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    February 28

    Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text

    This text does not give me a citation error: 

    <ref name="RAG" group="Heritage Gardens in Australia">
{{cite book|last1=Baldwin|first1=Myles|last2=Griffiths|first2=Simon|title=Rural Australian Gardens|date=2010|publisher=Murdoch Books|location=Crows Nest, Sydney|isbn=9781741964707|pages=287|edition=1|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4831506|accessdate=24 December 2016}}
</ref>

    This text gives me an undefined error problem and I do not understand why? Is it about the need to use quotation marks, (which the citation app does not use.) 

    <ref group=Secret name="Secret Landscape">
{{cite web|last1=Chapman|first1=Karen|title=Landscape Design: A Secret Garden|url=http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/16335162/list/landscape-design-a-secret-garden|website=Houzz|accessdate=26 February 2017}}</ref>

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

    I made a sandbox with your citations, and it worked fine, but I have a feeling "group" doesn't do what you think it does. Be sure to "edit" the source of the sandbox and see how I did it. Try not to save any changes you make, but don't worry too much. It's only a sandbox. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Translating a page

    Sorry, I couldn't find my answer in the FAQ or in the help desk archives.

    I want to take a Wikipedia article that exists only on the German-language Wikipedia and make a version of it on the English-language Wikipedia. I have consulted all the Wikipedia instruction I can find on translating articles, but I don't understand it at all. It all seems to presume that I have already made the English-language target article/page, or that I already know how to do that.

    Bottom line: I don't understand how start a new page/article. If I can establish the new page, then I can paste in my Wiki-formatted translation and do all the necessary linking with the original German article. Thanks. Mr.Slade (talk) 01:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Mr.Slade: You can search the wanted page name. If it doesn't exist then you should get an option to create it. See more at Wikipedia:How to create a page. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:19, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    An alternative suggestion to PrimeHunter's, Mr.Slade, is to go through the Articles for creation process, to produce a draft and have it reviewed. The reason I suggest this is that different language Wikipedias don't all have the same standards. If you're confident that the German article is of a quality (and specifically, has references of a quality) that will be immediately acceptable in enwiki, then by all means create the page directly as PrimeHunter suggests. But if there is any doubt, or if you are unsure what standard of notability and referencing is required in enwiki, I would advise creating it as a draft. --ColinFine (talk) 11:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Getting assessments for articles in WikiProject Books

    Hello, I've tried to get several articles on books reassessed by WikiProject Books, following the procedure given here, but without success. There are now five requests for articles to be reassessed, and no indication of how long it will be before this happens. I placed the oldest request (for the article on The Evolution of Human Sexuality) some three months ago. How can I resolve this situation? FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 09:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I saw dead links in a couple of posts. Some of them are from prominent sites, others are either from a removed page of an active site or dead site. How can I deal with such links ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manoj Online (talk • contribs) 06:58, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Manoj Online: There's lots of advice on this at Wikipedia:Link rot. I see that you've removed {{citation needed}} tags from several articles; please only do this if you can add a citation. It's important that readers can check where information is coming from. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:35, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    testing

    suppose my product release date on tomorrow and i want to test whole product today but in that product one case is there one fuction have some protection ane it could take 7 days in that case how to test product in one day — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nehapj (talk • contribs) 09:37, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.3 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 09:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Willie Bath

    Hi, I have a page created with my name, I know not who by, it is contained in the Rough Diamond album page, my name highlights in red because there is no content, the other members of the band are highlighted in blue, because they have content. My simple question is how do I add content to a page created not by me, with my name. It is totally legit, I was in the band, and others too, referenced on Wikipedia, but the page is empty, I would like to have content added. How??

