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March 24

Editing TV show episodes in advance

Hello, I am trying to establish if there are any specific guidelines about editing TV show episode numbers in advance. I keep coming across an editor (120.147.113.111) who routinely advances the number of episodes a TV series has telecast, before the episode has aired.

A current example is the Have You Been Paying Attention? article. The 13th episode went to air yesterday (Sunday 23 March 2014, Australian time) and yesterday this editor has already changed the number of episodes aired to 14 with the notation "as of 30 March 2014", a full week in advance. On Fridays he/she changes episode numbers for shows that don't go to air until the next Monday late afternoon (Million Dollar Minute, Millionaire Hot Seat). I have tried to communicate with this editor but they choose not to respond; I have also put an note in the episode number editing section saying "only increase number after the episode has gone to air". Again the editor chooses not to do that and continues editing in advance.

I personally feel that editing in advance is incorrect but maybe I'm getting 'carried away'. I would greatly appreciate some assistance. Cheers. Melbourne3163 (talk) 03:02, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

{{infobox television}} states that the num_episodes parameter is only for the episodes that have aired/been released and that any other number requires a WP:RS. - Purplewowies (talk) 04:08, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

any claim of episode numbers should be sourced. depending upon a Wikipedia editor to find and accurately account for all episodes and somehow assume that is a valid representation is beyond WP:SYN simple math of looking at content in one source. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:51, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks for your speedy and helpful replies. Cheers. Melbourne3163 (talk) 20:23, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

No sources in this page

Hadith of Gabriel, it should be tagged, but how? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fundarise (talk • contribs) 03:36, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I've tagged it with a few things, but right now, it's little more than a collection of quotes, and it might even be a candidate for deletion... - Purplewowies (talk) 04:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

superseded articles

A couple of years ago i did some research on combinations and permutations. I subsequently went back to review the subject and found it had been replaced. Is there any way to access superseded articles? Michael Addison 50.131.118.74 (talk) 06:19, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

If nothing complicated has happened (eg. deletion), history of a page can be accessed by clicking on the "View history" tab next to Edit tab. See WP:PAGEHIST.--Glaisher [talk] 06:22, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Data stickies

• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
• Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Generally speaking, is this a topic notable enough to be worth investing my time into writing? TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 09:18, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

given that the hits are almost entirely repetitions of the phrases " Data stickies is a design concept, but not necessarily a pipe dream" or " dataSTICKIES are the next generation of data portability" i would say that someone is doing some press release flooding of the interwebs. "The graphene-based sticky note flash drives, which are only in conceptual stage right now, " , i think WP:TOOSOON, wikipedia is WP:NOTCRYSTALball. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:02, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Spurious "}" bracket in Maid to Order

In the Maid_to_Order#External_links

After the IMDB link all the entries have an extra "}" after the film title:

• Maid to Order at IMDb
• Template:Amg movie
• Maid to Order at Rotten Tomatoes
• Maid to Order at Box Office Mojo

Why should that be? Chaheel Riens (talk) 12:50, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

i think it was an issue with a typo at the templates themselves [1]. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:04, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

The extra "}" has been removed from all the templates. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, my bad sorry. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:51, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Super, thanks y'all. Chaheel Riens (talk) 14:23, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Mistake

On page about VAPIANO restaurant you have mistaken. There are no restaurants in Latvia as it written in article!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.134.39.59 (talk) 13:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you; the source cited does not mention Latvia so I have removed it.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:11, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Can't create subpages such as User:Dougweller/common.js.

Trying to create User:Dougweller/common.js I see the edit field flash up then disappear, leaving me with no way to install a script Dougweller (talk) 13:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

.js pages are treated specially and may conflict with some scripts. I have created the page for you. Are you able to edit it now? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:53, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but no. I see "→ Go to editing area" but clicking on it does nothing. I've never been able to get further than that. This is in Firefox and Chrome and IE. Dougweller (talk) 14:52, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

What is your skin? Does [2] work? PrimeHunter (talk) 16:12, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

If you have enabled wikEd at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets then try disabling it on the icon in the upper right corner when you edit .js and .css pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:03, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much PrimeHunter - that let me add the script User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js but it's not working yet. I'll fiddle with it tomorrow. Thanks again. Dougweller (talk) 19:11, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

• BYPASS your cache and it should work if you added it correctly. Looking at your common.js page, I see that you copy & pasted the actual code of the script. What this means is that your copy of the script won't be maintained for you, and is rarely a good idea. I suggest that you replace all of the code on that page with importScript('User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js');//[[User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js]] so that way whenever Writ Keeper updates his copy, yours will also be automatically updated. Happy editing and good luck! — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 19:26, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks, Writ Keeper saw your ping and fixed it. Dougweller (talk) 21:34, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

How do I recommend that an administrator be stripped of Admin status

I have been editing a long while (I think about eight years) and never wanted nor was offered Admin status. A relatively new admin is, in my opinion, causing trouble by thinking he is now Dictator of the World and can do what he wants without consensus or discussion. (I can give you the appropriate links but I imagine you are rather busy.) To where should I put this discussion? To strip an admin of his status because it is a privilege not a right, and in my opinion is abusing it. I thought about WP:ANI but that seems the wrong venue. Si Trew (talk) 14:05, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

It would usually be a normal case of WP:BRD but since the other editor has admin status and is using it as a kind of golden crown, that is not what admin status is for. Especially when something comes up at, as it happens WP:RFD to which I am a regular contributor and come with views sometimes agreed with sometimes not but always with my homework done. Si Trew (talk) 14:10, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Please carefully read WP:RFCC ensuring you have tried all the other avenues described before raising it per the appropriate guidelines there. CaptRik (talk) 14:17, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Or, not quite so tersely: You start by getting agreement that there's been serious misbehavior. Consider a "request for comment". (NB the "minimum requirements for making an RFC.) If it's agreed that serious behavior has taken place, he'll be told to shape up. If he ignores this and continues, he'll be in trouble. -- Hoary (talk) 14:21, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Um, a discussion about someone without notifying them? Not a good idea. Dougweller (talk • contribs) 14:55, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

And this seems to be about Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2014 March 24#Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_March_22#Chimping out - please folks, look at that before commenting again. Dougweller (talk) 14:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, Doug. Also, I have to chuckle about "relatively new admin". I had already been an admin for a year when Si Trew registered his user account. Anyway, that's by the by and I won't clutter the help desk with any more on this topic. — Scott • talk 15:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Brian Flemming is a Hit Piece

Blatant propaganda...

There are some clear BLP and NPOV violations, eg "Flemming launched three unusual media campaigns to support his biased documentary" but this would belong at WP:BLPN. Dougweller (talk) 15:40, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

LOST EDITS AND ARTICLE

Dear PrimeHunter, Thank you for your reply regarding my lost edits and articles. My new acc is aas JOX67 I think maybe my last one was JOX1967. i am at a loss to know how to find my lost workd.

Thanks again

JOX67 — Preceding unsigned comment added by JOX67 (talk • contribs) 16:45, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

There is/was a @JOX1967: who was working on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Martin McEvoy. (you can go to the "Special User Contributions" page and type in user names Special:Contributions/JOX1967 )-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 16:49, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

See the section #Lost all my edits and my curent article further up this page. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hockering, Norfolk.

The Church in Hockering, Norfolk is St. Michael's.

You have a picture (and name)of St. Mary's, North Tuddenham on the Hockering page. Please can you correct this. Heather Flint - Churchwarden Hockering St. Michael — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.96.101.147 (talk) 18:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Is File:St Michaels church in Hockering (geograph 1920315).jpg the right church to display in Hockering? PrimeHunter (talk) 18:49, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I've switched to PrimeHunter's suggestion after reviewing www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:31, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Sandbox linked to article after creation

Hi,

I used my Sandbox to create a page for the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor), and then I tried to wipe my sandbox clean and start a new article there. Unfortunately, that also wiped clean the main page listed above. How do I unlink the two so that I can use my sandbox for something else?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom.essinger.hileman (talk • contribs) 20:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Tom.essinger.hileman. When the page was moved from your sandbox to its final destination, Wikipedia automatically left a redirection in your sandbox (it always does that when a page is moved). To get to it to edit it, you need to pick it, and it will show you the destination page; but just underneath the title it says " (Redirected from User:Tom.essinger.hileman/sandbox)", and you can pick that link to go back to the actual sandbox. You'll find if you edit it, it contains just the text "

#REDIRECT Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

{{R from move}}" and you can remove all that. --ColinFine (talk) 21:15, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Tom.essinger.hileman (talk) 17:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

No password reset email

I have not used my Wikipedia account 'Theron McCollough' sense 2011.

I put in my username and ask for password reset but email never comes. I have tried with both my username and my email address, searched user logs and can not find my profile. I want to maintain this as I have made entries and want to maintain my Wiki clout.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.100.59 (talk) 21:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

The edits by User:Theron McCollough can be seen at Special:Contributions/Theron_McCollough, so it was 2012. If Help:Logging in#Login issues and problems or Help:Email confirmation#Known issues do not help then you have to create a new account. The old password will still work after a password reset (assuming the mailed password) is never used, so if you get new ideas what the pasword may have been then just try them. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:14, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

(e/c) (It was actually used in 2012 [3]) Are you sure you are looking at the same e-mail that you assigned to the account? Are you sure that you connected your wikipedia account to an e-mail? have you checked your spam filter? 22:15, 24 March 2014 (UTC)-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Copyright

I was wondering if i was alowed to sell books with alot of information from wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.238.120.93 (talk) 22:48, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, this is allowed, but you would have to meet certain conditions. See reusing Wikipedia content. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 00:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

How about numerous wikipedia citations making up most of a published work?

I wonder how to cite Wikipedia in this special case in publishing, where a compendium, e-learning material or book author (compiler or editor) would use numerous Wikipedia citations for providing bulk, factual text, effectively dominating the work, only still embedded within the compiler/'author's own narrative. Is there a term for this? Is it ok? Could it still be a one-author book? Or is it an anthology? Should Wikipedia authors be acknowledged, perhaps listed, and if so, how? Is it being done, with examples of ok and perhaps not-ok use for guidance? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sofloc (talk • contribs) 23:01, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Articles on Wikipedia generally have dozens, if not hundreds, of authors, including people who make just a single change. It would be impractical to cite them all. On the page about citing Wikipedia, the authors are left out of the major citation styles. Those who wish to know the specific authors can check the page history. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 00:24, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

March 25

Donation

i want to donate and my article to appear. please how do i get in touch — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.160.252.28 (talk) 06:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

please contact me for donation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.160.252.28 (talk) 06:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

If you wish to donate to Wikipedia, use the "Donate to Wikipedia" link in the left sidebar of every page. No one will phone you, so I have removed your contact details from your post here. Every donation helps, thank you!

If you wish to contribute an article, the page you need is Wikipedia:Your first article, or you can use the "Article wizard" which will guide you through the process. Note that editors reviewing your article will not know or care whether you have given money to the project; that's not how Wikipedia operates. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:21, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

new user

I would like to contribute text and photos to help. How do I get started? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cadillacmax (talk • contribs) 06:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

If you wish to add text to Wikipedia articles, you can just edit most articles just as you have done here. Information you add must not be copied from somewhere else, and should ideally be referenced to a reliable source such as a major newspaper or a book from a reliable publisher. Once you have added text to Wikipedia, other people are free to alter or even remove what you have written (if they do, you can discuss the matter on the article's talk page). See WP:PILLARS for how we operate. Help:getting started may be helpful.

