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July 8

I want to send a letter

How can I do for e mail? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mingppodol (talk • contribs) 00:19, 8 July 2012 (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.--Orange Mike | Talk 00:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

If you mean Wikipedia's feature for emails to other users then see Wikipedia:Emailing users. Help:Using talk pages describes a more common method to communicate with other users. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:21, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

how to show pdf icon next to link?

Is there a way to get the pdf icon to show up on a link that does not include .pdf in the url? I am looking at the first ref on Seville, which ends up at a pdf, even though it does not show .pdf in the url. I'd like to add the pdf icon so that others who click the link know what to expect. For example, the second ref on that page has the little pdf icon, which I assume is added automatically. Is there a way to make it show up? RudolfRed (talk) 02:54, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

See Help:External link icons. There has been some discussion on this, but no real resolution. You could add the icon as an image, but then the image markup is stuffed into the citation metadata. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 03:10, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

The PDF might have another URL with .pdf on it. I've been on database websites that do things like that, where there's a URL from the search that has no .pdf in it, but it's possible to find another URL that does contain the .pdf. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:21, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the replies. RudolfRed (talk) 04:37, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

The reference uses {{cite web}} which has a format parameter. I have added format=PDF which writes "(PDF)" in the reference [1] but doesn't add an icon. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:14, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

questions about proposing deletion

I want to propose the article John DePetro for deletion. I read the help page on deletion, and it makes my head hurt. I added the Proposed deletion marker to the top of the John DePetro article. It is apparently not causing the article to show up in Articles for deletion. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to add it to that list by editing, but when I tried to do that the preview did not show it in place even though I used the same form as the other articles for that day. Have I done enough to have this automatically deleted in seven days if no one objects? help. thanks. Trudyjh (talk) 03:27, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

It's on the list now: Category:Proposed_deletion_as_of_8_July_2012. Sometimes due to caching it can take awhile for things to show up. RudolfRed (talk) 04:07, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Okay, why isn't that link showing up? RudolfRed (talk) 04:09, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

That link wasn't there for awhile. Why did it suddenly start working? The page was live when I put the link in my post, I copied the category name from the page. RudolfRed (talk) 04:19, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

The next time this happens make a null edit to the page. For categories, purging the cache won't update the page but a null edit will.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:16, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

question about un-merging or renaming

There used to be an article named Harissa (dish) which is now Harees and I wanted to move Harissa (dish) back but the name change was not allowed, I'm guessing for technical reasons? Harees is an Arabic variant of the dish Harissa and Keşkek is the Turkish variant. Harissa is also a Tunisian pepper paste. I have a lot of information to add to Harissa (dish) and I see that some of the material has been deleted, and the current page needs to be improved. Thinkfood (talk) 04:34, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

You can't move it, because there is already a page at Harissa (dish). You can edit the page so it is no longer a redirect, but you should discuss it at Harees talk page first. RudolfRed (talk) 04:46, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Yeah I did initiate a discussion there... regards. Thinkfood (talk) 07:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Removing redirects

I am trying to figure out how I can remove the redirect for Merle Watson that redirects to the article for Doc Watson, so that I can write a unique article on him (because I think he is notable in his own right). I tried to read WP:Redirects, and, maybe it's because I'm tired, but I absolutely couldn't decipher it. Can someone explain to me, in plain English, how to remove the redirect, or do it for me?

Thanks, DavidSSabb (talk) 05:19, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, you can just edit Merle Watson, remove "#redirect [[Doc Watson]] {{R with possibilities}}", and then add your content. Happy editing, hajatvrc with WikiLove @ 05:31, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Although Hajatvrc provides a direct link above, if part of the issue was accessing the redirect this can be done by clicking on the link at the top of the page after you are redirected to Doc Watson, which looks like this "(Redirected from Merle Watson)".--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 06:08, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

How do I change the version of a picture without creating a new file/image?

I was unable to figure out how to download a new version of a picture on the same file, and thus I had to download pictures in a new file, which I found to be very tedious, burdensome, time-consuming, and annoying. Thank you. Futurist110 (talk) 06:46, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Your most recent upload is File:Htaft.jpeg. If you click through to the page on commons, commons:File:Htaft.jpeg, you should see a link named "Upload a new version of this file" just above the "File usage on Commons" sub-heading. Is this the link you are looking for? Does it work for you? (I hope I've understood your question correctly) -- John of Reading (talk) 08:01, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

You can overwrite commons files when your commons account becomes autoconfirmed four days after the creation yesterday. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:04, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Oops

I have accidently deleted all of the information on the Middlesbrough Bus Station page can you restore it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.222.139 (talk) 09:07, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

It has been restored (see here). benzband (talk) 09:13, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

See Help:Reverting for another time. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:16, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I've left a message for you at User talk:86.169.222.139. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:13, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

What to do when I get no responses from Peer Review?

I requested the Jose Rizal article for peer review a week ago but still go no replies. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do instead?119.224.27.62 (talk) 11:47, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Template - transclusion or substitution?

Should Template:NFCC issue note be transcluded or substituted? I ask because it currently uses substitution and another user said at User talk:Toshio Yamaguchi#Template:NFCC issue note that it should be transcluded. Transcluding the template would break the current functionality of the parameter that dates the template. If people think the date parameter is not necessary at all, I could remove it entirely and change the template to use transclusion. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 11:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

See also a previous discussion about this template here. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 11:58, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Couldn't you hardcode the date so that it substitutes upon transclusion and not be a parameter, i.e., using <includeonly>~~~~~</includeonly>, or use it as a parameter but substitute the five tildes, i.e. prefix <includeonly>subst:</includeonly>?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:01, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't work, because it instantly transforms the five tildes into the date ( see here, where I tried this). -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 18:41, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I believe this edit takes care of it. The date should work now when transcluded. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Change Registered E-mail Needed to Reset Forgotten Password

My username is mrzubrow and I forgot my password but am unable to reset it since I think the e-mail address to whih the account is currently registered is no longer valid. I would also rather not create a new account. Can you please help me with this. I appreciate the assistance. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.253.113.63 (talk) 16:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, unless you have a valid email address to send the password to, you have to re-register.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:38, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Here's some advice I just saw (PrimeHunter said essentially what I did):

My understanding is that it may be possible to recover an account in such a situation, but it is a tedious process and you will need to convince a number of editors with very advanced permissions to help you. If you really want to go down that road, I think your journey starts with a request at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard. If your not terribly attached to your old account, PrimeHunter's advice is definitely the way to go.

— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

"Engology" entry in Wikipedia

Why has my "Engology" entry being removed? Fintan Lynch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Engology (talk • contribs) 16:32, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Someone proposed that it be deleted because it is a neologism and had no reliable sources to support it. Rather than delete it, someone redirected it to the page Engineering technologist. Cresix (talk) 16:40, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_July_10#Engology --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Vertical Bar

Hi! I'm usually on the answering side here, but I would like to know which keys to press to get the pipe character. Until now, I've had to paste it and I'd rather just type it. Thanks, Electriccatfish2 (talk) 17:46, 8 July 2012 (UTC).

On my QWERTZ keyboard, pressing AltGr + <> will produce that character (like this: |). -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 18:04, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, but I have a QWERTY keyboard. Electriccatfish2 (talk) 18:07, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

According to File:Qwerty.svg it seems you have to press Shift + the key to the left of Backspace. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 18:10, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

(e.c) My QWERTY board has it to the far right of the keyboard on the third row (far right of the tab). "shift" + "\". Calmer Waters 18:14, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Electriccatfish2 (talk) 18:17, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Arranging info on article

Hi guys, wondered if someone could help me improve on the layout of an article titled Liverpool Pride. As you can see, I've tried to include info on acts that performed at previous Liverpool Pride festivals but as you can see the layout is not very aesthetically pleasing. Can anyone help me improve? Many Thanks. 92.28.74.28 (talk) 18:34, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Name conflict

I created the redirect yesterday and am now wondering which name is more correct for the subject: Cibecue Community School or Dishchii'bikoh Community School? The evidence on both sides is substantial:

• The Arizona Interscholastic Association record and most other high school sports writers outside of the area use Cibecue. (That said, the White Mountain Independent newspaper, which serves the town of Cibecue, does not.)

• The school has two websites, one under each name (cibecuecommunityschool.org and dishchiibikoh.com) — though the .org domain uses Dishchii'bikoh on the banner at the top and elsewhere. The two sites appear to have matching content.

• The school's sports uniforms don't offer a solid conclusion: baseball has "Cibecue" and football has "Dishchii'bikoh".

Which name meets Wikipedia conventions better to be the location of the article? (The other site definitely should be a redirect.) Raymie (t • c) 19:13, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Tool to convert bare URL's to refs

Is there a tool or script to help convert bare URL's (like in Cornbread mafia) to refs? Reflinks won't touch it. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I think you would have to take the square brackets off and replace them with <ref></ref>. Reflinks will work then.  Tigerboy1966  21:27, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

UI've also found that first pruning them down to "really" bare URLs is required for Reflinks to work. Roger (talk) 14:39, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Can somebody assist me in addressing this transwiki concern?

Hello.

I have not found the correct place to lodge a transwiki request even after editing since mid-2008 (and having an account before), therefore, I am asking for somebody to help me address this concern. It can be found at Talk:Citystate Savings Bank. Thanks. 69.155.129.170 (talk) 21:40, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Requests are made at Wikipedia:Requests for import. However, it isn't possible to import from WikiPilipinas. Therefore, the best way to handle this (assuming the source has an appropriate license) is by placing a link to the source in the Wikipedia article to provide the attribution. If there isn't a compatible license then it should be tagged as a copyright violation. QU ^TalkQu 21:55, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Please remove tag

Please assist me to remove the tag on the Cher Chevalier page. Two reliable sources have been added to the page to include the official book publisher. Thank you 92.29.55.159 (talk) 22:08, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 Done Electriccatfish2 (talk) 23:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Message bar

Is there a way to make edits to a user subpage - User:AnkhMorpork/Chess, trigger the orange message bar?— Preceding unsigned comment added by AnkhMorpork (talk • contribs)

I don't think there is. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 38#"New messages" notification on User talk subpages?. The unfortunate part is that per that discussion, T15985 was filed and then closed as a duplicate of T3876, yet if I'm reading the latter bug correctly, the former was actually neither a duplicate of, nor contemplated within it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:47, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

By the way, have you seen Wikipedia:User pages#GAMES? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:03, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

China hurdles to IRC at wikipedia (English)

I'm helping my host university to add themselves to English wikipedia since most of the other universities in town are there, but this one is not. The IRC chat feature won't work from my university login because the CAPTCHA and certain flash features appear to be blocked or disabled. Also my wikipedia comment was responded to with a link to Youtube. However the entirety of the google ecosystem is also blocked here in the wild west part of China. My question is about workarounds for people authoring/editing from locations where these software hurdles exist. In other words, is there a non IRC way to dialog about my proposed article? ---GPW in Urumqi, China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikigpw (talk • contribs) 22:58, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

You can create the article in your sandbox, and then comments can be left on your talk page and you can also respond there. RudolfRed (talk) 00:33, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Dispute solved please open

Please open page 16:10 again. dispute solved./Urklistre (talk) 17:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

July 9

"Former" in front of titles

Part 1: Original question and response: In the history section of an article about the head of a country other than the US, there was a section about the signing of a treaty with the US: "On May 1, 2007, the King and US President George W. Bush signed the treaty." In 2012, an editor changed this to: "On May 1, 2007, the King and former US President George W. Bush signed the treaty." reflecting that he was no longer President. Is this edit: A) Incorrect – The presence of former is confusing, and could either mean either he is now (when?) out of office or was out of office already at the time he signed (which would be wrong in this case). B) Correct – Do we have to change all instances of titles when people get voted out of office? This seems like an awful lot of work, and might be better accomplished by selective transclusion so it can be changed in one place only. I certainly haven't seen evidence of this. C) Unnecessary – Not incorrect, not necessary. We don't care about the ambiguity introduced, but don't want to run around inserting former everywhere. I vote "A" in this case because he was President at the time he signed, and that time is explicitly stated. I would vote "B" if the article were about the actions of someone who previously held the office of President, after his term of office. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 01:02, 9 July 2012 (UTC) I can't find it in the MOS, but I think the answer is you use former if he signed something after he left office and don't use former if he signed it when he was in office. You write the article to decribed events as they happened, and in 2007, President Bush signed the treaty. If he signed something yesterday, then it would be added to the article as "Former President Bush signed xyz." The other alternative would be to write it as "Then-President Bush signed the treaty", but I don't think that's very readable or necessary. RudolfRed (talk) 01:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Part 2: The actual article involved was slightly different, in that Bush was the recipient of a letter, not the signor of a treaty. Here's the actual example:

In Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, there was a section reading:

"[in 2003], the then-crown prince Abdullah wrote a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush..."

