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October 10

Why does this article show a different navigation menu?

Go to Nicholas Mercator. Do you see what I see, an entirely different navigation menu? What's going on? Contact Basemetal here 01:42, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

It looks normal to me. What are you seeing that is different than any other article? GB fan 01:51, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Now it looks normal to me too. But about an hour ago the page had a vertical navigation menu on the left side of the page instead of at the top. But now it went back to normal. Odd. Contact Basemetal here 02:53, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

How to create a wikipedia page for a movie?

I am the owner of The Movie Studio Inc. Our featured movie (Exposure) just released on DVD, Netfelx, Target … How can we create a wikipedia page for the movie? <spamlinks removed>

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Gordon Venters (talk • contribs) 01:46, 10 October 2014‎ (UTC)

Briefly? Don't! --Orange Mike | Talk 02:13, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest - per that guideline, you don't. This is an encyclopaedia, not an advertising platform. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

I've provided some much more detailed advice on your talk page (User talk:Gordon Venters). --Orange Mike | Talk 02:17, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Missing People

Ruth Mossok Johnston, Author

David McCall Johnston, Artist — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.226.62.196 (talk • contribs) 05:00, October 10, 2014‎

It looks as though you would do well to start by looking at this page, whether you want to ask for articles to be written or start an article yourself. Then you are welcome to ask for further assistance if needed: Noyster (talk), 09:05, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

ceil phone records of numbers to see how there linked together

need to match up ceil numbers calling each other and other numbers on the call dates I need are from 07-22-14 to 10-7-14 numbers are — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.118.99.173 (talk) 05:07, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 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. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 05:44, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

I have removed the phone numbers to protect their owners' privacy. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:49, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Oversight requested.--ukexpat (talk) 12:39, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

 Done. - Mailer Diablo 12:42, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Section will not show up in the read portion of my sandbox

Hello wiki world, I was adding in my citations when i noticed I put one in the wrong spot along with a bit of info. I copied and pasted the info with the citation into different section. The section from which I cut and pasted from disappeared from the read section of my sandbox but it is still visible in the edit section. The disappearance may have occurred at a different time but I think it is related to the cutting and pasting or maybe something entirely different. Any ideas? --Eleanor W Smith (talk) 05:23, 10 October 2014‎ (UTC)

The most likely suspect is that you have an unclosed reference at the point where the visible text ends. There is a <ref> that is not followed by a </ref> to close the citation. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 05:47, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Please check if this change: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=629020304 solved the problem. --CiaPan (talk) 06:34, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Eleanor, this edit added an incorrectly formatted ref tag, <refname>="Peacock 12-15"/>. You subsequently noticed a problem and tried to fix it in this edit, changing the tag to <ref name>="Peacock 12-15"/>. That was an improvement, but it was still incorrect since it still had a > before the equal sign. CiaPan removed that extraneous character.

The page history is very useful for questions like, "How did that happen, and when?". You can use page history to review individual edits and page revisions. To access page history, click the "View history" link near the top of your sandbox page. For more information about page history, see Help:Page history. ‑‑Mandruss (talk) 06:57, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

User Billy Cioffi

I posted (actually pasted ) my own bio written by me approx 400-500 words - it was removed as copy- written material? Could you please eplain this so I can put upa biography - what specifically is meant by this and the criterion - Thank You --Billy Cioffi (talk) 06:49, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello, hope this page will be helpful: Wikipedia:Autobiography.
For more information about writing biographies see Wikipedia:Notability (people) and for general guidelines see Help:Contents, especially I want to edit Wikipedia section there. Good luck. --CiaPan (talk) 07:04, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

About copyright violation: your bio was a copy from http://electriclotusmusic.com/billy, right? Please see the footnote of the source page—it clearly states
' Copyright 2014 - All Rights Reserved Electric Lotus Music, Phoenix, AZ (480)-336-8353 '
which means Electric Lotus Music company has all rights to decide where, when and how they want the text to be published. Even if it is your biography, even if you personally have written it, the text is now the company's property. That means

• you are not allowed to simply copy&paste it anywhere else, except possibly into your private scrapbook (but I mean private, not Facebook profile or something like that!)
• no one may copy it into Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is a free-contents project, and the policy excludes the use of copyrighted material.

