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:What is your username? The account [[User:petter]] appears to have been created many years ago and I guess it isn't you. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
:What is your username? The account [[User:petter]] appears to have been created many years ago and I guess it isn't you. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
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::What if username is 'petter'? So what. Does Wiki just give out passwords if you ask from them? This is a disgrace (if true). [[User:LalaLAND|LalaLAND]] ([[User talk:LalaLAND|talk]]) 13:35, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
::What if username is 'petter'? So what. Does Wiki just give out passwords if you ask from them? This is a <s>disgrace</s> scandal (if true). [[User:LalaLAND|LalaLAND]] ([[User talk:LalaLAND|talk]]) 13:35, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
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:::The password can be manually reset, or sent in an email to the address tied to the account, if I remember correctly. What is it with you and disgraces? [[User:Evanh2008|Evanh2008]] <sup>([[User talk:Evanh2008|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Evanh2008|contribs]])</sup> 14:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
:::The password can be manually reset, or sent in an email to the address tied to the account, if I remember correctly. What is it with you and disgraces? [[User:Evanh2008|Evanh2008]] <sup>([[User talk:Evanh2008|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Evanh2008|contribs]])</sup> 14:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
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::::Firstly, your right I used that word before so have changed it to "scandal" which is equally fitting. Secondly, it is crazy that they would just give out passwords to anyone who requests it. Please define "password can be manually reset"? [[User:LalaLAND|LalaLAND]] ([[User talk:LalaLAND|talk]]) 14:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
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:::No, the password can only be sent to the email address, if any, that has been saved with the account. See [[Help:Logging in#What if I forget the password?]] for general advice. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 14:02, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
:::No, the password can only be sent to the email address, if any, that has been saved with the account. See [[Help:Logging in#What if I forget the password?]] for general advice. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 14:02, 4 March 2013 (UTC) |
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Boilerplate prose copied from another article
Moved discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads#Boilerplate prose copied from another article --Chaswmsday (talk) 01:22, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm looking for the specific policy or guideline about making boilerplate copies of prose from one article which repeat fundamental points about that article into tangentially-related articles (not daughter pages where a summary might be appropriate). This seems very simple, but I can't find a good reference. Thanks. --Chaswmsday (talk) 20:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- Does WP:COPYWITHIN help?--ukexpat (talk) 20:13, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- WP:COPYPASTE looks like it applies. See the bottom section -- it covers copying from one Wikipedia article to another. You must preserve attribution. RudolfRed (talk) 20:15, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- WP:COPYWITHIN seems to talk about attribution, WP:COPYPASTE says that you can/may copy from another article, but not whether that is advisable. It's sort of a WP:FORK, but it only duplicates a piece of the article, not full duplication. I'm concerned about unnecessarily creating {{Sync}} problems and the plain fact that details about a tangential topic don't belong in articles linking to that topic.
- Here's an example: The last paragraph in Ohio State Route 444#Route description talks about the defining characteristics of the National Highway System (United States), the overall maintenance responsibilities of the Ohio Department of Transportation and the definition of average annual daily traffic. These facts, IMO, should be left to those articles; a reader wishing to learn more could easily navigate to those articles.
- The editor in question has changed several articles in this manner. I could address with him/her individually, but I wanted to find specific guidelines first. --Chaswmsday (talk) 20:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, but it's not even a summary-type article, so Main wouldn't really apply; there is appropriate content, just too much that's tangential, so See Also probably also wouldn't apply. When I searched though the Help pages, I was rather astonished this topic wasn't clearly addressed. --Chaswmsday (talk) 21:12, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- It's not boilerplate prose copied from another article, per se. It's a half-sentencen or single sentence explanation/definition in the form of a paraphrased quotation offered inline and quoted to its original source. In the case of the NHS definition, standard practice is to quote the Federal Highway Administration's page that explains the NHS, so we are not truly copying text from one article to another. Rather we are repeating a standard quotation and citation across multiple articles. If the reader wants more detail about the background, legal foundation and detailed designation of the subsystems of the NHS involved, the link is provided.
- As for ODOT's maintenance responsibility, that must be mentioned, and not implied, in the text of the article. The infobox at the top right corner of the should already be mentioning the maintaining agency for a roadway, and all information in the infobox, like the rest of the lead, should be repeated elsewhere in the body of the article. The infobox would not serve as a good summary of an article if it mentioned unique details not supplied in the prose someplace.
- As for the short definition of AADT, good writing says that we can offer a short explanation inline to avoid sending a reader to another article. This practice was upheld in several articles I took to FAC, including U.S. Route 2 in Michigan. I agree that if we delved into more technical explanations of the AADT concept that it would be tangential, but the summation and explanation of the concept offered in the articles in question is fine.
- In short, I disagree with the notion that there is a problem, and I would submit that if these articles are taken higher up the assessment scale, these shorts of details being removed by Chaswmsday would need to be reinserted to satisfy expectations of good writing. Imzadi 1979 → 01:09, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, but it's not even a summary-type article, so Main wouldn't really apply; there is appropriate content, just too much that's tangential, so See Also probably also wouldn't apply. When I searched though the Help pages, I was rather astonished this topic wasn't clearly addressed. --Chaswmsday (talk) 21:12, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
uss ward dd139
if genetics repeats we need the uss ward dd139 artcle altered for the family code name REDODOD roger earl davidson outerbridge also known as thomas jefferson davidson thus REDODOD we are the owners of Harley Davidson genetically speaking grandmother is 103 years old...
<<apparent nonsense removed>>
...went to the top of the washington monument and ford theater larray caverns with grandmother — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.14.26 (talk) 21:52, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- Do you have a question about using Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia? -- John of Reading (talk) 22:08, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- It looks to me like machine-generated text. Maproom (talk) 13:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Now that it has been hidden from view, I can safely mention that there was an email address and, apparently, a couple of account passwords hiding inside it. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- It looks to me like machine-generated text. Maproom (talk) 13:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Heinz Tomate juice 50% les sodium
Hi I'm a client at Metro. I'm very disturbed that I'm unable to find any Heinz tomato juice with the 50% less Sodium. At a time when people are searching for products which are less salty this product is not carried by your your Metro stores in the Heinz name brand. A store such as yours with such a high magnitude of products dos not have a place in it for your this product. Unbelievable I believe that a primary concern even if it would be only for a few clients would be to supply them with wanted brand! Could you tell me of the problem or the reluctance to supply this product
Merlin Emslie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.145.241 (talk) 22:15, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 million articles and thought we were 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 for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about 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. FrigidNinja 22:17, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Saisha
I tried to submit an article:
Saisha comes from the Indian word which means, "God." Unknown word which means, "meaningful life-truth of life." Indian word which means, "with the grace of God." Unknown word which means, ""The girls name Saisha sa(i)-sha is of Sanskrit origin, and its meaning is "meaningful life-truth of life". The name of a Hindi princess, and a name that appears in religious chants." Someone also suggested the name is an Marathi word which means, "Flower of God."
