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February 24[edit]

Phabricator[edit]

Hello! Would somebody like to help me submit a proposal to Phabricator? What I would like to suggest is adding the option "upright" to the editor surface function "embedded file" (for all Wikipedia versions, of course!). I'd be grateful for any help since I'm not familiar to how Phabricator actually works and I admittedly find it a bit confusing for somebody not on the inside – though I do think that the community could in fact benefit from my idea... Hoping for your cooperation, best greetings--Hubon (talk) 01:06, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please finish the edit I did in regards to my personal life .[edit]

you have failed to upload my edit to include my 4th wife Deborah Moore Salkind — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilyasalkind (talk • contribs)

If you mean that you couldn't save the page when you say that you "failed to upload it," then that work is gone and we can do nothing about it.

Also, you really should not edit the article about yourself -- see WP:COI for more information. Ian.thomson (talk) 05:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Ilyasalkind: Your only saved edit was to add your own name in [1]. Ilya Salkind#Personal life says: "And today he lives with his fourth wife Deborah Moore Salkind, they are together now for sixteen years. They have no children." It's unsourced, not mentioned in the infobox at the top right, and Wikipedia articles should specify years instead of such formulations. Of course you know the information yourself but Wikipedia requires reliable published sources so readers can verify the information. I could only find mention that you are partners. Do you have a reliable published source mentioning the marriage and year of the wedding? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:43, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see that Ilyasalkind succesfully made an edit to Ilya Salkind. It was reverted six minutes later by another editor, with the explanation "Undid test revision by WP:COI user Ilyasalkind". Maproom (talk) 15:33, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

About the entry of Lenovo Research[edit]

I created an entry for Lenovo Research, but it is redirected to Lenovo. Although Lenovo Research is the research division of Lenovo, their focuses are different.

So can i create a separate entry for Lenovo Research? Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcticview (talk • contribs) 08:48, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would say no. Just add a subsection on the page. Unless you can extensively prove the research division needs its own page. CTF83! 08:56, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

the heading on one of your articles about thakur dan singh bisht[edit]

sir i have to inform you that you or your organisation need to immediately change the name of the article on thakur dan singh bisht from 'bist' to 'bisht' which is his actual surname and you can see the preferences too for this.I request you to act swiftly on this particular isuue url for the page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Singh_Bist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Up-16 (talk • contribs) 09:34, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Not because you say it's his actual surname, but becasue it's the form of his name more often used in those references in the article which I have been able to check. Maproom (talk) 10:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unidentified disease in India and USA[edit]

Hi Sir,

My sister and I from India, 10 MOnths ago ( April 2016) my sister had pain in her right eye and than double vision , blurred and than in 2 days she lost the vision of right eye, we took her to hospital they gave her (solo metrol medicine) through her veins , some of the vision came back and than they send us back home stating that vision will recover itself, while she was in hospital they did brain MRI and they found 1 legion on her left side of the brain but the Neuro Doctor told us that its normal , every other person has legions in brain so nothing to worry about that legion, they also did SPine MRI it was normal in april 2016. than in July 2016 she again face the blurred vision on the same eye they again gave her ( solo metrol medicine) through veins , it again helped her but doctor told me it can effect the left eye too but they cant do anything until it will effect other eye or another episode of vision loss, so i decide to bring in USA for treatment . Ite been 7 months here too but Doctor are unable to diagnose what is wrong. The other eye also had same episode of vision loss in October 2016 in USA , they again gave her medicine through Veins it again helped her, they did Lumper puncture in here USA, it was normal but this time, the Spine MRI came up with another legion in her lower spine which is not active, so doctor said its not active so nothing to worry about. St joseph hospital and Mayo clinic here tols ud she has MS, and i need to take her to MS specialist as we do not have insurance in USA so they can not keep her in hospital.

I took MS specialist appointment and took my sister there but he said on the basis of test results till now , he can not say she has MS. he said she has to go through more test but at the same time he said she has neuro optica (NMO) disease. We are facing lots of trouble, we do not have money , no insurance and our family is in India and we both are only here and very disappointed in USA . One of my friend told me i can write you and seek some help as you are very big doctor and kind too, you help people.

