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November 14

Blacklist

I edited an article and added about 60 references, but I got a message saying that at least one of those external links was to a site on Wikipedia's blacklist. Is there any way at all that it can tell me which one out of my 60 citations has the blacklisted site on it, or would I have to scour the Blacklist and check off each one? Thanks! JTtheOG (talk) 01:23, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

first thing save your draft offline in a text editing document @JTtheOG:! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:00, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, of course :) Done @TheRedPenOfDoom: JTtheOG (talk) 02:15, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Can you save your draft in your sandbox? can you open the actual article make a null edit of adding a space and save the existing article? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:22, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@JTtheOG:I glanced at your recent contributions to see if I can guess which article had the issue. I fail to find it. An article on my watchlist recently had a notice added that there was a link on the blacklist. See Rene Portland. Note the template on the page, with the phrase "list of blacklisted links: " and a link with the word "show" which, if you click on identifies the link. Do have something like that?--S Philbrick(Talk) 04:03, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick It didn't even let me save the page without getting rid of the blacklisted site, though. :/ I solved the issue; thank you to both! The article was List of deceased hip hop artists, and the blacklisted site was examiner.com. I found it after clicking "preview page" a few more times and it appeared under the inital blacklist warning. Thanks again! JTtheOG (talk) 05:30, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

JTtheOG, too bad the examiner.com is not reliable as they do have a lot of interesting stories. I appealed their blacklisting years ago and my appeal failed. The problem is they don't fact-check, so we're better off throwing the baby out with the bath water. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 05:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Mistakenly left e-mail

Dear editors: Someone has left a message on this page: Talk:Avangate, thinking that they were contacting the company. What's the procedure in cases like this?—Anne Delong (talk) 01:58, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

you could place a modification of the language from the {{astray}} template either on the talk page or the user page. redact any e-mail addresses. (potentially ask for oversight of them) -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Okay, how does it look now? I suppose if the person found there way to the page once, he or she may check it again and see the message.—Anne Delong (talk) 04:31, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Was Audrey Hepburn Saved By Jesus?

Please someone tell me if Audrey Hepburn,was saved by Jesus!? She, had to be she was a christian and loved Jesus supremely,that's why she delibertly asked to play a nun in A Nun's Story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.122.229 (talk) 06:02, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Nobody knows that sort of stuff, but here is a summary of stories on her faith. From her own mouth, "[I have] enormous faith, but it's not attached to any one in particular religion.... My mother was one thing, my father another. In Holland they were all Calvinists. That has no importance at all to me." InedibleHulk (talk) 06:23, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Half-italicizing titles

I want to change Bellator MMA in 2015 so only the first two are italicized. It seems to be fully italic because of a transclusion from the TV Infobox template. I figured out I can "noinclude", but that only seems to work on the source, and I don't want to ruin all the show articles that need italics. I see something about parentheses in the Italic Title template, but wouldn't want to move the page to something that will be overriden by the infobox transclusion, giving me just an italic (Bellator MMA) in 2015.

Any ideas? InedibleHulk (talk) 06:19, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@InedibleHulk: Is the current result what you wanted? See my edit. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 06:33, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Beautiful, thanks! I'll fix 2016. InedibleHulk (talk) 06:43, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@InedibleHulk: Um, I think a relevant question is, why should the term be italicized at all? It is italicized neither in the text of that article nor in the text of the main Bellator MMA article. We don't italicize names of companies or organizations, which is what sports promotions seem to be. Cf. WWE, etc. Deor (talk) 13:30, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

For the longest time, it was the name of the promotion and the TV show it produced, regardless of the event number featured in it. It doesn't hold house shows. But now it seems the name for the weeklies is Bellator MMA Live and they have special names for their big "tent-pole" events. So yeah, I suppose we don't need italics anymore. InedibleHulk (talk) 13:48, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Though TV Guide still also goes with plain Bellator MMA. It's a mystery. InedibleHulk (talk) 13:51, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

This article, Shijiazhuang, has too many unlicensed photos!