I cannot get it to work online. Please help get information on the name and origin of Saisha posted. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.12.161.158 (talk) 00:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for your attempt to contribute, but I'm sorry that what you wrote above is not suitable for use in Wikipedia, which is a collection of information from reliable sources. It must be verifiable, and requires proper English grammar, spelling, coherence, etc. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
A bot not archiving my page properly
Howdy all. Does anyone know why ClueBot III isn't archiving my talk page properly? I've asked the bot operator twice (once in December 2012 and once in January 2013) but I haven't gotten a response. I know this may be a long shot asking here, but it can't hurt to ask.--Rockfang (talk) 00:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- If you're having problems with ClueBot III, you might want to try another bot, such as MiszaBot III. FrigidNinja 01:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know the bot's code, but I can't see anything wrong with your talk page. As you'll see from the history, I had no problem saving the edit that the bot should have made. How about re-doing today's archiving by hand and then turning archiving back on to see if it recovers? -- John of Reading (talk) 22:26, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Are you aware of how convoluted the process is for reporting an edited page? Anywho, I was on Cardiac dysrhythmia page and noticed an abnormal sentence. Please review it. Something about choking on something long and hard, that could be black or white. I'm guessing this has been edited and is a penis reference.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.151.118.4 (talk • contribs)
- Childish vandalism reverted in this edit. If you see such vandalism again, please pitch in and fix it yourself!--ukexpat (talk) 01:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Page wiggles?
what is wrong with this page:
It "wiggles", see? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.83.191.192 (talk) 02:34, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I added a header to your question to seperate it from the one above. The page doesn't wiggle for me, it looks fine. RudolfRed (talk) 02:37, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- No wiggles for me, either. Are you sure you aren't wiggling and the page standing still? (See first sentence of Motion (physics)). Rivertorch (talk) 06:47, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- This may be the problem I ran into a couple of days ago: pages would load and then a line or two of text would go fuzzy. This was Firefox 17; it's gone away after I upgraded to Firefox 19. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Merge or combine two user accounts
Is it possible to merge or combine two user accounts? I apparently opened a new, duplicate account after forgetting that I had previously created one years ago in college. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myc3 (talk • contribs) 03:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don't think so. If you can still login to your old account, then just stop using your new one. RudolfRed (talk) 04:18, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Wikipedia doesn't merge user accounts or contributions (it was possible in the past, but not anymore). What you could do is chose one account, discontinue using the other, and mention on your userpage that you have also used the other account both for attribution purposes and to avoid sockpuppet accusations. You can read more about legitimate alternative accounts here Chamal T•C 04:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Sockpuppetry is the use of multiple accounts for deception. As long as you use only one account, or as long as you use both accounts while mentioning on their user pages that they're used by the same person (e.g. "[accountname] is also me"), you clearly won't be attempting to deceive people, so you'll be fine. Nyttend (talk) 13:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Wikipedia doesn't merge user accounts or contributions (it was possible in the past, but not anymore). What you could do is chose one account, discontinue using the other, and mention on your userpage that you have also used the other account both for attribution purposes and to avoid sockpuppet accusations. You can read more about legitimate alternative accounts here Chamal T•C 04:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Leading space in if statements
Is it possible to make the output of an #if formula include a space as the first character?
Background: I have a template (Template:Canadian election result/top) that creates a link based on several parameters (year, jurisdiction, and election type). I want to add another parameter that will change the link from [[existing formula]] to [[existing formula ballot {{{ballot}}}]]. The problem is that the #if statement ignores the space before the word "ballot", and there doesn't seem to be an html code to insert a normal space, and I wouldn't want a non-breaking space in an article title. I could resolve this by adding a comma before the word "ballot", but I'm curious about whether there is any way to force the #if statement to recognize the leading space. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 04:16, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Check out the {{Sp}} template. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:54, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Mathematical formatting and illustrations
I recently created stub articles Stadium (geometry) and Capsule (geometry) which contain a few brief mathematical formulas written in "plain" text. Can someone who knows how please apply the correct formatting. Graphical representations of the subjects would also help improve the articles but I don't have the necessary tools to produce the drawings. Unfortunately I have not been able to find freely usable illustrations to import. Roger (talk) 07:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Do you think these are correct? I have applied them to those pages. These are the formulas in Stadium (geometry).
- And these are the formulas used in Capsule (geometry).
- Thanks! I'm not a mathematician by any stretch (I just barely managed to survive high school algebra half a lifetime ago!) so I'm not sure if it really makes a difference, but in the cited source for the Capsule (geometry)'s volume formula the 4/3 is enclosed in parentheses, which iirc means the formula reads as "four thirds of the sum of r and a" as opposed to "four thirds of r is added to a". Roger (talk) 11:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I think that 4/3 enclosed in brackets is the same as 4/3 not enclosed in brackets (as far as my knowledge of mathematics is concerned) in this equation. 4/3 means it is multiplied with r, so it is the same thing. And User:Maproom, yeah I agree that lower case should be used. I have corrected the pi. Cheers.--Ushau97 talk contribs 12:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I will create and add an illustration for Stadium (geometry). I don't know how to do 3d things, nor where to ask for them. Maproom (talk) 13:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop is the place to go for requesting the creation of new illustrations. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:03, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
how to publish an articel
Hi, I'm a new wikipedia users, I've just made the first article about Riri Fitri Sari, please help how to articles can be read by everyone .. thank you .. :) --Trisand23 (talk) 07:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi there! Welcome to Wikipedia! Believe it or not, the page you have created can ALREADY be read by everyone. Congratulations! However, you seem to have copied a significant portion of the page from the website that is shown in the header that hangs above your article. Where possible, kindly rephrase the sentences. Thank you! ★ Oliverlyc ★ ✈✈✈ Pop me a message! 08:04, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I have deleted the page; it was a word-for-word copy of her University profile, which is copyrighted by the University. Yunshui 雲水 08:35, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- That's exactly what turns me off here at Wikipedia: A new editor comes here with good intentions and politely asks for help, and before she even gets a word in, her work is deleted. And yes, she put quite some work in beyond the original: The article was
completelyextensively wikified. Such an article could serve as a basis for improvement. Of course I know WP:CSD, and it may meet several of them. But why bite the newbie with such rabid haste? This is the Help desk, after all! — Sebastian 08:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- That's exactly what turns me off here at Wikipedia: A new editor comes here with good intentions and politely asks for help, and before she even gets a word in, her work is deleted. And yes, she put quite some work in beyond the original: The article was
- I have deleted the page; it was a word-for-word copy of her University profile, which is copyrighted by the University. Yunshui 雲水 08:35, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Because the prohibition against copyright violations is not simply an "internal" rule dreamt up one day by a cabal of admins with nothing better to do. It is in fact one of a handful of rules that if violated can have serious legal consequences. Such violations break the law (of the United States in this case as the Wikimedia Foundation's legal address is in the state of Florida AFAIK) and cannot be allowed under any circumstances whatsoever. Roger (talk) 09:02, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- ↑ What Roger said. I might add that the page was not "completely wikified"; when I said it was a word-for-word copy, I was being completely literal. Both the original and the version that Tristand23 recreated a few minutes after deletion were identical in text to the source, which is clearly and unambiguously labelled as being copyrighted by the Information System Development & Services department of the University Of Indonesia. Yunshui 雲水 09:12, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- That actually illustrates my point. A collaborative effort can not solely rely on laws; one needs to apply a minimum of common sense, as well. Does any of you seriously believe that the copyright holder in this case would immediately sue Wikipedia if this article were kept for a reasonable time, so that the new user gets a chance to at least get a word in edgewise before she is presented with a fait accompli? With a little bit of WP:AGF, this could have been solved in a humane way. — Sebastian 19:04, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Regarding the wikified/identical question: I just looked at the deleted article; it did contain extensive wikification, including an infobox, categories, interlanguage links, templates such as {{Indonesian name}} and a lot of links. Admittedly, some of these aren't very helpful, such as the repetitions of "Prof. Dr.", so I'm taking back the "completely wikified". Still, there evidently was a lot of wiki work involved; I don't see how you can deny that. This clearly was an effort by someone with great potential. — Sebastian 19:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- ↑ What Roger said. I might add that the page was not "completely wikified"; when I said it was a word-for-word copy, I was being completely literal. Both the original and the version that Tristand23 recreated a few minutes after deletion were identical in text to the source, which is clearly and unambiguously labelled as being copyrighted by the Information System Development & Services department of the University Of Indonesia. Yunshui 雲水 09:12, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Because the prohibition against copyright violations is not simply an "internal" rule dreamt up one day by a cabal of admins with nothing better to do. It is in fact one of a handful of rules that if violated can have serious legal consequences. Such violations break the law (of the United States in this case as the Wikimedia Foundation's legal address is in the state of Florida AFAIK) and cannot be allowed under any circumstances whatsoever. Roger (talk) 09:02, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- This page is very helpful: Wikipedia:Your first article. --Guy Macon (talk) 08:37, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Trisand23, I have started User:Trisand23/Riri Fitri Sari. It includes references to sources about Professor Riri Fitri Sari. They are written in my own words, not copied from the sources. I hope this helps you. Peter in Australia, Wikipedia username --Shirt58 (talk) 09:54, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
How to find templates?
