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November 9

Adding a new page

Hello,

We are trying to add a page about Alvin Taylor (Drummer). He is spoken of in several different musicians pages as he is a world renounced drummer. These places will need to be hyper linked to go to his new page we are trying to create. How do we get a new page up for him and get it linked to the other paged he is mentioned in?

If you do a search here in Wikipedia, you will see him mentioned many times.

Here are a few pages he is spoken of it:

The Best of Sammy Hagar (1992 album)

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Please help!

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdoniYah (talk • contribs) 03:28, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It appears you have been trying to create the article, but it keeps getting deleted for non-notability/lack of reliable sources. Instead of creating the article right away by yourself, I highly recommend you send the article through Articles for Creation to be reviewed.

To create a link to another page on WIkipedia (wikilink), simply put two pairs of brackets around the title of the page. For example, this code: [[Wikipedia]] produces this: Wikipedia.

Hope that helps, and welcome to Wikipedia! Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 06:07, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal on The Sims 3 Page proposal of block

207.233.90.1 has did not cite and did not reference the ninth expansion pack of expansion pack for The Sims 3 and I propose a one to three day block from creating account, editing, and send email (this is optional) and I will like to remind others to cite and reference all forthcoming items, especially the games, television shows, sporting events, and Religious\Political events. This does to count for books, magazines, and periodicals. And don't get me started on music and film.... (hint to the recent US Political ad....) Thanks Sundogs ^{Wikia UserPage} 04:09, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Information on warning users can be found here. The place to request page protection is here. And the place to request an IP be blocked is here. I don't see a question in your paragraph, so I don't really know what you're asking. Maybe someone else will be able to ferret it out. Dismas|^(talk) 04:39, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a Map to an Infobox

I have been working on adding a location map to a series of Auckland, NZ suburbs (specifically Mount Eden and Kingsland) and I am having trouble getting them to load correctly. (I uploaded the maps myself File:Kingsland-NZ.png and File:NZ-Mt Eden.png.) What typically loads on the page when I exclude the brackets[[]] is 300X instead of the image. When I include the brackets [[]] it uploads the image, as well as, [[File: above the image and 300x below the image. I have successfully uploaded the map into the infobox of Eden Valley's page in the past and I am not sure if it is my error or if there is a bug. Can you give me some insight? Researchassistant101 (talk) 04:32, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just added the maps to both of the articles with no issues. Did you possibly forget to exclude both the brackets and the File: prefix (e.g. map = Kingsland-NZ.png)? Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 06:20, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I left on the File: prefix. Thank you for your help. Researchassistant101 (talk) 01:02, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Benefits of effective management system

I need a brief explanation on the statement: "prioritize events for a decisive intelligent action". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.190.2.99 (talk) 04:19, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You should ask this at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous because this page is only for questions about using Wikipedia. Scarce2 (talk) 06:37, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hindi-language Wikipedia

When I see the language bar of Wikipedia page on any subject, I find that in the list of languages for translations, HINDI largely and mostly spoken in India as India's National language is found missing; although some of the Indian languages like Tamil, Gujarati Sanskrit etc. find their names included. Any reasons or explanations for the omission ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.197.127.64 (talk) 04:22, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A link is only there if there exists an article in the Hindi Wikipedia on a topic. As of 2011, that Wikipedia had over 100,000 articles, compared to the over 4 million in this version. --Orange Mike | Talk 04:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note that volunteer editors at each Wikipedia language must write their own articles. You can also become an editor and create and edit articles at the Hindi Wikipedia. There is no system for automatic translation. Articles in different languages are edited independently. Often they are not translations but merely about the same topic. meta:List of Wikipedias shows the number of articles in different languages. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:42, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Printing a page with the sidebar

Hi, I'm writing a paper about Wikipedia and need to be able to include a copy of an article (in this case Heart of Darkness) in my appendix, complete with the left-side sidebar. However, whenever I attempt to 'Print to PDF' the sidebar is hidden. Is there any way I can print it alongside the article, or at least print it on its own?

