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March 17

Query re email

Hi, I received an email from wikipedia saying that another ip requested a password for me. What's going on when this happens? As well, I got an email asking me to confirm my wikimedia email address (this time the ip was my own) but I knew it was already confirmed. Are these pranks or something? Julia Rossi (talk) 00:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

It sounds like somebody wrote your username at login and clicked "E-mail new password". It's intended for users who have set their e-mail address and forget their password. Just ignore it. You can continue using the old password. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you PrimeH. Had to do it myself before so wondered what else was up. Cheers, Julia Rossi (talk) 02:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

unable to remove category from pages

there are a number of user talkpage and others misc that current (and incorrectly) are in this article category - however when I goto the page and try to edit the pages, I cannot find the category mark-up anyone on the page? --87.112.65.25 (talk) 00:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

The category is added by using {{Cite parl}}. Should articles (and not their talk pages) really be in such a category? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

newbie

I wrote my first article, I wanted to know how I did. Is it possible to get criticisms? Do I have any business whatsoever doing this or should I stick to editing? This is it: Van Smith Mjpresson (talk) 01:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

A fine start and yes, you have every business doing this. Would that every newbie, as you name yourself, started like this. The best next step is for you to place inline citations for the material instead of simply listing the references you used under the references section. If you need any help doing so, do not hesitate to drop me a message on my talk page. Meanwhile, I have converted your one text citation, which was a naked link, into an inline citation. I have also added additional categories, a template which sorts those categories by Smith's last name rather than first, metadata information and a stub tag. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much.Mjpresson (talk) 19:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

How to I stop a revert war?

I was looking though Wikipedia for vandalism when I came across a suspicious deletion. I undid it, and it was deleted again. I put it back, but this time I Wikified it, thinking that would solve the problem. It didn't, so I opened a discussion on the talk page, but I'm getting childish replies, even one about "Lost" which has nothing to do with the article. He last deleted the contribution in question giving the reason for deletion as "Racism". Here it is, I see no racism.

In the manga series Naruto, the character Rock Lee is a natural-born user of the Drunken Fist. Rock Lee mistakes a bottle of sake for his medicine, and Might Guy tells the Hokage (village leader) that he witnessed Rock Lee using Zui Quan at a level he had never seen before. <ref>{{cite book |last=Kishimoto|first=Masashi|title=Naruto, Volume 25|year=2007 |publisher=Viz Media |chapter=Chapter 210-211 |isbn=1-4215-1860-0}}</ref>

The page in question is Zui_Quan --MahaPanta (talk) 01:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

See dispute resolution, WP:3RR, and WP:AN3. The first course of action is typically an attempt to discuss the changes on the talk page. If that fails, try requests for comment. If the edit warring continues, do not participate in it yourself. Simply warn the user about the three revert rule. If this fails. File a report to WP:AN3. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 02:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

username - it's mine - can't use

I read through what I could, searching the help faqs. Sorry for being stupid. My username (everywhere) is rishik12. I must have created this username aeons ago in wikipedia. I'd love to edit my first entry, so I try to login, basically, I can't remember the password (????) - I tried all my typical ones. Problem: Can't get a new one emailed to me because... I didn't associate an email address with the account. It's all very strange, it makes me wonder if I tried to set up the account at one time but actually didn't complete the process or something. Anyway, looking for a way to "prove" that username is mine (I know, for example, it must have been dormant forever, i.e., since creation), to create a password for it and give my email address in as well (it's also rishik12@(blockedout).com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.187.182.232 (talk) 02:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Generally, in this situation, the only thing you can do is create a new account. if it's dormant then you've lost nothing in regards to editing. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 02:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Since Special:Contributions/Rishik12 has no edits, WP:USURP may help you. But notice: apparently you have to create an account and use it for several months before applying to show that you will be a serious Wikipedian. —teb728 t c 03:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

user page info boxes

Hello all!

I created account a while ago, but have mainly been a lurker. Life has been extremely busy for me, with moving and planning a wedding all at the same time :) I want to start doing edits more often, reverting vandalism and minor typographical fixes... and I'd like to create a nice userpage for myself. Is there a repository for the userboxes i see on people's talk pages? "This user uses a mac" for example... I always thought they were a cool way to get started. Thanks! Sjr19 (talk) 04:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Yup, wikipedia:userboxes. Go nuts : ) Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 04:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, good sir! Sjr19 (talk) 04:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

vandalism of link from main page

I think someone has deleted the article linked from the green night feature on the main page - I tried to undo it but am a novice and don't seem to have managed it ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.106.233.113 (talk) 11:16, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for noticing. The articles linked from the Main Page are, for quite obvious reasons, prone to vandalism. It looks like it's been fixed for now (for the same reason that it gets lots of vandalism, it also has a lot of people watching it to fix it), but if you'd like to help out with this sort of thing in the future, take a look at Help:Reverting. Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 11:20, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Need specific administrator

I need a specific administrator that has a following property :

• Created account on 2002.
• Half American
• Wear glasses
• Is not steward/ Is sysop nor bureaucrat
• Babel tells that can speak English with Native level and speak Thai at whatever level.

I'm finding this administrator. Thanks ! --125.24.228.80 (talk) 11:25, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

May I ask why? Is it for a game of Guess Who?. In any case, many editors, including administrators, may choose not to reveal personal details like whether they wear glasses.

Users who identify as native English speakers

Users who identify as Thai speakers

American Wikipedians (I don't think you'll have much luck with the half-American bit)

List of administrators

List of bureaucrats

List of stewards on Wikimedia

Users who created their accounts before 2006 may not be listed in the creation log

Cross-reference all of this and you might get lucky. However, it may be easier just to ask an administrator who doesn't meet all your criteria to help you. --Kateshortforbob 11:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

LOL!!! The Dominator (talk) 03:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

pages

how do you make a page on this site —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stikhead17 (talk • contribs) 12:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. Xenon⁵⁴ 12:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Upload Mistake

Hello, I am a new user and I have started to upload photos for Wikipedia.
The only problem is, I noticed I have been uploading photos in the wrong category.
I considered it was my own work, but I didn't paint them.
I took my photos from my own items. I also took photos of casinos from Las Vegas, and I am not
sure what they are considered.
I want to make things right so can you guys help me out here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZooFari (talk • contribs) 14:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

You don't necessarily have to have created the item to label a photo you have taken of it "self-made". Most things, such this photo of tweezers can safely be described as self-made. You need to be more careful if the object is something over which an individual or company could have a license, for example, paintings, DVD boxes or some toys. Images of these would likely have to be given a fair-use rationale and there would be restrictions on which articles they could be used on (more information at WP:FUP). As far as I understand it, photos of buildings are fine, as long as you took the photo yourself. I've had a look at the photos you have uploaded and they look fine to me (assuming you are the photographer). The Image copyright help desk is available to answer questions on this issue, or Wikipedia:Media copyright questions for a question about a specific image. Thanks for taking the time to upload them! --Kateshortforbob 21:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