Recently, I noticed a certain inline template (like {{convert}}) in an article, and I just realized the need for it in another article. Since I didn't remember where I saw it, I tried to find it. But neither WP:Template nor WP:List of templates were of any help; they both just redirect to WP:Template messages, which only covers householding messages such as {{disambiguation needed}} and {{misleading}}. Is there really no WP page that lists non-message templates (templates intended for the article text itself), such as {{convert}}, {{lang-it}} and {{main}}? As I am writing this, I am remembering the article, and found the template in question: {{Formatprice}}, so I'm making this a general question. — Sebastian 08:06, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Browsing around Category:Wikipedia templates would hopefully help. Roger (talk) 08:41, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you! Doh, I could have thought of that! — Sebastian 08:51, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
My other account
I created account "Okklahoma", but now created "Oklahomma" to avoid misunderstandings regarding the Ku Klux Klan. Can anybody delete that account? Thank you. Oklahomma (talk) 12:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi. Unfortunately, accounts cannot be deleted as your contributions to the project stay recorded forever. Usually, you can have your old account's name changed by putting in a request at Wikipedia:Changing username. You can usually request a change to a random string of letters. Hope that helps, iComputerSaysNo 12:42, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Also relevant here is WP:Right to vanish. - Purplewowies (talk) 12:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Redirect or section link
When linking to a specific section from an article, should I directly link to that section using the section header like [[Article#section name]]
or should I create a redirect to that section and link to the redirect instead? Is one of the two methods preferred over the other and if so, why? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 12:42, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- You may be safer creating an anchor & linking to that, just in case someone changes the section title. - David Biddulph (talk) 12:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Okay, I created an anchor at the target page and linked to that one. Thank you. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 13:24, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Citing a website based on a book
If a website I want to use as a citation is based on a book which I cannot access, should I cite the website or the original book? This is important, because whether I should use {{Cite web}} or {{cite book}} depends on that. This is the website I want to cite. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 13:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- You should cite the Web site; one never cites a work that one hasn't seen. In this case, the author says that the information is only "im Wesentlichen" derived from the book in question, so there may be differences of wording etc. Deor (talk) 14:22, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
French speaking editor
I'm looking for an editor to help upload a logo to the French Wikipedia.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Is that logo copyrighted? It seems to me copyrighted images generally cannot be used on the French Wikipedia per a poll held in 2011. This Google translation of Wikipédia:Exceptions au droit d'auteur says that logos are an exception to that rule. I found Fichier:Burger King.svg and it seems they have copyright tags but no non-free use rationales like EN Wikipedia, though that is just a guess based on this single example. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:30, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I'd suggest that you ask for help at the fr:WP:HD, fr:Wikipédia:Questions techniques. Write your question in English (being sure to specify that you don't speak French, so they don't wonder why you're using English) and either copy/paste an automatic translation or say "Someone please translate this"; there are plenty of people who speak English, so you should be able to get help rather fast. They'll also be better equipped to help you with their policies on copyrighted logos than most French-speaking editors here would be. Nyttend (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the help. On the one hand, I was assuming that they would have a counterpart to non-free rationales, on the other hand, the very reason I'm asking is that I understand the process may be different. The image is a copyrighted logo, I recommended that they not license it with a free license, because of the non-free rationale option on en Wiki. We'll have to see what makes most sense on fr Wiki.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I'd suggest that you ask for help at the fr:WP:HD, fr:Wikipédia:Questions techniques. Write your question in English (being sure to specify that you don't speak French, so they don't wonder why you're using English) and either copy/paste an automatic translation or say "Someone please translate this"; there are plenty of people who speak English, so you should be able to get help rather fast. They'll also be better equipped to help you with their policies on copyrighted logos than most French-speaking editors here would be. Nyttend (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
editing ISDA page
I really need admin help in preventing changes to Wikipedia page “ISDA” (International Swaps and Derivatives Association).
My username on Wikipedia is ‘prokurator’. However I work for ISDA headquarter in New York and in January made significant changes to our company page to reflect all news and current state of the company.
User ‘ukexpat’ reverted it to old version which is outdated.
I just made all my changes back and would like to know how I can prevent someone who does not work for ISDA to alter this page.
Your help is highly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prokurator (talk • contribs) 14:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- As Ukexpat has told you, you cannot prevent other people editing the page. You don't own the article. In fact, you ought to read Wikipedia's position on conflict of interest before you even touch the article. If the article is out of date, then start a discussion on the article's talk page with links to updated information; someone else can then assess the changes that are needed.
- Please remember that Wikipedia isn't here to advertise the ISDA, which your version of the article did, nor can Wikipedia use text in breach of copyright. BencherliteTalk 14:20, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- You may be surprised, but we would prefer just the opposite. Anyone working for ISDA has a conflict of interest, and should propose changes on the talk page. Changes to the article should be made by editors who are NOT employed by ISDA.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:23, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- This user ended up reverting the article repeatedly, and so was blocked. I've asked them to give us the inaccuracies in the current text, so that we non-employees can have a look - but, yeah. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 15:17, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Removing a Reference on A Page
HI, I need to remove a reference link under the "References" section of my company's Wikipedia page, but when I click the "edit" button, the link does not show up to remove. Any ideas?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkbranno (talk • contribs)
- You generally should not be removing content on a page about your company. You don't own the article. In fact, you ought to read Wikipedia's position on conflict of interest before you even touch the article. If the reference is incorrect, then start a discussion on the article's talk page with links to corrected information; someone else can then assess the changes that are needed. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- But the answer to your technical query is that references are edited in the section where they are used, not where they are displayed. --ColinFine (talk) 19:59, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
What are these watchlist notices?
There are a couple of watchlist notices currently DC edit-a-thon and Legislative Data Workshop that are not the same watchlist notice that can be found at MediaWiki:Watchlist-details. What page deals with the former notices? Ryan Vesey 16:39, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I see only one watchlist notice about a proposal regarding WebCite. That is also the only notice I see at MediaWiki:Watchlist-details. I know that this isn't a very helpful response, but that's all I can say at the moment. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 19:21, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- It's gone for me now too. When it appears, it exists above "Watchlist options and notices" rather than in the box and is written in large font gray text. Ryan Vesey 19:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Interestingly, I checked for changes in the MediaWiki namespace since it disappeared and there haven't been any relevant ones. I think it comes and goes more or less (and there's an option to hide it, like a site banner). I'll try to take a screenshot next time. Ryan Vesey 19:36, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Also save the HTML source of the page, as there may be clues in comments or in the names of the HTML elements nearby. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:05, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Interestingly, I checked for changes in the MediaWiki namespace since it disappeared and there haven't been any relevant ones. I think it comes and goes more or less (and there's an option to hide it, like a site banner). I'll try to take a screenshot next time. Ryan Vesey 19:36, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- It's gone for me now too. When it appears, it exists above "Watchlist options and notices" rather than in the box and is written in large font gray text. Ryan Vesey 19:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- It's a Wikipedia:Geonotice from MediaWiki:Geonotice.js. It's displayed to you because your IP address appears to be in the DC area. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:13, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Is it okay to upload a non-free image for an AfC article?
