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November 23

How Bizarre by Pauly Fuemana

The proud Filipino guy named is misspelled Gil .. and full name is Virgilio Manaois .. which is me .. the site is How Bizarre (song) ....I hope you will correct it for me. thanks... or email me if you want to verify — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.75.38.174 (talk) 06:04, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The cited source says "Hill". Wikipedia bases content on published reliable sources. Do you have a published reliable source for "Gill"? —teb728 t c 06:28, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Article for deletion

Hello. I published this neutral article but it is under deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neri I. Karra. Please help us resolve dispute by voting fairly on the text and notability after reading my article. --Scoopie-213 (talk) 06:32, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure if you already know this or not, but the AfD is NOT a popularity vote! You will serve yourself, and Wikipedia, much better if you pay attention to the comments posted there, and see if you can fix the article accordingly. Best, MarkYabloko 10:07, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Birth year

Kindly note, I am K S Sanjay and officially Tanvi Azmi's Manager. We would like to report that the birth year of Ms Tanvi Azmi is wrongly reported on your page. The correct year is 1963. Also kindly add the names of her children as Meghna (girl) and Viraaj (boy) .

We would be obliged if the changes are made officially. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.134.147.41 (talk) 06:41, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia bases content on published reliable sources. Do you have a published reliable source for the proposed change? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As manager, you have a Wikipedia:conflict of interest, so you did the right thing by asking here. Are you sure that you have the correct year of birth? 1963 seems unlikely to me. The children were adopted were they not? Dbfirs 09:21, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the existing birth date on Tanvi Azmi as it was sourced not to a reliable source, but to a media wing of a PR firm. Further discussions and sourcing is probably better conducted at Talk:Tanvi Azmi. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:54, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion

Recently I participated in a merger discussion where the result was against the merger. Is it necessary that someone other than me remove the merge tags from both pages or I am permitted to do this. --Skr15081997 (talk) 09:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes you can remove the tags. That falls under housekeeping. No need to cite WP:IAR. --Fauzan ^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 12:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. If a merge discussion has been closed without consensus to merge, any editor may remove the merge tags. Often the closer will do so as part of the process of closing the discussion, but if not, anyone else may. But do be sure that the discussion has in fact been closed. DES ^(talk) 12:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@DESiegel: The subject case is the merger proposal of article Mrs Funnybones with Twinkle Khanna. I proposed this merger and started discussion at Talk:Twinkle_Khanna#Proposed_merge_with_Mrs_Funnybones. The article "Mrs Funnybones" has been created by Skr15081997 and the merger discussion has involved just two of this. Now Skr15081997 is removing merger notices from both pages and bringing a wrong case over here that the "result was against merger" where in fact there was no result as such as the discussion is still open and not closed. He is now citing this advice by you two in his edit summary and reverting the tags from article pages.
WP:INVOLVED, which although on face value is meant for Admins says in the starting sentence that "In general, editors should not act as administrators in disputed cases in which they have been involved." The user is also made aware of this clause. Btw, this should also be common sense that one should not judge the case where oneself is accused. But turns out that we need to have all things written on stone to avoid such behavior from editors. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 10:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion is not required since the book meets the notability guidelines.--Skr15081997 (talk) 10:19, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's a statement meant for a different venue. We are now discussing your false representation of things and usage of this discussion to remove maintenance tags from articles which constitutes vandalism. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 10:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I said the same thing during the discussion. Removing inapplicable tags doesn't constitute vandalism. You should have removed the tags yourself. Merger discussion go unnoticed for several months. What's the point in waiting for someone else to close the discussion when it should haven't been initiated at the first place.--Skr15081997 (talk) 10:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Still, wrong venue! §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 10:38, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The editors should reach consensus on the talk page, not here. As DESiegel just pointed out, the discussion needs to be closed, which can be done formally by a closer, or can be inferred from demonstrable mutual agreement of the editors. I have reinstated the tags. --Fauzan ^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 12:44, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Grammatically error in page Pathani Samanta

this page has an grammatical mistake kindly correct it. Pathani Samanta — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajib Lochan Nayak (talk • contribs) 12:46, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rajib Lochan Nayak,

Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top.
The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). DES ^(talk) 12:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed several errors from the article, I don't know if these include the one you refer to. The article still needs work, for instance "measured the distance from earth". The distance of what from the earth? Maproom (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Notifying users of mass MFD nomination

Can someone help out with this, please? 103.6.159.85 (talk) 14:18, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Armend Thaqi article

I would use some help about this article. This player plays in Kosova superleage and I put a lot of resources and external links and still someone wants to delete it. Here is the link: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Armend_Thaqi — Preceding unsigned comment added by KastriotThaqi (talk • contribs) 16:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

KastriotThaqi, is the "Kosova superleage" a fully professional league? If so, can you point to a published reliable source that says so? DES ^(talk) 16:36, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Image viewing and back-clicking

I've noticed some odd behavior with Wikipedia that I never see on other websites. It has to do with looking at images.

If I am in a Wiki page I click on an image on the right to make it popup. I then click ESC to close the popup.
Then if I click the 'back' button on the left side of my mouse it returns me to the popup image instead of a previous webpage.

May not sound like much but if I have been though several wiki pages looking at images and want to go back...I have to click many times to get back to the original page, cumbersome. I see this behavior in both IE and Firefox.

AN EXAMPLE: Go to Dog and click on the dog photo on the right. Click ESC to close the popup, then click the back button on the left of the mouse. Any idea why this occurs? 130.132.15.95 (talk) 18:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On many browsers, right-click on the back button at the top of the page will give a choice of which page to go back to, hence avoiding the need for multiple clicks. I'm not sure, however, how you're getting a popup; if I click on a photo I move on to the file page and don't get a popup. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:05, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I Figured it out. Wiki uses a "Media Viewer" plugin to show jpgs in full screen mode. If you disable Media Viewer in Firefox this behavior goes away.

So has Media Viewer been made the default for new users? If it has, I offer my apologies, on behalf of those responsible. Anyway, congratulations on figuring out how to disable it! Maproom (talk) 00:04, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer is enabled by default for both registered and unregistered users. If you use the browser back button or a keyboard shortcut (Backspace works in some browsers) to get out of it then you get the expected sequence when the back button is used again later. I assume the same will happen with a mouse back button. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:00, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]