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February 23

Can I clear my sandbox?

I've just finished an article, When Jones' Ale was New on my sandbox and submitted it for review. Can I clear my sandbox and get on with my next article, or do I have to leave it there for a while? Joe Fogey (talk) 10:23, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Your draft is at Draft:When Jones' Ale was New, not yet at When Jones' Ale was New. Your sandbox contains a redirect to the draft, but you can clear that sandbox page and later (if you wish) reuse it for a new draft. You may find it easier to use a name other than "sandbox" for new user drafts. You could, for example, have called the previous one User:Joe Fogey/When Jones' Ale was New. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:40, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Elections

Why am I notified of steward elections when I can't vote? Benjamin (talk) 10:48, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

You need 600 edits before 1 November 2016. You have that now but not then. Maybe the tool displaying the notice can only see your current edit count. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:09, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Add change of my name where ever it appears.

Hi

Iam Kuntaa Nikkil film Producer, Director, Writer, Actor. I have changed my Name to KUNTAA SHALYAQ REDDY, so please add this name next to my old name where ever it appears.

Thanking you so much

Kuntaa Nikkil @ Kuntaa Shalyaq Reddy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuntaa Nikkil (talk • contribs) 16:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

We have (only) 4 articles in which the name "Kuntaa Nikkil" appears – you can easily find them by using the search box at the top right of this Help Page.

However, before the requested edits can be made, we need to see the information published in a Reliable Source confirming that what you say is true, because we cannot be certain that the person posting this request is really Kuntaa Nikkil – can you give us a link to such a source? {The poster formerly known as 87.81 230.195} 90.203.118.169 (talk) 17:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

User name problem

Hi Wikipeople My social media presence is under a unique name that I devised - leedsface - it is always spelt totally in lower case, is it possible to amend my wikipedia user name and use the lower case "l" to begin the name, at the moment it reads "Leedsface", at odds with my presence across other platforms eg - www.leedsface.com , Twitter @leedsface FB page and large community group (currently 44,000 members and growing by 100 per day) as facebook/leedsface. I would appreciate your help. Glenn Simpson leedsface — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leedsface (talk • contribs) 18:13, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

In short, no. The first letter is always capitalized. SeeWP:UPOL for info. - X201 (talk) 18:58, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

If you put {{lowercase title}} at the top of your user page & user talk page it will display with a lower case "l". --David Biddulph (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

You could also customise your signature so that it appears in lowercase when you 'sign' your name on talk pages.

The software doesn't care whether the first letter is capitalized; it'll show as a capital in system things (such as your contributions, etc) - there is no way around that. It's just the way things work.86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:36, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

@Leedsface: You can also enter leedsface in the Signature field at Special:Preferences to sign your discussion posts with lowercase when you write ~~~~. In page histories and most other places it will always be displayed in uppercase. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:40, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Larry Mcgrew

According to Larry Mcgrew's wikipedia page he was drafted number 2 overall in the 1980 NFL draft. He was not drafted in the 1st round, he was drafted in the 2nd round number 45 overall.

Thank you,

Shawn Manning — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.243.185.44 (talk) 19:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source to support that info?

For now, I've just removed the drafting round and number (with this edit), because the information had no reference. Facts need to be verifiable.86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:31, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

I couldn't find a page for this. Are you guys working on one? 2602:306:374A:8F70:287A:BD1D:C0C1:BC93 (talk) 20:04, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Mario_Kart_8#Mario_Kart_8_Deluxe 86.20.193.222 (talk) 20:22, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

February 24

Phabricator

Hello! Would somebody like to help me submit a proposal to Phabricator? What I would like to suggest is adding the option "upright" to the editor surface function "embedded file" (for all Wikipedia versions, of course!). I'd be grateful for any help since I'm not familiar to how Phabricator actually works and I admittedly find it a bit confusing for somebody not on the inside – though I do think that the community could in fact benefit from my idea... Hoping for your cooperation, best greetings--Hubon (talk) 01:06, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Please finish the edit I did in regards to my personal life .

you have failed to upload my edit to include my 4th wife Deborah Moore Salkind — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilyasalkind (talk • contribs)

If you mean that you couldn't save the page when you say that you "failed to upload it," then that work is gone and we can do nothing about it.

