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April 28

Use of PDFs in Wikipedia articles

I wish to write an article on the 1982-86 Electronic Manuscript Project of Association of American Publishers, a project that led to ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083. It was a four-year undertaking involving forty industry groups. I would draw from 12 articles that can be referenced only as PDFs inasmuch as there are no links to them. Can Wikipedia store PDFs? 71.84.104.89 (talk) 00:18, 28 April 2014 (UTC)NAA[reply]

It would be preferable to link to the PDFs in question, ideally hosted by an officially-related or otherwise reliable website. It is possible to upload PDFs, but there are copyright concerns with any file upload. --N Y Kevin 00:57, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The subject would need to have been written about by reliable third party publishers. If all that exists for sources are pdfs, the subject doesnt qualify for a stand alone article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:17, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PDF is just a format. Plenty of reliable sources are in PDF form. But usually, they're hosted by the organizations that originated them, so you can verify they're official. --N Y Kevin 01:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks NYKevin and TRPod. I'm interested in the possibility of uploading the 12 PDFs. All are of articles published in a 1986 issue of Electronic Publishing Business, a then-reputable industry publication of a now-defunct and agent-less publisher. Interestingly, one of the articles is by the former Director of New Technology and Copyrights for the Association of American Publishers. If proper attribution can be made of these copyrighted articles, do I assume correctly that the PDFs could be uploaded for storage by Wikipedia and then linked to the article I write? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.84.104.89 (talk) 02:31, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

reliable sources do not need to be accessible on the web Wikipedia:V#Accessibility, and we cannot link to copyright content that has been posted on the web without the consent of the copyright holderWP:ELNEVER, nor is uploading the copyright material to Wikipedia an allowable WP:FAIRUSE. Simply cite the original publication. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:18, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hiroko Mima Miss Universe Japan

Dear Help desk,

I have updated Hiroko Mima Miss Universe 2008 wiki page. It is about 5 years out of date. I have updated comprehensively but tnothing has happened so far. Can you please tell me what I need to do for action to be taken.

With thanks Alex — Preceding unsigned comment added by AWMH (talk • contribs) 02:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You posted your new material on the article talk page, rather than on the article itself. You also caused confusion on the talk page by deleting all the previous content, so I have now added the previous content back in, and collapsed the display of your new text. It appears that few editors are watching that talk page, so I would suggest that you be BOLD and edit the article directly, making sure that you include references to reliable sources to support your changes. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) As David Biddulph said above, the page you actually 'updated' here was Talk:Hiroko Mima, the discussion page for the article. The page you thought you were updating was Hiroko Mima, which is 'semi-protected' so you are unable to edit it unless your user account is "more than four days old and [has] made at least 10 edits". On Wikipedia this will make you 'autoconfirmed' and able to edit protected articles. You only have 3 edits so you would be unable to edit it, though you may make suggestions on the talkpage. --220 of ^Borg 03:18, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a person

So what do I do if no page is inaccurate but I want to add a name?

I saw something about having to post at least 5 comments?!

I just want to add a person that's been really badly missed off. Can be vetted by you.

Please how do I add someone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chloevb84 (talk • contribs) 04:14, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what you read that mentioned 5 comments. I've left a welcome message on your talk page which has links that should help you get started here. Dismas|^(talk) 04:45, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think the OP is talking about WP:AUTOCONFIRM - X201 (talk) 09:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which doesn't include the number 5 anywhere which is why I was confused. Dismas|^(talk) 10:44, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which person do you want to add to which page? PrimeHunter (talk) 08:07, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One way is to ask on the talk page of the article concerned and raise your point there. Another is to ask for help here. Remember that WP:V applies in both cases. - X201 (talk) 09:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It may be about creating an article or getting a name into a category or navigation template. It's best to post the person and page here so we can see what applies. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a Photograph to a WP Article

I have taken a photograph with a friend's digital camera of the Elah Valley which I wish to upload in the main article. What is the process for uploading? Thanks.Davidbena (talk) 09:26, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a sister project called Wikimedia Commons. If you're happy to make you image free for anyone to use you can upload it there with their file upload wizard - X201 (talk) 09:52, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you can easily to by using Wikpedia commons. Also, that would be great if you can categorize your picture when you upload them. Feel free to ask any questions! Have a good day.Db9023 (talk) 08:58, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

want to send you a story

good day I would like to send you a story. How did I send it to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.208.238.62 (talk) 09:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That would depend on what the story is, and what you want us to do with it. - X201 (talk) 09:58, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You may be looking for Articles for creation. Spinning Spark 10:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My ip is banned?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.55.212.38 (talk)

I guess you are the same person as the below section. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:33, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Question for administrator

I haven't done anything wrong on wikipedia and I was just editing a mistake on a page. May I please be unbanned?

You're not blocked from editing Wikipedia. If you were blocked, you would not be able to post this message here. Perhaps your account is blocked? --Glaisher [talk] 11:10, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to have disappeared. It said I couldn't edit because my ip had something wrong with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.153.14.123 (talk) 11:13, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above "My ip is banned?" was posted by a different IP in the same country. I guess it was also you and you have a dynamic IP address. Maybe you had a third IP address when you thought you were banned. Special:MyContributions will show your current IP address and any saved edits it may have (logged in users will see their account and not the IP). PrimeHunter (talk) 11:31, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What happens to copyrights if the owner no longer exists

What happens to the rights if a publisher is liquidated and no record of a transfer of copyright to a new owner can be found? Does the publication become public domain by default? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, the rights are still owned by somebody even if it not obvious from the outside who that somebody is. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:24, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It sometimes happens that no-one knows who owns the copyright, even the owner. This is unfortunate, because then no-one can legally use the work, even though the copyright owner might be willing to let them. But that is how the law works, and Wikipedia does it best to obey the law. Maproom (talk) 13:45, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphan works ought to be public domain but the law is not always what it ought to be.Jim.henderson (talk) 13:54, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So for example the photos in my late grandfather's photo album (1930s to 1980s), which I own, can't be uploaded to Commons just because grandpa's will did not explicitly assign the copyright to me (or anyone else)? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:51, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not a lawyer, I figure a copyright must belong either to somebody or to nobody, and if there's a will, a lawyer who studies it ought to be able to tell you. Like, a clause saying "everything else goes to Roger" or something to that effect. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:02, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Greg A. Hill

Hi there. I wonder if you could lend a hand to the Greg A. Hill article. I noticed that an editor had made a bunch of good faith edits to the page, which required lots of cleanup. I left the editor a note on their talk page, then tried to roll back the edits and move forward (the editor had only made cosmetic changes, little new info). Anyway, it didn't work, as a bot had already tried to help (and I know that's not what my rollback is for, but my intent was a good one). Would you have a moment to look at the page? It may need a rollback to a point prior to the good faith edits of Jcbmxer. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 11:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You could just go into the history, edit the version prior to the other editor's changes and save it (no change necessary). Clarityfiend (talk) 11:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Buff-coloured tag?

