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December 15

Where should I put a request for expert help on languages?

I added the following request to the talk pages of both the Origin of language and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages on December 10.

Grammar for "that slowed down the Prefrontal Synthesis (PFS) critical period"
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I need some help from an expert. Under the The Romulus and Remus hypothesis section, it says:

1. A genetic mutation that slowed down the Prefrontal Synthesis (PFS) critical period of at least two children that lived together

What is being slowed down? Is it "the Prefrontal Synthesis critical period" or is it "the Prefrontal Cortex critical period"? In the Critical period hypothesis article in WP, it says "Recently, it has been suggested that if a critical period [in language development] does exist, it may be due at least partially to the delayed development of the prefrontal cortex in human children." I can't find any reference to "slowing down" the Prefrontal Synthesis critical period or even what a PFS critical period is. It seems to me that the original author may have entered Synthesis when they meant to say Cortex.
Could someone explain what critical period applies to Prefrontal Synthesis and how it may be "slowed down"? Or maybe revise the indented sentence above, removing "slowed down" and substituting, say, "delayed the development of the Prefrontal Synthesis (or Cortex) critical period...". You might have to explain how the PFC affects the PFS. My guess is that the article is technically right but they just don't explain enough for us linguistic novices.
This question is also on the talk page of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages. --RoyGoldsmith (talk) 20:39, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

So far, no reply. Do you have a better place to put this request? --RoyGoldsmith (talk)

The WP:Reference desks are much more active than most project discussion pages; try either /Science or /Language? 2606:A000:1126:28D:784A:E6BC:34C9:EC20 (talk) 00:12, 15 December 2019 (UTC) ... btw, I believe that cortex is assumed when prefrontal is stated; see: Prefrontal synthesis[reply]

Live +30 day Nielsen ratings

Hi there, Nielsen is now releasing Live +30 day DVR ratings for TV shows. I often update the DVR ratings for The Conners and would like to begin adding the +30 18-49 and +30 total viewer ratings, but am unsure of how to name it on the table. For example, the Live+7 18-49 ratings are listed on Wiki pages as | dvr1 =XX, and Live_7 viewers are listed as | total1 =XX and the overall final rating with the +7 factored in as | totalv1 =XX, what would I title the +30 ratings as in order for them to show up correctly in the table?

Thanks, Matt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sothisissociety (talk • contribs) 01:49, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020–21 United States Network Television Schedule

What No Article Yet I Put 6 References and there is still no article yet. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 02:42, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft has been submitted for review. Please see the note at the top of the submission notice which indicates that this can take up to four months. In the meantime you should perhaps read WP:NOTTVGUIDE. Please remember to provide links when asking for help. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 03:41, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And your customary rudeness in this edit is not likely to encourage reviewers to put your submission near the top of the list for review. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:05, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Formula Student Team Article

We are a formula student team in Turkey. We desire an article on wikipedia about us like some other teams. I am working as a editor on some other webpage. I want to know steps of publishing arthicles on Wikipedia. Thanks for help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.140.6.86 (talk) 08:46, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Successfully writing a new Wikipedia article is the hardest task on Wikipedia. It is even harder when one is attempting to write about themselves or their own organization or group. You have what is called at conflict of interest in writing about your own group, and as such you should not write about it directly. There are indirect ways to do so, including Articles for Creation. However, you group would need to meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable organization as shown with significant coverage in independent reliable sources in order to merit an article here. Not every organization merits an article here, even within the same field. 331dot (talk) 09:36, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Small caps within citation templates

The conventions in some areas of chemical naming involves small caps. For example, the naturally-occurring form of the sugar ribose is d-ribose, which I can write within text using the template form {{sm|d}}. However, this template is incompatible with citation templates. How do I render d-ribose correctly (such as from a journal article like doi:10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70462-3) without getting an error "templatestyles stripmarker in |title= at position 24 (help)" where the help link points to this advice that I can't figure out how to follow? I looked at the template and MOS documentation but it seems to be mostly about avoiding inappropriate use of small caps but not how to make them work in appropriate cases where the template doesn't work. Help, please.

Thanks, EdChem (talk) 08:46, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Use the Unicode small caps version: ᴅ? See Small caps § Unicode from which you can copy/pasta all but small X. This:

{{cite book |chapter=Microbial Synthesis of ᴅ-Ribose: Metabolic Deregulation and Fermentation Process |vauthors=de Wulf P, Vandamme EJ |veditors=Neidleman SL, Laskin AI |title=Advances in Applied Microbiology |volume=44 |date=1997 |pages=167–214 |doi=10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70462-3 |isbn=0-12-002644-9 |publisher=Academic Press}}

de Wulf P, Vandamme EJ (1997). "Microbial Synthesis of ᴅ-Ribose: Metabolic Deregulation and Fermentation Process". In Neidleman SL, Laskin AI (eds.). Advances in Applied Microbiology. Vol. 44. Academic Press. pp. 167–214. doi:10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70462-3. ISBN 0-12-002644-9.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:44, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Trappist the monk. EdChem (talk) 17:07, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Juhayna (company)

