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February 9

Global account username change

I was known as User:DCI2026 on all wikis until a few months ago, when my username on the English Wikipedia was changed to User:DCI. However, my other accounts still have the username "DCI2026." I've tried using Special:MergeAccounts to combine all of them, but that doesn't help at all. Do you have any idea how I can change all of my accounts to the username DCI? dci | TALK 00:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I think you need to rename each of them (that you want to keep) by requesting rename separately on each project and then unify them under the new name. You may have a problem renaming your Spanish Wikipedia account because there is a User:DCI (is that you?) on Spanish Wikipedia. —teb728 t c 00:19, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Could I successfully apply to change them all back to DCI2026? dci | TALK 01:47, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't know that there is any facility to change them all at once. However, rather than making a name change request with the admins at every project, you might make a list of the projects you are especially involved with and ask a m:steward to change you on each one (stewards, unlike admins, have the power to make such changes on multiple projects). I have found this page: m:Steward requests/Username changes but they seem to limit requests to only changes on wikis with no bureaucrats. You might try asking a friendly appearing steward who acts there anyway, explaining the problem.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:22, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I'm going to try this: I'm going to change my username here back to DCI2026. Then, I can consolidate all of the accounts using MergeAccount, and see if I can get a steward or bureaucrat somewhere on Wikimedia to change everything to DCI, usurping the dormant Spanish and Chinese "DCI" accounts that have no connection whatsoever to me. dci | TALK 02:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Google 'Define British Person'

If you google 'Define British Person', the top entry is a vulgar profanity, and perhaps the most offensive word in the English language. The first link brings you here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt

If it is possible to pervert wikipedia in such a way, then it is wide open for any kind of abuse.

Does anyone know how to stop this, and remove the offensive smut from the 'Define British person' problem?

PS. I am actually of Franco-German descent.

Contact Google about it. - Purplewowies (talk) 00:28, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

See also #Definition on Wiki of "Evil" above (or Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 February 7#Definition on Wiki of "Evil" when it gets archived). Wikipedia is not perverted just because that article happens to be shown by Google on a particular search. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not associated with Google. However, what you are describing could be a result of the quite sad bombing of Google. 71.146.12.197 (talk) 05:27, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Just to clarify: the problem is on Google's end, not Wikipedia. Try this imperfect analogy: If you get in a taxicab and ask the driver to take you to church, and instead you end up at the pub, you don't blame the pub for being where your church is supposed to be, you blame the taxi driver for taking you to the wrong place. Google is the taxi driver that took you to the wrong place. Ask them to fix it. --Jayron32 05:31, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

What template to use?

If I wanted to copy the information in a section into another article, and I wanted to gain consensus first, what template should I use to notify users of the copy proposal? I thought about {{merge}}, but I wasn't sure if that was right. - Purplewowies (talk) 01:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Which section and other article? Would you keep everything in the original article after it had been copied? PrimeHunter (talk) 02:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Specifically, I wanted to copy the "Today" section of History of deaf education in the United States to the article Education of the deaf, since the destination article doesn't really have much of an explanation of the various methods. The source section will probably have the other methods that it currently doesn't have added before copying. Right now, I'm unsure whether it would be best to leave the original section alone after copying or to shorten it to cover the bare basics. - Purplewowies (talk) 02:18, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

There is no process like merging or splitting for copying material from one page to another. Just note it in the edit summary making the copy, with a link to the original article. However, making a pure copy does not sound ideal to me here, and the two versions would probably evolve differently unless somebody monitors the articles and copies each change. Wikipedia:Summary style may be relevant instead. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:49, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Referencing

How can I add reference to article? --Master Sun Tzu (talk) 01:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Read Referencing for Beginners to start. If you have more questions after that, let us know. RudolfRed (talk) 02:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Untitled section

Dear Sir,

With great pleasure I log on to Wiki every morning and read an article and quite regularly am blown away with the facts of the world. Today, I decided to read about hydroelectric dams but have come to note that perhaps the articles on the The Gorges Dam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam) as well as the list of largest hydroelectric power stations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_power_stations) may need to be updated. For example, the list of the largest hydroelectric power stations article states that it is only on plants with capacity larger than 2,000 MW are listed. I read that the Bakun Dam in Malaysia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakun_Dam) is planned to generate 2,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity once completed and it came online on 6 August 2011. Shouldn't the Bakun Dam then be included in your article on the list? And the Three Gorges Dam article states that six additional turbines in the underground power plant were not expected to become fully operational until mid-2011, which was six months ago. Has there been any new developments?

Wiki is amazing. Thank you for enlightening the world :)

Have a great day! Salmah Ariff (talk) 04:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

If you see something that needs to be improved, please Be Bold and fix it. You just need to find a reliable source for the information and add it to the article. RudolfRed (talk) 04:49, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Need help on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion

I received a Wikipedia:Articles for deletion for my three articles I created List of plasma (physics) articles, List of laser articles and list of infrared articles but I cannot find out how they determine if the article should be deleted, I checked deletion process and some others, is it based on it's votes or Wikipedia rules which is more important. And where can I send some kinda request to undo it, because they qualify WP:LIST. If it gets deleted do these articles get another chance.Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 04:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Regarding your “If it gets deleted do these articles get another chance” question, you should read Wikipedia's policy on recreating articles that have already been deleted. 71.146.12.197 (talk) 05:15, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Math codes

Is there any page which can help me on <math></math> codes. I want to add an example, and I need a help page for these tags? --Extra999 (talk) 05:21, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

See Help:Displaying a formula. --Jayron32 05:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thxx. --Extra999 (talk) 05:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

How do you display a Coat of Arms in an InfoBox?

