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Does your first amendment rights trump my soldier son's right to live? Did you thank him for being made the target to your "news?"[[Special:Contributions/76.188.30.73|76.188.30.73]] ([[User talk:76.188.30.73|talk]]) 15:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC) |
Does your first amendment rights trump my soldier son's right to live? Did you thank him for being made the target to your "news?"[[Special:Contributions/76.188.30.73|76.188.30.73]] ([[User talk:76.188.30.73|talk]]) 15:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC) |
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:I think you are confusing us with [[Wikileaks]]. We are not affiliated with them at all. <font color="darkorange">[[User:Tnxman307|TN]]</font><b><font color="midnightblue"><big>[[User talk:Tnxman307|X]]</big></font></b><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Tnxman307|Man]]</font> 15:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC) |
:I think you are confusing us with [[Wikileaks]]. We are not affiliated with them at all. <font color="darkorange">[[User:Tnxman307|TN]]</font><b><font color="midnightblue"><big>[[User talk:Tnxman307|X]]</big></font></b><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Tnxman307|Man]]</font> 15:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC) |
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Help. I am new to wikipedia, I don't really understand it. But I have been trying to make a contact reference the RIAS Studios in Berlin 1964 to 1966. I was in a military band- 3 Royal Anglian regiment, and we did a broadcast (30 minutes). What I would like to know is, can I get a copy of this broadcast? My name is Ron Bingham, my email is <blanked>. Can anyone help. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/81.129.14.172|81.129.14.172]] ([[User talk:81.129.14.172|talk]]) 16:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:I'm sorry, but we have no access to that material. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. You may have better luck contacting RIAS Studios. <font color="darkorange">[[User:Tnxman307|TN]]</font><b><font color="midnightblue"><big>[[User talk:Tnxman307|X]]</big></font></b><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Tnxman307|Man]]</font> 17:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC) |
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November 26
Facebook Link
I just posted a link on a band's wiki page to their official facebook page, and wiki immediately reversed the edit. However, on this band's same wiki page, there is already a different facebook link that has not been deleted. Anyone know what can be done to re-instate the official link? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale Sheppard (talk • contribs) 02:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm guessing that you're referring to the Men Without Hats article. (it's helpful to give us a link to the article in question instead of making people do investigative work to figure out what article you're talking about) Generally, links to FB, MySpace, etc aren't listed if the band has an official site which already has links to all these social networking sites. Basically, we don't need to spam the external links sections. WP:ELNO has more info on this. Dismas|(talk) 03:15, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Understandable, Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale Sheppard (talk • contribs) 05:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed this line at the WP:ELNO: Except for a link to an official page of the article's subject, one should generally avoid... I am the administrator for Men Without Hats, and the link that I had inserted was to direct fans to the official Men Without Hats Facebook page. Also, If you look on the article at the moment, someone has posted a link to Facebook, which is their own personal link, and does not have anything to do officially with the band. Why is that link still up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale Sheppard (talk • contribs) 05:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- The other link is (was) there because the number of people who add inappropriate external links vastly exceeds the number of people who remove them. I've removed it now. Please take a look at Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest before making any other edits related to Men Without Hats. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 06:28, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
This totally makes sense. I do agree with this policy. Any changes that I make will follow these rules. My goal is to let the people know what the band is doing currently. Please let me know if I cross that line. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale Sheppard (talk • contribs) 21:50, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- If that is your goal, then Wikipedia is the wrong place for you. Wikipedia is for letting people know what reliable sources have written about subjects. If a subject is in the news enough that its latest doings regularly get written up, then Wikipedia should reflect those up-to-date sources. If it does not get written up elsewhere, then its latest news is inadmissible. --ColinFine (talk) 23:51, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I will not make any edits to the Men Without Hats article unless there is new published information from reliable sources that are at arms length from the band. I do fully respect the rules of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dale Sheppard (talk • contribs) 21:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Man, if only more publicity officers did. Riffraffselbow (talk) 18:10, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
delete image in gallery
How do you delete an uploaded image? I accidentally uploaded an automobile picture with the license tag. I replaced it with the license blurred out. But the original still appears in my gallery, now red-flagged as "NO LICENSE PLATES." I know & want to remove it. Mopar89 (talk) 02:40, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- I assume you are referring to your account Mopar89 (talk · contribs) on Commons. Use {{speedydelete|reason=self request}} to request speedy deletion. Goodvac (talk) 03:10, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Martyn Godfrey image needed
Hi! I think a picture is needed for the deceased author's article named Martyn Godfrey. Would it be ok to use this image from this link: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/martyn-godfrey/ Please let me know. Thank you. Neptunekh2 (talk) 05:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- I don't know the answer to this question, but I expect that those at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions will. Goodvac (talk) 05:35, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- The page you link to has a copyright notice on the bottom, so in theory they're claiming copyright over the content, including the image. In practice the copyright holder is probably someone else, though. There's a possibility of using the image with an argument of fair use, because the subject is dead and therefore no new photo of him can be taken to illustrate the article. Asking via Goodvac's link is the best way to go. Karenjc 12:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Lines through infoboxes
I see from the archive [1] that this question has been asked before, but without a helpful reply.
The article I am trying to improve is Henry McCullough where the section line under Biography cuts through the photo in the infobox. I initially thought it related to a recent change in the img_size= parameter, but Franamax has pointed out that the line appears/disappears depending on the pane width.
I am using IE8 and Vector, the most common browser and most common skin, so this affects many, if not most, readers.
Can this line be avoided or overcome?
Arjayay (talk) 09:20, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Have now asked at Village pump (technical) [2]
Arjayay (talk) 12:11, 26 November 2010 (UTC)- I have encountered this before too. I went off and had a look, got the idea that the "frame" Wikimarkup parameter might work, and tried it. It does appear to have fixed the problem in IE8, but I don't know whether what I've done is the correct fix, or whether it works in all browsers. I'll watch with interest to see what the technical types say. Karenjc 12:45, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Email from hotmail
I have received an e-mail from customerservice1011@hotmail.com requesting name, password of my account within 24 hours, otherwise my account will be terminated. Is this correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.12.129.75 (talk) 09:48, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- No! No reputable organisation would send you an e-mail asking for your password, and any communication from Wikipedia wouldn't be from a hotmail address. It's a phishing attempt; ignore it. - David Biddulph (talk) 10:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- See also phishing. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:58, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Also, if anybody with whom you had some kind of account did email you, they would do their best to prove that the mail was genuine by calling you by name, including your account number in the mail etc. Phishing mails are nearly always addressed to "Dear customer" or something equally anonymous. --ColinFine (talk) 23:57, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Birth year and age
What's wrong with the Birth year and age mechanism used in John Luther Long? John Luther Long, 1861–1927 (age 96–97) ... It's obviously suffering from dyscalculia. --Vsop.de (talk) 11:06, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Vsop, not sure what went wrong exactly, but I changed Birth Year Age to Death Year Age and that seems to have fixed it as per (this diff). Darigan (talk) 11:22, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- {{Birth year and age|1927}} seemed to be doing exactly what it's supposed to do and returned age 82-83. That's how old someone born in 1927 would be now. If you don't understand what the function does, you'll find it at Template:Birth year and age. David Biddulph (talk) 13:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- I tracked down his birth date to settle the age.[3] Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) says to only list birth and death, not age, in the opening paragraph. Age can be in an infobox but there isn't one here so I said it when his death was mentioned later. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:56, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- ... and I've copied those dates into the persondata. David Biddulph (talk) 14:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
logging in
although I have registered for an account and been given an account number (#55774 November 23 at 21:33) I don't know how to log in in order to edit an article. Help, please. thanks. 92.25.219.182 (talk) 14:59, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- The log-in link is at the top-right of every page. Use the username and password you chose when you created the account. I wasn't aware of any "account number" (I have a "User ID", but it's around 5 million) but I'm sure it doesn't have any meaning to the average user. Xenon54 (talk) 15:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Are you sure the account number #55774 is for a Wikipedia account? You are at the encyclopedia Wikipedia and need a username and password to log in here, not an account number. The accounts created November 23 at 21:33 can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=201011232135. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
How does a Wikipedia Editor Sign Up For Wiktionary?