I have add the resources in Juhayna (company) page so is there any editor can help me to remove this template?...--Ahmed Nader Khalifa (talk) 09:27, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid not, Ahmed Nader Khalifa: none of the sources there is independent of the company. The first two are clearly based on press releases from the company; the second is just a restating of its own financial reporting. Wikipedia is basically not interested in anything that the subject of an article says about itself. Every Wikipedia article should be based on places where people who have no connection whatever with the subject, and entirely unprompted by the subject, have chosen to publish some substantial writing about the subject. That is what the tag is requiring, and it will not be removed until a few such have been added. If there are no such sources, then the subject fails notability, and the article should be deleted. --ColinFine (talk) 11:41, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

NATONIN LANGUAGE

Dear Sir/Madam,

Just want to mention that people of Natonin Mountain Province rarely speak or doesn't speak tagalog language, mother tongue is Balangao but they speak ILocano fluently but they don't speak Bontoc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.106.98.220 (talk) 12:57, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for noting this. Please find reliable sources (WP:RS), and then change the article yourself, or make a suggestion for a change on the article's talk page. be sure to include your references. -Arch dude (talk) 16:01, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is based upon what published reliable sources say about a subject.

If you have a source to confirm this statement, you can edit the article to change it yourself. ~~ OxonAlex - talk 16:02, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help new user <redacted>

Moved from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation

I need some help. I am new to all of this and I am in desperate need of help. I know security is something I dearly need. And guidance. Please help me by showing me how to get started learning. I want to learn all I can. Sincerly, Heather Marie Mercer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmercer1976 (talk • contribs) 14:49, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hmercer1976, I've moved this from where you originally posted this, as this is a better location for help. It's best not to disclose email addresses on wikipedia, so I've removed this (if an admin feels like it should be WP:REVDELed let me know. What exact questions do you have? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:54, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Contents is a good location for topics on using and editing wikipedia. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:55, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Big space

Hi there. Anyone able to remove the large space at Eastern Economic Corridor? Thanks, Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 16:34, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Willbb234: Where is it? I have just taken a look at the article and couldn't see any big space in it. --CiaPan (talk) 17:05, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@CiaPan: In the 'Administrative divisions' section. Are you editing on desktop, because the space is still there on my laptop? Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 17:06, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The whitespace only shows up in mobile view. The infobox width and table width in "administrative divisions" overlap, so the table doesn't display until after the end of the infobox. Schazjmd (talk) 17:13, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Desktop too depending on the screenwidth. If you narrow the browser window, there is a point with the table won't fit beside the infobox. MB 17:18, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 17:20, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Willbb234: Nope, I'm using my phone at the moment. I can't see a big space; do you mean a double-height empty line between the leading sentence and the table? It's absent in the source, possibly it results from the table formatting but I can't see how. :( --CiaPan (talk) 17:21, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I removed a column and that fixed the problem. If you think that the column should be put back in, go ahead, but bear in mind that the space will be back. Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 17:30, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sirs, Should this be on the talk page for the article? Jabberwoch (talk) @Willbb234: Sirs, Should this be on the talk page for the article? Jabberwoch (talk) 03:30, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

human protectection of dangers INTRODUCTION

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A000:E343:2300:B560:D79F:1FBC:2C17 (talk) 17:34, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, do you have a question about using or editing Wikipedia; if so please feel free to ask it here. If you wish to create an entry in the encyclopedia please see this page about creating a first article together with WP:AFC and use the article wizard to create a draft article which can be submitted for review when you are happy that it is ready. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 17:52, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to edit title?

This page is mis-spelled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-R_KIS_TR-4_Crusier

The plane is called Cruiser, which is also the spelling used in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reedhawk (talk • contribs) 18:28, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Reedhawk:

Done Page titles are changed by moving the page to a new location. The link to do so is via the 'more' tab at the top of the page. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Thank you. Also the typical way to link to a page is using the four square brkts thus: [[page name]]. Thanks for pointing this out. Eagleash (talk) 18:44, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have corrected the various pages which linked to the wrong spelling, also in Commons and Wikidata. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:23, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great, now I know how to do this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reedhawk (talk • contribs) 19:18, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Aguilar.bing

Why I'm block I did not edit yet .I'm still learning — Preceding Aguilar bing comment added by Aguilar.bing (talk • contribs) 21:27, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

<Aguilar. Bing>

You aren't blocked. You wouldn't have been able to add this question if you were. What made you think you were blocked? Beeblebrox (talk) 21:36, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)@Aguilar.bing: Hello, your post here is the only edit from your account according to your contributions. Where have you seen anything that suggests a block? There are no edits to your talk page where you would receive messages in the event of any possible issues. Have you by any chance edited from another account at some point? Eagleash (talk) 21:40, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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