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March 16

Table with one column not sortable

I am trying to build WP:consensus for a table to be used at Los Angeles City Attorney. For a long time that page had two tables, one of names alphabetically and the other with names arranged chronologically. A user was WP:Bold and combined the two lists into one sortable table. Because I thought the move was ill-advised (combining, very awkwardly, two kinds of information), I reverted and the page was re-reverted and now we are in a WP:discussion mode. In searching for WP:consensus and hoping for a WP:compromise, I reluctantly agreed to using a single table. The table now on the page, to which I object, is very confusing and awkward. We don't need a table where the names can be sorted in reverse-alphabetical order (ZYX): That just makes no sense. So – can anybody devise a table for that page where the first column, the names, is always alphabetical (no little arrows at the top) and the second column (the years) is sortable? You can read more about this request at Talk:Los_Angeles_City_Attorney#Sortable_table. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 00:41, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Making a column unsortable is possible, but that seems like throwing out the baby with the bath water. The problem is that once someone clicks on the chronological sort button, there would be no way to return to alphabetical sorting.

However, your point that reverse-alphabetical sorting makes no sense (in many tables) is very valid. I really wish there was a way to only disable ZYX, and allow ABC. The ZYX is especially important when you sort by last name, because people will be distracted by the first name. (As just happened when I showed the list at emblem book#Timeline to someone.) But I don't think this is currently possible. Maybe a good idea for a request. — Sebastian 20:11, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Need help on how to fix citation error

Actigraphy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Or: Why, oh why, can I never figure this stuff out for myself!!??!! I recently helped fix entry "Actigraphy" with a very high quality research article I found on the topic. Used Vis.Editor, made a mistake on entering the new citation. There's an error msg there now, but I can' tree how to GET back into the citation to fix it. This is crazy & why I quite editing Wikipedia so often: Every simple seeming thing ends up being horribly convoluted and confusing.

ID# in cite prob looks to have been fixed (by bot?) But "accessed date" is still incorrect (wrong date format). (it was Mar. 13, 2015, fyi). Any advice welcome. Thx! Cynthisa (talk) 03:08, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

added a convenience link. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

2015 Mar 13 is not a valid format for |access-date=, I changed it to 2015-03-13 for consistency with the other accessdate in the article. ―Mandruss ☎ 03:19, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

My Articles always get deleted

Hello Wikipedia i love you website it is awesome but the only problem is every time i make an article it somehow always gets deleted. Heres a link maybe it doesn't work because it got deleted go try it Edmund Murphy So tell me what to do for it not to be deleted. Bye i hope you find out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.163.131 (talk) 09:10, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

You haven't indicated why Edmund is important enough to have an article in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia; most Ireland convicts are not that important. Beside that, all content in Wikipedia must be verifiable by citations to published reliable sources, but if as you say "its a secret no one knows", such sources don't exist. —teb728 t c 10:43, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

wrong Wikipedia article title

I work for the Roboy company, and we would like the name of the article to be changed from ROBOY to Roboy. I have submitted redirects, and they have been denied. We just want the name changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serena dulong (talk • contribs) 09:21, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello @Serena dulong:, I have done this uncontroversial move for you (sources seem to use "Roboy" as well in most cases). As an editor working for the company, please read WP:COI, Wikipedia's policy for editors with a "conflict of interest". GermanJoe (talk) 09:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Your requests at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects have not been denied. They haven't been reviewed. A new user incorrectly blanked the page but it has been restored. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:00, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello @GermanJoe:. OK great. Thank you very much for all of that. I also read the COI policy for editors. I completely understand. I am the Community Manager for Roboy. I realize now I have to write that on my page. Thank you!

Serena dulong (talk) 17:20, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

I cant think of a article

I cant think of an article tell me something and ill right about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.163.131 (talk) 09:41, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

So I'm telling you: Something, but I suggest you left it rather than right (esp. ill right).
Or something like that... --CiaPan (talk) 10:03, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

(cant doesn't appear to be a real adverb, either.) In all seriousness, you could check out Wikipedia:Requested articles for some ideas and also check out Wikipedia:Your first article for some things you need to know before you start. Also consider creating an account. Good luck, and welcome. Scarce2 (talk) 11:07, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

please be sure that anything you do think to write about, you send through a spell check before you submit. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 15:51, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Archive page exists, but it's shown as a red link in archivebox navigator

See Talk:Uzbeks. Archive 1 marked as red link, but it's available: Talk:Uzbeks/Archive 1. How can I fix it? --Zyma (talk) 13:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

It's blue now. It probably just needed a purge to update. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:35, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Translations of articles on non-English Wikipedia sites

Would the appearance of an article on a larger, non-English Wikipedia site qualify its translation for inclusion in the English language Wikipedia?