I'm writing an article and want to use a non-free logo that identifies the subject. Am I allowed to upload this logo for an article that's still in-progress at Wikipedia:Articles for creation? Flumpu (talk) 17:29, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Non-free images are not allowed outside of the article namespace so no. It's a bit of a burden, but it's an important one (otherwise non-free images might remain in AfC in articles that aren't passed or finished). You can upload the logo as soon as the page is moved. Ryan Vesey 17:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Many company images are uploaded to commons because they are not eligible for copyright. See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:TOO You could see if it survives deletion review over there. If it is deleted than upload here as fair use.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:51, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- The logo certainly doesn't appear to be PD. Please don't suggest to people that they upload something to commons to "see if it survives deletion review". Nothing should be uploaded to commons unless the uploader knows it's PD. Ryan Vesey 17:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- I haven't seen the logo in question and I should have been more clear. What many do is upload them and then ask if they are PD or not. I have actually tagged some of my uploads for deletion review just to insure they have consensus as opposed to yes/no responses from commons/pump/copyright.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:30, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Porn stars
Can we see porn stars nude and see celebritys nude — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.108.115.47 (talk) 18:18, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- You would probably have to ask them very nicely, and see what they say. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:34, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- This is Wikipedia. Try www.boobpedia.com and click on "Celebrities".--Shantavira|feed me 20:41, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Renata Adler. In the non-fiction section. Correction.
After "without proof." (footnote 8) insert
"Adler rebutted that accusation in an article "Court of No Appeal" published in Harper's magazine, August 2000." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.9.222.104 (talk) 20:35, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- [Removed leading space for readability] ~Okay... so fix it! ;) This help desk is here to help you do that. If you have questions relating to editing please feel free to ask. ~Regards,~Eric — Preceding helpful comment added by 74.60.29.141 (talk) 20:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- The syntax for that would be:
<ref>Adler rebutted that accusation in an article "Court of No Appeal" published in ''Harper's magazine'', August 2000.</ref>
- It would be good to include a link to the article, if possible. ~I hope this helps, ~Eric — Preceding good-faith comment added by 74.60.29.141 (talk) 21:12, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Help deleting multiple confusing articles about the same person
Hi, can someone please help me to delete two pages and keep the correct version. The articles I'm talking about are these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_T._Sehlberg and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_sehlberg&redirect=no
The Correct article should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_T._Sehlberg without an redirect as it is right now.
I'm new to this so would be glad if someone could help med doing this.Ovetove (talk) 20:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- The article titles policy reminds us that article titles should be recognisable, natural, precise, concise and consitent. Further, we are told that "[t]he most common name for a subject, as determined by its prevalence in reliable English-language sources, is often used as a title because it is recognizable and natural". Our one and only article on Dan Sehlberg has the title Dan Sehlberg, which matches the source in that article. To help readers of the encyclopaedia, we often provide alternate titles as redirects, which is an editing guideline. In this particular case, there are at least two alternate titles, Dan T. Sehlberg and Dan sehlberg, which redirect to Dan Sehlberg. This is normal Wikipedia practice --Senra (talk) 21:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Problem with math symbols on Win 8 with IE
I recently bought an HP laptop running Windows 8, browser Internet Explorer. When I open Wickipedia's articles on mathematics, the math symbols displayed are only barely readable if you know what to be looking for. They are very fuzzy and seem made up of dots. Is there something I can change in my machine or in Wickipedia to have its math symbols cleanly displayed? Any advice appreciated. Novice31 (talk) 22:19, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Help:Displaying a formula may provide some guidance. For example, you could try the MathJax renderer (which requires JavaScript) by selecting it in your preferences. You have not told us the model of your laptop nor any specific page or pages that are displaying the problem for you. It is my understanding that the standard math tags (which most of Wikipedia uses) display math symbols fine on most modern browsers, including Internet Explorers 9 and 10. Perhaps it is an incorrect display setting? --Senra (talk) 22:51, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Further information. Your preferences page has three settings in the math section as follows
- Always render PNG (default which is what I use on Safari; works great on iPad and iPhone too!)
- Leave it as TeX (for text browsers)
- MathJax (experimental; best for most browsers)
- --Senra (talk) 23:15, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Further information. Your preferences page has three settings in the math section as follows
Previewing a redirect edit (again)
Back last April I ran upon a problem with edit mode for a redirect not showing included templates and categories. Well, I've hit it again, but this time I think I've isolated a type of situation where it occurs: Yesterday I edited two redirects that had absolutely nothing but the #REDIRECT statement in them, added an "R from" template and did a preview. The results showed no categories (hidden or visible) nor any list of included templates. Saving the results and re-editing the redirects then showed everything the way it should be. Comments? Suggestions? Cbbkr (talk) 22:43, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Try asking at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 22:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Missing up/down arrows on sortable table
Hi! I've created a sortable table, and I can't get the up/down arrows to show up in the header row. I looked in different places to find info about it but have come up short. Could someone help me troubleshoot or fix this problem? The table is on my sandbox page. Thanks! -- BroJohnE (talk) 23:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- You can do this by changing the table class to
class="wikitable sortable"
. You have to make sure that the values in the table are properly formatted to allow sorting though, and there are sorting templates you can use in the table to make things easier. See Help:Sorting for a more detailed description. Chamal T•C 01:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)- I had already consulted the page you mentioned and built the table accordingly. The table works. I can sort with no trouble. The only problem is that there are no up/down arrows in the header row to show that the columns are sortable. Please go to my sandbox page and check it out for yourself :-) -- BroJohnE (talk) 15:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
how to do a block entry for an article
I am trying to do a major upgrade to a Wikipedia article as an assignment in my undergraduate science class. I find the material i have seen so far to be very confusing and dominated by text editing issues, which distract from the content. I would like to let the class create an article that can essentially replace the present one as a single entry. Are there instructions how to do this? Max Snodderly (talk) 23:03, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- It is not clear to me what you are trying to do. If an article needs a major upgrade, I don't think a classful of undergraduates are the right people to do it. And do you plan to have them all editing the same article at the same time? That sounds like a recipe for chaos.
- I assume your main objective is to teach your students about editing, rather than teach them about the relevant science. If I am right, what might be sensible is to have each member of the class create an account; have them each copy an article (all the same article, or all different articles, as you choose) into their own sandbox; and have them each try to improve the version in their sandbox. Once you have vetted the results, you could decide which of their changes merited being applied to the real live article. Maproom (talk) 23:23, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- And generally, see advice for school and university projects.--ukexpat (talk) 02:20, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Do recognize, with the method suggested above, that someone else can edit the article after you have copied it, and you would need to keep track of what time you copied the original. If you want to update the live version of the article, and there have been edits by others since (based on timestamps on the history page), you would need to merge their edits with yours instead of just copying the article back again. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:02, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
March 2
Requesting peer review confusion.
I would like to request a peer review. While looking at the the article I have created, I clicked the "talk" tab. I added the bracketed PR tag to the top and saved. The result is "This template should be substituted on the article talk page. Lazerbeans (talk) 04:10, 2 March 2013 (UTC)"
I am stuck on the step of the "notice" I am to follow. I can't seem to figure this out and I feel inept. I must be. I don't see what to do next.
