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March 27

Can't find WhatLinksHere link

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I'm disambiguating Special:WhatLinksHere/Eleanor_Daley, and there's one entry remaining, supposedly a link from Eleanor "Sis" Daley, which I can't see in the article. Am I overlooking something? (Eleanor "Sis" Daley coincidentally (?) happens to be the intended disambiguation target.) — Sebastian 05:33, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

 Fixed - it was in the {{redirect}} hatnote. --Scott Davis ^Talk 06:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! — Sebastian 06:41, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Facebook links

I'm stumped at finding an appropriate policy or style guide for Facebook links. I'm sure that the recent addition to The Australian Mental Health Party needs formatting differnetly (or reverting), but can't find a guideline to say what I should do to it. Trying to find some guidance or examples found Kumar Gaurav which didn't look like an example I want to follow either. Any hints where the policy or guideline on such things might be please? --Scott Davis ^Talk 05:43, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Probably this should use Template:Facebook. I've gone ahead and made the change. FYI: I've also added a notability tag. Rwessel (talk) 07:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Scott Davis, as a rule we don't actually want Facebook links at all. The only time a Facebook link should be included in the "External links" list is if Facebook is the only official online representation of the subject. When a subject, such as The Australian Mental Health Party, has a website under their own domain name we do not list their Facebook link at all. I have fixed it for you. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:14, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you both for confirming my feeling about the Facebook link, although I still didn't find the relevant policy/guideline page. @Rwessel: Re notability, the Australian consensus has been that any party that is or has been registered by the Australian Electoral Commission or any state equivalent is sufficiently notable. We have an election coming up later this year, so most current small parties will get some coverage then, and small parties in general are quite topical in Australia at the moment due to recent changes to the voting system for our upper house. I am gradually working through lifting the standard of articles about the current parties. There are four more currently in the queue for registration, so it will take a while. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:04, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

@Scott Davis Sorry I forgot to link to the guideline -WP:ELNO. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:15, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Dodger67 (talk · contribs). That is the guideline I believed existed, but I could not find. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:35, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Bendix Trophy Race for Aeronautics

On your page for The Bendix Trophy Race you have the winner in 1954 as Edward D. Kenny. The winner of the race was my father, Edward William Kenny, Jr. Please correct the name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.0.181.147 (talk) 07:00, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

link: Bendix Trophy

Do you have a wp:reliable source for this change? I took a quick look and the current sources for the 1954 race appear to be dead links, so I don't know what they showed. Rwessel (talk) 07:12, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

This newspaper gives him the middle initial D, as do a few other sources, but the obituary says William and the Chicago Tribune gives W as the middle initial. How do we know which is accurate? (My opinion is that the W is probably correct, but how did the confusion arise?) Dbfirs 07:31, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps the fact that capital D and capital W are next to each other on a linotype keyboard led to a typo that got picked up and repeated in a few places. Deor (talk) 12:16, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and changed the initial to W. As a former resident of Chicago, I tend to trust the Tribune (except for its politics). :-) Deor (talk) 20:19, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Referencing errors on Joseph Jacobs

Reference help requested.

Thanks, Lotje (talk) 11:35, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

User talk:Lotje/Archives/2016/April#Reference errors on 13 March, sorry, but I cannot see what is meant. Lotje (talk) 11:35, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

There was a URL value query against ref 8. Although the URL looked right I 're-did' it and it seems OK now. Eagleash (talk) 12:51, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Table problem

I was editing the article List of number-one singles of 2016 (Finland) when I came across a problem. The download chart (second column) should have two number one songs for week 12. I listed them in the same row, which looks very clumsy. There should be separate rows for both songs for that week. Generally, I know this can be done by adding an extra row, but I haven't managed to do it the right way. The problem is that one of the two number ones was already at the top a week before. I would like to have the row for Sanni to show in both week 11 and 12, with the row for Adam Lambert also showing for the latter. However, when I do this, it never displays correctly. On my first attempt, the Lambert row messed up the table [1]. On the second attempt, the row for Sanni disappeared from week 12 [2]. I know it's difficult to explain the problem, but I hope someone understands and can explain what I did wrong. I had the same problem earlier with the article List of number-one singles of 2011 (Finland) and week 48 in the second column. YuckieDuck (talk) 16:18, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

@YuckieDuck: Does [1] look right? It uses code from your second attempt but adds a forced row height to prevent a row with no content from getting height 0. The result may depend on factors like browser, window size and resolution. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:22, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Now it looks the way it should, at least on Firefox and Chrome. YuckieDuck (talk) 20:34, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter:I tried using the same code for the 2011 article that I linked to, and it also worked well there. Thanks again for the solution! YuckieDuck (talk) 20:52, 27 March 2016 (UTC)