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Image: Flag of Creek Nation

Do you know if this is the official flag of the Creek Nation??? For I have seen another some-what similar flag. Or, is it neither, I am sooooo confused. I am a Creek decedent and trying to research my background. I would also like to purchase “The Official” Flag of the Creek Nation. If you have any answers or info that would prove useful PLEASE e-mail me at memereed02@sbcglobal.net Thank you, Teresa Reed

Please refer all factual questions to the reference desk. Thanks! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:36, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

(Copied to Wikipedia:Reference desk#Image: Flag of Creek Nation, look there for the answer. DES 05:26, 31 July 2005 (UTC))

Article with Dubious, Uncited Claims

I've already addressed my concerns with the Virgin Cola article on the talk page. I'm curious if I should tag this article, or add it to a list of articles to check.

Is there any other action you would recommend? Thanks. -- Skylark 20:22, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I would tag it with a "this article's factual accuracy is disputed tag", and if you wish to, take it to RfC to find community consensus. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:34, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

P.S. The tag is either {{dubious}} or {{disputed}} . You may also wish to list the article at Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:39, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Much of it (a recent, one-day user's submission) is unsourced and sounds like marketing blab. The last paragraph, however,(stuff about dirty tricks) borders on libelous, and I think having it there without citations reflects badly on Wikipedia. So I removed it to the talk page, but left the other stuff. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:44, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Username Deletion

How can I cancel my name from the log in and return to being an anonymous helper? Thank you Michael

Currently, there is no way to delete or remove user accounts. I would just not log in when editing Wikipedia. However, I highly encourage you to stay logged in. See Wikipedia:Why create an account? Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:35, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

If you don't like your user name you can create a different one at any time. DES 23:06, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

stub and navigational templates

Which should go first, a navigational template or a stub template? Thanks -- Mwalcoff 04:39, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

I imagine it might depend on context and the particular content of the navigational template (some can be ridiculously large), but as a reader, I would be much more interested in navigating than in knowing that the article isn't as complete as it could be. ∴ I would put the nav template first. —HorsePunchKid→龜 05:07, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

SOA

I did a search for Service Oreinted Architecture and your site provided a detailed explanation of SOA without one key component - IBM Message Oriented Middleware named Websphere rated number one by Gartner. Every other company's SOA product seems to be listed, but not IBM's , curious. Thank you.

dambrosj@us.ibm.com

We Wikipedians have sworth an oath to defy the Evil Blue Empire...no, no, I'm sorry, just kidding. There could be several reasons. You might want to look at the article's Talk page here to see if the contributors have discussed the product you mentioned. Keep in mind that you are free, in fact are encouraged, to add information; that's how articles get better. If you think you'll be making a radical change, it's good form to mention it on the Talk page first. DavidH 21:51, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Holy Roman Empire templates

I think the two templates at Holy Roman Empire would look better one on top of the other, rather than side-by-side as they are now. What is the best way to achieve this? Commander Keane 07:35, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Just move the second one further down until it is below where the bottom of the first one ends in the text. I did it myself, is that how you want it? --Dmcdevit·t 07:46, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

This is a nice and simple solution, thanks. However, the Austrian template tends to jump around in different resolutions, and there is text between the templates. --Commander Keane 08:07, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

One way to do this that usually works with both templates and images is to enclose them in a <div> ... </div> block, as explained at Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial#Co-aligning_like_images. Note that the pixel width of the div block must be specified for this to work with some browsers. Unfortunately, this technique does not work in this case because the templates specify relative widths (20%), which is interpreted as relative to the div, not to the page. Without changing the width specification in the templates, I can't think of a way to do exactly what you want. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:17, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

I sorted it with a <div style="clear:right">, which pushes the contents of the div down the page until the right-hand side is clear. [[smoddy]] 15:32, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Deletion

Is there any way for me to request the immediate deletion of articles I created myself? Document Number Two 12:55, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Put {{db|reason}} on the top of the page. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 14:42, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Should I also place it under "Candidates for Speedy Deletion"? Document Number Two 15:36, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

No. That is automatic. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 15:44, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do I just put a note requesting deletion at the top, with a reason, and wait for an administrator to find it? Thanks for the help so far. Document Number Two 15:49, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes. It is automaticly added to a page that administrators often look at when the notice is added. See WP:CSD. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 16:17, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

I understand now. Thank you for your help (and patience!) Document Number Two 16:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 17:00, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to keep at this, but how frequently are the Candidates for Speedy Deletion generally reviewed? What is the average lag time for Speedy Deletion requests? Document Number Two 21:30, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

During peak hours (hours where most people are using Wikipedia), CSD generally only take 10-15 minutes to be deleted. However, I have seen instances where backlogs have occured. At the most, it should take 1 or 2 days to be deleted. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• Compared to regular deletion which takes 5 days, this is relatively fast still. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:09, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Image Identification Page?

