posted on here tagged to my name. I want this removed please god. My peers have used this page to ridicule me please remove it thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.15.65.142 (talk) 08:41, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Do I understand correctly that you are User:Stahler88 and you want to delete all or part of your user page? If so, you can login and add {{db-user}} (including the braces) to the top of the page. —teb728 t c 09:56, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- ... or is it that one of your "friends" has created this account and user page pretending to be you? Dbfirs 10:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Note that the user page was created in 2007, so it isn't that surprising that the content is now embarrassing or that the user no longer has the account password. I have blanked the page as a courtesy. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Your {{Inactive userpage blanked}} tag is good to know about. It is a solution whether it is a stale real userpage or an attack page as Dbfirs speculated. —teb728 t c 11:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- As John of Reading pointed out, my guess was wrong because I hadn't noticed the old creation date. Does the subject of the page have to remember their old password before they can use {{db-u1}}? Dbfirs 16:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Dbfirs: I think so; I don't think any admin would act on a {{db-u1}} without being completely sure that the tag was being placed by the account owner. -- John of Reading (talk) [not an admin] 17:55, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, that's what I thought. If 108.15.65.142 and 96.244.123.238 are both stahler88 then perhaps they have an old e-mail address that they could use to get a new password. The instructions are: "Click on the "Log in" link in the upper-right corner. Enter stahler88, and click the button near the bottom of the page called "Mail me a new password". You should receive an e-mail message with a new random password; you can use it to log in, go to your preferences, and change your password to something you'll remember". If the old e-mail address is no longer valid, then there's not much that stahler88 can do, though the sensitive information is now an extra two clicks away and casual users of Wikipedia might well not know how to find it. Dbfirs 22:51, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Dbfirs: I think so; I don't think any admin would act on a {{db-u1}} without being completely sure that the tag was being placed by the account owner. -- John of Reading (talk) [not an admin] 17:55, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- As John of Reading pointed out, my guess was wrong because I hadn't noticed the old creation date. Does the subject of the page have to remember their old password before they can use {{db-u1}}? Dbfirs 16:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Your {{Inactive userpage blanked}} tag is good to know about. It is a solution whether it is a stale real userpage or an attack page as Dbfirs speculated. —teb728 t c 11:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Note that the user page was created in 2007, so it isn't that surprising that the content is now embarrassing or that the user no longer has the account password. I have blanked the page as a courtesy. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- ... or is it that one of your "friends" has created this account and user page pretending to be you? Dbfirs 10:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Template 'Cite book' with a 'format=Wikipedia' parameter
Hi, I have noticed that Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (this is a curent version [3]) belongs to Category:Pages using citations with format and no URL. It turned out the category is assigned due to this template use:
- {{cite book | last = Moczarski| first = Kazimierz | authorlink = Kazimierz Moczarski| title = [[Conversations with an Executioner]] | format = Wikipedia | publisher = Prentice Hall ........}}
So here are two questions:
- Is it correct to link the book's title to the Wikipedia page? It may violate a rule that Wikipedia is not a source for itself.
- If the above is accepted, is there some other way to indicate the link is local to Wikipedia (for example, for printed version), so that we can avoid a 'format without url' warning?
Please note the template is not used in <ref>, but rather for a 'stand-alone' description of a book in a 'Further reading' section. --CiaPan (talk) 09:49, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @CiaPan:The format parameter tells the format of the external webpage identified by the url parameter; for example format=pdf will cause the url to be decorated with a pdf icon. Since there is no url, the format parameter is meaningless. Since Wikipedia is not a reliable source, (and an external reference to a Wikipedia page would be format=html anyway), format=Wikipedia is improper in any case.
- A link to the article title is not a self-reference, for on a mirror site it would link to the article on the mirror. The format parameter should be deleted: that will prevent a warning. —teb728 t c 10:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
How to report an editor who's routinely violating policy
Was scanning thru new articles and found one I nom'ed for speedy delete. Among other issues, the article was blatant copyright violation for wholesale copying from the website of the person who's the subject of the page. The creator of the page has done this multiple times now, and been warned, but keeps doing it. What can I do about this?JamesG5 (talk) 10:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Template parameters
I've created lots of templates, but they're all navboxes and the like, displaying the same content on all pages without any conditional elements. I'd like to create a template with a couple of simple variables (see WP:BOTR#Deadlink Fixing), but although I've glanced at Help:Template, I'm not sure that I'm doing it rightly.
