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January 26

Name of article needs changing

An article for an obscure actress Annette Strøyberg has the wrong name. The page calls her Annette Vadim, though her IMDb profile gives her last name as Strøyberg, as do her obituaries in The Guardian and The Sunday Times. The name of the Wiki page needs to be changed. How do you change the title of the article? Kaynow5 (talk) 04:54, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

There seem to be plenty of sources that call her Anette Vadim [1], [2], [3], [4]. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 05:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I have opened a discussion about moving the article, please join and give your rationale at Talk:Annette_Vadim#Requested_move. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 05:35, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

That is not going to do anything. Nobody has posted on that talk page since 2006. I told you, it's a very obscure page. All of the sources you listed are horror books that merely mention her in the cast list for one film where she was credited with that name. It is not the name her Wiki page should go by, considering she only used it for two years of her life. Kaynow5 (talk) 05:47, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

See WP:MOVE for more about how to "move" (i.e. change the name of) a page. And if no one else posts, then the is no opposition and you can simply do the move. DES ^(talk) 06:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

CREATED BOOK

Hi

I created a small book but I cant find it now

Please advise Many Thanks Sam — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samjd00 (talk • contribs) 06:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Samjd00. According to your contribution history, you created an account at the Simple English Wikipedia some days ago and then here at en.Wikipedia yesterday, but this edit to the Help Desk is the first and only edit you have made. When you save a book, you can find it again via the "Show book" link in the menu on the left hand side or in the toolbar. Are you sure you created the book when logged in under this username? Unregistered users can create books but not save them, so if you were editing from an IP address the book will not have been saved. -Karenjc (talk) 09:04, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Special character for "comma"

How do I link directly to the heading "Adoption, name change, marriage" in the article Jack Baker (activist)?

The ASCII Table lists "2C" as the Hex equivalent of a comma, but the following link does not work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Baker_%28activist%29#Adoption%2C_name_change%2C_marriage

What am I doing wrong?

Y6f&tP4z (talk) 07:25, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

It appears you want to create an external link from outside Wikipedia. Use .2C:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Baker_%28activist%29#Adoption.2C_name_change.2C_marriage

If you are linking from within Wikipedia, use the standard link markup:

Markup	Renders as
[[Jack Baker (activist)#Adoption, name change, marriage]]	Jack Baker (activist)#Adoption, name change, marriage

--  Gadget850 ^talk 08:10, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

If you click the section in the table of contents then your browser will probably display a working url. You may also be able to right-click the section and choose to copy the url. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:09, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Rockford IL, Aviation

One would think that a Woman NASA Engineer who holds a joint Female record would not only be listed under Science but also Under Aviation. I attended school when Janice Voss was growing up and my brother was in her graduating class in high school. Though she died of Breast Cancer a few years ago it would serve the community she lived in to properly document her achievements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug4612 (talk • contribs) 07:36, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Empty <ref>...</ref> tags redacted.

Janice E. Voss is in the categories Category:Female astronauts and Category:Women in engineering. --  Gadget850 ^talk 08:03, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I think you are complaining that Janice E. Voss is not listed under more than one category at List of people from Rockford, Illinois. The list's function is to provide a set of links to the individual articles about these notable people; duplicating the same link elsewhere in the list would be both redundant and confusing. I will alter her list entry to read "astronaut and engineer", though, to better reflect her expertise and achievements. -Karenjc (talk) 09:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

German WP user Hedonil

Is there anyone who speaks German or is active in the German WP. I have been trying to communicate with the German WP user Hedonil, but he is not responsive. He could just be ignoring me for some reason, but I don't see why he would. He seems to be quite active and quite involved in the issue I am interested in (The Wikiview stat tool, which seems to be an improvement on the older stats.grok.se/). I am hoping to communicate with him.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Tony, try to contact him on his German talk page, he speaks English. Best, Sam Sailor ^Sing 20:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I can't seem to get a reply from him there in English.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:02, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Searching for regular expressions

How can I search for Wikipedia for articles that contain certain regular expressions? For example, there are often questions concerning citations about whether certain kinds of citation are so rare there is no need to support them in a template, or write a rule about them in a guideline. If it were possible to search for regular expressions, and find articles that match, that would be helpful.

Google with the site specified as en.wikipedia.org isn't satisfactory. First, it doesn't do regular expressions. Second, even if the exact character string is known, Google will return pages from spaces other than article space, and pages that do not contain the exact character string, but rather, stuff Google considers close. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:39, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Grep or Grep may work. -- Jreferee (talk) 17:05, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Those pages say they search article titles. I'm interested in searching the content of the articles. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:11, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

The only way I know to do this is to download a database dump and then use the AWB database scanner to search the text of all articles. That's a big download, though. I can run scans for you, but my latest download is two months out of date. If you watchlist User:John of Reading/Latest download you'll be notified when I have the February database dump. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:27, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, that looks like the sort of thing I'm interested in. Jc3s5h (talk) 19:33, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Submitting a translation about an article

Hi,

I was recently approached by a con artist who wanted me to translate an article. It was only towards the end of my work that I realized that this was an exerpt from a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism. He sent me a forged money order that was three times the amount I had invoiced him, and he wanted me to send him the balance via Western Union. I didn't, of course, but wasted one week of work, and I would like to offer this to Wikipedia. In the process, I corrected several factual errors that were in the source document (the errors are indicated in the French version). The translation is fragmentary, but I thought you might find it useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.21.31 (talk) 16:55, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I don't think the Wikimedia Foundation would want the balance you were able to obtain from the forged money order that you received from the con artist terrorism expert. -- Jreferee (talk) 20:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it's the translation that's being offered. Is this correct? Samwalton9 (talk) 20:41, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I agree. You may want to dump it into a subpage, e.g. Talk:Terrorism/French translation. To create this page, just click on the redlink, copy/paste your code into the big edit box, and save. What we do with the text will probably depend on what it is, and we really can't judge that without looking at it. Nyttend (talk) 06:11, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Unable to Create

I am unable to create {{reflist}}. Please help me.

submitted by user:Sagnik Goswami

Seems to refer to article Sandip goswami RJFJR (talk) 21:46, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

It's been deleted as A7 (and salted). RJFJR (talk) 15:03, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Multiple Release Dates for Singles in an Album Infobox

Is there a way to add multiple release dates for a single to an album infobox? I'm dealing with a single that had separate release dates for when it was released digitally and when it was released to radio. --Jpcase (talk) 21:38, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

AFAIK the date it was first made available to the public is the "release date" that the infobox wants. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:39, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

You can see further information on parameters here - Template:Album_infobox. CaptRik (talk) 13:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! --Jpcase (talk) 19:50, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia format

I have one problem. When i log in, wikipedia articles, and entire content is shown only on left half of the screen, while preferences and history/edit/read option are on the normal right side, with white empty right side of the page. Does anyone recognize this problem? --Ąnαșταη (ταlκ) 21:56, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

My guess is that it might be one of the beta options under Special:Preferences, perhaps "Typography refresh". If in doubt, disable them. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:04, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Bravo, David, that was it!! Thank you, now everything is normal again! Thank youuuu! --Ąnαșταη (ταlκ) 22:12, 26 January 2014 (UTC)