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::::::{{re|PrimeHunter}} Perfect, thank you! I tried to do a search for directions a couple of times, but I was calling it tagging and username mention, so my searches turned up a lot of red herrings. (Obvi I've spent more time on facebook and reddit.) Ping didn't even occur to me until I was composing this question. I honestly didn't think that was going to be it. [[User:Permstrump|Permstrump]] ([[User talk:Permstrump|talk]]) 04:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC) |
::::::{{re|PrimeHunter}} Perfect, thank you! I tried to do a search for directions a couple of times, but I was calling it tagging and username mention, so my searches turned up a lot of red herrings. (Obvi I've spent more time on facebook and reddit.) Ping didn't even occur to me until I was composing this question. I honestly didn't think that was going to be it. [[User:Permstrump|Permstrump]] ([[User talk:Permstrump|talk]]) 04:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC) |
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Dear Sir/Madam, |
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I need to add photos and edit the photo captions on the Oslo Times wikipedia page. AS these are photos of theexlcusive interviews we have conducted. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oslo_Times |
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I have tried uploading the photos but I cant I would really appreciate it if you could help me with this. |
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December 6
Land measurement
My question is about land measurement, if an acer of land — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.108.179.16 (talk) 03:09, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- Your question is unclear but maybe you mean acre. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:56, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- You might be able to get an answer, if you state the question clearly and concisely, at the Science Reference Desk or the Miscellaneous Reference Desk. Please be clear and concise. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
The following wikitext (from WWVB), if you care:
{{cite conference |first=Matthew |last1= Deutch |first2= Wayne |last2= Hanson |first3= Glenn |last3= Nelson |first4= Charles |last4= Snider |first5= Douglas |last5= Sutton |first6= William |last6= Yates |first7= Peder |last7= Hansen |first8= Bill |last8= Hopkins |publisher= National Institute of Standards and Technology |url= http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/1406.pdf |title= WWVB Improvements: New Power from an Old Timer |date= December 1999 |conference= 31st Annual {{abbr|PTTI|Precise Time and Time Interval}} Meeting |location = Dana Point, California |doi= }}
Produces the following output:
Deutch, Matthew; Hanson, Wayne; Nelson, Glenn; Snider, Charles; Sutton, Douglas; Yates, William; Hansen, Peder; Hopkins, Bill (December 1999). WWVB Improvements: New Power from an Old Timer (PDF). 31st Annual PTTI Meeting. Dana Point, California: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
This is exactly as desired except for the "C0 control character in |conference= at position 29" which Module:Citation/CS1 is spitting out.
Now, I have verified that the wikitext 31st Annual {{abbr|PTTI|Precise Time and Time Interval}} Meeting
expands to precisely the following 76 characters of HTML:
0000: 3331 7374 2041 6e6e 7561 6c20 3c61 6262 31st Annual <abb 0010: 7220 7469 746c 653d 2250 7265 6369 7365 r title="Precise 0020: 2054 696d 6520 616e 6420 5469 6d65 2049 Time and Time I 0030: 6e74 6572 7661 6c22 3e50 5454 493c 2f61 nterval">PTTI</a 0040: 6262 723e 204d 6565 7469 6e67 bbr> Meeting
Depending on whether positions are 0- or 1-based, position 29 is the "i" or "c" in "Precise". Neither of those are C0 control characters (0x00–0x1f), and in fact no character of the entire expansion is. The "conference=" parameter value is followed by a newline, which is a C0 character, but whitespace is stripped from named parameter values.
I like to use <abbr> in this case because I want to copy the abbreviated form used by the source, but make the expansion available.
One solution is to use raw HTML. Using <abbr title="Precise Time and Time Interval">PTTI</abbr>
avoids the error:
Deutch, Matthew; Hanson, Wayne; Nelson, Glenn; Snider, Charles; Sutton, Douglas; Yates, William; Hansen, Peder; Hopkins, Bill (December 1999). WWVB Improvements: New Power from an Old Timer (PDF). 31st Annual PTTI Meeting. Dana Point, California: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
But I do wonder why the {{abbr}} template doesn't work in this case. Any suggestions? 71.41.210.146 (talk) 11:52, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- The template experts are discussing this at Help talk:Citation Style 1#Null character error message appearing in citations. Be patient, and I think they will work something out soon. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:42, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- Right at the top of the
{{abbr}}
documentation there is this:
- It is not so much of a problem in this particular case because the content of
|conference=
is not made part of the citation's metadata. - The error message arises because
{{abbr}}
has this:title="{{#tag:nowiki|{{{2|}}}}}
- The
#tag:nowiki
is more-or-less the same as<nowiki>{{{2|}}}</nowiki>
. These tags are replaced by strip markers before Module:Citation/CS1 sees the parameter value. Strip markers begin with the delete character (U+007F) which is a C0 control hence the error. Strip markers are replaced with the original content after the module returns.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:46, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Trappist the monk:: Thank you very much! I'm still trying to figure out how I read the source of Template:abbr but managed to miss that notice in the documentation. :-) But the discussion you pointed me to is much more informative. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 19:41, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
IPA Pronunciation
I was reading a WP article about Maus, the graphic novel. I was curious about how to pronounce it, if it was pronounced "Mozz" or "Moss." I Googled it and found out that the German word Maus is pronounced the same as the English word mouse, I thought it would be nice for other WP users if after the title there was the name spelled out phonetically, and you click on the parts of it and it says "s as in sandal"etc. I've seen this in other articles and I wanted to add this to the article. But I don't know how. Perhaps somebody could tell me how to do that. Thanks. NapoleonX (talk) 20:57, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- Convenience link: Maus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- To put the IPA symbols into an article, you can start at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation#Entering IPA characters. I found that by typing "Wikipedia:IPA" into the search box which is at the top of every page. This is a good trick to know. Just type "Wikipedia:" and a keyword relating to what you're trying to find.
- As for how it is actually pronounced... I don't know. But asking other editors who have actually edited the article might be best since they would probably be familiar with the subject. Dismas|(talk) 21:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- Most ordinary words have Wiktionary entries with IPA pronunciations, and those can be copied. In the case of the German word Maus: wikt:de:Maus (and for comparison wikt:en:mouse, which show the very similar, if not quite identical, pronunciation). Rwessel (talk) 21:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm baffled (Barfoed?)
It looks like User:Birger Petersen may have written the same bio for Kasper Barfoed here and in IMDb. I have no idea which came first. Does that constitute a WP:COPYVIO? Clarityfiend (talk) 23:39, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Clarityfiend: I've tagged the page as possible copyvio. Although IMDb could be mirroring Wikiopedia, as the article was written in 2012- needs someone to work out when the IMDb page was added. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:04, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Good enough. Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:28, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
December 7
Requested articles?
Could someone please direct me to where i can write new articles? thank you. --DonLandry2 (talk) 01:55, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- @DonLandry2: You can write articles at Wikipedia:Articles for creation. We also have something called Wikipedia:Requested articles but that is for requests for others to write an article (often with no result). PrimeHunter (talk) 02:04, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Translating an English Page to Arabic
Hi there I'm new here and have just started on translating a page a bout a musical album to Arabic and I was wondering how can I add the pictures that are on the original page which is in English into the translated page, all I'm doing is translating the info the best way possible to make this article available in "Arabic" as it's not available yet.
Hope to hear from you and thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nomad1974 (talk • contribs) 02:15, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- You can use files directly only if they are hosted on Wikimedia Commons. If they are hosted on English Wikipedia, you would have to upload them on Arabic Wikipedia following the non-free content policy of that project. I understand that that policy is at ar:ويكيبيديا:محتوى غير حر. —teb728 t c 02:41, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Updating a company page
I am trying to update information for the page of a company we have just merged with. The information on the page is now out of date, including the name of the company. However, as soon as I update the company info box on the right hand side, the site refuses to let me save my changes, and claims I am breaking Wiki promotional and advertising rules. I either need to be able to update this information, or close the page down as the information on the page is now inaccurate, but I am unable to do either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narec
ORE Catapult (talk) 10:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- You should read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Ruslik_Zero 13:47, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- ... but you could point us to some independent accounts of the merger so that the incorrect information can be updated. Dbfirs 17:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Bringing Adar poonawalla page in google at the top in the Adar poonawalla Keyword as right now cyrus poonawall wiki page comes instead of Adar Poonawalla Wiki Page
Hi,
There is a page of Adar Poonawalla on which i have done some editing now i want to bring the page of Adar poonawalla in google search engine at the top which is not coming. If I put Adar poonawalla in google the Cyrus Poonawalla wiki page is coming at the top not the Adar poonawalla wiki page. So how to do that can you guys help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adar Poonawalla Fan Club (talk • contribs) 10:34, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia article Adar Poonawalla is at the top of the Google search results (except for the Google Images link) when I search for the name. Cyrus S. Poonawalla is second. Google's ranking algorithm is something that's beyond our control. Deor (talk) 11:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hello, Adar Poonawalla Fan Club. Wikipedia does not care whether its articles come first, second or ninety-ninth on a Google search. Promotion is not one of the purposes of Wikipedia. In fact trying to "bring the page of Adar poonawalla in google search engine at the top" is explicitly promotional, and therefore forbidden. To edit an article to make it a better article (clearer, or better organised, or better referenced) is welcome. To edit an article for promotional purposes is not welcome. Also, user names which imply that you are editing on behalf of an organisation are forbidden: all user accounts should be personal. You need to change your user name (or abandon that one and start again). --ColinFine (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I understand it depends upon google algorithm but the thing is that before December it was there on the top whenever i searched but suddenly it has disappear and also the image was there but now there is no image how can it be fix. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.252.243.12 (talk) 06:00, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- We still have no control whatsoever how Google ranks its results, nor do we care about it. JIP | Talk 07:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Dear Volunteer,
After spending two days updating our ‘East Midlands Ambulance Service’ page. It has come to my attention that you have deleted and blocked the whole post and account. The original post was out dated with false information, stats and figures on it.
