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= August 20 =
= December 31 =
==[[Peter Kavanagh (politician)]]==
Reference number 5 is wrong - I have failed again. Please fix; I (or the team I am on) will not be attempting to edit next year - 2025. Thanks you and my apologies again[[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]]) 00:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


:[[Special:Diff/1266299963|✅]] [[User:Folly Mox|Folly Mox]] ([[User talk:Folly Mox|talk]]) 00:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
== Problems with viewing maps on Wikipedia ==
::''Again'', {{u|Srbernadette}}, you wrote 2024 as 20244. Why is it that you cannot see and correct such obvious errors on your own? [[User:Cullen328|Cullen328]] ([[User talk:Cullen328|talk]]) 01:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Could it be that your keyboard is jamming? -- [[User:DandelionAndBurdock|D'n'B]]-''[[User_talk:DandelionAndBurdock|📞]]'' -- 12:09, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


== Looking for any policies and guidelines on Portals? ==
Hello,
The Italian wikipedia article on the city of Zara in Croatia has a map showing the location of the city:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara#/media/File:Croatia_location_map.svg
But the map as I'm able to view it merely shows Croatia, without indicating the location of Zara.
This happens to me frequently when trying to view a map which is included in a Wikipedia article about a particular location. I imagine that I need to configure things differently, but have no idea how, and I'll appreciate whatever advice you can offer.
Thanks and best regards,
JR <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Jro571|Jro571]] ([[User talk:Jro571|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Jro571|contribs]]) 13:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:{{ping|Jro571}} I see the city as a red dot in the infobox at [[:it:Zara]]. Do you see it there? It isn't supposed to show when you only view the map. The red dot is a separate image [[:it:File:Red pog.svg]] displayed on top of the map in the infobox. The same map [[:it:File:Croatia location map.svg]] is used by many articles about different places in Croatia. If you want to see the red dot in a larger map than normal in the infobox then your only option is to use your browsers zoom function on the infobox. Most browsers use {{Keypress|Ctrl|+}} for larger, {{Keypress|Ctrl|-}} for smaller, {{Keypress|Ctrl|0}} for normal. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:16, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


I feel like the answer will be obvious when someone says it, but where are the guidelines or policies on portals? [[Wikipedia:Portal]] is an info page with a banner from five years ago saying it needs to be updated. I looked around but only see [[WP:POG]], a failed proposal. Other non-article content has a guideline that at least defines what should be kept or deleted. Is there an equivalent to [[Wikipedia:Redirect/Deletion reasons]] somewhere for Portals? [[User:Rjjiii|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Rjj<sup>iii</sup></span>]] ([[User talk:Rjjiii|talk]]) 04:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
== Problem getting image caption to appear ==


:The sort of "realist" answer is few people care about portals and they're neglected. A glance at [[WT:Portal|the talk page there]] will indicate that the answer to your query appears to be "nowhere really". WP is a volunteer shindig and so if no one works on a thing it just doesn't happen. --[[User:Slowking Man|Slowking Man]] ([[User talk:Slowking Man|talk]]) 02:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
I uploaded a new photo for the [[CoreLogic]] article and wanted to include a descriptive caption, and used the code <nowiki>[[File:CoreLogic_HQ.png|200px|right|CoreLogic's Irvine CA headquarters]]</nowiki> but the caption only appears with a mouseover. What am I doing wrong?[[User:Timtempleton|Timtempleton]] ([[User talk:Timtempleton|talk]]) 18:18, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
::Gotcha, thanks, [[User:Rjjiii|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Rjj<sup>iii</sup></span>]] ([[User talk:Rjjiii|talk]]) 21:46, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


==[[Iris Sheila Collenette]]==
: You removed |thumb, and that stops the caption from being displayed. See [[Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]]. --[[User:David Biddulph|David Biddulph]] ([[User talk:David Biddulph|talk]]) 18:25, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
I have added a file from commons and is far too big. please fix if you can. You could correctly caption it: "Pickenham Hall, Norfolk, home of Collenette's mother" - Thanks [[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]]) 07:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::Doh! - thanks.[[User:Timtempleton|Timtempleton]] ([[User talk:Timtempleton|talk]]) 20:17, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
:{{Done}} with [[Special:Diff/1266378437|this edit]]. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 08:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::{{u|Srbernadette}}, that article entirely fails to explain why this English gentlewoman ended up as an expert on the flowers of Saudi Arabia. Why is that? [[User:Cullen328|Cullen328]] ([[User talk:Cullen328|talk]]) 09:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:::{{u|Srbernadette|John of Reading}}, I don't believe that Pickenham Hall, Norfolk was the home of Collenette's mother, she married in 1923 (Burke's Peerage 1934 via Google books) then Collenette's mother's father "JOHN SMITH MORETON , of Pickenham Hall , Nor- folk ... purchased the Pickenham and Houghton - on - the - Hill estates in 1924" ((Burke's Landed Gentry 1939 via Google books).
:::{{u|Cullen328}}, Srbernadette didn't write the article so they may not know much about Collenette's biography. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 15:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Thanks for pointing that out, {{u|TSventon}}. [[User:Cullen328|Cullen328]] ([[User talk:Cullen328|talk]]) 19:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::{{u|Cullen328}}, the article is still very short, but I have added a sentence saying that Collenette visited Saudi Arabia while her husband was working there. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 22:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


== How to change username? ==
== [[Childhood blindness]] ==


hi, I'm trying to reference the ''infobox'' with Patient UK [http://patient.info/doctor/eye-problems-in-babies Eye Problems in Babies] however it wont save...--[[User:Ozzie10aaaa|Ozzie10aaaa]] ([[User talk:Ozzie10aaaa|talk]]) 22:18, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Is there any way to change my username? I don’t really like it. [[User:Cometkeiko|Cometkeiko]] ([[User talk:Cometkeiko|talk]]) 07:24, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:Yes. See [[WP:UNC]] [[User:Meters|Meters]] ([[User talk:Meters|talk]]) 07:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:Doesn't look like an edit filter or the spam blacklist to me. What does happen when you try to save? [[User:Jo-Jo Eumerus|Jo-Jo Eumerus]] ([[User talk:Jo-Jo Eumerus|talk]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Jo-Jo Eumerus|contributions]]) 22:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
::Are you logged in when you try? What is your attempted code? Place it in {{tag|nowiki}} if you cannot save it here. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:40, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
:::ok, [[Childhood_blindness]] you see the infobox, I inserted UK Patient and the link[https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Childhood_blindness&action=edit], however it does not show on the article?--[[User:Ozzie10aaaa|Ozzie10aaaa]] ([[User talk:Ozzie10aaaa|talk]]) 22:49, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_blindness]done, thanks--[[User:Ozzie10aaaa|Ozzie10aaaa]] ([[User talk:Ozzie10aaaa|talk]]) 00:01, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


== Using edit summary to let out personal feelings ==
::UK Patient is not a valid parameter, see [[:Template:Infobox medical condition]]. You should have seen a warning message to this effect (in red) on previewing the edit. [[User:Eagleash|Eagleash]] ([[User talk:Eagleash|talk]]) 00:14, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:::your right, however I was able to edit it at wikidata to set Patient UK, it is linked (however to wrong eye problem[http://patient.info/doctor/eye-and-optic-nerve-tumours])...its suppose to be [http://patient.info/doctor/eye-problems-in-babies]--[[User:Ozzie10aaaa|Ozzie10aaaa]] ([[User talk:Ozzie10aaaa|talk]]) 00:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::::Fixed at Wikidata in [https://www.wikidata.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Q18387303&diff=367443363&oldid=367430144]. You cannot control the text displayed on the link in the article, except by using the <code>name</code> parameter but that also controls the infobox heading. (Technically the Wikidata entry could be abused to give the wanted effect but don't try that). Some templates give a warning about unknown parameters when previewing but {{tl|Infobox medical condition}} is not one of them. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:43, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::::::thank you [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]]--[[User:Ozzie10aaaa|Ozzie10aaaa]] ([[User talk:Ozzie10aaaa|talk]]) 00:45, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


How to deal with a user who undid an edit then uses edit summary to just explicitly let know their personal feelings over a [[constructive criticism]] like [[Special:Permalink/1266366734|this one]] then restoring it back? I've been avoiding that user since we were blocked for an edit war but they keep coming to my edits I've made (be it on an article or on my talk page). [[User:D.18th|<b style="color:#008080; text-shadow:0.1em 0.2em 0.1em #FFF8E7">𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑</b>]] [[User talk:D.18th|<b style="color:#008080; text-shadow:0.1em 0.2em 0.1em #FFF8E7"><small>(𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔)</small></b>]] 08:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
= August 21 =


:My personal suggestion is that if their comments or behavior bother you, but they're not impacting ''the enyclopedia'' ([[WP:PURPOSE|the reason why we are all here]]) much at all, to just ignore it, since, does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? If someone is causing trouble impacting numerous editors, they will attract attention and people will "do something about them" sooner or later. If you find editing Wikipedia to be causing stress, a good first step is always to take a short break, do something else that you enjoy, take a walk outside to decompress, anything you might find enjoyable. Wikipedia isn't a job or obligation and [[WP:there is no deadline|there is no deadline]]. Also might want to try switching gears and editing some other areas: [[WP:TASKS|there are plenty of tasks to do]] and who knows, you may even find some of them interesting! {{=)}}
==[[Princess Michael of Kent]]==
:{{br}}
The "simple" title in bold above the subject's photo box - Christine Marie - is '''incorrect''' - should not it read "Princess Michael of Kent"? The rules for this type of thing are clear. Thank you in advance [[Special:Contributions/101.182.30.213|101.182.30.213]] ([[User talk:101.182.30.213|talk]]) 00:55, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:(It wouldn't be very challenging to have a [[WP:userscript|userscript]] that "ignores" a user, by just "collapsing" their edits in edit history and on talk pages into something like "1 edit hidden, click to expand". Someone might even have already made one along those lines; if interested you can go looking at what's out there. If not I could take a stab at it if it's something someone might find useful.) [[User:Slowking Man|Slowking Man]] ([[User talk:Slowking Man|talk]]) 17:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:Unless her first name is actually "Princess" no it shouldn't be. --[[User:Majora|Majora]] ([[User talk:Majora|talk]]) 01:29, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::Well I've been doing that this past few days but when I would come back here to edit a content of an article to make it better, that other user would undo it then put something on edit unrelated to why they undid it then restored back to how I edited it, like "what's the point for undoing it then restoring it back?" Anyways, thanks for those tips, and I will find and use that userscript you suggested. Cheers and happy new year! [[User:D.18th|<b style="color:#008080; text-shadow:0.1em 0.2em 0.1em #FFF8E7">𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑</b>]] [[User talk:D.18th|<b style="color:#008080; text-shadow:0.1em 0.2em 0.1em #FFF8E7"><small>(𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔)</small></b>]] 20:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::In that case, I suppose [[Prince Michael of Kent]] should not be titled on his page either?-- <span style="font-family:Courier">[[User:Elmidae|Elmidae]]</span> <small>([[User talk:Elmidae|talk]] · [[Special:contributions/Elmidae|contribs]])</small> 16:59, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Elmidae}} That is correct. And I will be changing it as soon as I click save page here. Just like on [[George V]] or [[Elizabeth II]] honorifics do not belong in the top of the infobox under the "name" parameter as that is not their name. Our guideline on that can be found here: [[WP:HONORIFIC]] --[[User:Majora|Majora]] ([[User talk:Majora|talk]]) 17:40, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