In 2012, an editor changed this to:

"[in 2003], the then-crown prince Abdullah wrote a letter to former U.S. President George W. Bush..."

Is this edit:

• A) Incorrect – The presence of former is confusing, and could either mean either he is now (when?) out of office or was out of office already at the time of the letter (which would be wrong in this case).
• B) Correct – Do we have to change all instances of titles when people get voted out of office? This seems like an awful lot of work, and might be better accomplished by selective transclusion so it can be changed in one place only. I certainly haven't seen evidence of this.
• C) Unnecessary – Not incorrect, not necessary. We don't care about the ambiguity introduced, but don't want to run around inserting former everywhere.

I again vote "A" because he was President at the time of the letter, and that time is explicitly stated. I would vote "B" if the article were about something that occurred after his term of office. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 03:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think "Former" should ever be used in front of President. If we are talking about things done as President then it should say President. If it was done before or after he was President then it should either use a title that is appropriate for the time period, Senator Kennedy, General Eisenhower, Chief Justice Taft or if they don't hold a title at the time just use the last name as we do in other biographies. GB fan 03:23, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Why don't you use something like "the then president" instead of "the former president"? Roshan (talk) 07:18, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Just say "Crown-prince Abdullah" and "President Bush" because that is their correct titles for the time. Roger (talk) 10:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Licensing question

I uploaded a photo produced in a sports-card format by USRowing. It has no copyright symbol on it and is freely distributed. Nonetheless I got the permission of the executive director of the organization to post it on the relative Wikipedia site. However I can find no place where I can enter that fact that it is posted with permission (and of course it is flagged for removal). How can I proceed to indicate permission received? Thanks DRPeterJDavies (talk) 02:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

You'll need to send a copy of the permission to the good folks at WP:OTRS. Dismas|^(talk) 03:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Template to convert 20 GBP into U.S dollars

Is there a template that converts between Pound sterling GBP and U.S. Dollars for a given date? and to convert £1 million into U.S. dollars? -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 03:42, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I can't find one; there is a comment at Template:Inflation/doc#Currency conversion saying that the feature is "planned", but that was four years ago. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Warfaze: Recreating a deleted article

The article on Warfaze has come to my notice recently. Its been speedy deleted 4 times already on grounds of A7 (group), G11 and G12. I believe, it was all because the article was created each time by inexperienced editors who failed to establish notability or understand copyright laws. I have taken a look and found that the subject (a Bangladeshi rock band) is part of Om Gupta's Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (including the article by G Booth on "Popular artists and their audiences" - can't access that one - which was cited by Martin Clayton in "Rock to Raga: the many lives of the Indian guitar", has quite a large number specific articles discussing the subject, its work or its members on The Daily Star, Bangladesh (check: this, this, this or the google site serach result), and other sources (check: this, this, this or the 414,000 results google hits. By policies and guidelines this looks very much a subject that can have an article, of course, written and referenced properly.

But, somehow I can't recreate it. May be its edit protected or something. How can I create the article? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 04:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it was salted from recreation because it had been started in these various poor forms multiple times. I've unprotected it now. Please do create it with reliable sources included, cited through inline citations. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

No issues here. Enigma^msg 20:49, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I hope I have managed to operate within the policies and guidelines. It's a stub at the moment. But, it should be thoroughly legit by now. Please check. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 22:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Sins of Ommision

There is no mention of the fact that a number of the party's principles including Pauline Hanson were sent to jail, they were then subsequently released under somewhat unusual circumstances.

At the time there was comment regarding the activities of Mr Abbott, Mr Costello and some of Mr Costello's inlaws, the impartiality of an only too ready to oblige judiciary also got some mention.

The Australian Political system did not exactly come out of it smelling of roses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.149.79.18 (talk) 04:49, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia has around 4 million articles. If you refer to one of them then please give a link to it. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:31, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

If you think a Wikipedia article can be improved, you are welcome to have a go. Any information you add should be backed up by independent reliable sources: see WP:Referencing for beginners for how to cite your sources. It you think the changes you want to make might be controversial, or if you are not confident in editing the page yourself, you can start a discussion on the article's talk page. --ColinFine (talk) 12:21, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

One Nation (Australia) may be the article in question.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Undoing a Page Move

How do you undo a page move?

List of characters in Casino Royale (1967) was moved without any debate, it is a valuable list of every major, minor and uncredited actor in the film.

How can a page move be undone?

Could someone undo it for us?

Thanks,

--Tovojolo (talk) 05:07, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles do not need to list every minor or uncredited actor. The standard is notability. Besides, the article already includes a section on uncredited cast. RudolfRed (talk) 05:10, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

By the way, the article was not moved, it was redirected.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:25, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

It seems it was done with zero discussion, let alone consensus. You could try bringing it up on the talk page. The editor that re-directed it seems to have others mad at them so it may be a vindictive edit of some sort.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

WP:Featured Books

What is going on with the above page?? I thought it would be some kind of guideline or process like the ones for FA. But the page has nothing of the kind. Instead, it seems to be an advertisement for a Bangladeshi website(blog?) with some content inserted in between about WP:WBOOKS. Is the page simply a hoax? Roshan (talk) 07:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't know. Is it supposed to exist? There's nothing in the history, so is it a problem that I was bold and marked it for speedy deletion? - Purplewowies (talk) 07:32, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

See also: Category:"FA-Class" Wikipedia books. benzband (talk) 07:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks guys. Roshan (talk) 08:59, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Speedily deleted as housekeeping; probably deletable under other criteria too. Bencherlite^Talk 09:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Removing a tag

How do I remove the tag at the top of the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher_Bilu. I have been advised that there are already enough citations. Luba bilu (talk) 07:49, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Edit the page and remove the text string {{BLP sources|date=January 2011}}. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Picture upload for a new article and copyright question

Hallo, I'm new at the English Wikipedia and would like to add the article about the company I work for in the English version, too. I have put the article in my user page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Petrotest/Petrotest and would like to add the picture of Berthold Pensky. The link is already there but I can't upload anything at the moment. Is it possible to link to the picture in the German Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Berthold_Pensky.jpg)? The license in the English Wikipedia should be PD-US-1923-abroad or/and PD-EU-no author disclosure. This picture was taken before 1894 - please see the original source and more information of the picture here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005696308/. For the German version we looked up the photographer but didn't find anything except the old address and the name of the photographer. Is there any possibility that someone can help me with the picture? Also hints for the article are welcome. Thanks for your help. Petrotest (talk) 09:36, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I've consolidated your references for you (see Help:Footnotes#Multiple references to the same footnote); can't help with the photo issue. Good luck!. Dru of Id (talk) 11:51, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't believe it's possible to link a picture from another Wikipedia. The best plan is to move the picture from de: to WP:Commons, then all Wikipedia's will be able to access it. --ColinFine (talk) 12:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

The article needs more references: there are hardly any in the first half. Also, you should be aware of the guidelines in WP:COI: I don't think there's anything wrong with the article as it stands, but you do need to be careful about neutrality. --ColinFine (talk) 12:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help and advice. The information especially the dates are taken from the German Commercial Registry and out of an old lawsuit. I'm not sure about how to prove those dates since the files are not available in the internet. The part of the court file that I have here at the office is a collection of different letters. One can ask for inspection of the Commercial Registry but you have to pay a fee for that. The files are in German and especially the old ones are handwritten and hard to read. I'm going to open the talk page on that article to discuss the references there. Hope that's ok with you. Petrotest (talk) 07:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

"link to Wikipedia" icon?

Some other popular sites, like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, publish on their websites little micro-icon banners ("like this on Facebook", "tweet this", etc.). One adds these to one's own website, with parameters set to link to the appropriate section of that website. Is there a set of Wikipedia icons (or mini-banners); in its current form the Wikipedia logo, when shrunk, would be rather muddy and indistinct. 46.208.237.86 (talk) 13:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Banners and buttons. Dismas|^(talk) 13:23, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Wiki letter w.svg might be what you're looking for.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:26, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Dismas and Shantavira; just what I was hoping for. 46.208.237.86 (talk) 13:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

AN/TWQ-1 Avenger infobox

(Solved)

Dear wikipedians, I adjusted some numbers on the AN/TWQ-1 Avenger page, section 4.1 - Dimensions. The weight was horribly off (the kg weight stated was 4300, half the '8600' pounds weight) and I changed some other numbers, too, however the old values are in the infobox, which doesn't feature an 'edit' link. Now, who do I contact about the infobox. I remember that some articles are tagged "This (foobar) article is a stub" but this one isn't (and if I judge it correctly, it is too detailed to be called a stub) but there have been tags like "An article maintained by the Military Taskforce" on other articles, too. For clarification, I am not talking about a military taskforce, but about a taskforce of volunteers who edit wikipedia articles about military topics. I'd like to notify one of them about the mismatching numbers in the infobox. ~ 217.251.159.82 (talk)

BTW, isn't an edit summary like the one on the Resolve disambiguation page, "rv, doesn't have an article here" rude? It's quite old an edit (Nov 10/11, 2008), but does the reverted edit, the one without summary, qualify as vandalism? 217.251.159.82 (talk) 13:47, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

For the first question, you can simply edit the article yourself. The edit link is at the top of the article. Then just scroll down and make your changes. It's best if you cite your sources though. See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners for that. For the second, if you click on the link to the talk page of the article, you'll see a banner at the top directing you to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military History. And finally, "rv, doesn't have an article here" isn't rude, I'd say. It's short and to the point. Dismas|^(talk) 13:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the link to the Wikiproject Military. I must have been thick yesterday, when I didn't see it on the article talk page. (: I think it's best to contact them about the infobox, so you can count this help desk entry as solved. 217.251.155.155 (talk)

duplicate articles - different content

I'm trying to create a new article on wikipedia, but there's already one which exists with the same name but the content between the 2 are not related. How am I able to create an article with the same title? I am trying to create a new article called Steel First. KBenjamin 1985 (talk) 14:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Disambiguation. Dismas|^(talk) 14:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Updating Pages

Professor wants to update page. No information on who created page. Should we just create a new page and delete the old one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.134.149.141 (talk) 14:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

What page? There is information on who created every page. You simply have to click on the "View history" link at the top of any article. And no, deleting the existing page is generally not the accepted way of updating. Again, what page are you referring to? Dismas|^(talk) 15:22, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

My guess is that this is about Lawrence Biondi. And if you are, or are associated with, the professor in question, you should read Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guide before making any changes. Maproom (talk) 16:59, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

2 articles that contain incorrect information

Dear Wikipedia Team Member,

I am trying to correct 2 articles in the German version of Wikipedia. But it is almost a month now and the change is not accepted. The problem is that I know prof. Michael Schoenemann, who has found the company GFT (everybody can check this in the German Notary Service) and this information is what I would like to change.

