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January 8

Keyword search

I have a wikipedia article up on my screen — how do search for a particular word within that article? I have looked for an answer and cannot find. Thanks--Eagledj (talk) 01:33, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Eagledj: Wikipedia cannot do it but most browsers have such a feature in an edit menu or with shortcut Ctrl+F (Windows) or ⌘ Cmd+F (Mac OS). It's mentioned at Help:Searching#Other search tools. If this doesn't work then what is your browser? PrimeHunter (talk) 02:29, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection

hi, is there anyone over at page protection(there are about 10-15 request waiting..including mine) thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:43, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On my way. Thanks f or the heads up! -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:47, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:07, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

-Ad Orientem (talk) 02:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Specific Linking (to Wikipedia Article Sections?)

I would like to know if there are any ways to specify intentionally what section in the page a link will bring a user to. For example, when I linked "Stake President" using the wiki-brackets [[Stake President]] it brought be to the section about "Stake Officers" in the "Stake (Latter Day Saints)" Wikipedia page, which is perfect. I also would like to link to "Patriarch" and "Bishop", but right now they link to the top of their respective Wikipedia Articles. I would prefer it to go directly to the sections about LDS Patriarchs and LDS Bishops to avoid confusion or miscommunication resulting from a misleading link. Is this possible? I am relatively new to Wikipedia but ready to learn! My page is not yet posted (it's new- I'm working on creating it) otherwise I would put the link here as it says in the instructions. Chief2443 (talk) 02:46, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Chief2443: See Help:Link#Section linking (anchors) and Help:Redirect#Creating and editing redirects. Stake President is a redirect saying #REDIRECT [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)#Stake officers]]. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal requires blocking

Please see contributions for User:CanadaToronto1986. Thanks. Mitchumch (talk) 03:50, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done For future reference WP:AIV is the appropriate place for vandalism. Also some of the stuff posted does not require multiple warnings. I only looked at one edit and had I seen it before any warnings I would still have blocked them on the spot. Use commonsense. Racist attacks or slurs are pretty much zero tolerance. -Ad Orientem (talk) 04:07, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alt spelling/pronunciation

In Nahshon Dion Anderson, a Hebrew spelling and pronunciation is given for the name Nahshon. From what is available in the article, there is no connection to Hebrew or Israel at all. So it strikes me as odd. Is there a policy on this? MB 04:40, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MB, see WP:BRD. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:39, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how Nahshon Dion Anderson got the name or pronounces it but Nahshon is a Hebrew name. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:42, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't doubt it is a Hebrew name. But since we don't know how this person pronounces it, and there is no indication of any association with Hebrew, this could be misleading information to have in the article. I was just wondering if there was any policy stating when to add this kind of information in general. MB 16:41, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Harassment at own talk page

A persistent SPA keeps posting at my talk page after I tagged a bio article about himself, which was an obvious WP:CSD and was promptly zapped in much less than an hour. He seems to have taken great exception to this, even though I wasn't the one who personally deleted said article. I am not interested in conversing with him, yet he keeps posting—five times and counting, within the hour. No abusive or threatening language as such, but he is annoying the shit out of me by making accusations of having a "personal grudge" against him, despite my not wanting anything to do with him whatsoever. I don't think this issue belongs at EWN or AIV, so what do I do? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 13:28, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have dropped a note on their talk page. If the problem persists, ping me or contact me directly on my talk page. Also FYI if you don't want someone leaving messages on your talk page it's best to just tell them as much directly. Once told to desist it is improper for people to keep posting on other editors talk pages.. -Ad Orientem (talk) 13:39, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My thanks for stepping in. Advice noted in future. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 14:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Football result

Someone please check the info on Dabo Swinney 2016 season - article says they beat Louisville and I think they loss. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.98.236.67 (talk) 13:42, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Were you talking about 2016 Clemson Tigers football team#Schedule? I've corrected it. Thanks for letting us know. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Correction. I misread it, and fortunately my edit has been reverted. 2016 Clemson Tigers football team#Louisville and 2016 Louisville Cardinals football team#at Clemson (with more detail) both seem to say that Clemson won. Do you have a published reliable source to the contrary? --David Biddulph (talk) 14:42, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August Walk

The information put forward by Ms Japan about August Walk is incorrect and we would ask that it be removed nobody from the band or management added any information about we would like it to be removed as it's States we have never charted as a band and that the band only had a Facebook page both these comments are false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.22.156.89 (talk) 13:59, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you are talking about the article August Walk, it was deleted last June, see WP:Articles for deletion/August Walk. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:17, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And please note that people from connected with the subject of an article - such as members of a band or its management = are strongly discouraged from editing that article, because they have a conflict of interest. --ColinFine (talk) 04:57, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

gujarati cinema

Hello, i just read article of gujarati cinema. and read about first film released in multiplexes was Batter Half(2008). It is Completely wrong info. First gujarati film shot on Super 16mm and which released in multiplexes was

'LOVE IS BLIND' in 2005.

