User talk:Ewirkala

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!  Esowteric + Talk  17:43, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Problems with the visual editor
Hi Elwin, I see that you're still using the visual editor, not the source text editor. If you can see a "publish" button (I don't know if you can), that's just another name for "save changes".

If you want to escape from the visual editor and edit the source text: At the top of the page, you should see "Preferences". Click on that, then the "Editing" tabbed page, and you may see an entry "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta" which you can tick. Also make sure that "Enable the editing toolbar" is ticked. That may get you out of the visual editing mode. Then save your preferences.

Then, to edit your sandbox, click on the "Edit" link at the top of the page, just to the right of "Read". You should then be editing the source text, and you should see "Publish changes" and "Show preview" at the bottom of the page. Regards,  Esowteric + Talk  09:15, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

If you have any technical questions, you can also ask at the Wikipedia Teahouse.  Esowteric + Talk  09:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

I've copied and pasted the SOURCE text from the English article and to your sandbox, Elwin. I've hidden (remmed out) the book cover image and categories, as you can't use the images in user space and you don't want the sandbox article to be listed in the category pages.  Esowteric + Talk  09:36, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

May 2019
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Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 19:59, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Reflections (Sufi literature)
This is English Wikipedia - if you wish to do "Translation of English language page into Spanish" then create articles on Spanish Wikipedia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada. KylieTastic (talk) 20:09, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Help request
Help me! Please...I'm trying to translate the page "Reflections (Sufi literature), but the book cover image disappeared. Guess I need to become a "confirmed user". How? I have been asked by The Idries Shah Foundation to translate. I'm an unpaid volunteer. I hope to get some cred with Wikipedia so I can do that. Thank you.

Please help me with...

Ewirkala (talk) 20:10, 17 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Heading converted to text, new heading added ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:25, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, welcome to the English Wikipedia. Your text is not lost; you can find it at Special:PermanentLink/897553921.
 * To translate a page to Spanish, please open https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Traducci%C3%B3n_de_contenidos&campaign=contributionsmenu&to=es
 * On that page, you can click "New translation" and enter "Reflections (Sufi literature)" in the search box.
 * For more information, please see es:Ayuda:Cómo traducir un artículo. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:37, 17 May 2019 (UTC)


 * What happened is that you copied your Spanish version of Reflections over the English version. You need to do that at the Spanish Wikipedia site and give the page a Spanish title, not this English site. Regards,  Esowteric + Talk  20:31, 17 May 2019 (UTC)