The Wikipedia tag at the top of the page, beside the title bar, was temporarily shaded in a buff colour. Now it's gone back to the normal white. What did this mean? Valetude (talk) 11:42, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Valetude: Can you explain what you mean by tag? I've looked at both the logo and the tagline and neither have had edits in a few years. - Purplewowies (talk) 18:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I mean the little windows at the top of the screen that indicate which sites are currently open. One of them says 'Editing Wikipedia;Hel'. Valetude (talk) 10:18, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is known as a favicon. As far as I can see, nothing was changed on the configuration side, so perhaps something was changed in your browser settings (eg. skin/theme)? --Glaisher [talk] 10:25, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder whether, rather than a favicon (which gives a small icon at the left-hand side of the tab), the OP was seeing the feature of at least some tabbed browsers (such as IE8 +), whereby if a new tab is opened through a link from an existing tab, the tabs themselves are colour-shaded to indicate that they form a related group? --David Biddulph (talk) 10:41, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That last one sounds quite likely. Thank you, David Biddulph et al. Valetude (talk) 12:07, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Casting off an anchor

How do I find out what (if anything) is using the anchor to the Athletes subsection of Tiger (disambiguation)? I'd like to split off entries to Tiger (nickname) and Tiger (surname), which would entail getting rid of that and other subsections. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:51, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Only by manually checking all incoming links. Ruslik_Zero 12:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It can be done with a regex search of the database. See Wikipedia:Database queries. However, there are so few incoming links to Tiger (disambiguation) that it is really not worth anyone's trouble to do it. Just search each page in edit mode for "#Athletes". Spinning Spark 14:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. At first glance, there don't seem to be any. (It does show that there's already a semi-duplication in Tiger (name), which is useful.) Clarityfiend (talk) 22:54, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Translating : Ultimate Frisbee Chinese

Hello Wikipedia I'm a new guy who recently joined. I play ultimate frisbee and I can't help but notice that the Chinese version of the article is really thin. I would love to help and translate the English version of the article into Chinese. I'm wondering, is translating the article allowed? Because in the editing box, you guys ask that we have to reference the sources, what if the sources are already included in the English version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buritoredcap (talk • contribs) 14:49, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:Translation and WP:Translate us. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:51, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

and note that, as it is the Chinese article you will be improving, it is the Chinese-Wikipedia rules on referencing that you will need to follow. I can't read Chinese, so I can't be sure; but I expect that

they will regard the existence of a reference in the English-Wikipedia article (or the French-Wikipedia article, etc.) as irrelevant;
they will prefer references to Chinese-language sources, but may accept references to sources in other languages where none in Chinese can be found.

Maproom (talk) 16:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AT&T Ballpark, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA

How many permanent jobs does the ball park utelize?

What is the Property Tax Rreveue of the ballpark?

What is the approximate amont of the federal tax on the Total Wwage of the employees?. 161.185.158.23 (talk) 15:52, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 --David Biddulph (talk) 15:57, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dundalk High School

Dundalk High School is in Baltimore, Maryland not Bay Shore, New Jersey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.107.64.41 (talk) 17:13, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Another high school in the suburb Dundalk (in Baltimore County, Maryland) is actually named Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts; and we've got an article about it already. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:36, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's article Dundalk High School correctly says Baltimore, Maryland and hasn't been edited in a month. I suspect you saw the Bay Shore claim elsewhere, maybe at Facebook. Some Facebook pages include both content copied from Wikipedia and other content from other sources or generated by Facebook itself. A location field at top of a page will usually be inserted by Facebook based on some system I dont know, but they frequently get it wrong. Wikipedia has no control over Facebook. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence of the article Dundalk High School says "Dundalk High School (DHS) is a four-year public high school in the United States, located in Baltimore County, Maryland". Did you have a question about any other page on Wikipedia? The only reference I can find relating both to Dundalk High School and to Bay Shore, New Jersey is on Facebook, not on Wikipedia, so if that is your concern you need to raise it with Facebook, not with Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 17:44, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

QUESTION: Is Citing Copies of Archived News Articles OK?

Is citing an archived copy of a New York Times news article (like http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/the-wire-next-time.html as linked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#cite_note-NYT-20140428-16 from WebCite [update note - archiveurl & related citation details have since been removed - to be *entirely* ok w/ this atm] - or even the Internet Archive) - *entirely* ok - or not? - thanking you in advance for your reply - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 17:14, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If the link is to a proper website (i.e., not a copyright violation), then yes; but note that the example you use is an opinion piece, not a news story). Or you may simply cite the original story and not put in a weblink. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:32, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Orangemike - Thank you *very much* for your comment - it's greatly appreciated - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 17:38, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that I'd have noticed that was an opinion piece – presumably those are potentially less subject to editorial scrutiny and, therefore, less valuable as sources?

Also, I had the impression that we're supposed to avoid direct links to archives and use {{Wayback}} or {{WebCite}} templates or the archiveurl=, etc entries in the citation templates. Is that the case? I'm still figuring out the guidelines... --Otus scops (talk) 18:05, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There shouldn't be bare links, no. In Citation Style 1, there's a place in the template for the url and an archived url, and both can be included at initial citation if they exist, because there's also a parameter that tells the template the original page is still active, which treats the template like it hasn't had an archive url put in, and that parameter can be removed upon loss of the original source. - Purplewowies (talk) 18:12, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Purplewowies. Can I check - [https://web.archive.org/web/20140428051616/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/the-wire-next-time.html The Wire Next Time] is discouraged (I tend to fix it when I see it, but I'm not sure if I should). I'm not sure if that counts as a bare url or not. --Otus scops (talk) 18:34, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They're less subject to link rot than just a bare url (as they have a title)... but I'd consider them sufficiently bare as to be more difficult to fix if they died. Most people aren't going to argue against replacing a plain link reference with a fuller reference, so you should be fine to fix it, as long as you're keeping with the established citation style of the article, assuming it has one. - Purplewowies (talk) 21:19, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Purplewowies. (And sorry for semi-hijacking your question, Drbogdan.) --Otus scops (talk) 21:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Otus scops - no problem whatsoever - interesting comments of course - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 12:50, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I messed up an edit and cant fix it

ERROR IN A REFERENCE - HELP

In the article about dowry: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry)

I apparently do not know how to edit a reference, nor undo the change I made). This is the first time I have tried to edit something. I thought it would be easy to change one number. Somebody reading this, please fix/change. I'm really sorry!

Reference 67 wrongly gave the page number as p 43 (or some two digit "4x" number). On google books, after hunting around the book, I found it on p 149 in an article on Bhutan.

(http://books.google.com/books?id=bOkPjFQoBj8C&pg=PR5&lpg=PR5&dq=Encyclopedia+of+Women+in+Today's+World,+Volume+1&source=bl&ots=XP6Pm5TAff&sig=y2C7OOsxd49mw-Rxebt5uMRzMW4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aIxeU_3IObC42gX3oYG4AQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Encyclopedia%20of%20Women%20in%20Today's%20World%2C%20Volume%201&f=false)

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Volume 1 edited by Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan. p 149.

71.89.130.205 (talk) 18:20, 28 April 2014 (UTC)Russ King[reply]

Checking... Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@71.89.130.205: The reference issue has now been fixed, and honestly it is no wonder you ended running into this. When working with references it is possible to give a reference a name, which allows it to be reused without having to enter all the details on a different part of the page. This is not only convenient (You will only need to change 1 piece of text to update all mentions of this reference), but it will also shorten the amount of text on the page since one only needs to enter the name of the citation to reuse it. Reference 52 on that page is an example of the result - the "a" and "b" denote multiple instances where the reference was used.

The section you edited was actually such a reference to another reference. The actual reference looks like this:

<ref name="Stange, Mary Zeiss, and Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan 2011 43">{{cite book|last=Stange, Mary Zeiss, and Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan|title=Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Volume 1|year=2011|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9781412976855|pages=43}}</ref>

If i were to refer to this reference elsewhere i would only have to cite its name. Like so:

<ref name="Stange, Mary Zeiss, and Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan 2011 43" />

Since the reference includes the page number it is easy to mistake it for the page number displayed. Once you changed it to 149 the mediawiki software started searching for a reference that has the modified name. Since there was none it simply displayed the error you saw before (There is no reference with that name). The solution can be seen here. Effectively i created another full reference that includes the entire reference, instead of just a pointer.

