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- 1 May 5
- 1.1 Vandalism By A Highly Regarded User
- 1.2 Nine Network
- 1.3 Don Orsillo Wikipedia page
- 1.4 How to find/contact Dave/Transporterman
- 1.5 Where and how are a user's GAs and FAs logged/recorded?
- 1.6 Regarding giving Feedback
- 1.7 Variations in spelling of names
- 1.8 Reference from arc hive.is?
- 1.9 Recommending
- 1.10 re-writing a wikipedia page
- 1.11 external links that won't produce right results because of incompaticle characters
- 1.12 Anne Gascoigne
- 2 May 6
- 2.1 Anne Gascoigne
- 2.2 Could someone help me create 4 articles on people with down syndrome?
- 2.3 copyright material
- 2.4 World War II
- 2.5 Change displayed link color via CSS
- 2.6 Placement of Page needed
- 2.7 Wanted to Add more information for Liberty Videocon General Isurance
- 2.8 Deletion of an hoax
- 2.9 Landry's
- 2.10 Using geographic coordinates from Wikidata
- 2.11 Page history blanked by turning into a redirect
- 2.12 Change displayed link color for interwiki links
- 2.13 Complex template help
- 2.14 How to find articles with ending -ology
- 2.15 bangyal rajput (more defined)
- 2.16 Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- 2.17 Template help
- 2.18 Reliable sources vs one event?
- 3 May 7
- 3.1 Editing
- 3.2 Referencing errors on Medici Chapel
- 3.3 Company Details in Wikipedia
- 3.4 Come back tomorrow night, we're going to do fractions.
- 3.5 The Picture Here and a Contribution Offer
- 3.6 Unusual Articles
- 3.7 Mistake on List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016#External links
- 3.8 Re positioning of picture and English pages for Spanish entries.
- 3.9 Dreux winegrowers
- 3.10 Why can't this german picture be used on en-wp?
- 4 May 8
May 5
Vandalism By A Highly Regarded User
As both an informational and financial contributor I understand how important it is that this source be open and free. I understand that it is not possible to employ vast numbers of editors to fix problems and that it is necessary to have well meaning, community minded individuals to volunteer their time to make Wikipedia great. I acknowledge that I have made errors at times and am grateful that we have a wonderful community who have quickly picked them up.
Sadly, from time to time it becomes apparent that one of these users has their own cause to pursue: in particular, highly regarded User:Grayfell and his interest in the USANA Health Sciences page.
Since December 2014 User:Grayfell has consistently reverted changes made by various users. User:Grayfell has cited things such as "Previous version was more in line with WP:NPOV. Removing bit about sports certification, which would need WP:SECONDARY sources." "WP:NPOV" "Trivial. Needs more than just PR to be worth mentioning." and "What exactly does that have to do with USANA?" to justify these changes. These have resulted in responses such as "Opinions are not facts. If you are going to post opinion, post opposing opinion also."
Of particular note, User:Grayfell has cited an article by Fortune titled "Barry Minkow: All-American con man" (at 01:55, 5 December 2014). User:Grayfell has cited this article to reference that Minkow was a senior pastor at the Community Bible Church and executive of the Fraud Discovery Institute (FDI). (Without reading the title of the cite, one would assume from this that Minkow is a respectable individual.) Yet attempts to cite the same article to give an opposing point of view about Minkow are reverted. For example: The opening line of the article describes him as "entrepreneur, fraud fighter, pastor, movie actor – and serial swindler." The story goes on to say that Minkow has been convicted of embezzling $3 million from the above mentioned church and of using his position at the FDI to make false statements.
I suspect User:Grayfell has also incorrectly cited a story by "La Fracture" (http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_facture/2008-2009/Reportage.asp?idDoc=75158). However my French is not good enough to be sure of this.
And then there was the "possible vandalism by 113.172.26.48, a Mobile edit / Mobile web edit. This simply added "Which don't work" to the end of the product description. Perhaps just a coincidence that it should occur so soon after my revision.
I respectfully request that a review of the USANA Health Sciences page and its edit history be undertaken. I further suggest that User:Grayfell be blocked from making further edits to the page.
I will also be forwarding a copy of this to USANA for their information. Given that Wikipedia is the world's top online encyclopedia, I expect that USANA will be keen to see a fair and neutral point of view adopted for their entry.
