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January 12

channel numbers for fox footy

the new channel numbers for fox footy on foxtel and austar are hd 206 and sd 504. the reference is feom austar website — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.238.233.216 (talk) 01:42, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Is there an article that needs to be updated? If so, which one? RudolfRed (talk) 02:47, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Rap Group Cali Swag

You have listed that Cali Swag member Corey Fowler aka DC Smoove was killed in a car accident on December 31. THIS IS NOT TRUE. HE IS NOT DEAD. He is still a member of the group. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.146.49 (talk) 01:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Looks like someone has already fixed this on Cali_Swag_District. RudolfRed (talk) 02:26, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Security Code/Picture problem

I've lost the password to my earlier account and I understand that I can't recover my account as I didn't record my email at the time.

I've tried registering for a new account but can't do so due to the confirmation (security) codes used by the process. Is there a way to register (eg by email?) without a security code being used? Thanks, 182.177.24.16 (talk) 02:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Request an account. There's a form you can fill out. RudolfRed (talk) 02:23, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks...however I think I will post a note on the policy page about the security codes that Wikipedia uses anyway.182.177.24.16 (talk) 04:03, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

What's a security code? The Mark of the Beast (talk) 22:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

I think this refers to the CAPTCHA - it has its own help page. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Can't find an old TFD

{{Holidays}} (formerly on the Main Page) was tagged with {{tfd}} on 3 December 2004; does anyone know how to find this discussion? WhatLinksHere doesn't give any links from TFD-related pages, the deletion log has disappeared, a search for "holidays" in the "search archives" section at the top of TFD doesn't yield anything relevant, and the December 2004 TFD archive doesn't have anything about it. Nyttend (talk) 02:37, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

TfD back in 2004 had the discussion right on the TfD page, that is it did not transclude separate discussion pages. The last revision before closing (by removal) is here and the removal diff is here. The weird thing is that I cannot find the entry in the deletion log.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:02, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Aha. The deletion log apparently only goes back to December 23, 2004. Interesting.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:11, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

URL points to Incorrect article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_Within_%28The_Outer_Limits%29

The above URL does not point to the synopsis of the "Worlds Within" episode of Season 7 of the Outer Limits, but rather a page which describes the history of the Outer Limits television series, both original and newer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.27.65 (talk) 03:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

It was actually intentional. It's a redirect in the Wikipedia sense which means that the url does not change although another article is displayed. Below the heading it says "(Redirected from Worlds Within (The Outer Limits))". The page history of the redirect shows there was once a tiny article: [1]. See also Wikipedia:Television episodes. I have changed the redirect target from The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) to List of The Outer Limits (1995–2002) episodes#Season 7 (2001–2002). The latter has a brief mention of the episode. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it's intentional. All the other links on the episode page go to articles for that episode. Why would the link for the Worlds Within episode point back to the main Outer Limits article? RudolfRed (talk) 03:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Because there is no separate article for the "Worlds Within" episode? – ukexpat (talk) 14:10, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Reporting vandalism

Users with IP152.226.7.211 and IP152.226.6.204 been vandalizing articles. Thought you guys might want to know and block it.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 03:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

152.226.7.211 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been given a final warning; 152.226.6.204 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has not edited for two days so it's probably too late to do anything. For general advice see Wikipedia:Vandalism#How to respond to vandalism. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

recently added 'Eric Arnott' article

I have done some editing on this article and added in line citations and removed dead links. Can someone advise what other major issues need to be addressed to further improve this article. Thank you Ovigalltd (talk) 13:07, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I will answer on article's talk page. – ukexpat (talk) 14:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

 Done. – ukexpat (talk) 17:59, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy

Hi

I have obtained Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy items for a sports dinner auction. I wish to match it with a photo and write to ask whether Wikipedia has copyright on the displayed photos of the two golfers? And if so, whether or if it is possible to use these photos?

Thanks

John F.31.52.136.102 (talk) 13:27, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

The photos currently displayed on those golfers' pages are:

commons:File:Rory_McIlroy.jpg

commons:File:Rory_McIlroy_practicing_on_the_green_at_the_2010_PGA_Championship.jpg

commons:File:Rory_McIlroy_at_the_Memorial_Golf_Tournament.jpg

commons:File:DarrenClarke.jpg

Wikipedia does not own the copyright for any of these photos. However, all four are hosted at the Wikimedia Commons and have been released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence, which allows you to re-use the photos subject to certain easily-met conditions. You can see what those conditions are by clicking the file names above and scrolling down until you see "Permission" or "Licensing". If you have any more specific questions, the best place to ask is Commons:Village pump/Copyright, or else check out Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia. Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 14:27, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Special:DeadendPages

Special page Special:DeadendPages has not been updated since 2009 and is therefore useless. How can we get the page updated so we can address dead-end pages? Lineslarge (talk) 13:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Good luck getting it fixed. If you want an alternative, many articles that contain no or few external links are marked with the Wikify template and are listed at Category:Articles that need to be wikified. Of course that's not much help in finding these articles, only in repairing them. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Take a look at Wikipedia:Deadend pages and read this last 4 comments in this section. Von Restorff (talk) 14:30, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

The answer below from John of Reading clearly shows that the comments that Von Restorff refers to no longer apply: there may well have been a technical problem several years ago when the comments were made but this external site has obviously overcome that. Lineslarge (talk) 15:55, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

You may have more success at the technical village pump or on wikitech-l. I don't have the faintest idea how to update that special page, but I suspect it requires sysadmin intervention, and those places are good starting points for that. --NYKevin @886, i.e. 20:15, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Dead-end pages which have been tagged with {{Dead end}} are listed at Category:Dead-end pages (238 of them). Dead-end pages which have not been tagged can be listed using the tool described at Wikipedia:Deadend pages#Toolserver (767 of them). -- John of Reading (talk) 09:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok, well John of Reading's answer certainly gives a workaround and I will use that external resource to find the pages for now. Someone outside of Wikipedia has obviously solved this. Back to my original question then: can the Special:DeadendPages be fixed so it updates automatically? Lineslarge (talk) 15:55, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

No. It was disabled because it used too many server resources - see here. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:27, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

complaint against biju rasheed

hi I want to complaint against biju rasheed he is from varrakal kerala,phone number is(REMOVED PHONE NUMBER) he make fake id in the name of roma asrani and put my photo my pic and number in his photo album with nude picture kindly block tht id — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.73.45.193 (talk) 14:02, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 3.8 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. TNXMan 14:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Ugh

I see "improve this page" blocking the lower-right hand corner of the Google article... 71.175.53.239 (talk) 14:15, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I do not see that. Have you tried adjusting your display -perhaps that is the cause of the issue. TNXMan 14:20, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

No Tnxman307, this bug is a feature. This location for the WP:AFT5 is a terrible idea, but the AFT1 was much much worse. screenshot Von Restorff (talk) 14:22, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

For those who (like me) have the AFT thingummy turned off, this is what the OP means. Deor (talk) 16:19, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

??? Von Restorff (talk) 17:16, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Unable to locate article

I created an article without an account for the Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation. The editing team then asked me to input further references for it to be approved. I have done this and re-sent for approval but it has not been published and I don't know how to find the article again in the editing bit. How would I know who to ask whether it has been approved and can I find a way back to the article I wrote? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.83.155.213 (talk) 14:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Do you mean this? Von Restorff (talk) 14:19, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I got two warning notices

Hi, I am trying to write some biography pages for scholars in law-and-society. I got two warning notices -- one for "Carol Heimer" and one for "Susan Hirsch". The "Heimer" one said I needed to put in more refs, and I did, but it still seems to have a warning on it? and the "Hirsch" one said it had too much promotional material, so I took off some external links (which I personally think would be helpful, but I removed them anyway). What else should I do, and how can I get the warnings taken off of those pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thepeanut2 (talk • contribs) 16:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

If by "Warning notices" you mean the page top boxes saying that "the article reads like an advert" or that "the article needs to be cleaned up" etc.; they aren't strictly "warnings". They are observations by other editors that work should ideally be done to the articles to improve them. Do what you can to improve the articles with the templates messages in mind, then when you feel the article doesn't suffer from the issues highlighted, just remove the template from the page (usually the template will have been placed at the very top of the page or section it refers to). fredgandt 16:40, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thepeanut2 (talk • contribs) 16:54, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Why does redirect point to an old/obsolete page???