I'm editing the Article on Beta Beta Beta, which is an honor society and academic fraternity for biology majors. I can not seem to display Triple Beta's Coat of Arms in the InfoBox, as is consistent with other Articles on Greek-initialed organizations (academic as well as social or service). (See Articles on Alpha Epsilon Delta and Sigma Tau Delta for support of that argument.)

I have a copy of the Coat of Arms saved, and I do believe this would fall under fair use for informational/educational purposes. The question is: How do I upload it so that it displays? The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 07:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I see you have uploaded files to Commons. Upload the crest to Wikipedia (not Commons), and use the crest=[[File:"image name"]] parameter of the infobox to display it. —teb728 t c 07:35, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

And use {{non-free logo}} for the tag and {{non-free use rationale logo}} for the non-free use rationale. —teb728 t c 07:53, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I want to congratulate El Willstro for understanding the difference between a coat of arms and a crest (heraldry). I'm sorry that so sound (and helpful) an editor as teb728 does not know the difference; but it's an incredibly widespread confusion. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC) (I geek heraldry)

I'd just like to say it is a tough fight. I'm on the National History Committee for my fraternity and the National Office *still* uses the term Crest when they should say Coat of Arms.Naraht (talk) 17:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Whatever the design is called, the parameter in Template:Infobox fraternity is "crest". —teb728 t c 19:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Broken thumbnail

The approximate present-day distribution of the Indo-European branches within their homelands of Europe and Asia:

  Hellenic (Greek)

  Indo-Iranian

  Italic (includes Romance)

  Celtic

  Germanic

  Armenian

  Balto-Slavic (Baltic)

  Balto-Slavic (Slavic)

  Albanian

  Non-Indo-European languages

Dotted areas indicate where multilingualism is common.

This image's thumbnail at 300px only loads about a quarter of the way before stopping. 299px and 301px work fine. Is this happening for anyone else? I have tried purging with no success. Hayden120 (talk) 09:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes it's broken at my end too. BTW if it is a browser issue I'm using IE9 on WIN7. Roger (talk)

Fine for me - Firefox 8.0.1 on Vista -- John of Reading (talk) 10:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Yup, it appears to be fixed now... not sure what changed, but it's fixed. Thanks, Hayden120 (talk) 10:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

...Hmm, it appears to broken again. Odd. I'm using Google Chrome, for what it's worth. Hayden120 (talk) 02:51, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

I purged the page on commons (that took ages), then the file description page here, then this help desk page, and that seems to have fixed it again. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

why is my edit continuously deleted?

Is it bcos wikipedia is not for the truth but favours only biased one sided facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.109.125.128 (talk) 12:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

No, it isn't because of that. Wikipedia is based on the principles of verifiable information and neutral point of view If you could give us some idea of what edits you're talking about then someone might be able to explain why they were reverted. (IP has no contribution history apart from this entry.) AndrewWTaylor (talk) 12:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

A lack in Languages..

Hello to everyone,

I was looking for the poincare conjecture and because it would make more sense to me if i read it in my own language which is Greek i checked at the language stack on the left side of the screen and i was amazed when i figured out that there is no Greek there.

Is there anything we could do to change that even with my contribution??

Thanks for the understanding,

elliott kappa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elliott kappa (talk • contribs) 13:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The language links on the English wikipedia article point to articles on other wikipedia sites. Each language has its own instead of having lots of languages all on the same wikipedia. http://el.wikipedia.org is the Greek one. So you could search that site to see if there is an article on this topic--maybe it exists and just needs to be linked from the English one. For example, are any of these [1] a starting-point? If not, anyone could start to write the article on the Greek site. Maybe someone could help translating the English one? DMacks (talk) 14:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Translation and el:Βικιπαίδεια:Μεταφράσεις. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

There is an article el:Ανρί Πουανκαρέ about Poincaré himself, but that is only a stub and doesn't mention the conjecture, so it looks as if nobody has yet written an article on the conjecture in the Greek Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 11:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Glue

We are having trouble editing this page Araldite (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

We would like to update it as Araldite have some new details. When we have uploaded new content it keeps saying it has been deleted. How do we go about resolving this? Allaboutglue (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The links you are adding are contrary to Wikipedia's external links policy, which is why they keep being removed. Try discussing your additions on the article talkpage instead. Yunshui 雲‍水 14:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

In addition, your use of the pronoun "we" suggests that your account is being used by more than one person - this is not permitted; see the policy on usernames. Yunshui 雲‍水 14:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

... and you were also removing, without giving any reasons, existing material that was sourced to references. Please read about Wikipedia's policies on verifiability and reliable sources, and read WP:Referencing for beginners. If the existing material is sourced in that way, you need to give good reasons (in your edit summaries or on the article talk page) for removing it, and you need to ensure that anything you add in its place is adequately sourced. - David Biddulph (talk) 15:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

... and the material you are inserting is blatently promotional: "Araldite® in your daily life": "Recognized as the strongest and most durable adhesive in the consumer market,..." Please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. It looks to me like you are here for to promote this product; that is not is not permitted. —teb728 t c 19:54, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

