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August 20

Problems with viewing maps on Wikipedia

Hello, The Italian wikipedia article on the city of Zara in Croatia has a map showing the location of the city: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara#/media/File:Croatia_location_map.svg But the map as I'm able to view it merely shows Croatia, without indicating the location of Zara. This happens to me frequently when trying to view a map which is included in a Wikipedia article about a particular location. I imagine that I need to configure things differently, but have no idea how, and I'll appreciate whatever advice you can offer. Thanks and best regards, JR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jro571 (talk • contribs) 13:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jro571: I see the city as a red dot in the infobox at it:Zara. Do you see it there? It isn't supposed to show when you only view the map. The red dot is a separate image it:File:Red pog.svg displayed on top of the map in the infobox. The same map it:File:Croatia location map.svg is used by many articles about different places in Croatia. If you want to see the red dot in a larger map than normal in the infobox then your only option is to use your browsers zoom function on the infobox. Most browsers use Ctrl++ for larger, Ctrl+- for smaller, Ctrl+0 for normal. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:16, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Problem getting image caption to appear

I uploaded a new photo for the CoreLogic article and wanted to include a descriptive caption, and used the code [[File:CoreLogic_HQ.png|200px|right|CoreLogic's Irvine CA headquarters]] but the caption only appears with a mouseover. What am I doing wrong?Timtempleton (talk) 18:18, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You removed |thumb, and that stops the caption from being displayed. See Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:25, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Doh! - thanks.Timtempleton (talk) 20:17, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Childhood blindness

hi, I'm trying to reference the infobox with Patient UK Eye Problems in Babies however it wont save...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:18, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't look like an edit filter or the spam blacklist to me. What does happen when you try to save? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Are you logged in when you try? What is your attempted code? Place it in <nowiki>...</nowiki> if you cannot save it here. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:40, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ok, Childhood_blindness you see the infobox, I inserted UK Patient and the link[1], however it does not show on the article?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:49, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[2]done, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:01, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

UK Patient is not a valid parameter, see Template:Infobox medical condition. You should have seen a warning message to this effect (in red) on previewing the edit. Eagleash (talk) 00:14, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

your right, however I was able to edit it at wikidata to set Patient UK, it is linked (however to wrong eye problem[3])...its suppose to be [4]--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed at Wikidata in [5]. You cannot control the text displayed on the link in the article, except by using the name parameter but that also controls the infobox heading. (Technically the Wikidata entry could be abused to give the wanted effect but don't try that). Some templates give a warning about unknown parameters when previewing but {{Infobox medical condition}} is not one of them. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:43, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

thank you PrimeHunter--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:45, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]