Please advise me how to speed the process of changing the content since it is wrong, and it can be proved wrong.

The 2 articles I am talking about are bellow:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Dietz http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFT_Technologies

thank you very much in advance Nadia Pavlova — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.24.44.50 (talk) 14:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

This is the English Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia is an separate project from this one with its own rules. It would be best to ask at the German Wikipedia. Dismas|^(talk) 15:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Help with formatting

I have just created a page called "Ryan Woods" about a footballer whom plays for Shrewsbury town

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Woods_(Footballer)

can it be edited so it looks right, where the text of his player history is listed

can he also be placed among the players of shrewsbury town fc in the squad list.

also, when i type his name in, he doesnt appear (there is a less well known player with the same name, who does appear) ... can this be rectified?!

many thanks

Salopian123 (talk) 15:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I fixed the Infobox, but it still needs a lot more work. Andie ▶Candy◀ 15:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Editing Error

For some strange reason, I cannot link anything when trying to edit and also when I try to insert a reference it will not let me!! I've tried clearing my cookies and going on other web browsers on my computer but I still have the same problem. What do I need to do? Tay^(uhoh) 17:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

We need more details like how you try (for example typing or icon clicking) and what happens when you try. Try saving some code that doesn't work here. If it cannot be saved properly then try placing <nowiki>...</nowiki> around it. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I click the icon and it closes but nothing appears on the page.Tay^(uhoh) 23:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Does it work when you log out? Try to clear your entire cache. What is your skin? Which toolbar is the icon on? Is it one of those at Wikipedia:refToolbar 2.0#Troubleshooting? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:33, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I cleared my cache and restored all my defaults and it worked! Thanks a lot! Teman13 (talk) 00:47, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Author did not edit in his last update, how...?

The author on link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_orthography did recently an update, though still kept in his alphabet the old Greek instead of the modern Greek. Because I do not know how to edit I come here to ask the author or someone who does know how to edit, to edit the next:

In the alphabet it is stil "beta", in modern Greek it is "vita". So if someone could change it...

Thank you. Ch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.176.73.109 (talk) 17:35, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't know what you are referring to. The article Greek orthography doesn't contain either 'beta' or 'vita' (but if it did, the English name for the letter β is 'beta'). Like most Wikipedia articles, that article has been edited by many people: you can pick the 'History' tab to get a list of the changes with who made them. --ColinFine (talk) 21:46, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Bug on posting new talk page posts or signatures

Is there a bug on Wikipedia just now? every time i try to make new talk page post it redirect back t blank page but does not create the page, also when i try pressing the signature button it just looks like it is process it then does nothing and refresh the page. It is quite annoying and meaning i am struggling to post. Also should say any page edits i make it is inserting loads of blank space into it meaning i have to go back an remove it--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 17:41, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

What browser are you using? Does this happen on other websites for you? Have you changed any preferences lately, either in your browser, to your internet connection, or to your Wikipedia account itself?Happy editing, hajatvrc with WikiLove @ 18:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Chrome, No does not happen on other websites, Not changed any settings in a while the last change i made to the wikipedia account was maybe a month or two ago but this problem only occur the other day after i read about using wiked function which was enabled for a while but have never really used before i think i press one of the button in that and since then the problem has occur but entirely sure which oneAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 19:21, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

it was find and replace i used and sicne that it has been mucked up basically it stop replacing half way through doing wha ti was wanting and then since then it has mucked upAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 19:46, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

You can disable wikEd at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets. Does that help? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Wording

On my Awake (TV series), I don't know if I should use canceled or cancelled. Thanks. TBrandley 17:57, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

It's an American series, so you should use the American spelling, wiith one "l". Maproom (talk) 18:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

see American and British English spelling differences#Doubled in British English. Dru of Id (talk) 18:12, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Also, be careful with saying "my", WP:OWN. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Footnote additions

I am having difficulty with this function to add a reference at the bottom of a page..?? I have read the directions but operator error i am sure thank you so much

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_R._Goldfarb

We are adding a non profit that at the moment functions on Facebook with a website to follow We are deleting vandalism and we are updating one heading

Help maybe we do not need a footnote

Lakshmi1014 (talk) 19:03, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Your only edit [2] removed a paragraph from Lawrence R. Goldfarb and didn't add anything. There are several pages about references and you didn't say which directions you read but try Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. If you still have problems then try saving an edit even if the reference doesn't look as you want. Then we can see what's wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

If you are trying to add links to social media to the article, please read WP:EXT. You cannot normally link to social media sites from Wikipedia, and certainly not for references (see WP:RS). --ColinFine (talk) 21:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Create/Change name of the page I attempted to create and misc

Hello,

I logged in and created a username and password, and thought I created a new page for the organization I work for. The computer logs me in automatically, so this verifies I successfully created a username. However, how do I a.Change (or create?)the name of the TITLE, and b. publish it?

Thank you for your prompt response.

-MC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.185.150.179 (talk) 19:06, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

It's not clear whether you're trying to create a new article or rename an existing one. But, in either case, you need to read the policy on editing with a conflict of interest. Then you can read WP:MOVE and WP:YFA, which should help. RudolfRed (talk) 19:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

What is your username? We cannot see what happened without knowing it. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Last name with a Upper case letter in the middle

I am trying to edit a title for a person's wiki page. His name contains is DuBrul, but I can only get the title of his page to read Dubrul (all lower case) Help? How to people with Mc names do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumedouglas (talk • contribs) 19:26, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I have moved it to Sascha Altman DuBrul. It required an administrator because the target title already existed (it was a redirect). PrimeHunter (talk) 19:31, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

How to print out pages from your website

Dumb question I know, but sometimes I like to print out TV synoposis but either get a blank page or perhaps a blank page; for example, the Inspector Lewis mystert series? Thanks. Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.188.215.240 (talk) 20:03, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Does Help:Printable help? Which browser do you have? Can you try another? Please give the exact title of a page where it happens and say which page(s) is blank. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

New article feedback - notability and references

Hi! I've written a new article at User:Fish613/Daniel Greenberg (lawyer) which I think is ready to go live, and I wonder if anyone can provide feedback? In particular, I want to know if I've established notability and used enough references to support the article.

If you want to help me improve the article, please do use its talk page.

Thanks!

Fish. (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

You have listed no useful sources for establishing notability. There's *probably* enough here to escape CSD A7 but this would be deleted at articles for deletion, unless some real reliable, independent, secondary sources were found discussing the subject in detail (based on one of your comments in a thread below, please see our conflict of interest guideline). Who's Who is a publication that is compiled by questionnaires filled out by the subject or someone who knows him or her, and is thus very much not an independent source "with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy" as required. It's not always purely a paid directory however. Some of them do try to be somewhat selective, only soliciting autobiographical entries from people they believe to be of some note (other are paid directories), but in either form they are not independent nor secondary sources. The second source just verifies that the subject works somewhere. It's not an independent source source discussing the subject. The same thing for the OED. Are there articles written about the person by third parties with significant treatment? Newspaper stories? Magazine articles? Book treatment?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:11, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Creating an Article

If I am associated with a company, and I am trying to make a page for that company, am I able to? I maintain a neutral tone and use independent secondary sources. If I am not able to create my own page, is there someone I could submit my draft to, who will edit and post it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby1379 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

You could do what I did: write it in your user space, ask for feedback from others and move it live if it's ok. Otherwise, there's a page at Wikipedia:Requested_articles where you can suggest a topic and other people will write it. Regards, Fish. (talk) 20:19, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok. where did you disclose your affiliation with the company? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby1379 (talk • contribs) 20:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

On the talk page of the article, where I asked for feedback. (It wasn't actually a company, it was a person who I know, but it's the same idea.) Fish. (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:27, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Company not listed on Wikipedia

I noticed ScholarChip® is not mentioned on Wiki but it's competitor Pearson Education is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.74.104.3 (talk) 21:22, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Probably because no one has written it yet. We don't have all companies here that are notable. IPEX is a huge notable company in my city but no mention at all in wp. You could try writing the article yourself, requesting it, etc. Beware of COI, NOT, and POV though.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:27, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

It looks like it's been written (by Bob from ScholarChip) and deleted three times already. Twice for WP:SPAM and once for WP:COPYRIGHT. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 21:32, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I just noticed that it's also been salted because of the attempts on recreation. Since your IP geolocates to ScholarChip, I would just let it go and maybe someone else will eventually create the article who doesn't have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia isn't the place to promote your company, anyway. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 21:37, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Share alike

Some photos are designated SHARE ALIKE and the web site states they can be used as long as an attribution is given. The same applies for GENERIC images. I have heard that if such images are used in an iBook textbook they will negate any copyright protection for other images owned by the author.Is this true as I cannot find any such warning on the Wikipedia website. Thanks, Ken — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.26.13 (talk) 21:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like total nonsense. Why would use of a freely licensed image with proper attribution have any effect on another image that is not freely licensed? If for example, the book stated some blanket text such as "all images in this book are freely licensed..." or other type of blanket release, that would be different—the non-free images owned by the party making the blanket statement would be then released and any they didn't own would remain copyrighted with the false release being a lawsuit waiting to happen, but no I cannot see any way this could be true. Of course, the author would be wise to mark their copyright inside of or in conjunction with each of their own images included, and give credit and use by permission information for ones they do not own. You say "I have heard that..."; from what source?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

list of massacres in history

fyi... i believe the battle of manila in world war II saw the japanese naval forces defending the city against MacArthurs forces killed (massacred) approximentely 100,000 Filipino civilians caught in the battle.. should it not also be listed? thank you for your attention in the matter.. :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.123.196.135 (talk) 22:37, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

There's a page List of events named massacres, which I assume is where you want it to be added. They've had long discussions there about criteria for inclusion, but since there's already an article Manila massacre I think it passes. I'll add it there and see what people think.

Regards, Fish. (talk) 22:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

July 10

How to quickly search IMDb bad link in external links?

