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April 8

Amanullah Rahmani

Amanullah Rahmani(born on 4 November 1993)is an Excellent Electrical Engineer.He is basically belongs to samastipur ,Bihar(INDIA).He complete graduation from jaipur national university (jaipur) with B.tech(EE). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.220.56.86 (talk) 06:36, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Did you have a question about using or editing Wikipedia? --David Biddulph (talk) 07:44, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Counters in a template

Hi,

Is it possible to create a counter in a template? Something like:

{{results|races=5}}

Gives:

Race1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5

Thanks for helping out.NED33 (talk) 08:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

It's possible with a Lua module but I don't know whether there is currently one which can be used for your purpose, and I'm not a Lua programmer. You have enormous repetition in {{Sailing result block}}. You could consider a bunch of these instead: {{#ifexpr:{{{races}}}>1|colspan=2 {{!}} '''Race 1''' {{!!}}}}{{#ifexpr:{{{races}}}>2|colspan=2 {{!}} '''Race 2''' {{!!}}}}.... PrimeHunter (talk) 11:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your research and advise. And your right I'm looking for a better way for the sailing result block. However i'm hoping for something like:

{{Result|races=5}} that translate to:

For x := 1 to races

||Race {{{x}}}

Next x

What could get rid of the whole bundel of repetitions. Any idea who could help further?NED33 (talk) 13:57, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Lua requests, but if you only need 16 repetitions of {{#ifexpr:{{{races}}}>N|colspan=2 {{!}} '''Race N''' {{!!}}}} then it doesn't seem worth the trouble. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. I will see what it possible.NED33 (talk) 11:12, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Cite button

For some reason the 'cite' button on my toolbar has disappeared when I edit an article. I did have this issue occasionally in the past and found that a page refresh or two was all that was needed to make it appear again. This time however no amount of refreshes helps nor does restarting the computer. Any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it? --Wolbo (talk) 09:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Response at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 125#Cite menu on toolbar missing!. --  Gadget850 ^talk 09:41, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Signpost delivery and new username

Hi, I was just wondering if, when I change my username (which I did yesterday) if I need to resubscribe to things like the signpost, or will the bot automatically follow the redirect to my new talk page. Thanks. This is Paul (talk) 11:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

@This is Paul: There are several other redirects in the list at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe, and they seem to be working. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me, John. I'm glad I don't have to scroll through the list looking for my signature. :) This is Paul (talk) 18:06, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Citing a database query

Is it possible to reference the result of a query executed on a website's database? Providing a link to the site's search page is not enough - the reader must actually perform a specific search to see the information that is being referenced. The search result page itself does not seem to have a distinct url. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:54, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

You can use the at parameter in Template:Cite web#In-source locations, for example at=search on John Doe. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Does this make sense as a valid reference to find the total number of South African casualties in WW1 (as recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)? -- {{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx |title=Find War Dead |publisher=CWGC |accessdate=2014-04-08 |at=Search parameters: "War=First World War" and "Served With=South African Forces"}} -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:23, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't know how complete that database is for total casualties, but the suggested reference makes it easy for me to currently get "9591 record(s) match your search criteria". However, quotation marks usually indicate a whole string was copied directly so I would only put quotation marks on the selection. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

odd redirections from all lowercase

When I do searches in wikipedia, often times I won't capitalize the first letter, just to make typing easier. However recently I've found that what it first finds in the search is not the Initial Capital version. For example, a search on 'denmark' goes to DENMARK which is a redirect to Denmark. florida goes to Flórida which is redirect to Florida. maryland goes to MarylanD which goes to Maryland. I've never seen the result of these lower case searches going to anything other than directly to the article. I am using "New Search" in the Beta features, should the discussion go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Search instead?Naraht (talk) 16:01, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

No sign of similar behaviour with the normal search, so it sounds as if your problem is specific to the Beta. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I can reproduce this with Beta search, also for "Denmark" where https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Denmark uses the exact capitalization of Denmark but hits the redirect on DENMARK. This is silly, but at least I haven't found an example where it happens if the capitalized version doesn't redirect to the searched version. For example, "Ice" and "ice" find Ice and not ICE. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 123#Cirrus now a Beta Feature said to post to Bugzilla or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Search. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Search#x.22WTF.22_search_results_37502. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:50, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Benefits enquiry

Header added by ColinFine (talk) 16:40, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

looking for unclaimed benefits for my late father Mpoyane Johannes Phoku who died due to long illness in 1987 05 05, worked for couple of years at transnet — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.13.68.67 (talk) 16:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. --ColinFine (talk) 16:40, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

We would like a page about our company taken down

Dear Wikipedia,

I am writing in regards to the following page:

Consultancy Africa Intelligence

I am one of the managers within the company and I've been instructed by our Managing Director to see if we can get this page taken down. It was created by a third parties unknown to us using a single source and is outdated, inaccurate, and does not contain a Talk page to correspond with the creator(s). Could please advise me further about how to go about getting the article taken down or at least clearly labelled that we do not endorse the page and have no involvement with it? Thanks so much.

