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April 19

Taiwanese Languarg in English.

I am trying to get words in Taiwanese written in English so I can help some Taiwanese people speak English knowing what our words mean. Do you have such a page or book? I am trying to learn Taiwanese in return so it will help us both. Thank you Dale202.173.194.37 (talk) 01:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a translation textbook. You are in the English language Wikipedia. Along the column on the left is a link to the Taiwanese language Wikipedia.

If you go to the Reference Desk they may be able to direct you to some English/Taiwanese resources on the web. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading Pictures

I would like help in uploading/contributing pictures to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DarcyCalkins (talk • contribs) 05:39, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What help do you need? Please see Wikipedia:Uploading images, and come back here if that doesn't answer your question.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@DarcyCalkins: Unless I'm mistaken, in order to upload images here at Wikipedia, you must have at least 10 edits and have had an account for at least 4 days. If these are photos that you took, you can upload them right now to Wikimedia Commons (commons:Upload) without having to wait. Dismas|^(talk) 10:13, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing errors on Civil forfeiture in the United States

Reference help requested. ReferenceBot is telling me my edit has generated a cite error. The edit in question replaced a quote from a letter to the Washington Post, incorrectly attributed to the Post itself, with a quote from a USA Today editorial illustrating the same point. The edit occurs at line 486 of the article Civil forfeiture in the United States, at the very beginning of the section titled "Efforts at Reform." The reference appears in footnote 31. The links, both to the note and to the outside source, seem to work. I've looked at the cite error page but was not sure what caused the error. I'm guessing it's the presence of =′s in the URL, but wanted to check before replacing all those =′s with =. Can anyone tell me if that is, in fact, what is causing the error message? Thanks, Screeve (talk) 17:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The problem came from your edit December 7, 2014 which was fixed shortly after by another editor. The text you replaced had a named reference "<ref name="twsWashPost6"/>"for the Washington Post article and that named reference was linked to the full text of the footnote near the bottom of the article. When the named reference was removed without removing the full footnote text the software noticed that something was wrong. It was easily fixed and not a big problem. If that's not clear, let me know. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 18:41, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Very clear--thanks! Screeve (talk) 04:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citing photographs

Hello,

I made some edits on the page for "Michael Korie" and notice that the photos I added were taken down. I read the pages on citing photo sources and remain unclear as to how photos may be added without copyright infringement. I certainly want to be sure that the photographers are given credit and that everything is above-board. Can you please advise as to why they were removed from the site and how I can resolve this issue? Thanks so much!

Best, pbarr6 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbarr6 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a matter of simply giving the photographers credit. Unless the photographers themselves personally release their rights in those photographs under one of certain specific rather broad Creative Commons licenses, they cannot be used here. That's not negotiable at all, for legal reasons. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:39, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Orangemike for clarifying. My mistake. So the proper course of action then is to get in touch with the photographers or their representatives and ask them to send back a filled out version of the consent form that appears on this page:

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries

Is that correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbarr6 (talk • contribs) 17:53, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You could try that. But don't expect them to do what you ask – they may not want to release the copyright which they own. Maproom (talk) 11:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

...because any such release must be for all purposes including commercial reuse.--ukexpat (talk) 12:32, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Finding and applying climate data to an infobox

I am having problems finding and interpreting content produced by NOAA to use in this weatherbox. I am trying to use Template:Minneapolis weatherbox as an example, to no avail. Does anyone have any insight or advice on where I can find appropriate and accurate information for Utica, New York? Buffaboy ^talk 18:35, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be a reference desk question.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:38, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ernest Hemingway in WWII

I just watched the DVD "The True Gen". Some professor or person who claimed to know, said that Hemingway was attached to the 22nd Infantry Regiment. I am an Army veteran and a historian. I have never heard of a regiment with that number. There are armies, for example, 1st-New England area; 3rd-either west coast or southeast; 5th-Midwest(Misery, etc); 7th- Formed in Italy during WWII, later part of occupation in Germany. I attended the 7th US Army NCO Academy in 1962. Each Army had so many regiments, usually four, 4 battalions with 4 companies. In each company there was the S1- Adjutant General; S2- Security; S3 -I forgot; S4 - Quartermaster. I don't know what the makeup is today? Now back to Ernest Hemingway. If he went ashore in France in WWII and it was said in July, then I am sure he was attached to the 28th Infantry Division. This is the division that paraded in mass in Paris on August 25, the liberation day. Later this division was marched up to the Luxembourg-German border and took a disastrous part in the 'Huertgen Forest' battle. The division had according to some records a cumulative loss of 150% in personnel (KIA, MIA, wounded, captured and possible deserted). It was then withdrawn for R & R on the road toward Bastogne That was sometime around the 14th or 15th of December 1944. Then on December 16th the Germans counter attacked and hit the 28th again. It became known as the "Battle of the Bulge" They fought very hard and were given the nickname by the Germans as "The Bloody Bucket" division. I know a little history because I researched this for the grandson of one of those in that division. His last name was Dillen.

Peter M. Olsen P.S. I have donated in the past and will continue, but right now I consider myself to be a 'naked man' without pockets. I even filed bankruptcy last year. I think Wikipedia is tops and I hope my opinion above is od some value. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.225.190 (talk) 20:54, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See 22nd Infantry Regiment (United States)#World War II. Nanonic (talk) 21:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help watching an article

Could someone please put Ts Madison on their watchlist. An SPA has taken over the article and made it into an advertisement for Madison. Thanks. 209.99.209.240 (talk) 20:55, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

oy! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:18, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Providing spouse and children info for musicians

Most of your personality pages include information about the person's marriage history and offspring. This practice is sorely lacking in the case of well-known musicians, especially those in contemporary jazz. I just feel that this info provides the reader with a better picture about any celebrity worth mentioning on Wikipedia and establishes links that afford a better understanding of their personal life and networks. When you read a bio of a movie actor, you are often surprised by certain links with other actors or public personae as well as the career paths of their children in the Personal Life or Background Information sections, partially proving the Six Degrees of Separation theory. An exception to the lack of such info on Wikipedia is the bio of jazz guitarist Mike Stern, where we find out that he is half-brother of Kyra Sedgewick.

71.96.48.27 (talk) 21:42, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We are all volunteers, and you can be a volunteer too. If you have access to reliable information about musicians' family members, and it seems relevant to the articles, be bold and add it. If you see something lacking, you can try to fix it. That will be good for you and for each person who comes to the article after you. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 22:27, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What SchreiberBike said as well as the fact that we may not have sources for their family. In order to put such information in the articles, the information must first be out there to be read or heard. If we don't have reliable sources for such information, it can't be in the article. Dismas|^(talk) 23:55, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What's the template for adding an Edit link for the top (intro) section of a page?

I know I ran across this in a description of some template when I was searching a vast number of templates, but I don't remember where!

In general, I am having great difficulty finding appropriate templates for many different things.

Is there any help available for searching templates? Using the new Cirrus search with a string like "Template:link" yields possibly thousands of templates; and since I don't know the name of the template I want, I also don't know the terminology used in the template I want.

A search using "template:top link" or "template:top,link" lists thousands of mostly unrelated templates (those with "top" or "link" in the name or in the body of the template. How to combine Template: and Title:?

A search using "Special:PrefixIndex/Template:top" yields... a long list of templates, none of which seem to be the one I'm looking for.

— Mwr0 (talk) 23:06, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Mwr0: If it's only for your own use then it's not done with a template but with a setting in the preferences for your account. See Help:Section#Editing before the first section. If you want others to get such a link on a specific page without changing their preferences then I didn't know we had such a template but I did a search on "template:edit lead" and found Template:Edit section on page four of the search results. If you don't know the top section is called the lead then it may be harder to find the template. It shouldn't be used on articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, PrimeHunter! — Mwr0 (talk) 23:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]