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April 7

I SCREWED UP THE PSILOCYBE WEILII PAGE!!!!

Sorry, I wanted to add to the section " habitat and Formation " I did not read enough about how to incorporate my information and i just typed it out like a word document and hit save. well I went to see it and there is one sentece........EVERYTHING UNDER THE habitat and formation section on the psilocybe weilii page is screwed up. So it needs to be undone and put back to its original information, or use this text i am gonna add here because this is what I was contributing but did not read how to do it the right way, if anyone can help I appreciate it big time, lots of people im sure need that information and its gone now....here is what I wrote and tried to add.....

Proposed article content

Habitat and formation Psilocybe weilii is found most commonly growing in angregariously to cespitosely fashion. The mushrooms can be found most years from May to December in the Atlanta Georgia area. P. weilii is a tropical/subtropical mushroom like the famous psilocybe cubensis. The peak of the fruiting season for P. weilii is the fall months with cooler temperatures than the Atlanta summer and the fall temperatures average around 50 to 70 degrees fahrenheit. September is considered the prime season with the best chance for finding the mushroom in its known habitats around Atlanta Ga. The fruiting season will end with the first few consecutive frosts in the Atlanta Ga area every year. The mushroom is very common in Atlanta Georgia and surrounding counties and cities, having been reported to grow abundantly as far east as the city of Athens Ga. The mushroom was discovered around 1995 although the species has most likely been in the Atlanta area for many more. Psilocybe weilii is often found growing sporadically with a single mushroom standing alone, or a sort of small grouping of mushrooms, but more commonly it is found and documented growing in clusters. Sometimes a cluster contains a three to over twelve mushrooms or more with every mushroom connected at the base from a mass of mycelium. P. Weilli is found growing directly around the tree trunks of certain local pine tree and other tree's. It likes to grow by shrubs. Growing under other plants and tree allow the species to use the shade and the food the other plants help provide. For example a cluster of P. weilii growing under a lolly bob pine tree would use the fallen pine needles after they have decomposed for food, and the roots of the tree concentrate water around the area under the tree allowing the mushrooms to use that moisture to fruit and reproduce during a time of drought. Food in the form of falling leafs and pine cones, branches and wood that decompose and then the mycelium will use as food. Psilocybe weilii is found growing in fertilized and manicured lawns with sprinklers, this is ideal for the mushroom to flourish because the fertilizer provides the mycelium nutrients along with the sprinklers on a timer ensure a steady supply of moisture. Golf courses are a common place to find weilii growing, the mushroom seems to favor Bermuda grass and Fescue but are just as likely and common growing at the base of hills and in ditch's or along road sides where water and organic debris collect. The mushroom often appears after landslides in mexico and will prefer to fruit in recently disturbed soils or places like sugar cane fields filled with mud, this more so in mexico. The mushroom has been nicknamed the "landslide mushroom" in mexico and "Weilii" in the united states. The mushroom likes red clay and prefers slightly acidic soils. People find the mushroom growing directly from red clay and anywhere the soil has been dug up or disturbed. Like all mushrooms the fruiting will occur after rain or in areas with high humidity. In recent years an internet report surfaced about a massive patch of P. Weilii found growing in a clearing in the woods just east about 25 miles of Atlanta. The report had been written by a local Atlanta man on an online mushroom enthusiast and information website. The report said the man had found a patch of weilii that he estimated to be in the thousands. Maybe even tens of thousands. The patch was reported to be found in a clearing in the woods where pines had fallen and had been killed by a pest insect, basically the whole area was covered in so many fruiting psilocybe weilii that the man said he could not take a step without smashing the mushrooms. That is the largest fruiting of psilocybe weilii reported to date. The species has also been found in Alabama and recently in 2012 a small amount was found growing in the Salem area of South Carolina and not far from there the mushroom was found growing on Hilton head island South Carolina by the famous mycologist known to most only as " Alan Rockefeller " though he reported the mushrooms he found as psilocybe caerulescens, the mycologist "Alan Rockefeller" has reported across many mushroom websites that the psilocybe weilii and psilocybe caerulescens are one in the same. The name Psilocybe Weilii was coined after its discovery in Atlanta Ga and named after the scientist and ethnobotanist andrew weilii for his work in the field. So the name is honorary more so than a scientific one and many people have become confused and believe that it is indeed a separate species from Mexico's native mushroom P. caerulescens.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.89.140.229 (talk)

