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    May 31

    edit username

    Is there a way to edit my username? I just want to capitalize the 2nd name.Siona 01:46, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, you will need a Bureaucrat to make the change for you, which you can request at Wikipedia:Changing username. Follow the instructions on that page, and someone will come along and do it. Happy editing! Prodego talk 01:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    In addition, it seems that you only have one edit on Wikipedia so it may be easier to just creat a new account with your name spelled the way you want to. -- Hdt83 Chat 01:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Well... Since the username is only one letter off the filter will catch it; an admin could create the account and email a password to you though. I recommend just getting renamed. Prodego talk 02:04, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Finally, If the username you want has already been taken, and the user who has taken it has Zero edits, then you can try to usurp the username here. To find out if the username has been taken check out Special:Listusers. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 02:21, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    am or brit

    In articles that do not relate directly to an Anglophonic country or region, which English dialect should I use. On some articles, such as Hornblende, words are written in American English (practice, color) and British English (practise, colour). Is there a Wikipedia-wide standard for English dialect? Thanks. RockRNC 02:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You should probably discuss it on the talk page. WP:MOS states that an article should use only one dialect. See here for more details on how to proceed. Hersfold (talk/work) 02:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Transposing a special page?

    Is there a way to make any special page, such as Whatlinkshere, appear on a page, the way you can with, for instance, Prefixindex? Example below: {{Special:Prefixindex/Wight}}

    Doing this with other special pages, however, only generates a link (for example:

    ). Any way around this? Lenoxus " * " 02:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Ask on #mediawiki on Freenode IRC, and if it cannot be done file a feature request on Bugzilla (Mediazilla). —Centrx→talk • 04:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    All right, I'll see if I can get IRC to work on my computer. Thx Lenoxus " * " 15:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    my signature

    can someone help me fix my signature? and btw i am using raw signature, but i will change it if its easier. ❤ ɱӑԀסԀÏƏ₭Ⓐ†Ǝ ✭ | User_talk:Maddiekate 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    What do you need fixed? --Kainaw (talk) 04:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, it's showing up as garbled with question marks on my browser (Firefox on an old version of Windows) -- there's probably no "fix" but to use near-latest software, or simply use non-special characters only. Lenoxus " * " 15:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The question marks are because the fontset you are using does not have those special characters in it. --Kainaw (talk) 17:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You guys should...

    Create a Wikipedia messenger, and become the next huge company like Google or Yahoo...

    I know that you guys can do it!

    You're already THE place to learn on the internet...

    You should be THe place to do everything! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.109.77 (talk • contribs)

    Well, it would be more of a Wikimedia messenger (I suppose you could go propose it on the meta site), but (a) I don't see how you could Wiki it, (b) it would represent a huge load on the WM servers, (c) WM doesn't plan on becoming "the next huge company" - it's a non-profit organisation and all indicators are that it's hoping to stay that way. Confusing Manifestation 04:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The Wikimedia Foundation plans to stay non-profit, but check out what the Great Leader is doing with Wikia. Wikia certainly has some potential to become the next huge company like Google or Yahoo. --Teratornis 04:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Merging Category:CrossGen comics and Category:CrossGen titles

    I see no reason for these to be separate categories. You would think that "CrossGen comics" would be a list of all comics / works by CrossGen but instead they are listed under CrossGen titles - this confused me at first. I recommend that they are merged into one category and use that one on each of the pages rather than one or the other. I'm pretty new to Wikipedia so I wanted to get some feedback on this before doing it myself.--Campbecf 05:07, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It seems to have ate what I set for the title, this is what it was supposed to be: Merging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CrossGen_comics and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CrossGen_titles --Campbecf 05:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Fixed. [[Category:Whatever]] adds a page to the category. [[:Category:Whatever]] creates the link thus: Category:Whatever. Confusing Manifestation 05:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. I think that the information in Crossgen titles should in includes in the CrossGen comics category as a table. --Campbecf 09:16, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    reducing figure sizes

    Hi, how can i reduce the size of the output figure without sacrificing the URLs (syntax?) associated with it. Example: http://www.bioline.org.br/imgs/bioline_international.gif. I want to reduce the Bioline logo but I won't alter the syntax. (why does the logo and the hyperlink show here?)

    I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Are you trying to do this? http://www.bioline.org.br/, where you reduce the url length? In that case the problem is that you're doing it backwards by putting the real URL second. The URL goes first, then the space, and then the link name. --tjstrf talk 07:20, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    My apologies. I was quite unclear. I was trying to ask if there could be any program or syntax to reduce the size of the output figure. In this example image, i want to reduce the size of the figure using this URL. Another alternative is to reduce it using Photoshop then upload it. But i dont want to do this way. [1]

    Ah, I think I understand. You want the image result at right?
    In code, that would be [[Image:Crystal_Clear_app_looknfeel.png|50px|thumb]]
    The size can be adjusted to whatever you want, of course. --tjstrf talk 09:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for this reply. How about if i did not upload the figure and i want the URL to be incorporated on the code, what code should i use? The code [[Image:[2]|50px|thumb]] cannot be recognized. Thanks.

    Customising my tag

    I'd like to customise my tag but everywhere I look all I find is some super hyper code that does not work the same everytime. So could I just have the code In to this box All i want is a simple Red to Blue fade So Red=> Peace kee (a little of purple) per II<Blue 

    In here please:[[User:Peace keeper II|<font color="red">Peace k</font><font color="purple">ee</font><font color="blue">per II</font>]]

    Peace keeper II 08:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Turns out like this:

    Peace keeper II

    Regard

    Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 11:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    creating mailing list

    Hi Just found your site and wanted to know if there is a way to create a mailing list of the site Iwanted.

    It's all of the High Schools in Michigan.Is there a way to open up all of the addresses.

    Thank you

    Hello, I'm not sure what you're asking and I'm not sure what site you think you are on, but this is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ssepp(talk) 11:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, not really sure what you are looking for but a simple search (after all this is an encylopedia) revealed this list: List of high schools in Michigan. Hope that helps. Scottydude talk 14:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    WikiMedia Extensions

    So I was looking at yet another long tedious list and I REALLY wanted to be able to sort it this time. Would a MediaWiki extension be the sort of thing that enables this behavior? I'm having a hard time finding information on what exactly an extension is and the sorts of things they allow you to modify. I imagine that it is some javascript that loads up for a person who enables it at certain times when interacting with the wiki software, correct?

    Anyways, I imagine that if extensions are the correct way to realize this functionality, there is probably an existing one? Also, could you point me in the direction of the general policies of Wikipedia on upgrading/downgrading the version of the software? That is to say, if I wanted to add a javascript table sorting ability to MediaWiki, assuming it could not be accomplished through extensions (which seem FAR preferable), would there be any chance of it actually showing up on wikipedia sometime in the next century? ;)

    Sorry for so much questioning, thanks! Audiodude 10:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Heading 1 Heading 2
    a c
    d b
    There is certainly a javascript table sorting in MediaWiki, and it's installed on Wikipedia (see above; check the 'edit' view for this section to see how it works). I'm not sure whether it's an extension or part of the core code. --ais523 11:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
    MediaWiki#Release history says sortable wikitables are a feature of version 1.9. --Teratornis 13:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Uploading a scanned in family photograph

    I came across information of my great grandfather (Sydney Percy-Lancaster) on Wikipedia. I have original photographs of him (and his family) and have scanned in one of the photographs which I thought might be appropriate to use on Wikipedia. If I own the photograph what is the copyright status and how do I upload the image? This environment is all very new to me.

    I think the person who took the photograph owns the copyright. Do you know who it was? ssepp(talk) 15:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) The person who took the photograph has the copyright on it, and can decide the conditions under which it's released. Use this upload form if you yourself own the copyright, and choose the terms under which you're willing to release it to Wikipedia and the outside world there. If the person who took the photo died more than 100 years ago (slightly unlikely but possible in this case), the copyright will have expired (at least if you live in the UK or US), and you can use the main upload form and specify 'author died over 100 years ago' as the licence. It's more complicated if neither of these applies; see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions to ask people who are more likely to know the answer. --ais523 15:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

    Hello! I was not sure how to contribute with this, but there it is: the page about Peptide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide) should have "in other languages" link to Polish page http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptydy.

    You can add this link yourself by editing the page and placing [[pl:Peptydy]] ('pl' for 'pl.wikipedia.org') at the bottom of the page; keep the links in alphabetical order by language name if there's more than one. --ais523 15:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


    Archiving Talk Page

    How would I go about automatically archiving my talk page, I've tried to use a bot advised but it hasn't archived the page. ≈ Maurauth (nemesis~☆) 15:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Shadowbot3 (which is currently taking over Werdnabot's job) edits at 05:00 and 21:00 UTC (taking some time to get round to all the pages on the list), so the auto-archiving won't happen yet. If your page hasn't been archived by tomorrow, post back here to try to find out what went wrong. --ais523 15:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

    Mayors

    Hi There

    I recently added a lot of information to the page "Mayors of New Brunswick, New Jersey" and decided to also add a new page, "Mayors of Highland Park, New Jersey." Here :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Highland_Park%2C_New_Jersey

    Then I tried to do an internal link to the Highland Park, NJ article using the phrase "The mayor of Highland Park is Meryl Frank"

    It didn't work, and when I looked in the index, my new page isn't there.

    Do I just wait for it to be recognized or do I have to actively do something, other than just making the page?

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    Thank you

    Frank Deis -- Affenbart.

    PS my email is email removed, it's easier for me to get the reply that way but I will come back here as well.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Affenbart (talk • contribs) 15:43, May 31, 2007

    It's now fixed. You need to type the the exact title of the article in order to link to it. Otherwise you would only have a red link :) I hope this helps. PeaceNT 15:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    [Question removed; not appropriate for the help desk. YechielMan 20:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)][reply]

    Languages

    Are you only allowed to use English language when contributing to the English wikipedia? Francisco Tevez 16:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    • Depends on what you mean. Articles needs to be in English. Talk pages and discussions should be in English (since everything should be open to all to see). Sources need not be in English, though this is preferred. WilyD 16:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    lime juice

    Talk archive vadalized

    Hello. I currently have four archive pages for my talk page. When I went to archive my current talk page, I saw that what was previously an uncreated archive page seems to have been vandalized by an anonymous IP. Could someone delete this page, please? - User_talk:Ibaranoff24/Archive05

    Thank you - Ibaranoff24 16:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Can you expand a little? It seems that User_talk:Ibaranoff24/Archive05 has a lot of potentially useful information. What is the IP address of the vandal? tiZom(2¢) 17:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Stripper Column Designing

    I'm an undergraduate and currently involving in a project on stripper coulumn design. I'm looking for a web site (free service) which provides comprehensive desing details and methods of desinging. Stripper Column is to seperate CO2 from rich MEA stream using steam as the stripping medium. Thank you. Malinda

    This page is for questions about using and editing Wikipedia. For questions that are more of a reference material sort, please see the reference desk. Also, thanks for explaining what "stripper column" means. I had an entirely different mental image. Dismas|(talk) 17:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You could start by reading these articles: Amine gas treating and Ethanolamine. (You might as well read Chemical engineering to see what Wikipedia says about your (likely) major. Perhaps you can help improve that article.) The Amine gas treating article uses "regenerator" as a synonym for "stripper column." I don't see a Wikipedia article that tells exactly how to design one, although I did not make much of an attempt to find such an article (that's your job). You might have to consult some chemical engineering textbooks (which you almost certainly have in your university library). Or look it up in the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (which, amazingly, does not seem to have an article on Wikipedia yet, considering it is a standard reference for the chemical process industry). If you have some more details about the upstream process which is (presumably) generating flue gas which is undergoing Amine gas treating, and thus creating the need for the regenerator/stripper, you would have more keywords to use for Google Search and possibly find some details on how to design the various unit operations in that process. --Teratornis 22:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Demographics

    I want to write a section for demographics on an area of London. The census is collected by electoral wards. The wards don't coincide with the area. The area is all of one ward + 25% of a second. How do I handle this? Can I make calculations as long as I make it clear how the figs are derived?

    Yes, I do believe that is allowed. It does not appear to be a violation of WP:OR. If I'm wrong someone please correct me.
    --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 19:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Why is my page being deleted  ? ? ?

    Can you please tell me why my page is being deleted ? I just contributed it and now you say you are deleting it. Why ?

    AL (E-Mail removed for security purposes)

    You'd get a better answer from User:NawlinWiki, since he's the one that deleted it and I can't see what was there... but judging by the title of the page that he deleted, it was probably a nonsense page that added no value to the encyclopedia. This isn't a website that you can just create any page you want about any topic you want, it's a collaborative experience to build an encyclopedia that's of use to anybody. --Maelwys 18:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Correction, just read the delete log to find out, and it turns out that it wasn't a nonsense page, just a poorly named one. But the topic was still apparently unsuitable for wiki. I suggest your read Wikipedia is not a Soapbox, as recommended by the deleting administrator, since that's the basis on which he deleted it. --Maelwys 18:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    See Wikipedia:Why was my article deleted?. --Teratornis 22:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Image problem

    I can't get any images to display from upload.wikimedia.org;I have tried regular techniques. Firefox 2.0.0.3 & Win XP. GDonato (talk) 18:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    !voting

    What does the term "!vote" mean? Geuiwogbil 19:18, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    A !vote is not a vote. It's generally used to clarify that even though people are putting forward their opinions in the form of a vote, it's not actually a vote because polling is not a replacement for discussion. So even if the !vote count seems to indicate that one side is "winning", if the other side has the better arguments, it could still "win" at the end. --Maelwys 19:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    What a counterintuitive and pointless way of going about things. Thanks for the quick response! Geuiwogbil 19:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    See !#Computers for the reason for this notation. PrimeHunter 19:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Counterintuitive? Absolutely. (Welcome to the upside down world of wikis, where much of the knowledge you relied on to reach this point now needs updating.) Pointless? I would hesitate to say that. An argument could be made that there is a point - you're looking at it. That is, Wikipedia itself is the result of all these staggeringly complex policies, guidelines, and procedures. A bunch of volunteers from all over the world, working for free, have somehow put together one of the world's most popular Web sites, and somehow it doesn't all degenerate into a mass of nonsense as one might reasonably expect. This is not to say that every social custom which has evolved on Wikipedia is the optimally productive behavior, but Wikipedia must be getting it right more often than wrong. --Teratornis 00:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How do I get a username to print out with links to their talk page, contributions, etc., as I seen done in many places? For example, listing a user's sock puppets? KP Botany 19:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Try the {{user}} template. For example, {{user|KP Botany}} produces KP Botany (talk · contribs). See here for many other styles.--Werdan7T @ 19:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    {{usercheck}} might be the one you are looking for. Carom 19:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, both are very useful pages to know about, and completely unfindable. KP Botany 20:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Carom left links to them as well as links for more info. Simply click on the blue to find them. To use them just type them in the edit window as you see them: {{user}}. If you would like to do this in your signature you cannot use these templates. Templates are not allowed in signatures becuase they create server strain. You can however include direct links in your signature as long as you check raw signature. Scottydude talk 22:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I think KP's point was that he could not find the pages before asking here, not that he couldn't follow the links provided by Werdan7 and myself... Carom 22:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If you know where there is an example of something and wonder how it was done, then just click edit to see the source (may be problematic in case of Wikipedia:Template substitution). PrimeHunter 22:47, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, the point was they were unfindable before, not that the links posted for me were not found. I found and added both to my watch list so I can use them in the future.