Thanks! Lazerbeans — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lazerbeans (talk • contribs) 04:28, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
You need to add {{subst:PR}} to the talk page. See WP:SUBSTITUTION.--ukexpat (talk) 04:39, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I think the problem is that you're jumping the gun a bit. Currently, it is a User talk page (it is not an article yet) - I believe the next step is to submit it. (use "Submit this page" link on the page). ~:74.60.29.141 (talk) 04:52, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you! {Lazerbeans (talk) 15:19, 2 March 2013 (UTC)}
I have tow E-mail
I have to E- mail bat all the tow not work first E- [details removed] the ather is [details removed] I don't now way not open I live in Holland bat now in athier contrary this may telefoon [details removed]I hoop to send my niew basword
greting al-majahi
I wil make now E-mail — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.255.167.118 (talk) 06:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I think that you saw an article in Wikipedia and thought that Wikipedia might be able to help regarding the subject of an article. You should be aware that Wikipedia itself is not connected to the topics of the articles. This page is only for asking questions about Wikipedia. If you have any other problem unrelated to Wikipedia, you could ask your question at some other site like Yahoo! Answers or Answers.com. Good luck! Ushau97 talk contribs 07:43, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I have removed the email addresses from your post here, as this page is regularly indexed by search engines. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:35, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Page: Lodhian Khas, Title & Place Name needs correction
Hello, the page "Lodhian Khas" should be renamed as "Lohian Khas" the real name of the place and it can be verified from the picture of Indian Railways, Railway station of this place. [2] [3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apsmatharu (talk • contribs) 13:33, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Citations behind paywalls
The article Weaning cites a reference of http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2011-02-07#folio=026 which requires a subscription to view. This doesn't seem very satisfactory to me as it's not easy to verify. Is there any Wikipedia policy on this situation? Lineslarge (talk) 13:56, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Not an official policy, but relevant information can be found here. FrigidNinja 14:27, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- WP:RX may help as well but you may need email turned on.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:33, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks guys, that's useful
- See WP:PAYWALL. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:43, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks guys, that's useful
- WP:RX may help as well but you may need email turned on.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:33, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Upload
I've tried three times today to upload a logo. I don't get an error, but it didn't work. Has anyone else had trouble uploading to Wikipedia today?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:50, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Everything seems to be working fine for me. FrigidNinja 19:50, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I figured it out, the file had an extension .png but it was a .jpg. I'm disappointed it didn't give me an error message. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 20:56, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
wiki evaluation tool
how do i get to the wiki evaluation tool? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.192.147.73 (talk) 17:46, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
A personal problem
I was joking about my friend and I didn't release how to delet what I write so pleas delete . it the first time and last time we do that.
this is the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janti
"janti is also a person that Live's in Kfar Kama Isreal. He is a circassion guy, He have a red heir." — Preceding unsigned comment added by JJANTI (talk • contribs) 19:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
I added info and now want to remove it.
I put in the date of Doreen Kimura's death. It was accurate information. However, the whole article looked different as a result. Then I attempted to remove it. However, that didn't work, either. I would like help to simply remove it and let someone else add her death date. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Treewithroots (talk • contribs) 20:44, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- I reverted your edit. The links above should find any RS on her passing.--Canoe1967 (talk) 20:49, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Template parameter test categories
I was wondering if making edits to templates to allow a temporarily test to see which articles use certain parameters was allowed or discouraged. I've asked the question in more detail here, and any feedback would be appreciated! --xensyriaT 20:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- You need to discuss on the template talk. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:38, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Unintended behavior of display of maintenance category
Something is messed up with the categorization mechanism of Template:File page NFCC concerns tag. For example, I tagged File:71st Airmobile Brigade Emblem Greece.jpg on 2013-02-15, but it seems the monthly maintenance category displayed on the file page was automatically updated from Category:Non-free files lacking a non-free use rationale as of February 2013 to Category:Non-free files lacking a non-free use rationale as of March 2013. All files tagged in February are still shown in Category:Non-free files lacking a non-free use rationale as of February 2013, however (which is correct). How can I achieve that the monthly category on the file page displays correctly and isn't automatically incremented to the next month? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 21:18, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- There was no timestamp in the addition of the tag [4]. Many other files are also missing a timestamp. In addition, it's strange that Template:File page NFCC concerns tag is coded to use a
date
orday
,month
andyear
parameter to generate a dated category, but atimestamp
parameter to compute when 7 days have passed. Only one way to specify the date should be required. You mention "the monthly maintenance category" but if the day of the month is given then the day is included in the category name. Is that intentional? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:49, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- @xensyria I intentionally didn't design the template to be substituted because I don't think that a maintenance template such as this one should be substituted at all. I remember (if my memory doesn't fool me) that someone objected to me substituting such templates in the past. I could change it, if this were desired, though. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 22:26, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I see; as PrimeHunter says, it's much better to have a single parameter to specify the date. For ease and simplicity, and since day, month and year are all needed, I would prefer a timestamp, using the second parameter rather than a named field. I'll take a look at it in more detail later. --xensyriaT 14:12, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- UPDATE: I've made a few alterations to the template's sandbox, and continued the discussion on Toshio's talkpage. --xensyriaT 15:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Beggars Belief
I tried to create an article and unfortunately it was rejected. But what I would like answered is --> How come it says: "Declined by Nonsenseferret 0 seconds ago. Last edited by Nonsenseferret 0 seconds ago." even though it was more than 0 seconds ago. No matter how many times I refresh the page this doesnt change and that seems a bit fishy to me... I don't know what to believe now. One user told me it's a template glitch... A TEMPLATE GLITCH????
This is an absolute disgrace; how can something as simple as the time be so wrong. It just beggars belief.
This need to be sorted asap... ie NOW. How can this be done; so people dont end up thinking time is going really slow for them or something? Thanks Username talkpage (talk) 22:29, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- The template refreshes itself regularly. Has nothing to do with you refreshing your browser. It's not very important to keep these things up to date, and so the template may refresh in batches to save resources. Thanks Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 23:02, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Appreciate the reply, but its an absolute disgrace. LalaLAND (talk) 23:10, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- Note that this user had their username changed, and there is nothing illegitimate about that :) gwickwiretalkediting 23:12, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- thanks gwickwire, I forgot to clarify that! LalaLAND (talk) 23:18, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- You can "refresh" (regenerate) the page by purging it. This will update the time. Our servers run the sixth most visited website on a relatively small budget. For performance reasons we don't regenerate a page each time it's viewed. We cache it when it's edited or purged, and in certain other situations, and then display the cached version to readers. It said "0 seconds ago" because the page was cached when it was edited to decline it, so it really was 0 seconds when the page was generated. But you have a point this is confusing. Many experienced users know about things like page caching and purging, but Articles for Creation is aimed at new users. Tomorrow when I have better time, I may make a suggestion that if the calculated time is less than 1 hour or so then it should have a purge link saying "(click here to update time)", or something like that. If you really want to avoid the purge issue then you could donate a few million dollars to our servers. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:16, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- As far as "absolute disgrace" and "beggars belief" (whatever that means), you would do well to tone down the rhetoric. You're picking a fairly small nit in the scheme of things, and doing it before an audience largely made up of volunteer editors, just like you. If you don't believe or understand why what you wrote is offensive, you need to take a breath and read some of WP:5 and WP:PG before continuing here. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- See wikt:beggar belief, AlanM1. But I had the same reaction to the rhetoric as you did. --ColinFine (talk) 20:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- As far as "absolute disgrace" and "beggars belief" (whatever that means), you would do well to tone down the rhetoric. You're picking a fairly small nit in the scheme of things, and doing it before an audience largely made up of volunteer editors, just like you. If you don't believe or understand why what you wrote is offensive, you need to take a breath and read some of WP:5 and WP:PG before continuing here. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
March 3
INCORRECT IDENTIFICATION PICTURES OF THE INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRIC CIGARETTE, HERBERT A. GILBERT THE PATENT DRAWINGS ARE CORRECT THE PICTURES ARE NOT.
