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April 9

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

Bold text gatik — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.16.71.5 (talk) 00:32, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed the error on List of internet service providers in India. Another time please note the article involved, and if possible link to it. Thank you. DES ^(talk) 00:39, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers

Why is the name 2nd Duke of Kingston in red? Please help. Thanks so much 101.189.0.102 (talk) 04:42, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because Wikipedia doesn't have an article for Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-Upon-Hull. We do, however, have an article for Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. I believe the difference is in the dashes. Dismas|^(talk) 04:46, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was the difference between upon and Upon. Dismas, when you fix something, can you mention it here so that I don't spend ten minutes vainly trying to work out what the (now non-existent) difference is? Rojomoke (talk) 04:56, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I obviously missed that. I'm one of those people who doesn't see the differences in the various dashes and their purposes, so I became fixated on that. And I'll try to remember to mention that I fixed something next time. Dismas|^(talk) 04:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have to be careful calling them "dashes", as they could be a hyphen, or a minus sign, some people get very upset about this - please see Wikipedia:Short horizontal line ;-) - Arjayay (talk) 17:12, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have found a page that requires attention

This page seems to be an attack page of sorts and violates the Wikipedia ToS. I request immediate attention here to this user's page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ReleaseThKraken — Preceding unsigned comment added by Funtimer45 (talk • contribs) 05:35, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's amazing that you "found" it. What are the chances? Dirroli (talk) 06:31, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On a busy website like this, fairly good. I've deleted the page, thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 07:26, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Removal of Chris Russo Solutions from CRS wiki

Greetings-

I would like to know how you can legally have a CRS wiki page when that is enfringement upon a legal entity owned by me. I can verify this with as simple as my IRS document that allows CRS to do business. The only thing I want to do is to have Chris Russo Solutions be represented into the Science and Technology portion of the CRS wiki. Everytime I edit the board it is taken out immediately. Explain to me legally who can remove this?

If this action persists I will go forward with what I already legally researched and the only way CRS will have a wiki listing is to reference the Legal Company CRS a sole-proprietorship owned by Chris A Russo.

Please message me on this situation.

Regards-

Chris A Russo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fancypantsorama (talk • contribs) 10:06, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CRS is a disambiguation page for an abbreviation. As you can see it is quite common. As your CRS does not have a wiki page, it is removed whenever you add it. If your company is notable someone will write about it eventually. I'd also like to point out our policy about legal threats. Jarkeld (talk) 10:20, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your Wikipedia posts are the only Google hits on "Chris Russo Solutions" so even if this meaning of CRS is real, there is no way it is notable enough to be in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:32, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fancypantsorama , you should not edit pages where you have a conflict of interest, we do not provide free advertising. You do not own the page, and anyone can say anything about your company as long as they can verify it. I don't think you are quite making a legal threat, but just in case, note that that would lead to a block on editing Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:20, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Parrotfish

Reference help requested. Yeah HI, sorry reference bot, I corrected a line referring to the sppecies Sparisoma cretense and I didn't move the reference, it now appears as a cite error - sorry you may have to get some human help to fix it Thanks, Thescarid (talk) 16:05, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thescarid I reinserted the reference you (accidentally?) removed — if that removal was on purpose, feel free to remove the reference again, and remove its entry in the ref list at the end of the article (being in the ref list but not the article caused the error). Cheers — crh ₂₃ (Talk) 16:26, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is this page self promotion? Thanks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levin_%26_Perconti Rollerusa123 (talk) 17:19, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The "practice areas" section is not encyclopedic. That can be summarized in a brief sentence: The firm handles civil litigation, malpractice, whatever. The way it's presented now does look like an advertisement of self promotion. I did not read the rest of the article, so I don't know if the entire page is indeed self promotion or not. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 17:50, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hausa Language and Wikipedia and Languages