Kind regards 122.148.118.18 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.118.18 (talk) 01:32, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- The first step in any form of dispute resolution is to discuss the issue with the user, which I can see no evidence you have done. Additionally, referring to someone as a vandal is a significant accusation, so I would like to remind you to assume good faith and to remain civil. I am pinging Grayfell to notify them of this discussion, in case they haven't seen it. — crh 23 (Talk) 07:16, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Within Wikipedia, "vandalism" refers to "a deliberate attempt to damage Wikipedia", not to "expressing a view I disagree with". Thank you for the warning that USANA personnel may try to influence the contents of the USANA Health Sciences article: I have added it to my watchlist so that I can help ensure that it remains unbiased. Maproom (talk) 07:25, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Yup, not much more to say. I'm certainly not defending Minkow, but WP:BLP still applies, even to convicted felons, and the Usana article isn't the place to lay-out his criminal history just to prove a point. I don't know what the Radio Canada link thing is about, as it doesn't look at all familiar. Maybe I restored it if it was removed as part of a larger edit, but a link search shows that it's not currently linked anywhere else on Wikipedia. Radio Canada certainly seems like a reliable source, though, so I don't see why it would be a problem. It's clear that Talk:USANA Health Sciences is the place to continue this. Grayfell (talk) 19:37, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Nine Network
please update Nine Entertainment Co. CEO name to be Hugh Marks. It currently says David Gyngell
Nine Network 49.255.227.193 (talk) 04:05, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- We need a reliable source for that. I can't even seem to get to the station's website to see if that has any info. Rwessel (talk) 04:39, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Source is [1]. Nine Entertainment Co. has already had Marks as the CEO since last November, I have put a mention of Marks as the new CEO on Nine Network — crh 23 (Talk) 07:25, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Don Orsillo Wikipedia page
Your page regarding Don Orsillo quotes some incorrect dates. "...following the 2016 season" (We just started it), and taking over as the play-by-play man in 2017:
Don Orsillo (born December 16, 1968) is a play-by-play announcer who served as the television voice of the Boston Red Sox on NESN from 2001 to 2015. He was subsequently hired by the San Diego Padres to replace broadcasting legend Dick Enberg following the 2016 season'. Orsillo will work select Padres television and radio broadcasts in 2016 before taking over as the primary play-by-play man in 2017.[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B006:9603:598E:D94A:B695:3A2B (talk) 04:27, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- If you have improvements to make to a Wikipedia article, you are welcome to make them (preferably with a citation to a reliable published source for any information you are adding). Alternatively, the article's talk page (here, Talk:Don Orsillo is the best place to discuss changes to the article. --ColinFine (talk) 22:02, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- The article is quoting CBS Sports who use that phrasing. If you think it is ambiguous, please improve the phrasing, but the content (correctly read as an event that will happen in the future) seems accurate. Dbfirs 09:23, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
How to find/contact Dave/Transporterman
Hello,
I am a new contributor. Could you tell me how I can find Dave/Transporterman(?)'s talk page?
Thanks. Rivka Rubin (talk) 05:39, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hello, Transporterman's talk-page is here. To find a user's talk page, type 'User talk:username' into the search box at top right. Eagleash (talk) 05:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) If you click on the "Contributions" link at the top of any page, it will take you to Special:Contributions/Rivka Rubin which shows pages which you have previously edited, including User talk:TransporterMan. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:46, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Where and how are a user's GAs and FAs logged/recorded?
How do I get credited for a GA or FA? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that most people just keep a list in their userspace of articles they have made a substantial contribution to, noting ones that subsequently become featured. If you want to be more thorough you could include a series of diffs with each article, to verify your more substantial contributions. — crh 23 (Talk) 09:55, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Dodger67 Like many users, I record that an article I've been the main contributor became featured or marked as a good article by placing next to them, upon their mention by me at my user page, the good and featured article symbols: and .--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:48, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, there is Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:14, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, so only FA nominations are actually logged. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:27, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Regarding giving Feedback
Actally i need to give a feedback where can i give u a feedback. I think this is a help desk. plz Assist me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranjith vp (talk • contribs) 11:26, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Ranjith vp: Feedback about what? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:55, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Variations in spelling of names
The question yesterday on different spelling of words made me think of different spellings of proper names. An example is Golconda, also known as Golkonda - which both link to the same article (one is a redirect).
In an article on another subject, is it best to pick one spelling and use it consistently? Or is it better to use the spelling in the original references even if doing so may lead to different spellings in different parts of the article. The latter might aid someone checking the article against the sources, and it would show that different spellings exist. On the other hand, it might confuse readers of the article. Mb66w (talk) 15:48, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- See WP:ENGVAR; within the same article, usage should always be consistent, though variant spellings should be noted briefly for the sake of completeness, such as in the lede section or in an "etymology" or "name" section later on, maybe a bit of both. Other than that, spelling in the same article should be consistent. --Jayron32 16:20, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- And of course, different spellings can be appropriate in different articles. I was surprised to see that Golconda was also known as "Golkonda" (I had to visit the page to discover my error), because signs in the town and everything I've ever seen in print and online spells that specific town "Golconda". No reason to change its spelling just because the namesake city has a different spelling! Nyttend (talk) 16:45, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- I wasn't talking about an article about foo, but rather about some other subject where the other article might say "he came from foo". There would be no "etymology" section in the article, and foo isn't mentioned in the lede section. However, different sources (referenced with inline citations) use different spellings for foo. WP:ENGVAR does say to be consistent. It also says for proper names, to use "the subject's own spelling"; but that really isn't the same thing. So being consistent within the article/inconsistent with the reference is probably best. Mb66w (talk) 18:39, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- And of course, different spellings can be appropriate in different articles. I was surprised to see that Golconda was also known as "Golkonda" (I had to visit the page to discover my error), because signs in the town and everything I've ever seen in print and online spells that specific town "Golconda". No reason to change its spelling just because the namesake city has a different spelling! Nyttend (talk) 16:45, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Reference from arc hive.is?
I'm trying to cleanup Kappa Pi and a few pieces of information are "referenced" with external links to http://kappapiart.org/join.html . However that domain has expired and web site is gone. The website is *not* archived at archive.org, but is at archive.is at http://arch ive.is/jPlGB (without the space of course). However everything that I've seen indicates that archive.is isn't good and workarounds are possible, but I can't figure out how to do that. Suggestions on either how to use it or how to give a URL which includes the information?Naraht (talk) 17:49, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Naraht, I think the issue may be moot but I also found that, for example, trying to access the internal links from that archive such as the "about" page did not work for me. Anyway, after looking at the article, I found that the entire article's prose content was from two cut and paste copyright violation – everything but the first line. I have scrubbed and stubbed it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:53, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Fuhghettaboutit: Thanx. Sometimes easier to start from scratch. And they do have what appears to be a new National website at http://kappapiart.com/ (note, com, not org, wierd). And since it's founded in 1911 and decent size, I can fill in with info from Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities.Naraht (talk) 00:26, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Recommending
I want to recommend that Dr. Brenda C.Snipes, Elected official for the constitution office (Broward County Supervisor of Election) be added. All information about her official role can be found at www.browardsoe.org.