User contributions

Where would I find the discussion on the recent changes to the template at the bottom of the "User contributions" page. Evidently a tool that I frequently used (edit count, and most importantly, pages created) was deleted from toolserver.org because of user inactivity. I would think there would be some discussion about this, but I'm evidently not bright enough to find it. Thanks! 78.26 (talk) 14:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Here [2] is the history of that page, so you can see who removed what and why. If a service is using an account or service via some third party and that account gets suspended or the tool somehow else becomes unusable, makes sense to me that it gets removed. Maybe someone else will pick up running one or more of those now-unavailable services? See Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#X!'s bots. DMacks (talk) 14:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks, that's just what I needed! For what it's worth, there's also discussion at the Village Pump. 78.26 (talk) 14:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Blue background

As i was browsing wikipedia, every single background changed to light blue as you can see from the picture attached. How can i go back to the classic white background? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cos93 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I see no picture attached. Your choice of skin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering can affect background color. The default Vector should be white. Do you also have blue background on articles like Dheftera or only on "Wikipedia:" pages like Wikipedia:Skin? If it's only the latter then you may have set the skin to MonoBook. You can also try to clear your entire cache. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry but i could not upload the picture. As per your question, every single Wikipedia page has a blue background and the default and selected skin is Vector. I tried clearing my cache, history and, cookies but nothing changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cos93 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Is it the same when you log out? Can you try another browser for comparison? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:40, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I tried with Interent Explorer and it works so I'm guessing the problem is because I am using a dev edition of Chrome.

That may be it. I just tested Google Chrome. It updated itself to 17.0.963.46, the current stable release, and I see white background on articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Uninstalled and re-installed Chrome everything works now. Thanks for your help Cos93 (talk) 22:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Double vote

Can some one block this sardar for casting double vote? --Repitile1 (talk) 17:56, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sherepunjab

he added a vote without a reason

making this ID to cast another vote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Gabrupunjabi

here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pakistan#Support

--Repitile1 (talk) 17:56, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I certainly don't see any suggestion that Sherepunjab (talk · contribs) and Gabrupunjabi (talk · contribs) are in fact the same person, even if they did !vote "support" in the RfC on Talk:Pakistan#Pakistan has been characterized as "failed state" from last 4 years. Do you have any evidence to warrant further investigation? Astronaut (talk) 18:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

See the time of vote for both ID and second ID was created after that and see the similarity in their account name both are Punjabi, from Indian Punjab from edit history of one as he is editing Sikh article. The second ID voted after I asked a reason at the poll. Both ID names mean almost same. --Repitile1 (talk) 18:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The place to report suspected sockpuppetry is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations. —teb728 t c 19:27, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The aim of Request for comment ensures WP:NOVOTE policy, so closing admin will certainly look into this. --SMS ^Talk 20:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Web Page Format

I don't know why but I get a weird format and font when I open Wikipedia recently. I'm talking just in termso of viewing the Wiki site.

I use Firefox 1.9.2.4410. It worked fine but just recently changed. Is there a way to get the default web page settings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.28.224.49 (talk) 18:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Try to clear your entire cache. If that doesn't work then try to describe more accurately what you see. Logged out users should always get default Wikipedia settings. Logged in users can change various things. You were not logged in when you posted here. Are you logged out when it happens? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Review

Hello. I have indicated a willingness to review Constantine Lekapenos and Stephen Lekapenos at GAN. The author requested that the same reviewer perform both reviews, as "the bulk of the text" is the same in each. I have found this to be true after reading both of the articles, and am a bit confused. In the case that both are of GA quality, I don't feel that I should promote two of the same thing to a more exclusive category. So, I'm wondering if I ought to suspend the review, propose a merge of both articles, and then go back to reviewing? What do you think? dci | TALK 18:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Revision History Statistics Broken?

The revision history statistics link from the view history page seems to be broken for all articles. What happened? — Preceding unsigned comment added by KlappCK (talk • contribs) 19:01, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The owner (User:X!) of the tool's account on the Toolserver retired from Wikipedia, so his account expired. I'm certain it will get fixed sooner or later. jonkerz ♠talk 19:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

It said soxred93 on my machine? thanks for the reply though.KlappCK (talk) 19:26, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

soxred93 is one of his other nicknames. I forgot to post the links to other discussions: #User contributions, Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#"Edit count" and "Articles created" links and Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#X!'s bots. jonkerz ♠talk 19:28, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

trouble with code

I am having trouble removing code from a sidebar on this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Melapatella/Manoj_Bhargava

Can you please help? Thank you, Melanie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melapatella (talk • contribs) 19:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed, here is a link showing how it was done. jonkerz ♠talk 19:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Unable to locate article in search function

I was able to find the below links via a Google search but when I search within Wiki for either "Chicago Human Rhythm Project" or "Lane Alexander" neither article appear. How can I make them searchable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CHRProject/Chicago_Human_Rhythm_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CHRProject/Lane_Alexander

I tried to add a redirect on the article but that didn't help.

I also noticed a Red link reference to Chicago Human Rhythm Project in another article (see below) but the link shows as "page does not exist"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Brown_%28dancer%29

Thanks, Bridget 19:55, 9 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CHRProject (talk • contribs)

User:CHRProject/Chicago Human Rhythm Project and User:CHRProject/Lane Alexander are userspace drafts; you have not published them to article space. —teb728 t c 20:07, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

BTW, your username is problematic because it seems to indicate a connection to the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. Your username should represent you as an individual. —teb728 t c 20:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Broken edit statistics

I have used http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Mortense&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia for a few years to get an overview and statistics of my edits. But today I got this message:

403: User account expired

The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user soxred93, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block requests to expired content.

If you think you are receiving this page in error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this document: soxred93 [at] toolserver [dot] org. (Please do not contact Toolserver administrators about this problem, as we cannot fix it—only the Toolserver account owner may renew their account.)