Thanks! Polemyx (talk) 15:02, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Possibly/probably, but not necessarily - The notability criteria vary from language to language, some are stricter than others. So a subject could meet the criteria on the "non-English Wikipedia" site, but fail to meet the criteria here. We might be able to be more helpful if you tell us what the article is... - Arjayay (talk) 15:27, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

It's a Russian musician, with growing international (Western Europe, Israel) standing, who also lived in the US at one time. (As an American, I have no COI.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Polemyx (talk • contribs) 15:44, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Have a look at the criteria at WP:MUSICBIO - does he clearly meet at least one (preferably more) of those? Please note that references do not have to be in English, but one decent reference in English often convinces editors suspicious about notability. - Arjayay (talk) 15:52, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

"Growing" is a discouraging sign – it suggests that s/he is not yet notable, by the standards of en:Wikipedia. Maproom (talk) 15:58, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I believe several of those are met. It's just hard to judge how seriously the stars of non-US/-CA/-UK/-OZ/-NZ television, and film credits and music awards in the rest of the world will be taken in judging for inclusion in English-language Wikipedia. And @Maproom, "growing" means they're still alive with an active career, one not plateaued like Madonna's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Polemyx (talk • contribs) 16:28, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Inclusion in the English Wikipedia is determined by the existence of acceptable sources, in any language. Language has no role at all in the notability criteria of the English Wikipedia. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:49, 17 March 2015 (UTC)::

"Growing standing" sounds like WP:UPANDCOMING. --Orange Mike | Talk 11:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input for This is no fairytale by carach angren

This is no fairytale by Carach Angren

Hello, Mabdarke (please sign your posts on talk and help pages by ending with four tildes (~~~~) so tha we know who we are answering. I don't see any Cite errors appearing on This is no Fairytale, so I'm guessing that you saw the errors on a preview and didn't save the changes. This makes it hard to diagnose the problem. Usually this means that something in your reference is not formatted correctly, but I can't tell you what. All I can suggest is reading referencing for beginners; and if you get the error again, I think you'll find that part of it is blue, and that is a link to a page which should explain the problem. --ColinFine (talk) 20:09, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

How to chronologically sort a list of people?

Do we have a style guide on how to sort a list of people (or other items with a duration), such as the one at Isidore#People? The problems are that (1) people live to very different ages and (2) we only have the floruit for some people.

I checked Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists, Help:Sorting, and Wikipedia:Disambiguation, but couldn't find anything, which is surprising, given that this situation is so common. — Sebastian 19:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

I know of no applicable guideline, but it seems intuitive that the list should be in ascending name sequence (ignoring "of", "the", etc.). ―Mandruss ☎ 19:38, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, name lists are generally alpha. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 05:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Help:the correction I made is based on my personal contact with Leo Sternbach

[OP Bossman Steve did not supply any comments.]

@Bossman Steve: Please see the message on your Talk page concerning your edit to Benzodiazepine. Your personal contact with and/or knowledge of Mr. Sternbach and his activities is not a reliable source that can be cited in this article. Wikipedia requires edits be supported by citations of reliable sources so they can be verified by any reader. Dwpaul ^Talk 20:32, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

deleted articles

I have made an article but after a few minutes boom its gone its called Moon (Old Age) is it red maybe it got deleted please help me I want my articles to be permnament sorry bad spelling — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.163.131 (talk) 21:35, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Given your command of English language, you should not be attempting to create articles in live main space.

In your account, utilize your sandbox to create a draft of an article about a subject that meets the basic requirements for a stand alone article. then have an established user who does have a solid command of English review and copy edit the article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:02, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

March 17

Does Oversight leave indications of diffs that have been made not visible?

When Admins nix a diff, anybody can still see that something happened in the page log. When a someone does the full "oversight" does that leave the traces of the diffs or do those go away too? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 04:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

The oversight is not in the log, but the revision is still there in the history. Attempting to diff one will give, "You cannot view this diff because one or both of the revisions has been suppressed." Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 05:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 05:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@TheRedPenOfDoom and Anon126/R: It depends what you mean by "full" oversight. See Wikipedia:Oversight/FAQ#Tools for hiding/removing edits. "a deprecated tool, no longer in general use" removes the trace in the page history. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I was not aware of the difference between the older oversight and the current suppression system. PrimeHunter, my username is not "Anon126/R"; that is the name of the page that explains notifications. Anon124 (+2) (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 19:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Still my articles still get deleted person who made deleted articles

still I read myfirstarticle but nothing happened great if my articles keep getting deleted im gonna quit wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.163.131 (talk) 07:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

