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Guess the topic of the three millionth article at the [[wikipedia:three-millionth topic pool]]! [[User Talk:Stevage|Stevage]] 05:01, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Guess the topic of the three millionth article at the [[wikipedia:three-millionth topic pool]]! [[User Talk:Stevage|Stevage]] 05:01, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


Woah woah woah there chums!
==Photos at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry==

Does anyone have a photo of the Travel Air Mystery Ship "Texaco 13" that is on display at the museum. I would like to use a PD image to illustrate an article on [[Frank Monroe Hawks|Frank Hawks]]. FWiW [[User:Bzuk|Bzuk]] ([[User talk:Bzuk|talk]]) 21:04, 4 July 2009 (UTC).
There's an awful lot of balls here about actual pumps, plunger and that sort of guff! Would one of you 'city dwellers' mind teaching an old bumpkin what an an old pump has to do with the internet these days? It just brings me back to the days of the water shortage in the 70's when we had to queue up for our damn water. Never used to socialise around the things though; s'uppose that's some kind of foreign expression.


== Invitation to our conference in august. Also wikipedia is a topic ==
== Invitation to our conference in august. Also wikipedia is a topic ==

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Technical Issue

I’m really unsure where to discuss this, so I’m leaving it here to be forwarded to the appropriate parties:

Look past the fact that this link is to a fictional person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Star_Wars_character#Ditto_.22height.22

The discussion link above mentions that personal attributes such as those seen on any standard Personal Information Document (drivers licenses, wanted posters, etc) do not, in fact, appear on ANY page on individual persons (for example, [Ghandi|Mahatma GANDHI] in any orderly fashion; I submit that revamping the personal tables (where the picture usually is located) with exactly this information (height, weight, eye color, hair color, race, ethnicity, religious preference, etc) should be included, with “Unknown” or “Not Applicable” when appropriate (with Unknown as the default/placeholder entry). There will be those that say such information is irrelevant; I submit to you that it is precisely relevant. In GHANDI’S case, for example, his passive (non-violent) policies were sculpted by his experiences in early life (that violence only brought more violence in turn) and his religious upbringing. Those that feel it’s “not worth the effort” should leave their laziness elsewhere, and not waste other people’s time if they don’t wish to assist in the process. (Yes, I’ve seen that excuse before as well.)71.34.70.201 (talk) 19:29, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[1][reply]


Cheesepuff

I made a template called Template:Cheesepuff but no one is using it. How can I make it more popular? Please don't ban me for editing pages because I adding wrong stuff to a page once before I made an account. Dipotassitrimanganate (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 15:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC). Dipotassitrimanganate (talk) 15:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC) 15:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think part of the problem is that no one, perhaps for the exception of you, knows what it means or finds it funny? — Frecklefσσt | Talk 16:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How do you plan to deal with an Ilbas (e.g., "'Ilbas,' creamed Peter; he was turning into a creamery, and said 'Ilbas' a lot.")? Btw, an Ilbas is someone who says "Ilbas" frequently or inappropriately. 24.6.146.73 (talk) 06:41, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A better way to treat certain redirects

Today I found these two redirect pages redirecting to two DIFFERENT articles:

That should not happen and I fixed it. I've seen this situation maybe a couple of dozen times before—most recently on January 23rd, 2009, when I found these two redirecting to two DIFFERENT articles:

A bot cannot decide what pages things like this ought to redirect to, if any, but I would think a bot could be constructed to

  • find things like this;
  • make a list of them so that Wikipedians can go down the list and find those within their competence and fix them;
  • possibly call them to the attention of the appropriate WikiProjects based on the target articles' category tags.

I know nothing about writing bots. So (1) Can this be done; (2) Should it be done; (3) Are there persons skilled in writing bots whom we should enlist to work on this? Michael Hardy (talk) 22:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And this is even worse: After posting the above, I found that these two went to different targets:
That's the difference between a hyphen and an ndash. Michael Hardy (talk) 22:10, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This page is actually for discussing the village pump instructions etc, you probably want to post your suggestion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). The suggestion looks like a good idea (generating a list of close matches with different redirects), perhaps you can get someone from Wikipedia:Bot requests to implement it, or contact a bot operator directly - probably someone with toolserver access or a database dump would be best.--Commander Keane (talk) 23:28, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK---I actually hadn't noticed that this is the talk page. Michael Hardy (talk) 01:26, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where did Wilhelm Dilthey die?

For those familiar with the history of South Tyrol. It is certain that Wilhelm Dilthey, God bless his soul, died on 1 October, 1911, but it is less certain where he died. Did he die in

It is easy to commit an anachronism here. What do the WP regulations say about cases such as this? Gun Powder Ma (talk) 17:48, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You always go with the naming and ownership of the place at the time of birth/death. It appears to me that the town was part of Austria-Hungary in 1911. As for which name to use, that's a problem for the South Tyrol folks to figure out, I know there's a linguistic question there, but not (so far as I can tell) an anachronistic one. If it's anachronistic, and positively only one name was being used in 1911, then it should be a simple answer. --Golbez (talk) 04:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Project Idea

We have featured pictures, articles, and portals. Why not have a featured project? Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:28, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Timelines

Seem like they would be good to use here and there and can be very effective. I think they are included in many encyclopedias if I'm not mistaken. Avoiding original research as far as what to include might be an issue. Have people used them? Are they best separated from articles? Integrated as image like illustrations? Used in section form? Comments, insights, thoughts, vitriol, welcome. Thanks. ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC) [http://www.zionmoviesandmedia.webs.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.48 (talk) 18:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A very old yet, re-invented - hence on a time line latest - and one of the best pumps to be used in today's developing country village pumps projects is the "Rope Pump" as all components of the pump can be made in the village, contrary to bolds and nuts. External link shows a better picture showing the working principle advantage compared to a traditional hand-crank pump. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_pump —Preceding unsigned comment added by SvenAERTS (talk • contribs) 21:32, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant Policies

What's up with Wikipedia:Village pump (redundant policies)? Did somebody fiddle with the header on the VP pages? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 23:04, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rename village pump subpages

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Along with talk pages and archives

