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August 14[edit]

This is embarrassing[edit]

because I think I have asked this before, but, as the song goes, Here I Go Again. I am working on a new article, List of New Deal sculpture and would like the Table of Contents - which is all 50 US states, to go down the right of the page rather then the left because mostly the space on the right is not being used. Can you help? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 07:36, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

{{TOC right}}. —Cryptic 07:52, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not a surprise to you, but it worked like a charm. Thanks so much. Carptrash (talk) 07:58, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Carptrash, when I'm looking for something that I know the name of on Wikipedia, I generally just type in the search box "Wikipedia:" followed by the name of what I'm looking for. So, in your case I would have searched for Wikipedia:Table of contents. Or if not getting you exactly where to go, it can often get you in the right neighborhood. So, Wikipedia:Cite might get you closer to the template for citing a specific comic book, television episode, etc. If you can't find it, by all means, ask here. But this little trick might keep you from having to wait for someone to reply to your question here. †Dismas†|^(talk) 13:19, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

thanks Dismas, to be honest though I have found that it is faster for me, who is not that computer savvy, (the word luddite is frequently used) to ask here. I usually get an answer in a very few minutes whereas if I am looking through our stuff I get confused, sidetracked and worse. But it probably would be a good thing for me to try at least something first. Carptrash (talk) 16:18, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Notability - actress with a single credit[edit]

Hi, does the actress Shannon Purser qualify as notable? She has a single credit for the netflix series Stranger Things where she played a minor character who for some reason became a bit of an internet meme. Articles about other actors with only a single notable credit such as Hannah Pilkes and Wendy Grantham have previously been deleted, but there is a definite possibility that this actress will get more work now. Should we let the article stand for now or nominate it for deletion? MaxBrowne (talk) 09:08, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not notable per WP:NACTOR as it stands unless her internet following satisfies point 2. If it were taken to AfD I suspect it would be deleted as there's not really enough to get her 'over the line'. Eagleash (talk) 09:21, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

this is for michael uwezu[edit]

Michael uwezu profile is not up to dates his playing now in Sweden fc linkoping city you can get more info from the club website he as played 10 games so far 7 goals can you updates his pic http://www.svenskalag.se/linkopingcity THANK YOU — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.252.237.173 (talk) 11:28, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've copied this to Talk:Michael Uwezu Rojomoke (talk) 12:18, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Added. Joseph2302 13:40, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Max Goldstein - trying to make edits -- August 2016[edit]

Dear WIKIPEDIA Staff,

I am tryinf to re-edit a very controversial and certainly biased present presentation of a Wikipedia Artivcle -- "Max Goldstein". At the moment is false information, claiming that the man died in the year 1924 in prison in Romania. However, I have collected much information, including documents with his signature from ISRAEL dating as late as the 1970's and 1980's !! Of course, this is very shocking and very, very complicated. Therefore, I am now going to engage an ISRAELI lawyer, fluent in German, English and Hebrew to help me to re-lease the full extent of my collected materials.

These materials are very shocking and I am re-questing that Wikipedia allow me 2-3 weeks to collect all of my informations and have my ISRAELI lawyer present all of the documents etc... necessary for all internet and newspaper re-leases in the coming few weeks.

Thank you for this understanding and a bit of extra time.

I, of course, would not like to have to re-paste all of my article again and again. Nothing can stop the truth from coming into the public. This is the ultimate truth, with which we are all dealing, isn't it.

Thank you again.

Have a nice week.

POST: "Max Goldsteina", today: August 14, 2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amadea Leonore jazz tenor saxophone (talk • contribs) 15:00, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Almost everyone you meet on Wikipedia is not staff, we're mostly volunteers.

Wikipedia does not accept original research, even/especially if it is based on primary sources.

Do not get your lawyer involved and I strongly recommend not mentioning lawyers again. Wikipedia does not tolerate legal threats or anything that could be interpreted as such. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:06, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@ User:Ian.thomson. Don't get your knickers in a twist. The poster is just mentioning the he has sought legal advice to validate his materials provenance, etc. Standard practice before publication. --Aspro (talk) 15:57, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Aspro: Don't assume anything about my knickers. OP has made it clear they intend to publish here and most users who say stuff like "nothing can stop the truth" while also mentioning lawyers usually need the warning at some point. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:22, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian.thomson: It is standard practice to employ a lawyer before publishing in order to ovoid libel and such stuff. “"nothing can stop the truth"” is I hope - still a truism. She is a newbie and will have to state her COI sooner or later but let us not confuser this new editor with wikilawying before the time is ripe. R-e-l-a-x. --Aspro (talk) 17:52, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) What you are doing is trying to include your original research into an article, which we never accept. If/when your claims have been published in reliable sources, and once these claims have received some form of independent peer review, we can consider whether they should be included in our article or not. - Arjayay (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia does not have any publication date deadline. You have plenty of time to gather and organize this information. You do not have to re-paste all your contributions again and again if you wait until you have verifiable sources. By this I mean, what you are doing now, we consider to be Original Research. Read our policy :Wikipedia:No original research. For you to post your research here, you first need to have this inform published (in book form, magazine, news article etc.). Then, links to those sources can be included in this article. You can not publish it first here. These are our rules and we uphold no exceptions. Good luck on your worthy course of setting the historical record straight.--Aspro (talk) 15:32, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adding documentation to previously undocumented statements[edit]

After I add documentation to previously undocumented material, what do I need to do to remove the template message about the need for documentation? Thanks, Eileen — Preceding unsigned comment added by EDGRC (talk • contribs) 18:13, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(EC)

Click to edit using the full editor

Edit the whole page (if the banner is at the top) by clicking "Edit Source"

The item will start {{ followed by "unref", "Citation needed" or "No footnotes" or similar

For example, the "citation needed" templates start with

{{citation needed| .... }} or it's shortened version

Many are listed on WP:CITENEED or can be got from this list of banners which might help you identify the correct ones to remove.

You may occasionally find a nested version, in which case be sure to fully remove ONLY the line with the template you are trying to remove. If there are three brackets, {{{, leave the first one :) Chaosdruid (talk) 18:41, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Most (if not all) such templates include a blue link stating:- (Learn how and when to remove this template message) - click, read and follow the instructions - Arjayay (talk) 18:31, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki text formatting[edit]

On my userpage, the section "Miscellaneous" is being subsumed into the list found in the previous section "Articles I've created. How do I force the Miscellaneous section out of the list and appear after it? Thank you in advance. Ergo Sum 19:35, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like there was a DIV close missing in the sub page. I closed it and now it looks right. Crow^Caw 19:39, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Crow: Excellent. Thanks a bunch. Ergo Sum 19:43, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Nicholas Windsor[edit]

Just alerting you that ref umbers 1 and 10 on the above page are "wrong". I did not do them. Cheerio Srbernadette (talk) 23:59, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]