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August 27

Template parameter doesn't work correctly

The "small" parameter in Template:Confusing does not work correctly.

{{confusing|small=yes}} generates

That's not a small template.

With the "section" parameter, the "small" parameter works backwards. When you call for a small template, you get a large one, and when you don't call for a small template, you get a small one. {{confusing|section|small=yes}} produces:

By contrast, {{confusing|section}} produces:

What needs to be done to fix this? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:31, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

@Metropolitan90: The underlying template, {{ambox}}, doesn't recognise "small=yes". The documentation says you have to use "small=left". -- John of Reading (talk) 07:54, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I will edit the documentation of these templates (leaving the templates themselves the same) to explain how the parameter should be used. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:06, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

How do I go about adding information and creating a new page for a new person?

How do I go about adding information and creating a new page for a new person? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RonnieWep (talk • contribs) 05:14, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You could start by reading Wikipedia:Your_first_article. Maproom (talk) 08:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

History of unspecified village

Legendary personalities in this village history are Sri Manthena Subbaraju (Late,Ex.MLA),Sri Manthena Krishnamraju,Sri Manthena RamaKrishna Varma(Bojjiraju, Ex:President),Sri Manthena ramurthi raju(Late), Sri Borusu Lakshmana Rao(Late) and Sri Borusu Kondayya (Late).Noted Personalaties in this Village are Sri Manthena Suresh raju (Babu), Sri Indukuri verabhadhra raju(Varala raju), Sri Manthena Ramesh raju (President of east godavari agriculture socity),Sri Buddaraju ramakrishanamraju (Bandaraju), Satya Sai Baba Borusu(Ex:School Chairman), Sri David Sarella(Retired Teacher),Srimathi sarojini Sarella(Retired Teacher) , Sri Narisimhulu Kandregula (Ex:President),Sri chinthasatyanandam(Ex:President).

Youth Icons in this Village are Rajani kumar Varma Indukuri,Raghunadha varma Indukuri,Rakesh varma Datla,

Vineel Varma Bhupathiraju,Surendra raju Bhupathiraju,Srikanth varmaManthena,Phani varma Manthena,Prudhvi raju Gottumukkala Nagaraju Dangeti, Chaithanya Borusu, Yerramsetty Phani Kumar , Rukku Addagalla,Subbarao Borusu,Balasubramanyam Kotipalli (Balu),Srinivas Yarramsetti,Vijaykumar Jalli,Kumarbabu Sarella. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.198.149.206 (talk) 06:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You may wish to read Wikipedia:Notability to learn more about what constitutes "notable" in Wikipedia before editing any article. This page is for asking questions about editing and using Wikipedia. Do you have a question? - Karenjc 08:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Replace Obsolete Image

Sir/Ma'am, would like to replace a five year old image/photo (11/15/2008) that is obsolete. I am not the original user of the photo. The image will be replaced by my own personal photo which qualifies as a publicly taken photo of the subject (with their knowledge). The instructions are less than clear on how to do this. Request help in replacing the present image with a current photo (7/18/2013). Thank you, Roc N Rose (talk) 06:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC) Roc N Rose

Instructions for uploading photos are at Wikipedia:Uploading images. If you took the photo yourself and hold the copyright you should have no difficulty selecting a suitable licence under which to upload it. Wikipedia:Image tutorial contains instructions on how to add an uploaded image to an article. Before replacing the current image, bear in mind that changes require consensus and that images should only be replaced if th new version improves the illustration of the subject. Don't forget that more than one image is acceptable in an article if they both serve a useful purpose. Any discussion of the proposed change can take place on the article's talk page. - Karenjc 08:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Karenjc - I appreciate your help and apologize for the multiple post questions (still trying to navigate your process). My goal is to replace an old image/photo with a current one. I was able to upload a current image of Michael Easton in Wikimedia Commons. I am now in File Upload Wizard and can go no further as my account has not been confirmed. Should I request administrator help or can you help me upload? Also, once I am able to upload the new image, will it link or replace the existing image on Michael Easton's Biography page? If it replaces successfully, what happens to the previous image?--Roc N Rose (talk) 23:23, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Don't upload the image using the same filename as an existing image. Choose a new name. Formerip (talk) 23:26, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you all for the feedback, it was most helpfulRoc N Rose (talk) 05:25, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Help Needed - Page Flagged

Hi:

I hope you can help me with an issue I've encountered with a Wikipedia page I monitor for a client. This client's main page (General Motors) has been flagged with the following notice:

This article's introduction section may not adequately summarize its contents. To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, please consider modifying the lead to provide an accessible overview of the article's key points in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article. (discuss). (August 2013)

I disagree with the claim that the intro isn't in accordance with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, since it accurately summarizes much that is in the following sections. Further, I suspect that this is the work of a PR company that has been spamming my client with solicitations to address the issue. Considering that this "flag" appeared on the page at the same time that these solicitations started, it seems a reasonable bet.

My question is twofold:

What steps do I need to take to remove this notice from the top of the page; and Is there any way to identify who placed it on the page?

Thanks in advance for any guidance you may be able to provide.

Sincerely,

Will Stewart GMArchivist (talk) 07:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

This is, I believe, the edit complained of. It was made by 174.21.176.132, whose only edits are to General motors, and to Opel where they also include adding an {{Inadequate lead}} tag. My weakly-held view is that these tags are unjustified. Maproom (talk) 08:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Your client should not edit the article, due to conflict of interest, and as you are working for them, you shouldn't either. You have done exactly the right thing by raising the subject here rather than removing the tags yourself, and if you do wish to change the wording of the article, the place to suggest changes is on the article's talk page. WP:Paid editing isn't banned here, but it's frowned on, and it's doubtful your client would get much benefit from paying a spamming chancer to rewrite the article for them, because their new version would be equally subject to editing by others. I agree with Maproom that the tags don't look particularly well justified. I am going to raise the issue on the talk page with the intention of getting consensus for any changes that need to be made, or removing the tags as incorrect. - Karenjc 10:50, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Karen, as I recall you are in the UK. Being from the US, I am unfamiliar with the term "chancer".— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:48, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Not the most reliable source, but it's a pretty accurate definition of the common informal BrEng term. It comes in quite handy :) -Karenjc 21:45, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

RE: missing info on page relating to meaning of word/name 'Kala'

I have spent over 2 hrs trying to swim through the marsh in figuring out how/where/who to direct my input. I searched for 'meaning of name Kala' on google and received the Wikipedia definition and upon reading it I realized so much was left out. So, I thought I would forward the additional information.

My name is Kala. The particular origin of my name was chosen from Greek mythology. Kala was one of the Greek goddesses. This needs to be included on this page.

Additionally, Kala has very strong roots in the Hawaiian culture; India; and Native American cultures.

To limit it's origins to Hindu, etc. is a disservice and should, keeping with the integrity of Wikipedia, be inclusive of all information available.

FYI: Kala was also the name of Tarzan's ape mother.

Thanks for your time and attention to this matter. : ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalaks17 (talk • contribs) 09:15, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so it has articles on topics, such as people, objects, and concepts. Its objective is not to provide information about the meanings or etymologies of words. Dictionaries do that, although not for proper nouns such as "Kala".

The article Kāla (time), which I assume you have found, is, in my opinion, badly written. It is about the Hindu deity "Kala"; but its lead paragraph states that it is about the word "Kala". I may correct this, and alter the article so that it is clearly about the deity; but I would prefer this to be done by someone who knows at least a little about Hindu theology. Maproom (talk) 09:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Kala shows many meanings including Kala (name). Maybe Google directed you to Kalā or Kāla (time) instead. The Google search meaning of Kala links to Kalā at the top for me. We have no control over Google. I don't know why they chose that page. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Video template

I guess I have already invented a template for posting official video of our major sporting events. This one:

Official Video

which is on 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon

but there is no Template formatting. With each of these postings, there will always be the topical component of the appropriate video link. So I don't know how to insert topical information within a template.

