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October 1

Hindi

Mujhe book chahiye 2409:40E5:1C:2918:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 12:18, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

This is a place for asking question about using Wikipedia, please make your point clear. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 12:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

What book do you want, and why are you asking for it here? ColinFine (talk) 13:55, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Places of interest near me

Is there a section of Wikipedia that lists places of interest near me? 47.225.248.202 (talk) 14:29, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Special:Nearby. GeorgeMemulous (talk) 14:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

IP editor. Wikipedia has articles about places all over the globe. Judging by your IP address, you might want to start at Madison. The encyclopaedia itself will not automatically base suggestions on where you are from: I had to look up your ISP. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

... unless you authorise location-based settings at Special:Nearby, as just suggested. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:38, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, GeorgeMemulous, for giving that link. I'm impressed. I've found an article I didn't know existed, about a road ten minutes walk from here. Maproom (talk) 16:47, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Ex abbot of wat sampran dragon temple was not a sexual abuser but victim of a criminal organization to destroy him

i wish that the Wikipedia give opportunity for writing my testimony as a devoted of such a saint Chamlong Khonsue . I was mentioned before I met him by two prophetess in america that I was to meet the master of the father of my boys an ex monk from Thailand d dragon temple , disciple of dragon monk as we call luang pho Bhavana Buddho . He is a saint , enlighten that under the hands <redacted>. The saint did not accepted and request them all to allow him serve the prison , sacrifice himself as a bodhisattva into prison to help the inmates and officers to go to heaven . So , I was in the mission to bring this testimony to king of Thailand , to pm , all vip , to united nations and since always till today we are blocked , oppressed , persecuted by the criminal organization that block this dragon temple the source of economical and spiritual power for all the world . A monument for peace and salvation for the world from the Christ version chinese.

Please clarify both version of Wikipedia ... I took him out of prison by a royal pardon 5 December 2019 in the occasion of father's day the happy birthday of lord Rama 9 . Thanks 2603:9001:68F0:86E0:241F:8D54:576C:58B (talk) 18:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

The English-language Wikipedia has no article on Chamlong Khonsue. If it did, any article content would be based on published reliable sources, and not on the 'testimony' of a devotee. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:37, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Linking to articles

I am unsure if the edits I have tried to make are against guidelines. I work for a non profit that promotes all things happening in Salt Lake County and I was linking to additional resources on Salt Lakes page. I understand edits need to be made in order to build out a page for the non profit, which would just focus on tourism in salt lake county. is this allowed? Visit Salt Lake (talk) 20:38, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

The safest thing to do is to propose changes at the article talk page as you clearly have a conflict of interest as you appear to represent an organisation. There is also an issue with your username, which should be personal to you rather than an organisation - see WP:ORGNAME. If you are being paid by the organisation, see also WP:PAID. Mikenorton (talk) 20:54, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

How do I make an "episode table" collapsible

Hi. I want to make an existing "Episode table" template table collapsible, default: collapsed. I've tried wrapping it in "{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" |+ ... |}, which I found somewhere, but that doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks! Tsavage (talk) 20:42, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@Tsavage I think that there is useful documentation at {{table}}. Disclaimer: I've never created a table! Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Nothing there helped. The table remains uncollapsed. Tsavage (talk) 22:31, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

@Tsavage: Don't make content which is not visible when an article is shown. See MOS:DONTHIDE. Bazza 7 (talk) 22:09, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

In the case at hand, I'd argue that the table contains supplementary information. (It's a partial list of episode titles of a show related to the main article subject.) Tsavage (talk) 22:34, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Harmful user

I've warned user:Sinclairian about the biased, inaccurate, and harmful edits they've been doing. These are on very niche topics that nobody's ever, ever going to notice. Like who's gonna actually check the source translation on the Arslan Tash amulets? Well, I did because the translation is so scrabblingly amateurish, (Also because I always look lately when I see that username on one of my watched articles) and the user's rendering of it actually had some "improvements" that might make the scholar look better or worse. The reader would think the translation has been accurately copied and pasted when that's not the case. The other translation's even worse by some scholar I don't know. Someone legitimate, I'm sure, but not good. I think questionable artifacts should be categorized as such and noted in the first paragraph, and translastions of questioned items and forgeries shouldn't be included for obvious reasons. Anyway, I think the user should be banned. Inaccurcies on minor Semitic languages that a dozen people know will stick around forever; the quietness of it means the ripples on public knowledge will spread with no end. Very subtly destructive stuff. (Sorry if this is the wrong place, it's my first time reporting a user.) Temerarius (talk) 23:01, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

User conduct is discussed at WP:ANI. 331dot (talk) 23:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)