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    January 31

    Judge Thomas Hardiman's religion?

    What is the religion of Supreme-Court Nominee Judge Thomas Hardiman? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.185.77.119 (talk) 00:55, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.3 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that 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 reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 --David Biddulph (talk) 01:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Nothing about this question implies the person is astray. It's just a general knowledge question which belongs at the reference desk.Template:Z150 Pppery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Humanities reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Pppery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) or clicking the signature button above the edit box which looks like this: , but do not sign in articles. Pppery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Signing Posts

    Can someone help me how I can sign my posts here? In the german Wiki four tildes works just fine, but here this happens: -- (talk) 02:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC) So my User name is not displayed directly but only two hyphens which are a link to my User page.[reply]

    My guess is that you may have tried to customise your signature at Special:Preferences. Go to the Signature section on that page, remove everything in the box labelled "Signature:", and uncheck the box labelled "Treat the above as wiki markup". --David Biddulph (talk) 03:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    "sanctuary cities" in Canada

    As a Police Officer in Canada for almost 30 yrs, I have never heard of the so-called, "sanctuary cities" in Canada. I regularly arrested a variety of criminals on various charges (and sometimes :suspicion of"). If it was determined that they were not, Canadian Citizens or Landed Immigrants, Immigration (now called CBSA) was notified and their investigation was started. I worked on multi-jurisdictional files and never heard of, "sanctuary cities", in Canada. I think someone is trying to paint us as something we are not. Canada vigorously persues all persons illegally in our country and all levels of Law Enforcement co-operate in this endeavour.....just look at the 6 o'clock news and see reports of people trying to by-pass the system by seeking refuge in a Church. The term,"sanctuary city" has never (to my knowledge; unless it was during the,"war of 1812" or something) been used to describe a Canadian city or a municipal ideology. Whoever reads this, please challenge the original author as to the validity of,"sanctuary city". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.179.50 (talk) 06:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Officer: I think you may be referring to the Wikipedia article Sanctuary city, which includes a very brief passage identifying Toronto and Hamilton as sanctuary cities. If you look at that portion of the article, you will notice footnotes supporting the statement. In fact, I added a reference for a separate news report about Toronto, as its status was mentioned only in passing in one of the two previously existing references. Also, just for your information, articles in Wikipedia are written by multiple people; there is no single author for a given article. DonFB (talk) 07:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I find that article questionable. Apparently I have been living in a "sanctuary city" for the last 40 years, without ever being aware of it. The truth is that some cities are, officially or unofficially, more welcoming to undocumented refugees than others. But they are not "places of sanctuary" with a power to ovrrule the laws of their nation, as the article appears to imply. Maproom (talk) 08:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    The sanctuary city phenomenon of recent years seems to have flown beneath the radar of both the Canadian officer and yourself--though it's possible the issue receives more publicity in the U.S. than in your respective countries. No doubt, many people think such a civic and social movement is questionable; perhaps, some will also take a similarly jaundiced view of an article describing the subject. DonFB (talk) 12:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't find the movement questionable, indeed I am pleased that the authorities of my home city try to be accommodating to undocumented refugees. What I question is whether there is anything substantive to this "sanctuary" status. Maproom (talk) 16:21, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    GEMS

    Good day

    Will you be able to put on your page about GEMS (Government Employ Medical Scheme). This is in South Africa and there is a webpage but not fully clear about it164.151.131.114 (talk) 10:23, 31 January 2017

    We do not currently have an article about the Government Employees Medical Scheme (I've corrected the name). Having searched several South African mainstream news sources the subject seems very likely to pass the Notability standard for organisations. I'd strongly recommend that you first read the Your first article guideline and then ask WP:WikiProject South Africa for assistance. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Whoops

    I recently deleted a portion of an article that I didn't mean to. Is there anyway I can easily restore the article to its original state? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinreik (talk • contribs) 12:02, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Please provide a link to the article concerned. Your only edits seem to be to Draft:Fulvio Martusciello. You can resore a previous version of a page by clicking on the date in the history (link at top of the article page). This will display the page at that time. By clicking on 'edit source' and then saving, the page will be restored. Alternatively, if you are referring to one edit and it is the last edit you can click on 'undo' and then save and it will restore. Please leave an appropriate edit summary. Please sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I recently made the mistake of deleting some information from an article that I did not create. Is it possible to revert the page to its original form if I did not create the page originally?

    The page that was accidentally edited was,

    https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulvio_Martusciello

    Any help would be appreciated

    Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinreik (talk • contribs) 14:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Just click on "History" (Chronologia) then "Undo" (Annulla). Dbfirs 14:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I have undone the edit and left an edit summary pointing here. - GB fan 14:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    editing

    how do you create a new page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Mou (talk • contribs) 12:34, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hey Mr Mou. You may want to read our written tutorial at WP:Your First Article, or check out the interactive Wikipedia tutorial at WP:The Wikipedia Adventure. TimothyJosephWood 14:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Breaks in a row of icons

    Is there a way to make a break in a row of icons like User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/article work? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I think you can just start a new row by inserting |- at an appropriate spot. Like so, for example:
    ......Laguna Amarga that was displayed on the Main Page on the 30th of June 2016.|cat=}}
    |-
    |<br/>{{click|link=Taryatu-Chulutu........
    DonFB (talk) 13:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thx. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    FinDev / TransGaming Wrong Article

    Error: Protected edit requests can only be made on the talk page. Hi, In December 2016 TransGaming Inc. (the Canadian public company) completed a Change Of Business to investing in and financing real estate transactions, and changed its name to FinDev Inc. See: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/findev-inc-formerly-transgaming-inc-closes-proposed-cob-trading-commence-under-fdi-tsx-venture-fdi-2180728.htm

    The TransGaming brand, as well as the business of Games for Connected TV devices were sold to General Media Ventures, a UK company, and is now operating under a new UK company named TransGaming Interactive Limited. See: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/transgaming-signs-agreement-sell-gametree-200000606.html

    The Wikipedia article is currently a mixture of both companies. here are the companies' websites to put things in order: FinDev - http://findev.ca TransGaming - https://www.transgaming.com Please help correct this situation. I have posted this on the Talk page but received no response.

