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December 27

Some things I would like to discuss

1. First of all, I think Larry_King should go under the category: [Category:American_people_of_Belarusian-Jewish_descent] because it says in the article that his parents emigrated from Belarus and they were Jewish. Also I think Peter_Douglas and Eric_Douglas should go under that category as since their father Kirk_Douglas is listed under that category as well. 2. I think it should be noted in the Alexandra_Powers article that her mother is Katharyn_Powers and was a writer for variety of TV series. This article says they are related: http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Katharyn_Powers Also I think in the Katharyn_Powers article these links should be added: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584251/ http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Katharyn_Powers http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/katharyn-powers/2035049/main http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Katharyn_Powers Thanks! Neptunekh2 (talk) 00:31, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Number 1 is a fantastically bad idea. See WP:OC#CATGRS for an explanation why. The big issue is that there is no compelling reason to categorize people by their ancestry for arbitrary reasons. Categories should be relevent, and unless Larry King or Peter Douglas's Belarussian background is demonstratably a big deal in their lives, there is no reason to categorize them as such. --Jayron32 00:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Some non-question that had no heading

I would like to write a book about Bennu some 20 yrs later and his actually finding Mira and what his mission was finally revealed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.167.229.4 (talk) 06:26, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a question about using Wikipedia? --Teratornis (talk) 07:49, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Alexandra Powers

I think it should be noted in the Alexandra_Powers article that her mother is Katharyn_Powers and was a writer for variety of TV series. Also I think in the Katharyn_Powers article these links should be added: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584251/ http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Katharyn_Powers http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/katharyn-powers/2035049/main http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Katharyn_Powers In the Alexandra Powers article I created I found a website that says she is in Scientology. Here's the website: http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/a/alexandra-powers.html Should this be used as a reference in the article? Please let me know.Neptunekh2 (talk) 07:03, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I see that you've posted this at Talk:Alexandra Powers, where it will be seen by the editors most interested in that article. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:11, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Glen MacDonough

I posted an article on Glen MacDonough. It was up for a few hours, but now appears only linked from my own 'my contributions' link, but not from the main page or any of the other links in related articles (including this comment). I think it's probably an easy fix; I just don't know how to do it. Thank you. Jeffmatt (talk) 07:14, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The article is named Glen Macdonough. Article names are case-sensitive except for the first letter. See Wikipedia:Moving a page if you want to change its name. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:09, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I have moved Glen Macdonough to Glen MacDonough. You could have made the move yourself. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:25, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Regarding Policy Number: WTG1321908

First of all I would like to clarify you about the policy that has been taken...

<<removed copy+pasted emails containing personal details>>

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.193.160.9 (talk) 07:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 million articles and thought we were 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 for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. --Teratornis (talk) 09:03, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

geolocation

I note that the URL when pulling up a page shows en for English. if I want a dutch version of the page the URL shows NL

So if I am reading the EN version of the page, why is it that your money begging note from the founder ONLY looks at my IP location and not which language I am reading the page in?

p.s. I note that Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted (as below) I do not know if this question has been copyrighted and I am too busy to search. So I suppose that if I do not get a reply it must have copyrighted, but I would be interested to find out how your helpdesk came to that conclusion —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.212.33.191 (talk) 10:06, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

You are not the only one to have noticed this. There is a long discussion here, and there may be other discussions elsewhere. To donate in English you may find this page helpful.

(The "copyright" message is aimed at people who copy+paste text from other websites into Wikipedia. You'd be surprised how often that happens) -- John of Reading (talk) 10:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

System does not accept any login name

Hi,

I ve been trying to create a new account but the system does not accept any login name. It is strange becouse I tryed around 10 different names. I guess there is a problem about this function.

I ve also been trying to edit a new article but I can not find the edit page.

Please check the system and let me know how the solution.

Best regards sems —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.246.120.200 (talk) 11:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

There are around 14 million taken usernames and the system also rejects some names which remind too much of the existing names. Our logs [1] show several accounts created per minute on average so the system seems to be working. You didn't mention any of the attempted names so it's impossible for us to check whether they are taken. And you didn't mention the page you were trying to edit (or were you trying to create a page?) so it's impossible for us to see whether there is something special about it. Please be more specific. We are not mind readers. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Check information on a main page but also on individuals?