I reviewed a draft article and declined it for various reasons, and am not asking about it here. However, on reviewing it in depth, it first became clear that the author's English is limited. I asked him to request help at WP:WikiProject Nigeria for an editor who is fluent in English and would understand the context. Normally if an author has difficulty with English, they can be advised to contribute to their native language's Wikipedia. (They have occasionally been advised to contribute to the Simple English Wikipedia, but that is bad advice. The Simple English Wikipedia is appropriate for readers whose English is limited, but its editors should be fluent in English, just like editors at this English Wikipedia.) In this case, I am inferring from context that the author's native language is Hausa Language. In looking over the list of Wikipedias, it appears to me that we don't have a Hausa Wikipedia, although the language has more speakers than many of the languages that do have encyclopedias. My questions here are, first, is there a Hausa encyclopedia that I have overlooked, and, second, is there a proposal to create one? (I can see that there is an orthographic controversy about Hausa, which may be one of the reasons that they don't have an encyclopedia. Not knowing anything more about Hausa, I don't know anything more.) Robert McClenon (talk) 17:28, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone have any other suggestions for advice to give to a would-be editor who has a problem with English and whose native language doesn't have a Wikipedia? Robert McClenon (talk) 17:28, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hausa does have its own Wikipedia here it is the 228th largest with 1362 articles, and 5482 users although only 14 are deemed "active" and there are no admins ..... - Arjayay (talk) 17:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to include that the list of all 292 Wikipedias is here - Arjayay (talk) 18:03, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I looked there and didn't see it. Thank you. In view of the small number of articles and the number of admins, I think that the advice to seek help at a WikiProject was the right advice. (There is also the complicating matter of what appears to be an orthographic issue in whether to write Hausa in Latin characters, Arabic characters, or otherwise.) Does anyone else have any comments? Robert McClenon (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do not delete the article Stonehenge Kick

Filer block for trollling. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:16, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hi i just wanted to warn everyone that there is maliscious vandal who marked the article Stonehenge Kick for speedy deletion I undid them so its okay now but just be care full cuz they might try again if you see the article Stonehenge Kick marked for speedy deletion do not delete it because it is a very good article one of the best on wikipedia also you should ban the vandal who said it should be speedy deleted because you cant speedy delete an article thats up for debate and the deletion of the article Stonehenge Kick is up for debate in fact Im debating right now so no deleting it okay? -A humble priest from the holy church of Grandus (talk) 18:19, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, I reverted the "extra emphasis" you added to this question, as it gave the impression of shouting.

Secondly, putting a speedy deletion tag on Stonehenge Kick seems perfectly reasonable, as there's no evidence this term is notable enough for a Wikipedia article- it's a neologism from a movie, and relates to a character who isn't notable enough for their own page. Also, it's a 1-line article, so clearly not one of the best articles on Wikipedia, like you claim

Thirdly, you may not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you created.

Fourthly and finally, please assume good faith- call other Wikipedians malicious vandals is likely to get you blocked. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:27, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That was a speedy WP:BOOMERANG. Article and user are both gone. Maproom (talk) 19:01, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I need help to get a passcode off my iphone

I need to get off a passcode off my iPhone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karen104 (talk • contribs) 18:40, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is the Help Desk, for asking questions about editing Wikipedia. For factual questions, see the reference desk computing section. — crh ₂₃ (Talk) 18:54, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ask for help

(Question moved from the talk-page Eagleash (talk) 19:49, 9 April 2016 (UTC))[reply]

Hi There,

I wrote an entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna_Publications some time ago. The comments say, “This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (November 2015) I removed an external link a while ago, but am not sure there is still inappropriate external links. Could you help out and offer any specific suggestions that I can make an improvement? Thanks so much for your time and attention,

1001Bookworm (talk) 19:45, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@1001Bookworm: I agree, there aren't any external links in the article, so I'm removed the tag.

For future reference, anyone can remove tags from an article, if they believe the issue has been fixed. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:52, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph2302

Thanks so much for your efficiency, Joseph. Your've solved my puzzle.

1001Bookworm (talk) 00:33, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to the Days Of The Year list

Here's my problem, I'm trying to add a 'death' date in the content section for February 10th. The addition is for 'Catherine Of Austria, Archduchess Of Austria. WP does make the addition, but it comes up red telling me that there's no article for 'Catherine'. However, there is a page for her, also, she is listed in 'births' for July 24. I understand that there's a movement to add more females to the Days Of The Year so I want to help in this project. I know my mistakes have been noticed and I've been admonished for it. Please help. Gingergoodrich (talk) 21:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article you are looking for is called Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria. I've fixed the link in the article — crh ₂₃ (Talk) 22:04, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Crh, if you look at her four edits, she had the correct name the first three times.[1][2][3] Her only error was typing Of instead of of, with a lowercase "o". So that's what caused the red link. The fourth time, she also mistakenly changed Saxony to Austria.[4]. Ginger, the best way to avoid that type of error is to just copy and paste the article title. Dirroli (talk) 23:26, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I only looked at the final edit — crh ₂₃ (Talk) 07:38, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe someone can create a redirect with "Of" (capital "O")? Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 14:47, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]