    thank you

    Will — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.120.105 (talk) 12:45, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello, Will. As you say, your name is a red link in the article Rough Diamond (album), indicating that nobody has written an article about you; whereas we do have articles about some of the other people. Having said that, at present neither of the articles David Byron and Clem Clempson currently meets our standards for referencing of articles about living people, and it is possible that one or other of them should be deleted.
    With regard to an article about you, there are two separate issues. The first one is whether you meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability: this is not about fame or importance or popularity, but simply whether enough has been published about you in reliable sources completely indpendent of you to base an article on (Wikipedia has almost no interest in what anybody or any organisation say or have said about themselves: it is only interested in what people unconnected with them have published about them). If no such material exists, then I'm afraid that, like most of us, you are not currently notable, and the red link should probably be removed (turned into unlinked text).
    If such sources exist, the next question is who can write an article based on them. Autobiography is strongly discouraged in Wikipedia, because it is so difficult to write in a neutral way about yourself. What you could do, if you have found enough independent sources about you (I cannot stress the independence too strongly: the source needs to have nothing to do with you, your bands, your friends, your associates), then you could post a request for an article at Requested articles. There is a big backlog there, and articles are written by volunteers; but if you find and mention some solid high quality sources, that probably improves the odds of somebody picking your case up. --ColinFine (talk) 14:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Colin, many thanks for your response, although it is quite negative. I should point out firstly that David Byron is deceased and today is the anniversary of his death in 1985. There is plenty written about myself and the other members, I appear in books etc, but it begs the question, who wrote the article and why? It references me on another page for another band which of course links back to the empty content, not sure where to go with this I am getting no younger, but it does appear slightly typical of Wikipedia that the info is either out of date or incorrect, I know it is a herculean task taken by you all, but I would rather not be mentioned at all than have half or no story, so rather than change my name from red to black, I would prefer it removed altogetheThanks Will — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.120.105 (talk) 15:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Will, if you click on the Rough Diamond (album)'s "View history" tab at top right, you will be able to see that there have been dozens of contributors to the article since it was instigated on 25 July 2006 by an editor with the user name Uriahheep, who is no longer active.
    Dropping your name is not an option we would find acceptable, since it would falsify by omission the facts about the band and we are, after all, an encyclopedia. My guess would be that an article about you based on published sources (and also one about Damon Butcher, who is also redlinked) would be perfectly do-able for someone willing to undertake it. If they did, I'm sure you would be able to advise them of many useful published Reliable Sources of information.
    Please understand that a redlink is not in any way detrimental: it just shows that we think there should be an article about you, but no-one has gotten around to writing it yet. As you say, compiling and maintaining Wikipedia is a herculean task, and we have a maxim that Wikipedia has no deadline. We regularly add articles about historical figures long dead.
    Later this week, I intend to add your name and that of Damon Butcher to the (large) list of Requested Articles so that someone with, hopefully, more experience of researching and writing articles about musicians might be prompted to start on yours. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.12.75.147 (talk) 16:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Fernando Suarez

    Please read Fernando Suarez and tell me he did not write that article himself. --Bergamoty Hatio (talk) 13:05, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Bergamoty Hatio, I've cleaned it up. I think he is probably notable, and there is at least an attempt at balance, but feel free to tag or edit as you see fit. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:36, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    2017–18 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Article

    Can You Put the Article Into The Draft Space please. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 19:03, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    ...why? TimothyJosephWood 20:18, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Is it possible to change the name of a page?

    I am trying to change the name of the page from "The Outskirts" to "The Outcasts", the title of the film has changed. Unfortunately, I have been unable to change the name of the page and have only been able to update the title in the information sections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heather.vye (talk • contribs) 19:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Indeed it is. Autoconfirmed accounts can move a page by following the instructions at WP:MOVE. If your account is not yet autoconfirmed, you can request a move at WP:RM/TR. However, be aware that the new title should be supported by reliable sources. clpo13(talk) 19:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Do you have any sources other than IMDB which say the name has changed? Only place that suggests name change is IMDB, which isn't considered reliable as it's user-generated. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:11, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    File tagged as unused and for deletion, but still used in draft

    File:The_Russian_Bride_-_movie_poster.jpg has been tagged as unused, to be deleted in a week. The article that used it has been moved back to Draft:The Russian Bride for now. I'm not sure what needs to be done in this case. Lyrda (talk) 21:29, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Lyrda: Fair-use images are not allowed in drafts and other non-article pages so it has to be deleted. Your account cannot delete files so an administrator will do it. It can be undeleted or uploaded again if the draft becomes a real article. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:57, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Negatively-biased information on my Wikipedia entry page

    Harold E. Puthoff (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

    Harold Puthoff here. I have been very frustrated by finding that I cannot correct false statements on my wikipedia page, or provide references that support my activities (which are not entered there). I have added material and provided sources to correct the record, but to no avail - and now the edit button has been removed (claiming I was involved in an editing war). Material has been submitted on the Talk forum, but that does not result in corrections to the page. Statements negative about my scientific work published in a popular book by an author who is attempting to develop some negative meme trumps my submitted list of publications in Tier 1 journals like Physical Review, and authorship of a graduate-level textbook published in English, French, Russian and Chinese, let alone being nominated for a very prestigious prize in physics. The entries appear to be authored by someone who wants to disparage my scientific work because of some oppositely-held viewpoint, despite being program mgr for well over two decades for highly-classified DoD and intelligence programs, the records of which are now declassified and available.

