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January 31

Judge Thomas Hardiman's religion?

What is the religion of Supreme-Court Nominee Judge Thomas Hardiman? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.185.77.119 (talk) 00:55, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 5.3 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing about this question implies the person is astray. It's just a general knowledge question which belongs at the reference desk. Ppp ery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Humanities reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Ppp ery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) or clicking the signature button above the edit box which looks like this:

, but do not sign in articles. Ppp ery 01:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Signing Posts

Can someone help me how I can sign my posts here? In the german Wiki four tildes works just fine, but here this happens: -- (talk) 02:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC) So my User name is not displayed directly but only two hyphens which are a link to my User page.[reply]

My guess is that you may have tried to customise your signature at Special:Preferences. Go to the Signature section on that page, remove everything in the box labelled "Signature:", and uncheck the box labelled "Treat the above as wiki markup". --David Biddulph (talk) 03:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"sanctuary cities" in Canada

As a Police Officer in Canada for almost 30 yrs, I have never heard of the so-called, "sanctuary cities" in Canada. I regularly arrested a variety of criminals on various charges (and sometimes :suspicion of"). If it was determined that they were not, Canadian Citizens or Landed Immigrants, Immigration (now called CBSA) was notified and their investigation was started. I worked on multi-jurisdictional files and never heard of, "sanctuary cities", in Canada. I think someone is trying to paint us as something we are not. Canada vigorously persues all persons illegally in our country and all levels of Law Enforcement co-operate in this endeavour.....just look at the 6 o'clock news and see reports of people trying to by-pass the system by seeking refuge in a Church. The term,"sanctuary city" has never (to my knowledge; unless it was during the,"war of 1812" or something) been used to describe a Canadian city or a municipal ideology. Whoever reads this, please challenge the original author as to the validity of,"sanctuary city". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.179.50 (talk) 06:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Officer: I think you may be referring to the Wikipedia article Sanctuary city, which includes a very brief passage identifying Toronto and Hamilton as sanctuary cities. If you look at that portion of the article, you will notice footnotes supporting the statement. In fact, I added a reference for a separate news report about Toronto, as its status was mentioned only in passing in one of the two previously existing references. Also, just for your information, articles in Wikipedia are written by multiple people; there is no single author for a given article. DonFB (talk) 07:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I find that article questionable. Apparently I have been living in a "sanctuary city" for the last 40 years, without ever being aware of it. The truth is that some cities are, officially or unofficially, more welcoming to undocumented refugees than others. But they are not "places of sanctuary" with a power to ovrrule the laws of their nation, as the article appears to imply. Maproom (talk) 08:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The sanctuary city phenomenon of recent years seems to have flown beneath the radar of both the Canadian officer and yourself--though it's possible the issue receives more publicity in the U.S. than in your respective countries. No doubt, many people think such a civic and social movement is questionable; perhaps, some will also take a similarly jaundiced view of an article describing the subject. DonFB (talk) 12:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't find the movement questionable, indeed I am pleased that the authorities of my home city try to be accommodating to undocumented refugees. What I question is whether there is anything substantive to this "sanctuary" status. Maproom (talk) 16:21, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GEMS

Good day

Will you be able to put on your page about GEMS (Government Employ Medical Scheme). This is in South Africa and there is a webpage but not fully clear about it164.151.131.114 (talk) 10:23, 31 January 2017

We do not currently have an article about the Government Employees Medical Scheme (I've corrected the name). Having searched several South African mainstream news sources the subject seems very likely to pass the Notability standard for organisations. I'd strongly recommend that you first read the Your first article guideline and then ask WP:WikiProject South Africa for assistance. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops

I recently deleted a portion of an article that I didn't mean to. Is there anyway I can easily restore the article to its original state? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinreik (talk • contribs) 12:02, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide a link to the article concerned. Your only edits seem to be to Draft:Fulvio Martusciello. You can resore a previous version of a page by clicking on the date in the history (link at top of the article page). This will display the page at that time. By clicking on 'edit source' and then saving, the page will be restored. Alternatively, if you are referring to one edit and it is the last edit you can click on 'undo' and then save and it will restore. Please leave an appropriate edit summary. Please sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 12:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I recently made the mistake of deleting some information from an article that I did not create. Is it possible to revert the page to its original form if I did not create the page originally?

