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July 14

saving articles

please remind me how to save a wiki article to retrieve later — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:835F:D040:85DD:A46F:EE53:FD64 (talk) 03:51, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

There's not really a set way to save an article "for later". If you'd like to save an edit that you have made however, you can click the "Save page" button on the bottom left of your screen. eurodyne (talk) 05:40, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Are you wanting to export pages ? --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:CC99:600D:3E4:4B4C (talk) 06:05, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

To retrieve past edited versions of any article, click on the "View history" tab that you would see on top of the article page. Help:Page history will give you considerable inputs on the same. Lourdes 12:40, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

If you're using a smartphone app, it probably changes depending on the operating system and app. The Wikipedia app I have for my iphone allows me to save pages by tapping an odd semi-rectangular icon (it's meant to illustrate a bookmark) at the bottom of the screen. The saved pages can be retrieved from the main screen (reached by tapping the stylized "W" icon at the top of the screen). Matt Deres (talk) 20:22, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

— Preceding unsigned comment added by RabihChafi (talk • contribs) 09:50, 14 July 2016‎ (UTC)

Resolved

(By MarchJuly). Eagleash (talk) 10:59, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Article topic question

there's currently a talk discussion which is all confusing at Harvard University article about including info about sexual assault issues there...Question: could a stand-alone article be created "Sexual Assault Issues at Harvard University" (bad title/but along these lines)...?? the topic is certainly notable and hugely sourceable...or is it frowned upon to create articles on just any topic no matter how notable/sourceable it is??68.48.241.158 (talk) 13:49, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

• See POVNAMING and WP:POVTITLE for more information on the title of the article you are proposing. Other than that, the decision about whether to include these details in the main article or to create a fork, should be taken on the talk page of the respective article. Lourdes 14:02, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

okay, so I guess there could at least theoretically be a stand-alone article about the general issue...as opposed to only allowing potential mention of the topic in the article itself??68.48.241.158 (talk) 14:10, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Theoretically, yes. But the appropriate procedure would be to first propose this on the talk page of the relevant article, and then to follow the consensus that is reached. Lourdes 14:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Moving typo issue

I made a typo when I attempted to move Consuelo, San Pedro de Macorís to Consuelo, Dominican Republic and wrote Consuelo, Dominican Republicq. How can it be fixed? ⭐ Nika de Hitch (talk) 14:53, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

 Done: In this particular case you'd usually need to find an admin, such as myself - the usual venue would be WP:RM#TR. Alternatively, you could have reversed the move and tried again, but that can get quite messy. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 15:00, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Infobox picture

Hi, I'm editing the page on the British Journal of Sports Medicine and I'd like to change the photo in the infobox, replace it by a more recent picture but I'm unsure how to do this. I had a look on the Wikipedia Upload File page but it was quite unhelpful and didn't really give clear instructions on how to do this. Would it be possible for someone to help me and explain how I can change the photo? Thank you very much Chloe C S (talk) 15:26, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Hello Chloe C S. If you would like to replace an image in an article, the first step for you to do is to upload it. You can use Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard to do so; it's pretty straightforward and shouldn't be hard (just make sure the image you want to upload isn't copyrighted). After you have uploaded the image, just edit the page (British Journal of Sports Medicine in this case) and replace the old photo with the new one. To do such, just find the name of the image in the infobox (should be in the format of image.jpg or something), remove that, and replace it with the name of the new photo. If you have any more questions, please ask. JudgeRM (talk to me) 15:35, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much JudgeRM. ! Chloe C S (talk) 16:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome, Chloe C S. If you have any more questions, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. JudgeRM (talk to me) 16:15, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Is there a way to fork the page history?

Is there a way to fork the page history? I mean something opposite to merge. I'm not going to use it, I'm just curious if it is possible at all.

The question is inspired by the draft article Page365, whose submission has been declined recently for the fourth time. One of reasons is the subject is unclear – the draft describes both a company and its product. Could it be converted into two sibling pages, one of which would be later truncated to a company and the other one to the product, but both would retain the same (or duplicated) initial history of edits? --CiaPan (talk) 19:21, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Theoretically this can be done by exporting the page into an XML file, editing it and then re-importing it under a different name. Ruslik_Zero 20:10, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

But we don't do that. Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia allows creating a page as a copy with no page history, if proper attribution is given. See Wikipedia:Splitting. For a method where edits are split between page histories but only belong to one of them, see WP:HISTSPLIT. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:11, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Linking 2 Wikipedia accounts

How can I link two Wikipedia accounts — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elfwolf7 (talk • contribs) 19:23, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

@Elfwolf7: unfortunately, you can't combine their edits into one account. However, if you merely want to declare a second account, as allowed by WP:VALIDALT, you can add a wikilink from each user page to the other. For example, consider that your main account is User:Example and your valid alternate account is User:Example2. In that case, you might put the following text on each user page:

• User:Example: This user has a valid alternate account, User:Example2.
• User:Example2: This account is a valid alternate account of User:Example.

Then, make sure that you don't mix up the two accounts and vote twice in the same discussion. There are several reasons why you might want a second account, but the most common is probably because of accessing Wikipedia through insecure wireless networks. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:41, 14 July 2016 (UTC)