Is there a chance it will come back into operation? Or is there an alternative? --Mortense (talk) 20:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

See This discussion at the Village Pump for more information. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 20:45, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

You can alternatively use: http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Mortense&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia , which displays the correct stats. --Extra999 (talk) 04:19, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

User John Petrov's image source website seems to be getting deleted

Looking at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chesmabattle.jpg, I tried going to the link for the Source/Photographer, and at that link it says his material has been deleted and he has 30 days to undelete it. This may be OK, but I thought it might be useful to let him know in case it is an oversight.

I don't know how to find other users on Wikipedia. I think I found him on LiveJournal, so I signed up there just for the purpose of sending him a note, but can't send him notes there without paying. So it's up to you! :D

Good luck, and I hope this is helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gar37bic (talk • contribs) 21:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

You refer to http://lj.rossia.org/users/john_petrov/491883.html. I haven't found signs that John Petrov is a Wikimedia user. [3] shows many images have been copied from http://lj.rossia.org/users/john_petrov but by different users. One of them made this post: [4]. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Republicanism in the United States--a bright shining lie masquerading as an encyclopedia article

I call on honest american wikipedia admins to get involved and prevent a takeover of wikipedia by paid rightwing flacks, for example in this article. A real patriot wouldn't write this squeaky-clean whitewashing pap. It's obviously written to be associated in the mind of the reader with the Repubnlican party. My guess is the authors are the "scholars" at the American Enterprise Institute.--Richard Peterson198.189.194.129 (talk) 21:22, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I may be the person who has brought the most Republicans to FA, but I have never dealt with party philosophy. Can you leave your objections on the article talk page?--Wehwalt (talk) 21:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, this is an issue about content of the article, now with how Wikipedia works. You'd be welcome to discuss on the article's talk page where you think the article is "white-washing" things, as long as you don't turn it into a forum or political discussion. --McDoobAU93 21:32, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

No it's not just about the content, it's also about how wikipedia works, which is why I wrote the above. Many articles are swamped with teams of paid contributors. If that is going to be adequately dealt with, note has to be taken at places like the help desk, where admins from many specialties hang out. This is a wikipedia-wide issue and shouldn't be fenced off in a "free speech zone" like a talk page. To Wehwalt: What is "FA"? Thanks. 198.189.194.129 (talk) 21:58, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

With all due respect, it is indeed what's on the page. If you have an issue with it, raise it on the talk page. Or, better yet, be bold and make the appropriate changes. Better still, since I'm sure there are just as many "leftwing flacks" (to use your term) as there are "rightwing flacks", maybe this belongs on the Village Pump instead. --McDoobAU93 22:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Where are you getting this information that articles are "swamped with... paid contributors"? I thought Wikipedia was (basically) against paid contributors, since they usually have a COI. Also, for the meaning of FA, see WP:FA. One more thing: this isn't the main place you would take something up with a admin. In fact, only one out of the three (including myself) who have replied to you is an admin. I'm a non-admin contributor who does not get paid to contribute. - Purplewowies (talk) 22:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I looked up WP:FA and i had actually thought of FA as "featured article" before, but his (Wehwalt's)sentence didn't make sense to me if he meant featured article and it still doesn't. ... Yes, with all due respect I think it's more than just the article, it's the wikipedia project and its perversion, which is an issue that doesn't belong only on an isolated talk page. Yes, almost all of us, including me, are unpaid contributors. But "almost all wikipedians", since there are perhaps 300,000 frequent wikipedians, doesn't preclude large numbers of teams of focused, paid flacks, each team of which can readily control an article. Also, I don't think there are as many, if any at all, paid leftwing flacks on wikipedia. Because for one, there isn't someone to pay them. I do appreciate and thank you all for your responses.--Richard Peterson198.189.194.129 (talk) 03:25, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Local info

At some point recently, I thought I saw that there was an effort to have more local information on Wikipedia, i.e less notable info. I think there was a project for a particular city (I know that there are wikiprojects for various cities, that's not what I'm talking about). It seemed to me to be like a local wiki, but on mediawiki servers. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?Greg Bard (talk) 21:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by mediawiki servers. A wiki is a type of website. MediaWiki is our wiki software. It is also used by thousands of unrelated external wikis. Wikipedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation which runs several other projects with MediaWiki. Do you mean it was a wiki using MediaWiki, or a project run on Wikimedia servers? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I mean it is being hosted on Wikimedia Foundation websites, not something like WikiSpot.Greg Bard (talk) 21:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps you saw Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA which has been in the news recently. MilborneOne (talk) 22:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. That is exactly what I was looking for! Now I am wondering if there is a different standard of notability for this type of thing (Monmouth has only about 8000 people), and how I can start one for a community I care about.Greg Bard (talk) 22:16, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The stuff I've been seeing the Monmouthers add has mostly been things like listed buildings and other features that are pretty clearly notable. (It's a small town, but it has plenty of history.) The U.S. equivalent would be NRHP sites, I suppose, which are also almost always considered notable. I don't think anybody wants every local Thai restaurant or anything; the usual rules for notability apply even for such local projects. Deor (talk) 00:12, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

check my work?

