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February 12

Error in reference

Resolved

ref 4 at World Marathon Challenge has the following error: "zero width space character in |title= at position 99".--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:38, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done The zero width space was just ahead of the 'm' in mother. —teb728 t c 00:53, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Fixed in Special:Diff/704513301 (I removed something just ahead of the 's' in single) —PC-XT+ 01:00, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

• Thx.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:46, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar

Reference help requested. Is there a way to retrieve the archive date for wikiwix? Or, is there a better archive, somewhere? I tried Internet Archive and WebCite, already. Thanks, —PC-XT+ 00:39, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

template for references to section which may or may not be on the same page

Is there a template that references a section, and makes the resulting link so that, if the section is on the same page, it is just a simple (piped) section link (e.g. to #Another Section) whereas if not it is the full page link?

For example, at WP:RFD, each day has its own page, which is transcluded. If I want to cross-reference another discussion, I just use the Wikipedia link, a bit long-winded, as "see also Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009/January 32#Invented". What I would like to do is "see also {{internal-link|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009/January 32|Invented}}" and have that translate either to the full (internal) link, or just [[#Invented]], depending on whether the FULLPAGENAME(?) is the same as the target page for the link.

There's hardly any convenience in typing, but it means when people click through the link it won't reload the page (for the given day) but just jump to where it is transcluded in the current page.

I don't mind attempting to create this template, but have a feeling one might already exist.

Thanks in advance

Si Trew (talk) 04:09, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, there's a flaw in this — how would it know that the linked page was transcluded on the current page? Si Trew (talk) 04:12, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Resubmission

I have submitted my article over a month ago but it has neither been reviewed nor published. Please help d elaborate the reason for the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Flexing_It#Background — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chinmaygupta28 (talk • contribs) 10:31, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

You hadn't resubmitted it. To resubmit when you are ready, use the blue "resubmit" button in the box at the top of the article. Your problem was that you had deleted the feedback, the lines that include <!-- Do not remove this line! -->, in this edit. I have added back the material deleted in error. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:02, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Alternatives to oversight

Say for example, I come across a serious situation that is related to a subject of a BLP. I know that requests for oversight are mostly for completely removing the visibility of past edits. However, what if I simply want to warn a group of "powerful" Wikipedians of a possible attack that may involve hacking or something similar? I wouldn't want to protect the page because that would easily be visible to the public, and anyway the attacker might be powerful enough to find a way to evade this. If I just want to warn of a possible case but in a secure fashion, what should I do? The Average Wikipedian (talk) 14:33, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

If you want to warn someone about somebody threatening to hack Wikipedia's servers, you probably want to contact the Wikimedia Foundation. Their contact details are at wmf:Contact us. —me_and 14:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

@Me and: That wasn't really the severity I was trying to ask about - more like just a page possibly being targeted. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion! The Average Wikipedian (talk) 16:17, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

In that case, your best bet is just to head over to WP:RPP and request page protection if and when vandalism occurs; an attacker wouldn't be able to bypass page protection without either gaining control of an administrator account or attacking the Wikimedia servers themselves. —me_and 14:23, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Values used for an Infobox field...

What I would like to do is be able to generate a list of all of the values that a specific field in a specific Infobox. So for Template:Infobox Fraternity, I'd like to get a list of all entries in the "Type" field for all of the groups that use it. Any suggestions?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Naraht (talk • contribs)

Only to manually check all articles. Ruslik_Zero 20:49, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Maybe APerson can help. I think you could actually should be able to do that with AWB, but I'm not sure. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:15, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Naraht,  doing... I'll put the results up here. APerson (talk!) 20:38, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

APerson, if you want to put here, that's fine, but I expect to be a decent length list. Putting it on a User:Naraht/IF-type or something similar would be just fine. I've even done database related searches on wikipedia (Don't remember the name of the tool) as well as insource sources, but I just don't know what kind of regex would be appropriate.Naraht (talk) 20:41, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done, Naraht. Note that whenever a type occurred multiple times, I indicated th frequency in parentheses, and that !r! indicates a reference. APerson (talk!) 21:14, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Results