    PrimeHunter, the user who did it on the page before me did something that was substituted. I kept looking for pages that looked like it, but they were all substituted with reams of code. KP Botany 00:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Many (but not all) templates will contain a commented out message near the end stating the name of the template that looks something like this: LoTs AnD LoTs Of TeXt AnD cOdE<!--Template:Name-->Fuhghettaboutit 00:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Nothing of the sort. But I'll look for that in the future. KP Botany 01:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Article title style

    I'm writing an article about the GVB which expands to Golfvaardigheidsbewijs and is often translated as Golf license. It's basically a license one must have in order to play certain courses, join golfing associations, etc. What should I use for the title of the article? The Dutch name or the English traslation? Dismas|(talk) 19:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    creating an invisible article

    Is it possible to temporarily hide an article from public use if it is not completely finished? I'd like to start writing an article but would only like it available for viewing once it is complete.

    Im sorry that is not possible, but what you can do is write a draft copy in a subpage of the articles talk page like this: Talk:Example/Draft replacing "example" with the name of the article. And when you have done copy & paste the text onto the article page or move it! regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You can hide sections of an article using <!-- and -->, that will hide the section unless you press the edit button, if you are an admin then you might be able to delete selected revisions then when you edit and then restore them later but you might as well use your user sub-page and then move it over.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 20:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If you don't want it to be possible for anybody to view it in any way then you can store it in a text file elsewhere and only use preview while you work on it. But storing it in a user subpage is more practical. PrimeHunter 21:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    About the other Wiki Sites

    Greetings, I have just created an ccount, and I have a question that's been bugging me for a long time. Say I want to add things in another wiki area, like Megaten Wiki (http://www.popanime.net/megami/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), Castlevania Wiki (http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page), or any other thing like that, can I access them using my own account, or do I need to create a separate account for them? Thank you in advance.

    Neo Guyver

    Megaten Wiki is not associated with Wikipedia, and the Castlevania Wiki is merely hosted on wikia.com, which is a sister project of Wikipedia but with different rules and procedures. There are no common accounts for them. Corvus cornix 02:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    wonder

    Is the english wikipedia only meant to be for English people? Francisco Tevez 21:31, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    No we have other wikipedias as-well like the french version, Italian etc. just visit http://www.wikipedia.org/ to see the languages we have. Best regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 21:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Or here for that matter Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 21:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    'English' only refers to the language it's written in. It's for anybody interested in the world. I'm Danish but rarely edit or read the Danish Wikipedia. There is far more in the English about most things I'm interested in. PrimeHunter 22:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    In addition, the English Wikipedia greatly benefits from the views of people who come from countries where English is not the first-language. For more information on the reasons behind this, feel free to visit Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias a Project regarding this subject Philipwhiuk 22:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How to add new link to wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kvnramakrishna (talk • contribs)

    Ensure that it doesn't violate WP:EL and add it to the page like this:
    *[http://www.example.com link caption]
    --ST47Talk 22:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Or if you mean an internal link that points to another article already on Wikipedia, the words go between two brackets, such as [[Wikipedia]], which would produce Wikipedia. Dismas|(talk) 22:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Infobox alignment

    How do I move an infobox to the right-side of the page, and have a border go around it? (so that text may go next to the box)

    Here's the infobox I wish to move. http://ummbalumni.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_University_of_Massachusetts_Minuteman_Marching_Band

    <email removed for security>

    Your link doesn't seem to be working. Please sign your posts by typing four tildes after your message and do not leave your email for security reasons. Thanks, Scottydude talk 22:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    (The link worked when I tried it, but the response was a bit slow.) This Help desk is for questions about editing on Wikipedia, but we often try to answer questions about editing on other MediaWiki wikis because we are incredibly nice. Since the Bando Wiki you linked to requires users to log in to edit, we cannot easily see the wikitext of your infobox unless we register our own accounts on that wiki (something most of us would probably be too lazy to do just to answer your question). However, having ported a few infoboxes from Wikipedia and adapted them to other wikis, I can outline the process for you. Bando Wiki has few articles yet, and the Template: namespace is empty. That suggests you or whoever else worked on the article did not copy all the pieces you need from Wikipedia to get infoboxes to work correctly. For starters, I would suggest implementing your infoboxes the same way Wikipedia does, as templates. If your infobox uses a CSS style class, then you need to copy the class definition from MediaWiki:Common.css to the page with the same name on Bando Wiki (and only a sysop user can edit pages in the MediaWiki: namespace, so that's the permission you will need on Bando Wiki to add styles to the Common.css page there). It's kind of hard to explain this without actually doing it, so if you can't understand my vague description, your best bet would be to find someone who does understand it who can work with the administrators of Bando Wiki. If you can't get sysop user privileges on Bando Wiki, you can hard-code all the border and spacing style information directly into the table in your infobox, but that's a bit untidy. --Teratornis 22:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    officer lies

    What if an officer out right lies regarding the issues in hand and admits that he lied while under oath is this reason to dismiss —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.18.153.170 (talk • contribs)

    It can be a reason, but a dismissal of charges is not necessary. For example, officer lies about wearing his shorts instead of his slacks while apprehending a murderer. So, should there be a dismissal? It is up to the judge. --Kainaw (talk) 23:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi. You're more likely to get an answer if you post your questions in the Reference Desk area, specifically Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. Also, you'd probably need to specify the legal jurisdiction, such as which US state, or which country is concerned.--A bit iffy 23:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]


    June 1

    Pictures Will Not Show Up

    On this computer, none of the images for any of the articles will show up. How do I fix this? Thanks.

    Please provide more information like which article has this problem, your computer specifications, etc. Without this info, we can't help you. -- Hdt83 Chat 00:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I've had the same problem, Firefox 2.0 but same problem in IE and am using Windows XP. GDonato (talk) 16:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    It's possible that you've blocked the image server /media by mistake, or some of your software has got confused and blocked it for you. --ais523 15:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
    (Some ad-blocking software will mistakenly interpret all Wikipedia images as adverts because they're on a different server; you need to whitelist Wikipedia if this is the case.) --ais523 15:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

    PHYSICS / SCIENCE

    DISTINGUSH AN ELECTRIC ARCH LAMP AND ELECTRIC WELDING.219.65.123.163 23:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Please ask questions not related to the editing of Wikipedia at the Reference Desk. You can also find out the difference by searching for theses two objects on Wikipedia. Thanks. -- Hdt83 Chat 00:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Radio Station Logo Use Permission Granted For Full-Size

    What if the owner of a radio station grants the Wikipedia article-writter complete permission for the use of a full-sized .jpg for the station's logo on Wikipedia? For example, a top official of Vermont Broadcast Associates granted me full permission to use a full-size .jpg of the WMTK FM logo, due to the fact that my image is a scan and not the original, electronically-generated image. As you may know, there is no way that permission can be proved. I could just be saying that permission was granted but there is no way to totally prove that I have permission to use that logo. In this case, what should I do? Also, is use of radio station logos okay under "fair-use"? I notice that I see several logos posted on Wikipedia articles. Some Wikipedians claim that one should avoid the use of all images unless definite permission has been granted to use them. Other Wikipedians, however, claim that radio station logos are a very common form of "fair use". On that front, which direction should I sway toward? Thank you for your time in reading about this issue of mine.

    They can email permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org or you can forward email correspondence. Then OTRS will take care of the stuff. See WP:COPYREQ for more information. x42bn6 Talk Mess 00:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for details on how to proceed from here. You will need to forward the email from the station to a Wikimedia email address listed on that page. Using a logo for identification purposes only is allowable under fair use guidelines. See WP:LOGO for more information there. Hersfold (talk/work) 00:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Categorizing photos

    I'm a little puzzled over categorizing photos. I made the article Frank Swannell and there are many Canadian Public Domain photos (5000 or so, readily available at BC Archives) taken by him, some of which have already been uploaded to wikipedia like this one. Image:Chilco at Giscome Portage.gif It would be nice to put them in a category as we upload them for articles and to sort out the ones already uploaded. So do I make a category for Frank Swannell photos on wikipedia or wikimedia? Or both?CindyBo 00:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    For such media as are free, it is preferred that one upload directly to Wikimedia Commons in order that those media might be used across all Wikimedia Foundation projects; instructions for uploading may be found here (you must have an account at Commons to upload media there). For those collections that will comprise many related media, categories are very useful navigational aids, and once you have uploaded media to Commons, you may create a category of Swannell images, some of which may be additionally categorized relative to their subjects. Cheers, Joe 00:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I should add that one need not upload to Wikipedia an image that he/she has uploaded to Commons; any media at Commons are accessible to all projects. Similarly, an image uploaded here that has been copied to Commons is (usually) subsequently deleted here. This occasionally presents problems for users who, unaware of the existence of Commons or unfamiliar with categorization there, don't find media that they might find were they present on a local project, and so your puzzlement is altogether understandable. Joe 00:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    help me

    Ok,I just got signed on and I don't known how to do the my talk,my preferences,my watchlist,etc..... please help me

    Could you please clarify your question? From what I could conclude, you don't understand that at the top of the page are links for each of the sections of your account. Your User Page, which you can create to describe yourself, your talk, where people may ask you questions or reply to yours, your watchlist you can add to when you view a page to now when someone changes it, and your contributions lists what you have edited on wikipedia. If you be a little more specific I'd love to help more. (Also, you may wish to sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~) to have your signature automatically attached so we know who you are.) Redian (Talk) 02:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    User Page

    How do I make a user page? Franco 01:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky210 (talk • contribs)

    Click on your user name above, type in the box and click Save page. See also Wikipedia:User page. PrimeHunter 01:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Connecting to wikipedia DB

    is there a way i can connect to wikipedia's Data Base, to easily get articles (i'm building a program that creates crossword-puzzles, and would like to get the definitions from wikipedia).

    thanks.

    please answer to <email removed for security>

    sorry if this is not the purpose of the Helpd Desk then sorry to bother you :)

    If you're looking for definitions, you should try Wikitionary. We do not offer RSS or other feeds on general articles, if that is what you need. I believe you will have to retrieve the information manually, although you may be able to construct a bot to assist you. I have removed your email address to protect you from spam - with the high amount of traffic Wikipedia receives, it's best to avoid leaving personal contact information. Hersfold (talk/work) 03:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:DUMP has some instructions on how to download the Wikipedia database. -- Diletante 03:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Making an Index

    How do I make an index? I used 

    |'''[[Special:Allpages/0|0]]'''
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|'''[[Special:Allpages/3|3]]'''
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|'''[[Special:Allpages/4|4]]'''
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|'''[[Special:Allpages/5|5]]'''
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|'''[[Special:Allpages/6|6]]'''
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    But this is really hard to understand for a quick index for the users I think, is there a way to do this alphbetically ? Allow me to clarify-I have a Wiki and I am trying to set up the Quick Index, I am a Sysop, not the Sysop, but one of them, the boss is out sick, can someone please help me? Melusine_Talis,10:43,16 November, 2024

    I indented the first line of your wikitext example so it would format the way you probably intended. It looks like you are trying to making links to Special:Allpages on your wiki so the special page lists page titles beginning with successively higher numbers. However, the resulting links won't be very interesting unless your wiki actually has lots of pages with titles that begin with numbers (it might, but that's a bit uncommon). You can, of course, make an alphabetic "index" (of sorts) the same way:
    | '''[[Special:Allpages/A|A]]'''
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| '''[[Special:Allpages/C|C]]'''
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| '''[[Special:Allpages/Y|Y]]'''
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    If your users don't understand what that means, just type some explanatory text before or after your line of number links or letter links. Of course if you want to make a real index, you will have to do some serious editing. Check out this beautiful handcrafted example:
    --Teratornis 04:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


    Thank you, thats a wonderful link and very helpfull, we have a lot of pages and a lot of dates, but no, the numbers are not very helpfull..

    Cheers!

    Mel

    Warnings about editing, "vandalism", what did i do?

    i keep getting warnings about being banned from editing because it says i posted vandalism. also my edit wont show up. i am trying to edit a page regarding WWE and a pay-per-view. its called WWE One Night Stand. im trying to add a match to the card. it was a lumberjack match featuring kane and mark henry. it wouldnt show up, and got warnings about being banned. here are some links: the first is the pay-per-view site. the second is my edit.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_One_Night_Stand#2007

    —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Patriotfan09 (talk • contribs).

    Please start a new section when asking a new question. Thanks.
    If you're editing from an IP address (without a registered account) it is possible that you may be receiving warnings directed at others. You may want to consider creating an account. You might also want to check Help:Editing and WP:VAND for details on how to edit and why your edits may be getting removed. Hersfold (talk/work) 03:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Patriotfan09. It looks like TJ Spyke (talk · contribs) is taking issue with you "including announcements that have not yet aired on US TV or on the companies official website. This applies to match announcements, match results, and anything else not yet revealed by the company." Try responding on your talk page, or on TJ Spyke's. -SpuriousQ (talk) 03:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Radio Station Logo Use Permission Granted For Full-Size

    24.218.183.113 04:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I forwarded the official e-mail message granting permission for useage of the full-sized bumper sticker scan for WMTK FM in a Wikipedia article. I forwarded the two messages to permissions-en@wikimedia.org so you should get them soon. I have been pretty successful through this method: the method of using scanned reproductions of the graphics (as opposed to the original, electronically-generated graphics). This is usually allowed, due to the reduction in quality that results from every accumulative scanning process. Moir shows up and that must be what constitutes the "Fair-Use", as so well illustrated in the ToeJam & Earl article. Please let me know how this goes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.183.113 (talk • contribs) 03:52, June 1, 2007

    All images must be under a general license, not just one for Wikipedia use. -Wooty Woot? contribs 08:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Using WP:TWINKLE

    I put that into my monobook page, however, as it does work in a sense, it now has errors on the page, well, the bottom left of my browser. As I click on the "restore this version" or whatever it is they have up, but nothing actually happens. What do I actually have to do to get it to work properly? Cause I did copy and past the first item into my monobook, for all the features. Captain Drake Van Hellsing 04:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    What internet browser are you using? It only works on Firefox or Opera. -- Hdt83 Chat 04:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh, it's Microsoft Internet Explorer. Captain Drake Van Hellsing 04:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thats the reason. TWINKLE is only supported on Firefox or Opera. You can download them for free if you want to. I prefer Firefox over IE. -- Hdt83 Chat 04:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Ah, no wonder...though, is there any script sort of thing for IE at all? Or not? Just so I know. Captain Drake Van Hellsing 05:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Changing the name of an article

    How do I change the name of an article (really: a stub) if the name includes a factual inaccuracy?