Can you help make that process clear on how to add Wikipedia Sister Projects to our accounts?
```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by KatherineHepburnHeir (talk • contribs) 15:06, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- See Single user login. Essentially you go to Special:MergeAccount. Then, assuming there are no conflicts with users that have the same name on other projects, your name is now reserved for you across all projects. If you visit any other project, an account will automatically be created for you. Please be aware that this does NOT apply to all wikis, just those operated by the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, and Meta-Wiki. Xenon54 (talk) 15:12, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Citation of Trademark Application (template desired)
I'm trying to use a Trademark application at the USPTO as a reference for a prior address of an organization. Does anyone know of any wikipedia templates that are useful for this? Note that a direct URL will not work, searches for Trademarks at the USPTO do not appear to generate a corresponding URL that can be reused.Naraht (talk) 15:09, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Postal addresses of organizations are usually NOT included in Wikipedia articles. I am uncertain why you need to include any postal address, especially an old one. Could you explain please? --Jayron32 16:24, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, would changes in what city the organization was based in, for example BSA's move from being HQ in NYC to being HQ near Dallas, be appropriate to include/reference in this way?Naraht (talk) 17:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- It may be appropriate to indicate that the company headquarters is located in Dallas, that is broadly speaking, but such information is usually readily availible via the company's own website. It's fine, and in fact probably preferred, to use the company's own website to reference uncontroversial information such as the location of the company headquarters. However, the address listed on a patent application is probably very UNRELIABLE in this regard. One company may have many different addresses; the address on the patent application may be only ONE of them, perhaps the address of the specific office that is submitting the patent; it could even be the address for a subcontractor that is submitting the patent on behalf of the company itself, there's just way too many possibilities to make any definitive statements. It would be much better to use the company itself as a reference. (Some places at Wikipedia require independent sourcing, for example when trying to prove notability OR when a statement is particularly contentious. However, the really banal stuff like the city the headquarters is located in, who the CEO is, or stuff like that, is safe to reference to the companies official publications themselves.) --Jayron32 21:49, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- In that regard, I thought that as you said the organization website could be used for the current location, I was thinking about that for a reference for where a prior Headquarters was for the organization. (In this case it is an organization that would be unlikely to have subcontractors( But as you say, that has issues as well. Maybe the encyclopedia of organizations on books.google.com. Thank you.
- It may be appropriate to indicate that the company headquarters is located in Dallas, that is broadly speaking, but such information is usually readily availible via the company's own website. It's fine, and in fact probably preferred, to use the company's own website to reference uncontroversial information such as the location of the company headquarters. However, the address listed on a patent application is probably very UNRELIABLE in this regard. One company may have many different addresses; the address on the patent application may be only ONE of them, perhaps the address of the specific office that is submitting the patent; it could even be the address for a subcontractor that is submitting the patent on behalf of the company itself, there's just way too many possibilities to make any definitive statements. It would be much better to use the company itself as a reference. (Some places at Wikipedia require independent sourcing, for example when trying to prove notability OR when a statement is particularly contentious. However, the really banal stuff like the city the headquarters is located in, who the CEO is, or stuff like that, is safe to reference to the companies official publications themselves.) --Jayron32 21:49, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, would changes in what city the organization was based in, for example BSA's move from being HQ in NYC to being HQ near Dallas, be appropriate to include/reference in this way?Naraht (talk) 17:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
House of hoenberg
If nobility titles were abolished by the Austrian Goverment in 1919 why are the Hoenbergs still referred to as Dukes,Princes etc?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.109.145 (talk) 17:50, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. Dismas|(talk) 18:02, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
caste surename
My name is pradeep roy ,i am an Indian my father is from west Bengal his name is Kamalash Chandra Roy and my mother's name is Nirmala nair. she is from kerala {India } but now it has changed to Nirmala roy.Our family has settled down in Karnataka [India].I just want to know where does our caste stand when compared with karnataken caste hierarchy.eg: rai,shetty,poojary etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Remo85roy (talk • contribs) 18:19, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over three million articles, and thought that we were directly affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is a help desk for asking questions related to using the encyclopedia. Thus, we have no inside track on the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. TNXMan 18:19, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Source Verification
A webpage, this one in particular, is from what appears to be a reliable source. It is a stock and company tracking website and seems to have verified information. Is it an okay source for the Volcom article? Snychronization (talk) 19:42, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Business Week is certainly a reliable source, but whether it is appropriate or not depends on the information you want to reference. If you want to use it to reference financial figures, then go ahead. But if you're looking for basic company information, sites like that usually just regurgitate press releases, which are generally bad sources and they are not allowed to be the primary basis of an article. Xenon54 (talk) 19:46, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Alright, thank you for the help. Snychronization (talk) 21:14, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Size of text on page
For the past month, everything I view on the site is extremely small, making it impossible to read. This problem is only on Wikipedia, and not on other sites. What can I do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.15.151 (talk) 19:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wikipedia uses your browser defaults to set text size and font. Try pressing Ctrl and 0 at the same time - that may fix the issue. TNXMan 19:44, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
How can I speak to the Reviewer ?
Good afternoon.
I'm a first timer. And boy, even though I'm a college graduate from a top college, your process for simple communication is anything but simple.
I'm trying to communicate with the Reviewer of an article (Usb10) that was submitted and last reviewed Nov. 14th. I found the Reviewer ID and went to his page. Where in the world is the Reply button to ask or make a comment or answer his questions/concerns?
There must be 30 boxes of info on Usb10, but nothing as simple as .... click here to send a comment.
Please help. Thank you.
ps - With all the FAQ's, you still do not make "the process" very simple for new users. Where's the Dummies version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buchser (talk • contribs) 22:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Dear college graduate,
- What article do you mean?
- What reviewer?
And you can find the "Wikipedia for Dummies" here for example.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 22:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- On User:Usb10s page you will find a tab at the top marked "Discussion" if you click on it it takes you to a talk page (link). When the talk page appears click on either the "New section" or "Edit" tabs and it will open up a window where you can leave messages for Usb10. MilborneOne (talk) 22:37, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- See more at Help:Using talk pages. I guess this is about Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ReneBoisvert and the identical Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Rene Boisvert, both created by you. While examining them I discovered that everything was copied directly from http://www.boulevardequity.com/rbcv.html which has a clear copyright notice and a link to http://www.myersinternet.com/copyright/. I deleted them as copyright violations. But also note Wikipedia:Notability (people) which was linked from the review before I deleted the pages. You would have to demonstrate compliance with that by including multiple references to reliable sources independent of the subject. And the whole pages had an unsuitable promotional tone you would expect for a CV, as it actually was, but not from an encyclopedia. If you are the subject or closely associated with him then see Wikipedia:Autobiography and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:59, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Seguvara missing !
