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February 25

Simple Wikipedia - Bugatti Veyron is not a hypersonic car... can I fix this?

(See: https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bugatti_Veyron&action=info)

The Bugatti Veyron is described as a "hypersonic car" in the basic information page... how do I fix this? TheSaturnLover (talk) 03:34, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Simple.wp is a completely separate project from en.wp. You'd need to handle it on that project. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 03:37, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

ok thanks TheSaturnLover (talk) 03:38, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

How to edit on kindle.

Hello help desk, I need to know how to edit on a kindle. Regards, Wikalevi Wikalevi (talk) 06:22, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

See WP:DEVICES. Personally I don't recommend this because the features are limited on mobile devices.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:49, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Well, a mobile device doesn't necessarily mean mobile view. I'm typing this using the Convenient Discussions gadget, on my phone, in desktop view. It involves a lot of zooming and scrolling, though. I tend to switch between the mobile app (straightforward source editing) and desktop view in a browser (all the features but harder to navigate the page) depending what I'm doing, sometimes copying text between the two. Sometimes it's useful to see the different appearance between mobile and desktop view, and having both available on the same device is useful. And a big advantage on my phone is that I can have templates and the like saved as clipboard entries, and can type a huge range of extra characters without needing to remember character codes or tricky key combinations. Musiconeologist (talk) 10:48, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Performed edit request

Hi! I am a returning Wikipedian, and I have forgotten quite a lot. For instance, I performed the two edits that were requested here: Talk:Italian_American_Museum_of_Los_Angeles#Some_proposed_changes_and_additions_to_Exhibits_section but I don't know what to do with the two templates. They are: { { edit COI | R } } . Should I just remove them? Or, add "| answered=yes" so it will be like this: { { edit COI | R | answered = yes } } ? Thank you! Lova Falk (talk) 09:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Lova Falk, see {{Edit COI}}, use { { edit COI | A } } or { { edit COI | answered = yes } }. TSventon (talk) 09:38, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

TSventon Thank you! Lova Falk (talk) 09:45, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Album tracklist source

What sources should i use for album tracklists? Many articles i see don't have any references added to tracklists AshOregano (talk) 10:01, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi AshOregano as per WP:TRACKLISTING "Track listings can be sourced to liner notes (WP:PRIMARY) as a definitive WP:VERIFIABLE source without the usual WP:SECONDARY sourcing requirements of most Wikipedia content." - Unreleased albums will need WP:SECONDARY sources. Best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 11:11, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

And what about track lengths? AshOregano (talk) 11:38, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

If listed on the album label or jacket, there's your source (and it doesn't need to be specified; its assumed). If it's not on there, you'd need a reliable source (which you would need to specify) such as a respectable music magazine if it gave the times. Some blog that is not fact-checked, no. If that's your only source, just omit the times. It's usually not critical info. Herostratus (talk) 04:06, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

The singer's template doesn't show

I'm mobile Wikipedia user, but I can't see singer templates such as {{Aurora (singer)}} on articles. But if I change my condition to desktop mode, it pops up. Is there any way to see these templates on mobile conditions? Camilasdandelions (talk!) 14:05, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Currently no navigation template can be shown in the mobile view. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 16:10, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Why? :( Camilasdandelions (talk!) 16:16, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Navigation templates have not been shown in mobile from the start because they can't be properly reformatted to fit on a phone screen. Contributors are working on addressing it, but there's no word on how soon it can be done. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 17:44, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

I do a large majority of my editing on smartphones. The fact of the matter is that the desktop site is fully functional on modern smartphones, and the mobile site, despite over a dozen years of development work and who knows how many millions of dollars spent, is far from fully functional. I would be happy if the desktop site was re-named the universal site or some such thing. Cullen328 (talk) 09:42, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

For me desktop version was uncomforatble because it downsizes the screen.. Camilasdandelions (talk!) 10:20, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

President & CEO of a foundation official headshot?