I could swear that a few weeks ago I ran across a page where people posted images and other people helped identify what their subjects were? Of course, now that I need it I can't seem to find it. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks! -- Avocado 16:44, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

I believe what you remember was at the reference desk; there, someone posted multiple images of an unknown bug/insect, and people tried to identify it. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 18:43, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, looks like you're right. Thanks! -- Avocado 11:45, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Diablo II Prime & Lesser Evils - A Structural Dilemma

Hi. I have enjoyed Wikipedia for some time, and only mustered the bravado to start editing articles only recently. A few days later, I signed up for Wikipedia so I would be credited properly for the work I put into articles.

I am a fan of the computer game Diablo_II and its expansion Diablo_II:_Lord_of_Destruction.

As such, I started looking for articles on information from the game, and found that there was a distinct lack of it, such as an article on Diablospeak (an article I started and am still adding to), a special form of slang, abbreviations, acronyms, and terms used within Diablo II.

While doing research for the article within Wikipedia, a conflict seems to have arisen in my mind. There are three "Prime Evils" in the game: Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal. There are also four "Lesser Evils": Andariel, Duriel, Azmodan, and Belial (only Andariel and Duriel are actually seen in the game, though, as the end bosses of Acts I and II respectively).

Now, there is an article for the The_Prime_Evils, which mentions both the prime evils and the lesser evils. However, there are also articles emerging for each of the respective evils, such as the one on Mephisto (Mephisto_(Diablo) that I created.

Wikipedia suggests that an ideal Wikipedia article would be no longer than 5,000 words unless an article requires a lot of explanation. Well, there is a lot of history and backstory to the game, much of which I have memorized. For instance, one of the Prime Evils, Baal, looks very similar to the historical demon.

I did my best to make a comparison of sorts between the two images; please excuse the rigidity of my coding, as I am very new to Wikipedia. The image on the left is Baal from the computer game, and the image on the right is Baal (also, Bael), the mythological demon.

File:Baal (diablo).jpg

As you can see, the computer game and mythological Baals look very similar. Obviously, the Diablo II Baal was inspired by the mythological Baal, with some elements removed (such as the cat and frog heads on either side), probably for aesthetical reasons.

I used this example to establish the the three Prime Evils (and likely the four lesser evils) have their own unique, complex histories, since they are based on mythological demons (in part or whole). Herein lies my dilemma: for the Prime and Lesser Evils, there are three possible options for writing the articles:

• An article that covers the three Prime Evils and four Lesser Evils (which already exists, but must be expanded upon).
• An article covering the three Prime Evils, and an article covering the four Lesser Evils.
• An article apiece for each of the Prime and Lesser Evils.

Now, as I said, conflicts are already appearing, as an article for Mephisto (Mephisto_(Diablo) already exists along with the article for the Prime and Lesser Evils (The_Prime_Evils).

If any of the three options I listed are chosen, then a few things will have to be edited and moved around. Either way, I need a lot of help with this, and any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

I should note, Blizzard announced on July 29, 2005 that the 1.11 patch is coming out soon, which means that there will likely be a surge of people looking at Diablo II-related items. Blizzard is shutting down their online playing service, Battle.net, for a few hours on Monday, August 1, and rumors are abound that this is when they are going to implement the new patch. I know time is short, but if possible, I would like to make a decision and start making changes and have everything neat and sorted out by tomorrow. I have the rest of today (Sunday, July 31) to work on this if I must.

Thank you.

--Ihmhi 18:32, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• You should probably talk about that on the article's talk page. Elfguy 21:27, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• I think I might have put this in the wrong place... but I digress, that is not the point. This covers many articles, and it would be served best if I put it in one centralized place, would it not? Besides, even if you are not a fan of the game, I think I explained the structural issue well enough, so this is an issue of the way the articles are organized; very little knowledge on the game itself is necessary. --Ihmhi 16:38, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Finalize VfD for JAXASS

Can someone please finalize the vote for deletion on JAXASS. The creator (Sleepnomore - contributitions) of the article is basically a troll adding numerous comments in the talk page and trying to persuade other by adding his comments at the top of the page and not at the bottom. The overall vote consensus is obviously in strong favor of deleting the article as it is only an attempt to gain acceptance for a newly coined term. All of the keep votes are from unknown users - some who also edited the JAXASS article. I believe it is Sleepnomore who have added these votes.

If this is not the correct place to address this issue please let me know.

Thanks --Sleepyhead81 18:56, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Its unfortunate that Sleepyhead81 feels this way. I'm sure he is a great individual in person, but his online personality somehow disagrees with mine. I think you will find that I am doing my best to address the issues on the vote for deletion discussion in an attempt to keep the article alive. Since I am new to wikipedia, I did in fact add the word "keep" at the beginning of my comments (I was following Sleepyhead81's lead since I didn't know what to do). I've rewritten the article and removed several of the offending comments. As far as the other votes to keep go, they are not mine. I do in fact have a few others that have voted keep. I've even had one edit my page praising the technology (I removed the praise as it wasn't encyclopedic). Wikipedia is not a democracy. Sleepyhead81 has called on several people to help him get this technology removed. He's even wiped the page once. He's done everything in his power to get this technology removed despite its obvious existence. I'm sure he means well, but its become harrasment at this point. I ask that you please keep the JAXASS article so I can work with these folks to help make the article better rather than simply deleting it. Sleepnomore 22:29, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

• I don't think it is time to close this discussion yet. The debate to date has not been focused on whether the article should exist in furtherance of establishing Wikipedia as an on-line, publicly edited encyclopedia, and it is difficult to determine what the actual vote is because too many people have "spoiled their ballots" by using voting terms instead of comment on their commentary posts. Also, there is not a broad-enough base of comments on the merits of the article. Too few people have spoken. I personally don't like the article and would edit it for improvement if I could, but I don't know enough about the field to do so. Important note it is not that I don't know enough about JAXASS itself. The actual workings of the software are only one portion of what should be covered in the article. As I said on the issue-specific page, the article needs a lot of work. --Mddake 00:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

2004 Presidential Election

I added a new paragraph summarzing the result of the 2004 Presidential Election by Congressional District...i add this just the other day...under my username polidata...it is now totally gone...and i have received no email about it...did i do something wrong here?

I believe the paragraph is still there, changed somewhat by a subsequent editor (via this edit). If you would like to discuss this with the other editor feel free to leave a message on his/her talk page, or you can bring it up on the talk page associated with the article (the "discuss this page" tab). In general, anything anyone contributes may be subsequently edited by other users (so, no, you didn't do anything wrong). -- Rick Block (talk) 20:12, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

to delete or ignore???

Without (and I will) trying to sound stupid, how do I know what I shoudl ignore, delete or quarantine???? Should I go by what the program suggests (under details)? Is it possible to delete any necessary files while deleting spyware????

• Please direct this question to the reference desk and be a bit more specific about the program and system you are using. It's very hard to answer your question without this information. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:12, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Copyright issue, formating check needed.

I suck at gramarical errors. I did a large edit on a niche article. It also needs a format check as I don't know exactly how to deal with the external references from the old paper, wether they are external linkes here or are references, and now what the original paper that was an external link is.

It was an import from another author with permission to move to the GFDL, which I fully explained the implications of. I couldn't find out what was fully needed, I am hoping this email exchange which I have archived on and offline will do.

where can we see what you have so far? can you put it on a user page for someone to look at and work with? or has it been posted as an article? If so, what is the title? DES 22:38, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Ahh, i'm dumb, it's GOMS. Indo

Change article name or redirect?

Hello, I recently posted a new article on The Doane Stuart School. However I find the only way I can access the article using the Wikipedia search function is by typing out the full article name, shorthand like "Doane Stuart" doesn't return results that link to my article. I've also since learned that Wikipedia naming conventions avoid the pronoun "The" in article names. My 3 questions are: 1) How do I change the name of my article (say, to "Doane Stuart School") 2) Instead of renaming, should I just add a redirect page with that name? 3) Why doesn't the Wikipedia search return full results?

