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April 9

Help! Can't get second reference to work.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat_%281929_film%29 The 1929 film was long believed to be lost, but most of it has been found and released on laserdisc and shown on Turner Classic Movies. A number of sections of the soundtrack were found in the mid-1990s on Vitaphone records ^[1], although the film was made with a Movietone soundtrack. Two more records were discovered in 2005 ^[2], and it was thought these elements would be used for a 2007 DVD which has yet to appear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marknyc (talk • contribs) 01:09, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You did not close the first reference tag. This is what you currently have:

<ref name=The Vitaphone Project Summer-Fall 2005 [http://www.picking.com/vitaphone74.html]</ref>

This is what you should have (I have bolded the change; make sure you replace NAME with a name of your choice, leaving the quotation marks):

<ref name="NAME">The Vitaphone Project Summer-Fall 2005</ref>

Hope that answers it. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:14, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I fixed it up for you. For more info on using named references, see this page for guidelines. TN X Man 01:15, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also if you could see WP:Citing sources. Thanks. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 05:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Women are better driver than Men

Mens' are better driver than women —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandramoul (talk • contribs) 04:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not put up non-neutral content in Wikipedia, especially since this page is for help on Wikipedia only. See WP:Neutral point of view. Kayau Voting IS evil 05:00, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, though I may have my strong personal opinions on this topic, I think it's better to guide the kid to our WP:Reference Desk. Chandramouli, go there and have fun :) ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 05:12, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No such anchor: CITEREF...

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– --Redrose64 (talk) 16:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't get it. In e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai there are tons of e.g.,


<a href="#CITEREFPatelMasselos2003">Patel & Masselos 2003</a>
<a href="#CITEREFMehta2004">Mehta 2004</a>
<a href="#CITEREFHansen2001">Hansen 2001</a>

But no corresponding anchors. One will only get at most

No such anchor: CITEREFHansen2001

in ones browser, if anything. What's the deal? Jidanni (talk) 04:11, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The inline refs use the Harvard citation template {{harvnb}}; it doesn't appear that the corresponding footnotes have ref=harv set, which is required according to the documentation for that template. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 07:47, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It turns out much deeper. Jidanni (talk) 19:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done I've fixed up all, except for one. Please see Talk:Mumbai#Referencing and continue the discussion there. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

edit buttons in a table

Hi.

I've written a template on our local wiki that basically helps to document procedures by listing them step-by-step in a table format. The template is actually in three parts, so it works roughly like this:

{{howto-start}}
{{howto-step|1|header=This is the header for step 1}}

STEP 1 CONTENT

{{howto-step|2|header=This is the header for step 2}}

STEP 2 CONTENT

...

{{howto-end}}

My question is: is it possible to include edit 'buttons' for each step that allow you to edit that particular step instead of the whole table, in the same way you have edit 'buttons' for each section in an article? Is there a magic word or extension or some such feature I can use?

I've already tried making the step headers like normal article headers but it's pretty clear that they aren't meant to be used in tables because you have to do weird things to the template code to make it work, and even then it doesn't turn out nicely.

Any suggestions would be welcome! Thanks -- TequilaFish (talk) 04:31, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can make headers. See this page for an example. Kayau Voting IS evil 04:58, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm aware that you can make headers in a wikitable. The problem is that I'm using a template to build my table, and if you refer to the pseudocode above, you can see that I'm using the "howto-step" template to format the header (using the "header" parameter) - this means I'd have to include header markup in the actual "howto-step" template, and the fact is that header markup doesn't work properly when included in template code. The editing action is tied to the page the header markup is included on, i.e. the template, in this case - so in every instance, clicking the edit button would cause you to edit the howto-step template, not the actual howto page itself.

So far as I can tell there isn't a magic word or anything that can help me out here, so I'm going to try some workarounds. Any other suggestions would still be appreciated. -- TequilaFish (talk) 23:34, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Someone trying to delete a credible article about Dr. Judy Wood

Dear Wikipedia,

I am a member, and I have donoted $20 to your organization. I would like to donate more in the future, but I am just a broke college student, so I cannot afford more at the moment.

My name is Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez, and my username is Pookzta.

Recently, I have created a page titled Judy Wood, after the very notable 9/11 researcher known as Dr. Judy Wood (www.drjudywood.com).

I am in close contact with Dr. Wood, and have gotten permission from her to create the article. I have also used many references in the article, to prove that the claims in the wikipedia page are true.

However, some people do not like the research of Dr. Judy Wood being discussed on the internet, even though she has her own website and the information is wide-spread. These people are people we refer to as "trolls", because they purposely try to suppress the research that Dr. Wood has done, by slandering her, criticizing her, and trying to delete or add false information to any Wikipedia pages or Forum posts created about her.

The page I recently created can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Wood

Someone is trying to delete the page by complaining that it does not contain credible sources / references, and that I do not have permission to user her pictures.

I can assure you I do have permission to use her pictures, because she has given that permission to me, and she should be sending you all an email soon to let you know that I do in fact have permission to post this information and these pictures about her.

Also, the persons trying to get the page about her taken down, are also claiming that the sources are not credible. The sources are credible, and I encourage you to verify them yourself if you are concerned about this. I will add more references as I find them, but there are at least 4 or 5 so far.

Please be aware that Dr. Judy Wood's research is extremely important, and that is why there are many paid people all over the internet that are threatning her and trying to defame her work. She has received many threats due to the importance of her research, and one of her students was murdered in 2006 (Michael Zebuhr), which was followed by a threat directed towards her stating that she "could be next".

Please do not allow people to soil the spirit of Wikipedia, because the article I have created about her is not only important, but it meets all of the guidelines that I read before I created the page.

Is there anyway I can report users that make false claims about the page? For example, if someone claims the references are not legitimate even though they are, can I report them for lying?

Thanks for your time and help.

Sincerely,

Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez M1 Medical Student B.S. Biology / Neurobiology —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pookzta (talk • contribs) 05:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Content published on Judy Wood's own website, and court documents relating to lawsuits she is a party to, do not constitute reliable sources. Please review Wikipedia:Reliable sources. A reliable source, in Wikipedia terms, is source with a reputation for fact checking and accuracy. They should generally not be self-published. Any individual can set up a website and claim to be a reliable source. Any individual can file a lawsuit and claim to be pursuing the truth. That's why we need content from third-party, reliable publishers. Scientific information should come scientific journals, and not private websites. Biographical information should come from news media, and not court documents. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:48, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Those are NOT the only sources listed. There are OTHER sources listed. Check the information for yourself. More sources will be added in time, but even now, there are very credible sources that are NOT from Dr. Wood's website. Please stop implying that the only sources are from her website. Also, her website is used for HOSTING her many legal documents, and the legal documents themselves are also VALID SOURCES. 3 out of the 5 references listed are EXTERNAL REFERENCES. Of those 3, 1 is a government source, and 2 are Academic Universities! Just because they are hosted on her website does not mean they are not valid documents. Stop being a troll. Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez 06:55, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I strongly suggest you read WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL before you make any more comments on editors.

