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April 30

Referencing errors on Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other

Reference help requested. I have no idea how to fix this. Please help:

User talk:Rtobyr Thanks, 24.176.163.99 (talk) 02:30, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the template {{reflist-talk}} to resolve the error message at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other. You had added a ref within <ref>...</ref> tags, but no {{reflist}} to allow the ref to display, see WP:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:51, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT-related_television_episodes Post stone wall list?

What happened to the list of American LGBT-related_television_episodes Post stone wall list? Venustar84 (talk) 05:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It took me a while to figure out what you were asking, as I had never heard of the Stonewall riots. It looks to me as if the answer is in Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:40, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah but what about episodes from the 2000's or 2010's? Like List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes? Venustar84 (talk) 06:13, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to rephrase my question correctly: where is list the post-Ellen LGBT episodes ones listed past the year 2000 or more current because the episodes listed are old at this link: Lists_of_American_television_episodes_with_LGBT_themes Wikpedia used to have a link for them? What happened? Venustar84 (talk) 01:02, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was deleted due to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes. It was later undeleted and moved to Wikipedia:Article Incubator/List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes. But that was deleted due to the discussion Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article Incubator/List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:06, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me to find a meta/shortname

In the first table of the section Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s, you see an entry "Democratic Nationalist Party James Lewthwaite".

However, if you look at the markup code for that entry, only "DNP" appears, not "Democratic Nationalist Party".

I've read Template:Election box candidate with party link#Party set up, specifically about

Template:ArticleName/meta/color

Template:ArticleName/meta/shortname

I suppose the "shortname" meta file is converting "DNP" to "Democratic Nationalist Party", but I can't find the meta files.

Unfortunately, the article does not have an "Election box metadata" template on its "Talk" page.

Please, would you tell me:

Am I right? Is the meta/shortname file causing the conversion?
If yes, where is it located? I would appreciate an exact URL or internal link, please.

--LukasMatt (talk) 07:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The documentation doesn't seem very clear; that "ArticleName" ought to be "Party name", I think. In this case the two pages are Template:DNP/meta/shortname and Template:DNP/meta/color. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:48, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Thanks.

--LukasMatt (talk) 08:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

disruptive administrator

I need some help on obtaining information on a what appears to be a particularly irresponsible administrator.

Could you please explain what is going on?

When trying to access the User talk page for JzG, I get:

User:JzG

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.

17:11, 24 March 2014 JzG (talk | contribs) deleted page User:JzG ( G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)

When I go to G5, I get: G5. Creations by banned or blocked users Shortcut: WP:G5

Further information: Wikipedia:Banning policy and Wikipedia:Blocking policy

Pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, and which have no substantial edits by others. G5 should not be applied to transcluded templates or to categories that may be useful or suitable for merging.

To qualify, the edit must have been made while the user was actually banned or blocked.

A page created before the ban or block does not qualify.

To qualify, the edit must be a violation of the user's block or ban. For example, pages created by a topic-banned user may be deleted if they come under that particular topic, but not if they are in some other topic.

Has this administrator's actions on another article been responsible for his being blocked or banned on one or more articles? If so, can we get him blocked from ours? If not, how can we prevent him from making unjustified deletions without edit warring, which he would win because of his experience and role? Aqm2241 (talk) 08:07, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:JzG's user page was created several times by sock puppets of User:Fairyspit. It wasn't deleted because he created it but because sock puppets created it. So the answer is no. Dougweller (talk) 08:32, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And I need to think about this attempt to stop someone from editing Cold fusion in this way. This article is under discretionary sanctions and calling this "our article" is worrying. Dougweller (talk) 08:37, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"User:Name" is a user page and not a user talk page. The user talk page is User talk:JzG. See more at Help:Using talk pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just to point out the blindingly obvious, and also the motivation for this baseless complaint: Aqm2241, the article is not yours. It's ours (i.e. Wikipedia's), and it's our policies that rule, not your fervent wish that the world viewed your pet subject differently. You have declared a WP:COI on Cold fusion (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and that article is under arbitration committee sanctions. You and your possibly-imaginary friends are the problem, not the Wikipedia community or its administrators. Guy (Help!) 11:52, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Submitting new article without saving