I'm looking to post a autobiography for a living musician and am doing so with his permission. my previous page was deleted and I'm not sure why? can any one review this and give me some tips? this is my first time on wiki so I'm flying blind here! thankyou

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lharriet1 (talk • contribs) 23:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Previously deleted:

• 01:01, 25 July 2009 Alexf (talk | contribs) deleted "Macario De Souza" ‎ (A7: No indication that the article may meet guidelines for inclusion) &
• 08:34, 7 March 2008 Jmlk17 (talk | contribs) deleted "Macario De Souza" ‎ (A7 (group): Group/band/club/company/etc; doesn't indicate importance/significance)

References should be Independent Reliable sources. Dru of Id (talk) 23:57, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't see any indication of why he would be notable enough for an article. —teb728 t c 00:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Also note that autobiography is strongly discouraged here, and so is editing to publicize a friend, lover, relative, client, boss, etc.. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:16, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

February 10

How to reply in the Talk section

How do you indent your reply so that it is discernible from other text. Does it have to be done manually?
Many thanks

AnkhMorpork 00:03, 10 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnkhMorpork (talk • contribs)

At the beginning of your post, add one more colon than appears at the beginning of the post you're replying to. (Hit the edit button for this section to see how I did it.) Deor (talk) 00:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

See more at Help:Using talk pages. Your signature is not working correctly. The easiest fix is probably to uncheck "Treat the above as wiki markup" at Special:Preferences. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:19, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Spammy links

I was doing research for a paper and it looks like some law firm put spammy links into the labor law page

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

In the notes section #1 to #15 notes all have some relevancy that points to the article however from #16 to #23 all these links are all tied to the same firm - or it appears that way because #16 is the law firm and the number #18 to #23 all have point to another site that has that #16 law firms banner on the site...

I would change it myself but I can't seem to find a way to edit the links

I was curious if that firm had spammed other parts of Wikipedia and I found a bunch of other links linking the finduslaw.com where that firm has a banner. When I do a whois look up to see who owns that domain I can't be sure it's owned by the law firm in Question but it seems awfully fishy when the only firm mentioned on that finduslaw.com is the spammy lawfirm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Finduslaw.com

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.66.2.45 (talk) 01:51, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia has some noticeboards which may be more focused in helping you with this issue. You may want to try asking this question at either the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard or Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. --Jayron32 04:40, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

And to edit those pesky references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:47, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

TORONTO ONTARIO

Toronto is NOT the capital of Canada: Ottawa is. The population in greater Toronto is now 5,000,000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.22.76 (talk) 05:47, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Did you see it written in a Wikipedia article that Toronto is the capital of Canada? If so, could you indicate which article had that in it? --Jayron32 05:53, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Who and When

Where do I look to find out who wrote the original article and when? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.254.252 (talk) 07:07, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Every page has a "View History" tab that lists all the changes. You can view the differences between the changes too. Roger (talk) 07:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

People often ask this because they want to cite a Wikipedia article in an external work. If that is the case then see Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:02, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Adding a citation

St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington

I wish to add a citation to the entry for one of the distinguished people associated with St Mary's Hospital Paddington London

Can you tell me in plain English what steps to take?

Many thanks 08:10, 10 February 2012 (UTC)08:10, 10 February 2012 (UTC)08:10, 10 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.202.191 (talk)

See WP:Referencing for beginners. If you want a more specific answer, you have to be more specific: Which person and what in plain English is your citation? —teb728 t c 08:32, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

advice notice of iten on Wikipedia

IS there anyway that we could be notified when someone submits anythink that can be viewed on yor website for Smith County Texas. There are current article appearing that need to be edited. Is there a possibility that the article could not be posted for 24 hours to allow us time to review for accuracy? Thanks

Harvy Tanner CTO - Smith County Texas <blanked> Tyler, TX 75702 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.76.24.206 (talk) 17:29, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

WP:WATCH. Any changes to the article will be posted as soon as the user hits the "save page" button. - Purplewowies (talk) 17:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

If you register an account with Wikipedia, then visit the article on Smith County, Texas and click the five-pointed star in the line of tabs at the top of the article, then whenever you log in to your registered account and click "My watchlist", you will see whether the article has been edited.

If you believe the article needs to be edited, then edit it when you are ready. Maproom (talk) 17:51, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

While we understand you may be attempting to maintain some kind of discretion, the mysterious and unclear tone of your message makes it difficult to help you. It's not like we can make long-distance calls to your office; we're just volunteers at keyboards, scattered all over the planet. Can you be more explicit about what you're trying to do or prevent, remembering that Wikipedia is not censored? --Orange Mike | Talk 17:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Mexican Built Sand Cats

Sand Cats are NOT built in Mexico never have been built in Mexico. The Mexican Army only modifies them to what they feel is needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.190.231.15 (talk) 19:57, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

I assume you are referring to this page. At present, the relevant paragraph is unsourced, so you are free to challenge the information and remove it yourself. I would suggest you find sources which detail exactly how Mexico uses Sand Cats, and insert that information into the article. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 20:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

deactivate of an account

How can someone deactivate his/her account?thank youSunnystars (talk) 19:58, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

You can't but you do have the right to vanish. – ukexpat (talk) 20:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

So Where is Rule 16 ??

Refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Civil_Procedure

This link takes me to a discussion about the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for civil actions. I am looking for in formation about Rule 16 of it. the outline has discussion about all of the Rules but 16. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.140.5 (talk) 21:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Here are all the rules: [5]. If you see something missing from the Wikipedia article, you should Be Bold and add it. RudolfRed (talk) 21:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Mysterious file disappearances.