--CiaPan (talk) 07:46, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Multiple Issues

I create biography page , I am new to Wikipedia, and I have a multiple unsolved issues regarding my page. I would greatly appreciate it if you kindly give me some feedback how to fix this issues.

Kiril Tenekedjiev

Nissan300zx (talk) 08:30, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

In the box at the top of the article, each of the blue words or phrases is a wikilink to a page giving you the further information you need. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:05, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Are these images free and clear?

I have started the article Wrigley Field renovations which would be extremely enhanced with images. I found some fantastic images Here. How do I determine if they are freely licensed or within the public domain? If you notice, each photo has a link to a copy and paste page to send to a friend. Would that put them in the Public Domain or free content? Thanks in advance, ```Buster Seven Talk 18:15, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

The "send a link" button only sends a copy of the URL, not a copy of the image; the image stays on their web site. There is a "Terms of Service" link at the bottom right left of the gallery page, which makes it clear that these pictures are protected by copyright and cannot be used as free images here. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:40, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Per above, here we have explicit confirmation they're not free. Unfortunately, Buster7, for future reference, the way copyright works is that in the absence of affirmative evidence of compatible free licensing or public domain status, we are forced to assume any media is non-free and can't be used (except under the stringent standards to meet fair use). I am going to look for some suitable images though. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:50, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Found nothing:-( I assume you're aware of all the images at Commons:Category:Wrigley Field and are looking for images specific to the expansion/renovation, which is what I unsuccessfully targeted.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:59, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for looking. I'm sure images will turn up as the winter progresses. Maybe I'll stroll over and take some myself. ```Buster Seven Talk 22:24, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

User script suddenly not working any more

I use User:קיפודנחש/watchlistScout.js to alert me when something on my watchlist changes. It is supposed to run on page load and refresh every 60 seconds afterwards. For the past day or so, though, I have been getting nothing from the script. All of my other scripts are working, I'm getting no errors on the javascript console, and it doesn't look like anything has changed in the code of the script recently (latest change was in 2012). Is there something else that may have changed site-wide that broke the script? Possibly an update to the API or something?--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 20:26, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

@Dudemanfellabra: the people who could answer your question are found at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:57, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Margaret Gibson Spier

Margaret Gibson Spier, who is mentioned in the article about Marshalland, died of syncope,infected heart and influenza of several weeks duration. This is detailed in her death certificate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.2.149 (talk) 20:40, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Lands of Marshalland ‑‑Mandruss (talk) 21:22, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

@Mandruss:, I'm not sure how to handle this. In my opinion it would be regarded as reliable, but people say not to merely copy primary sources so people can see them. Try asking at WP:RSN, and discuss at Talk:Lands of Marshalland.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:03, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'm not the OP, I just added the wikilink to (I think) the article in question, and didn't indent because I wasn't replying to the OP. ‑‑Mandruss (talk) 22:34, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Chinese script

I am using Windows XP and I can't get language scripts to install. I have tried the XP disk and I have tried the Microsoft links on Help:Multilingual support (East Asian). The computer refuses to find the files on the disk and when I use the browse function it makes up its own mind wether to try or not... but they don't work anyway... I may have wiped all of the symbols from Shaolin Kung Fu. does anyone know how I can fix this without using obscure software on what is now a more vulnerable OS? ~ R.T.G 20:58, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. CTF83! 22:30, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Yeah that makes sense actually, thanks ~ R.T.G 22:45, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Adding new article to my personal sandbox?

Dear Wiki Ref,

I have just drafted my first article in my personal sandbox and submitted it for review. I want to draft a second article on a different topic entirely and also submit it but I can't find a way to bring up a new, blank screen to write in. There is no button to add a new article. My first article keeps showing up on the screen. I'm in a kind of endless loop with it.

Also, once an article is approved can I assign it to a category - such as Art - or it that done by reviewers?

Can you help? Thank you.

Linda — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lindafisher108 (talk • contribs)

Type something in the search box, for example User:Lindafisher108/newarticle and hit create. CTF83! 22:24, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Linda. You can create a new sandbox simply by changing the name. For example, User:Lindafisher108/sandbox2 will let you create a sandbox2 page. However, if you want to create a new draft article may I suggest going through the Article wizard. And yes, you can assign categories to an article once it's approved. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 22:28, 10 October 2014 (UTC)