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November 8

Table problem

Here, in this article User:AnkurPl/sandbox#Indrustry, I used a table. The information in the table is neither complete nor correctly placed. But the problem is with the structure. Under the "year wise percentage" cell, in different parameters i want different number of cells. Like for "industrial production", i wanted 3 cells under the year wise percentage, for "industrial employment" i wanted 3 cells, for "investment in public sector" i want 4 cells and for "Production cost" i want 6 cells. So in the heading i used colspan=12 so that for each paremetre i can divide then into 3/4/6 cells. But the problems are

After division, the medium cell consisting 4 coloums (colspan=4) is bigger than the other two cells even they also consisted 4 cells.
In the "industrial production" part, i wrote in the source colspan=3 for each cell for 4 times. This resulted 4 cells but size are not of colspan=3 each.
Due to the big cell in the middle the "production cost" part has too problems, with two middle cells are bigger than the others.

Please help to correct the structure. Some information in the table is for testing, so please neglect it. - AnkurPl 10:40, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@AnkurPl: Table cells and columns are not the same width by default. A table column is as wide as needed to display the widest cell in the column. You can try to force a width with style="width:..;" but what looks good on your screen may look bad to others, e.g. making a table wider than their window or inserting line breaks in some cells. It's usually best to leave it to the browser and accept unequal widths. Another matter: I think your table use will be confusing to screen reader users. It would help to have years and percentage in the same cell. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:15, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Use of 'Tlg' template on fandom.com causes Lua error

I tried copying a few templates and modules onto fandom.com (namely 'Template link general'), but upon using the template, it returned the error message: "Lua error in Module:Template_link_general at line 119: attempt to concatenate local 'titlePart' (a nil value).". I tried asking the live help channel but I needed to leave and my the chat had moved on and I haven't received any further help from there, so I came here. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Pigeon <3 (talk) 09:01, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Pigeon43. In general, the people who inhabit the help desk are people knowledgeable about editing Wikipedia, not about programming it. You may find more help at WP:VPT, but I suspect that you really need to be asking at the Mediawiki software Wiki, mw:Help. --ColinFine (talk) 09:29, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That would make a lot more sense, yeah. Thank you! Pigeon <3 (talk) 11:09, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigeon43: If your code is broken then post the code or a link to it. We aren't mind readers. It appears from mw:Topic:Wjxxva6ie6qp56lm that the code producing the Lua error is {{tlc|=}} which doesn't even use the 'Tlg' template. It also fails here because = is interpreted as an assignment and not a parameter value. It's the second bullet at Help:Template#Usage hints and workarounds: An unnamed parameter cannot contain an ordinary equals sign. You can write {{tlc|1==}} or {{tlc|{{=}}}}. It's the same with {{tlg}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:13, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's a 'direct copy' so I don't think the issue is with that. (Hence why I didn't link it - I didn't think I needed to, sorry) Also, I have no idea how it all works, so I wasn't sureb which templates 'use' others, so I'm sorry I wasn't really clear there either. But thank you for your reply, as I didn't know that using an equals sign would cause an error. Thanks again, and sorry for making this harder than it should've been :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pigeon43 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

why other autobiographies are shown on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_(film_editor) please check the link. Why is that my page is being deleted and not shown on the wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Preethim93 (talk • contribs) 15:06, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You have asked this, and been answered, at the Teahouse , Preethim93. As you have been told previously, please don't ask the same question in different places, as it just wastes people's time. --ColinFine (talk) 16:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Also section at #my bio isn't being shown on the wikipedia page ~~above~~, from 2 days ago. Eagleash (talk) 19:33, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Archived.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:40, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Upload an article to live wikiepedia page

Hello, My problem is that I don't have the "move" option on my Draft Sandbox page so I cannot upload my article in the wiki's live page. My account is older than 4 days and drafting my new article I have made more than ten edits (only in my article though). Is there an alternative to uploading an article? Thank you in advance, — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheInfiniteDrop (talk • contribs) 16:26, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TheInfiniteDrop: You have autoconfirmed user rights, so you should be able to, but even if you did move it into mainspace, it would be either deleted or moved into draftspace, as you didn't even cite any references, which are essential to an article. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:34, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Hello, TheInfiniteDrop. I was going to add a header to User:TheInfiniteDrop/sandbox to let you submit it for review, but there is no point, because it has zero chance of being accepted as an article in its present state, mainly because it has no sources at all. As I always advise new editors who try to create articles: please put aside this project for several months while you "learn the trade" of editing Wikipedia. By improving some of our six million articles you will add much much much much much much much more value to Wikipedia than by wasting people's time with an attempt at creating a new article when you don't yet understand the basic requirements fora Wikipedia article. In the meantime, please read verifiability, notability, and your first article. --ColinFine (talk) 16:38, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see that despite the advice from Tenryuu and ColinFine, TheInfiniteDrop had moved the unreferenced draft to mainspace, but I've moved it back. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention violating WP:SELFPROMOTE. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 00:06, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted this as flagrantly promotional. (I'm only surprised that it lasted so long.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:35, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

STIFELLIO

I notice in your comments on Stifellio, the lost opera of Verdi, you have omitted the importance of the Royal Opera House's version in 1994 by the tenor Jose Carreras. I attended these performances. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:9481:3C01:1415:847E:A9F0:30F0 (talk) 22:04, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you have suggestions to improve an article, please start a discussion on that article's talk page. Anything added to the article will need to come from published reliable sources, not your own memory. RudolfRed (talk) 22:14, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@2A00:23C4:9481:3C01:1415:847E:A9F0:30F0: Are you sure it wasn't 1993? This source [[1]] mentions that performance, but the Stifellio article already mentions Carrreras's performance in Stiffelio#20th century performances before October 1993. It's highly unlikely he'd return the next year for the same performance, and I can't find anything about a 1994 performance there by him. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 00:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Veterans Awareness Ribbon

I uploaded a graphic, but the file name is wrong. I tried to edit the file name but cannot. So I tried to upload a new file with the correct name. But wasn't allowed to because the file was the same (except for the name). Here is the file. It should be "Veterans Awareness Ribbon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Veterans-Awaerness-Ribbon.png#file — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shaffer0311 (talk • contribs) 22:24, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Shaffer0311: I put a change request template at the top of the page. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 23:55, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]