Any help would be very much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.242.208 (talk) 05:32, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure if this can be addressed by browser print settings. But, here is a quicker way: Online url to pdf converters --Anbu121 (talk me) 08:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Co-aligned images in pdf format of articles

When I'm working on articles with a lot of images, I like to test various views, such as the pdf version, to see how everything's lining up when it isn't confined to my screen preferences. I noticed just now that a co-aligned image loses its formatting, as well as footer caption info. Since I use this alignment specifically to compare two closely related images that might share footer info, this can represent a significant loss of info for the reader. For an example, see the co-aligned image at the top of Figurative art, then look at the mess when you go through the process to produce a pdf.

I have no technical expertise whatever in these areas, so I can only point out the problem. But co-aligning is part of the basic WP:Image tutorial, where there's no warning this will happen, so it seems as if we ought to make it more functional. Thanks to anyone with the know-how to look at this. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:47, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The caption text at Figurative art is included in the PDF version for me, but misformatting makes it look like article text and not captions. A 2010 post at Template talk:Multiple image/Archive 1#PDF only got the reply: "These are known limitations of the PDF renderer." PrimeHunter (talk) 15:14, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Right, yes, the caption text will be reproduced, but not formatted as such. That example doesn't have footer text. At Roman Empire#Political legacy, there's a pair of co-aligned images without individual caption text: they have a shared caption that's entered as footer text. I'm not getting that text. When I say the images aren't 'formatted,' what I really mean of course is that you lose the co-aligned layout—which was the purpose of a side-by-side comparison in the first place. "Known" limitations are surely not "unavoidable and necessary" limitations, since other sites don't seem to convert pages to pdfs with that much loss. Thanks for the link and answer, though. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:04, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Correction on Intelsat 23

Satellite

Intelsat 23 is one of a series of Intelsat communications satellites which are in geosynchronous orbit so that they are always located over the same part of the earth. It will be located over the equator at 307° east and is intended to replace Intelsat 707, which was launched in 1996.[2]

The satellite was built by Orbital Sciences using their GEOstar-2 bus. It has 24 C band circular polarized transponders covering the Americas and Western Europe, and 15 linear polarized Ku band transponders covering Latin America.[4] The satellite has 32 C band transponders and 19 Ku band transponders in total to provide for redundancy. Both antennae are 2.5m x 2.7m.[5]

NOTE: use of the term Antennae is incorrect. Bugs have Antennae, Communications systems have Antennas, i.e., the plural of Antenna is Antennas when referring to reception or tranmission of RF energy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.231.249.138 (talk) 15:16, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you have reliable sources for the information you wish to change, you are welcome to edit the article; or if you are not confident doing that, your best course is to put your suggestion on the article's talk page.

As for antennae/antennas - Google ngrams agrees that antennas has become more common than antennae in this context, but incorrect is meaningless in this context unless you specify the standard by which it is incorrect. I suspect this change would be contentious, so I would certainly suggest discussing it on the article's talk page - but not by claiming "this is incorrect". --ColinFine (talk) 15:56, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i NEED HELP FOR INSERTING A TRANSLATED ARTICLE

Sorry, I have asked for help before in another place, but Wikipedia is almost infinite and I cannot find it. I have translated over a dozen articles before, English into Spanish, and when I was goint to create the Spanish version I wrote the title in the Search Button, top rioght, and a message appeared "This article does not exist. Do you want to create it? I clicked OK and then I could start. But this does not happen any more. Can anyone help me? I also know there are instructions about how to translate an article, but cannot find them. Thanks for your patience and time, Wikipedia is too big. The article I am trying to insert is the Spanish version of "Fasting Girls".--PremieLover (talk) 15:28, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you searching at the Spanish Wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org while being logged in there? If you are logged in and the searched title doesn't exist then you should get a message with a red link you can click to create the page. Which Spanish title for "Fasting Girls" are you searching and what happens? Wikipedia:Translation and es:Wikipedia:Taller idiomático have information about translation. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:51, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mount Mansfield Union High School State Championships

Hi, I was just looking at your discussion of Mount Mansfield Union High School athletics State Championships - and wanted to let you know that you are missing a great number of them.

I do not know what your process of correction would be - but it would be great if they could be updated!