I'm trying to set it up so that I can add information about specific people on their respective pages, let's say:

A: 140 120 100 90 B: 142 120 101 84 C: 100 130 120 98

But I also want to see on a main page, the information of all of these, in a table.

The problem is I need A, B, and C to use a template, because there were will be a lot more than three things. Every time I try and use transclusion within a template, I get a messed up template page, severely messed up. The information is also constantly updating and it'd be nice if the A, B, and C pages only have to be updated, and not the other page as well.

I'm sure there are plugins that help with this, but the one I've used before on a wikia was a bit buggy so I stopped.

I'm sure there has to be a nicer way to do this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DatOneGuy (talk • contribs) 11:52, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Template help

Resolved

 – Didn't know that it was so easy.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

hello,

I recently created Template:Animator.ru, but I have a little problem: If you have a look at 4.2 in the "Detailed instructions" section, the the link goes to http://www.animator.ru/db/?p=show_film&fid=2279/ instead of http://www.animator.ru/db/?p=show_film&fid=2279. Can you correct it please? Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 12:54, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The slash is from /{{#switch:. If you don't want a slash there then just remove it. What is the intended use of the switch? I don't want to remove the slash without knowing what you are trying to do. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much :D!-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The use of ' vs >

Resolved

 – GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 16:39, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

This may sound very dumb but I am a 65 year old neophyte.

What is the difference between Kip and Kip?--Kipd (talk) 15:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

''Kip'' and <i>Kip</i> both make italics here at Wikipedia. ''Kip'' is the recommended wiki method. <i>Kip</i> is the html method which may for example occur in code copied from a html document. Somebody may later convert it to ''Kip''. You wrote <i>Kip<i> which may also work in some contexts but should not be used. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:52, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks--Kipd (talk) 15:56, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Alexandra Powers

Would you mind cleaning up the Alexandra Powers article. I added a reference and messed up. Thanks! Neptunekh2 (talk) 15:45, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Neptune. If you go to the article's page history your will see that your edit was reverted with the accompanying edit summary: " WP:RS / WP:BLP. Find a better source." For future reference, the problem with the display of the citation is that you did not enclose it in ref tags, like this <ref>citation text</ref>. That is what tells the software to treat it as an inline citation and makes it display in the references section at the bottom of the article. The citation template you used {{cite web |url= etc.}} only acts to make the citations formatting consistent. Please see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners for further information. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:24, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorting Wikipedia links?

Hi, I have a long list of Wikipedia links saved in a plain text file. A lot of the links are out of date and are redirects or their appropriate article has been removed. Is there any automated way of sorting through these links (e.g. automatically removing dead links and replacing redirects)? I am running Debian for what it matters, so tools like wget and awk are available. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.12.42 (talk) 16:39, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

If you don't get a quick reply here, trying posting again at Village pump (technical), where the techies will see it. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Questions about using infobox templates

hello,

I have threeone question. I have errors with Template:Infobox Masters of Russian Animation. First, the | preceded by = and | followed by = don't display; could you clean up this template? Second, in the article There Lived Kozyavin there are a large space between the top of the article and the text. Why? Third, How do I add different colors in Template:Infobox Masters of Russian Animation/color, so that the colors in the e.g. "DVD1" row for | labelstyle = and | datastyle = are different, anything but red. Is this possible? Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I think you've fixed the colour problem yourself since posting here? -- John of Reading (talk) 18:22, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you john for fixing. Unfortunately the colors were not resolved. But it is optional.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 18:54, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

If I edit There Lived Kozyavin, change "DVD1" to "DVD2" and then preview, the infobox subheadings turn green. Is this the kind of colour change you are after? -- John of Reading (talk) 19:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but I want that the labelstyle and the datastyle will get another colors, for example: DVD1 is color red, the labelstyle should be "#FF4500" and the datastyle "#FFA500", and for the other DVDs the same. How do I do that, so not only the headerstyle will get this color after switching through 4 DVDs. I hope you understood me. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 10:42, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Since I am hoping to improve my template skills I have coded this in my sandboxes. User:John of Reading/X2 could be a new two-parameter definition of the "color" template; User:John of Reading/X1 could be a revised definition of the "infobox" template; and User:John of Reading/Sandbox calls "X1". At least with the colours I've coded into the "X2" template, the result is hideous. If you decide to use any of this, make sure you choose more subtle colours! -- John of Reading (talk) 20:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Unable to edit