    As the new phrase goes, my wikipedia page is 'fake news,' but seems there is nothing to be done to correct the record with reference materials galore. 97.79.128.58 (talk) 23:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Harold Puthoff[reply]

    It's not "your" Wikipedia page. It is a page that documents what professionally published mainstream academic and journalistic sources have written about you. You have been continually censoring sourced information ([1] [2] [3]). Your publications are no assessment of how your ideas are perceived by the mainstream scientific community -- sources that you are not affiliated with are needed to determine that. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    March 1

    Can't log in on iOS

    PageantUpdater (talk · contribs) here, accidentally logged me out on my phone and now it won't let me log back in again. I can do it on mobile but when I try to switch to desktop view it doesn't recognise me as logged in and then when I try to log in again I get an error message "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again.". Doing just that does not fix the problem. Any ideas? 124.150.26.248 (talk) 01:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    OK so if I go into private browser mode I can log in, just not the normal one. Butt hat's a pain because it keeps forgetting my details. Has anyone else had to deal with this before? So wishing I hadn't fat fingered the log out button! 124.150.26.248 (talk) 01:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Can you try logging out and then back in on here? It's the central wiki that manages the sessions for logins across multiple wikis, and i've been wondering for a while if this would circumvent the problem. Alternatively, you will have to delete your cookies for the wikimedia.org and wikipedia.org domains from your browser. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:10, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    No contract exist before purchased order is totally wrong

    Hi

    I am a bussinessman and director in one multinational company.

    Your statement about no contract exist before purchased order is totally wrong. Because in real business have a lot of contract before purchase order. Like open policy in insurance . A contract to binding the price in coal industry and purchased order made after that.


    Thank you


    surya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suryahandoko (talk • contribs) 02:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Suryahandoko: We have millions of articles. Which page are you referring to? PrimeHunter (talk) 03:04, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @PrimeHunter: Possibly it's about the second paragraph of the lede in Purchase order. --CiaPan (talk) 12:32, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I've adjusted that paragraph. Is it now a valid statement? Dbfirs 21:17, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dbfirs: I have no idea, I know almost nothing about legal aspects of trading, esp. in English or American law system. Possibly the OP, User:Suryahandoko could express their opinion? --CiaPan (talk) 22:22, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for identifying the article. I indented in response to that helpful link. I hope the OP is now happy. I was thinking of English law, but I expect that Norwegian law is similar. Dbfirs 22:51, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Orphan question please . . .

    Hi, please excuse my naiveté. I was wondering if you would be so kind as to send me an example of what a page entry looks like that has been de-orphaned. Sorry, I am still a little green on this. I am working on other pages and I am hoping to avoid this problem in the future.

    Also, I noticed that my recent contribution has yet to show up on the web. Should I submit the page to google directly?

    Thanks again for all your kind help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BLAN-JU (talk • contribs) 13:05, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    The orphan tag on your article gives a number of wikilinks (in blue), primarily to WP:Orphan. Moving on to your second question, your article will not be indexed at present, because last year a rule was introduced which said that a new article would be NOINDEXed until it has been reviewed through the new page patrol process, which relies on a relatively small number of editors with the new page patrol user right. You will see from Special:NewPagesFeed that there are over 14000 pages awaiting review, with a 4 month backlog. I understand, however, that if an article isn't patrolled within 30 days the NOINDEX may be removed automatically. You therefore need to be patient. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:36, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Policy on Telephone numbers?