I've noticed this: For example if there is a page for SomeLongName, but there is a redirect page for it called Shortcut. Now if I click on SomeLongName I always get the current version with the latest edits. But if I click on Shortcut, it always redirects me to an old version of SomeLongName and not the current version. I've tried purges, etc. Nothing worked. Why? I thought a redirect should always send the reader to the current article... Thanks. Useroipho (talk) 16:52, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Shortcut is a disambiguation page not a redirect. If you are using "Shortcut" symbolically, please refer to one or more specific pages. —teb728 t c 16:58, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

It's caused by caching on Wikipedia's servers for performance reasons. "always" is an exaggeration but it's common for unregistered users on redirects. Your account was created 8 minutes before your post so I guess your experiences are as unregistered. Purging ought to work but make sure you are purging the redirect url and not the target page. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Edititing page title

Hello, I am trying to set up a page for an Artist Lucien Smith, i have it saved in my sandbox not quiet ready to submit.

i have one issue, there is already a page for a "Lucien Smith" who is an Attorney. It looks as if the page was created to promote the Attorney while he ran for Treasurer last year.

i am wondering how and if i can change his page title to Lucien Smith (Attorney)

in order to create a page for Lucien Smith

please let me know if this is possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lazlo718 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

You wouldn't. You would move your draft to Lucien Smith (artist), assuming that it meets the relevant inclusion criteria. – ukexpat (talk) 17:23, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Please also take a look at WP:CREATIVE for guidance on notability. – ukexpat (talk) 17:27, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

SOPA Sucks

As a user of your service, I thank you for your continued opposition of H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT-IP). I implore you to consider one-half or full-day of restricted site access to your global services in protest of the aforementioned bills in the way that news-sharing site Reddit plans for January 18th between 8am–8pm U.S. Eastern Time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pylonx (talk • contribs) 17:29, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Appreciated, but the Help Desk probably isn't going to be the place where most run across this message. Calabe1992 17:32, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

If you really want to discuss a blackout or other action, go to WP:SOPA, and note that new users may carry less weight than established users (I know it's unfair, but it's just how the politics here work out). --NYKevin @838, i.e. 19:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Search facility

Although Juan Vicente de Güemes Pacheco de Padilla y Horcasitas, Second Count of Revillagigedo is listed among the "Viceroys of New Spain" in Wikipedia, entering "Revillagigedo," (the name by which he is best known) in your opening search facility does not lead to this entry. Why not? How can this be corrected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.19.19.50 (talk) 18:29, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

It looks to me like the word could refer to either Count of Revilla Gigedo. In any case, I think a hatnote would suffice, but I'm unsure where to direct users. --NYKevin @875, i.e. 20:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

"Revillagigedo" by itself could refer to the count, or to his father (also a viceroy of New Spain); to any of the three geographical features named for him, to the palace in Gijón of that name, or to the fish native to the Revillagigedo Islands. This calls for what we call a disambiguation page for the word "Revillagigedo" without qualifier. I have created such a page at Revillagigedo. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Eaton Bay Financial

Eaton Bay Financial-- understand this investment company was sold back in the 1986 time frame. Would like to know to whom and the present owner ,if any , as to its disposition — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjkilburn. (talk • contribs) 18:34, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. --NYKevin @850, i.e. 19:24, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Photo Removed

I added a photo for an article I wrote about Susan Ershler and it was removed.Why? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reliablecyber (talk • contribs) 18:35, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Is this the file you're talking about?

File:Susan Ershler.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

According to the logs, the first time you uploaded it, you did not fill in the non-free use rationale, and the second time you failed to specify a source. For reasons of copyright, every file must have a source specified. Additionally, files which are not available freely must have a detailed non-free use rationale -- basically an explanation of why we need to use an unfree file. If you took this picture yourself, you should release it under a free license, such as one listed at WP:ICT/FL (as there are a lot of options there, I would recommend picking one of the Creative Commons licenses, particularly cc-by-3.0 or cc-by-sa-3.0, but it's up to you), if you want it to be accepted. If it belongs to someone else, follow the non-free use guidelines. --NYKevin @833, i.e. 18:59, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Addendum: In this case it looks like the non-free use was rejected because Susan Ershler is still alive, so someone could go and take a free image of her. In that case, you may not be allowed to use that image unless you can show that someone taking a free image of her is unlikely to happen. --NYKevin @835, i.e. 19:02, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Contributing a photo which is relevant to an encyclopedia article already on Wikipedia

Hello, I have at various times consulted Wikipedia, but this is the first time I have ventured into the "inner workings". I have been teaching myself to use Photoshop (I have the full commercial version 7 from '02, as well as the latest {v.10} PS Elements). For source material, I have been looking around The Library of Congress picture collections, and out of the thousands I have studied, there are about 75 that I've downloaded in .tif format, each file being between 20 & 30 MB. Yesterday I found a very nice shot, needing very little (compared to what I've seen) restoration of two streamlined steam passenger trains running side-by-side over a stone viaduct, dated c. 1939. I was intrigued because upon close inspection I saw that one locomotive was British, the other American. Googling the British loco got me to Wikipedia URL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS.Princess_Coronation_Class_6220_Coronation

The information in the Wiki article both satisfied my curiosity and answered my question about how an American and British train could be running together: The British locomotive was in the USA on a tour in connection with the World's Fair in New York. The photo I found was apparently taken during the tour. It would make a dandy illustration for an article that currently has none, and is directly related to statements within the article. I have literally just this moment signed up for a Wikipedia account, and am very interested in taking part wherever I can, but am presently totally overwhelmed with the sheer volume of information to absorb. I don't know where to start. I have all the relevant info about the photo, including the statement on it's web page within the LOC that there are "no known restrictions on publication". Could you please point me in the right direction so I could make this photo part of the article? Thanks very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xgi93 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you could tell us precisely when the image was published, if ever (remember: publication and creation are separate things). Is it an orphan work? If so, this may be rather complicated; although there may be no known restrictions, there could still be unknown restrictions which we still need to comply with. I would recommend starting at our page on public domain images, but note that you may not be able to contribute the image if it turns out to still be copyrighted. I'm sorry that it's so complex, but copyright law is very messy. On the other hand, if it is copyrighted, you may still be able to contribute it under our non-free content rules, but those are a lot more stringent (the image has to be actually, currently useful as well as impossible to replace with a free equivalent). Finally, if it does turn out to be public domain, please upload it at Wikimedia Commons instead of here, so that other projects and languages can also use the image (Commons doesn't accept non-free content). --NYKevin @861, i.e. 19:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Please Consider Helping

SOPA/PIPA are very dangerous and threatening to the internet. Please consider joining many websites Jauary 18th by either blacking out the site or putting an informational banner across the top of every page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.11.52.17 (talk) 19:19, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but this page is for questions regarding using Wikipedia. You may want to post your request at the village pump. TNXMan 19:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

See WP:SOPA. – ukexpat (talk) 19:27, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Formatting error on Wikipedia Page

I noticed a formatting error on at Arab Citizens of Israel. When I tried to fix it, I was unable too as it was some sort of bizarre error I'd never seen before. Could someone take a look at it or at least let me know how to fix it. Thanks. Oneworld25 (talk)

Sorry, that article is very long and I have no idea where the formatting error is. Is [2] relevant (I know that's not you...)? Can you describe the error at all (was it big red ugly text in the middle of the article, for example?)? --NYKevin @890, i.e. 20:20, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Does this fix it? (I assumed that the three citations were supposed to be to the same reference.) – ukexpat (talk) 20:40, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

The error been fixed. It was under the section about Arabic and Hebrew as official languages. Sorry I wasn't more specific.Oneworld25 (talk)

Request assistance:Moving a category

Hi, administrators

Please help moving Category:Television adaptation of The Legend of the Condor Heroes to Category:Television adaptations of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Thanks you--NeoBatfreak (talk) 22:11, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Maybe a passing admin will do that, otherwise you will have to request it at Categories for discussion. – ukexpat (talk) 22:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Admins can't move categories (no-one can - the contents of a category can be moved to a new category and the original deleted, but that requires editing the articles not the category). I have added the request for renaming and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy where, if there are no issues, a bot will carry out the article changes to sort out the category in 48 hours or so. Sit back and relax, NeoBatfreak! Bencherlite^Talk 22:24, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

User name change went wrong!

Resolved

I got my name Ursurped and it seems my contributions went to the name JayJay but my username is still technically JDOG55, because all my contributions where moved JDOG555 has no edits and I cannot use twinkle. I would like to contact this User but it is locked please help me! JDOG555 (talk) 23:52, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

You need to log out and log back in as "JayJay" with the same password as before. Goodvac (talk) 23:55, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Both accounts will now have the same password and the same email address attached to it as your original account. The old one would be a redirect to the usurped account by default. You should now use the new one with the same password as suggested by Goodvac. Everything's normal. --lTopGunl (talk) 00:03, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

• I see the user now has new contributions (marked as resolved). --lTopGunl (talk) 01:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

January 13

Is it gluten-free?

Is cornflour gluten free? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.37.142.170 (talk) 01:11, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

If it has no wheat flour mixed in, then yes. Gluten is a product created when wheat flour mixes with water. Some close relatives of wheat, like barley, also produce gluten, but other flours like corn flour and soy flour have no gluten. The article Gluten-free diet has a list of common flours that are also gluten-free. --Jayron32 01:23, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Gluten is a generic term to refer to most grain proteins. Corn contains gluten. Confusion is generated by the public refering to only certain grain proteins as gluten. This is incorrect usage. Wheat gluten is gliadin and other grain glutens have more specific names. This usage confusion has become common and is used by celiac sufferers, also. The problem glutens for celiac disease people are: wheat (and related grains like spelt), barley (malts usually made from this), rye, and oats, although not containing offending gluten, are usually contaminated by wheat from shared processing facilties and proximity of growth within hundreds of km. from wheat fields. Corn and rice are the usual grains consumed by celiac suferrers. 99.251.114.120 (talk) 02:19, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid the Wikipedia article titled Gluten directly contradicts what you have to say on this matter. To whit: "True gluten, with gliadin and glutenin, is limited to certain members of the grass family. The stored proteins of maize and rice are sometimes called glutens, but their proteins differ from gluten." --Jayron32 02:28, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I can only find references to the food industry uing the terms rice gluten and corn gluten at this time. The US government uses the terms in many documents. I will have to consult technical texts to look further as the research has been tainted with celiac misinformation. I was informed years back by research people for the basis of my statements above. I place no faith in wikipedia's accuracy on technical matters of this kind and misinformtion tends to spread rapidly on the Web. Next thing you know it's in a dictionary and then it has to be the truth [sarc] 99.251.114.120 (talk) 05:53, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Is this a scam

Quick request: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, the Internet censorship bills. It'd be huge news, jar rank-and-file Internet users out of complacency, and serve as a turning point in the effort to beat these bills.

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Thanks!

Demand Progress

Is this legit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yan100 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Some kind of off wiki canvassing for the proposal. --lTopGunl (talk) 03:54, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Verification

i have given refrences of some of his students who have taken traing under this man and some newspaper articles. I have incorporated images that are proof for the same what else should i provide for the verification — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.30.49.77 (talk) 04:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

What article are you refering to? —teb728 t c 06:39, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for inconvenience I have done an unintentional mistake on one of your pages.

To Wikipedia Help desk team members

While reading the page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Amman_bombings) in the section of The Attacks Subsection 1.2 i.e. Grand Hyatt Hotel was deleted accidentally. By mitake I clicked the [edit] icon and at the same time I don't know how I clicked the save icon. But as it appears First I have sellected the subsection 1.2 or deleted the part and then by wrong touch I have saved the changes. For me it was very strange and funny but it happened. All happened in one second and I couldn't do anything.

Please return the Subsection of [Grand Hyatt Hotel] again.

Sorry for inconvenience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.46.146 (talk) 04:10, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

It is fixed. GB fan 04:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Redirect problem

There's a common problem with early aircraft (the area I mainly edit in) where an aircraft article is misnamed and cannot be movedbecause there is a rediect page with the proper name. I vaguely know how to do this, by requesting an admin to blow the redirect away, but not exactly. So I go to wiki:redirectfor illumination & and get a page on an external page. Wassup, doc?TheLongTone (talk) 06:54, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Follow the directions at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting technical moves. Goodvac (talk) 07:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

If the redirect page has only one version, you can just move to the redirect. —teb728 t c 07:06, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Cheers, both for the link to the proper way of doing this & for the quick n'dirty workaround. but I am curios as to why following th elink on a wp page gts me [[3]]. I noticed it last night, & it's still happening.TheLongTone (talk) 07:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Which link from which page is getting you there? - David Biddulph (talk) 08:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmmm, now it seems to be sorted I can't find it again....., sorry. The snark was a boojumTheLongTone (talk) 08:46, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Whatever the page, the link would be Wiki:redirect. Some people mistakenly associate "Wiki" with Wikipedia. (See "Wiki" in Meta:Interwiki map.) —teb728 t c 09:29, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah, yes. So perhaps the OP intended to go to WP:Redirect, instead of wiki:redirect? - David Biddulph (talk) 15:58, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Worm

Hello I ave noticed that you are now sending header adverts in worm. Please desist. I may be in Saudi Arabia, but that is even more reason to object receiving rubbish in worm from outside. Thank you.

I don't understand worm in this context. Please explain. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:39, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Since Wikipedia doesn't send any adverts, ever, in any form, I think you must either not be talking about Wikipedia, or else your own system has some malware. It is possible you might get some help from the Wikipedia computing reference desk, but you will need to be a lot more specific about what the problem is. --ColinFine (talk) 14:09, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

We had that ugly banner asking for donations... Von Restorff (talk) 14:17, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

How to load images and link it with a new article created

Dear Wikipedia Team,

I just submitted a new article created for our company. As I went through the Article Wizard in creating the article, I was not able to find an information on how to upload the resort images to link it with the text I submitted for the article. The idea is to put some images on my article such as few of our villa categories, restaurants and leisure facilities.

Looking forward to hear from you.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Information.irufushi (talk • contribs) 11:09, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi, you can find the manual here: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images. You can upload an image by following this link (<-- click) and then place it in the article as described in the manual. Please read the information before uploading and note that you are releasing the images under a licence, meaning that third parties can also use it. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 11:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Before uploading images, you should read the notability criteria for companies and explain why your resort hotel is notable. Wikipedia is not to be used to advertise your business. Simply supplying a web address and its distance from various other attractions does not make an encyclopedia article. Your user name is also in breach of Wikipedia's policy on usernames and you have a very obvious conflict of interest when it come to writing about your resort hotel. Astronaut (talk) 11:58, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

In fairness, there was a lot more in the article than that - at least until I discovered it was a copy-paste job from Facebook and a couple of other places, and blanked the offending material per WP:AFCR... `Yunshui 雲‍水 23:29, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Reported to WP:UAA as a WP:SPAMNAME. – ukexpat (talk) 15:09, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

About size of articles

Hello. How can I find out size of article in English version Wikipidia? Thanks. What'sGoingOn (talk) 11:10, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi, the English Wikipedia has 3.8 million articles. For individual pages you can find the size by clicking the "View History" button on the top of the page (or alternatively, there is an arrow, click the arrow and then click view history). Behind the edits it states the number of bytes. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 11:17, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

You go to the history tab. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 11:59, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Warning function

Is there such a function that warns people not to enter a large page before the page itself loads? This might be helpful if the article is large and that the browser might crash. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 12:03, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

I doubt it. It sounds more like a problem with your browser. Can you please give us an example of such an article?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 18:57, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

My userpage was 245k in size, and people were complaining that it was crashing their broswers. I want to keep it, and I'd like a function that warns people to enter at their own risk. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 00:59, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry but such a warning is totally nonsensical. According to gtmetrix.com the size is 367KB in 32 requests. If you want to be nice to people using TOR or living in countries with bad internet access you could probably shave a few seconds off their loading time, but explaining people that netscape navigator 3 is going to crash does not make sense, because that problem has nothing to do with you or your userpage. A random youtubemovie is 396KB in 11 requests... if you exclude the actual movie! I am able to load your usertalkpage on Win98SE in Internet Exploder 6.0 (7.7% of the world still uses IE6, a browser that is ten years old, especially in developing countries). My advice would be to ask the people who complain to download Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Von Restorff (talk) 06:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC) p.s. You could put a link on your userpage to an alternative talkpage that contains as little as possible, but that does not solve the problem for people with shitty browsers.

How about moving (most of) the content to one or more subpages, linked from your user page -- and then warning people before they link to those pages. —teb728 t c 07:44, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

VIRUS IN TETRAHYDRAFURAN ARTICLE WHEN CONVERTED TO PDF

MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT REPORTS THE FOLLOWING VIRUS IN PDF "THF.pdf" contains the following virus: "VIRUS= HTML/Agent.NJ (Norman); Tagged ID: 30874986_88AB_4C04_85B3_41022736B8F2" . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.78.17.253 (talk) 15:21, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 3.8 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 Astronaut (talk) 17:17, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Tetrahydrofuran is clearly the article reported. Downloading the article as a pdf is clearly when the problem is seen, and "HTML/Agent.NJ" is revealed by a simple Googling to be in some way linked to Trojans. If I were the OP, I think I would be less than pleased to be handed a template suggesting I might not know where I am. If I knew more about the possibilities of trojans hitching a ride in pdfs created from Wikipedia articles, I'd make suggestions or attempt to track and fix the problem, but I am simply not clued up enough to tackle this issue. Maybe someone else can. fredgandt 18:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, it was a bit of work but I am able to replicate the issue. What I did is downloading the article as a PDF and uploading the PDF to virustotal.com. The virusscanner Norman (version 6.07.13 virusdefinitions 20120113) detected HTML/Agent.NJ. I do not know if it is a false positive. Von Restorff (talk) 23:09, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Could the virus be at the other end of one of the external links, and the scanning software is reading through the link (like AVG LinkScanner (and others))? I can't see how a virus could be hidden in the article (I did check the page)(or any for that matter), since any active code is deloused on parsing. fredgandt 23:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

My guess is that it is a false positive (probably the image that contains a string that makes the virusscanner think it found a virus) but I am not sure. I did download and run it in a sandbox but there were no outbound connection made and I saw nothing suspicious (but I have the latest version of the PDF reader which may be immume). Von Restorff (talk) 23:37, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

You know? I completely forgot images could carry viruses. I am so off the ball right now it just isn't funny. Like you say though, more than likely a false positive or a proactive fallacy  fredgandt 23:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Is this acceptable

A user User:MilkStraw532 seems to be creating a large number of biographies with questionable notability and many already have orphan tags. I am unsure whether these overstep the mark and whether some action is needed. Does anyone else share my concerns? JMcC (talk) 15:31, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

According to this, MilkStraw532 has not created any pages. What pages are you concerned about? GB fan 15:40, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

From his edit history, he/she seems to have tagged some pages with orphan tags, created various talk pages to post on them, and made edits to a lot of fairly obscure biographical articles. None of these actions seem to warrant concern. Perhaps the OP is confusing creation of talk pages with the creation of articles. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

native speaker review wanted for pointing machine

Hello, some time ago I wrote the article pointing machine. It is in need of a review by a native speaker, since inevitably some incorrect wording or style will have crept in. How or where do I apply for this? It is not intended as a featured article. Not important enough, I'd say... Satrughna (talk) 16:58, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

This was probably a good place to ask. I'll have a look at it this weekend for you. Brammers (talk/c) 09:59, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!!! Satrughna (talk) 13:51, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Best way to display alternative years of birth

Margaret of Anjou was born on either 23 March 1429 or 23 March 1430. There is no clear consensus in sources re the correct year. The article currently states 1430 but it should somehow say "23 March 1429 or 1430" as DOB. Is there an agreed format in which alternatives of this type should be displayed; and which WP guideline is relevant? Thanks. --Jim Hardie (talk) 19:33, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

"23 March 1429 or 1430", with a representative reliable source for each date, properly footnoted, should suffice. Be bold but also be willing to discuss it on the article talk page if someone objects. --Jayron32 19:38, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Jayron. That was a very quick response. --Jim Hardie (talk) 19:40, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Marcin Kasprzak

A Google news search will reveal that today a Polish man named as above was convicted in the UK of attempting to murder his girlfriend by burying her alive. This has been widely reported and I'm sure I'm not the only person who has looked to Wikipedia for info on the topic. However, the wiki article for that name:

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

is about a 19th century Polish revolutionary, not a 21st century Polish attempted murderer! So, this leads to my questions. First - does this case satisfy wp:n i.e. is it worth creating an article about it? Secondly, how do we go about having the existing article renamed ("Marcin Kasprzak (revolutionary)?) if this new Marcin Kasprzak is sufficiently notable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.147.195 (talk) 19:56, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Generally cases such as these are not notable, see WP:BLP1E. Nanonic (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the swift response! Guess I'll have to find something else to do with my evening hehe ;) 86.163.147.195 (talk) 20:02, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

wikitable, cellspacing, cellpadding

In order to offer to the reader a extensible overview of the Chilean regions, provinces and comunes I want to edit such a table:

Arica and Parinacota Region (XIV), Capital Arica, 2336 Habs. 4645km2
Arica Province, Capital Arica, AricaX Habs. AricaX km2 Camarones 3,927 1,220 link Arica 4,799 185,268 link
Parinacota Province , Capital Putre, Putrex Habs. PutreX km2 Putre 5,903 1,977 link General Lagos 2,244 1,179 link

I want that the inner and the outer table have the same width, (+/- one or two pixels). I tried it with cellpadding=0 and cellspacing=0 at many places, but it doesn't work.

Can any one say how to get rid of the paddings?--Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 21:38, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

I've removed the outer margins from the inner tables in your example (above), but am not exactly certain it is stylistically correct per Wikipedia:Manual of Style guidelines. fredgandt 23:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

How do I create a page?

There is no "Create A Page" option in the Wikipedia. I cannot find the option in any other wiki, too! Wikipedia, can you add it? Help me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.152.104.131 (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Article wizard, Wikipedia:Starting an article and Wikipedia:Your first article. However, you must register for an account before you can create articles.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

That IS Paul McCartney In The Nickelback Rockstar Video

I am a huge Classic Rock fan and I have been a huge Beatles fan as long as I can remember and I just want to let you guys know that it really IS Paul McCartney in the Nickelback music video for thier song Rockstar. I don't know where you guys get your information but anybody with half a brain will tell you that is him. You need to fix it or prove otherwise — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skaarjeff (talk • contribs) 22:38, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

The proper place to discuss the article is its talk page. This help desk is for help with the general use of Wikipedia and its editing tools etc. Thanks. fredgandt 22:57, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

You have it backwards. This is an encyclopedia, a tertiary source that properly synthesizes already published material. For that reason we have a verifiability policy which requires that when any information is added and challenged, the burden is on the person wishing to keep the material to show through citation to a reliable source that the information is verifiable. You may be dead right that it is Paul McCartney but that information has been challenged, and so of you want that information to be included, please find a reliable source verifying it. If you do and need help citing it, report back here and we will help.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

January 14

How to contact a user when he appears to not read talk pages (even his own)?

If I'd like to discuss concerns about content that a specific user keeps adding to an article and I'm reasonably sure that this person doesn't read any discussion/non-main page (not even their own talk page), how would I contact them in such a situation? It's not that the edits this user is making are in bad faith, I just don't understand why they're doing what they're doing, and I wish to discuss it with them. Is there any way to contact a user in main space without vandalizing an article? (I thought about an edit notice but had no idea if it would be appropriate since I can't find any stipulations about their use.) - Purplewowies (talk) 00:24, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

If you're reverting them or making other edits to the page you can try using edit summaries to direct them to the talk. It's pretty hard to miss the user talk page banner that appears when you have new messages, so if the editor is being willfully uncommunicative, eventually they'll need to be blocked. As long as you've tried communicating, just go to the next step which is probably one of those administrator noticeboards. — Bility (talk) 00:43, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Seconded. He/she's seeing          this         . You're being ignored, willfully.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:04, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK messup on my part.

I was nominating a new article on the 1887 Halloween tropical storm, but I made a mistype and the nomination page has become messed up. Can anybody help with finding out how to fix it? The page is here [4] Hurricane Angel Saki (talk) 01:23, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Made some changes and put it here. Everything look good now? — Bility (talk) 01:33, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

How do you stop a merger?

Someone posted that the Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service article should be merged with an article about the town it is based in. Several people have opposed the merger on the talk page, but how do you actually reject and close the proposal? 85.158.139.101 (talk) 01:29, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I closed it. — Bility (talk) 01:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank You 85.158.138.22 (talk) 01:36, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Inciting edit warring

Can gentle nudging be made to an editor (I have no idea how to not get banished or other threats in retort, if attempt this) Walkabout12 regarding his edit summaries? This editor makes many reverts with no explanaations to explain why. He also has inserted nasty comments on user pages with ad hominem attacks. This deters editors from making improvements, for sure, and appears to provoke emotional response from editors, giving no explanation for his reverts or warnings. People need reasons otherwise editors appear to be stalking or harrasing them. In view of his wiki participation he is most liekely in good faith but needs anudge or maybe his style needs a review. Perceived provoking of editors does not promote good growth. 99.251.114.120 (talk) 02:31, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Two things: 1) This is not the correct place to report problems of this nature. Try WP:WQA instead. 2) When you do report it there, please provide diffs which provide evidence that there is a problem. --Jayron32 02:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Dictionary built into Wikipedia?

While using my Kindle Fire, I was reading a Wikipedia article which contained a hyperlink on a particular word within the article. I am not sure how I did this but, upon tapping on the hyperlink (or doing something like this), I was taken to a page with the definition of the word instead of the Wikipedia entry for this word. Sometimes I wish to only know the definition of a word within a Wikipedia article rather than looking at the entire Wikipedia page on this word, so I thought that this trick was quite nice. The problem is, I don't know how I brought up the definition as I did this by accident. Does anyone know if there is a dictionary built into Wikipedia and, if so, what I might have done to stumble upon it? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.66.215 (talk) 04:51, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

You were probably directed to Wiktionary. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 04:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Some articles contain embedded links to Wiktionary entries, and it is hard to tell them apart. For example, grain is a link to a Wikipedia article, and grain is a link to Wiktionary. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:35, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

New Accounts from abroad

Morning, Is it possible to open a HSBC Bank account as a South African citizen? Have deposits put into it in Canada/USA.

Regards Richard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.247.171 (talk) 05:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

They have branches in, for example, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Von Restorff (talk) 10:16, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

It is possible to open an account online, but this is often restricted to legal residents of the country where you are opening the account and you will need to provide ID. Unfortunately, HSBC have offices for global banking and financial markets but no bank branch network in South Africa. You could open a personal checking account in the USA using your Green Card as ID (assuming you are a South African resident in the USA). You might have trouble opening a HSBC bank account elsewhere, unless you go for HSBC's 'premier' or 'advance' accounts, or their 'expat service'. These other accounts have significant eligibility requirements (not least the need to maintain many thousands in the account!) See here (premier & advance) and here (expat) for more info.

As you probably already know, transferring money internationally is usually subject to high fees, even within the same company. For example, I have two accounts in different countries but the banks are part of the same banking company; I have found a 'cheap' way to transfer money between the two accounts, but it still costs me £7 per transaction. In your case, it might be simpler to open two accounts with your preferred banks in USA and South Africa, and find a cheap way to transfer money between them. Astronaut (talk) 08:40, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

adding to the lexicon

I've coined some new words - terms of indearment for my dogs, actually - that are being used in my group of peers as affectionate references towards their partners etc. I've written a short piece explaining all this and included some of these new terms. Just for fun could you tell how would I start a conversation about spreading the use of these new words amongst the wikipedia community or at least finding out if people like them? Cheers Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.73.16.150 (talk) 05:34, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid that Wikipedia isn't created for your purpose of "adding to the lexicon". See Wikipedia:No original research for the Wikipedia policy on this. Perhaps you could find some internet forum to use your new words in. --Jayron32 05:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. Von Restorff (talk) 05:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

My pages have been hounded

Dear Team Recently my pages have been hounded unfairly and inarticulately - by LondonClanger - I am wondering if you can ask him to desist form sabotages our pages connected to Darryl Read as he seems to be making a hobby of it! There also further pages just deleted - which looks like robot work deletion - these pages are: Remember a Day (2000 film), and The Orange Illusion, these pages are legit in all ways. Link for Remember a Day: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279367/ as well as all references, I noted that user Michael Schimdt - has offered to help with the restoration of the Remember a Day page.

This is tiresome work, when users try to sabotage legitimate historical works out of sheer maliciousness, I hope that Wiki find a remedy for this in the near future.

Thanks for your help in this matter sincerely Catwizard777 (Clive Zone) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CatWizard777 (talk • contribs) 08:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not aim to have a page on every film, but only those that other people have already written about in reliable sources such as books, news reports and such like. An IMDb entry is not enough by itself - I can't see the deleted articles, so I can't comment in detail. This page gives a useful summary; there's lots more at Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (films).

Could you explain why you use the phrase "our pages"? Is this account being used by more than one person, or on behalf of a group or organisation of some kind? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I agree. Not every subject that exists is eligible for an article on Wikipedia: Articles must meet our standards of notability. It wasn’t just LondonClanger who caused the deletion of your articles: They were discussed at WP:Articles for deletion/Remember a Day (2000 film) and WP:Articles for deletion/The Orange Illusion, and the consensus was that the subjects did not meet our notability standards. —teb728 t c 08:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC) Also, IMDb is not necessarily considered a reliable source; see WP:IMDB. —teb728 t c 09:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I notice that here you sign as “Catwizard777 (Clive Zone)”, but on your user talk page you sign as “Darryl Read (catwizard777)”. Does this mean that your account is used by more than one person? If so, I’m sorry, but sharing an account is not permitted. —teb728 t c 10:09, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I informed LondonClanger about this discussion. Von Restorff (talk) 10:11, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Not offered Edit links when looking at most recent Diff

Up until today, when I look at the most recent Diff - the changes made between the current version and the previous version, I was offered an Edit link at the start of each section. Now I'm not offered those Edit links.

I see the Edit links on each section when I look at the whole article but it was easier to edit before.

Has something changed? SteveCrook (talk) 09:44, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, and bug 33671 has been logged. See this thread. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks. It's not just me then :) -- SteveCrook (talk) 21:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Can't find the article I submitted about H.T. Lockard

Several days ago I submitted an article on H.T. Lockard, an African American jurist who had recently died, but ignorantly, I was not aware of the requirement that I must first register with Wikipedia. I have now registered. Is that article that I submitted lost? Should I submit a second one? Slidhome (talk) 10:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

You submitted it here (click on the "Show" link). It was rejected because you submitted it as a Category rather than as an Article. —teb728 t c 10:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

under The Mistletoe

On the page of Justin bieber's song under the mistletoe. the name of the girl in the music video is missing. And some one is delating it whenever i edit it. the name of the girl is 'Ali Williams'. Pls add thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.203.45.0 (talk) 11:11, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Both the articles Justin Bieber and Under the Mistletoe are semi-protected, so that only registered users can edit them. If you have a change you would like to make to Under the Mistletoe you can suggest it at Talk:Under the Mistletoe - but be aware that any such information will only be added if you can point to a reliable source which gives the information: original research is not acceptable in Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 15:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

What have I done wrong to the reference tags?

Hello,

I am trying to edit the Bill Drummond page but the following message has appeared:

"Cite error: There are tags on this page, but the references will not show without a

template or a tag; see the help page".

I cannot see where the problem is though. The last reference is coded </ref> I believe.

Perhaps I inadvertently deleted the entire reference list?! If so, can we get it back?