Resolved

How to quickly search bad IMDb external links in Wikipedia articles?
For example: {{IMDb name|nmnm2082853}} which results this bad link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nmnm2082853/ ? --Tito Dutta ✉ 02:13, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser can do regular expressions so maybe it could help? RudolfRed (talk) 02:16, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

In Ununtu, I could not install Ubuntu successfully (long story), any other suggestion? --Tito Dutta ✉ 02:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

If you know the pattern to look for and the pattern to fix it with, a bot could help. WP:BOTREQ RudolfRed (talk) 02:33, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Excellent! --02:39, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Foreign language translation of article being read, by mouse pointer or between lines.

This would be a good example about 'reading between the lines'! How about an option when say, you read something in latin to see the applicable line translation underneath or place the mouse pointer on a word and see it's translation in the mouse's ivory box. Same between pairs of other languages? That would help a lot many who want to read the specific language version without reading the article in another language - usually quite different, and many other similar situations. It is easy to do and helps those who learn or don't know enough of a language e.g. english since most articles are written in it. tks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.246.172.8 (talk) 02:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

This would take extensive development. You can find out more information on how to request a feature here, though. Gold Standard 04:35, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Page Move

I am having a problem moving a page. I am trying to move Private company marketplace to Private Company Marketplace (PCM) but it does not seem to be working.

Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Privatemarketguru (talk • contribs) 03:31, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I moved it to Private Company Marketplace, I don't believe acronyms are supposed to be part of article names. Also, your username makes me think that you may have a conflict of interest with the subject of the article you created, although I very well could be wrong. If I am right, however, you should not be creating or editing the article. Please read WP:COI for more information. Gold Standard 04:39, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The article has been created and deleted twice under that name today, under the speedy deletion rationales G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://nowstreetjournal.com/2011/02/01/2011-predictions/ and A3: Article that has no meaningful, substantive content. Looking at the blog that was copied, I can't see any mention of the proper noun Private Company Marketplace, so I'm doubtful that the capitalised version was appropriate. In any event, it would be a good idea to take a look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Gold Standard's COI link above before attempting to add any further information on this subject to the encyclopaedia. Karenjc 13:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Information

Hello, I am an international Author....Can you tell how to make our wikipedia page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.225.73.32 (talk) 04:08, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Please read WP:COI, it explains why you should not be creating articles that you are affiliated with. To submit an article for review, visit WP:AFC. Gold Standard 04:30, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

articles mysteriously in Category:Science fiction series templates

Many articles are mysteriously in Category:Science fiction series templates. I don't see how to correct this.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:02, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Fixed by Bencherlite (talk · contribs). -- John of Reading (talk) 07:46, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

ACCOUNT CREATED

BY MISTAKE I CREATED AN ACCOUNT, I WANTED A FACEBOOK ONE, HOW DO I CANCEL MY ACCOUNT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.72.68 (talk) 07:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

There's no need to cancel the account, just don't use it. Wikipedia has a huge number of inactive accounts. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

And accounts cannot be deleted at all. They can only be renamed. See more at Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:05, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Strange message received from Wilkipedia

Hi

I looked at Wikipedia today and there was a Message displayed for me. I clicked on the link and it basically accused me of making an inappropriate edit of a page about Lucy.

But I have never visited this page and certainly never edited it.

The problem may arise because my ISP (BT) uses dynamic IP addresses.

I am worried that Wikipedia is collecting data which it is incorrectly attributing to me - I don't think this is right (as to whether it si legal or not I cannot say) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.7.132 (talk) 09:43, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Any data is attributed to the IP address, not to you as a person. The IP address has been used to make an inappropriate edit, and due to the nature of the IP address assignment of your ISP, you happened to receive the message, even though you were not the same person as the one making the inappropriate edit. This has no consequence for you as a person. Wikipedia is very much aware of the transient nature of IP assignment and it will not be held against you. In the most extreme case, it might cause you not to be able to edit without creating an account, but that is it. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:55, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The solution is to create an account, and log in when you edit. That way, any edits attributed to you are your own. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 10:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I know you saw a banner saying "You have new messages" but the messages at User talk:81.159.7.132 are actually from 2008. Don't worry about it. The box at the bottom of the page also explains the issue with changing IP addresses. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:19, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Categories in wrong order

See this category listing Category:Works_by_century. 9th and 8th century BC works should be the other way around. Is there a way to fix this?--Dblk (talk) 11:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I've fixed it with this edit. The description at Help:Category#Sort order also applies to the category pages themselves, setting their sort order within their parent category. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:15, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Submitting a Wikipedia profile for review

Dear all,

Apologies if this is a very simple query. I have recently made adjustments to a Wikipedia page I am creating in light of feedback I have received. In making the adjustments I accidentally deleted the link to re-submit the article for another review.

Could I ask as to how I now resubmit the page please.

Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rscurlock-Jones (talk • contribs) 11:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I have recovered the templates you accidentally deleted from Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Clive Beer. I also made a few minor edits to fix errors. Roger (talk) 12:05, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

rgardind global demand of epoxidised soyabean oil

dear sir,i want to know about the global demand of epoxidised soyabean oil which is a chemical for plastic industry.and the largets importing and exporting countries for the same esbo or epoxidised soya oil. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.168.66.128 (talk) 12:38, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.8 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.SPhilbrick(Talk) 12:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

You might find what you are looking for in the article Soybean oil. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at the Miscellaneous section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for).For your convenience, you may click here to post your question. I hope this helps.Template:Z39 -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:57, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Request to pass an appeal to unblock 81.175.138.59

I would like to ask to unblock 81.175.138.59 , which is a public utility IP in Finland. Refingin some arcticles lead in http://fi.wikipedia.org into an immediate block for unknown reason. Also questions about the block lead into an immediate block of the alternative IP, the inquiry is made from. 81.175.138.54 (talk) 13:17, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kanteleenj%C3%A4rven_lintuvesi&diff=11854694&oldid=11854652

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ritoil&diff=11854695&oldid=11854642 => This article can not be updated to the latest information without a fear of immediate block. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.175.138.54 (talk) 13:20, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

That IP is not blocked on the English Wikipedia. You need to make your request on the Finnish Wikipedia as they have their own admins. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 13:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Share alike advice.........

Thank you for your clarification ........ Sounds like total nonsense. Why would use of a freely licensed image with proper attribution have any effect on another image that is not freely licensed? If for example, the book stated some blanket text such as "all images in this book are freely licensed..." or other type of blanket release, that would be different—the non-free images owned by the party making the blanket statement would be then released and any they didn't own would remain copyrighted with the false release being a lawsuit waiting to happen, but no I cannot see any way this could be true. Of course, the author would be wise to mark their copyright inside of or in conjunction with each of their own images included, and give credit and use by permission information for ones they do not own. You say "I have heard that..."; from what source?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I am writing an IBook and one of the contributors to the IBook forum emphatically insisted that SHARE ALIKE photos should not be used and warned they would make all the authours photos devoid of copyright protection. I have posted a comment and included your message to dispel this myth and encouraged other authors to use the treasure trove of images and maps to enhance their books or textbooks!!!!!!

Thaks again, Ken — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.26.13 (talk) 14:04, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Affiliation

How should I declare my affiliation with an article that I just created and submitted for review? Should I wait to see if it goes live, and then put it in the talk page? Or is there somewhere else that I should do it?Bobby1379 (talk) 14:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean by "declare my affiliation"? Do you want to admit a conflict of interest? Or do you just want to be credited with creating the article? If you want to be credited with its creation, then this will happen anyway, automatically via the article's history page, if it goes live. Maproom (talk) 14:39, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

State on the talk page of the article what the exact nature of your conflict-of-interest may be. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:41, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I am talking about a potential conflict of interest. Bobby1379 (talk) 14:42, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I see that you have now declared it, in the article's talk page, as advised by Orange Mike. Thank you. I have taken the liberty of reformatting your declaration so as to have a section header, as is normal. Maproom (talk) 16:38, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Sources?

Can someone point out which of my sources are not reliable so that I can pull them out of my article? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Quadrant_%28company%29

Drsteam (talk) 15:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)Drsteam

abuse of elderly in nursing home

I have visited and/or spoken with 3 lawyers in St. Louis regarding the treatment of my 90 year old aunt in a nursing home. I have been denied 3 times because of the expense involved to take the case to trial. They have piddled around so long that the nursing home has had time to change their answers. I want justice for my aunt's abuse. Please help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.198.66.196 (talk) 15:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.8 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. Britmax (talk) 15:44, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

We are not allowed to give legal advice, please consult a qualified professional legal advisor. Roger (talk) 15:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas is corrupt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.125.79.37 (talk) 16:31, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

In what way? Can you be more specific? Karenjc 16:36, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Transferring PD textlogo file to Commons

Resolved

 – File is at Commons now and article has been adjusted to use that file. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 17:39, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Is there an automated way of resizing a file that was originally uploaded at low resolution as non-free, but found to be PD to a higher resolution and transferring it to Commons? Do I have to do the resizing myself or is there an on-wiki process for that I could use (as far as I know, we have bots for resizing files, not sure whether there is one for this case)? What is is correct procedure for transferring it to Commons afterwards? The file in question is File:Boerse stuttgart logo.png. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 16:37, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

If it was originally uploaded at low resolution, there is no automatic process that can increase the resolution of what has been uploaded. You can't generate information out of nothing. Yes, you could resize the image (or I could do it for you if you don't know how), but that would not help, you would just get a larger and fuzzier image, not a higher-resolution image. What you should try to do, if possible, is find the original image, and re-upload it at its full resolution. Maproom (talk) 16:44, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I found three possible candidates:

One at the German Wikipedia at Datei:Börse Stuttgart 2009 logo.svg

this one

this one

Which of them should be used? See here for what the logo on the official website looks like. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 16:55, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Moving the one currently on de.WP to Commons is probably the easiest solution. Roger (talk) 17:03, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

How do I do that? Do I have to download it and then reupload it to Commons or is there a possibility to directly move it there? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 17:07, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons but having skimmed through that page it may be simpler just to upload a fresh one direct to Commons. Roger (talk) 17:14, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

wikipedia article not showing up in google search results

Strangely, an article in Wikipedia doesn't turn up in any google search I do, even if I type in the name of the article and Wikipedia in the search bar. Does anyone know how to label or tag the article so that it enters google's brain? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.74.246.42 (talk) 18:18, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Only Google knows how the Google brain works. We don't have any control over it. RudolfRed (talk) 18:20, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

What article? If it is a newly created page just wait a day or two - Google takes a while to re-index the whole of WP. Roger (talk) 18:24, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

It is also possible to disable google indexing for a particular article or page. Without a link to the article in question it is hard to further evaluate what may be causing it. Monty₈₄₅ 03:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

User using talkpage for self-promotion

How to proceed in this situation? This user is using his talkpage to post messages/manifestos promoting his candidacy in an election. I've reverted and advised him of our policy on using wikipedia for promotion but he has simply restored the info. Valenciano (talk) 18:42, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

He's been given a second advertising warning, and an autobio warning. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

My account name

Is the name of my account is all legit according to rules of wikipedia? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 18:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Unless you're gonna use this account to advertise some contest or something, I certainly see nothing objectionable about it. What was your concern? --Orange Mike | Talk 19:17, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

• My previous account was blocked saying INAPPROPRIATE USERNAME.Its name was just like this.:(Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:29, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

What was the exact name of the prior account? --Orange Mike | Talk 21:27, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

If the previous username was simply a :( sad face emoticon, I think that goes against the rules since it's just punctuation. Dismas|^(talk) 21:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Wiki

I have been making wikis for some time now, I have two good wikis at the moment. One gets 2/3 edits a day, the other gets around 8 edits per day. It's all a bit random, on a good day I moght get 40/50 edits , on a rainy day I might get none edits whatsoever. Now I want to give up my wikis and come back to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolieLInitiative (talk • contribs) 19:16, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Looks like you already have an account. Is there something specific you need help with? RudolfRed (talk) 19:29, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

What change from 2008'till now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolieLInitiative (talk • contribs) 19:40, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I believe about 2 million articles have been added since then... Roger (talk) 19:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuu--SolieLInitiative (talk) 19:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Edit a page without being noticed?