If you wish to donate photos, that is very welcome; but please make sure that you own the copyright to them - most photos you find on the web may not be used. See Help:Uploading images for more information. --ColinFine (talk) 10:28, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

sport

I can't find any work on ethnicity, religion and sport administration does.it mean that ethnicity do not affect sport in Nigeria? Pls help I don't know about sport datz why I'm asking tanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.203.69.5 (talk) 10:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

This Help Desk is about how to edit Wikipedia, your question sounds like a question for the Reference Desk. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:01, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Or maybe even a homework question.--ukexpat (talk) 18:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Rising Damp (film)

Reference help requested. Hi, I have added a references and "reflist" template to the page Rising Damp (film), but it is not showing on the page, and the error message "cite error" about there being no reflist is still showing. If you could help I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Beryl reid fan (talk) 10:36, 25 March 2014 (UTC) Thanks, Beryl reid fan (talk) 10:36, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

You had an answer when you asked the same question at WP:THQ. For the future, please bear in mind that in general it is frowned on to ask the same question in multiple places, as it wastes the time of editors to answer a question which has already been answered elsewhere. Glad that the Teahouse was able to help. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:02, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

An "editor" with an agenda who challenges the neutrality and balance of Wikipedia?

InternetQ

I have been watching a page (above) that refers to my company, which I have not long joined (so, COI declared here) and was recently 'rewritten' mendaciously, plus without any balance; something which has been outlined as a key tenet in the various FAQ's here. The defamatory line of editing and obvious use of derogatory word 'insertions', is clearly not neutral, is not properly weighted and uses language specifically intended to damage the corporations reputation. Surprisingly, it also keeps being supported/reverted by a Wikipedia admin? I would like to ask if anyone has had any similar situations and found a way for Wiki to be made aware of such editing - and actually follow its officially prescribed neutral mandate? Of course, I read the following advisory and I thought I would request some independent insight from the collective if possible. "If you believe an article about you or your organization is incomplete, inaccurate, or biased, there are several avenues for you to discuss the issue with Wikipedia's editorial community." I personally think the facts (positive or negative) need to be balanced regardless of opinion? Clearly, the defamatory editor has a personal agenda, I can't help that, but I would prefer that the company (even with a declared COI) can restore some balance in the article that has been commandeered, which I tend to think is a shame for all of us. Appreciate your guidance. Thank you. CJGM (talk) 11:56, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

The place for discussion of the article is on the article's talk page Talk:InternetQ; that is the place where consensus will be formed. I see that your question above is the first edit from your current Wikipedia account. Are you the same editor who has made previous edits to the article under various other account names (including some edits using blatantly promotional language)? If so, you are reminded about Wikipedia's attitude to sockpuppetry. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

How to roll back an edit that is not the most recent edit

The article "Injection molding" currently has two identical "History" sections. Apparently, on 00:27, 23 March 2014 someone deleted an "Applications" section and replaced it with a copy of the existing "History" section. I don't know how to fix this. Could I do it if I had rollback rights? Could I ask someone with rollback rights to fix it? Thanks. Margin1522 (talk) 12:25, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

[User:Margin1522|Margin1522]], Rollback rights won't help. If undo doesn't work, then you will have to edit it manually. Dougweller (talk) 12:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) You don't need rollback rights for that. Go to Injection molding and select the left radio button for the last known good edit, then the right radio button for the last "bad" revision. Click the Compare selected revisions and wait for the diff to load. At the top of the page in the header on the right side will be an "undo" button. Click that, explain what you are doing in the edit summary and save the page. The diff you want to undo is this one I believe (or if you are real lazy, you can click this undo link). If there have been conflicting edits preventing the undo, you'll have to manually revert it. This means that you will have to copy the text from the old revision and paste it back in the current revision removing the bad text in the process. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 12:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I have to go now but I'll try that tomorrow. Margin1522 (talk) 12:51, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Susan Brind Morrow

I have posted an article about the author and poet Susan Brind Morrow. The most recent version was posted last evening. In that version, I included a number of clear, hard, reliable, factual links (An official announcement from The University of Texas Sowell Collections about its purchase of her papers; announcement from the Guggenheim Foundation, which awarded Brind Morrow a Fellowship; the New York Times, and others.

But still I see this morning that there is a notation at the beginning of this article stating that it needs factual reliable references.

So my point is this: SUCH REFERENCES ARE ALREADY THERE. WHAT MORE CAN BE DONE TO SATISFY WIKIPEDIA THAT THIS ARTICLE IS VALID AND MEETS THE WIKIPEDIA STANDARDS (WITH WHICH OF COURSE I AM ENTIRELY IN SYMPATHY)? The question is why it is still being blocked and scheduled for potential deletion?

Thank you for your help. Tedmasterhunter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tedmasterhunter (talk • contribs) 12:41, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

The problem appears to be that you have included a list of raw external links, but no inline citations. It is therefore not possible to see which of the statements in the article is supported by which link. Wikipedia requires not only links, but actual citations to verify the statements in its articles. This is particularly important with biographies of living persons. See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners.- Karenjc (talk) 12:47, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

NB: I have added a Wikilink to the name of the article in your edit above, to allow easy navigation to it from here. - Karenjc (talk) 12:50, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

request an article or edit be made

i am unable to navigate wikipedia well enough to create an article or edit one. i see the words request edit, yet i request that an editor create an article for THE WORLD PEACE MARCH, but no one will help me marty smith — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.91.156.200 (talk) 14:02, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Please see the answer you received the last time you asked. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:06, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Just a note, but this user is forum shopping. - Purplewowies (talk) 22:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Issue regarding Images and text

User_talk:Trackteur#Operations_Management regarding Operations management article

