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I want to view some of the pages that have been created today (or yesterday). How do I access these recent pages? Neldama ( talk) 01:57, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
What is the best place beside the article talk page to have more people from different section involved to propose a name change after chaotic dispute? Village pump work? UFC Fight Night: Zabit vs. Kattar Regice2020 ( talk) 02:44, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
The page currently listing "American Dad" seasons and episodes is inaccurate per listings as noted through television and streaming on Hulu. The seasons' and episodes' numberings on the page are mislabeled, with season 14 listed as 16, and likely include additional errors. Please have an active editor correct this or add a disclaimer note indicating the specific errors.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.36.44.22 ( talk) 02:47, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
I searched for 'Fire department' .in the searched results ,under the fire brigade's pic ,in 1st paragraph,12th line and 2nd word county's spelling is wrong . please make it correct to "'country"' ......thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.204.96.188 ( talk) 03:19, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Fire departments are most commonly a public organization who operate within a municipality, county, state, nation, or special district., then I'm fairly sure "county" is correct; see county. "Country" is already covered by "nation". Eman 235/ talk 03:27, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
At 04:49, 19 August 2019 (UTC), I came to ask for help because often when I saved edits I got a false "edit conflict" warning. I discovered that several other editors had the same problem. Please see Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2019 August 19#Continuous editing conflict. I edit Wikipedia using Google Chrome (up-to-date) running under Win 10 Pro (also up-to-date); nothing exotic. The problem for me has escalated from frequent to constant. It is a real handicap in editing Wikipedia because it wastes a lot of my time. I do not have any beta gadget enabled and my broadband connection is fast enough. I would appreciate help with this problem in editing Wikipedia. Thank you.— Finell 06:34, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
I came across this article, about a series of books. The article pretty much solely consists of pretty lengthy plot outlines of the books. There's a single reference which doesn't seem particularly relevant (and is also listed as an 'official site' on the page despite this not being clear at all in the source itself, and there's zero citations. Linked in the article, there's also this, this, and this, three articles about subseries in this series, which seem to basically do the same thing, redundantly containing the same sort of long plot outlines with no citations or anything else. And all 11 books in the overall series also have their own individual pages, which again redundantly contain the long plot outlines with basically nothing else and no citations, though with the exception of a few of the articles having a brief section about reception with a couple citations for reviews. There's also three articles linked to in the 'see also' section of the first article I mentioned, for 'historical characters', 'fictional characters', and 'institutions' in the series, all three of which consist of long lists with next to no citations. Also, multiple pages for these books contain things like user created maps for the situation in the books, and even in a few instances infoboxes for the (fictional) military conflicts in the books that are made pretty much like how infoboxes for actual historical conflicts are done here on wikipedia
I don't do a huge amount of editing on wikipedia, and mostly limit myself to kind of basic things, so I'm not entirely sure what's wrong here or what specifically to do about it, but it kind of seems like stuff could be possibly wrong here... the general vibe I got from these articles is that they were pretty good articles-for, say, a fandom wikia sort of thing, but that there's a lot of stuff that probably doesn't meet notability guidelines or something like that. Looking at things like this, it looks like articles about books aren't supposed to just be plot summaries. Which, like, looks like it might consist of a fair amount of articles for books, or at least when I looked at a some articles of other books in the genre to the series above (intending to find some that seemed like a good example of how an article should probably look like, to compare to these ones), I found that the ones I was looking at often had these issues too. Or I found articles that consisted of just a plot summary... and also a brief section for one or two reviews to be cited
And I'm kind of wondering what exactly warrants a book getting a wikipedia article anyway? What establishes notability and such? It looks like just a plot summary isn't supposed to be enough. Is "just a plot summary AND a couple reviews that can be cited" enough? Do reviews establish notability? Should there be additional sources discussing the book for it to be notable?
