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December 21

Marshall Brooks

This page is great but I placed the name by which he was known on top of the info box - should it be inside it ? (please see my citation which has his full title: The Hon. Marshall Jones Brooks)

Thank you Srbernadette (talk) 02:49, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Full name and title can be placed in either the lede sentence or the infobox. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 03:35, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I cannot work out how to place the name and title IN the actual info box. Please assist. Thank you Srbernadette (talk) 08:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

@Srbernadette I think that the infobox "rugby biography" is designed so the name doesn't go into the box. See this example in the template documentation. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:02, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I wished Wikipedia supported wallpapers in pages...

It would be even more awesome if we could change the wallpaper of pages in Wikipedia. But the fonts' colors could change to adapt to the wallpaper. The button for that might look like this: Change wallpaper Gnu779 (talk) 10:27, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Gnu779. The place to suggest features is WP:VPR ColinFine (talk) 10:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! You replied quickly! Gnu779 (talk) 11:01, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I will add that personally, I do not want the WP developers to spend time adding features that in my view do not contribute to the sole task we are here for: building an encyclopaedia. ColinFine (talk) 15:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gnu779 Did you know you have a choice of five skins? See Wikipedia:Skin. Shantavira|^{feed me} 19:01, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

@Shantavira I know them. But how about wallpapers?

Thanks, Gnu779 (talk) 06:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

List of pages using a shortcut

Before deciding to retarget a redirect of a shortcut, it would be helpful to know the pages that are using the shortcut, so that any disruption by the retargeting can be considered in the decision to retarget. Is there some way to find that out?
(I'm asking this question because of the discussion Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 16#Wikipedia:PCR, which resulted in a retargeting of a redirect that disrupted a section, Provide context for the reader, of a page that I was reading.)
Thanks. Bob K31416 (talk) 17:24, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Unless I've misunderstood you, you can navigate to the redirect page (for example, go to WP:PCR, and then pick "Redirected from PCR" at the top) and then pick "What links here" ColinFine (talk) 17:37, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

That was what I was looking for. Thanks. Bob K31416 (talk) 21:01, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

can i speak to a global renamer or steward

please FeistyRooster (talk) 21:28, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

This is an en Wikipedia Helpdesk, there is information and contact info at meta:Global renamers and meta:Stewards. TSventon (talk) 21:39, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Where does the question belong? —Tamfang (talk) 00:02, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Tamfang I meant that I wouldn't expect global renamers or stewards to frequent this help desk, which I could be wrong about, rather than that this is the wrong venue. There is a helpdesk at meta:Help Forum, I don't know much about it. TSventon (talk) 03:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC)