March 15

Sibghatullah_Mojaddedi

Can you please stop saying he is deceased he's well and alive and spreading these rumors are terrible as someone who Skype's him last week this upsets me so much please take down the death date from his page. â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:9A1B:1765:19F7:A199:4D0F:8937 (talk) 02:34, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

As the article explains, there were false reports that he died earlier this year.

It did have a "template" message at the top, querying it; I've removed that. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 02:41, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

How to update business school rankings infobox

Many business school articles (e.g. Harvard Business School) contain an infobox of various rankings. How does one change the url, title, and date of the source when a specific ranking is updated? I've gone to Template:Infobox business school rankings and clicked on every "edit" button, but can't find any of the fields in question. Contributor321 (talk) 03:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

You need to edit the fields of the infobox within the article itself, not by editing the template page. Triptothecottage (talk) 04:34, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

That's not correct. Every business school article with a U.S. News & World Report MBA ranking in an infobox, for example, shows as a reference ""Best Business Schools". U.S. News & World Report. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-06." It must be possible to make changes in just one location, somewhere, which will then populate ALL the business school rankings infoboxes, just like clicking the top edit button on Template:Infobox US university ranking/National allows you to make changes which populate every "Infobox US university ranking/National". Contributor321 (talk) 05:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

This is above my pay grade, but it seems like it's necessary to edit each individual transcluded template to change any url/title/date for a rankings provider. I've looked also, and don't see a place that gives access to edit all the sources on a single page for biz school rankings. For example, you mentioned "National," but there are separate templates for university types like "Liberal Arts" and "Regional." For biz schools, there are separate templates for "USmba," "USundergrad," "Worldgeneral," etc. DonFB (talk) 06:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

The references are defined in {{Infobox business school rankings/USmba}}, {{Infobox business school rankings/USundergrad}}, {{Infobox business school rankings/Worldgeneral}} and {{Infobox business school rankings/Worldmba}} 86.20.193.222 (talk) 07:55, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much - I appreciate your tracking down those templates. Contributor321 (talk) 13:32, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Photos from Google Drive?

I'm using the sandbox and want to upload a picture that I made on google drawings. The photo won't upload. Echo9001 (talk) 04:15, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@Echo9001: A .gdraw file is not an acceptable file type on Wikipedia. Most normal image types are accepted though. .PNG and .JPG are the most common. However, images hosted here must follow a set of rules due to copyright law. Judging by the content in your sandbox I'm going to assume you want to upload some album art. 99% of album art is covered by copyright and can only be placed in main article space. Not sandboxes, not userspace, nowhere else. If my assumption is correct please do not upload this image yet else it will be subject to deletion. If you want you can also file a request at files for upload so someone else can take a look at it. --Majora (talk) 04:31, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@Majora thanks Echo9001 (talk) 14:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Timeline Halp

Just starting a new thread since the old one is getting pushed up the page. I'm trying to figure out Template:Hominin species during Pleistocene. I tried to just pull dates from every article on every species, and I changed the overall timeline to Period = from:2588000 till:15000, representing "number of years ago", so that the table would run from left to right with right-most being most recent. But it looks like I'm getting an error for pretty much every value because the darn thing doesn't recognize periods that run from a larger number to a smaller number (basically all of BCE, but also a "number of years ago" or "mya" format).

So I'm pretty much stuck. I'm still in preview mode, since I don't want to save a fundamentally breaking edit, but here's what I've got currently. Hopefully someone can fix me. TimothyJosephWood 12:40, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

BTW, I know there are other values that are just not even close, but I was expecting to narrow the thing down to four or five errors and work from there. The fact that I'm getting a dozen errors means something in fundamentally wrong. TimothyJosephWood 12:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Looking at the right-hand chart at WP:EasyTimeline#Charts_examples, I see the source code using the negative sign (-) for "from" numbers that are less than zero (0). The "establishing" code in the example is: Period = from:-4500 till:0 DonFB (talk) 13:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Timothy, I was able to turn it around by inserting a negative sign (-) in front of all the "from", "till" and "at" numbers, so it reads left-to-right with no error messages. However, elements are not all in correct places with correct colors and some apparently are overlapping. So, I...uh...leave it to the student to iron out those issues (or try something completely different). DonFB (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

DonFB, Awesome. You don't happen to have your solution still open in an edit window do you? TimothyJosephWood 16:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Sent to your Talk page. DonFB (talk) 16:37, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

My draft page was deleted, need to speak to someone ASAP

Good morning,

I received a notification that my draft article (which was located in my draft space / sandbox) was "speedily deleted" for "unambiguous advertising or promotion." This article is not an advertisement, but information on a company, which was indicated when following the Wikipedia Article Wizard. I cannot seem to retrieve the draft entry and need assistance.