HI

Hi There

How do i go about adding my company Joolop Games to the following section

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_retailers

If some could let me know i would be very grate full

Chris Wood Joolop Games —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joolopgames (talk • contribs) 15:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Categories are only for existing articles which are added by editing the article, so Joolop Games cannot be added. Note that companies should satisfy Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) to get an article, and you shouldn't create it per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. See also Wikipedia:FAQ/Business if you consider adding information about your company to Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Summarize data from multiple page to one page

I am attempting to create a summary page, which will grab content out of multiple other pages in my wiki. Is this possiable? I want the summary page to update as the other pages are changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.115.127.20 (talk) 15:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

This help desk is for questions about Wikipedia. Are you referring to your own wiki at another website created with the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia? You can transclude entire pages and use noinclude to tell the page that some parts should be omitted when it's transcluded. Wikipedia has bots which can read existing pages and edit other pages based on the content. Maybe you could run your own bot. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

e learninig

explain e learning? its uses and diadvantages —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.91.188.228 (talk) 17:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, we can't help you there. Try WP:Reference desk. George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 17:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

And see Electronic learning. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Please, before you ask a question, try typing in what you want in the search prompt on the left sidebar. e-learning and e learning will bring you to the correct article, which already has proper discussion. We're an encyclopedia, that's what we do. Mac Davis (talk) 23:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

full text of 1965 Hart-Celler immigration Act

I cannot find the actual text of the 1965 Immigration Act (Hart-Cellar Act) just endless articles ABOUT it. Since it's an important historical document I'd like to find it. JM Lessinger —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.83.30.27 (talk) 17:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikisource might be able to help, try there. George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 17:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I've just done a quick check and it doesn't seem to be there. You might have to try somewhere else. Typing 'text of Hart-Cellar act 1965' in Google might help. George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 17:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Freezing computer--the sequel

I asked about this one day last week, but there's no point in bringing back an old question. I'll just make it a new question.

I have specific details this time.

This was not on Wikipedia, but when I sat down at this computer and clicked on "Internet Explorer" (actually an "e") the home page of the library where I am came up, but only after the white square next to the red x in the top right corner turned gray, and the "e" and what looks like a sheet of paper in the top left corner turned into a white square. That happened when I was trying to access something in Wikipedia last week, but it cleared up eventually.

I signed into my email address and did a search using the space available on the page with the list of emails, and what I wanted turned out to be on Wikipedia. So I clicked where it said to click, but before that Wikipedia page even came up there was a blue border around it, with the name of the page at the top with the "e" on the left, and the red X on the right. I could still do other stuff while waiting for the Wikipedia page to come up, but it seems all of that shouldn't be happening.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

The old post is at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2008 March 11#Freezing computer. You are referring to the Internet Explorer logo (a blue 'e'), and the minimize (underscore), maximize (rectangle), close (red X) buttons in the title bar (usually blue in Microsoft Windows). They are made by your browser or operating system and are not part of Wikipedia. The maximize rectangle usually becomes darker when the mouse hovers over it. Your description of the symbols sounds normal to me. If the computer or window freezes then it's a problem with the computer and not with Wikipedia. If the page doesn't load but the window still works (so you can for example change the url) then it may be a problem on the Wikipedia end where there are not always capacity to transmit pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:35, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, in the case of what happened today the Wikipedia page eventually came up, but it was in a smaller space to the right of where I called it up from (the left edge was to the right of the left edge of where I called from), and I could still do other stuff in the space where I called it from. But it seems the problem would have been with a specific web site since not all web sites were having the problem. What normally causes this are ads on the page I am calling.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

If I understand you correctly, I think the problem is bad use of frames on the site you're coming from. Algebraist 19:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds to me like you are accessing Wikipedia using a computer in a public library, and either the library uses a "portal page" (possibly to limit what the public is allowed to do on the computers), or the computer is well and truly messed up. Does the same problem exist on all the computers there? I suggest you speak with the library staff and show them the problems you are having. Perhaps what you are seeing is normal or maybe there is a problem with the library's computers. Astronaut (talk) 02:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

"Robert Falls" page redirected?

Hello,

I am trying to create a page for Robert Falls. When I search for "Robert Falls," a page comes up, but it is the "Goodman Theatre" page. Robert Falls is the artistic director of Goodman Theatre, so I assume that is why I am redirected to the theater when I type in his name. How do I create a page just for Robert Falls?

Thank you so much, Lehrlich (talk) 20:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)Lara

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation.

--The Helpful One ^(Review) 20:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Use this link to get directly to the redirect page. This of course if you feel it is notable enough to have an article. [1] ---CWY2190^TC 20:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

If you want to edit the redirect page, on the page you have been redirected to, just look under the title of the page, and there's a little message that says, "Redirected from _______". Just click on that link, and it will take you to the editable page if you want to add content. Mac Davis (talk) 22:24, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

confirmation email

Please send it so I can get started. Why the delay?

Help desk search doesn't list the topics: not very useful —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaqry (talk • contribs) 23:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Confirmation of what? You can get started right now. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 23:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Your account works since you can edit this page with it. Just go ahead and edit other pages. A confirmation email is not needed for that, only for using e-mail features (which most editors rarely or never do). The mail is posted right away but may be stopped by a spam filter. See Help:Email confirmation. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I want to use the email features but somehow did not receive the confirmation email. (am trying to get access to the filters) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaqry (talk • contribs) 00:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

If you cannot get the mail at your normal mail account then you can try another, for example a free webmail (see Comparison of webmail providers). PrimeHunter (talk) 01:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I tried a second email address (at Yahoo) and have the same problem. Could the problem be with Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaqry (talk • contribs) 04:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I just changed my registered email address to hotmail as a test. The confirmation mail was there when I checked a few seconds later. I changed back to my normal address and the confirmation mail took 30 - 60 seconds this time. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

March 18

REdirect a Company Name to a new domain

Since 1988, Motown Productions(us) is owned and operated under the DBA as West Grand Media LLC. Could you please dedirect it to www.westgrandmedia.com

it is currently being directed to Depasse Entertainment

thank you,

Michael Lovesmith President/ COO West Grand Media LLC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.95.169.26 (talk) 00:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Are you sure you are where you want to be? We are not a domain name registrar or a webmaster, we can't redirect your URL for you. Aecis^Brievenbus 00:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Motown Productions is currently a redirect to de Passe Entertainment. Currently, our information shows that Motown Productions is owned by de Passe. If Mr. Lovesmith can provide a citable source showing otherwise, we can change the articles. Otherwise, we'll stick with how it currently lists. Regardless, we are not going to redirect one of our articles to a commercial website. -- Kesh (talk) 01:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Our software doesn't even enable us to redirect a name to an external site, and we don't have an article about West Grand Media. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Wildcard searching of my userspace

