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September 12

"My Favorite Teacher" by Thomas Friedman

Hi,

I have a School assignment about an article specially wrote on Wikipedia Style about "My Favorite Teacher" by Thomas Friedman published in The New York Times Newspaper on January 09, 2001. I have tried to find it but it is impossible. Could you please let me know how I can get that article? Thank you,

Martha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imelda6363 (talk • contribs) 04:01, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

If you're looking for a Wikipedia article about that, it doesn't exist. However, here's a link to the New York Times piece: Foreign Affairs; My Favorite Teacher. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 04:06, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Imelda6363. If your assignment is to write an article about that Friedman piece in the style of a Wikipedia article, then an essay called Your first article may be useful to you. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:21, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Bob Woodward page hacked

Hello,

I searched Bob Woodward’s page today and yesterday and noticed it looks like it has been altered repeatedly recently. The content now only shows mainly negative criticism of the journalist and has very little information on his Watergate days. If you want to really earn money via fundraising, please show that your site is not biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:300:16A3:9C1:13C3:4E0:F9F6 (talk) 04:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Every Wikipedia article has an associated talk page for discussions about improvement to that article. That is where concerns like yours should be discussed. To access an article's talk page, click the "Talk" tab near the top of the article page. ―Mandruss ☎ 05:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

A couple of days ago an editor moved some sections around-the section "awards and recognition" was moved further down the page, after the rest of his career history, to match the standard layout for bio pages. No text was changed or removed. According to the history of the page, there has only been some minor copyediting,(reformatting of references, grammar fixes) etc for the past 8 months; no rewriting, removal or or addition of content at all. It was protected on 5 Sept. as it was being vandalized, but the vandalism was reverted pretty much immediately. You can always check the history yourself if you look to the left and click on "view history", you can see every change made to the page since it was first written. Curdle (talk) 10:38, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@Curdle: Regardless of the situation, that's a discussion that belongs on the article talk page, not here. The only response to such a post should be a pointer to article talk. ―Mandruss ☎ 11:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

United Nations World Summit Award - should be moved back to World Summit Award

Dear all,

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_World_Summit_Awards

The name of award is: World Summit Award NOT United Nations World Summit Award.

Please, help with changing it back to the original. Web page: https://www.worldsummitawards.org/

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulm123 (talk • contribs) 11:18, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@Ulm123: Every Wikipedia article has an associated talk page for discussions about improvement to that article. That is where concerns like yours should be discussed. To access an article's talk page, click the "Talk" tab near the top of the article page. ―Mandruss ☎ 11:25, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

• Ulm123, while what Mandruss writes is the procedure you should follow, I have for now renamed the said article, based on the primary reference confirming the same. Thanks, Lourdes 11:37, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

User page boxes

Sup helpdeskers. Wot it is: if you look at my ancient userpage, it's got those two boxes with autoflow side by side; is it possible to have three of equal dimensions also side by side but with no autoflow? If so...? Pretty please to show me how  :) cheers! —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 15:30, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Serial Number 54129, do you mean the overflow property as to autoflow? ∯WBG^converse 15:52, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Clearly. Now; what's the answer? :p —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 15:55, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

My PC is behaving erratically(: At any case, see User:Winged Blades of Godric/design, (except for the alignment). ∯WBG^converse 16:49, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@Winged Blades of Godric: That's fantastic, thanks! Would it be possible—sorry, just a couple of ideas—to have the third box the same size as the other, and also maybe make the border transparant? Sorry about your PC. Nothing to do with that Wikidowntime they had early? —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 16:57, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Serial Number 54129, when you say that the third box be of the same size, I suppose you mean, that the borders of all the three boxes would enclose the same area? Actually, I was using the min-height property set to a trivial pixel (or one can use the auto parameter as to the height property) which extends the dimension of the box, per the amount of content in it.

If it is so, we are supposed to set the size of all the three boxes to a particular pixel that corresponds to the height of the box having the largest amount of content.Accordingly, there will be a varying amount of white space(s) in the other ones.

But, the most fundamental problem in going for a fixed height is that this length of the box varies across viewing environments and since, it cannot be auto-adjusted per the content, the content often-overshoots the height parameter.Without the overflow property, the additional content plainly renders itself outside of the box in a messy manner.( The default overflow parameter is visible).Try to see this revision across a variety of devices:-) Or try to view your old user page, in a similar fashion (you may alter the height, per your wish) after removing the overflow parameter, across different environments.

One can go for scalability, re-flowing et al but I don't think it to be possible without a lot of code-bloat.

Me personally thinks that the overflow property handles a lot of situation meticulously and this version is good-enough.Feel free to tamper with the height, per your wish:)

As to transparency of border, if you mean completely transparent, the rendering is over this edit.

If you plan to affect the opacity of the border, you have to go for a RGBA color with corresponding values for the alpha channel where 0.0 (fully transparent) and 1.0 (fully opaque).See this edit of mine, for an example.

As to my PC, it's behaving weirdly for the past few days.But, might be equally connected with the wiki-downtime! ∯WBG^converse 05:59, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks very much Winged Blades of Godric; naturally I didn't understand 80% of that! :D But I think I get the gist. Basically, we can't just have boxes that get longer every time an extra line is added?

I wondere about the downtime thing because ever since then, all my email notifications are going into the spam box, which is less than ideal. Or in some cases a bloody good idea  :) Cheers! —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 10:59, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Serial Number 54129, you can do so with the coding executed at this version but you'll have to trade-off with a bizarre alignment.As might be inferred, equal amount of content in the three boxes will align them pretty-perfectly but if you shift from that (supposedly, the first box gets progressively larger than the other two, which is a very realistic scenario), there will be an heightened de-aligning.

And, all emails are delivered into spam?! I need to check my one! :( ∯WBG^converse 12:51, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

U.S.-China Green Fund - article deleted

Dear Editor,

I created a page called U.S.-China Green Fund but it looks like it has been deleted. Can you please let me know why this is the case?

Thanks, Annie — Preceding unsigned comment added by AYZhou (talk • contribs) 17:44, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

If you click on the red link to the article it will show you the deletion log with the reason for deletion. There are further useful links in the message on your user talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Updating articles on wikipedia

Hello ,

I have edited couple of historical articles and noticed that some users who watch the articles and have more expereince reverted back the edits due to some political affiliation and may not like the updates although it was backed by historical references .

How do you walk that thin line ? obvioulsy is not good to keep editing and reverting back how does wikipedia resolve those type of conflicts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.81.103.41 (talk) 18:01, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Please see Dispute resolution, which describes a number of approaches to resolving disputes between editors. However, also be sure to read your Talk page if you are the one being reverted for an explanation of why the edit was reverted, and see Assume good faith. The likelihood that "users ... with more experience reverted ... due [exclusively] to some political affiliation" is low, because usually this behavior results in the user being eventually blocked. There is more often a sound policy-based reason for the reversion. General Ization ^Talk 18:06, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Broken reference links

Hello. Can somebody help me fix the links to the corresponding work within the references for "Magie" here? I suppose they don't work due to the Roman numbers used as page references, but I don't know how to solve that problem. Thanks a lot in advance for any support!--Neufund (talk) 19:16, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Done - @Neufund:, the last2 parameter was used incorrectly. By the way, you probably are aware of this but the "Historia Augusta & 395 AD" anchors still need work - they are out of sync with the current parameters (not sure how to solve it, but I'll take a look - done and fixed too, sort of). GermanJoe (talk) 20:00, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Best wishes,--Neufund (talk) 20:18, 12 September 2018 (UTC)