Someguy1221 is not saying there are no sources, he is saying they are not the sort that we use. Legal documents, for instance, must be from the original source to avoid the possibility that they've been altered. Also you need sources that show notability by our standards, not anyone elses, see WP:PROF. You are also committing copyright violation. Please stop re-creating this. If you are unhappy with the results of the original discussion in 2007 at WP:Articles for deletion/Judy Wood or the recent deletions, you can appeal at WP:DRV but you should not keep re-creating it. You also should sign your name with four tildes looking like ~~~. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 07:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Considering Dr. Wood is the ONLY 9/11 Researcher ever to file her evidence in a court of law, and considering that one of her court cases made it all the way to the Supreme Court in October 2009, she is MORE notable than many 9/11 researchers, yet many of them have their own pages. This is UNFAIR, and this is not what Wikipedia is all about. Censorship and Unfairness and NOT what Wikipedia is about. I am also NOT in Copyright violation, because her information and phtos are FAIR USE and are posted Publicly, but in addition to that, she has also given me permission personally, and will be emailing the Wikipedia Permission email to alert them to this within 48 hours. I also have donated to Wikipedia and plan on donating a lot more. Sorry for forgetting my signature, I am new here. Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez 07:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Pookzta (talk • contribs)

In addition, 3 of the 5 references used are from EXTERNAL SOURCES. 1 is from a government website, and 2 are from Academic Universities. The only 2 sources used from her website are links to the legal documents she has scanned in. Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez 07:46, 9 April 2010 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Pookzta (talk • contribs)

I have looked at those sources. The government source doesn't look like anything relevant to her notability. You might to better to find a more enlightening URL to use. One of the academic websites is simply a faculty listing. It doesn't demonstrate notability. The other is her dissertation. As in, she wrote it (of course you know this). That also doesn't demonstrate her notability. A source that demonstrates her notability would be one that is about her and not by her. And it would be one that is not published essentially at her request, as is a court document or a request for investigation. If you can provide documentation that there has been such coverage, then she is notable. But regardless, this is the place to make the appeal. Someguy1221 (talk) 08:02, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Concur with Someguy1221 - there is nothing here we would build an article upon. However, if you feel that strongly, take it to DRV... where you are likely to get the same response. --Cameron Scott (talk) 08:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can't an admin userfy that page so he can work on it in peace? (And to let non-admins like me to check if he's doing it right.) Kayau Voting IS evil 09:01, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Userfication won't do anything to help if there aren't any sources in the first place. It appears to me that the bigger problem with the article is that the text is simply a copy of a page from Dr Wood's website. If you're going to write an article, your text must be original, merely using reliable sources -- which, as you've been told, you still haven't produced -- to establish notability and then back up the text you write. Copy text from another website and the page WILL be deleted, no exceptions. Xenon54 / talk / 10:18, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If the copyright holder in question gives him permission to use it, why would it be unacceptable to let him userfy it, then in his userspace evolve it so it becomes something completely different? It is not easy, but not impossible either. Kayau Voting IS evil 10:22, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chicken and egg situation, we can't host copyright content *until* we have seen verification that it has been released. Someone *saying* the author has given permission doesn't cut it for wikipedia. --Cameron Scott (talk) 10:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this will happen soon. BTW, to xenon54, 'copying text from another website' is OK if it's a public domain work. Kayau Voting IS evil 10:26, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All that matters about when it happens is that we *cannot* have copyright text *before* it happens. The public domain aspect here is a red herring as there is no question about that. Even leaving that aside, I do not think this text is being released into the Public domain, simply that this user is being given permission to use it - which might still render it unusable for our purposes and the requirements of the GFDL. --Cameron Scott (talk) 10:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RP system v. Bibiography/Footnotes system

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– – ukexpat (talk) 01:34, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At the list of vegetarians, we use the rp system, so the page number of the references come right after the ^[1]. However, in the peer review, all 3 reviewers were confused about the page numbers. As the list of vegetarians is a giant list and the refs are already longer than the actual content, should it be changed into bibliography/footnotes system in order to pass FLC? Kayau Voting IS evil 10:20, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on article talk page. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 10:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of adminship

The page

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

The issue is that some time ago we had a college intern start the page. Since then he has left the company and this page is now locked down in a protected mode and I can not access it to input my company's information and keep it up to date.

The company name is Specialized Transportation Inc. (STI)

Can this authorship be rerouted to me as he is no longer associated to our company?

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stidelivers (talk • contribs) 12:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There has never been a page at Specialized Transportation Inc, but Specialized Transportation was deleted on July 8, 2007 as blatant advertising.

Please read Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
The deleted article refers to a website at stidelivers— this matches your user name and violates Wikipedia:Username policy

---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to Specialized Transportation Inc.? That article was deleted several times in July 2007 and there has not been a page with that title since then. The deleted versions were created by 3 different accounts in 2007. See also Wikipedia:Ownership of articles. The title is currently protected from recreating an article but if it was created then anybody would be able to edit it. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:57, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requirement of stoichiometric quanity of lime

Hellow!

Could you tell me the stoichiometric requirement of lime(Cao) for neutralizing Sulphurdioxide gas please along with chemical equation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krishvanamali (talk • contribs) 13:00, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please put your question at the science reference desk. They specialise in science. This page is for help on Wikipedia only. Kayau Voting IS evil 13:11, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But note that they will not do your homework for you. TN X Man 13:12, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Page tagged for speedy deletion per CSD A7 not getting deleted

I requested the speedy deletion of this page, which is clearly about a non-notable person, some time ago today, and yet it has still not been deleted. The creator has not contested the deletion of the page, and I am confused as to why the page has not yet been deleted. Immunize (talk) 15:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because no one has had a chance to go through CAT:SD. It backs up occasionally. A page like this is OK (no real damage if left up) and the urgent issues (attack pages and copyright vios) are dealt with quickly. I've deleted this page. TN X Man 15:21, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do I close an account, if possible?

Hi. I was just wondering how I close a Wikipedia account? I see no immediately obvious ways of doing so. Thanks for any tips. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LSmok3 (talk • contribs)

Accounts cannot be deleted. You can however, simply stop using your account and place {{retired}} at the top. TN X Man 15:26, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may also want to look at -->The Right to vanish - If you wish to leave permanently, and to remove any association with your past edits, you may exercise your right to vanish. It is not a requirement, but the Wikipedia community will typically accord the ability to vanish to users in good standing who exercise their right to leave and ask to "vanish" permanently.............Moxy (talk) 17:11, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Exclaim!5

Resolved

– – ukexpat (talk) 18:23, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone check this user's edits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Exclaim!5

It's kinda spam-like and likely a conflict of interest. 129.120.94.105 (talk) 17:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tnxman has blocked User:Exclaim!5 for spamming and reverted their edits. – ukexpat (talk) 18:23, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Donilon profile

HE WAS NOT MANAGER OF 1980 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.106.11 (talk) 17:14, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tagged as "citation needed". – ukexpat (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Charity support

I am the president of a non profit charity in India. I am willing to participate in Wikimedia projects. Please let me know when and how to apply to get myself involved in Wikimedia projects Help me out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pallabdutta (talk • contribs) 17:23, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean contributing to Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Tutorial and possibly (if you're thinking of writing about yourself or your charity) WP:COI. Rd232 ^talk 20:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Log In?

I originally created a user account using the secure server option. When I try to log in under the normal option, it won't let me sign on. Does that mean I have to create another account to sign in unsecured?Grand Bison (talk) 18:23, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You appear to be logged in right now. Is Grand Bison the account to which you are referring? TN X Man 18:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I logged in using the secure server option. When I try to log in using the unsecured option, it won't let me in. I would prefer not using the secured server always to view Wikipidia and contribute. Yes, Grand Bison is the account to which I am referring Grand Bison (talk) 18:28, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What message do you see when you try to sign in using the unsecure server? TN X Man 19:01, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see in a red outlined box the words "Login error Incorrect password or confirmation code entered. Please try again."Grand Bison (talk) 19:29, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. So your password works on the secure server, but not the regular login? Odd. I don't know what would cause that. You may want to ask at the technical village pump or try resetting your password. TN X Man 20:16, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! this s Avicennasis here. I created this account via the secure server, logged out, and was able to log in via the normal interface. I am not sure what the difference is between your machine/account and mine, but this shows that you do not need to register twice (secure and unsecured.) G'luck! AvicennasisTest568596 (talk) 08:46, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to cite a map of Lewis and Clark Expedition held in commons?

