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August 27

Referencing errors on List of post-nominal letters (Hong Kong)

Reference help requested. The bot said my edit has made this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-nominal_letters_(Hong_Kong) misses its reference list. I tried to look at the historical pages but can't really see the difference. Can someone fix this for me please? Thanks, Héilarius (talk) 02:20, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see that a couple of editors have fixed this. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:35, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Isolde Menges

I have a photo image of Isolde Menges with her violin, taken in Toronto in 1918. The photo is an original from 1918, from the Isobel Murray collection; I wish to download the photo to the Isolde Menges wiki page...how do I do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crossfield Chronicler (talk • contribs) 03:52, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You must first upload the image. It is best to do that to Wikimedia Commons. Here is a link to the Commons upload wizard. Having done that you can then insert the image in the Isolde Menges article. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for help doing that. SpinningSpark 09:43, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting saved articles

Hi, I was wondering how to delete saved articles on the New Wikipedia IPad app Segman2411 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.22.132.95 (talk) 04:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You might get a better response to your question at Wikipedia:Village pump/Technical. SpinningSpark 23:14, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No admins at WP:AIV

Resolved

I don't know where to point this out, but it seems that no admins have been checking out WP:AIV for several hours.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:49, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TonyTheTiger, anything involving admins that you don't know where to post just put it on the Administrators' noticeboard. A request here on the helpdesk is ofcourse fine too when you do not know of the noticeboard. Admins also come here and someone probably has seen this message or will see it in due time. When there is a backlog on WP:AIV a bot will add a note to the page asking for extra attention. If there is a specific case of an editor continuing their disruptive behaviour for a longer period of time despite an admin request on WP:AIV, you can contact an active admin directly. I hope this answers your question. -- Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 08:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. I guess I am subconscious of having too many requests at AN and ANI at one time. I should have just posted at AN.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Concerns for my article

Hi Wikipedia Team

I was trying to write an article about Beatrice Looi and I'm frequently facing some errors for my article. Errors like "Cite error". I am very new in wikipedia and I don't really have alot of experience. I hope you can answer my question.

Respectfully Yours

MarjaniMrsmarjanilee (talk) 08:16, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of useful links on your user talk page. They are all worth reading, but one particular one to answer your question is WP:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:54, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I want on include my organization info on wikipedia but i don't how to go about it. Can someone please help out with this.

regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zafaawiki (talk • contribs) 10:49, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have put a few useful links on your user talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for watchers of an article

I recall seeing a tool that would allow you to find out who was watching your talk page but I can't find it now. I'd like to use the same thing to find out who is watching an article. Is this possible? Dismas|^(talk) 12:01, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If there is such a tool, it won't be on any Wikimedia site, watchlists are considered private and are never made public. I was going to say that I would be astonished if such a tool exists at all, but this forum thread implies that watchlists are in the database, and presumably downloadable by anyone who wants to mine the data. The person who would know the definitive answer to whether this is possible is User:MZMcBride who wrote the Toolserver watchers tool before Toolserver shut down. SpinningSpark 14:28, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dismas. Spinningspark is correct: who is watching a page is considered private. The aggregate number of page watchers (if it's not fewer than 30) is publicly available. You can click the "Page information" link in the sidebar of any standard page (the link lives in the "Tools" section). Example link for User:Dismas. --MZMcBride (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, MZMcBride. I must have been mis-remembering what the tool did. Dismas|^(talk) 19:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Minor and major changes

I added four books to Dan Heisman's book listing, without being clear about your rules for minor and major changes. I marked the additions as minor changes, but then revised one entry to account for the release of a second edition and accidentally marked that as a major change. Is there any way to remedy the situation?

They list is now complete and correct, and reflects the most recent editions. I consider all of my changes to be minor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Heisman&oldid=623010327 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwblow (talk • contribs) 12:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it. Marking something as a minor change isn't much more than a curtesy. Some editors have their watch lists set to ignore minor changes. Your edit will just show up on their watch lists after all. It's not that big of a deal. Dismas|^(talk) 13:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The definition is at Help:Minor edit. You were adding extra material, and the most recent was changing the content, so it does look as if the changes ought to have been major, rather than minor, but you oughtn't to lose sleep over it. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thank you Dismas, and thank you David Biddulph. Jwblow (talk) 18:57, 27 August 2014 (UTC)Jwblow[reply]

Mercedes

How many motorcycles did Dkw produce when under Mercedes Benz control — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.127.85.79 (talk) 12:54, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps.--ukexpat (talk) 14:29, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Alipogene tiparvovec

Reference help requested. I must not understand the DOI, the article is here http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/v20/n11/full/mt2012220a.html and the DOI I used was 10.1038/mt.2012.220, and that seemed to cause an error. I want to fix it, but I'm not sure what went wrong. The DOIs on the other references have a different format, but I couldn't find anything like that on the article page. Thanks, 129.255.228.37 (talk) 14:09, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You had a spare full stop at the end of the doi. It's been corrected now. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fabrizio Moreira page

well this Bio i created have a lot of reference from biggest news papers and biggest sources but is still propose for delation i wanna know what i should do to avoid my article to be deleted — Preceding unsigned comment added by Inuevayork (talk • contribs) 17:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see that Fabrizio Moreira is from a Spanish-speaking country, and all the sources you have cited are in Spanish. But es.wikipedia has no article about him. You might find it easier to create an article about him there. Maproom (talk) 18:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not, in fact, currently proposed for deletion. The best action you can take to protect against deletion is to provide references for all the facts in the article marked as "citation needed". SpinningSpark 00:31, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jolanta Okragla

I set up a page called Jolanta Okragla and I can't edit or changed it - why?

I would like some help.

Bob Alexander — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jolanta Okragla (talk • contribs) 18:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What you have done is to create a Wikipedia account named "Jolanta Okragla", and write a very short biography of Jolanta Okragla on your user page. You ought to be able to edit it. Maproom (talk) 18:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally - if you are in fact Bob Alexander and not Jolanta Okragla, you should not be using an account whose name suggests that you are Jolanta Okragla. Maproom (talk) 18:31, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How do I delete my vector.css page?

As above. I recently found out that there was a common.css page in my userspace. I decided to move all of my CSS to it so it would work for all skins. Well, I've done that, but now I have a vector.css page that I'm not using, and I want it deleted. I know that regular users can't delete pages, and I know there are templates you can use to request deletion. But vector.css doesn't allow non-CSS code anywhere, so I can't put a template on it. So, how do I get this page deleted? NealCruco (talk) 21:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@NealCruco: Hey Neal. I've deleted it. According to the note at WP:CSD#U1, pasting {{db-u1}} would have worked to place the page in the deletion category for an administrator to review, even though the speedy deletion template would not have displayed on the page. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! NealCruco (talk) 01:58, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pageview data

It seems that in the 15-16:00 and 19-20:00 hours the pageview totals at pagecounts-20140827-160001.gz and pagecounts-20140827-200000.gz are only a fraction of the actual page views.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:32, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the raw data at the Wikimedia data dumps, we just had a second consecutive day of partially missing data: pagecounts-20140828-170000.gz - pagecounts-20140828-200000.gz are entirely missing and pagecounts-20140828-210000.gz seems to be about 2/3rds of the normal size.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:56, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Two_consecutive_days_of_partial_pageview_data.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Petit Mal

I am an epileptic with Petit mal seizures. I have known I am epileptic since 1959 when I had a seizure that hospitalized me for over a month. I would like to give you information of what causes my seizures because I did not see them listed in you article on Petit Mal. The reasons I have seizures is a sudden change in blood pressure. If I get over tired and my blood pressure goes down then I get a seizure. If I get angry and my blood pressure rises, I have a seizure. The seizure usually lasts about 1 or 2 minutes, but it takes about 10 or 15 minutes to get back comprehension of what is going on around me and ability talk understandably. I hope this information is of help too you. If you have any questions contact me at e-mail and I will do my best to answer you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:24FF:1EF0:0:0:0:3C (talk) 22:39, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:MEDICAL. Also it is highly unlikely that anyone is going to email you due to privacy concerns. This thread should probably be collapsed or even removed. MarnetteD|Talk 23:14, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unregistered user, I appreciate your desire to improve Wikipedia. However, we cannot accept information that has not been published by a reliable source (original research). That means no personal knowledge. You may know a lot about petit mal seizures (and, assuming your story is true, you certainly do), but that doesn't make a difference. If you would like to help improve our coverage of this topic, you can find reliable sources that say what you wish to add. Also, no one here will email you. As the top of this page states, "Do not provide your email address or any other contact information. Answers will be provided on this page only." That's just how the help desk works. @MarnetteD: As a final note - they weren't asking for medical advice. They were trying to provide medical information. NealCruco (talk) 02:21, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I see that now. Thanks for the note. The advice to close this still stands. MarnetteD|Talk 02:25, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is a slight chance the above information could be used to improve Wikipedia if the IP can convince a reptable medical journal or even a newspaper to write about his or her problem. Even then, it would be more likely (and not very) if it was part of a larger study.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:42, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]