Feeling confused? I can imagine that since this isn't an easy issue to start with! In that case you may be interested in the referencing for beginners guide or the to-the-point example present here. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:36, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

replyto and ping

What exactly do {{replyto|user name}} and {{ping|user name}} do? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 19:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They give the a notification to the user. See {{ping}} RudolfRed (talk) 19:30, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

@RudolfRed: Thanks. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 19:48, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lloyd Thaxton

I am Lloyd Thaxton's widow, Barbara Thaxton. I would like to either add or replace the photo of him with one he and I preferred.

It is a photo of Lloyd warming up the audience at NBC for his show FIGHT BACK.

Please advise how I can do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babs13 (talk • contribs) 20:30, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you own the copyright of the picture? If you did not take the picture yourself you probably don't, so the first step is to get the permission of the copyright holder to release it under a free licence (see WP:CC-BY-SA for our most common acceptable licence). Permission for use on Wikipedia only, educational only, or non-commercial use only are not acceptable. Once you have permission you can upload it to Commons using this wizard. You will need the picture in a digital format such as jpeg or png. To actually use an uploaded image in an article see Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. Spinning Spark 21:20, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But also note that the choice of the photos to use is up to the Wikipedia editors and they may decide that the current image or a different image is what should be in the article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:55, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

YOU MADE ME A PALLET ON THE FLOOR

I am trying to add to the list of cover versions of this song a version by THE WEAVERS from Vanguard Album VRS-9043 released in 1958 which is an album that I have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.166.73.137 (talk) 21:39, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article is Make Me a Pallet on the Floor - I think I've resolved it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:50, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Inappropriate user conduct

Hello, I would like to report and potentially block a user who persists in deleting sourced content and in edit warring, and who has a clear conflict of interest in editing a certain article. I am prepared to provide diffs, but I am unclear as to which dispute resolution process I should turn to. Thank you for your help, Yoninah (talk) 22:30, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If the removals are blatant, unquestionable vandalism, then report to WP:AIV after the editor has been given a final warning and does not desist. For edit warring, report to WP:ANEW. Spinning Spark 00:49, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SkyBlu

I have been editing the Wikipedia article on SkyBlu, the American rapper. The title of the article is "SkyBlu", but throughout the text his name appears as "Sky Blu". The Talk page for the article raises the discrepancy but no-one there has been able to resolve it. I saw a reference there to his Facebook page, where I see he calls himself "Sky Blu". Can I take it that this is the correct spelling, or could SkyBlu be his proper rapper name? (I know very little about these things!) If I can take it that "Sky Blu" is the correct spelling, it would mean altering the title of the Wikipedia article which would then lead to linking problems wherever his name is mentioned in other Wikipedia articles as "SkyBlu". If his Facebook page can be quoted as a source, how would I do the footnote? < ref > Facebook < /ref >, or would there need to be more than that? (Had to put gaps round "ref" to stop it showing up as a footnote here!) --P123cat1 (talk) 23:18, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook is not ideal, but a Google search suggests several news articles that also support Sky Blu. --Otus scops (talk) 23:32, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also you can do <ref>Facebook</ref> --Otus scops (talk) 23:37, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia already has an article Sky Blu about a base in Antarctica. But it looks sensible to me to rename the SkyBlu article to Sky Blu (rapper). Maproom (talk) 00:18, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done per WP:BOLD. --Mdann52talk to me! 07:41, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mdann52 has given the Wiki article on Sky Blu a new title and a Facebook reference, but since you said Facebook is not ideal, using WP's Referencing manual I added a news article that supports the "Sky Blu" spelling as another reference. I then had a message on my Talk page saying I had missed out a square bracket, so I added it in, but the footnote now looks a bit strange. Can you correct my mistake, please, and tell me how you did it? Sorry, I am very new to all this. --P123cat1 (talk) 13:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

April 29

disambiguation question

Hi, I want to disambiguate between two topics, no disambiguation page needed, so I want to place notices that this article is about "THIS" for that, see "THAT" on both pages. I tried the redirect tag, but that only points to a disambiguation page. Thanks, I don't do this so often anymore. Sephiroth storm (talk) 04:29, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are several wp:Hatnotes that may be able to do something like this, but I think you want template {{About}}, eg:

{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}} displays

This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2.

--220 of ^Borg 06:00, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That did it, thank you. Sephiroth storm (talk) 04:15, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Review my article

Hi Team, Please review my article. Since I have updated the article, please review and let me know your feedback. Hope for your positive and fastest response. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdnaseemk (talk • contribs) 05:41, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience link: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Syed Ishtiyaque Alam Shahbazi. That's all, Dismas|^(talk) 08:07, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) The comments there suggest there are notability and referencing issues that need to be fixed. --220 of ^Borg 08:14, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Need assistance with Wikipedia article editing

Hi,

I am trying to create an Article in Wikipedia and have a small doubt in it. I need to create a section where the heading is in one color and the section is in another. Unfortunately, I am not able to see the colors stretch to the complete width of the page and rather gets restricted to the space until which the content are available.

I am using the following code.

{| class=infobox |colspan=2 align=left style="background:#61C4CF"|'''Heading''' |- |style="background:#C6EDF2"| Content |}

I am not sure which attribute to use for the function as |style="background:#61C4CF" "width:100%"| is not working. Please advice.

Thanks & Regards, Dinesh Velu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinesh.pec14 (talk • contribs) 07:52, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you are talking about the article linked above, frankly, I would forget about playing with the colors and concentrate on establishing notability. If you don't do that it will continue to get rejected and will never be accepted. Eventually the page will be deleted altogether.

Anyway, I don't really understand what you are trying to achieve with that code, but

===<span style="color:blue;">heading</span>===
<div style="color:red;background:yellow;">Coloured content</div>
Only part of a line with <span style="color:red;background:yellow;">coloured content</span>.

Results in this;

heading

Coloured content

Only part of a line with coloured content.

Hope that helps. Spinning Spark 09:21, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article's only "reference" is to the company's own web site – and it gives a 404. That is about as non-notable as you can get. Maproom (talk) 09:47, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

template creation error

I created a Dave Grusin dicography template however I titled it David Grusin.

Now, when I try to edit it, Wikipedia is looking to create a new template called "David Grusin", and I cannot edit the original template. Can the template be deleted so I can start over, or, can you change the title to read dave grusin so I can edit it? BobCC (talk) 11:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@BobCC: I changed the title parameter in the template to "Dave Grusin" to match the template's actual title, but left the name parameter as "David Grusin" (to preserve the link to our article on the man). Is that what you want? Deor (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I just noticed that the title of the bio article is actually Dave Grusin as well, so I changed the title parameter in the template to "[[Dave Grusin]] discography". Is that OK? Deor (talk) 12:12, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copying text from a CC-by-A-licensed journal

Hi, please see Alain Chabaud. In the reference section it is mentioned that this is an abridged version of an article published in an OA and CC-by licensed journal. Is this the correct way of attributing text? I can't really recall having seen something like this before. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 14:06, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article in question is the subject's obituary. This explains why the article is so promotional, with words like "visionary", "brilliance", and "prestigious". It also lacks all other references. Someone needs to rewrite the article in an acceptable style; doing so will remove the problem of a possible copyvio of the obituary. Maproom (talk) 15:32, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Randykitty: {{OA-attribution}} can be used for those cases. /~hue sat lum/ 22:43, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 11:10, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Expert/Experienced editors on genetics studies

I need their opinions for a specific article. Where I can submit my request? --Zyma (talk) 14:35, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Genetics. --Randykitty (talk) 14:50, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Questions about my account

Hello, I have a few questions that my account was on hold for some reason that I was not told why, but I found that everything that I have updated was uploaded way later than the time that I have uploaded my files. I did contact someone before and I was told that my account was some revise and everything that I uploaded needed to be checked before it would be up from my account.Can you please help me to know why was my updates were uploaded on Tuesday early morning when I uploaded them on Sunday evening. Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pas3ad (talk • contribs) 14:47, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The question you have just posted appears to be the only contribution you have ever made to en:Wikipedia. Do you think you made your "uploads" here to en:Wikipedia, or somewhere else? Perhaps to Wikimedia Commons? Maproom (talk) 15:41, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I am sorry I forgot to mention that it is on Wikiversity. These updates that are being done online are for school grades and my Professor when he checks he finds that it looks that i have submitted my files late on Wikiversity as I mentioned in the beginning that the problem is everything that I upload it takes some time to upload and that might be long as 3 days or more. I hope you can help me because I losing my grades because of the delay upload. Also you please check if there is any hold against my account that is causing this problem .

