October 10

In another wiki (memory alpha) there is a quote that incorrectly stated an actors name. How would Wikipedia deal with this? If you fix it, it is no longer a quote. Thanks. 73.127.172.166 (talk) 03:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We have {{sic}} to highlight misspellings or incorrect terms in a quote without altering it, and we could add an explanatory footnote clarifying the intended meaning if necessary. Might be easier to paraphrase. Folly Mox (talk) 03:44, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Hi there! Presuming the quote is important enough to keep, you could provide another published reliable source explaining the error in the quote. Then you could write something like: Although Fred stated "erroneous quote",<insert reference 1 here> Wilma stated "correction".<insert reference 2 here> GoingBatty (talk) 03:46, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. I’m the original poster. AlanneWiki (talk) 06:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am lost. My page needs to be edited. I did receive a response from someone but didn't act on it because of crush of work. Now I can't access it anymore.

This is the situation. I have prepared a Word document that a volunteer case to guide an edit. It has a new photo a well. The current version is terribly out of date and contains an unethical edit by someone, a point I would like to discuss when a volunteer wishes to edit my page.

I do not wan to do the edit myself because I don't this that is appropriate. Also I have no ides how to do that. Thank you. Gerrit Verschuur Blikies (talk) 11:28, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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reliable sources and all should be well. As to the photograph, provided you are the copyright holder you can upload it to Wikimedia Commons and then create an edit request for it to be placed in the article. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:37, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Courtesy link Gerrit Verschuur. Theroadislong (talk) 11:37, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I *thought* there was a tool that made it easier to take to take things in both Category:Purple things and Category:People Eaters and move them into a new category Category:Purple People Eaters. Can someone please point me in the right direction?Naraht (talk) 13:30, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Naraht I think you are looking for one of the tools listed at Wikipedia:User_scripts/List#Categories_2, probably Cat-A-Lot, although as I've not used it myself, I'm not sure. Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:55, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because of my butter fingers, my edit here[1] doesn't have a real edit summary. I meant to type "Added 'A cover of the Ronettes' Be My Baby remained unreleased until 1998 when it was included in the career-spanning John Lennon Anthology box set.' as my edit summary but accidentally submitted my change before I typed that out. Is there a way to change an edit summary? A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 14:23, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@A Quest For Knowledge, No, you cannot change an edit summary. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 14:31, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Midori No Sora You can use the checkbox at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing to make sure that edits won't save unless you have entered an edit summary. For really important cases, you can make another small edit to a page immediately after the wrong summary and explain in the new summary what you missed. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:03, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@A Quest For Knowledge Sorry, pinged the wrong person..... Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:03, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Michael D. Turnbull: Thanks for the tip regarding that checkbox. It is now checked. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 17:11, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone please identify what is causing the error here:

{{Infobox settlement
|pushpin_map= {{Location map|World}}
|coordinates= {{coord|42|50|41|N|6|6|59|W}}
}}

Sarangem (talk) 15:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Sarangem, I'm guessing like this?

{{Infobox settlement
|pushpin_map   = Earth
|coordinates  = {{coord|42|50|41|N|6|6|59|W|display=it}}
}}

Help desk/Archives/2023 October 10
Coordinates: 42°50′41″N 6°6′59″W / 42.84472°N 6.11639°W / 42.84472; -6.11639

🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 15:49, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out Sarangem (talk) 15:56, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know what this means? Broken anchors? From the jazz Cleanup ListingVmavanti (talk) 16:38, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:ANCHOR. These will be articles where there ought to be a section anchor for another article to link to but something has gone wrong. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply

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I like fixing broken anchors (for some weird reason). I'm not gonna revive my bot for this but I'll have a go at doing it by hand. Winston365 (talk) 03:54, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I want to know why, after some 20 years being on Wiki, my article "Leroy Waterman" has been deleted. Divades (talk) 17:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

According to Leroy Waterman, it was deleted as a copyright infringement this past February 15th. 331dot (talk) 17:30, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also see answer to previous question at the Teahouse. 57.140.16.56 (talk) 18:15, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, what's the best place to suggest fixing some errors on the front page article (Terminator 2) for somebody who doesn't have an account? In the sentence, "According to Professor Jefffrey A. Brown, there was a growth of female-led action films in the wake of Alien's success" there are a few errors.

1. It should be Aliens', not Alien's. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986) is a different movie from Alien (Scott, 1979), and you can verify Aliens is the one referenced in Brown's article just by clicking the source. (you can see it at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1225765 .) 2. Jeffrey should have 2 "f"s rather than 3.

I tried posting this on the article's talk page a few hours ago without success, and now it's bugging my OCD. Thanks! 2600:1700:EDF0:2F50:F801:E52D:D72D:CAD1 (talk) 17:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Looks like the "Jefffrey" thing was fixed, but the wrong movie title is still there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:EDF0:2F50:F801:E52D:D72D:CAD1 (talk) 17:42, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, only admins can edit the main page, other editors can post a request at

WP:ERRORS. TSventon (talk) 17:44, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:EDF0:2F50:F801:E52D:D72D:CAD1 (talk) 17:48, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like it's been fixed. ~

problem solving 18:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Having OCD isn't necessarily a negative in regards to Wikipedia. See User:ThatPeskyCommoner/The Huge Benefits of OCD-for-Wikipedians and Wikipedia:Editors with obsessive-compulsive disorder. As the second article says, " If a group of researchers had been given the task of creating a working/hobby environment specifically designed to attract people with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), it's hard to see how they could have come up with anything better than Wikipedia." I hope you register an account, there are lots of tools to help with organize Wikipedia that are only available to those with accounts.Naraht (talk) 12:59, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]