Thank you, -SONORAMA

I would approach it this way:

1) click on the tab at the top of the article that says "move", fill out the form that comes up to move it to "Doane Stuart School" and it'll be done.

2) add a redirect at "Doane Stuart".

3) Search seems to be acting wonky lately, I don't know why.

Dismas 02:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia's search mechanism uses an index that is currently not rebuilt very often (in particular, it is not updated with every edit). Content added since the last time the index was rebuilt doesn't show up. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:27, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

What is the copyright status of John Garang.jpeg?

I would like to use this photo (found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:John_garang.jpeg) in a posting on my blog,and I need to know if I have to jump through any hoops. Is this image public domain or not?

As the description page says, the uploader did not include the quite necessary information about the image's source and license. You can try contacting User:Jgatkuoth, but I wouldn't expect a response. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:35, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Problem with copyright template?

The template "Promophoto" doesn't seem to work on this image: Ingram_marshall_250x250.jpg on the page Ingram Marshall

Non-free promotional photographs are not allowed on the Wikimedia Commons. I have tagged the image for deletion by a Commons admin. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:33, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

• Are you sure you spelled the template name correctly with the proper capitalization? - Mgm|^(talk) 09:15, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Wrong Article Posted

Hello,

My name is Jlinderman. On 1 Aug 05, I was to post an assignment for school on Wikipedia. However, I posted the wrong article. When I realized that it was the wrong article I went to go back and replace it with the correct article. However the first article (my working copy) was flagged for copyright. The Article is Bentgrasses, I posted the correct article on the talk board for it. This first article needs to be deleted and how do I do that and repost the correct article.

I have been searching this site for 2 hours trying to get assistance.

Thanks

John

Well, the instructions in the copyright violation notice would have been a good place to start, but for now I suggest that you concentrate on contributing to the article on Agrostis. Note that it is not generally appropriate simply to copy into Wikipedia text created for a different purpose, as it will likely not have the right encyclopedic nature, and it will surely not be wikified. I strongly caution you against simply replacing the existing article with your own, or just appending it. Careful integration of important but unrepresented facts is what you want to do.

By the way, when you say "was to post", does that mean that your teacher encouraged you to post it here? Is using Wikipedia part of a class project? Has your teacher read Wikipedia:Schools' FAQ and Wikipedia:School and university projects?

Regarding your original article, it will be deleted after a few days, and replaced with the temp version which is current a redirect to Agrostis. I must say that I'm a little curious how you managed to post "the wrong article", and insert the contents of a webpage instead of your paper.

Cheers, Bovlb 07:28:54, 2005-08-01 (UTC)

Just out of curiosity, what was the assignment that you were given? Dismas 08:16, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

contributing new entries

hi

i love wikipedia. i'd like to know please if one can make suggestions about new entries for the encyclopedia.

thank u

surendran reddy (composer)

• Welcome! The beautiful thing about wikipedia is that you can do more than suggest a new entry - you can create it yourself. See Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Help:Starting a new page. You may want to play around in the Sandbox first to get the hang of it, or to visit one of the following pages:
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style
• Merging, redirecting, and renaming pages
• If you're ready for the complete list of Wikipedia documentation, there's also Wikipedia:Topical index.

Anyway, enjoy! --Blu Aardvark | ^{(talk) | (contribs)} 11:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you are looking for Requested articles? I have added Surendran Reddy to the composers list here. Hope that helps! --Commander Keane 12:42, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

ticks

I was wondering if there was a nother way to get tiks out besides a match.I don't want to hurt my dogs ear.

• Please refer questions like this to the reference desk in the future. I think your vet may have more ideas on how to solve your problem. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:44, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

breton vs new brazilian site

i'm not quite sure who to write to so i've sent this mail to a few places. the problem is ther's a guy called cyperpoeta who wants to set up a brazilian wikipedia as distinvct from a portuguese one (why, i'm not sure). but all things being equal, good luck to him. the hitch is her's occupying the br site which is already assigned to breton (where i contribute). he's already changed the welcome page several times. what can be done?? 81.60.240.99 14:46, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Hijacking a site as Cyberpoeta is trying to do by walking over a formatted main page could be regarded as vandalism, which is generally regarded as a blockable offence. You should probably send Cyberpoeta to meta:Requests for new languages. If you need a Portuguese speaking interpreter to communicate, you could try the Portuguese Wikipedia Embassy at pt:Wikipedia:Embaixada Susvolans (pigs can fly) 15:45, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

wrong number of pages on watchlist

My watchlist page is saying "You have 52.5 pages on your watchlist" but I actually have twice that many, 105. What is wrong? Bubba73 15:11, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Maybe talk pages? Elfguy 15:20, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

