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Havn't been around in a while, but went to read a article, and the formatting's broken; the text of each article is somehow constrained, leaving a column of approximately two inches of whitespace on the right.
I've flushed my cache and such, still happening. As far as I can tell this is happening on every single page on Wikipedia, except generated pages such as my watchlist.
Has something been changed recently? I'm using Chrome, WindowsXP, everything's updated etc. — The Potato Hose 01:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. New to this so bear with me. The main article for today (1/10/2013) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon%C3%B3rio_Hermeto_Carneiro_Le%C3%A3o,_Marquis_of_Paran%C3%A1 has a pretty obvious error in it. The man's death date is listed as September 3, 2006 which would make leave him at the ripe old age of 205 (born 1801). Seeing as he was an early 19th century Portuguese monarch the date is absurd. Didn't know where else to tell someone with the ability to correct the mistake.
Sincerely
-Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.124.221.143 ( talk) 02:07, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I am assuming that using autobiographies as the only sources should not count as verifying notability in a "Wikipedia-sense". The article, James Gordon Partridge Bisset, indicates by its content the "notability" of the topic; however, the only sources are his autobiographies. To complicate things, there are no inline references, and there are no links to online sources of the (3) autobiographies for verification. The previous 'Notability tag' has just been removed with this edit: [ diff] (...subject is notable) — Frankly, it seems to be notable to me; but, I was thinking about returning the tag and posting a comment in the article's talk page. However, I have yet to find chapter-and-verse WP policy; the closest I could find is WP:ABOUTSELF, which isn't really applicable. —Comments or suggestions? ~Thanks, ~E: 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 02:09, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
@ TheRedPenOfDoom: Thank-you for your edits. {{ primary}} is the template that I was looking for (assuming that I knew what I was doing). ~E
Redeemed 9,500,10% debentures of ₹100 each by converting the same into equity shares of ₹100 each. The equity shares were issued at a discount of 5%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.178.25.61 ( talk) 06:15, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
hellow Wikipedia my name is ben I am trying to grt on db primary but it will not let me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.1.176.30 ( talk) 09:16, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I recently updated the "List of college bowl games" page. On the "Map of Bowl Games" section, the new map appears but not the names of the new bowl games. I click on the map(Bowl games.jpg), go to the "File usage" section and click on the "Template:Bowl games map" and my changes are there. Why are my changes not posted to the new map?
Also, on the "File:Bowl games.jpg" page, within the "File usage" section, I uploaded another file called "File:Bowl games 2014.jpg" which I don't need. Can I or someone delete it?
Your help is much appreciated...
Roberto221 Roberto221 ( talk) 10:13, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
I want to study Persian thoroughly. Can you tell me how to use Wiki for the same.
I want resources for the same. I dont want to Edit anything.
Abdul Rasheed S
86.98.32.73 ( talk) 13:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I have two very old photos of the Fraser Canyon and river plus one of either Yale or a town just above Boston Bar. They were taken sometime in the late 1890's or so as they show a wagon train downtown being pulled by steers, not mules or oxen. Would these be important to the article about the early history and how do I go about that? Tom Osvold — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.138.95 ( talk) 15:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I've uploaded an image. I didn't know exactly how to grant the license, but am trying to do so. The Wizard wasn't clear, nor are your Image help pages designed for clarity. Your easiest licenses should be grantable as part of the path of uploading, with clear responses stating "You're done! The license is uploaded. We'll let you know if there are any problems." No, instead your licensing system has too many choices for the novice, not enough clear summarization, and no critical path funneling. Without this, the image upload process is making Wikipedia unfriendly, and reducing your potential volunteerism.
At upload, I was advised I should provide the license, and promised to do so. Wikipedia left me an automatic response, here, stating:
To who? To me? I haven't seen an email. To OTRS? What else do I have to do to ensure that this image isn't going to be deleted by an overzealous copyright enforcer?
I have a dozen other images, which I intend to release in low-res without restriction. But having run afoul of a copyright zealot here before, I don't want to go through the effort only to have it stomped on. Jax MN ( talk) 16:20, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I am currently drafting an article on Pieter Nieuwkoop in my userspace, and I am somewhat stuck on a particular referencing problem. Specifically I need to reference an explanatory footnote, but don't wish to separate the notes and references into two sections (that seems a bit silly as I am likely only going to have one explanatory note in the entire article). I have tried following the advice at WP:REFNEST but I think this is running into a problem where Cite.php tries to render the reference named in my "refn" template before rendering the template itself. It then thinks it has an unused list-defined reference and throws a tantrum. Is there any way to achieve what I want, or am I stuck having a "Notes" (or rather "Note"?) section containing a single note? Thanks. Equisetum ( talk | contributions) 17:10, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
{{refn|An embryonic cell layer which is destined to give rise to both [[endoderm]]al and [[mesoderm]]al tissues.<ref name=endomesoderm_def />}}
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Are guy you aware of inncuracys in the article regearding cashew nuts?! too many lies. -- NutsAboutNuts ( talk) 17:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
These are reasons why the article is rubbish. Fix it or let me fix it. -- NutsAboutNuts ( talk) 17:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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In the article they have given credit to a lot of musicians, but not credit to, Gerry Zaragemca, which also did and article about Jazz, mentioning several Cuban jazz players, 'Zaragemca brief on Jazz Music'. The article is featured on several websides, including. Allaboutjazz.com. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.126.210.31 ( talk) 20:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I am an NYC Comedian and although I know I can't create a page for myself, I have someone that is interested in doing so. How can they do this?
