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Could a more experienced editor help me with a multiple image on the eggplant page? Because the pictures with various plant features in the ==description== on the right of the page are pushing the other pictures far down, in such a way that the other pictures are not on their relevant page sections, I am trying to move the 5 pictures with plant features into a composite image. But the resultant image is slightly wider than the width of the page and I don't know how to make the pictures smaller (I tried all the suggestions from Help:pictures). If I put the pictures in the gallery-packed mode instead, they would look perfect, except the taxobox is too long and messes up the gallery. So we should then stick with the multiple image, for visual esthetics, but how do I make the individual pictures smaller? Help! And thank you. P.S. I left both options on the page to make it easier for the kind soul who'll help, but if I get no help in 30 min, then I will delete the gallery (cannot leave the page in shambles like that) ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦ (My talk page) 00:14, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I just created Category:Years in India by state or union territory because I noticed there were several categories like Category:Years in Tamil Nadu within Category:Years in India that applied to specific states by year, but no overarching category to hold them.
So I created Category:Years in India by state or union territory, and I notice there's no larger "category for specific years by top-level administrative subdivision of the country" or whatever. Should I/we create a category to reflect that, being that (at minimum) both India and the USA now have such a category for themselves? Thanks for any suggestions on how to structure the cat-tree on this point. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 01:17, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
On the " Sunderland" page, inside the first caption, the order that was followed is not indicated. JackkBrown ( talk) 02:16, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
I am new on Wikipedia. I would like to get guidance on adding information on the page for public view
Thank you
DRAPIRI Adui DRAPIRI Adui ( talk) 11:18, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, so when you use the same reference more than once, it shows up in the references section with letters as links, right? If there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, does that mean you can't use the same reference more than 26 times, or does something else happen? IdfbAn ( talk) 12:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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PrimeHunter (
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23:10, 3 May 2023 (UTC)I just update the new Mayor for the City of Bartow, Florida but now the right rail is missing. How do I get it back? Jackipoole ( talk) 12:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
I have been experiencing spontaneous logouts this morning repeatedly. It gives me bizarre error messages saying something like I'm no longer logged in as Bbb23 and should refresh the page. Sometimes refreshing the page re-establishes the login, and sometimes it doesn't, and I have to click on Login, which doesn't even ask for my password but re-establishes the login. Sometimes this can happen repeatedly over several minutes. I tried logging out and logging back in, but that didn't seem to fix it. It's driving me crazy because it interrupts various kinds of actions, e.g., warning users of vandalism with Twinkle, clicking on Rollback, and others. It doesn't do the action, but I worry it will do something that an IP can do and then reveal my IP.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Why on the page " Vice President of the United States", inside the text, "Vice President of the United States" is written in lowercase? Is it correct to indicate it in upper or lowercase? JackkBrown ( talk) 13:37, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Can someone edit my Wikipedia page 2603:7080:4206:D7E2:CC1A:6281:636B:3103 ( talk) 14:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
The WP:CXT states:
The English Wikipedia community has restricted article creation by the WMF's semi-automatic content translation tool to extended confirmed users. This access is automatically applied to extended confirmed users (editors who have been registered for at least 30 days and have made at least 500 edits to the English Wikipedia). In addition, integration with machine translation has been disabled for all users.
