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June 6

Info Box

I want to make a page about AUSTRALIA AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS like the ones about olympics etc... but not sure how to make info box

--NickGibson3900 (talk) 00:21, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See Help:Infobox. Spinning Spark 00:28, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Find an existing article in Category:Nations at the World Championships in Athletics and click the "Edit" tab to see how it did something. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:57, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wish to add the names two new films to my section on songs of Norman Gimbel appearing in motion pictures the are"Django Unchained" and "Fading Gigolo"

I wish to add the names of two new films to my section on songs written by Norman Gimbel appearing in motion pictures the are"Django Unchained"(song: "I Got A Name") and "Fading Gigolo" - songs "Canadian Sunset" and "Sway"

If the films have been released, and a reliable independent source, not connected with the films or their creators, such as a newspaper report, professional film review or magazine article, confirms this information, then you can add to the article yourself, and include a citation to the source (WP:Referencing for beginners).
Don't forget to sign your posts! —Anne Delong (talk) 03:08, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Warning

I work directly with Kristine W - and she has asked me to remove sections of the Wikipedia page that features her. She actually wishes to be removed from Wikipedia completely as the sources given for information about her are either poor or completely incorrect. I, a member of her promotion team, would like to edit the areas that are incorrect, but have received a "conflict of interest" warning from your staff.

Being an employee of Ms. Weitz - someone that works with her daily, I am only trying to comply with your copyright rules, as well as the privacy act for Ms Weitz. Hippiehalfbrit (talk) 03:05, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

She didn't seem to mind having an article when she donated the image in her article back in 2009—note the OTRS ticket on File:Kristine W.jpg. We don't usually remove articles on demand of the subject, but if a request were to be made, it should go through the volunteer response team again. —C.Fred (talk) 03:15, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am an OTRS volunteer and we do not delete articles on request - that should be done via the appropriate on-wiki process.--ukexpat (talk) 15:14, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I removed great slabs of the article that were making all kinds of unsourced gushing sounds about her career. I did add sources to support her claims of success on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart, which turned out to be largely true. I also dug through the history and restored her birthdate, as it was reliably sourced and coherent with her career history (Miss America contestant in 1981 sets her birthdate between 1957 and 1964). I see that people claiming to work with her have set her birth year to 1970 and 1973 in the past. Since those would have her competing in the Miss America contest at an age between eight and eleven, they have no credibility.—Kww(talk) 04:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Searching for a keyword within a lengthy article

Hi

I would like to know if there is any easy way to search for a word within an article.

For example, if I have brought up the AFGHANISTAN page, can I search the text on that particular page (while I am on it )to see if there is any reference to slavery?

Many thanks and kind regards

Rachelle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtconnor (talk • contribs) 04:37, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Rtconnor:. Most Browsers you can Press Control + F And you can type your query. Thanks! Dudel250 Chat PROD Log CSD Logs 04:42, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Use image as reference for content on Wikipedia

Is it possible to use an image on Commons or Wikipedia as a reference directly for a particular content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhil.prabhudessai (talk • contribs) 07:18, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? If you mean can you cite an image as a reference to verify a claim in the article, then in general, no you can't. That would fall foul of at least one of WP:RS, WP:PRIMARY and WP:SYNTH. Spinning Spark 08:44, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ya that was doubt , thanks for the prompt response appreciate it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhil.prabhudessai (talk • contribs) 09:12, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rating WikiProject items

How do you rate WikiProject on Importance and Quality? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NickGibson3900 (talk • contribs) 07:36, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Most Wikiprojects have an "assessment department" where they set out their criteria for assessing articles. You should consult those. Most base their quality scale on Template:Grading scheme and their importance scale on Template:Importance scheme. There are a lot of variations though, here is the Wikiproject Electronics importance scale for instance. You need to check with each Wikiproject individually. Spinning Spark 08:33, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

help editing a page

I work in a school and seem to be blocked from editing our schools main page which is very out of date and some inaccuracies. How can I go about getting unblocked Dorothy Stringer Wholeschool1 (talk) 09:51, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The page is not blocked, and never has been. Neither are you. What is really happening is that your contributions are being reverted by other editors because they think it is vandalism (nine times out of ten on a school article it usually is vandalism from new editors). You can see clearly what has been going on from the history of the page. You should start a discussion on the article talk page, or else you can speak directly to the editors involved by clicking on the "talk" link next to their names. They are all real people, except for ClueBot which is an automated process.

