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July 11[edit]

Issues with page transitions using Explorer 10[edit]

Just recently moved to Explorer 10. As a result, when I move between Wikipedia pages, they annoyingly morph from one page to the other rather than transitioning instantly. How can this effect be turned off? No other website I'm currently using does this, nor do the alternative Wikipedia appearance styles. It seems only the default style does it - and since I'm nearly always not logged in, I can't change the default. 141.6.11.13 (talk) 22:07, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How did these refs appear?[edit]

I'm not sure how universal this phenomenon is but look at the end of Talk:Australian rock. Why is there a list of references? I see no use of Reflist nor references 'plates. It becomes annoying when I try to reply to a user's talkpage, which has a spam black-listed ref. I'm stopped from editing at that talkpage even though I did not add any external links at all to my material but the site occurs in an earlier editor's entry.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 02:06, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That also tripped me out today at Talk:CM Punk. Both the appearance of the reference, and the appearance of The Muppets. No clue. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:42, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Tech News: 2014-28 says:

If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [1] [2]

PrimeHunter (talk) 02:51, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I disapprove. Messes up whatever's the last, irrelevant section. And that blacklist problem doesn't sound fun. I tried adding a reflist template, but it did nothing (as far as I could tell). Any workarounds? Bugzilla's link says "the maintenance category would allow maintenance editors to find and fix the issue." What's a maintenance category? Who's a maintenance editor? InedibleHulk (talk) 03:07, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A maintenance category would for example be Category:Pages with missing references list which was formerly used to automatically track this issue. The new feature doesn't add a maintenance category so I think Category:Pages with missing references list will automatically be emptied when all link tables are updated. I agree with the bug comment that there should be a maintenance category. In this context, a maintenance editor is someone who uses a maintenance category to find and fix pages with a problem. The blacklist issue may cause temporary annoyance but is a one-off problem with refs which were added on pages with no reflist template before the new feature. In the future, the feature will prevent such refs from being added in the first place. Editors have to remove or disable the existing blacklisted links on the affected pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:28, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The same thing has happened to me. I am not able to make edits on my talk page, either (there is a message saying "blacklisted." I don' understand why this has happened. This is a bad problem and needs to be fixed quickly. Garagepunk66 (talk) 05:47, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have put a reflist template at the bottom of the only section in the talkpage to uses references. This stops them from appearing at the bottom of the whole page. Maproom (talk) 06:40, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that will solve Garagepunk66's problem with the blacklisted ref. My advice to Garagepunk66 is to either edit out the offending link [if it is written by someone else then place a note in square brackets to explain why it was deleted] or <nowiki>place nowikis</nowiki> around it to see whether this deactivates the bots.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 06:52, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The nowiki solution appears to have worked for the blacklisted link. Together with Maproom's suggestion this solves my problems with this recent change to provide automatic refs.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 07:32, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See the discussion at Help talk:Footnotes#Missing reference markup will no longer show an error. We have filed a bug on the tracking category and another on problems with missing <ref />. -- Gadget850^talk 10:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request language translation of an existing wiki written in one language that has not been translated into an existing wiki in another language available on Wikipedia?[edit]

Hello Wiki Friends,

I was suprised today, when I realized that there is not an automatted translation of all wiki articles into the languages supported by Wikipedia. I sought out originally searching the English wiki for an article on an old music album, "A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan", and had an article not found result returned. Then upon searching with Google, I noticed a wiki article for exactly what I was seeking on the Portugese version of Wikipedia. The URL for the Portugese wiki is below.

pt:A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan

I also tried to translate the page directly from the Portugese wiki page with the same results returned as using the search described above.

So now knowing there is an existing article on the subject... how do I go about requesting a translation of it into another available Wikipedia language?

Thanks for any help everyone!

Epiphany — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.193.179.30 (talk) 06:08, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Automatic translation would not be a good idea for two reasons. First, the quality of automatic translation software is not usually good enough for Wikipedia articles; secondly, the policies on what is an acceptable article (eg notability) are a matter for each Wikipedia separately, and it is possible that a subject might meet one Wikipedia's criteria, but not another's. (I don't know if this would happen, but it could in principle.