Thanks,
Mike Joseph — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.12.52.180 ( talk) 20:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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Havn't been around in a while, but went to read a article, and the formatting's broken; the text of each article is somehow constrained, leaving a column of approximately two inches of whitespace on the right.
I've flushed my cache and such, still happening. As far as I can tell this is happening on every single page on Wikipedia, except generated pages such as my watchlist.
Has something been changed recently? I'm using Chrome, WindowsXP, everything's updated etc. — The Potato Hose 01:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. New to this so bear with me. The main article for today (1/10/2013) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon%C3%B3rio_Hermeto_Carneiro_Le%C3%A3o,_Marquis_of_Paran%C3%A1 has a pretty obvious error in it. The man's death date is listed as September 3, 2006 which would make leave him at the ripe old age of 205 (born 1801). Seeing as he was an early 19th century Portuguese monarch the date is absurd. Didn't know where else to tell someone with the ability to correct the mistake.
Sincerely
-Brian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.124.221.143 ( talk) 02:07, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I am assuming that using autobiographies as the only sources should not count as verifying notability in a "Wikipedia-sense". The article, James Gordon Partridge Bisset, indicates by its content the "notability" of the topic; however, the only sources are his autobiographies. To complicate things, there are no inline references, and there are no links to online sources of the (3) autobiographies for verification. The previous 'Notability tag' has just been removed with this edit: [ diff] (...subject is notable) — Frankly, it seems to be notable to me; but, I was thinking about returning the tag and posting a comment in the article's talk page. However, I have yet to find chapter-and-verse WP policy; the closest I could find is WP:ABOUTSELF, which isn't really applicable. —Comments or suggestions? ~Thanks, ~E: 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 02:09, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
@ TheRedPenOfDoom: Thank-you for your edits. {{ primary}} is the template that I was looking for (assuming that I knew what I was doing). ~E
Redeemed 9,500,10% debentures of ₹100 each by converting the same into equity shares of ₹100 each. The equity shares were issued at a discount of 5%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.178.25.61 ( talk) 06:15, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
hellow Wikipedia my name is ben I am trying to grt on db primary but it will not let me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.1.176.30 ( talk) 09:16, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I recently updated the "List of college bowl games" page. On the "Map of Bowl Games" section, the new map appears but not the names of the new bowl games. I click on the map(Bowl games.jpg), go to the "File usage" section and click on the "Template:Bowl games map" and my changes are there. Why are my changes not posted to the new map?
Also, on the "File:Bowl games.jpg" page, within the "File usage" section, I uploaded another file called "File:Bowl games 2014.jpg" which I don't need. Can I or someone delete it?
Your help is much appreciated...
Roberto221 Roberto221 ( talk) 10:13, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
I want to study Persian thoroughly. Can you tell me how to use Wiki for the same.
I want resources for the same. I dont want to Edit anything.
Abdul Rasheed S
86.98.32.73 ( talk) 13:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I have two very old photos of the Fraser Canyon and river plus one of either Yale or a town just above Boston Bar. They were taken sometime in the late 1890's or so as they show a wagon train downtown being pulled by steers, not mules or oxen. Would these be important to the article about the early history and how do I go about that? Tom Osvold — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.138.95 ( talk) 15:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I've uploaded an image. I didn't know exactly how to grant the license, but am trying to do so. The Wizard wasn't clear, nor are your Image help pages designed for clarity. Your easiest licenses should be grantable as part of the path of uploading, with clear responses stating "You're done! The license is uploaded. We'll let you know if there are any problems." No, instead your licensing system has too many choices for the novice, not enough clear summarization, and no critical path funneling. Without this, the image upload process is making Wikipedia unfriendly, and reducing your potential volunteerism.
At upload, I was advised I should provide the license, and promised to do so. Wikipedia left me an automatic response, here, stating:
To who? To me? I haven't seen an email. To OTRS? What else do I have to do to ensure that this image isn't going to be deleted by an overzealous copyright enforcer?
I have a dozen other images, which I intend to release in low-res without restriction. But having run afoul of a copyright zealot here before, I don't want to go through the effort only to have it stomped on. Jax MN ( talk) 16:20, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I am currently drafting an article on Pieter Nieuwkoop in my userspace, and I am somewhat stuck on a particular referencing problem. Specifically I need to reference an explanatory footnote, but don't wish to separate the notes and references into two sections (that seems a bit silly as I am likely only going to have one explanatory note in the entire article). I have tried following the advice at WP:REFNEST but I think this is running into a problem where Cite.php tries to render the reference named in my "refn" template before rendering the template itself. It then thinks it has an unused list-defined reference and throws a tantrum. Is there any way to achieve what I want, or am I stuck having a "Notes" (or rather "Note"?) section containing a single note? Thanks. Equisetum ( talk | contributions) 17:10, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
{{refn|An embryonic cell layer which is destined to give rise to both [[endoderm]]al and [[mesoderm]]al tissues.<ref name=endomesoderm_def />}}
WP:DENY |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
Are guy you aware of inncuracys in the article regearding cashew nuts?! too many lies. -- NutsAboutNuts ( talk) 17:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
These are reasons why the article is rubbish. Fix it or let me fix it. -- NutsAboutNuts ( talk) 17:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
|
In the article they have given credit to a lot of musicians, but not credit to, Gerry Zaragemca, which also did and article about Jazz, mentioning several Cuban jazz players, 'Zaragemca brief on Jazz Music'. The article is featured on several websides, including. Allaboutjazz.com. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.126.210.31 ( talk) 20:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I am an NYC Comedian and although I know I can't create a page for myself, I have someone that is interested in doing so. How can they do this?
Thanks,
Mike Joseph — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.12.52.180 ( talk) 20:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)