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July 19

Census

In the section titled "Census data and research" - the link on "researchers" is no good and in RED. Yet it works in the few sentences above. PLUS Ref number 19 is all wrong. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 02:14, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

It seems that another editor has corrected this. You are an experienced editor, and the main problem that you were reporting wasn't even a reference, just a piped link. You can learn to fix these errors yourself. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

Resolved

The link did not work because an 'e' had been added to the word 'research'. Link removed as there is one just above it. The access date in the ref was wrong because 2106 is still 90 years away. Eagleash (talk) 02:37, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

List of Old Cliftonians

Please add British Royal Family to the Category section at the bottom of this page. We cannot do this. Sorry. ThanksSrbernadette (talk) 02:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

 Not done — Not all on the list are members of the British Royal Family; actually most are not. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:8558:6C31:688B:8595 (talk) 05:33, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

2 articles need tweaking article

1. The Laverne_Cox article is missing an upcoming listing called Doubt_(TV_series). It should be in her television listings. Doubt's article mentions her starring in a role. 2. In the Hercules_in_popular_culture article in other films it should mention Young Hercules starring Ian_Bohen. 209.53.181.73 (talk) 02:44, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

You should be able to edit both of those articles. Anyone can edit most articles. An account isn't required. If you're having problems, describe what happens when you try to edit. Copying-and-pasting any error messages will help. And if you have any other questions you're welcome to ask them here. --71.110.8.102 (talk) 03:38, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

List of Old Cliftonians

Please add the link British Royal Family to the "Category" section at the bottom of this page. We cannot see where to d it on our tabloid. Thanks so much Srbernadette (talk) 04:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

See identical post, above. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:8558:6C31:688B:8595 (talk) 05:33, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Error when trying to create a pdf

When I select download as pdf I get the error message "Book rendering failed". What can I doe about that? Many thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.114.216.141 (talk) 10:23, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

my edit got deleted.I am new.

Hi, I got a a broken link on the article of a wikipedia. I tried to fix it and given a new proper link.But it got deleted.May i know how to write or edit the proper one.Gopatholabs (talk) 11:20, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

This is about Nitrosamine. Gopatholabs: you deleted a reference which was not broken. You replaced it by a statement that was not relevant to the subject of the article, with a reference to a blog, which cannot be regarded as a reliable source. Another editor quite properly reverted what you had done. Maproom (talk) 11:45, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Also, Wikipedia is no venue to promote your blog (or any other external activity for that matter). Please see WP:PROMO and WP:SPAM for the relevant guidelines. GermanJoe (talk) 11:56, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Creating a reading list?

Hi, Is it possible to create a reading list for pages/articles I want to come back to at a later date? Regards, 86.157.5.193 (talk) 11:24, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Yes. This is a good use for your user page (but you'll need to register first, so as to have a user page). On your user page you can write something like the following. Maproom (talk) 11:53, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

My reading list

• Apple
• Banana
• Cryptogam

What constitutes an official website?

I was just wondering because I've reverted a couple of edits like this one in the past day or so. Setting aside the poorly sourced material, I note that the subject, Emma Bunton, is a co-owner of this site, but does this make it her official website? I'm tempted to add it to the external links, but am unsure that it qualifies as an official site. Can anyone offer some advice? Thanks, This is Paul (talk) 11:35, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

I'll be interested in the answers to this. Analog Pussy is a group that broke up, and its two members both want their version of its "official website" listed in the article. Maproom (talk) 12:20, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

@Maproom: I do not know about the original request, but if two (ex-)members of the same group maintain concurrent "official websites" I think both links belong to the external link section, but neither to any "official website" attribute (infobox etc.). Of course, if one of them still performs and is the "real" Analog Pussy (e.g. owns the copyright), then their website is the official one, but there should be some mention of the other in the article. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:45, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Watchlist

At the top of my watchlist, it says

Below are the last 250 changes in the last 168 hours, as of 2016 July 19, 12:12.
Period of time to display:  7 days

But it only shows me two days. I have failed to find a way to get it to list more than two days. This may be my fault, I may have inadvertently changed some deeper setting somewhere. Any ideas how I can get it back to showing seven days? Maproom (talk) 12:17, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Do you have 250 as "Maximum number of changes to show in expanded watchlist" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:03, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! That was it. Maproom (talk) 13:15, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Tracker or false positive?

