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October 11

Monash University

I have added a file of Normanby House crest - it is too big. Please make it a little smaller if possible. Thanks 203.132.68.1 (talk) 00:42, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

 Done I have added Template:Non-free reduce to File:Monash-shield.png. Cheers, Daylen (talk) 01:06, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Old editor

Hello! I was just wondering if there is a way to switch back to the old editor? I know progress and all that but I can't figure out how to use half of the tools I used to have access to with the old editor. Thanks. Whispering 01:11, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

If you always want the source editor then you should have "Always give me the source editor" at "Editing mode:" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing, and "New wikitext mode" and "Automatically enable all new beta features" should be disabled at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. If this doesn't give you the tools you want then please be more specific about which tools are missing. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:19, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Ah, thank you very much there is the edit summary bar again. Yay, I am now going off to edit happily again. Whispering 03:21, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

 Done --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:11, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Brooklyn100

Hello I submitted a written paragraph to apply for a wikipedia page for an established artist. I was denied and told that it can not go public. Can you tell me how I can get it published please? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brooklyn100 (talk • contribs) 01:27, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Seems to refer to draft article Draft:DJ TAZ RJFJR (talk) 01:50, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

• Hello Brooklyn100. The reviewer KGirlTrucker81 has left a concise message on your talk page giving the reasons for rejecting the draft. The actual message is:

"The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you."

For your benefit, I have formatted the citations in your draft. My suggestion would be to add more reliable sources to the draft that support each statement made in the draft (for example, I don't see any reliable source confirming that DJ Taz charted Billboard at #8, as you have claimed). As this is a biography of a living person, you need to follow WP:BLP, which is the policy defining any material about any living person added to Wikipedia. In summary, every statement that you write in the draft has to be supported by a reliable source. Once you have done that, push the "RESUBMIT" button on the draft. I hope this helps you. In case you need more assistance, feel free to ask here. Warmly. Lourdes 02:49, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Dr. George Doring Ludwig & Ultrasound

Color photo of another George Ludwig is inserted under my Father's, Dr George Doring Ludwig's, bio & description of development of ultrasound. Only black & white photos exist for my father. Please remove incorrect color photo of other George Ludwig from my Father's bio. Thank you. Rosemary Ludwig-Turner — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.13.118.233 (talk) 02:22, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello Rosemary. If you're referring to the article George Ludwig, which you seem to have edited a few days ago, there has been no color image of any person on that article's page since perhaps when the article was written originally. If there is any other article you might be referring to, please do mention here. While you're here, do please go through Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines before editing any article that is related to you. Warmly. Lourdes 02:35, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

• You probably saw the picture in your Google search result. Wikipedia has no control over the summary and pictures that Google uses. Google often grabs the words from the Wikipedia article and a picture from a completely different source. Arch dude (talk) 05:12, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Monash University

The newly added file on the above page of the Normanby House crest is still too big. Please fix and make smaller. Thanks 203.132.68.1 (talk) 02:25, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I've made it 75% of the original thumbnail size. Tell me how it looks now. Lourdes 03:01, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Linking multiple pages to a main changed page (link changed)

   I wanted to know if it is possible to get all references to a wikipedia page redirected to the new link. As in, if the link has changed for a wikipedia page is it possible to change all references to the page at once?? For example if 4 other pages have reference or have mentioned the wikipedia page is it possibly to change all links pointing to the new page at once?

What Wikipedia page? and what "new link"? If normal Wikipedia procedures are followed, the process you describe should not be necessary. Maproom (talk) 07:30, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

• Specifically, you "change the name" by performing a page move: click on the "move" button at the top right of the page you wish to move to the new name. This moves the page to the new name and creates a redirect page with the old name. All articles that link to the old name are unchanged, but if anyone uses the link they end up at the new page. Now, you are free to edit those pages at you leisure to change the text if that is important. You can find all affected pages using the "what links here" function n the left-hand column of the moved page. there is no function to automatically change the actual text, because there are many possible variations with piped links that require a human decision -Arch dude (talk) 15:26, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Dan Enright page -- edits of John Birke

I added a section regarding Enright's relationship with my late mother, Donna Birke (who acted as a child under her maiden name, Donna Jo Boyce). I have firsthand knowledge of all facts included in that section because I knew Enright during the period he lived with my mother and that their relationship began after she became the all-time winner on the game show "Bullseye" that he and Jack Barry produced.

