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Please answer this question. I added to an entry recently and included the name of a person who has his own Wikipedia page. I enclosed his name within double square brackets to create a link, but the resulting hyperlink connected with a disambiguation page because there were two separate entries for people of the same name.
My question is, how can I alter my text in order to hyperlink to the correct individual rather than the disambiguation page? Thank you.
Infoproofer ( talk) 15:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
[[Chris Leslie (politician)|Chris Leslie]]
. This will end up looking like
Chris Leslie, but it'll point to the right article. Does that help?
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 15:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[[Chris Leslie (politician)|]]
(watch out for that pipe right at the end) will automatically split the wikilink page name at the right place (save it in a sandbox and look again at it afterwards). This works for both brackets and also for commas, like [[Chris Leslie, politician|]]
Andy Dingley (
talk) 16:28, 2 January 2013 (UTC)Infoproofer ( talk) 16:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Someone wrote an article/page on the Reel Shorts Film Festival and called it "Reel Shorts Film Festival (Grande Prairie)". Grande Prairie is the location of the festival but it's not part of the name. I'd like to remove "Grande Prairie" from the title of the article. How can I do that? Tscerbak ( talk) 02:31, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I recently came across the article Carlos Urrutia, about a Peruvian diplomat. The article lacked references, so I tried finding some, and discovered that there is another Carlos Urrutia, who is also a diplomat, but from Colombia. I created a new article about him ( Carlos Urrutia (Colombian diplomat)), but not I'm not sure what more I should do. I've seen disambiguation pages, but I'm not sure how to create one. Also, should I change the name of the first article to specify that he's the Peruvian diplomat? Thanks in advance. Keihatsu talk 01:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
* [[Carlos Urrutia (Colombian diplomat)]]
* [[Carlos Urrutia (Peruvian diplomat)]]
{{disambig}}
[[Category:Human name disambiguation pages|Urrutia, Carlos ]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Urrutia, Carlos }}
{{WikiProject Disambiguation}}
{{WikiProject Biography
|living=yes
|class=Dab
|listas=Urrutia, Carlos
}}
{{For|the Colombian diplomat|Carlos Urrutia (Colombian diplomat)}}
I put up a very short page (stub) on the Reel Shorts Film Festival in Grande Prairie, Alberta months ago and someone merged it into a short entry on the City of Grande Prairie's page. Yesterday, someone else put up a longer, more complete page on the Reel Shorts Film Festival at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Shorts_Film_Festival_(Grande_Prairie) but again a notice appeared at the top that "It has been suggested that this article be merged into Reel Shorts Film Festival" which is the short mention included on the City of Grande Prairie's page. I've edited the page, making it more objective, and I've added references. Is there anything else I should do to keep this page as a separate page on Wikipedia? The City of Grande Prairie has nothing to do with the production of the film festival, and there are a lot of other festivals of similar size with their own Wikipedia pages, so I'm not sure why someone has suggested merging it. And when I click on Discuss, there is no comment to respond to, and I haven't figured out how to add my own comment. It's all quite confusing. Thanks for any insights you can give me on the process. Tscerbak ( talk) 00:32, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I was looking at the article on hiragana, and I noticed that my browser inserted a line break between two characters in the text. I thought that this was undesireable (as it is one single word), so I tried inserting a zero-width non-breaking space between them (with '⁠' or '⁠'). This didn't appear to do anything, but I copied the text to somewhere else to examine it further, and saw that the character was indeed there, it just did't do anything. I tried putting the character in an html document to see if it was my browser that was causing the problem, but this worked just fine.
Now, am I doing something wrong, or does this character simply not work on Wikipedia? If it does work, how do I insert it properly? If it doesn't work, are there any other characters that do, that can be used instead? I tried using ' ', which worked, but obviously inserted a space between the characters.
And also, if there is any character that I can use, should I insert it between all the japanese characters in the text? (I guess not everyone will have the line break at the same place.)
Xwayj ( talk) 21:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
{{nowrap|your text here}}
. ~I hope that helps, ~E :modified:
74.60.29.141 (
talk) 21:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
74.60.29.141 (
talk) 21:44, 7 January 2013 (UTC)Xwayj ( talk) 23:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I've been fixing the "multiple issues" in my new article Douglas Messerli.
Now how can I get the "multiple issues" list at the top of this article to go away (partially or completely)? Any suggestions for how I could further improve this article are welcome. Thank you!
Pcaabplroa ( talk) 17:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Pcaabplroa ( talk) 18:57, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! I am working on a GLAM WikiProject page for the George Washington University's Special Collections Research Center. Does anyone have any tips or can anyone point me to previous posts with suggestions for creating a page? I can't figure out how to add tabs to the top of my page, or how to add the "Article quality assessment" box. I'd also be interested in creating a Special Collections badge for volunteers.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and feel like I have a lot to learn, so I'm open to all suggestions!
