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November 30

Resizing text.

Hi this is an odd question, but for the last couple of weeks when ever I come to wikipedia all the text is really tiny. I don't think this is anything I have done as wikipedia is the only site where I am having this problem. Is there some way I can fix this so I can go back to enjoying the site?

(I am talking about reading articles not an editing issue.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.33.59 (talk) 01:28, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I noticed in an earlier entry somebody suggested hitting cntrl 0 this however does nothing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.33.59 (talk) 01:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Which browser do you use? The Ctrl + 0 shortcut works in Firefox only; for other browsers, the zoom is literally all over the place. In Internet Explorer, for example, the function is in the status bar at the bottom of the window (the small magnifying glass icon, make sure it is at 100%). Xenon54 (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

And if you are happening to be using Google Chrome, you can reach the zoom function by clicking on the little wrench in the upper-right hand corner, which will open up a menu in which you can see your browser's zoom percentage and adjust it from there until it is at 100%.

If you do find that your zoom settings are perfectly fine, then there is a chance that you may be one of several who are suffering from font size issues due to the new layout. To test if the new layout is the reason for your problem, open up this page, and then this one. If there is a difference in the font size of the article text, you should report it at the page I just linked to. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, if you're using Chrome, the text size is based on the site: you can have it bigger or smaller for one site and it'll only be bigger or smaller for that site, so if you've resized here, that could be why it's only small here. HalfShadow 02:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Disgraceful

Your company is disgraceful.. To publish all that classified sensitive information that illegally obtained.. Its the same as accepting stolen property... You have no respect or dignity. SHAMEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.214.63.10 (talk) 01:44, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. However, Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation are not associated with Wikileaks. They are two completely different entities, and Wikipedia has nothing to do with the leaked documents. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:48, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

• Also your feet smell terrible. Jesus Christ, get some Dr Scholls. HalfShadow 02:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Thank you for your input. However, Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation are not associated with Wikifeet. They are two completely different entities, and Wikipedia has nothing to do with these feet and any odors associated therewith.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
    • ...okay, that's just weirdshit. HalfShadow 04:03, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
      • ;-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:43, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Here is a link to the right place "www.wikileaks.org". --Monterey Bay (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

--Teratornis (talk) 06:21, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

coding error

hi, my article has a "coding error" but I did not touch anything.. it was working fine. the link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_ruocco —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlesrock11 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi. That article does not have a coding error. It was purposely deleted because it was written in an exclusively promotional manner, because Wikipedia is not a means of promotion. If you need further explanation or clarification, feel free to ask here, or, if you have a more specific question regarding the specifics of the deleted article, you can contact the admin who deleted your article on his talk page. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

(e/c) Hello. The issue of an error is moot since the article has been deleted under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion as blatant advertising (though looking at the deleted content I don't see any coding error showing up, unless you mean the deletion itself as the error). The deletion log entry is here. Based on your username, there is a suggestion that you may have a conflict of interest in writing this article. In any event, blatant advertising or not, were you to recreate the article, what is required is not just a neutral tone, but citations to reliable third party sources discussing the topic in some detail. This is at the heart of our core inclusion policies and guidelines to show notability (and here see the topic-specific notability subguideline, WP:BIO), verifiability, to avoid original research, and is more stringently applied in articles like this one concerning a living person.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:46, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

help with editor assuming bad faith

just looking for some advice/help with an editor i am working with on an article who has a habit of automatically assuming bad faith and making unfounded accusations; all contributing to a somewhat hostile editing enviroment. for instance, in this edit i am accused of "ineptly" writing the lede of the article. i didn't write the lede, i reverted it to the version that existed prior to me even editing the article. and again, in this edit, the editor removes a wikilink added by another user here and instructs me to "stop this silly linking" in the summary. i have further diffs and more detailed complaints, but just wanted to give the general idea. wondering if some one could remind the other editor about WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL as my attempts to do so seem to go ignored. would it be a better idea to take this to AN/I with said greater detail? not looking to have the editor removed or anything, just trying to get them to edit cooperatively instead of adversarially. WookieInHeat (talk) 04:15, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that falls under AN/I... HalfShadow 04:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

alrighty, thanks. WookieInHeat (talk) 04:26, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

world Wide gum co.

I am trying to find out more about a spearmint gum made by the world wide gum co..of Grandby Que, I have an unopened package of this gum and I am trying to find out what year it was made. I'm thinking the 1930's or 40's. if there is any help you could give me it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.64.229.193.106 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:28, 30 November 2010 (UTC).

The only on-wikipedia references I can find to the World Wide Gum Company is as the manufacturer of Baseball cards. From that article, "1933 also saw the delivery of the World Wide Gum issue. World Wide Gum Co. was based in Montreal and clearly had a close relationship with the Goudey Gum Company, as each of their four issues closely resembled a Goudey contemporary. Goudey, National Chicle, Delong and a handful of other companies were competitive in the bubble gum and baseball card market until World War II began." Also, from Goudey, "Similar cards as the 1933 and 1934 Goudey sets were also released in Canada by the Goudey-owned World Wide Gum Co, of Granby, Quebec. They are sometimes known as Canadian Goudey sets." It appears that World Wide Gum Co. was a Canadian subsidiary of Goudey Gum Company, an American company which operated from 1924-1962. It is quite likely, therefore, that the gum was indeed from the 1940's or 1950's. --Jayron32 05:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

You may also want to post this at Reference desk/Miscellaneous where users specialize in answering general knowledge questions. -- œ^™ 09:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Geonotice problem

One week after request there still appears to be no sign of our Geonotice request for a Meetup in Dublin, and I don't know who to contact. I have tried requesting help from several Admins (at least, I think they are Admins), but have had no feedback so far. We have put a lot of work into this, but due to the current bad weather, we need to get this information out to country members ASAP. Hohenloh ⁺ 07:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

This seems to be resolved, as I've just seen the invitation. Reading, Berkshire isn't exactly next door to Dublin, of course... -- John of Reading (talk) 21:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

wp:vanish requests

Hi,

I used to use an account Adrian-from-london and tagged it with { {retired} } for a clean start. As I've decided to cease editing Wikipedia permanently please can you process vanish requests for both Adrian-from-london and Oldgraybeard accounts (I scrambled the password for Adrian-from-london but I've used the same PC for both accounts so the IP addresses for the most recent logins should be identical.)

