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December 26

Softblock for joint user names

As a non-admin, I probably cannot softblock a joint account, but would like to make a request for one. Where do I go to report it?--Quisqualis (talk) 00:26, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP:UAA is the correct to report usernames that don't comply, for example those that imply shared use. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:29, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Hi,

I'd like to report vandalism on the William Abadie page (last two edits). The vandal has an account and only acts on this particular article. Thanks,

Mayalistra (talk) 02:05, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Reverted by another editor. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:20, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Problem

Dear hello, now I got involved looking for something and I saw that the page on HC Kumanovo appears bad, there is no picture, the text is written strangely, so can it be returned to the previous one as it was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peronovak (talk • contribs) 02:06, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peronovak, I've reverted to the last appropriate-looking revision. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 🎄Happy Holidays!⛄ 04:50, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

type size

How do I make the text size larger? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JesseLTeshara (talk • contribs) 04:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@JesseLTeshara: This is done by your browser, not by the Wikipedia servers. On most browsers, "CTRL"+"+" increases the size, "CTRL"+"-" decreases it, and "CTRL"+"0" resets it back to the default. -Arch dude (talk) 04:35, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Most browsers also allow the same function by using the mouse wheel (if any) to enlarge (scroll up) or reduce (scroll down) elements. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 🎄Happy Holidays!⛄ 04:49, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Press Ctrl while using the mouse wheel. PrimeHunter (talk) 07:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, forgot to add that important tidbit. Thanks PrimeHunter. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 🎄Happy Holidays!⛄ 16:59, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Error in editing.

I recently created a user space draft and added information to it. But when I saved the edits some of the information wasn't shown. I tried to fix it by re-typing it and saving it, reloading the page and doing it again but it didn't work. How do I fix this? User space draft - User:SenatorLEVI/Aipan Art. SenatorLEVI (talk) 09:23, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SenatorLEVI: A > was missing. Fixed by [1]. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. SenatorLEVI (talk) 10:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another Editing Error.

Sorry for another request for help. I have added a section in my user space draft called Government Recognition. However it doesn't come up when I look at the draft. Also, please can someone help me remove the Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, advertisement-like language in my Coverage and Government Recognition sections of my user space draft. Thank you for considering my request. User space draft = User:SenatorLEVI/Aipan Art. SenatorLEVI (talk) 11:18, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SenatorLEVI: Fixed an error in a closing </ref> tag: special:diff/996403290. --CiaPan (talk) 11:26, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. SenatorLEVI (talk) 11:33, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Diyarbakır (English)

content from Diyarbakır article

Diyarbakır (Kurdish: Amed‎,[2] Zaza: Diyarbekir,[3] Armenian: Տիգրանակերտ, lit. 'Tigranakert';[4] Syriac: ܐܡܝܕ‎, romanized: Āmīd[5]) is one of the largest cities in Turkey. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is the administrative capital of the Diyarbakır Province of south-eastern Turkey. It is the third-largest city in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region, after Şanlıurfa and Gaziantep. The site was formerly the ancient city of Amida, and was of great importance in the Roman–Persian Wars, and during Late Antiquity was re-fortified with city walls by the Roman emperor; these walls remain standing.

According to the Synecdemus of Hierocles, as Amida, Diyarbakır was the major city of the Roman province of Mesopotamia.[6] It was the episcopal see of the Christian diocese of Mesopotamia.[6] Ancient texts record that ancient Amida had an amphitheatre, thermae (public baths), warehouses, a tetrapylon monument, and Roman aqueducts supplying and distributing water.[7] The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus was serving in the late Roman army during the Siege of Amida by the Sasanian Empire under Shapur II (r. 309–379), and described the unsuccessful siege in detail.[7] Amida was then enlarged by refugees from ancient Nisibis (Nusaybin), which the emperor Jovian (r. 363–364) was forced to evacuate and cede to Shapur's Persians after the defeat of his predecessor Julian's Persian War, becoming the main Roman stronghold in the region.[7] The chronicle attributed to Joshua the Stylite describes the capture of Amida by the Persians under Kavad I (r. 488–531) in the second Siege of Amida in 502–503, part of the Anastasian War.[7]

Either the emperor Anastasius Dicorus (r. 491–518) or the emperor Justinian the Great (r. 527–565) rebuilt the walls of Amida, a feat of defensive architecture praised by the Greek historian Procopius.[7] As recorded by the works of John of Ephesus, Zacharias Rhetor, and Procopius, the Romans and Persians continued to contest the area, and in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 Amida was captured and held by the Persians for twenty-six years, being recovered in 628 for the Romans by the emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641), who also founded a church in the city on his return to Constantinople (Istanbul) from Persia the following year.[6][7] In 639, as part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant during the early Arab–Byzantine wars, Amida fell to the armies of the Rashidun Caliphate led by Iyad ibn Ghanm, and the Great Mosque of Amida was constructed afterwards in the city's centre, possibly on the site of the Heraclian Church of Saint Thomas.[6][7] There were as many as five Christian monasteries in the city, including the Zuqnin Monastery and several ancient churches mentioned by John of Ephesus.[7] One of these, the Church of the Virgin Mary, remains the city's cathedral and the see of the bishop of Diyarbakır in the Syriac Orthodox Church.[7] Another ancient church, the Church of Mar Cosmas, was seen by the British explorer Gertrude Bell in 1911 but was destroyed in 1930, while the former Church of Saint George, in the walled citadel, may originally have been built for Muslim use or for the Church of the East.[7]

In Arabic the region around the city was known as Diyar Bakr. The city was part of the Umayyad Caliphate and then the Abbasid Caliphate, but then came under more local rule until its recovery in 899 by forces loyal to the caliph al-Mu'tadid (r. 892–902) before falling under the sway of first the Hamdanid dynasty and then the Buyid dynasty, followed by a period of control by the Marwanids. The city was taken by the Seljuks in 1085 and by the Ayyubids in 1183. Ayyubid control lasted until the Mongol invasions of Anatolia, and the Mongol capture of the city in 1260. Between the Mongol occupation and conquest by the Safavid dynasty of Iran, the Kara Koyunlu and Aq Qoyunlu – two Turkoman confederations – were in control of the city in succession. Diyarbakır was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1514 by Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha, in the reign of the sultan Selim I (r. 1512–1520). Mohammad Khan Ustajlu, the Safavid governor of Diyarbakir, was evicted from the city and killed in the following Battle of Chaldiran in 1514.[8] Thereafter the city became the focus of the Diyarbekir Eyalet and later the Diyarbekir Vilayet. After the foundation of the Turkish Republic, Diyarbakır became the seat of the First Inspectorate-General and then the current Diyarbakır Province.

Diyarbakır has been a focal point of the conflict between the Turkish state and various Kurdish insurgent groups.[9] Many Kurds know that Erbil is the capital of Kurdistan Regional Government.[10][11] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.227.62.66 (talk) 11:48, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have a question? --Paul ❬talk❭ 12:31, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interlanguage semantic Wikipedia

Resolved

Please can someone point me at the current and fairly new WMF project to store information in a language-independent form and generate WP pages in any language dynamically from it? I'm not looking for Wikidata, Semantic Wikipedia, the Languages sidebar or {{ill}}. Thanks, Certes (talk) 12:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Abstract Wikipedia will be called Wikifunctions. --Paul ❬talk❭ 12:30, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE HELP!

FIRST SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH. HELLO im sociaken im in lithuania wikipedia editor, NOMAD BANNED me because for nothing, he banned me anywhere and says "one person clone" NOMAD dont have any contacts and please help me in LITHUANIA wikipedia, please start with NOMAD talk about this ban. please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NomadIsBAD (talk • contribs) 14:20, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

HELLO, PLEASE, NOMAD IS LITHUANIAN WIKIPEDIA ADMIN, PLEASE CAN YOU TALK FOR IS BECAUSE HE BAN ME FOR NOTHING PLEAE TALK IM NOW CRYING. ONE GUY LIE ABOUT ME AND I GOT BAN PLEASE HELP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sociaken (talk • contribs) 14:36, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, Sociaken, but nobody here can help you. Each edition of Wikipedia is a separate project, and none has authority over any other. It's like appealling to a different country for an issue with your own authorities. --ColinFine (talk) 15:00, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When will "Who Wrote that" addon scan templates also?

Right now "Who Wrote that" addon can't scan templates. When will "Who Wrote that" addon scan templates also? Rizosome (talk) 16:49, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Rizosome: You refer to my reply at #"Who wrote that" addon not working on cast section of films. mw:Talk:Who Wrote That? has a post in "Quotations" from 4 February 2020. It says: "Unfortunately, the tool doesn't work on templates. We receive data and analysis from the WhoColor API, which does not cover templates. In the future, we hope that the API is extended to include templates, but this would need to be determined by WhoColor maintainers." I don't know whether there are current plans. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:05, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So how to approach WhoColor team directly to address my problem? Rizosome (talk) 17:11, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Rizosome: Maybe you can use the "Contact" link at top of https://www.wikiwho.net. It gives an email adress. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:54, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Best practice for user pages across multiple Wikimedia projects?

I've gone to town on my Wikipedia user page, but haven't done much with my user page on Wikimedia Commons. Is there any best practice or policy documents about how one should manage having multiple user pages across multiple Wikimedia projects?

eg. Is it possible to mirror them all from my Wikipedia page? Is there real value to maintaining separate user categorisations etc. on each project? Should I just set them all up as stubs and link back to a "main" one?

Thanks!

Jonathan Deamer (talk) 17:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonathan Deamer: You can make a global user page at meta:Special:MyPage. It will automatically be shown at all Wikimedia wikis where you have an account but no local user page. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:59, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonathan Deamer: I recommend against using the global user page as your main user page, because different Wikmedia projects have different rules and different languages. Instead, use your global user page to post a stub "redirect" to your "main" user page, to cover all projects where you do not have a local user page. Override it with a local user page where that is needed to comply with different rules, or describe your work on that particular project, or to use a different language, but link all of those to your "main" user page.

Infobox US university rankings; adding QS's USA 2020 rankings Edit: need help with infobox

SECTION 1 QS World University Ranking has released a USA 2020 version (see www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/usa-rankings/2020) which I have attempted to incorporate in the US University Ranking infobox with no luck. Given the respect in which QS rankings are held, it seems to me their USA 2020 rankings should be included among those in the infobox, especially since their world rankings are included. Thank you for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrrsimone (talk • contribs) 18:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Wrrsimone: I recommend dropping a note in the template's Talk page where editors who monitor and edit the template will see it. If no one responds there, you can also drop a note at WT:UNI. ElKevbo (talk) 05:59, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This may also help, @Wrrsimone::Template:Infobox US university ranking--Quisqualis (talk) 06:02, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Warren Thomas Farrell page.

I'm citing this from Warren Farrell's page.

"Farrell felt gender studies in universities rarely incorporated the masculine gender except to demonize it. This book was Farrell's attempt to test whether a positive perspective about men would be allowed to be incorporated into universities' gender studies curriculum even if there were a feminist rebuttal.[8]

In Canada, I don't think the first Women's Studies Department (not simply a few courses) was initiated until the 1980's. And the Women's Studies Department wasn't dissolved into gender studies until around 2010 (suprisingly difficult to find exact information).

My querrie is about the wording "gender studies curriculum," which is, relatively speaking, new in Canada. Shouldn't it be women's studies curriculum? I'm not sure if "gender studies" didn't emerge later, in part due to Farrell's influence.

Thanks. ejones — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:655F:BC87:C49F:7740:410:DC35 (talk) 20:51, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey IP editor, if you have any suggestions for editing a page, or any comments or questions about the page, you should raise this at the article's talk page, you're more likely to get a useful answer there. Seagull123 Φ 15:18, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What is the difference between a "disruptive username" and an "offensive username"?

UFAA allows you to report five types of usernames: misleading usernames, promotional usernames, usernames that imply shared use, disruptive usernames and offensive usernames. I'd like to ask what sets apart "disruptive" usernames from "offensive" ones. JJP...MASTER!_{[talk to] JJP... master?} 23:30, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an expert on this, but I guess that "offensive" usernames are a special case of "disruptive" usernames, i.e. names that contain profanity or insult other users. JIP | Talk 23:43, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@JJPMaster: See WP:DISRUPTNAME. RudolfRed (talk) 00:30, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's not really an answer, is it? The linked section contains the words "disruptive or offensive" twice, when User:JJPMaster was asking about the difference between "disruptive" and "offensive". JIP | Talk 01:44, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Usernames that are likely to offend other contributors, making harmonious editing difficult or impossible; e.g. by containing profanities or referencing controversies." is an offensive username. The rest are disruptive. RudolfRed (talk) 01:50, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Where are you seeing this distinction? UAA allows you to report any type of blatantly inappropriate username according to the username policy, and in the policy these two descriptions are (rightly) grouped together. Sometimes on Wikipedia there are no clear lines between categories of inappropriateness. Twinkle on the other hand, which has never been great at username reporting IMO, provides five categories and two descriptions: Disruptive usernames include outright trolling or personal attacks, or otherwise show a clear intent to disrupt Wikipedia., and Offensive usernames make harmonious editing difficult or impossible. I don't particularly agree with that categorisation - I have blocked many usernames containing personal attacks for being offensive. So you can go by those descriptions if you like but really, I wouldn't worry about these categories, just get the report right. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 12:08, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]