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May 14

User page mobile table display issues

My iPhone is having issues displaying these tables within the yellow border (which my computer could do): Gyazo screenshot. How can this be corrected? Buffaboy ^talk 00:49, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Lots of things going on in that source code. It looks like you have too many forced rules on the tables you're using (paddings mainly), so it can't collapse properly on smaller devices. Why exactly are you using tables at all? If you're using tables for positioning, you're doing something wrong. Tables are meant for tabular data (like lists). They are not meant to create columns and things, and when they are used to do so, you get errors like this. Scarce2 (talk) 04:47, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

@Scarce2: I primarily looked at the WP:UPDC's hall of fame to get an idea of what to do, and implemented a bunch of tables. What would an alternative be? Buffaboy ^talk 04:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

@Buffaboy: You'll probably want to look into div tags. They serve as containers for information, and can be styled similar to how tables can. I find this site to give a nice example of a div, and you can mess around with it there. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:58, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

On another note, I see you're already using divs for the exterior containers. Not really sure what's up at this point. I know mobile rendering can be hard to get right with mobile pages. Never actually tried it myself with my userpage, as I haven't seen a pressing need to (as much of a good practice as it might be). ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

If mobile rendering is a concern of yours, you will probably just have to redo everything with div tags. If CSS/HTML isn't your area of expertise, I could give you some tips. Scarce2 (talk) 05:12, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Articles

How often are the Wikipedia Articles updated and what topics are discussed? Camille (talk) 04:40, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Camille: Depends on the article! Almost anyone can edit almost any article on Wikipedia - simply go to an article and click the "Edit" button at the top. Some articles are edited, updated, and expanded on a daily basis; others may see only a couple edits every month. It depends on how popular an article is and what needs to be done to it. If you click the "View history" button at the top of a page, you can see the history of an article's edit, along with when they were made. If you go to Special:RecentChanges, you can see the many hundreds of edits being made every minute. Wikipedia covers pretty much any topic area, as long as subjects are notable enough for an article. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:50, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

language translation

How to translate English in other language on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.253.140.130 (talk) 07:29, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello @36.253.140.130:, as Wikipedia projects for each language are separate projects with different rules and guidelines, you will have to ask for advice on the Wikipedia in the other language (a list of some non-English help desks is in the sidebar to the left). Two quick points: Articles from en-Wiki can be freely re-used under Creative Commons 3.0 license, as long as the original Wiki-article is properly attributed and the "new" work is only re-distributed under a similar free license. A guideline to translate non-English articles into en-Wiki is at Wikipedia:Translation, I assume that most non-English Wikipedias have similar guidelines somewhere in their project. GermanJoe (talk) 07:57, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Check references

Hi could you please check that all refs are OK for these pages

• Carole Middleton
• Lupton family
• Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
• Prince George of Cambridge

Family of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge

Thanks so much Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.119.18 (talk) 08:32, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

_{Note: gave this its own section. - X201 (talk) 09:05, 14 May 2015 (UTC)}

What do you mean by "check they're OK"? Check them for validity?, for technical errors? for duplication?, for claims that need a ref? - X201 (talk) 09:07, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

And this is the fourth time you've added a vague request like that here. Please explain what you want doing, mind reading at a distance is a tricky task. - X201 (talk) 09:11, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Sorry to be vague - I will clear up my concerns: I would appreciate some assistance on the Lupton family page - the 2nd last edit I did earlier has "Help" written there - I do not know why.

Often, I edit a page and like to know if the dates are all correct - this is the case in the Carole Middleton and Prince George of Cambridge pages. also - should there be refs. in the "ancestry" sections of both 1)Princess Charlotte of Cambridge and 2) Prince George of Cambridge. There are currently none at all on either page - is this OK or a BAD oversight??? I really do appreciate your help - particularly ( as I said) with the last 2 or 3 refs for the Lupton family page Thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.119.18 (talk) 09:32, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Sorry to be vague - I will clear up my concerns: I would appreciate some assistance on the Lupton family page - the 2nd last edit I did earlier has "Help" written there - I do not know why.

Often, I edit a page and like to know if the dates are all correct - this is the case in the Carole Middleton and Prince George of Cambridge pages.

Also - should there be refs. in the "ancestry" sections of both 1)Princess Charlotte of Cambridge and 2) Prince George of Cambridge? There are currently none at all on either page - is this OK or a BAD oversight??? I really do appreciate your help - particularly ( as I said) with the last 2 or 3 refs for the Lupton family page Thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.119.18 (talk) 09:37, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

One of them is because the "cite web" reference hasn't got a URL in it; instead it has this line of text "During the late 1970s and 1980s, under the name of Beechwood College it served as a base for co-operative education and for a time housed the office of the Industrial Common Ownwership Movement (ICOM)." where the URL should be. - X201 (talk) 10:07, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Ref 75 is because there is no title in the reference. I presume the source was titled something like "Leeds University Review", or similar. - X201 (talk) 10:15, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Regarding the Charlotte and George articles. adding references is the correct thing to do in 99.99% of cases. No one is going to dispute the Middleton decent, but the Grafton and Lennox lines are a more niche fact and not something you could call general knowledge; they would benefit from references. - X201 (talk) 10:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

How many bytes have I added per edit?

Is there an edit counter which tells me how many bytes on average I add in my 20,000 odd contributions? AshLin (talk) 11:53, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

AshLin try asking at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:03, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Vchimpanzee, thanks for the suggestion. AshLin (talk) 00:53, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Only minimal info-box data showing in article

In some articles - and I'll use the article Ernest Callenbach as an example - the info box near the top of the article only shows some of the data entered by editors, not everything that has been entered in the edit screen. Why is this? And how can all of the entered data be made to show in the article as seen by a reader (rather than just in the edit screen)?Joel Russ (talk) 14:09, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Using your example main_interests isn't a template field. Each template has specific fields in it, users can't just dream up their own. The full list of valid fields can be found in the {{Infobox writer}} page. Fields can also not appear due to spelling mistakes and formatting problems with adjacent fields, but that's not the case with this example. - X201 (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Forgot to answer the second part of your question: Users can propose the addition, or removal, of template fields on the template's talk page. If other users support the proposal that field gets added to the template code, and will work like the other fields. - X201 (talk) 14:32, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you.Joel Russ (talk) 14:45, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Update for Wikipedia Page Covering Genpact

Hello,

I would like to request some edits to the Wikipedia page covering Genpact at Talk:Genpact.

Updated content has been proposed at the top of the Talk page.

I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thanks.Wzt5zb (talk) 15:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

All that you did was to sign edits that were already at the top of the talk page. Please put your requested edits at the bottom of the talk page. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:26, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Eli Benshoof Klein

Hello All,

I am writing a page for American art dealer Eli Benshoof Klein. I submitted it for review and it was rejected because it lacks sources. Would it be possible for anyone to assist me in this page? He is notable as he is really the forerunner of Chinese contemporary art dealing. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

User:Aliciastockley/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aliciastockley (talk • contribs) 19:13, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

@Aliciastockley: Seems you have references, the subjects notability which is in question.Mlpearc (open channel) 19:22, 14 May 2015 (UTC)