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February 14

Kathleen Adams

Kathleen Adams is gia carangi's mother and i would appreciate it so much if you could create a page about her her. im sorry to bother you but im 16 years of age and since watch the film i can help but think about the affect it had on the world and the parent. im litterly loosing sleep about it. i would just love to have answers.

kind regards yolanta collins — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.204.96 (talk) 01:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

• Convenience link. Nyttend (talk) 02:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Relationships do not confer notability. I'm afraid simply being the mother of someone notable does not entitle someone a separate article.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 02:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Facebook pages created by Wikipedia

I work for a business/school that would like to start using social media (facebook) and I noticed that our school name page is already created and it appears to be from you.

I am not sure who created this and I didn't know if I needed to create a brand new account or since yours was already established and already has some fans if we could just use yours. Not sure what we need to do.

I can go in more dept with the name of the school and how to contact me if that would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.216.17.28 (talk) 01:31, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Facebook community pages may incorporate content from Wikipedia— such use complies with Wikipedia policies on reuse of content. We at Wikipedia have no control over how the content is included nor can we help to remove it. Facebook does have a topic on Community pages and profile connections on their Help Center.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 02:10, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

AfD Removal

I started an AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joey Curtis (2nd nomination)) and am now convinced that the subject is notable. So far there's only been 1 comment--a Keep. Can this AfD be removed? Thanks. Papaursa (talk) 02:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Just post Withdrawn by nom & Speedy close - No outstanding deletion votes, notability established. Dru of Id (talk) 03:09, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I have closed the AfD as nomination withdrawn. Best, Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 03:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Error on Leland, Iowa page

Sorry, I am pressed for time.

On: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland,_Iowa

The median income is reported as $8 million... and the average income for men is similarly out of whack.

You may want to fix it--it is the hometown of Iowa's Governor!

Charles Kick Honiara, Solomon Islands — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.1.164.211 (talk) 03:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed it. Thanks. RudolfRed (talk) 04:30, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Trevor Treharne

Can you please deleate the information "awards" information in a profile done about me please? None of it is true! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.193.203.34 (talk) 05:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Please provide us with the title of the article. The topologist (talk) 07:50, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Presumably Trevor Treharne (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs). -- John of Reading (talk) 08:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Add a new section to the Contents List

I would like to add South Africa to the History section in the Contents box on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Third_Age. Obviously there would then be supporting text in the body of the document. How do I do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.177.27.232 (talk) 07:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

University of the Third Age (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

The table of contents is automatically generated from the headings and sub-headings in the page. Just edit the page and add a new sub-heading, ===South Africa=== on a line by itself like the others. For more detail see Help:Section. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Glitch?

Theres a template in this section called "Hadith collections two". However when you click on the template it redirects to a different template called "Hadith collections". Is this some sort of glitch? Pass a Method talk 09:53, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. The name parameter is used to create the edit/view/discuss links. jonkerz ♠talk 10:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Not fixed. It seems like it was more complicated than I expected. I'll look into it. jonkerz ♠talk 10:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

There really is a bug. |name= is used for two different things by different templates. {{Hadith collections two}} sends the parameter to {{IslamNavigation}} which uses it to display: 1. the edit/view links via {{Navbar}} and 2. the template's title via its own code.

In my first fix ([1]) the links works, but the title is displayed as Hadith collections two. When I restored the name parameter ([2]), the links does not work, but the title looks like it should.

The problem is that {{IslamNavigation}} uses the name parameter to display the title. The name parameter should only be used for the template's name. jonkerz ♠talk 10:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I've created a new thread about this issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates#IslamNavigation. jonkerz ♠talk 10:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Translation Problem

There is an article in German (Wallhausen (bei Bad Kreuznach)) that I would like to read. When I attempt to read it in English, the article disappears. How can I see the full text of the article in English? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfreisem (talk • contribs) 09:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't disappear, the article is just shorter on the English Wikipedia. Translation has to be done by hand, so there is no quick way of reading German articles in English unless you use online translators such as Google Translate. Here are links to both versions: Wallhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate and de:Wallhausen (bei Bad Kreuznach). jonkerz ♠talk 10:05, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Keith Haring Infobox

I was on the page of Keith_Haring and aparantly there is something wrong with the infobox. Unfortunately I have no experience with them, so I don't know how to fix it. :-s Help?--Dianafl (talk) 13:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I have reverted the vandalism. Thank you for pointing it out. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Yep. Thanks! Facinatingpsychology (talk) 14:38, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Cool. Good to know it was something easy to fix.--Dianafl (talk) 14:38, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Untitled section about MRSA

Mrsa site (methacillin resistant stapholoccus) has copious information. I don't know how to search this (or I guess any) site for a particular word (in this case the word "bath). I expected my question to be an FAQ but I was wrong. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.253.214.66 (talk) 14:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Do you want to find all occurrences of the word "bath" on the page Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus? If you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can do this by pressing the control key (Ctrl) and F, then type "bath". jonkerz ♠talk 14:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Araldite English reverting

I uploaded a significant amount of new content to the English Araldite page last week, including following formatting rules and referencing. I also edited the French version. The French and English are exactly the same but the English appears to have reverted back to its old version. Can I please have some advice on what I am doing wrong as I followed all the rules. If possible, can I get a Wikipedia administrator to upload my text?Allaboutglue (talk) 14:26, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

The advice is on your talk page, and (from the last time you asked the question) at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 February 9#Glue. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:33, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Kudos for excellent work and standing your ground

I use wikipedea as the Encyclopedia Britannica of the Internet. I have sent a donation and want you to know that what you do does matter and is deeply appreciated. Thank you. No response is needed. Do let all know that we, the public, are very appreciative of your work and ethics.

Sincerely,

jhburch — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhburch2 (talk • contribs) 16:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Debating notability

Hello! I'm a little confused about why my article was declined for being non-notable. After reading the Guidelines on Notability, it seems like there is no reason for my topic (Diva Communications) to be declared non-notable.

There are many articles about similar NYC documentary filmmakers/companies in the same category with far fewer citations and references (e.g. Kino International, CinemaGuild). Diva has been around since 1985 and has made 14 films. Also, there is a Wikipedia page on one of their films (Yearning to Belong) that I link to. How can a page about a film have been deemed acceptable, but a page about the company who made that film not be? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajassistant (talk • contribs) 16:26, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I notice you have recently completely rewritten your draft article. It appears to me to be much improved and worthy of another look. Take a look at the history tab and find the people who previously reviewed it. I think it would be reasonable to invite them to review it again. Astronaut (talk) 16:38, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

But the answer to your last question is, very easily. If several reliable organs have written about the film, but for one reason or another had said nothing substantial about the company, then the film would be notable but the company would not be. --ColinFine (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikilinking as COI?

