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September 13[edit]

Accessing text included in Special:WhatLinksHere[edit]

I always have trouble finding background pages of the interface. The text in special:whatlinkshere that provides "External tools: Show redirects only" is called from where?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:44, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Linkshere. Add ?uselang=qqx to the url to see MediaWiki message names. Or enable "Create a toolbox link to show the page with messages from the user interface substituted with their names" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:58, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Much obliged. I really like that gadget option.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:13, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline display issues[edit]

I was just editing timelines for some articles; and all of a sudden, it didn't show up. Here's an example to check out: Empire 8. How can I fix that? jlog3000 (talk) 04:04, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There was a software upgrade a few hours ago. I've posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Release 1.20wmf11 re-deployed. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:20, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if that can be solved soon. Because I have proposed timelines to edit/create for some articles. jlog3000 (talk) 22:03, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This has been fixed. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:32, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wanted to Edit my personal information content on Wikipedia a.s.a.p[edit]

Hello,

I wanted to edit my personal information content on [[1]]. The updated content should look like:

'Shriram Iyer' - a multilingual singer and a fireball on stage – he started his journey in 1998 and has not looked back thereafter.

He has performed in over 2000 shows in India and across the world. He is a very prominent name in the world of live performances today and a specialist in modern concepts, he has a unique ability to blend various genres of music. Whether it is Classical or Bollywood, Sufi or Fusion, he renders all concepts with equal ease by capturing the audience with his mesmerizing voice and energy...

Apart from his livewire performances, Shriram has done playback singing for IQBAL, UMAR, UDAAN, NO ONE KILLED JESSICA & SHOR IN THE CITY.....

He has to his credit the success of his album “OM” - a fusion album launched by TIMES MUSIC, which was critically acclaimed the world over and was nominated for the Sangeet awards held at San Francisco.

Shriram has also composed and sung title tracks for serials namely SHABAASH INDIA for which he has won the RAPA AWARD, TITAN ANTAKSHARI, HERO HONDA SA RE GA MA PA, Lil Champs and ROCK N ROLL FAMILY for ZEE TV and also Zinda dil for Zee NEXT.

He has performed for corporates like Reliance, HDFC Bank, Kurl On, Dr Reddys, Standard Chartered Bank, ICICI and for government festivals, Common Wealth Games, IPL.....the list goes on.....

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

You may even visit my Official Website which shows the proper profile content. http://www.shriramiyer.com/profile.html

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Request you to update it soon.

Thanks & Warm Regards, Shriram Iyer Mihir4knack (talk) 04:14, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but it's way too promotional. I suggest you read WP:COI. - Purplewowies (talk) 04:16, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that the text you have included above will not be able to be added to the Wikipedia article, because it has a completely inapprorpriate tone for what a Wikipedia article is supposed to be. What you've written is an advertisement. Wikipedia doesn't host advertisements. It hosts encyclopedia articles. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not for some more things that Wikipedia doesn't do, the section titled Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion is relevent. --Jayron32 04:19, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My Article has disappeared from Google Search?[edit]

Hi

My article was made "live" a few days ago, and was also showing in Google Search. However it is no longer appearing in Google

Is there perhaps something I can do to get it back please?

Thank you kindly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Audblack (talk • contribs) 06:54, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We have absolutely no control over Google search listings, though it will relate to how many other webpages link to it. However, your article shows up just fine for me on the Google search listing for Cofield Mundi, although it is about the 50th item down the list.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:36, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You should add categories and make incoming wikilinks from other Wikipedia aricles. This may help in the Google search rankings but you should also do it for our existing readers. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:01, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

wish to remove all the deadlinks related to my site on Wikipedia. how can i do it?[edit]

Hi Iam the assistant editor of the newly refurbished chakpak.com which is a South indian cinema based website (as of now).

Earlier it used to be an authoritative site on the Bollywood and Hindi film related information. But after transition none of that data is present in our current site.

We have 274 links on wikipedia which link to no pages on our site and give a 404 error. There are only three working links 201,202, and 203.

Please can you help me remove all the dead links. which are shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2F*.chakpak.com

Please help out

Thanks, deePu, Asst. Editor, Chakpak.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.119.115.242 (talk) 08:56, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did the old content of the site move to another site or is it off the Internet? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:04, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I imagine all of these should be removed from articles as promotional spam Span (talk) 18:07, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No correction allowed?[edit]

Could someone please read this page and tell me what they think

Talk:Tim Wonnacott

The year of birth in the article is wrong but attempts to correct it are always undone. Do not just read my posts, read all. Why would someone persistantly put up the wrong date? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brakn (talk • contribs) 10:59, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at WP:BLP, and in particular, Wikipedia:BLP#Misuse_of_primary_sources. I would suggest that, under these guidelines, an "official" birthdate claimed by the article's subject and adhered to consistently should not be replaced in a Wikipedia article by something we have garnered from primary sources and which is not confirmed by anything the subject has ever said or published. - Ka renjc 17:21, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Book malfunctioning[edit]

At some point yesterday 9/12/12 the ability to drag and drop pages in the book failed and also the capacity to save specifically as a book — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredwage (talk • contribs) 12:41, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussed at bugzilla:39827. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How to establish a Preferred Language in an article[edit]

There is a tug-o-war beginning on the soil article with one editor reverting another's edits of British English or American English. How does one establish a preferred variation of English on the article. Can I just establish that myself or should it be addressed in the talk page and a consensus be established? I am a major contributor to that article and it is largely written in American English though I do occasionally slip into the British spelling. Zedshort (talk) 14:25, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You hit the nail on the head with the word consensus. Where an article does not have a clear tie to one form of English over another and no consistent usage has been established, consensus is really the only option. See WP:ENGVAR.--ukexpat (talk) 14:40, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Detected possible vandalism[edit]

Before this moment I've been using Wikipedia purely passively, but upon reading this article Maria_(given_name) I found a line that is definitely out of order. I've no idea where to report it and feel uncomfortable just editing it myself. Could anyone lend a hand?