Thanks! - Chloe Craub ( talk) 16:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
i am a musician mentioned several times on bands pages and i wanted to ensure my name appears as a blue link to a new page. how the heck do i start? many thanks in advance 86.138.239.150 ( talk) 08:47, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I've tried suggesting edits to 'alternative medicine' but an IP editor is moving my comments around, asking other editors to watch me and making insinuations on my talk page. Is this to be expected when editing controversial pages and do I have to just ignore it ? Aspheric ( talk) 00:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi There, I'm trying to double bracket someone in an article so that their name, in blue, will lead to the article. The problem I have is that the article, on the said person, is on another language Wikipedia only. Can I still get it to work? thanks SamCardioNgo ( talk) 19:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
[[:language code:foreign wiki article title|display text]]
. Thus, to create a link to the French article on the poet José Velarde, I'd write [[:fr:José Velarde|José Velarde]]
, which produces this:
José Velarde.
Yunshui
雲
水 09:42, 7 January 2013 (UTC)Hi! I have a draft for an AFC here, but I don't think it will pass as is. Could someone help me find some more references? Thanks, Ja ko b 00:53, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Today in my e-mail I received a notice from WikiPedia that User:talk Marshallnorth had been created. I had left a message last week on the talk page for an article that Marshallnorth was submitting for creation. Is this normal? I left plenty of other messages, and I haven't received other notifications. I am worried that there may have been a mistake and that I was notified instead of Marshallnorth, who may be waiting to hear about his submission. — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:42, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
— Anne Delong ( talk) 05:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
HI! I've been trying to publish an article about an author but it still isn't neutral enough. I've trimmed it down again and took out best selling author but his books have been best sellers - though not NYT - but on Amazon and the rankings are outdated so I don't have a highly credible source. Not sure what to do about this. If I could get more specific feedback I'd be thrilled! Thanks! ( Princetondt ( talk) 06:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to obtain the functionality that the {{align|position|content}} command seemingly gives when using a table for: 1) a single line of text, and 2) a simple (single-line) formula when using <math> </math> markup? The closest I have been able to get to this functionality is with the <div style="text-align: [position;"> content </div> markup but it isn't close at all because the aligned material is on the wrong line (i.e., it is one line above or one line below the line (row) that I want it to appear on). Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. HamiltonRoberts ( talk) 00:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for this very simple solution to the problem I spent hours trying to solve! HamiltonRoberts ( talk) 00:35, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I am working on a biography for singer songwriter Michael Caruso. I have part of it completed and am trying to set up references section. I think I am doing it correctly but keep getting an error message. What I am doing is ==References== then {{Reflist}} then <ref>http link here</ref>; I have also tried adding with cite refs; external and internal(wiki) links. The links in the biography do work. I don't remember having this problem before. Please let me know if I am doing this incorrectly. Also is it imperative to have a reference section as long as there is proof, working links in the bio and a complete discography. thanks Paulhus15 ( talk) 22:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I've tried a couple of times to get the following new article submission approved but it has been rejected both times.
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Leonard Jacobson (spiritual teacher)
The latest criticisms are
1. That it needs a range of independent, reliable, published sources. (I feel that I've met these criteria. Could you please tell me why I received this criticsm?)
2. Declining submission: submission is not written from a neutral point of view (Would you please point out an example of what is not written from a neutral point of view, and what is an example of a "peacock term" used in this article?
Any suggestions or insight you could offer, which will help me get this article approved would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you. Thesevan ( talk) 16:37, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Good Afternoon, Im looking to add my husband on here. He is a singer/songwriter and I have no idea how to do it. Any help wld be great xxx. 4fingaz ( talk) 14:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I was just wondering, do you think this is notable enough? Thanks, Ja ko b 00:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I have created a submission for Sharp Nine Records. I am being asked for citations. I cited an article contained in the Sharp Nine Website. Other than this I don't know what else to cite. I am submitting this on behalf of sharpnine.