If you dont stop making disruptive inappropriate articles you will be forced off Wikipedia. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 07:47, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I have de-shouted your heading because I find it annoying and offensive. As for the incomprehensible grammar, I'll let that stand since I have no idea what you are trying to say. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:51, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@122.148.163.131: Please stop adding new sections here. If you want to add to a thread, simply click "edit" next to the section heading, add your comment at the end, and click "Save page". And stop typing in all capital letters, that is considered shouting on the Internet. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

THIS IS A NEW QUESTION in that title (this is a new question) I'm not shouting I'm just trying to get your attention but can you answer my question now maybe for the fifth time I have done everything you told me but my articles still get deleted like Talk Ray its a contact app is it red or blue just check please tell me why it still gets deleted I want my articles to be PERMNAMENT (I'm not shouting) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pabdelma (talk • contribs) 08:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@Pabdelma: Multiple editors have responded to your questions, here, here, and here. I agree with the other editor that your English language skills are not good enough to write new articles on the English Wikipedia site. See Wikipedia:Competence is required#Some common types, "Language difficulty". There are probably other problems with your article attempts, but the language problem is enough. ―Mandruss ☎ 08:54, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of .js page

Please tell me where or how to request deletion of a .js page on Wikipedia. Thank you so much! --iudexvivorum (talk) 07:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

see WP:G7--Moxy (talk) 07:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Regarding page on Ms Inese Vaidere

Good day,

I am writing you concerning the community page about politician Ms Inese Vaidere. For some reason this page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Inese-Vaidere/133439886696962) appears on Facebook with wikipedia content in English. Ms Vaidere has her official facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Inese-Vaidere/133439886696962?fref=ts#!/inese.vaidere.9) for this reason I am kindly asking you to remove the community/wiki page about her from Facebook.com otherwise it is providing confusing and misleading information about he rofficial page.

Yours sincerely, Assistant to Ms Vaidere — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.173.162.144 (talk) 09:06, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

As per the notice on the Facebook community page "This Page is automatically generated based on what Facebook users are interested in and not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with the topic." Wikipedia content is freely licensed and Facebook can use it if they want. You'll have to contact Facebook about this page not Wikipedia. - X201 (talk) 09:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

The Facebook Help page is at http://www.facebook.com/help/ - I'm afraid we at Wikipedia can do nothing about this matter. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

There is a Wikipedia article Inese Vaidere. As mentioned above, its content can be freely used in Facebook. If anyone has an issue about the content of the Wikipedia article, they can discuss at Talk: Inese Vaidere. If the issue is about Facebook content, then, as noted, it is a Facebook issue and not a Wikipedia issue (unless someone says that something is incorrect in her Wikipedia article). Robert McClenon (talk) 17:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

How Do You Edit Titles

Hello Wikipedia, you a awesome and plus my favorite thing to do on the computer. I came here to ask a question how do you edit titles. I have written and article and I want to change it to something else. Thanks. Oh and check out my first article Talk Ray --SweetPoet345 (talk) 09:54, 17 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SweetPoet345 (talk • contribs) 09:53, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

The answer to your question is to WP:MOVE it. But I doubt you'll get the chance since it looks like the article is going to be deleted. Maybe you should go through the Articles for Creation process. And ask yourself if the subject you're writing about is notable enough for an article. Dismas|^(talk) 10:09, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Same user as 122.148.163.131 and Pabdelma in multiple threads above. Clear WP:CIR and approaching WP:NOTHERE. I have reported them at ANI. ―Mandruss ☎ 10:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Isidore

Isidore and Isidore (disambiguation) are so similar in format and content that they can't both be correct usage. How should this be corrected? ―Mandruss ☎ 14:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Either could be correct, but not both at once. I suggest a merge. Maproom (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

After I posted that, I belatedly checked out how other names are handled. For example, there are a William (name) and a William (disambiguation), but the former looks a lot different from Isidore. ―Mandruss ☎ 14:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Maybe Marcus is a better example of such a separation. It contains everything except given names, which are included as link to Marcus (name). Seems like a good approach. GermanJoe (talk) 14:44, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

How odd that there is no common treatment for given names. I'm inclined to just leave it alone, given that anything I did would be subject to the next guy's whim in the absence of any guideline. ―Mandruss ☎ 14:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Stewart Bowman Johnson

I wish to add an article about the artist Stewart Bowman Johnson but I do not know how. Can someone help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Auhor71 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