I wonder why Seguvara ( communist leader )is missing in Wiki?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.172.40.108 (talk) 23:16, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Do you perhaps mean Che Guevara? Deor (talk) 23:35, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- There's a very tiny amount of info on Seguvara on the web. It says he was a Cuban communist "leader" who died in 1967 (born in 1928). No way to tell if even that is right. There are quite a few pictures/drawings of him, though, whoever he was.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:08, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Those all (at least the ones I've looked at) seem to be references to Che Guevara, who was indeed born in 1928 and died in 1967. Deor (talk) 01:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- You're absolutely right, same picture, too, thanks! The ones I looked at didn't mention Che - or maybe I missed it. Wonder where Seguvara came from, some sort of mangling of Che Guevara's name?--Bbb23 (talk) 02:09, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- That's what I assume. Any sort of misspelling one can imagine will get Web-search hits. Deor (talk) 02:13, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- I dunno, when I did a Google search, I pretty much got hits only for the word Seguvara. Some of them were remarkably weird. The one that actually had some info was from answers.com (here), and it didn't even mention Che. Oh, well, I still feel a little embarrassed - I should have checked Che's information on Wikipedia.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is this common enough for a redirect? 69.142.154.10 (talk) 04:59, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- I dunno, when I did a Google search, I pretty much got hits only for the word Seguvara. Some of them were remarkably weird. The one that actually had some info was from answers.com (here), and it didn't even mention Che. Oh, well, I still feel a little embarrassed - I should have checked Che's information on Wikipedia.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- That's what I assume. Any sort of misspelling one can imagine will get Web-search hits. Deor (talk) 02:13, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- You're absolutely right, same picture, too, thanks! The ones I looked at didn't mention Che - or maybe I missed it. Wonder where Seguvara came from, some sort of mangling of Che Guevara's name?--Bbb23 (talk) 02:09, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Those all (at least the ones I've looked at) seem to be references to Che Guevara, who was indeed born in 1928 and died in 1967. Deor (talk) 01:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- There's a very tiny amount of info on Seguvara on the web. It says he was a Cuban communist "leader" who died in 1967 (born in 1928). No way to tell if even that is right. There are quite a few pictures/drawings of him, though, whoever he was.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:08, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
November 27
Retirees
Does Wikipedia publish lists of future (within two or three years)retirees of state,county or city governments. if requested? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.90.55.101 (talk) 00:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wikipedia does not publish such lists, primarily because we (the volunteer editors of Wikipedia) do not have them, nor will we actively look to obtain them. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and therefore does not include indiscriminate lists of information. The type of lists you are looking for are not appropriate for Wikipedia's articles, but might be found at the governments' websites if they exist. Intelligentsium 02:23, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
RSS
Is it possible to set up an RSS feed that updates every time an editor makes a contribution? For quite some time there has been an editor who seems to edit pages immediately after I have -- even if its an article that they've never edited before. I find it hard to believe that its a coincidence that they have every article I edit watch-listed nor would I think they sit there and constantly "refresh" my contribs page waiting for me to make edits. --nsaum75¡שיחת! 02:23, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, anyone can do that by going to a user's contribution page, and clicking Atom under Toolbox on the left side of the page. --Mysdaao talk 07:25, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- That's more than a little creepy. Have you talked to the user?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is there anyway to disable the "Atom" feature on contribution pages? The editor in question exhibits a battlefield mentality (in my own opinion and explicitly stated by a number of admins too) whenever confronted about issues that may in some way be interpreted as critical of them or the edits; I'm not sure asking them if they are using an RSS feed to "monitor" me would be responded to in a productive manner. --nsaum75¡שיחת! 18:02, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Unable to make a donation
I wanted to make a small donation from the UK. You oblige me to use PayPal, well-known as an impersonal bureaucracy. I could not remember my password, as I have not used PayPal for years. I could not be bothered to go through their stupid procedures. Bye-bye donation. Yours, MF —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.92.211 (talk) 11:22, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm sure if you slipped a 50 pound note in an envelope and mailed it to Florida, it would go to the right place.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:24, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- I take it that you didn't see the "For more information or other ways to give, click here" text on the donation page. Truly unfortunate. Xenon54 (talk) 14:56, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
popups edit to robotics article
I had an error trying to revert using my (not so)smartphone - Robotics
i have put a help tag on my talk page but am posting here also in case it helps speedy expediting of a fix
i need someone to undo my revert as the java popups seems to not work properly on this smartphone
Chaosdruid (talk) 14:37, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- This has been fixed. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:20, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Scottish Law
Wikipedia always talks about UK law, there is no such thing. There is Scottish law, The law of England and Wales and the law of Northern Ireland. Scottish law is very different to English law and comes from different roots. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.136.12.13 (talk) 15:13, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you see this in an article, you may want to discuss this on the article's talk page. TNXMan 15:16, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- The article Law of the United Kingdom discusses the different legal systems in the UK. It would be helpful if you could cite to articles that you believe are inaccurate. TNXMan's suggestion is, of course, a good one.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:23, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Donor Privacy Policy for one. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 17:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, that's not really an article and doesn't belong to Wikipedia. To the extent you believe the policy misstates the law, you should contact Wikimedia UK.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's seems okay to be fair, I just found it amusing to be looking at a page about UK laws a few moments(see two thread above) after the question is posed here. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 18:12, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, that's not really an article and doesn't belong to Wikipedia. To the extent you believe the policy misstates the law, you should contact Wikimedia UK.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Using the search is one way to find them. i.e Reprimand (UK law). Regards, SunCreator (talk) 18:06, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, I had already looked, didn't find much, actually. The Reprimand article should probably be deleted for reasons other than probably misstating the law (the linked article seems to say that reprimands are issued only in England and Wales), like absolutely no sources since being tagged in March of last year.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:28, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
pronunciation key
At the risk of appearing ignorant, your pronunciation key offers is useless to me. I was refreshing my memory about the definition of a portmanteau word The hieroglyphics that followed the spelling told me bupkis about how to pronounce it. And when I clicked on the "listen to me" icon, your site only played "port." That I can figure out. I wish I could offer you a suggestion on how to fix this problem; if I could I probably wouldn't be refreshing my memory on the definition of portmanteau words. Please do something about this. thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.80.47.36 (talk) 17:10, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- When I click on the listen icon, I hear the whole word, although admittedly it's kind of clipped at the end. As for the pronunciation key, you could click on the Wiktionary hyperlink off to the right and see more pronunciation keys that you might find more user-friendly.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
შეკითხვა
თუ უკვე არსებულ სტატიას უბრალოდ გადმოვთარგმნი ქართული ვიკიპედიისათვის, საავტორო უფლებების დარღვევად ჩაითვლება? 62.212.42.67 (talk) 18:13, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- This is the help desk for the English Wikipedia. There may not be anybody speaking Georgian who reads this. The help desk for the Georgian Wikipedia is supposed to be ka:ვიკიპედია:ცხელი ხაზი but it hasn't been edited since it was created in 2007. Google Translate gives your post as:
- Question
- If the article is simply gadmovtargmni Georgian vikipediisa for copyright infringement will be included?
- This translation doesn't seem good enough to answer you. Maybe Wikipedia:Copyright violations is of help. Can you ask in English? PrimeHunter (talk) 18:31, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- From my limited knowledge of Georgian, "გადმოვთარგმნი", (which Google couldn't cope with and left as "gadmovtargmni") appears to be a first-person-subject verb from the root "თარგმნი" "targmni" = "translate"; and "ვიკიპედიისათვის" "Vikipediisatvis" has the benefactive ending "-tvis". So I guess the OP is asking if simply translating articles for the Georgian Wikipedia would be a copyright infringement. --ColinFine (talk) 00:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Copying Song Lyrics
Hello, I would like to copy the first couple of verses of "Alouette" for my blog. My blog is about my home daycare, and I put many song lyrics on there with the accompanying actions children can do (in written and in video form). Am I allowed to put the words to the song on my blog if I site where I got the lyrics from? Or am I only allowed to refer my readers to Wikipedia to get the song lyrics? (Doing this would make the blog entry irrelevent.) Thanks in advance, Charla —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.99.100 (talk) 18:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wikipedia releases it's text under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license and the GFDL, so you should be able to retranscript the lyrics on your blog so long as you cite the source of them. Also, considering the work is pretty old, it might even be in the public domain, meaning you could use it any way you want. CETTALK 18:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Generally speaking, you can reuse any material from Wikipedia for any purpose, as long as you comply with the licence. See Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. --ColinFine (talk) 00:23, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
My page is not showing?