I just logged in today and I noticed that my talk page has changed a bit. Perhaps a past section that I may have removed or archived has been placed there again. Upon looking through my contributions I have found no evidence of such actions. Is there a possible explanation to this? Bleubeatle (talk) 21:31, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Look at the page history. Other people have been editing your talkpage besides yourself. Someone else may have made the change you're looking for. RudolfRed (talk) 21:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I did. It seems like the user deleted this from the history after making the edit.Bleubeatle (talk) 22:31, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I looked at the history of your talk page and nothing has ever been deleted as far as I can tell. What is it that you feel has been added and is not showing up in the history. GB fan 22:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, the Proposed deletion of Eldar & Nigar section. Are there certain users in Wikipedia who are capable of making actions and then deleting its evidence on the page history? Bleubeatle (talk) 23:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

As I have the help desk on my watchlist, I couldn't help but noticed this topic pop up and was intrigued by the header. Bleubeatle, are you aware that Werldwayd (talk · contribs) made a total of 17 redacts on that particular section of your talk on the 6 June 2012 between the times 17:02 and 17:35? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Wesley☀Mouse 23:35, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes I am aware of that as I have recently checked the page history just a while ago. But what I am asking for was during the month of July. I am just a bit curious.Bleubeatle (talk) 01:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I see no evidence that the section was ever removed from your talk page and no evidence that it was added back in. I supposed there are a few people that have the technical ability to add something to a page without it showing up in the history, but I don't see a reason someone would readd that section and remove the evidence that the section was removed and then readded. GB fan 23:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah I'm not sure either. That's really strange.Bleubeatle (talk) 01:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

While it may be technical possible for an editor with oversight or a developer to have done that, I think its extremely unlikely. Have you considered the possibility that when you tried to remove the section you hit preview instead of save, or otherwise didn't save the change you made? Monty₈₄₅ 03:07, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Peter O'Toole - Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage

I noticed in the listing of movies in which Peter O'Toole starred that there is no mention of Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage released in 2008 starring Peter O'Toole, Jared Padalecki, and Marcia Gay. I feel this was an excellent movie and certainly worth mentioning as one of Mr. O'toole's credits. Perhaps someone more enterprising than me could add this to his list of films? Also, Peter has just announced July 10, 2012 that he is retiring from acting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.5.180.154 (talk) 21:47, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

There's no comprehensive "listing of movies in which Peter O'Toole starred" in the Peter O'Toole article. What is there is a link to Peter O'Toole filmography, where an entry for Christmas Cottage does indeed appear in the appropriate place. Deor (talk) 00:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Trying to set up an account under a specific user name for an artist but someone is already using something similiar

Hi awesome Wikipedia staff! I am trying to set up an account for my boss who is an artist under the name L.A. JAY but it will not let us create an account because someone is already using the name LA JAY but this doesn't even have the periods and it's still not letting us use it. He is a credible artist and he needs to set up an account for music credits and bios to him and his group. what can we do? Thank you so much108.93.194.232 (talk) 21:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

It won't let you because the names are too similar. Besides which, what you're doing is a bad idea. Wikipedia is not an advertising medium or platform. If your boss is notable enough, someone will eventually write an article about him that will be neutral and not promotional. Additionally, accounts are meant to be for one person to use. Not an entire office/staff/etc. See the relevant policies at WP:COI, WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, and WP:USERNAME. Dismas|^(talk) 21:57, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The only acceptable purpose for having a Wikipedia account is to edit Wikipedia articles, according to the policies of Wikipedia. These specifically exclude promotion of anybody or anything, no matter how worthy. --ColinFine (talk) 15:42, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Getting on the main page

Dear Wikipedia. I have finished my article, but I am still very confused as to how I get it to go live, ie to appear on the Wikipedia main page. Thanks for your kind help Maya Frida Barr (talk) 22:20, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Three points.

1. You asked your question twice, the first time added on to the end of the previous question, and the second time properly, here, with a section header. I have deleted the first version.
2. It's not your article, it's an article which you have created. At least I assume you have; I can't see it anywhere. Maybe someone has deleted it already, or maybe you created it with a different account.
3. The new articles which appear on the Wikipedia Main Page are a tiny proportion of those which get created and accepted. Don't assume that the one you have created will ever appear there.

Maproom (talk) 22:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

I can help you get your article to go "live" but the first step is for you to undo your edit that blanked the article you created in your sandbox. Gold Standard 23:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The draft was moved to mainspace back in February but subsequently deleted on Maya Frida Barr's request. SeeAdam Tedder - yes it's red but the deletion log does show up. This user has been asking the same questions here for months - but so far seems to be totally impervious to the answers or any other advice. Roger (talk) 09:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

earthquakes in 2010

Hi. The July and August monthly figures boxed at right for the year show monthly totals for magnitude 7+ that do not correspond with the respective detailed lists of events - i.e. the detailed lists for those 2 months each show 2 7+ events, while the 7+ magnitude totals in the boxes are, from memory, 3 (July) and 4 (August). There might be other discrepancies, but those are the only months I looked at. Regards Malcolm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.25.54 (talk) 23:02, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Are you referring to an article on Wikipedia, and if so, which one? You could be bold and make the fixes yourself. Or, you can raise the issue on the article's talk page. RudolfRed (talk) 23:34, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

It's about Earthquakes in 2010#July and August. The monthly totals match Earthquakes in 2010#By magnitude but not the list in the section for that month. The July issue is whether 3 2010 Mindanao earthquakes on July 23 count as 1 or 3. The August issue is whether the 12 August earthquake in Ecuador was 6.9 or 7.1. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

edit

Hows do you edit an article already on line when you know it is WRONG?AdolftheGreat (talk) 23:17, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

You can click on the "Edit" link at the top of the page. I've added a welcome notice to your talk page which should explain more. Dismas|^(talk) 23:30, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

July 11

Making a Wiki?

How do I do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan82sm (talk • contribs) 00:23, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Do you mean creating a new article at Wikipedia? See WP:YFA for how to do that. If you mean something else, please clarify your question. RudolfRed (talk) 00:25, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

A wiki is a type of website powered by wiki software. All of the English Wikipedia with millions of articles is one wiki made with the MediaWiki software. Some people incorrectly use the word wiki about a single Wikipedia article. If you want to make a Wikipedia article then see WP:YFA as RudolfRed said. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Go on wikia to make wikis.--SolieLInitiative (talk) 17:25, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Writing an article

Where do we write an article where we don't want anyone else to edit it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soniasingh08 (talk • contribs) 02:52, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The best place is in your sandbox. You can make one by editing User:Soniasingh08/sandbox. Just bear in mind not to place copyrighted or libelous material there. Happy editing, hajatvrc with WikiLove @ 03:08, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

But bear in mind that if and when it transfers to the encyclopaedia's main space, it can be edited by anyone. You cannot control the content of any Wikipedia article. Karenjc 10:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

And what do you mean by "we"? Is this account Soniasingh08 being used by more than one person? --Orange Mike | Talk 14:59, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

If you don't want anybody else to edit it ever, you write it somewhere other than Wikipedia. When you submit an edit anywhere in Wikipedia, you are accepting the line If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here. (see the bottom of the page when you are editing.

Having said that, as Hajatvrc implies, if you are working in your sandbox, most editors will recognise that it is a work in progress and not interfere, unless they see something serious on it like a copyright violation or a violation of the policy on biographies of living persons. --ColinFine (talk) 15:48, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

A new article

Hello, I'm writing an article about a faculty memeber at Capital Law School. The article is already done, and I'm working on citations at this point. Some of my sources are journals produced by the University. Do these qualify for my new Wikipedia article? Could you, please, take a look at the source? http://law.capital.edu/uploadedFiles/Law_Multi_Site/About/Publications/DeansReport0506.pdf Thank you. Aisupova (talk) 03:42, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, you can use that as a source. Though if you're referring to User:Aisupova/sandbox as the article that is "already done", I'd strongly disagree. Dismas|^(talk) 04:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Dismas, of course not. The sandbox was just trial and error. I basically copied text from the textbook and experimented with images. I needed to make sure that I can actually do this. The actual article is still a paper copy. But, thank you for the advice. Aisupova (talk) 04:43, 11 July 2012 (UTC) One more question. How can I erase this horrible thing that I created in the sandbox. I had no idea that anyone would be able to open this but myself. Is there a way to delete this information? I just went to the sandbox to do that, but it looks like the changes have been saved. Aisupova (talk) 04:43, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You can blank your sandbox page if you want to use it again (just delete all the text and save). If you want to remove the entire history, you can make a deletion request by putting {{db-userreq}} at the top if the page. Yunshui 雲‍水 07:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

To answer the unasked question, yes, anyone can edit or view your sandbox. It's just like any other page here. The difference is that people generally don't edit other people's sandboxes because it's slightly rude. ("rude" is a bit harsh. Maybe "frowned upon" would be better.) That said though, I have edited sandbox articles before though because sometimes people will put category links in their sandbox article and that puts the page in that category. Whether they meant to or not. So, I'll go in and just put comment tags around the categories so that the sandbox doesn't show up in the cats. Having a history on the sandbox is a good thing too though. If you're working on an article and then move it into the regular article space, the history will still be maintained. So if more than one person works on a draft article which is later moved to the main article space, the attributions will be maintained in the history. Dismas|^(talk) 08:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I would really like to delete the entire history of my sendbox. Could you, please, explain once again how that should be done. Do I type the request in the sandbox and then add {{db-userreq}} to it? Thank you.

{{db-userreq}} is the request so it's the only thing you have to add. However, harmless junk in a sandbox history is no problem. Lots of users have it and it's basically what sandboxes are for. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Quote

When I am quoting on articles, should is use this "Test". or "Test." This is the article, it is an American show, so. TBrandley 04:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC) Thanks!

