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August 15

James Matthews (racing driver)

Reference number 1 is a UK government document and I have done it wrong. Please fix. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 00:13, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

2 things please 1) Please help with the correct citation format for the government document (citation number 1) as outlined in the above article.

2) Please help me add the names of both of James' parents in the "box". I have tried but cannot do it. Please help Thanks so much Srbernadette (talk) 02:14, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Resolved

(partly)

I have tweaked the ref slightly. Eagleash (talk) 04:13, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

On the second point the Template:Infobox racing driver does not have parameter for relatives etc. You might wish to change the i/bx to Infobox person or something more suitable as racing driver is no longer a wholly defining characteristic. Eagleash (talk) 14:51, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Insertion and placement of an uploaded photo into a draft article

How do I insert an uploaded photo and uploaded caption of this photo into a draft article? JBandJohnK (talk) 01:54, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

@JBandJohnK: See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for instructions on how to insert an image. The fact that your article is a draft is not relevant unless you are trying to use non-free images. Pppery (talk) 01:59, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Lady Nicholas Windsor

Also please note that on the Lady Nicholas Windsor page, I have placed in BOLD her former name - in the introduction - this might not be correct. Please fix if you need to. Srbernadette (talk) 00:59, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

SRbernadette, you can go to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section and learn for yourself whether or not it should be in bold. †Dismas†|^(talk) 01:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

I read the manual and I am still unsure - it is her former name.... NOT an alternative to her current name - any advice is welcomed from the experts - RE the Lady Nicholas Windsor article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs)

Having briefly skimmed through both MOS:LEAD and MOS:BLPLEAD, I would be inclined to have all 3 - Lady Nicholas Windsor, her birth name, and the name she was known as at the time of her marriage (as that seems to be her legal name at that point). That said, I'm struggling to find any reliable sources for her birth name (the Cambridge UP sources only show her name when she enrolled and it's possible she shortened her name for convenience or some other reason), nor anything reliable about her father's name change and when that occured. douts (talk) 20:37, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Unified login template

On my user page, I am using Template:User unified login. When I click on my user name in the template, it says that there is no global account info for "Ergo+Sum." However, when I then search for "Ergo Sum" (my correct username), it calls up the correct information. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance. Ergo Sum 04:18, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

I fixed an error in the template.[1] Thanks for reporting it. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:22, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: I didn't realize it was an error in the template. Thanks for fixing it and letting me know. Ergo Sum 18:25, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

How do I re-use citations from a template?

(Asked on the template's talk page, but it's pretty dead.)

Check out the A Moon Shaped Pool page. It has a table of sales certifications, which is cited using the template. But we also mention the certification in the prose, under the "Release" section. It's uncited. I want to re-use the source cited in the certifications table, but can't figure out how to do it. What do I do? Popcornduff (talk) 04:22, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

@Popcornduff: If you add a "refname=" parameter to the {{Certification Table Entry}} templates in the sales table, you'll be able to re-use those references in the usual way. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:07, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Marvellous, thank you. Popcornduff (talk) 08:35, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Problem with my new signature

I've recently designed a new signature but can't apply it. The code of my signature is as such:

[[User:Mhhossein|<span style="font-family:Aharoni><span style="color:#002E63">M</span><span style="color: #2E5894">h</span><span style="color: #318CE7">hossein</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Mhhossein|<span style="color: #056608">'''talk'''</span>]]</sup>

When I try to save it in the signature box of my preference tab, I see a red text reading "Invalid raw signature. Check HTML tags," just after the box. How can it be resolved? --Mhhossein (talk) 05:21, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Where you specify the font-family as Aharoni, there's an unpaired " . Maproom (talk) 07:43, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Check out the WP:UPDC for all available fonts! VarunFEB2003 ^{I am Online} 12:48, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

@Maproom and VarunFEB2003: Thanks but none of the solutions worked; I paired the " and tried the available fonts and the error message appeared once again. I don't know why the code correctly renders and makes this signature (Mhhossein ^talk), the problem must be something else. --Mhhossein (talk) 16:35, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

@Mhhossein: You were also missing a </span>. Adding it made the signature too long but I removed some unnecessary spaces and this works with exactly the allowed 255 characters: [[User:Mhhossein|<span style="font-family:Aharoni"><span style="color:#002E63">M</span><span style="color:#2E5894">h</span><span style="color:#318CE7">hossein</span></span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Mhhossein|<span style="color:#056608">'''talk'''</span>]]</sup>. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:43, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you PrimeHunter. I didn't know that the characters should not be more than 255. Anyway, thank you very much. --Mhhossein ^talk 17:47, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Mobile questions

How do I view categories to which an article belongs to and any templates in mobile version of wikipedia? Skronie (talk) 05:47, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

@Skronie: Just go the settings option via 'Open main menu' located at the very left of the search box. Select the 'Beta' option and save it. Then, you'll see the category tab at the bottom of the article. --Mhhossein (talk) 06:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

User:TwoOneTwo

I see the Main Page was created by this user, but shouldn't it have been created by Jimbo? Howcome he created it? Thanks. VarunFEB2003 ^{I am Online} 12:50, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Take a look at that user's userpage. They say, "** This was a software update. One which wiped out every existing user account (imagine that now!). At the time the update occurred I was logged in, and was kicked off. After some WTF chat I was the eighth person to recreate their account. I am not the eighth person ever on Wikipedia and, despite what the page history shows, I did not create the Main Page." ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 14:03, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Change of Article Title

The Institutions name was translated wrong. It does'nt changes. Universidad Central del Caribe is in spanish as in english. How can I change it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_University_of_the_Caribbean

Thanks

Uccaribe (talk) 18:10, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

I've moved the article for you. Please consider getting your username changed. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 18:35, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Picture Upload Question

Hi,

I would like to insert a picture into the infobox of a draft that I am working on. I was using the File Upload Wizard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard) when I realized that I am unable to finish the uploading process because of the following error message:

"This is not an actual encyclopedia article! The page Plum Grove Junior High School is not in the main article namespace. Non-free files can only be used in mainspace article pages, not on a user page, talk page, template, etc.

Please upload this file only if it is going to be used in an actual article."

I have tried "Draft:Plum Grove Junior High School" and "Plum Grove Junior High School", but neither work. I realize that it is not in the main article namespace because it is still a draft. Am I doing something wrong while uploading or is it not possible to upload an image for a draft?

Thanks,

nayakm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nayakm (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello @Nayakm:, it's usually best to wait with the upload of non-free images until the article has been moved to mainspace. Generally non-free images are only allowed in regular mainspace articles (plus a few exceptions). See WP:NFCC, especially #9 for more information. GermanJoe (talk) 19:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

OK Thank you, @GermanJoe:

Nayakm (talk) 19:38, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

How do I find my email account?

I have had an e-mil address for about 19 years, this AOL is so different How do I find my e-mail? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nancy Mekulchek (talk • contribs) 20:16, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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date fix script

How do I get a "script" to fix date formatting.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:49, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Could you be a bit more specific? If you’re talking programming, it depends what language and tools you’re using, what problem you’re trying to solve, etc. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 01:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

You could use the scripts at User:Ohconfucius/script. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:56, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I should have been using this 5 years ago.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:28, 16 August 2016 (UTC)