Hi
my page The CPLD Quality Mark which i created today is not showing when i seach for it using the wikepedia search function.
any idea when it will show?
thanks
matt —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecpldqualitymark (talk • contribs) 18:44, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- That's because you've created it in your user space instead of article space. Please see WP:COI and WP:USERNAME. It would seem that your user name is in breach of policy and that you have a conflict of interest with the article you attempted to create. Suggest you start again with a new account name. If the company is notable, then someone else will write an article about it eventually. Mjroots (talk) 18:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
References
How do you put in references? because every time I put in a reference the infobox goes away, what can I do to stop that? and also sometimes when I edit an infobox the birthdate goes away, what can I do to prevent that too? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonnyD97 (talk • contribs) 19:58, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Infoboxes have documentation at their template page, for example Template:Infobox comedian. Assuming the documentation is up to date, you can only use the parameter names listed there. Parameters with other names are ignored. Some parameters may only accept a value without a reference. If you have a problem in a specific edit then please link to a diff so we can see what is wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:52, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I added information to a motion picture entry and it disappears
I added a link to moviemistakes.com for a motion picture (Predator 2 to be exact) and it got removed by a volunteer telling me on my talk page "Wikipedia is not a collection of links, please don't link for purposes of promoting a personal website..." I responded by asking, "how is that any different than movies linking to IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes?" and he didn't answer. Now, whenever I add an entry for moviemistakes.com for ANY movie under External Links and save it, it disappears automatically when I revisit the page. Why am I not allowed to add these links? Movie Mistakes is NOT my website, I gain nothing by linking to it, I'm just adding information for the same reason as everyone else: It's useful and/or fun. Space Mountain Mike (talk) 22:32, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's because the external links section of the articles aren't supposed to be a collection of any and all links that are related to the subject. See WP:EL. IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes are established leaders in the film community and have much more info than we could succinctly put into an article. Dismas|(talk) 00:17, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- My understanding of the website is that anyone can submit entries to it. As such, it would not meet the criteria for reliable sourcing. Assuming that all submissions are checked by said staffers, however, then it could possibly be used as a reference for a specific statement in an article, but it would not be suitable as an 'External links' entry for different films -- PhantomSteve.alt/talk\[alternate account of Phantomsteve] 00:22, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
November 28
new subject
where can you recommend adding a new subject like Cakepops? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.109.162.38 (talk) 00:19, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- See WP:Articles for creation. Dismas|(talk) 00:31, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
How to search name changes
Hi, Is there a way to find out when an article's name was changed? The history tells us when the content was changed, but I couldn't tell what the title of the article was by using the history. Thanks! 174.74.68.103 (talk) 01:19, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- The page history has the link "View logs for this page" but it only shows moves away from the title. Same for Special:Log/move. I sometimes search the page history for the string "(moved" which will often be a move. For huge page histories I have occasionally clicked "What links here" and "Hide links" to find current redirects which may once have been the source of a move. I don't know a better method. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:41, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I did go through the pages' history and found where, in the intro, the title seemed to be changed. At the beginning of each article, the first sentence in the intro uses the title and puts it in bold, is that correct? If the words are in bold in the first sentence, that tells you what the title is/was? Thanks in advance.174.74.68.103 (talk) 01:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I only look at the page history page and not the individual revisions. Maybe your interest is in Chemtrail conspiracy theory. I clicked "500" and later "older 500" a couple of times at the bottom of the history page. For each list of 500 edits I searched the string "(moved" with my browser using Ctrl+F. Page moves automatically start with that but there were also a couple of matching edit summaries before I found [4]. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:36, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you all - tremendous help here! 174.74.68.103 (talk) 18:56, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
How can I?
How can I add a cite to someone else's (citation needed)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khinton23 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC) &&&&&&&&&&&&
- See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:28, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
make it public
Hello, please, let me know how to make public the article (a biography), which has been saved, but still does not appear to be listed. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.51.140.120 (talk) 01:47, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I suspect that the page will be a sub-page in the creator's space. Without knowing either the creator's user name or the article, it's a bit hard to give a definitive answer -- PhantomSteve.alt/talk\[alternate account of Phantomsteve] 03:15, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, it depends where the article was saved and whether you have an account. Depending on the content, we may also say whether it seems suited for publication in the encyclopedia. Everybody can view any saved page whether it's part of the encyclopedia or not. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:41, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
about archictecture
'How can a person do architecture through commerce? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandra prakash basu (talk • contribs) 04:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Have you tried the humanities section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: . I hope this helps.Template:Z38 I suggest you clarify the question or give them some context if you just saw it somewhere. A search shows it is also at http://www.experienceproject.com/question-answer/How-Can-A-Person-Do-Architecture-Through-Commerce/15114. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
User_committed_identity and SHA-512
I am looking at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Template:User_committed_identity
As there is no talk page for this page, I don't know where else to ask this question..
In the above page, the example there to test one's hashing function says:
| To verify that you are correctly hashing your secret string, you can try hashing 'My name is Joe Schmoe, and I can be contacted at: joe@example.com' (without the | enclosing single-quotes). Your SHA-512 hash should be: | b7a84efbbd843545666957384e874c894fdc17f48ced53abd231c2e4d08e45ad10287b1225432e3ed9794c12994ff1e82aecf66a2ded61ad4baf6d8b9c81dab8
I have tries hashing this sample string now on two systems
a) a Mac running macosx with coreutils installed from ports
which yields: | $ echo 'My name is Joe Schmoe, and I can be contacted at: joe@example.com' | gsha512sum | 22673dcd0fea42e1cf1b0b821e50065d1df9d5008be27e35745da2c4543839923fd1840fb262c3bfeb119dc68a41ea34898f4cb54d1fe97a968470c1cae0754b -
and the same result is generated on a RHEL-5-x64 system
| -bash-3.2$ echo 'My name is Joe Schmoe, and I can be contacted at: joe@example.com' | sha512sum | 22673dcd0fea42e1cf1b0b821e50065d1df9d5008be27e35745da2c4543839923fd1840fb262c3bfeb119dc68a41ea34898f4cb54d1fe97a968470c1cae0754b -
so is that example wrong, or are there in fact different versions of the SHA-512 hash algorithm? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sejtam (talk • contribs) 06:12, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I haven't verified the example myself, but there's a discussion about it here. It looks as if you should try again with "echo -n" so that no extra characters are fed into the hash generator. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:15, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Permanently severing ties to an article
Hi,
I'd like to permanently sever any link to the spiritual healing article. I think that requesting a wp:vanish followed by registration of a new account is the most effective way to do this. Can I have your comments please.
Many thanks, Adrian-from-london (talk) 09:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Have you seen the Clean start page? You'd have to sever ties with the whole subject area, not just the one article. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've had a look at the clean start page and what happens to a user account when a vanish request is processed, and a clean-start looks better as I can completely abandon the Adrian-from-london account and the spiritual healing topic. Thanks for your help, Adrian-from-london (talk) 18:19, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Starchild
Why does wiki refuse to let the starchild page be updated what is wrong with you people I thought this was a place for freedom of speech but your hide true research of ebe's just check out the official site all the facts are there —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.18.45.108 (talk) 10:36, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- We're actually an encyclopedia with pretty clear guidelines about what is allowable, rather than being a "free speech free-for-all". I have no idea what page you're actually concerned about, but while we do generally leave editing wide open, there are times when editors persistently vandalize certain articles, and they wind up getting protected for a while. DMacks (talk) 11:35, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I presume you are referring to Wikipedia's article on the Starchild skull. Wikipedia does not grant anyone absolute "freedom of speech". Articles must confirm to core policies, such as the policy on verifiability which you may wish to read. Wikipedia is not the place for revealing conspiracies or telling the world about previously unreported findings. Only when facts have been reported in what Wikipedia regards as reliable sources are they suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia article. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 11:40, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
table help
hello,
how do I bisect "Cell A" into two (or more) cells, so that they are under "Header A", without going to "Header B" and "Header C" and without going to other cells? Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 11:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Header A ! Header B ! Header C |- | Cell A | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |- | row 3, cell 1 | row 3, cell 2 | row 3, cell 3 |}
- You can't split a cell, as far as I know, but you can turn the problem round and 'colspan' to merge cells. Try this: -- John of Reading (talk) 12:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="2" | Header A ! Header B ! Header C |- | Cell A | Cell A2 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | colspan="2" | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |- | colspan="2" | row 3, cell 1 | row 3, cell 2 | row 3, cell 3 |}
- See more about table construction with colspan and rowspan at Help:Table. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- I watched it before this ;).-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 14:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
What just happened?
Ok now it's my turn to ask a question.
I'm referring to the "Starchild" thread two threads up. When I clicked "edit" no-one had responded to the IP... There was no text other than the IP's in the edit window... I was never notified of an edit conflict... Yet somehow when I clicked "save" my response automatically appeared after DMacks'. How did that work?