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sharp Nine Records Ednaedel ( talk) 14:15, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm working on a submission to a talk page trying to justify to the community a revision to an article. I would like to include a graphic (original to me and not copyrighted) that will probably not become part of the article. Is that allowed, and if so, how to I go about it? I looked at the file upload wizard, and it seems to assume that the file is to be used in an article. 75.172.20.41 ( talk) 05:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I want to revise an article about a small and relatively new non-profit organization. The problem is that there is no real secondary sources for this organization, none. No press coverage or anything. I feel that the article is severely lacking and I have major edits in mind. What should I do? Sosthenes12 ( talk) 00:39, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have been working on my first article and I would like to get feedback before I send it for review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Geoneutrino
UncleDrO ( talk) 18:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to get an article submitted, any ideas/help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/.Net_Gadgeteer
Sjj698 ( talk) 15:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I want to make a image such as the map shown on the Subway (restaurant) page in which certain countries are a different color to represent something. In my case, I want to make a map showing all of the countries visited in The 39 Clues books. However, I don't know how to make such a map. Horai 551 ( talk) 12:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Newby here; currently updating an article and wish to include a bibliography; this is fine for works written by my subject but is there a recommended format for works of others edited by my subject; ie Volume 42 of The Summa Theologiae written by St Thomas Aquinas edited by Anthony Ross and P G Walsh? Any suggestions? Portnoy58 ( talk) 14:06, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear, can you please tell me i am write an Article But someone remove this how that's Possible? Article Name is Malik Liaquat Ali — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameer.liaquat ( talk • contribs) 06:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
moved by me: heather walls ( talk) 07:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
The link/lead for Reel Shorts Film Festival goes to the 'Recreation and culture' section of the Grande Prairie article because a previous article stub was merged with the Grande Prairie article, however, a newer Reel Shorts Film Festival (Grande Prairie) article has more information. How can I get a Wikipedia search for "Reel Shorts Film Festival" to go to the Reel Shorts Film Festival (Grande Prairie) article rather than the Grande Prairie article? Tscerbak ( talk) 04:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I submitted feedback saying that I was confused and couldn't edit anything... I got an answer but it didn't really make a lot of sense... FlourpowerMP ( talk) 01:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
RE: Article at: WBBR
In the above-linked article, it says: "A radio institution throughout the majority of the 20th century, WNEW is known for its music selection as well as its staff of radio personalities including Martin Block, Dee Finch, Gene Rayburn, Gene Klaven and William B. Williams. WNEW is credited with pioneering the role of the disc jockey... "
Shouldn't the name of "Ted Brown" be included in the list of names above? Ted Brown was a radio personality on WNEW and he used to sign off by saying: "Put on the coffee, Mama. I'm coming home."
PS-Below is a link to the Wiki article about Ted Brown:
Ted Brown (radio) (
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talk |
history |
protect |
delete |
links |
watch |
logs |
views)
It says: "Ted Brown (May 5, 1924-March 20, 2005), was a charismatic radio personality who worked at several stations in New York City including WMGM, WNEW and WNBC during the 1950s and 1960s, the golden age of AM radio."
Terry Cagney ( talk) 16:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
My reply: William B. Williams is in the list. So Ted Brown should be there as well. They were both on the air around the same time. ---Terry Cagney Terry Cagney ( talk) 17:04, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Terry Cagney ( talk) 17:03, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if his "sign-off" words might be included at his Wiki page. As I said above, he signed off with: "Put on the coffee Mama. I'm coming home." That was memorable!
BTW, I hesitate to add anything to the Wiki articles. I just don't feel competent enough to follow all the instructions about adding items to the articles. (Thanks for trying to teach me.) I'm 78 years old and am barely keeping up with the technology. Terry Cagney ( talk) 00:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
How do I incorporate actual quotation marks in an article and not have them suggest editing/formatting? Unisonreading ( talk) 21:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
<nowiki>''Text''</nowiki>
. If you type that into the edit screen and save it, the nowiki tags (which are the things between the angle brackets) disappear, and the text between them will show without any formatting. Does that help?
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 21:40, 10 January 2013 (UTC)'
(single quote) and "
(double quote) both work fine. The problem begins with repeated single quotes, as these indicate wikimarkup for italic or bold. Don't use them, use the character for a double quote instead. "Curly quotes" are discouraged by the Manual of Style (
WP:MOS).
Andy Dingley (
talk) 21:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)'
and "
due to the different font used, but the double quote will still look normal once you save the page.
gwickwire
talk
edits 21:44, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Glamour (Presentation) "A glamour photograph of Michele Merkin."
Though the term
Glamour is subjective, by as many means as its meaning defines; The trends of the times that this reference image represents; In my opinion, is better suited for use in soft pornography, and has no place among the Wikipedia family as such.
The times as it were, have come to an obvious degradation, or diminished tolerances, according to modesty, and ethics in journalism, and this is apparent among all forms of public media, without a caption indicating most specifically this idea, I reiterate, a nude model revealing her physical persona, perhaps best defining modern sexuality, as opposing the origin of that which tradition has defined "galmour" to be among as may renowned Hollywood celebrities, I am appalled to have found and noted such a common lacking of ethics in dutiful management of our base responsibility, to the world we serve. Which in fact is accurately defining the nature of the terms, ideas, and considerations, that comprise the spoken language, and all that it represents.
If ethics in journalism is dead to the trending times, than there's no reason for any future generation to have hope, and as much as try to maintain this ideal, but to exceed it in degradation, by modelling our example.