This is embarrassing, as I once did know how to do this. I have a number of pages in my userspace, some in the form User:Hcberkowitz/Sandbox-* and some just under User:Hcberkowitz/*

You'll notice, of course, that it's the low order part of the name that I want to find, and, for those guilty of committing regular expressions, * would normally be the wildcard character. Unless there's some escape sequence I also have forgotten, however, I have forgotten how to do that sort of wildcard search to list all the pages in my userspace, so I can clean out old pages and make the naming of others consistent.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 02:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:Prefixindex is what you're looking for. Useful for all pages, and userspace, too. :D Cheers! Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 02:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and just put your full username as the prefix, without the User: part, and select User talk in the menu thing. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 02:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

How can I add more information to the Nutritionalvalue template

While updating the grape article and adding the Nutritionalvalue template, I had to refer to the template's page to learn how to enter 'manganese'. The only option I saw was to enter it as an optional free fromat variable, but the template still would not take that name and value. Is there a specific way to do this and add other nutrients do this template? Thanks,AlexGWU (talk) 03:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You'd need to fiddle around with the template, but don't do this if you're unacquainted with template stuff. My suggestion is to ask the template creator User:Hankwang. bibliomaniac15 Midway upon life's journey... 04:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The documentation is at Template:Nutritionalvalue. "| opt1n=Manganese 0.66 mg| opt1v=33%" works for me (but 0.66 mg becomes bold). Suggestions to the template can be made at Template talk:Nutritionalvalue. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. Thanks for your help PrimeHunter. I tried it per your example and it worked too.AlexGWU (talk) 00:01, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirect goes back to an older version

When I look up the page "p-adic" it gets redirected to "p-adic number" but it gives the page from 3 edits ago. I've cleared my cache and checked with different browsers but had the same problem. When I look at the history it gives the current history. The differences are only at the very end of the section "Constructions", subsection "Algebraic Approach."

--Jallotta (talk) 05:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, now the problem is fixed. If it was just on my end, sorry. Otherwise thanks whoever fixed it. --Jallotta (talk) 06:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

netblock for download of archive

I am unable to download the Wikipedia archive in XML format from some of my machines:

http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2

The problem extends from wget (with user agent specified) through to Firefox clients, demonstrating that it is the IP set that appears to be blocked. Behavior is just hanging of all clients. I am able to download through a consumer pacbell account, however. There are no spam relay or other flags on my machines according to dnsgoodies.com.

How do I determine why you are blocking me?

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.111.165 (talk) 06:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Have you tried the Computing 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. Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 08:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

how to delete entry from page history

How do we permanently delete sensitive information? I put someone's name in an edit summary at 4am that I shouldn't have, and he'd like me to remove it. Thanks, — kwami (talk) 08:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You need an admin or oversighter to delete a revision from a page, depending on the sensitivity of the the material. --PeaceNT (talk) 08:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

To be more specific, if you feel said info meets any WP:OVERSIGHT's criteria, please email the diff link to the address listed at Wikipedia:Requests for oversight. I hope this helps. :)--PeaceNT (talk) 08:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! — kwami (talk) 00:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Visually Impaired Access to Maths Expressions on Wikipedia

Hi. I'm visually impaired and use the JAWS V9 screenreader in conjunction with IE7 to read Wikipedia. I want to render mathematical expressions in the most accessible way, and would welcome advice about the most appropriate preferences to set.

Assuming that MathML was the way to go, I downloaded and installed the MathPlayer IE plug-in from Design Science at www.dessci.com, and chose the matching option from Wikipedia's maths preferences, but this didn't work with the first article I tried (Regular Polygon). When will MathML be fully supported by Wikipedia?

Am I better sticking with the "leave it as TeX" option for now? What does the "recommended for modern browsers" option actually do?

Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.

John D Burling (talk) 09:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Maybe Help:Preferences#Rendering math, Help:Displaying a formula, mw:Extension:Blahtex are of help. I don't know what "recommended for modern browsers" does. Pure speculation: Maybe it's not fixed but changes what it does when "modern browsers" change what they do. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

To my knowledge, the Mediawiki MathML is not in particularly good shape, and is not planned to be worked on any time soon. I suspect the "Recommended for modern browsers" option is actually the "HTML if very simple or else PNG" option, but with the possibility that as browsers improve, so does the preferred option. Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 22:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Display text as entered

I'm writing the text for a page to explain how to do a domain specific site search. I want to enter a url as part of the text, ie site:url of site

I want this to show as text but it is converting the url to a link. I can't find anything in the help which tells me how I can prevent it converting to a link. Can anyone help please? Jools —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.166.133 (talk) 09:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

To show a URL without link use e.g. h<nowiki/>ttp://www.example.org giving http://www.example.org.--Patrick (talk) 09:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much Patrick - much appreciated. Jools

stub files

Hi,

I downloaded the the stub files from data dump archives. It contains all the revisons. Am wondering if some one could explain the ifo about namespaces comes at the begining as follows:

<namespaces>

 <namespace key="-2">Media</namespace> 
 <namespace key="-1">Special</namespace> 
 <namespace key="0" /> 
 <namespace key="1">Talk</namespace> 
 <namespace key="2">User</namespace> 
 <namespace key="3">User talk</namespace> 
 ......
 </siteinfo>

- <page>

 <title>AmericanSamoa</title> 
 <id>6</id> 

- <revision>

 <id>233188</id> 
 <timestamp>2001-01-19T01:12:51Z</timestamp> 

- <contributor>

 <ip>office.bomis.com</ip> 
 </contributor>
 <comment>*</comment> 
 <text id="233188" /> 
 </revision>

..............

