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October 31

Assistance needed!

I am a longtime editor of Wikipedia, and just moved to a new computer yesterday. I cannot log in, because I cannot for the life of me remember my password! I have provided my email address and my user names (it is Melos Antropon), and I get the message that a temporary password will be sent by email. I have tried that six times - no email! Can you please help? Very grateful for any assistance!

Melos Antropon 50.36.170.27 (talk) 00:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

My email address is: [redacted for privacy]

User:Melos Antropon has not specified an email address in the account so you cannot request a new password. For privacy reasons Special:PasswordReset doesn't reveal whether an entered email address is saved in an account so you may get a misleading message there if you fill out the email field. If you don't remember the password then you have to create a new account. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:28, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

If you still have access to your old computer, you might be able to find a list of your stored passwords in your browser's security settings.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:14, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Template bug?

I've got a bug affecting this page, List of Phi Sigma Kappa brothers, which I cannot figure out. Is it a problem in the template, called {{FratMemberStart}}? The second column of each section contains additional formatting instructions, which appear to be from the template code itself. For example, where a field should simply say:

Delta (West Virginia), 1877

Instead it says:

align="center" | Delta (West Virginia), 1877

Thank you for helping repair this problem.Jax MN (talk) 01:47, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this. It was indeed a problem in a recent edit to {{FratMemberStart}}. It affected many articles. I have fixed it.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 02:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Declined

Hey, I am not sure why the wiki page I created was declined. If there were any policy issues, kindly let me know so that I'll work upon them.

Hoping to hear back soon.

Thanks, Gunjan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunjantaneja (talk • contribs) 01:50, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

The reasons for declining are explained in the box at the top of your draft submission. Basically, you have not established that the subject is notable, see WP:42. SpinningSpark 02:05, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Linking to a Polish language page

I am trying to link two pages together. I want to link the English language History of the Poles in the United States with its Polish language equivalent, https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Polak%C3%B3w_w_Stanach_Zjednoczonych. I've tried doing it myself, and it gives me an error message. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pola.mola (talk • contribs) 03:08, 31 October 2014‎

This looks like a bug in the coding behind Wikipedia, rather than anything you're doing wrong. I'll let the technical village pump know. --ais523 04:14, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Page pl:Historia Polaków w Stanach Zjednoczonych has been moved to user Pola.mola's sandbox, so hold on with interlanguage linking. --CiaPan (talk) 05:56, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Don't hold on. The page is ready to be linked, there is nothing I can do with it in the Polish sandbox.Pola.mola (talk) 16:47, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

• That page does not fit Wikipedia standards. It's full of grammar and vocabulary errors (like an auto-translator's output), it is not formatted properly, it lacks any sources of information given, it has no incoming and few outgoing wikilinks... It's simply not a Wikipedia article, at best you can call it a base for an article's draft. That's why it's been removed from the main article space, and that's also why it is not ready to be cross-language linked. --CiaPan (talk) 14:06, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
• What kind of problem do you have with editing your sandbox? You have an account active on pl-wiki and you successfully created an article, you also managed to add a comment to some other user's talk page (pl:Special:Contributions/Pola.mola). What prevents you from editing the sandbox page? May be you can ask for some assistance at the technical table in pl:WP:BAR or in pl:Babel. --CiaPan (talk) 14:06, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

pl:Historia Polaków w Stanach Zjednoczonych was deleted on the Polish Wikipedia, so the issue is moot. If the article is properly recreated, then we can revisit the issue. Issues on the Polish Wikipedia need to be resolved there. --  Gadget850 ^talk 14:18, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

editing in delhi assembly election data

Some discrepancy in the entries found in few of the constituencies like chandni chowk Chandni Chowk (Delhi Assembly constituency) number of votes is wrong and a few more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.15.249.154 (talk) 07:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello. It's really not very helpful to tell us that something in an article is wrong, without giving any more information. If you have a reliable source for the correct information, you are welcome to edit the article and correct it (citing the source). Otherwise, you can start a discussion on the article's talk page Talk:Chandni Chowk (Delhi Assembly constituency), detailing what changes you think should be made. --ColinFine (talk) 10:31, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Infobox coordinates broken

I've just noticed that the display of coordinates in infoboxes is broken. It appears to affect at least several infoboxes (including Infobox mountain pass and Infobox station) and quite possible all of that use coordinates. I'm afraid the complex syntax, and large number of sub-templates, is beyond me; I cannot even identify which template has been changed. As it could be causing quite widespread issues, I thought I'd better report it here in case somebody else can help. For examples, see Furka Pass and St. Gallen railway station. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 11:57, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

It was reported a number of days ago at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#Coordinates display appears to be broken and had supposedly been cured, but it seems to have returned. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:13, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I just noticed that User:Deor has also reported this at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#Coordinates problem again. Seems that it is system-wide. Hopefully it will get fixed before I get to read about it in tomorrows dead-tree media. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 12:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

More information: Bugzilla ticket 72559 that refers to this problem was reopened at 11:58 today. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 12:27, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