The Supervisor of Elections Office is a part Broward County Government headquarters located at 115 South Andres Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. The elections office where Dr. Snipes performs her role is in room 102 of the above mentioned office.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.239.230.194 (talk) 18:38, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hello. Which article are you recommending she be added to? If you mean that Wikipedia should have an article about her, then (assuming that she meets Wikipedia's criteria for WP:notability), you can request an article at Requested articles. --ColinFine (talk) 22:06, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
re-writing a wikipedia page
Hello, I am wondering what the process is for completely re-structuring and re-writing an existing page? The page in question is Stemcell Technologies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemcell_Technologies). Full disclosure: I work for Stemcell, which I realize is not ideal in a wikipedia context, but quite frankly, I can't imagine how anyone else would know enough about the company to write/edit the wikipedia page. Wikipedia requires experts to contribute knowledge, and with a company that serves such a complex field (stem cell research), the only place to really find an expert is within the company itself. There has been a flag on the page for several years that the content reads too much like an advertisement, which I completely agree with. However, fixing this is not a matter of simply editing some content on the existing page. Rather, to do it well, it required an entirely different approach to the page, in order to remove the focus from the products that Stemcell sells, to the science and research areas supported. The new text is completely neutral, and focuses on how the company fits into the medical research world, and the scientific details about the products (not the brand names). I am confident that this is a better approach for this platform - it is far more informative and neutral. However, I am hesitant to just go in and tear down the old page and plop in the new text without alerting Wikipedia somehow because this is such a major overhaul that it would certainly be flagged. Is there a process for this? Many thanks, Nicole — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicole Quinn (talk • contribs) 19:22, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Hi Nicole Quinn. Thank you for asking this. Many users with conflicts of interest do not do so and get in hot water because of it.
- The first thing you should do is post the disclosure notice for compensated editing required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to reveal your "employer, client and affiliation". You can post this to your user page at User:Nicole Quinn. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Help desk|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}.
- As suggested by the Conflict of interest guideline and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations, you are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question.
- After you have posted your suggested replacement text for the article there, you can draw users to your request using the template
{{Request edit}}
– unless the article happens to have many watchers, doing so is often key to getting any action. - While it is true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease – people from an organization interested in an article on that organization are often more motivated to fix it, "the only place to really find an expert is within the company itself" is untrue, because all of the content of the article should be based on reliable sources that verify the content, as demonstrated by citations – which anyone can find (and unconnected people are much more likely to post a balanced treatment of a topic with neutral language and neutral content). Most of those sources should be secondary in nature and independent of the organization (as opposed to primary sources). However, admittedly, a connected person may be more likely to know where to find those sources. Anyway, just keep in mind that original research – facts about the company known only internally and not able to be verified by published sources is unacceptable as content.
- Before writing/posting the draft of suggested changes, I think you might benefit from taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial.
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- Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:53, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
external links that won't produce right results because of incompaticle characters
If I place this: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{"documentcollectionid2":["GRANDCHAMBER","CHAMBER"],"ecli":["ECLI:CE:ECHR:2016:0426JUD001051110"]} in my browser, it brings me to the right page, but I can't get it to work on wikipeida using the standard external links syntax ([www.xxxx... visible text]). Is there any way to do this? L.tak (talk) 22:38, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi L.tak. Please see percent-encoding, which allows you to replace characters that will not be recognized in URLs with equivalents. For example, a [ and ] can be replaced, respectively, with %5b and %5d; a + sign with %2B and an = sign with %3D. See Help:Wiki markup#External links for more. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:43, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, in order to get this one to work, I needed to use {{urlencode:<url>}}. However, a straight urlencode will not work in this situation. What you should enter is
{{urlencode:{"documentcollectionid2":["GRANDCHAMBER","CHAMBER"],"ecli":["ECLI:CE:ECHR:2016:0426JUD001051110"]}}}
The output would therefore be:%7B%22documentcollectionid2%22%3A%5B%22GRANDCHAMBER%22%2C%22CHAMBER%22%5D%2C%22ecli%22%3A%5B%22ECLI%3ACE%3AECHR%3A2016%3A0426JUD001051110%22%5D}
, which (after adding http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng# to the front) works just fine. -- The Voidwalker Discuss 23:04, 5 May 2016 (UTC)- Thanks to both of you; that helped a lot! The {{ECLI|ECLI:CE:ECHR:2016:0426JUD001051110}} now gives ECLI:CE:ECHR:2016:0426JUD001051110, which was exactly what I was looking for! L.tak (talk) 23:21, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, in order to get this one to work, I needed to use {{urlencode:<url>}}. However, a straight urlencode will not work in this situation. What you should enter is
Anne Gascoigne
please check that my refs are OK. Please leave in the quotes/information as I think this is necessary. Make adjustments as you wish Please put an accent over the letter e in nee. Thanks so much Srbernadette (talk) 23:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Srbernadette: I've put the {{nee}} template in for you here. I know you've been shown how to do this a couple times. Is there some reason why you are not keeping notes on what you've been instructed on in the past and just referring to those notes? Dismas|(talk) 00:08, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Srbernadette has explained that she does not like the template, because it generates née with a line of dots under it (indicating that it has hover text), rather than née. I have some sympathy for her view. Maproom (talk) 06:29, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Srbernadette has been told how to do it without the tooltip, and has been given copy of the word on his talk page to copy (see User talk:Srbernadette#née (and e acute)), but (as Dismas said) this editor refuses to learn. --David Biddulph (talk) 06:53, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Srbernadette has explained that she does not like the template, because it generates née with a line of dots under it (indicating that it has hover text), rather than née. I have some sympathy for her view. Maproom (talk) 06:29, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
May 6
Anne Gascoigne
I apologise to you for not keeping notes and I will work harder at doing this. Pleaes check that ref number 1 on the above page should read in the quote "16th century knight" - NOT "medieval knight". please change the words if you think they are correct. I am unable to do this with my equiptment. Thanks again so much Srbernadette (talk) 01:26, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Please check that ref number 1 on the above page should read in the quote "16th century knight" - NOT "medieval knight" which is not technically correct as the mediaeval period had ended by late 1400s. Please change the words if you think they are correct. I am unable to do this with my equipment.