I would like to use a copy reproduction of your map on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806). How do I cite it if it is in Wikipedia commons? The map would appear in my proposed supplemental history text that I am writing.70.110.36.66 (talk) 20:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is nice and simple see -->Wikipedia:Picture tutorial the code you need looks like this -->[[File:Wikipedesketch1.png|thumb|left]]....Moxy (talk) 20:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you are using the image on Wikipedia, then there is no need to cite it. When the image is placed in an article as Moxy showed, the image links to the file with all its information. However, if you want to use the image elsewhere, you will need to follow the terms outlined by the licenses. I am assuming that you are using either File:Carte Lewis-Clark Expedition.png or File:Carte_Lewis-Clark_Expedition-fr.svg; both of these were released under GNU Free Documentation License and CC-BY-SA 3.0, which are shown on each of the files' pages. These are free licenses, so all you basically have to do is mention the author as the creator of the work among some other requirements. You can learn about GNU licensing here and CC-BY-SA 3.0 here. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 20:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

template problem

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– – ukexpat (talk) 01:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm struggling with a template. {{CotM}} is supposed to be a generic version of {{WPVENCotM-Talk}}; and it gives an error message "Unexpected < operator" (see Template talk:CotM). The Ven template has the same if expression and seems to work. Help, please... :( Rd232 ^talk 20:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{CURRENTMONTH}} gives a number. I'm guessing that {{JULIANDAY}} is not able to handle month names for its month argument. It works fine if you substitute 4 for April. Intelligentsium 20:59, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

of course - thanks! I've stuck in an {{isnumeric}} test to make sure users don't make the same mistake. Rd232 ^talk 01:18, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bug with sorting in Category

Hi, I believe there's a mediawiki bug evidenced on this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:God_games - note that "What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord? 2" for some reason is appearing under the letter H. "What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord?" comes under the letter W, where it can logically be expected to be. If someone wants to confirm it and report it to wherever these things get reported. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.166.148 (talk) 21:01, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's because it contains the {{DEFAULTSORT:Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! 2: Time To Tighten Up Security!}} code, so it sorts under "H". I don't know enough about the subject to say whether this sort key is correct. – ukexpat (talk) 21:10, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A sort key should not be so unrelated to the actual page name. I have removed the sort key.[1] PrimeHunter (talk) 21:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Userboxes

Is there a way to decrease the size of the userboxes when referencing them on your page, rather than editing the userbox itself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teddybeardog (talk • contribs) 21:05, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No. Don't edit the user box directly when it's used by other editors. You can copy the code and alter that. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You could wrap them inside a div with smaller text size set if it's only the text size that you need to adjust. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:09, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a disambiguation (Loose Balls)

Browsing through Wikipedia, I came upon the article for the book Loose Balls. There are actually two books with that title written about professional basketball, the one mentioned in the article and another written 10 years later by NBA player Jayson Williams. (There is a reference to his book in his article.) If I create an article about Williams' book, obviously it would need a disambiguation note in its title, as would the article about the Terry Pluto book, and the original Loose Balls page would become a disambiguation. My question: What is the best way to distinguish the two books in their titles?

(1) By their distinct subtitles:

Loose Balls: The Short Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA

(2) By their authors:

Loose Balls (Terry Pluto book)
Loose Balls (Jayson Williams book)

(3) By their publication date:

Loose Balls (1990 book)
Loose Balls (2000 book)

Or is there some other way that is better? (One can't say Loose Balls (basketball book) because that applies to both.) Thank you for your advice. — Michael J 21:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing that the point is disambiguation, include all three!

For example, "Loose Balls: The Short Wild Life of the American Basketball Association, the 1990 book by Terry Pluto.".

The best way is actually to keep the original Loose Balls page (or perhaps move it to a better title), create your new one, and put a hatnote on the first, using Template:About. Calvin 1998 ^(t·c) 21:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Calvin, you're not answering Michael's question, which was about what title to use, not how to do the disambiguation. Michael, the answer is given at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Standard disambiguation, and appears to be your no. 2. --ColinFine (talk) 20:02, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there wiki-database, a wiki-spreadsheet, a wiki-website software?

I am sorry but I can't navigate all these sites, I get lost.

Is there a wiki-database, a wiki-spreadsheet, a wiki-website? or free software to create these things?

21:56, 9 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Opentoinput (talk • contribs)

See List of wiki software. TWiki for example has some sort of spreadsheet extension, but I have not used it. Wikipedia runs on the MediaWiki software which has a built-in database, but you have to install your own instance of MediaWiki if you want to monkey with the database. Your question is too vague to really answer. What are you trying to do? --Teratornis (talk) 22:20, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Technically this help desk is for questions related to editing Wikipedia, and knowledge questions should be asked at the Reference Desk. But since i can answer this one for the wikipedia site itsself ill just do it over here.

There are several wiki-like packages which allows someone to deploy his own wiki for personal use. Wikipedia itself uses the MediaWiki application, which was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation in order to host wikipedia. This application is currently freely available under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2, which allows you to host a mediawiki free of charge for your own purposes. For more details, install instructions or support i would refer you to the mediawiki website.

Note that this is only one option. If you wish a more complete overview i would like to point you to the computing reference desk where you pursue this question for more details. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 22:22, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Business Materials

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– – ukexpat (talk) 15:38, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is it ok to promote my company by submitting relevant marketing materials? If yes, how do I create a profile and make it public? 90.214.179.111 (talk) 22:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No. Wikipedia is not for advertising of any kind. Intelligentsium 22:47, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Starting up

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– – ukexpat (talk) 01:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Where do I start here? I'm told there is some sort of start up page that gives a general idea on how to edit. Johnno 63 (talk) 22:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've left you a welcome message with some helpful links. More specifically, this page may be of use. If you have questions as you go, feel free to ask. TN X Man 23:00, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've got a million questions I could ask you, but I won't take up you're time. Just one though. What does Beta do that enhances Wikipedia? Johnno 63 (talk) 23:03, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In a nutshell, make it easier to navigate and edit Wikipedia. I haven't messed around with it much, but there's a whole project devoted to it (see this page). As for your other questions, ask away! That's the reason this desk is here - to answer questions about editing Wikipedia. TN X Man 23:09, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure I'll be back asking questions, but meanwhile I'll study the welcome pages you have sent me. Thanks for your replies, and I hope to eventually contribute to this project. Johnno 63 (talk) 23:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And see WP:TUTORIAL and WP:TMM. Note that figuring out how to edit on Wikipedia is secondary to learning what you should edit. People commonly come to Wikipedia with incorrect assumptions about the content which is allowable here. See WP:NOT for starters. If you came to Wikipedia with some specific idea in mind for what you want to write about, the first step is to determine whether Wikipedia wants you to write about that topic, and if so, then how to go about it. The most important aspect of writing on Wikipedia is that we don't simply write what we know, but what we can reliably source. --Teratornis (talk) 19:36, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Printing an article

Why isn't there an option to print an article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.130.109.93 (talk) 23:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On the left side of every article is a link that says "Printable version". Click on that link and that will bring up a version of the article suitable for printing. Then all you have to do is press print in your web browser. --Mysdaao ^talk 23:49, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unless you have a text-only or very old browser, all you need to do is select File → Print. See Help:Printable for more information including why you don't really need the Printable version link. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 23:52, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

April 10

plastic theory

A simply supported beam of span 6m carries a central point load of 40kn.determine the collapse load as well as the plastic moment caused by the collapse load —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.155.48.85 (talk) 00:16, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do your own homework.

Welcome to the Wikipedia Help desk. Your question appears to be a homework question. I apologize if this is a misevaluation, but it is our policy here to not do people's homework for them, but to merely aid them in doing it themselves. Letting someone else do your homework does not help you learn how to solve such problems.