== A user desperate for a war again ==
== You Tube Personality ==


How to deal with a user looks really desperate to declared a war to me again. This [[Special:Permalink/1266366228|edit summary]] is so sensitive to me, and no longer normal for me. I want to go in that user talk page to give some advise but i know this user will lastly revert my edit and said "Vandalism", so what i do is just leave it on the edit summary. Everything i do on this Wikipedia, this user will always appear, like a few months ago, i've created a several draft that is ready to published but in the end all of it is just useless because the all of the mainspace is created by this user, like i didn't even get any chance for my only interest topic in this Wikipedia. <span id="Aidillia:1735633845995:WikipediaFTTCLNHelp_desk" class="FTTCmt"> —&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Cursive">[[User:Aidillia|<span style="color:#DA1884">Aidillia</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Aidillia|talk]])</sup></span> 08:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)</span>
will someone please list me on the youtube personality page. i dont have a clue about anything about wikipedia and that is all i want to do i have been trying to figure this out for 6 months already.if someone would be kind enough to do that for me id rea[[User:Wayne Ray Chavis|Wayne Ray Chavis]] ([[User talk:Wayne Ray Chavis|talk]]) 02:41, 21 August 2016 (UTC)lly appreciate it. thank you. wayraycha
:Hello, {{u|Aidillia}}. No editor can possibly cause another editor to engage in [[WP:EW|Edit warring]]. That is literally impossible. Edit warring is ''entirely'' the responsibility of the editor or editors who choose to engage in edit warring, which is a blockable offense forbidden by policy. Nobody is forced to click the blue "Publish changes" button. So, ''always'' refuse to engage in edit warring, which is forbidden by policy, which bears repeating. There are many [[WP:DR|Dispute resolution]] procedures available to you, which should be used instead. [[User:Cullen328|Cullen328]] ([[User talk:Cullen328|talk]]) 08:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::Ok thanks. I will have a look at it soon. <span style="font-family:Cursive">[[User:Aidillia|<span style="color:#DA1884">Aidillia</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Aidillia|talk]])</sup></span> 09:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:Also you might want to take a look at [[WP:NFF]] as this article itself is potentially a candidate for deletion as there has not been significant coverage of this future film. [[User:Tiggerjay|<span style='color:DarkOrange'>'''Tigger'''</span>'''Jay''']]&thinsp;[[User talk:Tiggerjay|<span style="font-size:85%;color:Purple">(talk)</span>]] 20:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


== I've created [[:Category:Books about Australian rules football]] ==
:{{u|Wayne Ray Chavis}}, I'm assuming that you're talking about [[List of YouTubers]]. That list is like most lists on Wikipedia where the people listed there should have an article about themselves '''before''' being listed there. I cannot find an article called "Wayne Ray Chavis" or "WayneRayCha". You may be [[WP:N|notable enough]] for an article according to Wikipedia's policies. I don't know. But, if you are, [[WP:AUTOBIO|you should not]] write an article about yourself. Please click through the links that I've provided for fuller explanations about my points. †<span style="font-family:monospace;">[[User:Dismas|Dismas]]</span>†|[[User talk:Dismas|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 03:10, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


Hi all,
==[[James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale]]==
Please help - something is wrong with ref number 8 on the above page. I thankyou in advance <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/101.182.30.213|101.182.30.213]] ([[User talk:101.182.30.213|talk]]) 06:48, 21 August 2016 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


I've created [[:Category:Books about Australian rules football]] which is pretty obviously wrong, and *I don't know how to fix it*.
{{resolved}}


Yep I'm an [[:WP:ADMIN]] with about 58K edits, but also someone who knows their limitations - in this case I'm teh WP:CIR when it comes to templates.
:The 'something' was quite clear "check value in accessdate" ... '21st aug. 206' is obviously not a valid date. [[User:Eagleash|Eagleash]] ([[User talk:Eagleash|talk]]) 08:25, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


Could someone who groks template coding possibly step in here and fix it up?
== Should the word "versus" be capitalized in titles? ==


Pete AU aka [[User:Shirt58|Shirt58]] ([[User talk:Shirt58|talk]]) 🦘 10:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
I wonder whether the word ''versus'' should be capitalized in titles. These two video games &ndash; belonging to the same series &ndash; have inconsistent titles: ''[[Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin]]'' and ''[[Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper]]''. [http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14/which-words-in-a-title-should-be-capitalized This source] says ''versus'', althought having five characters, should be lowercase.--[[User:Carnby|Carnby]] ([[User talk:Carnby|talk]]) 08:15, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:What titles are used by the vendor? Those would seem to be the primary titles. The alternate forms of capitalization should be recognized as redirects. [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 14:45, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::On the covers of both games <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">versus</span> is in small caps: ''Sherlock Holmes <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">versus</span> Arsène Lupin'' and ''Sherlock Holmes <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">versus</span> Jack the Ripper''. On [http://frogwares.com/games/ Frogwares websiste] ''versus'' is not capitalized.--[[User:Carnby|Carnby]] ([[User talk:Carnby|talk]]) 21:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


:Hi, {{u|Shirt58}}! Please look at the category page and see if it looks like what you expected. :) --[[User:CiaPan|CiaPan]] ([[User talk:CiaPan|talk]]) 11:03, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
== Ongoing semi-protection of the [[Race and intelligence]] talk page ==
:PS. I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean about templates. Do you want some template to be added to the category page? It gets done exactly the same way as in regular articles. --[[User:CiaPan|CiaPan]] ([[User talk:CiaPan|talk]]) 11:05, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


::I usually try to find and adapt a similar existing category. I have checked [[:Category:Books about American football]] and added two more categories. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 11:25, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
[[Wikipedia:Protection Policy#Protection by namespace]] states that "Talk pages . . . are only semi-protected for a limited duration in the most severe cases of vandalism." I have checked the race and intelligence talk page several times over the past year or two, and it has been protected continuously. I would like to know where to request it be unprotected, as, bar an exceptional coincidence, it is in clear violation of Wikipedia:Protection policy. [[Special:Contributions/110.33.170.108|110.33.170.108]] ([[User talk:110.33.170.108|talk]]) 10:53, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:::And thank you to everyone who has replied here and fixed that up. For reference, I've sometimes described myself as a "non-technical" admin. By that I mean I have pretty much no clue whatsoever about the questions that come in at [[:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)]]. [[User:Shirt58|Shirt58]] ([[User talk:Shirt58|talk]]) 🦘 10:42, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
: The way to appeal the protection of the talk page is to start with the protecting admin and ask them to remove the protection. In this case that would be {{u|Doug Weller}}. You need to explain why you believe protection is no longer is required. The protection was added because of disruptive editing by socks of Mikemikev. Looking at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Talk%3ARace+and+intelligence protection history] it was going on for a long time and is probably justified. --&nbsp;[[:en:User:GB fan|GB]]&nbsp;[[:en:User talk:GB fan|fan]] 11:05, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:: Checking his user:talk page, that seems that is semi-protected too. What now? [[Special:Contributions/110.33.170.108|110.33.170.108]] ([[User talk:110.33.170.108|talk]]) 08:11, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:::You can ask at [[WP:RFPP]] (Request For Partial Protection, which includes asking for protection reduction) or you could create an account and become autoconfirmed (make 10 edits with the account and have it exist for 4 days) after which you would be able to edit semi protected pages like that admin's talk page. [[User:RJFJR|RJFJR]] ([[User talk:RJFJR|talk]]) 15:26, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


== Template edit help needed on [[Template:Ice hockey team roster/sandbox]] ==
== File on Commons with the same name as a file on Wikipedia ==
I accidentally uploaded an image to Commons using the same name as an existing image on Wikipedia. Now, if I try to use the image I uploaded to commons on Wikipedia, it will show the image on Wikipedia that is known under that name. Is there any way to get around this, or do I need to get the file on Commons to be renamed? ~[[User:Maplestrip|<span style="color:#005080">Mable</span>]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|<span style="color:#700090">chat</span>]]) 13:35, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:No, there is no way to use the Commons image. Either it or the file on Wikipedia needs to be renamed. [[User:Pppery|<span style="position:relative;top:10px">P</span>p<span style="position:relative;bottom:10px">p</span>e<big style="position:relative;top:10px">r</big>y]] <big style="position:relative;top:5px">([[User talk:Pppery|talk]])</big> 13:45, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::Alright, I guess I'll request a move then. How annoying >.> ~[[User:Maplestrip|<span style="color:#005080">Mable</span>]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|<span style="color:#700090">chat</span>]]) 16:17, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


I'm editing {{tl|Ice hockey team roster/sandbox}}, trying to add a new column, but have it only show if a parameter equals "yes".
== Possible to edit text of a bar chart in Wikimedia commons? ==


My test implementation using this new column is currently at [[User:MikeVitale/sandbox]]. I'm basing the code I added to the Ice hockey team roster sandbox off of {{tl|CIH schedule start}}, which I'm familiar with the usage of.
I would like to use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_plug-in_annual_sales_2011-2015.png
but overwrite the language to use it in a different language Wikipedia. I have no graphics skills or special graphics software but I understand that graphics are normally created in layers. So is there some text layer I can edit and save the whole thing as a different language version of the bar chart?


My end goal here is to combine {{tl|Player7}} into {{tl|Player4}} (love those descriptive names), and eventually TfD both Player7 and {{tl|Ice hockey minor league team roster}}. --[[User:MikeVitale|<span style="color: #ce6300; background: #fff">Mike</span>]][[User_talk:MikeVitale|<span style="color: #fff; background: #ce6300;">Vitale</span>]] 15:06, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Or if that is not possible is there a way I can contact the creator (their user page is a red link which says the page has been deleted) or can I ask for a graphics expert to upload it to Wikimedia commons as layers?
:{{ping|MikeVitale}} I have encoded a pipe as <code><nowiki>{{!}}</nowiki></code> [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Template:Ice_hockey_team_roster/sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=1266466569] so it isn't interpreted as a separator between parameters to <code>#ifeq</code>. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 19:32, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
[[User:Chidgk1|Chidgk1]] ([[User talk:Chidgk1|talk]]) 14:03, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::Thank you for the help! --[[User:MikeVitale|<span style="color: #ce6300; background: #fff">Mike</span>]][[User_talk:MikeVitale|<span style="color: #fff; background: #ce6300;">Vitale</span>]] 05:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


== Finding a taxonomic error over 100 years old while doing research for an article ==
:That likely isn't needed, [[User:Chidgk1|Chidgk1]]. The Commons link you provide includes a link to the original source document, a Google Sheets found [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YkIkZ7X4NiOAuL81dGn72N_M272hLZJf6IYnpO2CvLA/edit#gid=1634135336 here], and since the license used is the [[Creative Commons]] [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International] license, as mentioned you are allowed to remix the work to suit your needs, as long as you apply the same license to your new product. So from a practical standpoint, all you need to do is open the source Google Sheet, save a copy of it so you can edit that copy, and make the language translations via editing the actual data in the sheet. This should automatically make the changes to the graph attached in the sheet since the graph is just reading the data you send it. Then, upload a picture of the new graph to Wikimedia Commons, and license and attribute the original work appropriately. [[User:RegistryKey|'''RegistryKey''']]<sup>[[User_talk:RegistryKey|'''(RegEdit)''']]</sup> 14:50, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