Can you provide any published evidence for the existence of the relationship? Wikipedia relies only on what has been published in reliable independent sources, not on the knowledge of its contributors. I'm certainly not doubting your word, I'm just explaining how Wikipedia operates. Maproom (talk) 07:41, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Changed company logo

Our company changed new logo. How to amend that in Wikipedia? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gocanucksgo (talk • contribs) 08:46, October 11, 2017 (UTC)

If you send the new logo as an attachment to:

info-en@wikimedia.org

and the email address is associated with the company, someone will do it for you.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:53, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey Gocanucksgo. What is the name of the article? GMG^talk 14:05, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongkong_International_Terminals_Ltd.:: Gocanucksgo (talk)

 Done See File:Hongkong International Terminals company logo 2017.png. I took the liberty of using the logo from the homepage, including the blue background, because white text on a clear background doesn't tend to work well on Wikipedia articles. GMG^talk 12:26, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey GMG that was wonderful. Many thanks. But I would also like to know how I could do it myself just in case I need to change later. In fact I might need to change the logo in the Wikipedia Chinese page anyway. Can you teach me how? Thanks. Gocanucksgo (talk)

£ s d translate into pounds and (new) pence

Having just put some prices in pre-decimalisation format on Highland clearances (to illustrate the catastrophic drop in commodity prices that was a proximal cause of the second phase), I was wondering if there is something available in Wikipedia to translate that into a decimal currency format? I am guessing that many people will not find it easy to do calculations with prices in pounds, shillings and pence - certainly not as mental arithmetic. It would make the article look a little bit more user friendly. I am not talking about the value of money changing over time (because the values to compare are in the past and not many years apart). ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 09:25, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm not aware of any such tool but you could easily enough (I would think) write a template to do that.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:10, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I'd drop a note at Template talk:Convert. While the related templates are all non-monetary, and it may not be appropriate to use that template for money, my guess is that the people who contribute there know the type of template that you want *quite* well.Naraht (talk) 15:10, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I can convert £ s d to decimal in my head, the reason being that I was brought up in a household that used both systems well into the 80's (Don't ask). So if you have any figures, you are welcome to run them by me. Irondome (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

It is my belief the original author can as well, but he is looking for a template that will (and I'm guessing here) look like {{decimalize-UKPound|Pounds=25|Sterling=8|Pence=5}} and get out something that looks like £25 8s 5d (Decimalized £25 42.08p).Naraht (talk) 19:02, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I think you mean "Shillings" rather than "Sterling", Naraht. And such a template should really round to the nearest penny. --ColinFine (talk) 22:00, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Yes, and that would of course be another parameter.Naraht (talk) 11:01, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Adding a jpeg to a company page.

Hi,

I am updating our company page and I can make text edits but cannot add logo and office images. Any help on this please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by F.otiato (talk • contribs) 11:42, October 11, 2017 (UTC)

For whatever it's worth, the relevant article appears to be AFRINIC, and I have taken the liberty of removing almost the entire thing, because nearly all of it was copypasted from online, and I have requested revdel. GMG^talk 15:34, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

• Hello F.otiato. If I am correctly assuming you are editing that page per your boss's instructions, please immediately read WP:PAID and make the appropriate disclosure before editing any further.

This being said, you may find WP:LOGO a useful read. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:22, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

create entry

how do I create an entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siskentinicreator (talk • contribs) 14:54, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey Siskentinicreator. You may want to check out our tutorial on writing your first article. GMG^talk 15:34, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Warn

I want to learn how do I warn, whose account is already created but still editing logged out? 182.182.30.234 (talk) 15:30, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

• Editing while logged out is allowed, so you should not warn others for doing so. (Except if they are trying to pass as two separate editors, in which case you should indeed warn them or open an WP:SPI). Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:19, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Groups/Sandbox

I have several classes working with wiki edu this semester. The directions they gave me indicated that one student out of each group should "share" their sandbox with members of their group so that they are only working out of one. Can you help me figure out how they do this? JButlerModaff (talk) 16:19, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

@JButlerModaff: I don't know who "they" are in "The directions they gave me" or what context it was said in, but if you want your student groups to work on the same page instead of individual pages then just tell them to agree on a page and tell eachother the address of that page. All user sandboxes can be seen and edited by anyone (unless the page is protected and that's rare). Logged in users have a "Sandbox" link at the top of pages, e.g. going to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JButlerModaff/sandbox for you. But others can edit the page if they just know where it is. Being able to edit the same page is the whole point of a wiki. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:40, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello, JButlerModaff. Given your question, I wonder if you have read WP:Education program/Educators? --ColinFine (talk) 22:03, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Found back Reference links, but don't know how to fix them

Hi,

I was on a page about the Paulding Light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_Light. References 2 through 5 have links that don't work and I don't know how to fix them. Something about a Reflist template.

