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September 23

Correct template

Is there a template for when you know only the year of the person's birth and the exact date of her death? {{Death year and age}} doesn't seem to cut it.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:10, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

It's the first example at Template:BirthDeathAge#Examples. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:26, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Somehow I missed that template, thanks, Jens.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

possible vandalism

It seems that every edit from a certain IP has been vandalism, who do I tell? What should I do other than watch a page and revert as necessary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jared112390 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Start by reading the advice at WP:Vandalism.

Also, please bear the following advice in mind in future when you post to a talk page or to a discussion page like this one: Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. - David Biddulph (talk) 07:04, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Improve an article to GA status

There is a specific article I would like to get to GA status. Is there a place where I can request a review of what issues in particular need to be addressed for that article to be likely to get promoted to GA status? Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 08:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Try asking at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations - you might find a helpful GA reviewer there who will give you some pointers. Gandalf61 (talk) 08:45, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I posted the question at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#Get a specific article to GA status. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 09:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Wiki entry for Antisocial Personality Disorder

Hello helpers,

I am very sorry to bother you but I have a very specific question in relation to a Wikipedia fact that you may be able to answer for me. I am a social researcher and for my current project it would be very helpful to know how many 'hits' the Wiki entry on Antisocial Personality Disorder has had. If possible, more specifically I would like to know how many hits it has had in the last 12 months, and overall. Any facts would be fantastic though. I hope that you are able to respond. Thank you.

Tom R. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.138.218.26 (talk) 10:22, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Antisocial Personality Disorder (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

If you go to the article and click the "View History" tab, you will see a line of "External tools" near the top. The one you need is at the right, "Page view statistics"; or here is a direct link. There's a help page at Help:Pageview stats. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:45, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

How to create a math symbol?

In the second part of the box at WP:MATH#TeX vs HTML there are the codes for the symbols = ≡ and ≠. I want to have a new symbol that negates ≡ in the same way that ≠ negates =. Is it possible to create a new such symbol and if so, what is the correct procedure to create and add this symbol? Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 11:34, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I think the character you need is displayed in the table at Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode. ≢ displays as ≢ - any good? -- John of Reading (talk) 12:02, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I am aware of that character. However, at least in my browser that character looks awful and if I didn't knew beforehand what it depicts I wouldn't even recognize it as the negation of ≡. The lines in the negated symbol appear squashed to a level that makes it almost impossible to identify it. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 12:08, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

This is how it appears in my browser (Safari). Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 12:18, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Can't you just use TeX for your statement of nonequivalency, where the relevant expression is <math>\not\equiv</math>, which renders as $\not \equiv$ ? Deor (talk) 13:13, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I would prefer to have the character appear correctly without using TeX and the math parser doesn't seem to like {{math|\not\equiv}}. However if there is no way to create a new symbol, I will probably stick with your suggestion. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 13:22, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

You can increase the font size: <span style="font-size:150%;">≢</span> renders as ≢. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 14:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

It is clear that the character John suggested is the right answer: it just doesn't render well in your font (it does in mine, on Firefox). But suppose there were a way of doing what you're asking: people are using different browsers, on different operating systems, with different fonts available and selected. How could you possibly create something that would work even for the majority of users, let alone all of them? --ColinFine (talk) 17:07, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree it is unlikely for that to be possible and will accept that I have to live with it. After all, I know what the symbol is supposed to depict and the effect that would be achieved (and might break it for users of other browsers) is probably not worth the effort that would be required to fix this. Thanks for the feedback. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 17:24, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Images from French WP not appearingin English articles

Hi - I have been translating several articles from French Wikipedia to English Wikipedia. The articles sometimes contain Images or other Files which appear correctly on the French page. Some of them also appear correctly on the English page but some of them don't.

An example is Henry Testot-Ferry, where the portrait appears correctly, but the image of the death certificate does not. Both pictures appear correctly on fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Testot-Ferry .

What do I have to do to make sure that all the pictures appear correctly on the English page?