Also, should there be little dots under the word "nee"?
Thanks again so muchSrbernadette (talk) 02:39, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Done The dots under the née are there to indicate that there's a tool-tip there - if you hover the mouse pointer over the née. I've made the change to medieval to requested, but you could have done that yourself. Rwessel (talk) 03:34, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Could someone help me create 4 articles on people with down syndrome?
In the List_of_people_with_Down_syndrome page there is 3 people that are in red which means there articles are not created yet. Plus I think there should be article about Krystal Nausbaum who was the actress with down's in The_Memory_Keeper's_Daughter film. 50.68.120.49 (talk) 01:36, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I think you want WP:Articles for creation? DonIago (talk) 01:41, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
copyright material
The Cultural Institute platform is open to non-profit institutions, museums, galleries, and archives with copyright-free or copyright-cleared content that they would like to share. Does that mean that I can use some of it's artiles to add some lines or images to wikipedia's articles?? I'mFEMINIST 'T@LK!! 01:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Not necessarily. The fact that a platform hosts copyright-free material does not imply that all the material there is copyright-free. And what is "copyright-cleared"? Maproom (talk) 06:37, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- In fact the answer seems to be "no". This page says "You may not use content from our Platform unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law.". Maproom (talk) 06:48, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
World War II
you need to add the following in the article.
Russian historian Valentin Falin spoke thus : " When that policy often took diametrically opposed positions with respect to the second front and the joint operations , the soldiers did their duty honestly . It is because of the military cooperation of the West and East, the war ended in May 1945 - the first , and not dragged on for several years . "
As the British Professor Richard Overy , professor of modern history at King's College and the author of a number of works about World War II , after the war, Hitler's former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop gave three main reasons for the defeat of Germany :.
was unexpectedly stubborn Soviet resistance ; large-scale supply of arms and equipment from the United States ; the success of the Western Allies in the struggle for supremacy in the air. However, the American political scientist and sociologist Zbigniew Brzezinski is not inclined to exaggerate America's role in World War I.:
"Paradoxically, the defeat of Nazi Germany raised the international status of America, although it did not play a decisive role in the military victory over Hitlerism. The merit of achieving this victory should be recognized for Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's odious rival. " It should be noted that 70-80% of losses in t he entire Second World War, the German armed forces suffered on the Soviet front (according to the Falin, this proportion reaches 93%). On the eastern front in the struggle against the Soviet Union during the war, German troops lost 507 divisions were completely destroyed 100 divisions of Germany's allies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemenede (talk • contribs) 03:53, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Content discussion belong on the talk page of the article in question. Talk:World War II in this case. Rwessel (talk) 06:16, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Change displayed link color via CSS
Hello,
I'm trying to change my CSS so that external links that have been visited are displayed as the same color as external links that have not been visited. If I am not mistaken, the color of external links is #3366BB. Therefore, to acheive this, would the correct text to put into my CSS be:
.mw-body a:link.external { color: #3366BB; }
Or might it be this:
.mw-body a:link.external:visited { color: #3366BB; }
Thanks in advance. Ergo Sum 05:17, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Ergo Sum: Should be the second one, but it does not work for me. The one that works is
.mw-body a.external:visited { color: #3366BB;}
- NQ (talk) 11:13, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Placement of Page needed
When used with {{Cite book}}, should {{Page needed}} be placed inside the ref tags, so it appears in the cite tooltip and the References section, or outside, so it appears in the article's body? Ex: [2]. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Mandruss: In the example on Template:Page needed it is outside the ref tags, which makes sense as other similar templates like {{Failed verification}} and {{Verify source}} are. While I can see an argument for putting it inside
<ref>...</ref>
, it is as far as I can tell intended as an inline template. — crh 23 (Talk) 07:46, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you. Second question: That article contains 6 references to that book, all missing page numbers. How would you code that, assuming only one occurrence of {{Cite book}} were used? Named references, each followed by {{Page needed}}? That wouldn't work when the page numbers are identified, unless one wanted to use the "rarely used" {{Rp}} template for the page numbers. {{Sfn}} templates, sans page numbers, each followed by {{Page needed}}? Is it considered proper to use {{Sfn}} in association with inline {{Cite book}}, or should it only be used with bibliographic entries such as at Princeton University#Further reading? ―Mandruss ☎ 07:51, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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- For that matter, I now notice that the book in question is already listed in the above-linked Further reading section. Should I drop the {{Cite book}} and use only {{Sfn}}s for this situation? Is it considered proper to use {{Sfn}} in association with a Further reading section, or should such a section only be used for sources not otherwise used in the article? Should that book be listed there? What is the meaning of life? Does anybody else find Wikipedia editing tougher than their paid jobs? ―Mandruss ☎ 08:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Works cited in the article are not listed in Further reading or External links sections. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- For that matter, I now notice that the book in question is already listed in the above-linked Further reading section. Should I drop the {{Cite book}} and use only {{Sfn}}s for this situation? Is it considered proper to use {{Sfn}} in association with a Further reading section, or should such a section only be used for sources not otherwise used in the article? Should that book be listed there? What is the meaning of life? Does anybody else find Wikipedia editing tougher than their paid jobs? ―Mandruss ☎ 08:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Wanted to Add more information for Liberty Videocon General Isurance
