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April 28

Lewis Campbell (classicist)

Please repair reference number 7 - it is all in red. I cannot do this. Thank you Srbernadette (talk) 02:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Srbernadette: You are missing the journal parameter, which the error message says is required for {{Cite Journal}}. If you add journal=Journal of Education to the citation it should fix it. RudolfRed (talk) 02:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please can you fix it - I tried but got it wrong. Also, can you move the file photo of the church interior to the right hand side of the article/page - it is where it should be I think. Thank you and sorry Srbernadette (talk) 04:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Srbernadette: The Help Desk is for helping editors learn how to use Wikipedia, not to perpetually clean up your errors. Please stop editing articles until you are able to fix your errors. You have been given instructions many times. Use your sandbox to practice RudolfRed (talk) 19:57, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Bloxam

Reference number 6 is in the "red". I cannot fix it. please assist if you can. Thank you Srbernadette (talk) 06:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Srbernadette, reference number 6 is provided to back up the following: In 1866, his daughter Jane Dorothea Bloxam (died 1921) married Sir Henry Hanson Berney, 9th Bart. (died 1907). Sir Henry and Lady Berney's grandson was cricketer Cecil Middleton, son of Henry Middleton who, in April 1900, reportedly witnessed at Filey Brigg the drowning of his first cousin Margaret Middleton. Margaret's sister Gertrude and their cousin Henry Middleton were both students at Oxford University, Bloxham's alma mater. How does its inclusion help our understanding of the ostensible subject of the article, a man who died in 1878? ¶ However, I think you're asking about reference number 5. An IP whose interests and written style resemble yours already asked, and I already responded. -- Hoary (talk) 12:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Srbernadette, it might be helpful to you if you were to read the essay Wikipedia:Coatrack articles. Bright blessings! {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 188.220.144.58 (talk) 16:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Обновление страницы в WIKI 2

После внесения дополнений на страницу в Википедии, обновления в WIKI 2 не происходит. Что делать? Сергей Александрович Ермаков (talk) 09:40, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updating a page in WIKI 2 After making additions to a Wikipedia page, there is no update in WIKI 2. What to do? (via Google translate)

Сергей Александрович Ермаков this is a page for questions in English about English Wikipedia. If WIKI 2 copies English Wikipedia, you could try asking them about your edits. TSventon (talk) 09:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editing a page

I'm not an editor, but with the help of someone who is one I can add to one of your pages.

To your page, "List of fugitives from justice who disappeared", you could add Lester Eubanks, who disappeared while on temporary prison furlough from a shopping mall in 1973, and was never recaptured. Wikipedia has an article on him.

Joseph N. Stricker 108.78.29.23 (talk) 16:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Joyous! Noise! 16:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism help request

I have noticed some vandalism at Yiddish. Namely, a user named CheezDeez appears to have linked their profile in large font on multiple spots on the page. I attempted to fix the vandalism myself, but I could not find the vandalism via the edit window or the view history window. Would an editor please assist me with fixing it? Thank you very much! --Reported via Help:Simple guide to vandalism cleanup--> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18C:9080:F570:146:DF2:EC63:F453 (talk) 17:25, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP user. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and trying to fix it. When vandalism apperas like that at multiple points in an article, it is usually an edit to a template that is used in the article, so it will not show up in the article's history or in an edit.

Whatever it was, it now appears to have been fixed. ColinFine (talk) 18:04, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, there's an item on the WP:Teahouse#CheezDeez that explains what happened. ColinFine (talk) 19:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

English race. English DNA

Hello.A little while ago I was looking at the English race and English DNA. I looked again today and couldn't seem to find the items I previously viewed. Have they been removed? Thank you Jimmythecable (talk) 19:11, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell no such pages ever existed. Maybe you were on a different website like Conservapedia which might host such nonsense. Simonm223 (talk) 19:18, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep your hair on chap Jimmythecable (talk) 11:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jimmythecable: Closest I can find is English_(ethnic_group) RudolfRed (talk) 20:14, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jimmythecable (talk) 11:06, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to filter my watchlist to not include redirects

I would like to view a list of all articles I'm watching, excluding redirects. On my Special:Watchlist, I can view my edit watchlist page, and the redirects are in italics, but there is no way to remove them from being displayed so I can see the list of actual articles I am watching. Any way to do this? BhamBoi (talk) 22:21, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't have a long watchlist (or even if you do, like me), you can manually remove redirects by clicking the "Edit your list of watched pages". Mark the checkboxes of the ones you want to remove, then go to the bottom and press "Remove titles". Clarityfiend (talk) 10:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with TeaHouse

Someone ate the teahouse? EdenBAnn (talk) 23:00, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, EdenBAnn. The vandalism has been reverted and I blocked the vandal. Cullen328 (talk) 23:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Just Noticed!@Cullen328 EdenBAnn (talk) 23:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]