I am an extended confirmed user and yet I cannot use the semi-automatic content translation tool (is that the same as "integration with machine translation"? I'm confused). Where can I apply for such rights, if they exist at all? FYI, I don't need to translate whole pages, but, as any editor knows, writing paragraphs with references after each sentence is a tedious yet necessary task, so for uncontroversial things I'd like to be able to have the references automatically translated from, say, French to English (option that exists from English to other languages, by the way), so I don't have to manually write and reformat them one by one. It's a nightmare. It took me 25 min for 3 properly done, translated, and linked refs. No wonder there are so many poorly sourced articles. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦ (My talk page) 14:53, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
I was trying to solve the mistake i made on the article Peter Acland but someone reverted my edit. Well, because my edits didn't seem constructive and they were considered as vandalism. SAAeh ( talk) 16:33, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
can anyone please help me and provide me the link of policy of Wikipedia for putting picture in infobox templates. Ku423winz1 ( talk) 18:24, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Is there any way I can stop the "Would you like to make this link more specific" pop-up appearing if I inadvertantly type a disambiguation link while I'm editing? It usually appears over the text I'm typing, seems to have no obvious way of being dismissed, and is quite distracting. Thanks in advance. This is Paul ( talk) 20:08, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Have a draft completed and cannot figure out how to publish it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated Dalelynn L Sims ( talk) 21:59, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
StarryGrandma ( talk) 00:26, 4 May 2023 (UTC)You may be used to persuasive styles of writing. On Wikipedia, you don’t want to persuade. Articles don’t take sides, but describe significant viewpoints published in reliable sources. You want to share facts. Wikipedia lets people interpret those facts for themselves.
Reference help requested. I used this site as a reference. I then got notified of a CS1 error on my talk page: A "missing periodical" error. References show this error when the name of the magazine or journal is not given. Please edit the article to add the name of the magazine/journal to the reference, or use a different citation template. The issue seems to occur because I used the Visual Editor, I select "Add a citation", "Automatic", put the URL in, and then choose "Generate". If I do this, the source gets added as the reference type "Journal", when it does not appear to be that type. Instead, I added it manually as a website reference. Thanks, TrottieTrue ( talk) 22:10, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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is the better choice here:
{{cite web |last1=Umit |first1=Resul |date=2022 |title=UK House of Commons Election Results at Constituency Level |website=Harvard Dataverse |version=v6.0 |url=https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/S83HOA |doi=10.7910/DVN/S83HOA |doi-access=free}}
How do I get unbanned from #wikipedia-en-help? Pablothepenguin ( talk) 22:18, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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Could a more experienced editor help me with a multiple image on the eggplant page? Because the pictures with various plant features in the ==description== on the right of the page are pushing the other pictures far down, in such a way that the other pictures are not on their relevant page sections, I am trying to move the 5 pictures with plant features into a composite image. But the resultant image is slightly wider than the width of the page and I don't know how to make the pictures smaller (I tried all the suggestions from Help:pictures). If I put the pictures in the gallery-packed mode instead, they would look perfect, except the taxobox is too long and messes up the gallery. So we should then stick with the multiple image, for visual esthetics, but how do I make the individual pictures smaller? Help! And thank you. P.S. I left both options on the page to make it easier for the kind soul who'll help, but if I get no help in 30 min, then I will delete the gallery (cannot leave the page in shambles like that) ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦ (My talk page) 00:14, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I just created Category:Years in India by state or union territory because I noticed there were several categories like Category:Years in Tamil Nadu within Category:Years in India that applied to specific states by year, but no overarching category to hold them.
