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    Could you find out more info regarding funender.com

    Hello, first I would like to thank you for offering such a great service. I was wondering if you could find out the meaning of the term "Funender" which was created by someone named FuNEnD3R at www.funender.com. Thanks a lot for your time.

    Thomas

    Non-profit Orginization Forms

    Please read all the instructions at the top of this page if you expect to get an answer more helpful than this one. Dismas|(talk) 05:14, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    New Entries

    Is there anyway to add a new entry or word? Like a whole new object or can I only improve on older ones?

    See Wikipedia:Starting a new page. Dismas|(talk) 05:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Help with class

    I wanted to look at or edit Template:prettytable but all it says is class:"wikitable". Now I'm stuck. What does this mean? How do I edit a "class" and how do I find it? Thanks PAR 06:43, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Autoblocking?

    I found this in the IP block list:

    • 16:13, 20 September 2005, JIP blocked #38485 (expires 16:01, 21 September 2005) (unblock) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Adastra". The reason given for Adastra's block is: "repeated vandalism despite several warnings".)
    • 16:01, 20 September 2005, JIP blocked Adastra (expires 16:01, 21 September 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (repeated vandalism despite several warnings)
    • 15:08, 20 September 2005, JIP blocked #38483 (expires 15:08, 21 September 2005) (unblock) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Mindspillage II". The reason given for Mindspillage II's block is: "impersonation of User:Mindspillage".)
    • 15:01, 20 September 2005, JIP blocked Mindspillage_II (infinite) (contribs) (unblock) (impersonation of User:Mindspillage)

    What is this "autoblocked" thingy? How does it work? Is it enabled for all admins by default? Can I configure it? What do those numerical usernames mean? Trying to go to their user pages gives a "Bad title" error. — JIP | Talk 06:55, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    • Those numbers aren't usernames but to mask the IP that's being blocked. The autoblocker kicks in when someone tries to edit from a recently vandalising IP to avoid the vandals signing up for a new account and continuing with their edits. Autoblocks should last 24 hours if I remember correctly. - lazy non-logging in MacGyverMagic - 131.211.210.12 07:45, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • It both prevents attempts to get a new username, as Mgm points out, but also prevents a vandal from simply logging out. The autoblocker prevents an IP associated with a vandal's username to log it. Further, if a vandal changes IP and then tries to log in to a blocked username, the new IP will also be autoblocked. — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 09:02, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    adding a url

    I'm trying to add a url www.blustag-arcticbreeds.com to your Utonagan page. But it won't seem to let me. What do i do?

    Are you trying to add the address for some advertising purpose? Your site is under construction so it's hard for anyone to tell what your intent is. If it is advertising that you're looking for, you're in the wrong place. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a repository of links or ads. If the site adds information and knowledge to the overall article, then you may add it by clicking the "edit this page" link at the top of the page for Utonagan. Dismas|(talk) 08:43, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    According to the page's history, nothing has been added or changed on this page since August. So it's not something that anyone here is doing deliberately. There have been database problems lately, where clicking "Save page" comes back with some kind of error about "sorry, there's a problem..." What you can do is click your browser's BACK button to return to the edits and click Save page again. If you're having some other kind of problem, please describe exactly what "it won't let me" means so we can help. Elf | Talk 17:34, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    List of files

    How would I get a list of all files in Wikipedia or Commons of a certain filetype, say .ogg or .pdf? Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 08:47, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    By the way, a bit of thought provided me with a Google method. [1], [2]. Is there an in-wiki way? — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 09:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Search for "database dump" or some such wording. I think that might get you something close to what you're looking for. I've seen similar questions to this one in the past so you might want to check the help desk archives as well. I know this isn't much of a response but I hope it helps. Dismas|(talk) 20:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    "Category:Nigeria related stubs" is for some reason called "Category:Nigergia related stubs" (note the errant G). I figured out that it's from the {{Nigeria-stub}} template, so I just edited the template so Nigeria was spelt correctly. But now the category comes up red, and the 12 or so articles were in it are not in the category any more. Help me out? (and tell me what I did wrong on my talk page, oh awesome ones). Proto t c 08:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Automatical Redirect

    I have the line #REDIRECT Wikipedia:en:User:Schenkeli at the start of my User Page at Wikimedia in order to redirect it to my Wikipedia User Page. The redirect works, but only of the user clicks on the "redirect arrow". Is there a way to make this redirect automatacilly? Or does this depend upon some settings in my browser? Thanks for helping me out again!