Please attempt to solve the problem yourself first. You can search Wikipedia or search the Web.

If you need help with a specific part of your homework, the Reference desk can help you grasp the concept. Do not ask knowledge questions here, just those about using Wikipedia. --Mysdaao ^talk 00:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category and template causing trouble

Hello. I just made Category:Requests for permissions and Template:Requests for permissions. For some reason, the template keeps being inserted into a ton of pages, and lots of userpages and other pages are being added to the category. I don't see what's wrong. Was there a template that I accidentally replaced? Thanks for any help, --The High Fin Sperm Whale 03:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

looking at a number of user:pages they seem similar to User:Fabrictramp/Dashboard which has transcluded {{Admin dashboard}} that transcludes WP:PERM/R would say you need to move the template onto WP:PERM rather than the subset of pages. That would also be the problem behind the catergory as well as it within your template Gnan garra 03:45, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, how can it be fixed? --The High Fin Sperm Whale 04:44, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added <noinclude> before the template on ech page that got all but 2 uses, still trying to nut those two out. Gnan garra 15:03, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Got em, null edits all round Gnan garra 15:19, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sort Dates in Table

I am working on this page in my userspace, and i am having a problem with the dates in the table. I saw Help:Sorting, but i do not want the year in the cell with the date, as all of the examples have. Is there anyway to get a table to sort like that, or am i just out of luck?--Found5dollar (talk) 03:42, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read down to Help:Sorting#Sorting with a hidden key? --Teratornis (talk) 19:39, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I Did, but it appears it will still sort by year.... --Found5dollar (talk) 04:01, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here is one way to do it with {{Hs}}: [2]. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! that is it!--Found5dollar (talk) 17:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are putting the year in one column and the day/month in another. What kind of sorting do you expect? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:49, 11 April 2010 (UTC)spl[reply]

adding footnotes, citations

First: I'd like to improve my article by adding footnotes and citations. I can figure out how to add the inline note, but I can't figure out how to link that numbered footnote to my list of sources at the end of the piece. I've looked at the tutorials, but it's not translating for me: Will some just tell me what buttons to push?

Second: I've wikified my piece. Whom do I notify so that notice at the top goes away?

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

First question: type {{reflist}}. Second question: remove it yourself. Kayau Voting IS evil 08:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 14:05, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit buttons going crazy

What's wrong with Café de Coral (restaurant)? The edit buttons are... going mad. Kayau Voting IS evil 09:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That occurs when there are several right-positioned images together in an article. There are several ways to fix it. See Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links. --Mysdaao ^talk 13:43, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who is this man?

Who is <name> who claimes to be from Germany and his father lives in the UK and he has a sister named Jennifer. He claimes to be an Architect now working in Nigeria. He is using this email address <removed>. He says that the Nigerian government requires him to pay taxes on work he did before the pay him and is asking innocent women for money. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.231.253 (talk) 11:01, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Knowledge questions can be asked at the reference desk but please do not list anyone's personal details here or there as you did in your question.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:23, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds very much like a form of Nigerian scam. --ColinFine (talk) 20:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism - dynamic IP addresses

I happened to open Wikipedia today (without logging in) and got a message that I had vandalized a couple of articles and might therefore be cut off from Wikipedia use. All well and good, except that I had never looked at the articles in question. Wikipedia apparently keeps track of vandalism by IP numbers. Unfortunately, ISPs like Verizon use dynamic addresses (I'm not sure of the exact terminology), so a given subscriber gets a different IP number each time s/he logs on, and a given number is randomly(?) assigned to a different user at each log-on session.

So, if Wikipedia cuts off IP number 71.abc.def.ghi from use, it will not resolve the problem. The vandalizer will get on Wikipedia with another number the next time, and the next user who happens to be assigned 71.abc.def.ghi the next time s/he looks at Wikipedia will be punished for no reason.

Why not just require editing users to log in and be done with it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.176.135 (talk) 14:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because this is the encyclopedia everyone can edit and by definition, Wikipedia is not restricted to those who set up a user. As for the IP address, although what you say is true, it is highly unlikely that the IP address which was used by you be assigned to someone else so quickly. Not only that, but the probabilities that that person also edits Wikipedia are very slim. What you say is a "possibility", but not a prioritizing problem. Raa G gio (talk) 14:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit anonymous users from editing and Wikipedia:Flagged revisions. Messages on IP talk pages routinely mislead people; Wikipedia has no reliable solution to this problem yet. The time you wasted to figure out what was going on is one of the costs of Wikipedia's founding principle of allowing unregistered users to edit; essentially Wikipedia takes the position that the benefits to Wikipedia of this principle elsewhere justify the disadvantage of confusing some people. That's life in the big city. --Teratornis (talk) 20:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MATERIAL PROBLEM

WHILE ON A VISIT TO DERBY FROM INDIA, I PURCHASED A MATSUI 7" DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME FOR P29.99 FROM CURRYS.DIGITAL, WESTFIELD, DERBY ON 01.04.2010 AT AROUND 3.00 PM.

ON OPENING IT AT MY HOME ON RETURN TO INDIA, I FOUND THAT IT WAS NOT WORKING.

PLEASE ADVISE IF YOU COULD HELP ME OR GUIDE ME FOR CHANGE OF MATERIAL WITHOUT A COST TO ME.

THANX.

KANWAL NAIN SINGH <blanked> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.197.119.85 (talk) 14:38, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry; no refunds. Raa G gio (talk) 14:45, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our roughly 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 left hand 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.Template:Z25 TNXMan 14:42, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And please don't SHOUT! – ukexpat (talk) 15:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

declearation

what is the declearation fee for a ghana woman to come to the states —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.72.98.45 (talk) 15:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This Help desk is for asking question about using Wikipedia. General knowledge questions can be asked at Wikipedia:Reference desk. --Mysdaao ^talk 16:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question may be ambiguous to those trying to answer the question. United States of Mexico? USA? If USA, check http://www.state.gov for visa information. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 19:35, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is our own legalese affecting Wikipedia prose?

On the main page, it says that several "notable" Poles were killed in a Presidential plane crash. The criteria for Wikipedia inclusion is notability. To try to meet this criteria, the word "notable" is used far more in Wikipedia than in real life.

On election day, we don't say "Several notable Britons were elected, including the Prime Minister" or "Several notable American politicians were elected, including President Clinton".

Wikipedians also make up titles for events then use them in the first sentence. Even if nobody else uses the phrase, we might coin a term "2011 Japanese bus crash" then start the article as "The 2011 Japanese bus crash was when a bus crashed in Osaka on February 30, 2011 killing 1,000 people."

Another thing is when there is an event, there's always a section with lots of pretty national flags and comments. The King regrets that the Polish plane crashed. The President offered his sympathies to the Polish people.