I am trying to add a photo of the current president and CEO of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Are we allowed to grab her photo from the Kettering Foundation website and upload it for use in the Wikipedia article on the foundation? Flyonthewindscreen86 (talk) 15:23, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

The Foundation's web site says "© 2025. The Kettering Foundation. All Rights Reserved." So, no. Maproom (talk) 15:31, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Okay, that's what I though. I'd need to find a photo of her that isn't protected by any copyrights. Flyonthewindscreen86 (talk) 16:02, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

If she makes public appearances, the easiest way may be to take a picture yourself, @Flyonthewindscreen86 ColinFine (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

simple wikipedia page creation

I created a wikipedia page. It was declined because my sources are not reliable.

I got an email from someone saying they would edit my page to a simple wikipedia page that would be accepted with these same sources in only 3-4 days for the low low price of $800.

My question is: where can I find information on how to create a simple wikipedia page myself? I have been searching for information but all I can find is how to view a page in the simple format. While I realize the simple version is not as visible as a regular page, if that's all I can get until the New York Times finds me, I'll take it.

Please advise. Jpiper16 (talk) 15:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Jpiper16, the person who emailed you is almost certainly a scammer. They'll take your $800, but if they ever do get the promised article accepted, it's likely soon to be deleted.

The problem with your draft isn't that the sources aren't reliable (yes, that boilerplate notice is badly worded); it's that they don't demonstrate that Godot is notable, in Wikipedia's idiosyncratic sense. Click on that blue link to learn about "reliable published independent sources with extensive discussion of the subject". Maproom (talk) 15:39, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Jpiper16. My earnest advice to new editors is to not even think about trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as verifiability, neutral point of view, reliable, independent sources, and notability, and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle), then you might be ready to read your first article carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. (I know your account's been around for more than a year, but you have made only 23 edits, almost all of them to that draft). ColinFine (talk) 18:29, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

@Jpiper16, someone said they would do something FOR MONEY IT'S A SCAMN DON'T DO IT. Wikalevi (talk) 07:37, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

February 26

Choosing a citation template

If I wanted to get an article up to GA or FA, and I was trying to clean up the refences section when should I be using template:cite news as opposed to template:cite web? If all the sources are available online what counts as "news" and what doesn't count? TipsyElephant (talk) 00:56, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Use "cite news" , with the parameter "newspaper=" when the publisher is a newspaper and the article is part of its reporting or opinion pieces with editorial control. Its the oversight by a news organization that matters. Newspapers now publish both online and in print. If the source is a blog or other such thing on their website, use cite web. StarryGrandma (talk) 02:43, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@StarryGrandma: I am specifically working on Forest 404 and it sounds like I should convert the majority of the citation templates from cite web to cite news. For instance, the very first reference from the Irish Independent should use the cite news template? An example of something that might stay using cite web might be the Mississippi Valley Conservancy because it's technically not a news organization? To clarify, you're recommending the parameter "newspaper=" as opposed to "work=". I see "work=" much more often, when is that supposed to be used? TipsyElephant (talk) 11:26, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@TipsyElephant: I would say be consistent in which templates you use, but opinions differ and there will be borderline cases. For example, see the discussion at Help talk:Citation Style 1#Web-based "magazine" sources. Work in cite news is probably fine. It is used in {{cite news}} and in the citation templates dropdown list in the Wikipedia source editor. TSventon (talk) 14:28, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

"work" is a generic parameter for the source in the citation templates. Its aliases are "journal", "newspaper", "magazine", "periodical", "website". Any of these will be italicized in the reference, and the title will be in quotes. (It is not used in "cite book" since book titles are italicized, not put in quotes.) I always use one of the aliases because I am citing particular types of sources. But "work" works just fine since the results are the same. StarryGrandma (talk) 14:43, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@StarryGrandma:, I would have left the question to you, but I thought you were probably offline. TSventon (talk) 14:53, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

