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October 28

Print/export:Create a book features ...

I was wondering if you could select certain sections of the "books" you want to create or generate. Say, you want to change the margin and discard the "Contents" box as well as the "see also" and the tailing References" ... sections and, if possible, could you do that for all pages or "books" you have selected?

Is there a step-by-step guide to using this feature?

I could have my way around it if I am able to save the document as ODF but then I click on "Show book (2 pages)", the only option I see is "PDF"

thanks, lbrtchx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albretch Mueller (talk • contribs) 00:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Albretch Mueller: I would suggest WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:45, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Athletes

Please include whether these professional athletes are college graduates once they leave early for the NFL or NBA. Please also indicate their major or area of study.--Thank you kindly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.51.48.1 (talk) 04:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which professional athletes? You haven't indicated which of our four million articles you are talking about. If you think that an article can be improved by adding some information, you are welcome to edit the article and add it (if you have a reliable published source for the information), or to suggest on the particular article's talk page that this information be added. But note that Wikipedia is entirely edited by volunteers, so you will need to engage somebody's interest to get them to research and add the information. --ColinFine (talk) 12:13, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Witches Bru page by Roger Gary

My name is Roger Gary. I am the one who created the Witches Bru page on Wikipedia. I would like to make some changes on the page but I cannot remember the password. I also believe that the email I used to log-in was an old one of mine and has since been cancelled. How can I make the necessary changes?

Roger Gary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.45.76 (talk) 09:00, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@69.115.45.76: You don't need to be logged in to edit a page. Another thing you could do is create another account - NickGibson3900 ^Talk 09:05, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We don't have an article on Witches Bru, but there is a draft of one at User:Roger_Gary. However, unless you can find some third-party reliable sources to back up the information there and establish that the band is notable, it cannot become a Wikipedia article. See WP:BAND for the criteria for inclusion. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 09:16, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article submission

Once an article is completed how do you submit it to be reviewed and posted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sciambro (talk • contribs) 11:26, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can submit it for review by added {{subst:submit}} to the top of the draft, but I've added {{AFC submission|T}} which gives you a submit button. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see that the template and the submit button were there in an earlier draft, but you deleted them in this edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

drop down menus

Hi I am having problems with openin the drop down menus on the wikipedia mobile site , is there a problem or is it just me?

Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gadget8103 (talk • contribs) 12:12, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have this problem when I browse the desktop version of the site on mobile, but not with the mobile version. Does the same go for you, or do you have issues with the actual mobile site? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 12:22, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Quarterly journal date format

Copied from Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 6#Quarterly journal date format:

I have a copy of the Second Quarter 1973 issue of Automobile Quarterly that I have used as a reference in articles on Triumph, Messerschmitt, and ALCO automobiles in general, and on the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 and first generation of the Pontiac Grand Am in particular, as the magazine has articles on these cars.

However, the date given for the magazine is "Second Quarter 1973", and this triggers an error response in the "date" entry in Template:Cite journal. Is there a solution to this, other than just giving a year and a volume and issue number instead of the date as stated in the magazine?

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 14:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You asked this at Help talk:Citation Style 1. Give it a bit and the issue will be addressed. See WP:MULTI. -- Gadget850^talk 14:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a tool to send RFC to eds who contributed to discussions that are now archived?

Last year, a certain AFD closed with soft peddled advice to address certain policy issues. Today, a poll is current on the article talk page. I'd like to let everyone who took time to opine in the last AFD know about the poll, but there are too many to deal with manually and I don't want to just do a subset to avoid accusations of improper canvassing. Is there a "broadcast" tool that allows one to auto-contact a page's contributors? Here is the particular AFD in question and here is the list of contributors.
If you don't know, where else do you suggest I ask?
Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:43, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@NewsAndEventsGuy: if it can be done, the people who would know are at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:23, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AFRICAN JEWISH HALAL

AFRICIAN PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN FOOD JEWISH HALAL AND MUST BE BLESSED BY A BLACK RABBI THE LORD FOOD. ORIGINATED IN AFRICA HALAL FOOD THEN TRAVELED TO THE MIDDLE EAST. THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN JEWISH HALAL FOOD AND WHEN BLESSED REACHES THE LORD AND IN RETURN A BETTER LIFE BY INCLUDING HIM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.63.144 (talk) 15:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have a question about how to use Wikipedia? (BTW, use of all capitals is considered shouting on the internet).--S Philbrick (Talk) 16:57, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it was comment on some article's content. You may try to suggest your edit on the talk page (on top left) of the article in question. --lTopGunl (talk) 23:27, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citing patents by inventor with duplicate name

I'm working on drafting an article on electronics engineer Bob Adams. (Full disclosure: I work for a communications firm that supports Adams' employer Analog Devices, and will be requesting that a neutral third party review, edit and publish the draft if it's deemed suitable.) According to an Analog Devices press release, Adams has been granted 32 patents, and I'd like to cite this information from a neutral source in the draft if possible. However, a search in the USPTO database includes some irrelevant results related to other inventors of the same name. Is there a way I can distinguish in my citation which results are related to this specific Robert W. Adams in order to state the number of patents in the draft? Mary Gaulke (talk) 16:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If no neutral third party reliable source has made note of this, then it's original research and synthesis, and has no place in the article. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I thought that might be the case. Thank you for confirming! Mary Gaulke (talk) 21:36, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template Help - Global Way of Centering Group Titles - or not?

QUESTION: At the moment, I'm able to "center" each template Group Title within a template "box" as follows: < center>Group1 title< /center> => < center>Group2 Title< /center> => and so on - BUT - Is there some "Global" way of centering *all* Group Titles in a template more easily - by adding some particular code (or equivalent) to the template source code? - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 16:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done - if interested, question answered *very well* (imo) at the Village pump (technical) as follows:

Copied from a similar Question at the "Village Pump" (technical) (20141029):

— Template Help - Global Way of Centering Group Titles - or not? —
QUESTION: At the moment, I'm able to "center" each template Group Title within a template "box" as follows: < center>Group1 title< /center> => < center>Group2 Title< /center> => and so on - BUT - Is there some "Global" way of centering *all* Group Titles in a template more easily - by adding some particular code (or equivalent) to the template source code? - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 13:33, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Add |groupstyle=text-align: center and remove the obsolete <center> tags. See {{Moon spacecraft}}. -- Gadget850^talk 14:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
@Gadget850 - Thank you *very much* for your suggestions - they are *very much* appreciated - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 14:08, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
@Gadget850 - BRIEF Followup => Seems your suggestion *centers* the title for "Groups" very well - but does not seem to *center* the titles for "Subgroups" - is there additional code to *center* the titles for "Subgroups" as well - Thanking you in advance for your reply - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 14:20, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Each subgroup is invoked through {{navbox subgroup}} which has its own |groupstyle=; it is not inherited from {{navbox}}. -- Gadget850^talk 14:28, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Yes - Thanks again for your help with this - it's *very much* appreciated - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 14:56, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Could someone help me with humanification of a code from {{Mars Quads - By Name}}? This template is a technical disaster, and has many obsolete tags. --Rezonansowy (talk | contribs) 15:43, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

I converted <center> to the appropriate markup within the <div>. -- Gadget850^talk 16:02, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the {{Mars Quads - By Name}} update as well - it's *very much* appreciated - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 18:49, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

In any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 19:02, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mobile Search Field Won't Accept Input

A recent problem on my Blackberry Torch 9800. Mobile (English) site, which used to work flawlessly, no longer accepts any keystrokes (physical or virtual) in the "Search Wikipedia" header. Any suggestions?174.116.225.110 (talk) 17:57, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@174.116.225.110: try WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:12, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nodalotaluk