However after looking at other ambulance services’ posts, they have not been deleted when they have clearly been written by a member of staff in that division. I am extremely frustrated and wish for the page to be unlocked and restored to my original post.
I hope to hear a response from you as soon as possible,
Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wifi60 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- East Midlands Ambulance Service has not been deleted. You will see from User talk:EMASCOMS, User talk:Emascommunications, and User talk:EMASNHSTrust the reasons why those accounts have been blocked. Please read WP:CORPNAME to understand that accounts must belong to an individual, not to an organisation. Please also read about conflict of interest. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:19, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict):You need to be aware that the page East Midlands Ambulance Service is not "your" page, and is not for promotional material (the reason for removal). It is always unwise for a person connected with the organisation to write the article because of a Wikipedia:conflict of interest, but factual information that is referenced can certainly be updated by you. If you can find some external, independent references, then that would improve the article. Dbfirs 17:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Please also read Other stuff exists which explains why trying to draw parallels with other articles is an invalid argument - We aim to raise our standards, not to repeat, and possibly even lower, our lowest standard. - Arjayay (talk) 17:34, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Font
How do I change the default font on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.145.204 (talk) 17:28, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Wikipedia does not specify a particular font. It uses the default sans-serif font defined in your browser. If you want to change your browser font then what is your browser? If you want to keep your browser font and use another font for Wikipedia then you have to make an account and edit a CSS page for it. Do you want code for that? If you just want to change size then maybe your browser can do that with Ctrl++ for larger, Ctrl+- for smaller, and Ctrl+0 for normal. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:48, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello there, please can you help me verify this page. I am management for The Cuban Brothers and would like to create a legitimate page for them. The copy that is allegedly violating the t&c's is actually our press copy and owned by us. Please get in touch when this is resolved.
Elisa — Preceding unsigned comment added by JAHAgencyLtd (talk • contribs) 21:15, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- In general, Wikipedia does not accept text copied from other websites. If you would like to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, there is a procedure outlined at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. However, it is unlikely that the text would be acceptable here anyway. The text is too highly promotional in nature. Consequently, I have deleted the article. Also, I have requested that you change your username for the reasons specified at your user talk page. Finally, please also have a look at Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy which appears to apply here. Regards, -- Ed (Edgar181) 21:30, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- The thing to understand, Elisa, is that Wikipedia has almost no interest in what anybody (or any organisation) says or wants to say about themselves, or what their friends, relatives, employess, agents etc say about them. None. Wikipedia is only interested in what people unconnected with the subject have said about them, in reliably published sources. So text that is owned by you is almost completely irrelevant to an article about your client. --ColinFine (talk) 00:23, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Editing help
As you may know, there seems to be extensive coverage of London bus routes on Wikipedia, for example, London Buses Route 1. However, we appear to lack info on bus routes of other areas of the UK. Earlier this year, I tried to add a couple of articles on a couple of routes near me as an experiment to try and bring London style coverage to my part of Scotland. Yet, one of my articles was deleted due to lack of notability. Why should London get better coverage than any other city? As a Scotsman I should have a duty to cover Scottish bus routes on Wikipedia. I will start work early in the new year. But, I don't want any deletions to interfere with my programme. Is there any way in which I can get my articles more notable? Please help me achieve these ambitions in future? This is a massive editing project I want to work on and any help or advice would be appreciated. Thank you. Pablothepenguin (talk) 21:54, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- It is not articles that are required to be notable (in the strange sense in which that word is used here), it is their subjects. So there is nothing you can do "get your articles more notable". There may be things you can do to convince others of their subjects' notability. I have little knowledge of or interest in bus routes. But I was surprised to see that London Buses route 157 has been largely unchanged for 90 years. Are there Scottish bus routes as old as that? I would recommend starting your project with the oldest surviving bus route you can find in a Scottish city, convincing others that it is notable, and then using that as a precedent. Maproom (talk) 00:00, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- The place to start is to find significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject and base an article on what it says in those sources (and not on what you personally know about the subject). If such coverage does not exist, an article is impossible. —teb728 t c 01:08, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Keep in mind that independently published material about the bus service in London could probably fill a small library - or at least several shelves in one. Very few other cities' bus routes have had anywhere as much coverage in the press, books and other publications - in many different languages. The public transport system of a globally significant mega-city such as London will simply by it's nature and scale, have far more written about it than the systems of "lesser" cities. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:01, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Changing Page names