Did u even bother reading the operations management article? The pictures were next to the paragrafs they refered to. That's pretty standard on wikipedia, see history of physics for comparison.Lbertolotti (talk) 10:52, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello, this may be a problem with my drive, with your other example history of physics I have no the same problem. Cordially. Trackteur (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Did someone else had problems visualizing images and text on that article? Maybe it's just a matter of adding more text to give more space to the images.Lbertolotti (talk) 14:28, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I have no problems with either article. If it's just one user having an issue with the images, then it's probably a problem with that user's computer. Dismas|^(talk) 15:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

BB code tags

I am looking for a discussion of BB code tags on Wikipedia. Does it exist? If so, where? If not, I want it to exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.223.62 (talk) 15:40, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia has an encyclopaedic article on BBCode which lists some tags, or are you looking for Wikimarkup tags to help you make edits here? If so, try starting with WP:CHEAT. CaptRik (talk) 15:46, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

OH GOD, thank you so much. I was derping so hard. Of course the thing I had to do was type "BB Code" into Wikipedia to make what I wanted happen! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.223.62 (talk) 15:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

referencing my text

Hello, I've written a text about Goran Borovic, real person, professional fighter, who had no wikipedia page before. I've uploaded his fight record also. I have problem referencing it, because 99% data on his fight record is from his own personal diary, which he gave to me to make wikipedia page. I can refer to other points in article (titles, etc) with some interviews on croatian internet web pages, but most of the fights on the fight record can not be found on the internet, since it was either pre internet era, or it was organised by smaller organisations. I've scanned the pages from his fighting diary, so i can prove authenticity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkalousek (talk • contribs) 15:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

We only have articles about topics where other people have found the subject worth notice by covering the subject. His own personal diaries do not qualify him for an article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 16:15, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Looking more closely, if he is actually a world title holder in a recognized sport, then he probably qualifies under WP:ATHLETE. But you would still not be able to use his diaries as a source, particularly to verify the claim of being a world title holder, that would need to be supported by a reliably published source, but in this case it could be website of the sponsoring professional organization. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:10, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Unable to move a page

Dear editors: I am trying to accept the following article at Afc: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lol Crawley. I have tried both the AfC Helper script and the new experimental script and in neither case does the page move occur, so I'm pretty sure it's not a script problem. The last time this happened, it turned out the page title was protected from creation, so I visited WP:SALTED and found there a link to the list of protected titles. However, the list appears to be in random order and there is no indication of how many items it contains. I manually checked the first 1000. Isn't there a better way to see if a title is salted? —Anne Delong (talk) 16:56, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I suspect that titles that include the text "LOL" and "LoL" are blocked for anti-vandalism reasons.--ukexpat (talk) 20:42, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, an easier way would be to simply visit the redlink: Lol Crawley. If it is create-protected, that screen will tell you so. In this case it's not, but as Ukexpat says, it's probably on the title blacklist. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

@Anne Delong: Okay, I've moved the page manually, overriding the blacklist. (Hopefully that didn't mess up any of the scripts...) Have at it. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:57, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Writ Keeper. I did visit the page, and didn't see anything informative. Moving articles out of Afc doesn't mess up any scripts - people do it all the time. The script is handy, though, because it gives a simple way to add Wikidata and add Wikiproject banners, request infoboxes, and does some cleanup. —Anne Delong (talk) 21:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. The fact that you didn't see anything means that it wasn't create-protected in the traditional sense (i.e. through the use of the standard page protection tool), but there are other ways to prevent a page from being created/moved, such as the titleblacklist in this case. I'm not sure of any easy way to check those other methods, other than simply trying to create/move the page yourself and seeing what the error message is, if there is one. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 21:29, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Help please

Can someone tell me, create for me, or tell me hhere to ask for a help? I want to create this for country Serbia.

Collapsing for readability
Volyn   Rivne   Zhytomyr   Kyiv   Khmeln- ytsky   Lviv   Ternopil   Ivano- Frankivsk   Zakarpattia   Chernivtsi   Vinnytsia   Cherkasy   Kirovohrad   Mykolaiv   Poltava   Chernihiv   Sumy   Kharkiv   Dnipropetrovsk   Odesa   Kherson   Zaporizhzhia   Donetsk   Crimea   Luhansk Kyiv City Sevastopol • •

Who can help me? Please help me, i really want to add this to article. --Ąnαșταη (ταlκ) 17:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps or Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop. Dismas|^(talk) 17:48, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Correction - Please... https://www.google.com/#q=Cleveland+Golf

Dear Wikipedia,

Thank you for your time. I handle the media & public relations for Cleveland Golf. I have updated our Cleveland Golf page today, and reported an issue, through clicking on feedback, as wrong. I did this several months ago, but the problem still exists. If you follow the link below (which was given to me after searching Google for Cleveland Golf - https://www.google.com/#q=Cleveland+Golf ), it gives you a page that shows Cleveland Golf…but on the lower right banner, on the right side of the page (see below & scroll to the right), it lists Greg Hopkins as our CEO. Greg Hopkins is no longer with our company, but has formed a competitor company to us in the golf industry. When you click on his name, it takes you to his new company (which is our competitor). Would there be any way to remove Greg Hopkins as our CEO, please??? If possible, could we replace CEO: Greg Hopkins with President: Todd Harman??? I’m so sorry to be a bother… I tried to edit it on my own, but it wasn’t possible…and obviously, we’d like to have the most accurate information available, as well as avoid having Mr. Hopkins’ name directing Googlers away from Cleveland Golf to a competitor. Thank you for your valuable time!

https://www.google.com/#q=Cleveland+Golf

Thank you for clearly stating the problem was seen at Google. Most posters with similar issues fail to do that so we made this stock answer:

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.

