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November 23

Table headers in Gadgets

So, there is this option under "Testing and development" in Preferences > Gadgets:

Make sure that headers of tables remain in view as long as the table is in view (requires Firefox v59 or Safari)

This seems to be a great feature any reason why it doesn't work in other browsers such as Chrome and Edge though? I would love to try this out but I am currently using Microsoft Edge. Gotitbro (talk) 03:42, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

@Gotitbro: There's ongoing discussion about this at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Sticky_table_headers. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:30, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Can we use a video of an academic conference as a source?

Hello, I watch a lot of academic conferences and sometimes I find a speaker can outline a topic in an informal way which really helps to clarify an issue. So I was wondering if we can use a video as a source for an article. Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 05:02, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Seahawk01. The answer is Yes, if it is reliably published, for example if it is on the website of a major newspaper, or on the official YouTube channel of a reputable source. Not if it is posted by some random person, or by the speaker themselves. See IRS. (If it is posted by an organisation the speaker works for, it may be reliable but not independent: in that case, see SPS). There is a citation template {{cite video}}. --ColinFine (talk) 10:06, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks ColinFine, this is very helpful. Yes, I'll be using things like symposiums held at major law schools where the speakers are all well-cited authors in their field. Thanks also for all the links to docs and templates! Seahawk01 (talk) 03:38, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Seahawk01, the above answer is quite wrong. Major newspapers are generally not reliable sources, because their writers are typically experts in getting out information but not experts on the subjects being studied, and their publications are not generally reviewed by people who are experts. Please depend on major law schools and well-cited authors in their fields, not journalists. Nyttend (talk) 22:10, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nyttend, definitely! Actually, just now I was going through Stop-and-frisk in New York City replacing newspaper references with academic articles. So, I totally agree with this. As for AV references, it would be something like this (see below). I do want to ask can you provide a link to YouTube? I've heard of people being banned in the past for doing so. Maybe play it safe and just not include the link! Thanks again. Seahawk01 (talk) 02:56, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

References

You're quite welcome! Actually, people get banned for providing YouTube links only if the links are spam; we're fine with a YouTube link that's truly helpful for a page. And if you're citing an online video, you ought to include a link to it; anything born digital should have a link, since it doesn't have a physical original that can be consulted. Unfortunately, you might have some difficulty adding those links, since there's a bot that reverts the addition of inappropriate links (including YouTube) by comparatively new users. Why don't you run a test: find a place where one of these videos ought to be cited, add the citation, and see if you get reverted by a bot. [If it reverts you, you'll know it: it will leave a note at your talk page.] If not, good; if so, come here (or come to my talk page) and ask for assistance, and a get-around-the-bot plan shouldn't be hard to make. Nyttend (talk) 12:18, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nyttend, thanks again for all your help! I think having a good video of an academic conference as reference can be a tremendous asset in explaining a subject! OK, I am trying a two step process...first put in reference unlinked (at Terry stop), then link it to YouTube with the next edit and let's see if the bots revert it. If so, will post a message on your user page :-) Seahawk01 (talk) 02:47, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! What you've just done is perfectly fine for persuading humans (particularly your reference to WP:HD in the edit summary), but unfortunately it's the worst idea from a ward-off-the-bot perspective :-) It's actually rather common that spammers will add links to existing text ("this text is fine, so I'll just bury my link..."), so the bot likely will be watching out for this kind of behavior in particular. So if the bot reverts you, try adding a complete citation (including link) where there wasn't anything before. And please use a different video every time that you do a test of this sort, since some bots are programmed not to revert a reversion (hit "undo" on the bot's edit, and it won't remove it again), and for all I know they won't revert the same link twice in short succession, even on different pages. So if you use a different video every time, you'll get the best sense of what you can and can't do. Nyttend (talk) 02:56, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

PS, see the history of Matthew Lowton (one of the bot's last edits) to see how the bot typically works. Like elsewhere, the bot reverts within a minute or two of the link being added, so you're safe. Maybe you've been editing enough that the bot ignores you, or maybe adding the link to existing text is exempted. Why don't you next try adding a complete citation where none existed before? Nyttend (talk) 03:04, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Jahangir_Jiaul

Jahangir_Jiaul — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jahangirpkd (talk • contribs) 07:22, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jahangirpkd: did you have a question that we can help with? --Gronk Oz (talk) 07:43, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

request edit

I would like to amend the link References section in the following page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Lattea