The last item at Talk:Sarah Palin was "hatted"...(an explanation of that process might help me). Also, when I try to add a new thread, Steven Schmidt, it lists the title of the thread but I don't see it except for on the list. What am I doing wrong? Buster Seven Talk 18:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The problem was that the person who archived the thread using {{Hidden archive top}} did not do it properly. When you hide a thread with the various templates available you have to add a template at the top as well as to the bottom. If you forget to add the bottom one, then it keeps swallowing new text added to the page as part of the archiving. I have fixed it and your post is showing now. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Copy and paste vandalism

Last January I have created two lists named List of scientists whose names are used as SI units and List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units. These were well sourced articles and were in the scope of several projects. But somebody has delated the articles and cretaed another list named List of scientists whose names are used as SI units and non SI units by copy and paste method. I have spend a considerable time and energy to create the two articles and I am sorry to see them deleted. Although every contributer is welcome to improve the articles, deleting articles and creating new articles by copying should be considered as a kind of vandalism. I think this type of creating (or should we say cheating ?) should not be allowed in Wikipedia ? Well, happy new year to all Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 21:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

It's not vandalism. The editor merged the two articles into one at a different title, which is perfectly within the rules. The original titles you created have been redirected, but the page history still exists. You are free to revert the redirects and restore the content, but I suggest you talk with the editor who performed the merge first. --Mysdaao ^talk 21:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Advertisements

I don't mind the advertisements on facebook. The do not distract me while on my page. Having ads on the side column like facebook would not hinder the reading of each page on wikipedia. Why don't you guys just do that. I don't get the need to be ad free. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.192.28 (talk) 22:42, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

It is because of neutrality. Please see WP:Perennial proposals#Advertising. --ColinFine (talk) 23:39, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

December 28

My browser reports a virus in the image on a La Sagrada Familia page

Apparently the image on this page has a virus issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sf_gp.jpg

Here is what Symantec Endpoint Protection says:

Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan Event: Risk Found! Security risk detected: Bloodhound.Exploit.314 File: C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Q9N5OXMB\Sf_gp[1].jpg Location: C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Q9N5OXMB Computer: User: Action taken: Pending Side Effects Analysis : Access denied Date found: Monday, December 27, 2010 4:00:16 PM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.107.53.153 (talk) 00:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

It's probably a false-positive, maybe connected to the large size of the image? – ukexpat (talk) 15:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

No apostrophe in the Broadway production of Hellzapoppin

Resolved

 –  – ukexpat (talk) 19:05, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

About four months ago I posted a message in the Discussion Section of Hellzapoppin' (musical) stating I didn't believe there is an apostrophe in the title of Olsen and Johnson's original Broadway production of Hellzapoppin. No one has argued to the contrary. Has enough time passed to make the change? If so, how is a change made to the title of an article? Thank you. Brad Smith (talk) 00:46, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Enough time has passed. If you are autoconfirmed there is a tab that says "move" on it. The you follow the steps on that page. I took care of it, the page is now at the correct title. Sumsum2010·T·C 00:52, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, Sumsum2010. I found the tab and appreciate you changing the title of the page. Nice to learn how to fish and to be given a fish. Brad Smith (talk) 17:09, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Selected Works

Do selected works normally come before or after a references section? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 02:44, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

A Works section normally comes before a References section, following Wikipedia:Layout. --Mysdaao ^talk 03:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

What percentage of the world population plays golf?

I have been looking soooo hard to find the answer to this question. It would mean a lot to me if someone could find it. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.74.162 (talk) 03:09, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi. The Wikipedia Help Desk is for finding help about how to use Wikipedia. If you need answers to questions unrelated to using Wikipedia (such as yours), please use our reference desk. Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:19, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Restricted Page, can't edit page Frankel Jewish Academy- Religious Lies about the Jewish School

How do you UNRESTRICT a page?

An angry person has edited a the FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY PAGE.

sincerely, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.190.134 (talk) 03:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Please do not include contact details in your questions. We are unable to provide answers by any off-wiki medium and this page is highly visible across the internet. The details have been removed, but if you want them to be permanently removed from the page history, please email this address.

The Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit isn't protected, as you have already found out because you have edited it. --Mysdaao ^talk 03:56, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Ratings for Movies

Is there a specific reason as to why pages for films don't mention their ratings in the basic information (aka PG, PG-13, R, etc.)? Are users not allowed to post this information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emclaughlin (talk • contribs) 05:25, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Mainly, there are simply too many ratings systems in English-speaking countries, let alone the world over. Further, these ratings can change drastically over time as different editions of a film are released, and re-released. --Monterey Bay (talk) 05:38, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

That, I believe, is the main reason why a film's ratings aren't included in the {{Infobox film}} template. You may want to look through the talk page for that template to see if the issue has come up before. Dismas|^(talk) 05:47, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Guidance for discussing ratings in an article (but outside the infobox template) is at WP:FILMRATING. Karenjc 08:46, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Stuff to help with

Resolved

 –  – ukexpat (talk) 19:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Where can I find things to help with in regard to improving or adding new articles on the law and legal cases? Thanks! Lord Roem (talk) 05:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Law perhaps? Dismas|^(talk) 06:32, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Ok. I'll check it out. Thanks! Lord Roem (talk) 06:56, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

How do I delete an unused account?

I don't know why I created this account. However I haven't used it at all. I haven't uploaded anything, edited, or written anything. I have contributed nothing to Wikipedia. I don't plan on doing so either. So how can I delete my account? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marry-jane97 (talk • contribs) 06:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

WP:VANISH [CharlieEchoTango] 06:26, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

• Because Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL and the CC-BY-SA, all edits must be kept for attribution purposes, and so your account cannot be deleted. You do, however, have the right to vanish, which you can exercise by (1) requesting your user page (found at Special:Mypage) and subpages be deleted, by adding the {{db-userreq}} template to them; (2) requesting to change your username to something that is unconnected with you (possibly a random collection of letters and numbers); (3) never logging in to your account again. The "right to vanish" does not mean anyone has the right to a fresh start under a new identity. Anyone who wants to continue editing should request a change of username instead so edits can be reattributed.Template:Z41 -- PhantomSteve.alt/talk\^{[alternative account of Phantomsteve]} 06:54, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Picture alignment

How do I move the picture in Russ Prize more to the left, between the infobox and the table? Any idea? Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 12:31, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Don't do that. Pictures should be left or right aligned unless there are only pictures in the row. Otherwise it gives poor display with many common setups for window size, text size and other settings. I have a common setup and the table and image already take up nearly the whole width. If you tried moving the picture to the left of the infobox then the table would probably end up below the image for me and lots of others. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:00, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Most visited non-existent articles

Resolved

 –  – ukexpat (talk) 19:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Does this list exist? It might give clues to which articles (or redirects) need creating. 81.131.56.84 (talk) 12:52, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Most missed articles, but it's from 2008. There's also Wikipedia:Most wanted articles which lists non-existent articles with the most incoming links. --Mysdaao ^talk 13:09, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

What a lot of obscure band names! Thank you. 81.131.56.84 (talk) 13:32, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Sadly, the overwhelming majority of those "most-wanted articles" are created by the inclusion of redlinked terms in templates, rather than actual articles. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:47, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Waaaayyyy back in the dawn of time, there used to be a page of "most searched for terms" but I haven't seen that for years now. Corvus cornix_talk 23:38, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Apply a monobook line only when using Safari

I dropped my rollback rights because when I use my iPhone (which uses the Safari browser) I would occasionally hit the rollback link by mistake. Another user suggested adding ".page-Special_Watchlist .mw-rollback-link {display:none;}" to my monobook.css, but that would also remove it from the watchlist display when I am on my main computer. Is there a way to write a line in the monobook file that would only apply if I were using Safari? That would be ideal, because then I would have no rollback links on the IPhone but I would have them on my usual computer, where I use Firefox. If there's a more technical forum where I should be asking this question, please let me know. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk – library) 15:07, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Since no one has answered here, I suggest you try Village pump (technical). -- John of Reading (talk) 08:37, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll do that. Mike Christie (talk – library) 13:39, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Rape Statistics

I wouidl like to be able to contribute additional info on th aboe topic. I cannot see an easy way to do this. Do I have to create a 'new page', or something ? Yours etc R Whiston —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.33.143 (talk) 16:58, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps you could add the information to rape? The content will have to be referenced in reliable sources, however. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 17:12, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Rape is semi-protected so it can only be edited with autoconfirmed accounts. It's free and easy to create an account and has several benefits. Before getting autoconfirmed, you can post suggestions to Talk:Rape. The article Rape statistics is not protected so you can edit it right away. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:43, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