The page that was accidentally edited was,

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulvio_Martusciello

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinreik (talk • contribs) 14:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just click on "History" (Chronologia) then "Undo" (Annulla). Dbfirs 14:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have undone the edit and left an edit summary pointing here. - GB fan 14:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

editing

how do you create a new page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Mou (talk • contribs) 12:34, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Mr Mou. You may want to read our written tutorial at WP:Your First Article, or check out the interactive Wikipedia tutorial at WP:The Wikipedia Adventure. TimothyJosephWood 14:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Breaks in a row of icons

Is there a way to make a break in a row of icons like User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/article work? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think you can just start a new row by inserting |- at an appropriate spot. Like so, for example:

......Laguna Amarga that was displayed on the Main Page on the 30th of June 2016.|cat=}}

|-

|<br/>{{click|link=Taryatu-Chulutu........

DonFB (talk) 13:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thx. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FinDev / TransGaming Wrong Article

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hi, In December 2016 TransGaming Inc. (the Canadian public company) completed a Change Of Business to investing in and financing real estate transactions, and changed its name to FinDev Inc. See: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/findev-inc-formerly-transgaming-inc-closes-proposed-cob-trading-commence-under-fdi-tsx-venture-fdi-2180728.htm

The TransGaming brand, as well as the business of Games for Connected TV devices were sold to General Media Ventures, a UK company, and is now operating under a new UK company named TransGaming Interactive Limited. See: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/transgaming-signs-agreement-sell-gametree-200000606.html

The Wikipedia article is currently a mixture of both companies. here are the companies' websites to put things in order: FinDev - http://findev.ca TransGaming - https://www.transgaming.com Please help correct this situation. I have posted this on the Talk page but received no response.

Thanks, Tamir Goren CEO, TransGaming Interactive Limited — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamir Goren (talk • contribs) 14:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notification

This has probably been answered somewhere before, but... I was curious, why don't I automatically get a notification when someone replies to me on a talk page? Benjamin (talk) 15:56, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The conditions under which you get a notification are laid out at WP:Notifications. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:30, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I read the page and it didn't answer my question. Benjamin (talk) 16:54, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Except for your own talk page, the only way for you to get a notification is if someone tags you in the reply. So, when I add @Benjaminikuta: then you will be notified. (Note: this must be done in the same edit that I sign the reply with) †dismas†|^(talk) 18:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I know that's how it works, but why is it made to be that way? It would be nice if I could be able to be notified. Has there ever been attempts to fix this in the past? Benjamin (talk) 18:33, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As for the why, I don't know. I would guess that people figure that's what a watchlist is for. If you're engaged in a conversation on, for example, Talk:Tulip then I would suppose that the developers thought you'd put that page on your watchlist. By saying "attempt to fix", you seem to be assuming that something is broken. You might want to ask at WP:VPT and get a technical answer as to why the software doesn't do this now. Again, another guess, the site would have to look at every talk page edit, see who is editing, look at the subject header of the section, look up all the users who had commented in that section thus far, and notify each one. With the number of talk pages, discussions, and users, that could take up quite a bit of database lookup time. †dismas†|^(talk) 18:56, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How could the program determine who's being replied to? Indenting is often not done correctly, so it could be a significant logic problem with many "false reads". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, why not make it kinda like reddit? Benjamin (talk) 19:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How does Reddit do it? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Threads and notifications happen automatically. Benjamin (talk) 19:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is that a wiki or is it an old-style "bulletin board" type of structure? Or something else? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's a fairly popular social media site. Obviously Wikipedia isn't social media, but I just use it as an example. Benjamin (talk) 20:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reddit uses a structured discussion system. Wikitext doesn't. Flow does, and does provide notifications. Ppp ery 20:27, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot about Flow. And from what I see at here, it was removed from trials. †dismas†|^(talk) 22:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bugs, you can see how Reddit does things here, for example. †dismas†|^(talk) 22:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. Looks like a hybrid of traditional bulletin board threads and wiki text threads. Presumably the reddit method is geared toward responding very specifically. The relatively free-form wikitext method doesn't allow for that. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:20, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Category overlap tool