I confirmed there was no other text in the edit window using the browser's back button after saving my edit. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 11:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- p.s. I'd used "show preview" and seen my response appear directly after the question. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 12:06, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, that's happened to me when posting help desk replies. The software may be trying to be [too] clever - right at the bottom of Help:Edit conflict there is the statement 'New since v.1.3 is CVS-style edit conflict merging, based on the diff3 utility. This feature will only trigger an edit conflict if users attempt to edit the same few lines.' -- John of Reading (talk) 12:31, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Ah I see, thanks. I'd been wondering if I was losing my marbles or something. Surely the software ought to give prominent notification when it does this? Had I not re-read after saving, I'd have never known someone else's response was put between mine and the question, which could have lead to a confusing situation for the questioner. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 13:26, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Adrian J. Hunter didn't overwrite.[5] As John of Reading said, there was no edit conflict because different lines were edited. This can happen when you add a blank line before replying (I and many others usually do that) so the software treats it like a separate paragraph. If you want to ensure there are no intermediate replies then you can click Show changes before saving. The risk of overwriting an edit without getting an edit conflict is something else, a bug mentioned at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#A disappearing post? PrimeHunter (talk) 15:59, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Censorship in Wikipedia?
To whom it may concern, I'm inquiring about the censorship policies of Wikipedia? While recently doing a project on Nazis and the Occult, I ran into some roadblocks in my research, as you have no pages focusing on the actual "Vril Society", "Maria Orsic", or the other members who disappeared in 1945. Only a "Vril Society" book synopsis, written way after the fact based on the authors own views not fact. I read somewhere that there had once been a page dedicated to "Maria Orsic", but was taken down. This raised questions to me about the censorship policies of Wikipedia. I am aware that Wikipedia is a privately-owned corporation and is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, but it is also an encyclopedia website and therefore should not be censored at all. I'm concerned about biases within the larger facet of the website and would like to know your stance on censoring content that may be controversial, but does not conflict with your "copyright, factual, etc." policies? For Example, all the topics I mentioned have been documented as un-doubtly happening or existing... so why are the articles being deleted?
Thank you, A.A. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.96.79 (talk) 12:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not censored but does have policies in place to ensure that the topics are notable enough to have been written about by reliable sources. The page "Maria Orsitsch" was deleted in 2008 after this discussion. The consensus then was that there was no reliable evidence that the person actually existed. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:10, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- We did have a very short article called Vril Society but that was redirected to Vril and expanded considerably, so there was obviously no censorship there. That's clearly not evidence for censorship. Dougweller (talk) 13:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
In that case there is no definitive proof "Jesus", "Muhammad", or "Buddha" lived, or that Santa Clause is real. Yet, they still appear on the website due to their cultural context, as should Maria Orsitsch. I consider that a form of censorship to exclude her and others based on that singular theory. I am not a fan of Maria Orsitsch, nor do I believe in what she thought. I just feel that there is enough evidence to confirm her as an actual person and is worth having on Wilkipedia for further researchers like myself to discover. A.A. --68.10.96.79 (talk) 15:33, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Do you have any independent reliable sources that discuss Maria Orsitsch? Keep in mind, a person must be notable enough to warrant an article. All of the examples you mention have multiple mentions in independent sources. TNXMan 15:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
No I have only just begun delving into the topic of Maria O and don't feel qualified enough to write an article just yet. The Bible, Koran, and The Sutras, as with all religious texts are not independent sources themselves. Therefore, unless whichever god you believe in came to you directly and told you his/her philosophy on how to live, it isn't an independent source. Making your point moot. A.A. --68.10.96.79 (talk) 15:59, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, looking at (for example) Jesus, there are 234 references listed, very few of which are the Bible. The rest are from independent authors. TNXMan 16:10, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Needless to say, all those 234 references are biased. In the since that most, if not all, come from the christian religion. I'm sure you will be able to find hundreds, if not thousands of Nazis and conspiracy theorists who believe Maria O. existed. Your example is the same as the "states rights" ploy where the federal gov't banned foreign aid to the confederacy, by framing the war in terms of the moral issue of slavery instead of states rights and then in the 1960s the gov't uses the same concept of "states rights" to fight against the civil rights movement. It's a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Since there is no factual evidence for the existence of Jesus why does the page still exist? I'm not trying to stir anything up here, I just find Wikipedia's logic for not allowing some content and allowing others to be faulty. Even if no evidence is presented as to her existence, an article detailing the conspiracy should still be allowed. I also wanted to thank those who have tried to help me understand this concept by replying. A.A. --68.10.96.79 (talk) 16:57, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- There have already been piped links to Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (people) in the replies. Jesus is vastly more notable than Maria Orsic. A huge number of reliable sources that are not Christian have written about Jesus and it's not true that "all those 234 references are biased". PrimeHunter (talk) 18:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Come on now, give me a break. I'm not attacking religion. I'm stating the undeniable fact that there is NO physical proof that Jesus ever existed,as stated in the GUIDELINES that proof is needed in order to publish the article.I'm by no means comparing the mythical figure of "Jesus" to Maria Orsic. And since there are people who have claimed to have seen "Jesus", if thousands of people claim to see her would it make the story any truer?? Regardless, I'll just have to search for other means of information other than Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.96.79 (talk) 19:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- "Acutally exists" is neither necessary nor sufficient to be a wikipedia article topic. We have articles about all sorts of mythology, hoaxes, later-disproven scientific theories, etc. DMacks (talk) 19:16, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
How to insert a name into a category with the surname first.
I am editing an article, and having placed categories at the end, have found that the person about which the article is written appears in the categories under the letter for the first name, and not the surname. Is there a way of ensuring that that person appears under the letter for the surname - i.e. is there a Wiki formula for placing surnames first, without it appearing like that in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wickuser (talk • contribs) 13:32, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- See Help:Category#Default sort key. You want
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimm, Fiona}}
PrimeHunter (talk) 13:41, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- ... or Help:Category#Sort order for a particular category, as distinct from a default. David Biddulph (talk) 13:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Portuguese inter-wiki link
I have been asked to publish a Portuguese translation of an article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chrom%C3%BD), I don´t know how to create a new link to Portuguese on the left hand side of the page in order to publish this article... Could you please guide me. Thank youPaulo B. Freire (talk) 14:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- At the end of the file you'll see a collection of inter-wiki links. When your Portuguese page exists, add to the English page a link [[pt:Anna Chromý]], or the equivalent if the Portuguese page is named differently. David Biddulph (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia Donations. Currency Issues
Hi Wiki. I have been using wikipedia for the past ten years. I have always wished to make a donation to this phenomenal project at this time of the year. But being an indian i want to make it in terms of rupees. But unfortunately that process doesn't exist. Why is it so? And can you please add that facility? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anandrmk (talk • contribs) 14:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- PayPal, the default mechanism for donation, does not deal in rupees. There are other ways to give that may work for you, including mailing a check directly to the Foundation or wiring money to their bank account in Paris. Xenon54 (talk) 15:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
"my contributions" has an edit to a page I have never even read and doesn't have the page I did edit
The "my contributions" for me, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Blmorris, lists one article that I don't think I have even read, and does not list the one article that I did edit. My edit for that page just has an IP address instead of id, but I'm pretty sure that I was logged in under my blmorris id when I made the edit.
I did not make any changes to this page about Ted Kaczynski, edit dated 22:25, 4 August 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kaczynski&oldid=67720252
I did make this edit to the IBM RPG page, edit dated 23:35, 15 October 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM_RPG&oldid=25619663 Blmorris (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- It doesn't look like you were logged in when you edited the IBM RPG page. MediaWiki does a pretty good job of tracking of who added what, and when. I'm also somewhat amazed that you remember which pages you did or did not edit from four or five years ago. I can barely remember what I did ten minutes ago. TNXMan 15:43, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Your account was created [6] 5 minutes before the Ted Kaczynski edit and 10 months after the IBM RPG edit. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
access restrictions on articles - following a clean start
Hi,
I've set up this account in order to make a clean start from an article I used to edit. One thing I've come across is the use of access restrictions when sanctions have been imposed. I used to edit the following pages - would you be able to block access to them from this account?
articles:
- biofield energy healing
- energy medicine
redirects:
- energy healing
- absent healing
- contact healing
- distant healing
- spiritual healing
Many thanks, Oldgraybeard (talk) 19:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Oldgraybeard (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- We cannot block specific pages for technical reasons. If you make non-controversial edits to pages you used to edit, or do not edit them at all, access restrictions and sanctions most likely will not be a problem. However, if you make contentious edits or edits of the sort that caused you to abandon your previous account, and these actions are judged to be disruptive, then your account may be blocked from making further edits to the site as a whole. Incidentally, it might not have been the best idea to announce that this account is a 'clean-start' account. Your contributions to other articles (conforming to our guidelines) are always welcome. (As an aside, the "restrictions and sanctions" referenced in the clean start policy generally refer to community- or ArbCom-imposed sanctions. Nonetheless you should avoid contentious editing behaviour, regardless of the article you edit) Intelligentsium 19:18, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Searching for exact text match
I want to search for MERCEDES 1617, but I drown in 16-17th. I've tried with '1617' and "1617", but with no luck. Is this someting wich is missing in Wikipedia?