I AM THE HERBERT A. GILBERT WHO INVENTED AND PATENTED THE ELECTRIC CIGARETTE. THE PATENT WAS ISSUED TO ME IN 1965. I AM STILL ALIVE AND SHOWING PICTURES OF MY PATENT DRAWING ALONG WITH TWO OR THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF OTHER PEOPLE, SOME OF WHOM ARE DEAD, IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. I HAVE TRIED TO GET THIS CORRECTED AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED. EITHER SHOW PICTURES OF MY PATENT WITH NO PICTURES OR SHOW PICTURES OF MY PATENT DRAWING WITH A PICTURE OF ME. IF THIS CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED, PLEASE REMOVE THE PICTURES OF MY PATENT DRAWINGS. DO YOU WISH ME TO PROVIDE A CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH AND IF SO PLEASE GIVE ME INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW I CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS. THANK YOU.76.109.132.2 (talk) 00:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- First, PLEASE STOP SHOUTING. Thank you. Second, what article are you referring too? Electronic cigarette does not have any picture of inventors, or patent drawing for that matter. The only Herbert Gilbert article is an Australian rugby player, who does not appear to be you. Rwessel (talk) 00:18, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- I have also been unable to find the page you refer to. Electronic cigarette mentions your patent but the image you describe is not there or in commons:Category:Electronic cigarettes. Please post a link to the page or image. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- OP claims difficulty seeing. I've provided hints on how to increase text size.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 19:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
June Amrie Kimple
hi name is june amrie kimpel a songwriter since age 6 years and writer to books and other poeple ive written for n ancy ive written for nancy reagan and otger s were mine im an author and creator to many business and own the world ove them wal amrt and kmart. 7-11 dominos and uno bradlees and caldors and others and what you do with this info is up to you. my mailing address is june marie kimpel (redacted). thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.208.66 (talk) 00:10, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi June. Congrats for doing all those things. I suggest you learn how to proofread the things you write. That means you read them after you finish writing, find any mistakes, then fix them. This will make your writing much better. StuRat (talk) 01:19, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Help in Articles
Dear Sir/ Madam,
I wish to contribute to Wikipedia. It is an excellent website and I frequent it to learn new things. It will be an honour to serve the website. I am willing to do this for free as Knowledge is free.
I hope I will get a chance.
Thank you.
Nithya Chidam — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.164.185.18 (talk) 04:13, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Broken wikicode on User:Wing gundam
Hey all, why is my user page broken?? When I expand my UserBox Box, the section headers don't move, and end up nastily covering most of the content. I've seen it UserBoxBoxes work before, and I copied the code exactly as written! What am I doing wrong?
Thanks! —wing gundam 08:08, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
By the way, they're hosted on User:wing gundam/UBX. But they still appear broken on that page. —wing gundam 08:10, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- On a hunch I've added a {{clear}} between each group of userboxes, and that seems to have worked. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:50, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
false information
Related map(File:Kashgari map.jpg) is used as a prove for false information .Following information is fabricated in this page below map(Kurdistan) :
"showing Arḍ al-Akrād Arabic for land of Kurds located between Arḍ al-Šām (Syria), and Arḍ al-ʿIrāqayn (Iraq Arabi and Iraq Ajami)."
This map doesnt contain any information regarding any ethnic population "kurd/kurdistan" this is the original and only official source of this map:"http://www.hgk.msb.gov.tr/ustbanner/turk/kasgarlimahmud.htm"
Also rest of the maps are false without any appropriate source.
The entire content of this page are illegal and incorrect therefore its fabricated.There was no state of kurdistan in entire world history. The entire document is for the political propaganda for terrorist organization of PKK (well known by the us government)
Please remove this entire document from your server/s.
Thank you . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.67.162 (talk) 09:06, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Can you explain why you consider one map "official" and the other not?
- You say the entire content of the page is illegal. What law, of what country, do you believe is broken?
- The map to which you object is several hundred years old, it cannot be the work of the PKK. Maproom (talk) 11:38, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
hannah waddingham
she also was a member and singer in the beautifule game musical in londen about 1990, she had a superb role . this is not mentioned in wikipedia!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.249.194.94 (talk) 09:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Please see here to request an article. Thanks. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 11:06, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- The question is not about the presence or absence of an article. It is about some content not being included in the article about the subject. The article is located here. If anyone came up with a reliable source about this musical in London during the '90s and is notable enough, please add it per IP's request. 77.249.194.94 (no offense) please feel free to add it yourself if you think it needs to be included per Wikipedia's notability guideline and you have a good source for citing. Ushau97 talk contribs 12:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
create account
I have account in Telugu Wikipedia and other Wikipedia sites as,Palagiri.But not able to create in En.wiki with the same name. But I think there was already a member with the same name in English Wikipedia,I am not able to create account as Palagiri. How can I have my account as palagiri in English Wkipedia too117.200.19.28 (talk) 09:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, it does look like someone with the username Palagiri exists on the English Wikipedia, but the account has no contributions. You could try to usurp the username here. - a boat that can float! (watch me float) 12:09, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
About Wasa Entrainment in disambiguation page Wasa
I tried to google that but found nothing except an almost empty website[5]. Should that exist in that page?--Inspector (talk) 11:34, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- User:Maproom have already removed the link.--Ushau97 talk contribs 12:20, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Wrong image for " 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash "
The image shown in the top of the article is not for the same balloon The balloon that crashed is SU-283 and this is a photo for it that shows the registration number perfectly http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/7/0/1673070.jpg
And the image in the article doesn't have any color match balloon with the one in the photo So please change the photo
Link of the article : 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.55.159.208 (talk) 11:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the terms of use of airliners.net (point 4. is what matters here) is incompatible with a use on Wikipedia. The image here could only be used under a fair use claim and would need to satisfy our non-free content policy. I would argue that this use would not satisfy point 8 of the non-free content policy, so it cannot be used. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 12:08, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- File:Luxor hot air balloon D.jpg third from the left looks like the same one in the rights protected photo. Should we use this image?--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:45, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yes this is the right balloon but i recommend to use this image http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Dazbo5/IMG_0315_zps51f6381c.jpg
- Because it shows the registration number clearly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.55.23.164 (talk) 16:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- We cannot use that image unless we can confirm that it is licensed appropriately.--ukexpat (talk) 16:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- I emailed the rights holder of a better image here. If we suck up and give them a category in commons then we may be able to get use of more of their images. The site itself may be worthy of an article if it doesn't have one already. I cropped and brightened the image we do have of the correct balloon for now.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:18, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- We cannot use that image unless we can confirm that it is licensed appropriately.--ukexpat (talk) 16:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
music download
Are music downloads free on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.125.173 (talk) 12:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Any music which you find on Wikipedia can be freely downloaded and played. If you download it and publish it, you will in some cases be obliged to acknowledge its source. Maproom (talk) 13:02, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Please help
I am new to Wikipedia and I want to contribute in articles on Nazis and that stuff. Any place on Wikipedia to ask for information and some kind of friendly place to ask on how to use Wikipedia? Thank you indeed. Americanxx (talk) 12:56, 3 March 2013 (UTC) I came here to create the article on Albert Woolson the last living survivor of the American Civil War, but it already exists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Americanxx (talk • contribs) 13:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- You could ask questions about editing Wikipedia at the Teahouse. You can find pages that needs to be improved at the Community portal. For an introduction to Wikipedia, see this page. If you want to edit articles related to a particular topic you might like to join a WikiProject. --Ushau97 talk contribs 13:11, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- The editors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History may have suggestions. RJFJR (talk) 15:07, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Where do I go.....
to get someone to critique and advise and make suggestions on an article I have "under constuction" (in a sandbox)??? ```Buster Seven Talk 13:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don't think there is an established process to address your exact situation (I doubt articles for creation or Teahouse is the place for you considering your experience, and peer review is for "live" articles). Your best bet would be to try at a related Wikiproject. If that doesn't work, you could try to find some editors who have written or significantly contributed to similar articles and ask for their help. Chamal T•C 14:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
How do I disable donation message keeping cookies disabled
Since cookies on my browser are disabled, wikipedia shows a big message seeking donation on the top of every wikipedia page I visit. This is quite harassing. Is it a good policy to show that message to each and every user? Yes, it is. May be that you make that message permanent but shorter and less catchy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.197.248.40 (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- If you create an account you can turn it off. See Wikipedia:Why create an account? for advantages of having an account. If you create an account and login then you can go to the preferences tab and under 'gadgets' (in the broswer section) there is a check box you can check to suppress the donations message. RJFJR (talk) 15:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the OP will not be able to stayed logged in with cookies turned off... -- John of Reading (talk) 20:31, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
IMDb Plagiarizing Your Movie Plot or Vice Versa
Hi, I didn't really come here to ask a question, but can't find anywhere else to click to report a possible fraud.
