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where is the official communication area or storage among users/wikipedians?

Hello there, is it any mailing list? Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost? -- Ktsquare (talk) 02:14, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@Ktsquare: Hi there! The official communication areas include millions of talk pages and Wikipedia pages (like this help desk). There are many mailing lists (see Wikipedia:Mailing lists), including Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:43, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

If you want to communicate with other admins you could consider using the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Thincat (talk) 11:07, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@Ktsquare: Note also that all entries in all of those "communication areas" are retrievable using the "history" of the respective pages all the way back to the creation of each page, which in some cases occurred in 2003. (Except for rare cases of revision deletion for causes including copyright violations and disclosures of personal information). I think this may be the "storage" you refer to. You are not supposed to "store" random stuff on Wikipedia's servers, but you can create subpages of your user page for stuff you are working on for inclusion in Wikipedia or related to inclusion in Wikipedia. We also have projects, and those projects have talk pages for collaboration with other Wikipedians. -Arch dude (talk) 18:40, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

The Stroke page of Wikipedia

I think you should have the definition of stroke be "->-<-<-<<-<-<->>>-><-<-<-><-<-" because I've seen videos (in school contexts) and thats what they've looked like, plus my friend showed me a video of bingus and it looked like it had a stroke and bingus went like "->-<-<-<<-<-<->>>-><-<-<-><-<-" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.128.40.15 (talk) 02:40, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi there! The best place for constructive feedback about an article is the article's talk page (e.g. Talk:Stroke), preferably with published reliable sources. Happy editing! (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) GoingBatty (talk) 02:45, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

I have no idea what form of Stroke (disambiguation) the OP is referring to, but I doubt it's the medical kind: my best guess would have been Rowing stroke, were it not that "bingus" may refer to a cat stroking video(?) momentarily popular on something called "Instagram." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.128.151 (talk) 19:33, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Layout https://en.wikipedia.org/

I have this weird problem with the Wikipedia pages in English on Chrome.

Everything (text and pictures) are about threee times as large as normal on any page in English. Everything goes back to normal size when I shift to another language (Swedish, German, French, Danish ...) or when I use Firefox instead.

Not the end of the world but a little bit annoying.

Ps. I use a Windows 10 Home, version 20H2 disktop computer. The Chrome version is 94.0.4606.81 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mffanders (talk • contribs) 10:54, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

You're more likely to get an answer at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:09, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Have you tried clicking ctrl-0 when viewing one of these enlarged pages? Maproom (talk) 11:55, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@Mffanders: When you're on an English Wikipedia page that is too large, try clicking the three dot icon at the top right of the browser, and double check that the Zoom is set to 100%. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 20:37, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

@Mffanders: As Maproom and GoingBatty have suggested, this is expected of Chrome's zoom feature; it will remember the zoom size for each domain you visit. Pressing Ctrl+0 will return the pages in that domain to its default size. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:59, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Solution: Thank you guys! As you suggested the zoom feature was the culprit it was set on 500%.

How I Can Make Page of My Organization

Hi

I am a health Professional and Article Writer on www.pharmapedia.pk. how i can Make a Attractive page on wikipedia of my Organization Pharmapedia Pakistan. Please help us. Thanks Azam Maroof — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pharmapediaa (talk • contribs) 12:36, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

You probably cannot, Pharmapediaa. Please read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide very carefully. -- Hoary (talk) 12:47, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Firstly you need to read about conflict of interest and paid editing, then you need to understand that Wikipedia is not for promotion. You also need to read WP:CORPNAME. After all that you can read Wikipedia's definition of notability for companies. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:50, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Can I get a permission to upload mp3 to Commons?

Hi, I found this page https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Extended_uploaders, but I do not understand how can I get this permission. Extended Uploaders role still exists? I know about copyrights.

