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June 20[edit]

limits on lists of publications[edit]

Sorry to bother you, but I am trying to clean up this article (Khaled Abou El Fadl) and have a sneaking suspicion it has too many publications listed. Is there a wikipedia policy on how many publications a bio article should have? Thanks. --BoogaLouie (talk) 01:05, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is no limit as such, BoogaLouie. In the case of authors both major and prolific, we sometiems split off a Works of JRandom Author article, but that is a little atypical. We almost never promise a compelte bibliography (or Discoraphy or whatever), and often title such a section "Selected works of ..." or the like to indicate that it is not to be taken as a complete list. Minor, trivial works should not usually be included. DES ^(talk) 03:33, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My own view only: The list of books is fine. The lists of "Selected academic articles" and "Other" are both much too long. A good start would be to remove from those two lists all those items which do not include links allowing the reader to read the article. This would make it look more like an encyclopedia article and less like a CV/resumé. Maproom (talk) 07:53, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What am i doing wrong?[edit]

A	B	C	D	E
A	B	C	D	E1	E2	F
1	2	3	4	5	6	F	7

What am I doing wrong? Why is the last column (Column F) not coming off as intended? Column F should also look like Column A, B, C & D. Thanks in advance for the help. Skagrawal4k (talk) 14:58, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think you might want to:

A	B	C	D	E		F
A	B	C	D	E1	E2	F
1	2	3	4	5	6	7

I moved the F line above the E1 and E2 lines. Don't think of it as putting E1 and E2 underneath E, but underneath the row E is on. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:08, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your help. It worked.Skagrawal4k (talk) 16:02, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion[edit]

I am being contacted by someone claiming to be an employee. She specifically asks for money in exchange for winning a portion of your lottery. I am just kooking for proof that she is a legitimate employee of your compamy. The name is : Allison Lardo

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.239.82.66 (talk) 16:14, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@99.239.82.66: No this is not legitimate- Wikipedia doesn't have employees, only volunteers, and doesn't have a lottery either, as far as I know. It's a scam. 16:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Experienced editors: what is the protocol for reporting this? WP:ANI or contact Wikimedia directly? Joseph2302 (talk) 16:22, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This has already been reported at WP:ANI and the WMF legal department has been informed, there seem to be quite a few instances of this occuring. DES ^(talk) 16:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:ANI#Someone may be impersonating me. DES ^(talk) 16:51, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone contacted with such a demand for money could report this to his or her local police, as it might well be fraud or extortion. Please in any case send details to legal@wikimedia.org and possibly post at WP:ANI as well. DES ^(talk) 16:55, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Evolution Rollerderby deleted[edit]

The page I created Evolution Rollerderby was deleted citing copyright infringement. I'm confused, I referenced the team's website, for which I am administrator, so any content I referenced was writen by myself so not copyright infringement as I give myself permission to use stuff I've written. Is there anything I can do to get this reverse and to tighten up adherence to policies to avoid future deletion? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liam198447 (talk • contribs) 16:35, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Liam198447, To use a copy of test from an external web site, the procedue at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials must be followed fully. It is not enough for you to privately or implicitly grant yourself permission to use the text, permission must be publicly and permenantly be granted for anyone in the world to use the text in any way, including commercially, and to create derived works. Besides, while I assume good faith, we can't know that you are in fact the site's administrator, so we protect the site and the copyright holder (and ourselves) by not acceptaning anything but a formal public release. DES ^(talk) 16:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it is most often the case that content copied from organzation sites is badly promotional and of no use here anyway; however this doen't seem to be a majopr issue with the text you posted at Evolution Rollerderby. Still a rewrite might be simpler than going through the copyrigh formalities. DES ^(talk) 16:46, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any way I can access what I've created to remove the offending parts and resubmit it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liam198447 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Liam198447: If it's a copyright violation then probably not, but you can try contacting the deletion admin, @JamesBWatson:. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse[edit]

I tried posting a question at the tea house on behalf of an editor who contacted OTRS. I clicked on the question button, filled out the short summar,y added the question and the four tildes, but the "ask my question" button doesn't seem to work. What am I missing?--S Philbrick (Talk) 17:20, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Could it be it's not a coincidence that I just responded to a post at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse about the button malfunctioning (but in a different way)? This would not be the first time that that button has been broken--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried in Mozilla, and it worked (and top posted.) The failure was in Chrome. (Although I just started a test, and the button appeared, so it may have been a momentarily glitch.)--S Philbrick (Talk) 18:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

frame please[edit]

Could some*kind*one please help me ;-) I need a frame for this photo, so the caption is visible. Thanks in advance --84.170.88.78 (talk) 18:14, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Byzantium, late 1st c. AC. Obverse: Artemis with her bow and quiver Reverse: ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ, star & crescent.

I changed "thump" to "thumb" in your markup and now the caption is showing. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:22, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Translation[edit]

Hi How can I input a translation of an article?→ — Preceding unsigned comment added by HamidJamali1975 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@HamidJamali1975: I am not quite sure what you want but WP:TRANSLATE may lead you to what you need. Note that if you are talking about translating an article from some other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia, the article will need to conform to English Wikipedia standards, including the notability requirement -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:52, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]