Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 March 4

= March 4 =

Appointment of new Foreign Secretary for Pakistan
Respected Wiki team,

I would like to inform you that the "Foreign Secretary of Pakistan" hasbeen replaced with "Jalil Jilani" .On the following address :"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Secretary_%28Pakistan%29" ; under the heading of "List of Foreign Secretaries" ; there lies a certain tabular format of those individuals who held this office of foreign secretary.The name of "Salman Bashir" is still listed as current office holder.Pakistan has replaced him with "Jalil Jilani".Kindly update that tabular formate of yours.Shahroze93 (talk) 01:38, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Regards.
 * Yes check.svg [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foreign_Secretary_(Pakistan)&diff=480076405 Done]. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Goodvac (talk) 01:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

loisiana red
On 3PBS in Melbourne Australia the male announcer just five minutes ago announced Louisiana Red the artist the radio station had been playing announced he had been lynched by the Klu. Klux. Klan and God rest his soul I hope this had not been a defamatory statement as I think the kkk. Love God. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.148.117.107 (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * According to the Louisiana Red article, he died 25 February of a stroke he suffered 21 February. —teb728 t c 02:10, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation marked as stub?
The disambiguation page for Two-way is marked as a stub. I'm still new to Wikipedia, but that looks odd to me. Is that normal, or should the stub tag be removed since it is not an actual article. I don't mind being bold, I'm just not sure on the rules for stub marking. RudolfRed (talk) 03:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You're right; the stub template doesn't belong there. Feel free to remove it. Goodvac (talk) 03:17, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks!  RudolfRed (talk) 03:22, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

why cant I edit anything
i can not edit anything it just says view source Kickthepuppies (talk) 03:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Which articles are you trying to edit? Some are protected or semi-protected, which limits who can edit them.  RudolfRed (talk) 03:24, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * i dont know i just look for an article and it just says view source. so much for an encyclopedia anyone can edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kickthepuppies (talk • contribs) 03:27, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You did edit Kick. It is hard to help you when you don't give us much to work on.  If you can give us an article name that you can't edit we can try to figure out why  GB fan 03:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * i guess an example would be the animal cruelty article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kickthepuppies (talk • contribs) 03:40, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That article was protected because people persistently vandalize it. What do you want to add to that article?  Maybe I can help you edit the article. GB fan 03:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to add this link. http://m.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/butte-man-arrested-for-kicking-dog-during-uptown-walk/article_371a8b9a-806a-5eae-87ab-08e0773e726a.html Kickthepuppies (talk) 03:58, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * So what do you want to do with that link? GB fan 04:13, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You have succeded in vandalizing four pages. All of your edits including those here have been disruptive. Hopefully someone will block you from editing soon. —teb728 t c 05:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Trouble placing image
I'm having trouble placing an image in Horsted Keynes railway station. I'm trying to add a picture that illustrates the 3rd paragraph (that starts "Since being taken over by the Bluebell the station has become...") but the picture keeps ending up way at the bottom of the page.

The code I used was Cloveapple (talk) 05:52, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It appears the thing forcing it down to that level is the infobox. The top of the image is even with the bottom of the infobox. The infobox must be clearing floating content on both right and left. I don't know how to work around that. —teb728 t c 06:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The other image above it was a right thumb, which forced it and every image after to below the infobox; changed to left & repositioned. You can adjust if desired. Dru of Id (talk) 06:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you both. That one really had me mystified. Cloveapple (talk) 14:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Progeria
how do I make a comment? Well known monozygotic twins in Nigeria who have the condition and were a constant feature in the Yoruba genre of the movie industry'Nollywood'. Lack of documentation is why the world only has the south African case as the only black african case. Check out Taiwo and kehinde Osuolale( the twins in question). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.203.64.129 (talk) 08:21, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't seem to understand your question. See WP:TP to learn how to leave comments.-- Hallows AG ( talk ) 09:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * If I understand you, you are objecting to something in the Progeria article. It says "In September 2011, the first reported case of a black African child with progeria was reported, 12-year-old South African Ontlametse Phalatse." However you are saying that this is not true. And two black Africans who are movie actors in Nollywood movies had the condition before this?


 * If you want to change the article you'll need to find a newspaper article, a magazine article, a book, or maybe a movie review website that talks about the twins. You'd need to find this kind of evidence before you could fix the article. Cloveapple (talk) 14:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

https://www.google.com/search?q=ibeji+ajileye&hl=en-US&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOm_vhnuzRAhWJHxoKHSl2BFcQ_AUIBigB#mhpiv=0 Please find attached link showing popular Nigerian Nollywood Monozygotic Twins with Progeria Taiwo and Kehinde Osuolale aka Ibeji Oran. Both were married and had children and died in their early 40's.

Where to request block of some accounts I control?
I recently decided to retire from Wikipedia and will probably stay away for a long time. I own three accounts here and would like to have two of them blocked indefinitely. Where can I request such a block? T Y 08:32, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you decide to come back one day. I would think that the best place to request this is at WP:AN-- Hallows AG ( talk ) 09:01, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Good luck.


 * Four-leaf clover.jpg


 * T Y 09:09, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Named reference definition placement
Is there any problem with defining a named reference in the reference-tag section rather than in the first use of the named reference?, both cases seems to work. So no problem?

..  or   should do the trick. If you just want to insert the character itself rather than its HTML entity, look in the special characters section of the toolbar or look in the box below "Save page". PleaseStand (talk) 17:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * List of XML and HTML character entity references says rarr (right arrow).  produces &rarr;. You can also enter characters at a tool like http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ (no relation to Wikimedia) and get their numbers. The hexadecimal   gives &#x2192;. The decimal   gives &#8594;. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:58, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot guys. (PS I know etiquette is to say thanks at the Reference Desk; it's not frowned upon here is it?) Vranak (talk)


 * Certainly not! Apart from being nice, it lets us know that the replies were read and understood, and no further help is needed. We are often left wondering about that. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:09, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Oddity on front page
On the front page of WP today, I noticed that I couldn't click on any of the headings above the page (talk, view source, etc.) but all the other links work (including my talk, my preferences, and so on). Upon further examination, it seems like sometimes some of the headings like "mainpage" or "unlink", start out fine, but then stop working after I've run the mouse cursor over the other links. So, for example, if I move my mouse left across the top of the main page, "unlink" appears clickable, but then "last" does not and if I move right again, "unlink" now also appears unclickable. On other pages, including this one, all the links appear clickable. I'm using MonoBook and don't recall ever having this issue before. No problems with other sites (as far as I can tell). I'm using Firefox 10.0.02 on Win XP SP3 if that means anything. Matt Deres (talk) 20:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I have the same problem in MonoBook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=monobook. If the mouse moves to the link from above then it works, but not from below. Maybe the "Welcome to Wikipedia" box is too close to the links in MonoBook. I see more space in vector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vector. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you both using Twinkle, or only Matt? If the former, you should probably go ask at WT:TW.  -- N  Y  Kevin  @960, i.e. 22:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't use Twinkle and it's apparently a problem with the special Main Page coding. I have posted to Talk:Main Page. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:28, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I've had a look at MonoBook, and I do use Twinkle and I am getting the same result, apart from the hand not appearing at all. --  [[ axg  ◉  talk   ]] 14:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Federal Detention Center Miami
The current Warden is W.T.Taylor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.140.75.14 (talk) 22:04, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * If you have a published source which says so, feel free to edit the article. If you think there is something wrong with the article but you haven't a reliable source, the best place to bring it up is on the article's talk page: in this case Talk:Federal Detention Center, Miami. --ColinFine (talk) 23:22, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Fanning & Coles
Never seen such a mess, what do you do with an article where the ref section is (messy and) three times longer than the article? This is not even a proper ref section, is it?  Captain Screebo Parley! 23:12, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * (I have seen a worse mess.) I have improved the article, though not, I believe, to the point where it is worth keeping without further work. It needs the attention of someone who understand references better than I do.Maproom (talk) 23:30, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking a look.  Captain Screebo Parley! 14:53, 5 March 2012 (UTC)