It's too predictable. Solution? Solution without having conflict? Or just let it go? Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 19:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The use of the word "notable" may not be the best, but it highlights the fact that the Poles killed were not ordinary civilians, whereas simply "several Poles" would allow one to assume that they were. Intelligentsium 19:39, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms#Words and phrases to watch for lists the word "notable". I agree that the term can sometimes be too inside baseball when it appears in a Wikipedia article; I would avoid it unless the sources for an article use the term. If the sources do not use the term, then it would be an editorial opinion bordering on original research. Sometimes Wikipedia editors may add the word in an attempt to preemptively defend against deletionists. To me that seems wrong on at least two levels - (a) notability should be self-evident; and (b) Wikipedia editors should not need to edit under constant fear of their work getting deleted. --Teratornis (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Exhaustive lists of messages of condolence from every head of state might be examples of recentism and indiscriminate listing. After some time elapses and a tragic event is no longer "fresh", those lists might get edited down. See for example September 11 attacks which broadly summarizes the international response, without quoting the official statement of every head of state. Even the subsidiary article, Reactions to the September 11 attacks, does not exhaustively list every official response. Since the problem is likely to get fixed eventually, I wouldn't worry about it. Wikipedia has many other problems to think about, that won't necessarily fix themselves. If some Wikipedia editors want to list every condolence message after a tragic event, only to have them edited out later, what's the harm? --Teratornis (talk) 20:12, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Making up names for recent events that have not been specifically named by the media yet is probably unavoidable. We have to give every article a title. If the media later settle on a different name for an event, we can just rename our article and update all our references to the event. While an event is still unfolding, we lack historical perspective. Part of developing historical perspective is giving names to events. I suppose that is the job of historians, and we will eventually follow what they do. --Teratornis (talk) 20:22, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There was a recent discussion at the main notability guideline talk page (link to archived discussion) about keeping in a statement on the guideline page about the use of the word notable in articles.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Future Events

What is the coding for the template that indicates that a page is about a future event or unreleased piece of media? 2D Backfire Master ^{fast food} 20:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I seem to recall future event templates being deprecated. I'll see if I can find a link to the discussion. Intelligentsium 20:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here. Intelligentsium 20:45, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Identifying CSD initiators

Resolved

I was planning to create an article about Carolyn Doty, a starter on the NCAA national Championship team. Some time in the last few days, I saw that someone had created a page, although it was very short. Today, it doesn’t exist. My guess is that it was CSD’d. If it was CSD’d because it didn’t properly assert notability, I think I can address that, but I’d like to talk to whomever proposed it and or whomever deleted it to make sure I understand why it went away. How does one find out who may have proposed it for deletion and actually deleted it?SPhilbrick T 23:19, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well you can find out who deleted it from the deletion log and see what the deletion summary says and I or another administrator can tell you who proposed it for deletion and maybe some details on what the former article said. However, nothing is coming up for the name as you've stated it, nor did other formulations I tried work (Carolynne; Carolin; changes in capitalization etc.). Can you remember the exact name it was created under, including the capitalization? Often article are created on notable subjects but are deleted because they started in a bad way—failed to assert any importance, were attack pages, infringed on copyrights, etc. In such instances you just create a proper article from scratch and forget restoration entirely. Note that CSD G4 is only applicable to articles deleted on the merits and not to speedies (and even then only where the repost is substantially identical to the deleted content and it does not address the deletion basis).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:14, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Caroline Doty has been proposed for deletion but not deleted yet. Click the history tab to see who proposed it. You can improve the article by adding sources. The creator has already added one source after it was proposed for deletion. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:24, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! I guess there's a very good reason I couldn't find it in the deletion log.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:26, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help. I guess I could help you by spelling her name right - that's rather embarrassing. I thought I saw a place where her name was linked, I thought I went back to the same page, but it appears I went to a different page where it was no longer a link, so I assumed someone deleted it and fixed the link. But that isn't what happened. I've been traveling, and checking in at airports, and probably mis remembered what I thought I saw. In any event, I now see it and will proceed from here - thanks Primehunter for actually finding it - thanks Fuhghettaboutit for reminding me about the deletion log - I was wondering if only admins could see what was deleted (which is true) but I guess I can see the list of things that have been deleted.--SPhilbrick T 02:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I formatted the reference properly and deprodded. – ukexpat (talk) 02:57, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

can you correct page deletion

Dear Help desk, I am television and film director and my page has apparently been deleted because it was "G3; Vandalism"?

Can you possibly correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Stanford —Preceding unsigned comment added by JDStanford (talk • contribs) 23:42, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted article Jeremy Stanford claimed a Jeremy Stanford is a cocktail with gin. It was not about a person. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want an article on Wikipedia about yourself, you can request one on Wikipedia:Requested articles. Someone will eventually write about you on Wikipedia if you are notable enough. See WP:BIO, WP:AUTOBIO, and WP:COI. Note that having an article about yourself on Wikipedia is not necessarily a good thing, since you cannot influence the content of the article other than within the provisions of WP:BLP. See WP:BLPEDIT. --Teratornis (talk) 01:47, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

April 11

Template help

I made this template and, for some reason, "}}" keeps appearing at the top of the page. I don't know why. Thanks. ~ Richmond96 t • c 01:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There was a superfluous pair of closing braces. I have removed them for you. Intelligentsium 02:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need to change contact email address

Hello

I registered my email for my wikipedia account quite a while ago and that address is no longer valid - my domain name is no longer under my control.

Is there anything I can do about this?

Thanks in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.45.202.173 (talk) 03:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you access your account? If you can, you can change your email by clicking on "my preferences" in the top upper-right of the screen when you are logged in. At the bottom of that page, you can change your email. However, if you can't access you account (I'm guessing that you can't, as you are logged out), I'm not sure. Hopefully someone else can answer that. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, I forgot my password D:

Thanks for your help so far, however —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.45.202.173 (talk) 04:59, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do if you have forgotten your password and have no valid email address attached to the account. You'll have to create a new one. Someguy1221 (talk) 06:55, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and create a new account if you can't access the past one. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 13:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Tunney article google link.

Hi there... The Eric Tunney article was linked properly to Google a couple of days ago, and was coming up in the search engine, but now it seems that for some reason, it has been completely severed, and the Tunney article does not come up at all in a basic google search.Paradise coyote (talk) 04:20, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Um, that's google's problem, right? You can't change that. Kayau Voting IS evil 07:15, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's Google that indexes the web pages when you search for them, and so if the Wikipedia article isn't coming up in the search results that's Google's problem with their web page indexing. Chevymontecarlo. 12:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I shouldn't be doing this. What the heck! Dear Paradise Coyote, why don't you yourself add the Eric Tunney article's complete html link to Google's web crawler? ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 13:50, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Table of Contents: Default Show or Hide?

Hello fellow Wikipedians - just a question about the Table of Contents: I'm currently working on a page containing many sections (currently my user page if you want to look). Because of this, the table of contents box is REALLY long, and looks really unattractive. I still do want it to be usable for those who want it, but is there a way to make it "hidden" by default, so when someone visits the page, they'll have to click "show" to see it? Or is it normally hidden by default? I'd just like the table of contents to be there - but not showing the entire expanded thing everytime someone visits.

Thanks! - user:TCWikiEditor 15:36, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the closest you can come is {{TOChidden}}. You could also consider {{TOC limit}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:49, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note that these are OK in userspace but should rarely be used in mainspace articles, especially {{TOChidden}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some really long mainspace articles may use {{TOC limit}} to limit the TOC's depth to level 1 or 2 -- in other words, any subheadings of level 3 or below still exist but are not displayed. Remember, though, that these templates should be used sparingly. You can also turn off TOCs for yourself only by going to Special:Preferences, clicking on the "Appearance" tab, then unticking "Show table of contents (for pages with more than 3 headings)" under "Advanced options". Xenon54 / talk / 16:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A quick glance at your article shows some problems. You have no sources other than the school's site, and you need reliable sources, see WP:RS for statements such as "established a name for itself in the Chicagoland community", " academic excellence", etc. Right now the page reads exactly like an unfinished brochure you'd hand out to prospective parents, not like an article in an encyclopedia. It has far too much trivial decade, eg " Letter grades are issued after every 9 weeks (one quarter)", the number of credits required, etc. You also have a conflict of interest I believe, please see WP:COI. TCWIkiEditor I presume means Timothy Christian Wiki editor, and the school's name is Timothy Christian Schools. Your article should look more like this one Timothy Christian School (Illinois) -- lol, I'm glad I decided to do a web search. I'm afraid you will have to abandon your article, as that's the school you are writing about. The existing article looks like it belongs in an encyclopedia and is not a brochure. Please don't turn it into a promotional article. The difference between the two is striking and educational. I think the two should be preserved as an example of the right and wrong way to write an article about a school. Please don't take this personally, you're new here and we don't expect new users to create great articles. Also, please sign with four tildes like this: ~~~~ - it would have made it easier to find your article. Dougweller (talk) 16:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

editing & adding

How am i supossed to know about Editing!? what if the info is wrong OR not True? How can i add my youtube video to a subject? can i add/embed a youtube video? Please let me know —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raymasaki (talk • contribs) 16:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You just did. Take a look at the tutorial and please don't hesitate to come back here if you don't understand it.
We have a verifiability policy that require every piece of information to cite a reliable source. Any information that does not cite a source, or that is otherwise clearly incorrect, can be removed on sight.
You can't.
You can't. Xenon54 / talk / 16:05, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To expand Xenon's last two points: Please see WP:YOUTUBE and WP:RS. --ColinFine (talk) 17:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Colour coded edits

