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May 23

Theodoros Deligiannis

I find it hard to believe that someone who was assassinated while he was the incumbent Prime Minister of a country, "died in extreme poverty", as it is claimed in this article. There must have been a mistake. 46.103.17.198 (talk) 10:21, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@46.103.17.198: You are welcome to research this and improve the article, with a reference or two to support the content. Or, you can post something like this on the article's talk page, and someone else with an interest in the subject might be inspired to have a look. But, contrary to popular belief, there is no Wikipedia "article corrections department" where people do whatever research and corrections are suggested by readers. We're all volunteers with our own areas of interest and other things on our plates. Best of luck,―Mandruss ☎ 10:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The whole paragraph looks suspect to me, starting with the unreferenced PoV claim "The main fault of Deligiannis as a statesman was that he was unable to grasp the truth that ...". Maproom (talk) 10:49, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

error in edit notice

I don't know why this is happening. Can anyone fix that problem? It is normal here but something is happening when editing my userpage. Thank you.— Supdiop ^talk 10:45, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Fixed, you didn't close your table or Div tags - Happysailor ^(Talk) 10:51, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Happysailor: Thank you very much. — Supdiop ^talk 11:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Patriot Act

What is the Patriot Act. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.105.205.183 (talk) 12:39, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Enter it in the search box at the top right to find Patriot Act. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:05, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

about my new article

I was created a wikipedia page. that was about my own organization. my organization name is Esoteric Research Center of Bangladesh (E.R.C.B). Why my article page is deleted ? please tell me because that page is hardly needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esoteric Research Centre (talk • contribs) 12:45, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Because your organisation wasn't notable enough- per WP:GNG and WP:CORP, it needs to have significant, independent coverage from reliable sources. Also, it's strongly discouraged to write about your own company/organisation, if you do please read WP:COI, and I would recommend using WP:AFC and Wikipedia :Article Wizard. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:11, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

More about the #tag:ref to refn conversions

Gadget850 changed multiple files and templates by changing #tag:ref to refn in references and in template source. I've been correcting problems that turn up at Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting. The template problems are particularly subtle. A few have been reverted. Gadget850 seems to have retired temporarily. Can someone with AWB or equivalent check the files and templates changed? Thanks. StarryGrandma (talk) 16:39, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Gadget850 for reverting these. On the positive side, the conversion uncovered and helped lead to fixes for some strange pre-existing problems. StarryGrandma (talk) 16:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Anna Kay Akana

The "article" on Youtube personality Anna Kay Akana is imho clearly promotional, and was very likely written by a professional promotion agency or editor employed by Akana.

The vast majority of cited sources are to text and video produced by the largely non-notable Akana herself, and the tone of the prose contains many completely unencyclopedic phrases.

The "article" was created in basically its current form by a single user who didn't work on a single article before or since and who didn't make a single edit past the very day they instated the article, clearly indicating that the "article" was completely written well before the page was created on Wikipedia and that the account is very likely a throwaway sockpuppet used by a professional promotional editor or agency working for Akana.

What should happen to that article? And why is clearly promotional content like this allowed to exist on Wikipedia in the first place? --89.0.235.97 (talk) 17:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia editors cannot patrol every article. I'm working on it now, removing lots of promotional/unsourced content. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia editors cannot patrol every article. -- I know. I was just hard-pressed to formulate a question. Imho the "article" should be stubbified, and probably deleted altogether. --89.0.235.97 (talk) 17:53, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Put it up for deletion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anna Kay Akana. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:59, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, both for the quick response and for confirming my perception of the article as a puff piece. --89.0.235.97 (talk) 18:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

What do these code numbers mean?

Please refer to the following article: List of most recent executions by jurisdiction. Under the section for "United States", there is a list for each of the 50 states. I went into "edit mode" and I looked at the entries for that list. Just picking a random section, I have listed three states below.

{{LE|CC7862|New Hampshire|{{sort|1939-07-14|14 July 1939}}|[[Howard Long]]|[[murder]]|[[hanging]]}}

{{LE|3F9BBB|New Jersey|{{sort|1963-01-22|22 January 1963}}|[[Ralph Hudson]]|[[murder]]|[[electric chair]]}}

{{LE|CC7862|New Mexico|{{sort|2001-11-06|6 November 2001}}|[[Terry D. Clark]]|[[aggravating factor|aggravated murder]]|[[lethal injection]]}}

So, my question is: what is that code in front of the state name? They all seem to say "LE" and then, each state has a different alpha-numeric code. For example, New Hampshire is CC7862 and New Jersey is 3F9BBB. What do those mean? The "LE"? And the code numbers? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:26, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The six digit hex code is the color of the square at the beginning of the line. Corresponding to the status of capital punishment for that state/government. Rwessel (talk) 18:32, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) "LE" seems to be short for "last execution". The template {{LE}} appears to have been created for that list article alone. Looking at the template code, the code you're referring to is a color code used in the article, where the editor simply assigned an arbitrary background color for each state. --89.0.235.97 (talk) 18:34, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. All of that technical / code stuff is way above my head. I noticed that that list was missing Washington, D.C. So, I went ahead and added in Washinton, D.C., to the bottom of the list (in correct alphabetical order). When I added the entry for Washington, D.C., I just did a "copy and paste" of one of the other states. I filled in the information that I knew, and left the rest as it was from the "copy and paste". Then, I later noticed these code numbers, which prompted my above questions. In any event, I want to insure that I did all of the codes (and the entry) correctly. Can someone look it over? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The blue square indicates that legal executions are "Abolished for all crimes". Is that correct for DC? Rwessel (talk) 19:23, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Although it's not referenced, Capital punishment in the United States says "The District of Columbia has also abolished the death penalty; it was last used in 1957". So. yes, that's correct. Rojomoke (talk) 20:31, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, all. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:07, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Madehow.com a reliable source?

Hello, I was wondering if www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Tortilla-Chip.html is a reliable source. Thank you! --Bananasoldier (talk) 20:24, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Bananasoldier, I don't see any indications of who writes or publishes madehow.com, nor do I easily find any online reviews of the site. So I wouldn't be included to use it if I had an alternative. But no source is reliable for everything. What did you want to source to this site? DES ^(talk) 20:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@DESiegel: I didn't have anything particular in mind, but there was a lot of information present on this website so I thought I might ask. There are plenty of other sources online, so there is no need to use this source. Thank you again! --Bananasoldier (talk) 20:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The best place for this discussion would be the reliable source noticeboard. Thank you for asking the question here. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:08, 24 May 2015 (UTC)