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= January 5 =


== The fair use file I uploaded is about to be deleted. What can I do? ==
= June 15 =


] ] (]) 02:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
== Nine number ISBN ==


:Following the directions on the page itself, it says {{tq|Note : if you believe that a free replacement image cannot be reasonably found or created please add one of the following without removing this tag...}}. Alternatively you can reach out to Iruka13 who placed the CSD F7 on the page to begin with. ]&thinsp;] 02:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to cite the ''Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde'' (vol. 1, pub. 1973) using the cite book template. The ISBN, as given in the is 3-11-00489-7. As this is only nine numbers long, the template won't accept it. What do I do? ] (]) 00:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:Despite being labeled "ISBN" on the title page, it seems that that number is a 9-digit "SBN" rather than a 10- or 13-digit ISBN. The ISBN format was created in 1967 and your book was published in 1968, so it seems plausible that it's still using an SBN. See our article ] for more information about the difference between an SBN and an ISBN. The article says "{{tq|An SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit "0".}}" So the ISBN for this book would be 0-311-00489-7. ] (]) 01:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::Hmm. If I try inputting that into ] or other ISBN search engines, I get an error message ("invalid ISBN"). ] (]) 01:13, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
: {{re|Zacwill}} According to the docs at {{t|Cite book}} you should use the "sbn" pararmeter instead of isbn when there is only 9 digits. ] (]) 01:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::The SBN parameter doesn't like it either: it tells me there's a "checksum" error. ] (]) 01:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:Could there have been an error when the book was printed? Try {{ISBN| 3-11-004489-7}}. ] (]) 01:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::I think you're right. As given the ISBN includes an additional 4. Thanks for your help. ] (]) 01:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


== Problems saving via Wayback Machine ==
== Use of infoboxes that link to articles related to a particular subject ==


I know this isn't a Misplaced Pages problem, but was just wondering if anyone else has experienced problems recently with trying to archive pages using Wayback Machine recently. I haven't been able to save any for many weeks now, never having experienced any problems with it before. ] (]) 04:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Compound question:


:It got hacked and attacked and now its slowly recovering (which can take a while). {{tq|In September 2024, the Internet Archive suffered a data breach that exposed 31 million records containing personal information, including email addresses and hashed passwords. On October 9, 2024, the site went down due to a distributed denial-of-service attack. On October 14, the site returned online, but it remained in read-only mode until November 4, during which time "Save Page Now" was disabled, replaced with a "Temporarily Unavailable" banner.}} -- ] ] (]) 09:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
# Is there a name for the infoboxes that collect and organize articles related to a particular subject (as in ])?
::You could use <nowiki>https://archive.ph/</nowiki> I started using it when the WM went down. Its really really slow sometimes but if you get it in the morning (GMT) its fast. First time I used it had 5.5k entries waiting to archive. The Internet Archive, poor thing, has been right since its been hacked. It getting there slowly. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus">]<sup>]</sup></span>''' 22:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
# What's the usual practice for using these boxes, for example, should they be placed in every article that they list?
# Is there a style guide page discussing them?


== Seeking Editor for Translated Misplaced Pages Article on Nozomi Nagata in Tribute to His Passing ==
Thanks! -] (]) 02:50, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


My friend, Nagata Nozomi, a Japanese author, has recently passed away. In honor of him, I have translated his Misplaced Pages page into English and would like to publish it. The translation is complete, but I need assistance with editing it to meet Misplaced Pages’s standards, properly citing sources, and ensuring it adheres to Misplaced Pages’s writing format. I don’t have previous experience with editing or the Misplaced Pages writing style, so I would deeply appreciate the help of a kind editor or a volunteer to make the necessary adjustments.
:Infoboxes are for showing important information of an article, the type of template that you're referring to might be sidebars or navigation boxes like ] or ]. The associated guidelines are ] and ], and the wording in ] part seem to encourage the inclusion of the navbox on every article it links for better navigation. ] (]) 03:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Any support would mean a lot.


Original page:
# I think it is called a "sidebar template" based on the category name of ].
https://ja.wikipedia.org/永田希?oldformat=true
# Not every article. It will just depend what editors think is the best fit. For example for {{t|Criminal law}} some articles use it and and others do not.
# I am not sure of. Is there a particular page you are asking about?
: ] (]) 03:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


Translated page:
== Help to fix the corrections of IOC Member Vitaly Smirnov ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/User:EternalPsyche/Nozomi_Nagata ] (]) 03:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:<small>(moved from talk) <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span style="font-family:monospace">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ])</span> 05:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)</small>


:], I haven't bothered to read the page ]; but I note that it does have references. Your translation does not. Us volunteers are busy: we answer specific questions and requests, but rarely if ever requests to turn (sorry, but) half-baked drafts into articles. So put in the references ''yourself'': links on this page (]) will take you -- not directly, but simply enough -- to pages where the mechanics of referencing are explained. You say he had a "unique approach to reading" without saying what this approach was. What was it? (And which authoritative source, independent of Nagata, writes that it was unique?) You say that "Nagata's passion for literature was deeply influenced by his fascination with noise and industrial music" but you don't say what the influence was. What was it? Don't make Japanese script oblique ("italic"); doing so is ugly. And -- but no, that's enough for now. Happy editing! -- ] (]) 05:58, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Can you look up the external links of former IOC Member Vitaly Smirnov of Russia in the Olympic profile and make corrections? ] (]) 04:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:-- Except that another quick look at ], ], makes it clear that a number of what are formatted like references aren't really references. (Common are the publication details of books mentioned in the body text.) Where are the ] that discuss Nagata or his works in some depth? These are necessary, in order to show that he's ]. Note that material produced by his publishers, and what he might have said in interviews, don't count. -- ] (]) 06:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
: I think this is the article: ]
::*{{ping|EternalPsyche}} I had a look at the article as well. It is a slightly ]ish, using flowery and promotional language which is unsuitable for a mainspace biographical article. I put a couple of tags in that were needed. The JP references mainly constitutes interviews per Hoary's comments above. There is an obituary which is a start, but I think as he's an author, I would look for book reviews so he could pass ]. If you can find a couple of reviews for each of the books, 2 or 3 covered with a couple of reviews each would be ideal, then he will pass WP:NAUTHOR. However, the article itself needs substantial work. It reads a blog entry, is promo, so currently unsuitable for Misplaced Pages. You would need to send it to draft once you got the reviews. Hope that helps. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus">]<sup>]</sup></span>''' 22:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
: You don't say which external links are having problems or what the problems are. It is not uncommon for links to have problems over time. See ] ] (]) 04:53, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


== Intersection of "What links here" for two pages ==
== adding a note ==


Hello all,
I'd like to edit the page
https://en.wikipedia.org/Iwahig_Prison_and_Penal_Farm
but I don't know where to put it. Would it be "in popular culture"? Here's what I want to add:
Stephen L. Moore's book "As Good as Dead" describes how some American POWs escaped a Japanese prison on the main island of Palawan and made their way to the Iwahig prison. Inmates there assisted them back to their unit in Brookes Point, Palawan. ] (]) 05:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


Trying to make sure that no pages link to both ] and ] (newly a redirect), as in the case of ]'s bottom cell; I don't really care about changing all the links to point directly to the Help page, but rather just the pages that have links to both.
:It depends, if the event Moore described actually happened, and details about it (personal names, place names, dates, etc.) can be provided for verification, then it could go on the "History" section. If the event is a work of fiction, then it could go on "In popular culture", assuming that the book does fit the "popular" part by passing ]. In either situation, it is strongly recommended to provide reliable secondary source for the claim. ] (]) 11:45, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


Any help appreciated!
== ACCEPTING MY WIKIPEDIA ==


] <small>(]) &#124; :) &#124; he/him &#124; </small> 05:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Good DAY ALL. HOW LOG DOES IT TAKE TO ACCEPT MY WIKIPEDIA, PROFILE ? COULD YOU PLEASE ASSIST.
:@] there are currently pages that link to both. <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span style="font-family:monospace">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ])</span> 05:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
::How did you get that number? ] <small>(]) &#124; :) &#124; he/him &#124; </small> 06:22, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:::The ] query I linked above. <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span style="font-family:monospace">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ])</span> 06:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
::::{{ping|JuxtaposedJacob}} Our search can also do it with <code>linksto:</code> and currently says 287. I would first update templates which link to the redirect . Then wait a while for the job queue to update link tables before making the first search. ] (]) 07:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
::::@]: Oh my goodness, missed that entirely, thanks so much! Also thank you to @] ] <small>(]) &#124; :) &#124; he/him &#124; </small> 17:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC)


== delete draft ==
THANKS A LOT ] (]) 05:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:There is no such thing as a "Misplaced Pages profile." It appears you have written a Misplaced Pages article, or a draft for a Misplaced Pages article, about yourself, at ]. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Misplaced Pages). --] &#124; ] 06:02, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


please Draft:Azaad (2025 film) 2 by ] (]) 06:45, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
== What to do with an editor who continually removes any mention of Cowal, a peninsula in Scotland? ==
{{NOTHERE|] or ] are better equipped to handle such issues. ] ] 21:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)}}


:I believe you want ]. Cheers. ] (]) 07:08, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
{{discussion top}}
:@] There is no need for you to take any action to delete the draft. Abandoned drafts are automatically deleted in six months of inactivity. More likely in this case is that the film will attract some reviews once it has been released and the existing draft may help someone create an article meeting ]. ] (]) 12:12, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
They have now become threatening for NO reason that I can see! I just re-add Cowal when they have removed it again and again! I have also started leaving messages about the removal of Cowal on article talk pages affected. I DO NOT MENTION THE EDITOR IN QUESTION BY NAME.


== Revision history ==
An example of what I have posted on talk pages:-


Please look at ] and ]. Today, the user archived their Talk page by moving it to Archive 1. Why can't I see the revision history of the Talk page? It looks like Archive 1 has the history the Talk page "should" have. Even if the user's archiving was unorthodox, I don't see how they can "eliminate" a page's history.--] (]) 15:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
"There is an editor who continually removes Cowal from Misplaced Pages articles, they have been doing this for years! They also NEVER leave this info in their edit summaries.”