While it is true that |journal=, |magazine=, |newspaper=, |periodical=, |website=, and |work= are all aliases, it should be remembered that {{citation}} uses these parameters to determine how the citation will render |issue= and |volume= parameters:

{{citation |title=Title |work=Work |volume=1 |issue=2}}

"Title", Work, vol. 1, no. 2

{{citation |title=Title |journal=Work |volume=1 |issue=2}}

"Title", Work, 1 (2)

Best to get in the habit of using the work alias that best describes the source so that follow-on editors know what it is that you are citing.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:27, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Regarding External Links in Krabbe disease

In the second paragraph of the 'Society and Culture' section there is an external link to the official website of Hunter's Hope, a foundation founded by Jim Kelly to raise awareness about Krabbe. I assume clause 19 of WP:ELNO applies here but I just wish for confirmation. All Tomorrows No Yesterdays (Ughhh.... What did I do wrong this time?) 07:50, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

I've deleted it, All Tomorrows No Yesterdays. (The result is still a mess.) -- Hoary (talk) 08:42, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

The Eras Tour Book

Hi, I'm just wondering, how I should expand this article? Jorge906 (talk) 10:24, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Should you expand it at all? But if yes you should, then before you do so perhaps you could attend to the Cite template syntax errors. -- Hoary (talk) 11:02, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Well, the info within the headings need expanding Jorge906 (talk) 12:51, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@Jorge906: You might want to ask on the article talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Taylor Swift.

@Hoary: I fixed the Cite template syntax errors. GoingBatty (talk) 21:03, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

problem; talk page archiving items into earliest archive file, not the latest file

i have a problem with my talk page archives. why are the sections that are archived currently being saved to Archive #1, instead of the latest archive file? appreciate any help. please ping me when you reply. Sm8900 (talk) 16:10, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@Sm8900: In Special:Diff/1227088369 you accidentally deleted the counter parameter from the archiving instructions. Put that back and all should be well. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:24, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Script to find pages / adjust search to highlight redirects

This is kind of a niche problem, but I work on tornado articles where I cite a lot of local sources. These typically have four-letter identifiers, such as WHO-DT, WLS-TV, WQAD-TV, WPTZ. The problem is that none of these have a consistent naming scheme and when I just type in the identifier into a cite template it often turns into a redirect or disambiguation page (see WHO, WLS, WQAD, WPTZ-TV, etc). Is there a script of some kind or a similar solution that I can use to highlight redirects or disambiguation pages in the search bar? I use Vector Legacy 2010 as my skin, and prefer to edit in the source editor whenever possible simply due to its performance on my device; I'm aware the visual editor would solve this, but it doesn't run as well nor am I as acquainted to it as the source editor. Departure– (talk) 16:41, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

I'll also note that due to similar performance issues, simply opening a new Wikipedia tab to check what page I should target my template to does work and is often the best option but it's still far from ideal. Departure– (talk) 16:43, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Optimising an article layout so that it 'looks right' on my screen

I'm sure that there is policy that says "don't try to wrangle the layout so that it suits a particular screen size". Or maybe there used to be? I've looked in MOS:LAYOUT and MOS:IMAGES, but neither say so anywhere obvious. Have I imagined it? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@JMF You may be thinking of Help:Pictures#Thumbnail sizes (and related links there), since it is usually images that create problems. Mike Turnbull (talk) 18:19, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, but no, that's not it. The context is that an editor moved some (normal) thumbnails to the left because on their (wide) screen, the images had become detached from the text they illustrate. I suggested {{clear}} but that had the effect of introducing acres of white space – on their wide screen, of course. Oh well. Who ever said that life had to be fair? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:29, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

