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April 7

add pictures

I cannot figure out how to add pictures to Milo Lemert's site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Columbob (talk • contribs) 02:42, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Are you trying to upload a new picture or add an existing one? -AnonWikiEditor (talk) 02:43, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
@Columbob: In general, one can just input into the source "[[File:x|thumb|caption]]", where "x" is the name of the file you want to add, and where "caption" is the caption that you want to go along with the picture. If you are having trouble finding pictures, then you can search it on Wikimedia Commons (a quick google should do). Hope that helps! RileyBugzYell at me | Edits 02:59, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Franchise Policies

Are there any policy pages, etc. regarding dealing new entries in a franchise? Like if a new movie or show is named a certain way it can be implicitly known to be a part of that franchise without needing some exec explicitly saying "this new entry branded the exact same way as all our other entries is also part of the same franchise."— Preceding unsigned comment added by AnonWikiEditor (talk • contribs)

WP:CRYSTALBALL, WP:No original research, and WP:GNG are usually relevant. It's not so much whether the entry is named a particular way or whether an exec says something, it's whether professionally published mainstream sources describe the entry as part of a series or that an exec has said something. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Murray Polner

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Murray Polner, born May 15, 1928, is an American teacher, professor, editor, and writer. He has served as the editor of Present Tense, a monthly magazine published by the American Jewish Committee for 17 years, Fellowship magazine, “Shalom: The Jewish Peace Letter,” and numerous magazine articles, book reviews, and on-line essays, and authored many books on foreign policy, sports, and Jewish life and culture. His works reflect both his liberal beliefs and his strong opposition to war and belief in non-violence as a preferred way of life. He also became, while a young man, a lifelong vegetarian, as his growing appreciation for pacifism extended his concern over the problem of cruelty against animals in labs, factory farms, and beyond.

LIFE AND CAREER

Murray Polner was born and raised in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on May 15, 1928, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Alex Polner, a salesman, and Rebecka Meyerson Polner, a homemaker. He had one sister, Mildred Polner Berkowitz.

As a student at Tilden High School, he was sports editor of the school newspaper and senior yearbook, and played center and linebacker on the football team. He earned a BSS degree from the City College of New York in 1950, majoring in history and economics, and an MA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951, majoring in Central and East European history. He married Louise Greenwald of Forest Hills, N.Y. Polner’s parents were working class, while Greenwald’s middle class family roots extended back to Germany in the 19th century. Their marriage produced three children, Beth Abrahams, Alex Polner, and Robert Polner.

He enrolled in Columbia University's Russian Institute (later renamed the Harriman Institute) and earned a Certificate in a two-year program requiring a dissertation as well as competence in the French and Russian languages. He served five years in the U.S. Naval Reserve and nearly two years in the US Army, and was a Military Intelligence Analyst and Chief, USSR Desk, Far East Psychological Warfare Detachment. In 1967, he finally completed all the requirements of the Certificate – albeit gradually, over several years – when a Columbia dean asked why it had taken so long. “The military draft, marriage, and three kids,” Polner remembered saying. The dissertation dealt with the Bolsheviks and the Czech Legion in the years after World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution.

He also became a lifelong vegetarian; his anti-war feelings and gathering pacifism extending his scope of concern to the problem of cruelty against animals in labs, factory farms, and beyond. He taught social studies at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, a school whose working class/lower middle class student body and faculty reflected his own. He went on to teach history classes at Brooklyn College, Queens College, St. Dunstan University in Canada, the University of Maine, and Suffolk Community College. In 1972, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Union Institute and University.

He left teaching in the early 1970s and began working as an editor of books and magazines. He wrote extensively for academic quarterlies such as Phylon, Russian Review, The Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, American Political Science Review, South Atlantic Quarterly and Annals, and contributed opinion pieces and letters to The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications, urging the end of compulsory draft registration. He also wrote New York Times book reviews as well as Times articles about Vietnam veterans, anti-Asian discrimination, and the whites-only Levittown mass-produced housing community, and columns for New York Jewish Week, Congress Weekly, Chicago Jewish Forum, Antiwar.com, The Nation, New Republic, Village Voice, Labor's Daily, Commonweal, Catholic Worker, Newsday and Washington Monthly, The American Conservative, and LewRockwell.com

It was the Vietnam War, which he viewed as an immoral imperial misadventure, that drove Polner to speak publicly and also write three books related to the war: No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran (1971); When Can I Come Home? A Debate on Amnesty for Exiles, Anti-War Prisoners, and Others (June 1972); and, with O'Grady, Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives & Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, a dual biography of the antiwar Catholic priests (January, 1997).