Many thanks, Oldgraybeard (talk) 08:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

A bureaucrat would need to deal with this request. You can contact them at the bureaucrats' noticeboard (WP:BN), or by e-mail at the address given there. January ^(talk) 23:27, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

How to 'Review' or approve an article

Hi all,

I am new to wikiepdia and want to 'review' an article so it becomes a proper live page - how do I go about doing this? The page in question is the one on 'Pharmaceutical Medicine'.

Any help would be most appreciated - thanks!

Ben —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjicott (talk • contribs) 10:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

You mean Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine? Usually I would direct you to WP:FEEDBACK but I will give some comments here: First, there is no indication in the article as to how or why the organisation is notable per WP:CORP and it will need some references to reliable sources to demonstrate notability; second, it reads like an advertising or promotional piece, which is not permitted - see WP:SPAM. It is in danger of being deleted for each of these reasons, so you should try to fix them ASAP. – ukexpat (talk) 14:42, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Also, as you will see from the message on your talk page, it appears to be copied from, or a close paraphrase of, the Faculty's website, neither of which is allowed, please see WP:COPYVIO. – ukexpat (talk) 14:44, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

The one which is flagged as a new unreviewed article is Pharmaceutical Medicine, not Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. I agree that it isn't crystal clear whether there is intended to be some specific process for review of articles tagged with {{Userspace draft|source=ArticleWizard}}, or whether it is OK for any editor to look at the article and, if it looks OK, remove the tag. David Biddulph (talk) 15:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Anyone can review a tagged article. The tag just adds the article to the appropriate category, in this case Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from October 2010. Some folks patrol Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard and its child cats for articles in need of review. – ukexpat (talk) 15:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

And I see that you've done just that, so that it no longer appears in the aforementioned category, hence the OP can dive in and edit at will (within normal Wikipedia guidelines, of course), without worrying about the review stage. I see also that you've changed the case of the opening of the second word of the title, so that it is now Pharmaceutical medicine, not Pharmaceutical Medicine. - David Biddulph (talk) 15:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

BOOK CREATOR IN HEBREW

I'V NOTICED THAT THE BOOK CREATOR OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE IN HEBREW does anybody know whY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.182.34.238 (talk) 12:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

That sounds like a question for the Hebrew Wikipedia, not for the English Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

The Hebrew Help desk can be found at he:ויקיפדיה:דלפק_ייעוץ. Thanks. —Half Price 17:45, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Google "Potassium atomic weight"

When I Googled "Potassium atomic weight" the search result for Wiki shows the chemical properties for sodium not potassium, yet when I clicked on the Wiki link the correct values for potassium are in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.56.81.6 (talk) 15:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. Sounds like Google cached an incorrect version of the page. As you say, however, the article here appears correct. TNXMan 15:07, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not control the "blurb" text displayed by Google at search results. If you click the "show" link to the right of "Alkali metals" at Potassium#External links then you will see the text Google chose under the heading "Sodium". The next heading is "Potassium" and has the values for Potassium so Google made an unfortunate choice when it processed your query. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

first amendment rights

Does your first amendment rights trump my soldier son's right to live? Did you thank him for being made the target to your "news?"76.188.30.73 (talk) 15:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I think you are confusing us with Wikileaks. We are not affiliated with them at all. TNXMan 15:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. See more at Wikipedia:Wikileaks is not part of Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:49, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm going to get sushi. Anyone want anything? I can stop off somewhere else if you don't want Japanese food. HalfShadow 22:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

New to Wikipedia

Help. I am new to wikipedia, I don't really understand it. But I have been trying to make a contact reference the RIAS Studios in Berlin 1964 to 1966. I was in a military band- 3 Royal Anglian regiment, and we did a broadcast (30 minutes). What I would like to know is, can I get a copy of this broadcast? My name is Ron Bingham, my email is <blanked>. Can anyone help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.14.172 (talk) 16:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but we have no access to that material. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. You may have better luck contacting RIAS Studios. TNXMan 17:05, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Gossip Girl

Can you tell me what episode I can find the character Scott Rosson? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.59.221.73 (talk) 17:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

IMDB shows him in six episodes. -- kainaw™ 17:36, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Help determining notability

So, an article I posted, Flying White Dots, was nominated for deletion for not passing the notability margin. I've added a variety of other notes on them, which brings the argument closer to "Notable" vs "Not Notable", but they don't "convincingly" pass the criteria listed at WP:Music. My question is this: WP:Music is a guideline. It claims that a band must pass at least one of the listed criteria. However, What are people's opinions with regards to a band nearly passing several criteria? Flying White Dots has never been on a regular "rotation" on national radio, but his music has been played on several national stations in both the UK (his home country) as well as the US. While he has not been covered convincingly by several reliable sources, he has been interviewed at least once (I'm trying to get more information from the man himself; perhaps a local newspaper has done a story on him), as my citations link to. Any thoughts? suggestions? anyone find a good review of him/report on him/whatever that I missed when I was googling?

Also, should I go ahead and delete the prod? By the way, I was never contacted about the prod; if you go around prodding, please do leave notes on the creator's talk page!

As a side note, if you like music, I highly recommend checking Flying White Dots out. Riffraffselbow (talk) 17:52, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Remove the prod and explain why you did so on the talk page. It seems as though this may meet guidelines. With regards to your first question, all guidelines can be broken on Wikipedia if editors think it right. See WP:IAR. Thanks. —Half Price 18:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Gossip Girl

Do you know what actual episode that the character Scott Rosson is on? I know that he was on in season 2 and 3. I want to look it up on you tube. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.59.221.73 (talk) 18:15, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

You might find what you are looking for in the article about List of Gossip Girl characters. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. TNXMan 18:17, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Super and subscript

Is there any way to put one above the other? For instance, if you were trying to write out the mass and number of Uranium-235, and you put one in front of the other, you get "²³⁵₉₂U". Is here any way to fix this? --T H F S W (T · C · E) 18:47, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

In that specific situation, you should try Template:Element2. Thanks. —Half Price 18:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

²³⁵
₉₂U
= {{Nuclide2|U|235}}, for example. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 19:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

In general, you'd use math markup like <math>_{92}^{235}</math>U to get $_{92}^{235}$U. -- kainaw™ 19:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Can it be done without <math> or templates? --T H F S W (T · C · E) 01:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Nope. -- kainaw™ 13:52, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes it can, but the source may not be pretty. Everything made by templates can be made without templates, and GiftigerWunsch's code {{Nuclide2|U|235}} does not use <math>. If it's entered at Special:ExpandTemplates to recursively expand templates then you get