Your Plot for the movie "The Master" is EXACTLY THE SAME as the Synopsis of the same movie at IMDb. Either your contributory writer has plagiarized the writer's synopsis of "The Master" at IMDb - or the writer at IMDb is plagiarizing your plot. I tried to look for any indication that your source was from IMDb, but couldn't find any (maybe I missed it?); didn't see any indication in the IMDb website either that their source was taken from Wikipedia.
You need to check on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.204.130.41 (talk) 15:39, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Looking at the page history and the apparent time of the synopsis on IMDb, it'd appear both appeared at around the same time. So yes, it could be IMDb copying from Wikipedia, or it could be Wikipedia copying from IMDb, or it could be the same author posting on both. Scanning over the history did not lead me to any conclusions. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 17:54, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Uploading new version of a logo
I'm trying to upload an updated version of the logo for the Australian Open tennis tournament.
The current file is Australian_Open_logo.svg. The updated version is a jpeg file. When I select "Upload a new version of this file", click the "Choose file" button and select the new logo an error message appears: "File extension ".svg" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (image/jpeg)." and it will not allow the update. Any advice on how to proceed?--Wolbo (talk) 15:45, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- If the logo is outdated in the article it should be replaced. If .jpg is the easiest then just upload that one as a new file and have the other one speedy deleted.--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:12, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Climate change in Kiribati
Hi! I joined up today and want to create article Climate change in Kiribati or something like that. Can I receive the help of some user who handles English better and wants to help me make the article? And my second question is, I want to make a beautiful userpage, where can I find the flag of Kiribati to put it waving on my user page? Thank you and May God Bless You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by I Kiribati Islander (talk • contribs) 17:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Please use the articles for creation process so that you can create a draft and have it reviewed by other users.--ukexpat (talk) 17:58, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- For a flag, you can use the {{flag}} or {{Flagicon}} templates. For example,
{{flag|Kiribati|size=32px}}
→ Kiribati -and-{{flagicon|Kiribati|size=64px}}
→ - However, for a "waving" flag, you'll need to find or upload an animated GIF.
- ~I hope this helps, ~Eric F 74.60.29.141 (talk) 20:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- For assistance on an article relating to Micronesia (including Kiribati) you might want to sign-up with WikiProject Micronesia, and check with folks over there. ~:74.60.29.141 (talk) 21:09, 3 March 2013 (UTC):~
Mission statements
I do not see guidance on whether Mission statements are considered appropriate for an article about a company. Does anyone know if this is covered by policy or guideline?
I see suggestions that they are not desired for schools, and this is on point, but not real definitive.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 19:18, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- To my mind they are a form of promotion, so unacceptable window dressing for companies and schools (whose missions really are to make money for shareholders and to educate people, respectively), but probably OK for non-profits and charities who usually do have a specific target.--ukexpat (talk) 04:21, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- Don't know that there's a consensus, but they are useless jingoistic crap that doesn't belong in an article about a company.—Kww(talk) 04:31, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Stan Bowles and Brian Brendan Wright
Hope you are the right people to contact re this. I have posted on Wikipedia under the name rushcrew, on two of your reports. Stan Bowles and Brian Brendan Wright. In both cases I was trying to correct errors. Each time I posted I was told I was wrong by my " overlord " C. Fred. This was done in a very ignorant way and even when I provided book references I was told I was wrong, or worse made to feel inferior, and ignored. I suggest someone looks at the points I made and get back. I am a pensioner and am not used to being treated this way. I know both of the above personally and I was trying to make Wikipedia more factually correct, Thank you for your time in reading this. If you are not the right department could you forward this to the right deparment. Thanks in advance. Peter Brockbank — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rushcrew (talk • contribs) 19:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- I am sorry you felt C. Fred was making you wrong. I do not know anything about the subject, but looking at the edits to Stan Bowles it appears to me that he or she was quite right. I understand that you inserted information from your personal knowledge, but the problem for Wikipedia is that a reader now or in the future must be able to verify the information if they wish; otherwise they have no way of telling what is reliable. If you can find a book or newspaper that contains the information, you are welcome to add it, with a proper citation; but C. Fred was right to remove information that you inserted citing only your own knowledge. Sorry. --ColinFine (talk) 20:32, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
inaccurate facts about Benoit Charest
Benoît Charest (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I would like to set the record straight about inaccurate info on the Benoit Charest page. The info keeps re-appering. How do i proceed to set things straight? thank you Greenrectifier (talk) 21:05, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- The talk page of the article would be a good place to discuss what is inaccurate. If possible, list the reliable sources that provide the accurate information. The talk page of the article is located at Talk:Benoît Charest.
- Using an edit summary to explain your edits may also help to make it more likely that they don't get reverted. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:13, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Fancy stuff
How do you put fancy stuff into articles? Like blue links, boxes, etc? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Penetrationxxx (talk • contribs) 21:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Start here, and then here. WP:MOS, WP:IBX and Help:Infobox for information on infoboxes. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 21:38, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- For a tutorial about lots-o-stuff (some fancy, some not) check out: Wikipedia:Tutorial. ~:74.60.29.141 (talk) 21:59, 3 March 2013 (UTC):~
- Help:Cheatsheet may help as well.--Canoe1967 (talk) 22:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Also: putting
{{quicktemplates}}
on your userpage[create] will get...
- Also: putting
- Help:Cheatsheet may help as well.--Canoe1967 (talk) 22:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- For a tutorial about lots-o-stuff (some fancy, some not) check out: Wikipedia:Tutorial. ~:74.60.29.141 (talk) 21:59, 3 March 2013 (UTC):~
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- Copying existing usage can work well once you understand the basics of wiki language and editing as described in the links above. Find an existing article with the feature you want and click on the View Source or Edit tab (taking care not to save any edits accidentally). Then search through the edit window for words near the feature you want to use to find the code that produces it.
For example, if you were looking at Talk:Istanbul#Infobox image, and wanted to know how to produce the collapsible green box that is titled "Infobox image options, at 250px width", you would go to that page and click on the Edit tab at the top (or, better yet, the [Edit] link on the right side of that section). Then, use your browser to search for "Infobox image options, at 250px width" in the edit window. You'll find this line:{{cot|title=Infobox image options, at 250px width}}
- followed by a {{Gallery}} and a {{cob}}. The {{cot}} and {{cob}} produce the collapsible box and the {{Gallery}} organizes the images within it. You can look at the pages for those templates (i.e. at Template:cot (actually a redirect to Template:Collapse top)) for documentation on using them. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:32, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Copying existing usage can work well once you understand the basics of wiki language and editing as described in the links above. Find an existing article with the feature you want and click on the View Source or Edit tab (taking care not to save any edits accidentally). Then search through the edit window for words near the feature you want to use to find the code that produces it.
- Oops! — It looks like Penetrationxxx has been blocked indefinitely; oh well... some useful info for others (?) ~:74.60.29.141 (talk) 23:49, 3 March 2013 (UTC):~
hi my name is rosario i work for commack motor inn we have a problem with facebook we have many username i wanna delete everything just keep inn because nobody can enter to are facebook please i need your help thank you., — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.244.180 (talk) 21:46, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 million articles and thought we were 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 for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about 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.Template:Z25 FrigidNinja 22:48, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- You could try asking your question at the Facebook Help Center.
March 4
STILL no Pacific drift band page..?
