Wikipedia:Help desk

Welcome—ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia! (Am I in the right place?)

• For other types of questions, use the search box, see the reference desk or Help:Contents. If you have comments about a specific article, use that article's talk page.
• Do not provide your email address or any other contact information. Answers will be provided on this page only.
• If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is!
• Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered.
• For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia-en-help.
• New editors may prefer the Teahouse, a help area for beginners (but please don't ask in both places).

Ask a question

January 15

Template Categorization Confusion

So I'm trying to work on categorization tasks; specifically in Category:All uncategorized pages. Lets take for example, Template:Delay safesubst.

How am I supposed to correctly categorize this template?

At first I thought I should just write:

[[Category:Wikipedia templates|Delay safesubst]]

Then I read a bit and now thought, what if I put the category on the /doc page and {{Delay safesubst}} on the main template.

What am I supposed to do for moving both template and their doc pages? Even if I give the doc page a category, Category:All uncategorized pages, still retains the template (item). Bondishloka (talk) 09:03, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@Bondishloka generally the way templates are categorized is by using {{sandbox other}} on its doc page, like this. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 09:16, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Bondishloka (talk) 15:08, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Bondishloka, please look up the use of nowiki when you want to mention bracketed categories or template calls, instead of using them. Messing with the spacing between brackets or curlies on links or templates can throw off parsing algorithms that provide syntax highlighting on the page, for those who have enabled that. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 00:05, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Annoying map in Infobox

Using "display=title" in "Template-Coord"" displays the coordinates above the wiki article.
In my sandbox of the Yisan article, no map is shown under "Tambon" in Infobox.
But when I copy this "Yisan" article from my sandbox to the "Yisan" wiki article, a map automatically appears under "Tambon" in Infobox.
The question is how can I stop this annoyance.
SietsLSietsL (talk) 12:35, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@SietsL: the info box uses {{Infobox settlement}}, which includes a mapframe map based on Wikidata by default. Your sandbox is not linked to Wikidata, so no map is produced. You can hide the map by adding "|mapframe = no" as an extra line in the infobox. TSventon (talk) 13:03, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing issues

Hello. I want to expand stub articles on Wikipedia without being blocked for copyright violations of close paraphrasing. I have been reading Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing#How to write acceptable content and I want to add information from the Handbook of Texas and Texas Escapes magazine into the articles I have created or expanded. I have read the template in that section with the title "Example: close paraphrasing repaired", where it says to bring in other sources and "read source information, preferably taking notes to extract essential points, and write a summary in your own words, thereby producing an acceptable version." Although the Handbook of Texas has "fair use" guidelines, I want to write paragraphs that bring together information from two sources, without maintaining the previous sentence structure or style. How can I go about doing that, or should I not do that at all? I haven't edited on Wikipedia much, so I want to get some guidance. Thank you. Colman2000 (talk) 19:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

(had to battle my way through a IP spam army) Essentially, if it's not fair use, than see that it's still possible; I would suppose, given they have a copyright over the latest edition of their handbook, trying a earlier one (or rather, look for any excerpts out there). 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 23:01, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Although I should note that you were advised last year over this issue. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 23:04, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Colman2000. When I am trying to summarize some pretty complex sources while avoiding close paraphrasing, I use old fashioned techniques like those described in Outline (list), and actually use pen and paper, working usually with a yellow legal pad or maybe with some excess papers from a computer printer that have something irrelevant printed on the back side. As I read the source material for the second or third time, I jot down phases that serve to remind me of the most important points. In general, they may seem vague to other people but are thematic and serve to later remind me of something important. Sometimes, they may be brief and factual like "died NYC 1892 heart attack". They may resemble internet search terms or the briefest summaries of the results of such search terms. Everything I write has a mnemonic function to me. It may make little sense to anyone else, but these phrases are "reminders" to me and me alone of what I believe the most important points are about the content I plan to summarize. When my jottings are done, I then take a break and do something else for an hour or two. Then, I sit down with my rough notes and summarize in full prose what I learned from the sources. Then, I fact check my own writing and also verify that I have truly written in my own words instead of duplicating through memory the work of the original author. I may forget 95% of the wording of the original material but some striking phrase may stick in my mind. If so, I can include that brief content accurately in quotation marks, attributed to the original source. I hope that this helps. Cullen328 (talk) 08:34, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@Cullen328: That helps a lot. Thank you. Colman2000 (talk) 03:56, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Edit reverted by viewmont viking

Hello, I am Olliebowen28. I am a new-ish user, and one of my first edits was to the Mankato west high school page. I added the school fight song lyrics and tune to the page. Then, some guy named Viewmont Viking came along and reverted it. The only reason he provided is, "WP is not a webhost." Being a new user, I have no idea what that means. I posted several comments explaining why my edit belongs in wikipedia, and I asked what "WP is not a webhost" means. He never responded to any of my comments, and in desperation for his attention, I reverted his edit of reverting my edit. I put in the description of my edit to look at the talk page comments, and he never looked nor explained. He also posted a few comments on my talk page, linking articles about wikipedia guidelines. None of them applied to my edit. All I ask is that my contribution not be reverted again, or if my contributions did violate some guideline that you explain what guideline was broken and how it can be fixed so that it doesn't.