These pages are subpages of Wikipedia:Village pump, and should be named accordingly. Just like we don't have Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (incidents) (we do have Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents), the subpages of Wikipedia:Village pump should be named in a similar manner. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - It is standard naming, and leaving them at an incorrect name is pointless. I'm sure people will argue that they are really-quite-used-to the old names - these people will get used to the new names, no big whoop. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 06:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose for now, til someone can give me some sort of reason for doing this. Firstly, I kind of like that they're not subpages. I don't think of "Village pump" as a parent grouping that splits off into mere sub-topics. Village pump pages are special. I think of these pages as very different from each other, and each important and unique enough to be at the top level in the namespace. Besides which, what would be the actual practical benefit to making this change? Equazcion •✗/C • 07:02, 4 Mar 2009 (UTC)
  • Tend to agree with Equazcion; these are not really subpages. The parenthetical naming style is very common in Wikipedia space anyway, probably more common than the one with slashes: WP:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), WP:Naming conventions (use English), and many similar. Though if this were part of a comprehensive effort to standardize the way we name pages in project space, then I'd be sympathetic. --Kotniski (talk) 08:28, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also agree with equazcion. I see no good reason for doing this. Garion96 (talk) 09:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • If the page moves facilitate easier searching, eg it would be possible to put an internal search box at Wikipedia:Village pump that searches all the subpages and archives, I think it is a good idea.--Commander Keane (talk) 10:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    But why would you want to search all village pumps at once? Unlike AN, ANI, AE, AN/3RR, etc etc, the village pumps do not form a contiguous whole; they cover fundamentally different issues. Besides, since you can just put "intitle:Village pump" into the search bar to search all village pumps and archives (AFAIK) this is not relevant anyway. I don't see any other reason to do this. Happy‑melon 11:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    If "intitle:Village pump" allows equivalent searching to the subpages scenario then the page moves may not be needed. Although the different Village pump pages should deal with different issues theoretically, in practice, for example, there are "technical proposals" that can end up in tech or proposals and "policy proposals" that can end up in policy or proposals. I think an overall search is desirable, but maybe I'm the only one :P --Commander Keane (talk) 12:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    If you mean keep the pages where they are and search all at once I have to agree. rdunnPLIB  12:19, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    How about just one Village pump, which is surely the point of the whole idea (villages don't have separate pumps for discussing different subjects). Whether an issue ends up at VPP, VPR or VPM seems to be pretty random anyway. VPT is rather different and could be renamed to Technical issues or something. Just a thought.--Kotniski (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Sounds like a good idea in theory; however, I think that a village pump of 439 K isn't such a good idea. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Good point, but it would be great (regardless of whether we have 1 pump or several) if a bot could be trained to remove threads to a subpage when they got above a certain size (leaving a note, obviously), and then move them back into the archive when they conclude. That way the pump page(s) wouldn't get too large, and we could watch them without our watchlists being overwhelmed with large discussions that we've already decided we're not interested in.--Kotniski (talk) 12:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment: As Happy-Melon pointed out, all VPs and archives can already be searched at once, since all their titles have the same prefix. In fact, the search box at the top of this very page will do that for you already. As for having all of VP on one page, we've already got that too: Wikipedia:Village pump (all), which displays all the current VP threads on one page. Equazcion •✗/C • 16:27, 4 Mar 2009 (UTC)
    Well, you learn something every day. It's not very useful though, as you can't edit it directly.--Kotniski (talk) 12:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I don't see any links from these pages to other relevant VP pages; these are already subpages of the village pump. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support, You are right that it should be moved to the proper naming standard, but it will create quite a hassle with archives (and they do have quite a big of use not being subpages) but then again you do bring up a good point that Wikipedia should try to follow its own naming convention.Smallman12q (talk) 23:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Does it have one that would cover this? Where is it documented?--Kotniski (talk) 09:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I really can't bring myself to support or oppose this. It's not, in principle, a bad idea but it seems to be little more than change for change's sake - both Village pump (policy) and Village pump/Policy are logical names for the page, and as it's already at the former there don't seem to be any compelling reasons to change that. As mentioned above, both brackets and subpages are used in this situation elsewhere, there is not a strong or necessary precedent. ~ mazca t|c 11:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The retitling has no utility. There is no overarching naming standard that the proposed change would function to make consistent. WP:VP does not function the same way as WP:AN does vis-à-vis its subpages. Instead, WP:VP is an information page that no one posts to, which is just shy of functioning as a soft redirect to the four main pages identified by topic.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:03, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • OpposeThis retitling would make Wikipedia different from Wikimedia Commons and other Wiki sites. Although only recently very active, I find the discussions in Village Pump helpful, and the replies to my postings prompt and informative. Dthomsen8 (talk) 17:06, 6 March 2009 (UTC)Dthomsen8[reply]
  • Neutral I don't personally have a strong feeling one way or the other on this one. While Wikipedia doesn't normally use sub-pages the way that Citizendium does in namespace, I can understand the AN/I argument in that the pump is somewhat it's own identity. To some extent it does seem like a lot of extra work for minimal gain, but since I'm not forced to do "the work", it doesn't matter to me. — Ched ~ (yes?) 23:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support I just did a similar reorganization at the WP:TYPO project. You gain the nice links near the top that help navigate the tree. Plus it just makes the project feel better structured. It would be tedious especially for Village pump but if somebody is willing to do it, more power to them. Jason Quinn (talk) 00:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    It's not tedious. If an admin moves a page which has subpages, the possibility "Move subpages (up to 100), if applicable" appears as one of the move options. This should deal with the various archives. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I'm not sure why we should care about uniformity across projects or why we should treat the current titles as 'special'. I think the name changes are reasonable. Protonk (talk) 19:13, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - very limited (if any) benefit, large upheaval. The current system "looks and feels" better, too. Brackets are snazzier than slashes. ╟─TreasuryTag►contribs─╢ 15:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Seems to be trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist, this works fine, lets not cause any confusion, potential or otherwise. — neuro(talk) 21:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, solution in search of a problem. Tempshill (talk) 23:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Any behind-the-scenes Wikipedia project page should be about usability first, an anything else later. Renaming would merely result in the page meeting some policy with no improved benefits for its users. - Mgm|(talk) 10:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Why? If they are fine as they are, then there really is no point. They are just like news, not subpages. Not exactly much gain from changing them, way I see it... If it ain't broke, don't fix it!! AND it seems to me there are 3 people who actually support this, and like 20 who oppose it. Let's just remove the tag to this page, leave the village pump alone, and get on with our lives.173.48.223.2 (talk) 13:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Mojara[reply]
  • Support This exact question came up in relation to my uContribs tool: "I contribute a lot to the various village pumps, can I see all my activity in one place?" (referring to the "page family" analysis). Also, it matches the conventions used at WP:AN and WP:REFDESK. Addressing Equazcion, yes these pages are "special" but in the same way as those others. The AN page family is where to discuss stuff with administrators, RD is where to ask about stuff where knowledgeable people hang out, VP is where to throw out your ideas for discussion. The anomaly is mostly VPT, which is often an uber-advanced help desk. Franamax (talk) 22:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The sooner it's done the better. It makes navigation easier. I can just click the link at the top of the article to go to a different level, or type some extra characters in the address bar. Also, a hierarchical restructuring tends to be more toolserver-friendly in case any future bulk edits become desirable. SharkD (talk) 03:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, although my first instinct was to support. I am convinced by the "oppose" arguments above. I kind of like uniformity, it usually makes things easier – but I fail to see that there is any problem here, and why we should fix this non-existent problem just for the sake of it.--Ezeu (talk) 13:09, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this isn't going anywhere. Closing, no consensus to move. Happy‑melon 21:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Huggle