In any case, it is not advisable for you to be editing the page directly. As an employee of the school you have a conflict of interest. We recommend that you suggest your changes on the article talk page. You can use the template {{request edit}} if necessary to attract the attention of another editor to service the request. Spinning Spark 10:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of non-government schools in New South Wales

The correct email address for Macquarie Grammar School is: www.macquariegrammarschool.edu.au It would be helpful if it were replaced with your currently listed inaccurate one.

Thanking you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.14.44 (talk) 10:53, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's a website url, not an email address, but changed anyway. You could have changed it yourself. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:12, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding subject material to an article

Good Day!

I would like to add information to several articles, but do not have enough "English knowledge" to do the article justice. Here is the Wiki I am referring to:

Gun chronograph

My Great Grandfather, Stanley Standal actually coined the term "Chronograph" when it's being referred to ballistics. Here is his patent information from Google:

https://www.google.com/patents/US2691415?dq=stanley+standal+inventor&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jcWRU8WhHcO48AGusYCIAQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg

He also invented the first actual hand held portable motor driven chainsaw that was driven exclusively from one end and also the cutting teeth and chainsaw bar we use on chainsaws to this day. He sold his patent to the McCulloch Company which then in turn mass produced them.

https://www.google.com/patents/US2488343?dq=stanley+standal+inventor&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jcWRU8WhHcO48AGusYCIAQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA

He also invented the drive mechanism for the inboard/outboard motor along with quite a few other very important things we use to this day. If not for him, alot of these things we use today, would not be the same. Here is a Google page outlining just some of the things he invented.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=stanley+standal+inventor&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&q=stanley+standal+inventor&safe=active&start=0&tbm=pts

If someone could include this information into these articles and do him justice that would be awesome and much appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.131.153.246 (talk) 14:40, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We need independent reliable sources in order to do this. Just using the patent information means we have to analyze and come up with out own conclusions, which is original research. If these other sources can be found, I'm sure we can use this patent information somehow.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 13:07, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Gail Dines' biographical page

Hi there,

I'm working with Gail Dines, whose Wikipedia page seems to have become a sort of fighting ground for folks pro- and anti-porn. Gail is an anti-porn activist, so her article is bound to contain her ideas, which may inflame some people. She completely understands that Wikipedia needs to be factual and based on sources, but is upset at what has happened to her page, which affects her safety and career. Our end goal is the same as Wikipedia's: to represent her opinions and criticism neutrally, and clean up her page from the current alert messages that show, hopefully resolving issues with trolling as well.

I've had a look at the "Talk" page and I'm unclear what I'm supposed to add to help resolve these disputes. Please instruct me, and if you can actively help in any way, that would be greatly appreciated. This is quite a headache for non-Wikipedia folk. Thank you so much for your help!

I will also send an email to your listed contact email address.

Thank you! Julia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juliabarry (talk • contribs) 16:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page archiving

I'm being extremely lazy posting this here, as I'm capable of searching for the answer myself. Nevertheless, does anyone know why Mizabot stopped archiving my user talkpage in October 2013? Bellerophon _{talk to me} 18:45, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Because you are asking Mizabot to archive to your old user name. Mizabot (actually Legobot has taken over from Mizabot) doesn't like archiving to a page that isn't under the root. You need to change the "archive = " parameter to your current user name. Spinning Spark 19:46, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the mystery unravels! Thanks SpinningSpark! Bellerophon _{talk to me} 20:07, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Powerpoint Slide

Hey Wikipedia, I have a minor problem. I am creating an external link to a power-point slide. The entire power-point slide has 92 slides. I want the link to go to slide #55. Is this possible? (Also, I can upload this powerpoint to Wikipedia itself. If that makes any difference ...)