Vitaly Zdanevich (talk) 15:57, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

The page to which you linked says: "Extended uploader has been discontinued per community consensus ..." --David Biddulph (talk) 16:11, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

According to c:Commons:File types#Sound, you need to be autopatrolled in order to upload MP3 files. You can request it at c:Commons:Requests for rights#Autopatrol. For further questions about Commons, I recommend you go to c:Commons:Help desk instead. – Rummskartoffel 16:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

2021 Bangladesh riots

I created this article, but a similar article exists as 2021 Durga idol vandalism and violence in Bangladesh.

Don't know how to merge or redirect. --ZebraaaLounge (talk) 16:32, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@ZebraaaLounge: Since you are the only substantive contributor to your article, just go ahead and edit the existing article to add any new material from your article (i.e., "merge" your material). Then, change your article into a redirect by completely removing its current contents and replacing them with the following:

#REDIRECT [[2021 Durga idol vandalism and violence in Bangladesh]]

Add comments on the talk pages of both articles (yes, your redirect is still an "article" with a talk page) to explain what you did. Your work is still available in the history of what will now be the redirect. -Arch dude (talk) 17:16, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Sir Edward Crosbie, 5th Baronet

The Category "Wrongful Executions" has automatically listed Sir Edward Crosbie, 5th Baronet under "W". Could this be rectified to have him listed under "C"? Anne (talk) 17:23, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

It was listed under W because that is what you told it to do in this edit. It has now been corrected. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:19, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Spacing between score and audio player

In the GA review for Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony, reviewer ErnestKrause made the following observation for this section of the article:

Musical scores included with optional tabs to listen to a musical sample appears to have text which "bleeds" fonts into one another. For example, the piano symbol 'p' flows or bleeds into the frame box for the musical sample box. This could be helped by adding an extra blank line judiciously between the musical scores included and their associated music sample tabs.

However neither of us actually know how to do this. I would appreciate it a lot if someone more experienced in Wikipedia music scores could give us a hand. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 18:57, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@GeneralPoxter: I see that the article is in the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music. If you ask on the project's talk page you are more likely to get fine someone who knows that stuff. -Arch dude (talk) 22:25, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Pls edit help at Socrates/Talk page

Hi, my TP reply in a thread on a typo re "Sophocles" appears beneath the next section, can't seem to fix it. No big job, but big thanks. T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.86.134 (talk) 23:32, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Did this edit fix the problem? It appears that you commented below the Good Article review transclusion (the {{Talk:Socrates/GA2}} in the wikitext source). – Anon423 (talk) 01:49, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi and mille grazie, champion fixer of beginners' misedits :) Yes, problem solved. When I saw the layout miss, I tried to cut&paste it without any spaces to the last line of the previous poster, but to no avail. I guess I shall have to look up transclusion. Thx again, and all the best. T 84.208.86.134 (talk) 02:36, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Nazi flag depicting German nation

To whom may concern

I was researching about disasters in the world and there is a table with a list of them with fatalities and the nations involved. Unfortunately, the Nazi flag is wrongly put as the German flag. I would say this may be a disrespect to German people and innacurate information to the page. I suggest to edit the mentioned flag to the proper one. Find it in the link below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_failures

I look forward your response.

Best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:14C:101:816C:54A3:CC4:51C9:552F (talk) 23:32, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Those dam failures took place during the Nazi regime, so the Nazi flag would make sense there (especially as they failed due to being bombed). India and Canada both use their colonial flags for the Gohna Lake dam-burst and Hog's Back Dam failures, respectively, rather than their modern ones. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 23:37, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

They didn't fall fail, they were pushed. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:22, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Shouldn't the page say Nazi Germany and link there instead? ––FormalDude talk 04:08, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@FormalDude: - sort of, use [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], which produces Germany. Mjroots (talk) 09:24, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

The issue is that the flag is called via {{flag}}, and the format used for that includes a country and date. It's using the Nazi flag for Germany because that's the flag Germany used for the year the template's calling (1935). —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Jéské Couriano} 17:53, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

The flags have been removed from the table, so I guess that sorts it... –FlyingAce^✈hello 06:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

For info {{Flagcountry}} should be used to provided a piped link. {{Flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} produces Germany. Mjroots (talk) 07:16, 20 October 2021 (UTC)