No Victory Parades came out in 1971, before broad public awareness of wanton killing of South Vietnamese citizens and the mounting unpopularity of the war at home. It was one of the first books about the war to describe the grim and daunting prospects faced by what its author termed “the new veteran,” a soldier sent to fight an unpopular war, and for which he was unlikely to be acclaimed upon his return from battle. As he wrote in the book, “Never before in American history have as many brave and loyal young men been as shabbily treated by the government that sent them to war; never before have so many of them questioned so much, as these veterans have, the essential rightness of what they were forced to do.”

“The range of interviews in the book,” said a reviewer in The 1st Casualty (published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War), “span ‘hawks’, ‘doves’, and what Polner calls the ‘haunted’. As the interviews show, all felt betrayed. Polner’s particular contribution is to try to put all this into perspective: … ‘Many of the (vets) had come from nothing to nothing, in a war they later discovered had not one single idea they could grasp... and be ready to die for. Vietnam was their fantasy world, but the reality was their return to America.’ ”

While a few reviewers struggled with Polner’s anti-Vietnam War opinions, more typical was a review by William Beauchamp. Writing in the July 31, 1971, issue of Saturday Review, Beauchamp stated that No Victory Parades “may well be the most persuasive, comprehensive, poignant indictment of the Indochina disaster published to date... It serves as an anthropological course book of catastrophic attitudes, fostered by our institutions, and swallowed by our people, toward war and the war-waging state....Murray Polner’s cool shattering reportage should be serialized on the front page of every American newspaper.”

In 2008, Polner edited, with conservative Thomas Woods Jr., a collection of American antiwar writing from 1812 to the present, We Who Dared Say No To War.

He is also the author of a biography of [Rickey], the Brooklyn Dodger executive who brought [Robinson] into baseball and thus desegregated the game even before [Truman] signed an Executive Order of July 26, 1948, establishing equal opportunity in the U.S. armed forces. Polner’s book was recalled in a 2011 book by the New York newspaper columnist [Breslin], who credited Polner’s work as noteworthy. “Polner,” Breslin wrote, “is a friend, but I would . . . reread his work even if I hated him.”

For many years, Polner has also been the senior book review editor and a blogger for the History News Network, and contributed articles and reviews as well to LA Progressive, Hollywood Progressive, Uncommon Thoughts, The Cutting Edge, and other online publications.

Moreover, he has written several books about Jewish life, such as Rabbi: the American Experience (RW Holt), in which his portrayal of Mississippi Jewish life before and during the Civil Rights era drew considerable praise and discussion. In addition, he edited, with Stefan Merken, Peace, Justice and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition, a July, 2007, collection and, with Naomi Goodman, The Challenge of Shalom (May, 1994).

He was perhaps most well-known as founder and sole senior editor of Present Tense magazine, published by the [Jewish Committee] from 1973-1990, an editorially independent, liberal publication about Jewish life that politically was the opposite of the AJC’s neoconservative Commentary magazine. Present Tense opposed the Reagan administration's proxy war in Central America in the 1980s. And while supportive of Israel, Present Tense’s reportage questioned some of Israeli government’s policies and that of its U.S.-based Israel Lobby, especially the growth of the settlements, favoring a two-state solution with the Palestinians instead.

Present Tense was, then, a departure from the usual run of Jewish-oriented magazines, which generally followed a narrow, party line, even though to dissent from unquestioning support of the policies of the Israeli government, as a few small American Jewish groups did, could mean the possible loss of positions and of donor support, and denunciation for supposed disloyalty.

Reflecting the magazine’s independent spirit was, for example, [Roiphe's] “Blacklisting,” which included the following passage: “Not since Holland's Jews read Spinoza out of the people have Jews so quickly drawn lines of who is acceptable and who is outside, and used those lines and political weapons, one against the other.” Another piece that appeared in the magazine was Robert Spero’s “Speaking for the Jews.” Spero wrote: “A growing number of American Jews, including many inside the Jewish establishment, are fed up with the hard line views of Jewish leaders whom they did not elect and who, in any case, do not speak for them.”