Can someone tell me how to correctly configure Huggle? --♪♫The New Mikemoraltalkcontribs 20:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at Wikipedia:Huggle/Download, you need to put the text enable:true on Special:MyPage/huggle.css. If you're still having problems, you could try asking at Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback. Tra (Talk) 21:52, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I got. Just look at my contributions :). Best regards, --♪♫The New Mikemoraltalkcontribs 23:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Foundations, 60's English soul group. Vandalism etc

Below is a C&P from the the Village Pump archive. I have included it here so that the path of discussion can be easily referred to. There were three people on that thread. The first was Pat Pending, the next was - Tagishsimon and lastly 24.172.36.194[2] or Dave Huffman.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(assistance)/Archive_9

This is a problem that has not gone away and I fear that it may get worse as this person has now threatened to edit the page daily. What it's all about is the English Soul group, The Foundations who had the classic hits in the 1960's, Baby, Now That I've Found You and Build Me Up Buttercup In the past this person has blanked the article page and he's done it on more than one occasion. He's come back now and it's likely that this disruptive vandalistic behaviour will continue. Besides blanking the page when he can't get his own way he has popped message on it saying "come and visit us at" and he gives his website url. He has also posted threatening legal warnings on the article page as if it was a signpost outside private premises. He has also on more than one occasion put all the songs of his CD album individually as if they were single releases. He mixed them in with the Foundations discography.

I've carried on the thread and I've replied to Tagishsimon, hopefully he and others will read it and understand what's really at stake here. (George-Archer (talk) 16:23, 4 April 2009 (UTC))[reply]

The Foundations (April 2008) (Please don't edit this section

Hello, will someone please help me. There is someone from the USA by the name of Dave Huffman laying claim to the name "The Foundations" who keeps inserting his "legal claim" into the article. To the best of my knowlege, there are only two people who "own" the name in the UK - Clem Curtis & The Foundations, and Colin Young & The New Foundations. Will someone please advise. Pat Pending (talk) 12:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect this might be a US law versus UK law type issue ... neither jurisdiction can bind the other. That said, I agree that the person adding the US claim is misusing wikipedia. I've deleted a section on trademark ownership (complete with shouty captal letters) and will look at the article again this evening, probably to shorten it and try to prevent it being a battleground. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This person is not "laying claim" to "The Foundations" name but has legally owned the name and all performance rights to "The Foundations" in the US since the mid 70's. This was obtained when both Clem Curtis and Colin Young left the group after breaking ties with their management company in 1970. Both left the group under their own free will to pursue other projects. All of the other "original" UK members of the group also returned home and gave up any rights to "The Foundations" name at that time. I really appreciate you ignoring the legal aspects of this discussion. I have been performing with and recording with the group legally longer that any of your so called "original" members. This is my last statement on Wikipedia as I have learned that this website is a total farce not at all interested in the true facts and they are as follows:

