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December 16[edit]

About Giorgos Merkis[edit]

Hi . The senior games of football player Giorgos Merkis are not updated from last year since may .can you do something? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.7.230.44 (talk) 00:28, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done I have updated the Apoel 'caps' per the Soccerway link at the page. Eagleash (talk) 01:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist time range[edit]

This has been a problem for a few weeks, but I finally decided to ask about it. My watchlist only shows changes for the last 8 hours, no matter what I set "Period of time to display" for. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Health and Welfare ‖ 07:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Two quick questions Ebyabe. One, what are the settings you have entered in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist for "Days to show in watchlist" and for "Maximum number of changes to show in watchlist". Two (I know you must be doing this, but just checking to be sure) are you clicking on "Show" after changing the "Period of time to display"? Thanks, Lourdes 07:25, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I didn't even think to look there. Days is 1, and maximum changes were at 250. I don't think I ever changed that myself, but I upped it to 1000 and now it shows a full day. Cheers! :) --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Welfare State ‖ 07:39, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikitext Code Churn?[edit]

Is this piece of code valid? 1(search by pressing crtl+f for where it says just ASMC and not TASMC or something like that) That piece of code is supposed to bring 2 lines of text on the article's table but it only shows one line of text, can someone fix it and/or say why does it happen? Thanks.Pancho507 (talk) 07:55, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Pancho507, don't know what you're asking. That's WikiTable syntax, and I can't see anything wrong with it, but I don't know what you means by "supposed to bring 2 lines of text on the article's table". Do you mean part of the entry is supposed to straddle two rows for some reason? In that case it needs to use "rowspan" in the relevant cells. Or do you want a line break in something so you get two lines of text in a cell? Don't understand. (And I have no idea what "churn" means in this context. --ColinFine (talk) 12:19, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Office, tv series; Gross fact error and Opinion[edit]

Hello. To whom it concerns. Please correct the Wikipedia article for The Office, American TV series. The article starts by saying the show is "horrible and stupid" then goes on to say the series ran from AD 3000 to AD 60000. Surely you check for factual information in your articles, but those dates are rediculous. Many, including myself would argue that The Office is a great series! Shouldn't the articles be more factual and not written from the standpoint of the authors personal opinion? Somebody obviously thought they were being funny; but that was slander! Can you please correct the article? The things I mentioned are in the first paragraph. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.174.129.20 (talk) 07:55, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you have time, you can do it yourself. Also i'm pretty sure this is not the place to post this kind of stuff. Pancho507 (talk) 08:01, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IP user, the edit was vandalism by a user that has now been banned and their edit reverted here. Unfortunately sometimes people think it's funny to make deliberate errors/vandalise articles. If you spot things like this, you are welcome to revert them yourself or you can bring them to our attention again here and we can fix them and warn the user. NZFC^(talk) 08:14, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Pancho507: Actually, this is an appropriate place for such a report.--S Philbrick (Talk) 14:53, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Help:Reverting. Don't try to edit the article directly before checking the page history. There may be more vandalism you didn't discover (the network in this case), and reverting is easier than manually editing. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:34, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with translation tool[edit]

Hi, Since I am an extended confirmed editor I should be able to use the translation tool but I still receive this message : "This utility is currently restricted to extended confirmed editors on the English Wikipedia, see WP:CXT for more information." What is the problem ? --YB ^✍ 13:17, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Probably that you weren't extended confirmed the last time you tried to use content translations. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:26, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are you getting this today while logged in to this account? Please post the url or steps to reproduce where you are getting the message. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:28, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, see url. The text is not translated in english. --YB ^✍ 17:16, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@YanikB: It works for my admin account. Have you enabled "Content Translation" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures? If I disable it then I get the message you quote. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: The "Content Translation" beta is enabled. The problem is that the tool does not allow me to translate an article to english. The text is simply copied without translation. :( --YB ^✍ 12:16, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@YanikB: I thought the tool was not running for you. Do you mean it is running and the only issue is that you don't get a machine translation but have to translate it manually? That is by choice in the English Wikipedia. See WP:CXT#Why machine translation is disabled in content translation. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:48, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Debbie McGee 's dob and age is wrong[edit]

Hi there, As above her age and dob is wrong Kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:6267:1A00:B1F6:CE36:4852:B731 (talk) 20:11, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IP, unless you have information from a reliable source that says it is different, the DOB on Debbie McGee page appears to be correct [1] NZFC^(talk) 20:42, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article has been vandalised several times today, so you must have read it on one of the occasions when it was wrong before it was corrected. Dbfirs 21:22, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translation from German to English[edit]

Dear wikipedia friends,

I wanted to translate the German page [[2]] into English and post it in the English wikipedia. However, it says: Translate page - Note: This utility is currently restricted to extended confirmed editors on the English Wikipedia, see WP:CXT for more information.

Could someone please help me with the translation?

Thanks in advance

Akinom1985 (talk) 23:07, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Crosskeys Inn County Antrim[edit]

Hi, An update I provided on this page was deleted. Can anyone advise why? Also how can I get it reinstated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.251.13 (talk) 23:42, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you are talking about the removal in August of material which was a copyright violation, see this version. If the copyright holder wishes to donate the copyright, the process is at WP:DCM, but otherwise material added to Wikipedia needs to be in your own words. Regardless of copyright concerns, it should be borne in mind that material from a subject's own website is often not suitable for Wikipedia, as it tends to be written in promotional terms, rather than from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia articles should be largely based on what sources independent of the subject have said, rather than on primary sources. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:11, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]