Name of Article: Draft: ContraVir Pharmaceuticals Deleted by: Anthony Appleyard on March 15, 2017, 05:29

Please provide assistance ASAP and feel free to call me at <phone number redacted>.

Best, Victoria Milevski

Lnovick (talk) 13:38, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Your user talk page includes an explanation as to why your draft was deleted, with wikilinks (in blue) to further information. That explanation also includes a link to the log which shows you who the deleting administrator was. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:43, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Also, nobody is going to call you. We don't communicate in that fashion here. As for doing things ASAP, see WP:NODEADLINE. â€ dismasâ€ |^(talk) 14:08, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

And I suppose we should ping the user, Lnovick, so they know this has been replied to. â€ dismasâ€ |^(talk) 14:10, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Lnovick. It would help us to know if you are an employee or their publicity agent.--Aspro (talk) 14:16, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Victoria; and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm sorry for your situation. I can see that you put in a lot of hard work on your first article. It must have been a shock to see it suddenly gone; deleted from your own "Draft Space/Sandbox" with only a WP Template placed on your Talk Page without a personal comment offering either explanation or assistance. That can be very discouraging. Furthermore, getting WP jargon thrown at you doesn't help either. I understand your intentions were/are in "Good Faith"; but have run up against WP protocol administered by those that may not realize your first-time experienced knowledge. It seems your Draft has been restored: [1] Here is your draft link: Draft: ContraVir Pharmaceuticals Draft. Please welcome the editor(s) to your Talk Page (or on the Draft Talk Page:[2]) to start the appropriate dialogue with them. (Which perhaps should have been instituted by those who knew what they were doing at the outset IMHO) Exemplo347 & An thony Appleyard . Best of luck. Maineartists (talk) 14:50, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
@Lnovick, Maineartists, and David Biddulph: I have undeleted Draft:ContraVir Pharmaceuticals; but as it stands it has an advertisory tone. For more information see Wikipedia:Spam. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

That's why it's a draft ... in a sandbox; and why this newcomer needs guidance, advice and assistance. I don't think anyone disagrees with your assessment; but the manner in which the editor was informed could have been more sympathetic toward their future understanding. IMHO Maineartists (talk) 15:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

You may want to check it for, ahem, "close paraphrasing". 81.168.78.73 (talk) 15:25, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

to whom it may concern

Re: Titanic... It may be much better to replace trade words like starboard [right side of a ship} with common words RIGHT Etc. Not only in article about Titanic, and not limited to Wiki. Minor, but still interesting change would be to use a ton [1000 kg] instead of long ton , and mesing with explaining the negligable diffrenecw between two.

Sorry falks, I am 80 and can't do this in a better way

<eMail redacted>.... â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.97.23 (talk) 15:08, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure where the best place to discuss this would be but port and starboard are common enough English words that I think they're fine to use in an article, especially one about a ship. â€ dismasâ€ |^(talk) 16:09, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Welcome, friend. Thanks for taking the time and effort to make suggestions.

We do like to use slightly technical words sometimes, so that we can offer blue linked words to other articles. OK, so that was a silly example, but you get my point.

I think I may have a solution for the 'starboard' issue; I'm going to put (right) after the first use of it, which is near the start of that article. And I'll link it to Port and starboard as well.

As for "long tons" - I couldn't see which part you meant. There's some mentions of gross register tons, which would be hard to change while remaining factually correct - because that's not the same thing as weight at all.

Perhaps you can explain which part you mean?

We do try to offer other units where possible, for example saying "Ship length = 882Â ft 9Â in (269.1Â m)".

Thanks again for the ideas, 86.20.193.222 (talk) 17:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Adding a note to a specific instance of a reference

On an article I'm writing, I'm using the same 3 books over and over. My citations look something like this:

Lorum ipsom lorum ipsum. Blah blah, fjowon nosnosn.

