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October 4[edit]

WRONG INFO[edit]

Abey is not a Druze village. Too many Christians in Abey. Please correct your info.

Abey also spelled Aabey (Arabic: عبيه‎) is a Druze village located in Mount Lebanon, in Aley District of Mount Lebanon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.233.93 (talk) 00:09, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience link: Abey
The Arabic spelling is included in the lead as an alternative spelling so no change needed there. As to the Druze part do you have reliable sources that back up your claim? According to the book, The Government and Politics of Lebanon by Imad Salamey ([1]), the Druze occupy the Aley district of Lebanon. Abey/Aabey is in the Aley district and therefore, the lead sentence seems correct. --Stabila711 (talk) 00:20, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Samy Swayd in "Historical Dictionary of the Druzes" describes Abey as a "largely Druze town", so I've edited the article to match this description (in that area, a population of 4000 would be described as a town, not a village). If anyone can find a more recent description of an increase in the Christian population, feel free to edit further. Dbfirs 09:23, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Font troubles[edit]

Recently, I've been trying to view the Old Persian cuneiform text on Wikipedia. I downloaded the recommended font and installed it, and can now use the font in other situations, but still cannot view the Old Persian cuneiform text on Wikipedia. Does anyone know how I might go about fixing this? --Joseph Yanchar (User page/Talk page) 03:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph Yanchar: Just wanted to give you an update to let you know someone is working on it. It seems to depend on the specific browser settings. All of my attempts at getting it to work on Chrome have failed. However, I opened the page using Microsoft Edge (the Windows 10 version of IE) and it worked fine. So for me personally, it seems like a Chrome issue. What browser are you using? --Stabila711 (talk) 03:45, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work on Chrome. Nothing works. The encodings are just not carrying over and I don't see a way to add the Old Persian cuneiform codes to make it work on Chrome. If you are using Chrome as well and you do not have any alternative browsers I don't know what to tell you. Sorry. --Stabila711 (talk) 04:13, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was initially using Chrome, but none of the other browsers are working either. --Joseph Yanchar (User page/Talk page) 04:19, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph Yanchar: What other browsers have you tried. We know that it doesn't seem to work on Chrome. If you can give me what else you have tried I can try to see if I can get it to work on my end. Also, have you tried IE? That is what I got it to work on (at least the updated version of IE). --Stabila711 (talk) 04:34, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I tried Internet Explorer and Firefox and they wouldn't work as well. I'll try updating IE. --Joseph Yanchar (User page/Talk page) 03:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ALex Jones Radio HOst[edit]

Hello I tried to edit the Alex Jones (radio host) page but was declined twice, the article was modify to say that he is already divorced from his fromer wife Kelly Rebecca Nichols, I provide court evidence I even put the case number and the county she filed for the divorce, I was hoping someone can check the facts and modify the atricle so it can report the truth, I believe this is news that eveybody who searches for Alex Jones should know, Mrs. Nochols file for divoce on december 18, 2013 in the county of Hays Texas, under the case number 13-2647 Links From Court: Travis County She gets the house http://deed.co.travis.tx.us/ords/f?p=105:9:0::NO::P9_INSTRUMENT_NUMBER,P9_MULTI_SEQ,P9_NO_PAGES:2015043396,0,6

Hays County Texas Court Records--Just put the case number (13-2647) in the Case Number box, then click search. If you look and status it says Divorce with Children Case Transferred to Another County http://public.co.hays.tx.us/Search.aspx?ID=200&NodeID=100%2c101%2c102%2c103%2c200%2c201%2c202%2c203%2c204%2c400%2c401%2c402%2c403%2c404%2c405%2c406%2c407&NodeDesc=All+Courts

I can provide more evidence if needed Gillpill (talk) 04:23, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well it doesn't look like you discussed this at all with Bbb23 or Cwobeel. Usually when there is a content dispute you should talk with the people involved and not go to another forum. The issue that was raised was the use of primary sources. Primary sources are not really acceptable unless they are backed up by a secondary source. Is his divorce recorded by an independent news agency? What you have given us does not meet the standards set by the Wikipedia community for inclusion, especially on an article about a living person. In addition, alexjonesexposed would never be considered a reliable site on Alex Jones as the title itself implies a site dedicated to the attack of Jones (AKA bias). --Stabila711 (talk) 04:31, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Links indicating to a moved page[edit]

Hello. Sometimes it is required to move page A to title B, and then make a disambiguation page or a new article on title A. Before this procedure we have to correct links to title A to B using What links here (WP:FIXDABLINKS). But sometimes such correction doesn't seem to be practical because of the vast number of links. For example since Oedipus Rex (1957 film) exists, Oedipus Rex (film) must be moved back to Oedipus Rex (1967 film) and then Oedipus Rex (film) must be redirected to Oedipus Rex (disambiguation) (WP:INCDAB). But how can more than 20 links to Oedipus Rex (film) be edited to Oedipus Rex (1957 film)? Just manually? 20 is still OK, but what if the number of links is 100? Isn't there any robotic facility to do such a repetitive substitutions? Thanks in advance. Saeidpourbabak (talk) 15:47, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Saeidpourbabak: If you post a request at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks you may find that someone will do the edits for you using AutoWikiBrowser. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:49, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Celebrity deaths for sept. 11th 2001[edit]

Please remove the names of the Muslim hijackers under celebrity deaths from September 11th 2001. These scum do not deserve any notoriety. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.166.231 (talk) 23:15, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not censored. We publish with due weight what has been discussed in reliable sources when it has encyclopedic value. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 23:27, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you refer to the list under "2001 – Casualties of the September 11 attacks" at September 11#Deaths. The hijackers shouldn't be removed from the page when they have biographies but I don't like that suicide terrorists are mixed with their victims in alphabetical order under a common "Casualties" heading. Talk:September 11#Deaths of Terrorists suggests to split them in two lists. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:41, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]