What do each of the colours mean when using the user script User:Ais523/topcontrib.js as I am confused with what each colour means what. Paul 2387 17:44, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's Syntax highlighting. Amongst the colours that you might see, there are:

black for reserved words
brown for other words
dark green for comments
light green for arithmetic operators
red for numeric literals
blue for string literals

--Redrose64 (talk) 18:06, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What I mean is the colours that appear on user contributions when using the User:Ais523/topcontrib.js user script. It uses the colours: Yellow, Green, Blue and Pink. Paul 2387 18:38, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"After you've implemented this script, rows where another editor was the last to edit have a light red background, meaning "most recent," or, if the same page appears multiple times, a light orange background. Those pages are the ones you may want to check. Pages where you were the last to edit have a blue background (for most recent) or a light blue-green background (if the page appears multiple times)." - stolen from The Missing Manual. Chzz ► 20:42, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

move from sandbox to article

How do I move and article from my sandbox to article wizard or post it? Mishacat (talk) 18:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You account is not yet autoconfirmed, which requires at least ten edits and it being four days old. You have only made three edits, so you can't yet move a page and the move button is not visible to you at the top of a page. If you can't think of anything to do, you can always use the Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings to find corrections to make to achieve the editing threshold in short order.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see you did not create a proposed article in a personal sandbox but instead edited the talk page of the Wikipedia:Sandbox. I have created the page in your user talk space at User talk:Mishacat/Robert Neil Cavally. That is the page you would move once the article is ready for the mainspace (it is not yet ready). However, you might wish to start from scratch using this content but starting at the article wizard as you refer to above. Just go here and use the content from the subpage I linked. I suggest taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial first. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:39, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Callan

WP:CORP questions

I am thinking of writing an article about the C. Crane Company, but I've spent the better part of an hour looking at WP:CORP and I can't come to a conclusion as to whether it is possible to establish notability. Specifically:

While there are surprisingly few sources directly dealing with the company itself, I have found at least a dozen about one of their products, a LED light bulb known as "Geobulb". Is a company inherently notable because one of their products is notable, or must I prove the notability of both company and product?
In the past I have seen articles on software use reviews to claim notability when there are few or no other sources. (I think I even wrote one such article a few years ago.) Is this permissible for any product, not just software, or is it not permissible at all?
One of the sources I found that directly deals with the company in some way is a Business Week interview with the company's founder. Can this interview help to establish notability when combined with another direct source or two, or does it count as a primary source therefore removing its ability to establish notability?
Finally, if I establish notability using secondary sources, am I allowed to use primary sources -- including the company's website -- to verify basic factual information, such as the date of founding?

Thanks, Xenon54 / talk / 19:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notability is not inherited for organizations, but such information can help establish its notability when included with sources directly related to the company.
If the review is a full length article, then yes, I would say it is permissible for any product- especially if the review comes from a major news outlet.
No, it is eligible. It would be considered a primary source if it was an interview contained in a press release and distributed to Business Week; However, if a Business Week writer voluntarily chose to interview the subject, it is useful.
Yes. See WP:SELFPUB for information on acceptable uses of self published material. liquidluck✽talk 23:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

please fix wikisource article

Resolved

In our wikisource article on Roe v. Wade, we jump directly from Section II to Section IV. [3]. This typo is perpuated elsewhere (e.g. [4]), which is probably how we got it. However, it IS a typo -- see, e.g., [5].

I have never edited Wikisource before, will someone please take care of this for me, thanks. JD Caselaw (talk) 20:24, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Acceptable use"

I am trying to find this information on Wikipedia but I couldn't. What is the the "acceptable use" of Wikipedia? Is it ok to use some automated programs that makes hundreds of queries per minutes to collect some kind of information? Please direct me to the correct page for this info...I tried to search for a while but I don't know what the correct search term is and I couldn't find the answer myself. I am not about to write a such program; it is for a school paper. Thanks. Rockvee (talk) 21:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know a lot about this but see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks#Remote loading.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:27, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. Those pages are seem to be for other websites which would display content of Wikipedia on their sites (likely for profit). Is there any info on private/non-profitable use of scripts? Rockvee (talk) 23:39, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hundreds of queries per minute is most likely not OK. Do your work on a local copy of the database in that case. You can also request a toolserver account, to make queries on a copy of the sql database. Perhaps you should explain what you want to do ? If you need real technical assitence, you can ask the wikitech mailing list, or join the #wikimedia-tech IRC channel on the Freenode network. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Admin power abuse

Dear friends, whoever is going to read my question and answer. My IP has been temporarily banned from not English (other language national)wiki with the justification of overly agressiveness and offensive behavior, actually for three days. I will live with it. However, I have the feeling that I myself have been unfairly offended and terrorized. All I had been doing was editing and writing new articles for the last 20 days maybe too vigorously and maybe I have been asking too many questions and doing suggestions because I just had some free time. I can't keep smiling while writing this, because as an educated adult I cannot assess the situation as something else than an unexpected practical joke. Whatever. Of course I think that the decision was wrong moreover I was in the middle of saving a whole article of three hour job when the ban came like a big bucket of ice onto my head. Funny really. It was so unfair.

Is there any possibility of appealing against the admin power abuse in any particular national wiki?