    Why are my thumbnails so blurry?

    The thumbnails for most of the photos I have added are very blurry. I see other thumbnails from other contributors that are fine, but mine looked sort of mushed together. You can see one in New Zealand. Scroll down to "Flora and fauna." Contrast with the satellite photo and photo of Mt. Cook.

    I gather the thumbnails are generated automatically from the full-size originals. Is the blurriness of my thumbnails because my originals are so large (3008 x 2000 pixels.)? Since I have no control over the generation of the thumbnails, there is no way for me to do any sharpening or other image enhancement to make them look better. Some of the thumbnails look so bad that I think I'll just remove the images from the article (and the one in the New Zealand article already has another image waiting to display if the text gets longer anyway), but I don't want to have to remove images just because the thumbnails don't display well. JShook | Talk 16:52, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    It doesn't look blurry to me. If you are accessing wikipedia over AOL or via some kind of web accelerator, both achieve speed ups by producing lower quality images. Some work, I believe, by sending a low quality image and then (at some point later) sending a better quality version (and updating the page with javsscript or something). If that's the case for you, there's generally some kind of configuration option you can set to defeat this behaviour. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 12:51, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    I am using Safari/MacOS X. I see the same thing in IE5, Camino, Mozilla, Netscape 7 and Opera. JShook | Talk 13:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    It looks as blurry to me as I'd expect a resized image to look. Usually you'd sharpen an image after resizing like that, but AFAIK Mediawiki only resizes it, so you get what you see there. You can see the problem when you blow up the resized image pixel-by-pixel, as here. I find the other images on the page just as blurry, though, except their colors tend to have worked out better, probably because they have less contrast to begin with, or so much that they blow out instead of being blurry). You can see that the map is blurry here. There's not much you can do to fix that; it's just an artifact of automated thumbnailing. (By hand you'd usually apply an unsharp mask to enhance contrast.) That said, I find the huge original to be a bit blurry as well around the high-contrast edges, as if the depth of field was too shallow. It might benefit from being sharpened a bit and re-uploaded, although there's no guarantee that that will make the thumbnails better and not worse! — mendel ☎ 15:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    I think it is indeed a combination of original image sharpness (the picture was taken at f 4.5, so there wan't much depth of focus.) Combine that with the low contrast and I guess it's no surprise I end up with mush.
    On the other hand, a bright, contrasty photo (like the lower photo at Cape Reinga) with a lot of DOF looks fine. So I may go back and experiment with the images that produce blurry thumbnails and see if a bit of unsharp masking on the original helps at all. JShook | Talk 16:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Removing Cleanup Template

    How does a user go about removing the Cleanup Template when it appears that the cleanup is complete?Phil talk 14:21, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Just take it out by editing the article. Look for {{cleanup}} where the cleanup message appears; remove that–don't forget the edit summary!–and you're done. (If someone else puts it back, then maybe the article still needs work; you should discuss it on the talk page.) TenOfAllTrades(talk) 14:37, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you so much. I am a learner and kind and clear replies like yours make my day. I visited your page and I learned from it. Phil talk 15:32, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    biography of douglas biber send

    Ferrari 330 P4

    Folks @ wikipedia.

    As an online encyclopedia, you have a duty to keep to the facts. At the moment there is a raging discussion happening about the Ferrari 330 P4 topic. As there is no real proof that the car mentioned is the original 0846 (despite some wild claims) you should not have it mentioned on the page. It's current writeup looks like an advert for the claim.

    Please remove this page and lock things until Ferrari has either agree'd that it is 0846 or stated that it is not.

    Welcome to Wikipedia. Now you are here, you are one of those folks whose job it is to keep to the facts. Really, that's where all of these two million articles came from. There are no staff, only you. And people like you, of course. Please do, either edit the article yourself, or if you aren't confident in that start a conversation on the talk (discussion) page. If you have tried this, please see Wikipedia:Resolving_disputes. Help us improve Wikipedia - you've made it your duty now. Notinasnaid 21:03, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Compile for Laptop?

    How many photos?