Also, you really should not edit the article about yourself -- see WP:COI for more information. Ian.thomson (talk) 05:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

@Ilyasalkind: Your only saved edit was to add your own name in [1]. Ilya Salkind#Personal life says: "And today he lives with his fourth wife Deborah Moore Salkind, they are together now for sixteen years. They have no children." It's unsourced, not mentioned in the infobox at the top right, and Wikipedia articles should specify years instead of such formulations. Of course you know the information yourself but Wikipedia requires reliable published sources so readers can verify the information. I could only find mention that you are partners. Do you have a reliable published source mentioning the marriage and year of the wedding? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:43, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

I see that Ilyasalkind succesfully made an edit to Ilya Salkind. It was reverted six minutes later by another editor, with the explanation "Undid test revision by WP:COI user Ilyasalkind". Maproom (talk) 15:33, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

About the entry of Lenovo Research

I created an entry for Lenovo Research, but it is redirected to Lenovo. Although Lenovo Research is the research division of Lenovo, their focuses are different.

So can i create a separate entry for Lenovo Research? Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcticview (talk • contribs) 08:48, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

I would say no. Just add a subsection on the page. Unless you can extensively prove the research division needs its own page. CTF83! 08:56, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

the heading on one of your articles about thakur dan singh bisht

sir i have to inform you that you or your organisation need to immediately change the name of the article on thakur dan singh bisht from 'bist' to 'bisht' which is his actual surname and you can see the preferences too for this.I request you to act swiftly on this particular isuue url for the page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Singh_Bist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Up-16 (talk • contribs) 09:34, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Not because you say it's his actual surname, but becasue it's the form of his name more often used in those references in the article which I have been able to check. Maproom (talk) 10:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Unidentified disease in India and USA

Hi Sir,

My sister and I from India, 10 MOnths ago ( April 2016) my sister had pain in her right eye and than double vision , blurred and than in 2 days she lost the vision of right eye, we took her to hospital they gave her (solo metrol medicine) through her veins , some of the vision came back and than they send us back home stating that vision will recover itself, while she was in hospital they did brain MRI and they found 1 legion on her left side of the brain but the Neuro Doctor told us that its normal , every other person has legions in brain so nothing to worry about that legion, they also did SPine MRI it was normal in april 2016. than in July 2016 she again face the blurred vision on the same eye they again gave her ( solo metrol medicine) through veins , it again helped her but doctor told me it can effect the left eye too but they cant do anything until it will effect other eye or another episode of vision loss, so i decide to bring in USA for treatment . Ite been 7 months here too but Doctor are unable to diagnose what is wrong. The other eye also had same episode of vision loss in October 2016 in USA , they again gave her medicine through Veins it again helped her, they did Lumper puncture in here USA, it was normal but this time, the Spine MRI came up with another legion in her lower spine which is not active, so doctor said its not active so nothing to worry about. St joseph hospital and Mayo clinic here tols ud she has MS, and i need to take her to MS specialist as we do not have insurance in USA so they can not keep her in hospital.

I took MS specialist appointment and took my sister there but he said on the basis of test results till now , he can not say she has MS. he said she has to go through more test but at the same time he said she has neuro optica (NMO) disease. We are facing lots of trouble, we do not have money , no insurance and our family is in India and we both are only here and very disappointed in USA . One of my friend told me i can write you and seek some help as you are very big doctor and kind too, you help people.

Please sir help us. [email redacted] Pooja Tyagi

We cannot offer medical advice. Please see the medical disclaimer, and contact an appropriate medical professional.

In addition, we will not contact you by email. See at the top of the page. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:05, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Licenses

Two questions.

