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Viverridae image caption

Resolved.Fixed.

I saw your edit on Viverridae and adjusted the caption slightly so that it shows up to regular viewers as a caption rather than as an alternate text. You can see how I changed the wiki-markup here OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:27, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

My original code should have worked. Is WikiSpecies running a different verson of MediaWiki than Wikipedia? From w:en:Wikipedia:Picture tutorial:

[[File:Wikipedesketch1.png|thumb|left|alt=A cartoon centipede reads books and types on a laptop.|The Wikipede edits ''[[Myriapoda]]''.]]

Same formatting as my code, with |alt=. The only difference is that I also specified a width, but that would not affect this. SMcCandlish (talk) 20:59, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

You left out "|thumb=" in the picture parameter. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 00:04, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

But |thumb= is for something entirely different, not relevant to what was doing: '[Y]ou can link to one image from a thumbnail's small double-rectangle icon , but display another image using "|thumb=Displayed image name". This is intended for the rare cases when the Wikipedia software that reduces images to thumbnails does a poor job, and you want to provide your own thumbnail.' There has to be something else going on. 20:31, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind. It's |thumb, not |thumb=; they do different things. The image on the page is working properly now that it has both |thumb and |alt=. SMcCandlish (talk) 20:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: Hi SMcCandlish. I've seen that you're an active user on the WikiProject Linguistics, so I thought you could help me to understand a thing. In the Help:IPA/Italian page I read in note 5: "the n in /nɡ/~/nk/ is a velar [ŋ], and the one in /nf/~/nv/ is the labiodental [ɱ]". I was wondering why in the symbol list does appear ŋ but ɱ doesn't, but I've read in the same note: "but for simplicity, ⟨m⟩ is used here". Why such a distinguo is made here? In Italian a nasal always assimilates to the following consonant, so ŋ can be found just before k and g while ɱ can be found just before f and v. If it's for simplicity, then also ŋ should be transcribed as n (since, unlike in other languages, in Italian this sound can't be found elsewhere). But this makes the transcription less accurate. Then, why doesn't ɱ have its own place in the list? It's weird to me such a different treatment... Could you enlighten me about this issue, please? Thank you if you will! 2001:1640:5:0:0:0:2:35 20:33, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

I really don't know, but agree that the inconsistency is strange and unhelpful. We should either use ŋ and ɱ, or simplify both to n and m. SMcCandlish (talk) 21:47, 22 December 2018 (UTC)