The "Italian Ski Resorts Overview" is linking to our old URL

Please can you amend the link to the following

https://www.holidayhomesinitaly.co.uk/ski-regions/

Thank you Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sparky2705 (talk • contribs) 11:12, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Sparky2705 A duplicate request was declined on your user talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teb728 (talk • contribs) 12:58, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Pokemon Infobox

hey boys, its my first time making an infobox so please dont crucify me, but i kinda got stuck whilst trying to make a pokemon infobox by translating a very good one i found on the Catalan Wikipedia, if anyone can be of help so i can learn from my mistakes it would be amazing! my version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Pok%C3%A9mon_species Original version: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Infotaula_de_Pok%C3%A9mon Spaicol (talk) 15:29, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Matthew Hedges

Matthew Hedges is a British student who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates, covered by dozens of news articles. German Wikipedia has a page about him created on 21 November 2018. However, the page cannot be created on English Wikipedia because the page name was locked after repeated deletion in 2015. What is the appropriate way to get this page unlocked and created? Krubo (talk) 19:54, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Krubo I've asked the admin who protected Matthew Hedges, Bbb23, whether they'll unprotect it. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:11, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Krubo Article is now unlocked. I've created a short stub article, feel free to contribute. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:30, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

November 24

the hollies - influence of frank norton on graham nash's decision to go to usa

i received a message saying my recent contributions to the hollies page were removed because they didnt seem to be constructive

i dont understand this - i can understand if they were removed due to no citation but not this

please advise — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toejobbob (talk • contribs) 01:09, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@Toejobbob: There are multiple reasons why your change was reverted. Most importantly it was unsourced; but also, it was ungrammatical (placenames etc. have capital letters) and is basically trivia. No one knows who Frank Norton is/was and what he might have said to Nash is not encyclopedic. Furthermore, in 1968, after four or five years of a very successful career with the Hollies (possibly only exceeded at the time by the Beatles and the Stones) it does not seem likely that Nash would have been working in a clothes shop in Manchester. However, if you can supply a reliable source you can raise the possibility of re-adding the information via the article talk page, but be aware that unencyclopedic content will be removed. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 02:18, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Questions about adding new pages

Hello, I am currently working on a page that deals with a lot of Supreme Court decisions (Terry stop). I would like to create a few stubs for decisions that aren't in Wikipedia yet. For example: Adams v. Williams. I know if you go through the draft process, there is a review, etc. My question is can I just create stubs and fill them in later without having to do a draft first. Thanks Seahawk01 (talk) 04:27, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Seahawk01, it's recommended for obvious reasons that users create drafts, particularly if they are new or have limited editing experiences. However, as an experienced editor, I've created many stubs, for plants and parasites in particular, to avoid red links in my main articles. As long as your stub is referenced and there is evidence of notability, you can create your stubs directly. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:40, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Jimfbleak, thanks for the reply. Sounds great, I'll only use this power to create stubs for Supreme Court decisions! I'll follow a template for other decisions. Will make life easier for me :-) Seahawk01 (talk) 06:45, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Seahawk01, in Wikipedia, "template" has a specific technical meaning. Were you using that sense, or were you merely meaning that you'd write up a little standardized wording and use it as the base for each article? The first is unwise in basically every situation, but the second is great when you're producing stubs about topics that definitely deserve articles. SCOTUS decisions definitely deserve articles, so don't wonder on that count. Nyttend (talk) 14:18, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nyttend, I wanted to use the SCOTUS template as found on the right of this page: Terry v. Ohio. So, I was thinking I could follow the template and fill out all the fields and then do a quick summary of the decision, dissent, etc...basically write up a lead paragraph with one or two sections. Thanks for the help! Seahawk01 (talk) 02:44, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

So you mean the box with headings of "Terry v. Ohio, Argued December..., Decided June..., Holding, Court membership, Case opinions, Laws applied"? If you use one of those and write up a lead paragraph with a section or two, and that paragraph with sections is not inside the right-side box, you're good. I just feared that you envisioned using a single template, all by itself, and with no information otherwise. Nyttend (talk) 12:22, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Languages problem

Hello. I would like to ask for help about wikidata. I did some editing in Template:FK Crvena zvezda squad article and I wanted to move the links to other languages but they were deleted from both english and serbian wikipedia. All it has now is link between those two languages but there were at least 7 or 8 more. Can someone connect it as it was? Should I do some editing on serbian wiki? Regards, SimplyFreddie (talk) 18:19, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