    Please see WP:MOVE, you also need a four-day-old account. PeaceNT 05:13, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks!

    Clarify request in Phenomenology article

    I tried to add clarification and was confused whether I should save directely onto the page, or use the Sandbox. I used the Sandbox for safety's sake,but the Sandbox just came up with a blank page on which I submitted my addition. I am also ussure of copyright as I myself have recently found the answer to this question from the URL mentioned.

    Husserl charged Heidegger with raising the question of ontology but failing to answer it, instead switching the topic to the Dasein, the only being for whom Being is an issue. That is neither ontology nor phenomenology, according to Husserl, but merely abstract anthropology. To clarify, perhaps, by abstract anthropology, as a non-existentialist searching for essences, Husserl rejected the existentialism implicit in Heidegger's distinction between being (sein) as things in reality from Being (Da-sein) as the encounter with being, as when being becomes present to us, i.e. is unconcealed.

    Summary I have attempted to respond to the request for clarification of Heidegger's distinction betweenbeing and Being. My info source was http://www.uni.edu/boedeker/NNhHeidegger2.doc

    Please email me at [removed] with answers. Thanks, Carol

    Everyone can save directly to the page. The license is either GFDL or none at all as you should never copy and paste another's work here unless it is public domain, better to write your own text conveying the same meaning and add a citation. Replied via email.—WAvegetarian (talk) 07:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Update of Table of Contents (TOC)

    I have searched the main wiki help and editing wiki help and newbie help but cannot find the answer to my question.
    I have made some typo changes to section headers (buisness to business)that I found using a google search. I made the changes and saved them but when I repeat the search it still finds the typo in the automatically generated TOC. Do TOC's get updated in a batch process of some kind or do I need to force the update? If I need to force the update could someone give me some help please. An example I edited this AM is Jon_Lord_(politician).Thanks Neggiem01 07:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Having left it a couple of hours and checking again the wiki page has updated, its now the Google search so I'll go and do some more help searching. Neggiem01 08:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Peer reveiwed medical references

    1. Does a pubmed reference number indicate the article is from a peer reveiwed journal?
    2. If not where do I find a list of such journals acceptable for references in Wp medical pages?
    3. Is there any restriction in using pubmed reference numbers in the text of a medical page?
    4. Is there any restriction in using e-Medicine site addresses in the text of a medical page?
    5. Is there any restriction in refering to another website in the text of a medical page?
    6. How does one make a reference in the text to a specific website added to the 'other links' section, which may contain any number of links?

    I wish to save a lot of time making references that are later reverted at the whim of 'experts' lets be transparent from the beginning?

    you may place the answers on mytalk page, with thanks Jagra 07:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    All PubMed articles are from peer reviewed journals. When citing things, you should cite the actual article rather than the way you accessed it. PubMed is merely a collection of journal articles so its internal reference numbers shouldn't be used. With eMedicine, there are usually lists of primary sources used as references at the bottom. It is ideal to use primary sources. Since eMedicine doesn't use inline citations, it can be harder to find the relevant one, but that is what should ideally be used. Our guidelines for using links/references to non-Wikipedia websites is located here. For your last question, you seem to be asking how to do a <ref> tag-like thing with the other links section. This can't really be done. If it isn't a reference and it meets the guidelines linked to above, you could simply mention it in the sentence using code like [http://site.example/Page%20name.php this]. The page linked to on your talk page, WP:CITE, explains referencing on Wikipedia in more detail.—WAvegetarian (talk) 08:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    file upload

    how to upload a photograph for an artist

    You didn't ask a question, but I assume that you want help uploading a file. If you look on the left hand side of your screen in the toolbox section you will see an upload file link. Click on it.—WAvegetarian (talk) 08:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Main Page on Userpage

    How can you put a Main Pge on a Userpage?c'mon, we've fished a good one.Kfc1864Cuba Libre! 07:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You can put {{subst:Main Page}} on your user page but that'll only do it for today's main page, you'll need to change currentmonths and things to get it all to work out, I'll Try it here--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 08:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You can also use this: {{:Main Page}} (in this rather special case, the colon indicates that you're transcluding a page from the article namespace, rather than the template namespace.) – Luna Santin (talk) 08:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I think I'm done, the link is here, just copy and paste the source--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 08:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    rename pages?

    How do I rename pages?

    You use the move tab at the top of your screen. It will become visible to you after you've had a registered account for a period of time. I believe it is about 4 days.—WAvegetarian (talk) 08:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia Search Engine

    Hello

    I would be interested in finding out when Wikipedia's seach facility will be launched; it will be great to see some competition with Google.

    Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a search engine. As far as I know, there is no plan for Wikipedia to try to compete with Google to find information on other sites for people. We are trying to collect information here in a properly referenced form such that for many topics a web search would become unnecessary. Also, Wikipedia appears on the first page of results for most Google searches as it is. There's no reason to try to compete.—WAvegetarian (talk) 09:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    There was something on Wikia, here is a link.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 09:33, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    the R&D costs of developing a search engine to compete with google would be pretty high,no? Wikipedia only works because we work for free and feel we are doing something useful. I'm not sure many of us would a)be able to help in the construction of a free search engine or b) would find it that interesting of a thing to do. --Fredrick day 09:43, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The questioner probably refers to the Wikia#Search Wikia, Wikia Search mentioned by User:Rock2e above. That article section does not appear to reflect some comments by Jimmy Wales about his search engine plans in his May 22, 2007 interview with Charlie Rose. In that interview, Wales said he wants to develop his search engine by using the open source model, thus bypassing the massive development costs that would be necessary to catch up to Google (effectively shifting all the costs onto a community of volunteers). Certainly, most people who are currently editing on Wikipedia lack the skills or inclination to work on a search engine project, but that is probably because the people who are editing on Wikipedia were drawn here by the nature of this project; perhaps a different project would draw different kinds of people. Wales may be thinking, hey, ten years ago nobody thought you could get volunteers to build a seriously good encyclopedia, and yet we did. Maybe volunteers can do other kinds of things that nobody thinks they can do now. In any case, Wales admitted in the interview that he had no idea whether his idea will work, just as he had no idea initially whether Wikipedia would work. Wales is certainly in a good position to try new things. Even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have had their share of flops. --Teratornis 14:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    By the way, a 'Wikipedia search engine' was mentioned in a national free UK newspaper yesterday. It contained hardly any information, and I think that the newspaper must have either come across http://search.wikia.com and got confused, or found out about http://ls2.wikimedia.org/ (the new Wikipedia-only trial search engine). --ais523 14:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

    User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Sea mentions some vertical search efforts that target Wikipedia specifically. Wikipedia's famously-deficient built-in search combined with the growing value of Wikipedia's vast content is creating a need for third parties to step in with their own search tools targeted specifically at Wikipedia. --Teratornis 15:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    French templates

    Hi, I've translated Benfeld from the French Wikipedia, but I'm having trouble with the Administration templates. I can't find the corresponding English Wiki ones. Can anyone help? Thanks very much. --Bioarchie1234 09:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Adding a new page =

    I posted this a while ago but it is not in the archives, nor are Mar 30th's and Mar 31's(The day I posted) questons.

    Can I add a new page about I Nintendo Fan website?MattC13 11:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    A page about a fan site for Nintendo.... you may wish to take a look at WP:WEB but I think it would qualify as spam so no its not wise to create this article. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 12:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    (after edit conflict) Probably not. Articles must cite to independent, reliable sources that verify their content and such coverage must be of a non-trivial nature (not just mentions) to confirm that the world at large treats the subject as a notable topic. Very few online fan sites have this ability. Please see Wikipedia:Notability (web) for more on this.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:13, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Moving/deleting category?

    Hello, I have a question regarding unintentional typos in category names. I created the category Category:Parallel Literature and soon after frustratingly realized that the "L" in literature should be lowercase so as to match the other literature genres in the parent category. I read on the Category help page that it's not possible to move categories, per se, but would it be possible to delete this mistaken category so that I can correctly create Category:Parallel literature? I don't see a reason for both of them to exist. Thanks! María (habla conmigo) 12:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    If you take it categories for discussion it will be moved if consensus is in its favour. Regards — The Sunshine Man 12:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Does there need to be a discussion, though? I'm the one who created it and am well aware of my silly typo that goes against naming conventions. There is no controversy. It will most probably take five days to reach a consensus to rename the category, a consensus that will most assuredly agree with me, and I am ready to begin populating the category. María (habla conmigo) 12:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    So try WP:CFD#Speedy renaming and speedy merging for information on getting a speedy rename done. --Maelwys 14:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you, that's very helpful. María (habla conmigo) 14:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Edit count

    Does edit count really matter and determine the importance of editors on wikipedia? Francisco Tevez 12:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    No. See Wikipedia:Editcountitis. Most agree that it's quality, not quantity. However, there are some times when edit count is used to gauge experience. For example, generally you must have 500 edits to use AutoWikiBrowser, and we like to see at least several thousand edits for a user to apply for adminship. tiZom(2¢) 12:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    "Most" may agree it's quality, not quantity, but we can all agree on what quantity is, and software can efficiently count it for us. Quality is fuzzy, subjective, and laborious to assess; few people could have the time to assess their personal definition of "quality" in the contributions of more than a handful of editors. However, sufficiently large differences in quality become less subjective: almost everyone recognizes the difference between a constructive contributor with few edits, vs. a vandal with thousands of edits (although only a very determined vandal can attain that many destructive edits, thanks to the relatively efficient anti-vandalism measures on Wikipedia).
    As to what specifically edit count measures, it's probably a rough measure of an editor's grasp of Wikipedia's incredibly complex policies, guidelines, and procedures (rather than a measure of an editor's expertise in the topic areas of particular encyclopedia articles, which would be largely independent of edit count - presumably many of the world's leading experts in various fields have zero edits on Wikipedia yet). In the course of making several thousand edits to Wikipedia articles, an editor is likely to have run into a wide variety of editing situations, and had to read lots of pages in the Wikipedia: and Help: namespaces to see how to handle various cases, or to understand other editors' merciless edits to his or her work. Also see Who Writes Wikipedia which describes the division of labor between people who know about the subjects of articles vs. people who know about how to edit articles into the format Wikipedia wants. --Teratornis 15:40, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    yes - especially if you go for administration buttons - people will object on the basis that "only 2.9764% of his edits deal with copyright issues and the like" - also it's dragged up in argument "this editor only has 5 edits so we should view his edits and views with distain", "this editor has 15,000 edits so must know what they are doing about". --Fredrick day 16:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Rockness - Band appearing on Sunday 10.06.07 on the Xposure stage.

    Hi there i have just edited/added the name of Dundee Band Luva anna (Pronounced Loova Anna) who are appearing on Xposure stage at Rockness on Sunday 10.06.07. Will this information be added/updated and if so when. Can you also advise on how I can enter details of the band on a new page, giving the band members names, their managers, their history etc. Many thanks Trish Webster

    This is a wiki, so things are constantly being updated. Therefore, it's impossible to know when/if this information will be updated/changed. If you'd like to create an article for the band, then click here: Luva Anna, type out your article, and save. It's important to note that Wikipedia articles generally must be considered notable (See Wikipedia:Notability). In particular, we get tons of new bands every day, and many are deleted because they are not considered notable. Please read the section on band notability at Wikipedia:Notability (music) to make sure that Luva Anna meets all of the requirements before you create an article for them. tiZom(2¢) 13:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I know this isn't the place for this, but

    Can someone take a look at Nathan Hamilton, please? I don't have time to go over it now, but I suspect there may be unsourced defamatory material there, so some speed would help. Thanks. Abeg92contribs 13:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I have done a significant re-write, more eyes would be a good thing. Thanks. DES (talk) 16:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    contact e-mail address

    Where can I get the Human Resource Manager's e-mail address? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.21.126.251 (talk • contribs).

    For Wikipedia? I don't think the Wikimedia Foundation has a Human Resource Manager. Do you have a specific query? x42bn6 Talk Mess 13:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You can contact wikipedia using this link: Wikipedia:Contact us. But i don't think we have a Human Resources Manager. Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    There's always the Help desk. --Teratornis 15:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It might be different now but according to a newspaper report - the Aldi supermarket chain has all of it's admin functions done centrally. So if as a member of staff you have a problem with your paycheck, you have to phone the customer helpline and wait for someone to assist you. --Fredrick day 16:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank god i dont work for aldi =] Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 19:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    SCHOOL BASED MBA PROGRAM

    I am a gradaute from Bugema University in Uganda I wwish to to undertake a MBA degree but am on job where I can get time only in April,August and December.Is there such Aprogram?213.255.219.30 14:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)email removed[reply]

    We are an encyclopedia, you should try contacting Universities near where you are living. Gnangarra 14:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Request For De-Adminship

    There is an administrator whom I believe is not a force for good, and is doing more harm than good here at Wikipedia, and has very low levels of conduct.

    Is there anyway I can nomiate him for 'De-Adminship' --IvanKnight69 15:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Have you read Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship? It seems likely that you'd have to take it to arbitration to get their admin privileges revoked. Without actually looking at what your case may be, I'd point out that you'd probably want to consider a request for comment first, and you'd better have some evidence of actual misuse of admin powers. Confusing Manifestation 15:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks! :) --IvanKnight69 15:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    HTML code=>Wiki code

    Can anyone help convert the raw text on User:Howard the Duck/Test to Wiki code? As you can see, a tournament template is there but I can't utilize it properly. --Howard the Duck 15:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    If you generated that code from Microsoft Excel, you might try converting a .csv file instead with this:
    Also see the "Tables:" entry in User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia. --Teratornis 17:31, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Whoa, this'll be great thanks a lot! weeeeeeeeee --Howard the Duck 06:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Is there anyway to include formatting (like the lines)? --Howard the Duck 07:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't know. If you don't see an option on the csv2wp Web page, then I guess you would have to get the PHP script file and hack it yourself. Or maybe you could ask the author. --Teratornis 11:15, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    FYI: I am currently in the process of programming a HTML -> Wiki converter, but it won't be up for a while, quite a few errors there. E talk 11:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    (reindent) I tried using macro function in Excel and it worked... sort of. I just had to manually add the lines but it wouldn't be much of a problem. Thanks for all of your help. --Howard the Duck 15:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Just to keep the record of this question coherent in case anyone searches for it later, do you refer to the following Excel macro:
    --Teratornis 00:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes I referred to that Excel macro but the thing is the lines weren't carried over. --Howard the Duck 14:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Humorous contents?