    Can someone please direct me to a policy indicating when it is appropriate to have a telephone number in an article (including the infobox). (I'm fine if the policy simply says "only if the telephone number itself is the subject of the article like "1-800-GOT-JUNK").Naraht (talk) 17:41, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Naraht, I believe you're looking for is WP:NOTDIRECTORY, and the short answer is that it isn't. TimothyJosephWood 18:01, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanx, hoping for something a little but more "pointy", but OTOH, it *is* a policy and bulldozers don't need to be pointy in the front. :)

    Question

    Is this correct to Paintball include in Category:Live-action battle gaming, Category:Pervasive games and Category:Location-based games? I am not native English speaker and I am not sure of this conception. Regards. Dawid2009 (talk) 18:29, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I've looked at the definitions of the categories, and my view is that the first two qualify. But I don't think the third does, unless paintball has changed since I was last involved in it. Maproom (talk) 19:46, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Valencia Ballroom

    Dear Sirs or Madam,

    I am in possession of a picture album of a book titled "Valencia, York PA. 10th Anniversary 1929-1939". It is a 94 page book that includes black and white photos of nationally known big band leaders during that era. The book also has text describing the beginnings of the Valencia Ballroom, in York, PA., and renovations to the ballroom during that 10 year period. the book states "it is thought to be the first air conditioned ballroom in the USA in 1931". I am a family member of the Tassia family who owned and operated the Valencia Ballroom during that time. The book's pages are 8.625 X 11.0 inches in size.

    The book was compiled and written by my uncle, Steven Tassia and my father worked at the Valencia during that time in various management positions. The book does not have a ISBN number or printer name or date of printing. I only know that it was printed probably during the summer of 1939.

    I would like to initialize a Wikipedia web page titled "Valencia Ballroom". I know that book is not copyrighted as I have searched the US government office's web site with negative results.

    My questions are:

    1. Is it permissible for me to initiate a Wikipedia page of both text portions of the book and photos of some of the nationally known big band leaders?

    2. I would like to know what kind of electronic file extension would be most convenient to both you and me to initiate the Wikipedia web page, i.e. .jpg, pdf, or others?

    3. In addition to the book as a major single source of reference material, there were newspaper articles that were written during and after the 1929-1939 era that I would like to add as commentary. What are your requirements for reference or citation articles that you would require for this project.

    I am looking forward to your response to my questions. Thank you.

    Sincerely,

    John C. Tassia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tass AH 1234 (talk • contribs) 18:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Dear John,
    Thank you for your questions. The newspaper articles should not be a problem. If you can specify the name of the newspaper and date of publication (the page number would be helpful as well), you can cite newspaper articles in Wikipedia.
    The book may be more of a problem, because Wikipedia relies on published sources. This is so that readers are able to check what the cited work says. But if the book is not available, even from the Library of Congress, then it won't be acceptable as a source. The lack of an ISBN number isn't a problem, Wikipedia cites many books which were published before the invention of ISBN numbers. But if the book hasn't been published, you won't be able to cite it, and so nothing will be achieved by scanning in the text portions of it.
    The photographs in the book may well be a good source of pictures. You could contribute the pictures by scanning them (in .jpg format), and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons (so that they can be used in all Wikipedias, not just this English-language version). But there may be a problem with copyright – I don't know what US copyright law says about photos taken in the US in the 1930s, though other editors here will. Maproom (talk) 19:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC).[reply]
    Also asked and answered at WP:THQ. But for the record, the book appears to be self published but not unpublished, and so may be used in accordance with WP:SELFPUB, even if it's not available anywhere online. The images, if first published in the 1930s will still be assumed to be covered under copyright, unless it can be demonstrated that they were created prior to 1923. TimothyJosephWood 20:03, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    As additional comments, I believe that it is possible for the pictures to be released in a manner that they can be used on Wikipedia, that would essentially give up all copyright control of the photos, but it would have to be established who owned the copyright (So that for example, if someone were to print them all out from Wikipedia and use them in another book, they could do so, similarly the text). However the pictures and their captions could certainly be referenced, so that for example, if the article said that Frank Sinatra played the Valencia on New Years 1938, both the newspaper story about it and the caption on the picture or the image with Frank in front of a banner saying Happy New Year would all be appropriate to list. Also, right now the only mentions of the Valencia Ballroom at Wikipedia are in the information on where various boxers had matches in 2006-2009, hopefully a reference for it being used for Boxing will be in the article. Also, see WP:Drafts or WP:AFC for how to create it as a draft where others can help it become a better article before it is published.Naraht (talk) 20:27, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Please help me to submit move request

    Hatting this thread initiated by a banned sock. The thread is not frivolous, but the Help Desk is not the place to appeal a failure to get your point across at the talk page. If you have solid proof of a coordinated effort of other editors to edit against policy, present it to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. TigraanClick here to contact me 12:15, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I faced an administrator being engaged in article editing. My huge entries (without POV etc) are simply deleted. What to do?

    Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dnipropetrovsk

    My contribution: (cur | prev) 19:33, 1 March 2017‎ 202.155.216.28 (talk)‎ . . (51,556 bytes) (+7,151)‎ . . (undo)

    Direct link: (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Dnipropetrovsk&oldid=768094398#Move_request_01_March_2017._Renaming_Dnipropetrovsk_to_Dnipro_.28city.29.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.155.216.28 (talk) 20:40, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    But: (cur | prev) 19:37, 1 March 2017‎ Ymblanter (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (44,405 bytes) (-7,151)‎ . . (Reverted edits by 202.155.216.28 (talk) to last version by Toddy1) (undo)

    Please check my contribution. It is very useful request. How can I alone fight pro russian lobby here. Ymblanter is engaged in all possible move requests.

    202.155.216.28 (talk) 20:20, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    See WP:TINC. You have the same opportunity as everyone else: to initiate discussions and attempt to gain consensus for your position. You seem to have failed at this. There is no pro-Russian lobby. TimothyJosephWood 20:40, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I initiated the discussion on talk page. and presented my arguments. what did i fail? it was immidiately removed without reason and without discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.155.216.28 (talk) 20:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Note that 202.155.216.28 is a sockpuppet of a blocked user.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:33, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) See WP:COMMONNAME. The change to the name is noted in the article (and related articles). Until it becomes the common name in the English language, it remains under the broadly recognised WP:TITLE... and please desist from this pro-Russian lobby silliness. I shouldn't be addressing a sock, but this is getting very irritating. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    did you check this? -----------------------------------check from here arguments

    1) Name changes policy "give extra weight to sources written after the name change is announced.".

    Shortcut

    As policy states (where WP:COMMONNAME does not have 1st preference): 

    "Sometimes, the subject of an article will undergo a change of name. When this occurs, the COMMONNAME section of this page still applies, but we give extra weight to sources written after the name change is announced.  If the sources written after the change is announced routinely use the new name, Wikipedia should follow suit and change relevant titles to match.  If, on the other hand, sources written after the name change is announced continue to use the established name, Wikipedia should continue to do so as well, per COMMONNAME.

    Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. We do not know what terms or names will be used in the future, but only what is and has been in use, and is therefore familiar to our readers. However, common sense can be applied – if the subject of an article has a name change, it is reasonable to consider the usage following the change in reliable, English language sources. This provision also applies to names used as part of descriptive titles."

    2) Law of Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk renamed to Dnipro. Link: zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/1375-VIII (in Ukrainian language)

    3) Similar city with same status that was already renamed.

    Kirovohrad (previous name on Wiki) – Kropyvnytskyi (current name on wiki) (same administrative level as Dnipro (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblasts_of_Ukraine). Kirovohrad is already renamed to Kropyvnytskyi. So Dnipropetrovsk should also be. Same case. If you claim its not, please present arguments that Kropyvnytskyi was common name or anything else you will use against "from Dnipropetrovsk to Dnipro" change at the time when Kirovohrad was renamed to Kropyvnytskyi

    Dnipro is also the common name of a city (in case you will claim it not, then please justify why Kirovohrad (previous name on Wiki) was moved to Kropyvnytskyi (current name on wiki) which is one more argument since they bare the same administrative status (for more see below))

    Dnipropetrovsk must be renamed to Dnipro to reflect actual city’s name on Wikipedia.

    4) Some reliable media using "Dnipro" taken after 19 May 2016 (date of official name change. taken into account wiki pages are created for them, it means they meet notability policy and are considered well known)

    0. Some Wiki articles have already applied change in title, like Menorah center (Dnipro)

    1. (Center for Strategic and International Studies) https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/dnipropetrovsk-dnipro%E2%80%94-%E2%80%9Cdecommunization%E2%80%9D-ukraine-context

    2. Eurovision Song Contest http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=what_kyiv_dnipro_and_odessa_have_to_offer_for_eurovision_2017

    3. Lonely Planet http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/06/07/museum-dnipro-tours-war-ukraine/

    4. TripAdvisor Trip Advisor

    5. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ukraine/dnipro

    6. Skyscanner, and many other

    7. All Ukrainian media: unian, 1+1 (TV channel), Kyiv Post etc (example): https://www.unian.info/society/1539022-two-police-officers-shot-dead-in-dnipro-police-storm-flat-with-suspect-photos.html / https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/verkhovna-rada-renames-dnipropetrovsk-as-dnipro-414096.html