Jeff Currier

Class of '75 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.106.48.10 (talk) 15:44, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia content is created by volunteers, who generally work on topics that interest them. If you would like to see an article expanded, you are welcome to work on it yourself - but be aware that all information included should be referenced to reliable sources: personal knowledge or recollection is not enough.

Alternatively, you could ask on the article's talk page, or on a suitable WikiProject talk page, for somebody willing to add this information to the article. --ColinFine (talk) 16:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You could ask for some help at Wikiproject Vermont. If you don't have any success there, post on my talk page and I'll help you update the article. Dismas|^(talk) 16:42, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stiff Person Syndrome

I have taken notice there have been some drastic changes in Wikipedia web site regarding the above subject of Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) over the past years, which is a good sign for a person with SPS and who is always doing research trying to find as much information as possible since Drug Corporations will not touch this auto-immune disease because of the extremely low percentage of people who have this disease due to the cost effect of performing research. A couple months ago the article had a lot of information that was absolutely incorrect. As I saw the site today and saw that it was changed, which I thank the individuals responsible for correcting the web site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff_person_syndrome

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{{I happen to have this extremely rare auto-immune disease and been a part of doing extensive research regarding SPS; in fact, my Doctors from Montefiore Medical Center, in the specialized Neurology Department, have been doing our own research and have come up with a couple temporary solutions that could possibly help aid some of the symptoms that affect people with SPS.

To my dismay, in the last month I have seen some drastic changes regarding the information of this disease that concerns me. First, SPS is a one in a million ratio of people who have this auto-immune disease. Although, some doctors are realizing that a few people who have diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have been found to have SPS.

It is true that there is no cure at the time for this auto-immune disease of SPS, because there is not the percentage of people with this disease in existence for drug corporations to validate funds for research.

Back in 1957, my one sister died at the age of seven (7) with what I have now see heard from older family members that she possibly had SPS, although her Death Certificate recorded her demise was from MS. At that time SPS was basically an unknown disease. She always dealt with cramps in the voluntary muscles from a child but was able to maintain a normal playful life until the age of four (4), when SPS took a progressive affect upon her life. She basically was in bed in a fetal position in constant excruciating pain. My parents finally took her on a long journey to Bethesda, Maryland, now known as, Bethesda Medical Center where she was diagnosed with MS and soon after died. For three (3) years her voluntary muscles spasms and cramped to the point that it would squeeze blood out of the muscle tissue the blood would coagulate under the skin to the point that you could see and feel the lumps of blood. Of course, there were the numerous bruising that could not be account for because of the spasms.

Even yet today in the 21st century, it is a shame that numerous physicians have never heard of the disease of Stiff Person Syndrome, which scares me. When I consult with a physician for the first time and ask if they have ever heard of SPS, especially when I hold in my hands all of my medical documentation, and the Physician states that they have never heard of this disease, my immediate action is to politely present a challenge in order to become a better physician, it would be to their advantage to spend more time reading medical journals in order to educate themself regarding new diseases that are being discovered through research.

Also, it is a shame when there is a Medical Conference specifically on SPS and my Doctors spend the money for airfare and hotel expenses from their budget to attend such a conference and come back and state to me, as a person with this disease, that I have more information or have presented to them more information than what was shared from the main speaker, who is quoted to be a “Medical/Clinical Research Specialist” on this disease of SPS.

Back in 2005 your web site the information on Wikipedia regarding SPS basically consisted of one paragraph, which I still have copied on my web site.

I have gone through numerous medical therapies; and have dealt with many of the different side effects, which have created more medical problems within my body.

My first medical therapy was plasmapheresis or intravenous immunoglobulin infusions (IVIG) over 18 months, which they wanted to increase to a weekly therapy. But do not state the extreme expense of such medical therapy and if insurances would pay for the medical expenses (at that time it was still considered as a new disease that no decisions or compliances we established of what type of coverage they would cover). My experience was that of pure confusion. My insurance company did not know if they would cover all the cost. The home nursing care program would not take a dime from me just in case the insurance would decide to cover the cost and if they did then there would be a penalty that the Home Nursing Care Company would have to pay the insurance company, plus, reimbursing me, as a patient. The cost back in 2005 for the IVIG was approximately $27,000 for each infusion (it started out as every three (3) weeks to every two (2) weeks). The insurance paid for part of it and I still had to pay the company providing the home nursing care. Thank God for my 401K and my Pension and for the fact that under the circumstances these companies were kind enough not to penalize me for the full percentage of depleting these accounts to pay for my medical expenses.