I created a new article and submitted it without saving. Is it somewhere safe or gone forever? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heatmasters (talk • contribs) 08:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Submitted without saving" is meaningless. You did not submit it so it has never reached Wikipedia. But it might still be there on your machine as a page cached by your browser. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 08:51, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The post here is the only saved edit by your account. If you clicked a Submit or Show preview button but not Save page then the page was not saved anywhere, except possibly in your own browser. If the browser window and tab is still open then try the browser back button. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:37, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When using Opera Wikipedia is displayed in very small font, and is unreadable

Commonly use Opera 20 as my browser. In the past few weeks, whenever I do a search and go into a Wikipedia page from the search results, or go directly into Wikipedia the page is displayed in very tiny font and is unreadable. I do not get the same issue with either Chrome or IE11 - just Opera. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Auristocrat (talk • contribs) 09:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can you change size with Ctrl++ (larger), Ctrl+- (smaller), Ctrl+0 (default)? Ctrl and mousewheel may also change up and down. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:31, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sky Blu (2)

On 28th April I asked the HD for help editing the Sky Blu Wikipedia article. I made a final alteration and asked if I had done it correctly:

"Mdann52 has given the Wiki article on Sky Blu a new title and a Facebook reference, but since you said Facebook is not ideal, using WP's Referencing manual I added a news article that supports the "Sky Blu" spelling as another reference. I then had a message on my Talk page saying I had missed out a square bracket, so I added it in, but the footnote now looks a bit strange. Can you correct my mistake, please, and tell me how you did it? Sorry, I am very new to all this. --P123cat1 (talk) 13:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)"

(1) I have not had a response yet, so do I presume that my alteration was OK?

(2) Since Mdann52 gave the article a new title, i.e. "Sky Blu (rapper)", I see that when entering and clicking "Sky Blu" in the top-right search box on the Wiki page, as some might if they were searching for him, there is no listing of the article under its new name. That will need to be remedied somehow, but I don't know how to do this. --P123cat1 (talk) 10:35, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As for your second question, when you pull up the page for Sky Blu, there is a notice right at the top that says "For the DJ of the same name, see Sky Blu (rapper)." Dismas|^(talk) 10:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And for your first question, I fixed the reference using the WP:REFLINKS tool. In order to do so, I first made an edit where I stripped the reference down to just the bare URL. Then the tool was able to find all the information it needed for the template. Dismas|^(talk) 10:52, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Second question: Sorry, I missed it.

First question: There was nothing under the Wiki Referencing manual that I used (Help: Referencing for beginners) that mentioned WP:REFLINKS. No wonder I couldn't insert the reference properly. --P123cat1 (talk) 13:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, the Reflinks tool is not listed at Ref for Beginners because it's not a beginners sort of tool. What you had was not wrong. You had all the pertinent information. From what I gather of your question, it just didn't look as pretty as you would have liked. All Reflinks did was use the {{cite web}} template to clean it up a bit. I used to type the cite web template in each time using the URL, title, and date accessed fields only. They are the minimum that are required for that template. Reflinks just does that automatically as well as adding things like the publisher and the date the web page was published. Dismas|^(talk) 18:27, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see, thanks. No, I genuinely thought I had made a mistake. But Reflinks is a much neater way and looks so much better in the footnote that I will attempt it next time I need to insert a reference. Thanks for your detailed explanation, much appreciated. --P123cat1 (talk) 14:16, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget that you can use {{cite web}} without using Reflinks. You can either put in the relevant parameters totally manually, or can use something like ProveIt, or the Cite option from the edit toolbar, to help you. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Like I said above, I used to type the {{cite web}} info in manually but other tools do make it easier once you learn them. Dismas|^(talk) 20:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find my new article on Google.