Thanks --Naz (talk) 11:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

What do you want to know about it? The namespaces are the various places a page can be located - this page is in the Wikipedia namespace, the Main Page is in the unlabelled "main" namespace, actual image files are in the Media namespace and their description pages are in the Image namespace, and all of them have a corresponding talk namespace. Each of these then has a corresponding numeric id, as defined by that list at the start. More on the namespaces is at Help:Namespace. Was there something more you wanted to know (I don't know anything about the dumps, but maybe someone else can help)? Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 22:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

how to traslate from english to other languagess

≈ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.99.64.38 (talk) 12:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

If you mean Wikipedia articles then see Wikipedia:Translation. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Text size

User_talk:Alison#Text_Size works for Alison's correspondent but I think there must be an account preference for the correspondent which would more easily be changed so everybody see things the same. - Kittybrewster ☎ 12:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia provides some options to let the user customize his or her view of the site appearance. See: WP:MONOBOOK to get started. It may be possible for a user to override all sorts of things such as font settings, if that user wants to learn enough CSS. --Teratornis (talk) 21:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

mazo dela roache jalna mini series,

i am a devoted reader of the whiteoak books and have just aquired the 1935 film "jalna" i am not anxious to buy the 1972 or 1994 mini series of jalna. i do so wish you could help thank you trish <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.19.144.28 (talk) 12:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but this is not a book purchasing site. -- Kesh (talk) 12:59, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

John George Gough article

Dear Wikipedia

There are two Wikipedia suggestions for improving this article, but I believe I've fixed it in line with both. How do I make the suggestion boxes disappear?

Regards

Higvin (talk) 12:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC).

Simply remove the templates for the boxes. In this case, there's only one on the article, which is {{wikify|date=March 2008}. -- Kesh (talk) 13:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Carex eburnea

Francis Boott described Carex eburnea in 1839 . This Carex sedge flowers in "late spring to mid-summer" . It occurs "in conifer or mixed forests, occasionally fens, stable dunes and alvar on neutral or calcareous substrates and ranger from most of Canada and Alaska south (in the United States) to Nebraska, Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina as well as occurring in central Mexico . This obscure species often dominates the herbaceous layer in small patches of specialized habitat (see photo) or occurs as individual clones in moist rock outcrops of limestone or sandstone in Arkansas.

• Philip E. Hyatt holding a Carex eburnea plant in Baxter County, Arkansas on a cedar glade with a ground cover of this species dominating the herbarious layer.
  Philip E. Hyatt holding a Carex eburnea plant in Baxter County, Arkansas on a cedar glade with a ground cover of this species dominating the herbarious layer.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sedgehead (talk • contribs) 2008-03-18T13:50:40 (UTC)

How can we help? Bovlb (talk) 14:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You'll need to upload the image before you can use it on Wikipedia, just so you know (WP:Upload) flaminglawyer^c 17:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Making edits show up

I added some elaboration to the end of the "philosophical system" section of the page on Friedrich Schleiermacher. While my edits show up on when I load the page on my computer, they do not appear when I load the page on other computers. However, when I press "edit page" on other computers the edits are present in the mark-up (in other words, the edits are there, just don't appear when you load up the page). How do I make my page edits actually show up when someone else is looking at the page? Fclingerman (talk) 14:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a cache issue. Try reloading the page. Bovlb (talk) 14:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

And please bypass the cache of any computer on which you are viewing the page. Meanwhile, I will bypass the Wikipedia server's cache for the page itself.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

world war 1 Frankfoss (talk) 16:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I am in college and am trying to gather information for an essay that I have to complete before this week ends. I have searched your site but can't find what I am looking for. I need to know if Britain and France greedily divided up the Turkish empire.

Any assistance on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Franklin Foster

Try Ottoman Empire, WW1 and WP:Reference desk. George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 16:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

How Do I delete a Page I have made for myself?

I made a Page for Austin Mallar (me) and i want to delete it, I cant figuire out how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guitarplayeraustin (talk • contribs) 16:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Place the template {{db-bio}} on there. That'll put it up for CSD. Or use Twinkle, which makes it a bunch easier. flaminglawyer^c 17:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Already deleted by an admin. --PeaceNT (talk) 17:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Change in editing mechanism?

I used to be able to edit pages when logged in as codairem, and have used this privilege occasionally without ever causing offence. But today, reading the article Resonance_Raman_spectroscopy and wishing to edit it to improve a misleading sentence, I got a different behavior when I clicked on the "edit this page" link. Instead of opening the edit page, the browser downloads the file index.php. What should I do? Silvio Levy, <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Codairem (talk • contribs) 17:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Please go to your preferences settings, click on the "Editing" tab, and make sure that "Use external editor by default" is unchecked. I think that should clear it up.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Fuhghettaboutit - thanks for your help. Tried to say this via "talk" but it wasn't clear how to leave a message there. Guess I have a lot to learn. --codairem

You can start a new section on a talk page by clicking the '+' tab at the top. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

sig wrong- know nothing about code

I tried to change the words in my sig- don't think I changed actual code. But as you can see, it's gone wrong lol:) All I want it to do is say "special, random, " for the userpage word and "merkinsmum" for the talk page word- all in pink and bold. This is an interim phase- after that I'm going to change the font so it's easier to read. Please could someone give me the code for what I'm trying to do at the moment. Sorry if I've posted to the wrong place.:) [[User:Merkinsmum|<b><font color="pink">special, random, ]]</font></b>[[User talk:Merkinsmum|<b><font color="pink">Merkinsmum]]</font></b> (talk) 18:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not the best person to answer this, because I have not customized my signature and I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to do that, but if for some reasons I did want to, I would carefully study the instructions in: WP:SIG first. That's all I've got, sorry. Maybe someone who actually knows the answer will respond. Otherwise, you'll just have to read that friendly manual page carefully and keep trying. --Teratornis (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm just taking a wild guess here, but have you tried moving your HTML tags to the outside of your double-square-bracketed expressions? Like this, for the first half of your signature:

• <b><font color="pink">[[User:Merkinsmum|special, random, ]]</font></b>

It looks like you have a problem with your nesting of tags and wikitext delimiters. --Teratornis (talk) 21:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The code your sig produces seems okay; copying and pasting produces:

special, random, Merkinsmum

Is this

[[User:Merkinsmum|<b><font color="pink">special, random, ]]</font></b>[[User talk:Merkinsmum|<b><font color="pink">Merkinsmum]]</font></b>

the exact text that's in My Preferences > Signature? Is raw signature ticked?--Kateshortforbob 21:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

It may be that HTML Tidy (which Wikipedia runs) is silently fixing the tag nesting problem when you display that code on a page. Maybe HTML Tidy does not fix tag nesting errors in a signature. --Teratornis (talk) 21:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Kateshortforbob was right.:) I had misunderstood it and not ticked the box.:) Thanks everyone. This is just an interim version, which I'm going to make more readable.:) special, random, Merkinsmum 00:17, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, consider having a concise, easy to read signature. Most of us are on the monobook skin, and light pink on top of white is difficult to read. Mac Davis (talk) 08:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Odd history

Not a big deal but a quirk in a history. Please take a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Muir_High_School_%28Pasadena%2C_California%29&action=history

This history (on my system) shows my 3 recent edits, most recent at 18:26.

It does not show the 4th edit I made just after. But if I go to the most recent diff in the history, I can then go to the more recent diff (the 4th edit).