:{{ping|Bbb23}} are you asking how Footballnerd2007 moved the history of their talk page or whether there is a rule about moving the history of their talk page? I can't find a rule, but it is obviously unhelpful to readers and thus a bad idea. ] (]) 15:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{Re|Bbb23}} This archiving method is described at ]. The method is still allowed, as far as I know, but is "generally no longer used". Moving/renaming a page automatically moves the history to the new page name, as always. -- ] (]) 15:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:They haven't eliminated it - what they did was move their talk page to the archive, and then created a new page at the talk page (or, well, created a redirect and then turned that into a talk page).
:I'm not sure it's the right way to do it, but it's completely possible for all users. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 15:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{tq|as always}}. Heh, I guess I've never seen it done before ''and'' noticed the effect. Thanks.--] (]) 15:54, 5 January 2025 (UTC)


== An interwiki redirect question ==
see below cut and paste, from my talk page:-


I recently saw ], ], and ], all of which are soft redirects to the Wiktionary entry for '']''. I thought that it might be reasonable to hard redirect ] and ] to ], since that's the page whose title is closest to the Wiktionary entry. But is it acceptable to redirect soft redirects to each other? ]<sub>]<sub>]</sub></sub> (]/]) 22:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:Since there is no actual Misplaced Pages entry for any of these, I see no reason to not just keep the soft redirects. --] &#124; ] 23:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)


= January 6 =
User talk:2A00:23C6:CE0F:6D01:E52D:AFC9:C238:D38
==]==
Reference number 22 is "Not Quite Right" (in red). Please fix. I am sorry. ] (]) 06:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Before somebody kindly fixed it, reference 22 told the reader (in red) "Check date values in: |date=". This means that the value specified for the date is invalid. And the cite template read "date=20144", which (as it has not four but five digits) is several thousand years into the future. -- ] (]) 06:09, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


==]==
ref number 6 is in the red too - Im sorry, I will try not do any more editing this year! Please fix this reef. Thank you in advance. ] (]) 09:42, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Did help? Also the year has just started. Perhaps try to do more and better editing this year. ] (]) 09:47, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


== Statement: True or false? ==
June 2024
Please stop spamming every talk page you come across with the same incoherent statements. Seasider53 (talk) 14:27, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


I think users with less than 500 edits can't be administrators. ] (]) 13:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Stop removing Cowal all the time!!!!2A00:23C6:CE0F:6D01:E52D:AFC9:C238:D38 (talk) 2A00:23C6:CE0F:6D01:E52D:AFC9:C238:D38 (talk) 14:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


:There have been cases of admins from other Wikimedia projects but very few contributions on English Misplaced Pages, who are promoted to adminship here to facilitate particular cross-wiki tasks.{{pb}}]ship is a position of community trust, and editors with brief tenures and few contributions have not yet had the opportunity to build that trust. ] (]) 13:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Why are they incoherent? Written in very plain English. 2A00:23C6:CE0F:6D01:E52D:AFC9:C238:D38 (talk) 2A00:23C6:CE0F:6D01:E52D:AFC9:C238:D38 (talk) 14:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::So if someone was an editor with only about 100 edits, will they be or not? No, right? ] (]) 13:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::See guidance at ]. The formal requirement for adminship is 500 edits and 30 days of experience. However, a user who only meets this minimum standard is almost certain not to pass an RFA. ]] 13:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::So if I was a user with 505 edits, I can't still be? ] (]) 12:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::You can run. But your odds of succeeding would be near zero. It's fairly common for RfA candidates with thousands of edits to be opposed by the community due to lack of experience. ]] 12:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)


== Likely copyvio ? ==
Second and final warning. Seasider53 (talk) 15:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


First, I wish you a very happy new year !
] (]) 15:25, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


I hope I'm not in the wrong section. Here is the main issue :
:{{ping|C.Fred}} this user, from ] yesterday, is still on a tear, FYI. ] (]) 15:43, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::That is really helpful, thank you! ] (]) ] (]) 15:50, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


]
''Secret Scotland'' is a wiki, and not a ]. Any time you add information sourced to ''Secret Scotland'' or similar non-reliable sources, it is going to be removed. --] &#124; ] 16:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


I wonder if this photography uploaded on en.wikipedia.org has not been made by ] (just died in 2023) for french Sygma agency, September 18, 1975.
:What about the first issue the removal of ] from nearly every article this editors comes across? Even when the article is about a subject located on ] Peninsula? This editor has been removing mentions of Cowal for years! ] (]) ] (]) 16:31, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Here other sources to evaluate this issue :
::Ok, so looking at your contributions, all you have done is constantly state this above message. Please provide some ]s showing what you are talking about. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 16:39, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/belgian-cartoonist-georges-prosper-remi-aka-hergé-at-home-news-photo/1441929742
:::I am NO wikipedia expert, can you please look at the history of ] for example, where ] has been removed several times.] (]) ] (]) 16:42, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::Location in infobox usually only require specifying administrative division instead of geographic feature. Information in infobox are supposed to give general idea about the subject, they don't have to be too detailed, the place's location in Cowal Peninsula can be written in the body of the article, preferably in a "Geography" section. ] (]) 16:46, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::{{ec}} There is exactly one instance of a link to ] being removed from this article, specifically in the lede, with the edit summary: {{tq|town and council area suffices}}. I agree with this, we don't need a lede that states all of the vague places a thing is in or near.
::::I will ask you to not continue this diatribe of continuous posting of this wording on every page. If you think that a link has been removed and it should be there, you need to start a discussion, not a tirade. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 16:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::There are still 369 items linked to ], I don't see how it's getting erased when the article itself is not facing deletion. ] (]) 16:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::see the ] page edit at 2036, on 26 september 2023. ] (]) 16:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::It would have helped to have had an edit summary, but given the flow of the text, I don't see a problem with the edit. Certainly there was no objection raised at the time. —''']''' (]) 16:56, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::also ] at 1601 on 03 February 2024. ] (]) 16:55, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::: was valid and in compliance with guidelines on categories. —''']''' (]) 16:58, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::Also what about the threat for just adding Cowal again. How is this warranted?] (]) ] (]) 16:58, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::Which ''warning message'' are you referring to? The one for your tone in discussions, or the one for your violation of Misplaced Pages policies on ]? —''']''' (]) 16:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::NO] (]) ] (]) 17:06, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::The “second and final warning” at the top of this .] (]) ] (]) 17:07, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::So here's the thing. When Cowal was removed the first time, you didn't ask, "Hey, why did you remove Cowal from this article? What should I do differently to have it be included?" That could have led to a productive, collegial discussion and possibly to it being included in some of the places you tried to add it.
:::::::Instead, you made allegations—baseless allegations, based on what I've seen—that the editor had a personal vendetta against Cowal. Such baseless allegations can be viewed as ], and they have been in this case.
:::::::So really, you have two options. You can drop the whole angle of being persecuted and focus just on content, sourcing, the Manual of Style, and other content-based reasons why the material has been removed, and you will be able to continue to contribute to Misplaced Pages. However, if the harassment continues, then an administrator is likely to apply some form of sanctions to your account to prevent further disruption, probably in the form of temporarily ] from future edits. —''']''' (]) 17:13, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::It's not a threat, your personal safety and property is not on the line here. The editor just want you to stop posting complaints on multiple talk pages. Just concentrate and have a rational conversation in one discussion. ] (]) 17:01, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Pages that have had Cowal removed. ] (]) ] (]) 17:05, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::When describing a place's location, administrative divisions and geographic features are often written separately. Take ] for example, its administrative placement is described first, followed by its geographic location. So for ], ] should be in a different sentence with ]. Also, location of a place does not have to be too specific. For instance, ] is already mentioned as locating in the town of ], and since Dunoon is on the Cowal peninsula, the stadium doesn't need to be emphasized for locating on Cowal peninsula. ] (]) 17:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::] at 0016 on 28 12 2022 ] (]) ] (]) 17:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::This page saw no change in December 2022. ] (]) 17:26, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::Ok, I've now asked you to stop, as has another user. You have been warned about posting this thread on multiple talk pages. I will now ask you to stop this discussion and move on. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 17:30, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::::Try ] where they state
:::::::: "19:00, 23 September 2021‎ Seasider53 talk contribs‎ 3,279 bytes −26‎ getting tired of reading that everywhere"
::::::::Between 1850 and 1900; edit
::::::::Sorry it took me awhile to find it again! Surely this shows intent? ] (]) ] (]) 18:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::The question is, whose intent? This was six months after the user who added the text, {{u|Springchickensoup}}, was at ] for their disruptive editing. So, the user in question is not unjustified in thinking it was a bad-faith addition. —''']''' (]) 19:31, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::Try ], at 0844 on 10 may 2023 and 2044 on 25 Sept 2023. Labeled as “Brevity””! ] (]) ] (]) 20:05, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::::Or ] 2308 on 22 sept 2021 to 2316 on 22 sept 2021] (]) ] (]) 20:14, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::::Or ] 2258 on 25 sept 2023 to 2259 on 25 sept 2023] (]) ] (]) 20:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::::::Or ] 0026 on 10 spe 2023 to 1146 on 1 oct 2023] (]) ] (]) 20:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::::::Or ] 1117 on 8 Feb 2024 to 1033 on 12 June 2024 ] (]) ] (]) 20:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::::::You aren't listening. I won't tell you again to ]. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 20:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::So what is the problem with having Cowal on an article that is on a subject located on Cowal?] (]) ] (]) 20:39, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::It is NO different than having say ] then ] then the ], is it?] (]) ] (]) 20:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::::Not everyone who reads an article of a subject, located on Cowal, will know about Cowal, will they?] (]) ] (]) 21:04, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
*This is the help desk, it is for asking for help with how to contribute to Misplaced Pages. For user behavioral issues, ] is thataway. ] ] 21:09, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
{{discussion bottom}}


'''Exactly the same type of light, same time (1975), same haircut, same shirt with rolled up sleeves and same tie, same place''' (at home in Brussels), ...
== Adding and subtracting ages? ==


And here, the same Tintin's bust statue in the exactly same state :
Which template if such template exists could be used to add or subtract two ages together?
https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/belgian-cartoonist-georges-prosper-remi-aka-hergé-at-home-news-photo/583065342


Hergé was very conservative about photoshootings and it's very unlikely that any other photographer could have been worked at the same period for one of his last album of Tintin
For example:
press promotion.


Regards. ] (]) 13:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Example #1 If I input <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>age|1982|1|1}}</code> → {{age|1982|1|1}}


:@] Looking at the NFCC tags on the image, it looks like the uploader made a good-faith effort to identify the photographer but failed. I think it's plausible that Pavlovsky is the photographer, in which case the author credit for the image should be changed. However, the image would still be usable on Misplaced Pages, since it meets the ]. —''']''' (]) 13:34, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Example #2 And then input <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>age|1982|1|1|1992|3|3}}</code> → {{age|1982|1|1|1992|3|3}}


== Article name change ==
Is there a way I can add or subtract the result of those two numbers together? With the understanding that the age in the first example will always be increasing yearly and I don't want to have to manually update the sum of those two examples every year? Does such template exist?