{{FK Crvena zvezda squad}} is a template, not an article. It only exists in English and Serbian Wikipedias. I see no evidence that it has ever existed in other Wikipedias. Ruslik_Zero 18:33, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@Ruslik, I think you're not right, I found this, this and more templates from other wikis. So I should manually add them I suppose? — SimplyFreddie (talk) 23:45, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

The second of those links is a category, not a template. I've added the first link to the Wikidata item. You talked about connecting it "as it was"; if you can provide a link to a version which had the connections, then it can be investigated, but there is nothing obvious in the history of the English template or the Wikidata item. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:13, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Looking again at your second link, perhaps you intended to link to fr:Modèle:Palette Effectif actuel de l'étoile rouge de Belgrade, rather than to fr:Catégorie:Palette Effectif club serbe de football? I've added the template (Modèle) to the Wikidata item. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:20, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, but I found the wiki link that connected them all HERE. Try to see is there any history on this link because I probably removed them here and can be seen what languages were there. — SimplyFreddie (talk) 08:49, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

It isn't obvious why you deleted all the content from Q13410409 and then generated a new Wikidata item at Q59159516 without the links. I've merged the new Wikidata item (into which I'd added a few of the links) into the old item Q13410409 (but there is still a redirect from Q59159516). I was going to say that if you look at the history you can see what you removed, and you could now add them back again, but to simplify matters I have restored the version that had all the links, & just changed the srwiki item to call up your recent page. Hopefully that solves your problems. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:13, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@David Biddulph, I wanted to switch templates' names but then I saw i could revert the changes, but thought there will be some double connections with that link I made. Thank you very much for help. :) — SimplyFreddie (talk) 09:17, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

How to make a watchlist compact in mobile?

Resolved

I have the 'Expand watchlist to show all chages' option unchecked in my settings, and the watchlist works like that when seen from PC. But when i open it from my phone it seems to show all changes, not just a single, recent one per page. That's quite annoying, as I have several RefDesk and HelpDesk pages in my watchlist, as well as some high-traffic talk pages. What am I doing wrong? How do I make the watchlist to show just a single, most Recent changes per page? My device is a Samsung phone with Android 5.1.1 and I use a native browser. --CiaPan (talk) 18:50, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Try switching from mobile to desktop version. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:11, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: Why? I switch almost every day, sometimes several times a day, and I know it works on desktop PC and on laptop (both with MS Win 10, one with Chrome, the other one with IE). But that still doesn't help me understand how to set it properly on my mobile. --CiaPan (talk) 21:14, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@CiaPan: the simple answer is; that's not possible, at least for now. Phab T70367 was declined earlier in 2017. –Ammarpad (talk) 22:17, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Ammarpad. --CiaPan (talk) 13:32, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

November 25

How can I find someone to help style two tables on a page?

Hello, I want to style two tables on Terry stop. They are the ones under the sections: "Origins of Terry stop" and "Reasonable suspicion". I did them a few weeks ago, but am clueless on the ins and outs of Wikipedia's table styling. Basically, I want them a little smaller, have the text under the table instead of over it, make them look nicer, etc. Would placing a "help me" template in the talk pages be effective? Or, perhaps, someone can show me a good example I could copy? Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 03:02, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I moved the caption to be below the table (the first one) and made the table a bit smaller but you should define what you mean by "nicer". Ruslik_Zero 14:13, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ruslik, looks great. Before, the text was too large and the title over the table was overpowering the section. I think it is much nicer than before and couldn't be more happy :-) Seahawk01 (talk) 02:17, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Rodney Reed

I haven’t done any meaningful editing in a while but this article looked like it has some odd editing bias that would make many editors cringe and I couldn’t find the proper forum to note it. Presumably the talk page wouldn’t get many looks if the article itself has been edited the way it has (with words in all caps, etc) without further editing input. Makes us look unprofessional or something, I don’t know. And I don’t have the chops to figure out how to fix it these days, proper tags, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Reed

Mmcknight4 (talk) 05:17, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

"words in all caps" I didn't see anything of that, except in a citation where it was an actual part of the URL (and thus necessary), but maybe you're referring to text

that appears like this?