I've been asked (away from Keyboard) whether organized wikilinking your own organization is COI. This person is an advisor to an honor society and would like to go through all of the colleges and universities that *already list* the honor society and link it to the *existing* page for the honor society. Do they need to try to link all of the other listed honor societies in order for it to be acceptable? (My thought is no, but I'd like other opinions)Naraht (talk) 16:56, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I'd say that if you're wikilinking your own organization and not the "competition" that yes, it's a very petty form of COI editing (and just plain petty, besides). --Orange Mike | Talk 18:09, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

If they are in an article for an engineering college and all of these engineering honor societies are listed but not linked:

• Chi Epsilon
• Eta Kappa Nu
• Omega Chi Epsilon
• Phi Alpha Epsilon
• Pi Tau Sigma
• Tau Beta Pi

Say he works for Omega Chi Epsilon, it would be best if he linked all of those engineering honor societies not just Omega Chi Epsilon. It doesn't take much more time and it would improve the article. GB fan 18:16, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

The person is an advisor to the only honor society I can find in that field, so other honor societies are not viewed as competition. But I'll see if I can get him to keep the list of other Honor Societies in another windows so he'll know what to add.Naraht (talk) 19:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Although we do appreciate anything which improves the encyclopedia, it is always best if to ensure that everything you do is for the purpose of building an encyclopedia. Remember that Wikipedia articles will be written from a neutral point of view, so anything that you link to should not be written promotionally. I'm sure that this is not your intention, but do just remember that you cannot rely on Wikipedia for advertising. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 20:04, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm a more experienced editor than he is (he's just getting started), but (at least for now), he doesn't intend to add anything other than the brackets to wikilink the group to the already created page.Naraht (talk) 21:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I'd say that Wikilinking always improves Wikipedia (unless it's overlinking, of course). --ColinFine (talk) 23:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

For tasks such as fixing orphaned articles it's considered normal to search Wikipedia for every (relevant) occurrence of a phrase and wikilink them all; there is even a tool provided to do this. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:48, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

POSTING A DRAFT OF AN ARTICLE

What is the URL I use to post a draft article. I can find plenty of instructions about rules and regulations, but I don't see the link I should use to actually post something. THANKS 18:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)General1234 (talk) General1234

You can start at Wikipedia:Article wizard. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Or you can work on your draft in a subpage of your user space at User:General1234/Your article title. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:16, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

THANK YOU — Preceding unsigned comment added by General1234 (talk • contribs) 20:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Misspelled and apparently uneditable (by me) Category heading

As reflected in more than one article name under it, "Category:Latter Day Saint movement in Texas" should be "Category:Latter-day Saint movement in Texas", for the simplest correction.

Arguably, "Category:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas" would be even better, and what I would bet church members would prefer. (I'm a Catholic living in Utah.) The latter change would mean removing the YFZ Ranch article, to which the heading would then clearly not apply. To my mind, "movement" is a truly strange word in this heading, and adds unnecessary ambiguity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeTSLC (talk • contribs) 19:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

(Sorry about invoking the autosign above.) I've now seen Latter Day Saint movement and have the same concern there. Is there really consensus for referring to the subject w/ that spelling and capping? If so, of course it should stand! IF not, it's just rude.

Thx! GeorgeTSLC (talk) 19:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

The place to discuss this is at Talk:Latter Day Saint movement. --Jayron32 19:53, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

That is correct, of course. And I should have moved myself there right after my second statement above. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 21:24, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Actually, it would be at WP:MOSLDS--my thanks to Naraht's reply below! And given that the choice (among others) is described there as the "broad consensus of contributors to WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement", my concern is answered. GeorgeTSLC (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC).

As an explanation to those who are clueless, yes, the difference between Latter-day Saint(hyphen and lower case d) and Latter Day Saint (no hyphen and upper case D) is significant. See WP:LDS for a an explanation.Naraht (talk) 20:01, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for answering me, Naraht, but there is in fact no explanation on that page, nor on its Talk page. Perhaps there is one somewhere else that you could guide me to? Perhaps in one of the many, links from those pages? Unfortunately, the obvious one, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints) offers no explanation either! GeorgeTSLC (talk) 21:24, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to do WP:MOSLDS. In short, Latter Day Saints refers to pretty much anyone who follows any of the groups who believed/believes that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and Latter-day Saints refers specifically to the members of the largest of the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement (the one based in Salt Lake City that Mitt Romney is a member of).

multiple unsourced chart rankings for ZX Spectrum games

An IP editor is adding infoboxes to dozens of old computer games - as can be seen here - but none of them are sourced. Don't get me wrong - this is all good faith stuff, but shouldn't it be sourced, and is it even appropriate that some of the infobox additions are on non-ZX specific pages - such as the addition made to Elite. Chaheel Riens (talk) 20:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I notice you mentioned it on the IP's talk page, which is the best first step you can take. It seems like the editor is acting in good faith, so that should be enough. If it isn't, there are steps you can follow, outlined at WP:DE, but it shouldn't get to that. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 21:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Joseph Fischoff

Could I get someone to switch the article above with the redirect page Joseph Fischhof. It looks like Fischhof may be the preferred spelling. Thanks. Pkeets (talk) 20:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done – ukexpat (talk) 20:30, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

National varieties question

I am attempting to give a good, thorough copy edit to Zhejiang. However, the article has inconsistent national varieties. The earliest versions of the article have American spellings and no British spellings. Some of these original American spellings survive. Later, British spellings begin to appear. It isn't clear to me at what point in its history the article ceased to be a stub. How do I establish a consistent style for this article? Thanks. Marco polo (talk) 20:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I think WP:ENGVAR has some guidance on the subject. Basically, "within a given article the conventions of one particular variety should be followed consistently" -so we just need to pick one and stick to it. TNXMan 21:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

When there is an obvious reason to use one variation over another, that should be used (for example, an article on a British band should use British English). That doesn't seem to be the case here so, strictly speaking, you should use whatever was first used; in truth, provided the English is consistent across the article, you should be ok (the guidelines are in place in case there is a dispute, which there isn't in this case). ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 21:09, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Question about language translation

Hi... Do you currently have Dari (Farsi) or Pashto translations of Wikipedia underway? I would like to get some of my Afghan friends involved with this project, if possible.

Best, Kim

Kayjaestinson (talk) 22:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

You can find all Wikipedias at List of Wikipedias. The Farsi (Persian) Wikipedia is located at http://fa.wikipedia.org and the Pasto Wikipedia is located at http://ps.wikipedia.org Good luck! --Jayron32 22:36, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't know if those Wikipedias have organised translation efforts such as the one we have here for translating from other languages to English. You might have to ask on their help pages. We do have some guidance on how to go about translating English articles to other languages. Roger (talk) 06:46, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Adding a page of guidelines

I want to add a page of guidelines to Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government/United States#California. The page is now sitting at User:GeorgeLouis/Sandbox. How would I go about doing that? Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:46, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Moving and re-title

How do I move an essay or maybe the question should be How do I retitle an essay. My guess would be to creat the new page and the copy-paste the essay. Right? ```Buster Seven Talk 23:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Without asking what page or anything, I'm going to ask: is there a move button? (Copy and pasting is generally a bad choice for any renaming, since it fails to provide attribution.) - Purplewowies (talk) 23:05, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps Wikipedia:WEaPOn? - David Biddulph (talk) 23:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes...WEaPOn...and there IS a move button

Buster Seven Talk 23:09, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Then you'll want to use the move button if you need to move it. - Purplewowies (talk) 23:15, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

February 15

downloading books i created

I followed the directions and hit the Pdf button. Will it download to kindle fire? Other files do. I cannot find it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Honeysma (talk • contribs) 03:50, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Does logging in again affect one's edit?

I have just spent several hours extensively editing an article and found that I must have been logged out during that time because when I looked at the History page I saw that my IP address was quoted on the page instead of my user name. If I find myself in a similar situation in future, will it be safe to log in again before making the final save to the edited article or will I lose all my edits and have to start again?