Regardless of my place among the Wikipedia community, I do not feel that it is my place to edit this entry, without the agreement of the local authority, who may very well possess a greater ability than my own, that any such action not offend the contributor, that originally determined that any such image has any place among a modern encyclopedia, without the strictest consideration for the youthful or sensitive minds it may offend.
Please see that this image is removed, or properly described for what it is, where it is located?
Upon notice of any such questionable materials within any Wikipedia page; I'm sorry but I will not be party to any such guilt, supporting as many ancient scrite prophetic suggestions, that the times we share would fall to any like lacking in ethical judgement.
I suggest that any reading this correspondence, consider my words, and take care in your own contributions here, that if none other chooses to maintain that which as many have spent lifetimes to preserve, we not be guilty of failing the responsibility, of the legacy entrusted our generation's contribution to history.
I add a final consideration here for future reference:
If you believe that this comment is excessive in any capacity, than I submit that before any man is permitted to contribute to the content of Wikipedia, that he be made to prove that he has taken the time from his busy life, and schedule, to read any selection of that which has been prepared by our nation's founding fathers, in correspondence among one another regarding such important issues, and I do not mean the most common documents of establishment, but simple correspondence among our US founding statesmen, in negotiating the simplest of terms of agreement.
I intentionally do not leave references, that it become the responsibility of others to define such works, that in the finding, any such individuals are permanently marked with the genius, and intellectual certainty that we as like representatives now possess in responsibility here.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
God be with you always, Maya`Tae Heno
Maya`Tae Heno ( talk) 17:22, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi there,
I have an article that has been declined a few times now and the lingering issue is for it to have a more "encyclopedic, neutral tone".
The article is about a living person, and all of the notable sources cover achievements from the individual. Everything mentioned is fact so I am unsure how to improve the article. Thanks, Ashley Ammitchell ( talk) 16:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Pete_Sonsini Ammitchell ( talk) 16:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I have spent five years researching the sinking of the Arandora Star and its aftermath in Ireland. We re-discovered from 1940 newspapers that dozens of bodies had been washed ashore and buried in unmarked graves. This information was of great interest to the families, particularly those in Bardi whence came one in 10 of the victims. We also made a video which has had more than 5000 visits on Youtube.
The work has no commercial intent and in fact has been quite expensive, but has brought scores of appreciative mails from the families for whom it was carried out. I spent some time adding this info and a link to the video. This has been removed. Why, please?
Archie Lindsay ArchieLindsay ( talk) 16:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I would still like to know why the text and corrections which I provided has been removed. Some of your existing copy is wrong: eg casualty name is Cesare Camozzi NOT Ceazar as appears in Wiki. [source: his granddaughter, and his headstone]. Luigi Tapparo is NOT buried alongside John Connelly, there is about 50m between the graves; and the body of il signor Tapparo was removed by relatives for home burial. [source: Termoncarragh burial register held by the parish priest].
Archie Lindsay
ArchieLindsay (
talk) 17:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
As a follow-up to my previous question, I'm now trying to figure out how to get the coat of arms of Sax caption on the page of Sax, Alicante to link to the Coat of arms of Sax page. It appears to be possible, as a few other pages look to have managed to do it. Reinana kyuu ( talk) 16:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I would like to get some clarification. In Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links, under "When to link," it states, "To avoid excessive links, you should normally create a link in an article only where the first occurrence of a word or phrase occurs." I can understand that, but was wondering about an article which may be very long and has a certain word or phrase occurring perhaps near the beginning that's a wiki link. Then a new section or additional information is added much farther down in which the same word of phrase is used. Is the first occurrence still the only one where a link should be created in the article? K828 ( talk) 14:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to submit the following article about our department and its scientific work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/TwinsUK
At first it was being refused due to the "lack of reliable sources". Now it's been refused twice due to its "lack of notability". I've edited it as much as I can but am stuck now for the correct format to be accepted. Can anyone help? Yarandd ( talk) 13:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I recently updated my profile with links to each of my brands social media profiles, to ensure that users of Wikipedia are given all of the relevant links to their social properties (should they wish to visit Facebook, Google+ etc.
To my frustration there appears to be someone who has revisited the profile within the last 24 hours and made an amendment to remove the links I previously included.
Is there any way at all to prevent this from happening - as this is extremely frustrating.
Stephen.murphy1982 ( talk) 12:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys, if a film were to be released in two parts (note: Not a sequel, just that the film was split into two parts due to time constraint) should there be two separate pages about it or is one article be enough to encompass info both parts? I tried to take clue from Kill Bill, but I'm still not sure what to do with the content I have. If I were to merge/ split into a separate article, it'd be very difficult due to the amount of content (which could be potentially swamped then). What should I do? If you're wondering, the page in reference is Ah Boys to Men. Cheers. Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 12:09, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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Please answer this question. I added to an entry recently and included the name of a person who has his own Wikipedia page. I enclosed his name within double square brackets to create a link, but the resulting hyperlink connected with a disambiguation page because there were two separate entries for people of the same name.