• What are the main differences between the GNU Free Documentation License and the CC BY-SA?
• Is the Open Game License compatible with either?

RedPanda25 16:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Breaking a part of list into columns

I'm planning to fix List of songs in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic article to counter legibility issues (especially on small screens), and this is what I came up with, so far.

; "Episode Whatever"
# "First song"
#* '''Music:''' John Doe
#* '''Lyrics:''' Jane Public
#; Performer (character)
#: Actress A (Pony A)
#; Backing vocals
#: Actress B (Unicorn B)
#: Actress C (Pegasus A)
#; Context: Pony A has a problem so Unicorn B and Pegasus A cheer her.
# "Second song"
#* '''Music:''' John Doe
#* '''Lyrics:''' Jane Public
#; Performer (character)
#: Actress A (Pony A)
#; Context: Pony A wonders if her problem was solved well.

Resulting:

"Episode Whatever"

1. "First song"
   • Music: John Doe
   • Lyrics: Jane Public

   Performer (character)

   Actress A (Pony A)

   Backing vocals

   Actress B (Unicorn B)

   Actress C (Pegasus A)

   Context

   Pony A has a problem so Unicorn B and Pegasus A cheer her.

2. "Second song"
   • Music: John Doe
   • Lyrics: Jane Public

   Performer (character)

   Actress A (Pony A)

   Context

   Pony A wonders if her problem was solved well.

I'm thinking of using some trick so the list would be (roughly) look like:

"Episode title" 1. "Song title"
Music: composer Lyrics: writer	Vocals List of credited performers
Context All the context

Of course, I'd use adaptive column template so it would look like not broken into columns on smartphones.

But is there a solution to achieve that, while numbers are not broken like 1. "First song" and 1. "Second song"? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 16:19, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I'm moving to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) instead. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 08:51, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Strange behaviour of shortcut New Section

Please see the table of contents of Talk:Oil reserves. All recent uses of the New Section shortcut resulted in an apparent subsection of the section "Canada Tar Sands", even though their titles have only "==". Layzeeboi (talk) 19:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

@Layzeeboi: The "Canada Tar Sands" heading was a level one heading, with only one "=". I've turned it into a level two heading, with "==", and the TOC now looks normal. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:21, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

changing a header on a page

In the mobile version of Wikipedia in an article about Narcolepsy it states " A sleep disorder that involves an excessive urge to murder at inappropriate times, such as while at work."

Narcolepsy is a neurological illness. People with Narcolepsy are not psychopaths nor is this illness funny. If that was the intended purpose of that statement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy

Please edit that comment because it is highly offensive and more importantly misleading. It will be greatly appreciated.

TYVM — Preceding unsigned comment added by VivRR (talk • contribs) 19:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Fixed.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Post branching

Two days ago I posted a question on Science desk[2]. Many people responded but many questions contained speculations, unwanted opinions, fantasies, etc. Some people got unhappy with that. Then I noticed that someone sort of combined some posts, gave this block a heading and now it appears as a subcategory. This actually happened twice. This is fine with me but I have two questions. Am I still the OP in any of the subcategories. It seems I am not, because people refer to other posts, the ones that start the blocks as the OP. Also what are the rules governing creation such sub chapters? Thanks, - --AboutFace 22 (talk) 23:09, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

February 25

Zaytoven

I'm not sure if my computer has a problem, or if I'm dealing with an editor who's being difficult. Could someone please have a look at Talk:Zaytoven#Dead link in article? Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 00:12, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Answered at talk. But yes, the link works for me. †dismas†|^(talk) 00:17, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Carole Middleton

Reference number 11 is all wrong. The date of the article is NOT from 2017. It is earlier. I cannot work out why there are 2 dates. Please fix. Thanks 101.182.96.231 (talk) 00:31, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

 Fixed Eagleash (talk) 00:36, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Carole Middleton

3 things please.