Hello, I am debating whether should I change the name for the former ] into Jeddah Airport, or keep it the same. The term “Kandara Airport” was probably coined by the former airport’s location to the area, and that people didn’t want to confuse it with the newer ] (nicknamed Jeddah Airport). And also, before 1981 when the new one was built, the former one was officially named Jeddah Airport according to historical documents and videos. If I changed it, it would have been more historically accurate. Any thoughts? ] (]) 14:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Hope I explained that well (basically I want to add 42 to 10 but the number 42 will go up by one every year and when it does I want 10 to be added to 43 automatically without me having to manually change anything. Hope that makes sense).


:The best place to discuss this is at ]. When a subject has more than one possible name, it is best to get a consensus before renaming the article.--'''''] <sup>]</sup>''''' 14:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Thanks. ] (]) 17:11, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::A notice should also be added to ] as ] redirects there. A ] at King Abdulaziz International Airport or a ] page at ] are alternative options. ] (]) 15:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


== What's my actual edit count? ==
:What context do you need to use this in? If you want to have just a fixed offset, you can just subtract 10 years from the reference date, E.G. <code>{{age|1972|1|1}}</code> -> 52, but I feel like knowing the context might shed light on a better solution. ] (]) 17:23, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::{{re|WelpThatWorked}} I want to create a table that shows current age, age at specific date, and then the current age minus the age at specific date (in other words the age difference). ] (]) 17:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


As of before I add this topic:
{{re|WelpThatWorked}} kind of like this to give you an example and using the example I used above:


Your impact: '''371''' Total edits
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Current Age
! Age on March 3, 1992
! Age difference
|-
| {{age|1982|1|1}}
| {{age|1982|1|1|1992|3|3}}
| (What do I put here to generate the number I'm after)
|}


View all edits > User contributions for Therguy10: A user with '''372''' Edits.
] (]) 17:43, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


Am I missing something here? Thanks! ] (]) 18:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Yeah, so you can rephrase this as just "time since the specified date", since the specified date isn't changing. In this case you'd use <code><nowiki>{{age|1992|3|3}}</nowiki></code>, because that's the day you're measuring from. <math>TODAY-1992=(TODAY-1982)-(1992-1982)</math>. ] (]) 18:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


:There are a couple of things that impact your edit count, depending on what tools and methodology are being used. Some are based on all contributions, while others reduce your edit county by deleted edits (sometimes called "live" edits). Plus some pages are cached, for performance reasons, so their data might lag being by a few edits (or minutes)... For more information also see ]. ]&thinsp;] 18:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{re|WelpThatWorked}} This doesn't work. With the example above, the "current age" will change to 43 on January 1, 2025. But the age difference will not update until March 3, 2025. I don't want to reword age difference to "time since the specified date". ] (]) 19:58, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::@]Interesting, I'll keep that in mind. I'll probably go off of my User Contribs but that's good to know that it can differ. Thank you! ] (]) 19:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Inexpiable}} It sounds like you want to compute the ages as an integer and then subtract the integers. You don't need a template to compute on integers. You can use ] for the subtraction. <code><nowiki>{{#expr:{{age|1982|1|1|format=raw}}-{{age|1982|1|1|1992|3|3|format=raw}}}}</nowiki></code> produces {{#expr:{{age|1982|1|1|format=raw}}-{{age|1982|1|1|1992|3|3|format=raw}}}}. <code>format=raw</code> gives a plain number which can be used in calculations. Without it there may be something non-displayed. See ]. ] (]) 01:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thanks it works! ] (]) 07:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC) :::{{re|Therguy10}} if you click on "Preferences", that will show you edit count. This is my 323,426th edit. ] (]) 11:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


== Trying to post true story == == Reference errors ==


I m so confused about this as not techy. I was adding some true story to Shreveport and got message questionable.  Can I tell a true experience about Shreveport? There is so much I dont understand here but need to add true story ] (]) 18:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC) Greetings, can someone with more stamina and time go into ] and resolve the reference errors? I don't know how to fix the spurious sfn error, for instance. ] (]) 18:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Jo-Jo Eumerus}} {{done}} ] (]) 20:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


== Maintenance categories ==
:Hi, Misplaced Pages is not a place for people to merely tell about something; do you have an independent ] that supports the information you wish to add to ]? What was the message that you saw when you attempted to do so? ] (]) 18:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


Hello, I have a few discussions (] and ]) concerning maintenance categories that I would like to bump - ] is pretty quiet. Would there be an appropriate noticeboard to bump these discussions? The ] and subsidiary boards seems to be for larger discussions. ] (]) 20:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
: {{re|Innocent Mom}} Anything you add needs to be from a published reliable source and not based on your personal memories or experience. Also, ] might apply. You boldly added something, another editor reverted it, next step is to discuss on the the article's talk page. ] (]) 18:38, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:1) if you want to ask what a category is for, you can just ask its creator. I pinged them for ya.
:: Uodate to add: I don;t see any other edits in your contribution history. Please clarify what you were trying to add, what article it is, and what error you saw. ] (]) 18:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:2) looks like this topic died a natural death after Anne drew said {{tq|According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details}}. If you want feedback you could use ] or ]. ] (]) 20:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Innocent Mom}} The filter log shows you hit six different filters on the same edit. I haven't seen that before. Your edit was completely inappropriate for Misplaced Pages. This is an encyclopedia based on published reliable sources, not a place to tell the World about your personal experiences. ] (]) 19:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


== Advice on appropriate informational/warning template ==
== Please help me move two pages ==


A user tagged me this afternoon on another user's talk page in the context of trying to recruit other editors to collectively undermine the work of me and a collaborator in our ongoing efforts to improve ]. Please see the comment ]. (Apparently this has something to do with the off-Wiki group GSoW. I'd never heard of it.)
I received a warning that two Draft pages I created will be deleted due to lack of activity so I would like to move them both into my file tree, to await further work. I tried moving one of them (Draft:Emily Kark) but the move went wrong. The two pages are:


This first editor has made only one edit to the article in question (or actually just its talk page), three years ago, with a minor question about the presence of a sidebar.
* ]


Aside from this ping (which I suspect was an accident), they have made no efforts to contact me or to offer criticism or suggestions on the article talk page.
* ]


Is there a template of some kind I could add to their user talk? Obviously some of this is just ignorance of Misplaced Pages culture and norms, but {{em|wow}} is this the wrong attitude to start with.
Please help me move them to "User:Misha Wolf/...".


Thanks for your thoughts on how to handle this —
Thanks! ] (]) 22:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Misha Wolf}} I have moved them to ] and ]. You have to include your username to move pages to your userspace. ] (]) 22:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::Many thanks! ] (]) 23:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::@], please could you also help me by moving ] to "User:Misha Wolf/Community oriented primary care" (for the same reason). I'm not doing it myself as the Move tab doesn't appear to allow one to specify an arbitrary path. It seems to offer a limited list of options. That's why I ended up going wrong with the Emily Kark page. Thanks ] (]) 23:07, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Misha Wolf}} You better learn it some time. There are two fields under "New title". The first can only select the namespace, e.g. "User". The second is the part after the namespace. It's prefilled with the old name but can be changed to anything. The page you are moving was fixed when you clicked "Move" and is not controlled by that field. ] (]) 23:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thanks! ] (]) 23:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
::::I did the last one. I selected user and put "Misha Wolf/Community oriented primary care" as the new name. It is confusing. ] (]) 23:23, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thanks! ] (]) 23:33, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


Cheers, ] (]) 21:31, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
= June 16 =
:{{ping|Patrick Welsh}} Are there any other relevant links you know of? If not, then it seems you are overreacting and failing to AGF. It is not (yet) clear if these are nefarious people doing nefarious deeds or simply people who have a boring content dispute about a boring wikipedia article which can be solved with a boring conversation. And my money is on the second option. There is an article about {{ping|Sgerbic}} over at ]. ] (]) 21:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
==]==
::I'm afraid not, just the post at ]. OneSkyWalker's account dates back to 2006, but it has only 107 edits that, at least at a glance, appear innocuous.
Please place the Wilton crest INSIDE at the top of the info box - where (like other peerage pages) it belongs. I have tried but cannot do this. Thank you ] (]) 00:10, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
::GSoW is apparently a group that coordinates offline campaigns against stuff like pseudoscience on Misplaced Pages. I don't know anything about them except what's on their website, and that User:Sgerbic is the founder and principle coordinator. ] (]) 21:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:<span class="nowrap">]'''&nbsp;Done'''</span><!--template:done--> It goes at the image parameter of the infobox, and the square brackets and "File:" before the name are removed. —''']''' (]) 00:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:::Meh, my advice would be to relax and invite them to have a conversation on the talkpage. Postmodernism is not a form of pseudoscience, and you are not a psychic, so I think you have nothing to worry about. ] (]) 21:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::Okay, I will take your advice. I really don't love the battleground mentality, however, or the deliberate secrecy. I mean why not at least try starting on the article talk page? ] (]) 21:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::Some internet users expect Misplaced Pages to be a turnbased combat game, and it certainly ''can'' be. But there are also many articles where polite people politely disagree about topics that are not very exciting (like Postmodernism). The mention of GSoW seems to be unrelated to Postmodernism article. And, if my Google-fu is to be trusted, the GSoW secrecy is based on old unrelated drama. Nothing to worry about. ] (]) 22:02, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::::Just to be sure we're not talking past one another, I'm totally fine with editors coming to the article talk page full of objections to this-or-that shortcoming. I welcome it!
::::::My problem here is that the editor did not do this. Instead, they went to the talk page of user who has not worked on the page seeking collaborators to edit the article in a way that they apparently expect in advance will wind up in arbitration.
::::::Oh, and I have no problem with Susan Gerbic. I too am opposed to pseudoscience. ] (]) 22:09, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::::I understand. I can think of plausible non-nefarious reasons why that editor showed up at Susans talk instead of at the Postmodernism talk. I myself have also posted on a more experienced users talkpage saying something like "I think article x is imperfect what do you think" instead of posting on the talkpage of that article because I was unsure I wanted to get involved without the support of someone saner and more experienced than I am, and as a sanity check if my opinion even made sense. ] (]) 22:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


