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November 6

Signature

Hi. How do you change your signature on Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thebest123123xxxx (talk • contribs) 03:20, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello ,welcome. See WP:CUSTOMSIG for help on changing your signature. If you need further help, drop me a line or post again. Good luck. JC7V-talk 03:22, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

"Anna Craig"

Hi, in light of "Anna Craig" stating on Twitter that he would prefer to be referred to as Iggy, I changed the Wikipedia page of list of OK K.O. episodes to reflect this name change, but it got reverted. Why was this? Are there any grounds for me to be able to change it back, or is it stuck like this because he was officially credited as "Anna?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.182.252.106 (talk) 13:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia reports the name that WP:Reliable sources use. Once these start using the new name, Wikipedia will be able to follow. A preference expressed on Twitter doesn't count as a reliable source. Dbfirs 19:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Dbfirs: I have done citations much, but I think WP:SELFSOURCE applies. RudolfRed (talk) 20:35, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Ah, yes, this is not about our article Anna Craig, but a different person with the same name. If the publications now use the name "Iggy" then perhaps we should change the name. Dbfirs 21:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

That applies to the future. Existing credits should reflect what the credits actually say. Geraldo Perez (talk) 03:19, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

False Information

Hello,

This article has false information about the founder. This group was NOT formed by just one person. It was a brainchild of Dr. Govind Singh Rawat and both Mr. Ashesh Malla and Dr. Rawat established the group. I have been trying to edit the "founder of Sarwanam to Co-Founder of Sarwanam but haven't been able to. The person who created the page doesn't necessarily has to include Dr. Rawat's name but the fact that it has "Ashesh Malla" as the sole founder is false and misleading. The page should provide true information for people who are relying on your page to get more information. I can provide you with evidences in favour of my claim that DR. Rawat together with Mr. Malla founded this group.

Hope you can help me in correcting the false information and stop misleading information.

Webpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarwanam_Theatre_Group — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.211.126.51 (talk) 15:43, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.211.126.51 (talk) 15:42, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Which article are you referring to? 331dot (talk) 15:43, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

The OP said that - it's Sarwanam Theatre Group. Maproom (talk) 15:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Which is now semi-protected due to persistent edit-warring by... ——SerialNumber54129 16:04, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Incorrect information showing up in Wikipedia block on Google search

When a search is done for "Dean Allison", the Wikipedia block that shows up has incorrect information. the name of his spouse is "Rebecca"

https://www.google.ca/search?q=dean+allison&oq=dean+allison&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i60l3j69i59.2152j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

How do we get this changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.146.58.23 (talk) 17:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Google's Knowledge Graph uses a wide variety of sources. There may be a text paragraph ending with "Wikipedia" to indicate that particular text was copied from Wikipedia. An image and other text before or after the Wikipedia excerpt may be from sources completely unrelated to Wikipedia. We have no control over how Google presents our information, but Google's Knowledge Graph has a "Feedback" link where anyone can mark a field as wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:29, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

My Edits Have Been Undone?

Longhair, wrote me to inform me that my edits were undone on the New Orleans Desegregation crisis page because the edits did not seem constructive. Please advise on what is meant by constructive?

Thank you, Dee — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeeTMeredith (talk • contribs) 17:46, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

You need to read the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:51, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Italic title including parentheses

How can I make the title of God is Great (no. 2) appear entirely in italics, rather than having the parentheses not italicised? Adding |italic title=force to the infobox, as suggested by the documentation at Template:Infobox artwork, doesn't seem to work. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Fixed by [1]. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Toolbars

Hi: I use Monobook. The toolbar above the editing window has disappeared; how can I get it back? I use it for inserting hidden comments and nowiki tags; the latter I can probably figure out how to do manually, but the former I just tried and failed, and wound up tagging an article Refimprove instead of marking the specific bad references. My memory for strings of symbols is very limited; it was a long and painfulprocess to teach myself the parameters for the citation templates. I saw "Enable enhanced toolbar" in editing preferences, but that isn't the same (and has several symbols I don't understand). Please tell me this feature hasn't gone away. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:29, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

There are multiple toolbars. I guess you used one which was removed per Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Support ends for the 2006 wikitext editor. I suggest you learn the enhanced toolbar. See Help:Edit toolbar#List of functions, or hover over an icon to see a description. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

It's shown there as the "standard toolbar", and I don't see hidden message listed in the table of what the enhanced toolbar does? Am I missing it? If not, why on earth would I enable something that is just a one-button (VizEd) way of doing things like inserting files, which require defining parameters and are therefore easier to type as a string rather than go back and change it in the next edit? I hope you're not telling me this is yet another part of my workflow the WMF has mucked up. Because it's not convenient for me to carry around a sheaf of cheat-sheets with codes for things like concealed comments. One of the advantages of this site was push-button insertion of one-point things like the two I named, signatures when on a machine with no tildes, and alt chars. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

The removed 2006 wikitext editor is called "Standard toolbar" at Help:Edit toolbar which needs an update. It had not been standard for years. The enhanced toolbar has many features including a signature button. Four of the buttons (those with text and a triangle) open menus with various options. "Special characters" gives clickable buttons for hundreds of characters. There is no source comment button but below the edit area I have a drop-down box where the selection "Wiki markup" gives a button <!-- --> for inserting a source comment. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

I see you mentioned nowiki at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Support ends for the 2006 wikitext editor. It's the third icon on "Advanced". It's also one of the "Wiki markup" options below the edit area for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. You may have seen that I commented in that Village pump thread. I've since looked at the "alternate scripts" section on MediaWiki that someone has linked there, and I note that neither that nor the image include the "hidden comment", which you are calling "source comment". As I said, I can probably do nowiki tags manually; the trick is remembering that it's all one word, not 2 words or hyphenated; and like most people not wedded to VizEd, I don't want buttons for boldface and italics. I'm also lucky that I changed a year or two ago to a laptop the size of a boogie board, which has the full keyboard including the number pad for MS alt chars as well as the tilde key. But thank you for the "source comment" code above - that is what I will now have to write on a piece of paper, laminate the poor man's way, and carry in my wallet at all times, because apparently I was using an extended versionof the once-standard toolbar and nobody cares. I don't like pulldown menus, partly because they require good mouse control and I don't always even have a mouse, partly because they freeze when the connection starts to go. I have the alt chars table under my editing window and its being hidden behind a pulldown menu is one of my many, many reasons for despising Vector, let alone VizEd. This latest change actually forces me to use offline methods rather than just painfully relearn. I really, really wish the WMF with their ceaseless tinkering would just GO AWAY. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:26, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Ugh. The "advanced" toolbar is horrible, far fewer options (or, far better hidden options) than the one taken away. The Icons are almost completely invisible - white on a very pale blue background. Horrible. DuncanHill (talk) 23:46, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

It also takes ages to load. DuncanHill (talk) 23:48, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Our Tribal Wikipedia is blocked from edits

Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians was blocked from editing. My information I upload comes from BIA Federal Documents and our Tribal Webpage. I will cite our Tribal Webpage as well as Site the Federal Documents from BIA. Please let me know how to edit our Wikipedia page again. Thanks.

Malcolm A. Davis Jr. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malcolm.a.davisjr (talk • contribs) 22:46, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

The page was protected from non-autoconfirmed editors because unsourced info was being added. You're better off discussing this on that article's talk page. You can ping the editor who protected the page by including this text in your note: {{u|Yamaguchi先生}} TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 23:26, 6 November 2018 (UTC)