Wikipedia talk:Help desk

TOMB OF KOGD KHAN, ULAAAN BAATAR (ULAN BATOR)

I have a picture of what is supposed to be the Tomb of the Bogd Khan in Ulaan Baatar, but I do not see an reference to it in your articles on Mongolia, Ulaaan Baatar or the Winter Palace. I would appreciate any info. I would send the picture if I new how.

[removed] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.186.247.177 (talk) 17:30, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Removed email address. —Jeremy v^_^v ^{Components:V S M} 18:17, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, the article on this person can be found at Bogd Khan. You can contribute images via commons:Special:UploadWizard. Please make sure to read the information on that page before uploading. Thank you, Taketa (talk) 19:51, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

isaia suriel — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.80.136.20 (talk) 14:21, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Safe Families for Children

i AM SO SORRY - i PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON.... Is there a way to delete Safe Families For Children - it's live on Wikipedia! . I still need editing etc on this. This was never suppose to Happen. Please Help!!!!!!! Tackies (talk) 20:36, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry, it has already been nominated for speedy deletion. —Akrabbim^talk 20:40, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Make Cat Help a subpage of the help desk

Is it possible to transform a category into a subpage of a page? If that were possible I would like to propose to make CAT:HELP a subpage of the help desk, thus locating it at Wikipedia:Help desk/Wikipedians looking for help and in addition to it being a category giving it the property of a page, so that changes to it will show up on your watchlist. I don't know if this would be technically possible but if it were, it would help to centralize things. Now earlier at this talk page I was pointed to a script (User:Ais523/catwatch.js) which lets changes to categories appear on your watchlist. However I think changes to that category should be visible to all help desk volunteers without the need to install any additional scripts first. This would help in centralizing help requests. Furthermore I assume (and somebody might correct me) that many volunteers do not have that script installed, so I guess this would increase the efficiency of our help processes.

I apologize if this proposal may be complete nonsense or technically impossible and some might argue that anyone who wants to help should simply just add that script but i simply think we should make things as easy for our volunteer helpers as possible, as this in the end will benefit those seeking help. And everything that removes a barrier from the communication between those seeking help and the helpers would be beneficial (and yes, installing the script might not be a difficult thing, but still one has to do it in the first place). Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 12:56, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

time trevel

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Questions in Georgian

Now here's a funny thing. From the Help Desk page there is a Georgian interwiki that lands you here. According to Google translate, the dotted box at the bottom of that page is labelled in Georgian as "Click here to leave your question on the use of Wikipedia". All good so far. But if you click it, you are sent back to add a new section to this Help desk. So that's why we sometimes get questions in Georgian! -- John of Reading (talk) 16:23, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Well spotted! I have posted to an active Georgian administrator who knows English at ka:მომხმარებლის განხილვა:Nodar Kherkheulidze (it seems they need a lot characters to say User talk in Georgian). PrimeHunter (talk) 23:58, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

 Done. Now it links to Georgian. See also this talk page for additional information. Cheers, --George ^Talk 05:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 15:11, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Funny

I replied to Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2011 October 6#Wikipedia Mobile Beta while it was still on the Help desk, but when I saved it reappeared in the archive. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 14:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

The "October 6" section currently visible at Wikipedia:Help desk is a transcluded copy of the archive page. I don't know why it is designed this way, but this is managed by Scsbot (talk · contribs) with edits like this one. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Interesting. I didn't realize there exists an intermedia period of time where a section is located both at the help desk and in the archive. I haven't really looked at the edits of Scsbot very closely so far, but I wonder why it not simply moves a section to the archive and removes it from the help desk at merely the same time. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 15:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Seems to be discussed here - before my time. There's a tradeoff between having the page too long, and removing the answers before they are seen. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:39, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Black list of external links

What should one do if one tries to save what appears to be an innnocuous external link, and finds out it is on Wikipedia's blacklist? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 09:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

That depends, if it is a reliable source (which is unlikely if it's on the blacklist) or passes WP:EL and there are no alternative sources you could a) just not use/remove it or b) request the specific link be whitelisted at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist. Яehevkor ✉ 10:12, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

have u ever noticed that people from India ask all the funny questions

okay first let me say that i am not a racism and some o my best friends are from India, and from Chennai and Sri Lanka and Banaglore and all of those places.

but BE HONEST and tell me that a lot of the funny questions and weird questions and questions that don't make any sense come from India users.

Why are they so funny and silly compared to people who come from other countries. Also, do you think that the schoolmasters in India let kids run around on the internet unsupervised compared to other lands.

What can we do to make the India users ask better question so that we can give them better responses.