== Something to play with ==
== Clarification of ] ==


I'd use with extreme caution. It doesn't seem to like authoritative sources. ] (]) 21:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
This says that in the lead sentence of an article, the boldface reiteration of the article's title that mostly begins the first sentence - for example, as in "'''''Sarde in saor''''' are an appetizer etc" in the article titled "Sarde in saor" - should not contain any links. Can someone confirm that this includes foreign-language links such as <nowiki>{{lang-it|...}}</nowiki>? ] doesn't do this, but cf for example ], which does. Before I take this further I want to double-check that linking in this way is wrong. Thanks, ] (]) 11:15, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:Yeah that is nonsense. It is simply a wrapper around an OpenAI API call. And why oh why do they hate webdesign so much? ] (]) 22:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::They are demonic (favourite word of the month) sent to try you. I don't understand it. Webdesign is an establish industry with traditions. No need for it with a well established and well understood design ethos. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus">]<sup>]</sup></span>''' 22:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Where is doomguy when you need him? ] (]) 09:20, 7 January 2025 (UTC)


== {{Japanese football updater|KawasakF}} ==
:] suggests not linking when bolding. I tend to keep that true for all prose, and only allow bold links within templates. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 11:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
::That's how I understand it too but for dealing with argumentative editors it would be useful if it were more clearly spelt out. I'll raise it at the guideline talk page. Thanks, ] (]) 12:23, 16 June 2024 (UTC)


Are there instructions on how to access and use these updaters in Japanese football (soccer)? This is from Kawasaki Frontale ] (]) 23:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
== New article ==
:{{ping|Daxion}} Your heading says <code><nowiki>{{Japanese football updater|KawasakF}}</nowiki></code>. That means it's calling ]. If you edit it then you can see some instructions at the top of the source code. If you mean how to call it then there is documentation for some similar templates in ]: {{tl|Brazilian football updater}}, {{tl|English football updater}}, {{tl|Spanish football updater}}, {{tl|Welsh football updater}}. I haven't used any of them or examined the documentation but I guess they work similarly. ] (]) 09:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


= January 7 =
How do you create an article about a new political candidate? ] (]) 11:22, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
==Namespace number==
:Hi {{u|Jimbaba}}. You would need to establish the person's ] for an article to be written about them, and simply being a candidate for political office is almost always insufficient for doing that. You'll find some more information about this is ] (in particular the section tiled "]"). A lack of Misplaced Pages notability is pretty impossible to ] regardless who's trying; so, you should try to honestly self-assess this person's Misplaced Pages notability before proceeding further. If they're not Misplaced Pages notable, it will matter not how much time and effort you would have spent creating the article if it ends up being tagged, proposed or nominated for ].{{pb}}Some other things you should consider. If you're connected to the candidate in some personal or professional way (i.e. a more than casual way), you probably should take a look at ] and ] to see whether they might apply to you. You should also take a look at ], ], ] and ]. While Misplaced Pages might seem like a great way for a candidate to promote themselves or make themselves better known to the outside world, a Misplaced Pages article is written about a subject, not on behalf of a subject. If it turns out that an article can be written about this person, they will have zero editorial control over it, and neither they nor anyone else will be able to use it as a means to promote the candidate or their positions. Basically, all content (positive or negative) will be assessed in terms of relevant Misplaced Pages policies and guideline and will need to be based primarily on what ] and ] ] (as defined by Misplaced Pages) are saying about the candidate. Any attempts to deviate from a ] and encyclopedic tone will almost certainly (perhaps rather quickly) be undone; moreover, any attempts to add content which can't be properly verified through citations to reliable sources will also be undone, ].{{pb}}If after readiing all of the above, you still wish to push on, I strongly suggest that you use the ] process to create a ] which you can submit for review when you think it's ready. You might want to take a look at ] and ] for some general information on how to write an article and how to add properly formatted citations to it. -- ] (]) 11:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Why there are numbers in ]? What is the purpose of that namespace number? ] (]) 08:42, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Vitaium}} Probably because that's how they get stored in the database(s). Imagine you have 6 million records in a database. Much better to store a zero for each of those to denote that its an article than the string "article". ] (]) 08:49, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Vitaium}} See ]. Template code with namespace numbers can be copied between wikis where the names are different. Namespace numbers are also used in other places, e.g. some url's to restrict features like search or WhatLinksHere to selected namespaces. If you don't make namespace-dependent templates or tinker with url parameters then you may never need the numbers. ] (]) 08:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)


== I am not permitted to Requests for page protection/Increase/Form ==
== How Can I Add References Properly on Misplaced Pages? ==


I am trying to report persistent vandalism over the span of 6 months on the article ], I am not permitted to do so. I get the message <br>
Hi everyone,
''Failed to create request. Error code: abusefilter-disallowed. Please try again or ask for help at WT:RFPP.'' <br>
I'm new to editing Misplaced Pages and want to make sure I'm adding references correctly to my articles. What is the best way to cite sources and add references to ensure they meet Misplaced Pages's guidelines? Are there any tools or templates that can help streamline this process?
Thanks for your assistance! ] (]) 12:33, 16 June 2024 (UTC) Can you perhaps submit it for me? I don't think it can get fixed i've tried alot of things. ] (]) 09:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:Pinging the man behind the hair, our beloved Sideshow Bob, {{ping|Oshwah}}. ] (]) 09:59, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:: The title of the article was triggering an edit filter. Your submission to ] was , no need to cross post. <b>] ]</b> 15:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC)


== Changing the italics in a title ==
:@] Hi! From your question, it sounds like you've read ] and understand what a good source is, and you're just looking for technical advice on adding sources to articles. Let me know if I have misread your question.
:* If you are using ], there is a citation tool in the toolbar. In many cases, it will automatically generate a reference when you give it the URL of an online source. (Sometimes it can't parse the source, and you have to do it manually, but VisualEditor makes it easier, in some ways, to deal with the templates I mention below.)
:* If you aren't using VisualEditor, or for certain tricky circumstances, you'll need to enter the Wiki markup code for the reference manually. Start by opening a <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki></code> tag. Inside of the pair of ref tags, you'll use a ] for the type of source, such as {{tl|cite news}}, {{tl|cite book}}, or {{tl|cite web}}. As a hypothetical example:
:*:<code><nowiki>Twenty people were saved when Superman stopped a speeding train from falling off a destroyed bridge.<ref>{{cite news | last=Olson | first=Jimmy | title=Superman stops runaway train, saves 20 | work=Daily Planet | date=June 15, 2024 | url=https://www.dailyplanet.fakeurl/superman-stops-runaway-train-saves-20.html}}</ref></nowiki></code>
:] has more information on formatting, and if you have questions on a specific source you're trying to add, you can ask here or in the talk page of the related article/draft. You can also leave me a message at ]; I'll be glad to reply to you there. —''']''' (]) 12:55, 16 June 2024 (UTC)


Would like to propose this for as it appears Roman and uncapped in . thanks ] (]) 11:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
== Discrepancy with a timeline? ==
:{{ping|Shelter3}} ] use {{tl|Italic title}} to deliberately display the title in italics per ]. Page names start with a capital letter unless the first word would usually be written lowercase at the start of a sentence like ]. Merriam-Webster is a dictionary so they want to show how a word is written inside a sentence but they still say Ikebana when the word starts a sentence. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia. Our sister project Wiktionary is a dictionary and their article is ]. ] (]) 13:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::Sorry to clarify, it is already IN italics and needs to be Roman. So: {{tl|Roman title}}?--] (]) 11:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Shelter3}} ] uses {{tl|Italic title}} to deliberately display the title in italics, so you could remove the Italic title template to remove the italics. The article is in UK English so arguably you should check a UK English dictionary. ] (]) 11:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


== Referencing edits, citations, etc from the talk page ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/Dominick_Dunne


I’ve been collaborating with someone on the talk page of an article, but I’ve had difficulty finding clear standards or easy methods for referencing an edit or citation from the article we’re discussing. I’ve even struggled to find a simple way to quote something someone has said on the talk page. After some searching and working with raw code, I was able to use something like ].
In the Final Years and Tribute section for Dominick Dunne, there is a timeline discrepancy. It states that "On September 22, 2008, Dunne complained of intense pain, and was taken by ambulance to Valley Hospital. He died on August 26, 2008."


Since talk pages seem so important, is there a page that outlines all the tools available for constructive discussion? If such a page exists, I’ve honestly tried to find it! :D ] (]) 13:34, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
How does one go to the hospital on September 22, 2008 when they died on August 26, 2008?


:I don't know about ''all'' of the available tools, but ] seems like a place to start. ] (]) 14:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Please fix this for Mr. Dominick Dunne's page. He was my favorite Vanity Fair/True Crime writer.
::How would you link to a citation in the article? Or a previous edit? I have just gone to the edit and copied the URL from the taskbar, or gone into the source code and copied the link to the citation if it has an external link or file. ] (]) 17:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:::You can link to a previous edit as a ], if you mean a comparison of an old and new version of text; it sounds like you may have ultimately done something equivalent. If you wanted to link to a citation. I'd probably just quote the text where the relevant citation is listed, but it's not something I personally have needed to do thus far. ] (]) 18:31, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:The template {{tl|tq}} is sometimes useful for quoting text from an article or posting - it displays it in green. --] (]) 19:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
: {{Tl|Reflist-talk}} is also useful. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


== Can't fix my error because edit source is no longer part of the section ==
In September 2008, Dunne disclosed that he was being treated for bladder cancer. At the time of his death, he was working on Too Much Money. '''''<u>On September 22, 2008, Dunne complained of intense pain, and was taken by ambulance to Valley Hospital. He died on August 26, 2009,</u>''''' at his home in Manhattan and was buried at Cove Cemetery, in the shadow of Gillette Castle in Hadlyme, Connecticut. ] (]) 13:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC)


:Please raise your concerns at the article's Talk page, where other edits interested in the subject can weigh in. ] (]) 15:07, 16 June 2024 (UTC) Yes, I know I added the wrong citation markers. But now the page ] doesn't include edit source, so I cannot go back and fix the mistake. ] (]) 20:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:@], I've removed the empty ref tags inserted before the heading, that should fix it. ]&nbsp;] 20:47, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:And I have added a missing "<nowiki></ref></nowiki>". ] (]) 20:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)


= January 8 =
== ], IPA ==


== Hudson Bay ==
"{{lang|it|Spaghetti all'assassina}} is similar in preparation to {{lang|it|pasta risottata}} ({{IPA-it|ˈpasta rizotˈtaːta|lang}})"; we absolutely don't pronounce it like this, not with "z"; I hope that other pronunciations don't have similar errors, otherwise I will have to eliminate many of them. ] (]) 13:59, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:@]: Can you please discuss this at the relevant article talk page? —]&nbsp;(&nbsp;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;]&nbsp;) 14:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Tenryuu}} done: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Spaghetti_all%27assassina&diff=prev&oldid=1229385286. ] (]) 14:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)


