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October 13

Harold Evans

Please remove "For Douglas Harold Evans, see Douglas H. Evans.". This disclaimer is superfluous we think; the disambiguation has the necessary info. Srbernadette (talk) 03:42, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Srbernadette, this discussion (and the one below) belongs to the talk page of the respective article. You can also be bold and undertake the changes, provided there is no opposition from the editors frequenting the page. Lourdes 03:48, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tina Brown

The introduction is too long - I think. Do you think that the second paragraph should start off with - "Having been editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at only 25 years of age, she rose to prominence in......."

Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 03:42, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Srbernadette, this discussion (and the one above) belongs to the talk page of the respective article. Lourdes 03:48, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How to mention source of article content?

Hello,

I want to know that, how to mention source of article content on particular wiki page.

Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suraj Kumar (talk • contribs) 09:11, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Suraj Kumar, see Help:Referencing for beginners. —teb728 t c 09:27, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your original draft of Draft:Alchem Life was an unreferenced, blatantly promotional copyright violation of http://www.alchemlife.in/media/clnews/14608090539828.pdf. The reviewer rewrote it, giving you an example of a referenced, neutral stub. —teb728 t c 10:50, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sitewide text replace

Can I put in a request to have a sitewide text replace of Jean Michel Jarre to Jean-Michel Jarre Drneroli (talk) 13:15, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt you will persuade anyone to rename Images – The Best of Jean Michel Jarre. As you can see from the record sleeve shown in that article, there is no hyphen in the name of the album. Maproom (talk) 13:35, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just the name in the articles will do, seeing as "Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre" is the actual name of the thing then it doesn't count, it was spelled like that Drneroli (talk) 14:54, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rita wade (talk • contribs) 15:58, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to refer to Julian Schlossberg. OP seems to have fixed it. Eagleash (talk) 16:33, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect character listing

High Crimes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I know this is a small matter but I am currently reading Joseph Finder's book "High Crimes" Your site reads as follows: Plot Attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) and her woodworker husband Tom (James Caviezel) find their idyllic life in Marin County, California shattered when, during a Christmas shopping excursion in San Francisco's Union Square, he is captured by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with the murders of nine peasants in a remote village in El Salvador in 1988. Claire learns Tom's real name is Ronald Chapman, and she is shocked to discover he was a covert military operative serving in the Marines and has been on the run for the past twelve years.

Actually the last names of the major characters are referenced. Tom's real name is Ronald Kubik and his assumed (married) name is Tom Chapman.

Just thought you would want to know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.96.64.49 (talk) 16:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. If you find incorrect information in an article, you are welcome to edit the article to correct it - preferably with a citation to a reliable source. Alternatively, you can make the suggestion on the talk page of that article. --ColinFine (talk) 17:44, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Colin, I've just had a look at this, and it's interesting. The film names the characters as Tom Kubik/Ron(ald) Chapman, and his wife as Claire Kubik, but the novel calls them Tom Chapman/Ron(ald) Kubik and Claire Heller-Chapman. As the article is about the film, then it's correct. However, it a weird situation where both article and questioning editor are correct. As there's no article for the novel, I suppose an addition of "Differences from the novel" could be added, but I don't think it's notable enough myself.

As a final observation, in cases like this sources aren't absolutely required as the film itself can be considered a reliable primary source for the plot - but additional sources are always helpful. In this example I used Good reads and Kirkus reviews to establish the character names. Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:54, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Image File Help

User:MrSchmidt/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Help! I am working on a page in the Sandbox section of my account, and I am trying to upload a photo... I uploaded one image, but didn't save it to be viewed on the page I am working on (wasn't sure if I wanted to use it at first)... when I try to upload the image again to use it now I get an error message that says "there is another file already on this site with the same content" but I don't see the image file anywhere... how can I find this file that it is speaking of? I want to use this file, but I can't see it anywhere and it won't let me upload it again. Please help!

- Mike MrSchmidt (talk) 16:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Have you looked at Special:Contributions/MrSchmidt? --David Biddulph (talk) 17:16, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@MrSchmidt: I think David Biddulph means Commons:Special:Contributions/MrSchmidt. —teb728 t c 00:08, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And I see that you have declared those photos as being your own work. Are you sure that you took all the photographs yourself? I see that some of them have previously been uploaded elsewhere on the web. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:24, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not to put too fine a point on it but if you took all of these and are the copyright owner of File:George Thomas Building .jpg, that makes you how old now? This may be a Wikipedia:AGFC#Good_faith_and_copyright violation.--Aspro (talk) 20:46, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

Please fix up ref. number 63. on this page. I did not do this edit. It is wrong, according to us. Cheerio139.216.210.155 (talk) 22:01, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).

The error message says "Check date values in: |access-date= (help)"; the word "help" is in blue indicating that it is a wikilink, in this case to Help:CS1_errors#bad date. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:23, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. It was more than fixing a bad date, as there were comments re: archiving of the original in that field. I added the correct fields for an archived source. Crow^Caw 22:29, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We can remind the IP again that the parameters are shown at {{Cite news}}. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:43, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposals

If you want to propose technical features, do you do that at Wikipedia:Village Pump (Technical) or Wikipedia:Village Pump (proposals)? I remember asking this ages ago and I don't think I got a clear answer. CamelCase (Talk | Contribs) 23:22, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Village Pump (technical) is for reporting issues. Post your proposal either at Village Pump (proposals) or Village Pump (idea lab). RudolfRed (talk) 00:00, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. But what's the difference between proposals and idea lab? CamelCase (Talk | Contribs) 00:31, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Idea section is a good place for refining and firming up an initially vague or non-specific idea, conversely the Proposals section is where you propose the implimentation of an already well thought out executable idea. So if you have the code all figured out, go directly to Proposals, otherwise take it to the Idea lab. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]