Freeman501 (talk) 04:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

No, you'll lose the edit window. You need to log in each time if you want to make sure your edits correctly attribute to your account. If you "catch" yourself having forgotten to log in and having put a lot of text in the edit window, but before saving it, the best thing to to would be to copy the text from the edit window and paste it somewhere while you log in, then add it back to the edit window once you are logged in. However, once you have "saved" an edit while logged out, there's nothing you can do to rectify the problem. --Jayron32 04:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I had logged in before starting the edits. I suspected I would lose the edits if I tried to log in again and believe that I actually did much as you suggested. I opened a second tab in my browser, logged in to Wikipedia, went to the unedited, live version of the article and opened the edit window. Then I went back to the first tab that had the edit window containing my edits, copied the entire text with CTRL+C, returned to the second tab and pasted my text over the original unedited text. I could see my user name at the top of the page in the second tab, so I saved the article. I then went back to the first tab and was careful to make sure that I exited Wikipedia without saving. I returned to the second tab where I could see that the article had updated with my edits. However, the History tab did not show my user name, even though I was still logged in. Do you have any idea what sort of time limit I might have to impose on myself to complete editing before I get logged out?

Hmm... That's interesting. The same thing has just happened when I tried to post this comment. My IP address came up in my signature instead of my user name. I had to log in again and repost. I wonder what is going on. Freeman501 (talk) 13:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Do you click the "remember me" box when you log in? You might just be getting logged out super fast if you don't have that clicked. - Purplewowies (talk) 19:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

See more at Help:Logging in. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:33, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, Purplewowies and Prime Hunter, for your helpful suggestions. They are greatly appreciated.

I have not been in the habit of clicking the "remember me" box at log-in and will try this. I somehow managed to miss the Help article on logging in when I searched FAQs before first posting. My excuse is it was 4.30 am and I had to get some sleep… The (well-written and informative) article mentions cookies and the firewall as possible sources of difficulty and I will investigate these.

It now occurs to me that there may be another possibility, which I mention here in case others encounter a similar problem. I have recently upgraded my Internet connection to a faster speed and subsequently have been intermittently unable to log in to my e-mail host. Each time, the log-in screen alleges that the account password is incorrect, which is nonsense. I have established with my ISP that they are logging periodic upload errors on my connection. Their suggested remedy is that I should replace all the cables, filters and the phone socket between the incoming phone line and the modem-router. As all this kit is either new or relatively new, mass replacement seems an unlikely solution, but I’ll have to bite the bullet and try progressive replacement or the ISP will probably not offer further help.

I think that it is reasonable to assume these two areas (e-mail and Wikipedia log-in) are linked. It remains to be seen whether the cause is software or hardware-related. I will post the outcome when I get to the bottom of the problem.Freeman501 (talk) 17:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Shogun page appears to have been deleted.

The content for the "Shogun" page (historic rulers of Japan) appears to have been deleted. I am not qualified to update/ fix this. Are you able to restore it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.20.238.2 (talk) 04:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done it has been fixed. GB fan 05:49, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Request move listing

I made a request move for the Ninja Turtles 2012 series article and I was wondering why the request hasn't been listed for February 14? Sarujo (talk) 05:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The bot listed it after you posted here. I don't know whether this delay is normal. You could perhaps ask User:RM bot's operator. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

blacklisted but don't know why or how to correct

Commission Breakthrough program has suggested adding web page link to Wikipedia. I've researched topics, found appropriate place to add external link, to a website that l have written general content, information on regarding E Commerce. When attempting to add the link as instructed, l was imformed that this site was blacklisted. l wish to know why or how to correct. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whocsme (talk • contribs) 05:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia suggest you don't add web page link to Wikipedia. This isn't E commerce. This is a scam. It is blacklisted as a scam. There is nothing to correct. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:07, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Is there a way to hide the "my sandbox" link in the links at the top of the page?

I think this link is new, but I can't find any discussion about it. (I'd love if someone could point me to the discussion that took place, if it exists.) I will probably never use that link, and I feel it kind of clutters the list of links, especially since I'm not going to use it. My userspace subpages use more descriptive names, and if I need a sandbox (which is rarely), I either use the public sandbox or I test it by previewing my userpage, depending on what exactly I'm trying out. I made a sandbox before as a test of page creation when someone was having issues creating pages after the blackout and they posted here. I've since had it deleted. If I want to recreate it, I don't need the link, as I know where and how to make a sandbox in my userspace. Is there a way to remove the link? - Purplewowies (talk) 06:50, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

There's a new checkbox at Special:Preferences - Gadgets tab - Appearance section. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah, thanks! I've unchecked the "show sandbox link" box. - Purplewowies (talk) 07:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Help

Dear Wikipedia,

I am frequent Wikipedia reader. Am not well aware about technical things about your page (Eg. how to save a page from being deleted). I tried searching for an answer on your site without much success. I m worried about this particular page on your site. link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masulkar_colony. It is a well written article, but a warning on that page concerns me. It says - 'the page will be deleted...' I am a resident of that area, and every information provided on that page is true. Hence I wish to save this page from being deleted. I Request for your help on this.

Thank you. Gaurav Salvi

Gaurav3010 (talk) 07:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

This article appears to be about a block of flats/apartments. A complete lack of references gives weight to the idea that the building is not notable enough to sustain an article. Does the building have any official status as a historic building? Currently, the article is extremely unlikely to survive a debate at WP:AFD. Mjroots (talk) 07:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

It seems to be a suburb. Population of around 10 000. "The colony is full of residential and a few shopping complexes." Definitely not an apartment block. If it really is a notable place I think WP:WikiProject India is the right place to go for help to "save" this article - which is nowhere near "well written". It's not enough that you know that "every information provided on that page is true" - there must be references to reliable sources that back up the information. Roger (talk) 07:52, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

HOW DO I ADD TO OR DELETE MY UNIFIED ACCOUNTS?

The process of finding answers to the way the site works is extremely long-winded - you wouldn't believe how long it's taken to reach this page. I'll have to save it in my bookmarks!

For all account options, or anything else that requires a checkbox or radio button, wouldn't it be worth a brief explanation provided by hovering over the options? In some cases, as for the subject of this, there's no obvious way to find out at all.

Rather than just the general FAQs at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ, there need to be separate FAQs for each subject.

I don't speak German, and yet de.wikipedia.org has appeared in my list of unified accounts. I'll never log in to it. I could do with a list of all possible unified accounts, complete with a brief explanation of what they are, and to be able to check a box next to each.

Having to type words like 'checkbox' brings me on to the subject of 'real' English (British English)! The whole of en.wikipedia.org has phrases in American English, and sometimes you have to think twice about what's meant. Perhaps a British English version could be created - just by automatically substituting Americanisms for British English, should the user opt to use British English. What do you think?

For now, it's the 'unified accounts' question that's the most pressing. Thanks for any help you can give.

Andrew — Preceding unsigned comment added by State Of Completeness (talk • contribs) 07:41, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but user accounts can not be deleted. And don't worry, the unified login feature is simply for convenience and completely optional. You might want to upload a picture in Wikimedia Commons for example, or do a minor correction in one of the other language Wikipedias, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikimedia etc. A unified login means you won't have to register again, you keep the same passwords, and no other user can reregister under your account name. It applies to ALL the projects under the Wikimedia Foundation.