??? Wanderer57 (talk) 18:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• It looks ok on my end. I see all 4 changes. Probably a cache issue with your browser. Try purging the page. See WP:CACHE. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 18:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

List of public universities in North Carolina

I was hoping to get everyones opinion on the fairuse of a couple of photos. Most are public domain, but a few arent. Specifically: UNC_system_seal.gif (UNC system Seal), Www.uncfsu.jpg (Fayetteville State seal), NCCU_seal.gif (NC Central seal), UNCAcoin.gif (UNC-A seal), Uncwlogo.gif (UNC-W seal), WCU_Seal.gif (Western Carolina seal), and Athletic_ram_color_full.jpg (Winston-Salem State picture). All are located in this article: List of public universities in North Carolina If this does not make sense, please write on my talkpage. Thanks, PGPirate 18:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Article reviewing

Is there any place where one's supposed to mooch a review for an article they're working on, if we hope to submit it for GA or FA at somepoint? Or are you stuck just submitting it and hoping you can respond to criticism as fast as it's made? Mr Lemon (talk) 18:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Most project pages have a system for reviewing pages within the project. For instance Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review. What page do you want to have reviewed? Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 19:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Uh, it's Augustus Jones, which is actually a B-class biography, so your example is probably exactly the place I'm looking for. Thanks. Mr Lemon (talk) 19:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Great... good luck. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 19:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Linking to images

Is there a policy or guidance on whether it's OK to wikilink to an image? An editor has uploaded images (which is a whole fair use question i'll leave to the Bot for now) but rather than placing the images on the page, has wikilinked to them instead. See List of Omnitrix aliens for the context. Thanks Ged UK (talk) 19:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Without regard to the problematic licensing on those particular images, wikilinking to any valid and appropriate image is encouraged. Take a look at the Wikipedia:Image use policy for more info. There's some guidance there under "Deleting images" about what you can do about the fair-use/licensing problem other than leaving it to a 'Bot – Zedla (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks for that. I did browse through that policy, but my eyes tend to glaze over when it comes to fair use, and I couldn't remember seeing image linking in that way before. Thanks again. Ged UK (talk) 20:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Glaze over? Bite your tongue. Try reading the Russian constitution in translation (Greek and Urdu are both recommended), or the Los Angeles telephone directory, a couple of times:

Then return to the fair use policies. They will read like brilliant prose. In some sections, they will seem sublime poetry. In one or two passages, downright majestic. Wanderer57 (talk) 00:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Zedla, I don't see anything in Wikipedia:Image use policy about wikilinking to image pages from mainspace articles without displaying the image. I haven't seen it discussed elsewhere and it seems inappropriate to me. I guess there are many data users where such cross namespace wikilinks will not work. The edit in question is [2]. Did you know the question was about this type of linking? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Granted it might be common to expose the link like this: Image:Ben10Alienforce Humongousaur.jpg, I'm not sure there's been a discussion on this either. Zedla (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

So, there isn't a consensus on this then? Where would I need to go to start a discussion? Ged UK (talk) 21:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether this is covered by existing pages or where to best discuss it. If images are linked at all from articles then I think it should be with Media: which only links to the image and not the image description page which can contain all sorts of unencyclopedic things. For example, link to Media:Ben10Alienforce Humongousaur.jpg instead of Image:Ben10Alienforce Humongousaur.jpg. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:Image_markup#Linking to the image description page which is an example of the above. I haven't found anything indicating you must not wikilink as described although it's probably not a stylistic preference. I'd take a look at the Wikipedia:Village Pump if you want to start a discussion (pick your relevant section). – Zedla (talk) 06:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

How do i create a new page?

I need help creating an entirely new Wikipedia page. How do i do this?--Jeffduke404 (talk) 20:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Your first article. Stwalkerster [ talk ] 20:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. --The Helpful One ^(Review) 20:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protection of a new article

How do I go about getting a new article I just wrote semi-protected. There is much vandalism occuring on Cone sisters and I need to get it stopped. Thanks!!!--Doug ^talk 20:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

This would be place to request it: WP:RFPP. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 20:58, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I have semi-protected for 31 hours, but note that some of the IP contributions have been constructive. Bovlb (talk) 21:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I asked about this problem HERE. Wanderer57 (talk) 21:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

WAZZ/WFLB

Never mind how I got to this point.

I was working on the WMXF article and the online source I was using had some information about another WMXF. I was about to edit the article on that station when I got off track. I'm tired and ready to go home and have nothing to do with computers until tomorrow and nothing to do with WAZZ or WFLB until later this week or next week.

But when it finally came time for me to put the WMXF information in the WFLB article, I found out there was no WFLB article. There was an article about the station which is now WAZZ. I could copy and paste from WFLB but that would wreck the history.

I remember dealing with this before. Someone did a merge of two separate articles on WEGX, one of which I contributed to.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what the question is here. WP:MOVE, WP:MERGE, and/or WP:DISAMBIG might be relevant to this situation. --Teratornis (talk) 21:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that I spent most of the afternoon on several articles where I could post some of the information related to the old WMXF. But when it came time to post on the article about the actual WMXF, it was about the same radio station for which I had made most of the contributions. There are two articles about WFLB. One should be about the station that is now WFLB, but what is there should be moved to the other article, WAZZ, the one I contributed to yesterday. A lot. It shouldn't be copy and paste because there is the history to consider.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 16:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I looked at WP:MERGE which describes some similar cases, but not exactly what you are facing. You might look at WP:SPLICE, which lists a bunch of cases where people are de-tangling pages that have been moved or copied and pasted on top of each other. I'm not really sure what you need to do; maybe someone on the WP:SPLICE page can help. --Teratornis (talk) 20:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

John Deere article

I'm sorry that I haven't been able to offer this correction more easily; but...

In my screen, the Wikipedia article about John Deere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere) refers in the second paragraph to his mother as "PoopyPants Fartbag".

When I went in to make an editorial correction, the editorial page simply listed the same woman as "his mother". "PoopyPants Fartbag" was gone.