My company's page is listed as FrescoNews on wikipedia instead of Fresco News. I know the magic word syntax is {{DISPLAYTITLE:Desired Title}}, but where do I input this? In the edit source textbox? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morgansboyer (talk • contribs) 21:58, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- If you're going to rename that page, you must click on the "move" button and follow the instructions you find there. Pablothepenguin (talk) 22:04, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
I don't see a move button. Where is it located? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morgansboyer (talk • contribs) 22:24, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Very new accounts cannot make moves - but someone seems to have moved the article already. Rmhermen (talk) 22:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- WP:DISPLAYTITLE does not work here and would have been the wrong method even if it worked. I have moved it to Fresco News. Your account is not autoconfirmed yet so you cannot move pages and don't have a move button. I see you created the article. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:32, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Changing the Article Title Phrase
I have recently created an Article with the Title Phrase "Mt sierra college." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_sierra_college However, I have neglected to capitalize the "S" in Sierra and the "C" College. I was wondering if it is possible to change the capitalization in the title phrase because that would reflect the true name of the institution. My other resolution would be to delete the page and star anew. Please advise me on my steps in accomplishing this goal.
Thank you Tzhao1023 (talk) 23:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
- Mt Sierra College has now been deleted as a G11, but Draft:Mt. Sierra College exists. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:54, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
December 8
Cite button
I appear to have RefToolbar 2.0b but it has no Cite button. If I log out, it then has the Cite button. My Preferences have "enable enhanced editing toolbar" and "enable editing wizards" checked. Screen grab below. I have tried unchecking and re-checking these buttons but the problem still exists.
Thanks,
Phil
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Philmcgrove (talk • contribs) 07:47, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- This sounds like it might be a question for WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:38, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Shambala Animal Kingdom
The page asserts that the zoo move was organised and facilitated by Zoological and Aquarium Association this is totally incorrect it was facilitated and organised by the zoo director and owner me...! Please correct inaccurate content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.136.96.140 (talk) 11:56, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Done. See this edit.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:07, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
spurious | url= value error
The following cite book gives an error. The culprit is in the domain name (//d.lib.rochester.edu) which contains three periods. Clicking on the link gives the correct page. me. rubbish. p. 199.
Is there a workaround for this problem?Rdmoore6 (talk) 15:20, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- The culprit is not the three periods, it expects two letters instead of one at the position of d. There's a bug and will be fixed.
"However there are currently some bugs in the implementation such that valid URLs can cause this error."
Help:CS1 errors- --Fauzan✆ talk✉ mail 17:33, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Derrick Henry, runningback, Alabama
I am shocked and appalled at the term "fieldNigger" used in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.160.14 (talk) 16:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Derrick Henry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Another editor has cleaned up the article, and the IP address used for the vandalism has been blocked. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Jamie McCourt
Hi. We have been experiencing a constant back and forth editing for Jamie McCourt's page for some time now. We are trying to update the page with the proper title of Co-Owner that she is entitled to use but it keeps getting reverted even though many footnotes have been provided. I need to know what acceptable documentation or references have to provided in order to keep the proper title in place. There are documents not available online that support this. Thank you Pete731 (talk) 18:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Convenience link: Jamie McCourt (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Dismas|(talk) 18:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- I don't have time to give a better response right now but you can start looking into reliable sources at WP:RS. Someone else should be along to help more. Dismas|(talk) 18:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Pete731: The sources you cite in the current version of the article establish that the McCourts' post-nuptial agreement was invalid, and they also establish that her claim of being co-owner was disputed; so you can't say unequivalent that she was co-owner based on those sources. What you need is a later source like the final divorce settlement (surely it is final by now) that actually addresses ownership.