What the title says. How should I properly address it in the article, given that it seems to have flown under the radar of actual experts? I'm working on an article on ''Eoscorpius'', an extinct genus of scorpion from the Paleozoic Era first described in 1868, but it appears that some experts used the name, unaware that it was already taken, to describe an extinct Miocene fish of the family [[Cottidae]] in 1919. No one seems to have noticed this mistake, and there exist rather recent articles on the two very different organisms using the same genus name. Even the [[Paleobiology Database]] is confused; it lists ''Eoscorpius primaevus'', intended as the name of a fish, with the rest of the ''Eoscorpius'' species, which are actual scorpions (that was actually what led me to first notice something was off, when I saw that the supposed different species of the same genus were separated by hundreds of millions of years). Anyway, that's my situation. What can I do to address it without falling into original research territory? [[:User:An anonymous username, not my real name|<span class="tmpl-colored-link {{#if:|mw-no-invert|}}" style="color: #48717A ; text-decoration: inherit;">'''''Anonymous'''''</span>]] 20:05, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
==Abbr==
If you see {{tl|vte}} it produces a link with hover text "View this template". How can we produce that simple hovertext which when on hovering displays a tooltip. {{tl|abbr}} produces a underline too which I don't want. I know it can be done by <code> <nowiki><span></nowiki> </code> element but don't know how! '''''[[User:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:black">Varun</span>]][[User talk:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:green">FEB2003</span>]]'' <sup> <span style="color:green">I am Online </span> </sup>''' 14:12, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
:[[Template:Abbr#See also]] links {{tl|H:title}}. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 15:15, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::{{yo|PrimeHunter}} Thank you so much '''''[[User:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:black">Varun</span>]][[User talk:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:green">FEB2003</span>]]'' <sup> <span style="color:red">I am Offline </span> </sup>''' 12:26, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


:It seems to me that you can note that the Eoscorpius described by one source is a fish and that described by the other source is a scorpion, and rely on [[WP:BLUE|common knowledge]] that these are different taxa to comment that these uses are inconsistent, but you should not attempt to resolve the inconsistency, or even to account for it, if you have no source that discusses the inconsistency. [[User:ColinFine|ColinFine]] ([[User talk:ColinFine|talk]]) 20:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
== Inappropriate on today's English page ==
:ColinFine's advice is right-on. After that, you may want to contact a [[taxonomist]] or two, probably ones with expertise in the [[Paleozoic]]. Who knows, you just might wind up getting co-author credit on a scientific paper! --[[User:Slowking Man|Slowking Man]] ([[User talk:Slowking Man|talk]]) 23:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


::@[[User:ColinFine]] and @[[User:Slowking Man]], [[Eoscorpius|here's how I ended up writing the article]]. I did my best to lay out the facts without putting forward my own interpretation. I also have reached out to an official source, so we'll see how that goes. [[:User:An anonymous username, not my real name|<span class="tmpl-colored-link {{#if:|mw-no-invert|}}" style="color: #48717A ; text-decoration: inherit;">'''''Anonymous'''''</span>]] 17:40, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
that Edwin Stevens, reporting from his missionary position in Qing-era China, felt their recent erections indicated apprehension, and penetration was difficult? <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.68.158.46|72.68.158.46]] ([[User talk:72.68.158.46|talk]]) 17:44, 21 August 2016 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:::That looks like the best you can do, @[[User:An anonymous username, not my real name|An anonymous username, not my real name]]. Note that any personal communication you receive from an "official source" will not be usable on Wikipedia. A note in a reputable journal, however, would be citable. [[User:ColinFine|ColinFine]] ([[User talk:ColinFine|talk]]) 18:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:This is being discussed at [[Talk:Main_Page#Errors in the current Did you know...]] -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 18:22, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::::@[[User:An anonymous username, not my real name|An anonymous username, not my real name]], I see that you have nominated Eoscorpius for DYK, so hopefully a lot of people will be reading the article shortly. I would suggest noting the taxonomic error on the talk page and asking at the relevant wikiprojects if anyone there can help with secondary sources. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 12:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::I already reached out to the PBDB and ICZN, but doing some further asking around within Wikipedia sounds like a good idea. I'll make sure to do it. [[:User:An anonymous username, not my real name|<span class="tmpl-colored-link {{#if:|mw-no-invert|}}" style="color: #48717A ; text-decoration: inherit;">'''''Anonymous'''''</span>]] 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)


== Subheading alignment ==
== ...Hello.. On your site there is a claim that the oldest "Eastern Cottontailed Rabbit" is 9 years old, is that a verified claim or not? ==


Would someone please advise how to get the 'See also' header on [[Wartling]] to align to the left. I've noticed this occurring on a few articles - adding an additional blank line usually fixes it, but for some reason not here. [[User:Rupples|Rupples]] ([[User talk:Rupples|talk]]) 20:28, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
... HELLO.. On your site there is a claim that the oldest "Eastern Cottontail Rabbit" is 9 years old.. Is that a verified claim or not? I would like to know as we have a Eastern Cottontail Rabbit that has just turned 8 years old and is on it's way to being 9 years old.. She is doing well and shows no signs of any health issues... Please let me know.. Thank You <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/75.246.194.129|75.246.194.129]] ([[User talk:75.246.194.129|talk]]) 23:16, 21 August 2016 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:I added clear template before "See also" section, and it seems ok when I view the article. Is this what you wanted? [[User:Cmr08|Cmr08]] ([[User talk:Cmr08|talk]]) 20:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
:*Hi, the article only states that {{tq|Captive eastern cottontails have lived to at least nine years of age}}, so 9 may or may not be the record. [[User:Crow|<font color="black">'''Crow'''</font>]][[User talk:Crow|<font color="black"><sup><small>''Caw''</small></sup></font>]] 23:20, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
::Excellent. Thank you very much, @[[User:Cmr08|Cmr08]], I'll try and remember this in future. [[User:Rupples|Rupples]] ([[User talk:Rupples|talk]]) 20:41, 31 December 2024 (UTC)


= January 1 =
::According to AnAge (animal aging and longevity database) entry for, [[Eastern cottontail rabbit]] (''Sylvilagus floridanus''):


== About cladograms on Arabic script ==
:::''In the wild, these animals appear to live up to 5 years. In captivity, they have been reported to live more than 9 years [0001]. One captive specimen lived 8.4 years at Tulsa Zoo [0671]. There are anecdotal reports, which may be true, of one animal living 9.8 years in captivity (Steven Austad, pers. comm.). Other estimates suggest they may live over 10 years, but this is unverified.''
----
:*<small>{{cite web|title=Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) longevity, ageing, and life history|url=http://genomics.senescence.info/species/entry.php?species=Sylvilagus_floridanus|website=genomics.senescence.info}}</small> [[Special:Contributions/107.15.152.93|107.15.152.93]] ([[User talk:107.15.152.93|talk]]) 00:15, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


::For future reference, this sort of content related question is best handled at the [[WP: Reference desk]] -- this help desk is intended for questions related to editing or using Wikipedia itself. [[Special:Contributions/107.15.152.93|107.15.152.93]] ([[User talk:107.15.152.93|talk]]) 00:19, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello everyone, can someone help me to figure out what is the issue I can't create a correct cladogram on Arabic script? The issue is the branches are reversed. And thanks. [[User:سنوببي|سنوببي]] ([[User talk:سنوببي|talk]]) 00:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:Hah, that's got to be an issue related to [[right-to-left]] text handling; on a page in an RTL language such as Arabic, the Web browser will dutifully flip ''everything'' by default. So you have to engage in some template wizardry so it doesn't flip the non-text elements of the cladogram. The place you want is [[WP:VPT|Tech village pump]], where you are likely to find help from editors experienced with Wikipedia's esoteric syntax. Hopefully that helps. --[[User:Slowking Man|Slowking Man]] ([[User talk:Slowking Man|talk]]) 02:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


==[[Tom Taylor (Yorkshire cricketer)]]==
Reference number 2 does not have the name of the year it (a medical journal) was published which is 1921. Please fix this up. I have failed. I'm sorry and that's it from me. [[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]]) 02:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


::I was about to fix it, but [[User:Citation_bot]] beat me too it. There was a line break (ie enter/return on the keyboard) in the middle of the title element of the cite web reference.
= August 22 =
:[[User:Tiggerjay|<span style='color:DarkOrange'>'''Tigger'''</span>'''Jay''']]&thinsp;[[User talk:Tiggerjay|<span style="font-size:85%;color:Purple">(talk)</span>]] 03:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


== Indenting issues in IPv4 ==
== What's my email address? ==


The application for newspapers.com asks for:
Can someone have a look at [[IPv4#Packet_structure|IPv4]]? There was an edit [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=IPv4&diff=733441941&oldid=733440825 two weeks ago] that introduced indenting issues, but I can't figure it out. Putting the <code>{{aligned table</code> on its own line fixes it, but it aligns the tables to the left instead of keeping the subheading margin. Thanks. [[User:Isanae|Isa]] ([[User_talk:Isanae|talk]]) 00:43, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
"The email for your account on the partner's website"
:{{ping|Isanae}} I have reported it at [[Template talk:Aligned table#Whitespace stripping]]. I guess the module implementing the template can be modified to avoid the issue. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:26, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
What is the correct format in this case? [[User:Humphrey Tribble|Humpster]] ([[User talk:Humphrey Tribble|talk]]) 08:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{ping|PrimeHunter|Isanae}} unfortunately, it's an HTML/server/browser problem, and not so much a problem with any module or template. you can reproduce the same thing using pure html tables.
:This is beyond the scope of the Help desk, as it involves an external website.--'''''[[User:ianmacm|<span style="background:#88b;color:#cff;font-variant:small-caps">♦Ian<span style="background:#99c">Ma<span style="background:#aad">c</span></span>M♦</span>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ianmacm|(talk to me)]]</sup>''''' 08:40, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{ping|ianmacm}} I think this relates to an application to use newspapers.com via [[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library]] at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/applications/apply/26/ .
::{{ping|Humphrey Tribble}} have you tried example@example.com? If that doesn't work, Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library has a talk page. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 09:20, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


== Language links ==
;Example
:Item 1
:<table><tr><td>This is a table for Item 3
</td></tr></table>
:Item 3


Is there a setting in user preferences to change the language links to appear in alphabetical order, all in same page? Now only a few language links to other Wikipedias are displayed. This started when I logged out, and I have not found yet ability to change it back. --[[User:40bus|40bus]] ([[User talk:40bus|talk]]) 15:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Now we follow with some text ... [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes|talk]]) 13:51, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
</dl><!-- HACK TAG to avoid indenting the rest of the page -->
I added a hack fix [//en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=IPv4&type=revision&diff=735695882&oldid=735318564 here], and a hack fix just about this comment to avoid indenting the rest of the page. [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes|talk]]) 13:56, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:That works. Thanks! [[User:Isanae|Isa]] ([[User_talk:Isanae|talk]]) 14:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


:{{ping|40bus}} go to preferences, then to appearance and untick the compact language list option at the bottom of the list. I use Vector legacy skin, I don't know if that affects preferences. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 15:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
== Writing and article ==
:: I now removed the option. I had looked through that page many times and didn't see it. --[[User:40bus|40bus]] ([[User talk:40bus|talk]]) 18:24, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


== Contacting sources ==
I have read all the instructions etc. But I am still at loss as to understand how to enter an article and particularly how to enter a footnote. Again I have read all instructions which do not make sense. I have written the article and have all references. I do not know how to make the web page work. I have registered <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Lawden|Lawden]] ([[User talk:Lawden|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Lawden|contribs]]) 04:44, 22 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:Basically, you just visit the URL for the article you'd like to create (that doesn't exist yet) and click "Create". Have you tried the [[Wikipedia:Article wizard|Article Wizard]] yet?


