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March 10

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Hi:

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First of all thank you very much to Jimmy Wales and all the wonderful people who has made this amazing free encyclopedia available to us. I can’t help monetarily, but I will intend collaborating. I don’t even have enough money to survive at the present time. If I could have few dollars extra I will given them happily to the encyclopedia.

I will like contact some one personally since it takes a lot of time to read and understand, I had been thinking help building and collaborating with in. I have been using wikipedia for many years and I use it constantly in many different ways. As a writer, activist, artist, musician. Studying Modern physics, astrophysics’, quantum mechanics and more.

Could I be able to communicate with people here? Is there a blog to meet physicists? To have comments and be able contribute with my own philosophical views on subject matters?

I live in Barcelona Spain, but I lived from 1976 to 2011 in the United States of America where I am proud and feel as my country. Speak fairly good English and I will like to ask questions instead of spending time looking for answers in articles.

Notice that I spend over twelve hours a day working with out profits, writing, doing art, photography, music among other.

For reference to who I am I will say I studied Color Photography, Art and English, Cinematography, and Script Writing at the Santa Monica City College in Los Angeles in 1977. Music, Culinary Arts, English, and Reading Comprehension in San Bernardino Valley College in 1979. Music, English, Photography, American History, Computer Sciences and Programming Grand Rapids Community College. And Accounting at the Davenport College in Grand Rapids Michigan.

In 1992 I was the Treasurer, Chairmen, and Editor of the News Letter, (That I transformed to a News Paper format) of the east Hills Neighbor Association. 1994 - 1995 Designed and Directed a Live TV show: “ Oh say: Can you SEE.” To an Organization founded by Frank Girard called S.E.E (Society for Economic Equality) with I collaborated but never been a member. Even I was very good and close friend with Frank. And the same years Member of a zine called Big Fish that the New York Times classified as one of the best then zines in the US. And the last numbers front page done by Allan Ginsberg who we interview him right before he died and had the honor to meet.

At the present time I am trying learn and studied Physics, on my own since here in Spain there is not financial aid for people like me 69 year old. I use Wikipedia constantly and fallow the much I can find with today physicists, and will like to know in more depth on studies and experiments done. One particular experiment that will like to perform my self is the double slit experiment, especially done in the subatomic particles level.

So to me it will be with great benefit to meet Physicist at all levels, will like to discuss personal theories and question theories that I don’t fully understand.

Thank you for your time.

Yours truly

Jose Caballero — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artatake (talk • contribs) 00:19, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Artatake: Sorry, but no, this is not the right place for that. This is an encyclopedia, not a chat room. RudolfRed (talk) 01:29, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mom, what's a double slit? Wakari07 (talk) 04:12, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is the Portal:Physics and the various talk pages for your purposes, Artatake. However, even if you're 97, please remain careful when sharing personal information. Wakari07 (talk) 04:33, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mountain West Conference standings

Nevada And UNLV Are Suppsose to be remove from the double redirect into main space articles now. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 03:31, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

68.102.39.189, you really need to learn to speak to other users on Wikipedia in a nicer way, instead of demanding for something to be done. Now do you want to point us to what article/s you want edited that you appear to not be able to do yourself? NZFC^(talk) 03:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

After further searching, it appears you are WP:FORUMSHOP from Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk after being told it was WP:TOOSOON for these articles. The football season doesn't kick off for six months. NZFC^(talk) 03:40, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

cant be found

I don't know why my article cannot be show on search engines if searched — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace Khyd (talk • contribs) 03:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ace Khyd Your article Draft:Ace khyd is still in draft so is not index in search engines. Despite that, if you were to try publish your article it would be declined as it doesn't establish notability and lacks independent reliable sources.

