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Hi everyone,
I'd like to upload a new version of File:Melbrail former present proposed.svg which I created from the current version, but when I try to upload my new version I get the following error message: Found unsafe CSS in the style element of uploaded SVG file. How can I fix this/get past the error message? NB: I'm not very familiar with SVGs or CSS, beyond knowing what they stand for and how they're used, so any instructions will have to be pretty basic for me to follow them. Thanks in advance. Triptothecottage (talk) 01:44, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello; I have no idea where to ask this fairly technical question so I figure I'd put it here.
<ref> tags are wrapped in a <span> tag that looks like this:
<span style="background-color:white;padding:1px;display:inline-block;line-height:50%">
This causes what is arguably an undesired display in any HTML element with a non-white background, as can be seen in the header row of the table at The Terror (TV series) § Episodes.
I can't see any reason to keep the background-color:white
stipulation, but I also can't see where on en-WP or Mediawiki this might have been discussed. Thanks. — Hugh (talk) 03:33, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
background-color:white
to the references in this example because blue text on grey background is hard to read for some people. See MOS:CONTRAST. The white background disappears if the template is for example called with |background=yellow
. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:50, 18 April 2018 (UTC)Is there a relatively fast way to archive all the URLs used in an article's references? It is possible to do individually, of course, but this is time consuming for one article, let alone several. I seem to remember having seen people archive all URLs at once, but remember neither how, nor if there are multiple ways to do it. Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 04:55, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Any suggestions? Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 20:26, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
((sfn))
format and not themselves containing URLs. The related URLs are in your "Bibliography" section, but the bot hasn't gone there. Whether there is a way to do this using IABot – can't find documentation, perhaps Cyberpower678 can tell us: Noyster (talk), 20:42, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to find the Wikipedia blank world political map. Where is this located? Also, how do I edit this map, for my purposes? I wish to provide a key and colour the respective countries according to the key. Your help would be much appreciated.Mrodowicz (talk) 08:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks PrimeHunter- much appreciated. --Mrodowicz (talk) 04:03, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
This editor has removed the revisions I made to the Atholl Highlanders page saying I did not provide references. Can you help I have read the Wikipedia reference help and I do not understand where I am going wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AHCastle (talk • contribs) 10:12, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
The Luwian language article has recently been edited several times by the editor Ilya.yakubovich (talk | contribs). Some of the content added appears to be personal opinions of this editor, with no citation of a source.
What makes this particularly problematic is that Dr. Ilya Yakubovich is actually a scholar in this field; his current home page is here (in German). From the editor's contributions, I'm pretty sure he is that Dr. Yakubovich. In fact from the Talk page sections titled "Revision" and "Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language", I think he's edited the article several times in the past. (The IP addresses in those sections are geolocated at sites where Dr. Yakubovich worked when they were posted, according to the biography on his home page, and the second one I linked explicitly mentions a monograph that can be found in his home page's list of publications.)
Personally, I welcome knowledgable experts editing articles on their fields, but they must follow the same rules as everyone else here. I would think that they would find it easier to do so, since citing sources is a normal part of their work, they know which sources are of high quality, and they should have plenty of access to such sources. The important thing they must keep in mind is that a reader of the article can't easily know whether any particular statement was written by an expert, an ordinary person, or even a crank with time on his hands. Nor can the reader know what sources back up that statement unless it has citations.
I'm not experienced in teaching or enforcing Wikipedia policies, and I can't spare the time; I only came across this by chance while reading some articles I was interested in. If someone else with more experience on the policy side could follow up with this user, I'd really appreciate it. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 11:00, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
- We would like to create a page related to our organisation on wikipedia, as there currently isn't one.
How do we do this?
The sandbox only allows us to create a user page, but not an encyclopedia article.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankajpiyush (talk • contribs) 13:47, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Is there away you can text people tell them how they are doing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 3DWAFFLE33 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
I need to determine the number of categories that I have created. I have all the stats I need on my editing but don't know how to find this number. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 17:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
((#ifexist:))
says the category does not exist. It is not indexed by search engines, including Wikipedias own search. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)