So:

I'm alerting you to this pubescent irritation, and asking for instructions on how to correct his on my own in future:

thx

(email removed) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.94.44.70 (talk) 21:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

This was vandalism and has been reverted. You are welcome to revert vandalism on your own. It's usually easier than reporting it. See Help:Reverting. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

(e/c) Hi! Thank you for trying to revert this vandalism. For future reference, please see Help:Reverting for some instructions on this. What apparently happened here, though, was that when you first arrived at the article the vandalism was present. By the time you attempted to edit it, another user had already reverted the vandalism. Please see the article's history which shows the reversion. If you still saw the vandalism when you went back to the article, that is probably because your computer already had the previous version in its cache memory, so you weren't seeing the article as it was then, but the older version as your computer remembered it. You can force your computer to empty is cache memory. On many computers you can just click cntrl+F5 but please see WP:BYPASS. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Energy drink

This page is constantly vandalized. Just about every day and it's usually by ISP numbers, not users. Is there a way to make it so that only registered users can edit it? Superstarwarsfan (talk) 23:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You can request page protection at WP:RPP, so that only users who have been registered for more than 3 or 4 days can edit. ~ LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 23:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

March 19

Template format

Why does {{See also}} have a colon both before and after the argument output?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 01:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't see a colon after the argument output. For example, {{See also|Wikipedia}} displays:

See also: Wikipedia

. What example do you have in mind? --Teratornis (talk) 01:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Conversation about deleting a category

There is a conversation going on right now about the deletion of a category -- the Association of Theological Schools accreditation. I would like to contribute to this discussion, but everything I see seems to be archival (i.e., there's usually a notice that says "please don't edit this" or some such). Where can I find the ongoing discussion about this topic -- as someone who has working in theological schools and with accrediting bodies, I feel I could contribute to the conversation. k+ —Preceding unsigned comment added by FrKurtMessick (talk • contribs) 02:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 March 15#Category:Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. The box at Category:Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada has a link to that on the text "this category's entry". PrimeHunter (talk) 02:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Am I allowed to post this article?

Am I allowed to post an article about someone I know, who has not made a great change in history but is important in some minor ways? 70.231.150.141 (talk) 02:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

It would depend on how important they are. They would have to fulfill the criteria of our notability guideline. Since you know the person, you may also have a conflict of interest. Algebraist 02:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You will need to first register an account, which has many benefits, including the ability to create articles. Once you have registered, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 02:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You've been posting to articles information about a lot of family members on Wikipedia without appropriate justification of their notability. Please only start Wikipedia articles about notable people. Mac Davis (talk) 08:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Help move

One of the articles was moved to a nonstandard name, but the software won't let me undo it! The correct name should be Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, not Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers. Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 04:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The likely problem is the capitalization of the S at the end of the title or that a redirect already exists. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 04:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

 Done Mac Davis (talk) 08:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Help with monobook

I am using the monobook skin, and i made some edits to it [3], and after that some of the codes in the monobook are not working. I reverted back to a previous version But it didn't help. Can anyone tell me how to fix the error.Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 07:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC) 06:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

It appears that you used the undo feature for one of your changes rather than reverting to the version before all of them and thereby did not fix them all. I have reverted. Now just clear your cache and everything should be back to the way it was. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 10:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Cyber Team Page?

Hello,

I'm trying to make a wikipedia page about a Professional video gaming team (Fatal Kill). I've seen that there is a couple other teams that have pages, yet when I try to make one for the team of Fatal Kill, it gets deleted right away, but why aren't the other ones deleted?

Please help me out. Am I suppose to put in certain content to make it "okay"?

Thanks, Inferno363 (talk) 11:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)Andrew

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation.--Kerotan^{Leave Me a Message} Have a nice day :) 11:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You mention other teams having Wikipedia articles. Take a look at those pages to see what they have, how they establish the team's notability, the encyclopedic tone and neutral point of view, and so on. I notice you have already made a start at Fatal Kill, but it might be beneficial to instead start off developing the article on a subpage of your user page. If you are unsure how to do this, my own user page has a "sandbox" subpage, so take a look there to see what I did. Astronaut (talk) 11:58, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:Other stuff exists. --Teratornis (talk) 15:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Look at this deletion log. The edit summaries give the reasons why the page was deleted. The last time, it was because the page was almost empty. Other times, it did not assert notability. The article would have to say why that team is important enough to have a Wikipedia article about it. (For example, an article might start with something like "... is an internationally-recognized ..." or "... which has won international tournaments..." or "... is the only ..." or "... was the first..." or something.) Wikipedia doesn't have articles about everything.

If the team is not important enough to have an article, maybe it could still be a section of another page in some logical way, such as a section of a page about the game, or possibly the articles for the other teams could be merged into one big article with sections about different teams.

If you like, you can create the article in your userspace first and ask me (and/or others) to look at it. For example, call it User:Inferno363/Fatal Kill. Then it won't be part of the encyclopedia yet and probably won't be deleted from there. After you improve it for a while, then you can move it into the mainspace (encyclopedia) section. However, if the team isn't very important or doesn't have enough material published about it and stuff, the article may still be deleted anyway. It helps if you can find references, e.g. newspaper articles or any other publications that talk about the team. --Coppertwig (talk) 17:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

As to why your article got deleted and other ones are still there, see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Articles avoid deletion either because (a) they actually conform to policy, or (b) they slipped under the radar. If (a), then you need to bring your article up to an equally non-deletable standard, as explained above, but if (b), then you may want to consider putting the other article through the deletion process. Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 22:13, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

i need answer soon as possible...

i need answer of the following question

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Name the current football champion? 2. who invented telescope? 3. which is the longest snake? 4. what does SUPARCO stand for?? 5. who discovered radium? 6. when did Pakistan conduct its first nuclear test?? 7. which is the biggest desert? 8. who were the first people to reach the top of the Mt. Everest? 9. name the oldest cloned animal? 10. who discovered Australia 11. who wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Science

1. how are objects and materials recognized? 2. what is the melting point of iron? 3. which material is used for making lubricants? 4. what is the name of the process in which a solid directly changes into a gas? 5. what is the name given to the hard skin on the outside of an invertebrate? 6. which chemical is used for coating the photographic films? 7. how many sea birds were killed by an oil spill from a tanker off Alaska in 1989? 8. which chemical is added into vinegar to make an artificial volcano explode? 9. who was Fredrick Mohs? 10. when was first plastic made? 11. when did Heath hens become extinct? 12. what causes iron to rust? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umairsv (talk • contribs) 13:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

These questions should be asked at The Reference Desk (see top of this page for the link) rather than the help desk, which is for Wikipedia-related questions only. Thankyou, Lradrama 13:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Also most of these questions can be answered with simple searches, either in Wikipedia or in Google. Bovlb (talk) 14:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Deleted Work

I added some information to here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet My work was factual and my own but someone has deleted it can you tell me why it was deleted?