Thanks. Zargulon (talk) 13:04, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

You can only use images from the current language Wikipedia and Commons. File:Henry Testot-Ferry.jpg is on Commons, but fr:Fichier:Acte de décès TESTOT FERRY.jpg is on the French Wikipedia. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 13:11, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict)The main image is hosted on Wikimedia Commons while the death certificate is hosted specifically on the French version of Wikipedia. You can move the death cert. (I don't speak French) it seems. Just follow the instructions on the tag on the death cert image. If an image is hosted on Commons, it can be used on any Wikimedia project, including other language versions, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc. Dismas|^(talk) 13:11, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

How can I move it to the commons? I don't see the instructions you are referring to. Zargulon (talk) 13:42, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

The second tag that says "Après avoir vérifié la validité de sa licence, ce fichier libre devrait être transféré vers Wikimedia Commons." seems to have a link that will assist you with the move. Dismas|^(talk) 13:48, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I followed the instructions and the death cert is now on commons, but it still isn't appearing on the WP page. Zargulon (talk) 13:59, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I've sorted it. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:05, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. Zargulon (talk) 14:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

i want a job

after sending my resume with my picture at revo consulting for airlines job for oman they asked me to send some more pixs i sent them on last saturday but there is no reply how long will i have to wait i want a job urgently 188.66.162.65 (talk) 14:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

You have posted to a talk page on the English Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia ha nothing to do with resumes, airline jobs, or Oman (except to have some articles related to that country). Sorry, but your post has nothing to do with Wikipedia. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:44, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

WP:Unusual requests is this-a-way. This seems worthy of inclusion. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Email

I'd like to communicate with an admin who is willing to respond to me via email. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 16:47, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Regarding what? --Orange Mike | Talk 18:38, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. Some admins are more knowledgeable about certain areas of Wikipedia than others. It would help if you gave a general idea of what your issue is. And also, you may want to post it at WP:AN. Dismas|^(talk) 19:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

It's a sensitive matter that I feel draws into question whether editing Wikipedia, in certain instances, could pose a threat to the real-life personal safety of the editor. I would really rather not say more than that in any WP space, public or otherwise. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 19:11, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

At that level of concern, it may be best if you contacted an Arbitrator, see WP:ARBCOM, at the bottom of the page are individual arbitrators who you can contact by email. --Jayron32 19:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Q about cats

Hi, on this cat page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_executed_by_lethal_injection can be seen Conviction and execution of Steven Michael Woods, Jr.. As the cat title is People convicted of... is there some way to replace the article name with the persons name on the cat page? I tried this which didn't work.Off2riorob (talk) 19:05, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Piped text in the category sets the sort key. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Could place the category at the redirect? Already done at, for example, Lawrence Russel Brewer. Яehevkor ✉ 19:23, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks - I added the cats to the redirect which seems to have done the trick - thanks to both of you. Off2riorob (talk) 19:41, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Lost edits?

There is a number of my edits from today an from yesterday that are just not there anymore. Has anyone an idea? Thanks. --Dia^ (talk) 20:43, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Are they still in your contributions? —Jeremy v^_^v ^{Components:V S M} 21:46, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

We can probably give you a better answer if you name the article(s) you were editing. You may be able to find your answer by going to those articles and clicking "History" at the top of the screen. Depending on what you mean by "not there anymore", it may be that you somehow became logged out while editing and the edits are recorded against your IP address, or that someone reverted your edits. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 12:28, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

If the page you were editing was deleted, that could also do it. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:30, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Repeated article in two addresses

Just wanted to let you guys know... There are two pages talking about the same novel by Mia Couto, some info overlaps, other doesn't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking_Land http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Son%C3%A2mbula

An additional note: I might be sending this message to the wrong place, but I felt like walking in circles trying to find the best place to write (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us/Article_problem, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VRT, etc). Very confusing, lots of rules but this is the only page with an interface for me to write this message.

Thanks for Wikipedia, you guys are great!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.81.252 (talk) 20:46, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

This is the correct place, no worries. I've merged both of them into one article. Thanks for the heads up. :) -- Obsidi♠n Soul 06:36, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Date sorting on tables

What formats are supported? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Sortable tables can be tricky. Have you seen the date information at Help:Sorting? PrimeHunter (talk) 22:47, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) See specifically Help:Sorting#Sort modes and Help:Sorting#Dates. Does that help? Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 22:50, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

need to find out who this number belongs to?

Does anyone know how to find out who belongs to a certain phone number..even if it is a 800 number?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.54.52 (talk) 21:22, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 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.--Orange Mike | Talk 21:31, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

You can probably just type the telephone number in to a search engine (e. g. Google), and find several websites that give information on it. You may be able to view the location of that telephone number's owner, but you will most likely have to pay to get the owner's name or whatever. Hope this helps. :-) Regards, —{|Retro00064|☎talk|✍contribs|} 21:41, 23 September 2011 (UTC).