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March 14

Spencer Matthews

can the page Made in Chelsea be added to the V.T.E. strip at the bottom of eth page? Matthews was in this show for a number of years. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs)

No. Because those templates (not VTE strips) are about different shows. They are about The Jump and The Bachelor. †dismas†|^(talk) 01:50, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or did you mean, can the template Template:Made in Chelsea be added to the Spencer Matthews page? It doesn't look like the template was intended for that purpose since it doesn't appear on the pages for any of the cast. You could bring this up on the talk page at Template talk:Made in Chelsea if you want to change that though. †dismas†|^(talk) 02:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Maineartists (talk) 02:20, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

91411023MA3X60NA3Q

we are one of china factory ,we are sold human hair on amazon ,i sumbit the invoice to amazon team ,but they told me the they can't find the manucfater ,so i searched the 91411023MA3X60NA3Q by myself ,but i still can't search it ,so i hope you can help me to search it ,i m waitting for your reply best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.85.8.227 (talk) 02:12, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.8 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. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Claiming Edits

I made quite a few edits before joining officially, is there any way to claim these? I can provide the IP address they were made under. Theodosianus (talk) 03:44, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you wish to do so, you can make a note on your user page which IP addresses you formerly used, though of course there is no way to verify such a claim. --Jayron 32 03:53, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. Well, thanks anyway. Theodosianus (talk) 04:07, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just to state it explicitly: IP edits cannot be reassigned to an account, and user edits cannot be reassigned to another user account. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reading Wikipedia

I would like to know if there is any article, or any other source, on how to do a sophisticated reading of a Wikipedia article. I am looking for a list like the following - I am just making this up, am looking for the real thing. My questions about each item are followed by 3 ???.

Check the front of the article for alerts. Some alerts should be seen as more significant than others.... which alerts???
Scan the article and check its shape. Does this strike you as an encyclopedic style article? Does it provide the answer to your questions?
Check the page statistics for an indication of a controversy? Is this possible???
Find the page author --- How??? and look up his autobiography. Find other articles that author has written. Infer his/her motives for writing these article???
Scan the talk page for controversies. Is the talk page a "rant free zone" or something else.
Try to discover competing articles (NPOV branches) about the same topic. How???
Read the article carefully, checking references.
Read the discussion carefully. Try to recognize the personalities of the editors.

Again - I just made this up... I am hoping that somewhere someone as written the real list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carl94965 (talk • contribs) 04:21, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Carl94965: I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but parts of it sound a bit like the way we assess Good Articles.

Or maybe you're looking for the perfect article?

It really depends what you are trying to achieve. I guess I can answer some of your points,

Alerts - I guess you mean templates that say if e.g. the article has been nominated for deletion, or is unreferenced, or whatever. Which are the most important is subjective; they are all designed to try and fix problems.
Controversy can usually be seen by looking at the article's talk page, and also by looking at the edit history. For example, for Star Trek Into Darkness, you could check Talk:Star Trek Into Darkness and 'view history'
You can find the original author in that same history, by going to the 'oldest' edits. (So in the example, here you'd see that page was created by Daskill (talk · contribs) in May 2009 [1])
Talk page - that's the place where improvements are discussed, so yes, you'll likely find any issues there (or in its archives, which are usually posted at the top of it). Rants about the content are OK, but personal attacks are not; those get removed and users get blocked. It has to remain WP:CIVIL.
NPOV forks about a topic - we don't have those. An article should present a fair balance of the subject.86.20.193.222 (talk) 05:07, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Off wiki

How to edit off wiki?UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ (talk) 11:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't clear what you mean by this question - could you clarify, please? Yunshui ^雲 _水 11:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean sign off then there's a Log out button at the top right.
If you are asking how to edit without affecting the live content, then you can click edit and copy the text to a text editor or to your sandbox for off-wiki editing. It is usually preferable to make small edits, one at a time, on the live article, but there might be some circumstances when you wish to do your editing off-wiki. Use of a word processor is not really recommended because it can affect the formatting, but a plain text editor should be OK, or save as plain text. You can test your results by copying back into your sandbox to check that the result of the edit displays correctly. Dbfirs 11:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

By a long shot – given that you just came off editing the video game Star Control II, if you're alluding to editing the game Off Wiki, this has no relation to Wikipedia. Lourdes 11:20, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See mw:Manual:Wiki on a stick for an option if you mean downloading software. Without downloading Wikipedia's templates and other pages, many things will not render like they do here. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:05, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't tried it and don't actually know whether this will allow easy off-line editing. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's certainly not easy; it's incredibly complicated. You need to set up the wiki in just the right way, with similar settings to enwiki; even then, without supporting templates, categories, and other linkage, it doesn't function well. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 17:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can edit the text content using any (offline) editor of your choice, for example Microsoft Word, just by doing copy-and-paste. That will not help for formatting (bold, headings, etc), nor will it show the result of wiki markup such as refs.

Due to all the complex links within Wikipedia, particularly to templates and markup such as references, {{reflist}}, etc. it is very difficult to check the result of substantial edits offline.

If you are online, you can copy/paste articles into a sandbox so that you can work on them. If you do that, a) record where it was copied from or to (e.g with a diff in the edit summary), and be careful if others edit the real article while you work on a copy. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 17:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nisha Rawal

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

Please confirm - She married TV actor Karan Mehra or Karan Veer Mehra in 2012 after six years of dating? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.228.147.72 (talk) 12:18, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nisha Rawal (who portrayed Soumya Diwan in Main Lakshmi Tere Aangan Ki) married Karan Mehra (Karan Ajay Mehra, of Jalandar, who played Naitik Singhania in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai) on 24 Nov 2012. This magazine has pictures from their wedding. It says they were in "a long term relationship for almost five years" [before marriage].