So I created Category:Years in India by state or union territory, and I notice there's no larger "category for specific years by top-level administrative subdivision of the country" or whatever. Should I/we create a category to reflect that, being that (at minimum) both India and the USA now have such a category for themselves? Thanks for any suggestions on how to structure the cat-tree on this point. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 01:17, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
On the " Sunderland" page, inside the first caption, the order that was followed is not indicated. JackkBrown ( talk) 02:16, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
I am new on Wikipedia. I would like to get guidance on adding information on the page for public view
Thank you
DRAPIRI Adui DRAPIRI Adui ( talk) 11:18, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, so when you use the same reference more than once, it shows up in the references section with letters as links, right? If there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, does that mean you can't use the same reference more than 26 times, or does something else happen? IdfbAn ( talk) 12:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
azz
.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
23:10, 3 May 2023 (UTC)I just update the new Mayor for the City of Bartow, Florida but now the right rail is missing. How do I get it back? Jackipoole ( talk) 12:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
I have been experiencing spontaneous logouts this morning repeatedly. It gives me bizarre error messages saying something like I'm no longer logged in as Bbb23 and should refresh the page. Sometimes refreshing the page re-establishes the login, and sometimes it doesn't, and I have to click on Login, which doesn't even ask for my password but re-establishes the login. Sometimes this can happen repeatedly over several minutes. I tried logging out and logging back in, but that didn't seem to fix it. It's driving me crazy because it interrupts various kinds of actions, e.g., warning users of vandalism with Twinkle, clicking on Rollback, and others. It doesn't do the action, but I worry it will do something that an IP can do and then reveal my IP.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Why on the page " Vice President of the United States", inside the text, "Vice President of the United States" is written in lowercase? Is it correct to indicate it in upper or lowercase? JackkBrown ( talk) 13:37, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
(added header)
Can someone edit my Wikipedia page 2603:7080:4206:D7E2:CC1A:6281:636B:3103 ( talk) 14:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
The WP:CXT states:
The English Wikipedia community has restricted article creation by the WMF's semi-automatic content translation tool to extended confirmed users. This access is automatically applied to extended confirmed users (editors who have been registered for at least 30 days and have made at least 500 edits to the English Wikipedia). In addition, integration with machine translation has been disabled for all users.
I am an extended confirmed user and yet I cannot use the semi-automatic content translation tool (is that the same as "integration with machine translation"? I'm confused). Where can I apply for such rights, if they exist at all? FYI, I don't need to translate whole pages, but, as any editor knows, writing paragraphs with references after each sentence is a tedious yet necessary task, so for uncontroversial things I'd like to be able to have the references automatically translated from, say, French to English (option that exists from English to other languages, by the way), so I don't have to manually write and reformat them one by one. It's a nightmare. It took me 25 min for 3 properly done, translated, and linked refs. No wonder there are so many poorly sourced articles. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦ (My talk page) 14:53, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
I was trying to solve the mistake i made on the article Peter Acland but someone reverted my edit. Well, because my edits didn't seem constructive and they were considered as vandalism. SAAeh ( talk) 16:33, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
can anyone please help me and provide me the link of policy of Wikipedia for putting picture in infobox templates. Ku423winz1 ( talk) 18:24, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Is there any way I can stop the "Would you like to make this link more specific" pop-up appearing if I inadvertantly type a disambiguation link while I'm editing? It usually appears over the text I'm typing, seems to have no obvious way of being dismissed, and is quite distracting. Thanks in advance. This is Paul ( talk) 20:08, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Have a draft completed and cannot figure out how to publish it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated Dalelynn L Sims ( talk) 21:59, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
StarryGrandma ( talk) 00:26, 4 May 2023 (UTC)You may be used to persuasive styles of writing. On Wikipedia, you don’t want to persuade. Articles don’t take sides, but describe significant viewpoints published in reliable sources. You want to share facts. Wikipedia lets people interpret those facts for themselves.
Reference help requested. I used this site as a reference. I then got notified of a CS1 error on my talk page: A "missing periodical" error. References show this error when the name of the magazine or journal is not given. Please edit the article to add the name of the magazine/journal to the reference, or use a different citation template. The issue seems to occur because I used the Visual Editor, I select "Add a citation", "Automatic", put the URL in, and then choose "Generate". If I do this, the source gets added as the reference type "Journal", when it does not appear to be that type. Instead, I added it manually as a website reference. Thanks, TrottieTrue ( talk) 22:10, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
{{
cite web}}
is the better choice here:
{{cite web |last1=Umit |first1=Resul |date=2022 |title=UK House of Commons Election Results at Constituency Level |website=Harvard Dataverse |version=v6.0 |url=https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/S83HOA |doi=10.7910/DVN/S83HOA |doi-access=free}}
How do I get unbanned from #wikipedia-en-help? Pablothepenguin ( talk) 22:18, 3 May 2023 (UTC)