Clem Curtis left the group even before Buttercup was recorded. Colin Young left the group shortly after. The group did not disband in 1970 as stated but was reorganized in the US and has been recording and performing ever since. Believe what you wish but there are apparently three "Foundations". One owned by Clem Curtis? One owned by Dave Huffman One owned by Colin Young?

The question marks are there due to the fact that I have not checked to make sure that they have legal rights in England but I'm assuming that they do.

You seem to be willing to accept the English groups but not the American group that has been in legal existence longer that either of the British groups. That is your God given right to hide your head in the sand and ignore the facts but it is my God given legal right to state the true facts and you, Sir have taken that right from me. Hope you're satisfied. I'm through trying to have the facts stated correctly on Wikipedia.

Dave Huffman The Foundations US www.thefoundations.us

The Foundations: Continued discussion from April 4 2009

Tagishsimon, firstly the main issue is accuracy of history. Dave Huffman's claim that the Foundations were kept going is only backed up by him. To the best of my knowlege there is no fact and nor any kind of reference anywhere else except for what he has put on his own personal website that can back up what he says. I've seen a couple of experienced wikipedia users actually interacting with his claims as if there were some foundation to them. From what I can see there is absolutly none. His claims conflict with everything that has been written in books about the Foundations. From what I can see his claims about his connection originate soley from himself. Anyone anywhere can make a claim that they were a member of a band and there have been some that have gotten away with it for a while. But this one in particular seems to be the most inane outlandish of claims that one has to pinch himself to see if he's dreaming or not. So what's the point in all of this ? Why is he an American, claiming a connection with a British soul group from the 1960's. Why is he claiming that his group is the Foundations ? Why has he threatened to sue Clem Curtis or Colin Young, the original members of the Foundations if they dare step onto American shores as The Foundations ?
Besides the continued outlandish claims from this person and his camp, we've had to witness an arrogant and insulting claim that has been directed at the original Foundations members. Huffman and or co have made the claim that Clem Curtis and Colin Young both failed in their solo careers so they have tried to cash in on the name and fame of the Foundations. He's basically saying here that he is the rightful leader of The Foundations. How can this be ? He makes accusations that more or less translate to a claim that these men who recorded those hits are nothing more than hangers on, and cashing on to the fame of The Foundations. Well isn't that what he's doing ? And what makes it worse, he's hangin on and cashing in on the fame of a band that he has never had anything to do with ? (George-Archer (talk) 16:23, 4 April 2009 (UTC))[reply]

"Persistent" vs. "perennial"

Is there supposed to be some kind of discernible difference between "persistent proposals" and "perennial proposals"? Why on earth are their two links to two different pages about the same concept? — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stretton-on-Fosse

I made this page and, at the time of me posting this, has a no references tag at the bottom even though, I have added it in like I should and always do.De Mattia (talk) 04:50, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed it. You were missing the closing ref tag.-gadfium 06:29, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Edward Flower

The same thing has now happened again. I don't know if it is just appearing like that on my computer or if it appears like that everywhere around the world, but it's weird because I have put in the approriate tags at the bottom and the stub thing 'please help Wikipedia by expanding this article etc' hasn't come up either for me. De Mattia (talk) 06:28, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look at what I did for the other case and see if you can fix it yourself.-gadfium 06:30, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another user before

I was another user before and I need a banner or a javascript box to show this thing on my user page. --TudorTulok (talk) 19:43, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with w:Requests for comment

Surely the village pump should be merged with w:Requests for comment? They seem to completely overlap. Same goes for all the subpages, ie. w:Village pump (policy) and w:Requests for comment/Policies. Note also Requests for comment has the alternative interface of w:Community portal. ··gracefool☺ 17:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mistakes made with AWB

Help? I made a really bad mistake using AWB. Because of a mistake in the creation of a regular expression I changed and unknown number of level three headers to become level two headers. There might be over a thousand pages involved. Is there a way to roll back that may edits. Waiting is only going to make things worse. I'll watch his page. --droll [chat] 00:37, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to all who responded I think I can handle it. I've fixed about 700 already. Only about 1 in 12 of the articles have a problem. I want to get it done ASAP. I should have it done by late tonight. --droll [chat] 02:05, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where'd the Technical section go?