Social media would be more appropriate for you to publish your own biography. If you have been written about in independent reliable sources, then it would be better if someone else writes an article that summarises these sources. See WP:Autobiography. Dbfirs 08:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sub-pages

May I create some sub-pages like User:Sishaykh/My edits by time, User:Sishaykh/My edits by topic, etc? -- Shafaat Islam (talk) 03:25 (edited - 03:33), 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello Sishaykh, and welcome back to the TeaHouse. Your question raises two separate issues. Firstly, you can create sub-pages with those names. To do that, just type that name into the normal search box - this will display a page which tells you there is currently no such page, and gives you the option to go ahead and create it. Secondly, having created the page I guess you want to populate it automatically with information about your edits. I don't know of any way to do that by size; perhaps somebody else can help. There is already the "Contributions" tool (near the top right corner on a PC display) that will give your edits by date. You can see a list of all your sub-pages by going to the Contributions page, and down the bottom click on "Subpages". If that's not what you were looking for, please ask more.--Gronk Oz (talk) 06:56, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How to Respond to Teahouse Comment

Hi,

I am quite new to Wikipedia and am still learning the basics.

I went to the Teahouse and posed a question. Several people responded with helpful information. I would like to respond to one of their comments. How do I do that? Do I click "Edit Source" in my question's section? I tried that and I see there is room at the bottom to place my comments. But it's a bit confusing. The source code for the other people's comments contain :: and other markup, and I don't want to make a mistake.

Your advice is appreciated. LindaPenn04 (talk) 07:13, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that's how to do it. The colons indent responses, one tab per colon., so that threads may be easily followed. Meters (talk) 07:24, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:CHEAT for more markup. Meters (talk) 07:27, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!LindaPenn04 (talk) 08:18, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@LindaPenn04: You got it! And you will find the people at the TeaHouse very tolerant. Especially if you say "I'm new here" they won't expect you to know all that stuff yet, so they won't mind formatting mistakes and such.--Gronk Oz (talk) 09:14, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indian painting and Indian tribal painting

Dear reader
If you are a NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING person, and if you have some spare time, please take a look on these articles, machine translated from French (fr:Peinture en Inde and fr:Peinture tribale en Inde). Don’t hesitate to log on as user, and make the needed language corrections.
Best regards
Andershus."Andershus (talk) 07:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)"[reply]

It started with a 50-byte stub. Impressive what it's become. Wakari07 (talk) 15:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note The second one has been moved to draft space and the redirect deleted, it is now at Draft:Indian tribal painting. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:06, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: @Beeblebrox and Wakari07: Andershus has 562 edits at Indian painting since mid-Feb and has been dumping machine translated text into the article, and then dropping notices into the article page itself (twice reverted), here, and elsewhere asking others to clean it up. I expect to open a User talk page section about MT and how best to contribute to en-wiki, and a section at Talk:Indian painting to poll major contributors to the article whether there is any objection to my rolling back to the version of 11:55, February 9, 2018‎ in an attempt to untangle the mess. Links coming. Mathglot (talk) 00:04, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the article and it made my head hurt. We should make it clear here that machine translated text is generally not welcome on En.Wikipedia, to the point that we turned off the content tranlslation tool specifically to stop it being dumped here. If you can’t write coherently in English, it isn’t fair to just dump badly translated content and then try and get others to clean up your mess. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:40, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I want to edit my username for a new account I created

Hi,

I want to make a small edit to my username.

Existing Craft2art To be changed to Craft2Art

Can you please help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craft2art (talk • contribs) 08:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Craft2art: This question has been answered at the Teahouse. No need to ask in two places; it just confuses us dummies.

--Gronk Oz (talk) 09:18, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is this character notable?

