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January 20

Express yourself!!

Are you felling unfulfilled, wishing to express your opinion and change the world? Now is your chance to satisfy all your desires to have a say.... Please join the riveting conversation posted here.--Moxy (talk) 04:04, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Vieha... I wish to be removed from Wikipedia.

Please remove any mention of me on Wikipedia. The brief note about me isn't accurate and was without my consent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.155.236.196 (talk) 05:09, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated the stub biography for deletion as non-notable, but even if and when the article is deleted, you still will be mentioned 6 places in articles for projects for which you are credited. In any case, please do not remove the content of the article again. —teb728 t c 07:17, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Indexation of my article

I would like to ask that can someone index my article in hoogle search my article is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Rawal Thank you Lumoscoco (talk)lumoscoco —Preceding undated comment added 06:40, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your page is one of over 3500 awaiting review through the new page patrol process. Until it has been reviewed (or 90 days have elapsed) it will be NOINDEXed. After it has been reviewed, it's up to Google, not Wikipedia, as to how quickly it is indexed. --David Biddulph (talk) 06:59, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Template to return country's continent?

Is there a template already in existence that will return which continent the specified country is in? I have done a search but don't seem able to find one and don't want to invest time making one if it would be redundant. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:50, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bungle None that I can find on Wikipedia, but Wikibooks has such a template. You can see the code for it here : Bhunacat10 (talk), 23:16, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That would be excellent, except there's no documentation as far as I can see. What are the 2nd and 3rd parameters? Black Kite (talk) 23:19, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bungle: Did you see b:Template:Continent/doc? —teb728 t c 03:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I hadn't noticed there is one on wikibooks, so surprised it hasn't already been copied over. In essence then, I would need to create a new template with the same code? Can't imagine there would be any issues doing this (obviously with a different name, as the continent template here redirects elsewhere). Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:14, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Teutonic Order

I am not experimenting, I'm trying to re-enter information on our order which has been deleted but shouldn't have been.

Natasha Crist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natasha Crist (talk • contribs) 17:14, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits were reverted because they were malformatted & broke the hatnote and the infobox. You refer to "our order" so you need to read about conflict of interest, and the mandatory provisions regarding paid editing. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:22, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

list of authors and editors of an article . . .

Is there a way to get a list of all authors and editors who have worked on an article? Albretch Mueller (talk) 22:02, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Albretch Mueller: yes, there is. See Help:Page History. L293D (☎ • ✎) 22:16, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Harv error - please help

Could someone please help me with the harv error at German submarine U-301? The problem is with ref 1. Thanks. L293D (☎ • ✎) 22:16, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you fixed it. —teb728 t c 22:23, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I need a little bit of help with an article and its sources.

Note: The following copied from the help desk talk page. Eagleash (talk) 23:33, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I'm from Germany and this my reflect my rather bad English. I have a problem with this rather small article /wiki/Hugo_Schmeisser for those who don't know he is a German gun designer and there is a certain group of people making one claim about him over and over again, some driven by political standpoints.

The Claim is, that he was working on the famous AK-47 rifle while in Russia, but this claim is not only not backed* by proven to be false by its own biography and the bis text book written on the topic.

But the problem is, that one not so well written book "The AK-47: Kalashnikov-series assault rifles by Gordon L. Rottman" makes this false claim and that this book has been published by Osprey a publisher with some reputation.

My Problem is now, that I was asked to give some source that clearly say "Schmeisser has not worked on the AK-47", but how am I supposed to do so? I can prove a negative claim, I can only mention the big Text Books on the Topic like Ezells "the AK-47 Story" or "AK-47: THE GRIM REAPER, 2ND EDITION" by Frank Iannamico not talking about it.

How I can I deal with this Problem? --Daniel Helmut (talk) 23:02, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that he worked on AK-47 rifles is an exceptional claim. WP:EXCEPTIONAL is very clear that multiple reliable sources, and not just one single one, have to be provided to prove that he was working on the said rifles. If such multiple sources do not exist and only a single one does, the claim does not belong to the article and should be removed. The onus is not on you but on the editors wishing to include the information to provide the said multiple sources. If you run into more problems, follow dispute resolution or write back to me or here for more help. Thanks, Lourdes 03:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]