Now, I'm including a place where the author has quoted another source. I'm wanting to indicate that the quotation is the author I'm citing quoting another source. Is there an easy way to add that information but make it specific only to the specific instance that I'm citing? Something like the ref page template?~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:49, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

For now I'm using a work around diff, but I don't like the way I'm doing it as I'd prefer any explanatory notes presented like that to provide further information on the subject, rather than further information on a source. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 17:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@ONUnicorn: A quick question; could you just cite the person he's quoting instead? Or is the quote only available within this other publication? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

He doesn't do a great job of providing a specific citation to the source he's quoting there, referring to it as "A War Department booklet published for supervisors of German POW laborers" rather than by the title of the booklet. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:24, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

I see what you mean. And presumably the original was German, so very hard to track down. I just can't think of a way to do it with rp without duplicating the source; I mean, the [x] has to link to one thing; if in one case that one thing is just the book detail, and the other case the one thing is the book detail plus the where-he-quoted-from, that means the book detail is duplicated. It could sort-of be done with Harvard-style refs, {{Harvnb}}, but that's quite different really. Hmm... 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:47, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

For info, the source can be seen here in Google Books. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:47, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@ONUnicorn: What I meant by the above was, this. Not ideal, for sure, but I don't see how duplication can be avoided - it has to highlight one thing or the other. Thoughts? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 19:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

That definitely works; although I'm not fond of the duplicated ref, I do like it a lot better than trying to use Harvard-style refs. I'm not sure if I like it better than the idea of using a note though. Thank you for the idea; I'll have to think about it. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Do you really need anything special? You've already found a way to quote most of the text so perhaps modify what you've got to: 'The War Department believed that the prisoners would "have a strong ..."' and then cite where you saw it (e.g. in Robin at page 8). You don't have to also cite that which you have not seen.

â€"Trappist the monk (talk) 20:08, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

I also think it'd be fine to say, A War Deparment booklet said "prisoners will [..] have a strong influence in future German affairs, just citing Barbed-Wire. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 20:21, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

That's a better idea! The phrasing is much better. I'll do that. Thank you both! ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 21:06, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Call for merge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell

seem to be about exactly the same subject. How do I either suggest a merge and redirectÂ ? Do I use some template, or is there some page where I submit a merge as a suggestion? Star Lord - æ˜Ÿçˆµ (talk) 21:05, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Please see WP:MERGEPROP for detailed instructions. It's fairly straightforward if you take it step by step, but please return here if you need more help. Please ensure to tag both pages and to initiate the discussion. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 21:09, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@DanielDemaret: adding a ping. Eagleash (talk) 21:10, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm a relative newbie, but have cited Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell and know a bit about the subject. I think Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy is problematic for multiple reasons. First, note the problems mentioned on the banner. Also, the rather large section Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy#Basics of sickle-cell anemia appears to violate WP:CFORK with Sickle-cell disease. I think that the section Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy#The experiment doesn't meet Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). In summary, I would not bother trying to merge the articles. I would simply make Induced_pluripotent_stem-cell_therapy into a redirect to the more substantial, less problematic Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell. I'm pinging jytdog who is more experienced with this sort of thing and may take care of it.DennisPietras (talk) 03:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Oops, didn't get the ping done right above. @Jytdog:DennisPietras (talk) 16:42, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I just did the redirect. The "therapy" article was essentially a PROMO Fork of the section already in the induced stem article here: Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell#Clinical_trial. Jytdog (talk) 17:05, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you @Jytdog: DennisPietras (talk) 02:37, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Using wikipedia for the first time... when will my draft get reviewed?

Hi there, I'm using wikipedia to create a page for an artist. I've finished the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rob_Fairley I was wondering when my draft might get reviewed? I've read the guidelines and wasn't sure how the next step proceeds All the best. FelixClovelly (talk) 22:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@Felix Clovelly: Place {{subst:submit}} at the top of the page and it will be submitted for review. Prepare to be patient though, there is often a large backlog of articles. Eagleash (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

March 16

T!m Ned Wiki

Hello,

I am new to Wiki editing. I am just trying to validate that the current references/citations on this page I created will be considered creditable. I continue to get the warning that I need to had more cites (which i can continue to add) but wondering how many will be needed to be considered. Thus far, 2 independent blog sites, Apples iTunes, SoundCloud and a record labels web site have been referenced.