- I need to call your attention to the policy Wikipedia:Edit warring. When you are reverted, you need to discuss your edit on the article talk page rather than just reassert the edit.
- BTW, I am concerned by your statement, "We are trying ..." An account is not permitted to be used by more than one person. —teb728 t c 23:34, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Pete731: I should have mentioned first of all that the place to discuss content disputes is on the article talk page. —teb728 t c 11:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Source: a page of a book that is on display in a museum
(a) I presume that a permissable source for content of a Wikipedia article is a page (of a book) that is on full-time display in a museum. The example I have in mind is the page in the log book of HMS Euryalus (1803) which records Nelson's famous signal: England expects that every man will do his duty. The museum is the Nelson Collection, held at Lloyd's of London, which is accessible to members of the public by arrangement.
(b) If so, what is the correct means of referencing such a source?
ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:40, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Nelson's log book would be a primary source, and should be use carefully. Per WP:PRIMARY:
Policy: Unless restricted by another policy, primary sources that have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia; but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them. Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation. A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge. For example, an article about a novel may cite passages to describe the plot, but any interpretation needs a secondary source. Do not analyze, evaluate, interpret, or synthesize material found in a primary source yourself; instead, refer to reliable secondary sources that do so. Do not base an entire article on primary sources, and be cautious about basing large passages on them. Do not add unsourced material from your personal experience, because that would make Wikipedia a primary source of that material. Use extra caution when handling primary sources about living people; see WP:Biographies of living persons § Avoid misuse of primary sources, which is policy.
- As to referencing them, just as any other source of the same format - in this case probably use template:cite book. Rwessel (talk) 20:47, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- OK, not sure if this really is a pure example of a primary source, more of an eyewitness account, as Nelson was on the Victory. Euryalus recorded it as it happened. The piece of information that is relevant to the article is the time of the signal (and the point is that there were several different, but close, times recorded). ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- This is not a primary source:
- Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, ed. (2011) [1846]. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. Cambridge University Press. p. 144, footnote 5. ISBN 9781108035477.
- This is not a primary source:
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 21:51, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Brilliant find - it's an exact quote from Euryalus' log - all that's missing is the big ink blot on the page (I guess someone's hand might have been a bit unsteady as they approached the enemy line).ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 11:31, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 21:51, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Direct Democracy ireland:content
i have made several attempts on the talk pages of DDI regarding content and references and have asked several editors to change the page as the none of the the sources used to to create the page cannot be verified they are all based on opinion and heresay but not actual fact.Railsparks (talk) 21:19, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hello, Railsparks. If you cannot reach consensus with other editors, please follow the guidance in Dispute resolution. --ColinFine (talk) 23:50, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Problem Editing Page
I tried to add my company to the list of mems foundries page, but got a warning that I'm trying to add a page with too many links. All of the entries on the page have a link; I just trying to add mine, not spam the site. How do I do that? Thanks, Wes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwa821 (talk • contribs) 23:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Cwa821: Adding external links to the body of an article is normally not done. Normally links in the body of the article are wikilinks which go to other articles in Wikipedia. And adding information about a company that you are closely associated with is a conflict of interest. Dismas|(talk) 13:11, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
I understand and appreciate the above comment. However, the page I'm trying to add the link to is not an article, it is only a list of companies in the industry, arranged in a table, and each of them has an external link to the company's home page. I'm just trying to add my company to the list. They were able to do this, but I'm apparently being blocked. What am I missing? Thanks, Wes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwa821 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry for the confusion. When you asked your question, this edit from 2010 was the only one that you had made which made sense given the question. If you're not specific about what article/edit you're talking about, we have to guess. I see now that you've made additional edits. I'm sorry, I'm being pulled away now but someone else may be able to answer. Dismas|(talk) 16:30, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
autoconfirm
How to tell if I am autoconfirmed. I want to upload a logo and the cite said that was no good as its not 'free' material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eurasian Minerals (talk • contribs) 23:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- look for your name here, and your is listed as none. Jab843 (talk) 23:33, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Actually ListUsers does not list if you are autoconfirmed or not. But the OP in question isn't as they have only made 8 edits. You need 10 edits and 4 days to be autoconfirmed. As for the image, see files for upload to have someone else upload it for you. On another note, your username is a violation of our username policy. Your username implies shared use as it is the name of a company and nothing else. You need to be named something unique that implies that only you use that account, not the entire company. --Stabila711 (talk) 23:38, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
December 9
Cluebot edit
This edit was not vandalism. Cluebot NG reverted it as possible vandalism. I checked the movie soundtrack. There is indeed a song named "Sinbad The Sailor" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY62RfeviuE
--The Avengers 02:43, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Please follow the link present in every Cluebot revert: User:ClueBot NG/FalsePositives --NeilN talk to me 02:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Just so you know another Wikiedia article was used as the source for the item. Per WP:USERGENERATED that cannot be used. I don't know if that is why the bot picked up on it but a verifiable WP:SECONDARY source is need to put the info back in. MarnetteD|Talk 03:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
.NET
what is MVC.NET — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.34.42.3 (talk) 11:19, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- IP, please see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. This help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. Thanks! -- samtar whisper 11:24, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- But ASP.NET MVC may tell what you are looking for. —teb728 t c 11:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
captcha
trying to submit a page (in firefox). asks me to enter captcha in a box. there isn't a box?