My second medical therapy was Neurontin (generic brand is Gabapentin). Because I had to take such a high dosage of medication throughout the day, the side effect was that it affects the involuntary muscles, such as the heart and other inner organs, opposite of your voluntary muscles that your brain controls. Therefore, on top of have the auto-immune disease, of SPS, and I now have a heart condition and with the combination of the SPS (the contraction of muscles cutting off the circulation); I now have to deal with edema. Also, the information on your web site regarding SPS does not state that a person with SPS cannot have extensive surgery because of the medication necessary after having anesthesia to relax the muscles in order to perform the surgery. What happens is when this relaxing medication wears off, the disease, SPS begins to activate against the pain to the voluntary muscles and it usually rips or tears all the sutures where the skin was stitched together.

SPS can set off spasms in the voluntary muscles from any form of trauma, extensive pain, surprises, immediate unexpected situations or events, even for nightmares or scary dreams. A normal person periodically has cramps in the leg muscles and that is nowhere close to the pain of the contraction of muscles to the point of the blood being squeezed out of the muscle tissue. I now can identify the beginning of a spasm, by a muscle beginning to tingle or feel the muscle begin to tremor, a jerking affect or having a vibratory movement within the muscle(s); that is when the muscle(s) begin to contract unless you learn to relax. Also, if you have been still for a period of time, such as when you are sleeping, you will find that when you wake up that your muscles will feel rigid; as you move your muscles you can literally hear the stretching of the tendons in the muscles.

Neuropathy is also another symptom of SPS. This is one area where I have found some success (please take note that I am using the person pronoun, since I found some individual’s bodies respond with a different response than others); I asked my Doctor to please to have a complete blood work-up prescribed. (This is something that you should ask your doctors to prescribe regardless of what illness you may have.) To our surprise, we received a lot of information that was helpful. Even though I am on a lot of different medication (my major medication is Valium, my body has respond the best to this medical regiment; again, I cannot say that is for every person with SPS, since every bodies body reacts different to different medication), but we found that my bell cells showed that I had a lot of deficient areas of the lack of different vitamins. NOTE: Please do not think that vitamins are the answer to all your medical problems; always consult with your doctors! For me the lowest was Vitamin B12. Again, NOTE: I take a large dose of oral Vitamin B12 daily, plus an injection once a week. I have found a big difference regarding the neuropathy in my different limbs; I now have a lot more feeling than I did previously. PLEASE, do NOT take this method upon yourself without consulting your doctor(s).

Again, be careful of taking different vitamins. Know which vitamins will be helpful and still be flushed from your body. Certain vitamins taken in an excessive amount can create more problems health wise if different organs do not allow them to be flushed from your body. This goes with any medication, especially if you are taking larger doses. Always check to see what the side effects are to all medication that you take. Never assume, I know from my own experience the damage that can be done.