The article about The Concordia Choir contains sudden red links for images. I have taken a cursory look at the deletion logs and it does not appear that the images were deleted. Moreover, the image pages themselves don't seem to indicate any historical changes. Even stranger is article Paul J. Christiansen, in which an image apparently does not exist but is displayed on the article nonetheless. This same image appears as a red link on the Concordia College article. Thoughts? NTox | talk 22:54, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

The files were deleted at commons:. If you click a missing file such as File:Paul-J-Christiansen-1-.jpg then the top of the page says "Deletion logs: Wikipedia / Commons". The Concordia College article had not been edited since the image was deleted. I purged the article and the displayed image was replaced by a red link. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:07, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. NTox | talk 23:10, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

User:Goalieman11 recently changed [[Image:Concordia-choir-st-paul-cathedral.jpg|thumb|380px|right|The Concordia Choir at St. Paul's Cathedral in London]] & [[Image:Cord-living water.JPG|thumb|380px|left|''Come to the Living Water'', the 2007 Concordia Christmas Concert]];, which can be reverted or re-inserted. Dru of Id (talk) 23:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Before purging, the article was able to display http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Paul-J-Christiansen-1-.jpg/300px-Paul-J-Christiansen-1-.jpg which was apparently not removed when commons:File:Paul-J-Christiansen-1-.jpg was deleted.[6] I don't know whether this is normal. PrimeHunter (talk)

I have revomed the redlinks from the article. --Extra999 (talk) 04:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

...and that post inspired a quick search and this edit -- John of Reading (talk) 09:45, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

February 11

Wrong date

You have the wrong date of — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.82.64.17 (talk) 01:27, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Wrong date for what? Which article? When you report a problem, you need to give as much detail as possible, otherwise, it can't get fixed. RudolfRed (talk) 02:32, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

If you are talking about the date header immediately above your post: Wikipedia is a project used in all the world’s time zones. For a project-wide time we use Coordinated Universal Time. This means that for location of west longitude the date changes early, and for east longitude it changes late. —teb728 t c 03:27, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

The Ox-Bow Incident

I found an error in "The Ox-Bow Incident" article and have zero idea how to fix it. In the section which lists all of the cast members, Matt Briggs is listed as Judge Daniel Tyler. When one clicks on the Matt Briggs link, it takes you to a Matt Briggs born in 1970, a writer -- certainly NOT the person who played the judge in the 1943 movie. I then tried a search just to see if the correct Matt Briggs was in Wikipedia, but there isn't another one who is listed. I wouldn't know how to change the name from the blue hyperlink to what it should be --- in red? In regular black? Is there really a link to the correct Matt Briggs and it's easily fixed? I am hoping someone reading this WILL know how to correct it and will do so. Thank you for your attention. Johngalt2788 (talk) 01:30, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. I replaced [[Matt Briggs]] with [[Matt Briggs (actor)|Matt Briggs]]. This changes the link to Matt Briggs (actor) while keeping (actor) from showing behind his name. Jarkeld (talk) 01:58, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

ip redirect

I'm being redirected to the Spanish wikipedia even though I have "en" as my preferred language on my browser. I think it is because of my IP address.

How do I avoid it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.141.238.83 (talk) 01:56, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

What are you entering that gets you to Spanish Wikipedia? A Google search? A favorite of http://www.wikipedia.org/? or what? Does a favorite of http://en.wikipedia.org/ get you to English Wikipedia? —teb728 t c 02:27, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

I use the search engine from Opera:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

--201.141.238.83 (talk) 05:43, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

That search targets the English-language Wikipedia. For the Spanish-language Wikipedia try http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Buscar?search=%s -- John of Reading (talk) 09:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Are you referring to the search box in the upper right corner of the Opera browser? Are you sure the address is set to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s with en and not es at the start? Click the little triangle in the search box, "Manage Search Engines...", select Wikipedia, click "Edit", click "Details", and check that the Address field says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s. The Query string field is not needed. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:15, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Exactly, it's that box. I double checked and it seems that Opera changed it to the Spanish Wikipedia when I upgraded it. My bad.

Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.141.238.83 (talk) 21:10, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

michael socha

Hi I noticed that there was no reference to Michael socha being in shank, why is that and can u put something on his page please? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.127.126 (talk) 04:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

A good place to propose that would be Talk:Michael Socha. —teb728 t c 06:19, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Finding why a file was deleted

Hi, I know I have asked a similar question before, but I'm afraid I forgot the answer. In http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scrabble&action=edit&oldid=310631066 there is a reference to a file "scrabble board in play.jpg". How do I find when, why and by whom this was deleted? 86.160.210.161 (talk) 04:31, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

The file was deleted here because the same image was on the commons with the same name. If you click on File:Scrabble board in play.jpg you can see the deletion log. The file was deleted on Commons because it was derivative work. You can click here, commons:File:Scrabble board in play.jpg, to see the deletion log and here, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Scrabble board in play.jpg: to see the deletion request on commons. GB fan 04:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

GB fan means Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Scrabble board in play.jpg. How about an admin undeleting the local File:Scrabble board in play.jpg? —teb728 t c 06:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Originally I tried going to Scrabble board in play.jpg, but I did not see any deletion log, just a message "You must be logged in to upload files...". File:Scrabble board in play.jpg is exactly the same: no log, just an error message. Any ideas why that would be? I think this is what happened before, and this is why I got confused, but I don't recall the explanation... 86.160.210.161 (talk) 12:54, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Red links take you to a creation page; but only logged in users can create a page. That is why you get the message. For a previously deleted page, logged in users sometimes get a deletion log to suggest that the not recreate a deleted page. BTW Scrabble board in play.jpg is not a file but the title of an article that has never existed. —teb728 t c 17:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, it seems that the file has now been undeleted.* But, pursuing the original question, is there no way then for non-logged-in users to tell if an image has been deleted, and, if so, see the log? I'm sure I used to be able to do that. I've remembered that one method might have been to click on "what links here" and look for the log, but now I don't seem to see that option for non-existent files. 86.160.210.161 (talk) 18:08, 11 February 2012 (UTC) *Well, the image was visible (twice, very large) on this page when I previewed my reply, but now it's gone again. Not sure what is going on...

