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I'm trying to put this ref into an article: [1]
However, the vertical bar in the URL seem to be what is producing this error in the ref: Unknown parameter |oclc;query= ignored (help)
Is there a way to include this URL in a ref without generating the error? NewtonCourt ( talk) 21:00, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
References
Her daughter, Felicia N. Trujillo, just released a biography that includes full color covers of all 20 of her books (not 17) and 2 portfolios: THE CAT ARTIST~The Story of Clare Turlay Newberry. <redacted per WP:EL> Also see: www.NewberryCats.com a portfolio site featuring most of Newberry's books. WP:COPYVIO book ad removed Felicia Newberry Trujillo ( talk) 05:42, 8 May 2016 (UTC)Clare T. Newberry PHOTOS AVAILABLE--DON'T KNOW HOW TO UPLOAD
See this article: IIT Kanpur Airport. In the Infobox on the right, the coordinates are given for the location of the topic. When we click on the coordinates, it opens a new page on GeoHack. On that page, the WGS84 shows the correct coordinates which are same as that on Infobox of the Wikipedia article, whereas just one line below Geo URI show incorrect coordinates. Because of the incorrect Geo URI coordinates, the links to maps such as Bing Maps or Google Maps lands the user on an incorrect location. I don't know how to change these Geo URI coordinates :( . Please Help. Iamvaibhavkumar ( talk) 07:33, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
On May 1, 2016, I removed some linkspam from A Girl like Me (film). Today I made a minor edit to Generic Access Network. Then I looked at my contribution history and discovered that I had supposedly reverted my own edit to "A Girl like Me (film)". But I did not! I haven't even looked at that page since May 1. Any ideas? Peter Chastain [¡habla!] 09:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I can't find it - I want to see why pages are both edited by two specific users - it gets used in SPIs. Legacypac ( talk) 11:58, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Sir, i m a good writer & hv written many articles in diffrent topic so i hv earn by those articles, so the PDF of those in which address i should send. Please clarify it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.185.66.184 ( talk) 15:06, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Reference help requested. Hello. I was editing Beyoncé discography, adding certification with correct and valid references from official sites where the certifications are stated. The next day my edit was gone ( same as Adel's and Lady Gaga edit). I just wanna ask why is that and what am I doing wrong? Thank you very much, Jacob. Thanks, Jakubik.v ( talk) 15:55, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to understand when I can substitute an image for the lead/first/representative image in an article.
A day or so ago I substituted this image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prairie-nymph----Herbertia.jpg for the lead image in this article /info/en/?search=Herbertia_%28plant%29 . It stayed for a while, but when I came back to the article today the original lead picture had reappeared and my substitute was gone. I understand that better is in the eye of the beholder, but I've asked before what, if any, are the rules for substituting a better image for another in an article but got no response. ( talk) 16:35, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to know, first, whether there are any actual guidelines about moving a draft article to mainspace by a non-reviewer, and, second, how reviewers and other experienced editors should deal with such an action. I can't find another specific forum to ask this two-part question.
First, I am not aware of any guidelines. In general, often an enthusiastic inexperienced editor asks, either at the Teahouse or here, whether they should move their declined draft into mainspace and what will happen then. They may do this because they find AFC to be a frustrating process (which it is if the author either has a non-notable topic, isn't good with English, or just finds referencing difficult (which it is)). They are usually advised that submission to mainspace will subject the article to nomination for deletion, a more painful process than being declined. Most authors heed the advice. A few do it anyway.
Second, do reviewers and other experienced editors have specific ideas about how to deal with an author moving a draft to mainspace? I have seen two different approaches, both of which make sense. The first is to nominate the article for deletion (or, if it is hopeless, tag it for speedy deletion). The second is to move it back to draft space.
It is true that a particular article that was moved back from mainspace to draft space has prompted my question, but my question isn't really about it, but a general question. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:24, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Does there exist a system for monitoring the state of the Category:Requested edits backlog, like {{ AFC status}} for AFC? I ask because there is a fairly significant backlog right now and I wouldn't mind making such a template, but I don't want to duplicate existing functionality. — crh 23 ( Talk) 19:36, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm currently editing Turkmenistan. When I search for Abadan, a city, the appropriate hit says
( Ashgabat, "Așgabat" in Turkmen, is the national capital.)
The first sentence of Abadan, Turkmenistan is
The article says nothing about its having been incorporated into the capital city. Where did that note come from? I don't see anything like it in the page's source code. Please {{ping}} me for discussion.
