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February 26

There is a factual error on my Wikopedia page

There is a factual error on my Wikopedia page .

I was born on NOvember 10 in 1948, NOT 1946.

Thank you in advance for correcting the error.

Sincerely,

Jay Bergman

72.195.144.213 (talk) 01:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

I removed the entire birthdate as it was not in the source.--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Problem embedding Template:Multiple images within Template:Infobox book

Hello -- Please see the image in the infobox at the top of the book article on God Makes the Rivers to Flow. On my browser (Firefox), the very top of the infobox displays the garbage/error characters:

[[File: |frameless|alt=|]]

How can I eliminate those characters? I suspect they are a byproduct of having embedded the Template:Multiple images within the Template:Infobox book. But such embedding is very desirable, to permit the covers of the abridged and unabridged editions to be displayed simultaneously (since they are of more or less equal interest, and both are described in the article).

What can be done?

Many thanks in advance -- Presearch (talk) 01:10, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

{{Infobox book}} doesn't support the use of a template in its image parameter. You're supposed to give only the image as a bare file name (example.jpg) which the template then wraps in a [[File: ]] wiki markup. Since the template has no way to identify that you have given another template instead, it treats it the same way as a bare file name and wraps it as above. The {{multiple image}} template does its job and displays the images, but it's now wrapped in an invalid wiki markup (since it's syntactically incorrect) which apparently the mediawiki software treats as plain text and displays. You could modify the infobox to accommodate the multiple image template, or you could take the easier route and display only a single image in the infobox. Chamal ^T•C 03:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Or if you really want the two images together, why not use an external image editor to make a new image that combines them, and then upload and use it? Chamal ^T•C 03:16, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Dear Chamal, thank you for all those good explanations and helpful ideas! Best regards -- Presearch (talk) 18:08, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

here, I've taken a whack at addressing this. Feel free to revert or improve. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Dear Wtmitchell (Bill), thank you for those fixes -- I like them and expect to keep them! Best regards -- Presearch (talk) 18:08, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

I recently had similar remarks for {{Infobox WorldScouting}}. Since {{infobox}} now supports a second image, I added it to WorldScouting, allowing the full image parameter set to be used. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 20:02, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Shotgun Alley

Shotgun Alley — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dolheguy1976 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia:Notability (music) help?--Canoe1967 (talk) 02:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

"last warning"

I received the message below:

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User talk:71.34.74.118 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game, you will be blocked from editing. Dlong 00:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

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For some reason, I don't think I was logged in on my account but the message was directed to me (confirmed by IP).

This warning is not related to any editing activity I have ever done.

I am a very inexperienced editor of wikipedia. If there is another place to report this kind of message please let me know.

PetronellaMG (talk) 06:19, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

If you haven't edited that article, you can safely ignore the warning as it wouldn't have been directed at you. When using dynamic IPs the IP address changes regularly, which means the IP address you have is not permanent and can be reallocated to another user at a different time. Because of this, messages directed at IPs may sometimes be received by a different user than whom they were intended for. This particular warning is from 2007, so I'd say this was probably what happened. Anyway, if you are logged in to your account when editing, you won't get the messages directed at your IP. Chamal ^T•C 06:37, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

When posting a cite, i get an error message

When posting a Cite or reference, i get this error message: "Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{Reflist|group=The Communicator}} template or a <references group="The Communicator"/> tag; see the help page."

Also, how do i change the name of my article? Curently it says User: than my user name.

Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petersabbagh (talk • contribs)

What you created is a User Page. Generally people use their user page to talk about themselves and the work that they do here at Wikipedia. What you want to do is create an article. What you currently have though would not pass our notability guideline because there are no references to secondary sources. You might want to have a look at Your First Article to learn more. But also, you might want to read our Conflict of Interest policy if you are affiliated with Mr. Sabbagh in any way. Oh, and the reason you're getting that error is because you don't have a references section for your references to be displayed in. Again, read the Your First Article link that I just posted. Dismas|^(talk) 08:11, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Also, there seems to be an identical article already at That DJ Ell. Dismas|^(talk) 08:15, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

