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Henry Ford High School, Detroit, MI

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Darryl Ross (80) - Radio personality on WMNF 88.5FM in Tampa, FL. Broadcast on-air as DJ Cen-Flo host of The Saturday Night House Party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.196.62.176 (talk) 01:21, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, if a Wikipedia page about the person exists, then they can be added to such a list. Eagleash (talk) 04:58, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Link on Honeymoon destination

Hi Team,

I'm a big fan of your site! I found a broken link the other day and wanted to let you know about it. The page where the link appears is Linda Britten and the anchor text is honeymoon destinations.

I found similar page that even has a link from wikipedia if you want update the link.

www.honeymoondestinationspro.com

Keep up the excellent work! Thanks!

Ichwan Nur Hakim — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hakimbo78 (talk • contribs) 12:14, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Hakimbo78:, and welcome to Wikipedia. I have reverted your change in Linda Britten: such external links to personal blogs, forums and similar websites are generally not suitable for Wikipedia. You'll find additional information about the usage of external links at WP:EL, and about the criteria for reliable sources at WP:RS. GermanJoe (talk) 12:36, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I have also converted the external links to internal Wiki-links as preferred format: you can use [[page title here]] if you want to link to an internal Wikipedia page. GermanJoe (talk) 12:44, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hakimbo78 and GermanJoe The Wikipedia article at "Honeymoon destination" was in fact deleted several years ago, so I have removed the link. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:42, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My biography

I want to registre my information and biography on wilkipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.48.150.157 (talk) 14:06, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Wikipedia is not social media to just post your biography. This is an encyclopedia, where article subjects must be shown with independent reliable sources to be notable. Further, writing about yourself is strongly discouraged, please see WP:AUTO. If you just want to tell the world about yourself, you should use actual social media or a blog to do so. If you truly feel that you meet the notability guidelines(WP:BIO) and merit an article here, you should allow others who take note of you to write it. 331dot (talk) 14:52, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cannot change my organization's wikiprofile.org homepage link

Hi! Is it possible to change my organization's wikiprofile (http://wikiprofile.org/wiki/BrandBox)? The link to homepage have been changed from .com to .lv . I am new at the company and nobody knows the password for the profile.
Tried to edit as different account - but it was not possible. Is there any other way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulcai (talk • contribs) 14:32, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is the help desk for the English version of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not associated in any way with Wikiprofile. Wikiprofile uses the same free Wikimedia software as we do, and it links to Wikipedia a lot, but that's all. You might try to see to they have a help desk over there. -Arch dude (talk) 14:47, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Image from a company

Hello, I am creating a page about a company and am unsure how to use the image. I wrote the company and said I am creating a Wikipedia page about them and they have given me the green light for image use. However, I'm unsure how to go about this, i.e. how to label and credit it, or if they need to upload the image(s) on Wikipedia Commons? Thank you for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.47.14.91 (talk) 16:51, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP user. In general, permission to use an image on Wikipdia is not enough. Images uploaded to Commons must be either public domain, or specifically licensed (by the copyright holder) with a licence such as CC-BY-SA, which allows anybody to reuse the image for any purpose, commercial or not, as long as they attribute the source. Understandably, companies are not necessarily willing to license their images that way, though it depends on the company, and what the image shows.

However, if you are talking about a company logo, then it is very likely that Wikipedia will allow the image to be used under its "fair use" rules: the use must meet all the criteria in the non-free content criteria. See LOGO for more information. --ColinFine (talk) 18:28, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As a separate issue, please make yourself aware of our notability policy: see WP:NOTABLE and WP:NCORP in particular. If the company is not notable (by our definition, not your definition), then no amount of effort on your part can result in an article that will be kept on Wikipedia. -Arch dude (talk) 18:46, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How to fix incorrect sorting in a table that uses templates (instead of numbers) to calculate a value

What can I do to fix the incorrect sorting in the following table? The "age" is not entered as a number. Rather, it is calculated by a Wikipedia template. Here is the table:

Age
94 years old
97 years old
108 years old
106 years old
100 years old

Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:38, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph A. Spadaro: this is documented on Help:Sorting, and ive applied a fchange to your table that would work for this specific case. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:02, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Age
94 years old
97 years old
108 years old
106 years old
100 years old

@TheDJ: Thanks. Can you please tell me exactly what you did to make it work? What did you have to type into the Table? I'd like to use the same "code" (or whatever it is) that makes the sort work correctly in other tables that I am editing. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 00:16, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph A. Spadaro: The edit [1] is in the page history. It inserted the attribute data-sort-type="number" in the column header per Help:Sorting#Forcing a column to have a particular data type. It often requires much more to get a column to sort in the wanted way. Your original sorting didn't fail because a template was used but because the cells contained both numbers and words. This usually causes alphabetical sorting where "1" always comes before "9", also when it's part of numbers with a different number of digits like 100 and 94. The below table uses no templates. It does not have data-sort-type="number" so the first column sorts alphabetically while the second sorts numerically because it only has numbers. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:41, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Age with words	Age
88 years old	88
91 years old	91
102 years old	102
100 years old	100
94 years old	94

Perfect! Thanks, all! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:31, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Archive.org

Does anyone else have problems with archive.org at the moment? Take Deir Ibzi, the sentence "In 1838 it was noted as Deir Bezi'a, a Muslim village, located in the Beni Harith region, north of Jerusalem" has two sources; if you click on the first it is correct, but when you click on the second, you will get the first reference again...unless you log out and clear your cookies. I guess what I am asking is the archive.org system wrong...or is my computer failing? Huldra (talk) 22:49, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Huldra: The links are https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/124/mode/1up and https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n83/mode/1up. I don't know this archive.org feature but it apparently remembers which page you last read and redirects you there no matter which link you click. If you start at one of the links and flip a few pages then this becomes the new destination for all links to that document. An easier workaround for me is to copy-paste the url in a link to the address bar when you are already looking at a page in the document. In this case archive.org will respect the url and not redirect you back to the page you were already on. You can also modify the url manually. I don't know whether we can put something in the url which disables the redirect feature for clicks. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:49, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: Thanks, but for me archive will redirect me to the first page, even when I copy and paste the link. Also, this is a new feature in archive.org, it never was like this before. (At least, if you have the same problem then it isn't my old computer.....) Huldra (talk) 23:54, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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