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2020 NBA All-Star Game

Can you change the links from red to blue for the 2020 NBA All-star Game Article. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 01:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

That will require someone to create that article. You can use WP:AFC and the article wizard to create the article yourself, or post a request at WP:RA. RudolfRed (talk) 02:25, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: The article already exists (2020 NBA All Star-Game). The red links the IP user was referring to were the article categories. Turns out "Illinois" was misspelled – I have fixed the spelling so now the categories are displaying correctly. –FlyingAce^✈hello 02:38, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I Mispelled it but the navbox need to turn 2020 from red to blue because I put a new category called 2020's can you do that for me. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 04:24, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

The link was red in the navbox because the article title had the hyphen in the wrong place. I have moved it to 2020 NBA All-Star Game, and {{NBA All-Star Games}} now shows it as a blue link. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:31, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much I thank you for it. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 14:16, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Stephen Bachiler

I have FAILED again when adding a file (of the front page of a book) . Please fix if able. I am not doing any more editing for some time. Sorry. 203.132.68.1 (talk) 02:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello! I have fixed the display of the image. To add an image outside the infobox, the correct code is [[File:Your image name here.jpg|thumb]]. You do not need to enter the complete URL from Commons. Hope that helps! –FlyingAce^✈hello 02:42, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

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My edit has been reverted twice and I'm not sure who the editor is or how to address this.

José Guadalupe Posada (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hello, I edited part of the article on José Guadalupe Posada, but my edit was reverted twice in a row. I'd like to know why this keeps happening and how to address it. Thank you. werewolf 04:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Revirvlkodlaku (talk • contribs) 16 November 2017 04:04 (UTC)

@Revirvlkodlaku: Hello, the other editor is anonymous, I.e. editing without creating or using a Wikipedia account. Nothing wrong with that per se, as long as their edits are constructive. In this case I believe the addition of 'los' to be incorrect per Día de Muertos and Day of the Dead. I have reverted their most recent change with an explanation. For future reference if your edits are reverted you should discuss with the other party preferably at the article talk page per WP:BRD. Also, do not get into an edit war as this can land you in difficulty irrespective of the merits of the edits. Please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:38, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Eagleash, for the explanation, as well as fixing my edit. By the way, I almost always sign my posts using four tildes, as you suggested, but sometimes when I go back to them, it says that the post is unsigned. Can you tell me why that is, and why you reminded me to sign my posts? Thanks! werewolf 15:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@Revirvlkodlaku:, with regards to the signature, perhaps you aren't always putting the correct number of tildes? Five ~~~~~ gives just the date, like this "15:17, 16 November 2017 (UTC)", which appears to be what is happening above Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:17, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes Jim is correct I believe. On tilde too many (5) gives just the date (used when updating sporting infoboxes). Three gives just the name: cannot see an obvious use for that. Eagleash (talk) 15:33, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Revirvlkodlaku! I think the issue may be that you entered "werewolf" as your custom signature and checked the "Treat the above as wiki markup" checkbox in your preferences, so your signature is not linking to your user page. Can you try going to Preferences in the top right corner, scroll down to the Signature section and uncheck "Treat the above as wiki markup" to see if that sorts it? –FlyingAce^✈hello 16:45, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

There, is this better? werewolf (talk) 05:52, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Yup, it's appearing as a proper signature now. –FlyingAce^✈hello 14:10, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Stephen Bachiler

In the section - Emigration to England and death - there is a big void of space which is evident when we print out the sheet. Please fix if able. Thanks 101.189.107.58 (talk) 08:14, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

The problem is probably caused by the two images taking up extra space, but I am unable to reproduce the error. The article prints correctly, without extra space for me. Have you tried a different browser? Dbfirs 09:10, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

The problem is with the overheads on a large screen- we can see the void/gap and it looks like the article is lacking information (where the void of space is). Thanks for trying 101.189.107.58 (talk) 09:17, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

This might be a problem with a narrower page width. How are you creating the overheads? One solution would be to download to a word processor and rearrange the text. (Can any other editor here reproduce the problem?) If you want to display only the text, without the problem images, or with smaller images, then this can easily be done. Dbfirs 09:27, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Should we place the file/picture/print of the old church further down into the "Legacy" section - that way we fix up the problem of the Void of empty space on the page. I cannot do this myself - Failed! please help Thanks 101.189.107.58 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:41, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

I've moved the picture down for you just so that you can see if it makes any difference. I'll move it back later because it really belongs in the section which mentions it. You can try a version without these images in your sandbox if you wish, and print from that version to avoid the gaps. Dbfirs 12:40, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Biography

How can i add abiography of apersonality on wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.159.13 (talk) 09:01, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Writing a good biography is quite a difficult task, but you could start by reading WP:Your first article and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. You should first collect independent sources in which the person has been written about in detail, and your Wikipedia article should be a summary of what these sources say about the subject. A common mistake is to write about what you yourself know, or what the subject says about themselves. All statements that might possibly be challenged should be backed up with a reference to a WP:Reliable source. Dbfirs 09:21, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Frederick Trump

I believe that the statement that Frederick Trump left Bavaria to avoid military service needs to cited. I believe that this is a veiled slam directed at President Donald Trump because he did not serve in the military during the Viet Nam War. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.127.124.151 (talk) 12:38, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