Thank you. Katrinacrear (talk) 12:11, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I have fixed it. There was a <!-- that began an HTML comment, but no --> to close it. This made the rest of the text disappear. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:19, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you John of Reading! That's wonderful. Katrinacrear (talk) 11:25, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Images setting by %age

I've been trying to improve the structure of an article, but all the images are exceedingly their section limit in the widescreen, while no such problem exist in smaller screen. The images usually range between 150px to 200px. Is their any way to set images by percentage or something so that they occupy same space/width in every sized screen or any other solution for this problem? Thanks. September88 (talk) 11:54, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

No. Image sizes can only be set using px values. — Edokter (talk) — 17:15, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Still cannot find my submission on H.T. Lockard

I would like to properly submit the information as an article, then. But I cannot find it. The info on that page was already in a "show"mode and there was a long list of articles. But not mine. Help me. Slidhome (talk) 12:03, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects/2012-01, find entry number 132 in the table of contents and expand that section to see your text. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:15, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I copied it to User:Slidhome/H.T. Lockard for you (making a few superficial changes). It is not ready to be published as an article yet, but you can work on the draft there. Among the changes needed: It does not make clear why he is notable enough for an article; see WP:BIO. And it needs inline references to reliable sources to verify the content. —teb728 t c 17:46, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

symbols

I really hope you can help.when I was youg I have always seen these THREE symbols together but not. the syembols are {the CIRCLE} wich is the outer ring then { the SQUARE} inside the CIRCLE but NOT touching.THen there is { the TRIANGLE }inside the SQUARE, but not touching.I beleave it has to do with the anciants but can you please verify this for me? THANK YOU for your time ANTHONY HEDGECOKE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.47.153.132 (talk) 15:48, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Humanities reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 16:08, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

DISCUSSION v. TALK page

Why have the discussion tabs been changed to talk tabs? I preferred "discussion." Is this jut temporary? 98.221.125.119 (talk) 16:44, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Call talk pages "Talk". PrimeHunter (talk) 16:47, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

TALK appears to me to be a dumbing down of wikipedia, but I guess I'm too late for the discussion of that issue. John Link (talk) 05:26, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Dumbing down Wikipedia is easier than smarting up people. Von Restorff (talk) 08:52, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Darryl Read

Dear Team I should like to contact one of your administrative contributors User:Michig on his disputes about the Darryl Read page here User:Michig is suggesting more citations etc - which there is already an abundance of, please can you put us in touch to work this issue out - thanks. CatWizard777 (talk) 17:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

You are already in contact, as you have a dialogue on your talk page. You can also use the Darryl Read talk page. — Bility (talk) 20:25, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Non free image problem

Here is an image uploaded on 12 January - File:Jayduffy.jpg - It was released into the public domain - but the uploader has admitted that the image is infact taken from the actor's Twitter account without permission - [5] - Not sure where else to go to get it sorted so hopefully you can help. Thankyou.Rain the 1 18:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Deleted. Saying one can't find a copyright notice does not mean it was released under a free license or as public domain. — Edokter (talk) — 18:13, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thankyou Edokter for sorting that out so quickly.Rain the 1 18:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Articles for Creation Appeal

Articles for Creation urgently needs your help! Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently the are 2685 submissions waiting to be reviewed. Do you have what it takes? Are you familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines? Do you know what Wikipedia is and is not? Do you have a working knowledge of the Manual of Style, particularly article naming conventions? Are you autoconfirmed? Can you review submissions based on their individual merits? If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog.

Infobox spacing

For some time now I have been adding and editing infoboxes in spaced display to help comprehension, neatness, and simply for the fact that that how they're displayed on their source pages. A little while ago I ran into another editor who "compressed" the infobox to the From Hare to Eternity article, by which they removed the spacing. They insist that compressing makes the template look neater, and reduces used bytes - making the page load faster. Yet I haven't seen any rule or guideline that dictates spacing in these templates. Which makes no sense, seeing as page loading comes off more as a computer and connection issue than anything else. I'm I missing something, what is the preferred method? Sarujo (talk) 20:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

There's no preferred method (except each editor's preference), and while it does add a few bytes to store the whitespace, it's highly unlikely to noticeably affect load time. Templates are used for editors' convenience, so once one has been made "uncompressed" as you put it, it shouldn't be changed. If Deltasim can work with a "compressed" template, he can certainly use the cleaner looking one, so all he's really doing is making it harder for other users. — Bility (talk) 20:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Removing the spaces does make the page a few bytes smaller but the load-time saving is likely to be miniscule (unless we a talking of thousands of bytes). And when working with software, I certainly prefer to work with clear and easy to understand code over the compact or needlessly clever code I occasionally encounter, but in the case of wiki-markup it is not too hard to follow even if the infobox's "=" are not aligned neatly. The biggest problem though, with both Sarujo's and Deltasim's edits, is that they make a big apparent change in difference listings and therefore make vandalism harder to detect. They should both cut it out and start editing the text or finding references to improve the encyclopedia, rather than fighting over the spacing. I have mentioned this question to Deltasim. Astronaut (talk) 07:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I too agree that conflict of interest must be avoided. I haven't had any reading problems in the code. The external appearance and structuring makes all the difference. Besides editing is all about making reliable and functional articles, not fancy code styling. Sarujo appears that to be the first person that ever complained about my principles. If there is such a thing as an optimum style of infobox, I'll stick with it. Of course Sarujo has been fussing about not only the infobox but the paragraph and section structure. Thank you for your advice Astronaut. Deltasim (talk) 08:47, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Making a suggestions for Special:Watchlist

I'd like to make a suggestion for a feature improvement to Special:Watchlist (specifically, being able to set http-equiv refresh), but I'm not sure where to do so. I posted to meta:Help_talk:Special_page, but that doesn't seem to be attracting a response. Any suggestions? Waitak (talk) 20:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

You can make proposals at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) and in the meantime try importing a user script to add the refreshment you desire. To import a user script add the appropriate text (in this case see below) to your vector skin JavaScript page (if you're using the Vector skin, otherwise the following user script may not help you).

importScript("User:Fred_Gandt/watchlistLive.js");

There are a number of features in this particular script beyond just refreshing the watchlist every 60 seconds. Contact me on my talk page if you need help with this specific script. fredgandt 21:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

ReloadEvery Von Restorff (talk) 22:53, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Memory parody song

I just read a very funny Swedish language parody of Memory (Cats song) down at the local pub. It starts out with Minne! Jag har tappat mitt minne! ("Memory! I've lost my memory!") Should I write the lyrics, along with their English translations, in the article? JIP | Talk 20:43, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

No. Such lyrics are not free to use, so per WP:COPYVIO they should not be in the Wikipedia article. Additionally, per WP:NOT, even if they were free to use, Wikipedia is not a lyrics database, so it shouldn't be in the articles anyways. --Jayron32 20:49, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Problem with Template:Portalbox

Hi, There seems to be a problem with Template:Portalbox - it's set to redirect to Template:Portal box which in turn redirects to Template:Portal . In an article it gives 1. REDIRECT Template:Portal rather than the portal boxes. I thought the double redirect migtht be the problem but fixing that it didn't seem to help. Hybrid2712 (talk) 20:54, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Your fix was good, but it may take the system a while to rebuild the affected pages. I have restored your fix and then purged the page American cuisine to force it to be rebuilt, and that one looks ok. Give it a few hours. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:16, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Service in Nevada

Why is it that your 3G service goes out every 2 weeks in NV zip 89301? I spend 45 min every 2 weeks reporting this to Verizon wireless. This service is realy not mantained up here. Whu is that?

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 3.8 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck.Template:Z25 --Jayron32 20:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Shared account

I was going to leave a message at User talk:CatWizard777 of my concern that the account may be shared by Darryl Read and Clive Zone, but I could not find a uw- template nor even a policy statement that shared accounts are not allowed. (The closest I could find was that a username cannot indicate a shared function.) Am I wrong about shared accounts being banned? —teb728 t c 21:29, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Here is the link o the policy on sharing accounts, WP:NOSHARE. GB fan 21:34, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I looked at that page but stopped reading too soon. —teb728 t c 01:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Please dont review article yet

Can you please take the two copies of the article for the Port of Hastings Development Authority out of the review queue please. It's not ready yet. I'm still getting used to the template. I'm still working on it. Many thanks. Con Belacoski (talk) 22:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Can you provide the links to the two articles? In any case: if they're declined you can keep working on them and resubmit them when ready. Jarkeld (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I see Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Port of Hastings Development Authority; where is the other one? —teb728 t c 01:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Experienced Article Writer Needed

I request that an experienced article writer look over my two submissions, e.g., (1) H.T. Lockard and (2) Lincoln University School of Law, whip them into shape and see if you can get them accepted as Wikipedia articles. Judge Lockard was the first African-American to hold public office in Shelby County, Tennessee; to be appointed a Criminal Court Judge in Tennessee; and to work on a Tennessee Governor's staff. He was forced by the practice of Segregation in the American South in the 1940's to obtain his legal education outside of his home state of Tennessee, and he thus attended and was graduated from the Lincoln University School of Law.

Lincoln University School of Law was established in 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri by the Missouri General Assembly in response to Gaines v. Canada, a United States Supreme Court decision which mandated that the state either permit African-Americans to go to the "whites only" law schools or pay their tuition to go to an out-of-state law school. So the establishment of the Lincoln University School of Law constitutes the only law school in the United States to have been established as a result of a lawsuit. The school operated until 1955, which was after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed the "separate but equal" doctrine (and justified creation of the law school in the first instance).

I believe both articles to be noteworthy and appropriate subjects for inclusion in an encyclopedia. Thanks for your help.

Slidhome (talk) 23:08, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Is your first article User:Slidhome/H.T. Lockard or something else? Where is your second article; I don't find it anywhere. (Or is it just the indented paragraph above?) —teb728 t c 01:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

If TEB728's guess is correct, then here's a sample of it:

It was said of him that he "could be meaner than a snake. . . . He wasn't ugly, he wasn't loud. He didn't take the kind of stand-in-the-doorway kind of position that would reverberate across the country. But people knew he would not retreat."

Who said this of him? And where?

You have to say which part of the article comes from which of the sources you list at the end. You do this via "references" (footnotes). -- Hoary (talk) 10:20, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

January 15

how to get novel purchased

I wants to buy a novel TELL YOUR DREAMS in India Where and how I can get it — Preceding unsigned comment added by NBSAJJA (talk • contribs) 04:45, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.8 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. RudolfRed (talk) 04:51, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Remember a Day Darryl Read pages

Dear Team/Editors There seems to be a problem regarding the Darryl Read page I created, this page has been established here for three years, and has been adjusted in firstly creating it to Wiki criteria. In the last week, we have been continually harassed by LondonClanger and an administrator called Michig , with pages we created (Crushed Butler, Tiger (the group), Darryl Read, Remember a Day which LondonClanger requested to be deleted as well as multiple adjustments over a years period to all pages mentioned. He has sought the help of Michig, to sanction a deletion, and Michig has then gone on to try to question the Darryl Read page already established with you for 3 years, and get us to supply - in my opinion unnecessary; further sources and citations. I cant help thinking that both LondonClanger & Michig are using intellectual sabotage methods for other reasons other than improving articles for Wikipedia. In this aspect, I should like to register a complaint, regarding both LondonClanger and Michig - for misuse of administrative powers here on Wikipedia. Please check their talks and edits - especially LondonClanger's over a considerable period of time on (Crushed Butler, Tiger (the group), Darryl Read, pages. I am trying to communicate and resolve everything with Michig currently, but felt it now necessary to get further help from you on all. I have been editing here since 2009, with no problems and work within Wikipedia's realm of construction of credible articles, and have been able previously (some years back) work respectfully with other administrative editors, and complied to their requests CatWizard777 (talk) 06:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CatWizard777 (talk • contribs) 06:39, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I see from your other posts that you ,CatWizard777, are Darryl Read and his publicity rep, Clive Zone. Please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. As it says there, you are strongly discouraged from creating articles related to Darryl Read or from editing them directly. If you would like to make changes to these articles, you should propose the changes on article talk pages.

Please also read WP:NOSHARING. Wikipedia accounts may be used by only one person; shared accounts are not permitted. —teb728 t c 07:17, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Appears a lot of mudslinging and vitriol is being thrown my way by CatWizard777. All these accusations are wholly unwarranted and inaccurate, and others border on being rather abusive. Thankfully, I have a thick skin and it’s all a water off a duck’s back to me (nothing better that mixing metaphors...). For the record I merely commented on WP:Articles for deletion/Remember a Day (2000 film) and my recommendation re: WP:Articles for deletion/The Orange Illusion was reviewed by other editors. I’ve not recommended any other deletions – Michig has commented on Darryl Read and this has zero to do with me. There are several issues with conflict of interest on articles edited by CatWizard777 and I’ve been attempting over time to rewrite/update/copyedit where possible with a neutral tone – clearly something that CatWizard’s PR team (as it appears a few people use this login) have taken umbrage with. I’ll continue to add constructive editorial updates to articles in an earnest attempt to improve them. All very much a storm in a teacup to me. Londonclanger (talk) 12:17, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

French-German or German-French? Dutch-Belgian or Belgian-Dutch?

When there's a person who holds both French and German citizenship/nationality, do we refer to that person a French-German or German-French same goes for a person who holds Dutch and Belgian citizenship/nationality I know I already found it somewhere here in Wikipedia but I can't remember where. Please provide a link if necessary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sairyu (talk • contribs) 07:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Ko i zašto[...]

Ko i zašto je zabranio korisničkom imenu Tajib Omerdić, za igranje igre BELOT-Kratko obrazložeenje;U trećoj sam životnoj dobi stopostotni invalid vrlo ozbiljan i zabrinut oko sebe i ponekad smognem snage da zaigram belot,u toj igi nikakove kom

Ko i u ime koje presude mi je trajno zabranjeno igranje igre BELOT Ne prosim i ne molim!Sa aspekta prava i civilizacijske pristojnosti obrazlažem;U trećoj sam životnoj dobi stopostotni invalid i trenutke opuštanja i zaborava na bolest utješim na kartanju igre belot.Nit kome odgovaram ni prigovaram,a kamoli nedaj bože nekoga da vriđema jer me moje rane vrijeđaju.Evo u zanje vrijem pokušavam da igram kad tam"-ovom korisniku trajno zabranjeno igranje"je li ova Guatanama.Nit prosim nit molim cicilizacijski vratite mi pravi na igru Tajib Omerdič- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.176.204.14 (talk) 07:28, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Pozdrav. Ova stranica je engleske verzije Wikipedije. Vrlo malo od nas govoriti hrvatski, a ja mogu dati vrlo malo od onoga što govore, čak i uz strojno prevođenje, (kao što sam se napisati ovu poruku natrag na vas). Jeste li sigurni da ste ovo postavljanje na mjesto i na publiku te bi trebao biti? Hrvatska Wikipedija se može pristupiti ovdje.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 07:49, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Maybe hr:Suradnik:Tajib Omerdić will help. It seems that back in 2007 the OP's user page on the Croation Wikipedia was deleted and they were blocked for using it like a blog to publish some poetry. Obviously, better dealt with over there. Astronaut (talk) 09:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flemish_people

How do I add names to a list on the above Category page? [6]. There are at least a dozen reknowned Flemish Authors, that have articles, two of them Noble Prize winners, that are not listed. How do I add them? Clicking "edit" does not access the alphabetical lists. TY. §:~)--Buster Seven Talk 07:55, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

You add an article to it by adding [[Category:Flemish people]] to the foot of that article. -- Hoary (talk) 08:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah! Yes! TY! Buster Seven Talk 08:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I see you added Category:Flemish people to some people who were already in Category:Flemish writers. We usually don't duplicate like that. See more at Wikipedia:Categorization of people. You can get from Category:Flemish people to Category:Flemish writers via Category:Flemish people by occupation. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:31, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand how it is ok

