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November 12

using reliable resources

I just posted an article XYZ.

I believe I have used reliable resources. why is this article about to be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulmosha (talk • contribs)

Can you give us a link of the article you have created? For information on reliable sources, see Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. Cheers! Eurodyne (talk) 03:04, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The article seems to be Salvatory L. Mosha. Dismas|^(talk) 03:06, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't seem like the article is going to be deleted. When you created the article, an editor thought you had close connection to the article that you created. (In this case, it seems you wrote an article on your father.) Since the article is on your father, there is a chance that it isn't neutral because you have a biased opinion about him. For more information take a look at Wikipedia:NPOV. Cheers! Eurodyne (talk) 06:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I have nominated it for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salvatory L. Mosha.--ukexpat (talk) 13:48, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Some of the material in the article is overly promotional. That is a common problem in articles written by someone with a close connection to the subject of the article and is one of the reasons for our conflict of interest policy. The article does use reliable sources, but some editors think that it fails to establish notability, which is why it has been nominated for deletion. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:57, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act of 2006

It seems the article on the Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act of 2006 has been disappeared along with all reference to the requirement to prepay the postal pension plan by 50 years in the article on the United States Postal Service. The references to the Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act of 2006 in the postal service article now go to an article on Postal Regulatory Commission instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.88.89.88 (talk) 04:17, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

(Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act is a redirect to Postal Regulatory Commission#Postal Regulatory Commission.) ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 04:32, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

At first glance it appears that the Act did not warrant its own article, so that information was merged into the other article. If you feel some important information was lost in the merge, please discuss this on the talk page for Postal Regulatory Commission. If you need help finding the talk page and beginning a discussion there, let us know here by clicking the "edit" link beside the section title above. Thank you. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 04:39, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

You might also find the following 2011-2013 talk page discussion relevant, I don't know, but it is about the Act. Talk:Postal Regulatory Commission#Changes under PAEA. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 04:55, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Fewer than 30 watchers

One of many things I've been wondering about for some time. Please help me strike it from the list.

What's the rationale for "Fewer than 30 watchers", rather than the true number? Does the Wikipedia software have difficulty counting small numbers of things? ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 06:27, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

@Mandruss: I've read somewhere that the low numbers are hidden because they could aid vandals - "I can vandalise article X because no one is watching it" -- John of Reading (talk) 07:18, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Makes sense, thanks. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 07:23, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes. mw:Manual:$wgUnwatchedPageThreshold is set to 30 for Wikimedia wikis in http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php. Administrators can see the precise number and also see a list at Special:UnwatchedPages. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:30, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Personal attacks

I am a reg at WP:RFD. Another editor, who has wandered bac has made what I consider personal attacks on RfD and at my talk page. "Death threats" perhaps is not good thing to say on someone's talk page. I have tried to be civil and not take it personally, but a little kind reminder about WP:NPA may be in order? It's preventing me trying to improve the encyclopaedia to have to reply all the time to this Si Trew (talk) 11:33, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

If you really think it's an issue, take the user to an ANI. Eurodyne (talk) 15:54, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

As I read it, Sitush is not threatening you, but warning you that something you posted elsewhere is inviting attack from other parties. I haven't looked at the RfD page, though, so I may be misunderstanding the situation. --ColinFine (talk) 17:57, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Unsighted Changes

So I'm part of the office of an MEP and I've been editing her Wikipedia page for the last week or two. Here's the English page here. I'm primarily working in the German version of the page, which Is not my first language. So what I'm asking is that currently all the work I have done is sitting in 'unsighted changes'. What do I need to do to move them over to the main Page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FellowNrd (talk • contribs) 13:02, 12 November 2014‎ (UTC)

This is a help page for the English Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia has other policies and practices in some areas. You don't have to do anything. A German editor will eventually review it. It's on an automatically made list at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PendingChanges?uselang=en. It currently shows the oldest unreviewed edit is 36 days (only two are above 31 days). I don't know how it's processed but I guess some editors work through the oldest entries while a given article may also be reviewed at any time if an editor comes by it. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:24, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

navigation arrows information not responding in mobile view of wikipedia

The navigation keys not responding or not opening — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎27.107.162.120 (talk • contribs) 13:52, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

@27.107.162.120: try asking at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:56, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

Trying to update Robert S. Morse page with more detailed information and believe I failed in creating a reference and need help correcting the error.— Preceding unsigned comment added by NeoGraphix (talk • contribs)

