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Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

Ampulla of Lorenzini — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.65.117.57 (talk • contribs)

Ampullae of Lorenzini is what they seem to be going for. Dismas|^(talk) 02:29, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

I think I got the reference closer to what it should be but it needs help still. Dismas|^(talk) 02:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

I think I got it, here but not sure what the eight digit No. represents. After searching and experimentation, I think it must be 'pmid'. Fixed the typo in 'calcium' subsequently. Eagleash (talk) 07:00, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

By eight digit No. I guess you mean 69:144-182. That's volume and page numbers. The PMID can be found by searching the paper title at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/. When the PMID is known you can generate the whole reference by clicking "Cite" above the edit box, select "cite journal" in the "Templates" drop-down box, fill out only the PMID field and click the magnifying glass next to it. The original reference mixed title and page numbers of two similar papers PMID 190338 and PMID 402438 with the same authors in the same journal. I'm not sure which paper was meant but I chose the matching title and fixed the citation.[1] A citation with PMID produces a link you can click to see the paper. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:24, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Attica Rebellion

How can I change the caption below the photo of Attica Prison where it lists "Belligerents." The National Guard needs to be removed. They were not in the attack on Attica, they were there afterwards to remove bodies and clean up the area.Attica2491 (talk) 03:25, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Attica Prison riot (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Convenience link. Dismas|^(talk) 03:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Attica2491, you would click "Edit" at the top of the article and remove the [[New York National Guard]]<br> from the template near the top of the article in the line where it says | combatant2 = {{flagicon|USA}} [[New York State Police]]<br> [[New York National Guard]]<br>. Dismas|^(talk) 03:38, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

New logo

Hi,

The NGO I work for has recently changed it's logo and I would like to update it on Wikipedia. How do I do it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YWCALina Boren World YWCA (talk) 08:16, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

You can upload new version by clicking 'Upload a new version of the file' on the file page. Fuortu (talk) 10:41, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

@Lina Boren World YWCA: New users cannot upload files before their account becomes autoconfirmed, and the new file may not be a gif like the old so it may need a new file name. One of us can do it. Is it http://www.worldywca.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ABOUT_US_logo.png? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:53, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittances_to_India

I tried to correct the remittances table on the page located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittances_to_India

I wanted to say that the right figure for remittances during 2014-15 was $66.3 billion. This has been sourced from the most reliable government document known as from which I quote below:

4.31 Net income, which is the net outgo on account of the interest/dividend of the stock of capital flows that have come to India, has been increasing steadily from US$8.0 billion in 2009-10 to US$24.1 billion in 2014-15. During the first half of 2015-16, it moderated to US$10.5 billion as against US$13.0 billion in the first half of 2014-15. As a result of subdued global growth and falling crude oil prices, net private transfers, mostly in the form of remittances, increased marginally by US$0.8 billion to US$66.3 billion in 2014-15. During the first half of 2015-16, they declined marginally to US$32.7 billion as compared to US$33.1 billion in the corresponding period of the previous year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhaskar rn (talk • contribs) 10:16, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Bhaskar rn. The error message made it quite clear that there was something wrong with the formatting of the "archive-date" for that reference. Looking at it, it was obvious that it had an extraneous "d=" after the date, which I have removed. (It had been there for at least two years - I didn't bother looking any further back.

Resolved

--ColinFine (talk) 10:42, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

The newly introduced error in today's edit was an empty <ref></ref> pair. This has been subsequently corrected. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:47, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

References

Veracity of biography bloodlines

Is there a procedure for verifying claims of a biography subject who says they are descended from person X, or is a member of Group Y? I was reading David Eddings and it claims he is part Cherokee Indian. This was sourced to a possibly reliable source, however the source is quoting Eddings. Even if the source were reliable, is this self-made claim good enough? How is something like this typically handled? Please ping me when you respond. Thanks. That man from Nantucket (talk) 11:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

@That man from Nantucket: An article does not need to state as a fact whether or not he is descended from person X. All the article needs to say is that he claims to descend from person X. That much is proven by the source and that is what the article should say. Whether or not the person is indeed descended from person X is not relevant, since it has not been proven by sources. The relevant fact is the claim he makes that he is descended, and that is what the article should say. In the specific case of David Eddings I would remove it in the opening sentence. Instead you can put a seperate sentence, that elaborates the claim better, somewhere later in the article. I hope this helps. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 17:14, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

I look for a mentor

Hello, i am looking for someone, whom i can ask things if i have difficulties with the english formatting of articles. I am writing especially on contemporary abstract art and would be glad if someone interested in this subject would contact me. Thank you! --Gyanda (talk) 11:42, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Greetings Gyanda – It might be helpful to post your above question at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arts page. Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 19:58, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I posted it at the "Tearoom", i hope this helps also. Kind regards!!! --Gyanda (talk) 20:01, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

editing main content and fact box

How can I edit some outdated statistics about our university on its main listing at the top of the page and in the fact box in the upper right hand column?PaulaTanner (talk) 15:33, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

@PaulaTanner: Click the "Edit" tab at top of the page. If you don't have an Edit tab then please post a link to the page. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:41, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Also, Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets includes an option to enable an edit link for the lead section of a page. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:56, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Editing an existing infobox

(I know this should be easy, but...)

I wish to make a minor mod to the infobox for a chemical element, say for example, hydrogen. So I go to the article and click the "Edit" tab. It shows me the source code. So far, so good. I find a reference to the infobox, but none of the infobox's content shows up in line. Instead, the code merely says

{{Infobox hydrogen}}

Now, template:infobox element includes a parameter "naming," but that entry doesn't show up in hydrogen's infobox. All I want to do, in this example, is to add it. But where, oh where is the code for hydrogen's infobox? How do I get to it to edit it?—PaulTanenbaum (talk) 16:31, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

The code for hydrogen's infobox is at Template:Infobox hydrogen. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:43, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. And I had also just noticed that the infobox itself offers choices of "view," "talk," and "edit."

Need Help Creating a Page.

Hello!

I am trying to create a page about a musician and it keeps getting deleted even though I’ve revised it multiple time and now it’s locked. Could you help me to make it on wiki?

I've saved the article that I wrote.

-Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.83.69.113 (talk) 19:53, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

It's difficult for us to give specific advice when you don't tell us what article, and you change IP addresses, but you might like to read WP:Biographies of living persons and WP:Reliable references. Dbfirs 20:58, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Also read Your first article —  crh ₂₃  (Talk) 22:09, 6 July 2016 (UTC)