The reason I am thinking it needs to be a template is because of layout issues (at least as seen from my browser) when the video template aligns with other templates, its smaller margin and lack of template size formatting allows other template and infobox formatting to overlap text as in 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres#Records. I would think a force width or better yet a hidden forced width with blankspace would prevent that kind of error from happening, but I don't see anywhere in the code where widths are set. This is more complext Template/Wikiformatting than I understand. Help needed. Trackinfo (talk) 09:40, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Lists being broken into individual articles for no reason

Can someone please help me. Not sure who to goto/what to do. See Special:Contributions/درفش_کاویانی Click on the link since the user name is actually in Arabic characters there's no way for me to display the actual user name. Seems user has decided to break every single eclipse from List of eclipse out into individual articles. Nothing is being added, nothing is notable about them, and all the data is already in the relevant List of eclipses of X century listing. Way to many of them to possibly be able to label them all, and secondly it appears the articles where created just to be created, no new information not in the list is presented. Thanks ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caffeyw (talk • contribs) 09:41, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Firstly, I've copied in the username for you. Secondly, I note at least some of these already have deletion templates on, which is the best way to proceed. You could also write on the user's talk page, asking them to stop creating pages until the current deletion discussions are resolved. If they continue, and the pages are deleted by consensus, an administrator may block them from creating pages if you request that of them.  drewmunn  talk  10:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Can I add another question? Is there someone to report this user's activities to? All the user is doing is taking list's and creating articles for every single thing on the list. Above he used the List of Solar Eclipses in 1st century and created an article for each and every single one with the definition of an eclipse and the data from the list, nothing else. In another example he's taken a list he has of supposed jamoats and has run it through I can assume some type of bot and now has created hundreds of pages of one line X is a jamoat in X. Upon looking the list is giving a 404 error. He's done the same with List of Iranian Films, using the list running it through something and creating articles for each and every single film. Most only being one line, and of course with no references/notability anywhere in the articles. What's strange is the user appears to be an admin on the Persian Wiki. I'm not sure of the guidelines there, but for the English Wiki the articles he's creating don't seem to meet the guidelines. Caffeyw (talk) 11:41, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Begin by asking them to cease on their talk page. Explain why, and ask them not to create any new articles until the disputes over the ones they have already created have been cleared up. You may find the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents of use; you can start proceedings there should they not respond to your requests to stop creating articles on their talk page.  drewmunn  talk  11:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi. actually i'm confused! my latests articels based on notability and Verifiability. I can't understand what is the problem. The Solar eclipses have not notability?

About the Jamoats, i told user:AllyD in my talk page that "i try to find another source" and replace it. Please read WP:BITE :) Darafsh Kaviyani (Talk)‍ 12:08, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I try not to comment on disputes I'm not personally involved in, but provide options for their resolution. However, I don't believe individual solar eclipses pass notability, as they're basically all similar enough to be describable in one article. If something notable happened because of a particular eclipse, then it may warrant it's own article. However, most pass without incident. From what I've seen of this discussion (and the mention at your talk page), no editors are biting you; we're simply trying to resolve this as easily as possible. For now, I'd suggest you don't create any more articles until the deletion discussions have been closed on the ones you have already created. If you feel this is not a fair request, feel free to ask an administrator or uninvolved mediator for their opinion. If you have further questions on this, or any other matter, feel free to ask me at my talk page.  drewmunn  talk  12:19, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You are right! i accept now, that articles not passed notability. so please delete them. i sort that in User:درفش کاویانی/Solar eclipse. The sysops can delete them by Twinkle, easily. thanks Darafsh Kaviyani (Talk)‍ 12:29, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I'll take that as a requested deletion, and set them all as Speedy Delete under Author Requested. Thanks!  drewmunn  talk  12:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Well, all those of the solar eclipse that I have looked at do have a reference; that is not surprising, as they appeared to have been created by automated editing using User:DarafshBot/template3, which has one (the list from which they were all made, presumably). They appear to be riddled with errors and virtually useless. The stubs on the jamoats and places in Iran seem to have been made by similar methods, using User:DarafshBot/template and User:DarafshBot/template2 respectively. Those that I have glanced at seem to be adequately made, to have a reference, and to be a useful addition to the project. My main question is: is this kind of automated editing of Wikipedia acceptable? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

The bot (user with the word "bot" in the name) is blocked, and was never submitted for review, so it's not known if it would have been accepted, but it seems unlikely. Such automatic creation would no doubt require the template content pre-patrolling, and the user/bot having auto-reviewing enabled, neither of which the user or bot has achieved.  drewmunn  talk  12:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) x 5 I warned the editor about this discussion. I agree that articles like Solar_eclipse_of_23_August_100 are way too small, and there will never be any material to expand it. It should stay grouped with similar eclipses. Eclipses should only have their own articles when there is something particularly notable about the specific eclipse. (maybe an eclipse that happened during an important battle, that fulfilled a notable prophecy, that caused a notable panic somewhere, etc?) In the English wikipedia, an individual eclipse has no notability of its own, we are not going to make thousands of separate article for each eclipse since the dawn of time, where each article is 99% copy/pasted from each other, and the only difference is the date and duration! If an eclipse only appears in astronomical catalogs and lists of eclipses, then most probably it doesn't have notability of its own. I see that eclipse articles are solved.