Thanks â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by VergeCity (talk â€¢ contribs) 00:12, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

VergeCity, sorry you're having the problems, but to be honest, this article will probably have trouble remaining on the site. Look closely at the Wikipedia "notability" guidance and also the specific guidance on musicians, which says the type of person you're writing about should be: "the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself." Unfortunately, the sources you've given do not meet Wikipedia's requirements to establish a person's notability. Articles and reviews in authoritative magazines and newspapers, on or offline, are the type of sources needed. Also, if by any chance you know him, or work for him, or are his relative, that would be a problem called conflict of interest. But even if that's not the case, Mr. Ned needs more coverage by independent reliable sources to be more seriously considered for an article. DonFB (talk) 01:22, 16 March 2017 (UTC)< /dd>

Confirmation email not being received

I've tried multiple times over the past two days to confirm an email address for my account. I need this done so I can apply for JSTOR privileges. Unfortunately, no confirmation email seems to have made it into my inbox. The email address (a Gmail) is correct, and there's nothing in my spam folder. My account has existed for over a year. What could be the problem? Is there some way to circumnavigate this process and "manually" confirm my email? -Indy beetle (talk) 00:45, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

@Indy beetle: The issue at phab:T66795 has caused Yahoo and sometimes other mail services like Gmail to block mail from Wikipedia. Can you try another mail provider? Comparison of webmail providers lists some examples. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:04, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Empathise with you. I was granted JSTOR privileges but could never log in. --Aspro (talk) 23:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

2017 source edit

What does that tag mean? e.g. [3] 86.20.193.222 (talk) 02:31, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

It means the edit was made with the mw:2017 wikitext editor. Pppery 02:50, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I now have some bedtime reading. I hate VE, but I shall try to remain open-minded about this new thing. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 03:12, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Reliable source

I need a second opinion if this website is considered a reliable source. It is the only link that supports the Clinton health care plan of 1993 being dubbed as "Hillarycare". Apologies about the citation, I couldn't figure out the code for external links.

Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 04:08, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

You might be better off posting something at WP:RSN about reliability of The American Prospect. As for "Hillarycare", I was able to find this and this from a Google search. there seem to be many more references to it, but I'm not sure what you're exactly looking for. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:30, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I would accept it as a reliable source. Take note that by their own statement, "We aim to advance liberal and progressive goals." So, they're not a neutral source, but that's ok. Wikipedia rules say sources don't have to be neutral, and a biased source can even be quite useful in providing a sourced point of view on a controversy. Just be aware that all their articles will probably espouse a lib point of view about something, so you might need to look for sourced balance in whatever WP article you use Prospect for. DonFB (talk) 04:40, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks to the both of your for your help. To answer your question, Marchjuly, a request to make a redirect under the name "Hillarycare" to the article linked above was created. I just wanted to make sure before I went through with creating it. Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 04:50, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Note also that redirects don't need to be neutral language. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:53, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Subject "lead" still gets rendering failure when generating PDF

Subject line describes the problem... â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.31.92 (talk) 06:49, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

This is the first post by your IP address since 2007. On which page does it happen? Are you using "Create a book", or the "Download as PDF" link under "Print/export" on the page? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:05, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Links to articles in a language other than English

I was editing an article on Yvonne Rudellat which includes a mention of Raymond Flower. I wanted to insert a link to an already-existing WP article on Flower but when I did so using "[[ ]]" the link was not recognised by the system, perhaps because the Flower article is in French (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Flower). It seems to me that a link would add value. How do I do it? Exbrum (talk) 09:02, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Exbrum, try this: [[:fr:Raymond Flower|Raymond Flower]]. DonFB (talk) 09:48, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

@Exbrum and DonFB: I believe the most common way for this is interlanguage link Template. In your example it would be {{ill|Raymond Flower|fr}}, which displays as Raymond Flower

Well thanks Joseph, that's good to know. DonFB (talk) 10:25, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism Warnings

How do you warn editors for vandalism? I just undid a spam edit but am entirely unsure as to how to proceed now - I think I should probably at least say something to the userÂ :P Titanium Wolf (talk) 13:26, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

The page, Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace, is a list of the User talk page warning templates. ~Â GBÂ fan 13:30, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