Regards, Christian Groentas (talk) 19:21, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- According to Help:Searching you can use double quotes to search for something. What, exactly, are you looking for? Maybe the article's under a different title than what you're looking for. If you try alternate search terms and can't find anything, you can use Google to search for the article in question. Open Google and type in
mercedes 1617 site:en.wikipedia.org
which will give you results for mercedes 1617 from Wikipedia. --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 20:04, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Opinion of an administrator
in Talk:Gustavo Cerati#Infobox / Notable Instruments there's a fight over an issue between users on a section of the infobox. Would be nice if an administrator who knows about the music infobox decides that the best thing that can do. JGabriel ar (talk) 23:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Administrators do not carry any special weight in deciding between two opposing sides in content disputes. Administrator's roles at Wikipedia are strictly technical, and in their role as editors, Admins carry no additional weight that any other experienced editor would. If you need help, try third opinion or request for comment or editor assistance requests to get some additional, third-party opinions on your problem. --Jayron32 21:59, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia political pages on FaceBook? I object.
There are pages for public figures on Facebook which other users say are put there by Wikipedia. I am not happy that political comments I have made to friends on FB are showing up on sites such as Nathan Deal-Politician, Casey Cagle-Politician, Saxby Chambliss-Politician and so on. I consider this a violation of my privacy, as I am not a "friend" to any of these politicians. Others of my friends are also surprised to see that comments they thought were personal among friends are instantly popping up on these political websites. (1) Is your company actually creating those pages? (2) Are you using a web crawler to pick up statements made on Facebook and collect them to these political sites? How can I opt out from having my comments to friends on Facebook show up on these political pages? I am a fan and a user and a donor to Wikipedia, but if Wikipedia is actually using software to search Facebook, where will it stop? Tina Simms 173.186.60.53 (talk) 22:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- As far as I know, no one at Wikipedia is doing this. Can you indicate which parts of the Wikipedia articles Nathan Deal or Casey Cagle or Saxby Chambliss are taken from things you have said at Facebook? If you could be specific, we could possibly help resolve this issue. --Jayron32 22:07, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wikipedia does not use any software to search Facebook; Wikipedia is not a "company" per say, it is made of volunteers like you and me who constantly edit the encyclopedia according to community consensus and guidelines. The Wikimedia Foundation is not directly involved in the content and Wiki has no editorial board or anything like that. Therefore if in fact some of your comments have been put on a wikipedia page, it's by specific users, but as far as I know Facebook is not a proper source of material. Like Jayron32 said, you need to be more specific about the content added. Cheers - CETTALK 22:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- (ec)Facebook has pages with content copied from Wikipedia. Associated with these pages are posts made elsewhere on Facebook which appear to have some kind of relationship with the subject, so if a Facebook user makes a wall post mentioning Hitler, it might shew up on the page with the material copied from Wikipedia. DuncanHill (talk) 22:14, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- If anything, it's the other way around; webcrawlers generally pick up statements from Wikipedia, among other sites. I've seen webpages that literally are the Wikipedia article and if the Wiki article changes, the site's text immediately changes to mirror that. You're pointing your finger at the wrong people. It's easy enough to blame Wikipedia simply because the site is a nice fat target. HalfShadow 22:27, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
how to contact an author
in general, is there a way to contact an author? I looked at the page for Pleistocene Park and the external link to it's official web site is bad. Even the base of the link, an apparent university site, doesn't exist and I can't find the website. I found who the user is, Tina Cordon, who edited that in originally, so I am hoping she might have some clue as to the website. Maybe there was a typo. If I edit the Talk Tina Cordon page, does she see that? Or is there a way to send email or something? Thanks. Karen Anne (talk) 22:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you edit her user talk page, she will see it the next time she logs on. In addition, you can email a user by choosing 'email this user' in the left toolbox on their user page, if that user has chosen to be available by email. But if you see errors in the page, it's fine for you to edit the article and fix it yourself. Is Pleistocene Park the article you are looking at? I don't see a 'Tina Cordon' among the users who have worked on that page. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:43, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- January 1, 2008, 2 edits. And to answer the question, yes she will see if you edit her talkpage, provided she is still active. And like FisherQueen said, be bold :) CETTALK 22:47, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- The web address appears to have once been legitimate; there are a couple of web addresses here that use almost the same address, so the site's addresses may have changed. I'll see if I can find anything. I assume this is the primary site. It's possible the website may not even exist anymore. HalfShadow 22:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- January 1, 2008, 2 edits. And to answer the question, yes she will see if you edit her talkpage, provided she is still active. And like FisherQueen said, be bold :) CETTALK 22:47, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. I can't find him in the faculty listing, so I guess maybe he left and the page went into the dust bin. Too bad. I had originally been looking for how to donate. Yes, I know I can edit, but I was hoping to salvage the link. Karen Anne (talk) 23:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- F. Stuart Chapin III, who is listed (with an e-mail address) on that faculty Web page, has apparently worked with Sergey Zimov, the founder and operator of Pleistocene Park. Chapin's personal Web site has pages on the Northeast Science Station and Pleistocene Park. Perhaps if you e-mail him, he will be able to help you out. Deor (talk) 00:09, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- In fact, a Wayback Machine archived version of the "Official Site" linked in the PP article seems to be basically identical to the PP page on Chapin's site. I'm not sure that I'd characterize it as an official site, though. Deor (talk) 00:26, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
November 29
SOS PLEASE
Gentlemen:] I am trying to fnd the name of a piece of music which I heard on the old WFMR WI. This was in 1988 when I left WI. Would some person please send me a phone # or an E address for assistance ?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.133.132.186 (talk) 00:36, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hello; you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia. We have a Reference desk for general knowledge questions but unfortunately your question is about a topic that happened so long ago that it is likely that no one knows or will be able to find out the answer. Further complicating the situation is the fact that the station has since flipped formats and is now known as WZBK-FM. You can try and contact that station but considering that none of the staff was held over from WFMR it is unlikely that they would know the answer either. Best of luck and regards, Xenon54 (talk) 01:38, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. ǝɥʇM0N0farewell 01:12, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Appeal from Jimmy Wales
I intended to make a donation of £50. I don't have a Paypal accoount and when I tried to make a donation using my debit card Paypal would not process it unless I gave them my home phone number and email address. This information is not necessary to verify the payment and I'm not prepared to respond to spurious requests for personal information from any organisation. So I have not made the donation - if you can think of any other way I can donate then I would be pleased to do so as I think Wikipedia is a great resource.
Best wishes,
Bill 86.177.32.102 (talk) 01:17, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Here's the list of other ways to give. You could just mail them a check. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 01:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) As indicated on this page, you may also donate by credit card, or as FisherQueen indicates, by various other methods including but not limited to regular mail, direct deposit, and Moneybookers. Intelligentsium 01:26, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Image not displaying
Hi. I've just tried to upload an image to a page (HomeVestors content page). A photo box is displaying, with the image file name in red, but the image is not displaying. Why not? Thanks for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Funandprofit (talk • contribs) 01:34, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- There doesn't appear to be any such file and your edit list doesn't show you as having uploaded one. HalfShadow 02:57, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- It was uploaded at commons. I have fixed the file name: [7] Capitalization matters (Image: or File: doesn't matter). PrimeHunter (talk) 03:14, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Top ten lists
Can someone point to where there is some specific guidance on the non-notability of one-off top-ten type lists? (Not NLIST or LIST) I vaguely recall this being quoted in previous notability discussions and had thought it was WP:TOPTEN but not found it so far. It's in relation to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_500_Most_Influential_Muslims —Fæ (talk) 06:44, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Generally, if the list itself is regarded as particularly notable, it stands; in the sense that the list itself is a publication that exists outside of Wikipedia. The classic example is the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which was a notable list long before Wikipedia was ever dreamed of. Insofar as the list exists outside of Wikipedia, and its notability as a list outside of Wikipedia is also well established, then it seems a perfectly fine topic for a Wikipedia article. Insofar as the list is either original research, or novel synthesis from other sources; that is the rankings are the sole invention of the author(s) of the Wikipedia article, OR they are cobbled together from other sources in unique ways by the author(s) of the Wikipedia, article, then the list probably shouldn't exist. This is different from many other lists at Wikipedia, whereby the lists serve as useful navigational aids; those types of lists aren't attempting to "rank" anything. However, insofar as a list presents a ranked list of something, that ranking needs to itself be notable. --Jayron32 07:04, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- To put it more simply : original research lists (ranking) are not acceptable. They need to be supported and/or acknowledged by multiple sources (specific to the list and not to their specific content). «CharlieEchoTango» 07:17, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Add link to disambiguation page
I am attempting to add a link to "George S. Hawkins (lawyer)" to the disambiguation page for George Hawkins, but have not been able to do it. Can someone help? Triathlete1969 (talk) 14:18, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Done. It's not clear how you were trying to do it, and what problems you encountered. If you explain your problem, we can perhaps tell you how to avoid similar problems in future. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Can't edit my article and some how JAK45 bogarted half of my draft space article and put it in his "Cushions" article.
Hi,
I'm trying to edit my user space draft but it is not giving me an option to do so. Also another user took my info from my draft and put it in his article which makes no sense and i don't understand how that was possible.
Please advise
Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by S2kelam (talk • contribs) 15:05, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- You created your "draft" at the talk page of one of the help pages. I've created a userspace draft for you at User:S2kelam/Vestex. You can edit that all you like. Dismas|(talk) 15:37, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) To create a new userspace draft page, you go to Help:Userspace draft, replace "new article name here" in the white box with the name of your article (for example, change the text in the box to "Special:Mypage/Vestex"), then click on the button below the box that is labelled "Create a userspace draft". This creates a page called "User:S2kelam/Vestex" with some standard article boilerplate. You can then add your article text and save the page. You seem to have tried to edit the Help:Userspace draft itself, and your changes were reverted. Gandalf61 (talk) 15:32, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much!!! Have a great day
S2kelam (talk) 15:54, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Copyright
I would like to enter a Wikepedia article about my grandmother born in 1900, a childhood prodigy pianist who gave concerts throughout Europe. She died in 1999. I have in my possession original photos, press critiques and other original material most of which is 80 to 100 years old. I am totally bewildered by your pages on copyright and have no idea what to do. I do not know who the photographers were (but they cannot possibly be alive) and much of the material was produced as marketing material for my grandmother and therefore the copyright would be hers. Can someone kindly advise me? GWStern GWStern (talk) 15:05, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Entirely aside from any conflict of interest issues, you must realize that marketing material by definition is not impartial, and does not constitute a reliable source of information (which we require); so the copyright on press kits and the like is irrelevant here. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:18, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Transcluding onlyinclude and includeonly tags
- short question
Is there a way to let a template include <includeonly><onlyinclude>{{{date}}}</onlyinclude></includeonly>
when transcluded?
- longer explaination for question
I'll try to explain it with this table:
Page name: | Template(in this case: "template:update") | Page between(in this case: "update page") | Final page(in this case: "item page") |
---|---|---|---|
use: | add a notice to "update page" | show information about the update, and when transcluded show the date of it only |
Only have the text between the onlyinclude tags included |
This is because at the RuneScape Wiki i am trying to automate the update date. Because there is always a link to the update page on the item page, and the update page has the date on it, i want the update page to have an additional note with the date entered(between onlyinclude tags) and i don't want it to appear on the update page itself(between includeonly tags). All update pages have the template:Update on it, with the parameter {{{date}}} so I want template:update to add <includeonly><onlyinclude>{{{date}}}</onlyinclude></includeonly>
to the update page so that when the item page has {{#time:j F Y|{{Update:(updatename)}}}}
on it, it shows the date in "dd month yy" automatically without needing to add that yourself.
I hope someone can help me. Joeytje50 (talk) 15:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- This page is only for questions about how to use Wikipedia, not for programming hints about Wikia software. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:21, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- You may, however, get some answers at the MediaWiki help desk. TNXMan 18:27, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Why Wikipedia doesn't show the counter/statistics of article views ?
Like YouTube or any other social site where content is created by its users only Wikipedia has no counter.
Why ?
It could be very very interesting to see the number of views for each article.
Have no idea where I will get the response (if any) for this question, so let me leave my email in case.
<blanked>
THANK YOU! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.229.7.141 (talk) 18:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- This already exists. If you click on the "history" tab at the top of the page, you'll see a link that says "page view statistics". It will take you to a page like this. TNXMan 18:12, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- I also want to clarify that this is a user-edited reference work, not a social site. That's not what Wikipedia is for, and "it's interesting" is not an argument for adding a feature here. We have no interest in resembling YouTube or MySpace. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:08, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Removing IP address from history
hi, i didn't notice the warning about IP address display in the history (when you're not logged in) before i made a chance to a page. i registered right after. can you please change my IP address to my user name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkSpencerTLS (talk • contribs) 19:22, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- That is not possible anymore, although the information on who made the edit can be completely struck by oversight. Xenon54 (talk) 19:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- If privacy, rather than taking credit is the issue and you don't wish to go through oversight, you can email me the diff and I can then hide your IP address using revision deletion. If taking credit is the issue, you can do so in an edit summary while logged in using a dummy edit (the edit summary can take a form like "Note: Edit at 13:19, October 21, 2010 was me while not logged in" or a host of different ways. You can also do both. Note, though, that this will not protect your privacy as permanently as would oversighting.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:24, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
how to undo or fix
Sorry but I am not sure where I am supposed to send this. I accidentally messed up an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Drexel
What is the best way for me to either fix it or revert it. All of the facts are right. I messed up on the formatting.
Thank you.
20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)20:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cajun2core (talk • contribs)
- I rolled it back to where you started. Read the history of any edit, and if it was the most recent edit, there should be an "undo" option presented. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:20, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I tried that but it did not work for me for some reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cajun2core (talk • contribs) 21:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Template question
Hi. I'd like to help with page maintenance. How do I create/modify a template (for display on a User page) to list articles in a particular subject category (e.g., business intelligence) that have been tagged with a particular clean-up category (e.g., copy edit)? Thanks. --Boxplot (talk) 21:20, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Remove Notifications/Alerts
My company’s (LightSquared) Wikipedia page has two alerts: 1) This article was written like an advertisement 2) This article needs additional citation for verification When we originally saw these notifications we updated the page, this was a few months ago, and the notifications still haven’t been removed. How do we get them removed? What should we do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.32.14.200 (talk) 21:32, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Normally those messages are removed by the person who fixes the issue. Normally, I'd suggest that you do it if you know something about the company but you represent a conflict of interest. Dismas|(talk) 21:47, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
November 30
Resizing text.
Hi this is an odd question, but for the last couple of weeks when ever I come to wikipedia all the text is really tiny. I don't think this is anything I have done as wikipedia is the only site where I am having this problem. Is there some way I can fix this so I can go back to enjoying the site?
(I am talking about reading articles not an editing issue.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.33.59 (talk) 01:28, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I noticed in an earlier entry somebody suggested hitting cntrl 0 this however does nothing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.33.59 (talk) 01:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Which browser do you use? The Ctrl + 0 shortcut works in Firefox only; for other browsers, the zoom is literally all over the place. In Internet Explorer, for example, the function is in the status bar at the bottom of the window (the small magnifying glass icon, make sure it is at 100%). Xenon54 (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- And if you are happening to be using Google Chrome, you can reach the zoom function by clicking on the little wrench in the upper-right hand corner, which will open up a menu in which you can see your browser's zoom percentage and adjust it from there until it is at 100%.