I think you mean Richard S. Morse.  Fixed in this edit.--ukexpat (talk) 16:07, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Linking to other language Wikipedias

Dear editors: I know there must be an essay or policy somewhere about the correct way to link (or not link) articles in other language Wikipedias in the body of the text of an article, but I can't seem to find it. Can someone point? —Anne Delong (talk) 16:26, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Try Help:Interlanguage links. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:32, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Ah! That's just what I needed. Thanks. —Anne Delong (talk) 17:20, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The Zero Marginal Cost Society

Hi,

I'm working on behalf of Jeremy Rifkin's Office, and I'm creating a page for his new book. I would like to upload the Zero Marginal Cost Society Book Cover on the page, could you provide me with information to not violates any copyrights, I have the owner's permission, I would like to validate it?

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flourish4520 (talk • contribs) 17:55, 12 November 2014‎ (UTC)

Wikipedia is not an advertizing site, please see WP:NOTADVERTISING and WP:APPARENTCOI. Mlpearc (open channel) 18:07, Today (UTC+0)

(ec) Hello, Flourish4520. First, please sign your postings on any talk or discussion pages with four tildes (~~~~). Secondly, I apologise if you are already aware of this, but if you are working on behalf of Rifkin's office, you are strongly discouraged from editing any Wikipedia page about him, his work, his books etc: see conflict of interest for more information.

Thirdly, a new book is unlikely to meet the criteria for notability (which are that reliable sources, independent of the book or its author have already written at length about it). Unless it does meet these criteria, Wikipedia will not have an article about it, however written, and any proposed article will be refused.

Finally, to your specific question: unless the copyright holder is willing to license the cover for free use by anybody for any purpose (unlikely), it may be used in Wikipedia only in a way that complies with all of the WP:Non free content criteria. See Help:Upload for how to upload it. --ColinFine (talk) 18:14, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Use of a username

If I create a new page using a username , is this always visible with the content I publish? How important is the choice of a username and can it be not related to the content I am publishing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.97.176.202 (talk • contribs)

hi internet user! The history of an article lists every edit made to the page, and with it either the username for logged in users, or the IP address for non logged in users. You may choose any username you like, and all your contributions will be attributed to that username. You can't really change your username after you pick it, but other than that it's not really all that important (though people will use it when talking to you, so pick something reasonable). If you suffer severe buyers remorse after you pick a username, you can always abandon the account and create a new one. Hope that helps, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 18:36, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

see WP:USERNAME and WP:ACCOUNT for more info. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:39, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello. I am guessing that you are referring to pages with names like User:ColinFine/Some subject (that one is red, because it doesn't exist). This is called a user sandbox, and is one place for draft articles you are working on (another is to use the Draft: space, so a title like Draft:Some subject). In either case, once the article is ready to be published, it gets moved to main space, and the prefix (whether 'User:ColinFine/' or 'Draft:') gets removed. Please see Your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 21:42, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Table markup help

Could somebody more experienced than me find out why there is a extra column on the right of Nobuo Uematsu's worklist table? I was editing it recently, but only just realized I somehow added it and couldn't find out where to remove it. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 18:56, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Does this edit cure it? --David Biddulph (talk) 19:07, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: Perfect, thanks. Didn't realize the problem would be so small. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 21:04, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Template PlanetMath attribution is broken

And I don't know how to fix it. For example, Ingrid Daubechies#Notes has a PlanetMath template that tries to go to http://planetmath.org/ingriddaubechies but instead it goes this 404: http://planetmath.org/node/9067 I also tried changing the reference to use urlname= instead of id= :

{{PlanetMath attribution|urlname=ingriddaubechies|title=Ingrid Daubechies}}

This article incorporates material from Ingrid Daubechies on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

but that also doesn't work because the link to goes to: http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/ingriddaubechies.html (extraneous encyclopedia is inserted)

The talk section for the the template Template_talk:PlanetMath_attribution two other people says that this template is broken.

Many thanks in advance.