You could read Wikipedia:Your first article to learn how, or add his name to one of the lists at Wikipedia:Requested articles and wait for someone else to create one. Maproom (talk) 14:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

featured page

how do you become featured on the featured content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.172.194.254 (talk) 15:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

There are different types of featured content linked below, or maybe you want Wikipedia:Today's featured article. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:45, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Featured content:

• Featured articles
• Featured lists
• Featured pictures
• Featured topics

General Wikipedia Doubts

1) Wikipedia Profile

I am planning to create two Wikipedia pages for Ansar Gallary Shopping Mall & Safari Group have many branches across Qatar and Dubai they have subsidiary group also. I have friend who is working in top management in both companies. they can provide the correct information of both shopping mall.

the links for full profile not available on Web. So Could you please guide me in which way I can create the page.

2) Wikipedia profile Images

for example for the above shopping site I also want to upload their images. When I had a talk on info-commons@wikimedia.org one of the admin said they can send direct to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

In such a case , though which account I can upload this images to Wikipedia account. Is it possible to upload in mine after the send direct to permission commons?

3) Wikipedia Profile Photo shoot

Some of the Film Celebrities ask me to put their photo shoot images but I said its against Wikipedia rule. I wanna know, Is it possible if they send photoshoot images to make wikipedia profile.

Appreciate answer for above 3 Questions — Preceding unsigned comment added by Niyazsky (talk • contribs) 16:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Niyazsky. I am afraid that you have some misunderstandings about Wikipedia. It is not a directory, advertising of any sort is not permitted on it, it does not contain profiles, and people connected with a subject are strongly discouraged from having any involvement in an article about that subject. Please see what Wikipedia is not and Your first article.

Having said that, it is possible that there could be articles about those two businesses. Wikipedia articles should be written almost entirely on the basis of what people with no connection to them have written about them and published in reliable places like major newspapers. Information from the top management of the company is not permitted in the article, unless it has also been published.

What you need to do is to find places where people who have no connection with the mall and the group have written articles about them, and published them in major newspapers or magazines (or books from reputable publishers). Blogs and social media will not do, nor will anything published by the companies themselves (including press releases). If you can find suvh writing, then there can be articles on them; but because you have a friend in the top management it may be difficult for you to write in a suitably neutral way about them: I suggest you use the article wizard. You need to make sure, as I said, that everything in the article (apart possible from some uncontroversial factual data such as dates and numbers) comes directly from independent published sources, and make sure that there is no advertising language in it (see Peacock words).

As for pictures: with few exceptions, all pictures in Wikipedia must be released under a free licence. The holder of the copyright (usually the photographer, unless they have assigned it) must explicitly release the picture under a licence such as CC-BY-SA - see donating copyright materials for how to do this. You have had an account long enough, and have made enough edits, that you are allowed to upload pictures: preferably, load them to Wikimedia commons.

I don't understand quite what you are asking about the Photo shoot: the celebrities probably don't own the copyright to those pictures (though they might do). The copyright owner must release the picture as I said above. --ColinFine (talk) 17:05, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

How do I do this Category stuff?

There is a Category:Art Deco architecture. It has several ‘’’Subcategories’’’. I would like to add Category:Art Deco architecture in New York to the list of Subcategories, but do not know how to do this. Any suggestions? Ideas? Theories?
Carptrash (talk) 18:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Category:Art Deco architecture in New York is already a subcategory of Category:Art Deco architecture in the United States by state which is a sub cat of Category:Art Deco architecture in the United States which is a subcat of Category:Art Deco architecture by country which is a subcat of Category:Art Deco architecture.--ukexpat (talk) 18:54, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

thanks ex. Carptrash (talk) 21:05, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Font

HOW DI CHANGE THE FONT TO NEW TIMES ROMAN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:2C18:9150:F0AF:94E2:1DF:7172 (talk) 18:51, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Where do you want to change it? Do you want article text to show up in Times New Roman? Anon124 (+2) (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 19:08, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

In general, Wikipedia's manual of style does not allow the changing of fonts in articles, see WP:FONTFAMILY. Do you mean you want to change it to Times New Roman on your computer? PhantomTech (talk) 19:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

help with adding links.

Hi. Could someone please tell me how I link, (if that's the right term to use) to other articles when the wording is not in full. The example is this I found "bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees." I would like to add a link to the bachelors degree & masters degree articles but using only bachelors & masters? hope that makes sense. thanks.Barniecadd (talk) 22:09, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@Barniecadd: You already have a piped link on doctoral so I'm not sure whether you only want this: [[Bachelor's degree|bachelor's]], [[Master's degree|master's]], and [[Doctorate|doctoral]] degrees. renders as: bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for responding Primehunter. I did not explain that too well. What I was enquiring about was best methods to link to another article when only part of the other article name - in my example here, the word "bachelors" linking to the "bachelors degree" article page.Barniecadd (talk) 04:32, 18 March 2015 (UTC) Hi again. Now I see what you are saying. Thanks again for the help.Barniecadd (talk) 04:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

March 18

Login problems

I received an update to my user page on wikimedia commons saying the username would be modified because it clashes with another login. The other login is one I also control, on wikipedia. I have tried to sign in to Wikipedia to check which email address has been used to authenticate my account - my hope is to ensure both logins use the same email address and then requst for the accounts to be merged, rather than having one renamed. I failed to sign in so followed the link for resetting the password. A temporary password was emailed to me but I was still unable to authenticate, receiving the message that the password was incorrect. I repeated this password reset process, still to no avail. I then searched for a way to get support for account issues - the documentation I found did not address this issue whereby I cannot log in by using the temporary password, hence I am raising the question here. However my primary concerns are to ensure both accounts are merged, rather than one being renamed, and to be able to sign back in to Wikipedia (and wikimedia commons). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.154.38.153 (talk) 00:46, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

What is the username? PrimeHunter (talk) 01:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

youcantryreachingme — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.154.38.153 (talk) 04:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Special:CentralAuth/Youcantryreachingme confirms the Commons and Wikipedia accounts are not attached, and I see the Commons message you mention at commons:User talk:Youcantryreachingme#Your account will be renamed. Passwords are case sensitive. What exactly does the error message say when you try to log in with the temporary Wikipedia password at Special:UserLogin? Some browsers may store a previously entered wrong password, and enter it without the user noticing. Can you try another computer or browser? Can you log in at Commons? PrimeHunter (talk) 04:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Sigh. I have done plenty of support work myself and now I am going to be a typical user: I tried again and it worked. I've signed in to Wikipedia and updated the email address to my current email address. I then signed in to Wikimedia using the same username and password (though not sure whether the accounts are linked or not) and it worked. The Wikimedia Commons preferences page lists the same email address. So my question becomes: is there a way I can confirm the two accounts are now linked (merged) and that neither will be renamed? TIA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youcantryreachingme (talk • contribs) 05:20, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Under Global Account Information, in the list of local accounts, I see "commons.wikimedia.org not attached not attached". Prior to just now there were only 2 rows in that table: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Twelve new rows appeared after my signing in and updating my email address, all with the same "Attached on" date value. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youcantryreachingme (talk • contribs) 05:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I left the WMF liaison a message at meta:User talk:Keegan (WMF)#Commons:User:youcantryreachingme, calling his attention to this thread. —teb728 t c 07:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Log in and click Special:MergeAccount. It seems unfortunate that the message at commons:User talk:Youcantryreachingme does not say you can do this if both accounts belong to you. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I clicked on the Merge Account link and it informed me the merge was not complete. At the bottom I entered the password for the Wikimedia Commons account (which I thought was the same, but this page says the most likely reason for the merge being incomplete is a different password) and the page refreshed showing the same information. I clicked on the commons.wikimedia.org link (URL is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Youcantryreachingme) and it took me to the user page for Youcantryreachingme on that domain but displayed the message "This page does not currently exist." Thanks for your help and, a pre-emptive question, should all this dialogue be deleted once my issue is resolved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youcantryreachingme (talk • contribs) 02:15, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Can you log in at Commons? Do you have both the same password and same email address at Commons and Wikipedia? If not then make them the same (click "Preferences" at top of the page) and try to merge again. Ignore "This page does not currently exist." It merely means your account at Commons has not created a user page where you can tell about yourself like you do at User:Youcantryreachingme. Discussions are automatically archived after a few days (see Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives). There is no reason to delete anything unless you want to try to hide the connection between your IP address and username. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:51, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Buddhist mythology

Reference help requested. How to type reference. I was trying to type reference using mobile app of Wikipedia. But it had shown errors. Thanks, 1.39.33.116 (talk) 03:37, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Your entered <ref name="Tiloyapannati"/>[Triloksaar]</ref>. The problem is the first slash, which doesn't belong when you have a closing </ref>. I fixed that for you, but what do you mean by "[Triloksaar]". —teb728 t c 06:35, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Google suggests 'Triloksaar' might be 'Trilok Saar' which in turns is a title of some book... --CiaPan (talk) 07:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

There is a page with my name on it

I googled my name "Alonda Shevette" which is my legal name and no other names fall under it just me! There is a page with my name on it up for deletion due to a lot of reasons. I am not the creator of such page and would like the information to be removed. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alonda Shevette (talk • contribs) 05:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The article Alonda Shevette has been deleted. And recreated. And deleted again. All in the last few days. It has now been protected from being recreated again. Dismas|^(talk) 06:07, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Glowworm Tunnel

I am trying to move article Wikipedia:Glowworm Tunnel because obviously Wikipedia should not be in the article title, but am not having much luck. How do I do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sardaka (talk • contribs)

 Done - you moved it to project space, not article space - this is a common mistake - just leave the first box "To new title" as "(article)"
And please sign your posts on talk pages with 4 tildes ( ~~~~ ) which will add your username and a datestamp - Arjayay (talk) 08:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup. Sardaka (talk) 09:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

split of the article

I wish to split List of Zecchino d'Oro songs in multiple articles for each edition, so I can put links in Wikidata, since in the italian Wikipedia also exist. Are You agree? --Marce79 (talk) 09:02, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You should discuss this on the article's talk page, Marce79. My opinion is that it should not be split: fifty short unreferenced articles are even more worthless than one long unreferenced article. But that's just my view. The issue of Wikidata not allowing links to partial articles is a widespread and fundamental one, and I don't think anything is served by making the structure in one language Wikipedia match that of another just so that they can be linked.

Regarding Yadav Page

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Raj Yadav. I wanted to know about yadav history so i searched yadav in wikipedia. I appreciate your work to provide history of yadav clan but there is a problem to me also. The two Images which you have provided are looking awkward, inferior, ridiculous, ugly etc. Ist one is "A group of Aheers, a major constituent of the Yadav group, from around Delhi, 1868" & Second one is "A woman of the Ahir community, which falls within the Yadav group, harvesting wheat in western India. Many Yadavs have taken to non-traditional occupations". This is humble request to change these images. Try to add some images through which one can feel proud, awesome & joyful. It is like if one think negative, there will be negative attitude in his life on the contrary if he thinks positive, positivity will be there. Same here if you will show the moments which are prideful with this clan. That will helpful to lift the confidence who is belongs to this clan. Hope you will do so. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.176.33.237 (talk) 09:04, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion, neither of those images (the first taken in 1868 before the invention of colour photography, and the second showing an attractive young woman) is "awkward, inferior, ridiculous, ugly". You clearly feel differently. But we are only able to use images that we have. If you can find better images on Wikimedia Commons, or upload there some suitable images which are not restricted by copyright, those could be used in the article. Maproom (talk) 09:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I see that Wikimedia Commons already has a few more images, here (though they seem to me no better than the ones already in the article). Maproom (talk) 10:42, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Listing in search box

If you start typing "Arrow (TV series)" into the search box, that article title comes up as well as the redirect "Arrow (TV series) (season 1)". Those are the only two that come up even though there are two more redirects, "Arrow (TV series) (season 2)" and "...season 3". So why aren't 2 & 3 listed when I start typing in the search box? Dismas|^(talk) 09:48, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Did it work before your edit to the redirect page? If yes, it could be a time based problem and it may need to re-cache the link. The best place to find an answer to a technical problem like this would be WP:PUMPTECH. - X201 (talk) 10:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The situation I describe was so before and after my edits. Dismas|^(talk) 12:09, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Tenniel Chu - edit complete and citation needed box to be removed

Hi,

I have edited the page Tenniel Chu and added relevant citations but it still says that it needs to be amended in the top information box.

How can that be deleted?

Many thanks, Charlottecourtleeds --Charlottecourtleeds (talk) 10:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The citations you have added are all given as bare URLs. That is not the recommended way to supply citations. Moreover, the first three were not acceptable (I didn't check any further): the first one appears not to mention the subject, it lists someone with a different name, and the next two are to the web site of the subject's company. Maproom (talk) 10:48, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi,

The first one is referencing the fact that Tenniel Chu is Vice Chairman of Mission Hills Group and the link goes to a professional business website that supports the fact he is the Vice Chairman of that group. Can you advise me on how that is not acceptable? With regard to the concept bare URLs - apologies I have not come across that when learning how to amend/add/update articles, I'm a new user and am learning as I go along. Can you point me to a page that explains bare URLs and what should be used instead?

Thanks Charlottecourtleeds (talk) 10:55, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I apologise - I see that the Bloomberg page cited does indeed support the statement that he is VC of Mission Hills Group.