About making articles that are too small, see WP:STUB: "If a stub has little verifiable information, or if its subject has no apparent notability, it may be deleted or be merged into another relevant article." Articles that are too short should be merged back into the list (advice: you can make a redirect instead of deleting).

About Iranian films, if the only reference is a list of films, and there are no other sources, then you should only make an entry in a list of Iranian films.

About jamoats. Administrative units are usually considered notable enough on its own (but people might get angry if you make lots of very small copy/pasted articles where the only difference is the name; make sure to add an infobox with surface, population, etc. Maybe a list of villages inside the unit). Villages are usually considered as automatically notable, you only need a good reference to verify that it exists (an official geographical survey, a governmental list of villages, an archaeological sourc saying that a village once existed in that location).

I'm looking at 27 August: first he made exactly 1 new article per second, later he made rows of exactly 4 edits per minute (with some variations). This looks like an unapproved automated tool. He needs to stop his tool, and read carefully Wikipedia:Bot policy. If he continues like this, he will eventually get reported to WP:ANI and get himself into trouble.

@Darafsh Kaviyani, I'm sorry that you are running into problems, but you need to slow down. You are breaking local content guidelines, and editors will become very annoyed at you if you keep editing in this way. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:45, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I personally don't think redirects would be of much use; not many people will go looking in the location provided in the article titles, especially for the eclipses. I've started tagging under G7 to get things moving.  drewmunn  talk  12:58, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

OK, I take back what I said about the Persian villages being well made. For the village of Esmaeelabad, Mirjaveh I read that "At the 2006 census, its population was 23, in 146 families". I'm curious to know how that could be achieved. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:02, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Maybe there's one person who constantly changes identity for the hell of it! ;-)  drewmunn  talk  13:21, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

• FYI, I've marked all of the eclipse articles for Speedy Deletion, and most have already been processed.  drewmunn  talk  14:46, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

All are now done.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:58, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Cheers for that!  drewmunn  talk  16:14, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Esmaeelabad, Mirjaveh is not unusual for Persian village articles created by this user. Palizi Dargiaban has a population of "12, in 59 families"; Bakjood has "13, in 58 families"; etc. Some process is running out of control, and needs to be terminated. Maproom (talk) 15:51, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

He probable reversed the parameters. It must be "59, in 12 families". --Enric Naval (talk) 20:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi" i dont understand "List of Iranian Films". i don't creat article about Iranian Films!

for Jamatas of Tajikestan and Villages of Iran, i use the template of User:DarafshBot/template and User:DarafshBot/template2 but i dont run a bot. i just use the template and creat articles, manually. i member of BAG in fa.wiki and know this task that runing bot on my account, need approval.

About Jamatas, i will replace verifiability source.

About Villages and population or families, i take a mistake :( i fix it now. Darafsh Kaviyani (Talk)‍ 23:04, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I've posted a note as was suggested above at ANI. I wasn't going to do it until looking at the contribs again and noticing that right after posting I don't run a bot that a mass correction, followed by another mass creation was done. Caffeyw (talk) 10:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Legal rights

DIREITO E DEPENDENCIA QUIMICA is my Article. He had published in some sites, but i detain the property of legal rights!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.205.47.121 (talk) 11:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't seem to find this article on Wikipedia under the name given, or its English translation. Please note, however, that any content you add to Wikipedia is released under the WP:CC-BY-SA licence for free re-use, and does not belong to any single person. If content you own (i.e. in a book or website you have published) is being used on Wikipedia, then this is a copyright violation. You can find more information on how to deal with this by clicking here.  drewmunn  talk  11:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

If you look at the OP's contribution history, you will see that he is talking about Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/DIREITO E DEPENDENCIA QUIMICA. I am no expert in Portugese, but I think that the OP might have intended it for the Portugese Wikipedia, rather than for here at the English Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Now that would have been… logical! As there is a copyright warning on that page, I'm assuming it's something about that, but as the IP was the one that added it, I'm unsure whether he's trying to release rights to use it, or claim ownership to the content added. Either way, I agree it's not for English Wikipedia.  drewmunn  talk  11:38, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

It's a copyvio regardless of the language problem so I have stuck a Speedy G12 on it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:57, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

How insert some information about my organiation ( Agnivesh World Foundation Society )

Hi,

It is my request to include some information my Gurudev Organization (Agnivesh World Foundation Society). In reference to there is two site is running.

www.agnivesh.org www.agniveshworldfoundationsociety.com

So Please help me, how should feed it's information to include wikipedia.