February 27

Trying to install Move+

I'm trying to install Move+ and I put the script in here. I reloaded to bypass my cache and still nothing is appearing. Can someone help me? Rexophile (talk) 01:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Rexophile: Is the problem in mobile or desktop? You edit in both and I don't know whether the script is supposed to work in mobile. If it's desktop then what is your skin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering? Please link an example page and name a feature from User:BilledMammal/Move+ which is missing there. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:21, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Im on desktop. My skin is the 2010 legacy. The feature is importScript('User:BilledMammal/MovePlus.js'); // Backlink: User:BilledMammal/MovePlus.js. Rexophile (talk) 20:00, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Rexophile: I'm looking for a feature of the script and a page where that feature is missing. Something like "Move+ is missing from the More menu at Foobar". It's not missing for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Issue resolved. Rexophile (talk) 20:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

is there a way to remove the Wikipedia navigation bar from editing pages?

i could use that space NerdestBruce (talk) 05:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@NerdestBruce: What is your skin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering? Please name an item in the bar you want to remove. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:03, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

the Bar, the rectangle, all the items

that is just a HUGE amount of space to leave unused; i can fill it with more editing and previewing space, which is critical on a 13-inch screen NerdestBruce (talk) 05:00, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

oh, and this only for editing pages

in the perfect world, any source-editing page does not have a navigation bar

in the very good world, when i click "Edit source" the entire navigation bar on the left goes away; it comes back (in the active window) only when i exit editing mode (when there is no source pane) NerdestBruce (talk) 05:05, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

File:Old logo Ecological Movement of Venezuela (2008).png

Hi wikis,how remove this template {{di-disputed non-free use rationale}} ,after restore this photo on the Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#File:Old logo Ecological Movement of Venezuela (2008).png i edited the infobox but now User:Iruka13 reverted the tag,please how deleted this template?? (Google translator) AbchyZa22 (talk) 10:53, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

The best way to resolve this is to discuss it directly with @Iruka13. ColinFine (talk) 14:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Foreign editsummaries on English Wikipedia?

Resolved

Polygnotus (talk) 14:08, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

How is it possible that I see foreign editsummaries on the English version of Wikipedia in a few cases. For example Annulation des modifications... instead of Reverted edits by...? Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 11:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Polygnotus Links please. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:22, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@TheDJ: See here for example. Polygnotus (talk) 13:45, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

One possibility is that an edit history was imported from fr Wikipedia via Wikipedia:Requests for page importation. TSventon (talk) 12:37, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Interesting, I didn't know that that existed, but I don't think its the case here. Polygnotus (talk) 13:48, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Looking at the user's contributions, the French summaries are for Android app edits of the kind that generate an automatic summary. So I think they're editing in English with the app set to French. Much like I have the app set to English but occasionally edit on Norwegian Wikipedia with it. When undoing an edit, the app asks for a reason then appends that to a standard summary that the user has no opportunity to edit. Musiconeologist (talk) 13:57, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Musiconeologist: Thank you! I think that solves the mystery. Not sure if that is the desired behaviour of the app but at least that explains it. Polygnotus (talk) 14:01, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Probably isn't. Filed as T387518 * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Pppery! Polygnotus (talk) 20:04, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I know this counts as solved, but I do the reverse. I look for uses of "John Hopkins University" and correct to "Johns Hopkins University" across wikipedias. So even if the article is in an alphabet that I wouldn't know what continent it is from, I still can correct the English in a cite and will use the English Language "Spelling" as an edit summary. I would imagine someone whose language is Spanish correcting N to Ñ might be in a similar situation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naraht (talk • contribs) 18:34, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

question

Hi, I noticed this https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/ so can we add https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DpgBadge.svg to our user page, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:17, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I see you have already added the badge, so you have answered your own question. TSventon (talk) 14:35, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

yes (I saw that other topics were getting posted and answered below, and mines was not) however thank you for answering, I do appreciate it,Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: I (more or less) had to click on the two links to answer your question, which may have deterred other helpers. I would suggest making life easier for helpers by asking something like Hi, I noticed that wikipedia has been recognized as a digital public good [link], so can we add the digital public good logo [link] to our user page, thanks. TSventon (talk) 15:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

good point(will do so going forward) and thanks again, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:33, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: You might want to update the Digital public goods article as well. GoingBatty (talk) 19:25, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_public_goods&action=history did a few edits, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Category enquiry

