Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 November 19#A source based question Comment

Would it be possible to make a link to create a subpage with the name of the current page transcluded into the link? I know that I could just type out the page name, but the link is in a template that goes on many pages, so doing that would take forever.

This is my code: [http://www.example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Spreadsheet:{{PAGENAME}}/page1&action=edit&redlink=1 Create spreadsheet 1] . I am using the preloader and WYSIWYG extensions to automatically fill in every new page in the Spreadsheet namespace with a 100 cell excel style spreadsheet, 1-10 y axis and a-j x axis. What this code should be doing is making a link that looks like [http://www.example.com Create spreadsheet 1] that leads to a subpage of the page the user was just on in the Spreadsheet namespace, prefilled with an actual spreadsheet by Preloader. What it actually does is lead to a new page form that literally says "Creating page Spreadsheet:{{PAGENAME}}/page1"

What I want to do is have 10 links on every page that automatically create subpages of the article name in the Spreadsheet namespace, pulling the name of the current article and putting it into the new subpage title. I've got semantic mediawiki taking care of automatically creating a lorem ipsum page in Spreadsheet: for every new mainspace page, so there's already a page to make subpages of. --74.214.41.229 (talk) 04:20, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

:EDIT: Never mind, it just now decided to start working. No explanation I can see as to why it wasn't working and why it is now, but I'll come back if there's an issue. Maybe it was my cache? --74.214.41.229 (talk) 04:31, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

::I don't know why it failed before but note that {{PAGENAMEE}} with double EE is required if your page name may contain spaces or other characters which require url encoding. Also note that this is the help desk for the English Wikipedia. We have no knowledge of your wiki. In Wikipedia your url would have to contain /w/ instead of /wiki/ but that's a configuration setting. If /wiki/ works at your wiki then fine. You posted this at top of the page under November 19 where it will soon be archived, instead of the bottom of the page under November 22. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:47, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

:::Okay, I know this is waaaay off topic, but I don't know why you guys are using Visualeditor and not WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG can display a lot more tables, infoboxes and semantic functions visually (rather than the lines Visualeditor shows throught the large areas it can't edit). And its not nearly as slow and glitchy as visualeditor because it snaps right into the default edit window rather than trying to hijack the process, and there's also nothing to learn because it looks just like Microsoft Word. My mom thought I had Word 2007 installed and wasn't really using a website, its that uncannny. Seriously, is there any reason why? In my experience, WYSIWYG is technically superior and easier to use. The extension page is for Mediawiki 1.17, but there's a maintained version with more recent instructions on Github. --74.214.41.229 (talk) 05:36, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

hi! I am looking over the page for Printz Board (music producer) and there is a whole section of content under "4." at the end of the article that is written as a footnote instead of a main paragraph. How can i make it it's own paragraph and not a foot note? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melodynoelh (talk • contribs)

:{{ping|Melodynoelh}} It happened because you removed an ending in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Printz_Board&diff=next&oldid=634450765 this] edit. See Help:Referencing for beginners. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:15, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I can no longer check "Keep me logged in" on my iPad 1. The checkbox doesn't function. Is this a known problem? Thanks -- Jo3sampl (talk) 02:00, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Jo3sampl}} the people who would know can be found at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:47, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

How do i contact facebook to close my business page when i did not create the page and do not have the login information or password and the person that created the page does not work for my business yet continues to use my business page,license to make money?

--96.54.98.168 (talk) 02:14, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:Hi there - the Wikipedia help desk is for help regarding how to use Wikipedia. To answer your question, you can report a Facebook page by following the instructions [https://www.facebook.com/help/355811251195044 here]. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:30, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi There

I'm trying to create a page for our business PokitPal. Wikipedia won't allow me to create PokitPal as there is already Pokitpal (without the middle "p" capitalised). I'm not sure what to do to get around this. There doesn't seem to be any content for Pokitpal (small "p") and I have a feeling maybe someone else accidentally created it. What can I do to get the page "PokitPal" active?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.175.81.82 (talk)

:Hi - again, the Wikipedia help desk is for help on using and editing Wikipedia. The Wikipedia reference desk is the place to ask questions unrelated to Wikipedia - you may find help there, but the issue you have does sound like something that will have to be sorted out with Facebook. Wikipedia has no control over how Facebook operates. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:51, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:This post was by another IP address in another country than above so I assume it's an independent question from another user. I have added a section heading. There is no page called Pokitpal. There is an old unused account with that username but you aren't allowed to use PokitPal or Pokitpal as your own username per Wikipedia:Username policy#Promotional names. You can create an account with an unrelated username. The username will not be the name of an article created by the user. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations. You can try to submit an article at Wikipedia:Articles for creation but most articles about a user's own business do not satisfy our policies and are declined. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:59, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::Nice catch, thank you! I've struck my comment. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I normally don't ask these types of questions, but I think that I can make an exception for this. Hopefully I am posting this in the right place and hopefully such questions are okay to post here. Anyway, here goes:

Does anyone know what exactly happened to Wikipedia user Katie Ryan A? She hasn't posted at all on Wikipedia for the last 3.5 months despite being very active on Wikipedia before that point in time (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Katie_Ryan_A). I was previously engaged in a very long conversation with Katie on her talk page, but after she suddenly stopped posting on Wikipedia, I am unable to continue this conversation with her. I would think that normally, Wikipedia editors don't frequently edit and then suddenly stop editing unannounced; thus, I was wonder if anyone knows why exactly Katie Ryan A stopped posting on Wikipedia (if it is okay for him or her to share this information here, that is). I am concerned for Katie's well-being and seriously hope that Katie is currently doing okay/good and that nothing bad happened to her at the beginning of August 2014. After all, based on my interactions with her, I honestly think that Katie is a great, extremely friendly, and nice person. :) Futurist110 (talk) 03:16, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:We may never know. Unfortunately, she didn't allow for users to email her (as evidenced by the lack of an "Email this user" link on her user page) otherwise you could try to contact her that way. It's possible that things in her life changed in such a way that she no longer edits but those reasons aren't necessarily bad. That said, I thought we had a category for deceased Wikipedians but I can't find it just now. Nothing like it appears at the bottom of her user page either. Dismas|^(talk) 04:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::{{reply to|Futurist110}} - nice to see Wikipedians who care about other Wikipedians. You can try posting your message at Wikipedia talk:Missing Wikipedians - maybe someone there has some good ideas. Good luck. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:02, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

:::Thank you; I have posted this same message on that page right now, and Yes, hopefully someone there has some information or at least good ideas about this. I strongly hope that nothing bad happened to Katie at the beginning of August 2014, since that would be an extremely atrocious tragedy which would break my heart. :( Futurist110 (talk) 06:01, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

:If she informed anyone here about the reason, she would have had to do it by telephone, postal letter, email, face-to-face communication, or posting somewhere here. The first four cases would indicate that she didn't want it to be Wikipublic knowledge. If she posted somewhere here, you would see that in her contribs. Reasons that would prevent her from communicating are possible but rare. Chances are, life happened and she didn't feel compelled to notify Wikipedia. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 05:46, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Dear Sir / Madam,

Wiki is best platform to get information from and share to.

We found that there are lot of editors who only goes to undo instead of improving the work / contribution done by other users.

Need stringent rule for only undo when some percent of total work done by some editor is wrong.

Thanks and Regards,

Wiki user & Editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.242.3.73 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 19 November 2014‎ (UTC)

:Wikipedia is WP:NOTCOMPULSORY, every editor can contribute in the manner that is most appropriate for them, be it adding appropriate content, making content look pretty, fixing grammatical errors, removing inappropriate content, coaching new editors or whatever their their particular skill and interest brings to the project. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:36, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:There's also the possibility that by hitting "undo" that the editor in question felt that A) the article was better in its previous state or B) the added material required a major re-write in order to be suitable for inclusion and thus, back to point A, felt that the article was better served by having the changes undone. Dismas|^(talk) 13:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Reference help requested.

I'm struggling to understand the correct way to cite when writing an entry.

Thanks, Mattjgriggs (talk) 10:35, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:{{ping|Mattjgriggs}} Having a read of Referencing for beginners would be of great help to you. Instead of putting the numbers (1, 2, and so on) in the text, you should be putting the links to the references there. So it should look something like this:

::This is a sentence that needs a reference.http://www.google.com

:I hope this helps but again, you should really read over Referencing for Beginners. Dismas|^(talk) 11:24, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:::{{ping|Mattjgriggs}}You should be aware that Wikipedia already has an article on swingball, titled totem tennis. It is far less promotional and biased than the draft version, and contains evidence disproving the claim in the draft that the game originated in 1973. Maproom (talk) 10:55, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2014_Ferguson_unrest&diff=634485711&oldid=633395901 This edit to archive parameters] seems to have lost at least one of the related archive pages. The reason I believe this is that the editsum in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2014_Ferguson_unrest&diff=634360270&oldid=634352934 this edit] includes a link to an archived section that worked before but is now redlinked.