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.ivanchuk (talk • contribs) 19:22, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide the url of the thing you are trying to link and we can take a look. You cannot upload powerpoint files to Wikipedia as a .ppt file, but they can be converted to .pdf format which can be uploaded. More importantly, you cannot upload it because you probably do not own the copyright and don't have permission. Spinning Spark 22:45, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Team colors for Turkish Basketball League?

Hello, could anyone please get colors for players on Turkish Basketball League teams? It's a very popular league and I really feel like some team colors should be introduced to non-Euroleague TBL clubs! Temple of the Mousy (talk) 19:54, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What article are you talking about? The table at Turkish Basketball League shows the team colours, as do the individual team articles such as Anadolu Efes S.K.. Spinning Spark 22:49, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am talking about the articles for specific players that play for the Turkish Basketball League teams (that are not in Euroleague). Please check out some pages such as Valentin Pastal, where there are "blank team color" for the infobox. I would not consider any infoboxes of Anadolu Efes players, because I'm quite sure they are in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague! Thanks. Temple of the Mousy (talk) 22:58, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's normal to put the team colours in the biographies of individual players. US players like Ronnie Brewer don't have them either and Template:Infobox basketball biography does not have a parameter for them. Players can be in more than one team over their career. The right place for team colours is in the team article. If you think there is a good reason for a change to this then you could open a discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball. Spinning Spark 23:55, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think you understand my question. The Ronnie Brewer page has infobox color for the Chicago Bulls. Some leagues such as the Philippine Basketball Association, National Basketball League, NCAA Basketball, and South Korean Basketball League have infobox color for players currently playing on their team. The Turkish Basketball League does not have these colors. Could you possibly add the colors for each TBL team into Template:Infobox basketball biography/style? Temple of the Mousy (talk) 01:12, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see what you mean. I think you should discuss this at WikiProject Infoboxes. It would be possible, the NBA biography infobox sets this with the "headerstyle" parameter, which invokes (via a style template) the Lua module Module:Basketball color. The headerstyle could be added to your infobox and the league colours added to the module, but there is a warning on the style template documentation that adding more leagues could lead to speed problems. Spinning Spark 10:36, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

help with images at United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2014

Can someone with knowledge of images fix the images in the infobox in United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2014? I can't figure out how to get the images to be the same size. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.156.84.229 (talk) 21:01, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can make them the same height instead of the same width by for example specifying the size as x150px in both cases. It will still look a little odd when their height to width ratios are so different. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:35, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All right. I guess Wikipedia can't do it automatically. I manually cropped the image. thanks 205.156.84.229 (talk) 22:10, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to get rid of the VisualEditor? Or is it called the Media Viewer?

Hello,

I've followed all directions and unchecked everything under Preferences to get rid of the VisualEditor (or Media Viewer, whichever). I've gotten rid of it on the Commons, but no matter what I do, I can't get rid of in on Wikipedia. Is there a magic trick?

Thanks, Parabolooidal (talk) 21:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was just coming her to ask the same question. Seconded. Is there any way to opt out of the media viewer or a hack to bypass it?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:13, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Visual Editor, the new page editor, is a completely different thing to Media Viewer, the new image viewer. To disable Media Viewer go to Preferences>Appearance>Files and uncheck "Enable Media Viewer". Then save the settings. Visual Editor is currently off by default (its got a lot of problems). You can turn it on at Beta>VisualEditor. Spinning Spark 22:21, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to Open Up a Discussion on a Disambiguation Page/Redirect

Hi! I'm a longtime user of Wikipedia but have never opened up a discussion on a disambiguation page before. I am interested in contesting the recent redirect of "UTSA" to a disambiguation page. How should I go about requesting opinions and opening up a discussion with the user who changed the redirect? --Ðrdak (T) 23:27, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. Spinning Spark 23:58, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Retract that. After looking at the page, it is not actually a redirect. It used to be a redirect, but has been turned into a disambiguation page. You should start a discussion on the talk page in the normal way. Spinning Spark 00:05, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!--Ðrdak (T) 18:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]