This film also won 11 Gujarat State Government Award in that year. starring Sonali Kulkarni, Sudha Chandran etc. SOngs were sung by Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, kunal ganjawala, Sdhan sargam , Richa sharma Film was directed by Vipul Sharma

I request you to kindly modify the old details. If you need i can give more authentic details of film-LOVE IS BLIND. i.e.news paper cutting, media notes etc Awards were given in 2007 by the then CM of gujarat Mr.Narendrabhai Modi in 2007. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:850D:4D69:619E:37BD:72A4:26F9 (talk) 16:27, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please bring this up at Talk:Gujarati cinema citing specific reliable sources for each of the changes you think should be made - Arjayay (talk) 16:55, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

speedy delete issue

my page has been put up for speedy delete,please how do i overcome that..because i need my article to be live, Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cintawayne (talk • contribs) 18:54, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cintawayne, and welcome to Wikipedia. You can contest the speedy deletion on the article's talk page, but I don't see your article there any more, so it has probably been deleted. Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 18:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Please provide a link to the page in question. This thread seems to be your only edit from that account (assuming the page hasn't already been deleted). Other editors may the be able to offer some advice. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 19:00, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) The deletion log at Dazzle Shea Butter Industries Limited says that there were 3 reasons for deletion. The words or codes in blue are wikilinks to further explanations. Before you try to recreate it, please also read WP:Your first article. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:01, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Cintawayne: you could also check your User Talk page (User talk:Cintawayne) for the message that spells out why that article was deleted. Please remember that Wikipedia is not a corporate directory where businesses can post promotional material: it is an encyclopedia which aims to have balanced, neutral articles that summarize the best independently published information about notable subjects. Writing a new article from scratch is one of the more difficult tasks here; my recommendation is to build your skills and experience by improving existing articles before moving on to creating new ones.--Gronk Oz (talk) 21:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The reason that I pointed to the deletion log rather than the user talk page was that the nomination message on the user talk page didn't mention the copyright violation, which was presumably discovered by the administrator at the time of the deletion. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:14, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are autopatrolled articles in fact noindexed?

Wikipedia:Autopatrolled states:

"This user right may affect article indexing by search engines. As of October 2016, new articles are automatically noindexed (hidden from search engines) until they are patrolled."

Is this actually still the case? If so, can someone tell me why that hasn't been adapted for autopatrolled article creations? It strikes me as amazingly counterproductive to hide from search engines a subset of new articles that comes with an implicit quality guarantee (as expressed by the creator having been granted the autopatrolled right). Will these articles remain forever noindexed unless someone goes and manually removes the tag? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:17, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot say whether or not, in fact, autopatrol creations are noindexed. However, I question whether your reading of the quote is correct: in the context of the page, I read it as meaning autopatrolled pages will be immediately indexed, unlike other new articles who will have to wait until they are patrolled by a reviewer. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 19:31, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Autopatrol creations are autopatrolled. Thus they are not noindexed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:22, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ah! Well that makes sense. I clearly misread this. Thank you! -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:29, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    - I have added a comment on the page about indexing for clarification in response to your question. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent template

Can someone explain why {{Deceased}} is producing different results at User:JohnCD and User talk:JohnCD? The userpage has masculine pronouns and the talk page has plural, and neither template has been instructed to employ any parameters. The template automatically detects the user-specified gender setting, but one can't make separate specifications for different userspace pages, so I can't imagine how this could be intentional. Nyttend (talk) 23:08, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It currently only uses the pagename to detect gender in the user namespace and not user talk.[1] It says "His/Her/Their user page is preserved here" so it doesn't sound like the template was designed for user talk, but Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Deceased Wikipedian shows it's often used there. Maybe the editor just didn't think of possible use on user talk. It can be forced to check the gender by supplying the username like {{Deceased|JohnCD}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for noticing that; I didn't realise that the coding referred specifically to userspace. Would it be easy to create another "if" line for namespace=3 or namespace=user talk? I have no experience with parser functions (with the limited exception of {{{1}}}, {{{2}}}, etc. to supply the raw text of parameters) and don't want to break something with a bold edit. Nyttend (talk) 23:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cyberpower678 has done it with a switch.[2] PrimeHunter (talk) 11:46, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]