What can be done about this, if anything? ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 14:47, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:Did you click the red link? The log for Talk:2014 Ferguson unrest/Archive 15 shows it was moved to Talk:2014 Ferguson unrest/Archive 1. Your diff shows an edit summary with a link to the archive page but not a specific section on the page. Talk:2014 Ferguson unrest/Archive 1 has mention of possible splitting. I don't see why you think something was lost. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:07, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::I thought it was lost because link was redlinked, and I didn't know the effect of that parameter change, imagining it deleting archive pages 2-15 without first merging them into page 1. I don't know why anyone would deem it necessary to make that change, knowing that they might be breaking useful existing links. But I understand the situation now, at least. Thanks. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 15:18, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:::Pages 2-14 never existed. The archiving was set up with a bad parameter counter = 15, probably because somebody adapted the code from a page which had reached archive 15 at the time. Changing counter to 1 in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2014_Ferguson_unrest&diff=634485711&oldid=633395901] and moving Talk:2014 Ferguson unrest/Archive 15 to Talk:2014 Ferguson unrest/Archive 1 was the right thing to do. Special:WhatLinksHere/Talk:2014 Ferguson unrest/Archive 15 shows your link at Talk:Shooting of Michael Brown#Symphony protest is the only broken wikilink in a page. Links in edit summaries cannot be searched but the red link contains a link to the new location so it's an insignificant problem (until archive 15 is really reached if that ever happens). PrimeHunter (talk) 22:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=634546495 edited] a redirect, and Cluebot thought it was vandalism and reverted me. I changed the target and removed {{tl|R from merge}}, the latter because we hadn't merged anything from the redirect to the new target. I followed the "report a false positive" link that it [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?&diff=634235750 gave me], but when I'd typed my message, I reached a page with a multi-pages-long error message, beginning with "Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /data/project/cluebot/public_html/includes/dbFunctions.php on line 154..." Can someone help me report this false positive, since the "official" way isn't working? 65.210.65.16 (talk) 15:16, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ductless_gland&diff=next&oldid=634546500 noticed you] reverted the bot and since then he hasn't rolled you back again so I think you're OK. As for reporting the false positive, I just tested the link and it all seems in order — BranStark (talk) 15:24, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Can someone help me fix this citation. I am getting "Cite error: A tag is missing the closing (see the help page)." even though I have the closing tag.

{{cite news|last=Aney |first=Kathy |date=21 August 2011 |title=Rwandan Singer Chases away Genocide Memories with Song|newspaper=East Oregonian}}

It's for an article I am creating. I guess you'll have to look at the source of my question since I don't know how to make it so the code is read as text and not read as code.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BryanAtkinson12 (talk • contribs)

:I've added nowiki tags in order for the code to show up as code. By the way, it might help if you told us what article you're working on. Dismas|^(talk) 15:50, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::Special:Contributions/BryanAtkinson12 doesn't show any articles except adding one name to a list, so Bryan is apparently getting this in preview or on a page that has been deleted. 65.210.65.16 (talk) 16:07, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::: I am working on creating an article - just using preview mode, but I went ahead and created the article with what I have so far so you can see. I started a paragraph below the last paragraph, but no text after the reference error is showing up. The page title is Enric Sifa. Thanks! BryanAtkinson12 (talk) 16:17, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::::Fixed. When you reuse refs the second(etc.) uses have to be you didn't have the /. Naraht (talk) 16:31, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::::I added a (somewhat) standard References section heading and {{tl|reflist}} template. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 16:35, 19 November 2014 (UTC)"

:::::Thank you everyone for your assistance. I finished the entry. BryanAtkinson12 (talk) 07:47, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Can somebody fix this infobox? Michael Hill (American football) Thanks! PacoDaKing14Sportz (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:{{fixed}} - You had double brackets instead of double braces opening one of the templates. Tough one! ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 19:35, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Do the websites of educational institutes such as universities count as reliable third party sources? (I think I know the answer already but I could do with some clarification). --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 19:42, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Born in July 17, 1954, Gerald Allen Carroll was born in Alaska. He ended up at Florida, South Carolina and Japan during his children and schooos, with father Frank Allen Carroll was at full service with U.S. Air Force. During then, Gerald Carroll did attend school for third, fourth and part of fifth. In 1962 did fly to Japam was done, but flown in 1965 to Auburn, Alabama, and moved to Florida on McCoy Air Force of Orlando, Fla. Gerald had to then get moved to Nicholasville, Ky., to be with families huring father Frank Carroll his duty at Vietnam at 1969, until returning on 1970 and moving us back to Florida. During then, at 1970-1971, I went to racial mizes between white and black students under federal courts pushing with mixed-for students every where in Florida. As a tromber played, Gerald had to move to Florids for 1972 high school graduation from Vanden High School in Fairfield, CA.