Thank, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pas3ad (talk • contribs) 21:25, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is the help desk for Wikipedia - Wikiversity is a separate project. You could try asking here [1] AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:39, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your Wikiversity edits are shown at wikiversity:Special:Contributions/Pas3ad. The only file you have uploaded to Wikiversity is wikiversity:File:1545715 10203082836100580 1070278585 n.jpg on 20 February. On 14 April you uploaded files to Commons shown at commons:Special:Contributions/Pas3ad. This help desk is for Wikipedia. Wikiversity has a help page at wikiversity:Wikiversity:Colloquium. Please clarify which uploads you are talking about if you post there. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:50, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gerald R. Weeks

Someone created a page for me under the heading above. I corrected it a couple of days ago and one of the reviewers changed it back to the original page. I do not understand how this system works. How do I contact the person who changed it. I have read the email and page and do not understand it. Gerald R. Weeks Gerald weeks (talk) 15:56, 29 April 2014 (UTC)4/29/14[reply]

If you click on the "History" tab at the top of Gerald R. Weeks it will take you to the history of all the changes to the article. You will see that your recent edits were subsequently reverted with the edit summary "Unsourced and promotional language". It is the difficulty of an editor to write about themselves with a neutral point of view that gives rise to Wikipedia's guidance on conflict of interest, to which your attention was drawn by a message on your user talk page. If you wish to suggest changes to the article you can do so, remembering to include references to published reliable sources independent of the subject, on the article talk page. If you wish to contact the specific editor who reverted your changes, you can do so through the editor's user talk page, accessible by clicking the word "talk" alongside the editor's user name in the article history. David Biddulph (talk • contribs) 16:21, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The editor concerned did leave a message on your user talk page, and the signature on that message has a "talk" link to enable you to contact them. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:24, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP 1.0 web tool is down

Clicking on the normal link or any of its sub links gives a 404 error: http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/ Brirush (talk) 16:23, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Brirush: The maintainers are already aware of this issue, see Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index#WMF Labs server down?. Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 10:20, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Murphy (offensive tackle)

I have created the page Kevin Murphy (offensive tackle) but when i go to places where he is mentioned ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings#Current_roster ) It says the page does not exsist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PacoDaKing14Sportz (talk • contribs) 17:53, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's due to caching. When you create a page it can take a long time before existing links on other pages automatically change from red to blue. You can force an update of a specific page by purging it, but there is no need for that here. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:59, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) It sometimes takes a little time for the Wikipedia database to catch up with new creations. So, for a little while after a new article is created, old "red-links" will stay red. You could do what is called "purging" each page individually, or give the maintenance a chance to catch up. It sort of "rights" itself eventually. See Wikipedia:Purge for how to do this. --Jayron32 18:00, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Finalizing the article

I am trying to figure out how to finalize the article I just created. It is an autobiographical entry. I saved it, but is it now automatically searchable? If not, what do I need to do to make it live? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DoctorJackson (talk • contribs) 20:07, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article is live, which is what I suppose you mean by finalized. The references are still a mess--the giant block of references at the bottom should be included into the article's body so that they appear neatly. The existing numbered references only appear to be titles, they're not formatted properly. Please read Referencing for Beginners, also, please read WP:COI. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:15, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't the main problem here the fact that it "is an autobiographical entry"? If the subject is the author, the article should be up for deletion, shouldn't it? Melbourne3163 (talk) 03:14, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not necessarily. Autobios are discouraged, not forbidden. If the article is too promotional to be salvageable, it should be deleted as CSD#g11. If not, then it depends on notability what should be done. If the person is notable, the article may need cleanup to make it neutral and remove any POV. Only if the person is not notable should the article be taken to AFD. --Randykitty (talk) 11:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References on Italian and English Wikipedias

Hello, I would like to know the following: 1) How I put a reference into a wikipedia page I edited (it:Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse di Bari) if there is no reference section 2) What should I write into the reference section of the english wikipedia page Lega Pro Prima Divisione if I added content that is into the italian wikipedia page it:Lega Pro Prima Divisione ? Thank you. Tiffanytoms (talk) 22:33, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To editor Tiffanytoms: (I've changed the URLs in your questions to wikilinks and interwiki links

The code is essentially the same on the Italian Wikipedia as on the English Wikipedia: Put the code <references /> at the bottom of the page. Aiuto:Note on the Italian Wikipedia says that you should put that into a new section titled "Note".
If you are using material from the Italian article, you should cite the same sources that the Italian article uses. (Non-English sources are allowed on the English Wikipedia.) You should also note on the talk page of the English article that some of the material has been translated from another Wikipedia. (This can be done by putting code {{translated page|it|Lega Pro Prima Divisione}} near the top.)

Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 02:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

April 30

Referencing errors on Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other

Reference help requested. I have no idea how to fix this. Please help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rtobyr Thanks, 24.176.163.99 (talk) 02:30, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the template {{reflist-talk}} to resolve the error message at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other. You had added a ref within <ref>...</ref> tags, but no {{reflist}} to allow the ref to display, see WP:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:51, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT-related_television_episodes Post stone wall list?

What happened to the list of American LGBT-related_television_episodes Post stone wall list? Venustar84 (talk) 05:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It took me a while to figure out what you were asking, as I had never heard of the Stonewall riots. It looks to me as if the answer is in Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:40, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah but what about episodes from the 2000's or 2010's? Like List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes? Venustar84 (talk) 06:13, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to rephrase my question correctly: where is list the post-Ellen LGBT episodes ones listed past the year 2000 or more current because the episodes listed are old at this link: Lists_of_American_television_episodes_with_LGBT_themes Wikpedia used to have a link for them? What happened? Venustar84 (talk) 01:02, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was deleted due to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes. It was later undeleted and moved to Wikipedia:Article Incubator/List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes. But that was deleted due to the discussion Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article Incubator/List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:06, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me to find a meta/shortname

In the first table of the section Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s, you see an entry "Democratic Nationalist Party James Lewthwaite".

However, if you look at the markup code for that entry, only "DNP" appears, not "Democratic Nationalist Party".

I've read Template:Election box candidate with party link#Party set up, specifically about

Template:ArticleName/meta/color

Template:ArticleName/meta/shortname

I suppose the "shortname" meta file is converting "DNP" to "Democratic Nationalist Party", but I can't find the meta files.

Unfortunately, the article does not have an "Election box metadata" template on its "Talk" page.

Please, would you tell me:

Am I right? Is the meta/shortname file causing the conversion?
If yes, where is it located? I would appreciate an exact URL or internal link, please.

--LukasMatt (talk) 07:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The documentation doesn't seem very clear; that "ArticleName" ought to be "Party name", I think. In this case the two pages are Template:DNP/meta/shortname and Template:DNP/meta/color. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:48, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Thanks.

--LukasMatt (talk) 08:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

disruptive administrator

I need some help on obtaining information on a what appears to be a particularly irresponsible administrator.

Could you please explain what is going on?

When trying to access the User talk page for JzG, I get:

User:JzG

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.