Undone. You can use the page history to get your text back so that you can reinsert it as required. Meters (talk) 00:15, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

You can go through the editing tutorial to learn about formatting. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 08:30, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Featured Article Nomination

How do I nominate a stub page I am editing to be featured on the main page of Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashleyweir (talk • contribs) 00:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Main Page has different parts with different rules. See the box at top of Talk:Main Page. Which page do you want to appear in which part of the main page? If you really mean "today's featured article" then it must be a featured article before it can be nominated. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:22, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

I guess you are referring to Kosmos (Humboldt). I wonder if "Kosmos (treatise)" would be a more appropriate name for the article. Maproom (talk) 07:02, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

fonts in custom css

Hello. I was reading through the pages on how to create customized Cascading Style Sheets for Wikipedia. I found how to use a custom body font, but I cannot find how to customize the heading font or the monospaced font. Can someone help me please? Thanks.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 00:20, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

firstHeading is the CSS class for the heading. If you are looking for a way to reverse the new typography refresh, you may want to use the gadget instead which can be found from here Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets under the section Appearance: Vector classic typography (use only sans-serif in Vector skin). --Glaisher [talk] 04:58, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you so much for this handy hint. I am very happy with the display now. Cheers. Melbourne3163 (talk) 07:40, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia articles

I have a query about editing Wikipedia articles. My edits are usually confined to correcting grammatical, punctuation and formatting errors (see my User and Contribution pages for clarification), and describing them in the "Edit summary" ribbons can be incredibly fiddly and time-consuming. How can I best abbreviate this information? I notice that after clicking on "Save page" and then "diff" in the Contribution page, the unedited and edited passages are shown side by side; will this suffice?

Also, can you confirm whether I have got this right, please? I have been assuming that when a word/phrase/name that already has a Wiki article on it appears for the first time in an article, even in the lead to the article, it should be highlighted (i.e. in the blue) but not on subsequent mentions. I only ask because I have noticed some apparent inconsistencies, e.g. highlighting on second or even third mentions but not the first. Can you clarify? --P123cat1 (talk) 01:09, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Generally, when all you are doing is grammar fixes and spelling and the like, people will often abbreviate this with the edit summary "ce" for "copyediting". Also, not EVERY word that has a Wikipedia article should have a bluelink. Some guidance can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking. The general principle is that a word or phrase should ONLY be linked if it is contextually important to the article in question. For example, Wikipedia literally has an article titled He. A large number of Wikipedia articles would use the word "he" in them, but almost none of them would link "he" because it is a common word, and not particularly useful in the context of most articles. It probably could be bluelinked in an article titled Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns, but that's only because of the contextual relevance. Still, read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking for more thorough guidance on when and how to link. --Jayron32 01:19, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

More specifically than "ce", you could use "sp" for spelling corrections and "gr" for grammar corrections. There's a pretty thorough list of common terms at WP:GLOSSARY. Generally these abbreviations are preferable to personal ones. -Thibbs (talk) 04:04, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for those Help links. I think I realised the highlighting should be restricted to article-specific words or phrases, but thanks for spelling it out so clearly. --P123cat1 (talk) 10:18, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

On the question of repeating links in the lede, it is normal practice to link relevant terms on first mention in the body of the article even if they have already been linked in the lede. SpinningSpark 16:26, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Title editing

hello, I would like to edit the title of our article. How can I do that? The page title should read: Terminology Coordination Unit (TermCoord) of the European Parliament — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katerina2712 (talk • contribs) 10:27, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Terminology Coordination Unit of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Parliament (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

In order to change the title of an article, it must be moved to the new title. As for your use of the words "our article", please see WP:OWN. Dismas|^(talk) 10:45, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The current title, and the title you propose, are both absurdly long. How about "TermCoord"? Maproom (talk) 11:30, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Or Terminology Coordination Unit perhaps.--ukexpat (talk) 11:45, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Now moved to Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament.--ukexpat (talk) 11:48, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that appears to be the official name and Category:Language policy of the European Union has other long names. I also created a redirect at TermCoord. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:52, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Also, brackets are generally only used in Wikipedia titles for disambiguation. Acronyms and abbreviations should be given in the lede sentence, not in the title. SpinningSpark 16:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Translation in Persian for De docta ignorantia

Greetings

I am unable to add this Persian translation for De docta ignorantia , in addition the word order in Persian text becomes erroneous.