thx rob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robin2437 (talk • contribs) 11:24, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Robin2437, would you mind providing a link to the page you're trying to submit? -- samtar whisper 11:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Language
I want to edit the Afrikaans page of Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool Pretoria. How do I go to the Afrikaans page? Only the English page pops up.
Thanks
Colleen Naude — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beryl Colleen Naude (talk • contribs) 11:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Beryl Colleen Naude: The article is at af:Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool. If you go to our (the English Wikipedia's) article on the school, you should see a link on the bottom left of the page (under "languages") that goes there. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
natalie forbes
hi
samtar replied, but i couldn't see where to reply to him.
i tried to submit a page. it asked me to type the captcha in the box. in firefox, there isn't a box?
i've tried before with this page and someone said the subject wasn't well known. she's been in lots of tv and stage shows so i'm mystified?
it's been deleted and the instructions for recovering it don't work.
thx
robin2437
Robin2437 (talk) 11:46, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hi robin2437. The way to reply to samtar is to look at the second section above here with the heading captcha, and click on the blue word edit next to captcha. That will open an edit window for your reply. —teb728 t c 12:08, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- In answer to your second point, Robin2437, the word "Notable" is used in a special way in Wikipedia. It doesn't mean "well-known", or "famous", or "popular", or "important", or "influential". It means that there is enough material about the subject, by people unconnected with the subject, and published in reliable places, to allow an article to be written about them. Any article should be based almost 100% on what people unconnected with the subject have published about the subject. What they themselves (or their friends, family, agents etc) have said or published is almost irrelevant. It follows that if there is not much published about them by people unconnected with them, then it is impossible to write an acceptable article about them. --ColinFine (talk) 23:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Add a website as a source for a wikipedia page?
hi there, a Wikipedia page has been created for my Dad, Robert Bett and it says it will be deleted on the 13th December if no references are added. I have found a few websites that have information regarding Robert Bett but I am unsure if these are good enough as references and also how to even attach references if they are just websites? Please can you help me? The page I am trying to edit is this one... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bett
Thank you SS
Sirensycho (talk) 12:10, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Sirensycho: Please see the referencing guide, especially the section on web pages. If you'd like, I can give you a hand if you give me one of the websites you've found -- samtar whisper 13:17, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Adding images and copyright question
Hi. Which forum do I go to for questions about adding images to Wikipedia articles? Thanks. 72.74.202.127 (talk) 14:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- You'll find plenty of useful links at Wikipedia:Images. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:41, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. 72.74.202.127 (talk) 16:03, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Reference error
Dear editors: I tried to fix the reference error on this page: Trent Lakes, but it is eluding me. I've fixed things like this many times before. What am I missing?—Anne Delong (talk) 15:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- If you'd followed the a b c links up to where the ref was used, you'd have seen that one of them (the c link) was in a template (but it's well hidden in there), so I renamed the other definition. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:55, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
I want to make a contribution to Wikimedia foundation
I want to make a contribution is Wikimedia foundation the same as wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.255.64 (talk) 16:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for wanting to contribute - I can understand the confusion - when you click the "Donate" tag near the top of the left hand column, it jumps from Wikipedia to The Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikimedia Foundation is an American non-profit and charitable organization that runs Wikipedia and our associated "sister" projects - such as Wikimedia Commons, where we store most of our pictures, Wikiquote, where we store extensive lists of quotations, and Wiktionary our on-line dictionary. For more information about Wikimedia Foundation, please see this article - Arjayay (talk) 19:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
New Article
Hello. Yesterday I created a page called Smoky Mountain Community Theatre, but now it has been deleted. There are many other theaters on Wikipedia, such as Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre. The information was taken from the theatre's website, but it is not copyrighted because I know the person that wrote it and they gave permission to use the information. I was not attempting to advertise the theater, but was merely listing historical data. Please help me understand. Thank you. - Smilehappy1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smilehappy1 (talk • contribs) 18:10, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Have you read the wikilinks in the messages left on your user talk page? Was there something in those links that you didn't understand? --David Biddulph (talk) 19:12, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Anyone can say "I know the person that wrote it and they gave permission to use the information", this is, therefore, not acceptable. The website owners would have to remove the copyright notice from their website and release it under an appropriate free-use license - which would allow anyone to use the information, for any purpose, including changing it, or charging for it.
