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June 3

Double brackets as "text"

Hello,

Double Brackets are converted to links, however, I like to use them in the title of a page (not on wikipedia.org though). Is there any way to do this? I have searched alot, but not yet found a solution that works. What I think is needed, is to escape the square brackets, though how?

basically what i need is something like this [[\[\[text\]\]]], in which the escaped brackets are shown as text, and the outer brackets convert the inner text to a link.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.75.152.226 (talk) 00:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two ways:

Separate the double brackets from the text with <nowiki /> see WP:NOWIKI.
Replace the brackets with the encoded version; see WP:ASCII.

---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 00:45, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your quick reply Gadget!

[[TEST]] does allow me to place a "linked" tekst in square brackets, however the brackets themselfs are not part of the link. Is it even possible to have the brackets being part of the link, and thus being in the title of a page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.75.152.226 (talk) 01:09, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. You technically cannot use brackets in a page title, so they are apparently filtered; see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions). ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 01:16, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Brackets cannot be part of a page name but you can display brackets in a piped link, for example [[TEST|<nowiki>[[TEST]]]]</nowiki> which gives [[TEST]]. For page names you might consider different characters with a similar look such as ⦋⦋TEST⦌⦌ or ⁅⁅TEST⁆⁆, but they look bad in my browser. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:52, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

An edit on PARIS-SORBONNE UNIVERSITY

Someone has added a logo with note that the Sorbonne is in UAE Abu Dhabi. May be a michaellambert and search on that namegives me a result that michaellambert does NOT exist. Where to from here? I am not a registered contributor BUT this has caused the UAE Abu Dhabi entry to shw up on my FB profile and this has undesirable consequences for me which I cant explain here but I assure you are not anti semitic nor racist in any other way. Jean-Pascal Du Puy . I will willingly supply an e-mail if requested Help please ANYONE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.200.253.223 (talk) 00:54, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

michaellambert is just the username of the person who uploaded the image. We have no control over how Facebook uses Wikipedia content. RudolfRed (talk) 01:02, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook community pages may incorporate content from Wikipedia— such use complies with Wikipedia policies on reuse of content. We at Wikipedia have no control over how the content is included nor can we help to remove it. Facebook does have a topic on Community pages and profile connections on their Help Center. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 01:17, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Spacing

Hi. I would like to ask this question: Howe do you make space in between 2 words (like for more than 1 space to actually show). For example, I would like to make these words have 20 spaces in between them, but no matter how many I add on the editing side, it still only shows one space when I save the page or press Show Preview. Can you please help me? TheBest Zebra 2:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC) P.S. Please notify me on my talk page when you have answered this question. —Preceding undated comment added 02:15, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See {{space}}. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 02:35, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How do I get this to display correctly?

On my userpage, I have an image and text next to my list of userboxes. On a larger screen (1280x800), it displays correctly. However, on my mother's computer's smaller screen, it shoves the image and everything below it under the userbox holder. How do I fix this so that it displays correctly on both screens? - Purplewowies (talk) (How's my driving?) 04:43, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FAST simply solution = On your keyboard hold down "ctrl" and uses the + and/or -. Other then that its your setting in display on your PC.Moxy (talk) 04:58, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thing is, that makes the text smaller and harder to read for me. I was also hoping for a solution that would make it display the way that I want it to by default on the two different size screens. If it's not possible, I guess I'll just live with the way it currently displays. - Purplewowies (talk) (How's my driving?) 06:07, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I put my userboxes in a table so that different types of boxes are displayed in separate rows. You could try something like that. Roger (talk) 08:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Marilyn Miller

A link that I want to put on about her last husband Chet O'Brien's work on Sesame Street won't link correctly. After 10 edits, I can't figure out how to link and source it correctly at the same time with the link form and it currently display an error message before the link. Could someone please fix this?

Could someone please also link this link next to the other not-working link so people don't get confused on when Chet O'Brien started on Sesame Street. (The years listed on the other one are just the ones he acted for the show on.) --Thebirdlover (talk) 05:36, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done I've fixed/added the references. Hope that helps. ^Avic _ennasis @ 06:16, 13 Sivan 5772 / 06:16, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation

I want to create a redirect to a specific section of an article. Should that redirect be linked from a disambiguation page, if the article is already linked from the dab page? The specific case in question is, should Wieferich number be listed separately at Wieferich? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 11:39, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion would be:

Wieferich may refer to:

Arthur Wieferich (1884–1954), German mathematician and eponymous topics:
- Wieferich pair, a special pair of prime numbers
- Wieferich prime, a special type of prime number in number theory
  - Wieferich number, a Wieferich prime meeting a specific equation
- Wieferich's theorem, some results named after Arthur Wieferich
- Wieferich@Home, a distributed computing project searching for Wieferich primes

