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October 27

Show/hide toggle not working

On Appetite for Democracy (Tour), the show/hide toggle for the setlists is not working for me past the March 12 setlist. Is there a problem with the wiki markup? Thanks, --Viennese Waltz 07:42, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Viennese Waltz: The setlists for March 13 and onwards have not been added to the article. The show/hide toggle is working, but there is nothing to show. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You should add content. Fill content = parameter. Supdiop (T🔹C) 07:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that would explain it :) Thanks for the reply, --Viennese Waltz 08:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Revert edits by banned editor/socks

Can someone revert all the edits at Cosmic string from October 23, 2015, until present from 97.126.235.119, 75.169.210.101, 75.169.31.1? All are the same person, banned user Jeffrey Verson Merkey (JVM). He then created BLPDegreaser and used multiple IPs. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/BLPDegreaser/Archive. Anyway, I don't know how to revert all that content in that article in a single edit. I haven't looked to see what other edits all these accounts made in violation of the orginal ban that should be reverted. Czoal (talk) 08:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the history of what's been going on there, so I'm hesitant to make any sweeping changes myself. That said, if you want to make a mass roll back, just click on the date stamp of the "correct" version of the article. This will give you what appears to be a normal article with a warning at the top that you're viewing an old version. Click Edit at the top and you'll get an edit window for that version of the article. This too will have a warning at the top saying that you're editing an old version. Add your edit summary and click Save. This old version is now the most current. Dismas|^(talk) 12:12, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Thanks. Czoal (talk) 17:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the title of article

Please help me with... changing the name of the title of this page Mood 92.0 FM from Mood 92.0 FM to Mood FM.

I cannot find the "move" button. We need to make these changes ASAP as we have opened up a new frequency. Thank you!

Sarah — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarahsalah88 (talk • contribs) 12:20, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sarahsalah88 Can you provide a link to a published reliable source that shows this change, please? DES ^(talk) 13:13, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sarahsalah88, as you are saying "we", you are obviously connected to the station, so have a conflict of interest in editing that article.
Please read, and follow, the guidance here. In particular, please avoid editing that article, but make suggestions on the talk-page. - Thank you - Arjayay (talk) 13:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Quite true, but ~~then this user has not yet edited the article~~ the user's edits seem to be the sort of factual changes even COI editors are often allowed to make directly, Arjayay. Sarahsalah88, you can't move a page until you are autoconfimred which requires at least 10 edits from an account at least 4 days old. You don't yet have 10 edits from your account. DES ^(talk) 15:36, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

However sources should be provided. DES ^(talk) 15:42, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, Sarahsalah88, we (that is, the community of Wikipedia editors) do not need to make the changes ASAP. Wikipedia goes by what the majority of the reliable sources say: what the subject of an article wants is of little consequence, since it is not their article, it is Wikipedia's. Since it's likely that most reliable published sources for the station still refer to it as Mood 92.0 FM, that should remain the title of the article, according to the rules. Having said that, if sources are produced which show that the name has changed, we probably would allow the article to be moved even though, strictly, it probably shouldn't be moved yet. Either way, the other name can and should be a redirect to the article - if it is moved, that will happen automatically. --ColinFine (talk) 18:10, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Report a plagiarism

While searching for some information on my hometown, Los Teques, I did find by accident that there was a complete transcription of the text of a publication that I wrote and was edited by COLECCION ATENEO DE LOS TEQUES under No.12 and registered in the Venezuela's Library Catalogue under the Number ISBN: 980-6035-42-9. The point is that it those not give credit to the Ateneo de Los Teques as publisher or to me as the author:JOSE RAFAEL MALPICA MATERAN. "Los Teques en mis recuerdos" is the tittle of the publications whose front page or cover I am forwarding for your consideration and further actions. It was published by WIKIPEDIA with credit given to the sender: Ricardo Garcia who at the time looks like was employeed by Alcaldia del Municipio Guicaipuro as Comunicador Social (Journalist). Mr. Garcia incurred in a flagrant plagiarism as can be eassily verify.

Most grateful yours,

Jose Rafael Malpica M — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.79.233 (talk) 16:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you refer to the article Los Teques? I don't see anything in that article that looks as if it had been copied from such a document. Exactly what content was copied, please? By the way that article is quite short and completely unsourced. If you were able to provide reliable sources and expand the article based on them you would be helping the project. DES ^(talk) 17:32, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your post is unclear to me. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia with around 36 million articles in total spread over around 290 languages. We allow others to republish our articles and thousands have done so outside our control, sometimes together with content from other sources without specifying which parts are from Wikipedia. Can you describe more accurately how to find the work which plagiarizes you? Is it online? Can you give a quote which it copied from you? I found mention of a work called Los teques en mis recuerdos with ISBN stated as 978-980-6035-42-3. The listed author is you and not somebody called Robert Garcia, and the web page does not mention Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DES and PrimeHunter, perhaps the OP is referring to Los Teques from the Spanish Wikipedia? Note that one of the references in the external links section ("Datos aportados por Mario Ricardo García (Com. Social).") includes the name of the person the OP mentioned, Ricardo Garcia. That source (Nota 1) is attached to the first paragraph of the "Radio" section. Czoal (talk) 19:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Signature formatting

For a long time, I've had my signature formatted with the timestamp in italics, but this has always necessitated me signing my posts with ~~~~'' rather than just ~~~~. Is there a way I can incorporate the closing italics tag into my signature proper and still have the timestamp italicized? —⁠烏⁠Γ ^(kaw), 22:06, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@KarasuGamma: You could try to make the time stamp a part of the signature code. I have set my signature to [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) ''{{SUBST:#time:H:i, d F Y}} (UTC)'' and signed this message with only three ~~~ which omits the normally added time stamp. I'm not sure whether pinging works but you can see whether this post pinged you. If you use this method and sign with four ~~~~ then you will get two time stamps. Both your and my method go against the intention of the software and may cause problems, for example in template messages with automatic signing. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:39, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: Everything appears to have worked, if my signature doesn't look broken at the end of this. (Now I just have to get used to using ~~~ >v>) Thanks for the quick response. —⁠烏⁠Γ ^(kaw) │ 03:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Irish Goodbye

75.163.197.148 makes on my talk page what I believe is a genuine objection to the redirect currently found at Irish Goodbye. We have "Irish goodbye" on Wiktionary. What would be the proper course of action here? Thanks, -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 23:04, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only action I can think of (other than leaving it as is) would be to redirect to Mac Lethal#Albums. —teb728 t c 23:47, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A Wikipedia search shows that "Irish Goodbye" is the title of an album in Mac Lethal, a song in Lynn Teeter Flower, and a stand-up special for Netflix in Morgan Murphy (comedian). The three mentions are equally small and it seems Irish Goodbye should either be a disambiguation page (which should include a link to wikt:Irish goodbye) or be deleted. Readers would be better served by search results than being redirected to an article with a tiny mention of one the three unrelated works. The primary meaning appears to be the expression which is not mentioned in Wikipedia. It's common that multiple people choose the same word or expression as title of a work. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:22, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for feedback, I turned it into a DAB. -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 05:44, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]