<span class="unicode;" style="white-space:nowrap;"><span style="display:-moz-inline-box;-moz-box-orient:vertical;display:inline-block;vertical-align:bottom;min-height:1em;font-size:80%;line-height:1;margin-bottom:-0.1em;overflow:visible;text-align:right"><span style="display:block;min-height:1em;margin-top:-1.1em;line-height:1;background:transparent;overflow:visible">235</span><span style="display:block;min-height:1em;background:transparent;line-height:1;overflow:visible">92</span></span>U</span>

which renders as 23592U. It could be cleaned up some but when there are templates specifically designed for something then it's usually best to use them. It gives a cleaner source which is easier to maintain, and if the templates are changed (for example because the old code was discovered to fail in some circumstances, or a software change made it bad) then the uses will consistenly change their output correspondingly. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

By "nope", I meant "it cannot be done any easier without math or templates." You could use an inline table as well, placing one cell over the other. Again, the code would be a real pain. So, a template or a the math markup is the easy way to go. -- kainaw™ 14:27, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I agree. {{PhysicsParticle}} is the general particle template used by other templates. It might also be used in other areas. The code in this example would be {{PhysicsParticle|U|TL=235|BL=92}} to produce ²³⁵
₉₂U
. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:51, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

                                                                         The Great Astrologer of India & Goldmedalist 
Sir, I heartly thanks to u.Sir u re change my life as zero to hero . many2 thanks to u.Sir u re my God. Yours,Diciples

Name:-Dr.Debabrata Sharma,Astrologer,Gayatri Mandir,Sector-6,Bhilai Chhatish Garh<Website:-www.astroproblems.com

help

i am a candidate of marine fisheries academy in bangladesh which is situated in chittagong.Here five steps have to cross for an candidate.and as a candidate i have crossed four of them.and the last one is viva-voce.This is the thoughest part.can you help me by giving some direction so that i can be able to pass in the examination? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.38.42 (talk) 19:04, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over three million articles, and thought that we were directly affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is a help desk for asking questions related to using the encyclopedia. Thus, we have no inside track on the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. TNXMan 19:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Do you mean that you have to give a speech? Or an oral examination of some kind? I don't think we can give you tips on how to do this well. Public speech#Training has a few bullet points to note. You might also want to have a look at Public speech#Noted orators and research what they did. —Half Price 19:11, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

A viva voce is indeed an oral examination; we don't have a specific article on the subject. I googled "viva voce tips" and found lots of links to pages which offer general advice on how to approach this type of test; this is just one example, but I'm sure you can find more. Good luck with your exam. Karenjc 21:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

My Own Bio

Hello Wiki,

My name is Rodney Whitaker and I have submitted the following bio for your page on me, Rodney Whitaker. I seem to have run into a little issue. Below is a bio that I've created and have sent to many festivals and event coordinators. Could you please assist? I would like to have the bio updated.

RODNEY T. WHITAKER

<Copyvio of http://gmea.org/Divisions/Band/All%20State%20Jazz/ASJclinician.htm removed>

19:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cookey Whitaker (talk • contribs)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. Here's some things you might find interesting : Wikipedia:Autobiography and Wikipedia:Copyright. I also left an explanation on your talk page. «CharlieEchoTango» 19:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Want to contribute to Wikipedia

Dear Help desk,

I'm Chandra Sekhar from India. I'm very fond of Wikipedia and its articles and being assistanced by them. Hence would like to contribute to wikipedia some amount. But, I dont have credit card. Is there Wikipedia office in India? Or is there any other mode of contribution? Please let me know. I suggest you to make donations in India too.

Happy to hear from you at the earliest. You can write to me at <email removed>

Thanks and warm regards, Chandra Sekhar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.46.55.31 (talk) 22:04, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

(I have removed your email address to protect your privacy)

Thank you for your interest in giving to this project. PayPal, the default mechanism for donation, does not deal in rupees. There are other ways to give that may work for you, including mailing a check directly to the Foundation or wiring money to their bank account in Paris. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:13, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Template

How to make this :

into a template? Would be useful to quickly answer messages messages like the ones above, considering we might see more. Can some kind soul do the template magic? I suggest also a little rework for clarity to WP:Wikileaks is not part of Wikipedia which saw a peak in views today. Cheers «CharlieEchoTango» 23:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Done. The template is at {{Notleaks}}. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:24, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

P.S. I thought you might like to know how to do this yourself. It really is as simple as this. I chose a name ("notleaks"), prefixed "template:" before it, created that page just as you would any page, pasted your text, clicked save. That's it. If you don't like the name, just move it, and if it's okay, but you want some alternative names, you can make shortcuts to it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:28, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I didn't know it was that simple! Thanks very much! «CharlieEchoTango» 23:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. I may add some documentation to the template page later.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:03, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

If the intent is to use the template on the Help desk, see:

• Template:Help desk templates
• Category:Help desk templates
• Template:HD (contains many canned messages for the Help desk}

--Teratornis (talk) 06:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Submitting information on someone

I am attempting to establish a Wiki identity and history page of a recording artist from Texas. The general regulations advise not to write articles on bands, etc.

Then I notice Eric Clapton has a page, a huge page.

So how do I submit information on my artist and if I cannot then how did Eric's information get clearance to be posted ?

Christa Texas Music Productions —Preceding unsigned comment added by Delzhaus (talk • contribs) 23:42, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Is the person you want to write about as well known as Eric Clapton? If so, there's no problem- the suggestion to not write about musicians is mainly targeted to people who would use Wikipedia to write about their own bands, or artists they represent. If you have a direct connection with this person, then don't write about him- when the artist is notable, it's inevitable that his many fans will write about him. If you don't have a conflict of interest, all you need to do is show that the person meets Wikipedia's notability criteria, supporting your information with reliable independent sources that verify the accuracy of the information. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:45, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

To answer your second question, Christa, regarding how Eric Clapton's article is in the state it is in. The answer is that hundreds (maybe thousands) of different people, none of whom have any connection to Eric Clapton, read things about Eric Clapton that were written about him outside of Wikipedia. These people, in reading these things, used this information to write the Wikipedia article. It is important to note several things about properly written Wikipedia articles:

• Every piece of information in a Wikipedia article needs to be verifiable. That means that it has been written down, in reliable, trustworthy, and independent sources, before it was ever in Wikipedia. Because there have been many books, magazine articles, newspaper articles, television shows, etc. etc. about Eric Clapton, there is a wealth of information available to researchers about Eric Clapton.
• This information was added to Wikipedia by people unconnected to Eric Clapton. That is, no one who works for Eric Clapton, was hired by Eric Clapton, etc., or even Eric Clapton himself, wrote any part of that article. It is, therefore, free from a conflict of interest.