That said, you can safely ignore all of them except your English Wikipedia account if you want to.

As for the English varieties, please see WP:ENGVAR. The preponderance of American English is the result of a majority in American users. In general, articles that pertain more to subjects more relevant to countries that use British English will use British English. Subjects that pertain more to subjects relevant to countries that use American English use American English. There are other national dialects as well like Irish English, Canadian English, Australian English, Jamaican Standard English, Philippine English, New Zealand English, etc. But these are dialects, not different languages. Creating separate Wikipedias for them is out of the question. It can not be automated either. A task like that is monumental for a very trivial reason. We're all volunteers and time and effort is better focused elsewhere. After all, you do understand the articles don't you?

Also, if one or the other is already used within an article, do not change it. Doing so can be considered disruptive. Follow the precedent to keep the article consistent.

And lastly, a tip. When searching for guidelines and project pages, use the Wikipedia searchbox and use an approporiate prefix so you don't end up in article space. For example this page is the Wikipedia:Help desk . It uses the shortcuts WP:HD, WP:Y, and WP:HELPDESK, which shorten the prefix of Wikipedia: to WP:. If you type this words into the searchbox, it will take you here. Different pages have different prefixes. See Wikipedia:Namespace and Help:Page name. It's intuitive, such that when you're looking for help, you can type WP:HELP; when looking for help in using references, you can type WP:CITATION or WP:REFERENCES; when you want to know more about talk pages you can type WP:TALKPAGE, etc.

Take note of the names on top of each page and you'll get the hang of it soon enough.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 08:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

If you have normal cookie settings in your browser and you are logged in to a Wikimedia wiki and visit any page at another Wikimedia wiki then your unified account is automatically registered there without having to log in. This must have happened for your dewiki account at http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/State+Of+Completeness. de:Spezial:Logbuch/State Of Completeness shows it was created 43 minutes before your post here. Once created, it cannot be deleted. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:23, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I see you've requested a change in username, which, if granted, will disconnect this account from the rest of the global accounts you have (you'll have to request a username change on your other global accounts). Also, it's possible your contributions could get pulled to another wiki. I edited the page on Allisyn Ashley Arm here, and somebody got my contribution itself (as if it was submitted by me and everything) onto dewiki before I'd ever made a real edit of my own there. Even if you never plan to use it, you might end up doing so, but if you don't ever use it, just pretend it's not there. - Purplewowies (talk) 21:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Group shot

Greetings,

I'm currently working on revising an article that lists characters in a fictional work. The original creator of the characters and their copyright holder never produced an official group shot of the them collectively in a single image, which I'd like to add to the article to illustrate to readers their appearances. Because I have been unable to find such an image, I was thinking of creating my own, defined in WP:IUP under "Collage and montages". Which license would be most appropriate for such a work? Valce Talk 08:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Try asking at WP:MCQ, which is a noticeboard designed for exactly this kind of question; though I suspect that "none" is going to be an answer; such a collage may possibly not be compliant with Wikipedia's WP:IUP. The section you note states "The components of a collages or montage, as well as the collage or montage itself, must be properly licensed; and (as with galleries) fair-use components are rarely appropriate, as each non-free image used in the creation of the montage contributes towards consideration of minimal use of non-free images." (bold mine). So, you cannot create a collage of copyrighted works and then use it in a Wikipedia article, even under the guise of "fair use". Of course, you can always get a second opinion at WP:MCQ. --Jayron32 21:25, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

E MAIL ADDRESS

HOW TO FIND EMAIL ADDRESSESS E.G. E mail address of NORTH EASTERN INDIRA GANDHI REGIONL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, SHILLONG. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.98.163.84 (talk) 10:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The easy way is to use a search engine to see if they have a website and then follow a 'contact us' or similar link. In this case, the website is http://neigrihms.nic.in/ and at the bottom of the page it says "E-mail: info[dot]neigrihms[at]nic[dot]in". People often use this kind of format to prevent their email address being read automatically and therefore open to a huge amount of SPAM. Simply replace the "[dot]" with "." and the "[at]" with "@" and you will have the email address. Astronaut (talk) 11:45, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Please also remember that Wikipedia is no affiliated with any companies or organisations it has an article on. We cannot, therefore, provide you with contact information for a company, nor can we answer any queries you might wish to direct to a company. As Astronaut rightly said, the best way to contact a company is to find the contact details on its website. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 14:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Updating pages

I have been having a lot of trouble with updating a page for my employer Maney Publishing.

I understand there is conflict of interest so I have read through your help sections for ideas on what to do.

The information on the wiki is now outdated and in-acurate and we would like to see it updated.

I placed a comment in the talk section of the page asking this same question only for it to be deleted, I'm not sure why that is?

Any information you can offer would be extreamly helpful!

Laylarob (talk) 10:17, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Maney Publishing (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

As you can see from the edit history of the talk page, you haven't put any comments there. And the last edit to the article hasn't been for over a month. So I don't know where you made this comment that you speak of. Could you please post your concerns at Talk:Maney Publishing so that we may find out what your specific concerns are? Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 10:25, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your concern. Wikipedia is a volunteer run project, which means all contributions come from volunteers. If you think something needs to be updated, go ahead and update it. Make sure that what you add is supported by reliable sources, then update the page yourself. If you need help with editing, you can take a look at Help:Editing, or come back here if you have a specific question. I wish you the best of luck with the article. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 14:45, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Reference in info box?

I was adding references in Numansdorp and I noticed that at some towns/cities they add references at the info box concerning the population and stuff. I've been trying to add one about the population from the site of the municipal, but I get errors. :-s I got the information here: Link Some help would be appreciated. :-D--Dianafl (talk) 10:27, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

If you were getting an odd string of text starting with ​UNIQ​, then see Help:Strip markers. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes I did. I will read the artikel! Thanks!--Dianafl (talk) 15:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk page new sections problem

Resolved

Hi, this has been going on for about 6 months I guess, when people start a new topic on my talk page it's always as a sub-heading of the previous topic and I can't figure out why, or where the setting is to change it back.

I just made a test edit as an IP to confirm this as a bug and not just user error [3]. Can anyone help? Cheers! CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 12:26, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

It was the level of your section headings. I've corrected it, hopefully. - David Biddulph (talk) 12:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Hank Stickney wikipedia page

My name is Ken Stickney and there are some unsavory comments about "behavior not fitting a husband of 40 years old" on his page. This is slanderous, defamatory, and I would ask that it be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.0.113.24 (talk) 15:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I reverted the vandalism on the page. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

First page

Hi,

I just finished my first Wikipedia page/edit yesterday and at the top of the page it says I can request feedback as to how I did. I'd like that. If you have the time please check out my page for "Tahiti Drink".

Thx, Gary Garysmith10 (talk) 18:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Tahiti Drink (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Here's the feedback, I have requested speedy deletion (G11) for this article as it is unambiguous advertising and non-encyclopaedic. Please see WP:NOTPROMOTION to understand why. You might also benefit from reading Wikipedia:My First Article. CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 19:16, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

By now you'll have noticed the thing's marked for "Speedy deletion". So apparently you did pretty badly. My minor improvement ain't gonna help you much, bro. If you're capable of making the thing adequately encylopedia-like, go to it. If not, brace yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeTSLC (talk • contribs) 19:23, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Portals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:McKinseies/Portal:Ravidassia can you check this portal for mistakes and improvement with layout, design, text, formatting links and spelling and all — Preceding unsigned comment added by McKinseies (talk • contribs) 18:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

In the process of editing text (after at least one predecessor), I seem to have messed up the border I thought I saw when I first hit the page--but since that would probably be deemed inappropriate for an article anyway, I may have inadvertently done you a favor!