Hi There,
On behalf of my client's request, I wanted to add some more information on Liberty Videocon General Insurance Page. Please help me for that if I am violating any rule. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neha.20srivastava (talk • contribs) 09:11, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Noting the OP has already been active on the article, with limited success. ―Mandruss ☎ 09:20, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hello @Neha.20srivastava:, I have added the standard information for editors with a so-called "conflict of interest" (COI) to your talkpage. Please make sure to read through the linked guidelines and FAQ. Simplifying: as COI-editor you need to disclose your connection to the topic, and should not edit such articles yourself. But you can suggest changes or new information at the article's talkpage. A lot more detailed advice is available in the formal guideline though. GermanJoe (talk) 11:36, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Deletion of an hoax
Sorry for mentioning that issue, usually I do not edit the english WP and thus little experience on the regular deletion process. Kham football team, an article that exist in many languages, is a hoax - there was never a "State of Kham", also the flag is completely fictional. It has to be deleted, of course in all languages. Could an admin organise this?--Antemister (talk) 11:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Antemister I've proposed the deletion of Kham football team, as there's no evidence it actually exists/existed. As for other languages, we have no control over them, and an admin on English Wikipedia provably isn't an admin on other language Wikipedias. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:51, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I doubt that's provable. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:22, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) I've been looking around for a while, and I can't find any evidence it exists. The references given appear to be about the Tibet football team, and the only hit on Google is [3], which cites Wikipedia. — crh 23 (Talk) 12:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- It appears that, after the article was proposed for deletion, it was then nominated for nominated for speedy deletion under G3 as a blatant hoax, and has now been deleted. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:12, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Landry's
Landry's, Inc. is the parent company of numerous other companies that also have WP articles. Landry's, Inc and some of the others are being used as blatant PR/marketing tools with lots of junk sources, including each company's own website, to verify content. PR Newswire, which writes press releases disguised as news stories (for money), was also being used as a reliable source mulitple times. I started to clean up the "parent" article (Landry's, Inc.), but I just don't have the time to deal with the all the crap contained in all the articles. So if someone else wants to de-spam these articles, good luck. Dirroli (talk) 15:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I've removed a load of promotional crap from Landry's, Inc., but there's plenty left. Most of the articles about the restaurants it owns probably warrant deletion. Maproom (talk) 17:42, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Using geographic coordinates from Wikidata
When importing geographic coordinates from Wikidata, the output looks like this: 53°31'4.44"N, 113°29'46.90"W. I'd like to make that a clickable inline link to the GeoHack tool, like this: 53°31′4.44″N 113°29′46.90″W / 53.5179000°N 113.4963611°W. But Template:Coord doesn't accept Wikidata's format as an input; the template needs to have either pipe-separated degrees|minutes|seconds, or decimal degrees. Is there any way to make this work? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:08, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think so, and I've worked quite a bit with coordinates. I'd suggest you ask the question at Template talk:Coord or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:21, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Arctic.gnome: Of course, anybody can create a template AFAIK, and you could create a new one to do that if you know how or care to learn how. The URL produced by your {{coord}} example is:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Wikipedia%3AHelp_desk¶ms=53_31_4.44_N_113_29_46.90_W_
. ―Mandruss ☎ 17:41, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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- @Mandruss: I could feed Wikidata's output directly into a URL rather than going through Template:Coord, but GeoHack doesn't accept the degree/minute/second symbols in its URL. I need a way to replace the symbols with underscores. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:16, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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- @Arctic.gnome: Yeah, that would require code of some kind to convert from one format to the other. Not only that, but to make the link look and behave exactly like that from {{coord}} would require wrapping some HTML around the URL. It's a big job and, if you don't already possess that skill set, probably not my best idea of the day. My first reply was better. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:30, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
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Page history blanked by turning into a redirect
The page Filipino people of Spanish ancestry was turned into a redirect to a new page, Spanish Filipino, by unexperienced User:Arius1988. This is an irregular way to move a page, and conceals most of its history. However I have no idea about how to fix it. I've written about the question in the aforementioned user talk page, but he just blanks it. What should I do? Thank you. --Jotamar (talk) 16:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I have undone the redirect. Filipino people of Spanish ancestry is now an article again. Maproom (talk) 17:52, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- It looks like Filipino people of Spanish ancestry shares a lot of content with Spanish Filipino. They probably could be merged. Liz Read! Talk! 18:11, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Change displayed link color for interwiki links
Hello,
This is similar to a question I had asked earlier about external links. I am trying to change my CSS so that interwiki links that have been visited are displayed as the same color as those that have not been visited (color #3366BB). I have tried both
.mw-body a:link.interwiki:visited { color #3366BB;}
and
.mw-body a:interwiki:visited {color #3366BB;}
but neither seemed to have worked. Any advice?
Thanks in advance. Ergo Sum 19:47, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Complex template help
Template:Infobox university address I am trying to get the address function to work in the same fashion as Template:Infobox school. I have tried to merge between the two source codes but obviously it requires more technical knowledge to get this to work.
