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This page needs to be updated!
Hello, I am here to ask anyone who has been continuously updating this page to update the South Asian information provided because there is a lot of inaccurate information about the main countries. Afghanistan needs to be taken off due to the fact studies in recent and historic times have told us the Afghanistan does not belong here. Afghans have always considered themselves Middle Easterners and from Central Asia and rightfully so. So whoever that is touching base with this page please do edit the information and correct it. I am a Ph.D. professor myself from Standford in History and with rigorous research have come to the obvious answer which is all around the world but Wikepidia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheIntellectualMind (talk • contribs) 10:07, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
- @TheIntellectualMind: This page is for discussing the contents of Misplaced Pages:Tutorial. If your post is about an article then you can discuss it on the talk page of the article, e.g. Talk:South Asia. See Help:Using talk pages. I noticed that in you removed Afghanistan from a list of South Asian countries but the list had an inline reference to many sources which include Afghanistan in South Asia, e.g. "CIA "The World Factbook"".. The purpose of inline references is to give sources which support the given content. There may be other sources which exclude Afghnaistan but if an article statement contradicts its own inline references then the article is effectively lying about what those sources say. Articles should never do that. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:29, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
Sir, I am not updating .. Please help me Manuj gogoi (talk) 19:02, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
- Although, ironically, the tutorial pages themselves do need to be updated. What do people think about replacing some or all of it with the newer Help:Introduction series? It more logically splits VisualEditor and Markup. The current tutorial contents here prioritise explaining details of markup that beginners will rarely use (e.g. manually formatting references from scratch rather than using the "cite" button). I suspect these tutorials make it harder on newcomers than necessary. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) 04:38, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Urgent need to update all Tutorial pages ("Save changes" is now "Publish changes")
The wiki-wide change implemented by WMF on 11 December 2017, which saw the renaming of the blue "Save changes" button to "Publish changes" in both source and visual editors, means that many text pages and some graphics in many of our Help and Tutorial pages are now out of date. I hope anyone who maintains these instructions will update these guidance pages as soon as possible. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 12:30, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
Link to other Wikipedias
You are in the Misplaced Pages of country A. What is the code to link to a page of the Misplaced Pages of country B?
- Answer: ] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:2149:8752:6b00:6d21:65f3:7c97:95af (talk)
- Misplaced Pages uses language codes and not country codes. See Help:Interlanguage links. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:35, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Proposal to overhaul WP:I and WP:T
I've put up a proposal at the Village Pump to replace the old WP:I and WP:T with the superior Help:Intro. Any opinions welcomed there. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) 02:41, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 14 March 2018
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Add a ")" at the end of the second paragraph. There is a "(', but no ")". TheZestyEel (talk) 18:37, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Done Updates
As stated above this page needs updates. For example 99 percent of the time www or world wide web is not needed in links. Bleucheeses (talk) 07:53, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
disruptive edit
Hi, forgive me if I'm doing anything wrong myself here (I'm pretty new, had this account for a month but only started using it yesterday) but I noticed someone (Farhaanfk29, I don't know the etiquette for tagging them?) put a link to their personal blog on the Misplaced Pages Links tab with a misleading edit summary. Acorri (talk) 21:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
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Copying the edit request thing from above, I hope this is okay? Acorri (talk) 22:07, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- Looks like this was already caught and reverted. Thanks! —KuyaBriBri 22:13, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks Acorri. I reverted it and blocked Farhaanfk29 indefinitely for spamming. The account already had a spam block and never did anything else than spamming with false edit summaries. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:17, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 27 June 2018
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benefit of this task Kwanele22 (talk) 09:57, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. —KuyaBriBri 13:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Edits
I've gone through the opening page, and will look at a few others later. Some non-native speakers might find the heavy use of "you" strange; in many languages, it's considered inappropriate. So I've reworded a few instances (not all). Tony (talk) 11:17, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 25 September 2018
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Please change "after correct a typo" to "after correcting a typo" because of a typo. LordOfThePlums (talk) 19:44, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
- @LordOfThePlums:
Done and thank you for catching the error. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:49, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
"Citing sources" how-to video needs to be updated
The "Citing sources tutorial part 1" video that appears first in the Misplaced Pages:Tutorial/Citing sources page is out of date and can confuse editors new to Misplaced Pages.
The video instructs learners to add a ==Notes== section, then tells them to add a {{reflist}} template to the section. However, in today's Misplaced Pages:
- Footnotes are added inline with the {{efn|}} template, sources for footnotes are cited with <ref></ref> — and the {{notelist}} template is added to the // Notes // section.
- Referenced sources are added inline and cited with <ref></ref> — but they appear in a ==References== section. The // References // section = {{reflist}} template.
Pyxis Solitary yak 00:05, 22 October 2018 (UTC)