Of course I must prove that I am right. Unfortunately if it has been English site you would have read the proof and understood but in this particular case I am not sure whether anybody from the English site can read and understand my language of a rather small wiki (less than 10000)to go through the work that I have done in the course of the last 20 days and read my discussions in the community page to see that I have been simply debating maybe with a more eloquent educated language than the COMMUNITY of 5 male admins has been used to and they have become afraid of somebody having pretensions over their small brotherhood principality. That is true the discussion was merely between three admins and me however they do the banning and declamations on behalf of the whole community and exactly when I had asked them to justify how many votes are comprising the VOICE of community. They accept every different idea with sticks and "shutups". Of course the 3 days is not a big time and later I can just shut up and not participate at all in their collegial brotherly discussion but I am truly afraid of the situation that the admin abuse is going to take place again.And I am even afraid they will just mess up with the huge work that I have done in more than 25 articles just in the course of 20 days. Sort of ADMIN VANDALISM because I have the proof. This small brotherhood of admins is actually censoring the articles and deleting those which they consider to have nationally not dignified content. And as long as I am absolutely sure that my behavior has been normal and my contributions to the site have been of a certain value and will be in future whatever reaction of current admins is I want to know how to protect myself from the terrorism of admin conspiracy. I cant believe that I am writing this. --Lilit Gabyan (talk) 23:57, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicts in a national wikimedia site need to be resolved and appealed there. In cases of gross abuse of a wiki by its maintainers, you might consider writing to the foundation or to jimmy wales, but prepare your statements well, because they get a lot of such appeals and hardly any usually has any merit or prove. In case you are not welcome, just move elsewhere. You are more than welcome to edit here, if you abide by the rules a bit. :D I note that you are active on the topic Armenia. That is never easy, because it can be a controversial topic that has a lot of history and some very combative editors try to mess with it at times. You might want to try and avoid such controversial topic until you are gigantically experienced with wikipedia. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I must insist that we remember they are not "national" wikipedias; each Wikipedia is language-specific, not nation-specific. An editor of the Danish-language Wikipedia might be an Uruguayan; an editor here in English might be a Gheg or a Minangkabau; and of course all of us at la Vikipedio de Esperanto have our own national affiliations. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:54, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I should also note that all Wikimedia websites, including the various language Wikipedia's are all independently run. No one site, even the largest (en.wikipedia), has any supremacy or jurisdiction over any other, with the exception of Wikimedia Foundation issues. Unfortunately, if you are having a problem on another language's Wikipedia, there is no way that anyone at English Wikipedia can help you resolve it. You can only resolve this at that particular Wikipedia. Your best option is to study up on the behavioral norms at THAT wikipedia, and abide by them. --Jayron32 00:37, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the good advice but you can not even imagine at this very moment there is going on a vivid discussion there on erasing all the work that I have done in the course of the 3 days, while I am banned and you cannot imagine how painful it is because I had truly contributed with the best of my mind and heart. What a waste of time!! How can they!! I cannot even imagine and I can do nothing just watch! Hours and hours of work. How can people be so cruel and ignorant and by the way I have not touched any historic or political matter I have translated more than 30 pages of Wikipedia missing articles and started the huge list of Latin expressions, And now all I can do is just watch how all this work will be ruined They are just now discussing how they are going to do it Ican't believe it now i do not smiel mor sure --Lilit Gabyan (talk) 00:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC) .[reply]

April 12

Will I be allowed to usurp an account?

I created my account here a month ago. When I decided to do so, I wished to have the username Magician, but it had already been taken and I had to work pretty hard until I found a synonym of this that wasn't the username of anyone. User:Magician has no contributions, and the date of the creation of this account is not on this list, which (I presume) should mean this happened long ago. The instructions on the usurpation requests page advise against posting a request if one's user account is "less than several months old, or barely used". Should I wait until the summer to make a request? And if I wait till my account is a few months old, will I be allowed to usurp the name without giving a reason other that "I like this better"? Also, what will happen to the accounts I have for other wikis? Will the renaming affect all of them? I hope not, and if not, I will ask the bureaucrats in the respective project (e.g. Wikipedia in Russian or Latin) to change my username to the local word for magician as soon as I decide to start contributing there. I will not use my account for the Bulgarian Wikipedia, because I already have one there with a different username since 2007. Thanks. --Магьосник (talk) 00:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is probaly correct. I would like to point out however that User:magician is the username of a user on the english Wikiquote and you can see here that his account was used as recently as 25 August 2009. This combined with the fact that this username has been used to edit multiple wikis, should make you want to think twice about picking such a username, because you can never have a fully unified login for such a name. I'm not even sure if you will be allowed to rename to such an account in the first place. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think you got my idea a bit wrong. I don't care if I will have an identified login. I even set up a unified login just because I didn't know how to do otherwise, and I originally wanted to give it up and to use a separate account on every Wikipedia I edit. My idea was that I'd like to use the word magician translated into the content language of every project I contribute to. If this is impossible for the English Wikipedia for objective considerations, it's not that bad. I can quite easily live this way. :) --Магьосник (talk) 01:00, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image not duplicating correctly from Wiki Media Commons

I'm hoping someone can help with a very minor image issue that's been bugging me for months: I noticed last November that the mission insignia (Apollo 13-insignia.png) in the Apollo 13 infobox was incorrectly rotated about 5 degrees to the right (in its correct display, the A in Apollo and the final I in XIII are level so that "Apollo XIII" is centered at the top). On Nov. 18, I uploaded a new version with the insignia straightened at Wiki Media Commons. That change did carry over to the image's file page on English Wikipedia, but it has never duplicated (propagated?) correctly to the article's infobox, nor to the other few articles where it is used. I raised the issue a few days later and was told it might take some time. Here it is five months later, and no change. Again, I know this is pretty minor, but given some of the other micro-issues raised I see raised here I thought I'd ask again (today is the 40th anniversary of the mission's launch, so I figured I might have some luck!).

Thanks for any help, RadioBroadcast (talk) 01:37, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I changed it to the svg version of the image and that seems to work. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 02:00, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well sure, but that is a pretty ugly version that does not reflect the insignia's real colors. Although I appreciate the effort, I have reverted it back and hope there can be a more elegant solution. RadioBroadcast (talk)

I purged the image on Commons, so new thumbnails should be generated now. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! RadioBroadcast (talk) 14:17, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Use an image as an external link?

I was wondering if it's possible to use an image as an external link. I'm trying to make a sort of "mosaic" of the icons of all the sites I exist on, and I was wondering if something like that would work, and if it follows Wikipedia's protocol. Hmmwhatsthisdo (talk) 03:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Science question

why did /does some organic material not become oil or gas04:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philjacobs100 (talk • contribs)

Try Wikipedia:Reference desk for answers to general knowledge questions. --Jayron32 04:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But note that we will not do your homework for you. – ukexpat (talk) 13:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find a guideline

I can't find the guideline that prevents (or frowns upon) a user reverting warnings placed in his talk page for disruptive editing. Any help finding it would be appreciated. Thank you, Raa G gio (talk) 04:48, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP:TPO. No preventing there. Funny huh? –Turian (talk) 04:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually WP:BLANKING specifically states that users may remove warnings from their talk page. "Policy does not prohibit users, including both registered and anonymous users, from removing comments from their own talk pages, although archiving is preferred. The removal of material from a user page is normally taken to mean that the user has read and is aware of its contents. There is no need to keep them on display and usually users should not be forced do so." (bolding mine). If you warned a user about something, and they deleted the warning, it means they got the warning. There is no need to keep it around. --Jayron32 05:03, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I knew this existed. Well, indeed Wikipedia "frowns upon" or discourages said action (like I had mentioned in the question), but does not prevent it. Raa G gio (talk) 05:10, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:BLANKING again, it is definitely not "frowned upon", but actually permitted, subject to the cases specified: "Policy does not prohibit users, including both registered and anonymous users, from removing comments from their own talk pages, although archiving is preferred." – ukexpat (talk) 17:48, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Preferences

I use an old browser (Netscape) on my awfully old computer. I can't view my preferences page. Is there a "simple HTML" option like that in Gmail that can be employed here? Purlot (talk) 06:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, in fact. In "my preferences", under "appearance", you can change the default appearance (skin) of Wikipedia. "Classic", "nostalgia" and "simple" perform better than others on older browsers. You will have to be logged in for this effect to remain. Someguy1221 (talk) 07:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, whoop's. I didn't realize you can't view the "my preferences" page. Try viewing your preferences through this link., and changing your default appearance from there. Someguy1221 (talk) 07:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's text has changed

Hi, the text on wikipedia has changed to some weird font. How do i change it back to Times New Roman? (The normal font)

This is almost certainly a problem with your web browser. Which one do you use? Someguy1221 (talk) 07:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I use Motzilla Firefox, Normal Internet Explorer kept giving me Virus's

Go to the tools pulldown menu, and select options. Go to the tab labeled "Content". There, you should see a dropdown menu for selecting font and font size. Hope this helped, Riffraffselbow (talk) 09:03, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another thing worth noting: if you hit the "Advanced..." button next to the menu, you should see a popup. In the popup there should be a tickbox for "allow pages to choose their own fonts" or something like that. If it's not ticked, then you're not seeing the fonts Wikipedia uses.