    In Spaghetti code, there are pictures of Spaghetti with humorous remarks. They do not necessarily illustrate what spaghetti code really is. I wonder if there any policy that prevents this. //Memming 16:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Hey - I have reverted the edit that introduced the images and captions. Whilst it was quite amusing, you are right that it was entirely irrelevant to the article. Will (aka Wimt) 16:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Noobie

    So, I'm kind of a noob and I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to write out code especially for templates. I'd like to create one but I can't figure out what to do to make it. If you have any help on how I can learn to do that I would appreciate it. Thanks! --Eris11 16:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC) 16:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    See Help:Template. You can request help at Wikipedia:Requested templates and Category:User template coder. PrimeHunter 17:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Check through the most applicable sub-categories in Wikipedia templates, just in case there is already an ideal template, or Infobox templates if that's more relevant. Adrian M. H. 19:31, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Images

    Hi-

    I am sorry to ask what I'm sure you get inquiries about all the time but...

    How do I adjust or add material to images to ensure that they are not deleted?

    I am especially interested in my entry for Operation Moonwatch. The photos are all in public domain get I keep getting messages about their impending deletion. How do I indicate that they are "OK?"

    Pmccray

    When you upload the images there is a pull down menu asking you for the license under which they have been released. If these are works of the U.S. Federal Government then they are most likely public domain and therefore can be tagged with the appropriate tag. See WP:IMAGE for more info. The U.S. specific tags are at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/USA. Dismas|(talk) 18:50, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Redirection Problem

    Today I attempted my first redirection, and I'm not sure if it is working. I tried to redirect "quinces" to "quince", when "quinces" formerly redirected to "Quinceañera". In the "quinces" article edit page, I changed the target page to "quince", and the "quince" article "what links here" page says "quinces" redirects there, yet when I search "quinces" i am still sent to the "Quinceañera" page. Why is this happening, and can someone please help? Infinitejpower 19:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Quinces redirects to Quince just fine for me. You may want to clear your browser's cache. Dismas|(talk) 19:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Problem with wikitable

    On the "List of Fatal Wolf Attacks" article, for some reason, the wikitable doesnt display it's full content on the main article, yet I added tons of new stuff to it which can still be seen when you try editing the page.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_wolf_attacks

    It's now fixed. There was a minor problem with the way you cited sources, please see WP:FOOT for more instructions. Peacent 20:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I see. Thank you.Dark hyena 20:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Biography

    Hi,

    Can I create a brief biography on myself?

    Unfortunatly, no unless you are a notable person, read WP:BIO, you can not. Also it is not looked upon well even if you are notable because of a conflict of interest. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 20:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Try piczo or myspace Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 21:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Or you might create an account, make a user page about yourself. In any case, please remember WP:NOT#BLOG. Peacent 03:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Request protection

    How do I request protection of an article from an admin? A supporter of Rep Patrick McHenry keeps deleting information on the voter fraud scandal that he's involved in. Southleft 15:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    First, remember when adding a new question to add it to the bottom of the page. Second, to answer your question go to WP:RPP, and follow the instructions. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 21:01, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    edit page?

    sorry, I really don't know where to put this--but could somebody please change the "list of fruits" page that some idiot vandalized? Thank you.

    Done. In the future, you can do this by going to the tab marked "History" at the top of the page, finding an unvandalized version from the list of links, and then editing and saving that one. --tjstrf talk 21:40, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks you. Much appreciated.

    "MathML if possible" setting seemingly doesn't work

    Wikipedia doesn't seem to be obeying Maths markup preferences set to "MathML if possible". All the other settings ("Always render PNG", "HTML if possible or else PNG", "Leave it as TeX" etc.) work fine and do what they say; but setting it to "MathML if possible" just renders pages as if it were set to the default setting (i.e. mostly PNG). I have tested this using Opera with the MathML plugin, and Firefox; both of which render MathML test pages perfectly well. (I would like to use MathML mostly because Opera's page zoom function makes the PNGs very blocky and hard to read).

    Thanks in advance! -- Simxp 22:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…" vs. "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/…"

    Why do page URLs sometimes, after the "en.wikipedia.org" contain a "/wiki/" and sometimes a "/w/"? Hallpriest9(Talk|Archive) 22:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    The default URL scheme for MediaWiki is /w/index.php?title=$1&action=...; however, when articles are read, the URLs are made pretty by the server, into a /wiki/$1 form. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 22:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think that /w/ addresses are indexed, either. x42bn6 Talk Mess 23:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Right. The robots.txt file for Wikipedia is http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt and says:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /w/
    This asks all search engines to not index pages with /w/ in the URL. PrimeHunter 00:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Guidelines/discussions regarding inclusion of warnings about article content

    Currently there's a gentle, minor conflict going on at Robert Pickton regarding the inclusion of a warning about graphic content on the article page, and I was wondering if there are any existing policies or guidelines, or any discussions regarding the appropriateness of such warnings? Help (or if anyone wants to weigh in on the issue on the article's talkpage would be welcome. Anchoress 23:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    There's 2 actually. First, Wikipedia is not censored - that one is policy. Second, while this is s little different as it is just text not a template, No disclaimer templates - a guideline. Edit wars have been started over this in the past. See the history of Gangrene for a recent one. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 23:50, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    a question about a picture- error in creating a thumbnail

    I uploaded this image but it says it had an error while creating the thumbnail (it has invalid thumbnail parameters, supposedly). I tried uploading it again and it did the same thing. I asked Malcolm for assistance but I think he was unably to correct the problem. He also directed me here, so I came. When you click the "full resolution" link at the bottom of the grey field (meant to be the picture) it shows the picture correctly (especially if you increase the magnification- that's the way I created it). Could you please, first correct this problem, and second, tell me how to correct (or avoid) this in the future. If you do tell me, please respond here and my talk page (and maybe Malcolm's, but I don't know if he really wants to know...). Thank you all! In the most sincere manner, -A Sprig of Fig 23:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Problem solved! I killed two birds with one stone (this problem and learning how to crop). In case anyone wants to know how I did it: I took the picture I wanted to upload and cropped it (to see how, see below). Next, because it wouldn't let me save- I don't know why, I saved it under a different name again ("save as"). Then I went to the image's page and uploaded the image again. Et voilà, it was finished and good.
    To crop:
    1. Go to the folder in which you saved the image (e.g. My Pictures).
    2. Right click on the image's icon and click "Edit".
    3. On the editing page, click the lower right corner and move it around to crop the image.
    This works on Windows (what I use and (kind of) know how to use). It can be confusing so if you have any questions, come to me.

    Because Malcolm taught me how to crop, I owe this one to him. Thanks Malc.! And thanks anyone who was going to help. In the most sincere manner, -A Sprig of Fig 00:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    June 2

    Exceptions to categories added by templates

    I have a template that has a category in it. For example, a Template:Edit that is applied to pages that need to be edited in some way might include a "Category:Pages to be edited". So every page that includes that template is part of that category. That's good in almost all cases. But then I want to have a guidelines page that describes how the template is used. On that guidelines page I would like to have an instance of the template appear. But then my guidelines page will be categorized as "Pages to be edited", when there is nothing wrong with it.

    Is there a way on my guidelines page to tell the wiki to exclude that page from the category, even though it includes a template that automatically puts that page in that category? -- Llarq 00:19, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    One way would be to add an optional input value to the parameter to the template, for example you might call it: nocat, along with template code that would conditionally exclude the category link if nocat has some value. See: m:ParserFunctions##if:. I don't know if that is the best or only way. --Teratornis 11:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Deleteing Account

    How can i delete my wekepidia account?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rorx14 (talk • contribs) 00:33, June 2, 2007 (UTC)

    You can't. -- Kesh 00:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    See also Wikipedia:Right to vanish. The only registered edit by your account was asking that question. PrimeHunter 00:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Deleted history

    Could someone take a look at the Rabbit calicivirus history and tell me how to fix this? The article rabbit calicivirus had existed for some time, and today I see some changes in it on my watchlist. To my surprise, I see the history only goes back a few hours, due to some odd moves. Looking at Rabbit Green, an unrelated topic, the history of rabbit calicivirus is there instead (prior to June 1). I can guess what happened (rabbit calicivirus moved to rabbit green, via a different redirect, Green Rabbit Syndrome, at which point the editor realizes they made a mistake, and cuts and pastes the material back to rabbit calicivirus over the redirect), but I have no idea how to merge the page histories back together. Thanks. --Joelmills 01:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    By the way, I already removed the redirect from Talk:Rabbit calicivirus and replaced a project tag that had been there. Hope I didn't make this more complicqated. --Joelmills 01:48, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok, don't touch anything else :) Here is where the article changes, correct? Prodego talk 01:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok, should be good now. Prodego talk 02:02, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, that fixes the rabbit calicivirus history. I see that you also deleted Rabbit Green, which is not a problem for me, but it doesn't need to redirect to rabbit calicivirus either, as it has no relation to it. Thanks again, I really appreciate it. --Joelmills 02:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Photos uploading blank

    I've tried several times to upload a photo at Image:M1887 Shotgun.JPG, but I can't see any visible image after doing so, nor is the image showing up when linked elsewhere on WP. I'm using Firefox 2.0 with all the latest updates, if that helps. Anyone know what's going on?--Commander Zulu 02:05, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I can see it using the same browser. Try purging your cache and/or restarting your browser. --YFB ¿ 02:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Tried that, still no luck. The image isn't visible in Internet Explorer, either. --Commander Zulu 02:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That's weird. I can still see it and it shows up, at the image page and in the article, in Internet Exploder as well. Have you tried clearing your browser cache/temporary internet files? If they've got a dead image stuck in there, they may not be loading the new version. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas... sorry. --YFB ¿ 02:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I uploaded the image using a different filename, and now its working just fine. I'll have to get the non-working image deleted now, in the interests of not cluttering up the server. Thanks very much for your help, though! --Commander Zulu 02:55, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    My User Page

    I have a warning on my User Page from something I didn't do. Should I be worried? Please help. --69.134.117.202 02:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    That isn't your user page. That is a page for the IP address you are currently using. Create an account and you will have your own user page and you won't have to deal with anonymous IP problems anymore. --Kainaw (talk) 02:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If another user had the same IP address as you now do (and most ISPs change IP addresses pretty often) you may well get msgs intended for that user. The best solution is to register and use an account. DES (talk) 02:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Triple braces

    I know that putting a word or phrase into {{double braces}} indicates a template, but what do {{{triple braces}}} do? Hallpriest9 (Talk | Archive) 03:26, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    {{{nothing}}} Dismas|(talk) 03:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Actually, we use it for parameters in templates. See [3] and the various triple braces being thrown around. x42bn6 Talk Mess 04:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    School being Slandered on Wikipedia

    An anonymous user keeps writing slanderous, and entirely unreferenced content in the article on my school National Academy For Learning. Marking the article as biased, or NPOV, and even nominating it for deletion simply results in the anonymous IP removing the tags, with no mention whatsoever in the discussion page.

    The entire article is poorly written, and offers little to no actual content. It has a heavy bias, and this is just a small excerpt: 'It has been the experience of a few parents during the years 2002-05 that such new-age remedies for little children was being administered under an earlier Principal Mrs. Benjamin and an incompetent kindergarten teacher (IMHO).'

    I would like to re-nominate the article for deletion, but I don't believe I am permitted to do the same. Please advise Tdinkar 03:28, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Vandalism and POV edits are no reason to delete an entire article. If we did that then every article would be gone by now. Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism for information on dealing with vandalism. This will probably lead you to WP:REVERT which has information on how to revert an article back to the "good" version before the vandalism was posted. Also see, WP:BLOCK for info on what you can do to get anonymous IP vandals blocked. Dismas|(talk) 03:42, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I've removed a lot of the obvious junk, but not knowing anything about the school I don't want to proceed further, so I've left the {{cleanup}} tag there to alert readers and editors of problems (it's still quite badly written). I'm not sure whether there is a rule about whether you can re-nominate an article for deletion, so if you want to re-nominate it, I think you can go ahead. (If you do, I suggest the best process to follow in this case is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion.) However, my opinion is that the article should stay as the school appears notable and that's all that should be considered. Also, blocking anonymous users and continual reversions won't help in the case of a persistent, dedicated vandal/POV pusher; instead, semi-protection may be the best course. --A bit iffy 09:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I have had the same problem with my school article. Wiki.user 20:13, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I suspect this would be less of a problem if school attendance was voluntary rather than compulsory. As it stands, there seem to be many disgruntled students out there, and they constitute a vast reservoir of potential Wikipedia vandals, particularly as it only takes one disgruntled student at a given school to discover Wikipedia and then alert all his peers (I assume most of these school article vandals are male, but I have no data). There is even a {{Schoolblock}} template for use when vandalizing a particular school article becomes a fad. Naturally, school article vandals share the general vandal preference for editing without creating accounts. --Teratornis 23:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia Font Issue

    I recently removed some system fonts from my system using Adobe Type Manager. I reinstalled them again but now I am having a problem. The wikipedia website must use a font that IE cannot find. The type is so ugly I don't want to visit wikipedia until it is fixed. To see what I am talking about look here.

    If you know how to fix this please post to my talk page or here.

    Thank you! Joneboi 03:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia specifies the CSS 'sans-serif' default font, which is easily configurable to whatever font you like in Firefox or Opera, but not in Internet Explorer. It seems to be a well-hidden variable (its not even in the registry), but it's one that IE has changed automatically -- because you deleted Arial, the default -- but has not changed back when you restored Arial. Thus, the way for us to proceed is to delete the new font it has latched on to (which appears to be Agency FB), which will hopefully make IE search around for another one and snap back to its default, Arial. So follow these steps:
    • Close Internet Explorer
    • Open 'Control Panel' -> 'Fonts'
    • Double-check that Arial is installed
    • Find and delete the Agency FB font
    • Open Internet Explorer.
    Hopefully, that should have fixed it. If not, please contact me at my talk page. Thanks! -- Simxp 04:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Pro vs. Contra

    Does anyone know where I can find the templates for pro and contra when used on a discussion page debating whether an article should be added and such? — Supuhstar * —

    I am not familiar with these templates, but you can find a lot of templates on WP:TEMPLATE or the pages linked therefrom. --Teratornis 10:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Didn't help — Supuhstar * —

    Security Firewall

    What are the types of Security Firewall? What is the purpose and configuration setting for FORITNET Security Firewall?

    This question belongs at the Wikipedia:Reference_desk desk. Specifically in the computers section. The help page is only for the editing of Wikipedia. -- Hdt83 Chat 05:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Technical Help

    Sorry, but I do not know if you could help me. I have to develop a webpage for a Newspaper and it is my first experience with it. I'd like to know which is the best way to develop the page so the users do not to duplicate efforts re-typing the data twice. It is, they have a software to edit the News and I want to take the information from the generated file and uploade to a dynamic web page. So how can I develop that dynamic page so they can do their job that way.

    Again, if I am out of context with my question please I apolozige. But if some one can help me out I would appreciate it.