I created this [[Draft:Millennium Force's effects|draft]] article and it was declined. (I understand why it was declined --- I mistakenly used [[No original research|Original Research]] and had a severe lack of secondary sources; also [[Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything|WP:42]]) If I requested a reliable source to write about the said information, or at least part of it, could I in turn use it for citations and references? Thanks! [[User:Therguy10|<span style="color:blue;">'''Therguy10'''</span>]] ([[User talk:Therguy10|talk]]) 18:47, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:And take a look at [[Help:Footnotes]] for more information on how footnotes work. The basic syntax is this:
:Sorry, no. All our sources must be '''''published''''' by some [[:WP:RS|reliable source]] which exercised editorial control and judgement. So their writing an e-mail to you, or even publishing it on their blog, is generally not going to meet our need for verifiable information. --19:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


== 'Save page' button not appearing ==
<pre>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.<ref>your reference content goes here.</ref>


The 'Save page' button is missing when I try to create a new page. This happens whether I create a new article directly, or create it in the Special:Mypage/ format. I'm using Chrome on an iMac, OS is Ventura 13.7.1. Same issue happens in Firefox. [[User:Whiterabbit6|Whiterabbit6]] ([[User talk:Whiterabbit6|talk]]) 21:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
</pre>


:[[User:Bruto|Bruto]] ([[User talk:Bruto|talk]]) 04:59, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:The button actually says "publish changes", it no longer says "save". [[User:331dot|331dot]] ([[User talk:331dot|talk]]) 21:45, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks! Various instructions within Wikipedia itself refer to using the 'Save page' button, that's why I was confused. [[User:Whiterabbit6|Whiterabbit6]] ([[User talk:Whiterabbit6|talk]]) 21:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:::The pages which say "save" meaning "publish changes" should be updated. I fixed one [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Editing&diff=prev&oldid=1266709310 here]. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 22:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Please feel free to [[WP:BOLD|BOLDLY]] edit those or post them here for others to correct. [[User:Tiggerjay|<span style='color:DarkOrange'>'''Tigger'''</span>'''Jay''']]&thinsp;[[User talk:Tiggerjay|<span style="font-size:85%;color:Purple">(talk)</span>]] 23:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)


== Antediluvian Crop Tool ==
:Hello, {{U|Lawden}}. I'm sorry you're having some difficulty. It is an unfortunate fact that creating a new article is difficult, and I wish we didn't get so many people that plunge into trying to do so as the first thing they do in Wikipedia.I always recommend that people spend a few weeks improving existing articles first, to get a feel for how Wikipedia works.
:I'm not clear exactly what problems you are having. You say that you hav written an article, but the only thing you have done on Wikipedia under this account is to create the user-space draft [[User:Lawden/Alderman William Ascough JP]]. This is a good way to proceed, but there's hardly any material in it yet. Have you read [[WP:Your first article|Your first article]] and [[WP:Referencing for beginners|Referencing for beginners]]? If you have read these, and you are still having problems, please explain more clearly what the problems are. --[[User:ColinFine|ColinFine]] ([[User talk:ColinFine|talk]]) 12:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


Can somebody please install a working crop tool so we can '''crop pictures easily''' but leave all the meta data and attribution etc, merely adding a suffix cropped or cropped_ver1 etc? Meanwhile, can someone drop by my talk page and leave instructions. This should be much easier. I'd also like to use photoshop to fix the contrast etc., on existing photos, but I imagine that won't be allowed. Thanks [[User:Billyshiverstick|Billyshiverstick]] ([[User talk:Billyshiverstick|talk]]) 23:23, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
== User Access Level for viewing a another user's watchlist? ==


:[[User:Billyshiverstick|Billyshiverstick]] I believe that the crop tool is at [[:Commons:Commons:CropTool]] on Commons, which is a separate project, so you could ask at [[:Commons:Commons talk:CropTool]]. There may be practical reasons that the tool does not currently do what you want it to do. [[User:TSventon|TSventon]] ([[User talk:TSventon|talk]]) 23:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Does anyone know what User Access Level allows for a user to view another users watchlist? I presume it would be no lower than Administrator, but I wonder if it requires Bureaucrat, Oversight or WMF employee?[[User:Naraht|Naraht]] ([[User talk:Naraht|talk]]) 05:10, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:[[User:Naraht|Naraht]] see [[Help:Watchlist#Privacy]]:
{{quote|text="No users, not even [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrators]], can tell what is in your watchlist, or who is watching any particular page. [[Wikipedia:Database download|Publicly available database dumps]] do not include this information either. Only [[meta:Developer|developers]] who have access to the servers that hold the Wikipedia database could obtain this kind of information."}}
:[[User:RegistryKey|'''RegistryKey''']]<sup>[[User_talk:RegistryKey|'''(RegEdit)''']]</sup> 05:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::{{U|RegistryKey}}. Thank You. And presumably, that also represents the level of access necessary to *change* someone's watchlist.[[User:Naraht|Naraht]] ([[User talk:Naraht|talk]]) 13:02, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


:[[User:Billyshiverstick|Billyshiverstick]], I sometimes use GIMP to fix the contrast, white balance, etc, of photos previously uploaded; nobody has expressed disapproval, and I have never feared that they would. I don't see why you shouldn't use Photoshop for the same purposes. -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] ([[User talk:Hoary|talk]]) 12:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{Re|Naraht}} See [[Wikipedia:Syndication#Watchlist feed with token]] as well. - [[User:NQ|'''NQ''']] [[User talk:NQ|<small>(talk)</small>]] 13:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::Since some time last year, I find that I am no longer able to upload a modified version of an image to Commons. However, there's no need to crop an image, you can just arrange to display a region of it, see [[User:Maproom/cropping]]. &nbsp; [[User:Maproom|Maproom]] ([[User talk:Maproom|talk]]) 08:39, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:::[[FastStone Image Viewer]] is free; it has a nice crop tool and plenty of other image editing features. I've used this for uploads to Commons and Wikipedia.--'''''[[User:ianmacm|<span style="background:#88b;color:#cff;font-variant:small-caps">♦Ian<span style="background:#99c">Ma<span style="background:#aad">c</span></span>M♦</span>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ianmacm|(talk to me)]]</sup>''''' 08:44, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


= January 2 =
== how to request help on my talk page ==


== Article class changes ==
hello , how to request help on my talk page so that a volunteer will help me ? thanks .--[[User:Programmer99|Programmer99]] ([[User talk:Programmer99|talk]]) 07:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


Is there any way to check the progress of the number of articles in each class over time within a project? [[User:Wakelamp|Wakelamp d&#91;@-@&#93;b]] ([[User talk:Wakelamp|talk]]) 12:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)a
:The syntax is {{tp|help me}}. I also put a 'Welcome' message on your talk page with some useful links, including one for requesting volunteer help. -- And welcome to Wikipedia!&nbsp;&nbsp; =) &nbsp;&nbsp; [[Special:Contributions/2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:1|2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:1]] ([[User talk:2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:1|talk]]) 09:29, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:{{ping|Wakelamp}} Which project? Many have counts with page histories at [[Special:PrefixIndex/User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 14:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC)


== How to find out if the number of articles quoting a source has decreased? ==
== how to use kimoji ==


There is a great deal of antipathy towards the Murdoch press in Australia. Interested to see if there has been any systematic removal. [[User:Wakelamp|Wakelamp d&#91;@-@&#93;b]] ([[User talk:Wakelamp|talk]]) 12:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
How to convert any English alphabet to kimoji text Like 🚝🏯🎠🐔🎍
[[Special:Contributions/125.230.17.192|125.230.17.192]] ([[User talk:125.230.17.192|talk]]) 09:10, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


:There have been discussions about the reliability of these organizations on the [[WP:RS/N|Reliable sources noticeboard]]... you can look these up, but I believe that [[The Australian]] is listed as "generally reliable", and [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] as "generally unreliable". Regardless, these sources are still used in many articles. You can see this with the following search: [[Special:Search/insource:dailytelegraph.com.au]] [[User:Reconrabbit|<span style="color:#6BAD2D">Recon</span>]][[User talk:Reconrabbit|<span style="color:#2F3833">rabbit</span>]] 15:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
:Those symbols are not [https://www.kimkardashianwest.com/behind-the-scenes/523-kim-kardashian-making-my-kimojis/https://www.kimkardashianwest.com/behind-the-scenes/523-kim-kardashian-making-my-kimojis/ kimojl], they're [[emoji]]. Neither system is designed to replace English text. They're simply symbols that represent certain ideas or emotions. [[User:Rojomoke|Rojomoke]] ([[User talk:Rojomoke|talk]]) 16:59, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


= January 3 =
== How to refresh WikiProject page ==


== Automatic taxobox system: Way to display all entries in a page's Template:Taxonomy hierarchy (preferably automatically)? ==
Hello!! I recently put together the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject WikiChallenge African Schools]], a competition that we're running from January 2017. The box style presentation makes things very easy to read - BUT the information takes ages to pull into another page. In French Wikipedia, there is a button for refreshing the page and pulling new info into the boxes. Here is an example at bottom right - "rafraichir la page": https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wiki_Loves_Women . Is there one for English Wikipedia? if so, which template I can use. Or at least, what it is called! Thanks so much!! [[User:Islahaddow|Isla Haddow]] ([[User talk:Islahaddow|talk]]) 10:00, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:[[User:Islahaddow|Isla Haddow]]: Refreshing the page is another word for [[Wikipedia:Purge|purging it]]. There are a few templates that provide a link to purge the page: {{tl|Purge box}} {{tl|Purge button}} {{tl|Purge page}} {{tl|Purge}} {{[[User:VarunFEB2003/Template:Purge button 1.0]]}} {{[[User:VarunFEB2003/Template:Purge button 2.0]]}} {{[[User:VarunFEB2003/Template:Purge button 3.0]]}} are a few. —&nbsp;[[User:Crh23|<span style="font-size: 110%;background-color:#E90800; color:#000005;font-family:Garamond;">&nbsp;'''crh'''&nbsp;<span style="color:White;"><sub>23</sub>&nbsp;</span></span>]]<small>&thinsp;([[User Talk:Crh23|Talk]])</small> 13:21, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::{{ping|Islahaddow}} {{abbr|Ha|Because some of the above are my templates}} if you go in the URL bar and type <code> <nowiki>?action=purge</nowiki> </code> in front of the full url your page will get purged/refreshed/updated (all 3 mean the same). '''''[[User:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:black">Varun</span>]][[User talk:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:green">FEB2003</span>]]'' <sup> <span style="color:red">I am Offline </span> </sup>''' 12:25, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:::{{ping|VarunFEB2003|Islahaddow}} Note that, due to a recent tecnhical change, which is currently [[WP:VPT#Purge links require confirmation step|being discussed at the village pump]], all purge links require a confirmation step. [[User:Pppery|<span style="position:relative;top:10px">P</span>p<span style="position:relative;bottom:10px">p</span>e<big style="position:relative;top:10px">r</big>y]] <big style="position:relative;top:5px">([[User talk:Pppery|talk]])</big> 12:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::::I know and I am part of the discussion at VPT! '''''[[User:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:black">Varun</span>]][[User talk:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:green">FEB2003</span>]]'' <sup> <span style="color:red">I am Offline </span> </sup>''' 12:55, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