17:11, 24 March 2014 JzG (talk | contribs) deleted page User:JzG ( G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)

When I go to G5, I get: G5. Creations by banned or blocked users Shortcut: WP:G5

Further information: Wikipedia:Banning policy and Wikipedia:Blocking policy

Pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, and which have no substantial edits by others. G5 should not be applied to transcluded templates or to categories that may be useful or suitable for merging.

To qualify, the edit must have been made while the user was actually banned or blocked.

A page created before the ban or block does not qualify.

To qualify, the edit must be a violation of the user's block or ban. For example, pages created by a topic-banned user may be deleted if they come under that particular topic, but not if they are in some other topic.

Has this administrator's actions on another article been responsible for his being blocked or banned on one or more articles? If so, can we get him blocked from ours? If not, how can we prevent him from making unjustified deletions without edit warring, which he would win because of his experience and role? Aqm2241 (talk) 08:07, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:JzG's user page was created several times by sock puppets of User:Fairyspit. It wasn't deleted because he created it but because sock puppets created it. So the answer is no. Dougweller (talk) 08:32, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And I need to think about this attempt to stop someone from editing Cold fusion in this way. This article is under discretionary sanctions and calling this "our article" is worrying. Dougweller (talk) 08:37, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"User:Name" is a user page and not a user talk page. The user talk page is User talk:JzG. See more at Help:Using talk pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just to point out the blindingly obvious, and also the motivation for this baseless complaint: Aqm2241, the article is not yours. It's ours (i.e. Wikipedia's), and it's our policies that rule, not your fervent wish that the world viewed your pet subject differently. You have declared a WP:COI on Cold fusion (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and that article is under arbitration committee sanctions. You and your possibly-imaginary friends are the problem, not the Wikipedia community or its administrators. Guy (Help!) 11:52, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Submitting new article without saving

I created a new article and submitted it without saving. Is it somewhere safe or gone forever? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heatmasters (talk • contribs) 08:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Submitted without saving" is meaningless. You did not submit it so it has never reached Wikipedia. But it might still be there on your machine as a page cached by your browser. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 08:51, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The post here is the only saved edit by your account. If you clicked a Submit or Show preview button but not Save page then the page was not saved anywhere, except possibly in your own browser. If the browser window and tab is still open then try the browser back button. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:37, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When using Opera Wikipedia is displayed in very small font, and is unreadable

Commonly use Opera 20 as my browser. In the past few weeks, whenever I do a search and go into a Wikipedia page from the search results, or go directly into Wikipedia the page is displayed in very tiny font and is unreadable. I do not get the same issue with either Chrome or IE11 - just Opera. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Auristocrat (talk • contribs) 09:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can you change size with Ctrl++ (larger), Ctrl+- (smaller), Ctrl+0 (default)? Ctrl and mousewheel may also change up and down. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:31, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sky Blu (2)

On 28th April I asked the HD for help editing the Sky Blu Wikipedia article. I made a final alteration and asked if I had done it correctly:

"Mdann52 has given the Wiki article on Sky Blu a new title and a Facebook reference, but since you said Facebook is not ideal, using WP's Referencing manual I added a news article that supports the "Sky Blu" spelling as another reference. I then had a message on my Talk page saying I had missed out a square bracket, so I added it in, but the footnote now looks a bit strange. Can you correct my mistake, please, and tell me how you did it? Sorry, I am very new to all this. --P123cat1 (talk) 13:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)"

(1) I have not had a response yet, so do I presume that my alteration was OK?

(2) Since Mdann52 gave the article a new title, i.e. "Sky Blu (rapper)", I see that when entering and clicking "Sky Blu" in the top-right search box on the Wiki page, as some might if they were searching for him, there is no listing of the article under its new name. That will need to be remedied somehow, but I don't know how to do this. --P123cat1 (talk) 10:35, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As for your second question, when you pull up the page for Sky Blu, there is a notice right at the top that says "For the DJ of the same name, see Sky Blu (rapper)." Dismas|^(talk) 10:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And for your first question, I fixed the reference using the WP:REFLINKS tool. In order to do so, I first made an edit where I stripped the reference down to just the bare URL. Then the tool was able to find all the information it needed for the template. Dismas|^(talk) 10:52, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Second question: Sorry, I missed it.

First question: There was nothing under the Wiki Referencing manual that I used (Help: Referencing for beginners) that mentioned WP:REFLINKS. No wonder I couldn't insert the reference properly. --P123cat1 (talk) 13:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, the Reflinks tool is not listed at Ref for Beginners because it's not a beginners sort of tool. What you had was not wrong. You had all the pertinent information. From what I gather of your question, it just didn't look as pretty as you would have liked. All Reflinks did was use the {{cite web}} template to clean it up a bit. I used to type the cite web template in each time using the URL, title, and date accessed fields only. They are the minimum that are required for that template. Reflinks just does that automatically as well as adding things like the publisher and the date the web page was published. Dismas|^(talk) 18:27, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see, thanks. No, I genuinely thought I had made a mistake. But Reflinks is a much neater way and looks so much better in the footnote that I will attempt it next time I need to insert a reference. Thanks for your detailed explanation, much appreciated. --P123cat1 (talk) 14:16, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget that you can use {{cite web}} without using Reflinks. You can either put in the relevant parameters totally manually, or can use something like ProveIt, or the Cite option from the edit toolbar, to help you. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Like I said above, I used to type the {{cite web}} info in manually but other tools do make it easier once you learn them. Dismas|^(talk) 20:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find my new article on Google.

I just wrote an article few days ago (29/4/2014) and I still cannot search any result about that article. Please help, thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tech102 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, please sign your posts on talk pages with 4 tildes (~~~~) and avoid leading spaces that break the format.
Secondly, we have no control over what Google shows, most articles are picked up in a day or two.
Finally, looking at your edit history, you have made 5 edits:- 1 to your talk page, 1 to Vietnamese cuisine, 2 to Thyme, and one here. Are you sure you created an article? If so, what was its title? - Arjayay (talk) 12:53, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Arjayay refers to Special:Contributions/Tech102 which shows your edits here at the English Wikipedia. Do you mean the Vietnamese vi:Cỏ xạ hương? That currently shows up for me in Google searches. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Need to Upload Photo to Brian Choper's Wikipedia Page

Dear Fellow Wikipedia Editors:

I'm a college professor and PR professional who is trying to replace an older photograph from 2009 on Brian Choper's Wikipedia page. Since I'm relatively new to this process, I've been prohibited from uploading and/or replacing his photo with another newer photo he sent me (taken in 2014). Mr. Choper does not have these privileges either. I've read through the instructions, and I cannot determine how to apply for these privileges. All I need to do is handle basic text edits (which seem available) and upload images.

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

Thanks!

Chucwhit (talk) 15:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The first concern is whether Choper owns the copyright to that photograph. If he does not, we would have to obtain a license from the photographer for the free use and re-use of that photo. The other concern is that as a PR professional with (apparently) Choper as your client, you should not be editing that article in any way, but merely offering possible content on the talk page of the article (i.e., Talk:Brian Choper). --Orange Mike | Talk 17:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The process for the copyright owner to donate the material to Wikipedia is at WP:donating copyrighted material. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:00, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hiitites

This is my first attempt to insert a correction into Wikipedia. In the article on the Hittites, in the section covering King David's reign, it said that Uriah was a military commander. However, in the story in II Samuel 11, Uriah appears to be only a foot soldier, as the commander, Joab, is able to place Uriah wherever Joab wishes to in the battle, including the front lines. I seem to have inserted the term "foot soldier" OK, but did not get the hang of the way to give references. The reference would be II Sam. 11:3. Thank you. (I did not intend to change the description of the other Hittite mentioned in that Wiki. passage.)