What did I do wrong with the {{tl|sfn}} at ? It won't link to the actual book listing. It's references 16 and 21. Thanks. ] (solidly non-human), ], ] 04:49, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
== How do I remove my account ==
:{{Re|CambridgeBayWeather}} It was ]. -- ] (]) 07:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

::Thanks for catching it. ] (solidly non-human), ], ] 08:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
How to remove my account ] (]) 14:25, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:You made this comment as an unregistered editor, so there's no account to remove. If you edited while logged out, note that for technical reasons accounts can't be removed; just abandon it if you don't wish to use it anymore. —]&nbsp;(&nbsp;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;]&nbsp;) 14:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

== Closure request ==

The following ] was made over one month ago. Is there any way to expedite this? --] (]) 14:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

:The talk page of closure requests would be my first choice. '''] <sup>(] • ])</sup>''' 14:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

== Blocked from editing ==

Hi, I tried (for the first time) to edit ]. Unfortunately, I got hit with the <blockquote>"As an anti-abuse measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes. If you are attempting to run a bot or semi-automated script, please read and understand our bot policy, then request approval. Users who run unauthorized bot scripts may lose their editing privileges."</blockquote>
I admit, I created this account just for this edit, because a couple of years back, on my old account, I couldn't edit anything on fr Misplaced Pages due to some weird error (I don't remember which one exactly, something due to IP).</br>
What do I have to do to be able to edit?
</br>Thanks in advance. ] (]) 17:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:what was the name of your previous account? ] (]) 17:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
::It’s this one ! ] (]) 19:22, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:::Ping {{ping|AndyTheGrump}}. ] (]) 09:49, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
::::I can't see any obvious reason why editing should be blocked under either account. A bit of searching shows that the message is from ]. There have been a few other instances of people having the same issue, though it isn't clear whether they were all due to the bot malfunctioning rather than them trying to do something they shouldn't. If all you've been doing is trying to make a normal edit, it is most likely a false positive. Your IP is unlikely to be the problem, since you aren't blocked on this page. I'd try again and see what happens. If it persists, it probably needs reporting: ] would probably be the best place to do this, since that's where those most familiar with MediaWiki stuff hang out. ] (]) 12:40, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Yup got blocked again. I'll go and report it. Thanks for the clarification ! ] (]) 14:33, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Alec Baldwin ==

The actor ] was born in Amityville or Massapequa? In his book "Nevertheless: a memoir" he says: "I'm from 25 Greatwater Avenue in Massapequa, New York". ] (]) 17:51, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:"From" is not synonymous with "born", and there is no inconsistency unless it was a home birth. It is entirely possible that he was born in a hospital and spent his childhood living in a house at the nearby address that he mentioned. ] (]) 18:04, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

== I forgot how to upload images to a page. ==

I want to update the image of the "Eternal Flame" in Sarajevo. I've uploaded my photo to Wiki commons but forgotten how to replace the main image on the right side of the Misplaced Pages page. Thanks. ] (]) 20:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

:If you look at the Commons Description page for the image, ], you will see a link at the top "Use this File", and if you pick it, it will show you the string to copy and paste into the Misplaced Pages article.
:Looking at that page, I see that you have described the picture as "Own work", but also said "Shot by Jack Rose. Instagram username: @Camerahuffer". Are you Jack Rose? ] (]) 20:53, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

== lynn drury ==

how do I add more sources? there are Many Many Articles in published magazines etc. Going back over 20 years. ] (]) 21:48, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

:Read ]. Read ]. Then, if you have the sources to demonstrate that Drury meets our notability criteria, read ]. Nobody is going to write the article for you. Not with a draft like that, which makes claims but cites nothing. ] (]) 21:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:Like most new editors who try the challenging task of writing a draft before they have acquired the necessary skills, you have written ] ].
:'''First''' find your sources, '''then''' write a summary of what those sources say. Doing anything else is like trying to build a house without surveying the site, or checking local building regulations: even if your house looks OK, it will probably fall down, or the authorities will require such extensive changes that you might as well demolish it and start again.
:Remember that the sources must be ] (no social media, blogs, or user-generated sites like Wikis or iMDB):] (nothing written, published, or commissioned, by the subject or their associates or agents; and nothing based on their words, like interviews, or articles written from press releases); and with ] (at least a couple of paragraphs about the subject specifically: not just mentions, not about something the subject is connected with, but about the subject). See ] for more on this. ] (]) 22:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

:Quote: {{Olive|Her music is a '''definitive''' blend of Americana infused with the soulful spirit of New Orleans, a city known for its '''unique groove'''. She has become a regular performer at '''iconic''' events like the French Quarter Fest and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival}} (my emphases). Et cetera. It's less a matter of lack of necessary skills, more an utterly inappropriate intention to boost this person. Please take this fluff to some other website. -- ] (]) 01:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Copyrighted Images, Sandboxes, and Pre-Drafts ==

Asking out of curiosity, what's the Misplaced Pages policy on copyrighted images when it comes to sandboxes? Asking because I'm thinking about creating a draft for a game that's seen recent popularity, but I'm not entirely sure if it has enough notability to be an article just ''yet''. <p style="color:orange;background-color:dark-orange"> ] (])</p> 22:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:{{U|Jdxtreme}}, it's the same as anywhere else. Copyright material may not be used anywhere in Misplaced Pages unless either it is licensed with a compatible licence, such as ], or it meets all the criteria in the ], one of which is that it may be used only in articles. --] (]) 23:00, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
::But note that the presence or absence of images will not affect whether a draft is accepted on review or not. Images are decoration, not a crucial part of an article. --] (]) 23:01, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
:::Ah, thanks for letting me know Colin. Guess uploading that Steam header will have to wait until I polish that rough draft on my sandbox. <p style="color:orange;background-color:dark-orange"> ] (])</p> 23:03, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
::::{{hidden ping|Jdxtreme}}You probably shouldn't upload any non-free content until after the draft has been approved as an article or otherwise ends up in the article namespace as explained in ]. If you try to add non-free content to the page while it's still a draft or in your username space; it will be removed (most likely by a ]) and end tagged for speedy deletion per criteria ] if it's not being used in any other articles. -- ] (]) 01:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

= June 17 =

== How to request a new version of a spoken article? ==

How is the best way to go about requesting a new spoken article that will get the most attention in hopes someone will create one? The written article in question already has a spoken article but it's from 2010, so obviously the article in question has changed a lot since then. As such I don't think it would fall under a spoken article request, as this seems to be for pages that don't already have a spoken version (although I may be wrong here so clarification would be helpful). Also, the original uploader has been inactive on Misplaced Pages and other related projects for years, so I can't ask them to make a new version, nor do I think I'm comfortable recording myself. I've asked this question on ] and ] without any responses. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. ] (]) 01:51, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:@] you can request a recording by placing {{tlx|Spoken article requested|2=<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>|3=reason}} on the article's talk page. <span style="font-family:monospace;">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ]) 02:03, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
::{{U|CanonNi}} but as I mentioned it wouldn't technically be a spoken article request as the article already has a spoken version, it’s just very old and needs a new or updated version. ] (]) 02:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

:If you think recording it is so important, ], could you perhaps record it yourself? -- 02:51, 17 June 2024 (UTC) <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) </small>

== Invalid server ==

What does it mean when the server is invalid when publishing content? ] (]) 07:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Twocard88}} You didn't state the precise message but you probably just have to try again. If the same edit session fails to save then try to start a new edit but you can just copy-paste from the old attempt without changing anything. ] (]) 09:44, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Querying all values for a parameter in an infobox. ==

If there was ] and I wanted to know all of the unique values that had been given to the parameter "tail color", is there an easy way to search this? Let's say that there are more than 500 uses of the template. Ideally, I'd like to then be see that there is one with cyan and then able to tell the one article that had tail color = ], but I figure the second could be done with a regex search.] (]) 12:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Article hijacked by unrelated company for 14 years and no-one noticed? ==

{{article links|BlueSpace Federal}}

Odd case I came across today.

*18 August 2005: An IP user creates on (and named) BlueSpace, an ]–] collaboration on a prototype "office of the future".
*6 June 2010: With their first edit, {{noping|Justin143143}} on a different entity named BlueSpace – a software company in the defence industry – shunting content on the other BlueSpace further down, with the summary "the IBM BlueSpace desk furniture project is now essentially dead".
*7 June 2010: Another IP user (possibly Justin143143 logged out?), with their first edit, everything related to IBM BlueSpace, with the summary "The IBM BlueSpace Office was a failed research project that happened in 2002. It is no longer relevant." The article has now been completely transformed into covering an entirely different topic.
*No-one notices for the next 14 years. The usual chronic COI editing ensues. The article is moved to "Bluespace (software)" in 2020 and "BlueSpace Federal" in 2023.

The defence industry BlueSpace seems to fail our notability guidelines for companies, but the IBM BlueSpace actually seems to pass – on a quick search it's got coverage in , , , etc.

I'd like to put the defence industry BlueSpace up for deletion but rewrite and retain the IBM BlueSpace. How should I go about doing this? I can think of two ways:

# Restore the article to its last (12 April 2009), move it back to "BlueSpace", rewrite an article on the IBM BlueSpace from there. If someone really feels the need for an article on the defence industry BlueSpace, they can write their own somewhere else.
# PROD/AfD the article and separately expand the redirect ] into a new article on the IBM BlueSpace.

Which is preferable? – ]''']''' ] 14:41, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Referencing errors on ] ==

''] help requested.''
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Thanks, ] (]) 14:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:{{Fixed}} {{smiley}}. ] (💬 ] • ✏️ ]) 15:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
::An easy fix is to delete the <ref> use the "Cite" button, then paste the URL and the software will do the rest for you to re-generate the citation :). ] (💬 ] • ✏️ ]) 15:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Can you help me with this edit? Thank you!