Thanks Alok

+91 9873673508 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alokkumartripathi (talk • contribs) 13:41, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Per WP:COI, you can't add information on a subject which you are closely affiliated. Additionally, the subject must pass the notability guidelines. If these are not met, then the subject's not right for inclusion at the moment. I hope this helps.  drewmunn  talk  13:56, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Fake information

This is a fake information: UAE Arabian Gulf League — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.203.157.18 (talk) 14:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

The real name is "PERSIAN GULF". You feel free to use "PERSIAN GULF" for your football league, but not the fake name. Let's keep politics out the sport and don't spread enmity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.203.157.18 (talk) 14:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

This page is only for questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia. You seem to dislike the term a professional league chose to use. Wikipedia has nothing to do with that. --Onorem (talk) 14:37, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Right. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a football league. We have millions of articles and correctly report the name of the league in the article about that league. The article has the reference http://www.proleague.ae/en/news/new-name.html which confirms the name. However, you may like that our article about the body of water uses the common English name Persian Gulf. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:23, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Putting myself in Wikipedia

I would like to know how to enter my autobiography into a page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.166.35.245 (talk) 15:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You are strongly advised not to, see WP:AUTOBIO.--ukexpat (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Short version: DON'T! See this explanation of why that is pretty much always a bad idea. If you are a genuinely notable person, somebody else with less of a conflict of interest will choose to write about you. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:23, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. An IP address wanting to write an autobiography. An IP address certainly isn't notable. It is true that there is a human being behind the IP address. (That doesn't appear to be a bot post.) There is no way at all of determining whether the human behind the address is notable, but, as the standard response notes, if the person is notable, someone will write an article. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:23, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Roman Legion → Pay

Hiya!

In an attempt to clean up the Pay section in general, and the discharge bonus paragraph in particular; I traced the text, more or less verbatim, to this page: http://www.roman-empire.net/army/army.html Which is, to my understanding, a big no-no for Wikipedia.

Now, in a further attempt to actually source the lot of it, I came across some books on Google Books. However, I'm not sure if these qualify as referable sources in Wikipedia and, assuming they are, how to properly cite them (book citation? Google books link? Both? Neither? Etc.):

• link 1
• link 2
• link 3

Could use some assistance in this regard.

Thanks in advance. 82.166.114.239 (talk) 16:02, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Let's see if this cite works for your first and second item:

• <ref name="Watson1985">{{cite book|author=George Ronald Watson|title=The Roman Soldier|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PAnmtuOh6K0C&pg=PA134|accessdate=27 August 2013|year=1985|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-9312-6|pages=134–}}</ref>
• <ref name="Potter2009">{{cite book|author=David S. Potter|title=A Companion to the Roman Empire|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=g4ZmqsyC5kEC&pg=PA220|accessdate=27 August 2013|date=2 December 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4051-9918-6|pages=220–}}</ref>

If you are happy with that, here is a tool to convert a Google books url to a Wikipedia ref. You often have to double-check the pages, as it may just identify one of them.

Thanks for working to clean up possible copyvios.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Looks good. And that's quite a handy tool there.

Much obliged and cheers for the hard work. 82.166.114.239 (talk) 16:37, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Note that the section of interest was added some time ago in 2006. In such cases, there is a possibility that some other site copied from Wikipedia. Not in this case, as a 2005 version on the site has the wording. Good catch, and thanks again for doing the work to fix it.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:38, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Adding Images and linking

How do you add images to your article?

