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August 30[edit]

Publishing an article[edit]

I have an article ready in my user pages. How do I transfer this for additional scrutiny by wikipedians? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JCFHowell (talk • contribs) 00:28, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you are willing to open it up to scrutiny, you can just move it from Draft:Philip Howell to just plain Philip Howell. However, I'd suggest working on it a lot more first. I already corrected the name, since there was no other Philip Howell article out there. But you need reliable sources, not an adulatory biography by his widow. You need to fully disclose your own conflict of interest. You need a less worshipful, more impartial tone. You need footnotes to the aforementioned reliable sources.--Orange Mike | Talk 00:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

wide picture scroll/downloading pictures/email confirmation code expired[edit]

How do I go about getting another confirmation code to validate my email so I can upload pictures? I this might help answer my next question. lsm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lenamose (talk • contribs) 01:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The permission to upload images has nothing to do with confirming e-mail accounts. The permission is granted automatically to established accounts. See the link for details. However, you can instead upload to Commons where there is no autoconfirmed requirement. Images on Commons can be used on all Wikimedia projects including the English Wikipedia. SpinningSpark 09:45, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Christian Cardell Corbet[edit]

Reference help requested. trying to upload information on coat of arms for Christian Corbet

Thanks, 47.54.229.47 (talk) 01:50, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The error message on that page is pretty clear. It says "Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)." The words "help page" are a wikilink to Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref. If you believe that the clarity of the error message or the help page can be improved, please let us know how. --David Biddulph (talk) 03:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to add reliable source/reference to an article written by me.[edit]

Hi Team,

Please can you guide me on how to add reliable source/reference to an article which I recently created. Thanks, Mumbaisearchlight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mumbaisearchlight (talk • contribs) 06:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are useful links in the tag on the article, & on your user talk page. Start with WP:Reliable sources and WP:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:45, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strange blank space when using columns[edit]

On SS Admiral Sampson, I've created two columns to sort a long bulleted list. Trouble is, there's now a large white space above the bulleted list. Can someone help me figure out what's wrong? JKBrooks85 (talk) 06:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JKBrooks85, I do not see a large white space above the list. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 09:27, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What browser and version are you using? It is frequently Internet Explorer that exhibits this kind of display problem, but it looks ok to me in IE.11. SpinningSpark 10:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@JKBrooks85: i think it may have been dependent upon the screen width with the {col begin} formatting pushing itself down to be below the bottom of the infobox- if your viewing screen was such that the list display would be below the bottom of the info box, you dont get any extra whitespace. the {div col} formatting doesnt seem to do that, setting up its columns in the text space regardless of any other formatting boxes.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 16:20, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@TheRedPenOfDoom:, that seems to be the trick. Thanks! JKBrooks85 (talk) 22:27, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.an-englishmanshome.co.uk/Bradford_1820.htm[edit]

Hi. I noticed you are using some images from my website, I have no objection to this but could you please give me a credit.

regards.......Ted http://www.an-englishmanshome.co.uk/Bradford_1820.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.237.186.212 (talk) 12:50, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

According to that image's file page the person who uploaded it got it from this site, not from yours (and it's apparently a different image, as it lacks the "ECM" notation at top left). In any event, the engraving depicted in the image was created by Robert Creighton in 1835 and is therefore in the public domain—what credit, exactly, do you expect to be given? Deor (talk) 13:19, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it's a different image; but I don't find the "ECM" notation as convincing. That would be fairly easy to photoshop away. I am more convinced by the discoloration around the "g" of "Bowling". A cunning maker of an illegal copy might have added that, but it seems unlikely.

I understand that in creating images from scans of out-of-copyright works, UK law recognises "sweat of the brow" as imparting new copyright in the image, but US law says that there is no new copyright as no creativity is involved. Maproom (talk) 13:52, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Query[edit]

Good day. I would like to find out, is it ever okay or permitted for Wikipedia:Consensus (or lack of consensus) established by editors (a few or many) ... resulting in major policies like Wikipedia:Verifiability or Wikipedia:No original research being overruled? Thank you. starship.paint ~ regal 15:09, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Ignore all rules. SpinningSpark 15:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note that merely citing IGNORE ALL RULES does not mean that you get to ignore the rules. There is an important conditional "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia" - you would need to establish that there is an improvement to the encyclopedia, and also be aware that a "consensus" made amongst a small group of editors will rarely have any actual authority to override such well established and community approved policies such as Wikipedia:Verifiability or Wikipedia:No original research .-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:37, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Out of date Structure on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGIC_(postgraduate_mathematics)[edit]

Dear Wikipedia Staff/editors

I have noticed that the 'Structure' section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGIC_(postgraduate_mathematics) is out of date. You can see the full list of members on the MAGIC webpage: http://maths-magic.ac.uk/index.php

I would appreciated if you could update this list.