For pages that use the template {{t|automatic taxobox}} (and related ones such as {{t|speciesbox}}), the taxonomic hierarchy displayed in the "Scientific classification" sidebar does not come from the page itself; rather, it comes from a different template which is automatically included. For example, the page [[Mammal]] automatically gets that information from the template {{t|Taxonomy/Mammalia}}. However, it only displays a limited subset of the information from that template, mainly (but not necessarily entirely) of the "Kings Play Chess On Fine Gold Stools" type. So you'll notice that the "Mammal" page displays seven levels, whereas the "Taxonomy/Mammalia" template that it pulls them from knows about twenty-five levels.
Thanks [[User:Crh23|<span style="font-size: 110%;background-color:#E90800; color:#000005;font-family:Garamond;">&nbsp;'''crh'''&nbsp;<span style="color:White;"><sub>23</sub>&nbsp;</span></span>]], [[User:Pppery|<span style="position:relative;top:10px">P</span>p<span style="position:relative;bottom:10px">p</span>e<big style="position:relative;top:10px">r</big>y]] and [[User:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:black">Varun</span>]]!! [[User:Islahaddow|Isla Haddow]] ([[User talk:Islahaddow|talk]]) 14:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:You are welcome! {{ping|User:Islahaddow}} '''''[[User:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:black">Varun</span>]][[User talk:VarunFEB2003|<span style="color:green">FEB2003</span>]]'' <sup> <span style="color:red">I am Offline </span> </sup>''' 14:36, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


I get the reasoning -- it's like a "Greatest Hits" album -- but I like seeing the whole thing. I understand you can click on the editing icon next to "Scientific classification" to go to the associated taxonomy template, but I'm wondering if there's some way to have them displayed inline on the page instead of switching to a new page. Preferably I'd like this to be automatic, like a preference setting or maybe a user CSS setting. Does anyone know of such a thing? Thanks. - [[User:Rwv37|Rwv37]] ([[User talk:Rwv37|talk]]) 00:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
== Writing partners ==


== Question about an article ==
Dear editors: I recently moved a draft to mainspace, and it's now [[Mark Swift]]. However, Swift appears to do almost all of his writing in partnership with another writer, Damian Shannon. If an article were to be made about Shannon, the only difference would be in the "Early life" section and maybe a "Personal" section if one were to be added. Is it sensible to make one article, "Mark Swift and Damian Shannon", with redirects from the individual names? Or, in the case of biographical articles, does this just mess up the wikidata or cause other problems?&mdash;[[User:Anne Delong|Anne Delong]] ([[User talk:Anne Delong|talk]]) 11:11, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:<Does not know the subject matter disclaimer> My personal philosophy is to follow the topic as it is framed by the sources. If all sources talk about them as a duo rather than as individuals, I'd probably write the article about the duo. [[User:Jo-Jo Eumerus|Jo-Jo Eumerus]] ([[User talk:Jo-Jo Eumerus|talk]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Jo-Jo Eumerus|contributions]]) 11:46, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:If there's no independent info on Shannon, you might consider making [[Damian Shannon]] a redirect to the page. [[User:Rojomoke|Rojomoke]] ([[User talk:Rojomoke|talk]]) 12:17, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:Another thing you might want to do, {{u|Anne Delong}}, is [[WP:DYK|feature your article on the ''Did you know...'' section of the main page]]. [[User:Pppery|<span style="position:relative;top:10px">P</span>p<span style="position:relative;bottom:10px">p</span>e<big style="position:relative;top:10px">r</big>y]] <big style="position:relative;top:5px">([[User talk:Pppery|talk]])</big> 13:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


What is the closest article that has a similar infobox to a country, but for the whole world? [[User:Interstellarity|Interstellarity]] ([[User talk:Interstellarity|talk]]) 01:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
== CE ==


:[[User:Interstellarity|Interstellarity]], do you perhaps mean "Among articles that have as their subject the entire world, which has/have an infobox that is closest to that used for an individual country?"? If not, please elucidate. -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] ([[User talk:Hoary|talk]]) 01:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
What do CE and RP stand for? I commonly see CE in edit summaries, and occasionally I also see 'RP' (which I'm guessing isn't roleplay). As this is about edit summaries, I believe it belongs here and not the reference desk. [[User:DatGuy|Dat Guy]]<sup>[[User talk:DatGuy|Talk]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/DatGuy|Contribs]]</sub> 17:07, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
: {{ping|DatGuy}} I believe that CE stands for '''C'''opy '''E'''dit. What RP means is beyond me, though. [[User:Pppery|<span style="position:relative;top:10px">P</span>p<span style="position:relative;bottom:10px">p</span>e<big style="position:relative;top:10px">r</big>y]] <big style="position:relative;top:5px">([[User talk:Pppery|talk]])</big> 17:13, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:[[WP:CE]], see [[WP:G]]. I've never seen RP, possibly it refers to re-pointing a link, or repairing, or response, depending on the context. -- [[user:zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] <sup>[[user_talk:zzuuzz|(talk)]]</sup> 17:15, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:{{ec}} {{re|DatGuy}} copyedit, reply/response. See [[Wikipedia:WikiSpeak]] and [[Wikipedia:Glossary]]. - [[User:NQ|'''NQ''']] [[User talk:NQ|<small>(talk)</small>]] 17:16, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:: Also {{U|RegentsPark}}, but I doubt it's the case here. - [[User:NQ|'''NQ''']] [[User talk:NQ|<small>(talk)</small>]] 17:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:See also [[Wikipedia:Edit summary legend]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:20, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::Rv is common, as that means "revert". RP not so much in my experience? Reply maybe? [[User:Joseph2302|<b style="color:#CCCC00">Joseph</b>]][[User talk:Joseph2302|<b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b>]] 20:54, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:::I always use RP to mean reply —&nbsp;[[User:Crh23|<span style="font-size: 110%;background-color:#E90800; color:#000005;font-family:Garamond;">&nbsp;'''crh'''&nbsp;<span style="color:White;"><sub>23</sub>&nbsp;</span></span>]]<small>&thinsp;([[User Talk:Crh23|Talk]])</small> 20:56, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


== Which place to go to for help in resolving a dispute ==
== As discussed above ==


I find myself in a disagreement—a dispute, I’d have to say—with other editors of a biographical article on [[Ian Stevenson]], an American psychiatrist who researched cases in which children claim to remember past lives.
"As discussed above. . ." -- as it is written [[Namak_Haram_Deorhi#Etymology|here]] (second line) -- can we write like this on Wikipedia? --[[User:Titodutta|Tito Dutta]] ([[User talk:Titodutta|talk]]) 18:09, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:Bad idea. For one thing, what guarantees that the "above" won't be changed or removed in the future? [[User:Jo-Jo Eumerus|Jo-Jo Eumerus]] ([[User talk:Jo-Jo Eumerus|talk]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Jo-Jo Eumerus|contributions]]) 18:12, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:* Thank you. --[[User:Titodutta|Tito Dutta]] ([[User talk:Titodutta|talk]]) 18:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


I have been seeking to resolve the dispute through polite and constructive talk, but given the responses so far, it seems we may need some help. My question concerns which avenue for [[WP:dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] would seem most appropriate.
== how to use a map within a wikipedia article ==


The issue in brief: On December 6, without prior discussion, one editor, being bold, deleted from various parts of the article 16,703 bytes of text. On the same day, he was joined by another editor, who deleted 1,009 bytes more. The edits undid roughly a year’s worth of work by me and other editors. The deletions consisted largely of material from high-quality reliable sources.


To complicate matters: On the [[Talk:Ian Stevenson|Talk page]] and the [[WP:FTN|Fringe Theories Noticeboard]], the first editor went in for what might reasonably be seen as personal attacks.
hello there,
i m new to wikipedia and writing on my first article about a papuan language.
i want to add a map of papua new guinea and highlight the area where the language is spoken.
i found this free to use map on wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papua_New_Guinea_location_map.svg.
and i saw that lots of other people used this map in their article,eg. for an airport and they added where is it, in the map.
my question now is, how do i do this?
i tried downloading the map, which worked and editing it in paint. but i couldnt save the edits.
from what i read about this map it is okay to do this, am i righ here?
so basically i want to know how i can add something to this mentioned papua new guinea map.
thank you very much already,
best wishes,
johanna <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:JohaAu|JohaAu]] ([[User talk:JohaAu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/JohaAu|contribs]]) 19:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


Given the overwhelming extent of the sudden edits, I suggested on the Talk page that we restore the article to its previous state and then use a process of “talking and editing” to go through proposed deletions. Several editors quickly responded that we should do the opposite: Leave all the deletions in place and then incrementally consider what I might wish to see restored.
sorry if this question was wrong here, i asked it again in the teahouse! <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:JohaAu|JohaAu]] ([[User talk:JohaAu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/JohaAu|contribs]]) 20:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:The map is in [[svg]] format. You should not use paint to edit. Try [[Inkscape]]. [[User:Ruslik0|Ruslik]]_[[User Talk:Ruslik0|<span style="color:red">Zero</span>]] 20:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::{{u|JohaAu}} If you want to mark an area of a specific size and shape, follow the instructions of the user above. If you want to display one or many dots (or some other kind of symbol, cf. the aircraft icon in the airport articles), that mark the locations where the language is spoken, use [[Template:Location map]]. Granted, both of these are very technical tasks. Perhaps you should first write your article without the map and then post a request for one here. <span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: 0.1em">–&nbsp;[[User:Finnusertop|Finnusertop]]</span> ([[User talk:Finnusertop|talk]] ⋅ [[Special:Contributions/Finnusertop|contribs]]) 20:13, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


It appears to me that the editors responding are like-minded souls, at least some well known to one another—a “local consensus”—and that we would benefit from “outside” input.
== Libraian Credentials ==


My question concerns how to proceed. Should I post an [[WP:RfC|RfC]]? Should I go to the [[WP:Dispute Resolution Noticeboard|Dispute Resolution Noticeboard]]”? Or what? I especially ask because although this essentially seems to me a content dispute, it also involves behaviors, such as [[WP:no personal attacks|personal attacks]] and [[WP:disruptive|disruptive editing]], that would seem to deserve review.
I am a librarian for a special collections library and I have access to many primary sources in my field. Any way I can get a credential or something like that on my user page? [[User:Stayhomegal|Stayhomegal]] ([[User talk:Stayhomegal|talk]]) 20:50, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:Hello, {{U|Stayhomegal}}. You are free to add anything you like to your user page, as long as it is within the guidelines of [[WP:Userpage]]. You might find something appropriate in [[:Category:Userboxes]]. But "credentials" are not relevant to Wikipedia in any way. --[[User:ColinFine|ColinFine]] ([[User talk:ColinFine|talk]]) 21:38, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