    Best Regards,

    Radhames Lopez

    You can try CuteNews which is a PHP-based news system for most websites. As for the other things, you can also most likely use the same software that Wikipedia uses, called MediaWiki. E talk 05:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Data conversion between incompatible application programs is often a nightmare, and MediaWiki is incompatible with almost everything else. Your options depend on the capability of the "software to edit the News" you mention in your question. What is the name of that software? What file formats can it write? Do other users of that software publish their news on Web sites? If so, you could ask some of those other users how they do it. --Teratornis 11:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Table help

    I'm working on the Appalachian State Mountaineers page and using tables for the records for teams (football, basketball). The table is the sort that should be hidden with the tab that says "show" on the side. However, on mine it is always open (showing) when I browse to the page. I copied the table info from the North Carolina Tar Heels page. On that page the Season-by-season records box is always closed. Can someone browse over there and see what's preventing mine from starting closed? It's driving me crazy. Thanks =) Geologik 05:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Take a look at this guide to tables here: Collapsible tables guide. The specific section dealing with your problem is here: Wikipedia:NavFrame#NavFrame_divs. Hope this helps! -- Hdt83 Chat 07:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I tried fixing it but it still dosen't hide. Could another editor try fixing it? -- Hdt83 Chat 07:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that you need 3 of those tables there for the show/hide to work.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 20:34, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Sharing Maps

    Hi, I copied the map for Cranbrook, British Columbia onto the Fort Steele, British Columbia article, (which didn't have a map at all), as the two towns are only ten miles apart. But do the coordinates or anything else need to be changed?CindyBo 08:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, the coordinates are different and will need to be changed. You can leave a note on the talk page and let someone else do it that is more capable of recording accurate coordinates. In regard to the map, you might want to request for it (the original author is Qyd). Hope that helps. E talk 10:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Changing the notification message for messaging bar for MediaWiki?

    Hi, I was wondering if there was a MediaWiki:(link) that allows you to change the message being displayed when a new message is posted on an talk page? I am running MediWiki on my [rivate server and was wondering if you had any ideas?

    P.S: Wikipedia's messaging system (orange u have new messages) bar isn't working. Just to let you know, is it disabled?

    For the changing of the 'new messages' message, it would be at MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessages. And, there is no current errors with the message bar, it seems to be working for everyone else. E talk 10:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    No, it is not working for anons, this has been known for some time, but there is no fix yet. If you want to change colors, use Mediawiki:Common.js and add .usermessage { <attribute changes> }. Prodego talk 18:56, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk pages

    I have no idea on what to call the question thing, but what I'm trying to get it the signature, on how to make an extra part that links to the talk page right beside your username. I've been having a look around, but so far, I can't seem to find anything on it at all. Captain Drake Van Hellsing 10:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You may want to use the special 'title' template for that. The required template for your username would be {{User:1ne/Title|User:Drakehellman ([[User talk:Drakehellman|talk]])}} - try that and see if it works. E talk 10:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    So far, it still comes up with the whole thing being linked to my userpage, no matter what I seem to enter in the raw signature area, unless of course, that's not suppose to be where it goes....but so far, I don't know of any other areas where it goes... Captain Drake Van Hellsing 10:53, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh your after a signature extension! Simply replace the whole signature box with 
    [[User:Drakehellman|Captain Drake Van Hellsing]] <sup>([[User talk:Drakehellman|talk]])</sup>
    and the signature will appear as this: Captain Drake Van Hellsing (talk) 10:53, 2 June 2007 (UTC). E talk 10:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That's real odd, as when I put that into the signature box, it turns out like this: [[User:Drakehellman|Captain Drake Van Hellsing <sup>([[User talk:Drakehellman|talk]])</sup>]] 11:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC) Am I doing it right at all? Or is there something that's missing from there? Captain Drake Van Hellsing 11:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Wait, never mind, I figured it out, stupid check box...but thank you for the help regardless ^^ Captain Drake Van Hellsing (talk) 11:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    No problem, nice signature :) E talk 11:15, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, though there is one small problem I've been seeing if I can it right, but it's proving to be a pain, is changing the colour of the links, so to speak, you know, so that, say, one word is orange, one is yellow, ect, ect. Not sure if this is right here or not: 
    [[User:Drakehellman|Captain Drake Van Hellsing]] [[<span style="color: #ff0000">[[User talk:Drakehellman|Parley?]]</span>]]

    And that gave me this: Captain Drake Van Hellsing [[Parley?]] any advice for that sort of thing? Captain Drake Van Hellsing 11:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Nevermind, I got it ^^ Captain Drake Van Hellsing Savvy? 11:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How do I find your prize winning pictures?

    I looked at some earlier but can not get back to them.

    Wikimedia Commons, a Wikipedia sister project, has over 1.5 million freely reusable media files. You may also want to look at the Picture of the Year contest or the Picture of the Day for some of the best images on the Commons. E talk 10:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Also see: Wikipedia:Featured pictures. --Teratornis 10:42, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Sign in woes

    When I successfully sign in, then return to the page I want to edit, I again get the "Sign in/create account" link at the top of the page.

    That sounds weird. Have you tried bypassing your cache? Please see Help:Logging in for some probable reasons and solutions to this matter. I hope this helps. Peacent 14:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles Written for Specialists vs. Those Written for a General Readership

    Perhaps this is a philosophical question about the nature and intended audience of Wikipedia. Maybe it is easier first to explain the context. I am an IT professional in my mid-50s who is currently undergoing cataract surgery, so one of the reference points that I used in the searching around this condition is of course Wikipedia. There are a bunch of ophthalmology articles including one on cataracts and one cataract surgery within Wikipedia. These are good articles, but my concern here is that they were written by ophthalmic specialists for ophthalmic specialists using a concept framework and a vocabulary that they understand, but that the typical reader (who will be a lay cataract sufferer) will find it like a reading treacle pudding. What this readership needs is an article written in some form of plain English. I developed an example of this for cataract surgery in my | sandbox. If you look at this you will see that there is some overlap with the existing cataract surgery article, yet it is also in many respects quite different:

    • I have used common English terminology of the everyday English reader would understand (for example "shortsighted" instead of "myopic" -- after all, that's all that myopic means when you translate it from Latin into English).
    • I have cut descriptions down to the minimum that a typical reader who is a cataract sufferer needs to know, and have linked back to the technical article for those who want to know more.
    • I have posed and answered a number of questions that those facing this procedure would genuinely want to know, but don't really seem of interest to those writing the article.

    I am not asking for a critique of the article as it still only a work in progress. What I am asking about is the principles that Wikipedia applies in such circumstances:

    • Does Wikipedia see its role as being a somewhat erudite encyclopaedia, or a valuable knowledgebase for the wider community? Or both?
    • When there are two audience community's who are interested about a single topic, is the correct thing to do to have interlinked but variant articles "talking to" each of those communities?
    • Or is the desired goal somehow to address both audiences within a single article? And if this is the case, how do we balance the governance in developing the article?

    TerryE 11:44, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I have thought about related issues. I think the way that this is dealt within most commonly is to write a good lead section that covers the main points in a manner that could be understood by a "smart forth or fifth grader"; for many readers they can get all the info they want from this lead section; those that desire more depth can read further. I think I understand that what you are describing is subtly different from this - in your situation I think you are a layman in the field of ophthalmology, who was actually interested in the depth of the subject, but found that the more in-depth parts of the article weren't written in the best way to help you understand. I agree that this is problematic. I don't know the answer, but I suggest that textbooks are more suited for this that encyclopedias. Textbooks are designed to introduce new material in an order so that topics are presented only after the necessary background info has been taught; encyclopedias are designed for providing less structured, random-access knowledge. I would be interested in your further thoughts on this subject (do we need to move this to a different page? It's not really a help desk topic) ike9898 14:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I think it's for a general audience, although for confusing topics, there might end up being the case of General relativity and Introduction to general relativity. x42bn6 Talk Mess 15:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Ike9898, I agree that this may not be a helpdesk topic, but one more of editorial governance. However I am not yet a power Wikipedia contributor, so I leave it to you to suggest location. You are close in your analysis, but my primary concern wasn't so much about me understanding the content of the current pages but more about their utility to a general readership. For every ophthalmologist or other medical professional who looks at these pages, there will be hundreds or perhaps thousands of lay people (usually cataract sufferers or relatives of the same) who do so. I think that accessability to 99% of the readership is a valid concern, yet this concern shouldn't compromise the existing work. Picking up x42bn6's example, one way to address this would be to have to link pages -- one called "cataract surgery" and the other called "cataract surgery from the patient's perspective", much as the two views of General Relativity. I will raise the subject on a talk page of the original article to see how it's contributors feel here. TerryE 15:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Another route (that I am not necessarily advocating) is to create a parallel encyclopedia, with articles crafted to be more appropriate to someone new to the subject. A precendent for setting up a parallel project like this is the 'Simple English' Wikipedia; in this case the parallel project is aimed towards readers with only rudimentary skills in English language.
    I think the way Wikipedia articles are written causes them to become simulateously more technically correct and less accessable over time. Maybe the process for writing layman-oriented articles could be modified somehow to discourage this.
    The biggest problem I see is maintaining quality when the development of an article forks into multiple articles on the same subject. ike9898 22:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Someday, computers will be smart enough to tailor content to their users, but that will probably require something like Strong AI so don't hold your breath. In the meantime, I like the idea of writing separate versions of articles for experts and laymen. However, I should add that often the main barrier to understanding expert-level writing is the specialized vocabulary, and appropriate use of links can go a long way to addressing that. For example, in the example given above, at least the first instance (and possibly any widely-separated instances) of a jargon term like myopic should link to its defining article. Wikipedia itself has articles for many jargon terms; other sources such as Wiktionary and various technical dictionaries can fill in most of the remainder. (Granted, in articles about higher mathematics, merely adding links to terms such as group, field, tensor and so on won't help the layman much, given that the linked-to articles are likely to be as opaque as the article that linked to them. But in medicine, at least most of the jargon is about reasonably tangible things, or things which are not far removed from reasonably tangible things, such as the patient's own physical sensations.)
    I have found while reading some articles on various technical topics such as computer science and web mapping that often the newer ones feature a high density of jargon with way too few links on the jargon terms. It's an interesting exercise to hunt down defining articles for all the terms likely to confuse the nonspecialist and add the links. By looking up the defining articles, I can verify that the article I'm editing is using correct terminology (or at least the terminology that can be linked on Wikipedia). Sometimes various practitioners in a field will use different technical dialects, or use slightly different word forms. If it's hard for me to look up the most definitive article for a jargon term when I know something about the subject, it would probably be prohibitive for someone with no background at all.
    Thus I would suggest to TerryE that while you are preparing simplified versions of abstruse technical articles, also examine the technical articles to insure that at least the first instances of any jargon terms unlikely to be familiar to the nonspecialist link to defining articles. While it may not be ideal for the reader to have to click a few dozen links to get through a technical article, at least that method works, and often by reading at least the introductions in the linked articles, the reader gains useful background that would not fit into the primary article.
    Any way you slice it, however, this is an encyclopedia. When I was a child, the fact that I liked to read encyclopedias (much like the Great Leader, it turns out, and we even read the same brand) set me apart from many of my peers. The popular view seemed to be that encyclopedias were never meant for popular consumption, but only to be reluctantly consulted under duress, for example to complete a personally irrelevant school assignment. As Albert Einstein said, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." --Teratornis 22:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks Teratornis, I agree with your analysis and points. If you have a quick look at my draft cataract surgery article then you will see that I have already anticipated many of them. Like Ike9898, I have very mixed views on whether this issue will be best served by a fork or by making the original more accessible. I also think that articles can be overworked in terms of technical detail and in the process of doing so lose their overall coherence. Maybe we should have a rule of thumb: spring clean every 50 edits.
    I work as an IT professional and often write detailed working papers for senior execs and customers, and I have a rule: never use jargon where it adds no value over plain English.
    As I said above, I will discuss my concerns with the authors of the current article and see if we can reach a consensus (and my draft will remain in my sandbox). By the way Professor Einstein was paraphrasing the famous razor of a countryman of mine William of Ockham :-P
    Thanks again guys/gals TerryE 01:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Categories (lack of Preview)

    Why is it that a Category tag cannot be previewed (to check a category exists) without saving the page, unlike main article content? Gaz (talk?) 12:55, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    What do you mean? When previewing a page, the categories are shown at the bottom of the window. PrimeHunter 13:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It is easy to miss. When you are previewing the changes, the categories don't appear where you might expect them at first. Scroll all the way down and you'll see them. ike9898 14:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I found them now, thanks a lot. Annoying for checking edits, but at least I know they're there now. Thanks again, Gaz (talk?)

    tag for an article that needs an image

    It there a tag that can be added to articles to indicate that the article is special need of an image or illustration? ike9898 14:27, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, you can add {{image}} on to the article talk page and then it will be brought to the attention of Wikipedians and an image may or may not be added. Regards --The Sunshine Man 14:42, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How do I modify the main title of my article? I only want to change the case of one letter.

    I was creating the article 'Active seating' but I wanted both words to begin with capitals as such 'Active Seating'.

    Please let me know if I can modify the title, or delete the article and start over? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ergo360 (talk • contribs).

    You can move the page to its new location (see the move tab up there?). Note that only accounts that are older than 4 days can move pages. Though I would suggest you redirect the page to Active Sitting instead, because they have the same meaning. x42bn6 Talk Mess 15:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Can commons images be featured images, the answer is bugging me. Francisco Tevez 15:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Well, images from the Wikimedia commons can be linked to all other Wikimedia projects but if an image is a featured image on commons it would have to go through the featured picture candidates process here on Wikipedia to be granted the featured picture status here, and the same if it wasn't a featured image on commons, it would still have to go through the same processs here. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 16:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Submitting pages

    How would I submit a new page to Wikipedia?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shzam (talk • contribs)

    You may wish to take a look at Help:Starting a new page, dont forget to make sure it meets the notability guidelines and is suitable for Wikipedia. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 16:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Burmese fonts & reference

    I edited or rather added more information on the article 'Sittwe'. It has some Burmese fonts. How can I edit so that the Burmese fonts will come into effect? I do not know how to put reference. So I just put it along with the text. Kindly enlighten me in these aspects. Thank you.

    Religious Belife, forbidden depicting of holy person.

    In the article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad, it shows maybe 2-3 pictures that kinda pictures Prophet Muhammad's body. [Physically] But what I was taught that it's forbidden to make any kinds of images of any type of prophet. [I think....] Can someone please help take down these images?

