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July 12[edit]

How to share to Facebook and email to others?[edit]

How do I share to Facebook and / or email to others? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NnymsFrm (talk • contribs) 00:28, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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. DES ^(talk) 02:09, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you mean a special feature to post Wikipedia articles on Facebook or in emails. It has been discussed several times but there is no consensus for such a feature so we don't have it. See Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Share pages on Facebook, Twitter etc. You can just copy the url of the article from your browser address bar and post it manually. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:49, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NnymsFrm, do you want to point out an article to others? I'm not very expert with this topic of Wikipedia (and I'm not expert about Facebook at all), but I belive that you can use the ordinary URL of the Wikpedia's wep page. You can also use an URL showing the article's current version in this time or other versions, see Help:Page history#Linking to a specific version of a page. If you don't just want to share the URL but article's text, images, media and so on, please look at Wikipedia:Copyrights. --5.170.64.94 (talk) 09:57, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also check out WP:Sharebox.--ukexpat (talk) 19:48, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sharebox has been deleted by the author. I see he hasn't reacted to User talk:TheDJ#Sharebox. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:02, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How to edit[edit]

HOW DO I EDIT MY ARTICLE? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shane Apdar Ibrahim (talk • contribs) 00:46, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean User:Shane Apdar Ibrahim/sandbox? It's right there to edit, although I don't see any way this local boy's society could ever qualify as the subject for an encyclopedia article. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:22, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)First of all, Shane Apdar Ibrahim, please don't post in ALL CAPS, that is considered the online version of shouting in someone's face.

Secondly I suppose you refer to User:Shane Apdar Ibrahim/sandbox. However there is no such thing as your article. All articles and indeed all pages on Wikipedia are owned by the project and available for anyone to edit.

Thirdly, you edit by going to that page and clicking the "edit" link near the top, or one of the section edit links.

Fourthly, you have requested another review of that draft, but unless you make significant changes, I am confident it will not pass. You have supplied no sources at all. For a draft to be approved and become a full article, it needs to contain citations to independent, published, reliable sources that discuss the subject in some detail, not directory entries or brief mentions. Without such cited sources, no article is approved. Frankly I will be suprised if published independent sources exist for "The Lifestyles of the Dhamba Boys" but if they do, you need to cite them.

Fifthly, since no article belongs to anyone, articles and drafts are not signed and do not have bylines. The page history tells who wrot4e what parts of an article.

I hope that is helpful. DES ^(talk) 02:26, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Underlinked looks as not working at all in an article[edit]

I've added {{Underlinked|section|date=July 2015}} to hte lead section of Music sequencer article (you can see the diff).

But the template looks as not working at all: no text shown, no category added.

(By the way I can not see hidden category at all, though the article already had "multiple issue" tag. At Wikipedia in Italian language a "[Other]" command is shown at the end of the category list to let see the hidden category, if there any of them).

And one more iusse, I used the "subst:dated" way said in Template:Underlinked/doc, but it has not worked with the "|section" parameter (you can see the diff and diff of the fix). --5.170.64.94 (talk) 09:06, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've pointed out the last issue (the one about Template:Dated) in general at Template talk:Dated#If there are one or more parameters in the template .... --5.170.64.94 (talk) 09:38, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

{{Underlinked|section|date=July 2015}} in your diff produces a box for me saying "This section needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia. Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text. (July 2015)". Maybe you overlook it because it joins with the box above it. Or maybe you view the mobile version where such boxes are omitted. Registered users have the option "Show hidden categories" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. Others can see them for a given page by clicking "Page information" in the left pane, at least in the desktop version of the site. The mobile version has a "Desktop" link at the bottom. Mobile users can also manually add ?action=info to the url to see Page information. I didn't know the Italian system for hidden categories but I see the mentioned "[altre]" link on for example it:Abbie Hoffman. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Italian "[altre]" link is made by it:MediaWiki:Gadget-HiddenCat.js which is enabled by default at it:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. They apparently copied the idea from the French fr:MediaWiki:Common.js. I haven't seen discussion of doing something similar at the English Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:30, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I can see it now (off course, looking at that article's version, ad it has been edited). But I'm almost sure it was not viewable yesterday.