If you need more information about Wikipedia policies, please click the bluelinks I have left. --Jayron32 23:57, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe that the phrase "establish a Wiki identity" indicates that you have a fundamental misunderstanding about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for promotion or publicity of any sort. That is why it is restricted to topics which others have already written about. --ColinFine (talk) 21:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

December 1

Contributions by Companies

I am the Head of Corporate Affairs for a large company. I note our Wikipedia entry is reasonably sparse. Do you have any objection to us adding purely factual, unbiased information to that entry in the format that is followed for other large organisations? I appreciate you don't want an ad, or any Corporate `puff' type entries - just factual information. Thanks you. David Jamieson. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.120.18.132 (talk) 02:25, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Mr. Jamieson, if I may suggest, it would be preferable to submit the content to the talk page of the article first, so that neutral editors can review the potential additions and add them (or reject them based on one of many reasons, such as : copyright violations, non neutral point of view, etc). You could also edit the article yourself, even though this could be considered a conflict of interest. May I ask which article you want to edit? «CharlieEchoTango» 02:36, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Sure - this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfield_Services. The talk page may be the best option. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.120.18.132 (talk) 02:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Good! Add your content here and I or another editor will add it, if it's properly sourced and within wikipedia's guidelines. Also, on talk pages, remember to sign your posts using four tildes ~~~~. Thanks! «CharlieEchoTango» 02:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Can I just add that anything you want to add should be sourced at reliable independent sources (so, for example, press releases would not be suitable, nor would your own website) - see here for guidelines about independent sources, and here for guidelines about reliable sources -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 03:37, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I'd just like to comment that this request may be suitable as an example on how a company *should* attempt to add information about itself to Wikipedia. Well done, Transfield Services employee.Naraht (talk) 13:25, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

How to EDIT a season of TV episodes to realign Episode Numbers with correct Episode Names.

I have recently registered so I can edit or contribute information to Wikipedia, but I have not made any contributions, - yet, till this one. After reading the How to Edit pointers and suggestions, I soon realized that I do not have the authorization level or even the skill set to do these editing changes anyway.

Can someone with the appropriate authorization and skill set please review this to see if the proposed changes can or should be made?

I discovered conflicts in the listing of TV episodes for House, M.D. - Season 6. Specifically, Fox aired a 2-hour season premiere and named it “Broken”. According to FOX, this episode is listed as one “2-hour Season Premiere”, not two separate episodes.

But according to Wikipedia, it is listed as 2 separate one-hour episodes.

I agree that this error alone is NO BIG DEAL, except that it has caused ALL of the episode descriptions to be INCORRECT (out of sync) with the TITLES of each episode, beginning with episode 2.

Here are three supporting sources: 1) FOX’s website,

2) I have House, M.D. - Season 6 DVDs right here in front of me, which also support or agree with Fox’s website. At Amazon,com, you can refer to the first sentence of the “Product Description” which reads, “Get ready for a full dose of medical mysteries with 21 episodes of the riveting drama series, House.”

3) tv.com

In addition, the most of the original footnotes relating to Episode 1 & 2 are not valid (the sited source published incorrect information) or the link has expired. Specifically, any reference pointing to DigiGuide is probably in error, because DigiGuide is promulgating this error. What better source is there than the broadcaster itself. I am sure most will agree that the creators of the show carry more validity weight than a third party.

NEED TO RE-ALIGN EPISODE NUMBERS WITH EPISODE NAMES

SPECIFICALLY: • According to the sources above, the 2-hour premiere is listed a one episode, not two. • Episode 1 – Broken • Episode 2 – Epic Fail • Episode 3 – The Tyrant • Etc, etc, etc. • And the last episode, - Episode 21 – Help Me

If someone can fix these errors, - merge the first two episodes as ONE, and then re-align the other episode numbers with the correct episode names, using the sited reference from the broadcaster as the credible source, then I am sure no one will be able to refute the original source.

Thanks Moviebuff-3884 (talk) 03:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

This has been discussed at great length here and here. If you wish to start a new discussion I suggest you do it here. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:19, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Help

I notice to many editors adding sentence fragments to articles. Is there a bot that can double check and correct the mistakes. --Monterey Bay (talk) 03:27, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

It might be possible for a 'bot to detect fragments added to an article (there are algorithms for that, I'm sure, such as that used in Microsoft Office) - but not to correct the mistake accurately - it requires a human to correct. To be honest, I've not seen this happening much apart from as vandalism, which is often picked up by Recent Changes patrollers -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 03:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Readable content in a WP article?

I remember once using a tool that would tell you how much of the content in an article was actually readable i.e. not part of references, hidden syntax, etc. Could someone give me the URL for such a thing, if it exists? Thanks. Shannon^talk _contribs 05:14, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I think you're referring to this script. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Admins pushing POV

Administrators User:AniMate and User:Dougweller are obviously abusing their privileges to push their POV on the article Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Despite 3 reliable sources affirming that the killers were black and this is an important issue. (Anyone who has read about this case knows the racial undertone and reaction is the only thing which makes it notable! Otherwise it would just be another murder.) They routinely prevent me from adding this information to the article.

--Expo776 (talk) 08:58, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

The place to discuss content disputes is on the talk page of the article. Reach a consensus there, or otherwise follow the processes at WP:DR. - David Biddulph (talk) 09:56, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

cappos

I might not have the correct spelling. Looking for precise word and its meaning similar to 'cappos.' Loosely meaning those Jews in the hollocaust who assisted the nazis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.186.116.3 (talk) 13:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

You may be after the article Kapo (concentration camp). -- John of Reading (talk) 14:10, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Names of Large French Company CEOs?