    It might be for muslims but wikipedia is a secular encyclopedia, while we don't go out of our way to cause offence, we don't observe the tenets of various world religions or censor content on that basis. --Fredrick day 19:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Exactly, the policy on this is outlined in Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not censored. Prodego talk 19:15, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It's one thing for a religion to tell its followers what they may or may not do, but quite another thing for that religion to assert what everyone must do or not do. Given that religions appear to evolve much like other social contructs (e.g., language, music, politics, art, and fashion), it is virtually inevitable that competing religions will generate conflicting claims about what is proper behavior. When one religion tries to impose its notions of proper behavior on everyone else, the result is Religious war. It is disturbing that billions of humans continue to be so intolerant of people who disagree with them. Also note: even if Muslims succeed in controlling the behavior of all non-Muslims, there is still the problem that Islam is as vulnerable to schism as any other religion, with the result being Sectarian violence (for example, see the conflict between Sunni and Shia). The same result would almost certainly follow if any other religion were to gain supremacy through violence, for example Christian fundamentalism. As evidence, consider the centuries of sectarian violence during the time when Europe was mostly Christian. Indoctrinating people to settle disagreements with violence dooms them to fight forever, because there can never be an end to disagreements. I suggest it is better to leave Medieval values behind and enter the 21st century in which we accept the fact that people are diverse. --Teratornis 17:23, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Possible Combination of Two Pages

    I was wondering if Acra should possibly be combined with Acre, Israel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scout32 (talk • contribs)

    No, Acra is a disambiguation page which means it links to other pages so merging the page seems unnecessary, hope this helped. The Sunshine Man 19:15, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree there is no reason to merge, but the two names could easily be confused so I have added a link at Acra per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#The "See also" section. PrimeHunter 20:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I mis-stated the question. Should Acra (fortress) be combined or added to Acre, Israel? - Scout32

    From Acra (fortress): "The Acra was a fortress or citadel built in Jerusalem". From Acre, Israel: "... is a city in the Western Galilee district of northern Israel". I don't see any reason to combine them. They have similar names but are in different places. PrimeHunter 22:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Thank you for looking! - - Scout32

    Biography

    Why can't I make a biography on myself?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Beefmasterson (talk • contribs)

    Because it would not meet WP:BIO, however you can use your userpage to post a small amount of information about yourself but this is used mainly for the sort of edits you make on Wikipedia, please see WP:USERPAGE for more information. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 19:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Try piczo or myspace Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Sending finished article by mail

    A retired professor has written a short biography of "Jean Charlot," at the moment described only in a short note.

    Can the author send the article to you directly for inclusion in Wikipedia? If so, to what address?

    He will not be able to handle your instructions for submitting an article by computer.

    Thank you.

    John Charlot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.22.251 (talk • contribs) (E-Mail removed for security purposes)

    Well, Wikipedia articles must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy, it also has to meet WP:BIO. You will probably have to state here who the person is and say what context the article will have, unless this is provided I would say the article would not be suitable for Wikipedia. Please add what context the article would contain below. Please remember to insert ~~~~ at the end of you messages — this automatically produces your username/IP address, the date and time. Thanks --The Sunshine Man 20:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    There is also a potential issue of copyright here; the article cannot be published under a license that doesn't allow editing/alteration, and it must also adhere to the policy on original research. Bjelleklang - talk Bug Me 21:42, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Image

    Can you have an image which links to an external website without having clicking the arrow that comes beside it?Wiki.user 20:16, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes on other wikis but over here it's been dsabled--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 20:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Ugly spaced in citation format

    How do I fix the ugly spaces after the article title in this reference? I didn't add any, and don't see them in the article, so I don't know what is going on. [4] Thanks. KP Botany 20:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Clifford

    I'm trying to find out what store i can buy the movie Clifford starring Martin Short 1994 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.80.5.169 (talk • contribs)

    If you go to an online store that sells DVDs and enter this code 027616902900, you can find the film Clifford directed by Paul Flaherty, and starring Martin Short, is available in DVD and you can order it from them. KP Botany 21:16, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    what are chinese mitten crabs

    what purpose can mitten crabs provide here in maryland — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.99.94.52 (talk • contribs)

    There is a Wikipedia article on Chinese mitten crabs. Click on the link to find out what you need to know. If you want more information than the article has, click on the Discussion tab at the top of the page and ask a question on the article's talk page, maybe an editor can help you out. KP Botany 21:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Actually, article talk pages are for discussing changes to its associated article. If you want more information than the article provides you can ask a question at the WP:Reference desk. ssepp(talk) 21:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That's not quite correct, asking questions on an article talk page about something not in the article is one method editors learn about changes or additions to articles. The reference desk should properly be refering questions about missing parts of articles to the articles' talk pages. KP Botany 21:56, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    creating account problems

    After making a very minor edit of "proparoxytone" a day or two ago, I decided to add to the "monel" article because I have an object made of it. I made an image of the object and starting reading about how to upload the image, a confusing set of instructions in the midst of which was your claim that creating an account would simplify things. Now I am in a coil over that and have wasted more time than I intended to devote to the entire editing matter and still, apparently, don't have an account. Since the original edit (of text only) was so simple, I'm surprised that this day's trials have been beyond me.

    Hello. You can create an account here. You just need to enter a desired username and password, and fill in the word you see in the image in the text box, to show you are not a bot. ssepp(talk) 21:59, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Who verifies links?

    On a particular wiki, it states "DO NOT ADD MORE LINKS TO THIS ARTICLE. Links that have not been verified WILL BE DELETED"

    Is this allowed and who is in charge of verifying the links?

    For reference, the question appears to refer to the {{NoMoreLinks}} template. Read the text on the template page for more information. --Teratornis 22:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    To clarify: Yes, it is valid to add this template. Occasionally, we'll have problems with people attempting to advertise their company/forum/blog/etc. by adding a link to a related article. These have to be deleted repeatedly. There's also problems with articles where people attempt to link to every possible site they can think of that has more information, whether or not it's appropriate to the article's subject. In any case, it's the other editors of the article who verify the links. Post the link to the article's Talk page, explain why you think it would add to the article, and let a Consensus develop there. -- Kesh 00:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How do I merge articles?

    The game Naruto: Narutimett Portable now has a seperate page saying the English version is a new game. It clearly isn't, and needs to have the info for the English version moved to the Japanese version page.

    Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kylemcauliffe15 (talk • contribs).

    Do you mean Naruto: Narutimate Portable? I'm not sure what you mean by "English version" and "Japanese version" because there appears to be only one article on this game. Unless you mean the Japanese Wikipedia, but I don't know the Japanese equivalent of this article. Either way, do you have any more information on what needs merging? x42bn6 Talk Mess 23:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Maybe it refers to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes. If you want to merge those articles then you should probably propose it first as described at the link. PrimeHunter 23:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Question From Author

    My name is D'Maria Scaglione (please google my name). I am an author. My website is http://enlightenedangel.bravehost.com.


    I was wondering how to have an article about me on Wikipedia? You advise that we are not supposed to speak of ourselves? Can I use this:


    Hello and welcome to the world of children's books and fantasies. Her name is D'Maria Scaglione and she has been on a very long journey in her short life. As a youngster she had an imazingly creative imagination and all she loved to to do was read, write stories and draw. In school she was always in trouble for my drawing pictures in class, especially during Math. Her life as an elementary school student was spent many times in the principals office. D'Maria went to school at Woodsroad Elementary in North Babylon, New York. Her parents moved to Florida when she was eleven years old. She has lived in Florida ever since. Most of her teen years were spent in Titusville, Florida near the Kennedy Space Center. She has seen many of the Apollo program launches. She also saw some of the first Shuttle launches as well. It was a marvolous time in History to grow up. Eight years of her adult life were spent in Law Enforcement and Fire Tech as a dispatcher. D'Maria truly loved my job, yet being a single parent, she rarely saw her young son. For about 6 years she worked in electronic assembly and then went on to a computer research firm. During this time there were also numerous classes taken in college to finish her degree. When D'Maria's father became ill in the 1990's, she decided to quit college to help with the family. Some years later she, herself became ill and never finished her degree, though she has enough credits for a bachelors degree. Someday, there is hope to complete a degree in the arts. D'Maria Scaglione is also an artist and some of her art has been sold online. It's been an exciting journey and the best part has just begun. Finally becoming an author has been such a thrill and D'Maria Scagione feels that she has met so many wonderful people. She is very grateful for her dream finally coming true. She looks forward to the future with great anticipation and new friends. With her love of God and her creative spirit, D'Maria will go far.

    Basically no - that looks like an advert rather than encyclopedia article - as a rule of thumb, if you are notable enough for a wikipedia article, someone else will write about you. Are you at that stage? --Fredrick day 23:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Read the several articles about authors linked under Children's literature#Popular Contributions to Children's Literature. Those are some examples of biographical articles about authors of children's books which have not gotten deleted from Wikipedia yet. If you can write an article about yourself to the same standard, it might survive the deletionist horde. --Teratornis 00:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Please, this article is very poorly written. It mixes tenses and persons, words are not spelled correctly, the writing is poor quality. Often articles like this come up on the Article for Deletion discussion or are speedily deleted. People who write articles about themselves for Wikipedia, who are not experienced Wikipedia editors, tend to write resumes, disrespect community standards of what belongs in an encyclopedia, and can't be bothered to even spell-check. These articles are speedily deleted and debated by the dozens each week. I urge you to reconsider writing a Wikipedia article about yourself. Please don't encourage people to write Wikipedia articles about themselves without refering them, at least to the WP:COI guidelines, and the fact that their article will likely be impolitely deleted. KP Botany 00:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Newest Articles

    Hello all, I was wondering, are there any criteria for posting something on the Did you know part of the main page, and if there are, how does one go about doing it? Thank you so much, Neranei 00:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yup, if you make a new article (or significantly expand an existing one), you can submit a fact from it at Did you know?, where it will be considered and if accepted, eventually make it onto the main page. --YFB ¿ 00:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Uploading an Image

    I am inexperienced with copyright tags and image uploads and so forth. so what information would I need, and how would I use that info, to upload the third picture on ths page (http://www.starcraft2.com/wallpapers.xml)? The Clawed One 00:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You can't. Pictures on Wikipedia (in most cases) have to be released under a free licence. The contents of that page is copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment (see the small text at the bottom of the page) and all rights are reserved, meaning it's not suitable for use on Wikipedia. Most images found on the internet can't be uploaded here. --YFB ¿ 00:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    So, even though it's allowed to be downloaded as a wallpaper, it cannot be uploaded here? The Clawed One 00:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Correct. In the case of wallpapers, the copyright holder generally releases the image for personal, private use but does not permit commercial use or the creation of derivative images, both of which are requirements for images on Wikipedia. --YFB ¿ 00:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Okay. Thank you. The Clawed One 00:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You're welcome :-) --YFB ¿ 00:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Printing problem

    List of military aircraft of the United_States

    The above site seem to have a problem printing beyond page 7. Is there a universal problem or is it just my system?

    Thanks,

    Gary Wolfe

    <email redacted to prevent spam>

    Might just be your system. Be sure to use the special printable version to remove unneeded text (e.g. navigation bar). E talk 02:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi. I currently edit on the wiki WoWWiki.com, and I was wondering about how to make Template:Columns-start, Template:Column, and Template:Columns-end work there. I have the templates copied to a set of my user sandboxes there, but when I try to apply them, they do not work. The sandboxes are located at here, here, and here, respectively. I also set up a sample list here that shows the issue. Feel free to leave your message here. If this is a little too specific for the help desk, send me where I need to go. :) --Izno 01:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    These templates are only very new and are still under development. You must copy all syntax from the edit page. E talk 02:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The last edits made to each were in October. Not only that, but peaking through Whatlinkshere shows that the template is done. Are you sure? ;P --Izno 02:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Oops, it is. Wrong template I looked at there :P Yes, just copy all syntax from the template edit page to that one and it should work. E talk 02:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Except... it didn't work, as explained. Which made me sad. --Izno 03:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    adding info

    how do you add information to it?

    To what? The Wikipedia? If you have information that you would like to add to a certain article, simply go to that article and click the link at the top that says "edit this page", and then add the info. Maybe you'd like to have a look at our help pages. Dismas|(talk) 02:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Citing republished material

    lol how thrilling. When you are citing something that's been republished (as in the EA Poe society of Baltimore republishing a journal article from here: Jeffrey A. Savoye, “Two Biographical Digressions: Poe's Wandering Trunk and Dr. Carter's Mysterious Sword Cane,” Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2004, 5:15-42), and you've only clapped eyes on the republication, how are you supposed to make that clear in your citation? (you can see how we're doing it so far at Death of Edgar Allan Poe). I've read WP:CITE and it's a bit unclear on this. Thanks. -Malkinann 03:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    hi i have a 10doller bill that haz a star at the end of it what dose that mean

    tis sn is removed what dose this mean if u can tell me hears my ph number phone number removed pleas tell me— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.129.248 (talk • contribs) 03:42, June 3, 2007 (UTC)

    ... I think Lolcats have learned how to use Wikipedia. *ahem* This page is for questions about Wikipedia itself. For other questions, use the Reference desk. -- Kesh 04:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Silver Labrador Retrievers

    The information regarding Silver Labradors (under the main heading of Labrador Retrievers) is predominantly unsubstantiated opinions of blatantly biased non-silver lab breeders and owners, who post their personal anti-Silver Lab nonsense from anti-silver lab sites on the internet. Not only is the section referring to Silver Labs grossly biased, it contains considerable falsehoods and intentional disinformation, If those contributing editors can not substantiate and document: 1) "the original silver lab kennel had Weimers", 2) gene mapping was NOT done on silver labs in the 80s, and 3) Silver Labs are a "scam" (and all like accusations and slurs made throughout this category), then Wikipedia should insist these inflammatory and fraudulent accusations be withdrawn. In short, contributors on this site should be pressed by Wikipedia to either PROVE IT; or REMOVE IT.

    By no stretch of the imagination is this site either correct or objective on the topic of Silver Labrador Retrievers. More importantly, when editing is done to this site to correct the incorrect allegations and accusations made by the anti-silver factions, this site editor (Sarrandúin ) removes the corrections in accordance with her own bias regarding Silver Labs (see site history as well as her remarks).

    Because this site editor is incapable of editing for objectivity instead of her bias -- or even allowing both sides of the controversy on the site -- I request another editor be assigned to this site. If this editor is so delusional she believes she is being objective on the topic of silver labs, then the topic of what information is posted under the heading of Silver Labs should be settled by Wikipedia's Arbitration Board.

    Dean Crist Crist Culo Kennels (email address removed)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.73.71.126 (talk • contribs) 04:16, June 3, 2007 (UTC)

    I assume you are referring to Labrador Retriever#'Silver', 'blue', 'grey', and 'charcoal'? If you'll note the numbers in that section, they lead to specific articles which you can read to verify the statements. If you feel that these are not sufficient, discuss it on the Talk page until a consensus is reached, or request a commentary on the article.:If you have a problem with User:Sarranduin, please discuss it on that user's Talk page or use the dispute resolution process. This page is not for venting your frustrations with a particular editor. Further, there is no such thing as a "site editor." All users are editors on Wikipedia.
    Finally, please read WP:NPA. Using terms like "delusional" is frowned upon. -- Kesh 05:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, the article's talk page is the best play to go. I don't know which side you are on, but some of the links are problematic, and I had to remove the one statement and its dead link. The other links may have to be changed. I started a thread on the talk page, please join us there, line up your specific arguments on the context of the article only (not the editor) and your references and help fix the article to make it accurately reflect breed standards and general descriptions of the dog. KP Botany 05:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Lee Majors tv commercial

    I have a bet that Lee Majors is currently appearing in a commercial for Coors Light Beer as a father offering advise to his son. Can anyone verify that my observation is correct? 76.209.55.83 05:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry, but Wikipedia is not the place to ask that. You will just have to see for yourself.--Jupiter12 05:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Try a Google Search perhaps? E talk 05:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Lee Majors#Recent activities says he continues to appear in commercials. You may have a chance to win your bet. Try: Google:"Lee Majors" "Coors Light" commercial. That turns up a References page on Bionic Wiki which shows promise but does not quite deliver. It says Coors ran a "Six Million Dollar Can" commercial but does not say that Lee Majors appeared in it. --Teratornis 16:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The commercial is apparently called "Protection" and can be seen at http://www.coorslight.com. I don't know Lee Majors and cannot say whether it's him. The commercial is discussed at [5] without naming actors. PrimeHunter 20:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Inactive Project Page

    If there's a project page I'm interested in helping with, but it seems that no one is really running it, is it OK to just step in and organize going-ons for the project page?