-- Thnidu ( talk) 20:59, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Note for readers:
User:Thnidu has already
added sources (
original,
web archive) for the information about expanding the capital's borders. --
CiaPan (
talk)
09:51, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
There are also some comments in English, related to the fact of joining on the Turkmenistan government site:
but there's no direct info (or I could not find it) specifically about the joining, although there is one in Russian:
CiaPan ( talk) 10:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
turkmenistan.gov.tm
site. --
CiaPan (
talk)
14:15, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
A user's (Dumboldboy) sandbox is erroneously being listed on Category: content policies CAT:CONTENT because he copied the MOS no original research page. I did not think this was possible even with the category code copied. I am a bit anxious about editing the fellow's sandbox but I don't think he is here frequently nor understands the issue. — Box73 ( talk) 23:52, 8 May 2016 (UTC) ce topic heading Box73 ( talk) 23:53, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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I'm trying to put this ref into an article: [1]
However, the vertical bar in the URL seem to be what is producing this error in the ref: Unknown parameter |oclc;query= ignored (help)
Is there a way to include this URL in a ref without generating the error? NewtonCourt ( talk) 21:00, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
References
Her daughter, Felicia N. Trujillo, just released a biography that includes full color covers of all 20 of her books (not 17) and 2 portfolios: THE CAT ARTIST~The Story of Clare Turlay Newberry. <redacted per WP:EL> Also see: www.NewberryCats.com a portfolio site featuring most of Newberry's books. WP:COPYVIO book ad removed Felicia Newberry Trujillo ( talk) 05:42, 8 May 2016 (UTC)Clare T. Newberry PHOTOS AVAILABLE--DON'T KNOW HOW TO UPLOAD
See this article: IIT Kanpur Airport. In the Infobox on the right, the coordinates are given for the location of the topic. When we click on the coordinates, it opens a new page on GeoHack. On that page, the WGS84 shows the correct coordinates which are same as that on Infobox of the Wikipedia article, whereas just one line below Geo URI show incorrect coordinates. Because of the incorrect Geo URI coordinates, the links to maps such as Bing Maps or Google Maps lands the user on an incorrect location. I don't know how to change these Geo URI coordinates :( . Please Help. Iamvaibhavkumar ( talk) 07:33, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
On May 1, 2016, I removed some linkspam from A Girl like Me (film). Today I made a minor edit to Generic Access Network. Then I looked at my contribution history and discovered that I had supposedly reverted my own edit to "A Girl like Me (film)". But I did not! I haven't even looked at that page since May 1. Any ideas? Peter Chastain [¡habla!] 09:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I can't find it - I want to see why pages are both edited by two specific users - it gets used in SPIs. Legacypac ( talk) 11:58, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Sir, i m a good writer & hv written many articles in diffrent topic so i hv earn by those articles, so the PDF of those in which address i should send. Please clarify it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.185.66.184 ( talk) 15:06, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Reference help requested. Hello. I was editing Beyoncé discography, adding certification with correct and valid references from official sites where the certifications are stated. The next day my edit was gone ( same as Adel's and Lady Gaga edit). I just wanna ask why is that and what am I doing wrong? Thank you very much, Jacob. Thanks, Jakubik.v ( talk) 15:55, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to understand when I can substitute an image for the lead/first/representative image in an article.
A day or so ago I substituted this image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prairie-nymph----Herbertia.jpg for the lead image in this article /info/en/?search=Herbertia_%28plant%29 . It stayed for a while, but when I came back to the article today the original lead picture had reappeared and my substitute was gone. I understand that better is in the eye of the beholder, but I've asked before what, if any, are the rules for substituting a better image for another in an article but got no response. ( talk) 16:35, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to know, first, whether there are any actual guidelines about moving a draft article to mainspace by a non-reviewer, and, second, how reviewers and other experienced editors should deal with such an action. I can't find another specific forum to ask this two-part question.
First, I am not aware of any guidelines. In general, often an enthusiastic inexperienced editor asks, either at the Teahouse or here, whether they should move their declined draft into mainspace and what will happen then. They may do this because they find AFC to be a frustrating process (which it is if the author either has a non-notable topic, isn't good with English, or just finds referencing difficult (which it is)). They are usually advised that submission to mainspace will subject the article to nomination for deletion, a more painful process than being declined. Most authors heed the advice. A few do it anyway.
Second, do reviewers and other experienced editors have specific ideas about how to deal with an author moving a draft to mainspace? I have seen two different approaches, both of which make sense. The first is to nominate the article for deletion (or, if it is hopeless, tag it for speedy deletion). The second is to move it back to draft space.
It is true that a particular article that was moved back from mainspace to draft space has prompted my question, but my question isn't really about it, but a general question. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:24, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Does there exist a system for monitoring the state of the Category:Requested edits backlog, like {{ AFC status}} for AFC? I ask because there is a fairly significant backlog right now and I wouldn't mind making such a template, but I don't want to duplicate existing functionality. — crh 23 ( Talk) 19:36, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm currently editing Turkmenistan. When I search for Abadan, a city, the appropriate hit says
( Ashgabat, "Așgabat" in Turkmen, is the national capital.)
The first sentence of Abadan, Turkmenistan is
The article says nothing about its having been incorporated into the capital city. Where did that note come from? I don't see anything like it in the page's source code. Please {{ping}} me for discussion.
-- Thnidu ( talk) 20:59, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Note for readers:
User:Thnidu has already
added sources (
original,
web archive) for the information about expanding the capital's borders. --
CiaPan (
talk)
09:51, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
There are also some comments in English, related to the fact of joining on the Turkmenistan government site:
but there's no direct info (or I could not find it) specifically about the joining, although there is one in Russian:
CiaPan ( talk) 10:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
turkmenistan.gov.tm
site. --
CiaPan (
talk)
14:15, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
A user's (Dumboldboy) sandbox is erroneously being listed on Category: content policies CAT:CONTENT because he copied the MOS no original research page. I did not think this was possible even with the category code copied. I am a bit anxious about editing the fellow's sandbox but I don't think he is here frequently nor understands the issue. — Box73 ( talk) 23:52, 8 May 2016 (UTC) ce topic heading Box73 ( talk) 23:53, 8 May 2016 (UTC)