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You deleted my addition to The Henry Ford museum site article on PRR GG1 #4909, on 4/13/22.

The deed of 1/17/22 back to the Leatherstocking Chapter-NRHS has not, to my knowledge, been reported online yet. However, it had been confirmed to me by both relevant primary sources:

  (a)Bruce E. Hodges, Chapter President, who personally bought #4909 from Conrail (for $15,000) in 1983.

   (b)Marc Greuther, Curator of the entire Henry Ford Museun.

As I assume that we share the common goal of keeping Wikipedia accurate, would you be willing to make Mr. Hodges the official “source” for my new text that you deleted, by simply emailing him to confirm the above? His email is:

      [email protected]

Thank you.

      Fellow Editor

mediawiki - Sections HTML code convertion problem

Greetings ... im havving a REALLY annoying problem. I have my wiki in a local server and in an server somewhere else.

The CSS are exacly the same BUT, on my local wiki the sections text are in blue (correct) and in the outside server are in black (wrong). even if i modify the main.css in the outside server in wont change to blue. if i apply any other stype, line background color, or underline, etc .. it will apply, but the color it refuses to change. i even tryied to use "!importante" and nothing (locally the the !import works just fine).

I looked into the generated page code to try to figure it out and this is that i found:

In my local server, the section generated code looks like this

<h1>
	<span class="mw-headline" id="Overview"> Overview </span>
</h1>

In the other end ... on my external server the section generated code looks like this

<h1>
	<span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">
		<a style="text-decoration:none;color:black" name="Overview"> Overview </a>
	</span>
</h1>

So.. i am almost sure that the problem is the style defined in the anchor. the question is .. why is that there??? i also found something interesting that may be a clue (for someone but not for me)

I found 2 wikis refering to "Help:Section"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section: in this one (the one we are right now), they say that section work like in my local wiki

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section: in this one it says that it works like on my external server

Is this any clue to anyone?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

- Miguel (17-02-2011 14:34) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.48.148.144 (talk) 14:34, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Linking to a second-level section from an edit to a different article

I tried for an hour to figure out how to link to Brown lemonade directly from an edit to a different article, and I can’t. BiliousBob (talk) 15:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BiliousBob: Is this follow-up to User talk:BiliousBob#Linking to a second level section? If so, you should have linked to that; if not, which article does this concern? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:41, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Auto-number headings" preference

There is a "Numbering" section which says: "For registered users who use Preferences → Appearance → Auto-number headings, sections are numbered both in the table of contents and at the beginning of each section heading." When I look at my preferences I don't see this option for "Auto-number headings". Is this a feature that no longer exists? --netjeff (talk) 16:25, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I found the answer myself. According to meta:Help:Preferences#Advanced_options the "Auto-number headings" was removed in October 2021. I'm updating this help page to remove this setting. --netjeff (talk) 16:32, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Netjeff: We were warned, see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 190#Tech News: 2021-26, Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 192#Tech News: 2021-41 and indeed Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 192#Section numbers gone. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:55, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

TOC not appearing in article mainspaces

I do not know why, but today, the Table of Contents on pages like Coca-Cola and Jupiter have just dissappeared. Why has this happened? Thanks. Realmaxxver (talk) 22:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This was happening for me too on all articles but seems to have just been resolved. --Here2rewrite (talk) 22:43, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Realmaxxver and Here2rewrite: See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Missing TOC?. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:13, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]