Here's the correct link for Reference #4: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div1&byte=1818465519&q1=paulding

Thanks! Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicagonature (talk • contribs)

@Chicagonature: References are usually written and edited where they are used in the article text and not where they are displayed in the references section. You can edit the section where the reference is used, or edit the whole page on the "Edit" tab. See more at Help:Referencing for beginners. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:47, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

@Chicagonature: I just added web archive links to the dead references on that page, and fixed that URL. This is the edit, for reference. Dairy_{talk} 00:16, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

How to insert HTML code

How do I insert normal HTML code into whatever code you guys use? When I insert an HTML table into a Wikipedia source page it looks like I inserted it into a WYSIWYG page. The code doesn't parse , it just sits there in text form. Is it really that hard to contribute to a Wikipedia page? R — Preceding unsigned comment added by *POSAM* (talk • contribs) 18:01, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey *POSAM*. Wikipedia markup is often not too terribly different from HTML, and if you're familiar with HTML you'll probably catch on fairly quickly. But it's not quite the same, and doing tables in Wiki markup can be especially difficult. For the full instructions on how to do this see Help:Table. GMG^talk 18:29, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks GreenMeansGo for directing me to Help:Table ; I will study it soon * I was too timid to throw junk into the page I wanted to edit/insert so I aborted since the preview was obviously corrupted * There's lots of education to contribute to WP for a user who just wants to help-out on rare occasion * Just picking a place where I wanted to insert a table didn't work as expected , even when inserting my table into an inserted WP table * Thanks for giving me hope that it can be done before I give-up entirely * For me , contibuting to WP is optional and I can't spend days doing it * My experience with HTML code is quite rudimentary although my simple standalone stuff works in any browser * *POSAM* (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@*POSAM*: HTML table code should actually work although wiki markup is preferred. But this question is the only edit by your account so it's impossible for us to say what went wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Plus, tables are easy using VE - copy and paste from a spreadsheet.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:23, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks PrimeHunter for your suggestions * My table was originally created in a WYSIWYG editor and works on Thunderbird * Can you say the sequence of how an edit appears in WP ?* If I submit garbage , will it be reviewed/edited before it appears on the WP webpage ?* Is this the proper way to edit-in a thread to this topic ?* Where does the "*POSAM* (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2017 (UTC)" go and what does it do ?* Ok , I see it now in the preview *

*POSAM* (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

If you can get the spreadsheet copied into Excel, you can go from there. Try https://tools.wmflabs.org/excel2wiki/ and copy and paste from excel into the box and use what it generates. It may work directly from the web, I don't know.Naraht (talk) 17:42, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

In answer to another question, *POSAM*: every edit you make anywhere in Wikipedia is immediately visible to the world (though not all pages get indexed by search engines). The only kind of "submit" is if editors choose to use the articles for creation process, whereby they submit a draft for review before it gets moved to article space. If there's a change you want to make that you think might be contoversial, or you want to discuss for other reasons, the article's Talk page is the recommended place to do that. Also have a look at WP:BRD. --ColinFine (talk) 21:22, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

You can click the "Sandbox" link at top of any page to make test edits. Others will be able to see and edit your sandbox but it will not be part of the encyclopedia or indexed by search engines by default. There are different ways to make edits and I cannot say what goes wrong when you have never saved it. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:52, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Stephen Gatwick Actor

You have him born in Stockwell, London and in Cardiff, Wales.

Best wishes.

Bryan Carr — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.222.140.103 (talk) 18:18, 11 October 2017‎ (UTC)

Which article is this in? Search does not turn up one for Stephen Gatwick. RudolfRed (talk) 19:12, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Evidently a cupertino for Stephen Garlick. And indeed it appears that we do. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195) 2.121.163.21 (talk) 23:30, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Two different birth dates as well. Eagleash (talk) 23:40, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

But no mention of Cardiff. It claims Stockwell and Swansea. Google finds sources for both. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:50, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Request to review new article

Hi

I created a new Wikipedia article (Yasodara Cordova), and I would like an experienced editor to review/patrol it.