The error message linked to a help page— did it help? — Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:48, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

please create information about this unversity

http://www.wfkjxy.com.cn/english/Procedure.htm

I teach here, and wish it to be known — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.161.54.147 (talk) 06:35, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

If you think that the university meets Wikipedia's notability guideline and the topic has received significant coverage in independent and reliable sources, then you could request the article to be created via this page.--Ushau97 ^{talk contribs} 12:32, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Author removing AfD

I AfD'd Chris Murray (RAAF) and the author has reverted it - twice. How can I stop him doing this again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbawden (talk • contribs)

Snotbot will be automatically adding AfD template if the discussion is still open, so you don't need to worry. If you think it is a serious matter, you could report it at WP:ANI. --Ushau97 ^{talk contribs} 12:12, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

When someone removes an AfD template you can warn them with the template series {{uw-afd1}}, {{uw-afd2}}, {{uw-afd3}}, {{uw-afd4}} and if they don't stop after receiving the higher level warnings, you can report for blocking, as noted above, at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. In this case the bot that reverted the removal warned the editor, and they are in fact are blocked right now for 24 hours. This pattern (find appropriate warning; escalate to higher level warnings upon repeated violation; report after they continue) is typical and extendable to other situations. Please see Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace (WP:UTM) for the various categories of vandalism we see often, and their warning series. Note that to make an actionable report at WP:AIV, the user usually must have received a higher level warning, repeated the action despite that warning, and the report should be made within a short time frame after the repeated action.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:38, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Missing Neighbourhood in Mumbai

Resolved

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neighbourhoods_in_Mumbai

The above page does not have Kurla, which is a prominent neighbourhood in Mumbai. It has the city's first township city and one of the biggest malls Phoenix Marketcity. Kindly add it in your list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.125.15.89 (talk) 08:03, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Kurla have now been added to the category. --Ushau97 ^{talk contribs} 12:35, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Same reference, two different urls

I've just submitted an article on John Sackville to Wikipedia's Did You Know? project. I've listed the reference to Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry twice, with two different urls, because there are two different pages I'd like readers to be able to get to directly when they click on the reference. Is there another way I can do this, and still have readers taken directly to each of the two urls? Any help with this would be much appreciated. NinaGreen (talk) 08:07, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

It's a matter of personal preference, but I'd go with something like this:

• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry, ed. by Kimball C. Everingham. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, Utah. pp. 338, 385–386. Retrieved 25 February 2013. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Here I've merged the pages into one string and I cut down the URL so that it only points to the book instead of the page. Readers can surely visit the specific page given the clues in the rest of the ref. And frankly, for a ref like this a URL is just a courtesy. Books don't always have URLs so none is required. -Thibbs (talk) 14:38, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Another option would be to create a non-template ref and to link the book to the generic URL while also linking the pages to the specific pages mentioned. So in other words, something like this:

• <ref>Richardson, Douglas (2011). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC Magna Carta Ancestry, ed. by Kimball C. Everingham]''. '''I''' (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, Utah. pp. [http://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA338 338], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA385 385-6]. Retrieved 25 February 2013.</ref>

which would render as:

• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry, ed. by Kimball C. Everingham. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, Utah. pp. 338, 385-6. Retrieved 25 February 2013.

-Thibbs (talk) 14:43, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the help with this. NinaGreen (talk) 19:33, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

After actually looking at John Sackville (died 1557), I see it uses Shortened footnotes. Currently, it is a bit odd, as there are page numbers in the shortened citations and the long citations, and the long citation is duplicated and also includes page numbers. You can link the pages in {{harvnb}}:

{{Harvnb|Richardson|2011|pp=[http://books.google.ca/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA385 385-6]}}

Then you create the long citation and link only to the entire book. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Citroën Xsara Picasso

Hey, can i safely change this link: {{DEFAULTSORT:Citroen Xsara Picasso}}
to this: {{DEFAULTSORT:Citroën Xsara Picasso}} without breaking it? Thanks ツ Jenova20 ⁽