Hello, how to I find out the names of large French company CEOs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.71.9 (talk) 16:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

You may be able to find the names in the articles for those companies. If you have a specific company in mind, we may be able to help you further. TNXMan 16:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

images

Suddenly (weeks ago) images stopped appearing on my pages. I am behind some filtering software here at work, but I wondered what changed? It is possible to modify our filter, but I would need to know how the images are being handled, and again, what changed. Thanks, Ned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.45.10.130 (talk) 16:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Do you mean all images on Wikipedia, specifically? As far as I know there's been no systematic change in how our image files are served, so I suspect the change would have been on your side: perhaps all images from Wikimedia are now being filtered out locally at your work. We have an instruction page on how to avoid seeing Wikipedia images at this page; perhaps you can reverse engineer some of the instructions there until images do show up for you? If you can tell us more about your filter we may be able to give more precise instructions. Gonzonoir (talk) 16:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Does this happen on all websites or just Wikipedia? If the former, then you may have accidentally changed your browser settings to not display images. – ukexpat (talk) 16:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales

I use Wikipedia about ten times a day. I thank you for it. But I'm starting to get really creeped out by that picture of Jimmy Wales. At first he looked sort of ruggedly handsome. Now he looks creepy.

Couldn't you just replace the Jimmy Wales banner with an advertising banner, and solve all our problems at once?

Joe MacLeod Winnipeg, Canada —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.188.110 (talk) 17:10, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Click the X in the upper right corner to remove the banner. It may return for you. Registered users have the option "Suppress display of the fundraiser banner" under "Gadgets" at Special:Preferences. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and doesn't allow advertising. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:36, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you thank you thank you. I could not find where to turn it off until I looked it up here. The damned thing was coming back every time I went to a FL wikipedia but today it's coming back every time I go to the next diff in a history and the x was taking an age to work. Where to turn it off should be printed in big red letters. Gahhhhhh. Now back to actually editing here! Yngvadottir (talk) 19:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Help

Dear Jimmy,

I have a very interesting opportunity for you and Wikipedia. I have launched a new website which focuses on collecting qualified reviews and opinions about websites and articles. I believe there is a great opportunity to make the experience of wiki users even more enriching. I would love to discuss things over a cup of coffee if that is possible?

My background: I'm a graduate from Imperial College London (Information Systems Engineering,2008). I worked at Goldman Sachs London for one year.

Ravi Mittal <blanked> Ravikan2 (talk) 17:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but this page is not for contacting Jimbo Wales. You may be interested in leaving this message on his talk page. TNXMan 17:37, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Urgent Post on Talk:Live television

I have left a post at Talk:Live television, could someone reply to it ASAP. Paul2387chat 21:19, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

As it happens, I have replied; but there was nothing even remotely urgent about this in any way. We are a reference work; we don't operate under a deadline; and impatiently demanding responses from fellow volunteer editors is marginally incivil, and certainly seldom productive. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia fundraising ads worse than banner ads

IMHO, the Wikipedia double-height fundraiser ads at the top of pages are far more irritating and disruptive than an ordinary-height banner ad would be. Please consider that it might actually be BETTER for Wikipedia and for the public if Wikipedia would accept normal-height banner advertising (better-yet, targeted ads based on the topic being viewed).

(Yes, I realized there's "X" that can stop your fundraiser hammer slamming my face for a while, but my statement still stands.)

- Craig (NJ, USA) 12/1/2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.78.94 (talk) 23:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, we don't really have any say over this. Fundraising strategies are decided by the Wikimedia Foundation. If you're interested, then details on how to contact them can be found here. You may also be interested to see this, where the foundation makes it clear that they're not interested in advertisement as a means of raising money. You also may be interested to see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#When a "personal appeal" is and is not advertising. Best, Spitfire^Tally-ho! 23:42, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

December 2

A few things to discuss

Hi! 1. I think there should be a category for American Jews of Polish descent since Polish American Jews was deleted. 2. I think Liane_Cartman#Liane_Cartman should go under the Category:Fictional_prostitutes and Category:Fictional_pornographic_film_actors since an early part of South_park was about her sex life and was like that for a long time. 3. I would like to add links to Xena:_Warrior_Princess actors articles. For example, Claire_Stansfield page should have link http://hercxena.wikia.com/wiki/Claire_Stansfield from the Xena Wiki just like Star Trek actors have links from Memory_Alpha. Thank you! Neptunekh2 (talk) 01:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

1. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 November 18# resulted in Category:Polish American Jews being renamed to Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent. A second category called "American Jews of Polish descent" sounds like it will have too much overlap. Few people of Polish descent will move to America and then become jews. 2. I replied when you suggested these categories at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 November 6#Liane Cartman. 3. http://hercxena.wikia.com/wiki/Claire_Stansfield has uncertain reliability and little content, less than Claire Stansfield, and it uses Wikipedia as a reference. Wikipedia itself doesn't allow to use other Wikipedia articles as references. I don't see justification for a link in Wikipedia:External links. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Question

I am having great difficulty in using Wikipedia's online help pages, which for the most part seem written to remind heavy users of the drill rather than to help beginners. (I also find it difficult to find a relevant and appropriate place in which to express my concerns about the inadequate help pages.)Can you recommend a hardcopy book in print on Wikipedia editing? Terry Belanger 03:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Baldwinn (talk • contribs)

There is no such book per se, or at least not one endorsed by Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia:The Missing Manual matches your description almost exactly, and in theory you could order it from the PediaPress (supporting Wikipedia financially in the process). As to your other comment, you can express your concerns right on this page (or better yet, its talk page or the Village pump). Intelligentsium 03:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

(e/c)Hello Mr. Belanger and welcome to Wikipedia. I placed a welcome template on your talk page with a link to some information you may find useful. I don't know about any hardcopy book on Wikipedia editing, and a quick Google search shows no result, but maybe some other editor does. In the meantime, do you mind me asking what is it you want to edit? Maybe I or someone else can help you with the specifics. Just place your question(s) after this message, using ":" to indent your message and four tildes (~~~~ to sign your message. Good luck and thank you for your interest in Wikipedia! Cheers - «CharlieEchoTango» 03:36, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Learning Wikipedia is different for everybody, because no two people want to do exactly the same things here. Nobody learns all of Wikipedia, only the parts they need. That makes it hard to write the simplest possible manuals for everybody, since everybody needs their own customized manual. Essentially you have to build this manual yourself, by reading the general manuals and figuring out what applies to you. If you tell us more about what you want to edit, we can narrow things down for you. Note that one common problem for new editors is wanting to write completely new articles from scratch. That's one of the harder things to do on Wikipedia, because you have to know a lot of rules to write an article that won't be quickly deleted. One of the most important rules is that we have to provide reliable sources to support everything we write in Wikipedia articles (everything which is not completely obvious, that is). Very few people write that way before they come to Wikipedia, so that takes some getting used to. In everyday life, most people just assert things, and usually they can't provide any published sources. --Teratornis (talk) 06:06, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Further to my last