- If you do find that your zoom settings are perfectly fine, then there is a chance that you may be one of several who are suffering from font size issues due to the new layout. To test if the new layout is the reason for your problem, open up this page, and then this one. If there is a difference in the font size of the article text, you should report it at the page I just linked to. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Disgraceful
Your company is disgraceful.. To publish all that classified sensitive information that illegally obtained.. Its the same as accepting stolen property... You have no respect or dignity. SHAMEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.214.63.10 (talk) 01:44, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for your input. However, Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation are not associated with Wikileaks. They are two completely different entities, and Wikipedia has nothing to do with the leaked documents. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:48, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Also your feet smell terrible. Jesus Christ, get some Dr Scholls. HalfShadow 02:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for your input. However, Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation are not associated with Wikifeet. They are two completely different entities, and Wikipedia has nothing to do with these feet and any odors associated therewith.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- ...okay, that's just weirdshit. HalfShadow 04:03, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
;-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:43, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- ...okay, that's just weirdshit. HalfShadow 04:03, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for your input. However, Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation are not associated with Wikifeet. They are two completely different entities, and Wikipedia has nothing to do with these feet and any odors associated therewith.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Here is a link to the right place "www.wikileaks.org". --Monterey Bay (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
coding error
hi, my article has a "coding error" but I did not touch anything.. it was working fine. the link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_ruocco —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlesrock11 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hi. That article does not have a coding error. It was purposely deleted because it was written in an exclusively promotional manner, because Wikipedia is not a means of promotion. If you need further explanation or clarification, feel free to ask here, or, if you have a more specific question regarding the specifics of the deleted article, you can contact the admin who deleted your article on his talk page. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- (e/c) Hello. The issue of an error is moot since the article has been deleted under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion as blatant advertising (though looking at the deleted content I don't see any coding error showing up, unless you mean the deletion itself as the error). The deletion log entry is here. Based on your username, there is a suggestion that you may have a conflict of interest in writing this article. In any event, blatant advertising or not, were you to recreate the article, what is required is not just a neutral tone, but citations to reliable third party sources discussing the topic in some detail. This is at the heart of our core inclusion policies and guidelines to show notability (and here see the topic-specific notability subguideline, WP:BIO), verifiability, to avoid original research, and is more stringently applied in articles like this one concerning a living person.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:46, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
help with editor assuming bad faith
just looking for some advice/help with an editor i am working with on an article who has a habit of automatically assuming bad faith and making unfounded accusations; all contributing to a somewhat hostile editing enviroment. for instance, in this edit i am accused of "ineptly" writing the lede of the article. i didn't write the lede, i reverted it to the version that existed prior to me even editing the article. and again, in this edit, the editor removes a wikilink added by another user here and instructs me to "stop this silly linking" in the summary. i have further diffs and more detailed complaints, but just wanted to give the general idea. wondering if some one could remind the other editor about WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL as my attempts to do so seem to go ignored. would it be a better idea to take this to AN/I with said greater detail? not looking to have the editor removed or anything, just trying to get them to edit cooperatively instead of adversarially. WookieInHeat (talk) 04:15, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that falls under AN/I... HalfShadow 04:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- alrighty, thanks. WookieInHeat (talk) 04:26, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
world Wide gum co.
I am trying to find out more about a spearmint gum made by the world wide gum co..of Grandby Que, I have an unopened package of this gum and I am trying to find out what year it was made. I'm thinking the 1930's or 40's. if there is any help you could give me it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.64.229.193.106 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:28, 30 November 2010 (UTC).
- The only on-wikipedia references I can find to the World Wide Gum Company is as the manufacturer of Baseball cards. From that article, "1933 also saw the delivery of the World Wide Gum issue. World Wide Gum Co. was based in Montreal and clearly had a close relationship with the Goudey Gum Company, as each of their four issues closely resembled a Goudey contemporary. Goudey, National Chicle, Delong and a handful of other companies were competitive in the bubble gum and baseball card market until World War II began." Also, from Goudey, "Similar cards as the 1933 and 1934 Goudey sets were also released in Canada by the Goudey-owned World Wide Gum Co, of Granby, Quebec. They are sometimes known as Canadian Goudey sets." It appears that World Wide Gum Co. was a Canadian subsidiary of Goudey Gum Company, an American company which operated from 1924-1962. It is quite likely, therefore, that the gum was indeed from the 1940's or 1950's. --Jayron32 05:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- You may also want to post this at Reference desk/Miscellaneous where users specialize in answering general knowledge questions. -- Ϫ 09:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Geonotice problem
One week after request there still appears to be no sign of our Geonotice request for a Meetup in Dublin, and I don't know who to contact. I have tried requesting help from several Admins (at least, I think they are Admins), but have had no feedback so far. We have put a lot of work into this, but due to the current bad weather, we need to get this information out to country members ASAP. Hohenloh + 07:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
wp:vanish requests
Hi,
I used to use an account Adrian-from-london and tagged it with { {retired} } for a clean start. As I've decided to cease editing Wikipedia permanently please can you process vanish requests for both Adrian-from-london and Oldgraybeard accounts (I scrambled the password for Adrian-from-london but I've used the same PC for both accounts so the IP addresses for the most recent logins should be identical.)
Many thanks, Oldgraybeard (talk) 08:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
How to 'Review' or approve an article
Hi all,
I am new to wikiepdia and want to 'review' an article so it becomes a proper live page - how do I go about doing this? The page in question is the one on 'Pharmaceutical Medicine'.
Any help would be most appreciated - thanks!
Ben —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjicott (talk • contribs) 10:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- You mean Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine? Usually I would direct you to WP:FEEDBACK but I will give some comments here: First, there is no indication in the article as to how or why the organisation is notable per WP:CORP and it will need some references to reliable sources to demonstrate notability; second, it reads like an advertising or promotional piece, which is not permitted - see WP:SPAM. It is in danger of being deleted for each of these reasons, so you should try to fix them ASAP. – ukexpat (talk) 14:42, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Also, as you will see from the message on your talk page, it appears to be copied from, or a close paraphrase of, the Faculty's website, neither of which is allowed, please see WP:COPYVIO. – ukexpat (talk) 14:44, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- The one which is flagged as a new unreviewed article is Pharmaceutical Medicine, not Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. I agree that it isn't crystal clear whether there is intended to be some specific process for review of articles tagged with {{Userspace draft|source=ArticleWizard}}, or whether it is OK for any editor to look at the article and, if it looks OK, remove the tag. David Biddulph (talk) 15:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Anyone can review a tagged article. The tag just adds the article to the appropriate category, in this case Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from October 2010. Some folks patrol Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard and its child cats for articles in need of review. – ukexpat (talk) 15:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- And I see that you've done just that, so that it no longer appears in the aforementioned category, hence the OP can dive in and edit at will (within normal Wikipedia guidelines, of course), without worrying about the review stage. I see also that you've changed the case of the opening of the second word of the title, so that it is now Pharmaceutical medicine, not Pharmaceutical Medicine. - David Biddulph (talk) 15:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
BOOK CREATOR IN HEBREW
I'V NOTICED THAT THE BOOK CREATOR OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE IN HEBREW does anybody know whY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.182.34.238 (talk) 12:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- That sounds like a question for the Hebrew Wikipedia, not for the English Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Google "Potassium atomic weight"
When I Googled "Potassium atomic weight" the search result for Wiki shows the chemical properties for sodium not potassium, yet when I clicked on the Wiki link the correct values for potassium are in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.56.81.6 (talk) 15:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm. Sounds like Google cached an incorrect version of the page. As you say, however, the article here appears correct. TNXMan 15:07, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
first amendment rights
Does your first amendment rights trump my soldier son's right to live? Did you thank him for being made the target to your "news?"76.188.30.73 (talk) 15:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think you are confusing us with Wikileaks. We are not affiliated with them at all. TNXMan 15:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
New to Wikipedia
Help. I am new to wikipedia, I don't really understand it. But I have been trying to make a contact reference the RIAS Studios in Berlin 1964 to 1966. I was in a military band- 3 Royal Anglian regiment, and we did a broadcast (30 minutes). What I would like to know is, can I get a copy of this broadcast? My name is Ron Bingham, my email is <blanked>. Can anyone help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.14.172 (talk) 16:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)