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June 15[edit]

Text editor - caret navigation[edit]

Recently a change was made to the standard article text editor. If the cursor is on the last line of a paragraph, and there is a blank line below and then another paragraph: if I press the down key, instead of moving the cursor to the blank line, it moves to first line of the next paragraph. That is, it skips the blank line.

This is extremely annoying. Is there a way to turn it off? cagliost (talk) 08:40, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Cagliost: "Tag: 2017 wikitext editor" at Special:Contributions/Cagliost indicates you have enabled "New wikitext mode" or "Automatically enable all new beta features" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. This is not the standard editor, but it doesn't happen to me whether it's enabled or not. Does it happen if you log out? What is your browser? I use Firefox. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:37, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I disabled "New wikitext mode" and that stopped it. Thanks. I'll give them some feedback. cagliost (talk) 09:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Cagliost: You didn't name your browser in the feedback. As mentioned, it doesn't happen to me in Firefox. When posting outside the English Wikipedia, you should also say where it happened, e.g. "Tested in Chrome 75.0.3770.90 at the English Wikipedia". PrimeHunter (talk) 09:57, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. N.b. you have to refresh an article after updating settings for them to take effect. cagliost (talk) 10:01, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Kerr[edit]

Dear Wiki-Community,

The article about Steve Kerr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kerr

should be changed due to the results of the NBA Finals.

Patrick McCaw, Frank Saul and Steve Kerr are now the only three players in NBA history who won four championships with two different teams in consecutive seasons.

Thanks for your changing the article.

King regards, Zeppal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeppal (talk • contribs) 11:28, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what the just completed finals has to do with it. Kerr's playing days are long past, and his team lost anyway. Regardless, whether this bit of trivia is worth including is debatable. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:34, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to add my information[edit]

Dear Team

i want to add our information in wikipedia search. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.70.34.122 (talk) 11:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure who "our" is, but if you want whatever "our" represents to come up in a Wikipedia search, there must be a Wikipedia article about it. In order for that to happen, the subject needs to meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability and have significant coverage in independent reliable sources. As you would have a conflict of interest in writing about your own organization, you shouldn't be the one to write about it.

Please also understand that Wikipedia has no interest in enhancing or assisting search results, we are all here to work on this encyclopedia. 331dot (talk) 11:42, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

From "Draft" to "Live"[edit]

Hi there, lovely Wikipedia-help-desk-people! I did some work on a draft. Please, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3ABrandon_Truaxe&type=revision&diff=901939976&oldid=893646539 What is the next step for „going live“? Is there someone who can support me in the next step? It's all too overwhelming... --87.170.200.40 (talk) 14:00, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @87.170.200.40: I've just looked over your draft and don't recommend submitting it yet. Please look over WP:PEACOCK. The article needs quite a bit of editing to present it's subject from a neutral point of view WP:NPV. Phrases like "disrupted the rest of the beauty market", "high-performance products at wholesale prices", "combining cutting-edge science with modest price points", etc. read like a review, sales pitch, or advertisement. Orville1974 (talk) 14:28, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! I've just done a major scrub of your draft article. Please look it over and make whatever changes are appropriate (keeping WP:NPV, WP:RS, and WP:PEACOCK in mind). Whenever you're ready, you can edit your draft in "source editing mode" and insert this text at the top (if it asks, select plain text, not wikimarkup): {{subst:submit}} Orville1974 (talk) 16:01, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your time and verdict Orville1974! I read your copyediting, thank you very much, even if that scrub was a quite an aggressiv acid peeling ;-), meaning you removed "important" information. Anyway in the process of „going live“, what would be the next step? --87.170.192.160 (talk) 17:05, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Whenever you're ready, edit your draft in "source editing mode" and insert this text at the top (if it asks, select plain text, not wikimarkup): {{subst:submit}}, then publish changes. That action will submit your draft for review. A reviewer will either accept it as is, or provide further feedback. Orville1974 (talk) 17:34, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I also forgot to mention, I left a request for more information regarding his earlier software business on the talk page of the article. Orville1974 (talk) 17:50, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Orville1974: Thanks again Orville! Yes, read your request, the name of that "software business" also intrigued me, but (so far) I could only found that he had $400,000 from his sold software company to invest in "Euoko": https://www.wmagazine.com/story/euoko . It was some kind of automobil-leasing-analyse-software. Working on it ;-) --87.170.193.122 (talk) 18:19, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help with pipe link[edit]

I noticed there is a pipe link Max Waibel didn't showed correctly in Operation Sunrise (World War II) could someone fix it?Thanks --Shrike (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I removed the superfluous linefeed that was preventing the link. Dbfirs 15:48, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I tweaked it further: [1]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Japan translation[edit]

Hi! I want to add to my AfC draft the term in Japanese, I consulted the Local Embassy but the available helpers in Japanese are long gone from editing. Do you know any resource I can resort to? Kind regards. --LLcentury (talk) 17:05, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LLcentury is this where you checked: here --valereee (talk) 17:23, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Valereee No! Thanks so much! I consulted the conventional Embassy of the Main Page. --LLcentury (talk) 17:27, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

David West[edit]

please include in David West, an american basketball player's bio that he attended Teaneck public schools thru tenth grade. He attended Garner HS his junior and senior years when his family moved to Garner in 1996 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:A000:1100:81BD:95F3:4FB0:D2D3:D55B (talk) 20:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are free to add this information yourself as long as you can provide a reliable source to verify the statements. If you do not wish to do so yourself, please make a request at the article talk page. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Eagleash (talk) 21:13, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia[edit]

I don’t like this website it is making me cry. I’m providing correct statements and apparently it is just not good enough. I am getting severely sad and depressed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeirjejebdhej (talk • contribs) 22:52, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeirjejebdhej: It is not enough to merely be correct, information must be sourced to an independent reliable source, which is unlikely for the subjective statements you were attempting to add. You may wish to use the new user tutorial to learn more about Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 01:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

331dot, from next time onwards, checking the contribution history might be more prudential. Don't entertain trolls. ∯WBG^converse 07:32, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken, and thank you, though I did check. I could see where someone might think that what they were doing was accurate. Still learning this, though. 331dot (talk) 10:34, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jeirjejebdhej: are you aware that your contributions to Wikipedia are listed at Special:Contributions/Jeirjejebdhej, where anyone can check them? None of them is even an attempt at "providing correct statements". Maproom (talk) 07:20, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]