Here's an example of the problems I am encountering:

Hello, Baldwinn, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Happy editing! «CharlieEchoTango» 03:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

(e/c) This kind message has just appeared in my userspace. But I have no idea how to get to CharlieEchoTango's talk page, nor can I find a way to place {{helpme}} on the page I am looking at. Terry Belanger 03:33, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

You can place the {{helpme}} template on the same page I put the welcome template on. «CharlieEchoTango» 03:36, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

WP:TALK explains how Wikipedia's talk pages work. --Teratornis (talk) 06:08, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia is like an alternative reality where we have our own ways to do things that you are probably used to doing differently elsewhere. Talk pages are a good example. There is a complicated history behind talk pages. When Wikipedia started, it was very simple and plain; as problems arose, people added more features to deal with the problems, using the basic wiki software paradigm. Now that Wikipedia has had 10 years of development to build up lots of features, someone just arriving here can feel overwhelmed. But Wikipedia really is brilliantly designed. The seemingly odd system here works so well that Wikipedia has become one of the world's most-visited Web sites, and working here is so enjoyable that millions of people donate their time for free. --Teratornis (talk) 06:33, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't help that CET posted using a signature that renamed the default "talk" link to his talk-page. DMacks (talk) 06:41, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Hrm, that came out snider than I had hoped...no harm in customizing sig, and it's still completely according to guidelines, just that it's out-of-sync with the message that is written for something closer to default layout. DMacks (talk) 06:48, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

While I understand where you come from and how it might be confusing, I modified my signature because I do not have a user page, and don't want two links that redirect to the same place : my talk page. Regardless, I think this user is just confused about the way Wikipedia works, and not really about the signature, since it's still a blue link you click on; after that, it's pretty obvious it's a talk page. Cheers - «CharlieEchoTango» 08:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

obtaining a copy of a will

My mother had passed away 6 years ago this past june. My brother and sister know she had a will but never saw it. My father is in possession of it and says he doesnt know anything about it. How can I obtain a copy of my mothers last will and testament? —Preceding unsigned comment added by G cirillo (talk • contribs) 03:40, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

• Sorry, Wikipedia does not give legal opinions. --Orange Mike | Talk 04:08, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

You might find some useful information in Probate, but as Orangemike says, you should consult a lawyer. But there is nothing in that article, or in will, which suggests that a will is a public document or has to be registered in any way before probate. --ColinFine (talk) 08:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Practice varies not only between countries, but even between states. At least at one time, all wills in England were on file at something called Somerset House, according to my memory of a myriad English mysteries. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:26, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

<legal disclaimer>Orangemike is indeed correct. In England and Wales (not sure about Scotland but probably similar) the executors of a will must obtain a grant of probate from the Probate Service acting on behalf of the Family Division of the High Court. This requires the will to be registered whereupon it becomes a public document. Some states in the US (Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware for example) have a similar system. In Delaware the Register of Wills is part of the Chancery Court.</legal disclaimer> – ukexpat (talk) 16:07, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, once the executors apply for probate, they have to register it. Until then, it's not registered or filed anywhere. --ColinFine (talk) 19:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Limited access vs dead links

I ran across this, but was able to access the ref today (and always). Is it appropriate to apply a dead-link tag for a limited-access site like Jstor? Thanks, CasualObserver'48 (talk) 05:13, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Not sure it's appropriate to put the dead link tag when the link is not dead and the content available. Or maybe I don't understand the question. Maybe something more appropriate is on this page? «CharlieEchoTango» 05:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

You understood it as intended; question is resolved, and I'll make a fix to it. CasualObserver'48 (talk) 06:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

For the record, it really was a dead link which was tagged.[1] Later a bot added a working url without removing {{dead link}}.[2] PrimeHunter (talk) 14:34, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 disappeared in page view statistics

What happened to Stats.grok.se? November has been out for some time, User:Henrik seems to be inactive... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.158.172 (talk) 09:01, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

November is still there, just replace 201012 (December) by 201011 (November) in the url. «CharlieEchoTango» 09:06, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

What happened to Phil Schneider's page?

Don't you guys find it VERY SUSPICIOUS that Wiki keeps deleting "Phil Schneider" Wiki page?

First he was targeted by the US government, multiple times they tried to assassinate him, and finally succeeded after he managed to speak out the truth!! I always thought America was a country of freedom, freedom to express yourself in an appropriate way of course, Freedom of speech, etc the list can go on. So why is it that this man in particular, has his wiki page removed??? and yet you can find people on here like "Ted Bundy" who has proved to have done revolting things, and all Phil has ever done, was find out the truth, and wanted to share that truth to the people who are ready to hear the truth!

You guys may say Phil was mental etc, well just think about it for a second, why would the US Government, or another secret Governing body waste their time and effort, trying to eliminate this man if he was crazy and deluded, when they have more important issues to handle? Sounds to me like who ever wanted him dead, didn't want the TRUTH to be spread.

KILLUMINATI! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ironlykalion (talk • contribs) 11:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Here is the discussion that resulted in the deletion of the article Philip Schneider. It seems from the discussion that the reasons for deletion were not related to 'freedom of speech' or 'the truth,' but to the difficulty of finding reliable sources which could verify the information in the article. The only available sources were not of sufficient reliability to assure Wikipedia's readers that the information in them was accurate. If you are aware of legitimate newspapers, mazazines, or books that have written about this person, you are welcome to take those sources to deletion review and request that the article be undeleted, so you can rewrite it to meet Wikipedia's standards for verifiability. You could look at the references section of the article you mentioned, Ted Bundy, to see what a well-referenced article might look like. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 12:28, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

You need to brush up on your understanding of the First Amendment and to whom it applies. Wikipedia is not the Federal Government and the First Amendment does not apply to it. To quote Wikipedia:Free speech, [The First Amendment] does not require that a private, charitable organization like the Wikimedia Foundation give a soapbox to all comers.' – ukexpat (talk) 16:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Protected article

I can't understand why these articles are fully protected instead of semi-protection?They aren't very important like Wikipedia Main page.then, isn't semi-protection strong enough?Max Viwe | Wanna chat with me? 13:14, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

• Zomg
• Meera Jasmine
• Dumbass(why it wasn't protected from creation instead of fully protection?)
• Norman Finkelstein
• PS3 Media Server
• Meera Jasmine

It's not about importance. Articles can be fully protected as a response to problems with multiple autoconfirmed accounts who can edit semiprotected pages. See Wikipedia:Protection policy and the page histories, for example [3]. Dumbass contains {{Wi}} with a Wiktionary link that may be useful to some. It also prevents people following a link from seeing an ugly deletion log which has 20 deletions and includes names of people in some deletion summaries where the page started like that and the deleting admin didn't change the default summary. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

where does my donation go?