Is there a tool somewhere that will generate a list of articles that have an overlap of two categories? For example, Abandoned drugs and Experimental drugs. Natureium (talk) 15:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at PetScan, there is an external link on that page.uhhlive (talk) 16:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request Edit

Good Morning,

Could we change our look on the Brevard College page, under athletics we would like to use our new logo.

Thank you.file:///C:/Users/swansojt/Desktop/Logos/Conference%20Logos/BCTornado%20copy.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.235.248.22 (talk) 16:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That file is located on your computer, which we can't access. Do you have an external link to a website? uhhlive (talk) 16:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Uhhlive: Probably the request refers to Brevard College#Athletics, and logos can be found at Google with this request: https://www.google.com/search?q=brevard+college+tornados+basketball+logo&tbm=isch (not sure, however, if they are appropriate for Wikipedia with regard to copyright). --CiaPan (talk) 19:29, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Moving article

Want to move User:USA-Fan/callus shaver to callus shaver but I haven´t the button to move this page. Can´t find any description to do this. --USA-Fan (talk) 16:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

USA-Fan, you can move pages when you're autoconfirmed, which should be the case for you on 19:47 UTC. In the meantime you can request a move by prepending {{subst:submit}} to your article, according to WP:NOTRM, which can take some though so I recommend you to wait until you get your move button. – Giftpflanze 16:45, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fine. I think in two hours I´ll still be online. Thank you, "Poisounus plant". :) --USA-Fan (talk) 16:49, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But, USA-Fan, I strongly recommend that you don't move the article to main space yet, because it is not ready for that, and may get deleted. Please read WP:YFA and WP:42, and add some references to reliable sources. At present it has just one reference, to a German site (which is not a problem in itself, but English sources are preferred if they exist). Most of the text is unreferenced - there is not even a source that establishes that "Callus shaver" is the English name for this implement. I will add {{userspace draft}} to the top of it, and I recommend that you use the "review" button when you have added some sources. --ColinFine (talk) 17:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for answering. I know it is the correct name and I also have a source, but I can´t put this in the article, because this kind of reference is not allowed (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Toolz-Callus-Shaver-Stainless/dp/B001TJIOAY/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1485883072&sr=1-5&keywords=callus+shaver). ;) But look, Giftpflanze told I´ve got some time until I get my "move button". It´s time enough to find some references in english and maybe I can use the references also in german (the german article was written by me). :) --USA-Fan (talk) 17:22, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's pretty easy to find good-quality English sources for things like this in book search. The correct title to move to will be in sentence case: Callus shaver. Dicklyon (talk) 17:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Allready found the first. ;) --USA-Fan (talk) 18:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Laney Amplification Update Request

I run all Social Media for the Guitar and Bass Amplification company called Laney Amplification.

The Wikipedia page is severely out of date and I can not update it.

Our logo along with vital information about our owner, family, past and present amplifiers needs updating.