The WP:MOS states here that "On Wikipedia, place all punctuation marks inside the quotation marks if they are part of the quoted material and outside if they are not." For example, that whole sentence was quoted, so the period was inside it. That second link provides more detailed advice for special cases. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:10, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

WP:QUOTE may be of use as well. Dismas|^(talk) 04:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

MOS:LQ is the exact link to the guideline for this topic. TRLIJC19 (talk) 05:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Some coding error

File:Sample of userpage1.jpg

Looks okay on User:Aditya Kabir/Page content whether transcluded or not irrespective of browser

File:Sample of userpage2.jpg

Doesn't look okay on User:Aditya Kabir after transclusion when I use Chrome, but not Firefox

My user page has a few collapsible bars that are transcluded from a user sub-page. The collapsible bars look okay in the sub page when I use Chrome or Firefox. But, when I use Chrome, it doesn't look okay on the user page after transclusion. I have tried shifting around stuff, but they keep folding up. I am pretty sure that there is some error in my coding (which was copied from here and there). Please, take a look and let me know what I can do to fix this. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 04:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I removed some unneeded code with unclosed tags.[3] Does that look like you want or did the code have a purpose I missed? PrimeHunter (talk) 09:40, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so very much. It works wonderfully. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 11:37, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Rename

How Do I rename a page which has a wrong title? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 09:51, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The page must be moved. Dismas|^(talk) 09:54, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You probably should start a discussion on the talk page first and get agreement. And why are you trying to become an Administrator after only 10 edits? Dougweller (talk) 10:28, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Hehehe.I was just doing timepass.I thought by clicking on the page I would become an administrator.You can delete it.It was just for fun.Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 11:08, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I have deleted Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/User:Iamthewinnerofthemonth. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Contesting deletion

hi There appears to be conflicting information about how to dispute the deletion of a removed article. I created 'Austin goh prefix:Wikipedia:Deletion review' and it was immediately tagged for speedy deletion for inappropriate usage of an article. So please, tell me how do I get an article reviewed and dispute the deletion of an article with someone other than the original moderator who deleted it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kittensfoot (talk • contribs) 09:55, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Instructions can be found at WP:DELREVD. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Austin Goh has been restored. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:39, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Existing and useless account - any chance to get it?

Hi. I´m from czech wikipedia and I want existing account "Ususfructus", which is unified (I have another account there, but old and I can´t log in here). If he has no edits anywhere and also no logs from 2010, is there any chance to get this account? I think I cannot ask for usurpation, because I can´t create account with this name in czech wikipedia. (If this is not right place to ask this type of question, please tell me where I should go.) --194.213.41.2 (talk) 10:22, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You have a good chance at usurpation. Make a request at WP:USURP. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:36, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. But can I usurp, when I cannot log in here (my account have somebody on de wiki and unified it to)? --194.213.41.2 (talk) 10:46, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm unclear about the situation of your current account. What is the username, can you log in with that at the Czech Wikipedia, and do you want edits from that account to be transferred to Ususfructus if you get the name? You may have to first make a usurp request to get the English Ususfructus renamed without taking over the name right away, and then request at the Czech Wikipedia to get your account there renamed to Ususfructus. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Now I don´t understand. I have old account "Norik" on Czech Wikipedia, don´t use it for years and at these days I find that somebody else has it on German Wikipedia. And he/she unified it, so I can log in only at Czech Wikipedia. I thought I will choose a new name, "Ususfructus", but there was the problem, I´ve explained above. What I want is to transfer my account Norik to Ususfructus, if it isn´t possible just create new on. Unfortunatelly:

• With my account I can edit only Czech Wikipedia
• I can´t create Ususfructus anywhere

You think that I can ask for usurpation, here at English Wikipedia, without being logged in? And what kind of usurpation, renaming my czech account to english Ususfructus? Or should I ask for renaming at Czech Wikipedia (to Ususfructus) first and then come here and ask for usurpation? But it is possible when Ususfructus is existing and unified account? --194.213.41.2 (talk) 12:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Norik says there is no unified account. The German account has the right to unification because it has the most edits. I suggest you do this in this order: 1) Log in to cs:User:Norik and post at cs:User talk:Norik that you want renaming to Ususfructus. 2) Without logging in, make a request at WP:USURP to have User:Ususfructus renamed so you can get the name later. Link to cs:User talk:Norik in the request. 3) Wait for the request to be reviewed. 4) If the request is satisfied then request renaming of your Czech account at cs:Wikipedie:Změna uživatelského jména. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I´ve done, what you´ve said, I hope it will be OK. Maybe you can check my reguest of usurpation? --194.213.41.2 (talk) 13:16, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it's considered a SUL request but it has the needed links so just leave it as it is, and monitor it so you can answer any clarifying questions. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:38, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Problem articles

I just came across an article whose content is highly dubious - Ancient Old Jade, where most of the items (perhaps all) shown in the page look like fakes. I'm not even sure if this is a legitimate category of jade. Another page it links to is also suspect - Jade carved WuengJonq. I'm not knowledgeable on jade, so have requested help in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China#Problem_article to assess if this article is legitimate. There are however enough fake items (a few of them are obviously modern copies of ancient figures found and were originally made of terracotta or bronze, and never of jade) to cause me to have serious concerns that the pages may be used for fraudulent purpose. While I wait for some input about the validity of the article to see if it should be deleted, what is the right way to warn of the content of this article, and deleting the images that are obvious fakes? Hzh (talk) 11:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I know nothing about jade. But I agree that if I were in the business of selling fake jade items as real, I might create a Wikipedia article using my fakes as illustrations, in the hope of convincing customers. I would, however, take the trouble to provide a variety of backgrounds for them. Maproom (talk) 13:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I do strongly suspect the pages were created for the sole purpose of using wiki to give false credibility to fake items. All the images given appear to have come from a couple of users, one called Orionwebmuseum, another OrionHsu (perhaps they are the same person). At least some of them are obvious fakes, this one for example of a servant girl holding a lamp servant girl holding a lamp is a copy of a bronze figure discovered in a tomb - second picture, while the warrior figure is copied from figures of the Terracotta Army (these figures are never found in jade in ancient China). Since many of the others also have similar appearance, those are also likely to be fakes. I do think all the images need to deleted wholesale because I do think they are all done for fraudulent purpose, and proper warning needs to be given to page while this page is considered. Hzh (talk) 14:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

ETA - what exactly is the policy regarding users who use wiki for fraudulent purpose, and how do you deal with them? Hzh (talk) 14:53, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

See WP:HOAX. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Hoax and fraud are not the same thing though? Hoax may be done just for fun, or it may sometimes may be malicious, but not necessarily criminal, whereas fraud is definitely criminal. There is a strong suspicion of something criminal being involved here. Hzh (talk) 22:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Tosh

A simple fix: making two articles (Tosh, John Stewart's Daily Show) have the same data.

On the Tosh Page, John Stewart's audience is listed as 200,000 . This disturbed me a bit as it made both Tosh & Colbert Report seem to be much more popular (4x - 11x): so I check and Stewart's audience is described as ca. 2,000,000 in the other article, making sense with the context of the erroneous page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.105.223.98 (talk) 12:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Please link articles you refer to or give exact names. I couldn't find mention of The Daily Show at Tosh.0 but I found this at Daniel Tosh: "Tosh.0 is averaging 2.2 million viewers beating The Daily Show by 200,000 viewers and The Colbert Report by 800,000 viewers." Is that what you refer to? "beating The Daily Show by 200,000 viewers" means getting 200,000 viewers more than The Daily Show. It does not mean that the Daily show has 200,000 viewers. 2,000,000 + 200,000 = 2.2 million so the articles look consistent. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:44, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

publishing

Hello,

I have just written an article, there is one reference and I am the author of it. Will it be published, or there is still something wrong? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magertainterlux (talk • contribs)

You created it in article space at Astra Vitkauskiene so it's already published. Whether it will be kept is uncertain. Try to add references to satisfy Wikipedia:Notability (academics). PrimeHunter (talk) 13:51, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Citations Issues

Hi, I have a couple questions about citations. I'm using newspapers, magazines, online journals, and news articles as my sources. (1) My first question is about newspapers/magazines. I found a citation format on Wikipedia, which is an altered version of the APA style. An example is something like this: Blair, Eric Arthur (August 29, 1949). "Looking forward to a bright tomorrow." New English Weekly, p.57. Will this style be appropriate? (2) For those journals that do not have an author, the style is: "On the importance of modesty." (May 5, 1821). Pravda, pp. B1, C12. However, Wiki suggests to make the aticle title a link to the URL. How do I do that? (3) What is the right format to cite those news announced by the University? I can't find that information anywhere. (4) And finally, if I'm doing inline citations, will that suffice to enclose the citations I just described into ? I'm sorry for asking so many questions. I'm new to this and need to make sure I'm doing the right thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aisupova (talk • contribs) 13:59, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

No need to apologise, it's great that you're checking this sort of thing. Your examples are fine, but my suggestion would be to use a citation template to make things a bit easier for you: {{cite web}}, {{cite news}} and {{cite journal}} are all likely to be useful to you. To use the templates, put them into your article like this:

Information needs to be cited.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barryson |first1=Barry |last2= |first2= |year=1985 |title=Make sure you cite stuff! |journal=Journal of Citing Things Correctly |volume= 1|issue=1 |pages=27 |publisher=Elsevier |doi=10.1038/news070508-7 |url=http://journalofcitingthings.com |accessdate=11 July 2012 }}</ref>

This will create a footnote with the following: Barryson, Barry (1985). "Make sure you cite stuff!". Journal of Citing Things Correctly. 1 (1). Elsevier: 27. doi:10.1038/news070508-7. Retrieved 11 July 2012.

You can add the various parameters (title=|, url=| etc) in any order, and the template will format the reference correctly for you. If you add url=, a link will be created automatically. Yunshui 雲‍水 14:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, Yunshui! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aisupova (talk • contribs) 14:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

One more question. If I understand this correctly, I can use template after each sentence that I want to cite that in turn will create footnotes, correct? Also, will that be OK to create general references in addition to the Section titled Notes to cite additional sources? Thank you once again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aisupova (talk • contribs) 14:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

We encourage the use of citation templates to create footnotes for specific items, not for generic "general references". The latter would fall in the "additional sources" section.--Orange Mike | Talk 15:10, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

unregistered user

I have edited over 300 articles as an unregistered user (based on my IP address) but my previous work does not show up even though when I joined, your E-mail system assumed (correctly) that it was me. 86.30.243.179 = DeliaVenusWynn... can I do this or can you do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deliavenuswynn (talk • contribs) 15:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, there is no way to do that (although there once was). --Orange Mike | Talk 15:10, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thomas the Tank Engine

Resolved

Does this need a rollback, or should I just revert a few times?--Canoe1967 (talk) 15:32, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I've just deleted it - not major vandalism - Arjayay (talk) 15:38, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You don't need rollback to revert consecutive edits at the same time. You can just edit and save the last good version in the page history. See more at Help:Reverting. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks all. I have never done it before so I thought I would check before I messed it up as I have in my previous learning curves.--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Using share alike images in iBooks Author

The message below was posted when I copied in your reply to me saying that it was nonsense to say that including SHARE ALIKE in an IBook made all the authors images SHARE ALIKE and not copyright protected.

kenfromUK wrote:

The feedback from Wikipedia indicates that the information about Wikipedia images affecting the copyright of the images of an author in an iBook is totally false!!!!!!!

I enclose the return message:-

".......................

Did you get this response from a Wikipedia executive, or is it just a reply to a question on a talk page? If the latter, all it is is a comment from any one of a hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia contributors, meaning that it might not be correct.

I have myself uploaded a number of images to Wikipedia. (Of course, I had copyright on those.) Some of these images I placed into the public domain. If you want to use one of those images, go ahead. They are free to use, and you don't even have to acknowledge a source.