That you will put one company into the wiipedia directory but a company of the exact same genre gets deleted. if this is the case I want to know why. and you can guarantee if this is how you do business here I will not be donating nothing to your website or to your pockets. So I want to know why this is what happened. And no I did not do the article myself. Here is the page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Lincs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uprentiss (talk • contribs) 08:10, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

We do not have articles about every single company in a branche/genre and that is not our goal. We have articles about companies that are considered to be notable; and they are considered notable because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. And we do not want your money. Have a nice day, Von Restorff (talk) 08:35, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, we wouldn't mind getting your money but we have strict policies against advertising so you don't get extra rights by donating. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

And please read WP:OTHERSTUFF. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 08:53, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Moving images from Commons to en.Wikipedia

Some images were mistakenly uploaded to Commons and are now under threat of deletion due to there being no freedom of panorama. I would like to move them to Wikipedia so they can continue to be used in articles here under a claim of fair use (and with suitable rationales of course). How do I go about maintaining the original licensing of the original uploader who took the images? Astronaut (talk) 08:50, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

If the image was originally uploaded here, then contact the deleting admin, explain the issue and ask for undeletion. If there is no response, then list it at Wikipedia:Deletion review. After undeletion, ensure the image info has enough to keep it from being moved again. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:01, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

No, the image was not uploaded to en.Wikipedia first. It was uploaded straight to Commons. The uploader is not very active at all and, apart from a brief flurry of activity in November, has never returned. Can I simply upload it to en.Wikipedia as if it was my own, then change the name of the author to the original uploader, or is there a better way to do this. Astronaut (talk) 16:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Suicide Article

I am a complete novice and don't know how to insert what I propose into this article. Please assist.

Suicidal people are highly likely to be viewers of this page.

  Page: [[7]]

Please insert a warning or helpful note/links regarding suicide prevention or mental health at the top of the article. Something bold and colorful that is easy to see like a big picture or button or other attention-getter. The idea being that rather than just inspiration or confirmation of a method to die, one may also see words of discouragement from suicide and some links to mental health info. "Hey click here to find someone to talk to about suicide" with the link being a suicide hotline etc. I don't know what would be appropriate considering the broad use of Wikipedia, but hopefully you get the idea. Thank you for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.8.178 (talk) 09:48, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Suicide methods (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Past versions of the article have had similar warnings or links, but they were removed after discussion. You are welcome to begin a new discussion at Talk:Suicide methods, but you should look through the (lengthy) archives first. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

does wikipedia have a policy against links to newsreels?

I linked to some newsreels in the US government's FedFlix database at archive.org but a user deleted them as peripherally-related.

For example, on the Shasta Dam page, I added a link to a newsreel which included the inauguration of the Shasta Dam

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shasta_Dam&action=historysubmit&diff=470999752&oldid=470957050

does wikipedia have a policy against links to newsreels?

Thanks

Crowish (talk) 11:37, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Shasta Dam (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The Wikipedia guidelines on external links apply to all kinds of external links. If Binksternet (talk · contribs) is correct in saying that the film only covers the topic trivially, then the link does not belong as an external link. If the film has something useful to say about the dam, then you could perhaps include that in the article and cite the video as your source. You could begin a discussion by posting at Talk:Shasta Dam. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:51, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

BLACKOUT donation question

Hello, I have a question. I want to support in the blackout of Wikipedia to protest against the SOPA Bill but I have to ask about the donation. Are you using Paypal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.8.230.180 (talk) 11:51, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Donationpage. Thank you, Von Restorff (talk) 12:00, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Twinkle

Normally, while nominating a page for deletion, I use twinkle to do the needful. But I have noticed that in certain non-protected pages, the option does not appear next to "Add to your watchlist" and "move page". I am using the vector skin right now. Does anyone have any idea of what's going on? X.One ^SOS 12:29, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Actually, twinkle is not at all working for me. Has the software been put on a hold or something? X.One ^SOS 13:02, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried purging your cache?--Hallows AG 14:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Ya, it's fine now. Just a minor problem, I guess. X.One ^SOS 18:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

It's been a while..

Just come back, having a look around and I noticed a new user right under my preferences.. What on earth is the "reviewer" right and why do I have it? o.O Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 15:40, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:User access levels#Reviewer. – ukexpat (talk) 16:40, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

As to why you have the right, the log says you given it as a "long term user". -- John of Reading (talk) 17:48, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh right. Ta. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 19:30, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

important

How can u have my own profile and howe much.to maintain it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.85.215 (talk) 15:55, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Anyone can create a user profile for free. If you're talking about having an actual Wikipedia article, they're created by volunteers on specific people, places and subjects based on notability, not for monetary favours. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 15:59, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

But see WP:USER for what is and is not appropriate for a user page. – ukexpat (talk) 16:41, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

location of ram mandir, Peterborough

Hello.

I visited the list of Hindu Temples in England & found the Ram Mandir Peterborough is in South West region. It should actually be in East Midlands according to the regions specified in the list. I will appreciate if the error is amended.

Many thanks

Jayshree Mehta President Bharat Hibdu Samaj Peterborough — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.132.58 (talk) 15:59, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Done - I also moved some others into the correct region as well. Editing list of Hindu temples in England is something you could have done yourself. Astronaut (talk) 16:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

People not highlighted to link with Wiki.

The article about Zell Miller, former US Senator from Georgia has a reference to Herman Cain. Cain is not printed in blue so as to click a direct link to Cain's wiki.Recovdem (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC).

The mention of Herman Cain has been removed as unsourced.[8] See Help:Link#Wikilinks for how to make links. I see your account is from 2006 and this post is your first edit. Welcome! PrimeHunter (talk) 17:19, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Audio files autoplay

Is it/will it be possible to embed an audio file in a page that 'autoplays' when the page is opened in a browser window ? (HTML 5 <audio>tag with autoplay attribute). — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnittMD (talk • contribs) 17:26, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

: This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Computing reference desk. They specialize in answering computer questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Singularity42 (talk) 17:31, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

The question could easily be about Wikipedia pages. This is not possible and I suspect a suggestion about it would meet strong opposition. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:38, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I think it's fairly obvious that UnittMD is asking how to accomplish an editing related task (or indeed if it is even possible) on Wikipedia. That is exactly what this page is for. My answer is just a guess, but I think it would be unlikely for audio files being auto played in articles to be considered acceptable. fredgandt 17:39, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

To my surprise, I did not find a discussion of this issue. I may not have searched thoroughly. I would expect this to be discouraged, under WP:ASTONISH.

If it hasn't been discussed, it may be because the preferred way to include an audio file is with {{Listen}}, which doesn't seem to have an autoplay option.

See also Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files --SPhilbrick(Talk) 18:27, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

WRONG INFORMATION THIS SITE IS NOT ACCURATE.

I am talking about alot of things but now im gonna talk about the name BOYER. This name did not come from a stupid tribe it comes from France and its a famous french name. This is a disgrace to my family that have done alot in history of France AND America.

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

This is total bullshit.

And sorry for my bad beahvior i am not hating on wiki or the editors, but i am just mad for that FALSE information, people are gonna learn wrong from this and more articals that are not accurate..

Regards, Carlo Delano Boyer,. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.81.32.7 (talk) 18:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

The place to raise this issue is on the article's talk page, Talk:Boyer. Also you should go into the discussion with a different attitude, Your current attitude won't help you convince people of your side. GB fan 18:49, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

It's worth noting that the article already mentions the French derivation as well, so I'm not sure what Carlo is complaining about. --Jayron32 18:57, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Expansion needed tag

I need a tag to put in the header of a page to state that the article needs more expansion. The article isn't "missing" info, it just needs additional writing (for example if the article is about a certain drug and there's an overview of it, we need to add adverse effects, side effects... etc)

So the tag {{missing information}} isn't exactly what I'm looking for --Abderrahman (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

How about {{incomplete}} or {{expand section}}? I found a list at WP:TC, so you can look there too and see if something else would be better. RudolfRed (talk) 19:01, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

or look here Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types#Health. Nasnema  Chat  19:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Citations In Leads

Why are the citation requirements less strict in leads? --81.100.44.233 (talk) 19:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section#Citations - the lead usually is a summary of cited text that comes after. Nasnema  Chat  19:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC)