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June 18[edit]

Translated quotes[edit]

Quick question about translated quotes. Let's say I have a quote from a publication in another language that I want to use in the prose. How do I indicate that it has been translated, and do I include the original text? Thanks (I'm not watching this page – please use {{reply to|PerfectSoundWhatever}} on reply) — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 01:51, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PerfectSoundWhatever, see MOS:FOREIGNQUOTE in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. StarryGrandma (talk) 02:05, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Links[edit]

the links in the article. List of most-streamed songs on Spotify they are not complete and they are also very poorly added, Can someone find out if some anonymous user deleted the missing links on purpose or is it some kind of vandalism?--Tirso Gutiérrez (talk) 15:50, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Tirso Gutiérrez: You seem to have been working very hard on that article recently and it now looks fine to me (but I'm no expert on the topic). Thanks for tidying things up. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:31, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting Sandbox userpage[edit]

1 - Since I made Significant New Alternatives Policy, I want to delete my userpage Sandbox I was using before making that page: User:Fephisto/Significant_New_Alternatives_Policy . How do I do this?

2 - I'd like to do that css thing where the top and left headers of a table are static as you scroll down the document in Significant New Alternatives Policy#Refrigerants. What would be the best way to go about that?

Fephisto (talk) 17:05, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fephisto::

You can tag a page in your own userspace where you're the only significant contributor with {{db-u1}} to request that an admin deletes it.
I'm not sure if this is generally done from an accessibility/MOS standpoint, but in general, creating sticky headers works similar to this:

Table header
first collumn	second collumn	third collumn
cell A1	cell B1	cell C1
cell A2	cell B2	cell C2
cell A3	cell B3	cell C3

Note that any solution is likely going to be skin-dependent, as some skins (notably Vector 2022 and Timeless) have their own sticky elements. Victor Schmidt (talk) 17:33, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Fephisto (talk) 17:42, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

VIAF name[edit]

I looked for Michi Kobi's Japanese name in this VIAF link: [1] From that link, I think it is 岡本まち子 and added it to the English article and Wikidata. But later I thought: is it the same person? The person died in 2016 and their death date is not shown beside her Japanese name. So it might be a different Michi Kobi who just so happens to have the same birth year, but is still alive. FunnyMath (talk) 21:28, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into Web NDL Authorities and it says the information was last updated in the year 2000: [2]. So that might explain why the death date wasn't included. But still, I want another fellow Wikipedian to confirm that 岡本まち子 is Michi Kobi's Japanese name. FunnyMath (talk) 22:52, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

岡本まち子 is Okamoto Machiko, which the article says is her original name. In normal circumstances it certainly couldn't be read Michi Kobi (in particular, the personal name is written partly in Kana, and so could not be read any way other than Machiko). I don't know for sure that she could not have used it for her stage name, but I would be extremely surprised. ColinFine (talk) 14:48, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I've now found out that her name in Japanese is spelled either ミチ・コビ or ミッチ・コビ. I got the ッ-less name from a book and the ッ name from several websites, including Yahoo! JAPAN. You can see the sources in the Michi Kobi article in the lead. Are all the sources I used for her Japanese name reliable? FunnyMath (talk) 23:18, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna ask the question at the following link instead to get an answer: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Michi_Kobi FunnyMath (talk) 19:14, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Those are katakana spellings of "Michi Kobi" and "Micchi Kobi" respectively. Katakana is mostly used for foreign words and names, and not normally for Japanese names. That, along with the variation, and the use of the Western order, suggests to me that these are Japanese transliterations of the (effectively) non-Japanese name "Michi Kobi". That doesn't mean she couldm't have used one or other, but I'm dubious that it should be referred to as "her Japanese name". ColinFine (talk) 09:56, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

True. That's what the people at the reliable sources noticeboard told me as well. The katakana names have been removed from the Wikipedia article and the Wikidata page. Thank you for your help. FunnyMath (talk) 22:51, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]