    8. Encyclopædia Britannica https://global.britannica.com/place/Dnipropetrovsk-Ukraine

    9. Hotels.com https://www.hotels.com/de1643291/hotels-dnipro-ukraine/

    10. Booking.com https://www.booking.com/hotel/ua/dnipro.en-gb.html

    11. Airbnb https://ru.airbnb.com/s/Dnipro--Ukraine?sublets=monthly&checkin=01.04.2017&checkout=01.05.2017&page=1&s_tag=pdvThlZ9&allow_override%5B%5D=

    12. Government of Ukraine. http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/glava-derzhavi-budivnictvo-metropolitenu-u-dnipri-simvol-nas-40214

    13. Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-aus-dnipropetrowsk-wird-dnipro-a-1093095.html

    14. Apple Inc. https://locate.apple.com/ua/en/sales/?pt=4&lat=51.4982&lon=31.289350000000013

    15. Dnipro City council itself. http://dniprorada.gov.ua/

    5)If you try to search for old version "Dnipropetrovsk", it is not available anymore in a system. It is not this city anymore and it is not recognized. U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) does not recognize word "Dnipropetrovsk" anymore.

    6) U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approves `Dnipro` only as legal name of this Ukrainian city, Dnipropetrovsk was modified to Dnipro on 28 Sep 2016 (see below in details) without further ammendments. Steps to check this proof:

    1. Go to BGN's website https://geonames.usgs.gov/ 2. Press 'Foreign Names' on the left hand side. You will be redirected to https://geonames.usgs.gov/foreign/index.html. 3. You will see this part: “Information about foreign geographic feature names can be obtained from the GEOnet Names Server (GNS) (contains active hyperlink http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html), developed and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The GNS database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names”. Go to GEOnet Names Server (GNS) (hyperlink above) 4. On newly loaded page find 'GNS Search - Text Based Page'. Press on it. You will be redirected to http://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/. 5. In 'name' line enter, `Dnipro`, press 'Search database'. 6. In pop up window you will see 

    Dnipro   (Approved - N) while

    Дніпро (Non-Roman Script - NS), Dnepropetrovsk (Variant - V), Dnepropetrowsk (Variant - V), Dnetropetrovsk (Variant - V), Dniepropetrovsk (Variant - V), Dnipropetrovs’k (Variant - V), Dnjepropetrowsk (Variant - V), Ekaṭerinoslav (Variant - V), Iekaterinoslav (Variant - V), Katerynoslav (Variant - V), Yekaterinoslav (Variant - V), Yekaterinovslav (Variant - V), Дніпропетровськ (Variant Non-Roman Script - VS)

    7. Press on word ‘Dnipro’. In pop up you will see:. 

    Gazetteer Name: Dnipro

    Linked Name: Дніпро 

    Feature Modify Date: 2016-09-28

    Name Modify Date: 2016-09-28

    These reasons are enough to rename the city.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.155.216.28 (talk) 21:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Since I assume you'll come back, I'll leave this comment. There is very little on Wikipedia that is of such an utmost importance that it is worth going to these lengths to pursue. As much as we would like to think so, the wheels of the world do not turn on every minute decision we make here. If you are on Wikipedia enough, you will win some arguments, and you will lose some, and some of the ones you loose will seem so bleedingly obvious to you that you can't fathom why the community would disagree. That's just par for the course, and if you can't get used to it, then you don't belong here. TimothyJosephWood 23:41, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      • I would be pretty annoyed if my city was spelled wrong on Wikipedia too. Timothyjosephwood's response is less than helpful if not downright rude ("you don't belong here if you can't take it"). I would suggest submitting a move request on Dnipro's talk page and request the help of a neutral administrator if necessary. —МандичкаYO 😜 02:13, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    How to create a page for an organization

    To whom it may concern,

    I would like to know how to create a Wiki page for an organization? What are the steps and procedures? What are the things I need to take note of?