It's also OK to just go to the other editor's talk page and tell him in your own words (but politely) your assessment of and concerns about his edit. You don't have to use a template. Herostratus (talk) 14:22, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Pupils of Nadia Boulanger

Hello - this is my first time adding a link to a Wikipedia site. I added a link to the Pupils of Nadia Boulanger site but I can't figure out how to get it to appear under the right alphabetical category. My link is to student Harold Evans - and it was placed at the top of the page when I wanted it under "E". Thank you. â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by Harveykay (talk â€¢ contribs) 16:58, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

A new member gets added to the category not by editing the category page, but by editing the article about the new member, adding [[Category:Pupils of Nadia Boulanger]] to the foot of the member's article. It appears, however, that there isn't (yet) an article on your Harold Evans, so if there isn't an article his article can't be included in the category. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:16, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Harveykay: Hello, does the Harold Evans you refer to have a Wikipedia article? If he does and is a pupil of Boulanger, then the code [[Category: Pupils of Nadia Boulanger]] would be added to his page in a section accessed at the end of the page where other categories will appear. Subjects are not added directly at the category page, and subjects without a Wiki article cannot be added. Eagleash (talk) 17:19, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

We don't seem to have an article about a musician called Harold Evans. If/when we did, I think the right place for this connection would be adding him to List_of_music_students_by_teacher:_A_to_B#Nadia_Boulanger - but only if/when there was an article about him.86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:27, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

It would correctly be added to that page, if an article existed, as well as being added to the category. Eagleash (talk) 03:12, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Electoral Commission (UK) CEO wrong

your page 'electoral commission - uk' is incorrect in respect of the ceo it is claire bassett and has been since october 2015 - please amend.

electoral commision is claire basset - since 2015 - please amend. â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.232.225.219 (talk) 18:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I've removed the executive names, as they were incorrect, not referenced, and not the names shown on their website here.

We currently do not have an article about Claire Bassett, so I don't think it is appropriate to add her name there - also basing this on Google searches of news, she does not seem a particularly notable public figure.86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:33, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ (talk) 18:42, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Can I create "Did you mean?" redirect, like type "Taiwan Taoyuan I" redirect to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport?, or Tokaido Sh redirect to Tokaido Shinkansen??

@UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ: Yes, if you think it's reasonably likely someone might type that to find it. Redirects are cheap. See Wikipedia:Redirect, which shows "How to make a redirect" 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:49, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I mean search suggest redirect UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ (talk) 08:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

@UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ: If there is only one likely target page, we don't bother saying "Did you mean..."; we just take them to the page.

If there are several potential targets, we make a disambiguation page, like for example James Small. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 11:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

How to flag that a useful article has many factual errors

The article "Battle of Barking Creek" has (at least some, perhaps many) factual errors that I do not have the knowledge to correct (see the article's talk page). How do I flag the article appropriately?Wyresider (talk) 20:45, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

You can tag specific sentences by placing {{fact}} at the end of the sentence. Â·Â·Â·æ—¥æœ¬ç©£ Â· æŠ•ç¨¿ Â· Talk to Nihonjoe Â· Join WP Japan! 21:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Nihonjoe, but the article has some points that I know are wrong and others that I suspect may be wrong, and I feel that the article as a whole is correct in outline but erroneous in detail. I would like to flag the article as a whole accordingly. To focus on a few specifics would by implication exonerate the remainder, which may or may not be justified. Some specifics are discussed on the talk page. (The talk page might suggest that I know more about the topic than I do -- I researched in some detail only one or two statements in the article that stood out as being improbable -- so improbable prima facie as to call the authority of the article as a whole into question.) â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyresider (talk â€¢ contribs) 22:55, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

@Wyresider: If you think there is a problem with the whole article, {{Disputed}} can be added tot he top of the page. Be sure to list specific problems on the talk page so anyone can help with fixing the issues. Â·Â·Â·æ—¥æœ¬ç©£ Â· æŠ•ç¨¿ Â· Talk to Nihonjoe Â· Join WP Japan! 23:24, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

@Wyresider: Is this about the things you wrote on the talk page back in August 2015 (which seem to have been ignored), or is it about something else? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 23:21, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

It's a very interesting article, actually. And I see what you mean about the factual problems. I've asked for input from the MilHist folks (WikiProject Military history, which is a very active project). I'm also trying to order one of the books. Please monitor the talk page, I think people will be talking there within the next days...hopefully we can sort it out. See you on Talk:Battle of Barking Creek? 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:28, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both.