Hello. I am thinking of creating a category of "Body donors" to list those people who donated their bodies to medical science. There is a Sperm donors category. This is somewhat outside my usual category area, but I have recently researched two people who were donors, and there are quite a few others on Wiki already who did the same. I suppose I am mostly asking about the terminology - is Body donors OK? Thanks BJCHK (talk) 14:18, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

This could be a vague category that comprise several notable people. Additionally, there's some confusion I have with that (I know sperm, blood and organ donors, but not body ones). Who, if willing, are the two, and are they notable primarily for being body donors? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 14:23, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't know as being a donor has to be the primary source of notability. But it has to be defining of the person in some manner beyond just something they random did, I would think. I don't think that such a category would fly. I could be wrong; you could ask at... let's see... Wikipedia talk:Categorization I think. Herostratus (talk) 04:12, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Can't get citation maintenance messages to show up

I'm trying to be a good citizen and fix my maintenance issues on cites, but I can't see them. I changes by .css files, bypassed the cache, but still nothing. What else should I try? LouScheffer (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@LouScheffer: Try with !important:

.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint {display: inline !important;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */
.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error {display: inline !important;} /* display hidden Citation Style 1 error messages */

PrimeHunter (talk) 22:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

You shouldn't need !important. Help:CS1 errors was recently changed away from:

.mw-parser-output span.cs1-maint {display: inline;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */

Perhaps that change broke the css for you on your browser. Try the older version; ignore the warning message.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I have reverted the change.[1] @LouScheffer: You still have to do one of the above to your own version of the code. They both give a warning you can ignore. !important says to override other attempts to control the display but that's OK here when the code is only for yourself and overriding existing code to hide it is exactly what you want. If something later changes in the existing code, maybe the span version fails and you do need !important. Some people strongly dislike !important and look for alternatives but when it's a user's personal CSS, it does exactly what that user wants, and they can remove it if they no longer want it, I don't see the point. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:33, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I tried the 'span' fix and it worked. I can now see the messages. LouScheffer (talk) 23:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Reference danger, Will Robinson.

I'm getting a warning that a url is unsafe for reference 5 in Yolande Bonhomme. How do I warn others, i.e. is there a standard warning template for this situation? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:13, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

There's no need to warn as the link seems to be dead. You can mark ref 5 as dead by adding "dead" to the "url status" field, or removing ref 5 entirely and replace with other source. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 21:28, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Umm, no. |url-status=dead has no meaning when a cs1|2 template does not have a value assigned to |archive-url=. Perhaps you meant {{dead link}}? A suitable fix might be:

{{Cite web |url=https://exhibits2.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3945 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907050545/https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3945 |archive-date=2021-09-07 |title=Yolande Bonhomme — Printer and Bookseller |website=[[Duke University Libraries]]}}

"Yolande Bonhomme — Printer and Bookseller". Duke University Libraries. Archived from the original on 2021-09-07.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:34, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Emmanuel College, Warrnambool

I added a file just now in the St Ann's College section. It is too big. Sorry. Please reduce size and place a caption underneath the old photo: St Ann's College Chapel (far right) Est. 1888 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 22:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Srbernadette: Done DuncanHill (talk) 22:46, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Could both the two old black and white photos be made a little bigger and can we get rid of all the space underneath the "Geography" section please. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 23:02, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Think about it, Srbernadette. The obvious way to get rid of all the space would be to let "History" (and perhaps also "House system") float above where it is (they are) now. Doing this would have the photos impinge further on the text. Would this be desirable? Also, rather than putting effort into prettifying the article (or anyway de-uglifying it), how about providing references for the sections that are now unreferenced? -- Hoary (talk) 23:15, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