When I click Wikipedia:Village pump (all), the Technical section is blank. Of course I can go to it directly, but why doesn't it show here anymore? Ntsimp (talk) 18:20, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These tags seemed to be messing with how the page was transcluded. Tra (Talk) 00:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Creation portal:Lyon

Hidding stubs

I'm working on an article and the subject of the article falls under 5 stub types. As I don't really want 5 stubs to show up on the article (the sub list would be longer than the article info), is there a way to hide the stub comment but still have the stub be active (not using a hidden comment)? I haven't been able to find any info in a short search. Thanks. OlYellerTalktome 14:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe just adding the category added by the stub would be the best way as the rest of the stub template it just for show anyway. OlYellerTalktome 14:16, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have been in such situations also. Why don´t you put scroll-bar boxes or collapsible wiki-templates (like this one) for such cases? - Damërung ...ÏìíÏ..._ΞΞΞ_ . --  19:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The {{asbox}} template is fine for this, the main intention is not to have a lot of stubs in one page, nor keep icons, but have the correct categorization of the respective stub category. --Woglinde 02 (talk) 19:46, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A possible error?

Hi,

Checking my account history brings up several entries which I am positive I have not had a hand at. For example, I received a message from a member here in Wikipedia telling me I have repeatedly blanked large sections of various articles without consensus. Not being confident in my editing skills, I have only ever done some paraphrasing and spelling corrections, yet my history clearly shows this is not the case.

Is there some sort of error here?--85.64.46.148 (talk) 18:34, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That message was from 4 years ago, which is a wiki-century. ;) Don't worry about it, just keep doing good stuff! Franamax (talk) 19:37, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a portal/category that shows which pages have the most red links to it? For instance, if person X is referenced in many article but still doesn't have one made for them, I'd like to make that page. So I'm basically looking for a list to see what uncreated page was the most links to it. OlYellerTalktome 15:37, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's Wikipedia:Most wanted articles, but it doesn't seem to have been updated since October. —JAO • T • C 18:37, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page is protected from editing and I have no idea where one is supposed to go to point this out, but the text appending the photo of Gerald R. Ford is wrong. It reads, in part:

"...the Watergate scandal, which began an attempted break-in..."

When of course it should read:

"...the Watergate scandal, which began with an attempted break-in..."

Hopefully someone here is cleared to edit the page or can forward this to the appropriate page. If someone would note on my talk page where that is, so I know where to go in the future (I've noticed a similar error on the main page in the past), I'd appreciate that. Thanks, Abrazame (talk) 00:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved, I think you found the right place to report at Talk:Main Page--Commander Keane (talk) 02:58, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cab Kaye

dear Wikipedists,

who can help me translating the additional information in the dutch article on Cab kaye at http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Kaye to the English one? --NorbertvR (talk) 17:31, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Three millionth article pool

Guess the topic of the three millionth article at the wikipedia:three-millionth topic pool! Stevage 05:01, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Woah woah woah there chums!

There's an awful lot of balls here about actual pumps, plunger and that sort of guff! Would one of you 'city dwellers' mind teaching an old bumpkin what an an old pump has to do with the internet these days? It just brings me back to the days of the water shortage in the 70's when we had to queue up for our damn water. Never used to socialise around the things though; s'uppose that's some kind of foreign expression.

