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December 22

Clarification about the box office report of Indian Cinema.

Dear Team,

Sub : Clarification about the box office report of Indian Cinema.

Myself Antony Allwin. Iam from Kerala. I had read your wikipedia of box office collection reports of Indian cinema.

in that wikipedia you categorised film as language wise. it is good . but

i would like to bring your attention to the tamil film box office collection report. in that report you said only 9 films as scored above 100 crores and the list includes the latest film 'Vedalam' also with 117 crores.

My concerns is that where is the movie 'KATHI', with knowledge Kathi is the blockbuster hit of 2014. and the movie was collected more than 130 crores,but it is not mentioned in your report.

if you read the wikipedia of the movie KATHI, you can see the box office collection of 130 crores.

The, how can you say the collection amount of said film is differently in different wikipedia.

kindly let me know the reason for that. If i am wrong, please let me know the actual box office collection of the film KATHI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.239.248.130 (talk) 05:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

For the benefit of other editors, the article referred to is List of highest-grossing Indian films#Highest grossing Tamil films. The OP's point is that Kaththi is not included in that list, despite having a box office of 131 crores. The answer is almost certainly that it should be in the list, but no-one has added it yet. To the OP: if there is an error or something missing from any Wikipedia article, you can always correct it yourself. --Viennese Waltz 14:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

PD text templates

Hi. I'm looking for the template we add to the bottom of articles when we've added verbatim PD text. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:25, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: Try {{PD-notice}} or one of the specialised templates in Category:Attribution templates. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:32, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you John. Odd template. I couldn't figure out how to make the link at the words "this source" so I just did this. Hmmmmmm. Now what? :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Okay, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 now has it right at the bottom. And yes, you've figured it out. I am cerebrally challenged. (My R-complex is still functioning as far as I know, so that's good.) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:53, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: Hmm, yes, {{PD-notice}} is hard to use and has no documentation. I've changed the article to use {{Source-attribution}} instead. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:10, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again, John. Okay, ref section, not at the bottom. I'll use the source-attrib one you suggest from now on too. Many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Company's logo needs updating — Singularity University

Hello, I would like to update my company's wiki page. Any help/guidance would be appreciated. Thank you, Jonathan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonthn523 (talk • contribs) 07:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello @Jonthn523:, please make sure to read WP:COI for editors with a possible "conflict of interest". The new logo File:SU Logo Vert Color.jpg has some problems. Its color scheme is different (slightly brighter) than the current logo at https://singularityu.org/ - the article should use the most common, "official", logo design and colors. Also, most logos are not "own work" (unless you designed the logo's layout yourself), but should be tagged as "non-free" - see the current logo as example. You can't release another person's copyrighted design even if you redraw the logo yourself later. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask me on my talkpage. GermanJoe (talk) 08:21, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Jorge_Otero_Barreto

I found the profile of Jorge_Otero_Barreto. (Jorge Otero Barreto)

I served with Sgt. Otero for 6 months in Vietnam as his platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Div. in 1969. We spent our time out in the field on tactical combat operations.

I believe there are two inaccuracies in the biography.

First it states that the Air Medal is awarded after 5 missions. The correct number is 50. I was awarded the Air Medal. We had to document our own air assaults then have them verified by our headquarters. I stopped counting my first 50 when I thought I was coming out of the field. But I stayed in the field for another few months and could have received a second Air Medal.

Second it shows the award of the Combat Assault Badge. This badge did not come into existence until after Vietnam.

He should be shown as receiving the Combat Infantryman Badge, the appropriate award during Vietnam.

Additionally he was known as "Sgt. Rock" while we served in the 101st.

I have reference to Sgt. Otero with comments and a photo on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010856979364

I have other images of our unit and Sgt. Otero but I cannot understand out how to upload them.

Any information on how I can add to the existing information would be appreciated.

Dick Nolte Our website: toledovietnamvets.com

Dicknolte (talk) 08:44, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Make your comments at the article talk page, Talk: Jorge_Otero_Barreto. They will need to be supported by reliable sources. Facebook is not a reliable source. If the photograph on Facebook is yours and you release the copyright under a CC-BY-SA license, you can upload it. Someone else at this Help Desk may be able to answer questions that you have about uploading, which is sometimes not as easy as it should be. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:21, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

RailTopoModel: Internal link is not being processed

Hi everybody,
In RailTopoModel#History I tried to set a link to International Railway Standard, but for some reason, the brackets don't get processed, but are displayed, like this: [[International Railway Standard]].
Can anybody tell me the reason?
Thank you in advance.
Yours, Ciciban (talk) 09:56, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

You had a line break part way through the text. Another editor has corrected it for you. - David Biddulph (talk) 10:09, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Cheers!

Thanks to Trappist the monk
Yours, Ciciban (talk) 10:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

What does Google index?

I thought that Wikipedia was set up so as to instruct Google and other search engines to spider and index articles, but not drafts, user pages, and other stuff. But today it took me to a subpage of my user page. I guess I don't mind, and if I did mind I could put something there to keep the spiders away. But is this the way it's meant to be? Maproom (talk) 10:19, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing says that user namespace should be excluded but yes, your user subpages (and mine) seem to be found by Google. I wonder whether there's a bug in the Wikimedia software settings? --David Biddulph (talk) 10:50, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Mine too, including vector.js pages and commons pages. Eagleash (talk) 10:53, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Userspace at the English Wikipedia was noindexed by default a month ago at phab:T104797. Many pages haven't been visited by Google since then and still appear in their index. On their search results pages you can often click a triangle to the right of the url and then "Cached" to see when they cached a page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eagleash/vector.js was 14 October 2015. The html source of the page currently says <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />, so our software works. Some userspace pages use {{INDEX}} or __INDEX__ to request search engine indexing and override the new default. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:36, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I see there's a thread about it at the Village pump (technical), and a proposal there that user pages should not be indexed, which was accepted. Maproom (talk) 14:48, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

when can i see my changes ?

