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291:, but while at some point it goes that "World Union of Billiards is good as a translation of Union Mondiale de Billard" it does not provide explanations as to the preferable form for the article titles. For example should Real Compañía de Filipinas be left in Spanish or is it preferable (overall and on titles in particular) to transliterate it as Royal Philippine Company (used in literature, the cited one at least). Any clues? Thanks 351:. The request is simple, for an immunologist to add to the article, especially considering a recent article from a physician who was inflicted with the disease, but desired those previously exposed. As this is a bit bleeding edge, such considerations do require professional guidance from those who are best knowledgeable about the specifics of the disease. So, where do I go to help this requester? 619:
replicated in part when I create new biographies of my father. So it is inaccurate, wrong in fact, to say that I violated any copyright when I created my entry. (Is it possible to create a copyright violation against oneself? Then there is the fact that the material on michaellenson.org is not copyrighted in the first place.
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A couple of notes. 1) The list of countries was added by a sockpuppet, 2) There is no ref for the list, but it appears it came from the select your country icon on the company pge, which doesn't equal "Here are the countries we have business in. So nuking the section is probably the best choice. just
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guides to referencing). The approach would be to find what has attracted sufficient attention to receive "significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources" in relation to this dance; add references to these sources; and remove the rest. Nearly all the external links could be removed in
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to indicate that its content is in the public domain. Therefore Knowledge cannot allow anyone to use its resources to publish this content. You (the person posting from 174.57.149.143) claim that you are the owner of this content, but we have no proof. The easiest way to achieve what you want would
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For example, I think that the first Zouk congress is likely a notable event and could be moved up into the history of the dance. Listing every succeeding Zouk congress does not increase the value of the article. I would also like to either include some of the external links in the sourcing of the
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With a standing room only crowd of 15,250 at its home finale on Aug. 30, the Indianapolis Indians established a new Victory Field record for single-season attendance. Overall, a total of 660,289 fans enjoyed Indianapolis Indians baseball in 2014, breaking the previous record of 659,237, which was
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is suddenly working again after years of being dead. I've missed it. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, just curious. Must be something like a bug that was fixed or some feature they turned off and turned back on just now. (I'm also hoping to serve the dual purpose by asking the question of
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A draft of a post that I created about my father, the artist Michael Lenson, was deleted today on the grounds that it violated copyright on another website, michaellenson.org. That is a website that I own. The content on it, because it contains biographical material about my father, must be
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as a pdf file. I clicked "Download as PDF", and downloaded the generated pdf file, But Java code part in the pdf file was rendered as ordinary text, and lumped up together (no syntax indent and no highlighting which appear in the webpage). I wonder if there is a solution for that? Thanks.
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has the list of countries each in their own language, so that for example Israel is written as ישראל and Austria as Österreich. That just looks incorrect. What would be a good policy page to reference in changing that to all english names of the
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article. In regard to some of the later sections, "Zouk with different styles", "List of Zouk dance congresses", and "External links"; these are lists that include some relevant information and some irrelevant/non-verifiable information.
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does not belong in English-language films or 2014 television films but when I edit the page I only see BBC television dramas and Sundance Channel shows (both of which are correct categories) but I can't see the ones I need to remove.
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be for you to place a notice on the web site stating that its content is in the public domain. (It would not work to state that it may be used in Knowledge only – Knowledge does not accept content on that basis.)
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My goal is to re-write the article to better align with WP:NPOV and the no original research/verifiability guidelines. Are there other content guidelines that I should be mindful of when working on the article?
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says he is still in office so it's clearly obsolete. We are not obligated to mention everything with an old reliable source so I have removed the spouse field from the infobox and mentioned the divorce filing
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Forgive me, but age has erased the area to ask for such help. There is a request that is rather worthy, considering the current events and lack within the current article as it stands within
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has retired years ago so I didn't even think to check whether he had fixed it. Ais523: glad to see you back if at least momentarily; grateful for the return of this script.--
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I have removed it. It will need to be translated before it's added back. In any event, the article is way too long and overly detailed, and now tagged as such.--
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It comes directly from the German language wiki, and from the description it seems that the editor wishes to discredit the group for receiving funds from the
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the
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I found a couple of references to the filing for divorce by Kimberly Wagner (in 2013), but couldn't find anything saying the divorce was final. --
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but not stated whether they are actually divorced. Another ex-wife is mentioned later so I added her name to clarify it isn't Kimberly Wagner.
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in a single step. I suggest the same here. They often go well together but people frequently omit one of them or mess up the order or syntax."
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I have added the template {{AFC submission|T}}, which gives you a submit button for use when your draft is ready for review. --
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s on the template page? (Not that I'm suggesting we actually do that, just talking about hypothetical technical feasibility.)--
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site shows them as married. If they are no longer married, find a reliable source and discuss it on the article talk page. --
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highly unlikely that any of that content is appropriate to use in an encyclopedia article in a cut and paste format anyway
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Hi, I've figured it out now - the page was wrongly using the film infobox so the categories were automatically added on.
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it sounds plausible the divorce is final but we would need a published reliable source to say divorced. The page at
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secondarily informing anyone here, who happen to also use it and disabled it, that's it's now functioning!)--
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Under Delegate Phil Hamilton (former Virginia House of Delegates member) it list spouse as: Kimberly Wagner
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And the infobox at the top of page does not render. This is a new PDF tool, and it has a few bugs.
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If you want to add an image that has already been uploaded to Knowledge or Wikimedia Commons
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Someone inserted a large German language block into the article on the Serbian organization
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The first thing I notice about this article is that it has no references at all. (Here are
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We could make a template for substitution only couldn't we, with <includeonly: -->
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https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Otpor!&diff=620627363&oldid=617112891
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Kimberly Wagner is NOT his spouse and wants this removed immediately. Thank you.
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re-write (if the site/source is valuable) or remove non-value-added sources.
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I hope you will review my now-related entry in light of my comments above.
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to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing
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How do we submit a new photo to be used on Knowledge for Victory Field?
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If you want to upload an image from your computer for use in an article
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Note that even if you give the content into the public domain 1) it is
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And a Google search for <Phil Hamilton Kimberly Wagner divorce: -->
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Download a wikipedia article as PDF, with code not showing correctly.
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instead of here, so that all projects have access to the image (
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the subject meets the criteria for having a stand alone article
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Just curious if anyone knows why the incredibly useful script
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Is there a template that combines the effects of <code: -->
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There were no replies. I see it has been suggested again at
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Transliteration of proper names with common nouns to English
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Those are good reasons to not have a list in any language.
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Requester already posted this on the article talk page. ‑‑
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How do I remove categories from pages? For example,
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Index

Knowledge:Help desk
Archives
Help desk
October 5
Sep
October
Nov
October 7
current Help Desk
Zouk-Lambada
unsigned
68.2.53.142
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05:06, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Basic
advanced
this policy
Zouk-Lambada
Zouk
: Noyster
(talk),
09:28, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Nielsen N.V.
Nielsen N.V.#Global locations
Naraht
talk
05:25, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Manual of Style
English Knowledge
InedibleHulk

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