Sara Barnacle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sara Barnacle (talk • contribs) 17:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have done a couple of edits to tidy up the broken section heading, broken reference, and broken wikilink. For the reference, I used the {{bibleverse}} template used elsewhere in the article. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citation error that I can't fix

Following my edits to the Roman à clef article, a citation error appears at the bottom of the page, even though I did not remove the reflist template that was indeed in the article. Can someone fix this? Nightscream (talk) 17:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

After your edit to the "Prose" section, everything from <!--SECONDARY SOURCES ARE NEEDED TO ESTABLISH THE REAL-LIFE PEOPLE THAT ARE CLAIMED TO BE REPRESENTED IN THESE WORKS!> to the end of the article was ignored, because you had opened a comment tag but not properly closed it. I have corrected this for you. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:55, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Wikipedia articles

Is there a search-and-find keyboard function that I can use when scrolling through the text screen that comes up after clicking on "edit" when editing Wikipedia articles? It is quite difficult to spot the word being looked for because all the formatting and footnote wording incorporated into the text is in the same font - it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack sometimes. -P123cat1 (talk) 18:06, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you use your browser's Find function, it can usually do that. It depends on which browser that you're using but most modern browsers (all that I use) do this. So by hitting CMD-F on my Mac or CTRL-F on my work's Windows machine, it will bring up the find dialog box and look for whatever text I type next. You must sometimes just click within the edit window to make sure the cursor is actively in the window first but that's not always the case. Dismas|^(talk) 18:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --P123cat1 (talk) 18:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Page defacement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed

Page defaced as:

In everyday Discovered by Adolf Hitler and his best friend frank who loves the holocaust kinematics, the speed of an object is the....

Someone may want to fix this. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.214.135.61 (talk) 20:44, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This vandalism was reverted within two minutes two hours ago. You may have seen a cached version of the page. If you still see the vandalized version then try to purge the page. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template for merger

What is the template I should use in order to suggest a page is merged with another one please?GiraffeBoy (talk) 22:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To editor Alligators1974: If you are not sure of the final destination of the contents, use {{merge|Other page|date=May 2014}} at the top of each page. If you think one page should get all the contents, use {{merge to|Big page|date=May 2014}} and {{merge from|Small page|date=May 2014}}. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 22:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May 1

Referencing errors on Orchestral jazz

Reference help requested. I have broken links--help me? Thanks, Mitchellr.kenyon (talk) 04:33, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed in this edit. The problem was a misspelling of one of the references. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 06:55, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hermes

Hi there,

Yesterday I requested for an article to be written regarding the business Hermes, a very large distribution company based in the UK (Second only to the Royal Mail). I was hoping to find out how lengthy the process will be from here?

Kind Regards, Alex Willmott — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexWillmott111 (talk • contribs) 08:11, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is no way of knowing, it could be a very loong time. Editors are all volunteers and it will wait until someone becomes interested in writing about the subject. There will be a better chance if you were to provide some links to online reliable sources that editors could use to construct such an article. Spinning Spark 08:32, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sources are difficult to sift through for this, since there are a number of companies with the same name. Searching for "hermes" + "parcelnet" (their previous moniker) brings back the most results of anything I've tried so far, but an article constructed on the available sources would not be complimentary to Hermes - the majority of coverage that they've received in reliable sources relates to the poor treatment of their staff. There's very little independent information out there about them which is divorced from this issue. Yunshui ^雲 _水 12:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you need 3D computer graphics?

Dear Wiki,

I'm learning Blender 3D computer graphics and would like to voluteer 3D computer graphics to the Wikipedia. I can't find a category for requested 3D computer graphics, though. Do you need such graphics?

Lars A — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lars A (talk • contribs) 09:46, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Lars A - The WP:Graphics Lab is always looking for skilled help, I'm sure you would be welcome there. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reviving previously redirected article

I am referring to a former article entitled "Italian wolf", which now redirects to Eurasian wolf. Although it was originally redirected in the absence of evidence of the animal's distinctiveness, there is enough recent genetic evidence now to demonstrate that the Italian wolf is distinct enough to warrant its own article.Mariomassone (talk) 10:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Mariomassone - Italian wolf is a redirect with no previous article content. Italian Wolf has the article content you are looking for in its history - I have moved that content to Draft:Italian wolf where you and others can do the necessary updating and corrections before moving it back into mainspace as a separate article. Don't forget to also update the Eurasian wolf article. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Objectionable text.

If you search 'women in Thailand' the following shows up under marriage. This text is demeaning and unsophisticated. The legal rights of married women might be of more interest than this. I would suggest deleting this text. The same trash talk might be said of MOST post war countries' women citizens.

In 2007, The New York Times reported that after the Vietnam War, Thailand became the main rest and recreation and sex tourism destination of male foreigners, resulting in some marriages with Thai women. Among those who establish such marriages are men from Europe and the United States seeking companionship and economic relief particularly during retirement age. The Thai women, on the other hand, enter into the marriages in order to redeem themselves from their former life as prostitutes, from abandonment by former partners, and as an escape from "poverty and unhappiness", but not all Thai women who entered into this type of marriage were former prostitutes.[7] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.44.66.202 (talk) 12:15, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reliably sourced information about the legal rights of married women would be a great addition to the Marriage section in Women in Thailand. If you have access to that information, you can add it yourself, or request it on the article talk page at Talk:Women in Thailand along with your concerns about the suitability of the current content. —Anne Delong (talk) 15:49, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstars

Where are the instructions on how to award Barnstars and the other Wiki awards? I can't find them anywhere. --P123cat1 (talk) 14:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just copy the appropriate code from Wikipedia:Barnstars onto the user's talkpage. Alternatively, use the Wikilove button (the little heart-shaped thingy by the Search bar on userpages). Yunshui ^雲 _水 14:44, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --P123cat1 (talk) 15:09, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edit counter opt-in problem

I seem to be unable to create User:DuncanHill/EditCounterOptIn.js. Anyone able to help please? DuncanHill (talk) 15:00, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have created it. If you have wikEd then try to disable it on the icon

at the top right when you edit .js and .css pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:10, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks :) I didn't know that about wikEd. DuncanHill (talk) 15:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate Drafts

I am trying to get articles approved on the following topics:

LessCancer.org Ronald B. Herberman, M.D.

In the process of attempting to navigate your system, I created duplicate drafts, one of which put the Herberman content underneath the LessCancer.org title.

Suggestions on how to fix this matter would be welcome.

I have about a dozen suggestions for how to make your system more user friendly. As more people add content, your interface becomes more and more of a problem.

Bart Leahy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartacus1704 (talk • contribs) 15:09, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Bartacus1704: Hello. You have created 2-3 correct drafts, but Draft:LessCancer.org is the mistake copy. You can nominate the pages that are duplicates or messed up for deletion as a page you authored (I would, but you haven't clearly asked that--if you decide that is what you want and can't figure out how to do it yourself, reply here about it and someone will help you through it or do it for you). You can propose your dozens of suggestions at Village pump/Proposals or Idea lab, but make sure it's not already offered (you could also bring up the suggestions here to see if their functionality is available, though it's not quite the proper area and things usually aren't actioned from here). - Purplewowies (talk) 15:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you want an administrator to delete a page you have created and no one else has edited it, just put

{{db-author}}

on the page. Spinning Spark 15:21, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

General Petersen

I am trying to update the Wikipedia page on Lt. General Frank E. Petersen, II. They are not accepting my reference of family; eldest child. Help?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.128.96.26 (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Noone has yet reverted your edit, but they are likely to do so because you have not provided a reference to published reliable sources. It may be surprising to you, but your personal knowledge is not acceptable as a reference; it counts as original research. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see that the reversion did take place while I was resolving an edit conflict on my reply. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:43, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There were two different types of problems. 1) You used incorrect syntax </refGayle M. Petersenref></ref> which should have been <ref>Gayle M. Petersen</ref>. This caused misformatting which I guess was the reason for your post here. 2) You used personal knowledge and not a published reliable source. This is against our policies. Your edit has therefore been reverted now instead of fixing the syntax error. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just to explain a bit more about why your personal knowledge is not acceptable. In order that Wikipedia text is verifiable, it needs to have been previously published, so that any reader can just find the original source, and check it. People have no way to check with the inside of your brain. --Jayron32 16:00, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Gaylemp:I'm not sure that adding the information back in without a reference solves the problem. I'm sorry that you might not get to be listed on your fathers entry (just as I and my father are not on my grandfather's entry), but that's how it works. I'm not going to revert it, in case I'm mistaken, but I suspect someone else will revert it shortly.--Otus scops (talk) 19:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I particularly like the way it's tagged as a minor edit to avoid checking...--Otus scops (talk) 19:42, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Article for creation/Philip Nevill Green

I submitted an article Wikipedia talk:Article for creation/Philip Nevill Green on 11 April. How do I find out if it has been reviewed yet?

