Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)

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Small seal size[edit]

Hi all. At Seal of Zion, Illinois, I've included the old seal in the infobox but it comes up very small on my Chrome browser, so small that you can't see the details. Is there a way we can make it larger but still keeping it in the infobox? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

I am using Chrome, and I could clearly see the details. I have increased the size nonetheless, is it OK now?– Ammarpad (talk) 09:04, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

@Ammarpad: It is though it seems to be coming out larger now than the lead image. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 14:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

It's displaying normally for me. The first seal is bigger. It's using frameless and upright parameters via the infobox template. These parameters in turn are affected by what you set as 'Thumbnail size' in your preferences. Mine is 220px, which is the default. – Ammarpad (talk) 10:40, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Dablinks broken? Or just temporary/me?[edit]

see Template_talk:Dablinks#Broken_links. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:26, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

See VPT Johnuniq (talk) 01:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurat (word)[edit]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurat (word) has been relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Bookku (talk) 07:36, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Article name help[edit]

While doing WP:WCW work I ran across Akim Tafo. The issue is that both references and others suggest the name is New Tafo, as opposed to Old Tafo. New Tafo is a redirect to another town. I can't think of what the correct rename would be, especially given that Akyem (from the Old Tafo article) seems to be the common spelling, but Akem, Akim, and Aki are all stated to be correct. Jerod Lycett (talk) 17:30, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

You can open move request so that people interested can discuss. See Wikipedia:Requested move. – Ammarpad (talk) 10:42, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

@Ammarpad: I know how to move it, I just literally can't figure out what the correct name should be. I'm thinking of just going with its district: New Tafo, Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly. Jerod Lycett (talk) 18:27, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

I didn't say you should move it. Reread my comment. – Ammarpad (talk) 18:32, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Mismatched redirects needing cleanup[edit]

For a few years now, AnomieBOT has been creating redirects to help navigating to pages with titles containing en-dashes, since en-dashes are hard to type so people will type an ASCII hyphen-minus instead. I recently noticed that a few thousand of these had since become outdated due to page moves of the en-dashed titles and the like, so I had the bot start updating the ones it originally created when the target should change.

However, there are a few thousand where others have created similar redirects, and which probably require context to properly resolve. I've generated a list of these at quarry:query/45784. Probably in most cases the "asciiTitle" should be updated to redirect to "fancyTarget" or "fancyTitle", but it'll need someone to actually look through them to make sure. Don't forget to add {{R avoided double redirect}} as appropriate so they can get updated in the future too. Any takers? Anomie ⚔ 20:06, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the upcoming WPWP Campaign[edit]

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21:43, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

People's Mujahedin of Iran[edit]

Hello all. This article has always been a source of dispute and two admins have helped resolve issues almost on a full-time basis. (Thanks to both User:Vanamonde93 and User:El_C). The talk page was always a battle-ground for presenting sources of too opposite sides. But all of a sudden the talk page is flooded with RfCs to remove contents from the article that are somehow detrimental to the face of the group. I have been involved in the discussions of the article for more than a year now and things did not used to be like this. May be I am wrong, but this seems to me like a new phenomenon that does not sound normal. Specially with all the fuss going around about the US government thinking of this group as a replacement for Iran's current regime. Any thought on this topic is appreciated. --Kazemita1 (talk) 10:42, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

What are you hoping to achieve here, Kazemita1? RfCs are meant to attract outside participation; why is that a bad thing? Having a large number of RfCs on a single talk page is indeed unusual, but it's necessitated by the fact that none of the editors there are willing to budge from their positions on content, and so RfCs are the only ways to reach agreement. Other equally contentious topics also have lots of RfCs about them. Vanamonde (Talk) 14:24, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I am precisely hoping to attract more users in a rather "natural" way by posting here. The way it is in the talk page right now -and I hope you noticed that- is that user proportions are skewed. --Kazemita1 (talk) 06:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Possibly you've already seen WP:APPNOTE, but if not, it may have something helpful. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:58, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Two articles for the same person[edit]

Hyman Witcover and Hyman Whitcover each say that they are not to be confused with the other, but they certainly seem to be the same person. Can someone fix this? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:50, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

This one Hyman Witcover (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was created Dec 11, 2013 while this one Hyman Whitcover (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Dec 21, 2013. Both were created by Candleabracadabra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) who was blocked as a sock of ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log). The second one has slightly more sources and a pic. Merges are beyond my skills tho. MarnetteD|Talk 05:27, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

I added the photo a short time ago. I don't know which is the correct spelling - references have both. But I found "Witcover" more often. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 06:02, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

WP:COMMONNAME I think covers it, but you should use the name found more commonly. Jerod Lycett (talk) 06:24, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Witcover seems to be in more of the sources: I've added a "mergeto" tag. Was the now-blocked user trying to make a point about reliability of sources, I wonder, or just getting muddled? PamD 08:07, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Whee ~ --Izno (talk) 12:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 19:34, 24 June 2020 (UTC)