I just wrote an article few days ago (29/4/2014) and I still cannot search any result about that article. Please help, thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tech102 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, please sign your posts on talk pages with 4 tildes (~~~~) and avoid leading spaces that break the format.
Secondly, we have no control over what Google shows, most articles are picked up in a day or two.
Finally, looking at your edit history, you have made 5 edits:- 1 to your talk page, 1 to Vietnamese cuisine, 2 to Thyme, and one here. Are you sure you created an article? If so, what was its title? - Arjayay (talk) 12:53, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Arjayay refers to Special:Contributions/Tech102 which shows your edits here at the English Wikipedia. Do you mean the Vietnamese vi:Cỏ xạ hương? That currently shows up for me in Google searches. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Need to Upload Photo to Brian Choper's Wikipedia Page

Dear Fellow Wikipedia Editors:

I'm a college professor and PR professional who is trying to replace an older photograph from 2009 on Brian Choper's Wikipedia page. Since I'm relatively new to this process, I've been prohibited from uploading and/or replacing his photo with another newer photo he sent me (taken in 2014). Mr. Choper does not have these privileges either. I've read through the instructions, and I cannot determine how to apply for these privileges. All I need to do is handle basic text edits (which seem available) and upload images.

Brian Choper

Thanks!

Chucwhit (talk) 15:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The first concern is whether Choper owns the copyright to that photograph. If he does not, we would have to obtain a license from the photographer for the free use and re-use of that photo. The other concern is that as a PR professional with (apparently) Choper as your client, you should not be editing that article in any way, but merely offering possible content on the talk page of the article (i.e., Talk:Brian Choper). --Orange Mike | Talk 17:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The process for the copyright owner to donate the material to Wikipedia is at WP:donating copyrighted material. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:00, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hiitites

This is my first attempt to insert a correction into Wikipedia. In the article on the Hittites, in the section covering King David's reign, it said that Uriah was a military commander. However, in the story in II Samuel 11, Uriah appears to be only a foot soldier, as the commander, Joab, is able to place Uriah wherever Joab wishes to in the battle, including the front lines. I seem to have inserted the term "foot soldier" OK, but did not get the hang of the way to give references. The reference would be II Sam. 11:3. Thank you. (I did not intend to change the description of the other Hittite mentioned in that Wiki. passage.)

Sara Barnacle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sara Barnacle (talk • contribs) 17:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have done a couple of edits to tidy up the broken section heading, broken reference, and broken wikilink. For the reference, I used the {{bibleverse}} template used elsewhere in the article. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citation error that I can't fix

Following my edits to the Roman à clef article, a citation error appears at the bottom of the page, even though I did not remove the reflist template that was indeed in the article. Can someone fix this? Nightscream (talk) 17:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

After your edit to the "Prose" section, everything from <!--SECONDARY SOURCES ARE NEEDED TO ESTABLISH THE REAL-LIFE PEOPLE THAT ARE CLAIMED TO BE REPRESENTED IN THESE WORKS!> to the end of the article was ignored, because you had opened a comment tag but not properly closed it. I have corrected this for you. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:55, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Wikipedia articles

Is there a search-and-find keyboard function that I can use when scrolling through the text screen that comes up after clicking on "edit" when editing Wikipedia articles? It is quite difficult to spot the word being looked for because all the formatting and footnote wording incorporated into the text is in the same font - it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack sometimes. -P123cat1 (talk) 18:06, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you use your browser's Find function, it can usually do that. It depends on which browser that you're using but most modern browsers (all that I use) do this. So by hitting CMD-F on my Mac or CTRL-F on my work's Windows machine, it will bring up the find dialog box and look for whatever text I type next. You must sometimes just click within the edit window to make sure the cursor is actively in the window first but that's not always the case. Dismas|^(talk) 18:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --P123cat1 (talk) 18:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Page defacement

Speed

Page defaced as:

In everyday Discovered by Adolf Hitler and his best friend frank who loves the holocaust kinematics, the speed of an object is the....

Someone may want to fix this. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.214.135.61 (talk) 20:44, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This vandalism was reverted within two minutes two hours ago. You may have seen a cached version of the page. If you still see the vandalized version then try to purge the page. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template for merger

What is the template I should use in order to suggest a page is merged with another one please?GiraffeBoy (talk) 22:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To editor Alligators1974: If you are not sure of the final destination of the contents, use {{merge|Other page|date=May 2014}} at the top of each page. If you think one page should get all the contents, use {{merge to|Big page|date=May 2014}} and {{merge from|Small page|date=May 2014}}. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 22:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]