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June 17

COSAFA Cup article issue.

Hi all. As of typing this the COSAFA Cup page has an issue. The current "Winners" section has seemingly been edited which has left it with a viewing error. The table of winners doesn't show properly and is currently in a block of random text. I've had a look at it to see if there's an error with the placement of -, ; ( ) etc. but I can't see it myself. It's likely a super easy fix but I couldn't work it out. Hope I've come to the right place for some help. Cheers, R96Skinner (talk) 11:08, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed by [1]. The page history showed misformatted attempts to use templates for under-17 and under-20 teams. Has there been such age restrictions? PrimeHunter (talk) 11:43, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I thought it was something to do with the Fb-big/Fbu-big/Fb but wasn't sure. Cheers! Age restrictions for the tournament itself? I think Angola took an U20 team for 2009 but they didn't finish in the final four places. Although, South Africa finished 4th in 2009 and apparently took a development squad (South Africa national development football team). Perhaps that is what caused the problem? Thanks again! R96Skinner (talk) 12:07, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will not try to change the templates for the main national teams. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:20, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My eyes aren't working

Hi HD friends, I need your working eyes, please.

In this version of a talk page, I see edit requests and responses through 13 June 2016. After this change, some of the comments *above* his edit request disappear, and his edit gets mashed into 20 May. I'm having trouble spotting the problem, so I'm obviously having trouble fixing it. I've counted the  tags and they seem to balance. I've also deleted the extraneous curly brackets but that didn't seem to fix anything. And so I humble myself before thee to ask you to please help me spot the problem. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:50, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Cyphoidbomb: The 20 May request was missing a closing ref tag.

Fixed [2]- NQ (talk) 16:09, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NQ: - Thanks for the eyes! Much appreciated.

Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:10, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RFC on setting up a separate section for BLPs at requests for page protection

Hey guys. I just thought I'll leave a note here about the above RFC. Those interested in commenting may leave their opposes, supports or comments here: Wikipedia talk:Requests for page protection#Addition of a separate BLP protection section. Xender Lourdes (talk) 16:00, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Frank DeFord article

Frank DeFord article has been vandelized — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.6.222.190 (talk) 20:04, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reporting this. I have reverted the damage. Maproom (talk) 20:11, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ace Relocation Systems, Inc.

Dear Wikipedia Administrators,

Thank you for hearing my concerns. I have recently created a page for Ace Relocation Systems, Inc. There are other articles with links to it, but it is still labeled as an "orphan article." If you could please correct this or tell me what else I can do(besides adding links to the page in other articles, as I have already tried that) please do so. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogbrewer (talk • contribs) 22:09, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The orphan tag has been removed. Have you made the conflict of interest disclosure, since you clearly are associated with them? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reflinks

I just had this edit undone by somebody who warned me to be careful of the script because it kept undoing their edit, and am slightly confused. Is there a way to stop that happening? Does it even matter how one reaches the link so long as they can get to it, or is a change of that type of concern? I like using Reflinks because it saves a lot of time, but I guess it's no good if it keeps wrecking things. Any advice? This is Paul (talk) 23:07, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any problem with your edit. If you're referring to the redirects for "Member of Parliament (UK)". Both reach the same destination. See WP:NOTBROKEN which basically says that it didn't need "fixing" to begin with but since you're already performing an edit, and an automated one at that which takes all of a second or so, I'd say it makes no difference. If it really stresses you out, you might take it up with the maker of the RefLinks tool. Dismas|^(talk) 00:19, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I posted a note on their talk page, so hopefully they can write a bug fix. I've also directed the user who complained about the edit to this discussion. Thanks again, This is Paul (talk) 13:33, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]