For a general guide on referencing, see referencing for beginners. Maproom (talk) 11:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Great thank you, that's a big help --Charlottecourtleeds (talk) 12:01, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi,

Just spent quite a while trying to clean up the citations as per advised, removing incorrect citations and getting rid of the bare URLs. Can you let me know if the citation needed box can be deleted?

ThanksCharlottecourtleeds (talk) 12:53, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You have made a great improvement to the referencing! I have removed the "more footnotes" template.

I have not time to check things now, but I do have one comment. Some of the references do not mention Mr. Chu, and are in support of paragraphs which are about Mission Hills, not Mr. Chu. The article should be about the man himself, not his company. Maproom (talk) 13:18, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Brilliant, that's great - I'll have another look at the Mission Hills specific articles and include more about Tenniel Chu. Thanks for all your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlottecourtleeds (talk • contribs) 13:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Charlottecourtleeds, have you looked at the edit that Maproom made? The big warning about footnotes is not something that our software generates automatically; it's a template, which can appear on a page whether or not it's appropriate. It's just a piece of wikicode that can be added or removed by anyone, even if it shouldn't. Many pages without footnotes don't have this template, even though it would be appropriate, while someone who's intentionally trying to make a mess of things (a vandal) might add this kind of template to a featured article like Brill railway station. Nyttend (talk) 12:06, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

babadook page altered with nazi propoganda

check the babadook film page someone altered it with Hilter and nazi propoganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.39.60.5 (talk) 13:42, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism already noted and reverted. --  Gadget850 ^talk 13:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

How to prove that the content is not offensive?

I'm trying to create a page of a vocal group which I am part of in Brazil (http://www.vocalgogoboys.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/vocalgogoboys), but there is an automatic editing filter that says the content is offensive. This probably happens because of the group name, "Gó Gó Boys". It is a group of humor and music ... And the name is a little joke, because "gogó" means "Adam's apple", in Portuguese. How to get around the offensive content warning? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabianolacombe (talk • contribs) 14:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Fabianolacombe: This is a help page for the English Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org. I see no edit filter logs here. If this is about your edits at the Portuguese Wikipedia https://pt.wikipedia.org then you have to discuss it there. I don't know Portuguese. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:00, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@Fabianolacombe: Please read WP:COI if you are going to be making a page about something which you have a connection to. PhantomTech (talk) 15:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Pending changes and Semi-protection simultaneously

Is there any reason why, or benefit from, an article (specifically Allen Iverson but let's keep the question generic) should have both Pending changes and Semi-protection applied simultaneously?
If there is no real benefit, could a helpful Admin please remove the Pending changes - Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 18:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

On reading Wikipedia: Protection policy, it appears that PC1 applies only to pending changes by new and unregistered editors, and that semi-protection blocks changes by new and unregistered editors, so that the combination of these two protections doesn't make sense, unless I have misread the policy. You can request that one of the protections be removed, but, since some of the regular editors of this Help Desk are administrators, your request is likely to be seen anyway. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You read it right, PC1 is completely useless combined with semi-protection. Semi blocks all IP (and unconfirmed) edits and PC1 requires that all IP edits, which are blocked, be reviewed. Whoever semi-protected it might have forgotten to remove the PC protection but the semi-protection has an expiration and the PC doesn't so it could just be a temporary increase in protection with the intention being for it to fall back to PC after semi expires. PhantomTech (talk) 19:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't know if this is the case here, but sometimes a PC1 protected page gets a flood of disruptive edit requests from IPs and is temporarily semi-protected without changing the longer PC protection. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:04, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

In the example given, semi-protection was applied for a 6-month period, of which just less than 2 months remain, so it probably does make sense to leave the PC1 in place. If it weren't in place, would there be any easy way to ensure that the PC1 would apply when the semi-protection expires? - David Biddulph (talk) 08:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Citing multiple issues of the same magazine

This is a sentence I've put under Awards and Recognition in my article draft:

AudioVideo International Magazine named Retailers of the Year in various categories annually for 29 years, from 1977 until the magazine ceased publication in 2006. ListenUp was named a top retailer in 20 of those 29 annual listings.

I have dates and page numbers for all 20 listings. How do I cite those? Thanks.