My question is, how can I alter my text in order to hyperlink to the correct individual rather than the disambiguation page? Thank you.
Infoproofer ( talk) 15:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
[[Chris Leslie (politician)|Chris Leslie]]
. This will end up looking like
Chris Leslie, but it'll point to the right article. Does that help?
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 15:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[[Chris Leslie (politician)|]]
(watch out for that pipe right at the end) will automatically split the wikilink page name at the right place (save it in a sandbox and look again at it afterwards). This works for both brackets and also for commas, like [[Chris Leslie, politician|]]
Andy Dingley (
talk) 16:28, 2 January 2013 (UTC)Infoproofer ( talk) 16:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Someone wrote an article/page on the Reel Shorts Film Festival and called it "Reel Shorts Film Festival (Grande Prairie)". Grande Prairie is the location of the festival but it's not part of the name. I'd like to remove "Grande Prairie" from the title of the article. How can I do that? Tscerbak ( talk) 02:31, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I recently came across the article Carlos Urrutia, about a Peruvian diplomat. The article lacked references, so I tried finding some, and discovered that there is another Carlos Urrutia, who is also a diplomat, but from Colombia. I created a new article about him ( Carlos Urrutia (Colombian diplomat)), but not I'm not sure what more I should do. I've seen disambiguation pages, but I'm not sure how to create one. Also, should I change the name of the first article to specify that he's the Peruvian diplomat? Thanks in advance. Keihatsu talk 01:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
* [[Carlos Urrutia (Colombian diplomat)]]
* [[Carlos Urrutia (Peruvian diplomat)]]
{{disambig}}
[[Category:Human name disambiguation pages|Urrutia, Carlos ]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Urrutia, Carlos }}
{{WikiProject Disambiguation}}
{{WikiProject Biography
|living=yes
|class=Dab
|listas=Urrutia, Carlos
}}
{{For|the Colombian diplomat|Carlos Urrutia (Colombian diplomat)}}
I put up a very short page (stub) on the Reel Shorts Film Festival in Grande Prairie, Alberta months ago and someone merged it into a short entry on the City of Grande Prairie's page. Yesterday, someone else put up a longer, more complete page on the Reel Shorts Film Festival at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Shorts_Film_Festival_(Grande_Prairie) but again a notice appeared at the top that "It has been suggested that this article be merged into Reel Shorts Film Festival" which is the short mention included on the City of Grande Prairie's page. I've edited the page, making it more objective, and I've added references. Is there anything else I should do to keep this page as a separate page on Wikipedia? The City of Grande Prairie has nothing to do with the production of the film festival, and there are a lot of other festivals of similar size with their own Wikipedia pages, so I'm not sure why someone has suggested merging it. And when I click on Discuss, there is no comment to respond to, and I haven't figured out how to add my own comment. It's all quite confusing. Thanks for any insights you can give me on the process. Tscerbak ( talk) 00:32, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I was looking at the article on hiragana, and I noticed that my browser inserted a line break between two characters in the text. I thought that this was undesireable (as it is one single word), so I tried inserting a zero-width non-breaking space between them (with '⁠' or '⁠'). This didn't appear to do anything, but I copied the text to somewhere else to examine it further, and saw that the character was indeed there, it just did't do anything. I tried putting the character in an html document to see if it was my browser that was causing the problem, but this worked just fine.
Now, am I doing something wrong, or does this character simply not work on Wikipedia? If it does work, how do I insert it properly? If it doesn't work, are there any other characters that do, that can be used instead? I tried using ' ', which worked, but obviously inserted a space between the characters.
And also, if there is any character that I can use, should I insert it between all the japanese characters in the text? (I guess not everyone will have the line break at the same place.)
Xwayj ( talk) 21:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
{{nowrap|your text here}}
. ~I hope that helps, ~E :modified:
74.60.29.141 (
talk) 21:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
74.60.29.141 (
talk) 21:44, 7 January 2013 (UTC)Xwayj ( talk) 23:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I've been fixing the "multiple issues" in my new article Douglas Messerli.
Now how can I get the "multiple issues" list at the top of this article to go away (partially or completely)? Any suggestions for how I could further improve this article are welcome. Thank you!
Pcaabplroa ( talk) 17:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Pcaabplroa ( talk) 18:57, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! I am working on a GLAM WikiProject page for the George Washington University's Special Collections Research Center. Does anyone have any tips or can anyone point me to previous posts with suggestions for creating a page? I can't figure out how to add tabs to the top of my page, or how to add the "Article quality assessment" box. I'd also be interested in creating a Special Collections badge for volunteers.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and feel like I have a lot to learn, so I'm open to all suggestions!