I would like to give my opinion regarding the medical therapy of the Monoclonal antibody Rituximab (trade names Rituxan and MabThera). I have read that Rituxan has helped many individuals, but keep in mind one of the main reasons for this prescription is if you have Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rituxan, even though it has been approved by the FDA, it is still considered a form of chemo therapy and any chemo therapy can react differently within each individual. This is also a prescription if taken in large doses can create more problems. Take a look at the Adverse Events (possible side effects) of this medical therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituximab Serious adverse events, which can cause death and disability, include:[25] • Severe infusion reaction. • Cardiac arrest • Cytokine release syndrome • Tumor lysis syndrome, causing acute renal failure • Infections o Hepatitis B reactivation o Other viral infections o Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) • Immune toxicity, with depletion of B cells in 70% to 80% of lymphoma patients • Pulmonary toxicity[26] Two patients with systemic lupus erythematosus died of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) after being treated with rituximab. PML is caused by activation of JC virus, a common virus in the brain which is usually latent. Reactivation of the JC virus usually results in death or severe brain damage.[27] At least one patient with rheumatoid arthritis developed PML after treatment with rituximab.[28] Rituximab has been reported as a possible cofactor in a chronic Hepatitis E infection in a person with lymphoma. Hepatitis E infection is normally an acute infection, suggesting the drug in combination with lymphoma may have weakened the body's immune response to the virus.[29] References: 25. ^ "Genentech: Products - Product Information - Immunology - Rituxan RA Full Prescribing Information". http://www.gene.com/gene/products/information/immunological/rituxan/insert.jsp. Retrieved 2007-12-03. 26. ^ Burton C, Kaczmarski R, Jan-Mohamed R (2003). "Interstitial pneumonitis related to rituximab therapy". N Engl J Med 348 (26): 2690–1; discussion 2690–1. doi:10.1056/NEJM200306263482619. PMID 12826649. 27. ^ "Rituximab (marketed as Rituxan) Information". http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm109106.htm. Retrieved 15 November 2009. 28. ^ "Rituximab, RA and PML". http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/rituxan_DHCP_Final%209411700.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-14. 29. ^ "Chronic Hepatitis After Hepatitis E Virus Infection in a Patient With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Taking Rituximab". http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/150/6/430-a.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-14.

Some of the information was copied from your Web Sites, but given reference with the link and some of their references.

My Web Site: http://www.jds-jgp.net/SPS.html

(My journey through life with SPS)}}

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdsnook (talk • contribs) 17:29, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome. The Help Desk is a place for asking questions on using or editing Wikipedia. Do you have an actual question on editing?--xanchester (t) 18:27, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have collapsed your comments - I am sure they were made in good faith but there is nothing in them that requires a response from Helpdesk volunteers, and they could be construed as medical advice, which must not appear on this page. If you want to discuss the article Stiff person syndrome or suggest improvements to it, the place to do so is the article's talk page. Any new material should be sourced to reliable sources; anecdotes, personal opinions and original research cannot be included. - Ka renjc 19:21, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The River Thames

Think it did right..

I discovered an external reference/link using a bogus outward link (if I describe it correctly)

Basically it was linked to a site in a foreign language with lots of links pages (links farming ??)

Should I have advised the removal of the offending web-link whilst retaining the Name in case iot could still be rectified or bona fide ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1stcanalman (talk • contribs) 18:19, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You were right to remove it, thanks. I've put a welcome box on your user talk page which I hope you will find helpful DuncanHill (talk) 18:24, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External link spamming is a problem on Wikipedia. Thank you for spotting it and removing the link.--xanchester (t) 19:24, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RESCUELIST

After making various addititions and improvements noted on an article that is marked for potential deletion, how can I note/flag to rescue ??? RESCUELIST — Preceding unsigned comment added by LONGEDDY (talk • contribs) 19:54, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to Monsters HD, you have to let the Afd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monsters HD take its course. I see that you have already commented there so there isn't really much more you can do. You won't improve your case by answering every other's comments by repeating your own ad nauseam.--ukexpat (talk) 20:04, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So - do I improve my case by improving the article and citing examples that were questioned by the Articles For Deletion initiator? I am not sure what you mean when the article made suggestions to save by "improving" thanksLONGEDDY (talk) 20:15, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, improve the article by dealing with the issues raised in the Afd discussion, then at the Afd indicate that you think you have dealt with them and ask the users there to reconsider.--ukexpat (talk) 20:35, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also - While making every effort to add and improve the article with "notable" published sources with citations, the Articles for Deletion initiator continues to "question the reliability" and my efforts/edits. In turn, I was flagged as being in an edit war. I guess my question is how does one convince an Articles for Deletion initiator to recognize the improvements and to look at the references added and to stop "questioning the reliability of the sources?" It seems like a conflict of interest if the initiator is eliminating content and on a mission to delete the content. I also found that I was being questioned after adding titles to an already existing list of titles referenced on the MONSTERS HD article, which were summarily removed. How does one cite titles of films that have aired on the network and can it be restored? Numerous TV shows and programming (tv shows) are listed on varous channels. I did my best to collect from various Guides and metadata. LONGEDDY (talk) 20:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You should keep in mind that the reviewer of the article is unlikely to have a particular interest in horror films. They will probably find the opening sentence "Monsters HD was the 'first, and only uncut and commercial-free, all-monster-movie channel in high definition.'" too dense in technical terms. It would be better to write for people with less knowledge of the field. Something like "Monsters HD was a satellite television channel, broadcasting to the US". Maproom (talk) 10:47, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conde Nast Traveler - Editor Needed for Page Accuracy