1. I have failed to correctly add a relative - (father-in-law) - to the box on the right at the top. It looks wrong. I have tried.
2. Also, I have failed to added the immediate link in the box to the section "Michael Francis Middleton" which is on the page Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
3. The same problem with Captain Peter Middleton - also in the Carole Middleton box - who has his own section on the page - Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

I have really struggled here. Please fix Thanks so much 101.182.96.231 (talk) 00:38, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I took the liberty of splitting your comments in three numbered question to make replying easier.

1. The problem was that the html <small> tag was not opened. Instead, the father in law section war encapsulated in two closure </small> tags.
2. (and 3.) These had the same type of problem. If you wish to link to a section on another page that pages name must be added before the section name. Eg: [[Carole_Middleton#Early_life]] will link to the "Early_life" section on the "Carole Middleton" page. Just adding "#Early_life" works, but in that case a link will be created to a section on the page you are currently on.

Hope this helps!

Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 01:20, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Carole Middleton

I am so sorry - I see that I have also stuffed up the immediate link to "Olive Chistiana Middleton, nee Lupton" - (in the section "Business success and husband's inherited...") which is on the Lupton family page where Olive also has her own section. Please fix - Thanks 101.182.96.231 (talk) 01:24, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

 Fixed - Same issue as point 2 and 3 in the section above. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 01:27, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Carole Middleton

This is embarrassing - in the "Business success..." section of this article - the line reads: "...were both Carole and Michael and was so successful that it's headquarters had moved to a...".

We are not sure if the apostrophe is correct in the word "it's"..... Please correct. Thanks

It's not correct. You can remove it. †dismas†|^(talk) 05:23, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE SUPPORT

Good morning,I am trying to login to my facebook account but I cannot be able to do it.If you can help me I will be happy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamad olatunde (talk • contribs) 08:34, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Good morning. This is the Wikipedia helpdesk. Wikipedia is nothing to do with Facebook, so I'm sorry, we can't help with that. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 08:54, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

@Hamad olatunde: Have you tried the Computing section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.Template:Z38 PrimeHunter (talk) 10:45, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help with graphic

In the following table and graphic, the table extends to 2015=6, but the graphic only extends to 2015. Would someone with grapics-fu be willing to update the image?

Year	Support and Revenue	Expenses	Net Assets at year end
2003/2004	$80,129	$23,463	$56,666
2004/2005	$379,088	$177,670	$268,084
2005/2006	$1,508,039	$791,907	$1,004,216
2006/2007	$2,734,909	$2,077,843	$1,658,282
2007/2008	$5,032,981	$3,540,724	$5,178,168
2008/2009	$8,658,006	$5,617,236	$8,231,767
2009/2010	$17,979,312	$10,266,793	$14,542,731
2010/2011	$24,785,092	$17,889,794	$24,192,144
2011/2012	$38,479,665	$29,260,652	$34,929,058
2012/2013	$48,635,408	$35,704,796	$45,189,124
2013/2014	$52,465,287	$45,900,745	$53,475,021
2014/2015	$75,797,223	$52,596,782	$77,820,298
2015/2016	81,862,724	$65,947,465	$91,782,795

--Guy Macon (talk) 15:37, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

The file was made by User:Sameboat who is still active so that would be the natural person to ask. Otherwise requests like this can be posted to Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop or commons:Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:47, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Done and done. Note that the above image has changed since I posted the request. The new image contains 2015-2016, but the captions are gone.

The before and after images:

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Wikimedia_Foundation_financial_development_multilanguage.svg
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/45/20170226000419%21Wikimedia_Foundation_financial_development_multilanguage.svg

--Guy Macon (talk) 05:34, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Citing your own book

Is this allowed? I suspect I've caught someone doing it (repeatedly). See Special:Contributions/79.13.67.222‎. Wildfowl (talk) 19:49, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, but with extreme care as noted on WP:SELFCITE. Didn't inspect that IP's edit history so no opinion on the propriety. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:53, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Boxed text