[Fein’s] article, “The Holocaust—What It means, What It Doesn't,” stated: “Selling the Holocaust for political ends risks diminishing the perception of its reality and demeaning the memories of its victims. Its sellers also risk self-deception.” And, the Conservative rabbi and scholar [Hertzberg's] piece spoke to the influence of an ideology he viewed as pernicious: “Neocon Job: The Neoconning of America.”

When the American Jewish Committee dropped its financial underwriting of the magazine, its leaders cited financial causes, but others believed that the organization had become uncomfortable with Present Tense’s leftish-liberal articles critical of the American Jewish establishment’s views. Out of work, Polner was soon hired as editor of Fellowship magazine, published by the [of Reconciliation]. His opposition to American Exceptionalism and what he viewed as its historic addiction to war and imperial domination led him to a close affiliation in 1968 with the Jewish Peace Fellowship, a group formed in 1941 to assist [Objectors]. In addition, with a colleague, Adam Simms, he started "PS: The Intelligent Guide to Jewish Affairs," a bi-monthly, liberal-left newsletter, opinionated and even satirical, lasting for more than five years.

PEOPLE AND POLITICS

Polner repeatedly urged President Obama to pardon [Snowden] and [Manning] (in the end Obama’s magnanimity only extended to Manning). Polner wrote, in the website LA Progressive and the History News Network, a critical piece about Irving Kristol, the founder of the neoconservative movement. At another point, Los Angeles Dodger General Manager Al Campanis asked him to write his biography because of his book on Branch Rickey, after Campanis was banished from baseball for foolishly saying on TV that blacks did not have the experience to run teams, an absurd notion. Polner saw the ban, effectively a permanent one, as an effort by professional baseball’s all-white cast of senior executives to find a scapegoat for their own history of exclusionary practices.

Polner has also focused on FDR’s policies toward Jews during WWII, and the growing contemporary gap between liberal American Jews and the hard-line right wing Israelis now governing Israel. America’s military veterans are one of his frequent concerns, as are the victims of blacklist, and the murder of four Kent State students and wounding of nine others in May 1970, for which no one has ever been held accountable.

BOOK PASSAGES:

“It was in this strange world that I wandered about until reaching Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where I learned about its onetime rabbi, Charles Mantinband. ‘Jewish life is pleasant and easy in Mississippi,’ he wrote. But then came Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders, black and white. Rabbi: The American Experience (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)

“When Jackie Robinson died of diabetes and hypertension in 1972 some wrote that his coming was no big thing and wouldn't have happened sooner or later. Others, more cynical, described Rickey's driving force as greed. But the fact is that before Branch Rickey no one had done it or even seriously proposed doing it. And that is his legacy.”

  Branch Rickey: A Biography (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982; updated by McFarland Publishers, 2007)

“Seven men and two women [the Catonsville draft board raiders], all but forgotten by a new generation, had raised the ante and posed thorny questions that are far from resolved. When is military intervention, governmental deceit, a nuclear first strike, of the overwhelming power of the state over individual rights justified, if at all?....To the extent that some of these are reasonable questions, then the Nine could rightly see themselves as absolved from blame. They had, after all, broken the law and served their times. Those who had dreamed up the war and filled up the earth with the dead had not.”

   Disarmed and Dangerous by Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady (Basic Books, 1997; Westview Press 1998)

“Never before in American history have as many brave and loyal young men been as shabbily treated by the government that sent them to war; never before have so many of them questioned so much, as these veterans have, the essential rightness of what they were forced to do.”

     No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971)

"Sadly on this Mother's Day, peace seems further away than ever. How many more war widows and grieving parents do we need?? Do we need yet another war memorial to the dead in Washington? Do we really need to continue disseminating the myth than an idealistic America always fights for freedom and democracy? On Mother's Day 2007 thousands of American soldiers have already been killed, and many more have been wounded in body and mind, not to mention tens of thousands of Iraqis. They all had mothers,"

       We Who Dared Say No To War edited with commentary by Murray Polner and Thomas Woods, Jr., (Basic Books, 2008)


EXTERNAL LINKS

Present Tense, Archived at Yivo Intitute http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1944483

Publishers Weekly book review of Disarmed and Dangerous http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-465-03084-2

Book review of Rabbi: The American Experience (American Jewish History, 1979).