Nihonjoe -- 86.20.193.222 may find an expert willing to review and edit the article. If not, I will use {{Disputed}} within the article, as you suggest.

86.20.193.222 -- yes, it is about the things I wrote on the talk page. In a nutshell, it is a very interesting and (I believe) well written article, but it appears to have some, perhaps many, errors of fact. I do not have the knowledge to correct it, so I wrote up what I had found on the talk page in the hope that an expert in the subject would review and revise it. Many thanks for your help in this.

Wyresider (talk) 16:59, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Ref number 11 in the main text looks wrong to me. Please alter is necessary. 139.216.210.155 (talk) 23:32, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi. Do you mean ""Mary taler perfekt dansk"? I may be seeing a different 11th ref to you; someone removed one recently. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 23:39, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

no - The page is definatley ==Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark== Ref number 11 in that page has a > sign next to it. This would not be correct. Please investigate Thanks 139.216.210.155 (talk) 23:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Ah, you mean the part about "While studying in Tasmania", I see it now. I've removed it, because it was only referencing a blog post and a document on "Scribd", which are not reliable sources. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Help

Anyone know how to get the names and numbers from Template:Edmonton Eskimos roster and put them in a list like they are at Template:Edmonton Eskimos roster navbox. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 23:36, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

@WikiOriginal-9: Can you explain a bit more? You can click 'edit' on those, and could copy-paste the names across, if it needs updating or something. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 01:48, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically update the roster navbox by pulling names from the main roster template. A lua module perhaps? WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 01:50, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, that's clearer. I think you'd have a 3rd template, containing the actual names, and then these two templates would use the names from that.

Hopefully, someone will offer you help with it here. I could probably figure it out, but I'm sure others could do it much quicker. If nobody shows up, I'll see if I can find someone. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 03:29, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

This probably wouldn't be too difficult for someone who knew what they were doing. If you look at the tempalte, each entry is formatted liked {CFL player|31|N|Calvin McCarty}. All you have to do is extract the number and name from each entry, and then sort the entries by number like at Template:Edmonton Eskimos roster navbox. This would save a lot of time in updating these templates. I think you might be able to have a lua module do this. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 17:13, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Â Template expertise required â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.193.222 (talk) 03:33, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

March 17

I am not a Spouse to Eric Bauza

It says I am a spouse to Eric Bauza. This is not true. We dated but are no longer. Please adjust. Here is his page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bauza thank you â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:141D:4211:BD1A:DB:418C:68D5 (talk) 03:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

The personal details in the infobox relating to marriage and children appear to be unsourced (and there is no 'personal life section in the article). I have removed them. Eagleash (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Seeking help with Rhea_Moss-Christian

Am having trouble with two edits:

1. Formatting the photo into the Infobox (as opposed to above it, where it now sits).

2. I have added more links as requested by the underlinked template but cannot remove the template now that the issue has been resolved.

I would appreciate the help of a more experienced editor.

Thank you

KEAB

KEAB (talk) 04:51, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

KEAB, since this article is about fishing (sort of), I'll teach you how to do it yourself, so you'll be able to do it "forever" in the future (give a man a fish...). On the article page, click the "edit this page" tab. In the editing box that appears, note the "Infobox person" words. Below that, note the "image" parameter. Now, near the top of the edit box, use ur mouse to highlight the name of the photo image, "File:Rhea Moss-Christian.jpg". Cut only those words from that location and paste it to the right of the = sign for the "image" parameter. Delete the leftover unneeded words and symbols: [[ |thumb|Rhea Moss Christian]]. At the very top of the edit box, delete "Underlinked|date=March 2017", including the curly braces {{}}. Ask here again (or send me a Talk message) if you have any problems. DonFB (talk) 05:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much (talk). That worked perfectly! Am very grateful. KEAB â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.73.94 (talk â€¢ contribs) 05:40, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello...

Hello Sir or Madam,

I notice this page isn't automatically on Google.