If so, that's the result of indenting text a little bit, which aside from limited example purposes (which wouldn't fit here) is definitely not appropriate. Thank you for pointing it out, and if I missed some all-caps text, you'd be right in saying that it needed to be reduced to normal capitals. I've deleted the article, however: the article demonstrated no evidence of significance for this individual (no significant coverage in secondary sources, just primary sources like news reports), and the whole article existed to promote a cause, namely Reed's innocence. Nyttend (talk) 12:30, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

The article has now been deleted. Maproom (talk) 13:23, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Missing editing toolbar

It contained, among other things, a button to create a reference for a book in which a tool would take a url and fill in many of the fields. Now it isn't there anymore. Is it still available? Clarityfiend (talk) 09:07, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I lost this bar a few weeks ago, I believe: it was the one just above the editing window, with a button that automatically inserted #REDIRECT [[]], which I used often, and a lot of things I never used, like a button to insert ~~~~. What browser and skin are you using? I'm using IE 11 and Monobook. Nyttend (talk) 12:33, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Have you read the recent discussions, such as at WP:Help desk/Archives/2018 November 6#Toolbars and WP:Help desk/Archives/2018 November 7#Missing edit toolbar? --David Biddulph (talk) 12:39, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Redirects can be inserted with the new tool bar. The same is true for references: go to Cite->templates drop-down list. Select the desired template, input a doi or a url and then click the search icon. Ruslik_Zero 13:50, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

To the contrary, there is no new toolbar: they trashed our existing one without giving us a replacement. It's not like at c:special:upload, where there's a toolbar below the text window for adding characters. Nyttend (talk) 21:53, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

The new toolbar has been default since 2010. Some users disabled it and used a toolbar from 2006 instead. It is the 2006 toolbar which has been removed. You can enable the 2010 toolbar with "Enable the editing toolbar" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Support ends for the 2006 wikitext editor has JavaScript for a toolbar similar to the 2006 toolbar. Place the below in your common JavaScript. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

mw.loader.load("/w/index.php?title=User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/legacyToolbar.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");
mw.loader.load("/w/index.php?title=User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/legacyRefToolbar.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");

Disambiguation for people with similar names

There are currently articles for about eight different people with the name Chris or Christopher Neal, including very similar spellings like Neil or Neill. It took a lot of searching to find the biography I was actually looking for due to the lack of a proper Disambiguation (DAB) page. I have created what I hope is a suitable DAB page at my Sandbox. I'd appreciate some guidance from admins as to exactly where and how this DAB page could be inserted. --Plinuckment (talk) 16:00, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I've started a DAB page over at Chris Neal (disambiguation) AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 16:21, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Adding new given names

My legal name is Wacinque Amistad Kaizen BeMende it is a Mende of Liberia-Sierra Leone West Africa new name. How do I add it and its meaning to the list of names? — Preceding unsigned comment added by KaizenRhino (talk • contribs) 16:31, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@KaizenRhino:Does this question relate to using or editing Wikipedia? If so, which article? -Arch dude (talk) 16:47, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Translation from French

Hello I would like just translate the french page "planétarium de nantes" in English... I already have a wikipedia account...in French and, it looks like you want to register again? Wikipedia can't recognize me, after logging in French, when I switch to English. I had already translated everything into English, the English page worked well but, 1 hour later, everything disappeared. And I received I welcome messages as if I were a new contributor... Not easy to understand. How to make English Wiki recognize me ? I will have to create as much different account as there are languages?

Best regard Daniel Audéon France https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Danielaudeon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielaudeon (talk • contribs) 16:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Danielaudeon and welcome to the English Wikipedia. Wikipedia recognises your French registration. There's no need to register again. Your text was removed by Flyer22 Reborn who left a welcome and an explanation on your English talk page. The text seems rather unidiomatic in English, and lacks references. Perhaps if you post it on the talk page of the article in English (Talk:Planetarium of Nantes), and add references (French ones are OK), then we could help you to refine the English. Dbfirs 19:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Danielaudeon: Hello, This appears to relate to Planetarium of Nantes and in particular to this edit by @Flyer22 Reborn: (pinging Flyer22 Reborn so they can join the discussion if they so wish). Your additions were reverted and an explanation left at your talk page User talk:Danielaudeon#Adding material. It looks as though your additions were removed as they did not adhere to the Manual of Style for the English Wikipedia and did not contain inline citations; although some external links were included in the text... which is not conventional practice. As a new user on the English Wikipedia it would also be conventional for you to receive a welcome message. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 19:11, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