Between me and my predecessor(s), we MAY have sufficiently edited down your repetitive exuberance. But feel free to adjust the text further.

Note that you DO need to pay attention to the 'bot's complaint about getting your citation handled by some appropriate template. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 19:27, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Uploading pictures

I'm new here, and I would like to know how to upload images. Be Lad So Mon En Tu (talk) 18:17, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, Im new too. I asked this question too. To upload images, you need to become an Autoconfirmed user, and to become one, you need to be editing for four days and you needed to have made atleast ten edits. After four days, type in "Special:Upload". Ruler of Coasters  Talk  18:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

However, if (and ONLY IF) you know the file you want to upload is free (uses a license that allows it to be freely distributed or is in the public domain, etc.), you can upload it to Wikimedia Commons, where you don't need to be autoconfirmed to upload a picture. - Purplewowies (talk) 19:27, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Changing a title / adding a redirect

The title of an article makes a common misspelling of the person's given name. The right thing to do is have the entry with the misspelled name redirect to the correct name. How does one go about addressing this ? Does one create a whole new article by copy-and-paste, and then purge the original article? Or is there an easier way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kromholz (talk • contribs)

Do not copy-paste. It breaks our license by not keeping the page history at the new title. Use the move function instead. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

If the article is moved, a redirect from the former title to its next destination is automatically simultaneously created, and left until such time as RfD'd or edited to become a useful title for a correctly spelled subject. Dru of Id (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

A couple image issues

I've noticed a couple odd image issues and I'm not sure how to deal with them. First, File:SRI Air Pollution study 1949.jpg is correctly included on SRI International#Early history, but the image isn't showing up. Second, I put File:SRI Hewitt Crane Pen Input Computing.jpg onto Hewitt Crane, but the thumbnail is oddly dark. Thanks :) Disavian (talk) 22:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't see a thumbnail for the second picture you mentioned at all. - Purplewowies (talk) 23:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I have converted the second image to grayscale from CMYK. That should have fixed the display problem. – ukexpat (talk) 15:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Disavian (talk) 22:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Category-generating template is broken?

This is actually a template on commons, but hopefully someone can answer here more promptly! I'm in the process of coding a template for inaccurate paleoart on commons so that it users globally are aware when someone finds (and now, labels) an incorrect dinosaur/etc depiction. Because the WP:DINO folks like having a variety of categories for these artworks (see the hierarchy at commons:Category:Inaccurate paleoart, I have a variety of ifeqs going to automatically categorize images correctly based on the template. I applied my template to File:9162 - Milano, Museo storia naturale - Camptosaurus dispar - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 22-Apr-2007.jpg to start, and it looks nice and generated the right category on the image page based on the specified parameters. But when I go to the category itself (commons:category:Inaccurate mounted dinosaur skeletons) the image isn't there. What's wrong and how do I fix it? Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I see the image there just fine. In fact, it's the first image in the category. - Purplewowies (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The file is listed in the category now. If a category is added by a template but wasn't added by the template at the time of the latest edit to a page using the template, then it's possible for the page to display the category without the category listing the page. This can be fixed with a null edit (or any other edit) to the page (not to the category). Note that a purge of the page is not enough to update the category page. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:59, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

February 16

Uploading photos that are not yours

I see many images on Wikipedia that don't get deleted due to copyright such as File:BigBangTheoryTitleCard.png and many others, I want to upload them, how without copyright, Thanks, TBrandley (talk) 00:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

You can only provide an image "without copyright" if you created the image yourself and then put that image into the public domain. You can't do it for someone else's work. RudolfRed (talk) 01:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

• Uploading of fair-use images is very limited: They are stored into English Wikipedia files, and not Wikimedia Commons (where the free images are uploaded). Most news photos taken by other photographers, except police crime photos in Italy, are almost impossible to get approved for upload. However, small-size title cards, such as for movie posters or album covers can be uploaded, but as small images and preferably in "blurry" JPEG format. See the complex fair-use policy (WP:NFC), at section Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images, which explains the limits for each type of non-free image, such as logos, currency, or TV show screenshots. Again, the image must be small and almost "blurry" or rarely, allowed by written permission from the professional photographer. For a general idea about all types of photos, it might take about 3 days of reading over the various policy texts and viewing some of the other TV title-cards or album covers to see how they posted the fair-use rationale texts. -Wikid77 (talk) 02:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
• (edit conflict) Just to clarify a bit: Wikipedia has some very restrictive policies that do allow, in very limited cases, the use of copyrighted images in Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria for all of the details. Only if an image meets every requirement there may it be used in an article. --Jayron32 02:45, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

IPA When Editing

For the symbols window "IPA (English)" we have all the letters that aren't on a keyboard (ɹ is curiously absent), followed by a pre-made list of non-keyboard vowels and diphthongs. That's all fine. But for the full IPA window, the order goes like this: "plosives, fricatives, nasals, approximants, trills/taps, co-articulated sounds (?), implosives, clicks, vowels, superscript modifiers, several letters with diacritics in no apparent order, three affricates, tonal symbols, two more letters with diacritics, and the {{IPA|}} template". I think that menu could really be improved; I don't tend to think of the type of articulation, but of the place. In addition, there are no combining diacritics other than the pre-made ones, so occasionally I've had to open a word-processing document to get those diacritics. Interchangeable|talk to me 00:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

It's made by MediaWiki:Edittools.js and can be discussed at MediaWiki talk:Edittools. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:19, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Report on your (todays featured picture)

daily you are putting common images in Today's featured picture in the main page of Wikipedia,

think different and try to put the inventions and discoveries and something different where the users can think about it or to know about it

thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.91.147.74 (talk) 04:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

The featured picture may well be of a common collared lizard, and thus 'common' (at least to the minority of Wikipedia readers that live in places where one might encounter them), but the image is anything but, when looked at in detail - click on the picture, and look at the original at full scale. It is, in my opinion, a masterpiece of photography, capturing in astonishing detail the subtle colouration of its scales, and other features that a cursory glance might miss (it has details that even Dürer's Rhinoceros seems to lack: and this is no product of an artist's imagination, unless you consider the products of natural selection to be art - which they may well be). I'd say that this is precisely the sort of featured picture we need more of - something to be admired as an image, rather than just an illustration. If this image doesn't make you think, you aren't looking close enough... AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:48, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria. It's about quality of the picture and not importance of the subject. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

for 2/16/2012

Article at this link is in a hidden category stating incorrect format. Editing done by several people has produced an 'encyclopaedic' result. Can someone remove the hidden admin commentbox asap? Blurbzone (talk) 04:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

• DONE. I have untagged article "Geoffrey William Griffin" from {essay-entry..March 2010} & retagged {Refimprove}. Other people have been recently editing the article, so there might be edit-conflicts at this hour. -Wikid77 05:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Consensus

When is consensus established for a proposed edit? A few editors and I have been discussing a proposed edit to the page Democratic Party (United States) on the talk page since last year. An RfC was called back then as well. One editor has reverted back all changes relating to the proposed edit, leaving things stagnant. Has a potential compromise been reached or shall it be left as is?