We have no inside knowledge of how Google processes feedback but my guess would be that it may help if they receive multiple reports from different IP addresses. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:59, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

March 26

Tweleve Visions Party

I was Informed that The Tweleve Visions Party had a page on Wikipedia, I could notfind the page. I had heard this is a new insite on how Americans can Live. If the page has been removed please restore it. I'm sure all Americans would like to evaluate and consider any options available to them...Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valuabel1 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

There was a deletion discussion on the Twelve Visions Party. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Twelve_Visions_Party. You might want to request deletion review, but first read the deletion discussion, and consider how Wikipedia's notability guidelines apply. (While I did !vote for deletion, I can see that an argument can be made, as the closer did, that the consensus was DELETE, but I can also see that an argument can be made that there was no consensus.) Robert McClenon (talk) 01:31, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

urgent help please

Hello Sir or Madam

I am searching for my friend who come from India to Finish Mba last year .Her name is Oindrila .I got her message before one and half months before that she has some health problem . Please I need her information . If you can can help me , I will be grateful to you . If you know anything about her pleasde inform me On my Email addres Again I inform you , Her name is Oindrila from India. She come to Atlanta to study at Emroy University in Mba last year . Need her infromation .Please I am her online friend . I look forward to hearing from you soon

Thank you very much

Kittu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.55.115.203 (talk) 02:04, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 7 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.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 04:40, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

YouTube citation help

How does one cite a specific YouTube video? WP:RS isn't a problem, because it's a major media source, and WP:COPYLINK isn't a problem, because the network itself uploaded it. I just don't know if we have any YouTube-specific citation tools, or if I should just hand-write the citation. Nyttend (talk) 02:50, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

How about {{Cite AV media}}?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:54, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Flags of the world

Hi, relatively new user Norasisl (talk · contribs) apparently intends to share the "Flags of the World" with WikipediA, existing SVGs not withstanding, and sometimes using not exactly obvious names, e.g., File:Flag with motto (ribbon) inside.png instead of File:Flag of Brazil.svg, or File:Flag with soyombo hoist.png instead of File:Flag of Mongolia.svg. Beats me, I added {{vector version available}} everywhere, looked on the messy talk page, speed read the speedy deletion policy, and arrived at the conclusion that this requires an expert with tact (= not me). –Be..anyone (talk) 04:47, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

They were previously uploading these files on Commons, and I have been nominating them for deletion as they come. That is probably why they are being uploaded here instead now. Fry1989 ^eh? 18:22, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Editing the page on Panax Quinquifolia

I just joined Wikipedia because I was appalled at the misinformation and ignorance of the article on Panax Quinquifolia. The authors of the article go out of their way to tell us it is not "good for the common cold" without bothering to mention that it was never used to treat the "common cold" whatever that might technically be, by the Chinese who have done extensive resarch on this herb and have used it for centuries. I attempted to interject some intelligence into the article by touching the "pencil" icon but nothing happened. How do I edit the nonsense out and provide some credible insight into this wonderful and amazing herb? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr Dennis Kinnane (talk • contribs) 07:10, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and added a welcome message to your talk page that may help answer some of your questions as well as provide links to some helpful pages here at Wikipedia. I couldn't find an article by the name you gave but did find Panax quinquefolius.

To more directly answer your question, the article Panax quinquefolius can be edited by clicking on the "Edit" link at the top right of the article. Please provide reliable sources for your information. In order to help you with the references, references for beginners might be of help for our referencing style. Please be aware that your own personal knowledge cannot be used as a source for information. It must come from reliable published sources.

I see that the claim that you have a problem with is already referenced. Before removing that information, since it is referenced, it might be best to discuss the info on the talk page for the article which can be found at Talk:Panax quinquefolius. Other editors can then join in the conversation about whether or not that information should remain. Dismas|^(talk) 09:27, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Alex Masucci

Hi I wrote a whole piece on Alex Masucci well researched, pressed save and it said it would appear in 3 weeks is what I remember as I have more information to add to this bio of Alex Masucci.

Where did it disappear too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.70.135.132 (talk) 08:25, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Is it this? --Mdann52talk to me! 08:27, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

What is Wikipedia's policy in regard to news embargos?

Someone broke a news embargo on a discovery concerning asteroid 10199 Chariklo; someone posted information concerning the discovery in the Wikipedia entry, sourcing it to the Google cache of the since-taken-down article that broke the embargo, then someone else removed it with the edit note "Removed news that is still under embargo". I was going to revert the removal, but on a quick google I couldn't find any information concerning what Wikipedia's policy was concerning embargoed news. Might be good to know for if this comes up again in the future, and perhaps someone more sure about the matter than I would care to revert the edit. Doesn't seem to me that Wikipedia is necessarily under any obligation to honor an embargo once the info has been leaked, but again, I couldn't find any confirmation one way or another. —Robotech_Master (talk) 10:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't know what the policy is, if any, but that article has been in place since 2006, with multiple reliable sources, and those sources are presumably the criterion. What exactly is being embargoed?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:26, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Did you, um, check the page's edit history? Where the edit I mentioned can be found? —Robotech_Master (talk) 11:29, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm not aware of any policy or guidelines on news embargoes. Suppose it should be considered on a case by case basis - articles are based on reliably published information and with an embargo in place it could be difficult to source embargoed information - I doubt Wikipedia is obliged to adhere to embargoes themselves though, besides common courtesy, which we are also not technically bound by. It could be argued that wral.com already broke the embargo in this case - no matter how quickly they withdrew the article. Unless there is a policy and I'm missing it, perhaps it warrens further discussion. WP:PUMP may be a good place for that. Яehevkor ✉ 11:44, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

We are not journalists and we are not bound by any journalistic code to abide by our source's preferred timing. and in any case our source (WRAL) did not make any request for delayed timing.

our concern is WP:V and WP:RS.

we generally consider major TV stations a reliable source. we generally consider third party archived web pages as proof of verification. therefore, unless WRAL has officially retracted the story on the basis of factual incorrectness (rather than simple journalistic courtesy they are extending to their source regarding timing), there is not really any issue about us covering it. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:45, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Reporting Fake (History) Page(s)