College was none both Solano Community College and Sacramento State University, where a B.A. In Journalism was earned in 1976. Gerald was covering for the Sacramento State newspaped against corruption in the college clubs, and about the old Farmers Untion demonstrations. Some smuggling of the college came during the passed-out "Gemstone Files" from a man named Bruce Roberts, who died in San Francisco in 1976. Gerald's reseach led to "Project Seek" on the Roberts writings, and was published in 1994 by Bridgers House during Carroll's work as a teacher and editor for the University of Iowa. During to the 1976 and 1993 at Iowa, Gerald worked at several newspapers in California, Kentucky, Illinois and in Iowa as well.

Misic education also came to tye new job of Gerald in 1999 until 2006 at schols in California at Fairfield ans Orosi, then in 2006 it was the Visalia Times-Delta that hired him for a reporter. He worked there since 2012, until April of that year Gerald had to live ag Golden Living Center at Fowlee CA. Gerald still lives there, but has been working fir a healing developmenf, and wilk soon go back to active duty in Visalia and others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerald A. Carroll (talk • contribs)

:{{ping|Gerald A. Carroll}} If you wish to submit a potential article, you will need to use the WP:AFC or WP:RA process. Note that the subject of an article must meet certain level of criteria. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:57, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::and I suggest you read WP:autobiography before you go any further, {{U|Gerald A. Carroll}}. --ColinFine (talk) 19:40, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

When people look me up in the internet or Google, how do I get my Wikipedia page to pop up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drrandallnozawa (talk • contribs) 20:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:There are a number of misconceptions in your question, but on the face value, that depends upon google's current algorithms which generally include how many times other important sites link to a particular page. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:31, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:The answer is exactly the same as the last time you asked. Wikipedia is not a webhosting service, and your user page is not an article, so it won't show up in searches. This is an encyclopaedia, and only has articles on notable subjects. Try Facebook or something. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:32, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:And from a quick look the contents of the user page are barely acceptable for a user page.--ukexpat (talk) 20:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

::The user page has been nominated for speedy deletion as purely promotional. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:37, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

The website is no longer valid. I am the Secretary for Union Township, Washington County, PA, 15332, and the new website address is: http://uniontwp.psatstwp.org/

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.89.104.205 (talk • contribs)

:{{fixed}} - Thank you. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 21:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Hey there, does anybody have a clue why it takes more than a month to publish my artcle, and it still hasn't come out? I'm a bit confused here :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Korabivana (talk • contribs) 21:49, 19 November 2014‎

:Sure, Wikipedia runs by volunteers and the number of volunteers willing to slog through the morass of trash that comes in via the AfC process does not match the volume of people attempting to submit crap. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:55, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:Assuming you mean Draft:Ivana Korab, the clue is probably in the AFC submission box at the top of the page "This may take several weeks, to over a month. The Articles for creation process is severely backlogged." Though the result of the review is self-evidently going to be rejection, since you fail to cite any sources whatsoever for the content, and accordingly fail to demonstrate that the subject meets our notability criteria. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

:(I'm not above piling on from time to time) The same box, which has been there since 28 October, contains a convenient group of links under "How to improve your article". ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 22:05, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I have started a book and want to add pages to it. Several times when I went to save an article to the book there was a menu item that made it quite easy. Now I have lost that menu item and don't know how to retrieve it.

Hi, I've uploaded an image that is probably too big (replacing one that was clearly too small) but I can't find the template to trigger its reduction. The file is :File:Gerseystorms.jpg. Anyone know where that template is? BlackCab (TALK) 01:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi, not being sure to contact the 'correct' forum to mediate, honestly i'm completely irritated for the very first within EN-WP and 'frustrated' once again. Although i'm contributing and created dozens of wikis since 2007 respectively 2009, as yet assuming to do appropriate contributions, and proud to be honored by the Englisch-language Wikipedia as autoreviewer, reviewer, and at Wikimedia Commons and Malayalam Wikipedia as ''autopatrolled'.