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September 1

Help with coordinates

Im creating a new article but the coordinates doesnt work. It shows the wrong location. At the bottom: User:Supreme_Deliciousness/misc

33.02163810199814, 35.80560072280436 https://www.google.se/maps/place/Horvat+Ramthaniya/@33.0194791,35.8143555,14z/data=!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x151ea86dae7bdc5f:0xe12ffe365d6c370a!2sGolanh%C3%B6jderna!3b1!8m2!3d33.0155854!4d35.784354!16zL20vMDNjZHo!3m5!1s0x151ea912c593ee31:0xf04f21d5bc533be5!8m2!3d33.020078!4d35.805434!16s%2Fg%2F1tjh1lzg?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 00:58, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Supreme Deliciousness: 33.02163810199814, 35.80560072280436 are in decimal. I have converted them to DMS (degrees-minutes-seconds).[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 01:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to Create External Link

When entering the external link as [URL text-to-use] it displays backwards. The page is at:

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star\Aircraft on Display\United States\P-80C

Shows as:

47-0221 – Redesignated US Navy TV-1 33824 at [https://wingsoffreedommuseum.org/ Wings of Freedom Museum] Horsham, Pennsylvania]].

Please indicate how to correct the link. Voyager88 (talk) 03:12, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Voyager88. There are three problems here. First, you have included inappropriate nowiki tags within your external link. See Template:Nowiki for the documentation. There are two bigger problems. The page you are linking to does not mention the plane in question. The biggest problem is that external links do not belong in the body of an article. You should create a reference that actually verifies the content instead. Cullen328 (talk) 03:57, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply:

Inappropriate Nowiki tags - thanks, but I couldn’t figure out how to correct it. Can you please provide guidance?

Page doesn’t mention the plane in question - I linked the website homepage. I can change it to the page that mentions the plane in question. On the other hand, all the other external links go the website home page, as I did.

External links do not belong in the body of an article - I am only adding one line (47-0221) to a long list that contains similar external links. Voyager88 (talk) 04:17, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Voyager88, regarding your third point - just because other people have done something incorrectly doesn't mean you should do it too! However, I don't see any other external links in the list; it looks to me like the other links are to Wikipedia articles (not website home pages), which are not external and are encouraged. If I've missed one, please do point it out.

For the moment I've reverted your edit; you need a reliable source to verify your addition, as Cullen328 mentions. Once you have that, have a look at how the other redesignations have been listed and see whether you can copy those to create the one you wish to add. StartGrammarTime (talk) 07:40, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see no other direct external links in the text of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. Maproom (talk) 07:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Voyager88: Your edit [2] used VisualEditor when you tried to add the link. VisualEditor hides the underlying code and only displays the result. And the user doesn't type code like link brackets in VisualEditor but uses its own features to make code. It has a chain icon to add a link but as said above, an external link shouldn't have been added there at all. In case you don't know, external link generally means a link going to another website, not Wikipedia itself. The other items in the list only display internal links in the list itself. Some of them have an allowed external link in a reference but it's displayed in the references section. VisualEditor has a pencil icon at the top right to switch to the source editor where code can be seen and edited directly. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all for your help. This is my first post. I changed the external link to an internal link and added a citation from AirHistory.net. It looks correct now. Please let me know if there is anything else I need to do. Voyager88 (talk) 15:27, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Guidelines on chemistry solubility?

On the MoS for line equations it merely says "Do not include phase definitions unless they are absolutely essential". Normally, the states of matter as written as, for example, AgCl(s), but on the silver chloride page the precipitate is written as a down arrow for 2 equations and with a subscript for the remaining. Does Wikipedia have a preferred style?

Also, on some pages, like silver phosphate, as well as the main article for solubility product, the solubility product is written with units at the end of it, when it is usually treated as a dimensionless quantity. Is there a preferred style?

Sorry if this is the wrong place btw SecretSpectre (talk) 07:06, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your attention to detail. Since Wikipedia is edited by thousands of volunteers, all working on what they choose, we often end up with inconsistencies (which some people, such as yourself) want to mitigate.

I think you might find an answer (or ask the question) at WP:WikiProject Chemistry. ColinFine (talk) 08:23, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks SecretSpectre (talk) 08:43, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SecretSpectre The silver chloride article was promoted to good article status as recently as February this year. The reviewer was User:Reconrabbit, who may now comment. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:10, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SecretSpectre, silver chloride was one of if not the first of the good articles I've reviewed and I learned a lot since then. I don't know how it's preferred to write out the phase but I'm familiar with both

{\ce {(v)}}

and (s) being used to denote a precipitate, and since the reaction in that article is specifically interested in the formation of a precipitate it seemed appropriate. The more modern {{Chem2}} template doesn't seem to support the down arrow so maybe it's been deprecated. These are more questions for the more experienced wikiproject chemistry users. Recon rabbit 15:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lower Alveolar Consonants

I was scrolling through the extIPA page and noticed that one of Manners of Articulation was labeled “Alveolar (Lower)” (there is also a Lower Alveolar consonant mentioned in the lists of sounds on the page). However, when I searched the term, there was nothing on it. Does anyone now what it is and how to articulate it? Also, how is there no Wikipedia page on this topic? 2600:6C4A:1840:20:2000:5D07:6D30:9078 (talk) 20:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IP editor, I agree that there is not much information on Wikipedia about this subject. I suggest that you ask at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language, which tries to answer more general questions. TSventon (talk) 21:37, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally, that term would cite a source, but that whole article is woefully short of sources. I have tagged it. ColinFine (talk) 10:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]