Kind regards,

Kyle Hiebert ACMM Production Coordinator, Internship Manager & Optimistic Africa unit manager Consultancy Africa Intelligence Your African partner in superior research and analysis Email: [email removed] Web: www.consultancyafrica.com LinkedIn: Kyle Hiebert — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.138.66.241 (talk) 16:23, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Can you please indicate the specific statements or claims on that page you take issue with? We can and will remove any inaccuracies, but I don't think it's likely the whole page will be taken down, nor a disclaimer attached to it. I also removed your email because this page is highly visible and we do not want you to receive spam or other unsolicited emails. Please contact the oversight team if you would like the email purged from the page history. --NYKevin 16:42, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Kyle. I'm afraid that's not how Wikipedia works. Your approval is neither sought nor required, and we strongly prefer that articles are written by third parties, rather than by those connected to the subject, as the latter have a conflict of interest and may find it difficult to write in the required neutral tone. The main criterion for whether an article should be deleted is whether or not the subject is notable in Wikipedia's special sense, that is, whether it has been written about at length in reliable sources unconnected with the subject. At present, in my view, the references in the article do not establish this, and so the article is liable to be deleted - but because it does not establish notability, not because you don't like it. I suspect that the company does meet the criterion, in which case if somebody finds and adds suitable references, the article will not be deleted. Your best bet, as NYKevin says, is to explain on the article's talk page what changes you would like to see made, and then somebody uninvolved can decide what to do. If you accompany your suggestions with references to reliable sources, unconnected with the company, that will make it more likely that your changes will get incorporated. I have changed your URL to a wikilink, and somebody else has redacted your email address above. --ColinFine (talk) 16:56, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Regarding your comment about not having a talk page for the article creator. The creator was User:MsTingaK whose talk page is here. This information is found from the article's editing history. SpinningSpark 17:43, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I think they may have been referring to the article talk page, which they created to add a disclaimer. - Purplewowies (talk) 19:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I feel like saying that you'd prefer the third party's ideas on his company is just your way of glossing over the issue with your "policies" because in all reality whoever wrote that article could hate the company for no decent reason or it could have a totally different purpose today. It' really obnoxious for people to decide what stays and what goes based on such black and white principles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.214.63.229 (talk) 22:57, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

If you believe that anything in the article is biassed, or inaccurate, you should give specific details on the article's talk page; it is then likely that editors here will try to deal with your complaints. But while you only make general accusations of inaccuracy, probably nothing will be done. Maproom (talk) 06:30, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Principal author forgotten in the reference of an article + an error in the link

Dear Mrs or Mr,

In the following page, there is a error in the list of author and in the link :

Ultra-high-temperature ceramics

For the reference 56, the main author is J.F. Justin and the right link is AL03-08 (http://www.aerospacelab-journal.org/sites/www.aerospacelab-journal.org/files/AL3-08.pdf) so the exact text for this reference is :

J.F. Justin, A. Jankowiak (2011). "Ultra High Temperature Ceramics: Densification, Properties and Thermal Stability". Journal AerospaceLab. 3, AL03-08.

Thanks in advance for the correction.

144.204.16.1 (talk) 17:45, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

 Fixed in this edit.--ukexpat (talk) 18:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Submitting an article for review and publishing

I've created an article in my sandbox. How do I submit it for review to be published on Wikipedia? DBynum Media (talk) 17:57, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the draft and click save, but in its current form it will be rejected as it does not cite a single source demonstrating notability and it reads like a promo piece not a Wikipedia article (probably not surprising in view of your user name).--ukexpat (talk) 18:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Draft now speedily deleted as spam per G11 and username blocked.--ukexpat (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

City of Tustin, California (Mayor's name is incorrect)

I need to edit the summary box on the City of Tustin Wikipedia page. The Mayor is inaccurate. It should read Al Murray, NOT Jerry Amonte. I do not see an edit option near this summary box like with the other sections.

Tustin

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.162.231.14 (talk) 19:29, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

If you click the edit tab at the top of the article, you should be able to edit the details in the infobox.--ukexpat (talk) 19:57, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done in this edit.--ukexpat (talk) 20:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for being so speedy in updating the Mayor of Tustin. Would it be possible to edit "Al Murray" to read "Elwyn Al Murray"?

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.162.231.14 (talk) 21:45, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

 Not done The city website only lists the mayor as "Al Murray", not "Elwyn". Rwessel (talk) 03:56, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Surely not Al Murray? Alansplodge (talk) 12:33, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Iowa Gubernatorial Election 2014

In reference to your link Iowa gubernatorial election, 2014

Dr. Lee Hieb is also running on the Libertarian ticket.

http://www.hieb2014.org/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.170.251 (talk) 22:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I've converted your URL to a wikilink. Please make your suggestion at Talk:Iowa gubernatorial election, 2014, preferably with a reference from a source not connected to Dr Hieb. --ColinFine (talk) 10:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Username

How do I change my username?

current username: J-a-design — Preceding unsigned comment added by J-a-design (talk • contribs) 22:57, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

User:J-a-design: Please take a look at WP:CHU. All the info is there. - Purplewowies (talk) 23:39, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Your only edit is to this page, so no point requesting a change of name, just create a new account that complies with the user name policy.--ukexpat (talk) 13:32, 9 April 2014 (UTC)