obtaining a liscense for what I think is a public domain image

I'm currently doing a GA nomination of John B. Magruder. One of the issues that has brought up is that "File:John B Magruder.jpg" needs a US license. Does anyone know what obtaining one would entail?💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 20:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Since it comes from a collection of images "made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath", it's obviously a pre-1898 picture. {{PD-US-unpublished}} covers never-published images produced before 1898 by unknown authors. If it were published before 1923, it's {{PD-1923}}. And in the odd event that it was published after 1923 and yet while still under copyright, you can use {{PD-reason|the Library of Congress says that there are "no known restrictions on publication."}} Its image librarians are experts on copyright of historic images; on the Internet, nobody knows if you're a dog, so random Wikipedia editors' assessments aren't necessarily trustworthy, but historic-image-copyright experts' assessments need to be trusted. Nyttend (talk) 22:00, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I think PD 1923 works in this case. Again thanks a ton.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 22:44, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Close to Us

Hi, the AFD for this article seems to be malformed as it is in limbo, please check it, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Atlantic306: Yes, looking at RTY9099's edits on 8 November, it seems that two articles were half-nominated for AFD by RTY9099 (talk · contribs). I've added them to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 November 25 so that the discussions get some input. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

thanks, good spot on the second one Atlantic306 (talk) 22:20, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Changing a Link

A hometown page features me as one of the notables in our town. However, it's linked to a different person with the same name. What can be done to correct it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MAWarrior69 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@MAWarrior69: Wikipedia users are not telepaths, you'll need to actually tell us the relevant article and name. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:09, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

It’s on Randolph, MA page. Mark Snyder. Should be linked to SnydersStoughton.com/about mark.htm, not the football coach — Preceding unsigned comment added by MAWarrior69 (talk • contribs)

@MAWarrior69: In the future, add a new reply instead of editing your old one so that replies to it do not make sense. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:47, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Seeing as we do not have an article on that Mark Snyder, the appropriate thing to do would be to remove the link. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:49, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

spelling

On the page for Dr. Doolittle, the name is spelled incorrectly. I've been watching this page evolve to the wrong spelling on every display. The original movie is spelled Doolittle not dolittle. They have actually photoshopped the pictures on the VHS cases to show the wrong spelling. Today, I was upset to see that even Turner Classic Movies had misspelled the name as well. Proof is on any VHS tape case that hasn't been altered on the internet. Please do what you can to correct this before the entire world believes this word is pronounced Dr. DOHLITTLE. It is Dr. DOOLITTLE.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.94.84.220 (talk • contribs)

I'm guessing you're talking about the 1967 film?

You're gonna need to present proof in the form of professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources instead of telling us it's true and expecting us to go hunting for an dead video format. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:12, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps you are remembering Jimmy Doolittle who did use two O's in his name. Rmhermen (talk) 23:31, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

This trailer for the 1967 film shows "Doctor Dolittle" in a clip from the film. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:30, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

November 26

PD-logo listed as fair use

Hi, I'm wondering whether I'm allowed to, in cases where this is accurate, change a clearly PD-logo image from using a fair use tag to using the correct tag. File:Ames Stores Logo Red.svg is what comes to mind, especially since File:Ames Department Stores logo.svg is largely the same thing, yet perfectly fine for Commons. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 00:26, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes, you are. But don't worry about this one, since I've just done it for you. Nyttend (talk) 03:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra

Please remove the red "template" message at the bottom of this article - as well as the link of David Taylor at the end of the article - (no such link exits). I cannot do this on my device. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 03:32, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

That's weird; those templates were linked in the very first revision of the page in 2009, yet they've never existed. I've removed them. I retained the link to Taylor per the first bullet of WP:REDDEAL. Nyttend (talk) 03:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Translating from Wikipedia of a different language

Hi, I would like to create some articles on the English Wikipedia by translating some articles from the German/Chinese Wikipedia to English. Can I do that if I provide the same references to the English article as in the other Wikipedia (which could be in German/Chinese)? JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 03:38, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

JACKINTHEBOX Although it's preferred that refs are in English if possible, you can use RS refs in any language. Note that copyright rules vary between Wikipedias, which sometimes trips up translators Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:28, 26 November 2018 (UTC)