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{{#statements: }}
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{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
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[19]<chem>
to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>
. <ce>
should be replaced by <chem>
.
[21]#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
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Hi Flow234! A fellow editor reverted your edit to Levofloxacin because you didn't provide a source (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). I've added one in the meantime, but please note that adding sources to your edits is important for the quality of Wikipedia, because otherwise our readers can't check whether the information we provide is actually true. Therefore, unsourced content is likely to be deleted sooner or later. Happy editing, ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 09:54, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello User:Flow234, Thank you very much for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. This is regarding your reverting my edits for using transliteration template ISO. In the spirit of working together for building this encyclopedia, could you please add details about the issues with this template that you are experiencing? And reporting the bug. Kindly see note at talkpage for Tamil language, using transliteration template- ISO. Thanks, 2know4power ( talk) 21:39, 17 February 2017 (UTC).
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to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type and
peers.
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Hello Flow234, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of King Hussein Business Park, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: speedy deletion requires that *all* revisions meet the criterion. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. So Why 10:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
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is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
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on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
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on Macs.
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Thank you for your suggestion regarding
Tissot. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a
wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top.
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many reasons you might want to). I noticed you added a promo tag to the Tissot page - I had just removed that tag about a month ago, after overhauling the article and removing much promotional language and content. I do not see what you are referring to as being promotional, so I have removed the tag. I implore you to make the edits to remove what you view as promotional yourself in lieu of adding a blanket tag, as it would be much more helpful for everyone. Thanks,
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The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding the Electronic cigarette topic area, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.
Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.QuackGuru ( talk) 14:42, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
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&fuzzy=1
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Special:Undelete.
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instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
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on this page.
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Freenode. You can use the
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about using Linter and the
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Hi. You will often find blocks of IP addresses without a published rationale. These are generally blocks of clearly identified indeff block/ban evaders. It is part of our method of ignoring them in the hope of them going away. In the case of some, it doesn't work. They are also often what we call 'IP hoppers'. Leaving messages on IP users' talk pages has no effect as they don't read them, and there is no other way they can be contacted even if we wanted to. Their posts are a mix of slanderous attacks at admins, disruption of RfC, and the rare useful edit to an article. When we find them we remove them all. The only real solution would be to insist that all users register an account. Wikipedia is the only serious web site nowadays that does not have this requirement. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:23, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, Thanks for reviewing the article. I was informed that it was declined after 3 weeks since I submitted. I'd like to revise it based on your advice. Would you please let me know what exactly were considered as promotional materials, or what sources are unreliable among the references? I posted it on the help desk, and they suggested to contact you directly.
It seems someone already deleted the draft even I started a talk page and said I will revise this. How can I get the draft back? Thanks.
Cozy1626 (
talk) 16:29, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Flow234 As a relatively new beginner to Wikipedia, I would really appreciate any specific suggestions you may have as to how I could improve the content of the Draft page 'Newcastle and Hunter Valley Speleological Society' which you had declined. Specifically what sections should be deleted or added to. I have spent many many hours researching this article, so hope that my efforts have not been totally wasted. Besides looking more critically at what can be misinterpreted as advertisement (which none of the article is intended to be), how do I go forward from here? Now that the Draft article has been marked as "Declined", what is the procedure to get this banner removed? Happy to take on board your suggestion. Kind Regards IntoCaves ( talk) 00:11, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Since K-popguardian created the page with a copy-and-paste move, I merged the draft you declined into List of dead South Korean musicians. At first glance, the sourcing issue appears addressed. Of course, feel free to prod or nominate for AfD if you think the article is fatally flawed. — C.Fred ( talk) 20:41, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Most likely it will be an AfD, but if there is any major problems, notify me and I will try my best to fix it.- K-popguardian ( talk) 20:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
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in the documentation.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
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instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Infectious disease (medical specialty) has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.
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sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
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{{#statements: }}
to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }}
to get raw data. You
can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.
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in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox.
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{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
[19]<chem>
to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>
. <ce>
should be replaced by <chem>
.
[21]#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number 50
to make it look like you want to.