I have practically no experience with dispute resolution outside of discussion on Talk pages, so I would be grateful for advice.
:{{ping|Stayhomegal}} You might check out [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request]]. The editors that help out there typically have decent access, but you might have better access than some of the regulars.--[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="color:#000E2F;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span>]] 23:47, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


Thank you.
== Getting a template edit to show up ==


Cordially, [[User:O Govinda|O Govinda]] ([[User talk:O Govinda|talk]]) 02:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
I made a small edit to [[Template:Criminal_law|this template]], but I can't seem to get it to show up on the pages the template appears on. I've seen something about purging, and needing to do it on a page in a transclusion, or something like that; I don't really know what I'm doing (as the more clued up among you may be able to tell) and I don't want to press buttons, especially on a template like this, for fear of buggering up a whole bunch of stuff. Could someone help me out? Thanks. &mdash;[[User:Calisthenis|''Calisthenis'']][[User talk:Calisthenis|(''Talk'')]] 22:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:What you've heard about is [[WP:Purge]], and it's not something you do to the template itself. What it basically does is instructs the server to recreate the page from its source code. There is a gadget which adds a purge link to the tops of pages, or you could add <code>?action=purge</code> to the page's URL. <span style="text-shadow:7px 5px 7px grey;font-family:High Tower Text">-- [[User:The Voidwalker|<span style="color:#123524">The Voidwalker</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:The Voidwalker|<span style="color:#353839">'''Discuss'''</span>]]</sup></span> 22:57, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::However, I think I just handled it myself using the [[Wikipedia:Purge#forcerecursivelinkupdate|forcerecursivelinkupdate]] method on the template, but you should check to see if the display is working properly everywhere. <span style="text-shadow:7px 5px 7px grey;font-family:High Tower Text">-- [[User:The Voidwalker|<span style="color:#123524">The Voidwalker</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:The Voidwalker|<span style="color:#353839">'''Discuss'''</span>]]</sup></span> 23:01, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
:::I think it's worked; I can see the change on the pages I looked at with this template. Thanks! &mdash;[[User:Calisthenis|''Calisthenis'']][[User talk:Calisthenis|(''Talk'')]] 00:08, 23 August 2016 (UTC)


:If there has been extensive discussion on the article talk pages, and whatever content issue is not resolved by either editors involved (i.e. no consensus was able to be reached), than the [[WP:DRN|DRN]] is the place to go. If behavior issues are in play, and such editor(s) [[WP:DISCFAIL|fail to respond]] accordingly and with no regard for our policies and guidelines, than [[WP:ANI|report it]] to admins. <span style="color:#7E790E;">2601AC47</span> ([[User talk:2601AC47|talk]]<big>·</big>[[Special:Contributions/2601AC47|contribs]]<big>·</big>[[Special:UserRights/2601AC47|my rights]]) <span style="font-size:80%">Isn't a IP anon</span> 02:20, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
== Writing and article ==
:BTW, I took a good look at the talk, and I would suggest taking into consideration what [[User:Psychologist Guy|Psychologist Guy]] has told you for the last year and a half as far as that is concerned, especially about fringe theories. If it's a simple dispute (at this rate unlikely) between you two, than try [[WP:3O|getting a 3rd opinion]]. <span style="color:#7E790E;">2601AC47</span> ([[User talk:2601AC47|talk]]<big>·</big>[[Special:Contributions/2601AC47|contribs]]<big>·</big>[[Special:UserRights/2601AC47|my rights]]) <span style="font-size:80%">Isn't a IP anon</span> 02:32, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:O Govinda has repeatedly attempted to rewrite the article about Stevenson to present him in a more favourable light spanning over half a decade, and been repeatedly opposed every time. Govinda should probably [[WP:DROPTHESTICK]] at this point. [[User:Hemiauchenia|Hemiauchenia]] ([[User talk:Hemiauchenia|talk]]) 04:01, 3 January 2025 (UTC)


== Page incorrectly marked as extended-protected ==
I have read all the instructions etc. But I am still at loss as to understand how to enter an article and particularly how to enter a footnote. Again I have read all instructions which do not make sense. I have written the article and have all references. I do not know how to make the web page work. I have registered


I have the user preference set to see hidden categories on pages like [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects]], which is part of the [[:Category:Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected pages]], despite not actually being protected. I was wondering how this could have happened, and whether a request over at [[WP:RFUP]] would do anything. Cheers. [[User:LR.127|LR.127]] ([[User talk:LR.127|talk]]) 03:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
I have had some responses but they were in a form not easily understood ans seem to involve chat rooms - I don't do chat rooms - except I suppose this is one. Is there an instruction manual, particularly about how to set up connecting footnotes in English, and not just hieroglyphics? I am a bit older than a 14 year old pimply male in a darkened room! <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Lawden|Lawden]] ([[User talk:Lawden|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Lawden|contribs]]) 23:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:The page is ECP-protected for "move" not for "edit". [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 07:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:Try [[Help:Referencing_for_beginners]] --[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="color:#000E2F;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span>]] 23:40, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


== Google Indexing Issue for Camdenmusique ==


Hi, I noticed that the "Camdenmusique" article is not appearing in Google search results. Could someone please help review it for potential indexing issues or explain why it might not be showing? Thank you! [[User:GD234|GD234]] ([[User talk:GD234|talk]]) 05:25, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
= August 23 =
:[[Draft:Camdenmusique]] isn't an article; it's a draft. Google doesn't spider drafts. There's a template on the draft, inviting you to submit the draft for consideration as an article. -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] ([[User talk:Hoary|talk]]) 05:35, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

::It was an article, but I moved it to draft. See [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Request to Fix Redirect Title: Camden stewart|related discussion]] at AN. [[User:Voorts|voorts]] ([[User talk:Voorts|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Voorts|contributions]]) 05:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
==[[Reg Ansett]]==
Ref number 3 is all wrong - please fix sorry
[[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]]) 00:09, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
:It tells you exactly what to change. Check date in the |accessdate parameter. Here is the link to the section, [//en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Reg_Ansett&action=edit&section=8 click]. It is an extra space. Please fix it yourself. And while you are there, the publisher parameter is also malformed. --[[User:Majora|Majora]] ([[User talk:Majora|talk]]) 00:15, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

I have failed with 2 attempts to get the dates correctly done. I do not understand why ref. number 3 is still in red. Please help I am so sorry[[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]]) 00:23, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
:Please see [[MOS:BADDATE]] for a chart with examples of bad and good date formats. You need to learn how to fix these things on your own. --[[User:Majora|Majora]] ([[User talk:Majora|talk]]) 00:28, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

I have had success!!!
I have now removed the template at the top of eth page. I believe that this page has enough refs. 00:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

==[[North Melbourne Football Club]]==
The first few introductory lines on the page [[North Melbourne Football Club]] are in bold - I think this is unnecessary. I have never edited this page. Please let me know what you think. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Srbernadette|contribs]]) </span></small>

:Fixed it, thanks for pointing this out. Only the article title and eventual synonyms on first mention should usually be bolded (plus a few additional special cases). See the guideline at [[MOS:BOLD]] for more information. [[User:GermanJoe|GermanJoe]] ([[User talk:GermanJoe|talk]]) 00:31, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

== synchrony bank ==

you are the worst bank I ever had
I want to do a balance transfer.
I much will that be for tomorrow
I never ever see my statements
how much do I need to pay you off?
ill give this amount, as I like to see
before transfer my last meassage was
corrupt lets see what happens on this.

cathy <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/75.43.32.53|75.43.32.53]] ([[User talk:75.43.32.53|talk]]) 01:02, 23 August 2016 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.2 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at [[Wikipedia:About|Wikipedia]], the free online encyclopedia that [[Wikipedia:Introduction|anyone can edit]], and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|reference desk]], divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.{{z25}}<!-- Template:Astray --> --[[User:Majora|Majora]] ([[User talk:Majora|talk]]) 01:28, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

== Created page linked to existing one ... ==

Hey there, folks, I've never run up against this dilemma before, but obviously I did something that I can't understand or find a solution to undo. In attempting to create an article for the 1952 album "Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin" somehow when I finally was ready to "save the page" I was shocked to find that the entire article was now under the title "Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook", which previously existed as its own article for that album. When I attempted to go back and "undo" what I had done, it did not show any of the work as a large plus number contribution in my history or on the article's history page. Can someone take a look and see what could have gone wrong? I've created pages before, but never run up against something like this. Is there a way to simply revert back to the original article for "Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook"and yet create a new article "Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin" at the same time? Thanks for any help in advance. [[User:Maineartists|Maineartists]] ([[User talk:Maineartists|talk]]) 02:30, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

: I have reverted your edit to [[Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook]], and used your new content to create the new article [[Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin]], and have provided attribution to your edit. When creating a new page you need to do the creation and save in there, rather than saving in an edit to the old article. If you want to do further edits to the new article you can of course now do so. --[[User:David Biddulph|David Biddulph]] ([[User talk:David Biddulph|talk]]) 05:09, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

: A further problem is that you uploaded the image [[:File:PetersonPlaysGershwin.jpg]] to Commons, which would only be acceptable if the image was free of copyright. I believe that what you should have done is load it to English Wikipedia under a [[WP:NFCC]] rationale in a similar manner to [[:File:Oscarpgershwinsongbook.jpg]]. It needs deleting from Commons as an unintended copyright violation. [[User:David Biddulph|David Biddulph]] ([[User talk:David Biddulph|talk]]) 05:18, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

== Referencing errors on [[Special:Diff/685004938|Polianthes tuberosa]] ==

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Thanks, Libsys <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Libsys|Libsys]] ([[User talk:Libsys|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Libsys|contribs]]) 02:41, 23 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

: The error message says "''Check |url= value (help)''", and the word "help" is in blue to indicate that it is a [[WP:wikilink|wikilink]], in this case to [[Help:CS1 errors#bad url]]. I corrected the error in {{diff2|688332484|this edit}} in October 2015, in response to the question you asked at [[Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2015 October 31#Referencing errors on Polianthes tuberosa]]. --[[User:David Biddulph|David Biddulph]] ([[User talk:David Biddulph|talk]]) 05:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

== I need help fixing my error ==

This was the first time I was doing a move myself. I was trying to move [[Draft:New Perry Hotel]] to mainspace, but I moved it to [[Wikipedia:New Perry Hotel]]. I put in a SD on that article and tried the move again, to [[New Perry Hotel]], but it only created a redirect to [[Wikipedia:New Perry Hotel]]. How can this be fixed? [[User:Bubba73|Bubba73]] <sup>[[User talk:Bubba73|You talkin' to me?]]</sup> 03:22, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

: Well, I figured out that I can SD the redirect then do the move properly. [[User:Bubba73|Bubba73]] <sup>[[User talk:Bubba73|You talkin' to me?]]</sup> 04:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

==[[Reg Ansett]]==
I removed the "warning" at the top of this page - I hope that's OK with the Wikipedia administrators. Thank you[[User:Srbernadette|Srbernadette]] ([[User talk:Srbernadette|talk]]) 04:01, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

