June 3

Forgive me if this has already been asked, I looked but couldn't find anything. I want to cite a specific article (Acanthoma fissuratum of the outer auditory canal from a hearing aid, page 304) within this collection of abstracts. How should I go about this? If I just use a citation generator the title will be "Abstracts of papers presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Dermatopathology" which isn't very helpful. Should I just manually create the citation and use the page number, authors, and title from the specefic article? If so should I include the doi from the collection since that specefic article doesn't have its own doi. Any advice is appreciated, I just want to make sure I am properly citing this source. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 01:44, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

{{cite conference |title=Acanthoma fissuratum of the outer auditory canal from a hearing aid |book-title=Abstracts of papers presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Dermatopathology |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0560.1989.tb00057.x |page=304}}

"Acanthoma fissuratum of the outer auditory canal from a hearing aid". Abstracts of papers presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Dermatopathology. p. 304. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0560.1989.tb00057.x.

Include author(s) of the paper, editor(s) of the Abstracts, publisher and publisher location, date of publication (year), ISBN, and any other pertinent bibliographic details.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 02:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

During this past month, I've begun to take notice of a new tag filter that detects old-school redirect pages consisting only of "#REDIRECT" and the linked page target; WP:Categorizing redirects now recommends adding an {{R from X}} tag to avoid the "Uncategorized redirect" message in summaries. Planning to take advantage of this new rule any moment from now; before then, can any editors/developers direct me towards a tool (à la WP:RATER for content assessment) that can help me on the way? --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 02:43, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Slgrandson, there are some suggestions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect#Scripts, but I haven't tried them myself. TSventon (talk) 04:28, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Resolved

Ultimately, I voted for WP:Archer over Eejit43's redirect helper as it satisfied my desire to create tagged redirects (on the first save). Thanks for the tip! --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 20:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, mine allows that as well. You of course are welcome to use any script you wish to :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

I do not know how to add sources. Whereabouts do I add these sources? Thank you. R.FrancesFyfe (talk) 06:15, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Hello R.FrancesFyfe, check out:

• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Wikipedia:Citing sources

Typically, sources are added as footnotes at the end of the material they cover, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 06:27, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

There's also a tutorial at WP:INTREFVE which you may find helpful. I find the Visual Editor easier than the Source Editor, as it looks like Microsoft Word so you should already be familiar with it @R.FrancesFyfe. Qcne (talk) 07:05, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

I would like to add, on the tortellini page, that the world celebrates National Tortellini Day every year on 13 February, but my work doesn't focus on adding sources and I don't want to make mistakes; the source is this (which I don't know if it's reliable): https://nationaltoday.com/national-tortellini-day/ (information present in the "Giornata Nazionale dei Tortellini" section of the it.wiki page, Tortellini). JacktheBrown (talk) 06:34, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

At the top of the nationaltoday page you linked, it says "Got an idea for a holiday? Send it to us". If anyone can submit a holiday, then that site is unlikely to be reliable. Information present on another Wikipedia is also not a reliable source. You will need to come up with reliable sources. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

@Shantavira: in what sense "Information present on another Wikipedia is also not a reliable source"? It.wiki isn't reliable? JacktheBrown (talk) 17:20, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

@JackkBrown No, it.wiki, like all wikipedias, is not a reliable source. See WP:CIRCULAR which says "Do not use articles from Wikipedia (whether English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources, since Wikipedia is a user-generated source." CodeTalker (talk) 20:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

@Shantavira: this source is reliable? https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-tortellini-day-february-13. JacktheBrown (talk) 17:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Wikis are not reliable sources for Wikipedia articles, since they are user-edited. It's the same reason we don't use blogs, Goodreads, or the IMDb for substantial content. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Again, the nationaldaycalendar is just another website, and it invites anyone to "Register A National Day". Shantavira|^{feed me} 19:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

The world celebrates national noodles? —Tamfang (talk) 19:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC)reply

@Tamfang: ? JacktheBrown (talk) 23:00, 5 June 2024 (UTC)reply

7 years ago I noticed a glitch on Leviathan (2000 AD) in the multigenre section where the genres were always prefixed by a comma. Topic here - David Biddulph suggested that the first genre needed to be "first" not "y" and that fixed it - but none the wiser as to why 2000 AD (comics) didn't need the qualifier and was happy with a "y".

Now I've got the same thing on The 'Nam - but this is even weirder in that the existing revision has a "y" for the first genre, and the preceding comma, but if I change that to "first" then I still get the comma and also the first genre is bunched up without spaces to the second genre.

Should this be declared a bug in that the same criteria yields three different results:

1. 2000AD - fine with "y"
2. Leviathan - needs "first"
3. The 'Nam - doesn't work with either "first" or "y"

They all use the Infobox comic book title template, so surely behaviour should be the same? Chaheel Riens (talk) 08:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Additional - I've looked up Template:Infobox_comic_book_title#Genre_list, however all that does is state that "first" should be used - but in practice that's not the case as outlined above. Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:10, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Additional additional - if I mark "War" as first it fails. If I mark "historical" as first, then it displays as it should. Why is this? Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:14, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Looking at the source of Template:Comics infobox sec/genre, it looks to me as if it's all coded for individual cases rather than any sort of general logic, so I'm not surprised that there are some individual oddities. I suggest asking at the talk page for either that or the main template you're calling. ColinFine (talk) 11:05, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

@Chaheel Riens: Looking at the template code, all genres are listed in alphabetical order. first is not an option for which genre you want displayed first. It's a required value for the first alphabetical genre of those genres you want listed. That's why |War=first |Historical=y fails. You cannot display War before Historical. The template could have been coded to avoid the need for the caller to specify first but it would require significantly more code with our rather limited template language. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

2000 AD (comics) doesn't need first because one of the genres is Action Adventure and that's always first alphabetically so the template automatically treats it as first. If the template was modified to accept an earlier alphabetical genre then Action=first Adventure=first would be required when the earlier genre isn't used. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

The parameter is called Adventure but it displays as Action/adventure. According to the template, you cannot have adventure without action. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Aardvark fiction never really took off... Anyway, I have clarified the use of first in the documentation.1 PrimeHunter (talk) 15:55, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

(header added) Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

hi i have been with skyway group for 8years i am having problems with my account and my wife having same issue please can someone help us 92.27.141.89 (talk) 11:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

IP editor: This helpdesk is exclusively for assistance with using and editing Wikipedia. We cannot help with any other matter. There is an article SkyWay Group you may wish to read. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

hello, i am trying to update the article Vicky Theodoropoulou Greek Writer. don't know how to keep one of the two same profile pictures i have uploaded by mistake. also i don't know if i have the updated is correctly done. i would appreciate your help. thank you Theodoropoulou (talk) 18:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

For the record, i have tried, and failed, to find appropriate sourcing for this article and have now taken it to WP:AFD. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 20:23, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply

We have been trying to reach Wkipedia to help us login for months. We are a non profit and we do not know who was our admin for the site OpenTravel (talk) 19:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)reply Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Wikipedia:Help_desk
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