Please sir help us. [email redacted] Pooja Tyagi

We cannot offer medical advice. Please see the medical disclaimer, and contact an appropriate medical professional.

In addition, we will not contact you by email. See at the top of the page. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:05, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Licenses[edit]

Two questions.

What are the main differences between the GNU Free Documentation License and the CC BY-SA?
Is the Open Game License compatible with either?

Red Panda 25 16:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Breaking a part of list into columns[edit]

I'm planning to fix List of songs in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic article to counter legibility issues (especially on small screens), and this is what I came up with, so far.

; "Episode Whatever"
# "First song"
#* '''Music:''' John Doe
#* '''Lyrics:''' Jane Public
#; Performer (character)
#: Actress A (Pony A)
#; Backing vocals
#: Actress B (Unicorn B)
#: Actress C (Pegasus A)
#; Context: Pony A has a problem so Unicorn B and Pegasus A cheer her.
# "Second song"
#* '''Music:''' John Doe
#* '''Lyrics:''' Jane Public
#; Performer (character)
#: Actress A (Pony A)
#; Context: Pony A wonders if her problem was solved well.

Resulting:

"Episode Whatever"

"First song"
- Music: John Doe
- Lyrics: Jane Public
Performer (character)

Actress A (Pony A)

Backing vocals

Actress B (Unicorn B)

Actress C (Pegasus A)

Context

Pony A has a problem so Unicorn B and Pegasus A cheer her.
"Second song"
- Music: John Doe
- Lyrics: Jane Public
Performer (character)

Actress A (Pony A)

Context

Pony A wonders if her problem was solved well.

I'm thinking of using some trick so the list would be (roughly) look like:

"Episode title" 1. "Song title"
Music: composer Lyrics: writer	Vocals List of credited performers
Context All the context

Of course, I'd use adaptive column template so it would look like not broken into columns on smartphones.

But is there a solution to achieve that, while numbers are not broken like 1. "First song" and 1. "Second song"? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 16:19, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'm moving to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) instead. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 08:51, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strange behaviour of shortcut New Section[edit]

Please see the table of contents of Talk:Oil reserves. All recent uses of the New Section shortcut resulted in an apparent subsection of the section "Canada Tar Sands", even though their titles have only "==". Layzeeboi (talk) 19:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Layzeeboi: The "Canada Tar Sands" heading was a level one heading, with only one "=". I've turned it into a level two heading, with "==", and the TOC now looks normal. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:21, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

changing a header on a page[edit]

In the mobile version of Wikipedia in an article about Narcolepsy it states " A sleep disorder that involves an excessive urge to murder at inappropriate times, such as while at work."

Narcolepsy is a neurological illness. People with Narcolepsy are not psychopaths nor is this illness funny. If that was the intended purpose of that statement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy

Please edit that comment because it is highly offensive and more importantly misleading. It will be greatly appreciated.

TYVM — Preceding unsigned comment added by VivRR (talk • contribs) 19:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.--S Philbrick (Talk) 19:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Post branching[edit]

Two days ago I posted a question on Science desk[2]. Many people responded but many questions contained speculations, unwanted opinions, fantasies, etc. Some people got unhappy with that. Then I noticed that someone sort of combined some posts, gave this block a heading and now it appears as a subcategory. This actually happened twice. This is fine with me but I have two questions. Am I still the OP in any of the subcategories. It seems I am not, because people refer to other posts, the ones that start the blocks as the OP. Also what are the rules governing creation such sub chapters? Thanks, - --AboutFace 22 (talk) 23:09, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@AboutFace 22: For the creation of "subchapters" (i.e. threads with a particular heading), see Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages - a similar point is tackled in WP:TALKNEW, which says Talk page discussions should be concise, so if a single discussion becomes particularly long, it may then become helpful to start a subsection.

For the "am I the OP" part, well, it is mostly a question of vocabulary. For a Ref Desk question, I would personally refer only to the original question and its author as the "OP". But it does not really matter since you do not "own" the posts in any manner. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 09:58, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]