I'd like to respond the appeal from Mr. Jimmy Wales. How are the monies raised allocated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.181.101.83 (talk) 17:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Mostly the bandwidth and a few developers. «CharlieEchoTango» 19:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

See also Wikimedia Foundation and the external links there. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:42, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

The repeated displays of banners

How do I dismiss the ad banners permanently, instead of getting a different one each time I change pages? Corvus cornix_talk 18:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

By ad banner, you mean the donation appeal? You can click on the [x] which will make it disappear for a certain time, or you can go in your preferences in [gadgets] and select Suppress display of the fundraiser banner. Cheers - «CharlieEchoTango» 19:07, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

As reported below, "x" wasn't working before, I'll try the gadgets approach. Thanks. Corvus cornix_talk 20:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Broken "Kartika" and "Lilaroja" and "Joan Goma" banners

The banners can't be not displayed (clicking x does not work). Help? Thanks! Perseus (t • c) 19:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

If you mean the donation appeal banner, then you can go in your preferences in [gadgets] and select Suppress display of the fundraiser banner. If you meant the templates on top of the page, then they are meant to be seen and stay on the page. When the issues are fixed, they will be removed. Cheers «CharlieEchoTango» 19:11, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Mobile formatting problem on Palm Pre/WebOS

Not sure if you've been notified about this, yet, or if it's only a problem on my phone, but the Wikipedia mobile site is coming up with odd formatting this morning (12/2/10). Instead of dsplaying in a single column sized to the screen, the sizing spread out, requiring quite a bit of zooming and side-to-side scrolling to view it. The formatting is akin to the way the desktop site displays on mobile phones. I am using a Palm Pre, utilizing the WebOS operating system, if that helps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.101.1.120 (talk) 19:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

If you are using webOS, then you are out of luck. However, if you use WinMo, I (highly) recommend Opera Mini/Opera Mobile. Wikipedia works excellently, however some section links do not work, and it will occasionally forget your login status. Otherwise, try that.  A p3rson ‽ 20:45, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

So you're saying, as of this morning, for some reason Wikipedia has decided not to support Palm mobile devices? I didn't "choose" WebOS, it's the operating system that comes with Palm Pre phones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.101.1.120 (talk) 21:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

I downloaded the WebOS emulator and had a bit of a poke at it. It was displaying pages from the mobile site across the width of the page for me with no horizontal scrolling. However, an emulator may not actually completely match up with the real thing and I'm not familiar enough with WebOS to properly experiment with it. I know the mobile site was behaving oddly (showing CCS style information on the page) a few days ago; I saw this reported, but I can't remember where unfortunately. It has since either fixed itself or been resolved by...someone. You could try restarting your device and see if that makes any difference. There don't seem to be any other functional browsers for the Palm Pre that you could use to test WP. If the problem continues, the people at the Technical Village Pump would probably be able to direct you to those who manage the mobile site. --Kateshortforbob _talk 23:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Donation via BACS in the UK

The most secure way to make payments in the UK (and possibly elsewhere) is by logging on to your own bank and making a BACS payment to the payee's bank account, using the account number. I would readily donate using this method. I suggest that you publicise the account number of your bank account in the UK as part of your Donate page.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.148.0 (talk) 20:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

At Ways to Give (linked in small text from the donation page), the Foundation has a bank account in Paris that you may or may not be able to pay into. You are far from the only person to wonder if there are methods other than PayPal. I agree the link should be more prominent, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a place to let the organizers know that everyone is missing the link. Xenon54 (talk) 22:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

softening seawater before desalination using Sodium r Sodium Hydroxide

2 December 2010

To soften seawter,making it more salty ,less bitter tasting, add 47 grams(one tsp) Sodium Hydroxide crystals 1 gallon of raw seawater ,let stand 3 days and note coprecipitated insoluble hydrixides of WAYER HARDENERS MAGNESIUM CALCIUM AND POTASSIUM. To 66 gallons o raw seawater in two exch 33 gallon gsr age containers with placstic insertsm add one 12 ox caister of Caustic Soda Lye Crystals for drain opening/degreasing indoor plumbing. ( Try,say) Lewis"Red Devil" brand,available in US Supermsrkets n Household Chemicals dept.) to 300 gallons of raw seawater, add 6 canisters of q2 oz. NaOH (4.5 lb total caustic soda lye .stir wait thrree days stading and collect 36 liters of Insolble hydroxides of magnesiom,calcium and potassium with trace of seawater insolublr Thorium hydroxide) , plus 999.5 liters of more salty tasting less bitter tasting Partly desalinated seawater.

Why bother t sften Seawarer for desalination purposes? 100 av crefeet o Raw Seawater require at least 221.7 metric tons of Caustic soda lye crystals to soften by co ptecipitating u insoluble Magnesium hydrixide, together wth insoluble calcium g hydrixide and insoluble potassium hydroxde,(effecting a chenicak separation of sodium and potassium cations is not that difficult in seawater...using the procedure..) THEORETICALLY, the procedure violstes no Proprietary iny terestsno any know patents for SEAWATER DERIVED MILK OF MAGNESIA. a n agricultural topiv\cal ield dressing -fertiizer..application for snow melting on sdewalks or in competition with common halite table salt for roads,and bridges.. IMPURE.Milk of Magnesia fom sewater 3.16 Acre feet YIEKD by VOLUME per 100 acre FEET RAW seawater, should be same zs 3.16 Cubic Hectares PRODUCT{ YIRLD from 100 Cubic Hectares of Raw Seawater ,keeing the units constant... At 350.00 USA /metric.ton NaOH crystals 222 tons Sodium Hydrixide pellets, ACS crade (TechnicaL Grade) should total 77,700 USDollarsm for 3.16 Acre feet o Milk of Magnesia, and 97/84 Acre feet of :Artly Desalinated Seawater. siuted for further desalination, with a PRICE of 77,700 dollars for 96.Acrefeet of psrtly desalinated seawater ,ans a market r mixed insoluble metakllic hydroxide minerals of Seawater, plus the very limited mrket fr Thorium gydrixide in incandescebt gause mantles r LPD/propane Camping lanterns... The question: can a Clandestine chenical doing no acids make a fast dollar of a water plant proprietor in Cahoots r psrtneshi, corporate subsidiry reltonship? <blanked> needs t find out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.130.133.117 (talk) 20:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Have you tried the Science section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.Template:Z38 Please note however, you must do your own homework. TNXMan 20:51, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