This page should not be speedily deleted because I was told that while there was a Wimple Winch addition there was not a Pacific Drift page despite being practically the same band AND more successful too! So 2 days ago i took it apon myself to rectify this. however I checked it today & receive this message- "This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 17:12, 24 February 2013 INeverCry (talk | contribs) deleted page Pacific Drift (A7: Article about an eligible subject, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject)" despite the fact that this is a band that had a record deal & are having a series of CD reissues out in the summer. How do I reinstate my contribution or ask another to do their own? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merseymale (talk • contribs)
- Hi Merseymale. The reason that your article was deleted was because, unfortunately the band did not meet our notability criteria. A7 means that, even though the subject was eligible for inclusion in Wikipedia, your article failed to indicate why they were important/significant. If you wish to rewrite the article, you can contact an administrator here to ask for a copy of the article in your userspace, so that you can continue working on it. You should also read this, as it may be the case that it is just too soon to write an article about Pacific Drift. FrigidNinja 22:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- Incidentally — Wikipedia does not have an article titled Wimple Winch. Maproom (talk) 22:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- It does now: Wimple Winch--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
The lost years of Jesus
On your site The lost years of Jesus, one of your contribitors a Edwin W. Reiner is incorrect, He states that Mary the mother of Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi. This is incorrect. In the new testament it plainly says that mary's blood cousin, we are told in the new testament, was Elisabeth, and she was of the tribe of Levi, which makes Mary the mother of Jesus a Levite, and by extension, as your say's that Jesus was not a levite wrong. Jesus' flesh birth mother was part levite. Please have your staff research this and correct it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.76.148.197 (talk) 00:44, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- On the article Lost years of Jesus (redirects to Unknown years of Jesus, I find no reference to your claims. No editor named Edwin W. Reiner has edited the article recently. Please clarify. Wikipedia is not ran by staff, it is edited by volunteers. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 01:29, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- The reference is to Reiner, Edwin W. (1971). The Atonement. Nashville: Southern Pub. Association. ISBN 0812700511. OCLC 134392. — relating to Page 140 ""And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph." Luke 3:23. But Christ, of course, did not belong to the Levitical priesthood. He had descended neither from Aaron nor from the tribe of Levi."
- 74.60.29.141 (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
errors on this page should be fixed.
Marist College Ashgrove is a Roman Catholic dayand boarding school for girls/ladies, located in Ashgrove, a northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The college has a primary school for students in grades 5 to 7, and a high school for gay students in grades 8 to 12.[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.135.146.89 (talk) 03:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- I undid one vandalism edit. If you spot other errors, please be bold and fix them. Also, when reporting an error, it helps if you say what the error is. RudolfRed (talk) 03:21, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- I assume you meant "day students" and not "gay students"? Why would you say it's a girls' school when the article and the school's website specifically state it's a boys' school? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 04:50, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
This user is currently blocked: Penetrationxxx. I'm wondering why Special:Contributions/Penetrationxxx doesn't show any edits. But, they've made at least one unreverted edit, a question here on the help desk. Are contributions from blocked users hidden? The talk page for the account is still visable. RudolfRed (talk) 03:16, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- As an admin I can see 7 edits. They all say "[username or IP address removed – edit hidden from contributions]". See [6] for the help desk edit. Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Changing visibility settings says: "Hiding a username will remove the contribution completely from the user's contributions list (except from administrators, who will see a warning indicating it is invisible to users)". PrimeHunter (talk) 03:40, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
It's a questionable use of revision deletion. I've started a discussion with the admin that did it.—Kww(talk) 03:55, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Aimee Sun Picture
Hello,
My name is Claudia and I work as Aimee Sun's executive assistant. Aimee would like her wiki page photo to be changed. Could you please help us in doing that?
Thank you so much! Claudia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.36.62.21 (talk) 05:11, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- Upload the image onto Wikipedia and simply link it into the article. Click here to upload a file. If you need help with editing, please come back here after you have uploaded the picture. Or simple replace 'AmySunPhoto.jpg' with the name of the image you uploaded. Please make sure that the image you upload is not copyrighted, or if it is, obtain and give permission for this image to be used according to the policy. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 05:30, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- It probably will be copyrighted unless it was published before 1923 or the photographer placed it in the public domain. The easiest way would be to have the rights holder upload it themselves or put it on flickr with a Creative Commons licence CC-by-3.0 and we can upload it for you.--Canoe1967 (talk) 05:40, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- Note, the old photo was deleted from the article as being a copyright infringment. I'd also like to thank you for asking on the help page. as Aimee Sun's executive assistant, you have a large Conflict of Interest in regards to changes on her article, so asking others to make changes is the best way to go. (please read the Wikipedia Policy on Conflict of Interest.Naraht (talk) 11:35, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- It probably will be copyrighted unless it was published before 1923 or the photographer placed it in the public domain. The easiest way would be to have the rights holder upload it themselves or put it on flickr with a Creative Commons licence CC-by-3.0 and we can upload it for you.--Canoe1967 (talk) 05:40, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Expanding an existing entry
I am something of a Wikinovice, though I managed to find my way through the organisation's complex rules and post a 1000-word article without any disasters. Now I'd like to get stuck into the research for a second project. The subject I've identified is presently covered on Wikipedia by an extremely superficial entry (less thasn 150 words) and needs a lot of editing and expansion. Under Wikietiquette, am I allowed simply to add the material I have assembled to this existing entry? Or do I have to ask someone's permission? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CORREZE (talk • contribs) 07:29, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- No, you don't need permission, as the usual rule here is "Be bold!". Make the changes, and see if anyone objects; if anyone does, use the talk page to discuss what should be done. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:37, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)Nobody owns any of the articles on Wikipedia and everyone is welcome to contribute, so if you think you can improve an article, go ahead and edit it. Just make sure your edits conform to Wikipedia guidelines and policies including neutrality and verifiability. Of course, if somebody disagrees with your edits you will need to discuss it with them, but you don't really need to ask anybody's permission. Chamal T•C 07:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- Don't take it personally if some of your edits get reverted - that tends to happen, especially with inexperienced editors. You'll have better luck if you be sure to explain your edits in the Edit summary - especially if you cite your information to reliable sources. ~Good luck, and happy editing! ~Eric F 74.60.29.141 (talk) 09:46, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
problem with my password
hi I do have a problem with my password that you send me please help kind regards petter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.226.28.245 (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- What is your username? The account User:petter appears to have been created many years ago and I guess it isn't you. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- What if username is 'petter'? So what. Does Wiki just give out passwords if you ask from them? This is a
disgracescandal (if true). LalaLAND (talk) 13:35, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- What if username is 'petter'? So what. Does Wiki just give out passwords if you ask from them? This is a
- No, the password can only be sent to the email address, if any, that has been saved with the account. See Help:Logging in#What if I forget the password? for general advice. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:02, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Citing straight line distances on maps
I wish to use some straight line/great circle (as the crow flies) distance figures in an article, and have obtained them using the Google Maps distance calculator tool (part of the Maps Labs suite). Unfortunately, however, it seems that distances generated through this tool cannot be directly referenced by a link to Google Maps. I'm wondering what is the best way to get around this. Could I take a screenshot of the Google map with guidance as to which points are being measured so that others can go to the source and verify for themselves? Or is there some better way to cite straight line/great circle distances as measured on a map? Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 13:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Obtaining a list of articles containing the Infobox company template
I'd like to know if there is a way to get a list of all articles in which a certain template is used. In particular, I'm looking for all articles with the Infobox company template. I've tried a number of different ways, but so far without result. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Things I tried, unsuccessfully:
- Search the page source for "Infobox company". According to Help:Searching, "[t]he source text (as shown in the edit box) is searched for", but this did not have the expected outcome. So maybe I have been doing something wrong, or Help:searching is incorrect.
- Look for a list or category with pages in which the Infobox company template is used. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any.
GuyHill (talk) 13:38, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi GuyHill and welcome to Wikipedia. The easiest way to see the information you want is to go to the page of the template itself, Template:Infobox company, then on the lefthand navigation bar there is a section called "Toolbox". Within that section, click on "What links here". This will take you to a special page indicating all links to the article or template you just came from. To see the list that only includes transclusions (i.e. where the template is actually used), you should then click the buttons for "Hide links" and "Hide redirects".