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October 22

Swing in waltz and foxtrot

I wonder why the article on foxtrot does not include the term "swing." In Europe and elsewhere, waltz and foxtrot are referred to as "swing dancing," (which has nothing to do with American swing dances such as East Coast Swing or West Coast Swing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.202.202.43 (talk) 02:09, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. We are all volunteers, and each of of (about 100,000 of us this month) does whatever we get interested in. Please make this addition to the article yourself, but be sure to cite reliable sources (WP:RS). If you are not comfortable doing this, then please open a new section on the article's talk page and make your suggestion there. -Arch dude (talk) 04:34, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello, the article on Foxtrot does include the term "swing" (e.g. "Today, the dance is customarily accompanied by the same big band music to which swing is also danced.") As Archdude mentions, you may choose to add more material on the connection between the two dance genres within the article, using reliable sources as citations. Do note that we also have a separate article for Swing dancing. Thanks, Lourdes 05:08, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Weird references rendering

Hello, why exactly is ref no. 24 here rendered so awkardly with regard to the excessive spacing before and after the line starting with Urbina, Ian (October 20, 2009)?--Neufund (talk) 15:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

I don't see any excessive spacing before and after that line, Neufund. --ColinFine (talk) 15:24, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Well, that's funny, since I actually do!--Neufund (talk) 15:27, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

PS: The same problem occurs to me with the line Gueco, Luverne B. (24 September 2005) here: On my screen, a giant space is displayed before that line.--Neufund (talk) 15:44, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm seeing the extra space for certain window widths, using Firefox 62.0.3. I've no idea of the cause, though. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:55, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

It appears to be caused by the CSS for list items of the class .nocolbreak that use page-break-inside: avoid; --Vexations (talk) 21:04, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

I can't see any strange spacing neither in Google Chrome (version 70.0) nor in MS IE (11), except that the first bullet of the list is in separate line from the caret symbol (which links back to the place in Lawsuits section, where the ref is inserted). --CiaPan (talk) 10:12, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments so far. @John of Reading and Vexations: I'm quite glad I'm not the only one experiencing that glitch! Does any of you have experience with reporting errors like these to the programmers responsible? If so, would you mind doing so – I've never done that before …--Neufund (talk) 18:36, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

editing

My posts on Pitcairn were removed. I live here! Nicolas Kennedy is the new admin here, has been for 3 months. No one ever calls the pidgin 'pitcairnese'. Never heard that term before. It is PITKERN! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shudie (talk • contribs) 17:36, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Shudie, and thank you for your contributions to the encyclopaedia. Only one edit was reverted, and this was done in error by an automatic process that detected your removal of a link to another article. A human editor would just have put the link back, but software bots don't always have the ability to think logically. There is a message on your talk page with the opportunity to report the mistake by "Cluebot NG" (the automatic process). I've re-done your edits that were reverted, and I hope they will now not be removed again. Please continue your good work to correct any errors that you find, and let us know if you have any more problems. Best wishes from an island in the Atlantic to an island in the Pacific. Dbfirs 21:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Maximum size of cited article in source

Hi Folks, Please take a look at David Dunger. Hugely important research roughly 6000 times, but it has come with an enormous number of names as co-authors. Any ideas. Is there something you put, et. all at the end? Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 20:39, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

You can use the |display-authors=x parameter where x is a number which determines the number of authors to list before appending 'et al'. I have done that now. But on a personal note, even the source text is over bloated now and there's no harm in reducing them to say the first 10, as the article gets more content.–Ammarpad (talk) 21:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ammarpad, thanks, that's worked fine. scope_creep (talk) 05:42, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Getting back to editing

Hi,

I am a new member and I seem to have lost my way.

1. How do I get back to editing? I used to get prompts to start editing a new article and since I made a user page that doesn't happen anymore. 2. How do I verify my user page and see what information is relevant here? Can I see examples of what other's have on their user pages? 3. How do I respond to someone through talk? I clicked on her name but did not see a text box to add my message.

Thanks for your help. My best, Julie Kling — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julie Kling (talk • contribs) 22:27, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Julie Kling Welcome - here's a good tutorial on editing. Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing. Cheers, TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 00:02, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

@Julie Kling: welocme back to Wikipedia. There is also a good tutorial on how to use User Talk pages at Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages. You will probably have questions after reading these, so please come back and ask as often as you need. --Gronk Oz (talk) 01:34, 23 October 2018 (UTC)