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December 10

Khalid (singer) image

Can anyone get an image for Khalid (singer) article please? Theo (edits) 06:35, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

@Theo Mandela: Please see here for a list of templates which can be used to make a request, and which should be placed on the article talk page. Eagleash (talk) 07:15, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Any image of the singer would do really, if anyone has taken pictures of him performing on tour and could upload them to the article or a PR image, thanks. Theo (edits) 08:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

History of my IP

Dear Wikipedia,

I have discussed many articles with my IP address but now I must see that my history has been wiped out???

Regards,

J.P. Clifford 145.129.136.48 (talk) 14:20, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

You have contributions from the IP used today going back to June 2016 here. IP addresses are subject to change from time to time (sometimes quite frequently). You can find contributions from an earlier address by going to an article you recall editing, finding your edit in the history and clicking on 'contribs'. It is unlikely that your history has been 'wiped out'... unless you were some sort of serial vandal / BLP violator / copyright violator! Eagleash (talk) 14:28, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Is RSS on wikis always delayed?

It seems like it is by at least thirty minutes. -- Mentifisto 16:17, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Adding a template - how?

Losing the will to live here ;) Hello lovely helpful pelple, I would like to add the template "Plays by Patrick Marber" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Plays_by_Patrick_Marber) to Patrick Marber's Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Marber) as that would seem like a great place to put it, but have no idea what magic code to add to make it appear. I've tried opening up the editing page of the "Plays by" template to see what it might be called but adding that name made no difference. The help pages for using Templates don't seem to cover actually inserting templates into pages... thanks for any light you can shed. Why must it be so difficult to do such simple tasks, I've been a low-level editor for 10+ years and have to mentally steel myself every time I tweak a page. Hats off to those of you who've worked out what you're doing. JoBrodie (talk) 17:26, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi JoBrodie - Category:Plays by Patrick Marber is not a template, it is a category, A template, like, say Template:Plays by Athol Fugard, can be added at the bottom of an artists page, and to the article on each of his plays, to link to his other plays. The category just includes those articles to which Category:Plays by Patrick Marber has been added at the bottom. - You could link to the category, but, as all the plays are already in his list of works, that appears unnecessary. You could create a template Template:Plays by Patrick Marber - if you wish to do that, then I suggest you copy another template to get the syntax correct. - Arjayay (talk) 17:45, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Arjayay, I've taken off the category and added a template which a friend helped me find (or create). I got myself in a muddle but I knew the community would unmuddle me, thanks :) JoBrodie (talk) 18:21, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

I have corrected the "name" parameter in Template:Plays by Patrick Marber, as the VTE functions weren't working. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:39, 10 December 2017 (UTC)