    Thanks, Tamir Goren CEO, TransGaming Interactive Limited — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamir Goren (talk • contribs) 14:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Notification

    This has probably been answered somewhere before, but... I was curious, why don't I automatically get a notification when someone replies to me on a talk page? Benjamin (talk) 15:56, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    The conditions under which you get a notification are laid out at WP:Notifications. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:30, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I read the page and it didn't answer my question. Benjamin (talk) 16:54, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Except for your own talk page, the only way for you to get a notification is if someone tags you in the reply. So, when I add @Benjaminikuta: then you will be notified. (Note: this must be done in the same edit that I sign the reply with) †dismas†|(talk) 18:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I know that's how it works, but why is it made to be that way? It would be nice if I could be able to be notified. Has there ever been attempts to fix this in the past? Benjamin (talk) 18:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    As for the why, I don't know. I would guess that people figure that's what a watchlist is for. If you're engaged in a conversation on, for example, Talk:Tulip then I would suppose that the developers thought you'd put that page on your watchlist. By saying "attempt to fix", you seem to be assuming that something is broken. You might want to ask at WP:VPT and get a technical answer as to why the software doesn't do this now. Again, another guess, the site would have to look at every talk page edit, see who is editing, look at the subject header of the section, look up all the users who had commented in that section thus far, and notify each one. With the number of talk pages, discussions, and users, that could take up quite a bit of database lookup time. †dismas†|(talk) 18:56, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    How could the program determine who's being replied to? Indenting is often not done correctly, so it could be a significant logic problem with many "false reads". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't know, why not make it kinda like reddit? Benjamin (talk) 19:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    How does Reddit do it? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Threads and notifications happen automatically. Benjamin (talk) 19:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Is that a wiki or is it an old-style "bulletin board" type of structure? Or something else? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    It's a fairly popular social media site. Obviously Wikipedia isn't social media, but I just use it as an example. Benjamin (talk) 20:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Reddit uses a structured discussion system. Wikitext doesn't. Flow does, and does provide notifications. Pppery 20:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Forgot about Flow. And from what I see at here, it was removed from trials. †dismas†|(talk) 22:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Bugs, you can see how Reddit does things here, for example. †dismas†|(talk) 22:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Interesting. Looks like a hybrid of traditional bulletin board threads and wiki text threads. Presumably the reddit method is geared toward responding very specifically. The relatively free-form wikitext method doesn't allow for that. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:20, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Category overlap tool

    Is there a tool somewhere that will generate a list of articles that have an overlap of two categories? For example, Abandoned drugs and Experimental drugs. Natureium (talk) 15:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Take a look at PetScan, there is an external link on that page.uhhlive (talk) 16:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Request Edit

    Good Morning,

    Could we change our look on the Brevard College page, under athletics we would like to use our new logo.

    Thank you.file:///C:/Users/swansojt/Desktop/Logos/Conference%20Logos/BCTornado%20copy.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.235.248.22 (talk) 16:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    That file is located on your computer, which we can't access. Do you have an external link to a website? uhhlive (talk) 16:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Uhhlive: Probably the request refers to Brevard College#Athletics, and logos can be found at Google with this request: https://www.google.com/search?q=brevard+college+tornados+basketball+logo&tbm=isch (not sure, however, if they are appropriate for Wikipedia with regard to copyright). --CiaPan (talk) 19:29, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Moving article

    Want to move User:USA-Fan/callus shaver to callus shaver but I haven´t the button to move this page. Can´t find any description to do this. --USA-Fan (talk) 16:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    USA-Fan, you can move pages when you're autoconfirmed, which should be the case for you on 19:47 UTC. In the meantime you can request a move by prepending {{subst:submit}} to your article, according to WP:NOTRM, which can take some though so I recommend you to wait until you get your move button. – Giftpflanze 16:45, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Fine. I think in two hours I´ll still be online. Thank you, "Poisounus plant". :) --USA-Fan (talk) 16:49, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    But, USA-Fan, I strongly recommend that you don't move the article to main space yet, because it is not ready for that, and may get deleted. Please read WP:YFA and WP:42, and add some references to reliable sources. At present it has just one reference, to a German site (which is not a problem in itself, but English sources are preferred if they exist). Most of the text is unreferenced - there is not even a source that establishes that "Callus shaver" is the English name for this implement. I will add {{userspace draft}} to the top of it, and I recommend that you use the "review" button when you have added some sources. --ColinFine (talk) 17:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for answering. I know it is the correct name and I also have a source, but I can´t put this in the article, because this kind of reference is not allowed (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Toolz-Callus-Shaver-Stainless/dp/B001TJIOAY/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1485883072&sr=1-5&keywords=callus+shaver). ;) But look, Giftpflanze told I´ve got some time until I get my "move button". It´s time enough to find some references in english and maybe I can use the references also in german (the german article was written by me). :) --USA-Fan (talk) 17:22, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    It's pretty easy to find good-quality English sources for things like this in book search. The correct title to move to will be in sentence case: Callus shaver. Dicklyon (talk) 17:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Good idea. Allready found the first. ;) --USA-Fan (talk) 18:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Laney Amplification Update Request

    I run all Social Media for the Guitar and Bass Amplification company called Laney Amplification.

    The Wikipedia page is severely out of date and I can not update it.

    Our logo along with vital information about our owner, family, past and present amplifiers needs updating.

    [redacted] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laneysocial (talk • contribs) 16:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Put your contact information at Talk:Laney Amplification. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello, Laneysocial. I'm not sure quite why Robert McClenon advised you to put your contact information on the talk page: I wouldn't advise you to put it anywhere in Wikipedia. What I would advise is that you read WP:PSCOI, and then put your suggestions for changes to the article on the talk page. Be as specific as you can (eg "Replace text 'XXXXXX' by 'YYYYY'"), and give reliable sources for all information - sources independent of your company where possible. For the logo, if you can give a URL where your new logo can be found, somebody can upload it and update the article. Finally, if you put {{edit request}} (with the double curly brackets) in your suggestions, it will add them to a list of waiting requests. --ColinFine (talk) 17:24, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: I have updated the logo per their website, but the user will need to suggest specific changes to the article, supported by sources, as outlined above. TimothyJosephWood 17:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I used sloppy language. I meant to put the corrected information on the talk page. Do not put contact information on Wikipedia. User:ColinFine is right as usual. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    adding photo

    We'd like to have this photo be in the upper right corner of our WIKI page - and we uploaded it but it does not appear. What do we do?

    error message attached - photo exists but we can't get it in place (Kids Castle Playground Cranberry Community Park)

    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cranberrytownshippa (talk • contribs)

    Hey Cranberrytownshippa. I have added the commons photo to the infobox, and moved the previous one down into the body of the article.
    However, you should note that your current name appears to be a violation of our username policy since names that represent an organization, or imply shared use are not allowed. You probably want to either request a change at Wikipedia:Changing username, or register a different account that complies with our policy. Your current account is liable to be blocked as a shared use violation if you do not. TimothyJosephWood 17:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) Hello, Cranberrytownshippa. I'm afraid there are several different problems here. Before I get to answering your specific question (which I will) I need to draw your attention to some other matters.
    First, it is not your Wiki page. It is a Wikipedia article about your town. You do not own it, you do not control its contents, and indeed you are strongly discouraged from editing the article, because you are likely to find it hard to be sufficiently neutral. Please see WP:PSCOI. If you are an employee or contractor, so that you are in any sense being paid to do this work, then you must declare this, according to the policy WP:PAID.
    Secondly, user names are not allowed which imply that they are being used for or by an organisation, or by several people. All Wikimedia accounts are required to be personal. That doesn't mean you have to use your own name, as I do: many accounts use a pseudonym of some sort. But it means that you should use an account personal to you, and if other colleagues want to edit, they should create their own personal accounts. Please see WP:USERNAME.
    Now to get to your specific question. You successfully uploaded commons:File:Kids Castle Playground in Cranberry Community Park.jpg, but you didn't edit Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania to change the (image) file name from "Cranberry Mall parking lots and buildings.jpg" to "Kids Castle Playground in Cranberry Community Park.jpg" (I'm assuming that you meant you wanted to replace the image). You then attempted to upload it again, and got an error because that was a duplicate.
    Unfortunately, there are further problems here. First, it is not up to you to decide which picture is used in the article - that is part of the "neutral" bit I mentioned. You are welcome to suggest changes, but it is the consensus of uninvolved editors which will decide. More seriously, you have uploaded the picture saying "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:". Are you, the individual who uploaded that picture, personally the holder of that copyright? If you took the picture yourself, you probably are. If the photographer held the copyright and specifically transferred it to you personally, then you are. In any other case (including the case where the copyright is held by the town authorities) you do not not have the legal power to grant that licence as yourself. (I guess it's possible that it is held by the community and you hold an appointment which gives you authority to grant that licence, but even then, the statement I quoted from you above would be false).
    What needs to happen for that picture to be used - indeed, for it to remain on Wikimedia Commons - is that the actual legal holder of the copyright must specifically release it under an appropriate licence - either publicly, or in a communication to Wikimedia: see Donating copyright materials. If it is you, then you have done right, and I apologise for doubting you.
    I'm sorry that this has been long-winded and presented you with difficulties. I'm afraid this is a common experience, as very many people mistake Wikipedia for a promotional site. --ColinFine (talk) 17:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    FWIW, the image did not appear to exists anywhere else on the internet. Although it's not clear from where the image was taken without using a UAV. TimothyJosephWood 18:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Please review 176.179.191.228's contribs

    I'm working and don't have a lot of time to review the contribs of User:176.179.191.228 but I do see that they're up to their same old tricks. Can some editor please check their contribs and possibly have them blocked again? Thanks, †dismas†|(talk) 23:23, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    February 1

    East Meadow, New York article

    The article on East Meadow, New York has gone under several disruptive edits in the past (such as the adding of unnotable persons and picture changes) Currently, instead of showing the location of the town in New York, it shows a map of the state of Washington. How does one change the map back?

    Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winnsley (talk • contribs) 00:30, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi User:Winnsley, I've reverted the recent vandalism. Thanks for pointing that out! – Juliancolton | Talk 00:34, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Winnsley. First thing, please try to remember to sign your talk page posts as explained in WP:TILDE. Signing your posts will making much easier for other editors to see who is posted and when they posted.
    Now regarding your question, the image has already been replaced so this is really just for your future reference in case it happens again. Go to the article's page and click on "View history" and try and find the edit which changed the map. This may be a little tricky if there is no edit sum and you may have to look at a couple of edits until you find it. When you do find the edit, click on "undo" to open the edit window. Scroll down to the bottom of the window and add an edit summary explaining why the change was made. An edit summary is very important and not adding one might me your edit will be reverted as an unexplained change. Something simple such as "Changing back to correct map" should be fine. After adding an edit summary, click "Show preview" to verify that the changes made are the ones you wanted to make. If everything is OK, scroll back down to the bottom of the page and click "Save changes". If you make a mistake, don't worry about it. You can try and fix it yourself or ask for help on the article's talk page.
    Finally, before you "undo" the other persons edit, try and make sure that you're only changing the map back and not undoing any other "improvements" the editor may have made to the article. Many editors often make lots of little changes as part of a single edit, and clicking "undo" will undo them all. Also, sometimes intermediate edits are made to the relevant content and the software will not let you undo the edit. In such cases, you may have to go in a simply manually replace the image yourself. You do that by clicking on "Edit", finding the file for the incorrect map, removing it, and then re-adding the file for the correct map. As before, click "Show preview" to check you edit and "Save changes" to save your edit. You can find out a little more on how to do this at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:58, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    In this particular case there was some good luck, in that the vandalistic changes occurred only a bit more than an hour before the OP reported it. A revert would have fixed it, although I'm guessing the OP couldn't do that, not being autoconfirmed yet. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Is this OK?

    Is this OK?[1] (look at the before and after). before I make an issue of it I want to ask, is this allowed? I thought that formatting the page title like this [2] was weird but OK, but hiding the user name entirely? --Guy Macon (talk) 05:27, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Does that fall afoul of WP:SMI- CSS and other formatting codes that disrupt the Wikimedia interface, for example by preventing important links or controls from being easily seen or used, making text on the page hard to read or unreadable (other than by way of commenting out), or replacing the expected interface with a disruptive simulation, may be removed or remedied by any user...? Or some similar UPG. O Fortuna!...Imperatrix mundi. 06:59, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks! I am going to try WP:BRD[3][4] and see whether I get an R. (If I do I will try D). --Guy Macon (talk) 07:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    You could have at least alerted me to this discussion. feminist 08:11, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    You see, the problem is that sometimes you simply don't know whether something is or is not disruptive. I am on the fence about this case, and wanted some advice before confronting you. That is also why I picked the least confrontational action I could think of (a bold edit, with an expected revert then discussion should you disagree) rather than potentially angering you with something like an ANI report. I reserve the right to seek council as to whether I am on the right path before alerting you and getting into a fight where I might very well be wrong. If you disagree, revert me and I will open up a discussion on your talk page. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah. I see that you reverted me with the edit comment "what a joke".[5] The revert is fine with me (WP:BRD). I will attempt to discuss this with you on your talk page (it may take a day or so to get to it). --Guy Macon (talk) 11:01, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    It appears that User:Feminist decided against doing this and went back to a normal title. BTW, I don't think anyone would have had a problem with leaving the title all-lowercase; that's a minor bit of originality that doesn't violate any policy. --Guy Macon (talk) 11:58, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Reference check

    I want to known the page number and quotation from the book for Vestigial_response#Goose_bumps. How would I request that and who to approach? --IEditEncyclopedia (talk) 07:09, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    • In such cases, you are usually out of luck. The best shot is to view the page history, find who added the reference, and contact them directly. When page history is long, you this tool is your friend but here, it is short enough to review manually. In that case, this edit by Joshua Issac added the link; let's see if they can help.
    Another option is to go ask at the appropriate reference desk, if you want more general information about a specific claim. TigraanClick here to contact me 11:42, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    You could try asking at WP:WRE - X201 (talk) 12:06, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I copied the reference from Goose bumps, to where it was added by JSquish. I assume that the relevant part in the book is from page 101 to page 103. --Joshua Issac (talk) 13:13, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created by cut and paste content from non copyright sources

    I have been around for a while but am really unsure how to handle this issue. A new editor, Susan Schneegans is creating articles which are solely, or mostly, cut and paste creations from copyright free UNESCO publications such as at Challenges for innovation in Malaysia. COPYVIO doesn't seem to apply since attribution is given, but it feels totally wrong; but I can't find the policy or guidance that constrains such action. I would welcome advice and suggestions. Thanks  Velella  Velella Talk   11:14, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    • If the copyright is indeed compatible with Wikipedia's licensing requirements (note that some "free" licenses, e.g. CC-BY-NC, are not compatible), there is no policy or legal reason against copy-pasting en masse. However, the copied content may not be appropriate for inclusion - for instance, the link you gave seems to me to violate WP:NOTESSAY. And of course, repeated inclusion of such content disregarding any warnings would be construed as disruptive. TigraanClick here to contact me 11:49, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • This type of copying is allowed provided it is attributed (as is being done in this case). See Wikipedia:Plagiarism. However I personally think there should be text added to the body of the article saying something like "What follows has been extracted from a 2015 UNESCO report". Thincat (talk) 14:05, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hi all, I'm Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO and working with Susan Schneegans, who is a subject matter expert and wrote some of the publication that is being used, she has kindly agreed to work with me to share information from the report on Wikipedia. I also developed the template to make simple to add openly licensed text to Wikipedia which creates a credit for the report (see the Sources section). I wrote these instructions to make this process easier. My main motivation was to make it easier for experts to contribute to Wikipedia, either directly as Susan is doing, or indirectly through other editors adding text from sources written by experts. As Joshua Issac has said this is not a new approach to creating Wikipedia articles, we are simply expanding use of the technique. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on making this tool easier to use. Thanks--John Cummings (talk) 20:24, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • For the record, I am an experienced editor who can confirm that John's claim that copy/pasted text from sources free from copyright is perfectly fine for use on Wikipedia, as long as the source is properly attributed. I do this all the time for paintings which were well described in text before photography became cheap and easy to reproduce in art catalogs. See this Pieter de Hooch painting article as an example: Teaching a Child to Walk. Jane (talk) 07:54, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Summaries at the top of the page when viewing on mobile

    Certain pages like Mithila, India and Mithila (region) have inccorect summaries at the top when viewing from a mobile or tablet. These don't appear when viewing the desktop version of the site. Is it possible to remove these since they are incorrect and unsourced? Thanks. Damien2016 (talk) 12:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Damien2016: They are on Wikidata, and can be edited by clicking the "Wikidata item" link in the sidebar and changing the description. Pppery 12:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the help!Damien2016 (talk) 12:41, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    VBV

    wHAT IS WIKIPEDDIA> ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.128.160.41 (talk) 13:39, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Please see Wikipedia:Introduction. -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:42, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Seriously? Go back to WP:RD/E, you freak. TigraanClick here to contact me 12:07, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Verify my own page

    How do i easily verify my own wikipedia information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.207.65.36 (talk) 16:34, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    What do you mean "verify"? On Wikipedia, we take verifiability to mean: can I find reliable sources that say the same thing that this Wikipedia article does. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:44, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Wikipedia is not Facebook or Instagram. Accounts or pages can't get a 'verified' status. Lyrda (talk) 16:57, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    If you mean Jed Armstrong then you need to establish the WP:Notability of the subject of that article by finding WP:Reliable sources that discuss this person in detail. If you are not able to do so, then the page will be deleted. In general, Wikipedia strongly discourages people from writing their own WP:Autobiographies here. Dbfirs 00:09, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I notice that entering "Jed Armstrong musician" in A Well known Search Engine throws up a few relevant sources, but probably not enough to verify much of the article's content. Archives of music journals (such as Melody Maker, New Musical Express and doubtless many others) may contain useful contemporary references – I wonder if the Musicians' Union (UK) (of which the OP is doubtless a member) could advise where such archives may be electronically or physically accessed. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.12.94.189 (talk) 02:30, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    The article has now been deleted. Dbfirs 09:47, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Dabpage Never Gonna Dance Again

    Recently, the page Never Gonna Dance Again (Sugababes song) was merged to Change (Sugababes album) per consensus at Talk:Never Gonna Dance Again (Sugababes song). Meanwhile, Never Gonna Dance Again (song) was redirected to Careless Whisper. I was going to convert the dabpage to a redirect to the George Michael song. However, I read Talk:Never Gonna Dance Again and realized that the dabpage was the result of RFD, where I participated (I long forgot it). Shall I be bold and change the page anyway, or shall I do the AFD? --George Ho (talk) 18:52, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I'd like to use the 1920 Edition of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities in the same manner that the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and the 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia both of which have Category:Encyclopedia source templates. The 1920 Edition is available in Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=1qoVAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover) but not at Wikisource. The 1879 (first) Edition is at Wikisource, so I'm not sure there would be any problem putting it there other than the work of copying the 1920 version from google books to wikisource. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to get more specific information as to whether this is appropriate and whether copying to Wikisource is needed before going forward. I've worked with paraphrasing out of a number of editions both prior to 1923 and after (I own copies of 5 editions).Naraht (talk) 21:01, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    • Whether or not to put it in Wikisource is a Wikisource question, not a Wikipedia question, but I will be so bold as to answer here: Yes, it is appropriate. Whether to do it first: Yes, better to do it first, because you will then have a proper Wikisource target for your Wikipedia template. Paraphrasing is not needed and is often not even appropriate for out-of-copyright works: you should probably just directly quote the work, with attribution:See WP:Plagiarism. At Wikisource, you may (or may not) find the DNB project to be a more complete example than the 1911 project. -Arch dude (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Page move oddity

    I moved Cypress (provincial electoral district) to Cypress (former Alberta provincial electoral district) (because there are two others). I adjusted the links accordingly in three election templates, so I thought, but they're still showing the old link in Perren Baker. What gives? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    WP:PURGE may be what you're looking for. -- The Voidwalker Whispers 21:58, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I though exiting Firefox would do that, but I guess not. It's fine now. Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:00, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    February 2

    Referencing errors on Edhir Paradhathu

    Reference help requested. There is an error message in a Reference Archive URL on the page Edhir Paradhathu. The date of archive is not known. But the error message says archive date is required.

    This is the reference text:
    cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/2nd_nff_1955.pdf%7Ctitle=2nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|accessdate=23 August 2011|format=PDF|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233325/http://dff.nic.in/2011/2nd_nff_1955.pdf

    Thank you to help me to resolve this. Thanks, --00:47, 2 February 2017 (UTC)UKSharma3

    Uksharma3, I fixed it with this edit by adding the date that is in the web.archive.org URL, 3 March 2016. †dismas†|(talk) 00:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you. Now I learned how to find the archive date from the URL. --UKSharma3 01:19, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

    Contributions not reassigned after username change

    Hey, I was recently granted a username change but my contributions have not been reassigned from the old account to the new one. Wikipedia:Changing username says it can take a number of hours but it's been a number of days. Who can I talk to about this? Dscosson (talk) 03:58, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Dscosson: What was the old name? I couldn't find a rename for Dscosson. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:53, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @PrimeHunter:Nevermind. I am a moron. Dscosson (talk) 16:34, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Fleischer family

    max fleischer said to be born in krakau, 1883 - his brother david said to be born in new york 1884 - family said to have migrated to the usa 1879 - some inconsistency is all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.35.129 (talk) 08:39, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles say :- Max Fleischer, b. 1883, family emigrated 1887. Dave Fleischer, b. 1894 (not 1884). Eagleash (talk) 08:52, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Reviewing?

    Every now and then I receive a notification stating that an article I created God knows when "has been reviewed". I'm not on Wikipedia as much as I used to be, so...what does that mean? Erpert blah, blah, blah... 12:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hey Erpert. When a new article is created it gets added to a list of "unreviewed articles" that then get "reviewed" by a volunteer at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. These volunteers are checking to make sure that the new article doesn't meet criteria for speedy deletion or other deletion criteria, and make sure that, if it has specific problems, like no sources, no links from other articles, etc.. that those problems are either fixed or tagged for cleanup at a future date. Once an article is reviewed, it gets added to the pool of articles that are indexed by computer thingies (close enough), and can then be searched for using engines like Google. TimothyJosephWood 14:23, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Adding an external link to a page

    I need assistance in adding a link or reference source to a page and am unable to figure out how do to this can someone assist me ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crossways8 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi! Can you share a link to your page so we can see what's going on? Thanks! --McDoobAU93 13:58, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Can I Use Images from Game Developer Website?

    Hi,

    I searched for the information about what images I could use on the Wikipedia page I am writing, but want to make sure I understand what I've read. I'm writing about a new mobile game and wanted to know if I could use the images of artwork, screenshots and icons from the developer's website on my Wikipedia page, or should I use my own screenshots from the game?

    Thanks, Lab Ratat (talk) 13:52, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi there! This page will give some details on how to use screenshots in articles on software. Since it's most likely showing copyrighted content, it would have to have a fair-use claim and proper attribution, as well. You can get information on that here. Hope that helps! --McDoobAU93 13:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    How does wikidata get put into articles?

    A general question, but here is an example - in the article TiddlyWiki, the infobox includes 'repository' and 'website' info but I can't find that info in the edit source text. I presume that this information is coming from wikidata (as I can find it there) but how does it get into the wikipedia article? According to Wikipedia:Wikidata, either a parser function or a lua module can be used, but I can't find either one in the TiddlyWiki article. Can someone explain? Leschnei (talk) 14:34, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    In this case the Wikidata information is imported through Template:Infobox software. You will find that the use of infoboxes to import data from Wikidata (and thus put the information outside the control of the English Wikipedia) does meet with some opposition. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Apart from Wikidata descriptions automatically displayed next to the page name by some features (mainly on the mobile version), Wikidata info nearly always comes via code in a used template. It can both be infoboxes, external link templates and others in Category:Templates using data from Wikidata. It's very rare for an article to have its own code to import from Wikidata. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:09, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you both for your explanations and the links. I can see why having data imported automatically is controversial; it is rather disturbing. Leschnei (talk) 18:11, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Referencing errors on CafePress

    Reference help requested. I tried to add a citation pointing to the CafePress web site but it is black listed to prevent link spamming so I removed the "http://" and then I got an automated message from ReferenceBot telling me that the url is malformed. Don't know enough about citations to figure out a different way to add the text of the url without making it a link and thereby causing it to fail the blacklist check. Thanks, Andrew S. (talk) 14:35, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Andrew S.:Not sure why you got a blacklist message, but the url parameter does need to be in the form of "http://", rather than "www". I made an edit to fix the citation format. One of the three refs had a url on the company site that I couldn't find, so I cut it. You can see the change I made here. DonFB (talk) 23:15, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Central login

    Is it possible to turn off central login somewhere in the settings? I have a different username on Commons and Wikipedia, so I'm constantly signing in and out, and would prefer to just stay signed in with each username on the two different projects. Calibrador (talk) 14:36, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I don't think it's possible as suggested. A user script might log you out and in automatically. I have very limited JavaScript knowledge but this in Special:MyPage/skin.js for the unwanted account should at least log you out and go to the login page:
    $(document).ready(function() {
  location = mw.util.wikiGetlink('Special:UserLogout');
  location = mw.util.wikiGetlink('Special:UserLogin');
});
    It doesn't return you to the page you were at before logging out. Your JavaScript doesn't run on Mobile so you can still log in there and change the script if needed. Administrators can also edit your js pages if all goes wrong, and you may be able to enter your preferences or script page with ?useskin=monobook or &useskin=monobook in the url if your normal skin is vector, or vice versa. An alternative is to have two open browsers, one for each wiki, but this may be as much work as logging in and out. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:40, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Do wikipedia images appear in google searches

    Hello. I work for a local county government. Currently, when you google search our county name, statistics appear to right on your screen about the county. These statistics come from Wikipedia. There also is a picture and a map above the statistics.

    The picture that is currently displayed is not an appropriate image to display. I contacted Google, who informed me that Wikipedia controls that information and to contact them.

    How do I get that picture changed?

    Thank you, Candace — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierce911 (talk • contribs) 15:17, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Pierce911: You probably got wrong information from Google (we have heard that before) but I cannot say for certain without knowing what you searched. I guess this stock reply applies:
    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) 15:45, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia article Mark Normand

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

    I created a Wikipedia article on American comedian Mark Normand and it has still not been reviewed.I request eligible Wikipedia editors to review it please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tosh lo (talk • contribs) 16:26, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    There are 16111 pages in the queue awaiting review, so the backlog is just over four months. You may, perhaps, be lucky and find that your article is reviewed earlier. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:36, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    You ought to review the sourcing of the article. What Wikipedia needs, to demonstrate notability, is significant coverage in published independent reliable sources. Wikipedia wants to know what sources such as reputable newspapers have said about the subject, not what he has said about himself. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:34, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    editing Nexsan page

    We are trying to edit our Nexsan page so it is more up to date, however, we're unsure about the guidelines on what to post. We don't mean to be promotional, can you let us know what would be acceptable. Here is what we are planning to post: "Nexsan is a multinational corporation that sells hybrid data storage hardware and software and recently partnered with Spear Point Capital. Bob Fernander and Geoff Barrall run the Nexsan business as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Nexsan, respectively. Nexsan has built a reputation for highly reliable, cost-effective storage designed to serve specific use cases and business demands for over 15 years. Nexsan creates storage for IT professionals who demand storage suited to their specific needs." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aepilk (talk • contribs) 16:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    The concepts of the sentences up to the work "respectively" would be fine, though probably should be rephrased. The two sentences after that are not encyclopedic. (Though the fact that the company has been around for 15 years should be included, but simply as a statement of when the company started. Please see WP:OWN, but asking on the help page is a good first step. I'd suggest adding the information that you want changed, specifically with references for the positions held by Mr. Barrall and Mr. Fernander to the talk page for the article. (Also pinging Excirial since they seem to have reverted promotional changes to the page more than once)Naraht (talk) 17:17, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    A-Class question

    How does one appropriately get an article reviewed for WP:ACLASS status from two uninvolved editors? The instructions aren't very clear.--Nevé–selbert 20:03, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    A class is a virtually unused category anyway. TimothyJosephWood 20:07, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    My tools menu

    Something has happened to my tools menu that makes certain tools disappear for article space entries.

    On this page my tools are as follows:

    What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Page information Wikidata item Collapsible option ALL dates to dmy ALL dates to mdy Body dates to dmy Body dates to mdy Body+pub dates to dmy Body+pub dates to mdy ISO to dmy ISO to mdy access 2 ISO Del year-in-X dates Expand ref dates Expand all dates Abbrev ref dates US-slash dates UK-slash dates Find redirects Sort words

    When I am in article space my tools are as follows:

    What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Wikidata item Cite this page Highlight duplicate links DYK check Collapsible option

    What is going on?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:37, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    changing user name

    Is it possible to change my user name?

    John Xander — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnMarcKentJeff (talk • contribs) 20:43, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, see WP:CHU. Pppery 20:52, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    /* Biography */ correcting a factual error in the entry for Manolo Blahnik

    I've made a slight correction to the entry for Manolo Blahnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolo_Blahnik but I've clearly misunderstood how to put in references, as there are problems with footnotes 4 and 5

    The reference for footnote 4 (presently empty) is: http://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/collectible-and-iconic-vogue-covers

    The reference for footnote 5 (partly there) is: http://michellephan.com/5-favorites-iconic-vintage-magazine-covers/

    SarahAnnM (talk) 21:18, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Rather than "urlhttp://..." it should be "url=http://...". --David Biddulph (talk) 21:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Infobox template

    Hello. I've taken the time to create this subsection of the help desk because I need some finding a page that explains or displays the template for the infobox. I've already looked over the page for infoboxes, but could not find anything that I could definitively make heads or tails of. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Boomer VialHolla 22:53, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    It would depend which type of infobox you are referring to. There are many variations on the i/bx and each has its own template and template/documentation. For example Template:Infobox football biography. Eagleash (talk) 23:05, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    A useful page may be Wikipedia:List of infoboxes. Deor (talk) 23:50, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    February 3

    How to edit the article description that can be seen in wikipedia app?

    When I access the page Electric locomotive, I see there is a description under the article title that say "Locomotive powered by an external source of electrivity". However, as I believe the explanation is not accurate in the sense that locomotives powered by on board batteries are also electric locomotives, I tried to edit the page to remove the word external source from that description. However, I can't find out which part of the page I should edit to change that description and I can't find the description on desktop version wikipedia either. How should I edit that and where can I read it on desktop? C933103 (talk) 00:11, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Seems this is a popular topic this week. C933103, see the response up above at WP:HD#Summaries at the top of the page when viewing on mobile. †dismas†|(talk) 00:12, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    The feature was enabled on the English Wikipedia mobile version 20 January 2017. Maybe it should be added to a FAQ. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:35, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah I see, thanks. If those summaries are deemed useful, I think it would be a good idea to display them in desktop and mobile browser version too?C933103 (talk) 01:00, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    See the top of WP:VPT for how to make a feature request. †dismas†|(talk) 01:03, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Best way to cite a FRA Accident report.