[redacted] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laneysocial (talk • contribs) 16:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Put your contact information at Talk:Laney Amplification. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Laneysocial. I'm not sure quite why Robert McClenon advised you to put your contact information on the talk page: I wouldn't advise you to put it anywhere in Wikipedia. What I would advise is that you read WP:PSCOI, and then put your suggestions for changes to the article on the talk page. Be as specific as you can (eg "Replace text 'XXXXXX' by 'YYYYY'"), and give reliable sources for all information - sources independent of your company where possible. For the logo, if you can give a URL where your new logo can be found, somebody can upload it and update the article. Finally, if you put {{edit request}} (with the double curly brackets) in your suggestions, it will add them to a list of waiting requests. --ColinFine (talk) 17:24, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I have updated the logo per their website, but the user will need to suggest specific changes to the article, supported by sources, as outlined above. TimothyJosephWood 17:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I used sloppy language. I meant to put the corrected information on the talk page. Do not put contact information on Wikipedia. User:ColinFine is right as usual. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

adding photo

We'd like to have this photo be in the upper right corner of our WIKI page - and we uploaded it but it does not appear. What do we do?

error message attached - photo exists but we can't get it in place (Kids Castle Playground Cranberry Community Park)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cranberrytownshippa (talk • contribs)

Hey Cranberrytownshippa. I have added the commons photo to the infobox, and moved the previous one down into the body of the article.

However, you should note that your current name appears to be a violation of our username policy since names that represent an organization, or imply shared use are not allowed. You probably want to either request a change at Wikipedia:Changing username, or register a different account that complies with our policy. Your current account is liable to be blocked as a shared use violation if you do not. TimothyJosephWood 17:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Hello, Cranberrytownshippa. I'm afraid there are several different problems here. Before I get to answering your specific question (which I will) I need to draw your attention to some other matters.

First, it is not your Wiki page. It is a Wikipedia article about your town. You do not own it, you do not control its contents, and indeed you are strongly discouraged from editing the article, because you are likely to find it hard to be sufficiently neutral. Please see WP:PSCOI. If you are an employee or contractor, so that you are in any sense being paid to do this work, then you must declare this, according to the policy WP:PAID.

Secondly, user names are not allowed which imply that they are being used for or by an organisation, or by several people. All Wikimedia accounts are required to be personal. That doesn't mean you have to use your own name, as I do: many accounts use a pseudonym of some sort. But it means that you should use an account personal to you, and if other colleagues want to edit, they should create their own personal accounts. Please see WP:USERNAME.

Now to get to your specific question. You successfully uploaded commons:File:Kids Castle Playground in Cranberry Community Park.jpg, but you didn't edit Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania to change the (image) file name from "Cranberry Mall parking lots and buildings.jpg" to "Kids Castle Playground in Cranberry Community Park.jpg" (I'm assuming that you meant you wanted to replace the image). You then attempted to upload it again, and got an error because that was a duplicate.

Unfortunately, there are further problems here. First, it is not up to you to decide which picture is used in the article - that is part of the "neutral" bit I mentioned. You are welcome to suggest changes, but it is the consensus of uninvolved editors which will decide. More seriously, you have uploaded the picture saying "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:". Are you, the individual who uploaded that picture, personally the holder of that copyright? If you took the picture yourself, you probably are. If the photographer held the copyright and specifically transferred it to you personally, then you are. In any other case (including the case where the copyright is held by the town authorities) you do not not have the legal power to grant that licence as yourself. (I guess it's possible that it is held by the community and you hold an appointment which gives you authority to grant that licence, but even then, the statement I quoted from you above would be false).

What needs to happen for that picture to be used - indeed, for it to remain on Wikimedia Commons - is that the actual legal holder of the copyright must specifically release it under an appropriate licence - either publicly, or in a communication to Wikimedia: see Donating copyright materials. If it is you, then you have done right, and I apologise for doubting you.

I'm sorry that this has been long-winded and presented you with difficulties. I'm afraid this is a common experience, as very many people mistake Wikipedia for a promotional site. --ColinFine (talk) 17:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, the image did not appear to exists anywhere else on the internet. Although it's not clear from where the image was taken without using a UAV. TimothyJosephWood 18:01, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please review 176.179.191.228's contribs

I'm working and don't have a lot of time to review the contribs of User:176.179.191.228 but I do see that they're up to their same old tricks. Can some editor please check their contribs and possibly have them blocked again? Thanks, †dismas†|^(talk) 23:23, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the talk page and the user is blocked.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]