Murray Polner. "Will Ozzie Guillen Go the Same Way as Al Campanis?" History News Network, April 16, 2012

Review of Jimmy Breslin’s book on Branch Rickey (Washington Post, April 1, 2011). https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/review-branch-rickey-by-jimmy-breslin/2011/03/14/AFFmLJHC_story.html?utm_term=.bcd829085737

Murray Polner papers at Swarthmore College Peace Collection:http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG100-150/dg113m%20polner.html

Fellowship Magazine http://archives.forusa.org/fellowship — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertPolner (talk • contribs) 16:17, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello, @RobertPolner:, I'm not sure what your question regarding editing Wikipedia may be, but if you would like to see an article on Murray Polner please see WP:AFC, or go via the article wizard. You should develop a page in draftspace before submitting it for review. Please also see your first article and ensure that the subject is notable in the Wikipedia sense. Your username might suggest a connection with the subject and you may need to follow the guidelines at WP:COI. Please return here if you need further help. Good luck. Eagleash (talk) 16:33, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Also WP:BIO and WP:REFB. Eagleash (talk) 16:36, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

citation template

Resolved

Pppery 23:27, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

I submitted a template to cite a foreign law source that I need for a page I am creating. This template wasn't available and it follows a very specific citation format (Bluebook for Israel's HCJ) - its name Template:Cite IsrSC ... I did my best to follow similar templates, but I am not sure if I got everything right. I also need a little help with the documentation - since I closely followed other cite law templates as a guide, I am not certain if these are mandatory parameters or not. It is still in AFC review and I would appreciate if someone could help me go over it. Thanks, Seraphimsystem (talk) 19:48, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

The template I used for reference is Template:Cite court but there are certain significant differences that make a dedicated template a better option - especially the fact that the Court name and date are formatted together in parentheses where HCJ citations should start with the Court name. Seraphimsystem (talk) 19:19, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Nm, I got it to work Seraphimsystem (talk) 22:46, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

2017–18 NBA season by team template

Can you move the 2017–18 NBA season by team template from the talk page to the draft page for me please. 2600:8803:7A00:976A:28A8:5D6E:9558:57F6 (talk) 23:27, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

None of the team pages listed on the draft template exist yet, so this looks like WP:TOOSOON. I see from the log that Template talk:2017–18 NBA season by team has been deleted twice within recent weeks. See also section #2017–18 NHL season template above, and previous similar requests from the same IP range such as at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2017 April 3#2017-18 NHL and NBA templates and numerous others as listed here --David Biddulph (talk) 02:46, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
It's been 2 days since you last posted about this. Not til the season starts or is close to starting. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

April 8

Publishing Article

Yes check.svg Lourdes

I am trying to Move my article from my Sandbox and actually publish it. How do I go about doing that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Djolsen13/sandbox is the article I want to publish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djolsen13 (talk • contribs) 01:51, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Cite error: A list-defined reference has no name (see the help page).

Would I be able to get some help fixing this error at Members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea, 2012–2017? It displays exactly as it should apart from the error and I have no idea what's causing it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 06:09, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

@The Drover's Wife: I think you've run into a long-standing bug in the software, phab:T22707. You can use <ref>...</ref> tags inside {{efn}} footnotes, but it all falls apart if you try to define the efn footnotes inside the {{notelist}}. I've made an edit at Members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea, 2012–2017 - the footnotes are now working, but the tidy coding is lost. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:01, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks so much! The Drover's Wife (talk) 06:17, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Serbian flag

I noticed that Serbia does not show the flag (as it should), but just the word 'Serbia'. The flagicon template is too complicated for me. Could someone fix this, please? Vinkje83 (talk) 09:03, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

@Vinkje83: I can see the flag here. There is a similar report about the Nigerian flag at Template_talk:Country_data_Nigeria#Template-protected edit request on 7 April 2017, though, so there may be some technical problem that only affects a subset of readers. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:32, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
I can see the Nigerian flag here: Nigeria. Vinkje83 (talk) 10:59, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Both flags are working for me also. There looks to have been previous discussion about flagicons here, which suggest that if you have zoom over 100% on Firefox browser, then there's some issue. Maybe drop a note there asking about it? As it probably needs a technical response. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:06, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Indeed, the problem is affected by the zoom factor in Firefox. Contrary to the above reference however, I can see the Serbian flag allright if I zoom to 110%; but the flag becomes the word again when going back to 100%. Vinkje83 (talk) 22:18, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
It must be the problem in phab:T162035: "Some PNG thumbnails and JPEG originals delivered as [text/html] content-type and hence not rendered in browser". With 100% zoom in Firefox I can currently see Flag of Serbia.svg (22px) and Flag of Serbia.svg (24px) but not Flag of Serbia.svg (23px). I can see the image file by itself at 22px and 24px but 23px gives a Firefox error message. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:50, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Notability guidelines: Jamie Weinand