Also, the same editor that was reverting back edits has insisted that users who submitted their opinion back in October of 2011 have been invalidated. The editor has justified this saying the previous opinions have no "bearing". Is this correct?--Drdak (talk) 05:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

• Seek a compromise by WP:Consensus: The current policy, WP:Consensus has been updated to explain methods to reach a compromise agreement with most editors, as would be done in the real world: an edit will be allowed but only to include the compromised phrases (perhaps not exactly what anyone would prefer separately). If an editor refuses to compromise, then it might be necessary to report them to WP:WQT, and please be careful not to hint at any insult of them or that could backfire as being blocked or banned from editing. Let others decide to characterize someone else's actions as being slow, stubborn, hostile or obstructionist. In general, any stated prior opinions on a talk-page should be considered as still "valid" and if needed, the prior editors could be contacted via user-talk for further opinions, but only in sets of equal pro-and-con at the same hour with the simplest of bland announcement to join the discussion, or risk being blocked for improper WP:CANVASing, with a "slanted" notice, as attempting to "vote-stack" the discussion by contacting a "disproportionate number" of pro/con editors rather than an equal number of each viewpoint. The first level of formal complaint is typically at WP:WQT. If disagreements reach the point of a WP:ANI notice, then the person being targetted is most likely to get blocked, so also file a separate counter-notice which questions the actions of the other person (and reserve 3 solid days to refute innuendos or slanted comments about the situation). Generally, ANI incidents only sanction the person who was the subject of the complaint, rather than the person who did the most "wrong". The ANI incidents do not investigate actions of all involved (which is often tedious), only the person who is the target of the complaint is likely to get investigated and blocked. -Wikid77 (talk) 07:01, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

wikipedia as homepage

i don't want wikipedia as my home page. i did not request it and it keeps popping up everytime i go online. how can i get rid of it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.176.166 (talk) 06:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not responsible for making it your home page; so this is a general knowledge question rather than a question of how to use Wikipedia. They may be able to help you at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. Tell them there which browser you use and which page you would like for your home page. —teb728 t c 08:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

About FAHRENHEITº magazine

The article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheitº_(magazine) is online but needs "reflinks", unfortunately I have tried several times to apply them but I haven't been luckier at all, I hope you can orientate me about how to use them, I have read the the section but I cannot understand "how". Thank you in advance. --Dan Prior (talk) 07:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I've done the first one for you using the Template:Cite web All parameters, horizontal format, although I deleted unused fields. Many of the fields can be picky, so previewing is highly recommended. Dru of Id (talk) 08:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, it does not sounds so complicated, I will try to do the rest by myself, do I have to contact the person who added the template with the indication about the quotes when I finish, so he can delete the message? Best --Dan Prior (talk) 14:46, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Once there are no bare urls, any editor may remove that template, as it will no longer apply. It is not one that limits who may do so, as long as it has been resolved. Dru of Id (talk) 18:32, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Copy editing request tag

Please advise whether I as an editor should remove this request tag after completing a copy editing project, or whether someone else does it. Sometimes I remove it myself, so it does not continue to appear as if the project is waiting for someone to tackle and so that it is removed from that long list of copy edit requests, but sometimes I cannot because the tag is not accessible to me (such as with the "Red" article I just finished copy editing). What should be done? I cannot seem to find an answer among all the helps and tips. Thanks in advance for some instruction. --Remotelysensed (talk) 09:44, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Red (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

If you think you have addressed the problems that a tag is drawing attention to, then you should remove the tag. You can remove the tag by editing the lead section - in this case it is a {{Spacing}} tag, one I've never seen before.

Perhaps those links would be better as a three-column or four-column list? -- John of Reading (talk) 10:55, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Help please on how to get a table back!

Help please! This is NOT vandalism - I was genuinely trying to do something to the article List of chocolate bar brands in the way of tidying its presentation. When I tried it, I seemed to lose the table format! How can this article go back to being a table, please? Any advice will be much appreciated. Thank you in advance for any help here, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 12:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I fixed it in this edit. You removed the top part of the table markup. I just pasted that part from an older revision back into the article. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 12:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

... and I've corrected a link that your edit broke. - David Biddulph (talk) 12:27, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Images from Project Gutenberg

Where a book has been digitised by Project Gutenberg (PG), is it acceptable to link images into Wikipedia pages? To avoid having to download and upload to Wikicommons, I would prefer to simply embed the link to the image file at PG. There are no copyright issues (original publication 1897, PG licence applies to the electronic version). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martin of Sheffield (talk • contribs) 12:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

You can't hotlink images— either upload to Wikipedia or Commons. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 14:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I feared as much. Down/up will almost certainly get blocked by our firewall. Thanks anyhow.Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Maybe there is already a bot which can do the work? Sorry but I cant find one right now... --McZusatz (talk) 16:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Belgium - History of Louis de Potter - Data quality

Dear Wiki Volunteering Team,

There are 3 pages about my ancestor Louis de Potter, one in English, one in French and one in Dutch.

Each of them contains discrepencies (EN/FR/NL) which I cannot correct due to diffetent contributors' opinions.

During more than ten years, I have throughly studied his life with our family records and my personal archives.

During the past 3 years, I wrote a detailed book about him togethar with a team of reputed senior history experts.

This book about Louis, with over 500 precise references, was published and widely distributed in Europe and the USA.

I then tried to improve the Wiki pages and was each time "overruled" by a user who would erase the proposed changes.

How should I do to harmonize the 3 pages and improve quality? I am convinced of my data accuracy and prepared to be challenged on each line, but not silently overruled by persons with avatars.

Is it possible to create a more transparent history group rather than contributors called 'Boing!' or 'Revenger' or 'Prince'?

I believe in a dialogue with persons who mention their real name and topic credentials for better data quality/dialogue.

Could you please help connect with the persons in charge of the "Belgium project" and start from there? Thank you beforehand.

Best wishes to Wiki,

Nic de Potter, history expert on Louis de Potter MBA Informations Systems Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolas de Potter (talk • contribs) 12:48, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

If there were any dispute about the article in English Wikipedia, I would expect to see it at the article's talk page, but there is nothing there. Where are the disputes about your edits? Your own knowledge and research is not permitted on Wikipedia, see WP:OR, but if you can provide references to independent reliable sources I am sure that other editors will listed to your suggested edits. As for the Dutch Wikipedia, that is totally separate and any problems needs raising there. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:00, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Nicolas de Potter shows all your edits to the English Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter were made 26 December 2011. The page history [4] does not show the usernames you mention. Many of your changes are still in the article. Some of your changes were appropriately reverted, for example replacing the infobox image with a non-existing image, and writing some names in all capitals like POTTER de DROOGENWALLE. Under "Languages" in the left pane are also listed Danish and German. Editors are not required to mention their name or credentials. See Help:Using talk pages for how to discuss an article. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

TeX formatting for maths articles - help needed.

Hi, I've just started editing Phase retrieval, and the modulus signs look very strange within the <math> tags. The same code works fine in LaTeX and in other mathematics articles (such as absolute value), so I'm a bit confused as to how to sort this one out. Also, there is no spacing between the f and the bracket of f(x), which due to the font looks awkward. Anyone more familiar with this ? Thanks. --He to Hecuba (talk) 14:14, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Bluetooth spam

Pardon my creating new topic this way, but it's the only way I've found to leave this message.

In the article Bluetooth (comm protocol), someone has cleverly hidden their name and the message "add me on facebook" to the text of the section "Security overview. I can easily manually delete the insertion, but that would not add the vandal's name to any watchlists, or whatever is appropriate. From this handheld, I cannot reach the "Edit History" page, or edit the "Discussion" page, which are issues with the software of the "mobile view" which I think should be addressed. Since there are no topics on the "Talk" page which haven't been archived, I coudn't put my comment there, where it belongs (sorry). In the mobile view, at least on a 2" screen, the jigsaw-globe logo eclipses the "edit" and "history," and sometimes the "talk" option, as well. I can highlight a selection, but if I click it, I find myself at the "featured article" page: usually quite interesting, but unhelpful when I'm on an obsessive/compulsive mission to copyedit or to revert vandalism. Ragityman69.171.187.14 (talk) 16:01, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I see no sign of a message mentioning facebook on the rendered page, its html source or its wiki source. What exactly do you do to see this "cleverly hidden" message? Are you sure it isn't some feature in your browser, for example caused by the character '#' which is sometimes interpreted as a hashtag? In Wikipedia and many other places it is used for section linking, for example to the preceding section #TeX formatting for maths articles - help needed. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I think the User:ClueBot NG already solved this. --McZusatz (talk) 16:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh yes. I saw the article had not been edited since long before the post here so I didn't examine the edits. If you still see the vandalism then purge the page or bypass your cache. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

O.K., I don't believe it to be a cache/purge issue, because I've never viewed the article before. I believe I see why it hasn't been noticed. When I switch to the "desktop" or "normal" WP, it's not there! I was not aware a change could be made in one version which would not be automatically mirrored in the other. What I am seeing, inserted in section 8.1, "Security, Overview," in ONLY the "Mobile" version, paragraph 3, after the second sentence("While Bluetooth has its benefits...", the request "Jordan Hay, add him on facebook." I didn't spell it out before, assuming we'd all see the same text. Surprise,surprise, as Gomer would say.

Rags69.171.178.18 (talk) 17:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

As McZusatz showed it was reverted in [5] 18 hours ago, in the same minute as it was added. Pages are cached by our own servers for performance reasons. Wikipedia is a top-10 website run on a small budget. Readers, especially unregistered users, are sometimes served a version which is not the latest. This can happen even if they have never visited the page before. If you edit the page then you would get the current version without the facebook message. The procedure at Wikipedia:Purge should force the current version to be displayed for a reader but I don't know how it works for mobile devices. The problem with seeing old versions is most common if you view a redirect like Bluetooth Wireless Protocol instead of Bluetooth. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Error in information in the article about Edward Brian (Ted) Seago

In the text it is written " advised on camouflage techniques for Field Marshal Auchinleck, with whom he had a lifelong friendship." Should be :Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis. Please see " Alex, the life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis" by Nigel Nicolson, 1973. Best Regards

Doc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.10.239 (talk) 15:25, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

This is good information, but this issue should be raised at Talk:Edward Seago. --Jayron32 15:44, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Luminato festival Wikipedia entry

Good morning,

In full disclosure, as to not infringe on Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines for organizations, I am an employee of the Luminato festival (a festival of arts, creativity and culture) in Toronto, Ontario. Luminato's wikipedia page is located here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminato

There are major updates required to this page (IE. there is a staff listing including the festival's past Artistic Director, which still notes that he works with the festival). There is somewhat confidential information included in the current page, that should not be included (IE. Festival Advisory Committee Members - note this Members list is greatly outdated).

Also, the last festival this page appears to updated with is our 2010 festival.

We as an organization will not go in and make the necessary updates, as we respect Wikipedia's processes, but we ask that someone amongst your editorial volunteers or board assist with this.

For reference, in August 2011, we began requesting update assistance on both the "Talk" tab of the Luminato Wikipedia page, as well as in the "WikiProject Toronto" page, and have not yet received a helpful response.

We appreciate your assistance and attention.

Kindest Regards, Allison Saretsky Interactive Marketing Manager, Luminato Festival — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.121.214 (talk) 15:48, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I'll take a look, I see your comment on the talk page. The only thing that you might want to add on the talk page is where the information on the change in staff could be found, either on your website, or preferably something from a newspaper or other source...Naraht (talk) 16:42, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

If a page is out-of-date you can tag it with Template:Update : just edit the page to place {{Update}} at the top. That helps people find it to update it, and lets readers know. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Move to commons

Can some admin please move this file to commons? Thank you --McZusatz (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

My article draft is ready. How long will it take to be published ?

Draft of my article is ready. What should I do now to get it published. Explain me Step-by-Step in Detail.. I am totally new to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vikas11004315 (talk • contribs) 17:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, Vikas. The full process for submitting the article can be found at Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. I would recommend reading the section on core issues, ensuring that what you have written is ok. Once you are happy with the article, place {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} at the top of your article. Someone will shortly review your article and either move it into the mainspace (publish it) or decline it and give you advice on improving it. Best of luck. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 17:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Add birthday

Is it possible to add a specific birthday to the main page " On this day..."  ?

I just want to add so that my wife's birthday shows up for just one day - just for a suprise for her .. is this at all possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozzy p12 (talk • contribs) 17:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, that's not possible. Wikipedia is read by millions of people every day; if we added every birthday, the main page would be incredibly long. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 17:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) If she is notable by Wikipedia's definition, then yes; but otherwise, sadly no. - David Biddulph (talk) 17:18, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think David read the question properly. It's about Wikipedia:Main page#On_this_day... If she satisfies Wikipedia:Notability (people) then she could get a Wikipedia biography and perhaps be listed in a place like February 16#Births, but she wouldn't get on the main page. The main page gets millions of views per day and content has to be restricted. Wikipedia has millions of articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:40, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Questions

I have several questions. I am a bit overwhelmed by all of the instructional text

1)- Where to I post an article I want to have accepted? I presume it has to be reviewed first, correct? 2)- How to I upload 2 photos to the article?