    Let me know ! Thanks so much ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idream3 (talk • contribs) 20:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Idream3, if this is an organization that you are affiliated with then I suggest you read WP:COI to see what can be done about your conflict of interest. If you'd like to start the article, you would first need to see if the organization is notable enough for inclusion by checking WP:CORP. If you still believe that the organization should have an article, see WP:Your First Article. †dismas†|(talk) 23:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key

    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.148.32 (talk) 20:53, 1 March 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

    In which article? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I created a page a month ago and it still does not show up when I search wikipedia. Why? Do I need to tell it to "publish" or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RONISUEWING (talk • contribs) 21:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    You created a user page, not an article. If you intended to create an article, start by reading the advice at WP:Your first article, and if you intend the article to be about yourself, read WP:Autobiography. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:02, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) You have created User:RONISUEWING which is a user page and not an article. Our search box only searches articles by default. On the search results page you can click "User" to include user pages, or "Everything" to include all types of pages. If you meant to create an article then the current content is unsuited. See Wikipedia:Autobiography and Wikipedia:Articles for creation. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:06, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    If you are looking for somewhere to host your autobiography, then Wikipedia is not the place to come. If you can find articles in WP:reliable sources about yourself, your books or your business, then you could request an article at WP:Requested articles, but it would look very different from the self-promotion on your user page which is really not suitable content for anywhere on Wikipedia. Sorry to disappoint you. Dbfirs 12:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    User Boxes

    Hi everyone! Is there a page here to help show me how to format user boxes on my user page? I tried to search for it, but couldn't find it... though maybe I just don't know where to look. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Royal Air Maroc (talk • contribs) 22:25, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Royal Air Maroc, the general help page for User Pages is at WP:USERPAGE. As far as the formatting goes, you can use any wiki markup that you would use in an article as well as some HTML. †dismas†|(talk) 23:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    The short answer is, "put {{userboxtop}} before them, and {{userboxbottom}} after them, and it'll mostly work".
    See Wikipedia:Userboxes#Grouping_userboxes.86.20.193.222 (talk) 06:56, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks so much! Royal Air Maroc (talk) 21:12, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    March 2

    how i can translate any english article

    I want to translate hashimoto's disease to bengali from english. How can i do this. Please help me anyone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhaarat Nath (talk • contribs) 08:39, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    See Wikipedia:Translate us, Bhaarat Nath. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 08:45, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    However, English Wikipedia already has an article on Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Maproom (talk) 09:21, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Maproom: That's why User Bhaarat Nath wants to translate it from en-wiki to bengali and not from anywhere else. :) CiaPan (talk) 11:36, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Can I deposit money $ direct at the central bank of Egypt to pay stalemement of Ard Al-Watan,

    Can I deposit money $ direct at the central bank of Egypt to pay stalemement of Ard Al-Watan, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.126.37.130 (talk) 10:05, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Category:Jean-Michel Jarre albums

    How can it be that the album called Radiophonie vol. 9 ends up under the letter O instead of the letter R on the page above? It's a category-page, so it sorts the pages within automatically and so I'm unable to change it just like that... Oxygene7-13 (talk) 11:01, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Its because of the {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxygène 3}} command at the bottom of the article code. this tells the category sorter to tag it under a different alphabetic order than the article title. In answer to your next question, no, I don't know why its there. - X201 (talk) 11:05, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Looks like it was copy and pasted from somewhere else and not edited. I can't see a reason for having Default Sort in that article, so I've removed it - X201 (talk) 11:10, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    It has been changed so no follow up question. ;-) Oxygene7-13 (talk) 11:11, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Licenses

    Two questions.

    RedPanda25 16:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    IANAL and all that but from reading the article it seems to me that the Open Game License is non-free, unlike the other two (hence incompatible). The OGL looks like a the reverse of a patent, allowing others to reuse the inner gear but maintaining copyrights on the skin (a patent can only protect "gears"). Moreover, the OGL seems to require the full copyright notice to be distributed along any derivative works, similarly to the GFDL is similar, but not the CC BY-SA (which merely imposes that the derivative be available under CC BY-SA, but the full text need not be attached). TigraanClick here to contact me 21:54, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    The way I make a page's cache purge right now is I click on the "View History" tab then replace the &action=history part of the URL with &action=purge. Is there a faster way to get to the purge cache option for a page? GSMR (talk) 15:23, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @GSMR: Go to Preferences > Gadets > Appearance and enable the Purge option. Then you can click on the More tab next to the favourite star at the top of the article and get a purge option on the list - X201 (talk) 15:31, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @X201: Thank you very much! GSMR (talk) 15:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I have written an article but i dont no how to publish it ??

