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March 5[edit]

Incorrect information regarding the founder of the NBFO, Washington, DC in 1974[edit]

I perused for information, that I spearheaded and founded the National Black Feminist Organization in Washington DC in 1974. I have the Washington Post article to support my claim, however, credit wasn't forthcoming. I have completed the manuscript, and in the process of publishing my memoir, Expanding the Scope: A Memoir from A Multifaceted Person. How to I correct information on the google web? 2601:46:C881:7020:D475:C65D:F232:B0D (talk) 01:39, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to improve a Wikipedia article, you can start a discussion on that article's talk page. For errors in Google you will need to contact them. You might be seeing the Google Knowledge Graph which pulls information from many sources. RudolfRed (talk) 02:24, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Links in articles[edit]

I'm looking through the manual of style but I'm having trouble finding guidance on something... The article Korean Wave states in the second paragraph of the lede:

"Following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the loosening of restrictions on the South Korean entertainment industry, South Korea emerged as a major exporter of popular culture."

Is it (or is there) a hard rule that "1997 Asian financial crisis" should not be linked again when it is mentioned later in the article? (I feel like I've heard this brought up previously when reading Featured Article reviews) Can someone direct me to the MOS policies around double linking? Cheers! Freedom4U (talk) 05:06, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:DUPLINK * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 05:35, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! And double thank you because of the mention of duplinks-alt in there, that looks handy. Freedom4U (talk) 05:38, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to disable the sticky bar that appears at the top of pages?[edit]

Recently, a "sticky bar" has been appearing at the top of Wikipedia pages: when I scroll down a few lines, a horizontal bar containing the title of the page and a variety of buttons appears at the top of the browser window, introduced by animation that makes it crawl downward. I find this distracting and quite annoying. How can I disable the sticky bar? I looked in Preferences | Appearance but didn't find anything. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 10:48, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BenKovitz, I think this might be a Vector 2022 thing, perhaps changing it in Preferences → Appearance → Vector Legacy (2010) and see if that fixes it? Justi yaya 11:10, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BenKovitz and @Justiyaya I don't think that is a Vector 2022 skin thing. I use Vector 2022 and I don't see it. If it crawls down the page as you scroll, it sounds like custom Javascript code, coming from somewhere. Do you have any custom css (or whatever that stuff is)? David10244 (talk) 07:15, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244, that's odd, because I'm told that the floating header is enabled by default for logged-in users of Vector 2022. I wonder why you're not seeing it? 199.208.172.35 (talk) 16:29, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@199.208.172.35: Hmm, that suggests that there might be a way to disable the floating header. Have you seen any way to do that? —Ben Kovitz (talk) 17:20, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244: Nope, I don't have any custom Javascript or custom CSS. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 17:20, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BenKovitz Odd, I see that header today. It wasn't there before, I swear! However, I have restarted my tablet... The header doesn't move down the page as I scroll. That would be annoying. David10244 (talk) 10:30, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244: The sticky header only started showing up pretty recently for me, maybe a few days before I posted this question. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 21:13, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you wish to otherwise retain the new skin but lose the mystery menu, you will need to add some custom CSS or Javascript. There is a FAQ here about that, but I found it didn't work. Instead you can add some custom Javascript to your Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js page. The code to use, using that link, is: $.when(mw.loader.using('mediawiki.util'), $.ready).then(function () {$("#vector-sticky-header").remove();}); -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 11:12, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried it and it works! Thanks! BTW, do you know where I can put in a word suggesting that the default in Vector 2022 should be to have no sticky bar? As I understand sticky bars, they are mainly for things that don't suit Wikipedia pages, like constantly nudging a user to make a purchase. And of course they introduce distraction, which doesn't suit a scholarly, textual site like Wikipedia. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 17:26, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BenKovitz There is mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements for suggestions and feedback. (Personally, I quite like the sticky header—but I can understand why others don't.) Shells-shells (talk) 17:39, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Adding of my page[edit]

How can i create wikipedia using my html code Bunnygoud (talk) 13:22, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:YFA, but please note Wikipedia doesn't use html code. Theroadislong (talk) 13:26, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

Why is the hyphen attached in the title of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University%E2%80%93Newark, and not in this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Business_%E2%80%93_Camden. JackkBrown (talk) 16:05, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because they were created by different people at different times, and nobody until now has noticed and cared about the inconsistency. You're welcome to move one of them to whatever is more appropriate. But many many times more important than worrying about consistency of names would be finding some sources to establish that Rutgers School of Business – Camden meets Wikipedia's criteria of notability or deleting it if it does not. ColinFine (talk) 16:12, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Providing some sources would also allow the test in WP:COMMONNAME, by which articles should be named according the name most commonly used for the subject in the sources. ColinFine (talk) 16:17, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comprehensive answer. I don't have the authorisation to move titles, otherwise I would have done it myself. JackkBrown (talk) 16:32, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can make a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:10, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I have requested the title to be moved! JackkBrown (talk) 17:28, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ColinFine, for your reference, major schools/colleges/departments within major US universities are basically guaranteed to be notable; they're basically on the same notability level as Oxbridge colleges. Nyttend (talk) 18:37, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mebbe. But the existing article says nothing encyclopaedic about it. ColinFine (talk) 23:10, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sentence[edit]

Since I'm correcting numerous details, I would like to make sure of this: in the sentence "Danforth Campus buildings", should 'buildings' be capitalised? Thanks in advance. JackkBrown (talk) 17:12, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please tell us which article you are talking about (it's neither of the two you linked to in your previous question). We cannot reliably answer your question without seeing the context, because we cannot tell whether "Buildings" is part of their name, or a common noun being used in the text. ColinFine (talk) 17:51, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"The newspaper reported that some of the Danforth Campus buildings had burned in a fire, but other buildings on the Danforth Campus were unaffected, and none of the Quayle Campus buildings were touched." "Welcome to the Danforth Campus Buildings, comprising James Hall and Quayle Hall." If it's just buildings at the Danforth Campus, no capitalisation because it's just a common noun being used in the text, but if it's a specific designation, capitalise because it's part of their name. Nyttend (talk) 18:41, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@ColinFine: here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_University_in_St._Louis#/editor/4; second caption: "Danforth Campus buildings". JackkBrown (talk) 20:07, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JackkBrown: No, "buildings" should not be capitalized in that context. Deor (talk) 22:45, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! JackkBrown (talk) 10:19, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Add background to an image in an infobox[edit]

I have File:Overwolf vertical.svg. It needs a black (#060606) background. the second revision added the background but neither Wikipedia nor the size trimming bot recognize it. Is there a way to add a black background to an image using wikitext Aaron Liu (talk) 20:25, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Aaron Liu I think that {{multiple image}} can do this, although I find the instructions quite impenetrable. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:11, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I got it to work. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:51, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at Wikipedia:SVG_help, it also has links to some SVG checking tools. The Commons checker will check it against know Wikimedia bugs and issues. - X201 (talk) 16:21, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@X201 The file is nonfree, so it's not on Commons but it has been marked as checking OK. The real issue is a different problem: see WP:Help_desk#Background_colors_in_SVG above at March 3. The OP is looking for a work-around for that issue. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:26, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Michael D. Turnbull: The image doesn't have to be on Commons. The tools will allow you to check a file without making it an actual commons file. - X201 (talk) 17:15, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@X201 He said that neither commons nor labs nor w3 showed any errors. Aaron Liu (talk) 18:16, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]