Hi there,

I am editing a current draft,:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jamie_Weinand

I am confused if perhaps there is some bias originating here. Jamie Weinand is an extremely notable family medicine physician who currently is the first transgender man in family medicine and one of the only living out transgender physicians. Futhermore, his research has been used as an advocacy tool in numerous national court cases, including Blatt v. Cabela's Retail Inc and Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education by the ACLU. I am confused as to why his notability is not considered sufficient by our editors of this page. He is very noteworthy in the transgender community. I am concerned there is some bias here and that they are refuting the importance of the first transgender out physicians. -Boston Marathoner — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bostonmarathoner456 (talk • contribs) 14:07, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

They have suggested that i use "notable sources" - Jamie Weinand's work is on PubMed, multiple reputable journal articles, and his publicity has been covered in Boston Herald, The Advocate and more. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Point Foundation scholar, both selective in their own right. I am using notable sources and he is a notable individual. Please help with any assistance you can.

Hi Bostonmarathoner456. "Notability" on Wikipedia is just shorthand for our guidelines on inclusion criteria in the encyclopedia. It does not always correspond with what is considered noteworthy elsewhere. The things you list; being the first transgender man in family medicine, one of the only living out transgender physicians, research being used in courts, published author of medical articles; are not inclusion criteria listed at our notability guideline for people. None of these directly point toward the inclusion of an article on Jamie Weinand on Wikipedia.
"Notable sources" is a bit of misnomer, but you are on the right tracks. Most article on Wikipedia are here because they pass what is called the general notability guideline. Any topic can be included in Wikipedia if it meets the following: Articles generally require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic. This in effect means newspaper stories, books, etc. published about Weinand, but not by him. Locate and cite these sources. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 14:52, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Bostonmarathoner456 Wow! First of all, congratulations on quite an extensive article sourced with very impressive gathered material within the subject's field of recognition. It may seem with all the work you have accomplished repeatedly over time for re-submission that there may be some "hidden agenda" or "bias" toward the subject in general. I honestly feel, I cannot see that in this specific situation; since if I were able to approve articles, I unfortunately would not have approved this one: not on the subject's work and achievements within his field, but on the sources that are presently offered that back such claims of notability. It may seem frustrating and even confusing when you have offered / gathered 27 references to back each claim within your article; however, these are specific to a certain field of research that WP accepts only for certain areas of citation. To grant notability for inclusion, you would have to steer your collection of references away from "notable research sources" that back the subject's work within the field (which is commonplace and does not merit notability); and provide "notable sources" that spotlight / highlight the subject for the reason you are stating his need for inclusion at WP: "best known for being the first openly Transgender man (female-to-male) in family medicine and one of the few openly transgender Doctor of Medicine physicians." This statement alone is what editors are looking for when they say: "notable sources" and would need to have numerous reference in media outlets covering the subject solely for this recognition; such as national and international newspapers, investigative television reports that do featured stories on said subjects, etc. Try focusing your energy away from the research-in-his-field sources and more on those that support his notability for inclusion at WP. Otherwise, sorry to say, the editors here at WP are going to see him as just another family doctor. Hope this helps. Good luck! Maineartists (talk) 15:18, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much everyone for your help, are there any volunteers who may be able to help me with the notability to get the article approved for final approval to become an article? :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bostonmarathoner456 (talk • contribs) 16:43, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

I'd be happy to take a look! Maineartists (talk) 19:36, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
@Finnusertop and Maineartists: Note that this article was published by a different editor after the draft was rejected four times. With new accounts popping up to edit and link to the article, something odd is going on here. Funcrunch (talk) 01:43, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Funcrunch I have already raised this issue with an admin on WP; and on the Talk Page. I'm hoping to get answers soon. Thank you. Maineartists (talk) 01:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

"Ethnicity" parameter in the "inbobox person"

Hi. Not sure whether this is the right venue for such a question, but I was wondering whether the "ethnicity" parameter has been completely removed from the "infobox-person" infobox. I remember that we could use it, until at least a year ago. Bests and thanks in advance, - LouisAragon (talk) 18:44, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

  • Yes, Ethnicity was removed following a discussion here. Similarly, Religion was removed following a discussion here. CrowCaw 18:49, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks! - LouisAragon (talk) 22:05, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

is there a way to include an external imge in a wikipedia article?

