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Tip of the moment... How to add hidden editor notes in an article Have you ever needed to post an important message to all editors about an article, on the article itself, but thought it would stick out like a sore thumb and ruin the article if you did? Are you reverting many edits on an article because editors just aren't seeing the important message or special instructions on the talk page? The solution is that you can insert hidden text in the article! That way, only the people editing the page will see your message! Here is how to insert a hidden comment: First, begin the comment by typing <!-- Once you have done that, type what you need the editors to read Then, end the comment by typing --> Once you have completed those 3 easy steps, you won't be reverting as many mistakes! For example, the following hidden comment has been used in the Meaning of life article, in the Popular views section: <!--Please do not add 42 in this section. It is covered under the section titled "Popular culture treatments". Thank you.--> Some more examples of pages that have hidden messages include: Main page Community bulletin board English Mastiff Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Help:Hidden text   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

Questions

Edit Help

Greetings,

I am trying to add a section entitled "No. 1 hit singles" to the page entitled "1949 In Music" I have copied the same format that was used for 1950 and then edited it for 1949. When I click priview, the entire section comes up just as it should. But when I click save, only the heading and the introductory line appear. Please help.

Chuck Ford

Editing Help

Greetings,

I wrote you concerning a problem with editing a page but have solved the problem. Thanks anyway.

Chuck Ford

RE the preceding topic about footnotes, e.g. Grenadier Guards

I think I've got this straight. Do I do the "References" section using Citation Templates - WP:CITET - ? And do I use <ref> and </ref> tags within the text, containing between them the footnote, followed by a Notes section with <references/> for "Footnotes"? as described at WP:FN

• Please confirm that my understanding of this is correct. Thanks for your forbearance. It's a steep learning curve. -- FClef (Talk) 02:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Sounds about right. You can think about it as two independent issues. When you place something between <ref> and </ref> tags in the text, cite.php will move whatever you put there to where the <references/> tag is. Because you're using this for footnotes, you'd put that <references/> tag in a Footnotes or References section at the end of the article. The {{cite}} templates just make it easy to format your whatever as a standard bibliographic form...it's unrelated to the cite.php mechanism. DMacks 08:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks for clarification. -- FClef (Talk) 00:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

==, and ===, and ==== seem to be working just fine. --Hetar 06:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, there are places where first level heading are used. In fact, you're looking at one right now. The help desk and similiar pages use them for the day header (like the "July 17" header above). -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 08:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh I see, thanks.JianLi 18:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Rydberg constant

"Bohr's condition,

2πr = nλ where

n is some integer r is the radius of some atom "

I didn't write this myself, I don't contribute much to maths articles. Instead it was an anonymous friend who "can't be bothered" to ask the question. The <math>...</math> tags are around this formula, but it isn't big like the rest. Why is this so? Can someone please fix this? Thanks a lot Gizza^{Chat ©} 09:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

It's because you can represent it solely as normal characters; the default setting is, IIRC, to only render equations as PNGs when you can't render them another way. Look in your preferences under "Math"; it's probably set to "HTML if very simple or else PNG". What you want is to check "Always render PNG". Shimgray | talk | 11:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

That wasn't the problem. I fixed the errors myself through observation despite never learning how to write math formulas on Wiki! The formulas that remained small did not have a \ before the math tags, which is meant to be the case. Thanks for trying solve the issue though. Gizza^{Chat ©} 12:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

There's no reason to have a \ in front of the </math> tag. Shimgray is right; if you want all math to be rendered as a PNG, then you need to set your preferences accordingly. —Bkell (talk) 20:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

==Section 1== and ==Section 2==. Subsections have ===, and your Table of Contents is automatic. Regards, --Wslack 01:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Documentation on RfC

Is there any documentation on how RfC's work in general? Ste4k 04:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The working is detailed in WP:RFC. Are you looking for anything in particular? -- Lost 04:34, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

That just says how to make one. I responded to the one I am in. I don't see any documentation on what else I am supposed to do or not do. I feel kind of lost. Ste4k 05:29, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

(no pun intended. I just noticed it.) Ste4k 06:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

If you are referring to my signature, no offence taken. I myself feel kind of lost many times, hence the name. Regarding your second question, I will let another, more experienced editor answer it. Better still, you could ask at the talk page of WP:RFC -- Lost 07:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

• If I remember correctly, there's a template which to base off an RFC request which details exactly what you should do. Of course, all the regular rules apply. Have you looked at any existing RFC's to get an idea of how they work? - Mgm|^(talk) 08:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for both of you helping on this. I was the subject of the RfC, rather than one of the initiators. I'll look into discussion of the main page later maybe. Keep up the good work. Ste4k 16:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hide/Show thingy

I want to change Template:Half-Life series so that it's hidden by default, as it's quite a big template on alot of articles. I couldn't figure out how to do that tho, so I'm asking here. --Conti|✉ 16:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Im not sure I understand your question. Why would you want to hide the template? Do you mean you want to hide parts of it? Road Wizard 20:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Look at the template, there's a small link on the upper right corner called [hide]. If you click on it almost all of the template will be gone, if you click again, it's back. That's a really neat feature for big templates, so they can still exist without making articles look ugly. --Conti|✉ 20:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't spot that "hide" flag in the corner when I looked at it the first time. I have a partial answer for your question though. Through looking at other templates with this feature as default, I have created a replica of the template in my sandbox, with the actual code stored here. I have no idea how or why it works, but adding the code <div class="NavFrame" style="clear: both; "> between the first two <div> sections at the start, with an extra </div> at the end, seems to cause the raction you want. Hopefully someone else will pop along later and explain the how and why. Road Wizard 21:26, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Reverting help

how do you revert stuff --Madcow 20:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The Help:Reverting page should answer any questions you have about reverting. If you still need help though, pop back and we will see what we can do. :) Road Wizard 20:33, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Geography of the Vatican City

Right now the coordinates are inside the article. I'm trying to clean this article up, so how do I place the coordinates at the top of the page next to the title as they are in other articles about locations? 69.40.255.25 20:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure exactly what you're after, could you give an example of a page with the right coordinates position? --Daduzi ^talk 20:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

In Vatican City, for example, the coordinates are in the upper right hand corner of the article. 69.40.255.25 21:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

You're looking for an infobox -- you can see an example if you click the "edit" link at the top of the Vatican City page. To be honest, I'm not sure which one would suit your purposes, but the places to look would probably include Category:Geography infobox templates and probably in particular Category:City infobox templates. The infobox atop Vatican City is a modified version of {{infobox country}}. Hope that helps! Luna Santin 22:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so – check {{Coor title dms}} fetofs ^Hello! 00:53, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.

Ack, sorreh. I saw the coordinates in the infobox at Vatican City (they're shown twice, apparently), and assumed you meant those. M'bad. Luna Santin 08:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Protection again

Why would a User page protection request be so unusual?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sacredvisions (talk • contribs) 22:03, July 22, 2006 (UTC)

The person requesting protection wouldn't be able to edit it themselves. That is one thing that seems unusual to me about it.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 22:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

A second point is that it would be more difficult for editors to remove content if they discovered a copyright infringement later on. Also, maintenance functions such as moving the page to a renamed category would require more time and the involvement of an administrator. Road Wizard 22:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I see.
Well then, what is to stop someone from editing or completing changing your
own user page?146.235.66.52 22:23, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

There is nothing to stop them. However, unless their edit was to remove inappropriate content, you are well within your rights to revert them. If your user page is being vandalised frequently, your protection request will likely be accepted, but administrators are encouraged to set the protection for as short a period as possible. See WP:UP#Use of page protection for user pages for more information. Road Wizard 22:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Kewl.--146.235.66.52 22:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Where does removal of inappropriate content stop and violation
of free speech begin?--SacredVisions 00:16, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Naturally, there's a bit of a grey area. Fortunately, most problem cases I've run into don't fit into that grey area. The most important guideline would probably be WP:USER. Luna Santin 23:03, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Since there is no right to free speech on Wikipedia there can be no violation of free speech either. Wikipedia is dedicated to being an encyclopedia. Also, user pages are there only to serve that purpose, not to serve the vanity or opinions of the user. The question may arise from the idea that a user page can be used as a soapbox; that isn't what it is for. Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia Notinasnaid 07:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Weird

How funny is it to see this on your talk page?

Please stop now

This is your last warning.

The next time you edit a page, you will be loved by Wikipedia.

It is weird, but this is does not seem to be a "question about how to use Wikipedia." :P —WAvegetarian•(talk) 22:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Profanity

Some profanity may crop up on my user page in the discussion of certain films
and other media related areas.
Is it considered inappropriate? Will it be edited?--SacredVisions 00:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

No, it's fine on your user page. Wikipedia:User page may help you with other questions that you may have. Dismas|^(talk) 00:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Account

how do i create my account? i just started and people want to deete my article

You have already created an account. However, before writing an article, please see: Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article. -- Lost 05:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems you already created your account. You wouldn't have been able to start an article without one. The article in question is at City Limits. You may want to read over a few of the tutorial pages such as Wikipedia:Your first article before proceeding with any more new articles. Dismas|^(talk) 05:35, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Non-Commerical Tags for User-Created Images

Is there a way of creating a Copyright Tag for user-created images that allow the image to be used for any non-commercial reason? --Commander Zulu 06:10, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually such images are not encouraged here. See the mail from Jimbo Wales -- Lost 06:20, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• • Thanks for that... seems like an odd policy, though! It's got to be limiting the number of available images for Wikipedia. I've got a couple I'd like to upload, but I'm not really prepared to do it if that makes them available for commercial use, since that would mean someone else could make money off my work.--Commander Zulu 07:01, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
    • It's not odd if you consider that one of Wikipedia's principles is that others can reuse its content for any reason, so long as attribution is provided. Keep in mind that others may already be making money off work you have done in writing or improving articles. — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• • • It's also worth bearing in mind that non-commercial licenses quite likely make printed or CD/DVD editions impossible - you wouldn't be allowed to make any money by selling the media, and indeed (uder some interpretations) you would have a difficult time even being allowed to recoup costs. The very successful CD edition of the German wikipedia couldn't have been done non-commercially, and it's a textbook case of the sort of thing we want to do. Shimgray | talk | 11:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Adding an album cover

I need to add an album cover that I scanned myself for a rock band, but I don't know wich is the right license for it. Wich one?