And in a different direction... while the 'fictional/historical characters' and 'institutions' lists for the series that I was looking at seemed kind of maybe not something that would be considered article-worthy, looking a bit more, I've found at least 'character lists' for various rather more popular/well-known media, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but if it exists for more commonly viewed and edited things, then it seems like its a legit thing to do, though I'm not sure about the guidelines for these sorts of lists regarding notability or when they should exist and how much they should contain and so on
-- HelpPls? ( talk) 10:00, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
I am in the process of creating an article. The article is called Draft:Bahamas Life. I am trying to find some good sources I could use for the article. Can you find some good sources that are independent and reliable that talk about the subject in detail I can use for this article? Interstellarity ( talk) 13:52, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Can you fix the error please. 68.103.78.155 ( talk) 16:02, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Is there a Help file that explains how to go back to notifications and alerts that I have previously viewed? Or, how do I go back to notifications and alerts that I have previously viewed?
If I am viewing Wikipedia on my mobile device, it displays the count of total notifications and alerts, and the number is in red if there are notifications or alerts that I have not yet viewed. (On a real computer, it lists the notifications and the alerts separately, and any new alerts are red and any new notifications are blue.) However, after I look at one, I can't bring it back to view it on a real computer. At least, I don't know how to bring it back, and so if I want to view the page in more detail, I have to remember or search on my computer. Is there any way that I can bring back previous notifications and alerts?
Do I need to explain the question in more detail, or is this clear enough? Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:05, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Each time I click on the arrow to play "O, Canada", the national anthem, the melody of the first stanza plays while a chopped up version of the lyrics of the first stanza appears above.
This is on the National symbols of Canada page in the section on the national anthem.
Is there any way to fix these chopped up lyrics? -- AlainV ( talk) 19:35, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Is there anything equivalent to a "forward" button when I am viewing Wikipedia on a mobile device? On a real computer I have a back button and a forward button. However, on a mobile device I sometimes accidentally go back, and then there is no easy way to go forward to the page I was viewing, unless I see a link to click.
Can I go forward on a mobile device, or do I just have to be more careful to avoid going back accidentally? Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:53, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
What is the process to extract information from archive? ( 223.230.150.20 ( talk) 22:43, 28 December 2019 (UTC))
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I want to view some of the pages that have been created today (or yesterday). How do I access these recent pages? Neldama ( talk) 01:57, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
What is the best place beside the article talk page to have more people from different section involved to propose a name change after chaotic dispute? Village pump work? UFC Fight Night: Zabit vs. Kattar Regice2020 ( talk) 02:44, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
The page currently listing "American Dad" seasons and episodes is inaccurate per listings as noted through television and streaming on Hulu. The seasons' and episodes' numberings on the page are mislabeled, with season 14 listed as 16, and likely include additional errors. Please have an active editor correct this or add a disclaimer note indicating the specific errors.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.36.44.22 ( talk) 02:47, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
I searched for 'Fire department' .in the searched results ,under the fire brigade's pic ,in 1st paragraph,12th line and 2nd word county's spelling is wrong . please make it correct to "'country"' ......thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.204.96.188 ( talk) 03:19, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Fire departments are most commonly a public organization who operate within a municipality, county, state, nation, or special district., then I'm fairly sure "county" is correct; see county. "Country" is already covered by "nation". Eman 235/ talk 03:27, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
At 04:49, 19 August 2019 (UTC), I came to ask for help because often when I saved edits I got a false "edit conflict" warning. I discovered that several other editors had the same problem. Please see Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2019 August 19#Continuous editing conflict. I edit Wikipedia using Google Chrome (up-to-date) running under Win 10 Pro (also up-to-date); nothing exotic. The problem for me has escalated from frequent to constant. It is a real handicap in editing Wikipedia because it wastes a lot of my time. I do not have any beta gadget enabled and my broadband connection is fast enough. I would appreciate help with this problem in editing Wikipedia. Thank you.— Finell 06:34, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
I came across this article, about a series of books. The article pretty much solely consists of pretty lengthy plot outlines of the books. There's a single reference which doesn't seem particularly relevant (and is also listed as an 'official site' on the page despite this not being clear at all in the source itself, and there's zero citations. Linked in the article, there's also this, this, and this, three articles about subseries in this series, which seem to basically do the same thing, redundantly containing the same sort of long plot outlines with no citations or anything else. And all 11 books in the overall series also have their own individual pages, which again redundantly contain the long plot outlines with basically nothing else and no citations, though with the exception of a few of the articles having a brief section about reception with a couple citations for reviews. There's also three articles linked to in the 'see also' section of the first article I mentioned, for 'historical characters', 'fictional characters', and 'institutions' in the series, all three of which consist of long lists with next to no citations. Also, multiple pages for these books contain things like user created maps for the situation in the books, and even in a few instances infoboxes for the (fictional) military conflicts in the books that are made pretty much like how infoboxes for actual historical conflicts are done here on wikipedia
I don't do a huge amount of editing on wikipedia, and mostly limit myself to kind of basic things, so I'm not entirely sure what's wrong here or what specifically to do about it, but it kind of seems like stuff could be possibly wrong here... the general vibe I got from these articles is that they were pretty good articles-for, say, a fandom wikia sort of thing, but that there's a lot of stuff that probably doesn't meet notability guidelines or something like that. Looking at things like this, it looks like articles about books aren't supposed to just be plot summaries. Which, like, looks like it might consist of a fair amount of articles for books, or at least when I looked at a some articles of other books in the genre to the series above (intending to find some that seemed like a good example of how an article should probably look like, to compare to these ones), I found that the ones I was looking at often had these issues too. Or I found articles that consisted of just a plot summary... and also a brief section for one or two reviews to be cited
And I'm kind of wondering what exactly warrants a book getting a wikipedia article anyway? What establishes notability and such? It looks like just a plot summary isn't supposed to be enough. Is "just a plot summary AND a couple reviews that can be cited" enough? Do reviews establish notability? Should there be additional sources discussing the book for it to be notable?
And in a different direction... while the 'fictional/historical characters' and 'institutions' lists for the series that I was looking at seemed kind of maybe not something that would be considered article-worthy, looking a bit more, I've found at least 'character lists' for various rather more popular/well-known media, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but if it exists for more commonly viewed and edited things, then it seems like its a legit thing to do, though I'm not sure about the guidelines for these sorts of lists regarding notability or when they should exist and how much they should contain and so on
-- HelpPls? ( talk) 10:00, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
I am in the process of creating an article. The article is called Draft:Bahamas Life. I am trying to find some good sources I could use for the article. Can you find some good sources that are independent and reliable that talk about the subject in detail I can use for this article? Interstellarity ( talk) 13:52, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Can you fix the error please. 68.103.78.155 ( talk) 16:02, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Is there a Help file that explains how to go back to notifications and alerts that I have previously viewed? Or, how do I go back to notifications and alerts that I have previously viewed?
If I am viewing Wikipedia on my mobile device, it displays the count of total notifications and alerts, and the number is in red if there are notifications or alerts that I have not yet viewed. (On a real computer, it lists the notifications and the alerts separately, and any new alerts are red and any new notifications are blue.) However, after I look at one, I can't bring it back to view it on a real computer. At least, I don't know how to bring it back, and so if I want to view the page in more detail, I have to remember or search on my computer. Is there any way that I can bring back previous notifications and alerts?
Do I need to explain the question in more detail, or is this clear enough? Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:05, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Each time I click on the arrow to play "O, Canada", the national anthem, the melody of the first stanza plays while a chopped up version of the lyrics of the first stanza appears above.
This is on the National symbols of Canada page in the section on the national anthem.
Is there any way to fix these chopped up lyrics? -- AlainV ( talk) 19:35, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Is there anything equivalent to a "forward" button when I am viewing Wikipedia on a mobile device? On a real computer I have a back button and a forward button. However, on a mobile device I sometimes accidentally go back, and then there is no easy way to go forward to the page I was viewing, unless I see a link to click.
Can I go forward on a mobile device, or do I just have to be more careful to avoid going back accidentally? Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:53, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
What is the process to extract information from archive? ( 223.230.150.20 ( talk) 22:43, 28 December 2019 (UTC))