    I have looked for and failed to find a document establishing guidelines for how many illustrations an article should have. (If there is such a document, please point me to it. Thanks.) It seems clear to me that any illustration should either support/illustrate something mentioned in the text or add appropriate new information, but how far to take this? If there is an article about birds of New Guinea and someone has a photo of each one, it seems that to add them all would be too much. But a few might be good, but how many?

    Also, I have added photos to really short articles that are stubs just so there would be one (see East Cape.) But is there any point to the image in a case like this? Should I comment it out so it will be waiting in readiness for the time when the article is fleshed out? Or just delete it? I admit my bias is toward having lots of pictures, but I feel I may be going too far with this. Any suggestions? JShook | Talk 17:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    I don't know of any specific guidelines on how many is too many. We've discussed this from time to time in the dog breeds project. For example, I feel that it's useful for a complete breed article to have photos of all major coat colors of the dogs (because they can look very different), photos with cropped & uncropped ears/tails for breeds where that's common in some countries; side photos, face-on photos, puppy photos (because they look quite different from adults), action shots of dogs doing their breed's typical thing (e.g., herding breed herding). You can see that, for a short article that hasn't been fleshed out yet but that has a lot of photos, that can be overwhelming. Some people feel that we don't need that many. I dunno, I try to arrange the photos and provide captions in such a way that they seem like integral parts of the article. On the other hand, we don't need 20 photos of people's pet yellow Labs lounging around on the couch.
    For more generic articles, such as the bird one you mention, perhaps a single representative photo would be good (such as in terrier). Maybe one that's particularly colorful, or indiginous only to New Guinea, or a photo with more than one species. If the article is very long, maybe one per section to illustrate the concept there (such as in dog). For some things it's not clear that a photo is helpful at all, such as list of dog breeds, which is quite long but the important info is the list and a photo won't help the reader.
    As for photos in stubs--I wouldn't comment them out; remember, a picture is worth a thousand words :-). It might even inspire someone to add more to the article. Elf | Talk 17:24, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Has anyone considered a kind of special page that would be a picture gallery? It would be linked to from articles like your dog breed article, but would not load with the article unless requested. You could have all of your various breed images in the gallery page if anyone wants to see them, but only if they click a link to it. I'm thinking it would be a simple page with ":Gallery" appended to the article title. Maybe a short introductory paragraph, a clear link (back) to the main article and as many pictures with captions as you need. JShook | Talk 20:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • If I remember correctly image galleries are part of WP:NOT. If the images are free galleries can be made on the Commons. As for how many images is too much. I think that if it's impossible to format the page correctly, it's either because you have to little text or too many images. Usually those go hand in hand. - Mgm|(talk) 20:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Offline browsing of Wikipedia on Laptop

    I've been working on and off with the instructions for compiling a pocketpc readable TR3 copy of Wikipedia, and I love the results (Thanks Mr. Zachte). I'm looking for a way to put something similar into effect on my laptop. The Tomeraider scripts focus on compression and image resizing to save space, but I've got much more space on the laptop (10GB) than on the pocketpc (~2GB). Any suggestions?

    Made mistake in creating category help needed

    Hi I made a new category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jews_in_Music and started adding people in this list List_of_Jewish_musicians but I mistakenly (as you can see) capitalized music is this something that really needs to be changed if so is there any easy way to do it without deleting and starting again? Thanks Arnie587 17:57, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Yeah, it really oughta be done. Unfortunately there's no easy way to do it except by going back to all those articles and correcting the category with the lowercase m. It's better to do it now rather than adding more with the incorrect capitalization and making you or someone else have to redo even more pages. I wish there were an easier way. Elf | Talk 18:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks Elf I moved them all over but someone then put the category for renaming ARGHHH Arnie587 17:46, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Can you guarantee the data is factual?

    Given that the information is user provided, how do you guarantee the data is factual?

    There are no guarantees in life, but we think we have a good system. Many of our articles are contributed by experts or serious hobbyists in the field in question. Also, articles tend to be watched over by many interested parties to ensure no one adds erroneous information. Also, our article Talk pages sometimes show evidence that certain facts are in dispute, which is a feature you don't get with most other reference sources. Likewise, our policy to cite sources will help you get verification, and our histry tab will show you if a certain fact is newly inserted, or if it has survived the test of time and repeated edits. This gives you the power to draw your own conclusions about the reliability of the data. Please see also Wikipedia:FAQ. Thanks, Johntex\talk 18:31, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Publishers.

    Who published your web site?