Thanks! - Chloe Craub ( talk) 16:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
i am a musician mentioned several times on bands pages and i wanted to ensure my name appears as a blue link to a new page. how the heck do i start? many thanks in advance 86.138.239.150 ( talk) 08:47, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I've tried suggesting edits to 'alternative medicine' but an IP editor is moving my comments around, asking other editors to watch me and making insinuations on my talk page. Is this to be expected when editing controversial pages and do I have to just ignore it ? Aspheric ( talk) 00:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi There, I'm trying to double bracket someone in an article so that their name, in blue, will lead to the article. The problem I have is that the article, on the said person, is on another language Wikipedia only. Can I still get it to work? thanks SamCardioNgo ( talk) 19:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
[[:language code:foreign wiki article title|display text]]
. Thus, to create a link to the French article on the poet José Velarde, I'd write [[:fr:José Velarde|José Velarde]]
, which produces this:
José Velarde.
Yunshui
雲
水 09:42, 7 January 2013 (UTC)Hi! I have a draft for an AFC here, but I don't think it will pass as is. Could someone help me find some more references? Thanks, Ja ko b 00:53, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Today in my e-mail I received a notice from WikiPedia that User:talk Marshallnorth had been created. I had left a message last week on the talk page for an article that Marshallnorth was submitting for creation. Is this normal? I left plenty of other messages, and I haven't received other notifications. I am worried that there may have been a mistake and that I was notified instead of Marshallnorth, who may be waiting to hear about his submission. — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:42, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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HI! I've been trying to publish an article about an author but it still isn't neutral enough. I've trimmed it down again and took out best selling author but his books have been best sellers - though not NYT - but on Amazon and the rankings are outdated so I don't have a highly credible source. Not sure what to do about this. If I could get more specific feedback I'd be thrilled! Thanks! ( Princetondt ( talk) 06:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to obtain the functionality that the {{align|position|content}} command seemingly gives when using a table for: 1) a single line of text, and 2) a simple (single-line) formula when using <math> </math> markup? The closest I have been able to get to this functionality is with the <div style="text-align: [position;"> content </div> markup but it isn't close at all because the aligned material is on the wrong line (i.e., it is one line above or one line below the line (row) that I want it to appear on). Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. HamiltonRoberts ( talk) 00:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for this very simple solution to the problem I spent hours trying to solve! HamiltonRoberts ( talk) 00:35, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I am working on a biography for singer songwriter Michael Caruso. I have part of it completed and am trying to set up references section. I think I am doing it correctly but keep getting an error message. What I am doing is ==References== then {{Reflist}} then <ref>http link here</ref>; I have also tried adding with cite refs; external and internal(wiki) links. The links in the biography do work. I don't remember having this problem before. Please let me know if I am doing this incorrectly. Also is it imperative to have a reference section as long as there is proof, working links in the bio and a complete discography. thanks Paulhus15 ( talk) 22:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I've tried a couple of times to get the following new article submission approved but it has been rejected both times.
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Leonard Jacobson (spiritual teacher)
The latest criticisms are
1. That it needs a range of independent, reliable, published sources. (I feel that I've met these criteria. Could you please tell me why I received this criticsm?)
2. Declining submission: submission is not written from a neutral point of view (Would you please point out an example of what is not written from a neutral point of view, and what is an example of a "peacock term" used in this article?
Any suggestions or insight you could offer, which will help me get this article approved would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you. Thesevan ( talk) 16:37, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Good Afternoon, Im looking to add my husband on here. He is a singer/songwriter and I have no idea how to do it. Any help wld be great xxx. 4fingaz ( talk) 14:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I was just wondering, do you think this is notable enough? Thanks, Ja ko b 00:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I have created a submission for Sharp Nine Records. I am being asked for citations. I cited an article contained in the Sharp Nine Website. Other than this I don't know what else to cite. I am submitting this on behalf of sharpnine.