THe actual images went away because a : was put infront of the filename, that makes it a link rather than the image showing. GB fan 18:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

If you go to Special:Log and then put the name of the page or file into the Target box you can see all the logs for that page. GB fan 18:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

...or Commons:Special:Log for Commons —teb728 t c 18:31, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

I have undeleted it but tagged it for delayed deletion. The public domain tag was not appropriate since it is derivative work so it needs a fair use rationale and it needs to be used in an article or it will be deleted again. GB fan 18:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, and thanks for the links to Special:Log and Commons:Special:Log. That must have been what I used before. It saddens me that so many images are deleted from Wikipedia just for want of a box-ticking exercise. What seems to happen over and over again (though I'm not clear if this is exactly the case here) is that someone forgot to tick the right box when they loaded the image in 2004, then five years later someone puts a notice on that user's talk page (who's long since gone), and when there is no response in a week, just deletes the image, without making any attempt to complete the administrative procedures themselves. It's crazy. So much has already been lost this way. 86.160.210.161 (talk) 20:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

This is more than a box ticking exercise. It is a case of an editorial decision on the scabble article. Someone who is familiar with that article will have to decide if the image is appropriate for the article today. If it is decided the image is beneficial to the article then someone will have to explain how it meets all the Fair use criteria. Since I have never edited the scrabble article before and don't know much about scrabble I am not the person to do those things. If you are interested in the article you have the ability to update the article and do the fair use statement. GB fan 23:12, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Auto Confirmed

Hello,

I have been using Wikipedia for greater than 5 years and I am a donor. I cannot seem to become confirmed so that I may upload images. I have created Gamma Spectrograms (very difficult) to add to the Uranium pages and I cannot figure out how to become "allowed" to upload. I have made edits before and my account is older than ten days.

What must I do to contribute my content?  :(

P.S. I have read the how-to's and I still am at a loss, which is probably my fault. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lotus253 (talk • contribs) 05:00, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Auto-confirmed status is granted after ten edits and 4 days on a named account. —Jeremy v^_^v ^Bori! 05:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

You could ask to be confirmed in WP:PERM or you can simply make 7 more edits to any articles to be auto confirmed.--Hallows AG (talk) 05:40, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

If you cannot think of any good edits to make, you'll soon find some spelling mistakes to fix if you use one of the searches at Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/P. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:33, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Admin upsurping power

Hi,

If a Wiki Administrator is using overusing their power is there a process to revoke their rights?

Mike Rosoft (review of his talk) page has shown disturbing trends.

I am asking Wiki for help in fixing this. I am losing faith quickly that this Wiki admin is not bias. Also, because this event was reported in the news and on many different stations, I am perplexed why it could be remotely considered "unnotable".

What can I do?

Thanks! TS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87truthseeker78 (talk • contribs) 09:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

This appears to be related to recent edits at Brentwood High School (Brentwood, Pennsylvania) which attempted to add sensationalized news reports regarding an incident by stupid kids. All schools have students that occasionally run amok and an encyclopedia (Wikipedia) should not be used to record such incidents. If a reliable secondary source writes about a string of incidents relating to the school (that is, showing a trend over an extended period), then a mention in the article might be worthwhile, but not now. Re the question, a genuine incident would be raised at WP:ANI but reporting this event would not obtain the desired result. Johnuniq (talk) 09:41, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

The problem of this article has indeed been reported at ANI, and another admin has semi-protected the article to prevent further disruption. - David Biddulph (talk) 09:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

• The content I had removed was written in an unencyclopedic manner: one part of the section attacked the school on its handling of the incident, the other argued against the first. That's not the way to write encyclopedic articles. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 09:53, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

What to do with a particular redirect?

Would it be considered a good idea to add WP:POOP to the shortcuts at the target page? If not, which of the criteria at WP:RFD#DELETE would apply to this redirect? Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 12:19, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Nothing has to be done. Many shortcuts are not listed on their target page and that's OK. You can click "What links here" and then "Hide links" (sometimes also "Hide transclusions") to see all the redirects: [7]. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:45, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 15:10, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

major religion

The major religion in Nepal is Hinduism, Buddhism comes in second rank. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.218.188.43 (talk) 12:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that's what Nepal#Religion and Religion in Nepal say. If you have seen a Wikipedia article saying otherwise then please name it. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Can I write an article about Gaynor Sports, Ambleside. UK

Hi Can I write an overview on Gaynor Sports? They are the best known and longest serving retailer of "outdoor" leisure products in the UK? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.170.211.254 (talk) 13:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

You can, provided you have access to independent reliable sources. If you are personally connected to the subject (work there or the boss is your brother, etc) please take note of the conflict of interest guidelines. The article you write may not contain anything that promotes the subject and must be written from a neutral point of view. Roger (talk) 13:37, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Undo move

As a non-admin, can I undo this move, and, if so, how?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:28, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