I registered with Wikipedia under the name general1234. I am uncertain of my status. On 2-12 I responded to an automatic email that was suppose to confirm my account. I can't find where my account is listed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by General1234 (talk • contribs)

To submit a new article to Wikipedia, go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation. That will allow you to write up a new article, submit it, and have it reviewed by a more experienced editor. To upload new files, there is a similar page which you can find at Wikipedia:Files for upload/Wizard. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 17:32, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Your account is registered and you have correctly enabled email. At Special:Preferences (linked on "My preferences" at top of any page) you can see some information about your account. It's optional whether to create a user page for your account at User:General1234. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks PrimeHunter. 1)- If I post an article at User:General234 will it be reviewed there for submission? 2)- How do I post photos to this specific article? I am not clear about what Wikipedia Commons is. If I post photos there do they get linked to my article somehow? 3)- I have a formatting issue that is best looked at to be best understood, so I would like an editor to look at it before it is displayed to the public. I would also like to post the article and the photos at the same time. The photos are my photos. I own them. Thanks General1234 (talk) 04:49, 17 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by General1234 (talk • contribs) 04:43, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

The page User:General234 is a Wikipedia:User page. It is for information about you as an editor and/or for notes to yourself. Please don't post a draft article there. For how to create an article see Wikipedia:Your first article. For how to upload and use photos see Help:Files. —teb728 t c 07:08, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

editing of pages in Hungarian Wikipedia

Dear Helpdesk,

I would like to express my concerns regarding the policy of editing pages in Hungarian Wikipedia. There are some self-appointed admins who must approve every single instance of editing. I believe this is in contradiction with the basic guidlines of Wikipedia, the *free* encyclopedia. This policy in Hungarian Wikipedia is even more worrying as these self-appointed authorized people accept or reject changes often on an ideological basis. The Hungarian Wikipedia is therefore very far from being free. Please consider this case and demad that this policy of approval should cease as soon as possible because it is hurting the basic guidelines of Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards, Boci33 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.89.196 (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but we have no say on what policies are in place at the Hungarian Wikipedia. Each project sets their own rules and guidelines. If you have any questions about the English Wikipedia, however, we'd be happy to help. TNXMan 17:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

One thing we can say is that no admins are self-appointed. Wikipedia:Administrators have to be given their user rights in all languages. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I think this user is referring to WP:Flagged revisions or WP:Pending changes, one of which is in use on the Hungarian WP. Those users also require that right to be given to them, I'm pretty sure.- Purplewowies (talk) 19:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Charles Dana Gibson illustrator

Sir: Can you tell me if the above artist's works, namely the Gibson Girls are in Public Domain or are they still copyrighted, and if so who holds the Copyrights? 216.139.112.137 (talk) 18:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC) Feb 16, 2012

This question would be more properly asked at the reference desk. The Help Desk is primarily for the assistance of editors with technical problems editing articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.178.92 (talk) 18:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

2nd Ammendment To The American Constitution Page

There is an inappropriate text at the top of the Wikipedia article for the 2nd Amendment.
I tried editing the article myself, but was unable to locate the text. Please see below:

"everything about USA is stupid only americans like it mexicans dont"

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessmoore 84 (talk • contribs) 19:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I fixed it by removing {{USgunlegalbox}} from Second Amendment to the United States Constitution but I can't figure out what's wrong with the template. Dougweller (talk) 19:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Nothing. The article vandalism was reverted well before your change, but may have gotten hung up in the cache. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Weird. First time that's happened to me. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 19:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

editing reference question

Hi. I don't understand the comment on this article not being accepted. The book is described in general terms and the link to it is given and the same for the petition and the link is given, and the only quote on immunotherapy's effectiveness is referenced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlemke (talk • contribs) 23:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

If you click the "History" tab at the top of the page of the article you are having a dispute over, you can see every edit, including yours and any after yours that may have undone your edits. You should, instead of raising the question here, start a discussion at the "discussion" page for the article(click the "discussion" tab at the top of the page when you are viewing the article you want to discuss) and then invite the person or persons who reverted you by leaving a note on their user talk pages (click the "talk" link next to their name when viewing the article history page). I hope that clears things up for you! --Jayron32 23:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

It's not a reversion; the person's article submission was declined: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cancer Cry (edit|project page|history|links|watch|logs). - Purplewowies (talk) 23:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

The only reference does not mention Sanderson, the book, or the petition. All facts in a Wikipedia article must be verifiable by references to reliable sources. The references that establish the notability of the subject must be independent of the subject. By the way what is the subject?! The book? the petition? cancer generally? —teb728 t c 06:56, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

February 17

Adding RSS Feeds to Wikipedia

Is it possible to add RSS feeds of external pages to Wikipedia? If so, how is it done? Allen (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

No, although I suppose that technically, if the feed's text were licensed under acceptable terms for Wikipedia (i.e. those compatible with the WP:CC-BY-SA license), a bot could be used to update Wikipedia from the feed. PleaseStand (talk) 06:25, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Formatting for Heading

In my User page, the heading for each paragraph of my article appeared. When search for the article in public view, the headings disappeared. How do I make sure the headings show up in published article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.74.208.109 (talk) 05:59, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Cheatsheet is a table of common formatting codes used here. You can refer to that page for the code for "section headings". If you still cannot figure out the problem after referring to that page, can you tell us your username (as you apparently posted the above question while logged out) and which page are you looking at? PleaseStand (talk) 06:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Putting image on userspace

Please help me how can I put an image on my userpage similar to that of User:Tiptoety. When i'm trying to copy-paste the code from his userpage, it resulted in a mess. --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 07:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hmm. I suggest you ask the HTML experts at the User page design center. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:11, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Clock

I have used template {{Time}} for displaying date and time, but i've to purge it to update the time. Is there there any other template that will show IST time without need for purging --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 07:45, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

No. All these templates rely on the CURRENTTIME magic word, whose MediaWiki documentation notes that it doesn't work as one would expect. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

I see you use {{Time}} on your user page. If it's OK with something only you can see then a user script can probably do it and display it on all pages at the top. Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets already has a UTC version: "Add a clock in the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC (which also provides a link to purge the current page)." User:Davidgothberg/clock is also UTC only. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:41, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

how do i put something on wikipedia, a new contribution

how do I put something on wikipedia, a new contribution, a new article, something for the first time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adabilis (talk • contribs) 08:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for registering an account! I've left you some introductory links on your talk page, including a link to a Wikipedia:Tutorial. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

re J W Miller & Sons

This article that has been edited down from the original and all the references marked as Retrieved 18th July 2010. Can you tell me what that means and what has happened to the original article. Thanks R Telford — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.101.197.19 (talk) 09:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

This article was created 18 July 2010 (as can be seen at the bottom of the page if you click the 'View history' tab next to 'Edit'); 5 of the references were added then, and 1 on the 20th (the |accessdate field in the reference citation format), showing the date they were cited, as online material may keep the same url, even if updated, but information (and grammar & spelling errors) may have been updated, corrected, etc. If a previous version of the article existed before the creation of this one, I cannot see it, although an admin could view deleted material. I find no record of a previous article's deletion discussion, although one is not always required. Scaling back of content occurs when someone compares the material to the sources, or to remove promotional phrasing (see WP:PUFFERY). Dru of Id (talk) 09:43, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Converting Word to wiki markup

Is there a translation facility to translate English e.g. 'word' into a form suitable for 'wikepedia' . I have a paper and it is difficult to preserve the format? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bparslow (talk • contribs) 11:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Please see Help:WordToWiki.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Deleted Edits?

X!s Edit counter says I have 2 deleted edits but when i click deleted only on contribs it comes up with nothing.User Talk:Willdude123 15:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Only administrators can see edits to deleted articles. I don't know why ordinary editors like you or me are still allowed to see the "Deleted only" checkbox. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Only admins can see deleted edits (via Special:DeletedContributions), and the checkbox on Special:Contributions only shows revision-deleted edits. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:13, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

(2nd ec) In case you wonder, there was probably nothing wrong with your edits; "deleted edits" only means that you made edits to a page that later was deleted. jonkerz ♠talk 15:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

How to credit translations

I'm translating an article from the French Wikipedia. How do I credit this? Pkeets (talk) 16:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Use {{Translated page}} on the talk page. See also Wikipedia:Translation and Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. jonkerz ♠talk 16:11, 17 February 2012 (UTC)