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August 31

Michael Valli

Can someone please call for the deletion of the page? Castlemate (talk) 00:16, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You can use the articles for deletion process. —MRD2014 (talk) (contribs) 00:59, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated it for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Valli. —MRD2014 (talk) (contribs) 01:03, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

unsupported arguments for Template:IPAc-en

Resolved

Selina Meyer is having some problems with presentation at {{IPAc-en}}--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I separated the two phoneme codes in the first syllable |maɪ| -> |m|aɪ| —teb728 t c 05:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:18, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Link to Google

Greetings,

How do I link wikipedia to Google when I search for my Company name. To explain when I search for my company name in google the wikipedia information appears on the right hand side . How do i share my company information for the same. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andre Didier Serre (talk • contribs) 06:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Andre Didier Serre. You seem to be referring to Google's Knowledge Graph. Using its own algorithms, Google assembles and displays information as it sees fit. Much of that information may come from Wikipedia but we have no control or direct influence over that process. Our goal is to write excellent encyclopedia articles, and Google or Bing or Yahoo or Baidu or Facebook or anyone else are free to reuse that content in any way, as long as they provide attribution. Because you have a conflict of interest, you should not be editing the Wikipedia article about your company. Instead, post suggestions for improvement along with links to reliable sources verifying your suggested content on the article's talk page. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Template:HD/GKG is a stock reply to a related type of question and may also be helpful. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:20, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Haringey 6th Form Centre change oage title

Hi,

I work at Haringey Sixth Form College. We have recently changed our name from Haringey Sixth Form Centre to Haringey Sixth Form College. I have been able to make the changes in the body of the page, but I cannot change the title. I have tried moving the page, but am not an administrator so it is not allowing me to do so.

URL is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haringey_Sixth_Form_Centre

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks Lisa Westray — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lwestray (talk • contribs) 07:59, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for the heads-up! I've moved the article to the new title (having checked the sources to confirm the name change). --bonadea contributions talk 08:17, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Sandbox

Hi! I want to delete my own user sandbox periodically and automatically. How to do so? Wetitpig0 (talk) 09:54, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You can request deletion by adding {{db-author}} to that sandbox. I don't think you can do that automatically unless you make a bot to do that task. Fuortu (talk) 10:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of a link to a community group on an existing page

I wish to add the name of a community group to the page for Llangynidr, in Wales and a link to the group's websiteJessopp (talk) 10:53, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find a reliable (such as a newspaper: not any kind of blog or social media) independent (not the group's own website, or anything based on a press release or interview) source that confirms that the group exists and is in Llangynidr, then you can add it to the article, with a citation to the source (see Referencing for beginners). You should not include a link: see External links for why not. The purpose of Wikipedia is presenting neutral, reliably sourced, information about topics, not promoting your community group, no matter how virtuous it may be. --ColinFine (talk) 16:53, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Article submission

What is the status of Draft:Loss development factor? I submitted weeks ago and it hasn't been declined or accepted. Someone commented that I should improve the citations but I don't think that's grounds for declining (their concern seemed to be about citation formatting and adding in-line citations, not not notability/verifiability). I did try to fix a few but I don't know why no one has either declined or accepted. I can't resubmit because it was never reviewed the first time. -KaJunl (talk) 10:56, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@KaJunl: Your submission is still in the queue to be reviewed - some submissions take a while for some reason. Pppery (talk) 11:09, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

KaJunl It has now been accepted and moved to mainspace by User:Timothyjosephwood - Arjayay (talk) 14:32, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

B, 0-9, A, N, C, D...

At Category:Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikipedia editors the ordering is B, 0-9, A, N, C, D...

Why is the ordering wrong, and how do we fix it? --Guy Macon (talk) 14:18, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It will (hopefully) fix itself "by the weekend" see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Sorting in categories unreliable for a few days - Arjayay (talk) 14:24, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) Even more interesting order in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting:

0–9, A, C, D, E, G, H, K, L, M, B, P, F, R, I, S, T, O, U, Δ, Τ, Ψ, Ω

Notice Greek letters, and doubled T, one of which is Latin 'tee', the other one a Greek 'tau'. --CiaPan (talk) 14:26, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy Macon and Arjayay: Things appear to get worse... Today I tried to refresh the cached page for Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting – and nothing changed. However I noticed the C item with a single page Comparison of survey software went somewhat forward, and it landed approximately in the M, F, K sequence. So I made a null-edit to the page to see, if it would change its position in a category. And — surprise, surprise! — the C item disappeared from the category at all, though the page still contains an error in Ref-s... So the problem is much bigger than just ordering... --CiaPan (talk) 08:47, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CiaPan - Probably best if you report that at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Sorting in categories unreliable for a few days in case it is an unreported side effect - Arjayay (talk) 08:55, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any good reason why the WMF can't roll out changes on a test system then make an instant switchover, like most IT departments do? --11:13, 1 September 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy Macon (talk • contribs)

@Guy Macon: There is a degree of staging, but you can imagine the cost associated with a full dev/prod setup :/ -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 11:18, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am imagining imagine the cost associated with a full dev/prod setup...

--Guy Macon (talk) 11:49, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Page removal

There has been a page created in my name and I request that it be removed. I would rather not have my info out there any more than it already is at this point due to the job that I do. The name of the page is Andy Cobb. It talks about my racing career and my law enforcement career. Thank you for any help you can give. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.106.249.199 (talk) 15:13, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That is not a page created in your name; that is an article about you in a reference work. If you click on the link "contact page" on the left of an article page, you can reach "Article subjects", the link for those who like you are the subject of articles. Thia takes you to a specialist team who have the tools to assist you. We hope that Wikipedia's article about you contains content from reliable sources. Is this not correct? Because those sources are by definition already publicly available. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:15, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This same IP editor appears to be opposing this BLP deletion at the AfD [1] Strange! 220 of ^Borg 12:04, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on The Bride (2015 film)

Reference help requested. I've looked it over and don't know what you mean by this. I need some help in order to identify what I've been doing wrong. Thanks, Movieman2 (talk) 15:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your error was fixed in this edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:03, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Empty citation

I am having difficulty adding a citation (webpage address) to an item I have edited. I used the template. But have not done this before so presume I have done something wrong.82.12.242.178 (talk) 21:57, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, fixed it for you (see this edit for the difference). In short: URL and other parameters like title need to be added within the cite web template, see Template:cite web and WP:REFB for more information about this topic. GermanJoe (talk) 22:15, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tip: if you use the web citation template from edit toolbar, you can input the URL, then press autofill (magnifying glass icon); also, 'Show/hide extra fields' allows adding parameters that autofill might miss. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:F853:9A57:8459:1F05 (talk) 22:53, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate article

I've not run across this situation before; two articles were created on the same subject independently of one another. There was no copy-and paste involved (at least on a cursory overview). The first article, Institute of Physical Education Sukhothai Stadium, was last edited in May 2014. The second article, Sukhothai Institute of Physical Education Stadium, was created this past June. Clearly, they need to be merged, and there is no overlap of histories, so it should be pretty simple. Yet all the instructions and procedures for merging pages and histories (such as {{histmerge}}) assume that there was a copy-paste involved, which is not the case here. How should I proceed? — Gorthian (talk) 22:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just plain old WP:MERGE should cover it. Crow^Caw 22:35, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay, I was beginning to come to that conclusion myself. Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 22:43, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]