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Imran Khan[edit]

Please note for the bibliography section under this individual's entry that my name is correctly spelt "Christopher Sandford" . Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.109.139.90 (talk) 03:50, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed on publisher's website and corrected in article. Rojomoke (talk) 06:01, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Scam external link[edit]

Users 35.233.176.122 and 35.230.118.148 have been adding a fake external link into articles about various NFL-related shows and services. The link is to a scam website pretending to be an NFL website and offering paid subscriptions using credit cards. I found and removed the links that were inserted by those two IP 35 accounts but have no idea how to find any others. I'm sure there are a lot more that were sneaked into articles. So if anyone can find and eliminate them, that would be good. Thanks. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 (talk) 07:06, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reporting. I "insource"-searched for nfllivestream.com and nflliveonline.com, and have removed four links. Are there other domains we should look out for? @all: should these domains be added to a blacklist? Sam Sailor 08:28, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Sam. I don't know if there are other domains, but I'd be very surprised if there aren't more. The one thing that stands out with the ones we've found so far is that all the articles they were sneaked into have "NFL" in the title. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 (talk) 09:59, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 Hi Thanks for reporting. Both users added in the promotional/spam links have been warned - see here and here. You could warm the such user next time by using WP:Twinkle tool. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 12:19, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you notice patterns of repeated spamming in the future and warnings have been ignored, you can also report these incidents at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam or directly at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist for blacklisting requests. I have reported both sites there - thank you for noticing these issues. GermanJoe (talk) 12:35, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Thanks all for the help, info and advice. I appreciate it. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 (talk) 16:17, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GermanJoe: Thanks for passing that on, Joe!
@CASSIOPEIA: FYI, Twinkle requires autoconfirmed, and warning users on dynamic IP connections as here 3-7 days after their edits are unlikely to be seen by that same user. STiki for example does not issue notifications or warnings if an edit is more than 24 hours old. Sam Sailor 10:00, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kinderdijk[edit]

Hi,

On the Kinderdijk page, there is written in the infobox "Location of Kinderdijk in Netherlands." Can someone change that to "Location of Kinderdijk in the Netherlands" (remove the dot and add "the") since it includes code I do not know how to deal with? Thanks!

WhatsUpWorld (talk) 10:31, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've got rid of the full stop at the end of the caption (per WP:CAPFRAG) by this edit to the template, but the addition of "the" in this case isn't so simple. I don't know whether a redirect from Module:Location map/data/the Netherlands to Module:Location map/data/Netherlands would work. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:44, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done - First request done. Taketa (talk) 07:05, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's the same on Canals of Amsterdam with "Show map of Netherlands". Can someone also add "the" there? WhatsUpWorld (talk) 11:37, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

At present the modules do not allow for "the Netherlands". Duplicating the content of Module:Location map/data/Netherlands at Module:Location map/data/the Netherlands would seem like a sledge-hammer approach, but perhaps someone can find a better solution. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:55, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with content of history of "Bhumihar" topic of Wikipedia[edit]

In the history of "bhumihar " topic of Wikipedia there is written that bhumihar caste is offspring of bramhinmen and rajput women or offspring of rajput men and bramhin women . Or bhumihar is hybrid of bramhin and rajput(khetriya) which is wrong.But actually the ancestors of bhumihar caste is bramhin.

so that statement is actually insult of bhumihar caste people.and we strongly condemned this. Therefore I request your team to remove this controversial statement as soon as. (Redacted) i think you must remove this. I am waiting for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.39.226.48 (talk) 19:05, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The article Bhumihar gives various accounts of the origin of the Bhumihars. It does not state "that bhumihar caste is offspring of bramhin men and rajput women", it describes that as a legend. It says "The Bhumihars themselves dislike these narratives ..., and claim to be pure Brahmins."

Your threat of legal action may cause your right to edit Wikipedia to be removed, unless you retract it. Maproom (talk) 19:30, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) The wording reads, "some non-Bhumihars have implied that they are the mixed-race offspring of Brahmin men and Kshatriya women". It is not a statement but a report of an opinion which is reliably sourced. It is therefore not very likely that it will be removed. Do not make legal threats (see that page) or you may lose editing privileges. You should immediately withdraw that threat. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 19:33, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Article 15 of the Constitution of India? (Meaning castes were abolished.) Tgeorgescu (talk) 01:22, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Legal threat redacted, IP blocked. This is typical caste nonsense. Swarm ♠ 03:32, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with Peruvian location maps and Zip files[edit]

Basically, on Ubinas File:Peru physical map.svg apparently automatically displays and that is a problem in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ubinas/archive1 ‎ because that file has no information on where the topographical info comes from. I suspect it comes from here or one of the files listed on File:Reserva Nacional de Paracas topographic map-es.png but I can't tell as they are ZIP files and I have no way to open them. Alternatively I could remove the map but the template shows no clear way to do so. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:57, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can disable the map by removing the |map=peru Galobtter (pingó mió) 20:11, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The map does seem quite useful so it'd be sad if you have to remove it; from googling the issue would be that these are .hgt files that can only be opened with particular software. Galobtter (pingó mió) 20:28, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this but without a source it isn't a good map for a featured article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:42, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]