    I am editing the page List of rail accidents (2010–present). I want to expand one of the incidents (13 May 2010 – United States) with information I found on the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) website. I am running into an issue as to how to write the citation. As far as I can tell, the FRA receives reports from the railroads involved, and then publishes those aggregated reports.

    While it is on the web, there is no simple URL I can provide that will link to the data. You have to go to a FRA site, fill out a form and submit the form to get the data back.

    There also is no single identification number that I see that would uniquely identify the incident or the report. There are two report numbers, but they seem to be numbers assigned by the reporting railroads, not the FRA.

    So that you can see what I am dealing with, here are the steps I used to get the report data I want to use:

    1. go to 3.11 - Accident Detail Report and fill out the form as follows:
      1. State: North Carolina
      2. Passenger Trains Only: Yes
      3. Search Time Frame: 2010 and May
    2. Click "Generate Report"

    Any ideas? --Arg342 (talk) 01:11, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I found the reference from your description without any difficulties and, yes, there doesn't seem to be any URL. You can add a searching description to a normal reference. Something like:
    <ref>{{cite web|title=3.11 - Accident Detail Report|url=http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/Query/incrpt.aspx|website=safetydata.fra.dot.gov|publisher=Fereral Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis|accessdate=3 February 2017|at=Search for North Carolina, passenger trains only, 2010, May|language=en}}</ref>[1]

    References

    1. ^ "3.11 - Accident Detail Report". safetydata.fra.dot.gov. Fereral Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis. Search for North Carolina, passenger trains only, 2010, May. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
    Would that do? Thincat (talk) 08:49, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hereditary peer

    Ref. number 6 is all wrong. Please note that I did not add this ref. thanks Srbernadette (talk) 01:57, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

     Done Eagleash (talk) 02:05, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    The existing citation redirected to a general info page; an Archive url shows the specific information expected. Corrected with this edit. DonFB (talk) 02:29, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Ta, I was looking for that but had to give up (RL). Don't suppose it matters greatly but the title is now incorrect as it is correpondence (no 'S') in the source which is what the 'sic' in the 'old' reference indicated. I.e. something that looks wrong but is in fact correct. Eagleash (talk) 02:37, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I could not see what "sic" was supposed to be referring to, nor was there evidence of an "author" "Mosley," so I dropped both in a follow-up edit to the citation. DonFB (talk) 02:56, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I see. "Correspondence" was misspelled. DonFB (talk) 03:00, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    More importantly, the {{sic}} template is not to be used in cs1|2 templates because it corrupts the citation's metadata (this is stated right at the top of the {{sic}} template documentation). This:
    {{sic|nolink=y|correpondence}}
    produces this:
    correpondence&#32;&#91;''sic''&#93;
    which becomes part of the citation's title metadata as:
    &rft.btitle=Forms+of+Address+for+use+orally+and+in+correpondence%26%2332%3B%26%2391%3Bsic%26%2393%3B
    clearly a corrupted title.
    The correct solutions are either to silently correct the spelling in the citation or to leave it as is.
    Is this one of those British v. American spelling differences?
    —Trappist the monk (talk) 04:03, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    A little DAB page help needed, please

    I'm a longtime wikieditor who rarely creates articles anymore, but I've come across a notable American woman author/editor who deserves an article: Margaret Cousins (1905-1996). I can create easily the article with no help, and I've found plenty of good sources, but there's already an existing article on Margaret Cousins, an unrelated Irish-Indian suffragette (1878-1954). Could someone more up to speed on creating DAB links kindly resolve this problem for me? I'm content for the existing Margaret Cousins to remain the primary article. Thanks in advance. Textorus (talk) 02:51, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    User is reverting edits without engaging in discussion

    A user User:FreeKnowledgeCreator keeps reverting my edits to Holocaust_denial and David Irving, immediately after I have made them, without read or responding to my arguments on their talk pages. When I have explained my reasons for the edits, he argues WP:FORUM seemingly to avoid discussing it further. His reverts are reinstating material which is not WP:NPOV, and also implies a personal attack (e.g. antisemitism), which stifles debate on the subject and has a "chilling effect". The talk page at Holocaust_denial explains my reason for the edits, but so far his arguments have not really explained his reasons for adding the material he is adding. --Rebroad (talk) 08:36, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Anyone who looks through the talk pages and the revision histories of those two articles will find that Rebroad is making disruptive edits that are supported by literally no one other than him. In Holocaust denial, in particular, there is a clear consensus against his changes, but Rebroad has continued making them anyway. His edits to talk pages are increasingly running afoul of WP:NOTFORUM, as he is effectively trying to use them to try to debate the issues of anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, and promote his personal views on these and related subjects. A block would be in order if the user persists in all this. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 08:42, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Technically, it's Rebroad who started the edit war with this edit.
    In any case, this looks like a content issue; please follow WP:DR and do not argue it on the Help Desk. I am fairly sure you know the place to go if there are conduct issues. TigraanClick here to contact me 08:51, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Personal profile amendment

    Hey Cam and Wikipedia team

    First of all thanks for the work you do on wikipedia - we couldn't have this amazing resource without get efforts of you and your fellow scrutineers

    Secondly; one of the many pages you have edited is the page for minor Australian media celebrity Adam Spencer. I am him. There is an edit as to my marital status that I've tried to post a couple of times. I am now separated from my wife. Melanie. Each time I've posted. Such it's been removed. How do I get this edit to stay on my page?

    I'm at www.adamspencer.com.au and would love to connect

    Adam s

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&oldid=763460496"