Catholic Secret, Social, Literary Academics & Social Service (3x) Friendship, Brotherhood and Academics Fraternal student corps High School Fraternity Local coeducational Social Socio Economic Service Sorority Multicultural and service Professional, Honor Society Cultural ReligiousServiceSocial Service (Community and Collegiate) Co-Ed, Service Professional association Professional Fraternity Latino Interest Multicultural Social and Benevolent Social Fraternity (5x) Service (6x) Fraternity (2x) Social (70x) Professional, Social Leadership, Service Social, Secret Social, Secret Society Literary and Social (2x) Service and Cultural interest Professional Literary Society and Social Fraternity International Honor society (4x) Cultural interest Professional (2x) Honors Leadership and Service Social (10x) Engineering Honorary Professional and Social Fraternity of Free-Thinking Men Cultural Cultural Greek & Social Drill Coed Affiliate (Military) University (3x) Social Fraternity, Secret Honor Society (6x) Honor Professional fraternity (2x) Honors Society Social Fraternity (4x) Professional Honorary Mentorship professional Professional Development Leadership, Scholarship, Philanthropic, and Social Drill/Service (Junior ROTC) Service, Professional Multicultural Secret, Social Exclusive College-based Fraternity Secret/Social (2x) Professional Agricultural, Social Social Non-profit Organization Social Fellowship Social Literary, Leadership and Social College, Medical Cultural and Social Professional Pharmaceutical Fraternity Academic (2x) Social (43x) Academic, social, and service student organization (2x) Departmental - Service Social (10x) Service, Social, LGBT Collegiate Fraternal and Service Organization Academic (2x) Catholic Social Professional (20x) Service, Social Honor Professional/Veterinary Christian Sisterhood Social, Academic, Professional (2x) Fraternal/Military Recognition|r| Professional Medical Social, Service Social, Secret (2x) Secret, social, literary Social-professional fraternity Service and Social (3x) Professional Literary Social, Religious Non profit organization Professional Pharmacy (4x) Professional!r! Local gender-inclusive Social Christian Sorority Social (2x) Professional/Honorary (Military) Honorary Social Cultural interest Service (2x) Social Professional Religious Drill Sorority (Military) Defunct (2x) Law-based Socio Economic Service Fraternity Social fraternity Social fraternity, Secret fraternity (2x) Cultural National Honor Society Christian sorority Professional fraternity (8x) Pharmacy Social and Service Latino Interest Social, Secret Service/Social/Spirit Christian, Leadership, Scholarship, Philanthropic, and Social Service-Based Social fraternity, Secret Social and Professional Professional (Business) (2x) Honor Society (10x) Professional, Co-Educational

APerson (talk · contribs)Thank you!

Div col level 2 header alignment

Why are not these headers aligning properly User:Titodutta/sandbox (permalink for future references) --Tito Dutta (talk) 21:16, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

@Titodutta: what would be proper aligning in this case? I can't see anything wrong there (or it's simply the morning :D ). --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:11, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

• User:Edgars2007, not aligned properly 1 (this image will expire after 1 month). --Tito Dutta (talk) 13:10, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

OK. At least I have them aligned properly. Firefox and WinXP. I made an edit there, how it looks like now? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 14:18, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

• User:Edgars2007, no please, I have to use this on Meta and a few other Wikipedias, replacing the template with Multicol won't help. --Tito Dutta (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Help with image

Hi. I have edited the article on Somatic anxiety. I have added a photo of the Inverted-U Hypothesis, but can't seem to get the caption to display. Thanks for the help! LoudLizard (talk) 21:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

• Use [[File:HebbianYerkesDodson.svg|thumb|Caption goes here|alt=A graph showing the inverted-U hypothesis.|right|350x350px]] --Tito Dutta (talk) 21:37, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Actually: [[File:HebbianYerkesDodson.svg|thumb|A graph showing the inverted-U hypothesis|alt=|right|350x350px]]. The "alt" parameter is for descriptive text for screen reader software to reproduce.--ukexpat (talk) 21:58, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Aren't you both saying basically the same thing? Dismas|^(talk) 22:16, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

• Yes and no, they missed "thumb", which I highlighted. Ukexpat commented on moving the alt to caption. That's also okay. --Tito Dutta (talk) 22:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Locking user pages

Can a user i.e. me lock my user page so only I and admin can edit it? Cls14 (talk) 23:58, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

That is not possible. It is possible to protect it so only admins can edit it, or protect it so all confirmed users can edit it but not IPs or unconfirmed users. -- GB fan 00:00, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

How do you do the latter? Protect it so only confirmed users can edit it but not IPs and unconfirmed? Cls14 (talk) 00:05, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

@Cls14: You need to make a request at WP:RFPP- it's usually accepted if you ask for something in your userspace to be protected. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:12, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks geniuses :-) Cls14 (talk) 00:14, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

@Cls14: One way to accomplish the first thing (protect userpage against all editors except for you and administrators) is to copy the markup of your wiki page to a User:Cls14/Userpage.css, replace the content of your user page with {{User:Cls14/Userpage.css}} and then as for full protection on WP:RFPP of your main userpage.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 00:29, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

In this case, the problem is that the original poster's user page was vandalized by an editor who is registered but not autoconfirmed. In this case, semi-protection will allow him to edit the page, and it is unlikely that any other autoconfirmed editors have a desire to vandalize the page. The other editor has been warned, so that by the time that the other editor has been active for four days, either they will be blocked, or they will have learned their lesson. My advice is to request semi-protection. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:01, 13 February 2016 (UTC)