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February 6[edit]

Bullock family[edit]

Please help - I am unsure of the correct ORIGINAL publisher to use for refs numbers 8 and 9 on this page. They are the same resource. Please leave in the quotes - including the one that is highlighted. Thanks 101.182.136.195 (talk) 04:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You will normally find the name of the publisher at the front of the book. The name of the original publisher is shown on page 9 of the file you were looking at. For other advice regarding the publisher parameter, see the section #Glen Affric above. --David Biddulph (talk) 06:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is hard for me to find the title page re the queery - I know I will muck it up if I do it myself. Please help.Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.136.195 (talk) 06:59, 6 February 2016‎ (UTC)[reply]

For advice about not starting a new thread on the same question see the section #Glen Affric above. I have merged into the previous thread. And please remember to sign your messages. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:06, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please I cannot do the clever edit suggested by Biddulph - who was very understanding- please see above query re this page. Thanks 101.182.136.195 (talk) 07:16, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yet again you started a new thread on the same question, despite the advice here, and in the previous thread, and countless times previously. Again I have merged. If you would prefer advice in a launguage other than English, perhaps you ought to be editing a different language's Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:24, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear David b. - I am sorry that I cannot do the edit. No, although English is not my native tongue, I am fine to try to do the editing on the English pages. Sorry David 101.182.136.195 (talk) 07:36, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(Yet another new section, now combined here)

I am sorry that I upset David Biddulph but he says that the name of the publisher of the resource I mentioned earlier this evening; The name of the original publisher is shown on page 9

I cannot go all the way back to the early pages to get the correct way of documentation for refs. 9 and 10

Please help - I have tried and failed. I'm sorry. 101.182.136.195 (talk) 08:42, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the publisher (Hurst and Blackett) along with the author and year, as requested. Hope this helps. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 16:57, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New article ratings[edit]

Hi, i want to get article ratings (A,B,C etc) for a couple of new articles, and some feedback if possible. Where would be the right place to ask for something like that? Thanks. prokaryotes (talk) 04:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC

Hi @Prokaryotes: Since anyone can more or less review articles, there's no formal process for requesting assesments. You could try making a post on the talk page of relevant WikiProjects (e.g. if I wanted to have Elephant reviewed, I could make a post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals). ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:48, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For getting general feedback on an article, Wikipedia:Peer review is also an option. It is backlogged however, and receiving feedback may take some time. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:49, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the infos SuperHamster. prokaryotes (talk) 09:56, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edits on other Wikipedias that mirror my edits here?[edit]

Hi help desk,

Not sure if this is the best place for this question, but I'm seeing some strange things in my Global User Contributions. There are a number of edits attributed to me on other Wikipedias that look to mirror edits I made on enwiki, but which I most definitely did not make anywhere else. For example, here I actually made this edit, reverting vandalism at Mick Fanning. That edit also appears on dewiki. It also says I nominated an article for deletion on dewiki, which I nominated here on enwiki. There are several like this. mlwiki, arzwiki, etc.

I'm going to guess this has something to do with "SUL: Account not attached." that I see next to those projects in the Contributions list linked above?

What's actually happening here? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 23:36, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

These pages were imported from enwiki to dewiki. In the process, your edits here were duplicated on the pages they created there during import.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 23:41, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: aha! Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:18, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]