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sharp Nine Records Ednaedel ( talk) 14:15, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm working on a submission to a talk page trying to justify to the community a revision to an article. I would like to include a graphic (original to me and not copyrighted) that will probably not become part of the article. Is that allowed, and if so, how to I go about it? I looked at the file upload wizard, and it seems to assume that the file is to be used in an article. 75.172.20.41 ( talk) 05:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I want to revise an article about a small and relatively new non-profit organization. The problem is that there is no real secondary sources for this organization, none. No press coverage or anything. I feel that the article is severely lacking and I have major edits in mind. What should I do? Sosthenes12 ( talk) 00:39, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have been working on my first article and I would like to get feedback before I send it for review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Geoneutrino
UncleDrO ( talk) 18:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to get an article submitted, any ideas/help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/.Net_Gadgeteer
Sjj698 ( talk) 15:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I want to make a image such as the map shown on the Subway (restaurant) page in which certain countries are a different color to represent something. In my case, I want to make a map showing all of the countries visited in The 39 Clues books. However, I don't know how to make such a map. Horai 551 ( talk) 12:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Newby here; currently updating an article and wish to include a bibliography; this is fine for works written by my subject but is there a recommended format for works of others edited by my subject; ie Volume 42 of The Summa Theologiae written by St Thomas Aquinas edited by Anthony Ross and P G Walsh? Any suggestions? Portnoy58 ( talk) 14:06, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear, can you please tell me i am write an Article But someone remove this how that's Possible? Article Name is Malik Liaquat Ali — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameer.liaquat ( talk • contribs) 06:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
moved by me: heather walls ( talk) 07:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
The link/lead for Reel Shorts Film Festival goes to the 'Recreation and culture' section of the Grande Prairie article because a previous article stub was merged with the Grande Prairie article, however, a newer Reel Shorts Film Festival (Grande Prairie) article has more information. How can I get a Wikipedia search for "Reel Shorts Film Festival" to go to the Reel Shorts Film Festival (Grande Prairie) article rather than the Grande Prairie article? Tscerbak ( talk) 04:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I submitted feedback saying that I was confused and couldn't edit anything... I got an answer but it didn't really make a lot of sense... FlourpowerMP ( talk) 01:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
RE: Article at: WBBR
In the above-linked article, it says: "A radio institution throughout the majority of the 20th century, WNEW is known for its music selection as well as its staff of radio personalities including Martin Block, Dee Finch, Gene Rayburn, Gene Klaven and William B. Williams. WNEW is credited with pioneering the role of the disc jockey... "
Shouldn't the name of "Ted Brown" be included in the list of names above? Ted Brown was a radio personality on WNEW and he used to sign off by saying: "Put on the coffee, Mama. I'm coming home."
PS-Below is a link to the Wiki article about Ted Brown:
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It says: "Ted Brown (May 5, 1924-March 20, 2005), was a charismatic radio personality who worked at several stations in New York City including WMGM, WNEW and WNBC during the 1950s and 1960s, the golden age of AM radio."
Terry Cagney ( talk) 16:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
My reply: William B. Williams is in the list. So Ted Brown should be there as well. They were both on the air around the same time. ---Terry Cagney Terry Cagney ( talk) 17:04, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Terry Cagney ( talk) 17:03, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if his "sign-off" words might be included at his Wiki page. As I said above, he signed off with: "Put on the coffee Mama. I'm coming home." That was memorable!
BTW, I hesitate to add anything to the Wiki articles. I just don't feel competent enough to follow all the instructions about adding items to the articles. (Thanks for trying to teach me.) I'm 78 years old and am barely keeping up with the technology. Terry Cagney ( talk) 00:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
How do I incorporate actual quotation marks in an article and not have them suggest editing/formatting? Unisonreading ( talk) 21:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
<nowiki>''Text''</nowiki>
. If you type that into the edit screen and save it, the nowiki tags (which are the things between the angle brackets) disappear, and the text between them will show without any formatting. Does that help?
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(single quote) and "
(double quote) both work fine. The problem begins with repeated single quotes, as these indicate wikimarkup for italic or bold. Don't use them, use the character for a double quote instead. "Curly quotes" are discouraged by the Manual of Style (
WP:MOS).
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and "
due to the different font used, but the double quote will still look normal once you save the page.
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edits 21:44, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Glamour (Presentation) "A glamour photograph of Michele Merkin."
Though the term
Glamour is subjective, by as many means as its meaning defines; The trends of the times that this reference image represents; In my opinion, is better suited for use in soft pornography, and has no place among the Wikipedia family as such.
The times as it were, have come to an obvious degradation, or diminished tolerances, according to modesty, and ethics in journalism, and this is apparent among all forms of public media, without a caption indicating most specifically this idea, I reiterate, a nude model revealing her physical persona, perhaps best defining modern sexuality, as opposing the origin of that which tradition has defined "galmour" to be among as may renowned Hollywood celebrities, I am appalled to have found and noted such a common lacking of ethics in dutiful management of our base responsibility, to the world we serve. Which in fact is accurately defining the nature of the terms, ideas, and considerations, that comprise the spoken language, and all that it represents.
If ethics in journalism is dead to the trending times, than there's no reason for any future generation to have hope, and as much as try to maintain this ideal, but to exceed it in degradation, by modelling our example.