Username: ibizara

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.75.6.134 (talk) 14:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I am not able to determine why the edits were removed based on the edit summaries. My guess would be since the information you added seems to already be in the article. However I would suggest you ask on the talk page of the article or on the talk page for the editor who removed your contributions, User talk:CBMIBM. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 15:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The additions were removed in this diff as redundant. -- Kesh (talk) 18:08, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

new article

i managed to register, however, when i goto upload my new article, it says i've made a typo, tho i have not. whereas the browse line mentions formats my txt file document is not in, just image formats etc. so isnt there a page which can upload my word document, or allow its contents to be pasted in an then uploaded? my word document is formated in basic text but with links to refeerences in. Yours Faithfully - VLC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.115.41.40 (talk) 15:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

No, there isn't. Text must be put in as simple text, unformatted. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC) (and please remember to sign in, and to sign your posts of this sort)

thanks, however, i seem to get an error where the page says i havent inserted anything, tho theres no instruction 'how to'. 212.115.41.40 (talk) 16:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Did you copy raw text, put the cursor in the edit box, and paste? There is no "upload" involved for text! --Orange Mike | Talk 16:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Just search for the article in question and if it does not exist, you should be taken to a page that indicates that, decorated with a large empty white box with headers that indicate you may create the article. Simply cut and paste your text into that space and click save (or preview if you want to make sure it looks right). Before going live though, most users like to use the WP:SANDBOX to become familiar with the formatting issues. This might help: your first article. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 16:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Creating a Wikipedia Page