--Kapaue 08:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

(Copied from WP:NUH): Here's the right tag: {{albumcover}}. Please remember to add a fair use rationale for its use -- Lost 08:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

hi again... I'm a newbie here. I went to "upload file" and then it makes me choose one kind of license and I still don't know wich one to use and where to put that tag that you told me. help please

searching wikipedia

How do I limit search results to a specific category, e.g, looking for "strainer" only in the chemical engineering category.

With the current search tool this is not possible, see Wikipedia:Searching. I think it might be possible to add this capability to the CatScan tool. I'll suggest it. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:09, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Editing page

Hello there,

I have made a new page called ProgArchives, its about a website on www.progarchives.com.. So my question is, I am not able to search the page without spelling with the same caps, I mean, I have to type "ProgArchives" with capital P and A. How can I make it searchable without typing the right caps?

Cheers, imoeng Imoeng 11:44, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

See WP:VFAQ#An article doesn't show up in the search. Also since this is your first article, please see Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article -- Lost 11:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

New article

How do I start a new article?

The first thing to do would be to create an account. Also see the message on your talk page -- Lost 12:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Original date of publication

I have seen somewhere in these pages that it is good practice to include the original date of publication in square brackets. I am trying to add this to a reference but don't know how. It is an endnote reference of the type {{cite book ... I don't know if that makes it a .php reference or not. Can you advise? Thanks. --Itsmejudith 12:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I think this is what you are looking for -- Lost 12:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Contrib counts?

Are there any true contribution counters that show your exact number of contribs at any time? If so, what are they and where can one be found? And if not, what is an easier way to check one's contrib count without scrolling through paga after page? Teh tennisman 12:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's the project that contains a list of edit counters -- Lost 13:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Interiot has a toolserver tool and a javascript tool, both of which can show you how many edits a user has made, and what namespaces they made them to. --Daduzi ^talk 13:14, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• Interiot's counter stopped working. I recommend Flcelloguy's program. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:58, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

helpme

I want to find a specific artical. I only know the date of publication, March 23, 2006, for sure. I think the authors are John Mershime and Stephen Walt, but I am not sure of the spelling.

If it was created in March, it would probably have gone through many changes by now. The simplest way to search for an article is to type its name in the search box on the left column and click Go. Have you already tried that? -- Lost 14:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC) oops -- Lost

I think you mean this article: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html (by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt). Please note that this page is for getting help with Wikipedia; in future, general knowledge questions should go to Wikipedia:Reference desk instead. Cheers, Tangotango 14:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirect to to headings inside an article

• #REDIRECT [[article]]is used for redirecting.
• [[article#heading]]is a link to a chapter of an article (example Full Ascii Code 39).

#REDIRECT [[article#heading]] thus should redirect to a chapter. Unfortunately this does not work (example Full Ascii Code 39) The redirect jumps to the article instead. This "feature" probably should be posted to http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ together with information about the software run on this wiki. -- Xypron 14:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• There's a good reason this doesn't work. Headers can be renamed. And there'd be no paper trail to show where the link should be pointing if such a change happened. That's why moving entire pages automatically leaves redirects, but unfortunately, the way sections are edited doesn't allow for a similar way to redirect in section renamings. - Mgm|^(talk) 14:56, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

  There's a technical issue as well. I believe mostly for performance reasons, Wikipedia's REDIRECTs are implemented on the server side of the HTTP request (not as an HTTP REDIRECT, which is a server response telling the browser to fetch a different page instead of the one it originally requested). Since the "#section" syntax is part of the URL of the page to fetch, there is no way to tell the browser the section without reimplementing Wikipedia REDIRECTs as HTTP REDIRECTs. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:20, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

  There's already a bug filed for this. Bugzilla:218 – Pedantic79 ^(talk) 20:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Superstations about Indian Cobras

Hi!,

I want to know about the above subject. There is a superstation in south India that if you have by chance stepped on a cobra or tried to kill a cobra and if it has escaped from you, then it will take revenge on you by killing you within 12 years time. I want to know the following, 1. Is the above superstation TRUE?

2. How long the cobrs normally live?

3. What are the immediate steps to be taken on a snake bite?

4. Any information that could be related to the above subject is greatly welcome.

Thanks,

RAMACHANDRAN

I doubt if you will find information about superstitions on wikipedia because all information here must be verifiable. Regarding questions 2 and 3, please see Cobra and Snakebite respectively. Also please ask such questions at the WP:Reference desk as the help desk is for questions pertaining to Wikipedia only -- Lost 17:48, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Superstations, though, we got that. · rodii · 17:51, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, and Superstitions as well, actually -- Lost 18:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

What to do if I think an admin stepped over the line?

On this page I see that User:Essjay blocked User:CovenantD, after what really appear to be fairly mild negative comments. Yes they were negative, yes there should have been an attempt at resolving the dispute, but I don't think the heavyhanded immediate blocking was fair or right. I'm no real friend of CovenantD (the only reason I know him at all is that we've both edited one page that had some major problems).

So...who do I take this to, if I think someone with blocking capabilities is using them without trying other methods of dispute resolution? --Kickstart70-T-C 18:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

You take it to the blocking administrator, discussing your concerns with him. — Knowledge Seeker দ 19:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I did, as you can see in the linked issue. However, I don't think his response was satisfactory, nor do I think my concern is/will be understood by him. That's why I think this should have some outside help. --Kickstart70-T-C 19:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• If talking to the admin in question doesn't give a satisfactory result, you can ask for a second opinion from other admins at WP:AN. - Mgm|^(talk) 19:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know. --Kickstart70-T-C 19:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk page

Hi! I've had a slight problem with another user on a specific page, and instead of falling into "edit war" I wrote my opinion on the talk page. In his response he called me names and wasn't ready to discuss. I was about to come to the community for help when a third party came in and made things right and told him to stay polite. Now... All of this was on the talk page of this article. This user, the offensive one, removed EVERYTHING that was on the talk page, even the description of what the third user did to fix it. I've always felt that talk page weren't supposed to be erased... (He even removed my comment on his talk page, but I guess you can do whatever you want on your own page.) Who's right? If you want to take a look: West syndrome Thanks! Aristiana 20:58, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. Blanking talk pages, especially to avoid negotiation, is generally frowned upon. You can revert the blanking, and you can likewise place a {{test1a}} warning on his talk page, with a little explanation (find other warnings here, if he doesn't stop, or just for your own reference). If you prefer, you can use {{test1a-n|Talk:West syndrome}}. You may also wish to refer this user to Wikipedia talk page guidelines. Remember to assume good faith, even when it is difficult; hopefully, the other editor is just stressed, and will come around. If you have any problems, or if you'd rather have the warning come from a third, neutral party, you need only send me a talk. Hope that helps. :) Luna Santin 21:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

what kind of rifles used 2nd world

--152.163.100.11 21:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you're asking, but I get the impression you'd be better off asking it at Reference Desk/Humanities, Reference Desk/Science, or Reference Desk/Miscellaneous. This page is generally only for questions relating to using, reading, or editing Wikipedia. Hope that helps. Have a good day. Luna Santin 22:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Harassment

I feel I've been targetted by a fellow user who for the last week or so have left snide remarks and nonsense on pages I've been involved with, including my personal talk page. Where should such behaviour be reported to? Many thanks. OSP 23:12, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

---

HEY LETS FORGET THE PAST AND BE FRIENDS.

CAN I HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL HAND SHAKE?

--Qho 23:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, it appears that said user is interested in reconcilliation. I would suggest trying to work it out. If that doesn't work and the behavior continues, you could report it to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. I would suggest you go to Wikipedia:Resolving disputes first, however.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 00:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Hey WAvegetarian, I fixed the faulty link in your reply. If you're unsure about the spelling of a link, I recommend you use the shortcuts. :) - Mgm|^(talk) 00:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Question about a fact in an article

Hello,

I was reading the entry for the late Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. The article refers to the fact that "another child born out of wedlock surfaced in 2005." Could you please give me more information about this source. Who is this person? Where do you find out this information? I have searched the internet over and cannot find any further information.192.251.73.123 00:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Jeff 192.251.73.123 00:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what the source of that is. It was added with this edit, which I found using the history tab at the top of the article. As "verifiable from records and sources close to the Beach Boys" doesn't cut it, I have removed this "fact". Thank you for catching it and contributing to the encyclopedia.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 00:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

How do I upload this special image?

I am trying to upload an image, but it has a special property: when you put the mouse pointer over it (but don't click), it changes pictures. Go to it here: http://dbzuncensored.dbzoa.net/series/gallery01.html (it is the second one; the one of the farmer with the hat and stick) (By the way, I would be uploading this under Fair Use on the article Editing of anime in American distribution). If you go to the the direct website of the picture: http://dbzuncensored.dbzoa.net/graphics/screencaps/ep001farmerscigj.jpg (which can be found by clicking on it, or by looking at its properties), it doesn't do the effect and only shows one of the pictures. So, I couldn't enter the direct website address on the "Upload file" page for "Source filename," nor could I put http://dbzuncensored.dbzoa.net/series/gallery01.html, as Wikipedia wouldn't know which image to upload, and it wouldn't work. I also tried saving the picture to my computer, but that only saves the one picture, without the effect. It would be okay if I had the two pictures separately (without any effect), but nothing I tried worked to get the pictures separately (except on Microsoft Word). So, how can I upload this picture with this effect? Or, how can I upload the two images within the image separately with no effect? (answer both of the last two questions, if possible)

• This change happens because of the use of Javascript. Once you move the mousepointer over the first picture, the website knows how to load the second one. So it is simply two separate images. That said, I don't recommend uploading either of them because they are copyrighted. And they will likely be deleted if you did. Fair use only applies in limited circumstances, and with the amount of pictures already in the article, I doubt a valid fair use claim could be made. - Mgm|^(talk) 07:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Add an album picture - licenses?

hi again... I'm a newbie here. I went to "upload file" and then it makes me choose one kind of license and I still don't know wich one to use and where to put that tag that I was told here. help please, I keep searching for a easy guide to this but I don't find anything.--Kapaue 04:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I believe that {{album-cover}} is what you are looking for. Just put {{album-cover}} in the edit summary of the upload and choose nothing under the licensing. Ryūlóng 05:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

trouble merging articles

I recently wrote an article on the Supreme Court decision Spinelli v. United States, and then subsequently learned that somebody else wrote a better article on the same subject. Therefore I decided to merge my article into the pre-existing one by changing my article to a #REDIRECT [[Aguilar-Spinelli test]], but it didn't work. I must have overlooked something, but I can't figure out what it is. What did I do wrong? 68.50.203.109 06:23, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

found the answer to my own question, but thought the answer was worth noting here: i had to do a "super reload" of the webpage instead of just a "regular" reload in order to force the browser to pick up the redirect. I thought that Netscape had gotten rid of the distinction between the two types of "reloads." 68.50.203.109 06:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Submitting an article

I have written a short biography (Don Tate) but have been unable to work out how to submit it and categorise it. I guess I'm semi computer-illiterate. It is my biography. Rregards, Don Tate —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Warvet (talk • contribs) 08:08, 24 July 2006 UTC.

We have policies about autobiographies. In general, we don't like them due to notability and neutrality issues. If you still want to submit it, type Don Tate into the search box. Then write an article there. You must be registered to make a new article however.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 07:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Userbox/Usertemplates

Hey there.. How can I find userboxes or usertemplates for my userpage?? Cheers Imoeng 10:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

You can start at Wikipedia:Userboxes.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 10:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

new entry

how do i nominate a new entry for wikipedia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sarateiger (talk • contribs) 11:46, 24 July 2006 UTC.

You can either start an account, or visit Articles for creation. Luna Santin 10:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

If you have got an account you can start an article yourself, see Help:Starting a new page. Or you could request for an article (not very effective in my opinion) at Wikipedia:Requested articles.--Commander Keane 11:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Where to get help resolving disagreement over naming an article.

Some editors disagree on the naming of the article currently named Kite (toy). Where can we get input from other editors? Please notify us on Talk:Kite (toy). --Bensin 11:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

why??????????

why did people start to celebrate halloween

You might find what you are looking for in the article about Halloween. If you cannot find the answer there, click here to post your question at that article's talk page. If that doesn't solve your problem, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They'll be glad to answer questions about anything in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. - Tangotango 11:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Re-naming articles

For a while I have been trying to find information on how to re-name articles. How does one do it? I request to be notified on my talk page. Tashtastic 13:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Answers to helpdesk questions are posted here on the helpdesk - that way many people can learn from one question. Assuming you're logged in and your account isn't new, there's a "move" button at the top of each page. In most cases, though, it's worth discussing it first on the article's talk page. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 13:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Sandbox on user page?

Is it ok to create the subpage User:CoolGuy/Sandbox to test out some ideas on my own? CoolGuy 14:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, its ok. Lots of people do it. But also please see my reply to your other question below. User pages need to follow certain guidelines. You would do well to go through them -- Lost 15:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

List of templates

There are a lot of templates around Wikipedia, such as fact, speedy, etc. Where can I find a directory or portal that can help me browse some of these? CoolGuy 14:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Coolguy. WP:Templates should do the trick. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 14:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

That's just what I needed. Thanks! CoolGuy 14:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

User page

Where can I find out more info on the rules about my user page? I currently use it to provide links to articles that I find interesting or that I had a large role in editing. What if I'd like to write some opinions on there--such a review of a meal I had at a restaurant (just an example). If this isn't an appropriate place, does anyone know a sister wiki where that would be appropriate? CoolGuy 14:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:User page for guidelines about userpages. Also see what wikipedia is WP:Not -- Lost 15:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Once again, just what I needed. Thanks! CoolGuy 15:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

July 24

Picture Copyright

I'd like to know 2 things. One, if the pictures and screencaps on this site (http://yugiohpics.net/yugioh.html) are allowed to be uploaded onto Wikipedia to be shown in articles.

Two, if they are allowed, how would I go about uploading and posting them in an article?

User: Drake Clawfang, July 24, 2006.

Unless explicitly mentioned otherwise on the website, the material is assumed to be copyrighted and cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia. Please see the WP:Copyrights policy. -- Lost 19:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

All images from Yu-Gi-Oh, without exception, wherever you find them, and whatever else a site might say, are copyright in Japan until the year 2066 at the earliest. Copyright in the USA is likely to be similar. Notinasnaid 19:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

You can generally use TV screencaps under fair use in Wikipedia even if they are copyrighted. See Wikipedia:Images for help on uploading/using images. WP 11:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• But fair use has restrictions. You can't just include any image you want. It needs to be relevant and if there's already lots of pictures, there's no need for another one. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Speed Limits

What speed limits - minimum and maximum - apply on I40? thank you. Ken Cooke UK.--82.18.79.112 19:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. Jacek Kendysz 20:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Removal of Automobile Club of Southern California Logo

We are requesting you remove our logo as it is a registered mark and we would need a license agreement before it could be used. Would you like to discuss using our license agreement for royalty-free use of our logo, or simply remove it?

Thanks.

Roger Kempler Corporate Counsel Automobile Club of Southern California 3333 Fairview Road, A451, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Tel: (714) 885-1302 Fax: (714) 885-1307

This message is intended for the exclusive use of the named addressee and contains information that is privileged and confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure.

The page Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright explains what do in this situation (under the "Are you the copyright owner?" heading). There is an email listed there for dealing with this sort of issue. Regards --Commander Keane 20:02, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

appears to be Image:ACSC logo.gif. An interesting case. Needs to go to the foundation.Geni 04:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Derogatory comments about a person

I emailed info-en-q@wikimedia.org about a problem with a page - someone keeps editing to include derogatory comments about a person - and I have not gotten a reply. Is there someone who can help me speed this process up? Not to be inpatient but, well, it's a fairly serious issue. Thanks in advance.

Can you give a link to the derogatory remarks? -- Lost 20:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• I'm sure there's enough people who can help if you tell us who is doing the editing to which article. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Article Title Change

How do you change the title of an article? The title for the airline named "go!" is: Go! (airline). If you do a search for either "go!" or "go! airline" you do not come up with the correct title. When you search for "go!" you come up with "Go! the third album by the band Letters to Cleo." If you click on the link "For other meanings, see Go," you go to "Go (board game)." What can one do to correct this. Thanks, Gmurnane 20:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

There is no need to move the page. There are obviously many articles that go by the name "Go!" and that is why the airline is disambiguated. If you want to go to the page for the airline named "Go!" you have to actually type "Go! (airline)" into the search bar. However, it appears that the disambiguation link was not correctly used at Go!. I have fixed it and it now shows Go (disambiguation). Ryūlóng 21:02, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I've gone further, taking "Go!" to be more of a special case than the other "Go" entries, and put a special link to the airline page on the album page. Notinasnaid 21:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

July 25

assistance needed

pls how do i check for questions posted on reference desk.

By going to one of the Reference desks, I suppose. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 03:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Contested speedy for db-repost

I hope this is the right place to get help for this. Lexink was deleted by JzG early on 7/24. I had seen it the first time it was posted and when I saw it reappear today (created by Cocoonprod, I thought it sounded awfully familiar, and I distinctly remember a couple of phrases in particular that I know were used in the article's first incarnation(s). However, note that I am not an admin so I can't see the exact content of the page pre-deletion; I was going by distinctly remembering having read this article on newpage patrol when I decided to add it to speedy as a repost of deleted content. Another user added the advert tag to it as I was reviewing which speedy template to add, so both the advert and db-repost templates were added. I checked back later to find that another username, Nadiamuller, had apparently been created for the sole purpose of removing both of these tags, no doubt to get around the injunction that if you are going to contest a speedy deletion on a page you yourself created, you should use the hangon tag. I restored both the advert and db-repost tags to the article before I considered that this may not have been appropriate to do so, since no matter how obvious it might occur to me that there were shenanigans afoot, it was at least in theory another user who removed the repost tag. That does not, of course, negate the fact that it still does meet the requirements for db-repost. My question is, what is the proper protocol in this situation, specifically with regards to a speedy for reposting? Was I incorrect? Should this now go to AfD? -RaCha'ar 00:44, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Personally I would keep the {{db-repost}} on it and the admin that reviews it can look at the previous incarnation and check. Repost doesn't need to refer to a word for word repost, but the same information with no additions. Removing speedy deletion tags qualifies as vandalism and you should warn the appropriate user - as you said the {{hangon}} should be used. Viridae^Talk 06:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

New Infobox

I would like to make a new infobox for my new proposed project. The infobox I will make should include about guitar specifications. So the question is, can I make a brand new infobox? And where can I find the information about it? As I have tried to seach the information about it but couldnt find any.

Cheers. -Imoeng 05:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

You can find information here: Wikipedia:List of infoboxes, but I do believe you are looking for something more like this: Category:Music infobox templates. Hope this helps :) SynergeticMaggot 06:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, I'll try that first, then I'll get back too you ASAP. -Imoeng 06:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. If you prefer, you can use my talk page. SynergeticMaggot 06:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually that is not exactly I'm looking for. I need something so I can create a new infobox, to explain about guitar specifications e.g. Wood type, company, pickup type etc. So do you know where and how can I make a new infobox? Thanks - Imoeng 06:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

The template syntax is discussed at help:template. If you don't think you can make one, there's a page for requesting someone else make one for you at Wikipedia:Requested templates. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for all helpers, I have been able to make my infobox (see my userpage if you want :) ). Imoeng 13:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Couple basic questions

1) How do I reply to someone through my or their "Talk Page"?

2) Where can I read about creating New Pages in Wikipedia?

Thanks in advance!

Vituperex 13:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

(1) You can reply to them by editing their or your talk page like an ordinary article. (Make sure to sign your signature with ~~~~, though) See Help:Talk page for more information about talk pages. (2) See Wikipedia:Your first article. Cheers, Tangotango 13:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

nursing research

where do we find details of nursing research on hemodialysis and medication,basic knowledge,fluid compliance,diet,preventin of infection and complication —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.83.49.27 (talk • contribs) 13:46, 25 July 2006.

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. Jacek Kendysz 14:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

about the insturuments used in the labs

wht exactly are lab incubators and what are there functions and uses?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.182.33.96 (talk • contribs) 14:22, 25 July 2006.

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. Jacek Kendysz 14:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

How to delete a page

I've been trying to delete a page now and it keeps being brought back. The page in question is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Chiles The discussion page on it tells what is going on. Can someone please do this for me?

Rockydallas 15:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

If in your opinion some article should be deleted, take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Jacek Kendysz 16:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I've checked that out and it says that in 1 weeks time this article should come up for what appears to be a vote. However, this article was flagged on 7-1 and still has not gone to this vote. The subject of the page has recieved rude emails regarding this page which he was not aware existed and has since contacted me and told me to get the page removed. Yet I can't seem to get this done. I don't get it, the page is attacked for being biased and unfit for wikipedia, yet I can't get it taken down. Any suggestions?Rockydallas 18:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

On 1 July, a point of view flag was added to the article. This is an invitation to improve it, not a request to delete. You "blanked" the article: but this is recognised as vandalism and promptly repaired. If you believe that an article should be deleted you need to follow the instructions in that article, to nominate it. You need to be able to give clear reasons why this article doesn't belong in Wikipedia – and cannot be improved sufficiently to stay. I'm sorry you've had a bad experience of Wikipedia. Remember that with over a million articles, there have to be some pretty formal procedures to get certain things done. Otherwise anyone could just say "delete that article, won't you!". And remember, too, that Wikipedia is a collaboration: none of us have any special rights over the articles we start. Notinasnaid 18:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

making my own wikipage

how to i make my own wiki article?

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please see: Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article. -- Lost 17:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Article hits

how do i see how many have viewed a certain article, or how has been viewing it?

Its very easy to make out who has contributed to an article. If thats what you want, click on the history tag on top of the article. -- Lost 18:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately this feature is not supported. It would be a big drag on the servers to count it all. As for who has been viewing it, we don't do this to protect privacy. You can see who has edited it, when they did so and how many edits an article has received by clicking the history tab at the top of a page.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 18:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

plagiarism

Hi, i'm pretty new here, but what are the policies regarding plagerism? i'm concerned because the begining of the methadone page, looks very similar to http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/methadone Some sentances are exactly the same. I just didn't know if I should alert someone to this or not. Thanks. PharmerJess 18:53, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a very stringent policy regarding copyrights. See WP:Copyrights. An article can be speedily deleted by an admin if it is established as a copyright violation. The article you are talking about however clearly states that it is using material from Wikipedia and not the other way round -- Lost 18:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

PharmerJess, look at the bottom of that URL you gave. It says "It uses material from the Wikipedia article". They are using our stuff, not the other way around.--Commander Keane 18:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

US Cities format

Is there a guideline on how to order sections for US cities? (e.g. does History go above or below Demographics?)--Archer3 18:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

If there is, it would be in the Wikipedia:Manual of style.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 18:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

You may also ask the folks at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. cities -- Lost 19:05, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Japan's Official Development Assistance Program

In December 2004, a user left a message on the talk page of the Japan's Official Development Assistance Program article, saying how there are major problems with the page. To this day, these issues have no been taken care of. I would like to work on the matter myself, but I know nothing of the topic. My question is: what are wikipedians supposed to do in this situation? Are they just supposed to let the problems go unresolved? 0plusminus0 19:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, the hope is that someone would notice and take care of it. We have {{cleanup}} templates that add articles to the category of articles needing clean up. That is how we deal with them. I find myself working on articles I know nothing about and usually learn something intersting in the process. It can be tagged with a clean up template and left for someone else or you could work on it. Thanks for spotting it.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 19:21, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Both am & am not registered - what gives??

Hi, I have just created an account "A12n" (fully completed, that is with the email and confirmation page) and added a comment to the Hausa main page ha.wikipedia.org. However I cannot migrate around the Wikipedia. Moreover, when I log out and try to log back in I usually get a message that there is no such user as A12n. I was able to get in and began to make a comment to the Ewe page ee.wikipedia.org page but was booted off. I tried unsuccessfully to relog on and eventually could but I'm stuck on the Hausa page (even though I changed my preference to the English page).

Maybe I'm expecting too much in terms of being able to move about the Wikipedia and keep my identiry, maybe my membership is too new, or maybe it's because I had a Wikipedia window open in another browser (use Firefox 1.5 mainly, but also MSIE6).

Is this usual? Do I need to create an identity for each part of the Wikipedia?

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

"A12n"

Your identify is specific to each different language version of Wikipedia. If it is free, you can create the same identify in each one, but they are not connected. Notinasnaid 20:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Its not being used, so you should be able to make an account here. If you have any other problems, you can leave a message on my talk page. SynergeticMaggot 20:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

How did I make an edit without updating the history?

I found a large image scribbled on Desertification so tried to revert it using a procedure I only vaguely remembered. i.e. go to older revision and save it. This seems to have removed the image but the change I made doesn't appear on the history page. Nevertheless I clicked on the prechanged entry in the history and got a chance to move to a newer revision - the article itself. What's going on? Will the the missing history fix itself or did I find a weird way of making edits that don't appear in the history? If it's a cache problem how can I get at the real history? It doesn't appear to be due my own browser cache. Quirkie 20:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• What article are you talking about and what process did you use? Try clearing your browser cache. You could be served an outdated history page if editing is really heavy during the time you're editing. - Mgm|^(talk) 21:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
  • The article in question is the one I mentioned. I also said it wasn't my browser cache. In fact, something more screwy happened. User:Titoxd has now apparently tried to make the same change I did and had to do it twice to get it to work. It would appear that the information about the change that I made got lost, whereas the article retained the change, so that a duplicate change made no effect. Race conditions in mediawiki perhaps. - Quirkie 22:21, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Editing permissions in namespaces

I know this is not the place to ask this, I haven't found an easy to do this (that doesn't require a complex registration process, for one).

Does anybody know how can I create namespaces in Mediawiki and allow only some groups to read them? I do know how to control read and write permissions together (there's a patch in Title.php that does the trick). What I want is to control only editing, yet allow everybody to view the namespace.

Ripper234 20:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

There's something at NamespacePermissions Extension on Meta, yet I'm not sure whether it works with the current version of MediaWiki or not. Titoxd^(?!?) 20:53, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I wanted to create an article about king zog's brother

there is no article on king zog's brother (Xhelal Bey Zogu), so I started to write one and now I can't figure out how to create a new article.

This guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhelal_Bey_Zogu --Charlesknight 21:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

removing a logo

Can someone give me some advice about a logo which has been placed on this soccer page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_United The logo is in the top right corner of the page (crossed swords) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bladeslogo2.png The logo which was there before, was virtually the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bladesbadgesmall.GIF The new logo has been removed once, but the same person has angrily posted it again, see the history page. What I would like to know is; should this be revomed again, Thanks Hawksworthm 21:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure it matters which of those images we use, but we should only have one copy of the logo on Wikipedia. When it's decided which of the two to use, the other one should be tagged with {{subst:orfud}}. —Bkell (talk) 21:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Or better, {{subst:or-fu-re|Image:Image_to_be_kept.ext}}. —Bkell (talk) 21:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

how to edit introduction?

I want to edit the introductory paragraph of the following page to correct the English, but there doesn't seem to be any way to edit that portion of the document:

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

Is there a way to edit this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfeldman (talk • contribs)

Thanks!

Yes there is. If you look at the url while you edit an individual section of the article you will see that it ends in &section=n where n is the section number. If you replace that number with 0, you will be editing the introduction only.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 22:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Based on the sound of it, you are editing sections of articles, while not editing the full page. Normally this is useful, so you do not have to scroll through large amounts of text to get to the part you want. However, the first section does not have a button to section edit. Instead you must edit the whole page, which you can do by clicking the "Edit this page" tab at the top of the article. (Assuming you are using the default skin) Hope this helps, Prodego ^talk 22:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

how many 1973 2-door oldsmobile ninety eight regency brougham were manufatured and sold?

how many 1973 2-door oldsmobile ninety eight regency brougham were manufatured and sold? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.138.143 (talk • contribs)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. -- Natalya 23:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

how do I find "personalities" and COV timeline?

July 26

Copyright status of seals of US counties

Hiya, maybe not the appropriate place for this question, but I'm not too familiar with en:, so bear with me. Does anyone have information or links that can clarify the copyright status of seals of US counties? A lot of seals would be PD-old (maybe with some non-copyright usage restrictions) I guess, nevertheless {{seal}} is used on most of them, which is a fair-use template. Please be so kind as to move my question to a more appropriate page if you know one. If you can answer my question please do so on my talk page. Thanks in advance. NielsFTalk to me.. 21:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

This is a reposting, because nobody responded. NielsFTalk to me.. 01:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I've copied this to Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems. --Daduzi ^talk 07:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

contributions

Is there any way to see my contributions to a particular page? I was a regular contributor to a certain article awhile ago, and I'm curious to see whether any of my text is still there. Is there any way to highlight (like the History highlights differences) just my contributions? --Froth 02:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

You can always go to the history page of a certain article. This will show the changes that have been made and compare it to your first edit. Hope that helps : ) - Imoeng 02:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Movies

Can you put short movies on a wikipedia page?

Animated GIFs can be uploaded and inserted like any other picture, but should be used sparingly. Conway's Game of Life shows one of the few places looping GIFs can be used without it looking stupid. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 10:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I have forgot my password

Pranay Biswas

The only way to retrieve your password is to use the forgotten password send email function. This will send a new password to your registered email address. If you didn't add an email address to your account we can't get you a new password. Sorry.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 07:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Article on Winston Churchill

At the end of the first paragraph of the section of this article headed Family and Personal Life it says Some of the siblings wrote serious books. This is the writer's opinion and amounts to damning with faint praise - something I don't find appropriate. I don't know what these people wrote so I didn't change the sentence but perhaps someone who knows might be able to say: Randolph, Sarah and Mary were all writers who, however, did not enjoy critical success - or something more balanced like that - with references to critical reviews of their work.

More seriously, at the end of the paragraph it says,Diana became a prostitute. At first I thought this was obvious vandalism and I was tempted to delete it however I looked back in the history and it seems to have been added by one D22 who also added other things that appear quite reasonable. The article about Diana Churchill doesn't say anything about her being a prostitute. There is a vague, Diana caused her parents great distress as an adult and it does report she was mentally ill but nothing about prostitution. Of course the dead can't be libelled but surely this kind of provocative statement must have a reference attached.

--Lebois 07:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for spotting this. I'm not sure where the first of those questionable sentences came from, but I agree that is is inappropriate to state that without any sources. The second one was vandalism. It wasn't added by D22 however, D22 was trying to fix vandalism by someone else but diddn't quite catch all of it. I have removed both. Thanks again for fact checking.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 07:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Speedied articles

Where do I go to see a list of speedy deleted articles? And on another note, if I create an article and it's speedie'd, will it continue to show in my contributions? Thanks in advance.--Anchoress 07:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

You can always go to Speedy Deletion or just type WP:SD on the search bar. About the contribution part, I reckon its no longer on your contribution list (still need to be check though, I'll get back to you soon). Imoeng 07:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not 100% on this but I'll say no. Anything deleted will no longer show up (unless it was included inside of the edit summary, in which case it will show up as a red link). But by typing the name into a search, you can check the log deletion log to see who deleted it, and why (so long as the admin gave a detailed reason). SynergeticMaggot 08:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

(SynergeticMaggot beat me on an edit conflict, but here was my response, which basically says the same thing) You can see a list of recent deletions at the deletion log, and you can also search to see when an article was deleted and by whom. Deleted articles no longer show up in your contributions. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 08:03, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that :) And thanks for confirming my suspicions. SynergeticMaggot 08:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all the info everybody, that's exactly what I needed!--Anchoress 08:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

requesting

Dear sir, I AM SARASWATI I DOING MANAGEMENT INFORMATOIN SYSTEM. SO I JUST NEED TO KNOW WHICH BOOKS ARE THERE FOR REFRENCE. PLS LET ME SOON.MY ID IS: ariespscs@yahoo.co.in

THANK YOU

Sorry I don't really get the question. Were you asing about books for Management Information System? If yes, you can check List Of Books By Genre Or Type or for List Of Books in general. Hope this helps - Imoeng 09:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. -- Lost 13:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

adding to Content menu

I want to add an item to the list of Content for the Shiva Wikipedia page. If I click on Edit, I don't find the Content list where I can add an additional item. How can I add to the list? dsjames@pghmail.com Wikipedia member.

My best guess: you're trying to add something into the table of contents at Shiva? The table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated by the server; if you want to add a new section, you can create it manually (see Wikipedia:Introduction and how to edit a page for more information). Hope that helps. Happy editing! Luna Santin 10:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Maintainability

I'm currently discussing List of baseball entrance music on its AFD page. A couple of people have brought up the concept of "maintainability" and are claiming that the article is "unmaintanable". It seems like a fairly abstract concept that people use the way they see fit. Are there any established Wiki guidelines or definitions on this term? A quick search of the Help pages turned up nothing. Let me know, preferably on my talk page. Thanks! SliceNYC 13:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

From my point of view, this unmaintainable probably means that the article could be change (badly) by other people easily, as maybe you didn't cite the best reference. Citation is very important because it tells where did people get the information. Without that, anyone could change it with their own mind, thus its unmaintainable. - Imoeng 13:48, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:Deletion policy details the reasons why an article may or may not be deleted. Please go through it and if you feel that the article satisfies all criteria according to that page, you may be able to put up a stronger case -- Lost 13:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

steel grade

I would like to know the technical specification of the EN serias of steel. the material composition the machinability the different grades the IS codification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.229.242.90 (talk • contribs)

Sorry, this sort of question should probably be directed at a section of the reference desk. The Help Desk generally only deals with questions directly related to browsing, using, or editing Wikipedia itself. Good luck! Luna Santin 16:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Homeschooling

I am looking for a guide to help me to know what I should be teaching for first, second, and fifth grades for each subject. I am trying to work on getting things together that I can teach throughout the school year.

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. -- Lost 16:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Expand article page

Can someone tweak the pink box on the expand an article page - on several computers it flows over the box to the right. Jackiespeel 17:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I am guessing you are talking about Template:Expand. I think it may be a browser issue. I am using IE6 and its ok for me -- Lost 17:07, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

gensuke yoshikawa internee poston az 1945

 Dear sirs  I'm looking for birthplace of gensuke (frank) yoshikawa -poston camp for geneology. I need birth place name..Bob romero   Thanks—

You may wish to consider Wikipedia's reference desk -- where we specialize in questions relating to browsing, using, and editing Wikipedia, the various sections of RD specialize in areas of human knowledge. They'll be more helpful to you, I imagine. Thanks, and good luck! Luna Santin 17:22, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Reference Desk Signatures

I've been using the reference desk for ages and I have a username and all that. But someone recently asked me to sign my posts. I flipped through my preferences and changed things that looked like they could help, but it would appear I still don't auto-signature things. Can't I? I don't have to retype the date and my name every time, do i?

I'm not aware of any automatic tool, but it's pretty easy: just type out four tildes, like this: ~~~~, and Wikipedia will fill in your name and the date, for you. Go ahead and try it here, if you like. :) Luna Santin 17:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Sashafklein 17:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

thanks Sashafklein 17:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Interwiki redirects?

While reviewing New Pages, I saw that someone had added Richard_Nixon's_resignation_speech. The text was badly-formatted and the subject matter was better for WikiSource and indeed already existed there. So I edited the new page to contain solely the line:

#REDIRECT [[s:Richard Nixon's resignation speech]]

The interwiki link to WikiSource works; the redirect does not. Is it possible to make this work, or should I just edit the page to say something like "see text on WikiSource"? Thanks in advance for any help. VoiceOfReason 18:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I think you are looking for Wikipedia:Soft redirects -- Lost 18:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

changing user name

As soon as I created an account, I was advised not to use my e-mail address as my name, and to change it. However, I cannot figure out how to do this. I keep checking the page that supposedly will help me do this, but cannot find the right place for creating my change request.

See Wikipedia:Changing username -- Lost 19:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

contacting other users

How do I send messages to other users?

If you want to communicate with someone on wikipedia, just leave a message on their talk page -- Lost 20:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

For example, if you wanted to talk to User:EWS23, you would go to User talk:EWS23 and leave a message there. For more private matters, some users also have email accounts attached to their usernames, and there should be a link on the left hand toolbar below the search box that says, "E-mail this user." EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 20:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

using search box

using search box

Wikipedian has many extrodinary options to read and learn as well as Contribute some of your Information to. Kind of like a picture box giving you the biography of the place you have visited. The using search box currently,is indefinately disabled it is notan external location. Is there a reason we need to go all the way by the mouse to the category section.

Currently one of the best options is to abuse google's index to search wikipedia by way of adding site:wikipedia.org to your search entried from their home page. There are other ways, but that is a very simple one. -- ∞Wirelain 21:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

July 27

Growth of Wikipedia

Any reasons why creation of new articles on Wikipedia has slowed down so much in the past few months? Wikipedia has been in the 1,200,000 article range for a while now. --Schzmo 00:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I think we might be running out of ideas for articles that fit our current notability standards. Given my incrementalist Wikiphilosophy, I think now would be a good time to change our notability standards. --The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake 00:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• Nah, there's plenty of things to write about. See WP:RA. Also, several users have lists of possible articles on their userpages (as I do). Perhaps people saw the light and spent time improving existing articles rather than adding new stuff? - Mgm|^(talk) 00:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I think also there was a big rush to get to 1MM.--Anchoress 04:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia conduct and etiquette

I am fairly new to Wikipedia, and want to be a useful and rule-abiding contributor.

What is the best thing to do about a page that contains many separate jocular and absurd falsehoods?

For instance, if an article on Pigs has been edited so that it says "Pigs are all yellow. Pigs are known to fly. Every president of the Ukraine has been a pig."

My first thought would be to simply delete these, but I have been told that such "blanket deletions" are unacceptable.

I recently encountered the Mini Mammoth page, which included a number of such statements about sightings of Mini Mammoths, uses for Mini Mammoths and so forth. This relates to an amusing Wikipedia prank being played by an Australian radio station, JJJ.

I deleted or modified the "joke" statements, and left the true or uncertain statements intact, but was told by other contributors that this was not an acceptable edit, and to flag the statements instead with .

In cases such as these, it seems a waste of time to flag a statement such as "There already exists a black market for mini mammoth tusks for use as toothpicks" with , rather than deleting it.

What would you recommend in such cases?

Ordinary Person 04:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

A core policy of Wikipedia is Wikipedia:Verifiability. If a statement can be verified using a reliable source, then it deserves to be on Wikipedia. Hence if a statement has been inserted by another editor in good faith, but you think it may not be true, the above tag is more appropriate. However, if you see blatant vandalism, just go ahead and remove it. -- Lost 04:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

If you think it is quite obviously a hoax, delete it and if necessary (if you think it is going to cause trouble) not why on the talk page. Obvious hoaxes should NOT be left in an article. Any iffy statements could also be moved to the talk page (state why) untill such time as someone can come up with a reference - not the usual way of doing things, but things you think are probobly a hoax or wildly inaccurate. This stops people getting angry. If you could provide me with some diff links I could maybe give you better advice. Viridae^Talk 04:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. This is the article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Mammoth, which has now been marked for consideration for deletion, so perhaps I should just let that take its course. I described the changes I made in this subsection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mini_Mammoth#Clean_Up. The changes were subsequently reverted, and I'm not interested in getting into a reversion battle. In that section, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pontifexmaximus suggests I just use the flag.

Judging by the AfD the article will probobly not be deleted due to no concensus. I have left a note for Pontifexmaximus on the talk page. You might like to read it. Viridae^Talk 05:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Changed my mind - most of the keep sare newbie votes which appear to have little merit. Viridae^Talk 05:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. So how long does it normally take the closure committee to decide on these things? Ordinary Person 05:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

5 or 7 days - I can't remember. The information should be availiable in WP:AFD or Wikipedia:Deletion process. It may be closed early if there is overwhelming support for deletion or keep. I have reverted the article twice, and that is as far as I will go. I have no intention of gettiung into an edit war with someone who doesn't understand wikipedia policy. Viridae^Talk 06:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

5 days is the minimum, but there is often a queue of around 2-3 days. Currently there are a few AfDs from 18th July waiting to be closed. See WP:AFD/Old.

Also, the 'closure committee' consists of everyone who wants to lend a hand. Even non-admins can close debates, as long as they haven't ended in a consensus for delete (deletion requires admin buttons) and, to quote Wikipedia:Deletion process, "they know what they are doing". --Sam Blanning^(talk) 11:37, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• I use the citation needed template for facts that appear to be true but need sources still. Likely falsehoods should be removed until sources can be found. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Inserting an image

Hi all, could anyone please tell me how can I insert an image in the userbox which is intended to be used on the userpage. -- FOZ

I don't know which box or user page you are referring to, but you insert an image the same way in a userbox as you do anywhere else: [[Image:filename.extension]]. You will want to put it into the ID spot as explained halfway down this page.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 07:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I should also say that you will need to make the image smaller. An example syntax is: {{userbox |border-c=#CCCCFF |id-c=#CCCCFF |info-c=#F8F8FF |id=[[Image:CVU2.5.PNG|40px]] |info=This user is a member of the<br>'''[[Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit|Counter Vandalism Unit]]'''.}}, which produces:

This user is a member of the
Counter Vandalism Unit.

—WAvegetarian•(talk) 07:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks WAvegetarian, it realy helped, by way the above piece of information is not mentioned on the link you have suggested.--FOZ

Hi again, I just want to add that your method worked when I inserted an image that already exists on this site, but when I tried to insert an image I have googled, I didnt get any success, should I make some changes in the path of that image, please advise me.--FOZ

I think there may be a mistake somewhere. FOZ is not a user page, it is an article. I suspect it needs to be deleted. There is also a user page User:FOZ. But please remember that you don't need to spend any time setting up a user page before you can get to work: there are lots of articles just ready for editing! Notinasnaid 10:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, I got your point.FOZ

Feedback for my articles

When I joined, I read somewhere (i forgot) that I can ask someone to give feedback for my articles, anyone knows about this? Thanks - Imoeng 09:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Peer review is what I think you're looking for :p SynergeticMaggot 09:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

You may also be interested in Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 09:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks mates, now could you guys give me feedback?? :) Thanks again! Imoeng 09:43, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

My signature

what the hell have i done :). Thanks
--Deon555|talk|e 11:22, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I've no idea - there was some weird code in there, plus you didn't close the font colour tag as far as I could see. I've tried to correct it above - maybe you could copy and paste the code into your signature box. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 11:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

checking David Nicholson

It has been announced today that David Nicholson has been appointed chief executive of the UK's National Health Service & I wanted to check Wikipedia had an article on him. There is already a page for David Nicholson but I don't think it is the same person - how can I check this & if they are different how do I create a new article with the same name & overcome the disamigaution problems? — Rod ^talk 13:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

The only way to check is to click the search button instead of go. You will get all articles containing this name. If you want to create an article for him, create a disambiguation page first. See Ge for example. Then name him slightly differently (using a middle name or initial etc.) and go ahead and create your article -- Lost 13:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Lost beat me to it :). Also there is WP:D for reference. SynergeticMaggot 13:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Creation of a page

Is it possible to create a page, not edit one, that does not yet exist?

John

Definitely, see Help:Starting a new page. Also see Wikipedia:Your first article -- Lost 14:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

what is a...

What is a WATCHLIST? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ladybug10 (talk • contribs) .

Help:Watching pages has the full story, but briefly, you can put any article (or image, template, etc) on your watchlist by clicking 'watch' at the top, or checking 'watch this page' when you make an edit. Clicking 'my watchlist' at the top of every page will show you every article on your watchlist that has been changed recently, who made the last edit and when, and gives a 'diff' link so you can see what that edit did. So you can track changes to articles you've created or actively edited, Wikiprojects and other message boards that you participate in, etc. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 15:39, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

California State Employees Association

I created a page for this organization. The page shows up when I put the title in "search" and click on "go". However, when I put the title in and click on the "search" button, I can't find the page.

See Wikipedia:Very Frequently Asked Questions#An article doesn't show up in the search-- Lost 18:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Commercial advertisement in article (?)

In the article on Wheatgrass, there appears to be a commercial advertisement. At least, one commercial product is singled dout for special mention, without any apparent reason. It says, "Ocean Grown Canada provides ocean water that is used by Super Wheatgrass to grow and sell wheatgrass. They claim that the minerals from the ocean water add to the plant's health benefits." There is also an External Link to a commercial site for Super Wheatgrass. Is that permissible? 168.39.180.60 18:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for pointing out the linkspam. As you guessed correctly, the article had much linkspam and low quality external links. I have deleted them. You may refer to Wikipedia:Spam and Wikipedia:External links for the relevant policies. I encourage you to be bold and delete any other low quality/spam links you find on Wikipedia. Regards, — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Help using templates

Hi

I'm quite new to wiki, and I was wondering if someone could help me work out these templates.

For example, I want to use the following template:

" Hello, I'm [[User:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}]]. An edit that you recently made seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User talk:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|my talk page]]. Thanks!"

It is the test0-n one. How can I make it link to the correct article?

Thank you

You write {{subst:test0-n|Article name}} -- Lost 20:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Images

How do i upload a image? And figure out if it is copyrighted? This is the image.

Also please warn user Newbie about adding his/her name to my friend list even when I do not know him/her and being persistant about it.

--Qho 22:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Who are you asking to warn Newbie? As far as I can tell, he or she is violating no policy, and you seem capable of warning someone yourself. The help desk isn't a place to recruit help in personal disputes. · rodii · 23:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Rodii, Qho is referring to this. It is a minor user-page vandalism. I agree with you say about warning. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Qho, Please read Wikipedia:Image use policy and Wikipedia:Uploading images carefully before uploading images. You can use Upload file link on the toolbox on the left-hand side (below Search box) to upload images. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Renaming a section title--not a page title

The Wikipedia editing instructions indicate to avoid changing the names of sections as there might already be links to it. Indeed, on the page I am working I know there are links to certain sections. However, some of the section titles are incorrect. Do I leave them as such? Is there nothing to do? Is there a way I can back track and see which and how many references there are to a section?

Thanks,

--Isaac

Isaac, could you give us the link to the article? So, the way to put in internal link is to put double of this "[" before and double of this "]" after the word, e.g User:Imoeng. You can also name it with another name like this, The Most Handsome:) So it really doesn't matter as long as you put the right link to the word.. For details, you might want to see Wikipedia:Layout. Hope that helps

Imoeng 00:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a tool you can use to check to see what section titles are linked to. You can use "what links here" and check them one-by-one, but obviously that's a bit tedious. However, if the section titles are harming the quality of the article, I recommend you change them, and hopefully people will fix the broken links as they come across them. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 00:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

P.S.- Could you tell us what page it is? If you're concerned about it, once the section headers are fixed, you could team up with one or two other editors to go through "What Links Here," so long as it's not a huge undertaking. If it's a page with a lot of traffic, you might also consider discussing the changes you had in mind on the talk page. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 00:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Going through his contributions, I am quite certain that he is referring to Pilot licensing in Canada, with the issue being the spelling of "licence/license". — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• It's better to link to articles instead of sections for the very reason they can change. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

July 28

Interwiki Links

Do they work with images? Wizrdwarts (T|C|E) 03:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

They might, however you will still have to put the correct namespace in the interwiki link (whatever "Image" is in the other language). Ryūlóng 03:57, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

flagicons...North American divisions only?

I was wondering if there were any flagicon shorthands for any political divisions besides the American states and the Canadian provinces (i.e. Mexican states, Belgian regions, Swiss cantons). Is there anything that can be done? It seems a little bias and cumbersome to write "Image:Flag of Canton of Zürich.svg|25", where, using the ISO codes, "flagicon|CHE-ZH" would be easier to use.

I realize that not all divisions have flags. But for the ones that do, isn't there a way to work through the wikicode? To be fair, this would have to be only used where all of the nation's divisions do have flags (such as Ireland's counties).