Wikipedia does not have an article about Karan Veer Mehra (of Ragini MMS 2), but his IMDB page here incorrectly says he's married to Nisha Rawal. IMDB is not a reliable source. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 17:22, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: IMDB is an unreliable source, its edited by anyone - you may need to find further accurate information than IMDB. Stewart Little (talk) 18:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Conflict

I see (edit conflict) prefacing numerous posts, comments -- even edits and voting; yet never see an explanation of the conflict within the edit summary. Why is this not a prerequisite for this disclosure? Thanks. Maineartists (talk) 12:42, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect you don't know "(edit conflict)" refers to Help:Edit conflict. It often means an edit was written without seeing a previous relevant edit, for example causing some repetition. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:52, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Maineartists. An edit conflict just means that two or more people tried to edit the same section at the same time, which the software won't let you do, so it gives you an error. Mainly, comments are marked like this to indicate that the new comment might not be "up to date" in the conversation, since they're not replying to the latest comments by others. So for example you might see this:

I'm having a problem editing this article. The formatting keeps messing up HypotheticalUserNumberOne 12:00, 01 January 1900 (UTC)

Here, I found the problem. I think I fixed it for you on the article. HypotheticalUserNumberTwo 12:30, 01 January 1900 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I looked at it and couldn't figure it out. Sorry. HypotheticalUserNumberThree 12:31, 01 January 1900 (UTC)

So in this case, UserThree is replying to an old comment, where the problem has already been solved, and their comment is no longer really relevant. But they didn't realize the problem was solved because of the edit conflict. Hope that is helpful, and not even more confusing. TimothyJosephWood 12:55, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This actually is making it clearer that there are those on WP who don't know how to use this correctly; in as such: these are not any of the examples I am seeing this occur -- which caused my initial confusion of the term. Some have used it as a WP:COI tag. I understand its correct creation of use and means for definition. Thanks. Maineartists (talk) 13:12, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(EC) Hi, Maineartists. You probably confuse the 'edit conflict' with 'conflict of interest'... Edit conflict appears if you start editing a page, say to answer someone's question, and someone else posts their answers before you do. The Wikpedia soft then warns you the page has been modified since you started editing. You can then just save your answer (and possibly destroy someone else's work, because the version you edit does not contain what others have posted meanwhile) or cancel your edit and start over from scratch (which you usually wouldn't do as it means a waste of lots of time, especially if the page is hot and conflicts may appear several times).

Or you can copy your answer from the edit window to a clipboard, then cancel editing, start it over and paste your work to append it to what others wrote. Then you'll probably not want to read everything added in the meantime, so you put '(edit conflict)' or '(ec)' note in front of your answer; the note indicates your answer was started before some contents was added, so it may repeat what others said, or even may appear irrelevant (if the question poster has changed their question before you posted your answer). --CiaPan (talk) 13:11, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Great! Thanks everyone! Maineartists (talk) 13:26, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Although the initial question was based on a misunderstanding, it still would be interesting to answer. If one's answer became totally irrelevant, it should not be posted at all rather than prefaced with {{ec}}; if part of it went obsolete, it should be updated before posting.

I mean, the default meaning I imagine when reading an edit conflict caveat is "I spent 15min typing this and I won't bother to update it just because someone else was quicker on the trigger". I am guilty of doing it now and then, but surely that is poor netiquette and should be discouraged, no? Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 14:30, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My example was a little extreme in order to illustrate the point. In that literal case, (i.e., replying with a short comment made obviously irrelevant by another short comment), yes, the better option is just to carry on without the need to reply.

However, most of the time it's much less clear cut, and is often the case that the intervening comment is merely a bit of "vectoring off" in a different conversational direction, where the edit-conflict-comment is still relevant, but is somewhat off focus given where the conversation just veered off toward. TimothyJosephWood 14:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that the edit-conflicting comment often adds something, but that something is too much mixed with the outdated/irrelevant info that one would not bother refactoring. But I do not know whether we as the Wikipedia community (or even global internet community) view that as socially acceptable behavior, or whether we should. I am not saying the OP (taken literally) is easily answered or should be decided on the HD, but it is a question worth asking.

(As for your hypothetical example, I doubt HypotheticalUserNumberThree should have posted even in the absence of HypotheticalUserNumberTwo's comment

) Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 17:18, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly you are missing the context though. HypotheticalUserNumberThree is a highly altruistic user with technical expertise in this area, who was responding to a post on her talk page. She just nominated several articles for speedy deletion, and strongly suspects that HypotheticalUserNumberTwo is a sock of a blocked user who is imitating her username, and who is posting on her talk to be disruptive. But she is assuming good faith and is going directly to double check and see if the problem was actually solved, and consider filing an AIV or SPI if the user is being disruptive. TimothyJosephWood 17:48, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Maineartists: New-ish users sometimes confuse the term with the more serious matter of "edit warring". --Gronk Oz (talk) 18:34, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Changing company name

Hi,

I am editing profile Agito (company), but because company recently changed its name, I would like to change the name of the chanel to Agitavit Solutions (new company name).

Kind Regards, Maja — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agito Slovenia (talk • contribs) 13:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User blocked for spamming and user name violation Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:06, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked or not, per crappy machine translation of this source, they appear to be correct, and I have moved the article. TimothyJosephWood 13:10, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Agito Slovenia: Please note Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social media site (WP:WWIN). We do not keep companies' profiles or channels here, we make articles about them. --CiaPan (talk) 13:19, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary when undoing

When you undo another user's edit, there is an edit summary box provided that is preloaded. It's not so bad with named accounts and IPv4s, but for IPv6s, the damned thing is so long, there's almost no room to insert an explanation and often. I try to delete most of the crap that is preloaded to give myself room, but sometimes I forget and the explanation is truncated (it also shouldn't accept more characters than it can display). Is there a way to customize this? Any possibility of the developers making a permanent change?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:01, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bbb23, see the top of WP:VPT. †dismas†|^(talk) 14:44, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bbb23, Dismas, T10968 provides a very similar issue description. Apart from that, I guess for suppressing the undo automatic edit summary, one would have to either tweak MediaWiki:Undo-summary, or set the default value of $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries to false. And as both would apply universally, and not for a single user, the best method for now is to do what Bbb23 is doing; manually edit the summary. Lourdes 15:28, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's a very old report. I have trouble following it (they don't write these things for anyone but themselves), but looks like it was "done" in 2008. What exact was "done" isn't clear, although I suspect it was the character limit part because they certainly didn't turn off automatic edit summaries. Seems to me at a minimum they could prevent you from typing beyond the limit.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:33, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Eugenia Ontario page