:{{u|Cocobb8}} has fixed it, you didn't give a title ] - ] 15:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== article image weirdness ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/Goochland_County,_Virginia article image on right side does not show the state in either Firefox or Edge, only the highlighted county. Looks weird. Not allowed to upload an example here. ] (]) 15:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

:@] Yes, it's a known problem. See for example ]. Presumably it will be fixed soon. ] (]) 15:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Reporting IP-hopping vandalism ==

Hi - I've been going through lately and sometimes there's articles that get hit by a vandal over-and-over, but with different IP's. Today it's ] - an IP hopper keeps repeatedly changing the first line to stupid stuff. It gets reverted but they just do it again. What's the right thing to do here - is it AN/I or is there a more specific board to go to? ]] 15:29, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
: {{re|Bugghost}} report it at ] ] (]) 15:32, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
::@] Thanks! ]] 18:28, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Bugghost}} Since the IP apparently began vandalizing 3 days ago, I've semiprotected the article for a week. ] (]) 21:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== How to request a page edit ==

I'm trying to find a way to request an update to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's page. My office manages MIT's brand, and we've updated the MIT logo and seal designs. If one of the page owners can contact us, we can provide the updated logo and seal files. ] (]) 16:00, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

:Hi IP editor, see ]. If you want to email the images, you will probably need to register a Misplaced Pages account. ] (]) 18:08, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

:We are probably not interested in a new logo unless it is already in actual use on the internet. If it is in actual use, there is no need to e-mail it: just request the change on the article's talk page and provide a link to the web page that uses the logo. Same for the seal. But you must still declare your status as a paid editor (]) to comply with the terms of use of the Misplaced Pages web site. -] (]) 22:07, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Wikimedia Commons ==

Hi, I was trying to access Wikimedia commons but i am not able to do it. It does not connect to host. It does if i use VPN or proxy. What does it mean? Moreover my IP is blocked does it have to do something with it? ] (]) 16:02, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Tallest Bridge ==

https://x.com/longshortgamma/status/1802353625341337624 ] (]) 17:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

:If you have a question about how to edit and use Misplaced Pages, please post it. I for one am not going to open a random link to find out what your question might be. ] (]) 18:25, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:] might be what you're looking for. <span style="font-family:monospace;">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ]) 01:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::It is, in case you were curious, a short and not very informative video comprised of stock clips of the ] which is one of the tallest bridges but not the tallest. There is still no apparent question being asked. -- ]-'']'' -- 05:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== How can I edit the title of the page? ==

An organization Changed it's name, I would like to update the page to reflect the new name change ] (]) 18:27, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

:The answer is that this is done by ] the article; but your account is too new to have permission to move articles.
:If you think the move is uncontroversial (which will require at the minimum, citing a reliable source that evidences the change) you may make a ]. Otherwise, you should open a discussion about the issue on the article's talk page.
:Is it ]? And do you have a connection with this organisation? ] (]) 19:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== How to turn dark mode in wiki ==

Samw questuon qs qboc ] (]) 20:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
: If you create an account, there is an option in preferences to enable a gadget for Dark Mode. ] (]) 23:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

== Template or other way to reuse citation with different quotes ==

Is there a template or other way to reuse a citation, with a different quote for each instance.

<nowiki>{{sfn}}</nowiki> almost does that, but only allows for a different page number.

Thanks! -] (]) 23:02, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
: {{re|Tsavage}} See if ] is what you are looking for ] (]) 00:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::That doesn't seem to allow different quotes or notes for each instance. -] (]) 01:13, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
:Hey ]. Would the option at ] work for you? ] (] / ]) 01:32, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

= June 18 =

==]==
Reference number 2 in this article is all wrong - please repair if you can. Thank you ] (]) 01:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
: As the error message says, {{t|Cite journal}} requires a journal name. I clicked the link but I could not tell what journal this is from. ] (]) 01:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:: It is from this article - is it a journal or a book, please help. Thank you
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29343/29343-h/29343-h.htm
] (]) 01:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::: Hi IP 125.253.110.95. When you use the {{tl|cite journal}} template for a citation (like you did ]), you need to make sure you add something for the {{para|journal}} parameter to avoid getting a "]" error. All you need to do is re-check the source of ] and add the name of the missing journal. If you're adding citations, you should make more of an effort to figure out what type they are before doing so. It describes what kind of source it is at the very top of the url you linked to above.{{pb}}Some other things to consider when citing sources are to not use ] for the name of source being cited in {{para|title}} parameter and to avoid excessive quoting when using the {{para|quote}} parameter; the former can help avoid a single citation being (unintentionally) given undo emphasis, and the latter can help avoid any possible copyright related issues due to over quoting. -- ] (]) 01:27, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

==]==
see above problem please RE James Wilson
and these references - number 13 and 19 - on this page: St Leonards School (are they journals or not?) Thank you again ] (]) 01:20, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
: Those are both from the Journal of Education. Add that to the "journal=" parameter and the error should go away. ] (]) 01:23, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

::Fixed now ] - ] 15:53, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== ] ==

I need to add ] to the recipients list of this award, in the 2023 section. The source is the same as the other entries for 2023--he just got left off somehow. Tables are not my strong suit, and I've messed it up about 453 times so far. Any assistance would be appreciated. ] ] 04:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:@] Done , via the source editor. Note that you have to alter the rowspan from 4 to 5, which is what was probably catching you out. ] (]) 10:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::That was exactly the problem. Thank you! ] ] 15:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== Hello ==

Misplaced Pages, are you looking for truth !
I found an artical about my tribe and they involved people not of my family tribe !
without any evidence!
and they refused to delete it !

What a shamed !

The article has too many mistakes and it’s full of lies !

will not you remove it and block the people involved ! ] (]) 04:42, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
:@] Hello ! Could you provide a link to the article you mentioned? <span style="font-family:monospace;">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ]) 04:49, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
:@]. I suggest you read ]. ]|] 09:10, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::{{ping|Umluj-city}} This help desk is for the English Misplaced Pages and the above post is your only edit here. ] shows you have edited the Arabic Misplaced Pages. We have no authority over other Misplaced Pages languages and they can have different policies from us. If your concern is with the Arabic Misplaced Pages then you will have to discuss it there, meaning pages at https://ar.wikipedia.org. I don't know Arabic. ] (]) 11:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== Moved pings ==

Hi. If a comment containing a ping is cut/pasted somewhere else, will the user(s) be notified again? Thanks. <span style="font-family:monospace;">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ]) 06:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
: A user will be notified if a ping and signature of the user making the edit are added at the same time. So usually not, but occasionally yes. ] ] 06:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::Got it, thanks! <span style="font-family:monospace;">'''<nowiki>''']<nowiki>]]'''</nowiki>'''</span> (] • ]) 06:03, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== Wrong info? ==

I was recently reading the Misplaced Pages article for ]. The article mentions that ], Slovakia, is a twin city. However, I couldn't find any citations to support this claim, and after some searching online, I also wasn't able to unearth any sources that confirm it.

I just wanted to double-check before potentially making any edits to the page. Does anyone happen to have any information or resources that verify Žipov as a sister city? ] (]) 06:55, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
: Hi {{u|Giantskeleton}}. The ] falls upon whoever added that information to the article to also provide a citation in support. You can remove it you want, or you can add a template like {{tl|citation needed}} (just make sure to date the template) where the reference should go. It's unsourced content for sure, but it's not really something serious like a ] type of violation; so, perhaps the template would be OK to use in a case like this. For what it's worth, that bit of information was added in December 2022 with ], but the person who added it only made one edit with that account; in other words, it could've just be someone messing around. You could try asking at ] to see whether that was the case. -- ] (]) 07:35, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== Pascal Praud ==

Hello,

I have made edits on the page ]: I’ve added a French IPA translation, removed some very political language (e.g. “archconservative”), and added a list of employers in the infobox as per the sources. But my edits have been reverted and classified as “vandalism”. Could someone help me here? A point of contention seems to be that I remove the term “far-right” from the first sentence (it is still later mentioned in the introduction). But in my previous encounters with Misplaced Pages edits, I was told it was policy to keep the first sentence neutral: name, birthdate, occupation. I also do not think it is necessary to classify a sports commentator’s political views in the first sentence. Let me know what you think—and if you think I’m justified, please don’t hesitate to restore my additions. Thanks! 10:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC) ] (]) 10:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:IP editor: This is a content dispute between you and ]. Neither of you has commented on the Talk Page of the article, which is the correct way to reach ], per our ]. By using the talk page rather than edit summaries, other interested editors are more likely to get involved. ] (]) 10:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== Official HarmonyOS Next app ==

Are the devs planning to release a full ] version of the app? ] (]) 12:27, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:@] This is the Help Desk for assistance with editing and using Misplaced Pages, not general questions. Nevertheless, ] may answer your question. ] (]) 13:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
:If you are asking about the Misplaced Pages mobile app, Misplaced Pages does not have a app specialized for the Harmony OS. ] (]) 18:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::I already suggested on Phabricator. ] (]) 00:29, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

== Referencing errors on ] ==

''] help requested.''
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How do I reference these sources properly?
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Thanks, ] (]) 12:47, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
:@]: In that diff, refs 8 and 10 are called for but there's no citation for them to work off of; ref 13 has a mismatch between the template's {{para|archive-date}} and actual date of the {{para|archive-url}}, as well as no title provided. —]&nbsp;(&nbsp;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;]&nbsp;) 17:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
:If you are using the visual editor, you can add citations by clicking quotation marks on the top toolbar, choose the appropriate item on "automatic" part (in this case cite website), then fill out the parameters. Note that the ones with * are required to be filled out. ] (]) 18:13, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== ] ==

What can I do to improve on ]? Thanks. ] (]) 17:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:If you are asking about the message {{tq|This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject}} at the top of the article, the message tells you itself what needs to be done, and there are several links in it that point to pages with more explanation.
:If you mean something else, please clarify.
:I note that several of the references are to sources published by the university itself. These are not ], and should not be cited at all, except for the limited purposes explained in ]. If information in the article is available only from those sources, it should not be in the article (again, unless it meets those limited purposes).
:{{HD/WINI}} ] (]) 17:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

== Add sub branch Turk Sial (ترک) in to Sial (سیال) tribe live in Pakistan ==

Add sub branch of sial (سیال) caste Turk sial (ترک سیال) ] (]) 20:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:If you have reliable and independent sources covering the Turk sial, feel free to add the content yourself. ] (]) 21:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

==Copier==
Visually impaired I need help with the copier whatever it’s called ] (]) 23:28, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

:Hello, IP user. I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by the "copier". --] (]) 23:45, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

= June 19 =

== A specific question- using twitter or X? ==

Let's say that there is a article and it uses "]" (or twitter) in it. Should it be referred as "X, formally known as twitter" or just "X" with it being linked to it to the twitter wikipedia article? ] (]) 00:44, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

== Using analysis tools on individual Noticeboard discussions ==

The recent/ongoing RfC on is... unwieldy. I would like to see which authors have added the most text to it. However, because this is an active discussion on a noticeboard, there isn't really a way to only look at the edits for the one section, so far as I know. Does anyone have suggestions on how I could do this with Misplaced Pages's tools, or is there an external tool capable of this? ] (]) 01:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
: {{re|Safrolic}} I haven't used it, but looking at the screen shots, might be able to help. Why do you want to wade into that quagmire of an RFC? You should leave it to more experienced editors. It is already being discussed on the admin boards. ] (]) 01:37, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

== Deletion of my additions to notable people ==

I recently noticed that my two additions to the notable people of the article on Samsun, Turkey were deleted. One about A.I. Bezzerides and the other about Philocles Anthopoulos. Please tell me why.
(FYI, I am a regular donor to Misplaced Pages Foundation.) ] (]) 01:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

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    January 5

    The fair use file I uploaded is about to be deleted. What can I do?