Thanks for your time.

--Paploo 05:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

{{flagicon}} is actually a fairly intricate template -- it references other templates, which in turn reference still more. Template redirects are also involved. I'll spare you the technical details: all you need to do is create a new template called {{country flag alias CHE-ZH}}, at which point {{flagicon|CHE-ZH}} will do what you're looking for. For a reference, look at {{country flag alias Japan}} and see how it's built up. If you need help, reply here or send me a talk. Luna Santin 06:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The way to make CHE-ZH work would be to click on the red link above and edit it so that it says Flag of Canton of Zürich.svg. (If you wish to you may follow that by <noinclude>Image:Flag of Canton of Zürich.svg</noinclude>. This optional secondary bit will make the image display on the template page so that you know what you're working with.) —WAvegetarian•(talk) 06:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

IP Range Block

Hey, a friend of mine (IP address 70.130.185.251) is being blocked from posting or registering by an IP range block. He gets this message: "Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Mackensen for the following reason (see our blocking policy): targeted range block Your IP address is 70.130.185.251." I presume he was not the target of the block, since his specific IP does not appear on the block log, but apparently someone with a similar IP was. Any way to exclude his IP from the block? Thanks. -Elmer Clark 06:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there is. The best thing to do in any blocking situation is to contact the blocking admin, in this case Mackensen.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 07:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The problem seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for the advice, though. -Elmer Clark 01:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Need to delete article

I just created an article by mistake, Ryukoko. I meant to create Ryukoku University (and have now done this). I don't think I have the tools to delete Ryukoko, so could someone else do this for me? Ordinary Person 09:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

You can place {{db-author}} at the top of the page; that nominates the article for speedy deletion, on the grounds that its sole contributor feels it should be deleted (usually used for accidental creations, pretty much). Or, just leave it as a redirect, if there's not a contending subject or potential article there. Your call. Luna Santin 09:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ordinary Person (talk • contribs)

What should be…

…bottom of an article - a {{stub}} template, a template such as {{Status Quo}}, foreign language notations, or categories? For example, the article John 'Rhino' Edwards has stub, categories, German article, and then the Quo template in that order. Is this the right order (especially the stub and the Status Quo template)? 0plusminus0 13:56, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

A stub template automatically adds a category at the bottom of the article. And no matter where you place a category, it will always show up at the bottom. That leaves us with the status quo template. That should go above the stub and categories -- Lost 14:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Update:I have edited it for you. Please see it now -- Lost 14:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

india

Italic text

Did you have a question? If not, the sandbox is always available for experiments in editing. :) Luna Santin 15:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Please lock the feature article Bulbasaur!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone please lock Bulbasaur?? It's being vandalised by the minute. Madman 16:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

This is where you need to request: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection -- Lost 16:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Although it is highly unlikely to happen, see User:Raul654/protection. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

HELP!!!!

How do I merge This with This? --Qho 16:23, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). For your convenience, here's the link: Reference Desk (when you get there, just select the relevant section, and ask away). I hope this helps. -- Lost 16:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Preferences

Why can't I change my preferences? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glenjean (talk • contribs)

what exactly have you tried? -- ∞Wirelain 16:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Customizing Signature

How do I customize my signature? I know that I change it in MY PREFERENCES, but what's the syntax for different things that I can include? For example, changing its colour, or adding links for my talk page and contributions to it? I want to:

•Add a link called "Talk" that upon being clicked, will go to my talk page

•Add a link called "Contrib." that will take them to my contributions

•Make both the links green

And I want them both to be seperated by a bullet and both to be superscript. Thank you. --Codell 17:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Raw sig let's you use html ... User:Splintax/Signature_tutorial might help. -- ∞Wirelain 17:23, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• If you click edit when you see a signature you like, you can see how it was made. - Mgm|^(talk) 23:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Is "Codell ^{Talk · Contrib.}" what you are looking for? I got it using the following code. Just put it in the box and select the raw sig box. - Mgm|^(talk) 23:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[[User:Codell|Codell]] <sup>[[User talk:Codell|<font color="#00FF00">Talk</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/Codell|<font color="#00FF00">Contrib.</font>]]</sup>

Yes, thank you very much for the help. I now have it the way I like.--Codell ^{[ Talk ▪ Contrib. ]} 04:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Why is my login confirmation rejected repeatedly?

I just got this in the confirmation email and it is repeatedly rejected, both by clicking on the link in the email, and by cut-and-pasteto the address box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Confirmemail/b8458a3c116eae5a53e5f1b3871ae7c6

Dukie_Cat

Try confiming again. Go into your preferences and resend the confirmation. Sasquatch t|c 18:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

adding a new article

hello,

i recently added a new article with the title "goodsearch." when will it go live in the wikipedia database to that it will appear when i search for it on your homepage?

19:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)19:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)19:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)Billiechloe

Please disregard. I see it's up now.

Searching for images

How does one search for images that are uploaded only to Wikipedia and not Commons? Using the search box brings one to many articles, but there appear to be images posted that may not necessarily show up in an article search. Is there any method to use keyword searches that is faster than browsing categories? Montanabw 20:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

You can search just for images by searching normally, then ticking boxes at the bottom of the resulting screen so that only the 'image:' namespace is selected. --Cherry blossom tree 20:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Case sensitivity

When I search for "GoodSearch" I can find an entry, but not when I search for "goodsearch" (lowercase). How can I fix this?

20:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)20:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)20:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)20:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)~

To do this, you must create a redirect. Go to the "goodsearch" page and edit it to contain #REDIRECT[[GoodSearch]] The page should now redirect you to the "GoodSearch" page. --Minkus 20:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• You could also be very patient and just wait for it to be picked up in the search index... - Mgm|^(talk) 23:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Text showing up in odd places...

On The Ohio State University Marching Band, the 2nd paragraph that says "The school fight songs - "Buckeye Battle Cry" and "Across The Field" - were first performed in the early 1900's." shows up under the next section (The Band) while I'm editing, but appears as the second paragraph on the page. I'm not quite sure what to do, could it have something to do with the reference I added at the end of the first paragraph? --Minkus 20:57, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The problem was that you didn't open the reference tag properly. I have now edited it from <ref [http://www.osu.edu/news/lvl2_news_story.php?id=1281]</ref> to <ref> [http://www.osu.edu/news/lvl2_news_story.php?id=1281]</ref> (not the closing >.) I think I've fixed all of them but there may be some I've missed. These reference tags can make a mess unless they're done absolutely correctly. I often forget to include the closing </ref> and hide half the article. --Cherry blossom tree 21:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I'll keep that in mind. --Minkus 21:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Master of the World

Hello! I hope this is the appropriate place to ask this. Recently I did the Master_(comics), but as the computer itself logged out, in the page's history is now my IP adress, not my username, so I would appreciate very much if someone can correct that. Speaking of the article, Eshu (comics) should be redirected to that article, because they are abot the same character. Furthermore, I plan contribute a lot more on the field of comic books, so can someone direct me to a place on Wikipedia where there are people who deal with comic book articles, and where I can post this sort of questions. Fast help would be appreciated!--Captain ginyu 22:41, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I will let someone else answer the more technical parts of your question, but the Portal:Comics page is a good place to start to find other editors interested in the subject. Road Wizard 22:53, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it's possible to associate IP edits with a username (unless you're a developer maybe). · rodii · 02:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

It would also break the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License unless you could prove that your computer held that IP address at the exact instant the edit took place. Getting to the final, unanswered point though; if you want to create a redirect to another article, just edit your article as normal but enter the text #REDIRECT [[Master (comics)]], then save. Road Wizard 16:43, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

How to use Wikipedia.

Hello. I'm new at this. I recently, today, entered an article on the history of Quaker Oats and my home town of Ravenna. I'm not perfectly clear as to how to enter an article. There is already one article on Quaker Oats but I've researched the earlier history of the company in relationship to my city.

I then submitted an article for publication. I've waited a while to see where it would appear. It has not. Though, since then, I believe that I've received a warning that I may have affected another person's information. This was not my intent at all.

I've read you information as to how to get started but I felt that the directions were as clear as mud. I couldn't make heads or tails of how to enter, or edit, an article both old or new.

Could you please print me a step by step method of directions to do this. I have so much more information that I've gathered over the years.

I would appreciate your help.

Respectfully, Richard Rufener (******@****.***)

• If you enter information, it should appear immediately. Just type in the title in the search box and click go ('Go' is case-sensitive). The message you got about affecting another person's info is probably a vandalism warning aimed at someone using the same IP as you, which is unfortunately quite common. Where you logged in when you got the message? Having a title on the article you wrote would help too. - Mgm|^(talk) 23:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion

I recently added Calamari as an article that needs to be deleted on multiple counts of Wikipedia policy, but thought the template is there and the page is filled out, nothing is displaying.Scottandrewhutchins 23:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)Scottandrewhutchins

• Before Gumstead made his edits, this was a valid redirect to Squid to which I have reverted. We don't need to delete a valid redirect just because someone replaced the text with their own definition, you just reinstate the correct stuff. The reason nothing showed up is because you didn't add the AFD tag first... - Mgm|^(talk) 23:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure what this is about, but you can check out redirects for deletion. SynergeticMaggot 23:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The reason why you could not spot it on the deletion page listing is because there wasn't a title on the subpage (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calamari). --Commander Keane 23:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

July 29

Pictures

How do you insert a picture into a wikipedia page?--Hello to All I come In peace 00:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey there.. First of all, you'd probably want to look at Tutorial to edit an article. However, the image(s) you want to put have to be uploaded first, so try to open this and read the policy and guidelines. We're all in peace here :) Imoeng 02:34, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Also see Wikipedia:Image tutorial. - Mgm|^(talk) 06:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Aviator Sports and Recreation

How long does a cleanup notice stay on an article before it a decision is made on the article. No new comments have been made to the talk page from a user other than me, the original auther, for several weeks. It appears as though the only comment has now been addressed in the article.

Please advise --rdt 01:24, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I've observed the page and I realized that your article is no longer an article for deletion. If you see at the bottom of the discussion page, the article has now been moved to Wikipedia Cleanup. However, when I tried to look at your article there, it isn't there. Also, it is possible to list your article there (on Wikipedia Cleanup) based on the date when its categorized as a cleanup article. I dont mean your article is bad, but the solution of the deletion said your article is categorized as an article with cleanup tag. Hope that helps - Imoeng 04:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Editing with external editor? how?

I want to edit pages with an external editor, but how do I set this up?

I want to use vim as my editor I set the "use external editor preference". Opera shows a dialog when I click edit I tell opera to execute a command: 'xterm -e vim' vim opens and show the mime information.

I've tried changing some options with opera, but nothing works.

I can't find anything in the Wikipedia help (is there a page for this? there should be one)

Can anyone help me with this one?

Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Carpetsmoker (talk • contribs) .

I found Wikipedia:Text editor support#Vim and m:Help:External editors, they might get your sorted out.--Commander Keane 01:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

WHathefrigpeaceapple

This took me an hour to come up with this-- Qho ^(talk)

--[[User:Qho|<font color=669999> Qho <font> [[User talk:Qho|^(talk)]]]] 02:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC) .......^_______________________________________________ Every time I assighn this to the "nick name" slot and got this again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and agn and agin and darn I am having problems spelling it now.

• You forgot the slash in the closing font tag and you are using odd code instead of the regular brackets. You also have some stray (read:unneeded) brackets inside your username link. Try the following. Good luck! . - Mgm|^(talk) 06:03, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

--[[User:Qho|<font color=669999>Qho</font>]]·[[User talk:Qho|<sup>(talk)</sup>]]

deletion

How do you vote against a page getting deleted? The Anne Roger Quartet article should NOT BE DELETED!! that band rocks. ~hillary email: (removed to protect from spam)

Sorry I've tried with The Anner Roger Quartet, Anne Roger Quartet, Anner Roger, The Anner Roger but no article article related to that. If you can give us the link probably we could help. -- Imoeng 04:42, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

There was an article Anne_Rogers, deleted January 18, 2005. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anne Rogers. -- Rick Block (talk) 05:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

That is quite ammusing. Viridae^Talk 08:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

By clicking on the red link, you will come to the page that was deleted. Look for the blue link that says deletion log. The admin who deleted it was SimionP. The reason given was that it was not contested on articles for deletion. Now, to try and get the article back, you need to try deletion review. There you list the page and explain why you think the article was unjustly deleted. SynergeticMaggot 08:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. I was ammused by the user asking us not to delete an article that had been deleted 6 months ago. Reaction time was a tad slow. Viridae^Talk 08:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I didnt even check the date. That is a bit odd. SynergeticMaggot 09:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I included the date (which is 18 months ago, not 6) because I sort of assume the question must be about some other (similar) article, which I couldn't find. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Fixed your link there, Maggot. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Why thank you. SynergeticMaggot 08:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

engineering universties of pakistan

last date of submitig forms AND ENTRY TEST DATES OF SOME PUBLIC UNIVERSTIES

I am not sure if this is a question or an announcement, but if its a question you would be better off asking at the talk page of Portal:Pakistan or Wikipedia:Reference Desk as they specialise in knowledge questions. This helpdesk is for questions related to wikipedia only -- Lost 07:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Most visited pages in Wikipedia

Isn't there a list of most visited pages in Wikipedia? Ran9876 08:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Very Frequently Asked Questions#Are page hit counters available? -- Lost 08:42, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Also see Special:Popular pages. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Didnt work.... Viridae^Talk 08:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• That is, Special:Mostrevisions, which has the articles with the most revisions, and looks like it could be a rough estimate of most visited pages. —Centrx→talk • 08:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

signature

I am trying to modify my signature. This is what I type in my preferences: --Lost|talk

But, upon using my four tildes, this is what comes out --[[User:Lostintherush|Lost|[[User_talk:Lostintherush|talk]]|<font color=green></font>]] 12:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Can somebody help please. Thanks

Have you checked Raw signature? That fixed mine. Viridae^Talk 12:19, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Aah!! that did the trick.. thanks -- Lost|^(talk) 12:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

No probs. Viridae^Talk 12:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Deleted Edits

What is a deleted edit? I saw it in an RFA. Up until then I thought it was bad. But the RFA used it in a good way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TeckWiz (talk • contribs) 14:43, 29 July 2006.

If some article was deleted, all edits to that article are marked as deleted. Jacek Kendysz 15:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

An example of getting a "good" deleted edit would be tagging an article for speedy deletion. When the article is deleted, your edit adding the tag will will be deleted also, adding to your deleted edit tally.--Commander Keane 15:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Username display hacks

I notice that many Wikipedians have their usernames displayed differently, like in two colors, or as two links. Is there a reason for this other than personal preference? Is there a page on Wikipedia that tells how to do this? B7T 15:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

You may want to look at this and this -- Lost^(talk) 15:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

How to find out why images were deleted

How would one go about finding out why an image (such as ) was deleted? It seems that when an image is deleted, the history and the reasons for deleted disappear with it. Thanks! -- ArglebargleIV 15:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Generally an image is deleted when either of the source, the copyright holder or the license of the image is not mentioned. Before deleting, however, the uploader is usually informed about the reason -- Lost^(talk) 15:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Everything is logged, see Special:Log. In this case, the log entry.--Commander Keane 15:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks! -- ArglebargleIV 15:19, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Changing an Article Name

How do I change the name of an article? I've checked for help on the website though it gives me no help at all.

Try WP:MOVE. SynergeticMaggot 16:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Applying Templates

How do I actually apply a Template (such as the Template:Infobox Town NY template)? I can see that it exists and has specific parameters and arguments, but I can't seem to find access to its actual format unless I find an existing article that uses it and I can get at the source code. Please respond to my talk page. Thanks you. Jim Dunning 16:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Replied on his talk page -- Lost^(talk) 17:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Find Deleted Edits

How do you find deleted edits? TeckWiz^TalkContribs_Guestbook 18:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi TeckWiz,

Normal users can't find deleted edits. Only administrators have the rights to look at deleted articles and the edits therein. Hope this satisfies your querry. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks TeckWiz^TalkContribs_{# of Edits} 18:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC) (and yeah, within the past 25 minutes I got a new sig)

Another note: If you just want the aggregates, you can use the interiot's tool, though it is a bit out-dated. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:32, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

New Wiki Page

Hello Wikipedia. I have recently joined your site and I had a question. I saw that pen spinning was its own wiki site. Since i enjoy magic I thought that I could create my own wiki site on magic tricks, but i am unsure of how to begin. Could you help me? Thank you for your consideration.

There is all the information you need at http://www.wikia.com as they are a hosting service (not part of the Wikimedia Foundation) that helps with Wikihosting. Ryūlóng 20:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Uploading copyrighted pictures from Internet

Can I upload a picture from a website (specifically, an agglomeration of photos that the creator of the site has taken) onto Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons if I am unsure about its copyright status but (almost) sure that it is not public domain or available under Creative Commons or GFDL, and that no public-domain equivalent is available from any source of which I am aware? C. M. Harris 21:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

No. You should not upload pictures from other websites unless you are aware of their specific copyright status, and their original source. In some extremely limited cases you may be able to upload an image under a fair use exception. However, Wikipedia much prefers images with "free" licenses. For more info check out Wikipedia:Image use policy and Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --Hetar 21:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

July 30

My sigunature- Qho

Qho·^(talk) Is what I want it to look like.

[[User:Qho|<font color=669999>Qho</font>]]·[[User talk:Qho|^(talk)]]the code I input on the my preferences.

This is what I get --<font color=669999>[[User:Qho|Qho</font>·^{[[User talk:Qho|talk]]}]] 00:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC).

If one person Will help I will give them access to my account. _{I will promptly change the password so no impersonating can occur.}Or you can walk me through it, step by step.

The one and only cloud.

Qho·^(talk)

--<font color=669999>[[User:Qho|Qho</font>·^{[[User talk:Qho|(talk)]]}]] 00:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's the other code I tried= <font color=669999>[[User:Qho|Qho]]</font>·^{[[User talk:Qho|talk]]}

See little difference in code but no matter what I do It musses up.

This is so full of crap

It heavenly pie >_<

• From the look of things, you need to check "Raw signature" in your preferences. Luna Santin 00:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• was going to say the same thing. Viridae^Talk 00:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Still bad

It Was off and I turned it on and it still did not work.

I just will stop trying and stay with my original sig.

If it does not not work I will either Quit or give you my password.

I copied Viridae's code but the color still does not work.

--Qho^Talk 00:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Try this: <font color="#669999">[[User:Qho|Qho]]</font>·<sup>[[User talk:Qho|(talk)]]</sup> Luna Santin 00:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

And how the HEHA doi add user (contribs)?

Maybe I shall copy mine from someone else.(Copy and paste)

Luna thanks it mostly works now. --Qho·^(talk) 00:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Ah, good. :) The wikilink for your contribs would be [[Special:Contributions/Qho]], formatted however you're looking for. Luna Santin 00:51, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

That Is So Wiki Cool

Thanks so much.

Mucho Grasia.

Is it Okay To copy this to my archives??

--Qho·_(talk)·_contribs) 01:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Yes, you can copy this to your userspace. — Reinyday, 01:05, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiDefCon

I can't seem to find the page for the WikiDefCon. Does anyone have the link and can tell what to put on my user page to display it? Hello32020 00:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Please see Template:Wdefcon. — Reinyday, 01:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • And in particular, the talk page has some alternative display methods. I highly recommend a peek. Luna Santin 01:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)