Hi my name is Matthew Webb, and I work for Sea and Ski realty, and we are referenced on the Lake Eugenia (Ontario Canada) page, information from our website was used, we have no problem with that, however the name of our company is misspelled at the footer in the reference section:

We are SEA AND SKI and the reference is SEA AND SKY, we would very much like this corrected as another brokerage exists in Brittish Colombia by that name, that is not associated with us.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or require any further verification.

best

Matthew Webb email and phone number removed 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:41, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.222.62.123 (talk) 18:29, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done. SammyMajed (talk) 18:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

My edits are being removed repeatedly.

Dear Help Desk,

I have been editing the page on C.G. Jung. As a Jungian analyst, I felt that certain opinions were being put forth that are not accurate regarding Jungian psychology. My edits have been summarily removed by FreeKnowledgeCreator who clearly does not understand the issue. He calls the edits "promotional," which he could only do out of lack of understanding. He doesn't understand Jung's discoveries. This feels a bit like bullying to me. Can you let me know the best way to handle the situation? Thanks.

Laurel Howe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurelhowe (talk • contribs) 19:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your editing language to that article may not meet the required policy please see WP:PROMOTIONAL, also if you feel it is incorrect you may need to re-word the editing style used. Regards Stewart Little^talk 19:11, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)

@Laurelhowe: Stop, immediately. "Repeatedly" takes two. Edit-wars disrupt Wikipedia, and users get blocked. It doesn't matter who is right or wrong; nothing is on fire;

Discuss what you want to change on the talk page, Talk:Carl Jung. See if you can come to an agreement, maybe get input from others too.

Also please be very careful about allowing your opinion into the edits; all facts should be supported by an appropriate reliable source. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:14, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Plovdiv medical university controversy.

Hello i would like to ask you what actions should be made in order for the part of the wikipedia page about Plovdiv Medical University named Controversy to be removed given the fact that are completely insubstantial and extremely offensive to students of the medical university and generally to the university as a whole.These false statements are based on gossip columns and in no way portray the truth about the university and its staff.These statements hurt the credibility of the university as well as the hard work that is done in this institution.Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.187.92.35 (talk) 21:12, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The section Plovdiv Medical University#Controversy has seven supporting references. Can you provide references to support your claim that the statements in them are false? Maproom (talk) 21:28, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thes references do not support any of these statements they just reproduce the insubstantial accusations in local news channels.They are not any form of proof that validate these statements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.187.92.35 (talk) 21:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

These accusations against the university are based on a letter send on those news channels without any signature of the author of the letter.Thus anonymous accusations without proof shouldnt be base for creation of articles on wikipedia.Plus the credibility of the referencesshould be checked before they are accepted as supporting references — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.187.92.35 (talk) 21:50, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. I think you have some valid points, and that the 'controversy' section is given undue weight. I am about to remove part of it. I think possibly some of it is valid, but...

Please can we discuss it on Talk:Plovdiv Medical University. I will copy this over there. Let's go through it, and try to come to some agreement. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 01:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm copying this over to the article talk page, for continued discussions. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 01:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Where do you.....................

I understand that McGoo 22:24, 14 March 2017 (UTC) means me, BUT! Where do I enter it? How? and when? I just made several little changes to an article; should I enter McGoo 22:24, 14 March 2017 (UTC) for each one? If so where? Your instructions often leave out answers to these 3 questions. Confusing. And where do I click to SEND this question? I don't see any SAVE or SUBMIT or other. Do I click save changes below? But I have made no changes to this page......HELP — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmcgoo (talk • contribs) 22:24, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmcgoo: On a talk page or a similar page (like help desks and such), you should sign your posts with four tildes, like this: "~~~~" When making edits to an article in the mainspace (an article without "x:" before it), you should not use you signature. For further reading, you can go read this little section: WP:SIGNHERE. When making edits to an article in the mainspace (an article without "x:" before it), you should not use you signature. Hope this helps! RileyBugz^{Yell at me} | _Edits 22:29, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Bulkeley

My ancestor, the Rev Peter Bulkeley of Concord, MA has an article about him here. Unfortunately the many uses of his name were misspelled. I have corrected as many as I can, but for one: The title of the article!! I cannot figure how to change that. There are several misspellings in the references but some are the actual title of

a book or other work which should not be changed for the sake of accuracy to the original work, though it too was misspelled.

How do we correct the spelling of the title of the article? And how do I SEND and sign this? McGoo 22:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC) I'll try SAVE CHANGES but I'm making no changes here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmcgoo (talk • contribs) 22:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience link. †dismas†|^(talk) 23:29, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jmcgoo, first an aside, you are making changes here. You're asking your question.

Second, in order to change the title of an article, the article must be WP:MOVEd. †dismas†|^(talk) 23:28, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And after going through most of the sources referenced in the article, I find a great number of them go with the "Bulkley" spelling. †dismas†|^(talk) 23:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience" Page URGENT

Hi,

Please ensure that the following page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_Live_Concert_Experience does NOT populate edits that include columns for "REVENUE" and "ATTENDANCE" in the section of this page titled "Dates performed." The information populated initially by another user was incorrect and the source they used no longer even features the statistic.

Live Nation owns the rights to this tour and has been specifically asked by the composer that this information come down.

We will be monitoring the page.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smgherini (talk • contribs) 22:41, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Smgherini: Actually the source very clearly verifies the information that you removed. You have been reverted and the information has been put back. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and our goal is to provide verified, sourced information. Regardless of what that information is. Regardless of how Live Nation feels about that information. Sorry. It is sourced, and it won't be coming down. --Majora (talk) 22:52, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We will be monitoring the page. ...and we will be not caring. TimothyJosephWood 23:23, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Smgherini: If you can show that the source in question made a correction or a retraction regarding the figures they pub°lished, then please do let us know that. If they corrected or retracted it, then we'll do the same. But the fact that they "no longer feature" the information is irrelevant, people take old information off their website all the time. Billboard is a reasonably reliable source for the information in question, so if that's what they published, that's what we'll reflect. The fact that someone doesn't like it being in the article has no bearing. If it's factually inaccurate, that's a different matter. Which is it? Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 00:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Smgherini It would help us to know if you are an employee or their publicity agent, promoter etc.--Aspro (talk) 14:25, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Moving page to a redirect after merge

In 2013, the articles Palyul and Pelyul Monastery were merged. While the intent was correct, they were unfortunately merged into Palyul which is neither the WP:COMMONNAME spelling of Pelyul nor the proper level of description (individual monasteries should include the word Monastery in their titles as per WP:CHURCH). I would like to move the merged page to Pelyul Monastery, but I don't know how to move it back to a redirect page. I'm sure there's a simple solution but I didn't want to risk blanking the redirect page without proper instruction. Thanks for any help! --NoGhost (talk) 23:57, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NoGhost, it seems to me the article should be renamed to "Palyul Monastery". Redirects from "Palyul" and "Pelyul" can be created. I see you have already edited to change the spelling to "Palyul" in the article text (as shown on the monastery's website). The letter "a" appears to be correct, rather than "e" in the name. On the article's Talk page you can propose renaming and see if anyone disagrees. DonFB (talk) 00:43, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@DonFB: I think you may have misread NoGhost's edit. In this edit, the spelling was changed from Palyul to Pelyul, not vice versa. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@DonFB: @David Biddulph: David is correct, I did change the text to Pelyul. I did not actually check the website beforehand, and I didn't realize they were using Palyul. I simply assumed Pelyul was best since it is the THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of the word. In this case, I am happy to accept Palyul as the WP:COMMONNAME. In order to better describe the topic, I will then WP:MOVE the page to Palyul Monastery. --NoGhost (talk) 01:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the page since it is not a controversial or potentially controversial move. Also, I finally noticed this section which describes how to move a page over a redirect, in case I need to do this in the future. Thanks to you both for the comments! -NoGhost (talk) 01:19, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

I have made a corresponding amendment to the navigation template Buddhist monasteries in Sichuan which appears at the foot of the various monastery articles. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:20, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@David Biddulph: Good catch, thanks! --NoGhost (talk) 01:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 15

Sibghatullah_Mojaddedi

Can you please stop saying he is deceased he's well and alive and spreading these rumors are terrible as someone who Skype's him last week this upsets me so much please take down the death date from his page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:9A1B:1765:19F7:A199:4D0F:8937 (talk) 02:34, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the article explains, there were false reports that he died earlier this year.

It did have a "template" message at the top, querying it; I've removed that. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 02:41, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How to update business school rankings infobox

Many business school articles (e.g. Harvard Business School) contain an infobox of various rankings. How does one change the url, title, and date of the source when a specific ranking is updated? I've gone to Template:Infobox business school rankings and clicked on every "edit" button, but can't find any of the fields in question. Contributor321 (talk) 03:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You need to edit the fields of the infobox within the article itself, not by editing the template page. Triptothecottage (talk) 04:34, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's not correct. Every business school article with a U.S. News & World Report MBA ranking in an infobox, for example, shows as a reference ""Best Business Schools". U.S. News & World Report. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-06." It must be possible to make changes in just one location, somewhere, which will then populate ALL the business school rankings infoboxes, just like clicking the top edit button on Template:Infobox US university ranking/National allows you to make changes which populate every "Infobox US university ranking/National". Contributor321 (talk) 05:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is above my pay grade, but it seems like it's necessary to edit each individual transcluded template to change any url/title/date for a rankings provider. I've looked also, and don't see a place that gives access to edit all the sources on a single page for biz school rankings. For example, you mentioned "National," but there are separate templates for university types like "Liberal Arts" and "Regional." For biz schools, there are separate templates for "USmba," "USundergrad," "Worldgeneral," etc. DonFB (talk) 06:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The references are defined in {{Infobox business school rankings/USmba}}, {{Infobox business school rankings/USundergrad}}, {{Infobox business school rankings/Worldgeneral}} and {{Infobox business school rankings/Worldmba}} 86.20.193.222 (talk) 07:55, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much - I appreciate your tracking down those templates. Contributor321 (talk) 13:32, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Photos from Google Drive?

I'm using the sandbox and want to upload a picture that I made on google drawings. The photo won't upload. Echo9001 (talk) 04:15, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Echo9001: A .gdraw file is not an acceptable file type on Wikipedia. Most normal image types are accepted though. .PNG and .JPG are the most common. However, images hosted here must follow a set of rules due to copyright law. Judging by the content in your sandbox I'm going to assume you want to upload some album art. 99% of album art is covered by copyright and can only be placed in main article space. Not sandboxes, not userspace, nowhere else. If my assumption is correct please do not upload this image yet else it will be subject to deletion. If you want you can also file a request at files for upload so someone else can take a look at it. --Majora (talk) 04:31, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Majora thanks Echo9001 (talk) 14:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline Halp

Just starting a new thread since the old one is getting pushed up the page. I'm trying to figure out Template:Hominin species during Pleistocene. I tried to just pull dates from every article on every species, and I changed the overall timeline to Period = from:2588000 till:15000, representing "number of years ago", so that the table would run from left to right with right-most being most recent. But it looks like I'm getting an error for pretty much every value because the darn thing doesn't recognize periods that run from a larger number to a smaller number (basically all of BCE, but also a "number of years ago" or "mya" format).

So I'm pretty much stuck. I'm still in preview mode, since I don't want to save a fundamentally breaking edit, but here's what I've got currently. Hopefully someone can fix me. TimothyJosephWood 12:40, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I know there are other values that are just not even close, but I was expecting to narrow the thing down to four or five errors and work from there. The fact that I'm getting a dozen errors means something in fundamentally wrong. TimothyJosephWood 12:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Current attempt

{| border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=0 width=800 style="font-size:smaller; clear:both;"
|+ style="font-size:larger;"| '''[[Hominini|Hominin]] species during [[Pleistocene]]'''
|-
|
<timeline>
ImageSize = width:700 height:275
PlotArea = left:20 right:70 bottom:20 top:0
AlignBars = justify

Colors =
id:period1 value:rgb(1,1,0.7) # light yellow
id:period2 value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # light blue
id:period3 value:rgb(0.7,1,0.7) # light green
id:events value:rgb(1,0.3,1) # light purple
id:Miocene value:rgb(1,0.8706,0) # 255/222/0
id:Pliocene value:rgb(0.9961,0.9216,0.6745) # 254/235/172
id:Pleistocene value:rgb(1,0.9216,0.3843) # 255/235/98
id:Holocene value:rgb(1,1,0.7020) # 255/255/179

Period = from:2588000 till:15000
TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1000 start:2588000
ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:250 start:2588000

BarData =
bar:Timelines
bar:buffer
bar:Events
bar:bar0
bar:bar1
bar:bar2
bar:bar3
bar:bar4
bar:bar5
bar:bar6
bar:bar7
bar:bar8
bar:bar9
bar:bar10
PlotData=
width:25 mark:(line,red) textcolor:black

bar:Timelines align:right shift:(-75,0)

bar:Timelines align:center shift:none
from:1800 till:end color:Pliocene text:[[Pliocene]]
from:11 till:1800 color:Pleistocene text:Pleistocene
# from:0 till:11 color:Holocene align:left text:[[Holocene]]

bar:Events color:events align:right shift:(-5,-10)

width:7 mark:none color:events align:right shift:(-5,-4)
bar:bar2

align:left shift:(5,-4)

bar:bar4
from:2800000 till:end
at:2800000 text:[[Homo habilis|H. habilis]]
bar:bar5
from:1800000 till:1800000
at:1800000 text:[[Homo georgicus|H. georgicus]]
bar:bar6
from:700000 till:50000
at:940 text:[[Homo floresiensis|H. floresiensis]]
bar:bar7
from:1900000 till:70000
at:1800 text:[[Homo erectus|H. erectus]]
bar:bar8
from:600000 till:20000
at:600 text:[[Homo heidelbergensis|H. heidelbergensis]]
bar:bar9
from:600000 till:40000
at:230 text:[[Homo neanderthalensis|H. neanderthalensis]]
bar:bar10
from:200000 till:end
at:200 text:[[Homo sapiens|H. sapiens]]

bar:bar2
from:2300000 till:end
at:2300000 text:[[Paranthropus boisei|P. boisei]]
bar:bar1
from:2000000 till:end
at:2000000 text:[[Paranthropus robustus|P. robustus]]

mark:none
bar:bar0 at:2700000 text:[[Paranthropus|Genus ''Paranthropus'']]
bar:bar1 from:2700000 till:end width:44 color:period1
bar:bar1 from:2700000 till:end width:34 color:white

bar:bar4 at:2588000 text:[[Homo (genus)|Genus Homo]]
bar:bar7 from:2588000 till:end width:99 color:period3
bar:bar7 from:2588050 till:end width:89 color:white

TextData =
pos:(29,14)
text:"Years"

</timeline>
|}

Looking at the right-hand chart at WP:EasyTimeline#Charts_examples, I see the source code using the negative sign (-) for "from" numbers that are less than zero (0). The "establishing" code in the example is: Period = from:-4500 till:0 DonFB (talk) 13:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy, I was able to turn it around by inserting a negative sign (-) in front of all the "from", "till" and "at" numbers, so it reads left-to-right with no error messages. However, elements are not all in correct places with correct colors and some apparently are overlapping. So, I...uh...leave it to the student to iron out those issues (or try something completely different). DonFB (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DonFB, Awesome. You don't happen to have your solution still open in an edit window do you? TimothyJosephWood 16:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sent to your Talk page. DonFB (talk) 16:37, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My draft page was deleted, need to speak to someone ASAP

Good morning,

I received a notification that my draft article (which was located in my draft space / sandbox) was "speedily deleted" for "unambiguous advertising or promotion." This article is not an advertisement, but information on a company, which was indicated when following the Wikipedia Article Wizard. I cannot seem to retrieve the draft entry and need assistance.

Name of Article: Draft: ContraVir Pharmaceuticals Deleted by: Anthony Appleyard on March 15, 2017, 05:29

Please provide assistance ASAP and feel free to call me at <phone number redacted>.

Best, Victoria Milevski

Lnovick (talk) 13:38, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your user talk page includes an explanation as to why your draft was deleted, with wikilinks (in blue) to further information. That explanation also includes a link to the log which shows you who the deleting administrator was. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:43, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also, nobody is going to call you. We don't communicate in that fashion here. As for doing things ASAP, see WP:NODEADLINE. †dismas†|^(talk) 14:08, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And I suppose we should ping the user, Lnovick, so they know this has been replied to. †dismas†|^(talk) 14:10, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lnovick. It would help us to know if you are an employee or their publicity agent.--Aspro (talk) 14:16, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Victoria; and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm sorry for your situation. I can see that you put in a lot of hard work on your first article. It must have been a shock to see it suddenly gone; deleted from your own "Draft Space/Sandbox" with only a WP Template placed on your Talk Page without a personal comment offering either explanation or assistance. That can be very discouraging. Furthermore, getting WP jargon thrown at you doesn't help either. I understand your intentions were/are in "Good Faith"; but have run up against WP protocol administered by those that may not realize your first-time experienced knowledge. It seems your Draft has been restored: [2] Here is your draft link: Draft: ContraVir Pharmaceuticals Draft. Please welcome the editor(s) to your Talk Page (or on the Draft Talk Page:[3]) to start the appropriate dialogue with them. (Which perhaps should have been instituted by those who knew what they were doing at the outset IMHO) Exemplo347 & Anthony Appleyard . Best of luck. Maineartists (talk) 14:50, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Lnovick, Maineartists, and David Biddulph: I have undeleted Draft:ContraVir Pharmaceuticals; but as it stands it has an advertisory tone. For more information see Wikipedia:Spam. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's why it's a draft ... in a sandbox; and why this newcomer needs guidance, advice and assistance. I don't think anyone disagrees with your assessment; but the manner in which the editor was informed could have been more sympathetic toward their future understanding. IMHO Maineartists (talk) 15:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to check it for, ahem, "close paraphrasing". 81.168.78.73 (talk) 15:25, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

to whom it may concern

Re: Titanic... It may be much better to replace trade words like starboard [right side of a ship} with common words RIGHT Etc. Not only in article about Titanic, and not limited to Wiki. Minor, but still interesting change would be to use a ton [1000 kg] instead of long ton , and mesing with explaining the negligable diffrenecw between two.

Sorry falks, I am 80 and can't do this in a better way

<eMail redacted>.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.97.23 (talk) 15:08, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure where the best place to discuss this would be but port and starboard are common enough English words that I think they're fine to use in an article, especially one about a ship. †dismas†|^(talk) 16:09, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, friend. Thanks for taking the time and effort to make suggestions.

We do like to use slightly technical words sometimes, so that we can offer blue linked words to other articles. OK, so that was a silly example, but you get my point.

I think I may have a solution for the 'starboard' issue; I'm going to put (right) after the first use of it, which is near the start of that article. And I'll link it to Port and starboard as well.

As for "long tons" - I couldn't see which part you meant. There's some mentions of gross register tons, which would be hard to change while remaining factually correct - because that's not the same thing as weight at all.

Perhaps you can explain which part you mean?

We do try to offer other units where possible, for example saying "Ship length = 882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)^*".

Thanks again for the ideas, 86.20.193.222 (talk) 17:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a note to a specific instance of a reference

On an article I'm writing, I'm using the same 3 books over and over. My citations look something like this:

Lorum ipsom lorum ipsum.^[1]^: 46 Blah blah, fjowon nosnosn.^[1]^: 98

Now, I'm including a place where the author has quoted another source. I'm wanting to indicate that the quotation is the author I'm citing quoting another source. Is there an easy way to add that information but make it specific only to the specific instance that I'm citing? Something like the ref page template?~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:49, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ ^a ^b Jones, John (1946). Most Awesomest Book Ever. Some Publisher.

For now I'm using a work around diff, but I don't like the way I'm doing it as I'd prefer any explanatory notes presented like that to provide further information on the subject, rather than further information on a source. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ONUnicorn: A quick question; could you just cite the person he's quoting instead? Or is the quote only available within this other publication? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

He doesn't do a great job of providing a specific citation to the source he's quoting there, referring to it as "A War Department booklet published for supervisors of German POW laborers" rather than by the title of the booklet. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:24, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean. And presumably the original was German, so very hard to track down. I just can't think of a way to do it with rp without duplicating the source; I mean, the [x] has to link to one thing; if in one case that one thing is just the book detail, and the other case the one thing is the book detail plus the where-he-quoted-from, that means the book detail is duplicated. It could sort-of be done with Harvard-style refs, {{Harvnb}}, but that's quite different really. Hmm... 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:47, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For info, the source can be seen here in Google Books. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:47, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ONUnicorn: What I meant by the above was, this. Not ideal, for sure, but I don't see how duplication can be avoided - it has to highlight one thing or the other. Thoughts? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That definitely works; although I'm not fond of the duplicated ref, I do like it a lot better than trying to use Harvard-style refs. I'm not sure if I like it better than the idea of using a note though. Thank you for the idea; I'll have to think about it. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really need anything special? You've already found a way to quote most of the text so perhaps modify what you've got to: 'The War Department believed that the prisoners would "have a strong ..."' and then cite where you saw it (e.g. in Robin at page 8). You don't have to also cite that which you have not seen.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 20:08, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I also think it'd be fine to say, A War Deparment booklet said "prisoners will [..] have a strong influence in future German affairs, just citing Barbed-Wire. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 20:21, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's a better idea! The phrasing is much better. I'll do that. Thank you both! ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 21:06, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Call for merge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell

seem to be about exactly the same subject. How do I either suggest a merge and redirect ? Do I use some template, or is there some page where I submit a merge as a suggestion? Star Lord - 星爵 (talk) 21:05, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:MERGEPROP for detailed instructions. It's fairly straightforward if you take it step by step, but please return here if you need more help. Please ensure to tag both pages and to initiate the discussion. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 21:09, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@DanielDemaret: adding a ping. Eagleash (talk) 21:10, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a relative newbie, but have cited Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell and know a bit about the subject. I think Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy is problematic for multiple reasons. First, note the problems mentioned on the banner. Also, the rather large section Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy#Basics of sickle-cell anemia appears to violate WP:CFORK with Sickle-cell disease. I think that the section Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy#The experiment doesn't meet Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). In summary, I would not bother trying to merge the articles. I would simply make Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy into a redirect to the more substantial, less problematic Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell. I'm pinging jytdog who is more experienced with this sort of thing and may take care of it.DennisPietras (talk) 03:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, didn't get the ping done right above. @Jytdog:DennisPietras (talk) 16:42, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I just did the redirect. The "therapy" article was essentially a PROMO Fork of the section already in the induced stem article here: Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell#Clinical_trial. Jytdog (talk) 17:05, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Jytdog: DennisPietras (talk) 02:37, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Using wikipedia for the first time... when will my draft get reviewed?

Hi there, I'm using wikipedia to create a page for an artist. I've finished the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rob_Fairley I was wondering when my draft might get reviewed? I've read the guidelines and wasn't sure how the next step proceeds All the best. FelixClovelly (talk) 22:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Felix Clovelly: Place {{subst:submit}} at the top of the page and it will be submitted for review. Prepare to be patient though, there is often a large backlog of articles. Eagleash (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 16

T!m Ned Wiki

Hello,

I am new to Wiki editing. I am just trying to validate that the current references/citations on this page I created will be considered creditable. I continue to get the warning that I need to had more cites (which i can continue to add) but wondering how many will be needed to be considered. Thus far, 2 independent blog sites, Apples iTunes, SoundCloud and a record labels web site have been referenced.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by VergeCity (talk • contribs) 00:12, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

VergeCity, sorry you're having the problems, but to be honest, this article will probably have trouble remaining on the site. Look closely at the Wikipedia "notability" guidance and also the specific guidance on musicians, which says the type of person you're writing about should be: "the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself." Unfortunately, the sources you've given do not meet Wikipedia's requirements to establish a person's notability. Articles and reviews in authoritative magazines and newspapers, on or offline, are the type of sources needed. Also, if by any chance you know him, or work for him, or are his relative, that would be a problem called conflict of interest. But even if that's not the case, Mr. Ned needs more coverage by independent reliable sources to be more seriously considered for an article. DonFB (talk) 01:22, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmation email not being received

I've tried multiple times over the past two days to confirm an email address for my account. I need this done so I can apply for JSTOR privileges. Unfortunately, no confirmation email seems to have made it into my inbox. The email address (a Gmail) is correct, and there's nothing in my spam folder. My account has existed for over a year. What could be the problem? Is there some way to circumnavigate this process and "manually" confirm my email? -Indy beetle (talk) 00:45, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Indy beetle: The issue at phab:T66795 has caused Yahoo and sometimes other mail services like Gmail to block mail from Wikipedia. Can you try another mail provider? Comparison of webmail providers lists some examples. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:04, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Empathise with you. I was granted JSTOR privileges but could never log in. --Aspro (talk) 23:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2017 source edit

What does that tag mean? e.g. [4] 86.20.193.222 (talk) 02:31, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It means the edit was made with the mw:2017 wikitext editor. Ppp ery 02:50, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I now have some bedtime reading. I hate VE, but I shall try to remain open-minded about this new thing. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 03:12, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable source

I need a second opinion if this^[1] website is considered a reliable source. It is the only link that supports the Clinton health care plan of 1993 being dubbed as "Hillarycare". Apologies about the citation, I couldn't figure out the code for external links.

References

^ prospect.org

Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 04:08, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You might be better off posting something at WP:RSN about reliability of The American Prospect. As for "Hillarycare", I was able to find this and this from a Google search. there seem to be many more references to it, but I'm not sure what you're exactly looking for. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:30, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would accept it as a reliable source. Take note that by their own statement, "We aim to advance liberal and progressive goals." So, they're not a neutral source, but that's ok. Wikipedia rules say sources don't have to be neutral, and a biased source can even be quite useful in providing a sourced point of view on a controversy. Just be aware that all their articles will probably espouse a lib point of view about something, so you might need to look for sourced balance in whatever WP article you use Prospect for. DonFB (talk) 04:40, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to the both of your for your help. To answer your question, Marchjuly, a request to make a redirect under the name "Hillarycare" to the article linked above was created. I just wanted to make sure before I went through with creating it. Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 04:50, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that redirects don't need to be neutral language. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:53, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Subject "lead" still gets rendering failure when generating PDF

Subject line describes the problem... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.31.92 (talk) 06:49, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is the first post by your IP address since 2007. On which page does it happen? Are you using "Create a book", or the "Download as PDF" link under "Print/export" on the page? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:05, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Links to articles in a language other than English

I was editing an article on Yvonne Rudellat which includes a mention of Raymond Flower. I wanted to insert a link to an already-existing WP article on Flower but when I did so using "[[ ]]" the link was not recognised by the system, perhaps because the Flower article is in French (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Flower). It seems to me that a link would add value. How do I do it? Exbrum (talk) 09:02, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Exbrum, try this: [[:fr:Raymond Flower|Raymond Flower]]. DonFB (talk) 09:48, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Exbrum and DonFB: I believe the most common way for this is interlanguage link Template. In your example it would be {{ill|Raymond Flower|fr}}, which displays as Raymond Flower [fr]

Well thanks Joseph, that's good to know. DonFB (talk) 10:25, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism Warnings

How do you warn editors for vandalism? I just undid a spam edit but am entirely unsure as to how to proceed now - I think I should probably at least say something to the user :P Titanium Wolf (talk) 13:26, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The page, Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace, is a list of the User talk page warning templates. ~ GB fan 13:30, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's also OK to just go to the other editor's talk page and tell him in your own words (but politely) your assessment of and concerns about his edit. You don't have to use a template. Herostratus (talk) 14:22, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pupils of Nadia Boulanger

Hello - this is my first time adding a link to a Wikipedia site. I added a link to the Pupils of Nadia Boulanger site but I can't figure out how to get it to appear under the right alphabetical category. My link is to student Harold Evans - and it was placed at the top of the page when I wanted it under "E". Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harveykay (talk • contribs) 16:58, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A new member gets added to the category not by editing the category page, but by editing the article about the new member, adding [[Category:Pupils of Nadia Boulanger]] to the foot of the member's article. It appears, however, that there isn't (yet) an article on your Harold Evans, so if there isn't an article his article can't be included in the category. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:16, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) @Harveykay: Hello, does the Harold Evans you refer to have a Wikipedia article? If he does and is a pupil of Boulanger, then the code [[Category: Pupils of Nadia Boulanger]] would be added to his page in a section accessed at the end of the page where other categories will appear. Subjects are not added directly at the category page, and subjects without a Wiki article cannot be added. Eagleash (talk) 17:19, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We don't seem to have an article about a musician called Harold Evans. If/when we did, I think the right place for this connection would be adding him to List_of_music_students_by_teacher:_A_to_B#Nadia_Boulanger - but only if/when there was an article about him.86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:27, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It would correctly be added to that page, if an article existed, as well as being added to the category. Eagleash (talk) 03:12, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral Commission (UK) CEO wrong

your page 'electoral commission - uk' is incorrect in respect of the ceo it is claire bassett and has been since october 2015 - please amend.

electoral commision is claire basset - since 2015 - please amend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.232.225.219 (talk) 18:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the executive names, as they were incorrect, not referenced, and not the names shown on their website here.