After seeing the article Nodalotaluk for the first time a couple of weeks ago, I immediately thought a minor character only ever seen once in one panel of one story, with an article with no actual content edits in seven years, wasn't notable enough to have her own article, so I made a merge request to List of Donald Duck universe characters, which ran through unopposed, so I added a section about her to the list article and deleted the link to her own article from the navbox template. But another editor thinks she's even less notable, and has put her article up for deletion. Am I allowed to change the article into a redirect to the list article while it's still undergoing deletion discussion? If the decision is to delete the article, am I allowed to resurrect it as a redirect? I have absolutely no intention of resurrecting it as a full article, because I think she's not notable enough. JIP | Talk 19:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's probably not a good idea to redirect while the deletion discussion is ongoing. If the contributors to that discussion agree with your merge, you (or someone else) can change Nodalotaluk to a redirect after the discussion is closed. If the verdict is "delete", I guess your addition to List of Donald Duck universe characters will have to be reverted, since you copied from the Nodalotaluk article material that someone else wrote, and that material will be unattributed to its author if the edit history of Nodalotaluk is gone. The situation is something of a mess; you really shouldn't have merged the content after the AfD was initiated. Deor (talk) 23:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I understand. If the outcome of the AFD debate is "merge", I will change the article to a redirect. If it's "delete", I might have to remove the addition of Nodalotaluk I made to the list article. If, by any remote chance, it is "keep", then I don't know what to do. Should I initiate another merge discussion or just go ahead and change the article to a redirect? However, I don't think Nodalotaluk is anywhere near notable enough for the outcome to be "keep". JIP | Talk 20:56, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@JIP: If the result should be "keep" (I agree that it's unlikely), you could just replace the text of the entry in the list article with {{main article|Nodalotaluk}}, to match the other entries in the list that have separate articles. Deor (talk) 10:56, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How about actual balance in commentary -- not just progressive political views as the norm

I often use your site, and I am cautiously happy with it.

I recently researched the cost of illegal immigration and could not helpn notice the obvious bias in the commentary.

You describe the Heritage Inst as "conservative" but NEVER described any other similar organization as "liberal" or "progressive" in outlook.

How about living up to your claim of non-partisanship????

Regards,

Tom Reeve — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.65.4 (talk) 19:37, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know which of our millions of articles you refer to but you can post specific suggestions on its talk page. See Help:Using talk pages. The official website of The Heritage Foundation is http://www.heritage.org. It says "conservative" seven times on the front page alone, including "Our mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies" and "Conservative policy research since 1973", so "conservative" seems a very uncontroversial description. I don't know which other organizations you have in mind. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:20, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Or considering you said "Heritage Inst", is this not about The Heritage Foundation but about Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Somalia or Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver? Those pages do not say conservative but maybe you refer to a page mentioning them. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:28, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's also one in Tunis. Under the Ministry of Culture, under Mehdi Mabrouk, under Hamadi Jebali, under the Ennahda Movement, under moderate Islamism. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:49, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline

can somebody fix this timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Century#Timeline — Preceding unsigned comment added by PacoDaKing14Sportz (talk • contribs) 19:40, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not knowing anything about Wikipedia timeline syntax, through trial and error, I got as far as to get it to display something and not just give errors. I don't know enough about timelines to fix it any further, someone else can take the charge from here. JIP | Talk 19:48, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not entirely sure why there needs to be a timeline here anyway. There hasn't been any change in the members or their roles, so it seems redundant. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 00:32, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not only that but the text over the colors is too small and black text on various colors doesn't always work as far as readability goes. Dismas|^(talk) 01:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Developing a page

Hello,

Our team has created a Wiki page for a client. Why does "User" appear in front of the name? I am trying to figure out how to get rid of that but I can't figure it out.

Thanks, Derek — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Crehan (talk • contribs) 22:21, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a link to the page in question, for quicker access: User:Paul Crehan. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 22:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The pathetically promotional "Wiki page for a client" has been deleted. This account has been blocked indefinitely because by this account's own edits, it is not Paul Crehan but a "team" editing on his behalf, thus constituting an impersonation, a group account, AND a hopelessly promotional ("spam-only") account. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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