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Hi Flow234! A fellow editor reverted your edit to Levofloxacin because you didn't provide a source (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). I've added one in the meantime, but please note that adding sources to your edits is important for the quality of Wikipedia, because otherwise our readers can't check whether the information we provide is actually true. Therefore, unsourced content is likely to be deleted sooner or later. Happy editing, ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 09:54, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello User:Flow234, Thank you very much for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. This is regarding your reverting my edits for using transliteration template ISO. In the spirit of working together for building this encyclopedia, could you please add details about the issues with this template that you are experiencing? And reporting the bug. Kindly see note at talkpage for Tamil language, using transliteration template- ISO. Thanks, 2know4power ( talk) 21:39, 17 February 2017 (UTC).
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type
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. The type
option solves this problem. You can use peers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type and
peers.
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<chem>
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<references />
tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references />
tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
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Hello Flow234, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of King Hussein Business Park, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: speedy deletion requires that *all* revisions meet the criterion. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. So Why 10:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
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is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[61]Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
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Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs.
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Thank you for your suggestion regarding
Tissot. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a
wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top.
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New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to
log in (although there are
many reasons you might want to). I noticed you added a promo tag to the Tissot page - I had just removed that tag about a month ago, after overhauling the article and removing much promotional language and content. I do not see what you are referring to as being promotional, so I have removed the tag. I implore you to make the edits to remove what you view as promotional yourself in lieu of adding a blanket tag, as it would be much more helpful for everyone. Thanks,
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talk) 16:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding the Electronic cigarette topic area, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.
Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.QuackGuru ( talk) 14:42, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
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CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
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mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
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Publish changes
, Show preview
and Show changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1
to the URL.
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Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
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instead of Switch to visual editing
and Switch to code editing
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is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{
in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
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mediawiki.util
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as the first line in the file and });
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is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
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__NOGLOBAL__
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<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete.
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irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
[135]Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
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parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo
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.mw-ui-constructive
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
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.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8
instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
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18:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
![]() | This user opposes copyright, and encourages the free exchange of culture. |
to discover this user box on your user page after you challenged the Joe Arpio signature that I discovered in a book. Carptrash ( talk) 15:45, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
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Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
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Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how
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22:09, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
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#wikimedia-office
on
Freenode. You can use the
web chat.
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22:14, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
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tidy-whitespace-bug
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19:15, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. You will often find blocks of IP addresses without a published rationale. These are generally blocks of clearly identified indeff block/ban evaders. It is part of our method of ignoring them in the hope of them going away. In the case of some, it doesn't work. They are also often what we call 'IP hoppers'. Leaving messages on IP users' talk pages has no effect as they don't read them, and there is no other way they can be contacted even if we wanted to. Their posts are a mix of slanderous attacks at admins, disruption of RfC, and the rare useful edit to an article. When we find them we remove them all. The only real solution would be to insist that all users register an account. Wikipedia is the only serious web site nowadays that does not have this requirement. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:23, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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15:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for reviewing the article. I was informed that it was declined after 3 weeks since I submitted. I'd like to revise it based on your advice. Would you please let me know what exactly were considered as promotional materials, or what sources are unreliable among the references? I posted it on the help desk, and they suggested to contact you directly.
It seems someone already deleted the draft even I started a talk page and said I will revise this. How can I get the draft back? Thanks.
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talk) 16:29, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Flow234 As a relatively new beginner to Wikipedia, I would really appreciate any specific suggestions you may have as to how I could improve the content of the Draft page 'Newcastle and Hunter Valley Speleological Society' which you had declined. Specifically what sections should be deleted or added to. I have spent many many hours researching this article, so hope that my efforts have not been totally wasted. Besides looking more critically at what can be misinterpreted as advertisement (which none of the article is intended to be), how do I go forward from here? Now that the Draft article has been marked as "Declined", what is the procedure to get this banner removed? Happy to take on board your suggestion. Kind Regards IntoCaves ( talk) 00:11, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
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15:59, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Since K-popguardian created the page with a copy-and-paste move, I merged the draft you declined into List of dead South Korean musicians. At first glance, the sourcing issue appears addressed. Of course, feel free to prod or nominate for AfD if you think the article is fatally flawed. — C.Fred ( talk) 20:41, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Most likely it will be an AfD, but if there is any major problems, notify me and I will try my best to fix it.- K-popguardian ( talk) 20:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
{{
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Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
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14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
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15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
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17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
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