Regardless of my place among the Wikipedia community, I do not feel that it is my place to edit this entry, without the agreement of the local authority, who may very well possess a greater ability than my own, that any such action not offend the contributor, that originally determined that any such image has any place among a modern encyclopedia, without the strictest consideration for the youthful or sensitive minds it may offend.
Please see that this image is removed, or properly described for what it is, where it is located?
Upon notice of any such questionable materials within any Wikipedia page; I'm sorry but I will not be party to any such guilt, supporting as many ancient scrite prophetic suggestions, that the times we share would fall to any like lacking in ethical judgement.
I suggest that any reading this correspondence, consider my words, and take care in your own contributions here, that if none other chooses to maintain that which as many have spent lifetimes to preserve, we not be guilty of failing the responsibility, of the legacy entrusted our generation's contribution to history.
I add a final consideration here for future reference:
If you believe that this comment is excessive in any capacity, than I submit that before any man is permitted to contribute to the content of Wikipedia, that he be made to prove that he has taken the time from his busy life, and schedule, to read any selection of that which has been prepared by our nation's founding fathers, in correspondence among one another regarding such important issues, and I do not mean the most common documents of establishment, but simple correspondence among our US founding statesmen, in negotiating the simplest of terms of agreement.
I intentionally do not leave references, that it become the responsibility of others to define such works, that in the finding, any such individuals are permanently marked with the genius, and intellectual certainty that we as like representatives now possess in responsibility here.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
God be with you always, Maya`Tae Heno
Maya`Tae Heno ( talk) 17:22, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi there,
I have an article that has been declined a few times now and the lingering issue is for it to have a more "encyclopedic, neutral tone".
The article is about a living person, and all of the notable sources cover achievements from the individual. Everything mentioned is fact so I am unsure how to improve the article. Thanks, Ashley Ammitchell ( talk) 16:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Pete_Sonsini Ammitchell ( talk) 16:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I have spent five years researching the sinking of the Arandora Star and its aftermath in Ireland. We re-discovered from 1940 newspapers that dozens of bodies had been washed ashore and buried in unmarked graves. This information was of great interest to the families, particularly those in Bardi whence came one in 10 of the victims. We also made a video which has had more than 5000 visits on Youtube.
The work has no commercial intent and in fact has been quite expensive, but has brought scores of appreciative mails from the families for whom it was carried out. I spent some time adding this info and a link to the video. This has been removed. Why, please?
Archie Lindsay ArchieLindsay ( talk) 16:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I would still like to know why the text and corrections which I provided has been removed. Some of your existing copy is wrong: eg casualty name is Cesare Camozzi NOT Ceazar as appears in Wiki. [source: his granddaughter, and his headstone]. Luigi Tapparo is NOT buried alongside John Connelly, there is about 50m between the graves; and the body of il signor Tapparo was removed by relatives for home burial. [source: Termoncarragh burial register held by the parish priest].
Archie Lindsay
ArchieLindsay (
talk) 17:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
As a follow-up to my previous question, I'm now trying to figure out how to get the coat of arms of Sax caption on the page of Sax, Alicante to link to the Coat of arms of Sax page. It appears to be possible, as a few other pages look to have managed to do it. Reinana kyuu ( talk) 16:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
I would like to get some clarification. In Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links, under "When to link," it states, "To avoid excessive links, you should normally create a link in an article only where the first occurrence of a word or phrase occurs." I can understand that, but was wondering about an article which may be very long and has a certain word or phrase occurring perhaps near the beginning that's a wiki link. Then a new section or additional information is added much farther down in which the same word of phrase is used. Is the first occurrence still the only one where a link should be created in the article? K828 ( talk) 14:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to submit the following article about our department and its scientific work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/TwinsUK
At first it was being refused due to the "lack of reliable sources". Now it's been refused twice due to its "lack of notability". I've edited it as much as I can but am stuck now for the correct format to be accepted. Can anyone help? Yarandd ( talk) 13:50, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I recently updated my profile with links to each of my brands social media profiles, to ensure that users of Wikipedia are given all of the relevant links to their social properties (should they wish to visit Facebook, Google+ etc.
To my frustration there appears to be someone who has revisited the profile within the last 24 hours and made an amendment to remove the links I previously included.
Is there any way at all to prevent this from happening - as this is extremely frustrating.
Stephen.murphy1982 ( talk) 12:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys, if a film were to be released in two parts (note: Not a sequel, just that the film was split into two parts due to time constraint) should there be two separate pages about it or is one article be enough to encompass info both parts? I tried to take clue from Kill Bill, but I'm still not sure what to do with the content I have. If I were to merge/ split into a separate article, it'd be very difficult due to the amount of content (which could be potentially swamped then). What should I do? If you're wondering, the page in reference is Ah Boys to Men. Cheers. Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 12:09, 10 January 2013 (UTC)