نادانی آموخته شده- نادانی علمی- کتابی است در باره ی فلسفه و الهیات نوشته ی نیکولاس کوزا ( یا نیکولاس مازانوس) که آن را در 12 فوریه ( 23 بهمن) 1440 میلادی در شهر خود، کواِس به پایان رساند. دانشمندان قبلی موضوع " نادانی آموخته شده- نادانی علمی- را مورد بحث قرار داده بودند. مثلا آگوستین هیپو گفت: Est ergo in nobis quaedam, ut dicam, docta ignorantia, sed docta spiritu dei, qui adiuvat infirmitatem nostram« (Epist. ad Probam 130, c. 15, § 28) که در باره ی عمل روح القدس بر انسان ( علیرغم کمبود ناشی از انسان بودنشان) به عنوان "نادانی آموخته شده" عنوان کرده است. . :" بدون آکاهی به سمت بالا تلاش کنید".... . ἀγνώστως ἀνατάθητι. به خوانندگانش توصیه می کند. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite . متذکر می شود که:.... Bonaventura of Bagnoregio ... spiritus noster non-solum efficitur agilis ad ascensum verum etiam quadam ignorantia docta supra se ipsum rapitur in caliginem et excessum« (Übinger, Docta ignor S. 8);

بدون تلاش مستیقیم برای رسیدن به آن ،به دانش الهی کشانده می شویم  

اصطلاح docta ignorantia [نادانیِ علمی] برای کوزانوس به این معنی است که چون آدمی توانایی دریافت بیکرانگی خداوند را از راه دانش عقلایی ندارد محدودیت های آن را با استفاده از حدس و گمان جبران می کند. این شیوه پژوهش مرز میان دانش و نادانی را محو و کمرنگ می کند. به عبارت دیگر، برای شناخت خدا به هر دو دریافت عقلی و فراعقلی نیاز داریم. این ما را به coincidentia oppositorum [برخورد اضداد] یگانگی اضداد می کشاند، که در باورهای عرفانیِ سده های میانه رایج بوده است. این اندیشه ها به دیگر دانشوران رنسانس از جمله Pico della Mirandola تاثیر گذاشت . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.142.88.196 (talk) 12:21, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The article is De Docta Ignorantia. I wonder why you tried to add mixed Persian and Latin text to it. Maproom (talk) 13:26, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

I wonder if you are wanting to create an article in Farsi about the work? If so, the Farsi Wikipedia is the right place, not the English Wikipedia. Please look at translate us. --ColinFine (talk) 20:47, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

North Carolina Listing

Your listing on the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro contains two errors. The first is that the zoo opened in August 1974, not 1976 as you have listed. Also, we currently have 1,600 animals in the animal collection, not 1,100 as you currently say in our listing. Thanks, Rod Hackney Public Relations Manager North Carolina Zoo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.118.179.237 (talk) 13:34, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The article states that the official opening was in 1976 and the text below does include that it opened at an interim location in 1974. Do you disagree with that? As for the number of animals, the infobox does say 1600. I'm not sure what a secondary source would be for this (I would expect pretty much all news sources to take the zoo's numbers on this). So I'll change the text to 1600 as well.Naraht (talk) 14:07, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Is a simple link on the user page considered advertising?

So i have this problem on the German Wikipedia, where admins there claim a simple link on my user page is considered advertising. Since i have that same link on my user page on the Englisch Wikipedia i like to get a clarification, if said link is considered advertising or not. Thanks. Prokaryotes (talk) 13:56, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

It looks acceptable to me - the userpage guidelines allow for limited external links on userpages if they are relevant to your work on Wikipedia, and that would seem to qualify. However, those are the English Wikipedia guidelines - as a separate project, the German Wikipedia does not necessarily have the same requirements as en-wiki. We don't have any jurisdiction here over their community guidelines, so while your userpage might be okay here, that has no bearing on your userpage at de-wiki. Yunshui ^雲_水 14:17, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank You, Yunshui for the clarification. Prokaryotes (talk) 15:39, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia an appropriate platform for this information on Family Medicine?

I am a family doctor in the United States. I have been working on a project with a small research team to update the status of postgraduate training in family in all of the 194 World Health Organization (WHO) member nations. This project represents an update to an academic paper that was published in 1995. Also of note, on the Wikipedia page for "Family Medicine" it says, "The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject."