Pngreen (talk) 16:05, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You presumably meant Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Philip Nevill Green? --David Biddulph (talk) 16:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are currently 2783 submissions waiting for review. If it is accepted it will appear as an article. eg. Philip Nevill Green - X201 (talk) 16:17, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) You submitted it originally in March. Resubmitting it in April had no further effect. No, it hasn't been reviewed yet. You can see the time spread of articles waiting for review at Category:AfC pending submissions by age. I notice that your user name bears a resemblance to the article title. If you are indeed the subject of the article, you ought to read about autobiography and conflict of interest. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:20, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I didn't answer your specific question as to how you check whether it has been reviewed yet; the way is to click the "History" tab on top of your AFC draft. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:22, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) :Hello Pngreen. I have corrected the link to the article above (somebody else doubled the brackets, and I added the missing 's'). If you go there, you can see that it says in large friendly letters "Draft article not currently submitted for review.", and further down there is a green button that says "Submit your draft when you are ready for it to be reviewed!". I have not looked at the article carefully, but most of the references do not appear to be independent - they are from the various organisations whose relationship with Green is what is being reported. There need to be more references from independent reliable sources, such as the Utility Week reference. The reference to a Wikipedia article Sentebale is absolutely a no-no: Wikipedia is not a reliable source and may not be used as a reference (but many of the organisations in the article should be wikilinked, by putting them in double square brackets as I have with [[Sentebale]] above. The references should ideally be better formatted - see Referencing for beginners, but that alone will not stop the article from being accepted.

One major issue is that, judging from your username, this would appear to be an autobiography, which is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. If it is, then the "Articles for creation" route is the best way to proceed, but you should be upfront about your conflict of interest, and expect your writing to be looked at very critically. --ColinFine (talk) 16:24, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In the third sentence of Colin's reply above he probably missed the fact that you had indeed already submitted the draft for review (twice in fact). The significant note in the grey box at the top is the one that says: "Note: the submission-received box appears at the bottom of the page at first. If it's there, your draft has been submitted correctly, even if this message is still shown.". The fact that it still leaves the confusing "not submitted" box at the top of the article is a shortcoming of the software. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:32, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Sorry. --ColinFine (talk) 22:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

R. Seth Williams Page

I am writing because I would like to make changes to Philadelphia District Atorney R. Seth Williams Wikipedia page. The quick changes that I made never save. How can I continue to monitor and update this page, and be notified when someone else makes changes to this page?

Thank you Jennifer Jones Communications and Community Relations Press Aide Philadelphia District Attorney's Office — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.115.248.22 (talk) 19:01, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As a person with a conflict of interest, you should NOT be directly saving edits to the article in the first place. Use the article's talk page, note your conflict of interest, and make your non promotional suggestions based upon reliably published sources -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:05, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question how you can monitor the page; you can subscribe to a feed of the page by following one of these links RSS feed, or ATOM feed. If you open an account you will also be able to have changes to articles you are interested in e-mailed to you. Spinning Spark 19:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Offline Reference of newspaper.

In an article of a living person there is no reference given for a section because the online search engines like Google does not have any sort of it evidence for it. But in offline way evidence is present in the form of Newspaper Article of The Telegraph. My question are as follows:

1) How to use original newspaper article in a scanned way as a source in wikipedia for a living person? (The Telegraph,India Dated 10 Oct,1997=not available online in world wide web).

2) Can scanned official government documents be used as a source in wikipedia? If yes, then how? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsharan (talk • contribs) 19:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1) Sources do not need to be accessible on line. Wikipedia:V#Accessibility. If using offline sources, however, you do need to provide enough citation information that the specific source can be identified. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2)Government docs are likely to fall into the category of "primary source" documents which may be used in certain occasions, but with caution. Someone putting up a website and claiming the image is an authentic copy of a government doc is not acceptable, and items such as court documents are almost never appropriate. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:29, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So how to cite reference of a newspaper which is not available online. (The Telegraph (Calcutta) dated 10 October 1997) Please show how to site this in an example.

Is there any other way to upload scanned newspaper article on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsharan (talk • contribs) 23:54, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do something like: <ref>{{cite news|title=John Smith wins Election|newspaper=Chicago Gazette|date=1/15/1970|pages=5|quote=John Smith won yesterday's election for dog catcher with 83% of the vote.}}</ref>, which would render as John Smith wins Election". Chicago Gazette. 1/15/1970. p. 5. "John Smith won yesterday's election for dog catcher with 83% of the vote. You can just use the Cite/Template/Cite News option in the editor. Rwessel (talk) 00:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any other way to upload scanned newspaper article on wikipedia for reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsharan (talk • contribs) 04:18, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's unlikely that would be possible because of copyright issues. Technically uploading a scan is trivial, but legally it would be a problem. Rwessel (talk) 04:51, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect edit

I have made an edit to an article but realized that what I did was incorrect, is there any way that I can change what was in my previous edit without adding something to the edit history?

Also is there anyway I can change a former edit to say it was a minor change? Rosencrantz24 (talk) 21:03, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An edit can be hidden by admins (I think admins can do it, if not then someone with even more power) but they generally only do so if the edit contains offensive material or private information about the subject of a biography or some such. Not just casual mistakes by editors.

What you can do is to perform another edit to fix what you have mistakenly done. But that too will show up in the edit history of the article.

And no, there's no way to go back to a former edit and mark it as minor. Dismas|^(talk) 21:07, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

no one pays attention to the "minor" change flag anyway. every major vandalism edit ever made has been flagged as "minor" - its completely useless. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:10, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unambiguous copyright infringement

I had an article removed for Unambiguous copyright infringement. I have permission to reference and quote from the book I used from both the author and publisher. In the future, how do I make clear that I have been given this permission? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hunter_(artist) SherylReiter (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By having the owner of the copyright material follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Note that it is highly unlikely that we as an encyclopedia would find enough content from any other type of source appropriately phrased and sourced that we would copy and paste it in a form that would need copyright permission. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

the "Unambiguous advertising or promotion" indicates that even if the owner gave appropriate permission to use the content, we wouldn't want it anyway. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:15, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How do I get back to seeing my entire article?