    If you need to see it, I'm talking about [[6]] Thanks! Miles Blues 05:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Why not leave a note on the project's talk page and see if they need a leader. E talk 05:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    searching

    I want to search universities city vises — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.170.58 (talk)

    Go to this page, select your country from the list and there you have a list of universities in your country. E talk 05:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Templates

    How do i view all availible templates for user pages. not only can i speak english, i can speak Japanese and i want to find a template for Japanese speaking like the english one. Efansay 06:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Please see Wikipedia:Babel for the language-based userboxes. E talk 06:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Time Zones user box

    How do i add a Time Zone user box? Efansay 07:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You might choose one of the boxes listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Time. Peacent 07:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Userbox placement

    Now that I've got a second userbox, here, how can I place them so that they're one underneath the other at the right of the page, not side-by-side? AndyJones 07:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Fixed. I hope you don't mind me editing your page. Peacent 07:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Good one, thank you. AndyJones 08:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Edit section 0

    Is there some user-made plugin or something that would make a [edit] button for section 0? At least on talk pages. Because as it is, every time I want to edit section 0, I have to click on some other section and then manually change URL to say section=0. Shinhan 07:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, there is. Just copy the script into your monobook. Peacent 07:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you, thats exactly what I was looking for. And now I also know where to look for more scripts :) Shinhan 10:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Of course, you could just click 'edit this page' at the top. Daniel (‽) 16:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Imperial names and Wikipedia style

    Hi!

    I would like to know, which expression Wikipedia preferes when discussing matters pertaining to the pre-communist era of Russia. Should we use, when writing about the emperors, its Russian name:Tsar and tsarist or Emperor and imperial? --Tellervo 08:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    The people who decide such things often band together into WikiProjects. Browsing from there leads to: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Europe#Russia which lists the promising WikiProject Russian History (it looks like a high percentage of members claim to hold PhD's in the subject). You might inquire on its talk page. --Teratornis 16:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Minimizing userboxes

    I just wanna know how to minimize the userboxes. like if you have a lot and you want to save space. i'm asking because i have this problem of too many userboxes. Efansay 09:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Make a user subpage for them all, e.g. User:Efansay/Userboxes. E talk 09:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That is one possibility, E, but I think they mean minimize like as in the Table of Contents; the show and hide function. A good template for this is the {{hidden}} template. Wikipedia:Userboxes has a few ways you can also use the same function. Good luck with it ;) –Sebi ~ 09:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Another way is to put them into a scrolling box can be found on Duggie647's user page. You can copy the code from his page (I'm sure he won't mind, I have a pretty good idea where he got it from ;) ), and paste it onto your page. –Sebi ~ 09:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    UserBox

    Can someone please help by moving my user boxes to the center of the right box please it looks messy. Also could you look at my sandbox page and integrate the boxes to my main page. Separate boxes to the different subcatagories. PleaseWiki.user 10:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I've just fixed it. Hope that helps. E talk 11:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks a lot. I've saw it up one but i didn't think that would help. If you could put my things into boxes like Jimmy Wales userpage that would be a big big help. ThanksWiki.user 11:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Your template in your sandbox looks good so far, try and improve that. E talk 11:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I can't get the code right though. Everytime i try to do something it gets messed. I was hoping someone with a bit more experience would be able to help me??Wiki.user 11:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    RE: Article on F. S. C. Northrop

    Dear Sir or Madam:

    The article "F. S. C. Northrop," which I wrote, in headed with the sentence, "This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject." I have reviewed the article and could find nothing amiss. Perhaps you should remove the above mentioned sentence.

    Thanks,

    Dr. Fred Seddon author of Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F. S. C. Northrop 216.151.119.126 10:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    It has been removed as I went over the article too, looks pretty good and well documented. E talk 11:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with the removal, however, the article currently does not cite any references. I've added a tag, please see Wikipedia:Citing sources and consider adding references for the article. If the books mentioned on this page are the sources, please specify them. Peacent 12:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The expert tag was added in Februar 2006.[7] PrimeHunter 12:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Changing the colour of your text.

    I've only noticed just now that some people have their names and text coloured. Can someone tell me how to do this please. Efansay 10:59, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You might find useful instructions on how to format text, including changing fonts, colours, etc here. Peacent 11:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If you refer to signatures then see Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing your signature. PrimeHunter 12:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah yeah, if that's the case, see also Wikipedia:How to fix your signature :) Peacent 12:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Site Suggestions

    Hi

    I have a suggestion you may wish to consider for Wikipedia and that is to allow users to rate entries for usefullness. I have just found out some really usefull information about smartmedia cards and it may be nice for the person who took the time to upload it if I rate them 5/5 stars for example.

    Perhaps a league table could be developled which would encourage more and more users to upload usefull documents for the kudos of seeing their name high in the rankings? In a similar way to deciding whether to buy from a seller on ebay you could then use the users ranking as a means to gauge how much faith to put in the credibility of their entries.

    Anyway, this is one of my top 10 internet sites, Keep up the goodwork.

    Regards Forbury Lion — Preceding unsigned comment added by Forbury Lion (talk • contribs)

    Hi there, it's me again, um well that is a good idea because then admins or users can see overall which articles need attention. Ranking an article overall is a good idea but making it so that there are league tables over complicates things and ranking users is i believe unfair and people could fake opinions to get higher in the league.Wiki.user 11:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. Many people have usually contributed to good articles. Once an article is created, anybody can edit it (except rare cases where it is protected after a lot of vandalism). Some of the best articles are rated as Wikipedia:Featured articles or Wikipedia:Good articles. An editor can show appreciation of another editor (not just for good article writing) with Wikipedia:Barnstars. PrimeHunter 12:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:9/11 Memorial (Arizona)

    It appears that it is considered a supage of Talk:9 due to the slash. If you look at the page you'll see what I mean. If there's a way to fix it, then please do so. 70.59.227.206 12:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I have no idea. Gotta go ask this question somewhere... Peacent 15:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Question asked at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions. Peacent 16:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Searching for a missing or deleted article--"list of Disney Characters"

    Hello. I have no idea how to go about doing this. I have tried to follow the process to figure out what happened to this "article," but find it terribly confusing.

    What I am looking for was an alphabetical listing of Disney characters. I found it very helpful & used it almost daily. I think it may have been deleted, and I have no clue why. If it has, is it possible to have it restored?

    Thank you!

    It got deleted :Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Table of Disney characters. If you get an account, I could undelete and move it to your userspace. ViridaeTalk 13:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


    Thank you for the response. I created an account. Just let me know what to do next! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clgoody (talk • contribs)

    Userfied per request. Peacent 15:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi. What does "userfied per request" mean? I still cannot find the list. Is it me being a noob, or does it take some time to "move it to (your) userspace?"--Clgoody 17:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Replied on user talk. Peacent 17:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Ok, I did find the list. Thank you. Last question...what does this mean: "when you're done, please tag the subpage for speedy deletion using {Userreq}."--Clgoody 17:23, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Replied on user talk. Peacent 17:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    citing a wikipedia source

    How do I cite a wikipedia article in APA style?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.59.48 (talk • contribs)

    Well, sources have to be referenced in wiki-markup, see this page on how to cite sources here. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 13:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    To cite a Wikipedia article in another work, click on "Cite this article" in the toolbox to the left when you view the article. It includes a citation in APA style. PrimeHunter 14:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Rediting a page before it appers on search

    I understand that it takes a while to appear on search - index takes 30 hours or something. I just created a page on SDV - shut down valves but cant seem to relocate it anyway to add more meat to it and create links and simply just do more work on it. How do i do locate a page i just created if i dont want to wait for more than a day before working on it again.

    Thanking you in adcvance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunav (talk • contribs)

    Check your contributions (the 'my contributions' link at the top of the page) to find out the page's name. You can add a redirect to help out the search engine before it's indexed, if you like (see the linked page for details). --ais523 14:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
    I added a See also section to Shut down valve (SDV) per WP:LAYOUT with some links to related existing articles. Some of these should become inline links from jargon terms in the article. While searching for other related articles, I found a (initially) red link to Emergency shutdown valve on the ESV disambiguation page. I'm fairly certain Emergency shutdown valve is a synonym for Shut down valve (SDV), so I made the former a redirect to the latter. (A search: Google:emergency shutdown valve also finds the acronym ESDV.) Note to Gunav: when we add new articles to Wikipedia, we do not merely add new facts, but we also Build the web. That means you should search for articles relating to the topic you are writing about, and link to them from your article. Searching first is also necessary to insure your contribution is not redundant with an existing article or section. --Teratornis 16:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Locating a UK Army officer

    I am attempting to locate a British army officer and cannot find the location for such information on Wikipedia. Can you advise where the information can be found?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.155.6.79 (talk • contribs)

    Herbert Lepp, <(E-Mail removed for security purposes)> 3 June 2007

    Please remember to add ~~~~ at the end of your comments to produce your username/IP and the date and time automatically. As for your help request.... the article may not exist, try typing the persons name into the search bar and if it does not exist then it has not yet been wrote, you could create the article but make sure it meets the biograhpies of living persons and WP:BIO, you may wish to see Help:Starting a new page. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 15:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikinews help desk

    I have found Wikinews' reference desk (now renamed "global networking") but I'm not well aware where the help desk of that project is. Could you please help?
    Where should I ask?
    MaxDZ8 talk 15:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    n:WN:WC? It's the Water Cooler. x42bn6 Talk Mess 15:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Uh... I spent some time navigating the help pages, main page talk and such but I didn't figure out it was this one.
    Thank you very much.
    MaxDZ8 talk 04:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How do I report an insulting member?

    "They weren't the same people stupid. You know what you are just being stupid."

    Called stupid twice in one sentence.

    When I try to reason with him...

    "I don't care anymore. I'm not letting you win.."

    All this, is in;

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Angry_Sun#DesGhidorah

    It almost embarasses me to be arguing over such a trivial issue, but I will not stand to be insulted like this.83.100.253.141 16:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I reccommend first informing the editor of what he or she has done, and requesting the remain civil, and do not make any personal attacks. After that, if they continue, perhaps informing an admin would be a good idea. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 16:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    My personal take is to be more concerned with the facts than with irrelevant commentary about the participants in a discussion. Someone may think I am stupid, or I may in fact be stupid, but those possibilities have no bearing on the validity of any arguments I may advance. All arguments can be judged on their logical merits, regardless of who they come from. See Critical thinking, Ad hominem, Appeal to emotion, and Reductio ad Hitlerum. If you understand the rhetorical tricks your opponent is employing in an attempt to fluster you and distract from the real issue under discussion, you can learn to avoid being bothered by your opponent's tricks. Your opponent wants you to stop thinking about whatever point you were trying to make, and waste your time getting excited about being insulted, which is futile in any case because simply as a practical matter it is very difficult to dictate your notion of allowable speech habits to everyone else in the world (see Free speech; Libel; Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy). And yes, it should embarrass you to fall victim to such a playground trick, but only momentarily as it is so simple to learn to see through such tricks and get control of your emotions to keep them working productively for you. --Teratornis 16:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    huuuuuuuuu♦

    What do you do here?

    Here on wikipedia, we are trying to write and give away a free encyclopædia. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    See Wikipedia, Project:About, Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales, and The Hive by Marshall Poe. --Teratornis 03:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    image contributions

    How do I view a user's edits that revert or change images? basically I want to see all the edits by this vandal: UmagaOwnsAll!. I've reverted his changes to articles, but I can't seem to find a way to list all his edits to images such as this one:[8] (see history). I revert them as I find them, but is there any where that lists all of these image edits in one place? --Krsont 17:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Go to Special:Log and enter the user's username in the username field to see all non-edit actions that user has taken, such as image uploads. --ais523 17:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
    This asserts that the vandal has made no image edits, however. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Which he clearly has, see the history of that example I gave (there are many others I have found too)... --Krsont 17:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    ah ok, found it [9]. Good to know for future editing :) --Krsont 17:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Creating a new infobox for Malaysian schools

    I would like to create a new kind of infobox for Malaysian schools. I want to make something similar to Template:Infobox country, which looks like this: 120px And I want the syntax to look like this: 120px Does anyone know how to create a new template page like this? Thanks! --Edmundkh 17:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    There is always {{High School Infobox}}. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    But I prefer my own design! That template you mentioned is not suitable for Malaysian schools. If you're not Malaysian, then you may not understand why I designed another type. --Edmundkh 17:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Creating a complicated infobox like those illustrated by your images would be rather difficult. I suggest you ask for further help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes. Peacent 17:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I was going to suggest you inquire at WikiProject Malaysia, but that WikiProject does not seem to exist yet. Perhaps you could start one (see: WP:PROJGUIDE). Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Asia#Southeast_Asia lists a WikiProject Southeast Asia which appears to have a section for Malaysia. You might ask on its talk page if anyone can help you. If you can't find anyone to help, then you will have to study template design, at least enough so you can figure out how to edit an existing similar template into the template you need. See: Help:Template, Help:Infobox, and User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Tem. Other advice:
    • A scan of a hand-written prototype to illustrate your template layout is difficult for others to read. You should instead type the layout you want, perhaps on your user page. Just type the text the way you want it to appear, within a <pre>...</pre> tag. See: Wikipedia:How to edit a page#No or limited formatting - showing exactly what is being typed. Also type your prototype template call that way. Then others can easily see what you want.
    • List of Wikipedias lists a Malay Wikipedia; you might find a suitable school template you can copy and adapt from that. Or if not, you should also develop your Malaysian school template there, where I am sure you will find other Malaysians who understand your design.
    --Teratornis 17:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Charlie Card

    How do I obtain a Charlie Card?

    If you mean CharlieCard you could start by reading that article. --Teratornis 18:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Requesting Adoption

    How do I find A list of Adopters? So I might request them to Adopt Me--Goldiesmoon 18:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

    Here is a complete list of adopters. Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 19:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    searching for a particular articles form papers

    How can i search for specific paper articles?

