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May 10

Notability of a Simpsons episode

Does I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh meet the notability guideline? It's an episode of The Simpsons tagged with Template:Notability, which has a review written about it in its section and 600+ other episodes in the series that pass the notability guideline, but I'm not sure if that's enough here. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 01:23, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong birth year updated

Please correct the birth year details of Lucy wills

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Wills — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.152.59.37 (talk) 03:59, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is the correct birth year, and do you have a citation (book reference, etc.) for it? Eman 235/talk 04:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to create an account

I am not able to create an account on Wikipedia as it shows username is similar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:205:7:fb9b:49c1:271:e74d:fc2 (talk • contribs)

You will have to pick a different name then. You can check if a particular name has already been used here Special:ListUsers Meters (talk) 06:40, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If the message says the name is too similar to an existing username (always quote actual error messages) then you can sometimes get it anyway at Wikipedia:Request an account. It's easier to just pick another name. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:48, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article "Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone" gallery

Hi,

The article Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone's gallery section has huge images. Are gallery sections allowed to look like that? ◢ Ganbaruby! 06:43, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ganbaruby, I have shrunk those images. Maproom (talk) 09:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text (2)

Dear Help Desk

I hope I am at the right place and hope not to waste your precious time. I try to contribute to the article Richard Hamilton (officer) and I want to use the reference to Sergeant (1914) p 217 defined in the section "In French service" and numbered [4] a second time in the new section "Life dates" that follows further down, using the refname, which should normally be FOOTNOTESergeant1913217. However, I get the error: Cite Error the named reference FOOTNOTESergeant1913217 was invoked but never defined (See the help page) The problem seems to be caused by me using a shortened foot note (sfn) rather than <ref>...</ref> and giving not only the page number but also an URL. The p parameter of my sfn therefore reads p=217. I have of course tried to guess what the right refname might be for that case but do not seem to get it right. With many thanks. Johannes Schade (talk) 07:43, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Johannes Schade: Would this work? Sam Sailor 08:38, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Sam Sailor. Your proposition works as you have shown, but it does not produce the desired result as your version creates a new footnote, numbered 29, instead of using the existing one, numbered 4. Technically speaking your solution creates a new different refname. I think one needs to find the refname created in the older [4] sfn invocation. With many thanks Johannes Schade (talk) 09:28, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Johannes Schade: If I understand correctly, you want to invoke the same footnote reference number at different places in the text. I believe it is not possible with shortened footnotes, whose express purpose is to create multiple citations to the same source with different page numbers. (Think about it: if the first footnote refers to page 1 and the second refers to page 2, what should the unique footnote text be?)

You could use instead named references (see Help:Referencing_for_beginners#Same_reference_used_more_than_once), which you can call multiple times (but then you cannot specify page numbers since there is a single reference). Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 12:22, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Tigraan. Surely one could but I would like to use sfn. Johannes Schade (talk) 13:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Johannes Schade: The workaround is to use {{harvnb}} in <ref>...</ref> tags, result, see here. Simply duplicating the sfn verbatim works as well, see Special:Diff/896418752/896442393. If that is done often and the quotes are long, that might result in a bit of clutter. Sam Sailor 14:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Sam Sailor. Repeting the entire sfn verbatim gives the desired result. This is an acceptable solution. However this must also include the quote in the ps parameter which might be long and the entire second quote becomes a bit long as you say. Is there no way to work out what the refname should be? I do not understand your other method using harvnb in ref tags.

Dear Sam Sailor. I understand. I use ref tags with name=XXX around a harvnb invocation with all the parameters of the sfn at the first place, then an empty re tag with name=XXX in subsequent places. That works well because I do not need to repeat the parameters (notably the quote) in the subsequebnt places. I think this is solved. Thank you VERY much! Johannes Schade (talk) 16:43, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Sam Sailor. I found out how they compose the refname when there is a URL on the p parameter of an sfn invocation. Please see Richard Hamilton (officer). So it is not necessary to define refnames and use harvnb instead of snf. However, it is not really better as these refnames become very long. With thanks Johannes Schade (talk) 11:33, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Editorial communication problem

How to answer the objections of an auditor (at the bottom of the page):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:%22Polish_death_camp%22_controversy

My second attempt today since 31 January 2019 to add an important research result was rejected by Icewhiz but I can not find the way how to communicate with him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%22Polish_death_camp%22_controversy&oldid=prev&diff=896455875

Please help

Best regards

JacekVR (talk) 16:53, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

JacekVR, I'm not sure why you say you can not find the way how to communicate with Icewhiz, since the two of you seem to have a back and forth conversation on Talk:"Polish_death_camp"_controversy#Why_an_important_discovery_of_an_editorial_infringement_of_Jan_Karski_article_1944_has_been_removed_from_Wikipedia?. You should continue the conversation there. Also, please read our sourcing guidelines, specifically the part about self-published sources (such as blogs). ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:36, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019-20 ESPN Bowl Schedule

What No 2019-20 Bowl Schedule because of the heavy rains and floods. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 19:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Broken external links

Hello Again,

In editing mode, on the "Flowers of Sulfur Tests" page, we can see the links section, but it bears an exclamation mark indicating an error. I can't tell what is wrong, so I don't know how to fix it. Thank you very much again. Bob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertgutter (talk • contribs) 19:43, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Robertgutter: This block of text

<!--
External links
• Mixed flowing gas testing [1].<br>
• [[Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering ]] (CALCE), University of Maryland, MFG Testing [2].<br>
• iNEMI Project Report: Qualification Test Development for Creep Corrosion [3].<br>
• iNEMI Seminar: Mitigating Creep Corrosion with Effective Test [4].<br>
-->

was hidden, and none of it were working external links. I have removed it. Sam Sailor 19:53, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It was a non-displayed source comment marked by  in source text. I see you use VisualEditor. VisualEditor shows an exclamation mark at comments. This is not generally a sign of an error but in this case the comment made little sense and was removed by Sam. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your assistance.

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref too many keys

Hi, I am trying to edit a page as part of a class assignment, and I keep getting errors about my citations either having too many names, or that they have been invoked, but not defined. I've tried to fix them several times now, and I've tried reading over the help page, but I'm still having issues. CommanderCanary (talk) 21:37, 10 May 2019 (UTC)Canary[reply]

Hi CommanderCanary, could you give an example of where you're seeing that error? – Ammarpad (talk) 05:34, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Zynex page

Good afternoon,

Sorry, I'm new to the whole Wikipedia editing universe. I currently work for Zynex Medical and would like to request a change and help in regards to uploading our logo.

We currently go by Zynex Medical in professional settings and try not to use just Zynex anymore. Could we have the page renamed to Zynex Medical? Also, it won't let me upload our logo. What is the best way to go about getting our logo on the wiki page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dzwygart (talk • contribs) 21:43, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

We do not care how the company prefers to be called. Instead, we go by the principle that an article will be titled according to the most commonly used name for the subject in this language. Thus, we don't call the article about the "National Socialist German Workers Party" by that name, because in English it's called the Nazi Party. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:52, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dzwygart, as for Zynex's logo, see Wikipedia:Logos and Wikipedia:Uploading images. Eman 235/talk 02:29, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for your help on these topics. I understand the naming and why it would just be Zynex. Thank you, Eman, for help regarding the logo.Dzwygart (talk) 14:44, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]