We have a baseline set of aggregated information about family medicine postgraduate training by country. We used a broad electronic search strategy to aggregate the information on a spreadsheet we are sharing. (see link to a screenshot of the spreadsheet below) We have multiple limitations including: limited languages, limited understanding of the health systems, and limited amount of contacts in each country. These are challenges that a platform like Wikipedia might be able to address. Specifically, I am considering putting the spreadsheet on the Wikipedia Family Medicine page, or sub-page. I have seen similar formats on several List pages such as the page for GDP (PPP) per capita.

For Wikipedia, it would obtain aggregated information that is cited/referenced. The information was collected from all public sources using a structured process and the spreadsheet contains public websites that support our categories - but would be editable by individuals with better information. Wikipedia by nature would provide the value of an iterative, collaborative, multi-national process which directly address the challenges we have faced to date.

In my limited experience it seems Wikipedia might be an appropriate venue for this information. That is why I am submitting this query to the help desk. If there are other online platforms that are more appropriate please advise.

Screenshot of spreadsheet - Screenshot of data collection spreadsheet: Status of Family Medicine Development by Country — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ticeparks (talk • contribs) 16:35, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

References

Content in Wikipedia articles must have been previously published by a reliable source. For what is considered a reliable source for medical claims see WP:MEDRES. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 16:41, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

peaches geldolf death entry needs changing

I would check ASAP the peaches geldolf as it is very wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.205.111.75 (talk) 17:48, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Are you referring to the article at Bob Geldof? You can be bold and fix it yourself, or you can describe the specific problems on the talk page, Talk:Bob Geldof. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 19:18, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

No, the OP is presumably referring to Peaches Geldof (Bob's daughter), who is currently—and apparently reliably—being reported as having died. The article is currently semi-protected because of a large amount of vandalism today; but the OP can bring up any concerns at Talk:Peaches Geldof, where editors will review any comments or suggestions. Deor (talk) 21:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

To editor Deor: Strange, the search for "peaches geldolf" did not return that article. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 01:59, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Posters often misspell articles, when they even attempt to say which article they are posting about. In this case our search engine's "Did you mean" is spot on. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

The query didn't return Peaches Geldof because her name was misspelled in the query. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:52, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Replying to talk page discussion

How do I do this? It's here: User talk:Blairtin#Speedy deletion nomination of Yochanan Sebastian Winston Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blairtin (talk • contribs) 18:20, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The page has already been deleted, so responding on the talk page to give reason for not deleting is too late. See WP:REFUND for options you might take now. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

actually, because it was deleted under [[1]] unambiguous copyright, the admin will not restore it. Your best option is to gather reliably published third party sources that have covered the subject in depth and then follow the WP:AFC process to write an article in your own words in a draft article space and have an experienced editor help you craft an appropriate article that is encyclopedic and not an overly promotional advertisement that will lead to another speedy deletion when moved to live article space. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:27, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

donald mcleod

I am running for the Mayor of Brampton - but you have the wrong info on Donald Mcleod - I have never been a lawyer - the bio is not me. Donald McLeod — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.129.17 (talk) 19:39, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

You will have to be more specific about the article you are referring to. Also, as someone running for mayor of Brampton, it is unlikely that there would be an article written about you on Wikipedia. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 19:47, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

we have a number of articles about various Donald McLeod's and you are correct. None of them appear to be about you. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:51, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

After some searching I guess you refer to Peel Region municipal elections, 2014#Mayor. User:Zanimum added a description in [2]. I haven't found any sources saying which Donald McLeod is running for mayor so I have removed the description.[3] PrimeHunter (talk) 21:52, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

My apologies for jumping to conclusions. -- Zanimum (talk) 18:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

en

what does "en" mean/imply when it precedes the Wikipedia IP address - i.e.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankings_of-universities_in_the_United_States — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.233.90.136 (talk) 20:08, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

It is the language code for "English" and indicates this is the English Wikipedia. SpinningSpark 20:16, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

See meta:List of Wikipedias for the complete list with ISO 639-1 language codes.--ukexpat (talk) 21:03, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Slightly off topic but the URL is not the same as an IP address. Your IP address, for example, is 12.233.90.136. The "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..." is a URL. Dismas|^(talk) 08:06, 8 April 2014 (UTC)