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July 2

bakit wala pong Barangay Ramon Magsaysay sa List of Barangay in Metro Manila

bakit wala pong Barangay Ramon Magsaysay sa List of Barangay in Metro Manila — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.147.40.250 (talk) 03:31, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing 'pong' with 'pang', Google Translate gives 'Why no Barangay Ramon Magsaysay List of Barangay in Metro Manila'. I can't find an online list of Manilan barangays, except our own, but we do list one in Quezon. Rojomoke (talk) 04:59, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article vs Featured Article

The Good Article Criteria and Featured Article criteria looks very very similar to me. What are the basic differences. Some small articles about American roads are featured articles. Articles about Norse Gods are small but they are good articles.--Silver Samurai 07:30, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The criteria are quite similar, but featured articles (FAs) are a step up from good articles (GAs). For instance, FA criteria require "comprehensiveness", which is a stricter requirement than GA's "broad" criterion. GA criteria require compliance with five parts of the Manual of Style (lead sections, layout, words to watch, list incorporation and fiction if relevant), while FA criterion 2 requires that the article follows the entire MoS.

The process for FAs is also more rigorous; while good articles are reviewed by one user (from WP:GAN), who can decide whether the article passes or fails, featured articles are listed at WP:FAC and only promoted if there is consensus among multiple users that the article meets the criteria. — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 09:31, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Monotype Grotesque and Sans-serif

Reference help requested. I'm having problems referencing these articles as a source I'd like to link to on both articles breaks the url scheme: the site sometimes doesn't load if I use the address prefixed with http://. The address is: fontfeed.com/archives/helvetica-and-alternatives-to-helvetica/ I have no idea why, but it seems to work on the sans-serif page only. Sorry about this. Thanks, Blythwood (talk) 07:48, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Blythwood: In the Monotype Grotesque article the URL was missing its final "/" character. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:09, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant, thanks. Blythwood (talk) 08:16, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution

On a Wikia project, there's some content I've added that has been adadpted from Wikipedia. Currently, it has a tag with the name of the article used, a link to it and a link to its history. However, this page is up for deletion; if it is deleted, do I need to still provide attribution to the authors of the article somehow? I can create a Wikia page with a list of the authors and link that page in the tag, if necessary, but the WP article I'm talking about has a long history and many contributors, so my next question is: is there an easy way to get a list of all the users (and IPs) that have contributed to article X, and maybe even list them in order of number of edits to the page? — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 09:23, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this can be done, someone at WP:VPT would know.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:50, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My company page on Wikipedia

Hi there,

There has been a company page set up for Brash Brands, the company I work for. I'm not sure who set up the page but the information is false and I'd like to edit the whole article and have it replaced up there. For a start, it says the owner is someone that it's not, and states it sounds too much like an ad. I have a page ready to go up, I just need to work out how to replace the current page that's there with the new one - this new one is not ad like.

I need to get this done asap so would appreciate a quick response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brash_Brands

Many thanks in advance for your support.

Best,

Amy AmyMill (talk) 13:11, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As an employee of the company, AmyMill, you have a clear Conflict of inerest in editing Brash Brands. You may remove clear factual innacuracies. You may point out problems and suggest changes at Talk:Brash_Brands. You could offer a suggested replacement draft at Brash Brands/draft, but it would probably be better to make specific sugestions for change. In any case, please be sure to provide reliable sources for any changes you sugest, insofar as possible, these should be independent sources, not press releases or blogs or the company's own site or publications. Also, please clearly disclose yoiur conflict of interest. DES ^(talk) 13:21, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@AmyMill: I've left a note about conflict of interest on your talkpage. I've also suggested a deletion of the current article, because frankly it's terrible and unencyclopedic. And I agree with @DESiegel:'s comments.

Also, per WP:OWN, your company doesn't own the Wikipedia article about them. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:25, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error group refs without references - I mucked up a page when adding a Notable Resident to the Glace Bay Nova Scotia page

I added my Uncle Joe Smith with a reference to an article on the Glace Bay, Nova Scotia page and I seem to have screwed up the page - it seems to have lost some info and moved some info - not sure how I managed that. The reference I tried to add was to a Pat MacAdam article on my Uncle from the Cape Breton Post - http://www.capebretonpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/2014-01-10/article-3571759/Dynamite-Joe-was-a-winning-competitor,-shrewd-businessman/1

Please help to fix the article.

Thanks

Tricia — Preceding unsigned comment added by TriciaJF (talk • contribs) 16:22, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I have fixed the problem, TriciaJF. In adding the closing ref tag, you somehow deleted much content after it. Please check to make sure the article now looks good. DES ^(talk) 16:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed "Joe Smith", and one other person, from the list of Notable people from Glace Bay. The problem is that in Wikipedia, the word "notable" has the special meaning "having a Wikipedia article about him", and that Joe Smith, at present, does not have an article. I am not claiming that he shouldn't have an article, maybe he should have. But while he doesn't have an article, he should not be included in a list of "notable people". Maproom (talk) 17:14, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dustin Brown tennis pro

in Wikipedia you show Dustin Brown born in 1994 (age 20) and he was born in 1984 (30). Love your site. Use it daily while watching sports and learn so much about so many subjects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.149.222 (talk) 17:23, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed @71.228.149.222: Looks like it was a typo, but it's now been fixed [1]. There's no mentions on Dustin Brown (tennis) of 1994 anymore. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:28, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How to merge duplicate articles?

Re: United States Investigations Services and USIS (company). Thanks. - ^theWOLFchild 19:00, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a question? It appears that you have successfully requested a merge of the two articles. You did what you were trying to do. Is there a question? Robert McClenon (talk) 19:16, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I thought my question was clear; How do I merge duplicate articles? That is "what I'm trying to do". I've been around awhile, but have never done that. When I found these two, there was already a Merge Proposal tag added back in March 2014... a year and a half ago. In that time, not a single comment on either talk page (including from the guy that added the tags!) and I believe no edits made either. I believe it's been long enough. There is no opposition. These are clearly duplicate pages. Same company, one with full title, the other in titled in acronym. (like "General Motors Car Co. vs. GM Car Co.") So why not just get this done already? Thanks - ^theWOLFchild 08:47, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:MERGETEXT: pick the page with the more appropriate title (I suggest United States Investigations Services) and integrate into it any unique content from the other article, with an edit summary containing something along the lines of "Merged content from USIS (company)". Then, redirect the other article (USIS (company) to the former (by replacing the content with #REDIRECT [[United States Investigations Services]], again saying "Merged content to United States Investigations Services" or something similar). — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 15:20, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget to use {{copied}} or some similar method to preserve the attributions of any content copied from one article page to another. DES ^(talk) 15:26, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Davis (cricketer, born 1971)

I'm sure it's a simple syntax thing, but I cannot get citation 6 on Mark Davis (cricketer, born 1971) to be the correct format. Could someone please fix it for me? Joseph2302 (talk) 22:47, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it [2]. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 22:54, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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