The background story is explained better at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 May 6#Template:Infobox university address where you can already see it is being nominated for deletion, so time is limited to get this functional and to make it a viable replacement for Template:Infobox university Trackinfo (talk) 19:52, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Trackinfo: The usual place to develop a new version of {{Infobox university}} is Template:Infobox university/sandbox. Then Template:Infobox university/testcases can be used to display the old and new output side by side. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:45, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- We can move the location. I still need assistance with the coding. Trackinfo (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I have made the move to Template:Infobox university/sandbox/address. Technical assistance still needed. Trackinfo (talk) 05:12, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- We can move the location. I still need assistance with the coding. Trackinfo (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
How to find articles with ending -ology
I want to have a set of all Wikipedia articles which end in ology. Is there some tool or gadget which I can use to get a list of all of such articles. Thank you.NikolaiHo 21:06, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- I recently wanted to do a search for all articles ending in Fraternity, I used https://quarry.wmflabs.org/ but I ended up instead of looking for '%Fraternity' which timed out, I did an or across all 26 choices of field like 'A%Fraternity' or field like 'B%Fraternity'. etc. See https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/9516 once you log in.Naraht (talk) 21:54, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
bangyal rajput (more defined)
bangyal rajputs are basically agnivanshi rajputs clan . bangyal rajput was a ruling lord ( sipa salar ) . bangyal was born as agnivanshi but at teenage he was taken as prisoner by M.bin Qasim , and he served him as soldier . later on due to great service of bangyal he was realesed by Bin Qasam ( as he was leaving also midlle east) . also Bin Qasam gifted him a great piece of land to be a lord . that land is some area of potohar (kallar syedan , matoor , gujarkhan ). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.255.6.68 (talk) 21:29, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- There is no article by that title and your post entirely lacks context and therefore cannot be acted upon. Wikipedia has more than five million articles and searching for what you are here about is not really in the volunteer job description. If you are here about some specific article, then name it, and then tell us something very specific about what you are seeking (or better yet, post to the article's talk page), like "this article does not describe _____, when it should; here my suggested addition and here's my reliable sources that backs up these edits; and the edit should be added to to X section, or "I want the following change to the text: it says X but should say Y..." etc.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
Ishmael Reed
Honors and Awards.
Tried to insert a new honor, with web page source cited and moved another one to a lower paragraph, which might have created another error. please advise how to fix. However these are all accurate award mentions--just an editing question — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skirtdancer (talk • contribs) 21:35, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Template help
I want to create a specific template similar to these ones. It should serve as a notice on the talk page of Maize that reminds users of the naming dispute and redirects them to the page Talk:Maize/Corn (as the talk page is really just getting cluttered by it), just as was done with Myanmar and redirecting towards Talk:Burma/Myanmar. The page Talk:Georgia is a great example as well. How would I go about creating such a template myself? Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 21:48, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Prinsgezinde. You probably already saw that the text at the Maize talk page is generated by the template code {{BurmaMyanmarRMArchive}}.
- Anytime you see something like that, the template page itself will be at the title you see between the curly braces, with "Template:" prefixed;
- Thus, to access the template page iself, you would just go to Template:BurmaMyanmarRMArchive (or for the other one, to Template:GeorgiaRMArchive);
- If you click edit at either template page and copy the code, you can then create a template at, say, Template:CornMaizeRMArchive or some other intuitive name (I find these ones, with the CamelCase and no spacing a bit passé; we have moved towards more sentence-style, accessible template names);
- Paste the code from one of these templates and tailor for your purposes.
- Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)
- Thank you, Fuhghettaboutit, for your detailed and quick response, I expected it to involve much more than that. This will help a lot! Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 22:24, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Prinsgezinde: Great! Glad to help. If you have any trouble feel free to contact me directly at my talk page. I am a terrible, dilettante coder but I have enough experience from failing many times at trying over my head stuff that I can actually understand and do the "easy" stuff (and I know where all the great template coders live).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:02, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you, Fuhghettaboutit, for your detailed and quick response, I expected it to involve much more than that. This will help a lot! Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 22:24, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Reliable sources vs one event?
Dear editors: This draft: Draft:LaNiyah Bailey is about a child author who wrote a book and received a fair amount of press coverage. She later made a follow-up activity and colouring book. According to WorldCat, she is listed as a co-author; the first book is in 9 libraries (at least, since not all libraries send data to WorldCat), and the second is not listed. The article needs editing for neutral point of view, and I am willing to do this, but I don't want to keep it from being deleted under db-g13 unless it's an acceptable topic. The draft says she has won an award. I haven't found reviews of the second book. I remember having a lot of trouble getting the article about Riley Senft accepted because of the WP:ONEEVENT. Is this another instance of the same thing? —Anne Delong (talk) 23:18, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
- CSD G13 is for abandoned drafts. If you're interested in editing it, it shouldn't be deleted under G13. If you think it isn't notable, then you should nominate it for deletion using AFD, but you shouldn't wait until it can be deleted under G13 in order to get it deleted for a different reason. The sources seem to have significant coverage about the author, not just the book, so I would think she's notable. KSFTC 00:28, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
May 7
Editing
I am trying to update and clean up the page for the company I work for, but my edits are quickly being reverted back and I am being sent messages from a moderator for "disruptive behavior". How do I make these edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bevois (talk • contribs) 02:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- If you work for the company, you have a conflict of interest and should not be editing the article. You can request changes on the article's talk page. Subjects of articles do not own the article, Wikipedia's community does. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:01, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Each of the reversions is tagged "Unexplained removal of content". Have you tried not calling attention to yourself by removing whole sections of the article? —Tamfang (talk) 08:19, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Referencing errors on Medici Chapel
Reference help requested. When I edited the Medici Chapel page I wasn't sure how to add a reference correctly. And when I did add one I didn't do it right and it caused a broken reference name. So, I was wondering how do I fix this? Thanks, SaraShindollar (talk) 03:37, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- The problem was that you tried to use a named reference after the {{reflist}} template. You didn't need to add the reference again to that "References" section as it was already in the "Notes" section where the {{reflist}} template was called. - David Biddulph (talk) 04:06, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Company Details in Wikipedia
hoe to add my company details in wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avinash Eazeetec (talk • contribs) 05:20, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not really a business directory. HighInBC 05:26, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
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- I'd put it a little more strongly: Wikipedia is really not a business directory. —Tamfang (talk) 08:12, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Correct. Wikipedia is not a directory. FTFY, HighInBC ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 09:29, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Come back tomorrow night, we're going to do fractions.