Can I have some opinions on whether or not publishing my draft for Twilight Sparkle would hold up to notability? I've been on Wikipedia for 5 years, so I'm hardly a noob, but I know one thing, Wikipedia is strict on character notability. I still have haunting flashbacks from the mass merger of Sonic character articles, so I just want to see if my draft would stand up. I know my draft is a fairly small stub, but I can expand a bit more. I just want to make absolutely sure that notability is well established for her. I would say very much so, as seeing articles from TVGuide, Entertainment Weekly, WIRED, and The Sun giving much more than just passing mentions of her. I didn't know how to include the coverage in my draft, but Twilight has also gotten extensive attention from Sean Spicer mentioning her when discussing Melania Trump's speech controversy. These sources include CBS News, CNN, ABC News, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among others. Shouldn't this be enough? --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 08:03, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As written I wouldn't see the point of splitting it off to a separate article since the character is already covered in much greater detail at List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters and the cultural impact of the show is already discussed at the main article on the series and at My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom. This is just my opinion, but it seems to me like we have the subject pretty well covered already without sprawling it out into articles on the individual characters. I think, as you apparently have seen yourself, is that the general trend is to merge these type of articles into character lists.

That being said, you could always solicit more opinion by adding {{splitto}}to the article and opening a talk page discussion about it. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:46, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Beeblebrox: I will try to add to my draft later, and perhaps then I'll make a discussion. Thanks for the input! --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 20:47, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Adjust infobox width

Hello, how can I adapt the width of Template:History of the British Isles to that of Template:History of England (cf. the visible difference in width at the beginning of England in the Late Middle Ages, for example)?--Boczi (talk) 10:10, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Boczi: They both produce code with width:22.0em; and are the same width to me in Firefox. What is your browser, which one is wider to you, and does it look like it has a wide element which forces it to this width? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:09, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for posting! I use the latest Firefox (on a landscape format screen), Template:History of the British Isles is wider to me, and it may be the image in the latter that forces it to this width, but I'm only guessing here! Best wishes--Boczi (talk) 11:31, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Boczi: The image is displayed as 250px and that barely fits within width:22.0em; for me so it does not widen the box. The box in {{History of the British Isles}} is the same width to me if I preview the template page with [[File:Stonehenge Closeup.jpg|220px|center]] instead of 250px. Does it become more narrow to you? It widens a little for me with 255px. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:19, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disappearing sections

Can someone please explain this? If you check this diff, you see that I added a bit of text at a certain spot, but then if you check the previous revision you can see that sections 10-13 either disappeared or got mangled. What happened? François Robere (talk) 18:11, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You accidentally did not close a reference tag - I fixed it here. I had to add your signature using the "unsigned" template as if I'd left the 4 tildes it would have signed as me. DuncanHill (talk) 18:42, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This was very weird. The segment I copied had maybe 5-6 citations one after the other, and I seem to have copied the opening ref tag of one I didn't actually want to include. Thanks for your help! François Robere (talk) 18:53, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Castle of Mey

The Castle of Mey entry states that it features in 'The Crown' TV series, it does not.

I have positivly identified the castle shown in episode 8, as 'Slains Castle' (properly 'New Slains Castle') in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:4C82:1A00:F521:A073:50B3:B9AB (talk) 18:44, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You should raise this issue at Talk:Castle of Mey. The statement in the article is actually unreferenced and can be removed. Ruslik_Zero 20:05, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

But you should not add your own identification of the castle, unless you can find a reliably published source that says it. Original research may not be published on Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 23:08, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that the Castle of Mey is one of the subjects of episode 8 of The Crown (TV series), and this would remain true even if some other castle were shown in its place in the series. Therefore, the statement should (probably) not be removed from the Castle of Mey article. -Arch dude (talk) 03:11, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

Hello!I have just started my work and I have a question: what is the scheme of writing references? Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daryazinkovskaya (talk • contribs) 21:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. This help desk is for questions about using and editing Wikipedia. If that's not what you want, please check out our reference desk, where the volunteers may be able to help with other kinds of references, especially if you can ask a more specific question. If you want to edit a Wikipedia article to add a reference, please read WP:REF, and if you have further questions on this topic, feel free to come back here. -Arch dude (talk) 22:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Daryazinkovskaya, see also Help:Referencing for beginners. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:47, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]