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December 13

Adding to a Wikipedia entry

I just added another book to the list of books titled Boys will be Boys.

When I went to the Wikipedia entry, it was not there.

Is there a time delay or did I do something wrong?

Gary Ferdman

Garyferdman (talk) 01:35, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Garyferdman: There is no time delay. Click the "View history" tab to see [1] what happened. It was reverted with edit summary "Reverting article-less addition to dab page". Boys Will Be Boys is a disambiguation page to help readers find the right Wikipedia article. Per MOS:DABENTRY there should be a link to an article in each entry. There is no article about the book or its author so there is nothing to link. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:45, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Garyferdman: To be a bit more succinct, on disambiguation pages such as that one, there should be a relevant link on each line. In the case of the book you added, there should be a link to the Wikipedia article for either the book itself or to the author. Since neither of those have articles here, we don't include it in the list. †dismas†|^(talk) 02:21, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Advertisement

Dear Wikipedia,

I love the fact that you don't advertise on your website...

But I hope you find your definition of advertisement, Having a section on your page for donations is one thing but to have it pop up every page is the definition of an advertisement.

I hope your foundation will review your methods of finding donations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.216.166.48 (talk) 05:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Dear reader, you can click on an x in the pop-up and it will not re-appear anymore when you are on that computer. You will only be asked for a donation during one month of the year. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 05:30, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @131.216.166.48: Let me quote the quote that Gronk Oz gave when this question came up previously on the Help Desk: “Once you click on the "X" at the upper right corner of the advertisement it should disappear and stay disappeared until the next campaign (a few months later). However, I'm not sure whether this works for IP users who are not logged on, because it can't tell that you are the same person...” (original quote by Dig deeper at the Teahouse). If you have any further questions, feel free to gimme a shout! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 05:34, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I agree with the OP, the solicitation of donations is too obtrusive. Yes, I've figured out how to turn it off, but it was harder than I would have liked. Maproom (talk) 09:29, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

A "Close" button would be nice.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:56, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I believe one issue people are encountering is that the donation tab relies upon cookies when not logged in. So, if you're not logged in, browsing anonymously, such as "in private mode" or similar, or perhaps from a public computer (library, etc), then you will be prompted every single session, which can be annoying. But that is a consequence of how the user is browsing the internet. Their desire for anonymity is conflicting with the programming to only show the donation pop-up once... Tiggerjay (talk) 20:15, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

The article was overwritten with text in another language

Hi, my organization prepared several translations of an article. Now the article that used to be in English got overwritten with text in Albanian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpret_Europe I wanted to link this article to the others so that system would show we have an Albanian translation now, but don't know how to. I went to Languages -> edit connections and delete the English (because it is not in English anymore), but I can not do it. I tried to add Albanian, but can not, because the system doesn't find the article. What do you suggest? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dijana PC (talk • contribs) 10:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I have reverted the mistaken over-writing of the English version. I noticed also that you had in October mistakenly moved User:Dijana PC/sandbox to Wikipedia:Interpret Europe, which was wrong on two grounds, firstly that the text was not in English and secondly that the Wikipedia namespace is not for article text but for administration of the project. I have therefore moved the text back to your sandbox. If you want to know more about translating an English Wikipedia article into an article in one of the foreign language Wikipedias, see WP:Translate us. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:02, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Dijana PC. Judging from your mention of "my organization", I am concerned that you may have a conflict of interest in working on Interpret Europe at all. Looking at that article, I see no independent sources cited about the organization - without these, the article does not establish that it is notable in Wikipedia's special sense. Please understand that English Wikipedia has essentially no interest in anything that an organisation says about itself, or that its employees or members say about it: Wikipedia is only interested in what sources independent of the organisation have published about it. (Other language Wikipedias have different policies, and it may be that some of them would take a different view of this article: I don't know). If you want to create and link articles about IE in different languages, please see Translation; but (if I am right in my understanding that you are part of the organisation) you will still have a COI in doing so. --ColinFine (talk) 12:33, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Simi Valley Adult School

Simi Valley Adult School and Career Institute has changed the school name to Simi Institute for Careers and Education. The Principal is Michele Arso. Simi Unified School District. Address: 1880 Blackstock Avenue, Simi Valley, CA 93065, 805.579.6200, Website: SimiInstitute.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.157.143.202 (talk) 16:48, December 13, 2016‎ (UTC)

• Apparently yes. Will try and move the article to the new name. Thanks for the information. Lourdes 17:26, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

User MYRIADGT

Hello, it appears that I cannot submit my entry from User:MYRIADGT/sandbox for review and publication. I am told that the MYRIADGT user page does not exist. Please advise as to what I should do. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MYRIADGT (talk • contribs) 19:50, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello, are you looking for User:MYRIADGT/sandbox? It is tagged for deletion because it is promotional. Your username also violates Wikipedia policies. Fuortu (talk) 20:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

As well as being promotional it was a copyright violation from various pages on the https://www.myriadgt.com/ website (hence not surprising that the language was promotional). --David Biddulph (talk) 20:05, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Adding a grid to a sandbox test.

I would like to make a drawing, sort of an illustration, very simple, a few parallel vertical and horizontal lines like in a grid. I also want to number some of the intersections and place small circles on them. I wonder if there is a page somewhere in Wikipedia that assists with this type of work? Thanks, --AboutFace 22 (talk) 21:16, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Are you looking for how to create that image on a wikipedia page, or just in general? Please seek general computing support from the Reference Desk. Tiggerjay (talk) 21:23, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

If it's for Wikipedia then you can try Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:38, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes, this is for a Wikipedia sandbox. Thank you, @PrimeHunter, you've helped me before. --AboutFace 22 (talk) 21:55, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Tiggerjay: if what you want is anything like the three diagrams here, tell me the spec on my talk page, and I'll make the image for you. Maproom (talk) 22:11, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

@Maproom, the request was acutally from AboutFace 22 not me. Tiggerjay (talk) 22:21, 13 December 2016 (UTC)