I just checked my watchlist, and Privacy Badger said that there was a tracker on the page from feedburner.google.com. I opened a second tab with the same watchlist and there was only the usual mediawiki.org entries. Does anyone know what is going on? --Guy Macon (talk) 13:15, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Adding a picture

Header added by ColinFine (talk) 15:28, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedias: thanks for all your great work! I am trying to complete my posting for Caroline Warner Hightower, a living person, by adding her portrait.

Two questions:

1) I understand that I need to obtain Ms. Hightower's consent, but where do I find the form for that?

2) The photographer's contact information is out of date, but he gave permission for her portrait to be used in conjunction with Ms. Hightower's posting on the AIGA website <http://www.aiga.org/medalist-caroline-warner-hightower/>, where it is still on display. So I think it can be considered fair use. Yes?

Thanks for your help. not sure how this reply will come to me- my email is

Thanks! David Laufer — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidCalvinLaufer (talk • contribs) 15:22, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Hello, DavidCalvinLaufer. The reply comes to you here, and you should get notified because I pinged you.

Ms Hightower's consent is neither sought not required, unless she holds the copyright in the picture (usually not, unless her contract with the photographer or their employer said she did). We require that the copyright holder explicitly release the work under a compatible licence such as CC-BY-SA (which will allow anybody to reuse it for any purpose, commercial or not, as long as they attribute it). Permission to use, even to use in Wikipedia is not enough. The procedure the copyright holder must go through is explained at Donating copyright materials; but if you are unable to contact the owner, then I'm afraid you can't use the image on Wikipedia. (There are certain circumstances when a non-free image may be used, but these almost never apply for a picture of a living person) Sorry. --ColinFine (talk) 15:34, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

First, you need to declare your COI on your Wikipedia talk page . I.e. Don't try and use Wikipedia editors to do your Public relations for you on the cheap! Second: Bard Martin may well be deceased– can't find anything current nor whom may have inherited the copyrights to his works – so you can't use use this image as of now – no way. Third: Invest in a digital camera. Present yourself (and this is really simple) before Caroline Warner Hightower and ask her to Say cheese. Whilst she is doing so, press the little button on the top of the camera. Then upload load the image(s) to [1]. We can then use your image(s) of Caroline Warner Hightower, that you took, on your own camera by yourself. As a background to the photograph(s), I suggest you shoot it in a room with shelves of learned-looking -books behind her (it adds gravitas to the image). By the way, what is it about her that makes her notable. She appear to have only worked for one of the many hundreds of US marketing companies and other part-time jobs. At this at this point you need to declare your COI as Wikipedia is not a trade directory. The article about her also reads more like a CV rather than an encyclopedic entry -so this sort of puffery is better posted on Linkedin--Aspro (talk) 17:43, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

About table export/import

Resolved

I would like to switch two columns of the table at Orders_of_magnitude_(length)#Overview. Going by hand would be error-prone and tedious*, but I would assume the only way to do it otherwise is to export to a table handling program such as LibreOffice Calc, copy-cut the columns in order, and then export back to wikitable. I have looked at the tools listed at Help:Table but (for instance) [2] fails to do the job properly, probably because of the "cell merging" (some cells are headings for two columns or multiple rows).

Does anyone have experience with table formatting from and to WP?

*It may not be so long to do it by hand, but sometimes, I would rather spend 10h coding a script that does the job in a millisecond than spend 1h doing it by hand, because of (1) intellectual satisfaction, (2) the off chance the need is repeated. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:00, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

@Tigraan: I just tried in my sandbox User:Sphilbrick/sandbox and it was trivial.

You must use VE (i.e. "edit" not "edit source"

I coped the top table down, then test to see if I could swap columns.

I inserted a column between 2 and 3, copied column 1 to the new column and deleted the now empty first column.--S Philbrick(Talk) 00:17, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

So WP:VE can do it, great. I would not know, I did not use it so far. (Just in case anyone cares: it must be activated, or else replace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(...)?action=edit by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(...)?veaction=edit in the editing url) Thanks! Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 08:00, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

File not depicting as edited.

At File:20160330 MCDAAG Zach Collins J.jpg, I am not able to see the page as depicted in the most recent update at File:20160330 MCDAAG Zach Collins J.jpg#File history. Instead I am seeing a rotated version of the original distorted by swapped aspect ratios.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:39, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

It looks correct to me now after some purging. It doesn't always help but see commons:Help:Purge. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:23, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:06, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

PrimeHunter, It is not working for me at Talk:2016_McDonald's_All-American_Boys_Game#Image_voting.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:11, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

I haven't been able to generate the 150px version. You can set | width = 151 or 149 to display the right image. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

O.K. Thx.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)