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I made these changes to the carnitine article in line with the MOS of chemistry, where names like L-carnitine should have small caps (as in l-carintine). These names occur in references as well. For example, reference 1 (doi:10.1016/j.nut.2004.04.003) has the title Supplementation of l-carnitine in athletes: does it make sense?
. How do I include small caps in reference titles without producing these citation errors that I have produced? EdChem (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedia world,
My name is Deepankar Dey and I am new here in Wikipedia. Can anyone please take me through Wikipedia article editing guideline? Thanks in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepankar Dey (talk • contribs) 05:32, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
I have twinkle. I also used it to rollback vandalism etc. But, for few days I can't see Rollback, Vandalism, AGF options. Why? :) S A H A 08:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
I editing Fijian Wikipedia addressing very huge problem of this language's Wikipedia, Fijian Language has too much words have multiple means, some words I can't understand and surprising outstand means (e.g. manumanu in Fijian also mean virus. Link:https://glosbe.com/en/fj/virus), some words I can't find a applicable match of these words (e.g. Infection in Glosbe Fijian Dictionary have 25 entities, I can't find out which is suitable of the word mean in Fijian. Link:https://glosbe.com/en/fj/Infection), that spend me too much time to creating these articles and fix these wrong words correctly, eventually some words I can't find out which is appropriate in Glosbe, leaving these words and sentences incorrectly.
Glosbe is unreliable, there is few Fijian dictionary in Internet, can someone help me find out an useful, reliable Fijian dictionary website? Weather Top Wizard (talk) 12:30, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Where on Wikipedia can I create a private draft to test the visual editor, without the draft being visible or editable by outside users?
I have had a very unpleasant first experience trying to edit wikipedia for the past two days, having text written in a draft and marked clearly as placeholder for a work in progress be reported for copyright violation and repeatedly deleted despite being marked as a test of the editor.
MariusPoenar (talk) 13:39, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
So I'll be viewing a page and whenever I open then close an image I'll get pushed back to the top of the page. This makes for very frustrating viewing as I'm constantly scrolling back down to where I actually was. I tried doing some research to figure out if there's some setting or browser extension that could be causing this but I can't find anything. Issue occurs on both Chrome and Firefox on my computer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.10.234.212 (talk) 14:26, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Sorry if this is a bit snarky, but I'm quite frustrated, and, frankly, quite irritated - and this isn't the first time. Several HOURS ago, I looked for, and found, SOME, but VERY limited information on Kenneth Maddy. I've been aware for some time now, that any user is able, in THEORY, to edit any page here - but have been unable, for multiple reasons I may touch on here, to be able to figure out HOW to do so, both tonight AND several times in the past.
In this case, I know little about the man, so would not even begin to think about editing it. However, when I looked at what was there, it clearly was not anywhere close to what I would consider to be the "normal", generally excellent Wikipedia page (thanks SO much to ALL involved). I admit I didn't read the page in it's entirety (since it was obviously not what I was seeking), so SOME of what I was looking for MAY have been buried amongst all the (?hyperbole?) that WAS there. Without going back and looking again (I've already spent more time than it was worth to me, AND am rather perplexed as to whether it's even appropriate HERE), the info there seemed like it was pretty much ENTIRELY a list of awards and praise he had received as a Senator, to the point of seeming almost like an election campaign piece, or perhaps, an extremely flattering obituary. It was VERY MUCH lacking almost ANY "typical" biographical information.
I lhen looked further, for what I was pretty much expecting to find, which was the often-seen comment attached to such articles (without being quite this blunt) that the article was not up to the normal standards of Wikipedia. THAT would have assured me that SOMEONE had at LEAST noticed it, and it was flagged for needed improvement, eventually. There was ONLY one brief, slightly negative comment there, however, saying simply that the article needed more references. While I would highly agree, my snarky take would be that it needed LOTS of references to LOTS of information that was NOT THERE . . .
So THEN I thought that, despite my many past frustrations with trying to figure out how to EDIT an entry (and the same number of times giving up), it shouldn't be NEAR that difficult to simply comment that the article was highly in need of improvement. Silly me. What I DID find, were several - no,actually, multiple pages that appeared to be the right direction to go - UNTIL one clicked on one, or more, of the (often) several links that seemed to be associated with almost every sentence or phrase within Wikipedia. Then I almost always discovered, after following several MORE links for each one I DID click on, that where I THOUGHT I had finally discovered the answer MIGHT be hiding . . . It wasn't. It would be inappropriate to recommend a clean-up THERE, because of one reason or another, accompanied by more links to explain why, in more detail . . .