I'm not in mobile version (I'm using a PC and Mozilla Firefox). (And by the way, if box of that kind are omitted in the mobile version, it's a pity because the spur to improve articles)

I was not telling about a permanent "Show hidden categories", but about a momentary showing them (how can I explain it ...uhm ... , it's something like a the outcome of Template:Hidden or Template:Collapsible list). Thank you for the "Page information" tip, is a workaround to see hidden categories (though less user friendly, being less deducible). --5.170.63.14 (talk) 08:41, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After seeing the Italian Wikipedia I know what you wanted but as mentioned, the English Wikipedia does not have that feature. Wikis can make their own features and I'm sure we have many the Italians don't have. A gadget like the Italian could be proposed at Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:47, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

John A. Burns School of Medicine[edit]

Hello! I am trying to correct a title of an article, but apparently I cannot, you please help me: the article is titled John A. Burns School of Medicine, but needs to be corrected to the official name of the school: University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (also known as University of Hawaii Medical School). Thank you for you help!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TeeJiem (talk • contribs) 09:45, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There a tag on the article saying the title is incorrect for technical reasons, but I don't see any restrictions that apply. I don't think this is in any way controversial for a move, so unless someone can spot what the technical restriction is, it should just be an ordinary move. Rwessel (talk) 09:59, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that the correct title tag was incorrectly added by User:TeeJiem, presumably in an attempt to change the title, in this recent edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_of_Hawaii_John_A._Burns_School_of_Medicine&diff=next&oldid=670173516

TeeJiem has now moved the page. Rwessel (talk) 10:13, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What links here question[edit]

So I'm editing Cincinnati chili and I check the 'what links here' page, and the first article is American Chinese cuisine, which doesn't seem at all related, so I went over to see if I could figure out what in that article would be linking to Cincinnati chili. I searched for cincinnati and for chili both in the article and in the source and couldn't find anything, and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong. What's the best way to find where in an article a link to another article is?

Thanks for any help! valereee (talk) 13:33, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's hidden in the second to last navbox "Cuisine of the United States" (linked as "Cincinnati"). Afaik all links from navboxes and other transcluded content are always included in the "What links here" list - can be a bit confusing at times. GermanJoe (talk) 13:52, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: I sometimes resort to asking my browser to show me the HTML version of the page, and searching within that. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:54, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, both! The HTML version -- that's smart! :) valereee (talk) 14:15, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict, this edit was started long ago) Click "[show]" at the "Cuisine of the United States" navbox at the bottom. It's linked on "Cincinnati" (maybe a single sauce shouldn't be linked in {{Cuisine of the United States}} but that's another discussion). Links from navboxes cannot be excluded from WhatLinksHere. The "best" way may depend on your browser and the circumstances but here are some ways to find the link with a Ctrl+f browser search or however your browser searches the viewed page: 1) Click all "[show]" links (you can also search those) and search on "Cincinnati chili" or the parts "Cincinnati" and "chili" in case it's piped liked here (if you don't guess the displayed text then this will fail). 2) View the html source of the page, for example with Ctrl+u in some browsers, and search "Cincinnati chili". 3) Go to Special:ExpandTemplates, enter {{:American Chinese cuisine}} (note the colon) in the big box, click OK and search for "Cincinnati chili". The mobile version doesn't display navboxes. Method 2) and 3) may still require a little work to locate it in the original page. In some tricky cases a page used #ifexist on the page name. That causes a WhatLinksHere entry without actually making a link. It can be difficult to trace such cases by examining the used templates. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:21, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: If you suspect links are caused by templates then you can also select "Template" in the "Namespace" box at Special:WhatLinksHere/Cincinnati chili. This shows Template:Cuisine of the United States and Template:Pasta dishes. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, PrimeHunter! 15:18, 12 July 2015 (UTC) valereee (talk) 15:19, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist: Increase entries in RSS/Atom feeds[edit]