    -Andrew Ewing

    how to print a short excerpt of a site

    iwant to learn about angela davis

    Try typing Angela Davis into the search box. Elf | Talk 18:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Bonhomme Richard

    Would you ask Jinian to be so kind as to contact me. I am not a computor whiz kid or a full blown academic but did place a short historical note ate the end of a Bonhomme Richard article regarding the Irish Guard [of 1662 Charles II] Dublin] contingent on John Paul Jones's flotilla off the British coasts in the War of Independence. I am a member [I think!] of Wilkepedia, with posting rights. I am investigating the truth of this rumour which is acknowledged by the USMC in their book by publication of JPJ and Benjamin Franklin inspecting these British/Irish Red Coated Guards in an illustration, which I could send Jinian. I have placed a contact on my article. So the article is not annonymous. I would like the comment to remain as it is germaine to the espirit de corps of the USMC. The 92e Infantrie en France also has a claim acknowleded and allowed of descent from this source but place their seniority at 1661[ in this they are in error as the seniority is much older]. The Royal Irish Regt are also of this liniage but the English Establishment do not acknowledge it as it exposed their 1688 revolution and involved recognising the seniority inregimental matters of Stuart Crown Service as equal at least to Guelph to Windsor Crown Service. Michael Patrick Cusack. email removed

    Disappeared image of Green Anole

    The first image I ever uploaded, with unnecessary difficulty, was a shot I took of a Green Anole molting. I succeeded in placing it in a Green Anole article. And subsequently I viewed it several times. Now I can't find it. Can someone tell me where it is gone? Thank you. Phil talk 19:44, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Molting Green Anole


    • How wonderful this help page is!. My sincere thanks for your help. As a novice, I thought you could go to the page that you wanted the image to reside, and just click upload, and Bingo it would be there <smile> Also, I did not pay proper attention to finding and selection the proper PD release. I have it whipped now, and am looking for more problems

    I hope to continue learning. Phil talk 20:41, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Advertising on Wikipedia.com

    We're intersted in advertising on wikipedia.com Please advise as to rates and whether there are any new client specials available. We'd be interested in a 6 month or 12 month quote.

    Sig Cabrera sig@ticketmomma.com

    Images, copyright, and the public domain

    I may be told to RTFF on this, but I feel as though I've been through everything. There is quite a bit of material in Wikipedia tutorials on using only public domain images, but not much on identifying which images are actually public domain.

    For example, I'd like to use picture of a mojave rattlesnake in an article (this is actual scenario, fyi). I can Google up countless pictures of such a beast, yet I can't for the life of me determine if the photographer makes them available to the public domain. Dozens are simply unsigned and unassociated with any particular person, and make no reference to their copyright status. Other than stomping off into the desert and rustling up a rattler on my own (which is starting to sound easier), I can't figure out how to make sure I'm using an appropriate image.

    If this should be in clueless newbie, I'll repost there.

    Thanks

    --Bad carpet 22:06, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    This is often unclear to people. The rule is fairly simple. A picture is only in the public domain if:
    1. The photographer has explicitly said "I place these pictures in the public domain" or words pretty much like that. If nothing is said, it is copyrighted.
    2. The photograph was taken by an employee of the United States federal government as part of his or her job. (note, if the person was a contractor, this may well not apply.)
    3. The photo is old, and the photographer has been dead for at least 50 years. (if the photo was taken over 100 years ago, and there is no info on the photographer available that might do).

    If none of those apply it isn't public domain. In that case it can be used only if the copyright owner (normally the photographer) will release it under the GFDL or if a Fair use claim can be made. For the kind of pictures you are describing I don't think fair use would apply, so the only way to use these would be to write the photographer and ask for permission. There are form letters to use on Wikipedia:Requests for permission, or you can write your own. Obviously ther are no guarentees that anyone will say yes, but many people do. DES (talk) 22:16, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


    -- Thanks for your response. --Bad carpet 22:22, 21 September 2005 (UTC) -- Your like to requests for permission doesn't lead to a form and I couldn't find them -- through search. Have a suggestion? Thanks again. --Bad carpet 22:32, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Oops. I misrememberd the page title. That should be Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission. Sorry. DES (talk) 22:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    -- Yet another issue. I finally discovered a good (great) photo that the photographer lists
    -- free for use except commercial. When I go create an image description article, I find this
    -- "Please check that the conditions given above are compliant with Wikipedia licensing
    -- policy. Most importantly, derivative work, commercial use, and use in non-educational
    -- contexts must not be prohibited. If they are not, please list this image for deletion."
    -- So is this image unusuable? I may be grumpy if so, have a couple of hours into this.

