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I added the article on https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jxb/erp043 as an external link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns but don't appear to have added it correctly. Mcljlm (talk) 02:36, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Several subsequent edits have formatted the link. Eagleash (talk) 20:24, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Reference help requested. I made an empty citation by mistake, and couldn't figure out how to delete it. How can I clean that up? Thanks, 72.70.58.181 (talk) 03:43, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Is there? Bertdrunk (talk) 04:16, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Reference help requested.
Thanks, Asmund.skalevik (talk) 05:58, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
There was a misunderstanding of the variant names, Modern Steinitz and Steinitz Deferred, therefore I renamed the headers. I apologize any cite errors introduced and hope they will be corrected by someone.
I've been editing Christopher Columbus, and I noticed that under "Relatives | Brothers:" the infobox listed
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As a linguist, I knew that the names Giacomo (Italian) and Diego (Spanish) are related to each other and to the English name James. That seemed relevant to mention, because the alternate names for this son of an Italian working for Spain are not arbitrary, as a pen name can be (e.g., "Mark Twain" for Samuel Clemens). I found good sources at the website Behind the Name, on the pages for the three names.
At first I tried to incorporate the refs into an explanatory footnote (((efn-ua))) after the ref that was already on the line, but that meant nesting three separate footnotes into the efn— even more complex, nesting within nesting like a matryoshka, if I used ((cite web)), as I prefer to do. I tried ((refn)) but couldn't get it to work. Finally I settled on sticking them into the ref in-line, after the existing ((cite NIE)) (my addition in boldface):
<ref>((Cite NIE| wstitle=Columbus, Diego (brother) |display=Columbus, Diego. The youngest brother of Christopher Columbus)) — The names Giacomo and Diego are cognates, along with James, all sharing a common origin. See Behind the Name, Mike Campbell, pages Giacomo, Diego, and James. All retrieved 2017-02-03.</ref>
So now it comes out like this:
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One other issue here that I've been running into elsewhere as well is citing several pages from the same website using the informative ((cite web)), without copying the whole citation for each one. Often, as here, the only differences are the url
and title
parameters. The only template like that that I know of is ((rp)), which doesn't suit this case.
Is there a better way to handle either of these problems? That is, nesting a ref inside an explanatory footnote, and citing different pages of the same website when the differences are as minimal as they are here? Please ((Ping)) me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 06:53, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
((refn))
should work. An experiment to try to obtain something like what I think you were aiming at yielded the following:Markup | Renders as |
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text text((refn|((Cite NIE| wstitle=Columbus, Diego (brother) |display=Columbus, Diego. The youngest brother of Christopher Columbus))((refn|group=upper-alpha|The names Giacomo and Diego are cognates, along with James, all sharing a common origin. ((refn|Behind the Name, Mike Campbell, pages [http://www.behindthename.com/name/Giacomo Giacomo], [http://www.behindthename.com/name/Diego Diego], and [http://www.behindthename.com/name/James James]. All retrieved 2017-02-03.)) )) )) ====References==== ((reflist)) ''Notes on the references'' ((reflist|group=upper-alpha)) |
text text[2] References
Notes on the references |
This seems way overcomplicated. Why not this? (efn means explanatory foot note and is equivalent to {refn|group=lower-alpha}):
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text text((refn|((Cite NIE| wstitle=Columbus, Diego (brother) |display=Columbus, Diego. The youngest brother of Christopher Columbus)) ))((efn|The names Giacomo and Diego are cognates, along with James, all sharing a common origin. ((refn|Behind the Name, Mike Campbell, pages [http://www.behindthename.com/name/Giacomo Giacomo], [http://www.behindthename.com/name/Diego Diego], and [http://www.behindthename.com/name/James James]. All retrieved 2017-02-03.)) )) ====Notes==== ((notelist)) ====References==== ((reflist)) |
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EEng 02:59, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I have a problem with a newly registered editor who is using a name almost exactly the same as mine. The account for User:Ryecatcher733 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ryecatcher733) has basically been created within the past several hours and is editing the Linndale, Ohio in a disruptive manner. Thank you in advance for looking into this. Ryecatcher773 (talk) 08:33, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! Would somebody like to help me submit a proposal to Phabricator? What I would like to suggest is adding the option "upright" to the editor surface function "embedded file" (for all Wikipedia versions, of course!). I'd be grateful for any help since I'm not familiar to how Phabricator actually works and I admittedly find it a bit confusing for somebody not on the inside – though I do think that the community could in fact benefit from my idea... Hoping for your cooperation, best greetings--Hubon (talk) 13:50, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Reference help requested.
Hi.
ReferenceBot (?)'s message said that
I'd correct this, but I can't quite see where the error is. Any chance someone could help me find and correct it, please?
Thanks, Alternativity (talk) 14:43, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks! - Alternativity (talk) 09:13, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I was working on an article in Sandbox entitled 'Creamware' (the pottery type). It's ready now but I don't know how to move it to Wikipedia - I just moved it to the wrong place Wikipedia:Creamware (???) when I was actually trying to replace the existing STUB ('Creamware') with my new Article. I'm still fairly new to this, so help would be appreciated! Many thanks, JasperWare (talk) 16:34, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
I think that articles with the COI tag should be included in this category, as usually conflict of interest editors make articles promotional of something or someone in some way. CoolieCoolster (talk) 16:58, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
I would like to know if it is possible to correct an internal link to another wikipedia page. This is the first task I am attempting as an editor. The link in question (on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSB) is, I guess, automatically generated by enclosing a keyword in brackets: GluR2. This is found in the table titled "Neural and behavioral effects of validated ΔFosB transcriptional targets", derived from Reference 15.
When clicked this takes the reader to an incorrect page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabotropic_glutamate_receptor_2), instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRIA2. GRIA2 is the new correct name for the GluR2 subunit of the AMPA receptor (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPA_receptor#Subunit_composition). The confusion has no doubt arisen because this protein, like many others, has been renamed.
If you need confirmation that the link should be to the AMPA receptor subunit, this can be found in reference 15:
Review. Transcriptional mechanisms of addiction: role of DeltaFosB - Nestler EJ, 2008 [1]
In the discussion of table 3 (the table featured on the Wikipedia page), page 3249: "Several target genes of DFosB have been established using a candidate gene approach (table 3). One candidate gene is GluR2, an alpha-amino-3-hydroxy- 5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) glutamate receptor subunit (Kelz et al. 1999)."
I suppose this also begs the question - how do you specify a certain page in a link that appears to be automatically generated, when disambiguation must be a common problem? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonCollier (talk • contribs) 21:19, 4 February 2017 (UTC)