    i wrote an article on company RAB Rent A Car but i dont know how to publish it because no one else can search — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrdanishalvi (talk • contribs) 15:45, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry, but that's not an article. Its an advert for a business. Wikipedia won't publish it in that form. I suggest you start at WP:YFA, the key sections are the one's about References and Things to avoid. - X201 (talk) 15:53, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    How do you find other users, or even find out publishers or editors on a article. Thanks

    Hi, i'm very new to wikipedia so i just want to know how to interact or find other users on wikipedia. I also want to know how to find publishers on web pages or articles, please awnser soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FredsaidYum (talk • contribs) 16:52, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Fredsaidyum:, you can click the "View History" tab at the top of any Wikipedia page to determine who made edits on a particular article. And then click on that users name to go to their user talk page, or you can edit the Talk page of any article to ask for help. uhhlive (talk) 21:10, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    FredsaidYum, I put a welcome message on your talk page which provides links for a few introductory things. †dismas†|(talk) 22:52, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Lupton family

    I have tried before - unsuccessfully; please place a small pic of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (from her page up the top) in the "Olive Middleton (née Lupton)" section of the Lupton family page. Please write underneath the pic: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (née Middleton), great granddaughter of Olive Middleton (née Lupton) . Please make sure that there is an accent over the word "née" in both names. Your help is really appreciated Thanks 21:51, 2 March 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs)

    Crab Nebula article error

    Hello,

    I think you have a mistake in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula. Distance is 650 and not 6500±1600 ly (2000±500[2] pc).

    regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8071:6B5:B300:4DC3:E37E:5809:AD9D (talk) 22:51, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    What is your source? All Google hits I examined on "Crab Nebula" "light years" say 6000 to 6523 light years. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:22, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    How do I edit mobile header sections?

    I was using a mobile phone, and I saw a blurb(?) section at the top of the article before the first text. I found a mistake in one of them, but I can't figure out how to edit them. How do those get edited? McKay (talk) 23:54, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    That may well be something which is (unwisely) imported from WP:Wikidata, so it would need correcting there. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:06, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Right, some mobile features automatically display Wikidata descriptions. Click "Wikidata item" under "Tools" in the left pane of the desktop version. The bottom of the mobile version may have a "Desktop" link. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:14, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Awesome. Thanks you twoMcKay (talk) 00:31, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    This is asked so often that we might want to think about putting it in an FAQ. †dismas†|(talk) 01:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    March 3

    Monster of Ravenna

    A page which I created, Monster of Ravenna, is listed in Special:NewPagesFeed with the alert "No citations" despite possessing multiple citations. What causes that warning to be displayed / is it broken? The page is also not yet indexed on Google, although I understand that is due to it not being yet reviewed by the new pages patrol. RexSueciae (talk) 01:36, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    NewPagesFeed is an automated tool unable to detect citations made with {{sfn}}. I don't know the details but maybe it can only detect <ref>...</ref> written directly in the page source. noindex is automatically removed after 30 days if an article is not reviewed by then. I think the clock started when it was moved to mainspace 14 February. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:07, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Brilliant, thanks! RexSueciae (talk) 02:15, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Contributions page

    Ever since I tried out the translation tool for one article, my contributions page has a large and bulky header that just gets in my way. And I can no longer just click on "contributions" to get there—now I have to click twice and choose from a menu. I don't want either the header or the menu. How can I get rid of them? — Gorthian (talk) 02:20, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    I found an error, not sure how to fix it

    I was in the article about the Village Museum in Tanzania, listed under "national museum, Tanzania" in Wikipedia. The article says "The Kijiji cha Makumbusho, or Village Museum, established in 1996, is an open-air ethnographical museum located in the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, on the road to Mwenge and Bagamoyo. It showcases traditional huts from 16 different Tanzanian ethnic groups. There are also examples of traditional cultivations, and traditional music and dance shows are held daily.[2]" 1996 is wrong. It was founded in 1966. Seems someone did a typo. The wrong info has also been entered in another web page I saw, about tourism in Tanzania. I visited the museum in around 1970, and I still have my old guidebook to Kijiji cha Makumbusho, published in 1966. Can I scan and send part of the booklet to someone, who could maybe fix the error? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.21.47.195 (talk) 04:19, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    BUSINESS SUPPORT

    Good day,I am looking for your help on my writing,editing,publishing,advertising and marketing career job.Thanks.

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