:The 'maintenance template' has been restored as the page doesn't have anything like enough refs for an article of that length. The date in the notice is to inform editors how long the issues have existed for. [[User:Eagleash|Eagleash]] ([[User talk:Eagleash|talk]]) 05:42, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

== The changes in one of my edits are not the changes I made; how did this happen. ==

[[User:Tigercompanion25|Tigercompanion25]] ([[User talk:Tigercompanion25|talk]]) 04:09, 23 August 2016 (UTC)Greetings, Wikipedians! On the article for [[Kwanza Unit]], I merely attempted to remove a stray parenthesis and move a comma to the correct location. Imagine my surprise when I look at the difference page [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Kwanza_Unit&diff=735724185&oldid=626728969 here] and find all sorts of edits I didn't make, including edits regarding the substance of the article, which is on a subject with which I'm not even familiar. A subsequent editor promptly reverted some of these changes, and quite rightly. My concern is, how did this happen? Has my account been hacked? Or has there been a technical glitch? These changes are too specific for me to think I did them in error. Also, this hasn't happened on any of my other edits, as far as I can tell. I don't mean to be melodramatic about it, but I'm deeply perturbed to have someone making poor edits and giving the impression that they're mine. Any ideas what happened here? (And of course, if there's something really obvious I'm overlooking, my apologies for making a thing about this). [[User:Tigercompanion25|Tigercompanion25]] ([[User talk:Tigercompanion25|talk]]) 04:09, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
:{{ping|User:Tigercompanion25}}Appears to me that you accidentally edited an old version of the page, as you didn't so much introduce as ''reintroduce'' some issues. A bit of digging revealed the version you edited to likely have been the one by FrescoBot in January 2011. [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Kwanza_Unit&type=revision&diff=735724185&oldid=410018476 this diff] shows no change beyond the fixes you meant to implement, and that's what I get when I compare your edit to FrescoBot's edit, so...you probably checked or otherwise ended up at an old version of the page before clicking edit. [[User:AddWittyNameHere|AddWittyNameHere]] ([[User talk:AddWittyNameHere|talk]]) 04:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
== [[Lan Khuê]] ==
Dear Sir/Madam

Could you please answer my inquiry related to my article about a living person? I have added two references which are reliable and contain statements supporting my article's content. However, the warning sign of deleting my article within 7 days if I don't add any reliable references still appears there. I totally have no ideas what's happening and would like to hear your advice.

Here is the URL to my article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan_Khu%C3%AA

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Richardhsgs|Richardhsgs]] ([[User talk:Richardhsgs|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Richardhsgs|contribs]]) 06:00, 23 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== How to create an english version of a russian page ==

Hello! We want to create an english version of a russian page https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Окрепилов,_Владимир_Валентинович .
We cannot use translation-tool because of restrictions. We have made an english version page as a new page: [[Vladimir_Okrepilov|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Okrepilov]]. How can we link russian and english page?
Please contact us as soon as possible. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:О. Евдокимова|О. Евдокимова]] ([[User talk:О. Евдокимова|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/О. Евдокимова|contribs]]) 08:00, 23 August 2016 (UTC)</span></small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:I linked the articles using the "Edit links" link in the Languages section of the sidebar. —[[User:teb728|teb728]] [[User talk:teb728|t]] [[Special:Contributions/teb728|c]] 08:11, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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    December 31

    Reference number 5 is wrong - I have failed again. Please fix; I (or the team I am on) will not be attempting to edit next year - 2025. Thanks you and my apologies againSrbernadette (talk) 00:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Folly Mox (talk) 00:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Again, Srbernadette, you wrote 2024 as 20244. Why is it that you cannot see and correct such obvious errors on your own? Cullen328 (talk) 01:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Could it be that your keyboard is jamming? -- D'n'B-📞 -- 12:09, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Looking for any policies and guidelines on Portals?

    I feel like the answer will be obvious when someone says it, but where are the guidelines or policies on portals? Wikipedia:Portal is an info page with a banner from five years ago saying it needs to be updated. I looked around but only see WP:POG, a failed proposal. Other non-article content has a guideline that at least defines what should be kept or deleted. Is there an equivalent to Wikipedia:Redirect/Deletion reasons somewhere for Portals? Rjjiii (talk) 04:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The sort of "realist" answer is few people care about portals and they're neglected. A glance at the talk page there will indicate that the answer to your query appears to be "nowhere really". WP is a volunteer shindig and so if no one works on a thing it just doesn't happen. --Slowking Man (talk) 02:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Gotcha, thanks, Rjjiii (talk) 21:46, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I have added a file from commons and is far too big. please fix if you can. You could correctly caption it: "Pickenham Hall, Norfolk, home of Collenette's mother" - Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 07:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

     Done with this edit. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Srbernadette, that article entirely fails to explain why this English gentlewoman ended up as an expert on the flowers of Saudi Arabia. Why is that? Cullen328 (talk) 09:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    John of Reading, I don't believe that Pickenham Hall, Norfolk was the home of Collenette's mother, she married in 1923 (Burke's Peerage 1934 via Google books) then Collenette's mother's father "JOHN SMITH MORETON , of Pickenham Hall , Nor- folk ... purchased the Pickenham and Houghton - on - the - Hill estates in 1924" ((Burke's Landed Gentry 1939 via Google books).
    Cullen328, Srbernadette didn't write the article so they may not know much about Collenette's biography. TSventon (talk) 15:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for pointing that out, TSventon. Cullen328 (talk) 19:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Cullen328, the article is still very short, but I have added a sentence saying that Collenette visited Saudi Arabia while her husband was working there. TSventon (talk) 22:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    How to change username?

    Is there any way to change my username? I don’t really like it. Cometkeiko (talk) 07:24, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes. See WP:UNC Meters (talk) 07:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Using edit summary to let out personal feelings

    How to deal with a user who undid an edit then uses edit summary to just explicitly let know their personal feelings over a constructive criticism like this one then restoring it back? I've been avoiding that user since we were blocked for an edit war but they keep coming to my edits I've made (be it on an article or on my talk page). 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔) 08:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    My personal suggestion is that if their comments or behavior bother you, but they're not impacting the enyclopedia (the reason why we are all here) much at all, to just ignore it, since, does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? If someone is causing trouble impacting numerous editors, they will attract attention and people will "do something about them" sooner or later. If you find editing Wikipedia to be causing stress, a good first step is always to take a short break, do something else that you enjoy, take a walk outside to decompress, anything you might find enjoyable. Wikipedia isn't a job or obligation and there is no deadline. Also might want to try switching gears and editing some other areas: there are plenty of tasks to do and who knows, you may even find some of them interesting!

    (It wouldn't be very challenging to have a userscript that "ignores" a user, by just "collapsing" their edits in edit history and on talk pages into something like "1 edit hidden, click to expand". Someone might even have already made one along those lines; if interested you can go looking at what's out there. If not I could take a stab at it if it's something someone might find useful.) Slowking Man (talk) 17:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Well I've been doing that this past few days but when I would come back here to edit a content of an article to make it better, that other user would undo it then put something on edit unrelated to why they undid it then restored back to how I edited it, like "what's the point for undoing it then restoring it back?" Anyways, thanks for those tips, and I will find and use that userscript you suggested. Cheers and happy new year! 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔) 20:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    A user desperate for a war again

    How to deal with a user looks really desperate to declared a war to me again. This edit summary is so sensitive to me, and no longer normal for me. I want to go in that user talk page to give some advise but i know this user will lastly revert my edit and said "Vandalism", so what i do is just leave it on the edit summary. Everything i do on this Wikipedia, this user will always appear, like a few months ago, i've created a several draft that is ready to published but in the end all of it is just useless because the all of the mainspace is created by this user, like i didn't even get any chance for my only interest topic in this Wikipedia. — Aidillia(talk) 08:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello, Aidillia. No editor can possibly cause another editor to engage in Edit warring. That is literally impossible. Edit warring is entirely the responsibility of the editor or editors who choose to engage in edit warring, which is a blockable offense forbidden by policy. Nobody is forced to click the blue "Publish changes" button. So, always refuse to engage in edit warring, which is forbidden by policy, which bears repeating. There are many Dispute resolution procedures available to you, which should be used instead. Cullen328 (talk) 08:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok thanks. I will have a look at it soon. Aidillia(talk) 09:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also you might want to take a look at WP:NFF as this article itself is potentially a candidate for deletion as there has not been significant coverage of this future film. TiggerJay(talk) 20:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi all,

    I've created Category:Books about Australian rules football which is pretty obviously wrong, and *I don't know how to fix it*.

    Yep I'm an WP:ADMIN with about 58K edits, but also someone who knows their limitations - in this case I'm teh WP:CIR when it comes to templates.

    Could someone who groks template coding possibly step in here and fix it up?

    Pete AU aka Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi, Shirt58! Please look at the category page and see if it looks like what you expected. :) --CiaPan (talk) 11:03, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    PS. I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean about templates. Do you want some template to be added to the category page? It gets done exactly the same way as in regular articles. --CiaPan (talk) 11:05, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I usually try to find and adapt a similar existing category. I have checked Category:Books about American football and added two more categories. TSventon (talk) 11:25, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And thank you to everyone who has replied here and fixed that up. For reference, I've sometimes described myself as a "non-technical" admin. By that I mean I have pretty much no clue whatsoever about the questions that come in at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:42, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Template edit help needed on Template:Ice hockey team roster/sandbox

    I'm editing {{Ice hockey team roster/sandbox}}, trying to add a new column, but have it only show if a parameter equals "yes".

    My test implementation using this new column is currently at User:MikeVitale/sandbox. I'm basing the code I added to the Ice hockey team roster sandbox off of {{CIH schedule start}}, which I'm familiar with the usage of.