Clemwang (talk) 20:02, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

You can substitute the template and fix the link manually. Ruslik_Zero 20:19, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't understand that website's complete node system, but the node ID for Ingrid Daubechies seems to be 39067, not 9067 - fixed in article. GermanJoe (talk) 20:46, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Researching a bit deeper, it looks like most (all?) of their old IDs have been shifted +30000 (see [1]). But someone with more experience with this function needs to check this, sorry. I'll leave a note at the template talkpage. GermanJoe (talk) 21:33, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Delete a page

Hi. I would like to delete a few wiki pages for my team. I’ve marked the pages with the DELETE instructions, but nothing happens. How can I delete a page? For e.g. this one: http://qwiki.qualcomm.com/qct-graphics/Google — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jlalicata (talk • contribs) 21:11, 12 November 2014‎ (UTC)

@Jlalicata: This is the help desk for the English Wikipedia. Your link doesn't work for me but it sounds like an internal company wiki made with the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia but not associated with us. You probably need to contact somebody with an administrator account at your wiki. Without access to the wiki I cannot say how to do that but try entering Special:ListUsers in your wiki search box and see if you get an option to see administrators similar to "Group" at Wikipedia's Special:ListUsers. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Content Box is too large---How do I fix it?

First box on page

Contents [hide] 1 Important note: Revision of Assignment 1 2 Sandra Powell 3 Wikipedia Resources 3.1 Articles 3.2 References 4 Encyclopedia Resources 4.1 Articles 4.2 References 5 Research 5.1 Research Process 5.2 Research Process - General Outline of Topics 6 Assignment 2 - under Talk page

But 2nd box too large. What do I do?

Assignment 1

Contents

1. Important note: Revision of Assignment 1 ( originally posted on User ID: Emma317 instead of Talk)

2. Sandra Powell

3. Wikipedia Resources

1. Articles

a. Article - Lucy Maud Montgomery

b. Article - Roy Brown (RAF Officer)

c. Article - RMS Titanic

2. References

a. Reference - Lucy Maud Montgomery

b. Reference - Roy Brown (RAF Officer)

c. Reference - RMS Titanic

4. Encyclopaedia Resources

1. Articles

a. Article - Lucy Maud Montgomery

b. Article - Roy Brown (RAF Officer)

c. Article - RMS Titanic

d. Other Encyclopedias

2. References

a. Reference - Lucy Maud Montgomery

b. Reference - Roy Brown (RAF Officer)

c. Reference - RMS Titanic

5. Research

5.1 Research Process

5.2 Research Process - General Outline of Topics

Please advise.

Thanks.--Emma3171 (talk) 23:16, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Page: User:Emma3171/sandbox

Hello. I have looked at the page and I see the first "box", which is the table of contents. I don't know what you mean by the 2nd box. Can you clarify your question? Just click the [edit] link beside the section title above, and add to the end of this discussion. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 00:01, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

It appears that they are going through one of the tutorials and so the "box" may be part of that interface. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:15, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

After a second look, you have two "assignments" on one page. You get a table of contents for the first assignment, and you want a similar table of contents for the second assignment. The solution, I think, is to move the second assignment onto a new page in your user space, which you could name User:Emma3171/sandbox2. You could then bookmark the second page in your browser, for easier access to it later. You might also want to read about section headings. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 00:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

when and where do I find my answer when you have sent it?

--Emma3171 (talk) 23:20, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

We don't 'send' answers - questions will normally be replied to in the place you posted them. Remember that we are volunteers here, and may not always respond immediately. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:23, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

@Emma3171: However, if your question is on your talk page or on a draft article page, it is unlikely to be seen by anyone to respond to at any time unless you placed something like the {{help me}} template somewhere on the page. I could not see where you had asked a question, so you may want to ask it again here. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:03, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

The OP asked a question two sections above (four minutes earlier), so was probably referring to that. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 00:10, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

oops, i did not look closely at the help desk comments and thought they were all part of the same posting! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:13, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

follow up of question--this a edit that should be on talk page but was posted on user id page---please adives time line for response---it's for my class assignment due asap--thanks message

message originally sent nov 12 around 6:30 to 7.15 pm--Emma3171 (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

I have reviewed your edits for the past several days and they are all to your sandbox or the Help desk. Your time reference was not helpful since you did not indicate your local time zone. You need to do that or convert the time to UTC. I really can't help without knowing what message you are talking about. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 00:39, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Emma3171 is referring to the question at the top of this section, posted on November 12 at 23:16 (UTC). She posted here in several sections, which have now been consolidated in this section (since she didn't seem to understand where to look for her answer/s). Dwpaul ^Talk 00:45, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Emma3171, I responded to your original question earlier in this section. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 01:03, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Help with Drug Costs

Do you know if the company has a program for low income users to send them their drugs in the mail? Christine Bishop

This is the help desk for Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia. We have no connection with any drugs company. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:21, 12 November 2014 (UTC)