Hello. I know how to include an image from the commons in an article on wikipedia. I also know how a commercial website includes an image that is not on their site into a page on their site. That html code is (I think) <img src="http://ExampleOrWhatever.jpg">. That html code displays the external image on the webpage in the location specified by other parts of the source code, whereas here the reader has to click on the link. My question is this: is there some wiki code that will display a freely available external image on a wikipedia page? If there is, it would be incredibly useful, especially in science where there are great images freely available but not licensed for commercial use, which makes them ineligible for the commons. I hope there is! Thank you. JeanOhm (talk) 21:57, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

@JeanOhm: Nope. Sorry. All images that are used here must be uploaded to the Wikimedia servers in some fashion. We don't allow external images to be placed in articles like that. It is to ensure that copyright is being followed. --Majora (talk) 21:59, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Well but wait. You can provide links to copyrighted material (including photos) in the "External links" section, like this: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820190007/http://matrixtour.ru/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=35 Photo of the Annunciation Monastery] for example. As long as 1) the photo (or web page containing photos, or whatever) that you're linking to is not itself a copyright violation (that is, that website owns the rights to the photo or has permission to display it) and 2) it meets the criteria for an external link -- see Wikipedia:External links (which in fact encourages using External links to link to "Sites that contain... material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues". Herostratus (talk) 22:40, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
See also Template:External media – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:42, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
If it is truly an educational image and useful for Wikipedia I would suggest simply asking the owner if they would be willing to release the image under a free license. You'd be surprised how often they say yes. I would much rather do that than use a roundabout way to get around our copyright restrictions. --Majora (talk) 22:56, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you all for the replies. I'm at least happy to know that wikipedia encourages external links to relevant material. JeanOhm (talk) 18:51, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

To edit Right of abode

there's a part which says this

A woman claiming the right of abode through marriage will cease to qualify if another living wife or widow of the same man:

   is (or has been at any time since her marriage) in the UK, unless she entered the UK illegally, as a visitor, or with temporary permission to stay; or
   has been given a certificate of entitlement to right of abode or permission to enter the country because of her marriage.

However, this restriction does not apply to a woman who:

   entered the UK as a wife before 1 August 1988, even if other wives of the same man are in the UK; or
   who has been in the UK at any time since her marriage, and at that time was that man's only wife to have entered the UK or to have been given permission to do so.

My question is... in order to edit... must that man and that woman need to be British, both of them or at least one?

Thank you .--LLcentury (talk) 21:21, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

  • Hello LLcentury, the article you refer to does not contain the statements you mention. You might have wanted to refer to Right of abode (United Kingdom), which mentions the said lines. If you were to notice, the section from which these lines have been taken is intended for Commonwealth citizens or British subjects. Having said that, I would suggest that in case you wish to update any information, try and ensure that you support the same with appropriate citations, per our policy on verifiability. Come back for further assistance. Thanks. Lourdes 03:25, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

April 9

Page Curation: 15k to 29 THOUSAND pages

I changed my NPP settings to Unreviwed Mainspace Redirects, and the number in the upper right corner now says 29K pages needing reviewing. Is this because of the changes, or were page creators really busy this week and doubled the number of unreviewed pages? L3X1 (distant write) 02:03, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi L3X1, hope you're doing well. My guess is that the increase is purely because of your changing the NPP settings and including redirects. Thanks. Lourdes 03:27, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Lourdes. L3X1 (distant write) 03:29, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)

Ref number 14 is not done correctly. Publication should be in italics maybe??? Please leave in quote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.51.93 (talk) 07:03, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

When you read Template:Cite web and compare it with reference 14 (which you added), it will tell you that the parameter "website" will be italicised, whereas the parameter "publisher" which you have (as usual) misused by cluttering it up with data that doesn't belong there, does not get italicised. The solution is in your own hands. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:35, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
(ec) That rather trivial and not particularly controversial fact was over-sourced (six), so I've deleted three of them, including number 14. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:37, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