Other images I published are under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. That license states that, if you want to use my image, you must acknowledge me as a source and you must make your work available under the same license: Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. If a book contains a mixture of copyrighted images and Attribution-ShareAlike images, I expect that the book cannot be published under an Attribution-ShareAlike license because it's not possible to simply give away the copyright to a copyrighted image: one license requries you to allow others to freely re-use your book, whereas, for the copyrighted images in your book, you presumably have permission to use those images specifically in your book only, so the two licenses are in conflict.

The ShareAlike license makes some exceptions for works that are deemed "collections." However, my reading suggests that, if you include an Attribution-ShareAlike licensed image in a book, that does not make the book a "collection."

Also note that, if you include an Attribution-ShareAlike licensed image in a book, it looks like you cannot sell that book with DRM: When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. The DRM interferes with the free re-use of the work, and so violates the ShareAlike license.

Licenses such as ShareAlike have their roots in the eighties, with the Copyleft licensing. The idea of copyleft is to say "We give you something to use. You can use it to create your own stuff, but only if you make what you create available for others too."

Now, please, take all of the above with a grain of salt. I'm not a legal expert. If you have any doubt about the consequences of including an image in your book, I strongly recommend that you consult a copyright expert, particularly if your book includes images that use different licenses.

Michi .............

He casts doubts on the knowledge of the person from the Wikipedia forum. This issue is of great importance to me and to other authors who are writing books and textbooks in iBooks author. He suggests that a reply from a employee of Wikipedia is needed. I am not sure if the reply was from such a person - the comments certainly sounded as though they were. Could someone from Wikipedia reply to this message please so that the issue is clarified and the situation does not rumble on with claim and counter claim! Thanks, Ken — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.26.13 (talk) 16:52, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

We cannot provide you legal advice. Interpreting how the license would apply to your fact pattern is a complex legal question and you should ask it to an Attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. What you can and cannot do with material once it leaves Wikipedia is also beyond the scope of the help desk. Monty₈₄₅ 17:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Not to give any legal advice but... I am confused. Does the iBook software somehow only allow one license for the whole book? As far as I know with other paper books the images each have there own license. They can be tagged at the image or licenses listed at the back of the book. I can't see how putting one share-alike image in a book alters the license on the other images unless the software does it somehow. You may wish to speak to a digital copyright lawyer or an iBook technician depending on which case it is.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:32, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

And yes, replies here are from other users, not from Wikipedia's (bare handful of) paid employees. We do our best to help, but like Wikipedia itself, our function is to provide answers supported by citations to reliable external sources. We're not a substitute for expert professional opinion on highly specialist issues, although we do have some seriously clued-up people helping out here. And no, a reply from an employee of Wikipedia wouldn't carry any more weight on this issue, unless they were also an expert on copyright law, and how could you tell? - 86.153.82.165 (talk) 22:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Sort order problem

Is there any way to get consistent sorting results for entries with the same value in a sortable table column? Take the Players table in this article for example: Sort any of the columns with numerical values and compare it with the "Cap" column; keep sorting the same column over and over again, observing the pattern of the "Cap" column (ex: The top results for batting HS goes 2, 37, 2, 27, 2, 41, 2, 32...) I know that this can be fixed by assigning appropriate sort values in the template {{sort}}, but this is going to be quite tedious for columns with entries that have dozens of similar values. Is there a simpler way of doing this? Perhaps using a different template? Thanks in advance. ASTRONOMYINERTIA (TALK) 17:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Infobox CPU now broke in IE compatibility mode

FYI, I think something has broken in low-level creation of some web pages. I just now notice the infoboxes are too tall on STM32, when "compatibility mode" in enabled in IE 9 v9.0.8112.16421 (64-bit). I did a Ctrl-F5 to clear my local cache, but it still did it. I noticed that "compatibility mode" was enabled, so I disabled it. I think I've had "compatibility mode" enabled for a long time and I never saw this problem when I created the STM32 article, nor did it exist when I lasted edit the article on July 6. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 17:42, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I found the bottom info box too wide. I removed an extra space from the info box template. Is that what was causing the problem?--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it appears to be correct now for the STM32 article. I'm not sure if any other articles were affected? Thanks! • Sbmeirow • Talk • 21:53, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You are very welcome. I will mark this as resolved for now.

Resolved

--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:25, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Help with my troutme template

I created a group of templates similar to Template:Trout, Template:Troutme/preload and Template:Trout me. They are User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:NFCC zealot, User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:NFCC zealot/preload and User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:NFCCZ. How can I achieve that User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:NFCCZ is being substituted and not transcluded onto my talkpage when someone clicks on the small square button in the top right corner of my talkpage? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 17:59, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

It was the name space designator, 3 is usertalk, 2 is user. I changed it for you. Monty₈₄₅ 18:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, however when I click the icon and preview the page, I still see {{User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:NFCCZ}} in the edit window. How can I achieve that I will see {{subst:User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Template:NFCCZ}}? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 18:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Ahh sorry, I misunderstood what you were looking for. To the best of my knowledge, you can't get a preload to load {{subst:template}} without including additional code that the editor will need to manually remove. For instance, for WP:ACE we used Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Candidates/Preloader/Statement as a preload, but the candidate needed to remove the comment codes. Sorry I couldn't be more help, but if you ever do find a way, let me know as it would be handy to know. Monty₈₄₅ 20:53, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Alteration of message left on talk page...

Let's say that I left a message on the talk page of user:zpzpzp that says "I'd like to discuss the future of article ..." and signs it. user:zpzpzp changes the text to say "I like to perform acts on little boys" and leaves it with my signature. While theoretically a user has complete control over their talk page, I feel uncomfortable with the alternation left with my name. Note, at the rate things are going said user will likely be banned within the month (due to specific continued editwarring removal of a referenced fact), so I can just change it then, but I'd like to know what would be appropriate in the mean time.Naraht (talk) 18:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

That is clearly inappropriate. And editor is free to remove comments from their talk page, but normal comment editing rules apply if they leave parts of your signed comment. I would revert them and leave them an NPA warning with an invitation to either leave the comment alone or remove the whole thing. Monty₈₄₅ 18:08, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, it is inappropriate, simply change it back (he's currently blocked for a while) or take some other measure?Naraht (talk) 18:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

If already blocked, just change it back. If they keep doing it while blocked find an admin to revoke talk page access. Monty₈₄₅ 20:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Given that he is already in what I think of as the block to ban spiral, eventually it won't make a difference...Naraht (talk) 21:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

A-Class

How do you nominate an article for A-class status? Thanks, TBrandley 18:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/A-Class criteria (section "Basic method"). benzband (talk) 20:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Proper procedure for submitting an entry with COI issues.

Hi All. Main question: Where do we post our sandbox article for feedback?

I'd like to submit an entry for a long established artist. However he is a family member. We've composed the article from a variety of sources, mainly his official biography, as well as numerous magazine articles and news clippings over the last 60 years. We've taken a large amount of material and given it to a 3rd party to create a more abridged version; which hopefully is ideal for a start as a Wikipedia article.

I realized some might say that if he was important enough to be in Wikipedia other would create an article about him. I'm not sure how to answer that. I know people have been trying to look up entries for him, and I know he is firmly established. There are many thousands of artists of probably lesser stature on Wikipedia. We'd very much believe he should be on Wikipedia too.

From everything I've read it looks like there is no way to avoid Conflict of Interests issues when writing any article, as someone must have some kind of vested interest to do so. But I read through everything I can to make sure to avoid COI issues as much as possible, and it seems the main way to absolve a COI 'infringement' is to state directly in the talk pages that there is a COI issue up front.

Basically the article is ready for submission. But I tabled the project for a while I forget what step to take now. We have the article in an associate's sandbox. I can move it over to my sandbox if that makes things easier. And I guess we're ready to submit it to some kind of peer review. I think a 'formal' peer review on Wikipedia is meant to be requested for major articles, which I don't think this would be. But we'd like to have some of the community input before publishing it. So for now I'm wondering what to go next in the process? I.e., where do we post our sandbox article for others feedback? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegallery (talk • contribs) 18:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

A good first move is to declare the conflict of interest on your user page, so no one can accuse you of trying to hide your affiliation. If you believe the article is good enough to be published, I'd recommend going ahead and putting it up. Perhaps include a notice on the talk page that you were the originator of the article and that people should be aware of your connection to the subject.

Conflict of interest does not prohibit users from editing on a given topic, but it places extra scrutiny on their edits. If your article is good, have faith that it will be kept. Once you have declared your COI and tried to avoid being partial, the onus is on the other editors to demonstrate that you edited in a biased way. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 20:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Is zeekrewards company good mlm company?

please give full details about zeekrewards.com website may i join that company? may i invest zeekrewards or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.110.172.151 (talk) 18:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

We do not give financial or legal advice here. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.8 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. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Personally (I am speaking for myself, not for Wikipedia) I believe there is no such thing as a "good mlm company". They are all scams. Of course, you will be told otherwise by people who have paid money to them and are now trying to earn some of it back. Maproom (talk) 20:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Update Please about Brixton Karnes

Hello. I have recently looked up the actor from TKR, and sadly the information is a bit out of date. May someone please update the information!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.53.59.117 (talk) 18:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Since you seem to know that the information is out of date, why not be bold and update it yourself? Just remember to cite all changes! Gold Standard 19:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Article feedback tool

How do i activate AFT on the GlaxoSmithKline page? 18:48, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Scroll down to the bottom. Gold Standard 19:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

It shows a rating tool.I want a tool with which I can comment about the article. 19:04, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Are you thinking of AFT5? If so, it hasn't been released yet, I believe. Gold Standard 19:07, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Why?? I can see it on the bottom of Justin Bieber page. Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

It is being slowly released, first to just a small percentage of pages, then eventually to all of them. Gold Standard 19:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Great, by the way, why my IP address showed up in the comments above? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Beats me, you must have been logged out when you posted them. Gold Standard 19:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Nope, See the comments of mine in the section below.I had commented at 18:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC) being shown as user.while I commented in this section at 19:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)..with showing my IP.What's that? a glitch? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:16, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Dunno. Gold Standard 19:16, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• What dunno? Wikipedia had written that create an account to conceal your privacy..and now showing up my IP address here publicly.What's the deal? WHAT ABOUT MY PRIVACY?. Delete my IP information now.I am very concerned about my privacy.Please. Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You can be bold and delete it yourself. Gold Standard 19:22, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

What abt deleting it from history section above left corner? I can see it there.Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:27, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You cannot do that and neither can I. Btw, it looks to me like you logged in after your first post, then after a few posts you accidentally logged out, then posted, then logged back in again. Gold Standard 19:30, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

If you say so.Then I think that would have had happened.But I really want to conceal my identity.Please call the manager or the owner of any one having privilege to delete it. Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:32, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I do not know the phone number of the owner. Gold Standard 19:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• I am not joking ok.Wikipedia don't have any authorized people to do it? I am serious about this, you son of a bitch. Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:36, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I wasn't aware that this existed until it was posted below: WP:RFO. Also, I would warn you about cursing, but you're leaving Wikipedia so you probably wouldn't care. Gold Standard 19:37, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Calling people names won't help you much. This is a volunteer project and volunteers don't normally want to help those who cuss them out. You'll need an admin to redact those edits from the history. Dismas|^(talk) 19:38, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