Dru of Id (talk) 13:56, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, hit enter instead of preview the first time. Dru of Id (talk) 14:04, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Okay, thanks for the suggestions. However my point is, is there a rule regarding if there is a dab page, whether a redirect to a section of an article should be listed on the dab page, if the target article itself is already linked from the dab page. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 14:11, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages about it currently, and no Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation; I don't know if there's older or other guidance. Dru of Id (talk) 14:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I listed it as a sub-bullet at Wieferich. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 14:35, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Documentary: FAT

I discovered this documentary yesterday, that is set to be released this year. This is the site:

http://www.fat-film.com/

I thought it deserved a Wikipedia page, but I don't know how to make one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jnoulton (talk • contribs) 14:32, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is better to await its release to create the article, when far more verifiable information will have been written about it and none of the information needs to be based on speculation. Please see Wikipedia is not a crystal ball.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:41, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wait to see what press coverage it gets. The critics and commentators published by reliable sources are the ones that determine if a film is notable or not. Roger (talk) 16:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fraternal Order of Eagles

Fraternal Order of Eagles WHY IS THERE NO NFORMATION ABOUT MEMBERSHIP FEE'S OR LIFE MEMBERSHIPS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.126.110.243 (talk) 15:27, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yelling doesn't work. Being bold does. Singularity42 (talk) 15:48, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is an encyclopaedia, not a directory. Information of that kind does not belong here. --ColinFine (talk) 17:12, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Birth/death templates

I know only the year of birth and the exact date of death. Can't figure out what templates to use in the infobox. Thanks for any help.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:56, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Authoring Articles about Oneself

Greetings,

I am an actor director author and Polish theatre specialist of some note.

Would it be possible to create a wikipedia article about myself?

If so, How?

Very Best Wishes,

Kevin Anthony Hayes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nozzy100 (talk • contribs) 16:03, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You will first have to prove just how notable you really are - have people written articles or books about you? If you do pass the WP:Notability requirements and are able to muster up sufficient material from Reliable sources for an article, you would need to carefully study the advice given in WP:Autobiography before you start. Roger (talk) 16:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Probable copyright violation

I have just found articles on William Madocks and Tremadog, both of which are largely quotes from a booklet by Cyfeillion Cadw Tremadog, which clearly states that it is copyright July 2008. I intend to work on the articles to remove the copyright violation, but am not sure if anything needs to be done in the meantime, or where else to report it. Bob1960evens (talk) 16:58, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If these were blatant copyright violations of the sort where it was just copy and paste with no quotes used and no attribution provided, rather than the type we see here of attributed quotations but which are too long to meet fair use, I would say remove it immediately, do not wait. Because it's the latter, I can't see why you need to report it anywhere, especially when you're undertaking to fix the issue, albeit (as implied) not immediately but over time.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

James Graham Marquis of Montroes - Civil War under 17th Century History Scotland

17th Century History Scotland

Error that should to be edited.

Under photograph of James Graham Marquis of Montroes - CIVIL WAR

current wikipedia - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who led a successful pro-royalist campaign in the Highlands in 1644-55.

THE DATE 1655 IS IN ERROR.

MONTROSE WAS EXECUTED MAY 21,1650 AND IS BURIED IN EDINBURGH CATHEDRAL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.116.232.10 (talk) 18:02, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done Cresix (talk) 18:18, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MiszaBot III struggling to archive my talk page correctly

User:MiszaBot III seems to be struggling to correctly archive my talk page. If you take a look at the last two or three times it edited my talk page, it seems to be struggling with adding material to the two existing archive pages. It also seems to be incapable of simply creating another archive page - it "complains" that the existing pages are full. It is also completely ignoring the oldest content on my talk page. I'd prefer to have the archive content be in the correct chronolgical order. Roger (talk) 18:09, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You should leave a message on the talk page for that bot. RudolfRed (talk) 18:12, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do that, didn't realise that bots have real talk pages. Roger (talk) 18:17, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For one, it appears the counter is wrong, it should probably be 3 instead of 1 at this point. Also the stuff not being archived lacks date stamps, if there is no date stamp in a section that section will never be archived. Monty ₈₄₅ 18:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stats

Can anyone suggest a good edit count tool and an articles created tool? I used to use soxred93's tools, but his account has expired. — Fly by Night (talk) 22:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are links at the bottom of user contributions. They have simply replaced soxred93 with tparis in the url.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 22:49, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect... Thanks PH! — Fly by Night (talk) 21:42, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]