I want {{Templatename|12345678|Text}} to place the code [http://nr.ohpo.org/Details.aspx?refnum=12345678 Text]. Do I understand rightly that I should create {{Templatename}} with the code [http://nr.ohpo.org/Details.aspx?refnum={{{1}}} {{{2}}}], and nothing more? Nyttend (talk) 14:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: That should work, yes. Eventually you'll want to add a noinclude section with template documentation and such like. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:19, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was planning on categories etc., but I figured mentioning them would make this request more complicated. Do I remember rightly that there was recently some sort of major change with documentation, causing documentation to appear automatically somehow? Or should my template still transclude {{documentation}} as it would have years ago? Nyttend (talk) 19:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: There's nothing automatic, AFAIK. Use {{documentation}} and then create Template:Templatename/doc. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks again, John of Reading. I've created the template at {{OHC NRHP}} and the documentation at {{OHC NRHP/doc}}, and it looks good at [4], but the documentation isn't displaying on the template's page. Do you know what I did wrongly? Nyttend (talk) 20:16, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: There's nothing automatic, AFAIK. Use {{documentation}} and then create Template:Templatename/doc. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was planning on categories etc., but I figured mentioning them would make this request more complicated. Do I remember rightly that there was recently some sort of major change with documentation, causing documentation to appear automatically somehow? Or should my template still transclude {{documentation}} as it would have years ago? Nyttend (talk) 19:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Deleted Page
hi
i wrote a page for an actress 'Natalie Forbes'. it was rejected but no idea why. i seem to only be able to conatct a bot so would really appreciate EXAXCTLY what's wrong so i can fix it.
thanks
robin2437
Robin2437 (talk) 14:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- The article which was at Draft:Natalie Forbes was deleted because it was in the draft area for 6 months without being edited. (Articles can't stay there indefinitely.) If you want to have it undeleted so that you can work on it, you can do so. Go to the Wikipedia:REFUND/G13 page and following the instructions there on having it brought back. To keep this from happening again, after you are satisfied with the page, please take a look at WP:AFC to submit the page for consideration to be moved to the main article space. Let me know if you need more information!Naraht (talk) 14:47, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- (ec) As far as I can see you were told on your talk page User talk:Robin2437 what EXACTLY was wrong with the page. --CiaPan (talk) 14:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Robin2437: There are two independent events: The submission was declined 29 January 2015 with a reason stated on the page, and the page was deleted 6 September 2015 because it had not been edited in over six months. Here is the stated reason for the decline in January:
- This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject. - Wikipedia:NACTOR is the relevant notability guideline.
- This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
- PrimeHunter (talk) 17:52, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
HELP
Greetings,
I am seeking help with editing the current wikipedia page for the Minnesota Museum of American Art. I am attempting to add a section that includes brief info about the museum in the right hand corner. These section is usually boxed off from the various museums wiki pages that I have looked at.
I was wondering if someone could help me figure out, how can I set up an infor box for their wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherickfran 718 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Sherickfran, welcome to Wikipedia! That box is an infobox. In this case you'd go to the page Template:Infobox museum, and copy and paste the text in the gray box in the "usage" section to the top of the article. You can then fill out as many fields as you have information for. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 19:55, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
(Did I mess up?) thank you. I will give that a try. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherickfran 718 (talk • contribs) 20:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
Please fix his photo. There is a problem and it must be fixed immedielty ... Ilham Aliyev — Preceding unsigned comment added by ExoForXul (talk • contribs) 20:25, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ilham Aliyev (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Indeed there was. I've restored the photo and will keep an eye on the article. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:30, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- The problem was due to simple vandalism, complicated by an incomplete attempt by a bot to reverse the vandalism. I have requested semi-protection of the article. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:34, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
HELP with adding images to infobox
Greetings,
I am seeking some assistance with adding images to my infobox for the Minnesota Museum of American Art wikipage. I editing the page itself now, but am having some difficulties with my images actual displaying when I do hit the preview page button. For some reason it keeps the url link and does not display the image itself. Also if anyone has pointers on captions as well that would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherickfran 718 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- "URL link" Are you trying to get the article to display an external image, e.g. <img src="http://www.example.com/example.jpg">? If so, please don't continue trying — our software is set up to ignore such HTML, and there's no way to display an external image. You have to upload an image to our servers, and due to copyright standards, there are very few images from other servers that are permitted in our articles. Also If the image is already on Wikipedia, or if it's on our related site, the Wikimedia Commons, you will be able to use it, but don't use the whole URL: just put it in brackets with markup. Typing [[File:Sidewalk to nowhere.jpg|250px|right]] will cause a 250-pixel version of the image named "File:Sidewalk to nowhere.jpg" to appear at the right side of the page, as you can see here. Nyttend (talk) 21:22, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- If you want help with copyright standards, or if you want to understand the markup better for images here or from Commons, anyone can help you with that, as long as you let us know what you're meaning. Nyttend (talk) 21:25, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Sherickfran 718: Images are a somewhat difficult subject on Wikipedia, and the specifics depend on whether you want to add a logo and/or a photo of the museum. In either case the first step is to upload the image.
- If it is the logo, you upload it to Wikipedia with a non-free use rationale. (The hardest part is that rationale.) If you upload to say File:MMAA logo.jpg, you can use it by placing logo = MMAA logo.jpg in the infobox.
- If it is a photo, you need a license from the photographer, allowing anyone to reuse it for anything including commercially. (Unless you are the photographer, the hardest part is that license.) You upload the photo to Commons, tagging it with the photographer’s license. If you upload to say File:MMAA image.jpg, you can use it by placing image = MMAA image.jpg in the infobox.
- —teb728 t c 06:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Sherickfran 718: Images are a somewhat difficult subject on Wikipedia, and the specifics depend on whether you want to add a logo and/or a photo of the museum. In either case the first step is to upload the image.
How do I donate to Wikipedia
I received an email fro you I believe and it wants me to donate. I do not trust email like this. I would like to donate on your secure web site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.33.97.114 (talk) 00:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for wanting to donate. You can click the "Donate to Wikipedia" link a little below the globe icon at the top left of this page. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- I was under the impression that Wikipedia never emails such requests, which are therefore scams. Am I mistaken? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 14:10, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Image size dispute
how do I respond to an editor who is rude and discouraging to contributors. Editor is "Duel Freq" He was very sarcastic and rude and could have gotten his point across without the rudeness. thank goodness I'm 64 and thick skinned but if I were a young adult I could have easily been offended stopping my contribution to Wikipedia. In an effort like Wikipedia where everyone is freely donating contributors should be encouraged and not treated rude and sarcastically. His complaint was that I was making my drawings to large. Well I understand the size restrictions but in both cases the drawings I contributed represented weeks of work and the contributions of over 500 photographs from Veterans one of which was my son. When I explained the depth of work that went into the drawings he said I was self aggrandizing. His actual comment was; "(cur | prev) 19:19, 16 November 2015 Dual Freq (talk | contribs) . . (42,926 bytes) (-448) . . (rv, unless you've figured out how to control the screen size of every computer in the world, it needs to be reduced. people can click it if they want to see it. also no need for self-aggrandizing commentary in caption or alt text.) (undo | thank)" Neither I nor any other sincere contributor needs to be spoken to like this . I would like an apology from this user. If he or she cannot edit without sarcasm and rudeness then they are not a functioning editor. pages affected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(CV-64) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iona_(YTB-220) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rb4827 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- I'll point out that you've repeatedly reverted other editors with minimal or no justification for your changes, while ignoring WP:IMGSIZE. There really are issues with different sized displays, particularly small ones. {{u}Dual Freq}}'s comment is a bit harsher in tone than appropriate, but mainly you appear to be in the wrong here. However, the correct way to deal with this is to start a discussion on the article's talk page. Rwessel (talk) 01:50, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Rb4827, for your issue with having come across rude behavior, refer to Wikipedia:Civility. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 02:30, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
November 17
restoring deleted file
Hi
I believe the file https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Attor_Krishna_Pisharody.jpg&action=edit&redlink=1 was deleted inappropriately. What is the due process to appeal.
Thanks JR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayraghavan (talk • contribs) 01:37, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Jayraghavan: A first step would be to discuss the deletion with the deleting admin on their talk page, User talk:Explicit. A second step might be to consider Wikipedia:Deletion review. —teb728 t c 03:05, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- The deleting comment expressed a concern about non-free content. If you took the image yourself, then you can release it under a proper copyleft. If the image is not one that you took yourself, you need to discuss whether any of the rules for the use of non-free content apply. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- From User talk:Jayraghavan I think that JR's position is that the photo is from a family archive and never copyrighted. (Of course that is not the way that copyright law works.) —teb728 t c 05:26, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- The deleting comment expressed a concern about non-free content. If you took the image yourself, then you can release it under a proper copyleft. If the image is not one that you took yourself, you need to discuss whether any of the rules for the use of non-free content apply. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Jess Weixler
Please fix the reference citation error on Jess Weixler Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.43.81 (talk) 05:39, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Done NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:12, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
About Pilotless Aircraft
On April 22 2015 Ruchit Kumar Regmi of Nepal has been awarded patent from US Patent and Trade Mark Office(USPTO) to his invention titled Pilotless Aircraft for commercial and military use also known as Autonomous aircraft/ Automated aircraft. This US patented aircraft is neither remotely operated aircraft nor operated by ground or virtual pilot like that of prior art UAV(drones) are being piloted rather his aircraft is fully autonomous/automated aircraft which does not require any pilot neither on aboard pilot nor ground(virtual) pilot, his aircraft is fully unpiloted aircraft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.199.138.86 (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- So what is your question about using or editing Wikipedia? —teb728 t c 06:31, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Interesting fact. Thank you for the heads up. I'm looking around now for Wikipedia's coverage of this, and also on the Internet for the topic's notability. Similar inventions are covered in Unmanned aerial vehicle. The Transhumanist 18:02, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Okay, I've looked around, there does appear to be such a patent, but the "invention" itself does not appear to be notable. As far as I can tell, a patent was granted based on documentation for an aircraft piloted via human emotion, without an actual prototype. So, it is not an actual invention as of yet. The Transhumanist 18:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Messages
I received a message notification on my E-Mail. I have viewed the message and want to answer it. However I`ve no idea ast how I can do this. --Ratnadeep Sircar (talk) 13:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- If you are wanting to reply to the editor who posted a message on your user talk page, he/she didn't sign it but I looked in the page history and added a signature on their behalf. You could reply there on your own user talk page, and hope that the editor might see your reply, and/or you could put a message on the IP's talk page (click the talk link in the signature in the message on your page to create that page, as there isn't anything on there yet). Unfortunately there's no guarantee that the IP would see it. If you now realize, having read the IP's message, that you were confused in your message at Talk:Potato paradox#Paradox or false assumption, a neurological insult., you can edit that section and add a reply to say that you now understand. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Travagli soccer player
> Hello sir's, > > I see this message at the top of the wikipedia page and I'm sorry but we're > not agree: > > This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's > deletion policy. > Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the > Articles for deletion page. > Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this > notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed. For more > information, particularly on merging or moving the article during the > discussion, read the guide to deletion. > > I'm really surprise because people are doing "pages" for full teams like > RedBull II . > > such as : Red Bull II ( second team ) never have more then few lines on > newspapers or article ..and they do have the full detail made by someone for > them ( you can check them out ) . > > this is the guy: > > '''Elopez76''' > > I'm really disappointed, I'm trying to build something here if I have few > mistake I would like to be guide not been "showed down".
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Massimot1 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- All articles in the English=language wikipedia must be properly referenced. At the moment neither Joshua Travagli nor New York Red Bulls II meet this requirement. Someone has noticed this about the Travagli article, and has quite rightly nominated it for deletion. Now that you've brought our attention to the Red Bulls article, that will probably go the same way. If enough independent, reliable sources can be found and added to the articles, they won't be deleted. Rojomoke (talk) 16:37, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- The place to make your comment is not here, but at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Travagli, which is linked from the notice at the top of the article. But before you try to comment, make suire that you understand WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:42, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
John W. Houghtaling II
John W. Houghtaling II is one of our clients. He asked me to update his Wikipedia page with new text and citations.
I inserted the new text and added about 140 footnote citations using <ref> </ref>
at the end of paragraphs. A few days after I updated everything, there are only 21 citations remaining. I want to know why most of the citations were removed and a few remain if I cited them all the same way?
76.165.217.11 (talk) 17:06, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- In a number of places you had given 30 references for a short paragraph. This is grossly excessive. You will see the removal explained in an edit summary in the article history. There were also a number of broken references, which you would have seen if you looked at your version and at the subsequent edit summaries. I see that you say you are editing on behalf of a client, so you need to read Wikipedia's policies on paid editors and WP:conflict of interest. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:17, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)As a paid editor, it would be better if you created an account and declared your interest. You need to be very careful to avoid adding any promotional material, and to avoid deleting any text just because John W. Houghtaling II doesn't like it. Perhaps the person who removed the repetitive references can explain, but they did look as if they were applied with a splurge gun. Dbfirs 17:24, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Expression error: Unexpected
I just edited the Smilodon page, and it seems it completely exploded (nonsense text and a line going down the entire page). Here's the edit:[5] I could of course just undo my edit, but I think the issue has to be looked into, so it doesn't happen again. FunkMonk (talk) 17:31, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- @FunkMonk: Pretty sure it wasn't you. many of the big cat pages are showing the same error Tiger , Machairodontinae. Its likely an edit to the infobox template or a nav box or some other transcluded item. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 17:39, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) If you look at versions of the article before your edit you'll see the same problem. I suspect that someone may either have changed a relevant template, or some Wikimedia software. I can't spot anything relevant in the first few templates on the page, but sometimes the nesting hides problems. Hopefully someone else can spot the cause, or someone will report other pages similarly affected which might help to narrow it down. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, seems to be the fossil range template that is broken:[6] FunkMonk (talk) 17:41, 17 November 2015 (UTC)] FunkMonk (talk) 17:41, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Seems to have been fixed, or just turned off. Where? FunkMonk (talk) 17:47, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- I suspect that the problem was this edit to {{Period start}}. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm the one who did that edit - or rather, Twinkle did it for me. It was set with the inline parameter, so it ought to work. Actually, I can't see a difference in the appearance. What interface are you using? RockMagnetist(talk) 18:14, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- I suspect that the problem was this edit to {{Period start}}. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Seems to have been fixed, or just turned off. Where? FunkMonk (talk) 17:47, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, seems to be the fossil range template that is broken:[6] FunkMonk (talk) 17:41, 17 November 2015 (UTC)] FunkMonk (talk) 17:41, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Problem apparently corrected by this edit, putting the extra stuff inside the <noinclude> tags, which I suspected would be the cure. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- I've done a similar change to {{Geologic Ages Inline}}, so an expert may wish to check that one. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry for the disruption. The tag is supposed to give people fair notice that the template is being discussed, and it won't do that very effectively if it is only on the template page itself. It is supposed to add an inline notice. I'll try a few tests in the sandbox and see what I get. RockMagnetist(talk) 18:25, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- @David Biddulph: is this the sort of problem you were seeing? RockMagnetist(talk) 18:43, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, the "Expression error: Unexpected <" was certainly one symptom. The problems varied from page to page. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:47, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- O.k., I have started a discussion at Template talk:Tfm/dated. RockMagnetist(talk) 18:54, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Like the Smilidon page, the top of the Ecdysozoa page exploded into nonsense and has a line running down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zelda120! (talk • contribs) 18:02, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ecdysozoa looks OK to me. RJFJR (talk) 19:15, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- There has been a quick fix (see above). I am folding this into the other section to reduce confusion. RockMagnetist(talk) 19:32, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Omnichord - Notable users
Hi,
you forgot in your list of notable users of the Omnichord the German comedian C. Heiland.
He is a famous German comedian and use in every show the Omnichord, and he plays it very good.
I checked other notable users of the Omnichord and they are not near to the quality how he plays it.
To you, Wikipedia-Team, you do a great job for mankind. I classify your work at a level of the first moon landing and think that Wikipedia is the most important webpage in the world!
nice greetings from Bangkok Franky My world famous snoopy on Facebook: ScoobeedoCool — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.96.240.74 (talk) 18:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia! Do you have an reliably published sources like newspapers or professional magazines that verify the content? If so YOU can make the updates! That's what Wikis are good for. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Picture-file moving to Commons
Hi, I would like to use the following picture File:Oliver Theatre Royal Bill Board.JPG from the article Oliver! in another language-version of Wikipedia. Therefore it should be in Wikimedia-Commons. It is also flagged to be moved, but I'm waiting for months and don't know, how to do it myself. Is there any user, who could move it to commons? --79.252.223.11 (talk) 20:24, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Why is there a "duplicate reference name" error?
Why does 7-Zip yield an error regarding the reference named "7zipHistory"? It looks to me like it's defined exactly once and then reused exactly once in the source. OneGyT (talk) 20:37, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- But, if you look at the reference and click next to the reference, there are *three* entries. What is happening is that the reference in Release field in the infobox reference is being shown *twice* in the Infobox due to the methodology of the creation of the Stable Release and Preview Release dates. I don't understand the template code well enough to figure out how things are being transformed.Naraht (talk) 20:54, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- The other definition is inside {{Latest stable software release/7-Zip}}. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:56, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, thought it was splitting it/duplicating in some bizarre way with the infobox.Naraht (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
- That explains it! I've removed the definition from the article, so that they now pull from the template. Was this the proper course of action? OneGyT (talk) 00:29, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
November 18
Wealthy Affiliate
Hello,
I'd like to write an article on Wealthy Affiliate. I notices that previous articles with links to WA had spam problems. Is it okay to write an article, and how can I avoid the spam and links issues?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PEDIAgr8r! (talk • contribs) 03:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Regarding Wealthy Affiliate articles: previous articles about WA were marked as spam or with bad links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/wealthyaffiliate.com
Is is possible to write about Wealthy Affiliate and how can bad/spam links be avoided?
ThanksPEDIAgr8r! (talk) 04:01, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- @PEDIAgr8r: How about avoiding inclusion of any links to wealthyaffiliate.com? Such links would be of no value in establishing the notability of the subject anyway. —teb728 t c 05:25, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- I see that you are a new editor, with no previous contributions to Wikipedia. If your purpose is to promote Wealthy Affiliate, a Wikipedia article will not help. Articles here must be based on independent sources. It seems that these almost all describe WA as a pyramid-marketing scam, so any article would have to reflect this. Maproom (talk) 11:42, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Bluepenciltime (talk) 05:57, 18 November 2015 (UTC)In adding a source, the citation has included the entire section of material that followed it. I've attempted to correct it, but am unable to.
- The problem is that someone put a <ref name=Montgomery/> in the Further Reading section which is after the References section; so the reference is not available at that point. —teb728 t c 09:48, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) I think I've fixed what you were trying to do. You don't have to use a <ref name> tag unless you're naming the reference (for reuse elsewhere in the article), and references are closed with </ref>, not with </ref name>. See Help:Referencing for beginners and WP:NAMEDREFS for further information. Deor (talk) 09:53, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
"disambiguous"
greetings: I'm not quite sure I understand something that appears whenever I'm looking at search results. what does the term "disambiguous" mean in this context and how does it relate to my results ?
that's it ; take however much time you need.
sincerely, dbg
2602:30A:2E05:27C0:CCE0:8C1A:4260:AC57 (talk) 06:14, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- Do you mean when you see something like "A380 (disambiguation)" in the results? If a term might refer to multiple topics (the airplane and a ship, in this case), the result is ambiguous, and the disambiguation page is there to let you select which of the possible topics is the one you want. Given the number of topics covered by Wikipedia, and the considerable overlap in terminology in the real world, disambiguation is a major effort here. You can read more about that here: Wikipedia:Disambiguation. Rwessel (talk) 06:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Alex Gilbert Article
So the following article was covered in a Deletion Review and the result was 'No consensus' and not to resubmit until the article has been improved (see Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Draft:Alex_Gilbert_.28closed.29 Here is the article Draft:Alex Gilbert. I can't submit it for review as it will just get deleted as it has before, this was before it was improved or when anyone even looked clearly at the sources. It was also reviewed in the past and was approved, moved to the main space and then deleted as it had to go through Deletion Review. The article is about NZ Adoptee Alex Gilbert, who has since established a Non-Profit Organisation 'I'm Adopted' (facebook.com/imadoptedOrg). This itself was covered in a lot of Russian Media. I have noted these references in the article and I have also described these below. I am having trouble and editors are just not clearly looking at the sources/references. People think its a Wikipedia:BLP1E, which NO the sources cover his Book and his Non-Profit Organisation. I have decided to list these in detail below. This article clearly covers basic notability. If someone can put this below into a Deletion Review or help me, I am happy to talk!
Long list of references
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References that cover his 'I'm Adopted' Organisation
Other References
References in Russian Language If you can't understand them then don't comment. People have been ignoring these. These are put up as a support to the article. It shows you how much coverage it had.
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Thank You for your time- Dmitry --DmitryPopovRU (talk) 08:02, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- You've had your day in court and lost the final appeal—pretty much unanimously. Forum shopping will not help. —teb728 t c 09:24, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, TEB728, as I read the DRV, it was 4-3 to endorse deletion, with several experienced editors thinking that it should be moved to mainspace and relisted at AfD. And it is perfectly in order to ask for help in improving a draft, even a draft which has been previously deleted.
- DmitryPopovRU filing another DRV now would be a mistake. Significant additional sources would need to be found first, in my view. I would also advise waiting at least 2 months to see if continuing coverage can be demonstrated. Then work with an experienced editor, if possible, to improve the draft before attempting a re-submission. DES (talk) 13:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
refernce have been added
Hello Prashant kanojia is page on wikipedia created recently have all information along with reference kindly remove the deletation tag — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanojiaakhbaar (talk • contribs) 10:48, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Kanojiaakhbaar: I am sorry to say that the Prashant Kanojia article does not indicate why he is important or significant enough for an article in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. Most students and interns are not that important. —teb728 t c 11:12, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Referencing errors on Detachment 88
Reference help requested. I am sorry, i messed with citation. Can anybody help? and make this page as it was before.? Thanks, Sykonos (talk) 12:46, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- Done You need to make sure in future, Sykonos, that each opening
<ref>
tag is matched with a closing</ref>
tag. I also added metadata to one citation. DES (talk) 13:42, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Help with Kinder Surprise correction
Hi there, I'm looking for help with a quick correction in the Kinder Surprise article that I'm not able to make myself, as I'm working on behalf of Ferrero SpA via Glover Park Group and have a financial conflict of interest. There's currently an erroneous mention of different product—Kinder Joy—in the first line of the introduction. The article opens: "Kinder Surprise, also known as a Kinder Egg or Kinder Joy..." Kinder Joy is a totally separate (albeit also egg-shaped) item and not another name that Kinder Surprise is known by (I've explained more on the Talk page with some links to sources, in case that's helpful). I'm hoping someone from here wouldn't mind making an edit to remove this mention, as a quick change that will remove the current confusion over these two products. Thanks so much in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 15:42, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- I've removed the mention though don't have time to edit based on the second half of your request. Therefore, I left the request open for now. Dismas|(talk) 15:57, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
- And though Wikipedia does have an article de:Kinder Joy on German WP and a subsection about "Kinder Merendero\Joy" on Italian Wikipedia, they are unreferenced in both cases. Better to start with the sources Rhiannon provided on the talk page, linked above. ---Sluzzelin talk 16:14, 18 November 2015 (UTC)