What is the reasoning / meaning behind all the boxed, light gray text in this article? C. S. Lewis I've never seen it before. Thanks. Maineartists (talk) 23:06, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

It's an older means of adding 'citation needed'...assuming you mean the dotted lines around some passages of text and not the boxed block quotes. Eagleash (talk) 23:11, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Eagleash. Never saw it before. It's not coming through as dotted lines. Regardless, is it something an OP can go in now and update with a proper CN tag? Maineartists (talk) 23:36, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

It looks dotted to me, unless I enlarge it muchly. There's no reason why it can't be updated; the usefulness of it is, that it indicates a larger passage of text needs a source. Eagleash (talk) 23:49, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. Good to know on all accounts. Maineartists (talk) 00:01, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

{{Cnspan}} is not archaic or deprecated as far as I know. It is just an alternative way of saying "citation needed" which 1) allows you to mark exactly what text you are specifying, and 2) allows you to write the a reason you're concerned about the text. I've used it on (rare) occasions.

In my opinion it's not being used well at C. S. Lewis. It's being used to mark whole paragraphs and whole great swaths of paragraphs. It's intended as more a precision instrument, I think.

For instance if you have a passage "Smith took his show to Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, Waco, and Los Angeles [ref]" and you think that the ref is unclear just over whether he went to Omaha, you could mark just that one word. You can't really do that with just the {{citation needed}} template; placing that after "Omaha" could be taken to imply that you're asking for citation for Denver as well as Omaha. And so forth. Herostratus (talk) 01:04, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

question on AfD's

I nominated a page for deletion. It is an article about a living person who also has a BLP on Wikipedia. Some editors at the AfD are suggesting that the contents be merged into this person's BLP. Since I nominated this sub-article for deletion, am I supposed to now let them know on the main BLP that a merge is being discussed or just let it happen, if that is how the decision goes? SW3 5DL (talk) 23:53, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Well no need to be coy: the page in question is George Soros conspiracy theories. One solution would be for everyone reading this to go over there and vote to delete it (it obviously should be deleted), and everything will be all Sir Garnet. Herostratus (talk) 01:18, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

LOL, I agree it should be, but I'm asking because a long time ago, on an article I was editing, someone came along and dumped this enormous amount of material into the article. And I didn't know what to make of it. The editor explained it was the result of an AfD which ended with merge. And I thought they should have given a heads up as I would definitely have voted not to merge it. It was a bit of mess to sort out. So far the articles I've nominated have been deleted, or kept, so when I saw these merge votes, I didn't want to be the one doing that to others without a heads up but didn't see anything in the rules. SW3 5DL (talk) 01:30, 26 February 2017 (UTC),

And did enjoy the all Sir Garnet. Never heard that one. Thanks for it. SW3 5DL (talk) 01:32, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Well that's because you don't live in 19th century Britain, something we all should at least aspire to.. Herostratus (talk) 03:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

February 26

Film role

Teura Maria French Polynésia (Redacted) Hi so my english it's not perfect i write to you, for the disney film VAIANA and i soon on face book the éditor for the film need a litlle baby girl 2 or 3 years for the film . We live in Tahaa and i want my baby play to the film she's very beautiful the brown skin black eyes black hair she similaire of Vaiana thank you for call to me Maururu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.90.92.139 (talk) 04:26, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.3 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 -- John of Reading (talk) 07:03, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Locking content from editing for my company page

Hi,

I've been trying to lock the content of my page from editing by other users. How can i ensure this is done. I understand that everyone can edit the content of pages, however i'm ok to monitor added content but the content i post shouldnt be editable.

Please let me know if this would be possible.

Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mazensraj (talk • contribs) 10:07, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Please sign your posts with four tildes (4x ~). Having said that, when you say "I understand that everyone can edit the content of pages" you have answered your own question. Britmax (talk) 10:13, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

BUSINESS SUPPORT

Good day,I am a business manager, writer,editor,marketer and advertiser.Searching for new opening job online,if I can be able to get good job,I will be happy.