It concerns this change: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_%28given_name%29&diff=510267730&oldid=507084352 by an anonymous user with IP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/86.42.164.168 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdvanes (talk • contribs) 14:47, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's vandalism per WP:VANDALISM but it is unsourced opinion/comment so I have reverted it.--ukexpat (talk) 15:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, feel free to be bold and edit the article yourself. Also, vandalism can be reported to WP:AIV. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:04, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information and correction. I'll keep it in mind for future reference. Mdvanes (talk) 08:32, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Citing specific volumes in a 3-volume work[edit]

Hello,

In the References section on this page I've entered separately all three volumes of the 2nd ed of Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry:

In the citations themselves, I've entered individual volume numbers right before the page numbers, but the template doesn't differentiate between the volumes, and the footnotes thus show only that a particular citation is to Plantagenet Ancestry, but not to a specific volume. Is there a way to do this, or does the template being used on this page not provide for differentiation between volumes in the footnotes ? Thanks.NinaGreen (talk) 16:53, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The {{Cite book}} template has a |volume= parameter.--ukexpat (talk) 17:24, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have this (within the usual curly brackets etc.) for my third citation in the text on that page:

Richardson|2011|volume=III|p=410

But the volume number still doesn't show up in the footnote.NinaGreen (talk) 18:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell {{Harvnb}} does not have a volume parameter. - Purplewowies (talk) 18:03, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The volume param seems to be more suited to citing journals in the way that it just bolds whatever you put on it and appends it after the publisher. I usually just explicitly specify the volume with the article title, especially if the individual volumes also have different titles. e.g. from the last article I created:

Rathbun, Mary J.; Richardson, Harriet; Holmes, Samuel Jackson; Cole, Leon J. (1910). Harriman Alaska Expedition. Volume X: Crustacea (PDF). Harriman Alaska Series. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 171–172, pl. VI.

{{cite book|author1=[[Mary J. Rathbun|Rathbun, Mary J.]] |author2=[[Harriet Richardson|Richardson, Harriet]] |author3=[[Samuel Jackson Holmes|Holmes, Samuel Jackson]] |author4=[[Leon J. Cole|Cole, Leon J.]] |title =Harriman Alaska Expedition. Volume X: Crustacea|publisher =Smithsonian Institution|location=Washington|series =Harriman Alaska Series|year =1910|pages=171–172; pl. VI|url =http://ia700304.us.archive.org/8/items/alaskaexp10harruoft/alaskaexp10harruoft.pdf}}

-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 18:15, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the helpful information and suggestions. I'm still stuck because I need to cite more than one volume from the second edition of Plantagenet Ancestry for different facts in different parts of the article, and the different volume numbers don't show up in the footnotes. I may have to go back to citing the first edition of Plantagenet Ancestry, which was only a single volume and for the most part contains much of the same information.NinaGreen (talk) 21:33, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you add the volume to the name in the in-text citation. You will need to use a custom ref in the full citation.

Markup Renders as

<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson III|2011}}</ref>

{{reflist}}

{{Cite book |title = Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham
  |last = Richardson
  |first = Douglas
  |location = Salt Lake City
  |year = 2011
  |edition = 2nd
  |volume = III
  |ref = {{sfnref|Richardson III|2011}}
}}

^[1]

^ Richardson III 2011

Richardson, Douglas (2011). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:15, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Works perfectly!NinaGreen (talk) 00:49, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Use of panorama images[edit]

Is there a guideline about using cross-page panorama images in regard to browser use? I am seeing them often used in city articles such as Dhaka but don't know if/when/how they are properly formatted for viewing by all browsers (mobile phone users etc). Links appreciated. Ta. Span (talk) 18:14, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial#Panoramas. Is that what you are looking for? --Jayron32 18:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's great. Does that mean that using a {{Wide image}} means that all panoramas will be ok to view on all browsers? I'm wondering if there is a px limitation. Thanks Span (talk) 18:30, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Math Symbols unreadable.[edit]

These generated images are only readable if the background color is white! I use my browser with a custom background color. It is possible to format these images with a custom background color that won't be overriden by my browser settings, can you make this a standard on wikipedia, so this won't be a problem anymore?

the problem exist with firefox and internet explorer, new and old versions

2 Links

1. this is a page with some math symbols, unreadable with custom background color setting in browser.

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

2. this is a page with the correct formatting that works with custom background color setting. it forces a white background for the image with the symbols.

http://wikieducator.org/Help:LaTeX_Symbol_Tables — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.183.243.221 (talk) 19:47, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Try asking at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:19, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to move Untitled Star Trek sequel[edit]

I can not figure out why the move link is not availing itself to me at Untitled Star Trek sequel.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That page is move protected. You can see the protection log entries here. However, because the page (with the protection) was moved from prior titles, you actually have to look at the protection log entry for a prior title to see the form of protection. That probably should be fixed in the interface. Anyway, there is a requested move discussion on the talk page here which is not yet at seven days, i.e., not yet ripe for closure.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:31, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have posted about this at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Protection log entries are obscured when a page is moved.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:50, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rita Hayworth[edit]

An IP commented that the "Beginning [of the article] is hard to read because of Wikipedia logo etc. being superimposed over text." The article on my browser seems fine. What might be the reasons that the page is formatting properly for the IP? Thanks Span (talk) 21:19, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It also looks fine to me. The common advice for users with such errors not seen by others is to bypass your cache. This often fixes something which had been stored incorrectly in their browser cache. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:41, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thanks. Span (talk) 22:24, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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