I agree - It is a trivial piece of information- Ellen Degeneras - that is why I added the ONE piece that had the information in it. As it stands, the article does NOT have any references to Ellen. Please place back the reference that I added from FOX news. Thanks 101.182.51.93 (talk) 08:00, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

I have failed to correctly add a 3rd book to the "Further reading" section at the very end of this page. Please leave in the quote. Thankyou101.182.51.93 (talk) 07:55, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Fixed As previously explained to you only a few days ago, you do not place the book details within ref tags in this situation. Eagleash (talk) 08:13, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

In the "Grandparents" section - can you please do a direct link to Kate Lupton (Baroness von Schunck) - who has her own little section on the Lupton family page. Thanks as always 101.182.51.93 (talk) 08:28, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done
The way to do this is to use a wikilink in the form [[target article#target section|link text]]. So [[Lupton family#Kate Lupton (Baroness von Schunck)|Kate Lupton]] gives: Kate Lupton. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 10:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect table sort

In List of Islamist terrorist attacks#2002 the table is sortable, but when one sorts by Deaths the numbers are out of order. Why is that? Can it be fixed? Saturnalia0 (talk) 21:01, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Fixed with data-sort-type="number" in the column header [1] per Help:Sorting#Forcing a column to have a particular data type. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:55, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

My unusual account.

This weird thing keeps happening. One moment my account is blocked indefinitely by Daphne Lantier and my IP address is autoblocked; the next, I'm back to when I first made my account. Please give me an explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will this username please work? (talk • contribs) 23:19, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Your account has not been blocked on Wikipedia, Will this username please work?, and as far as I can see, Daphne Lantier is not an admin on Wikipedia and cannot block accounts. She has blocked you on Wikimedia commons, after some warnings: see Commons:User talk:Will this username please work?. If you think this was not appropriate, you need to take it up on Commons. See Commons:Commons:Blocking policy#Appealing a block. --ColinFine (talk) 09:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Clarifying further, the same account works at wikis run by the Wikimedia Foundation but each wiki has its own domain, user pages, contributions lists, blocks, logs and so on. You are blocked at https://commons.wikimedia.org but not here at https://en.wikipedia.org. Special:CentralAuth/Will this username please work? shows you have currently made 7 edits at Commons and 10 edits here. None of the edits have been to deleted pages and none of your user pages have been deleted. User:Will this username please work? still exists and commons:User:Will this username please work? never existed. commons:User:Wikimedia Commons Welcome posted a standard welcome message to commons:User talk:Will this username please work? without deleting anything. Your repeated complaints at Commons made no sense. I guess you were blocked because they thought you were deliberatly posting nonsense complaints but maybe you are just really confused. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying that, PrimeHunter. I wonder if Will this username please work? got confused between the two separate user and user talk pages (on enwiki and on commons) and thought one of them had been deleted or altered? Either way, "Will" (for short), what you posted at the Commons Help desk was combative and accusatory, and I see why people might have got annoyed with you. --ColinFine (talk) 12:48, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Publishing a draft that is in the sandbox

Hello,

I have a draft in the sandbox and was wondering how to move it to the draft section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maria Faith Tabotabo Tijani (talk • contribs) 23:29, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Do you wish to move it to draftspace so you can continue working on it, or do you feel that it is ready for mainspace? Eagleash (talk) 23:36, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
@Maria Faith Tabotabo Tijani: I have moved it to Draft:Ryobi Holdings and added a box with some help and a submit button. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:50, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
@PrimeHunter: I have taken the liberty of tweaking the AfC t/plate as it contained your username and you would have got any notifications of acceptance or rejection. Eagleash (talk) 00:07, 10 April 2017 (UTC)