    --Bad carpet

    Sorry to be the bearer of news that'll make you grumpy but the answer is no. We need to have our images suitable for commercial use so that commercial enterprises can use our content. For example if a software company wanted to distribute a copy of Wikipedia along with thier product on a disk. Or if a publisher wants to print a copy of wikipedia and sell it. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 23:26, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    - Well, I guess I'm off to search the desert. When I'm bitten, if I live, I intend to return here and complain about the complexities of copyrights. If I don't live, and I'm certain I won't, my last request will be to have a photo of my unhappy corpse uploaded in place of a photo of a Mojave rattler. I will also write a long paragraph willing the photo to general public.

    --Bad carpet

    Content of article in question

    In the article titled "Choker" there is information pertaining to the usage of chokers and collars in the BDSM community. It lists that "in the BDSM context (e.g. the delicate arts of bondage and sadomasochism such as those practiced by Jeffrey Daumer)..." I and several associates take offense at this labeling (slanderous labeling) of a private alternative lifestyle. Whoever wrote this article obviously did not do his/her homework, as a case in point, your own article on the serial murderer DOES NOT list any cases of sadomasochism, just a penchant for being truly evil (in my words). Also, in a related article (to this topic), your listing on BDSM itself, does not have a link/listing to Mr Dahmer (which is spelled wrong in the initial article).

    the following links are: Choker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choker Jeffrey Dahmer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_dahmer BDSM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM

    The "Choker" article at the least needs to be corrected as the information is false. While it's possible that Mr. Dahmer indulged in a form of sadomasochism, to include this convicted serial killer in this lifestyle is insulting and derogatory.

    Thank you for your time and consideration.

    ---anon

    Thank you for your suggestion! I have removed the phrase in question. Note that this is a wiki, you could have simply made the change yourself. When you feel an article needs changing, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit any article by simply following the Edit this page link. You don't even need to log in! (Although there are some reasons why you might like to...) The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use out the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. DES (talk) 22:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Trouble staying logged in.

    I have a Wikipedia user name (MattReid), but I have trouble staying logged in. When I log in and click "Remember Me", I usually stay logged in only for the next page or two, before the line in the upper right reverts to "Create account/log in." I have had this problem using both Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The problem is particularly annoying when I am trying to edit pages and I cannot do so as a registered user (because I cannot stay logged in). Any tips and suggestions are welcome.

    Have you got cookies enabled? Hermione1980 22:41, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes. Sorry, I realized too late that I should have mentioned that. In both Firefox and Internet Explorer I have cookies enabled. --MattReid

    Vulgartity issue

    I was just checking this site out to kill time, looked up 'donkey' for fun, and found an offensively named link in the first paragraph. I checked the 'editor' function, and that is not what is in the script for that spot, so I left it alone. I though someone that knows the ropes would want to check it out and maybe kick rear on the person responsible, if possible. Thanks a ton, and it's been real. Keep up the good work!!! Warren.

    Do you mean the link to ass? It's a common name of the animal, we can't help that I'm afraid. --fvw* 01:48, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Also please note WP:NOT which notes that wikipedia is not censored. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 01:50, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Guys, cool off, he's referring to a real vandal edit. It was reverted just after he posted this. Titoxd 01:52, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Photo

    I'm looking at obtaining a photo in the best quality avalible of the smallest thing known to man. Any leads on where I may possibly start?

    How about an elementary particle? They don't, in general, reflect photons, so you can just have a black picture, at as high a quality as you want. --fvw* 02:34, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Dude, everybody knows that quarks come in red, green, and blue. :D As fvw says, you can't directly take a photograph of an elementary particle—perhaps a bubble chamber image would be appropriate, however? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:07, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    This Google image search (the first image) shows the IBM logo composed of Xenon atoms, that's rather small. --Commander Keane 05:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Relocating a reference desk question

    I accidentally wrote a question in the "Humanities" section of the reference desk when it really should have gone either in "Science" or "Miscellaneous". Should this be moved to a new section? If so, how? And am I the one that should do it? Thanks. --Silvaran 02:56, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, you can do it. Just click the edit tag next to your question. Erase the question unless it already has a response in which case copy the whole thing. Then go to where the question should be and put it back in. Dismas|(talk) 03:09, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    what is the name of the place called middle east paris

    Questions like this belong in the Reference Desk. — Kjammer ⌂ 07:44, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    new article

    Hello,

    I have published a new article about actor Georges Corraface in English and French, and have a few bugs in it that are most certainly due to not having found the right tips to follow.

    -)

    1. I find the article when I type "corraface" and click on "go" but NOT when I click on the "Search" button. What is the difference? I did peruse the site's guidelines but didn't find this nuance explained (sorry).

    2. I tried to correct the page title to read "Georges Corraface" in the French version (it's OK in the English version) but haven't figured out how to correct the title problem.

    Many thanks in advance for you help to a newbie here.

    -)

    Best regards,

    DLC

    • You initially posted your entry to Corraface instead of Georges Corraface. Someone has moved the entry for you. Once you've been around for awhile the option will become available to you as a tab on top of the page. This is to prevent page move vandalism by people who sign up just to move pages to nonsensical locations.

    I think you can't find "Georges Corraface" when typing search because the search engine database needs to be updated first, which is only done at an interval. Doing it with each new addition would strain the servers too much. Using "Go" will send you to the page with the name you typed without intervention of the search engine. - Mgm|(talk) 10:37, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Ok to translate the articles of others?

    Is it okay to translate existing english articles into other languages or do you have to produce "original articles"?

    --anon

    If an article in the English Wikipedia is all OK according to the GFDL, then it's also all OK to directly translate it into another language on that language's Wikipedia. The GFDL specifically allows this. Translation of texts from other webpages than Wikipedia, though, is usually not allowed. — JIP | Talk 10:54, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    Note that it's a good idea to add a note to the edit summary of your translation that you used another Wikipedia page as a source. A note on the new article's talk page is also a Good Thing. Finally, it's a good idea to create an interlanguage link between the English Wikipedia article and the translated article.

    name of the most weat point in your providence

    What is the name of the most furthest point west in Canada?

    I am ten and doing a project for school

    Adam Payne

    Walter Grey Walter inaccurate

    I have just seen that there is an entry for Walter Grey Walter in Wikipedia. His name was actually William Grey Walter (I am his grand-daughter and very keen to see this corrected), but when I clicked edit I couldn't get to edit the actual title. Could somebody do this for me? Thanks so much. from Natasha Walter

    There was only one and I've fixed it. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:25, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    How can I see the contributions of a user?

    I want to see all contributions of a wikipedia user. How can I see it?

    Go to their user page, and click on user contributions in the toolbox panel on the left side of the screen. Wikilinks to contributions can be formed by linking to a subpage of Special:Contributions; the page Special:Contributions/TenOfAllTrades lists my own contributions, for example.
    A note of caution—using an editor's contribution log to stalk or harrass that editor is not tolerated and can result in sanctions. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 12:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Walter Grey Walter elsewhere on the web

    I realise this isn't directly a question about Wikipedia, but you might be able to help me here.

    The name Walter Grey Walter, given to William Grey Walter for the first time in this inaccurate article in Wikipedia, has now, I see, got a life of its own on the internet - Google turns up lots of webpages (around 100) now using this name, as opposed to about 80 using the right name (together with around 600 using the name he usually used, Grey Walter). How can I possibly go about trying to rectify this error spawned by Wikipedia? Should I just give up and accept that these things happen on a free internet?

    Thanks for any advice.

    Natasha Walter

    Many of the google hits are probably Wikipedia mirrors (explicitly permitted by the GFDL) and will likely be updated whenever they next refresh their content. If you really want, you can send email to the webmaster (for example, webmaster@en.wikipedia.com) at each website where the incorrect name appears and request the correction be made. The email address "webmaster@..." generally exists at every web site. If this fails, you can find an address by looking up the domain name using Whois. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:38, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]


    Thank you very much for all your help. I appreciate it.

    Natasha

    Can I e- mail an article from wikipedia?

    Instead of copying and pasting to an e- mail and sending it to myself, can I just send it to myself from wikipedia.org Thank you. Eric.

    There's no way to do that from the article page like you would a news article at CNN.com or news.yahoo.com or something like that. Just copy and paste. Dismas|(talk) 15:52, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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