Namaste. Is it possible to increase the number of entries provided by API for Watchlist feeds; mayhaps by including some additional parameter into URL? Default is 50 entries; I've thousands of pages on my Watchlist, and being provided only 50 means I've to poll the feed quite often - much more than I'd like to, even. It is desirable to poll less frequently, but receive a larger amount of entries; maybe 500-1000 or so. At present, it takes but a single AWB user iterating over a set of pages to push everything from view, which is annoying.

Documentation from mw:API and mw:API:Watchlist feed are rather sparse.

If reply, please ping: {{Re|dsprc}}. Thanks for your time. -- dsprc ^[talk] 15:15, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dsprc: I haven't found a way. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedwatchlist doesn't show anything. For Recent changes, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedrecentchanges shows a limit parameter but it can only be 1 to 50 for Recent changes (I checked), and it has no effect for Watchlist. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:59, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:European Union topics[edit]

The template Template:European Union topics seems to be broken, but I haven't been able to figure out exactly what's causing the problem. Woodshed (talk) 15:16, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Related changes" in the left pane of Template:European Union topics shows recent edits to Template:Country topics. I fixed that template. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:27, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for such quick work. Glad to know about "related changes" now, too. Woodshed (talk) 15:31, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

There is no early history In this article. The Native American era to the colonial William Floyd era to the later " Knapps lived here" period to home building era of the Smadbeck brothers Home Guardian Company. Very poor article, not up to usual Wiki articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.37.56 (talk) 15:53, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We have millions of articles. Which one are you referring to? PrimeHunter (talk) 16:02, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you have found an article that you think is poor, you are more than welcome to improve it yourself. The vast majority of our articles are editable by anybody. If you find an issue that you are unwilling to correct yourself, you can mention it on the talk page of the article. — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 16:10, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We have no article including even two of those three phrases

"Knapps lived here" occurs in three articles:- History of the board game Monopoly, Joseph P. Knapp and Phoebe Knapp

"Smadbeck brothers" occurs in four articles:- Lake Carmel, New York, Howard Sloane, The Heckscher Foundation for Children and Lake Carmel (New York)

Home Guardian Company only appears in:- Fire Island Pines, New York

- Arjayay (talk) 16:55, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the poster is saying what they think should be in the unidentified article. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:16, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SOFIXIT?--ukexpat (talk) 13:51, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Exam help request[edit]

hi there i need help rgarding my exams i apperaed approximately 20years ago from multan board for intermediate and i had two subjects remaining to clear but fortunately i came to saudi arab and could not go back i have my result card .i need to know how can appear again for my remaining papers to clear these paper and can i change these two subjects that is stat and math. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.246.183.211 (talk) 22:17, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 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. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lost my username[edit]

I have contributed both to the en.m.wikipedia and to the it.m.wikipedia sites, with user name RDR. I have recently been forced to change my nickname in both contributions, on the assumption that the two types, English and Italian, were from different authors. I would very much like to be recognized as a single contributor, with my old name, that nobody else is claiming but me. I did not find a more suitable place to post this very unimportant request. Any advice is welcome. Thanks a lot RDR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberto DR (talk • contribs) 15:55, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You might ask at m:User talk:Keegan (WMF). He's the one who left the notices on your user talk page. —teb728 t c 09:50, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Roberto DR: Special:CentralAuth/RDR shows the right to the name belongs to a user with 206 edits at the Portuguese Wikipedia. Earlier this year it was disallowed for different users to have the same name at different wikis. The right to the name went to the user with the most edits, and others were renamed. You cannot get the name unless the Portuguese user agrees to be renamed but the user hasn't specified an email address and hasn't edited since 2009 so it may not even be possible to contact them. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:33, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]