We currently do not have an article about Claire Bassett, so I don't think it is appropriate to add her name there - also basing this on Google searches of news, she does not seem a particularly notable public figure.86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:33, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ (talk) 18:42, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Can I create "Did you mean?" redirect, like type "Taiwan Taoyuan I" redirect to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport?, or Tokaido Sh redirect to Tokaido Shinkansen??

@UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ: Yes, if you think it's reasonably likely someone might type that to find it. Redirects are cheap. See Wikipedia:Redirect, which shows "How to make a redirect" 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:49, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I mean search suggest redirect UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ (talk) 08:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ: If there is only one likely target page, we don't bother saying "Did you mean..."; we just take them to the page.

If there are several potential targets, we make a disambiguation page, like for example James Small. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 11:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How to flag that a useful article has many factual errors

The article "Battle of Barking Creek" has (at least some, perhaps many) factual errors that I do not have the knowledge to correct (see the article's talk page). How do I flag the article appropriately?Wyresider (talk) 20:45, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can tag specific sentences by placing {{fact}} at the end of the sentence. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Nihonjoe, but the article has some points that I know are wrong and others that I suspect may be wrong, and I feel that the article as a whole is correct in outline but erroneous in detail. I would like to flag the article as a whole accordingly. To focus on a few specifics would by implication exonerate the remainder, which may or may not be justified. Some specifics are discussed on the talk page. (The talk page might suggest that I know more about the topic than I do -- I researched in some detail only one or two statements in the article that stood out as being improbable -- so improbable prima facie as to call the authority of the article as a whole into question.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyresider (talk • contribs) 22:55, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Wyresider: If you think there is a problem with the whole article, {{Disputed}} can be added tot he top of the page. Be sure to list specific problems on the talk page so anyone can help with fixing the issues. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Wyresider: Is this about the things you wrote on the talk page back in August 2015 (which seem to have been ignored), or is it about something else? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 23:21, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's a very interesting article, actually. And I see what you mean about the factual problems. I've asked for input from the MilHist folks (WikiProject Military history, which is a very active project). I'm also trying to order one of the books. Please monitor the talk page, I think people will be talking there within the next days...hopefully we can sort it out. See you on Talk:Battle of Barking Creek? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:28, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Ref number 11 in the main text looks wrong to me. Please alter is necessary. 139.216.210.155 (talk) 23:32, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Do you mean ""Mary taler perfekt dansk"? I may be seeing a different 11th ref to you; someone removed one recently. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 23:39, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

no - The page is definatley ==Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark== Ref number 11 in that page has a > sign next to it. This would not be correct. Please investigate Thanks 139.216.210.155 (talk) 23:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, you mean the part about "While studying in Tasmania", I see it now. I've removed it, because it was only referencing a blog post and a document on "Scribd", which are not reliable sources. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Anyone know how to get the names and numbers from Template:Edmonton Eskimos roster and put them in a list like they are at Template:Edmonton Eskimos roster navbox. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 23:36, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9: Can you explain a bit more? You can click 'edit' on those, and could copy-paste the names across, if it needs updating or something. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 01:48, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically update the roster navbox by pulling names from the main roster template. A lua module perhaps? WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 01:50, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's clearer. I think you'd have a 3rd template, containing the actual names, and then these two templates would use the names from that.

Hopefully, someone will offer you help with it here. I could probably figure it out, but I'm sure others could do it much quicker. If nobody shows up, I'll see if I can find someone. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 03:29, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Template expertise required — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.193.222 (talk) 03:33, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 17

I am not a Spouse to Eric Bauza

It says I am a spouse to Eric Bauza. This is not true. We dated but are no longer. Please adjust. Here is his page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bauza thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:141D:4211:BD1A:DB:418C:68D5 (talk) 03:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The personal details in the infobox relating to marriage and children appear to be unsourced (and there is no 'personal life section in the article). I have removed them. Eagleash (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking help with Rhea_Moss-Christian

Am having trouble with two edits:

1. Formatting the photo into the Infobox (as opposed to above it, where it now sits).

2. I have added more links as requested by the underlinked template but cannot remove the template now that the issue has been resolved.

I would appreciate the help of a more experienced editor.

Thank you

KEAB

KEAB (talk) 04:51, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

KEAB, since this article is about fishing (sort of), I'll teach you how to do it yourself, so you'll be able to do it "forever" in the future (give a man a fish...). On the article page, click the "edit this page" tab. In the editing box that appears, note the "Infobox person" words. Below that, note the "image" parameter. Now, near the top of the edit box, use ur mouse to highlight the name of the photo image, "File:Rhea Moss-Christian.jpg". Cut only those words from that location and paste it to the right of the = sign for the "image" parameter. Delete the leftover unneeded words and symbols: [[ |thumb|Rhea Moss Christian]]. At the very top of the edit box, delete "Underlinked|date=March 2017", including the curly braces {{}}. Ask here again (or send me a Talk message) if you have any problems. DonFB (talk) 05:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much (talk). That worked perfectly! Am very grateful. KEAB — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.73.94 (talk • contribs) 05:40, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello...

Hello Sir or Madam,

I notice this page isn't automatically on Google.

Please check it..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derick_Kobina_Bonney

[Awesome-1] Jones, John (1946). Most Awesomest Book Ever. Some Publisher.

[2] rospect.org

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