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November 5

Italics

I can't get italics to work in my sandbox. (I presume one uses two apostrophe's on either side of text.) -------thanks Hilyard (talk) 00:50, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, two apostrophes on either side of text. Your only mistake was to make a space between the two apostrophes. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:59, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

... see this cure. - David Biddulph (talk) 01:01, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Provelt reference tool

When i go to edit my user subpage the provelt tool wont display, yet I went to edit an ordinary article and it came up? --Thanks, Hadseys 01:06, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

It's called ProveIt with upper case I as in Iraq. User talk:ProveIt GT#User space says it's disabled in userspace. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:26, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

erie canal

there is an error. Erie Canal was opened in 1825, but further down a few paragraphs down it says construction began in 1870. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.226.23 (talk) 02:28, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Undoubtedly it meant 1817. Probably a speech-to-text error. There is another typo in the paragraph (yet for let). I corrected both (and doubled line breaks inserted in the same anon edit. —teb728 t c 03:09, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Text size

Hello,

This sounds completely ridiculous, however, the text size specific only to wiki, and within all aspects of Wiki is tiny, about a font size of 4. I am a Google Chrome user, with all up to date supports for Windows.

At your convenience, could someone please pass on how to enlarge all, I would be greatly appreciative of it. This problem is unique to Wiki, in comparison to every other site I visit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pando1973 (talk • contribs) 07:55, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't have this browser installed, but you could try the Google Chrome help page here. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:18, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

IIRC Chrome remembers user changes in view size on a site by site basis. So if you accidentally changed it on a previous visit to Wikikpedia, it will remember it next time you visit. Try CTRL+0 (zero) to reset. – ukexpat (talk) 14:27, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

How to request semi-protection

I am currently "doing battle" with an IP editor whose sole preoccupation is to push a Catalan separatist agenda on List of amateur radio organizations. Thanks. Roger (talk) 16:45, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Don't do battle. See Wikipedia:TALKDONTREVERT. Discuss it on the talk page (Talk:List of amateur radio organizations), and try to reach agreement; if you have trouble with that, see WP:DISPUTE.

-I've cautioned both users for edit-warring, and requested temporary full-protection.  Chzz  ►  16:50, 5 November 2011 (UTC) I withdrew the protection request [1]  Chzz  ►  17:23, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

See WP:RPP if you need to request next time. Bluefist ^talk 16:53, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

wrong link

1. There should be a place to contact someone in charge of some basics.

2. The link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewes#Personal_life on Samantha Lewes actually logs the page on Tom Hanks, and there is no way to view Samantha Lewes page, whether it exists or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.205.210 (talk) 18:04, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

1. Nobody is actually in charge - but you're welcome to ask for live assistance. See also WP:TUTORIAL and Help:Contents/Getting started. Or you can just ask things right here.

2. There is no separate article on Lewes. As you can see in the page history, it's been changed from an article to a redirect - and in this discussion, it was agreed that was the best approach. You can also view old versions - but it appears there simply is not enough information to satisfy the notability requirements, so it would be hard to have a verifiable encyclopaedic article.  Chzz  ►  18:29, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Link to external web site

Hi I've just updated an article on the 'Market Rasen Mail' and included references as required. All went well except that the link to an external web site in my first reference does not work. This is the reference I created

<ref>FreeReg. Baptism Registers. Available online: baptism record. Last accessed 5 Nov 2011</ref>

Clicking on the link 'baptism record' does not connect with the web site which I know is live and 100% OK. What have I done wrong? Peter Peterpajaro (talk) 18:21, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

It's working OK for me. (Re. [2], link is [3])  Chzz  ►  18:36, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Correction

You have Tim Cook bday wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.198.224 (talk) 18:57, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Tim Cook (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

If you can give a reliable source for the correction, then feel free to edit the relevant article yourself. Or, post the source here and someone will have a look at it. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:14, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Preview works but not after Save

See Emma Watson#Other acting work. The image works when I do Show preview, but not after Save page. Doesn't matter if it's "File:" or "Image:". I've copied the darned thing from a previous version, and it still doesn't work. I've tried with IE 8 and the latest version of FF. Doesn't matter. Must be something I'm missing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:31, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Fixed.[4] If a section preview works but save doesn't work then always look for unclosed brackets or tags in an earlier section. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:50, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

I'll try to remember that - thanks very much.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:12, 6 November 2011 (UTC)