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March 3

I want to learn how to send e messages to someone

Please can I send message to someone here  — Preceding unsigned comment added by China nwachuku (talk • contribs) 01:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@China nwachuku: We communicate by creating new sections on each others' talk pages, just as you created your question here. In rare cases, usually involving personal privacy, threats, or legal matters, we have other means of communication. I you feel the need for such, tell us and we can let you know who to contact. -Arch dude (talk) 07:03, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See Help:Talk pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:35, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Hello I have created an article which is only showing in my account. (a draft). I would like to publish it for the whole world to see it. what do i do? I don't have the 'move' option for some reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamun609 (talk • contribs) 03:27, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Mamun609: You will not have "move" privileges until your account is a little bit older, but that's not your biggest problem. Your company is not notable by our definition (See WP:NCORP), and therefore cannot have an article here. We are an encyclopedia, not a business directory. Notability is the only absolute requirement, and your company is nowhere near meeting ts, so it is not worth your time to worry about the other problems with the draft. If you were to move the draft into main space, it would be immediately deleted. Sorry. I know this is a disappointment, and I sympathize, but there are tens of millions of companies that do not meet our notability guidelines, and well-intentioned folks such as yourself often spend the time to write an article, only to find that it cannot remain on Wikipedia. -Arch dude (talk) 06:24, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mathematics typesetting

Hello, in differential form, just after the first displayed equation, we have:

Similarly, the expression $f (x, y, z) dx \land dy + g (x, y, z) dz \land dx + h (x, y, z) dy \land dz$

For my money, this looks terrible and it would be soooo much better to have $f(x,y,z)\,dx\wedge dy+\ldots$ . Now wikipedia:Manual of style/Mathematics (sorry, I can't figure out how to make this a blue link) has a section on HTML that frankly gives little guidance on this issue. Can anyone advise? Robinh (talk) 08:32, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Style" is upper case in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics. Capitalization matters in wikilinks, except for the namespace and first character. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:39, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Robinh: We have had problems with using "TeX" in an inline setting. (Of course this is not actually TeX, let alone LaTeX, although lots of people call it that.) Sometimes the letters appear three times as big as the surrounding text and it looks ridiculous. This can depend on a user's settings. More recently it has become possible to write this:

Michael Hardy (talk) 22:04, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Robinh: BTW, I'd rather write ${\textstyle f(x,y,z)\,dx\wedge dy+\cdots }$ than ${\textstyle f(x,y,z)\,dx\wedge dy+\ldots }$ . But I use \ldots between commas and in some other situations. Michael Hardy (talk) 22:06, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Images from other Wikipedia languages

Hi,

I've recently created the page Miyoshi Station (Kumamoto) as part of my work in creating pages for missing train stations. I wanted to put this image from the Japanese Wikipedia into the userbox. Usually, copying the image title directly into the "image" parameter works, but this time it showed up as a red link, as seen in this copy of the page. How may I fix this?

Thanks, ◢ Ganbaruby! 09:08, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ganbaruby. The software allows pictures to be used only from within the same Wikimedia project (in this case, the same language Wikipedia) or from Wikimedia Commons. If the licensing status of the image is suitable for Commons (i.e. if it is free for anybody to reuse for any purpose), then it may be transferred to Commons, and used in any Wikimedia project: see Commons:First steps/File transfer and tools. If it is not suitable for Commons (eg if it is used in jawiki under a "fair use" condition), then it may not be moved to Commons. It is possible that it could still be copied to English Wikipedia, if its use meets all the criteria in the non-free content criteria; but the rules for different language Wikipedias are different, so its use in jawiki does not automatically mean that it may be used in enwiki. --ColinFine (talk) 09:42, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ganbaruby: That image is available on commons as File:Kumaden Miyoshi Station 4.JPG. --Danski454 (talk) 14:33, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cladomelea debeeri

H I am a trifle disheartened, I wrote the article which is in my sandbox, but it is proving very difficult to understand how to reference it properly or make the changes that it will require for publication. Should I just delete it and be done with it? Please advise. Len de beer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cladomelea (talk • contribs) 18:45, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is help page: Help:Footnotes. Ruslik_Zero 20:01, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In the first place, you have a self-disclosed conflict of interest, so any submission should be through the WP:Articles for creation (AfC) process. Some AfC reviewers may want the referencing cleaned up first, but I tend to accept articles in that shape and fix minor things like that myself. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:19, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Cladomelea, feel free to drop me a note when you think you have it ready to go, and I will be happy to give it a once-over. Newly described species are always welcome :) You will want to include the following reference, which as the formal classification publication is presumably the most reliable and authoritative source you could use:

<ref>{{cite ref|last1=Roff|first1=J.|last2=Dippenaar-Schoeman|first2=A.|year=2004|title=Description of a new species of Cladomelea bolas-spider from South Africa, with notes on its behaviour (Araneae: Araneidae)|journal=African Invertebrates|volume=45|issue=1|pages=1-6|url=https://journals.co.za/content/nmsa_ai/45/1/EJC84539?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf}}</ref>

I would suggest removing all the details about the repeated sightings etc., which are not very germane as general information on the species, and instead adding a section on "Description" (containing, well, a physical description) and one on "Ecology" (containing details on its hunting behaviour, which appears to be interesting) - both sourced to the above paper. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 03:17, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Book sources

Hi, regarding the above document, is there any way to create a "regular" (i. e. visible) heading paragraph line spacing before the two headings Bookselling and swapping and Non-English book sources, which is to say without using new line tags such as <br> (creating a line spacing larger than usual)?--Hildeoc (talk) 21:40, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]