It is cited. There is a footnote directly after the statement in the "Early Life" section which discusses his avoidal of military service in the Imperial German military. --Jayron32 12:46, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Help archiving

This is embarrassing, but I can't seem to get my talk page archived. I've tried but failed. If someone could do it or tell me how to do it I would be very grateful. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 12:44, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

There are several options listed at Help:Archiving a talk page, including two bots which will do it for you automagically if you put a bit of code at the top of your talk page. --Jayron32 12:48, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Resizing video

Can anyone advise on how to change the size of a video? Does it need to be done at source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_firebreak — Preceding unsigned comment added by ColinHallmark (talk • contribs) 13:47, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

→

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:23, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Request to delete a page

To whom this may concern,

I work at the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme, and there are two pages which I'd like to delete as the information is outdated. How do I go about doing this? I read up on it and still don't understand, and I also added the tag to delete the page but it doesn't seem to appear anymore.

The two pages are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index_(1998) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index_(2009)

Please advice on how to procced.

Don't proceed. If the information was correct at the date specified, then why should the article be deleted? If you have recent information, and there is no article, then you are welcome to create an article with the latest information, citing the appropriate references. Dbfirs 15:45, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

... but we already have List of countries by Human Development Index which contains links to the earlier articles that you wish to delete. Should we add a note to the earlier articles with a link to the latest figures? Dbfirs 15:50, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Don't delete - but a link to the most recent data as a hatnote would be a nice touch. Legacypac (talk) 02:13, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Toyota Music Factory page edits

Hello,

I am writing in concerns with the Toyota Music Factory page as it is providing wrong information about our development :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Music_Factory

I am new to this and have tried multiple times to edit with the proper instructions given with no success. Here are the items that are incorrect:

The owner is NOT "LIVE NATION" - the owner of the development is the ARK Group of Irving, Inc

The address to the development is 316 W Las Colinas

Please advise.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imusicf (talk • contribs) 17:37, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Imusicf. I have made the changes. Generally, the way to request changes to an article where you may have a conflict of interest is to post a request on the article's Talk page explaining exactly what changes you want to make, with citations to reliable published sources. (For addresses and ownership, the sources probably don't need to be independent of the company, though if there are independent sources, they are usually preferred). If you add {{edit request}} (with the double curly brackets) to your suggestion, that will put it on a list of requests that various people look at. Then somebody unconnected with the company can decide what change is appropriate. The claim that the center was owned by Live Nation was properly cited to Billboard, but looking at that article, it's clear that it has been misread: just the Pavilion is owned by Live Nation. The address of 300 actually appears in the Irving Weekly article that I cited, but I have preferred the address from TMF's own website (I probably should have cited it, but it's uncontroversial and easily found). --ColinFine (talk) 23:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Anybody tracking server maintenance going on?

Both data and de.wiki seem to be down ATM. Not sure if it's affecting other projects. En.wiki and commons seem to be fine. GMG^talk 17:46, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Seems everything is back up, just slow as molasses and buggy. GMG^talk 18:30, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: If you see more issues, bring it up at WP:VPT. RudolfRed (talk) 20:14, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Like I said, whatever it was seems to have been resolved. Was just posting somewhere in the off chance a data regular knew something I didn't. I didn't figure it was a sustained technical problem that would require VPT. But if it was going to be an hours long wait, I wasn't going to keep several tabs open waiting to save. GMG^talk 20:18, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Ulnar neuropathy

I added content to this page and fifty minutes later it has been removed. What’s up with that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asherah12 (talk • contribs) 18:03, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

have left a note on user/talk page--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:55, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Edits

I have 5 edits and in the list I see a "m" next to 4 of them. What is the purpose of the "m"? On my fifth edit I reported the most recent action taken by a public figure.that edit was relevant to the positions of the person. That edit in my list has no "m" next to it and the edit was taken out within days. What gives, why was it taken out? We can not have people taking items out just because they don't like it or are not proud of what they have done if it was the subject themselves. Please let me know what was wrong so I can understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stowler1 (talk • contribs) 18:56, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

The edits tagged with an "m" are those which you marked as minor edits, but by the look of them they did not meet the criteria shown at Help:Minor edit. Your fifth edit was only partly reverted, but it could (and probably should) have been fully reverted as you had no references to published reliable sources. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:06, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

The Infinite Ay-Money

Do i need anything more to have the story i have on The Infinite Ay-Money posted ... ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheInfiniteAyMoney (talk • contribs) 19:56, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@TheInfiniteAyMoney: It was deleted advertising. See the message on your talk page. RudolfRed (talk) 20:06, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

2018 Big 12 football standings

Can you move the 2018 Big 12 football standings from the talk page to the draft page please. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 20:22, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done It's now at Draft:2018 Big 12 football standings. –FlyingAce^✈hello 21:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Publicity

Hello

The article Kelly Schmidt is just pure publicity.

Is that allowed?

WhatsUpWorld (talk) 23:49, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello WhatsUpWorld, much of the material was a copyright violation. I've removed a significant part of the same. As a stub article, it seems okay now. Come back if you need more assistance. Thanks, Lourdes 00:44, 17 November 2017 (UTC)