Hey, I'm just making up a wikipedia page for the band The Tom Fun Orchestra and I'm wondering a few things.. . .

```I was wondering how to put an artist section in it just like (Slowcoaster) has in their page.

I'd also like to know how to turn text into links for a website. Sorry if these questions are too generic or could have been answered in the FAQ's I was searching it and couldn't find the information I needed

Thanks so much

-Evan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom fun orchestra (talk • contribs) 15:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This link will aid you I believe WP:ARTICLE and your first article. Wisdom89 <sub>(T / <sup>C</sup>)</sub> 16:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

As for turning text into links, try here external links. Wisdom89 <sub>(T / <sup>C</sup>)</sub> 16:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by the artist section: do you mean the box with a picture and list of information? That's called a template. See Template:Infobox musical artist. If you click "edit" on the Slowcoaster page, not to change it but just to look, you'll see a part that begins {{Infobox musical artist and ends }}. That's what makes that box. You can copy and paste the part in the "code" section at Template:Infobox musical artist into the article you're creating, and fill in some of the information. You can look for a picture of the artist at Wikimedia Commons, and if you find one, just put the name of the image after img= in the infobox and it will display.

To make a link to another Wikipedia page, just put double square brackets around the words, [[like this]]. For a link to a page somewhere else on the web, use single square brackets around the URL (web address), like this: [http://www.webpage.org] or to make it display as some text, just put a single blank space after the URL, then the text you want to display, inside the square brackets. [http://www.webpage.org some text] Note that this format only works for the single square brackets.

No problem, that's what we're here for. It can be hard sometimes to find information in all the many help pages and things. --Coppertwig (talk) 16:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Blacklist removal

Hello

I have been blacklisted and I don't know why or how to remove it. Can you please help me?

Thanks!

Borboleta95 Borboleta95 (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You were able to insert your note here. Maybe you tried to edit a protected or partly protected article? Wanderer57 (talk) 19:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by "blacklisted". Could you explain? Do you mean your account was blocked? How do you know you were blacklisted? --Coppertwig (talk) 19:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean you were blocked by the spam filter trying to save a page which contained a blacklisted URL? Stwalkerster [ talk ] 19:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:Version shows Wikipedia is running several extensions with "blacklist" in their names:

• Username Blacklist
• Title Blacklist
• SpamBlacklist

The questioner might have seen a message from one of those and interpreted it as a blacklist against the user. It would be nice if a log existed of the messages shown to a user, since few new users would realize the importance of taking notes so as to ask an understandable question later. --Teratornis (talk) 20:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Number of articles created

I'm sure I came across a tool which listed the number of articles each user had created (rather than just counting edits), but I can't find it again. Anybody able to help? Mr_pand 19:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This tool counts and lists pages created. For future reference, WP:WPEC is the place to look for this stuff. Algebraist 19:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You also might want to bookmark these links or add them to your user page:

• Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia (shortcut: WP:EIW)
• {{Google help desk}}
• {{Google custom}}
• {{Google wikipedia}}

The last three links are templates that generate search links, but each template's page shows examples with links you can use to search Wikipedia or parts thereof. For example, we can search the Help desk for: tool number articles created, which finds a couple of promising results among the first several. --Teratornis (talk) 20:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Making additions to articles

Hello,

I posted a theory about vampirism on the vampires talk page, but I can't find a way of doing that on the main article's page. Are we not meant to add to that, and are the talk pages the only areas we can edit?

Melissa.

DanceofIllusions maj (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The Vampire article displays a little image of a padlock in the upper right corner (which comes from the {{pp-semi-protected}} template in the article). That means the article is semi-protected, so you have to wait until your account is five days old before you can edit the article. --Teratornis (talk) 20:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Be aware that your contributions at Talk:Vampire#Non-Undead Vampire Analogy appear to lack reliable sources and may constitute original research. --Teratornis (talk) 20:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict, agreeing with Teratornis) Vampire is currently semi-protected from editing - editors without an account and editors with accounts that are less than 4 days old cannot edit the article at present, due to persistent problems with vandalism. Having read your talk page comment, I'd also point you in the direction of the Wikipedia prohibition on original research and the need for additions to articles to have reliable sources. Making controversial, unsupported changes to articles such as that one could lead to upset. Regards, Bencherlite<sup>Talk</sup> 20:58, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

(We also have so many people trying to help you that we give each other edit conflicts.) Wikipedia has complex policies and guidelines that control what we can add to articles here. Please read WP:NOT to get an idea of the things we aren't supposed to do here. There are many other wikis besides Wikipedia that you may also find interesting, and almost all of them have content policies that differ in some way from ours. That's something to keep in mind if you find Wikipedia's policies too restrictive. But it's worth the effort to figure out how to contribute to Wikipedia because this is the world's most popular wiki with the largest user community, and lots of interesting stuff happens here. Plus we have a Help desk where you can actually get help; not all wikis have such good support. Heck, hardly any corporations have such good support. --Teratornis (talk) 21:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Question about diff

I was checking a page on my watchlist and got this diff. Does anyone else get it? Spencer<sup>T♦C</sup> 21:08, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand what your question is. Ged UK (talk) 21:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

If you mean it doesn't look like anything changed, that usually happens when someone removes extra Return spaces from an article. Like if someone hit enter too many times between lines, and another editor removes the extra blank lines, you'll get a diff that looks like that. -- Kesh (talk) 21:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

(e/c)wikEdDiff is a useful script which highlights the changes between diffs (in this case, it seems to be an extra space added in 3 places). --Kateshortforbob 21:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Edit count

What tool is used to be able to count the amount of edits an editor has done?--Doug <sup>talk</sup> 21:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You can find it in your 'my preferences' link. Also, a few questions up from here there's links to other useful tools. Ged UK (talk) 21:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Right now the most popular one is Interiot's edit count tool.Mac Davis (talk) 21:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Attention Editors of Wikipedia

Hi, I am doing a research paper, and I was wondering if anyone who is an editor on Wikipedia would like to comment on how they would like to see Wikipedia possibly changed or modified in order to not kill individual voices. The specific question that I am trying to research and get opinions on is, How can online colletive sites such as Wikipedia be modified in order not to kill the voice of the individual authors? I also related this question to credibility. So anyone out there who would like to offer their opinions and thoughts, that would be great. thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.86.161.66 (talk) 22:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

"individual voices"...Sounds like original research/Unverified claims to me, on wikipedia its dead important that information in the articles is verifiable, its like scientific research, if someone proposed that Apples actually floated when dropped from a certain height, when that person is asked how can that be, if he said "I just know it to be true, he would be laughed at by the scientific community at large for not being scientific, be not providing empirically justifiable evidence of said theory. Its similar on wikipedia, if someone for example if a person said that person X was a homosexual, would you believe it to be true solely based on that persons word? Of course not. So the idea of individual voices of users on wikipedia is muddle-headed concept, and this just leads to article ownership. There are no individual voices on wikipedia, only information, backed up by sources, sources which are found by contributors. The main article space of Wikipedia is not the place for opinion, and never will be.(Just to clarify, the above comments regard about the mainspace of wikipedia only, that is the articles themselves, the rest of wikipedia, i.e. the coordination end of the stick, its only natural that there is discussion about how articles should be and how wikipedia is run, its the nature of the beast, so in regard to that, I don't think the individual voices of contributors are killed off. A perhaps somewhat naive belief of mine is that, wikipedia is one of the most egalitarian institutions on the face of the earth.)--Kerotan<sup>Leave Me a Message</sup> Have a nice day :) 22:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Part of the entire purpose of this project is to create a collective document, without pride of ownership. Look at the bottom of every edit window on Wikipedia. "Please note: If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it." "Owning an article" is a violation of our behavioral standards. This is not a venue for the egotist, for the individual voice; there are plenty of those strewn across the Internet like bastard stepchildren of Ayn Rand. This is a venue for collaboration, for consensus, for working together (including individualists and cooperativists working together, incidentally, despite my little swing at the toxic creature up there). --Orange Mike | Talk 23:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I think Wikipedia is in a more or less constant state of tension between people who want to use Wikipedia to express their own views, and those, like Kerotan and Orange Mike above, who realize that this is not possible if Wikipedia is to be a trusted source of information. There is still plenty of opportunity for individual initiative and for taking pride in one's work, for example, by taking an article and working on it to improve its quality or completeness, to locate better references, or to improve the wording. Wanderer57 (talk) 23:33, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I see Wikipedia as in a more or less constant state of tension between inclusionists and deletionists, amateurists and professionalists. A lot of people want to have less articles of very professional quality, and a lot of people believe in the philosophy of making readily available all knowledge. Mac Davis (talk) 01:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Moving (Renaming)

How do you rename an image, I don't see any "move" tab? NanohaA'sYuri<sup>Talk, My master</sup> 23:32, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Images and categories can't be moved to other pages for technical reasons. To rename the image, you'll need to re-upload it under the new name, fix all the links to the image, and then mark the old image with {{redundant image|Old name.jpg}}. Make sure the image you upload is of the same file format and of the same (or larger) size. Hersfold <sup>(t/a/c)</sup> 23:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Spelling anomaly

For some strange reason, when I originally created the article What a Friend We Have in Jesus, I wrote the author's name as Jo­seph M. Scriv­en, but then this was later changed to Joseph M. Scriven, but I cannot find any difference between the two, yet one links to the article, and the other does not. I've been trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm stumped. I'll even show that they are identical:

• Jo­seph M. Scriv­en
• Joseph M. Scriven

--十八 23:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Your original version has soft hyphens (code 173) between the syllables. —teb728 t c 23:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This answer raises another question for me. Since the system is dependent on non-visible characters, is it "dangerous" to create material in a word processor such as Microsoft Word and paste it into Wikipedia? Wanderer57 (talk) 02:06, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes it is. This is implementation depedant and depends on your browser and operating system also.--155.144.251.120 (talk) 03:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Ayuda

I'm sorry for my english level, it's not a high leve, that's the reason that i need someone to help me in spanish. I'm working in Asturian Wikipedia (Uiquipedia n'asturianu), and I would like to know how steps I must follow to edit the buttons in the box edition. Siento no poder hablar inglés, mi nivel no es suficientemente alto; por eso necesito alguien que me ayude pero en castellano. Estoy trabajando en la Wikipedia en Asturiano http://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portada y me gustaría saber qué pasos hay que seguir para editar los botones en la caja de edición (los que están al lado de "negrita" "cursiva"... "firmar", etc) Gracias y un saludo. Better if you answer me in my User talk page, thanks --Asturies (talk) 23:55, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll reply here and on your talk page, to help other editors. Sorry if this isn't clear, I'm using Google to translate, as I'm not a Spanish speaker. You can use a script to modify the buttons in your edit bar. Try copying the code from User:Minesweeper.007/extraeditbuttons.js to your monobook.js page on the Austrian Wikipedia. That should get you started, but for more help you can try asking at the tech village pump.

Voy a contestar aquí y en su página de discusión, para ayudar a los otros editores. Lo siento si esto no es claro, estoy usando Google para traducir, ya que no soy un orador español. Puede utilizar una secuencia de comandos para modificar los botones en su barra de edición. Prueba a copiar el código de User:Minesweeper.007/extraeditbuttons.js a tu monobook.js página de la Wikipedia austríaco. Esto debería ir empezando, pero por más ayuda puede intentar preguntar en la tecnología de la bomba de la aldea. Hersfold <sup>(t/a/c)</sup> 00:12, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

March 20

?!?

How do you make Wikipedia your homepage.

           Thank You

Shashi Bala Shrivastava

In your browser settings, change your default homepage to Wikipedia.org Wisdom89 <sub>(T / <sup>C</sup>)</sub> 02:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

The procedure depends on your browser. If you have problems then say which browser it is. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:31, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Article Singh

Hello Wikipedians, I would like to inform that article Singh is gaurded by users that are not allowing others to contribute. Singh is an Caste among Hindus, and due to past conflicts and politics between Hindus and Sikhs, Users are not putting up Hindu. Many users tried to put up Hindu and it always gets reverted. What should be done? Singh is an Hindu caste even before Sikhism was born. How can we put that up and make it remain ? --GauthamSingh (talk) 02:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

You must provide a verifiable source for those claims on that talk page for that article. -- Kesh (talk) 03:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)