I've made edits to my article in my sandbox. Then, I cannot see my entire article in "Read" How do I get to see all of this again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SagersPath/sandbox SagersPath (talk) 22:06, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

you had the slash to close your reference tag after the word instead of before the word. I fixed it here: [2]. It was always there , it was just not displaying because the system kept looking for the end of the reference tag and couldnt find it.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:12, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May 2

Collapsing tables

At Orel_Hershiser's_scoreless_innings_streak#August_30.2C_1988, is there a way to collapse the legend with the table so that a single button causes both to hide/show?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:51, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Did a bit of experimenting - how's this? What I did was make a table to contain both the play-by-play table and the legend, so both would collapse at the same time. Could be adjusted to move the legend to the left or right side of the play-by-play table, and to have it all collapsed by default. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 06:48, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@SuperHamster:: Can we collapse it by default and then replicate that for the 7 other tables that need the same legend. At least show me how to collapse it.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:06, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done; hope it looks all right. For future reference, Help:Tables#Classes describes the different class types for tables. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:25, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Rees defamatory material

Dear Sir/ Madam,

My name is Peter Rees, I am the creator and for five years was the executive producer of the television series MythBusters. I have been trying to correct defamatory statements on wikipedia that suggest that I was somehow involved in the electrocution of Adam Savage and that led to my departure from the show. This is completely incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rees_%28producer%29

I have attempted to re-author the page including extensive footnotes. All have been removed by some subsequent author and replaced with the same defamatory facts. On the associated talk page there are other editors who are unknown to me and yet they are recommending that the accusations have no basis. And yet... nothing has been done.

More generally I am also trying to maintain my moral right to be associated with my work. If you read any of the independent references it is clear that I am the sole creator of the show, not Jamie, not Adam, not Beyond Productions or Discovery. What's more it is a matter of record that all of the series ratings records were set while I ran the show. This can not be disputed and deserves a place in the history of the history of the show section on wikipedia.

Here is my version of the page that was deleted. I have kept print outs of the material. I will be forced to take legal action against those who publish this story if it is not corrected. It has already significantly affected my career post mythbusters.

Peter Rees (producer) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Rees (born 1966)[citation needed] is a film and television writer/ director and producer. He created and developed the concept and was the executive producer of the television series MythBusters.[1] Rees created, cast and executive produced seventy episodes, and twelve specials. During his time as Executive Producer the series set all ratings records for individual episode 1.81 (M25-54), two hour special 2.2 (M25-54) and Shark Week Special. In Australia the show broke the one million viewer mark on SBS Television. The shows ratings steadily declined after his departure and are now 30% of what they once were.[2] Contrary to oblique statements made by Adam Savage[3], and previous posts on Wikipedia, Rees did not leave the show shortly after an incident on set involving electricity. The incident that Adam described happened during the filming of the Baghdad battery story in early 2005.[4] Rees left the series in September 2006, over a year and a half later. Video of the electrocution[5] undermines key aspects of Savage's story specifically; who was responsible for the final decision to shock him with an electric fence, and the claim that the film crew refused to film the aftermath in protest. It also illustrates that Jamie Hyneman had previously tried to electrocute Adam with the same device. This is not the first time that Savage's recall of events have been called into question. In 2008 he was forced to retract statements he made about the shooting of an RFID story for the show.[6] Prior to MythBusters, Peter created, developed, produced, wrote and directed more than 30 hours of factual programming for international broadcast. He has successfully brought a wide range of subjects to the small screen including the ancient practice of intentional cranial deformation and the discovery of the deadly “assassin caterpillar” of Brazil. Peter has worked in a wide variety of genres including: drama, magazine, reality, natural history, observational documentary, and studio based entertainment programming. He spent a decade in the United States including time at National Geographic Television, and Discovery Communications were he served as Senior Series Producer, Executive Producer, and finally East Coast Director of Development for Discovery Channel.[7] Peter circumnavigated the globe by land and sea to win the 1993 Charles Heidsieck international Travel challenge.[8] In 2006 he devised a successful World Record attempt. Programs he created have received a number of industry awards and honors including; the 2005 Silver Dragon from the Beijing International Science Festival and five Emmy nominations.[9] Peter was born on a Naval base in Death Valley California, but grew up in Sydney Australia. He is a graduate of Australia's leading broadcasting and production institution, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature/ Historical Archaeology, a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies and is qualified to drive a forklift and shoot a handgun safely in the State of California. References ^ Carolyn Abate (14 September 2006). "Backstory: The mismatched 'Mythbusters' " (http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0914 /p20s01-altv.html). The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 19 April 2010. 1. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/03/04/saturday-cable-ratings-college-basketball-wins-night-boxing-mythbustersmore/ 242135/ 2. ^ https://www.y 3. outube.com/watch?v=dAcMqWLBK8U 4. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282005_season%29#Baghdad_Battery 5. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OewF8lXDzFY 6. ^ http://www.cnet.com/news/mythbusters-co-host-backpedals-on-rfid-kerfuffle/ 7. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterreestv 8. ^ http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/find-a-film/detail.aspx?tid=8286 9. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383126/awards Peter Rees (producer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rees_(producer) 1 of 2 4/9/14 1:49 PM Further reading Mythbusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time [MYTHBUSTERS M/TV] (Paperback) (http://www.simonandschuster.net/content/book.cfm?tab=23& pid=512139) The Creator Of MythBusters -Peter Rees (http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/mb2/content/view/103/46/) Loxton, Daniel (2005). "Mythbusters Exposed: How a Special Effects Crew Opened the Most Important New Front in the Battle for Science Literacy" (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-938158331.html). Skeptic 12 (1): 34–42. Subscription required for online access. Busted – 17 Mythbuster Classics That Could Happen To You (2006) (http://lowelltarling.com.au/books /busted.html) Slashdot: The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/21 /1435208) External links Peter Rees (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715946/) at the Internet Movie Database Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Rees_(producer)&oldid=603398164" Categories: 1966 births American film producers Australian television producers Living people Australian Film Television and Radio School alumni Australian television biography stubs American film producer stubs This page was last modified on 9 April 2014 at 03:47. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Peter Rees (producer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rees_(producer) 2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter rees tv (talk • contribs) 07:20, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

While the editor above claims to be Peter Rees, there is no evidence that he actually is Peter Rees, so this needs to be confirmed as he has edited Peter Rees (producer), virtually destroying the article in the process.[3] If he is Peter Rees, then there is a severe COI issue here. --AussieLegend (✉) 07:46, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If he is Peter Rees, we would seem to have a BLP issue on our hands. HiLo48 (talk) 08:10, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's irrelevant whether the OP is the subject of the article or not. The statement is unsourced and is a serious breach of WP:BLP. I've gone to the rticle and taken it out. The citation was a YouTube account given by the person shocjed of what happened. He doesn't even make an allegation that Rees had to leave the show because of the incident. Even if he had, it wouldn't be enough for WP:BLP. DeCausa (talk) 08:36, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He needs to go to WP:BIOSELF and contact OTRS. A legal threat can result in your account being locked for the duration of the enquiry, see WP:NLT, so its best not to wave those around. - X201 (talk) 08:43, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bible translations

how to get different kinds of translations of bible thorough out my fb please..? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.115.116 (talk) 08:45, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How do I print an article?

Using Windows 8.1 I get the message "this (Wikipedia) app does not support printing".

How can I find out how to print a page or article?

Alan 146.90.182.134 (talk) 09:37, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

waiting on page to appear

Hello

I submitted a page on behalf of Mark Owers & Steve Owers on 26th April. I am still waiting for it to appear. Can someone please tell me what the delay is, as this page will be quite an important reference point for a project they are working on.--Kev McDempster (talk) 10:28, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 Alan [[Special:Contributions/146.90.182.134|146.90.182.134]] ([[User talk:146.90.182.134|talk]]) 09:37, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
+== waiting on page to appear ==
+Hello
+I submitted a page on behalf of Mark Owers & Steve Owers on 26th April. I am still waiting for it to appear. Can someone please tell me what the delay is, as this page will be quite an important reference point for a project they are working on.--[[User:Kev McDempster|Kev McDempster]] ([[User talk:Kev McDempster|talk]]) 10:28, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

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