Translations of articles between languages are welcome, as long as the subject does meet the criteria for the target Wikipedia. For more information, please see Translation. You might also want to look at Translate us. --ColinFine (talk) 09:03, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Powerflush[edit]

I am the author for the word "Powerflush (heating)" I was logged in for 30 days, now I have been logged out and cannot remember my user name. Could someone please tell me the user name of the author of "Powerflush (heating)" which is currently languishing in my Sandbox!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.24.139.81 (talk) 11:08, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the "Revision history" of Draft:Power flush (heating systems) - I suspect you are also User:Janlepkowski ? - Arjayay (talk) 11:36, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Farrell (Activist) Google search Tab[edit]

To whom it may concern,

Having recently googled my colleague Michael Farrell - ( Northern Irish Activist - https://www.google.ie/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&rlz=1C1LENP_enIE561IE561&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=michael%20farrell) I discovered that the wikipedia tab giving details of Michaels shows he died in 200. I would like to tell you that Michael is very much alive and is still camapigning on a multitude of human rights issues. If you could please correct this mistake it would be very much appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Eamonn Tansey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.94.199.41 (talk) 13:36, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you by any chance referring to a photo or text shown to the right of a Google search? Google's Knowledge Graph uses a wide variety of sources. There may be a text paragraph ending with "Wikipedia" to indicate that particular text was copied from Wikipedia. An image and other text before or after the Wikipedia excerpt may be from sources completely unrelated to Wikipedia. We have no control over how Google presents our information, but Google's Knowledge Graph has a "Feedback" link where anyone can mark a field as wrong. The Wikipedia article Michael Farrell (activist) has not been edited for a long time and says he is living. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:20, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the record, our article Michael Farrell (activist) does not, and never did, say he has died, and covers his career up to 2012. Arjayay (talk) 14:29, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Mezvinsky. former congressman from Iowa[edit]

He was married before the woman you listed. Your report fails to list his first wife, who divorced him. It should be corrected. Also, his daughter in law is Chelsey Clinton. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ldsnh (talk • contribs) 17:40, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Edward Mezvinsky says "Six months into his first term in Congress, Mezvinsky separated from his wife of ten years Myra Schulman; they were divorced two weeks after his 1974 re-election." Also, "In 2010 Edward Mezvinsky's son, Marc, married Chelsea Clinton." Maproom (talk) 19:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tag: possible BLP issue or vandalism??[edit]

I recently made a legitimate edit (added a birth date to infobox) but "Tag: possible BLP issue or vandalism" showed up next to the edit summary. I've noticed this before when I've made a minor change to an infobox e.g. correcting a name or birth date. Why in the world is this showing up as vandalism, and what does it have to do with the infobox specifically? Thanks... 2604:2000:FFC0:1F9:4BE:10F9:EAC4:E40D (talk) 21:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, 2604! That's a tag that got applied to your edit as a result of an edit filter. This particular edit filter is designed to track and tag non-autoconfirmed (that is, new or IP) editors' changes to infobox information, particularly to the article subject's name. Such changes are not uncommonly vandalism, and such vandalism can be harder than usual to detect and fix (because of the surrounding infobox template code, probably). So we have this filter and tag, to help keep track of it a bit better. However, it's just a tag, and as the tag says, it only flags it as "possible" vandalism. It's nothing personal, and it doesn't mean your edits actually are vandalism or anything; the edit filter has to be fairly indiscriminate as far as what edits to infoboxes it'll catch. The tags shouldn't cause you any trouble or anything, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 22:11, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to what Writ Keeper said, using myself as an example, when I see that notation on an edit in my watchlist I make sure to check it. A common form of vandalism is to change info in an infobox. Add that to the fact that birth dates should be referenced to a reliable source per WP:BLP, it makes it one of the things that we need to be sure we have right. Oh, and it's not always vandalism by some random person. I've seen where people try to change an article about themselves to make it look as though they are younger. Actors and models are examples of people who might want to do this. Dismas|^(talk) 00:21, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]