@Gold Standard sorry, for that.but, you started it by making fun of mine.Sorry again.I'm confused now.Contact whom? Administrators or Oversight? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I was not making fun of you. You asked me to call the owner, and I do not have his phone number, so I am unable to. And I'm fairly sure you need to contact an oversighter. Gold Standard 19:43, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Besides which, the owner (if that's even the proper term in this situation) of Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation. Calling them for this would be like calling the President of the US for a dog license violation. Dismas|^(talk) 19:46, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

What he said^ Gold Standard 19:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• • It's Okay.How the hack I am used to know all this things? I don't know anything about this project, so I thought that you are an employ of Encyclopedia.By the way, I went through the list but can't decide whom I should contact on the talkpage.Could you please suggest me one, who is active now-a-days ? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You can use this form Gold Standard 19:52, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Pal, I don't use e-mail, so can't.(I used it once, but I forgot password). I want to contact them directly at talkpage.Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:55, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Here is a list of oversighters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/oversight Gold Standard 19:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for your help, but I think that you might not have read my comments above.I went through the list you above mentioned, but can't decide whom to contact.Could you please suggest one who is active now-a-days? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:59, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

No, I cannot, because I don't keep in contact with them, but feel free to go through their contribs and find out for yourself. Gold Standard 20:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

User:Beeblebrox has edits from today. So they are still active. I've dealt with them in the past, if I'm not mistaken, and they were helpful from what I recall. Dismas|^(talk) 20:03, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I've emailed oversight. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

...and it's already been hidden. The volunteers watching for oversight emails are really on the ball! -- John of Reading (talk) 20:16, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very very very much for such quick respose.Long live Wikipedia.By the way, Could you tell me the name of the person who done such nice act? I need a little help from him. Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 20:27, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Although I received an email reply from the oversighter responsible, it's signed with only a forename not a Wikipedia name, so I can't think of a way for you to contact him. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

My account.

Hello, I had created this account to save sitewide books of some of my articles which were required for college project.I have ordered an printed version of my custom book.Now, my task is done and I don't require this account anymore.Therefore, I am requesting you to delete my account.Thanks.Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 18:51, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

We don't delete accounts here. Your account just stays dormant until either you come back or someone legitimately takes over the user name per WP:USURP. I would just post a note on your talk page that you won't be using it any more. Valenciano (talk) 18:55, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• It's okay.I am giving my password here so anyone who wants to use the name could be able to use it.

Account name: User: Iamthewinnerofthemonth Password: Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 18:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

It's really not a good idea to post your password here. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:03, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Why? My username is good one and a humors at the same time.Anybody who is interested in getting this username, could open the account and change the password for them to use this account for them.I don't have many contributions, too.

The rule here is that each account should be controlled by one person (WP:NOSHARE). -- John of Reading (talk) 19:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Yeah, I am stopping my account.So, the person who takes over it and changes password will be SINGLE holder of the account.Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

That is not the way to go about it. As I say we have probably millions of disused/dormant accounts here, it's no big deal. I would simply just leave, though you can put a note on your talk page that you won't use it any more and therefore it is available for WP:USURP in the unlikely event anyone wants that user name. Posting passwords etc is a bad idea. Valenciano (talk) 19:23, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

• Sorry about that.I wasn't aware of it.But deleting it help any better, as I can access my IP address from "history" section above right corner. Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 19:27, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You can ask at Wikipedia:Requests for oversight to have your IP address hidden from the history. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

You have the right to WP:VANISH. Dismas|^(talk) 19:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Can't edit a lead

How do I notify a spelling error in a lead? It doesn't have an edit option. The page in question is Society of Biology and the word "education" is misspelled on the second line. Regards, Sandy — Preceding unsigned comment added by SandyTheScientist (talk • contribs) 18:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Click the "edit" button next to "view history" in the top right. Gold Standard 19:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The spelling mistake has been fixed. benzband (talk) 19:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I usually just use the edit tab for the whole article. Britmax (talk) 20:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Or press Alt⇧ Shifte (which I personally use). Most probably there is/was an option in Special:Preferences which add an edit link for lead section, I can not find this at this moment! --Tito Dutta ✉ 20:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

It's on the "Gadgets" tab under "Appearance". -- John of Reading (talk) 20:50, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Oops

I have accidently deleted all of the information for film director Gil Green in 2011. Can you please restore it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.116.153.127 (talk) 19:53, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

It's been fixed. benzband (talk) 19:55, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Editing glitches

Lately I have encountered a glitch when I use the edit toolbar. (I usually use the standard one, not the advanced one.) If I hit "cite," I get the regular menu of buttons so I can choose which form to fill out. However, I am not able to actually insert the citation once I hit "insert." On the advanced toolbar, I have noticed a similar problem, although the "preview" function allows me to copy+paste the Wikimarkup that would be necessary — a feature which the standard toolbar does not have. I am also having this problem when I try to insert something using the bar beneath the editing space (the one with symbols and foreign language characters). When I try to insert an 'm dash,' for example, clicking that symbol just takes me to the top of the page without inserting the character. What might be causing these problems? --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 20:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Try a skin reset: Under Preferences → Appearance, change your skin to anything else, save and set it back. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Sending and receiving messages on msn

i am cracking up as ime not getting any help at all it is so simple all i want to know is how do i send and receive messages on msn if there is nothing showing up to send or receive no icon

is no — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.103.160.13 (talk) 20:08, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

This page is for help using Wikipedia. Gold Standard 20:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Show more fields in cite web references!

For last few days Show more fields in cite web references is not working for me, also "restore this version" of Twinkle! Is it a known issue? I am using FF 11.0 in Ubuntu 11.10, with lots of userscripts, extensions (but nothing changed (removed/added/updated) in last few weeks)! --Tito Dutta ✉ 20:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Try a skin reset: Under Preferences → Appearance, change your skin to anything else, save and set it back. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:40, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Juston R Graber

If my name is googled wiki has a page linked to it entitled Operation Iron Triangle where you clearly state that I executed and Iraqi. This information is incorrect and it has prevented me from obtaining employment. You need to get your facts straight before posting things about individuals. I carried out a mercy killing after running up on the aftermath when Clagget and Hunsaker unjustly shot the detainees after cutting their zip ties and telling them to run. I called for the medic because one guy was puking profuse dark red blood and another guy was taking a breath every few seconds. When the medic came to check on the two individuals, the iraqi man who was puking blood had already died. The medic checked other man and said nothing could be done for him. SSG Girourd looked at me and said to put him out of his misery to which I did not take as an order and felt it was the humane thing to do considering the circumstances. --signed by 67.240.178.228, this notice left by Jprg1966 ^(talk)

Get the facts right or I will be forced to take another avenue in order to rectify this issue. I have been fighting back and forth via email messages with you people and any time I try to change the story it is changed back.

See WP:No legal threats. Note that we can not use your firsthand account as a source because we require all cited sources to be at the very least secondary sources in order to avoid embellishment. Your beef is more with the sources being cited, not us. —Jeremy v^_^v ^Bori! 20:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry this has caused you distress, but Wikipedia is not an original source for information. The information you are disputing comes from a New York Times article, which is considered a reliable source by Wikipedia. Material that is harmful to an individual's employment prospects can only be removed if it is unsourced (as this would be libel). If you think the article is incomplete, find a reliable source that corroborates your interpretation of the events. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 20:44, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

What's relationship between original and the above one? Iamthewinnerofthemonth (talk) 20:58, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Everything on Nostalgia Wikipedia is from December 20, 2001. See nostalgia:Wikipedia:About. - Purplewowies (talk) 21:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Translate caption in French

Resolved

Could a French speaker put the photo caption on this page into English please? Thanks.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 21:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Jac16888 has already done it. Maproom (talk) 21:30, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Cos I'm just that damn good ;)--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Source classification

Hello, I'm using this source http://law.capital.edu/uploadedFiles/Law_Multi_Site/About/Publications/DeansReport0506.pdf to create an article on Wiki. Could you, please, tell me how should I classify it. Is that a journal or rather a web page? I'm using templates for inline citations, so it is important. Thank you. Aisupova (talk) 21:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Does anyone know the answer to this question? Aisupova (talk) 22:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

em to px conversion

Is it possible to convert em to px using a template?--Jsjsjs1111 (talk) 21:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

But the conversion must depend on the user's font setting, and a template can't know that. Maproom (talk) 21:38, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Remove "updated since last visit" from history pages?

Is there a way I can remove that type of notice from history pages? - Purplewowies (talk) 21:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Add this to Special:Mypage/common.css:

span.updatedmarker{display:none;}

PrimeHunter (talk) 21:44, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Bad faith nominations

Hello

There is a guy called user:Banimustafa keeps making fake cases to attack me and to prevent his own editing being examined.

I had a disputation with him about the content of article Jerash, and it was solved by DRN (look here please). But he didn't like the way it was solved, he just want to force his point of view.

Now everyone who tries to edit any page of the pages he watch, he always accuse him/her it is a sock puppet of me!!!

I would like to note that user:Banimustafa has been blocked for sockpuppetry (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Banimustafa/Archive) and Banimustafa has accused me of sockpuppetry (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Historyfeelings/Archive), an accusation that did not result in a determination that the accusation is true. And he keep accusing me of sockpuppetry until now with same words same circumstances.

Banimustafa has a history of vandalisim; user:Wakwakwiki is a banned[4] sockpuppet of Banimustafa,[5] who has his own history of blocks[6] user:soufray is a banned souckpuppet of Banimustafa.

recently he used a new sockpuppet called: user:Amb04 to nominate an article I edit called Ayasrah and here I would like to point out that Banimustafa is under restrictions of only having one account (see Bwilkins' comment here), but the Sockpuppet investigations shows that he really use a sockpuppet but unfortunately no action taken.

Kindly have a look at his contributions, he even uses same templates in my user page!!

what should I do? thanks a lot.--HF► 21:54, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Multiple Pages from the Same Source

The article I'm working on has many sources. However, I've been using about 6 or 7 pages of each source. I'm planning on using inline citations and templates. Considering the number of times each source is repeated, will that be OK to continue that way and ingnore short citations? Thank you. Aisupova (talk) 23:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I was awarded the Navy Marine Corp medal but do not see mine. I have the certificate how to get it posted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlcatcdog10 (talk • contribs) 23:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

July 12

I LOST IMAGES ON WIKIPEDIA

Hi, I right clicked on a symbol on the Landau Pole wiki page (the symbol was called "Quadratic theory" or something I don't know because the symbol wasn't named or linked to anything to explain what it was .... hence why I was right clicking on it) and after right clicking on it I may have chose "view element" ... I'm not sure what I did but now every symbol on wikipedia is gone/invisible. Like for example the Wikipedia logo on the main page top left is just a white blank square.

Anyone know what I clicked to make this happen ... I remember some window opening by accident and it had something to check which I didnt want to check but I was just trying to close the window and somehow maybe I uncheck marked something or maybe check marked it I dunno ... anyone know what I did to lose every symbol on every wiki page?

Sorry but this is annoying. Thanks.

By the way, I am reading wikipedia NOT logged in and it should be showing tons of images but every image is now gone or white.

Help please and thank-you

173.238.43.211 (talk) 00:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)