    File:Longxiangqiao station diagram.jpg Félix An (talk) 02:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    Following the directions on the page itself, it says Note : if you believe that a free replacement image cannot be reasonably found or created please add one of the following without removing this tag.... Alternatively you can reach out to Iruka13 who placed the CSD F7 on the page to begin with. TiggerJay(talk) 02:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    Problems saving via Wayback Machine

    I know this isn't a Misplaced Pages problem, but was just wondering if anyone else has experienced problems recently with trying to archive pages using Wayback Machine recently. I haven't been able to save any for many weeks now, never having experienced any problems with it before. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    It got hacked and attacked and now its slowly recovering (which can take a while). In September 2024, the Internet Archive suffered a data breach that exposed 31 million records containing personal information, including email addresses and hashed passwords. On October 9, 2024, the site went down due to a distributed denial-of-service attack. On October 14, the site returned online, but it remained in read-only mode until November 4, during which time "Save Page Now" was disabled, replaced with a "Temporarily Unavailable" banner. -- Wayback Machine Polygnotus (talk) 09:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    You could use https://archive.ph/ I started using it when the WM went down. Its really really slow sometimes but if you get it in the morning (GMT) its fast. First time I used it had 5.5k entries waiting to archive. The Internet Archive, poor thing, has been right since its been hacked. It getting there slowly. scope_creep 22:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Seeking Editor for Translated Misplaced Pages Article on Nozomi Nagata in Tribute to His Passing

    My friend, Nagata Nozomi, a Japanese author, has recently passed away. In honor of him, I have translated his Misplaced Pages page into English and would like to publish it. The translation is complete, but I need assistance with editing it to meet Misplaced Pages’s standards, properly citing sources, and ensuring it adheres to Misplaced Pages’s writing format. I don’t have previous experience with editing or the Misplaced Pages writing style, so I would deeply appreciate the help of a kind editor or a volunteer to make the necessary adjustments. Thank you very much. Any support would mean a lot.

    Original page: https://ja.wikipedia.org/永田希?oldformat=true

    Translated page: https://en.wikipedia.org/User:EternalPsyche/Nozomi_Nagata EternalPsyche (talk) 03:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    (moved from talk) ''']''' (talkcontribs) 05:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    EternalPsyche, I haven't bothered to read the page ja:永田希; but I note that it does have references. Your translation does not. Us volunteers are busy: we answer specific questions and requests, but rarely if ever requests to turn (sorry, but) half-baked drafts into articles. So put in the references yourself: links on this page (WP:HD) will take you -- not directly, but simply enough -- to pages where the mechanics of referencing are explained. You say he had a "unique approach to reading" without saying what this approach was. What was it? (And which authoritative source, independent of Nagata, writes that it was unique?) You say that "Nagata's passion for literature was deeply influenced by his fascination with noise and industrial music" but you don't say what the influence was. What was it? Don't make Japanese script oblique ("italic"); doing so is ugly. And -- but no, that's enough for now. Happy editing! -- Hoary (talk) 05:58, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    -- Except that another quick look at ja:永田希, EternalPsyche, makes it clear that a number of what are formatted like references aren't really references. (Common are the publication details of books mentioned in the body text.) Where are the reliable sources that discuss Nagata or his works in some depth? These are necessary, in order to show that he's "notable", as defined by and for Misplaced Pages. Note that material produced by his publishers, and what he might have said in interviews, don't count. -- Hoary (talk) 06:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    • @EternalPsyche: I had a look at the article as well. It is a slightly WP:Promoish, using flowery and promotional language which is unsuitable for a mainspace biographical article. I put a couple of tags in that were needed. The JP references mainly constitutes interviews per Hoary's comments above. There is an obituary which is a start, but I think as he's an author, I would look for book reviews so he could pass WP:NAUTHOR. If you can find a couple of reviews for each of the books, 2 or 3 covered with a couple of reviews each would be ideal, then he will pass WP:NAUTHOR. However, the article itself needs substantial work. It reads a blog entry, is promo, so currently unsuitable for Misplaced Pages. You would need to send it to draft once you got the reviews. Hope that helps. scope_creep 22:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Intersection of "What links here" for two pages

    Hello all,

    Trying to make sure that no pages link to both Help:Your first article and Misplaced Pages:Article creation (newly a redirect), as in the case of Misplaced Pages:Help Project#Pages needing work's bottom cell; I don't really care about changing all the links to point directly to the Help page, but rather just the pages that have links to both.

    Any help appreciated!

    JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 05:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    @JuxtaposedJacob there are currently 287 pages that link to both. ''']''' (talkcontribs) 05:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    How did you get that number? JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 06:22, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    The PetScan query I linked above. ''']''' (talkcontribs) 06:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    @JuxtaposedJacob: Our search can also do it with linksto: and currently says 287. I would first update templates which link to the redirect . Then wait a while for the job queue to update link tables before making the first search. PrimeHunter (talk) 07:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    @CanonNi: Oh my goodness, missed that entirely, thanks so much! Also thank you to @PrimeHunter JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 17:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    delete draft

    please Draft:Azaad (2025 film) 2 by Sunuraju (talk) 06:45, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    I believe you want Misplaced Pages:Drafts#Deleting_drafts. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 07:08, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Sunuraju There is no need for you to take any action to delete the draft. Abandoned drafts are automatically deleted in six months of inactivity. More likely in this case is that the film will attract some reviews once it has been released and the existing draft may help someone create an article meeting the film notability guideleines. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:12, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Revision history

    Please look at User talk:Footballnerd2007 and User talk:Footballnerd2007/Archive 1. Today, the user archived their Talk page by moving it to Archive 1. Why can't I see the revision history of the Talk page? It looks like Archive 1 has the history the Talk page "should" have. Even if the user's archiving was unorthodox, I don't see how they can "eliminate" a page's history.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Bbb23: are you asking how Footballnerd2007 moved the history of their talk page or whether there is a rule about moving the history of their talk page? I can't find a rule, but it is obviously unhelpful to readers and thus a bad idea. TSventon (talk) 15:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Bbb23: This archiving method is described at Help:Archiving a talk page/Details#Other procedures. The method is still allowed, as far as I know, but is "generally no longer used". Moving/renaming a page automatically moves the history to the new page name, as always. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    They haven't eliminated it - what they did was move their talk page to the archive, and then created a new page at the talk page (or, well, created a redirect and then turned that into a talk page).
    I'm not sure it's the right way to do it, but it's completely possible for all users. Lee Vilenski 15:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    as always. Heh, I guess I've never seen it done before and noticed the effect. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:54, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    An interwiki redirect question

    I recently saw Fuckloads, By the fuckload, and Fuckload, all of which are soft redirects to the Wiktionary entry for fuckload. I thought that it might be reasonable to hard redirect Fuckloads and By the fuckload to Fuckload, since that's the page whose title is closest to the Wiktionary entry. But is it acceptable to redirect soft redirects to each other? JJPMaster (she/they) 22:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    Since there is no actual Misplaced Pages entry for any of these, I see no reason to not just keep the soft redirects. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

    January 6

    Bellarine, Victoria

    Reference number 22 is "Not Quite Right" (in red). Please fix. I am sorry. Srbernadette (talk) 06:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Before somebody kindly fixed it, reference 22 told the reader (in red) "Check date values in: |date=". This means that the value specified for the date is invalid. And the cite template read "date=20144", which (as it has not four but five digits) is several thousand years into the future. -- Hoary (talk) 06:09, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath

    ref number 6 is in the red too - Im sorry, I will try not do any more editing this year! Please fix this reef. Thank you in advance. Srbernadette (talk) 09:42, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Did that help? Also the year has just started. Perhaps try to do more and better editing this year. Polygnotus (talk) 09:47, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Statement: True or false?

    I think users with less than 500 edits can't be administrators. Gnu779 (talk) 13:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    There have been cases of admins from other Wikimedia projects but very few contributions on English Misplaced Pages, who are promoted to adminship here to facilitate particular cross-wiki tasks.WP:ADMINship is a position of community trust, and editors with brief tenures and few contributions have not yet had the opportunity to build that trust. Folly Mox (talk) 13:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    So if someone was an editor with only about 100 edits, will they be or not? No, right? Gnu779 (talk) 13:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    See guidance at WP:RFA. The formal requirement for adminship is 500 edits and 30 days of experience. However, a user who only meets this minimum standard is almost certain not to pass an RFA. GMG 13:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    So if I was a user with 505 edits, I can't still be? Gnu779 (talk) 12:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    You can run. But your odds of succeeding would be near zero. It's fairly common for RfA candidates with thousands of edits to be opposed by the community due to lack of experience. GMG 12:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    Likely copyvio ?

    First, I wish you a very happy new year !

    I hope I'm not in the wrong section. Here is the main issue :

    File:Herge with bust of Tintin.png

    I wonder if this photography uploaded on en.wikipedia.org has not been made by Jacques Pavlovsky (just died in 2023) for french Sygma agency, September 18, 1975. Here other sources to evaluate this issue : https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/belgian-cartoonist-georges-prosper-remi-aka-hergé-at-home-news-photo/1441929742

    Exactly the same type of light, same time (1975), same haircut, same shirt with rolled up sleeves and same tie, same place (at home in Brussels), ...

    And here, the same Tintin's bust statue in the exactly same state : https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/belgian-cartoonist-georges-prosper-remi-aka-hergé-at-home-news-photo/583065342

    Hergé was very conservative about photoshootings and it's very unlikely that any other photographer could have been worked at the same period for one of his last album of Tintin press promotion.

    Regards. Tisourcier (talk) 13:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Tisourcier Looking at the NFCC tags on the image, it looks like the uploader made a good-faith effort to identify the photographer but failed. I think it's plausible that Pavlovsky is the photographer, in which case the author credit for the image should be changed. However, the image would still be usable on Misplaced Pages, since it meets the non-free content criteria. —C.Fred (talk) 13:34, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Article name change

    Hello, I am debating whether should I change the name for the former Kandara Airport into Jeddah Airport, or keep it the same. The term “Kandara Airport” was probably coined by the former airport’s location to the area, and that people didn’t want to confuse it with the newer King Abdulaziz International Airport (nicknamed Jeddah Airport). And also, before 1981 when the new one was built, the former one was officially named Jeddah Airport according to historical documents and videos. If I changed it, it would have been more historically accurate. Any thoughts? Bollardant (talk) 14:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    The best place to discuss this is at Talk:Kandara Airport. When a subject has more than one possible name, it is best to get a consensus before renaming the article.--♦IanMacM♦ 14:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    A notice should also be added to Talk:King Abdulaziz International Airport as Jeddah Airport redirects there. A Misplaced Pages:Hatnote at King Abdulaziz International Airport or a Misplaced Pages:Disambiguation page at Jeddah Airport are alternative options. TSventon (talk) 15:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    What's my actual edit count?