Hello, Just today morning , I made a small addition to the page of Princess Niloufer of Hyderabad. I added her burial place as Bobigny Cemetery - Paris. I wish to know when I can see the changes on this page . Also , will I get to see my own name as some kind of credits for this change. Thanx in advance . Supriya ARCOT . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Supriya ARCOT (talk • contribs) 11:10, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't see any edits to Princess Niloufer article from you, maybe you didn't save the changes. If you save the changes, you can see the changes immediately. Yes, you will get credits for your edits. - Blasher (talk) 11:17, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) :If you mean this page there have been no edits to it since 18 October. Did you click 'save page' below the edit window? You would normally see your edits immediately and your contribution would be recorded in the page history, which can be seen by clicking the tab at the top of the page. If it was a different page, please provide a link. Please also sign your posts on talk-pages by typing 4 tildes (~~~~) or clicking the sign icon at the top of the edit window. Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 11:23, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

There have been no edits to that page since October, and you have made no edits yet to any article under your user name. I suggest that you try again, and remember to click "Save changes". Dbfirs 12:55, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

How does one change the title on a WP article that he created?

My question is how can I change the title on a WP page that I created?Davidbena (talk) 16:03, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

You can't change the title per se, but you can move the page, which I think will meet your needs. DonIago (talk) 16:13, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I did according to your suggestion.Davidbena (talk) 20:36, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Downloading all images in the Image history

Greetings,

I wanted to make a gif of all previous versions of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syrian,_Iraqi,_and_Lebanese_insurgencies.png but am really to lazy to click the approx. 200 Images one by one to download and was hoping there was an easier way to get this. So far I have only found tools to download all of wikipedia, articles, categories and texts of wikis. But none of these seem to have what I need. I'm sorry in advance for your spent time if I overlooked something obvious.

Best regards

Peter Apel — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.6.20.170 (talk) 17:36, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

You could use a web archiver. I use HTTrack. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much after a little struggeling to find the right settings I was able to download them in 4 batches of 50 each. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.6.20.170 (talk) 00:22, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Down load as PDF

Found the article that I wanted. "List of floppy disk formats" When I tried to 'download as PDF' in the Print/export menu I got what looked like a bibliography at the end of a book, NOT the list I saw. When I tried to download the file to my computer after the rendering finished, I still did not get the list, I got the 'bibliography'. I have been using Wikipedia for years and never had this problem. Either I did something wrong or their is something wrong with the rendering process. How do I down load this article and get the list in PDF format in my computer? Thanks. Also, how do I get help for this issue without submitting an 'article'? This is crazy. I have spent hours trying to download this article and trying to get some help with this issue and there is no way to submit my request for help? Are you kidding? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwliberty49 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Well, it worked fine for me. Try a different web browser, or something. And I don't understand your second point. This is the correct place to submit a request for help, and you've submitted it. --Viennese Waltz 20:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Actually, on closer inspection it didn't render the full page. This is because tables are not rendered in pdf's, see Help:Download as PDF#Issues. This is a known bug which has been registered for almost a year. --Viennese Waltz 20:31, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

The ropes

Are there any editors who are willing to show new people the ropes? I've been reading lots of policy, but I'm not certain I have the notability stuff down enough to create new articles. Are there any editors in particular that I should talk to, or do I just keep asking questions here until I get the answers I need? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirk Leonard (talk • contribs) 21:22, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Kirk Leonard, welcome to Wikipedia! It sounds like the Adopt-a-user program may be right for you; it basically consists of experienced editors willing to show the ropes to new editors. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 22:39, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Mitchell Hamline School of Law

We just had two law schools combine into one. I work at what was William Mitchell College of Law and is now Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Would you be able to make changes on these pages:

-- On the William Mitchell College of Law page: change existing: The school will be merging with its longtime rival, the Hamline University School of Law, as of fall 2015.[5] to: The school combined with Hamline University School of Law in December 2015, creating Mitchell Hamline School of Law, mitchellhamline.edu

-- On the Hamline University School of Law page: change existing: The school will be merging with its longtime rival, the William Mitchell College of Law, as of fall 2015.[3] to: The school combined with William Mitchell College of Law in December 2015, creating Mitchell Hamline School of Law, mitchellhamline.edu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.202.236.2 (talk) 22:35, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

It's best to make edit request on the article's talk page. Mlpearc (open channel) 22:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

IP made the request on talk, and I have subsequently requested a page merge be performed, although that will take some work. Tiggerjay (talk) 02:22, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

The Newlywed Game's French version with children as contestants

Good evening, I have some trouble editing the article The Newlywed Game.

This article mentions a French version called "Les Little Z'Amours".

But this is not the correct name. The correct name is "Les Petits Z'Amours" except that you replace the "e" in "Petits" with a "'".

All my attempts to correct the article are rejected by User:Mlpearc. [1] [2] I tried to open a discussion on Mlpearc's talk page [3] but my message got reverted as well.

I can bring proof of the true title of this version. [4] [5] [6]

What to do now? Thank you. KiwiNeko14 _(Meow) 23:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

@KiwiNeko14: You need to include your proof with your change. See Help:Referencing for beginners. Mlpearc (open channel) 23:15, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Fine, then, I will include the reference to my edit. Though it surprises me, then, that "Les Little Z'Amours" stayed in the article without any proof (good reason: "Les Little Z'Amours"is an error). KiwiNeko14 _(Meow) 23:19, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KiwiNeko14 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 22 December 2015 (UTC)