Wikipedia does not define its own fonts to use. It simply displays in your browser's default sans-serif font. Go to the preferences, then Content, then click Advanced..., then make sure the sans-serif font is set to something readable -- the default on Windows systems is probably Arial. Xenon54 / talk / 10:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hooghalen - an Illustration obscures text

I navigated to the Hooghalen page and found that an enlarged illustration (map) overlays the upper portion of the text. I have no idea what syntax will fix that map in place, though I'd be interested in revisiting that page again in edit view after it's been repaired (hint, hint :-) -- thanks, Deborahjay (talk) 11:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC) [reply]

I fixed the bunching of the images and removed the image in the lower box that was a duplicate of the image in the upper box. – ukexpat (talk) 13:29, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question

could you please explain to me, What use in a living society. what are the role of mosquitoes. thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.228.159.44 (talk • contribs) 12:16, 12 April 2010

This question should be asked at the Reference Desk. The Help Desk is for Wikipedia-related queries only. Orphan Wiki 12:19, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You might also like to read mosquito, and use that as a starting point for your research.--Beloved Freak 12:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But note that we will not do your homework for you. – ukexpat (talk) 13:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to list of Gentlemen's Clubs

Resolved

I just happen to know the missing address of the Primrose Club (under Defunct or Merged Clubs). (I may have said this before). Can anyone be bothered to put it into the page for me? The address of the Club in 1902 was 4&5 Park Place, St James's Street. It is listed in the London Street Directory for 1902. Thank you.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.197.201 (talk • contribs) 12:27, 12 April 2010

Hello, please feel free to add the information yourself. Anyone can add information to (most of) the articles on Wikipedia. List of London's gentlemen's clubs doesn't appear to be protected against edits from anonymous users.--Beloved Freak 12:38, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Changing Page Name

Resolved

– CraigZZR (talk) 15:33, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I've been working on Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Juction Line page and I noticed when I saved it the first time I had an error in the title. I've seemingly spelt Junction in the latter part of it wrong.

Is there anyway this can be changed?

Cheers

Craig— Preceding unsigned comment added by CraigZZR (talk • contribs)

User:Notedgrant has moved the page to the correct spelling. – ukexpat (talk) 15:26, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the page to Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line--NotedGrant Talk 15:28, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Change the Author of a book

Resolved

It appears that there is some confusion regarding the Author of the book

"Hard Times in Ontario, A Pretty Story, Certainly." It is quite clear that the author was a James Shannon (1829-1903) and the book was printed at the Kingston office of the Daily News Office in 1872. The James Shannon that wrote this book is my Great grandfather on my mother's side.

James Shannon b Jun 2, 1829 Tobermore, Co Derry NIR

d Aug 9, 1903 Kingston, ON, Canada----— Preceding unsigned comment added by DougMartha (talk • contribs)

I can not find either the book or the author on this site. Kittybrewster ☎ 16:00, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect that this is an off-wiki matter that the OP is bringing here on the assumption that we can help. I have also just undone a couple of inappropriate but good faith edits by the OP to James Shannon (disambiguation). – ukexpat (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It appears the OP was asking about this pamphlet by James A. Shannon, for what help that might be.User:LeadSongDog come howl 18:09, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Telenovelas

I would like to know, how I can purchase the recent telenovelas, Like Dona Babara, El Rostro De Analia, El Zorro and many others. I looked on the Amazon.Com but I did not see the ones that I want. I just love Christian Meier, would love to own some of his novelas!! Thanks Lydia Famelio —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.190.74.130 (talk • contribs) 17:12, 12 April 2010

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our roughly 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 left hand 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.Template:Z25 TNXMan 17:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Intranet

I would like to use Wikipedia to write articles, upload pictures, marketing material etc but, restrict the content to nominated personnel within my own organisation. I.e. to have the Wiki functionality but not make it avaiable to the general public.

Is this possible and if yes, how?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.158.139.100 (talk • contribs) 17:20, 12 April 2010

The MediaWiki software used by Wikipedia is free to download from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Information about the software, the license under which it's released (GPL), and other requirements can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_does_MediaWiki_work%3F

You will need your own servers and own internal infrastructure to support the software. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hindu priests

I am Sarma Sasthrigal from Chennai, India. I am a Hindu priest and would like my name to be included in your site category. Please let me know what is the procedure? Thanks.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.64.183.164 (talk • contribs)

Are you notable as defined here? If not then I am afraid that you do not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. If you are notable, then someone will write an article about you sooner or later. You are strongly advised not to create such an article yourself. – ukexpat (talk) 17:42, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Days

days of the week for specific dates— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.86.108 (talk • contribs)

You can try typing the date in the search box on the left-hand side of the page. Or if you have a specific date, we may be able to help you. TNXMan 17:38, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What you seem to be looking for is a perpetual calendar (online ones are linked at the bottom of the article). Deor (talk) 17:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User Access Review

I would like to start a discussion on the user rights and groups as now and then I find user rights being discussed in a number of places such as Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), and they can sometimes be discussed in separate threads making it hard to follow the discussion.

Therefore if a dedicated discussion was started it could focus more on discussing the improvements that could be made and how the User Rights/Groups have changed since January 2001.

The things that could be discussed would be:

Reviewing Existing Groups one-by-one and discussing a way forward with each one
Improving the assignment of User Rights (Blocking, Protecting etc.)
User Groups that may be obsolete (No longer required - Founder being an example) to be discussed for potential removal
Potential splitting of existing User Groups to create more realistic roles (An Example being Moderator for the Block tool and Janitor for the Protect and Delete tool's)

So if this is possible where would the best place be to start the discussion. Happy to be of assistance Paul 2387 20:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The best place to start this discussion would be the policy village pump. I will warn you however that the sort of far reaching changes you are proposing must be incredibly well thought-out and written-out to have any hope of gaining traction. Simply throwing out a proposal like this will get you nowhere. TNXMan 20:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image info edit question

How do you edit the Comments section of an image file that you yourself uploaded?Rouder (talk) 21:25, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Click the edit tab at the top of the image information page, though be careful that you don't inadvertently delete information that has to be there, such as permission and copyright info. – ukexpat (talk) 21:53, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User page / Search page

When I log in the information that I put in is under the User page, but when I log out and search the title of my page (MLG Communities) it doesn't come up. Why?— Preceding unsigned comment added by MLG Communities (talk • contribs)

It can take a while for the internal search engine to index new articles. Please note however that your username is in violation of our user name policy and that I have tagged MLG Communities for speedy deletion as blatant advertising. – ukexpat (talk) 21:57, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Coordinates in an Infobox

I created a sample page to test using a template for an Organization Info Box. The coordinates for the location are contained in a macro, and this is what the code within the info box looks like: |coords = "{{coord|40.725989|N|-73.99882|W|}}"

On the page, the coordinates look like this: "40.725989°N -73.99882°W / 40.725989°N 73.99882°E / 40.725989; 73.99882 Coordinates: longitude degrees < 0 with hemisphere flag
{{#coordinates:}}: invalid longitude"

The problem is, when you click on the coordinates, the longitutde converts as +73.99882, which is EAST. All of the global services take you to Krygrzstan instead of New York City!

Here is a link to the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LoreMariano/samplePic

Can someone please tell me why the minus is converting to plus on the global services page? Thank you. LoreMariano (talk) 22:25, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You have a double negative there - try 40°43′34″N 73°59′56″W / 40.725989°N 73.99882°W or, more obscurely 40.725989°N -73.99882°E / 40.725989°N 73.99882°W Coordinates: longitude degrees < 0 with hemisphere flag
{{#coordinates:}}: invalid longitude. You could also use {{coord|40.725989|-73.99882}} and the N and W will be added automatically. 131.111.185.75 (talk) 22:35, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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