When posting suggested edits to Talk:Rape (or the talk page of any semi-protected page), preface them with {{edit semi-protected}} to call attention to the changes. -- Bk314159 (Talk to me and find out what I've done) 16:22, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Wiki clock

The clock in the top right corner apparently runs off of my Ipads clock and not off of one on the server or somewhere else? My Ipad was about five to six minutes fast but now has jumped to about twelve minutes fast. It's starting to make edit histories a bit confusing when my time is so off everyone elses. Beach drifter (talk) 20:05, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

After a quick experiment, yes, the clock enabled by "My preferences > Gadgets > User interface gadgets" gets its time from the local computer. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:21, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

You can reset your ipad's clock using Settings → General → Date and Time → Set Date and Time.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

December 29

About Donation

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am from india. i don't have credit card. i am unable to donate to wikipedia. so kindly provide some other way to donate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.172.0.203 (talk) 03:39, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

You can make a check payable to "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc." P.O. Box 894879 Los Angeles, CA 90189. --Monterey Bay (talk) 04:16, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Alternative ways to donate - including the above - can be found here -- PhantomSteve.alt/talk\^{[alternative account of Phantomsteve]} 04:23, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Johnson Tan Hiok Phuay

Johnson Tan Hiok Phuay was born in Singapore on 1st January 1900 in KK Hospital. He is now working in SMB Electric Harwal Pte ltd as A Senior Business Manager. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tcchuan (talk • contribs) 06:07, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

This is not the place to suggest a new article, for that you need to go here, although to be honest, the details you have given do not seem to indicate that he would meet Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion here -- PhantomSteve.alt/talk\^{[alternative account of Phantomsteve]} 06:19, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't know. Someone who will be 111 years old in just a matter of days and is still working would seem to be quite notable to me. Dismas|^(talk) 08:54, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you to lighten up wikipedia! I laughed out loud XD-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:18, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

About Principles of photonics You can give me the useful webside also can give me the details

You can give me the useful webside also can give me the details not more than 15 pages.(A4) 1 history of variable-focus microlens or microlens array 2 types of variable-focus microlens 3 tow methods to produce variable-focus microlens 4 its recents commercial application 5 recent research or exploration on its potential use in photonics 6 characterisation /testing of variable-focus microlens —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.1.37 (talk) 09:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

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. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:26, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

How do I create an entry?

Hello, I was just wondering on how to create an entry about my Father?

Thank you

Signed

Chris Schildt —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.10.153 (talk) 15:52, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

There are a few options, providing that he passes the notability guideline. Seeing as you have a Conflict of interest, an article can be requested at WP:REQ. When starting an article you can use WP:AFC. Jarkeld (talk) 15:56, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Searching in category an subcategories

I've been trying to search for late female Swedish engineers (I know it's a funny thing to search for) that is to find the intersection between the categories Dead people, Swedish engineers and Women. However, I realized that the incategory modifier won't search within subcategories, which made my search a whole lot more difficult to carry out. Is there a way to include subcategories in the search? Belteshassar (talk) 16:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Does WP:CATI help? – ukexpat (talk) 16:54, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

The OP will probably not have much success in this search even using CategoryIntersect. Articles about individual women should not include the category Category:Women, because it is simply far too broad; I would recommend removing that category and only searching Swedish engineers and Dead people, then identifying women by their given names. Unfortunately we do not have an article on Swedish given names that could be relevant. Intelligentsium 03:24, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Try going to http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php and entering Swedish engineers in the "Categories" box, and Living people in the "Negative categories" box. This searches for Category:Swedish engineers and all its subcategories down to sub-sub-sub-categories (though I don't think it has any beyond sub-categories), and excludes anyone categorised as living; this seems simpler than searching the entire tree below Category:Deaths by year, and is probably more reliable, too. It doesn't limit to women but I guess the 54 results returned aren't too many to check manually. You might also want to check related categories such as Category:Swedish inventors. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 07:05, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

File extension does not match MIME type.