Invitation to our conference in august. Also wikipedia is a topic

Hello We are working on creating a workgroup for wikimedia kosovo http://sfk2009.ning.com/group/wikimediakosova and have an event on august 29/30 in Prishtina. We would like to invite you to come. http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/index.php/sfk09/call-for-papers.html

Thanks,

mike Mdupont (talk) 14:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

problem about Nadumangad article

An IP has edited Nedumangad article. He has made some useful contributions but has messed up a template. It is now showing throghout the whole page. Can anyone fix this?--EvilFlyingMonkey (talk) 15:23, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Idea

Has anyone thought of a possible group that would keep users out of the recent changes list? I know that there are many editors who are squeaky clean in their contributions, and the whole autoreviewer group is there, but why not have a whole autochange group? Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:14, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Poll on Ireland article names

What's the word on this? (couldn't find this in the pump archives) --Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You probably wanted to post this at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) not here, but Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided (WP:EL) already lists Twitter feeds. A search of the WP:EL archives has this relevant thread.--Commander Keane (talk) 06:01, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Much obliged Commander Keane.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:05, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Main page sidebar navbox

I've been advised to post this here as I've tried Main Page discussion and Main Page/Errors discussion which apparently was the wrong place. Just a minor thing but could the main page sidebar navbox titles (navigation, search, interaction etc.) start with an upper case letter to match the contents of the boxes? Just looks 'wrong' to me! The simple English version is the same but other language wikis appear correct. Many thanks for your time. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 21:17, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for discussing the village pump. You want the village pump itself, probably WP:VPR. Algebraist 01:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, my quest to find the right place to post goes on!! Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 08:36, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, recently someone had changed rights for User:Craiglduncan from (none) to Autoreviewers (+trusted). What does this mean or do?--Craiglduncan (talk) 19:01, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help with statistics

I'm trying to determine how many hits the page 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun got while up as a DYK, but I got a problem: every time I use this tool I get the results for the page 16. Can some one tell me how to fix this, or work around it, so I can see the stats? TomStar81 (Talk) 06:49, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You want to post this question at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Normally I would suggest contacting the tool's author, User:Henrik, but it does not look like he is very active. I tried using the html names from viewing the article's page source in my browser but it didn't work. Good luck :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 08:44, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think these stats are accurate. The tool works for the display of stats, but formats the link incorrectly if you then try to change the date displayed or click through to the article. At any rate, the stats for the article 16 are very different.-gadfium 09:39, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Basque Wikipedia

Hi from the Basque Country!
This is a message to the administrators of English Wikipedia or for someone who can help me with this issue:

I´m an user and contributor of the Basque Wikipedia., Basque language is one of the oldest in Europe and the world, it has thousands of years old and is one of the few languages that survived the arrival of Indo-Europeans to Europe. Perhaps being one of the oldest nations or countries of the world not even have our own state, but our language is our homeland and pride. It put us on the map and give a reference recognizable to English speakers, the city of Pamplona (Iruña in basque language), where they celebrate the internationally famous festival of San Fermin is in the Basque Country.

After this brief introduction I would kindly ask you this request:

On July 15, 2009, in the Basque Wikipedia we exceed the figure of 40,000 articles, today (August 26, 2009) we have 42,000 articles, achievement of which we are very proud, because if we compare proportionately the number of speakers of the Basque language (about a million) with other Wikipedia versions of languages spoken in more than one state or nation in the world with millions of speakers is like to be proud.

Because one of the aims of Wikipedia Project in addition to expanding human knowledge worldwide is also to expand the knowledge of all languages of mankind: From the Basque Wikipedia we wanted to make the request to the users and particularly to the Administrators of the English wikipedia would be possible if you put the link to Basque Wikipedia in your English Wikipedia´s language list of everyone in your main cover ("Languages" section: as is currently the case Galician or Catalan language) and the Wikipedia list of more than 40,000 items that is below your main entrance page ("Wikipedia languages" section). Since English is currently the most powerful, influential and widespread in the world (your wikipedia already has 3,000,000 articles), the presence of Basque Wikipedia in your list of the world would be a great help to supervival of our language and their knowledge in the world.

Awaiting your reply.

Greetings from the Basque Wikipedia.
. --Euskalduna (tell me) 15:05, 26 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.86.101.120 (talk)

This has recently been done :-) See Template_talk:Wikipedialang#eu:wp_on_interwikies.3F.--Commander Keane (talk) 00:15, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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