Lpwords (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Notable people/Saint Joseph, MI

I noticed you did not mention Jay Schadler (TV correspondent) or Dan Wheeler (QVC co-anchor) or Dave Stockman (retired secretary of treasurer) when listing notable people from Saint Joseph, MI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.192.89.184 (talk) 21:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I didn't have anything to do with that article. But if you do, you can. Wikipedia only exists because people who care add information. Since you seem to care, you're the only person who has the responsibility to add the missing information. --Jayron32 23:27, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

RUSSIA and autogenerated links

When the RUSSIA page was created, the creator says that it "appears in some automatically-generated ref sections". What kind of context would this be? Right now, it's linked on a few talk pages (in every case, someone simply shouting), User:3centsoap/VETest (some sort of error by the creator?), and a random appearance at List of place names of Dutch origin. Any idea how this is related to automatically-generated ref sections? Nyttend (talk) 21:52, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't know which tool was used but here is an example with location=FRANCE and location=ENGLAND in {{cite journal}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:17, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

March 19

Recent change in RSS Syndication?

I use The Old Reader to subscribe to the edit history sections of lots of articles which I want to monitor. Today I started getting lots of old content served to me. I emailed The Old Reader support and they seem to think it's on Wikipedia's end ("Seems likely that its a change on their end. I don't have a record of feed, but these old posts were created in our system today, which suggests they arrived in the feed for the first time today, and did not exist before"). Anyone know what's up or have suggestions of where I should ask instead of here? Thanks. (I've cross-posted this at Wikipedia talk:Syndication--I hope this isn't rude/inappropriate). --Pengortm (talk) 03:48, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

how to add pictures to your articles

hi Wikipedia, how do you add pictures to your articles because when I make an article I want a picture in it instead of it just blank just writing (article boring)NewbornCircle (talk) 07:26, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@NewbornCircle: See WP:IMAGES for a list of information pages about that, and come back here if you need any clarification. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:55, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

do you think this is going to be deleted

hi Wikipedia do you think James Cook Navigation will get deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NewbornCircle (talk • contribs) 09:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes. James Cooks Navigation (note correct title) has already been nominated for deletion, because we already have detailed, well referenced, articles on James Cook, First voyage of James Cook, Second voyage of James Cook Third voyage of James Cook etc. etc. - Arjayay (talk) 09:49, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

It has now been deleted. - Arjayay (talk) 10:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

De Anza Hotel Incorrect Name

I have tried to correct the De Anza Hotel page name to Hotel De Anza. It was formerly named De Anza Hotel and this is creating problems in Google search results because they are pulling the information from here. If this could be updated that would be perfect.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:A:4E80:DC00:840:AB67:7FAB:F0A2 (talk) 13:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

You can't move pages without an account, and non-autoconfirmed user accounts like Medmond12 can't move pages either. I've moved it for you. Nyttend (talk) 13:10, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Are you by any chance referring to a photo or text shown to the right of a Google search? Google's Knowledge Graph uses a wide variety of sources. There may be a text paragraph ending with "Wikipedia" to indicate that particular text was copied from Wikipedia. An image and other text before or after the Wikipedia excerpt may be from sources completely unrelated to Wikipedia. We have no control over how Google presents our information, but Google's Knowledge Graph has a "Feedback" link where anyone can mark a field as wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:27, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

PrimeHunter, that's not quite the situation. The hotel indeed uses the name "Hotel De Anza", and our article used the (older? former?) name of "De Anza Hotel". This is vaguely comparable to using the Zaire title for the current country, instead of its current name of DR Congo. Nyttend (talk) 13:33, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

(ec) It was rather about the desired De Anza Hotel → Hotel De Anza rename, done [1] by Nyttend. --CiaPan (talk) 13:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I know, and I would have moved the page if it wasn't done already, but the poster seems more concerned about what is displayed by Google than by Wikipedia. So I pointed out that Wikipedia changes may not affect Google, and they have their own system to report problems if it is indeed about Google's Knowledge Graph. The Google search Hotel De Anza currently displays a box saying "De Anza Hotel". No content is actually credited to Wikipedia for me but the poster may know that they often use information from us. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Problem with book downloads

Help please. I have been trying to download the "Wikipedia book titled Electronic Components and Symbols." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Electronic_Components_and_Symbols. All I get, for the last 3 days is the following: Rendering failed Generation of the document file has failed. Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1. I have the same problem in Chrome, Firefox, and IE on a PC running Windows 7. I am also not able to download the book "Electronics" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Electronics which gives the same failure message. Thanks for your help. MikeDGlass (talk) 15:48, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref for Stuart Chase article contribution by Nnamelet

Stuart Chase - please clarify the problem to be corrected — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnamelet (talk • contribs) 15:59, 19 March 2015‎ (UTC)

Referencing errors on Stuart Chase

Reference help requested. I lost my connection to help as Frank1

Thanks, nnamelet 16:16, 19 March 2015 (UTC) nnamelet 16:16, 19 March 2015 (UTC)