I keep getting this error message "File extension does not match MIME type." when I try to upload a new image. The images I'm tyring to upload are all below 100 MB and in .JPG file format. Can you explain to me what to do in simple terms? Thanks in advance! Ithundir (talk) 21:00, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

A few possibilities spring to mind. Are you uploading a new image or uploading a new version of an existing image title? If the latter, the old image needs to have the .jpg extension in its name already or the upload will fail. Are you sure the image is actually in jpg format? It's not just a name but an actual format (you may say "duh!" but I've seen this before), so if the image is actually a png, for example, and you only renamed it to have jpg as the extension without actually saving it to that format, the error message you are getting is actually correct. Also, sometimes images you grab from the internet actually have wrong file extensions already attached so it might have originally said it was a jpg, but never was. An easy way to check the actual format is to open the image with paint.net, GIMP or whatever image program you have, and then try saving as; the actual file format is normally selected for you. In any event, try resaving as a jpg. At Commons I read a post indicating that when this error message is a false positive, editing the image--resizing it slightly for example--will sometimes fix the software's misidentification of the file type.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Question about the Writer Infobox

What's the difference between "subject" and "genre"? Nightscream (talk) 22:49, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

See the documentation at Template:Infobox writer. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. One other thing: What's the difference between "education" and "alma mater"? The template documentation doesn't really explain the difference between the two. Nightscream (talk) 06:00, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

December 30

Fundraiser

Hello,

This is statement rather than a question. I have donated to the fundraiser, my only conflict with the matter is that Jimmy Wales's picture is constantly posted for it, which may give a certain impression of egocentricity. To make the campaign more appealing the voices and pictures of the users should reflect the service wikipedia provides to the world, not its founder's.

Kind regards

N.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.98.127 (talk) 02:43, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

There have been, in the past weeks, random other Wikipedia users whose face appeared instead of The Great Leader's. Not sure where they went. --Jayron32 02:54, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Alexandra Powers

Would you mind cleaning up the Alexandra Powers article. I added a reference and messed up. Thanks! Neptunekh2 (talk) 05:39, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

The article has been cleaned up again. A number of edit summaries and talk page comments have advised you to find a more reliable source for this addition. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:42, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

copyright fees

I want to use some photos on my website buit the copyright info is monumental. What is a simple way to pay a fee to cover this, if that is what I need to do? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Staycentral (talk • contribs) 06:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

By the very nature of the material hosted here, you do not have to pay a fee to use any photos found on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, however, depending on the license, you may not be allowed to use them without the consent of the owner of the original material. What are the files you want to use? [CharlieEchoTango] 09:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Creating an article

Dear Sir or Madam,

i am in charge of the marketing activities of a long-established german company called Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG. As i am trying to inform people and potential clients the best possible way, i wrote an article about the company on Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, it was deleted on the grounds that it would be commercial. To be fair, however, i did not use any terms of self-glorification but rather descriptive information about history etc.

I would like to give the whole story a new try by the beginning of next year.

Hope you can tell me in the meantime which details i should take into consideration.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Andreas Radler Marketing Director — Preceding unsigned comment added by SchmidbauerGroup (talk • contribs) 09:39, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

The short answer is that you should not be creating this article, because you have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia is not a medium for advertising or promotion. Please read the FAQ for organisations.

More bad news: your chosen user name conflicts with the user name policy and is likely to be blocked soon. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:51, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

SUL Usurpation

The English Wikipedia has changed so that uploading new images should preferably be done to WikiMedia Commons. I don't have an account there, so I tried to generate one with then new Single User Login. That wasn't entirely successful, because some other people have already registered an account named "JIP" at the Danish and Russian Wikipedias, in 2009. The Danish one has no edits, the Russian one has one. I placed a Usurpation Request template on the talk page of both accounts. I can understand some Danish because it's similar to Swedish, but I don't understand any Russian. Is this enough? How will I know if I can usurp the accounts? JIP | Talk 09:58, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

You can post the request in English here: [2]. The Russian WP's requirements for usurping accounts there can be found here [3], which I think are easily met. Arakunem^Talk 14:55, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Remove my photos from Wikipedia

I want all my photos removed from wikipedia.

For example: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Portimao223.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quinta22.jpg

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.154.203.186 (talk) 14:11, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Even if you are the creator of these images (something of which we have no evidence one way or the other), you have already licensed their use, and I believe that license is irrevocdable. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Why doesn't My watchlist e-mail me new changes?

Is there a setting that I can select in order to be notified of new changes to articles or stuff I'm watching? This is very important, if it doesn't exist I'm wondering why no one added it by now...