I have the same problem. It says I have 22.5 and I really have 45. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 15:33, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

PS and if I click on "display and edit the complete list", it shows the correct number. But "My watchlist" shows half of the correct number, even a 0.5 page. Bubba73 15:36, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Again, me too. Must be a bug. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 16:07, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Dude, I'd like to find that half a page I'm watching. 21.5, indeed. Any clues on what to do? Hermione1980 16:37, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

This is a bug that has been brought up before, see here. You might want to report what's happening to you at Wikipedia:MW_1.5_bugs, and then make a bug report. --Dmcdevit·t 18:16, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I just tried that. I created an account, but when I tried to enter it, it wouldn't take it (the bug report). Bubba73 19:02, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Happening to me too, but on a larger scale. 1635 when I'm supposed to have about 3500. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 23:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Massive spam/astroturfing effort

I stumbled on the article MentaNet News, and from that Richard Menta & MP3 Newswire. If you look through the contributions of the not-signed-in people who contributed them, it looks like they're making an on-going effort to hijack WikiPedia to garner extra Google links, and to spam themselves in as many wikipedia articles as possible. There are >lots< of one-man internet news services, about mp3 and other things, and this some seems to have given itself undue promenance by underhand means. I just thought I should let WikiPedia know, in-case you hadn't noticed it yet.

Peter.

• I removed the links where they seemed inapropriate. Elfguy 16:55, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

You're right Peter - I'll look into all three and perhaps but them on VfD - it appears MP3 Newswire is the most notable of the three, yet has an Alexa of 127,000. -JJLeahy 16:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC) (Update - I've put MentaNet News and MP3 Newswire on VfD, but I think Richard Menta appears to be notable. I will wait to see how these do on VfD before nominating Richard Menta. -JJLeahy 18:52, 1 August 2005 (UTC))

How do I see all articles or edits by a particular user?

Sorry if this is covered somewhere, but I have been on the site looking around for a couple of days and can't find out how to do it. Trickyt 20:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Go to a User's page by clicking on their name, their contributions can be found by clicking the link on the left side of the page where it says "user contributions". Dismas 21:10, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Dismas, That's solved it. Trickyt 21:42, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Orphan links on Recent Changes template?

What are these non-working links at the top of the Recent Changes page (following all the working links?

Major Incident Plan - Sangmélima - Dearing Report - Ţirād Khurr - Para-functional habit

Never noticed it before. Doesn't seem like a good idea to have five broken links here. Vandalism? DavidH 00:10, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Those are pages people want. They don't exist yet. They are there so you can see them. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 00:15, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

I thought they would have something to do with Recent Changes -- are they the most recent links without targets? I assumed there was a long, long list of those somewhere. Everything else at the top of recent changes seems to be a list or tool, so if this is a few random needed articles, there should be a label to that effect. DavidH 00:47, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

It says Requests right next to it. See Wikipedia:Requested articles. Most of that stuff has little to do with RC. They are just helpful things. Howabout1 ^{Talk to me!} 00:51, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Yep, just open tasks lying around where hopefully lots of good Wikipedians frequent. It's actually located at Wikipedia:Recentchanges. --Dmcdevit·t 01:01, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Now I see it. In that font the colon was invisible to me. As a suggestion, a label should not also be a link. It could instead be followed by "Show all" as a link (or some other wording). I guess it's bold but at that size it's really hard to see (on my screen at least). DavidH 02:56, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

This could be solved by making it normal size and not small. I've thought about doing that before. If others want to, I'll be bold. Dmcdevit·t 04:11, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Anything to make it clearer as a label (assuming making the label not a link is not possible). Making just the labels larger would certainly help. Thanks for considering my concern. DavidH 04:31, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

This is an example of very bad interaction design. When I click "Recent changes", guess what I want to see? Recent changes! Instead, I have to read or skip over half a page of other crap, some of it "excise" (as Alan Cooper calls it), and some of it completely unrelated, such as the Projects and Requests. This is one reason why I, for one, hardly use this page anymore. — Sebastian (talk) 05:21, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Thunderdome article, time for disambiguation?