This article, Shijiazhuang, has too many unlicensed photos! And some photos have original website logos. -- Paoting (talk) 12:23, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

 Done I have now checked the copyright status of all images in this article, and removed the ones which had already been challenged on commons. These had been uploaded by a single user, who has been warned of a block on commons for these uploads. DES ^(talk) 14:14, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Draft:Mo Saidi

Reference help requested. I'd like to continue with the editing of my article aiming to correct the errors and improve the text and reference. Please help with these questions: 1-Should I include the references within the body of the text and not at the bottom of it? 2- I shall edit and abridge the introduction of my article, too; would that improve the chance of the article to get accepted? and 3- I use the MLA style to quote the references: is that okay? Yours, Mo H Saidi

Thanks, MHS78257 (talk) 15:54, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

MHS78257, I have added one proper reference in this edit. Please do not simply insert superscript numbers to indicate references, this gets out of sync far too easily and so is disfavored. Instead, use a <ref>...</ref> construct, putting the citation inside the ref tags. The actual cite can be a manually formatted MLA cite, or you can use our citation templates, such as {{cite book}}, {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}}, and {{cite news}}, or some other format. You can also use list-defined references to put the actual citations together at the bottom, but still link them to the places where they are used to support statements in the draft. See Referencing for Beginners and Help:Footnotes for more details on how to do this. DES ^(talk) 17:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

New Subject Page

I am the Executive Director for the United States Volunteers - America. We are a uniformed Veteran Service Organization, a registerd 501(c)3, that has a primary mission of providing Military Honors for Veterans who have passed away at both the national cemeteries and private cemeteries around the country. Our secondary mission is to provide community services to homeless and at risk veterans through our participation in Stand Downs that bring these vets off the streets to provide medical, legal and employment opportunities. Our unit is in several states and even more National Cemeteries. I would like to begin working on an article for Wikipedia so others will more easily be able to look us up and participate, or even possibly use our services. We charge nothing for this service and just now preparing to add paid staff to administrate the day to day operations. Currently, we are 100% volunteer. How do I get this on Wiki? — Preceding unsigned comment added by United States Volunteers - America (talk • contribs) 16:41, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Why do you want to be listed on Wikipedia? From the tone of your question, it appears that you want to use Wikipedia for advertising. That isn't what Wikipedia is for. Read what Wikipedia is not. Also, it appears that the name of your user account violates our user name policy in that it is the name of an organization. If your organization meets corporate notability guidelines, some neutral person is likely to write about you. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:18, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

IPA help

Would some kind Help Desk soul please help me out with an IPA pronunciation? I attempted my first one at Nadine (given name) (see infobox) but I'm not sure if I really hit the mark. In retrospect, I think I was supposed to use the {{IPA-en}} template, but my ADD brain is having trouble processing the mechanics of filling it out. I'd be much appreciative! Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:58, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I just realized that a new user removed an IPA pronunciation, /ˈnəˈdiːn/. I'm not sure if that's correct or not. There were two pronunciations, nay-deen and nuh-deen, apparently. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:03, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Removal of defamatory content

I have posted a request for help on the talk page of the BLP of Paolo Macchiarini. Attempts to remove and replace defamatory content posted maliciously have led to the same perpetrators replacing the edits again in an attempt to continue a vendetta against Prof Macchiarini. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.224.235 (talk) 19:22, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

I have started a discussion at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Paolo_Macchiarini asking editors with experience handling this type of situation to take a look. Deli nk (talk) 19:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

create template for my page

how do I create a pre made template for my bio? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koltton (talk • contribs) 21:24, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Koltton, by a "pre-made template" do you perhaps mean an Infobox? If so, that page will explain much about how to use infoboxes, and how not to use them. There are many infobox templates available, as can be seen at Wikipedia:List of infoboxes. For a biography article, {{Infobox person}} or one of its many specialized variants is often a good choice. Note that no article is ever required to have an infobox, and sometimes it is not a good idea.

However, before even considering that, if by "my bio" you mean an article about yourself, please read Wikipedia:Autobiography, where it indicates that autobiographies are generally discouraged, and our guideline on conflict of interest, where you will see that writing about things you are too closely associated with is also discouraged. Also, before starting any new article, read Wikipedia's golden rule and Your First article. These will introduce you to the concept of notability in the specialized form it is used here on Wikipedia. In general no topice sghoudl have an article unless it is covered in some depth by independent reliable sources. This means not blogs, not a person's own web site, nor his or her employer's site, not fan sites or other one-person sites, and not mere directory entries or other passing mentions or trivial coverage. It means sustained discussion (several paragraphs at least) in a newspaper, magazine, or book with a reputation for reliability and accuracy, or a comparable web site. There should be several such sources about the subject. In the absence of such sources, a valid Wikipedia article can not usually be written.

Oh, if you do proceed, I strongly urge you to use the article wizard to create a draft under the articles for creation project, so that an experienced editor will review the draft before it goes live.

And if you start, Referencing for beginners will be very helpful.

Now can we give you any more specific advice? DES ^(talk) 23:56, 14 November 2015 (UTC)