February 28

Citing Syndicated News

I'm trying to properly format the citations in Forest 404 and noticed that two of the sources appear to be syndicated content from Press Association. Specifically, this source in the Irish Indepenent and this source in The Independent. How should I format the citations? At the moment I have Press Association listed as the publisher, but I don't think that's quite right. Is this a scenario where I'd use the "via=" parameter? TipsyElephant (talk) 01:19, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

For the Irish Independent use: |agency=[[Press Association]]. Not obvious that The Independent sourced their article from Press Association so omit.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 02:02, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Auto Archiving

Hello. Can you please take a look at the Aesthetic Realism Talk page and the auto-archiving that is set up? It is supposed to archive after 14 days of inactivity with a thread of 4 or more posts. It doesn't seem to be working. Can you look at the code and see there is something that can be fixed to run the auto-archive? Thank you, Lore E. Mariano (talk) 01:24, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

@LoreMariano: The bot does not care about the number of posts in each talk page section; the code minthreadsleft = 4 tells the bot to leave four sections on the page. Currently there is only one section at Talk:Aesthetic Realism. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:36, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Are Oxford bibliographies always reliable?

If a source cited by a user is listed in Oxford Bibliographies, does that guarantee its reliability, regardless of being published by a non-academic press? Hu741f4 (talk) 02:09, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm unfamiliar with the name Oxford Bibliographies, Hu741f4. Just what is the publisher? -- Hoary (talk) 02:34, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Please check this out, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sambhaji?markasread=334700739&markasreadwiki=enwiki#c-Akshaypatill-20250227044100-Hu741f4-20250227041200 Hu741f4 (talk) 02:39, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

No, Hu741f4, I am not going to read that wall of text. It turns out that Wikipedia has an article Oxford Bibliographies Online. This lacks any obvious warning signs ("Edwin Mellen Press", "lulu.com", etc). This does not mean that you can't have legitimate concerns. You're welcome to ask about "Oxford Bibliographies", but the place to do so is WP:RSN. Be sure to specify what claim it is that "Oxford Bibliographies" is being used to support. -- Hoary (talk) 04:42, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Emmanuel College, Warrnambool

Please fix up the references - 12, 13 and 14 - they are all the same citation so shouldn't they all be linked in some way? - I cannot do this - sorry. Thank you in advance. Srbernadette (talk) 02:14, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Choose a name for the reference, Srbernadette. I'll call it "ECW". Choose any one of the three instances. In this one, change <ref> to <ref name="ECW"> (and note that there is no "/" in this); for each of the others, change <ref>[various details]</ref> to the much shorter <ref name="ECW" /> (and note that there is a "/" in this). If this poses a difficulty, then please say precisely what the difficulty is. -- Hoary (talk) 02:32, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

HELP PLEASE!! I replaced ref number 13 (which is identical to number 12) with what you suggested - but it didn't work. Could you please check - sorry again. (Just to help you again - citations 12, 13 and 14 are all the same refs) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs)

Srbernadette, I see that Jessicapierce has cleared up the mess. That's kind of her, but not so educational. It seems that you logged out, and while logged out, made this edit. But what I'd invited you to do was both (i) to change any one of the three instances of <ref>{{cite web |title=Emmanuel College, Warrnambool |url=https://www.emmanuel.vic.edu.au/ |publisher=Emmanuel College, Warrnambool |access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref> to <ref name="ECW">{{cite web |title=Emmanuel College, Warrnambool |url=https://www.emmanuel.vic.edu.au/ |publisher=Emmanuel College, Warrnambool |access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref> and (ii) to change each of the other two to <ref name="ECW" />. (Within that, the choice of "ECW" was pretty arbitrary.) You got (i) wrong (perhaps I'd described it poorly), and you didn't attempt (ii). Little wonder that you got an error message. -- Hoary (talk) 04:34, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

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