I am going to write an article about the Thunderdome, an on-campus basketball arena at the University of California, Santa Barbara. When you look at the Thunderdome article, it references a "famous" commune in Champaign, Illinois. I looked up "Thunderdome" on Google, and the UCSB page came up 15th, ahead of the communal society. Note how there are several Thunderdomes listed, including the communal, the music festival, the arena, and the movie.

My question is: Isn't it time for a disambiguation page? I sure think so.

Thank you, fpo 01:43, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Sounds like a disambiguation to me, too. When you've got four or five articles that would all like to occupy the same space, it's time. Isomorphic 03:32, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

I made it into a disambiguation page, and will write the Thunderdome (arena) article soon. Thanks --fpo 05:21, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Search

I am looking for the misspelled word "phenomenom", to change them to "phenomenon". On the left side of the screen it says "search", with a field under it, and "Go" and "Search" buttons below that. If I enter phenomenom and click Search, it can't find any. But if I click Go instead, it shows 93 examples! So I must be misunderstanding what Search is supposed to do. Most of the unfound "phenomenom"'s are in regular articles, so it should be enough to have the (main) namespace checked. What am I missing? Art LaPella 04:39, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Search searches the whole text, and Go goes to the article of that title if it can find it. Otherwise, it should work just as Search, if I understand it correctly. — Sebastian (talk) 04:55, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that was my understanding also. So it seems likely that I found a bug. Go lists all the phenomenom's, and Search doesn't. Art LaPella 04:59, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Funny edit conflict. I changed my reply while you added yours. It seems neither of us saw the other's text. I got the unfortunately common error message that it couldn't display the page after I clicked Save. — Sebastian (talk) 04:58, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I got that error message also after I clicked Save. Art LaPella 05:02, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia's search tool is notoriously unreliable. Sometimes it's better to just use Google to search Wikipedia. --Dmcdevit·t 05:05, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Removing a comment on an image?

Hi,

I recently added my first article and image but unfortuntely I made a mistake re the comment attached to the image. I tried to update the comment by uploading the image again and while I can see that the change was listed, the original incorrect entry remains.

As only an experienced editor may delete the first entry, I was wondering to whom I should approach in respect to having the original entry removed.

The reason I would like to have the original comment deleted is because I do not wish to create any confusion regarding the copyright notice.

The entry to be deleted was uploaded 10:48, 2 August 2005 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jfhhobler1764-1844.jpg

The image and comment uploaded at 10:50, 2 August 2005 is the correct version which I would like to retain.

Thanking you in advance for your assistance,

Nywor

You're actually making it harder than it is :). Just go to the image, Image:Jfhhobler1764-1844.jpg and click on the edit button there. You don't need to reupload or anything that extensive. The image description can always be edited like any other page. --Dmcdevit·t 05:11, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

When are contributions spam?

Jasondmath (talk • contribs • block) seems to post only external links to business pages in which he is involved. Example: [http://wserver0.prepaidlegal.com/Multisite/Multisite?site=idt&assoc=jasonmathison Protect your identity video_"PLEASE WATCH"] in Identity theft.

Is this OK or considered spam? — Sebastian (talk) 04:47, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Definitely spam. I've reverted all of his edits and warned the user. --Dmcdevit·t 05:18, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

longhorn with windows 98.how?

respected sir my question is very minor i want to know how can i install windows 98 on a pc having windows longhorn as it's o/s b'coz whenever i try to install win 98 i get a message that u r already running a higher version of windows and cant install win 98.

A) I didn't think Longhorn was due out till next year...?

B) The Wikipedia:Reference desk is the place for this question. Please take your question there. The Help Desk is for questions about the Wiki itself. Dismas 09:28, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Category: Cities in ...

I just added the [[Category:Cities in Kenya to some localities in Kenya. I hesitated somewhat when I got to towns, but now I came across a village of mere 200 people: El Molo. Should there be a different category or is it OK to add all of these into the Cities of ... category? — Sebastian (talk) 08:44, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Slag (slang)

I know that Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so is Slag (slang) a candidate for deletion? --Commander Keane 10:31, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

I dare say it is. Wiktionary already has an entry, so ours doesn't need to be transwikied, either. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 11:41, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Credit Bank

I received a e-mail from the Credit Bank/ Madrid Sp