I have come across a wiki page that was filled with historical inaccuracies and that was made primarily by a community/caste to help uplift their social status by the looks of it. The references provided on the page do not come from valid sources, I have raised the same issue on March 20, 2014 and I was suggested to go to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution by Rwessel and also seek help from Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics by The Red Pen Of Doom. I was also suggested to put up the page(s) in question here, while I was researching on the same page; I found out that the same people of that community/caste were modifying other History pages and littering Wikipedia with other invalid information from irrelevant and questionable sources. Other wiki users have attempted to talk on their page (Reddy Dynasty), but they do not listen or act upon a consensus. Here are the links that are currently under watch by them -

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_dynasty
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasireddy_Clan (A static external website is being used as a source for this link)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Chalukyas (Just the term "Vasireddy Nayaks", which I edited & removed it today)
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_Raya_II#The_Empire
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakatiya_dynasty#Demise_of_the_dynasty
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Andhra_Pradesh#Reddy_Dynasty

Ajan (talk) 12:21, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

A search on google about "Reddi Dynasty" does not bring any reliable source to highlight the subject's importannce. The articles contain a number of words like 'golden age' and 'evil' which can be removed by you yourself. About 'fake', you may remove information if you don't find relevant reliable sources, or propose article deletion. Also can you be specific regarding which editor(s) are having a dispute/not agreeing to consensus? And be Bold! -- Fauzan^{✆ talk} _{✉ email} 12:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

And remember that Wikipedia is maintained by volunteers and so changes and corrections will probably not be immediate. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

By the way, the original poster has tagged the first two listed articles for proposed deletion. I removed the PROD tag from the first article because I consider its deletion controversial; I think that a full deletion discussion is in order since some of the sources appear to be reliable, or at least to have reliable publishers. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:10, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lewis David Eigen

Dear editors: It seems logical that there should be some book reviews or news reports around for this person; I'd like to report this old Afc draft at a Wikiproject, but I can't figure out which one. I am willing to give the submission a serious pruning if some reliable sources can be found. —Anne Delong (talk) 15:00, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

psychology would probably be a good one - he is follower of BF Skinner.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I did that; thanks. —Anne Delong (talk) 03:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Marc Christian-Riebe

Hi,

I represent Marc Christian-Riebe as an employee of Location Group UK

We are currently trying to set up a wikipedia page for him but have come across problems with copyrighting. The text I am trying to upload onto wikipedia obviously contains some of the text from the Location Group's website and Marc's linkedin account as it is a biography about him which is also on these sites.

There is also an incomplete wikipedia page about him already set up, which he would like deleted and the new one set up in place of.

The link to this page is User:Famepeople8001

Please let us know how we can address these issues.

Many thanks Ellie Ulrich Location Group UK — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.83.37.114 (talk) 15:37, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I think you need to read Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest information very quickly. in short it says "Do not edit Wikipedia in your own interests or in the interests of your external relationships." - X201 (talk) 15:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Removing an article

Hi

I have found an incomplete article about myself.

How can I have this removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ellieulrich11 (talk • contribs) 16:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Ellieulrich11. When articles are incomplete, we don't remove them, we add to them. It's not a good idea to edit a page about yourself, because of conflict of interest. However, each article has a talk page. You can suggest information that you think should be added to the article there. Be sure to point out a reliable independent source for the information, such as a news report, magazine article or book. —Anne Delong (talk) 16:47, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

[This appears to be the same editor as asked the previous question] If you are referring to the Marc Christian-Riebe article that you created in your user space, you can add {{db-user}} at the top of the article. If it's some other article, please tell us which one and we may be able to find a reason to delete it.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Giorgio Tavecchio

I have created the page Giorgio Tavecchio. He is a NFL player and the page doesnt look right. This is the link for the page.Giorgio Tavecchio Can somebody fix the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PacoDaKing14Sportz (talk • contribs) 16:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed with this edit. The problem was a missing bracket in the high school link. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 16:52, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I've now removed that link because the article on the school does not exist at this point, and links should be as intuitive as possible. (The link before read "Italy", which in most cases should actually point to the article on Italy.) Anon126 (talk - contribs) 16:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

External links not in English

Dear editors: An editor has added two external links to the Banjo article. One of them is a link to (I think) a site which explains how to play the banjo. This is not a bad idea, except that the links are not in English. Is there a policy about this? I know that reliable sources don't have to be in English, because they are needed for verification and notability. External links, however, are more in the nature of additional information. Is it appropriate for external links of a general nature to be in languages other than English? —Anne Delong (talk) 16:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Don't know why my previous reply way removed. But, external links should be in English, but there are a few exceptions. See WP:EL for the guidelines. RudolfRed (talk) 17:02, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

WP:NONENGEL says "Outside of citations, external links to English-language content are strongly preferred in the English-language Wikipedia. It may be appropriate to have a link to a non-English-language site, such as when an official site is unavailable in English; or when the link is to the subject's text in its original language; or when the site contains visual aids such as maps, diagrams, or tables—per the guideline on non-English-language sites." I don't really see how instructions on 'how to play the banjo' fit in with 'appropriateness' as outlined here - and one of the links [4] seems to be to a website promoting banjo lessons in France. If such links are included, then again according to WP:NONENGEL they should be clearly labelled as in the relevant language. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. With appropriate policy link in hand, I have removed the links. —Anne Delong (talk) 18:47, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

and in general, an external link that is not the official link for the subject should only be included if it provides unique, encyclopedic value. there are dozens of sites that are easily found on google with equally appropriate "how to" content- there is no need for such a link from the Wikipedia article even if it were in English. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:38, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I agree. If I did want to add an external link to this sort of material, I would look for a summary page where someone has already made a list of such sites, rather than selecting one site over others. However, I found out from this discussion what I wanted to know, which was where to find policy about links in other languages, so thanks, everyone. —Anne Delong (talk) 23:47, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Problem with Image layout on page