Is N⁄D meant to have a slash? I don't see one. I do see a bar in N/D. —Tamfang (talk) 07:21, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Tamfang: The template outputs the HTML code
⁄
. I do see a slash. This may be browser-dependent; I'm using Windows 10 and Firefox 46.0.1 -- John of Reading (talk) 07:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Ditto the preceding, FWIW. I've used {{frac}} a couple of times and intended to use it whenever I see a fraction. If that's not universally supported (or at least supported by the four or five major browsers), the template should be deprecated or modified to accomplish this a different way. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:02, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Having tried all four skins (ha ha), I see the slash – whether in the macro or in Mandruss's more naked examples – only in Cologne Blue. (Firefox, MacOS.) —Tamfang (talk) 08:50, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
The Picture Here and a Contribution Offer
I thought that I would contribute this to the page for Edward Warner Heston. I already have it posted on one of my web pages so it can be accessed here: http://sungraffix.net/QuantumnIrridator/Links-Heston%20Ansestry/Obituary%20of%20Edward%20Heston-Large.html It is his obituary from the Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 21, 1824. My sister, Cindy, has the original hanging on her wall at home. I took a photo of it. We are descended from Edward Heston. Also, I could be wrong but we thought the picture you have there is of Zebulon Heston - 1670-1720, his father who migrated here from Heston, England. I will look some more, but I don't see a way to know who created the page or how to contact them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrheston (talk • contribs) 08:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- This is about Edward W. Heston. As a related person, you are discouraged from editing the article yourself, but I don't see that as a serious issue. If you cite that obituary in the article, you should do it something like this.[1] The article has had over a dozen contributors, but most of the recent work on it has been by User:DeerJerky. Maproom (talk) 08:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- ^ "Obituary". Saturday Evening Post. 21 February 1984.
Unusual Articles
I saw a program on TV that among other topics talked about "Wikipedia,Unusual Articles".
Hoe does one access that page?
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.31.173 (talk) 14:11, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- WP:Unusual Articles. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 14:13, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Mistake on List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016#External links
There is a mistake on this pagina, at the end of the page. Can anyone fix it? Elizabeth'94 (talk) 17:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Re positioning of picture and English pages for Spanish entries.
Hello,
We've created a page (James Mercer, diplomat) and we would like the following changes to the page.
The picture to be moved directly below the 'Early Life' section, above the career section.
I'd also like the Spanish information on the page to be translated into English (or English pages made for the Spanish entries) please. There is more information I'd like to edit for those Spanish pages.
Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moreinfos (talk • contribs) 18:26, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Dreux winegrowers
Good evening, I have just put in the sandbox the English version of an article about Dreux winegrowers and craftsmen ecomuseum (that's 40 km away from Chartres). I have got various references to add but I don't know how to insert them (wikipedia in English is a bit difficult for me). Many thanks in advance to any volunteer who could tell me if the article can be accepted. If it is the case I'll try to manage the technical part of it! ;) Best regards. K.Lafont (talk) 18:37, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Anyone who helps will want to know what references you have. I suggest you add a list of them, in any format you like, in French if you prefer, to your sandbox.
Also, where is the French Wikipedia article? I have been unable to find it.This link fr:Ecomusée des vignerons et des artisans drouais will also help any volunteer. Maproom (talk) 18:57, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Why can't this german picture be used on en-wp?