Even if they (very ill advisedly) did that, an organization's website is almost never written from a neutral point of view, but with an aim of promoting the organization, so the wording would be inappropriate for use in a Wikipedia article. - Arjayay (talk) 19:15, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Anyone can say "I know the person that wrote it and they gave permission to use the information", this is, therefore, not acceptable. The website owners would have to remove the copyright notice from their website and release it under an appropriate free-use license - which would allow anyone to use the information, for any purpose, including changing it, or charging for it.
- Please understand, Smilehappy1 that a Wikipedia article should be based nearly 100% on what people unconnected with the subject have published about it. Anything the subject themselves have said, on their website or anywhere else, is almost irrelevant to Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 23:59, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Searching Wikipedia for a word or phrase
In the past I've searched Wikipedia for all occurrences of a particular word or phrase, but when I wanted to find all occurrences of the word "hoodlum" I could only find the article Hoodlum. How do I search for the word in other articles? Edison (talk) 21:51, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Search for "hooldum~"? Or click past the autosuggested dropdown.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- No, use
~hoodlum
with the tilde in front. Help:Searching shows other methods in the first paragraph. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:10, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- No, use
Subtitles to Wikipedia video.
I have added subtitles to a video, but it has not actually appeared on the video in the article. Why? --Rijavano99 (talk) 22:13, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
There are some citations containing "Check |archiveurl= value" problems. I can't seem to find the problems when looking through edit mode. Snuggums (talk / edits) 22:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Fixed: a few
https:
were missing that was all. Sam Sailor Talk! 22:51, 9 December 2015 (UTC) - @SNUGGUMS: have a look at User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations, it really makes life a lot easier in a situation like the above. Suddenly you can actually see where you are and what you are dealing with. Best, Sam Sailor Talk! 22:54, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
How Do I change a Company Logo?
I want to change an incorrect logo which has been assigned to our business. I am an authorised member of the business to make this change. How do I do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.62.151.150 (talk) 23:27, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Please post a link to the page displaying the incorrect logo and a link to the correct logo. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:29, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
December 10
Want to contribute
Header added by ColinFine (talk) 00:01, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
I would like to contribute. Because I use the site often. It's really one of the best parts of the net. My problem is the way Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria are described. I checked out some places in northern Cyprus and there is nothing there about them being occupied and it being against international law. Then I checked Lahsa the capital of Tibet. Nothing. Something has to change. And then I will definitely send money. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.181.92 (talk) 23:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you: it is always welcome for people to contribute. It is always difficult to get consensus on what the encyclopaedia should say where there is territory in conflict, because there are often two sides, each completely certain that their view is right and the other wrong, and demanding that Wikipedia should represent only their view. Wikipedia does not take sides.
- I haven't looked at the particular cases you are talking about. The general principle is that Wikipedia should say what the reliable sources say. If there are reliable published sources which describe them as "occupied" then the article should say this. If there are reliable published sources which say otherwise, then the article should say that. If there are reliable published sources which give two opposing views (which I guess is the case), then the article should summarise both positions, but should not make any attempt to decide between them.
- You say "something has to change". You are very welcome to make suggestions on the talk page of the relevant articles - but on a contentious issue like this, check the talk page to see if the question has already been debated; and remember that our aim is to reach consensus on articles, not to get our own way.
- If you wish to make a financial contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation that would be great, and if you choose not to, that is fine too. But if you decide that you are only going to contribute when the encyclopaedia is perfect, then you never will. And if you decide that you are only going to when it accepts that you are right and everybody who disagrees with you is wrong, then you probably never will either. Your choice. --ColinFine (talk) 00:14, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- I guess you refer to Israeli settlements which were created after the Israeli conquest and are overwhelmingly Jewish, while others want the whole settlements destroyed. The very existence of these settlements is a major element in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and hard to ignore in the articles. I haven't heard of a comparable situation for cities in northern Cyprus and Tibet. Certainly not your example Lhasa. The articles Northern Cyprus and Tibet do mention the controversy. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:31, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Personal File (page)
Dear Editor, Up to days ago I could locate my personal file (page) under my name Manolis (Emmanuel) Algizakis...I can't find it any longer. Why?