Trackteur aligned most images from operations management to the right of the page, claiming he was having problems reading text. The problem now is that the images were "companions" of specific paragraphs, and some of them are now way down from the paragraphs they were related to. Can anyone help solving this issue?. I've thought of adding more text, for example: on the history section Walter Shewhart paragraph is indeed very small, so perhaps by adding more text, pictures will be better arranged on the page. Images could also be made smaller, with the risk thought that if an image is too small, content will be hard to see.Lbertolotti (talk) 17:29, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

The simple answer is to remove the six portraits of people, as they add nothing whatsoever to the readers understanding of operations management. If you take out these six photos, you will be able to move the relevant diagrams into more suitable locations. Please also remember that however you arrange the page, other people will see different layouts - look at the page on a tablet, or phone, or change the width, or pixilation, of your PC screen. - Arjayay (talk) 17:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Good advice. On a more general level, {{multiple image}} can be used to group images together.--ukexpat (talk) 17:55, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

logo on upper left of page is too big

this same logo(135 x 79 pixils) is used on an older version of Mediawiki and displays correctly, but on latest Mediawiki it seems too large. Is there a way to adjust it?

thanks

Jim — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.57.48 (talk) 18:43, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, there's no 135×79 logo on MediaWiki, and the 180×170 File:MediaWiki-smaller-logo.png should be scaled as the infobox, the (registered) user settings, their browser, and MediaWiki determine, with reasonable defaults for unregistered users. Are you talking about MediaWiki? Otherwise please add the [[article name]] in square brackets for a wikilink here. Please sign your comment with four tildes ~~~~ at the end, it could help to figure out what you mean. –Be..anyone (talk) 18:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

IIRC, this is the size for the logo in the skin that Wikia uses... and it will look too big in Wikia's Monobook, which needs a square-ish logo. Not that this question is necessarily about Wikia... but I thought it prudent to mention. - Purplewowies (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

The monobook "Powered by MediaWiki" logos on some wikias (tested: dev + freeciv, no logo: community) are 88×31 pixels as always. Wikia is still on the old "Long Time Support" MediaWiki version 1.19. Most registered users and all visitors there have the default oasis skin, not monobook. It would be fun if a Wikia Monobook question somehow ends up here. :-) –Be..anyone (talk) 21:43, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I just felt like mentioning it because the "upper left" logo is usually the site logo... and I noticed the wiki I admin at over there had a logo/wordmark in Oasis that was approximately this size (maybe?) but no logo in Monobook, and the Oasis logo needed to be resized to properly fit within Monobook. I do know few people use Monobook there (even I only switch to it when Oasis is causing problems...) and it's not what visitors get... it just somehow felt important to mention (also may have had Wikia on the brain)? I recognize the image size at the very least, but I'm actually not totally sure from whence it came. Would be funny if it was a Wikia Monobook question, though! - Purplewowies (talk) 23:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Is accidentally copying an article over into another enough for REVDEL?

A user copied and pasted an entirety of one article, Sun Wei into Sunwei, probably by accident, and I'm thinking about copyright scenarios. I subsequently notified the user of the mistake, and did a dummy edit saying the contribution history can be found on Sun Wei. (can provide diffs)

Would revision deletion clear this matter up, so if the article gets voted to be deleted, it can be deleted without worry? Or no? Meteor sandwich yum (talk) 20:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Probably not. The circumstances in which revdel is appropriate are limited: WP:CRD.--ukexpat (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Aww. Oh well. I probably could beg for it to be listed under CRD#6, but Sun Wei Sunwei is being considered for deletion anyway. Should ease the matter. Meteor sandwich yum (talk) 22:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

wikilinking from talk to main page of an article

Is there a shortcut to reference a section of an article from its talk page or do I need to spell out the full article name and then pipe it? For example, Wikipedia:Help desk#Daily section headers is the full link to a section of the talk page to this article Is there a shortcut I could use to link to the "Daily section headers" section? I know I can use pipes to make a link appear shorter. What I'm seeking is something like [[#wikilinking from talk to main page of an article]] which produces #wikilinking from talk to main page of an article and will link to a section on the same page but I want to jump from talk to mainspace of an article.

I've looked at Help:Link, Help:Pipe trick, Meta:Help:Link but did not spot anything that seems like it'll work. --Marc Kupper|talk 22:28, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

AFAIK there's no solution with nothing before the hash, but the magic word {{SUBJECTPAGENAME}} would work. You would use it like [[{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}#Section]], but it would probably be easier to just type the full article name. ~HueSatLum 22:54, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

It might be easier to use keyboard shortcuts to pop up to the top of the page, copy the title, and paste it into whatever you're working on. I know that on a Mac using Safari you can use Command+UpArrow to get immediately to the top of a page and then Command+DownArrow to get to the bottom. Though, if you're editing a section of the talk page, you land at the top of the talk page when you click 'Edit' anyway. Dismas|^(talk) 11:27, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Active tennis chair umpires umpires

Missing plenty of names working for many years at top level and naming some I have never heard of (been in business for more than 25years! Bob Strachan, Australia? Who is that? Leanne White is still an active official, as well as Fiona Edwards. Tamara Vrhovec (Croatia) ,missing, gabriela zaloga (poland) too. Written by someone who doesn't follow tennis chair umpires — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.164.248.202 (talk) 22:43, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I believe this question is referring to List of tennis umpires. —Anne Delong (talk) 23:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

JUST HELP ME UPDATE MY PAGE

Hey, Wiki-smart guys.. I can't do this on my own.. there are a bunch of updates that need to go on my page - I submitted them, but I don't understand the rule and ways to execute the changes.. can someone go through my new additions and make the changes.. please.. this is the real Rick Shapiro.. please.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Therealrickshapiro (talk • contribs) 22:45, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