April 10

help with editing unwelcome content about me on Wikipedia

Someone has created a long entry about me on Wikipedia, eliminating the short formal entry I myself posted a year ago. I vehemently object to the way I am identified in this strange new entry, which damages my professional profile by citing inaccurate and doctored quotes attributed to me by journalist Robert Merritt in an article written over 35 years ago in a local newspaper. Merritt's poorly written article is not an appropriate source for a credible or accurate biographical entry on my life and work. My husband has tried to help me navigate the confusing editing procedures for Wikipedia, attempting to remove this entry and reinstate the accurate and formal original paragraph. After three tries, he was accused of vandalism, and barred from further access, and the offending entry remains. How may I remove this uninvited invasion of my privacy and my identity? Wikipedia, in preventing me from editing this entry, is harming my reputation and my ability to fight for the value of my creative work. I want to add here that my sole reason for posting on Wikipedia in the first place was to try to correct the wild errors in the Google ID panel when my name was entered in the search box. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_King_(artist)> E. Zeal (talk) 01:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Elizabeth: My recommendations, which may be supplemented by other volunteers (as we all are) on this site, or even superseded. Right now, do two things initially. 1) On your Talk page, declare your conflict of interest. Read the COI page for complete information. (If you choose, you may permanently abandon the "E. Zeal" account and re-register under your own name. However, be certain to use only one account to make comments about the article, or to make any approved edits to it.) 2) On the article Talk page, add a {{request edit}} notice, and make very specific requests about what content you oppose and what content you favor. Provide reliable sources for content you want to include. After every comment you make on a Talk page (but never on an Article page), sign your (user) name by typing four tildes ~~~~ in a row, so people can easily identify your contributions to a discussion. Neither you nor your spouse nor anyone connected to you should directly edit the article--at least, not without consensus in discussion with other editors. Such editing is not absolutely forbidden, but is very strongly discouraged, and can lead to being blocked from further editing.
I have done a cursory study of your biography, based on internet sources, and it is possible--but not certain--that you do not meet the Wikipedia threshold of notability, which is the requirement for an article to exist here. If so, your article would be deleted, and that would be the end of the matter. However, I also think you may be sufficiently, if marginally, "notable," which means the article about you will remain. Please understand, no one owns an article about him or herself on this website. Even if you wrote it, the article can be radically edited by other people, as per the Terms of Use of this website.
You should be familiar with Wikipedia policy on autobiographies, which are strongly discouraged. You might also read this article about the pitfalls of starting an article here about yourself. If your interaction with other editors on the article Talk page does not result in changes to your satisfaction, you can use this contact page to request further action by other volunteers who specialize in issues like yours. DonFB (talk) 06:45, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Adding Reliable sources

please help me to add reliable sources to page "Charanjeet Singh Sondhi" here is the source http://www.absoluteindianews.com/post-id-20240.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.247.1.28 (talk) 05:02, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Sergio Garcia article

Just small correction. His father Victor is not working in Madrid, but in Boriol close to Castellon at Mediterraneo Golf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.39.151 (talk) 05:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Lupton family

I have failed when adding a 3rd book in the "Further reading" section at the end of this page. Please fix and leave in little ref to "Lupton family" if this is what is done. I am sorry to trouble you. Thankyou. 101.182.60.171 (talk) 07:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Read the last two responses from when you did this. You don't need ref tags. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:50, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I tried to get the 3rd book correct in the "further reading" section and got the "bullet" right - but nothing else. Please fix. 101.182.60.171 (talk) 10:15, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Please take notice of what you have been told countless times. DON'T start a new section when you are continuing a conversation on an existing topic. Another editor has deleted the unnecessary section heading and you are lucky that he didn't delete the whole section. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:30, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
FixedYou need to put a paramater 'name' in. I.e. not |example wording| but |quote=example wording|. Eagleash (talk) 10:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Artist and band pages

Hi there, I'm a DJ/producer and wondered how I can make myself a artist page on your platform like say Justin bieber. My work is on Spotify and ITunes under the name Christian Bannister.

Kind Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:7A01:F600:74C1:D027:32C1:28B1 (talk) 11:18, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Christian. I'm afraid that, like many people, you misunderstand the purpose and nature of Wikipedia. We do not have "artist pages" We have encyclopaedia articles about notable subjects, including artists. "Notable" here is a bit of Wikipedia jargon, which means "has been the subject of substantial writing by people unconnected with the subject, and published in reliable sources". If you are notable in this way (see WP:GNG and WP:NMUSIC) then there can be an article about you. But it must be based almost completely on what people who have no connection with you (not you or your friends or associated) have published in reliable places (not social media or blogs). You will have no control over the content of the article, and you are strongly discouraged from writing it yourself: see WP:Autobiography. If after reading the links I have given above, you consider that you meet the criteria of notability, you wish to go ahead with an article (and understand that it will not be controlled by you and may not be used for promotion in any way), then I suggest you raise a request at WP:requested articles. --ColinFine (talk) 11:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)