    Can you clarify what you mean? --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 19:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Wikisource ? ? ? ?
    Go to www.wikisource.org, and search the name of the paper you want. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I would like to add an image of a show-quality pomeranian dog on the Pomeranian page. I was given permission (by the breeder/exhibitor), as long as "nobody else can use it on their site". Hmmm......not sure which copyright tag to use. I do not want to release it to the domain for public use. If it is impossible to post a picture on Wikipedia, with the intention that it cannot be distributed, what is the correct tag stating that the author and a specific detail of the picture must be included. Since she is a breeder, she simply does not want anybody else placing the picture on their own site, claiming that it is their dog. Help, anyone? Thanks! Tingalex 20:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    To do what you want to do upload the picture and add the following {{Non-free fair use in}} and {{withpermission}}. You must also add a detailed Wikipedia:Fair use rationale. If you have plans to replace the image on Pomeranian (dog), with a fair use image, don't. Wikipedia prefers free images. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    RE: Famous people with the surname Smith

    Shouldn't this list be part of Smith (surname) or Smith? How many people searching for someone named "Smith" are going to search using "Famous people with the surname Smith"? Other common surname disambiguation pages are listed on their own page, such as Johnson. There's also Famous people with the surname Smyth which seems an odd title for a disambiguation page. 172.213.18.82 20:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You have a point. However, if a person searches Smith, they will be led to a page, where if they scroll to the bottom of it, they will find a link Famous people with the surname Smith. So even though someone will probably not search "Famous people with the surname Smith", they can find it easy enough. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How to make my own article

    How do I make my own Wikipedia Article?

    Start by typing an article name in the search box and go on from there. E talk 20:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Before creating an article remeber to read Wikipedia:Your first article, Help:Starting a new page, and also reading Wikipedia:Notability would be a good idea. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 21:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    How do you change your username?

    How do you change your usernmae?

    Visit Wikipedia:Changing Username and follow the instructions there. GDonato (talk) 21:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If the username you want has been taken, go to Wikipedia:Usurpations. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 21:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Link to a Wikipedia Article Policy, about religion in Intro

    Hi, I remember reading something on a Wikipedia Policy page about how articles shouldn't contain religion or ethnicity in the intro (first section of a page) for an article about a person. I think the reasoning was that if someone is both American and Christian they don't want the article to begin with "So and so is a Christian American..." or something similar to that.

    I was wondering if anyone knows where that page is located and could please give me a link. I tried searching multiple times but was unsuccessful.

    Thanks!

    The guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Opening paragraph speaks about ethnicity. Religion is not mentioned, but it seems to me that religion is irrelevant to mention anywhere in most cases (exceptions include people in religious positions and people who are well-known for speaking publicly about their religion). PrimeHunter 21:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Television Articles

    I was trying to get a television article to GA status, but was not able to because of the requierment of a minimal use of fair-use images. However, how could I get images that are free content with a television article? --PostScript (info/talk/contribs) 21:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Images of what? User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Ima lists some links about sources of public domain images. --Teratornis 23:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    untitled

    When the title of an article is spelled incorrectly, how do I edit that title?

    To rename the title of an article, simply click the "move" button to move the article to the correct spelling. Note that accounts need to be at least 4 days old before you can move articles. -- Hdt83 Chat 22:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It also might be a good idea to read WP:MOVE. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Donation refunds.

    How can I get my donation back? I am not getting the kind of service that I expect, in fact, I was even blocked!

    This is ridiculous. I plan to re-donate the money into Romney's campaign, who should I talk to?

    Thank you.


    contact the foundation itself - nobody here can help you. --Fredrick day 22:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    The contact info is:

    Postal address 

       Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
   200 2nd Ave. South #358
   St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313
   USA
   Phone: +1-727-231-0101
   Email: info@wikimedia.org
   Fax: +1-727-258-0207

    GDonato (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Making a new page

    how do I create a new page on wikipedia for everyone to search?

    Refer to Wikipedia:Help Desk#How to make my own article. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Is Wikipedia broken?

    Why does "my contributions" not list my contributions. It's at least 30 minutes or more out of date. Seconds or 5 minutes, ok. But 30-45 minutes? Did they forget to pay the electric bill?

    It's also mentioned at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#User contributions not appearing which says "Due to severe database lag, contributions older than 6480 seconds may not appear on this list", and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Contribution history which earlier said "Resolved. just wait it out" but that was removed, and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Database lagging? where User:Splash has an interesting theory about the Gnashing Mouth . PrimeHunter 00:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    delete

    Can someone delete this account?

    I will have it if you dont want it can I have it?

    Rational

    Can someone (preferably not the one who put them them up) explain to me the justification for each template on this page? It is sourced and written out-of-universe. The Clawed One 00:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Well. You could ask the one who put them them up on his talk page or you could leave a note on the article's talk page. That would probably be your best bet. Cheers! ---CWY2190TC 02:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I did ask him, but I personally don't trust him to give me all the facts, and as of now, he hasn't. The Clawed One 03:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia broken

    Why don't user's usernames link to their userpages anymore? A.Z. 00:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    They usually do and I haven't noticed a change. Can you be more specific about where they don't? PrimeHunter 02:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Try using User:Username instead of just Username. — Supuhstar * —

    login problems

    I created a user name (susiesosad) yesterday and included my e-mail address during registration. I received the confirmation e-mail and clicked on the link to confirm my address. I've never been able to login with my user name susiesosad. I even tried clicking on "e-mail new password," but get the error "Login error: Error sending mail: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "Susiesosad". Again, I DID register my e-mail address when I created this user name, and I DID confirm my e-mail by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail from wikipedia. I'd try again with a new user name, but I'm quite partial to this one. Any help is appreciated. thanks!--69.109.237.154 00:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Adding a YouTube link to an article

    I recently linked a YouTube-hosted video in the Parrot harness article (diff). I'm aware that there have been various issues with YT videos on Wikipedia, so could someone take a look at the article and give me their opinion on whether linking it here is appropriate or not? The vid demonstrates the subject of the article in a manner that text and still images could not, so I feel that it is useful in this context. --Kurt Shaped Box 01:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    No welcome?

    Hey, I've had this account for a few days now and have yet to get a welcome message! I've made a good amount of edits, now what the hell is this bullshit?--Rastabilly 01:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Afaik, welcome messages are posted at will by some editors who notice that a new editor hasn't been welcomed yet. It's not an automatic process. I'm sure there are editors who've been here for a long time but who've not had a welcome message yet because nobody has noticed. (Btw, you are certainly welcome here but your attitude isn't.) -- JackofOz 01:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Where might i be able to sugjest an external link for some contries and my externel link is [10] --Sivad4991 02:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Not quite sure what you mean with "suggesting an external link". However, the CIA World Factbook is Public domain so if you find something you want to put in an article, go ahead and add it. ---CWY2190TC 02:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Page creation, deletion

    I am trying to make a page for a recording artist by the name of Michael Steel. He sold over 300,000 albums and had a top 10 album in Europe, I was surprised he does not have a page here. So I would like to start by creating one. How do I do this, as the page I already created was deleted. Thank you, Chris

    How do I open an account here?

    What process do I must go through and do you pay as much as you tube as far a $ $ $ $ are concerned?

    thanks, User:THEBEASTWARLOCK|THEBEASTWARLOCKSLAYER —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.113.199.109 (talk • contribs).

    There should be a "sign in/create account" link in the top right corner. You can see why create an account? for some more details on the particular benefits involved. If you're still having trouble, this link will take you directly to the registration page. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    All you have to do is follow this link (or click on "Sign in / create account" on the upper left corner of your screen, then click "Create one" in the Login box. Sorry, but we are a lowly non-profit organiztion, we can't afford to pay our contibutors (we can barely afford to maintain our servers). Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 02:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't have to pay? Whats the catch?
    What content sites, other than the Something Awful forums, require paid accounts anymore? Of course you don't have to pay. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 03:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If you had to pay to open an account, no one would be here to edit. ---CWY2190TC 03:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Will my phone bill be charged per minute or something like that? I am sick of being being wripped off. I joined newfriends.com and they took $67.95 from my checking account and the pictures were all false. They people were not anything like that, they were just regular people. That won't happen while it? I see it doesnt ask for a CC but will my phone bill be charged or something like that? I dont wont that to hapopen, thanks.
    Why would your phone bill be charged? ---CWY2190TC 03:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    My jack is in the wall. Okay I tried to do it but now it says I have cookies! ! ! ! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! What does this mean and how does you know? Should I be worried, I guess they expect that people will have cookies in there homes.
    See HTTP cookie ---CWY2190TC 04:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • There's no catch. Wikipedia uses the cookies so you can stay logged in, which is important when you make an edit. That way it automatically has your username attached to it and you won't lose your logged in status while you're surfing the site, but only when you actually choose to log out. - Mgm|(talk) 10:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Is it possible to change your IP address?

    If so how. I have a friend whose IP address is banned from a certain website.

    63.113.199.109 02:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    That's outside the scope of this page, I'm afraid -- you could ask at the reference desk, but I'm not sure that they'll be any more interested helping your friend evade a ban than we would. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Are you sure its not your IP your trying to change? [11] ---CWY2190TC 02:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, unfortunilly this IP address is used by all the inmates. 63.113.199.109 03:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Then your best bet would be to make an account. ---CWY2190TC 03:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    How is that possible? How can this be done?
    Scroll all the way up the page and click on the link at the top right of the page that says "Create log in" or something like that. Dismas|(talk) 03:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I done that but it says sign in and as you know I dont have no account. Its loopy.
    Did you read the page? Click on "Sign in/create account". The next page asks for a username and password. Right above those fields it says "Don't have an account? Create one". The words "Create one" are in blue. Click that. Words which are in blue on this site are links. If you follow the link that says "Create one" it will give you the necessary fields to fill out and allow you to create an account. Dismas|(talk) 04:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    June 4

    looking for pictures of American Coins

    i am looking for some some pictures of American Coins in 1776-1976 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.136.232 (talk • contribs)

    A start would be to browse through articles in Category:Coins of the United States. United States coinage type set looks possibly the most useful, but I've only looked at a few of the articles. I'll leave you to find what you want. Also, I'm sure there must be lots of numismatics sites dedicated to US Coinage on the Web. --A bit iffy 09:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Water pollution

    what is the outcomme of water pollution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.130.192.76 (talk • contribs)

    Can't recover password

    I'm not sure if I changed my password while on cold medicine or what, but I can't log into my account anymore and I don't receive a new password when I click the "e-mail password" link even though it says it's sending it. It doesn't look like my account has been stolen, because there haven't been any edits with it since I've been unable to log in. Is there anything I can do?

    I'm afraid that by far the easiest thing for you to do would be to just create a new username. If the email you've posted here is different from the one in the 'email' field of your old user account, as it seems to be, it will be quite difficult to verify that you are the same person -- even if your IP addresses is the same as it was before, this is not conclusive; and it may well not be. You only made 12 contributions under your old username, so hopefully you won't consider starting afresh to be too much of a setback. Hope this helps! -- simxp (talk) 06:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    I want to add the picture of the day to Azerbaijani version of the Wikipedia, but I could not figure out something can you please help me regarding to this issue?


    Thanks in advance,

    Ali Mammadov, Azerbaijan,Baku (email address removed)

    Changing the colour of your signature.

    I've noticed some Wikipedians have coloured signatures. I would like to know how to change the colour of the signature, not the text as I asked last time.Efansay 09:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    You include the same tags in the signature box on your preferences page before and after the text. Make sure 'raw signature' box is ticked, otherwise the code won't work. Example is a red signature with blue talk page link. The following text is what you put in the signature box. 
    <font color="red">[[User:Efansay|Efansay]]</font> <sup><font face="blue">([[User talk:Efansay|talk]])</font>
    Hope that helps. E talk 09:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Well you see, that doesn't really work because all it says is Invalid raw signature; check HTML tags. And I can't do it with text either. The raw signature box is also ticked. Please help me. Efansay 10:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    The 'invalid raw signature' error means that there's a mistake in the signature. In this case, it's because the '</sup>' that ought to eb at the end of the signature was left off the example. --ais523 10:34, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
    Also, should it not be <font color="blue"> rather than <font face="blue">? -- simxp (talk) 11:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, unless there is in fact a font called 'blue'. I didn't notice when testing because the links are blue by default anyway (and in fact I normally suggest leaving a 'blue' specification out of sigs as being unecessary). --ais523 11:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

    Page Counters

    Is there any way to place a page counter on an article ?

    I get the feeling that some of the articles on Wikipedia are only accessed once every blue moon.

    Having page counters on articles will be able to show which pages are the most popular.--87.243.196.167 09:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    The feature exists, but is disabled for performance reasons; Wikipedia is a highly visited website, and the caching used makes it hard to count each individual hit. --ais523 09:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
    Wikipedia:Statistics#Archived statistics has links to lists of popular articles. However, the stats are so old now as to be fairly useless.--A bit iffy 10:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Filmography templates

    I want to create a filmography template on the films of a particular actor.

    How do I actually do that ?--87.243.196.167 09:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Brosnan movies

    Check an anon's contribs, please

    An anon user, User:151.203.18.206, has been going through quite a few articles making drastic changes to some judging by their talk page. Quite a few of the deal with porn stars. Judging by the edit summaries, I believe they may be trying to make a point. I'm at work and would rather not have all those articles in my history here. So, could someone look through the anon's contribs. I'd put this somewhere else if there were a "I'm at work and would rather not be view articles about porn stars from behind my employer's servers" help page but there isn't. Thanks, Dismas|(talk) 10:11, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    He's tagging them with {{unencyclopedic}}. I don't think it's vandalism, as the template does simply say "an editor has expressed an opinion that ...". It doesn't lead to deletion or anything like that. I have removed his tagging of the parent category, however. Neil ╦ 10:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Templates

    How do I edit a template? The template for The Kinks is wrong (I work for one of them). Thanks

    You need to edit the template's Template: page; {{show1}} is at Template:show1, for instance. If you edit a page and scroll down right to the bottom, you'll get a list of templates used on that page, and you can click on the appropriate one to edit it. --ais523 10:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

    Thank you

    Academic Papers

    Do you accept academic term papers. I would like to submit a term paper which is well over the essy range but should be of interest to many people. It it entitled "The Long Term View of the American Health Care System: Inflation and Infection." It covers four possible scenarios of what would happen to the American health care system. 1: Continued cost increases well above the inflation index. 2: A major epidemic 3: Bioterrorism 4: Bioterrorism plus other acts of terrorism.

    It would be submitted with the expectation that it would not be edited.

    djchris@att.net

    The answer is no and no. First of all - an academic term paper is classed as original research WP:NOR and therefore is not suitable for an encyclopedia article. Secondly, when you submit something to wikipedia, you agree it can editted without mercy by others. --Fredrick day 13:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    Failed password

    I tried to create an account today, and upon clicking create account i received an error message - something to do with a server being down.

    Now I cannot access the account I have created. The account name was Bantman and the password I created for it (bantcave) now apparently doesnt work.

    Can you help?

    matt

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