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March 29[edit]

Esperento/Ido[edit]

Where is the apropriate place for this suggestion?... Does it belong somewhere on the WikiMedia site? Or on the Esperento or Ido wikipedias? "As as esperento and ido are closly similar contributions to one wikipedia should be added to the other wikipedia as well thru machine translation " --Thank YouNaytz (talk) 02:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably at Meta somewhere. Not sure where, I'm not very familiar with Meta, but it is the main place for cross-project discussions. --Jayron 32 03:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Using sandbox[edit]

Is it OK to use the sandbox to write papers? I like having the ability to view changes (mobile view of diffs. is the best!). —User 0 0 0 name 07:16, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is an excellent idea to create articles using your personal sandbox (or other User space drafts or Draft space drafts). The difference is that your sandbox is one page, whereas you can create multiples pages of the others. —teb728 t c 08:07, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, 000. It depends what you mean by "papers". TEB728 has answered assuming you mean Wikipedia articles; but if you are talking about papers which can never be part of Wikipedia (eg because they contain original research), then the answer is no. See WP:NOTWEBHOST. You can create a personal wiki at sites like Wikia. --ColinFine (talk) 11:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cyprus national holidays[edit]

New Years day holiday should NOT be Jan 30, it should be Jan 1. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.199.10.3 (talk) 10:53, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is about Public holidays in Cyprus. It was altered from Jan. 1 to Jan. 30 by an IP editor with no other edit. I have reverted it. Maproom (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

James Algar: I have inserted a missing film to his filmography. Reference: Wikipedia[edit]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Michael Rhodes (talk • contribs)

@Peter Michael Rhodes: It is unclear what your questions is. Can you please be more specific? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Peter Michael Rhodes: Your edit [1] gave an error message because it inserted <ref><ref></ref></ref>. That can happen if you click <ref></ref> below the edit box. It's part of the system to give references. The article has been fixed. Note that we don't allow references to other Wikipedia articles. References must be to external reliable sources. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:07, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Close a peer review.[edit]

Hi, by mistake I have opened a peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Ricardo Goulart/archive1. Can anyone please close it? I want to nominate another article. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 14:38, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Royroydeb. Since it was just opened and had no comments, I've deleted it under CSD G7 rather than closing it. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:43, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking at[edit]

Category:20th-century women writers and decided that I wanted to add columns to the list but could not figure out how or where to do it. This is the A page, perhaps this process will need to be done 24 times, but that's okay. I thought 4 columns would be right. I know the code by which to do it, I just can't figure out where to put it. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK Categories are auto-formatted - so they show differently when using a phone, iPad or desktop PC, and this cannot be altered. For me, on a PC, that list appears in three columns.
Please note that as stated at Template:Div col the use of a fixed number of columns e.g. {Div col|4}} is deprecated, so should not be used in any case, and is being replaced with em-widths. - Arjayay (talk) 17:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm on some sort of Mac (no phone for me, thank you) and find the single column annoying. But I do understand 'Can't be fixed" and wonder about the ending od 4 columns because I use it now and again. Carptrash (talk) 20:45, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery template[edit]

This is vanity, I realize. But... Can anyone show me how to get my maps to center on the page User:Gaff/Gaffmapgallery? There are 12 on the top row and 5 on the bottom. I would like the 5 on the bottom to center, or have some other symmetric arrangement to display them. As I create more maps, the layout may need further tweaks... Thanks --Gaff (talk) 17:22, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Gaff, I looked at your template and it actually seems to expand based on the size of the window (good for mobile sites I guess). If you change the width of your browser, it'll look a certain way. I see 7 on the top row, 7 on the second row, and 3 below it. It appears to make itself a certain width from the edge of the page. I dragged my browser's window's size thing from left to right and saw the numbers change. Your browser must be really wide then? I hope that helps, {{ping}} me if that didn't make sense. — kikichugirl ^oh hello! 20:10, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to say the same. Your browser is served one long line and then line wraps it to fit your window. I don't think you can make the last line center. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe a table would be a better way to go, if one wants to have more control over how a set of images are arrayed? --Gaff (talk) 20:29, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It could give you more control but also mean some readers will have to scroll to the right to see some of the images. If there is no natural way to organize the images in rows of the same length, and with an image size and count most readers can see without scrolling, then I suggest you keep the current system. PrimeHunter (talk)

I have been fiddling with this, but cannot make it center. I know that centering with <gallery> works. -- Gadget850^talk 22:30, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to use the template rather than <gallery> because I might want to collapse the gallery on some pages. --Gaff (talk) 23:02, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What percentage of blocks and bans are undone, and has there ever been a case of clemency for a sock puppet?[edit]

I recently read an essay titled blocks are cheap and was wondering what percentage of blocks and bans were actually undone. Similarly, have there ever been any sock puppets that have been officially forgiven? Bullets and Bracelets (talk) 17:25, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure this is the correct forum, since it says up top, "This page is only for questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia." --Gaff (talk) 17:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Bullets and Bracelets: Maybe what you are looking for is Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks, which advises blocked users on how to request unblocking. (Note that Wikipedia:Unblocks are cheap is one user’s opinion which may be somewhat more lenient than consensus practice.) —teb728 t c 21:41, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:STANDARDOFFER -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Admin introduction[edit]

I am planning my first edit-a-thon. We need help with waiving the account creation limit and confirming users, but I don't know the best way to go about reaching out to an admin. I would greatly appreciate if someone could shed some light on the best way to go about this process. Thanks in advance! 66.254.248.224 (talk) 19:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you will be telling participants of the value of registering accounts. Maproom (talk) 19:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Account creator. You have to be logged in to make a request. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:02, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Contributions ascribed to Bill Thurman[edit]

Contributions ascribed to Bill Thurman or to Bearded bill of beaverdam need to be unascribed to me. 3 were on Greek words for love. Too many untrue sentences there prompt this move, which I don't know how to make. Bill Thurman 20:32, 29 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bearded bill of beaverdam (talk • contribs)

We don't seem to have a contributor named 'Bill Thurman', and your only posts seem to be here, to your user page and to Talk:Greek words for love. Regarding the last, see Wikipedia:No original research, and note that there is no facility to 'unascribe' anything - if you post on Wikipedia, it is recorded in the page history, and only under exceptional circumstances is material hidden. I suggest you familiarise yourself with Wikipedia policies before contributing further - see Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia for a general introduction. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:48, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Biased Changes made to three linked pages[edit]

NAC:Original Poster IP address has been blocked. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:49, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Dear Sir/Madam

I represent a business corporation based in Pakistan named Chenab Group. Someone has made changes to three of Wikipedia pages that refer to my client. The changes are highly biased and can prove damageable to the image of my client, its business activity and people associated with the business. My client is a prominent business entity in its country, Pakistan. The editor has added information that is unrelated and false which can cause serious loss in terms of sales and reputation to my client. I therefore request you to remove the edits made in recent days and restore page.

The pages are following Chenab Group ChenOne Mian Muhammad Latif — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.170.173.251 (talk) 22:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Football[edit]

I am reading a book that became a mini-series...And in it the boy's mother said he liked to play football. No where does it say football was invented then.. This was in the year "1152"..Can you help me? Is this true or false? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.7.167 (talk) 23:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There have been various sports involving feet and a ball. See Football#Early history. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is the Wikipedia Help Desk, and is for questions about using or editing Wikipedia. The question appears to be the sort of general knowledge question that can sometimes be answered at our Reference Desk. Your question appears in particular to be within the scope of the Entertainment Reference Desk. (Both TV and sports are considered entertainment.) It would help if you would provide the name of either the book or the mini-series. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Transparent colored cell in row of table[edit]

Hello. Can anyone help me with this table? I would like to make the cell that says "Round 1" to be transparent, while retaining the color that is in the first row. Also, I would like to avoid having to repeat the code for the colors in each line.

Rd.	Leg	Date Time	H/A	Opponent	Res. F–A	Agg. score F–A	Att.	Scorers		Ref.
Rd.	Leg	Date Time	H/A	Opponent	Res. F–A	Agg. score F–A	Att.	Team 1	Opponent	Ref.
Round 1	1	February	A	Team 2	0–0	—	20,000
Round 1	2	March	H	Team 2	7–0	7–0	20,000

Thank you very much. SAJ (T) 23:24, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It already is transparent. What you're seeing is the background color from the row being shown behind it. You need to specify something like #f2f2f2 as the background color for that particular cell. Scarce2 (talk) 23:39, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rd.	Leg	Date Time	H/A	Opponent	Res. F–A	Agg. score F–A	Att.	Scorers		Ref.
Rd.	Leg	Date Time	H/A	Opponent	Res. F–A	Agg. score F–A	Att.	Team 1	Opponent	Ref.
Round 1	1	February	A	Team 2	0–0	—	20,000
Round 1	2	March	H	Team 2	7–0	7–0	20,000

Thanks! SAJ (T) 02:10, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong information about Famus Director of yesteryear SIDDALINGAIAH Community[edit]

Dear, from the below link Siddalingaiah#Family they mention he belongs to VEERASHAIVA community and same wikipedia has mentioned is son famous actor MURALI belongs to MADIVALA family in the below link Murali (Tamil actor)

IF it is rectified Please Do mention the Name (Machideva Enterprises) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.39.62.225 (talk) 23:36, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please address your comments on the article talk page, Talk:Siddalingaiah. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not in good shape and needs copy-editing. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]