Thanks! Samer.hc (talk) 19:16, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Isn't her name Córdova, with an accent? Maproom (talk) 19:34, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

The article looks good to me, and I have moved it to the new title Yasodara Córdova so that her name is spelled correctly. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:58, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Isn't the rule to have the article at the name without the accents and have the redirect from the name spelled with the proper accents? I don't remember where the policy is. :(Naraht (talk) 11:52, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Policy is at WP:TSC, and in this case, I think with the accent should be the title, and without the redirect, just as it is now.Naraht (talk) 12:02, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Can I use TikZ in formulas?

While MediaWiki has a PGFTikZ extension, I am not sure whether and how it can be used in Latex formulas in Wikipedia. This would be very helpful for having diagrams in formulas, as is often needed in physics and mathematics. Sylvain Ribault (talk) 20:21, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sylvain Ribault: considering how technical the question is, you might have a better chance asking it at WP:VPT. Let me try pinging PrimeHunter first though: they patrol here regularly and are quite a tech-savy person. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 09:24, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sylvain Ribault: mw:Extension:PGFTikZ is not listed at Special:Version. That means PGFTikZ is not installed at the English Wikipedia and cannot be used here. There are thousands of MediaWiki extensions at mw:Category:All extensions. We only have a small part of them. I have found no suggestion to install PGFTikZ at Wikipedia. Your own attempt to use it at User:Sylvain Ribault/sandbox is the only mention I can find. You can make diagrams offline with external software and upload them as images. See Help:Upload for help. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:37, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@Tigraan: Thank you for the suggestion and for pinging PrimeHunter. On WP:VPT I found two mentions of TikZ, both from 2012. But nothing since. --Sylvain Ribault (talk) 20:30, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: Many thanks for the explanations. I want to use diagrams in equations (displayed or inline) and it will not do to treat equations as images. Several fields of physics and mathematics have diagrammatic equations, and TikZ is the standard for drawing them nowadays.

For example, I am considering creating an article on conformal blocks, a fundamental concept in conformal field theory. (The first Google hit for conformal blocks at the moment is a rather extensive but potentially confusing discussion [[1]] on StackExchange.) The standard notation for conformal blocks uses diagrams, and it would be very awkward not to use it in equations.

The problem of course already arose in other cases, for example with Feynman diagrams. In the article on quantum electrodynamics for example, you have a list of 9 fundamental formulas with accompanying text that are presented as a single image, certainly because the TikZ diagrams could not be drawn otherwise. As a result, all these formulas and this text are not editable. Not installing PGFTikZ means that we will have a growing number of formulas that will similarly not be editable.

So how where do I write a formal request to install PGFTikZ? How long might it take to get an answer to such a request? --Sylvain Ribault (talk) 20:30, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sylvain Ribault: Anyone can create an extension and make a page about it at mw:. Do you know whether it works and is maintained? mw:Extension:PGFTikZ#Known problems is unchanged since the second edit when the page was created in 2012. The author hasn't edited since 2015. It doesn't sound promising. The Wikimedia developers are cautious about installing extensions. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:30, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter: How could I have been so ignorant? So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Yes, indeed, the extension does not look good, and I would not dare suggesting that it be installed. I still believe that we sorely need TikZ in Wikipedia, but I now understand that getting it cannot be quick and easy. Thank you very much for educating me on this. --Sylvain Ribault (talk) 12:39, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Coordinate help needed

Greetings, is someone here familiar enough with coordinates to make the broken coordinate tag in User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Arago hotspot work? It seems to be some coordinate format problem. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:37, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: It must be to do with the longitude value exceeding 180°. I tested the coord template with a few values and it falls over above 180. Hotspot (geology) suggests coordinates of 23°24′S 150°42′W for this location; does that sound correct? That would seem to place it somewhere near the Cook Islands. (I'm not familiar with the geography of this area.) Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 20:45, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

I went to [[2]] and found the correct coordinates, which needed a little conversion. I also added a location map to the draft. MB 01:32, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! JoJo Eumerus mobile (talk) 06:01, 12 October 2017 (UTC)