The article about GamerGate is a blatant attack on GamerGate supporters

Wikipedia is meant to be a source of OBJECTIVE information. It is not a platform for SJWs OR GamerGate supporters to throw sticks at one another. It is most definatly the SJWs doing most of the throwing. GamerGate supporters are sickeningly under represented in the media. If you asked a GamerGate supporter what they wanted, they'd say real guidelines and standards within the gaming journalism realm. They don't want to push women out of gaming. They don't want to oppress women. They want a reliable, uncorrupted source of gaming reviews. That's it. The media is focused on GamerGate supporters supposedly harassing women and sending out death threats, but the same atrocities committed by the anti GamerGate side aren't shown. Christopher Poole (Moot), the admin of 4chan was sent death threats to his home address as he allowed freedom of speech on 4chan and let people talk about GamerGate, and yet this wasn't brought to light. And it must be questioned, why are these self-proclaimed feminists fighting GamerGate when there is real and serious oppression of women all over the world, such as young female circumcision and arranged marriages in Northern Africa?

By letting this article remain in the sorry, subjective and frankly offensive state it is in, Wikipedia is supporting the trampling of the right to freedom of speech and the harassment and bullying that the anti GamerGate side has been vomiting all over GamerGate supporters. But harassment and bullying is ok if you're white and disagree with the SJW movement, right?

In the words of the factual Christina H. Sommers, "Check the constitution, not your privellege." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.8.165 (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

By posting here, you are ranting at thousands and thousands of people, most of whom have never looked at the article Gamergate controversy. There is no "editorial board" which decides about articles, they are all determined by consensus. I see that the article already has a tag that says that its neutrality is disputed: you are welcome to contribute to improving it on its talk page Talk:Gamergate controversy. But note that you will be more likely to have an effect if you discuss specific claims that you think should be added, removed or changed, and provide references to independent reliable sources that support your position. --ColinFine (talk) 12:57, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

It's a controversial topic and Talk:Gamergate controversy is semiprotected due to persistent disruptive editing. You will have to register an account and become autoconfirmed to participate in the discussion. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:06, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Since Talk:Gamergate controversy is semi-protected until 25 January 2015 the IP can not contribute there. GB fan 13:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I didn't realise the talk page was semiprotected (and I can't see anything that tells me that it is). In that case, I guess that here is a good place to request changes - but they still need to be specific changes with references, not generalised rants. --ColinFine (talk) 14:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Meanwhile, the article needs attention. The first paragraph starts "Gamergate .. is a controversy", and then refers to "GamerGate supporters". Never mind the different spelling, these supporters are not supporting a controversy. Maproom (talk) 14:05, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

My reference section isn't working!

I'm using the reference tags to refer to references at the end of appropriate paragraphs, but these references aren't then showing up under the Reference section.

For example I have written the following sentence: "Buckingham Tennis Club was founded in 1912".

What am I doing wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barclaven1 (talk • contribs) 12:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Rather than duplicate the <ref> tags in the References section, you should add the template {{reflist}}, which will automatically populate the section from your references. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 12:31, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

References

See Help:Referencing for beginners. --  Gadget850 ^talk 12:52, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

annie claus is coming to rown

can a page be made for this film,its been on uk tv twice this week and no info on it?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.86.221 (talk) 15:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

It is probably notable enough, someone just needs to do so.Naraht (talk) 16:02, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Annie Claus is Coming to Town is a television film. We have a limited number of articles about those. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:57, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

sub-headings

Why can't I acess sub-headings or sub-titles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.114.182 (talk) 17:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

The markup for successive layers of headings is:

== Section heading ==

=== Subsection heading ===

==== Sub-subsection heading ====

The full list of markup codes is given at Help:Wiki markup. If this isn't what you needed to know, please could you state your problem in a little more detail and let us know on which page the problem occurs: Noyster (talk), 20:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Help from another experienced editor?

Could someone look over at Mamie Van Doren? I've been doing a bunch of things in real life today and have only had time to make two quick reverts to an editor's actions there. I've finally had a moment to put a more thoughtful explanation together on the talk page and I'd like to revert again but I'd be breaking WP:3RR. So, could someone else have a look? Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 18:47, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

I have reverted, left a note on the editor's talk page. We will see what happens. GB fan 19:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

If it is a blatent copyvio, 3RR does not apply. If it is just non-notable with copyrights granted by owner, probably move that image down into body per WP:UNDUE. I guess they'll discuss after GB's talk page notice notice. --lTopGunl (talk) 19:34, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, both. I thought 3RR didn't apply due to the copyvio but didn't have much time today. Dismas|^(talk) 02:25, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

They uploaded more copyrighted images and reinserted them into the article. I have blocked them for 36 hours, will see if that gets their attention. GB fan 09:54, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Now using a sockpuppet since they were blocked both here and at Commons. Sockpuppet blocked and article semi-protected. GB fan 13:19, 1 November 2014 (UTC)