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November 10

Wa east district Funsi

Wa east district capital in the upper west region in Ghana are residents of Sissala people and not Gurunsi as claimed. Majority are Sissala and no one Gunrunsi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:980D:8200:4154:3F7F:B2CA:9AD6 (talk) 06:14, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

EDITH MACEFIELD

hi, there was no mention of her cousin benny goodman or edith's playing clarinet as reported in reader's digest of june 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.179.37.240 (talk) 09:41, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Sounds like you already have a source for the material, feel free to be bold and add that material yourself. WP:REFBEGIN has guidance on how to add sourced content to articles. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:18, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

login

My username: "byenzer" has somehow gotten corrupted. Wikipedia has no record of my email, nor can i get logged in. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:204:D87F:7E50:A928:BD69:501B:DC2C (talk) 14:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

The account User:Byenzer has not made an edit in over 5 years. If you attached an email address to your account you should be able to use that to recover your password. If not, there isn't much else that can be done. Is it possible that someone gained access to your account and changed your login information?(though I'm not inclined to think so since your account has not edited). 331dot (talk) 14:36, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Special:EmailUser says Byenzer has not specified an email address. If you don't have a working password then create a new account. The edits by Byenzer are so insignificant that it's not a problem to use another account. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:50, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Strange semicolon on contributions page

I have lately been seeing a strange semicolon on the contributions page, not just for me, but for any other user as well. It's in the timestamp column. For example, my latest contribution before this one shows up as:

; 23:29, 9 November 2019 (diff | hist)

(But with the links styled as MediaWiki internal links instead of external links like above. I'd have to modify the MediaWiki source code to show them here exactly as they appear, but you catch my drift.)

Why is this happening? JIP | Talk 18:34, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

It's discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Problems with separators and semicolons on RecentChanges, Watchlist, History and Contributions. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

About Ian.Thomson abusing Admin privilege

It seem one of your administrator doing some abuse since some time now. It even insult people on their talk page, and do not respect Wikipedia rules about articles. Please do something about him to stop abusing and harrasing people, to stop him from censuring informations on article and so on. It seem to delete contents form article right now Bakaba (talk) 21:11, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Bakaba, I see that you have been edit warring at Ahriman, repeatedly adding unsourced material, which Ian.thomson and another editor, and now me, have removed. If you still want to add this, please discuss your reasons on the article's talk page, and provide a reliable reference (this cannot be Wikipedia, so as to avoid circularity). Maproom (talk) 22:03, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Still waiting for you to show me the rule that says other people can't remove content you added because it has a blue link. Yes, you did find something suggesting that it'd be nice if one adds a source for something they can find a reliable source for, but it doesn't say "don't remove it if there's a blue link. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:34, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I see no abuse being done here. The added content is a pretty much trivial reference, and User:Ian.thomson, as well as anyone else, is full within his rights to remove it. JIP | Talk 11:10, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Furthermore, I suggest you do not delete other people's comments from you talk page just because you don't like them. JIP | Talk 11:22, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Just to clarify, per WP:OWNTALK you may remove posts or comments from your own talk page, but this is taken to mean you have read (and it can therefore imply, or it can be inferred that you have undertood) them. Eagleash (talk) 12:09, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Discouraging editors from adding their freshly invented esolang to Esoteric programming language

Currently, I have added a comment in the examples section to notify editors that this is discouraged, but I was wondering if a hatnote with a interwiki link to the esolang wiki, like esolang:Main Page, notifying readers that further examples can be found there (and should be put on there, as it is a wiki for them, after all), would be appropriate.

--MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 22:20, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

It seems to me that a lot of that article is unsourced fancruft, and should either be sourced to secondary sources, or removed. --ColinFine (talk) 22:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

ColinFine, I'm currently combing through what needs trimmed and what doesn't. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 22:56, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Seems like the majority of it needed trimmed. Rest of it just needs inline citations. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 23:10, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Adding alt text to infoboxes

Hello! I've been pretty interested in improving the accessibility of Wikipedia, and I noticed that most infoboxes don't have alt text, which allows people with screen readers or with images turned toff to know what a image is. But, since most infoboxes are hosted in userspace I wanted to make sure it would be okay to edit them and add alt text. Would it be ok to add alt text to infoboxes, or should I individually ask every single creator of infoboxes if it's ok to add? I'd think it would be the prior, but I just want to make sure. TheAwesomeHwyh 22:34, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

If I've ever created an infobox, I'll be much happier to find that some kind person has added alt text to it, than to be asked for permission. It's not my infobox, it's Wikipedia's. Maproom (talk) 22:44, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I'd say, be BOLD, TheAwesomeHwyh. I'm glad somebody is looking at that issue. --ColinFine (talk) 22:49, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Maproom, ColinFine! I'll start doing it now! TheAwesomeHwyh 23:04, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I think you mean userbox, and thank you for your work. Darylgolden^(talk) Ping when replying 01:17, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Approval A HOME FOR CURIOSITIES

Can I request an approval of this page here? Thank you in advance! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Home_for_Curiosities_-_Film?fbclid=IwAR2GVHvbPhO8ejR-fVmRLpi-5_2tMqf7zKwyI725fQsbH_vSkrQggwYIgRw — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fratknocker (talk • contribs) 23:23, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

@Fratknocker: The answer is really no, I'm afraid. Articles are not reviewed in any particular order. There are always several thousand articles awaiting review as new pages or via WP:AfC. Please feel free to participate in the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Home for Curiosities. Before doing so please read WP:NFILM which sets out the criteria by which films can be considered notable in the Wikipedia sense. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 02:00, 11 November 2019 (UTC)