Honestly, it is said that, with lawyers, the fine print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. I'd like to add to general body of common sayings: "With (?Wikipedians?), the LINK giveth, and MANY, MANY MORE links make you FEEL LIKE your BRAIN has been taken away . . . Honestly, I've tried to avoid being insulting, but I would not be surprised if NONE of you folks would be capable of sending a friend a new ADDRESS, if you moved, without somehow being able to insert a link.
To be fair, links would have helped me in writing this letter. I could have sent many of the multiple "ah-ha's" I THOUGHT I had found, so that SOMEONE might better understand WHY all ultimately led me to dead ends, or "not applicable's". If I recall correctly, at some point, I found a link to what appeared to be a GENERAL help page. THAT page consisted of about 20 or 30 links to more specific help pages, several of which looked promising, but each one I looked at consisted of . . . yeah, that's right . . . many more links.
Now, I have to admit that I realize I've probably wasted my time writing this, for multiple reasons - mostly since I'm in a writing mood now, and am primarily venting my frustration. However, I'm sort of HOPING that SOMEBODY might read this and understand my point of view just a little bit . . . since I could not figure out where to send it otherwise, and do not feel like spending most of my Sunday tomorrow, trying to figure it out. If I had, I might have made an effort trying to make it more coherent. Also, I believe I read something a few links ago that said unless I signed in, forget about any replies, but I wouldn't get them anyway ??? For now, it's TIRED and I'm getting late, and I haven't been able to figure out much of the text that appears below this, so I'll cut and paste them for anyone who MIGHT still be following. Can any of YOU figure out what they are saying? (Maybe if you follow the links?)
By publishing changes, you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license. (Yeah, sure, I completely agree)
THEN it requests me to select "Publish changes", "Show preview", or "Show changes" . . . Huh? I don't think ANY apply, but I'll play with these a bit after I share more from this page . . .
(()) (({))} | [] [[]] [[Category:]] #REDIRECT [[]]
Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). Cite error: The opening <ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).
. . . and there's more, which I assume has some purpose here, but it's beyond me, so won't copy it all, EXCEPT all the links further down . . . Now, somehow or another, I got all the way through college, AND managed to own a relatively successful business for 30-plus years, but should I have gotten a degree instead in IT, since everybody else in the world understands THESE, EXCEPT for me ? ? They are ALL links. Maybe I should click on each and every one, so I too, can become enlightened . . . Or, braindead.
This page is a member of 5 hidden categories (help) :
Category:Non-talk pages that are automatically signed Category:Pages automatically checked for incorrect links Category:Pages with editnotices Category:Project pages with short description Category:Wikipedia help pages with dated sections — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5b0:2652:6fd8:3c2d:4476:9f4d:786a (talk) 14:45, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Further to my thread above, see
<table>((#if:(({param1|))}|<tr>
<th>Parameter 1</th>
<td>(({param1))}</td>
Which of the params is the resultant, visible one? E.g. if parameter 1 = name, whch of those shold say name? Thanks in advance to anyone who knows what the bally hell i'm taking about! ——SN54129 15:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
<td>(({param1))}</td>
((#if:(({param1|))}|
, is only evaluated. As the (incomplete) snippet above is written, if |param1=
is present and has a value, then the return is <tr><th>Parameter 1</th><td>(({param1))}</td>
and whatever follows that until the next pipe or closing ))
.((#if:param1|''param1''|param1))
→ param1((#if:|''param1''|param1))
→ param1By the way, wot exactly does tr, th and td mean (if you don't mind me asking).
Completely unrelatedly, you may see that every thread since my loop question above is no longer directly editable. *groans from the back* What have I done now! ;) ——SN54129 16:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
((
but you did not not close them so MediaWiki thinks that everything after the opening ((
belongs in the template that never closed. Don't do that.<tr>...</tr>
– table row tag<th>...</th>
– table header tag<td>...</td>
– table data tag((infobox))
which has the purpose of creating infoboxen ...Is there a page for List of most popular articles on Wikipedia ... or ... List of most read articles on Wikipedia ... ? I was not able to find anything. If there is, there should be some "redirects" with those article names, no? Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 16:48, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, all. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 17:45, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
On the above page, many of the section headings do not have the blue "Edit" link (usually located to the right of the section header title) ... why is that? Some do (prior to January 12); some do not (after January 12). Very strange. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 16:50, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
All information about my name and last name is wrong My real name is Mehrdad Asemani Please edit my profile . Some unknown people write Farsi and giving wrong information about my name and last name . Mehrdad Asemani This is the link of my profile — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8802:3500:282:39D4:1926:4F1F:6BD0 (talk) 17:28, 12 January 2020 (UTC)