Please check it..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derick_Kobina_Bonney â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.251.134.204 (talk) 12:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

@197.251.134.204: It is a very new page (only one day old). Google may not 'index' the page immediately. Wiki has no control over how or what Google displays. Eagleash (talk) 12:32, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Correct. The page in question was just created on March 16, 2017. In some cases, it has been known to take several days and even weeks for an article to show up in Google's search engine due to backlog and importance of subject matter. (On a separate note) I noticed that the subject goes by the pseudonym: DKB but the article is only found under the full name: Derick Kobina Bonney. You may wish to link through a disambiguation: [4] just to cover all the bases; especially if fans know him as DKB. Maineartists (talk) 12:42, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Â Done (disamb). Eagleash (talk) 12:46, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Google won't try to index this page yet. Newly created pages are WP:NOINDEXed until they have been patrolled by someone with the "new page patrol" user right. There are currently 16000 pages waiting at Special:NewPagesFeed, and a backlog of four and half months. (It has been said, however, that the NOINDEX will be removed after 30 days if the page hasn't been patrolled by then.) --David Biddulph (talk) 13:07, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Oru kanavu Pola

My Tamil movie name Oru kanavu Pola this month 24 the release shedule.pl add in list of tamilmovies2017 2405:205:8189:E38E:8016:E4DD:FC0E:BD2D (talk) 13:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Â Done Added to List of Tamil films of 2017. Lourdes 14:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

citations

The article on Rufus Hummingbirds does not mention the migration of the species into the West Coast of Washington State. I cannot provide a citation for that but I can attest from personal experience that a flock of rufous hummingbirds arrived at our home in Ocean Park, WA yesterday, March 15, 2017. They completely emptied three feeders in half a day. It was sunny and they were gloriously beautiful. I read in "Backyard Birds," by Ruth McCausland, Gotham Printing 2011, that this is an annual migration. But this year's arrival in March is two or three months early.

Please help me formulate this information for an edit to the Rufous Hummingbird article. â€"Â Preceding unsigned comment added by Frankhlogan (talk â€¢ contribs) 16:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello Frankhlogan. I suppose the article is Rufous hummingbird?

Wikipedia requires references to published reliable sources to include some material, so "personal experience" is never going to be accepted. From what I found by online search, I suspect "Gotham Printing" is a vanity publisher, i.e. Coastal Washington Backyard Birds was not subject to editorial control from the publisher and therefore is not a reliable source either.

You may however drop at note at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds, folks there might be able to help you better. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 17:20, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

How do I ask for feedback on my my draft?

Hi, I've drafted my first entry and I'm wondering if I can find some good editors to give me kind feedback. I'm not even sure how to share the draft with others.--OfTheSea (talk) 18:30, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

You can share the draft with others by giving a link to it, like this: Draft:Samuel Ronan. I've improved the formatting. You need to do some work on the references, so that the numbers in the text actually link to them. Maproom (talk) 18:52, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

OfTheSea, please see Referencing for beginners to help with the references that Maproom mentioned. Also worth noting is that you shouldn't use Wikipedia itself as a reference as you did with your final reference. â€ dismasâ€ |^(talk) 19:53, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

2017-18 NHL season Template

Can You Put The 2017â€"18 NHL season Template into Draft Space Please. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 21:30, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Â Done. Hello. While there is no template titled Template:2017â€"18 NHL season, If you are referring to Template talk:2017â€"18 NHL season by team, which you seem to have been working upon, I have moved it to Draft:2017â€"18 NHL season by team. Feel free to ask for any further assistance. Thanks. Lourdes 00:07, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

I would be very grateful if someone could make it possible to use the symbols and also in enWP. They are used for example in de:Liste der Orte mit Stolpersteinen. Thanks.--Meister und Margarita (talk) 22:02, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

done.--Donna Gedenk (talk) 22:48, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

March 18

Inline link to Simple WP?

Is it possible to have an inline link to a Simple Wikipedia article? E.g.: constituent country, for which en.Wikipedia doesn't have an article, but Simple WP does:[5]. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:409E:D8B8:A84:FC61 (talk) 03:22, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

@2606:A000:4C0C:E200:409E:D8B8:A84:FC61: Yes! So, you just put the language code (in this case "simple") before the page when linking. But first, you after to put a colon. Basically, it's this: "[[:language:page]]". So, for example, constituent country is this: "[[:simple:Constituent country]]". RileyBugz^{Yell at me} | _Edits 03:35, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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