How come the image "Bild:DisplayBeleuchtungsArten.jpg" on German wikipedia (de-wp) can't be used on en-wp? The description mentions something about "CC-by-sa 2.0/de". Bytesock (talk) 20:18, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Bytesock: Images that are saved directly to other Wikipedias cannot be used on the English Wikipedia. The only way images can be used is if they are saved directly to enwiki or to Wikimedia Commons. Since the image is licensed under a free use license I have moved the image to Commons. You can now access it from File:DisplayBeleuchtungsArten.jpg and you should be able to use it now on enwiki pages. --Majora (talk) 21:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
May 8
Vertical bar in URL causing error
I'm trying to put this ref into an article: [1]
However, the vertical bar in the URL seem to be what is producing this error in the ref: Unknown parameter |oclc;query= ignored (help)
Is there a way to include this URL in a ref without generating the error? NewtonCourt (talk) 21:00, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- @NewtonCourt: You have to use the escape pipe {{|}}. I have fixed the link and it looks like it is working. --Majora (talk) 21:04, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Majora: Thanks very much! NewtonCourt (talk) 09:37, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- @NewtonCourt: unfortunately, that is not the right type of escaping. {{|}} is a form of wikicode escaping, but that doesn't actually work inside refs (yes wikicode is TERRIBLE). What you need here is percent-encoding. The encoded value of | is %7C. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:37, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Majora: Thanks very much! NewtonCourt (talk) 09:37, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
References
- ^ Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. "Boston Central Artery Corridor Master Plan". C/W MARS. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
Update on CLARE TURLAY NEWBERRY
Her daughter, Felicia N. Trujillo, just released a biography that includes full color covers of all 20 of her books (not 17) and 2 portfolios: THE CAT ARTIST~The Story of Clare Turlay Newberry. <redacted per WP:EL> Also see: www.NewberryCats.com a portfolio site featuring most of Newberry's books. WP:COPYVIO book ad removed Felicia Newberry Trujillo (talk) 05:42, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<ref>Clare T. Newberry PHOTOS AVAILABLE--DON'T KNOW HOW TO UPLOAD
- Presumably this is intended to refer to Clare Turlay Newberry? --David Biddulph (talk) 05:45, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)@Felicia Newberry Trujillo: Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not post ads for books, especially when the text plagiarizes another source. As you have a conflict of interest, I recommend that you do not directly edit the article on Clare Turlay Newberry. However, your book would be a useful source, so you are welcome to mention it on the article's talk page (Talk:Clare Turlay Newberry). The message will stay there longer than it will here, and volunteers who work on that article are more likely to find it there. Ian.thomson (talk) 05:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- As for the photos, Felicia Newberry Trujillo: one or two of them may be welcome additions to the article, but only if they are released under a suitable licence. One aim of Wikipedia is to make all its information freely reusable, and that includes images. With some narrow exceptions (which I don't believe will be relevant in this case) all images are freely reusable by anybody for any purpose, including commercial, as long as they are properly attributed. This means that in order to upload any of the images to Wikipedia (or, better, to Wikimedia Commons), the holder of the copyright in them must explicitly follow the procedure in Donating copyright materials - which, as I say, will grant an irrevocable licence to reuse them. If the copyright holder wishes to do so, and follows that procedure, then you can upload them using the upload wizard. Adding suitable licensed pictures is something that people with a conflict of interest are usually OK in doing, as long as they accept the consensus if other editors do not feel that the pictures are appropriate for some reason. --ColinFine (talk) 10:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Problem with GeoHack
See this article: IIT Kanpur Airport. In the Infobox on the right, the coordinates are given for the location of the topic. When we click on the coordinates, it opens a new page on GeoHack. On that page, the WGS84 shows the correct coordinates which are same as that on Infobox of the Wikipedia article, whereas just one line below Geo URI show incorrect coordinates. Because of the incorrect Geo URI coordinates, the links to maps such as Bing Maps or Google Maps lands the user on an incorrect location. I don't know how to change these Geo URI coordinates :( . Please Help. Iamvaibhavkumar (talk) 07:33, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- The coordinates in the infobox were wrong, GeoHack did what it was told and pointed to the location it received from the page. I think I've fixed the problem by looking up the airstrip in google maps and correcting the coordinates in the article. Jarkeld (talk) 08:22, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- Right. The infobox uses degrees, minutes, seconds. It says 26°31′14″N 080°13′51″E after the fix by Jarkeld. @Iamvaibhavkumar: Somewhere you found degrees as decimal numbers 26.5202N 80.2330E and tried to enter it in [4]. But to get minutes and seconds you would have to say 0.5202×60×60 = 1873 = 31×60 + 13, so it becomes 26°31′13″N with your measurement. Similarly, 0.2330×60×60 = 839 = 13×60 + 59, so it becomes 080°13′59″E. That's very close to Jarkeld's coordinates. Your measurement would give https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=IIT_Kanpur_Airport¶ms=26_31_13_N_080_13_59_E_type:airport_region:IN. That actually hits the landing strip while Jarkeld is 10m north of it. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, I see my mistake. I should have seen it. Thank you @PrimeHunter: and @Jarkeld:. I'm very sorry for all this trouble. Apologies. Iamvaibhavkumar (talk) 08:56, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- Right. The infobox uses degrees, minutes, seconds. It says 26°31′14″N 080°13′51″E after the fix by Jarkeld. @Iamvaibhavkumar: Somewhere you found degrees as decimal numbers 26.5202N 80.2330E and tried to enter it in [4]. But to get minutes and seconds you would have to say 0.5202×60×60 = 1873 = 31×60 + 13, so it becomes 26°31′13″N with your measurement. Similarly, 0.2330×60×60 = 839 = 13×60 + 59, so it becomes 080°13′59″E. That's very close to Jarkeld's coordinates. Your measurement would give https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=IIT_Kanpur_Airport¶ms=26_31_13_N_080_13_59_E_type:airport_region:IN. That actually hits the landing strip while Jarkeld is 10m north of it. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Spurious reversion of my own edit after I saved another edit
On May 1, 2016, I removed some linkspam from A Girl like Me (film). Today I made a minor edit to Generic Access Network. Then I looked at my contribution history and discovered that I had supposedly reverted my own edit to "A Girl like Me (film)". But I did not! I haven't even looked at that page since May 1. Any ideas? Peter Chastain [¡habla!] 09:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- I once achieved a similar result, by accidentally editing not the current version of an article but an old version. Maproom (talk) 10:19, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Peter Chastain: Could this have been an accidental click on a "rollback" link in your watchlist? -- John of Reading (talk) 12:58, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Tool for comparing intersection of pages edited by users?
I can't find it - I want to see why pages are both edited by two specific users - it gets used in SPIs. Legacypac (talk) 11:58, 8 May 2016 (UTC)