Many thanks, OllieBowen28 (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Contents in Wikipedia articles need to be Verifiable in reliable sources, therefore informations that might not be significant enough to get coverage from reliable sources typically wouldn't be included due to the difficulty in finding sources for them. You should provide citation for the content you added, otherwise other editors would not be able to check its reliability. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 22:40, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I will try to find a reliable source OllieBowen28 (talk) 22:55, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@OllieBowen28, the lyrics to the school's fight song might be protected by copyright. But even if they aren't, they're trivia, not something that belongs in an encyclopedia article. Schazjmd (talk) 23:15, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @OllieBowen28. See WP:NOTWEBHOST; the implication is that the other user believed that the material you added was not encyclopaedic.

Quite apart from that, there is the question of copyright: you may not insert copyright material into a Wikipedia article, unless it has been explicitly released or licensed appropriately.

One more point: you are edit-warring, and you must stop. Irrespective of right and wrong, edit-warring is forbidden. ColinFine (talk) 23:16, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, OllieBowen28, only US song lyrics published over 95 years ago are sure to be in the public domain. My quick Google search shows that Mankato West High School was founded in 1951. If that is accurate, then it is likely that the song lyrics are still copyright protected. Even if they are in the public domain for some reason, most high school song lyrics are banal, routine and predictable. So, unless reliable published sources independent of the high school have commented on the innovative and unique nature of these lyrics, then they do not belong in this encyclopedia. Cullen328 (talk) 08:56, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Women's Sports Network

Considering creating a draft article for Women's Sports Network, a free ad-supported streaming television service. For some reason the title is blacklisted. Anyone know the reason why? Esolo5002 (talk) 23:08, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@Esolo5002: Are you sure that's the exact title you tried? Your post here used a normal apostrophe which is allowed but a similar character is disallowed. Compare Draft:Women's Sports Network (allowed) and Draft:Women’s Sports Network (disallowed). PrimeHunter (talk) 23:26, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

James Middleton

Please help with reference number 9 - "journal" comes up as red. Please repair and Im sorry - I did not do this mistake/citation. I saw the red ink. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 23:20, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

 Already done - There was a missing journal parameter; you're welcome. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 23:26, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

January 16

copyvio

Stumbled across this article: Michael Habermann. Aside from questioning its notability, the article is practically verbatim from a direct primary source with 80% copyvio, here: [1] and [2] and reads like a resume. Is there a template that can be placed on the article stating this or something similar to invite editors to clean-up / re-write the article with secondary sources in their own words? There is already a "BLP sources" at the header. Maybe that's enough? Maineartists (talk) 00:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Definitely a copyvio situation. While our article predates the earliest Internet Archive copies of those two sources, the earliest version of our article is a verbatim copy of the musician's website of the time. See https://web.archive.org/web/20040204000620/http://www.michaelhabermann.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Habermann&oldid=24277064 There is no copyright mention on the musician's website so we have to assume it is copyrighted. There are only minor differences between the current article and the initial 2005 version, so in my opinion this is a WP:TNT situation. the entire article should be deleted as a copyvio, and recreated with independent sources if warranted. Meters (talk) 01:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

His current page, https://www.michaelhabermann.com/ is copyrighted 2001, and the ABOUT MICHAEL HABERMANN subpage, https://www.michaelhabermann.com/about/_index.html is unchanged from the version we copied in 2005. Meters (talk) 01:59, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Nominated as a copyvio WP:TNT at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Habermann. Meters (talk) 02:11, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Do not see edit button

I do not see an edit button when I log in. Have I been blocked? If so, why? Davidhhelman (talk) 01:55, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

You are not blocked. If you were you would not have been able to edit this page. Meters (talk) 02:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@Davidhhelman: There are some pages that have certain levels of protection. Did you see a lock icon by the top-right corner of the page? An exception I'm aware of is the main page, which is fully protected, or administrator-only. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:05, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

If you can share what pages you were looking at, we could confirm if they are indeed protected which might prevent you from editing. Depending on what device/brower/skin you're using instead of an edit button you might see something like "view source" and if you see that, then there is a very high likelyhood the page you want to edit has been protected, often because of vandalism, and things such as recent political events or global news are often falling into this category. If you want to see something changed on those pages, you can make a WP:EDITREQUEST on the talk page of the article. When you do that, please be specific on you want "X changed to Y" and provide reliable sources to support that change. TiggerJay (talk) 15:17, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Question related to Speedy deletion criteria

Does CSD G-14 apply if the disambiguation page has other red links? E.g. there is a ship name index page and there is one ship with an article but another without an article yet(however there is a link to it's ship class's article) Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:31, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

That does not sound like G14 because it's not an obvious and not-reasonably-debatable case. It sounds like there are at least two entries that have bluelink, even if one is only for an article about a broader topic. Could that broader-topic page specifically mention this specific example, such that this example's red-link be made a redirect to it (and therefore blue)? All that takes is one ref. Are there enough refs available you could write a small stub-article? DMacks (talk) 05:02, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Regarding this

How do I let newcomers know that they can ask me questions like the link? TheTechie@enwiki (she/they | talk) 04:10, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@TheTechie You sign up as a mentor! See Wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:01, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Reference formatting

I am not an expert on the different ways of laying out references, but the way it is done at the end of Karma Paul looks really strange to me. It starts with [what I think of as] standard refs, then switches to a form that has reference numbers (to those earlier refs) with page numbers. Is this an acceptable form of referencing, or does it need to be fixed? I will be interested to learn... Gronk Oz (talk) 10:24, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Hypothesis: It's an attempt to avoid using in-line Template:Reference page while technically perhaps not mixing reftag/sfn citing. It looks very weird and IMO still goes against at least the spirit of WP:REFVAR. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

I didn't really feel that the footnote template worked very well but haven't come across the Reference page template until now. I'll revise those on the Karma Paul page. Thanks for flagging it up. Babybrew6 (talk) 11:54, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@Babybrew6, do you wish to comment? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:47, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@Babybrew6: Ah, that looks so much better now. Much easier to read. Thanks for being so responsive, and thanks Gråbergs Gråa Sång.--Gronk Oz (talk) 23:06, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Help! Rail-interchange

I want to add a new rail-interchange template for the red line of Namma metro (displayed here Template:Rail-interchange/doc/IN), but couldn't seem to figure out how others were added. I searched everywhere but could not find anything. Footy2000♡; 14:37, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

I think you would do better to ask at TT:Rail-interchange/IN (which has not so far been created) or perhaps better still to add an edit request at TT:Rail-interchange ColinFine (talk) 15:33, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

That page has not been created because the various documentation subpages just detail region-specific codes for the rail-interchange template, all of these different doc subpages exist to avoid having a massive and hard to navigate documentation page. Also, those links go to Tatar Wikipedia.

I agree that the best option is to add an edit request to Template talk:Rail-interchange. Reconrabbit 20:36, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Oops! I thought TT was a standard shortcut for "Template Talk". ColinFine (talk) 23:18, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Ngl, that redirect to Tatar wikipedia caught me off gaurd. Thank you for the responses though, it helped. Footy2000♡; 03:02, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

How to re-enable alerts on new in-links pointing to a given article

I received an alert (Bell icon) about a new in-link targeting article FOO that I follow, and clicked in the alert to go to the Foo-linking article. At least, that's what I wanted to do, but in reality, I mistakenly clicked something in the message that caused a message to appear saying "You will no longer be notified about in-links to FOO". How do I undo this? I still want to be notified when editors add links to FOO from other articles. I checked FOO, and I am still a watcher.

I searched around, but couldn't find how to undo this. At one point, I landed at Wikipedia:Article alerts, but that's not it. (A hatnote added to the top of that page linking wherever the right page is would be helpful to other users who encounter this.)

As a corollary, on the analogy of email unsubscribe-confirmed messages that provide a 'Resubscribe' link in case you just made a mistake and never intended to unsubscribe, a small, added, Undo alert removal link added to the you-will-no-longer-be-notified message that would undo the action would be nice. Where would I propose that? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:25, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Go to your preferences. On Notification tab, at bottom under Muted pages for page link notifications, click the X on the article you have muted to restore notifications, then Save.

When I tested muting a notification for page links, there was a brief pop-up that told me I could manage them in preferences, but it's easy for that to disappear before you read it. Schazjmd (talk) 20:46, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Schazjmd, thanks so much for this. I did actually swing by the preferences page and even the notifications tab, but obviously I didn't scroll down far enough. While looking at all the options visible upon first view of that page above the fold—even scrolling down 80% of the page—they are all site-wide options, not page-specific, and I reasoned that this page was wholly about site-wide options, and didn't scroll down that last little bit, so I missed that last part at the very bottom, and clicked away too soon. (That pref page tab might benefit by a small link above the fold, mentioning the possibility of page-specific options at the bottom.) Anyway, I've undone the muting on that page, and in the bargain I discovered two other pages that are muted, much to my surprise and annoyance, and against my preference, as I never even knew alerts were blocked for those. Probably tons of users have pages muted from alerts that they are not even aware of.

And yeah, that pop-up is too brief—do you have any idea where should one go to propose a change to the pop-up, maybe to have a longer time-out, a dismiss icon, and an Undo link? Some project here or at mw:? If Phab, what project? Mathglot (talk) 23:57, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't, @Mathglot, sorry. I agree that it could use some work; if I hadn't been looking for something to tell me where to go, I would have missed it. Interestingly, when I did the test, I found that I had other pages muted as well, although I don't recall ever doing so. Schazjmd (talk) 00:04, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Mathglot. I would start at WP:VPT - the folks there might direct you somewhere else. ColinFine (talk) 13:45, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Language Addition

Adieu Vinyle La rebelle : Les aventures de la jeune George Sand Neea River Hey,

I have made several articles over the past 24 hours that are have been available in other languages before I made the English Wikipedia page. How do I add the languages to the wiki, so people can select their language? Thanks

Electricsnake247 (talk) 23:46, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@Electricsnake247, your question has been answered at the Teahouse. Please don't post the same question in multiple places, thanks. Schazjmd (talk) 23:53, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Cannot see article I wrote.

Hey,

I wrote the article La rebelle : Les aventures de la jeune George Sand today and published it. I am now trying to search for it and it won't come up automatically unless I copy/paste the title or if I go to see all results.

This hasn't happened before so i am unsure what is going on.

Thanks Electricsnake247 (talk) 23:48, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@Electricsnake247: mw:Help:CirrusSearch#How frequently is the search index updated? says: "The second index to consider is the fuzzy auto-complete title search. This index is updated once a day and mirrors what was found in the full-text search index at the time the index was updated. Depending on timing a new page could take two days to be found in the fuzzy title autocomplete." PrimeHunter (talk) 00:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

January 17

I need help... again.

How do I add a file from another Wikipedia? User332224 (talk) 00:40, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

You mean a existing image from another language of Wikipedia? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 00:42, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

yes User332224 (talk) 00:53, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

That's what I mean. User332224 (talk) 00:56, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

If you link the pic you have in mind, editors here might be able to tell you if it's possible to use that pic on en-WP. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:57, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

In any case, see this for information on how to add them to a article. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 00:46, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

The only images that can be displayed on English Wikipedia pages are ones that are here on enwiki or are on commons. You cannot display an image here from another language's wikipedia. But (depending on the file's license and how you plan to use it) you might be able to download the file from that other language and then upload it here on enwiki or maybe to commons. DMacks (talk) 05:10, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

I plan to place it on the infobox in an English translation of a page on the Portuguese wikipedia. User332224 (talk) 14:58, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

You mean this? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 15:17, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

This pic? [3] If so, when/if your translation is accepted in article space, you can upload it locally on en-WP. If that happens, go to the File upload wizard and chose "Upload a non-free file". > "This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use" > "This is the official cover art of a work." Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:18, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Adding City Officials and Job Description

I am attempting to add the city's elected Officials Treasurer and Clerk, however I am stumped on to include them. DeanLJones (talk) 01:17, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Treasurer and clerk are usually not included in an article about a city due to the relative lack of coverage these positions received. If some notable individual has or had served in one of these roles, you can mention their time in office by adding Template:Infobox officeholder as a module of the existing infobox. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 06:05, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

This user appears to be a WP:SPA centered solely on editing the article for Compton, California. Sarsenet (talk) 06:27, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Copying from GFDL-only Wikipedia

Copying from GFDL-only sources is prohibited. However, does this extend to Wikipedia when it was GFDL-only? In other words, is it prohibited to copy from a pre-2009 Wikipedia edit to an article today? If not, why? JJP_Master (she/they) 04:29, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, JJPMaster. I think that GNU Free Documentation License and its references should answer most of your questions. In brief, special arrangements were made in the phase-out of GFDL licensing from Wikipedia, and I do not fully understand all those provisions. Cullen328 (talk) 07:23, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Correct value of page= parameter when citing a journal via a compilation of an entire volume

Hi, apologies if some of my terminology is off, but I'm trying to figure out what the proper way is to cite an article within a journal where the source available online is a compilation of an entire volume of the journal, with its own page numberings. The source in question is at this link; the article is on page 456 of volume 14, but presumably the article's page number when issue 28 was distributed on its own was different. There doesn't seem to be any obvious way to distinguish whether the reference is citing the article within the volume as a whole or an individual issue of the volume.

I've gone with this for now, but I'm not sure if this is correct: {{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=J.N. |title=Organic Chemicals |journal=World Trade Notes on Chemicals and Allied Products |date=13 July 1940 |volume=14 |issue=28 |page=456 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdseHwBxG5YC&pg=PA456 |access-date=17 January 2025 |publisher=[[United States Department of Commerce|Department of Commerce Chemical Division]] |location=Washington, D.C. |language=en}}.

Thank you! Jokullmusic 17:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Jokullmusic you should give the page number in the edition that you are using. I may be wrong, but I believe that the page number would have been the same in both versions when the journal was issued in 1940 so that the citation based on an individual issue and based on the bound volume would be the same. TSventon (talk) 17:42, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Looks more like a newsletter, or something similar, than a peer-reviewed academic or scholarly journal so I would use {{cite periodical}} (an alias of {{cite magazine}}) and |periodical=. As above, cite the source that you consulted; how the individually distributed issue was paginated is irrelevant if you did not consult that issue.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:14, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks to you and User:TSventon both for clearing that up. I'll switch it to the periodical template -- I was uncertain between the two. Jokullmusic 18:30, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Jokullmusic, agree with both of the above. I would add the following, which may help if you have similar questions in the future. Think about the bottom line, namely, why do we have these citation templates in the first place: it is to ensure verifiability, and in the case of any given citation, it is to answer the question: "How do I get an interested user to the right place so that they can see that the content in the article is backed up by this source?" So whatever you are looking at, tell the user exactly how to get there, including the page number if applicable, but also: if there are multiple ISBN's for hardback, paperback, etc., give them the one for your item; if you are looking at the second edition, then include |edition=2; if you are looking at the 2025 publication of an anthology first published in 1940, give them |date=2025 and the current publisher, location, and page number of that one, and if you wish, optionally add the |orig-date=1st pub. Old_Publisher:1940 which lets the reader know that the one you found was not the original, and allows them to delve deeper, if they wish. Mathglot (talk) 19:59, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Assistance with posting a link with a bracket in the URL

Maybe im just making a mistake, but whenever i attempt to include links such as this: https://californiarevealed.org/search?search_api_fulltext=&f[0]=search_page_series_title:Shades%20of%20Fresno%20Collection in the external links page and add the text afterwards it doesn't fully work. I believe this is because of the brackets in the link itself. Does anyone have a solution so I can include these type of links on Wikipedia. Thank you! NewishIdeas (talk) 20:04, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@NewishIdeas:, when I switch the search results to show 96 results, the [0] disappears from the url: https://californiarevealed.org/search?search_api_fulltext=&f%5B0%5D=search_page_series_title%3AShades%20of%20Fresno%20Collection&items_per_page=96. Schazjmd (talk) 20:15, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

It hasn't disappeared, it's been encoded to %5B0%5D. See Help:URL#Fixing links with unsupported characters. The original page without changing the number of results - if that's important - can be linked like this. —Cryptic 20:25, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

If I am looking at this correctly, it appears you replaced the bracketed zero with %5B0%5D and that fixed the issue? NewishIdeas (talk) 20:36, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes. —Cryptic 20:41, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot I appreciate it! NewishIdeas (talk) 20:53, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

January 18

Citation numbering

I added a citation to an existing article, somewhere in the middle. Although the number of the previous citation was something like 18, my added one ended up with 44.

I was surprised, assuming everything would automatically renumber. It looks so weird now. Should I have done something to make automatic renumbering happen? Augnablik (talk) 02:04, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: You did right and shouldn't do anything else. Citations can be used multiple times as described at WP:REFNAME. They are automatically numbered by their first appearance. The citations in [4] jump from 18 to 46 but if you click "18" then it says "18. ^{^ a b c d e}" This means citation 18 is used five times. Each letter is a link to a use. The first use is after citation 17. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:20, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

List of shipwrecks in 1966

OK, this one is puzzling me. On the list of shipwrecks in 1966, the [edit] button is not showing for September onwards. I've got no idea why this is, no obvious error in the last entry for August. Mjroots (talk) 04:35, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

 Fixed There was a missing pair of closing braces. DonIago (talk) 04:54, 18 January 2025 (UTC)