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November 30

Help with watchlist

How do I get new account creations from the user creation log to stop appearing in my watchlist? I don't even know why this started happening in the first place. Sandcat555 (talk) 06:30, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Sandcat555, you can customize what you see in your watchlist by applying filters. At the top of the page, click Active filters (if they are hidden, you'll have to click Show first). A pop-up menu of filters appears; scroll through to Type of change and deselect Account creations. Schazjmd (talk) 13:23, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

@Schazjmd Thanks, that fixes it. Sandcat555 (talk) 05:25, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Vandalism help request from Gowthamaprabu

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.

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I have noticed some vandalism at Kanguva. Repeated Boxoffice figures are removed. Personal abuse on editor. Would an editor please assist me with fixing it? Thank you, Gowthamaprabu (talk) 08:02, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

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.

Table attributes

Is it possible to make Template:Episode table sortable or collapsible? TipsyElephant (talk) 12:35, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

For instance, I have two tables in my sandbox and I want to make them the same. TipsyElephant (talk) 13:58, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

@TipsyElephant: A sortable option has been requested several times [1] but is not currently supported. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:18, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Adding references

Hello Can you please point me to a wikihow on how to add references to a page?

thanks Ramanp75 (talk) 20:31, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Ramanp75. You can start with Referencing for beginners. You might also take a look at User:Nick Moyes/Easier Referencing for Beginners, which includes a video. Schazjmd (talk) 20:50, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Vandalism on my page

My name is Perne 2601:4C1:CB00:3BB:3849:9EAE:FA53:514D (talk) 20:59, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Silly IP... You sort of don't have anything. Link to the page affected? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 21:04, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

IP editor, can you be more specific? Perne lists three men, all born in the 1500s. TSventon (talk) 21:06, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

You need to be more specific about what you're talking about as none of the Perne related pages Andrew Perne, Andrew Perne (Puritan), nor Ralph Perne have seen any edits in several months, nor does it look like you have edited any of these, at least not under the IP address you used to post this help request. TiggerJay (talk) 03:39, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm having trouble accessing a Talk page

When I try to use the Talk page I keep getting, The "reply" link cannot be used to reply to this comment. To reply, please use the full page editor by clicking "Edit source". How do I reply?

Thank you Krios101 (talk) 22:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

If you're unable to do so, it's because the comments' time and date are linked in diffs, and if they're not signed in advance or later broken, than you can't use the reply function (like I am). Moreover, I think the question was self-answered by yourself. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 22:21, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

And btw, you can edit the source of any individual talk section. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 22:22, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

If you would like to reply using [edit source], use a new line, followed by a colon (:) with your comment. Don't forget to sign your comment with ~~~~. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 22:28, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Contents/Portals is unreadable

A large part of the contents of Wikipedia:Contents/Portals is displaying white text on very pale green - even in dark mode! It is unreadable. CornflakeCancer reported this on the talk page on 20 November, but there has been no response. -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 22:53, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

It appears fine on my screen with a bunch of blue links on white text. It would seem as if perhaps either your browser or your theming might be impacting this by changing the link color away from blue. TiggerJay (talk) 03:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I see the same white-on-green display when I use a private browser window (rules out any non-default WP preferences) with no special theming added (Firefox on a desktop computer). It seems like the underlying content and style is pulled from Wikipedia:Contents/Types layout. The most recent change was on 18 July 2024 by User:Jon (WMF), but the underlying styles are from Wikipedia:Contents/styles.css, whose most recent change was on 5 November 2024 by User:TheDJ. Both of those are noted to be related to dark-mode. The styles.css change appears to be the one that triggered this poor color effect. DMacks (talk) 09:38, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Looks like it's been fixed via changes to styles.css. DMacks (talk) 15:53, 2 December 2024 (UTC)