Hello - we are looking for an editor to fact check and update the Conde Nast Traveler web page. See notes on the Talk section below - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Condé_Nast_Traveler&oldid=522228243 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iammrpuss21 (talk • contribs) 20:16, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you not only for refraining from editing the article directly and for declaring your interest, but for providing corrections and sources to support them. This is an excellent example of the right way for companies to go about getting their Wikipedia articles updated. I am sure somebody will check the sources and update the article (if not I'll do it myself, but I won't be here much for a day or so). - Ka renjc 20:47, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for declaring your interest. I've made the requested corrections. I hope that helps, and if you have any more concerns, feel free to tell us.--xanchester (t) 05:42, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suddenly I can't search

On any Wikipedia page, in the "Search" box at upper right, normally the word "Search" appears, and immediately goes away when I start typing in something to search for. Now, it stays blank ("Search" never appears). I type in my text, but no list of prospective matches appears. I click on the magnifying glass, and nothing happens. It's as if there's no code behind the magnifying glass -- it doesn't seem to be sending a page request off to the server. The browser doesn't show any sign that it's waiting for a new page to load. Do I have a bad setting in my browser (IE 8), or a virus? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.117.222.234 (talk) 21:52, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are not alone - all my Java related gadgets have stopped working including the search options. My Java settings and Wiki preferences are unchanged but Wiki keeps telling me I need a Java Script enable browser which I have. Java is fine on everything else on my PC - has Wiki been altering its browings or editing options? I'll have to leave this unsigned as in Edit wiki is no longer giving me the icon to add my username and date!!

See discussion below. - 74.60.29.141 (talk) 18:23, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From the originator of this item: Now it's working again, and I didn't change any browser settings!

Problems with sortable table displays - rowspan is not correct

Several articles I have checked are no longer displaying properly. For about a week, any sortable tables with a rowspan of 2, 3, 4 or more are being shown as duplicate rows with duplicate information. In the past, a rowspan of two or more would show up as a double or triple wide row followed by a single wide row as edited. It does not matter which browser or which computer I use, the display is not as it use to be. When I make the table standard and no longer sortable, the rowspans of different sizes are displayed as before. Examples of articles that no longer display as before:

If I remove the sortable designation, it displays as before with a proper rowspan. If the sortable designation is added, it no longer displays as it should, even if I try reloading page. Has the wording for sortable tables been changed? Sorting adds a great deal to some tables, but the displays now can be confusing to a new reader. This has been going on for about a week. I did not do any editing changes to make all tables display wrong. This occurs if I use any browser, or a different internet feed, or different computer. Thanks Spparky (talk) 22:14, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like it could be related to this — Frankie (talk) 22:35, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I used <div>s to work around this in the Conscription article and in a couple of others. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How to stop unwarranted reporting of vandalism

Someone is deleting my content and reporting it as vandalism. It is a view that represents fairly another side to what they have published. Pleased help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldenchalicejustice (talk • contribs) 22:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're proposing to introduce an extreme and defamatory statement about a living person with no sourcing whatsoever, and you wonder why your edits are being reverted? Have a read of the policy on biographies of living people before trying that again. Yunshui 雲‍水 22:43, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Labeling a living person as a "psychopath" or "deranged" is not, in any way, neutral or impartial. Wikipedia is not a soapbox for personal opinions, especially opinions that are defamatory and without sources.--xanchester (t) 03:55, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]