How do you link? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psmithpr (talk • contribs) 17:47, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You can link by adding two square brackets before a section, and two after. For instance, I could like to "example" by typing [[example]]. If you don't want to use the link's name as the displayed text, you can add the text you want to display after a vertical bar. For instance, if I wanted to link to "example", but wanted the text of the link to say "this tutorial", I'd type [[example|this tutorial]]. Images are added just the same as links, but by appending the term "File:" to the beginning. For instance, type [[File:2010 Sonic Screwdriver.png]] for a picture of a sonic screwdriver.  drewmunn  talk  18:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

If you prefer to use WP:VisualEditor, then see Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide#Editing images and other media files for instructions. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:48, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Looking for help with Accenture article

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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Hello, I'm currently working on behalf of Accenture to improve two articles related to the company here on Wikipedia: Accenture's own article, and the article for their chairman and CEO, Pierre Nanterme. Because of my financial COI, I reach out to volunteer editors for their help, and boy has it been tough finding folks for these two articles, despite posting in a number of locations, including Paid Editor Help. User:FeralOink was helping a bit on Accenture, but they seem to be busy now, and one of the outstanding requests is something I'd like another opinion about anyway. I'm thus reaching out here, in the hopes that someone might be able to take a look at my requests and, if they seem reasonable, implement them. Discussion about the issues can be found at Talk:Accenture and Talk:Pierre Nanterme. Thanks in advance! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 18:48, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I see that you have also posted this at WP:COIN, so probably best to close the discussion here and deal with it over there.--ukexpat (talk) 18:55, 27 August 2013 (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.

BLis

Plz solve this question Title 02: (C.C.C.)

A Study of Techniques and Evaluation System Edited by Dr. Raj Narain Dr. Sita Ram Johri and Dr. Uma K. Srivastava 5th Edition Oriental Publishers Ltd. Jaipur, 1969

Other Information: Call No. : T: 3.44 N 69 Acc. No. : 30002 Second Edition (1988) Size: 21.8 cm. Pages: VIII, 325 Note: Foundation of Basic and Adult Education. No. IX. Edited by Dr. Ranjan P. Bali — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.203.116.128 (talk) 19:01, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

What is your question?--ukexpat (talk) 19:07, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Replace Obsolete Image 2

I sent a 'help' question on August 27, 2013, regarding replacement of an obsolete image, and have not had a reply. How do I receive a response? Is there a notification message sent to my username (Roc N Rose)? Roc N Rose (talk) 20:00, 27 August 2013 (UTC)Roc N Rose — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roc N Rose (talk • contribs) 19:51, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

See #Replace Obsolete Image above.--ukexpat (talk) 20:06, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Your question was answered. The question, followed by its answer, is here. Maproom (talk) 20:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Though as you never read the answer to that one, I guess you won't read the answers to this one. Maproom (talk) 20:16, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I left the OP a talkback message. Maybe that will do the trick.--ukexpat (talk) 20:29, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

As a general rule, any question that I answer here from a user who has a red linked username, I give a talk back message to because I figure they are possibly unfamiliar with how to get back here to the responses. And I do it especially if they have a red linked talk page. And if you install the talk back script, it makes it even easier. Dismas|^(talk) 23:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you all for the feedback; the talk back message was very helpful, as I was unfamiliar with your processRoc N Rose (talk) 05:23, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

To ukexpat: that is very sensible. I shall do the same myself in future. Maproom (talk) 06:14, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Me too. I've used it when replying to messages on my own talk page, but rarely on the RD/HD for some reason. It's obviously a good idea. -Karenjc 08:40, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Just looked at the talk back script - I like to understand what things do before installing them, but the documentation is a red link - is the documentation available elsewhere? - Arjayay (talk) 08:58, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

@Arjayay: I've created a documentation page, User:Chicocvenancio/HelpDeskTBLinks. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:59, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Withdrawing a WikiProject proposal

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What is the correct procedure for withdrawing a WikiProject proposal I made? This is the proposal I am referring to. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:44, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

There probably isn't one. I guess you could just strike out your "Support" !vote and replace it with "Proposal withdrawn".--ukexpat (talk) 21:00, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Done. Thank you. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 21:15, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Writing and saving

Hi!

I wrote an article earlier, saved it, but now I can't find it??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevenkakowski (talk • contribs) 23:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Stevenkakowski shows your question here is the only saved edit by your account. You haven't edited any deleted pages either. Sometimes there is an error message or a second step after clicking "Save page". It's also possible you clicked "Show preview" instead of Save. You can click "Contributions" at top of any page to see your saved edits. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:53, 27 August 2013 (UTC)