The redirect created by the move has no other page history [8]. This means any autoconfirmed user can move the page back. There is no "undo" link for moves. You can make a new move and choose the old title. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:40, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) WP:MOVE#Undoing a move says you can go to Special:Log, where it says "Target (title or user)" type in Shoeing and then click revert. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 15:46, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Having virtually no experience in moves, let alone "unmoves", I feel uncomfortable. What I'm really doing is challenging the move by the other user. Is there a good way to address this without my just doing what PH says or what TY says? It doesn't help that the move I am unhappy with was done by an admin (not as an administrative function, though - the admin was involved), either. Reading the section linked to by TY even addresses "move wars". Recommendations?--Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

You could make a formal move request, maybe starting with something like:

== Requested move ==
{{subst:requested move|Shoeing}} The move from ''shoeing'' to here was under discussion but was moved two days ago before consensus had been reached (see conversation above), so I am seeking more input through this request....(and continuing here with your rationale for your preferred title).--~~~~

Completely apart from this advice about how to dispute the move, I think the move to the current list title makes sense. Unless you could show that shoeing is not a neologism, the subject needs a descriptive title and it does appear to me to be a list of shoe throwing incidents predominantly. I don't like shoe throwing as a title because that could be about any shoe throwing, failing to capture the boundaries of the subject as a descriptive title (though the idea at the discussion that this falls afoul of WP:NOTDICT I cannot make sense of at all; that addresses content, not titles).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:46, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much, Fughettaboutit, both for the suggested approach and the substantive comments. I'll ponder on the issue a bit more. My problem is I often get hung up on procedural fairness rather than whether the ultimate result is "correct".--Bbb23 (talk) 17:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

You're most welcome, and don't let my comments stop you. Discussion is good.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Random page, but with guidelines?

The "Random Article" link will serve up a random Wikipedia article, no matter what it is. Many times, I get a stub or disambiguation page. Is there a random page selector that will only choose from a certain type of article? For example, if I wanted a random article that was not a stub? RudolfRed (talk) 20:16, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Right, or you get one of the 50,000 articles in the series "bus stops of the USA", or whatever it might be. I've often thought there should be a "Random Interesting Article" feature! 86.160.210.161 (talk) 20:26, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 61#Random Article improvement.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney is a footballer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.88.233.130 (talk) 20:41, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes he is, and we have an article on him at Wayne Rooney.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:50, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedias help desk. There is an article about Wayne Rooney when you click here. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the article, feel free to edit it (click here to read more) or you can make suggestions on its talk page here. You might also want to read this page containing some introductory information regarding Wikipedia. Best. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 20:55, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Green and Red numbers on My Watchlist

(diff | hist) . . User talk:AnkhMorpork‎; 19:38 . . (+784) . . Dlv999 (talk | contribs)‎

Does this mean 784 people have viewed this edit?
Best Wishes

AnkhMorpork (talk) 20:49, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

It means that 784 bytes were added in the edit. If it was red then it would have a - sign before it and mean that 784 bytes were removed in the edit. See also Help:Watching pages#How to read a watchlist. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:54, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Jordan McCabe

You really need to add Jordan McCabe to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.10.64.202 (talk) 21:02, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Who is Jordan McCabe? If he is notable (and therefore covered in reliable sources), then you can use Articles for creation to submit an article. Alternatively, you can follow the instructions at Requested articles to request an article's creation. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 21:52, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Unreviewed article

Resolved

In an article I created in December, I still have a template identifying it as an unreviewed new article, although several editors have already made contributions. How can I get rid of this template? Clicking on 'ask for feedback' leads to a service which is not active. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sw1818 (talk • contribs) 21:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done I've removed the template. WP:FEED is an inactive project due to the lack of contributors giving reviews--Hallows AG (talk) 22:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Blue type overused

Everyone at Wikipedia does great work. Why is it necessary to use so many blue words that are not really links at all? "Bluing" a word for a defination of that word is not necessary. It probably matters to no one but myself, but there you have it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.12.68 (talk) 22:52, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

The Manual of Style guideline is at WP:MOSLINK#Overlinking and underlinking. If you find an overlinked article, you could add a {{overlinked}} tag at the top. —teb728 t c 00:03, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Bureaucrat criteria

Hi. I'm wondering if it's necessary to be an admin to submit an RfB. I'm not considering either, but I was just curious after reviewing various Wikipedia processes. dci | TALK 23:12, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

There is no official restriction - non-admins can apply for Bureaucratship. However, it is generally accepted that someone who is not an admin will not become a 'crat, seeing as they will have no experience of adminship. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 23:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

February 12

Admin needed for protected template

Hello. Following this discussion via WP:SOAPS - changes need to be made to the Template:Infobox soap character. Following the discussion that was live for two weeks the outcome was that one colour should be used for the template. To make it more consistent the colour should now be matched to Template:Infobox soap character 2 - This template is protected, so could an Admin remove the option of the color field and ensure that the template uses only #cccfff - this will then match the second infobox.Rain the 1 00:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

MAGPIE article weird statistics results

This MAGPIE Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments article has about 38000 views on the traffic statistics every month, compared to Plasma (physics) which has around 90000 views, which means it is half as popular as the plasma article. Plus this article was created in 2009, but it has statistics views since 2007 how is that possible. Most people don't even know about this MAGPIE article, so how is getting a lot of views just curious to know. It hasn't been edited or added any new info, is someone just clicking on it that many times a day? The traffic statistics could be hacked. Magpie is also a bird which has around 37000, even if this article was popular is has little info som most people would not keep going back to it, and the articles that have links to it get less than a 1000 views a month. Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 01:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/MAGPIE for MAGPIE shows exactly the same numbers as http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Magpie for Magpie. It appears the tool cannot distinguish between the different capitalizations. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:33, 12 February 2012 (UTC)