    My end goal here is to combine {{Player7}} into {{Player4}} (love those descriptive names), and eventually TfD both Player7 and {{Ice hockey minor league team roster}}. --MikeVitale 15:06, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @MikeVitale: I have encoded a pipe as {{!}} [1] so it isn't interpreted as a separator between parameters to #ifeq. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:32, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the help! --MikeVitale 05:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Finding a taxonomic error over 100 years old while doing research for an article

    What the title says. How should I properly address it in the article, given that it seems to have flown under the radar of actual experts? I'm working on an article on Eoscorpius, an extinct genus of scorpion from the Paleozoic Era first described in 1868, but it appears that some experts used the name, unaware that it was already taken, to describe an extinct Miocene fish of the family Cottidae in 1919. No one seems to have noticed this mistake, and there exist rather recent articles on the two very different organisms using the same genus name. Even the Paleobiology Database is confused; it lists Eoscorpius primaevus, intended as the name of a fish, with the rest of the Eoscorpius species, which are actual scorpions (that was actually what led me to first notice something was off, when I saw that the supposed different species of the same genus were separated by hundreds of millions of years). Anyway, that's my situation. What can I do to address it without falling into original research territory? Anonymous 20:05, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    It seems to me that you can note that the Eoscorpius described by one source is a fish and that described by the other source is a scorpion, and rely on common knowledge that these are different taxa to comment that these uses are inconsistent, but you should not attempt to resolve the inconsistency, or even to account for it, if you have no source that discusses the inconsistency. ColinFine (talk) 20:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    ColinFine's advice is right-on. After that, you may want to contact a taxonomist or two, probably ones with expertise in the Paleozoic. Who knows, you just might wind up getting co-author credit on a scientific paper! --Slowking Man (talk) 23:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @User:ColinFine and @User:Slowking Man, here's how I ended up writing the article. I did my best to lay out the facts without putting forward my own interpretation. I also have reached out to an official source, so we'll see how that goes. Anonymous 17:40, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That looks like the best you can do, @An anonymous username, not my real name. Note that any personal communication you receive from an "official source" will not be usable on Wikipedia. A note in a reputable journal, however, would be citable. ColinFine (talk) 18:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @An anonymous username, not my real name, I see that you have nominated Eoscorpius for DYK, so hopefully a lot of people will be reading the article shortly. I would suggest noting the taxonomic error on the talk page and asking at the relevant wikiprojects if anyone there can help with secondary sources. TSventon (talk) 12:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I already reached out to the PBDB and ICZN, but doing some further asking around within Wikipedia sounds like a good idea. I'll make sure to do it. Anonymous 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Subheading alignment

    Would someone please advise how to get the 'See also' header on Wartling to align to the left. I've noticed this occurring on a few articles - adding an additional blank line usually fixes it, but for some reason not here. Rupples (talk) 20:28, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I added clear template before "See also" section, and it seems ok when I view the article. Is this what you wanted? Cmr08 (talk) 20:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Excellent. Thank you very much, @Cmr08, I'll try and remember this in future. Rupples (talk) 20:41, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    January 1

    About cladograms on Arabic script

    Hello everyone, can someone help me to figure out what is the issue I can't create a correct cladogram on Arabic script? The issue is the branches are reversed. And thanks. سنوببي (talk) 00:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Hah, that's got to be an issue related to right-to-left text handling; on a page in an RTL language such as Arabic, the Web browser will dutifully flip everything by default. So you have to engage in some template wizardry so it doesn't flip the non-text elements of the cladogram. The place you want is Tech village pump, where you are likely to find help from editors experienced with Wikipedia's esoteric syntax. Hopefully that helps. --Slowking Man (talk) 02:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reference number 2 does not have the name of the year it (a medical journal) was published which is 1921. Please fix this up. I have failed. I'm sorry and that's it from me. Srbernadette (talk) 02:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I was about to fix it, but User:Citation_bot beat me too it. There was a line break (ie enter/return on the keyboard) in the middle of the title element of the cite web reference.
    TiggerJay(talk) 03:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    What's my email address?

    The application for newspapers.com asks for:

        "The email for your account on the partner's website"
    

    What is the correct format in this case? Humpster (talk) 08:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    This is beyond the scope of the Help desk, as it involves an external website.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:40, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ianmacm: I think this relates to an application to use newspapers.com via Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/applications/apply/26/ .
    @Humphrey Tribble: have you tried example@example.com? If that doesn't work, Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library has a talk page. TSventon (talk) 09:20, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Is there a setting in user preferences to change the language links to appear in alphabetical order, all in same page? Now only a few language links to other Wikipedias are displayed. This started when I logged out, and I have not found yet ability to change it back. --40bus (talk) 15:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @40bus: go to preferences, then to appearance and untick the compact language list option at the bottom of the list. I use Vector legacy skin, I don't know if that affects preferences. TSventon (talk) 15:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I now removed the option. I had looked through that page many times and didn't see it. --40bus (talk) 18:24, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Contacting sources

    I created this draft article and it was declined. (I understand why it was declined --- I mistakenly used Original Research and had a severe lack of secondary sources; also WP:42) If I requested a reliable source to write about the said information, or at least part of it, could I in turn use it for citations and references? Thanks! Therguy10 (talk) 18:47, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry, no. All our sources must be published by some reliable source which exercised editorial control and judgement. So their writing an e-mail to you, or even publishing it on their blog, is generally not going to meet our need for verifiable information. --19:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

    'Save page' button not appearing

    The 'Save page' button is missing when I try to create a new page. This happens whether I create a new article directly, or create it in the Special:Mypage/ format. I'm using Chrome on an iMac, OS is Ventura 13.7.1. Same issue happens in Firefox. Whiterabbit6 (talk) 21:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The button actually says "publish changes", it no longer says "save". 331dot (talk) 21:45, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks! Various instructions within Wikipedia itself refer to using the 'Save page' button, that's why I was confused. Whiterabbit6 (talk) 21:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The pages which say "save" meaning "publish changes" should be updated. I fixed one here. TSventon (talk) 22:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Please feel free to BOLDLY edit those or post them here for others to correct. TiggerJay(talk) 23:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Antediluvian Crop Tool

    Can somebody please install a working crop tool so we can crop pictures easily but leave all the meta data and attribution etc, merely adding a suffix cropped or cropped_ver1 etc? Meanwhile, can someone drop by my talk page and leave instructions. This should be much easier. I'd also like to use photoshop to fix the contrast etc., on existing photos, but I imagine that won't be allowed. Thanks Billyshiverstick (talk) 23:23, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Billyshiverstick I believe that the crop tool is at Commons:Commons:CropTool on Commons, which is a separate project, so you could ask at Commons:Commons talk:CropTool. There may be practical reasons that the tool does not currently do what you want it to do. TSventon (talk) 23:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Billyshiverstick, I sometimes use GIMP to fix the contrast, white balance, etc, of photos previously uploaded; nobody has expressed disapproval, and I have never feared that they would. I don't see why you shouldn't use Photoshop for the same purposes. -- Hoary (talk) 12:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Since some time last year, I find that I am no longer able to upload a modified version of an image to Commons. However, there's no need to crop an image, you can just arrange to display a region of it, see User:Maproom/cropping.   Maproom (talk) 08:39, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    FastStone Image Viewer is free; it has a nice crop tool and plenty of other image editing features. I've used this for uploads to Commons and Wikipedia.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:44, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    January 2

    Article class changes

    Is there any way to check the progress of the number of articles in each class over time within a project? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 12:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)a[reply]

    @Wakelamp: Which project? Many have counts with page histories at Special:PrefixIndex/User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    How to find out if the number of articles quoting a source has decreased?

    There is a great deal of antipathy towards the Murdoch press in Australia. Interested to see if there has been any systematic removal. Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 12:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    There have been discussions about the reliability of these organizations on the Reliable sources noticeboard... you can look these up, but I believe that The Australian is listed as "generally reliable", and The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) as "generally unreliable". Regardless, these sources are still used in many articles. You can see this with the following search: Special:Search/insource:dailytelegraph.com.au Reconrabbit 15:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    January 3

    Automatic taxobox system: Way to display all entries in a page's Template:Taxonomy hierarchy (preferably automatically)?

    For pages that use the template {{automatic taxobox}} (and related ones such as {{speciesbox}}), the taxonomic hierarchy displayed in the "Scientific classification" sidebar does not come from the page itself; rather, it comes from a different template which is automatically included. For example, the page Mammal automatically gets that information from the template {{Taxonomy/Mammalia}}. However, it only displays a limited subset of the information from that template, mainly (but not necessarily entirely) of the "Kings Play Chess On Fine Gold Stools" type. So you'll notice that the "Mammal" page displays seven levels, whereas the "Taxonomy/Mammalia" template that it pulls them from knows about twenty-five levels.

    I get the reasoning -- it's like a "Greatest Hits" album -- but I like seeing the whole thing. I understand you can click on the editing icon next to "Scientific classification" to go to the associated taxonomy template, but I'm wondering if there's some way to have them displayed inline on the page instead of switching to a new page. Preferably I'd like this to be automatic, like a preference setting or maybe a user CSS setting. Does anyone know of such a thing? Thanks. - Rwv37 (talk) 00:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Question about an article

    What is the closest article that has a similar infobox to a country, but for the whole world? Interstellarity (talk) 01:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Interstellarity, do you perhaps mean "Among articles that have as their subject the entire world, which has/have an infobox that is closest to that used for an individual country?"? If not, please elucidate. -- Hoary (talk) 01:55, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Which place to go to for help in resolving a dispute

    I find myself in a disagreement—a dispute, I’d have to say—with other editors of a biographical article on Ian Stevenson, an American psychiatrist who researched cases in which children claim to remember past lives.

    I have been seeking to resolve the dispute through polite and constructive talk, but given the responses so far, it seems we may need some help. My question concerns which avenue for dispute resolution would seem most appropriate.

    The issue in brief: On December 6, without prior discussion, one editor, being bold, deleted from various parts of the article 16,703 bytes of text. On the same day, he was joined by another editor, who deleted 1,009 bytes more. The edits undid roughly a year’s worth of work by me and other editors. The deletions consisted largely of material from high-quality reliable sources.

    To complicate matters: On the Talk page and the Fringe Theories Noticeboard, the first editor went in for what might reasonably be seen as personal attacks.

    Given the overwhelming extent of the sudden edits, I suggested on the Talk page that we restore the article to its previous state and then use a process of “talking and editing” to go through proposed deletions. Several editors quickly responded that we should do the opposite: Leave all the deletions in place and then incrementally consider what I might wish to see restored.

    It appears to me that the editors responding are like-minded souls, at least some well known to one another—a “local consensus”—and that we would benefit from “outside” input.

    My question concerns how to proceed. Should I post an RfC? Should I go to the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard”? Or what? I especially ask because although this essentially seems to me a content dispute, it also involves behaviors, such as personal attacks and disruptive editing, that would seem to deserve review.

    I have practically no experience with dispute resolution outside of discussion on Talk pages, so I would be grateful for advice.

    Thank you.

    Cordially, O Govinda (talk) 02:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    If there has been extensive discussion on the article talk pages, and whatever content issue is not resolved by either editors involved (i.e. no consensus was able to be reached), than the DRN is the place to go. If behavior issues are in play, and such editor(s) fail to respond accordingly and with no regard for our policies and guidelines, than report it to admins. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 02:20, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    BTW, I took a good look at the talk, and I would suggest taking into consideration what Psychologist Guy has told you for the last year and a half as far as that is concerned, especially about fringe theories. If it's a simple dispute (at this rate unlikely) between you two, than try getting a 3rd opinion. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 02:32, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    O Govinda has repeatedly attempted to rewrite the article about Stevenson to present him in a more favourable light spanning over half a decade, and been repeatedly opposed every time. Govinda should probably WP:DROPTHESTICK at this point. Hemiauchenia (talk) 04:01, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Page incorrectly marked as extended-protected

    I have the user preference set to see hidden categories on pages like Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects, which is part of the Category:Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected pages, despite not actually being protected. I was wondering how this could have happened, and whether a request over at WP:RFUP would do anything. Cheers. LR.127 (talk) 03:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The page is ECP-protected for "move" not for "edit". DMacks (talk) 07:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Google Indexing Issue for Camdenmusique

    Hi, I noticed that the "Camdenmusique" article is not appearing in Google search results. Could someone please help review it for potential indexing issues or explain why it might not be showing? Thank you! GD234 (talk) 05:25, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Draft:Camdenmusique isn't an article; it's a draft. Google doesn't spider drafts. There's a template on the draft, inviting you to submit the draft for consideration as an article. -- Hoary (talk) 05:35, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It was an article, but I moved it to draft. See related discussion at AN. voorts (talk/contributions) 05:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]