    As of before I add this topic:

    Your impact: 371 Total edits

    View all edits > User contributions for Therguy10: A user with 372 Edits.

    Am I missing something here? Thanks! Therguy10 (talk) 18:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    There are a couple of things that impact your edit count, depending on what tools and methodology are being used. Some are based on all contributions, while others reduce your edit county by deleted edits (sometimes called "live" edits). Plus some pages are cached, for performance reasons, so their data might lag being by a few edits (or minutes)... For more information also see WP:EDITCOUNT. TiggerJay(talk) 18:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    @TiggerjayInteresting, I'll keep that in mind. I'll probably go off of my User Contribs but that's good to know that it can differ. Thank you! Therguy10 (talk) 19:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Therguy10: if you click on "Preferences", that will show you edit count. This is my 323,426th edit. Mjroots (talk) 11:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Reference errors

    Greetings, can someone with more stamina and time go into Hualca Hualca and resolve the reference errors? I don't know how to fix the spurious sfn error, for instance. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 18:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Jo-Jo Eumerus:  Done Polygnotus (talk) 20:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Maintenance categories

    Hello, I have a few discussions (1 and 2) concerning maintenance categories that I would like to bump - WT:CATP is pretty quiet. Would there be an appropriate noticeboard to bump these discussions? The village pump and subsidiary boards seems to be for larger discussions. Tule-hog (talk) 20:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    1) if you want to ask what a category is for, you can just ask its creator. I pinged them for ya.
    2) looks like this topic died a natural death after Anne drew said According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. If you want feedback you could use Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals) or WP:3O. Polygnotus (talk) 20:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Advice on appropriate informational/warning template

    A user tagged me this afternoon on another user's talk page in the context of trying to recruit other editors to collectively undermine the work of me and a collaborator in our ongoing efforts to improve Postmodernism. Please see the comment here. (Apparently this has something to do with the off-Wiki group GSoW. I'd never heard of it.)

    This first editor has made only one edit to the article in question (or actually just its talk page), three years ago, with a minor question about the presence of a sidebar.

    Aside from this ping (which I suspect was an accident), they have made no efforts to contact me or to offer criticism or suggestions on the article talk page.

    Is there a template of some kind I could add to their user talk? Obviously some of this is just ignorance of Misplaced Pages culture and norms, but wow is this the wrong attitude to start with.

    Thanks for your thoughts on how to handle this —

    Cheers, Patrick (talk) 21:31, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Patrick Welsh: Are there any other relevant links you know of? If not, then it seems you are overreacting and failing to AGF. It is not (yet) clear if these are nefarious people doing nefarious deeds or simply people who have a boring content dispute about a boring wikipedia article which can be solved with a boring conversation. And my money is on the second option. There is an article about @Sgerbic: over at Susan Gerbic. Polygnotus (talk) 21:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I'm afraid not, just the post at User talk:Sgerbic. OneSkyWalker's account dates back to 2006, but it has only 107 edits that, at least at a glance, appear innocuous.
    GSoW is apparently a group that coordinates offline campaigns against stuff like pseudoscience on Misplaced Pages. I don't know anything about them except what's on their website, and that User:Sgerbic is the founder and principle coordinator. Patrick (talk) 21:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Meh, my advice would be to relax and invite them to have a conversation on the talkpage. Postmodernism is not a form of pseudoscience, and you are not a psychic, so I think you have nothing to worry about. Polygnotus (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Okay, I will take your advice. I really don't love the battleground mentality, however, or the deliberate secrecy. I mean why not at least try starting on the article talk page? Patrick (talk) 21:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Some internet users expect Misplaced Pages to be a turnbased combat game, and it certainly can be. But there are also many articles where polite people politely disagree about topics that are not very exciting (like Postmodernism). The mention of GSoW seems to be unrelated to Postmodernism article. And, if my Google-fu is to be trusted, the GSoW secrecy is based on old unrelated drama. Nothing to worry about. Polygnotus (talk) 22:02, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Just to be sure we're not talking past one another, I'm totally fine with editors coming to the article talk page full of objections to this-or-that shortcoming. I welcome it!
    My problem here is that the editor did not do this. Instead, they went to the talk page of user who has not worked on the page seeking collaborators to edit the article in a way that they apparently expect in advance will wind up in arbitration.
    Oh, and I have no problem with Susan Gerbic. I too am opposed to pseudoscience. Patrick (talk) 22:09, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    I understand. I can think of plausible non-nefarious reasons why that editor showed up at Susans talk instead of at the Postmodernism talk. I myself have also posted on a more experienced users talkpage saying something like "I think article x is imperfect what do you think" instead of posting on the talkpage of that article because I was unsure I wanted to get involved without the support of someone saner and more experienced than I am, and as a sanity check if my opinion even made sense. Polygnotus (talk) 22:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Something to play with

    It's an AI bias checker. I'd use with extreme caution. It doesn't seem to like authoritative sources. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    Yeah that is nonsense. It is simply a wrapper around an OpenAI API call. And why oh why do they hate webdesign so much? Polygnotus (talk) 22:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    They are demonic (favourite word of the month) sent to try you. I don't understand it. Webdesign is an establish industry with traditions. No need for it with a well established and well understood design ethos. scope_creep 22:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
    Where is doomguy when you need him? Polygnotus (talk) 09:20, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    J1 League

    Are there instructions on how to access and use these updaters in Japanese football (soccer)? This is from Kawasaki Frontale Daxion (talk) 23:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Daxion: Your heading says {{Japanese football updater|KawasakF}}. That means it's calling Template:Japanese football updater. If you edit it then you can see some instructions at the top of the source code. If you mean how to call it then there is documentation for some similar templates in Category:Association football infobox updater templates: {{Brazilian football updater}}, {{English football updater}}, {{Spanish football updater}}, {{Welsh football updater}}. I haven't used any of them or examined the documentation but I guess they work similarly. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    January 7

    Namespace number

    Why there are numbers in namespace? What is the purpose of that namespace number? Vitaium (talk) 08:42, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Vitaium: Probably because that's how they get stored in the database(s). Imagine you have 6 million records in a database. Much better to store a zero for each of those to denote that its an article than the string "article". Polygnotus (talk) 08:49, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Vitaium: See Misplaced Pages:Namespace#Programming. Template code with namespace numbers can be copied between wikis where the names are different. Namespace numbers are also used in other places, e.g. some url's to restrict features like search or WhatLinksHere to selected namespaces. If you don't make namespace-dependent templates or tinker with url parameters then you may never need the numbers. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    I am not permitted to Requests for page protection/Increase/Form

    I am trying to report persistent vandalism over the span of 6 months on the article Gang rape#India, I am not permitted to do so. I get the message
    Failed to create request. Error code: abusefilter-disallowed. Please try again or ask for help at WT:RFPP.
    Can you perhaps submit it for me? I don't think it can get fixed i've tried alot of things. ContributedEditor (talk) 09:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    Pinging the man behind the hair, our beloved Sideshow Bob, @Oshwah:. Polygnotus (talk) 09:59, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    The title of the article was triggering an edit filter. Your submission to WP:EFFP was already handled, no need to cross post. OhNoitsJamie 15:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    Changing the italics in a title

    Would like to propose this for Ikebana as it appears Roman and uncapped in Merriam-Web. thanks Shelter3 (talk) 11:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Shelter3: Ikebana use {{Italic title}} to deliberately display the title in italics per Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Non-English-language terms. Page names start with a capital letter unless the first word would usually be written lowercase at the start of a sentence like iPhone. Merriam-Webster is a dictionary so they want to show how a word is written inside a sentence but they still say Ikebana when the word starts a sentence. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia. Our sister project Wiktionary is a dictionary and their article is wiktionary:ikebana. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    Sorry to clarify, it is already IN italics and needs to be Roman. So: {{Roman title}}?--Shelter3 (talk) 11:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    @Shelter3: Ikebana uses {{Italic title}} to deliberately display the title in italics, so you could remove the Italic title template to remove the italics. The article is in UK English so arguably you should check a UK English dictionary. TSventon (talk) 11:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Referencing edits, citations, etc from the talk page

    I’ve been collaborating with someone on the talk page of an article, but I’ve had difficulty finding clear standards or easy methods for referencing an edit or citation from the article we’re discussing. I’ve even struggled to find a simple way to quote something someone has said on the talk page. After some searching and working with raw code, I was able to use something like Talk Quote Block.

    Since talk pages seem so important, is there a page that outlines all the tools available for constructive discussion? If such a page exists, I’ve honestly tried to find it! :D Dr pangloss (talk) 13:34, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    I don't know about all of the available tools, but Help:Talk seems like a place to start. DonIago (talk) 14:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    How would you link to a citation in the article? Or a previous edit? I have just gone to the edit and copied the URL from the taskbar, or gone into the source code and copied the link to the citation if it has an external link or file. Dr pangloss (talk) 17:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    You can link to a previous edit as a WP:DIFF, if you mean a comparison of an old and new version of text; it sounds like you may have ultimately done something equivalent. If you wanted to link to a citation. I'd probably just quote the text where the relevant citation is listed, but it's not something I personally have needed to do thus far. DonIago (talk) 18:31, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    The template {{tq}} is sometimes useful for quoting text from an article or posting - it displays it in green. --ColinFine (talk) 19:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    {{Reflist-talk}} is also useful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Can't fix my error because edit source is no longer part of the section

    Yes, I know I added the wrong citation markers. But now the page Ecclesiastes#Influence on Western literature doesn't include edit source, so I cannot go back and fix the mistake. Lalare (talk) 20:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Lalare, I've removed the empty ref tags inserted before the heading, that should fix it. Schazjmd (talk) 20:47, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
    And I have added a missing "</ref>". TSventon (talk) 20:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

    January 8

    Hudson Bay

    What did I do wrong with the {{sfn}} at Hudson Bay? It won't link to the actual book listing. It's references 16 and 21. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 04:49, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    @CambridgeBayWeather: It was just a typo. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks for catching it. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Category: