Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2015 December 6

= December 6 =

Land measurement
My question is about land measurement, if an acer of land — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.108.179.16 (talk) 03:09, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Your question is unclear but maybe you mean acre. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:56, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * You might be able to get an answer, if you state the question clearly and concisely, at the Science Reference Desk or the Miscellaneous Reference Desk. Please be clear and concise.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Help:CS1 errors
The following wikitext (from WWVB), if you care: Produces the following output:

This is exactly as desired except for the "" which Module:Citation/CS1 is spitting out.

Now, I have verified that the wikitext  expands to precisely the following 76 characters of HTML:

0000: 3331 7374 2041 6e6e 7561 6c20 3c61 6262 31st Annual PTTI Meeting

Depending on whether positions are 0- or 1-based, position 29 is the "i" or "c" in "Precise". Neither of those are C0 control characters (0x00–0x1f), and in fact no character of the entire expansion is. The "conference=" parameter value is followed by a newline, which is a C0 character, but whitespace is stripped from named parameter values.

I like to use &lt;abbr&gt; in this case because I want to copy the abbreviated form used by the source, but make the expansion available.

One solution is to use raw HTML. Using  avoids the error:

But I do wonder why the abbr template doesn't work in this case. Any suggestions? 71.41.210.146 (talk) 11:52, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The template experts are discussing this at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 10 Be patient, and I think they will work something out soon. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:42, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Right at the top of the documentation there is this:


 * It is not so much of a problem in this particular case because the content of conference is not made part of the citation's metadata.
 * The error message arises because has this:
 * The  is more-or-less the same as . These tags are replaced by strip markers before Module:Citation/CS1 sees the parameter value.  Strip markers begin with the delete character (U+007F) which is a C0 control hence the error.  Strip markers are replaced with the original content after the module returns.
 * The  is more-or-less the same as . These tags are replaced by strip markers before Module:Citation/CS1 sees the parameter value.  Strip markers begin with the delete character (U+007F) which is a C0 control hence the error.  Strip markers are replaced with the original content after the module returns.


 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:46, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * : Thank you very much! I'm still trying to figure out how I read the source of Template:abbr but managed to miss that notice in the documentation. :-)  But the discussion you pointed me to is much more informative. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 19:41, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

IPA Pronunciation
I was reading a WP article about Maus, the graphic novel. I was curious about how to pronounce it, if it was pronounced "Mozz" or "Moss." I Googled it and found out that the German word Maus is pronounced the same as the English word mouse, I thought it would be nice for other WP users if after the title there was the name spelled out phonetically, and you click on the parts of it and it says "s as in sandal"etc. I've seen this in other articles and I wanted to add this to the article. But I don't know how. Perhaps somebody could tell me how to do that. Thanks. NapoleonX (talk) 20:57, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Convenience link:
 * To put the IPA symbols into an article, you can start at Manual of Style/Pronunciation. I found that by typing "Wikipedia:IPA" into the search box which is at the top of every page. This is a good trick to know. Just type "Wikipedia:" and a keyword relating to what you're trying to find.
 * As for how it is actually pronounced... I don't know. But asking other editors who have actually edited the article might be best since they would probably be familiar with the subject. Dismas |(talk) 21:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Most ordinary words have Wiktionary entries with IPA pronunciations, and those can be copied. In the case of the German word Maus:  Maus (and for comparison mouse, which show the very similar, if not quite identical, pronunciation).  Rwessel (talk) 21:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm baffled (Barfoed?)
It looks like User:Birger Petersen may have written the same bio for Kasper Barfoed here and in IMDb. I have no idea which came first. Does that constitute a WP:COPYVIO? Clarityfiend (talk) 23:39, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I've tagged the page as possible copyvio. Although IMDb could be mirroring Wikiopedia, as the article was written in 2012- needs someone to work out when the IMDb page was added. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:04, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Good enough. Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:28, 8 December 2015 (UTC)