Many thanks and best regards.

Sara maths (talk) 15:14, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Maproom (talk) 15:33, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Question/Suggestion[edit]

Hi! I was just wondering if there is some group of people who are interested in helping stuff look better. (Specifically portals.) I have noticed that many portals have great content, but don't seem to look very good. Unfortunately, I am not very good at making things look nice. I was working on the Energy portal when I got the idea to ask. One thing that I thought would be nice was making pictures in the portals match each other. For example, all pictures in one portal should either be actual pictures, OR drawings/ cartoons. Sorry for rambling. :) I put this in the Teahouse and no one replied, so I thought it might not be the right place to ask something like this. If this isn't the right place for a suggestion/question either, I'd be glad if someone told me where to ask this! :) JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 15:42, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

The most suitable places for discussing this that immediately spring to mind are Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals and Wikipedia:Village pump. My personal opinion on the idea of not mixing photographs and drawings is that it is a ridiculous idea. SpinningSpark 16:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for answering my question! :) As I said, I'm not very good with making things look nice, which is exactly why I was hoping there was some sort of group that works to help with this sort of thing. And I do think that photographs and drawings can look really nice together; what I meant to say was that some of the more cartoonish pictures/drawings seem to kind of clash with more realistic/detailed pictures/drawings. Of course, that's just my personal opinion. Again, thanks for taking the time to read this! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk • contribs)

@JonathanHopeThisIsUnique: the Wikipedia:Graphics Lab has people that create and clean up images and they might be a good resource. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:31, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@TheRedPenOfDoom: Thanks! This is definitely going in the right direction. :) JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 13:30, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nalli -Thisai Ettum English Translation Literary Award -2014 awarded to Dr Anaivaari R. Anandan[edit]

Nalli -Thisai Ettum English Translation Literary Award -2014 has been awarded to Dr Anaivaari R. Anandan for his translation of 105 Modern Tamil Poems into English, published by Kavikkuyil Pathippagam,Chennai.

As an established poet,writer, author of about 70 works in Tamil and English and the Editor and Publisher of the Kavikkuyil- Tamil Monthly, Dr Anaivaariyar has translated 12 Siddha Medical Works from Tamil into English, while he was working as Special Officer(Translation), in Indian Medicine Dept, Govt. of Tamilnadu. He has also translated 4 Sahitya Akademi works from Telugu,Marathi, Bengali and Oriya into Tamil through English.And presently he is translating Poet Dev's Punjabi Poems into Tamil. An Anthology of Modern Tamil Poetry-2013, published in 2013 has now won the Nalli-Thisai Ettum Translation Award fpr best English Translation. Dr. M.Thirumalai Vice Chancellor of Tamil University and Dr. Padma Shree Nalli Kuppusamy Chetti awarded a Cash Prize of Rs 15000/- and a Citation to him at the Function held at Gandhi Kalai Mandram at Rajapalayam on 17th August,2014. He has also won the Manimekalai Mandram Translation Award -2014, a Cash Prize of Rs 5000/- plus a citation for the same work at the same function held at Rajapalayam on 17th August 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.55.152 (talk) 17:10, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is the Help Desk for information about using and editing Wikipedia. If you wish to suggest an article, please use the articles for creation process. Note that for the subject to merit an article, it must meet some basic requirements such as having been the subject of significant discussion by third party reliably published sources. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cropping and sizing images[edit]

T albidum cropped and expanded

T albidum cropped

I am trying to get the gallery of Taraxacum species at Taraxacum#Classification to look tidier.

I know how to control the size of an image, using methods described at Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial. And I know how to crop a specified portion from an image, as described at Template:CSS_image_crop. But I have failed to figure out how to do both at once – to take a specified portion from an image and then present it at a specified size. Can anyone advise? Maproom (talk) 17:42, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you trying to do something like in these images? SpinningSpark 18:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To make the cropped image, say, 50% bigger while retaining the same portion being shown, just increase all the parameters by 50%. Example shown at left. SpinningSpark 18:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! That is exactly what I needed! Maproom (talk) 18:53, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

revising references[edit]

How do I enter the original reference box in order to make changes to items in the list of references? For instance, some ISBN #s need correcting, and some urls need to be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.DKSage (talk • contribs) 22:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure quite what you are talking about, but WP:REFB might have the specifics for you. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr.DKSage: If you are talking about this State Crimes Against Democracy and how to fix the red "ISBN missing" note that display at the bottom of the page, you need to edit in the body of the article where the footnote itself is placed. But that really is the most minor of the issues with that page! OY!-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]