We update articles based upon what is supported by reliably published sources, preferably third party sources not related to the subject. So we are not going to update just because you asked. Some folks will be by to take a look at your suggestions. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:55, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

and no, that content is not going into the article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:58, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

and if you are in fact actually Rick Shapiro, you have a conflict of interest and you need to stop attempting to edit the article directly and instead make suggestions on the talk page, supporting your suggestions by providing reliably published sources that support the claims and allow third parties to assess the content for its sourcing and appropriateness. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:02, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

If there are any administrators watching, based on what the user has attempted to enter on the article page, please consider whether a block is appropriate until a validation of the actual owner can be confirmed. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:10, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

He can't be Rick Shapiro...because I'm Rick Shapiro! Seriously though, I'm not Rick Shapiro and this guy might be. I don't even know who that is, but want to learn more now. The encyclopedia works. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:29, March 27, 2014 (UTC)

March 27

Too many items on my Watchlist

Dear editors: I do a lot of work at Afc, and so the pages that I edit keep moving around, from userspace to Wikipedia talk: to Draft: and sometimes to more than one title in mainspace. Then there are the associated talk pages for each one and the submitters' user pages as well. I want to watch these pages for a while, but then I would like to delete them from my watchlist, especially ones that no longer have content. I use the "View and edit watchlist" feature, but it is time consuming. Is there any kind of utility that will:

(1) remove watchlist items which are redirects, or talk pages of redirects, or at least identify them for easy removal?

(2) remove watchlist items where neither the page or the talk page exist, or at least identify them for easy removal?

(3) allow sorting of the watchlist items within namespace sections by date of addition to the list instead of alphabetically, to allow easy removal of stale items and new but unneeded ones?

(4) allow items that I want to watch permanently to be marked and then separated, preferably into their own section, or at least by colour or style, so that I don't have to look through these when choosing items to delete? —Anne Delong (talk) 01:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

If you add

importStylesheet('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css'); // Linkback: User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css

to User:Anne Delong/common.js it will change links to different colors based on what the link is, redirect, dab page, so one. Then it is easy to pick out the redirects which show up as green links rather than blue. GB fan 01:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I presume that this would change the appearance everywhere, rather than just in the watchlist editor. Would I still be able to distinguish visited from unvisited links? I am already using custom colours because my eyes couldn't see the dark blue from the black of the default colours; would I need to remove that, or would whichever one was last on the list override? If so, maybe I could just add the link classifier when I intended to do some watchlist pruning and then remove it when done. —Anne Delong (talk) 01:36, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

It does change links everywhere. I don't know how it would work with your custom color. You might try asking Anomie. I don't have any problems with colors so it doesn't cause me any problems. GB fan 01:43, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

its more work to set it up than a simple click to "watch", but you could create a user page add the links to the pages there and monitor them by "related changes". if you organize them in a way that makes sense to you, you can clean them out easily on a regular basis. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:27, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

That sounds like there would be more work adding the pages than I'd be saving on the removal; However, thanks, I hadn't thought of that and maybe I can use it to monitor THIS PAGE. —Anne Delong (talk) 01:45, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

qual e-mail compartir musica do youtube p myspace

como compartir video do youtube para myspace — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.78.51.107 (talk) 03:23, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

You are at Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, and this page is for asking questions about using or editing the encyclopedia. But a Google search finds this video which I think answers your question.

(Google translation into Portuguese) Você está em: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia on-line, e esta página é para fazer perguntas sobre o uso ou a edição da enciclopédia. Mas uma pesquisa no Google encontra este vídeo que eu acho que responde a sua pergunta. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

How to quickly link a term in a number of articles?

I've created an article about Historical Monument (Poland), a type of Polish heritage register. I see the term pomnik historii (now a redirect) is used, but unlinked, in 20+ articles. I don't feel like linking them manually, but I wonder if there's a gadget or another tool I could quickly use to do it in a semi-bot way? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:01, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I dived in with AWB, but noticed that in each case there was a nearby link to Objects of cultural heritage in Poland, eg in the Gdańsk article. Do you really want a second link so close by?

But to answer the general question: I don't know of any gadget to do this. Tasks like this are fairly easy with AWB, and a post at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks usually finds a willing helper. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, User:John of Reading. If the article uses the term pomnik historii, it should link to Historical Monument (Poland). The Objects of cultural heritage in Poland (zabytek) is an upper level concept. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:36, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

I've added the link to 32 articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:58, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

The reason there probably isn't a bot to do it is partially to do with the above conversation, i.e. there are too many decisions to be made about whether or not a link should be used and where. Dismas|^(talk) 11:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

translations

IS THERE A GERMAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION FACILITY ON WIKIPEDIA? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.96.147 (talk) 08:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia:Translation help?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Post & Telegraph

I want to see the sample of INDIRA VIKAS PATRA issued during the year 2002. And want to know when the postal department change the stamping from BOMBAY to MUMBAI. --203.115.120.238 (talk) 11:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Rekha--203.115.120.238 (talk) 11:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

When i download song from dj punjab site then no processing is shown as notification.nothing is downloaded plz help me

Hi,

The Order of the Knights of St Columba wish to have complete control over the pgae Knights of Sr Columba. Although this is a direct copy of an original page, the imagery was incorrect on the original page and some of the content needed to be changed.

The original page was a redirect from Knights of Columbus. Please can you keep these links.

We must have the ability to change this page on occasion to make necessary updates.

If you have any queries please contact Mr Joe Rodriguez, Supreme Director for Communications and Media our email address who acts on behalf of the Order for all matters such as this. He will clarify that the new page should be the only page for the Order and will confirm the rights for it to be changed.

Thank you

KSCwebmaster (talk) 11:56, 27 March 2014 (UTC)