thank you for your attention to this...you have my email, because I just donated a few dollars o your organization not long ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.160.72 (talk) 00:31, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- I think this is the page you are looking for: User:Manolis_(Emmanuel_Aligizakis) RudolfRed (talk) 00:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Content and licensing re: "Laguna Blanca School" page
Hi there, not sure whether or not this is the best way to contact the site regarding content that has been "unedited." I am working with Laguna Blanca School (which is the title of the page) with the communications department and was specifically instructed to edit our page and replace the information with the contents from our website. (www.lagunablanca.org). I am under the impression that the site "unedited" my updates due to the fact that I directly copied information from our site to the Wikipedia page. Please get back to me as soon as possible so that I can quickly make these changes. Thank you,
Lindsey Davis Lbsinfo (talk) 00:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hey there, just passing by, so don't take my answer too seriously, but you may want to read WP:MYTEXT. It seems to have some relevant info to your situation! --allthefoxes (Talk) 00:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- First, the page Laguna Blanca School is not the school's page but Wikipedia's page about the school. Wikipedia has almost no interest in what the school wants the page to say. Second, your edit was reverted not only because it was a copyright violation, but also because it was unacceptably promotional. So there is no way you will be allowed to make that changes. Finally, please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest: because of your connection to the school you are strongly discouraged from editing that page at all. Please see also Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure —teb728 t c 01:03, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Ross Bay Villa
Finally wrestled my page online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bay_Villa . But the InfoBox has disappeared in the process. How, please, do I insert an InfoBox, once the page is up? (I have it all sitting in a coded Word file, ready to load.)
Thanks, Nick Russcomm (talk) 00:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) You removed the infobox from the draft in this edit. I have added it back in this further edit. I have added a section heading before your question, and removed the leading spaces which caused your question to be malformatted. Note also that rather than a url it is better to refer to a Wikipedia page by a wikilink, as Ross Bay Villa. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:09, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
The temperature information on this page is incorrect. It cites information for Murrundi a completely different town in a different part of Australia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.165.173 (talk) 03:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- If you can find correct information from a reliable source that can verify the temperature information, you are invited to fix it yourself. Remember, you are on Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. --Stabila711 (talk) 04:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
How to do username mentions
Hello, What's the right way to do a username mention so that the other person gets a notification that someone replied to them? And what's the right term in Wikipedia lingo? Tagging? Username mention? Ping? Thank you! Permstrump (talk) 04:16, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Permstrump: The technical term is pinging and there are a few ways to do it. {{ping}}, {{re}}, and {{u}} will all send a notification. Ping and re will add an @ symbol to the front and allows you to ping more than one person. U is just for a single mention and is usually used when you mention someone in the middle of a sentence. Please note that notifications will only send if you sign your post. If you forget to sign your post it will not send and you will have to redo the entire template and resign to fix it. --Stabila711 (talk) 04:20, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Stabila711, thank you for the reply! Can you tell me if I did this right and you got pinged? :) I'm so glad you thought to mention it won't work if I don't sign it, because pretty regularly I hit save and then realize I didn't sign it, so I quickly re-edit it to add my signature. Woops. So if that happens, is it enough if I delete the original ping and just type the same thing again in the same place when I add my signature? Thanks again! Permstrump (talk) 04:26, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Permstrump: Yep. I got pinged. If you forget it is probably better to just add another line below with the new template and your signature. That way you can be sure that it sends correctly. --Stabila711 (talk) 04:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Stabila711:, thank you again! Permstrump (talk) 04:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Permstrump: mw:Manual:Echo#Technical details has detailed requirements. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- @PrimeHunter: Perfect, thank you! I tried to do a search for directions a couple of times, but I was calling it tagging and username mention, so my searches turned up a lot of red herrings. (Obvi I've spent more time on facebook and reddit.) Ping didn't even occur to me until I was composing this question. I honestly didn't think that was going to be it. Permstrump (talk) 04:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Permstrump: mw:Manual:Echo#Technical details has detailed requirements. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Edit and Upload Photos and Photo Captions
Dear Sir/Madam,
I need to add photos and edit the photo captions on the Oslo Times wikipedia page. AS these are photos of theexlcusive interviews we have conducted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oslo_Times
I have tried uploading the photos but I cant I would really appreciate it if you could help me with this.
06:29, 10 December 2015 (UTC)Prabalta (talk) Prabalta (talk) 06:29, 10 December 2015 (UTC)