I can't tell what you are asking, because I can't be bothered to plough through all the mistypings and odd punctuation. If you want people to answer you, it helps 1) to post your questions at the right place (this page is for help about using Wikipedia, as it says at the top) and 2) to make the effort to make it easily readable. --ColinFine (talk) 00:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Edit comparison tool

Resolved

I once saw a tool that compared the edit histories of two users, returning a list of pages edited by both. Can anyone tell me where to find that tool? Thanks, WikiDao ☯ (talk) 21:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

The tool you need is called 'Wikistalk' and it is here. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:21, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

I think what I remember seeing was something a bit different... but that works! Thanks! :) WikiDao ☯ (talk) 23:08, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps Intersect Contribs is what you were remembering. Deor (talk) 01:12, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

That's the one I had seen before, yup, thanks! WikiDao ☯ (talk) 03:14, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia in Nahuatl

Hello,

I was admiring your Nahuatl version of Wikipedia, and I would like to get into contact with some of the contributers and editors who are fluent in Nahualt. How would I go about doing this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.73.108.106 (talk) 21:53, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

This help desk if for the English Wikipedia; you need to ask your question on the Nahuatl Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 21:58, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

If you click the "Tlahcuilōlli tlahcuilōlloh" button on the top of any page at that wikipedia, that will give you a list of editors there who have edited that page. Then clicking the "Tēixnāmiquiliztli" link next to a user's name will take you to that person's talk page, where you can leave a message for them. WikiDao ☯ (talk) 22:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

There is limited activity at the Nahuatl Wikipedia. You can click the "Yancuīc tlapatlaliztli" link at the upper left to see all recent changes and find the recently active editors. Note that usernames ending in "Bot" are usually bots and not people, and if there is an IP address like your 208.73.108.106 above instead of a username then the editor may never see the message. I don't know the language and cannot guide you to a general contact page. Here at the English Wikipedia you may find users knowing the language at Category:User nah. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:31, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Page moves and archives

When a page is moved, the associated talk page is also moved automatically. Are talk page archives also move automatically, or is this something I should watch out for? Astronaut (talk) 23:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Properly archived talk pages should be subpages of the talk page. If a page or its talk page has subpages then the move form has a field "Move subpages (up to 100), if applicable", or "Move subpages of talk page (up to 100)". By default it's not checked so you should check it to include them in the move. You can see what it looks like by clicking "Move" at top of a page without clicking the "Move page" button afterwards. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:13, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

See also Help:Moving a page#Talk subpages. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:15, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Photo Hanayo

Hello,

I just wanted to contribute a FREE Photo of the japanese Singer Hanayo, which I took in 1997 in Kassel, Germany, while the art exhibition documenta. Since now there is no photo of Hanayo available in Wikipedia. But: Things are getting – surprisingly – difficult. Having created, just for this thing, an account with the user-name "Beatclub-Front", I don't get the choice to upload my picture – and I don't get the point, where I made any mistake. So I would be very pleased, if you could check this thing and tell me what I have to do to get my photo finally online.

All the very best, Beatclub-Front —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatclub-Front (talk • contribs) 00:21, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Here at the English Wikipedia you can only upload files if your account is autoconfirmed. When the photo is free, please upload it to Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org. You can do that right away and then it can be used in all language Wikipedias. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:35, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

My additions to an article were removed

Hi,

I modified this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeyore%27s_Birthday_Party

and added text about the Texas Juggling Society in the first paragraph, as well as a link in the External Links to the official TJS website. TJS has been a part of Eeyore's for over 30 years. It seems like this addition is relevant. Can you tell me why it was removed? TJS is a non-profit organization, so this is not a commercial advertisement or a solicitation for new members.

Thanks. Doug Fowler (member of TJS) —Preceding unsigned comment added by TravelinTexan (talk • contribs) 02:11, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

The editor who removed it explained that there was no reason to single out one particular group. In the future, if you want to add anything to any article that involves a group you belong to, you should raise the change first on the article's Talk page and explain your involvement in the group. See WP:COI.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Canvassing?

Would it be considered canvassing to contact a few fellow contributors that I've often came across/stalked/admire regarding a request for editor review? I don't think it would be since editor review is not a decision process, but I'm asking just in case it wouldn't be appropriate to do so! Thanks - «CharlieEchoTango» 07:23, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

No, that's probably fine. The problem only arises when you are trying to artificially affect the outcome of a community decision by inflating the numbers of "voters" who are likely to agree with your position. Asking people "What do you think of my editing" isn't a community decision; its no different than asking specific people to copy edit a specific article or help with something you know they are good at. --Jayron32 07:31, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

All right then! That's what I thought but thanks for providing the needed second opinion! Cheers «CharlieEchoTango» 07:35, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

German question

der typ da oben geht einem ganz schön aufn sack. jimmy wales nervt. soll doch selbst was spenden und nicht bei jeder seite die leser nerven. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.62.4.10 (talk) 10:39, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Dieses ist das englische Wikipedia, nicht der Deutsche. Versuch hier. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:49, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't matter if English or German: Jimmy is going on my nerves to: How to disable permanently (as a registerd user) from being displayed? Waiting some months is not an option! mabdul 13:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Wrong dog photo

This is a Black Russian Terrier photo not a Giant Schnauzer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.150.38.119 (talk) 11:57, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

I am no expert but this should probably be flagged for attention as there appears to be some discrepancy. The picture in Giant Schnauzer says "Other names Riesenschnauzer, Russian Bear Schnauzer". The article Black Russian Terrier has a picture that says "Other names Black Terrier, Tchiorny Terrier, Chornyi, Russian Bear Schnauzer, Russian Black Terrier". Are they the same breed? Are the "also known as" entries wrong? I don't know. How do you flag this for attention by experts? -- Q Chris (talk) 12:17, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Category:Free software programmed in Tcl tkwww is listed under M

I wrote primary the article tkWWW and after adding some articles to the Category:Free software programmed in Tcl I recognized that the article tkWWW is under the wrong subsection although in the article the cat is added without any parameters. Is this a mediawiki bug? How to correct this? Adding the t-parameter by hand? mabdul 13:15, 3 December 2010 (UTC)